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KETTERING — A Cleveland-based grocery store and discount chain plans to lay off 44 workers at its Kettering location.
Marc Glassman, Inc. will cut those jobs in the Oak Creek Plaza starting “March 6, 2023 or within 14 days thereof,” according to the company’s filing with the state.
Signs at the 2100 E. Whipp Road Marc’s grocery store last week indicated it would close permanently on Feb. 5. Forty-four workers “at this location will be permanently laid off,” the business stated in a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) document last week.
The Dayton Daily News has reached out to the company regarding the layoffs. An employee at the Kettering site told customers last week that the lease was expiring.
Marc’s opened the Kettering location — formerly occupied by Kroger — in August 2018. It was the company’s 59th Ohio store. It now operates about 61 stores throughout the Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Dayton and Columbus regions, according to its website.
Marc Glassman started his namesake in the Cleveland area in 1979. | 2023-01-09T15:35:12+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/new-details-ohio-grocery-store-business-laying-off-44-workers-at-kettering-location/4BZJGA5RDZELNBEXKARPUS55NY/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military commanders said Friday that their troops had recaptured more territory from Russian forces at the scene of the war’s longest and bloodiest battle, for the eastern city of Bakhmut, but it wasn’t clear if this marked the start of Kyiv’s long-expected counteroffensive.
Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said Ukrainian forces had stepped up attacks north of the region while denying speculation by Russian military bloggers that the Kyiv forces had achieved “defense breakthroughs.”
The 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of territory that Ukrainian forces south of Bakhmut retook this week represented a significant gain and will protect an important supply chain, according to commanders of Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, a special forces unit that led the attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he met with the top military commanders Friday, noting that Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi reported his forces “stopped the enemy and even pushed him back in some directions.”
In his nightly address to the Ukrainian people, Zelenskyy praised his troops and noted the low morale of the Russian forces.
“The occupiers are already mentally prepared for defeat. They have already lost this war in their minds,” he said. “We must push them every day so that their sense of defeat turns into their retreat, their mistakes, their losses.”
In a statement on Telegram on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar confirmed that Ukrainian forces gained ground around Bakhmut, reiterating statements from military commanders earlier this week.
In Washington, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. has assessed that Bakhmut remains contested territory.
“Ukrainians have not given up their defense of Bakhmut and the Russians haven’t given up their attempts to take Bakhmut,” Kirby said. “Every single day, the lines change back and forth. I mean, sometimes block by block.”
The U.S. maintains that Bakhmut has limited strategic value but that Russia has absorbed an enormous loss of troops and weaponry in the battle for the former salt-mining town that has been grinding on for eight months.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the millionaire owner of Russia’s private military contractor Wagner who is a frequent critic of the Russian military, slammed it again for losing ground around Bakhmut and exposing his forces battling for the city.
In a video statement Friday, Prigozhin mocked the Russian Defense Ministry’s report claiming that its forces regrouped to take more favorable positions, saying they effectively fled and “our flanks are crumbling.”
He warned that the Ukrainian forces have reclaimed key heights around the city and effectively unblocked the key supply link to Bakhmut. Prigozhin again accused the military leadership of refusing to provide sufficient ammunition to Wagner.
“You must immediately stop lying,” Prigozhin said, addressing Russia’s military leaders. “If you fled, you must prepare new defensive lines.”
Prigozhin — who seems to use harsh criticism to pressure the Kremlin for more support and improve his stature — alleged the Defense Ministry’s failure to protect Wagner’s flanks amounted to high treason and could result in a “great tragedy” for Russia.
Apparently denying Prigozhin’s claim of abandonment, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Russian airborne units are still supporting ground forces to “stop the attempts of the Ukrainian armed forces to counterattack on the flanks.”
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, explained the spat as being “reflective of increased panic in the Russian information space over speculations about planned Ukrainian counteroffensives.” This indicates increased concern among leaders of Wagner and the Russian Defense Ministry as well as “reflecting Kremlin guidance to avoid downplaying Ukrainian successes,” it said.
Ukrainian military officials have dismissed speculation that the fighting and forward movement in Bakhmut signaled that its anticipated counteroffensive was underway. Zelenskyy said in remarks broadcast Thursday that Kyiv was delaying the campaign because it lacks enough Western weapons. Some saw the comments as designed to keep Russia guessing about Ukraine’s next move.
Addressing the nation Friday evening, Zelenskyy said more arms were coming “to defeat the aggressor and restore peace.”
The territorial gains occurred near the Siversky-Donets canal, between the villages of Ivanivske and Kurdiumivka, according to a commander of the 1st Assault Battalion of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade. He spoke on condition he be referred to only by his call sign of “Rollo,” in line with Ukrainian military protocol.
“This was the enemy’s bridgehead, which they intended to use in their future attacks along the canal, in the direction of Kostiantynivka,” he said. “We had to neutralize the enemy and push them to the other side of the canal.”
Another commander and a military spokesman corroborated his account.
Kostiantynivka is part of an important logistics chain that leads to the city of Kramatorsk.
Rollo said the gains followed other successes, including one that secured an access road near Khromove, north of Bakhmut, and another that allowed Ukrainian forces to reclaim lost positions in the Industrial College inside Bakhmut city.
The assault south of Bakhmut was followed by a reported increase in Ukrainian offensive actions near the city of Soledar on Thursday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. Russia repelled 26 Ukrainian attacks carried out by over 1,000 soldiers, the ministry said, adding that up to 40 tanks were involved.
The slow and grinding fight for Bakhmut has been costly for both sides, with Ukraine seeking to deny Russia any territorial gains despite its marginal strategic significance. Ukrainian forces are stationed in the city, while Russian troops are attacking from the north, east and south.
In other fighting, at least two people were killed and 22 injured elsewhere in the country since Thursday, according to figures from the Ukrainian President’s Office.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said a Russian strike hit Kramatorsk, where some Ukrainian military units are based, destroying a school and residential building. Russian shelling hit 11 cities and villages in the region, killing 12 civilians, he said.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine-war | 2023-05-13T10:16:12+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ukraine-secures-logistics-hub-near-bakhmut-as-russia-says-it-repelled-attacks/ |
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BOSTON, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced today that clients of Pugsley Wood LLP ("Pugsley Wood") will collectively receive a whistleblower award totaling more than $28 million. According to the SEC, Pugsley Wood's clients provided "detailed information [that] prompted the opening of the SEC staff's investigation and . . . provided substantial analysis and ongoing assistance, which resulted in the return of millions of dollars to harmed investors." Represented by Pugsley Wood partner, Bryan A. Wood, the whistleblowers received the maximum allowable award for their assistance.
"Our clients had the courage to blow the whistle while others stayed silent for many years," said Mr. Wood. "This award is long-awaited validation for their selfless actions, which saved investors tens of millions of dollars. We commend them for their efforts."
The SEC's Order granting the award noted that the whistleblower's information and assistance "was critical to staff's ability to identify and investigate the unlawful securities violations" and, further, that "there is a close nexus between their information and the Commission's charges."
Since its inception, the SEC Whistleblower Program has paid out approximately $1.4 billion to 337 individuals. Whistleblowers can be eligible for an award when they voluntarily provide the SEC with original, timely, and material information that leads to a successful enforcement action.
"This award is yet another in what has become a very long line of meaningful SEC whistleblower payments," noted Mr. Wood. "It is obvious that the Commission is firmly committed to compensating individuals who come forward with evidence of wrongdoing. We encourage whistleblowers to make use of this program and applaud the Commission's continued efforts to reward them for their courage."
About Pugsley Wood LLP
Pugsley Wood LLP is among the premier whistleblower law firms in the United States. Wood and Pugsley began collaborating on whistleblower cases in early 2015. In 2021 they decided to leave their respective law firms of 20+ years to better serve their clients by combining their knowledge and resources in a highly specialized law firm dedicated solely to representing whistleblowers. To date, they have obtained more than $100 million in whistleblowers awards for their clients under SEC, CFTC, DOJ, FIRREA/FIAFEA, and OSC whistleblower programs. Visit PugsleyWood.com for additional information.
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The study demonstrates the significant impact YuLife's tech-driven insurance offering can make to businesses' bottom lines over the course of three years.
LONDON, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- YuLife, the tech-driven financial services brand on a mission to inspire life, today released the results of a commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting which identified that the return on investment (ROI) generated by insuring with YuLife is 181%, when switching to YuLife from traditional insurance providers. After interviewing HR and Benefits representatives whose companies use YuLife, the study found insuring with YuLife leads to an 11.5% reduction in absence, a 2.75% reduction in employee turnover, and a 2.5% increase in productivity in addition to financial rewards provided to individuals. The study also revealed a 2.7x increase in utilisation of Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) and Virtual GP (Teledoc) services.
To conduct the study, Forrester interviewed HR and Benefits representatives, most of whose companies had existing group insurance policies with traditional insurance providers, to identify the costs, benefits, flexibility and risk factors that affect their investment decisions. As a result of switching to YuLife, interviewees experienced improvements in employee retention, reduced absenteeism, increased productivity and benefits in the value of rewards and discounts earned by employees.
"At YuLife we are committed to creating a culture of wellness and a thriving workforce by reinventing life insurance," said Sammy Rubin, CEO and Founder, YuLife. "This study showcases the tangible financial impact YuLife has on our customers. We have seen firsthand that our offering has helped individuals cultivate healthy habits, and we are proud to be able to demonstrate the impact these lifestyle changes have on a workforce - physically, mentally, and financially."
As a result of today's challenging economic circumstances, and especially given the increased focus on workplace wellbeing in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the 'Great Resignation', it is imperative for businesses to ensure that their insurance offerings provide added value for employees. In this context, YuLife differentiates itself from traditional insurance providers by protecting employees with great insurance coverage as well as enabling businesses to improve employee engagement with wellbeing initiatives through providing access to preventative wellbeing tools and rewarding healthy activity. Increased employee engagement with physical and mental wellbeing activities, as well as greater utilisation of tools such as EAP and Virtual GP (Teledoc) services, lead to improvements in employee health.
YuLife commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate how YuLife benefits businesses and provides a qualifiable return on investment when switching from traditional group life insurance.
Forrester aggregated the interviewees and combined the results into a single composite organisation that has a workforce of 5,000 employees. Additional quantified findings for such a composite organisation include:
- Top Level Results: The representative interviews and financial analysis found that a composite organisation experiences total benefits worth £2,023,192 over the course of three years versus the actual costs of £720K, and an ROI of 181%.
- Improved Employee Engagement and Reduced Turnover: Unlike traditional insurance models that pay out only when a claim is made, YuLife provides health and wellbeing benefits on a continuous basis. Forrester estimates the increase in employee engagement leads to cost savings of £328,579, by means of reduced turnover.
- Reduced Absenteeism: Positive physical and mental lifestyle habits have been shown to correlate with unplanned illness-related absences. Forrester estimates the increased physical activity with those engaged in the program reduces absenteeism equating to roughly £420,071 over three years.
- Increased Productivity: YuLife's app drives engagement with lifestyle activities that positively impact productivity, such as mindfulness and meditation exercises which improve focus. The Forrester study found this leads to a 2.5% increase in productivity and, over three years, the improved work results gains £977,670 for the composite organisation.
- Value of Rewards and Discounts Earned by Employees: YuLife offers rewards and discounts of choice earned by employees through its app. Over three years, this adds up to £296,872 for the composite organisation.
The study also identified numerous additional qualitative findings, which are not quantified in the study. These additional qualitative findings include: improvement in workforce health in the long run, as physical activity reduces the risk of long-term sickness absence; a customisable employee benefits platform through YuLife's Wellbeing Hub; improved employee satisfaction with benefits; earn back from employee engagement; and actionable insights on employee wellbeing for HR leaders.
The full TEI study can be found on the YuLife website. To read the full study and learn more about YuLife's offering, visit here.
About YuLife
YuLife is a tech-driven financial services brand on a mission to inspire life and turn financial products into a force for good. By harnessing the power of technology and the latest behavioural science, YuLife's insurance model focuses on risk prevention, not just claims compensation. The company is transforming the employee benefits market by rewarding employees for healthy living, supporting mental, physical and financial wellbeing and helping foster healthier, happier and more motivated teams. Founded in 2016, YuLife is headquartered in London and backed by global insurers and venture capital. https://www.YuLife.com/.
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Pope clarifies homosexuality and sin comments after questions
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis has clarified his recent comments about homosexuality and sin, saying he was merely referring to official Catholic moral teaching that teaches that any sexual act outside of marriage is a sin.
And in a note Friday, Francis recalled that even that black-and-white teaching is subject to circumstances that might eliminate the sin altogether.
Francis first made the comments in an interview Jan. 24 with The Associated Press, in which he declared that laws criminalizing homosexuality were “unjust” and that “being homosexual is not a crime.”
As he often does, Francis then imagined a conversation with someone who raised the matter of the church’s official teaching, which states that homosexual acts are sinful, or “intrinsically disordered.”
“Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime,” Francis said in the pretend conversation. “It’s also a sin to lack charity with one another.”
His comments calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality were hailed by LGBTQ advocates as a milestone that would help end harassment and violence against LGBTQ persons. But his reference to “sin” raised questions about whether he believed that merely being gay was itself a sin.
The Rev. James Martin, an American Jesuit who runs the U.S.-based Outreach ministry for LGBTQ Catholics, asked Francis for clarification and printed the pope’s handwritten response on the Outreach website late Friday.
In his note, Francis reaffirmed that homosexuality “is not a crime,” and said he spoke out “in order to stress that criminalization is neither good nor just.”
“When I said it is a sin, I was simply referring to Catholic moral teaching, which says that every sexual act outside of marriage is a sin,” Francis wrote in Spanish, underlining the final phrase.
But in a nod to his case-by-case approach to pastoral ministry, Francis noted that even that teaching is subject to consideration of the circumstances, “which may decrease or eliminate fault.”
He acknowledged he could have been clearer in his comments to the AP. But he said he was using “natural and conversational language” in the interview that didn’t call for precise definitions.
“As you can see, I was repeating something in general. I should have said: ‘It is a sin, as is any sexual act outside of marriage.’ This is to speak of ‘the matter’ of sin, but we know well that Catholic morality not only takes into consideration the matter, but also evaluates freedom and intention; and this, for every kind of sin,” he said.
Some 67 countries or jurisdictions worldwide criminalize consensual same-sex sexual activity, 11 of which can or do impose the death penalty, according to The Human Dignity Trust, which works to end such laws. Experts say even where the laws are not enforced, they contribute to harassment, stigmatization and violence against LGBTQ people.
Catholic teaching forbids gay marriage, holding that the sacrament of marriage is a lifelong bond between a man and a woman. It reserves intercourse for married couples while forbidding artificial contraception.
In his decade-long pontificate, Francis has upheld that teaching but has made outreach to LGBTQ people a priority. He has stressed a more merciful approach to applying church doctrine, to accompany people rather than judge them.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-28T11:35:37+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2023/01/28/pope-clarifies-homosexuality-sin-comments-after-questions/ |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party picked the popular mayor of New Taipei City, Hou Yu-ih, on Wednesday as its candidate in next year's presidential election, seen as a referendum on the island's future relations with China.
Hou, the former head of the National Police Agency, will face current Vice President William Lai of the governing Democratic Progressive Party in the January polls. The Nationalists seek warmer ties with mainland China, while the governing party is seen as pro-independence. Current President Tsai Ing-wen has served two terms and is unable to run again.
Hou was chosen by the Nationalists over Terry Gou, a billionaire Taiwanese businessman who founded Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker. One of his first tasks will be to try to unite the party behind his candidacy.
Hou has said little publicly about his approach to China, focusing instead on local politics. Beijing claims Taiwan as its territory and has repeatedly threatened to take the island by force. Near-daily flights by Chinese fighter jets near Taiwan have raised tensions.
Hou enjoys popular support as mayor of New Taipei, the administrative region that surrounds Taipei, the capital. Liu Cheng-shan, a professor of political science at National Sun Yat-Sen University, said Hou has developed a reputation for getting things done as mayor. “He gives everyone an image of someone who quietly does the work and is diligent,” Liu said.
“I'm Taiwanese. I'm humble, diligent and honest," Hou said Wednesday, speaking in Taiwanese at the Nationalist Party headquarters in Taipei. “I will work hard to strive for a good future for this piece of land. We know that the Republic of China is our country and Taiwan is our home.” The Republic of China is the island's official name.
Foxconn founder Gou had announced in April that he was seeking the party's nomination and accused the Democratic Progressive Party of increasing tensions with Beijing. He conceded to Hou on Wednesday and offered his congratulations.
Experts say Hou is likely to follow his party’s general direction in international relations.
The Nationalists, also known as KMT, support an agreement with Beijing called the 1992 Consensus under which both sides consider Taiwan and the mainland to be one country. In Taiwan, that is seen as the Republic of China. The mainland says the one country is the People’s Republic of China which includes Taiwan as a province.
President Tsai declined to explicitly agree to the consensus when she came into power in 2016, prompting Beijing to cut off communications with her government.
Hou said last week in response to a question from a lawmaker that he believes in the sovereignty and rights of a nation called the Republic of China, but stopped short of saying that Taiwan is independent.
However, he said he opposes the “one country, two systems” framework proposed by Beijing for unification under which Taiwan would be allowed its own form of governance as part of China. That framework was also used for Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule in 1997. The rights promised under it have steadily deteriorated as Beijing has taken more control over the territory.
Civic groups have called for Hou to clarify his role in the death of a pro-democracy activist and publisher, Deng Nan-jung, in 1989. Hou, then a police captain, led a group of officers who were attempting to arrest Deng, who had barricaded himself in his office for 71 days, when the activist set himself on fire.
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AP video journalist Taijing Wu contributed to this report. | 2023-05-17T13:16:51+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/world/article/taiwan-opposition-party-picks-new-taipei-mayor-a-18103990.php |
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say a deal on a U.N. plan to unblock the exports of Ukrainian grain amid the war and to allow Russia to export grain and fertilizers will be signed Friday in Istanbul.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office said that he, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and officials from Russia and Ukraine will oversee the signing ceremony. It did not provide further details.
“The grain export agreement, critically important for global food security, will be signed in Istanbul tomorrow under the auspices of President Erdoğan and U.N. Secretary General Mr. Guterres together with Ukrainian and Russian delegations,” Erdogan spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in a tweet.
Guterres has been working on a plan that would enable Ukraine to export millions of tons of grain that have been stuck in its Black Sea ports — a move that could ease a global food crisis that has sent wheat and other grain prices soaring. At least 22 million tons of grain are stuck there due to the war.
Last week, the sides met in Istanbul, reaching a tentative agreement on the plan. It foresees joint controls of ships as they leave and arrive at Black Sea ports, and a mechanism to ensure the safety of the transfer routes, Turkish officials said.
A coordination center for the shipping of exports would be established in Istanbul and would include U.N., Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian officials.
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Guterres arrived Thursday in Istanbul, which means “we’re moving ahead” on the deal. U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, whom Guterres put in charge of the Ukraine side of the deal, and Rebeca Grynspan, head of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, whom he put in charge of the Russian side, were also in Istanbul.
“We’ve been working around the clock with intense behind the scenes talks with countless moving parts,” Haq said.
With the growing global food crisis, Haq said if an agreement is reached “we can potentially save hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of people, from having food be priced out of their reach.”
Russian and Ukrainian officials have blamed each other for the blocked grain shipments.
Moscow accused Ukraine of failing to remove sea mines at the ports to allow safe shipping. Russia has also insisted on its right to check incoming ships for weapons.
Ukraine has sought international guarantees that the Kremlin wouldn’t use the safe corridors to attack the Black Sea port of Odesa. Ukrainian authorities have also accused Russia of stealing grain from its eastern regions to sell, and deliberately shelling Ukrainian fields to set them on fire.
On Thursday evening, a spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry appeared to lay out Kyiv’s conditions for backing the plan.
Oleh Nikolenko told reporters that Ukraine’s delegation “will support only those decisions that will guarantee the security of the southern regions of Ukraine, the strong position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Black Sea and the safe export of Ukrainian agricultural products to world markets.”
The Kremlin’s spokesman declined to comment on the Turkish announcement. Dmitry Peskov said it was a question “for the (Russian) military.”
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the U.S. welcomes the agreement in principle. “But what we’re focusing on now is holding Russia accountable for implementing this agreement and for enabling Ukrainian grain to get to world markets. It has been for far too long that Russia has enacted this blockade,” Price said.
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Follow all AP stories on the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine. | 2022-07-22T15:50:14+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/turkey-ukraine-grain-export-deal-to-be-signed-in-istanbul/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Papua New Guinea leaders on Thursday to discuss developing the Pacific Island nation’s military strength and deepening security ties, as the United States competes with China for influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
Austin is the first U.S. defense secretary to visit the nation of 10 million people that was fiercely fought over during World War II and is gaining strategic importance in the U.S. struggle against Beijing.
The retired four-star general met with Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape and discussed implementing the Defense Cooperation Agreement signed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the capital, Port Moresby, in May.
Blinken had stepped in for Joe Biden, who was to become the first U.S. president to visit Papua New Guinea but canceled to deal with the then-unresolved debt crisis in Washington, D.C.
Austin said the United States was “not seeking permanent basing” on Papua New Guinea but would help the country expand its military capability, modernize its forces and increase their interoperability with the U.S. military.
“The Indo-Pacific is our priority theater and partnerships like ours are critical to keeping this vital region free and open,” Austin told reporters in Port Moresby.
The United States has increased its diplomatic focus on the Pacific since China signed a security pact last year with Papua New Guinea’s neighbor, Solomon Islands.
Marape ruled out forging a bilateral security agreement with Beijing, saying Papua New Guinea’s relationship with China would remain economic.
The Chinese “have not made any request to us for military relationships,” Marape said.
Marape added that the Chinese government through its embassy in Papua New Guinea said it had “no issue whatsoever with us signing the DCA with the U.S.A.”
The signing of that agreement sparked student protests in Papua New Guinea’s second-largest city, Lae. Many in the Pacific are concerned about the increasing militarization of the region.
Marape said that U.S. Defense Department officials would visit Lae in September to plan upgrading infrastructure. Papua New Guinea wants fuel storage facilities and energy security to receive priority in a 15-year infrastructure plan.
Austin said Papua New Guinea would be provided with a U.S. Coast Guard cutter next month to help enforce maritime law.
Marape said his people were “hypersensitive” to the possibility the U.S. could wage war against China from Papua New Guinea. He added that the U.S. does not need Papua New Guinea “to be a launching pad for any offense anywhere else in the world.”
“I want to give assurance to everyone here, including our friends from Asia, that this is not about setting up for war. Rather, it’s about setting up presence for nation-building in Papua New Guinea and this part of Planet Earth and in the Pacific,” he added.
Austin and Blinken traveled to Brisbane, Australia, for annual bilateral talks on Friday and Saturday with their Australian counterparts.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would also meet the two Americans on Friday. | 2023-07-27T15:35:01+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-us-defense-secretary-austin-meets-with-papua-new-guinea-leaders-about-boosting-security-ties/ |
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — President Kais Saied of Tunisia ordered Europe’s top trade union official to leave the North African country after she addressed protesters at a demonstration organized by an influential labor union.
Authorities accused Esther Lynch, the Irish general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, of making statements that “interfered with Tunisian internal affairs” during a Saturday protest against Saied in the port city of Sfax.
Tunisia’s General Labor Union, or UGTT, organized the demonstration to protest a crackdown on the increasingly authoritarian president’s political opponents and his critics in the media, judiciary, business community and trade unions.
In an address to the protesters, Lynch demanded the release of union leader Anis Kaabi, who was arrested by security forces last month.
She called on the Tunisian government to negotiate with the UGTT leadership and to improve the economy, which has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy amid political instability that deepened after a parliamentary election last month in which only 11% of voters cast ballots.
“By orders of the president, Tunisian authorities ordered Esther Lynch to leave the country within 24 hours, following statements made during the UGTT-led demonstration that interfered with Tunisian internal affairs,” said a statement by the Tunisian presidency that was posted on Twitter late Saturday.
The European Trade Union Confederation (or the ETUC confirmed that Lynch left Tunisia on Sunday.
The treatment of Lynch by the Tunisian authorities “is in line with the campaign of intimidation and harassment being waged against trade unions by President Kais Saied,” including “arrests, sacking of union officials (and) malicious lawsuits,” the ETUC said in a statement.
“These tactics are part of a campaign by President Saied to break the union’s resistance to policies which are making ordinary people pay for the country’s economic, social and constitutional crisis,” the statement said.
Saied won the presidency in a 2019 landslide on a promise to improve the country’s economy. Instead, the president appears determined to upend the country’s political system, threatening a democracy once seen as a model for the Arab world and sending the economy toward a tailspin.
In December, the International Monetary Fund froze an agreement on a $1.9 billion loan for Tunisia. The deeply indebted government needs the funds to pay UGTT-represented public sector salaries and to fill budget gaps aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In recent months, Tunisians have been hit with soaring food prices and shortages of fuel and basic staples like sugar and vegetable oil. | 2023-02-20T02:29:45+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-tunisia-orders-top-european-trade-union-official-expelled/ |
Police: 6 who died in Wisconsin apartment fire had been shot
HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) — Police say the six people found dead after an apartment fire in a southern Wisconsin village last week had been shot in an apparent case of murder-suicide.
The bodies of a couple and their four children were found early Friday after firefighters were called to their burning apartment in Hartland.
Ten of the remaining tenants in the four-unit building made it out safely.
Hartland Police Chief Torin Misko said Monday evening that all victims had one gunshot wound.
He says Connor McKisick, a father and stepfather to the four children, had a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The others who died include Jessica McKisick, a 14-year-old girl, a 12-year-old girl and two 3-year-old boys.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-25T13:57:05+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/10/25/police-6-who-died-wisconsin-apartment-fire-had-been-shot/ |
Biden set to speak at vigil honoring victims of gun violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to speak at vigil honoring victims of gun violence, an event taking place nearly 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that spurred a new generation of advocacy for tougher firearms restrictions.
The White House says the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence, being held Wednesday night at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, is a “service of mourning and loving remembrance for all who have fallen victim to the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in America.”
It will be the first time a U.S. president has spoken at the yearly vigil, which is now in its 10th year, according to event organizers. Though the observance is led by the Newtown Action Alliance Foundation, it is meant to honor all victims of gun violence nationwide and the group is expected to be joined by more than 100 other similarly-minded organizations.
Killed at Sandy Hook in the school shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, were 20 first graders and six educators.
Biden, long an advocate for stricter curbs on gun use, signed the most significant restrictions in three decades in June, in the aftermath of the shootings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The legislation imposed stricter background checks for the youngest purchasers, restricted guns from more domestic violence offenders and made it easier for states to enact “red flag” laws that help authorities seize firearms from those deemed a threat to themselves or others.
Biden has continued to push for more restrictions and regularly calls for a so-called assault weapons ban, though Congress lacks sufficient support to pass legislation that would restrict such high-powered weapons that can kill many people quickly.
“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick,” Biden said on Thanksgiving. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.” He mentioned then that he would start counting votes in Congress for such a ban, although the White House declined to answer Wednesday whether Biden has done so.
The likelihood of lawmakers approving such restrictions will diminish even more next year, when Republicans will hold a narrow majority in the House.
Still, Biden feels the new law earlier this year alone was “not enough,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “He believes that we need to do more, and he’s been very vocal about that.”
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A year after 17 North American missionaries were kidnapped in Haiti, beginning a two-month ordeal before they ultimately went free, the agency that sent them hasn’t made a permanent return, and several other international groups have also scaled back their work there.
The kidnapping underscored a deteriorating security situation that has worsened in the past year, with Haitian leaders calling for foreign troop deployments to help break the paralyzing grip of gang activity and protests.
The missionary group, including five minors ranging from an infant to teens, was abducted Oct. 16, 2021, while returning from a visit to an orphanage supported by their organization, Christian Aid Ministries.
It was the largest kidnapping of its kind in recent years, though hundreds of abductions have targeted Haitian nationals and drawn scant international attention.
The hostage-takers from the notorious 400 Mawozo gang demanded $1 million ransom for each victim, CAM says. After two were released for medical reasons and three others ransomed by a third party for an undisclosed amount, the remaining 12 went free Dec. 16 after what they described as an overnight escape.
The standoff came just a few months after a presidential assassination and an earthquake that killed and injured thousands.
Currently, basic supplies such as fuel and water have dwindled since a powerful gang seized control of a main fuel terminal in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Demonstrators have blocked roads to protest a spike in fuel prices, and gas stations and schools have closed.
Some North American workers from CAM have visited Haiti in the last year, “checking up on things as they’re able,” spokesman Weston Showalter said. But there’s no timetable for a permanent return.
“It seems like things are more difficult there than ever,” he said, adding that Haitian staff work is also hindered by the crisis.
The kidnapped missionaries included 16 Americans and one Canadian. Christian Aid Ministries, based in Berlin, Ohio, draws support from conservative Mennonite, Amish, Brethren and related groups. The agency, which has worked in Haiti since the 1980s, is weighing the lessons of 2021.
“We’ve become hypersensitive to the risk,” Showalter said. “So especially the matter of women and children being present there, I would say that is a big matter of discussion.”
Other faith-based agencies are also struggling to respond to Haiti’s plight.
“There’s not a clear path forward,” said Alex Morse, deputy regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean for Church World Service, a partnership of more than 30 Christian denominations and communions in the U.S. that provides development assistance and disaster relief worldwide.
As of August, CWS decided to operate its remaining programs in Haiti with only local staff — agriculture and food security programs in the northwest, housing construction and social support for children in the southwest.
Morse worked in the country after a devastating earthquake in 2011 and recalls that many Haitians found resilience in their belief in God.
It’s different now.
“I’m hearing people saying they’ve lost hope,” he said. “People who used to be quick to turn to their faith — we’re hearing less of that.”
Patrick Nelson, a Haitian who is CWS’s top representative in the country, said children and students “want to be in school and studying right now, taking courses, but schools and universities are closed.”
However, he said people are discouraged but not despairing.
“If people didn’t have faith in God or hope that things could be different in Haiti, they wouldn’t be in the streets demanding change,” Nelson said via email.
One of CWS’s members is the Church of the Brethren, which has offered programs for more than 20 years in Haiti and has 30 congregations there. It had a main base in Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince, but the area has been an epicenter of gang activity, according to Jeffrey Boshart, manager of the church’s Global Food Initiative.
Earlier this year one of the program’s drivers was kidnapped — though later released — and his vehicle stolen, Boshart said, prompting the church to suspend all its activities in the Port-au-Prince region. The remaining programs, involving agriculture, drinking water and home construction, are mostly in rural areas far from the capital and staffed entirely by Haitians, he added.
Boshart said the church also has sharply curtailed a mobile medical clinic program because several of the Haitian doctors who participated have fled to the U.S.
