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More storms bring renewed flood threat in hard-hit Kentucky
(AP) - Thunderstorms on Friday brought a renewed threat of flooding to parts of Kentucky ravaged by high water a week ago.
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch through Saturday morning for nearly the entire state.
As residents continued cleaning up from the late July floods that killed at least 37 people, rain started falling on already saturated ground in eastern Kentucky late Friday morning. Some places could receive up to 3 inches of rain by Friday night, and the storm system wasn’t expected to let up until at least Saturday evening, the weather service said.
“There’s a lot of debris that’s out there that could cause clogging in waterways that could lead to flooding,” Beshear said at a news conference.
Due to unsafe travel conditions, Gov. Andy Beshear canceled visits to two flood-ravaged counties Friday.
The White House announced Friday that President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to eastern Kentucky on Monday to survey the damage from last week’s devastating floods and meet with those affected. The Bidens would join Beshear and his wife, Britainy, at an unspecified Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery center.
Last week’s storm in eastern Kentucky sent floodwaters as high as rooftops. In the days afterward, more than 1,300 people were rescued as teams searched in boats and combed debris-clogged creekbanks. Beshear said Friday that two people in Breathitt County remained missing.
Many residents are still waiting for their utilities to be restored. About 2,000 Kentucky customers remained without electricity on Friday. Some entire water systems were severed or heavily damaged, prompting a significant response from the National Guard and others to distribute bottled water.
Beshear said authorities were checking on people in homes that were still habitable but who might be stranded in areas where private bridges were washed out. Emergency shelters and area state parks housed nearly 530 people who fled homes that were destroyed or badly damaged. Many more residents were staying with relatives and friends.
Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to counties flooded after 8 to 10 1/2 inches (20 to 27 centimeters) of rain fell in just 48 hours last week in the Appalachian mountain region. Federal financial assistance also was being offered to many residents for repairs to privately owned access roads and bridges. The state also was offering disaster unemployment assistance.
The weather service also posted flood watches for much of West Virginia and through the Washington, D.C., area.
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Raby reported from Charleston, W.Va.
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"The Little Mermaid" made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend.
Disney's live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily outswam the competition, bringing in $95.5 million on 4,320 screens in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.
And Disney estimates the film starring Halle Bailey as the titular mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as her sea witch nemesis Ursula will reach $117.5 million by the time the holiday is over. It ranks as the fifth-biggest Memorial Day weekend opening ever.
It displaces "Fast X" in the top spot. The 10th installment in the "Fast and Furious" franchise starring Vin Diesel has lagged behind more recent releases in the series, bringing in $23 million domestically for a two-week total of $108 million for Universal Pictures.
In its fourth weekend, Disney and Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" made an estimated $20 million in North America to take third place. It's now made $299 million domestically.
SEE MORE: Original Ariel praises Halle Bailey's new 'Little Mermaid'
The performance of "The Little Mermaid" represents something of a bounce-back for Disney's animated-to-live-action remakes, and makes it likely they will keep coming indefinitely. Poor reception and the pandemic had some recent reboots either performing poorly or skipping theatrical releases for Disney+, including "Dumbo," "Mulan" and "Pinocchio."
"It works as long as the movies deliver," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. "It's great for Disney to be able to go to their archive by reviving these titles that started off as huge hits in the animated realm."
The opening puts it in the top tier of Disney's remakes, with a similar performance to 2019's "Aladdin," though it was well short of 2017's "Beauty and the Beast," which opened to more than $170 million, and 2019's "The Lion King," which brought in more than $190 million in its first weekend.
Audiences thought it delivered. The film had an A CinemaScore, and according to exit polling had more ticket buyers between ages 25 and 34 than children, suggesting nostalgic adults were essential.
"The multi generational component of this cannot be overstated," Dergarabedian said.
Critics were more lukewarm. The movie is currently at 67% on Rotten Tomatoes. In her review, Lindsey Bahr of The Associated Press called it "a somewhat drab undertaking with sparks of bioluminescence" that like too many of the Disney remakes "prioritized nostalgia and familiarity over compelling visual storytelling."
She said Bailey, half of the sister R&B duo Chloe x Halle, still shone with a "lovely presence" and "superb voice."
SEE MORE: Watch Halle Bailey sing 'Part of Your World' at Disneyland
Directed by Rob Marshall with a reported budget of $250 million before marketing, "The Little Mermaid" tells the story of a yearning, wayward daughter who cuts a devil's deal to swap her fins for a pair of legs. It features the songs from Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, including "Part of Your World" and "Under the Sea," that helped the original film spark a Disney animation renaissance in the 1990s.
Fourth place went to Universal's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," which keeps reaching new levels in its eighth weekend. Now available to rent on VOD, it still earned $6.3 million in theaters. Its cumulative total of $559 million makes Mario and Luigi the year's biggest earners so far.
Comics couldn't stand up to Ariel as the week's other new releases sank.
"The Machine," an action comedy starring stand-up comedian Bert Kreischer, finished fifth with $4.9 million domestically. And " About My Father," the broad comedy starring stand-up Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro, was sixth with $4.3 million.
It's not clear whether "The Little Mermaid" will have legs — or fins — going forward. Next week brings the release of animated "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," with "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" arriving the following week.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Little Mermaid," $95.5 million
2. "Fast X," $23 million
3. "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," $20 million
4. "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," $6.3 million
5. "The Machine," $4.9 million
6. "About My Father," $4.3 million
7. "Kandahar," $2.4 million
8. "You Hurt My Feelings," 1.4 million
9. "Evil Dead Rise," $1 million
10. "Book Club, The Next Chapter," $920, 000
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Dr. Josef Parvizi remembers meeting a man with epilepsy whose seizures were causing some very unusual symptoms.
"He came to my clinic and said, 'My sense of self is changing,'" says Parvizi, a professor of neurology at Stanford University.
The man told Parvizi that he felt "like an observer to conversations that are happening in my mind" and that "I just feel like I'm floating in space."
Parvizi and a team of researchers would eventually trace the man's symptoms to a "sausage-looking piece of brain" called the anterior precuneus.
This area, nestled between the brain's two hemispheres, appears critical to a person's sense of inhabiting their own body, or bodily self, the team recently reported in the journal Neuron.
The finding could help researchers develop forms of anesthesia that use electrical stimulation instead of drugs. It could also help explain the antidepressant effects of mind-altering drugs like ketamine.
Finding the seat of the physical self
It took Parvizi's team years of research to discover the importance of this obscure bit of brain tissue.
In 2019, when the man first came to Stanford's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Parvizi thought his symptoms were caused by seizures in the posteromedial cortex, an area toward the back of the brain.
This area includes a brain network involved in the narrative self, a sort of internal autobiography that helps us define who we are. Parvizi's team figured that the same network must be responsible for the bodily self too.
"Everybody thought, 'Well, maybe all kinds of selves are being decoded by the same system,'" he says.
A series of experiments on the initial patient and eight other volunteers pointed toward a different explanation.
All the patients had severe epilepsy and were in the hospital as part of an effort to locate the source of their seizures. The process requires placing electrodes in the brain and then waiting for a seizure to occur.
These electrodes can also be used to deliver pulses of electricity. So Parvizi's team was able to stimulate different areas of the brain to see whether they affected a person's sense of self.
When the team stimulated the anterior precuneus, "lo and behold, everybody has changes in their sense of what we call the bodily or physical self," Parvizi says.
In other words, the stimulation produced an out-of-body experience. People felt detached from their own thoughts and no longer anchored in their own bodies.
The finding was surprising because the anterior precuneus is separate from the brain's system for maintaining a narrative self. Instead, it appears devoted to the sense that something is "happening to me," not another person, Parvizi says.
"We think this could be a way for the brain to tag every experience in the environment as 'mine,'" he says.
A shift in perspective
That role for the anterior precuneus makes sense, says Christophe Lopez, a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France.
Lopez has done research suggesting that our sense of a physical self comes in part from the inner ear, which detects motion and monitors the body's position in space. And the results from Parvizi's team suggest that signals from the inner ear are processed by the anterior precuneus.
"When they stimulate the anterior precuneus, you can evoke that the body is floating or the body is falling," Lopez says.
That means the brain has to make sense of conflicting information: For example, signals from the inner ear may say the body is falling while signals from the eyes say it's stationary.
As a result, Lopez says, the brain may try to cope by taking a different perspective.
"Sometimes the best solution which is found by the brain is to think that you are somewhere else, out of the body," he says.
The brain may face a similar conundrum when people take drugs like ketamine, which affect the anterior precuneus.
"Ketamine seemingly is producing this artificial rhythm [in the brain] that is disrupting function of that area," says Patrick Purdon, an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
That slow rhythm is similar to the one that Parvizi's team saw when it stimulated the brains of epilepsy patients, Purdon says.
That could mean it will someday be possible to use electrical pulses in place of anesthetic drugs like ketamine, he says.
"You could get the specific brain areas that you want without having to cause a brainwide and systemwide effect that might carry with it a lot of side effects," Purdon says.
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The unforgiving Astros continued their tour of New York City. After they split a four-game series in the Bronx over the weekend, they stepped on the Amazin’s necks in Flushing on Tuesday night.
The Mets were shellacked, 9-1, by the Astros in front of 36,673 at Citi Field. President Barack Obama was still roaming the White House the last time the Mets beat the Astros, on Sept. 28, 2014.
Carlos Carrasco (8-7, 4.85 ERA), coming off lower back pain, pitched like something was still amiss in his 4.1-inning outing against Houston. But something has been amiss for Carrasco in his last several starts. The veteran right-hander has allowed 25 earned runs in his last 35.1 innings pitched, with three of his worst starts in that span coming against the Angels, the Astros, and the Astros again.
Kyle Tucker silenced the rambunctious Citi Field crowd as soon as Carrasco’s 13th pitch of the night. Carrasco allowed all of his first four batters to reach base before Tucker let it rip on a fastball that fell into the meat of the plate. The Astros, not a team to miss any mistakes, exposed each and every one of Carrasco’s miscues in an ugly first inning.
Rather than taking accountability, multiple times in his postgame interview Carrasco said the game changed when umpires made the “wrong call” on Jose Altuve’s check-swing on a 3-2 count to lead off the first inning. Altuve walked, and Carrasco was visibly upset. He found it hard to refocus afterwards.
“I think the umpire made the wrong call right there,” Carrasco said. “That changed the ballgame completely. … I think he screwed up right there, on that call. … If he made the right call, it should’ve been a different game.”
Though Carrasco settled down some, his pitch count was ascending just as fast as his June ERA. The 35-year-old allowed two more runs (the second a result of Chasen Shreve’s unsuccessful outing), before he was pulled in the fifth. Carrasco’s 6.07 ERA in six June starts is a troubling trend for one of the main pieces of the Mets rotation, particularly while Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom are still on the injured list.
When Carrasco left, a five-run deficit was easier to swallow than what transpired just a few moments later. Shreve coughed up a two-run home run to the first batter he faced out of the pen: who else but, Yordan Alvarez. The Astros slugger belted his fourth home run in three games against the Mets, and if Tucker’s home run silenced the crowd, Alvarez’s 403-foot, two-run tater to left field took the life out of Citi Field.
But Shreve wasn’t done dealing yet. A few batters later, Yuli Gurriel took the Mets southpaw deep for another two-run shot in the fifth inning. Before the ball even landed in the left field seats, Buck Showalter was out of the dugout, mercifully ending Shreve’s night. After beginning the season with a 1.54 ERA in his first 10 outings, Shreve has a 10.67 ERA in his last 14 relief appearances.
“He started out pretty good this year, but most of it has been a command thing,” Showalter said of Shreve. “It’s been a challenging one to get back to that consistent level he was at for us earlier in the year.”
Carrasco and Shreve are not the only ones looking forward to the Astros leaving town.
The Mets (47-28) were hoping to bounce back and beat up on Houston on their own turf after getting swept at Minute Maid Park last week. Instead, Astros left-hander Framber Valdez held the Mets to eight shutout innings. But it’s not like the Mets didn’t have their chances.
The lineup’s best opportunity to respond to Houston’s no-mercy control came in the fourth inning with runners on second and third and one out. Then J.D. Davis struck out against Valdez, Eduardo Escobar walked to load the bases, and Mark Canha grounded out on the first pitch he saw to end the inning and the threat.
After going 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position against the Marlins in Miami on Sunday, the Mets went 1-for-9 with RISP on Tuesday. The only bright spot in the Mets lineup was Starling Marte, who went 3-for-4 with two doubles. And Wednesday’s series finale against Houston will offer no reprieve. On the hill Wednesday is two-time Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, carrying a 9-3 record and 2.22 ERA in 14 starts this season.
“The way that Valdez was pitching, there wasn’t going to be much margin for error,” Showalter said. “We’ll get it again tomorrow.”
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2022-06-29T15:55:22+00:00
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twincities.com
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https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/29/mets-embarrassed-by-astros-again-in-blowout-loss-behind-carlos-carrasco/
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Jill Biden to visit Namibia, Kenya, part of US-Africa push
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden will visit Namibia and Kenya this week as part of a push by the United States to step up engagement with Africa as a counterweight to China’s influence on the continent, the White House announced Tuesday.
President Joe Biden told African leaders who came to Washington for a summit last year that the U.S. is “all in” on the continent’s future. He also announced that he, his wife, the vice president and several members of his Cabinet would travel to Africa this year, and joked that the leaders would get tired of hosting everyone.
Jill Biden is the third U.S. official to visit, following Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The first lady will highlight issues around empowering women and young people and food insecurity in the Horn of Africa, which includes Kenya, the White House said. She will also focus on deepening U.S. relations with the two countries that are hosting her.
She was opening the five-day visit Wednesday in Namibia, becoming the most senior U.S. official to land there since a brief stop by Vice President Al Gore in 1996, the White House said.
Through renewed engagement with the countries of Africa, the U.S. aims to catch up with its economic rival, China, which has outpaced the U.S. in terms of trade in some of the 54 nations on the continent, the second most-populous continent.
Trade between the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa totaled $44.9 billion in 2021, a 22% increase from 2019. But direct investment fell by 5.3% to $30.3 billion. Trade between Africa and China in 2021 surged to $254 billion, up about 35% as Chinese exports increased to the continent.
Jill Biden is no stranger to Africa. The trip will be her sixth to the continent, her third time in Kenya and her first visit to Namibia.
It will also be her fourth trip abroad without the president in the two years since he took office.
She traveled to Tokyo in 2021 to cheer Team USA at the delayed Olympic Games.
For Mother’s Day last year, she traveled to Romania and Slovakia to meet with Ukrainian women who fled with their children after Russia’s military invasion. The trip included a clandestine drive across Slovakia’s border a short distance into western Ukraine, where she spent several hours meeting with Olena Zalenska, the wife of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Jill Biden also traveled solo to Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama in 2022.
She has accompanied her husband on trips to Europe and Mexico, where he participated in summit meetings with other world leaders.
President Biden is widely expected to visit Africa later this year, though the White House has not announced his travel dates. He was in Poland on Tuesday following a surprise visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with Zelenskyy.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-02-21T16:23:29+00:00
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LAPEER COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - A backyard flock of about 100 poultry birds in Lapeer County is under quarantine and will be depopulated after an outbreak of high pathogenic avian influenza.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory confirmed the avian flu diagnosis. Authorities did not specify where in Lapeer County the birds live.
Agriculture officials say the flock is the first confirmed outbreak of avian flu in Lapeer County. They urge poultry owners to follow basic health and safety protocols to prevent more bird flu illnesses.
“The cooler fall temperatures will not serve to lessen the threat or impact of HPAI,” said State Veterinarian Dr. Nora Wineland. “Since the virus is susceptible to heat rather than cold, bird owners need to remain vigilant as wild birds complete their fall migration."
Highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads to domesticated birds from contact with wild birds or infected poultry, touching equipment with traces of the virus and on clothing of poultry caretakers.
Tips for avoiding an avian influenza outbreak include:
- Preventing contact between wild birds and domesticated flocks. Domestic birds should remain indoors or stay in a fully enclosed outdoor area.
- Caretakers should wash their hands before and after handling poultry.
- Boots and other gear should be disinfected when moving between coops.
- No equipment or supplies should be shared between multiple farms.
- All equipment and supplies should be disinfected after each use. Anything that can't be disinfected should be discarded.
- Poultry should only drink water from municipal or private well systems.
- Keep poultry food supplies secure where wild birds or rodents can't touch it.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the health risk to humans from an avian flu outbreak among birds remains low. No birds infected with the virus are allowed to enter the commercial food market.
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2022-10-06T18:22:01+00:00
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https://www.abc12.com/news/health/bird-flu-detected-in-lapeer-county-backyard-chicken-flock/article_ff814992-4587-11ed-975e-733637db5c9f.html
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Josh Bailey celebrated his 1,000th NHL game with a big play for the New York Islanders.
Bailey snapped a tie in the second period, and the Islanders set an NHL record for successful penalty kills to begin a season in a 6-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.
“The guys in here knew how much this meant to me,” Bailey said. “They all stepped up and played a (great) game.”
Brock Nelson had two goals in the third period for the Islanders, who won for the first time in three road games this season. Oliver Wahlstrom and Matt Martin also scored before Zach Parise added a short-handed empty-netter.
The Islanders seemed inspired by Bailey.
“Those things seem to happen to the guys who do things the right way,” teammate Cal Clutterbuck said. “I’m glad I was here for that.”
The 33-year-old Bailey made it 3-2 with 3:34 left in the second, capping a stretch of three goals combined for the teams in less than two minutes.
“Everyone is thrilled for Josh,” Islanders coach Lane Lambert said. “His career, his successes, what a better what to cap your 1,000th game doing something like that.”
Mathew Barzal and Anthony Beauvillier each had two assists for New York.
Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin made 32 saves after stopping 41 shots in a 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.
With three more penalty kills, the Islanders haven’t allowed a power-play goal in their first eight games, the first team in league history to accomplish that feat.
Martin Necas and Brent Burns scored for the Hurricanes, who played at home for the first time in more than two weeks. They weren’t able to duplicate the solid play that contributed to a 3-1-1 road trip. Frederik Andersen stopped 26 shots.
“Once we got behind, I just felt like we were trying almost too hard,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said.
The first goal occurred when Barzal led a transition sequence and passed the puck back to Walstrom, who drilled the puck past Andersen. It was Wahlstrom’s fourth goal of the season, but he had gone four games without a point.
Necas scored on a give-and-go with Brady Skjei 8:57 into the second, cutting down the slot to secure the goal.
The teams then combined for three goals in a 1-minute, 57-second span. Martin put the Islanders back on top when he cleaned up a Carolina turnover and blasted a shot past Andersen.
Burns, a veteran defenseman, posted his first goal with Carolina on a shot from inside the blue line. Bailey scored 51 seconds later.
The most impressive New York stretch came with a 5-on-3 penalty kill late in the second period, a sequence that included center Jean-Gabriel Pageau on an extended shift without his stick. The Islanders are 28 for 28 on penalty kills, marking a franchise record to start a season.
“The kill did a tremendous job there,” Nelson said. “The turning point, giving us the momentum going into the third period.”
COUNT TO A THOUSAND
Bailey, a right winger, became the third player in team history to reach the 1,000-game mark. A 2008 first-round pick, he’s in his 15th season with the Islanders.
“Couldn’t be more happy for a teammate, a friend,” Pageau said. “I think that’s the same feeling for everyone.”
Only Bryan Trottier (1,123) and Denis Potvin (1,060) have played in more games for the Islanders.
Bailey, 33, had one point this season entering the game, scoring Wednesday night against the Rangers.
BEAR-LY GONE
Carolina traded defenseman Ethan Bear to the Vancouver Canucks.
Bear, who had been scratched in each of the Hurricanes’ first six games, played in 58 games last season after a previous stint with the Edmonton Oilers.
In return for Bear and minor-league forward Lane Pederson, the Hurricanes acquired a fifth-round pick in the 2023 draft.
UP NEXT
Islanders: Saturday night at home vs. Colorado.
Hurricanes: Saturday night at Philadelphia.
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2022-10-29T03:22:32+00:00
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New York (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program announced on Wednesday aims to provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans.
But for federal Pell grant recipients, that amount is even higher: $20,000
So what exactly is a Pell grant? And why is there a special benefit for people who got one?
Created by the Higher Education Act in 1965 as a way to promote access to education, federal Pell grants are special scholarships reserved for undergraduates and certain other students with the most significant financial need. The grants generally don’t need to be paid back, but they often don’t cover the full cost of college — so recipients take out additional loans.
The Biden administration is targeting Pell grant recipients for additional forgiveness “to smooth the transition back to repayment and help borrowers at highest risk of delinquencies or default once payments resume,” according to the Department of Education.
Roughly 27 million recipients of Pell grants will now be eligible for loan forgiveness. But for some, the $20,000 will hardly made a dent.
Lynn Hunt, a data analyst in Portland, Oregon, is a Pell grant recipient who borrowed somewhere around $45,000 to $50,000 to attend the University of Wisconsin and has paid back about $15,000 but still owes $70,000 because of interest.
“I know (Biden) mentioned, you know, $20,000 for Pell grants, but the people that had Pell grants had to take out the most loans,” Hunt said. “So $20,000 isn’t helping most of those people in any substantial manner. And the thing that happens every time when we get one of these half measures is, the can gets kicked for another decade.”
For Yaneth Peña, however, the money will make a difference. Peña graduated from North Carolina State University in 2014. She obtained about $4,000 in grants and approximately $25,000 in federal loans. Under Biden’s forgiveness plan, her debt would be whittled down to $5,000.
Relieved of the financial burden, Peña said she could now seriously pursue a graduate degree — something she said she hesitated to consider in the past because of her loans.
“This could like really change everything,” Peña said.
Pell grant recipients typically experience more challenges repaying their debt, the Department of Education notes. In the academic year of 2020-21, around 30% of all students that enrolled in undergraduate programs in the United States were awarded Pell grants and nearly every recipient came from a family that made less than $60,000 a year.
Almost all Pell grant recipients are independent students or dependent students from the bottom half of the income distribution, according to a report from the Urban Institute on college affordability.
Through the program, lower-income Americans can currently receive up to $6,895 annually for roughly six years.
If you’re not sure if you received a federal Pell grant, review any financial aid award letters administered through Office of Federal Student Aid.
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Associated Press reporters Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, Claire Savage in Chicago and Arleigh Rodgers in Indianapolis contributed to this report. Savage and Rodgers are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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2022-08-25T02:24:12+00:00
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The Atascadero Greyhounds are one win away from completing their journey to securing a CIF and State championship for the first time ever.
"I've had so many messages from guys on the Central Coast that have been positive and encouraging," said Atascadero Head Football Coach Vic Cooper.
The game will be final the game of the season for the Greyhounds regardless of the result.
"It's such a great time for Central Coast football right now because the head coaches and all the teams, we just get along," said Cooper.
The grind to the title game for the Greyhounds began with conditioning over the summer.
"It means a lot to me, knowing all the work we put in since January 1st of last year, and going through after what happened the year before," said offensive lineman Jackson Cooper. "We really put in a lot of work to get to here."
"It's such a good feeling after all these hard years of just hard work and just like seeing my team get better and better every time," said corner Jack Hathaway.
"It started over summer from seven-on-seven tournaments and then slowly building," said running back Diego Real. "Now, we just find ourselves on a roll."
This game will be the biggest in school history for the Greyhounds.
"That's stuff I've been dreaming about since I was a kid," said Jackson Cooper. "Coming out to watch all these practices as a kid, that's the only thing you can dream about: CIF Champion, State Champion, League Champion."
"It would mean everything," said Hathaway. "It would be the first time we were bringing anything from state."
The Atascadero team has battled through adversity to reach the final game of the season.
"Before playoffs started, after we started getting hot on a six-game win streak, I think we just finally figured out who we were," said Real.
The Greyhounds say they are excited to see their community show up for the game Saturday.
"For the people that have been there all the way through, we love you," said Vic Cooper.
Kickoff between San Gabriel and Atascadero is set for 6 p.m. on Saturday at Atascadero High School.
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2022-12-10T07:10:23+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/sports/atascadero-eyeing-state-championship-saturday
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 24 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder earned their second straight win over the Clippers, beating Los Angeles 118-110 on Thursday night.
Norman Powell led the Clippers with 21 points. Reggie Jackson scored 18 and John Wall added 17 for Los Angeles, which lost its third straight.
The Thunder led 30-12 in the first quarter, but the Clippers rallied and led 60-53 at halftime behind 12 points each from Wall and Jackson.
Gilgeous-Alexander committed his fourth foul with 4.6 seconds left in the second quarter, and he started the second half on the bench. The Thunder rallied without him and took a 71-70 lead before he returned midway through the third quarter. The Thunder led 89-87 heading into the fourth.
Wall’s driving dunk at the start of the fourth quarter tied the game at 89, but the Thunder pulled away late. Pokusevski hit a 3-pointer, then less than a minute later, Tre Mann walked into a fast break 3-pointer that gave the Thunder a 116-104 with 2:55 remaining.
Oklahoma City did not attempt a free throw until 10:22 remained in the fourth quarter, but the Thunder went 7 for 8 from the line in the final period.
TIP-INS
Clippers: F Marcus Morris sat out his second straight game for personal reasons. ... The Clippers shot 53.7%. ... Los Angeles made just 9 of 28 3-pointers.
Thunder: G Josh Giddey sat out with a sprained right ankle. ... Went 6 for 10 from 3-point range in the first quarter to take a 34-24 lead. They finished 17 for 38 on 3-pointers after going 4 for 30 in Tuesday’s game.
UP NEXT
Clippers: Host the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday.
Thunder: Visit the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday.
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2022-10-28T02:48:16+00:00
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Best Lawyers in America recognizes 3 from Dallas trial boutique
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Three trial attorneys from the Dallas boutique Bailey Brauer PLLC, are included in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers in America.
Firm co-founders Clayton Bailey and Alex Brauer, along with partner Ben Stewart, are each featured among the country's top commercial litigation attorneys. Additionally, Mr. Bailey was selected among the top appellate attorneys.
Mr. Bailey is a nationally known trial and appellate attorney, representing clients in matters involving contract disputes, business torts, RICO, employment law, trade secrets, deceptive trade practices, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, antitrust, unfair business practices, and the Packers and Stockyards Act. In addition to Best Lawyers, his work has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation, the National Trial Lawyers, Texas Lawyer, BTI Consulting, Lawdragon, and Texas Super Lawyers.
With a practice focused on high-stakes disputes, business owners regularly turn to Mr. Brauer when facing allegations of fraud or deceptive practices in commercial transactions, breaches of fiduciary duties, and litigation relating to non-compete agreements. He also assists clients with disputes involving the sales and acquisitions of businesses. His work has earned multiple professional honors from Chambers USA, BTI Consulting, D Magazine, Texas Lawyer, and Texas Super Lawyers.
Mr. Stewart represents clients in federal and state courts in matters involving contractual disputes, breaches of fiduciary duties, insurance coverage, officer/director liability, and other complex litigation. He also serves as a mediator and assists companies with both internal and governmental investigations. In addition to his Best Lawyers, his work has been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers.
Selection to The Best Lawyers in America is based on confidential evaluations by attorneys in the same practice area and from the same geographic region. For the full listing, visit https://www.bestlawyers.com/.
About Bailey Brauer PLLC
Bailey Brauer PLLC is nationally recognized for its trial and appellate work and provides battle-tested, sophisticated courtroom experience in high-stakes litigation matters. The firm focuses on complex commercial litigation, appeals, and class actions. Learn more about the firm at: http://baileybrauer.com.
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2022-08-18T18:17:16+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/08/18/bailey-brauer-attorneys-selected-among-countrys-top-commercial-litigators/
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HOUSTON (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson says he isn’t concerned about Houston starter Framber Valdez’s unusual hand rubbing during Game 2 of the World Series, downplaying speculation on social media that the left-hander was up to something fishy during a dominant victory.
Videos circulating on the internet showed Valdez repeatedly rubbing his left thumb across his right palm, then rubbing the ball between pitches. Valdez pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning of the Astros’ 5-2 victory, which evened the Series at a win each.
Thomson said Philadelphia’s dugout noticed what Valdez was doing but had no concern that he was adding a foreign substance to the ball.
“Yeah, we did… it’s all over Twitter,” he said. “The umpires check these guys after almost every inning, and if there’s something going on, MLB will take care of it.”
Valdez found it amusing that people thought he was doctoring the ball.
“Nobody should think of it as anything like in the wrong way,” he said via translator. “I do it out in the open. But it’s all tendencies I do. I do it throughout the game. Maybe distract the hitter a little bit from what I’m doing. Like maybe look at me, rubbing different things, and nothing about the pitch that I’m going to throw. I’ve been doing it all season.”
Valdez allowed four hits and one run with nine strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings for his sixth postseason win. That ties Pedro Martinez for most playoff wins by a pitcher born in the Dominican Republic.
Suspicions over illegal grip aids peaked during the 2021 season, prompting Major League Baseball to crack down with in-game umpire checks.
During Game 3 of an NL wild-card series, New York Mets manager Buck Showalter asked umpires to inspect San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove for illegal goop. They checked the right-hander in several places, including by rubbing his unusually shiny ears, but found no evidence of anything illicit.
Valdez said the hand rubbing is just one of the unorthodox things he likes to do when he pitches. Midway through his outing Saturday, he changed his glove and his spikes — and it turns out — some other things, too.
“I normally have different spikes when I warm up and the ones that I go into the game,” he said. “Today I decided to start the game with the ones I warmed up in. I had a long inning there and I was like: ‘You know what, I’m going to change everything. I’m going to change my glove, my belt, my cleats.’ And those are just things that us Dominicans do, just some tendencies here and there … but just things to stay loose.”
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2022-10-30T20:04:40+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/ap-phillies-not-worried-about-astros-valdez-odd-hand-rubbing/
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — For the third time in a decade, federal wildlife officials are contemplating whether the bi-state sage grouse deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Conservationists blame “political gamesmanship” for leaving the bird in regulatory limbo since 2013. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it’s doing a fresh review after a federal judge ruled last May that the Trump administration acted illegally when it withdrew the most recent proposal to list the species as threatened.
The hen-sized flightless bird can be found in just two states — Nevada and California — in the high desert along the Sierra Nevada’s eastern front. A formal listing could bring restrictions on development, as well as prevent livestock and off-road vehicles from entering the bird’s habitat.
“Maybe the third time will be the charm for getting this population segment the protection it so clearly deserves,” said Laura Cunningham, California director of the Western Watersheds Project.
“None of the science shows that the bi-state birds have benefited from the service’s dithering,” she said.
The population is down to some 3,300 birds, about half what it was 150 years ago, and conservationists say they likely suffered additional losses as a result of one of the snowiest Sierra winters in modern history.
The bi-state grouse is a cousin of the greater sage grouse found across 12 western states from Oregon to South Dakota. Threats to its survival include urbanization, livestock grazing, wildfires, climate change and ravens who eat their eggs.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting public comment through June 23 and intends to make a new listing determination by May 2024.
The new review is a step in the right direction, said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity.
The center, Western Watersheds Project and WildEarth Guardians had filed the lawsuit accusing the government of violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to respond to the bird’s dire condition.
“The political gamesmanship surrounding the bi-state sage grouse’s listing status is, sadly, not unique to this imperiled species,” said Lindsay Larris, wildlife program director at WildEarth Guardians.
The service rejected listing petitions in 2001 and 2005 before proposing the bird be declared threatened in 2013. But it withdrew that proposal two years later.
In 2018, a federal judge found the agency had illegally denied the bird protection and ordered a reevaluation of its status.
The agency again proposed protection, but withdrew that proposal in 2020 based on its conclusion that the bird’s population had improved.
A different federal judge ruled last May that the agency had based that decision on flawed assumptions. She reinstated the original 2013 listing proposal and ordered the service to issue a new decision.
The Fish and Wildlife Service said in its formal notice published Thursday it will be initiating an entirely new species status assessment.
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2023-04-29T18:43:17+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/bi-state-sage-grouse-considered-for-threatened-status-again/
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John Bean brings 16 years' experience working with data center related transactions and agreements to further accelerate EdgeCore's growth in wholesale market
DENVER, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure, a wholesale data center developer, owner and operator, today announced the appointment of John Bean to serve as Chief Legal Officer. In his role, Bean will be responsible for setting and leading the strategic direction for the legal and corporate governance function at EdgeCore and will play a key part in supporting the company's mission to serve the world's largest cloud, internet, and technology companies.
Bean joins EdgeCore following nearly six years as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Digital Realty and nearly seven years in the same role at DuPont Fabros Technology where he oversaw a high-performing team of in-house commercial attorneys; negotiated a wide variety of technology and real estate agreements, including data center leasing and licensing transactions, acquisition and disposition of real property for development of data centers, renewable power transactions and joint venture agreements; and managed litigation and regulatory issues. Prior to this, John worked in private practice at the law firm Cooley LLP, where he was a Senior Associate Attorney in the real estate transactions group.
