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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tony Hawk. A name known to skateboarders worldwide.
In honor of Tyre Nichols' love of skateboarding, Hawk recently announced on Twitter that half of the proceeds from selling his limited edition autographed cards would go directly towards the Tyre Nichols Memorial Fund, of which has plans to build a new public skatepark in Nichols' honor.
>Above video: Tyre Nichols' life and legacy of skateboarding honored by Memphians
The $30 limited edition 8x10 card features both Tony Hawk and professional BMXer Rick Thorne doing a doubles run, along with their signatures as well.
A pioneer of vertical skateboarding, Hawk is regarded as one of the most influential skateboarders of all time. To the skateboard community, he is also known for being the first to land a "900," a trick involving 2.5 revolutions while in mid-air.
Despite retiring from the world of competitive skateboarding in 2003, Hawk has remained active in promoting the sport and through philanthropy work.
Background on the Nichols' case
Nichols, 29, was on his way home Jan. 7, when police pulled him over. On the night of the traffic stop, he was just a few minutes from the home that he shared with his mother and stepfather, when he was beaten in what authorities have described as a brutal attack by five Memphis police officers. All of whom have since been charged with second-degree murder and other offenses. Nichols died three days later. Several others that responded to the scene have also been fired behind the matter. The case sent shockwaves across the nation after video of the beating was released by Memphis authorities. Rallies have been held in the Mid-South and across the country to honor Nichols' life.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-02-05T03:49:49+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/tony-hawk-skatepark-fundraising-tyre-nichols/522-45cc2daf-c49a-4f3b-9265-ba5c2635139d |
Former President Donald Trump hired people to search four properties after being directed by a federal judge to look harder for any classified material still in his possession, and they found at least two documents with classified markings inside a sealed box in one of the locations, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Trump’s search team discovered the documents at a federally run storage site in West Palm Beach, Florida, the person said, prompting his lawyers to notify the Justice Department about them.
The Justice Department officials had told the former president’s lawyers that they believed he might have more classified materials that were not returned in response to a subpoena issued in May. The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, in August for additional classified documents and other presidential records.
People close to Trump had said earlier Wednesday that no classified material had been found during the searches, a claim that was later proved incorrect. The Washington Post first reported on the locating of the two additional documents, as well as the searches of the properties.
After the warning from the Justice Department, a debate ensued among Trump’s lawyers about whether to bring in an independent firm to conduct a search.
The discovery of the documents at the storage unit, maintained by the federal General Services Administration, came during a series of wider searches that were completed around Thanksgiving and conducted at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey; at Trump Tower in New York; and in a storage closet at Mar-a-Lago, according to two people familiar with the events.
Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, said in a statement that the former president and “his counsel continue to be cooperative and transparent, despite the unprecedented, illegal and unwarranted attack against President Trump and his family by the weaponized Department of Justice.”
The department is investigating the former president’s handling of thousands of government documents, including more than 300 classified ones, that were taken from the White House at the end of his term and were found at Mar-a-Lago. Prosecutors are also seeking to determine whether Trump obstructed the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve the materials.
When the Justice Department warned that it believed Trump still had documents in his possession, a lawyer whom he had hired a short time earlier, Christopher M. Kise, suggested along with other lawyers working for Trump that they engage an outside firm, according to people familiar with the events.
A cadre of other Trump lawyers were resistant to the idea; among them was Boris Epshteyn, a communications adviser who has positioned himself as an in-house counsel on some of Trump’s legal entanglements. The dispute led to Kise’s standing in Trump’s circle diminishing for weeks, according to several people close to the former president.
More recently, Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of U.S. District Court in Washington, who oversees grand jury investigations, directed Trump’s lawyers to essentially search more carefully for any remaining documents. Other lawyers in Trump’s circle took on the issue and hired a firm, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.
But while the Justice Department had continued to have questions about documents that might remain at Mar-a-Lago — and while some people close to Trump believed another search warrant might be executed — a person familiar with the discussions among federal officials said there was no recent probable cause by which to obtain a warrant for Bedminster or Trump Tower.
The National Archives repeatedly asked last year about the status of some materials that it should have received, such as correspondence with Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, as well as about two dozen boxes that were deemed presidential records at the end of Trump’s term.
Archives officials contacted several people to try to facilitate the return of the documents, including former White House Counsel’s Office lawyers working as Trump’s representatives with the agency. The former president maintained to several advisers that the boxes were filled with news clippings and personal effects; archives officials explained that news clippings can be considered presidential records.
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Alex Cannon, a lawyer who had worked with Trump in various capacities, became involved in fall 2021 and tried to help archives officials retrieve the material.
Cannon warned others in Trump’s circle not to go through the boxes themselves because it was unclear what was in them, and people might require security clearances. At one point, as Trump sought National Archives documents related to the investigation into whether his 2016 campaign conspired with Russian officials, he proposed that his lawyers suggest a trade with the agency: what he sought in exchange for the documents he had.
The lawyers declined to engage that suggestion, and Cannon continued to try to push for the documents’ return to the archives.
Eric Herschmann, a lawyer who had worked as a top adviser in the Trump White House, had an informal conversation with Trump. People familiar with the discussion characterized it as Herschmann speaking as a friend and urging the former president to return the boxes, suggesting that he could be subject to legal trouble by keeping them, especially if they contained classified material.
That possibility became reality in January, after archives officials retrieved boxes that Trump had gone through over several days last December. The officials opened the boxes and discovered a number of classified documents. The Justice Department became involved.
When Cannon raised the prospect with Trump that officials were uncertain that they had everything returned, the former president told him to tell the officials that he had given everything back, according to people briefed on the matter. Cannon refused to do so and soon stopped being involved.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times. | 2022-12-07T20:44:07+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/ct-aud-nw-nyt--20221207-ebb4gl7qtbcobkvgvxez6il6lq-story.html |
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Best Black-Led TV shows of 2022
Warner Bros. Television
Best Black-Led TV shows of 2022
Sheryl Lee Ralph and Janelle James in “Abbott Elementary”.
Black-led television series have been around for decades, beginning in the ’70s with sitcoms like “Good Times” and “Diff’rent Strokes,” paving the way for classics like “Family Matters,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” and “The Cosby Show.”
These shows presented Black characters as more than the stereotypical roles TV previously offered. They also got the ball rolling for modern shows with Black-led casts and crews. As the concept of representation becomes something the media is more conscious about, data and studies have shown the importance of Black people seeing characters who look like themselves on TV, suggesting such representation helps young people develop strong identities.
Though there’s still a long way to go before Black people are truly and properly represented in the media, lately we’ve seen strides in more diverse television casts, creators, directors, and writers. Many Black creators strive to incorporate themes of race, identity, and the Black experience in their work, making it relatable to those with shared experiences and offering another perspective for others. In the ’70s, “The Jeffersons” was one of the first TV shows centering a Black family, demonstrating both the complexity and normalcy of life as a Black person in the Western world. Now, Black TV shows and series with Black leads are staples—often award-winning—in various households.
Stacker looked at Metacritic data on all 2022 TV series, including miniseries, and ranked the top shows that either starred, centered on, or were largely created or written by Black people. To qualify, the series had to have at least seven reviews.
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Apple
#19. Surface
Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a scene from “Surface”.
– Metascore: 49
– On air: 2022-present
Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars in and executive produced “Surface,” a sci-fi series streaming on Apple TV+. The show focuses on Mbatha-Raw’s Sophie Ellis, who, after surviving a suicide attempt, loses all recent memories including why she wanted to end her life. She then seeks to piece together the reason for her drastic decision. Apple TV+ recently renewed “Surface” for a second season.
20th Television
#18. Mike
Trevante Rhodes in a scene from “Mike”.
– Metascore: 54
– On air: 2022
Trevante Rhodes stars as heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson in this unauthorized biographical miniseries. “Mike” comprises eight episodes on Hulu and received mixed reviews from critics. Tyson criticized the project for failing to ask his permission or compensate him. “They stole my life story and didn’t pay me,” he wrote in a heated Instagram post before the show premiered.