Catholic Relief Services has more than 200 staff members in the country, almost all of them Haitian, but they’ve largely been working remotely. Many of their educational and health care outreaches are on hold.
“Roads are blocked, and they can’t get on the road to go to the office,” said Akim Kikonda, the CRS country representative. “There is no gas to drive their cars, and in some cases there is no internet at the office.”
He added: “You can imagine our frustration … when we see the needs are greater than they have ever been, but we are unable to go meet those needs.”
He hopes that international supporters will rally behind Haiti.
“Haiti has been close to the edge so many times and has always been able to come back,” Kikonda said. “This time I’m seeing a very difficult and challenging situation, hoping there is a light, but personally I can’t see it yet.”
Living Waters for the World, a U.S.-based nonprofit providing clean water systems to numerous countries, has managed to continue its work in Haiti because much of it is done by Haitians, said Bob McCoy, moderator of its Haiti Network Coordinating Team.
International visits continue, though planned carefully.
“The kidnapping was a very unfortunate situation,” McCoy said. “Do we worry about it? You bet. We try to stay smart about what we’re doing. It doesn’t stop our going.”
Meanwhile a new book published by CAM gives its official account of the kidnapping and includes interviews with the hostages, their families and CAM officials.
“Kidnapped in Haiti,” written by Katrina Hoover Lee, reveals that while CAM had a longstanding no-ransom policy, board members were not as committed to it as they thought in the face of an actual crisis.
In internal debates, the book says, some asked, “Was it sensible to risk human lives over an issue that was not spelled out in Scripture?”
The ministry ultimately agreed to offer humanitarian aid to the kidnappers, which they rejected. It then reluctantly accepted a third party’s offer to pay ransom.
Showalter said CAM still “does not have details of who paid or what amount that included.” The ransom happened in December, and the hostages were told they would all be freed. But they said that due to internal gang conflicts, the kidnappers only released three.
The remaining hostages prayed and worshipped together daily. They also debated intensely whether to attempt an escape. Finally, they all agreed to try. According to their accounts, the they pried open a barricaded door after midnight on Dec. 16 and walked for miles to safety.
Showalter said the ministry continues its work in other nations and will consider returning to Haiti.
One the former hostages, Dale Wideman, is returning to the mission field for a stint in Liberia, where CAM supplies medical clinics.
His experience in Haiti has motivated him to help others. “It just reminded me of how much I’ve been given, being brought up in Canada in a good solid home,” said Wideman, of Moorefield, Ontario. He recalled the extreme poverty in Haiti, with many youths joining gangs “looking for any way possible to get a meal and make a few bucks.”
“I’d like to say I wouldn’t make those choices if I were in their situation, but I have no idea,” said Wideman, 25. “Our worlds are so different. I feel like I should give back.”
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Six states in Nigeria on Friday night withdrew a suit asking the Supreme Court to void the result of the just-concluded presidential election, the latest twist in several challenges facing the ruling party’s victory in the vote.
The states — led by governors in the main opposition party, which finished second in last weekend’s election — had accused Nigeria’s electoral commission of failing to follow its own rules and election laws in conducting the vote and announcing a winner, according to court documents.
Election results from the 176,000 polling units are required to be transmitted to the commission’s portal, which the opposition says didn’t happen.
But the states withdrew the suit from the court in a joint notice of discontinuance filed on Friday night. They did not give a reason for withdrawing the challenge.
Bola Tinubu of the ruling party received 37% of the vote to win the election, which other candidates, including second-place candidate Atiku Abubakar and third-place finisher Peter Obi, say they will challenge in court.
The states — Sokoto, Adamawa, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Delta and Edo — had said they wanted the Supreme Court to declare that the results of the presidential election “were invalid, null and void, and of no effect whatsoever.”
Nigeria’s electoral law says an election can be invalidated only if it’s proven that the Independent National Electoral Commission largely didn’t follow the law and acted in ways that could have changed the result. None of Nigeria’s presidential election results has ever been overturned by the Supreme Court.
However, the latest court challenge was unique, lawyers said, citing the legal provision that voting results must be transmitted to the electoral body’s portal.
“Having not complied with that requirement, I believe the integrity of the entire process is questionable,” said Inibehe Effiong, a lawyer in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja. No matter what the precedent shows, the court does not have other options, he added.
Separately, the Supreme Court extended the deadline until the end of the year for the government to finish switching out old currency for new bank notes. The swap has created a cash shortage because there aren’t enough redesigned notes to go around in the cash-reliant country. The crisis has stirred violence, daylong lines at banks and business closures.
A seven-member justice panel said Friday that the program’s implementation broke the law and directed the old banknotes of 200 naira (43 U.S. cents), 500 naira ($1.08) and 1,000 naira ($2.16) to stay legal tender until Dec. 31 before being replaced with the redesigned cash.
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BALTIMORE – Brad Cox-trained First Mission has been scratched from the Preakness on the advice of veterinarians, taking one of the top contenders out of the Triple Crown race 36 hours before post time.
Godolphin, which owns the horse, announced the scratch early Friday, saying vets identified a left hind issue.
“We are obviously very disappointed, but the welfare of the horse is our utmost concern, and we are going to take the necessary steps to determine the best course of action to get him back on the track," Godolphin bloodstock director Michael Banahan said.
Godolphin said First Mission will receive further evaluation in Kentucky at Rood and Riddle hospital with Dr. Larry Bramlage.
The removal of First Mission leaves seven horses in the field for the $1.65 million race. He was the early second choice at odds of 5-2 behind only 8-5 favorite Mage, who won the Kentucky Derby.
Five horses were scratched in the days and hours leading up to the Derby, including favorite Forte, when Kentucky racing officials expressed concern about a bruised right front foot. Forte landed on the state’s vet list, grounding him from racing for at least 14 days and trainer Todd Pletcher was suspended 10 days for Forte failing a postrace drug test in New York in September.
Racing officials who own and operate tracks in Maryland have increased testing and veterinary review procedures for horses running in the Preakness and other top stakes races this weekend at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore as preventative measures to limit injuries. That includes multiple independent doctors examining horses, with each one needing to be cleared before racing.
Seven horses died at Churchill Downs in the days leading up and on Derby day, and an eighth died the following week, putting the sport in a familiar negative spotlight when a cluster of fatalities happens, especially during Triple Crown season.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna will follow-up her soaring Super Bowl halftime show with a performance at the Super Bowl of movies — the Oscars.
Producers of the telecast said Thursday that the music superstar will sing “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“Lift Me Up,” with music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson and lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler, is nominated for original song. It is Rihanna’s first Oscar nomination.
Earlier this month, the Barbadian superstar, dressed in a bright red jumpsuit, plowed through 12 of her hits in 13 minutes, at the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The performance doubled as an announcement to the world that she was pregnant with her second child.
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 95th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on March 12.
Among Oscar competitors that Rihanna faces is Lady Gaga, who was nominated for “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick.” Lady Gaga co-wrote the song with BloodPop and it’s her fourth nomination; she won an Oscar in 2019 for “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper.
Another nominee is Diane Warren, who received her 14th Oscar nomination through her song “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman.” The prolific songwriter was recognized with an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards last year.
Other best original song nominees are M.M. Keeravaani’s “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR,” which was written by Chandrabose, and “This is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The latter track was created by Mitski, David Byrne and Ryan Lott, who along with his band Son Lux was also nominated for best original score.
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NFL suspends Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for 6 games, AP sources say
(AP) - Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended without pay 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 women alleging sexual harassment and assault during massage therapy appointments in 2020 and 2021.
The NFL has three days to appeal the decision by disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson. The NFL Players’ Association already stated it would abide by her ruling. If either side appeals, 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.
The league had pushed for an indefinite suspension of at least one year and at least a $5 million fine for the 26-year-old Watson during a three-day hearing before Robinson in June.
Watson can continue to practice and play in exhibition games before his suspension begins the first week of the regular season. He would be eligible to return on Oct. 23 when the Browns play at Baltimore.
After learning the ruling was imminent, the NFLPA issued a joint statement with Watson on Sunday night, saying they will not appeal 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.
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.
While the NFL pushed for a severe penalty, the union had 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.
“This case started because one woman had the fortitude to step forward and make her voice heard,” said attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the women in the civil lawsuit. “Her courage inspired many others with the same experience. None of this saga would have occurred without that one brave voice. One person can make a difference.
“I have been asked repeatedly about my thoughts in regard to the NFL’s proceeding with Deshaun Watson. Although some of my clients do have strong feelings in that regard, I have nothing meaningful to say about that process. I’ve said in the beginning that the civil process and the NFL’s disciplinary process are very different. My role was to advance the cause of my clients, in civil court—nothing more. I’ve done that. I am extremely proud of these women and our legal team’s efforts. The settlements are confidential. I won’t comment further on them.”
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 cases of domestic violence or sexual misconduct against women 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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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in a memorable Super Bowl that included plenty of big plays on and off the field. Here's a look at some top moments from Sunday night's game:
CHIEFS WIN
Harrison Butker kicked a 27-yard field goal with 8 seconds remaining to lift the Chiefs to their 38-35 win over the Eagles. The Chiefs have won the Super Bowl in two of the past four seasons and their roll shows no sign of stopping, especially with Patrick Mahomes throwing the passes. Kansas City’s quarterback overcame a sprained ankle to earn Super Bowl MVP honors after throwing for 182 yards and three touchdowns. Coach Andy Reid also captured his second Super Bowl title and this one came at the expense of the franchise he coached for 14 seasons before coming to Kansas City.
RIHANNA
Rihanna provided a high-flying halftime performance in Arizona. The nine-time Grammy Award winner began and ended the halftime show suspended high above the field. She wore a puffy, bright red jumpsuit with tight, rubbery garb underneath as she stood on a transparent rectangular platform that raised and lowered as she belted out the lyrics to her hit songs over the turf.
Oh yeah, and to top it off, she did the performance while pregnant, news that was revealed after the show.
VALLEY OF FUN
The Phoenix area is no stranger to hosting big events, but this was a huge weekend even by its standards. The winter and spring months are already tourist season in Arizona and the Super Bowl added another layer of revelry, adding tens of thousands of people who filled bars and restaurants and at times spilled into the streets. Throw in the Phoenix Open, the PGA Tour’s version of a boozy mosh pit on grass, and the Phoenix area transforms into a weeklong Valley of Fun.
“The buzz is definitely here,” said Jay Parry, president and CEO of the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee.
BRADBERRY SEES YELLOW
This could be a highlight or lowlight, depending on rooting allegiances, but James Bradberry’s penalty on the final drive was undeniably a huge moment. The Chiefs were driving and faced third-and-8 at the Eagles 15-yard line with 1:54 remaining when Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw incomplete to JuJu Smith-Schuster. But officials flagged Bradberry for defensive holding, which negated the incompletion and, more importantly, gave the Chiefs a first down. Replays showed Bradberry made light contact with Smith-Schuster, though it didn’t appear to affect the play much. Many fans — and some football commentators — disagreed with the call. The only person who didn’t seem upset with the call was Bradberry himself.
“It was a holding. I tugged his jersey,” Bradberry said. “I was hoping they would let it slide.”
BETTING BONANZA
Mahomes rallied the Chiefs to victory and for that, casinos around the U.S. were pleased. Kansas City’s 38-35 win meant the books were winners on the betting line, which generally favored the Eagles by 1 1/2 points and drew plenty of wagering on the NFC champions. That victory by the casinos offset a loss on the total, which was 51 1/2 points at many places. Sports betting has become huge business in the U.S. now that two-thirds of the country can do so legally.
TONEY’S EMERGENCE
Kadarius Toney’s struggles with injuries and inconsistency prompted the New York Giants to give up on him midway through his second NFL season. The Kansas City Chiefs gave him a second chance and the talented receiver proved he’s no first-round bust. Toney made history and two of the biggest plays in the Chiefs’ win. His 65-yard punt return in the fourth quarter was a particularly big moment. It was the longest punt return in Super Bowl history.
BOLTON'S SCOOP, SCORE
The first hint it might be the Chiefs' night came in the second quarter when Hurts fumbled and Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton scooped up the football and ran 36 yards for the touchdown. It was at a pivotal moment in the evening: The Eagles were ahead 14-7 and driving at midfield when Bolton's game-changing play occurred. Suddenly, the game was tied and the drama was just beginning.
STAPLETON’S ANTHEM
The Super Bowl might be known for its extravagance, but country singer and songwriter Chris Stapleton didn’t need any high-tech help for a stellar performance during the national anthem. Stapleton stood at midfield with just a guitar and his smooth baritone voice, belting out an emotional rendition that had Eagles coach Nick Sirianni in tears by the end.
HURTS SO GOOD
Hurts wasn’t victorious in his first Super Bowl appearance, but the young quarterback has no reason to be ashamed. He was phenomenal in Arizona, setting a Super Bowl record with three rushing touchdowns. On top of that, he completed 27 of 38 passes for 304 yards and a touchdown, showing poise and perfect throwing touch on a number of occasions.
SLICK FIELD
The field at State Farm Stadium may have looked immaculate, but by the second half, it was clear that traction was not great. Said Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata: “It was like playing on a water park.” The grass at State Farm Stadium is on a giant tray that is rolled in and out of the retractable roof stadium. The field sits out in the Arizona sun on warm days and is brought back inside when it gets cold. This particular batch of grass started growing in May of 2021, but even a nearly two-year process couldn’t produce a flawless field.
HELLO HAMLIN
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin made it to the Super Bowl. He made three appearances during the week in Arizona, including on the field at State Farm Stadium prior to the game. It’s been a little more than a month since Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and needed to be resuscitated on the field in Cincinnati. Sunday’s appearance was another milestone in his remarkable recovery. “I’m allowing that to be in God’s hands,” Hamlin said in an interview with Fox’s Michael Strahan. “I’m just thankful he gave me a second chance.”
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AP Pro Football Writers Rob Maaddi and Josh Dubow, AP Sports Writers John Marshall, Dave Skretta and Mark Anderson, and AP Entertainment Writers Andrew Dalton and Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Three people were injured Saturday morning in a shooting at a convenience store on the city’s East Side.
The shooting happened at 8 a.m. Saturday at USA Food Mart, located on East 123rd Street, south of Phillips Avenue, said Cleveland police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia, the department spokeswoman. | 2023-06-03T21:31:16+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/06/three-people-taken-to-hospital-after-shooting-at-store-on-clevelands-east-side.html |
OFS' large capacity fiber optic cable along DC BLOX's new route enables robust connectivity throughout the Southeast
ATLANTA, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OFS, a leading manufacturer of innovative fiber optic products, announces it has been selected by DC BLOX, a provider of multi-tenant data centers, dark fiber, and connectivity solutions that delivers the infrastructure essential to power today's digital business. As the exclusive fiber optic cable provider, OFS is providing its industry-leading fiber optic cable for DC BLOX's Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Cable Landing Station (CLS) terrestrial network extension, connecting from the Myrtle Beach CLS, through Charleston, Augusta, and Atlanta landing in Lithia Springs, Georgia with eight strategically located network aggregation facilities enabling regional cloud computing, wireless services, local content distribution and broadband access to underserved areas in both South Carolina and Georgia.
OFS and DC BLOX have a strong proven relationship. Through DC BLOX's acquisition of Light Source Communications' fiber assets in South Carolina and Georgia, the long-standing direct relationship ensures projects are supported from concept through completion, with direct access for technical support on all planning, deployment, and operational matters. Debra Freitas, Chief Commercial Officer, DC BLOX Fiber comments, "we knew what we wanted to accomplish with this new network route, and OFS' large capacity fiber optic cable, leveraging the latest technology, has allowed us to increase the quality of our network while managing costs".
DC BLOX celebrated the groundbreaking of the new CLS on October 4, 2022. The 15-megawatt CLS is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2023, while the fiber route will be completed in the first quarter of 2024. DC BLOX's nearly 500-mile dark fiber route will be the first, high-capacity East-to-West fiber path from South Carolina through Georgia. "With a relationship that spans more than seven years, we are proud to know that OFS' local facilities are manufacturing our fiber optic cabling. DC BLOX is committed to serving locally and connecting globally and bringing business opportunities to regional communities is important to us," adds Debra Freitas.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fan Bingbing made a regal entrance in sparkling silver and emerald green on the champagne-colored carpet Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards. Hong Chau wore a high-neck pink Prada column gown with a feathery black train and Malala Yousafzai worked the hood of her silver sparkler from Ralph Lauren like a pro.
Bingbing, the “X-Men” star, wore Tony Ward Couture with her hair sculpted into an Old Hollywood bob, as some of the men among the early walkers brought the sparkle. We’re looking at you Lorenzo Zurzolo. Others, like Brendan Fraser, went for traditional black tuxedos.
While Bingbing looked like a queen, Sofia Carson was a princess in white custom Giambattista Valli haute couture, a stunning statement diamond and emerald necklace accenting her ball gown with its off-shoulder, form-fitting bodice, a delicate diamond-shaped cutout at the center. Her jewels were by Chopard, including 122.49 carats of emeralds and 92.57 carats of diamonds.
Also looking royal was Angela Bassett in Moschino. The dress by Jeremy Scott included draping that looked like a huge bow up top as the fabric swirled around her body. She was perfectly accented with a serpent Bulgari necklace.
“It’s light, it’s royal purple, our color for royalty,” she told E!. “Just bringing that to the carpet. And, also spring.”
Yousafzai, 25, was a producer on “Stranger at the Gate.” She said her dress represented “peace, love, harmony.”
“I feel so much myself in it,” she told The Associated Press.
Rihanna helped close down the carpet in custom Alaia, a leather band dress she wore over a jersey bodysuit as she showed off her baby bump. Lady Gaga snagged a black Versace look off the runway from the fashion house’s show last week in Los Angeles. It featured boning under a sheer top with sheer sleeves and a ballgown skirt with a drop waist. Around her neck was a Tiffany & Co. diamond choker.
Cate Blanchett donned a never-before-seen blue draped velvet top from the Louis Vuitton archives. She wore it with a black skirt made of fully sustainable silk.
Monica Barbaro practiced her carpet walk in a two-tone Elie Saab ballgown of deep plumb and delicate blue chiffon with a long full train.
“They were the first couture house to loan to me when nobody knew who I was,” she told E!
Cara Delevingne repped young Hollywood well in a gorgeous red silk taffeta ballgown with a thigh-high slit and one shoulder with a billowing bow. She paired the look with a Bulgari serpent choker in white gold with emeralds for the eyes of the snake.
“Cara’s smoky pink eyeshadow is so fresh and modern. She looks so fresh faced yet simultaneously glamorous,” said Danielle James, beauty director for Elle.com.
Florence Pugh went in a different direction with a super-mini look in black under a voluminous strapless top that fell into billowy sleeves and yards of long fabric in a greyish white. It was Valentino Haute Couture. She had a Tiffany & Co. diamond necklace around her neck with matching pink tourmaline earrings.
Halle Bailey did the young proud as well in an ethereal strapless soft blue gown by Dolce & Gabbana, with sheer panels at the skirt and boning on top. So did Janelle Monáe in a Vera Wang look that fell from a strapless black crop top to an orange skirt. She wore a black fabric choker around her neck.
Jamie Lee Curtis went for a long-sleeve sparkler by Dolce & Gabbana that was the precise color of the Oscars’ new off-white carpet.
Harvey Guillen and Harry Shum Jr. made statements of their own, the former in a Christian Siriano coat with a silver brocade design and a full ruffled coat and the latter in a white evening jacket with a wide sash and black trim.
“Puss in Boots” star Guillen said his outfit is the first time Siriano has designed for a plus-size man.
The dramatic, embellished long coat flared out at the waist. It evoked Guillen’s vampire mockumentary show “What We Do in the Shadows,” on which he plays fan favorite Guillermo.
Shum made sure to grab supporting actress nominee Chau to compliment her bubblegum pink frock while chatting with friends.
“You look amazing,” he said.
“The Whale” actor replied he did too.
“I try to change it up,” Shum said.
Lilly Singh donned Siriano, who managed to salvage his Oscar looks last week after a pipe burst in his studio. Singh’s magenta trouser look was topped with a long matching coat.
Sandra Oh’s orange look popped against the lighter carpet. Like Chau, Allison Williams went for soft pink, with lots of sparkle, while Mindy Kaling stunned in bright white, a bustier look by Vera Wang with detached overlong sleeves and open boning. Also in white: Ariana DeBose in a standout Versace moment with jeweled embellishment made to evoke armor.
Williams’ Giambattista Valli look came with chunky embellishment, a feather-trimmed hem and a pink taffeta tulle cape.
The beauty games were strong as well. Oh’s updo was perfect for her flowy look, also from Giambattista Valli.
“I love the messy updo with a bang. It juxtaposes with the orange dress so nicely. Her light and airy look matches the vibe,” said James, the Elle beauty expert.
James Hong was 3 months old when the first Oscars were handed out in 1929. At 94, he’s finally made the show.
Wearing a bow tie with googly eyes, the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” actor arrived in his typically playful mood for the Oscars, pulling faces and camping it up for the cameras.
Eva Longoria also wore white, a heavily beaded look by Zuhair Murad that featured an open neckline to the waist.
There was a healthy showing of black as well, led by Danai Gurira in classic Jason Wu, her hair worn high to, as she told reporters, honor the women who carry things with grace and beauty on the tops of their heads. Phoebe Waller-Bridge also went for black. The strapless look came with a Bulgari serpent choker set in pink gold with diamonds and another set of emeralds for eyes.
Stylist and men’s fashion blogger Peter Nguyen had some standouts, including Riz Ahmed.
“His edgy, wide collar open shirt continues the theme of Young Hollywood making more statements by going against the grain of tradition,” Nguyen said.
His fav, though, was Questlove in a tone-on-tone black suit, shirt and tie with a minimal topcoat he called both “elegant and flattering.” On Questlove’s feet were rubbery comfy shoes.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sported a satin double-breasted dinner jacket in ballet pink.
Fashion expert Melissa Rivers, daughter of the late “Fashion Police” host Joan Rivers, loved all the tidy hair, white and statement jewelry.
“Some of the women that we really look to are showing us glimpses of what we’re going to see next. We’re getting away from the big ballgowns and going with the column,” she said.
She includes Jessica Chastain in custom silver crystal Gucci among them. Chastain paired her strapless column gown and black train with a gold Lionhead Gucci necklace featuring 80 carats of green tsavorites and diamonds.
Erika Harwood, senior style editor for Byrdie, noted a strong showing in “truly vintage looks and pieces” pulled from designers’ archives.
Also among them: Winnie Harlow in an archival Y2K look from Armoni Prive, Vanessa Hudgins in vintage Chanel, Rooney Mara in 2008 Alexander McQueen and Zoe Saldana in vintage Cartier jewels.
Tiffany Reid, senior vice president of fashion for Bustle, cited white as a huge trend.
“White was the color of the evening, giving angelic on the champagne carpet,” she said. “Emily Blunt in Valentino, Michelle Yeoh in Dior, Tems in Lever Couture, Mindy Kaling in Vera Wang, Halle Berry, Rooney Mara in McQueen, Michelle Williams in Chanel.”
But her two best dressed were Bassett (in purple) and Chau (in pink). Her glam queen was Gurira, with her hair tribute to “beauty inspired by African women.” Shum made Reid’s best-dressed list for the men, along with Lukas Dhont, Michael B. Jordan, Paul Mescal and Austin Butler.
Cassie Anderson, fashion director for Cosmopolitan, noted a wealth of rosettes, including those on the looks of Nicole Kidman and Berry. And she, too, saw white as a strong trend, along with metallics like those of Yousafzai and Williams.
“Studies suggest that gold is the luckiest color to wear to the Oscars,” Anderson said, “but white was THE color.”
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For more coverage of this year’s Academy Awards, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards | 2023-03-13T12:35:52+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/entertainment-news/oscars-2023-carpet-sofia-carson-fan-bingbing-bring-regal/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Sure, it involves feet. But so does almost every other sport, to some extent.
Football, also known American football or gridiron football, is the most popular spectator sport in the United States. But most of us probably don’t know why it’s called “football” and not, say, tackleball or oblongball.
And yes, there’s a kicker on every team whose job is to launch the ball through a set of goalposts with his foot, but that’s not where the name of the sport originated either.
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The exact etymology of the word “football” is slightly unclear, but many historians say the term dates back to the late Middle Ages, when it was used to refer to any sport that was played on foot, as opposed to sports played on horseback. Over centuries, it came to be associated with different kicking games played throughout the U.K., the rules of which were eventually combined and standardized to form football (or soccer, as it became known in the U.S.) in the mid-19th century.
Around the same time, rugby — or rugby football — began developing in and around England. Though similar to soccer in that it required a team to advance a ball toward its opponents’ goal, it differed in that players could pick up the ball and run it down the field.
Over the next decades, American universities began playing their own early forms of football using rules derived from both rugby (rugby football) and association football (the sport that came to be known as soccer). And by the turn of the century, American games of football had evolved and adopted so many new rules that they barely resembled U.K. football.
By that time, however, the name “football” had already taken a foothold in America, and it was here to stay, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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This still leaves one important question unanswered: If we adopted the word “football” from overseas — where football is something else entirely — where did we get the word “soccer”?
Surprisingly, the word “soccer,” too, traces back to England. In order to distinguish the early versions of soccer-like games and games of rugby (both of which were often called “football”), fans of the former began calling it “association football,” a nickname derived from the name of the Football Association, which was charged with governing the sport’s rules. Over time, this was shortened to “assoc” or just “soc,” and slang-ified with an -er, according to Oxford’s Lexico.com.
Interestingly enough, this particular type of slang — adding -er to certain words — is thought to have been popularized by students at Oxford University, who adopted it from students at the Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, where the game of rugby is believed to have originated. (This same slang is said to be responsible for the word “rugger” to describe rugby, or the word “tenner” to describe a ten-pound note.)
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The term “soccer,” meanwhile, wasn’t as widely used in foreign countries where association football began gaining popularity, so “football” once again became the preferred term across most of the globe. But in places where the gridiron-like game became popular (like America, Canada and Australia), “football” became the name of the game — and “soccer,” somewhat ironically, stuck around to describe the more feet-centric of the two sports. | 2023-02-11T17:17:25+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/why-is-football-called-football/ |
The Senate on Wednesday passed a GOP-led resolution that would end the COVID-19 national emergency that has been in place since 2020.
The measure passed the upper chamber 68-23.
A similar resolution sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) passed the Senate last year, but it did not advance in the Democrat-controlled House. This year it passed the House 229-197, with 11 Democrats joining all Republicans.
President Biden last year threatened to veto the measure. This year, he did not threaten a veto but issued a statement of administration principles before the House vote objecting to the resolution.
On Wednesday, however, he said he would sign the measure.
“The President strongly opposes HJ Res 7, and the administration is planning to wind down the COVID national emergency and public health emergency on May 11. If this bill comes to his desk, however, he will sign it, and the administration will continue working with agencies to wind down the national emergency with as much notice as possible to Americans who could potentially be impacted,” a White House official said.
The national emergency is different from the public health emergency, though the White House will end both on May 11. Under federal law, Congress has the power to ask for periodic votes to terminate a national emergency.
President Biden used the powers under the national emergency declaration as the underpinning for his student loan forgiveness plan, which is currently tied up in court.
The initial declaration allowed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to mobilize personnel to support state and local agencies as they worked to combat the virus. The move also allowed FEMA to access billions of dollars.
Ending the national emergency early could also terminate some of the flexibility that COBRA has been able to exercise. | 2023-03-30T01:40:57+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/hill-politics/senate-votes-to-end-covid-19-national-emergency/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The mass layoffs that began in Amazon’s corporate ranks this week will extend into next year, CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday.
In a note sent to employees, Jassy said the company told workers in its devices and books divisions about layoffs on Wednesday. He said it also offered some other employees a voluntary buyout offer.
“I’ve been in this role now for about a year and a half, and without a doubt, this is the most difficult decision we’ve made during that time (and, we’ve had to make some very tough calls over the past couple of years, particularly during the heart of the pandemic),” Jassy wrote in the memo.
Seattle-based Amazon, which has been cutting costs in various areas of its business in the past few months, is undergoing an annual review process to figure out where it can save more money. Jassy said this year’s review is “more difficult” due to the economic landscape and the company’s rapid hiring in the last several years.
Other tech companies — many of which had gone on hiring binges in the past few years — have also been trimming their workforce amid concerns about an economic slowdown. Among others, Facebook parent Meta said last week it would lay off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce. And Elon Musk, the new Twitter CEO, has slashed the company’s workforce in half this month.
On Tuesday, Amazon notified authorities in California that it would lay off about 260 corporate workers at various facilities in the state. The company has not publicly disclosed how many employees it laid off this week across its entire corporate workforce, though some based in Seattle said they’ve also been let go.
Jassy said the company hasn’t concluded how many other jobs will be impacted. He noted there will be reductions in certain divisions as the company goes through the annual review process, which will continue into next year. As they weigh job cuts, he said leaders at the company will prioritize what matters most to customers and the long-term health of the company.
Amazon is offering severance packages for employees who leave the company. But — unlike Meta, for example — it hasn’t publicly provided details of the package.
The company employs more than 1.5 million workers globally, primarily made up of hourly workers. | 2022-11-18T16:28:38+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/technology/ap-amazon-ceo-says-layoffs-will-extend-into-next-year/ |
There are a few pandemic habits we’ve embraced IRL: Zoom meetings, QR codes, hand sanitizer. Not so much the ghost kitchen, an innovation that promised to change the world, but has shaken out to be more a thing of quarantine folklore than a reliable business.
Why? Turns out people never really stopped going to drive-thrus and missed dining out while in quarantine. Quick service restaurant traffic has returned to its pre-pandemic pace; dine-in spots are recovering but still lag behind 2019 levels, according to a JLL Inc. report released last month. Pricier groceries are driving people to fast food. Wendy’s is investing in its late-night menus this summer, anticipating a pickup in traffic. Late-night customers are already back to pre-pandemic levels, and a lighter labor model has the potential to drive a lot in sales, said Penegor. All this is to say that the cost of running an empty delivery-only restaurant proved to be too high compared to the traditional fast food model.
As with many innovations, ghost kitchen services grew faster than food-ordering platforms could keep up with, leading to issues with transparency that ultimately turned customers off. There is really no way for people using a food-delivery app to know if Joe’s Sandwiches is the same as Jane’s Sandwiches, which offers delivery for the same items at higher prices. Big restaurant companies such as Chuck E. Cheese operate ghost kitchens under shell restaurants with different names, giving consumers the illusion of choice. Earlier this year, Uber’s food delivery service Uber Eats began pruning its app of thousands of restaurants that list multiple delivery options under different names but offer the same menu. It also now requires restaurant ghost kitchens to distinguish their virtual menu by at least 50% from their parent menu. The lack of transparency also poses a problem for cities. It’s often difficult to enforce labor or health codes when it is unclear who is running the kitchen and because their unique business model challenges some cities’ permitting codes.