Over the past 16 years, John has developed an intimate understanding of the critical nuances associated with successfully negotiating and closing data center development and leasing transactions and has cultivated a unique set of advisory skills that enable straightforward negotiations.
"We are thrilled to welcome John to EdgeCore," said Lee Kestler, EdgeCore CEO. "Through the negotiation of hundreds of data center contracts with some of the largest companies in the world, John has established the rare capability to make complex negotiations simple, transparent, and efficient. The value he brings to EdgeCore will be immeasurable for our customers."
"I couldn't be more excited to join EdgeCore and to have the opportunity to work with such a talented group of people", said John Bean. "I am committed to utilizing my knowledge and experience to help drive growth for the Company while simultaneously doing my part to ensure EdgeCore is easy to do business with."
About EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure serves the world's largest cloud, internet, and technology companies with both ready-for-occupancy and build-to-suit data center capacity supported by best-in-class service-delivery capabilities. Privately held and supported by committed equity to fund an initial aggregate amount of over USD $4 billion in development, EdgeCore supports customer requirements by proactively investing in land, power, and vertical development in key data center locations, with building designs that meet key performance specifications, safety metrics, and sustainability objectives. EdgeCore has four markets with power and shovel ready campuses, operational data center buildings, and the ability to expand investment into new markets. For more information, please visit edgecore.com.
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2023-05-18T12:41:38+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2023/05/18/edgecore-digital-infrastructure-hires-tenured-chief-legal-officer-with-deep-data-center-expertise/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Years of soaring home prices and sharply higher mortgage rates remain hurdles for many would-be homebuyers, but new data shows that they’re regaining some leverage at the negotiating table as the housing market slows.
An analysis of home sales data by Redfin shows that, on average, U.S. homes purchased during a four-week period in August sold for less than what sellers were asking. That hasn’t happened since at least March 2021, according to the real estate brokerage.
“The only times you get homes going above list price is when there’s a bidding war, and those used to not be a regular occurrence,” said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist. “And we’re back to a place where bidding wars are unusual, not the norm.”
The average sale-to-list price ratio, a measure of how closely homes are selling to their asking prices, fell to 99.8% in the four weeks that ended August 28, Redfin said. The ratio was 101.4% in the same stretch last year. Ratios above 100% indicate homes on average are selling at or above their asking price.
For most of last year and this year, fierce competition for relatively few homes on the market and rock-bottom interest rates fueled bidding wars that often led homes to sell for well above their list price.
That remained the prevailing trend until recently, even though the housing market has cooled significantly since the spring as mortgage rates surged sharply above where they were last year. Higher mortgage rates make homes less affordable, thinning out the pool of home hunters, which leaves sellers with less leverage when negotiating with buyers.
On average, 7.5% of homes for sale in the four weeks in August that Redfin tracked had a price drop each week, a record high, the company said.
That the typical home is now selling for below the asking price is a sign that the housing market is becoming a bit more balanced, or less skewed, toward sellers.
“It’s significant that now buyers know that when they’re bidding on a home chances are they can get it for less than the asking price and without a competing offer, which was not the case earlier this year,” Fairweather said.
That doesn’t mean some homes aren’t still drawing multiple offers. Some 37% of homes purchased in the four-week stretch of August analyzed by Redfin sold for more than their list price. That was down from 50% a year earlier, Redfin said.
And buyers must still contend with rising home prices, albeit not as sharply as before. The national median home price jumped 10.8% in July from a year earlier to $403,800, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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2022-09-08T22:27:51+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-as-housing-market-cools-homebuyers-regain-leverage/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon failed to properly record work-related injuries at warehouses located in five states, a federal agency said Friday while announcing it issued more than a dozen citations during the course of its ongoing investigation of the company.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it handed out 14 citations during inspections over the summer at six Amazon warehouses in New York, Florida, Illinois, Colorado and Idaho.
The citations were for failing to record, or misclassifying, injuries and illnesses, not recording them within the required time and not giving the agency “timely” records of such matters, OSHA said. The e-commerce giant, which earned over $33 billion last year, faces about $29,000 in penalties.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a prepared statement the company invests millions in a “robust safety program” to protect workers.
“Accurate recordkeeping is a critical element of that program and while we acknowledge there might have been a small number of administrative errors over the years, we are confident in the numbers we’ve reported to the government,” Nantel said, adding the company was pleased OSHA acknowledged “all of the alleged violations are ‘other than serious’ and involve minor infractions.”
Seattle-based Amazon has long faced criticism over its workplace injury rates, which the company itself has acknowledged to be higher than the industry average in some cases. Earlier this year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that, while the company’s data shows injury rates for its delivery and courier workers were lower than average, injury rates for its warehouse workers were higher compared to its peers.
Labor and safety experts have criticized how the company tracks the productivity levels of workers who pack and stow packages and say the fast-paced environment of the warehouses could contribute to higher injury rates. Amazon has said it doesn’t have productivity quotas and it only evaluates its employees compared to their peers.
The citations arise from referrals that were made to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York, said the civil division of the office and OHSA have been investigating potential worker safety at Amazon warehouses and “possible fraudulent conduct designed to hide injuries from OSHA and others.” The attorney’s office has been encouraging former and current Amazon workers to directly report safety issues to them.
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2022-12-17T00:30:54+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/OSHA-Amazon-failed-to-record-some-warehouse-17659960.php
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — The Tuscaloosa Police Department is investigating a hit-and-run that occurred on April 17.
According to TPD, the driver hit a 33-year-old man who was riding an electric bicycle in the 500 block of Skyland Boulevard. The cyclist was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries at the time but is now in stable condition.
Witnesses say they saw the car pull into a Citgo station before leaving the scene. Officers believe it is most likely a 2017 or 2018 red Mustang that lost a headlight and front bumper in the crash.
If you have any information, call 205-349-2121.
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2023-04-26T01:44:35+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/tuscaloosa-police-searching-for-hit-and-run-suspect/
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BEIJING, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- When high-quality development advances all around, China is seeing industrial development transforming from the past production-driven mode to a brand-led one and embracing the best period for building a brand powerhouse now, said Zeng Congqin, board chairman of Chinese Baijiu maker Wuliangye Group on Thursday.
Zeng made the remarks on the opening ceremony of the 2023 World Brand Moganshan Conference, highlighting that the three brands incubation peaks in world's brand development history all occurred in countries where both economy and innovation grew by leaps and bounds.
Nowadays, industries of varied types in China are stepping towards the high ends of global value chains and industrial chains and building world class enterprises and crafting brands matching with the modernization path with Chinese characteristics represent an indispensable mission of the times and an opportune strategic choice, noted Zeng.
As a typical national brand and industry-leading company, Wuliangye always bears in mind the top priorities of the country and places branding work in a more important position to seize the chance to strengthen its brand personality and influence, added Zeng.
Among the 2022 World's 500 Most Influential Brands released by World Brand Laboratory, an international brand value research institute, Wuliangye ranked the 239th amid the 45 Chinese brands included and has been on the list of the type for six consecutive years with double-digit ranking rises every year.
Currently, more and more Chinese brands are deeply involved in global market to further sharpen Chinese brands on the world stage.
In China 500 2023 report released on May 9 by Brand Finance, the world's leading brand valuation consultancy, Wuliangye's brand value increased 17 percent from last year to 217.133 billion yuan, marking the seventh straight yearly growth and was rated the highest AAA+ rating.
To further the Chinese Baijiu producer's branding journey, a three-pronged approach was shared by Zeng, prioritizing product quality as the fundamental of branding, culture as the soul of brand value, and adherence to inheritance and innovation in creating world class brands.
The 2023 World Brand Moganshan Conference is jointly hosted by Xinhua News Agency, China Council for Brand Development and Zhejiang provincial government in Deqing County of Huzhou City in east China to promote Chinese brands.
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2023-05-12T11:49:02+00:00
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/05/12/xinhua-silk-road-china-now-best-period-build-itself-into-brand-powerhouse-wuliangye-board-chairman/
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Police name victim, give update in fatal Dubuque shooting
DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - Dubuque Police have given an update on the fatal shooting that took place in the 700 block of Rhomberg Avenue Tuesday morning.
Police responded to the area around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday for a report of shots fired. They found a man suffering from gunshot wounds when they arrived.
Officers quickly worked to try to save his life and first responders took him to the hospital, but the man died from his injuries.
Police say 31-year-old Lonnie Edward Burns has been identified as the victim.
An initial investigation revealed that there was a disturbance involving multiple people in the area when a gun became involved and shots were fired. Police say participants fled the area on foot in several directions following the incident.
Officials are asking for any citizens in the area with surveillance systems to review the footage and notify investigations if they find any persons captured on camera around the time of the incident.
Dubuque Police say people can call (563) 589-4415, or Crime Stoppers at 800-747-0117 or at (563) 588-0714 with any information. They say people who give information in the case and it leads to an arrest may be eligible for a cash reward up to $2,000. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the city’s website.
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2023-02-08T21:23:16+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/2023/02/08/police-name-victim-give-update-fatal-dubuque-shooting/
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On air challenge: If you add two letters to GOAT and rearrange the result, you get another animal, AGOUTI — a tropical rodent. I'm going to name some other animals. For each one add two letters and scramble to name another animal.
1. BEAR + D & G
2. SEAL + E & W
3. COLT + E & O
4. COBRA + I & U
5. ANGORA + K & O
6. PEAHEN + L & T
7. MALLARD + I & O
Last week's challenge: This week's challenge came from listener (and New York Times crossword contributor) Peter Collins, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Take a word that's in the name of several tourist attractions in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. Rearrange the letters in that word to spell the names of two other nations' capitals. What are they?
Challenge answer: Memorial -> Rome, Lima
Winner: Bern Krafsig of Northborough, Mass.
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Samuel Mace, of Smyrna, Del. Name a fruit in one word. Drop the last two letters. The remaining letters can be rearranged to name two other fruits. What are they?
If you know the answer to this week's challenge, submit it here by Thursday, Feb. 2 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-01-29T14:08:34+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-01-29/sunday-puzzle-animal-additions
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LONDON (AP) — The European Commission has authorized the world’s first one-dose drug against a respiratory virus that sickens millions of babies and children globally every year.
In a statement Friday, drugmakers Sanofi and AstraZeneca said the European Commission had given the green light to nirsevimab, a laboratory-developed antibody designed to protect infants during their first exposure to RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, a highly contagious common infection that infects nearly all babies by age 2.
At the moment, babies at high risk of the disease can be given monthly shots to protect them during RSV season.
In September, the European Medicines Agency recommended that nirsevimab, sold as Beyfortus, be authorized based on advanced research that showed the drug reduced the chances that babies with RSV needed medical attention and appeared to be safe, compared to infants who got a dummy treatment. The drug is given in a single injection.
“We are excited about the opportunity to expand prevention efforts to all infants,” said Silke Mader, co-founder of the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants.
In the U.S., RSV is causing an early surge of infections in children’s hospitals this year. European health officials are warning there could be a similar spike across the continent.
For most healthy people, RSV is a cold-like nuisance. But the virus can be life-threatening for the very young and the elderly. The virus can infect deep in the lungs and in small babies, it can impede breathing by inflaming their tiny airways.
RSV kills about 100,000 babies annually, mostly in developing countries.
Nirsevimab was developed to give newborns and infants immediate protection against RSV through an antibody to prevent infections in their respiratory systems.
Earlier this week, Pfizer announced preliminary research showing that a new vaccine given to pregnant women could help protect their babies against RSV, after decades of failure to develop an effective shot.
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2022-11-04T20:52:33+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-europe-oks-1st-one-dose-drug-to-protect-babies-against-rsv/
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Cam Newton wants another shot.
The 2015 NFL Most Valuable Player announced in a spirted social media post that he’ll be throwing for pro scouts at Auburn’s Pro Day on Tuesday, hoping to rejoin the league. Newton, a free agent, led the Tigers to a national championship in 2011 and was the No. 1 overall pick in the draft later that year by the Carolina Panthers.
He spent 11 years in the league, the first nine with the Panthers. Newton turns 34 in May.
Newton hasn’t played in the NFL since 2021 when he rejoined the Panthers midseason for a second stint, a move he later admitted wasn’t the best decision of his career. He was 0-5 as a starter with Carolina in his return and was benched for the final two games of the season by former coach Matt Rhule.
Newton has a 75-68-1 record as a starting NFL quarterback and has run for more touchdowns than any quarterback in league history. He’s thrown for more than 32,000 yards and 194 touchdowns during his career.
Newton’s last full season came in 2020 when he played for the New England Patriots. He was 7-8 as a starter with eight TD passes and 10 interceptions.
His best season came in 2015 when he earned MVP honors, combining for 45 touchdowns and led the Panthers to the Super Bowl 50 where they lost 24-10 to the Denver Broncos. Newton’s career spiraled downhill shortly after following foot and shoulder injuries.
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2023-03-22T06:38:33+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/sports/former-nfl-mvp-cam-newton-to-throw-at-auburns-pro-day/
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SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
It's been about five months since a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals crashed in East Palestine, a town right on the edge of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, a little south of Youngstown. A number of the cars were carrying hazardous materials. And in an attempt to avoid a possible explosion, there was a controlled dayslong burn of those chemicals. Residents within a mile radius of the crash were evacuated. Days later, the evacuation order was lifted, and some residents say they developed rashes and nausea. The crash became a national flashpoint and a hot-button issue on both sides of the aisle. Not long after the derailment, Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw found himself in front of Congress, being grilled by a group of bipartisan lawmakers. In March, Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts asked Shaw whether he would support legislation requiring two-person train crews at minimum. Shaw didn't answer.
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ALAN SHAW: Senator, we'll commit to using research and technology to ensure the railroad operates safely.
ED MARKEY: Will you commit to a two-person crew on all trains?
SHAW: Senator, we're a data-driven organization, and I'm not aware of any data that links crew size with safety.
DETROW: The Railway Safety Act of 2023 proposed stricter safety regulations, including mandating two-person crews on freight trains. Here's the co-sponsor of the bill, Republican Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, speaking in May.
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J D VANCE: What happened in East Palestine cannot be undone. We cannot reverse it. We cannot change it. We cannot undo the psychological, economic and physical toll of the derailment in East Palestine. But I guarantee you, whether it's tomorrow or next week or next year, there will be another East Palestine in this country if we do not pass the Railway Safety Act. It's that simple.
DETROW: And back at that March hearing, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said life in East Palestine stopped being normal.
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MIKE DEWINE: Members of the committee, Norfolk Southern has an obligation to restore this community. It was their train, their tracks, their accident. They're responsible for this tragedy.
DETROW: The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident, and cleanup efforts are still ongoing. The residents of East Palestine are still in limbo. Alan Shaw, the CEO of Norfolk Southern, insists the company is continuing their commitment to help East Palestine recover and that Norfolk Southern is now on the forefront of improving safety in the rail industry. I sat down with Alan Shaw to talk about all of this.
SHAW: Scott, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for hosting me.
DETROW: And I want to start with that gold standard line, because we've heard you say it a lot in recent months. What specifically does it mean?
SHAW: You know, for me, it means we're going to continue to enhance safety at Norfolk Southern. We recognize the role that we play in the U.S. economy, and we take safety very, very seriously. So I look for inspiration, and I look outside of the industry. And I decided to hire the former - an admiral, who was a former head of the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program, as an independent consultant reporting directly to me. And so he's put together a team, which includes several former admirals, all with Navy nuke experience. And they're going to help us enhance our safety culture at Norfolk Southern. We know that the Navy Nuclear Program is the gold standard of safety, and we will be the gold standard of safety in the rail industry.
DETROW: Have there been any specific changes that you've made since you've started getting that consultation from that expert group?
SHAW: Yeah, we've done a number of things. You know, in March, we implemented a six-point safety plan. You've seen me on the Hill engaging proactively with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle, advancing various railway safety bills. You know, there are a lot of things that make a lot of sense to us, and we're not waiting to act. We've hired the Navy Nuclear Program. You've seen me engage personally with the heads of our labor unions. I wrote an open letter to all 20,000 Norfolk Southern employees, talking about collaborating with my union colleagues on safety. And it was jointly signed by the heads of 12 of our labor unions.
DETROW: The February crash got a lot of attention, as you certainly know, but this is a broader issue, right? If you look at Norfolk Southern, you look at the other big rail lines, there were 286 train derailments last year. That's about every other day on average - more than every other day on average. And that's on the mainlines. You know, that's not counting the rail yard derailments, things like that. It's just that they're not carrying toxic chemicals in towns in the way that happened in East Palestine. What's the big-picture problem here? Why does this keep happening at this level, and how do you get those numbers down?
SHAW: You know, rail is the safest, most efficient and most sustainable form of transporting goods across land, and we can do better. You know, last year at Norfolk Southern, the number of derailments was the lowest in two decades. You know, we can do better. And last year, the employee injury rate at Norfolk Southern was the lowest in a decade, and we can do better.
DETROW: This bill, it's not quite stalled on the Senate right now, but there's an open question of, does it have 60 votes to go forward? Do you want to see something pass the Senate? Do you want to see some sort of rail safety legislation get to President Biden's desk and signed?
SHAW: Yes, we are for bipartisan solution to rail safety. And we understand that it's a industry-wide approach, and it's - it includes shippers, it includes customers, it includes railcar owners, and it certainly includes the railroads themselves. And again, we're not waiting to act.
DETROW: I want to talk about the two-crew minimum, though, because that is a piece of this legislation. That was a component of a law that Ohio put in place after the crash. And that's something that the industry has pushed back on, even filing a lawsuit to block that aspect of Ohio's law. Where are you on mandating two-crew minimums?
SHAW: You know, what we're really interested in is focusing on quality of life for my union colleagues. And there is a component of a ground-based conductor that would improve a predictable work schedule.
DETROW: And ground-based conductor - this is a conductor who's not physically on the train?
SHAW: Correct. And so, you know, we - since I became CEO about a year ago, I've made it a real point to engage with my union colleagues. And we were the first railroad to have paid sick leave for all of our union employees. We're the first railroad to have assigned days off for all of our union employees. Since I became CEO of Norfolk Southern, we've been on a hiring spree. And right now, we've got about 1,500 more union employees than we did when I became CEO.
DETROW: I guess - I have a couple follow-up questions on that. And first of all, can you just explain the idea of a ground-based conductor a little more? Because I think a lot of people hearing this might think, wait a second, how does this work? How does somebody who's not on the train help make sure the train is safe?
SHAW: Well, a ground-based conductor will be at various points along the route. The ground-based conductor will have a very predictable schedule and know when they're - when they'll be able to go home. And they'll be able to assist the engineer with switching cars at local industry.
DETROW: So that's a future where there's one person on the train, there's one person assisting the train, but not physically on the train.
SHAW: Correct.
DETROW: I want to stick with the crew just for one more moment because it's something that certainly a lot of the labor groups involved in freight rail have talked a lot about. It's something that's been one of the higher-profile points of contention here. I guess, thinking about this from somebody who lives in a town that the freight train is coming through, somebody who's not an expert in the field, who doesn't know a lot of the details, they might be thinking, these trains are up to three miles long. Doesn't it make sense to have more people on the train?
SHAW: You know, we have not seen a link between crew size and safety. We invest in safety at Norfolk Southern. We've invested over a billion dollars a year in safety. And, you know, we're investing in engagement with our craft colleagues as well, as I noted, because we're investing in the future.
DETROW: We're talking about working with the labor unions, and you've been doing that and having those conversations. And I saw that letter that you signed, along with various unions that work on Norfolk Southern saying, we're going to have a conversation. We don't always need to agree, and that's OK. It's a little bit of a paraphrase, but you basically had that message in there. And I know you've been having a lot of internal conversations, but I just wanted to play some criticism from you - from somebody. This is Clyde Whitaker, the Ohio state legislative director for one of the big rail employee unions. This was speaking at a Senate hearing about East Palestine, and I wanted to just listen to this and get your response.
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CLYDE WHITAKER: This derailment did not have to happen, and it makes it so much more frustrating for us to know that it was very predictable. And yet our warnings and cries for help over the last seven years have fallen on deaf ears, and the outcome was exactly as we feared.
DETROW: I know we were talking kind of broadly about these trends, but what's your specific response to that, that something that happened like what happened in February was predictable, as he put it?
SHAW: Yeah. When I became CEO, I charted it, of course, for Norfolk Southern. And we are investing in our employees. We're investing in safety. We're investing in the long-term health of our customers and the communities that we serve. And employee engagement is a big part of that. And I am very encouraged by the fact that our employees feel - they feel that they are welcome to raise their hand and offer suggestions for improvement. That's a big part of our safety program. I'm looking for 20,000 voices at Norfolk Southern advocating for safety.
DETROW: It's been about - more than five months at this point since the derailment. Knowing what you know now, what would you have done differently? What could the company have done differently, either leading up to the derailment or in the immediate aftermath of the derailment?
SHAW: I'm really proud of our response in East Palestine. We had a family assistance center set up the day following the derailment. We have committed over $63 million to East Palestine, which includes a $25 million park revitalization project. We're working really closely, under the direction of the EPA and the IEPA on the environmental remediation, and we're investing in the community to help the community thrive. I go back almost every week, and I sit and listen to the community about what we can do to help invest in the community and help it thrive. And I'll keep going back in each - each and every day, we're going to do the next right thing.
DETROW: Let me try that a little differently. What is a lesson you've learned? Not necessarily something you'd do differently, but what is a lesson you have learned that hadn't quite materialized in your head before, after dealing with this experience very intensely?
SHAW: You know, I think what it does for me is it reaffirms my commitment to working in the best interest of our employees and our customers and the communities we serve, which is the commitment that I rolled out in December of last year.
DETROW: That's Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw. Thanks so much for talking to us.
SHAW: Thank you, Scott.
DETROW: And Frank Morris was listening in to that conversation. Frank covers the rail industry from member station KCUR in Kansas City. Frank, what did you hear in that conversation? What jumped out to you about what Shaw said and what Shaw didn't say?
FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: Yeah, what he didn't say was that railroads really hate this two-person mandate that's baked into this Railway Safety Act. They feel that that's just not germane to the wreck in East Palestine - there were three people in that crew, for instance - and that it's not a safety issue. They say that they don't have data to back up the assertion that two people are better than one in the cab. Now, that's a very popular idea and it makes intuitive sense. And there are anecdotal, you know, instances of two people - the conductor helping the engineer through a heart attack or, you know, backstopping them on safety issues. But the railroads hate that idea because they are facing a future of autonomous vehicles, driverless trucks, and they don't want to have a statutorily mandated economic disadvantage going forward in perpetuity because of this Railway Safety Act.
DETROW: He didn't quite answer when I said, do you oppose the two-person requirement? But it was clear from what he said that it seemed like he did. And as you're saying, this has been a really big area of pushback from the rail industry, going as far as to sue Ohio to block that part of that state law from taking effect.
MORRIS: Yeah, the American Association of Railroads sued Ohio, and they'll probably be suing other states, too, because there are other states, like Kansas, who are proposing the exact same thing. You know, mandating two people in a cab or a train, again, makes sense intuitively. The unions are solidly behind it, and they say it's a safety issue. But the railroads are, again, facing this driverless vehicle future, and they don't want to be locked in to that requirement.
DETROW: I noted to Shaw that there were 286 train derailments on mainlines in 2022, and he responded that derailment numbers are overall down from several years ago. Was that accurate?
MORRIS: That is true, but there's a caveat. So in terms of the rate of accidents, it's up a little bit per mile. But the actual number of derailments is down.
DETROW: That's Frank Morris, who covers the rail industry from member station KCUR. Frank, thanks so much.
MORRIS: Thank you, Scott. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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2023-07-23T21:52:57+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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BERLIN, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fraugster, a payment intelligence company, has been selected by epay to pilot AI payment fraud prevention services. epay is a full-service payment provider and the digital payments processing business segment of the global financial technology solutions and payments provider Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT).
epay's worldwide transactions for payment and branded payment processing across all channels grew 30% in 2021 to more than 3 billion. Because the full-service payment provider continues to expand its engagement in web-based and in-app channels, it is important to continuously develop the overall ecosystem protection that minimizes risk from the outset using Fraugster's AI Anti-Fraud Engine.
"With Fraugster's AI data enrichment and custom data points we will gain deep insights into end-user behavior for our offered payment methods, which will strengthen our existing payment security strategy," said Dr. Markus Landrock, epay's Managing Director of DACH and Global Issuing, Payments & Rewards. "It will also enable us to make more accurate approval decisions as we continue to grow our business, whilst giving us the flexibility we need to cater for different business models within the Euronet group. This way, our retail and brand partners as well as their end customers can continue to rely on secure processes at epay in the future."
Because the demand for digital and branded payments are constantly increasing, these payment methods require ongoing development in fraud prevention within the risk system. In addition, e-commerce fraud losses are significantly higher now than pre-pandemic levels, costing online merchants heavily and making payment security and intelligence more important than ever.
"We are delighted to be working so closely with another well-established financial technology company that is operating in a high-risk vertical, offering their customers a range of payment methods without compromising on payment security," said Fraugster CEO Christian Mangold. "A combination of our expertise and AI technology will ensure that epay continues to see an increase in payment acceptance and reduction in fraud losses."
About Fraugster
Fraugster is a Berlin based payment intelligence company. Fraugster enables the world's leading merchants, and global payment companies like Worldline and Ratepay to intelligently manage the impact of fraud to minimize the costs of fraud, maximize revenue and improve customer experience. Fraugster has developed one of the most accurate AI fraud prevention solutions in the market and is backed by leading investors Earlybird, Speedinvest, CommerzVentures and Munich Re Ventures. Further information can be found at https://www.fraugster.com.
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epay, a segment of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), is a leading global provider of payment processing and prepaid solutions that processed more than 3 billion transactions in 2021. The company has built an extensive network of retailer touchpoints with 760,000 point-of-sale terminals in 63 countries that connects brands with consumers all over the world. The company offers a diverse ecosystem of services, products and solutions supporting the distribution of Payment and Branded Payments for more than 1,000 brand partners via Commerce, eCommerce and mCommerce solutions. For more information visit www.epayworldwide.com.
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2022-08-10T07:13:51+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/epay-selects-fraugster-pilot-fraud-prevention-services-its-payment-processing/
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Operation Warm, a national nonprofit, gave hundreds of Indianapolis Public School students new winter coats on Thursday.
The nonprofit distributed coats at William McKinley School 39 on the city’s southeast side.
Volunteers from FedEx partnered with Operation Warm to hand out the coats.
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2022-11-10T22:01:59+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/operation-warm-gives-ips-students-new-winter-coats/
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Skip the lines at Starbucks with this tasty, easy-to-follow recipe
For many people, fall starts as soon as Starbucks and other coffee chains bring pumpkin spice lattes back to their menu. The pumpkin spice latte has become such a beloved beverage that most fans count down the days to its return each year.
But if you love these lattes, you don’t have to venture out to Starbucks when the craving hits. Our coffee expert, Branson Stowell, shared his favorite pumpkin spice latte recipe with us and how you can make it easily at home.
In this article: Bodum Pour Over Coffee Maker, Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine and Rae Dunn Milk Handheld Milk Frother
How to make pumpkin spice milk/syrup
The star of any pumpkin spice latte recipe is the pumpkin spice milk or syrup that gives the latte its warm, fall-centric flavor and rich, creamy texture. To make your own pumpkin spice milk, you’ll need:
- 2 cups milk
- 2 to 3 ½ tablespoons pumpkin puree
- 2 ½ to 3 tablespoons sugar
- ½ tablespoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
While you can use any type of dairy or nondairy milk, Stowell prefers oat milk because it has some sweetness that enhances the other flavors in the mix. You can make your own pumpkin puree by roasting a pumpkin and running it through a food processor. According to Stowell, canned pumpkin puree from your local grocery store works just as well — and can save you valuable time when whipping up these lattes.
The same is true for the pumpkin pie spice itself. You can find pre-mixed bottles at the grocery store, though you’ll usually get a fresher taste if you mix it yourself. Stowell suggests combining freshly grated ginger, nutmeg, ground cloves and cinnamon to make your own pumpkin pie spice. He even recommends adding a pinch of black pepper for some added heat.
Once you have your ingredients prepared, whisk them all together in a saucepan. Bring it to a simmer over medium-high heat, removing it from the stove just before it reaches a boil. Each batch is enough for several drinks, so you can store any unused pumpkin spice milk in a mason jar or other sealed container in your fridge. It should last for about a week.
Keep in mind that you can play around with the amount of each ingredient in the pumpkin spice milk to get the flavor you prefer. For example, Stowell recommends using the full 3 ½ tablespoons of pumpkin puree if you want a stronger pumpkin flavor for your latte — or less if you want a subtle hint of pumpkin. You can also adjust the sugar, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice amounts to get the milk to meet your taste preferences.
How to make a pumpkin spice latte
While waiting for the pumpkin spice milk to simmer on the stove, start brewing a strong cup of black coffee. Stowell likes using pour-over coffee, but you can also make your latte with coffee made in a French press or a drip coffee machine. Cold brew is ideal if you enjoy iced pumpkin spice lattes. Coffee houses usually use espresso in their pumpkin spice lattes, so that works well, too.
The recipe calls for three parts coffee to one part pumpkin spice milk. If using espresso, use at least two shots of Americano-style espresso. Before combining the milk with your coffee, though, Stowell likes to take the extra step of using a milk frothing wand or frother to froth the milk. That creates a creamier consistency for your finished latte.
And if you want an authentic coffee house experience, top your latte with whipped cream and a sprinkling of pumpkin pie spice.
Essentials for making a pumpkin spice latte at home
Hamilton Beach Stack & Snap Food Processor and Vegetable Chopper
If you want to make your own pumpkin puree, this 12-cup food processor makes the task much easier. Its powerful 450-watt motor and two speeds can tackle even the hardest fruits and veggies. It’s also easy to assemble with a stack and snap design that doesn’t require twisting or locking.
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Cuisinart Multiclad Pro Triple Play Stainless Steel 3-quart Saucepan with Cover
This premium saucepan is ideal for mixing a batch of pumpkin spice milk. It has a pure aluminum core with heat surround technology that ensures even heat distribution. It’s also dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning.
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This whisk has a narrow shape that makes it easy to mix all your pumpkin spice ingredients together in a saucepan. Its handle has a contoured shape that fits well in your hand, while the nonslip grip ensures you have control while you whisk.
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This quick and easy pour-over coffee maker comes in multiple sizes, depending on how many cups you need each day. It has a permanent stainless steel mesh filter that provides the best-tasting coffee. Its compact design makes it easy to store, too.
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Frieling Double-Walled Stainless Steel French Press Coffee Maker
This elegantly-designed French press features double-walled construction that provides excellent durability and reliability. All the parts are dishwasher-safe, and the two-stage filter system ensures there’s no sediment in your coffee. It also works well for loose tea.
Cuisinart Brew Central 12-cup Programmable Coffeemaker
This drip coffee maker offers 24-hour programmability, so you can have hot coffee waiting for you in the morning. It also has a variable heater plate that provides adjustable temperature control. The 12-cup glass carafe allows you to make coffee for a group when entertaining, too.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine
This professional-grade espresso machine features an integrated grinder and steam wand, so you have everything you need to make a delicious shot of espresso. It has digital temperature control and a grind size dial.
Bodum Bean Cold Brew Coffee Maker
If you prefer iced pumpkin spice lattes, this easy-to-use cold brew coffee maker is an excellent option. It can hold up to 51 ounces and contains BPA-free plastic parts that are all dishwasher-safe. The locking lid also prevents spills.
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Rae Dunn Milk Handheld Milk Frother
This portable, battery-operated frother makes it easy to froth your milk in any container. It offers 1200 revolutions per minute for quick foaming, but it doesn’t make much noise when in use. It also cleans easily with hot water and has a slim design to fit in any cabinet or drawer.
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Capresso Froth Max Milk Frother
This pitcher-style frother makes it easy to froth larger quantities of milk quickly and easily. It also allows you to heat your milk and has a cool-touch handle to prevent burns. It has dishwasher-safe components for easy cleaning.
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2022-09-09T11:40:04+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/reviews/br/kitchen-br/coffee-accessories-br/how-to-make-a-delicious-pumpkin-spice-latte-at-home/
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Sir Elton John is preparing to say goodbye in fabulous splendor, with the help of a documentary crew and the Walt Disney Co.
Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ said Wednesday that the film, entitled “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances and the Years that Made His Legend,” will serve as the definitive and official feature on John’s life and career. Including unseen archival footage, new interviews and a present day look at him and his family, it’ll culminate with his final North American show at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles this November.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker R.J. Cutler, who most recently directed the Billie Eilish documentary “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” is directing the film alongside producer and director David Furnish, who is married to John. Furnish also directed the 1997 Elton John documentary “Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras” and produced the Hollywood biopic “Rocketman.”
