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Mothers wanted to watch horrific footage of their children escaping the Robb Elementary massacre. Here’s why we showed them. And why they want others to see
By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN
Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Editor’s note: This story contains graphic images and descriptions of the Uvalde school massacre. The children pictured all survived and their parents asked CNN to show the images for people to see what their sons and daughters had to endure and understand what this kind of violence does.
The mothers called and they texted. They wanted to see the videos that showed their children in some of the worst moments of their young lives: The footage from body cameras as the boys and girls were brought out, bloodied and traumatized after being left with a murderous gunman for 77 minutes in the classrooms of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
It was nearly a year since their children had survived the massacre of 19 of their fourth-grade classmates and two teachers. But they still had so many questions, and no one in authority seemed prepared to answer.
“We have to see it. We really do,” Kassandra Chavez told CNN. She knew the footage existed and that the CNN team investigating the botched law enforcement response to the school shooting likely had it as part of the investigative materials we obtained and used in several exclusive reports about what had happened in the school last May 24.
CNN’s role is not to give material directly to families, certainly not these graphic and horrific scenes of a cheerful elementary school hallway turned red with the blood of children. The release of body camera and surveillance video, along with accurate timelines of who did what and when, is typically the responsibility of the law enforcement agency involved, even if it shows officers in the wrong. That has happened recently in Memphis, Nashville and St. Louis.
But in Uvalde, District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee has locked down all investigative materials until she is done with her inquiry. Mayor Don McLaughlin went against her request to officials not to share information and released videos from the Uvalde Police Department officers on scene, but they only showed events before the breach.
And, the mothers said, that left too many questions about the trauma their children were still suffering and whether the rescue operation should have gone differently.
“We’ve only been called once or twice to the DA’s office at the beginning and now we haven’t been told nothing,” Chavez said. “I mean, we’re having to find out later or through social media that something is going on.”
Knowing that the families – along with other media organizations – were being blocked from records that would normally be public, CNN made the exceptional decision to let the families watch.
We had already shared the heartbreaking and infuriating 911 calls made by two survivors, Khloie Torres and Miah Cerrillo, with their parents before we reported how those calls proved that law enforcement knew there were children trapped with the gunman who needed rescuing, some 40 minutes before officers entered the classroom. Those parents said the calls helped them understand a little more of what their children went through, and they wanted them to be broadcast. But still, they wanted to see the videos.
Tears and rage
So, on a recent spring evening, the mothers of five of the survivors from Room 112 gathered in front of a laptop and braced themselves.
Their children were out, as the fathers had been told to take them somewhere else. The trauma counselor who has worked with the families was on standby.
The women were warned once more that what was about to play was graphic, shocking and hard to watch. One by one, they reaffirmed it was what they wanted to do. Miguel Cerrillo, father of Miah, came into the room and said he wanted to watch, too. “I just want to see the big picture of it, exactly what she went through, where she was at,” he said. “I want to see … how they suffered and why they suffered so long.”
The video starts with the sound of shots as officers finally enter the classrooms. The police said later the gunman came out of a closet at that point and fired at them, and they shot back, killing him.
Armed officers still lined the hallway. Some start to move towards the classrooms. “Kids! Kids! Kids!” one shouts as victims start to emerge. “Hands up, hands up!” the officer yells towards them. Then comes the call for everyone to hold, to be quiet.
Shouting soon starts again, with cries for EMTs to be let through first. One person is dragged out and down the hallway by their arms. Others are carried or pulled along. Screaming and bloodied children are urged to, “Move! Move! Move!” One is carried in an officer’s arms. Another thrown over a shoulder and hustled away.
The parents watch intently and point out their children. “There’s Jaydien, there’s AJ, Khloie, Miah.”
Tears come, but they don’t look away.
The moms focused on their sons and their daughters. Miguel Cerrillo seems obsessed by the responders. “All those guns,” he said, watching one officer apparently collect weapons so his colleagues would have their hands free to help. Rage boiled over in Cerrillo as he spoke of the 77 minutes his daughter and the others had had to wait for rescue, alone in a fourth-grade classroom, while heavily armed and trained officers debated what to do, and never tried the door handle to see if it was locked. “What are they still standing around for?” he asked as some officers hustled children out and others watched them.
As word begins to spread among the officers of the multiple deaths, those outside the school are reminded to keep the families away.
Cerrillo recalled how he had been there, among those families, shouting for information. And then he left the room, unable to watch more of the footage. “That’s all I can see,” he said as he stood up. In his yard, he vented to friends: “Every f**king cop that was there needs to turn their badge in. Every f**king cop in Uvalde needs to turn their badge in.”
Bounced around in a bus
As EMTs treated multiple severely wounded children, other survivors were put on a school bus to be driven to the hospital, along with two officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety, both of whom were wearing body cameras.
Kassandra Chavez broke down as she watched her son, AJ, in pain. Kristina Olivares was barely able to watch as officers fought to keep her daughter, Kendall, conscious. Miah’s mom, Abigale Veloz, sobbed.
Jamie Torres, who watched separately, told CNN she wanted to see the video of her daughter. “If she went through it, I should be strong enough to see it,” she said. “I want to see everything that hurt my baby.”
But she couldn’t bear to watch the images of her daughter, wailing about her best friend who had been killed next to her and covered in someone else’s blood that she had rolled in so she could pretend to be dead as well if the gunman looked at her. It was too much. The video had to be stopped.
Still, the mothers said they didn’t regret watching it.
“We had to see it for ourselves, now we understand more,” said Chavez, whose son, AJ, was shot through his thigh. “I’m happy he’s here, I’m upset because of what he had to go through for 77 minutes, to see all his friends being carried out like rag dolls … that’s all the memories he has.”
Olivares said she hadn’t wanted to believe how ill her child had been as the bus was driven to the hospital, bouncing and jostling the children on the bench seats, but she got some answers. “Knowing that my daughter was passing out,” she said was important because it was something Kendall had not remembered.
“Thank you for doing that,” Chavez told CNN. “It gave her answers,” she added, gesturing to Olivares. “It gave me closure, all of us closure.”
The parents asked CNN to show the images of their injured and traumatized children, as just a fraction of the horror that day. They said they wanted people to understand more about the attack, for the officers involved to see their children and, as Torres said, “Make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
State senator, Roland Gutierrez, whose district includes Uvalde and who has become a vocal supporter of the Uvalde families and their fight for “commonsense” gun law reform, supports their choices and knows how many more graphic and horrific images there are from the Uvalde massacre. He said he recalls the strength of Emmett Till’s mother, who wanted the world to see the face of her beaten and shot teenage son in his casket – a move in 1955 that helped spur the Civil Rights movement.
“We’ve all seen those black and white pictures of Emmett Till and we’ve seen the horror of what the society did, what the Deep South, what those murderers did to her little boy. The images that I’ve seen [of what’s] happened to these children is that and more,” he said. “There’s one image of a little girl I can’t get out of my head – the distortion of what that gunshot did to her head and her face, and how it distorts the body. Just incredible damage that was done to those little babies.”
He said he had considered showing the image privately to senators blocking measures such as raising the age limit to buy an assault rifle to 21, because he had been told by a political opponent, “There’s a reason we don’t look at the videos.” Gutierrez said he did not go through with it, as it was not his daughter, and not his call to make.
Gutierrez said he also clearly remembered the video showing how Khloie Torres, then just 10 years old, broke down on the bus taking her away from the school as she talked about calling 911 and then about her best friend who had died.
For Khloie’s mom Jamie Torres, the pain is visceral.
“My heart hurts, seeing what she went through, seeing what she’s seen.”
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DALLAS (AP) — The brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2022 shooting death of a coach at a youth football game in Texas, prosecutors said.
Yaqub Salik Talib, 40, pleaded guilty Thursday to the charge in the shooting of 43-year-old Michael Hickmon, according to Claire Crouch, a spokesperson for the Dallas County District Attorney’s office. She said Talib agreed to a sentence of 37 years in prison and that he will be sentenced in August.
A lawyer for Talib did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment Friday.
Last August, police said witnesses saw Talib pull out a gun and repeatedly shoot Hickmon during a brawl among adults at a youth football game in the Dallas suburb of Lancaster. Police said the fight was prompted by a disagreement between the opposing coaching staffs over calls made by the officiating crew, but an official with one of the teams later said it began when Hickmon went to pick up a football and someone kicked it away.
The sons of both Talib brothers played on one of the teams and Hickmon’s son played on the other, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Yaqub Talib left the field following the shooting and later turned himself in to police. His lawyer said at the time that his client “regrets the tragic loss of life” but was surrendering to “have the chance to say his side of the story.”
Aqib Talib is a five-time Pro Bowler who announced his retirement in 2020. He was named last year as a contributor for Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” but left the role following the shooting.
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2023-07-21T16:46:41+00:00
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Innovative Ready-to-Drink Startup Celebrates First Year Anniversary with Momentous Growth, Expands Product Line with Espresso Martini and Hibiscus Cosmopolitan Coming Soon
NEW YORK, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SAYSO, the world's first craft cocktail tea bags creating a new category in the ready-to-drink space, is unveiling new product packaging and two new flavors just in time for the brand's 1-year anniversary.
The packaging redesign follows a successful retail expansion across 36 premium specialty stores and boutiques nationwide and is a result of the brand's commitment to offering a more eco-friendly product at an even more affordable price point.
Starting in June, SAYSO will replace its current box packaging with pouches made from post-consumer recycled materials, which will be available for purchase on the brand's website. As a result of this packaging redesign, consumers will enjoy a lower price point of $16 for eight cocktail tea bags, down from the previous price of $24.
Since July 2022, monthly sales have grown 600% with an average of 38% per month.
"As SAYSO celebrates our first-year anniversary, we are thrilled to introduce our new sustainable packaging and two new cocktails to our customers. Our goal is to provide an exceptional experience with high-quality ingredients, convenience, and sustainability at the forefront," said Co-Founder, Chloe Bergson.
The certified women-owned beverage category disrupter is bridging the gap between ready-to-drink mixers and labor-intensive cocktail kits offering a versatile option for cocktail enthusiasts and non-drinkers alike in a sophisticated, easy format. Unlike traditional cocktail mixers that are loaded with artificial flavors and excessive amounts of sugar, SAYSO offers an all-natural alternative using only the freshest, granulated ingredients including dehydrated fruits and herbs dried at peak flavor.
SAYSO's successful product lineup, including the Skinny Spicy Margarita (TikTok viral best seller), Rosemary Honey Moscow Mule (best seller in non-alcoholic bottle shops), Skinny Cardamon Paloma, and the classic Old Fashioned, will be joined by two new exciting cocktails. Launching this summer, the classic Espresso Martini is a trending favorite and the upcoming Hibiscus Cosmopolitan in early Fall offers an approachable, low-sugar option with an elevated SAYSO twist.
The ingenious biodegradable tea bags, expertly portioned, provide the perfect balance of taste and convenience requiring no shaking, blending, or mess when cocktail crafting. Just steep the bag in cold water for 3 minutes, add your spirit of choice (or skip it for a mocktail!), and add ice, for the fastest and easiest way to create a premium craft cocktail at home or on-the-go.
Co-founder Alison Evans added, "We look forward to continuing to expand our retail footprint, partnerships, and collaborations this year to bring SAYSO to even more cocktail lovers nationwide. We're excited to see our products hit the shelf at Citarella, Fairway, Gourmet Garage, and Bristol Farms this month."
SAYSO products can be purchased on its website, Amazon, and in select retail stores. For more information, visit www.drinksayso.com.
Media Contact: press@drinksayso.com
About SAYSO
Launched in 2022 by Harvard Business School graduates Chloe Bergson and Alison Evans, SAYSO came to life when, mid-pandemic, they became frustrated trying to recreate the delicious cocktails they once fancied at bars… while at home. Tired of carbon copy, high sugar RTD's and seltzers, or shopping for a multitude of ingredients to make one drink, they began experimenting with all-natural ingredients, dehydrated, and encased in a tea bag. The result? Easy to create, cocktails or mocktails at home in minutes, or to take on-the-go. SAYSO is revolutionizing the way we cocktail.
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Over the weekend, the U.S. military shot down three objects moving at high altitudes over the U.S. and Canada, prompting questions about where these objects came from and what they’re used for.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday the objects were not extraterrestrial despite officials saying earlier that nothing could be ruled out.
The Pentagon has not disclosed what type of objects were shot down. However, the White House said they did not pose a threat to anyone on the ground.
White House coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said the three objects appeared vastly different than the balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4.
Kirby said the object shot down on Feb. 4 was about the size of three school buses and had maneuverability capability as China has used such craft for surveillance. The objects shot down this weekend were smaller, not believed to have any communication capabilities, and did not appear to have any ability to maneuver.
Kirby said that China has been using high-altitude objects to conduct surveillance over the U.S. since the Trump administration, but those flyovers were not detected.
Pentagon officials allowed the balloon believed to belong to China to traverse over U.S. airspace before the military shot it down on Feb. 4. It was first spotted days earlier over Montana.
Officials said shooting down the balloon posed too much of a threat to those on the ground.
The latest three objects were either shot down over water or in remote regions. The first of the objects were shot down off the northern Alaska coast on Friday. The second object was shot down over remote sections of Canada.
An object shot down Sunday was downed over Lake Huron.
Kirby said the objects were shot down because their respective altitudes posed a threat to civilian aircraft.
Kirby said crews were still working to recover the three latest objects. He said the first two objects were likely in remote sections near the Arctic, while the latest object presumably sits at the bottom of Lake Huron.
Objects flying at high altitudes and low speeds, Kirby said, could provide better, higher fidelity images and can linger over a location for a longer period of time than a spy satellite. These sorts of objects, Kirby said, have limited additive surveillance capabilities.
Although the latest three objects are not believed to be used for surveillance purposes, Kirby said it could not be ruled out.
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2023-02-13T19:44:39+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown coach Patrick Ewing's loss-filled stint at his alma mater was called a “challenging and frustrating time" by athletic director Lee Reed, who added Wednesday that “no one is more committed” to turning things around than the former star center.
Hours before the Hoyas were scheduled to carry a record-tying 24-game Big East regular-season losing streak into a matchup against visiting Villanova, Reed responded to a request for an interview from The Associated Press by issuing a statement that was emailed by a spokesperson.
“We recognize this is a challenging and frustrating time for the men’s basketball team and our fans,” said Reed, who also put out a comment about Ewing before a game about 10 months ago. "Coach Ewing understands that it is imperative to get the program back on track and no one is more committed than he is to making that happen.”
Georgetown entered Wednesday night's game with a 5-10 overall record, 0-4 in conference play. Its previous outing was an 80-51 loss to Big East opponent Butler.
Georgetown went 0-19 in the conference last season while going 6-25 overall, including a 21-game losing streak. The Hoyas also lost their their final regular-season Big East game in 2020-21, before going on a surprising four-game run at Madison Square Garden in New York to claim the conference tournament title.
That allowed the team to make its lone NCAA Tournament appearance during Ewing's tenure; that season ended with a first-round loss to Colorado.
Ewing, who as a player helped Georgetown and coach John Thompson Jr. win the 1984 national championship and make two other appearances in NCAA finals, is in his sixth season since replacing Thompson's son, John Thompson III, as the school's coach.
Georgetown went into Wednesday with a 73-94 record under Ewing (a .437 winning percentage), including 26-67 (.280) in the Big East.
This is Ewing's first head coaching job at any level — he worked as an assistant in the NBA after his Hall of Fame playing career ended — and his roster has seen repeated turnover because of students transferring away from Georgetown.
Late last season, in March 2022, Reed put out a statement hours before a game against Seton Hall, acknowledging the “disappointment of a difficult season,” and saying: “In this ever evolving landscape of college athletics we are committed to Coach Ewing, and we are working with him to evaluate every aspect of the men’s basketball program and to make the necessary changes for him to put us back on the path to success for next year.”
Before the start of this season, Ewing overhauled his staff by replacing all three assistants and brought in several transfer players, including leading scorer Primo Spears, who came over from Duquesne.
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2023-01-04T21:57:48+00:00
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Yes, Tolono Unity looked relaxed while edging Armstrong, but no autographs please after its 37-29 victory in an Illinois girls basketball matchup on December 28.
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2022-12-29T04:51:34+00:00
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts zipped his passes. Lane Johnson jumped in for light drills. The Eagles are getting healthy for the postseason — and filling the All-Pro team — just at the right time.
There’s no need to rush any of the banged-up Birds back at full speed, because Philadelphia earned the No. 1 seed in the NFC and an opening-weekend bye. So they were eased into practice: Hurts tested his sprained right shoulder Friday after he skipped throwing drills a day earlier, and Johnson practiced for the first time since he suffered a torn adductor in a Dec. 24 loss at Dallas.
All the Eagles (14-3) can do this weekend is watch and wait to see who they’ll play at Lincoln Financial Field the weekend of Jan. 21-22 against the lowest remaining seed out of Tampa Bay, Dallas, New York or Seattle .
But even with a week off, the Eagles can celebrate. Center Jason Kelce earned first-team All-Pro honors for the fifth time in his career and Johnson joined him on the squad. Hurts, wide receiver A.J. Brown, edge rusher Haason Reddick and cornerback James Bradberry earned All-Pro second team honors.
Reddick, who signed a free-agent deal in March, was also named to the Pro Bowl team and won NFC defensive player of the month honors for December. A New Jersey native and Temple standout, Reddick had 16 sacks to lead an Eagles defensive that had 70 overall.
“So many negative narratives put out my first couple of years,” Reddick said. “All I’ve been doing is working hard trying to change that, change my path and be the best NFL player I can be. Seeing things like this, I’m just taking these victories as they come and I’m going to continue to do my best to build on these things.”
The only starter who might miss a playoff game is cornerback Avonte Maddox (toe), who has not played since he was hurt Dec. 24 against Dallas.
Johnson’s return would be a major boost for an offensive line that has a greater need to protect Hurts. The second-time All-Pro said the rest helped and that he’d try for an “intense” practice next Thursday before the playoff game.
“Going out there and not feeling a lot of pain was good,” Johnson said. “It’s encouraging for me. It gives me a lot more confidence going into next week.”
The Eagles also were encouraged by Hurts resuming throwing. The 24-year-old, who is 17-1 in his last 18 regular-season starts, finished with 3,701 yards passing and 22 touchdowns along with 760 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns in his second season as a starter.
The Eagles started Hurts in the finale after losing two straight games without him; a third loss could have cost them the NFC East title, the top seed in the conference and the bye.
“I think the whole world knows I’m dealing with something,” Hurts said. “I think the whole point of that game was coming back and getting done what we need to get done and obviously having that time to rest. So here it is.”
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2023-01-13T20:31:52+00:00
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California avoided rolling outages during extreme heat Wednesday, as operators of the state’s electricity grid continued to warn that unprecedented demand on energy supplies could force them to periodically cut power to some customers.
The California Independent System Operator thanked California residents and businesses for heeding another “flex alert,” a request to reduce electricity consumption during peak evening hours.
“With your help, we made it through another day without rotating #poweroutages,” Cal-ISO said on Twitter after the alert expired at 9 p.m.
Targeted blackouts were avoided a day after miscommunication led utilities to mistakenly cut power to customers in several California cities.
The confusion occurred Tuesday afternoon between a dispatcher at the Northern California Power Agency, which owns and operates power generating facilities for 16 members including a dozen cities, and the California Independent System Operator as the grid it manages was perilously close to running out of energy amid record-breaking temperatures.
“That is certainly concerning to me,” Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of Cal-ISO, said Wednesday. “There was a lot happening on the grid for everybody last night. And so we’ll double down on the communication to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”
With record demand on power supplies across the West, California snapped its record energy use around 5 p.m. Tuesday with 52,061 megawatts, far above the previous high of 50,270 megawatts set July 24, 2006.
As residents and businesses cranked air-conditioning to escape withering heat across the West and solar power supplies began to wane, Cal-ISO issued a stage 3 energy emergency alert to prepare utilities to initiate outages if demand didn’t decrease. The state’s legal marijuana regulatory agency also urged businesses to turn off lights and reduce power or use backup generators.
The Northern California Power Agency said its dispatcher misinterpreted Cal-ISO’s order to prepare to cut power and immediately undertook the process to cut 46 megawatts — enough to serve about 35,000 customers — in the cities of Alameda, Lodi, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Healdsburg, and Ukiah.
It wasn’t clear how many customers lost power, though the agency said no outage lasted more than an hour.
“Once the outages had been initiated, our dispatcher contacted (Cal-ISO) to inform them that the curtailment action had been undertaken, and was then notified there had been a misunderstanding of the initial order,” NCPA said.
With the state on the brink of outages, Gov. Gavin Newsom for the first time triggered a wireless emergency alert system at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday that sent messages to 27 million cellphones urging them to turn off or reduce non-essential power.
Within moments, there was a reduction of more than 2,000 megawatts, bringing the state “back from the edge,” Mainzer said.
“It took a very loud signal,” Mainzer said. “I think they now recognize that we’re not messing around. This is a real issue. And we need real response.”
Newsom, speaking Wednesday in Beverly Hills, said he had debated pushing that button for the past four to five days. He ultimately decided to test it and concluded it was a game- changer, though he’s reluctant to use it too often because he fears weakening its effectiveness. The emergency alert was not repeated Wednesday.
Western states are struggling through one of the hottest and longest September heat waves on record. Temperatures began soaring last week, and the National Weather Service warned that dangerous heat could continue through Friday, despite some slight moderation.
Nearly 54 million people were under heat warnings and advisories across the West as temperature records were shattered in many areas.
California’s state capital of Sacramento hit an all-time high Tuesday of 116 degrees (46.7 C), breaking a 97-year-old record. Salt Lake City tied its all-time high temperature Wednesday at 107 degrees (41.6 C). The heat wave was expected to last until Saturday.
Reno, which sits just across the Nevada line along the Sierra’s eastern front at an elevation of 4,500 feet (1,372 meters), topped the century mark for the ninth day in a row on Wednesday with its seventh consecutive daily record-high — reaching 104 degrees (40 C) after recording its hottest September day ever on Tuesday at 106 degrees (41.1 C), according to weather service records dating to 1893.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.
On the Northern Plains, the unusually late heat wave peaked Wednesday following a prolonged string of scorching days.
Along a main thoroughfare in downtown Billings, where the temperature set a daily record at 102 degrees (39 C), Gale Spotted Bear, native of the Blackfeet Reservation, sought shelter from the punishing heat in the shade of a vacant building.
“This year has been hotter than hell,” said Spotted Bear, adding that homeless people can be hit the hardest if they have nowhere to go. “It’s hard out here.”
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Associated Press reporters Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; Michael R. Blood in Beverly Hills; Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada; and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana contributed to this report.
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2022-09-08T11:08:57+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/ap-california-faces-another-day-of-grid-straining-extreme-heat/
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)The game ball presented to Latavius Murray in the locker room after a Broncos win last weekend meant a great deal.
In part, because the veteran running back can’t really recall receiving that sort of recognition. And also in part, because the reward gave him a chance to reflect for a moment.
Three months ago, the 32-year-old Murray was at home thinking his career may be done. He even started coaching at a local high school, an assignment that lasted all of one day before New Orleans brought him in. Denver later signed him off the Saints practice squad and he’s turned into the Broncos’ leading rusher this season. He’s coming off a 130-yard, one-touchdown performance against Arizona that earned him a coveted game ball.
”I’m able to appreciate that game and these accomplishments a little more. Just knowing the journey,” said Murray, who sat out practice Thursday (precautionary) as the Broncos prepare to play at the Los Angeles Rams on Christmas Day in a matchup of 4-10 teams. ”Just grateful for the opportunity.”
Murray thought for sure he would be back with Baltimore – or at least some team, anyway – in time for offseason conditioning last spring. At the latest, he figured, by training camp.
After all, in his final game with the Ravens last January, he rushed for 150 yards and a score against Pittsburgh.
But his phone didn’t ring.
”Just was kind of surprised, shocked,” said Murray, who was a sixth-round pick by the Raiders in 2013 following his career at Central Florida. ”There’s a lot of doubt that goes into it where it’s like, `Man, this is the reality. I’m not on a team. I’m at home. I’m training and staying ready, but I’m not getting an opportunity.”’
Murray said he became a volunteer football coach at a local high school, because ”in my mind, I was at least preparing for the worst.”
Then, the Saints called in September. He was back in the league.
Murray was on the practice squad for two games, before getting his shot against Minnesota. He ran for 57 yards and a score, but went back on the Saints’ practice squad.
That’s when Denver picked him up. He’s helped settle a turbulent backfield situation since a season-ending knee injury to Javonte Williams, followed later by the release of Melvin Gordon.
Murray has rushed for a team-leading 510 yards since joining the Broncos.
”A true workhorse,” quarterback Russell Wilson said. ”He’s been a true leader. He’s been a great guy. I think that his mentality is some of the best I’ve ever been around. I really mean that.
”Every day he comes to work, he’s focused. Every day he comes on the practice field, he’s lasered in. He’s great with the guys. He has a tremendous knack for ball playing.”
Murray fully believed he still had plenty of yards left in him even as he waited at home for a call. Explosiveness, too, such as on his 35-yard gallop against the Cardinals.
”The old man still has some juice in him,” offensive coordinator Justin Outten cracked.
With his big game Sunday, Murray became one of five active NFL running backs who’ve rushed for at least 6,000 yards and 50 TDs. It’s a list that also includes Ezekiel Elliott, Mark Ingram II, Derrick Henry and Gordon.
”Obviously, very fortunate to still be able to play and be healthy,” Murray said. ”From there, when you are healthy, it’s being productive.”
Murray, who turns 33 in January, has a strong desire to keep playing and hopes he’s showing teams he still can.
”I’d love to be back here next year,” Murray said. ”You just don’t know. For me, it’s making sure that I’m taking care of my body and being available for any team.”
Asked how long he envisioned playing, Murray cracked: ”I’ll take a ring and can call it quits after that.”
NOTES: OLB Randy Gregory (knee), WR Kendall Hinton (hamstring), CB K’Waun Williams (wrist/knee) and OL Dalton Risner (shoulder/back/foot) didn’t practice Thursday. … OL Tom Compton was placed on injured reserve, coach Nathaniel Hackett said. … Pat Surtain II became the sixth Broncos cornerback to be selected to the Pro Bowl. ”I would have canceled the Pro Bowl if he wasn’t a starter,” said safety Justin Simmons, who was selected as a first alternate. ”He deserved it.”
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2022-12-23T03:41:36+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/at-32-broncos-tailback-latavius-murray-still-running-strong/
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Death row inmates failed to convince a federal judge that Oklahoma's lethal injection method is cruel and unusual punishment. It will resume executions at a pace of about one a month through 2024.
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Death row inmates failed to convince a federal judge that Oklahoma's lethal injection method is cruel and unusual punishment. It will resume executions at a pace of about one a month through 2024.
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2022-08-25T22:29:47+00:00
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wlrn.org
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https://www.wlrn.org/2022-08-25/executions-resume-in-oklahoma-as-judge-deems-lethal-injection-protocol-constitutional
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Braves vs. Marlins: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
The Miami Marlins and Luis Arraez square off against Matt Olson and the Atlanta Braves on Friday, in the first game of a three-game series at Truist Park.
The Marlins are listed as +155 moneyline underdogs in this matchup with the favorite Braves (-190). The contest's over/under is set at 9.5 runs.
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Braves vs. Marlins Odds & Info
- Date: Friday, June 30, 2023
- Time: 7:20 PM ET
- TV: BSSE
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Braves Recent Betting Performance
- The Braves have played as the favorite in nine of their past 10 games and have gone 8-1 in those contests.
- The Braves and their opponents have combined to hit the over five times in their last 10 games with a total.
- In their last two games with a spread, the Braves covered the spread each time. Atlanta's last three contests have finished below the total, and the average total during that run was 9.2.
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Braves Betting Records & Stats
- The Braves have been the moneyline favorite 69 total times this season. They've gone 46-23 in those games.
- Atlanta has a record of 22-6 when it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -190 or shorter (78.6% winning percentage).
- The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Braves a 65.5% chance to win.
- Atlanta has had an over/under set by bookmakers 80 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 44 of those games (44-33-3).
- The Braves have a 7-7-0 record against the spread this season.