Of course, ghost kitchens do some good and fill a void in the restaurant industry. They typically operate out of undesirable retail spaces and they help restaurants keep the lights on. But as we emerge from the pandemic, their place in the recovery is precarious. The pandemic reminded us of a lot of basic things such as how to wash your hands (scrub with soap for 15 seconds or the time it takes to sing happy birthday) and that humans are social creatures. The convenience and speed of a good burger delivered to your home isn’t always worth more than a night at a sports bar with friends or family.
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Michael Bublé and Luisana Lopilato Back At "Home" At Walt Disney World Resort
Published: Nov. 23, 2022 at 12:59 PM EST|Updated: 5 hours ago
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Music superstar Michael Bublé returned to Walt Disney World Resort with his spouse, actor and model Luisana Lopilato in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. on October 27, 2022. The couple posed for photos in front of Cinderella Castle as they kicked off their family vacation at the Most Magical Place on Earth. Bublé and Lopilato honeymooned at Magic Kingdom Theme Park in 2011 and have visited several times over the years. (David Roark, photographer)
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realto, creator of the first market system for buyers and sellers of alternative and real estate investments, now offers investors the opportunity to express their indication of interest (IOI) before placing an order.
The functionality enables buyers to display the price they're willing to pay for shares of alternative and real estate investments, without providing up-front funds. Once a seller enters an order that's in the IOI range, the buyer is notified and can choose to place a binding order for shares.
"Realto's IOI feature benefits both buyers and sellers," said Realto CEO Brian King. "Buyers can set the prices they're willing to pay for shares across multiple securities without locking up their cash and sellers can receive competing bids that help with best execution."
In the past decade, private markets have evolved and now offer investors in alternative investments the opportunity to tap previously hard-to-find liquidity. These solutions are especially helpful to investors during turbulent economic times.
"High inflation and speculation about a recession can send investors scrambling for liquidity," said King. "With multiple buyers potentially bidding for the same product, it narrows the spread, helps with price discovery and gives sellers an option for achieving liquidity."
Realto Inc. developed the first automated marketplace technology for buying and selling non-traded public REITs, BDCs and other private real estate investments. Using Realto's proprietary platform, Realto Securities, LLC provides accredited investors the ability to place market or limit orders and have the trades settled in as little as three days, rather than weeks or months. Realto Securities, LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, is a subsidiary of Realto, Inc. Visit Realto.ai for more information, including a list of securities traded on the platform, and connect with the company on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida state representative was tricked into reading several raunchy fake names during a House Civil Justice Subcommittee hearing on Monday.
Republican Chairman Will Robinson was holding the public testimony portion of fellow GOP state Rep. Tiffany Esposito’s bill on residential tenancies when he began to read off the names of citizens who were opposed to the bill.
Seemingly without notice, Robinson began reading off the provocative names.
“Anita D—,” Robinson said, pausing to scan the room as the woman next to him covered a grin, “is an opponent.”
“Holden His—- is also an opponent,” he continued, again scanning the room for an opponent. “Waives in opposition.”
The lighthearted gaffe was quick to circulate on social media where some wondered if the gag would remain in court records for the rest of time.
“This is forever in the Florida records, right?…….right?” one user wrote.
The next day, Robinson invited the two to stop by the next meeting.
“Committee does meet again next week! Anita and Holden, please stop by!” he said. | 2023-03-25T23:33:22+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/politics/florida-lawmaker-appears-to-get-trolled-with-fake-names-during-hearing/ |
To celebrate, Sherwin-Williams is helping bring the soft and soulful neutral to life through paint and beyond with a curated selection of goods on Etsy
CLEVELAND, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sherwin-Williams introduces its 2023 Color of the Year Redend Point SW 9081, a calming blush-beige that inspires expanded horizons and eye-opening discoveries.
"Redend Point was inspired by the idea of finding beauty beyond ourselves. It is a heartening hue that invites compassion and connection into any space," said Sue Wadden, director of color marketing at Sherwin-Williams. "The color is a natural choice for those looking for a warm and joyful neutral in both interiors and exteriors. Redend Point is a beautiful color and I can't wait to see how consumers play with it and style their spaces."
Redend Point (195-C4) embodies the idea of a destination worth moving toward, igniting the spirit of discovery and inspiring deeper connections with others throughout the world. In exploring "beauty beyond ourselves," the hue provides a grounding reminder to stay curious and empathetic toward ourselves and our communities.
To help ignite consumers' imaginations and inspire them to create warm and inviting spaces using Redend Point, Sherwin-Williams and Etsy, the global marketplace for unique and creative goods, have curated a selection of complementary home décor items as well as art and accessories from Etsy sellers. Products include stoneware vases, hand-poured candles, modern wall art, hand-printed linen napkins and more.
"Redend Point is an ideal choice for bringing a sense of serenity and nature into any space," said Dayna Isom Johnson, Etsy's Trend Expert. "The unique, handcrafted items we've curated on Etsy can complement this soulful hue in almost any room – or even enable you to bring the color beyond your four walls with accessories and gifts."
As neutrals continue to warm up, Wadden expects this blush-beige to be a versatile shade seen across residential and commercial spaces in the years to come.
Building on the new beginnings emphasized by 2022 Color of the Year Evergreen Fog SW 9130, the soulful Redend Point breathes life into every part of the home, from the living room to the bedroom.
"Redend Point's subtle pink undertones make it easy to incorporate into any space. It delivers an enveloping warmth that instantly makes you feel at home," Wadden said. "Build on its earthiness by utilizing the hue alongside natural-looking textiles and wood accents or create a desert oasis by layering terracotta shades and clay materials."
The intriguing hue is part of the Nexus palette in the Sherwin-Williams 2023 Colormix® Forecast, which celebrates restorative energy, well-being and kindness. Wadden recommends pairing the hue with grounding neutrals like Urbane Bronze SW 7048, Pure White SW 7005, Cool Beige SW 9086 and Foothills SW 7514, or tonal clays such as Hushed Auburn SW 9080, Toile Red SW 0006, Carnelian SW 7580 and Malted Milk SW 6057.
The neutral's versatility makes it a calming choice in a variety of commercial and communal settings.
"There is no commercial setting more central to the concept of beauty beyond ourselves than community gathering spaces. Whether that is a restaurant, office or multifamily building, this hue adds the feeling of restoration that encourages connection to both ourselves and others," Wadden said.
The earthy tone brings the outdoors into multiuse areas to ground spaces for rest and relaxation, like lounges and community rooms, and draws patrons into lobbies and welcome areas with its subtle warmth.
Led by Director of Color Marketing Sue Wadden, the Sherwin-Williams global color and design team researches and identifies key trends that influence the way we interact with color. From those findings, the team turns emerging themes into the annual Colormix Forecast, which for 2023 features 40 colors and four palettes. The team chooses the Color of the Year from the annual Forecast. The 2023 selection, Redend Point SW 9081, is the 13th official Color of the Year:
- 2011: Indigo Batik SW 7602
- 2012: Argyle SW 6747
- 2013: Aloe SW 6464
- 2014: Exclusive Plum SW 6263
- 2015: Coral Reef SW 6606
- 2016: Alabaster SW 7008
- 2017: Poised Taupe SW 6039
- 2018: Oceanside SW 6496
- 2019: Cavern Clay SW 7701
- 2020: Naval SW 6244
- 2021: Urbane Bronze SW 7048
- 2022: Evergreen Fog SW 9130
Redend Point SW 9081 is available at Sherwin-Williams stores nationwide and online for in-store or curbside pick-up. Sherwin Williams color chips and peel & stick samples are also available in-store and online at swsamples.com. More information about the Sherwin-Williams Color of the Year and other color selection resources for consumers are available at www.swcoty.com. In addition, designers can visit www.swcolor.com for professional color tools. To shop the Sherwin-Williams x Etsy curated selection of home décor and accessories, visit www.etsy.com/sherwinwilliams.
For more than 155 years, Sherwin-Williams has been an industry leader in the development of technologically advanced paint and coatings. As the nation's largest specialty retailer of paint and painting supplies, Sherwin-Williams is dedicated to supporting both do-it-yourselfers and painting professionals with exceptional and exclusive products, resources to make confident color selections and expert, personalized service at its more than 4,300 neighborhood stores across North America. For more information, visit sherwin-williams.com. Join Sherwin-Williams on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Star gazers will have the opportunity to see constellations and planets while being guided by astronomers at the Bachechi Open Space. On Saturday near sunset, the Albuquerque Astronomical Society will host its first Public Star Party in two years. The event is free to the public.
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Visitors will wait until it becomes dark and then disperse to the telescope sites where members are focused on different targets and will share facts about each one. “The visitors love the experience–and so do the telescope owners, who never tire of their excitement about the universe and love to share what they know and the different objects they can show the people of all ages,” said Lynne Olson of the Albuquerque Astronomical Society.
They ask that attendees bring only red lights, flashlights, or headlamps to help keep everyone’s night vision sharp. Parking for the public will be at the Alameda Open Space lot on Alameda just before the Rio Grande River, with a short stroll to the Bachechi Education Center. The event begins at 7 p.m. | 2022-09-02T05:55:16+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/community/star-gazing-event-planned-for-bachechi-open-space/ |
NEW YORK — Arsenal will play Major League Soccer’s All-Stars at Audi Field in Washington, D.C., on July 19, the first European opponent in the game since before the coronavirus pandemic.
The Gunners, pursuing their first Premier League title since 2004, also were the All-Star opponent in 2016. They won 2-1 at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, California, on goals by Joel Campbell and Chuba Akpom. Didier Drogba, then playing for Montreal, scored for MLS.
MLS announced Tuesday it was returning to its most-used All-Star format.
The league began having its top players face a European opponent in 2005, then announced in November 2019 that it was changing to its All-Stars against those of Liga MX. The 2020 match in Los Angeles was canceled because of the pandemic, but the format was used the following two years, with MLS winning on penalty kicks in Los Angeles in 2021 and 2-1 last year at St. Paul, Minnesota.
Arsenal will become the third European club to appear in two MLS All-Star Games after Manchester United (2010 and ‘11) and Chelsea (2006 and ‘12). The previous European opponent was Atlético Madrid, which won 3-0 in 2019 at Orlando, Florida.
The Gunners have an eight-point lead over defending champion Manchester City in the Premier League. Arsenal has nine games remaining and City has 10.
MLS’s All-Star Game had an East vs. West format in 1996 and ‘97, from 1999-2001 and in 2004. Its American players met its international players in 1998, and MLS All-Stars played the U.S. national team in 2002 and Mexico’s Chivas in 2003.
More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-21T22:19:44+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2023/03/mls-all-stars-to-play-against-first-european-foe-since-before-covid-19.html |
"I don't think it's caught up to me yet — how much my life has changed," says Emma Hardyman, singer of the 2023 Tiny Desk Contest-winning band Little Moon. The Utah-based band recently wrapped up the Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour, headlining eight sold-out shows across the country. While on the road, Hardyman caught up with NPR to reflect on the life-changing win and also share the story behind Little Moon's winning song, "Wonder Eye."
Hardyman tells NPR the song was written during the time her mother-in-law was in hospice care. The melody came to Hardyman as she and her husband Nathan Hardyman, who is also part of Little Moon, drove from Utah to Idaho to visit his mother.
During this difficult time, Emma and Nathan Hardyman were also in the process of leaving the Mormon church in which they had grown up.
"And pretty quickly, just because of the circumstances, I realized that this song, this melody, was about death," says Emma Hardyman, who wrote the structure of the song before asking Nathan Hardyman to write the lyrics.
The couple were also observing the disintegration of many of the building blocks their Mormon belief systems were built on. "I've grieved past versions of myself throughout my whole life," Emma Hardyman shares.
"I really love where Mormonism brought me," Emma Hardyman says. "It introduced me to teachings that are supposed to love everybody, that are supposed to incorporate everybody. [But] it couldn't follow me to how much I wanted to take [those teachings] seriously," she adds, noting that many of the Little Moon band members are queer. She says Mormonism didn't align with how she wants to treat people 'without conditions.'
Emma Hardyman also shares that she had many self-doubts about herself as an artist when she and Nathan Hardyman met — but that he believed in her from their very first date. And in "Wonder Eye," the two even find peace in not having all the answers. Emma sings: "Is there a knowledge that is found not in knowing?" as she's met with the warm hums of the band.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-31T15:55:00+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-07-31/the-power-and-heartbreak-behind-the-song-that-won-the-tiny-desk-contest |
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Noah Lyles pulled in front of teenage sensation Erriyon Knighton at the finish to win the 200 meters at the U.S. track and field championships Sunday.
“I do what it takes to win,” proclaimed Lyles, who cheekily pointed to Knighton as he hit the tape in 19.67 seconds.
Lyles won the 200 at the 2019 world championships in Doha and the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics last summer. He’ll be challenged again by Knighton in the worlds next month in Eugene.
“Job not finished,” said Knighton, just 18.
Temperatures in the mid-90s greeted athletes for the final day of the competition at Hayward Field. Events moved to earlier in the day because of the heat.
The top three finishers in each event will be on the U.S. team for the world championships, given they have met the required performance standard.
Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu was challenged the last 100 meters by Ajee Wilson, but pushed to finish first in the 800 in 1:57.16.
“It was a fast field, we were all together kind of throughout the whole race. I felt like we’d still be together the last 100, I just wanted to try my best to finish strong,” Mu said. “Ajee was right on me, I had to push a little harder to get to the line.”
Sha’Carri Richardson did not qualify for Sunday’s 200 final, her only remaining chance to make the U.S. team for the worlds. Her time in the semifinal, 22.47 seconds, put her out of contention. She did not comment to reporters afterward.
Richardson also failed to make the field for Friday’s 100 meter final, which was won by Melissa Jefferson of Coastal Carolina. Richardson’s failure to qualify for the finals in either race was something of a surprise, given her form at recent meets.
With her ever-changing hair color and long nails, Richardson grabbed attention at last year’s Olympic trails with a statement-making win in the 100. But she was suspended because of a positive test for marijuana, which kept her off the team sent to the Tokyo Games.
Abby Steiner of Kentucky, who set a college record in the 200 at this year’s NCAA championships, won the event in 21.77, the leading time in the world this season and a personal best.
Daniel Roberts won the 110 hurdles in 13:03. Two-time Olympian Devon Allen, the fan favorite who ran track and played football at Oregon, finished third to make the team for worlds.
Allen is trying to balance track life and football after recently signing with the Philadelphia Eagles as a wide receiver. At worlds, the 110 hurdles are set for July 17. Eagles players are slated to report for training camp nine days later.
Bryce Hoppel made his second straight U.S. team for worlds in the 800, finishing in 1:44.60. He was followed by Jonah Kowech, who achieved the standard with his finish, and Brandon Miller, who threw himself over the line to secure third.
“I just wanted it so much,” Miller said.
Rai Benjamin won the 400 hurdles in 1:44.60, best in the world this season. Benjamin was coming off a bout with COVID-19 that drained his energy.
“This weekend was a lot on me, I’m kind of banged up, obviously, but I’m just happy to come out and get the win today. Going to worlds,” Benjamin said.
Emma Coburn won her 10th national title in the steeplechase, finishing in a season-best 9:10.63.
Chase Ealey won the shot put at a meet-record 67 feet, 3 1/2 inches (20.51 meters). Elise Cranny won the national title in the 5,000.
On the men’s side, Grant Fisher won the 5,000 in a meet-record 13:03.86. Donald Scott won the title in the triple jump, while Shelby McEwen won the high jump and Ethan Dobbs won the javelin.
Hayward Field, on the University of Oregon campus underwent $200 million in renovations to host the worlds, track and field’s biggest event outside of the Olympics.
It is the first time that the world championships will be held on American soil. | 2022-06-27T08:18:02+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/sports/ap-sports/lyles-edges-knighton-for-the-national-title-in-the-200/ |
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Business of Tech, the podcast and YouTube show created by technology services expert and analyst Dave Sobel to monitor key IT industry trends, today releases data from its quarterly diversity survey, which paints a clearer picture of the people in leadership roles at over 300 IT services companies. The Quarter 3 2022 survey is the eighth report of its kind in two years, and since its launch, critical inclusion markers like race and gender have either improved nominally, remained the same, or worsened overall.
The survey tracked 3,449 people across 301 companies and was conducted at the end of Quarter 3 of 2022. Leadership teams were classified as white, non-white or black, as well as male or female.
Currently, 89.19% of total leadership is white and just 20.96% female. Key findings across multiple quarters include:
- More white leadership: the total portion of white leaders is nearly identical to last quarter (89.2%), and up 7 points compared to Quarter 3 of 2020 (82.31%).
- Stagnant black leadership: the percentage of black leaders in IT is the same as two years ago, coming in a 1.83%. Comparing this figure to other industries, the Fortune 1000 has seen a slight uptick in Black leadership (2.43% last quarter to 2.62% this quarter).
- Slow women leadership growth: The amount of women in leadership roles is barely up from last quarter (20.96% this quarter, 20.46% in Quarter 2 of 2022), with a slight improvement in two years: in Quarter 3 of 2020, 19.26% of IT leadership was women.
"Companies might have the desire to do the right thing when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion, but the data doesn't yet support any authentic movement on this front," said David Sobel, the host, creator and producer of The Business of Tech Podcast. "Tech folks are particularly data-driven, so conducting this survey every quarter is critical for leaders in this sector to understand where improvement is needed and why."
To see this quarter's data broken down by geography and type of organization, head to The Business of Tech online. Ongoing diversity reports will be released quarterly.
The Business of Tech is celebrating its third anniversary this Fall. For more technology news with context that matters, follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also watch the video version of the show on YouTube.
The Business of Tech Podcast focuses on the news you need to know in the fast-paced world of technology. Covering both the news and why it matters to you, tech veteran David Sobel gives you the resources and context you need to go deeper in your field. With each episode running only five minutes long, The Business of Tech Podcast quickly give you the critical insights, analysis, and the knowledge you need to be an effective, profitable, and relevant player in your industry. You can the Business of Tech on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, and you can also watch the video version of the show on the MSP Radio YouTube channel.
The show is created, hosted and written by David Sobel, who delivers daily from robust tech experience. Dave has been recognized as one of the top virtualization experts globally as a Microsoft MVP for Virtualization, is the author of "Virtualization: Defined. A Primer for the SMB Consultant," and has served on the executive council for Managed Services and Emerging Technologies, the Vendor Advisory Council, as founding Chair for the Mobility Community for CompTIA. A leading expert in the delivery of technology services, David brings his unique insight to The Business of Tech Podcast every week.
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MINNEAPOLIS, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Capital Solutions' (OTC: PCST) wholly owned subsidiary Nova Space announced today that it is providing Amazon Web Services (AWS) employees with space education, an exclusive digital learning platform, and digital credentials.
Nova Space will provide access to its Space Professional Development Program, an award winning virtual space education workforce development program, integrated with proprietary training technology in a seamless and customized experience for AWS.
"The talent landscape that sustains the space economy is extraordinarily competitive placing emphasis on the need for quality training solutions, which employees are seeking from their current and prospective employers. It's a great honor to deliver space education to an organization that values training and development like AWS does," said Christopher Allen, Nova Space COO.
Nova Space digital courses are designed to help current and prospective space professionals become more productive while helping provide their employers a competitive advantage in the space ecosystem. Nova Space currently supports employers in both the commercial and government space industry, within all sectors, to include launch, satellites, manufacturing, industrials, and government agencies. Individuals, government agencies, and organizations like AWS are empowering their teams through the challenge-based interactive content developed by Nova Space, covering the foundational pillars of the space industry, which include:
- Orbital Mechanics
- Space Mission Design
- Launch and Propulsion
- The Space Environment and Electromagnetic Radiation Theory
- Satellite Communications
Nova Space curated the content for this program to directly benefit AWS employees and AWS Partners seeking to expand their domain expertise and drive even deeper understanding of its customers' space operational environments. AWS has more than a decade of direct experience supporting the space industry. Today, AWS's aerospace and satellite business comprises a global group of space experts who support aerospace customers with missions spanning satellite design, rocket launch, mission operations control, satellite communications and geospatial analysis, and space exploration capabilities. Nova Space's learning platform is powered by Docebo, an e-learning software platform available in AWS Marketplace.
ABOUT NOVA SPACE INC: Nova Space is already well known for its signature space professional-development programs, designed to support the growth of space industry professionals, entrepreneurs and business leaders, commercial companies, and governmental organizations. The founders of the company have more than five decades of combined experience in space operations, astronautics, and custom learning development in both commercial and government settings. To learn more, visit novaspaceinc.com.
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Editor's Note: NPR opened a South Korea bureau in March. Correspondent Elise Hu takes a look at the wonder and the wackiness of life and journalism in East Asia.
After a K-pop-themed sendoff and an unexpected flight delay, my family and I arrived on a freezing night in early March to open NPR's newest bureau, in Seoul, South Korea. News greeted me on my first day — the Internet was just getting set up at the bureau when an activist slashed the face of the U.S. ambassador to Korea, Mark Lippert. Before our bureau assistant and I had even seen one another, she was off to a press conference at the police station.
Since then, we've covered a summer of MERS, North Korea's various provocations and South Korea's responses, the frenemy relationship between Japan and Korea, weird wedding culture, binge eating broadcasts, the dark side of PSY and I've made half a dozen trips to Japan and back to report from there, as Japan is this bureau's coverage area.
The biggest difference between reporting in my native language and working through interpreters is the extent to which I've had to learn to rely on others. My interpreters, or fixers, as they're often called, end up making the source relationships that I used to make on my own, and really acting as my proxy. It's tough but I've learned a lot about effective communication across language barriers by working with them.
It's taken nearly a year, but I finally feel like I have my feet under me. Expat life is both magical and challenging, and the challenges show up in sometimes hilarious ways.
We have a Japanese toilet with a remote for multiple functions like the bidet and seat warming. Before we learned all about our commode, my then 2-year-old pressed a random button on the remote, sending surprise water shooting up at me, leading me to start screaming. She then started screaming and crying, and both of us found ourselves standing over the toilet, screaming, crying and unable to stop a water geyser meant to cleanse.
Despite their historic differences, Japan and South Korea do have similar futures in common. That is, both nations struggle with figuring out the next act for their export-driven economies and as a related challenge, big demographic shifts.
East Asia is aging faster than any other global region in history, according to the World Bank. If current fertility rates continue, by 2040, South Korea's population will be down 15 percent from what it is today. That means huge questions and stresses for the labor markets, health care systems and social welfare schemes like pensions in both South Korea and the rapidly aging Japan.
I'll be watching, and reporting, in 2016 and beyond.
To follow behind-the-scenes of our reporting from East Asia, check out our Tumblr, Elise Goes East.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-06-26T08:41:43+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2015-12-29/reporters-notebook-settling-in-in-seoul |
Most in US want stricter gun laws, AP-NORC poll finds
CHICAGO - Most U.S. adults think gun violence is increasing nationwide and want to see gun laws made stricter, according to a new poll that finds broad public support for a variety of gun restrictions, including many that are supported by majorities of Republicans and gun owners.
The poll by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also shows majorities of U.S. adults view both reducing gun violence and protecting gun ownership as important issues.
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The poll was conducted between July 28 and Aug. 1, after a string of deadly mass shootings — from a New York grocery store to a school in Texas and a July 4 parade in Illinois — and a 2020 spike in gun killings that have increased attention on the issue of gun violence. Overall, 8 in 10 Americans perceive that gun violence is increasing around the country, and about two-thirds say it's increasing in their state, though less than half believe it's increasing in their community, the poll shows.
The question of how to prevent such violence has long divided politicians and many voters, making it difficult to change gun laws. In June, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court expanded gun rights, finding a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
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Later that same month, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety bill. The package, approved in the wake of shootings like the one that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, was both a measured compromise and the most significant bill addressing gun violence to be approved in Congress in decades — an indication of how intractable the issue has become.
The poll found 71% of Americans say gun laws should be stricter, including about half of Republicans, the vast majority of Democrats, and a majority of those in gun-owning households.
Nicole Whitelaw, 29, is a Democrat and gun owner who grew up hunting and target shooting in upstate New York with her strongly Republican family. Whitelaw, who now lives along Florida’s Gulf Coast, supports some gun restrictions, such as prohibiting people convicted of domestic violence from owning firearms and a federal law preventing mentally ill people from purchasing guns.
She said other restrictions — such as banning sales of AR-15 rifles — are "going too far" and may not solve the problem. Whitelaw pointed to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people bought up all the toilet paper they could find.
"I think people would start trying to hoard guns," she said, adding that a better approach is to make smaller changes and see what impact they have.
The poll shows bipartisan majorities of Americans support a nationwide background check policy for all gun sales, a law preventing mentally ill people from purchasing guns, allowing courts to temporarily prevent people who are considered a danger to themselves or others from purchasing a gun, making 21 the minimum age to buy a gun nationwide and banning those who have been convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a gun.
A smaller majority of Americans, 59%, favor a ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, with Democrats more likely to support that policy than Republicans, 83% vs. 35%.
Chris Boylan, 47, from Indianapolis, opposes restrictions on guns. As a teacher for many years, Boylan said he has "buried more kids than I care to count" and believes gun violence is a major problem. But the Republican, who said he leans more toward Libertarian in his personal stances, believes the issue is more about mental health and a too-lenient criminal justice system.
"Blaming the gun is an oversimplification of what the issues really are," Boylan said. "It’s not the gun. It’s a hearts-and-minds issue to me."
The new poll finds 88% of Americans call preventing mass shootings extremely or very important, and nearly as many say that about reducing gun violence in general. But 60% also say it’s very important to ensure that people can own guns for personal protection.
Overall, 52% of Americans -- including 65% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats -- say both reducing mass shootings and protecting the right to own guns for personal protection highly important.
University of Chicago professor Jens Ludwig said the poll's findings show that concerns raised by opponents of gun restrictions are "very off base." Led by the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby argues that any new limitations on who may have a gun or what type of firearms may be sold will lead to nationwide bans on all weapons and ammunition.
The poll showed most Americans' opinions are more nuanced and there is support for some changes even among Republicans, who as elected officials typically oppose gun control, said Ludwig, who also is director of the University of Chicago's Crime Lab.
"It should shut the door to some of the ‘slippery slope’ arguments," he said.
The poll also found that only about 3 in 10 Americans support a law allowing people to carry guns in public without a permit. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats are opposed. Among Republicans, 47% are in favor and 39% are opposed.
Ervin Leach, 66, lives in Troutman, North Carolina, north of Charlotte, believes gun violence is a major problem and says that laws should be much more strict. A Democrat, Leach said he supports measures like background checks — or what he said should be "in-depth studies" — and a minimum age of 21 to buy a gun.
The poll found 1 in 5 people have experienced gun violence themselves in the last five years, such as being threatened with a gun or a shooting victim, or had a close friend or family member who has. Black and Hispanic Americans are especially likely to say that they or someone close to them has experienced gun violence.
Leach, who is Black, said the gun violence he sees in the news has made him more cautious.
"I don't like people approaching me," he said. "It used to be if someone was on the side of the road, you'd stop to help. Now, you go to help somebody, you might lose your life."
All the killings have caused Leach to contemplate buying a gun for his own protection. While he hasn't had a chance yet to get his gun permit, he said, "That is my intention."
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AP Polling Reporter Hannah Fingerhut in Washington contributed to this report. | 2022-08-23T15:14:32+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/most-us-adults-want-stricter-gun-laws-ap-norc-poll-2022 |
A federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology.
Holmes’ sentencing in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where she was convicted on four counts of investor fraud and conspiracy in January marks a climactic moment in a saga that has been dissected in an HBO documentary and an award-winning Hulu TV series about her meteoric rise and mortifying downfall.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila will take center stage as he weighs the federal government’s recommendation to send Holmes, 38, to federal prison for 15 years. That’s slightly less than the maximum sentence of 20 years she could face, but far longer than her legal team’s attempt to limit her incarceration to no more than 18 months, preferably served in home confinement. Her lawyers have argued that Holmes deserves more lenient treatment as a well-meaning entrepreneur who is now a devoted mother with another child on the way.
Prosecutors also want Holmes to pay $804 million in restitution. The amount covers most of the nearly $1 billion that Holmes raised from a list of sophisticated investors that included software magnate Larry Ellison, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and the Walton family behind Walmart.
While wooing investors, Holmes leveraged a high-powered Theranos board that included former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, who testified against her during her trial, and two former U.S. Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger and the late George Shultz, whose son submitted a statement blasting Holmes for concocting a scheme that played Shultz “for the fool.”
Davila’s judgment – and Holmes’ reporting date for a potential stint in prison — could be affected by the former entrepreneur’s second pregnancy in two years. After giving birth to a son shortly before her trial started last year, Holmes became pregnant at some point while free on bail this year.
Although her lawyers didn’t mention the pregnancy in a 82-page memo submitted to Davila last week, the pregnancy was confirmed in a letter from her current partner, William “Billy” Evans, that urged the judge to be merciful.
In that 12-page letter, which included pictures of Holmes doting on their 1-year-old son, Evans mentioned that Holmes participated in a Golden Gate Bridge swimming event earlier this year while pregnant. He also noted Holmes suffered through a case of COVID in August while pregnant. Evans didn’t disclose Holmes’ due date in his letter.
Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor who is now a defense attorney, predicted that Davila’s sentencing decision won’t be swayed by the pregnancy, but expects the judge to allow her to remain free until after the baby is born.
“She will be no more of a flight risk after she is sentenced that she was while awaiting sentencing,” Levin said. “We have to temper our sentences with some measure of humanity.”
The pregnancy makes it more likely Davila will be criticized no matter what sentence he imposes, predicted Amanda Kramer, another former federal prosecutor.
“There is a pretty healthy debate about what kind of sentence is needed to effect general deterrence to send a message to others who are thinking of crossing that line from sharp salesmanship into material misrepresentation,” Kramer said.
Federal prosecutor Robert Leach emphatically declared Holmes deserves a severe punishment for engineering a scam that he described as one of the most egregious white-collar crimes ever committed in Silicon Valley. In a scathing 46-page memo, Leach told the judge he has an opportunity to send a message that curbs the hubris and hyperbole unleashed by the tech boom of the past decade.
Holmes “preyed on hopes of her investors that a young, dynamic entrepreneur had changed healthcare,” Leach wrote. “And through her deceit, she attained spectacular fame, adoration, and billions of dollars of wealth.”
Even though Holmes was acquitted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy tied to patients who took Theranos blood tests, Leach also asked Davila to factor in the health threats posed by Holmes’ conduct.
Holmes’ lawyer Kevin Downey painted her as a selfless visionary who spent 14 years of her life trying to revolutionize health care with a technology that was supposed to be able to scan for hundreds of diseases and other aliments with just a few drops of blood.
Although evidence submitted during her trial showed the tests produced wildly unreliable results that could have steered patients in the wrong direction, her lawyers asserted Holmes never stopped trying to perfect the technology until Theranos collapsed in 2018. They also pointed out that Holmes never sold any of her Theranos shares — a stake valued at $4.5 billion in 2014 when Holmes was being hailed as the next Steve Jobs on the covers of business magazines.