ARRAY Filmworks
#17. DMZ
Rosario Dawson and Jordan Preston Carter in “DMZ”.
– Metascore: 57
– On air: 2022
“DMZ” is a dystopian miniseries based on the comic book series of the same name. Set in the not-so-distant future, the show takes place in the midst of the Second American Civil War and stars Rosario Dawson as Alma Ortega, a New York City medic who becomes a symbol of hope for her determination to find her son eight years after he left her side during the evacuation of Manhattan. The series also marks award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s directorial debut with DC Comics.
Universal Television
#16. Bel-Air
Akira Akbar and Olly Sholotan in “Bel-Air”.
– Metascore: 58
– On air: 2022-present
“Bel-Air” is a reimagined version of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” turning the beloved sitcom into a drama based on the same characters and a similar storyline. The Peacock series stars Jabari Banks as Will Smith alongside Cassandra Freeman, Coco Jones, and a full cast of Black actors. Like the original ’90s sitcom, “Bel-Air” tells the story of Smith’s journey from West Philadelphia to the wealthy California neighborhood of Bel-Air and explores themes including culture shock, racial tension, and Black excellence. Its second season is set to air in February 2023.
FX Productions
#15. Kindred
Mallori Johnson and Austin Smith in “Kindred”.
– Metascore: 63
– On air: 2022
Developed by award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, “Kindred” is a miniseries based on Octavia E. Butler’s famous novel of the same name. Mallori Johnson stars as Dana James, a Black woman who learns secrets of her family’s past after mysteriously getting pulled back and forth from present-day to 19th-century Antebellum South, where she finds herself on a plantation. “Kindred” premiered on Hulu in December 2022.
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AMC Studios
#14. 61st Street
Antwain L. Jones running in a scene from “61st Street”.
– Metascore: 66
– On air: 2022-present
Filmmaker Marta Cunningham, who co-executive produced the series and directed two episodes, told WBUR that “61st Street” was a “passion project.” The series explores the ugly underbelly of the criminal justice system in Chicago through the lens of Moses Johnson (Tosin Cole), a promising Black high school track runner who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and is arrested for murder. He and his lawyer, Franklin Roberts (Courtney B. Vance) find the odds are against them as they try to fight the corrupt criminal system and police force.
Netflix
#13. From Scratch
Zoe Saldana, Danielle Deadwyler, Lorenzo Pozzan, and Eugenio Mastrandrea in “From Scratch”.
– Metascore: 67
– On air: 2022
With the help of her sister Attica Locke, Tembi Locke brought her memoir “From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home” to life with a television adaptation. Streaming on Netflix, the limited drama series stars Zoe Saldaña as Amy, an American woman who finds love while studying abroad in Italy.
CBS Studios
#12. The Man Who Fell to Earth
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris in “The Man Who Fell to Earth”.
– Metascore: 68
– On air: 2022
“The Man Who Fell to Earth” is the sequel to the 1976 film of the same name starring David Bowie. The Showtime series version stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as an alien who arrives on Earth in an attempt to save his species and realizes the world he’s landed on also needs saving. Naomie Harris also stars, portraying isolated scientist Justin Falls. Unfortunately, the show was not renewed for a second season.
Westbrook Studios
#11. Women of the Movement
Adrienne Warren in a scenen from “Women of the Movement”.
– Metascore: 71
– On air: 2022
“Women of the Movement” is a historical drama miniseries that aired on ABC. It’s based on Devery S. Anderson’s book “Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement” and tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Adrienne Warren), who spent her life fighting for justice after her son, Emmett (Cedric Joe), was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by a lynch mob at the age of 14 in Mississippi in 1955.
Warner Bros. Television
#10. Naomi
Kaci Walfall in a scene from “Naomi”.
– Metascore: 72
– On air: 2022
Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship developed a television adaptation of “Naomi,” a DC comic book series written by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker and illustrated by Jamal Campbell. The show stars Kaci Walfall as the titular character, a comic-book-loving teenager who discovers she has secret powers and takes on the moniker “Powerhouse.” It premiered on The CW in January 2022 but was unfortunately canceled after its first season.
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ABC Signature
#9. Everything’s Trash
Akintola Jiboyewa in a scene from “Everything’s Trash”.
– Metascore: 72
– On air: 2022
Comedian, actor, and writer Phoebe Robinson adapted her book “Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay” into a comedy television series for Freeform. The show revolves around Robinson as she navigates her podcast, sex life, family life, and just life in general while living in Brooklyn. The since-canceled show tackled respectability politics and the unique pressures faced by Black millennial women.
Scott Rudin Productions
#8. Five Days at Memorial
Vera Farmiga in a scene from “Five Days at Memorial”.
– Metascore: 74
– On air: 2022
John Ridley and Carlton Cuse adapted the book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital” into a disaster medical drama miniseries for Apple TV+. The show centers the hardships a New Orleans hospital endures after being hit by Hurricane Katrina and losing power for five days.
Apple
#7. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Samuel L. Jackson and Dominique Fishback in “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”.
– Metascore: 75
– On air: 2022
Samuel L. Jackson stars as the titular character in Apple TV+’s “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.” The drama miniseries is based on Walter Mosley’s 2010 novel of the same name and tells the story of what happens when dementia patient Ptolemy Grey’s memory is temporarily restored and the shocking truths it unlocks.
BBC America
#6. Mood
Nicôle Lecky in a scene from “Mood”.
– Metascore: 78
– On air: 2022
English Jamaican writer-actor Nicôle Lecky adapted her one-woman play “Superhoe” into a six-part musical drama miniseries for BBC Three called “Mood.” Lecky stars as aspiring rapper-singer Sasha, who attempts to navigate the world of social media. The story is told through self-written songs performed by Lecky.
Hoorae
#5. Rap Sh!t
Aida Osman and KaMillion in “Rap Sh!t”.
– Metascore: 80
– On air: 2022-present
After the success of her groundbreaking comedy series “Insecure,” writer-producer Issa Rae was set on making something new. Enter: “Rap Sh!t.” The new HBO Max comedy series was created by Rae; however, she passed the acting torch on to Aida Osman and KaMillion, who star as two aspiring rappers in Miami. The show was renewed for a second season in September 2022.
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Home Box Office (HBO)
#4. Industry
Harry Lawtey and Myha’la Herrold in “Industry”.
– Metascore: 82
– On air: 2020-present
Mickey Down and Konrad Kay are the masterminds behind “Industry,” an English drama that tells the story of a group of young graduates attempting to secure banking and trade jobs at an esteemed investment firm in London. The show premiered on HBO in 2020 in the United States and on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. It was renewed for a third season in October 2022.
Boardwalk Pictures
#3. We Need to Talk About Cosby
A scene from the documentary “We Need to Talk About Cosby”.
– Metascore: 83
– On air: 2022
“We Need to Talk About Cosby” is a documentary miniseries that explores Bill Cosby’s downfall from beloved actor to sexual assailant. Comedian-television host W. Kamau Bell directed and produced the series and interviewed comedians, journalists, and survivors about the crimes Cosby committed.
Warner Bros. Television
#2. Abbott Elementary
Sheryl Lee Ralph and Quinta Brunson in “Abbott Elementary”.
– Metascore: 90
– On air: 2021-present
Quinta Brunson created and stars in “Abbott Elementary,” a mockumentary sitcom series that takes place at the titular school—a fictional, predominantly Black elementary school in Philadelphia. Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and William Stanford Davis comprise the ensemble cast. “Abbott Elementary” premiered on ABC in 2021 and was met with critical acclaim, receiving seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations and taking home three. Its second season aired in September 2022.
FX Productions
#1. Atlanta
Donald Glover in a scene from “Atlanta”.