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2023-06-30T15:10:25+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/sports/betting/2023/06/30/braves-vs-marlins-mlb-betting-trends-stats/
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NEW YORK — The Yankees were ahead by two runs after eight innings on Sunday, so it was time for Aaron Boone to pick a closer. It’s too bad the best option wasn’t available, although Mariano Rivera, who was in the ballpark for Paul O’Neill Day at Yankee Stadium, at age 52 probably could still get a bunch of big-league hitters out with his cutter.
On this day, Boone pulled a surprise to finish off a 4-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Veteran righty Lou Trivino was the choice even though he’d already come on to get the final out in the seventh in a tie game, then worked a scoreless eighth after Andrew Benintendi’s two-run homer put the Yanks on top again.
The obvious choice to pitch the ninth appeared to be the rookie that Boone went to the last time he’d needed a closer two Saturdays ago in Boston, sidewinding righty Scott Effross, whose only outing the previous three days was a 16-pitch scoreless eighth inning on Saturday.
Eight days after Effross earned a save at Fenway Park, struggling All-Star closer Clay Holmes was on the injured list and demoted seven-time All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman had reverted back to having more control problems in his last two outings.
So Boone looked elsewhere to piece together a badly-needed victory after starter Nestor Cortes worked six strong. Jonathan Loaisiga and Wandy Peralta started the seventh, the latter walking in a run to make it a 2-2 game, then Trivino came on and stayed on.
After the game, Boone was asked if he had Effross available.
“I did not,” the manager answered.
Boone later revealed why Effross, who has a 2.75 ERA in 55 games this season, wasn’t available:
“He had some shoulder stiffness coming out of (Saturday’s) game, so he wasn’t available to us.”
This is bad, potentially very bad.
The Yankees’ bullpen already lost high-leverage righties Chad Green and Michael King to season-ending arm surgeries, and now Boone is in danger of being without their trade-deadline bullpen upgrade.
Effross will undergo tests on Monday and it seems likely that he’ll end up on the 15-day injured list, perhaps with just a minor case of shoulder inflammation.
The best-case scenario would be Effross just being shut down for a few days and avoiding an IL stint, but the Yankees probably will play it safe with a young arm that they want pitching in big spots come October.
But let’s first see if Effross’s shoulder issue is major or minor.
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Randy Miller may be reached at rmiller@njadvancemedia.com.
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2022-08-22T10:48:58+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/08/yankees-reveal-another-arm-injury-after-crucial-win-and-this-one-could-be-a-killer.html
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INDIANAPOLIS — Josef Newgarden finally captured his long-awaited Indianapolis 500 on Sunday and gave team owner Roger Penske his 19th victory and first since buying Indianapolis Motor Speedway, making an audacious pass of defending race winner Marcus Ericsson during a frantic 2.5-mile sprint to the finish.
After the race was red-flagged for the third time in the closing laps, Newgarden was moved from fourth to second by race control. The two-time IndyCar champion, who had been 0 for 11 in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” took advantage of it by slingshotting around Ericsson on the restart and holding him off through the last two turns for the win.
Newgarden brought his Chevrolet-powered car to a stop on the front stretch, jumped out and found a hole in the fence, diving into part of a crowd estimated at more than 300,000 to celebrate. Then, Newgarden climbed the fence to mimic longtime Team Penske driver and four-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves.
“I'm just so thankful to be here. I started out as a fan in the crowd, and this place is amazing, regardless of where you're sitting,” Newgarden said after pouring a bottle of whole milk over his head. “Everyone kept asking why I hadn't won this race, and they look at you like you're a failure if you haven't won it. I knew I was capable. I knew I could.”
Ericsson finished second in a Honda for Chip Ganassi Racing, and he immediately criticized the decision by IndyCar to have the green flag fly on the first lap out of the pits and set up a one-lap run to the checkers.
“I think it was an unfair and dangerous way to end the race," Ericsson said. “I think I did everything right behind the wheel.”
Newgarden and Ericsson were followed by Santino Ferrucci, who gave 88-year-old A.J. Foyt his team's best finish in the iconic race that Super Tex won four times since Kenny Bräck reached victory lane in 1999.
Alex Palou, the pole sitter and race favorite for Chip Ganassi Racing, finished fourth and Alexander Rossi was fifth on what was an otherwise disappointing day for Arrow McLaren.
What was on pace to be the fastest Indy 500 in history ended with three red flags in the final 16 laps.
The first came for a crash involving Felix Rosenqvist and Kyle Kirkwood, who were near the front of the lead pack. Rosenqvist touched the fence in Turn 1 and could not prevent his Arrow McLaren car from sliding down the track. Kirkwood launched off his right rear tire and went upside down into the catch fence, beginning a terrifying, spark-filled ride through the short chute.
One of Kirkwood’s wheels sailed over the fencing and narrowly cleared the packed grandstand. Nobody was injured.
“All I know is I was up in the fence, which is never a good thing in IndyCar. Thank God these cars are so safe,” Kirkwood said. “I saw sparks flying everywhere. That’s the scary part. You’re upside-down and you’re kind of stuck at that point.”
On the restart, Pato O’Ward — who already had a restart called off for setting too slow of a pace — was shuffled from first to third as Newgarden shot to the lead. O’Ward and Ericsson were then side by side entering Turn 3 and touched wheels, and O’Ward slid into the wall and out of the race in another bitter disappointment for Arrow McLaren.
Agustin Canapino did a 360-spin behind him, breaking a break line. He was unable to stop and collided with O’Ward’s car.
“I was a little too nice there,” O’Ward said. “I just feel so bummed for the team. We had four very fast race cars, now there’s only two in the race. ... I got onto the apron to give (Ericsson) room. I got squeezed. Yeah, I won’t forget that.”
What had been one of the fastest Indy 500s in history suddenly had its second red flag with six laps to go.
Last year’s race was red-flagged with five to go, when Ericsson was leading O’Ward to the finish. Ericsson held him off the rest of the way, and many criticized O’Ward for not making a more aggressive move for the win.
Newgarden didn't make the same mistake with Ericsson out in front of him.
As he crossed the yard of bricks, Penske and his entire executive committee jumped up and down in celebration on an elevated platform near the start-finish line. And for a moment, the 86-year-old team owner looked like a child filled with joy.
“Just pure emotion,” Newgarden said. “I was trying to stay locked in. I was emotional the whole last 10 laps because I knew we were in position to fight for the win. I can't talk highly enough about the team. They worked so hard all month.”
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2023-05-28T21:20:54+00:00
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wthr.com
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https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/indianapolis-500-josef-newgarden-roger-penske-19th-win/507-8a3c3a71-14db-4671-8d8b-d8225a45a8fb
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) – A bill to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports received concurrence from the North Carolina House on Thursday morning and was sent to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature.
The vote was 63-42 — with Rep. Mike Wray (D-Halifax) again siding with Republicans — to agree with the Senate’s changes to the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” HB 574. The Senate had scrapped its passed bill in favor of adding slight amendments to the House’s version of what were mirrored bills in early April. SB 631 was transformed into something related that bans medical treatment for transgender minors.
HB 574 prohibits transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports from middle school through college. It does not prohibit transgender athletes from competing on men’s and boys’ teams.
Cooper would be expected to veto HB 574, but the Republican supermajority in the General Assembly has been perfect so far in overriding his vetoes, including four by the Senate this week.
The concurrence did not pass without spirited debate by Democrats, who argued the bill unfairly singles out transgender athletes and is “cruel” to the LGBTQ community.
Such cases have been evaluated as they emerged under the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s rules. Each formal application to compete is reviewed by a local Gender Identity Committee. That’s similar to the policies administered by the NCAA – which mirrors the International Olympic Committee’s long-established policy – and the NAIA. The NJCAA has eligibility rules that are less clear about transgender athletes.
“There are 180,000 students who compete in the space this bill addresses,” Rep. Maria Cervania (D-Wake) said. “There is an established process to evaluate athletes who want to compete.
“Only 16 were reviewed, at this time, and only two have passed. Only one currently is competing, making this potentially a law for one person in a 10-million-population state.”
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Said Rep. Vernetta Alston (D-Durham) said the bill is “unnecessary. I think it will be found to violate Title IX. This bill directly impacts a couple of young people in our state now. They are going to feel targeted. Others are going to feel more desperate and alone.”
Rep. John Autry (D-Mecklenburg) speaks passionately about LGBTQ-related legislation because his granddaughter, Savannah, is transgender. He was emotional again. “I would just ask, stop it. Just stop it,” he said. “This is the time to break our attacks on the LGBTQ community. Just stop it.”
Rep. Deb Butler (D-New Hanover) expressed her concern that the ban would apply to fifth-graders. “Many of you understand the benefits of team sports. … We’re going to deny that to fifth-graders and sixth-graders because of something they no more can control than eye color or height. This is cruel.
“Nobody is winning a gold medal in the fifth grade. Nobody is getting a Nike contract in fifth grade. … We shouldn’t do it.”
Rep. Jennifer Balkcom (R-Henderson), who made the motion to concur, only noted that the amendment “only added wrestling,” which was not quite accurate. She did not advocate otherwise. No one else did, either.
In introducing the bill before the Senate’s vote, Sen. Kevin Corbin (R-Cherokee) pointed out that HB 574 had been amended to exclude intramurals and reiterated it “allows girls to play boys sports. This is a very commonsense bill. It’s not against anybody. It simply prevents biological males from playing girls’ sports. That’s what this bill does.”
Equality North Carolina Executive Director Kendra R. Johnson issued a statement about the bill’s passage:
“This legislation is harsh and discriminatory. As Representative Cervania pointed out in her remarks before the body, this bill could apply to as few as one student in our public school system. We don’t need bills designed to bully a tiny handful of young North Carolinians. Our legislature should focus on protecting all of our communities, not holding surprise votes on unfair legislation.”
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2023-06-22T19:28:56+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/health-watch/north-carolina-bill-banning-transgender-athletes-in-girls-womens-sports-heads-to-governors-desk/
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SOUTH BRONX (PIX11) – Life lessons from a Bronx teacher’s personal health struggle have transformed into an entire plant-based curriculum for students across the nation.
The Green Bronx Machine was born in a classroom at PS 55 in the South Bronx. Teacher Stephen Ritz has since received accolades from former first lady Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Pope Francis. His lesson is focused on nutrition and teaching children what it would take to burn off the food and drinks they consume.
“Imagine, just eating junk food, I was over 330 pounds at my heaviest,” Ritz told PIX11 News on Monday.
In 2011, Ritz had a heart attack in his classroom – in front of his 16-year-old daughter.
“It was right then and there when I looked into my daughter’s eyes as I went down and woke up in the emergency room that [I realized] things had to change,” Ritz said.
So the teacher tried a plant-based diet.
“I decided to only eat the food that I was growing with kids in school, and in seven months lost 110 pounds,” he said.
Ritz is spreading his love of life-saving vegetables, one seed at a time, through classrooms of hydroponic gardens grown from his nonprofit, the Green Bronx Machine.
The setup is now in 675 schools across the country and overseas, including 100 in New York City, where Ritz also serves on Mayor Eric Adams’ food transition team. Roughly 275,000 students are learning his curriculum, planting the seed for so much more than just farming.
“They think they’re here to farm, but what they’re really learning to do is read, write, do the math, do the advocacy, understand cycles, record data,” Ritz said.
The teacher also has a YouTube show, “Let’s Learn with Mister Ritz,” which shares the science behind healing foods and includes voices from the classroom inside PS 55 where it all started.
But Ritz said the need for healthy food in the Bronx is indicative of the need across the nation, and he’s determined to grow something greater to fight hunger worldwide.
“The most important school supply in the world is food because children will never be well-read if they’re not well-fed,” Ritz said.
So kids end up leaving his classroom knowing how important it is to move their body and even more important about what they put inside their body.
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2023-03-27T22:10:42+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/local-news/bronx/meet-the-bronx-teacher-bringing-plant-based-nutrition-to-classrooms-across-the-us/
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The honor, given by The Silicon Review, validates Cosmic Wire's leading Web3 philosophy
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmic Wire, a leader in the push to realize Web3, has been named "One of the 50 Smartest Companies of 2022" by The Silicon Review, the world's most trusted online and print community for business and technology professionals. The Silicon Review's community members include thought-provoking CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT VPs, managers, and diverse IT professionals.
As companies in the Web3 space vie for potentially boundless profits in the corporate sector, Cosmic Wire has tied its financial interests to those of its clients, which impressed the iconic Silicon Valley news outlet.
"[Cosmic Wire] expands the value of iconic physical and digital assets using tools such as blockchain, NFTs, and immersive experience," The Silicon Review said. "It's staffed by some of the very best in the industry—and the firm believes that a proper client contract provides a shared experience of success for Cosmic Wire and its clients so that Cosmic Wire succeeds when its clients do."
On a mission to harness the possibilities of decentralization and blockchain technologies, Cosmic Wire created a first-of-its-kind platform that allows brands, artists, and intellectual property collectors countless opportunities to enhance, promote, license, and sell their work. Designed to run on any operating system, this consumer-friendly platform was developed with a client-first approach.
"This is just the beginning of Web3 and its overall implications on society. At Cosmic Wire, we're on a mission to leverage it to push back against the old system of oppressive business practices that [the entertainment industry] has been deploying since its start," said Cosmic Wire CEO Jerad Finck. "There truly is no other company like Cosmic Wire in existence, so we are thrilled to be recognized for this - and to be named 'one of the smartest companies of 2022' by this prestigious publication."
The Silicon Review agreed that Web3 delivers a platform for companies like Cosmic Wire to disrupt the old ways of doing business in the entertainment industry.
"Web3 will create a more equitable and empowering ecosystem for entertainers to thrive by enabling transformative change in incentives, ownership structures, and monetization channels," the publication wrote.
Cosmic Wire's internal catalog is currently valued at $1.7 billion in exclusive licenses. Soon, Cosmic Wire will also share its expertise with consumers.
"We are so excited to share our full-stack and spatial e-commerce solutions in real-time rendered metaverses through our wholly contained subsidiary, VERS3S, as we change how consumers, content creators, and IP holders interact and do business," Finck said.
For more information, visit https://cosmicwire.com
Based in Los Angeles, Cosmic Wire is a platform agnostic Web3 entertainment technology company that offers brands, celebrities, artists, and IP collectors the ability to enhance, promote, license, and sell their work. Cosmic Wire creates NFTs with a purpose and expands the value of iconic physical and digital assets using tools such as blockchain, NFTs, and immersive experiences. Staffed by some of the very best in the industry, Cosmic Wire's completely internalized development, marketing, and sales teams support clients from concept to close. Cosmic Wire believes that a proper client contract provides a shared experience of success for Cosmic Wire and their clients so that Cosmic Wire succeeds when their clients do.
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2022-08-04T13:38:53+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/08/04/cosmic-wire-named-one-50-smartest-companies-2022/
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The USDA says as much as 40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste. Shuggie's Trash Pie makes pizzas using ugly and discarded ingredients like pig trotters, bruised fruit and wilted greens.
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The USDA says as much as 40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste. Shuggie's Trash Pie makes pizzas using ugly and discarded ingredients like pig trotters, bruised fruit and wilted greens.
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2022-06-22T12:01:39+00:00
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nprillinois.org
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-06-22/san-francisco-restaurant-makes-pizzas-using-upcycled-ingredients
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Health care behind bars in Illinois comes with heavy financial and human costs. Since 2011 Illinois has paid Wexford Health Sources, a private company, well over a billion dollars to provide medical care to people in the state’s prisons. During that time, a federal judge determined the care was so poor it violated the US constitution, and an independent monitor has released reports documenting deaths from substandard medical care.
Wexford’s shortcomings could be measured in numbers:
Fifty percent of the health care provider’s jobs in Illinois are unfilled. Three Wexford doctors lack the proper credentials. Patients in need of dental fillings at one prison are on a 104-week waitlist. And in a review of 17 deaths, an outside monitor found that medical staff gave two prisoners medications that contributed to their deaths.
Or you could measure the failings in the horror stories:
James Cox lost vision in his left eye, after a fellow prisoner hit him with a book. But medical staff refused to fix it, because of Wexford’s “one good eye policy,” which, at the time, allowed for care to be denied as long as a prisoner had, as the policy’s name implies, one good eye.
A man with mental illness told medical staff he had swallowed two plastic utensils and needed them removed. But instead of providing care, the plastic remained in his body, literally tearing him from the inside. He lost 24 pounds in a single month and then died.
In another case, Wexford staff discontinued maintenance chemotherapy for a survivor of brain cancer. After the cancer reappeared, staff took months to schedule a surgery. But it was too late. He passed away.
Wexford’s 10-year contract with Illinois expired in 2021 but the company continues to provide the care in prisons. The state is seeking bids for a new contract which offers a key moment when Illinois could make a change and rethink its prison health care but advocates worry Wexford, or another similar profit-driven company, will win the deal and essentially continue the status quo.
“I think we have to come at providing health care inside our prisons differently than we do now,” said Jennifer Vollen-Katz executive director of the prison watchdog John Howard Association.
“We would like to see the state of Illinois take this seriously and understand that these are Illinois citizens that are suffering … and that is a violation of their constitutional rights.”
Missed opportunity for change?
Earlier this year, it seemed like Illinois was on the cusp of switching up health care in prisons. Officials had designed a plan that would assign each prison to 1 of 5 geographic zones in Illinois. That would have allowed smaller government and nonprofit organizations (like state hospitals and universities) to provide the care behind bars.
Vollen-Katz said those kinds of providers would be better, because they aren’t driven by profits, like Wexford. “I think we need to be concerned anytime there’s a profit motive involved in taking care of people who are incarcerated,” Vollen-Katz said. “The more money they do not spend addressing someone’s medical needs, the more money they put in their pockets as profit.”
She also said partnerships with universities or hospitals would allow more oversight and transparency and access to high-quality care. It’s an approach the state has experimented with on a small scale. In a pilot program, Southern Illinois University provided medical care in a few of the state’s facilities.
But Corrections spokesperson Naomi Puzzello said that the Department decided to scratch the plan to divide the state into zones, and go with the statewide approach “to ensure continuity of care is upheld no matter where or when an individual is placed.”
Harold Hirshman represents incarcerated people under the Lippert consent decree, a massive lawsuit the state settled in 2019, by promising to provide better care and submitting to federal oversight.
He said he thinks the plan to stick with a statewide contract makes it likely there will be more of the same.
“The chances that you’re going to get anybody but Wexford are probably pretty small. And why you would want Wexford again is, well, beyond me,” Hirshman said.
Chronic short-staffing and poor care
As part of the 2019 settlement, the court appointed a monitor to evaluate health care in the Department of Corrections providing an independent view of a system that largely operates outside of public view.
Recent reports from that monitor say one of the biggest problems is that Wexford has continually failed to hire the number of providers required by the agreement. The monitor found the medical staffing shortages in the state’s prisons is a “crisis” that “threatens the safety” of people locked up.
In fact, there are fewer medical staff than when a judge originally ordered oversight as part of the settlement. Fifty-three percent of physician and medical director positions are vacant, and forty-eight percent of registered nurse jobs are open.
Hirshman, the attorney, said even under court monitoring Wexford has never provided the number of staff it promised.
“The care hasn’t improved. It’s still lousy, there aren’t enough medical personnel, they don’t do the work and it’s sad.”
The Illinois Department of Corrections and Governor’s office would not answer questions about alternatives to Wexford, say how many bids it had received or provide any information on when it is expected to make a final decision.
Shannon Heffernan is a criminal justice reporter for WBEZ. Follow her @shannon_h
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2023-07-06T17:08:32+00:00
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nprillinois.org
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https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2023-07-06/despite-horror-stories-and-deaths-will-illinois-keep-expensive-prison-health-care-company
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Happy Thanksgiving, Bills fans, on what is becoming an annual tradition: Your team having a game.
The Bills will play for the third time in the previous four seasons on Thanksgiving – one game in each of the time slots – with Thursday’s 12:30 p.m. kickoff against the Detroit Lions. That’s as good a sign as any of just how far the Bills have come in receiving national recognition.
Let’s get right to your questions …
Gerry from Lewiston asks: Great to see a Bills win, but I’m really shocked at a few things and I’m sure I’m not alone. Nyheim Hines seems to be a real playmaker. Did they get him to return punts and kickoffs? Tre’Davious White is starting to look like he’s been physically ready for a while, but mentally not ready. To me, it seems like Josh Allen lost his mojo. He’s afraid to throw a pick. Do you agree with any of this or am I in panic mode after three weeks of subpar play? At least from the way they are capable of playing. Help me calm down.
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Jay: You’re not alone in wanting to see more of Hines on offense, Gerry. Given the short week leading into this game, I’m not sure it will happen against the Lions, but I would expect him to play a larger role on offense in the weeks ahead. As for White, it’s really anyone’s guess as to why he’s not playing. The Bills have been extraordinarily vague in all their public comments. I would have to think he’s getting very close to a return – defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier said that was the case this week. As for Allen, perhaps the two-minute drill ahead of halftime against the Browns will be a bit of a turning point for him. He looked to be in a much better rhythm for the rest of the game. Also, after the game against New England next Thursday, the Bills will enjoy a “mini-bye,” which should give him time to rest an injured elbow. That should also help. I’d say you are right to be concerned about some of what you’ve seen, but don’t need to be in full-on panic mode. If the Bills can beat the Lions, they’ll be 8-3 and in first place in the AFC East and second place in the conference – at least until Miami plays Sunday. They don’t control their own destiny for home-field advantage, but all their goals are still in front of them. If they can put this recent stretch behind them, there is no reason to think they can’t get back atop the division, or maybe even the conference.
Mark Alderman asks: I’m curious to get your feedback on a couple of thoughts that I have regarding Josh Allen. No. 1, during his mini-slump, it appears to me that he is not diagnosing defenses to the same degree that he was earlier in the year. I believed this was where some of his greatest growth was showing, but lately it looks like he is looking more at our own alignments than that of the defense. No. 2, it seems to me that every time he is saying “alert, alert, alert” we end up running the ball. Is that correct and if so, isn’t that something a defense can key on?
Jay: I figured the easiest thing to do, Mark, was take your question right to Allen, so I asked him about how much defenses are throwing at him that is “new.” Here was his response: “Every time you step into a game, the flow of that game, I'd say 99% of time, it's going to be a different flow, a different situation than you've seen before. So again, just taking every play, and every moment, every situation as a learning moment to be better equipped, when you're in something similar to that next moment. The clock’s going to be different, the situation, the timeouts that you have, everything kind of goes through your mind, especially late in the game. Coach McDermott does such a good job with us here, and how we practice those situations, just making sure that we're as prepared as possible, when it when it comes to that situation, or something like it.”
Given that Allen hasn’t played at his usual level the last few weeks, it’s natural that it looks like he might be pressing a bit at the moment. It’s also true that the Bills are going to get their opponent’s best shot every week, given their track record of success in recent years.
As for the “alert” call leading to a run, that is definitely something a defense would be able to key on, so it’s my best guess that’s just been a coincidence.
Ron Wilkerson asks: What's up with the Bills’ defense on third- or fourth-and-long? Seems to me these plays should be difficult for opposing teams, but in the last couple of weeks, they seemed to be more like gimmes. We stuff them on first and second downs, but on third and fourth, not so much.
Jay: Sean McDermott agreed that it’s been an issue lately. On the Browns’ opening touchdown drive Sunday, they converted third-and-11 twice. That should rarely happen against a defense as talented as the one the Bills possess. “We've got to do a better job,” McDermott said. “The rush and the coverage have to work in better symmetry, if you will. We've got to do a better job affecting the quarterback and covering when the ball is thrown and making those plays when the ball is thrown.”
The Bills want teams returning kickoffs, which is a sign of the confidence in their veteran coverage units and their coaching philosophy in the kicking game under Sean McDermott and coordinator Matthew Smiley. Use special teams as a weapon.
Andrew in Illinois asks: Can it be said that the Bills have actually exceeded expectations when you consider the rash of injuries they have endured? Is it not a testament to the staff in the depth that the team has?
Jay: Interesting question, Andrew. I’ll say they’ve met expectations. Going 5-1 before the bye week exceeded expectations, but a 2-2 record since has brought them back down to earth. You are right that the injuries have taken their toll, but the biggest reason they lost to the Vikings and Jets is turnovers on offense. I’d actually say the defense, for the most part, has hung in pretty well, especially considering most of the injuries have been on that side of the ball. The coaching staff has done a nice job of plugging in players, especially in the secondary. A telling stat is the Bills are 6-0 with Jordan Poyer in the lineup and 1-3 without him. Yes, I know wins are not a safety stat, but it does help show it’s harder to replace some starters than others.
Mike in Clarence asks: Josh Allen took a big hit in the Green Bay game. He came up laughing, but has not been the same quarterback since that game. The touchdown pass to Stefon Diggs against the Browns took a herculean effort for Allen to get it there. It looks like something more than an elbow is going on with him. Are the Bills being up front about his health?
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Clayton Friedman asks: I am a big fan of Josh Allen. I continue to believe he will bring us our first Super Bowl win. Perhaps not this year, but I believe it will happen. However, his play since “the injury” concerns me. I do not think that he has stepped back three years, but rather I wonder just how bad his elbow is. It seems that since he got hurt, after the 70-yard bomb at the end of the game, he has not gone deep. Coincidence? I am not sure.
Jay: Allen has been on the injury report for his elbow and generally listed as limited in practice. He was not wearing a brace during the portion of practice open to reporters Tuesday and said he didn't know yet if he was going to wear it in the game. He seems to be throwing with his typical velocity. It's true that he did only attempt one pass that traveled 25-plus yards in the air during the game against Cleveland, but that could have been a matter of game plan as much as it was the Bills restricting him on those throws. The Bills ran the ball better than they have pretty much all season against the Browns, which took some pressure off Allen to throw as much. Against Minnesota, Allen threw deep on what ended up being the final play of the game, when he was intercepted. Only Allen knows the truth about how much the injury is impacting him, but restricting his throws was not the reason the Bills lost to the Vikings. If he doesn’t fumble the snap at the end of regulation, they win that game.
Even the best quarterbacks in the league go through slumps. It's fair to say Allen is in one now. I'd put my money on him shaking out of it.
Ed Helinski asks: What, in your estimation, does Xavier Rhodes bring to the Bills? Beside being signed to the practice squad, definitely being utilized as insurance on a limited basis and perhaps a mentor role in the secondary, does he have anything left in the tank to make significant contributions as a regular in the Bills’ defense?
Ed in Tonawanda asks: I think it's time to look at moving on from Dane Jackson. He's been here for three years and struggles in coverage. Don't we have any better options?
Jeff Popple asks: No Tre’Davious White, No Micah Hyde, Jordan Poyer in and out, how much do they miss Levi Wallace? He isn't as good as any of the three outside cornerbacks that have been playing?
Jay: Let’s start with Rhodes. He took a third of the defensive snaps against the Browns, with rookie Christian Benford getting the other two-thirds. At this point in his career, Rhodes, 32, is a depth option. I don’t see a path to more playing time for him when the Bills are fully healthy at cornerback, which means that rookie Kaiir Elam and Tre’Davious White are back in the lineup. When that happens, I would expect those two will be the starters. A rotation that includes Benford and Jackson is possible, especially if White’s not ready for a full workload immediately. Regarding Jackson, there is no doubt he’s struggled recently. Here is what McDermott said Monday about it: “He's going to learn from some of these natural ups and downs of the position. That's a position, probably more than any on the football field, where you got to have a short memory. So we'll get him back this week and get him going again.”
Regarding Wallace, he’s had a nice season with the Steelers. He has a single-season best three interceptions and has started the past five games after beginning the season in a reserve role.
How have the Bills fared in the 10 games they've played on our most American of holidays?
Brenda Alesii asks: In all your years covering football, does anything compare to this past week: the bizarre loss to the Vikings on the Bills’ home field, Josh Allen's head-scratching plays, the unprecedented storm affecting so many players/staff, the need to move the game to Ford Field, the uncertainty of whether the team would make it in time to Detroit, and the short turnaround as the Bills prepare for their second consecutive Thanksgiving game and second visit in five days to Ford Field in Motown?