Defending herself against criminal charges has left Holmes with “substantial debt from which she is unlikely to recover,” Downey wrote, suggesting that she is unlikely ever to pay any restitution that Davila might order as part of her sentence.
“Holmes is not a danger to society,” Downey wrote.
Downey also asked Davila to consider the alleged sexual and emotional abuse Holmes suffered while she was romantically with Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, who became a Theranos investor, top executive and eventually an accomplice in her crimes. Balwani, 57, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 7 after being convicted in a July trial on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy. | 2022-11-17T20:15:05+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-elizabeth-holmes-faces-judgment-day-for-her-theranos-crimes/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A longtime prison reform advocate has agreed to a settlement with Tennessee prison officials over their use of solitary confinement for pretrial detainees.
Alex Friedmann sued the Tennessee Department of Correction last year, complaining that he was being housed in one of the most restrictive cells in the most restrictive unit of the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, despite the fact that he had not yet been convicted of a crime. The walls of the “hardened” cell where Friedmann was housed for almost two years are covered in steel plates. It has no shelves, mirror, stool or electrical outlets, and the window is a vertical slit less than 2 inches wide. Friedmann claimed he was being punished for his years of advocacy on behalf of prisoners prior to his arrest.
Friedmann was at Riverbend under a “safekeeper” order that allows certain pretrial inmates to be housed at a state prison, rather than a local jail, for reasons that include security concerns. Although not all safekeeper inmates are placed in the hardened cells, it was the Correction Department policy to place them all in the prison's most restrictive unit, where inmates are kept in individual cells 23-24 hours a day.
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A federal judge ordered prison officials to move Friedmann out of solitary confinement last November. As part of an interim agreement, he was housed in a lower security unit where he could spend more time outside of his cell and have more contact with other inmates. In an agreement filed on Friday to settle the lawsuit, prison officials agreed to a series of policy changes. Friedmann said in a written statement that he waived monetary damages in favor of the changes. They are to be implemented no later than Oct. 31.
According to the settlement, prison officials will house safekeeper inmates based on an individualized assessment, like other inmates. Safekeepers will also have the opportunity to participate in their housing classification hearings and appeal classification decisions. If a safekeeper is placed in a hardened cell, as Friedmann was, that placement must be reviewed every 30 days, and the inmate can appeal the decision.
In addition, a regular inmate who is placed in one of the hardened cells — known as “iron man” cells by staff and inmates — will have the ability to file a grievance over that placement.
In a written statement released on Monday, Friedmann said the living conditions in the hardened cells are “barbaric.”
“No civilized corrections system should hold people under such conditions unless absolutely necessary, and then for longer than absolutely necessary,” he said. Friedmann noted that there are still no policies for determining when prisoners are placed in the hardened cells or for how long.
Friedmann was designated a safekeeper after he was arrested in 2020 for hiding three handguns, ammunition, handcuff keys and hacksaw blades inside the walls of Nashville's new jail during construction. He was convicted in July and is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday.
Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall, who oversees the jail, has suggested that Friedmann was planning a massive jailbreak, calling his actions “evil." Friedmann did not testify at his trial and investigators found no explanation for his actions in a search of his home, but in a letter to the sentencing judge, Friedmann attributed them to a mental breakdown.
Friedmann said he was gang raped in the old Nashville jail as an 18-year-old when he was arrested for armed robbery in 1987. In 2018, before the new jail was built, he was allowed to tour the old jail as the managing editor of “Prison Legal News.” Seeing the cell where he was raped caused nightmares, flashbacks and panic attacks. He hid guns and escape kits throughout the new jail in an irrational attempt to combat his fear, according to the letter.
The sentencing memorandum from Friedmann's attorney asks for leniency.
“Mr. Friedmann acknowledges that many people may not understand his explanation for his conduct because it is admittedly not rational or reasonable,” the memorandum states. “But this Court should consider that it does fall within recognized patterns of trauma responses, albeit in an unusual and extreme manner.”
It points out that in Friedmann’s two decades as a prison reform advocate, he worked entirely within traditional political and legal means. He also never targeted the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office and even advocated for them to take over housing inmates at a facility that had been under contract to private prison operator CoreCivic. | 2022-10-03T22:37:37+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/prison-reform-advocate-settles-solitary-confinement-suit/article_9a128da2-119a-5501-b8d1-3dad3f095606.html |
German tuner and supercar manufacturer Ruf has announced a new home for its U.S. operations to cover its growing base of North American customers.
The new Ruf North America is run by Victor Gomez and headquartered at The Concours Club, an automotive resort located in Miami, Florida. The operations is responsible for import and distribution of Ruf vehicles, as well as sales, service, parts, track driving experiences, and private events. A showroom is due to be completed in mid-2023.
Ruf held a recent meet at The Concours Club to mark the announcement of Ruf North America. The company had a number of its products on display, including the latest CTR.
The Concours Club is located within the grounds of Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, and includes a FIA-certified racetrack, as well as a restaurant, events area, and private garages. One of the reasons Ruf picked the site is that it enables customers to fly in and be on the track within minutes of landing.
“When I first came to the U.S. in 1970, I was amazed by the incredibly active car culture,” Alois Ruf Jr., Ruf’s director, said in a statement. “Now, after 53 years, we are thrilled to be opening our U.S. home base in Miami, where we can share our passion for motoring with our North American customers.”
Ruf was founded by Alois Ruf, Sr. in 1939, originally as an auto repair center located in the German town of Pfaffenhausen, a short drive from Munich. Today, Ruf, Jr. is running the company. It specializes in modifying Porsche 911s but also builds its own cars from scratch, albeit with bodies that resemble Porsche sports cars.
The latest is the fourth-generation CTR, which resembles a 911 but features a bespoke carbon-fiber monocoque chassis, along with other thoroughly modern mechanicals. It was launched in 2017 as homage to Ruf’s original 1987 CTR “Yellow Bird”, which it also resembles.
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(WJW) — If you’re a fan of the late and beloved Betty White, here is your chance to own a piece of history.
More than 1,500 items from the “life and career” of the Golden Girl will go up for auction on Friday, September 23. The auction will take three days. Available items include awards, scripts, and memorabilia, as well as jewelry, gowns, home furnishings and decorative garden pieces.
The collection even includes “cherished” personal items and gifts from White’s marriage to her third husband, Allen Lunden, according to the auction company.
Here are just some highlights of the collection (listed by Julien’s Auctions.)
- White’s original director chair from “The Golden Girls” set
- “The Golden Girls” production-used pilot script, signed by White
- A Saks Fifth Avenue black velvet long evening coat worn by White in 1974 to the International Broadcasting Awards dinner tribute to Mary Tyler Moore
- An orange needlepoint director’s chair decorated with owls and reading “Allen” on the seat back made by White for her husband
- Goodbye plaque from the cast and crew of “The Betty White Show”
According to the auction company, the items come from the Hollywood icon’s home in Brentwood and Carmel, California.
Many items are priced between $200-$300 at the request of White.
White died at the age of 99 on Dec. 31, 2021, less than a month before what would have been her 100th birthday. The Oak Park, Illinois-born actor began her career in radio in the 1940s before transitioning to television, where some of her most notable roles are as Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (1973-1977) and as Rose Nylund in “The Golden Girls” (1985-1992).
Through her career, White received several Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and one Grammy Award, in addition to a host of others.
A full look at the listed items can be found, here. | 2022-09-21T22:04:10+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/these-personal-betty-white-items-are-up-for-auction/ |
Kyle Busch to drive for Richard Childress’ NASCAR team
The announcement was supposed to be about Kyle Busch’s NASCAR future. It also turned out to be a nod to NASCAR’s past.
It was a few ticks on the stopwatch after 10 a.m. Tuesday when the two-time Cup Series champion from Las Vegas walked on stage at the NASCAR Hall of Fame at the Charlotte Convention Center accompanied by his wife, Samantha, and son, Brexton, to make it official: He will be leaving Joe Gibbs Racing after the 2022 season to drive for Hall of Fame car owner Richard Childress.
It was stock car racing’s equivalent of LeBron James announcing he would be putting Cleveland in the rearview mirror to sign with the Miami Heat.
“I’m excited to announce I am taking my talents to Welcome, North Carolina, to drive the No. 8 car for Richard Childress Racing,” Busch, 37, said in inviting his new boss to join him on the dais.
It wasn’t long before Childress, 76, woke up the echoes (to use another expression made popular by the stick-and-ball sports) by invoking the name of the man who made him a Hall of Fame car owner.
“When we talked about championships and we talked about winning races, I looked in his eye and said, ‘I’ve seen that look in Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s eye,’ ” Childress said of first sitting down with Busch, who could make a shopping cart go fast.
“He’s hungry, and we’re going to win.”
Blast from the past
Childress and Earnhardt together won six Cup Series championships and the Daytona 500 (one of the few races Busch has yet to win). Although Earnhardt’s talents were more celebrated by the sport’s traditional fan base than Busch’s are today, the two were equally irascible — another reason this new multiyear agreement seems more perfect than a balanced set of Goodyear Racing Eagles.
“It’s flattering; it’s a great honor,” Busch said of the comparison. “Dale Earnhardt, though, is Dale Earnhardt. And there’s only one of those.”
More compelling to him was the resurgence displayed by Childress’ team this season in putting both of its Chevrolet-powered drivers — Tyler Reddick (who will leave the team after 2023) and Childress’ grandson, Austin Dillon — into the NASCAR playoffs with three wins, two more than Busch has in his 15th season of running Toyotas for Gibbs.
“I think it started earlier this year when we were racing in the (Los Angeles) Coliseum (in the exhibition opener) and the 8 car (Reddick) blew my doors off,” Busch said about Childress’ drivers climbing the speed charts, and his decision to join them after M&M Mars, his longtime sponsor at Gibbs, decided to pull out of NASCAR after the 2022 season.
Childress said he had commitments from multiple sponsors to back Busch next season, none of which he disclosed.
Clear-cut choice
“Just having that chance to look at the whole picture of what’s going on at RCR as of late, I felt like it was a no-brainer,” said Busch, who also plans to keep his championship-winning Truck Series team afloat despite switching manufacturers. “When Richard and I sat down, it was easy. It was a clear-cut choice that this was a place you could win championships and win races right out of the gate.”
So when it comes to making strange bedfellows, it now can be said that politics and NASCAR are running side by side and trading multiple layers of paint.
Astute fans might remember a 2011 truck race at Kansas Speedway after which Busch and Childress engaged in a physical confrontation. The former had bumped one of the latter’s drivers after the checkered flag, and the latter had somebody “hold my watch” before punching the man who would become his new driver and putting him in a headlock.
When Childress joined Busch on stage Tuesday, he presented the Las Vegan with a shiny timepiece in a familiar green box that cost a lot more than a set of Goodyear Racing Eagles.
Childress also handed Brexton Busch a folded document that he insisted was a contract option for the budding 7-year-old racer to join his pop’s new race team when he was old enough to see over the steering wheel.
The man from the NASCAR Hall of Fame said that somebody should hold on to that sheet of paper because the curators might want it back some day.
Contact Ron Kantowski at rkantowski@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0352. Follow @ronkantowski on Twitter.
Meet the new boss
A look at Richard Childress Racing, the NASCAR team that Kyle Busch will join in 2023:
Base: Welcome, N.C.
Debut: 1969
Cup Series races: 1,557
Cup Series wins: 112
Cup Series championships: 6
Last Cup Series championship: 1994
Current drivers: Tyler Reddick, Austin Dillon
Notable past drivers: Richard Childress, Ricky Rudd, Dale Earnhardt, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, Robby Gordon, Jeff Burton, Ryan Newman, Brendan Gaughan | 2022-09-13T21:49:19+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ron-kantowski/kyle-busch-to-drive-for-richard-childress-nascar-team-2639175/ |
When President Biden dared Republicans to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act during his State of the Union address, he pulled out an idiom that’s all his own: “Lots of luck in your senior year.”
NPR’s Tamara Keith reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-02-09T20:13:14+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/2023-02-09/what-did-biden-mean-by-lots-of-luck-in-your-senior-year-in-his-state-of-the-union-address |
The history of literature is, in no small part, the history of love stories. And with all due respect to Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the greatest romantic stories nearly always end unhappily. Their pleasure is inseparable from their pain.
Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel Kairos, the story of a love affair set in East Germany right before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's the latest book from the East Berlin born Jenny Erpenbeck, the 57-year-old writer and opera director who I fully expect to win the Nobel Prize sometime in the next five years. A grownup writer for grownup readers, Erpenbeck has an unsurpassed gift for showing how our ideas, passions and choices are shaped – and reshaped – by passing time and the ceaseless transformations of history.
Kairos begins in 1986 when Katharina, a 19-year-old theater design student has an East Berlin version of a meet-cute with Hans, an admired novelist and radio commentator who is both married and more than thirty years her senior. While Katharina is drawn to this handsome writer by his intelligence and nicotine-drenched worldliness, Hans, no newcomer to infidelity, is attracted by her youth and intellectual openness.
They dive into an affair that the book describes with unsentimental precision, capturing the emotional convulsions agonizingly familiar to anyone who's been caught in a relationship gone sour. At first, Katharina and Hans romp in the realm of magic. They frequent cafes, share inside jokes, and listen to music – lots of Bach and Schubert – as foreplay. They could hardly seem closer, though as they lie together after making love, Erpenbeck coolly delineates their differences. "It will never be like this again, thinks Hans. It will always be this way, thinks Katharina."
She is, of course, wrong. Their initial delight begins to fragment into spats and breakups and reconciliations. Beyond having a family, the jealousy-prone Hans has a cruel streak. He begins to punish Katharina for being young and making him love her. Meanwhile, her own awareness keeps growing, and though she still loves Hans, or thinks she does, she starts viewing him and the future in a different way. The gulf between them only widens as the East German state starts to collapse, further shifting their power dynamic.
Now, Erpenbeck isn't known for personal fiction. Her previous novel, Go, Went, Gone – one of the best books I've read in the last decade – is about a retired Classics professor in Berlin who tries to help African immigrants. But Kairos feels different. Katharina's background is strikingly similar to Erpenbeck's – they were born in the same year – as is her interest in the theater.
Erpenbeck understands that great love stories must be about more than just love. What makes Anna Karenina monumental is the way Tolstoy uses Anna's ill-starred affair to anatomize Russian culture. What makes Swann's Way dazzling is how Proust uses Swann's passion for Odette to lay bare the precise mechanisms of desire.
It's this wider sense of life that Erpenbeck offers in Kairos, which, in Michael Hofmann's crystalline translation, pulses with her memories of communist Berlin. Even as she chronicles Katharina's and Hans' romance in all its painful details, their love affair becomes something of a metaphor for East Germany, which began in hopes for a radiant future and ended up in pettiness, accusation, punishment and failure.
Along the way, Erpenbeck provides the richest portrait I've read of what happened to East Germans when their glumly repressive communist state was replaced overnight by a cocky, shopping-mad West Germany that instantly set about erasing the reality they knew – devaluing their money, dismantling their media, denying their values. Ossies (as they are known) were plunged into an alien society in which, as Erpenbeck once put it, everyone had lost the software of how to deal with things.
Early on, we're told that Kairos was the Greek god of fortunate moments. He can only be caught by grabbing the lock of hair on his forehead – if he passes by you, it's too late. The book is filled with people rushing to seize what they think is the forelock of happiness, from Katharina falling for Hans to East Germans embracing the West. But, as the novel shows, the trouble with reaching out to grab fortunate moments is that you can never be sure whether those moments are truly fortunate, and even if they are, whether the good fortune will last.
Copyright 2023 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. | 2023-06-20T18:19:53+00:00 | kclu.org | https://www.kclu.org/national-and-global/national-and-global/2023-06-20/pain-and-pleasure-do-the-tango-in-the-engrossing-new-novel-kairos |
BEIRUT (AP) — International human rights groups Tuesday condemned acts of torture in Lebanese prisons following the death of a Syrian refugee in detention and urged authorities to transfer the investigation into his death from a military to a civil court.
Photos surfaced last week of the battered body of a Syrian who had been held for questioning. The grisly visual made headlines in Lebanon and was followed by a video of a coroner assessing the body, which was covered in gashes and bruises. The body was later identified as that of Bashar Abdel-Saud, 30, a Syrian refugee who fled the war-torn country in 2014.
“To ensure transparency and impartiality, Abdel-Saud’s case must urgently be referred to a civilian court,” Amnesty’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Heba Morayef said in the statement. “His family deserves justice and reparations for their tragic loss.”
According to Abdel-Saud’s lawyer, officers from Lebanon’s State Security agency arrested the Syrian at his home in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut last week, before calling his family four days later asking them to retrieve his body.
State Security in a press statement said Abdel-Saud was arrested for the possession of a fake $50 bill and had confessed during the interrogation that he was combatant for the Islamic State group.
His lawyer denied the charges and State Security first promised an internal investigation, before the case was transferred to Lebanon’s military court.
Lebanon’s military court government commissioner ordered the arrest of five State Security personnel from the branch that held Abdel-Saud in southern Lebanon, according to Amnesty.
State Security released a second statement on Monday, requesting media outlets to “not broadcast news related to the matter, aiming to stir strife and incite tensions especially in these sensitive circumstances Lebanon is going through.”
Senior Lebanese officials have not commented on the recent incident.
The only minister under Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s caretaker government to do so was Environment Minister Nasser Yassin, who in a tweet condemned the incident and called for prosecutors to investigate.
Meanwhile, several of Lebanon’s recently elected independent legislators penned critical statements.
“What happened completely contradicts our aspirations for Lebanon,” Ibrahim Mneimneh, a member of Parliament, told The Associated Press. “We need human rights to be a key reference point to all the work we do.”
He added that the security agency conducting an internal investigation is a “conflict of interest.”
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights groups have echoed similar sentiments. Human rights organizations have frequently criticized Lebanon for what they say is an incomplete 2017 anti-torture law, and authorities not putting it into practice five years later.
Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Director Lama Fakih said torture in the crisis-hit country has been a years-long problem.
“Lebanon suffers from a legacy of impunity for torture,” Fakih told the AP. “We have not yet seen steps taken to ensure that robust investigations are undertaken and that responsible individuals are held accountable.”
Several cases of alleged torture in Lebanon have surfaced in recent years, including actor and writer Ziad Itani, Syrian refugees arrested in camp raids and checkpoints, and protesters in Beirut, Tripoli, and Sidon during Lebanon’s antigovernment uprisings in late 2019. | 2022-09-07T12:05:00+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-human-rights-groups-condemn-torture-in-lebanese-prisons/ |
Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture
Video above: Dozens in Boston continue to protest police killing of Tyre Nichols
An unarmed Black man dies after a videotaped beating by police. The officers involved are fired. After a thorough review of the evidence, criminal charges are swiftly filed against the offending officers.
Investigation, accountability and charges.
This is often the most Black citizens can hope for as the deaths continue. Nationwide, police have killed roughly three people per day consistently since 2020, according to academics and advocates for police reform who track such deaths.
Tyre Nichols' fatal encounter with police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded in video made public Friday night, is a glaring reminder that efforts to reform policing have failed to prevent more flashpoints in an intractable epidemic of brutality.
Video below: Rally for Tyre Nichols held in Dallas
Nearly 32 years ago, Rodney King's savage beating by police in Los Angeles prompted heartfelt calls for change. They've been repeated in a ceaseless rhythm ever since, punctuated by the deaths of Amadou Diallo in New York, Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and so many others.
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in 2020 was so agonizing to watch, it summoned a national reckoning that featured federal legislation proposed in his name and shows of solidarity by corporations and sports leagues. All fell short of the shift in law enforcement culture Black people in America have called for — a culture that promotes freedom from fear, trust in police and mutual respect.
"We need public safety, right? We need law enforcement to combat pervasive crime," said Jason Turner, senior pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis. "Also, we don't want the people who are sworn to protect and serve us brutalizing us for a simple traffic stop, or any offense."
The five Black officers are now fired and charged with murder and other crimes in the Jan. 10 death of Nichols, a 29-year-old skateboarder, FedEx worker and father to a 4-year-old boy.
From police brass and the district attorney's office to the White House, officials said Nichols' killing points to a need for bolder reforms that go beyond simply diversifying the ranks, changing use-of-force rules and encouraging citizens to file complaints.
"The world is watching us," Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said. "If there is any silver lining to be drawn from this very dark cloud, it's that perhaps this incident can open a broader conversation about the need for police reform."
Video below: Video of deadly Memphis police beating of Tyre Nichols released
President Joe Biden joined national civil rights leaders in similar calls to action.
"To deliver real change, we must have accountability when law enforcement officers violate their oaths, and we need to build lasting trust between law enforcement, the vast majority of whom wear the badge honorably, and the communities they are sworn to serve and protect," the president said.
But Memphis, whose 628,000 residents celebrate barbecue and blues music and lament being the place where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, has seen this before. The city took steps advocates called for in a "Reimagine Policing" initiative in 2021, and mirrored a set of policy changes reformers want all departments to implement immediately, known as "8 Can't Wait."
De-escalation training is now required. Officers are told to limit uses of force, exhaust all alternatives before resorting to deadly force and report all uses of force. Tennessee also took action: State law now requires officers to intervene to stop abuse and report excessive force by their colleagues.
Showing unusual transparency for a police department, the MPD now publishes accountability reports that include the race of people subjected to use of force each year. They show Black men and women were overwhelmingly targeted for rougher treatment in 2019, 2020 and 2021. They were subject to nearly 86% of the recorded uses of guns, batons, pepper spray, physical beatings and other force in 2021, the total nearly doubling that year to 1,700 cases.
Seven uses of force by Memphis police ended in death during these three years.
"I don't know how much more cumulative Black death our community should have to pay to convince elected officials that the policing system isn't broken — it's working exactly as it was designed to, at the expense of Black life," said Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center, a Tennessee-based civil rights leadership training school.
The Nichols case — just one of the brutality cases to make national news this month — exposes an uncomfortable truth: More than two years since the deaths of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks touched off protests, policing reforms have not significantly reduced such killings.
Video below: Biden urges peaceful protests following Tyre Nichols body cam footage release
States approved nearly 300 police reform bills after Floyd's murder, creating civilian oversight of police, more anti-bias training, stricter use-of-force limits and alternatives to arrests in cases involving people with mental illnesses, according to a recent analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Despite calls to "defund the police," an Associated Press review of police funding nationwide found only modest cuts, driven largely by shrinking revenue related to the coronavirus pandemic. Budgets increased and more officers were hired for some large departments, including New York City's.
Still stuck in Congress is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which would prohibit racial profiling, ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, limit the transfer of military equipment to police departments, and make it easier to bring charges against offending officers. Biden said he told Nichols' mother that he would be "making a case" to Congress to pass the Floyd Act "to get this under control."
The Rev. Al Sharpton said his eulogy at Nichols' funeral on Wednesday will include a call for new laws. NAACP President Derrick Johnson also took Congress to task.
"By failing to write a piece of legislation, you're writing another obituary," Johnson said. "Tell us what you're going to do to honor Tyre Nichols. … We can name all the victims of police violence, but we can't name a single law you have passed to address it."
Advocates want state and federal legislation because local changes vary widely in scope and effect and can be undone by a single election after years of grassroots activism. But some say strict regulations are just the start — and the video of Nichols' agony proves it.
"Changing a rule doesn't change a behavior," said Katie Ryan, chief of staff for Campaign Zero, a group of academics, policing experts and activists working to end police violence. "The culture of a police department has to shift into actually implementing the policies, not just saying there's a rule in place."
The five officers charged — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith — were part of the so-called Scorpion unit. Scorpion stands for Street Crimes Operations to Restore Peace in our Neighborhoods.
The Memphis police chief, Cerelyn "CJ" Davis, disbanded the unit on Saturday.
"It is in the best interest of all to permanently deactivate the Scorpion unit," she said in a statement.
Prior to the move by Davis, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said it was clear that the officers involved in the attack on Nichols violated the department's policies and training.
"I want to assure you we are doing everything we can to prevent this from happening again," Strickland said in a statement. "We are initiating an outside, independent review of the training, policies and operations of our specialized units."
The Memphis police union extended condolences to Nichols' family, saying it "is committed to the administration of justice and NEVER condones the mistreatment of ANY citizen nor ANY abuse of power." The statement also expressed faith that the justice system would reveal "the totality of circumstances" in the case.
Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, pushed back against the conclusion that policing must change. This was not "legitimate police work or a traffic stop gone wrong," Yoes said. "This is a criminal assault under the pretext of law."
Protesters turned out again Friday night after the city released the video footage. Turner, the Memphis pastor, called the images "further proof that our city's and our nation's criminal justice systems are in dire need of change."
"It's not like we're short on concrete, reasonable recommendations," said the Rev. Earle Fisher, senior pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. "What we're short on is the political will and the commitment to making the structural changes."
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Associated Press reporter Noreen Nasir contributed from Memphis, Tennessee. Adrian Sainz also reported from Memphis. Aaron Morrison reported from New York, and Claudia Lauer from Philadelphia. | 2023-01-29T20:08:26+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/tyre-nichols-case-revives-calls-for-change-police-culture/42698067 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032, a nearly tenfold increase over current electric vehicle sales.
The proposed regulation, announced Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency, would set tailpipe emissions limits for the 2027 through 2032 model years that are the strictest ever imposed — and call for far more new EV sales than the auto industry agreed to less than two years ago.
If finalized next year as expected, the plan would represent the strongest push yet toward a once almost unthinkable shift from gasoline-powered cars and trucks to battery-powered vehicles.
A look at what the EPA is proposing, how the plan serves President Joe Biden’s ambitious goal to cut America’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and whether the auto industry can meet the new EV targets:
Q. What is the EPA proposing?
A, The proposed tailpipe pollution limits don’t require a specific number of electric vehicles to be sold every year, but instead they mandate limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Depending on how automakers comply, the EPA projects that at least 60% of new passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. would be electric by 2030 and up to 67% by 2032.
For slightly larger, medium-duty trucks, the EPA projects 46% of new vehicle sales will be EVs in 2032.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan called the proposal “the most ambitious pollution standards ever for cars and trucks,” and he said it would reduce dangerous air and climate pollution and lower fuel and maintenance costs for families.
The agency will select from a range of options after a public comment period, Regan said. The rule is expected to become final next year.
Q. What is the auto industry saying about the proposed rules?
A. John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing most automakers, called the EPA proposal “aggressive by any measure” and wrote in a statement that it exceeds the Biden administration’s 50% electric vehicle sales target for 2030 announced less than two years ago.
Reaching half was always a “stretch goal,” contingent on manufacturing incentives and tax credits to make EVs more affordable, he wrote. It remains to be seen whether those provisions are enough to support electric vehicle sales at the level the EPA has proposed, he wrote.
“The question isn’t can this be done, it’s how fast can it be done,” Bozzella wrote. “How fast will depend almost exclusively on having the right policies and market conditions in place.”
Q. How will the proposal benefit the environment?
A. The proposed standards for light-duty cars and trucks are projected to result in a 56% reduction in projected greenhouse gas emissions compared with existing standards for model year 2026, the EPA said. The proposals would improve air quality for communities across the nation, avoiding nearly 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, more than twice the total U.S. CO2 emissions last year, the EPA said.
The plan also would save thousands of dollars over the lives of the vehicles sold and reduce U.S. reliance on approximately 20 billion barrels of oil imports, the agency said.
Q. Is the EPA proposal realistic?
A. With electric vehicles accounting for just 7.2% of U.S. vehicle sales in the first quarter of this year, the industry has a long way to go to even approach the Biden administration’s targets. However, the percentage of EV sales is growing. Last year it was 5.8% of new vehicles sales.
Many auto industry analysts say it will be difficult for automakers to meet the projected sales percentage. The consulting firm LMC Automotive, for instance, said new EV sales could reach 49% in 2032 but are unlikely to go above that, citing high prices for EVs compared with gas-powered cars.
A new poll released Tuesday shows that many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their next cars, with high prices and too few charging stations the main deterrents. Only 19% of U.S. adults say it’s “very” or “extremely” likely they will purchase an EV the next time they buy a car, while 22% say it’s somewhat likely. About half, 47%, say they are unlikely to go electric, according to the poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi said EV sales have tripled since Biden took office and the number of available EV models has doubled. Analysts have repeatedly revised their forecasts upward since Biden, a Democrat, took office, and the industry announced over $100 billion in EV investments, Zaidi told reporters Tuesday.
“The automakers have … technology and the infrastructure and supply chain to be able to achieve this with the lead time they’ve got,” Zaidi said.
Q. Why is the tailpipe rule so important?
A. Transportation is the largest source of carbon emissions in the U.S., accounting for about 27% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. in 2020, according to the EPA. Electric power generates the second largest share of greenhouse gas emissions at 25%.
Environmental groups say stricter tailpipe pollution standards are needed to clean the air we breathe and slow the impacts of severe weather events such as hurricanes, tornados and wildfires.
“Done right, these (new rules) will put the U.S. on the path to end pollution from vehicle tailpipes — while also slashing our dependence on oil, creating good domestic jobs and saving consumers money on fuel,” said Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Q. What else is the Biden administration doing to promote EVs?
A. Besides stricter pollution rules, tax credits for EV manufacturing and purchases included in the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act passed last year will help reach the tougher requirements, the White House and its allies said.
At present, many new EVs manufactured in North America are eligible for a $7,500 tax credit, while used EVs can get up to $4,000. However, there are price and purchaser income limits that make some vehicles ineligible. And starting April 18, new requirements by the Treasury Department will result in fewer new electric vehicles qualifying for a full $7,500 federal tax credit.
A smaller credit may not be enough to attract new buyers for EVs that now cost an average of $58,600 according to Kelley Blue Book.
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Krisher reported from Detroit. | 2023-04-12T12:01:00+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/technology/ap-technology/epa-pollution-limits-aim-to-boost-us-electric-vehicle-sales/ |
A tornado measuring a half-mile wide caused severe damage and left more than 160,000 homes without power in East Texas and Louisiana. East Texans are no strangers to storm damage, but that does make us targets for fly by night contractors looking to take advantage of storm victims. Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises residents to be on the lookout for storm chasers who show up unannounced, offer to repair storm damage for a low price, require advance payment and make big promises on which they have no intention of delivering. BBB reminds consumers to be on the lookout for shady contractors looking to take advantage of storm victims.
“Encountering high winds, thunderstorms and the occasional tornado are a part of living in East Texas,” said Mechele Agbayani Mills, President & CEO of BBB Serving Central East Texas. “That means it is important to be cognizant of fly-by-night repair businesses who are ready to pounce on storm victims as soon as the weather breaks.”
BBB offers the following advice to homeowners before hiring a contractor:
Check with your insurance company about policy coverage and specific filing requirements. Save all receipts if temporary repairs are necessary.