– Metascore: 93
– On air: 2016-2022
Ever since it first premiered on FX in 2016, “Atlanta” has been one of the most critically acclaimed shows on TV—and for good reason. In 2017, creator and star Donald Glover became the first Black director to win an Emmy in comedy, marking one of the show’s six Emmy wins. “Atlanta” is also notable for being the only show on American cable to have an all-Black writing staff, which is important considering the series often examines themes like race, identity, the American dream, and modern Black culture, concepts which explored through the use of Afro-surrealism. After four seasons, “Atlanta” aired its series finale on Nov. 10, 2022. | 2023-01-04T19:22:48+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/stacker-entertainment/2023/01/04/best-black-led-tv-shows-of-2022/ |
Driving is an Essential Activity for 238 Million Licensed Drivers in the United States; Together Mobil 1 and Hagerty will Make Every Mile More Meaningful
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the over-scheduled, over-programmed race of daily life, cars are often viewed as machines used for commuting – the thing that gets us from one place to another. While automobiles keep nearly a quarter of a billion Americans on the road, the world's leading synthetic motor oil and iconic motorsports brand Mobil 1™ and the automotive lifestyle brand Hagerty™ are committed to cultivating and celebrating a more meaningful car culture that brings joy to driving and builds a community of driving enthusiasts. To fuel that purpose, today, the two brands formalized their alliance in a multi-year collaboration to serve drivers everywhere.
"Hagerty has a purpose to save driving and car culture. Mobil 1 has a mission to spread the love of driving," said Scott Howard, Director, North America Finished Lubricants at ExxonMobil. "Whether it's modern European race cars, classic American builds, the Rocket League's virtual Octane car, or innovative creations like the Hoonipigasus, we've seen that the joy of driving, not necessarily what you're driving, is what unites enthusiasts together and builds communities. Together, Mobil 1 and Hagerty will better serve, grow, and inspire drivers everywhere."
Combined, Mobil 1 and Hagerty have nearly 90 years of experience protecting automobiles, creating innovative technologies, building industry relationships, and growing communities of driving enthusiasts all over the world. Together, both brands will be able to serve their consumers better by bringing automotive culture to new heights – on and off the road – with a focus on compelling content, cultivating communities, and providing car care with purpose.
"We started as an insurance company to protect the vehicles we all love," said Larry Webster, Senior Vice President of Media and Editorial, Hagerty. "But we've grown into an automotive lifestyle brand because the passion of driving enthusiasts is so much bigger than the car themselves. The builders, the stories, the gatherings and – yes – the cars, are why more than 750,000 drivers are part of Hagerty's Driver's Club. Empowering people who love cars of all types is what motivates Mobil 1 and Hagerty to serve driving communities together."
At the SEMA Show, the premier annual automotive trade show in Las Vegas, Mobil 1 and Hagerty announced their collaboration and formalized how they plan to serve driving enthusiasts.
Hagerty brings a deep knowledge of car culture and a proven ability to connect with enthusiasts through high-quality content such as its existing YouTube video series "Capturing Car Culture" and "Hagerty DIY." Meanwhile, Mobil 1 will provide access to the greatest drivers, cars, and events in the industry as a fixture on the F1 circuit, NASCAR tracks, and extreme motorsport races like the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Together, the industry leaders will collaborate on exclusive, behind-the-scenes content to further showcase the best cars, stories, products and, most importantly, the people behind them as a way to entertain and inform the enthusiast community through all channels including print, digital web, video, and social media.
Hagerty takes car culture seriously by attending, sponsoring, and hosting more than 2,500 events every year and is committed to offering experiential on-ramps for car enthusiasts with its world-class vehicle storage and exclusive social club, Hagerty Garage + Social that provides car lovers with a home away from home. Mobil 1 understands the importance of celebrating driving and highlighting its love of the sport in new ways – such as through its esports and gaming collaborations with Rocket League and Gen.G. Together, the two brands will curate incredible experiences for current driving enthusiasts and cultivate new opportunities to usher in a new community of drivers wherever, and however, they drive.
Mobil 1 protects engines on the road and track and Hagerty serves more than 750,000 Drivers Club members with roadside service among other benefits – highlighting both brands' deep understanding of the need for regular car maintenance. Consumers can expect to see exclusive product offerings through the partnership. Caring for a car properly is critical, and together, Mobil 1 and Hagerty will continue to create efficiencies for drivers to increase safety, boost performance, and educate vehicle owners and the industry. Ultimately, the expertise, technology, and education from Mobil 1 and Hagerty will help drivers maintain their cars so they can get more out of the drive.
Mobil 1, the world's leading synthetic motor oil brand, is a brand that has been trusted for more vehicle miles than any one of us sees in our lifetime. Designed to empower our love of driving, Mobil 1 advanced synthetic motor oil features anti-wear technology that provides performance beyond our conventional motor oils – that means more time behind the wheel than under the hood. This technology allows Mobil 1 advanced synthetic motor oil to meet or exceed the toughest standards of vehicle manufacturers and tuning shops, all while providing exceptional protection against engine wear, under normal or even some of the most extreme conditions. Not that you'd ever put your car through any extremes. Join us. For the love of driving.
Based in Traverse City, Michigan, Hagerty's purpose is to save driving and car culture for future generations and its mission is to build a global business to fund that purpose. Hagerty is an automotive enthusiast brand offering integrated membership products and programs as well as a specialty insurance provider focused on the global automotive enthusiast market. Hagerty is home to Hagerty Marketplace, Broad Arrow Group, Hagerty Drivers Club, Hagerty Drivers Club magazine, Hagerty Drivers Foundation, Hagerty DriveShare, Hagerty Valuation Tools, Hagerty Media, MotorsportReg, Hagerty Garage + Social, The Amelia, Detroit Concours d'Elegance, the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance, the California Mille, Motorlux, Broad Arrow Group and more. For more information on Hagerty, please visit www.hagerty.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
More information can be found at newsroom.hagerty.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements reflect our current intentions, expectations, or beliefs regarding the business. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and may be outside of our control. Some of the factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by our forward-looking statements include: (i) our ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the subject of this press release; (ii) our ability to compete effectively within our industry and attract and retain members; and (iii) the other risks and uncertainties listed in our Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 24, 2022. This press release should be read in conjunction with the information included in our other press releases, reports and other filings with the SEC. Understanding the information contained in those filings is important in order to fully understand our reported financial results and our business outlook for future periods. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The most recent time the Bills faced the Patriots, they left little doubt about their status as the pacesetter in the AFC East.
Buffalo walked off the field with a 47-17 win in the wild-card round of the playoffs this past January, demoralizing a New England team that was celebrating being back in the postseason after a one-year absence.
The Bills (8-3) will look to add to their recent run of success in a rivalry once dominated by the Patriots (6-5) during their latest trip to New England.
Buffalo enters Thursday night's matchup the winners of three of the past four regular-season meetings and is in second place in the AFC's only division in which all four teams are above .500.
But it has yet to notch a division win with close losses to Miami and the New York Jets. Both setbacks were on the road, a fact not lost on quarterback Josh Allen.
"Division games, you got to win them," Allen said. "We know our record this year in them. It's not easy going on the road and playing in division games. We got to understand that and be ready for it again, a hostile environment."
For New England, which is coming off its best offensive performance since quarterback Mac Jones returned from an ankle injury, the approach has been to remember but not fixate on last year's playoff debacle.
"I'm not going to just dwell on something that's in the past, but it was definitely in my mind how we ended the season last year," running back Rhamondre Stevenson said. "I feel like we get to go out and put a different game on film."
Thursday's game will be the third in 12 days for the Patriots, coming off having their season-best three-game winning streak ended in a 33-26 loss on Thanksgiving at Minnesota.
Back in last place in the division, it's left little room for error with six games remaining.
"We're going to need to play our best game and that's what we're going to prepare to do this week," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said.
NO MILLER
The injury bug has migrated around the Bills' defense this season. The latest to be affected is top pass rusher Von Miller after he was ruled out with a knee injury.