Jay: It’s been a pretty wild week, but it’s funny. I was talking to tight end Dawson Knox in the locker room after the game against Cleveland. Being from Tennessee and going to college in Mississippi, he’s obviously never seen anything like what happened last week with the snow. We both laughed, though, when we said we shouldn’t call it once in a lifetime, because I covered the last game that got moved to Detroit because of snow in 2014, so it can happen. Most of the time, I joke with my friends in the Southtowns about how you couldn’t pay me enough to live there (I’m in Amherst), but this was no laughing matter. I feel legitimately bad for everyone in the hardest-hit areas. The Bills’ win served as a nice temporary distraction, and going right back to Detroit for Thanksgiving should get the holiday off to a great start for Bills fans – provided, of course, the team wins.
Paul Kucinski asks: I know that there is a lot of football to go, but on the pregame shows, all the analysts had Bills seeded fourth or fifth behind Kansas City, Tennessee and Baltimore. All teams we beat. Seems premature to dish the Bills?
Jay: Keep in mind the Bills have to be seeded behind those teams if they’re not leading the AFC East, because the divisions winners get the top four seeds, even if a wild-card team has a better record. That’s one of the reasons why winning the division is so important. As I mentioned last week, the Bills have likely used all their mulligans if they want to be the No. 1 seed in the conference. Kansas City is a game ahead in the loss column and has an easy schedule. Bills fans everywhere should have been rooting for the Chargers last week against the Chiefs. If the Bills win out and the Chiefs lose a game, the Bills would be the No. 1 seed. To end the regular season on an eight-game winning streak is a big ask.
Dan De Federicis asks: Did Brian Daboll steal the razzle-dazzle section of the Bills' offensive playbook during his exit to New Jersey? How else can the Bills explain the dearth of trickery in the offense this year? Geez, we had five running backs in the Minnesota game – I'm sure one of them is capable of lobbing a pass. That or a flea-flicker, even if unsuccessful, might slow down the run support from an opponent's secondary. Yes, the Bills need to focus on some basics, but with such capable players like Josh Allen, Isaiah McKenzie, Nyheim Hines and others, don't you think a little more creativity might help out the offense just a bit?
Jay: Now that you mention it, Dan, it does seem like the Bills have been light on “trick” plays. Of course, last week against Cleveland, the one time they got a bit creative, Hines got buried for an 8-yard loss, so maybe this is a case of “be careful what you wish for.” I recognize the larger point, though, and do wonder if offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey is holding back at least some things. You’d have to expect he still has some tricks up his sleeve, but 10 games into the season, it’s pretty clear Dorsey isn’t a huge believer in “trick” plays.
Thank you for all the questions this week. As a reminder, they can be submitted via email to jskurski@buffnews.com or via Twitter to @JaySkurski.
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2022-11-23T22:10:45+00:00
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buffalonews.com
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https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-mailbag-when-will-nyheim-hines-play-a-bigger-role-in-the-offense/article_a61f4a42-6b3a-11ed-9729-abc89d938d6b.html
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ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — Céline Boutier carded a 4-under 67 in the third round of the Évian Championship on Saturday to increase her lead to four shots going into the final day.
The 29-year-old Boutier aims to become the first Frenchwoman to win the tournament, which became a major in 2013.
“I didn’t start that good to be honest. I missed the first three greens but got a good break on 2 and was able to chip in. Then I just had really good chances on the two par-fives, seven and nine, and was able to take advantage of that,” said Boutier, who had a bogey on the 12th hole in a round of five birdies.
“I was just trying to focus on making, hitting a good shot, and if I happen to have a birdie opportunity, I hit a solid putt. It was definitely positive and felt pretty good to start very good on the front.”
Boutier’s closest challenger is Japan’s Nasa Hataoka, who posted a 68 on Saturday after rounds of 70 and 67.
“Hopefully I will get more birdies tomorrow. It was good iron shots and distance control,” Hataoka said. “Also I was good too with my putting stroke, so I was really comfortable. Tomorrow is another new day, and I want to enjoy the next 18 holes.”
Minjee Lee of Australia and Brooke Henderson of Canada are joint-third, a shot behind Hataoka.
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2023-07-30T18:12:02+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-boutier-takes-4-shot-lead-into-final-round-of-evian-championship/
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CHICAGO (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 42 points and the Chicago Bulls rallied to beat Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks 119-113 in overtime Wednesday night.
The Bulls trailed by 15 early in the fourth quarter, only to pull even in the closing minute of regulation. DeRozan scored 10 in overtime, Nikola Vucevic hit a 3 in the extra period and the Bulls beat one of the NBA’s best teams after losing to one of the worst — Houston — two nights earlier.
Antetokounmpo matched a season high with 45 points and set one with 20 rebounds. He also committed two turnovers in the closing seconds of regulation, and the Bucks extended their season-high losing streak to four.
DeRozan made it a two-point game near the end of regulation with a cutting layup, then stole Antetokounmpo’s inbounds pass and fed Ayo Dosunmu for a dunk that tied it at 106 with 7.8 seconds remaining. Antetokounmpo got called for traveling with about a second left.
The Bucks were up by four in OT when DeRozan scored on a finger roll and Vucevic nailed a 3 from up top to put Chicago ahead 111-110 with 1:28 left.
DeRozan made two free throws before Milwaukee’s Bobby Portis hit a 3 to tie it at 113 with 41 seconds remaining. DeRozan then hit a 12-footer and — after Antetokounmpo missed a fadeaway shot — made four free throws in the final 13.9 seconds.
Zach LaVine scored 24 points for Chicago. Vucevic added 15 points and 14 rebounds, and the Bulls improved to 2-0 against the Bucks this season after losing 18 of the previous 20 to them counting the playoffs.
Portis had 20 points and 11 rebounds for Milwaukee. Jrue Holiday missed the game because of a non-COVID illness and Khris Middleton remained sidelined because of a sore right knee.
Things got heated midway through the quarter, when Chicago's Patrick Williams bumped Grayson Allen into DeRozan. The Bulls star fell to the floor, popped up and had some heated words for Allen, who's not exactly a popular figure in Chicago. Bulls guard Alex Caruso missed seven weeks with a broken wrist following a hard foul by Allen during a game in Milwaukee last January.
Williams got called for a foul on the play. Allen made two free throws as the crowd showered him with boos.
DeRozan and Portis got technicals with 5:47 remaining in the quarter after Portis made a free throw.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Coach Mike Budenholzer said he found out Tuesday that Holiday was ill. “We were going to see how he felt this morning, and he didn't get better this morning,” he said. ... Middleton sat out his sixth straight game; he also missed the first 20 of the season.
Bulls: G Coby White (leg) exited in the first half. ... Caruso (right shoulder) missed his third game in a row. Coach Billy Donovan said he's able to shoot, dribble and pass. But the Bulls are being cautious with him. “The biggest part of the sprain right now is him getting hit again could really set him back,” Donovan said. ... F Derrick Jones Jr. (sprained left ankle) missed his fourth consecutive game.
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Bucks: Host Minnesota on Friday night.
Bulls: Host Detroit on Friday night.
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2022-12-29T04:45:18+00:00
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tmj4.com
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https://www.tmj4.com/sports/basketball/milwaukee-bucks/derozan-scores-42-points-bulls-beat-bucks-119-113-in-ot
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Which gift for 3 year olds is best?
It can be challenging to shop for an excellent gift for a 3 year old these days. With so many TV shows, characters, apps and games out there, choosing one can be daunting. Who is their favorite character lately? What do they like to play? Which toys will allow your 3 year old to build their brain?
With its 3 Smart Stages learning levels, the Fisher-Price 4-in-1 Ultimate Learning Bot is a great toy to encourage both play and education.
Choosing an age-appropriate gift for a 3 year old
Three-year olds are full of wonder and excited to discover the world around them, but they can get frustrated if a challenge is too difficult. Here are some of the things that you’ll need to think about as you pick out an age-appropriate gift for them.
Movement
At the age of 3, kids are learning to use their bodies to interact with the world around them. Some of the skills that are helpful to work on include:
- Holding small items like with their index fingers and thumb, like puzzle pieces or crayons
- Jumping with both feet together from one place to the next
- Balancing in one place or while walking
- Alternating feet while going up steps
- Catching and throwing balls and other soft items to improve hand-eye coordination
Classification
Three-year-olds love to sort items into categories. With this in mind, gifts that can encourage sorting skills focus on:
- An array of colors
- Various sizes
- Common shapes
Feel free to think outside of the box when it comes to gifts. A set of toy cars can easily be used to compare colors, shapes and weights, while also providing great motor skills!
Imagination
When you want to encourage creativity and play, it’s easy to find gifts for 3 year olds. At this age, kids are learning how to tell stories. Lean into this developmental milestone with a fun gift that encourages dramatic play, arts and crafts, singing silly songs and working together in creative ways.
Things to avoid
While it can be a lot of fun to teach kids new skills, 3 year olds can get frustrated when their toys, games and activities have a lot of rules to follow.
Make sure to keep things simple and avoid toys that require a lot of physical strength, precision or steps that have to be followed in a specific order.
By age 3, children are able to interact with the world around them in new and exciting ways. It’s the perfect time to find fun gifts to encourage learning, movement, and cooperation with others.
Best interactive gifts for 3 year olds
Making playtime a learning experience enhances a child’s mind and imagination while keeping them entertained. Interactive gifts allow for a great, entertaining learning environment.
Fisher-Price 4-in-1 Ultimate Learning Bot
This brightly colored robot changes and “grows” with children and is appropriate for kids between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Kids can build the robot and listen to it sing over 100 songs, phrases and sounds.
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CoComelon Official Interactive JJ Doll
CoComelon is all the rage with young children right now, and it’s easy to see why. This interactive doll comes with a bowl of peas and a spoon for kids to feed him. He talks and “eats” the peas, sings songs and giggles, too.
Sold by Amazon
Best ride-on toys for 3 year olds
Kids love movement, and when they can produce movement on their own, the fun increases to an all-new level. Just get ready to get some exercise as you try to keep up!
This little electric car powered by a rechargeable battery is easily controllable by kids with a simple joystick. It will even spin a full 360 degrees and can go a max speed of 0.75 mph.
Sold by Wayfair
Sakar Self-Balancing Kick Scooter
This self-balancing scooter has a foot-activated brake, an extra-wide deck and a three-wheel platform for safety and stability. Shoppers can choose from various designs, including those featuring a unicorn, a dragon, a dinosaur, a fire truck, a dump truck or a cat!
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Best bath and bedtime gifts for 3 year olds
Some kids are afraid of the dark, and some children don’t like taking baths. Make bath time and bedtime fun and engaging with these gifts for 3 year olds.
Snuggle Monster Hide And Seek Storybook And Sleep Aide
This adorable little plush comes with a bedtime book that will help make bedtime a fun time. The monster is part of the bedtime hide and seek game and is also a bed buddy to help ease fears of the dark.
Sold by Amazon
Color The Ocean Color Magic Bath Book
This adorable little novelty book is made just for bath time. Colors appear throughout the pages as they are submerged underwater, bringing fun right into the bathtub.
Sold by Amazon
Best play set gifts for 3 year olds
Play sets take children to other worlds and other places, expanding their imaginations in adventurous and fun ways.
Fisher-Price Little People Launch And Loop Raceway
Perfect for children up to age 5, this colorful vehicle play set features several different tracks, a crash zone, sounds and lights. The set also comes with two Wheelies vehicles, and additional vehicles are available separately for purchase.
Sold by Amazon
Miscellaneous gifts for 3 year olds
JoJo Siwa Bluetooth Karaoke Machine
This fun interactive karaoke machine is brightly colored and has a working microphone. It uses a USB port and Bluetooth power, and users can expand the content and get more songs for little singers to sing to with unlimited audio.
Sold by Amazon
Step2 Rain Showers Splash Pond Water Table
This water table toy encourages young children to develop their sensory and fine motor skills while having fun for hours splashing around. It features ramps, buckets and mazelike spinners that are activated by the water.
Sold by Bed Bath and Beyond and Amazon
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2022-12-05T04:11:27+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/reviews/br/apparel-br/holiday-br/best-gifts-for-3-year-olds/
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Warmer weather will continue for most into the middle of this week. An active pattern will return to finish out the year bringing rain and snow chances to parts of New Mexico.
It was a beautiful Christmas Day across New Mexico with high temperatures hovering above average for this time of year. This warming trend will continue for most areas through the middle of this upcoming week. A weak backdoor cold front will bring slightly cooler temperatures to eastern New Mexico Monday, but this will be short lived.
A very active pattern is shaping up to finish out the year. An amplified jet stream will bring periodic storm systems across New Mexico beginning late Tuesday. This stormy pattern will last through next weekend, into the New Year. These storms will mostly bring moisture across the western half of New Mexico. This pattern will bring widespread rain chances to the lower elevations, but heavy snow could be possible in the mountains. Especially in the San Juan Mountains where over 2′ of snowfall will be possible.
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2022-12-26T05:50:00+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/warmer-weather-continues-ahead-of-an-active-end-to-the-year/
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FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — An alleged gang member and aspiring rapper who is accused of shooting an Atlanta Police officer six times will no longer be part of Fulton County's RICO trial surrounding Young Slime Life.
Christian Eppinger was severed from the high-profile case Thursday after the state accused his attorney of allowing him to use his laptop to communicate with a Fulton County deputy via Instagram. The former deputy is accused of trying to sneak contraband to Eppinger with help from one of his family members, according to the sheriff's office. She is now facing charges.
Officials seized the laptop last week. However, Eppinger's attorney Eric Johnson denied these claims.
During Thursday's hearing, the judge ruled the accusations presented a conflict of interest and cited safety as the reason for severing Eppinger from the sweeping RICO case. Eppinger will now face a separate trial.
Eppinger was one of the initial defendants named in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' RICO trial rounding up YSL, or Young Slime Life members. Willis' office alleges that rapper Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Williams, is the ringleader of the gang, connecting other crimes and defendants in metro Atlanta to the organization.
Eppinger is behind bars as he faces two separate cases. He originally went to jail after a 2016 armed robbery and served four years in custody as a juvenile. The aspiring rapper was released on probation when, according to the district attorney, he rejoined YSL and was involved in a string of crimes, including the arrest attempt in which he allegedly shot Atlanta Police Department Officer David Rogers six times. The officer survived.
Why is Young Thug in Jail?
The rapper, whose legal name is Jeffery Williams, is one of 28 people charged with being part of the Young Slime Life street gang in a sweeping indictment brought last month by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
In particular, the Fulton County DA is targeting Young Thug as the alleged "head" of the gang - "he's the one they're all afraid of, he's the one that's King Slime" is how one prosecutor put it during the bond hearing.
However, the rapper's attorneys have argued there is no foundation for these accusations, saying he's being punished on the basis of rap lyrics and social media posts and little to no evidence of any criminal acts. They have emphasized his influence on the Cleveland Avenue community and to art.
Where does the case stand?
The ongoing jury selection is heading into its fifth month in the Young Slime Life RICO trial in Fulton County. May marked one year since the original indictment was handed down by the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, alleging that YSL committed nearly 200 criminal acts.
It could take even longer to finally seat those deciding the fate of around a dozen alleged gang members.
Already, the YSL RICO trial is on pace to shatter records as the longest criminal trial in Fulton County history.
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2023-06-08T22:49:08+00:00
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11alive.com
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https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/ysl-trial/christian-eppinger-severed-from-ysl-trial/85-e05cb5d8-fd68-4f10-b5d3-0d64bd6049b2
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WNBA Playoffs: Sun make history with run to close out Sky originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
With four minutes to play in Thursday night's semifinal-deciding Game 5, the Sky looked poised to take another step toward repeating as WNBA champions. Leading 63-54 at that juncture, and with a raucous home crowd backing them, Chicago had momentum on their side.
But the Connecticut Sun had other plans.
In the final 3:46 of the contest, the Sun outscored the Sky 18-0, silencing a once-abuzz Wintrust Arena and stunning the defending champions.
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"It sucks," Sky forward Candace Parker told reporters after the game.
It was also historic.
According to ESPN, the 18-0 run the Sun used to close out Chicago is the longest run to close a game in WNBA playoff history. So if the closing ticks of the contest felt surreal, there is a reason.
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"We just couldn't get stops down the stretch and we couldn't put the ball in the hoop," Parker continued.
Added starting point guard Courtney Vandersloot: "It was us. We didn't make the plays that we've been making all season in that fourth quarter. This is a time that we really flourished all season long — just not tonight, when it mattered."
In all, the Sun outscored the Sky 24-5 in the fourth quarter, shooting 8-for-15 (53.3 percent) to Chicago's 2-for-15 (13.3 percent).
That the run came mere minutes after a third quarter in which the Sky forced eight turnovers and outscored the visitors 18-8 made it all the more jarring.
And so the Sky finish their title defense with a 26-10 regular-season record, but one win short of a second straight Finals berth. Instead, the Sun will face off against the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces.
The Los Angeles Sparks (2001, 2002) remain the last WNBA team to repeat as champions.
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2022-09-09T05:27:10+00:00
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nbcmiami.com
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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/wnba-playoffs-sun-make-history-with-18-0-run-to-close-out-sky/2854177/
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Florida teen accepted into all 8 Ivy League schools
MIAMI (CNN) - In an amazing feat of academic excellence, a Florida teen has been accepted into all eight Ivy League schools, plus seven other universities.
Last fall, Ashley Adirika applied to every Ivy League university.
On Ivy Day, the day when the prestigious schools announce their first-year admission, she opened up eight tabs on her computer revealing one acceptance letter after another.
The 17-year-old had gotten into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Darthmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. She was also accepted to Stanford, Vanderbilt and Emory.
The teen, whose mother emigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria three decades ago, graduated from Miami Senior High School earlier this month.
Adirika has decided to attend Harvard in the fall.
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2022-06-14T12:29:50+00:00
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newschannel6now.com
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https://www.newschannel6now.com/2022/06/14/florida-teen-accepted-into-all-8-ivy-league-schools/
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A GoFundMe has raised nearly $50,000 as of Thursday afternoon for a firefighter injured during the set up for the North Andover fireworks show.
Walter “Wally” Shaw, who was identified by the North Andover fire department, was seriously injured while setting up a professional firework display in North Andover, the department said. He had been working as a federally certified pyrotechnician when an inadvertent ignition occurred.
Since then, Shaw has had to undergo multiple surgeries, the GoFundMe states, and he’s been unable to work any of his four jobs.
“Wally is an incredibly hard-worker, family-oriented, selfless and kind,” the GoFundMe reads. “Wally is also an adventure seeker, a cat lover, and an old soul.”
It states that he works full-time at the Groton Fire Department. He also works at the Harvard Fire Department, helps at his parents’ shop, Toreku Tractor & Equipment Inc, and as a federally certified pyrotechnician for Atlas.
The GoFundMe, which is organized by James Crocker, stated it wasn’t sure how long it’d be until Shaw was back at work but that he’d like to “ease any stress.”
“We are still unsure of all of the obstacles Wally will face, but we would like to ease any stress for a guy who would help anyone in need, without question at a moment’s notice,” it states. “All donations will directly support Wally’s recovery.”
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2022-07-07T18:39:25+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/07/gofundme-raises-nearly-50000-for-walter-wally-shaw-selfless-firefighter-injured-during-set-up-for-north-andover-fireworks-show.html
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Suspect taken into custody after overnight shooting on Cadillac Street
Published: Aug. 22, 2022 at 4:38 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A suspect was taken into custody on Monday morning following an overnight shooting on Cadillac Street, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Police say the suspect was taken into custody in the 5000 block of Packard Street.
A spokesman with BRPD confirmed a shooting took place on Cadillac Street, not far from Ford Street around 2:45 a.m.
Police say they responded to reports of an individual at someone’s door.
Once authorities arrived, the individual allegedly began running and firing shots.
All officers were uninjured, police confirmed.
Additional information will be forthcoming as it becomes available.
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2022-08-22T12:07:15+00:00
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https://www.wafb.com/2022/08/22/suspect-taken-into-custody-after-overnight-shooting-cadillac-street/
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REHOVOT, Israel (AP) — REHOVOT, Israel (AP) — Evogene Ltd. (EVGN) on Thursday reported a loss of $6.3 million in its first quarter.
The Rehovot, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 15 cents per share.
The agricultural company posted revenue of $641,000 in the period.
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2023-05-18T12:05:25+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/evogene-q1-earnings-snapshot-18106111.php
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PLEASANTON, Calif. (AP) — PLEASANTON, Calif. (AP) — 10x Genomics Inc. (TXG) on Wednesday reported a loss of $50.7 million in its first quarter.
The Pleasanton, California-based company said it had a loss of 44 cents per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 38 cents per share.
The life science technology company posted revenue of $134.3 million in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $128.8 million.
10x Genomics expects full-year revenue in the range of $590 million to $610 million.
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2023-05-03T21:47:25+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/10x-genomics-q1-earnings-snapshot-18076896.php
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Lukas Gage is in love with Chris Appleton! During a recent appearance on the Today show, the 27-year-old actor gushed about his boyfriend.
"I think this mane needed to be tamed," Gage quipped with a laugh. "I also needed to be tamed."
On a more serious note, Gage said, "I feel very happy, very lucky and very much in love."
The gushing didn't stop there. When the show flashed a pic of Gage and the 39-year-old hairstylist on the screen, Gage lovingly called his boyfriend "a good-looking man."
"Something about being in London. I got a taste of the Brits and couldn't help myself," Gage said of his British beau. "... We have fun together. We go on adventures. It's the best."
Romance rumors between the pair started last month after they traveled to Mexico together and shared pics from their trip on Instagram. When Appleton and Gage got back from their vacation, the speculation ramped up as they posed on a red carpet together and got flirty with each other on social media.
Eventually, Appleton publicly confirmed his and Gage's romance on The Drew Barrymore Show.
"I'm very happy. Very much in love and I feel very grateful to be able to share my time with someone very special," Appleton said. "Love is a really special thing and I think meeting someone you connect with is really, really special."
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2023-03-29T05:01:24+00:00
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https://www.ktvb.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/lukas-gage-is-very-much-in-love-with-hairstylist-boyfriend-chris-appleton-this-mane-needed-to-be-tamed/603-ce59d217-145e-454f-bfe0-39039c50ac01
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Finding a cheap beer in the capital is rarer than locating a seat on the Central line during rush hour. But what’s that? Do our ears deceive us? You can get a crisp pint of lager for less than £1.50 at a pub in London?
You heard that correctly, because there’s a Spoons in Leytonstone selling pints of Greene King IPA and Ruddles Best for £1.49. Albeit slightly far out, you can find these frankly unheard-of prices at The Walnut Tree Wetherspoons in east London.
As some London boozers are robbing us blind selling eye-watering £7 pints, and one Brixton pub was found flogging a beer for £80, this £1.49 lager feels like a gift from Bacchus himself.
Despite rapid inflation, it appears that this Spoons has actually cut its prices. According to one commenter on TripAdvisor their cheapest pint was £1.79 in 2019.
They said: ‘In my experience this has to be the cheapest pub in London. Ale starts at £1.79 per pint and there are at least 10 ales to choose from. No idea about the food!! Love it!’
According to finder.com, the average price for a pint in London is currently £5.50, compared to the UK’s average of £3.95. This means that the Walnut Tree’s pint is actually less pricey than the UK’s reportedly cheapest beer found for £1.79 in Lancashire.
Yes you'll still have to sip on your drink staring at one of the nation's most garish carpets, but for three pints for under a fiver, it'll certainly be worth it. This round's on me gang!
If you fancy something a bit vibier, these are London's cheapest NON-Wetherspoons pints
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2022-07-11T22:16:46+00:00
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timeout.com
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https://www.timeout.com/london/news/theres-a-london-wetherspoons-selling-pints-for-less-than-1-50-071122
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Cariol Horne started her morning outside the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, placing white roses at a colorful memorial to the 10 Black people slain there two months ago by a white gunman.
Across the fenced-off parking lot, the supermarket chain’s president and employees were preparing to lead media on a preview of the refurbished store Thursday, a day ahead of its reopening to the public.
Count Horne, a 54-year-old activist and retired Buffalo police officer, among those in the neighborhood who say it’s too soon.
“We’re pretty much shopping on people’s blood,” she said. “I think that this is more about putting people to work rather than letting them heal. … Just two months ago, these people were running for their lives.”
Yet even Horne carries the mixed emotions of seemingly everyone in the community, where the store has doubled as a gathering spot for two decades.
Her 97-year-old father, a World War II veteran, lives close enough to the market to shop there on his own. The produce at Tops is fresher than the foods available at smaller convenience stores and bodegas in the neighborhood, she said. She gets it.
How do you decide how, when or even whether to let the site of a mass atrocity return to being what it was before it was a crime scene? How do you help people move forward without erasing the memory of an event that devastated so many?
It’s hard enough to answer those questions when it’s a school, a church, a synagogue. It’s a different sort of hard when it’s a place of business, especially one as central to a community as Tops is to east Buffalo.
It took six months for a movie theater to reopen in Aurora, Colorado, after a mass shooter killed 12 people there in 2012. That was one theater in a 16-screen suburban cineplex.
Tops is the social hub of its neighborhood. That’s why frequent shoppers, the store’s managers and employees, community leaders and those who lost loved ones in the hail of bullets two months ago tell The Associated Press simply: it’s complicated.
On one hand, residents fought for years to win a grocery store on Buffalo’s east side, which had long suffered from disinvestment and lackluster economic activity. The arrival of Tops in 2003 was a godsend to an area that had been considered a food desert.
On the other hand, polishing store fixtures and floors is a far cry from addressing the systemic inequality and unhealed trauma in east Buffalo’s Black community, several residents said.
Tops President John Persons said Thursday that the company began hearing from customers, community members and civic leaders the day after the May 14 shooting. Almost immediately, the company started running a free shuttle from the neighborhood to other Tops stores.
Ultimately, the management team felt confident that store associates and most area residents needed and wanted the store to reopen.
“I’ll be honest, those are the people that we really wanted to listen to, the people that were in the neighborhood, the people that were in the Jefferson Avenue neighborhood and the immediate community to find out what their thoughts were,” Persons said.
The store has a calming palate of muted grays and greens. Over the entrance are Adinkra symbols, one representing peace and harmony, another hospitality and generosity and a third, farewell and goodbye.
“Everything you see here was taken down to the bare walls,” Persons said. “It’s all fresh product. This is all new equipment. All throughout, from the ceiling to the floor has been repainted or redone.”
It is also made to be safer, with a new emergency evacuation alarm system and additional emergency exits. Outside, the parking lot and perimeter have new LED lighting.
Fragrance Harris Stanfield, a customer relations employee of Tops, returned to the store Thursday for the first time since the shooting. She initially struggled to get past the foyer, just inside the entrance.
“I couldn’t really pass the threshold. At that point, it just was extremely overwhelming, very emotional,” Stanfield said. “But everyone was so supportive and they knew I needed a moment.”
What calmed her were the water fountains flanking a memorial and poem displayed in tribute to the shooting victims. At the base of the fountain, a sign reads, “To respect the requests of some of the victims’ loved ones names are not included on this memorial.”
Tops says it is working with state, city and community leaders to create a permanent public memorial to be installed outside the store.
Stanfield said she understands why some believe it’s too soon to reopen.
“I think there’s still a place of mourning and grieving,” she said. “We’re still kind of in a blaming space, where they need somewhere to focus that energy. And so it’s just being focused here, which is completely understandable.”
Near the store’s entrance Thursday, signs labeled “community counseling” hung from pitched tents. Residents looked on from behind the fence, some of them angrily, as Tops managers hosted the press event.
Part of the anger stems from a sense that not enough effort was made to seek enough voices from the community.
“No one’s come door to door to ask the people, who live within a mile, or four blocks, or even two blocks of Tops, ‘Are you comfortable with this? What do you want here?’” said David Louis, another activist who, like Horne, recognizes that others miss not just the goods on Tops’ shelves but the good in its aisles.
“This is such a family store, it’s so close to everyone’s homes,” said Louis, who frequently walked the four blocks to the store wearing Crocs and house pants. “When I’m in Tops, I know that these people aren’t judging me.”
Robert Neimeyer, director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, said reopening a site of a mass atrocity can be like walking a tightrope. The Buffalo market, in particular, isn’t just a typical business, he said.
“It really is a kind of linchpin of that community, and so it has enormous cultural and practical significance,” Neimeyer said. “It’s just as important a place to live as it is to mourn.”
Still, he said, “Not every site of mass homicide in the United States can become a 9/11 memorial, whether it’s in Uvalde or Buffalo.”
He said the store managers would send a strong message to the community if Tops funneled a portion of the proceeds from grocery sales to a scholarship fund.