Although you may be anxious to get things back to normal, avoid letting your emotions get the better of you. Don’t be pressured into making an immediate decision with a long-term impact. Be proactive in selecting a business and not re-active to sales solicitations.
Take time to shop around and get at least three estimates based on the same specifications and materials. Check out references that are at least one year-old and verify licensing with local agencies.
Be wary of door-to-door workers who claim to have left-over materials from a job “down the street” or who do not have a permanent place of business. If sales people go door-to-door, check to see if your community requires them to have solicitation permits.
Require a written contract agreement with anyone you hire. Be sure their name, address, license number, if applicable, and phone number is included in the contract. Read and understand the contract in its entirety, and never sign a blank contract. A copy of the signed contract is to be given to you at the time of signature.
If one estimate seems much lower than the others and it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Many fly-by-night contractors’ below-cost bids seem attractive, but these contracts often are uninsured and perform substantial cancellation fees or liquidation damages are required if the homeowner decides not to use the contractor after insurance approval of the claim.
Never pay for work in full in advance. The Better Business Bureau recommends a consumer never pay more than half before the contractor starts repairs and don’t pay the remaining balance until you are satisfied with the work. A good guideline is to pay by the rule of thirds: pay one-third deposit, one-third when the job is 50% complete, and one-third once the job is completed.
Hire locally whenever possible. Chances are, if the company is not from the area, they are less likely to come back and make a repair should you find something they missed.
Remember, great businesses are out there. Always look for the BBB seal; it’s the Sign of a Better BusinessSM. Start with companies you can trust by going to bbb.org. To report fraudulent activity or unscrupulous business practices, please call BBB at (903)581-5704 or use BBB Scam Tracker.
BBB is a nonprofit, business-supported organization that sets and upholds high standards for fair and honest business behavior. Most BBB services to consumers are free of charge. BBB offices can be found across the United States, Canada and Mexico, including BBB Serving Central East Texas, which was founded in 1985 and serves 19 counties. | 2023-06-27T11:42:43+00:00 | tylerpaper.com | https://tylerpaper.com/news/business/column-bbb-advises-storm-victims-to-be-on-the-lookout-for-storm-chasers/article_c1c37928-1493-11ee-9d79-d362f91b53e3.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has Grammys galore and now she has a new title — “doctor.”
The superstar received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from New York University on Wednesday, blowing kisses as the crowd roared when she walked toward the stage at a packed Yankee Stadium.
Sporting her signature red lipstick and newly awarded honorary robe, Swift joked to the thousands of graduates assembled: “I’m 90% sure the main reason I’m here is because I have a song called 22.
“I never got to have a normal college experience per se. I went to public high school until 10th grade and then finished my education doing home school work on the floor of airport terminals,” Swift said in her commencement speech.
The singer-songwriter, producer and director said that she began her music career at 15, touring different radio stations across the country. She went on to sell more than 100 million albums and won album of the year at the 2021 Grammys for her album “folkore,” making her the first woman to win the category three times. Her previous wins came in 2010 for “Fearless” and 2016 for “1989.”
She winked at the crowd when Jason King of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music mentioned her newly rerecorded albums, including “Fearless.”
Swift shared advice with the class of 2022 but offered the warning that, “I in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do. You’ve worked and struggled and sacrificed and studied and dreamed your way here today. I won’t tell you what to do because nobody likes that, but I will however give you life hacks for when I was starting out my dreams as a career.
“Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth,” she said.
Swift concluded her speech by telling graduates that making mistakes is inevitable but “when hard things happen to us, we will recover, we will learn from it, we will grow more resilient because of it. As long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep and breathe out. I am a doctor now so I know how breathing works.
“I hope you know how proud I am to share this day with you,” she said. “We’re doing this together so let’s just keep on dancing like we’re the class of 22.” | 2022-05-18T20:30:13+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/taylor-swift-gets-honorary-degree-from-new-york-university/ |
Q. Our first question is from Charlie Golden who wants to know: What’s your assessment of the Fayetteville NCAA Regional? Looks like we got hosed by the selection committee. A national three seed and we will have to beat TCU, one of the hottest regional 2 seeds in the tournament.
A. Not only that but Arkansas opens up against another hot team. Santa Clara has won eight straight games. In their last three games in the West Coast Conference Tournament they beat Portland, St. Mary’s and Portland again by a combined score of 38-6. They are the very definition of a team hitting post season play at the right time.
They have six guys in their lineup hitting .300 or better. Three with double digit home runs. Their team ERA is 4.42. They don’t play a comparable schedule to Arkansas but statistically they hit better and pitch better. Arkansas is much better defensively. Just 38 errors to 52 for Santa Clara.
The crowd factor? Safe to say that these guys haven’t seen anything like the atmosphere of a regional game at Baum. Their average attendance is 352 fans.
Now to TCU. You’re right. After slumping in the middle of the season they’ve won six straight including a 12-5 whipping of Oklahoma State which is hosting a regional.
Remember, the Fogs beat Arkansas 18-6 back on February 18.
Throw in Arizona which lost in the finals of the Pac 12 Tournament and this is anything but a soft regional field.
Q. mousetown wants to know: What is your biggest concern about Arkansas heading into regional play? I feel like we are looking really good right now.
A. Game three pitching, or worse, game four pitching (if necessary) could be an issue with DVH going deep into his bullpen. If the Hogs come up empty at the plate with the tying or lead runners on base like Saturday against the Aggies, that could be a real concern also.
But Arkansas’ .273 team batting average has not been an issue because individual players have usually stepped up.
As long as that doesn’t change Arkansas is in good shape. Their home record of 30-4 is amazing.
Q. Hawgredneck says: I know that the Saturday loss to the Aggies means nothing but it still got to me. There are bigger fish to fry but I’d love to be 5-0 against them instead of 4-1. Guess as a fan I’m never satisfied.
A. It takes discipline. You have to keep reminding yourself that once regional play starts the SEC Tournament means nothing. In a season like this it didn’t mean much before it started.
Arkansas went 2-1 and ended up with the same number of losses as Vanderbilt, the tournament champion.
Q. Pigsfeat asks: Can you explain how baseball determines matchups post season? Is it like basketball where #1 plays #64 down the line?
A. The winner of the number one seeded regional plays the winner of the number 16 seeded regional in super regional. Number two plays number 15 and so on.
However, the visiting three teams in each of the regionals are not necessarily placed there based a national seeding. If the selection committee did that, the number one overall seed would be paired in game one against the last team in. The two seed in that regional field would be the lowest ranked two seed and the same for the three seed.
However, the selection committee takes geography into consideration and other factors which can make for a good TV match up. That’s how Arkansas, in 2021 as the number one national seed, ended up playing a very good Nebraska team in the Fayetteville regional and was paired in the super regional against a super hot North Carolina State team.
Q. Edwardclutch wants to know: Do you think with the new SEC schedule starting next year we will play Missouri earlier in the season or will it stay at the end? I honestly think the reason we struggle in that game every year is because of where it is on the schedule…..
…..By that time we are usually beat up and know if we are bowl eligible or not. So sick of losing what is a very winnable game every year.
A. There’s no way to answer that right now. We don’t even know if Arkansas will continue to play Missouri every year. Arkansas and several other SEC schools are pushing for an eight game football schedule featuring just one permanent opponent with the remaining teams rotated annually.
Here’s a guess. If that plan is approved Missouri will get shoved off on Arkansas as its permanent opponent even though nobody associated with Arkansas would want that.
Why? Because the SEC has decided and Arkansas and Missouri are rivals probably because of geography. As to when that game would by played, since it’s treated like a rivalry game, it would likely continue to be played in rivalry week.
Other possibilities include LSU and Oklahoma.
RazorAlex88 says: Why must we have a dysfunctional Twitter fanbase? There are good fans but also crazy yahoos…..
I’d like to add that A&M Twitter is full of bozos. They are so high on themselves for sending us home a day and game early. They are very unintelligent and I can’t wait to see Vandy lay a whipping on them.
A. You got your wish. Vandy used a big 8th inning to pulverize the Aggies. For all that effort they moved from a three seed to a two seed in the Stanford regional. Does that really matter? Well they’d play Cal State Fullerton either way but they do get to be the home team in their first game. That’s what the SEC Tournament did for the Aggies.
Q. H.L McCamish says: I get why our fans would be pulling for the Aggies to beat Florida and Vandy but I cannot make myself do that ever…..
…They are so idiotic with the bubbles and that dugout game with the bellhop trolley. Did they steal that thing from the team hotel?
A. It would be interesting for someone to do some research and write a guide to the various Aggies traditions and how they got started. If you talked to Arkansas fans I think you’d find that most don’t have an issue with the various traditions of other SEC schools. But I think it’s safe to say that unless you are an Aggie, most of their traditions seem very odd.
Q. WVHogfan wants to know: Does it frustrate you that we seem to strike out too many times on called third strikes; especially when we have men on base…..?
….Is this a coaching philosophy? A couple years ago we had batters striking out by swinging at pitches well out of the strike zone.
A. This stuff comes and goes and it mostly has to do with the individual hitter in specific situations. You strike out looking either because the pitch fooled you or you thought it was a ball and the ump is blind. If a pitcher is walking batters then you might sit on a pitch but not usually on a strike two count.
Q. TimTeNO says: Love the new set! What do you think about it?
Q. I like it. It’s flexible. We can do a lot of different things with it. I’m not a big fan of standing in front of a wall of monitors and pointing at video but it’s a thing right now. Notice that for this show we are sitting behind a movable set. I like that.
We’ll continue to come up with new ways to use it.
Q. Marty Byrde’s proxy asks: With the possibility of another run to Omaha looming, can you give us a refresher on that first trip they made in ’79? What was their path in regionals and who were some of the key players?
A. Lets start with the SWC Tournament.
They Beat Baylor 6-1, lost to Texas 6-2, beat A&M 6-2 and lost to Texas 12-6.
In the East Regional Arkansas beat George Washington 12-11, killed Florida 9-1, beat Delaware 8-6 and beat Delaware again 4-3.
At the College World Series Arkansas beat Pepperdine 5-4, beat Arizona 10-3, beat Texas 9-4. At that point I thought they were gonna win it all.
But they lost Cal State Fullerton twice, 13-10 and 2-1. So close to a national title in baseball. Here we are 42 years later and Arkansas still doesn’t have one. Maybe this is the year.
Q. s-glies wants to know: I’m a big believer in raising kids right. There are few things better for me as a fan than a great athlete who is humble and shows class…..
….Who is the most polite, respectful Razorback you’ve come across in your years covering the various teams?
A. That’s a toughie because there have been many of them but with some thought I came up with Anthony Lucas, a stud wide receiver in the Clint Stoerner years. He made the winning catch against Tennessee in ’99 at what was Razorback Stadium at the time. It was one of the biggest TD catches in school history.
I was around him for four years and I could never get him to stop calling me Mr. Irwin. He said his mother would consider it to be disrespectful. When I finally suggested in his senior year that his mom was 200 miles away and would never know, he said, “My mom is always with me. I would know and therefore she would know.” | 2023-05-30T01:56:12+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/sports/pig-trail-nation/ask-mike/dissecting-the-fayetteville-regional-the-most-well-mannered-razorback-of-all-time-is-it-ever-okay-to-pull-for-the-aggies/ |
ATLANTA, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of each of Invesco High Income Trust II and Invesco Senior Income Trust (each, a "Fund" and collectively, the "Funds") today announces the payment of the following dividends:
Effective August 1, 2018, the Board of Invesco High Income Trust II (NYSE: VLT) approved a Managed Distribution Plan (the "VLT Plan") for the Fund, whereby the Fund increased its monthly dividend to common shareholders to a stated fixed monthly distribution amount based on a distribution rate of 8.5 percent of the closing market price per share as of August 1, 2018, the date the VLT Plan became effective. The VVR Plan and the VLT Plan are collectively referred to herein as the "Plans."
The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Invesco Senior Income Trust (NYSE: VVR) (the "Fund") approved an increase in the monthly distribution amount payable to common shareholders pursuant to the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan (the "Plan"). Effective April 1, 2022, the Fund will pay its monthly dividend to common shareholders at a stated fixed monthly distribution amount of $0.026 per share, an increase from a stated fixed monthly distribution amount of $0.021 per share.
1 A portion of this distribution is estimated to be from a return of principal rather than net income. The Section 19 notice referenced below provides more information and can be found on the Invesco website at www.invesco.com.
The following tables set forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the sources indicated. You should not draw any conclusions about the Funds' investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Plans. All amounts are expressed per common share. Each Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and net realized capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution is estimated to be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in a Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Funds' investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income." The amounts and sources of distributions reported in the 19(a) Notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend on each Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. Each Fund will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell them how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
* Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year will report distributions for federal income tax purposes. Each Fund's annual report to shareholders will include information regarding the tax character of Fund distributions for the fiscal year. The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of all distributions in 2022 will be made after the end of the year.
The monthly distributions are based on estimates and terms of each Fund's Plan. Monthly distribution amounts may vary from these estimates based on a multitude of factors. Changes in portfolio and market conditions may cause deviations from estimates. These estimates should not be taken as indication of a Fund's earnings and performance. The actual amounts and its sources may be subject to additional adjustments and will be reported after year end.
Each Fund's Performance and Distribution Rate Information disclosed in the table below is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Fiscal Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate and the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate. Each Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. NAV performance may be indicative of a Fund's investment performance. The value of a shareholder's investment in each Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
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4 Average Annual Total Return represents the compound average of the annual NAV Total Returns of the Fund for the five-year period ending May 31, 2022. Annual NAV Total Return is the percentage change in the Fund's NAV over a year including distributions paid and reinvested.
In order to comply with the requirements of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, each Fund will provide its shareholders of record on the record date with a 19(a) Notice disclosing the sources of its dividend payment when a distribution includes anything other than net investment income.
The Plans will be subject to periodic review by each Fund's Board, and a Fund's Board may terminate or amend the terms of its Plan at any time without prior notice to the Fund's shareholders. The amendment or termination of a Fund's Plan could have an adverse effect on the market price of such Fund's common shares.
The amount of dividends paid by each Fund may vary from time to time. Past amounts of dividends are no guarantee of future dividend payment amounts.
Investing involves risk and it is possible to lose money on any investment in the Funds.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations.
The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden’s priorities, a stunning turnaround of what had seemed a lost and doomed effort that suddenly roared back to political life. Democrats held united, 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.
“It’s been a long, tough and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ahead of final votes.
“The Senate is making history. I am confident the Inflation Reduction Act will endure as one of the defining legislative measures of the 21st century.”
Senators engaged in a round-the-clock marathon of voting that began Saturday and stretched late into Sunday afternoon. Democrats swatted down some three dozen Republican amendments designed to torpedo the legislation. Confronting unanimous GOP opposition, Democratic unity in the 50-50 chamber held, keeping the party on track for a morale-boosting victory three months from elections when congressional control is at stake.
“I think it’s gonna pass,” Biden told reporters as he left the White House early Sunday to go to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, ending his COVID-19 isolation. The House seemed likely to provide final congressional approval when it returns briefly from summer recess on Friday.
The bill ran into trouble midday over objections to the new 15% corporate minimum tax that private equity firms and other industries disliked, forcing last-minute changes.
Despite the momentary setback, the “Inflation Reduction Act” gives Democrats a c ampaign-season showcase for action on coveted goals. It includes the largest-ever federal effort on climate change — close to $400 billion — caps out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors on Medicare to $2,000 a year and extends expiring subsidies that help 13 million people afford health insurance. By raising corporate taxes, the whole package is paid for, with some $300 billion extra revenue for deficit reduction.
Barely more than one-tenth the size of Biden’s initial 10-year, $3.5 trillion rainbow of progressive aspirations in his Build Back Better initiative, the new package abandons earlier proposals for universal preschool, paid family leave and expanded child care aid. That plan collapsed after conservative Sen. Joe. Manchin, D-W.Va., opposed it, saying it was too costly and would fuel inflation.
Nonpartisan analysts have said the “Inflation Reduction Act” would have a minor effect on surging consumer prices.
Republicans said the measure would undermine an economy that policymakers are struggling to keep from plummeting into recession. They said the bill’s business taxes would hurt job creation and force prices skyward, making it harder for people to cope with the nation’s worst inflation since the 1980s.
“Democrats have already robbed American families once through inflation, and now their solution is to rob American families a second time,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., argued. He said spending and tax increases in the legislation would eliminate jobs while having insignificant impact on inflation and climate change.
In an ordeal imposed on all budget bills like this one, the Senate had to endure an overnight “vote-a-rama” of rapid-fire amendments. Each tested Democrats’ ability to hold together a compromise negotiated by Schumer, progressives, Manchin and the inscrutable centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., offered amendments to further expand the legislation’s health benefits, and those efforts were defeated. Most votes were forced by Republicans and many were designed to make Democrats look soft on U.S.-Mexico border security and gasoline and energy costs, and like bullies for wanting to strengthen IRS tax law enforcement.
Before debate began Saturday, the bill’s prescription drug price curbs were diluted by the Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian. Elizabeth MacDonough, who referees questions about the chamber’s procedures, said a provision should fall that would impose costly penalties on drug makers whose price increases for private insurers exceed inflation.
It was the bill’s chief protection for the 180 million people with private health coverage they get through work or purchase themselves. Under special procedures that will let Democrats pass their bill by simple majority without the usual 60-vote margin, its provisions must be focused more on dollar-and-cents budget numbers than policy changes.
But the thrust of their pharmaceutical price language remained. That included letting Medicare negotiate what it pays for drugs for its 64 million elderly recipients, penalizing manufacturers for exceeding inflation for pharmaceuticals sold to Medicare and limiting beneficiaries out-of-pocket drug costs to $2,000 annually.
The bill also caps Medicare patients’ costs for insulin, the expensive diabetes medication, at $35 monthly. Democrats wanted to extend the $35 cap to private insurers but it ran afoul of Senate rules. Most Republicans voted to strip it from the package, though in a sign of the political potency of health costs seven GOP senators joined Democrats trying to preserve it.
The measure’s final costs were being recalculated to reflect late changes, but overall it would raise more than $700 billion over a decade. The money would come from a 15% minimum tax on a handful of corporations with yearly profits above $1 billion, a 1% tax on companies that repurchase their own stock, bolstered IRS tax collections and government savings from lower drug costs.
Sinema forced Democrats to drop a plan to prevent wealthy hedge fund managers from paying less than individual income tax rates for their earnings. She also joined with other Western senators to win $4 billion to combat the region’s drought.
Several Democratic senators joined the GOP-led effort to exclude some firms from the new corporate minimum tax.
The package keeps to Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less than $400,000 a year.
It was on the energy and environment side that compromise was most evident between progressives and Manchin, a champion of fossil fuels and his state’s coal industry.
Clean energy would be fostered with tax credits for buying electric vehicles and manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines. There would be home energy rebates, funds for constructing factories building clean energy technology and money to promote climate-friendly farm practices and reduce pollution in minority communities.
Manchin won billions to help power plants lower carbon emissions plus language requiring more government auctions for oil drilling on federal land and waters. Party leaders also promised to push separate legislation this fall to accelerate permits for energy projects, which Manchin wants to include a nearly completed natural gas pipeline in his state. | 2022-08-07T20:22:59+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/dems-push-biden-climate-health-priorities-toward-senate-ok/ |
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CARTOONS: Try to find the real pyramid scheme
May 24, 2022 - 9:01 pm
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at editorial cartoons from the U.S. and around the world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from the U.S. and around the world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from around the U.S. and world. | 2022-05-25T04:54:51+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/drawing-board/cartoons-try-to-find-the-real-pyramid-scheme-2581833/ |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — So this moose walks into a medical building…
While that could be a setup to a bad joke, it actually happened in Anchorage on Thursday.
A young moose trudging through the snow looking for a meal spotted green plants in the lobby of a medical building in the Providence Alaska Health Park and decided to drop in for a dose of greenery.
The ingenious — or lucky — moose triggered the sensors on the automatic doors to the building that houses the hospital’s cancer center and other medical offices, said Randy Hughes, the hospital’s director of security.
“We received a call from one of our tenants advising that a moose had just walked into the building,” Hughes said.
Hughes believes it’s the same moose that has been hanging around campus. And even though moose are commonplace in Alaska, they made an announcement over the intercom of the moose’s presence out of safety concerns.
“But it seemed like it was a magnet for people to come and see it,” he said. “It’s not every day you get a moose walking into a building, so everybody was excited to take pictures and stuff like that.”
On one video posted on social media, a woman wearing a mask and dressed in scrubs can be heard saying, “That’s crazy,” as she walked by the moose, snapping a photo with her phone.
The moose was too preoccupied with eating the office plants to notice the stir he was causing.
Security officers formed a semicircle to corral the moose and shoo it out the door. One officer even grabbed a piece of the plant the moose had been eating and tried to lure it out.
“Finally, I think it had enough of everybody watching him, watching him eat,” Hughes said.
The moose vacated the building but hung around in the building’s semicircular drive for a bit before heading to the other side of the building to bed down for an afternoon.
This wasn’t the first time a moose went inside one of the hospital complex’s buildings, and bears have tried to get into the emergency room before.
Hughes said there’s “never a dull moment here at the hospital.” | 2023-04-08T13:44:40+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/strange/ap-strange-news/moose-feasts-on-lobby-plants-in-alaska-hospital-building/ |
While historic changes to North Dakota’s corporate farming law grabbed the headlines from the 2023 legislative session, there were many other bills that will have an impact on agriculture, especially livestock production.
“Throughout the course of the session … animal ag was amongst the key points that they had zeroed in on,” said Julie Ellingson, executive vice president of the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association.
Two bills she highlighted were related to zoning ordinances that can affect siting of livestock operations and a bill intended to help plan for where livestock operations should be placed in the state.
The session ended April 30. Gov. Doug Burgum signed the top piece of ag legislation, House Bill 1371, which loosens restrictions on corporate farming for livestock operations, on April 28.
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Pete Hanebutt of North Dakota Farm Bureau said that the corporate farm bill and other supporting legislation will boost livestock production in a state that is lagging behind its neighbors.
“We think we've moved really far forward in expanding animal agriculture in this state and we think it's going to be good for everybody,” he said.
State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said there were 14 bills that affected his department. Other bills will affect farmers indirectly by providing tax relief, incentives for propane storage and providing $87 million for funding ag research facilities at North Dakota State University.
Some of the bills that will impact animal agriculture:
Zoning: House Bill 1423 seeks to develop uniform zoning for animal feeding operations across counties and townships. Some local ordinances have run contrary to state law in the past.
“There's clear cut rules, reasonable setbacks that don't unnecessarily impair animal ag development, and at the same time, preserve local control,” Ellingson said.
The bill did receive support from the North Dakota Township Officers Association.
Hanebutt noted that Farm Bureau has been successful in litigation against local governments trying to limit animal agriculture, but he hopes this can head off some of those court cases.
“Cleaning up some of the problems and loopholes that have been in our local zoning ordinances is a great step forward,” he said.
Livestock planning: House Bill 1437 creates regional livestock planning grants that counties can apply for.
“The regional livestock planning grants program really provides those counties and townships with foundational information they need to identify their best opportunities,” said Matt Perdue of North Dakota Farmers Union.
Livestock friendly: Senate Bill 2373 creates a livestock-friendly county designation and is based on an ordinance in Nebraska.
Milk definition: House Bill 1255 defines milk as coming from a hoofed mammal, as opposed to soy, oats, almonds or some other plant-based source.
Raw milk: House Bill 1515 allows dairy producers to sell raw milk at their farms, despite some resistance from public health officials.
Other ag support
Other bills should be helpful to agriculture in general.
Diversification and infrastructure: House Bill 1276 adds $25 million to the state’s Agriculture Diversification and Development fund and creates a $10 million grant program to help pay for infrastructure to support agriculture, such as improved roads and bridges.
Ag budget: Senate Bill 2009 is the bill funding the Department of Agriculture, with more money for the Agricultural Products Utilization Commission and the North Dakota Trade Office.
NDSU: House Bill 1020 provides $87 million to replace North Dakota State University’s Waldron Hall, which has housed agronomy research since 1958. The bill also funds the NDSU Extension Service, Northern Crops Institute and Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, all of which saw increases in funding.
“NDSU for decades has provided world class research, but they're not doing it in facilities that really reflect the quality of that research,” Perdue said. “And so, if we want that history, that tradition, to continue, we have to provide facilities that support that. I think funding that project was critical to the state.”
The Waldron Hall replacement funding has an emergency clause, making the money available right away.
Foreign affairs
The plug was finally pulled on the proposed Chinese-owned Fufeng corn milling plant in Grand Forks after months of debate. But the issue spilled over into the Legislature with two bills on foreign investment.
Foreign governments: House Bill 1135 keeps foreign governments from owning agricultural land in North Dakota; Canada is an exception.
Foreign companies: Senate Bill 2371 Limits the ability of counties to do business with companies from countries that are determined to be a “foreign adversary.” After the scope of the bill was scaled back, a study of the issue was included. The law also is scheduled to expire in 2025 and would need to be reapproved. | 2023-05-15T12:33:53+00:00 | bismarcktribune.com | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/agnews/north-dakota-legislature-makes-livestock-a-priority-ndsu-also-benefits/article_7720f03c-ef7a-11ed-9dd3-675e8710b700.html |
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KYIV, Ukraine — The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain set out Monday from the port of Odesa under an internationally brokered deal to unblock the embattled country’s agricultural exports and ease the growing global food crisis.
The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni sounded its horn as it slowly departed with over 26,000 tons of corn destined for Lebanon.
“The first grain ship since Russian aggression has left port,” Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov declared on Twitter.
Russia and Ukraine signed agreements in Istanbul with Turkey and the U.N. on July 22, clearing the way for Ukraine to export 22 million tons of grain and other agricultural products that have been stuck in Black Sea ports because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than five months ago. The deals also allow Russia to export grain and fertilizer.
As part of the agreements, safe corridors through the mined waters outside Ukraine’s ports were established.
Ukraine and Russia are major global suppliers of wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil, with the fertile Black Sea region long known as the breadbasket of Europe. The holdup of food shipments because of the war has worsened rising food prices worldwide and threatened hunger and political instability in developing nations.
“Today Ukraine, together with partners, takes another step to prevent world hunger,” Kubrakov said.
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov hailed the ship’s departure as “very positive,” saying it would help test the “efficiency of the mechanisms that were agreed to during the talks in Istanbul.”
Under the agreements, ships going in and out of Ukrainian ports will be subject to inspection to make sure that incoming vessels are not carrying weapons and that outgoing ones are bearing only grain, fertilizer or related food items, not any other commodities.
The Razoni was expected to dock Tuesday afternoon in Istanbul, where teams of Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and U.N. officials were set to board it for inspection.
More ships are expected to leave from Ukraine’s ports through the safe corridors. At Odesa, 16 more vessels, all blocked since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, were waiting their turn, with others to follow, Ukrainian authorities said.
But some shipping companies are not yet rushing to export food across the Black Sea as they assess the danger of mines and the risk of Russian rockets hitting grain warehouses and ports.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he hopes the shipments “bring much-needed stability and relief to global food security, especially in the most fragile humanitarian contexts.”
In an interview with Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar warned that the global food crisis threatens to trigger “a serious wave of migration from Africa to Europe and to Turkey.”
Lebanon, the corn’s destination, is in the grip of a severe financial crisis. A 2020 explosion at its main port in Beirut shattered its capital city and destroyed grain silos. Lebanon mostly imports wheat from Ukraine but also buys its corn to make cooking oil and produce animal feed.
Kubrakov said the shipments will also help Ukraine’s war-shattered economy.
“Unlocking ports will provide at least $1 billion in foreign exchange revenue to the economy and an opportunity for the agricultural sector to plan for next year,” he said.
Hearing the ship sound its horn as it left port delighted Olena Vitalievna, an Odesa resident.
“Finally, life begins to move forward and there are some changes in a positive direction,” she said. “In general, the port should live its own life because Odesa is a port city. We live here. We want everything to work for us, everything to bustle.”
Yet the resumption of the grain shipments came as fighting raged elsewhere in Ukraine, with Russia pressing its offensive in the east while Ukraine tries to retake territory in the Russian-occupied south.
Ukraine’s presidential office said at least three civilians were killed and 16 wounded by Russian shelling in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko repeated a call for all residents to evacuate, emphasizing the need to remove about 52,000 children still in the region.
In Kharkiv, two people were wounded by a Russian strike in the morning. One was struck while waiting for a bus, the other when a Russian shell exploded near an apartment building.
The southern city of Mykolaiv also faced shelling that ruined a building at a hospital and damaged ambulances, according to regional Gov. Vitaliy Kim. Three civilians were wounded elsewhere in the city, he said.
Soon after the grain shipment deal was signed, a Russian missile targeted Odesa. Analysts warned that the continuing fighting could still upend the grain deal.
“The departure of the first vessel doesn’t solve the food crisis; it’s just the first step that could also be the last if Russia decides to continue attacks in the south,” said Volodymyr Sidenko, an expert with the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center think tank.
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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Jon Gambrell in Dubai contributed. | 2022-08-01T14:24:10+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2520951/1st-ship-carrying-ukrainian-grain-leaves-the-port-of-odesa.html |
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group has denied having contact with the Somali government after the country’s deputy defense minister claimed that the extremists had for the first time asked to negotiate.
An unnamed al-Shabab official with the group’s media unit told a pro-al-Shabab website in comments published Sunday that “there is no talk between us.”
On Saturday, Deputy Defense Minister Abdifatah Kasim told journalists in Mogadishu that “al-Shabab requested to open negotiations with the Somali government, but there are two groups within al-Shabab.” He said Somali members of al-Shabab “have a chance to open up negotiations, but those foreigners who invaded our country have no right for talks. The only option is to return to where they are from.”
Kasim added that “for the Somalis, we are ready to receive them, for they are willing to surrender to the Somali government. They must follow the government’s instructions, reintegrate with their society, or face the Somali National Army in the front lines.”
It was the first time Somalia’s federal government had claimed the extremist group had requested talks.
The comments came amid a military offensive the government launched last year and has described as “total war.” Al-Shabab is an al-Qaida-affiliate that for well over a decade has carried out high-profile bombings in Somalia’s capital and controlled parts of the country’s central and southern regions, complicating efforts to rebuild the once-failed state after decades of conflict.
Al-Shabab numbers several thousand fighters, including an unknown number of foreigners, both from regional countries like neighboring Kenya and beyond. The extremists have carried out several high-profile attacks over the years in Kenya, including in the capital, Nairobi, and at a military base used by the U.S.
Al-Shabab has long sought to impose strict Islamic law in Somalia and seeks the withdrawal of foreign troops operating in the Horn of Africa country. The United States has a military presence in Somalia to combat the extremists, along with Turkey and a multinational African Union force. | 2023-01-09T21:12:58+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-al-shabab-extremists-deny-contact-with-somalias-government/ |
What do you need to know about using a humidifier?
