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BRAINTREE, Mass., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Proving its commitment to providing best-in-class autism therapy, ABA Centers of America touts the successful outcomes of its data-driven "precepting" training program for its Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs). In addition to 100 of 113 of the company's RBTs passing their certification on the first try, 95 percent of RBTs who pass the special training report increased confidence in their ability to work with clients independently post-training. RBTs provide ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) therapy directly to children with autism, usually for several hours a day.
Precepting is a common practice in the medical field, where new nurses, for example, are required to complete specific tasks under the supervision of an experienced nurse. In the ABA Centers of America Precepting Program, after a thorough two weeks of study and classroom training at the company's own ABA Academy of Excellence, each RBT is paired with an experienced RBT preceptor. In therapy with a client, the new RBT must successfully complete 58 tasks in 6 categories to demonstrate competency.
"It's not just a trainee shadowing an established professional," said Julie Bazinet, Director of Training and Growth for ABA Centers of America. "We assess each trainee's progress with our onsite competency evaluation tool. We track their progress, score them, and analyze the data. If they don't achieve at least an 80-percent score on each of two precepting sessions, they have to go back to the Academy setting for more training."
Bazinet, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) with 18 years in the ABA field, designed the company's training program, including the innovative idea of adding precepting. "I learned about precepting from my parents," she said, adding that they were both medical professionals in fields that used precepting. "And then, while I was in the hospital having a baby, my nurse came in with a trainee who was precepting. While she was going through her tasks and commenting on the trainee's progress, I realized we could do the same thing with our trainees!"
The precepting program is a hit with the company's RBTs. "I felt way more prepared and comfortable actively using my knowledge in live sessions after precepting. It's the perfect opportunity to cement the material I learned in class," wrote one program graduate in an anonymous survey.
"Most staff training programs rely on lectures and presentations," said Janelle Guarino, Assistant Director of Training and a BCBA with the company. "That methodology is effective for transferring a certain amount of knowledge but ineffective at teaching trainees to perform effective clinical care."
Why doesn't every ABA agency follow similar training practices? "They don't have the resources that we have to dedicate to training," said Bazinet. "Our company places a high value on giving our team members the skills necessary to implement our therapy plans, which are critical to the health, well-being and successful outcomes of our clients with autism."
ABA Centers of America provides ABA therapy services for anyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder. We can help clients in their homes, our centers, schools, or anywhere in the community. ABA Centers of America is the Northeast's fastest-growing ABA provider, with multiple locations in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. For more information about ABA Centers of America, visit www.abacenters.com.
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TEMPE, Ariz., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bierman Autism Centers (Bierman) announced that they will be opening an autism center in Tempe, Arizona this July. Bierman's other Arizona location is in Scottsdale.
Bierman provides ABA therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy to children diagnosed with autism between the ages of 18 months to 9 years old. The center is designed to create a learning environment full of possibilities. It is built not only with spaces for therapy, but also areas to help build gross and fine motor skills, play skills, and peer interactions. Bierman accepts a variety of health insurances and will be located at 1729 W Greentree Dr, #103, Tempe, AZ 85284.
When asked about this center, Christina Barosky, BCBA, Bierman's Chief Clinical Officer said: "After our success at the Scottsdale center, I am excited that Bierman is opening up a second location in Arizona. We will be able to continue our mission to create progress and possibilities for children diagnosed with autism in Arizona. I am also excited to be able to grow our team! There are many excellent clinicians in the area who will help us continue to provide the highest quality of care."
Bierman understands that every child's learning needs are as unique as they are. The team strives to blur the boundaries between play and learning. This sets children on a path for success. The team believes in a "whole family" approach which means parents and caregivers are included in the treatment process through collaboration and training. Most importantly, Bierman is dedicated to making therapy a welcoming space for growth and continued learning for the children they serve.
Bierman Autism Centers is a place where kids as young as 18 months to 9 years of age engage in play to learn foundational skills they can build on such as self-advocacy and communication. They recognize that every kid's success is unique, and their one-on-one approach allows them to drive progress, measurable outcomes, while each child is advancing on their own terms.
With over 150 graduations, BIERMAN currently has centers, and is expanding in: Arizona, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. For more about Bierman Autism Centers visit www.biermanautism.com or contact marketing@biermanautism.com.
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New Instant Client Insights Case Monitor™ Helps Support Continuity of Government Benefits with Data-Driven Insights
ATLANTA, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) today announced the launch of Instant Client Insights (ICI) Case Monitor™ to help government health and human services agencies make quicker and more informed benefit decisions for the people they serve. Powered by the Equifax TotalVerify™ data hub, ICI Case Monitor is designed to conduct the traditional searches agencies currently use and monitor for potential beneficiary life changes.
ICI Case Monitor is the latest innovation demonstrating Equifax's commitment to serving hundreds of U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies. As an example, Equifax has supported the federally funded healthcare marketplace since its inception, and in 2022 fulfilled 45 million verifications in support of various government assistance programs.
After the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision ends on March 31, social service agencies will begin processing benefit redeterminations that were on hold throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced with a surge of redeterminations, as well as ongoing staffing shortages affecting many programs, social service agencies are seeking out meaningful solutions to help them process applications and redeterminations with greater efficiency and confidence, in order to support a more timely and streamlined process for the agencies and beneficiaries alike. State Medicaid partners, amongst other agencies, will be able to leverage data from solutions offered on the Equifax TotalVerify data hub to help provide effective and efficient determination and redetermination of benefits for millions of individuals, whether through the federal marketplace, state platforms or directly through Equifax.
"Millions of people rely on vital social service benefits every day, and we are proud to offer innovative solutions that can help agencies serve more people, more efficiently," said Mike Bromley, Vice President and General Manager of Equifax Government Solutions. "The solution provided by ICI Case Monitor can help agencies increase caseworker capacity, reduce program churn and support continuity of care for beneficiaries. Ultimately, we are helping the agencies to provide timely benefits to individuals in need and cost effectively administer their programs."
Through ICI Case Monitor, an agency will be able to conduct its initial searches plus receive alerts when a member of its population experiences certain changes that may impact benefit eligibility, either through direct verification or by notifying the agency that further investigation is needed. These changes are set to policy-specific thresholds as applicable to the agency seeking the information, helping promote timely benefit delivery and continuity of benefits to eligible beneficiaries throughout the benefit lifecycle.
In addition to Medicaid, ICI Case Monitor can also support agencies providing benefits under programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and more. ICI Case Monitor begins with the consumer's consent when they apply for social services, then notifies the agency only when a change relates to specific predefined criteria according to program and policy requirements.
ICI Case Monitor is one solution on the ICI platform powered by the TotalVerify data hub, which brings together The Work Number® and other Equifax data sources into one delivery platform, which can help streamline the benefit eligibility process, from application through renewal. ICI Case Monitor is available now for federal, state and local health and human services agencies. To learn more about the full ICI suite of products, visit Equifax.com.
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MADRID (AP) — Amazon and Apple were fined a total of 194 million euros ($218 million) Tuesday for colluding to box out competitors by favoring sales of Apple products directly from the online retail giant, Spain’s antitrust watchdog said.
Amazon and Apple reached agreements in 2018 that limited the free competition of third-party sellers who hawk Apple goods through Amazon’s platform for smaller retailers, according to Spain’s National Markets and Competition Commission, which oversees Spanish markets for antitrust violations.
“The investigated behaviors could be restricting competition in the sectors of the Internet sale of electronic products, and the provision of marketing services to third-party retailers through online platforms (Marketplace) in Spain,” the regulator said.
The tech giants also limited the capacity for third parties to advertise Apple products on Amazon, according to Spanish regulators. In addition, the companies are accused of reaching a deal that limited Amazon’s ability to direct advertising toward customers of Apple products or offer them products of competing electronics makers.
As a result, the watchdog said 90% of the third-party sellers of Apple products prior to the renewal of the Amazon-Apple distribution deal were forced off Amazon’s platform.
Apple was fined 143.6 million euros ($161 million), while Amazon received a fine of 50.5 million euros ($56.7 million).
The companies both said they planned to appeal.
“We also disagree with the Competition Authority’s suggestion that Amazon benefits by excluding sellers from our store,” Amazon said in a statement, adding that its business model relies on the success of its sellers, most of which are small businesses.
Amazon said customers benefited from the 2018 agreement with more listings of and bigger discounts for iPads and iPhones.
Apple said one of its objectives for signing the agreement was to combat counterfeiting and safety problems. It noted that prior to the deal, it had sent Amazon hundreds of takedown notices for dodgy products.
“We stand behind our efforts to protect consumers,” Apple said.
Europe has led the way in cracking down on Big Tech companies over allegations of abusing their dominant market positions, with numerous antitrust investigations launched by the European Union and national authorities.
Two years ago, Italy fined Apple and Amazon more than 200 million euros for using the 2018 agreement to restrict competition in the sale of Apple- and Beats-branded products, in violation of EU rules. | 2023-07-19T16:22:37+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/technology/ap-technology/ap-spain-fines-apple-and-amazon-218-million-for-elbowing-out-small-retailers/ |
LAVAL, Quebec (AP) — Grief-stricken people dropped off flowers and stuffed animals Thursday outside a Quebec daycare center that was smashed into by a city bus, killing two children and sending six to hospitals.
André Beaudoin, a father of a 2-year-old boy who attends the center in Laval, a town north of Montreal, was back a day after he pushed through debris to help pull injured children from under the bus that rammed into the building.
“I managed to get four out. The last girl … her head was stuck really bad,” he told reporters.
Beaudoin said that Wednesday morning he had just parked his car to drop off his son when he saw the bus barrel into the daycare center. He said he ran into the building and although most of the children had already left the building, “We heard the screams” of trapped children.
“I was the first under the bus …," he said. "I have kids … so to me, there are kids under the bus, you have to get them out. No matter what happens.”
Large sheets of plywood covered the damaged wall Thursday, next to a cheerful sign with pink letters bearing the name of the center, Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose. Piles of debris from the damaged roof and interior lay in the snow.
People, many in tears, stopped by to pay their respects and add to the growing memorial of flowers and stuffed toys in a snowbank outside the center where two 4-year-olds died in the incident.
Two of the six children had been released from the hospital, while four youngsters remained under treatment, Montreal health officials said.
Montreal’s Sainte-Justine children’s hospital said in a statement that two children remaining there were in a “favorable” state of health. Two youngters remained at a Laval hospital, and doctors said their lives were not in danger.
Pierre Ny St-Amand, a 51-year-old driver with the Laval transit corporation, was arrested at the scene Wednesday. He faces two counts of first-degree murder as well as seven other charges, including attempted murder and aggravated assault.
Authorities said Thursday that they were still trying to understand what could have led someone to drive a bus into the daycare center.
“The motive remains incomprehensible still today,” Public Security Minister François Bonnardel told reporters in Quebec City.
Asked what authorities could have done to prevent the incident, Bonnardel said: “No one can predict this kind of event. No one can predict that someone gets up in the morning, takes off with a bus and decides to hit a daycare with a bus.”
Witnesses said the driver was delirious after exiting the bus, tore off his clothes and screamed as several people restrained him on the ground until police arrived.
Late Wednesday, a police cruiser and two officers were stationed outside St-Amand’s home on a quiet suburban street about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the daycare center. Several neighbors described hime as a quiet, pleasant father of two young girls.
One man, Thanh-Ry Tran, said his family got together with St-Amand’s family a few times a year, adding that their wives would sometimes help each other in picking up or dropping off children. He said St-Amand had never shown signs of distress.
Lionel Carmant, the government minister responsible for social services, told reporters in Quebec City that regional health officials in Laval found no evidence that St-Armand had received care for mental health issues.
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Orangeburg folks should be prepared for high temperatures. It looks like it will be a balmy 83 degrees. A 59-degree low is forecasted. It should be a fairly cloudless day. The forecast is calling for clear skies. The sunshine will be intense today; high UV indexes are forecasted. The sun's rays will be intense. Stay in the shade as much as possible. Wear sunglasses, a hat and sunscreen when in sunlight. The Orangeburg area should see a light breeze, with forecast showing winds from the South, clocking in at 9 mph. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. For more daily forecast information, visit thetandd.com.
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BROWNFIELD, Texas — Optimum announced in a press release the launch of fiber internet and mobile services in Brownfield and Hereford. Optimum said an Internet + Mobile bundle would make customers eligible for monthly savings.
“We are committed to being the new connectivity provider of choice in Brownfield and Hereford, and we look forward to providing these communities with services that keep them connected to the people, things, and experiences that they value most for many years to come,” said Leroy Williams, Chief Growth Officer for Optimum.
For more information from Optimum, click here. | 2023-07-05T21:16:05+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/optimum-launches-fiber-internet-and-mobile-service-in-brownfield/ |
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tenth-seeded Jannick Sinner of Italy stunned top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz on Friday night in the Miami Open semifinals, rallying from a set down to beat the defending champion, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2 in a three-hour thriller.
Sinner ended Alcaraz’s winning streak at 10 matches before a packed house at Hard Rock Stadium.
Sinner’s powerfully steady baseline game wore down Alcaraz, who appeared to be cramping early in the decisive third set while he also dealt with an apparent finger injury. He will lose the No. 1 ranking to Novak Djokovic.
Alcaraz said the cramping began after taking his five-minute bathroom break after losing the second set. “When you stop for five minutes, I know it wasn’t good for me,’’ said Alcaraz, who committed nine double faults and 27 unforced errors. “I struggled with some problems.’’
Sinner, the 21-year-old who made the Miami Open final last year but hasn’t been past the quarterfinals of a major, will face fourth-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia in the championship match Sunday. Medvedev has beaten Sinner in all five meetings.
Alcaraz had been so dominant recently, he hadn’t lost a set since February before Sinner’s rally in the Miami humidity. The Alcaraz hype train has been so breakaway NBA stars Luka Doncic and Jimmy Butler showed up to watch the Spanish star from the teal seats.
Alcaraz also fought Sinner in Indian Wells in the semifinals, and it was a taut match but not quite like this. These two young guns are poised for a long and spectacular rivalry. Sinner’s victory ended Alcaraz’s hope of becoming the first man since Roger Federer in 2017 to win the Sunshine Double of Indian Wells and Miami.
“For sure it’s one of the best wins,’’ Sinner said. “I changed a couple of things from Indian Wells to here.’’ Sinner declined to discuss the tactical switch but said he feels Alcaraz will likely adjust, too.
Medvedev beat fellow Russian Karen Khachanov 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 on the same day Wimbledon announced Russians will be allowed back.
Medvedev has won 23 of 24 matches — the lone loss to Alcaraz — and is in his fifth straight final.
Also Friday, No. 15 seed Petra Kvitova beat unseeded Sorana Cirstea 7-5, 6-3 in the second women’s semifinal. Kvitova will face Elena Rybakina in the final.
Alcaraz prevailed in the first set in a tiebreaker but that took a lot out of Alcaraz’s 19-year-old legs. It included a wondrous, 25-stroke rally midway through the first set with Sinner up 4-2. Sinner crushed a backhand passing shot past a diving Alcaraz as a standing ovation ensued.
“The first thing that came to mind was that guy is invincible,’’ said Alcaraz, who converted just 3 of 12 break points.
Between points early in the third set, Alcaraz was stretching noticeably and waved to the crowd for support. Alcaraz said the cramps started to ease and didn’t blame it on the defeat.
“In the second set, I saw him struggling and I tried to push, especially in the first game,’’ Sinner said.
Despite Alcaraz getting the second set back on serve, Sinner stunned Alcaraz in the ninth game, breaking him at love to go up 5-4 and then closing it out. Alcaraz had won 21 straight sets.
An ATP trainer came out to attend to Alcaraz midway through the second set, examining one of his fingers before the cramps set in.
Asked how he deals with this type of defeat, the Spaniard said, “After the match, like the 15, 25 minutes I can’t talk to anyone. … But after 20 minutes, I start thinking about positive things.’’ ___
AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-01T12:40:05+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/daniil-medvedev-advances-to-miami-open-final/ |
JEROME, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a old Arizona mining town that gets 1 million tourists annually are warning residents to stop yelling at visitors or they could face harrassment charges.
Jerome, population about 450, was once home to one of Arizona’s largest copper mines and is now an hub for artists. Tourists take in its scenic views and visit stores and bars along the winding mountain road that passes through it.
But Jerome police said on Facebook this week that it “has come to our attention that some people visiting our town on short visits and using lawful short term parking passes are being yelled at or having notes left on their cars by local residents.”
And it warned: “Yelling at, or leaving notes could, in some cases, constitute harassment under Arizona Revised Statutes.”
Jerome is about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Phoenix and was designated a National Historic District in 1967.
Residents who think people may have violated parking regulations were asked to contact police. | 2022-07-15T01:37:19+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/stop-yelling-at-tourists-say-police-in-arizona-destination/ |
WINCHESTER, Va., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Ridge Hospice has named veteran fundraiser Dawn Draayer its Director of Development, where she will be responsible for programs supporting major giving, legacy donations, and corporate partnerships, as well as fundraising events. She also will lead development of new fundraising campaigns designed to support the organization's growth as a future-maker for the northern Shenandoah Valley and northwestern Virginia.
"Dawn has a passion for building lasting relationships with donors and a commitment to establishing sustainable giving," explained Chief Business Development Officer Jason Parsons, who worked with her previously at Capital Caring Health, Falls Church, Va.
Draayer's commitment to hospice fundraising stems from that work at Capital Caring Health, where she served as Major and Corporate Gifts Officer. In that role, she took the organization's fundraising to new heights, securing major gifts for naming at several care centers, including the Adler Center in Aldie, Va. She also established a new corporate partnership/sponsorship program and expanded a business networking event series for donors and supporters to build long-term sustained giving in support of patient care.
Draayer more recently served as Director of Engagement at The Arc Montgomery County in Maryland, where she developed a new major gift program, conceptualized and launched the organization's 's first legacy society, built a corporate partnership program, and oversaw development communications, a grants program, and the volunteer program.
Draayer's experience also encompasses veteran's causes and policy work. She previously worked as Development Programs Manager for the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va., and Director of Individual Giving at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
"Hospice fundraising is personal for me," Draayer says. It's all about building connections and relationships with people at a profound level. Hospice creates a sense of community and I care deeply about that as well as seeing the impact that philanthropy can play in the lives of the people around me, especially those who need it most."
Draayer earned her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., with a major in Asian Studies and a concentration in Economics. She also has an International Baccalaureate from the United World College of Southeast Asia in Singapore.
Draayer is delighted to return to fundraising in Virginia, where her 24-year-old son lives.
About Blue Ridge Hospice
Blue Ridge Hospice is a community-based, not-for-profit serious illness and end-of-life care provider that has been serving friends and neighbors across the northern Shenandoah Valley since 1981. With a mission of "brightening life's journey with quality and compassionate care for all whom we are privileged to serve," Blue Ridge Hospice serves Winchester City and the northern Virginia counties of Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, and Warren. Accredited by The Joint Commission, Blue Ridge Hospice consistently exceeds the national averages for quality as reported on Medicare's Hospice Compare website. To learn more about Blue Ridge Hospice visit www.brhospice.org, or call 540-313-9200.
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge on Friday declined to put her order that allowed enforcement of a pre-statehood law making it a crime to provide an abortion on hold, saying abortion right groups that asked her to block the order are not likely to prevail on appeal.
The ruling from Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson means the state’s abortion providers will not be able to restart procedures. Abortions were halted on Sept. 23 when Johnson ruled that a 1973 injunction must be lifted so that the Civil War-era law could be enforced.
Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich sought the order lifting the injunction. Attorneys with his office told the judge that, since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 decision said women do not have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, there was no legal reason to block the old law.
Planned Parenthood and its Arizona affiliate had urged Johnson to keep the injunction issued shortly after Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. They argued that laws enacted by the state Legislature in the ensuing 50 years should take precedence.
Planned Parenthood’s lawyers on Monday asked Johnson to put her ruling on hold to allow an appeal.
Before last Friday’s ruling allowing enforcement of the old law, abortions were legal in Arizona until the fetus was viable, usually at about 24 weeks of pregnancy. But on Saturday, a law enacted by the state Legislature last spring banning abortion at 15 weeks took effect.
Gov. Doug Ducey has said that law takes precedence, but his lawyers did not seek to argue that position in court. Brnovich and some Republican lawmakers insist the old law is in force.
Brittany Fonteno, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Arizona, said she was “outraged” by the ruling.
“It is impermissible that Arizonans are waking up each morning to their elected officials making conflicting statements about which laws are in effect or claiming that they do not know, and yet the court has refused to provide any clarity or relief,” Fonteno said.
Some clinics in Arizona have been referring patients to providers in California and New Mexico since Johnson lifted the injunction on the old law, and they were prepared to restart abortions. The pre-statehood law carries a sentence of two to five years in prison for doctors or anyone else who assists in an abortion. Last year, the Legislature repealed a law allowing charges against women who seek abortions
Ashleigh Feiring, a nurse at abortion provider Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, said her office will keep looking for ways to serve patients.
“We’re trying to think of everything we can to get loopholes in the law,” Feiring said Friday, adding that the facility would be willing to once again provide the procedure.
Feiring said her office continues to do post-miscarriage care and provide patients with ultrasounds so they know how many weeks pregnant they may be. That’s important, because abortion pills can only be used in the first 10-12 weeks of a pregnancy.
Feiring said some patients are able to get an abortion pill prescription from a provider in Sweden and get it filled through the mail by a pharmacy in India, but that takes about three weeks. Arizona law bans delivery of the abortion pill through the mail, and U.S. providers generally will not take that risk.
Since Roe was overturned, Arizona and 13 other states have banned abortions at any stage of pregnancy. About 13,000 people in Arizona get an abortion each year, according to Arizona Department of Health Services reports. | 2022-10-01T11:58:56+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-arizona-judge-wont-suspend-ruling-that-halted-all-abortions/ |
Winona man is charged with a child sex crime in Lafayette County
WINONA, Miss. (WCBI) – A Winona man is charged with a child sex crime in Lafayette County.
27-year-old Decarlos Carruth is charged with enticement of a child to meet for lustful purposes and sexual battery of a minor.
Today, Lafayette County deputies came across a suspicious vehicle in the area of Highway 7 South.
Investigators say deputies found Carruth and a juvenile in that vehicle.
After more investigation Carruth was arrested.
He remains in jail on a $50,000 bond. | 2022-07-01T00:09:31+00:00 | wcbi.com | https://www.wcbi.com/winona-man-is-charged-with-a-child-sex-crime-in-lafayette-county/ |
LAS VEGAS — A frenzied race for Nevada's U.S. Senate seat is shaping up to be one of the closest in the country and both candidates hope their messages on abortion, immigration, inflation or public safety will tip the balance in their favor.
The stakes for Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican challenger Adam Laxalt are especially high. The winner could determine which party controls the Senate and the GOP considers Nevada one of its best opportunities to turn a blue seat into red.
The race has become increasingly neck-and-neck in recent weeks, with many polls showing the candidates just a percentage point or two apart. As Election Day draws near, both are continuing to follow the same campaign playbooks as their national parties, with Cortez Masto rallying voters around threats to abortion access and Laxalt focusing on the economy.
“We don’t need any more male politicians telling women what we can and can’t do with our own bodies,” Cortez Masto wrote in a post pinned to the top of her Twitter account in September. She has echoed the refrain in several campaign ads, contending Laxalt would support increased abortion restrictions — and perhaps a nationwide ban — if elected to Congress.
Laxalt, meanwhile, has the endorsement of the anti-abortion group National Right to Life and has called himself “pro-life.” In a June news release, Laxalt called the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade “a historic victory for the sanctity of life.”
He has said the change is “settled law” because Nevada voters had already made abortion legal, but he also expressed support for a referendum that would restrict abortion after 13 weeks instead of the 24-week limit currently allowed by the state constitution.
If the Republican Party can flip just one Senate seat, they will win control of the chamber, along with the power to control judicial nominations and policy debates through 2024.
Still, Laxalt’s campaign has worked to keep the focus on issues like immigration and the economy rather than abortion. He has repeatedly cited rising gas prices and inflation as reasons voters should choose him over Cortez Masto.
“At some gas stations in Reno, gas prices have soared to $7 per gallon,” his campaign wrote in an early October news release. The statement attempted to pin the prices on Cortez Masto's votes on energy issues, such as her efforts to limit oil and gas leasing on lands with “low or no” potential for development.
Cortez Masto is a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, as well as the finance, Indian affairs and banking, housing and urban affairs committees.
Both candidates have used their experience as former attorneys general — Laxalt from 2015 to 2019 and Cortez Masto from 2007 to 2015 before becoming senator in 2017 — to demonstrate their support for law enforcement.
Laxalt has been endorsed by the Nevada Fraternal Order of Police and the Public Safety Alliance of Nevada. Cortez Masto has the endorsement of the Nevada Police Union, the Nevada Law Enforcement Coalition and the Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers.
In early October, Cortez Masto announced she helped to secure more than $21 million in federal funding that would go to police departments, state government agencies and tribes to boost law enforcement efforts and criminal justice programs.
They have each have sought to court veterans, with Laxalt highlighting his service as a U.S. Navy judge advocate general in Iraq and an assistant professor of law at the U.S. Naval Academy. Cortez Masto has talked about legislation she helped get through Congress, including a bill guaranteeing health benefits and compensation for veterans exposed to Agent Orange and others to protect VA benefits for student veterans and improve access to mental health services.
Cortez Masto has had a hugely successful fundraising campaign, raising more than $44 million and spending all but about $5 million by the end of September, according to OpenSecrets, an organization that tracks campaign finance and spending data.
Laxalt brought in more than $13 million and spent about $9 million during the same time period but was aided by an influx of political action committee funding. Outside groups spent more than $39 million opposing Cortez Masto and roughly $29 million opposing Laxalt, according to OpenSecrets.
Some of that money focused on Spanish-language advertisements. The spending was an attempt to sway Latinos, who account for roughly four in 10 Nevada residents. Cortez Masto became the first Latina elected to Congress in 2016.
Nevada has rejected every GOP presidential candidate since 2004, but by increasingly narrow margins. In 2020, President Joe Biden won by only 2.4 percentage points.
Laxalt has close ties to Trump. He co-chaired Trump's 2020 reelection campaign in Nevada and later promoted lies about the election, spearheading legal challenges to the vote-counting process. Trump has visited Nevada twice to stump for Laxalt and GOP gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo, who is running against Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak.
This week former President Barack Obama announced plans to visit southern Nevada on Nov. 1 to rally for Cortez Masto, Sisolak and other Democratic incumbents in the state. Democrats hope the visit will inject enthusiasm into the race and drive Democratic voters to the polls. | 2022-10-21T17:19:09+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/control-of-us-senate-could-come-down-to-nevada-race/507-71432a15-bd90-4843-b07c-1e1755a33144 |
During Monday's Battle Rounds on season 22 of The Voice, new coach Camila Cabello was reunited with the singer that made her blush during the Blind Auditions!
Jaeden Luke, 22, took the stage for a Team Blake battle against bodie, with the pair performing "As Long As You Love Me" by Justin Bieber. While both singers wowed all four of the coaches, it was Jaeden who had Camila's ear once again.
"Your tone is so beautiful," she gushed. "I wanna hear it in my ear -- just kidding -- I want to hear it on a record. I think you as an artist, as the whole package, is special. And, you're my boyfriend!"
Coach Blake Shelton declared bodie the winner of the Battle, but Jaeden didn't have to go far before both Camila and Gwen Stefani hit their buttons to steal him to their own teams.
"Jaeden, you know that we have something special," Camila said, pleading her case. "I think that your voice is really special, and I think it would be interesting to see what we could do together... Also, if you don't, then I will break up with you."
"I can't say no to my girlfriend," Jaeden replied with a laugh, choosing to join Team Camila.
"He was a good boyfriend," his new coach told the cameras afterward. "I would have broken up with him if he had picked Gwen."
"Camila was able to play the 'I'm single, come whisper that song in my ear' card," Blake teased after the showdown. "Thank god Gwen didn't play that card. That would have been embarrassing for me."
This encounter came after Jaeden wooed Camila and wowed the other coaches with his rendition of Bread's "Make It With You" during the Blinds. Unfortunately, Camila and Gwen couldn't press their buttons for the singer at the time because their teams were full -- but Jaeden made it clear that he would definitely have been Team Camila if given the opportunity.
"Gwen should steal you first, but if she doesn't, I'll save you, baby," Camila told the singer.
"Thanks for saying baby," he replied. "I might have been singing it for you."
"Oh my god!" Camila said, blushing. "Wow, Jaeden! Jaeden, you're making my whole day! You're so cute and talented, and I like your style."
The Voice airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. PT/ET on NBC. See more from this season in the video below!
RELATED CONTENT: | 2022-10-18T12:48:18+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/the-voice-camila-cabello-steals-boyfriend-jaeden-luke-in-the-battle-rounds/603-f2efd24c-a0a0-45d8-aa20-3321eaec97dc |
WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Saturday, September 10, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
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358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
WAZ026-112300-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke. Highs in the
upper 80s to lower 90s. Light wind, becoming southeast 5 to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Haze through the night. Areas of smoke
overnight. Lows in the 60s. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke in the morning.