Miller leads the team with eight sacks, but left Buffalo's 28-25 win over Detroit on Thanksgiving. It creates a big hole for a unit that has allowed just 18.1 points per game this season, the fifth fewest allowed in the NFL.
Coach Sean McDermott acknowledged it will be one of their toughest adjustments yet.
"He's a future hall of famer for a reason," McDermott said. "That said, we've got to move forward this week. And the person or the people responsible to step in and step up have got to do the job, and that's the way it goes."
The news isn't all bad. Buffalo's other starting defensive end Greg Rousseau started the week as a full participant in practices after missing the previous three games with a high ankle sprain.
"We've got to hold together," defensive tackle Ed Oliver said. "Von did the same thing for us."
PUNT WATCH
If the Patriots are going to snap their two-game losing streak to Buffalo, it may start with forcing the Bills to punt the ball.
Buffalo scored on all seven of its drives without punting in last season's playoff win and went nine possessions without punting in its 33-21 regular-season victory.
"We went out there and it was negative-1 (degrees) and went out there and basically got our face kicked in," Patriots safety Adrian Phillips said. "It's a big deal, but at the same time you can't let that consume you. It's a whole new team, a whole different mindset."
MR. 200
Patriots team owner Robert Kraft interrupted McCourty's weekly news conference this week to present him with a photo collage in commemoration of what will be his 200th game for New England on Thursday.
The collage was made up of photos of McCourty from each of his previous 199 appearances for the Patriots over 13 seasons — all starts. It ranks third in team history behind only Bruce Armstrong (212 starts) and Tom Brady (283 starts).
"I came in here as a young pup and accomplishments didn't matter — individual accomplishments," McCourty said. "But it's been a heck of a journey. I'm enjoying every moment of it."
He's also still contributing in a big way, entering the week tied with Harrison Smith for the most interceptions among all active NFL players with 33.
The Patriots are 26-4 when McCourty has an INT in a regular-season game. | 2022-12-01T01:29:16+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/stakes-high-for-bills-and-patriots-entering-latest-matchup/article_80d0a0ce-7111-11ed-886b-cfbebac9f20f.html |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A groundbreaking ceremony for Innovation South, an 85,000-square-foot multi-use facility at the University of Tennessee Research Park at Cherokee Farm, was held Thursday, June 22.
This new building will play a crucial role in educating and training a new workforce generation, exploring cutting-edge research, and developing technology for critical sectors such as biotechnology, automotive, forestry, and manufacturing.
“It’s exciting for us because its another building here at the research park that is a great example of how we’re partnering with industry to develop new ideas, new discovery that can change people’s lives,” said UT Chancellor Donde Plowman.
The building will offer critical workforce training for students from high schools, community and technical colleges and universities as well as workers seeking additional training. Students will learn about material design and evaluation, advanced manufacturing processes and quality control.
“This facility will be amazing for learners at all levels, because they will get hands-on experiences with everything industry needs them to know,” said Vaidya. “We are projecting at least 50 graduate students and about 100 undergraduates in a given semester will work on research projects, plus about 15 postdocs and technical staff. Add to that mix 50 to 100 students and workers coming through for training each year—it will be a very dynamic space.”
Other businesses using Innovation South include the U.S. Forest Service, Trimble, EDP Biotech, and Volkswagen Group of America.
“Innovation South demonstrates UT’s continued commitment to co-locate our leading researchers with their industry partners, quickly turning research results into new products that strengthen and grow Tennessee’s innovation economy,” said Plowman.
To learn more about Innovation South, click here. | 2023-06-22T22:01:31+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/education-schools/university-of-tennessee-breaks-ground-on-85000-sq-ft-research-facility/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
4-5-3
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WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators remain unconvinced about the benefits of a closely watched experimental drug for the debilitating illness known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, even as they prepare to give its drugmaker a rare second opportunity to make a public case for the treatment.
But regulators said Friday that the drugmaker’s new analyses are not “sufficiently independent or persuasive” to establish effectiveness. The agency posted its review ahead of a Wednesday meeting of its outside advisers, who will vote on whether to recommend approval.
In March, the same panel of neurological experts voted 6-4 that the company’s data failed to show a convincing benefit for ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It’s extremely rare for the FDA to call a second review meeting after its advisers have already voted.
The FDA will ask the panel to review several new statistical analyses, which the company says strengthen the case that its drug prolongs life and delays hospitalization and other severe complications. The FDA says the experts can take into account “the unmet need in ALS,” the disease’s seriousness and other factors specific to the terminal diseases.
Elsewhere in its review the FDA detailed the flexibility it can apply to drug approval decisions, particularly for deadly diseases, which suggests “there is a chance that the FDA is still looking for a way to approve the product,” SVB analyst Marc Goodman wrote in a note to investors. He gives Amylyx a 50% chance of approval.
ALS destroys nerve cells needed to walk, talk, swallow and — eventually — breathe. There is no cure and most people die within three to five years.
The FDA’s review reflects some of the biggest questions facing the agency, including: How strict should it be in enforcing approval standards for drugs against rare, fatal diseases? And how much weight, if any, should be given to outside appeals from patients, advocates and their political allies?
Typically, FDA approval requires two large studies or one study with a “very persuasive” effect on survival.
Amylyx’s data comes from one small, mid-stage trial that showed some benefit in slowing the disease, but which was marred by missing data, implementation errors and other problems, according to FDA reviewers.
Amylyx says follow-up data gathered after the study concluded shows the drug extended life. When the company followed patients who continued taking the drug, they survived about 10 months longer than patients who never took the drug, according to a new company analysis.
But FDA said Friday the new approach “suffers from the same interpretability challenges” as Amylyx’s initial study and that the new analysis “is not independent data.”
The FDA does not publicly explain its rationale for holding meetings. But some outside analysts believe the agency is hoping that more external input will strengthen its hand when it renders its final decision, expected by the end of the month.
Amylyx’s drug is a combination of two older drug ingredients: a prescription medication for liver disorders and a dietary supplement associated with traditional Chinese medicine. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, company has patented the combination and says the chemicals work together to shield cells from premature death. Its co-founders first hit upon the combination as Brown University students.
Some ALS patients already take both pills. FDA approval would likely compel insurers to cover the treatment.
The FDA will hear again from patients and advocacy groups, such as I AM ALS, which has lobbied the FDA and Congress for more than two years to make the drug available. The group’s founder, Brian Wallach, said ALS patients, physicians and researchers believe that the company’s data warrants approval.
“Patients do their homework— we know this isn’t going to cure us,” said Wallach, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2017 and spoke through an interpreter. “But we also know it might keep us here until the next drug comes along and that one might be a cure.”
Wallach currently takes the part of Amylyx’s treatment that is available as a dietary supplement.
Despite the negative FDA review, there are several outside developments that could tip the FDA toward approval.
In June, Canadian regulators approved the drug for ALS patients, the first country to do so. That decision puts FDA regulators in a “precarious position,” says bioethicist Holly Fernandez-Lynch.
“They typically like to be out ahead when making approval decisions,” said Fernandez-Lynch, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. “They like to make the argument that they are not a barrier to patients accessing things that might help them.”
Shares of Amylyx fell more than 23% to close at $18 in trading Friday.
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The Ohio State Buckeyes will play Notre Dame at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The game will air on NBC. The time and broadcast info were announced Wednesday.
It’s the fourth game of the season for Ohio State, which opens at Indiana on Sept. 2 and then plays Youngstown State on Sept. 9 in its home opener and Western Kentucky on Sept. 16 in another home game.
Only two other game times have been announced for Ohio State. It plays Michigan State at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 in Columbus and plays Michigan at noon on Nov. 25 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Ohio State beat Notre Dame 21-10 in the season opener last year at Ohio Stadium in the seventh meeting between the two programs.
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- Significant improvement in Overall Response Rate (83%) compared with matched case control group (45%).
- Significant overall survival advantage, with a 46% reduction in the risk of death.