As temperatures go down, so do moisture levels. While that’s not always bad, it can increase your chance of aggravating chronic respiratory issues, such as asthma and bronchitis. It can also cause a multitude of other health problems. But getting a humidifier can help you have enough moisture in your home to stay healthy this winter.
What does a humidifier do?
A humidifier increases the moisture in the air to alleviate common health concerns associated with dry air. Once you add water, it draws dry air in with a fan, pushes it through a wet filter and blows the newly moist air into the room. While there are different types of machines, the concept is essentially the same for each.
Types of humidifiers
There are three primary types of humidifiers:
- Warm mist: This machine boils water and turns it into water vapor, which moistens the surrounding air.
- Evaporative: This uses a fan to pull dry air through a wet wick and recirculates moist air into the room.
- Ultrasonic: This creates a mist with an internal diaphragm that vibrates at ultrasonic speeds to turn the water into tiny particles. A silent fan then blows the particles into the room.
Everything you need to know about using a humidifier
There are nine details you need to know to select the best humidifier for your home:
- Room size: Humidifiers are made for various room sizes. Choose one that’s suitable for the room where you intend to use yours.
- Maintenance: Some humidifiers are easier to clean than others.
- Aromatherapy: Some models let you add essential oils for added medicinal benefits.
- Noise: Some machines are louder than others. Ultrasonic varieties are typically the quietest.
- Timers: Some devices have timers, so you don’t have to worry about leaving them on for too long.
- Automatic shut-off: Consider a humidifier with this feature. You don’t want your machine to keep running after it runs out of water.
- Humidity sensor: You can get a humidifier that lets you set and maintain your desired humidity level.
- Safety: Some machines, such as the warm mist humidifier, can be dangerous if tipped over. Be careful using them around children and pets.
- Tank size: The size of the tank determines how many hours you can run it. Consider a larger machine if you wish to keep yours running for long periods.
Best humidifiers
Aprilaire 500 Home Humidifier With Automatic Control
This evaporative humidifier covers up to 3,000 square feet, uses 12 gallons of water a day and comes with a digital control panel that lets you set your humidity levels. It makes using a humidifier easy and includes everything you need to install it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Govee Smart Wi-Fi Humidifier For Bedroom
This quiet cool mist humidifier is fit for a room up to 258 square feet with a timer and an automatic shut-off when it reaches your desired humidity level. You can add essential oils to it, and it has a 12.5-cup tank.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Levoit Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier
This top-fill humidifier takes essential oils and its humidity level can be set and controlled with a smartphone app. It has a 1.59-gallon tank that lasts 60 hours, covers 505 square feet and has a rapid humidification setting.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Vicks Mini Filter-Free Cool Mist Humidifier
This cool mist humidifier with a half-gallon tank is ideal for a small room and works with Vicks VapoPads. It operates without a filter and has a run time of 20 hours.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Frida Baby Fridababy Three-In-One Humidifier
This cool mist humidifier has an essential-oil diffuser and a built-in night light. It comes with an automatic shut-off, covers 320 square feet and has a half-gallon tank.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Air Innovations Humidifiers for Bedroom
This cool mist device makes using a humidifier easy, with a 100-hour run time, humidity level control and digital display. It’s silent, has an aromatherapy tray, covers up to a 700-square-foot room with a 1.6-gallon tank and has a rotating nozzle.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Levoit Humidifiers for Bedroom Large Room Home
This ultrasonic humidifier blows warm or cool mist and covers up to 753 square feet for 50 hours. It makes using a humidifier simple with its top-fill design and smartphone app that lets you set and control your humidity level with sleep mode, a timer and auto shut-off.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Air Innovations MH-505A High-Performance Humidifier
This quiet ultrasonic humidifier has four mist settings, a digital display, a 1.37-gallon tank and it covers 400 square feet. It’s easy to operate, with a permanent ceramic filter that never needs to be replaced.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Levoit Cool Mist Air Ultrasonic Humidifier
This top-access ultrasonic design makes it easy to fill and clean the humidifier; it’s quiet, runs for up to 60 hours and covers 505 square feet. It also has an automatic shut-off and no light, which is ideal for light sleepers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Miko Ultrasonic Digital Humidifier
This sleek humidifier gives you cool or warm mist with a digital humidity level display, a control panel with sleep mode and a timer. It also has a remote control, covers 540 square feet with a 1.2-gallon tank, can be filled with essential oils and has a run time of up to 40 hours.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Allen Young is curator emeritus of zoology at the Milwaukee Public Museum. He is the author of “Small Creatures and Ordinary Places.” He wrote this for the Chicago Tribune.
As spring gives way to summer, nature’s treasure chest awakens. Earth’s biological wealth sprouts, blooms and clamors. These contents once blanketed the landscape with a thin, life-sustaining fabric, the biosphere. But human activity has contributed to the shrinking of the chest.
A major slice of the treasure is insects and the roles they play in structuring food chains, communities and ecosystems linking them to plants, fungi, microorganisms and other animals. Insects are key to transferring energy from plants in terrestrial food chains, shaping much of Earth’s biological wealth. Their small body size, prolific reproduction, life cycles, diverse forms and habits mold their ecological prowess.
The ecological significance of insects is reflected in their long history, which spans an estimated 400 million years. A major bounce to this success began with flowering plants some 145 million years ago, coinciding with pollinators, including butterflies and moths, beetles, winged social insects and flies.
Insects make up 80 percent of animal life. In the U.S. alone, there are about 90,000 described species, the largest being beetles at 24,000; flies, 20,000; ants, beetles and wasps, about 18,000; and moths and butterflies, 12,000. There are about 900,000 known species of insects worldwide, with perhaps an additional several million yet to be discovered.
Insect biomass far outweighs that of all other animals. Anywhere from 1 billion to 10 billion ants weigh as much as the sum total of humanity. There are about 200 million individual insects for every human, or 300 pounds of insects for each pound of humans.
While we relish a gorgeous tiger swallowtail butterfly sipping nectar from the magenta blooms of New England asters and the glow of fireflies on a summer night, we abhor mosquitoes, ants on the kitchen counter and picnic raids by yellowjackets. Yet, only a minuscule fraction of insects, including agricultural pests, warrants our disdain.
The insect world is one of physical, literary and mystical beauty. Some of the most desirable costumes and fine jewelry portray beetles, dragonflies and butterflies. Some cultures use insects as sources for medicines, religious beliefs and symbols of the spiritual world. There was even wisdom about life woven in fables. A confused Alice sought guidance from a toadstool-sitting caterpillar. When viewed through this looking glass, insects and other small creatures are to be praised for such survival success and adaptive ingenuity.
Even though the majority of insects go largely unnoticed, some have a beneficial impact on our lives. According to insect conservation group the Xerces Society, bugs provide about $60 billion of services every year in the U.S. alone: $5 billion in pest control, $50 billion as food for wildlife, $3 billion in pollination by native bee species and about $400 million in dung returning nutrients to soil. Declines of insect populations lower crop successes and threaten food webs and bird populations.
About 40 percent of insects face possible extinction in the next few decades owing to habitat loss, ecosystem fragmentation, pesticides and climate change. But preserving natural habitats, designing gardens with native flora, reducing pesticide usage and protecting large tracts of land such as national parks, rangelands and the millions of acres of roadside forests could stabilize insect numbers and diversity.
While insects are not viewed as wildlife, the planning of conservation areas ought to consider what they need to survive.
Doing so can alleviate challenges to insect survival, such as annual swings in dryness, rainfall, snowmelt and other factors. And we are part of the equation. Let us convert one minute of human life into two minutes of human enrichment of our changing natural world as symbolized by a great spangled fritillary butterfly on Joe Pye weed. On steamy summer days, relish the buzzing of cicadas and chirping of crickets as escapes from beeps and ringtones.
If we listen and observe, there can be an understanding that those slices of wilderness we readily embrace, birds and mammals, are built upon much of what is hidden, especially insects and the life they support. Perhaps doing so can slow the shrinking of nature’s treasure chest, adding restorative grease to its fragile hinges, allowing future blossoming of summer. And insects rule again. | 2023-05-11T16:08:04+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/05/11/opinion/opinion-contributor/insects-essential-life-endangered/ |
‘ARPA money is making a difference’
Published 6:08 pm Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Funds given to the county in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have made an impact.
That was the message relayed by County Administrator Trish Harren during a Mower County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning.
According to Harren’s report to the board, Mower County has spent $3.1 million and committed even more of the total $7.8 million awarded to the county in American Rescue Plan dollars.
In a detailed rundown, Harren went through how the money has been spread around in six primary areas: COVID-19 response, economic supports, mental health, broadband, housing and infrastructure.
“ARPA money is making a difference,” Harren told the board. “I think we’re continuing to make good ethical decisions with our funding.”
However, the county still has $1,690,000 remaining to be used and while the Department of Treasury initially put specific rules on how and when the money can be spent, Harren said Tuesday that many of those have been lifted and now counties and governmental agencies can simply bank funds if under $10 million.
But Harren said that rather than bank the money, the county has chosen to continue spending the money in areas of need.
“We needed to do these things,” Harren said. “We will fully spend this by the end of the year.” | 2023-01-11T02:12:21+00:00 | austindailyherald.com | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2023/01/arpa-money-is-making-a-difference/ |
The new visual identity and digital presence highlight the brokerage's deep insurance expertise empowered by transformative technology.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Newfront, the tech-driven insurance brokerage firm based in San Francisco, introduced an elevated visual identity and digital presence last week, celebrating with internal launch parties and humorous memes on social media.
Newfront's vision of de-risking human progress through its empowered experts is highlighted in the new approach, along with updated messaging on the company's differentiators and a refined visual ID, including distinct photography, custom iconography, new brand colors and fonts, and texture.
"Technology and impactful innovation is a fundamental part of Newfront's differentiation, which we expressed with textural elements throughout the brand system," said Newfront Chief Marketing Officer Bethany Hale, who shared more about the brand in a blog post. "The texture represents the foundation we have laid through technology, but it's also a guiding path to light the way for business leaders as they navigate new frontiers."
Taking a page from a consumer marketing playbook and riding the wave of engagement similar to how the recent Barbie movie was promoted through a selfie-generator, Newfront employees created and shared more than 1,000 memes through internal company channels and across LinkedIn. Newfront team members also received access to a company store featuring items from vendors that prioritize sustainability and social good, and hundreds gathered virtually and in-person at 11 offices country-wide from San Francisco to New York to learn about and celebrate the new branding.
"While insurance and risk management are serious topics primarily focused at a business executive audience, our brand launch provided light-hearted ways to recognize and promote our new expression while giving our colleagues a chance to better understand and embody the brand pillars," Hale added. "We have a really strong culture built around diversity and inclusion at Newfront. We liked the idea of giving people a chance to be creative and promote our brand in their own unique way—while having some fun."
The memes' playful statements featured amusing takes on insurance language, such as "De-risky business" and "Don't quote me on this," among others. Follow the #deriskinghumanprogress hashtag on LinkedIn to see the full collection.
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Newfront is a modern brokerage transforming the risk management, business insurance, total rewards, and retirement services space through the combination of elite expertise and cutting-edge technology. Specializing in more than 20 industries and headquartered in San Francisco, Newfront has offices nationwide and is home to more than 800 employees serving organizations across the United State and globally. For more information, visit newfront.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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Good news for the Kansas City Chiefs: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes is set to practice Wednesday after suffering an ankle injury.
“He’ll practice. He did the walkthrough this morning. He’ll practice this afternoon,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Wednesday.
It’s a positive sign for the Chiefs’ starting quarterback, who is dealing with a high ankle sprain suffered in the team’s win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Divisional Round this past weekend.
While Mahomes is set to practice, it remains to be seen how much he’ll be able to do and what condition he’s currently in. When asked if Mahomes would be a full participant, Reid said the team will have to keep monitoring the situation.
“We’ll see,” Reid said. “I think he’ll probably do everything. But we’ll see.
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Mahomes and the Chiefs are set to take on the Cincinnati Bengals this Sunday in the AFC Championship Game. Kansas City will host the game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
On Monday, Reid stressed that Mahomes aims to play in Sunday’s playoff game that will have a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.
“He mentioned it to you (media members): He’s going to play,” Reid said Monday. “So I mean, that’s his mindset. Then we’ll just take it day by day and see how he does.”
The Chiefs are set to release their first practice report on Wednesday and their final injury report on Friday. | 2023-01-25T19:33:32+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/patriots/2023/01/patrick-mahomes-injury-chiefs-coach-gives-update-on-qbs-availability-in-practice.html |
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 1, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
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At least 40 people injured or ill from Oregon’s Cedar Creek Fire, officials say
By Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN
At least 40 people have reported injuries or illnesses related to Oregon’s Cedar Creek fire, officials say. The fire has burned for almost two months.
All of the injuries so far appear to be non life-threatening, Don Ferguson, a Cedar Creek Fire public information officer, told CNN in an email.
The blaze, sparked by lightning on August 1, has burned through 114,104 acres and is 20% contained.
“There have been no structures burned and no fatalities,” Ferguson said.
The fire “has grown by only a relatively small percentage” in the last week, according to Ferguson. “The fire received a little rain, enough to temporarily slow growth and allow work to progress on the indirect containment strategy.”
Officials are beginning to pull back resources on the firefighting process and reopen areas closed to the public, according to Ferguson. It’s unclear exactly when those public areas will be reopened.
The fire began near the city of Oakridge, which is just under an hour’s drive from Eugene. Almost 2,000 personnel are working to contain the flames, according to a Sunday Facebook post from Cedar Creek Fire officials. The effort includes 44 fire engines, 28 handcrews, and 9 helicopters.
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- Upcoming WEMIX 3.0 launch will commence the issuance of WEMIX coin and the new WEMIX Wallet service
- Three ways of migrating WEMIX tokens (WEMIX Classic) to WEMIX coins
SINGAPORE, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prior to launching its blockchain mainnet WEMIX 3.0, WEMADE led by CEO Henry Chang provided instructions on converting WEMIX tokens into WEMIX Coins.
WEMIX Coins will be newly issued following the release of the mainnet WEMIX 3.0 at midday on Thursday, October 20th. The existing WEMIX token will be provided as a separate service under WEMIX Classic.
The existing WEMIX Wallet changed to PLAY Wallet and began its service on October 14th. The new WEMIX Wallet based on WEMIX 3.0 is also set to be offered. A variety of WEMIX 3.0 services to come including WEMIX.Fi and NILE can be accessed using the WEMIX Wallet.
There are three ways of converting WEMIX Classic into WEMIX Coin, which are through external exchanges, the Multichain service, and the PLAY Bridge service. First, for external exchanges on which WEMIX Classic is listed, the migration to WEMIX coin will be automatic. The schedule will be announced by each exchange separately.
Another way is to make the conversion directly by connecting WEMIX Wallet with a Multichain service that supports various blockchains. The details on using this service will be posted after the launch of the mainnet.
Lastly, the PLAY Bridge service can be used on PLAY Wallet (formerly WEMIX Wallet). Users can benefit from low transaction fees as WEMADE provides the service directly. The instructions are to be made available upon release of the service. For more details of this announcement, please check the official WEMIX medium and community.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Lindsey Horan is setting a feisty tone for the United States at the Women’s World Cup.
Horan, the U.S. co-captain, steadied herself after an angry exchange with Dutch midfielder Danielle van de Donk and scored to give the United States a 1-1 draw with the Netherlands on Thursday.
Frustrated by the Netherlands’ first half lead, Horan went from exasperation with van de Donk to elation for her tying goal in a span of just two minutes in the second half.
“To come from a goal down and have that momentum shift in the second half was incredible. I think no one was happy with our first-half performance, letting them have the ball a little bit too much, but we changed things, and how we responded,” she said.
The tie keeps the United States atop the Group E standings, in front of the Netherlands with a better goal difference, and in good position to advance to the knockout round. The Americans wrap up group play on Tuesday against Portugal.
The United States is seeking its third straight World Cup title but this time the squad is younger and less experienced than in previous tournaments. Fourteen players on the roster are making their World Cup debuts.
That’s why Horan’s leadership, and the example she sets on the field, are important.
Horan, playing in her second World Cup, was named co-captain along with Alex Morgan by coach Vlatko Andonovski before the tournament. When she and Morgan are on the field together, Horan gets the captain’s armband.
In addition to the equalizer against the Dutch, she also scored in the team’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the tournament opener.
“I think the captain’s band has elevated what she already does,” defender Julie Ertz said about Horan. “I don’t think she needed to change or be anything, because we looked at her as a leader.”
Horan, 26, has always been a competitive player. But the battle with van de Donk — her teammate on French club Lyon — typifies her feistiness.
Horan seethed and cursed after getting knocked down by van de Donk and the two exchanged words, prompting the referee to step in and separate the pair.
Minutes later — after a calming reminder from Ertz that she was already carrying a yellow card from a previous match — Horan coolly scored on a header off Rose Lavelle’s corner kick.
“Instead of crying about it, she just goes and makes a statement and basically shows everyone the direction the game was going to take,” Andonovski said.
Horan shared a laugh and a hug with van de Donk following the match. The two even snapped a selfie.
“I don’t think you ever want to get me mad because I don’t react in a good way. I just want something more. I want to win more, I want to score more and I want more for my team,” Horan said.
Horan grew up in Colorado and eschewed a scholarship to North Carolina to head overseas and play for Paris Saint-Germain for four seasons. In 2016 and vying for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team, she returned to the United States to play for the Portland Thorns of the National Women’s Soccer League and was named the league’s Most Valuable Player in 2018.
The Thorns loaned her to Lyon in 2022, and allowed her permanent transfer to the team in France’s top division in June.
She’s been a fixture on the U.S. national team since the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
At the 2019 World Cup in France, Horan came off the bench for the team’s first two knockout round victories against Spain and the hosts. In the semifinal against England, she started and served Morgan the go-ahead goal.
She has made 131 appearances in all for the United States, scoring 29 goals. She and forward Sophia Smith each have two goals at this World Cup.
Horan is aware that those young players — including Smith — look to her in navigating soccer’s biggest stage for the first time.
“It’s great for us to have this in the group stage and to feel that kind of pressure,” Horan said. “So now we move forward. We learned a few lessons from this game and now focus on Portugal.”
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/fifa-womens-world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-27T15:36:09+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/ap-captain-horan-sets-the-tone-for-united-states-at-the-womens-world-cup/ |
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on the Biden administration's improper termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as "Remain in Mexico."
"When fully active under President Trump, MPP required many illegal border crossers to remain in Mexico while they waited for an immigration judge to consider the merits of their applications, many of which were dubious asylum claims. Thus, MPP effectively cut off the strongest pull-factor for illegal immigration – the near-guarantee of being released into the interior of the United States after apprehension by a border patrol officer. MPP was an obstacle to the Biden administration's mass immigration agenda so they fought to end it.
"By ending MPP how and when they did, the Biden administration put the American public and migrants at risk, all while footing enormous bills to state and local taxpayers who must provide benefits to aliens released into their communities. The Court's decision today, however, perpetuates this status quo and will allow the government to continue releasing inadmissible aliens into the United States, in direct violation of federal law.
"The Biden administration chose to terminate MPP knowing that their decision would allow them to violate other immigration laws. In the absence of a fully-operational MPP program, DHS unlawfully chooses to release thousands of inadmissible aliens into the United States resulting in further incentives that encourage mass illegal immigration across the Southern border.
"Today's Supreme Court ruling highlights the need for Congressional action to mandate MPP and secure our southern border. Courts cannot be relied on to rein in the Biden administration's relentless flouting of immigration laws. Congress must step forward with needed reforms to stop this historic border crisis."
Contact: Ron Kovach, 202-328-7004 or rkovach@fairus.org
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Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest immigration reform group. With over 3 million members and supporters nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. FAIR believes that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that is recognized and enforced.
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — More administrators with the City View Independent School District have been jailed as the Wichita Falls Police Department’s ongoing investigation into eight years of unreported sexual misconduct within the district continues.
According to the Wichita County Jail roster, Raymond Weathersbee, former principal at City View Junior/Senior High School, and Steve Harris, former superintendent of City View ISD and a former principal at City View Jr./Sr. High School, were booked in on Thursday, February 9, 2023.
Both are charged with failing to report sexual misconduct allegations as required by law, the same charge facing five other current and former administrators with the district in connection to the WFPD’s investigation.
In all, seven current or former City View ISD administrators have been charged in what police referred to as “persistent failures to report sexual misconduct by administrators at City View ISD of multiple incidents over an eight-year span.”
Sgt. Eipper said the charges are in connection to WFPD’s investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by former City View High School basketball coach Bobby Morris who is accused of four separate incidents of sexual misconduct between 2014 and 2022.
Officials said the investigation by the WFPD revealed that no reports of any sexual misconduct by Morris were ever made to law enforcement by administrators with City View ISD, and as a result, no investigation had previously been conducted.
According to the arrest affidavit, former City View ISD students began making claims of sexual misconduct against Morris on social media on June 23, 2022. Four days after the allegations surfaced, on June 27, 2022, Morris took his own life.
The five City View ISD administrators jailed on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, are listed below:
- Anthony Ray Bushong — Current Superintendent of City View ISD
- Carrie Lynn Allen — Current Assistant Superintendent of City View ISD
- Daryl Alexander Frazier — Former principal of City View Jr/Sr High School
- Rudy Glynn Hawkins, Jr. — Current Athletic Director at City View Jr/Sr High School
- Cindy Pope Leaverton — Current Counselor at City View Jr/Sr High School
All five were booked into the Wichita County Law Enforcement Center on Wednesday morning, February 8. Sgt. Charlie Eipper with the WFPD said all five turned themselves in.
Following their arrests, the City View ISD Board of Trustees released a statement, saying they are “not aware of the facts that would support the allegations against these individuals” and that the arrests of the five current and former administrators were “based on alleged offenses that occurred at least five years ago.”
This is a developing story. Stick with Texoma’s Homepage for updates as more information becomes available. | 2023-02-09T17:25:44+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/more-city-view-isd-admins-charged-in-unreported-sexual-misconduct-case/ |
SOLEDAD, Calif. (AP) — Rapper MoneySign Suede has died after he was stabbed in a shower at a California prison, authorities and his attorney said.
Jaime Brugada Valdez, 22, of Huntington Park, was found in the shower area of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Despite life-saving efforts, he died at a prison medical facility.
The agency didn’t detail his injuries but said his death was being investigated as a homicide.
“They said it was a stabbing to the neck,” Valdez’s attorney, Nicholas Rosenberg, told the Los Angeles Times.
Suede signed to Atlantic Records in 2021, and released his most recent album “Parkside Baby” last September, the Times said.
The Monterey County prison houses more than 4,000 minimum- and medium-security inmates.
Valdez was sent there after being sentenced in Riverside County last December to serve two years and eight months on two charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun, according to state corrections officials. | 2023-04-27T11:24:24+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/rapper-moneysign-suede-dies-in-california-prison-stabbing/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The former president of El Salvador’s soccer federation was sentenced on Thursday to 16 months in prison in the long-running FIFA corruption scandal.
Reynaldo Vasquez, 66, told a judge in federal court in Brooklyn that he felt “great shame” over his role in a bribery scheme that involved media and marketing rights for games played by the Salvadoran national soccer team. At the same time, Vasquez sought to cast himself as a minor participant.
U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen responded by saying Vasquez deserved prison time for his efforts “to line his and his co-defendants pockets.”
The judge also left open the door for the sentence to be vastly reduced once it’s determined how much credit he should get for time he spent behind bars in El Salvador before he was extradited to the United States last year.
Salvadoran authorities arrested Vasquez at the end of 2015 as part of an international roundup of top officials of FIFA, soccer’s governing body. In a guilty plea last year, he said that in 2012, he and other soccer officials received approximately $350,000 in bribes for the media and marketing rights to World Cup qualifying matches.
Vasquez led the Salvadoran soccer federation from June 2009 to July 2011. | 2022-09-29T19:45:13+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-former-el-salvador-soccer-boss-sentenced-in-us-bribery-case/ |
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Astrud Gilberto, famed singer of ‘The Girl from Ipanema,’ dead at 83
NEW YORK (AP) — Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at age 83.
Musician Paul Ricci, a family friend, confirmed that she died Monday. He did not provide additional details.
Born in Salvador, Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto became an overnight, unexpected superstar in 1964, thanks to knowing just enough English to be recruited by the makers of “Getz/Gilberto,” the classic bossa nova album featuring saxophonist Stan Getz and her then-husband, singer-songwriter-guitarist Joao Gilberto.
“The Girl from Ipanema,” the wistful ballad written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, was already a hit in South America. But “Getz/Gilberto” producer Creed Taylor and others thought they could expand the record’s appeal by including both Portuguese and English language vocals. In a 2002 interview with friends posted on her web site www.astrudgilberto.com, Astrud Gilberto remembered her husband saying he had a surprise for her at the recording studio.
“I begged him to tell me what it was, but he adamantly refused, and would just say: ‘Wait and see ...’ Later on, while rehearsing with Stan, as they were in the midst of going over the song ‘The Girl from Ipanema,’ Joao casually asked me to join in, and sing a chorus in English, after he had just sung the first chorus in Portuguese. So, I did just that,” she explained.
“When we were finished performing the song, Joao turned to Stan, and said something like: “Tomorrow Astrud sing on record… What do you think?” Stan was very receptive, in fact very enthusiastic; he said it was a great idea. The rest, of course, as one would say, ‘is history.’”
Astrud Gilberto sings “The Girl from Ipanema” in a light, affectless style that influenced Sade and Suzanne Vega among others, as if she had already moved on to other matters. But her words, translated from the Portuguese by Norman Gimbel, would be remembered like few others from the era.
Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes
Each one she passes goes, “Ah”
“Getz/Gilberto” sold more than 2 million copies and “The Girl from Ipanema,” released as a single with Astrud Gilberto the only vocalist, became an all-time standard, often ranked just behind “Yesterday” as the most covered song in modern times. “The Girl from Ipanema” won a Grammy in 1965 for record of the year, and Gilberto received nominations for best new artist and best vocal performance. The poised, dark-haired singer was so closely associated with “The Girl from Ipanema” that some assumed she was the inspiration; de Moraes had written the lyrics about a Brazilian teenager, Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto.
Over the next few years, Gilberto toured with Getz among others and released eight albums (with songs in English and Portuguese), among them “The Astrud Gilberto Album,” “Beach Samba” and “The Shadow of Your Smile.” But after 1969, she made just seven more albums and by 2002 had essentially retired from the business and stopped giving interviews, dedicating her latter years to animal rights activism and a career in the visual arts. She would allege that she received no money for “The Girl from Ipanema” and that Taylor and Getz (who would refer to her as “just a housewife”) took undue credit for “discovering” her. She also felt estranged from her native country, alleging she was treated dismissively by the press, and rarely performed there after she became a star.
“Isn’t there an ancient proverb to the effect that ‘No one is a prophet in his own land’?” she said in 2002. “I have no qualms with Brazilians, and I enjoy myself very much when I go to Brazil. Of course, I go there as an incognito visitor, and not as a performer.”
Astrud Weinert was the youngest of three sisters, born into a family both musical and at ease with foreign languages: Her mother was a singer and violinist, her father a linguistics professor. By her teens, she was among a circle of musical friends and had met Joao Gilberto, a rising star in Rio’s emerging bossa nova scene.
“After I got together with Joao, the clan grew larger, to include ‘older’ folks such as Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Morais, Bene Nunes, Luis Bonfa and Joao Donato, and of course, their respective ‘other halves,” she recalled. “Joao Gilberto and I used to sing duets, or he would accompany me on guitar. Friends would always request that I sing at these gatherings, as well as at our own home when they would come to visit us.”
She was married twice and had two sons, Joao Marcelo Gilberto and Gregory Lasorsa, both of whom would work with her. Well after her commercial peak, she remained a popular live act, her singing becoming warmer and jazzier as she sang both covers and original material. She also had some notable moments as a recording artist, whether backed by trumpeter Chet Baker on “Fly Me to the Moon” or crooning with George Michael on the bossa nova standard “Desafinado.” In 2008, she received a Latin Grammy for lifetime achievement.
“I have been labeled by an occasional frustrated journalist as ‘a recluse.’ The dictionary clearly defines recluse as ‘a person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.’ Why should anybody assume that just because an artist chooses not to give interviews, he/she is a recluse?” she said in 2002.
“I firmly believe that any artist who becomes famous through their work — be it music, motion pictures or any other — does not have any moral obligation to satisfy the curiosity of journalists, fans or any members of the public about their private lives, or anything else that does not have any direct reflection on their work. My work, whether perceived as good, bad, or indifferent, speaks for itself.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-06T13:26:34+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/06/06/astrud-gilberto-famed-singer-girl-ipanema-dead-83/ |
A court ruling blocking the termination of a Trump-era pandemic restriction at the U.S.-Mexico border is unlikely to slow border crossings, Biden administration officials say, as migration in the Western hemisphere reaches new highs.
Since taking office, President Joe Biden has faced mounting pressure over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, dividing members of his own party following a decision by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to lift Title 42, which allows authorities to swiftly turn people away at the border, effectively barring migrants from seeking asylum.
Republicans hammered the administration for not being tough enough on the border. Some Democrats and immigrant advocates, meanwhile, say the White House has waited too long to rescind it. Regardless, a federal court ruling means the administration will be forced to keep it in effect for now.
Along the northern border of Mexico, advocates say some migrants remain undeterred and desperate.
"I don't think that just because Title 42 didn't go away today that people are thinking that was the one and only way they were going to get over," said Sam Bishop, Mexico country director for Global Response Management.
"To me, the lack of some sort of visible and major outcry today in particular or since Friday, is kind of an indication that this isn't the only thing they're necessarily waiting for," Bishop, who works directly with migrants, added.
Over the weekend, following the court ruling, Border Patrol agents arrested more than 500 migrants in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone, which covers south Texas, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. And in Yuma, Arizona, border agents arrested over 1,500 migrants in a 24-hour period over the weekend, a Homeland Security official told CNN.
Migration is at new highs amid deteriorating conditions in Latin America that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. At the US southern border, about 40% of border crossers are now from countries outside of Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, according to a Homeland Security official.
The Department of Homeland Security, officials say, is operating under the belief that numbers will remain high even with Covid-19 border restrictions still in place. The number of border crossings generally increase in the spring, but the current pace of record numbers highlights the continued urgency on the US-Mexico border.
For months, DHS prepared for the future lifting of Title 42, which was invoked at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, while grappling with around 7,000 border crossers daily.
In a statement following Friday's ruling, DHS maintained the department would press forward with preparations to manage a potential increase of migrants at the border. Officials are also racing to strike agreements with countries in the region to stem the flow of migrants journeying to the U.S. southern border.
DHS is similarly working with Mexico to mitigate traffic along key areas on the U.S. southern border, like patrols, checkpoints, and going after smugglers, the agency official said.
More than 6 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants have fled the country, according to DHS. Nicaraguans have also increasingly been migrating, as well as Haitians who had moved to the region years ago.