“What a thrill and an honor it is that David Furnish and I get to create this intimate and unique look at one of the world’s most celebrated artists,” Cutler said in a statement. “As it has for so many others, Elton John’s music has had deep meaning for me for decades, and this opportunity is nothing short of a career highlight and privilege.”
No release date was revealed for “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” but the companies teased a festival run and a theatrical release before it streams on Disney+.
“There are no superlatives left to describe Elton John and his impact on music and culture — he’s simply unrivaled,” said Bob Chapek, CEO of The Walt Disney Company. “Like a good Disney story, Elton’s music has both universal appeal and the ability to connect with audiences on a deeply personal level. He has been part of the Disney family since 1994 when he helped make ‘The Lion King’ an instant classic, and we could not be more excited to collaborate with him on this new documentary.”
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2022-05-19T06:40:14+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/entertainment-news/elton-john-doc-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-lands-at-disney/
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TORONTO — George Springer hit his seventh career grand slam, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had a two-run drive and the Toronto Blue Jays extended their winning streak to seven by beating the short-handed St. Louis Cardinals 10-3 Tuesday night.
Springer had three hits, scored twice, and made a fine catch at the wall in deep right to end the game, leaving the bases loaded.
“He’s a stud,” Schneider said of Springer. “He’s continuously made big plays in big moments his whole career.”
Dylan Carlson hit a solo home run as St. Louis played the first of two games in Canada without unvaccinated sluggers Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado. The two biggest bats in the Cardinals lineup were placed on the restricted list before the game, along with catcher Austin Romine.
Foreign nationals who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 are not allowed to enter Canada, save for limited exceptions that require a 14-day quarantine. Unvaccinated baseball players are placed on the restricted list, where they are not paid and do not accrue major league service time.
A seven-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove award winner at first base, Goldschmidt leads the Cardinals in batting average (.333), home runs (22), RBIs (74), on-base percentage (.416) and hits (116). He was named NL player of the week Monday after homering in five straight games.
Arenado is a seven-time All-Star and a nine-time Gold Glove winner at third base. The former Colorado star has led the NL in home runs three times.
Veteran slugger Albert Pujols started at first base in place of Goldschmidt, while Brendan Donovan was at third base. The crowd of 39,756 gave Pujols a loud ovation before his first at-bat.
Carlson connected off José Berríos in the first, his sixth. Guerrero answered in the bottom half with his 21st home run and Chapman added an RBI single to make it 3-1.
Carlson and Pujols tied it with RBI hits in the third, but Chapman restored the lead with a hit off Jordan Hicks (2-5) in the sixth. Hicks walked the next two batters to load the bases before Junior Fernández came on and served up Springer’s slam, his 18th home run this season.
“It’s a big spot right there, to put us up by some more runs,” Springer said. “That’s the stuff that you enjoy playing the game for. It’s a huge moment.”
HIcks and Fernández combined for eight outs, four walks, and seven earned runs.
“When you allow free bases, that’s where you get yourself in trouble,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said.
Berríos allowed three runs and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings. Tim Mayza (5-0) got one out for the win.
Making his second career interleague start, Cardinals rookie right-hander Andre Pallante allowed three runs and seven hits in four innings.
“There’s going to be days where if you’re relying on balls in play, it’s going to find a hole, Marmol said. “Today they squared them up.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: It will be about a week before St. Louis knows whether LHP Steven Matz will require season-ending surgery, Marmol said. Matz left Saturday’s start against Cincinnati in the sixth inning after straining his left knee while trying to field Joey Votto’s dribbler up the first-base line.
Blue Jays: LHP Yusei Kikuchi (strained neck) threw a side session Tuesday and is a candidate to come off the IL and start Thursday against Detroit, Schneider said.
WELCOME BACK, BUCK!
Before the second inning, the Blue Jays came out of their dugout and tipped their caps to former TV broadcaster Buck Martinez, who returned to the booth Tuesday after undergoing treatment for cancer. Fans stood and cheered and even Pallante stopped warming up to salute Martinez, who stepped away from his role in mid-April.
Martinez, 73, is a former Blue Jays catcher and manager who also played for Kansas City and Milwaukee in a 17-year big league career that ended in 1986. He managed Team USA at the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006.
SNAPPY
After falling behind 0-2 in his third-inning at bat against Berríos, Pujols removed a broken chain from around his neck, handed it to home plate umpire Laz Diaz for safekeeping, then grounded a game-tying single on the next pitch.
SIMPLY GRAND
Toronto has five grand slams this season, tied for most in the majors.
ROSTER MOVES
Cardinals: St. Louis recalled OF Conor Capel and C Iván Herrera, and selected INF Cory Spangenberg from Triple-A Memphis as substitute players.
UP NEXT
Cardinals RHP Adam Wainwright (6-8, 3.40) starts Wednesday against Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman (7-7, 3.00). Wainwright’s only prior start in Toronto was a 5-0 loss on June 24, 2010.
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2022-07-27T03:48:52+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mlb/springer-7th-slam-jays-win-7th-in-row-top-depleted-cards/2022/07/26/94b4870c-0d54-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html
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Police: Man offers mother cash for daughter in attempted kidnapping
Published: Sep. 10, 2022 at 1:33 PM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
CHICAGO (CNN) - Chicago police say they are searching for a suspect in an attempted kidnapping.
Authorities say a man tried to kidnap a 5-year-old girl Friday morning.
The girl and her mother were walking on a sidewalk when they said the man had approached them.
The man allegedly offered the mother cash for her daughter. Police said he tried to pull the girl toward him when she refused.
The mother and daughter were able to escape, but police are now looking for the man.
Police said the suspect is believed to be a white man, between the ages of 20 and 25, with bright red hair and a thin beard. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, red shorts and a black hat.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-09-10T19:01:47+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/2022/09/10/police-man-offers-mother-cash-daughter-attempted-kidnapping/
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The Portland Denny’s location has permanently closed its doors.
The location’s Facebook page officially lists the restaurant as permanently closed.
A sign on the door said the same thing and encouraged patrons to visit the Auburn location.
The Portland Denny’s location has permanently closed its doors.
The location’s Facebook page officially lists the restaurant as permanently closed.
A sign on the door said the same thing and encouraged patrons to visit the Auburn location.
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2022-09-14T14:05:36+00:00
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bangordailynews.com
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https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/13/news/portland/portland-dennys-closed/
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A homeowner returned to her San Manuel, Arizona residence after work and found an animal lounging on her dog’s bed that wasn’t her pet. It was a bobcat.
The bobcat is believed to have gotten into the home through the unlocked doggie door, according to CBS News.
The homeowner took a photo of the bobcat, which the Arizona Game and Fish Department on Twitter. Arizona Game and Fish Department officers arrived on the scene, but the bobcat was already gone.
According to the department, here’s what you should (or shouldn’t) do if you come in contact with the animal.
“A bobcat lounges on a dog bed in San Manuel home Mon. The homeowner, who found it upon returning from work, suspects it entered through an unlocked doggie door. The bobcat escaped before an officer arrived. Don’t handle entrapped/hurt wildlife yourself. Call 623-236-7201 ASAP,” the department wrote on Twitter.
Hence, it’s recommended not to deal with the issue yourself when you come into contact with a bobcat.
While there was no dog in sight of the bed, bobcats are dangerous to small pets like birds and dogs.
Bobcats look similar to mountain lions. They have dark spots and tan coats. They are also very common in places like Arizona, the department confirmed. They live in deserts in the Southwest, swamps in the Southeast and Northern forests, according to Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Bobcats live in every state except Delaware, the International Society for Endangered Cats Canada reported.
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2023-03-09T21:39:59+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2023/03/woman-returns-home-to-find-bobcat-in-dogs-bed-heres-what-you-do-if-you-come-in-contact-with-one.html
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Photo: The Mavericks - themavericksband.com
Eddie Perez of the Mavericks
Eddie Perez of the Mavericks
It’s surprising that Eddie Perez, the Mavericks’ flamboyant lead guitar player, doesn’t have more foot problems, considering how much ass he kicks during a performance. Born in Los Angeles in 1968, the Mexican-American Perez spent almost a decade recording and touring with country superstar Dwight Yoakam before becoming a Maverick in 2003. He instantly clicked with vocalist Raul Malo, becoming an integral part of the band’s eclectic blend of Cuban, country, soul and rock and roll music.
Perez is back on the road with the Mavericks to complete the band’s 30th anniversary concert tour, which was interrupted during the coronavirus pandemic. In a recent interview, he talked about his growth as a player and the enjoyment from playing in the band. Perez and the Mavericks will perform at the Pabst Theater on April 14.
The best band no one’s heard of?
(laughs). I agree with that a hundred thousand million percent! (laughs) We promote our music on social media platforms but we’re still an underground phenomenon. People who never heard of us attend one of the shows and then listen to our recordings. The audience gets it. We’re extending a musical invitation to join us.
Talk a little about growing up in East LA.
For me it was great. Music was always a part of my life. My father loved music and he had a huge collection of vinyl from ZZ Top and Van Halen to Frank Sinatra and Puerto Rican jazz. At family parties, the adults would get together and sing Mexican songs late into the night. My uncle gave me a guitar and I spent hours learning to play it by listening to Chuck Berry records.
You’re fluent in so many musical genres.
My father’s love of all music taught me not to get pigeon-holed into one kind or another. The Mavericks are perfect for me because we play so many different types of music. Our music has heart, soul, and spirit.
It’s obvious you love playing to an audience.
Admittedly so (laughs). I don’t play the notes because I can, you know? I play them because that’s what the music is telling me to do at that moment. It’s a privilege to do what I do. Inside I feel like that 16-year-old kid playing rock and roll in the garage.
And the band members can shine onstage without stepping on each other.
Each band member lives in a different piece of sonic real estate, but we all speak the same musical language. We make our music primarily for live shows. Each of us has a lot of experience and the combination of our musical journeys makes us unique.
The Rollings Stones are driven by the music rather than the other way around, and the Mavericks seem to be as well. Do you agree?
I do, and here’s an example. Recently we spent three nights on a cruise ship, and never used our set list because Raul [Malo] kept on calling out different numbers, like cover songs we’d never played before that night! I love contributing to that magic as well as supporting it. We listen to what everyone else is playing. This happens when you’re so proficient on your instrument that you feel the emotion of the song rather than worrying about playing it right. And by the way these are great questions. You’ve obviously done your homework (laughs).
You thrive on word-of-mouth rather than corporate advertising.
That’s always been our saving grace. The Mavericks can’t be pushed into one category or another. Record label marketers don’t really know what to do with us. As a result, we’ve evolved into a self-managed group that does its own marketing and merchandising. We don’t like people telling us what to do (laughs).
How many days a year are you on the road?
I’d guess maybe 240 days. But I’m used to it. I was 13 when I started playing in bands, and I’m 55 now. I’ve performed in many venues with a lot of different musicians, but I love where I am today.
I know you have a family. How do you achieve the necessary balance?
It requires a firm commitment to my wife and son. He’s 15 now, and I go home anytime I can grab a flight between dates. I’d much rather do that than lay around some city. The Mavericks are a huge part of my life, but family is more important.
What do people say about you behind your back?
(laughs) They say that guy is one cool dude! (laughs). Seriously, I hope they say he’s a kind, soulful, dynamic, and generous guy. I hope they say that.
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2023-03-31T19:25:36+00:00
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shepherdexpress.com
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https://shepherdexpress.com/music/music-feature/the-mavericks-might-be-the-best-band-youve-never-heard-of/
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NEWARK, N.J., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HarbourView Equity Partners (HarbourView), the global alternative asset management company founded by Sherrese Clarke Soares has acquired the publishing catalog of multi-Platinum band Lady A.
Over the course of their decade-plus career, Lady A has become one of the 21st century's premier vocal groups. Built around rich vocal harmony, vivid emotional writing and a smooth fusion of Country, rock and pop, Lady A have long been a model of mainstream success, ushering more than 18 million album units, 34 million tracks sold, nearly five billion digital streams and 11 No. One hits.
The trio, which consists of Hillary Scott Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, earned the biggest first week streams of their career with their critically acclaimed No. One album OCEAN. Known for their 9X Platinum hit "Need You Now," which is the highest certified song by a Country group, they have earned CMA "Vocal Group of the Year" trophies three years in a row and countless other honors including five GRAMMY Awards, Billboard Music Awards, People's Choice Awards, Teen Choice Awards, a Tony Award nod, and were recently inducted as members of the Grand Ole Opry.
The band's LadyAID Scholarship Fund supports students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
HarbourView has been extremely active since launching just nine months ago, acquiring over 36 catalogs to date. The firm's distinctly diverse portfolio features thousands of titles spanning numerous genres and decades. Most recently the company acquired the catalogs rock of rock band Hollywood Undead, multi-GRAMMY Award winning duo Dre & Vidal, and global superstar Luis Fonsi.
Focused on investment opportunities in the media and entertainment space, HarbourView combines decades of industry experience and investing expertise, supported by an experienced team, to present a fresh take on investment management, built on intellectual curiosity.
The company strives to be the standard for excellence and integrity in investing in assets and companies driven by premier intellectual property, with expertise in and around esoteric asset classes, including in music, film, TV, and sports.
Fox Rothschild LLP served as legal counsel to HarbourView in the transaction. Lady A is represented by Greenberg Traurig LLP's Jess L. Rosen.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
HarbourView is a global investment firm focused on niche markets and esoteric investment opportunities that aim to build enduring value and returns. The company is headquartered in Newark, NJ.
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2022-07-26T01:36:19+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/07/26/harbourview-equity-partners-acquires-lady-music-catalog/
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Classical California’s Bill Lueth and Lara Downes took part in a discussion about what the future holds for classical music in a forum hosted by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The event was called “Can Classical Music End its Love Affair with Crisis? A Conversation About Inventing the Future of Music.” The panel reflected the broad coalition of arts partners that SFCM president David Stull has been working to develop in the 10 years since he’s been in that position. In addition to being the broadcast home to Classical KDFC in the recently-built Bowes Center, the Conservatory has also formed alliances with premiere artist management companies Askonas Holt and Opus 3 Artists, as well as the record label Pentatone. These partnerships will enable young musicians to face a different cultural landscape than might have been possible just a few years ago. David Stull says many of the negative assumptions about the health of classical music are rooted more in habit than reality.
Pentatone Managing Director Sean Hickey suggests that this more holistic approach, which starts with the students who are just about to launch their concert careers and extends through management, recording, and broadcasting, could be the blueprint for a new and healthier ecosystem.
Donagh Collins, the CEO of Askonas Holt and Opus 3 Artists, says the possibility of greater artistic freedom and security is going to be a draw for young musicians, beyond just joining the company that represents Yo-Yo Ma, Nicola Bendetti, Marin Alsop and Daniil Trifonov.
Classical California evening host Lara Downes cited her own unique vantage point of being a recording and performing artist with a radio megaphone, to help people find an entryway into the world of classical music and join the community of music lovers.
You can watch the entire conversation, which took place at the beginning of March, 2023 here:
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2023-04-01T00:16:10+00:00
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kusc.org
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https://www.kusc.org/culture/staff-blog/a-discussion-about-the-future-of-classical-music/
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Are you ready to pack your bags and head out of town for a little rest and relaxation? If your luggage has seen better days and you’ve been holding off on replacing it because of your budget — not to worry. We found a luggage sale just in time for the summer travel season that will leave money in your pocket for the fun parts of your vacation.
Set your sights on this four-piece luggage set marked down from $340 to $99.99.
Hillsboro Kensie 4-piece Hardside Collection
The Hillsboro Kensie 4-piece Hardside Collection is marked down 70% for a limited time at Macy’s.
Two of the luggage pieces (a full-size upright bag and a carry-on size bag) have four wheels and a push-button trolley handle for easy movement and comfort. Also included in the set are two packing cubes that can either be carried independently or tucked inside the larger bags to keep items organized.
You can choose from five different colors including Green Granite, Cloud Dance (white), Dried Moss (yellow), Burnished Lilac and Veri Peri (periwinkle). But this carry-on luggage sale price is only available for a limited time, so grab it quickly so you can start packing for your summer vacation.
Here are a few other carry-on luggage sales we found online to help you travel in style without breaking the bank.
Joyway Carry-On Suitcase Set (Amazon, $97.13 plus a $10-off coupon)
Save 29% off the normal $135.95 retail price with this carry-on luggage sale from Amazon. Plus, you get a $10-off coupon when you check out by simply clicking the box in the product description!
The set includes three pieces: a 20-inch upright suitcase with four, 360-degree double wheels for silent and smooth movement, a 14-inch cosmetic bag and a 7-inch small bag.
The aluminum handle on the upright back is adjustable and the set comes with a TSA-approved luggage lock to keep your valuables secure, but easy to access for TSA inspections.
You can choose from other colors with this carry-on luggage set (including green, black, pink and more) but prices range up to $98.94 depending on your selection.
American Tourister 2-Piece Softside Luggage Set (Walmart, $48.99)
One of the best-known luggage brands has an affordable 2-piece luggage set available at Walmart. com.
The American Tourister 2-Piece Softside Luggage Set is made with lightweight, yet durable polyester and includes one 21-inch upright bag with inline wheels and a boarding/tote bag for those must-have items you need to access on the plane.
Combined, these bags weigh less than 8 pounds, which means they won’t add too much weight when taking to the road or skies.
US Traveler Rio Rugged Expandable Carry-On Luggage ($57.19)
This two-piece carry-on luggage set is perfect for the traveler looking to streamline packing.
The upright bag measures 21 inches high, 13.5 inches wide and can expand up to 10.5 inches deep. It has two wheels and an extendable, self-locking handle that makes getting through the airport or to the hotel smooth and easy.
You also get a tote bag with a strap that can be used either on the shoulder or that can piggyback on the larger suitcase.
This carry-on luggage set has more than 7,800 customer reviews and a 4.3-star overall rating on Amazon. Originally $69.99, this two-piece carry-on luggage set is marked down by almost 20% for a limited time.
Here’s to your happy travels!
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2023-05-24T01:01:21+00:00
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denver7.com
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https://www.denver7.com/this-4-piece-luggage-set-is-on-sale-for-99-99
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CHICAGO (AP) — The daughter of an American woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase at an Indonesian resort island is scheduled to appear in Chicago federal court on Friday to change her plea to guilty on charges she helped kill her mother in Bali nine years ago.
Heather Mack, 27, was convicted in Indonesia in 2015 of being an accessory to Sheila von Wiese-Mack's murder with her then-boyfriend in a bid to gain access to a $1.5 million trust fund. Mack, then 18 and pregnant, covered her mother's mouth in a hotel room while Tommy Schaefer bludgeoned Wiese-Mack with a fruit bowl, prosecutors say.
The change-of-plea hearing is the latest chapter in a story that garnered international attention in part because of photographs of the suitcase, which seemed too small to hold an adult woman’s body. Mack’s Chicago trial on conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and obstruction of justice had been set for Aug. 1.
Mack, who lived with her mother in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park, served seven years of her 10-year Indonesian sentence. She was then deported in 2021 and U.S. agents arrested her immediately after she landed at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Schaefer was convicted of murder and remains in Indonesia, where he is serving an 18-year sentence. He is charged in the same U.S. indictment.
Before Mack’s conviction in Indonesia, she gave birth to her and Schaefer’s daughter. Her then-six-year-old daughter was with her when Mack was arrested at the Chicago airport. The girl was later placed with a relative after a custody fight.
In successfully arguing against bond for Mack, prosecutors said she and Schaefer had planned the killing for months. They also said they had video evidence that showed both Mack and Schaefer trying to get the suitcase with Wiese-Mack’s body inside it into an Indonesian taxicab.
Some relatives of Wiese-Mack had complained that the Indonesian sentence was far too lenient. In filings, prosecutors said the U.S. charges don’t violate constitutional prohibitions against prosecuting someone twice for the same acts, including because the U.S. charges allege conspiracy and other acts not included in the Indonesian case.
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2023-06-16T04:20:03+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/heather-mack-convicted-in-bali-of-killing-mother-set-to-plead-guilty-in-us/MNDZNNLNMRCGDICKP7JYRAA3IE/
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says that he cannot imagine that tensions with neighboring NATO ally Turkey could ever escalate into armed conflict.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke at a press conference Sunday at the Thessaloniki International Fair, where he gave the keynote speech Saturday outlining his government’s economic policy goals.
Asked by The Associated Press whether a recent escalation in rhetoric from Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could be the prelude to an armed conflict, Mitsotakis replied negatively.
“I don’t believe this will ever happen. And if, God forbid, it happened, Turkey would receive an absolutely devastating response. And I think they know it very well. Turkey knows the competence of the Greek (armed) forces,” he said.
Erdogan has accused Greece of occupying supposedly demilitarized islands in the Aegean Sea and has threatened that Turkey would take action.
Mitsotakis added that, despite Erdogan’s “unacceptable” comments, he was still open to dialogue and a meeting with him.
Mitsotakis linked Greece’s unequivocal support for Ukraine to concerns that, if Russia prevails, it could serve as an example to other countries with expansionist designs.
“There is a dividing line between the countries that respect the inviolability of borders (and) the rules of international law and those who believe that, based on the law of the strongest, they can target countries they believe are weaker and change the borders on a whim,” Mitsotakis said.
Mitsotakis added “it is very important to give Ukraine the chance to negotiate a peace with Russia on its own terms and certainly not as the loser in this war.”
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Demetris Nellas contributed from Athens, Greece
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2022-09-12T03:32:04+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/ap-greek-leader-says-armed-conflict-with-turkey-wont-happen/
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2023-07-23T21:59:31+00:00
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tj.news
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Nearly 80 years after going MIA in WWII, US soldier accounted for
BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. Army soldier from Massachusetts reported missing in action while his unit was involved in fighting against German forces in Italy during World War II has been accounted for, the military said.
The remains of Pvt. Wing O. Hom, of Boston, were identified in April using both anthropological and mitochondrial DNA analysis, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday.
Hom, 20, went missing in February 1944 during fighting near the town of Cisterna di Latina, south of Rome.
A member of Company B, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division, Hom’s body was not recovered, and he was never reported as a prisoner of war, officials said. He was declared dead in February 1945.
A set of remains recovered near the hamlet of Ponte Rotto, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) west of Cisterna di Latina, could not be identified and were ultimately buried at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy.
Those remains were disinterred and sent for analysis and identification in 2021 after a DPAA historian studying unresolved American losses during the Italian campaign determined they possibly belonged to Hom.
Hom will be buried in Brooklyn, New York, on Oct. 11, the DPAA said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-12T13:14:43+00:00
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kttc.com
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https://www.kttc.com/2023/07/12/nearly-80-years-after-going-mia-wwii-us-soldier-accounted/
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to comedian Jerry Seinfeld, born on this date in 1954, “Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.”
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STOP BY – The North Tonawanda History Museum, 712 Oliver St., celebrates the city’s 125th anniversary with an open house from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, featuring the Crescendo barbershop quartet at 1:30 and string band Yellow Jack at 3.
Rods and Customs of Buffalo holds its 37th annual Swap Meet from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Sanborn Farm Museum, 2660 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn. For info, call 716-694-0888.
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LET’S EAT – The Renaissance Club, 252 Vandervoort St., North Tonawanda, will hold a chowder sale at 11 a.m. Saturday. $8 a quart.
Betsy Ross-Levant Chapter 695, Order of the Eastern Star, hosts a takeout Chiavetta’s chicken barbecue noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Sweet Home Masonic Hall, 641 Sweet Home Road, Amherst. $15.
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Holy Mother of the Rosary Cathedral, 6298 Broadway, Lancaster, offers a spring pork chop dinner beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday. $14.
Kenmore Methodist Church, 32 Landers Road, has a drive-thru Chiavetta’s chicken barbecue from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. $14.
Ten Lives Club Cat Adoption Group hosts its annual chicken parmesan dinner Sunday in Woodlawn Beach State Park. Presale dinners by Ilio DiPaulo’s Restaurant at 3:30 p.m. $15. Visit tenlivesclub.com or call 716-646-5577.
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CHURCH NOTES – Jake the Airport Dog is guest in a program entitled “Does God Have Paws?” at noon Sunday in Calvary Episcopal Church, 20 Milton St., Williamsville. Moderator Gina Lattuca will introduce new SPCA Serving Erie County president and CEO Caitlin M. Daly.
St. Peter’s United Church of Christ, 1475 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, presents its musical group Strike the Rock in a free concert at 7 p.m. Sunday.
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*** SAFETY FIRST – The Erie County Sheriff’s Office offers free car seat safety checks from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Elma Fire Company, 2945 Bowen Road.
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*** GIFT OF LIFE – Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls USA will help relieve the ongoing blood supply shortage by hosting Red Cross blood drives once a month. First one is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY – James P. Kennedy Jr., Connie Campanaro, Don Paul, Susan Martin, Michelle Richau, Marty Richau, Dean Brownrout, Doug Swift, Garnell Whitfield Jr., Geoffrey Gerow, Monica Mooney, April Stevens, Josh Bowen, Christine M. Kukelka, Judy Kirst, Bob Patterson, Emily Powley, Timothy Zimpfer, Heather Platt-Gulledge, Andy Chudy, Kellan Inman, Suzette Simonson, Pat Smolerek, Alex Robinson, Jack Panek, Riley Moll, Bob Patterson, Nicole Roberts, Jack Nelligan and Sheila Kwiatkowski.
AND SATURDAY – Linda Mabry, Doug Morgano, Peter Cutler, Karen May, James M. Sampson, Jerod Dahlgren, Kait Munro, Edreys Wajed, Denise Beaton, Peggy Gonzalez, Betsy Phillips, Diane Moser, Bill Vogt, Cynthia Q. Schilling, R. N. Schilling, Tim Meidenbauer, Wilson Martinez, Ginny Homewood, Diane Sobocinski, Pam Grabowski, Mark Romance and Rosie DeMart.
AND SUNDAY – Margaret Sullivan, Jim Lorentz, Jim Staas, Jeffrey Friedman, Bill Westley, Jaclyn Brown, Paige Rathke, Bessie Patterson, Troy Toohey, John Young IV, Donna Costa, Sheri Moreno-Lisiecki, Jackson Buczkowski, Elana Murphy, Nolan Oliver, Cindi Vaught, Deborah Woroniecki, Elizabeth Mis Zastrow, Alan B. Stewart, Donald C. Hamman, Pam Calabrese, Brian Janiszewski, Jerry Atkin, Bogumila Janowska and Conor McDermott.
To submit birthdays and other items of interest to Reporters’ Notebook, please email olaffub@buffnews.com or send a letter to Reporters’ Notebook, Buffalo News, Box 100, Buffalo, NY 14240.
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2022-04-29T06:13:06+00:00
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buffalonews.com
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https://buffalonews.com/news/local/reporters-notebook-april-29-2022-changing-channels/article_6e53d790-c6ad-11ec-ae1c-83c17b3d24c0.html
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At least 19 people killed in Congo by suspected extremists
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE
Associated Press
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities say rebels in eastern Congo killed at least 19 people and set fire to a health center and houses. The former governor of North Kivu province said in a Sunday interview with state media that gunmen suspected of being part of the Allied Democratic Forces attacked civilians in Kirindera town. ADF is a militia with links to the Islamic State group, and authorities in Congo have blamed it for the deaths of dozens of people in several North Kivu villages in recent days. A news agency linked to the Islamic State group posted a statement in which IS claimed responsibility for killing more than 35 “Christians” and wounding dozens in eastern Congo last week.
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2023-03-12T20:34:20+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/03/12/at-least-19-people-killed-in-congo-by-suspected-extremists/
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BEIJING (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Beijing on Friday for a one-day visit that has drawn criticism over China’s tacit support for Russia in its war on Ukraine and lingering controversy over economic and human rights issues.
The German Embassy confirmed the arrival of Scholz and a business delegation traveling with him. He was scheduled to receive a formal welcome from president and newly reelected head of the ruling Communist Party Xi Jinping, hold a working lunch and then meet with Premier Li Keqiang, who nominally has responsibility over the economy.
Despite their political disputes, Scholz’s visit reflects the importance of Germany’s trade ties with the world’s second-largest economy.
In an article for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Scholz said he was traveling to Beijing “precisely because business as usual is not an option in this situation.”
“It is clear that if China changes, the way we deal with China must also change,” Scholz said, adding that “we will reduce one-sided dependencies in the spirit of smart diversification.” Scholz also said he would address “difficult issues” such as the rights of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Scholz is the first leader from the G7 group of industrialized nations to meet with Xi since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which was first detected in China in 2019. The diplomatically delicate trip comes as Germany and the European Union work on their strategy toward an increasingly assertive and authoritarian Beijing.
Scholz’s messages will face close scrutiny, particularly at home where some have criticized him for normalizing China’s behavior. While his nearly year-old government has signaled a departure from predecessor Angela Merkel’s firmly trade-first approach, his trip follows domestic discord over a Chinese shipping company’s major investment in a container terminal in Germany’s crucial port of Hamburg.
With China still imposing tough COVID-19 restrictions, his delegation won’t stay in Beijing overnight.
Scholz’s visit comes just after Xi was named to a third term as head of the ruling Communist Party and promoted allies who support his vision of tighter control over society and the economy. It is also accompanied by rising tensions over Taiwan and follows a U.N. report that said Chinese human rights violations against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups may amount to “crimes against humanity.”
German officials say the trip is intended to probe where China is going and what forms of cooperation are possible.
An official pointed to China’s “particular responsibility” as an ally of Russia to help end the war in Ukraine and press Moscow to tone down its nuclear rhetoric; to concerns over tensions in Taiwan and the broader region; to Germany’s desire for a “level playing field” in economic relations; and to Scholz’s current status as this year’s chair of the Group of Seven industrial powers.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2022-11-04T07:04:23+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/national/2022/11/03/germanys-scholz-in-china-amid-trade-ukraine-rights-issues/
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District 5 - Eveleth area
CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls #1) reports this might have been the last good weekend for snowmobiling in the area. Trails are starting to go with bare spots and the snow is starting to get very sugary. Lake trails still should be good. People are reminded again to remove litter and debris from ice shelter sites when removing them from the lake. Enforcement action was taken for several no state trail stickers.
CO Curtis Simonson (International Falls #2) reports spending time this past week working area snowmobile trails, lakes and rivers. Time was also spent working Lake of the Woods and up at the Northwest Angle. Enforcement action was taken for angling with extra lines, unattended lines and registration violations.
CO John Slatinski IV (Ray) reports warmer weather brought anglers and snowmobilers out to enjoy what may be some of the last days for good snowmobiling conditions. Bare spots are showing up and areas where there had been logging activity are sloppy at best. Most shelters have already been removed from area waterways, but owners are still reminded that deadlines are fast approaching for both inland waters and border waters. With no significant snowfall in the forecast, ice conditions can and do change rapidly.
CO Troy Fondie (Orr) continued monitoring angling and snowmobile activities. Local trails have deteriorated as temperatures above freezing have arrived. The end of the snowmobile season is around the corner. Field patrols over the week revealed multiple deer killed by wolves. Angling success remains very poor with few fish observed being caught.
CO Aaron Larson (Tower) worked primarily angling and snowmobile activity. Angling activity has dropped off significantly after the close of seasons for many primary game species. Larson encounter snowmobile violations in the state park and is working on investigating a theft.
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CO Marc Johnson (Hibbing) primarily worked snowmobile enforcement and angling activity. In addition, time was spent training at Camp Ripley and working the Crane Lake Challenge snowmobile event with other local COs. Anglers still targeting panfish and trout are reminded that 2022 angling licenses are expired. Violations encountered included snowmobile speed, snowmobile registration, no shelter license, and allowing dogs to chase deer.
CO Duke Broughten (Aurora) spent the week monitoring fishing and snowmobile activity. Few anglers were encountered on area lakes. Anglers are reminded ice shelter deadlines are approaching. Anglers should be making arrangements and not waiting until the deadline. Snowmobile activity remained high. Snowmobile speed remains the most common violation, with several stops for more than 20 miles per hour over the speed limit, including one for 92 mph in a 50 mph zone.
District 6 - Two Harbors area
CO Sean Williams (Ely #1) reports snowmobile activity was very high in the Ely area over the week as trail conditions continue to hold. Angling success for trout was limited with only a few anglers checked having any success. Violations included failure to display current snowmobile registration and angling with no license in possession.
CO John Velsvaag (Ely #2) checked anglers and snowmobilers this past week. Trails started to deteriorate over the weekend due to the warm weather. Trout fishing was slow overall this week on area lakes.
CO Thomas Wahlstrom (Grand Marais) attended firearms training at the St. Paul Police Department. He assisted with certifying 41 students at the Cook County School during the snowmobile safety field day. Time was also spent patrolling area lakes and trails by snowmobile.