“In that way, even shopping in the store becomes a commemorative act,” Neimeyer said.
Mark Talley, the son of Buffalo shooting victim Geraldine Talley, said he grew up going to the Tops on Jefferson Avenue with his mom. Now, he’s hoping to honor her memory through advocacy, community service projects and a fledgling nonprofit organization.
The 33-year-old also attended the Tops preview event Thursday and said he understands why there are mixed feelings.
“When I was first asked this question weeks after it happened, I said, ‘No, I want the Tops closed. I want it to just be dedicated to all the loved ones there,’” Talley said.
“But if you do that, then you just succumb to defeat,” he said. “I don’t want the east side of Buffalo to seem weak. I want us to become stronger than that. Let’s just build it back up.”
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2022-07-15T12:26:03+00:00
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wsvn.com
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https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/buffalo-market-reopens-to-debate-over-healing-sensitivity/
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Texas lawmakers aim to ban children from drag shows
(CNN) - Republican Texas Representative Bryan Slaton is working on a law that would prevent children from seeing drag shows, saying they are too sexually explicit for them.
Critics, however, say there are bigger issues regarding children’s safety that lawmakers should be focusing on – guns.
When asked if he believes his priorities are in place when it comes to children’s safety, Slaton said it’s “always appropriate to take care and protect children.”
“As this horrible event in Uvalde is being investigated, and we’re learning information. But every day is the right day to protect children, whether it’s from violence, or it’s from sexualization, someone taking advantage of them. I mean, it’s always the right time to protect children,” Slaton said.
His colleague, Republican Texas Representative Steve Toth, is also pushing for similar legislation.
“We can walk and chew gum at the same time in the Texas legislature, and that includes both keeping sexually explicit material out of the hands of children, as well as making sure that violent children are removed from the classroom,” Toth said.
Toth said he plans to file a bill in November and hopes to have it on the House floor by April or May.
Drag performer Celia Light said not all drag shows are sexual in nature, and many performances cater to entertaining children.
“For me, [a law] seems like a blatant disregard for a parent’s right to choose what’s best for their children,” Light said.
Light said she has been a part of events where parents were unsure what she was going to do, but after they see that she is just entertaining them and reading a story book, parents are thankful.
“There is a way of presenting anything to make sure it’s appropriate for a certain type of audience,” Light said.
Copyright 2022 KEYE via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-06-09T19:54:33+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2022/06/09/texas-lawmakers-aim-ban-children-drag-shows/
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Ravil Maganov died this week. He was 67, and chairman of Lukoil, the Russian oil company. Lukoil released a statement that he "passed away following a severe illness."
Tass, the state-owned Russian news agency, says Mr. Maganov fell out of a 6th floor hospital window. They called it a suicide.
It may be pertinent to mention that shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the board of Lukoil called for the "soonest possible end" to the conflict.
Ravil Maganov is one of several Russian energy oligarchs who have died this year under murky circumstances. Their demise may remind you of previous epidemics of "accidents. Being a critic of Russia's government can be hazardous to your health.
In May of 2020, as coronavirus cases surged, two Russian doctors and a medic, according to local media, fell from hospital windows. The doctors died.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says dozens of Russian reporters have been killed since 2000, while investigating corruption. A number of them inexplicably fell from windows. Their deaths have been ruled accidents or suicides.
"These 'accidents' are no accident," Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told us. "Nor are these 'suicides' suicides. They are a tool of the state to silence critics and intimidate would-be critics."
Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, sent a series of tweets this week through his lawyers following the death Mikhail Gorbachev, who famously released Soviet political prisoners:
"The fact that today people like me find out about his death through loudspeakers in their prison cells perfectly characterizes the transformation of my country," he said.
When Mr. Gorbachev resigned as the last president of the USSR in 1991, he might have been more popular overseas than at home. But he didn't invade Ukraine and other republics when they voted to be free of the Soviet Union. He survived a failed coup attempt, and had its leaders arrested--not thrown out of windows.
"He stepped down peacefully and voluntarily," Alexi Navalny reminded us this week, "respecting the will of his constituents."
President Putin did not attend Mikhail Gorbahev's funeral.
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2022-09-03T13:27:41+00:00
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-09-03/opinion-it-should-not-be-a-crime-to-criticize-in-putins-russia
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(Our Auto Expert) — Hollywood will love the price of the Toyota Prius, starting under $28,000 and fully loaded for under $36,000.
Prius owner Tom Hanks is going to want the new Prius. Anything that helps the environment, especially at 57 miles per gallon. The Prius will be the first Toyota to wear the badge “Beyond Zero” for the brand, further solidifying its relationship with the character actor and environmentalist Hanks.
The sexiest environmentalist in Hollywood, Ryan Gosling, and his family now have lots of room for kids and pets. They can even take road trips back to their birthplace in Canada because of the AWD. Nobody will have to fight over charge stations because the Prius has six USB-C charging ports, so the family can keep the entertainment going.
Toyota said the drive was sporty, and they did not lie. Toyota has put almost 200 HP into the new Prius. On-screen and off-screen beauty and environmentalist Julia Roberts, who has won four Academy Awards, will almost certainly see the exterior beauty as a plus, and long-time Prius fan Leonard DiCaprio may be attracted to the new driving dynamic as he has been driving an electric Karma sports car.
Legroom is essential for Hollywood stars like Jeff Goldblum, who stands at 6 foot 4 inches, and although he does not often sit in the back of his Prius, he now may find it quite comfortable with thirty-four inches of legroom in the rear.
Toyota also wants to make sure their cars are safe. This Prius has safety sense 3.0 and some very practical safety features. Most wireless chargers in cars are in the front of the shifter. Toyota came up with a slot next to the shifter to securely place your phone to charge, out of sight and out of distraction range.
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2022-12-16T17:10:30+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/automotive/will-hollywood-love-the-new-prius/
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To Dr. Benjamin Mazer, a pathologist and medical writer in Baltimore, a paper in the Nov. 24 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine was “the perfect study for Substack.” That’s the online platform where he has just begun a newsletter about, as he puts it, “diagnostics, medical evidence, and the media.”
The paper he was describing was written by public health researchers in Boston. By analyzing data from schools that dropped mask mandates at different times last winter, the scientists determined that in the first 15 weeks after the state allowed the policy change, Boston-area schools without mandates had 45 more COVID cases per 1,000 students and staff than they otherwise would have had. That amounted to 29 percent of the COVID cases in these schools in that time period.
Some critics questioned the validity of comparing case counts across districts, given that other factors — including COVID testing rates — were also fluctuating. But Mazer thought the study’s statistical methods seemed solid. What concerned him was the commentary accompanying the data. The researchers wrote that school masking policies should also be considered matters of health equity for “students and staff already made vulnerable by historical and contemporary systems of oppression (e.g., racism, capitalism, xenophobia, and ableism).”
To Mazer, this and other references in the paper to oppression and capitalism crossed a line. “The authors shoot themselves in the foot,” he wrote on Substack. “Public health has already become so politicized during the pandemic. Why would you want to further contribute to that, undermining your own credibility as a scientific actor? . . . A well-designed study might help convince political leaders and regular Americans that mask mandates are effective, but positioning masks as anti-capitalist is going to cancel that right out.”
I relayed Mazer’s criticism to one of the authors of the paper, Natalia Linos, a social epidemiologist who is the executive director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard. She suggested that Globe Ideas host a conversation between her and Mazer. So I introduced them on a video call in November, and edited and condensed highlights of the discussion follow.
Linos: By definition, COVID policy is political. We wanted to be open about that and also to make clear that COVID policy has a differential impact for different groups. I was very proud that the paper addressed politics, power, and economic inequities. Because the doctors who read the New England Journal of Medicine, who are in the clinic seeing patients, maybe they’re not thinking, “Why am I seeing more patients of color in my clinic with COVID?” Research on public health requires attention to the why. We see these different patterns in COVID rates, not because of genetics or biology but because of structures that we have put in place. And therefore the optimist in me says there’s something we can do about it.
Mazer: I’m kind of the target audience for the New England Journal of Medicine. I’m a medical practitioner who wants to keep up on the big advances of the field. And so I was excited to read this paper specifically because of its high-quality natural experimental methods. I saw this was a really good methodology. And then I get to the discussion section, and I found it both interesting and a little jarring. It didn’t necessarily seem to connect very much to the purpose of the paper, which is to evaluate the impact of a particular social intervention on rates of COVID.
I was really struck by the references to capitalism. Masks don’t really have to do with capitalism. I could tell from the discussion that it was really sincere and erudite, but I think it will end up being provocative. I want politicians to be able to take a step back from some of the political division and say, “Can we use good evidence to guide us in our decisionmaking?” Some Republican governors did that with COVID interventions, and I think that is the kind of person you should be targeting. Because you’re revving up some of these political divisions in the discussion, that message might get lost on people who otherwise would be receptive to it.
Linos: That’s a helpful point, and it’s one that we considered. There’s also the other argument, which is: You get a chance to put something in front of all of these doctors at a moment in time. After George Floyd’s killing, all the world is having these debates of, How are we thinking about racism? And in this country, unfortunately, racism and racial capitalism go hand in hand. It’s not by chance that the vast majority of poor people in our cities are also people of color. And so if you have an opportunity to give doctors and an audience that doesn’t get trained in social epidemiology a flavor of that conversation, the hope isn’t to close down the conversation. I hear your point that at times it could be jarring. I just think that when the COVID pandemic has unequivocally shown that our country does worse than other countries because of structural issues — the way that we don’t give low-wage workers the protection of sick leave, for example — these are debates that doctors should be having. If we’re not having the debates in medical journals, then we miss an entire audience that I’d like to invite into the conversation. And we need to be able to say the word “racism” in order to start dealing with it.
Mazer: In that sense, it’s to be applauded that you brought those issues to the fore, because here we are having this conversation. I think unfortunately you didn’t give yourself the room to really bring people onboard and explain it. There are conservative doctors, Republican doctors, there are doctors who maybe don’t understand how a particular word is being used in a particular academic context. There was a focus on capitalism, on racism, on these unequal structures, but there was very little interrogation of our governmental systems, our policy systems. A lot of these inequalities are being produced by our democratic institutions, not by the free market. You guys brought up the very different quality of school infrastructure, classroom size, these kinds of well-known inequalities in education, and that’s a failure of government. I mean, these are government-run public schools.
Linos: Yeah, exactly. When we talk about structural racism, it’s around institutions and policies and government. Should public health be political? My answer is: Of course. Because government has the opportunity to solve a lot of these public health issues. And if we pretend that public health is not political and that scientific knowledge can happen in a neutral way, then we’re not interrogating the status quo, which has allowed the pandemic to have very different impacts on different people.
Mazer: I think the important distinction to make is between being political and being partisan. And I think much of public health has started to be seen as partisan, and I think that’s where public health has lost some people. You lost some trust. And it enabled political partisans to say, “Hey, the science is wrong because they’re just Democratic stooges and they’re not thoughtful, careful scientists.”
The pandemic does bring a lot of these structural inequalities to the forefront, but I think the idea that we were going to have a massive political change maybe pushed people to be more partisan — even on some of the measures where there could have been more agreement.
Ideas: Ben, you’re saying it’s one thing to identify the structural and thus political causes of health disparities, but it’s quite another to go down the road of suggesting policy prescriptions that are overwhelmingly or entirely Democratic policy goals. Natalia, do you think it’s possible for the public health profession to stop short of advocacy while being effective in the way you intend?
Linos: I don’t know if it’s possible. I’m very comfortable talking about issues that are unfortunately seen as partisan, like sick leave or maternity leave, which I don’t think are that controversial. Similarly on climate change, there’s a lot of data now around how fossil fuels and air pollution are bad for health. We can’t stay silent. I think it’s our responsibility to use our data and our institutions to show how different policies could be.
Now, you could accuse people like me of going too far. For example, we had a symposium at the FXB Center that asked: Could reparations close the white-Black health divide? Reparations are being discussed by economists, by historians, by others. A lot of people in public health may think, “This has nothing to do with us.” But part of me wonders, if you’ve dedicated your life to health and you’re seeing these health inequities, you can’t not be part of those conversations. Yes, at this moment in time, that is an issue that is unlikely to be supported by Republicans, but I’m hoping to normalize some of these conversations across different political viewpoints.
Mazer: I think there are two ways you could maintain a political aspect to public health without being seen as partisan.
One is the way policies are packaged. Many different ideas were put forth during the pandemic that started to hit on longtime Democratic goals. Many of which I agree with. But, you know, things like single-payer health care are not necessarily completely related to the pandemic, whereas something like sick leave — I think you would actually find a lot of agreement on finding some way of providing more sick leave to people. You may actually bring some Republicans over, at least at the state level.
And I think the other way public health could be political while being less partisan is to look at the outcome you want to change, some kind of disparity you want to close. Like with paid sick leave — there are different ways in practice to implement that policy along every kind of political philosophy, and they’ve been implemented differently around the world. Same thing with various public health interventions. Perhaps you could have given people a menu of choices and said, “Here’s a more conservative approach. Here’s a classically liberal approach. All working toward this outcome we think is important.”
Doctors are a very powerful political group. They are engaged in massive amounts of lobbying and fundraising and donations to political leaders. They speak out as a group, for important public health and medical issues, and of course for their own self-interest. So I’d like us to be able to use the political power of physicians to promote people’s health. And so I think if you want to better bring doctors into the public health realm as the political force that they can be, then you need to do what you can to remove those partisan signifiers and to find common ground.
Brian Bergstein is the editor of Ideas. He can be reached at brian.bergstein@globe.com.
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2022-12-06T08:25:10+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/opinion/ideas-conversation-has-public-health-gotten-too-political/
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: WOOF) today announced an evolution in its organizational design and new roles to enable continued growth by fully leveraging its end-to-end ecosystem for customers. Through its unique model, including over 200 veterinary hospitals and over a thousand veterinary clinics, grooming, training and leading owned and exclusive brands, Petco serves over 24 million customers how, where and when they want to shop.
To further align its leadership team to activate Petco's strategy that puts the customer first, the company made the following key appointments:
- Amy College, Chief Merchandising Officer, is taking on responsibility for demand planning. This move is designed to allow her and her teams to drive an even sharper, integrated view of product and customer demand. Amy's experience running omni-channel businesses and demand planning at Best Buy will be invaluable in this expanded role.
- Jason Heffelfinger, Senior Vice President Services, has been promoted to Chief Services Officer. Jason has been central to the build-out of the company's owned vet model, including the acquisition of its Thrive joint venture and smaller veterinary hospitals. He also has led the rapid acceleration of Petco's grooming business.
- Darren MacDonald, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, is taking on an expanded role as Chief Customer Officer. In this new role, Darren will lead customer-focused teams including his current Digital team, as well as Marketing, Membership, Loyalty, Enterprise Analytics/Data Science and Customer Service. As Chief Customer Officer, Darren will build on his previous experience leading customer centric organizations at Jet, Walmart.com and IAC.
- Justin Tichy, Chief Pet Care Center Officer, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, taking on additional responsibility for company-wide logistics including oversight of the company's distribution centers. Justin will continue to run Petco's over 1,400 Pet Care Centers in the U.S. and, by tightening the link between distribution and Pet Care Centers, the right inventory will be in the right places to meet customer demand. Justin will leverage his tremendous experience across Walmart, Target and Best Buy to drive excellence across our Pet Care Centers and Distribution.
The company also announced that Mike Nuzzo, Chief Operating Officer and President of Services, will be leaving Petco after more than seven years of service to the company.
"These appointments and our organizational design are emblematic of our focus on putting the customer and data at the center of everything we do as we meet the customer need of a single partner for the health and wellness needs of their pet. It also manifests our dedication to driving operational excellence. Lastly, it highlights the tremendous talent we have at Petco and our focus on developing that talent," said Petco CEO, Ron Coughlin.
"I also want to express my deep thanks to Mike who has served in many leadership roles at Petco, from CFO to COO and President of Services, and who has left an indelible mark on our company," Ron concluded.
About Petco, The Health + Wellness Co.
Founded in 1965, Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and our own Petco partners. We've consistently set new standards in pet care while delivering comprehensive pet wellness products, services and solutions, and creating communities that deepen the pet-pet parent bond. We operate more than 1,500 pet care centers across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, which offer merchandise, companion animals, grooming, training and a growing network of on-site veterinary hospitals and mobile veterinary clinics. Our complete pet health and wellness ecosystem is accessible through our pet care centers and digitally at petco.com and on the Petco app. In tandem with Petco Love (formerly the Petco Foundation), an independent nonprofit organization, we work with and support thousands of local animal welfare groups across the country and, through in-store adoption events, we've helped find homes for more than 6.5 million animals.
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2022-08-09T22:06:18+00:00
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(KTLA) – Amid stubbornly high inflation, average paychecks will rise by about 4% next year, according to a survey of employers by consulting firm Willis Towers Watson.
However, a 4% wage hike — the largest in 15 years — won’t do much to alleviate inflation currently running at a 40-year high of 9.1%.
In other words, despite modest efforts by employers to keep workers’ compensation in line with the economy, many will effectively experience a pay cut and diminished purchasing power.
“Compounding economic conditions and new ways of working are leading organizations to continually reassess their salary budgets to remain competitive,” Hatti Johansson, a research director at Willis Towers Watson, said in a statement.
More than a third of the roughly 1,400 organizations surveyed said they plan to give raises more frequently than in the past, with many saying they probably will give workers two salary bumps next year.
More than two-thirds of respondents said they’re aiming to boost employee satisfaction with more remote work.
Unlike the private sector, the Social Security Administration sets annual cost-of-living adjustments for beneficiaries based on the inflation rate.
The nonpartisan Senior Citizens League estimates that Social Security recipients will receive a 10.5% cost-of-living adjustment for 2023. That would translate to average monthly checks climbing by about $175 to $1,668.
While higher healthcare costs will put a dent in that increase, this is a fair way of helping people weather inflationary storms.
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2022-07-15T22:27:00+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/paychecks-projected-to-rise-an-average-of-4-percent-this-year-survey-finds/
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Chas McCormick Player Prop Bets: Astros vs. Twins - May 30
Published: May. 30, 2023 at 5:25 AM CDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
The Houston Astros, including Chas McCormick (hitting .194 in his past 10 games, with three doubles, a home run, three walks and three RBI), battle starter Joe Ryan and the Minnesota Twins at Minute Maid Park, Tuesday at 8:10 PM ET.
He notched a home run while going 1-for-3 in his most recent game against the Athletics.
Chas McCormick Game Info & Props vs. the Twins
- Game Day: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Twins Starter: Joe Ryan
- TV Channel: SportsNet SW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +230)
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Chas McCormick At The Plate
- McCormick has six doubles, three home runs and nine walks while batting .215.
- McCormick has picked up a hit in 52.2% of his 23 games this season, with multiple hits in 21.7% of them.
- In 13.0% of his games this season, he has homered, and 3.3% of his trips to the plate.
- McCormick has driven home a run in seven games this season (30.4%), including more than one RBI in 13.0% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on one occasion..
- In seven of 23 games this year, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Chas McCormick Home/Away Batting Splits
Twins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Twins pitching staff paces MLB.
- The Twins' 3.43 team ERA ranks second across all league pitching staffs.
- Twins pitchers combine to give up 51 home runs (0.9 per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- The Twins are sending Ryan (7-1) to the mound to make his 11th start of the season. He is 7-1 with a 2.21 ERA and 70 strikeouts in 61 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Wednesday against the San Francisco Giants, when he tossed five innings, allowing one earned run while giving up six hits.
- The 26-year-old ranks fifth in ERA (2.21), third in WHIP (.951), and 14th in K/9 (10.3) among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season.
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2023-05-30T11:06:09+00:00
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PARIS (AP) — The Balenciaga fashion house has cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, according to a news report.
The move came after several offensive comments from Ye, including antisemitic posts that earned him suspensions from Twitter and Instagram.
“Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” parent company Kering told Women’s Wear Daily in response to a query Friday without elaborating.
The company did not respond to multiple emails and calls from The Associated Press requesting comment. A representative for Ye also did not respond to a request for comment.
Ye had collaborated in several areas with Balenciaga and its artistic director, Demna Gvasalia. The label has also had an active relationship with Kim Kardashian, Ye’s ex-wife, who has appeared in their advertising campaigns and credits her former husband with introducing her to the brand.
Ye was recently blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram over antisemitic posts that the social networks said violated their policies. He has also suggested slavery was a choice and called the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast.”
After getting locked out of the social media platforms, he’s offered to buy right-wing-friendly social network Parler.
During Paris Fashion Week, the rapper walked as a model in Balenciaga’s ready-to-wear show — what designer Gvasalia at the time called an “iconic moment.” He was then seen at Givenchy’s collection wearing a Balenciaga-branded black tooth brace.
Ye was also criticized that week for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his Yeezy collection show in Paris and the shirt made an appearance on the runway itself. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, White Lives Matter is a neo-Nazi group.
In recent weeks, Ye has ended Yeezy’s association with Gap and has told Bloomberg that he plans to cut ties with his corporate suppliers. Adidas has placed its sneaker deal with Ye under review, and JPMorganChase and Ye have ended their business relationship — although the banking breakup was in the works even before Ye’s antisemitic comments.
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2022-10-21T20:45:26+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/ap-balenciaga-fashion-house-cuts-ties-with-ye-report-says/
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Airlines say this year's summer vacation season could be their busiest ever. But after last season's flight delays and cancellations, the Biden administration is trying to require airlines to cover the costs that passengers incur during delays and cancellations. So will this year be better than last? NPR's David Schaper has been looking into it.
DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE: 2022 certainly wasn't the best year for air travel. In fact, it may have been one of the worst.
ANDRE DELATTRE: Things were as bad as they've been in 25 years or more.
SCHAPER: Andre Delattre is with the Public Interest Research Group, which analyzed traveler complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation. He says the number skyrocketed last year as airlines struggled getting people to where they wanted to go.
DELATTRE: There were five times more complaints in 2022 compared to 2019, before the pandemic, even though fewer people were flying.
SCHAPER: Delattre says airlines delayed and canceled a staggering number of flights.
DELATTRE: A hundred and ninety thousand flights canceled last year. And other than the early months of the pandemic, that's more canceled flights than any year since 2001, when, of course, 9/11 disrupted air travel.
SCHAPER: A general accountability office investigation finds that staffing shortages, maintenance problems and other factors within the airline's control are largely to blame for the sharp increase in flight disruptions. Now, most airlines handled the recent surge in spring break travelers relatively well. And they say they're much better prepared for this summer than last. But some in the industry aren't so sure.
GEOFF FREEMAN: This summer's travel demand will be as strong as we've seen since before the pandemic and potentially the strongest ever.
SCHAPER: Geoff Freeman heads the U.S. Travel Association, which represents airlines, hotels and other travel-related businesses.
FREEMAN: That type of demand in a system that is woefully underfunded and understaffed is likely to create substantial frustrations among travelers.
SCHAPER: Freeman puts the blame not on the airlines, but on Congress and the federal government. Air traffic control staffing shortages in the northeast led the FAA to ask airlines to reduce the number of flights this summer into and out of New York-area airports. The FAA is also struggling to upgrade outdated technology after an outage caused a temporary halt of all departures nationwide in January. And Freeman says extremely long wait times to get through Customs are hurting the recovery in international travel.
FREEMAN: These problems didn't come out of thin air. These problems have come out of years and years of underinvestment.
SCHAPER: Many airlines are flying bigger planes with more seats to meet the increased demand while cutting their overall number of flights, especially regional service to smaller airports. Another challenge for airlines is that airplane manufacturers, such as Boeing, are way behind in delivering new aircraft because of supply chain and production problems. And some airlines face yet another problem with their labor unions.
DENNIS TAJER: The pilots at American Airlines are ready to strike.
SCHAPER: Dennis Tajer is spokesman for American's pilots' union, which voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if they cannot reach a deal. While walking a picket line at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Tajer says the key sticking point isn't over pay, but American's scheduling practices that he says stretches pilots too thin.
TAJER: I don't know what's going to happen this summer. That's why we're out here. There's so much uncertainty, it's even shaken us to our core.
SCHAPER: Pilots at Southwest are voting on whether to authorize a strike, too. And unions for employees at those and other airlines are also in tense negotiations. If there's any silver lining for air travelers it's that air fares, which had been soaring, are starting to level off and even drop, especially for flights next fall after the summer travel rush is over.
David Schaper, NPR News, Chicago.
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2023-05-10T23:02:22+00:00
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lakeshorepublicmedia.org
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https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/2023-05-10/there-are-concerns-airlines-wont-be-able-to-keep-up-with-busy-summer-travel
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LOS ANGELES — Bryan Cranston was hoping to get a hit in the All-Star Celebrity Softball game at Dodger Stadium.
Instead, the “Breaking Bad” actor got hit.
Cranston was struck in the right shoulder by a line drive off the bat of Grammy Award winner Anthony Ramos as they took batting practice in side-by-side makeshift cages outside the ballpark Saturday night.
The 66-year-old Cranston doubled over for a couple minutes, then headed to his nearby trailer.
“It’s definitely going to bruise,” Cranston said after recovering. “I might be more of a cheerleader in this game.”
The Tony, Emmy and Olivier award winner later felt well enough to play on the field at Dodger Stadium. He took a called third strike and feigned an argument with the umpire.
Cranston played for the Los Angeles team, which lost to Brooklyn 15-13. Former San Francisco Giants star Hunter Pence hit two home runs for Brooklyn and was repeatedly booed by the LA crowd.
Best known for his role as Walter White on TV’s “Breaking Bad,” Cranston wore an Albuquerque Isotopes hat in the scene where White first meets lawyer Saul Goodman -- now the title character of the spinoff series “Better Call Saul.”
Cranston has appeared at several games for the Triple-A Isotopes, and he and “Breaking Bad” costar Aaron Paul are scheduled to throw a ceremonial first pitch there July 30.
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.
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2022-07-18T02:09:57+00:00
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https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/breaking-bad-actor-hit-by-liner-at-all-star-celeb-softball/507-fe397597-5fa9-4b04-856a-89ccf0c15015
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This is in answer to the letter of May 9 that stated “unborn babies were safer in 1776 than they are today.” That is flat out wrong. The “Founding Fathers” did not put abortion rights into the Constitution because abortions were routinely done in 18th century America as long as they were performed before “quickening,” usually 15 to 20 weeks after conception. In fact, there were no laws prohibiting abortion in the United States until into the 19th century, and when they were enacted, it was mostly as a way of preventing the deaths of women who were sometimes given poison to end their pregnancies. As time went on anti-abortion laws were instituted for several other reasons, not the least of which was as a way of increasing the number of white Protestant babies and of controlling the place of women in society. Ironically, it’s mostly poor women of color residing in the South or Midwest who will be forced to give birth when Roe v. Wade is overruled since they will most likely be unable to afford the trip to an abortion sanctuary state.
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There will always be abortions regardless of anything the privileged members of the Supreme Court throw at us. It’s just that after Roe, young women will start to die from back-alley procedures. And, even if they don’t, they will once again be gifted with second class citizenship.
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2022-05-15T21:59:07+00:00
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buffalonews.com
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https://buffalonews.com/opinion/letters/letter-abortions-were-routine-in-18th-century-america/article_fa0d90f4-d08b-11ec-81e9-dfa465714518.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support Tuesday for his chamber’s emerging bipartisan gun agreement, boosting momentum for modest but notable election-year action by Congress on an issue that’s deadlocked lawmakers for three decades.
The Kentucky Republican said he hoped an outline of the accord, released Sunday by 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans, would be translated into legislation and enacted. McConnell’s backing was the latest indication that last month’s gun massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, had reconfigured the political calculations for some in the GOP after years of steadfastly opposing even incremental tightening of firearms curbs.
“If this framework becomes the actual piece of legislation, it’s a step forward, a step forward on a bipartisan basis,” McConnell told reporters. He said the proposal “further demonstrates to the American people” that lawmakers can work together on significant issues “to make progress for the country.”
McConnell’s comments were striking, coming five months before midterm elections in which Republicans hope to win control of the Senate and seem likely to win a majority in the House. For years, GOP candidates could risk their careers by defying the views of the party’s loyal gun-owning and rural voters, who oppose moves seen as threatening their ownership and use of firearms.