A chance of rain showers in the morning, then a chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the 80s. Northwest
wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s to lower
60s. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s. West wind
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s to upper 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
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Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, becoming sunny. Areas of
smoke. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Light wind, becoming
southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Haze in the evening. Areas of smoke
through the night. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. Light wind,
becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph overnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of smoke in the morning. A
20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. West wind 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. West wind 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
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Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Haze and areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 80s
to lower 90s. Light wind, becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke. Lows in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Light wind, becoming west 5 to 10 mph
overnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke in the morning.
Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
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Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of smoke. Highs in the lower 90s. South
wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke. Lows in the upper 50s
to lower 60s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of smoke in the morning. Highs in
the mid to upper 80s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
South wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Highs in
the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
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Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Haze and areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 70s
to mid 80s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, becoming mostly cloudy.
Areas of smoke through the night. Haze overnight. Lows in the
lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of smoke in the morning. Highs in
the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the 60s, except in the upper 60s to
mid 70s valleys.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Highs in
the 60s, except in the mid 60s to mid 70s valleys.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. Highs in the lower to mid 60s, except in
the mid 60s to lower 70s valleys.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower to mid 60s, except in the upper 60s
to lower 70s valleys.
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East Slopes of the Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke. Highs in the
upper 70s to upper 80s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke through the
night. A 20 percent chance of rain showers overnight. Lows in the
mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke in the morning.
A chance of rain showers in the morning, then a chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s to
lower 80s, except in the upper 70s to mid 80s valleys. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s, except in the
70s valleys.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
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WAZ521-112300-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
358 AM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke. Highs in the upper 80s to
lower 90s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke. Lows in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Haze and areas of smoke in the morning.
A chance of rain showers in the morning, then a chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid
80s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s to mid 50s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
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Abbott recently announced it's restarting production at its Michigan factory tied to an ongoing U.S. baby formula shortage. The plant was closed since February due to contamination, ahead of nationwide supply problems for formulas needed to feed infants.
President Joe Biden said recently he wasn't briefed on the prospect of nationwide shortages of infant formula for around two months.
In an ongoing effort to soften the crisis, the White House shared an announcement on Monday from the USDA offering a nationwide waiver for infant formula.
Stacy Dean, USDA’s deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition, and consumer services said the agency "is committed to providing our WIC families with nutritious foods, and while we continue working with our many partners to bring the infant formula shortages to a speedy conclusion, we’re also going to keep looking for ways to help families here and now.”
Read the full release here:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 6, 2022
USDA Offering Nationwide Waiver for Infant Formula
Expanded flexibilities will provide widest access to both U.S.-produced and imported formulas for families in need
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering nationwide waivers to increase access to infant formula for families in need as states receive and distribute imported infant formula made available by the Biden-Harris Administration’s Operation Fly Formula.
USDA is leveraging new authority from the recently passed Access to Baby Formula Act to offer this flexibility.
“USDA is committed to providing our WIC families with nutritious foods, and while we continue working with our many partners to bring the infant formula shortages to a speedy conclusion, we’re also going to keep looking for ways to help families here and now,” said Stacy Dean, USDA’s deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition, and consumer services. “We’re maximizing flexibility, encouraging action, and providing ongoing support so we can all overcome this obstacle together.”
The action builds on existing flexibilities to provide widest access to available infant formula for WIC families. Within days of the recall, USDA offered WIC state agencies waivers to maximize formula options for WIC participants and ensure they could exchange or return any recalled formula. To date, USDA has approved well over 250 state waiver requests.
In addition, Food and Nutrition Service recently encouraged state agencies to work with their infant formula manufacturers to identify and implement temporary flexibility in their contracts to allow WIC participants to purchase alternate sizes, forms, or brands of infant formula during the ongoing shortage. North Carolina and its formula manufacturer, Nestle Gerber, are the first to have put this into action by agreeing to a contract modification that expands access to formula for WIC participants in the state.
“When formula supply began to tighten, we looked at all avenues to ensure safe and nutritious options for North Carolina babies and families,” said North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody H. Kinsley. “We immediately began working with our federal partners and with our contracted WIC manufacturer, Nestle Gerber, to give families in the WIC program the flexibility to choose different sizes, types and brands of formula during the shortage. We negotiated and implemented these changes as quickly as possible to relieve some of the stress that WIC-participating families felt.”
Food and Nutrition Service is encouraged by the action taken by North Carolina. “We are grateful for the leadership and teamwork of North Carolina and Nestle Gerber to increase formula access for WIC families in their state,” said Dean. The agency recently shared best practices with WIC state agencies to help them establish contract flexibilities that will help WIC participants access the formula they need.
USDA continues to work closely with HHS and FDA and the administration to support WIC families through this challenging time and to bring to a swift end to the shortage. Recent USDA actions include:
- Coordinating cross-government to rapidly transport safe specialty formulas into the country for babies with special medical needs through Operation Fly Formula. More shipments, including regular formula, are on the way in the coming days.
- Calling on states to take advantage of all available WIC flexibilities that could help those they serve. Since May 13, when USDA wrote to state health commissioners on this issue, more than 50 new waivers have been requested and approved, with all 50 states now offering at least one flexibility to help WIC families get the formula they need.
- Engaging directly with WIC stakeholders including holding multiple listening sessions to better understand current needs and concerns.
- USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service leverages its 15 nutrition assistance programs to ensure that children, low-income individuals, and families have opportunities for a better future through equitable access to safe, healthy, and nutritious food, while building a more resilient food system. Under the leadership of Secretary Tom Vilsack, FNS is fighting to end food and nutrition insecurity for all through programs such as SNAP, school meals, and WIC. FNS also provides science-based nutrition recommendations through the co-development of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. To learn more, visit www.fns.usda.gov and follow @USDANutrition. | 2022-06-06T23:22:20+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/white-house-announces-usda-nationwide-infant-formula-waiver-program |
Senegal is widely seen as a peaceful and stable democracy in West Africa, but the arrest of a prominent journalist has sparked unrest and fears that government critics are being targeted.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Senegal is widely seen as a peaceful and stable democracy in West Africa, but the arrest of a prominent journalist has sparked unrest and fears that government critics are being targeted.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-01-07T13:55:59+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/2023-01-07/the-arrest-of-a-prominent-journalist-in-senegal-has-sparked-unrest-and-fears |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
2-7-5, FIREBALL: 3
(two, seven, five; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
2-7-5, FIREBALL: 3
(two, seven, five; FIREBALL: three) | 2022-09-04T04:01:03+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17418302.php |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeowners who held off on selling their home in 2022 as the housing market slowed missed out on a windfall and may have to settle for slimmer profits if they opt to sell this year.
The sale of a median-priced U.S. home last year translated into a profit of $112,000, a 21% increase from a year earlier and the largest on records going back at least to 2008, according to a report released Thursday by Attom, a real estate data tracker.
“It seems pretty likely that home seller profits peaked for this cycle in 2022,” said Rick Sharga, Attom’s executive vice president of market intelligence.
Years of soaring prices powered the big profits for U.S. home sellers last year, ensuring outsized gains even as sharply higher mortgage rates knocked the housing market into a skid.
Long-term homeowners who decide to sell this year should also benefit from more than a decade of rising home values, but the likelihood that home prices will fall further this year sets the stage for more modest gains.
“Median prices have declined on a monthly basis since mortgage rates doubled between January (2022) and October, and are likely to decline further in many markets across the country in 2023, reducing profitability for home sellers,” Sharga said.
Surging mortgage rates and sky high prices last year slammed the brakes on what had been a red-hot housing market during the first two years of the pandemic. Home sales cratered as higher borrowing costs combined with years of rising home prices pushed homeownership out of reach for many Americans, especially first-time buyers.
Homeowners who sold last year still reaped the financial rewards from years of home equity gains, however. The return on investment for a median-priced U.S. home sold last year was a whopping 51.4%, up from 44.6% in 2021, Attom found.
The Irvine, California-based firm calculated the return on investment by comparing the sale of a median-priced U.S. home in 2022 to the previous median purchase price.
The national median home price has more than doubled since 2012, when the U.S. housing market was just beginning to recover from the bursting of the housing bubble and Great Recession. It rose 10% last year to $330,000, an all-time high, according to Attom.
Still, that gain is below 2021’s 17.6% rise, when the housing market was still being fueled by historically low mortgage rates.
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage hit a two-decade high of 7.08% last fall as the Federal Reserve continued to boost its key lending rate in a quest to cool the economy and tame inflation.
Mortgage rates have been falling in recent weeks. The average rate on a 30-year home loan slipped to 6.15% this week, the lowest since September, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the average rate was 3.56%. | 2023-01-27T13:01:09+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-us-home-sellers-get-while-the-gettins-good/ |
Partnership Will Strategically Expand Company's Geographic Footprint and Digital Service Offerings
ATLANTA and NEW YORK, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparq (or the "Company"), a leading U.S.-based provider of outsourced digital engineering for technology driven and Fortune 1000 companies, today announced that funds managed by Harvest Partners Ascend, LP ("Harvest Partners Ascend") have acquired a majority stake in the Company. The partnership will allow Sparq to further scale its operations and digital service offerings and create high-quality technology career opportunities in places where they otherwise might not exist. Bain Capital Double Impact, Sparq's current investment partner since 2019, will remain an investor in the Company. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2004 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Sparq empowers agile and experienced software engineering teams across the country with a disciplined, product-oriented approach and the collaborative infrastructure to meet and exceed customer needs. The Company offers a growing suite of software engineering capabilities including product strategy and design, digital engineering, application modernization, artificial intelligence solutions and data and analytics services. Sparq will continue to operate under the current management team, who remain significant investors in the business.
"We've been impressed by the Harvest Partners Ascend team's industry knowledge, expertise, and record of success, and believe we've found the right partner to help us scale the business to the next level," said Monty Hamilton, CEO of Sparq. "This partnership will help to drive our expansion into new geographies and add new high-value digital and product engineering capabilities as we continue to build Sparq into a leading provider of outsourced digital engineering for technology driven and Fortune 1000 companies. We are grateful to Bain Capital Double Impact for their support and partnership to date."
Digital transformation, through fully outsourced product engineering, is a long-term investment theme for the Harvest Partners Ascend team, and the firm views Sparq as a highly attractive platform to accelerate growth through a buy and build strategy. "We look forward to supporting Sparq as it executes its strategic roadmap of investing in next-generation digital capabilities and technology talent," said Justin Lipton, Partner and Co-Head of Harvest Partners Ascend. "Sparq's unique culture and client first approach will continue to be the foundation of the Company in the future. We are excited to partner with Monty and the Sparq management team on its next phase of growth."
"Since inception, Sparq has been deeply committed to enabling economic opportunity by creating high-quality technology careers in communities outside of traditional technology corridors," said Iain Ware, a Partner at Bain Capital Double Impact. "It's been a privilege to partner with Monty and the management team to significantly scale Sparq's mission over the past four years, and we are pleased to continue to support the Company's growth trajectory alongside our new partners at Harvest Partners Ascend."
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. served as financial advisor and Morris, Manning, & Martin LLP provided legal representation to Sparq. William Blair served as financial advisor and Ropes & Gray LLP represented Harvest Partners Ascend.
About Sparq
Sparq is a leading provider of outsourced digital engineering to build, deploy and support digital applications, products, and experiences. Sparq's unique U.S.-centric, 100% remote delivery model accesses untapped and underleveraged technology talent, and eliminates the obstacles of distant time zones, language, and geopolitical risks. Scrum-as-a-Service®, Sparq's unique engagement framework for Agile software engineering, provides rapid and flexible deployment of multidisciplinary teams via an elastic consumption model and predictable monthly pricing. The Company provides world-class solutions for technology-driven and Fortune 1000 clients across various industries including Logistics and Transportation, Healthcare, High-Tech and Financial Services. For more information, please visit www.teamsparq.com.
About Harvest Partners Ascend
Harvest Partners Ascend was launched by Harvest Partners, LP in 2022 to act on compelling platform investment opportunities at the lower end of the middle market. It focuses on investments in lower middle market companies in the business and technology services sectors. Founded in 1981, Harvest Partners, LP is an established New York-based private equity investment firm that focuses on investments in middle-market companies in the business services & industrial services, consumer, healthcare, industrials and software industries. For more information, please visit www.harvestpartners.com
About Bain Capital Double Impact
Bain Capital Double Impact is the impact investing strategy of Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm. Bain Capital Double Impact leverages deep industry experience and an active, value-added approach to build great companies that deliver both competitive financial returns and meaningful, measurable social and environmental good. Bain Capital Double Impact partners with companies across three themes – health & wellness, education & workforce development, and sustainability to create long-term value and meaningful social impact at scale. For more information, visit www.baincapitaldoubleimpact.com
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SOURCE Sparq | 2023-06-21T13:42:29+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/06/21/digital-product-engineering-leader-sparq-receives-strategic-investment-harvest-partners-ascend/ |
'2nd Amendment was never absolute,' Biden says in gun reform talk
President Joe Biden said Monday that the "Second Amendment was never absolute" and that, after the Texas elementary school shooting, there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman.
"I think things have gotten so bad that everybody’s getting more rational, at least that’s my hope," Biden told reporters on the White House lawn after returning to Washington.
His comments came a day after the president traveled to the shattered Texas community of Uvalde, mourning privately for three-plus hours with anguished families grieving for the 19 children and two teachers who died in the shooting. Faced with chants of "do something" as he departed a church service, Biden pledged: "We will."
As he arrived from Delaware for Memorial Day events, Biden was asked if he's now more motivated to see new federal limits imposed on firearms.
"I’ve been pretty motivated all along," he said. "I’m going to continue to push and we’ll see how this goes."
In Congress, a bipartisan group of senators talked over the weekend to see if they could reach even a modest compromise on gun legislation after a decade of mostly failed efforts. That included encouraging state "red flag" laws to keep guns away from those with mental health problems.
"The Second Amendment was never absolute," Biden said. "You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and buy a lot of weapons."
For Memorial Day, the president and first lady Jill Biden were joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider.
Standing at attention under a cloudless sky in the late-May heat, Biden saluted as taps played, after laying the wreath of red and white roses wrapped in red, white and blue ribbon in front of the tomb.
Delivering remarks honoring fallen servicemembers, he said "Memorial Day is always a day where pain and pride are mixed together."
"Today we are free because they were brave," he said.
But Biden said the nation’s experiment in democracy remains under threat, both abroad, in the form of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and in division at home.
He called upholding democracy "the mission of our time."
"Our memorial to them must not be just a day when we pause and pray," Biden said. "It must be a daily commitment to act, to come together, to be worthy of the price that was paid."
In his earlier statements on guns, Biden said he’d not spoken to Republicans on the issue "but my guess is ... they’re going to have to take a hard look."
There is nowhere near enough support from congressional Republicans for broader gun measures popular with the public — like a new ban on assault-type weapons or universal background checks on gun purchases. Still, Democratic advocates hope meaningful measures could still pass.
Biden said he had taken some executive actions on guns "but I can’t outlaw a weapon" and can't "change the background checks."
He said he didn't know where congressional negotiations stand, but "there’s realization on the part of rational Republicans" that "we can’t keep repeating ourselves."
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Before returning to Washington, the president and first lady, whose veteran son Beau died of brain tumor in 2015, attended church near their home in Delaware and laid flowers at their son’s grave.
"Today’s the day our son died," Biden said at Arlington, telling families that he knows remembrances like Monday’s can "reopen that black hole" of pain.
But he said because of their commitment to the ideals of America, "A part of them is still with us no matter how long ago we lost them."
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Man dies after being shot in Wilmington late Tuesday night, police say
A 44-year-old man who was shot Tuesday night in Wilmington has died, police said.
Wilmington Police were called just after 11:30 p.m. to the 100 block of N. Harrison St. for reports of the shooting.
There, officers found the man, whom police have not yet identified, badly hurt. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and later died.
Police did not say exactly when he died.
The agency released no additional information about the shooting, which comes a week after three people were shot, one fatally, on Wilmington's East Side.
Less than a day later, another person was injured in a shooting.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Some Democrat lawmakers are disappointed with the Biden administration’s decision to approve the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.
“We have to go all in on clean energy,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) said.
President Joe Biden is facing backlash from Democrats, like Bowman, for giving the green light to the project.
“This is the equivalent of putting two million cars back on our highways,” Bowman said.
The Willow Project, in Alaska’s North Slope, is expected to produce 180,000 barrels of oil a day.
Bowman says that reverses progress made by climate reform in the Inflation Reduction Act.
“Why are we taking these two huge steps back right now and drilling for more oil,” Bowman said.
Bowman says the decision shows how much power oil companies still have.
“The fossil fuel lobby wields incredible money and incredible power into the Democratic party and into members of Congress,” Bowman said.
On the other hand, the oil industry says the Willow Project will provide a much-needed boost to American energy and the local economy.
“It provides generational economic stability for the Alaskan people,” API Senior Communications VP Megan Bloomgren said.
Even though Bloomgren celebrates the approval, she isn’t happy with the Administration’s simultaneous announcement to cut off 16 million acres from future oil and gas development.
“I think that’s a troubling move at a time when the administration has been calling on American energy producers to produce more energy,” Bloomgren said.
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During past presidential elections, it's been pretty standard for major party nominees to release tax returns. In 2016, President Trump became the first general election candidate in more than four decades to keep his private. Now, since then Democrats have been pushing for the release of his documents. As that's been happening, a number of 2020 contenders are putting out several years of their returns earlier than hopefuls have in the past. And this includes Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and, as of last night, Bernie Sanders and Beto O'Rourke.
NPR lead political editor Domenico Montanaro is here. Hi, Domenico.
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Good morning, David.
GREENE: So what numbers should we be paying attention to?
MONTANARO: Well, when we look at these tax returns, we're really looking at three things as top-line numbers to pay attention to. One, income. Second, tax rates. In other words, how much do people pay in taxes? And three, how much do they give to charity? That charitable giving number. What we found out of these things is Kamala Harris' household has the highest income. She and her husband were taxed at the highest rate, as well. Beto O'Rourke, the former congressman, with his wife, they have pretty significant assets and investments. And according to his 2017 tax return, which is the latest that we have, he didn't give very much to charity of - past financial disclosures have found that he's worth almost $10 million. Elizabeth Warren was the most charitable candidate, gave about $50,000 to charity, or about 6 percent of her total household income.
A notable finding, though, from these returns was what it showed about Bernie Sanders. You know, for years, we've talked about how the Vermont independent senator has been one of the least-wealthy members of Congress. He's railed against millionaires and billionaires. But he seems to have cashed in on his 2016 campaign. He wrote a book that made him lots of money. In fact, he made over a million dollars in the years subsequent to the 2016 campaign, a little less in 2018. And that was something he was asked about during a town hall on Fox News last night. Let's take a listen.
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BERNIE SANDERS: It was a bestseller. It sold all over the world, and we made money. So if anyone thinks that I should apologize for writing a bestselling book, I'm sorry. I'm not going to do it.
GREENE: Bernie Sanders is not saying he's sorry.
MONTANARO: Exactly. He's defending his book that was - that he wrote that helped make all that money for him. And I have to say, for a democratic socialist, that was a pretty capitalistic response.
GREENE: (Laughter). Are we going to start hearing from more of the Democrats?
MONTANARO: We probably are. We haven't heard from some notable candidates, like Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend, Ind., mayor, or Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, but they've pledged to release them soon. And Booker, in the past, has released some 15 years of tax returns.
GREENE: And no tax returns, as I mentioned, from President Trump yet. But we are getting some fundraising numbers for the president.
MONTANARO: That's right. And he's raised $30 million for his campaign, most from political committees - all that joint fundraising - think about - that he does at these rallies for the RNC. He's got about $41 million cash on hand. Just $4 million, though, we have to say, comes from small donors, which stands in pretty stark contrast with Democrats, who are drawing a pretty significant share from the grassroots, and they've made that a real focus.
GREENE: NPR lead political editor Domenico Montanaro. Thanks, Domenico.
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Bam Adebayo NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Heat vs. Bucks - April 19
Bam Adebayo and his Miami Heat teammates take the court versus the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2023 NBA Playoffs, at 9:00 PM ET on Wednesday.
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- Adebayo's opponents, the Bucks, have a middling offensive tempo, ranking 12th in the NBA with 102.4 possessions per game, while his Heat rank 29th in possessions per game with 99.2.
- Defensively, the Bucks are 14th in the league, allowing 113.3 points per game.
- The Bucks allow 44.2 rebounds per game, ranking 20th in the NBA.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Police said they have few leads in the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff outside a private party at a downtown Houston bowling alley.
Takeoff, whose off-stage name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, formed one-third of the Grammy Award-nominated trio Migos with uncle Quavo and cousin Offset from suburban Atlanta. The 28-year-old rapper was killed early Friday when gunfire erupted and also wounded another man and a woman, according to police Chief Troy Finner.
Most of the 40 people who attended the party at 810 Billiards & Bowling fled when the gunshots rang out, Finner said. That left police asking people to come forward and give statements and videos to investigators on what they saw and heard, even if anonymously, Mayor Sylvester Turner said.
At least two people discharged firearms, according to Finner. The two others who were struck by gunfire had non-life-threatening wounds and went to hospitals in private vehicles, he said.
“Let me just ask … that anyone who has information on the shooter or shooters to provide that information to HPD and let us solve this situation,” Turner said at a news conference Tuesday. “Let us bring justice to this family.”
FILE - Takeoff of the group Migos performs during the 2019 BET Experience in Los Angeles on June 22, 2019. Houston police say one person was fatally shot and two others injured early Tuesday at a private party attended by members of the rap group Migos. Police responded shortly after 2:30 a.m. to reports of a shooting at 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston. Once there, officers found one man dead. Police would not identify the person killed. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - Takeoff of the group Migos performs during the 2019 BET Experience in Los Angeles on June 22, 2019. A representative confirms that rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting outside of a Houston bowling alley. Takeoff , whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, was part of Migos along with Quavo and Offset. He was 28. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - Takeoff, of Migos, arrives at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on July 10, 2019. A representative confirms that rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting outside of a Houston bowling alley early Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Takeoff, whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, was part of Migos along with Quavo and Offset. He was 28. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - Takeoff, left, and Quavo, of Migos, arrive at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on July 10, 2019. A representative confirms that rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting outside of a Houston bowling alley early Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Takeoff , whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, was 28. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - Takeoff, from left, Quavo and Offset, of Migos, appear at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles on March 23, 2019. A representative confirms that rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting outside of a Houston bowling alley. Takeoff, whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, was 28. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - Takeoff, from left, Quavo and Offset, of Migos, arrive at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 27, 2021. A representative confirms that rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting outside of a Houston bowling alley early Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Takeoff , whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, was 28. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP File)
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An officer with the Houston Police Department's Crime Scene Unit on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022 looks through equipment in the back of a truck while working the scene of a shooting in downtown Houston where Migos rapper Takeoff was fatally shot. A representative of the group has confirmed that Takeoff was killed during a shooting at the location. (AP Photo/Juan Lozano)
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Fans of Migos rapper Takeoff looked on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022 as Houston police were at the scene of a shooting at a retail complex in downtown Houston. A representative of the group Migos has confirmed that Takeoff was killed during a shooting at a bowling alley at the three-story retail complex. (AP Photo/Juan Lozano)
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Police move fans away from the sidewalk as they prepare to wheel a body into a medical examiners' van outside 1201 San Jacinto following a shooting Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Medical examiners remove a body from the third floor of 1201 San Jacinto following a shooting, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Fans watch and record as medical examiners remove a body from the scene of a shooting 1201 San Jacinto, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Police and the medical examiner's office work outside 1201 San Jacinto following a shooting Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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A law enforcement officers walks office outside of 1201 San Jacinto following a shooting on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Migos fan Isaiah Lopez looks on at the scene outside 1201 San Jacinto following a shooting Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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A sign for 810 Billiards & Bowling hangs from the side of building at 1201 San Jacinto, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Annie Mulligan
Police and the medical examiner's office work outside 1201 San Jacinto following a shooting Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, died after a shooting early Tuesday outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. (Annie Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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PreviousNextFinner said Takeoff was “well respected,” and there was “no reason to believe he was involved in anything criminal at the time.”
Migos’ record label, Quality Control, mourned Takeoff’s death in a statement posted on Instragram.
“Senseless violence and a stray bullet has taken another life from this world and we are devastated,” the statement said, though police have said nothing about the gunshot being a stray. “Please respect his family and friends as we all continue to process this monumental loss.”
The bowling alley is in a three-story Houston retail complex with high-end restaurants and a House of Blues and is near a Four Seasons hotel. Takeoff was pronounced dead at the scene of the 2:30 a.m. shooting. An Associated Press reporter observed a body loaded into a medical examiner’s van around 10 a.m., more than seven hours after the shooting.
Security guards in the area heard the shooting but did not see who did it, a police spokesperson said. A spokesperson for 810 Billiards & Bowling said the shooting took place after the alley closed and said the business is cooperating with investigators.
Several fans gathered across the street from the bowling alley. Isaiah Lopez, 24, said he rushed from his home in the Houston suburb of Humble after hearing Takeoff had been killed.
“He was one of our favorites, mine and my brother’s. It’s all we would listen to,” Lopez said as he carried a dozen roses he hoped to place near the site of the shooting. “As soon as my brother called me and said, ‘Takeoff is gone,’ I had to come over here and pay my respects.”
Thomas Moreno, 30, lives about five minutes from the bowling alley. He said he met Takeoff at an event at a Houston bar and restaurant in June and called him “a real nice guy.”
“I feel it’s just another good person gone too soon,” Moreno said. “This happens every day, but it hurts even more when it’s somebody so talented and so young.”
By late Tuesday afternoon, fans had created a memorial with roses, candles and a teddy bear on the first floor of the retail complex. Yellow crime scene tape still blocked off stairs leading to 810 Billiards & Bowling.
Takeoff’s killing came as Houston was in a spotlight, with the Astros baseball team mounting the most-viewed World Series run since 2019.
Also, crime has emerged as a major political issue in this year’s midterm elections, with many Republicans running on law-and-order platforms while Democrats try to balance public safety with calls for criminal-justice reform.
Homicides nationwide jumped almost 30% in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Violent crime seemed to level off somewhat in 2021 but did not drop to pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest FBI crime data, though record-keeping changes meant that report did not include some of the nation’s largest police departments.
In Houston, the mayor and police chief acknowledged such concerns while noting that some violent crime rates are down from last year. Finner said he wants to meet with other hip-hop artists to talk about violence, although he didn’t say Takeoff’s killing had anything to do with is work in music.
“We all need to stand together and make sure nobody tears down that industry,” Finner said.
Migos first broke through with the massive hit “Versace” in 2013. They had four Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, though Takeoff was not on their multi-week No. 1 hit “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert. They put out a trilogy of albums called “Culture,” “Culture II” and “Culture III,” with the first two hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. They also earned an ASCAP Vanguard Award in 2018 for their streaming success with multiplatinum songs like “Motorsport (featuring Cardi B and Nicki Minaj),” “Stir Fry,” and “Walk It Talk It.”
The trio also played a fictional version of themselves on an episode of the hit TV show “Atlanta,” but the group was not currently together.
Offset, who is married to Cardi B, released a solo album in 2019, while Takeoff and Quavo released the joint album “Only Built for Infinity Links” last month. Quavo posted links Monday on his Instagram to his and Takeoff’s Halloween-themed music video, “Messy,” along with a video of him and his friends driving around Houston.
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Landrum reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writer Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas, Jake Bleiberg in Dallas and Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed to this report.
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The Milwaukee Bucks will take their perfect record on the road Monday night when they open a five-day, three-game trip against the Atlanta Hawks.
Benefitting from a schedule that has seen them play seven of nine at home, the Bucks have opened with nine wins in a row, matching the 14th-longest run ever to begin an NBA season.
A 10th consecutive win would move Milwaukee into a tie with the 1972-73 Boston Celtics, 1993-94 Seattle SuperSonics and 2000-01 Philadelphia 76ers for 11th on the all-time list.
Among the Bucks’ nine victims were the Hawks in a 123-115 decision in Milwaukee on Oct. 29. Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jrue Holiday paced the win with 34 points apiece, allowing the Bucks to prevail on a night on which Trae Young exploded for 42 points for the visitors.
Milwaukee survived a rare close encounter with a 110-108 home win over the Detroit Pistons in their next game, and have since rolled on with 25-, 13- and 14-point victories.
The Bucks are coming off a 108-94 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday. Milwaukee will also see the Thunder on this trip, in between visits to Atlanta and San Antonio.
Antetokounmpo should be well rested for the first multiple-game trip of the season. He sat out in load-management mode in Saturday’s win over the Thunder, opening the door for Brook Lopez to go for 25 points, Grayson Allen for 19 and Jevon Carter for 18.
Lopez labeled the night a win-win situation.
“It’s kind of exciting,” Lopez said. “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. We all knew that we’d all have to chip in. You look across the board … everyone who (played) had an impact.”
The Hawks have already endured a long trip, having gone 3-2 on the trek that included the loss at Milwaukee.
They finished that trip with a win at New York last Wednesday and created a winning streak Saturday by opening a four-game homestand with a 124-121 overtime triumph over the New Orleans Pelicans.