CO Hudson Ledeen (Grand Marais #2) reports trout anglers are having more success as the days continue to grow longer. Snowmobile trails are in as good of condition as one could ask for. Ledeen and U.S. Forest Service Officer Belmore recovered three stolen snowmobiles that were abandoned at the edge of the BWCAW. The snowmobiles had been previously reported stolen out of an enclosed trailer off the Arrowhead Trail weeks prior. Other violations encountered were failure to display registration, no snowmobile safety certificate, modified snowmobile exhaust and angling with an invalid license.
CO Anthony Bermel (Babbitt) worked a weekend snowmobile and angling detail with CO Lawler stretching from Ely to the Gunflint Trail, with many good contacts made. Time was also spent on ski trail enforcement and working with the Flathorn-Gegoka ski club on an article for their next newsletter. Enforcement action included snowmobile speed, registration, and modified muffler violations, fishing without licenses and trout stamps, and use of live minnows on a designated trout lake. The crappie bite is still slow.
CO Matt Miller (Silver Bay) checked ice anglers for litter issues and shelter removal deadlines that are fast approaching. A reminder that a new 2023 angling license is now required. Snowmobile trails are holding up well with warmer weather, but road crossings and parking lots are fast becoming muddy. Training was received, and work planning commenced for the open-water season. Enforcement action taken for snowmobile violations.
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District 7 - Grand Rapids area
CO Vinny Brown (Northome) checked anglers, monitored snowmobile activity, and answered questions related to small-game hunting and fishing. Enforcement action was taken for fishing with extra lines. Anglers are reminded the fish house removal deadline is only a couple weeks away.
CO Mike Fairbanks (Deer River) attended K9 school with his K9 partner Fennec this week.
CO Thomas Sutherland (Grand Rapids) worked snowmobiling and angling activity over the past week with many people still participating in outdoor activities. Enforcement action was taken for angling without a license and angling without a license in possession. Many snowmobile riders are still hitting the area trails. Trails are in OK condition even with the sun beginning to wear trails down.
CO Brian Holt (Grand Rapids) worked anglers and snowmobiling activity throughout the area. Time was also spent following up on open cases and checking complaints involving deer. Violations encountered included snowmobile-registration issues and speeding.
CO Taylor Hochstein (Hill City) followed up on several complaints involving snowmobile riders. The trails remain in good shape, with the fresh layer of snow that fell this past week. Fishing success varies from lake to lake, but anglers were happy with the warmer weather and were able to comfortably move around outside of the fish house.
District 8 - Duluth area
CO Jacob Willis (Brookston) fielded calls regarding wildlife issues and regulations. Area snowmobile trails were patrolled and still have heavy activity. A reminder to the ice anglers to make sure your shelters are off the ice by the deadline.
CO Andy Schmidt (Duluth West) worked snowmobile activity and trails during the week. Trails have been in excellent condition and clubs have been doing a fantastic job of maintaining the trails. Nuisance-animal complaints were handled, as well as injured-animal issues. Anglers were checked via snowmobile and ice conditions have been allowing rather easy travel on area lakes.
CO Kipp Duncan (Duluth East) spent the majority of the week on snowmobile. Area trails are in excellent condition. Many contacts were made throughout the week involving altered mufflers, displaying registration and operating off-trail. Area lakes had plenty of people attempting to catch crappies and perch this past weekend. Extra lines and license violations were found. Most anglers had their new 2023 angling license, but not all. Duncan also investigated dogs-chasing-deer complaints and tended to an injured wolf.
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CO Tony Elwell (Cloquet) checked anglers this week and patrolled snowmobile trails. Warmer weather has started to deteriorate some sections of trail, but recent and upcoming snow events should help keep them in good shape for a little longer. Snowmobile trespass continues to be a problem, with more complaints being fielded this week. A report of deer feeding in the deer feeding ban zone, which includes all of Carlton County, was investigated and handled.
CO Mikeena Wehr (Willow River) continued to work on special projects at Camp Ripley.
CO Ben Karon (Pine City) spent time this week on snowmobile patrol. Time was spent checking anglers and talking with ice shelter owners about the upcoming ice shelter removal date. Karon would also like to remind anglers to look at their fishing license and make sure it is not expired.
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2023-03-10T18:13:55+00:00
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https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/northland-outdoors/dnr-report-stolen-snowmobiles-found-near-the-boundary-waters
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Online payment plan exponentially expanding, but experts and officials eye more regulation and urge consumer caution
CFPB report indicates Buy Now, Pay Later loans grew more than 1000% and $22B from 2019 to 2021
InvestigateTV – Spend any time shopping online and you will likely come across a fast-growing form of payment – Buy Now, Pay Later, or BNPL. The lending option is seen by industry experts as an alternative to traditional credit cards.
Rather than putting the entire cost of goods or services on a credit card, when consumers check out online or in-app, BNPL offers the ability to spread the cost of their purchase over several interest-free payments (usually four) that are due every few weeks (usually two) through autopay tied to a separate payment account.
As online shopping exploded during the pandemic, BNPL use followed suit. According to a 2022 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Report, five major Buy Now, Pay Later Firms - AfterPay, Klarna, Paypal, Affirm, and Zip – reported that from 2019 to 2021, BNPL loans grew from $2 billion to $24 billion.
Juniper Research, a UK-based market research firm, expects the number of global BNPL users to expand from 360 million in 2022 to more than 900 million in 2027. Major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and even Kroger now offer the BNPL option.
But as the payment plan grows in popularity, federal watchdog groups and state lawmakers are highlighting concerns. Laura Udis is the senior manager for Small Dollar and Installment Lending at the CFPB’s Research, Marketing, and Regulation Division. One of the authors of this year’s report, Udis said consumers who overuse BNPL may find themselves financially in over their heads.
“Buy Now, Pay Later being so quick and easy and relatively simple may encourage overspending and overextension where consumers quickly buy a number of products from Buy Now, Pay Later firms and lose track of when payments are due,” Udis said.
“Even better than a credit card”
Cary Williamson has used BNPL services for years. The mother of two young boys said she finds herself constantly shopping to replace their clothes and shoes. Williamson said BNPL is a “life saver” and helps with those costs, along with offering the option to split payments for larger purchases.
“I think it makes life easier when you’re a one-income household like we are,” she said. “You can’t buy a whole entire wardrobe for your children at once. It’s just not affordable.”
Williamson said she’s paid for purchases with Afterpay, Sezzle and Klarna, three of the dozens of BNPL companies now on the market.
“I’ve never had a problem,” she said. “I mean, they send me a reminder, the money is always there, and they send you your product immediately.”
Williamson said she turned to BNPL because she and her husband do not use credit cards and instead take advantage of BNPL’s often interest-free payments to avoid credit card interest rates.
“(BNPL is) even better than a credit card,” Williamson said. “Sometimes you don’t always have $400 or $500, but you do have the $100, the $200 right away. And then if you get paid back every two weeks, it just works itself out.”
But while Buy Now, Pay Later loans work for Williamson, officials across the U.S. are calling for stricter regulation of the industry.
Federal watchdog raises concerns
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking a closer look at BNPL following a September study that addressed the benefits as compared to traditional credit options but also identified potential risks for consumers.
As part of the study, the CFPB asked for public comments on company and consumer experiences while using Buy Now, Pay Later.
One consumer shared her experience while using AfterPay and said it was positive, but she “did spend more money than usual because it was so easy.”
The American Financial Services Association said in a public comment that it recommends the BNPL market can improve by “support the credit bureaus as they develop a framework to allow BNPL credit reporting”, and “requiring BNPL provides to disclose all relevant product information that is truthful and transparent.”
The agency’s report identified three major concerns with BNPL:
- Inconsistent consumer protections
- Data harvesting and monetization
- Debt accumulation and overextension
“Most of Buy Now, Pay Later firms because of the loan structure (four payment, no interest loan) - are not providing the same standardized credit disclosures that a consumer would get with other loan products,” Udis said.
As part of the report the CFPB outlined its plan to address the potential negative impacts on consumers:
“To address the discrete consumer harms, the CFPB will identify potential interpretive guidance or rules to issue with the goal of ensuring that Buy Now, Pay Later lenders adhere to many of the baseline protections that Congress has already established for credit cards. As part of this review, the agency will also ensure Buy Now, Pay Later lenders, just like credit card companies, are subjected to appropriate supervisory examinations.” - CFPB
Although BNPL only represents 4% of e-commerce in the U.S., Udis tells InvestigateTV those numbers are doubling year over year. She said along with the increased usage is an uptick in late fees and returns.
- 10.5% of unique users were charged at least one late fee in 2021, up from 7.8% in 2020.
- 13.7% of individual loans in 2021 had at least some portion of the order that was returned, up from 12.2% in 2020
While she would not give an exact timeline, Udis said the CFPB and the Federal Trade Commission are expected to release new rules and guidelines for Buy Now, Pay Later companies.
The federal government isn’t the only authority calling for more BNPL regulation. Earlier this year, 21 state attorneys general responded to CFPB public comments calling for a push against “predatory lending” and a need for more industry transparency.
In their statement, the attorneys general said there are concerns about BNPL products becoming “popular among younger consumers unfamiliar with navigating credit products and consumers.”
Karen Straughn is Maryland’s mediation unit director at the Consumer Protection Division in the Maryland Attorney General’s office, one of the 21 attorneys general to respond.
“We want to make sure people are aware of what they’re doing before they do it because this can really seriously impact your credit rating as well,” Straughn said.
She said research shows that consumers tend to buy more when they have BNPL options. She also urged shoppers to learn the differences between credit cards and Buy Now, Pay Later and stressed payments made on BNPL purchases do nothing to build your credit score.
“Credit cards you are building credit when you make purchases and you pay off your bill, whether you pay the minimum amount or you pay the full bill,” Straughn said. “With a Buy Now, Pay Later situation, you’re not building credit, the only thing you may do is potentially harm your credit if you miss a payment.”
California’s Office of the Attorney General responded with the following statement regarding BNPL products:
“Novel financial products promise to democratize the financial industry, but unfortunately their shiny packaging often conceals many of the same hallmarks of the predatory loans that have long driven consumers into a never-ending cycle of debt. We urgently need to regulate the ‘Buy-Now[1]Pay-Later’ industry before more vulnerable consumers suffer from their reckless misconduct. - CA Attorney General Rob Bonta
InvestigateTV reached out to the five major companies for response. An Affirm spokesperson told InvestigateTV in a statement that their company is transparent and there are no hidden fees.
Klarna spokesperson said, “Low-cost, low-risk, no-interest products like BNPL should not fundamentally be regulated in the same fashion as high-cost credit products.”
Afterpay said in a statement it pauses accounts from future purchases if a payment is late.” PayPal spoke with InvestigateTV over the phone but did not provide a statement. A Zip spokesperson said the company “provides fair, flexible, and transparent payment options to consumers.”
Experts: Budgeting is key
Financial experts InvestigateTV spoke with said the Buy Now, Pay Later option can be helpful to consumers, but tracking your purchases is critical to preventing financial overextension.
Cherry Dale, a financial coach with the Virginia Credit Union, said budgeting is key.
“You as the consumer need to understand ‘Okay, I have a Buy Now, Pay Later product that I’m paying $100 or $200 on.’ I got to calculate that and make sure that I don’t get in over my head,” Dale said.
She said shoppers who sign up for BNPL should have a budget and set money aside to pay off any loan. Dale suggested getting familiar with the lending company you use:
- Make sure you understand the terms of your contract and read the fine print before agreeing to them
- Track the money that is being pulled from your account
- Know the consequences of missing a payment (some lenders might charge you a late fee)
- Remember that your payments won’t show up on your credit report
Cary Williamson said Buy Now, Pay Later is a useful tool for her family that helps make inflation more manageable.
“I love it,” she said. “It just makes it a little more helpful with the cost of everything going on right now.”
Buy Now, Pay Later - a payment plan that works for Williamson but for others, experts warn it could lead you into a budgetary bind.
To read full statements from the five major lenders and comments from California’s Attorney General:
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2022-11-21T22:32:52+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/11/21/buy-now-pay-later-online-payment-plan-exponentially-expanding-experts-officials-eye-more-regulation-urge-consumer-caution/
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BEIJING, Dec. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia and his attendance at the first China-Arab States Summit and China-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit have made "China" a word frequently mentioned in the Arab world in recent days.
From TV shows about Xi's visit and China-Arab relations on various local channels airing from morning till night to warm responses from people from all walks of life in Saudi Arabia and the region, to President Xi's signed article and speeches, and to local Riyadh residents' enthusiastic greetings of a friendly "nihao (hello)," the Chinese president's visit has shown that during Xi's trip of "opening up a better future," the China-Arab friendship has deepened and ingrained itself into the hearts of the local people.
Grand welcome
The day after President Xi arrived in Riyadh for a state visit to Saudi Arabia, when the Global Times reporters visited Nada Saad Hussain Al Sulaiman, a sophomore majoring in business Chinese at Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University, her family was watching a TV news program focusing on Xi's visit. Nada's husband Turki Abdullah Alsulaiman, a colonel of the Royal Saudi Air Force, excitedly showed the visiting reporters video clips featuring the grand and warm reception Xi received at the King Khalid International Airport. "I believe this is the highest-level form of welcome in our country for the most distinguished guest," he repeatedly told the Global Times.
On Wednesday afternoon, Xi's plane was escorted by four fighter jets from the Royal Saudi Air Force after it entered Saudi airspace, and by six Saudi Hawk jets from the royal aerobatic team after it entered capital Riyadh's airspace. When the plane landed at the Airport, a 21-gun salute heralded Xi's arrival. The Saudi Hawks painted the sky red and yellow, the colors of China's national flag. On Thursday, a grand ceremony was held for the Chinese leader as he was warmly received by Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud on behalf of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the royal palace in Riyadh.
During the visit, Xi published a signed article entitled "Carrying Forward Our Millennia-old Friendship and Jointly Creating a Better Future" in the Saudi newspaper Al Riyadh. "Designed as a trip of building on the past and more importantly, of opening up a better future, the visit will carry forward our traditional friendship, and usher in a new era in China's relations with the Arab world, with Arab states of the Gulf, and with Saudi Arabia," Xi wrote.
Mohammad Altowaim, a member of the Saudi Chinese Business Council, told the Global Times that he carefully read Xi's article twice, and the second time he read it to his friends, he read it loud.
"The most important message conveyed in the article is that China is a peaceful country wishing for peace for the whole world," he said.
According to Mohammad, through Xi's article, the Saudi people could feel that China is not in the Middle East to play power politics games, but is here to help local people.
Kong Dequan, a Chinese national residing in Riyadh who runs a Bed and Breakfast, a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast, told the Global Times that reports and video clips about Xi's visit overwhelmed WeChat groups in which he is a member, and which contain both Chinese nationals in Saudi Arabia and local Saudi friends, on the day Xi landed in the country. He said the overseas Chinese community could benefit from the growing strength and prosperity of China.
"China has become stronger, but the Saudis do not fear China. They like and welcome China." Kong said, noting he felt good that China respects the local people.
Precious memory
Xi's visit is of special significance to Nada as a Chinese learner in Saudi Arabia. She was one of the co-authors of a letter to Xi who received a letter of reply from the Chinese leader. In the reply letter, the Chinese president encouraged Saudi youth to learn Chinese well and make new contributions to the strengthening of China-Saudi Arabia and China-Arab friendship. "This is a precious memory to cherish for a lifetime," she told the Global Times.
"I am coming back to Riyadh, bringing with me profound friendship from the Chinese people," said Xi in his article in Al Riyadh. In 2016 when Xi visited Saudi Arabia, the two countries agreed to elevate the bilateral relationship into a comprehensive strategic partnership. Since then, the friendship between the two countries has prospered.
In the Murabba Palace, a historically notable structure in Riyadh, Abdullah S. Alotaibi, Dir of the Memorial Hall and the Murabaa Palace, told the Global Times that he still remembers every detail from Xi's visit to the Murabba Palace in the company of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia on January 20, 2016. He said the Murabba Palace witnessed the friendship between China and Saudi Arabia, and Xi's visit to the country this time would definitely elevate bilateral relations to a new level.
The King Saud University in Saudi Arabia conferred President Xi Jinping with an honorary doctorate degree on Thursday in recognition of his remarkable achievements in national governance and the key contributions he has made to bilateral friendship and cooperation. The efforts made by President Xi to lead China and manage the entire situation are remarkable, said Mohammad.
A Saudi Arabian educator at King Saud University who requested to remain anonymous told the Global Times that what Saudi Arabians have seen of China supporting their country is beautiful.
"How can we be less than extremely happy to have received such a guest of honor, who came to my country to show solidarity, and the principle of giving and providing, and to say here we are to work together to do a lot for the world?" the educator asked.
Abdullah Albasri, a student majoring in Chinese who just graduated from the King Saud University, told the Global Times that his country did try to give the distinguished guest what is the best. "China is Saudi Arabia's good friend and largest trading partner; Xi's visit will make bilateral relations more prosperous," he said.
Popular initiatives
On Friday, when delivering a keynote speech at the first China-Arab summit, Xi called on China and the Arab states to carry forward the spirit of China-Arab friendship and foster a closer China-Arab community with a shared future, so as to deliver greater benefits to their peoples, and advance the cause of human progress. He also called on China and GCC countries to be partners in promoting unity, development, security, and civilization at the China-GCC summit.
Xi said China will work with the Arab side to implement the (China-proposed) Global Development Initiative (GDI) and drive the sustainable development of the South-South cooperation. He also said Arab countries are welcome to participate in the Global Security Initiative (GSI, also proposed by China), noting that China will continue to contribute Chinese wisdom to the promotion of peace and tranquility in the Middle East.
Mohammad said the GDI and GSI are the best examples of how China wants to deal with the world. The two initiatives show that China wants to deal with the world not through arms, but through win-win development. The people in the Middle East are tired of other countries' interference, because they always come with troubles, he said. He noted that the Chinese way of engaging with Africa - doing everything to help the people in Africa to bolster infrastructure without forcing people to turn away from their own cultures - makes people believe that the win-win scenario could be even stronger in the Middle East.
There are complementarities in the relationship between China and Saudi Arabia. One of the important characteristics of China-Saudi Arabia relations is mutually beneficial cooperation and equality. "China and Saudi Arabia treat each other with equality and mutual respect." said Wang Guangda, secretary-general of the China-Arab Research Center on Reform and Development at the Shanghai International Studies University.
Wang said the enhancement of China-Saudi Arabia and China-Arab relations is a victory for Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy in the Middle East region, a reflection of regional recognition of China's promotion of building a new form of international relations featuring mutual respect, equality and justice, win-win cooperation and building a China-Arab community with a shared future.
It rained on the days President Xi arrived in and left Riyadh, where rain is valuable, indicating China-Saudi Arabian relations and China-Arab relations, which are as precious as rainwater, will become even closer, local residents said.
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2022-12-12T05:17:15+00:00
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wsfa.com
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CLEVELAND (AP) — New England Patriots rookie quarterback Bailey Zappe has made the most of the opportunity to get his name out there.
And people are learning how to say it now, too.
A little known fourth-round draft pick who played at Conference USA school Western Kentucky, Zappe — pronounced ZAPP-ee — was pushed into action two weeks ago when starter Mac Jones and veteran backup Brian Hoyer went out with injuries. He now has now won two games in as many starts.
On Sunday, he threw for 309 yards and two touchdowns as the Patriots buried the Cleveland Browns 38-15. It was the 324th career win for coach Bill Belichick, who tied George Halas for second on the NFL’s career list.
“We’re just playing football,” the 23-year-old Zappe said. “It’s what we’ve been playing since we were 5 years old, so it’s fun to play with these guys.”
Zappe, starting for the second consecutive week, threw second-half TD passes to Tyquan Thornton and Hunter Henry as the Patriots pulled away from the anemic Browns.
Zappe finished 24 of 34 passing a week after throwing for 188 yards and a touchdown in his first start, a 29-0 win over Detroit.
“He has pretty good instincts, but again, there’s a lot for him to learn,” Belichick said of the young quarterback. “He saw some things today and he learned from them, he was able to take advantage and make a couple plays, so it was a solid performance.”
The Patriots’ offense took a while to get going in this one, and the Browns (2-4) never really did.
Late in the first half, Rhamondre Stevenson broke through, bounced left and tore down the sideline for a 31-yard score.
Early in the second half, Zappe hooked up with Jonnu Smith for 53 yards to get down to the Browns 20, and a 13-yard completion to Henry set up first-and-goal at the 2. Three plays later, Thornton grabbed Zappe’s short toss in the end zone.
Later Patriots linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley hit quarterback Jacoby Brissett as he was throwing, leading to a pick by Jalen Mills that gave them the ball at the Cleveland 40. Three plays later, Zappe found a wide-open Henry, who ran untouched for a 31-touchdown and a 24-6 New England lead.
The Browns’ offense produced only a pair of field goals by Cade York in the first half.
Cleveland’s Nick Chubb, who entered leading the NFL in rushing, didn’t have a double-digit gain until late in the third quarter. He had 23 yards rushing and 14 receiving on that drive, but again the Browns stalled — and York came on for a 51-yard field goal.
Chubb finished with 12 carries for 56 yards, both season lows.
Brissett, who finished 21 for 45 for 266 yards with two interceptions, threw a 15-yard scoring pass to Amari Cooper in the fourth quarter but a 2-point attempt failed, leaving it a two-score game with 6:22 left.
New England sealed it with a 19-yard end-around for a touchdown by Thornton. Brissett fumbled the ball away on the Browns’ next drive, leading to Stevenson’s second TD, a 6-yard plunge with 3:40 left.
It was the most points allowed by Cleveland this season and its most lopsided loss.
“Every way you can get beat — offense, defense, special teams, coaching — we got beat,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said. “They beat us, and we also beat ourselves a few too many times.”
Defensive end Myles Garrett said Zappe caught the Browns off-guard when he came out throwing.
“The plan was they were going to run the ball, based on what’s happened the last two weeks,” Garrett said. “But we shouldn’t have made it so easy on him.”
HISTORIC WIN
Belichick, who is 324-159 including the playoffs, has a chance to pass Halas next Monday night at home against Chicago — the franchise with which Halas won all his games. Don Shula tops the list with 347.
“You can’t win games in this league without good players, so I’ve been very fortunate to coach a lot of great players and have a lot of great coaches through the years,” Belichick said. “A lot of those guys have gone on to great coaching careers and the players, obviously, some are going to the Hall of Fame.”
GARRETT HURTING
Garrett became the Browns’ career sack leader with 62 1/2 when he stripped the ball from Zappe in the first quarter, but later had to leave the game with an injury. Garrett aggravated a shoulder injury he suffered in a car crash on Sept. 26, but said he plans to play next week. The three-time Pro Bowler surpassed Clay Matthews on the Browns’ list.
INJURIES
Patriots: WR Kendrick Bourne left in the second quarter with a toe injury. … DL Christan Barmore (knee) was helped off the field in the second quarter and was ruled out. … Cody Davis suffered a knee injury in the first half and didn’t return.
Browns: Pro Bowl RG Wyatt Teller left in the second quarter with a calf injury and did not return. He will have an MRI on Monday.
UP NEXT
Patriots: Host the Bears on “Monday Night Football” on Oct. 24.
Browns: At Baltimore to face the AFC North-rival Ravens next Sunday.
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2022-10-17T13:43:17+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/ap-patriots-bury-browns-belichick-ties-halas-with-324th-win/
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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
I grew up in southeast Idaho, not too far from Yellowstone National Park, and right now my social media feeds are full of photos of the historic flooding in the park and surrounding areas. Swollen rivers have swallowed up houses and roads. People are stranded, vacations upended. Some entrances to Yellowstone National Park could reopen tomorrow, but as Olivia Weitz with Yellowstone Public Radio tells us, some roads are so damaged that a big portion of the park will probably stay off-limits throughout the busy summer tourist season.
OLIVIA WEITZ, BYLINE: The worst damage in Yellowstone National Park is to its northern end, near park headquarters. The northern gateway town of Gardiner, Mont., was cut off for about 24 hours after roads washed out Monday. The main road reopened yesterday but only to locals and essential goods going in and tourists going out. Park Superintendent Cam Sholly advised tourists to leave quickly.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
CAM SHOLLY: You just saw what just happened, so don't wait around and see if another event happens or if more road collapses or whatever. I would take advantage of getting out of here while you can.
WEITZ: Sholly said the southern loop of Yellowstone's road system didn't sustain as much damage and could be reopened soon, but he said they need to do it carefully.
SHOLLY: Half the park cannot support all of the vegetation. So we are exploring a range of options.
WEITZ: Portions of the park's north loop will probably not reopen until next spring due to the time needed for repairs, Sholly said.
SHOLLY: North entrance and northeast entrance will remain closed until we figure out what we're going to do on the northern end.
WEITZ: That's bad news for Stacey Joy, owner of the Wonderland Cafe and Lodge in Gardiner. She was still serving a limited menu yesterday, but it's tough as the town is under a boil-water order due to flooding.
STACEY JOY: We usually have a line out the door for coffee and espresso, something that we cannot do right now just because the water temperature is not at a temperature for long enough to make that water safe.
WEITZ: A Gardiner resident for the past 11 years, Joy has lived through prior park closures and is hoping for the best, even as unfortunate news continues to come in about park roads.
JOY: Just the devastation of the roads and bridges. Who knows if the north entrance is going to be a viable option for tourism this year. I'm anxious to see what those plans are.
WEITZ: Joy says dozens of guests have already canceled reservations and want refunds. And the devastation stretches far downstream from Yellowstone National Park. Erica Lighthiser joined dozens of her neighbors in Livingston, about 50 miles away, filling sandbags as the river started to spill out into neighborhoods along the river.
ERICA LIGHTHISER: We've got a giant pile of sand and hundreds of white bags, and people are filling up the bags three-quarters full of sand and tying them off and loading them up into trucks.
WEITZ: The river crested at 11 p.m., forcing evacuations, including Livingston's hospital. The water has receded for now, but officials warn it could rise again.
(SOUNDBITE OF CHILD CRYING)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Make yourselves at home (laughter).
WEITZ: A hundred miles east in Red Lodge, dozens of people who'd just been evacuated by a National Guard helicopter were gathered at the county fairgrounds. Katie Wise, a 46-year-old musician visiting from Colorado, was one.
KATIE WISE: I'm pretty adrenalized right now. I'm kind of like - my heart is pounding 'cause - the most stressful part was that we didn't know the helicopters were coming. So we had just been talking about how we were going to do the whole water and rationing food and, like, that's - we were going to do a food inventory and gather back as a community. And then it was like, you have 10 minutes. Pack your bags. We're getting on (laughter) a military helicopter.
WEITZ: Much of the town of Red Lodge was flooded, and it's a similar story for communities along the Yellowstone River, from the national park to Billings. And it may not be over yet, as forecasted warm temperatures could cause flooding again this weekend.
For NPR News, I'm Olivia Weitz in Bozeman, Mont.
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2022-06-16T21:58:04+00:00
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mtpr.org
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https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2022-06-15/yellowstone-national-park-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-record-breaking-floods
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After police shot 911 caller's grandson, is the community afraid to call for help?
Early Saturday, Indianapolis police shot a man who had a gun near him inside a car − a parked vehicle that was reported suspicious by a homeowner on the east side of Indianapolis. Later, police learned the man who had been shot was related to that same homeowner, who called 911 in the first place not knowing the stranger in the car was not a stranger, but rather, her grandson.
The weekend police shooting is not the first time an Indianapolis family has called for help, only to have their encounter escalate into use-of-force.
The Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, along with Indy10 Black Lives Matter, have raised concerns in the aftermath of Saturday's police shooting on Oxford Street about the ramifications the incident may have on community relations and police — particularly the shooting eroding trust with residents about calling for help since similar scenarios have played out in the city before.
"We're beginning to be traumatized by this," Concerned Clergy President David Greene Sr. said, adding the city cannot have people at all reluctant to make phone calls for first responders.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department declined to comment about the police shooting.
On April 25 last year, well before the shooting on Oxford Street, the Whitfield family called 911 after their son, 39-year-old Herman Whitfield III, began walking around their northeast-side home naked and mumbling. The family previously told IndyStar it was the first mental health crisis they've witnessed from him.
Five Indianapolis police officers and a recruit trainee arrived at the Whitfield’s home. In portions of body camera footage released by police, the man's father, Herman Whitfield Jr. can be heard asking the police about an ambulance. For roughly 10 minutes, Herman Whitfield III walked around the house as officers and his parents tried to calm him down. When he moved from the kitchen to the living room, an officer tased him.
Herman Whitfield III fell to the floor from the shock and screamed “fire, fire.” Police then put him face down on the ground and double-handcuffed him. He stayed there for minutes until he became unresponsive. He died later at a hospital. The coroner ruled he died from heart failure while under law enforcement restraint and electrical weapon use. His death was ruled a homicide.
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The family filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit this summer against the city of Indianapolis and the responding officers. The litigation remains pending in court.
With the wounds from Herman Whitfield III’s death still fresh, the police shooting of a 911 caller's grandson has further rocked community leaders. Details about the shooting remain scant as the investigation continues, though, in the latest update, police said detectives determined the homeowner and officers did not know the man inside the reported car was the woman's grandson. They also learned the injured man had been driving a rental car, thus making it unfamiliar.
Despite what's been announced, Greene said he can’t help but wonder about adverse outcomes.
“What do you think the Black community is going to be saying? ‘Do I call the police or not?’” Greene pondered. “I don’t want people to traffic down that path … I want people to call 911.”
In a statement, Indy10 Black Lives Matter agreed about the potential ramifications of the shooting. They also noted they continue to see a lack of accountability when a use-of-force case arises by police.
“IMPD keeps getting more funding, and it hasn’t made their practices safer,” the group said. “We keep hearing how things will improve, but each year it keeps getting worse.”
Greene further said he doesn't believe the fact that the man who was shot by police had a gun justified three officers firing their weapons. According to the latest information by officials, it's unclear if the gun was in the man's hand, and police do not believe he fired the handgun.
“That does not justify that magnitude,” Greene said. “The community is looking at this like, ‘We can’t continue to see this.’”
Whitfield’s death renewed calls for a more robust mental health response by the city. When it comes to the shooting on Oxford Street, Greene said the Concerned Clergy hope to see accountability about whether the department's training was followed. Indy10 Black Lives Matter reiterated its long-standing goal they hope to see Indianapolis police defunded.
The police shooting remains under investigation by the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and Indianapolis police’s Internal Affairs Unit. The officers who fired their guns are on administrative leave, per standard procedure in such scenarios.
Contact Sarah Nelson at 317-503-7514 or sarah.nelson@indystar.com.
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2023-01-05T22:04:46+00:00
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Sea Tech Week® announces its full conference program of panel discussions and technical sessions. Registration for the 13th edition of the event in September is open for attendees.
NEW YORK and TORONTO , July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time since 2018, over 1,000 stakeholders across business, academia and governmental institutions from across the world will convene in person to shape the future of maritime.
This year's event focuses strongly on the environment, exploring smarter and greener solutions for maritime transport, energy and tech and will also celebrate women's work in marine science and technology. It will offer delegates many ways to exchange ideas, challenge each other's views and connect through:
- A trade fair, with exhibitors from across the world including a notable number from Europe, from public research teams to startups and large industrial groups
- BtoB meetings and networking events
- Most importantly: 30+ plenary sessions and 3 keynote panel discussions all touching on this year's central theme of green innovations – over 100 hours about the state of R&D and the future of maritime transport
Highlights : sustainable ports, energies & transports.
Towards The Definition Of Port Ecology And Ecological Port: questioning both the technical system, able to respond to environmental issues, and the capacity of the socio-system to initiate adaptation dynamics. Ports have a role to play in the shipping green revolution, and their metabolism needs an interdisciplinary approach.
This session is convened by Institut France-Québec Maritime (France-Canada)
Sustainable Polymer Materials For Marine Applications: reducing the environmental impact of floating vessels and their equipment with recyclable thermoplastic composites, compostable biosourced polymers and fibers – or even completely biodegradable materials (with more limited options).
Greener Maritime Transports: trends, innovative solutions and opportunities through bilateral French/Norwegian cooperation: decarbonation of the Norwegian Maritime industry, and greener propulsion solutions (hydrogen, ammonia, hybrid, sail, retrofit, etc - for ferries and cargos).
Opportunities Offered By Hydrogene In The Maritime World: maritime and port territorial loops for renewable hydrogen (with focus on the Hylias & Transrade projects), H2 production with MRE energy on port infrastructures for local needs and building Hydrogen-powered ships
New Fuels: Behavior In Aquatic Environments And Responses To Accidental Spills: behavior and risks of maritime transportation for new fuels (ammonia; Low Sulphur Fuel Oils (LSFO, VLSFO & ULSFO), hydrotated vegetable oil, liquefied natural gas; etc), whether used for ship propulsion or distribution plant supply.