McConnell seemed to suggest that backing this gun measure might even help some Republicans’ prospects in November. While he said senators should take a position “based upon the views of their states,” he said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a chief architect of the deal, presented GOP polling data at a closed-door senators’ lunch saying support among gun owners for the agreement’s provisions is “off the charts, overwhelming.”
The plan would for the first time make the juvenile records of gun buyers under age 21 part of required background checks. Money would be sent to states for mental health and school security programs and for incentives to enforce or enact local “red flag” laws that let authorities win court approval to temporarily remove guns from people considered dangerous.
Senators and aides hope to translate their broad agreement into legislation in days, in hopes that Congress could approve it before leaving for its July 4 recess. Both sides acknowledge that is a difficult process that could encounter disputes and delays.
Some Republicans expressed unhappiness with the plan Tuesday, with much criticism aimed at its encouragement of “red flag” laws. Nineteen states mostly dominated by Democrats and the District of Columbia have them, but Republicans have blocked efforts in Congress to pass federal legislation on the subject.
“If we’re not going to pass a federal red flag law, and we shouldn’t, why would we incentivize states to do something that we think is a bad idea?” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.
“I don’t know what we can do in view of the Constitution,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said of the overall agreement, citing the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Cornyn defended the plan’s “red flag” proposal, saying it would create no national requirements for such laws. He said it gives “every state regardless of whether it has a ‘red flag’ law or not” money for programs aimed at improving public safety and helping troubled people get assistance. Texas does not have a “red flag” law.
McConnell made clear he would only go so far in restricting firearms.
Asked by a reporter why the federal minimum age is 21 for tobacco sales but 18 to buy rifles, he answered, “Good try.” He added that including state and local juvenile records in background checks for the youngest guy buyers was “a step in the right direction.”
The alleged shooters in Buffalo, where 10 people were killed, and Uvalde, where 19 school children and two teachers were slain, were both 18 years old, a common profile for many mass shooters.
A final agreement on overall legislation would be expected to receive solid support from Democrats. But it would need at least 10 GOP votes to reach the Senate’s usual 60 vote threshold, and McConnell’s plaudits raised hopes that Republican backing would grow beyond that.
The framework also broadens the type of domestic abusers who’d be prohibited from buying guns, require more firearms sellers to conduct background checks and impose tougher penalties on gun traffickers.
The National Rifle Association said Sunday it wouldn’t take a position on the proposal until full legislation is produced. It warned it would oppose “gun control policies” or infringements on people’s “fundamental right to protect themselves.”
The pro-gun lobby still has political muscle from its millions of dedicated members, who vote heavily on firearms issues. But GOP support for the new package is the latest threat to its power following recent financial scandals and lawsuits.
Approval seems likely by the Democratic-run House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has praised the measure as a first step toward strong restrictions in the future.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he would schedule votes on the legislation as soon as it is ready. He contrasted recent days’ progress with Congress’ failure to act after a parade of mass shootings in recent decades.
“After Uvalde and Buffalo, perhaps this time could be different. To many senators on both sides, this debate certainly feels different,” Schumer said.
Congress’ last major gun measure was an assault weapons ban that took effect in 1994 but expired 10 years later.
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2022-06-15T19:09:27+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/politics/in-a-boost-mcconnell-backs-senate-bipartisan-gun-deal/
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mad Street Den, a leader in the world of Enterprise AI is pleased to announce the appointment of senior leaders to its advisory board. The newly on-boarded advisory committee brings years of experience and leadership to the table.
Shailendra Singh (Shelly): Shelly joins MSD in the role of an independent board member to help advise the company through this growth period. He is the Chief Growth Officer at Fractal.ai. Shelly was also the founder of Samya.ai and is a veteran in the industry, with over 25 years of experience in Big Data, Decision Sciences, and in the BPO sector. In his previous stint, Shelly was instrumental in leading Mu Sigma's global sales for 7 years.
Mad Street Den's Founder, Ashwini Asokan says "We've enjoyed working with Shelly and it has been an incredible journey already. He brings with him the wealth of decades of knowledge on building large scale enterprise organizations, managing go to market strategies at scale and bringing discipline in execution. We're thankful for this opportunity to work with him."
Andy Walter: A business results-driven professional with extensive experience in strategy, development, execution, and operations across Global Shared Services, Analytics, and IT, Andy Walter joins MSD's advisory board Andy has led the Commercial Services & Delivery Organization (over 1500 IT and multifunctional professionals) for Procter & Gamble's Global Business Services (GBS). He was also responsible for IT & Shared Services for all Global Business Units and Markets around the world.
General Stan McChrystal: A retired four-star general, Stan is the former commander of US and International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) Afghanistan and the former commander of the nation's premier military counter-terrorism force, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his military career, Stan commanded a number of elite organizations, including the 75th Ranger Regiment. After 9/11 until his retirement in 2010, he spent more than 6 years deployed to combat in a variety of leadership positions.
Deb Henretta: In addition to serving as President as the Senior Executive Officer on several of Procter and Gamble's (P&G) multi-billion dollar global businesses, Deb served as Global President of e-business at P&G. Deb spent seven consecutive years on Fortune's US and international rankings of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Deb serves on several Board of Directors including Corning Inc., Meritage Homes Corporation, and privately held S.C. Johnson. As an equity partner at Council Advisors, Deb is Vice Chair of SSA & Company where she helped establish their Digital Transformation Practice and helped to create their proprietary Digital Maturity Index and Digital Innovation Index.
"We are honored to have this group of veterans in the industry advising us as we continue on this journey," said Ashwini Asokan, founder and CEO of Mad Street Den. "These individuals will add tremendous value to the organization as we enter this next phase of growth. We look forward to the expertise they will offer the team over the coming years." she added.
About Mad Street Den
Mad Street Den is an award-winning enterprise AI company transforming businesses across the globe. Its proprietary AI stack, Blox is the world's first general-purpose AI platform that powers applications across workflows delivering value, unlike any other point solution. With a combination of ready-to-use APIs, no-code, and low-code tools, Blox enables marketing, product and technology teams to bring an order of magnitude improvement to lead generation, churn reduction, revenue growth, cost efficiency, and more. Blox is currently deployed across several industries, including Retail (under the brand name Vue.ai), healthcare, finance, media and entertainment, education, and more.
Mad Street Den is backed by leading investors such as Avatar Growth Capital, Sequoia Capital and Alpha Wave Global (formerly known as Falcon Edge Capital) and works with some of the largest conglomerates across every geography.
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2023-03-28T15:11:13+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/03/28/mad-street-den-announces-new-appointments-its-advisory-board/
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — The MidAmerican outage map is currently showing a significant amount of residents have lost power in Sioux City.
According to the MidAmerican outage map, 3,118 people do not have power.
It is unknown how long residents will be without power.
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2022-07-23T16:18:44+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman on Tuesday to protest a move by Israeli police to block the Jordanian envoy from entering a volatile holy site in Jerusalem. The incident quickly escalated tensions between the neighbors and reflected the heightened sensitivity around the sacred compound under Israel’s new ultranationalist government.
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Jordan's Foreign Ministry said its ambassador to Israel, Ghassan Majali, was blocked from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, the third-holiest site in Islam. The site, sitting on a sprawling plateau also home to the iconic golden Dome of the Rock, is revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount.
The compound is administered by Jordanian religious authorities as part of an unofficial agreement after Israel won control of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel is in charge of security at the site.
The Israeli police said that Majali arrived at the holy site “without any prior coordination with police officials,” prompting an officer at the compound entrance who didn't recognize the diplomat to notify his commander about the unexpected visit. While awaiting instructions, officers held up Majali, along with Azzam al-Khatib, the director of the Jerusalem Waqf. The ambassador refused to wait and decided to leave, Israeli police said.
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Some two hours later, Jordanian state-run media reported that Majali finally entered the compound without showing any kind of permission and held talks with al-Khatib, who “briefed him about the Israeli violations in Al-Aqsa.”
Footage widely shared online shows Majali, among other Muslim worshippers, at the limestone Lion’s Gate entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City. An Israeli police officer blocks his path and yells at Majali in Arabic to go back, according to the video. Al-Khatib gets on the phone as the visitors argue with the officers amid the crackle of the policeman's walkie-talkie.
“Had the ambassador briefly waited a few more minutes for the officer to be updated, the group would have entered,” the police said, stressing that “coordination” with Israeli police was routine ahead of such visits.
But Jordan described the move as an unusual provocation. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry said the Israeli ambassador had received a “strongly worded letter of protest to be conveyed immediately to his government.” It said Jordanian officials do not need permission to enter the site because of the country's role as the official custodian and cautioned Israel against taking “any actions that would prejudice the sanctity of the holy places.”
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There was no immediate comment from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Tuesday marked the second time that Jordan has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing and religiously conservative government took power. Earlier this month, Israel’s minister of national security, the ultranationalist Itamar Ben-Gvir, visited the Jerusalem holy site despite threats from the Hamas militant group and a cascade of condemnations from across the Arab world.
Jordan, along with the Palestinians and many Muslims, views Israeli visits to the compound as an attempt to alter the status of the site and give Jewish worshipers more rights there. Ben-Gvir and other far-right ministers who vow a hard-line stance against the Palestinians have threatened to test Israel's ties with Arab states — including Jordan and Egypt that have maintained decades-long peace treaties with Israel.
On Tuesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi hosted Jordanian and Palestinian leaders for talks on the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a joint statement, el-Sissi, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for Israel to halt “all illegitimate, unilateral measures” that undermine the creation of an independent Palestinian state and to maintain the status quo at the Noble Sanctuary.
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The smallest change at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound — one of the region’s most contested sites — could become a major new flashpoint between Israel and the Muslim world. Past Israeli actions there have triggered violent protests and wider conflicts.
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Associated Press writers Omar Akour in Amman, Jordan, and Samy Magdy in Cairo contributed to this report.
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2023-01-17T16:23:37+00:00
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A 50-year-old man fatally wounded through a window at a restaurant Friday night in the Humboldt Park neighborhood was among four people killed overnight in shootings, Chicago police said.
Shortly before 9:30 p.m., the victim was inside a restaurant in the 2700 block of West Division Street when a gunman fired through a glass window striking him once to the neck. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The latest deadly shooting happened shortly before 2:50 a.m. Saturday in the 2900 block of South Poplar Avenue in the Bridgeport neighborhood.
Police said a 26-year-old man was found fatally wounded with a gunshot wound to the head. The circumstances leading up to the fatally shooting were unknown, police said.
Shortly before 1:30 a.m., an 18-year-old man was found shot multiple times in the West Chatham neighborhood.
That shooting happened in the 500 block of West 87th Street. The young man was discovered by a resident lying on the front porch of a home after the resident heard a loud disturbance outside.
He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Shortly after 7:15 p.m. Friday, a 65-year-old man was shot in the front area of a residence in the 400 block of North Hamlin Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.
The man was taken in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
No one was in custody for any of the shootings and detectives were investigating.
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2022-08-27T14:57:41+00:00
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Goods played two seasons at Illinois State.
Anyone with information should contact the Clinton Police Department at 217-935-9441.
A Bloomington has been indicted by a McLean County grand jury for theft and fraud after receiving a Paycheck Protection Program loan that was later forgiven.
The Normal Police Department advised drivers one week ago that slowing down in an average school zone delays travel by just 13 seconds.
The ISU Police Department sent an emergency alert at 7:09 p.m. that an armed robbery had occurred at 707 Liquor & Mart, 315 W. Beaufort St., Normal.
His bond remains at $1 million, with 10% to apply for release.
The call went out at 12:11 p.m. Saturday for a house fire in west Bloomington.
Bloomington police are investigating a shooting incident that left a juvenile male injured. Details:
Friday nights need a change.
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2022-08-26T10:21:52+00:00
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19
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- Takeaways and observations, Week 5
- NEW: Top 20 for Oct. 19
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FEATURED COVERAGE
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3-Pompton Lakes vs. 1-West Milford at Wayne Hills, 6:30
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TOP 20 SCOREBOARD
- No. 1 Camden Catholic at Rancocas Valley, 4
- No. 2 West Essex vs. Bridgewater-Raritan, 4:30
- No. 4 Oak Knoll vs. Glen Ridge, 4
- No. 12 Northern Highlands vs. Westwood, 4:15
- No. 13 Eastern vs. Paul VI, 4
- No. 15 Hammonton vs. St. Joseph (Hamm.), 4
- No. 16 Shawnee vs. Middle Township, 4
- No. 17 Kent Place vs. Millburn, 4
- No. 20 Seneca at Lenape, 3:45
STATEWIDE SCOREBOARD
Wednesday, Oct. 19
Passaic County Tournament, Final Round
Pompton Lakes (13-2) vs. West Milford (13-0) at Wayne Hills High School, 6:30pm
Regular Season
BCSL
Maple Shade (9-2) at Holy Cross Prep (1-13), 3:45pm
Delran (8-7) at Moorestown Friends (5-8), 4pm
Hopewell Valley (10-6) at Northern Burlington (9-5), 4:15pm
Hamilton West (1-10-1) at Bordentown (3-9), 6pm
CAPE-ATLANTIC
Bridgeton (2-12) at Winslow (0-3), 3:45pm
St. Joseph (Hamm.) (13-0-1) at Hammonton (10-2-1), 4pm
Buena (0-12) at Atlantic City (0-13), 4pm
Middle Township (9-4-2) at Shawnee (8-3-1), 4pm
Cumberland (5-6) at Vineland (6-7-2), 4pm
COLONIAL
Gloucester (7-6) at Audubon (5-8), 4pm
Haddon Township (6-8) at Haddonfield (9-6), 4pm
West Deptford (11-3-1) at Haddon Heights (7-5), 4pm
Gateway (5-9) at Collingswood (11-3), 4pm
CVC
Steinert (3-10) at Voorhees (7-6), 4pm
Hopewell Valley (10-6) at Northern Burlington (9-5), 4:15pm
Lawrence (8-5) at Nottingham (1-9-1), 5:15pm
Hamilton West (1-10-1) at Bordentown (3-9), 6pm
ESSEX/UNION
Westfield (8-6) at Summit (9-5), 4pm
Glen Ridge (3-8-1) at Oak Knoll (9-5), 4pm
Caldwell (3-7-2) at Mount St. Dominic (4-9), 4pm
Millburn (6-5-2) vs. Kent Place (11-4) at Kent Place School, 4pm
Bridgewater-Raritan (5-11) at West Essex (14-2), 4:30pm
Verona (8-5) at Columbia (6-7), 7pm
Johnson (8-7) vs. Scotch Plains-Fanwood (8-9) at SPF, 7pm
GMC
Franklin (2-11) at Metuchen (6-9), 4pm
Pennington (6-4-1) at South Brunswick (7-8), 4pm
NEFHL
Butler (6-7-1) at Wayne Hills (7-8), 4pm
Dwight-Englewood (3-9-2) at Ramsey (9-3), 4:15pm
Demarest (1-12) at River Dell (6-7-1), 4:15pm
Westwood (7-8) at Northern Highlands (12-0), 4:15pm
NJAC
Lenape Valley (8-3-1) at Hackettstown (11-3), 4pm
Mountain Lakes (13-1) vs. St. Elizabeth (6-7) at Blikicki Field, 4pm
Newton (8-5-1) at Whippany Park (6-8), 4pm
Wallkill Valley (8-6-1) at Vernon (8-6), 4pm
North Warren (1-11) at Jefferson (7-5), 4pm
Boonton (6-7) at Parsippany Hills (2-8-2), 4pm
Morristown-Beard (7-6) at Madison (10-2), 6pm
Pope John (5-9) at Sparta (5-6-2), 7pm
OLYMPIC
Seneca (8-5) at Lenape (3-10), 3:45pm
Bridgeton (2-12) at Winslow (0-3), 3:45pm
Bishop Eustace (3-10) at Cherry Hill East (3-12), 3:45pm
Middle Township (9-4-2) at Shawnee (8-3-1), 4pm
Camden Catholic (11-1) at Rancocas Valley (10-3-1), 4pm
Paul VI (3-6) at Eastern (6-6), 4pm
SHORE
Howell (8-4-1) at Holmdel (6-6-3), TBA
Long Branch (3-10) at Brick Township (3-7-1), 3:45pm
Manchester Township (4-5-2) at Monmouth (9-7), 3:45pm
Henry Hudson (8-5) at Red Bank Catholic (6-5-1), 4pm
Neptune (3-11) at Ranney (2-10), 4pm
Freehold Borough (0-14) at Barnegat (9-2-1), 4pm
SKYLAND
Steinert (3-10) at Voorhees (7-6), 4pm
Mount St. Mary (5-7-1) at South Hunterdon (3-12), 4pm
Delaware Valley (6-8) at Belvidere (9-5), 4pm
Franklin (2-11) at Metuchen (6-9), 4pm
Bernards (6-8-1) at Somerville (4-10), 4pm
Blair (11-0) at Phillipsburg (10-5), 4:30pm
Bridgewater-Raritan (5-11) at West Essex (14-2), 4:30pm
TRI-COUNTY
Cumberland (5-6) at Vineland (6-7-2), 4pm
Independent
Delran (8-7) at Moorestown Friends (5-8), 4pm
Pennington (6-4-1) at South Brunswick (7-8), 4pm
Blair (11-0) at Phillipsburg (10-5), 4:30pm
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2022-10-19T17:14:06+00:00
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends, has died at age 93, the foundation that runs the Anne Frank House museum said.
The Anne Frank Foundation paid tribute to Pick-Goslar, who is mentioned in Anne’s world-famous diary about her life in hiding from the Netherlands’ Nazi occupiers, for helping to keep Anne’s memory alive with stories about their youth.
“Hannah Pick-Goslar meant a lot to the Anne Frank House, and we could always call on her,” the foundation said in a statement. It did not give details or the cause of her death.
Pick-Goslar grew up with Anne in Amsterdam after both their families moved there from Germany as Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party rose to power. The friends were separated as Anne’s family went into hiding in 1942 but met again briefly in February 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, shortly before Anne died there of typhus.
Before World War II, their families lived next door to one another in Amsterdam, and Anne and Hannah went to school together.
Pick-Goslar recalled attending her friend’s 13th birthday party and seeing a red-and-white checkered diary that Anne’s parents gave their daughter as a gift. Anne went on to fill it with her thoughts and frustrations while hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne’s father, Otto, published the diary after the war.
Pick-Goslar recounted their friendship in a book by Alison Leslie Gold called “Memories of Anne Frank; Reflections of a Childhood Friend.” The book was turned into a film, released last year, titled “My Best Friend Anne Frank.”
In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, she said of Anne: “Today, everyone thinks she was someone holy. but this is not at all the case.″
“She was a girl who wrote beautifully and matured quickly during extraordinary circumstances,” Pick-Goslar said.
Pick-Goslar is mentioned in the diary, referred to by the name Anne called her: Hanneli.
On June 14, 1942, Anne wrote: “Hanneli and Sanne used to be my two best friends. People who saw us together always used to say: ‘There goes Anne, Hanne and Sanne.’”
The Anne Frank Foundation said Pick-Goslar “shared her memories of their friendship and the Holocaust into old age. She believed everyone should know what happened to her and her friend Anne after the last diary entry. No matter how terrible the story.”
Pick-Goslar last saw her friend in early February 1945, about a month before Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen and two months before the Allies liberated the camp.
They were held in different sections, separated by a tall barbed-wire fence. From time to time, they pressed up to the fence to speak to each other.
“I have no one,″ Anne once told her friend, weeping.
At the time, the Nazis had shorn Anne’s dark locks. “She always loved to play with her hair,″ -Pick-Goslar told the AP. “I remember her curling her hair with her fingers. It must have killed her to lose it.”
Pick-Goslar emigrated in 1947 to what is now Israel, where she became a nurse, married and had three children. Her family grew to include 11 grandchildren, and 31 great-grandchildren.
She used to say of her large family: “This is my answer to Hitler,” the Anne Frank Foundation said.
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2022-10-31T04:09:57+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-anne-franks-friend-hannah-pick-goslar-dies-at-age-93/
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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") are investigating the proposed merger of Imara Inc. (the "Company") (NasdaqGS: IMRA) with Enliven Therapeutics, Inc. Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of Imara are expected to own only approximately 16% of the combined company, subject to certain adjustments. KSF is seeking to determine whether the merger and the process that led to it are adequate and fair to the Company's shareholders.
If you would like to discuss your legal rights regarding the proposed sale, you may, without obligation or cost to you, e-mail or call KSF Managing Partner Lewis S. Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com) toll free at any time at 855-768-1857, or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-imra/ to learn more.
To learn more about KSF, whose partners include the Former Louisiana Attorney General, visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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New Orleans, LA 70163
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2023-01-12T01:21:21+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/01/11/imara-investor-alert-by-former-attorney-general-louisiana-kahn-swick-amp-foti-llc-investigates-merger-imara-inc-imra/
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Monday, Feb. 20 is Presidents Day in 2023, a holiday celebrating George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and the United States' other commanders in chief throughout the years.
Presidents Day is a federal holiday, so closures include government offices, the U.S. Postal Service and most banks and public schools. However, major retail chains stay open, and many offer Presidents Day sales.
Here are some answers to frequently-asked questions about the holiday.
When and why do we celebrate Presidents Day?
Presidents Day started as a celebration of George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday — and officially, the federal government still calls the holiday Washington's Birthday.
So why is the holiday on the 20th this year, and why do we celebrate other presidents? The U.S. Embassy says Congress fixed the Feb. 22 holiday to make it fall on the third Monday of February each year starting in 1971, creating a long weekend.
Celebrations grew to include Lincoln, who also had a mid-February birthday, and other presidents from throughout U.S. history. Some states celebrate the holiday as "Washington and Lincoln's Birthday," while others — and most Americans — call it Presidents Day.
What is closed on Presidents Day?
Courts, government offices like the DMV and most banks close on Presidents Day due to the federal holiday. So do most public libraries.
USPS will be closed, so you can't go into the post office or expect mail deliveries. However, shipping companies like UPS, FedEx, and Amazon will still be operating.
While most public schools are also closed on Presidents Day, it's not guaranteed. Some districts will use it to make up for school days missed due to weather or other issues. You can check your school's online calendar or social media feeds to be sure.
However, it's a completely different story for stores and restaurants. You can expect Walmart, Target, Costco and other stores to operate as usual, with many major chains offering Presidents Day sales. Some local businesses choose to close, though, so it's worth checking websites or calling ahead before you make a trip.
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2023-02-20T16:33:38+00:00
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wgrz.com
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https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/open-and-closed-on-presidents-day-banks-schools-2023/507-d7c67799-467f-472f-a018-3f81d8b0f875
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1-year-old struck, killed by truck after wandering away from 17-year-old babysitter, troopers say
WAYNE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) – A 1-year-old boy died Friday evening after he wandered away from his 17-year-old babysitter and was struck by a vehicle, troopers said.
According to Ohio State Highway Patrol, the 15-month-old boy had wandered away from a home and into a road in Milton Township.
The 17-year-old babysitter did not know the child had left the house, troopers said.
The child was struck by a pickup truck on Township Road 73 just before 8 p.m.
The boy was flown by helicopter to Akron Children’s Hospital where he died the following day.
Troopers said the 43-year-old driver of the truck and the passenger in the truck were not injured.
The death remains under investigation.
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2023-07-17T21:43:16+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/2023/07/17/1-year-old-struck-killed-by-truck-after-wandering-away-17-year-old-babysitter-troopers-say/
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CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) —New York City’s Luna Park will be celebrating its 120th year in Coney Island when the iconic spot opens on Friday.
The season promises some new rides and attractions with a few surprises sprinkled throughout the year. The park will have four new mega attractions this season, including a roller coaster for younger kids and a water flume, according to Alessandro Zamperla, president and CEO of Central Amusement International.
“Nothing beats the beautiful scenery with the ocean views and the city’s energy,” Zamperla said.”It’s the one and only Luna Park and the one and only Coney Island.”
The weekend celebrations include the christening of the Coney Island Cyclone, which is celebrating its 96th birthday. The first 96 fans will ride for free and get a free egg cream. The park’s annual Donation Day will be on Sunday. The proceeds of the day’s sales will go to various children’s charities.
Luna Park will be open daily during spring break, from April 7th through April 16th, and every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday until Memorial Day. After that, the park will be open daily until Labor Day.
Admission is free and rides start at $3. For more information about the park, visit the website.
“Nothing says fun in the sun like a trip to Coney Island, and the opening of the amusement district sends a beacon to New Yorkers: summer is coming!” NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue said.
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2023-03-27T20:38:27+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn/nycs-iconic-luna-park-in-coney-island-opens-with-new-attractions/
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LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million-euro ($277 million) fine Monday, the company’s latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules.
The Data Protection Commission said Meta Platforms infringed sections of the EU rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, that require technical and organizational measures aimed at protecting user data.
The watchdog opened an investigation last year into news reports that data on more 533 million users was found dumped online. The data was found on a website for hackers and included names, Facebook IDs, phone numbers, locations, birthdates and email addresses for people from more than 100 countries, according to the reports.
Meta said the data had been “scraped” from Facebook using tools designed to help people find their friends through phone numbers using search and contact import features. The watchdog said it investigated the automated scraping carried out between May 2018 and September 2019.
The company said it had “cooperated fully” with the Irish watchdog.
“We made changes to our systems during the time in question, including removing the ability to scrape our features in this way using phone numbers,” Meta said in a statement. “Unauthorized data scraping is unacceptable and against our rules.”
Along with the fine, the commission said it also imposed on Meta a “range of corrective measures,” which weren’t specified.
When asked if Meta would appeal, a spokesman said, “We are still reviewing this decision carefully.”
It’s the latest in a series of punishments that the Irish watchdog has levied against Meta over the past two years.
The company, based in Menlo Park, California, has its European headquarters in Dublin, which makes the Irish authority its lead privacy regulator under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, in a system known as “one-stop shop.”
The Irish watchdog fined Meta-owned Instagram 405 million euros in September after it found that the platform mishandled teenagers’ personal information. Meta was fined 17 million euro fines in March for its handling of a dozen data breach notifications.
Last year, the watchdog fined Meta’s chat service WhatsApp 225 million euros for violating rules on sharing people’s data with other Meta companies.
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2022-11-29T04:10:06+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-irish-watchdog-fines-meta-265m-euros-in-latest-privacy-case/
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SEBASTIAN, Fla. — A Florida woman was charged with failing to report her mother’s death more than two months after the woman’s body was found in a freezer in the home they shared.
The department said an investigation showed the woman died of natural causes and that she was dead for two weeks before her body was put in the freezer. Investigators searching the property found a heavily stained mattress hidden in thick brush and covered with cut palm leaves, police said.
The woman was being held in the Indian River County jail on $10,000 bond. Online jail records didn’t list a lawyer for her.
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2022-07-09T19:40:58+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-florida-woman-hides-mothers-body-in-freezer/2022/07/09/b908e8a8-ffb9-11ec-b39d-71309168014b_story.html
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Market, credit, and liquidity risk are top of mind for financial institutions as 2023 approaches, according to a new global survey conducted by Bloomberg. The survey polled over 200 senior risk executives during Bloomberg events on 'Managing Risk in a New Era of Uncertainty' held in nine locations globally between September and November 2022.
The findings reveal market risk to be the top concern for the year ahead by 39% of respondents. This was closely followed by credit risk (31%) and liquidity risk (24%)—two areas that have increased in focus over the last 12 months driven by interest rate hikes, higher inflation, increased volatility, and widening spreads.
When asked which credit risk indicators have been the most useful for managing market events over the last year, respondents cited using point-in-time factors including credit default swaps (23%) and news (14%), which are quick to capture the impact of market changes but are noisy. More traditional credit risk indicators, which use slower moving data to produce through-the-cycle credit measures, included credit ratings (13%) and company fundamentals (11%). Meanwhile, 13% of respondents relied on a combination of these indicators through the development of their own internal credit scores.
"To proactively manage credit risk, firms need a surveillance framework across a broad range of factors, and technology has a key role to play—especially when it comes to turning noisy market factors into meaningful signals," said Zane Van Dusen, Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products at Bloomberg. "Market participants are usually aware of potential credit issues ahead of any rating changes. With the right technology and data, risk managers can anticipate downgrades and credit defaults at-scale."
The next greatest concern for respondents was liquidity risk. When asked how their liquidity risk management frameworks have changed, implementing additional scenario analysis (34%) was the primary update. The next most cited response was no significant changes to liquidity risk management frameworks (29%), indicating firms may be riding out the storm and waiting to see how their current systems perform.