Arrangements on migration management have already been struck with Costa Rica and Panama -- two countries that migrants pass through when heading to the U.S. southern border.
In the interim, though, a range of nationalities continue to journey to the US southern border. Some of those pose a challenge to the Biden administration because they can't easily be expelled under Title 42 or deported -- at times, fueling more migrants from those regions.
Cubans, for example, are more difficult to expel given poor U.S.-Cuba relations. Between last October and April, border authorities stopped nearly 114,000 Cubans along the U.S.-Mexico border, far outpacing recent years, CBP data shows.
"What U.S. enforcement policy tends to do over the long term is shape who comes, rather than how many people come," said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. "Title 42 matters on shaping who comes, but it may not be the biggest factor in how many people come."
Still, Republicans and vulnerable Democrats urged the Biden administration to keep Title 42 in effect, arguing it was a necessary tool until a comprehensive plan to manage the border was in place.
Friday's ruling, which found the administration should've gone through the months-long rulemaking process before terminating the authority, means Title 42 will likely stay in place for months to come.
"We'll continue seeing the bottle neck on the Mexican side of the border and it really doesn't resolve much," Tucson, Arizona, Mayor Regina Romero told CNN, when asked about Friday's ruling. "I've said over and over again that Title 42 is not an immigration tool. It is a public health order."
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TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Sunday, October 16, 2022
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
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lower 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
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cloudy. Cooler with lows around 50. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
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10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ195-172100-
Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early this morning, then a slight chance of showers
this afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ214-172100-
Chambers-
Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph,
increasing to north 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows around 40. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ210-172100-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North
winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid
50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows around 40. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ227-172100-
Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the mid 70s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid
50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ238-172100-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers early this morning, then a slight chance of
showers this afternoon. Cooler with highs in the upper 70s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ198-172100-
Grimes-
Including the city of Navasota
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early this morning. Much cooler with highs in the
lower 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cooler with lows around 50. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ213-172100-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers early this morning, then a slight chance of showers
this afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the mid 70s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid
50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ163-172100-
Houston-
Including the city of Crockett
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early, then a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms this morning. Cooler with highs in the
mid 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ235-172100-
Inland Jackson-
Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Cooler with highs in the upper 70s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to around 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ200-172100-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers early. A slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely. Much cooler with highs in the
lower 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ176-172100-
Madison-
Including the city of Madisonville
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early, then a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms this morning. Much cooler with highs in
the lower 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ236-172100-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Cooler with highs in the upper 70s.
North winds around 5 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Much cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ199-172100-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers early. A slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely. Much cooler with highs in the
lower 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 50s. North
winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ179-172100-
Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early this morning. Much cooler with highs in the
mid 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ178-172100-
San Jacinto-
Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early, then showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms this morning. Much cooler with highs in the mid
70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Much cooler. Less humid with lows around 50. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ164-172100-
Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early, then a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms this morning. Much cooler with highs in
the mid 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ177-172100-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early this morning. Much cooler with highs in the
mid 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the upper 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ212-172100-
Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers early this morning, then a slight chance of showers
this afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in
the lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ197-172100-
Washington-
Including the city of Brenham
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers early this morning, then a slight chance of showers
this afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ226-172100-
Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the mid 70s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in
the mid 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ300-172100-
Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms early this morning, then a slight chance of showers
this afternoon. Much cooler with highs in the mid 70s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the mid 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Much cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ313-172100-
Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers early this morning, then a slight chance of showers
this afternoon. Cooler with highs in the mid 70s. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s.
North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ338-172100-
Coastal Galveston-
Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers early this morning, then a slight chance of
showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 60s. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ337-172100-
Coastal Brazoria-
Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance
of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around
5 mph, increasing to northeast 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ336-172100-
Coastal Matagorda-
Including the city of Palacios
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Much cooler. Less humid with lows in
the upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ335-172100-
Coastal Jackson-
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Cooler with highs in the upper 70s.
North winds around 5 mph, increasing to northeast 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Less humid with lows in the
upper 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ436-172100-
Matagorda Islands-
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Breezy, cooler. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 60s. North
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Breezy, cooler with lows in the lower 50s. North winds 15 to
25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the lower
70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid
70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 70s.
$$
TXZ437-172100-
Brazoria Islands-
Including the city of Surfside Beach
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler. Less humid with lows
in the lower 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy, cooler with highs in the
upper 60s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s. North winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ438-172100-
Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers early this morning, then a slight chance of
showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, increasing to north 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy, cooler. Less humid with lows
in the lower 60s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs around 70. North winds
20 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds
around 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ439-172100-
Bolivar Peninsula-
312 AM CDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Breezy, cooler. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 60s. North
winds 20 to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs around 80.
$$
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MILWAUKEE, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating Luther Burbank (NASDAQ: LBC) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Washington Federal.
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Ademi LLP alleges Luther Burbank's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet Luther Burbank holders will receive only 0.3353 shares of Washington Federal common stock for each share of Luther Burbank common stock they own. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for Luther Burbank by imposing a significant penalty if Luther Burbank accepts a superior bid. Luther Burbank insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of Luther Burbank's board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for Luther Burbank.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gusty winds, low humidity and drying vegetation will bring fire danger to a large swath of the Northern California interior this week, forecasters said Wednesday.
A fire weather watch will be in effect from Thursday morning through Friday evening, the National Weather Service's Sacramento office said.
Forecasters said gusty north and east winds will be caused by a weather system passing to the east. The winds will begin increasing Thursday morning and peak from Thursday night into Friday afternoon.
The strongest winds were forecast for the west side of the Sacramento Valley and the coastal range foothills.
California has already experienced damaging wildfires this year, including a 200-acre (81-hectare) blaze that destroyed 20 homes and damaged 11 others in Laguna Niguel last week. It was declared fully contained on Tuesday.
In Los Angeles, a fire that erupted on brushy slopes below Griffith Observatory was stopped after scorching 6 acres (2.4 hectares) Tuesday afternoon.
“California continues to experience longer wildfire seasons as a direct result of climate change,” Cal Fire's 2022 outlook said, citing dryness that extended from January into spring.
“These continued dry conditions with above normal temperatures through spring will leave fuel moisture levels lower than normal increasing the potential for wildland fire activity,” it said. | 2022-05-18T16:01:43+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Winds-dryness-raise-fire-concerns-in-Northern-17181321.php |
EUDORA, Kan. (WDAF) — A fire earlier this week at a historic church in Douglas County is being investigated as arson.
The Eudora Fire Department responded to the structure fire at 7th Street and Church Street just after 12:30 p.m. Sunday, May 29.
When crews arrived they found fire coming out of the front windows of the structure that was formerly used as a church.
No injuries were reported from the incident.
The Kansas Fire Marshal’s Office said the fire was determined incendiary and any further information would be released by the Eudora Police Department.
According to the Eudora Area Historical Society, the building that was once Eudora United Methodist Church is one of the oldest and most historical buildings in the city.
The building has been in private ownership since the church moved to its current location on North 1300 Road, according to the historical society. It first opened in May 1922. | 2022-06-03T21:10:13+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/arson-suspected-after-fire-heavily-damages-historic-eudora-structure/ |
PLYMOUTH, Wis., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sargento Foods is pleased to announce new leadership roles for Chris Regennitter and Joy Judski. Chris has assumed the role of Senior Vice President of Sales, Consumer Products Division (CPD), and Joy has taken on the position of Vice President of Sales.
Chris Regennitter – Senior VP Sales, Consumer Products Division
Chris Regennitter is Senior Vice President of Sales for the Consumer Products Division. In this role, Chris leads the sales organization, inclusive of category management, retail execution, and sales planning, with a primary goal of driving long-term stakeholder value for the Sargento Family. Chris brings over 20 years of experience in sales and business leadership to his new position.
Chris first joined the Sargento Family in 2019 and has since added tremendous value across the CPD model, key customer relationships, and the sales team. In his most recent role as the Vice President of Sales, Chris led sales across the retail grocery channel at Sargento. He has been successful in growing the business, driving innovation, and building relationships with key customers.
Prior to Sargento, Chris held leadership roles at Kraft Heinz, Inc., and PepsiCo / Frito-Lay. His execution of aggressive transformation plans over the course of his career has yielded outstanding results across each business he has touched.
Before entering the private sector, Chris served six years in the U.S. Army, where he held the ranks of Captain and Lieutenant and served in a variety of junior officer leadership positions. He credits his experience as a combat leader as the foundation for the high-integrity, servant leadership-based model he uses to motivate his team and deliver results.
Chris earned his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Joy Judski - VP Sales, Consumer Products Division
Joy Judski is Vice President of Sales in the Consumer Products Division. In this role, Joy leads the geographic retail sales force across the United States and customer partnerships for the Club Channel, C-Store, Drug, and International Businesses. Her focus is to increase brand penetration within these channels while maintaining category leadership in grocery. Joy also leads the Omni Channel sales team which manages the strategic planning and execution of retailer media and retailer search.
Since joining the Sargento Family in 2013, Joy has made many contributions to the Consumer Products Division, specifically in her most recent role as the Senior Director of Sales. Her thoughtful joint business planning and team development skills have deepened Sargento's relationships with strategic customers, leading to significant topline growth.
Joy offers over 20 years of experience in leadership, sales, and trade strategy. Prior to joining Sargento, Joy served as the Director of Trade Marketing and Category Management at Lactalis, where she led strategic and organizational development of the sales team. Her approach and belief in life-long learning cultivated a department committed to the development of category management resources.
Joy earned both her MBA and her Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Canisius College.
About Sargento Foods Inc.
With over 2,000 employees and net sales of $1.5 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 65 years. Founded in 1953 in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Sargento is proud to be the company that successfully introduced America to pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses and cheese blends. Today, Sargento Foods is still based in Wisconsin, where they manufacture and market amazing shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Company leadership lives to serve local communities and employees, whom they refer to as the Sargento Family. www.sargento.com
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(The Hill) – Celebrated author Salman Rushdie, who had death threats issued against him in the 1980s, was attacked on stage Friday at an event in New York.
Photos circulating after the incident showed Rushdie being treated on stage after he was reportedly stabbed in the neck, moments before he was scheduled to give a lecture on “redefining the American home” in the 21st Century.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) confirmed Friday afternoon that Rushdie is still alive. Though no other details are known about his condition. It is also unclear what motivations prompted his attacker.
However, Rushdie, a British-American national born in Mumbai, India, became a controversial figure for his written work because of its descriptions Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, garnering backlash from the former Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
But how did Rushdie become a controversial figure? And how did he draw the ire of one of the most prominent Islamic figures in the Middle East?
Rushdie and ‘The Satanic Verses’
“The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie’s fourth novel, caused immediate controversy around the world and among the Muslim community upon its publication in 1988, as many Muslims considered it blasphemous.
There were calls for its immediate ban and the book was burned in multiple demonstrations in the U.K., Pakistan and elsewhere. The book is still banned in a number of countries around the world including Egypt, U.A.E and India.
On February 14, 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. According to History.com, a fatwa can only be repealed by that same scholar, and Ruhollah Khomeini died in the same year he issued the ruling.
Rushdie wrote about the controversy surrounding his novel in an essay for The New York Review in 1989 and said: “One may not discuss Muhammad as if he were human, with human virtues and weaknesses. One may not discuss the growth of Islam as a historical phenomenon, as an ideology born out of its time. These are the taboos against which ‘The Satanic Verses’ has transgressed.”
What is a fatwa?
A fatwa is issued by a religious scholar and is a legal pronouncement handed out by an Islamic religious leader. A fatwa is, in essence, a ruling under Islamic law, and in rare cases like in Rushdie’s, a fatwa may call for death.
Gordon D. Newby, author of “A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam,” told CNN that getting a fatwa “would be like going to someone who was a combined lawyer-priest and getting an opinion.”
He added that a fatwa is an opinion and that different scholars from different schools of Islamic law might rule differently on the same issue or question.
Attacks on translators and publishers of ‘The Satanic Verses’
Hitoshi Igarashi, a Japanese scholar and translator of Rushdie’s novel was stabbed to death in 1991.
The Italian translator of the novel, Ettore Capriolo, was injured in a stabbing in Milan in 1991. The Norwegian publisher of the book, William Nygaard, survived the assassination attempt when he was shot three times in Oslo in 1993.
Lived in hiding for 10 years
Rushdie, who was living in the U.K. at the time the fatwa was issued, went into hiding for 10 years under an alias. The author was also given 24-hour police protection by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government.
Rushdie wrote about his experience in hiding in his 2012 memoir “Joseph Anton,” which was his alias for a decade.
Rushdie told NPR that the alias was necessary so that he could rent property, because doing so in his own name would be dangerous.
“And I was asked to make it not an Indian name. And so, deprived of one nationality, I retreated into literature — which is, you could say, my other country — and chose this name from the first names of Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov equals Joseph Anton,” he added.
Almost a decade after the fatwa was first issued, the Iranian government issued a statement saying it would neither “support nor hinder” Rushdie’s assassination. However, some Iranian groups and others have continued to push for his assassination.
Continued death threats
Rushdie has continued to receive threats over his novel, and has been forced to pull out of numerous literary festivals and appearances due to personal safety concerns. In 2012, for instance, he withdrew from India’s biggest literary festival in Jaipur after saying that he feared for his life, the BBC reported.
Move to the US and other works
Rushdie moved to the U.S. in the 2000s and told the Village Voice that Manhattan reminded him of the city where he was born.
“Even the shape of Manhattan island is pretty much the same shape and size as what used to be called Bombay and what is now called South Bombay. The old downtown area,” he said.
Prior to the publication of “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie had earned a name for himself in the literary world with his second novel “Midnight’s Children,” winning the 1981 Booker Prize for his work. The novel was adapted into a film in 2012.
He’s also written nearly a dozen other novels, as well as children’s books and other works. | 2022-08-14T19:49:16+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/what-you-need-to-know-about-salman-rushdie-and-the-fatwa-against-him/ |
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Five of six Kentucky football players cleared by a grand jury last year on burglary charges have sued a Lexington police officer who directed the investigation of a March 2021 incident at an off-campus private party.
Reuben Adams, Jutahn McClain, Vito Tisdale, Joel Williams and Andru Phillips allege in lawsuits that officer Cory Vinlove knew probable cause did not exist to charge them and “embarked on a journey” to frame them for a crime they didn’t commit. The suits filed in U.S. District Court also name officer Donnell Gordon, Police Chief Lawrence Weathers and the Lexington-Fayette County Urban Government as defendants.
Only Tisdale, who is injured, McClain and Phillips remain with the No. 8 Wildcats.
Attorney Elliot Slosar of Chicago-based civil rights firm Loevy & Loevy said in a statement that the lawsuit is “another tragic example of the damage caused by corrupt policing in America.”
“As the lawsuits demonstrate, these five young Black men were targeted by a white officer with an axe to grind and determined to make a name for himself,” added Slosar, one of four attorneys listed on the players' complaints.
The players, including Earnest Sanders IV, were charged in August 2021 with first-degree burglary. Tisdale also faced a charge of first-degree wanton endangerment for allegedly pointing a gun at one of the victims.
A grand jury in Fayette County declined to indict on all charges last September and the players returned after being suspended from team activities while their cases were pending.
The players seek unspecified compensatory and punitive damages along with attorneys’ fees. A message left Wednesday night with Lexington police was not immediately returned.
The lawsuits state that Vinlove sought “to further his own career” and manufactured false charges before Southeastern Conference media day to maximize embarrassment to the University of Kentucky and its players.
“Make no mistake, defendants’ pursuit of (individual players) and others was never about a search for the truth,” the lawsuits state, adding that evidence was “false, flimsy and fabricated.”
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) –
Tuesday morning Syracuse head football coach Dino Babers addressed the media before SU’s first preseason practice.
During the nearly 15 minute press conference, Babers stated that it is quarterback Garrett Shrader’s team now. He also mentioned that redshirt freshman quarterback Justin Lamson will not play this year due to an injury sustained during the offseason.
For Babers the key to this season will be the play of his offensive and defensive lines. He’s excited for the growth that Sean Tucker has made, after his recording-setting season in 2021.
Babers went on to add: “The only thing that matters is what you do from this moment forward.”
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JOHANNESBURG – The president of South Africa is fighting for his political future amid an unfolding scandal that has tainted his reputation as an anti-apartheid icon once widely admired for tackling the problems of Africa’s most developed economy.
Cyril Ramaphosa, 70, says he's innocent of charges that he hid at least $580,000 in a sofa at his game ranch. He's accused of not registering the money with authorities, and when it was stolen not reporting the theft to police, in order to avoid questions about how he got the U.S. dollars.
South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, is to vote in a conference starting Friday about whether Ramaphosa should step down as the party's leader. South Africa’s past two presidents have had to resign after losing the party leadership at the ANC conference.
Ramaphosa handily survived an impeachment vote in parliament this week, strengthening his hand in the upcoming party conference vote.
Ramaphosa is also being investigated on possible charges of illegally holding foreign currency.
“From Ramaphoria to Ramafailure,” read a headline this week on the News24 website that described how widespread admiration over Ramaphosa’s leadership of this nation of 60 million has become dismay.
Once respected for his anti-apartheid activism and his bond with Nelson Mandela, Ramaphosa came from a trade union background to become a board member and shareholder in several of South Africa's largest corporations. Ranked as one of South Africa's wealthiest men, he appeared well-equipped to tackle the corruption that has reached into virtually every corner of South African life including dealings with police and accessing government services.
One of Ramaphosa's pet projects is his Phala Phala ranch in Limpopo province, where he raises prize Ankole cattle and African antelopes. The allegations against him stem from a report that undeclared foreign cash was hidden in a couch at his house on the ranch. When that money was stolen in 2020, Ramaphosa did not report the theft to police, apparently to avoid questions about where the money came from and why it had not been declared to officials.
Ramaphosa maintains that his ranch got the money from the sale of some buffalo to a Sudanese businessman and the ranch manager did not know what to do with the cash.
Ramaphosa's supporters argue that the allegations against him — that he broke South African regulations prohibiting citizens from holding foreign cash without declaring it to financial authorities — are minor compared with the billions of dollars that, critics say, were stolen from the state by associates of former President Jacob Zuma who got fraudulent contracts with state-owned corporations.
“The disappointment in Ramaphosa is profound,” said William Gumede, head of the Democracy Works think tank. “But South Africa’s expectations have dropped so low that Ramaphosa is still seen as better than other alternatives. I’m struck by how this is the view from the boardrooms of major corporations to people in rural villages.”
Parliament voted 214 to 148 against starting impeachment proceedings on Tuesday, with Ramaphosa getting support from almost all lawmakers in the ruling African National Congress party, which holds a majority of seats.
That ANC support bodes well for Ramaphosa being re-elected the party's leader. He must win the party leadership in order to stand for re-election to a second term as South Africa’s president in 2024.
Nelson Mandela is the only post-apartheid South African president to retire voluntarily, after serving one term from 1994 to 1999. Thabo Mbeki, Mandela’s successor, was forced to resign in 2008 after falling out with a faction linked to his then-deputy, Zuma.
Then came the Zuma years. A judge heading an extensive judicial investigation into corruption said those years were characterized by rampant looting of state coffers. Zuma was forced to resign when the corruption allegations against him became overwhelming.
When Ramaphosa took over from Zuma in 2018, he promised to clean up the mess and supported the judicial inquiry. He won respect for capably steering the country through the COVID-19 pandemic. But the scandal over the dollars stashed in a sofa at his ranch has forced him to concentrate on just staying in power.
“The majority of the ANC will no doubt close ranks around Ramaphosa and he will continue as the party's leader and as the country's president," Gumede said. "But to survive he has had to get the support of many dodgy characters. They will demand a quid pro quo and he will no longer be able to effectively battle corruption. He will stay in power but he will have less power to do anything. This will make him a lame duck.”
Ramaphosa's political struggles come as South Africa is confronted by a daunting array of problems, including unemployment of 35%, inflation of 7.4% and national power outages lasting more than seven hours a day.
“Across South Africa, there is a sense of hopelessness. People don't have political leaders or political parties they trust," Gumede said. "It's not a good outlook for South Africa. The only glimmer of hope is that elections in 2024 will bring a better set of leaders.”
Ordinary South Africans express a weary cynicism over Ramaphosa.
Lerato Makgatho, 38, who lives in Johannesburg's Kempton Park area, said the revelations about the cash at Phala Phala shocked her.
“He has always been known to be a billionaire, so to hear about dollars of cash in a couch at his farm does not fit with that picture," she said. "This one was quite a shock to me.”
Thabiso Kome, 35, a community activist in Tembisa township, east of Johannesburg, said he did not expect Ramaphosa to solve the scourge of corruption because it is so widespread in the ruling party.
“Some of us have seen corruption at a local level, at local clinics and hospitals. That kind of corruption cannot be solved by one person," said Kome. "It is normal to hear about corruption and controversy when it comes to the ANC. Ramaphosa, he is part of it.”
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Mogomotsi Magome in Johannesburg and Farai Mutsaka in Harare, Zimbabwe, contributed. | 2022-12-15T10:18:53+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/world/2022/12/15/south-africa-leader-fights-for-political-future-over-scandal/ |
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the outspoken leader of Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox Christian Church whose forays into the country’s complex politics and finances fired up supporters and detractors alike, died Monday. He was 81.
Chrysostomos had suffered from intestinal and liver cancer for the past four years and had spent his final days at the church’s headquarters in the capital.
A medical bulletin said the archbishop “passed peacefully after facing the trial of his ailment with courage, patience and Christian endurance” early Monday.
“All those were close to him during the difficult hours of his ailment experienced his humility, kindness and deep faith as well as his concern for his flock,” the bulletin said. It added that the archbishop left behind a legacy marked by his “vision, daring, respect for and restoration of the church’s historic tradition as well as innovative changes that always aimed for the unity of the church.”
The Holy Synod — the church’s highest decision-making body — decided after convening Monday that the archbishop’s body will lie in state at St. Barnabas Cathedral at the church’s headquarters in Nicosia beginning Thursday until his funeral on Saturday.
The funeral service will be presided over by the leader of the world’s Orthodox Christian faithful, Patriarch Bartholomew, while the archbishop will be buried in a crypt beneath the cathedral, according to his wishes. Church bells across the country will ring in mourning throughout the funeral, while flags at all churches will be lowered to half-staff for the next five days.
The Cyprus government declared a five-day period of mourning during which all public events will be cancelled and flags on public buildings will be lowered to half-staff. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will offer the eulogy at the funeral.
Meanwhile, tributes poured in for the archbishop. Anastasiades hailed Chrysostomos’ “massive body of reforms for Orthodoxy and the church as well as the well-being of our people.” Even staunch detractors from the communist-rooted AKEL party said the archbishop “clearly left his imprint on matters of church and society.”
Tall and imposing with a white beard in accordance with Orthodox tradition, Chrysostomos seldom held back from speaking his mind on issues ranging from politics to the country’s finances, rallying supporters but causing consternation among some politicians and other critics who scolded him for not sticking to his religious duties.
Prior to the island nation’s multibillion-euro financial rescue by international creditors in March 2013, Chrysostomos declared he would have preferred that the cash-strapped country abandon the euro as its currency rather than accept a bailout deal that he claimed would set its economy back decades.
After the deal was signed, forcing large depositors in the country’s two biggest banks to take a hit on their savings, an indignant Chrysostomos said: “This isn’t the Europe that we believed in when we joined.”
The archbishop also did not refrain from making his comments personal. He once told communist-rooted former President Dimitris Christofias to engage in self-reflection after having been handed a “prosperous, happy nation and leaving it with some people going hungry.”
The cleric railed against politicians and bankers, who he called “thieves” who ran for cover while “poor people paid the piper” for their ruinous decisions. He also warned that he wouldn’t hesitate to call on the people to rise up in order to prevent technocrats from “wreaking havoc” on the country’s banking sector.
His comments about the world of finance prompted some critics to say he was behaving more like a businessman and banker than a spiritual leader.
Although Chrysostomos had in the past openly courted Russian investors and the Kremlin’s political support, relations with the Russian Orthodox Church frayed when he followed in 2020 the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s decision to recognize the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s independence.
Two months after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine this year, the archbishop “unreservedly” condemned Moscow’s action, saying there’s “no justification” for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “destroy a country, to raze it to kill,” questioning whether the Russian leader “is in his right mind.” He told the state broadcaster that the “egotism, if not the stupidity” of the Russian leadership “knows no bounds.”
Chrysostomos also questioned Putin’s embrace of Orthodox Christianity, including the sincerity of his travels to the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was baptized.
He visited war-torn Syria in 2016 to offer support to that country’s Orthodox faithful. During the coronavirus pandemic, he threw his full support behind scientists’ recommendations for vaccinations and restrictions aimed at preventing the virus’ spread.
His ascension to the throne in 2006, after his predecessor and namesake could no longer carry out his duties because of poor health, reflected his political adroitness.
Church leaders in Cyprus are elected by lay voters in combination with a college of clerics, a tradition that goes back centuries. Hardly the people’s favorite and trailing the two frontrunners in the lay vote, Chrysostomos outmaneuvered his rivals by clinching majority support within the college to win.
Chrysostomos was always open about his right-wing politics and was not afraid to use his influence to steer the Holy Synod to bend to his will.
Chrysostomos had spoken openly about his distrust of Turkey’s intentions in Cyprus. In 2018, he said he never believed that a peace deal to reunify the ethnically divided island nation was possible because Turkey wanted to establish a Turkish state here.
Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece. Turkish Cypriots declared an independent state in the north of the Mediterranean island, recognized only by Turkey, which maintains 35,000 troops there.
Chrysostomos campaigned in 2004 for the church to take a stand against what was believed to be an unfair U.N.-drafted peace plan that the vast majority of Greek Cypriots subsequently voted down in a referendum.
Addressing Pope Benedict XVI during the pontiff’s 2010 visit to the island, Chrysostomos accused Turkey of trying to carry out “its obscure plans, which include the annexation of the land now under military occupation and then a conquest of the whole of Cyprus.”
Chrysostomos also said Turks “ruthlessly sacked” Christian artworks, claiming they were seeking to make Greek and Christian culture disappear from northern Cyprus. The archbishop also appealed to Pope Francis during the pontiff’s 2021 visit to Cyprus for help to ensure the protection of sacred Christian monuments.
Despite his politics, the archbishop worked closely with the Muslim mufti, the religious leader of the Turkish Cypriots, as well as other Christian leaders to rebuild religious sites to send the message that faith is an anchor rather than a hindrance to peace.
The church’s weighty influence in Cyprus dates back to the Middle Ages, when the island’s Ottoman rulers had recognized it as the sole representative body of Greek Orthodox Christians. That continued right up to 1960, when Cyprus gained independence from British colonial rule with the election of then-Archbishop Makarios as the country’s first president.
Born on April 10, 1941, Chrysostomos’ religious calling came early when he joined Cyprus’ famous monastery of Saint Neophytos as a lay-brother right after completing primary school. He steadily rose through the church’s ranks until 1978, when he was enthroned bishop of his native prefecture of Paphos.
As archbishop, Chrysostomos shored up church finances and enacted a string of reforms, including restoring the church’s decision-making independence by bolstering the Holy Synod with the ordination of new bishops and the drafting of a new constitution.
Chrysostomos also opened a church office at the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels and was a strong supporter of closer relations between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.
“I want to do real work, not just for show. … I want to leave something behind for this country, that’s what matters,” Chrysostomos told state broadcaster CyBC earlier this year. | 2022-11-07T22:31:27+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-cyprus-greek-orthodox-archbishop-chrysostomos-ii-dies-at-81/ |
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iRely, LLC, an innovative partner providing enterprise software for the energy and soft commodities industries, announces Childers Oil has selected iRely as their partner of choice for its Wholesale and ERP software solution.
Childers Oil Company is a family operated business based out of Whitesburg, Kentucky. Founded in 1966, the company's roots are in providing bulk petroleum services to retail and industrial customers. Since their inception, they have become a major player in the Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee markets, with a mission to provide innovative, first-class products and services to customers in the Southern Appalachian Region.
During their Business Process Review (BPR), Childers Oil and iRely identified improvement opportunities and the right set of software modules for Childers' wholesale distribution business, co-creating a software and implementation program to fit their needs. Childers Oil was particularly interested in iRely's intuitive user interface, Power BI integration, and the cost savings tied to iRely's Intelligent Document Processing program.
"iRely's reporting capabilities and Power BI integration will help us see data that is relevant to our industry and company. This is really what gets our team excited," shared Lucas Trent, IT director at Childers Oil. "Knowing that iRely has a long-term ownership agreement was very important to us. We wanted a stable product from a stable, long-lasting company."
"We are very excited to welcome Childers to our customer community," shared Justin Houck, iRely Director of Sales. "Using our cloud-based software can provide enormous benefits to Childers as they automate their accounting and are able to quickly consolidate financials and generate detailed reports on their business."
Childers Oil is one of several organizations recently added to the growing iRely customer base.
iRely's commitment to customer success has made the company a global leader in digital transformation, providing best-in-class software for commodity management, energy distribution, retail, grain operations, and agribusinesses. iRely has leveraged its deep industry experience to build lasting partnerships, delivering end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) and commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions to their global customer base.
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The Vice President's visit highlights the national nonprofit's impact serving 1 million children annually across the United States.
LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Los Angeles where she toured the Baby2Baby headquarters and warehouse, also meeting with mothers to discuss maternal healthcare and support for families. The visit included the announcement of a new Baby2Baby pilot program alongside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to distribute Newborn and Maternal Supply Kits made up of essential goods and critical maternal health items.
Baby2Baby is a non-profit organization that provides children living in poverty with diapers, formula, clothing, and the basic necessities that every child deserves, serving more than one million children across all 50 states. One in three families in this country struggle to provide diapers to their children. Since 2020 Baby2Baby has seen a 500% increase in diaper requests, with requests for 1.3 billion diapers this year alone.
“Every mother or mother-to-be should have access to the support they need for their family to be healthy,” said Vice President Kamala Harris. “Through this partnership, our Administration continues to prioritize the maternal health of women across America.”
During the tour, Baby2Baby Co-CEOs Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof walked Vice President Harris through the facility to view their mass diaper distribution system, the range of critical items they distribute including formula, car seats, cribs, clothing, backpacks and school supplies and their disaster relief program. HHS Assistant Secretary for Children and Families January Contreras joined them to showcase the Newborn and Maternal Supply Kits.
"At Baby2Baby, we have distributed more than 300 million diapers and basic essentials over the past 12 years, and yet this is just a fraction of the need that exists," said Baby2Baby Co-CEOs, Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof. "The Vice President's visit offered us an important opportunity to share the needs of mothers and children around the country, and continue to discuss shared solutions."
"The disparities in maternal and neonatal health care in this country are staggering – and unacceptable. The pilot program with Baby2Baby provides much needed supplies to mothers and their newborns," said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. "The Biden-Harris Administration will continue to use every lever available to address the disparities in our health care system and provide whole-person care to pregnant people and their families. This is another strong example of government working in partnership with leaders in the community to solve problems for the American people."