Find the full programme: seatechweek.eu
To register to attend: seatechweek.eu
Full pass (5-day pass including lunches and coffee breaks): €350 plus VAT
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About Sea Tech Week®
Sea Tech Week® is an international event dedicated to marine and maritime science and technology. It attracts over a thousand top international experts to Brest, France, every two years, representing a wide variety of ocean-related disciplines. Held every 2 years, Sea Tech Week® includes tech and science talks, a professional trade fair, BtoB meetings, company and laboratory tours and a gala evening.
This event provides the international community of scientists, companies, clusters, students and other stakeholders with the opportunity to share progress in research and innovation, to forge a professional network of contacts and to improve partnerships and cooperation.
Sea Tech Week® is organised by Technopôle Brest-Iroise through Campus mondial de la mer, France's leading community of experts in the ocean. This event is supported by Brest métropole, the Brittany Region, the EU (ERDF) and Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.
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2022-07-21T15:52:24+00:00
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Birthday delivery: Couple becomes first-time parents welcoming daughter on their birthday
Published: Dec. 21, 2022 at 4:27 PM CST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Gray News) - An Alabama couple welcomed their newborn baby girl into the world on their birthday.
According to the Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children, Cassidy and Dylan Scott became parents for the first time over the weekend.
And what made the day even more special was that all three now share the same birthday of Dec. 18.
The hospital said the Scott family had a one in 133,000 chance of such an occurrence and their daughter, Lennon, waited until 12:30 a.m. for everyone to share the same day.
Staff shared a family photo on social media while wishing the family a very happy birthday.
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2022-12-21T23:00:06+00:00
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https://www.kalb.com/2022/12/21/birthday-delivery-couple-becomes-first-time-parents-welcoming-daughter-their-birthday/
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department have released footage of a fatal hit-and-run in hopes that the public can identify the driver.
The incident occurred on Oct. 16, 2022, at around 3 p.m. near the intersection of 54th and Cimarron streets, officials said.
Surveillance footage shows the victim, described as a man in his 20s, riding a motorcycle eastbound on 54th Street behind a dark-colored sedan that was traveling in the same direction. In the footage, the driver of the sedan can be seen making an unsafe turn causing the victim to slam into the driver’s side rear of the vehicle and strike the pavement.
The sedan can be seen in the video slowing down after the impact, but the driver failed to stop and help the victim before fleeing. The sedan had damage to its rear where the collision occurred.
Paramedics with the Los Angeles Fire Department took the victim to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Authorities said the victim’s next of kin was notified, though they did not identify the man.
“Drivers are reminded that if they become involved in a collision, they should pull over and stop as soon as it is safe to do so, notify emergency services, and remain at the scene to identify themselves. The public is also reminded that as pedestrians, they should exercise caution when crossing streets, obey traffic lights, cross within marked crosswalks, and obey the rules of the road,” an LAPD news release stated.
A reward of up to $50,000 is being offered to members of the community who provide information leading to the suspect’s identification, apprehension and conviction.
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2023-05-10T16:23:56+00:00
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/video-captures-fatal-hit-and-run-in-los-angeles/
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SHANGHAI, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At MWC Shanghai 2023, Huawei launched 5GigaGreen innovations for wireless communications to promote ultimate network performance and energy saving with global operators.
Gan Bin, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Wireless Network Product Line, stated that ultimate performance and energy saving are the driven forces for Huawei wireless innovation. Adhering to the philosophy of 5GigaGreen, Huawei keeps innovating in ultra-wideband, multi-antenna, maximized passive capability, and "0 bit 0 watt" equipment and network to make 5G from good to great.
Ultra-wideband Is the Best Choice for Reducing Energy Consumption of Multi-band Network
Huawei's ultra-wideband solution combines multiple bands into one for lower energy consumption and is applicable to all bands and scenarios.
Thanks to the innovations in ultra-wideband RF and power amplifier algorithm, Huawei was able to introduce the triple-band FDD 4T4R RRU, boasting the lowest power consumption in the industry, which supports the simplified deployment of all RATs on all frequency bands and offers a more than 20% energy consumption gain compared with the industry average. In Europe, after a site is upgraded from four to six bands, its energy consumption can be reduced by 30%. The ultra-wideband 4T4R RRUs have already entered large-scale commercial use around the world, with over 100,000 shipments.
Huawei has also expanded ultra-wideband technology from FDD to TDD. The 800 MHz MetaAAU, the industry's largest bandwidth, covers the full C-band and reduces power consumption by 20% than two separate 400 MHz modules.
Ultra-wideband has also been expanded from macro base stations to microwave and DIS. In microwave, the new 2T ODU enables the aggregation of more carriers to deliver 800 MHz bandwidth, reducing power consumption by 50% compared with the industry average. Furthermore, ultra-wideband LampSite enables 2 GHz bandwidth, slashing the power consumption of the entire site by 40%.
Multi-Antenna Is Optimal for Improving Bit Energy Efficiency
Supported by multi-antenna and large-bandwidth technologies, Huawei TDD Massive MIMO improves bit energy efficiency by 20 times compared with 4T4R. In high-traffic areas of commercial networks in the Middle East, TDD 64T64R Massive MIMO has achieved a bit energy efficiency gain of more than 10 times by employing multi-layer pairing technology. In the future, traffic volume will keep increasing, and more layers will be configured to improve the bit energy efficiency by up to 20 times.
Huawei is also the industry leader in FDD multi-antenna technology. In Europe, the FDD 8T8R solution, with its intelligent beamforming algorithm, has achieved a gain in bit energy efficiency of 1.5 times compared with traditional 4T4R. FDD M-MIMO, which is the only solution in the industry that is in large-scale commercial use, has improved energy efficiency by 3 times. With the enhancement in 3GPP Release 18 and beyond, it will be possible to achieve a 4 to 6 times increase in energy efficiency.
Maximize Passive Capabilities and Explore New Horizons to Reduce Energy Consumption
Signal direct injection feeding (SDIF) is Huawei's unique advanced antenna technology. It achieves zero cable and reduces loss by 1.5 dB. It works with Meta Lens to concentrate beam energy for greater RF efficiency of antennas, improving energy efficiency by 25%. Huawei has delivered more than 250,000 green antennas for global commercial networks.
In addition, Huawei continues to innovate in TDD Massive MIMO. The industry's unique MetaAAU introduces extremely large antenna array (ELAA) technology. In Europe, compared with traditional AAUs, MetaAAU has reduced energy consumption by 33%, while providing the same coverage, thanks to innovations in algorithms, architectures, software, and hardware. MetaAAUs have already entered large-scale commercial use around the world, with over 100,000 pieces shipped.
"0 Bit 0 Watt": a New Benchmark for Equipment Energy Saving
Based on advanced hardware and software design, Huawei has achieved the industry's first super deep dormancy with a 99% shutdown ratio, cutting equipment operating power to less than 5 W. With the innovative on-demand wakeup algorithm, equipment can wake up at any time to guarantee user experience.
Huawei is also the first company in the industry to achieve millisecond-level carrier and channel shutdown through joint innovations with digital and RF modules. This capability means an additional 10% energy saving compared with the minute-level shutdown commonly seen in the industry.
Intelligence Enables Network-level "0 Bit 0 Watt"
On a single network, traffic volume, energy-saving features, band and equipment energy efficiency, and the coverage of each band vary across sites. Huawei iPowerStar implements intelligent energy saving strategy orchestration that is based on the traffic characteristics, energy saving characteristics, energy efficiency grids, and experience grids on live networks. This maximizes the energy efficiency of multi-band networks by applying an optimal strategy for each site at each time.
During the May Day holiday in Hebei, China, iPowerStar reduced energy consumption by 19%, while traffic volume increased by 19%. Overall, the energy efficiency of the network increased by 45%.
At the end of his speech, Gan Bin said that Huawei will never stop 5GigaGreen innovation and will continue working with industry partners to make 5G from good to great.
MWC Shanghai 2023 runs from June 28 to June 30 in Shanghai, China. Huawei showcases its products and solutions at stands E10 and E50 in Hall N1 of Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, we dive into topics such as speeding up 5G prosperity, striding towards the 5.5G era, and intelligent digital transformation. 5.5G creates new business value in areas like the Internet of People (IoP), Internet of Things (IoT), and Internet of Vehicles (IoV), supporting countless industries as they move towards an intelligent world. For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/mwcs2023.
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2023-06-29T09:19:45+00:00
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Ensurem's AI-driven automation ensures compliance and transparency for Seniors looking to evaluate their Medicare options during Open Enrollment starting October 15th, 2022.
LARGO, Fla., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ensurem, a Florida-based insurance technology and distribution company, announced on September 22nd, 2022 that it has launched new proprietary technology to help automate its compliance and retention business functions. This technology is driven by speech analytics algorithms that analyze call transcripts in real-time. It identifies key phrases and speech patterns used in conjunction with a machine learning platform to predict customer behavior and ensure a great customer experience.
"Our vision is to provide Medicare shoppers with a 5-star customer-oriented shopping experience, helping match Seniors with the right health insurance plan that meets their unique health and budget needs," said Dave Rich, CEO of Ensurem. "Our team provides robust customer support which helps build loyalty and prevent complaints by ensuring Medicare customers have the right coverage and know how to use it."
When it comes to automating retention efforts, this data is paired with sales data and fed into a machine learning platform that predicts how to prioritize and direct retention efforts. This technology is adapted for compliance efforts, where automated phrase checking is key to ensuring compliance. The system audits every call in real-time for certain phrases and scoring calls based on set criteria. Scoring is then used to drive human intervention where needed.
"It's allowed us to move from a completely manual audit plan to a process that includes fully automated coverage plus focused manual auditing where needed," said Clint Arlington, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer. "The results have been astounding with nearly 100% accuracy when comparing the automated audits to manual audits. It is the answer to how we can maintain our growth trajectory while maintaining our industry-leading focus on compliance."
"Machine learning and artificial intelligence platforms thrive in environments with ample access to reliable data," said Josh Candamo, Chief Information Officer of Ensurem. "We already use call analysis data for marketing, sales, and compliance purposes [so] as we continue to grow our tech platforms, we'll continue to grow and expand to more cases, further capitalizing on the infrastructure investments we have made over the last few years."
According to a recent report from the Centers of Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS), complaints against private Medicare plans have more than doubled between 2020 and 2021. These findings prompted an inquiry from the Senate Finance Committee into possible deceptive marketing practices. As a third-party marketing organization contracted with some of the nation's top-rated Medicare Advantage carriers, Ensurem is using advanced technologies and AI-driven automation to combat complaints from two fronts: compliance and retention.
"The industry has a responsibility to our Seniors to stop aggressive Medicare sales practices that take advantage of vulnerable populations," said Dave Rich, CEO of Ensurem. "Ensurem has always recognized this and is now extending beyond our marketing efforts to ensure we deliver a 5-Star customer experience with every interaction."
Ensurem, headquartered in Largo, FL, is a leading technology and product distribution company serving carriers and consumers within the massive U.S. senior market. The company offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, vision, dental, hospital indemnity and final expense insurance. It also provides end-to-end solutions for carriers, including product development, digital marketing and consumer-centric insurance technologies. Ensurem was named one of the fastest growing companies in its region and an Inc. 5000 honoree.
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2022-09-22T12:56:53+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/09/22/ensurem-leverages-ai-provide-exceptional-customer-service-retention-best-class-compliance-driving-rapid-growth/
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
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6:15 p.m.
Frances Tiafoe pulled off the biggest win of his career when the 22nd-ranked American beat second-seeded Rafael Nadal 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals.
Tiafoe buried his head in his hands and cried on the court after he shook hands with Nadal. He sat on the bench and buried his head in a towel as Nadal walked off and waved to the crowd.
The 24-year-old Tiafoe is the youngest American to reach the quarterfinals since Andy Roddick did so at 24 in 2006. Nadal, a four-time U.S. Open champion, was the highest-seeded player left after No. 1 Daniil Medvedev lost Sunday.
Tiafoe already was the first American man to reach the fourth round in three straight years since Mardy Fish in 2010-12.
Nadal entered 22-0 at Grand Slam events in 2022. He was 21-1 against Americans since October 2017, which included straight-set wins over Tiafoe in the 2019 Australian Open quarterfinals and 2019 Madrid third round.
The early edge was a boon for Tiafoe. Nadal has never come back from down 2-1 at the U.S. Open and fell to 0-7 overall at Flushing Meadows with that deficit.
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4:35 p.m.
No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek survived a slow start to knock off unseeded Jule Niemeier 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 to reach the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open for the first time.
Swiatek, a two-time French Open champion, will play Jessica Pegula next. Pegula eliminated two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2 to get to her third major quarterfinal of 2022.
Swiatek came into the U.S. Open just 4-4 in her last eight matches after winning 37 straight, but she hadn’t lost a set at Flushing Meadows until Monday. Niemeier got the early jump — as she exhorted the crowd to get louder — and gamely tried for another Grand Slam upset. She knocked out No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit in Wimbledon.
Swiatek steadied herself in the second set and hit 10 winners, and she turned the third set into a rout. Swiatek became the first Polish woman to reach the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open and is trying to become the first top-seeded woman to win it since Serena Williams in 2014.
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2:15 p.m.
Jessica Pegula eliminated two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2 to get to her third major quarterfinal of 2022 and reach that round for the first time at Flushing Meadows.
Play was held up for about 45 minutes at 1-1 in the first set while rain fell. There is a retractable roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium, but it wasn’t closed until after a downpour soaked the court.
The U.S. Tennis Association said in a statement that its “weather team” told U.S. Open organizers there was no rain expected. The statement added: “Unfortunately, a pop-up sunshower occurred.”
The No. 8-seeded Pegula is the highest-ranked American woman and the only player in the top 10 in both singles and doubles.
She reeled off the last three games of Monday’s opening set, which ended with a double-fault by No. 21 Kvitova, and then the last six games of the fourth-round match after trailing 2-0 in the second set.
Pegula is a 28-year-old who was born in New York. Her parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
She is 0-3 in Grand Slam quarterfinals so far, including losses at that stage at the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June. The loss in Paris came against No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek, who could be Pegula’s next opponent at Flushing Meadows.
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1:40 p.m.
Andrey Rublev reached his sixth Grand Slam quarterfinal by beating Cam Norrie 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in a match delayed by about 25 minutes while the retractable roof at Louis Armstrong Stadium remained open during a downpour.
The No. 9-seeded Rublev is into his third quarterfinal at Flushing Meadows. But he is 0-2 at that stage in New York — and 0-5 at all majors.
Rublev next faces 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal or 24-year-old American Frances Tiafoe, who were scheduled to meet later Monday.
No. 7 Norrie was trying to reach the second Grand Slam quarterfinal of his career — and of this year. He lost in the Wimbledon semifinals to eventual champion Novak Djokovic in July.
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1:15 p.m.
Play has resumed between two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and No. 8 seed Jessica Pegula in Arthur Ashe Stadium after a rain delay of 45 minutes while they waited for the retractable roof to close and the court to be dried.
The fourth-round match was halted in the middle of the third game with the score at 1-all.
Action also returned at Louis Armstrong Stadium between No. 7 Cam Norrie and No. 9 Andrey Rublev after a delay of just under 25 minutes.
Shortly after they picked back up, Rublev closed out the second set for a 6-4, 6-4 lead in their fourth-round contest.
No other courts at Flushing Meadows have a roof, so play is suspended in doubles and junior matches.
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12:45 p.m.
Rain is delaying play in all matches at Flushing Meadows — even in the two arenas with retractable roofs, Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The courts were not covered when a little drizzle became a heavy downpour.
The match in Ashe between two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and No. 8 seed Jessica Pegula was in the middle of the third game with the score at 1-all.
The match in Armstrong between No. 7 Cam Norrie and No. 9 Andrey Rublev was in the third set with Rublev up a set and a break at 6-4, 4-3.
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11:15 a.m.
Play has started on Day 8 at Flushing Meadows, with No. 7 seed Cam Norrie facing No. 9 Andrey Rublev in Louis Armstrong Stadium for a quarterfinal berth.
The winner of that matchup will face 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal or 24-year-old American Frances Tiafoe, who are scheduled to play in Arthur Ashe Stadium later Monday.
After a string of upsets, and Serena Williams’ loss in what is expected to be her final match, left no past U.S. Open women’s champions in the field, all eyes are now on No. 1 Iga Swiatek. The two-time French Open champion will try to make the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time when she plays unseeded Jule Niemeier.
The Ashe program begins at noon with two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova taking on the highest-ranked American woman, Jessica Pegula.
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2022-09-06T00:20:16+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/sports/2022/09/05/american-tiafoe-upsets-no-2-nadal-us-open-updates/
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Nicholas Latifi will leave the Williams Formula 1 team at the end of the 2022 season, which also marks the end of his current contract.
A replacement will be announced at a later date, the team said on Friday.
His teammate, Alex Albon, will continue with the squad in 2023 and beyond after signing a contract extension in August.
Williams is the team where Latifi made his F1 debut in 2020, though the Canadian man failed to make much of an impression in the ensuing years, having scored just seven points in 55 starts.
This became much more apparent earlier in the September at the Italian Grand Prix where Williams reserve driver Nyck de Vries, filling in for an ill Albon, scored two points in his maiden race. Latifi is still on zero points with most of the season behind him.
The stellar performance means de Vries is now a favorite for Latifi’s seat, though Williams has other options. The list includes U.S. driver Logan Sargeant, who is part of the Williams Driver Academy and currently competes in Formula 2. There’s also Daniel Ricciardo, who leaves McLaren at the end of 2022 and has yet to sign with another team. Oscar Piastri will fill Ricciardo’s seat at McLaren.
Alpine is still without a replacement for Fernando Alonso, who next season will join Aston Martin as the replacement for the retiring Sebastian Vettel. Meanwhile, AlphaTauri announced on Thursday current driver Yuki Tsunoda will stay with the squad in 2023. Pierre Gasly will also continue with AlphaTauri in the new season.
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2022-09-23T22:40:16+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/automotive/internet-brands/latifi-to-leave-williams-f1-team-after-2022/
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A massive fire erupted at an oil depot in Crimea after it was hit by two of Ukraine’s drones, a Russia-appointed official there reported Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks on the annexed peninsula as Russia braces for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, a port city in Crimea, posted videos and photos of the blaze on his Telegram channel.
Razvozhayev said the fire at the city’s harbor was assigned the highest ranking in terms of how complicated it will be to extinguish. However, he reported that the open blaze had been contained.
Razvozhayev said the oil depot was attacked by “two enemy drones,” and four oil tanks burned down. A third drone was shot down from the sky, and one more was deactivated through radio-electronic means, according to Crimea’s Moscow-appointed governor, Sergei Aksyonov.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world considered illegal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview this week that his country will seeking to reclaim the peninsula in the upcoming counteroffensive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea last month to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine. Putin’s visit took place the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.
The attack reported in Sevastopol comes a day after Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine, killing at least 23 people. Almost all of the victims died when two missiles slammed into an apartment building in the city of Uman, located in central Ukraine.
Six children were among the dead, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said Saturday, adding that 22 of the 23 bodies recovered have been identified. Two women remained missing, Klymenko said.
Russian forces launched more drones at Ukraine overnight. Ukraine’s Air Force Command said two Iranian-made self-exploding Shahed drones were intercepted, and a reconnaissance drone was shot down on Saturday morning.
Razvozhayev said the oil depot fire did not cause any casualties and would not hinder fuel supplies in Sevastopol. The city has been subject to regular attack attempts with drones, especially in recent weeks.
Earlier this week, Razvozhayev reported that the Russian military destroyed a Ukrainian sea drone that attempted to attack the harbor and another one blew up, shattering windows in several apartment buildings, but not inflicting any other damage.
Ukraine’s military intelligence spokesperson, Andriy Yusov, told the RBC Ukraine news site on Saturday that the oil depot fire was “God’s punishment” for “the murdered civilians in Uman, including five children.”
He said that more than 10 tanks containing oil products for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet were destroyed in Sevastopol, but stopped short of acknowledging Ukraine’s responsibility for a drone attack. The difference between the number of tanks Yusov and Razvozhayev gave could not be immediately reconciled.
After previous attacks on Crimea, Kyiv also wouldn’t openly claim responsibility, but emphasized that the country had the right to strike any target in response to Russian aggression.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces shelled the city of Nova Kakhovka, according to Moscow-installed authorities in the Russian-occupied part of southern Ukraine’s Kherson province. “Severe artillery fire” cut off power in the city, the officials said.
The Ukrainian-controlled part of the province also came under fire on Saturday. Russian shelling in the area of the village of Bilozerka killed one person and wounded another, according to the Kherson prosecutor’s office.
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2023-04-29T20:55:06+00:00
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/russian-official-drone-causes-fire-at-crimea-oil-reservoir/
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Twitter has begun adding gray “official” labels to some high-profile accounts to indicate that they are authentic, the latest twist in new owner Elon Musk’s chaotic overhaul of the platform’s verification system.
Media sites like The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal received an official designation Wednesday, as did companies like Nike, Apple and Coca-Cola.
The site’s current system of using what are known as “blue checks” confirming an account’s authenticity will soon go away for those who don’t pay a monthly fee. The checkmarks will be available at a yet-to-be-announced date for anyone willing to pay a $7.99-a-month subscription, which will also include some bonus features, such as fewer ads and the ability to have tweets given greater visibility than those coming from non-subscribers.
The platform’s current verification system has been in place since 2009 and was created to ensure high-profile and public-facing accounts are who they say they are.
Experts have expressed concern that making the checkmark available to anyone for a fee could lead to impersonations and the spreading of misinformation and scams. The gray label — a color that tends to blend into the background whether you use light or dark mode to scroll Twitter — is an apparent compromise. But it might lead to more confusion, as Twitter users accustomed to the blue check as a mark of authenticity will now have to look for the less obvious “official” designation.
Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee who has been working on the verification overhaul, said Tuesday on Twitter that the “official” label will be added to “select accounts” when the new system launches.
“Not all previously verified accounts will get the ‘Official’ label and the label is not available for purchase,” said Crawford, who recently was the subject of a viral photo showing her sleeping on the floor of a Twitter office while working to meet Musk’s deadlines.
Crawford said those receiving the label include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures.
There are about 423,000 verified accounts under the outgoing system. Many of those belong to celebrities, businesses and politicians, as well as media outlets.
But a large chunk of verified accounts belong to individual journalists, some with tiny followings at local newspapers and news sites around the world. The idea was to verify reporters so their identities couldn’t be used to push false information on Twitter.
Musk had previously floated designating official accounts in a way other than the blue check.
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2022-11-09T16:07:07+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/twitter-adds-gray-official-mark-to-some-major-verified-accounts/
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Head of union organization fired after EU donation probe
BRUSSELS (AP) — A major trade union organization has fired its general secretary after he admitted accepting donations from a suspect in a European cash-for-influence scandal. The International Trade Union Confederation said on its website Saturday that “Luca Visentini no longer had the confidence of the General Council as ITUC General Secretary.” Visentini was named to the post in November but suspended the following month after he was taken into custody as Belgian prosecutors probed allegations that Qatari and Moroccan officials paid bribes to influence decisions at the European Parliament. He was not charged and denies involvement. Visentini has admitted accepting a donation from a charity group set up by the man at the center of the scandal.
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2023-03-13T03:51:16+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/news/2023/03/12/head-of-union-organization-fired-after-eu-donation-probe/
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Actor Norman Reedus gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Published: Sep. 28, 2022 at 4:32 PM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
(CNN) – Actor Norman Reedus has now left his mark on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The veteran actor, best known for his role as crossbow-wielding Daryl on AMC’s “The Walking Dead” series, received the honor Tuesday.
It was awarded under the category of television.
“The Walking Dead” will be coming to an end this fall, but Reedus, who wears many hats, is set to reprise his role in a spin-off set to premiere in 2023.
For now, fans can catch a glimpse of his star on Hollywood Boulevard in front of Hollywood Toys and Costumes.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-09-28T22:05:54+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/2022/09/28/actor-norman-reedus-gets-star-hollywood-walk-fame/
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance has again recognized RiverStone Health Clinics for meeting the high standards to be named a Patient-Centered Medical Home.
This quality of care designation applies to RiverStone Health Clinics in Billings, Worden, Bridger and Joliet. Additionally, the main clinic at 123 S. 27th St. in Billings received renewal of its Behavioral Health Integration Distinction.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home designation means that RiverStone Health Clinics emphasize access to care, health information technology and coordinated care focused on patients. RiverStone Health earned the Behavioral Health Distinction because it has the right resources in its primary care clinics to serve patients with behavioral health conditions.
“We are proud of the high quality care our clinic staff delivers to our patients every day,” said Jon Forte, RiverStone Health president and CEO. “The NCQA recognizes our commitment to providing the right care at the right time to all community members who seek our services. Our clinic teams seamlessly integrate primary care with mental health and substance use disorder treatment, so we care for the whole person — body and mind.”
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2023-02-21T22:51:28+00:00
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billingsgazette.com
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https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/riverstone-health-clinics-recognized-for-patient-centered-care/article_e7384210-b223-11ed-b006-779e1a5c9b40.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fred S. Hoffman, a longtime Associated Press reporter who covered the Defense Department for more than two decades and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigation into the black market in Vietnam has died. Hoffman was 100.
Well known within the Pentagon, Hoffman was recalled as a tough, enterprising, ethical and tireless reporter who spent nearly 40 years in the news business, including 36 with the AP. After retiring from the AP, he served as the chief spokesman and policy adviser to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.
According to his daughter Lisa Hoffman, he died of melanoma at at his home in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 24. She said he “always marveled at his lifelong good luck and left at peace, with no regrets.”
Hoffman began his career as a radio reporter in Boston covering boxing matches from the front row, dodging flying droplets of blood. After moving on to the AP, he covered seven administrations, including extensive time in Vietnam covering the war. He and Hugh Mulligan were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for their series of stories on profiteering and corruption in South Vietnam, revealing that hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were going down the drain in theft, bribery, waste and money manipulation.
“He was a giant among Pentagon reporters. Truly a legend,” said Robert Burns, a retired AP national security correspondent.
On Monday, Lisa Hoffman said that as she was going through his things, she found some of the many letters he wrote to her from the war. When he retired, he gave boxes of his reporting files to the National Defense University for research.
Reflecting on his career, she said, “He really loved it, and I loved it through him.”
Lisa, who also covered the Pentagon as a reporter for Scripps Howard News Service, said she learned the tradecraft of journalism by listening to her dad at dinner, and the stories he would tell.
“I don’t think some people knew about how good he was at reading things upside down,” Hoffman said. “He’d be chatting with some official and they’d have something on their desk, and he’d read it, memorize it and have a good story.”
She said his “guiding principle was ‘go there.’ Don’t sit at your desk or wait for the phone calls or make phone calls. Go, hit the hallways and make the rounds and talk to people in person.”
Hoffman was also highly protective of his sources, keeping a little notebook of phone numbers — but no names, she said. He’d memorized the names, and in his desk files inside the Pentagon, he’d take care to remove any marks indicating a source. More than once, Hoffman said, her dad went into the Pentagon to work weekends and found officials going through his files.
“He was so, so adept at hiding them that he never blew a source,” she said.
Bill Greener, deputy press secretary to President Gerald Ford during the high-tension 1975 Mayaguez incident, recalled that Hoffman filed his story on the seizing of the ship “faster than we could get the information to the president of the United States.”
Among his other awards were commendations from the Overseas Press Club; the National Headliners Club; the VFW’s first Gold Medal for national security reporting; and the Department of Defense medal for distinguished public service.
The Pentagon award recognized his service as Weinberger’s spokesman. He served in that role for four years and spearheaded reforms of the press pool system to ensure journalists could get to the front lines quickly.
Hoffman was born on Dec. 26, 1922, in Dorchester, Mass. His mother, Rachel Gold, had fled Poland, arriving in America alone in steerage at age 13, with her mother’s Sabbath candlesticks and little else in her bag. His father, Louis, worked as a paper hanger. Hoffman studied journalism for three years at Boston University, and served as an Army reservist during World War II.
He was married to Norma Simons for 72 years, until her death in 2017.
In addition to his daughter, survivors include step-grandchildren Aida and Mirza Dedajic. His brother, Morris Hoffman, died in 1928 and sister, Doris Kroner, in 2003.
Burial will occur at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery.
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2023-07-11T00:13:26+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/ap-longtime-ap-pentagon-reporter-fred-hoffman-who-was-lauded-for-his-vietnam-coverage-dies-at-100/
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The Democrats’ surprisingly strong showing in the midterm elections has raised a familiar question: Did the pollsters get it wrong again?
Heading into Nov. 8, polls from across the industry gave Republicans the clear edge in battleground races, as well as on the generic ballot. The data bolstered the belief among pundits that a red wave was on the rise.
But when that didn’t happen, and Tuesday’s red wave turned out to be a red ripple at best, it led to new scrutiny over an industry that has already faced criticism after big misses in 2016 and 2020.
“All those polls, God love them,” President Biden quipped at a Democratic National Committee event on Thursday. “You know, ‘historic losses are on the way. A giant red wave.’”
Still, many pollsters are defending their profession, saying the surveys released in the months and weeks ahead of Election Day were more accurate than not.
“Overall, it was definitely a good night for pollsters and I would, in particular, say traditional pollsters,” said Ashley Koning, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University.
“In those final weeks, a lot of polls from those credible, reputable, traditional pollsters were met with skepticism and/or disbelief when they were showing better numbers for Democrats,” she added.
In fact, a number of polls released in the final weeks of the election cycle seemed to accurately capture the dynamic on the ground, depicting races that were neck and neck. A FiveThirtyEight polling average in the final week showed Arizona Senate candidate Mark Kelly (D) ahead of his Republican rival Blake Masters by 1 point, for example, reflecting the closeness of the race but one that ultimately gave the Democrat an edge.
Nevada polls in the closing week tended to be more bullish for Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt, giving him a lead of 2 to 8 points depending on the survey. As of this writing, his race against Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) remains too close to call; though he holds a narrow lead over her, many Democrats are optimistic Cortez Masto will ultimately prevail.
The general accuracy of the traditional pollsters came in comparison to a number of right-leaning polls, most notably from the Trafalgar Group, showing Republican candidates with the momentum. The outlet gained attention for being one of the only pollsters to show Trump’s edge over then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. But its recent round of surveys have come under scrutiny.
In a Trafalgar survey of Pennsylvania’s Senate race released on Nov. 4, former GOP Senate candidate Mehmet Oz led now Sen.-elect John Fetterman (D) by roughly 2 points. Fetterman ended up winning the race by roughly 4 points. In a late October poll of Washington State’s Senate race, the pollster had Republican Tiffany Smiley trailing incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D) by a little more than 1 point. Murray ended up defeating Smiley by roughly 12 points.
Pollsters argue that outliers happen and caution that polls are meant to be a snapshot in time, not a prediction.
“They are not meant to predict or be crystal balls,” Koning said. “They are meant to much more so explain the how and why of voters and their feelings and their attitudes and behaviors.”
Skepticism in polls reached a fever pitch in 2016 when Trump’s victory pulled the rug out from those in the media.
“It’s okay to have an outlier. Everyone’s going to have one,” Spencer Kimball, the director of Emerson College Polling, told HillTV’s “What America’s Thinking.”
“What we don’t want is a systematic experience and that’s what we saw in 2016,” he continued. “The bias was systematic toward Hillary Clinton. Every poll that was wrong was wrong in her favor, and so that’s a problem of the industry.”
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake argued that the “flooding of the zone” with Republican-leaning polls in 2022 was part of a broader strategy to boost GOP morale, money and turnout in the final weeks and days of the cycle.
“I think that the media is going to have to have new standards for covering new polls and not allow that to happen,” she told The Hill.
Lake said the strategy has impacted aggregators, which often average a number of polls conducted by different organizations.
“We never anticipated a deliberate flooding of the zone with polls that would show you in the lead,” Lake said. “They’re going to have to balance aggregation with ‘okay we’re going to use this many Republican-leaning polls and this many Democratic-leaning polls’ or something.”
Lake also noted that the news media and political pundits could have paid more attention to early vote turnout, which often plays in Democrats’ favor.
“In this case, we were seeing some surge in the early vote but the pundits were really discounting it and they shouldn’t have been,” she said.
One Republican pollster told The Hill that some pollsters did not pick up on factors like the Democratic fundraising advantage, abortion’s strength as an issue and Trump’s impact on voters.
“What I don’t think we captured as well as an industry was some of the movement in the close,” the GOP pollster said. “I think the night looked a lot more like what we expected it to in August than we expected it to in October.”
The pollster said the two toss-up groups they were focused on throughout the cycle were college-educated men and women without college degrees.