"While liquidity risk ranked as the third concern at the time of this survey, it has quickly become a larger priority for US asset managers," said Van Dusen. "Proposed changes to SEC Rule 22e-4 have brought concerns about liquidity risk back to the fore as firms try to assess the impact on the liquidity profile of their funds. We expect this to be a larger focus throughout 2023."
Longer term climate risks are lower on the agenda but remain a concern since an earlier Bloomberg survey was conducted in May this year, with just 5% of respondents saying this was a key concern. However, the vast majority of firms (90%) are making progress incorporating climate risk into their analysis with just 10% saying they have no plans to integrate.
Bloomberg provides a number of comprehensive solutions that enable clients to integrate risk management throughout the trading and investment cycle. This includes Bloomberg's award-winning Liquidity Assessment solution (LQA), Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS), and its recently launched Market Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, which quantitatively assess market, liquidity, and credit risk based on the latest market activity.
To view the full results of the survey, please click here.
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration.
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2022-12-14T14:11:48+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/12/14/bloomberg-survey-reveals-top-risk-concerns-year-ahead/
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On Tuesday, the Defense Department rescinded its COVID vaccine mandate for military members, welcome news for GOP leaders who opposed it.
Despite objections from the White House and Defense Department, GOP lawmakers required the change as part of the $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act approved last month.
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The GOP-led removal of the COVID vaccine requirement is a foolish decision that could drive more readiness problems as the military strives to compete with China, Russia and other powers around the world.
It also undermines discipline in a profession that demands adherence to lawful orders. Then there’s the dangerous precedent it sets for other immunizations and vaccinations required for military members.
The Defense Department is already battling multiple lawsuits on the COVID vaccine mandate.
In a memo to the armed force s, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin wrote that the Department of Defense will “continue to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccination for all service members.”
He also wrote that no member of the armed forces “shall be separated on the basis of their refusal to receive the vaccine — on religious, administrative, or medical grounds.”
That’s little comfort for the more than 8,400 service members already booted for refusing the vaccine. They can petition their service to correct the “characterization of their discharge,” Austin wrote.
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He highlighted that military commanders will still be able to consider immunization status “in making deployment, assignment and other operational decisions, including when vaccination is required for travel to, or entry into, a foreign nation.”
This will challenge commanders of units deploying to places where the vaccine is required, especially if a number of unvaccinated people are prevented from going.
Then there’s the question of fairness for those who are vaccinated. Will they have to do extra work or deploy more than their unvaccinated peers?
The active military force has had 453,456 COVID cases. Of those, 2,741 required hospitalization, and 96 military members have died as a result of the disease.
More than 2 million service members, or 96 percent, have been fully vaccinated since the Department of Defense began requiring COVID shots in 2021.
A group of 20 governors, including Greg Abbott of Texas, sent a letter to House and Senate leaders on Nov. 30, urging them to end the military’s COVID vaccine mandate. They argued the vaccine debate hobbled Guard forces.
The COVID vaccine remains a readiness issue for the military. As the saying goes, “The enemy has a say,” and in this case, COVID remains a national security risk.
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2023-01-11T23:50:51+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/editorial/article/Editorial-GOP-led-removal-of-COVID-vax-17711809.php
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In Hollywood, the cool kids have joined the picket line.
I mean no offense, as a writer, to the screenwriters who have been on strike against film and TV studios for over two months. But writers know the score. We’re the words, not the faces. The cleverest picket sign joke is no match for the attention-focusing power of Margot Robbie or Matt Damon.
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing TV and film actors, joined the writers in a walkout over how Hollywood divvies up the cash in the streaming era and how humans can thrive in the artificial-intelligence era. With that star power comes an easy cheap shot: Why should anybody care about a bunch of privileged elites whining about a dream job?
But for all the focus that a few boldface names will get in this strike, I invite you to consider a term that has come up a lot in the current negotiations: “Background actors.”
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You probably don’t think much about background actors. You’re not meant to, hence the name. They’re the nonspeaking figures who populate the screen’s margins, making Gotham City or King’s Landing or the beaches of Normandy feel real, full and lived-in.
And you might have more in common with them than you think.
The lower-paid actors who make up the vast bulk of the profession are facing simple dollars-and-cents threats to their livelihoods. They’re trying to maintain their income amid the vanishing of residual payments, as streaming has shortened TV seasons and decimated the syndication model. They’re seeking guardrails against AI encroaching on their jobs.
There’s also a particular, chilling question on the table: Who owns a performer’s face? Background actors are seeking protections and better compensation in the practice of scanning their images for digital reuse.
In a news conference about the strike, a union negotiator said that the studios were seeking the rights to scan and use an actor’s image “for the rest of eternity” in exchange for one day’s pay. The studios argue that they are offering “groundbreaking” protections against the misuse of actors’ images, and counter that their proposal would only allow a company to use the “digital replica” on the specific project a background actor was hired for.
Still, the long-term “Black Mirror” implications — the practice was the actual premise of a recent episode — are unignorable. If a digital replica of you — without your bothersome need for money and the time to lead a life — can do the job, who needs you?
You could, I guess, make the argument that if someone is insignificant enough to be replaced by software, then they’re in the wrong business. But background work and small roles are precisely the routes to someday promoting your blockbuster on the red carpet. And many talented artists build entire careers around a series of small jobs. (Pamela Adlon’s series “Better Things” is a great portrait of the life of ordinary working actors.)
In the end, Hollywood’s fight isn’t far removed from the threats to many of us in today’s economy. “We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines,” Fran Drescher, the actors’ guild president, said in announcing the strike.
You and I may be the protagonists of our own narratives, but in the grand scheme most of us are background players. We face the same risk — that every time a technological or cultural shift happens, companies will rewrite the terms of employment to their advantage, citing financial pressures while paying their top executives tens and hundreds of millions.
Maybe it’s unfair that exploitation gets more attention when it involves a union that Meryl Streep belongs to. (If the looming UPS strike materializes, it might grab the spotlight for blue-collar labor.) And there’s certainly a legitimate critique of white-collar workers who were blasé about automation until AI threatened their own jobs.
But work is work, and some dynamics are universal. As entertainment reporter and critic Maureen Ryan writes in “Burn It Down,” her investigation of workplace abuses throughout Hollywood, “It is not the inclination nor the habit of the most important entities in the commercial entertainment industry to value the people who make their products.”
If you don’t believe Ryan, listen to the anonymous studio executive, speaking of the writers’ strike, who told the trade publication Deadline, “The endgame is to allow things to drag out until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.”
You may think of Hollywood creatives as a privileged class, but if their employers think about them like this, are you sure yours thinks any differently of you? Most of us, in Hollywood or outside it, are facing a common question: Can we have a working world in which you can survive without being a star?
You may never notice background actors if they’re doing their jobs well. Yet they’re the difference between a sterile scene and a living one. They create the impression that, beyond the close focus on the beautiful leads, there is a full, complete universe, whether it’s the galaxy of the “Star Wars” franchise or the mundane reality that you and I live in.
They are there to say that we, too, are out here, that we make the world a world, that we at least deserve our tiny places in the corner of the screen.
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2023-07-16T23:54:41+00:00
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buffalonews.com
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https://buffalonews.com/we-are-all-background-actors/article_a6724e5a-2425-11ee-aca3-27146f373c72.html
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Posted: Oct 21, 2022 / 11:07 AM EDT Updated: Oct 21, 2022 / 11:07 AM EDT SHARE WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months behind bars for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
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2022-10-22T10:49:39+00:00
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https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/ap-longtime-trump-ally-steve-bannon-sentenced-to-4-months-behind-bars-for-defying-jan-6-committee-subpoena/
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NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Olaplex Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OLPX) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Olaplex common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering conducted on or around September 30, 2021.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 17, 2023
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Learn more about your recoverable losses in OLPX:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Olaplex Holdings, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) macroeconomic pressures and competition in the haircare market were more robust than the Company had represented to investors; (ii) accordingly, the Company was unlikely to maintain its sales and revenue momentum; and (iii) as a result, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to achieve the financial and operational growth projected in the offering documents; and (iv) as a result, the offering documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Olaplex you have until January 17, 2023 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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2023-01-17T12:07:25+00:00
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2023/01/17/olpx-alert-klein-law-firm-announces-lead-plaintiff-deadline-january-17-2023-class-action-filed-behalf-olaplex-holdings-inc-shareholders/
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Aaron Rodgers talks ayahuasca experience, how it helped get him back in the game
Aaron Rodgers is entering the 2022 season as the two-time reigning NFL MVP and in a recent podcast interview, he credited a groovy experience with a psychedelic that helped his mindset.
Rodgers appeared on the "Aubrey Marcus Podcast" and revealed he consumed ayahuasca on a trip to South America prior to him winning the MVP award in 2020 and 2021. Ayahuasca is described as an herbal drink used by countries in the Amazon which produces a psychoactive effect.
The Green Bay Packers star said he believes his experience with ayahuasca and winning the MVPs were connected.
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"I don't think it's a coincidence," Rodgers said. "I really don't. I don't really believe in coincidences at this point. It's the universe bringing things to happen when they're supposed to happen."
"There's signs and synchronicities all around us at all times if we're awake enough to see them and to take them in and to listen to our intuition when it's speaking to us or pounding us in the head saying, 'Hey dummy, this is what you're supposed to be doing.’"
In 2020, Rodgers led the NFL in touchdown passes for the second time in his career with 48, He had 4,299 passing yards that year as well. Last season, he had 37 touchdown passes with 4,115 yards. Over those two seasons, he has only thrown nine interceptions.
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Rodgers opened up more about his ayahuasca journey, even at one point getting emotional. He said he had to find the strength to "truly unconditionally love yourself."
He added that the experience helped with his mental health tremendously.
"To me, one of the core tenets of your mental health is that self-love. That’s what ayahuasca did for me, was help me see how to unconditionally love myself. It’s only in that unconditional self-love, that then I’m able to truly be able to unconditionally love others. And what better way to work on my mental health than to have an experience like that?" he said.
"The greatest gift I can give my teammates, in my opinion, is to be able to show up and to be someone who can model unconditional love to them. I mean, obviously it's important I play well and show up and lead and all that stuff, but they won't care about what you say until they know how much you care."
Rodgers and the Packers are determined to get back to the Super Bowl. Green Bay has been on the cusp the last two out of three years but failed to break through.
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Green Bay last won the Super Bowl during the 2010 season.
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2022-08-04T17:41:33+00:00
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fox6now.com
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https://www.fox6now.com/news/aaron-rodgers-talks-ayahuasca-experience-how-it-helped-get-him-back-in-the-game
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Fan stress was at an all-time high as Chicago South Shore did just enough to beat Chicago Vocational 45-36 at Chicago Vocational Career on December 9 in Illinois girls high school basketball action.
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2022-12-10T04:27:22+00:00
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brook Lopez scored 25 points and the Milwaukee Bucks extended their season-opening winning streak to a franchise-record nine games with Giannis Antetokounmpo on the bench, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-94 Saturday night.
Antetokounmpo sat out for the first time this season. He was listed as “questionable” with left knee soreness after recording his first triple-double of the season a night earlier in Minnesota. He did not go through warmups ahead of the game, and head coach Mike Budenholzer said before that game that the league’s second-leading scorer at 32.6 points per game would get the night off.
“It’s kind of exciting,” Lopez said of playing without the two-time Most Valuable Player. “Giannis gets a chance to rest, to refill his cup and we get a chance to get better and see what it’s like without him on the court and get better in that way.”
With Antetokounmpo out, Lopez led Milwaukee on 10-of-16 shooting that included four of the Bucks’ 17 3-pointers — three of which came in the opening quarter.
“He’s had so many good games for us, but to shoot the 3-ball so well out of the gate, then really be such a force in the paint, he really delivered in a lot of different ways,” Budenholzer said. “He was phenomenal.”
He also had plenty of help.
Jevon Carter and Grayson Allen each added five 3s and finished with 18 points and 19 points, respectively. Bobby Portis notched fifth double-double of the season with 12 points and 21 rebounds. Jrue Holiday also finished with a double-double, scoring 10 points with 13 assists.
“I think we all knew that we’d all have to chip in,” Lopez said. “You look across the board … everyone who (played) had an impact.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander connected on 7 of 16 shots and led Oklahoma City with 18 points. Josh Giddey scored 15 points and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl 12.
“We were playing well offensively and defensively, but they started to chip away more on the defensive end than we did,” Robinson-Earl said.
After finishing the opening quarter tied at 34, the Thunder trailed by as many as 24 before hitting four 3-pointers in the closing minutes of the third. Oklahoma City opened the fourth on a 7-2 run that cut Milwaukee’s lead to 95-85 with 10:22 to play.
The Bucks responded with an 11-2 run over the next three minutes to put the game away.
“We really hard a hard time getting it going in the second quarter and into halftime, but I appreciate how hard our guys fought in the second half,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. “We just kind of hung in there and stuck with it. ”
HISTORIC PACE
Along with being the first team in franchise history to start the season with nine straight victories, the Bucks are also the first team in the NBA to win their first nine games since 2015, when Golden State went 24-0 to start the season — a streak that ended in Milwaukee.
“It’s obviously fun,” Lopez said. “I think what’s pretty cool for us is we just feel like we could still be so much better. We were talking after the game about how much better we could be, especially offensively.”
TIP-INS
Thunder: The loss was Oklahoma City’s third in four road games this season. … Gilgeous-Alexander came into the game averaging 32.3 points, good for third in the league and just 0.3 points behind Antetokounmpo.
Bucks: With Antetokounmpo sitting out for the first time this season, first-round draft pick MarJon Beauchamp got his first career start Saturday night.
UP NEXT
Thunder: At Detroit Pistons on Monday.
Bucks: At Atlanta Hawks on Monday.
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2022-11-06T13:38:19+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-bucks-top-okc-for-franchise-record-9th-straight-to-open-year/
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Updated October 30, 2022 at 3:09 PM ET
In the hours since a devastating crowd surge in South Korea's capitol claimed the lives of more than 150 people, details have begun to emerge that emphasize just how chaotic the scene was.
Authorities say that in addition to the dead there are more than 130 others injured, many of whom were young adults in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood. The popular district in Seoul was hosting Halloween celebrations that drew around 100,000 people when the crowd surge began. Many were attempting to gather in a narrow alley filled with bars and restaurants, according to local media.
Videos have popped up online showing the sheer mass of people crowded into at least one tight street lined with bars and restaurants. Some people can be heard screaming, and most appear completely unable to move.
One worker at an Itaewon club, located at the uphill end of the roughly 11-foot-wide alley leading to the district's main street, recalled to reporters seeing the crowd of revelers surge on Saturday night.
"We could hear some people in the crowd saying, don't push, but someone in the back said, hey, push! Push! And people started screaming, and the crowd poured in toward our club," he said.
The man, who declined to give his name to reporters, said they would ordinarily not let minors into their club, but they opened their doors to try to save lives.
"But even after we did that, there were people collapsed at the entrance, and some passed out," he added. "We tried to rescue them, but our club was at the end of the surge and there were already three or four layers of people piled on, so we couldn't."
He said his inability to help people "keeps haunting me, and pains me."
Other videos shared on social media show several people, some clad in their Halloween costumes, attempting CPR on rows of victims unconscious on sidewalks.
Survivors struggle to locate friends
Most of the dead had been identified by mid-morning on Sunday. The task was simplified by the fact that Korean citizens over the age of 17 are required to submit fingerprints to authorities.
Koreans and foreign nationals who are missing friends and relatives came to a nearby community center to try to identify pictures of the victims.
Park Kang-hyun, 26, traveled to Seoul from Gwangju city, in the country's southeast, in search of two missing friends. One lost her cell phone but survived, he said. The other remains missing.
The friend who survived said "there were just too many people. They didn't even have a moment to feel scared. Everyone just fell down."
He continued to search for his other friend, but city officials "just told me to wait. There's nothing we can do now."
Nathan Taverniti, 24, was on vacation from Australia. He told reporters he was in Itaewon with three friends.
"I was there the whole night. Some people fell in front of me, and I lost a group of my friends," he said. "Somehow, I got out, but all three of my friends ... two are in hospital, and one has passed away," he said, fighting back tears.
"There was no police. There was nobody to help me," he said. "It was just me and other bystanders. And I couldn't do anything."
In the aftermath of the crowd surge, questions have begun to surface over whether more police should've been dispatched to the area to help control the large crowds. The Korean Herald reports that emergency crews nearby had trouble getting to the scene and to the hundreds of victims given the crowds and added traffic congestion.
Interior Minister Lee Sang-min has pushed back against the idea more could've been done to prevent the tragedy, according to The Korean Herald. The outlet quotes Lee saying that the crush did not seem to be "an incident that could have been prevented by deploying more police or fire officers."
The Halloween event had been held before and according to local media reports there was no concern that crowds would be a particular problem this year or any larger than previous events had been.
Two Americans are among the dead
At least two U.S. citizens were among those killed in the deadly crowd surge, the U.S. Embassy in Seoul has confirmed.
"I am deeply saddened by the loss of so many lives last night, to include two young Americans celebrating alongside their Korean friends and others from around the world," U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Philip Goldberg said in a statement.
In a statement on Twitter, President Biden also offered his condolences.
"Jill and I are devastated to learn that at least two Americans are among so many who lost their lives in Seoul. Our hearts go out to their loved ones in this time of grief, and we continue to pray for the recovery of all who were injured," the president said.
As of 9 p.m. Sunday local time, officials say at least 26 foreign nationals were killed in the incident, according to local media reports.
The U.S. Embassy in Seoul is working with local authorities and providing consular assistance to any U.S. citizens affected, a spokesman told NPR.
In response to the tragedy, South Korea Prime Minister Han Duck-soo announced a period of national mourning to last until midnight on Nov. 5.
The government has declared Seoul's Yongsan district, where Itaewon is located, a special disaster area. Under this designation, the government will pay funeral fees for the dead, medical costs for the injured, and consolation payments to bereaved families.
NPR's Se Eun Gong contributed to this report from Seoul.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-10-30T19:58:20+00:00
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-10-30/survivors-recount-chaotic-scene-in-seoul-during-tragic-halloween-stampede
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Salty bacon and unctuous housemade chorizo with Spanish spices, Piquillo pepper purée bright with tomatoes, a whirl in a wood-burning oven that imparts crisp edges and a little smoke: If salt, fat, acid, and heat are, per food writer Samin Nosrat, “the four cardinal directions of cooking,” then Avec’s signature starter is a dish to set your compass by. $20. 615 W. Randolph St., West Loop; 141 W. Erie St., River North
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2023-07-11T02:54:28+00:00
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chicagomag.com
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https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/chicagos-50-best-things-to-eat/chorizo-stuffed-medjool-dates/
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WHL
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Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Brandon 3 Red Deer 2 (SO)
Swift Current 5 Regina 4 (OT)
Prince Albert 4 Edmonton 2
Moose Jaw 5 Medicine Hat 4 (SO)
Everett 4 Tri-City 3
Portland 5 Victoria 1
Seattle 7 Spokane 2
Saturday's results
Regina 6 Red Deer 2
Medicine Hat 5 Moose Jaw 1
Saskatoon 5 Edmonton 0
Vancouver 5 Prince George 4
Lethbridge 2 Swift Current 1
Portland 7 Victoria 4
Calgary 2 Seattle 1 (OT)
Winnipeg 8 Brandon 3
Kamloops 6 Kelowna 1
Spokane 7 Tri-City 3
Sunday's results
Saskatoon 5 Regina 2
Prince George 6 Vancouver 4
Calgary 6 Everett 3
Tuesday's games
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Portland, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Thursday's games
Regina at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Portland, 6 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Regina at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Calgary at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
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2022-11-15T09:44:50+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17585201.php
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting on Wall Street, while bond markets around the world feel pain Tuesday after a surprise move from Japan’s central bank cranked up the pressure on an already slowing global economy.
The S&P 500 was 0.4% higher and on pace to break a four-day losing streak after flipping between small losses and gains in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 137 points, or 0.4%, at 32,894, as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher after erasing an earlier drop of 0.9%.
The biggest action was in the bond market, where yields pushed higher after one of the world’s last bastions of super-low and economy-aiding interest rates made moves that could allow rates to climb more than otherwise.
The Bank of Japan said Tuesday it still wants the yield on 10-year Japanese government bonds to remain at roughly zero, but it also said it would allow the yield to move up to 0.50% instead of the 0.25% cap it had held previously. What made Tokyo’s unexpected move a particular jolt was how much resistance it’s shown so far in joining the global campaign to hike rates in order to undercut high inflation.
“BoJ’s surprise move allowed it to take a small step away from the extreme dovish side of the monetary policy spectrum, where it had stood alone all year among major central banks,” wrote Jennifer Lee of BMO Economics in a note to clients. “It is not joining the rate-hikers out there, but it is now a tad closer.”
Higher yields make borrowing more expensive, which slows the economy while also pushing down on prices for stocks and other investments. Other central banks around the world, particularly in the United States and Europe, have been raising rates at such an explosive clip that a growing number of economists and investors see a recession hitting in 2023. Both the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank have pledged to keep raising rates into next year to be sure the job is done on getting inflation under control.
Aftershocks from the Bank of Japan’s move on Tuesday rippled through bond and currency markets around the world.
In the U.S., the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.67% from 3.59% late Monday. That yield helps set rates for mortgages and other economy-setting loans, which has already meant particular pain for the U.S. housing market.
A report on Tuesday showed U.S. homebuilders broke ground on fewer homes for a third straight month in November. The number of building permits, meanwhile, fell to its lowest level since June 2020 when the pandemic froze the economy.
The two-year U.S. Treasury yield, which tends to more closely track expectations for action from the Federal Reserve, was more reserved. It gave up earlier gains to hold steady at 4.26%.
In the foreign exchange market, Tokyo’s surprise move sent the value of the Japanese yen climbing against the U.S. dollar, which gave back some of its huge gains over the past year. One dollar now buys 131.86 yen, down 3.7% from a day earlier.
The Nikkei 225 index of Japanese stocks also fell 2.5%.
Stocks worldwide have been under pressure the entire year on worries about high inflation, higher interest rates and a weakening economy.
In Shanghai, stocks lost 1.1% after the World Bank cut its forecast for China’s economic growth this year to 2.7% from its June outlook of 4.3%. The bank cited repeated shutdowns of major cities to fight COVID-19 outbreaks. China now is relaxing some of its anti-COVID restrictions, but worries are rising that resulting breakouts of the virus could mean their own hits to the world’s second-largest economy.
European markets were modestly lower.
On Wall Street, stocks of energy-related companies were leading the way higher as oil prices ticked higher. Halliburton gained 4.2%, and Schlumberger rose 2.8%.
One of the other big worries on Wall Street is that a slowing economy and still-high inflation will mean much weaker profits for U.S. companies, further dragging on their stock prices.
General Mills fell 3.6% despite reporting better profit for its latest quarter than analysts expected. FedEx and Nike will report their own results after trading closes for the day. —-
AP Business Writers Joe McDonald and Matt Ott contributed.
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2022-12-20T16:04:55+00:00
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New referral system automatically identifies potential donors and streamlines the hospital-to-OPO referral process.
ORLANDO, Fla., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland Clinic Florida's Indian River Hospital and OurLegacy, the federally designated Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) serving central eastern Florida, have collaborated to successfully deploy a new fully automated donor referral system to streamline the process for hospital staff to identify and evaluate potential organ, tissue and eye donors. The donation-transplant software, provided by InVita Healthcare Technologies, was launched at Cleveland Clinic Florida's Indian River Hospital in April 2023.
With over 100,000 patients on the nation's waitlist awaiting a life-saving organ, regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) exist requiring referral of all prospective organ and tissue donors to their federally designated Organ Procurement Organization. The new fully automated donor referral process streamlines the workflow for hospital staff identifying and evaluating potential organ, tissue, and eye donors.
Following the implementation of a successful automated referral system at 18 Cleveland Clinic facilities in Ohio, the model is now live at Cleveland Clinic Florida's Indian River Hospital.
Since the implementation of the streamlined system in Ohio, more than 3,000 nursing hours have been saved and organ referrals have increased by 42% based on annualized data.
"We are so grateful for our community partners who help us steward the Gift of Life," said Ginny McBride, Executive Director of OurLegacy Organ & Tissue Donation. "This expanded launch provides our clinical partners the gift of time. This technology will seamlessly connect all who play a part in saving lives through donation and ensure the timely opportunity for a family to leave a legacy of life for others after suffering sudden and unimaginable loss. This smart, automated system will not only save precious time for clinical partners but improve the complex donation experience for the families we care for."
"It's exciting to see our interoperability solutions scale and expand support across expansive healthcare networks," said Todd Collins, President & CEO of InVita Healthcare Technologies. "We're thrilled with Cleveland Clinic's and OurLegacy's launch to streamline and improve the critical donor referral process."
About Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital | clevelandclinicflorida.org
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, part of Cleveland Clinic's regional health system in Florida, is a 322 bed hospital in Vero Beach and offers comprehensive medical services to the Treasure Coast community. One of Cleveland Clinic's five hospitals in Florida, Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital is dedicated to achieving excellent outcomes. Guided by a Patients First philosophy, healthcare professionals represent specialties including orthopaedics, heart and vascular medicine, neurosurgery, stroke, gastroenterology, bariatrics and labor and delivery. With locations across Indian River County that include outpatient facilities, urgent care centers and a diagnostic center, Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital has a 24-hour emergency department. Cleveland Clinic's regional health system in Florida is an integral part of Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where providing outstanding patient care is based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. Physicians at Cleveland Clinic are experts in the treatment of complex conditions that are difficult to diagnose. For more information, visit our website. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
About OurLegacy | ourlegacyfl.org
OurLegacy is the federally designated organ procurement organization for 10 counties across east-Central Florida. Together with our community, OurLegacy cares for families, honors donors and saves lives through organ and tissue donation.
About InVita Healthcare Technologies | invitahealth.com
InVita provides mission-critical and chain-of-custody software technologies for complex medical, forensic, and community care environments. InVita's solutions streamline clinical workflows, optimize supply chains, sample tracking, and visibility across donation and transplantation, blood and plasma operations, the tissue and implant lifecycle, and environments spanning DNA and forensics. InVita continues to expand the iReferral℠ and iTransplant℠ platforms supporting nearly 75% of all OPOs in the United States and used by more than 15,000 medical professionals across more than 100 organ, tissue, eye, and birth tissue organizations around the world.
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Police horse pays tribute to fallen officer at gravesite
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A police horse in Tennessee honored a fallen officer at her gravesite this week, and the special moment was captured on camera.
Wednesday marked 19 years since Metro Nashville Police Officer Christy Jo Dedman died in the line of duty on July 19, 2004. She was helping a car on the side of Interstate 40 when she was hit by a tractor-trailer.
Metro Nashville police posted a picture of one of its Mounted Patrol horses paying tribute to Dedman at her gravesite.
The horse is seen bowing over the headstone, which is covered with American flags and flowers.
“As we honor the ultimate sacrifice that Officer Dedman made, we ask everyone to remember to slow down and move over when you see emergency personnel on the side of the road,” police said.
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The Saginaw Children’s Zoo is opening in less than a month for the 2023 season.
Opening day is Saturday, April 15, and the zoo will welcome visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is located at 1730 S. Washington Ave. on the corner of M-46 and M-13.
"We have an exciting year planned for you and look forward to seeing your smiling faces on opening day," a spokesperson for the zoo wrote recently on Facebook. "Visit your favorite animal friends, take your picture with the new bear sculptures and make memories that will last a lifetime."
While at the zoo, attendees may notice construction as the season kicks off. Information on the construction project has not been released.
The zoo boasts 10 acres of tree-filled parkland, animal exhibits and rides. A pond acts as the zoo's centerpiece. It has been transformed quite a bit over the years, and some may remember the ark and the whale that used to call the pond their home, which were both installed in 1969. At the heart of the zoo is a dedicated community of volunteers that gives over 14,000 hours annually.
A cafe is on site for hungry visitors who didn't pack a lunch. It sells hot dogs, soft pretzels, nachos, popcorn, ice cream, chips and beverages.
Tickets can be purchased at the admission booth on the date of your visit to the zoo. Admission costs $7 for adults and children ages 1 and up. Infants and zoo members get in for free. A discount of $2 is offered to Saginaw County residents, Michigan Bridge Card holders and military and veterans with valid identification.