- Excellent safety profile and significant efficacy bolster HaemaLogiX's plan to progress further KappaMab / standard of care combination studies.
SYDNEY, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HaemaLogiX Ltd, a clinical stage Australian biotech company developing novel immunotherapies for multiple myeloma, today announced positive final results from a Phase IIb clinical study of its monoclonal antibody KappaMab in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone in kappa-type multiple myeloma patients who had relapsed or become refractory to other treatment options.
The final data has been published in the British Journal of Haematology. Key findings include:
- A statistically significant overall response rate (ORR) of 83% and clinical benefit rate (CBR) of 93% in KappaMab + lenalidomide / dexamethasone (Case) was achieved compared to the matched Control cohort of lenalidomide + dexamethasone alone (ORR = 45%).
- The median Overall Survival was not reached, with two patients remaining on therapy and continuing to respond, and with no evidence of detectable disease.
- KappaMab's previously established safety profile was reaffirmed, with no KappaMab related haematological toxicities or serious adverse effects.
KappaMab targets a receptor called Kappa Myeloma Antigen (KMA) found only on the surface of myeloma cells in kappa-type multiple myeloma patients and not on normal immune cells, which means normal immune cells are not damaged by the treatment.
The phase IIb study was initiated off the back of phase I, IIa, and preclinical data suggesting KappaMab may have a synergistic mechanism of action with lenalidomide, a drug sold under the trade name Revlimid®, that forms standard of care for multiple myeloma. Lenalidomide is administered as both a monotherapy and with other drugs including dexamethasone, depending on the treatment approach and disease status.
"This study validates KMA as a highly specific target, and the ability to safely deliver KappaMab in combination with a mainstay treatment for multiple myeloma," HaemaLogiX CEO, Bryce Carmine, said:
"Patient response shows the combination of KappaMab with one of the most common multiple myeloma treatment approaches - lenalidomide and dexamethasone – outperforms that treatment approach alone.
"We are tremendously grateful to the investigators and to the patients who participated.
"We look forward to furthering the clinical progress of KappaMab with a clinical trial at a higher dose of KappaMab which will flow into a Phase IIb study investigating KappaMab in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone in patients who have relapsed or become refractory to other standard of care treatments."
This Phase IIb trial followed a Phase IIa open-label multiple dose trial to determine the safety and efficacy of multiple doses of KappaMab monotherapy in 19 relapsed and / or refractory patients who had received multiple prior treatments.
The phase IIb trial was a multi-centre trial led by Professor Andrew Spencer, which evaluated patient responses to KappaMab when combined with standard of care treatment compared to the standard of care drugs alone. The trial enrolled 40 patients with kappa-type myeloma who had previously been treated with one to three lines of drugs, and in which the disease was progressing. Along with positive efficacy results, the trial demonstrated an excellent safety profile with no patients experiencing KappaMab related serious side effects.
About HaemaLogiX Ltd - www.haemalogix.com:
Formed in 2014, HaemaLogiX is a public unlisted biotech company researching antibody therapies for multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma is a haematological (blood) cancer of plasma cells (B cells) that can cause focused damage to a patient's bone marrow. Multiple myeloma is considered treatable but generally incurable. The HaemaLogiX team has a wide range and depth of experience in antibody research, nonclinical & clinical development, manufacturing and commercialisation. The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members are internationally recognised experts in monoclonal antibody therapies and haematology. Our current research and clinical trial partners are global leaders in Multiple Myeloma and AL Amyloidosis therapy. HaemaLogiX is located in Sydney, Australia.
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Man arrested in connection with Idaho murders: What we know
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More than six weeks after four college students were slain in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, police have arrested Bryan Christopher Kohberger in connection with the murders.
The 28-year-old was arrested on a fugitive from justice warrant, Pennsylvania State Police announced Friday. Police said they were assisting the Moscow police department, the Idaho State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the apprehension. A law enforcement source told CBS News Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania.
Kohberger appeared in front of a Pennsylvania judge on Friday and was remanded without bond to Monroe County Correctional Facility, where he is awaiting extradition to Idaho, police said.
Kohberger is facing charges of four counts of first degree murder and felony burglary, said Latah County prosecutor Bill Thompson in a Friday press conference.
Who is Bryan Kohberger?
Kohberger was born on Nov. 21, 1994. He completed a bachelor’s degree at DeSales University in 2020, then did further graduate studies at the university, completing those in 2022, a representative for DeSales confirmed. The Associated Press reported he received an associate degree from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania in 2018, said college spokesperson Mia Rossi-Marino.
At the time of his arrest, Kohberger was a Ph.D. criminology student and teaching assistant at Washington State University’s Pullman campus, which is a brief drive from Moscow, Idaho. Moscow Police Department Chief James Fry confirmed in a Friday afternoon press conference that Kohberger lived in Washington state.
Another graduate student in the criminology and criminal justice department at WSU told the AP that the news Friday was “pretty out of left field.”
Ben Roberts said he took several courses with Kohberger after the two started the program together in August. Kohberger “was always looking for a way to fit in,” he told the AP.
Roberts said Kohberger would “find the most complicated way to explain something.”
“He had to make sure you knew that he knew it,” Roberts told the AP.
Where does the investigation stand?
During Friday’s press conference, officials were wary to share many details of the investigation, including those that led to Kohberger’s arrest. Fry said that the information was not being shared to preserve the integrity of the investigation and to stay in line with Idaho law.
Fry said that some of the 19,000 tips that police received were integral to arresting Kohberger, but declined to say when he became a suspect or what brought him to their attention. More information, including the factual basis for the charges that were filed, will be found when a probable cause affidavit is unsealed, which won’t happen until Kohberger returns to Idaho and is served with an arrest warrant there. Kohberger is next expected to appear in court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon.
Fry also declined to mention any possible connection between the victims and Kohberger, and did not share a motive for the killings.
“These murders have shaken our community and no arrest will ever bring back these young students. However, we do believe justice will be found through the criminal process,” Fry said. | 2022-12-30T23:52:32+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/man-arrested-in-connection-with-idaho-murders-what-we-know/ |
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Jan. 6 panel pushes Trump’s prosecution in forceful finish
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection, with lawmakers expected to cap one of the most exhaustive and aggressive congressional probes in memory with an extraordinary recommendation: The Justice Department should consider criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
At a final meeting on Monday, the panel’s seven Democrats and two Republicans are poised to recommend criminal charges against Trump and potentially against associates and staff who helped him launch a multifaceted pressure campaign to try to overturn the 2020 election.
While a criminal referral is mostly symbolic, with the Justice Department ultimately deciding whether to prosecute Trump or others, it is a decisive end to a probe that had an almost singular focus from the start.
“I think the president has violated multiple criminal laws and I think you have to be treated like any other American who breaks the law, and that is you have to be prosecuted,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the panel, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The panel, which will dissolve on Jan. 3 with the new Republican-led House, has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, held 10 well-watched public hearings and collected more than a million documents since it launched in July 2021. As it has gathered the massive trove of evidence, the members have become emboldened in declaring that Trump is to blame for the violent attack on the Capitol by his supporters almost two years ago.
After beating their way past police, injuring many of them, the Jan. 6 rioters stormed the Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s win, echoing Trump’s lies about widespread election fraud and sending lawmakers and others running for their lives.
The attack came after weeks of Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat — a campaign that was extensively detailed by the committee in its multiple public hearings. Many of Trump’s former aides testified about his unprecedented pressure on states, federal officials and on Vice President Mike Pence to find a way to thwart the popular will.
“This is someone who in multiple ways tried to pressure state officials to find votes that didn’t exist, this is someone who tried to interfere with a joint session, even inciting a mob to attack the Capitol,” Schiff said. “If that’s not criminal, then I don’t know what it is.”
Members of the committee have said that the referrals for other individuals may also include ethics violations, legal misconduct and campaign finance violations. Lawmakers have suggested in particular that their recommended charges against Trump could include conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress and insurrection.