“Those three things combined in a way that left those two groups more swingy, whereas I think in September the stock market movement was pushing college-educated men toward Republicans,” the GOP pollster said. “Women without college degrees cared very much about abortion rights and about the economy because they were being very directly impacted.”
Ultimately though, most pollsters and experts say the majority of polls leading up to the midterms did not completely miss the mark.
“This was kind of one of our first pandemic era, normal elections that we could have had and could have tested this out and I think pollsters met the challenge,” Koning said.
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2022-11-12T21:18:28+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/hill-politics/did-the-polls-get-it-wrong-again/
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Boy, 11, bitten by rattlesnake after falling off bike on Colorado trail
GOLDEN, Colo. (KUSA) - An 11-year-old boy is home from the hospital after he was bitten by a rattlesnake along a Colorado hiking trail. His family says he might not be alive if paramedics didn’t respond as quickly as they did.
Ethan Vogel, 11, was excited to get out with his dad, Zach Vogel, for a bike ride Tuesday evening before it got dark on a North Table Mountain trail. His dad was biking right behind him when he saw the 11-year-old fall.
Ethan wasn’t hurt in the fall, but as he went to get up, he saw a rattlesnake. Seconds later, he felt a sting on his chest near his armpit as the snake bit him.
“He’s hollering. He’s like, ‘Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh,’” Zach Vogel said.
Knowing the bite was venomous, Ethan’s father called 911 and worked to keep his son calm as he felt the symptoms, including a numb face, toes and fingers.
“I was just scared, really. I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to kick the bucket,” Ethan said.
“Laying in my arms and saying he’s not ready to die, as a dad, it’s the last thing you want to hear,” Zach Vogel said.
Paramedics arrived in 19 minutes. Luckily, Ethan and his dad were close to a trail access point, and it wasn’t difficult to get them off the mountain.
The 11-year-old was first taken to a Lakewood hospital, then to the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital Colorado. He got 16 doses of antivenom, according to his dad.
Doctors told him he was lucky he wasn’t bitten in a vein.
Ethan is still sore but not scared to ride again. He said he now knows the risks of the trail and how important having a buddy and a phone can be.
“He can’t wait to get back out. I can’t wait to get back out. One tough cookie, he’s a tough boy,” Zach Vogel said.
Jefferson County Open Space said that rattlesnakes can be active through early November and to stay alert on the trails. You can help prevent bites by wearing closed-toed shoes, keeping out one earbud and always looking before you step.
If you do encounter a rattlesnake, back away 30 feet and give the snake 30 seconds to decide to leave, then repeat as necessary. Do not throw rocks or otherwise disturb the snake.
Copyright 2023 KUSA via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2023-06-12T11:05:40+00:00
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kttc.com
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https://www.kttc.com/2023/06/12/boy-11-bitten-by-rattlesnake-after-falling-off-bike-colorado-trail/
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Powerful explosions rattled the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Thursday and a city close to the country’s biggest nuclear power plant sustained a barrage of shelling, part of a series of new Russian attacks in several regions, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian authorities said shelling of a town in the eastern Donetsk region, where fighting has been focused in recent weeks, left at least eight people dead. And the mayor of the separatist-held city of Donetsk said six were killed in shelling there.
Ukraine’s presidential office said in its daily update that nine Ukrainian regions came under fire over the previous 24 hours. Two districts of Mykolaiv, which has been targeted frequently in recent weeks, were shelled early Thursday morning.
Russian forces reportedly fired 60 rockets at Nikopol, in the central Dnipropetrovsk region. Some 50 residential buildings were damaged in the city of 107,000 and some projectiles hit power lines, leaving city residents without electricity, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Nikopol is located across the Dnieper river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which was taken over by Russian troops early in the war.
Experts at the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War believe that Russia is shelling the area intentionally, “putting Ukraine in a difficult position.”
“Either Ukraine returns fire, risking international condemnation and a nuclear incident (which Ukrainian forces are unlikely to do), or Ukrainian forces allow Russian forces to continue firing on Ukrainian positions from an effective ‘safe zone,’” the Institute’s latest report said.
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency earlier this week voiced alarm over the situation at the Zaporizhzhia plant.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Thursday that the Russian military had struck two Ukrainian munitions depots near the village of Novoivanivka in the Zaporizhzhia region and a fuel depot near the Zaporizhzhia railway station.
In northern Ukraine, the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, was being shelled from Russia, the presidential office said. Several industrial facilities were hit in the city, which has been a frequent target. In the nearby city of Chuhuiv, a rocket hit a five-story residential building.
Fighting continued in the fiercely contested Donetsk region, with Ukrainian authorities saying a school was destroyed in the village of Ocheretyne. The region is struggling without gas supplies and, in part, without power and water supplies; its residents are being evacuated.
In the town of Toretsk, artillery shells hit a bus stop, a church and apartment buildings, killing at least eight people and wounding four, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
In the city of Donetsk, Russian-backed separatist authorities blamed Ukrainian forces for shelling the central part of the city Thursday. The area hit was near a theater where a farewell ceremony for a prominent separatist officer killed a few days ago was being held. Donetsk Mayor Alexei Kulemzin said six people were killed and seven more wounded.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukrainian involvement. He alleged, without offering evidence, that Russian or separatist forces were responsible for the shelling.
Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of firing on territories under their own control.
Russian forces have already seized the Luhansk region that neighbors Donetsk. Its Ukrainian governor, Serhiy Haidai, said on social media that local residents are being mobilized to fight against Kyiv’s forces and that “even indispensable mine workers are being taken.”
Ukrainian authorities reported another abduction of a mayor who reportedly refused to collaborate with the Russians in the southern Kherson region, which is also almost entirely occupied.
The reported kidnapping of Serhiy Lyakhno, the mayor of the village of Hornostaivka, comes as Russia amasses more troops in the area in anticipation of a counteroffensive by Kyiv and ahead of a planned referendum on the region becoming part of Russia.
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2022-08-04T15:36:32+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ukrainian-cities-shelled-including-one-near-nuclear-plant/
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Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd and Anthony Brooks discuss the latest in politics with Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram and Axios managing editor Margaret Talev, including the new unemployment numbers out Friday which indicate a hot labor market but also persistent inflation.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-08-05T18:39:15+00:00
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https://www.wksu.org/2022-08-05/sinema-signs-on-to-climate-and-health-care-deal-moving-it-closer-to-passage
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The following is a listing of all home transfers in Cape Cod reported from May 7 to May 14. There were 105 transactions posted during this time. During this period, the median sale for the area was a 1,830-square-foot home on Cobblestone Way in East Sandwichthat sold for $635,000.
Brewster
Edward J Shepard to Richard Schleckser and Karen Asper, 62 Fox Meadow Drive, Brewster, $690,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Lt Sutherland to Alex Pepicelli and Taylor Pepicelli, 56 Aunt Sophies Road, Brewster, $741,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Tad M Hurvitz to Sean Toole and Diane Toole, 94 Susan Lane, Brewster, $780,077, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Christine Krahn and Michael Krahn to Michael Kerouac and Ann Kerouac, 70 Doran Drive, Brewster, $970,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Buzzards Bay
Laurie F Stundis to Linda Smith, 901 Head of The Bay Road, Buzzards Bay, $343,000, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Joseph P Demers and Nancy P Demers to Thomas Lemieux and Kathleen Lemieux, 5 Chapin Lane, Buzzards Bay, $469,900, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Joan M Brady to Rhian Rahaman, 21 Heather Hill Road, Buzzards Bay, $530,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Joanne Mccarron to Richard Tabaczynski and Karen Tabaczynski, 16 Berrywood Court, Buzzards Bay, $549,000, 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Gail F Molino and Michael Passanisi to Ryan Golden and Rachel Golden, 3 Dayna Lane, Buzzards Bay, $940,000, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Centerville
Marcel R Perry to Marcos Dasilva, 155 Hillside Drive, Centerville, $412,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Barbara M Marsala to Ian Bonise and Sarah Bonise, 76 Camp Opechee Road, Centerville, $445,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
S Jr P R Burgess Nt E to Ronald Edwards and Theresa Tuano, 108 Waterside Drive, Centerville, $1,100,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Chatham
Joseph Trombi to Saurabh Shingote and Pradnya Pansare, 175 Sam Ryder Road, Chatham, $437,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
H Inger M Burse Ret R to Teresa Lim and Patricia Leong, 79 Lakeshore Drive, Chatham, $2,288,000, 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
W L Mayr E Chin Ret S to Buona Fortuna Llc, 72 Sunset Lane, Chatham, $5,995,000, 3 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.
Cotuit
Robert J Abruzzo and Carolyn R Abruzzo to Beatrice Murphy and Brian Murphy, 62 Pine Ridge Road, Cotuit, $630,000, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
H D Davis 2008 Ret James to Satya Mitra and Supriya Mitra, 120 Cotuit Bay Drive, Cotuit, $1,195,000, 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
Dennis
Marilyn A Mcclune to Chase Street Prop Inc, 38 Bramble Lane, Dennis, $995,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Dennis Port
Hoffman 2016 Lt Janice to Chillax Vacations Llc, 154 Old Wharf Road, Dennis Port, $184,900, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Michael Asci and Lisa Asci to Alvin Carnegie and Claudine Carnegie, 78 Center Street, Dennis Port, $195,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Brenda Cohen to Craig Lamkin and Susan Lamkin, 10 Candlewood Lane, Dennis Port, $300,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Shawn Hisoire to Stephen Gilmore and Catherine Gilmore, 342 Lower County Road, Dennis Port, $331,500, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Christina R Est Valentine to Edward Davis, 35 Union Wharf Road, Dennis Port, $433,500, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Kevin Gottwald and Jacquelyn Gottwald to William Ambrosino, 18 Harvard Road, Dennis Port, $677,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Denis J Ingham and Sandra A Ingham to Matthew Pierson and Sarah Pierson, 43 Easy Street, Dennis Port, $677,500, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
East Falmouth
Daphne L Sutter to 841 Sandwich Road Llc, 841 Sandwich Road, East Falmouth, $400,000, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Sharon C Poulos to Yu Jin, 43 Raffi Avenue, East Falmouth, $565,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Ovington Dr Rt 54 to Michael Bontempo and Maria Bontempo, 54 Ovington Drive, East Falmouth, $625,000, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Ann M Est Sullivan to Mark Sullivan and Susan Sullivan, 84 Alcott Road, East Falmouth, $650,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
T Pookie to Candace Way Llc, 27 Candace Way, East Falmouth, $700,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
L Byrnes Ret Maureen to Adriano Varano, 3 Cooper Road, East Falmouth, $838,000, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
E Grozier Ret Mary to Scott Wayne, 59 Castle Road, East Falmouth, $1,990,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
East Sandwich
Timothy J Taylor and Rachel M Taylor to Jonathan Kline, 26 Oxford Road, East Sandwich, $538,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Nathaniel Aronson to Herve Dannelongue and Susan Miller, 22 Pond View Drive, East Sandwich, $630,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Neil Newman and Chelsea Newman to Peter Jakola and Olivia Jakola, 33 Cobblestone Way, East Sandwich, $635,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Nikhil V Goray and Sumitra Sivaram to Daniel Hayman and Mark Hayman, 11 Briar Lane, East Sandwich, $1,013,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Eastham
Glyn H Eisenhauer to Kevin Murphy, 785 State Highway, Eastham, $190,000, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Susan T Holley to Adam Dorn and Suzanne Dorn, 225 Windjammer Lane, Eastham, $725,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Jared C Libby and Mia L Libby to 8 Sibley Way Rt, 8 Sibley Way, Eastham, $1,235,000, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Falmouth
Welljams Dorof T Hurley to Charles S Matteo Ft, 77 Miami Avenue, Falmouth, $800,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Alfred L Billings and Jane F Billings to Rudolf Gausling and Alexandra Worden, 10 Frazar Road, Falmouth, $1,275,000, 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
T Taygan to Pascal T Mittermaier Ret, 46 Gunning Point Road, Falmouth, $2,099,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Forestdale
Michael Regan and Emily Regan to Suzanna Kilty, 29 Cove Road, Forestdale, $434,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
David A Wyant and Janet E Wyant to John Hudanich and Christine Hudanich, 7 Bedford Place, Forestdale, $607,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Erik S Vendittelli and Darlene B Vendittelli to Hamid Satarboroujeni and Leila Shokri, 8 Lichen Lane, Forestdale, $870,000, 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
Harwich
Amir Lt Leora to David Silva, 8 Somerset Road, Harwich, $1,420,000, 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
Hyannis
Constance L Delbene and Philip A Grant to Crossroads Re Llc, 800 Bearses Way, Hyannis, $160,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Luan C Dejesus to 398 West Main Llc, 398 West Main Street, Hyannis, $250,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Ellen Carty to Elizandra Ferreira, 195 Dunns Pond Road, Hyannis, $325,000, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Rt Pandoras to Kaley Krueger, 230 Gosnold Street, Hyannis, $337,400, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Elineth Bain to Paulo Palhares, 76 Compass Circle, Hyannis, $510,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Kevin M Est Keenan to Wissam Tarek, 16 Priscilla Street, Hyannis, $527,000, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Isela O Lemus to Valle Pleitez and Castaneda Pena, 160 Hinckley Road, Hyannis, $550,000, 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
C Findlay 2021 Ret Hugh to George Simmons and Eileen Simmons, 500 Ocean Street, Hyannis, $725,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Marstons Mills
Rushell R Smith to Emily Learned, 48 Dickinson Drive, Marstons Mills, $215,307, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Lawrence W Priore and Judith M Priore to Aron Saperstein and Julie Saperstein, 292 Old Mill Road, Marstons Mills, $725,000, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
J Higgins Family Irt T to Epstein Elizabeth, 9 Barnacle Drive, Marstons Mills, $1,051,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Mashpee
Florence A Est Stevens to Dennis Walsh, 195 Falmouth Road, Mashpee, $420,000, 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
John P Muczko and Carol A Muczko to Theophilos Collins, 9 Shellback Way, Mashpee, $430,900, 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Nichole R Murphy to Thomas Sensale and Rachel Kahaly, 66 Scituate Road, Mashpee, $455,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
A Bowen Lt Sheila to Vladimir Ivashko and Raisa Ivashko, 106 Shellback Way, Mashpee, $494,000, 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
A Trudeau T Starr to Glenn Shwaery, 15 Beacon Court, Mashpee, $525,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Susan N Est Rodenneger to David Wyant and Janet Wyant, 22 Bonwood Drive, Mashpee, $525,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Margaret A Dhionis to Joseph Rinaldi and Christopher Boslet, 15 Driver Lane, Mashpee, $540,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Hospitality Llc Heights to Sharon Maier, 140 Noisy Hole Road, Mashpee, $705,000, 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
John Cushman to Michael Scarpellini and Andrea Marczely, 1 Anthonys Way, Mashpee, $875,000, 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
Humble W Hamel and Peter E Hamel to Michael Littlewood and Margaret Littlewood, 23 Heath Knob, Mashpee, $1,170,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Contractors Grp I Premium to Brandy Dean, 49 Shore Drive, Mashpee, $1,280,000, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
North Falmouth
David Brunell and Nancy Brunell to Timothy Delay and Kristen Delay, 36 Homer Avenue, North Falmouth, $1,228,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Orleans
A Hobday T Susan to Matthew Anglin and Amy Anglin, 12 Childs Homestead Road, Orleans, $589,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
M B M Dooner Ft Gerard to Danielle Adams and Ryan Mcgrath, 27 Beach Road, Orleans, $775,000, 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Samuel J Kearing and Rose M Kearing to Howell Ft, 8 Standish Road, Orleans, $1,315,000, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Osterville
Henry Thomas Est Lane to Craig Nichols and Lisa Nichols, 141 Parsley Lane, Osterville, $860,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Maria C Smith and Chase Bank Na Jpmorgan to Jpmorgan Chase Bank Na, 230 Starboard Lane, Osterville, $3,325,000, 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms.
Pocasset
Marie Morse Lt Donna to Lfp Future Holdings Llc, 3 River Road, Pocasset, $250,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Rui A Dutra to Kimberly Egan, 340 Circuit Avenue, Pocasset, $1,098,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Provincetown
Ronald N Heinricksen and Henry K Anderson to Wesley Ritchie and Brian Reis, 910 Commercial Street, Provincetown, $405,000, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Thomas D Wyatt to Wlj Llc, 536 Commercial Street, Provincetown, $569,000, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Sheila A Oliver to Cozy Abodes Llc, 690 Commercial Street, Provincetown, $649,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
William G Burton to Helen Molesworth and Susan Dackerman, 18 Miller Hill Road, Provincetown, $1,050,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
W Oppenheim Ret Emilie to L Ramon, 402 Commercial Street, Provincetown, $1,750,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Frank Maiellano to Princess Tower Llc, 27 Creek Road, Provincetown, $2,300,000, 4 bedrooms.
Sagamore
Justin Siderwicz to Leo Munafo, 38 Regency Drive, Sagamore, $450,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Sagamore Beach
Alexei Karaban and Olga Karaban to Donald Ellis and Cynthia Ellis, 23 Nauset Road, Sagamore Beach, $661,500, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Christopher Conant to Gail Molino and Michael Passanisi, 6 Seaview Road, Sagamore Beach, $670,000, 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
Sandwich
Lorraine Prieth to Andrew Knight and Yunwei Knight, 17 Tyler Drive, Sandwich, $373,000, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
B Mclaughlin Ret Wendy to T Aviators, 4 Aviators Lane, Sandwich, $1,161,000, 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
South Dennis
Sean M Driscoll and Kalyana Driscoll to 33 Thayer St T, 33 Thayer Street, South Dennis, $575,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
South Yarmouth
Mark R Plante to Victoria Davis and Nathaniel Davis, 38 Rita Avenue, South Yarmouth, $500,000, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Ft Sutcliffe to Steve Snopkowski and Colleen Snopkowski, 20 Captain Nickerson Road, South Yarmouth, $640,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Jane E Sheehan to F C Schwelm Jr Ret, 70 Chipping Green Circle, South Yarmouth, $655,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
M Schwelm Ret Clare to George A Aggouras Ret, 20 Bass River Terrace, South Yarmouth, $1,250,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Truro
Matthew G Blackham to Jeffrey Perilli, 618 Shore Road, Truro, $557,500, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Wellfleet
3098 Llc Jsl to Rispoli Ventures Llc, 3098 State Hwy Rte 6, Wellfleet, $650,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Martin Yeeles and Michele Yeeles to Katy Burnett and Ryan Groth, 73 King Phillip Road, Wellfleet, $1,207,500, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
West Dennis
Nance J Bendus to Elisabeth Delehaunty, 24 Church Street, West Dennis, $270,000, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Kristen Connors to Michael Morris and Katie Morris, 7 Arbutus Lane, West Dennis, $825,000, 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
West Yarmouth
Andrew L Frechette to Mcgee Dillion, 28 Ruby Street, West Yarmouth, $385,000, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Yarmouth Port
J Vines Ft Barbara to Mary Derosa and Joseph Derosa, 2209 Heatherwood, Yarmouth Port, $146,000, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
Ann Drkscoll Lt Jeanne to Jane Sheehan, 3107 Heatherwood, Yarmouth Port, $251,000, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Paul A Est Mckenna to Jennifer Andrade, 5 Rhine Road, Yarmouth Port, $339,200, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Michael Rabideau to Rick Williams and Gayle Bieler, 39 Oak gln., Yarmouth Port, $415,000, 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Ret Agreement Mello to Gregory Smith and Lisa Fournier, 23 Skipper Lane, Yarmouth Port, $575,000, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Christopher W Keavy and Debra A Keavy to Gordon Glenn and Fran Glenn, 31 Kencomsett Circle, Yarmouth Port, $640,000, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
R Rt J to Stephen Levey and Jean Difrancis, 15 West Woods, Yarmouth Port, $665,000, 2 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.
Real Estate Newswire is a service provided by United Robots, which uses machine learning to generate analysis of data from Propmix, an aggregator of national real-estate data.
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2023-05-14T06:17:19+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/realestate-news/2023/05/see-all-homes-sold-in-cape-cod-may-7-to-may-14.html
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NOVATO, Calif. (KRON) — The campus at Novato High School has been closed and fire and police units are on the scene working a Haz-Mat situation near the pool, according to an alert from Novato PD.
All school related activities including practices and games have been canceled for the evening, the release states. The Novato High School girls basketball team had games scheduled tonight against Piner. Both the junior varsity game at 5:30 p.m. and the varsity game at 7:00 p.m. have been canceled as a result of the situation, according to an Instagram post from the school.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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2022-11-22T01:39:40+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/novato-high-school-closed-due-to-haz-mat-situation-near-pool/
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LINCOLN, Neb., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameritas President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Lester announces the following officer elections.
Aaron Berthold has been promoted to vice president, service. Berthold was previously second vice president, customer service. He earned a Master of Arts in management with an emphasis in leadership from Doane College and a Bachelor of Science in education-business from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He holds the FINRA Series 4, 7, 24, 53 and 66 securities licenses.
Susanne Denby has been promoted to second vice president, sales supervision. She was previously director, wealth management and investment services. Denby earned a Bachelor of Science degree in communication from California State University, Fullerton. She also earned a certificate of merit in ancient history from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She holds the FINRA series 7, 24, 63 and 65 licenses. Denby is licensed in life, health and variable insurance by the State of Texas.
Beth Goldsmith has been promoted to second vice president, practice management and development. She was previously manager, field education and development. Goldsmith earned a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in organizational development focus from Concordia University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in music education from Nebraska Wesleyan University. She holds the FINRA series 6 and the Associate, Life Management Institute designation. She is on the national education committee for Women in Insurance and Financial Services (WIFS) and on the NAIFA Certification Committee for their LACP designation, as well as a member of the Field Development and Performance Committee for LIMRA.
Samantha Vopalensky has been promoted to second vice president, development and integration. An Ameritas associate for over 25 years, she was previously director, development and integration. She obtained her Master of Professional Accountancy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from Doane College. Vopalensky is a Life Management Institute fellow.
John Webb has been promoted to vice president, compliance, retirement plans. Previously the second vice president, compliance and risk in retirement plans, Webb has 25 years of experience in retirement plans and earned his Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in management consulting from Montreat College in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science in business administration with an emphasis in accounting and a Bachelor of Arts in music from Berea College in Kentucky.
An associate of Ameritas for over five years, Webb is an enrolled retirement plan agent with the IRS. He also holds the following designations from the American Retirement Association qualified 401k administrator (QKA), qualified pension administrator (QPA), tax-exempt and governmental plan consultant (TGPC) and a certified plan fiduciary advisor (CPFA). He also holds designations from the National Institute of Pension Administrator (NIPA), an accredited pension representative (APR) and an accredited pension administer (APA). Webb is also the past president of the ASPPA Benefits Council (ABC) of Greater Cincinnati and is currently the treasurer.
Ameritas is a marketing name for Ameritas Mutual Holding Company and its affiliated subsidiary companies, including Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York. Founded in 1887, Ameritas offers a wide range of insurance and financial products and services to individuals, families and businesses. These products and services include life insurance; annuities; individual disability income insurance; group dental, vision and hearing care insurance; retirement plans; investments; asset management; and public finance. Securities offered through affiliate Ameritas Investment Company LLC., member FINRA/SIPC, and investment advisory services offered through affiliate Ameritas Advisory Services, LLC. For more information, visit ameritas.com.
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Derek Rayment, Sr. Media Relations Specialist
Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
Phone: 402-467-7850
derek.rayment@ameritas.com
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2022-05-31T16:31:41+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/05/31/ameritas-announces-newly-elected-officers/
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alabama hosts 430 bird species within its borders, and to a bird lover's delight, the Alabama Tourism Department is announcing a year-long celebration with its new Year of Alabama Birding campaign. Bird lovers and bird enthusiasts are invited to flock to the state to birdwatch or participate in other birding activities to immerse themselves in the sights and sounds of Alabama's feathered friends.
From the majestic bald eagle to the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker to the crowd-pleasing painted bunting, visitors will be in awe of the many species they see as they journey through Alabama's eight birding trails and over 280 birding sites. These can be found from the foothills of the Appalachians to the sugar-white sandy beaches of the Gulf Coast.
As the year unfolds, a series of promotional activities will jumpstart visitors' Alabama birding experience. Travelers can relax as well as listen to the peaceful sounds of Relax with Birdsong found at any of the state's eight official welcome centers. Travelers will be able to listen to the Sounds of Happy playlist online or by streaming on select audio platforms. Find Your Flock is an online quiz that will associate travelers with the birds they most resemble and where they can find them. Follow a Birder is documentary-style content as seen through the eyes of local experts. Travelers also may share their Alabama birding photos with website visitors. These interactive activities were created by Intermark Group, the Alabama Tourism Department's agency of record.
"A world of wonderful sights and sounds await those who travel to Alabama," said Lee Sentell, director of the Alabama Tourism Department. "The Year of Alabama Birding will be an experience that will focus on the state's birding trails and habitats. We're offering people an opportunity to commune with nature in a unique and relaxing way."
About the Alabama Tourism Department:
The Alabama Tourism Department has won honors from the World Travel Market: London, United States Travel Association, National Council of State Tourism Directors, Travel Weekly magazine, the Southeast Tourism Society, Southern Public Relations Federation and American Advertising Federation for its marketing campaigns. In 2021, Alabama's tourism economy rebounded significantly through the Tourism Department's marketing initiatives, resulting in over 28 million visitors vacationing in Alabama and spending a record nearly $20 billion on tourism activities. For more information, visit Alabama.Travel.
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2023-03-29T16:05:06+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/03/29/alabama-tourism-department-declares-2023-year-alabama-birding/
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Your Fourth of July cookout will cost you less this year, according to American Farm Bureau
By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN
(CNN) — Good news for your Fourth of July cookout — it’s more affordable than last year. Families can expect to pay $67.73 for a party of 10, down 3% from last year’s record high, according to a survey from the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The cookout includes 12 staple items. Hamburger buns, beef and potato salad were up in price this year while chicken breast, lemonade and chocolate chip cookies saw price drops.
“The slight downward direction in the cost of a cookout doesn’t counter the dramatic increases we’ve seen over the past few years. Families are still feeling the pinch of high inflation along with other factors keeping prices high,” said Roger Cryan, chief economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation.
This year’s cookout cost is the second highest on record, following last year’s record setting number — $69.68 for a party of 10. The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), has been conducting the survey since 2013.
Most of the 12 basket items surveyed saw decreases this year. The biggest savings came from items that broke records last year like chicken. Cases of the avian flu, which swept the country earlier this year, have fallen, giving the chicken population time to recover. Two pounds of chicken breasts cost $8.14 on average, down 9% from last year. The biggest drop in price is for lemonade — down 16% from last year at $3.73 for 2 ½ quarts, the survey said.
The cost of beef was up 4% this year to $11.54 for 2 pounds due to the cost of feed for cattle and decreased herd size. Potato prices also rose because of poor growing weather, the Farm Bureau said. Potatoes were up 5% to $3.44 for 2 ½ pounds of homemade potato salad. One package of hamburger buns saw the highest increase at 17% — $2.26 for a pack.
“Don’t assume farmers come out as winners from higher prices at the grocery store either. They’re price takers, not price makers, whose share of the retail food dollar is just 14%. Farmers have to pay for fuel, fertilizer and other expenses, which have all gone up in cost,” said Cryan.
The cost of this year’s cookout is 14% higher than two years ago. The market basket also includes pork chops, cheese, pork and beans, potato chips, ice cream, and strawberries. The cookout breaks down to about $7 a person for a party of 10.
The Fourth of July Cookout survey is based on volunteer shoppers who checked prices at 240 stores in every state and Puerto Rico from June 1-8. The Consumer Price Index for groceries (food at home) in May shows an increase of 5.8% year over year. The AFBF looks at only those foods typically found at summer cookouts, the survey notes.
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2023-06-27T16:06:06+00:00
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Experts from Ukraine have joined Polish and American investigators who are looking into a missile blast that killed two men in eastern Poland this week.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Friday that the Ukrainian experts were at the grain-drying facility in the Polish village of Przewodow where the missile landed Tuesday. The village is located about 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Poland's border with Ukraine.
“We will continue our cooperation in an open and constructive manner, as closest friends do,” Kuleba tweeted.
“I am grateful to the Polish side for granting them access,” he wrote.
Polish media reported seeing officials in Ukraine uniforms arriving at the site mid-day Friday.
On Tuesday, two workers were killed when a Russian-made projectile hit the grain-drying facility. Ukraine came under a heavy Russian bombardment that day.
NATO and Poland’s leaders have said the missile most likely came from a Ukrainian air defense system that fired in response to Russia’s attack. Ukrainian authorities initially said the missile was not theirs and asked to join the probe.
U.S. and Polish experts have been working at the site all week to establish the source and circumstances of the missile's launch. Poland's officials say there are camera recordings of the events leading up to the blast but they remain classified.
State funerals for the two men who died are expected over the weekend.
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2022-11-18T16:28:04+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Ukraine-experts-join-probe-of-fatal-missile-blast-17594851.php
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Madrid (AP) — A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Wednesday ordered the release of Clara Ponsatí, a Euro MP and a former regional Catalan government Cabinet member who fled Spain five years ago after a failed independence bid for Catalonia.
Ponsatí, who is a member of the Together for Catalonia party, was released after being detained a day earlier when she entered Spain and held a press conference in Barcelona. She faces charges of disobeying the law for helping stage Catalonia´s illegal independence referendum in 2017.
Hours after her release, Ponsatí flew to Brussel for a European Parliament meeting but must appear before court on April 24 and be constantly trackable by Spanish authorities.
If convicted of disobeying explicit court injunctions not to proceed with the breakaway referendum, Ponsatí could face a fine and be barred from public office for up to two years but will not face prison.
She previously faced charges of sedition, which would have meant time in prison, but a recent amendment to Spanish law no longer classifies sedition as a crime.
Ponsatí was among several other Catalan politicians who fled Spanish justice in 2017 following the referendum. The group included former Catalonia regional President Carles Puigdemont who is also a Euro MP for Together for Catalonia and is wanted in Spain for embezzlement.
Ponsatí claims she has immunity as a member of the European Parliament but Spain’s Supreme Court rejects this, saying the charges against her and Puigdemont date from before they were elected to the body.
Her return to Spain comes after unity within the pro-independence camp was shattered last year when the two leading secessionist parties split, with Together for Catalonia leaving the regional coalition government headed by the Republican Left of Catalonia.
Unlike Together for Catalonia, the Republican Left party supports Spain’s left-leaning coalition government and has held negotiations with Spanish authorities on resolving the dispute.
The Spanish government has also pardoned nine independence bid leaders who didn’t flee and were later convicted of sedition and misuse of public funds. The pardons were considered an attempt by central authorities to reduce tensions with wealthy northeast Catalonia.
Polls show that Catalonia’s 7.5 million residents are equally split between those who want to secede and those who want to remain a part of Spain.
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2023-03-30T04:17:39+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/spanish-judge-releases-fugitive-catalan-euro-mp/
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Debt ceiling talks grind on, but Republicans say there’s a ‘lack of urgency’ from White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Debt ceiling negotiators for President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy holed up for more talks at the Capitol Tuesday, but Republicans warned of a “lack of urgency” at the White House to resolve the budget standoff in time to avert a potentially chaotic federal default.
With barely a week to go before a deadline as soon as June 1 the Democratic president and the Republican speaker were staring down a financial crisis. Failure to strike a deal would be unprecedented, and certain to throw U.S. financial markets into turmoil, inflicting economic pain at home and abroad.
Behind closed doors, McCarthy urged his slim House Republican majority to “just stick together” despite their own factions as he negotiates the strongest deal possible for conservatives, said lawmakers exiting the private session.
“We’re not there yet,” McCarthy said at the Capitol, reiterating he won’t bring any bill forward “that doesn’t spend less than we spent this year.”
Rank-and-file Republican lawmakers were told they could proceed with their planned recess week around Memorial Day away from Washington, set to begin after Thursday’s session. But McCarthy warned them to be on 24-hour call to return for voting on any deal.
Dragging into a second week, the negotiations over raising the nation’s debt limit, now at $31 trillion, were never supposed to arrive at this point — a crisis in the making.
The White House insisted early on it was unwilling to barter over the need to pay the nation’s bills, demanding that Congress simply lift the ceiling as it has done many times before with no strings attached.
But the newly elected speaker, McCarthy, R-Calif., visited Biden at the Oval Office in February, urging the president to come to the negotiating table on a budget package that would reduce spending and the nation’s post-COVID ballooning deficits in exchange for the vote to allow future debt.
Both men said late Monday after a crucial meeting at the White House — after the president returned from the Group of Seven summit in Japan — that talks were productive.
But with time short to strike a deal, they are laboring to come up with a compromise that could be approved quickly by the Republican House and the Democratic Senate and be signed into law.