Rides cost an additional $2 per person per ride. Or visitors can purchase a $6 unlimited day pass for rides.
More information is available on the zoo's website. Or connect with the zoo on Facebook.
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ourmidland.com
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Amy Buick, CFRE joins firm in service of its expanding portfolio of healthcare, education clients.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Graham-Pelton announces the appointment of Amy C. Buick, CFRE to support its growing client base of healthcare and education institutions.
A development and fundraising leader with extensive experience and a proven track record in major giving, annual giving, alumni and donor relations, capital campaigns, and development operations, Amy most recently served as Assistant Vice President, Development for Jefferson Health – Abington and Jefferson Health – Northeast. Prior, she served as Director, Major Gifts at Jefferson Health – Abington for nearly a decade.
While with Jefferson Health, she established an Advisory Council of highly regarded business leaders, secured major gifts for the Asplundh Cancer Pavilion capital campaign, and assumed leadership of development operations for a major healthcare system acquisition, among other achievements.
"Graham-Pelton has long been a 'firm to watch,'" said Buick. "Treasured colleagues have been with the firm for many years, and I've taken much delight in observing the impact of their work with organizations on exciting growth journeys and on the profession of institutional advancement at large. I join a team focused on converting their acumen and experience to produce greater good through trust-based partnerships."
Amy has held a variety of development positions with organizations including Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York University Stern School of Business, and Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Outside of fundraising, Amy started her career as a teacher and athletic coach at Stone Ridge Country Day School.
"I was fortunate to have had phenomenal mentors early in my career. There isn't a project that goes by without me reflecting on how these influential individuals might examine an opportunity or challenge at present," said Buick. "That has created in me an insatiable interest in pursuing fundraising methodologies and in enabling others to experience success, if not joy, as a result."
Amy received her Associate of Arts from Bryn Athyn College of the New Church and her Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University. She received the Principals of Fundraising Certificates from New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies and Villanova University College of Professional Studies. She is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE).
"Amy joins a strong team of fundraising advisors focused on elevating the philanthropy of our growing base of healthcare clients," said Walt Edwards, president of Graham-Pelton. "We have all been impressed by her strong track record of fundraising execution, operational excellence, and program development that drives philanthropic results."
Graham-Pelton is the fundraising consulting firm chosen by leading nonprofit organizations worldwide. Our mission is clear: elevate philanthropy so nonprofits can flourish. Graham-Pelton is a member of Collegium, a broad system of best-in-class professional service firms exclusively serving nonprofits. For more information, visit grahampelton.com.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
606 PM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of Deep South Texas, including the following
county, Zapata.
* WHEN...Until 815 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 606 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Northwestern Zapata County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain.
Arroyos, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
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2022-08-15T23:29:57+00:00
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has received its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers as part of a defense upgrade amid security concerns due to the war in neighboring Ukraine.
Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak and military officials attended an acquisition ceremony at a Warsaw air base on Monday.
Blaszczak said that combat in Ukraine had proven the value of the HIMARS and that NATO member Poland was seeking to procure additional launchers, with a goal of acquiring some 500 units.
“We are watching the developments in Ukraine, and we know that artillery has a key role in the war, in repelling the Russian invasion,” he said.
Under a 2019 contract, Poland is spending some $414 million (380 million euros) to buy 18 advanced combat HIMARS launchers and two HIMARS training launchers, with ammunition and related equipment. The deal includes logistics and training.
The launchers will go to the 1st Artillery Brigade in northeastern Poland, Blaszczak said.
“Their task will be to deter (an) aggressor and strengthen Poland’s armed forces on the nation’s and NATO eastern flank,” the minister said.
A HIMARS academy is to be launched in the city of Torun to provide logistics, servicing and training, including for troops from other NATO countries that have or plan to get the launchers.
Produced by American aerospace company Lockheed Martin, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System is a multiple rocket launcher with a range of up to some 300 kilometers (190 miles) developed in the late 1990s for the U.S. armed forces.
Poland is buying billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, chiefly from the U.S. and South Korea, including fighter jets, to modernize its armed forces.
Some of the equipment will replace weapons – including over a dozen Soviet-made MiG-29 jet fighters – that Poland agreed to give Ukraine for its defense against Russia.
Poland’s right-wing government, which will be seeking a third term in a fall parliamentary election, is giving the purchases wide publicity, seeking to reassure Poles amid a military conflict across their eastern border.
Last year, Poland received a number of U.S. Patriot missile systems, and deliveries of another battery are expected this year. The first deliveries of Abrams tanks have also arrived from the U.S., as well as deliveries of tanks and howitzers from South Korea.
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2023-05-15T17:54:36+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/poland-gets-first-u-s-himars-launchers-amid-security-concerns-over-war-in-ukraine/
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TALLIN, Estonia, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoinsPaid , the largest crypto payment ecosystem, has processed over €16 billion worth of crypto* in total and continues growing by nearly €1 billion per month in the declining market.
In Q3 2022, CoinsPaid completed 4.9 million transactions worth approximately €3 billion compared to Q3 2021, whereby it handled close to 2.5 million transactions with a volume of about €1.5 billion. Q3 2022 figures show 2X the volume of transactions and 1.94X the number of transactions of the same period in 2021. Remarkably, the average transactions of both quarters remained almost the same at a mere difference of €47.
Over the last years, the CoinsPaid ecosystem has seen outstanding growth: a 27x increase in volume and a 16x increase in the number of transactions from 2019 to 2021. It has processed a total of 28.2 million transactions, and the volume of transactions stands at €16 billion. Notably, the gateway processes about 8% of global on-chain Bitcoin transactions.
"In Q3, we did a great job in product and business development, adjusting the business logic and strategy to the current market situation and empowering our products with new features. This year our team has grown to 200 members. While most companies like Robinhood, Coinbase, and Gemini face layoffs, we have 50+ open vacancies. And I believe that perseverance and team spirit will allow us to set new records this year," said Max Krupyshev, Co-Founder and Leader of CoinsPaid.
While the crypto winter caused noticeable effects on the crypto market, CoinsPaid continues to scale up its growth. The comparison between Q3 2021 and Q3 2022 shows a 100.5% and 94% growth rate in the volume of transactions and number of transactions, respectively. Notably, among the most popular tokens, such as LTC, BTC, USDT, and ETH, BTC made more than 50% of all transactions.
*Disclaimer:
All financial, statistical, and other data regarding the clients/merchants, conducted transactions, etc., has been provided as aggregate from activities of all legal entities operating under the brand of Coinspaid, specifically: (I) Dream Finance OÜ, Harju maakond, Kesklinna linnaosa, Rotermanni tn 6, 10111, Tallinn, Estoni; (II) Dream Finance UAB, Gynejq St. 14-65, Vilnius, Lithuania and (III) Dream Finance S.A. DE C.V., 3A Calle Poniente Y, 71 Avenida Norte, Col. Escalon, edif. Lexincorp, office No 3698, San Salvador, El Salvador.
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Which freezerless refrigerator is best?
Freezerless refrigerators aren’t just for the backrooms of restaurant kitchens. They can be a valuable asset at home, especially if you need to store enough food and drink to feed large groups, whether it be family or friends. They’re particularly good for those who hate shopping and like to stay fully stocked for long periods.
The best freezerless refrigerator is the KoolMore 29-Inch Stainless Steel Solid-Door Commercial Reach-In Refrigerator. It’s a professional-grade refrigerator that makes for an excellent at-home fridge, thanks to its adjustable temperature settings and shelving options.
What to know before you buy a freezerless refrigerator
Freezerless refrigerator types
There are three main types of freezerless refrigerators — compact, standard and built-in two-drawer.
- Compact fridges focus more on storing drinks and would be ideal for dorm rooms or entertainment centers.
- Standard fridges are similar to freezer/fridge combos, but they don’t have split storage spaces.
- Built-in two-drawer fridges are expensive, but, in return, you get two temperature- and humidity-controlled drawers. These are perfect for ensuring your fruits and vegetables last longer than before.
Size and capacity
Freezerless refrigerators are all about storage. However, you should carefully consider how much space you have for installation, as well as how much food you plan to store.
- Size: Compare the dimensions of your prospective fridge to where you plan to put it. You should be able to open the door completely without hitting any walls. You also need to leave an inch or two of space around the back, sides and top for proper ventilation. Failing to do so will make the fridge work harder to operate and decrease its lifespan.
- Capacity: Capacity can vary, even when you compare two fridges that are almost the exact same size. Compact models typically have 3-10 cubic feet of space while standard models have 15-20. In order to run most efficiently, you should keep it relatively full. It’s OK to have a little bit of empty space, but don’t buy a larger fridge than you need.
What to look for in a quality freezerless refrigerator
Adjustability
The best freezerless refrigerators have multiple aspects you can adjust to your needs. The most common one is fully adjustable shelving and drawers, as well as an adjustable temperature.
Alarms
Since freezerless refrigerators have more storage capacity, losing temperature is more of a risk than in a combo freezer/fridge. As such, the best freezerless refrigerators have one or more alarms to ensure you’re aware of any changes in the temperature.
- Door alarms will go off if the door has been left open for too long.
- Blackout alarms go off if there’s a loss of power, whether it be from a power outage or a tripped breaker.
- Temperature alarms go off if the internal temperature becomes too high.
How much you can expect to spend on a freezerless refrigerator
Freezerless refrigerators typically cost $400-$2,000-plus. Smaller, basic models generally cost less than $700, while larger basic models cost up to $1,000. Larger, more advanced fridges usually cost $1,000-$2,000, with the absolute best costing several thousand dollars.
Freezerless refrigerator FAQ
Are freezerless refrigerators more effective than freezer/refrigerator combos?
A. Yes. Freezerless refrigerators don’t have to work as hard because they only have to maintain one temperature in one section. That said, freezer/fridge combos are still more for the average home. If you have the space in a garage, for example, it might be worth adding a pair of freezer- and refrigerator-only appliances.
What does being Energy-Star certified mean?
A. Energy-Star certified freezerless refrigerators meet the energy usage guidelines set by the Environmental Protection Agency. Not all fridges have this certification, and using one without it will cost you more money in the long run.
Do freezerless refrigerators require any assembly?
A. Most freezerless refrigerators do require some assembly, but rarely anything complex. The most common assembly steps are attaching the door and handle, if it has one, as well as sliding in the shelves and drawers.
What’s the best freezerless refrigerator to buy?
Top freezerless refrigerator
KoolMore 29-Inch Stainless Steel Solid-Door Commercial Reach-In Refrigerator
What you need to know: There’s plenty of storage space, whether you own a small business or have a large family to feed.
What you’ll love: It has 19 cubic feet of interior space and comes with adjustable shelving so you can easily organize your food. It comes on casters, so it’s a breeze to move and reposition as needed. And you can use the digital control panel to finely tune the internal temperature.
What you should consider: It can generate quite a bit of noise. And since it’s designed for commercial use, the aesthetics might not match your kitchen decor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top freezerless refrigerator for the money
Danby 11-Cubic-Foot Apartment Refrigerator
What you need to know: This refrigerator has the space and price to be perfect for two-person households.
What you’ll love: It offers plenty of storage space for an excellent price. It operates quietly and is Energy Star-compliant. Plus, if you maintain it properly, this refrigerator will last for years. It comes in solid white or stainless steel with black accents.
What you should consider: There’s no door handle, so some may struggle to open it. A few customers reported occasional leaks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Kalamera 15-Inch Stainless Steel Beverage Refrigerator
What you need to know: It’s designed for use as a beverage fridge but is great for holding snacks, too.
What you’ll love: It’s compact and can hold up to 104 12-ounce cans. It runs quietly, and the stainless steel design is simple and clean. It has a temperature range of 32-41 degrees.
What you should consider: A few purchasers had issues with long-term durability, including problems with the handles and shelving. Others found it not to cool as much as expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2022-05-20T10:16:10+00:00
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The focus of the UN conference on climate change should be the negotiations to reduce emissions and not an Egyptian activist who is on a hunger and water strike, Egypt’s foreign minister said Thursday.
Asked about the case of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, where prison authorities intervened medically on Thursday after he went on hunger strike over his imprisonment, Sameh Shoukry, who is both foreign minister and the president of this year’s summit, made clear it was not a priority for him as chair of the 27th annual climate talks, known by their acronym COP27.
“I concentrate on highlighting the importance of the COP and trying to the focus attention of the parties and the international community and the civil society on the existential challenge related to climate change,” he said. “I think it is beneficial for achieving our objectives that we continue to focus on this issue. This is why we are here.”
Numerous foreign leaders including President Emmanuel Macron of France and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have raised the case with Egypt during their visit this week.
Shoukry suggested such concerns could distract from some countries’ failure to live up to their climate commitments.
During the interview, Shoukry also said that going forward drinks would be free for conference attendants and the cost of food would be cut 50%. This came amid complaints from delegates that they were struggling to get food and water during the event.
Shoukry took a swipe at media outlets he said “had decided that the issue of climate change is not as important as the issue of the provision of foods and drink for delegates and for participants.”
He acknowledged there had been “glitches,” blaming them on the large number of participants and traffic delays due to VIP visits during the first days of the meeting.
“We have intervened and today all prices have been slashed by 50%, and water and the soft drinks will be provided for free as a matter of courtesy and at the intervention of the presidency,” Shoukry told The AP.
“Other issues that are not directly pertaining to the climate might detract from the attention and relieve, potentially, and give justification to maybe those who would prefer to concentrate on other issues to avoid having to deal with what they need to do, how they need to implement their obligations and responsibilities.”
“It is up to the parties to put the emphasis on the issues that are most important to them,” he said.
The Nov. 6-18 talks have moved from high-levels appeals for more climate action, heard from world leaders early in the week, to the nitty-gritty stage of negotiations. Diplomats are trying to forge a broad package of agreements covering issues such as cutting emissions and aid for poor nations that would need to be agreed by consensus at the end.
In an early win for negotiators, a deal was reached at the start of talks to put the issue of compensation for poor countries suffering severe losses from climate changeon the official agenda.
“This in itself is a positive development and one that we should hail,” said Shoukry. “What happens next is going to be dependent on the degree of flexibility that the parties will demonstrate.”
“As presidency we will certainly provide the opportunity for as much progress as possible on the agenda item and hopefully we will have a landing zone that will be satisfactory to all the parties,” he said.
Egypt is already feeling the harsh effects of climate change itself, with rising sea levels threatening fertile lands in the Nile delta.
At the same time, the country remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels for the energy needs of its growing population, projected to reach 160 million by mid-century. Hosting the annual climate talks has helped Egypt recently clinch several deals to promote the roll-out of renewable energy, something Shoukry said the government is committed to pursuing further.
“If we could, overnight, transfer to full renewables we would,” he said. “But then again, we are limited as many of the developing countries are, with the high cost of finance, with the lack of investment, and with having to deal with other priorities in terms of the interests of our citizens.”
Asked how the vast Zohr gas field in the Mediterranean fits in with Egypt’s green goals, Shoukry said it would be irresponsible for developing countries not to use the resources that rich nations have exploited for many decades.
“But we do so with the recognition that it is our objective to decrease our dependency on fossil fuels and on gas, provided the resources, the investments and the facilitation that can be provided to us is forthcoming,” he said.
In the longer term, Egypt sees itself as a producer and exporter of ‘green’ hydrogen, made with solar and wind power, to Europe, he added.
Like many other developing countries, Egypt is also hampered by large debts that make it harder to borrow money for much-needed investments.
Shoukry said he hoped agreements could be reached, including at the upcoming Group of 20 meeting in Bali in Indonesia, to support a change in the debt rules to make it easier for countries to redirect their resources toward boosting renewable energy and adapting to climate change.
U.S. President Joe Biden was scheduled to swing by the climate talks Friday on his way to the G-20.
Shoukry said he understood the president’s stopover in Sharm el-Sheikh to be “an indication of the political will to move the process forward” on tackling global warming.
“We hope … it will resonate within the collective will of the negotiating groups that the United States is party to, but also in creating a momentum for the conference, for the parties to deliver what is expected,” he said.
“I think there’s a heightened sense of the crisis that we face because of the devastating weather patterns that have resulted during this year of a vast devastation. Of course, Pakistan immediately jumps to the forefront,” said Shoukry.
Pakistan suffered devastating floods this summer that put one third of the country underwater, killing over 1,700 people and causing an estimated $40 billion in damage. Extreme weather is worsening in many parts of the globe as the climate warms.
“People are now waking up to the science,” he said. “If we don’t move more expeditiously or effectively to deal with climate change, we will transcend the point of no return and see a dramatic deterioration of the planet.”
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2022-11-10T19:03:21+00:00
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fox59.com
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Military-age men continue to flee Russia after President Putin ordered the country's first mobilization since WWII. Many are arriving in Istanbul, where they can travel without a visa.
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Military-age men continue to flee Russia after President Putin ordered the country's first mobilization since WWII. Many are arriving in Istanbul, where they can travel without a visa.
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2022-09-26T10:27:25+00:00
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wlrn.org
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified marking found at President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington.
The announcement followed Biden's acknowledgement Thursday morning that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his personal library, along with other documents found in his garage. Garland said Biden's lawyers informed the Justice Department Thursday morning of the discovery of a classified document at Biden's home, after FBI agents first retrieved other documents from the garage in December. It was disclosed on Monday that sensitive documents were found at the office of his former institute in Washington.
Robert Hur, the former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Maryland, will lead the investigation, taking over from the top Justice Department prosecutor in Chicago, John Lausch, who was earlier assigned by the department to investigate the matter and who recommended to Garland last week that a special counsel be appointed. Hur is to begin his work soon.
"The extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter," Garland said, adding that Hur is authorized to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law.
"This appointment underscores for the public the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.," Garland said.
Biden told reporters at the White House that he was "cooperating fully and completely" with a Justice Department investigation into how classified information and government records were stored.
"We have cooperated closely with the Justice Department throughout its review, and we will continue that cooperation with the special counsel," said Richard Sauber, himself a special counsel to the president. "We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake."
Biden's lawyers found the first set of documents in a locked closet in the offices of the Biden Penn Center in Washington on Nov. 2, just before the midterm elections, but publicly revealed that development only on Monday.
Sauber said that after Biden's personal lawyers found the initial documents, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017.
Biden did not say when the latest documents were found at his home, only that his lawyers' review of potential storage locations was completed Wednesday night.
Sauber said a "small number" with classified markings were found in a storage space in Biden's garage in Wilmington, with one document being located in an adjacent room. Biden later revealed that the other location was his personal library.
Garland said Biden attorneys located documents in the Wilmington garage on Dec. 20 and that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took custody of them shortly thereafter. The Justice Department was informed only on Thursday of the latest found by Biden's lawyers.
The appointment of yet another special counsel to investigate the handling of classified documents is a remarkable turn of events, legally and politically, for a Justice Department that has spent months looking into the retention by Donald Trump of more than 300 documents with classification markings found at the former president's Florida estate.
Though the situations are factually and legally different, the discovery of classified documents at two separate locations tied to Biden — as well as the appointment of a new special counsel — would almost certainly complicate any prosecution that the department might bring against Trump.
Hur was a close ally of former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and contacts between then-candidate Trump's associates and Russian officials. He also worked as an adviser to FBI Director Christopher Wray in the Justice Department.
"I will conduct the assigned investigation with fair, impartial and dispassionate judgment," he said in a statement after his appointment. I intend to follow the facts swiftly and thoroughly, without fear or favor and will honor the trust placed in me to perform this service."
New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said of the latest news: "I think Congress has to investigate this."
"Here's an individual that sat on '60 Minutes' that was so concerned about President Trump's documents locked in behind, and now we find that this is a vice president keeping it for years out in the open in different locations."
Contradicting several fellow Republicans, he said, "We don't think there needs to be a special prosecutor."
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that intelligence agencies conduct a "damage assessment" of potentially classified documents. Ohio Rep. Mike Turner on Thursday also requested briefings from Attorney General Merrick Garland and the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, on their reviews by Jan. 26.
"The presence of classified information at these separate locations could implicate the President in the mishandling, potential misuse, and exposure of classified information," Turner wrote the officials.
The revelation that additional classified documents were uncovered by Biden's team came hours after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged questions about Biden's handling of classified information and the West Wing's management of the discovery.
She had said Wednesday that the White House was committed to handling the matter in the "right way," pointing to Biden's personal attorneys' immediate notification of the National Archives.
But she refused to say when Biden himself had been briefed, whether there were any more classified documents potentially located at other unauthorized locations, and why the White House waited more than two months to reveal the discovery of the initial batch of documents.
Biden has said he was "surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office" but his lawyers "did what they should have done" when they immediately called the National Archives.
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For years, problems with classified materials have been a shortcut to controversy in Washington. Hillary Clinton got in trouble for her use of a private email server. Donald Trump risked criminal charges for refusing to return top secret records. And now President Joe Biden faces a political headache over documents with classified markings found at an old office.
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ANN ARBOR, MI -- While apricot and cardamom may seem like an unusual combination, it’s an award-winning one for a local chocolatier.
Mindo Chocolate Makers, a bean-to-bar chocolatier based in Dexter and with an Ann Arbor store, won a bronze award for its Apricot Cardamom Milk Chocolate Bar at the International Chocolate Awards in early September. The bar was submitted to the category of “Milk chocolate bars with inclusions or pieces.”
The chocolate makers, which also have a sister location in Ecuador, have been experimenting with adding freeze-dried fruit to their roughly 40 varieties of chocolate.
“I saw apricot on the list of the available fruits, and I really love apricots and I got excited about that,” said Barbara Wilson, Mindo Chocolate Makers owner.
Wilson had brought back a pound of fresh cardamom from a visit to Ecuador and, while she doesn’t remember exactly how they ended up putting the two together, the new bar was born.
The dried apricot is ground in with the beans during the chocolate-making process, while the cardamom seeds are added to the back after the chocolate is tempered and formed into a bar.
“The chocolate itself, the Ecuadorian chocolate, it’s really a bright, almost fruity, sometimes even a little tart,” said Alicia Meza, Mindo Chocolate Makers events and demonstrations coordinator and Wilson’s daughter. “So, I think it pairs really beautifully with the apricot, kind of lifts the flavor.”
Although the production takes place in Dexter, Mindo Chocolate Makers opened its first retail space at 206 North Fourth Ave. in Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown in late 2021. The location serves drinks, chocolate bars and baked goods. The chocolatier won awards in 2015 and 2021, making this year’s award the third overall.
Related: Bean-to-bar chocolatier opening first U.S. retail space in Kerrytown
Mindo Chocolates in Ecuador, owned by Wilson’s other daughter Emily Meza-Wilson, also won awards for its ginger chocolate bar, panela chocolate bar and coffee chocolate bar at recent awards.
For Wilson, the award is a recognition of her hard work.
“I guess that’s my passion — to always make the best possible chocolate we can,” Wilson said. “And it’s nice to be recognized and have other people say, ‘Yeah, you did.’ I always know we can make it better, but it’s just nice have somebody recognize that.”
Meza-Wilson agreed, adding that having the feedback can be helpful.
“The more you work with chocolate, the more you see that every step in the process is extremely important,” she said. “This is kind of a way that we can find out what works. If we have other people like it, then we know that we should continue to do these specific processes these ways.”
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Express Employment Professionals, a staffing agency, relocated its Scranton office from 135 W. Market St. to 900 Wyoming Ave. on Oct. 3, said Amy Clegg, owner of the Scranton franchise.
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DILLON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A rare antique car valued at $23 million was stolen from a motel in Latta, South Carolina, according to authorities, and a $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to its recovery.
The black two-door 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Lungo Spyder with tan interior was last seen on July 25 at the Holiday Inn Express near Interstate 95 in Latta, AIG investigator Harold Schmidle said Thursday in a news release.
According to the website supercars.net, Touring of Milan built only seven of the Lungo Spyder models, delivering the first one in May 1938.
When the car was last seen, it was being transported in a white 2009 Haulmark trailer pulled by a white 2002 Ford F-350 dually pickup truck, according to a flyer from AIG. The truck had Illinois license plate number 344949. The trailer also had Illinois plates with the number 10451OTE.
Items from the car were found in Lumberton, North Carolina, according to the flyer.
South Carolina’s Dillon County Sheriff’s Office detective Sara Albarri told WBTW on Thursday that there have been a string of similar trailer thefts in Dillon and possibly Florence counties. Those thefts included go-karts and other smaller vehicles.
Albarri said investigators think the Alfa Romeo might still be in North Carolina and that whoever took it might not have known exactly what they were stealing.
Anyone with information is asked to call Albarri at 843-774-1432.
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The Award Comes on the Heels of the Company's One-Year Anniversary Since the App's Launch
LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitcoin IRA, the world's first and most trusted digital asset IRA technology platform, today received the Best New Mobile App platinum award for the business and finance category by Best Mobile App Awards.
The Best Mobile App Awards recognizes the latest apps and developers behind the product. Winners are selected via a committee of highly experienced app designers, expert developers and publishers who are dedicated to uncovering the next big player in mobile applications.
"We are thrilled to be recognized by the Best Mobile App Awards," said Bitcoin IRA Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer, Chris Kline. "Next month, we'll be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of our mobile app. As the crypto market continues to grow, we will strive to give our clients the best tools to engage in this exciting and emerging asset class."
Available on both Apple and Android devices, Bitcoin IRA's mobile app is the first cryptocurrency retirement app of its kind, allowing users to easily buy, sell and swap cryptocurrencies inside their self-directed retirement accounts. Earlier this year, the company announced that they had increased their offering to more than 60 types of cryptocurrencies, including Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), and Polkadot (DOT). The platform provides a wide array of services, such as IRA Earn, which gives users up to 6%1 monthly interest on their crypto assets and provides world-class security2 with up to $7003 million in custody insurance.
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Bitcoin IRA, available at bitcoinira.com, is the world's first and most trusted digital asset IRA technology platform that allows users to purchase cryptocurrencies for their self-directed retirement accounts.
They provide a secure self-trading platform for self-directed retirement accounts. Users can set up a qualified digital asset IRA, transfer funds from an existing IRA custodian, execute self-trades in real-time 24/7 through a US-based exchange, and store funds in industry-leading multi-signature digital wallets. Users can also earn up to 6%1 interest on their cash and crypto assets with IRA Earn.
Bitcoin IRA has processed billions of U.S. dollars in transactions and has over 150,000 users with more than 3,500 5-star user reviews. The platform has been featured extensively in the media, with coverage in Forbes, CNBC, CoinDesk, and The Wall Street Journal, among other leading publications.
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A federal judge at the center of high-stakes litigation over nationwide access to abortion medication has an unusual redaction on his financial disclosure reports — one of the few ways judges publicly report potential conflicts of interest.
Kacsmaryk said in a statement Friday that the redactions were approved by the Administrative Office of the Courts “after reviewing the relevant rules and applicable threats.”
The private company, he said, is not headquartered or operated in Texas and has never been a party in the Northern District of Texas, where he sits. “The Clerk’s Office has the name of the entity, actively screens incoming cases, and I would be automatically recused from any cases involving this entity,” Kacsmaryk said.
What information judges report or omit from annual disclosure forms has become a flash point for court transparency advocates, who say the federal judiciary — and the Supreme Court in particular — lacks accountability to the public. In response to complaints from Congressional Democrats, leaders of the federal court system are reviewing whether Justice Clarence Thomas violated federal ethics laws by not disclosing his lavish travel and real estate deals with Texas business executive and GOP donor Harlan Crow.
Legal ethics experts characterized Kacsmaryk’s redactions as highly unusual and said withholding the name of a stock undermines the purpose of the disclosure system. Stephen Gillers, an ethics expert at New York University Law School, said litigants need to know the identity of the investments a judge holds to decide whether they should seek that judge’s recusal from a case.
“Removing that name is exactly contrary to the reason we want it revealed,” Gillers said. “If there’s one thing you want to know in a financial disclosure form, it’s where the judge has his or her investments.”
Federal ethics law states that redactions are allowed to “protect the individual who filed the report or a family member” for “as long as the danger to such individual exists.” The fact that judiciary leaders signed off on Kacsmaryk’s redactions, which were first reported Friday afternoon by CNN, suggests there is a serious security concern about making the name of the company public.