Baby2Baby and HHS will first distribute 3,000 of the Newborn and Maternal Supply Kits across Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico – three states experiencing deep levels of family poverty – via hospitals and community-based partner organizations. The kits consist of more than 20 items including diapers and wipes, clothing, hygiene items, blankets and thermometers as well as items to support new mothers, including postpartum pads, lotion, cold packs, breastfeeding supplies and carriers.
"The partnership between Baby2Baby and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services comes at a moment where the demand for essential goods for infants and families continues to rise," Baby2Baby Co-CEOs, Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof further shared. "We want to ensure that new moms have everything they need to get their babies' lives started off on the right track. When we can provide these critical items, not only can mothers pay their rent and put food on the table, but it helps their mental health by alleviating the stress of meeting their children's most basic needs."
Following the pilot program implementation, the goal is to expand this effort, to significantly increase the number of American families receiving these Newborn and Maternal Supply Kits.
About Baby2Baby: Baby2Baby is a $70 million national non-profit organization that provides children living in poverty with diapers, formula, clothing, and the basic necessities that every child deserves, serving more than one million children across all 50 states. Led by Co-CEOs Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein, the organization has distributed over 300 million items over the past 12 years – more than any organization of its kind – to children across hospital networks, underserved school districts, and federal agencies addressing poverty, disaster response, and other areas of need. The organization's success has been propelled forward by its industry-leading model that is redefining what it means to operate a non-profit with a seamless integration of impact, innovation, and influence, which earned them recognition as the #1 non-profit on Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies List. To learn more about Baby2Baby, please visit www.baby2baby.org and follow them on Instagram at @baby2baby.
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WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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FREEZE WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
227 AM PDT Wed Apr 12 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 10 AM PDT
THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 29 will result in frost
formation.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Coast Range of Northwest Oregon, Central
Coast Range of Western Oregon, Northern Oregon Cascade
Foothills and Cascade Foothills in Lane County. In Washington,
South Washington Cascade Foothills.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 10 AM PDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Frost could kill sensitive outdoor vegetation if
left uncovered.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Temperatures appear to briefly fall below
freezing close to sunrise, however, they will stay below 35
degrees for several hours. Areas shaded from early morning sun
will be slower to warm up.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 32 will result in frost
* WHERE...In Oregon, Greater Portland Metro Area. In Washington,
Greater Vancouver Area.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The main threat is for outlying locations
away from city centers. Temperatures appear to briefly reach
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Attorney behind false cartel bribery claims is in legal trouble. And there's much more to his story
A lawyer whose legal attacks against his former wives formed the foundation of baseless "bribery" allegations against Gov. Katie Hobbs and other politicians faces sentencing next month for violating court orders related to his divorce.
Licensed to practice in Arizona and California, John Thaler has defied the law for two years, suing and filing false liens against perceived enemies and avoiding capture on warrants for ignoring court orders. Still, he maintains the backing of some on the far-right in Arizona.
His fanciful allegations, which were aired by his girlfriend at a public hearing in February, targeted specific elected officials, judges, Mesa's City Council and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as bribe-takers in an elaborate Mexican drug cartel scheme overseen by two women. Not just any two women — it was later revealed they were his ex-wife and former mother-in-law.
And it wasn't the first ex-wife he targeted with such allegations.
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers were outraged over the testimony, which was supposed to focus on election security. Blame fell on former Republican Rep. Liz Harris of Chandler, who had invited Thaler's girlfriend to speak at the hearing.
In April, lawmakers expelled Harris from the Legislature for lying about and trying to cover up what she knew of the testimony beforehand. The FBI and Maricopa County Sheriff's Office later determined the underlying information behind Thaler's claims, which stem from Thaler's divorce and child-custody proceedings, were not worthy of an investigation.
None of Thaler's allegations have resulted in criminal charges, but Thaler himself has fought to stay out of jail.
Last month, he lost his appeal in Maricopa County Superior Court on 13 convictions from 2021 of violating orders of protection. A court order allowed him to contact his ex-wife, Brittany Thaler, or his mother-in-law, only to schedule care for their son, but he violated that "repeatedly," records show. For instance, one of Brittany Thaler's lawyers reported in one court motion that John Thaler sent about 600 pages of text messages to his mother-in-law within a two-month period.
He faces up to six months in jail at a sentencing hearing scheduled for Aug. 7. He's failed to appear in numerous court hearings in Mesa and has seven active warrants for his arrest that together would require him to post a cash bond of over $200,000 to get out of jail.
Det. Brandi George of the Mesa Police Department said Thaler was last apprehended in Phoenix in December 2021 on 21 active warrants. Police noted he had mental health issues and he was later released from jail, she said.
George confirmed Thaler's seven active warrants from Mesa and another from Gilbert that also had what George described as an unusually high bond amount of $150,000. Police believe he's living in California or Las Vegas and while he "obviously needs to be arrested," the department doesn't typically send officers to other states to track down someone for non-violent misdemeanors, she said.
Thaler, 59, also has a July 27 trial date scheduled in Maricopa County Superior Court for a felony charge of unlawful flight from law enforcement. In May of 2021, according to Tempe police, Thaler fled from police in his car as they attempted to apprehend him. A police spokesman said officers terminated the chase to avoid a public safety risk and later filed the charge against Thaler.
Thaler, a prolific Twitter user who champions right-wing causes, would not answer questions for this article but told The Arizona Republic he stands behind his claims.
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Brittany Thaler, who was granted sole custody of the couple's child, declined to comment on the case before the sentencing. She outlined some of her grievances with her ex-husband in a 2020 statement to the court, including that John Thaler verbally and physically abused her.
In more than one email, according to Brittany Thaler's statement, her ex-husband said he "will do everything in his power to frustrate and increase the cost of litigation" in the divorce case.
Attorney calls Thaler a 'lawn sprinkler of blame'
Brittany Thaler's former lawyer, Greg Davis, noted that John Thaler refuses to comply with a longstanding court order to undergo a mental-health evaluation.
"We were dealing with a profoundly disordered person," Davis said about his experience working with John Thaler in the divorce case. "He said Brittany is a member of a criminal enterprise that has forged deeds and other recorded documents and liens and ... is an associate of a drug cartel. All you have to do is meet Brittany once to know that that's delusional."
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Thaler is a "lawn sprinkler of blame" who has made accusations about essentially everyone associated with his court cases, Davis said.
One of Davis' first actions in the case was to ask the court for permission to not respond to anything from John Thaler unless a court ordered him to. The request was granted.
"Otherwise, it would have cost Brittany tens of thousands of dollars for me to read these court motions with attachments that made no sense and came from another planet," Davis said.
Seeing Thaler's allegations in the divorce case go public in February only confirmed Davis' opinion of state lawmakers.
"In my experience, intelligence is not a requirement to serve on the state Legislature," he said. "So it doesn't surprise me that it was given a platform there."
After Davis retired in May 2021, he and his wife put their house on the market — and found that Thaler had placed a false lien on the home. When Davis moved to quash the lien, court staff found that Thaler had put similarly bogus liens on the homes of more than a dozen people, including those of court officers and family members of Brittany Thaler.
'I understand your skepticism'
Public records show that Thaler has used imaginative claims for years to abuse the legal system — and two of his ex-wives.
In 2012, Thaler filed an order of protection against his then-wife Dyan Reilly of Sierra Vista, her mother, and two family friends.
The group was involved in "tax evasion, money laundering, racketeering, bank fraud," hacking computers and dealing drugs, Thaler alleged in his petition for the order, which was not granted. Thaler wrote that when he "began to uncover the scheme," his enemies attacked with "various acts of violence" including an attempted vehicle collision, a poisoned drink and an attempt to inject Thaler with a drug while he was sleeping.
After divorcing Reilly, Thaler married Brittany in 2016 and later made the same sort of claims against her. In extensive court motions, John Thaler detailed the alleged crimes of his ex-wife and mother-in-law, various Arizona public officials and every judge, court officer and lawyer involved in his divorce case. In some court paperwork he said the Sinaloa cartel was behind the operation, at other times he said it was Russian mafia.
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As he'd claimed in his previous marriage, John Thaler alleged that exposing his new wife's crimes had made him a target of his enemies. Thaler's girlfriend said in her testimony in February that Thaler would have given the presentation himself but for the "six attempts" to kill him, including a slashed tire meant to cause a crash. Thaler claimed that Brittany Thaler also once tried to poison his iced tea, court records state.
Asked about the similarities in the accusations against his ex-wives, Thaler responded, "I understand your skepticism," but explained only that "the similarity is that their lives were disrupted because of organized crime — but in entirely different ways."
He plans to reveal "extensive documentation" of his claims in an upcoming, self-published book about how "mass corruption" in Arizona fits in with his child-custody dispute. He would not comment on whether the book would publish before his Aug. 7 sentencing, or whether he would show up for that hearing or his July 27 court appearance.
For his appeal of the 13 convictions, Thaler used claims of corruption similar to those he'd made about elected officials. Two judges who were involved briefly with his case, plus Mesa's city prosecutor and assistant city prosecutor, had recorded trust deeds with forged notarizations by his ex-wife and mother-in-law, he alleged, adding that Mesa's government was "riddled with corruption."
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Mikitish, in his June 8 ruling against Thaler, wrote that Thaler's assertions are "not supported by anything in the record."
Thaler unsuccessfully tried to sue his ex-wife Brittany, her lawyers, judges and others in federal and county lawsuits. Arizona U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes, in dismissing one of the cases, wrote that "Mr. Thaler's complaint weaves a delusional and fantastical narrative."
Yet recent online posts by former Rep. Harris and others show that some right-wing election conspiracy theorists still give credence to them.
"The scope of the many frauds and the depth of the corruption began to make sense," conservative writer Dennis Lund said in a June 20 column about the claims for American Thinker. "Further discussions with Thaler served to clarify my thoughts, troubling though they were."
Harris, who shared the column on social media, calling it "great," declined comment for this article.
False claims could have ongoing political fallout
Thaler's claims and the aftermath of the February presentation could affect next year's election in Legislative District 13, which covers Chandler and part of Gilbert and is where Harris served.
After a resignation in June of GOP leaders in the district, election conspiracy promoter Steve Steele — who said recently he still wonders if the Thaler claims are true — is now chair, and Harris is first vice-chair. Neither have expressed interest in running for office in 2024.
Harris remains a popular figure among some Republicans in the district who remain bitter over her ouster.
"We believe they were just looking for a reason to expel her," Steele said of the House members who voted to kick out Harris.
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BANGKOK — Recent executions of four democracy activists in Myanmar have reenergized efforts to get the United States and other countries to impose further sanctions against military leaders who ousted an elected government early last year.
That makes MOGE a key target in the push to cut off funding for the military’s efforts to quash a widespread public backlash against its February 2021 seizure of power.
Myanmar, also called Burma, has been ruled by the military for most of the past 70 years. The army’s takeover interrupted a gradual transition toward democratic civilian government and a more modern, open economy and resulted in a slew of sanctions against the military, which controls many industries, army family members and cronies.
The hangings in late July of four political activists prompted condemnation and stronger calls from U.S. lawmakers and others for Myanmar’s neighbors, especially the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to exert more pressure on the country’s military rulers.
“It is time for them to impose meaningful consequences on the junta in Burma that is literally getting away with murder,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a supporter of ousted Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said in a recent statement. If Myanmar’s neighbors and ASEAN won’t do more, the U.S. should “turn up the heat” on the army and its sources of financial support, he said.
“This should include sanctions on Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise,” McConnell said.
In February, the European Union announced sanctions against MOGE, saying the military’s control means the company is “contributing to its capabilities to carry out activities undermining democracy and the rule of law in Myanmar/Burma.”
Two of the other biggest Myanmar state companies, Myanma Economic Holdings Ltd. and Myanmar Economic Corp., already have been designated for U.S. sanctions.
Advocates of sanctions say they could make a difference if they are well-targeted and enforced. So far, Myanmar’s economy has been insulated somewhat from the penalties imposed by the U.S. and other Western governments after the military takeover. Most of its trade — especially lucrative sales of gems, rare earths and timber — is with nearby countries, especially China, which has been signaling growing support for the military-controlled government. Most big Western energy companies already have pulled out of oil and gas projects in the country.
That leaves only financial levers. Exports of oil and gas to China and Thailand earn about $2 billion a year, according to reports in its state media, and are a key source of the foreign exchange Myanmar needs to pay for imports of all kinds, including weapons used to fight opposition forces who took up arms after the army crushed peaceful protests.
The EU sanctions led the Bank of China to advise operators of the Shwe oil and gas field in northwestern Myanmar that it will not handle payments in euros to MOGE out of concern they might fall afoul of those restrictions, according to activists briefed by two of the companies operating the project, Posco International and Kogas. Two other people familiar with the situation confirmed that euro payments to MOGE were being kept in escrow accounts. The people spoke on condition they not be identified out of concern over risks for themselves, family members and associates.
The billions that other global banks have paid for violating sanctions against other countries are a strong incentive for compliance.
The EU, in announcing its sanctions, said that since MOGE was controlled by and generates revenue for the military, it was “contributing to its capabilities to carry out activities undermining democracy and the rule of law in Myanmar/Burma.”
A 770 kilometer (475 mile) pipeline connects the Shwe field to China’s Yunnan province. It is the only major project whose contracts call for revenue from gas sales to be paid in euros, rather than U.S. dollars.
A spokesman for Posco International, which has a 51% stake in the project, confirmed that those revenues were being paid into an escrow account. Posco is being paid its share as normal, Song Chan, the spokesman, said in an emailed reply to questions. He said he could not comment on the status of payments to the other companies participating in the oil and gas pipeline.
Otherwise, the project was operating as normal, he said, referring further questions to China National United Oil Co., which buys gas from the Shwe project and pays sales revenue. That company, a subsidiary of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did CNPC nor the Bank of China.
Korea Gas Corp., which has an 8.5% stake in the Shwe fields, did not reply to a request for comment.
The fact that the Shwe project has continued to send gas to China suggests that sanctions can be implemented without disrupting livelihoods or supplies of natural gas in Myanmar, said Keel Dietz, a policy adviser at the environmental non-profit Global Witness.
Critics of sanctions have often contended that they might harm employees of companies involved in the projects or worsen power shortages in the country. The Burma Act itself calls for assessing the potential impact of any sanctions against MOGE on people in Myanmar. The president could impose such sanctions if they would hinder abuses by Myanmar’s military after ensuring they would be in the U.S. national interest, with benefits outweighing any harm.
Even though the EU sanctions, imposed in February, have only affected the Shwe project, “it’s clear that EU sanctions had a meaningful impact on the thinking of at least one bank in a way that at the very least has raised costs for the junta in accessing their money,” Dietz said. “All of this was done with zero negative humanitarian impacts in Myanmar and Thailand.”
A lack of impact on gas supplies to Thailand from other projects would alleviate concerns that U.S. sanctions against MOGE might harm relations with Bangkok.
The executions that Myanmar carried out recently have deepened frustrations for its neighbors. Human rights advocates say dozens of democracy activists remain on Myanmar’s death row.
“If more executions are conducted, then things will have to be reconsidered,” said Prak Sokhonn, Cambodia’s foreign minister and ASEAN’s special envoy for Myanmar.
Outside ASEAN, the countries with closest ties and most sway over Myanmar, China and Russia, have signaled support for the military and are unlikely to do much to apply pressure.
The nine other ASEAN members are waiting to see what happens in coming months ahead of an annual summit meeting in November, Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah told reporters in Bangkok last week.
Saifuddin acknowledged that ASEAN countries, which tend to refrain from imposing economic sanctions against other members, are discussing that option as they search for ways to exert leverage on Myanmar’s military leaders.
“We did discuss this measure, but there was no conclusion,” Saifuddin said. | 2022-08-15T09:29:03+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/myanmar-executions-revive-pressure-for-more-sanctions/2022/08/15/a4026a40-1c7b-11ed-9ce6-68253bd31864_story.html |
ZURICH, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amcor plc (NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC) will announce its first quarter results for the three months ended 30 September 2022 after the US market closes on Tuesday 1 November 2022.
A conference call and webcast to discuss the results will be held at 5.30pm US Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday 1 November 2022 / 8.30am Australian Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday 2 November 2022. For those wishing to participate in the call please use the following dial-in numbers:
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- Strong operational performance during the first half of the year. The business continues to perform well boosted by the growth in Core Net Sales (+5.1% year-on-year) from key products of the Medical Dermatology portfolio
- The EU Dermatology portfolio continues to lead the growth of Almirall's business. Ilumetri® maintained an excellent sales momentum driven by new country launches, and Klisyri® and Wynzora® are gaining good traction in Europe
- Total EBITDA reached €107.6MM year-to-date (-21.2%), though the comparison to 2021 is impacted by product divestments in the previous year and the finalization of deferred income from AstraZeneca
- SG&A reached €210.1MM (+9.0%) driven by the support of recent launches and R&D was at €44.9MM, increasing as expected and reaching 10.3% of Core Net Sales
- Almirall and its partner Eli Lilly announced positive data from Phase III 52-week topline results of lebrikizumab (atopic dermatitis). These encouraging results reinforce Almirall's confidence that the product has the potential to be a first-line biologic and may support less frequent dosing
- Based on the solid performance of the business in H1, Almirall is reiterating its 2022 guidance
BARCELONA, Spain, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Almirall, S.A. (ALM), the global biopharmaceutical company based in Barcelona, today announced its H1 2022 financial results.
Summary of results
- Core Net Sales* reached €436.6 MM, a +5.1% year-on-year increase, and Core EBITDA* reached €98.3 MM, a -21.7% year-on-year decrease, tracking in line with guidance due to a strong EU Dermatology performance and positive contribution from growth drivers.
- Core Gross Margin* of 67.7% in line with expectations for the year.
- Total EBITDA was at €107.6 MM, a -21.2% year-on-year decrease, though the comparison to 2021 is impacted by product divestments in the previous year and the finalization of historical deferred income.
- R&D expenses of €44.9 MM increased as expected reaching 10.3% of Core Net Sales. R&D investment will continue to rise in line with Almirall's expectations due to the Phase IIIb studies for lebrikizumab, the Klisyri® large field studies, as well as increased spending on earlier stage assets such as the anti IL1-RAP.
- SG&A (Selling, General and Administrative) expenses were €210.1 MM, 9% higher than last year as Almirall continued to add investment towards the successful execution of recent product launches such as Wynzora®, Klisyri® in the US and EU, and Ilumetri® rollout in key countries.
- Almirall finished the first semester with a very healthy balance sheet with a leverage of 0.9 x Net Debt to EBITDA and an optimal cash position, generating €56 MM of operating cash flow during H1, which gives the company flexibility to continue to explore inorganic growth opportunities.
* Core results excludes AstraZeneca contribution: Deferred Income and Other Income. From 2022 onwards, there is no difference between Core Net Sales and Net Sales as no additional Deferred Income from AstraZeneca is registered, the difference related to Core EBITDA and EBITDA is explained by the other income related to AstraZeneca.
Further information from Almirall's H1 results is available at: https://www.almirall.com/media/newsroom
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(The Hill) — Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said in an interview published on Monday that he plans to retire by the end of Biden’s term in office.
“We’re in a pattern now. If somebody says, ‘You’ll leave when we don’t have Covid anymore,’ then I will be 105,” Fauci told Politico. “I think we’re going to be living with this.”
Fauci said the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where he is the director, had “the best people in the country” to carry out his vision.
And he said the possibility of more attacks coming his way Republicans take control of Congress was not a factor in his decision.
When asked about the possibility of quitting during an interview last year, Fauci said he would “unequivocally” not quit in response to criticisms of him.
“So because there are a lot of people who have ideas about conspiracies and changing minds and flip-flopping, that’s not a reason to step down. Not at all,” he said.
The Brooklyn-born immunologist has served as director of the NIAID since 1984, most notably working on HIV/AIDS research before becoming a leading health authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, earning both praise and derision from the public and lawmakers.
Fauci has advised seven presidents on public health issues. His working relationship with former President Trump was famously fraught during the COVID-19 pandemic, as Fauci often had to counter unfounded claims made by the president.
Fauci told Politico he and Trump developed “an interesting relationship.”
“Two guys from New York, different in their opinions and their ideology, but still, two guys who grew up in the same environments of this city. I think that we are related to each other in that regard,” he said. | 2022-07-18T15:36:19+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/fauci-to-retire-before-the-end-of-bidens-term/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRBP) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 4, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Kiromic you have until October 4, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Kiromic securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the KRBP lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/kiromic-biopharma-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31047&from=4.
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DEAR ABBY: Is it normal for people to ignore relatives who have Alzheimer’s? My father spent more than two years in a veteran’s hospital before his death. During that time, he was visited regularly by his children (including me) and my aunt (his sister). His grandchildren and another aunt visited a few times. Two of my uncles saw him once.
None of his other relatives — nephews, nieces, cousins — ever went to visit him. If they did, they never mentioned it to me, nor did any of the staff in my father’s dementia ward, leaving me 99% certain that no one else came.
There are no conflicts going on in my extended family. Dad got along with everyone and never spoke ill about anyone. So I’m left with the conclusion that either no one cared, or they were for some reason afraid to see someone with Alzheimer’s. Maybe the thinking was that Dad wouldn’t remember the visit, so why bother? None of those alternatives are comforting, and I’m finding it hard to think of most of my relatives the way I used to.
Please let your readers know that even one token visit to an elderly relative with Alzheimer’s is, literally, the least they could do. It may not be remembered by the patient, but it will be remembered by his kids.
— DISAPPOINTED IN MASSACHUSETTS
DEAR DISAPPOINTED: Unfortunately, your situation is not uncommon. Many people struggle with what to say and do when a family member is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia. Efforts to be supportive can be dampened by not knowing how to engage with someone as Alzheimer’s progresses, which can lead some individuals to distance themselves completely. This only adds to the sadness and isolation families may experience.
While my advice is too late to help you and your family members, I encourage others in your situation to be open and honest in their conversations with family and friends. Let them know that while Alzheimer’s disease has changed your family member, their friendship and presence is valuable to everyone involved.
Invite them to stay connected with your family member. Offer to answer their questions and even provide suggestions on how they might be supportive. If they want to visit, let them know in advance what they may expect, and offer suggestions on how they can communicate with the person and what activities might offer an opportunity to connect.
The Alzheimer’s Association website (alz.org) offers information and resources to help families navigate disease-related challenges. The association also offers free education programs and support groups, and a free 24/7 Helpline (800-272-3900) available day and night to answer questions and to provide guidance.
I understand your disappointment in those relatives who let you and Dad down during a difficult time, but please don’t assume their actions were ill-intended. Many of them may have been at a loss for how to interact with your dad. Hopefully, your letter will encourage others in similar situations to learn how they can stay connected with those with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia as the disease progresses.
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Synopsys EDA and IP Solutions Enable New Levels of Integration and Functionality for 2.5D/3D Designs on TSMC's Advanced Process and 3DFabric™ Technologies
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Addressing complex customer requirements for heterogeneous compute-intensive applications, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the availability of the industry's most comprehensive EDA and IP solutions for 2D/2.5D/3D multi-die systems for TSMC's most advanced N7, N5 and N3 process technologies. In collaboration with TSMC on its 3DFabric™ technologies and 3Dblox™ standard, Synopsys provides a holistic, system-level approach with production-proven solutions that enables mutual customers to meet the stringent power and performance requirements for complex multi-die systems.
"Synopsys' achievements in multi-die system design technologies complements TSMC's advanced packaging and silicon process technologies in this area, providing our mutual customers with a comprehensive solution for further semiconductor and system-level innovation," said Dan Kochpatcharin, Head of Design Infrastructure Management Division at TSMC. "Together, we are leading the way with differentiated design solutions that will bring to life new applications in AI, high-performance computing, networking, mobile and other key areas."
For more information about Synopsys' 3DIC Multi-Die System solution, visit: https://www.synopsys.com/3dic.html
Key drivers such as cost-effective integration, optimized system cost and performance, lower total power and faster time-to-market are accelerating the shift to multi-die system designs. Compared to their monolithic counterparts, multi-die systems feature a myriad of interdependencies and must be approached holistically from a system perspective. Synopsys EDA tools and IP address all aspects of multi-die systems from architectural partitioning, through silicon/package co-design, to thermal and power management, implementation, verification, software validation, system signoff and silicon lifecycle management.
A key component of the Synopsys solution is the tapeout-proven Synopsys 3DIC Compiler, a unified multi-die co-design and analysis platform that seamlessly integrates with TSMC 3Dblox and TSMC 3DFabric technologies for 3D system integration, advanced packaging and a complete exploration-to-signoff implementation. With 3DIC Compiler, design teams can efficiently bring together dies designed via Synopsys digital and custom design flows certified for TSMC N4P and N3E advanced processes. A broad portfolio of Synopsys IP, including UCIe and HBM3 IP on TSMC's most advanced process technologies, provide high bandwidth and low-power connectivity for multi-die systems.
"Whether it's the high level of integration in heterogeneous compute applications or the challenges of scale and systemic complexities, multi-die systems have emerged as a path forward to enable the next level of system functionality," said Sanjay Bali, vice president of Marketing and Strategy for the EDA Group at Synopsys. "By collaborating closely with TSMC, we are providing the industry's most comprehensive, scalable and trusted EDA and IP solutions that enable designers to accelerate system integration with reduced risk."
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As an S&P 500 company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing tools and services. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing more secure, high-quality code, Synopsys has the solutions needed to deliver innovative products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
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Look at most of the numbers and you’re never going to be impressed by Daniel Jones.
Five touchdown passes in six games?
Twenty-two quarterbacks have more than the Giants’ starter and two of them have not even played six games. The Jets’ Joe Flacco has just as many and he has not started a game in three weeks.
Twenty-three quarterbacks have more passing yards than the 1,021 put up by Jones through six weeks and, as a team, the Giants have the third-fewest passing yards in the NFL. The teams with fewer yards -- Chicago and Tennessee -- have thrown the football with far less frequency.
Tyrod Taylor, the Giants’ backup quarterback who has had one of the best views of Jones’ first six games, wants you to forget about all those numbers.
“He has been great,” Taylor said inside the winning locker room Sunday after Jones rallied the Giants from a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Baltimore Ravens, 24-20, at MetLife Stadium. “He has been leading the group and going out there and making plays with his arms and his legs and doing everything you could ask for from a quarterback.”
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And still the passing numbers do not look so great.
“The media will always talk about the numbers, but at the end of the day the only number that counts is wins and losses and we’re sitting in a good place when it comes to that,” Taylor said. “This game is about wins.”
Impossible to argue that point.
In his fourth season as the Giants’ quarterback, Jones, with the help of coach Brian Daboll and offensive coordinator Mike Kafka, has found the formula for playing winning football.
His decision making on the field has never been better and that was apparent again on the Giants’ most important possession of the game Sunday. At the moment the Giants fell behind 20-10 with 12:54 left in the fourth quarter, Jones was 13-for-20 for 109 yards.
When he took the field for the next drive, he went 5-for-5 for 57 yards, finishing things with a perfectly placed pass to rookie tight end Daniel Bellinger, who is rapidly becoming one of the quarterback’s favorite targets. Another rookie -- slot receiver Wan’Dale Robinson -- gave Jones a new target Sunday and the quarterback found him three times for 37 yards, including a second-quarter touchdown.
Often unmentioned when discussing Jones’ numbers is the fact that he has dealt with a revolving door of receivers this season. Perhaps his blossoming connection with Bellinger and the return of Robinson will create more opportunities for big plays in the passing game. In the meantime, Jones has made the most with what he has. In Sunday’s win, he completed passes to eight different players. Of course, he has also do damage by running the football.
“That dude can really throw the ball,” center Jon Feliciano said. “He’s gutsy and he might not look it, but he’s a hard ass. We have full confidence in him. I think having Wan’Dale back really helped and Bellinger is coming into his own and becoming the guy they thought he was going to be when they drafted him.”
There are some numbers besides the Giants’ 5-1 record that look favorably upon Jones’ performance. Once a turnover machine, he has become a great protector of the football this season with just four turnovers, including a harmless one on the final play of the first half Sunday when he was trying to throw a Hail Mary pass.
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Jones is one of only five quarterbacks that has started six games with two or fewer interceptions. More important, he has lost just two fumbles. Coming into this season, his 20 lost fumbles since he came into the league were three more than any other quarterback in the league.
“I‘m not worried about numbers,” Daboll said. “His job is to compete, to lead his football team down, particularly the offense, make good decisions with the football, take care of it, execute in the red zone. And this was another fourth quarter one for him. Again, when you’re a quarterback, you love to throw it 60 times a game. But we have to, each week, we have to play the way we think we have to play. Look, it was far from perfect ... but I appreciate the way he competes. And I think his level-headedness really helps him.”
Jones, at the moment, is enjoying the thrill of five victories and focusing on what lies ahead.
“It’s been a while, for sure,” he said when asked about the last time he had this much fun playing the game. “But a lot we still got to do to improve and work on and that’s what we’re going to focus on doing.“
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Bob Brookover can be reached at rbrookover@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-10-17T13:07:54+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/giants/2022/10/giants-qb-daniel-jones-ability-to-protect-football-paying-dividends-in-form-of-victories.html |
The family of a 6-year-old boy in Connecticut says he is recovering after suffering second- and third-degree burns to his face and arms, reportedly after another young child threw a burning ball thrown at him.
The Associated Press reported that although the family’s account couldn't be immediately confirmed, Bridgeport’s director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Scott Appleby, said Sunday's incident was under investigation.
Appleby said preliminary reports show four unattended children were seen playing with gasoline and lighting things on fire Sunday afternoon.
No criminal charges have been announced.
The little boy's 8-year-old sister told NBC News affiliate WNBC that an 8-year-old neighbor put gasoline on a tennis ball, lit it, and then threw it at her brother.
The boy's mother told ABC News affiliate ABC7 that she heard her son screaming, "Mommy help me, they set me on fire."
The boy's mother says her son will be at the hospital to recover for a few more days. | 2022-04-28T23:18:06+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/injured-connecticut-boy-screamed-mommy-they-lit-me-on-fire-family-says |
DENVER (KDVR) — Denver’s weather has showers around Saturday and then drying and warming things up Sunday.
Weather today: Lingering showers, gusty
There will be a few lingering showers today but will be light and brief.
The foothills and Palmer Divide will see about an 1 inch of snow with wet and slushy roads possible into this evening.
The metro could have a few passing showers with cool highs only in the 50s.
Winds will be gusty coming out of the north so keep warm layers around.
Looking ahead: Warming up
Sunday will be dry with highs in the mid 60s.
Monday and Tuesday will warm up in the 70s with more dry weather – elevated fire danger will be something to watch.
Next system moves in midweek, so temps come down and there will be a chance for showers each day Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. | 2023-04-15T12:38:04+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/weather/weather-forecast/denver-weather-showers-saturday-sun-sunday/ |
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