Negotiations are focused on finding agreement over a 2024 budget year limit. Republicans insist that next year’s government spending be less than it is now, but the White House instead is offering to freeze spending at current 2023 numbers.
Agreement on that topline spending level is vital — to enable McCarthy to deliver spending restraint for conservatives while not being so severe that it would chase off the Democratic votes that would be needed in the divided Congress to pass any bill.
The White House continues to argue that deficits can be reduced by ending tax breaks for wealthier households and some corporations, but McCarthy said he told the president at their February meeting that raising revenue from tax hikes is off the table.
The negotiators are now also debating the duration of a 1% cap on annual spending growth going forward, with Republicans dropping their demand for a 10-year cap to six years, but the White House offering only one year, for 2025.
Typically, the debt ceiling has been lifted for the duration of a budget deal, and in this negotiation the White House is angling for a two-year agreement that would push past the presidential elections.
A top Republican negotiator, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina who joined the speaker at the Oval Office Monday evening, said there needs to be more urgency. Talks resumed Monday night at the Capitol for two hours, and picked up again midday Tuesday.
“What I sense from the White House is a lack of urgency,” McHenry told reporters.
But on the Senate side, Republican leader Mitch McConnell said, “Look, I think everybody needs to relax.” He said that “the last 10 times we raised the debt ceiling, there were things attached to it” — as the White House has opposed this year.
“This is not that unusual.”
However, time is growing short. The House speaker promised lawmakers he will abide by the rule to post any bill for 72 hours before voting, making any action doubtful until the end of the week — just days before the potential deadline. The Senate would also have to pass the package before it could go to Biden’s desk to be signed.
After a weekend of start-stop talks, both Biden and McCarthy have declared a need to close a compromise deal. U.S. financial markets turned down last week after negotiations paused amid a jittery economy.
McCarthy faces a hard-right flank in his own party that is likely to reject any deal, and that has led some Democrats to encourage Biden to resist any compromise with the Republicans and simply raise the debt ceiling on his own, an unprecedented and legally fraught action.
On Tuesday, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus Rep. Scott Perry said, “We all want to stick together. But again, it’s sticking together around the right thing.”
He and others are growing skeptical of the June 1 deadline that Treasury Secretary Janel Yellen said is when “it is highly likely” the government will be unable to pay all the nation’s bills.
Perry suggested the Treasury Department is going to be “flush with cash” come June 15 when quarterly tax payments are due.
“There’s absolutely no reason to do this, and we all know it,” he said.
As the negotiators focus on the $100 billion-plus difference between the 2022 and 2023 spending plans as a place to cut, other priorities Republicans are pushing as part of the deal remain on the table.
Republicans also want to beef up work requirements for government aid to recipients in the Medicaid health care program, though the Biden administration has countered that millions of people could lose coverage.
The GOP additionally wants new cuts to food aid by restricting states’ ability to waive work requirements in places with high joblessness. But Democrats have said any changes to work requirements for government aid recipients are nonstarters.
GOP lawmakers are also seeking cuts in IRS funding and, by sparing defense and veterans accounts from reductions, would shift the bulk of spending reductions to other federal programs.
The White House has countered by keeping defense and nondefense spending flat next year, which would save $90 billion in the 2024 budget year and $1 trillion over 10 years.
All sides have been eyeing the potential for the package to include a framework to ease federal regulations and speed energy project developments. They are all but certain to claw back some $30 billion in unspent COVID-19 funds now that the pandemic emergency has officially lifted.
The president, though, said he was ruling out the possibility, for now, of invoking the 14th Amendment as a solution, saying it’s an “unresolved” legal question that would become tied up in the courts.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-05-23T17:55:49+00:00
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fox5vegas.com
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https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/05/23/debt-ceiling-talks-grind-republicans-say-theres-lack-urgency-white-house/
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OUDEGEERDINK, Gerda
95, of Dayton, Ohio, passed away on January 16th, 2023.
She was born on July 11th, 1927, in Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands, the daughter of Gradus Withag and Katharina Dropmann. Gerda was a lifelong member of the Catholic Church, and participated in church services and an active member of Grandmother's Club.
Gerda joins her husband, children, parents, and siblings in Heaven. She is survived by daughter in law Sharon, grandchildren Andi, Madison, and Lee, great-grandchildren, Anakin, Lyla, and Lucca, as well as her many family members in the Netherlands.
Memorial mass will be held at 10:00AM on Saturday, February 25th, 2023, at Our Lady of Mercy Church - Our Lady of Grace Parish, 220 W Siebenthaler Ave, Dayton, OH 45405. Body donation to Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.
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2023-02-02T06:53:22+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/obituaries/oudegeerdink-gerda/J2YQL7KTGNBLDGDR5UHN44ZUAU/
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Entirety of the Funds to be Awarded in Grants from the MrBallen Foundation to Affected Families and Organizations Focused on Education, Training and Financial Support
AUSTIN, Texas, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ballen Studios, the global, multi-platform content company founded by leading storyteller and creator, John Allen—known globally as MrBallen—today announced a $1 million pledge to honor victims and support families affected by violent crime.
The funds committed will be donated in 2023 via the MrBallen Foundation, which will award one hundred percent of the funds in financial grants throughout the year as part of their Honor and Hope Grant Programs. These programs were established to award grants to both 501(c)(3) organizations working to support victims or their families, as well as to provide financial resources directly to families and communities who have been affected by a heinous crime.
"Ballen Studios is honored to make this pledge, and I personally couldn't be more grateful for the outpouring of support from our global community since the MrBallen Foundation launched last year," said Allen. "My hope was to provide a pathway to give back, and I'm proud to share the entirety of donations that come into the foundation go out the door and directly to aid victims, their families and organizations working at the root of issues to make a genuine difference in the lives of people that need it most."
The MrBallen Foundation recently announced its first quarter 2023 grants to Free to Thrive, A21, and the Rebecca Bender Initiative, organizations focused on combatting human trafficking and advancing justice for survivors everywhere. Since receiving its 501(c)(3) nonprofit status last year, the MrBallen Foundation has already donated more than $400,000 to over a dozen organizations doing compassionate, needle-moving work around the world. "We are delighted to partner with the MrBallen Foundation, so more sexual assault survivors will hear the powerful message," said Joanne Archambault, CEO and Founder of End Violence Against Women International, an Honor grant recipient where funds were awarded to expand their Start by Believing Campaign and support victims of sexual assault. "We believe you. We support you. We will get you the help you need."
"Since our inception the MrBallen Foundation has continuously recognized the importance of serving victims of violent crimes and their families, and bringing hope to those that have experienced the devastation that violent crime brings," said the MrBallen Foundation Executive Director, Laurie Gift. "This pledge gives us the capacity to continue to provide that hope to victims and families in their greatest time of need, by partnering with organizations that meet the direct and tangible needs families are facing."
In addition to being one of the internet's biggest storytellers, host of true crime hit, MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark and Mysterious Stories, and Founder of Ballen Studios and the MrBallen Foundation, Allen is a former Navy SEAL who was medically retired in 2017 after being injured in Afghanistan.Allen knows that it is a lifelong process healing from trauma and violence, and even one violent act has a ripple effect from the victims to their loved ones and entire communities.
For more information and to find out how to get involved, visit https://mrballen.foundation/ and follow the MrBallen Foundation on Instagram @MrBallenFoundation, Facebook @MrBallenFoundation, LinkedIn @MrBallenFoundation, and Twitter @MrBallenFnd.
About the MrBallen Foundation
The MrBallen Foundation (MBF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to honoring victims and supporting families affected by violent crimes through education, training and financial support. Victims of heinous crime are faced with psychological, financial, and emotional traumas and residual effects far beyond the physical impact of the crime that need addressing for proper, holistic healing to begin. The MrBallen Foundation was founded by John Allen to provide dynamic solutions for victims and organizations that provide support to them through financial support.
About Ballen Studios
Ballen Studios is a global, multi-platform content company developing and producing projects spanning film, television, publishing, live touring, merchandising, audio, and digital-first platforms. Founded by top podcast host and one of the internet's biggest storytellers, John Allen—better known to his millions of fans globally as MrBallen—Ballen Studios was established to propel the art of storytelling to new heights and connect audiences globally through authentic, engaging storytelling across mediums. Allen, a former US Navy SEAL turned prolific content creator, had a meteoric rise to fame in 2020, first on TikTok and YouTube, and most recently in audio when he launched hit podcast, MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories, a true crime-focused series that also explores strange and mysterious occurrences.
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Man using drone helps police catch home invasion suspect
Published: Jun. 1, 2023 at 4:01 PM EDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
HERCULES, Calif. (CNN) - Police are recognizing a California man and his drone for helping catch a suspect in a home invasion.
The Hercules Police Department said a teenager got away with $30,000 in cash and property from someone’s home Sunday.
Hours later, a neighbor, who was operating a drone, discovered where the teen suspect was hiding.
The teen reportedly got into an Uber, which police were able to locate. Police said they verified the teen’s identity with help from the surveillance video.
Officers said they found the victim’s property inside the Uber.
The teen was taken into custody.
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Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Libema Open
In the Round of 16 of the Libema Open on Wednesday, Ugo Humbert (ranked No. 36) faces Emil Ruusuvuori (No. 42).
Humbert has -140 odds to bring home a victory against Ruusuvuori (+110).
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Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori Match Information
- Tournament: The Libema Open
- Round: Round of 16
- Date: Wednesday, June 14
- Venue: Autotron Rosmalen
- Location: Rosmalen, Netherlands
- Court Surface: Grass
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Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Ugo Humbert has a 58.3% chance to win.
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Ugo Humbert vs. Emil Ruusuvuori Trends and Insights
- Humbert is coming off a 6-4, 6-2 win over No. 97-ranked Jason Kubler in Monday's Round of 32.
- Ruusuvuori was victorious 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 against Brandon Nakashima in the Round of 32 on Tuesday.
- Humbert has played 37 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), and 26.1 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches).
- On grass, Humbert has played seven matches over the past year, totaling 31.7 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches) while winning 49.1% of games.
- In his 61 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, Ruusuvuori is averaging 24.4 games per match (22.6 in best-of-three matches) and winning 49.8% of those games.
- Ruusuvuori is averaging 27.7 games per match (23.5 in best-of-three matches) and 9.8 games per set through six matches on grass courts in the past year.
- Ruusuvuori has beaten Humbert three times in three meetings. Ruusuvuori secured the win in their most recent match 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 in the Round of 128 of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia on May 11, 2023.
- In terms of sets, Ruusuvuori has taken seven against Humbert (70.0%), while Humbert has clinched three.
- Ruusuvuori and Humbert have matched up in 105 total games, with Ruusuvuori taking 56 and Humbert claiming 49.
- Humbert and Ruusuvuori have matched up three times, averaging 35.0 games and 3.3 sets per match.
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WATERLOO — Waterloo East could not overcome a poor shooting night at the free throw line as Ames managed a fourth-quarter comeback to beat the Trojans, 50-46.
East head coach William Muhammad highlighted the Trojans 14 missed free throws and lack of ball security as the main factors in the loss, Tuesday night.
“We were way better than that,” Muhammad said. “Far too many turnovers and missed free throws. We are up double digits. We are supposed to put the game away and we just did not execute on our end.”
The Trojans started the game strong as East won the opening tip to Jaelah Stanford. Stanford raced down the court and got the bucket plus the foul. Stanford converted on the three-point play opportunity to put East ahead 3-0 less than 10 seconds into the game.
However, a pair of three-pointers from Ames sophomore Karsyn Pankonen helped the Little Cyclones built a 14-12 lead by the end of the first quarter.
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East got off to another strong start in the second quarter of action as Jaelah Stanford converted on another three-point play to spark a 7-2 run. The run gave the Trojans a 20-16 lead with four minutes to go until halftime.
A strong presence below the basket from Ames junior Abbey McGuire allowed the Cyclones to regain a 23-22 lead.
A Miah Norman free throw knotted the game at 23-23 and a deep three-pointer by Natalie Hill put the Trojans in front 26-23.
Anisa Percival went 1-for-2 at the free throw line in the final minute of the half to cut the Trojans lead to 26-24 at the halftime break.
Siyanna Cody started off the second half with a three-pointer on the Trojans’ first possession. Freshman guard Graysyn Downing followed up Cody’s triple with a steal and a tear drop layup to put East on top by seven just 1:16 into the second half.
By the time Ames scored its first points of the half, at the 5:20 mark of the quarter, East had built a 33-24 advantage.
Muhammad called the Trojans start to the half exciting.
“We talked about some stuff at halftime,” Muhammad said. “They came right out and executed it. We knew we were fitting to put them away. We had an opportunity.”
Ames battled back, outscoring East 12-7 over the final five minutes of the quarter to trim the Trojans lead back down to just four points heading into the fourth quarter.
Points came at a premium in the final eight minutes of action as the teams combined for just one field goal in the first five minutes of the fourth.
The Little Cyclones won the battle of free throws, out producing the Trojans 5-3 at the line, but a Siyanna Cody three-pointer with 2:20 remaining in regulation kept East in front, 46-43.
Percival won the game for Ames with a driving layup and 2-for-2 shooting in the final two minutes of the game to put the Little Cyclones ahead for good.
Pankonen added a trio of free throws to put the game out of reach at 50-46.
“At the end of the day, valuing the basketball each possession,” Muhammad said. “We did not do our part as good as we could have to put the game away when we had them down big.”
With two weeks off for the holiday season, Muhammad said his team is going to use that time to work on cleaning up the mistakes which cost them against Ames. He also added that the Trojans will “live at the free throw line” during their break.
“We are pretty conditioned,” Muhammad said. “We run hard. We are going to shoot free throws and we are going to work on situational stuff—possessions, end of the game, closing out, time of possession, spacing.”
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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst," Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced a multi-year contract expansion with partner INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health system, to advance analytics capabilities across the INTEGRIS Health network, elevating its analytics program through specialized staffing and expanded technology access.
"At INTEGRIS Health, we are committed to our mission of partnering with people to live healthier lives. The partnership with Health Catalyst and the elevated analytics program will advance our mission, quality and safety outcomes and cost competitiveness, all to benefit our patients," said Timothy Pehrson, President and CEO of INTEGRIS Health. "We are looking forward to the expanded, integrated relationship and envision a successful partnership with Health Catalyst."
The three-year agreement deepens the existing relationship between Health Catalyst and INTEGRIS Health and will include an increased all-access technology subscription, Tech-Enabled Managed Services (TEMS), and TEMS Chart Abstraction services.
Through this expanded partnership, Health Catalyst will staff, manage, and maintain INTEGRIS Health's Enterprise Integrated Analytics program to achieve data-informed healthcare improvements. INTEGRIS Health will reap the benefits of Health Catalyst's TEMS solution that will deliver technology-enabled efficiencies through standardization, automation, and consolidation.
TEMS is Health Catalyst's solution to enable healthcare organizations to achieve reduced labor costs, improved efficiencies, and guaranteed clinical, operational, and financial performance improvements.
"INTEGRIS Health is an innovative, care-quality leader invested in continuous improvement, whose vision and values harmonize well with Health Catalyst's mission and vision for data-informed healthcare improvement," said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. "We believe TEMS is the sustainable way forward and are grateful to partner with data-driven healthcare organizations, like INTEGRIS Health, who are eager to realize the opportunity to reduce costs, enhance data quality, and improve the team member experience."
Health Catalyst and INTEGRIS first entered a partnership in 2019 when INTEGRIS Health selected Health Catalyst's open, scalable data platform to drive data-informed clinical, operational, and financial performance improvements across its network.
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations committed to being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. Its more than 500 clients leverage the cloud-based data platform or its other software applications—powered by data from over 100 million patient records and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as its analytics software and professional services expertise to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements. Health Catalyst envisions a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed.
About INTEGRIS Health
INTEGRIS Health, the largest Oklahoma-owned not-for-profit health system in the state, is known for innovation and unparalleled quality offering advanced treatment options and specialties found nowhere else in the region.
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The combined corporate entity provides advanced fertility care through 90+ locations and 28 laboratories.
LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- US Fertility, the United States' largest partnership of physician-owned fertility practices, announced today it has joined forces with Ovation Fertility ("Ovation"). The two companies signed a definitive agreement on March 31, 2023, and have since completed a successful federal regulatory evaluation process, creating the leading fertility platform in the U.S.
Together, US Fertility and Ovation provide advanced fertility care through 90+ locations and 28 laboratories. With more than 170 reproductive endocrinologists and four reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) fellowship programs, the network performs more than 27,000+ retrievals a year and has helped more than 200,000 individuals and couples build their families through assisted reproductive technology.
Together, US Fertility will represent the world's premier reproductive medicine practices, embryology laboratories, and a suite of life science services that include diagnostic testing, genetic testing, pharmaceuticals, frozen donor services, surrogacy, cryogenic storage, and data science that patients depend on along their journey to parenthood. The new combined entity is well-positioned for continued growth and expansion by leveraging best practices to improve patient access, experience, and outcomes.
"It is thanks to the remarkable work of the entire Ovation team and the direction of transitioning CEO Paul Kappelman that this historic event can take place. Under Paul's leadership, Ovation has been able to serve more hopeful parents during a time in their lives that is met with great uncertainty. I am committed to the continued growth of Ovation Fertility and am sincerely grateful to Paul for his dedication to the company during his tenure," said Richard Jennings, US Fertility CEO.
US Fertility will continue to operate as a management service organization (MSO) and offer practice management solutions to fertility practices across the U.S. Ovation Fertility will continue to operate as a laboratory management service organization and offer laboratory management solutions to fertility practices across the U.S. Ovation will continue operating under its unique physician partnership model to offer its IVF laboratory and ancillary services as a wholly owned subsidiary of US Fertility.
"We are very pleased to be able to combine forces with US Fertility," said Conor Beardsley, Ovation's President. "The commonalities in the missions of our two companies cannot be overstated. Both companies share a strong commitment to creating the best possible outcomes for patients through state-of-the-art fertility care. I am confident that this will be an incredibly positive union."
"I am delighted that US Fertility and Ovation both are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for their patients," said Kaylen Silverberg, M.D., Ovation Partner Physician and Board Member. "Both entities are committed to maintaining a strong and vibrant culture that fosters growth and professional development for their more than 2,700 physicians, embryologists, nurses, geneticists, and clinical and administrative team members."
"Our physicians and scientists are leaders in their pursuit of clinical excellence. We inspire and support each other to achieve scientific excellence through industry collaborations, strategic partnerships, and clinical research. I am proud to know that US Fertility is equally devoted to advancing science as it is to advancing its footprint," said Jaime Shamonki, M.D., US Fertility COO.
"We are pleased to have a capital structure that positions us well to continue USF's continued strategic growth investments. We've received strong support from our credit partners who helped facilitate the transaction and can further support us in the future. In conjunction with our equity sponsor, Amulet Capital, we have a strong capital base, with deep healthcare experience that will allow us to maximize value creation opportunities for our stakeholders, while advancing our mission of helping more families," said Joshua Saipe, US Fertility CFO.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About US Fertility
US Fertility, the nation's largest partnership of physician-owned and physician-led top-tier fertility practices, is united under a shared mission: to drive innovation and leverage best practices both to enhance the patient experience and improve treatment outcomes. To date, US Fertility/Ovation has helped more than 200,000 individuals and couples build their families through their fertility services. Our collective clinical and operational expertise provides our fertility partner practices with advanced business and digital solutions that streamline and enhance the delivery of exceptional patient care. https://www.usfertility.com
About Ovation Fertility
Ovation® Fertility is a national network of laboratories providing leading-edge treatment through leading reproductive experts. Ovation's IVF and genetics laboratories, along with affiliated physician practices, work collaboratively to raise the bar for IVF treatment, with state-of-the-art, evidence-based fertility services that give hopeful parents the best chance for a successful pregnancy. Physicians partner with Ovation to offer their patients preimplantation genetic testing, frozen donor services, surrogacy services, and secure storage for frozen biomaterials. https://www.ovationfertility.com
About Amulet Capital
Amulet Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity investment firm that focuses exclusively on creating long-term value for market leaders in the healthcare sector. The experienced principals at Amulet currently manage over $1.7 billion in healthcare investments. With over 50 years of deep industry experience and strategic relationships, Amulet helps solve complex and dynamic challenges in a wide range of healthcare segments. https://amuletcapital.com
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes strolled through Arrowhead Stadium without any issues with his injured right ankle on Thursday, and the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback expects to practice fully in the next 10 days leading up to the Super Bowl.
Mahomes sprained the ankle during the divisional round against Jacksonville, and he was clearly hobbled in last Sunday night’s AFC championship win over Cincinnati. But despite taking a couple of hard shots during that game, and his mad dash in the closing seconds to set up the winning field goal, Mahomes came out of it feeling just fine.
“It was a physical game. My whole body was a little sore. But I don’t think I had any step backward, a reaggravation of the ankle,” Mahomes said. “A little pain playing with it but other than that, I feel like I’m in a good spot.”
The Chiefs sustained a number of other injuries during their 23-20 win over the Bengals, though. They lost three wide receivers — Mecole Hardman reinjured his pelvis, JuJu Smith-Schuster had swelling in his knee and Kadarius Toney sprained his ankle — while cornerback L’Jarius Sneed was in the concussion protocol and Willie Gay Jr. hurt his shoulder.
Gay was the only one that returned to practice on an unseasonably mild February day in Kansas City.
Coach Andy Reid did say that Toney did the morning walk-through and “he’s close and doing well,” while Smith-Schuster “is in a good place. The main thing is we let that calm down. We’re very optimistic right now.”
The news wasn’t as positive for Hardman, who first hurt his abdominal area in November. The Chiefs later began to classify it as a pelvis injury as Hardman neared his return from injured reserve, but he wasn’t able to make it back onto the field until the AFC title game. He was hurt while getting wrapped up after a catch and did not return.
“Very courageous effort,” Reid said, “and my heart goes out to the kid. He is hurting today.”
While the Chiefs remained thin at wide receiver, they did have Justin Watson back on the practice field. He was ruled out before kickoff against Cincinnati with an illness, forcing Marcus Kemp to come up from the practice squad.
The Chiefs also are hopeful that Sneed will clear the concussion protocol in the two weeks between games.
In a defense featuring three rookie cornerbacks and a rookie safety, Sneed is often tasked with covering the opposition’s best wide receiver. It would have been Ja’Marr Chase against the Bengals, but Sneed was hurt on the game’s fourth play and did not return; it will likely be A.J. Brown or DeVonta Smith if he can play against the Eagles in the Super Bowl.
Reid also said there’s a possibility Clyde Edwards-Helaire, their 2020 first-round pick, will be activated for the big game. Edwards-Helaire had already ceded the No. 1 running back job to rookie Isiah Pacheco before a high ankle sprain landed him on injured reserve in late November, but his versatility could be helpful against a tough Eagles defense.
“He’ll practice. We’ll see where he’s at,” Reid said. “We’re just taking it day by day, seeking out how he’s feeling, not only during practice but after practice. He’ll work today.”
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Cedar Rapids murder suspect found incompetent to stand trial
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A doctor has ruled a Cedar Rapids man accused of beating a woman to death as incompetent to stand trial.
Arthur Flowers, 62, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 22 year-old Emily Leonard at Flowers’ home this past April. Flowers initially told police Leonard overdosed but police say she had obvious head injuries and officers found splattered blood in the home and a wooden board with blood on it.
A judge ordered Flowers undergo a psychiatric evaluation in June after a hearing where Flowers made bizarre claims and insisted he be allowed to represent himself at trial. Flowers told the judge he started attending college when he was 11 and claimed to have degrees from 6 or 7 colleges. He also claimed he represented himself in three other murder trials and was acquitted each time. Flowers has a lengthy criminal record but has never previously been charged with murder, according to court records.
A psychiatric evaluation found Flowers incompetent to stand trial. He will now face a restoration of competency treatment at the Iowa Medical Classification Center in Oakdale. The court will hold a hearing in November to evaluate if Flowers is able to stand trial.
A woman told KCRG-TV9 Flowers nearly killed her in 2020 and described a pattern of drug abuse and violence with Flowers.
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CT Albany NY Zone Forecast for Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Republican Ron DeSantis would not have to resign as Florida governor in order to run for president if he chooses under a bill given final approval Friday in by the GOP-dominated state Legislature.
The measure, attached to a much broader elections bill, would carve out an exemption to Florida law requiring anyone seeking office to resign from one they already hold after qualifying as a candidate. Only an officeholder running for U.S. president or vice president would not have to resign.
Supporters portrayed the bill as purely a clarification and not intended specifically for DeSantis, who has not yet announced a presidential bid but is widely expected to declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the coming weeks. The bill passed the state House 76-34 along party lines and now goes to DeSantis, who is expected to sign it into law.
“It is an individual office that is unique. It is the chief executive of our country,” GOP Rep. Ralph Massullo said during House debate Friday. “This isn’t just for our governor, it’s for anyone in politics.”
Democrats called the effort a cynical attempt to clear the way for DeSantis to run while remaining as governor. His current term in Tallahassee would end in January 2027.
“We in this body are doing the governor’s bidding,” said Rep. Angela Nixon, a Democrat. “He needs to resign to run if he wants to run for president, period. Last time I checked, being governor is a full-time job. Running for president takes a lot of work.”
The bill, which makes a number of other changes to Florida election law, passed one day after a federal appeals court upheld a GOP-led election law that was enacted last year. That law was challenged as racially discriminatory by seeking to suppress Black votes, but a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed.
Among other things, it would tighten limits and increase fines for third-party voter registration organizations, impose more restrictions on mail ballots and shift responsibility for determining if a voter is eligible from the state to the individual.
Democrats contended the bill is another step to suppress votes of minorities and economically disadvantaged people to benefit Republicans who already dominate state government and Florida’s federal offices.
“We’re back at it again, making it more difficult for people to register to vote. What we are doing with this bill is unnecessary,” said Democratic Rep. Anna Eskamni. “It’s really frustrating.”
Republicans, however, portrayed the measure as guaranteeing a legitimate vote, streamlining election operations and eliminating ambiguity in the law.
“There is no more sacred thing than our vote,” said GOP Rep. John Snyder. “It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
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2023-04-28T18:46:47+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow.
Those are among the key findings in a comprehensive report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center that surveyed 7,647 U.S. adults in Aug. 1-14 of last year.
The report, which uses the terms Latino and Hispanic interchangeably, found that Catholicism remains the largest faith among Latinos in the U.S., even as the number of Latino adults who identify as Catholic steadily declined over the past decade. The number went from 67% in 2010 to 43% last year.
Still, the survey said Latinos remain about twice as likely as U.S. adults overall to identify as Catholic, and less likely to be Protestant.
“Latinos, especially here in the U.S., are still very faith-centered,” said the Rev. Carlos Velasquez, pastor at St. Brigid, a majority Latino Catholic church in an area straddling Brooklyn and Queens in New York City.
“Faith is a big part of all of people’s lives in Latin America … and when they come here, faith is what grounds them,” he said. The church helps with the difficult transition of emigration, when many are starting from scratch, he added.
Latinos who are religiously unaffiliated – describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” – are now about 30% of the overall Latino population. That’s up from 18% a decade ago and 10% in 2010. The numbers of Latinos who are religiously unaffiliated is in line with U.S. adults overall, the report said.
The religiously unaffiliated — commonly known as the “nones” – are the fastest-growing group in surveys asking Americans about their religious identity.
“Even though Latinx Americans may be, like all other Americans, increasingly unaffiliated, that certainly doesn’t mean they’re non-religious,” said Elizabeth Drescher, an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University who wrote a book about the spiritual lives of the nones.
“They may not be engaged in institutional religion for a variety of reasons, but they may still have the kind of classic of religious measures of religiosity — like belief in God or a higher power,” she said.
The poll says the “demographic forces shaping the nation’s Latino population also have impacted religious affiliation trends.”
Among U.S. Latinos ages 18 to 29, 79% were born in the U.S. Nearly half (49%) in this age group now identify as religiously unaffiliated. But only about one-in-five Latinos 50 and older are unaffiliated. Most of these older Latinos (56%) were born outside the U.S.
Overall, 52% of Latino immigrants identify as Catholic and 21% are unaffiliated. U.S.-born Latinos are less likely to be Catholic (36%) and more likely to be unaffiliated (39%), according to a 2022 Pew survey of Latino adults.
Hispanic Americans are also strikingly underrepresented in Catholic schools and in the priesthood.
Nearly a quarter of all U.S. Hispanics are former Catholics: While about two-thirds of Hispanic adults (65%) say they were raised Catholic, 43% say they are currently Catholic, according to the survey.
“What’s happening to Catholic Latinos (in the U.S.) is what’s happening to Catholics across the world,” said the Rev. Felix Sanchez, pastor of St. Pius V, a majority Latino parish in New York City’s Jamaica, Queens.
“People are attending church less,” he said. Young people are participating less in their parishes. He cautioned against presenting Latinos as a monolithic group, though.
“It’s not the same to talk about an Argentine than an Ecuadorean, or a Mexican. And it’s not the same a first generation versus a third generation,” Sanchez said. “They all have different histories, traditions. What unites us is that we understand each other because we share the same language, but each one has its own cultural richness. — and we have to respect that.”
PROTESTANTS
Protestants are the second-largest faith group after Catholics, the report says. They account for 21% of Hispanic adults — a number that has remained relatively stable since 2010 — with 15% of Latinos identifying as evangelical Protestants.
“Latino evangelicals have received national attention recently due to the political activism of some evangelical churches,” the survey says.
“The interest in Latino evangelicals comes as white evangelicals have become a bulwark of support for Republican candidates in U.S. presidential elections, and after elections in which a rising share of Latino voters have supported Republican candidates.”
Republican candidates across the U.S. are seeking to expand recent gains the party has made with Hispanic voters from Florida to California. What seems to be driving them are bread-and-butter issues, including crime, struggling schools, as well as food and gas prices creeping beyond their paychecks’ reach.
The report says 28% of Hispanic Republicans identify as evangelical Protestants compared to 10% who identify as Democrats.
Latino immigrants are slightly more likely than U.S.-born Latinos to be evangelical (19% vs. 12%). “Evangelicalism is especially prevalent among Latinos with Central American origins, mirroring a pattern seen in those countries. Roughly three-in-ten Central Americans (31%) say they are evangelical Protestants,” the report says.
Among evangelical Protestants who are Latino, half identify with the Republican Party or are independents who lean toward the GOP; and 44% are Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.
Among Latino Catholics, by contrast, 72% identify as Democrats.
Religiously unaffiliated Latinos are also mostly Democratic (66%).
Most U.S. Latinos (65%) also say they were raised Catholic. Far fewer say they were raised Protestant (18%) or religiously unaffiliated (13%).
Older Latinos and those born outside the U.S. are especially likely to say they were raised Catholic, the report says.
“Like all Americans, many Latinos switch away from their childhood religion,” it says, adding that one-third of Latino adults said their current religion is different from their childhood faith.
The poll’s margin of error, for the full sample of respondents, is plus or minus 1.7 percentage points.
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2023-04-14T11:24:13+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/poll-among-u-s-latinos-catholicism-still-largest-faith/
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Which popular Chewy dog crates are best?
Whether you’re shopping for a new puppy or you’ve had your dog for years, finding a dog crate that’s spacious, comfortable and safe is vital when it comes to training and raising your dog. Crates help to give your dog their own space and independence, without having to sacrifice your own living area.
With a wide variety of dog crate options available, you can be sure to find a dog crate you love at Chewy. If you’re looking for a best-selling dog crate with a high safety rating, the top choice is Frisco Fold & Carry Collapsible Wire Dog Crate.
What to know before you buy a Chewy dog crate
Safety
When it comes to purchasing a dog crate, one of the most important factors to look for is safety. While every dog owner wants to purchase a crate that will keep their dog safe, you may want to opt for some additional safety features depending on the life stage and temperament of your dog. In general, a safe dog crate should have a sturdy construction stable enough to prevent any accidental crate flips or escapes. These safe options tend to utilize metal, plastic or wood in the construction and have reinforced locks to ensure full security.
Material
Metal: For young pups or high-energy dogs, metal crates may be the best option. High-gauge metal crates tend to be the most durable and have a high safety rating. Most metal dog crates utilize a heavy wire frame which allows for increased crate stability, airflow and visibility. For dogs who experience separation anxiety, a metal crate will likely be the best option for safety and easing anxious behavior.
Plastic: For older or more even-tempered dogs, a plastic crate may be the perfect option. Plastic crates boast the same level of safety as metal crates but have better portability and a cheaper price tag than metal crate options. If you choose a plastic crate, determine whether the crate is chew-resistant and has any detachable pieces that could be easily swallowed or eaten.
Wood: Crates made of wood are typically made to look like a piece of furniture, thereby eliminating the need for a standalone dog crate. While these furniture style crates are great for style, safety and durability, they aren’t recommended for high-energy dogs or young puppies who are teething, as these models are more likely to flip and are easier to chew than other crate options.