On insurrection, Schiff said Sunday that “if you look at Donald Trump’s acts and you match them up against the statute, it’s a pretty good match.” He said that the committee will focus on those individuals — presumably Trump — for whom they believe there is the strongest evidence.
While a so-called criminal referral has no real legal standing, it is a forceful statement by the committee and adds to political pressure already on Attorney General Merrick Garland and special counsel Jack Smith, who is conducting an investigation into Jan. 6 and Trump’s actions.
The committee is also expected at the hearing to preview its massive final report, which will include findings, interview transcripts and legislative recommendations. Lawmaker have said that report will be released Monday.
“We obviously want to complete the story for the American people,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., another member of the committee. “Everybody has come on a journey with us and we want a satisfactory conclusion, such that people feel that Congress has done its job.”
The panel was formed in the summer of 2021 after Senate Republicans blocked the formation of what would have been a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the insurrection. That opposition spurred the Democratic-controlled House to form a committee of its own. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California, a Trump ally, decided not to participate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected some of his appointments. That left an opening for two anti-Trump Republicans in the House — Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — to join the seven Democrats serving on the committee.
While the committee’s mission was to take a comprehensive accounting of the insurrection and educate the public about what happened, they’ve also aimed their work at an audience of one: the attorney general. Lawmakers on the panel have openly pressured Garland to investigate Trump’s actions, and last month he appointed a special counsel, Smith, to oversee several probes related to Trump, including those related to the insurrection.
In court documents earlier this year, the committee suggested criminal charges against Trump could include conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress.
In a “conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee argues that evidence supports an inference that Trump and his allies “entered into an agreement to defraud the United States” when they disseminated misinformation about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in that effort. Trump still says he won the election to this day.
The panel also asserts that Trump obstructed an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress in which the Electoral College votes are certified. The committee said Trump either attempted or succeeded at obstructing, influencing or impeding the ceremonial process on Jan. 6 and “did so corruptly” by pressuring Pence to try to overturn the results as he presided over the session. Pence declined to do so.
The committee may make ethics referrals for five House Republicans — including McCarthy — who ignored congressional subpoenas from the panel. Those referrals are unlikely to result in punishment since Republicans are set to take over the House majority in January.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fitness Ventures LLC announces Jay Thomas as their new VP of Construction
Fitness Ventures, LLC. Headquartered in Altamonte Springs, FL, one of the fastest growing franchisees in the Crunch Fitness system announced today the hiring of Jay Thomas as their new VP of Construction. Thomas will begin with the company on June 1, and will be responsible for overseeing all development projects throughout the United States, including nearly $50 million dollars of construction projects already in the pipeline.
Jay Thomas brings unparalleled experience in overseeing the construction of various businesses across the U.S., holds several General Contractor licenses across different states and regions across the U.S.
"We are extremely excited to welcome Jay Thomas to the Fitness Ventures team", said Brian Hibbard, founder, and CEO of Fitness Ventures. "With our growth rate continuing to accelerate, and the challenges with construction in today's environment, it was critical that we bring someone on to oversee these projects. We operate in states across the country which provides its own set of challenges, and you combine it with today's inflationary environment and supply chain issues, and it becomes critically important to have someone with the expertise to oversee these projects to make sure they come in on time and on budget."
With each new opening, Fitness Ventures brings new jobs to the markets they operate in, and with 28 more in development over the next 18 months, they are adding another 2,500 jobs. "The Fitness Ventures management team has demonstrated the ability to maintain a rapid growth rate, all while executing on a strategy that continues to deliver industry leading results. Having Jay on board overseeing the construction projects will allow us to seize on these opportunities at a faster pace, accelerating our overall growth rate and pushing to our ultimate goal of owning and operating 100 Crunch Fitness locations by 2026", said Brian Hibbard.
For additional information, please contact Hiba Abduljawad at hiba@fitnessventuresllc.com, 407-360-6746
About Fitness Ventures, LLC
Founded in 2016 by Brian Hibbard, Fitness Ventures, LLC is one of the fastest growing franchisees within the Crunch Fitness system. The Company currently operates locations across eight different states, with several more in development. With a unique operating and development strategy, and a keen focus on execution, Fitness Ventures operates some of the highest volume Crunch locations in the system and boasts industry leading financial returns.
Fitness Ventures was acquired by Prospect Hill Growth Partners, L.P., a private equity firm focused on operational value creation in middle-market growth companies, in 2020. The partnership with Prospect Hill and new access to institutional capital has allowed Fitness Ventures to seize on new opportunities at a faster pace, accelerating their already rapid growth rate.
Website: www.fitnessventuresllc.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitness-ventures-llc-crunch/
About Crunch Fitness
Crunch is a gym that believes in making serious exercise fun by fusing fitness and entertainment and pioneering a philosophy of 'No Judgments.' Crunch serves a fitness community for all kinds of people, with all types of goals, exercising all different ways, working it out at the same place together. Today, we are renowned for creating one-of-a-kind group fitness classes and unique programming for our wildly diverse members. Headquartered in New York City, Crunch serves over 1.9 million members with over 400 gyms worldwide in 34 states and the District of Columbia, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Crunch is rapidly expanding across the U.S. and around the globe. For more information, please visit crunch.com.
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The U.S. is no longer implementing the so-called "Remain in Mexico" policy, which was first introduced under former President Donald Trump.
The Biden administration had been trying to end the policy that advocates call cruel. The policy forced migrants to wait in Mexico ahead of their asylum hearings.
A court order issued Monday allows the Biden administration to proceed with its plans.
"We welcome the U.S. District Court’s decision, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30th decision, to lift the injunction that required DHS to reimplement the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) in good faith," a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says.
Border Patrol agents have been dealing with a record amount of migrants trying to get into the country this year. According to DHS, there have been more than 200,000 encounters at the border every month since March.
While the Remain-in-Mexico policy is no longer being implemented, the U.S. says it will still turn away migrants due to the pandemic.
"Individuals encountered at the Southwest Border who cannot establish a legal basis to remain in the United States will be removed or expelled," DHS said. | 2022-08-09T17:01:38+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/biden-administration-ending-remain-in-mexico-policy |
President Biden is going to lay out his proposals to tackle hunger at a big conference, the first of its kind since 1969. But the solutions won't be easy to implement.
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President Biden is going to lay out his proposals to tackle hunger at a big conference, the first of its kind since 1969. But the solutions won't be easy to implement.
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Which natural products repel bugs?
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Greenerways Organic DEET-Free Bug Repellent for Kids
- Superband Mosquito Repellent Bracelets
- Murphy’s Naturals Mosquito Repellent Balm
As the warm weather of spring arrives, so do bugs. The stings and bites they inflict upon humans can be worrisome. However, slathering on repellents that contain synthetic chemicals also comes with concerns. But, not all products that keep biting pests away contain these potentially harsh ingredients. Organic repellents are excellent, natural alternatives that use plant-based ingredients to deter bugs.
Safety concerns of synthetic bug repellents
Many insect repellents on the market contain pesticides that are effective at deterring pests. N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, or DEET, is the chemical most commonly used in products made for application on the skin.
Although studies show DEET is safe when used sparingly and as recommended, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also says there are side effects. These include agitated mood, skin irritation and seizures. What’s more, the chemical isn’t good for the environment because it ends up in wastewater and waterways.
Safety is key when using DEET-based repellents. Don’t use them on babies and carefully follow instructions when applying. Apply organic repellents as recommended too, but they don’t pose the same risks as pesticide-based products.
What are some effective natural bug repellents?
It’s not only pesticides that deter bugs. There are natural substances derived from plants known for being offensive to insects such as mosquitoes, flies and more. Lemon eucalyptus oil and soy-based natural repellents are almost as effective as DEET at keeping bugs away. However, don’t apply potent or concentrated lemon eucalyptus oil on toddlers or babies. Additionally, ingesting large amounts can be poisonous.