Young had 34 points against New Orleans and joins Antetokounmpo (32.6) among the NBA’s top 10 scorers at 28.2 per game.
The Bucks will be seeing the Young-Dejounte Murray backcourt pairing for the second time. Murray chipped in with 21 points in the earlier meeting in what’s been a smooth transition with Atlanta after five seasons with the Spurs.
“It’s gonna be pick your poison,” Young said of the dynamic pairing. “It’s gonna be times where I can focus strictly on scoring, and that’s fun. I’ve had to do both (scoring and ball distributing) for a long time — trying to get everybody involved as well as score, too.”
The Bucks came up short in both visits to Atlanta last season, losing 120-100 in November and 121-114 in January.
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MARIETTA, Ohio, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Peoples Bancorp Inc. ("Peoples") (Nasdaq: PEBO) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.38 per common share on October 24, 2022, payable on November 21, 2022, to shareholders of record on November 7, 2022.
This dividend represents a payout of approximately $10.7 million. Based on the closing stock price of Peoples' common shares of $29.60 on October 20, 2022, the quarterly dividend produces an annualized yield of 5.14%.
Peoples is a diversified financial services holding company that makes available a complete line of banking, trust and investment, insurance, premium financing and equipment leasing solutions through its subsidiaries. Peoples has been headquartered in Marietta, Ohio since 1902. Peoples had $7.0 billion in total assets as of September 30, 2022, and 130 locations, including 113 full-service bank branches in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Maryland. Peoples' vision is to be the Best Community Bank in America.
Peoples is a member of the Russell 3000 index of U.S. publicly-traded companies. Peoples offers services through Peoples Bank (which includes the divisions of Peoples Investment Services, Peoples Premium Finance and North Star Leasing), Peoples Insurance Agency, LLC and Vantage Financial.
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GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 7, 2022, a custom-built oceanfront estate in the Cayman Islands will be offered for sale at luxury auction®. Once asking $11.5 million USD, the luxe Caribbean property will now be sold to the highest bidder without reserve and regardless of the amount of the auction's highest bid. Miami-based Platinum Luxury Auctions, a firm specializing in the non-distressed auction sale of luxury homes, was retained by the property owner to manage the sale. Cayman-based RE/MAX Cayman Islands, represented by brokers Kim Lund and Cindy Raymond, is the brokerage of record for the transaction.
"We've been very successful with our luxury auction offerings in the Caribbean territories to date, and we're excited to present this Cayman Islands property to the marketplace following our record-setting sale on Virgin Gorda, BVI earlier this year," stated Trayor Lesnock, founder and president of Platinum Luxury Auctions. In the first quarter of 2022, Platinum sold a luxe villa on Virgin Gorda for approximately $14 million USD, marking a substantial price for an island where most transactions are in the $1 million to $4 million price point, Lesnock added.
Located on Grand Cayman within the small town of Savannah (an area that enjoys the island's highest elevation), the property was custom built in 2004 by its original and only owner - a very prominent, international businessman from London. His vision was to create a large, private, Caribbean estate suitable for hosting the three generations of his growing family. To that end, he retained notable architects Arek Joseph and Wil Steward of the Caymanian firm of Chalmers Gibbs Martin Joseph, in addition to hiring internationally renowned designer Pam Anderson, who specializes in luxe hotel interiors.
The result is a three-structure, tropical retreat that exudes "relaxed island luxury" and consists of a two-story main residence, separate guesthouse and caretaker's cottage. The structures combine to offer a total of 9 bedrooms, 7.5 baths and more than 12,600 square feet of living space. The larger size of the living quarters and the ample bed-and-bath count make the property ideal for large families, entertaining on a grand scale, or for generating substantial vacation rental income. (The property was placed into a vacation rental program within the past 2-3 years, though was intentionally rented "lightly," per the owner's preference. Rental performance information is available to interested purchasers upon request).
A grand salon with walls of windows and soaring ceilings, a chef's kitchen, dual primary bedroom suites, sprawling oceanfront terraces and screened loggias are leading features of the main residence.
Perhaps most notably, the estate occupies a rare, "double lot" on the ocean, which measures approximately 2.3 acres and offers 235 feet of linear frontage on the Caribbean Sea. The ocean-facing side of the home offers southern exposure, allowing for panoramic views of the Caribbean Sea, Spotts' Beach and richly painted sunsets, while features such as mature landscaping, perimeter fencing, and an electronic entry gate - along with the lack of an immediate neighbor to the west - ensure the utmost in privacy.
Outdoor living areas – always important when in the islands – are equally impressive, and include multiple dining and lounge areas, a built-in summer kitchen/BBQ, and a spectacular pool that features black mosaic tiling, underwater speakers, fiber optic lighting, an infinity edge with waterfall wall, and an adjacent spa. The property owner, an avid swimmer, designed the large pool such that 100 laps precisely equal one mile.
Despite its privacy and serenity, the property is conveniently located within minutes of the capital city of George Town, the Caymans' financial hub and home to a variety of shopping, dining and entertainment amenities. The Owen Roberts International Airport, the Cayman Islands' primary airport, is within a 15-20-minute drive of the doorstep.
Interested buyers and property brokers may preview the property by daily appointment through the close Wednesday, Oct 5, 2022. Also on Wednesday, bidders wishing to participate in the auction sale must formally register with Platinum on or before the deadline of 5pm CT. In order to offer bidders more flexibility, Platinum is offering its standard "remote" bidding capabilities for those bidders who cannot be physically present for the sale, which will be held on the property site or at a nearby venue. Complete details on bidder registration, terms of sale, property features, and more is available online at CaymanLuxuryAuction.com, or by calling the property's project manager, Mr. Walter Cerini, at +1 800.939.1672.
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(NEXSTAR) – Bill Russell, one of the greatest NBA players in history, has passed away at age 88, his family announced Sunday.
Russell, called “the most prolific winner in American sports history” by his family, was an 11-time NBA champion, captain of a gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic team, and the first Black head coach of any North American professional sports team.
Born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana, Russell and his family later moved to California. He attended high school in Oakland and led the University of San Francisco to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956. He also won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.
Russell was drafted in the first round of the 1956 NBA draft by the St. Louis Hawks but was soon traded to the Boston Celtics. He spent 13 years in Boston – 10 as a player and three as a coach. In that time, the team won 11 championships.
He was the first Black head coach in NBA history when he became player-coach in 1966. He retired after the 1969 NBA finals but later spent four years as coach and general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics and a half-season as coach for the Sacramento Kings.
The Hall of Famer was named Most Valuable Player five times and was a 12-time All-Star. In 1980, Russell was voted the greatest player in NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most prolific winner and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while leaving the scoring to others. Often, that meant Wilt Chamberlain, the only player of the era who was a worthy rival for Russell.
Russell’s No. 6 jersey was retired by the Celtics in 1972. He earned spots on the NBA’s 25th anniversary all-time team in 1970 and 35th-anniversary team in 1980. In 1996, he was hailed as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players. In 2009, the MVP trophy of the NBA Finals was named in his honor.
In 2013, a statue was unveiled on Boston’s City Hall Plaza of Russell surrounded by blocks of granite with quotes on leadership and character. Russell was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975 but did not attend the ceremony, saying he should not have been the first African American elected. (Chuck Cooper, the NBA’s first Black player, was his choice.)
In 2019, Russell accepted his Hall of Fame ring in a private gathering. “I felt others before me should have had that honor,” he tweeted. “Good to see progress.”
“But for all the winning, Bill’s understanding of the struggle is what illuminated his life,” Russell’s family said in a statement. “From boycotting a 1961 exhibition game to [unmasking] too-long-tolerated discrimination, to leading Mississippi’s first integrated basketball camp in the combustible wake of Medgar Evans’ assassination, to decades of activism ultimately recognized by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010, Bill called out injustice with an unforgiving candor that he intended would disrupt the status quo, and with a powerful example that, though never his humble intention, will forever inspire teamwork, selflessness, and thoughtful change.”
Russell was at the March on Washington in 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and he backed Muhammad Ali when the boxer was pilloried for refusing induction into the military draft.
In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded Russell the Medal of Freedom.
“Bill Russell, the man, is someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men,” Obama said at the ceremony. “When a restaurant refused to serve the Black Celtics, he refused to play in the scheduled game. He endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players and made possible the success of so many who would follow.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement Sunday that Russell was “the greatest champion in all of team sports.”
“Bill stood for something much bigger than sports: the values of equality, respect and inclusion that he stamped into the DNA of our league. At the height of his athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice, a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps,” Silver said. “Through the taunts, threats and unthinkable adversity, Bill rose above it all and remained true to his belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.
Russell “passed away peacefully” with his wife, Jeannine, by his side on Sunday. His cause of death has not yet been released.
His family said that arrangements for Russell’s memorial service will be announced in the coming days.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-07-31T18:50:23+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/nba-and-celtics-legend-bill-russell-most-prolific-winner-in-american-sports-dies/ |
(The Hill) – If last-ditch mediation fails on Wednesday, the union representing many Hollywood actors will go on strike at midnight, joining the already-striking television and film writers union.
SAG-AFTRA, the largest union for actors representing 160,000 people, including many of Los Angeles’s biggest stars, has been in negotiations with movie studios on renewing the union’s contract for months without reaching an agreement.
Why strike?
The union is demanding higher compensation and mandates to limit the use of artificial intelligence in the industry. They say that the rise of streaming and economic inflation has lowered members’ wages.
Before streaming, much of a successful actor’s income came from TV and movie royalties, payouts given when re-runs of a show or movie are shown. But those royalties have dramatically decreased as TV revenues fall due to the rise of streaming.
SAG-AFTRA wants to re-balance royalties to better compensate actors for their roles in streaming productions, as well as higher pay minimums.
Artificial intelligence also poses a risk to actors, the union says, as members fear their likenesses could be used without their consent.
Additionally, the union is demanding increased support for pension and health funds as well as ending “self-taped auditions,” an increasingly common practice that used to be handled exclusively by studios.
How can they avoid a strike?
Union and studio leaders will meet with mediators on Wednesday to attempt a last-minute deal. The two sides are still far apart on streaming residuals and increasing pay minimums, according to Variety.
In a statement Tuesday, SAG-AFTRA said the studios “abused our trust and damaged the respect we have for them in this process.”
Ninety-eight percent of the union’s members authorized a strike if a deal can not be reached by midnight Wednesday.
What happens if actors do strike?
If they strike, the actors will join the 11,500-member strong Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since May over similar demands. The two unions have not been on strike at the same time since 1960.
A strike would exacerbate the film and TV industry’s near-standstill, with no actors to film new productions or writers to plan future ones. The union representing directors is considering a tentative deal that would avoid its own strike.
The last SAG-AFTRA strike was in 1980 and lasted more than three months.
In a letter last month, over 1,000 actors including stars Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, and Ben Stiller affirmed that they are prepared to strike.
“We feel that our wages, our craft, our creative freedom, and the power of our union have all been undermined in the last decade. We need to reverse those trajectories,” the letter reads.
“This is not a moment to meet in the middle.” | 2023-07-12T20:44:10+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/what-to-know-about-the-potential-actors-strike-looming-at-midnight/ |
By Alanis Melendez
The new school year has brought the start of the strenuous college application process, and for some
students that path leads to taking the SAT–a test used to predict a student’s success once in
By Alanis Melendez
The new school year has brought the start of the strenuous college application process, and for some
students that path leads to taking the SAT–a test used to predict a student’s success once in
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NEW YORK (AP) — The good news on Robert A. Caro’s long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words.
The bad news is that he’s known them for years and remains far from concluding his Lyndon B. Johnson series. Caro, who also wrote “The Power Broker,” has published four volumes of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” over a period of 40 years. Volume 4, “The Passage of Power,” came out in 2012.
The fifth volume is expected to cover Johnson’s first full year as president, 1964, and continue through the end of his administration in 1969 and his death four years later.
“It is huge,” Caro says of the scale of the final book.
Measuring his progress is hard because he doesn’t work chronologically. Two years ago, Caro spoke of writing about the year 1967, a time of growing unrest in Black communities and rising opposition to the Vietnam War. Interviewed recently to promote “Turn Every Page,” a documentary about Caro and his editor Robert Gottlieb, the author said he is now deep into a section on health care for the elderly before Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Act in 1965.
Caro has always thoughts of his books as not so much the portrait of a man, but of political power and its effects. Taken together, the already published Johnson volumes — which began with “The Path to Power” and include “Means of Ascent” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Master of the Senate” — exceed 4,000 pages and feature extended probes into everything from filibusters to the mechanics of a stolen election.
For the yet untitled Volume 5, the 87-year-old Caro hopes to write about the Vietnam War’s impact on a Vietnamese village and still plans to travel to Vietnam, a trip that has been postponed because of the pandemic. He has already worked on a less talked about moment in the Johnson presidency, when he sent more than 20,000 troops to the Dominican Republic in 1965 to prevent a feared communist takeover.
“I tell people he sent 23,000 Marines to the Dominican Republic and they say ‘What?’ No one remembers it,” Caro says.
The new documentary tells of Caro’s long and complicated relationship with Gottlieb, whose other authors have included the Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing. The two Bobs have worked together since the early 1970s and, after battling fiercely in the early years, have forged what Caro calls a relatively smooth editing process, a “shorthand” that enables them to “go through manuscripts much faster.”
But, he adds, when asked why the books don’t come out more quickly: “You can’t speed up the research.” | 2022-12-20T19:37:34+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/entertainment-news/ap-caro-still-working-away-on-fifth-lbj-book-no-pub-date-set/ |
Leading Practice In The Empire State Elevates Patient Centric Approach
ROCKLAND, N.Y., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Medaesthetic Partners (AMP) proudly announces its newest strategic investment with Advanced Plastic Surgery Center, led by the world-renowned double-board certified plastic surgeon Michael Fiorillo, MD.
"Advanced Medaesthetic Partners warmly welcomes Advanced Plastic Surgery Center and Dr. Fiorillo to the AMP family," says Nicole Chiaramonte, AMP CEO. "Dr. Fiorillo is an esteemed plastic surgery authority with 25 years of experience. We are elated to grow with such a distinguished practice."
"I have had the honor of treating thousands of patients in New York and New Jersey since 1998," states Dr. Fiorillo. "Every case is unique and every outcome matters. My mission is to be part of a team that takes aesthetic medicine to another level. Partnering with AMP delivers a future growth platform with a powerful team that will scale our learnings and competencies, helping even more people feel and look their best."
Advanced Plastic Surgery Center treats patients with the most sophisticated technology at its two New York City area locations. Dr. Fiorillo is a sought after media contributor and regularly called upon as a complex revision surgery expert.
"We are thrilled to add Dr. Fiorillo to our family of aesthetic powerhouses," states Drew Fine, AMP Chief Commercial Officer. "Patients turn to him for his expertise and results with breast augmentation and body sculpting; he will be an invaluable partner. We look forward to growing with The Advanced Plastic Surgery Center and serving even more happy patients."
Advanced Plastic Surgery Center is the most recent aesthetic practice to join AMP's rapidly growing family. Wth this addition, AMP continues to be the premier platform for aesthetics practice owners looking to grow to the next level.
ABOUT AMP
AMP is comprised of some of the most successful business and clinical leaders in the medical aesthetics industry. AMP support includes managerial, administrative, marketing, clinical training, information technology and numerous other elements to allow practices to focus on what they do best – serving their clients. www.weramp.com
ADVANCED PLASTIC SURGERY CENTER
Dr. Fiorillo's Advanced Plastic Surgery Center consists of his accredited surgery center and two MedSpas with a variety of top of the line aesthetic services. in two locations in New York and New Jersey servicing thousands of patients since 1998 In 2004, Dr. Fiorillo opened a surgical facility with an operating room and MedSpa. He is affiliated with Good Samaritan Hospital (NY) and Hackensack University Medical Center (NJ).. www.drfiorillo.com
ABOUT MICHAEL FIORILLO, MD
Michael A. Fiorillo, MD, is an ASPS Member plastic surgeon who is board certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery® and trained specifically in plastic surgery. Dr. Fiorillo graduated at the very top of his class at Chicago Medical School followed by completing five years of general surgery at Staten Island University Hospital. Dr. Fiorillo concluded his training with a fellowship in plastic surgery at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Dr. Fiorillo was elected President of the Rockland County Medical Society from May 2005-May 2007 and is the proud recipient of the prestigious Castle Connolly Top Doctors award in 2020.
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BRODHEAD, Wis. — A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to a showdown between two of the top teams in the Rock Valley Conference Tuesday night in Brodhead.
Late in Monday afternoon's practice, Evansville middle Maria Messling, a Western Illinois basketball recruit, went down hard, clutching her ankle.
"It was just a fluke thing," Evansville coach Scott Anderson said. "We were doing a drill and she just came down on somebody's foot. She's going to probably be out a few weeks."
Messling's absence was a significant factor in Brodhead's sweep over the Blue Devils. The Cardinals came out swinging and never looked back in a 25-10, 25-14, 25-22 victory.
Brodhead, who fell to Whitewater in surprising fashion at home last week, was once again led by the duo of seniors Alexis Kammerer and Abbie Dix, with a healthy contribution from UW-Green Bay recruit Kirsten Fish.
Cardinals coach Erin Kammerer was pleased with the intensity with which her team played.
"As soon as we knew they were down a key player, our job was to get as much done as we can on the service line," Kammerer said. "And that's what we did, especially in that first set."
The Cardinals ended up with 13 aces, including four each from Kaidynce Bevars and Makenna Schooff.
"The biggest thing we need to work on is serve-receive," Anderson said. "We have to pass better, and Brodhead is a strong serving team, but so is McFarland and the other top teams in the conference. When we were able to pass effectively, we did well. We just didn't do that enough."
Dix, a UW-Whitewater recruit, finished with eight kills and seven digs, while Fish matched Dix's eight kills. Kammerer led the way with 20 assists.
The Cardinals played their bench unit for the majority of the third game until, with a 21-18 lead, things got a little too close for comfort.
Coach Kammerer re-inserted much of the starting lineup, and the Cards were able to close it out.
"When we talk about team and building a program, it's a two-way street," Kammerer said. "The starters get a lead so everyone gets a chance to get some experience, and my scout team has to finish the job. It's nice that we were able to switch things up and finish it out, but we know that we're only as good as our weakest link."
Evansville was led by Taija Louis' five kills, while Sky McDermott (13 assists) and Addison Etringer (12) each passed well.
Anderson is hoping that Messling's short-term absence will lead to long-term positives.
"Brynn Westby moved to middle for us tonight after normally being my right side," Anderson said. "She had some really nice moments. Addy Acker was my JV setter, and she stepped up and played right side for us, and I think in a couple weeks she's going to be much stronger there. We know we have to pass better and hit hard, and those are things we can work on in practice."
Alexis Kammerer believes the team is where it needs to be as they enter the second half of the regular season.
"It's definitely a team effort with us," Kammerer said. "We know it's not just one person or two people that can carry us. We come every match ready to play. If we keep learning something every night, we'll continue to get better."
Tuesday's boxscore
BRODHEAD 3, EVANSVILLE 0
Evansville 10 14 22
Brodhead 25 25 25
Leaders: Digs: B, Dix 7; Aces: E, Dobbs 3; B: Bevars 4, Schooff 4; Kills: B: Dix 8, Fish 8, E: Louis 5. | 2022-09-21T11:37:59+00:00 | beloitdailynews.com | https://www.beloitdailynews.com/sports/cards-take-down-blue-devils/article_300051ce-3932-11ed-8063-93da5549a059.html |
Appalachian State transfer pass rusher Jalen McLeod commits to Auburn football
AUBURN — Auburn football's defense is getting some help.
Appalachian State pass rusher Jalen McLeod announced his commitment to the Tigers via social media Tuesday. He joins coach Hugh Freeze's team after spending spending three seasons with the Mountaineers, with his most productive campaign coming in 2022.
The 6-foot-1, 230-pound McLeod totaled 41 tackles, six sacks and a pass deflection last season. He also forced two fumbles and recovered one in 11 appearances.
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In his lone game against SEC competition, McLeod logged three tackles, two sacks and forced two fumbles to help Appalachian State upset Texas A&M on Sept. 10.
McLeod was a three-star recruit in the Class of 2020 out of Friendship Collegiate Academy in Washington, D.C. He was rated by the 247Sports Composite as the No. 1,640 player in the country and the 68th-best outside linebacker in his cycle.
The Tigers have had 10 players hit the transfer portal since spring practice finished April 8. One of those departures was pass rusher Dylan Brooks, who announced April 29 that he was officially in the portal. Other notable players that've left include defensive lineman Jeffrey M'ba (Purdue) and wide receivers Tar'Varish Dawson (Colorado) and Landen King.
Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18. | 2023-05-02T20:45:31+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2023/05/02/jalen-mcleod-auburn-football-transfer-portal-jack-linebacker-edge-hugh-freeze-tigers/70092350007/ |
NEW YORK – The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new government data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had already said the overall number of such deaths rose in 2020 and 2021. Two reports from the CDC this week provided further details on which groups have the highest death rates and which states are seeing the largest numbers.
“Alcohol is often overlooked” as a public health problem, said Marissa Esser, who leads the CDC's alcohol program. “But it is a leading preventable cause of death.”
A report released Friday focused on more than a dozen kinds of "alcohol-induced" deaths that were wholly blamed on drinking. Examples include alcohol-caused liver or pancreas failure, alcohol poisoning, withdrawal and certain other diseases. There were more than 52,000 such deaths last year, up from 39,000 in 2019.
The rate of such deaths had been increasing in the two decades before the pandemic, by 7% or less each year.
In 2020, they rose 26%, to about 13 deaths per 100,000 Americans. That's the highest rate recorded in at least 40 years, said the study’s lead author, Merianne Spencer.
Such deaths are 2 1/2 times more common in men than in women, but rose for both in 2020, the study found. The rate continued to be highest for people ages 55 to 64, but rose dramatically for certain other groups, including jumping 42% among women ages 35 to 44.
The second report, published earlier this week in JAMA Network Open, looked at a wider range of deaths that could be linked to drinking, such as motor vehicle accidents, suicides, falls and cancers.
More than 140,000 of that broader category of alcohol-related deaths occur annually, based on data from 2015 to 2019, the researchers said. CDC researchers say about 82,000 of those deaths are from drinking too much over a long period of time and 58,000 from causes tied to acute intoxication.
The study found that as many as 1 in 8 deaths among U.S. adults ages 20 to 64 were alcohol-related deaths. New Mexico was the state with the highest percentage of alcohol-related deaths, 22%. Mississippi had the lowest, 9%
Excessive drinking is associated with chronic dangers such as liver cancer, high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease. Drinking by pregnant women can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects. And health officials say alcohol is a factor in as many as one-third of serious falls among the elderly.
It’s also a risk to others through drunken driving or alcohol-fueled violence. Surveys suggest that more than half the alcohol sold in the U.S. is consumed during binge drinking episodes.
Even before the pandemic, U.S. alcohol consumption was trending up, and Americans were drinking more than when Prohibition was enacted. But deaths may have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began for several reasons, including people with alcohol-related illnesses may have had more trouble getting medical care, Esser said.
She added that the research points to a need to look at steps to reduce alcohol consumption, including increasing alcohol taxes and enacting measures that limit where people can buy beer, wine and liquor.
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Updated June 14, 2022 at 11:40 PM ET
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former President Donald Trump has gone 1-for-2 in his endorsements of challengers to incumbent members of Congress from South Carolina.
Rep. Tom Rice, one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Capitol riot, has been defeated in a GOP primary by a Trump-backed challenger.
According to a race call by The Associated Press, South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry, who had Trump's endorsement, easily topped Rice, a five-term U.S. representative, giving Fry the 7th District's Republican nomination.
In the 1st District, meanwhile, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace bested her Trump-supported challenger, according to the AP.
Fry easily defeats Rice
In South Carolina, a candidate needs to get more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff. At the time of the AP's race call, Fry had 51.1%. Rice was at 24.6%.
Rice had refused to back down to the tirades of a former president and from his conviction that Trump is to blame for the Capitol attack.
He told NPR in February, "If we're going to have a scenario where the president can try to intimidate Congress ... we might as well have a monarchy."
Rice even doubled down and said he regretted not voting to certify the presidential election in favor of Joe Biden. That angered many voters and inspired a slew of GOP candidates, including Fry, who wanted to take Rice down. The challengers said he had betrayed the conservative district and the former president.
Trump, meantime, has called the longtime congressman a "coward" and someone "no one trusts." He even gathered supporters in March for a rally in the district Rice represents to deliver a punishing speech and again endorse Fry.
In his campaign, Rice had reminded constituents he voted with Trump more than 90% of the time and helped the former president draft the 2017 GOP tax cut bill.
Fry will face Democrat Daryl Scott in November in the strongly Republican 7th.
Mace wins in the 1st District
Mace, on the other hand, defeated former Rep. Katie Arrington outright in the 1st Congressional District Republican primary. Trump had endorsed Arrington.
At the time of the AP's race call, Mace was above the runoff threshold, at 53%.
Mace angered Trump by criticizing him in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — though she later walked back her critical comments and — unlike Rice — didn't vote to impeach him.
Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, had the backing of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a onetime U.N. ambassador in Trump's administration.
She'll next face Annie Andrews, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary.
Copyright 2022 South Carolina Public Radio | 2022-06-15T04:59:07+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/npr-headlines/npr-headlines/2022-06-14/trump-gets-a-split-decision-in-south-carolina-as-rice-is-beaten-while-mace-survives |
Nine investments made to date including a successful exit due to acquisition
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, venture capital firm Santa Barbara Venture Partners (SBVP) announced the final close of its $11 million inaugural Fund I focused primarily on investing in tech and tech-enabled firms. SBVP offers a unique value-add – the firm and its 70+ investor roster, made up largely of global marketing executives, helps its portfolio companies with customer acquisition and marketing.
Dan Engel, Founder of SBVP asks, "What's more important to companies than profitably acquiring customers at an increased rate? That's our firm's deep expertise. The hands-on help we provide our portfolio companies to improve their go-to-market capabilities and further accelerate their revenue growth is a huge differentiator that private tech companies have until now been unable to access through their VC investors, as VC firms simply don't have this experience or focus."
SBVP-funded companies work with the firm's investors and advisors who are seasoned marketing veterans with decades of experience in over 20 different B2B & B2C marketing channels and strategies, including on/offline advertising, content marketing, TV & radio advertising, PR, conversion rate optimization, branding, email, affiliate, strategic alliances, B2B lead gen, B2B sales enablement, PPC search & SEO, etc. plus overall marketing strategy.
To date, SBVP has made nine investments including Bark Technologies, Voltaiq, Specright, Classy, Nice Healthcare, Hydrosat, Jackpocket, Rad AI, and Curri. SBVP has been fortunate to have already experienced its first exit, as non-profit SaaS leader Classy was acquired this year by GoFundMe.
SBVP's first fund aims to invest in software companies after a product-market fit has clearly been established/validated. SBVP's average check size is ~$1 million into companies that have $3-100 million in (preferably recurring) revenue, are generally growing 75-300%+ per year, and have extremely strong customer retention and satisfaction metrics. SBVP makes both primary and secondary share investments into companies typically at seed through Series D stage.
SBVP's investor/advisor roster includes the former Chief Marketing Officer at CBS, at Papa John's, at (SaaS conglomerate) J2 Global, executives and leaders of demand generation and marketing at firms including Pinterest, Citrix, Procore, AppFolio, RingCentral, Apeel Sciences, Lynda.com, the former head of strategic alliances/partnerships at Google, SailPoint and Dynatrace, plus dozens of others expert in customer acquisition and marketing.
Prior to being a Venture Partner for various VC firms and now launching his own firm, Managing Partner and serial software entrepreneur Dan Engel led customer acquisition and/or marketing at Google, GoToMeeting, Picasa, and FastSpring. He co-founded fintech software company FastSpring, and as CEO, led it to become the 13th fastest-growing company in North America from 2006-2010, with an eventual acquisition by Accel-KKR for over $100 million. Dan has over 20 years of experience building software companies and over 11 years of experience investing into private software companies.
Founded in 2020, Santa Barbara Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in tech and tech-enabled companies. The firm and its investor base have unique expertise in building leading software companies, generating substantial revenue through on and offline customer acquisition, and in marketing in general.
To learn more about SBVP, its portfolio of investments, and its customer acquisition/marketing expertise, please visit: http://www.SantaBarbaraVP.com
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SOURCE Santa Barbara Venture Partners | 2022-06-06T11:04:37+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/06/06/santa-barbara-venture-partners-launches-11-million-venture-capital-fund-which-helps-companies-accelerate-their-customer-acquisition-marketing-efforts/ |
Materials science company Dow is cutting about 2,000 jobs, or approximately 5% of its global workforce, as part of an effort to reach $1 billion in cost savings this year.
The Midland, Michigan-based company currently employs approximately 37,800 people.
Dow Inc. will take a charge of $550 million to $725 million in the first quarter. This mostly includes severance and related benefit costs; costs related to exit and disposal activities and asset write-downs and write-offs. Dow did not provide specifics but said it would evaluate assets with a focus on Europe.