Size
Make sure the crate you chose is the right size and shape for your dog. The right crate should be large enough to allow your dog to stand up and lay down without being constrained. Choosing the right size crate for your dog means your dog is comfortable, safe and relaxed when it comes time to get into their crate. Check the sizing chart for any crate model you’re considering.
If you’re shopping for a puppy, it’s worthwhile to invest in a crate that can grow with them. The best way to purchase one crate that lasts throughout their lifespan is to find one with a divider panel. The dividers are placed in the crate to give your pup the optimal space for their life stage. As your pup grows, simply remove the divider to expand the cage to whatever size they need.
Style
While the traditional metal or plastic dog crate is designed to be neutral enough to blend into any environment, you may want something to blend in or stand out a bit more. If so, a furniture style crate may be the best option. These crates are designed to blend practicality and style for a piece of furniture that fits your home and easily doubles as a comfortable crate for your dog. Furniture style crates tend to be more expensive, but you may find that the stylish look is worth the high cost.
What to look for in a quality Chewy dog crate
Removable tray
Depending on the life stage and temperament of your pup, consider a crate that comes with a removable tray. These trays are made to line the bottom of the crate and catch any accidents before they make it onto your carpet. Since the trays are removable, they can easily be taken out and cleaned. Crates with removable trays are especially great for puppies who are being housetrained, high-energy or elderly dogs.
Comfort
Since crates are designed to serve as a sort of “home base,” choose a crate that’s comfortable for your dog. While some crates come with plush or padded mats, you can purchase a separate crate mat for optimal comfort for travel or longer crate periods.
Transport
To get more bang for your buck, look for a dog crate that can be easily transported. Most metal or plastic crates are designed with carrying handles or a collapsible frame, which makes it easy to move the crate from room to room. When it comes to travel, find a crate that can transition from the home to the car — your dog will be comfortable and you’ll get your money’s worth.
If you’re someone who travels with your dog frequently, try a dog crate that can be used both indoors and outdoors. These durable crate options make it easy for your dog to tag along on all your adventures.
How much you can expect to spend on a Chewy dog crate
Depending on the size and style you chose, you can expect to spend anywhere from $50-$300 on a dog crate from Chewy. Traditional metal and plastic crates tend to cost $50-$150, while furniture style crates cost $150-$300.
Dog crate FAQ
Why do I need to crate train my dog?
A. Your dog’s crate should serve as their designated home and safe space. By crate training your dog, you’re reinforcing behaviors that allow your dog to feel independent, comfortable and secure within your home. Crate training is considered the best way to curb separation anxiety and territorial behaviors. While crate training your dog is a personal choice, it has long-term benefits for your dog’s emotional, social and physical health.
How can I keep my puppy from using the bathroom in the crate?
A. It typically takes puppies a little over 6 months to gain full bladder control, so it’s pretty normal for accidents to occur in the house during their first few months. If you find that your puppy is continuing to have issues using the bathroom in the crate after the 6 months, you may need to reevaluate the size of the crate.
Since crates are meant to serve as your dog’s “den,” it’s their natural instinct to avoid using the bathroom in the same area where they sleep. However, if your puppy’s crate is too large, they may be tempted to use the bathroom in one area and sleep in the other. Try purchasing some crate dividers to limit the space of your puppy’s crate until they grow into the larger area.
What are the best Chewy dog crates to buy?
Top metal Chewy dog crate
Frisco Fold & Carry Collapsible Wire Dog Crate
What you need to know: This best-selling metal dog crate can grow with your dog, making it a great option for puppies.
What you’ll love: This metal crate is incredibly durable and has reinforced locks along the front and side door, so you can rest assured that your dog is safe while crated. The included plastic liner makes cleaning up any accidents easy. The divider slots mean this crate can grow with your pet. It’s designed to be collapsible, making travel easy. It’s available in six different size options, from small to extra-large.
What you should consider: While the locks on this crate are reinforced, some consumers have noted issues with their dog escaping. If your dog has a history of escaping from crates, this may not be the best option.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Top Chewy dog crate for the money
Frisco Indoor & Outdoor Collapsible Soft-Sided Dog Crate
What you need to know: Built for indoor and outdoor use, this dog crate is perfect for travel or bringing your dog along on your outdoor adventures.
What you’ll love: The sturdy steel frame and fabric mesh cover of this dog crate along with a waterproof bottom and rounded corners make it a suitable option for indoor and outdoor use. With three different lockable zippered doors, loading your pet is simple and secure. Lightweight construction, a carrying handle and collapsible frame mean this crate can be taken anywhere. Available in five different sizes from small to large, this crate is comfortable for medium and large dogs.
What you should consider: Some buyers have noted issues with their dogs chewing through the mesh fabric or lining.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Worth checking out
New Age Pet Furniture Style Dog Crate & End Table
What you need to know: Designed to look like a side table, this stylish dog crate is appropriate for mature small or medium dogs.
What you’ll love: The recycled wood construction makes this crate the best option when it comes to durability and look. The single door entry boasts reinforced locks and stainless steel spindles, making this crate nearly escape-proof. This table is available in four different colors and sizes.
What you should consider: At around $200, this crate is a more expensive option and may not be the right choice for young or high-energy dogs. This crate requires at-home assembly.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
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2022-05-27T15:39:17+00:00
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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.
The central bank did not immediately comment on the directive from the court. In the past, it has been accused of disobeying court orders.
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2023-03-04T19:12:09+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/news/international/6-nigerian-states-drop-suit-to-void-presidential-vote-result/
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Leaders in state legislatures across the country have turned to cross-party alliances and power-sharing agreements as they seek to avoid the political deadlock that has hindered lawmakers in Congress — but signs are emerging that some of those efforts might be in vain.
Legislatures in Alaska, Ohio and Pennsylvania started off their sessions this year by blurring partisan divides. In Alaska, both chambers’ majority caucuses include members of the minority party. In both Ohio and Pennsylvania, members of the opposing parties banded together to elect a Speaker.
Yet tensions are already bubbling to the surface in some statehouses, underscoring the fact that while these coalitions may enable lawmakers to avoid political paralysis at least temporarily, they aren’t a cure-all for the hyperpartisanship plaguing the country as a whole.
“The political dynamics aren’t gone just because states were able to have some bipartisan action here,” said Daniel Mallinson, assistant professor of public policy and administration at Pennsylvania State University, regarding the Speakers elections in the Keystone State and Ohio.
In Pennsylvania, sixteen Republicans in the state House joined Democrats in supporting consensus candidate Mark Rozzi (D) in the Jan. 3 Speaker election. Democrats had won a 102-101 majority in November, but Republicans were left with a slight majority after one Democrat died and two resigned. (Democrats are favored to win special elections on Feb. 7 and reclaim the majority.)
Seeking to move beyond the impasse in an effort to elect a Speaker, lawmakers backed Rozzi under the promise he would govern as an independent. Despite this, the chamber is now at a political standstill.
House Republican Leader Bryan Cutler told The Hill he voted for Rozzi based on commitments that he’d be independent “both in terms of his registration and the way he would operate the office, and the fact that his timeline for his constitutional amendment coincided with the timeline that we had for two that we were hoping to get on the ballot as well.”
Tensions came to a head earlier this month over a proposed constitutional amendment related to victims of childhood sexual abuse.
On Jan. 6, Rozzi said the House wouldn’t consider any legislation until the statehouse advanced the amendment, which would create a two-year window for abuse survivors to file suits. A Department of State error in 2021 reset the lengthy ballot referral process for this amendment.
Outgoing Gov. Tom Wolf (D) called a special session for the legislature to consider it for inclusion on the May 2023 ballot. But on Jan. 9, the House couldn’t agree on rules.
Rozzi said that some lawmakers were “using survivors of sexual assault as pawns to try to force the passage of another constitutional amendment that would make it harder for everyone to vote.” The Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill on Jan. 11 to advance the statute of limitations amendment alongside two others, including one to establish a voter ID requirement.
Rep. Jim Gregory (R), who nominated Rozzi for Speaker and has been his ally on the statute of limitations amendment, later called on Rozzi to step down, saying Rozzi indicated he might not change his affiliation to Independent.
Rozzi said he formed a bipartisan workgroup in line with his pledge of independence and launched a listening tour to get Pennsylvanians’ input on how to move forward. The chamber is adjourned until late February.
The Ohio House, meanwhile, was able to pass rules on Jan. 24 with a bipartisan vote. But things aren’t exactly copacetic in that chamber either.
The Democratic minority joined 22 Republicans in electing Rep. Jason Stephens (R) Speaker over Rep. Derek Merrin (R). Merrin had majority support in the November GOP caucus election and has since claimed to be the caucus leader, with Stephens rejecting that claim.
Merrin supporters wanted rules changes, some framed as decentralizing power and others to allow guns on the House floor and require a Christian prayer at the start of sessions. Stephens didn’t recognize their calls to propose amendments.
“It is beneficial to us at times that they are divided,” Minority Leader Allison Russo (D) told News 5 TV earlier this month. She said Stephens is “a strong supporter of public schools” and that she believed “culture war” bills wouldn’t be as prominent in a Stephens-led House.
Nancy Martorano Miller, associate professor of political science at the University of Dayton, told The Hill that there’s fracturing within the GOP caucus, and it’s not exclusively along ideological lines. She noted that among Republicans who backed Stephens, “you’ve got some of the more moderate Republicans in the chamber, but you also have some of the most conservative.”
Rep. Bill Seitz (R), majority floor leader and member of the legislature since 2001, told The Hill he backed Stephens in the three-candidate November election because he thought Stephens was best-suited temperamentally and had impressive credentials.
“It’s not unlike what’s going on in D.C., where you’ve got the conservatives and then you’ve got the ultra-conservatives,” Seitz said. “We differ only in the tone and timing of” achieving objectives.
In Alaska’s legislature, both chambers have majority coalitions including members of the minority, and members of different affiliations hold committee chair posts.
Cross-party coalitions have an established history in Alaska. While the legislature “maybe would have been unable to do even the bare minimum had they not formed these types of groups,” Northern Journal newsletter author Nathaniel Herz told The Hill, “it’s not like … these coalitions took them to the legislative Promised Land.”
In recent sessions, the Alaska House’s coalition-forming was a drawn-out affair. The process this year was complete on the second day of the session, with Republican Cathy Tilton being elected Speaker.
In the state Senate, where Republicans have an 11-9 majority, nine Democrats and eight Republicans make up the governing majority.
State Sen. Bill Wielechowski (D), chair of the powerful Rules Committee, told The Hill the coalition is reminiscent of ones that existed before the 2010 redistricting cycle. “It was probably a golden era in Alaska politics,” he said, adding that they focused on economic issues and not social issues that divided members.
Wielechowski said “the agreement that we have is no bill goes to the floor unless you have 11 votes” and that the chamber this session isn’t likely to see movement in either direction on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage or “bathroom bills,” referring to legislation that restricts access to public bathrooms for transgender people. Tilton and Senate President Gary Stevens (R) have made similar comments.
The Senate has had an informal bipartisan coalition for years, Wielechowski said, as majority Republicans haven’t had sufficient votes to pass the budget themselves.
Herz said the budget has been a difficult issue for years. While the 2017 House made some big moves, including passing a bill to institute a state income tax, “it wasn’t able to overcome partisan divisions and gridlock in the broader institution of the Alaska Capitol,” Herz said.
The House had a Democratic-dominant majority coalition since 2017. This session, the 23-member majority coalition includes 19 Republicans, two Independents and two Democrats.
Asked how the Senate will work with the House, Wielechowski said, “[T]here are definitely many more Republicans in that coalition, but the reality is, they can’t pass anything that goes too extreme in either direction on their side. … [T]here’ll be some issues that we have disputes over, obviously, but I don’t know that the House is a whole lot different in reality than the Senate.”
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2023-01-31T13:04:19+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/hill-politics/statehouse-efforts-to-avoid-partisan-gridlock-hit-obstacles/
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'I couldn't believe it': Maryland woman wins lottery for a third time, cites her game-winning strategy
Call it a hat trick.
A Maryland woman has won her third lottery prize of at least $100,000 in five years, a feat she attributes to strategy and luck.
The stay-at-home mom, 30, from Wicomico County won her latest prize playing a $100,000 Lucky scratch-off ticket, Maryland Lottery said Monday.
"I couldn't believe it when I saw how much I'd won," she told lottery officials, according to a release on the website. "I immediately called my husband and said, 'We did it again.'"
When asked by lottery officials how she managed to win for a third time, she said research.
"We figure out which scratch-off games have been on sale for a long time but still have a lot of big-money prizes," she said.
The information is available on the Maryland Lottery website. The $100,000 Lucky game, for example, debuted last September and still has more than 40 top prizes available.
Still, there's an element of luck, especially when it comes to choosing where to buy the ticket. She picked a Goose Creek convenience store in Mardela Springs based on sheer intuition.
"I knew that they sold a big ticket a few weeks ago," she said. "I hoped that there was still some luck hanging around there."
As for the prize money, the lucky woman says she's putting it all in the bank for her children.
Despite her repeated wins, she's still in shock: "This is as crazy as it was the other times. It's unbelievable."
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2022-07-03T13:28:01+00:00
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wyff4.com
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https://www.wyff4.com/article/woman-wins-lottery-for-a-third-time/40489149
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s number two diplomat is retiring after decades of U.S. government service.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will step down from the post this summer, having been involved in some of the most consequential, and controversial, foreign policy decisions during Democratic administrations since Bill Clinton was president.
Sherman, 73, said in an internal note to State Department staff that her retirement would be effective at the end of June.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken lauded Sherman’s career, saying that President Joe Biden chose her for the number two post at the State Department because he believed she could revitalize America’s relationships around the world.
“President Biden asked Wendy to serve in this role because he knew he could count on her to help revitalize America’s alliances and partnerships and manage our complex relationships with competitors,” Blinken said in a statement.
Sherman has been a key part of the Biden administration's efforts to compete with China in the Indo-Pacific and was particularly active in engagement with Pacific island states while also meeting with senior Chinese officials on numerous occasions.
She also had a significant role in marshaling international diplomatic support for Ukraine after Russia's invasion.
As counselor to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Sherman was a lead negotiator in the Clinton administration’s ultimately unsuccessful talks to end North Korea’s ballistic missile program in the late 1990s.
Then, as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs during the Obama administration, she was the lead negotiator with Iran on the 2015 nuclear deal.
“Her remarkable career – which spans more than three decades, three presidents, and five secretaries of state – addressed some of the toughest foreign policy challenges of our time,” Blinken said. “Our nation is safer and more secure, and our partnerships more robust, due to her leadership.”
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2023-05-12T16:03:16+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/number-2-us-diplomat-to-retire-after-decades-in-18096106.php
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Injured Eagles QB Hurts expected to be sidelined at Dallas
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is not expected to play Saturday against Dallas because of a sprained right shoulder. Philadelphia will instead start Gardner Minshew. Hurts was injured on a hard tackle in Sunday’s win at Chicago. The Eagles have the best record in the NFL at 13-1 and can clinch the NFC East title and the No. 1 seed in the conference with a win against the Cowboys.
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2022-12-22T16:42:10+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/22/injured-eagles-qb-hurts-expected-to-be-sidelined-at-dallas/
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The family and friends of Deja Reaves will gather in Chicago for a celebration of life on Saturday.
Reaves was the 18-year-old North Carolina A&T State University student who was shot and killed last week on Sullivan Street in Greensboro.
On Friday afternoon, her fellow Aggies held an event to remember their classmate.
Reaves is one of several NCA&T students who’ve lost their lives to gun violence. Students said too many young people are dying, and they want something done to stop it.
“As a university, it’s very important that we unite through our successes, our hardships, and this here was a hardship for us losing one of our fellow aggies: Deja Rae Reeves,” said Mariah Couch, who organized the event.
Hundreds of students met in the student center Friday afternoon wearing shades of pink, which was Reaves’ favorite color. Some knew the Aggie freshman. Others didn’t but came to offer support.
After a moment of silence and a scripture reading, the university’s gospel choir sang a song. The goal of the event was to pray for Reaves’ family, for the campus community and for change.
“It doesn’t make sense why we’re passing away so much,” said Marcus Scott Jr., a junior at the university. “We have one of the brightest generations that I’ve ever seen, and to see all this brilliance just going to waste, it just hurts my heart.”
Those who organized the event have a mission of using Reaves’ name to spark action from university leaders.
“The university to allow more events to happen on campus just to secure the safety of our students because that happened off campus. Although it was close to campus, it happened off campus,” Couch said.
FOX8 checked with Greensboro police on Friday. Officers have not made any arrests in this case.
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2023-04-15T03:43:55+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/nc-at-students-remember-deja-reaves/
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Jan. 6 suspect charged with firing gun toward Texas officers
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who agreed to surrender on charges for taking part in the U.S. Capitol riot fired a gun toward sheriff’s deputies who went to his house later that day in response to a welfare call, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Nathan Donald Pelham, 40, allegedly fired the shots from his rural home on April 12, the same day he was told he was charged with four misdemeanors for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 attack. Officers heard bullets “whiz” past them and hit objects nearby, according to an affidavit from an FBI agent. The deputies left without making an arrest, according to court records.
The Justice Department said no law enforcement officers were injured. An attorney for Pelham, who was arrested Tuesday, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The episode is an outlier in the more than 1,000 federal arrests that have been made in the Jan. 6 riot. Practically all of the arrests have been made without incident, including those of members of far-right extremist groups facing serious felony charges such as seditious conspiracy.
Investigators say Pelham entered the Capitol wearing goggles and a hat with the logo of the Proud Boys extremist group, but later denied affiliation with them. He allegedly stayed inside the Capitol for about seven minutes. About two months later, Pelham was stopped while attempting to enter Canada and told Border Patrol agents that he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, court records show.
Prosecutors say Pelham had agreed to surrender on the Capitol riot charges when he was contacted last week by an FBI agent. Later that day though, a deputy from the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office was sent to the house in response to a welfare call made by a relative. A child was sent out of the house and deputies began to hear gun shots, according to court records.
Pelham lives about 50 miles (81 kilometers) northeast of Dallas.
Pelham was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, prosecutors said.
In the case of another Jan. 6 defendant, a Tennessee man charged with assaulting an officer in the riot was later accused of conspiring with another person on a failed attempt to kill dozens of federal agents involved in the investigation.
Authorities have alleged Edward Kelley discussed plans with another man to kill law enforcement personnel who had worked in his criminal investigation, and made a list of targets.
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Associated Press writer Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-04-20T23:20:44+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/2023/04/20/jan-6-suspect-charged-with-firing-gun-toward-texas-officers/
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DETROIT (AP) — The FBI in Detroit has arrested a man who has described himself as a backer of the anti-government, pro-gun “boogaloo” movement.
Timothy Teagan is expected to appear later Wednesday in federal court, where charges will be unsealed, said FBI spokeswoman Mara Schneider.
His arrest Tuesday came a week before the midterm elections and with law enforcement increasingly concerned about political violence from far-right groups. Election workers have increasingly been targeted by threats and harassment since the 2020 election, and it’s only gotten worse in recent weeks, with federal authorities having charged at least five people already. Nationally, elections officials are concerned about a flood of conspiracy theorists signing up to work as poll watchers, with some groups that have trafficked in lies about the 2020 election recruiting and training watchers.
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Teagan was among a dozen or so people who openly carried guns while demonstrating in January outside of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing. Some promoted the “boogaloo” movement, a slang term that refers to a second U.S. civil war.
Teagan told reporters then that the purpose of the demonstration was “to urge a message of peace and unity to the left and right, to the members of BLM, to Trump supporters to Three Percenter militias to antifa.” BLM refers to Black Lives Matter.
Some boogaloo promoters insist they aren’t genuinely advocating for violence. But the movement has been linked to a string of domestic terrorism plots. Department of Homeland Security has warned of potential domestic terrorism threats posed by boogaloo supporters.
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2022-11-02T16:36:57+00:00
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wcfcourier.com
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https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/boogaloo-backer-arrested-faces-federal-charges-in-detroit/article_17b2a5bb-49b2-5458-8df9-00e22df0f57a.html
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CALDWELL, Idaho (KIVI) — Nala is a big part of the College of Idaho football program.
The two-year-old pup belongs to wide receiver coach Leon La Deaux. He got Nala around the same time he was hired for the job.
“I know people say this," La Deaux said, "but she is like my friend, more than anything else. She’s always there, she’s comforting, she’s loving, she’s a goofball.”
As a student-athlete wellness supporter, Nala hangs out with athletes from all programs at the school, helping to provide fun, support, or just a friend.
Originally, La Deaux got Nala in hopes that she would become a service dog, but after she grew into her personality, it was clear she wasn't fit for that role. La Deaux says because of her friendly nature, Nala was never able to pass the service dog test.
That doesn't bother La Deaux— as Nala transitioned from service to emotional support.
While Nala is around the guys all the time, she still enjoys her girl time. That is why she gets along so well with athletic trainer Clarissa Alexander.
She works with athletes who have been injured and recognizes the importance of Nala's role.
“That’s a large part of what our job has become is emotional support," Alexander said. "And having her here just cheers everybody up.”
Nala has definitely left her mark on the program, and La Deaux wouldn't have it any other way.
“I almost now can’t imagine why you would have an athletic program or sports team and you wouldn’t have a dog, [why] you wouldn’t want to have a Nala or something.” La Deaux said.
This story was originally reported by Brendyn Jones on kivitv.com.
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2022-10-28T20:19:03+00:00
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wkbw.com
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https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/dog-offers-emotional-support-to-college-of-idaho-football-program
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – J.J. McCarthy threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score, Donovan Edwards busted the game open with two long fourth-quarter TD runs and No. 3 Michigan beat No. 2 Ohio State 45-23 Saturday, taking down the Buckeyes with stunning ease for the second straight season.
Playing almost the whole game without injured star running back Blake Corum (knee), Michigan (12-0, 9-0, No. 3 CFP) was still able to beat Ohio State (11-1, 8-1, No. 2 CFP) in Columbus for the first time since 2000.
The Wolverines advance to the Big Ten championship next Saturday, with hopes for a second straight playoff appearance firmly in their control. As for the Buckeyes, they'll have to hope they can back into the CFP after again crumbling in their biggest game of the season.
Jim Harbaugh and Michigan snapped an eight-game losing streak against their fiercest rivals last year with a cathartic 42-27 victory in the Big House. Now they have a two-game winning streak in The Game for the first time in 22 years.
McCarthy, the second-year quarterback who won the starting job from incumbent Cade McNamara early in the season, played the game of his career when Michigan needed it most.
"He was just on fire in every way — throwing the ball, running the ball,” Harbaugh said. “So focused and determined. It was a team that was focused and determined.”
McCarthy's previous longest pass completion this season was 42 yards, but against the Buckeyes he threw three touchdown passes of at least 45 yards, the most scoring passes of 45 or more in the history of the 105-game series.
He connected on scoring passes of 69 and 75 yards to Cornelius Johnson in the first half, then hooked up with Colston Loveland in the second half for 45 yards and the freshman tight end's first career touchdown reception.
“I thought he did a good job of making some throws under pressure,” said Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, who was hired to fix the Buckeyes’ defensive failings in last year’s game. “Now we knew he could throw the ball. I just thought he played well when he had to.”
On third-and-10 on the Ohio State 13 early in the fourth quarter, McCarthy was on the run from Zach Harrison when he lofted a pass to the end zone toward Ronnie Bell, who drew a pass interference call on safety Ronnie Hickman.
That put the ball on the Ohio State 2, and three plays later the 19-year-old quarterback from suburban Chicago bowled over a tackler for another touchdown and a 31-20 Michigan lead.
The Buckeyes were settled for a Noah Ruggles field goal to get the score to 31-23.
Then Edwards put the game away for Michigan.
Corum's backup, who was playing with a heavily wrapped and an injured hand, raced through a hole in the right side and went 75 yards for a touchdown with 7:11 left.
After Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud was intercepted, Edwards was off again, pulling away for an 85-yard scoring run.
THE TAKEAWAY
Michigan: McCarthy was the man. Edwards came up big late. And the Wolverines' defense made the stops they needed in the second half. The late runs by Edwards sucked the oxygen out of the Horseshoe.
Ohio State: Stroud was 31 for 48 for 349 yards and two interceptions, but Ohio State never got a running game going and settled for field goals in the red zone. The Buckeyes had opportunities, but didn't take advantage.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Michigan likely will move up to No. 2, with the Buckeyes falling.
UP NEXT
Michigan: The Wolverines' Big Ten championship opponent was still to be determined entering Saturday.
Ohio State: The Buckeyes have to hope the CFP selection committee gives them a chance to play for a national title or it will be second consecutive disappointing trip to the Rose Bowl.
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2022-11-26T21:58:11+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/sports/2022/11/26/no-3-michigan-keeps-title-hopes-alive-with-rout-of-ohio-st/
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CA San Diego CA Zone Forecast for Sunday, October 30, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Extreme Southwest California
National Weather Service San Diego CA
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
CAZ552-312215-
Orange County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Huntington Beach, Coasta Mesa,
Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Clemente
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 70s at the beaches to the mid 70s farther
inland and near higher coastal terrain. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Patchy low clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 50s.
Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog. Highs in the upper 60s.
Areas of winds south 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Light winds. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
60s. Light winds becoming west 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph
in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s at the beaches to
the upper 60s farther inland and near higher coastal terrain.
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CAZ554-312215-
Orange County Inland Areas-
Including the cities of Santa Ana, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Irvine,
Orange, Fullerton, and Mission Viego
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 70s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then patchy low clouds
and fog. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog. Highs in the upper 60s.
Areas of winds south 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
Areas of winds south 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the evening
becoming light. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
60s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Colder. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs around 70.
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CAZ043-312215-
San Diego County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, Encinitas,
Chula Vista, National City, and San Diego
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s near the coast to
the upper 70s inland. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Patchy low clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 50s.
Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Light winds. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
60s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s.
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CAZ050-312215-
San Diego County Valleys-
Including the cities of Escondido, El Cajon, San Marcos, La Mesa,
Santee, and Poway
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 80. Light winds becoming west 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70. Light winds becoming
southwest 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Patchy fog overnight.
Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s in the western valleys to the
upper 50s near the foothills. Areas of winds west 15 to 20 mph.
Gusts to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the lower 60s in the western valleys to the mid 50s near the
foothills.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s in the western
valleys to the lower 60s near the foothills.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs around 70.
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CAZ048-312215-
San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire-
Including the cities of Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario,
Moreno Valley, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, and Corona
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 80. Areas of winds east 15 mph becoming west this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70. Areas of winds south
15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Patchy fog overnight.
Lows around 50. Areas of winds south 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph
in the evening becoming light. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the afternoon. Highs around 60. Areas of winds southwest 15 mph.
Gusts to 30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Colder. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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CAZ057-312215-
Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills-
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s. Areas of winds northeast 15 mph this
morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Areas of winds
south 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers overnight. Patchy fog overnight.
Lows around 50. Areas of winds southwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts
to 30 mph in the evening becoming light. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
50s. Light winds becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts to
30 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Colder. Lows in the lower 40s. Snow level 5000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 50s. Snow level 4500 feet...becoming 4000 feet in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
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CAZ055-312215-
San Bernardino County Mountains-
Including the cities of Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear City,
Big Bear Lake, Running Springs, and Wrightwood
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 50s above 6000 feet to the upper 60s below
6000 feet. Areas of winds east 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph
becoming south this afternoon. Near ridge tops and along desert
slopes, areas of winds east 15 mph this morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40 above 6000 feet to the
upper 40s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds southwest 15 to 25 mph.
Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 35 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s above 6000 feet
to the upper 50s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds southwest 25 to
35 mph. Gusts to 45 mph...becoming 55 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
overnight. Colder. Lows in the upper 30s. Snow level 7500 feet.
Areas of winds southwest 25 to 35 mph. Gusts to 50 mph...becoming
40 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers. A chance of snow showers,
mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 40s above 6000 feet to
the upper 40s below 6000 feet. Snow level 7000 feet...becoming
6500 feet in the afternoon. Areas of winds southwest 20 to 30 mph
with gusts to 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Breezy, colder. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of snow showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 30s above 6000 feet to the mid 40s
below 6000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the lower 40s above
6000 feet to the lower 50s below 6000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs around 50 above
6000 feet to the lower 60s below 6000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s above 6000 feet to
60 below 6000 feet.
$$
CAZ056-312215-
Riverside County Mountains-
Including the city of Idyllwild-Pine Cove
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. Areas of winds east 15 mph this morning
becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Light winds
becoming southwest 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Areas of winds
southwest 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 35 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder. Lows in the lower 40s.
Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers. Highs in the upper 40s. Snow level
7500 feet...becoming 7000 feet in the afternoon. Areas of winds
west 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 40 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Windy, colder. Lows in the lower 30s. Snow level 6000 feet...
becoming 5500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the lower 40s. Snow level 4500 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ058-312215-
San Diego County Mountains-
Including the cities of Julian and Pine Valley
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s. Areas of winds northeast 15 mph this
morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds
becoming southwest 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Areas of winds
southwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph...becoming 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Colder. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas
of winds west 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 45 mph...becoming 40 mph
overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around 50. Areas
of winds west 25 to 35 mph. Gusts to 45 mph...becoming 50 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
A slight chance of snow showers overnight. Patchy fog overnight.
Very windy. Colder. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers. Breezy. Highs in the upper 40s. Snow
level 5000 feet...becoming 4500 feet in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
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CAZ060-312215-
Apple and Lucerne Valleys-
Including the cities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley,
and Lucerne Valley
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Areas of winds south
15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 30 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy blowing dust in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds south 20 to 30 mph. Gusts
to 40 mph...becoming 45 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of
winds west 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 35 mph
overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 50s. Areas of winds west 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to
30 mph...becoming 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy, colder. Lows in the
upper 30s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in colder...wind
sheltered locations overnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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CAZ065-312215-
San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning-
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Areas of winds north 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph this morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s through the pass
to the lower 60s in the northern Coachella Valley. Light winds
becoming west 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Areas of winds
west 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph...becoming 20 to 30 mph with
gusts to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy blowing dust. Cooler. Lows
in the mid 50s. Areas of winds west 25 to 35 mph with gusts to
55 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy blowing dust in the morning. Partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s through
the pass to the upper 60s in the northern Coachella Valley. Areas
of winds west 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Windy, colder. Lows in the
upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60 through the pass to
the mid 60s in the northern Coachella Valley.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
CAZ061-312215-
Coachella Valley-
Including the cities of Indio, Palm Springs, Cathedral City,
Palm Desert, Palm Desert Country, La Quinta, and Coachella
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Areas of winds northwest 15 mph this
morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. Light winds becoming
southeast 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Areas of
winds northwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds northwest 15 to
25 mph. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 40 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
CAZ062-312215-
San Diego County Deserts-
Including the city of Borrego Springs
300 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Light winds
becoming west 15 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Light winds
becoming southwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Patchy blowing dust in the evening. Partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Areas of winds west 20 to 30 mph.
Gusts to 45 mph...becoming 40 mph overnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds west 20 to
30 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 45 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Windy, cooler. Lows in the
lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
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Top Player Prop Bets for Stars vs. Kraken NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 7 on May 15, 2023
Player prop bet options for Jason Robertson, Jared McCann and others are available when the Dallas Stars host the Seattle Kraken at American Airlines Center on Monday (opening faceoff at 8:00 PM ET).
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Stars vs. Kraken Game Info
- When: Monday, May 15, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, TVAS, and SportsNet
- Where: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
NHL Props Today: Dallas Stars
Jason Robertson Props
- Points Prop: 1.5 (Over Odds: +155, Under Odds: -189)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -145, Under Odds: +115)
One of Dallas' top offensive players this season is Robertson, who has 109 points (46 goals, 63 assists) and plays an average of 18:50 per game.
Robertson Recent Games
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Jamie Benn Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -149, Under Odds: +120)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +115, Under Odds: -145)
Jamie Benn is another of Dallas' offensive options, contributing 78 points (33 goals, 45 assists) to the team.
Benn Recent Games
Joe Pavelski Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -179, Under Odds: +145)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +130, Under Odds: -159)
Joe Pavelski has 77 total points for Dallas, with 28 goals and 49 assists.
Pavelski Recent Games
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NHL Props Today: Seattle Kraken
Jared McCann Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -120, Under Odds: -110)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +195, Under Odds: -238)
McCann drives the offense for Seattle with 70 points (0.9 per game), with 40 goals and 30 assists in 79 games (playing 16:20 per game).
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Vince Dunn Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +110, Under Odds: -141)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +150, Under Odds: -185)
Vince Dunn is a leading scorer for Seattle with 64 total points this season. He has scored 14 goals and added 50 assists in 81 games.
Dunn Recent Games
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