Kacsmaryk, a Trump nominee with long-held antiabortion views, issued an unprecedented ruling this month to undo government approval of mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen widely used to terminate early pregnancies. Kacsmaryk sided with challengers who said the Food and Drug Administration did not follow proper procedure or sufficiently consider safety concerns when it first approved mifepristone in 2000 and when it made the drug easier to access in 2016.
The name of the company in which Kacsmaryk holds stock could not be confirmed on Friday. As a candidate for the federal bench in August 2017, Kacsmaryk reported owning $2.9 million in Publix Super Markets common stock in his Senate disclosure form, which like the judicial disclosure form is a public document.
Kacsmaryk’s paternal grandmother, Mary Lacek Kacsmaryk, worked for Publix for more than 25 years, joining the Florida-based supermarket company early in its history, according to her obituary.
“Anyone who knew Mary K, as she was known at Publix, knew her passion and pride for being a Publix team member,” the May 2017 obituary says.
Top officials from the three branches of government, including judges and Supreme Court justices, are required to file annual forms detailing their finances, outside income and spouses’ sources of income. The judiciary’s Committee on Financial Disclosures, made up of 16 federal judges, reviews and approves redaction requests, of personal or sensitive information that “could directly or indirectly endanger the filer” or a family member.
The regulations state, however, that “it would be unusual for a request for the redaction of the identity of a stock or other security to be granted.”
A spokesperson for the committee said the panel “does not comment on individual judges’ financial disclosure reports or redaction requests for confidentiality reasons.” Judges must renew requests for redactions each year for the committee to assess whether there is an ongoing security concern.
Kacsmaryk’s rulings have prompted some backlash. In a phone call with lawyers in the abortion pill litigation, he mentioned death threats and harassing voices mails his chamber has received.
He took the highly unusual step of delaying public notification of a hearing in the case, saying he wanted to limit the opportunity for potential disruption.
The judge was confirmed by the Senate in 2019. In subsequent financial disclosure reports for 2020 and 2021, the name of his only stock holding and most significant investment is redacted. Kacsmaryk provides a short explanation in the 2020 report, writing that a trust in his name terminated, and as the beneficiary, the shares of the unnamed stock “held in trust were distributed upon liquidation of the trust & I now hold those shares personally.”
The shares in the most recent form are reported as having a value in the range of $5 million to $25 million. He also reported receiving a dividend from the stock of as much as $1 million.
William Edward Palin, a software developer and lawyer at the Free Law Project, which created a public database of the financial disclosure forms, has reviewed thousands of forms and said very few have the entire name of a stock blacked out.
“Kacsmaryk’s entire net worth seems to be wrapped up in the one stock that is redacted,” Palin said. “It negates the entire purpose of the financial disclosures if 96 percent of this judge’s net worth is hidden from the general public. It’s clear as day.”
Gabe Roth, director of the court transparency nonprofit Fix the Court, agreed that “it makes very little sense” to allow the redaction — though neither he nor Palin had any information about the reason it was approved.
“One of the ways that the public conducts accountability for judges and justices is by reviewing their financial reports,” Roth said.
Kacsmaryk has been criticized by members of Congress for not being forthcoming during his confirmation process. The Washington Post reported last week that Kacsmaryk did not disclose that he submitted an article to a law review criticizing Obama-era protections for transgender people and had asked that his name be removed from the article.
Alice Crites and Jennifer Jenkins contributed to this report.
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Watch Competitors Navigate Chaos and Destruction Through the Eyes of Godzilla! Only the King of Monsters Will Win!
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stern Pinball, Inc., Everyone's favorite monster, Godzilla has been demolishing cities for over sixty-eight years. On August 10, tune in to watch eight players destroy each other in an action-packed, single-elimination bracket all in hopes of bringing home a brand-new Godzilla pinball machine!
All competitors in this adrenaline-inducing competition will be playing on Stern Godzilla pinball machines, with players racing against the clock and each other in objective-based challenges. The last player standing will be crowned the ultimate Stern Heads-Up Pinball Invitational Champion.
"Few things go together as well as Godzilla and Pinball," said Chris Mowry, Creative Manger at Toho International, Inc. "We're excited to partner with Stern for this thrilling competition, and to showcase the beautiful Godzilla pinball machine that was released late last year. Both Stern and Godzilla fans should be sure to tune in!"
Catch the action live on TOHO's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GodzillaToho) on Wednesday, August 10th at 7 pm CT. Hosted by Stern favorites Rebecca Hinsdale, Tim Sexton, and Imoto. The event broadcast can also be streamed on Stern Pinball's Facebook page (facebook.com/sternpinball) and YouTube channel (youtube.com/sternpinballinc) in addition to the Dead Flip Pinball Streaming channel on Twitch (twitch.tv/deadflip).
"The Godzilla pinball tournament is sure to be the pinball e-sport event of the year. We've got some great sponsors and some of the world's best pinball players. Spectators will definitely be glued to their screens, ," said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc.
The Godzilla Stern Heads-Up Pinball Invitational is sponsored by official Godzilla partners, MONDO, Jade City Foods, Super7, IDW Publishing, and Stern Pinball.
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Recent Stern Pinball titles include Rush, Godzilla, The Mandalorian, Led Zeppelin, Avengers: Infinity Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stranger Things, Elvira's House of Horrors, Jurassic Park, Black Knight: Sword of Rage, The Munsters, The Beatles, Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Aerosmith, Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, AC/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball's games, from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.
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The inclusion training will be developed in partnership with HospitableMe and will be available to any bar or restaurant free of charge.
FORT COLLINS, Colo., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, New Belgium announced the next phase of its ongoing commitment to uplift and support communities often left out of the craft beer community with the Poured for All Initiative – a year-round investment to provide pathways for more spaces, including bars and restaurants that serve New Belgium beer, to become more welcoming and inclusive for all.
In partnership with DEI training provider HospitableMe, New Belgium is developing a completely free, first-of-its-kind inclusivity training with the goal of building more inclusive and welcoming environments in thousands of bars and restaurants, including those that serve beers from New Belgium and Bell's Brewery (which recently combined with New Belgium). This includes New Belgium and Bell's own taproom coworkers, who will receive the training as soon as it's ready.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated an already alarming decline in welcoming spaces for marginalized groups – for example, the rapid decline in LGBTQ+ bars. In the 1980s there were an estimated 200 lesbian bars, but that number is now down to 15, per NBC and other news sources. With its Poured for All Initiative, New Belgium and HospitableMe will develop and promote a custom training that empowers hospitality staff to better understand and exhibit inclusive behaviors that foster a truly welcoming space for all identities, including people with LGBTQ+, BIPOC and intersectional identities who are currently underrepresented in craft beer spaces and elsewhere.
"For more than 30 years, New Belgium has invested deeply in coworker and community wellbeing, seeking to be intentional about hearing our most underrepresented perspectives. In that spirit, we've approached beer with the commitment to be 'brewed for all,'" said Courtney Simmons, New Belgium Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. "But we have work to do in scrutinizing whether all the spaces we drink beer are truly welcoming for members of marginalized groups. This initiative is about putting our resources to work in fostering more welcoming bars and restaurants across the country with the lowest possible barriers to access."
The training, which complements existing bystander intervention training from organizations like Safe Bars and will be available for free on Hospitable Me's seamless digital platform, will combine simple but critical lessons with personal stories to enable any bar or restaurant staff member to better understand experiences of their underrepresented patrons and to help foster a truly welcoming and inclusive experience for people of all backgrounds and identities. Once the training is released in the coming months, establishments that train their entire staff will receive a digital certificate and optional window cling to help promote their commitment to inclusivity.
"We're excited to partner with New Belgium Brewing, a craft beer pioneer and leader in inclusivity to create this groundbreaking training. As a leading global provider of strategy and education for inclusive hospitality, HospitableMe looks for projects that have a tangible impact on LGBTQ+ and other historically excluded communities. Because this training will be accessible to all companies at no cost, it will have positive impacts reaching far beyond just New Belgium's walls as we seek to make bars and restaurants more inclusive and welcoming for people everywhere," said Billy Kolber, CEO and Co-founder of HospitableMe.
In addition to the Poured for All Initiative, New Belgium is re-releasing its Biere de Queer purple ale, with all proceeds benefitting local LGBTQ+ organizations in our home communities – including Blue Ridge Pride in Asheville, NoCo Equality in Fort Collins, and Frameline in San Francisco. New Belgium is also raising awareness on how to be a good LGBTQ+ ally and conscious consumer during Pride and all year long with the New Belgium Guide to Rainbow Washing. For every social media share the guide receives, New Belgium will donate $1 (up to $50,000) to the Equality Federation, an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in its network of state-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations combating anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
"As a longtime DEI practitioner in the brewing and hospitality industries, I know how critical it is to create and maintain welcoming spaces for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate and have a beer during Pride and beyond," said Dr. J Jackson-Beckham, President of the Board of Safe Bars and Equity & Inclusion Partner for the Brewers Association. "New Belgium's training will be a great complement to the bystander intervention work we do at Safe Bars. I'm thrilled to see New Belgium continue to lead the craft industry by example."
"We're proud of Asheville's strong culture of inclusivity toward residents and visitors alike, and New Belgium has consistently shown us they share these values through their presence in our community," said Kit Cramer, President and CEO, Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. "But we also share a constant drive to do better, and New Belgium's training will be a hugely helpful asset to bars and restaurants across North Carolina and the entire country. Asheville will be more welcoming, and our local businesses stronger and more inclusive, because of New Belgium's investment."
New Belgium has been an advocate for LGBTQ+ communities for more than 30 years, and was proud to be the first craft brewer to receive a perfect score of 100 on HRC's Corporate Equality Index and the first craft brewer to be recognized on HRC's Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality. With a commitment to continuously learn, grow, and improve, the company recently expanded its DEI leadership by hiring DEI Director Courtney Simmons, who brings deep experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, to lead this work across New Belgium and Bell's. Diversity, equity and inclusion practices play a central role in New Belgium's Human Powered Business model, based on the idea that deep and consistent investments for the benefit of coworkers and communities produces better business results in the long term.
The training will be available beginning in the Fall of 2022, and businesses interested in participating can click here to pledge to join the Poured for All Initiative.
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2022-06-08T11:41:01+00:00
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SAS to soon start online booking for 2028 flights aboard electric-powered aircraft
Scandinavian Airlines says travelers will soon be able to book flights on the carrier’s first commercial flights that are due to start five years from now in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark aboard electric-powered aircraft
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NEW YORK (AP) — Well, hello first Monday in May.
The year’s biggest night in fashion, the Met Gala, returns to its usual berth on the social calendar this year after pandemic upheaval. And if it feels like one of those what, already moments, it is.
It’s been just under eight months since the last gala, anannual fundraiser that raises eight-figure sumsfor the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Pre-pandemic, about 600 A-listers from fashion, sports, music, film, TV, technology and beyond were invited. This year and last, the numbers were closer to 400. The 2020 gala was canceled.
More than $16.4 million was raised last year. The starry event is the institute’s primary budget feeder.
This year’s gala coincides with the opening of the second part of a two-part exhibit at the Costume Institutefocused on American fashion and style. The evening’s dress code is gilded glamour and white tie, a la the Gilded Age, that tumultuous period between the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century known for its robber barons, drama and grandeur.
This year’s walk up the Grand Staircase at the Met returns the gala to its legendary berth on the first Monday in May, with the official livestream appearing on Vogue’s website.
Vogue’s Anna Wintour has run the gala since 1995. She continues as one of the night’s honorary co-chairs, along with designer Tom Ford and Instagram’s Adam Mosseri. The official co-chairs for 2022 are Regina King, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The cost for a seat at last year’s Met Gala started at $35,000, though some attend for free. Celebrities are sometimes accompanied (and their tabs paid) by the designers who dress them or other companies that invite them. A focus on inclusivity in fashion this year may celebrate and include more unsung designer heroes than usual.
The event is the invention of the late Eleanor Lambert, a fashion publicist as powerful as Wintour in her day. In 1948, she needed to come up with a way to pay for the newly formed Costume Institute, the only department at the Met that must raise its own funds.
While many on Wintour’s carefully tended guest list follow the dress code, others go their own way. Interpretation is everything. Think Rihanna in a papal hat, Billy Porter as a sun god carried on a litter by shirtless men andLady Gaga peeling off layers as the fashion world came to a standstill to watch.
The gala also serves as a twisted time capsule of love gone wrong for celebrity couples who didn’t make it. Kim Kardashian and Ye, the former Kanye West, first attended in 2013. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes went in 2008. Jennifer Lopez attended with Marc Anthony in 2011, then with Alex Rodriguez in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Ben Affleck joined her inside last year after she walked alone.
Charlize Theron and Sean Penn were among the “it” couples invited in 2014. Selena Gomez and The Weeknd showed up together in 2017.
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2022-05-02T20:59:22+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/entertainment-news/met-gala-returns-to-traditional-spot-on-first-monday-in-may/
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Dog owners from all over gathered at the Eastern States Exposition Sunday for the annual Great Barrington Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show.
Show coordinator Gloria McCay told 22News the event is always a hit. “We had an entry of over 1,200 dogs each day, which is pretty good for a two-day event.”
Participating dogs compete in different classes based on factors like age, breed, and gender and winners must excel in given “standards.”
“Each breed has to be in conjunction with the standard of that breed. When a judge is judging them, that’s how he is making his picks,” McCay explained.
22News spoke with one dog handler, who detailed the investment they make into their furry competitors.
“So, so much. I mean it’s time, it’s hard work, but we love it and it’s so rewarding for the dogs,” said Mia Speciale.
It’s an investment that these handlers and owners say has a great return.
“It’s so much fun, it’s really just a joy to do it with the dogs,” Speciale expressed. “When the dogs love it, that’s when you know your hard work pays off.”
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2023-02-06T00:18:34+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/eastern-states-exposition-hosts-great-barrington-kennel-club-dog-show/
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2023-04-21T21:28:49+00:00
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wyomingnews.com
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https://www.wyomingnews.com/community/community_connections/cheyenne-engineers-club/article_1374146e-e085-11ed-b897-6fa1bb3f0587.html
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HUD announces $2.8 billion in grants for homeless services
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing $2.8 billion in fresh funding for homeless services organizations across the country.
The funding, announced Monday, will be allocated via competitive bids through HUD’s Continuum of Care Program, the largest source of federal grant support to housing and services programs for people experiencing homelessness.
HUD funds approximately 7,000 homeless services projects annually through the program. Applications for the new round of funding are due to HUD by Sept. 29.
A HUD statement announcing the funding said that existing Continuum of Care participants can “renew existing projects, apply for new projects and to reallocate resources from lower performing projects to better serve people experiencing homelessness.”
The announcement specifies that the new funding will prioritize services for homeless youth and for “survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.”
Other priorities in the funding include an emphasis on racial equity and anti-discrimination polices for LGTBQ+ individuals. Access to the Continuum of Care funding will also be expanded to welcome applicants from Native American tribes and internal tribal housing support programs.
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge said in a statement that the new funding “will help more Americans experiencing homelessness move into homes and access critical supportive services like health care, education, and job training.”
Fudge added that the Biden administration seeks to “prioritize equity in homelessness efforts and the humane treatment of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, and the funding announced today will help communities do just that.”
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2022-08-01T17:45:00+00:00
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ktiv.com
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https://www.ktiv.com/2022/08/01/hud-announces-28-billion-grants-homeless-services/
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Nashville, TENN. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill banning drag shows in public spaces, a measure that will likely force drag shows underground in Tennessee.
Lee gave his signature just hours after the measure passed in the Senate Thursday afternoon. In the same sitting, he signed a ban on gender-affirming health care for youth in the state.
The announcement comes as a yearbook photo of the Republican governor in drag recently surfaced on Reddit.
Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill banning drag shows in public spaces, a measure that will likely force drag shows underground in Tennessee. WPLN's @MariannaBac reports Lee signed the measure this afternoon, just hours after the measure passed in the Senate. https://t.co/0nHvViwpZQ
— WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio (@WPLN) March 2, 2023
Lee says there's a big difference between wearing a dress at a high school football game and drag queens wearing a dress on stage.
Hella Skeleton, a drag performer in rural Middle Tennessee, says the line is not clear.
"For Bill Lee to say, 'You know, that was lighthearted when I did it,' that is absolutely absurd when a lot of drag is extremely lighthearted," Skeleton says. "Apparently when straight men dress up badly in drag, that's OK. But when gay and queer and trans people do it, that's not OK."
Republican State Rep. Jack Johnson co-sponsored the bill. He says, "We're protecting kids and families and parents who want to be able to take their kids to public places. We're not attacking anyone or targeting anyone."
Broad language worries advocates
The language of the bill has also drawn concern from the larger LGBTQ community. Drag performers are defined as "male or female impersonators." The ACLU of Tennessee's Henry Seaton says that could impact queer Tennesseans across the board, not just drag performers.
"It's ... this subtle and sinister way to further criminalize just being trans," Seaton says.
The ban could also have a chilling effect on Pride festivals. Outdoor drag is a staple in the Tennessee summer heat. While new laws typically go into effect on July 1, the bill was quietly amended in January to take effect April 1 — ahead of Pride month in June.
Tennessee Tech student Cadence Miller says his generation of queer people owe a lot to drag queens, and that it's no accident they're under threat now.
"Historically, drag has been such an integral part of queer culture," Miller says. "Trans drag performers who were like pioneers and us getting ... any type of queer rights, like at all."
Legal challenges ahead
The law calls drag shows "harmful to minors," but the state's American Civil Liberties Union says that the legal definition for "harmful to minors" is very narrow in Tennessee and only covers extreme sexual or violent content.
"The law bans obscene performances, and drag performances are not inherently obscene," says ACLU of Tennessee Legal Director Stella Yarbrough. The way the law is written, she says, should not make drag shows illegal in the state.
"However, we are concerned that government officials could easily abuse this law to censor people based on their own subjective viewpoints of what they deem appropriate."
Yarbrough says the ACLU will challenge the law if it is used to punish a drag performer or shut down a family-friendly LGBTQ event.
Impacts on local business and beyond
The measure refers to drag shows as "adult cabaret" that "appeal to a prurient nature." Nashville business owner David Taylor testified before the state legislature that the drag shows at his club are not sexually explicit:
"We know this because we have a Tennessee liquor license and are bound by Tennessee liquor laws. Our more than 20 years in business, we've not received a citation for one of our drag performers."
Taylor says the ban on drag will negatively impact Nashville's economy. Drag brunches in the city's bars are filled with bachelorette parties, and Music City's infamous fleet of party vehicles includes a drag queen-specific bus.
"My businesses alone have contributed more than $13 million to the state in the form of sales and liquor taxes since we opened," Taylor says.
This legislative session is the third year in a row that the statehouse has peeled back the rights of transgender Tennesseans. It has many trans people and families of trans kids wondering whether staying in the state is worth the fight.
"There's a lot of people who grew up here, and this is where their roots are. And it's really brutal to be faced with that sort of choice of, you know, you can either stay here and suffer or you can leave this home that you've created and all that you've invested in here," says drag performer Hella Skeleton. "So, yeah, it's a really tough choice."
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2023-03-03T04:54:35+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/health/health/2023-03-02/tennessee-becomes-the-first-state-to-pass-a-ban-on-public-drag-shows
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The Czech writer Milan Kundera was interested in big topics — sex, surveillance, death, totalitarianism. But his books always approached them with a sense of humor, a certain lightness. Kundera has died in Paris at the age of 94, the Milan Kundera Library said Wednesday.
Kundera's most popular book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, follows a tangle of lovers before and after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. It starts off ruminating on philosophy, but it has a conversational tone.
Kundera played with dichotomies — simple images against high-minded philosophy — presenting totalitarianism as both momentous and everyday. Sex being both deeply serious and kind of gross and funny.
"He's interested in what he calls the thinking novel," says Michelle Woods, who teaches literature at SUNY New Paltz. Woods wrote a book about the many translations of Kundera's work and she says Kundera thought readers should come to novels looking for more than just plot – they should leave with "more questions than answers."
Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929. His first book, The Joke, was a satirical take on totalitarian communism. The Czech government held up its publication, insisted that Kundera change a few things, but he refused. It was eventually published in 1967 to wide acclaim.
A year later, Czechoslovakia, which was in the middle of a cultural revolution, was invaded by the Soviet Union, and Kundera was blacklisted. His books were banned from stores and libraries. He was fired from his teaching job. He tried to stay in his home country but eventually left for France in 1975.
Kundera set Unbearable Lightness during this time in Czech history and the book was later made into a movie. Tomas — in the movie played by Daniel Day-Lewis — is a doctor who, amidst all this political turmoil and unrest, is busy juggling lovers.
The book coupled with his status as a writer-in-exile made Kundera popular across the globe — but Michelle Woods said he bristled at the fame.
"He really hated the idea that people were obsessed by the celebrity author," she says.
He didn't do many interviews and he didn't like being glorified. And even after being exiled from his home — he didn't like being seen as a dissident.
"It's maybe apocryphal, but apparently when he first went back to the Czech Republic he wore a disguise — a fake moustache and stuff, so he wouldn't be recognized," Woods says.
He was always interested in humor, especially in the face of something deathly serious. In a rare 1983 interview with the Paris Review, he said: "My lifetime ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form."
Mixing the two together, Milan Kundera believed, reveals something honest about our lives.
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2023-07-12T11:39:57+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-07-12/milan-kundera-who-wrote-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-dies-at-94
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Tennessee scores so many points so fast that the defense tends to be overshadowed, ignored until someone wonders how the Volunteers can play so many minutes a game.
Turns out the second-ranked Vols actually can play some defense too, despite being on the field more than all but five other FBS teams.
As Tennessee prepares to visit defending national champ Georgia (8-0, 5-0 SEC), the Volunteers are coming off arguably their best defensive performance this season. They smothered Will Levis, a projected first-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft, allowing 98 yards passing while picking him off three times.
Coach Josh Heupel said Monday that good teams get better during a season, and he sees a defense that keeps improving thanks to coordinator Tim Banks and secondary coach Willie Martinez with last week's 44-6 rout of Kentucky the latest example.
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“Last week, we were healthier than we were the week before,” Heupel said. “I feel like this week will be the healthiest that we’ve been in a while.”
The Vols (8-0, 4-0) rank first in the Southeastern Conference with a plus-8 margin in turnovers and have forced a league-best 16 turnovers.
They also are allowing just 92.9 yards rushing, which is second-stingiest in the SEC and ninth among Football Bowl Subdivision teams. They held LSU to 55 yards rushing, Alabama to 114 and Kentucky had just 107.
Worse, the Wildcats managed just 3.25 yards per play and 205 total yards against Tennessee, the fewest the Vols had allowed since Kentucky had 193 yards against them Nov. 29, 2008. The six points allowed was the fewest by an SEC opponent against the Vols since Mississippi State was routed 34-3 on Oct. 18, 2008.
Tennessee’s defensive line is anchored by senior Byron Young, who has five sacks, and Georgia coach Kirby Smart knows Rodney Garner, now coaching Tennessee’s defensive line, very well.
Garner was in his first year coaching Georgia’s defensive line and working as recruiting coordinator when Smart was finishing up his playing career with the Bulldogs. Garner was still there when Smart was a graduate assistant. When Smart coached running backs in 2005, Garner was Georgia’s assistant head coach.
Smart said Garner brings toughness and an old school approach about hitting people and playing physically. Garner also coaches hard, something that hasn’t changed in all his years of coaching.
“They’re not going to run from contact,” Smart said of the Vols. “They’re not going to shy from contact. They’re not going to back down from a challenge. And it’s not because of what they’re going to do this week, it’s because of the way he’s molded them and the way he’s coached them.”
The secondary has been Tennessee's biggest challenge where they were so banged-up that walk-on William Wright played late in the upset of Alabama. That unit was bolstered last week by the return of four-year starting Jaylen McCollough after missing two games following his arrest for felony aggravated assault.
Attorney Chloe Akers declined to comment to The Associated Press. A motion filed in McCollough's case last week argues the safety defended himself punching someone who refused to leave after walking into an apartment in the wrong building. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 10.
Junior defensive lineman Omari Thomas says the Tennessee defense just works every day trying to improve.
“It all works hand in hand that we all are just continuing to pull our end of the bargain and do what we have to do to get better," Thomas said.
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2022-11-01T22:53:52+00:00
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heraldcourier.com
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https://heraldcourier.com/vols-visit-georgia-coming-off-best-defensive-game/article_21485c7c-5a2e-11ed-b5c7-937822fabebb.html
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It’s a complete cliche that men don’t know how to dress. And not only do most men have enough sense of style that they don’t embarrass themselves, many can put together an unequivocally on-point look.
That said, most cliches contain a grain of truth. If your husband is one of those men who can’t tell the difference between magenta, pink and purple, he may need some help putting an outfit together. Many of the pieces we’ve included here can be worn well into spring as well.
In this article: Invachi Peacoat, Calvin Klein Dress Pants and Winterlace Beanie 12-Pack.
Parts of an outfit
For men, there are typically four main parts of an outfit:
- Top: This category contains everything you wear around the chest. This means every kind of shirt, but also other layers such as jackets or undershirts.
- Bottom: This category contains shorts, pants and underwear such as boxers.
- Shoes: This category contains, well, shoes. This means sneakers, dress, slide-ons and the like.
- Accessories: This category is much wider. It can mean bracelets and necklaces, rings for the fingers and ears, watches and hats, among others.
Best tops
Amazon Essentials Hooded Puffer Jacket
If your husband needs a casual look that keeps him warm, grab this. It has a hood to keep his head warm, roomy pockets on the side and a storage bag. It comes in six sizes and 23 styles.
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This button-down has a two-tone look around the collar and cuffs thanks to using a different material on the inside of the shirt. It comes in seven sizes and 18 styles.
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If you dislike the two-tone look, a more traditional button-down is in order for events that require more than your husband’s favorite hole-ridden T. It comes in seven sizes and 35 styles.
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Fair warning: Some men can’t pull off a peacoat. But for those who can, there’s hardly a more refined and stylish way for your man to keep warm. It comes in six sizes and 12 styles.
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This is typically worn as a second layer over a T-shirt or thinner long-sleeved shirt, but you can wear it solo if you like. It comes in six sizes and 10 styles.
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Best bottoms
Every man needs a simple pair of dress pants for business casual or semiformal events. It comes in 26 sizes and four colors.
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Whether your husband exercises by going on runs or just likes to lounge comfortably around the house, these joggers will keep him warm and snug. They come in five sizes and 12 styles.
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Some parts of the country aren’t cold enough during the winter to necessitate pants. If that’s where you live, these shorts are perfect for casual outings. They come in seven sizes and 22 styles.
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When in doubt, jeans go out. Whether it’s a casual trip for lunch, a way to dress down a button-down or for nailing the business casual look. It comes in 175 sizes, yes really, and 34 styles.
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Even when it’s too frosty for shorts, there are still plenty of reasons to have a good pair of sports shorts for indoor exercise. These come in five sizes and 15 styles.
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Best shoes
For those in drafty homes or with cold floors, such as tile or hardwood, a good pair of comfy slippers is a must. These come in seven sizes and two styles.
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Dress shoes are a must for men. You can’t wear only sneakers forever. These have a memory foam footbed for extra comfort and come in 12 sizes and eight styles.
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If you just need to make a quick trip to the mailbox or grocery store, having a pair of slip-on shoes is more than a little convenient. These come in several sizes and styles.
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When it’s time to work out, you need shoes that can support your foot through your extra-strenuous activities. Or maybe you just want comfy shoes. These come in 48 sizes and five styles.
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When the ice and snow start to melt, having footwear that can protect you from slipping and keep moisture out is a must. These come in 10 sizes and three styles.
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Best accessories
An Apple Watch is not only an excellent, functional accessory that’s easy to pair with any outfit, it also makes for a perfect gift. It comes in two sizes and four colors.
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Jecanori Titanium Steel Bracelet
It’s often the simplest accessories that make the most positive impact, and this bracelet holds to that. It comes in six styles and one size, but it’s adjustable and includes the tool you need to make those adjustments.
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Timex Expedition Scout 40 Watch
Apple Watches and other smartwatches are great, but they’re expensive enough to be outside many people’s price range. If that’s you, this watch is still more than enough to boost your husband’s outfit. It comes in eight styles.
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This 12-pack not only ensures your husband can mix and match to his current outfit requirements, it also means he can keep spares in various places in case of emergency. There are 10 packs available, each having a different assortment of colors.
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2023-03-01T09:16:51+00:00
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wric.com
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