The company also reported a fourth-quarter profit of $613 million, or 85 cents per share. Its adjusted profit was 46 cents per share, below the 57 cents per share that analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research were calling for.
Revenue totaled $11.86 billion, missing Wall Street's estimate of $12.03 billion.
“In the fourth quarter, Team Dow continued to proactively navigate slowing global growth, challenging energy markets, and destocking," Jim Fitterling, chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "In response, we shifted our focus to cash generation in the quarter as we lowered operating rates, implemented cost-savings measures, and prioritized higher-value products where demand remained resilient.
Shares fell 5.3% before the market open. | 2023-01-26T12:51:21+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/dow-is-cutting-about-2-000-jobs-or-5-of-17743186.php |
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA, The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A heavily armed gunman in a bulletproof vest opened fire on the streets of Philadelphia on Monday night, seemingly at a random, killing five people and wounding two boys before surrendering, police said.
The shootings took place over several city blocks in the southwestern neighborhood of Kingsessing. Responding officers chased the suspect as he continued to fire, and he was arrested in an alley after giving himself up, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference.
“Thank God our officers were on the scene and responded as quickly as they did. I can’t even describe the level of bravery and courage that was shown, in addition to the restraint that was shown here,” Outlaw said.
No connection was immediately known between the victims and the shooter, she said. He had a bulletproof vest, an “AR-type rifle,” multiple magazines, a handgun and a police scanner.
Officers were flagged down at about 8:30 p.m., and multiple calls of shots fired came in from Kingsessing. Police found some gunshot victims, and as they were attending to them, they heard more gunfire, Outlaw said. Police later told Fox 29 that a fifth victim was found. He was chased into his home and shot to death. Bullet casings were found outside the home.
The suspected shooter was identified as a 40-year-old man. A second person was also taken into custody who may have returned fire at the suspect, but police did not know whether there was a connection between the two people, Outlaw said.
The chief said dozens of shell casings were found across an eight-block area.
“You can see there are several scenes out here,” Outlaw said. “We’re canvassing the area to get as much as we can, to identify witnesses, to identify where cameras are located and to do everything to figure out the why.”
Three of the dead were 20 to 59 years old, while the fourth, who had not yet been identified, was estimated to be between 16 and 21. The victim found in his home was 31 years old. All were male.
The two hospitalized victims are boys, ages 2 and 13. They were in stable condition, Outlaw said.
Tim Eads said he heard fireworks and then gunshots, saw police cars “flying by,” and his wife on the second floor “was looking out the bay window and saw the shooter actually coming down this street here behind me.” He himself saw another man with a pistol who he thinks may have been firing at the shooter.
“He was using my car as a shield shooting out into the street,” Eads said.
A resident named Roger who declined to give his last name said he and his family were eating in the living room at about 8:30 p.m. when they heard eight to 10 gunshots.
“Everybody thought it was fireworks but ... been around here about three years so I heard it enough,” he said. “I looked out the window and seen a bunch of people running.”
He said he heard about four more shots and “thought it was the end of it.” Ten minutes later, he said, police came “flying down here,” and about five minutes later he heard rapid gunfire open up right outside the house.
Roger said the neighborhood is family-oriented but “you have angry people sometimes who just don’t know how to express themselves and unfortunately they go grab a gun and do the worst.”
The shooting occurred within hours of a fatal shooting that erupted at a neighborhood festival in Fort Worth, Texas, leaving three people dead and eight injured.
A day earlier, a holiday weekend block party in Baltimore, about 90 miles to the southwest, was marred when two people were killed and 28 others were wounded in a shooting. More than half of the victims were minors, officials said.
The Philadelphia violence is the country’s 29th mass killing in 2023, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University, the highest on record by this time in the year. | 2023-07-04T15:47:04+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2023/07/random-mass-shooting-in-philly-leaves-police-to-figure-out-the-why.html |
DENVER – Everything from the history books to the way they’ve played through most of the postseason suggests the Denver Nuggets are on the verge of capturing their first NBA title in 47 years in the league.
The goal now for Denver is to not let up against the Miami Heat on Monday in what will be the first title-clinching opportunity in franchise history.
“My biggest concern going into any close-out game is human nature and fighting against that,” coach Michael Malone said Sunday after practice. “Most teams, when you’re up 3-1, they come up for air.”
Malone's mission to keep the Nuggets thinking about hoops, not that trophy, could be helped by the fact that Miami's only win in this series came a week ago in Denver. Also, the Heat have won seven road games during the postseason and are 2-0 when they've faced elimination — against Chicago in the play-in tournament and at Boston in Game 7 of the conference finals.
When the teams left Denver a week ago, the series was tied at 1 and Malone was grilling the Nuggets over effort after a 111-108 loss. Now that it’s 3-1, after two double-digit wins in Miami, it’s clear Nikola Jokic and Co., received the message.
On Sunday, the coach tapped into his own team's recent history — the Nuggets overcame 3-1 deficits twice to win two series in the bubble in 2020 — to emphasize that this series isn't over yet.
“We've been down 3-1. We've come back and won. We know anything is possible,” Malone said.
Nobody needed to convince the Heat of that.
Coach Erik Spoelstra called his team “a very stubborn and defiant group.” And when asked about the confidence the Heat players had in each other, even after putting themselves in what has historically been a near-impossible situation, Jimmy Butler said: “At an all-time high.”
Only one of 36 teams that have fallen behind 3-1 in the history of the finals has come back to hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy. That was the 2016 Cavaliers, led by LeBron James, who trailed Golden State 3-1 before running off three straight, including the finale in Oakland in a game that goes down as one of the best in finals history.
The 1993 Suns and 1998 Jazz were down 3-1 and both managed to win Game 5 in Chicago. In both instances, Michael Jordan and the Bulls wrapped up the series in Game 6s on the road.
Among the few hints revealed about Xs and Os during these day-before news conferences was the effectiveness of Denver's improving D around the 3-point line. Malone tore into his team after Miami made 17 3-pointers in Game 2, many of them unguarded after the Heat exploited confusion in the Nuggets' switching defense.
Miami made 11 3s in Game 3 (when the Nuggets got triple-doubles from both Jokic and Jamal Murray) then only eight in Game 4 (when Aaron Gordon showed off the team's depth by leading the team with 27 points).
“You have to have an aggressive mindset to be an effective defensive team,” Malone said. “But if you don’t have communication and discipline to go along with that, I think you’re going to be missing some really key components.”
Spoelstra said Denver's shift in defense — having players fight through picks instead of switching on the perimeter — did, in fact, make a difference. Still, he insisted, it's nothing Miami hasn't seen a hundred times by now.
“That’s what the deal is," Spoelstra said. “They are trying to take away certain things. We are trying to get to certain things. (It's about) how can you get to it and how can you get to it on your terms.”
Spoelstra offered no clues regarding the recurring mystery in this series — whether 20-point-a-game scorer Tyler Herro might be returning from a broken hand.
“No new update,” Spoelstra said. “He’s doing another contact workout today. I probably won’t have anything for you tomorrow morning.”
Even with all their focus on unfinished business on the court, the Nuggets front office spent the weekend looking toward the future. ESPN reported an under-the-radar trade involving draft picks, in which Denver gave up a protected 2029 first-rounder in exchange for one of Oklahoma City's first-rounders in 2024.
It was a subtle acknowledgment that the Nuggets, with Jokic, Murray, Gordon and Michael Porter Jr., all signed to big contracts, are looking at adding affordable talent sooner rather than later in an effort to keep their current championship window open.
Never in their history — which dates back to the founding of the ABA in 1967, then their move to the NBA nine years after that — has anyone on the Nuggets been caught thinking about multiple titles, let alone one.
“It’s just nice to see us be a big family and understand what it takes to win,” Murray said. “But yeah, it’s been a journey, a lot of fun. We have got more work to do.”
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-11T21:44:20+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/sports/2023/06/11/nuggets-try-to-avoid-letdown-with-1-win-to-go-for-teams-first-title/ |
NEW YORK, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RFI) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on April 28, 2023 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2011, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year-end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
*THE FUND WILL SEND YOU A FORM 1099-DIV FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT THESE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES.
The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2023 (January 1, 2023 through March 31, 2023) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2023. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending March 31, 2023 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2023. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
Fund Performance and Distribution Rate Information:
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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About Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
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Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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Which AOC portable monitors are best?
Given the ever-increasing popularity and availability of remote work positions, having a portable monitor that is reliable and affordable can be a key to remaining flexible and keeping your work setup mobile. Whether you are a professional who is always on the move, a gamer looking to upgrade your setup on the cheap or an artist looking for an interactive device, a portable monitor is an ideal solution. With a reliable unit like the AOC I1659FWUX 15.6″ USB-Powered Portable Monitor as part of your kit, you can enjoy full HD graphics capabilities wherever you are.
What to know before you buy an AOC portable monitor
Portable monitor features
While it’s always a good idea to check the technical specifications of any electronic device before you buy it, this is especially true when it comes to portable monitors. After all, you don’t want to sit down in the park to create your latest drawing only to discover that it lacks a touchscreen in the first place.
Furthermore, if the monitor is going to be used to entertain small children in a moving vehicle, it should feature a reasonably sturdy construction and a safe and easily identifiable power source. With features such as USB ports that allow portable monitors to perform data transfers as well as both powering and charging the device, making a connection is as easy as attaching a cable.
Construction, battery life and screen
Let’s face it, an electronic device with the word “portable” in the name should be lightweight. As such, all the models reviewed have been selected for their extremely lightweight, slim designs and impressive 15.6-inch screens.
Furthermore, a reliable portable tablet can last for hours and hours off a single charge. Also look for features such as blue light mitigation, the ability to automatically pivot the display’s orientation when being moved and a power consumption requirement of a mere 0.5 watts.
What to look for in a quality AOC portable monitor
Micro HDMI ports
For those looking to purchase an AOC portable monitor as a means of creating a mobile dual-monitor setup, photography workstation or gaming platform, you need a way of connecting the monitor to your camera, laptop or video game console. Thankfully, some models of AOD portable monitors come equipped with Micro HDMI ports to allow you to seamlessly connect your monitor to other electronic devices with the use of a Micro HDMI to HDMI cable.
Full HD screens and touch screens
Just because you aren’t spending an exorbitant amount of money on a new portable monitor doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the best technology available for the price. In fact, many models of AOC portable monitors come with 15.6 full HD screens with 1920×1080 resolution and touch screens with IPS display technology.
For those who are unfamiliar, IPS stands for In-Plane Switching and it allows equipped monitors to have improved screen consistency and color accuracy, a wider range of viewing angles and quicker than average response times. In addition, some versions of AOC portable monitors offer an impressive 220cd/M² of brightness, which is reasonably impressive for the price.
Built-in features
Since you are likely purchasing an AOC portable monitor for the freedom and convenience they allow, why would you purchase a monitor with a static display? Fortunately, many AOC portable monitors come with incorporated features such as Auto-Pivot orientation detection for both portrait and landscape modes as well as built-in 8000mAh battery banks, speakers, smart covers, flexible screen holders and more. Furthermore, some models come with options for USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and USB-C connectivity, blue light mitigation and plug-and-play functionality with both Macs and Windows PCs.
How much you can expect to spend on an AOC portable monitor
Depending on your desired features and budgetary considerations, a quality AOC portable monitor can cost anywhere from $130-$285 and sometimes more.
Best AOC portable monitor FAQ
Can I use my portable monitor like a tablet?
A. This can be easily accomplished by connecting your portable monitor to your smartphone with a cable, though it will need to have a touchscreen to fully simulate the experience of using a tablet.
Why would I even need a portable monitor in the first place?
A. Aside from the capabilities mentioned above, you can use a portable monitor as a relatively inexpensive replacement for headset monitors, the ability for dual-monitor setups wherever you go, never being without in-flight entertainment and client presentations.
What’s the best AOC portable monitor to buy?
Top AOC portable monitor
AOC I1659FWUX 15.6″ USB-Powered Portable Monitor
What you need to know: This is an excellent portable monitor for both business and personal use.
What you’ll love: This unit comes with a 15.6-inch IPS screen with full HD 1080P (1920×1080) resolution and 220cd/M² of brightness, plug-and-play for both Windows and Macs and signal and power via a single USB 3.0 cable.
What you should consider: Users report the unit’s screen suffering damage during travel as well as BSOD with heavy graphics demands.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top AOC portable monitor for the money
AOC I1601FWUX 15.6″ USB-C Powered Portable Monitor
What you need to know: An affordable portable monitor for multimedia and business, this model has great features included.
What you’ll love: This unit is a mere 0.35 inches wide and weighs less than 1.8 pounds while offering Auto-Pivot orientation detection for both landscape and portrait mode, low blue light mode for eye protection and a combination of smart cover and screen holder.
What you should consider: This unit is only compatible with devices that offer USB-C port Display Alternative Mode and doesn’t work with either USB 2.0 and 3.0 adapters.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
AOC 16T2 15.6″ Full HD (1920 x 1080) Touch-Enabled Portable IPS Monitor
What you need to know: This is an impressive touchscreen portable monitor with a bevy of additional features.
What you’ll love: This unit offers a 10-point capacitive touchscreen in a lightweight and compact design with a built-in 8000mAh battery bank, four hours of self-powered display, stereo speakers, Micro HDMI port for a wide range of connectivity options and streamlined dual USB-C ports to provide power and audio, video and touch signals.
What you should consider: A few users reported missing cables or receiving broken cables.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – From far away, a backyard fence near Carlisle Place and Hermosa Drive, looks like any other in the neighborhood. But if you look closer, you’ll see it’s anything but. The southeast Albuquerque fence completely covers the sidewalk, or where the sidewalk should be, and apparently has for decades.
“If I were impaired walking, I’d have to step down into the street. Sometimes the streets have ice and snow in them, so that is not safe for pedestrians,” a nearby neighbor said.
Behind the fence, there is a cement wall and behind that wall lives an elderly couple. When KRQE reported on this bizarre fenceline last year, the city said the couple didn’t have the means to make the changes. The city then said they would fix it and the project would be completed a few months later.
“They [the homeowners] have agreed to work with the city. Municipal Development has agreed to rebuild the sidewalk and actually restore it there because there is no sidewalk there right now,” said Rick De Reyes with the City of Albuquerque’s Planning and Zoning Department in October 2021.
But a year later, nothing changed. Some in the neighborhood have taken to 311 asking the city for years to push the fence back.
“I think it’s a very fair request because who else has their yard, as it were, extended to the curb,” a neighbor said.
But not everyone in the neighborhood is bothered by the so-called “sidewalk wall.” In fact, some support it. Many said the home and trees were here long before the sidewalk was built.
“Doesn’t really bother me, it’s just been like that, so I figured [it’s] been there since they owned the house,” a neighbor said.
KRQE reached out to the city to see why the fence is still up. In a statement, they said because of the complexity of the problem, the city is still working to find a solution. | 2022-10-07T05:02:22+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/southeast-albuquerque-fenceline-still-standing-after-years-of-criticism/ |
CA Marine Warnings and Forecast for Tuesday, November 8, 2022
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SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
The National Weather Service in The San Francisco Bay Area has issued
a
* Special Marine Warning for...
Coastal Waters from Point Pinos to Point Piedras Blancas California
out to 10 nm...
* Until midnight PST.
* At 1119 PM PST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing
waterspouts was located near Soberanes Point, or 89 nm northwest of
Morro Bay, moving northeast at 15 knots.
HAZARD...Waterspouts, wind gusts 34 knots or greater, and small
hail.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Waterspouts can easily overturn boats and create locally
hazardous seas. Small craft could be damaged in briefly
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FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — Cleanup is underway after a semitrailer rolled in Fall River, Massachusetts, Tuesday evening, sending dozens of watermelons careening out onto a major highway.
The truck was driving down I-79 south when it rolled, spilling its cargo of watermelons onto the northbound side of the highway.
Fall River District Fire Chief Sean Flannery said the driver was transported to the hospital with injuries that don’t appear to be life-threatening.
Flannery said both sides of I-79 will remain partially closed throughout the night as crews clear the watermelon-logged highway.
Images captured by Nexstar’s WPRI, seen below, show pallets of watermelons spilling out of the damaged trailer and across the lanes on both sides of I-79.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
This is just one of the latest crashes to cause food to cover a highway.
In August, a tractor-trailer wreck sent alfredo sauce pouring across the roadway. Last month, a crash involving multiple semis caused one to lose its load of beer. | 2022-10-12T16:30:00+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/watermelons-cover-highway-after-semi-rolls-in-massachusetts/ |
Ex-Michigan House speaker's wife implicated in medical marijuana bribery scheme
GRAND RAPIDS — The wife of former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson received thousands of dollars in monthly consulting fees from a business owner who paid Johnson over $68,000 in cash bribes and benefits while Johnson chaired the state's medical marijuana licensing agency, according to the business owner.
In federal court Friday, John Dalaly, 70, pleaded guilty to paying bribes. Johnson, Dalaly and two former lobbyists are charged with felony corruption crimes stemming from Johnson's time as chair of the now-defunct medical marijuana licensing board from 2017-19.
During the hearing, Dalaly told U.S. Magistrate Judge Phillip Green he provided Johnson more than $68,000 in cash and benefits, including international flights on private jets, in 2018 and 2019. The information had already been disclosed in federal felony documents and Dalaly's plea agreement.
Bribes meant to speed application process
What hadn't been disclosed is the information that Dalaly paid Janice Johnson, Rick Johnson's wife, $4,000 a month in consulting fees. Dalaly said the consulting fees were Rick Johnson's idea. Janice Johnson has not been charged or named in the corruption probe.
Dalaly said the cash, flights and other benefits such as paid lunches for Johnson were meant "to help him (with) processing my application."
Dalaly operated a pair of businesses tied to the medical marijuana industry, one which was a dispensary and the other which was established with the goal of creating a digital currency platform meant for medical marijuana transactions, according to federal prosecuting documents.
More:Ex-Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson, others charged in medical marijuana bribery scheme
More:'Dark money' nonprofit at center of another scandal involving former Michigan lawmaker
All four men charged in the corruption probe: Dalaly, Johnson and the two lobbyists, Brian Pierce and Vincent Brown, have all agreed to cooperate fully with federal prosecutors. The investigation into the scandal is continuing, according to the office of Mark Totten, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan.
Green allowed Dalaly to be released unsupervised on an unsecured bond of $25,000. Dalaly will have to pay the fee only if he violates any of his bond conditions, which ban him from drinking excessively or from leaving Michigan without permission from the court. Dalaly's firearms and passport have also been taken by the court.
Former Speaker Johnson scheduled for plea hearing Tuesday
Dalaly faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, although prosecutors have agreed not to oppose any motion from Dalaly to request a two-level sentence reduction. Additionally, prosecutors have agreed to consider making their own motion to reduce Dalaly's sentence guidelines due to his cooperation.
Johnson's plea hearing is slated for Tuesday morning. A Republican from LeRoy in Osceola County, Johnson is charged with accepting payment of bribes, which also carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. His plea agreement is similar to Dalaly's in allowing for sentencing reduction motions.
Details of the investigation first became public in February when, as a result of a lawsuit over unpaid legal bills, records showed that federal investigators were interested in a nonprofit Johnson headed called Michigan's Promise. The existence of the investigation was first reported by The Detroit News.
He was House speaker from 2001-04. He came under scrutiny from the Free Press in 2017 when former Gov. Rick Snyder named Johnson, who was a registered lobbyist from 2005 until 2016, to the Michigan Medical Marihuana Licensing Board.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer dismantled the board via executive order in 2019, shortly after recreational marijuana was legalized in Michigan by voters in 2018.
Pierce, 45, and Brown, 32, were charged with conspiracy to commit bribery.
Paul Egan and Adrienne Roberts contributed with prior reporting.
Contact Arpan Lobo: alobo@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @arpanlobo. | 2023-04-21T18:38:13+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/21/rick-johnson-medical-marijuana/70135393007/ |
Pressure mounts on Congress to ban lawmakers from trading stocks
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have now sent a letter to their colleagues urging them to pass a ban.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A bipartisan group pf 21 lawmakers are now rallying the House Administration Committee to get to work on a bill that would ban congressional lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks. The group aims to gain traction for the legislation before the end of summer, when Congress breaks for August recess.
Congress has been debating a ban on members trading stocks for multiple sessions. But, lawmakers have consistently failed to act.
“Members of Congress should be putting the needs of their constituents and the American people first not their stock portfolios,” said Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), who is leading the effort.
The bipartisan group’s position is outlined in a letter they sent to the committee on May 11. It reads in part, “It has been clear from the public response to the aforementioned legislative proposals that the American people would like — and expect — the Congress to act. We must do more to restore public trust, and we believe this would be an important step in doing so. We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter, and we look forward to you working with us this Congress on this critically important issue on a bipartisan basis.”
The lawmakers said, in the House alone, six different pieces of legislation have been introduced to ban lawmaker stock trading. The lawmakers want the House Administration Committee to help Congress form consensus around one bill. They believe a stock trading ban for lawmakers is essential to maintain ethics and the public’s trust.
“When you look at these different bills, they have some differences. But, the differences are unimportant. The important thing is that we move something. That we tell the American people that we care we recognize the issue of appearance of impropriety,” said Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.).
Meanwhile last month in the Senate, a group of more than 20 lawmakers introduced a bill called the Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act. It would prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from trading in individual stocks, commodities, and futures.
Full text of the legislation introduced in the Senate is available here.
A poll released last year by Data For Progress shows more than 70% of Americans support a ban.
Read the letter sent by House lawmakers to the Committee on House Administration below:
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Parents out on bond after being charged in deaths of 2 young children
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WITN/Gray News) – Two parents charged in the deaths of their two young children were released on bond Monday after appearing in court.
Rocky Mount police said the mother, 21-year-old Zharia Noel, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Ahmene Butler, were arrested Saturday and each charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter due to negligence and two counts of felony child abuse because of the children sustaining bodily injuries.
Saturday morning, the Rocky Mount Police Department responded to a call where they located a 3-month-old boy, Kamryn Noel, and his 14-month-old sister, Amariah Noel, unresponsive inside a parked car.
The children were taken to UNC Nash Health Care, where they were both pronounced dead. Saturday evening, the investigation was upgraded from suspicious death to a homicide.
Noel and Butler each received a $100,000 unsecured bond by the magistrate and were released from custody. The parents had their first court appearances Monday morning.
Police said they will continue to investigate the deaths. Further charges await reports from the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s office.
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Hundreds of service members waiting for answers years after filing malpractice claims against military
Congress cleared the way for compensation, but critics say process lacks transparency and efficiency
Fort Walton Beach, Florida (InvestigateTV) - When Chrystal Stuckey enlisted in the Air Force, she knew there was a chance she’d lay down her life for her country. But she never imagined the battle that would kill her would be against doctors also serving in uniform.
“I’m not going to sugarcoat it. They killed her,” her husband, Deverris Stuckey said. “They had plenty of opportunities to fix her or to try and fix her. And they didn’t. They just kept pushing down the road.”
And perhaps what’s worse, is the unwillingness of the military to pay for its medical mistakes and missed diagnoses.
The Stuckeys are among hundreds of service member families who are seeking compensation for malpractice errors made by military doctors, only to face bureaucracy, delays, and a process shrouded in secrecy.
For decades, Supreme Court precedent effectively banned members of the military from suing the Department of Defense.
In 2019, Congress passed a law that cleared the way for military malpractice claims. Yet few have won their cases.
Chrystal Stuckey’s case – like hundreds of others - remains in limbo.
Chrystal Stuckey passed away in 2017 from hydrocephalus, a condition in which fluid collects on the brain, according to records filed by Stuckey’s attorney with the military and provided to InvestigateTV.
Her death was not a sudden event. Rather, her family claims it was an avoidable tragedy that started with a headache in 2015. The unexplained issue sent Chrystal repeatedly in and out of the emergency room and doctors’ offices on military bases, seeking answers. She sought help, her husband said, as often as two times a week.
“She started going to what we call a PCM, or primary care manager, the doctor, to figure out what was going on. They kept saying, ‘Oh well, it’s just migraines’. So, they prescribed medicine to her, and she was taking the medicine. It was doing just absolutely nothing,” Stuckey said.
Chrystal carried on for months, fighting through crippling headaches, pain, and exhaustion.
Despite the pain, when Deverris got orders to report to South Korea, he said she single-handedly cared for their four children while continuing to report for work at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
“I know she didn’t want to die. She had a family. She had kids. She had a husband,” Stuckey said. “She did everything she could do. She asked for help. She begged for help. Nothing happened.”
“I don’t understand why they allowed this to happen”
The family claims Chrystal was misdiagnosed with everything from vertigo to problems with her diet over the next 13 months. Records show she finally got an MRI in January 2017, more than a year after her first trip to the doctor.
According to the family’s records, the Stuckeys’ claim doctors knew at that point that she had hydrocephalus but didn’t reveal the diagnosis to the family until April of 2017, after Chrystal’s repeated follow-up calls.
Two months later, in June of 2017, with fluid swelling around her spinal cord, Chrystal finally got an appointment with a specialist at an Alabama military base.
“They’re on their way to Birmingham. And when they got to Georgiana, that’s when she woke up and said, ‘Hey mom, you know, I feel like I’m dying. As a matter of fact, I know I’m dying’. She took off her jewelry and everything, gave it to her mom, and said, ‘Can you please get this to my husband? Tell him I’m sorry. I fought as long as I could, but I can’t take it anymore. Like I’m dying. I’m fading out’,’” Stuckey said.
She died riding to the appointment with her mother, as her two oldest children sat in the backseat. Chrystal, who had served in the military for nearly two decades, was 38 years old.
In February 2020, Deverris Stuckey filed a malpractice and wrongful death claim against the Air Force and Department of Defense, citing negligence and inattention by the military doctors Chrystal saw over and over at Eglin Air Force Base. The claim said, “Mrs. Stuckey’s death was avoidable if she would have received adequate medical care and treatment.”
A representative for Eglin Air Force base said in a statement, “It is Department of the Air Force policy not to comment on ongoing investigations.”
Change in law cleared the way for hundreds of military malpractice claims
Stuckey’s claim is one of hundreds that InvestigateTV learned have been filed against the military since a change in law nearly three years ago.
A court decision known as the Feres Doctrine had essentially banned active-duty service members from filing malpractice lawsuits against the Defense Department, even when they were harmed by military doctors.
In 2019, Congress passed the Richard Stayskal Act as part of the annual defense spending plan known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. The legislation was named after a member of the U.S. Special Forces, a Green Beret whose terminal lung cancer was missed by military doctors.
Stayskal, heard on video audibly wheezing, testified before a House committee in April of that year, telling lawmakers what happened to him was inexcusable.
“The failure of the military doctor’s gross negligence and failure to detect and treat my cancer when it was first noted on the CT scan done on me in January 2017 is the mistake that allowed the aggressive tumor to double in size and rob me and my family of my life,” Stayskal testified.
The previous ban on malpractice claims created a disparity between service members and civilians, who could pursue lawsuits for botched care, said Stayskal’s attorney, Natalie Khawam.
“The soldiers are out there putting on a uniform every day to protect our country and our rights, our liberties, and they don’t have the same rights and liberties. They have less,” she told InvestigateTV. “How is it that a soldier that defends our country, that’s willing to take a bullet for our country, has less rights than anyone else?”
Since the change in law, Khawam’s firm has been one of the biggest filers of medical complaints against the military.
She said they have filed more than 100 claims against various branches of service. But she said none of them have been paid out since the process began nearly three years ago, saying, “Justice delayed is justice denied.”
Investigation reveals more than 100 malpractice claims already denied by DoD
The new claims process, however, is shrouded in secrecy.
The Secretary of Defense and the secretaries of the Army, Air Force, and Navy either ignored or denied repeated requests for on-camera interviews from InvestigateTV. The Defense Department wouldn’t respond to questions about the claims process, delays, or transparency.
InvestigateTV filed federal Freedom of Information Act requests to each military branch and the Defense Department seeking hundreds of military claims. Yet the stonewalling continues.
Despite repeated follow-up emails – and letters from InvestigateTV attorneys – the military has ignored the FOIA requests. They have not produced a single document to date.
InvestigateTV also asked each branch for the number of claims that have been received and their outcomes.
The Navy and Marines did not respond to repeated requests. The Air Force said it has received 118 claims as of September, denying 27 of them and settling four. I
n a statement, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, “The Department of the Air Force is focused on providing the best medical care possible to our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. It is our policy to immediately investigate any incident to prevent recurrence and improve the safety and quality of healthcare for our beneficiaries. Offering the appropriate care touches every aspect of a servicemember’s career from accession to separation, and oftentimes continues after leaving active service. We are deeply invested in ensuring our teammates, and their families, receive the services and support they require throughout their medical treatment, recovery process, and beyond.”
The Army said it had 177 claims in its files in September, saying that it had denied more than 100 and settled only six. In a statement, a spokesman told InvestigateTV, “Like the other military services, the Army is working diligently to resolve these claims since these claims.”
Claims process is getting a close eye from a key member of Congress
But the numbers provided don’t reflect the full picture.
Rep. Jackie Speier, who has championed the legislation to allow for military malpractice claims, said that is aware of 439 cases filed as of late September, with millions in payments already allocated for settlements that have been agreed upon.