Many organic repellents also contain one or more essential oils. These can include citronella, clove, tea tree, lemongrass, geranium, lavender, rosemary, thyme and peppermint. These oils are natural and safe when used as recommended.
Forms of organic repellents
Organic bug repellents come as sprays, lotions, creams, balms, towelettes and wearables.
- Sprays are easy to use, absorb quickly and come with pump and aerosol dispensers.
- Lotions and creams require a bit of rubbing to absorb but also moisturize.
- Balms are like creams and lotions but are thicker and tend to wear longer.
- Towelettes infused with repellent apply simply by wiping them over the skin.
- Wearables typically come in the form of repellant-coated bracelets. Although they have a limited effect, they are suitable for those who dislike applying other types of repellent.
Best organic bug repellents
Greenerways Organic DEET-Free Bug Repellent for Kids
This kid-friendly spray uses certified-organic essential oils that are gentle on delicate skin. It’s dermatologist-tested and free of parabens and phthalates.
Sold by Amazon
Babyganics Natural Insect Repellent
This spray repellent keeps bugs away with a combination of essential oils in a soybean oil base. It’s formulated by a company known for making gentle baby products.
Sold by Amazon
Sallye Ander No-Bite-Me Natural Bug Repellent & After-Bite Cream
Not only is this cream soothing to the skin, it contains a unique blend of 16 essential oils that most bugs find offensive. The ingredients are safe, organic and not tested on animals.
Sold by Amazon
Australian Gold DEET-free Insect Repellent
This repellent targets ticks and mosquitoes with tea tree oil and aloe vera. It sprays on in seconds and absorbs fast.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Superband Mosquito Repellent Bracelets
These mosquito-repelling stretchy bands use essential oils and are wearable on the wrist or ankle. They fit kids and adults and they’re waterproof. The pack of 50 includes multiple colors.
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Off Botanicals Plant-Based DEET-Free Repellent
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Jonah Heim Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Blue Jays - June 18
Published: Jun. 17, 2023 at 11:26 PM CDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
Jonah Heim, with a slugging percentage of .368 in his past 10 games -- including one home run -- will be in action for the Texas Rangers against the Toronto Blue Jays, with Chris Bassitt on the mound, June 18 at 2:35 PM ET.
In his last game, he notched a home run while going 1-for-4 against the Blue Jays.
Jonah Heim Game Info & Props vs. the Blue Jays
- Game Day: Sunday, June 18, 2023
- Game Time: 2:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Globe Life Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Blue Jays Starter: Chris Bassitt
- TV Channel: BSSW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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Jonah Heim At The Plate
- Heim is batting .282 with 17 doubles, eight home runs and 17 walks.
- Among qualifying hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 34th, his on-base percentage ranks 76th, and he is 54th in the league in slugging.
- Heim has gotten a hit in 44 of 61 games this season (72.1%), with multiple hits on 18 occasions (29.5%).
- He has hit a home run in eight games this season (13.1%), leaving the park in 3.3% of his chances at the plate.
- In 44.3% of his games this year, Heim has driven in at least one run. In 11 of those games (18.0%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in seven contests.
- In 26 of 61 games this year, he has scored, and eight of those games included multiple runs.
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Blue Jays Pitching Rankings
- The Blue Jays pitching staff is No. 1 in MLB with a collective 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Blue Jays' 3.92 team ERA ranks ninth among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Blue Jays pitchers combine to give up the second-most home runs in baseball (100 total, 1.4 per game).
- Bassitt makes the start for the Blue Jays, his 15th of the season. He is 7-5 with a 4.02 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 85 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last pitched on Tuesday against the Baltimore Orioles, when he threw three innings, allowing eight earned runs while giving up 11 hits.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB action this season, the 34-year-old ranks 41st in ERA (4.02), 22nd in WHIP (1.106), and 44th in K/9 (7.9).
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Falsehoods, harassment stress local election offices in US
CARROLLTON, Ohio (AP) — With early voting less than three weeks away, Nicole Mickley was staring down a daunting to-do list: voting machines to test, poll workers to recruit, an onslaught of public records requests to examine.
And then, over a weekend, came word that the long-time county sheriff had died. To Mickley, director of elections in a small Ohio county, that added one more complication to an election season filled with them. It meant a new contest was needed to fill the position, so she and her small staff would have to remake the ballots for the fall election for the second time in a week.
“I feel like ever since we took office in ‘19, it’s just been a constant rollercoaster,” said Mickley, whose 36 months on the job qualify her as the senior member of her four-person staff in the Carroll County elections office.
The office Mickley oversees is tucked in a corner of the 137-year-old county courthouse in Carrollton, a close-knit town of 3,200 that sits amid the farm fields and fracking wells of eastern Ohio. She and Deputy Director Cheri Whipkey’s son graduated from high school together.
The director and her deputy seem an unlikely pair to be contending with the wrath of a nation.
Yet ever since former President Donald Trump began falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, Mickley, Whipkey and local election workers like them across the country have been inundated with conspiracy theories and election falsehoods, and hounded with harassment.
They’ve been targeted by threats, stressed by rising workloads and stretched budgets. The stress and vitriol have driven many workers away, creating shortages of election office staff and poll workers.
During Ohio’s second primary in August — an added burden for election officials stemming from partisan feuding over redistricting — Mickley’s two clerks darted around the county all day filling in for absent poll workers. Two staff members’ husbands were enlisted to help.
And then there’s the stream of misinformation falsely alleging that voting systems across the country are riddled with fraud. Unfounded conspiracy theories about voting machines, manipulation of elections by artificial intelligence or ballot fixing have found a wide audience among Republicans. The claims sometimes lead voters — usually friends and neighbors of the Carroll County election staff — to question them about voting equipment and election procedures, no longer clear what to believe about a system they’ve trusted all their lives.
The false claims about the 2020 presidential election also have led believers to inundate election offices around the country with public records requests related to voting processes or equipment, demands to retain the 2020 ballots instead of destroying them, and attempts to remove certain voters from the rolls.
Carroll County hasn’t been immune, even though it’s heavily Republican and voted for Trump by nearly 53 percentage points over President Joe Biden in 2020. The county of nearly 27,000 people was flooded over the summer with form-letter emails from self-proclaimed “aggrieved citizens.” They were protesting electronic voting machines, vowing to sue or demanding the county retain thousands of records from past elections.
Follow-up letters warned that election officials will “be met with the harshest possible criminal and civil repercussions available under the law” if they destroy any election records.
In response, a floor-to-ceiling locked cabinet in Mickley’s office is now jammed with boxes of ballots and other records from 2020, papers that normally would have been destroyed by now to make way for the records of the 2022 election.
“We’re already busting at the seams,” she said. “It’s a small office in the bottom basement of the courthouse that was built in the 1800s. Space is not our friend.”
Whipkey notes that none of the complaint letters are from local residents, so many of whom she knows personally after 16 years managing the local McDonald’s. She and Mickley both feel lucky they are only receiving letters — not the death threats experienced by some election officials around the country.
Still, the accusations sting. Whipkey said she hates being called a liar.
“If they wanted the answer, they would have come and asked us. We could give it to them,” she said. “But they don’t want the answer; they just want to harass.”
Mickley said attending national conferences has persuaded her that election workers across the U.S. are just as honest, hard-working and passionate as her staff is: “I’m starting to get defensive and angry for them, too.”
Behind a Plexiglas window in the front of the office, the other two election staffers answer calls and process voter registration forms and change-of-address and absentee ballot requests. They’re also preparing the precinct kits that will go to poll workers — positions the office is still trying to fill for the Nov. 8 election, when they expect heavy turnout partly because Ohio has one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races in the country.
Clerks Sarah Dyck, a Democrat, and Deloris Kean, a Republican, keep their personal feelings about the movement spawned by Trump’s election lies out of the office. They don’t want to bring politics into their work helping run the county’s elections.