The military should be acting with far more transparency and processing claims quicker, the California Democrat told InvestigateTV.
In recent weeks, Speier has introduced additional legislation to expand the original law.
Defense Department rules created as part of the Stayskal Act did not allow for claims filed by service members injured by military doctors in the clinics, operating rooms, and ICUs aboard ships. Speier’s new legislation aims to fix that and would make cases of alleged malpractice in those settings applicable for claims.
“If we’re pursuing legislative intent, it’s going to be very important that we also include the hospital settings on ships. Otherwise, why would anyone want to become a sailor?” she questioned. “Again, we take one step forward, two steps back and then we keep doing it until we make some progress.”
Speier said that out of the 439 total claims she’s aware of, there are currently 34 cases undergoing appeal and another 234 claims still awaiting decisions. She said many of the denials she’s aware of are attributed to claims that did not meet the qualifications of the legislation.
Attorney Khawam said that she has numerous clients waiting to hear from the military, including the Stuckey family and Richard Stayskal, the man the law was named after.
“I’ve had them here in my office,” Speier said. “Young, talented people who were volunteering to join the military, who because of the care they received are no longer even physically able to be in the military. So, it breaks my heart.
“And the fact that they haven’t gotten their payments yet is, you know, very disturbing to me,” she said. “So, we’ve got to keep our eyes on the administration of this program. We’ve got to make sure they’re held accountable.”
Critics say malpractice claims process lacks transparency
Right now, the military is the sole arbiter that decides if it should pay for its own mistakes.
Critics argue it’s all happening behind closed doors.
According to the 18 pages of rules laid out by the Defense Department and formally approved in late September, claimants are unable to see any of the materials that shape the decision or obtain any information about the experts that ultimately help the military decide the case.
“They won’t provide the expert’s name, what school he went to, which zoo he trained at. Nothing. I wouldn’t know if this expert was someone who worked at McDonald’s,” Khawam said. “So, they’re playing judge and jury at the same time on their own, which is a complete conflict.”
Deverris Stuckey also is frustrated with the process.
“With this military thing, with those rules, it’s shrouded in darkness. I read that somewhere. I can’t remember where. But somebody wrote on it and said that it’s shrouded in darkness,” he said. “And I agree. 100%.”
Stuckey said he’s been in the dark since the Air Force acknowledged his claim in a letter dated April 2020.
More than two years later he’s still a struggling single parent, caring for children ages 17, 15, 8, and 7.
He retired after Chrystal’s death, with his sense of duty shifting from his country to his children. Helping them cope with an unimaginable loss is now his priority.
Between helping with homework and attempting his own personal healing, Deverris says waiting for a decision has been excruciating. He knows it won’t bring back his wife or return his children’s mother. But he said it may bring closure to a family whose matriarch made the ultimate sacrifice.
“They don’t know the pain that the kids wake up with every day. They don’t know. Yes, you move on, but their pain is still there. They don’t know the pain that I wake up with every day. The guilt, everything I feel,” Stuckey said. “I try to move on every day, and I do. But it’s still hard to focus when you know this stuff is lingering out there.”
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People are playing with Queen Beyoncé during her Renaissance World Tour, and we don’t like it. This week, the Bey Hive leader seemingly sang, “Turn the fan on,” during a concert appearance. Cell phone video of the encounter has gone viral.
In the clip, Beyoncé sits on a silver piano, looking flawless despite possibly being hot. She is rocking a mint-colored body-hugging mini dress with matching sheer elbow-length gloves and pumps. Her hair is long, crimped, and swinging.
Belting out a live rendition of “1+1,” the multi-hyphenate artist starts to look slightly uncomfortable. Motioning with her hands, she appears to fan herself. After nothing happens, she eventually sings, “Turn the fan on.”
Bey Hive fans and onlookers were stunned. While we are sure the Queen doesn’t sweat, it’s hard to believe she had to sing to staff with such a request.
Media outlet Onsite reposted the video below.
“But what’s taking them so long??? Turn the freaking fan on!” one fan commented. “Turn the fan ooooon mid song is TOP TIER improvising ,” wrote another.
Beyoncé fans know the singer stays cool, unbothered, and in her bag. The quintessential business woman recently announced her return to the fragrance industry and a possible hair care line. She owns our coins.
Queen Bey’s new scent untitled “eau de parfum” will cost the Beyhive about $160. With notes of golden honey, rose, and jasmine, the fragrance just dropped in July 2026. The perfume marks the songstress’s first perfume in nearly 10 years.
See the pre-order site here to learn more.
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Molello brings more than 20 years' experience to new role focused on improving health equity
ORLANDO, Fla., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nancy Molello has been named the inaugural Executive Director of the Ginsburg Institute for Health Equity at Nemours Children's Health. As the first-ever leader of the Ginsburg Institute for Health Equity, Molello will develop new initiatives to further the mission, goals and strategic initiatives launched by the Ginsburg Institute to accelerate the improvement of health equity among vulnerable populations. She begins her new role on June 26, 2023.
"Nancy brings passion and expertise in developing large-scale programs that improve health equity through community partnerships, and we know that she is the perfect choice to lead the Ginsburg Institute for Health Equity at Nemours Children's Health," said Kara Odom Walker, MD, Executive Vice President, Chief Population Health Officer, Nemours Children's Health. "At Nemours Children's we collaborate with schools, local agencies and community organizations across Central Florida to support initiatives in areas of shared priority to improve child health and well-being. Our goal is to see the Ginsburg Institute accelerate this work by serving as a think tank to test new ideas and spread and scale what works."
The Ginsburg Institute for Health Equity was created to provide leadership, guidance and innovative programs to improve children's health and lives by advancing health equity. The Ginsburg Institute was created to be a research-to-practice model that begins in Central Florida with the goal of replication across the nation.
Supported by a gift from philanthropist Alan H. Ginsburg and the Ginsburg Family Foundation, the Ginsburg Institute will provide intellectual and practical leadership through clinical care, research, education and quality improvement initiatives. The gift also funded an endowed leadership role allowing for the creation of the Executive Director position.
"We are so proud of the recruitment of Nancy Molello, who brings years of health equity knowledge to this exciting new role supported by sustainable funding and resources," said Marc McMurrin, President and CEO, the Ginsburg Family Foundation. "We look forward to seeing what innovative thought leadership she will bring to the Ginsburg Institute to spearhead bold undertakings and engage community partners to tackle our pediatric health crisis, locally and around the world."
As the Executive Director of the Ginsburg Institute, Molello will:
- Develop, implement and evaluate existing and new initiatives to further the mission, goals and strategic initiatives launched by the Ginsburg Institute.
- Lead strategic planning, administrative and fiscal operations and oversight, and human resource management.
- Oversee program development and management of the Institute's research, educational, convening and community engagement activities to elevate child health equity in Central Florida, and beyond.
"I am thrilled to be joining the Nemours family as the Executive Director of the Ginsburg Institute for Health Equity," Molello said. "We know that 80 percent of a child's health happens outside of the healthcare system, and we are committed to going well beyond medicine to change children's lives through innovative programs and community partnerships. Together, we can ensure that every child has the opportunity to be healthy and reach their full potential."
Previously, Molello was the Program Director of Operations and Strategic Initiatives for the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Her responsibilities included strategic planning, fundraising, program development and community engagement. She was responsible for managing an overall budget of $35M. In addition, Molello was the operational leader for the center's Community Advisory Board, which comprised representatives from the public and private sectors, political leadership, local health departments, provider system leadership, community leaders and patients.
Molello earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Public Relations, and a minor in Chemistry at College of New Rochelle, New York. She also earned her Master of Arts degree in Business Science from Johns Hopkins University.
For more information, please visit https://nemours.mediaroom.com/news-releases.
About Nemours Children's Health
Nemours Children's Health is one of the nation's largest multistate pediatric health systems, including two free-standing children's hospitals and a network of more than 70 primary and specialty care practices. Nemours Children's seeks to transform the health of children by adopting a holistic health model that utilizes innovative, safe, and high-quality care, while also caring for the health of the whole child beyond medicine. Nemours Children's also powers the world's most-visited website for information on the health of children and teens, KidsHealth.org.
The Nemours Foundation, established through the legacy and philanthropy of Alfred I. duPont, provides pediatric clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention programs to the children, families and communities it serves.
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Which outdoor security camera system is best?
Outdoor security camera systems are essential for monitoring your outdoor space and protecting against intruders. They’re also useful for detecting the arrival of packages and capturing images of wildlife activity in your yard.
With a number of outdoor security camera systems on the market, you’ll find a range of features, video resolution qualities and home system compatibility to choose from. Rather than splurging on the most expensive model, select a security camera system that has what you specifically need. The Google Nest Cam is a top choice for HD resolution, versatility and excellent compatibility with a range of smart home systems.
What to know before you buy an outdoor security camera system
Video quality
The standard resolution for many home security cameras is 1080p. This definition is high enough to capture video of details like license plate numbers or the faces of intruders. Security cameras at this resolution yield approximately 2 million pixels per frame, so they require higher additional internal bandwidth than lower-resolution models.
A 720p HD camera requires less storage space and bandwidth, making it the cheaper option. Expect to be able to identify only a low level of detail at this resolution, if lighting is adequate.
Outdoor vs. indoor rating
If you intend to place your security camera system outside, it’s essential that you select one rated for outdoor use. Outdoor cameras are weatherproof, which keeps them sealed and safe from the elements. They also typically feature night vision.
Wi-Fi connectivity
Most modern security camera systems include Wi-Fi connectivity. This allows you to view video captured by the camera via an app on your smartphone, as well as record and store video on a local hard drive or in cloud storage.
Smart home compatibility
An outdoor security camera system with smart home system compatibility allows you to automate and command your security system using a smart home system such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
Compatibility is especially desirable if you’re designing an entire smart network in your home, with devices such as Google Nest Protect or Ring Doorbell integrated into the same system.
What to look for in a quality outdoor security camera system
Motion detection and alerts
With motion detection and event-based recording, you have the option to customize your camera to only capture video and alert you where it detects motion or sound, rather than 24/7.
Movable
A security system with movable control allows you to remotely pan your camera up, down and from side to side via an app. This allows you to capture a field of vision too wide for a fixed camera to cover.
Fixed cameras tend to be less expensive than those that move, so you should generally only opt for this feature if you feel it will improve your security system.
Night vision
Clear night-vision recording is non-negotiable for an outdoor security camera system. You need to be able to clearly identify intruders or events happening in darkness. Outdoor security camera systems use LEDs to illuminate and record video when lighting is low.
Outdoor security camera system tips
- Note that while you can use outdoor cameras indoors, it isn’t safe to use an indoor security camera system outside, as it will be exposed to elements it isn’t designed to withstand.
- Consider your power source when shopping for an outdoor security camera system. Some models require an outlet for energy, while others run on battery.
- Many outdoor security camera kits can be integrated with additional compatible cameras, allowing you to expand your home security system to capture wider areas in your yard and home.
How much you can expect to spend on an outdoor security camera system
Outdoor security camera systems are generally a substantial investment in your home’s long-term safety. While there are budget-friendly single outdoor security cameras for as low as $40, expect to pay $100-$200 per camera in a system. For $250-$500, you’ll find kits with multiple cameras, a range of features and high-definition video.
Outdoor security camera system FAQ
Can you install an outdoor security camera by yourself?
A. Outdoor security camera systems are typically designed for fast and easy installation. The mounting process itself is typically straightforward, especially for battery-operated cameras. Wired solutions sometimes require running wires through walls, which may require the help of a professional.
How do you view your security camera video remotely?
A. Outdoor security camera systems with Wi-Fi connectivity provide notifications and remote monitoring directly from an app on your smartphone or tablet. Most modern cameras include this feature.
What’s the best outdoor security camera system to buy?
Top outdoor security camera system
What you need to know: A highly compatible and easy to use outdoor system, it has 1080p HD video and a wide field of view.
What you’ll love: This outdoor security camera system is compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. It has a weatherproof energy source, is easy to install and has a versatile mounting system. Two-way audio, clear video, optional event-based recording and person detection make this system an obvious choice.
What you should consider: This outdoor security system requires an electrical outlet for power.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top outdoor security camera system for the money
What you need to know: This is a budget-friendly device with good compatibility and decent video quality.
What you’ll love: This is one of the cheapest options on the market. Easy to install and use, it is capable of event-based or 24/7 recording. You can use it with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. With a subscription, you can access features such as person detection and cloud storage.
What you should consider: Detection isn’t as accurate as high-end models. Some users experienced serious disruptions of functionality after a month of use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is a highly compatible and customizable Wi-Fi home security camera that requires no cord to use.
What you’ll love: A 160-degree diagonal viewing lens allows a wide field of view. It is easy to install. Both cloud and local storage are available. Monitor it from the app and take advantage of smart alert notifications. Very clear resolution and color night vision allow for clear identification of faces and license plates at any time of day or in any weather conditions.
What you should consider: Some users struggled with this system’s software and found customer service lacking.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MALAYA ROHAN, Ukraine — The village of Malaya Rohan, east of Kharkiv, lies largely in ruins. Burned-out tanks are sandwiched between collapsed buildings. Hot tub-sized craters pock the roads. The school is shattered.
Sergei Shapoval is one of the luckier residents. His house is still standing, though most of the windows are broken. A grenade went off inside and shrapnel ripped through his television. He and his family fled to a bomb shelter, the basement of his aunt's house, in the first days of the fighting. Russian troops took over his house and camped in his living room.
"Everything is ripped. Everything is destroyed," he says as he walks through the rubble in his hallway. "You can see the ceiling is burnt out."
Russian forces took over the village soon after launching the large-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Now, areas like this are finally being liberated as the Ukrainian military makes advances in the northeast. The battles have been going on since the invasion. A senior U.S. defense official said Monday that Ukrainians forces continue to gain ground around Kharkiv, pushing Russian forces to within two miles of the Russian border.
Shapoval, 49, says he spent half his life working hard — maybe too hard — to build this house. Now he'll have to work even harder to repair it.
"You can see the bullet holes here," he says, pointing to puncture marks in a wall.
Shapoval ended up living for weeks in the basement of his aunt's house. Soon after the invasion, the power went out. Shapoval and his family lived without lights or heat, he says, cooking potatoes over an open fire and eating canned vegetables they found in nearby cellars.
Larisa Skorkina, helping to organize humanitarian aid distribution, says the entire village needs to be rebuilt. In the short term, the most pressing needs are reconnecting electricity, gas and water lines. Many residents also need food. Over the weekend, volunteers brought in buckets of hot soup and tubs of red cabbage salad for dozens of residents who'd remained throughout the occupation or recently returned.
And there are shortages of matches and powdered laundry soap. The matches have run out because so many people are still cooking over open fires, and they need more laundry detergent as they try to clean up.
"Pretty much every building got some level of destruction," says Skorkina, who also spent most of the Russian occupation in a basement.
"When our forces started to liberate the village, there was heavy bombs and heavy shelling," she says. "It was really bad. The walls, the ceiling, even the earth, the soil, was trembling because they were bombarding it so hard."
The invasion has fundamentally changed people's attitudes toward Russia
Shapoval never thought the Russians would actually attack Ukraine. His part of the country is heavily Russian speaking. Downtown Kharkiv is just 30 miles from the Russian border. People used to go shopping in Russia.
"They were like animals or beasts," he says of some of the invading Russian troops. They shot at people who tried to flee. They rammed over front gates with their vehicles rather than opening them. He says one soldier raped a young girl. NPR has not verified these allegations. But for Shapoval, the occupation fundamentally changed his vision of Russia.
"I have a family in Russia right now and my whole ... life, I was speaking Russian," he says. "Now I feel disgust to speak Russian. I don't want to speak the language anymore."
In the days after the invasion, sitting in his aunt's cold, dark basement, Shapoval says he was struck by how different Ukraine is from Russia. "It was only at that stage that I realized that we'd lived in a European village," he says. "We had European roots. We had European TVs. We had the European community here. Now we have simply nothing."
Disbelief over Russia's invasion has given way to determination to rebuild
Until last week, Russian ground troops continued to fire mortar rounds and artillery shells into residential neighborhoods in Kharkiv. By Saturday, Ukrainian troops pushed the Russian lines back to the point that a Ukrainian military spokesman said that for the first time in weeks, there had been no strikes on Ukraine's second-largest city.
Like Shapoval, Maria Miroshnyk says she couldn't believe that Russia actually invaded her village.
"They were saying to us that Russians are going to attack, but we simply refused to believe it," she says as she takes a break from cleaning up shattered glass in her granddaughter's house. "We know people from this village who are in Moscow, working there. It was simply unimaginable to us."
Miroshnyk, 77, is retired but worked for much of her life as welder in Malaya Rohan. Russians and Ukrainians got along well here, she says.
"I thought we were always like brother and sister before," she says. "And I was even going to Moscow to buy some supplies for my house."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said one of the reasons for his invasion of Ukraine was to liberate oppressed Russian speakers in this part of Ukraine. But Miroshnyk says there was no issue.
"We never had any problems like that before," she says. "If you want to speak Russian, speak Russian. If you want to speak Ukrainian, speak Ukrainian."
Miroshnyk spent the entire occupation living with a dozen other people in a basement. She says she wouldn't have left even if she'd been able to, because her husband and daughter are buried in the local cemetery.
Miroshnyk, who's also known as the local granny "Baba Marusya," says the alleged Nazis who Putin says he wants to get rid of in Ukraine simply don't exist.
"Putin is a liar," Miroshnyk says. "We always lived peacefully here. There are no Nazis here. He simply wants more land."
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US: Taliban release 2 Americans in ‘goodwill gesture’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban have released two Americans held in Afghanistan in what appeared to be a “goodwill gesture,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday.
The release was not part of any larger prisoner swap, and no money changed hands, he told reporters.
A senior administration official said the U.S. government was currently assisting the two, and that they would soon be reunited soon with their families. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Neither Price nor the official identified the two Americans.
The U.S. does not formally recognize Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, who took power from a U.S.-backed government after U.S. forces withdrew in 2021.
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AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - A new small business has planted its roots in the City of Progress. Southern Sippin’ specializes in “next-level” fountain drinks, teas, hot drinks and treats provides a spot for all ages to enjoy a little bit of southern hospitality.
Each drink on their menu is named after common southern slang.
They feature many different drinks such as the “Bless Your Heart”, “Daggum”, or the ever popular “Roll Tide” and “War Eagle”. These drinks feature different sodas and mix-ins such as Diet Coke or Sprite with fresh lemon, lime or a variety of different syrups and creamers.
Co-owned by Alyshia Smith and Jennifer Kimball, two Alabama transplants and Labor & Delivery nurses, their dream was to create a space for families and people of all ages to come together and make new, exciting memories.
The two renovated the old Enterprise welcome center, built in the 1970s, into a secluded and homey shop with porch swings, games and plenty of places to relax, enjoy a sweet drink and soak in a little bit of southern charm.
Southern Sippin’ is located in Enterprise, at 802 Boll Weevil Circle.
They are open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., on Friday until 10 p.m., and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.. They are closed on Sunday.
You can view Southern’ Sippin’s website and Facebook for more information. You can also call them at (334) 489-4141.
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TORONTO (AP) — Mariners left-hander Robbie Ray isn’t joining Seattle for a series in Toronto this week, missing a chance to celebrate the Cy Young Award he won with the Blue Jays last season amid border restrictions related to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Ray pitched against the Mets in New York on Sunday, then remained in the U.S. while teammates traveled to Canada for Monday’s series opener.
There was no locker for Ray in the Mariners’ clubhouse in Toronto. Manager Scott Servais said Ray will rejoin the team in Boston on Thursday for a four-game series against the Red Sox. He did not elaborate on the left-hander’s absence.
To enter the country, the Canadian government requires a person to have received a second COVID-19 vaccine dose — or one dose of Johnson & Johnson — at least 14 days before entry.
Players who go on the restricted list because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are not paid and do not accrue major league service time, according to a March agreement between Major League Baseball and the players’ association.
The agreement also stipulates that a pitcher who has pitched at least four consecutive innings in a game cannot be replaced on the active roster unless three days have elapsed.
The Mariners took advantage of a May 12 day off to alter their rotation so that Ray started Sunday in New York, where he allowed five runs in six innings, improving to 4-3.
Ray went 13-7 with a 2.84 ERA and a career-high 248 strikeouts in 32 starts for Toronto last season, when professional athletes were exempt from COVID-19 border regulations.
Ray then signed a $115 million contract, five-year contract with Seattle in November. He would have lost $346,154 had he been placed on the restricted list for being ineligible to accompany the team to Canada. Border exemptions for athletes ended in January.
The Mariners did put Drew Steckenrider on the restricted list Monday, a move that could cost the right-hander $51,099 of his $3.1 million salary. Steckenrider is 0-1 with two saves and a 4.85 ERA in 14 relief appearances. The series is Seattle’s only regular-season visit to Toronto.
Seattle selected the contract of left-hander Roenis Elías from Triple-A Tacoma. He had joined the Mariners at Citi Field on Sunday in anticipation of being added to the active big league roster.
Elías signed a minor league contract with the Mariners on April 1. He previously pitched for Seattle in 2014 and ’15, and again in 2018 and ’19. He also has pitched for Boston and Washington.
Elías, 33, last pitched in the majors with the Nationals in 2019. He had a 4.30 ERA in one start and 10 relief appearances at Triple-A Tacoma, striking out 11 and walking four in 14 2/3 innings.
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.
MOVIES
— When the Mars Rover Opportunity, nicknamed Oppy, launched in 2003, it was only supposed to last 90 sols (or Mars days). But 15 years later it was still out there exploring. The documentary “Good Night Oppy,” coming to Prime Video on Wednesday, tells the story of not just Oppy and its counterpart Spirit, but the scientists and engineers who cared for the robots and their discoveries on Mars. With shades of some of cinema’s most lovable robots, from WALL-E to R2-D2, “Good Night Oppy,” directed by Ryan White, is a sentimental and inspiring and a great film to watch with the family over the holiday.
— If you missed Viola Davis’s turn as an Agojie warrior in “The Woman King” in theaters, the Gina Prince-Bythewood epic will be available to rent on VOD starting Tuesday. The $50 million action epic, set in 1820s West Africa, tells a story about the all-female army of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the vein of films like “Braveheart,” “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Gladiator.” It was a bit of a miracle that the film even got made at the budget it did, due to antiquated thinking in Hollywood, but Davis told the AP that the success of “Black Panther” was a turning point. And audiences did clearly want “The Woman King,” which has grossed over $91 million worldwide.
— A loner vampire gets a surprise when a teenager shows up claiming to be his daughter in “Blood Relatives,” a road trip comedy/horror coming to Shudder on Tuesday. It’s the directorial debut of actor Noah Segan, a mainstay of Rian Johnson’s films, who stars as well alongside Victoria Moroles, as the teenage Jane.
— Filmed over three years, during the “Cuz I Love You” tour, through the height of the pandemic and during the recording of “Special,” the new documentary “Love, Lizzo” is an intimate portrait of the superstar musician, with candid talk about bodies, self-love and being a Black woman. “Love, Lizzo” is streaming on HBO Max on Thursday.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
— A series of concerts Tom Petty considered a highlight of his career get a new life when “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Live at the Fillmore” gets released on Friday. It will feature recordings from the band’s 20-concert residency at the Fillmore in San Francisco between Jan. 10 and Feb. 7, 1997. They played dozens of songs during the run and recorded six of the shows. Signature moments included a handful of guest appearances from the likes of Roger McGuinn, Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker, as well as dozens of covers, including Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and The Rolling Stones’ “Time is On My Side.” In his review, AP’s Scott Bauer says “It’s easy to hear the joy in Petty’s voice both in the songs and in the breezy on-stage banter.”
— Rapper Rakim will bring fans back to the Golden Age of hip-hop Monday as he returns to his album “Paid in Full” during a pay-per-view livestream concert from New York City’s Sony Hall on the ICONN Live App. Rakim is the latest artist to sign up for the series, a list that includes Ja Rule, Big Daddy Kane and Raekwon. Released in 1987, “Paid in Full” had Rakim and Eric B. perform “Eric B. Is President,” “I Know You Got Soul” and “I Ain’t No Joke.”
— Josh Groban shows the world how he can fill New York City’s famed 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall with “Great Performances: Josh Groban’s Great Big Radio City Show” on PBS on Friday. Recorded in April 2022, it’s billed as “Groban’s love letter to New York City.” Joined by a full orchestra, he’ll perform his signature hits including “You Raise Me Up” as well as musical theater favorites “The Impossible Dream” and “Bring Him Home.” He is also joined on stage by pop legend Cyndi Lauper, Broadway star Denée Benton and ballet dancer Tiler Peck.
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— The risqué shows at Chippendale’s male strip clubs paled in comparison to the backstage melodrama created by the enterprise’s founder, Somen “Steve” Banerjee. The events, so steeped in greed and criminality that they’ve been recounted in movies, miniseries and documentaries, gets another look in Hulu’s “Welcome to Chippendales.” Kumail Nanjiani leads the cast that includes Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, and Annaleigh Ashford in the series debuting with two episodes on Tuesday.
— “Pitch Perfect” fans of the movies in general and Adam Devine’s Bumper in particular are in luck. Peacock’s “Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin” finds the singer jumping at a chance to become a star in Germany with the help of Pieter Krämer’s Flula (from “Pitch Perfect 2”). Also along for the ride is Sarah Hyland, Devine’s castmate in their “Modern Family” days. The series will be out in full Wednesday on Peacock, with NBC viewers getting a taste of it when episode one airs Nov. 28.
— It’s almost criminal how much people love crime dramas. But because they do, and because franchises are a solid bet, here comes “Criminal Minds: Evolution” on Paramount+. Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness and Aisha Tyler are among those reprising their original “Criminal Minds” roles in the spinoff. The mission for the FBI elite criminal profilers: track down a network of serial killers formed during the pandemic. The series debuts with two episodes on Thursday as a Thanksgiving chaser.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
VIDEO GAMES
— Look, you’re going to need some way to shake off the stuffing after that Thanksgiving feast. So why not throw an international dance party with friends from around the world? Ubisoft’s “Just Dance 2023” promises a new online mode that will let you boogie the pounds away with up to five other friends. This year’s version includes the usual mix of current hitmakers like BTS, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles and Doja Cat. There’s something for the geezers too: The party hasn’t started until Grandpa shows off his moves to The Trammps’ “Disco Inferno.” It’s available Tuesday for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox X/S.
— We’ve all grown up hearing about Wild West outlaws like Jesse James and Billy the Kid, but somehow the storytellers left out the real villains: vampires. Focus Entertainment and Polish studio Flying Wild Hog aim to correct that omission with “Evil West.” The varmints here are faster, meaner and thirstier than any gunslinger you’d expect to meet in a dusty saloon. Fortunately, the heroes’ weapons — like a flamethrower and an electrified gauntlet — are more powerful than your standard six-shooter. “Evil West” moseys onto the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox X/S, Xbox One and PC on Tuesday.
— Lou Kesten
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Catch up on AP’s entertainment coverage here: https://apnews.com/apf-entertainment. | 2022-11-21T20:02:20+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-new-this-week-lizzo-criminal-minds-and-the-woman-king/ |
LOCAL NEWS
Longbranch WA man pleads guilty to double murder, burglary, and theft with a firearm
Shaun Rose, a Longbranch man, was arrested for a double murder in Olalla in August and was sentenced to about 66 years of imprisonment on Wednesday.
A Kitsap County judge called it a “de-facto life sentence,” as Rose is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Rose pled guilty to two murder charges, along with two single charges of burglary and theft with a firearm. He initially pled not guilty in August.
Rose was taken into custody on August 21, 2022. His arrest came three days after Kitsap County deputies found the bodies of Steven and Mina Shulz near their Olalla home.
On August 18, the couple’s daughter called 911 after unsuccessful attempts of contacting her parents. According to court documents, deputies found shattered glass and evidence of forced entry outside the home.
Investigators also determined gunshots were fired inside the home, including at least one inside a bedroom, according to court documents.
Deputies found the bodies of Steven and Mina Shulz in a garbage can nearby, according to court documents.
Both were 51 years old when they were shot and killed, according to deputies.
Multiple law enforcement agencies arrested Rose in Tacoma on August 21.
“Had you walked away that night, or better yet, never approached their home in the first place – none of us would be here today,” the Shulz’s daughter said in court on Wednesday. “It is more than two lives you ended, Shaun. You ended their future, their place in my life, as well as their place in other lives”
KIRO 7 is withholding the first name of Ms. Shulz at her request.
In court Wednesday, she said, “My parents and I have lost our privacy. I feel vulnerable every time I leave my home knowing that everyone in town knows that my parents were murdered. I am approached by people telling me how sorry they are of my loss, and it takes me back to day one.” | 2023-03-09T03:50:17+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3854423/longbranch-wa-man-pleads-guilty-to-double-murder-burglary-and-theft-with-a-firearm/ |
WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday is hosting Israel's figurehead president Isaac Herzog at the White House, as they seek to sustain ties despite U.S. concerns over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial plans to overhaul his country's judicial system and ongoing settlement construction in the West Bank.
Herzog's visit comes a day after Biden spoke with Netanyahu by phone and invited him to meet in the U.S. this fall, although the president expressed reservations about several of the Netanyahu hard-right coalition's policies. Netanyahu's government is pushing forward with judicial changes that have sparked widespread protest in Israel and he has authorized the construction of thousands of new housing units in the West Bank.
Netanyahu and his allies, a collection of ultra-Orthodox and ultranationalist parties, say the plan is needed to rein in the powers of unelected judges. Opponents say the plan will destroy Israel’s fragile system of checks and balances and move the country toward authoritarian rule.
Herzog has appealed for a compromise that has thus far proven elusive. Many American Jewish groups and Democratic lawmakers have expressed concerns about the plan.
During his visit, Herzog is set to meet with Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and congressional leaders. On Wednesday he will become the second Israeli president, after his father Chaim Herzog, to address Congress. His speech will mark Israel’s celebration of its 75th year of independence.
Herzog’s visit comes weeks after Israeli forces carried out one of their most intensive operations in the West Bank in two decades, with a two-day air and ground offensive in Jenin, a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank. Senior members of Netanyahu’s government have been pushing for increased construction and other measures to cement Israel’s control over the West Bank in response to a more than year-long wave of violence with the Palestinians.
U.S. officials have broadly supported Israel’s right to defend itself from militant attacks but have also urged restraint to minimize harm to civilians and have lobbied against additional settlements that would further diminish the chances of securing a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinians.
The Biden administration declined to say whether Biden would host Netanyahu at the White House — as the Israeli leader has hoped — or in New York on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly.
White House visits are typically standard protocol for Israeli prime ministers, and the delay in Netanyahu receiving one has become an issue in Israel, with opponents citing it as a reflection of deteriorating relations with the U.S.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Biden again on Monday expressed concern to Netanyahu over the judicial plan — as he did when they last spoke earlier this year — and urged the “broadest possible consensus” over the legislation that has been pushed by Netanyahu and his hard-line coalition.
Kirby said during the call Biden also expressed his “ironclad, unwavering commitment” to Israel’s security and that the two leaders discussed Iran’s nuclear program and regional security issues. Biden also “expressed concern” over Israel’s continued settlement growth in the West Bank and urged Israel to take steps to preserve the viability of a two-state solution with Palestinians.
Biden, Kirby said, also welcomed steps by the Palestinian Authority to reassert security control in Jenin and other areas of the West Bank and moves by Israel and Palestinians to move toward another round of direct talks.
Progressive lawmakers, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush and Ilhan Omar have pledged to boycott Herzog's address in protest of Israel's policies.
Herzog's visit comes days after Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the influential 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, sparked outrage for calling Israel a “racist state," including criticism from House Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Jayapal later said she was criticizing Israel's government, not its existence as a country.
Kirby said Biden was glad she apologized. “We think an apology was the right thing to do," he told reporters Monday.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians claim all three territories for a future independent state.
Israel has annexed east Jerusalem and claims it as part of its capital — a claim that is not internationally recognized. It says the West Bank is disputed territory whose fate should be determined through negotiations, while Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Two years later, the Hamas militant group overran the territory.
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV/WCBD) — A woman is dead after apparently being attacked by an alligator on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island.
According to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, officials responded to Spanish Wells for a reported alligator attack shortly before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
There they found a 69-year-old woman, a resident of the community, unresponsive at the edge of the lagoon.
While crews were working to rescue the woman, an alligator reportedly appeared and guarded the woman, interrupting emergency efforts. The gator was safely removed from the area and the woman’s body was recovered.
Deputies say the woman was walking her dog when the attack occurred. It’s unclear where she was taken into the water.
They believe she is a 69-year-old member of the Spanish Wells community. Her identity has not been released, and an autopsy is set to be conducted by the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office.
The apparent attack comes more than a week after an alligator was captured on video charging a fisherman on Hilton Head Island, not far from Spanish Wells. The man wasn’t injured but officials banned fishing in the area through the summer in response.
This is the second fatal alligator attack in Beaufort County in less than a year, with the last being an 88-year-old woman fatally attacked in Sun City in August 2022. | 2023-07-04T18:58:10+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/alligator-found-guarding-womans-body-near-south-carolina-lagoon-authorities/ |
MOSCOW – Russian investigators on Wednesday raided the home of Ksenia Sobchak, the glamourous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's one-time boss, in a move that has sent shockwaves through the country's political scene.
Sobchak, a 40-year-old TV star, has often been critical of Putin, but many Russian opposition figures have accused her of serving the Kremlin’s agenda. In 2018, she became a liberal challenger in Russia's presidential election, finishing a distant fourth with about 1.7% of the vote in what her critics described as a Kremlin effort to add a democratic veneer to Putin's sweeping re-election.
Investigators said that the search at Sobchak's luxury home in a prestigious Moscow suburb was part of a probe into alleged wrongdoing by her media director, Kirill Sukhanov, who was arrested on charges of extortion.
Sobchak on Tuesday rejected the accusations against Sukhanov as “ravings and nonsense” and described his arrest as part of the authorities' efforts to stifle independent media.
The state Tass and RIA-Novosti news agencies said that Sobchak had fled Russia. Tass claimed she had bought tickets to Dubai and Turkey to mislead the authorities but eventually left for Belarus, from where she moved to Lithuania. The reports claimed that investigators suspected Sobchak of being involved in the extortion scheme along with her media director and alleged that a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Tass also cited information from the probe indicating that Sergei Chemezov, a long time Putin associate who heads the state Rostec corporation, a conglomerate controlling Russian aviation industries and other high-tech assets, was the victim of alleged extortion.
The claims couldn’t be independently confirmed. Sobchak hasn't commented on the allegations and her whereabouts were unknown.
Sobchak has extensive contacts among Russia’s rich and powerful, and the search of her home topped domestic news.
Sergei Markov, a pro-Kremlin political analyst, argued that the raid has sent a signal to members of the Russian elite that all bets are off.
“If they can arrest the daughter of Putin’s patron ... it means there are no untouchables,” Markov wrote in a commentary. “For some members of the elites, an arrest warrant for Sobchak is a blazing sign in the skies.”
Sobchak is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, a liberal mayor of St. Petersburg for whom Putin served as a deputy in the 1990s.
Sobchak has 9.4 million followers on Instagram, and her glamour, sharp wit and defiant ways have made her both loved and loathed.
She first gained fame as a fashionable socialite and reality TV star and was once dubbed the “Russian Paris Hilton,” but later sought to shed her spoiled and arrogant image.
Sobchak got involved in politics when she joined the massive protests in Moscow against Putin in 2011-12, and later reinvented herself as a serious TV journalist and opposition activist.
Sobchak has denied serving the Kremlin's agenda by running as a challenger to Putin in 2018. But opposition leader Alexei Navalny denounced her for discrediting the opposition by joining the race, saying that she was a “parody of a liberal candidate” and her involvement in the campaign helped the Kremlin cast the opposition in a negative light. | 2022-10-26T18:32:17+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/entertainment/2022/10/26/investigators-raid-home-of-russian-celeb-ksenia-sobchak/ |
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Imagine this happening in your line of work: Posted online and regularly updated for the entire world to see is an objective, black-and-white assessment of how you’ve been faring over the past 52 weeks, how you compare to your colleagues and competitors and how your current status compares to that of a day, a week, a month, a year ago.
Essentially, that’s what the rankings are for a professional tennis player. Match victories are rewarded with points, which generally remain on a player’s record for 12 months, then drop off. They are, in many ways, the sport’s currency.
“It’s the most stressful thing about our job,” said Paula Badosa, a Spaniard who entered Wimbledon at No. 3 in the women’s rankings. “We spend so much time thinking about the rankings: ‘If you win this match …’ or ‘If you lose against this player, you’re going to lose your spot.’ It’s a lot.”
At Wimbledon, the Grand Slam tournament that concludes Sunday, there is an additional — and unprecedented — source of angst: No one is earning any ranking points at all. That’s because the WTA women’s tour and ATP men’s tour decided not to give them out in response to the All England Club’s ban on athletes from Russia and Belarus over the war in Ukraine.
So someone like Ons Jabeur is dealing with two sets of emotions. She is excited, of course, about what she’s done over the past 1 1/2 weeks on the grass courts, reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal and becoming the first Arab woman to get that far at a major. Her five wins moved her closer to the trophy and earned plenty of money (at least 535,000 pounds, or about $640,000).
There’s also a bit of a downer amid the euphoria.
“I’m not going to lie to you. The more you do good, the more you regret not (getting) any points,” said Jabeur, a 27-year-old from Tunisia who is ranked No. 2 and will face close friend Tatjana Maria, 34, of Germany in Thursday’s semifinals.
“I don’t just look at myself, but I also look at Tatjana,” Jabeur said. “Now she makes a good run, and she doesn’t have points.”
A player such as the 103rd-ranked Maria loses out on the jump she would have received for faring so well a year after missing Wimbledon because she had just given birth.
And players who did well at the event a year ago do not get the chance to “defend” those points. The 2,000 earned by Novak Djokovic for his 2021 championship, for example, will simply drop off his record next week with zero replenishment, even if he ends up with the title again.
Returning a season later to the site of success can weigh on athletes who are well aware that those year-old points are about to disappear.
“That’s inevitable. And if you don’t think about it, people remind you,” said Tamara Zidansek, a 24-year-old Slovenian who reached the French Open semifinals while ranked No. 85 in 2021.
That was the main reason for her rise to a career-best No. 22; she is down to No. 60 after losing in the third round in Paris in 2022.
“It’s probably different for everyone, but I spend a lot of time thinking about the rankings,” said Taylor Fritz, the highest-ranked U.S. man at No. 13 entering Wimbledon, who won’t get the significant bump that his quarterfinal appearance Wednesday usually would bring. “It’s a big part of my goals to be in the top 10, top five.”
Djokovic already owns the men’s record for the most weeks at No. 1 — he’s now No. 3 behind reigning U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev, who is Russian and barred from Wimbledon — and said he’s no longer as concerned about rankings as he once was. That might be a good thing, because the new up-to-the-minute “live rankings” the ATP unveiled as part of a recent sponsorship deal show that he’ll drop to No. 7 next week.
A vocal critic of the ban and the tours’ response, Djokovic estimates “90-plus percent of the players who are playing in this tournament, and the ones that are not playing, are going to be more affected by” the zero-points situation than he will.
So true. Rankings are a “benchmark,” as 2021 U.S. Open semifinalist Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada put it.
As he also noted, they’re so much more. Endorsement deals can be tied to the rankings. Favorable seedings, which might make a path through a bracket easier, come via the rankings. Access to the main draws at tournaments are based on the rankings.
“That’s how the system is,” said Auger-Aliassime, who lost in the first round last week, “and you have to accept early in your career that’s how it’s going to be.”
Another way in which rankings affect things: Going into each match, a simple way to guess at the possible outcome is glancing at the numbers beside each player’s name.
Fans do that. As does the media. And players, too.
The higher-rated one is the one who, at a basic and theoretical level, is “supposed” to win.
“My mind is quite dumb, sometimes, where I find negative more than the positive in each situation. So I try to not think too much about it, but at the same time, I’m human. So when I’m playing someone higher ranked, it comes naturally that I’m the underdog,” said Ajla Tomljanovic, an Australian ranked 44th who lost in the quarterfinals Wednesday to No. 23 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan. “I can feel my nerves kicking in and, especially if it’s not going my way, I may be quicker to react and think, ‘Oh, my gosh!’ and start panicking.”
Players are well aware how easy — and unhealthy — it can be to become rankings-obsessed.
“I stopped looking at points and rankings because I felt like that wouldn’t help me,” said Denis Shapovalov, a semifinalist last year at Wimbledon who has been in the top 10 and now is No 16. “I just taught myself to only look at my game and how I can improve and where I’m at level-wise.”
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KU alum Sharon Lokedi wins NYC Marathon
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas Track & Field alum Sharon Lokedi won the NYC Marathon on Sunday, making national headlines.
The former Jayhawk finished with a time of 2:23:23, winning by seven seconds after taking the lead at the 23 mile mark. She was 50 seconds away from the course record.
“I’m just so happy that I just won, you know,” Lokedi told reporters after the race. “I’m really excited, just so happy that I did it here. The people out there, the course was amazing, the cheers, everything. I’m just thankful.”
Lokedi raced with the Jayhawks from 2015-2019 in track & field and cross country. As part of her storied career in Lawrence, the Kenyan native was the 2016 and 2017 Big 12 Cross Country champion and Women’s Runner of the Year.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – What's an ocean without a beach?
One Atlantic City casino that takes its name from the sea doesn't want to find out, and so it's spending up to $700,000 of its own money to rebuild a badly eroded beach in front of it.
The Ocean Casino Resort began the work Wednesday, and plans to have a new 110-foot-wide beach open for Memorial Day weekend. Chronic erosion near the casino has reduced the beach to just 5 to 8 feet (1.5 to 2.4 meters) wide in places.
Bill Callahan, the casino's general manager, said Ocean can't wait for the next government-funded beach replenishment project, which could take another year or two.
Callahan and several casino officials were on their daily coffee walk one day last fall when they looked out the window — and saw very little sand between the Boardwalk and the ocean.
Callahan feared there soon would be no beach.
“That would be a horrible guest experience. It's like, ‘Come to an unbelievable $2.5 billion resort and not have a beach.’ We just couldn't have that,” he said.
So the casino set about securing the many state and federal permits necessary to do the work on its own.
Stephen Rochette, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said it is unusual but not unheard-of for private parties to carry out their own beach replenishment projects. But most are content to wait for the next round of government-paid projects, in which the cost is shared by the federal, state and local governments.
Veteran Atlantic City casino executives said they can not recall a casino paying to widen its own beach using its own money.
Ryan Burch, the casino's vice president of hotel operations, said the project will dump 12,810 tons of sand on the beach. About half of that had been placed as of Friday.
The work should be completed by next May 19. Crews will then smooth the sand, which was matched for color and grain size to the existing beach sand.
The sand is trucked in from a private company in Eagleswood Township, about a half-hour north of Atlantic City, said project manager Ian Jerome.
He said the particular spot in front of the Ocean casino has historically been the most eroded spot on all of Absecon Island, on which Atlantic City sits. Past beach widening projects have often not lasted for the full three-year period before they qualify for renourishment by the government, and some wash away in as little as a year.
Callahan said if the beach needs to be rebuilt again with private money, it will be.
“This is part of the experience,” he said. “You can't have a resort without a beach."
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Transgender patients sue the hospital that provided their records to Tennessee’s attorney general
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being sued by its transgender clinic patients, who accuse the hospital of violating their privacy by turning their records over to Tennessee’s attorney general.
Two patients sued Monday in Nashville Chancery Court, saying they were among more than 100 people whose records were sent by Vanderbilt to Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. His office has said it is examining medical billing in a “run of the mill” fraud investigation that isn’t directed at patients or their families. Vanderbilt has said it was required by law to comply.
The patients say Vanderbilt was aware that Tennessee authorities are hostile toward the rights of transgender people, and should have removed their personally identifying information before turning over the records.
Tennessee has stood out among conservative-led states pushing myriad laws targeting transgender people, enacting some of the nation’s most anti-LGBTQ restrictions, even as families and advocates have voiced objections that such policies are harmful. The lawsuit seeks class-action status on behalf of everyone at the clinic whose private medical records were released to Skrmetti.
“Against that backdrop, its failure to safeguard the privacy of its patients is particularly egregious,” the lawsuit says.
The attorney general’s office has said the hospital has been providing records of its gender-related treatment billing since December 2022, and that the records have been kept confidential. Elizabeth Lane Johnson, an attorney general’s office spokesperson, noted Tuesday that the office isn’t a party to the lawsuit, and directed questions to Vanderbilt.
VUMC spokesperson John Howser said Tuesday that it’s common for health systems to get such requests in billing probes and audits, and “the decision to release patient records for any purpose is never taken lightly, even in situations such as this where VUMC was legally compelled to produce the patient records.”
Many of the patients involved are state workers, or their adult children or spouses; others are on TennCare, the state’s Medicaid plan; and some were not even patients at the transgender clinic, according to the lawsuit. It says that records for more than 100 current and former patients were sent without redacting their identities.
The lawsuit says that since the patients learned that their information was shared, they’ve been “terrified for their physical safety, have had significant anxiety and distress that has impacted their ability to work, has caused them to increase home security measures, and drop out of activities in which they normally would participate.”
The lawsuit accuses Vanderbilt of negligence that inflicted emotional damage and violated patient privacy protection and consumer protection laws. It seeks monetary damages, improved security procedures, an injunction blocking further release of their records without notice, an acknowledgement by Vanderbilt that it violated its own privacy policy, and an admission that the policy inadequately informs patients of their rights regarding disclosures.
The hospital waited months before telling patients their medical information was shared, acting only after the existence of the requests emerged as evidence in another court case. Howser said that at that point, hospital officials thought patients should hear it from them instead of media reports or other ways.
The attorney general also requested a slew of additional information, including the names of everyone referred to the transgender clinic who made at least one office visit, as well as people who volunteer for the hospital’s Trans Buddy initiative, which aims to increase access to care and improve outcomes by providing emotional support for the clinic’s patients.
Howser said Vanderbilt’s lawyers are in discussion with the attorney general’s office “about what information is relevant to their investigation and will be provided by VUMC.”
The attorney general’s office made the requests several months after conservative commentator Matt Walsh surfaced videos last September that include a medical center doctor saying gender-affirming procedures are “huge money makers” for hospitals. Vanderbilt paused all gender-affirming surgeries for minors the next month under pressure from Republican lawmakers and Gov. Bill Lee, who demanded an investigation.
Vanderbilt said it had provided about five gender-affirming surgeries to minors each year since its clinic opened in 2018, all to people over 16 who had parental consent. None received genital procedures.
Tennessee lawmakers then passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. A federal appeals court recently let it take effect after a lower court judge blocked it.
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Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville contributed to this report.
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 1st Commercial Credit, LLC, a leading financial services provider specializing in invoice factoring solutions, is pleased to announce its support for a Louisiana-based temp-staffing agency's expansion into the lucrative Florida market. Facilitating a $100,000 loan, 1st Commercial Credit, LLC aims to empower its valued client to capitalize on the flourishing opportunities in Florida and continue their remarkable growth trajectory.
The client, a thriving and successful temp-staffing agency based in Louisiana that services the hotel industry, is already an existing invoice factoring customer of 1st Commercial Credit, LLC. Demonstrating exceptional financial performance, the agency boasts an impressive monthly sales revenue exceeding $1 million. Leveraging this proven success and their robust business model, the agency has strategically chosen to venture into the dynamic Florida market.
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Pueblo police investigating city's fourth homicide of 2023
Pueblo police are investigating after a shooting left one man dead.
Police responded to the 400 block of North Santa Fe Avenue on a report of a shooting at approximately 12:06 a.m. Saturday, according to a news release.
Police say officers discovered a deceased man when they arrived, and the investigations division was called to the scene. The incident is being investigated as a homicide.
As of Saturday morning, no suspect had been taken into custody.
The victim will be identified by the Pueblo County Coroner’s Office after next of kin have been notified.
This is the fourth homicide investigation of 2023 for the city of Pueblo. No homicides have been reported in the rest of Pueblo County this year.
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Shift in war’s front seen as ships cleared to leave Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Four more ships carrying agricultural cargo held up by the war in Ukraine received authorization Sunday to leave the country’s Black Sea coast as analysts warned that Russia was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the ports to stave off a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The body overseeing an international deal intended to get some 20 millions of grain out of Ukraine and to feed millions of impoverished people who are going hungry in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia said the loaded vessels were cleared to depart from Chornomorsk and Odesa.
Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations signed agreements last month to create a sea channel that would allow cargo ships to travel safely out of ports that Russia’s military had blockaded and through waters that Ukraine’s military had mined. Implementation of the deal, which is in effect for four months, has proceeded slowly since the first ship embarked last Monday.
For the last four months of the war, Russia has concentrated on capturing the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists have controlled some territory as self-proclaimed republics for eight years. Russian forces have made gradual headway in the region bordering Russia while launching missile and rocket attacks to curtail the movements of Ukrainian fighters elsewhere.
Over the past day, five civilians were killed in Russian and separatist firing on cities in the Donetsk region, the part of Donbas still under Ukrainian control, the regional governor, Serhiy Haidai, reported. He and Ukrainian government officials repeatedly have urged civilians to evacuate the province.
In a weekend analysis, Britain’s Defense Ministry said the Russian invasion that started Feb. 24 “is about to enter a new phase” in which the fighting shifting would shift west and south to a roughly 350-kilometer (217-mile) front line that extends from near the city of Zaporizhzhia to Russian-occupied Kherson.
Kherson, located on the Dnieper River near its mouth with the Black Sea, came under Russian control early in the war and Ukrainian officials have vowed to retake it. Kherson is located 227 kilometers (141 miles) from Odesa, home to Ukraine’s biggest port, so the conflict escalating there could have repercussions for the international grain deal.
The city of Mykolaiv, an important shipbuilding center that comes under daily rocketing from Russian forces, is even closer to Odesa. The Mykolaiv region’s governor, Vitaliy Kim, said an industrial facility on the regional capital’s outskirts came under fire early Sunday.
On Saturday, Russian forces launched airstrikes, fired artillery and redistributed other weaponry as part of attempts to defend their positions in occupied areas, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank.
Citing local Ukrainian officials, the institute said the Russians “are continuing to accumulate large quantities of military equipment” in a town across the Dnieper River from Kherson. The preparations appeared designed to defend logistics routes to the city and to establish defensive positions on the river’s left bank, the think tank said.
Ukrainian officials were initially skeptical of a grain export deal, citing suspicions that Moscow would try to exploit shipping activity to mass troops offshore or to send long-range missiles from the Black Sea, as it has done multiple times during the war. The agreements approved last month call for ships to leave Ukraine under military escort and to undergo inspections.
Under the agreements, ships leaving Ukraine are inspected by teams made up of officials from the three countries and the U.N. to make sure they carry only grain, fertilizer or food and not any other commodities. Inbound vessels are checked to ensure they are not carrying weapons.
The Joint Coordination Center, which is responsible for managing the deal, said three cargo ships that left Friday were expected to pass through Turkey’s Bosporus Strait on Sunday after clearing inspections. The Panama-flagged Navi Star, which is carrying 33,000 tons of grain to Ireland, completed its inspection and was preparing to sail.
The Turkish-flagged Polarnet, which was headed for Turkey, and the Maltese-flagged Rojen, bound for the United Kingdom were waiting to be checked. The ships carried over 25,000 tons of corn between them, were waiting to be checked. T
The Joint Coordination Center said three of the carriers cleared to leave Ukraine on Sunday – the Glory, the Star Helena and the Riva Wind, all flagged in the Marshall Islands – were transporting more than 171,000 tons of corn combined. The Glory is destined for Istanbul, the Star Helena to Nantong in China and the Riva Wind to Turkey’s Iskenderun port on the Mediterranean.
The fourth ship cleared for departure, the Liberia-flagged tanker Mustafa Necati is carrying more than 6,600 tons of sunflower oil to Monopoli, Italy.
The center also authorized the first inbound ship under the agreement, saying the Liberia-flagged Osprey S would head Monday to Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port. Marine traffic tracking sites showed the ship north of the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus, where ships have waited for inspection teams to board.
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Andrew Wilks contributed reporting from Istanbul.
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This version has been corrected to show the four new ships to receive authorization were cleared to depart Sunday, not Monday.
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To visit a popular transit point into Spain, you have to go to Africa. There, you will find Melilla, a city perched on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea.
Migrants spend years trying to get there.
This has provoked severe border restrictions by Spanish officials.
"Melilla today is like a bunker. It's like living in an island," says Irene Flores, a longtime Spanish journalist in Melilla.
The Spanish enclave city has changed in the last few decades, making it all the more difficult for people like Steven Khon Khon to enter
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DULUTH — The city is set to celebrate the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with the Duluth Monarch Festival on June 3.
This year, the Duluth Monarch Buddies have much to celebrate: They recently surpassed over 100 waystations in the Twin Ports area. A waystation is a place that provides resources monarchs need to eat and hatch caterpillars, most notably a good supply of milkweed and other pollinator-friendly plants.
"The awareness has really blossomed in the last few years," said Cathy Wood, president of Duluth Monarch Buddies. "More and more people are creating monarch waystations, pollinator gardens and there's increased awareness of planting native plants. And that's really good for the food supply and for vegetable gardens too. It's good for the whole system."
The Monarch Buddies is a group of volunteers who work to bring more public awareness to monarch butterflies and issues related to them. The monarch population is dwindling; “Eleven colonies were located this winter season with a total area of 2.21 hectares, a 22% decrease from the previous season,” according to a report this spring from Monarch Watch.
"We have a serious concern about the decrease in monarch butterflies," Wood said. "The reasons why partially have to do with pesticides and farming practices such as decreasing the amount of available milkweed or not leaving buffer zones."
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They also partner with other organizations in the city to create more pollinator habitats and gardens that help monarchs on their lengthy migration journey.
"We work with the public library and the parks department and we've made good connections with the schools to create pollinator habitats," Wood said. "And we go out and do some plantings and other work when we can."
The Buddies have received a grant for free milkweed and partnered with the City to plant in various areas such as Washington Square Park, Hartley Nature Center, Chester Bowl, and more.
"This year, if we get the grant from Monarch Watch, we're planning on doing a planting along Chambers Grove Park," Wood said. "And we'll put the call out for our volunteers to come out and help plant for several hours in a day. It's a good time."
The organization has been around for several years but due to the pandemic, is only celebrating its fifth annual Duluth Monarch Festival.
The event will include a talk from Emily Stone, the naturalist and education director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin. Stone, who recently returned from a trip to the monarch sanctuaries, will present a talk on the "Ecology of Overwintering Monarchs in Mexico" at 10:30 a.m.
Several other local experts will be on hand to talk about gardening and monarchs, including representatives from the Minnesota Master Gardeners, Wild Ones-Arrowhead Chapter, Monarch Joint Venture, author Linda Glaser, artist Mary Plaster and the Lake Superior Zoo. There will also be several kids activities and crafts along with the opportunity to see live monarch eggs, caterpillars and butterflies.
The Duluth Monarch Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 E. Skyline Parkway. Entry is $5 for adults; children under 12 are free.
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In the wake of recent shootings, NPR's Adrian Florido speaks to Harvard Law professor Ronald Sullivan about the status of stand your ground laws across the country.
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In the wake of recent shootings, NPR's Adrian Florido speaks to Harvard Law professor Ronald Sullivan about the status of stand your ground laws across the country.
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After trending down, gas prices up 10 cents since last week in Metro Detroit
One week into the new year, gas prices are starting to trickle upwards, jumping about 10 cents since last week to an average of $3.31 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline in Metro Detroit, according to AAA.
Prices were trending down at the close of 2022, but AAA's spokesperson says demand for gasoline is causing gas prices to increase.
"Michigan motorists continue to see higher pump prices are we move further into the new year," Adrienne Woodland, the auto club group's spokesperson, said in a press release. "As demand remains robust and stocks remain tight, drivers could continue to see pump prices increase."
Compared to last year, Michigan's current pump price is about 12 cents higher per gallon, from $3.20 last week to $3.31, the same as Metro Detroit's average.
Metro Detroit's price rose 10 cents since last week and 13 cents higher than last month. It is also about 8 cents higher than this time last year.
However, Metro Detroiters can still find prices below $3 a gallon in some cities. Gas Buddy records the Mobil station on West Road in Woodhaven at $2.63, the Sunoco station on Pinecrest Drive in Ferndale and a Mobil station on Elizabeth Lk Road in Waterford at $2.71.
AAA report the most expensive gas price averages in: Lansing ($3.34), Grand Rapids ($3.34), and Ann Arbor ($3.33).
The least expensive gas price averages are in: Marquette ($3.28), Traverse City ($3.30), and Benton Harbor ($3.31). | 2023-01-09T16:47:50+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2023/01/09/after-trending-down-gas-prices-up-10-cents-since-last-week-in-metro-detroit/69789876007/ |
The organization and nonprofit that regulates the practice of law in Arizona has sworn in the first Black president in its 90-year history.
A Tucson native, Benjamin Taylor went to Sahuaro High School and graduated from the University of Arizona law school in 2004 before beginning his law career in Maricopa County.
Sworn in as president of the Arizona State Bar on June 16 in Tucson, Taylor said he hopes he will pave the way for other people of color. When he first joined the state bar, there were not many people of color participating and he never thought the position of president could be his, he said.
“You look on the board and there wasn’t anybody I could relate to as far as a person of color,” he said. “I just didn’t think it was my pathway or my career path to do it. Then I realized I can take action. I can be the one who helps trailblaze and be that first person.”
Despite the lack of diversity when Taylor began on the board in 2017, the board has become more diverse since then, Taylor said.
He credits this to the Bar Leadership Institute, which trains future bar members and offers them networking opportunities, training, community awareness and other skills to help them better serve their diverse communities.
Having a diverse group of judges and lawyers will help members of the bar and the justice system better serve the community, he said.
“People want to see a fair and just system. And the way to achieve that is by working on a diverse bar,” Taylor said.
Taylor spent his early life, some college years in Tucson
Growing up in Tucson with his mother, a math teacher at Tucson Unified School District, and his father, a Vietnam veteran in the U.S. Air Force, helped him develop a solid foundation in life to go after his goals, he said.
Before finding law, Taylor worked in finance and thought he dreamed of working on Wall Street. But after feeling unfulfilled in a finance career, he made the switch to law so he could help more people.
After studying at the University of Arizona and interning at the Pima County Attorney’s Office, Taylor took a job at the Maricopa County Office of the Public Defender so that he could have a hands-on approach to helping the community.
“This gave me an opportunity to actually sit down and talk to clients, listen to clients and strategize with clients,” he said.
Taylor has dealt with cases of inequality in the justice system
To help even more people and increase the types of cases he works on, Taylor decided to start his own firm. Eventually, he merged with his law partner Dominic Gomez to form Taylor and Gomez, LLP, to help even more people.
In his career, Taylor said he has seen firsthand equity issues in the court system. One case in particular involved a woman he represented who was accused of shoplifting baby formula and diapers. Because she had a prior conviction, the prosecution wanted to give her jail time.
He saw how the justice system used people’s past against them, instead of focusing on what they are currently doing with their lives.
“It really broke my heart. I realized how the system really needed to change,” he said.
It reminded him that not only does everyone deserve defense under the U.S. Constitution, but everyone deserves to have a good defense attorney, or else they could go to prison for a long time.
A defining moment in his career was a case in 2021 that received national attention when his firm defended Yessenia Garcia. The woman had been wrongfully arrested for a hit-and-run that she had proof she did not commit. She won a lawsuit for $200,000 earlier this year.
Taylor has seen many injustices and is passionate about improving the state’s justice system and making sure the system is fair.
He said the state needs prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges to come together to revise the justice system to make sure it is fair to everyone.
Taylor reiterated that part of the bar association’s mission is to increase access to justice. The organization has an ethics hotline, member assistance programs, and continuing education for attorneys.
Lina Garcia, deputy director of the Office of the Maricopa County Public Defender, worked with Taylor, who at the time was an attorney in the trial division while she was a law clerk in 2006.
She recalled when she first started at the office, he was welcoming and took time out of his day to introduce her to the office and explain why the work they do is important.
“He quickly became a sounding board and somebody you could trust to have conversations about where you were working to grow and what you want to do in your career,” Garcia said.
She said Taylor is someone who would take time to say hi and catch up with former colleagues and acquaintances at social events, and try to get people involved in the profession, like opportunities to participate in state bar leadership positions or community organizations looking for help from an attorney.
“He always seems genuinely interested in conducting the profession as a whole to serve the community," Garcia said.
As a Latina, she noticed there were very few attorneys who were people of color. She valued Taylor’s mentorship and seeing another person of color succeeding in the field.
“As a fellow minority in this work, it meant a lot to see representation, even with somebody that was a few steps ahead in their career of where I was,” she said.
She also noted what a big accomplishment this was for the Black community in the profession.
“I don't think that we have ever seen somebody in this top position with the state bar, who is African American," Garcia said. “I think looking at like Black bar representation is huge to be able to see that in this type of position.”
According to the National Association for Law Placement, in 2020, people of color only made up 26% of associates in U.S. law firms, which increased from previous years.
In 2022, Black people only made up 4.5% of lawyers in the U.S., according to the American Bar Association. The association noted that about half of all state bars and licensing agencies track race and ethnicity in the profession, with 26 states reporting in 2022.
Taylor hopes to bring the state Bar to communities
Now that he is the president of the Arizona Bar Association, he wants to continue making the bar more diverse by not only attracting attorneys of different ethnicities but also of different genders, backgrounds, nationalities, ages and more.
To do this, the Bar needs to go out into the communities, rural as much as urban, and to schools, Taylor said.
During his one-year term, Taylor wants to educate youth and the general community about the justice system, and the Arizona Bar Association’s mission and services.
The state Bar has a range of services from free legal advice to continuing education for its attorneys.
He hopes that by going out into the community and to schools, the bar association can help inspire today’s youth to help recruit more Arizonans to consider becoming an attorney or judge in the future
"If young students and children see it, they can become it and believe it,” he said.
Reach the reporter at sarah.lapidus@gannett.com. The Republic’s coverage of southern Arizona is funded, in part, with a grant from Report for America. To support regional Arizona news coverage like this, make a tax deductible donation at supportjournalism.azcentral.com. | 2023-07-09T13:29:51+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/mosaic-story/news/local/arizona-people/2023/07/09/arizona-bar-president-benjamin-taylor-pushing-for-more-diversity/70365870007/ |
GREATER LAFAYETTE LOW TONIGHT: 56
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VIEWING AREA LOWS TONIGHT: 51-60
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Some scattered t'storms are possible tonight to Tuesday morning with risk of an isolated severe storm or two (largely isolated hail). | 2023-04-03T22:58:12+00:00 | wlfi.com | https://www.wlfi.com/weather/storm-team-18-forecast/article_3a12978a-d266-11ed-aa1b-df21eccd6447.html |
EL RENO, Okla. (KFOR) – A daughter’s wedding can be one of the happiest moments in a mother’s life. But an Oklahoma mom still reeling from her daughter’s untimely death is now embroiled in a dispute with the operators of the venue where her daughter was to be married.
Michaela Grundy’s wedding plans were well underway, and the bride-to-be was bursting with joy.
“She wanted it to be comfortable,” explained her mother, Lisa Busch. “She wanted it to be everybody that was celebrating them.”
She and her husband-to-be, Josh Smith, were to be wed in El Reno, Oklahoma, at the Palace Event Center in October.
But in May, Grundy started feeling ill.
“She said, ‘Mom, I’m not feeling so good.’ And then Tuesday they went to urgent care,'” Busch said.
Grundy’s condition changed throughout the week.
Early Monday morning, Busch received a phone call she won’t forget.
“Josh called us at 4 a.m. Monday morning,” she said. “I heard my husband say, ‘What do you mean she hasn’t breathed in 10 minutes?’ And so as soon as I heard that, we started getting ready and drove to the hospital. By the time I got there, they couldn’t revive her and she was gone.”
Grundy was 28, and it’s still unclear exactly what happened. The family says she tested positive for COVID-19 after passing.
Her family was left to grieve and cancel the wedding. They called vendors one by one, and they say they received immediate refunds from all, except one – The Palace, which was to be the main venue.
Grundy had paid The Palace around $4,000 before her death. Busch said, after losing her daughter, she called The Palace, but the venue only offered to reimburse half the amount.
“All that’s been done was her name’s been put on the date. So, I didn’t think half was really fair,” said Lisa. “So, I said, ‘Can you have the owner call me so that I can talk to him?'”
Lisa says her conversations with the owner grew heated on both sides. Palace management claimed they were unable to just give the money back as Michaela was the only person who signed the contract.
But Grundy used a card, and Busch says the card is linked to a joint bank account with Smith.
That account is still active, and Busch says everyone agrees it should be Smith who receives the funds.
“[Josh is] having to pick up and start his life and relocate his home,” said Lisa. “You know, we haven’t shut anything down yet because that was per the bank’s recommendation. So, it could just go back to the original form payment.”
In the nearly three months that have passed, no resolution has been reached.
Before long, a slew of bad reviews were left against the venue online. The Palace responded to most of these with a uniform statement that reads:
“The management of The Palace Event Center would like to offer our sincere condolences to Michaela’s family during this difficult time. We can’t imagine the sadness they are experiencing from this loss. The request for a refund has not been denied: our attorney has advised us that the refund must be paid to her legal heir, so we have asked for information regarding Michaela’s estate. We look forward to working with the family to resolve this.”
But at 28, with no will, how does one find Grundy’s heir?
Nexstar’s KFOR met with Edmonds, Oklahoma-based estate attorney David McBride, of McBride & Associates, to learn more.
“Typically, [families] present their documents to the court,” he explained. “They initiate a court proceeding called a probate, stating that they have a right to step up and be the person to receive distribution from the estate.”
But without a will or trust, these proceedings can be costly. Keep in mind the refund would be for just under $4,000.
McBride says even the most straightforward, no-hassle probate proceedings can cost $2,500 to $5,000.
“[Sometimes] you’re going to spend more in attorney fees and court costs and all those other expenditures than they’re going to ultimately recover,” He said. “It sadly happens far too often.”
But there could be a resolution in sight. The Palace responded to KFOR’s request for comment, with a lengthy statement.
Management said they were “very sorry to hear of Michaela’s passing” and that their attorney had advised them to receive an “affidavit of heirship.”
But they later said their attorney was in the process of drawing up this document to help resolve the matter.
They also asked that the bad reviews be removed from Facebook, adding, “It pains us greatly to see the negative and libelous posts. We have been unfairly defamed and we are not able to defend ourselves.”
However, it’s been more than a week since KFOR received that statement, and Busch says she’s heard nothing from Palace management and hasn’t received the affidavit.
She’s now hoping others will heed her family’s advice when it comes to such contracts.
“Make sure they ask the question, ‘What happens if, under no circumstance or no fault of our own, this wedding can’t take place?'” she said. “‘What am I entitled to?’ I wish we’d have known.” | 2022-08-01T21:37:48+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/oklahoma-family-fights-for-refund-after-bride-to-be-dies-months-before-wedding/ |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Entrepreneurship is booming, but women are underrepresented among its founders, investors and employees. A recent study investigates entrepreneurship's gender "diversity debt," a demographic disparity that can be difficult and costly to remedy as an organization grows.
The study's authors, Melissa Cardon (Haslam Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Yuval Engel (University of Amsterdam), Trey Lewis (Virginia Tech) and Tanja Hentschel (University of Amsterdam) found that when men far outnumber women at a startup, other women are less likely to apply. A gender gap in applicants can create a vicious cycle of diversity debt as startups scale their workforce.
"If startups have diversity debt in their early days, this disparity will only increase over time, making it even harder to diversify later," Cardon says. "That compounds startups' lack of access to the best talent available to fill their open positions."
Gender Disparity Keeps Qualified Candidates Away
The researchers utilized data about tech and non-tech jobs at technology-based firms in several different industries. In one study, they assigned potential applicants to view one of two startup employer profiles. The employers were identical in every way except that one showed its gender composition as 5 percent women and the other showed 40 percent women. In a separate study, the authors analyzed more than half a million application decisions on a job-matching app for startups.
Controlling for skills, education and prior experience/qualifications of potential applicants, the study found that women were wary of entering candidate pools at companies that had little or no female representation. Men, the dominant majority in this context, were not similarly deterred.
The results were clear: for women, signs of diversity debt created worries about being singled out, disrespected, stereotyped, marginalized or mistreated. The more concerned women were, the more reluctant they were to apply, offering comments such as, "I immediately get 'tech bro' vibes from this place, and it is somewhere I am not interested in," and "As a woman, I feel like I wouldn't be taken seriously."
Policy Makers Make Take an Active Role
Whether it stems from discriminatory hiring, the gender composition of the founding team or other factors, diversity debt is a red flag for many women, creating a wider gender gap in application interest for startups. Underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is a problem that has important implications for gender equity and inclusion, not only in growth-oriented startups but also in society at large, the authors say.
"Talent belongs to both men and women," Cardon says. "When startups have diversity debt, which deters women joiners, those startups are losing access to some of the most qualified applicants for their jobs, which negatively impacts their ability to hire the best applicants and do the best work."
The research team says that for startups to break the cycle of diversity debt as they scale, they will have to find proactive ways to become more attractive to women jobseekers and improve the representation of women in their hiring funnel from day one. Rather than struggling for years and spending resources on diversity initiatives that may not work, startups should hire and retain women early and reap the competitive advantage of larger, more diverse candidate pools.
"Signaling Diversity Debt: Startup Gender Composition and the Gender Gap in Joiners' Interest" was published by the Academy of Management Journal in November 2022. The paper is available online.
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SOURCE University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Haslam College of Business | 2023-02-16T20:00:06+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/02/16/stay-competitive-startups-must-combat-gender-diversity-debt/ |
Pennsylvania state trooper killed in ambush is lauded as a hero during funeral service
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state trooper who was shot and killed earlier this month when he went to work on his day off after learning his barracks had been attacked by an armed man was laid to rest Tuesday during a funeral where the state’s governor and his colleagues lauded him as a hero who only wanted to serve his community.
Jacques “Jay” F. Rougeau Jr., 29, a native of Corry who lived in Mifflintown, was shot June 17 by Brandon Stine, 38, of Thompsontown, authorities have said. Stine also critically wounded another trooper that day in a separate incident before he was shot and killed himself after a manhunt and a fierce gunbattle with law enforcement. Stine’s motive remains under investigation.
Rougeau was killed by a gunshot through the windshield of his patrol car as he drove down a road in Walker Township, not far from the state police barracks. He had been a trooper since 2021 and was the 104th member of the state police to be killed in the line of duty.
Speaking at the service, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Rougeau had “a servant’s heart” and lived a life of purpose as a dedicated trooper who loved cheering on Penn State football, playing pickup basketball at the Corry YMCA and mentoring kids during youth basketball games.
“In every part of his life, Jay wanted to give back and serve others,” Shapiro said,
Rougeau’s funeral was held at a packed Bayfront Convention Center in Erie. He will be buried in Mifflintown during a private ceremony that will be held later this year.
Lt. James Wagner, 45, the other trooper shot by Stine, remains hospitalized in critical condition. The father of three sons, he enlisted in the state police in 2020 and was assigned as the station commander at Troop G/Bedford Station.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-06-27T22:27:38+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/us-world-news/pennsylvania-state-trooper-killed-in-ambush-is-lauded-as-a-hero-during-funeral-service/ |
Why Terry Sanford baseball didn't celebrate much after its Easter tournament championship
There was no lengthy celebration Wednesday night on Terry Sanford’s baseball field.
Even after the host Bulldogs earned a 12-9 win against East Bladen to complete their championship run in the Bulldog Easter Tournament, Terry Sanford’s players and coaches didn’t have the look of a group that had just won a trophy.
That’s because they know there’s a certain standard that comes with being a part of Terry Sanford baseball. It’s a standard that has led the Bulldogs to nine conference championships in 11 years and one they didn’t live up to in Wednesday’s win against the Eagles (6-9).
“We gotta be better. We did not play well … at all. We didn’t pitch well, we didn’t field well. In the last two innings, we looked like we’ve never caught a flyball or a pop up before,” said Terry Sanford coach Sam Guy.
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“But an ugly win is better than a pretty loss any day. … It’s a W, which is great, but we gotta be better. We have bigger goals than an Easter tournament. It’s great to win your own tournament, but we gotta play better.”
Despite the disappointment of not living up to their expectations this spring break, the Bulldogs (17-2) have won four Easter trophies in their last five tourney appearances.
Sophomore pitcher Ethan Nobles got the start in Wednesday’s championship and put together a three-game resume that earned him tournament MVP honors.
After beating Midway 4-0 on Monday, Terry Sanford rallied from a 5-0 hole against Pinecrest on Tuesday to make it to the championship. The Bulldogs found themselves in another 5-0 hole against East Bladen before scoring 12 of the next 16 runs.
“We’re Bulldogs,” Nobles said. “Dogs don’t stop fighting.”
After a shaky start, Nobles settled down enough to make it five innings and earn the win on the mound. At the plate, Nobles had three hits and two RBIs in wins against Midway and Pinecrest before adding another hit, an RBI and four walks in the championship.
“He left with the lead. He got the win and he battled,” Guy said. “He was not good (against East Bladen), but he’s good. Good pitchers, when they don’t have their good stuff, find ways to get the job done. He did that and he’s a very good pitcher.”
Senior leader Drew Kittinger, junior Wills Noon and sophomore Josh Hart made the all-tournament team for the Bulldogs.
Staff writer Rodd Baxley can be reached at rbaxley@fayobserver.com or @RoddBaxley on Twitter. | 2023-04-13T10:00:30+00:00 | fayobserver.com | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/04/12/terry-sanford-baseball-beats-east-bladen-to-win-easter-tournament-nchsaa-fayetteville/70094296007/ |
The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs have Andy Reid in common heading into Super Bowl LVII. Reid coached the Eagles for 14 seasons and the Chiefs for the last 10. They each have a Kelce brother, the Eagles with Jason at center and the Chiefs with Travis at tight end.
They also have a shared experience in that the conference champions are the only two teams in the NFL to lay a decisive beating on the 49ers.
Gauging the mood in the 49ers’ locker room on clear-out day, as well as recent comments from Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel, a team-wide dose of truth serum would likely make Kansas City the favorite.
There’s some recency bias at work, given that the 49ers’ 31-7 road loss to the Eagles was essentially decided the moment quarterback Brock Purdy tore the UCL in his throwing elbow in the first quarter.
“In the nicest way, we didn’t really get to see how good the Eagles’ defense was,” Samuel said Wednesday on ESPN’s First Take. “We had them schemed up, we had them dialed up. What a coincidence we don’t have a quarterback.”
Said Aiyuk on The SFNiners podcast earlier in the week: “(The Eagles) got their hands full . . . talk about them being a good defense, I’m not too sure,” Aiyuk said. “This Kansas City pass game will expose what we thought we were going to be able to expose before some unfortunate circumstances happened.”
Christian McCaffrey in an NFL Network interview, wasn’t too keen on either team and wasn’t sure if he’d even watch.
“I hope both teams lose,” McCaffrey said.
On Oct. 23, the Chiefs came to Levi’s Stadium and broke open a tight game in the second half for a 44-23 win as the 49ers fell to 3-4. McCaffrey had been a member of the 49ers for all of two days but played 23 snaps with eight carries for 38 yards and two receptions for 24 yards, the first glimpse at the player who would carry their offense.
The 49ers wouldn’t lose again until the NFC Championship Game, winning 12 straight including playoff victories over Seattle and Dallas before losing to the top-seeded Eagles.
The disparity between how the 49ers played against the Super Bowl participants as opposed to everyone else was striking. They were outscored 70-30 by Philadelphia and Kansas City and outscored everyone else 480-237 – a margin of just over 14 points per game.
Here’s a look at why Philadelphia and Kansas City were superior and what it means for the 49ers going forward. They’ve been in the NFC Championship Game three times in the last four years, have a core nucleus of players at or near their prime and presumably their window to win their sixth Super Bowl and first since the 1994 season is wide open.
QUARTERBACK PLAY
The Chiefs Patrick Mahomes won the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award by a good margin over Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts, getting 48 of 50 first-place votes.
Mahomes looked the part against the 49ers, going 25-of-34 for 423 yards, three touchdowns and one interception as he dominated the second half. Jimmy Garoppolo, meanwhile was 25 of 37 for 303 yards, two touchdowns, one interception, a lost fumble and was sacked for a safety.
It was the first extended look Purdy, who was 4-for-9 for 66 yards and an interception in mop-up time after the Chiefs broke it open in the fourth quarter.
Hurts needed only to manage the NFC title game win, and was 15-of-25 for 121 yards and had 11 rushes for 39 yards and a touchdown.
Purdy threw only four passes, two before he got hurt and two afterward. In the interim, Josh Johnson took his eyes off a shotgun snap for a key lost fumble before he was lost to a concussion on a sack.
Super Bowl advantage: Big edge to Mahomes
RUNNING TO DAYLIGHT
Only six times in 20 games (17 regular season, three postseason) did opponents break 100 yards rushing on the 49ers, who led the NFL in rushing defense by giving up 77.8 yards per game and 3.4 yards per attempt in the regular season.
Two of those opponents were the Chiefs (112) and Eagles (148).
The 49ers gave up 16 rushing touchdowns in those 20 games, and only two teams had more than one in a game – Kansas City and Philadelphia. The Chiefs had three rushing touchdowns and the Eagles four – meaning in the 49ers’ other 18 games they allowed just nine touchdowns on the ground.
Reid and the Eagles’ Nick Sirianni go about running the ball in different ways. The Kansas City offense is driven by Mahomes and his passing, with running plays having more of a surprise element. Philadelphia is a run-first team that likes to set up the deep shot.
While the Chiefs averaged 5.2 yards per carry against the 49ers and Philadelphia just 3.4, the Eagles’ line, particularly near the goal line, had the 49ers’ line on the retreat.
Super Bowl advantage: Edge to Eagles
PLAYING KEEPAWAY
Only two teams had more time of possession than the 49ers – Washington and Green Bay. Converting third downs and moving the chains is a big part of their identity under coach Kyle Shanahan.
But there were two games where the 49ers were the ones whose offense spent much of the day on the sideline and they came in the losses to the Chiefs and Eagles.
Kansas City was 6-of-9 on third down and had a 33:45 to 26:15 advantage against the 49ers. The Eagles were just 5-of-15 but 3-for-3 on fourth down and had a 37:26 to 22:54 margin against the 49ers.
Given the Eagles’ identity as a run-first team and the Chiefs’ propensity to strike quickly, it’s a more important stat for Philadelphia than Kansas City.
Super Bowl advantage: Slight edge to Eagles
PASS RUSH
The Eagles sacked 49ers quarterbacks three times – two by Haason Reddick and one by Javon Hargrave. Reddick’s sack-fumble of Purdy after getting past tight end Tyler Kroft essentially ended the 49ers’ season.
Philadelphia had 70 regular-season sacks, the most in franchise history, with four players in double figures.
The Chiefs sacked Garoppolo five times, including two by Chris Jones and 1 ½ by Frank Clark. The Chiefs were second to the Eagles with 55 sacks on the season.
As well as the 49ers’ offensive line played this season, they weren’t equipped to deal with the pass rush of either of the conference champions.
The 49ers, meanwhile, were 10th in sacks with 44 and got 18 ½ of those from NFL Defensive Player of the Year Nick Bosa. Samson Ebukam was second with five and Charles Omenihu was third with 4 ½. Both are scheduled for free agency.
Bosa had one sack in his last five games, no postseason sacks, and it’s clear the 49ers need to get him some help for an additional outside push.
Super Bowl advantage: Slight advantage Eagles
AND THE WINNER IS . . .
The Eagles are better than the 49ers think they are. Philadelphia earned everything it got and the 49ers had a bad break, but the Eagles decisively won the game on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
While Mahomes isn’t perfect – his last two seasons ended with a Super Bowl loss to Tampa Bay and an AFC Championship Game loss to Cincinnati — he is still the most transcendent player in the game and gives Kansas City the edge.
Final score: Chiefs 27, Eagles 20 | 2023-02-11T15:16:14+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/02/11/super-bowl-matchup-a-look-at-chiefs-eagles-through-a-49ers-prism/ |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 27, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
627 PM CDT Sat Aug 27 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern Beaver
and Lipscomb Counties through 700 PM CDT...
At 626 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 3 miles southeast of Slapout to 8 miles west of
Lipscomb. Movement was east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Lipscomb, Follett, Darrouzett and Slapout.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3619 10055 3645 10053 3661 10038 3665 10000
3612 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 276DEG 36KT 3658 10008 3621 10041
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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UNION, N.J., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) has the perfect present for everyone this holiday season. With Hannukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa around the corner, shop Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuy BABY, and Harmon to find gifts for hosting and toasting, bringing joy with toys and unique gifts that every foodie, neat freak, and cozy enthusiast will love. For a gift that keeps giving, customers can earn and redeem points every time they shop, across all three banners with the Welcome Rewards™ loyalty program – and from Wednesday, Dec. 21 through Saturday, Dec. 24 Welcome Rewards+ members will receive 30 percent off their total purchase (one time use).
Bed Bath & Beyond Gift of the Day, and More
Now through Saturday, Dec. 24, Bed Bath & Beyond will unveil its favorite gifts to spark inspiration in an exciting, new "Gift of the Day" each day on its website. Plus, shoppers can get every gift on the list – for less! – with 25 percent off their total purchase beginning Monday, Dec. 12, through Sunday, Dec. 25. Shop by price, recipient or interest to find the 'just right' gift.
For food and drink enthusiasts:
- Nespresso® Breville Vertuo Next Premium Coffee Machine with Milk Frother
- Ninja Speedi™ 6 qt. 12-in-1 Rapid Cooker & Air Fryer
- KitchenAid® 5qt Artisan® Tilt-Head Stand Mixer
For self-care devotees:
- UGG® Teddie 2-Piece Throw Blanket and Eye Mask Travel Set
- Sharper Image® Spa Haven Foot Bath
- HoMedics® Shiatsu+ Vibration Massager Cushion with Heat
For hospitable hosts:
- Dyson V8 Animal Cordless Stick Vacuum
- Cuisinart® Chef's Classic™ Pro 11-piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set
- Schott Zwiesel Tritan Pure Glass Sets
Shopping for someone and not sure what to get? Bed Bath & Beyond partnered with Pinterest to create a holiday gifting quiz. Answer a few questions and get curated gift ideas for the foodie, spa lover, happy host and that always hard-to-shop-for person.
buybuy BABY Gifts for Kids of All Ages
buybuy BABY – the leading baby and toddler specialty retailer in North America – has all the top toys of the season so shoppers can win the holidays and delight the children in their lives.
New and exciting deals will be available at buybuy BABY throughout December, including 25 percent off select Leap Frog®, Vtech®, Fisher-Price® Little People and Baby Einstein™ toys when you shop online.
Top Toys for Infants
- Sophie la girafe® Teething Toy
- Fisher-Price Linkimals™ Cool Beats Penguin Interactive Toy
- Fisher-Price DJ Bouncin' Beats™ Interactive Toy
- SKIP*HOP® Explore & More Grow Along 4-in-1 Activity Walker
Top Toys for Toddlers
- Dyson Cord-Free Toy Vacuum
- Melissa & Doug® Examine & Treat Pet Vet 24-Piece PlaySet
- VTech® Count and Win Sports Center
- Baby Einstein™ Hape Magic Touch Piano™ Musical Toy
Top Toys for Kids
- Mattel Barbie® Color Reveal™ Doll
- Gabby's Dollhouse 15-Piece Gabby's Purrfect Dollhouse Play Set
- Hot Wheels® City Ultimate Octo Car Wash
- Best Ride On Cars® Mercedes AMG C63 3-in-1 Ride-On Car
Harmon Self-Care and Stocking Stuffers
Shop Harmon for beauty gift sets, must-have stocking stuffers and new finds for the self-care enthusiast.
Gift sets under $15 make great stocking stuffers or presents for a gift exchange.
- SpaScriptions™ 5-Piece Spa Day Treats
- Danielle® Creations 3-Piece Clear Skin Facial Set
- eos™ 3-Count Sphere Lip Balm Set
- HARRY'S® Holiday Shave Gift Set
- Love Beauty and Planet 3-Piece Coconut Water and Mimosa Flower Hair Set
Harmon's 12 Days of Holiday Cheer runs Monday, Dec. 12 through Saturday Dec. 24, for daily deals on this season's must-haves including $10 off the Revlon® Detachable One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer PLUS (originally $74.99) and $20 off the Sharper Image® Powerboost Move Massager (originally $89.99). Plus, now through Thursday, Dec. 8, customers that spend $50 will receive a $10 bonus gift card!
More Ways to Conveniently Shop for Gifts
Still not sure what to give someone special? Gift cards are the perfect solution for that hard-to-shop-for friend or family member, and Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuy BABY and Harmon gift cards are available in various denominations, with no fee or expiration date. Need something fast? Gift cards can be emailed within minutes of purchase for those truly last-minute gifting needs.
Shoppers can find their favorite items from Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuy BABY and Harmon on one, universal app, with a streamlined browsing and check-out process. The app also helps customers manage their account, track orders, rewards, and coupons across all banners, has notifications for the latest deals, offers and promotions, and in-store mode enables them to seamlessly scan products as they shop to see more info, reviews, prices and more.
Need a gift by a specific date? The last day to shop online and get gifts before the holidays is Monday, Dec. 19! From Wednesday, Dec. 14 through Saturday, Dec. 24, customers can take advantage of free Same Day Delivery (typically $9.99 per order) on orders over $29, and from Saturday, Dec. 17 through Saturday, Dec. 24 customers receive 20 percent off at buybuy BABY when they select Buy Online Pick-Up in Store or Curbside Pick-Up.
For more information on products, services, and more, check out bedbathandbeyond.com, buybuybaby.com and harmonfacevalues.com.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca and harmonfacevalues.com.
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SOURCE Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. | 2022-12-07T13:56:39+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/12/07/shop-gifts-everyone-list-bed-bath-amp-beyond-buybuy-baby-harmon/ |
Re: “Move Seattle parking enforcement back to police department” [Nov. 1, Opinion]:
I agree parking enforcement should be returned to the Seattle Police Department. I also believe that 911 should also be returned.
I was a dispatcher for 31 years and understand the connection between the officers on the street and their dispatcher. All this shuffling of personnel was a fake attempt to show the public defunding the police. Let’s not fix things that weren’t broken in the first place.
Carol Marier, Seattle | 2022-11-03T23:41:35+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/parking-enforcement-911-lets-not-fix-things-that-werent-broken/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) declared his opposition to a possible nationwide TikTok ban as many members of both parties push back against the platform, saying a ban would be a “mistake.”
Paul told Fox News in an interview on Tuesday that he believes a ban would violate the First Amendment. He noted that TikTok is unavailable in China, which is where TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is based.
“I think it’s a really bad idea. And people need to ask themselves, why does the Chinese government ban TikTok, and do we want to emulate the Chinese government? So I think it’s a mistake,” Paul said. “If you ban a social media platform, you know, I don’t know if you get any clearer that that goes against the First Amendment.”
Paul’s opposition comes as bills have been introduced in Congress in recent months to directly ban the downloading and use of the app and to grant the Commerce Department the authority to review and possibly ban technologies linked to foreign adversarial governments.
Punchbowl News reported that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who introduced the federal TikTok ban, said he will seek unanimous consent for his legislation in the Senate on Wednesday. He told the outlet Tuesday that no one had raised an objection to the bill to him yet.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week amid questions from lawmakers about security procedures in place to protect U.S. users’ data on the app.
Members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle have raised concerns about the Chinese government having access to the data because TikTok is owned by a Chinese company. Chew maintained at the hearing and TikTok has emphasized over the months that it is not subject to the actions of the Chinese Communist Party and has policies in place to protect users’ personal information.
Several House Democrats have declared their opposition to a potential TikTok ban, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), but Paul makes at least one Republican who opposes the efforts.
Paul mentioned that the court system already blocked an attempted ban from the Trump administration in 2020, and courts might block any potential ban again.
“I’m for the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says that companies that operate in the United States, we shouldn’t limit their speech, or people who try to broadcast speech on those platforms,” he said. | 2023-03-28T23:21:36+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/rand-paul-among-lawmakers-opposing-tiktok-ban-bills-i-think-its-a-mistake/ |
Charity concert to benefit Louisiana military charities
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Red Rock & Blue’s annual charity concert to benefit Louisiana military charities is set for Friday, July 8 at Chelsea’s Live in Baton Rouge. All proceeds from this show go to such local charity organizations as The Blue Star Mothers of Louisiana and Wounded War Heroes. The musical bill is a loaded one, as The Chase Tyler Band, The Chris Leblanc Band, ReGeneration, Petty Betty, Trey Gallman and Konner James are scheduled to perform.
All attendees get a complimentary chicken sandwich from Chick-Fil-A and their first beer is likewise free. Tickets are available here now - Tickets for Red Rock and Blue Presented by Chick-Fil-A with Chase Tyler, ReGeneration, Trey Gallman, Chris Leblanc, Petty Betty and Konnor James | TicketWeb - Chelsea’s Live in Baton Rouge, US
The RRB charity slow-pitch softball tournament is set for July 29-31 at BREC’s Oak Villa facility in Baton Rouge. The tournament typically draws 80-100 teams each year with a three-game guarantee for each. Anyone can register a team here - 28th Red, Rock & Blue 2022 Softball Tournament Tickets, Baton Rouge | Eventbrite
Red Rock & Blue was established well over a decade ago and has donated roughly $300,000 to Louisiana military charities in the last six years alone.
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GREENVILLE, NC (WNCT) — Sisters Amy Toler and Stephanie Kand get to work together every day as co-owners of the newly-opened Wild Olive Boutique on 3rd Street in Uptown Greenville.
They both enjoy shopping and had been considering opening a store for a long time before finally making the decision to move into a space.
“It’s something that I had in the back of my mind for years … We had talked about opening a boutique for forever,” said Kand. “I drive an hour and a half here but enjoy it because I know I’m coming to spend the day with her.”
“It’s something we’ve both looked forward to for a long time,” said Toler.
View the video for more information about the boutique and the relationship between the sisters in charge. | 2023-01-28T00:11:02+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/features/online-originals/sisters-partner-to-open-uptown-greenville-boutique/ |
Border Patrol agent arrested, charged in road rage incident
Published: Dec. 22, 2022 at 3:53 PM CST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
LAREDO, Texas (KGNS/Gray News) – A Border Patrol agent was arrested and charged following a road rage incident in Texas on Wednesday afternoon.
The Laredo Police Department said Roman Rodriguez, 35, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Rodriguez was off duty at the time of the road rage incident on I-35 in Laredo, officials said.
Scene footage showed more than 10 police units responding in the area, surrounding a white pick-up truck. Border Patrol units also arrived at the scene.
Police did not detail what led to the incident but said no one was injured.
Copyright 2022 KGNS via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-22T22:12:38+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/12/22/border-patrol-agent-arrested-charged-road-rage-incident/ |
Offering a top prize of 1 million yuan and introducing the Asian Games Creative Dissemination Award
HANGZHOU, China, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhejiang is looking for entries of short videos through launching the "Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang" Global Short Video Contest again. On the afternoon of March 10, the award ceremony for the winning logos for the provincial-level brand theme of "Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang" and the winning entries from the 1st global short video contest was held in Hangzhou. At the event, the 2nd "Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang" global short video contest was officially launched, inviting participants to showcase the stunning landscapes, cultural beauty, and innovative spirit of Zhejiang from new angles.
The global short video contest will continue to focus on the provincial-level brand theme of "Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang", soliciting short video submissions from around the world. In addition, a special theme on the Asian Games has been added to encourage participants to use their videos to record the beautiful things and marvelous people related to the Asian Games.
The collection of entries for the contest starts from now on until July 31st. The contest is open to official organizations, domestic and foreign media, professional institutions, videographers, and netizens. Creators are welcome to invite foreigners to participate in production, or collaborate with Chinese and foreign teams to plan and produce. In August, the organizing committee will conduct exhibitions and expert evaluations, and in September, the award ceremony will be held and the winning works will be introduced and promoted globally.
The 2nd contest will continue to set up a special award, with a prize of 1 million yuan. It is worth noting that in addition to the existing Awards for Professional Group and Public Group, Special Prizes, Best Internet Dissemination Awards, and Best Overseas Dissemination Awards, 8 Asian Games Creative Dissemination Awards have been added.
Based on the theme of the Asian Games, the submissions may include footages of domestic and foreign athletes sweating in preparation, young volunteers having fun during their intense training, adorable moments of the "Asian Games Ten Cities Tour" mascots, or personal experiences of the 56 venues. During the contest, the organizing committee will also invite a group of foreign ambassadors, overseas friends and media, overseas Chinese and international students to participate through online and offline activities, including promotion, participation contest and "Overseas observation". The event will bring together different perspectives on the Asian Games, and will also spread in various languages the charm of Hangzhou, the beauty of Zhejiang, and the stories of China.
The contest will create an event hashtag #PicturesqueandDynamic ZhejiangWelcomingtheAsianGames# on various social media platforms, including TikTok, Kuaishou, Channels, Weibo, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, and foreign social platforms. After submitting their works, all participants can add the hashtag to participate in interactive dissemination, and the spread of their works will be one of the important criteria for evaluation.
Contest Details:
The 2nd "Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang" Global Short Video Contest, sponsored by Zhejiang Media Group and Zhejiang Daily Press Group, and hosted by the Beautiful Zhejiang Short Video Platforms and ZTV WORLD, has been officially launched under the guidance of the Publicity Department of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and the Organizing Committee of the 19th Asian Games in 2022.
"Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang" is the provincial brand theme of Zhejiang. This short video contest will continue to use "Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang" as the creation theme, and collect various short videos from netizens worldwide. It also specially adds a theme section for welcoming the Asian Games, using images from daily life to record the beauty of the event.
The contest is open to official organizations, domestic and foreign media, professional institutions, videographers, and ordinary netizens for submissions. Creators are welcome to invite foreigners to participate in filming and production or collaborate with domestic and foreign teams to plan and produce.
I. Time of submission
From now till July 31
II. Awards
The contest offers awards to professional and amateur groups. In addition, the Asian Games Creative Dissemination Award is introduced to encourage participants to create works related to the Asian Games. In order to encourage the participation of organizations, the Best Organization Award is added.
1. Special Prize (1)
The award is given based on the artistic value and creativity of the entry, and its effect of dissemination during the exhibition.
Prize: RMB 1,000,000 yuan.
2. Awards for Professional Group (15)
The length of the entry should be no more than 8 minutes. The awards are given based primarily on the creativity and professionalism of the entry; and its dissemination data during the exhibition.
There will be 1 First Prize, 4 Second Prizes and 10 Third Prizes.
First Prize: RMB 200,000 yuan
Second Prize: RMB 50,000 yuan
Third Prize: RMB 20,000 yuan
3. Awards for Amateur Group (15)
The length of the entry should be no more than 3 minutes. The awards are given based on the creativity and dissemination data of the entry.
There will be 1 First Prize, 4 Second Prizes, and 10 Third Prizes.
First Prize: RMB 100,000 yuan
Second Prize: RMB 20,000 yuan
Third Prize: RMB 10,000 yuan
4. Best Dissemination Awards (2)
The awards are given based on the spreads of the entry on communication platforms. There will be two awards in this category: Best Internet Dissemination Award and Best Overseas Dissemination Award. The Best Dissemination Awards and the Special Prize will not be awarded to the same entry.
Prize: RMB 200,000 yuan
5. Asia Games Creative Dissemination Award (8)
8 outstanding videos related to the Asian Games will be selected from all eligible submissions that meet the contest requirements. The awards are given based on the production quality, creativity, and popularity of the entry.
There will be 1 First Prize, 2 Second Prizes, and 5 Third Prizes.
First Prize: RMB 250,000 yuan
Second Prize: RMB 100,000 yuan
Third Prize: RMB 50,000 yuan
6. Excellent Organization Award (several)
The awards with honorary certificates are given to organizations based on their mobilization, the number of awards received and the quality of their entries.
(1) The entry can be a single or a series of videos. If the entry is a series, it is considered as one entry for the contest.
(2) All prize money is pre-tax and will be paid in RMB.
(3) The Best Dissemination Award, Asian Games Creative Dissemination Award, and Organizing Committee Special Award will not be awarded to the same entry.
III Entry Requirement
Professional group: Organizations, studios, and individuals are eligible for the contest.
Amateur group: Only individuals (up to 2 people) are eligible to enter the contest.
Participants are encouraged to utilize various forms, such as creative promotional videos, micro variety shows, talk shows, VLOGs, micro dramas, documentaries, and feature films, and to use sound and video, editing skills, special effects, and other technical means.
There is no requirement for the language of the entries. For videos in languages other than English or Chinese, English/Chinese dubbing or subtitles are required.
Entries should be based on real-life stories spreading positive energy. Any pornographic, violent, racially discriminating, or other inappropriate content is strictly prohibited. Advertising of any kind is not allowed.
Entries must be original with no copyright disputes. Please make sure that you have acquired all necessary rights, permits and licenses for the use of pictures, music and fonts, and obtained the permission or image rights for those featured in your entry. Submission of the entries means that you have authorized the Organizing Committee to use them for future promotion, broadcasting, or exhibition. For entries that have won the Special Prize, Best Dissemination Award, Asia Games Creative Dissemination Award and First Prize, the copyright and rights of dissemination will be automatically transferred to the Organizing Committee. For other award-winning entries, the rights of dissemination and option of those entries will be automatically transferred to the Organizing Committee. Relevant authorization agreements will be signed when necessary.
For entries competing in the professional group, the screen format shall be 16:9 with the resolution of 1280*720 or above in MPG, MPEG, AVI, MOV, WMV or MP4;
For entries competing in the amateur group, both horizontal and vertical formats are acceptable, with clean images, and without any corner marks, logos, watermarks or identifying marks.
The length of the entry: For the professional group, each entry should be no more than 8 minutes. For the amateur group, each entry should be no more than 3 minutes. Entries of longer duration will not be selected.
The video quality and the dissemination effect of each entry will be taken into consideration in the final selection. Participants are encouraged to upload their videos on multiple platforms, and the data from the top two platforms with the best dissemination effect will be the main reference.
In case of similar creative works during the selection period, scores will be given based on the order of video publication (the earlier one will be ranked first).
Contest hotline: 0571-88901111
Contact email: meilizhejiang@qq.com
IV How to participate
The 19th Asian Games will be held in Zhejiang, China, from September 23 to October 8, 2023. Why is Zhejiang called "Picturesque Jiangnan, Dynamic Zhejiang"? We are waiting for your answers. We have registration channels in Xinhuanet's overseas dissemination platform and China Blue Convergence Media Matrix, including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, inviting you to create short videos based on the Asian Games elements and share your views on Zhejiang from a foreigner's perspective.
1. Overseas platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook
Overseas participants or foreign nationals in China can upload their videos on TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook platforms, and add the official hashtag #PicturesqueandDynamicZhejiang for the contest.
2. Official website
Foreign nationals in China can also log in to the special homepage (http://dynamiczj.cztv.com/ ) to fill in the registration with the video submission link, and upload their original
3. Email
Participants can also choose to send their entries to meilizhejiang@qq.com in the form of an attachment or disk (Baidu /Google Drive) link. Please send your mail with the subject line in the format of "Global Short Video Contest -- Name of the Entry", and specify the details of your entry and your personal information.
V Rights and interests of participants
Participants have the opportunity to receive awards and certificates. All participants who successfully enter their entries will win the "Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang" lucky award.
Entries that receive the Committee's Special Award, First Prize, Best Dissemination Award, and Asia Games Creative Dissemination Award will be eligible to compete for "Zhijiang Tide" Cultural Award.
Entries will have the opportunity to be shown on mainstream media within the province and online, and their producers to be interviewed by mainstream media to share their creative ideas.
Outstanding producers and self-media will have the opportunity to join the "Beautiful Zhejiang" Global Communication Alliance and obtain long-term cooperation opportunities.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs will pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by more than 30 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced the deal Tuesday on behalf of the states plus Puerto Rico, which joined together in 2020 to probe Juul's early promotions and claims about the safety and benefits of its technology as a smoking alternative.
The settlement resolves one of the biggest legal threats facing the beleaguered company, which still faces nine separate lawsuits from other states. Additionally, Juul faces hundreds of personal suits brought on behalf of teenagers and others who say they became addicted to the company's vaping products.
The state investigation found that Juul marketed its e-cigarettes to underage teens with launch parties, product giveaways and ads and social media posts using youthful models, according to a statement.
“Through this settlement, we have secured hundreds of millions of dollars to help reduce nicotine use and forced Juul to accept a series of strict injunctive terms to end youth marketing and crack down on underage sales,” Tong said in a press release.
The $438.5 million will be paid out over a period of six to 10 years. Tong said Connecticut's payment of at least $16 million will go toward vaping prevention and education efforts. Juul previously settled lawsuits in Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina and Washington.
Most of the limits imposed by Tuesday's settlement won't affect Juul's practices, which halted use of parties, giveaways and other promotions after coming under scrutiny several several years ago.
Teen use of e-cigarettes skyrocketed after Juul’s launch in 2015, leading the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to declare an “epidemic” of underage vaping among teenagers. Health experts said the unprecedented increase risked hooking a generation of young people on nicotine.
But since 2019 Juul has mostly been in retreat, dropping all U.S. advertising and pulling its fruit and candy flavors from store shelves.
The biggest blow came earlier this summer when the FDA moved to ban all Juul e-cigarettes from the market. Juul challenged that ruling in court, and the FDA has since reopened its scientific review of the company's technology.
The FDA review is part of a sweeping effort by regulators to bring scrutiny to the multibillion-dollar vaping industry after years of regulatory delays. The agency has authorized a handful of e-cigarettes for adult smokers looking for a less harmful alternative.
While Juul's early marketing focused on young, urban consumers, the company has since shifted to pitching its product as an alternative nicotine source for older smokers.
“We remain focused on our future as we fulfill our mission to transition adult smokers away from cigarettes - the number one cause of preventable death - while combating underage use,” the company said in a statement.
Juul has agreed to refrain from a host of marketing practices as part of the settlement. They include not using cartoons, paying social media influencers, depicting people under 35, advertising on billboards and public transportation and placing ads in any outlets unless 85% of their audience are adults.
The deal also includes restrictions on where Juul products may be placed in stores, age verification on all sales and limits to online and retail sales.
Juul initially sold its high-nicotine pods in flavors like mango, mint and creme. The products became a scourge in U.S. high schools, with students vaping in bathrooms and hallways between classes.
But recent federal survey data shows that teens have been shifting away from the company. Most teens now prefer disposable e-cigarettes, some of which continue to be sold in sweet, fruity flavors.
Overall, the survey showed a drop of nearly 40% in the teen vaping rate as many kids were forced to learn from home during the pandemic. Still, federal officials cautioned about interpreting the results given they were collected online for the first time, instead of in classrooms.
Tong said the states participating in the agreement were Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming. | 2022-09-06T18:39:57+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/juul-vaping-settlement/507-279c1201-da50-4b03-9022-a2381f9ba2c0 |
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A driver who intentionally drove into oncoming highway traffic, striking a car and killing a woman and her two children, was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison.
John Dungan, 31, was sentenced Monday for the Oct. 25, 2019 crash on Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County.
He was convicted in August on three counts of second-degree murder.
Prosecutors said the Santa Barbara man was doing 119 mph (191.5 kilometres per hour) when he veered into oncoming traffic in an apparent attempt to kill himself and struck a Chevy Volt head-on.
The crash instantly killed Vanessa Bley, 34, of Solvang, who was thrown from the car, and her children, 4-month-old Desmond Bley Gleason and 2-year-old Lucienne Bley Gleason.
Before the crash Dungan had expressed suicidal or homicidal thoughts and had cut off a GPS ankle monitor he'd been required to wear after being charged with stalking an ex-girlfriend, authorities said.
“Dungan set off a chain of events that showcased the most despicable and downright evil display imaginable. His actions were methodical and meticulously executed,” Santa Barbara County Deputy District Attorney Stephen Wagner told KEYT-TV. | 2022-09-21T02:00:08+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Driver-sentenced-for-crash-that-killed-woman-2-17455655.php |
CerTest Biotec Uses the BD MAX™ Molecular Diagnostic System Open System Reagent Suite to Develop RT-PCR Detection Kit
ZARAGOZA, Spain and FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CerTest Biotec and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced a collaboration to develop a molecular diagnostic test for the Monkeypox virus.
As part of the collaboration, the assay will leverage the BD MAX™ open system reagent suite to validate the CerTest VIASURE Monkeypox CE/IVD molecular test on the BD MAX™ System. The assay will be available for BD MAX™ users and may help advance understanding of the global spread of the disease.
"Enabling labs to rapidly respond to unexpected challenges is the kind of evolving health care situations for which the BD MAX™ open system reagent suite is designed," said Nikos Pavlidis, vice president of Molecular Diagnostics at BD. "Through our collaboration with CerTest and their ability to rapidly transfer assays on the BD MAX™ System, we will enable BD MAX™ System users around the world to access a test for the confirmation of monkeypox."
The BD MAX™ System is a fully integrated, automated platform that performs nucleic acid extraction and real-time PCR providing results for up to 24 samples across multiple syndromes in less than three hours. BD offers an extensive menu of tests on the system covering healthcare associated infections, respiratory infections, sexually transmitted infections, gastrointestinal infections, and women's health diagnostics. BD offers a suite of open system reagents for the BD MAX™ System that enables labs to fully automate and streamline their Lab Developed Tests, and BD can partner with customers to develop complementary assays on the system.
Nelson Fernandes, Managing Director of CerTest BioTec, added "The strong capabilities of our teams to rapidly develop molecular assays as well our experience working with the BD MAX™ System enables us to accelerate the development of an assay and further build our collaboration with BD."
As with all CerTest tests, the Monkeypox PCR Detection Kit for the BD MAX™ System will be offered in a lyophilized format. Accordingly, the test will come in a tube that snaps into the test-specific position on the BD MAX™ ExK™ TNA extraction strip, which is supplied by BD.
About CerTest
CerTest Biotec is a European company established in 2002 for the development and manufacturing of in vitro diagnostic medical devices.
Today, CerTest is a global company structured around 7 business units offering one of the widest portfolios for human In Vitro Diagnostic and Pharma. The company bases its future on a strong technical knowledge and expertise in the detection of human diseases.
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It was a rough week for Ohio State, which lost all three of its games and tumbled down the AP Top 25 as a result.
The previously unbeaten Buckeyes fell from second to 10th in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll released Monday after losing to Iowa and Indiana, two top 10 teams, as well as Purdue. Ohio State fell two games back in the Big Ten Conference standings.
South Carolina remained No. 1 for the 32nd consecutive week. The Gamecocks, who were again a unanimous choice from the 28-member national media panel, have the fourth-longest streak ever atop the poll. Only UConn (51 and 34 weeks) and Louisiana Tech (36) have had longer runs at No. 1.
Stanford moved back up to No. 2 in the poll and the Cardinal were followed by LSU, Indiana and UConn in the top five. LSU is the only other undefeated team in women’s basketball besides South Carolina, which visits UConn for a top-five showdown on Sunday.
Iowa jumped out four spots to sixth with Utah, Maryland and Notre Dame coming in ahead of Ohio State. The Hawkeyes started the season No. 4 in the poll.
The Fighting Irish split a pair of games last week against ranked opponents, routing Florida State before falling to N.C. State.
“There’s a lot of parity right now, which is great, great for the game,” Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey said. “The game is growing, which is what you want. But yeah, I mean, every night, especially the ACC, the ACC is the strongest league and, you know, we have just a tough stretch every night.”
One week after falling out of the rankings, Texas re-entered the poll at No. 24. The Longhorns routed then-No. 14 Oklahoma and Oklahoma State last week. South Florida also came in at No. 25. Colorado and Illinois fell out of the poll.
RISING BULLS
No. 25 South Florida continued its streak of being ranked for at least one week every season since the Bulls entered the poll for the first time in 2015.
“For us not being in a so-called football five conference, that’s a huge accomplishment,” South Florida coach Jose Fernandez said. His team has won 10 consecutive games and has 20 victories this season. The team’s four losses have all come against ranked opponents (Michigan, Villanova, Ohio State and N.C. State).
“This group has been fun to coach. We always play a great non=conference schedule,” Fernandez said. “We won on the road at Texas, beat Alabama, beat Arkansas. We challenged ourselves in November and December.”
RECORD PERFORMANCES
Cameron Brink carried Stanford to a win over Oregon with a triple-double that included 10 blocks. It was the first triple-double in NCAA Division I women’s basketball featuring double-digit blocks since Tamari Key did it for Tennessee in an overtime win against Texas on Nov. 21, 2021.
No. 20 Oklahoma’s Taylor Robertson set the all-time NCAA women’s career record for 3-pointers when she hit her 498th in a loss to Iowa State on Saturday. Robertson has 503 entering this week. The all-time NCAA record, men or women, is held by Antoine Davis of Detroit Mercy, who has 534 and counting.
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It’s easy to obsess over the genius of George Balanchine, who redefined ballet in the 20th century. That thought aside, the title of Boston Ballet’s 59th-season opener, “My Obsession,” is a bit of a puzzle. But the program itself — Balanchine’s “Apollo” and “Allegro Brillante,” Helen Pickett’s “Tsukiyo,” and Stephen Galloway’s “DEVIL’S/eye” — is a winner, and so was the execution Thursday at the Citizens Bank Opera House.
Balanchine was just 24 when he created “Apollo,” in 1928, for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and it’s his earliest surviving ballet. Set to Igor Stravinsky’s “Apollon Musagète,” the piece depicts the birth of dance. Apollo, his curiosity piqued by the syncopated four-note motif Stravinsky has given him, passes on Muses Calliope (epic poetry and its rhythm) and Polyhymnia (mime) to partner with Terpsichore (the muse of dance and song, who surpasses what her sisters offered) before ascending to Mount Parnassus.
The tone was set Thursday by the Boston Ballet Orchestra’s sensitive reading of the score under music director Mischa Santora. Patrick Yocum began as a child and, full of wonder and amplitude, tentatively grew into the role of god. Lia Cirio (Terpsichore), Chyrstyn Fentroy (Polyhymnia), and Viktorina Kapitonova (Calliope) formed a well-matched trio of Muses with outstanding ensemble. Kapitonova was heroic and knowing, Fentroy playful and flirtatious. Cirio balanced precision and poetry in a Terpsichore that was remarkable for her nuanced engagement with Apollo.
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Balanchine choreographed “Allegro Brillante” on short notice in 1956 after a Jerome Robbins revival failed to materialize. The music Balanchine chose — the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s uncompleted Third Piano Concerto — is not as inspired as what he had for “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2,” and though he famously said that “Allegro Brillante” “contains everything I know about classical ballet — in 13 minutes,” he didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. His lead couple and four supporting couples serve up an exuberant abundance of cabrioles, arabesques, entrechats, chaîné turns, pirouettes, and movement in canon.
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Boston Ballet hadn’t presented “Allegro Brillante” here since 1992, and its return was welcome. Jeffrey Cirio was an attentive and accomplished partner, confident in his beats and jumps, but this is the lady’s show, not least in her dramatic and demanding solo cadenza. Ji Young Chae made her pirouettes springing from deep fourth position look natural, her chaîné turns stopped on a dime, and she found a degree of adagio amid the allegro brilliance. The four supporting couples provided an elegant backdrop. As the piano soloist, Alex Foaksman gave a straightforward interpretation that didn’t linger.
The Pickett piece, which Boston Ballet premiered in 2009, was on the company’s March 2020 “Carmen” program before the COVID-19 pandemic intervened. “Tsukiyo” — “moonlit night” in Japanese — is a 10-minute duet inspired by the 10th-century Japanese tale “The Story of the Bamboo Cutter,” in which an infant girl found inside a stalk of bamboo turns out to be an otherworldly being from the moon. It’s set to Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel,” in which a hypnotic violin cantilena (concertmaster Christine Vitale) plays over repeating piano arpeggios (Foaksman).
On Thursday, Fentroy was the moon goddess emerging from the mists and Paul Craig the young man who encounters her. She was effusive, almost agonized, in her dance of self-exploration; he was a calming presence, but there wasn’t the sense of mutual discovery this piece had when Misa Kuranaga and Yury Yanowsky did it in 2009.
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If “Apollo” and “Allegro Brillante” are all sunshine and “Tsukiyo” is all moonlight, “DEVIL’S/eye” is pure neon. Commissioned by Boston Ballet and premiered by the company on its “DREAMstate” program this past March, the piece is set to five Rolling Stones songs (“Paint It Black,” “Wild Horses,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and “Midnight Rambler”) and danced against an industrial light bank that’s half laundromat and half discotheque. One moment the movement is all flash; the next, nine men are doing unison tours à la seconde. At 30 minutes, “DEVIL’S/eye” runs out of ideas, if not steam. But it’s hard to argue with the dancers’ freewheeling energy.
MY OBSESSION
Presented by Boston Ballet. At Citizens Bank Opera House, through Oct. 16. $39-$174. 617-695-6955, www.bostonballet.org
Jeffrey Gantz can be reached at jeffreymgantz@gmail.com.
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Ukraine seeks warplanes at NATO talks, allies fret over ammo
BRUSSELS (AP) - Ukraine on Tuesday renewed its appeal to Western countries for fighter jets to help frustrate Moscow’s invasion, but the United States and its NATO allies and partners are more concerned about Kyiv’s needs for large amounts of ammunition as the war with Russia is set to enter its second year.
Ahead of the meeting of the Ukraine contact group at NATO headquarters, Ukraine made its requirements clear. Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, when asked what military aid his country is seeking now, showed reporters an image of a fighter jet.
Questioned about where he hoped they might come from, Reznikov said only: “From the sky.”
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed hard for combat planes last week when he visited London, Paris and Brussels on just his second foreign trip since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, 2022. That plea came days after Western allies pledged to provide Kyiv with tanks.
What NATO allies have on their mind, though, is how to keep up a steady supply of ammunition to Ukraine without depleting their own stockpiles.
According to some estimates, Ukraine is firing up to 6,000-7,000 artillery shells each day, around a third of the daily amount that Russia is using.
Moscow’s forces have been pressing in the east of Ukraine while bolstering their defensive lines in the south. The war has been largely static during the winter months, though both sides are expected to launch offensives when the weather improves.
The Russians appear short on resources for any major offensive at the moment, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. “Overall, the current operational picture suggests that Russian forces are being given orders to advance in most sectors, but that they have not massed sufficient offensive combat power on any one axis to achieve a decisive effect,” it tweeted.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that finding ammunition and air defenses is “much more important at the moment than the discussion about fighter jets.”
Pistorius told reporters that getting pilots up to speed on new aircraft and “training just to fly them takes several months, never mind teaching the abilities needed to deploy the weapons systems.”
He said Ukraine’s partners “should focus on what is now at center stage, particularly in view of a Russian offensive that is apparently taking place.”
He said Germany has signed a deal to produce ammunition for self-propelled, anti-aircraft guns it provided to Ukraine, after Kyiv ran into problems finding munitions elsewhere.
That ammunition is crucial for Kyiv to counter Russian attacks, especially on Ukraine’s power infrastructure aimed at disrupting heating and drinking water supply.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday urged Ukraine’s Western allies to step up their military support.
Asked when he expects Russia’s so-called spring offensive to begin, Stoltenberg said that “the reality is that we have seen the start already.”
“For me, this just highlights the importance of timing. It’s urgent to provide Ukraine with more weapons,” he told reporters in Brussels.
Stoltenberg said that NATO sees “no sign whatsoever that President Putin is preparing for peace” and that arming Ukraine more quickly could save lives by bringing a quicker end to the conflict.
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