When she’s out in the community, Dyck said neighbors are mostly sympathetic about how stressful elections work has become in recent years.
“People all the time say, ‘I don’t know about this, but I know you guys are doing a good job,’” she said. “It’s like with congressmen, right? ‘Well, I don’t like Congress, but my congressman’s okay.’ The closer you are to it, you know the people, and so it’s about those relationships.”
That’s not always been the experience of members of the Carroll County Board of Elections.
The four members of the bipartisan panel — a retired railroad worker, a farmer, a facilities operator and the owner of a local yoga studio — hold their meetings at a table wedged between Mickley’s and Whipkey’s desks in the cramped office. A collection of whiskey bottles shaped like elephants and donkeys sits atop a metal filing cabinet nearby.
Some members said they must work constantly to dispel false information that is rampant in the Republican-dominated county.
Roger Thomas, one of the board’s two Republicans and the operator of a popular pumpkin stand, said he’s frustrated that many of his friends “are unwilling to get past what they think they know with the facts.”
“It doesn’t matter what you say to them, you can’t convince them,” he said. “I don’t know how we combat that. They don’t care if they gum up the works of these elections, and that’s the problem. If these elections go haywire, go south — as the elections go, so goes the country.”
Mickley said she is a perfectionist who would never tolerate the slightest interference with carrying out secure and accurate elections.
She chokes up when talking about how seriously she takes her job and how she and her staff long to ease the worries of skeptical voters. The widespread belief in election conspiracy theories and hostility toward front-line election workers leaves Mickley questioning the country’s future.
“I think about my kids,” she said, “and I think about what I want to leave for them and what I want to build now to make sure that they still have it in 20, 30 years. And I’m not alone in that.”
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Associated Press writer Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.
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TORONTO (AP) — Jameson Taillon and two relievers combined on a five-hitter, Aaron Hicks lined a three-run double and the New York Yankees extended their winning streak to nine by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 4-0 Saturday.
Taillon (8-1) allowed four hits and struck out eight in 5 2-3 innings to win his eighth straight decision.
“It just seems like every day we show up, we expect to find a way to win that night,” Taillon said. “There’s a confidence within the group that we’re going to find a way to do it.”
Michael King worked two innings and Clay Holmes got the final four outs.
Holmes made his 29th consecutive scoreless relief appearance, breaking Mariano Rivera’s 1999 team record.
“He’s a guy that I grew up watching,” Holmes said of Rivera. “Just to be in the same category for this one little thing he’s done is pretty cool.”
Holmes has pitched 31 1/3 consecutive scoreless innings, the longest active streak in the majors this season.
The Yankees threw their 11th shutout of the season and improved to a major league-best 49-16.
“Just another really good win by the guys doing it in a lot of different ways,” manager Aaron Boone said.
Toronto put runners at second and third with one out in the second inning, but Taillon retired the next eight batters in a row.
Boone said he believed Taillon deserves All-Star consideration for his strong start to 2022.
“You look up at the scoreboard or pick up a stat sheet or look at any number you want,” Boone said. He’s been great.”
Taillon hasn’t been acting like someone who expects to join the AL’s best in Los Angeles next month.
“I already booked some All-Star plans,” he said. “I don’t know if I’m really expecting it or not, but it would definitely be a cool honor.”
Alek Manoah (8-2) lost for the first time in 16 career home starts, disappointing a sellout crowd of 45,055. Manoah came in 2-0 with a 1.52 ERA in four career starts against New York, but allowed four runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked one and struck out five.
Anthony Rizzo drew a one-out walk in the Yankees fourth, Gleyber Torres followed with a single and, after Joey Gallo struck out, Isiah Kiner-Falefa beat out an infield hit to load the bases for Hicks, who doubled to right.
“Certainly the at bat of the game for us,” Boone said.
For Hicks, it was his first extra-base hit in a bases-loaded situation in more than five years, and the Blue Jays were the opponent the previous time he did it. Hicks had a career-best six RBIs as the Yankees won 12-2 in Toronto on June 1, 2017.
After a mound visit, Manoah hit Jose Trevino with a pitch and the Yankees catcher was awarded first base. Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo came out to argue that Trevino had swung at the pitch and was ejected for the fourth time this season.
“Don’t ever want to see anyone get ejected, especially for something he’s right about,” a frustrated Manoah said.
The Yankees had an 11-game winning streak from April 22 to May 3. That run ended with a loss to left-hander Yusei Kikuchi in the finale of a three-game series in Toronto. Kikuchi starts for the Blue Jays on Sunday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: LHP Aroldis Chapman (left Achilles tendinitis) was scheduled to throw live BP at New York’s spring training complex in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, Boone said. If he feels good, Chapman will throw another live BP session while the Yankees are in the Tampa area visiting the Rays next week.
Blue Jays: Toronto said LHP Hyun Jun Ryu had Tommy John surgery. He is signed through 2023 but will need 12-18 months to recover. … The Blue Jays put RHP Trevor Richards (strained neck) on the 15-day IL and recalled LHP Matt Gage from Triple-A Buffalo. … SS Bo Bichette (right foot) returned to the lineup after sitting out Friday. Bichette left Thursday’s game one inning after fouling a pitch off his foot.
WATCH OUT!
When Judge’s bat broke on an infield grounder in the fourth, the barrel sailed out of the infield and landed in shallow left.
ROSTER MOVES
New York signed INF Chris Owings to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The Orioles released Owings on Monday.
WALK THIS WAY
Taillon walked more than one batter for the first time in 13 starts this season. … George Springer walked twice against Taillon and finished with three walks.
BLANKED
Toronto has been shutout four times this season, surpassing its total from 2021.
INFAMOUS FIGHT
Saturday marked the 45th anniversary of the 1977 Fenway Park clash between late Yankees manager Billy Martin and star right fielder Reggie Jackson. After Martin substituted Jackson for not hustling in the outfield in a nationally televised game, the two nearly came to blows in the visitor’s dugout.
UP NEXT
RHP Luis Severino (4-1, 2.80) returns to the mound for New York Sunday after being scratched from Thursday’s start due to illness. Kikuchi (2-3, 4.80) starts for the Blue Jays. The left-hander is winless in five starts.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") (TSX: SVM) (NYSE American: SVM) is pleased to report that all matters submitted to shareholders for approval as set out in the Company's Notice of Meeting and Information Circular, both dated August 15, 2022, were approved by the requisite majority of votes cast at Silvercorp's annual general meeting ("AGM") held today. A total of 101,907,093 common shares, representing 57.58% of the votes attached to all outstanding shares as at the record date for the meeting, were represented at the AGM. The details of the voting results for the election of directors are set out below:
The Company would like to welcome Ken Robertson to the board of directors. Mr. Robertson is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 35 years of public accounting experience in Canada and England. He was a Partner and Global Mining & Metals Group Leader with Ernst & Young LLP ("EY"), where he developed extensive experience in initial public offerings, financings, governance, and securities regulatory compliance. Mr. Robertson holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Shareholders also approved the share-based compensation plan and the re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company for the ensuing year. Final results for all matters voted on at the AGM will be filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the Company's website.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The spectators were mostly Black kids, ranging from elementary school to high school. The teams — all from historically Black colleges and universities — had names that won’t resonate with the average baseball fan.
Not a single one of their HBCU predecessors was on an MLB opening day roster this year, despite a rich history of big league alums that includes Hall of Famers Lou Brock (Southern University), Andre Dawson (Florida A&M) and Larry Doby (Virginia Union)
“We all have concerns about the fact that we don’t have as many African-American players playing today,” Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith said. “But it’s all about what do you do about it? I think it’s going to take the work of all of us.”
HBCU athletics have taken on a higher profile recently in sports ranging from football and basketball to gymnastics and wrestling. But their role as a pro pipeline has been scrutinized.
The Black College World Series hopes to change that for baseball, and now it has support from MLB, one of several efforts by the league to boost participation among Black kids.
Only 59 of the 945 players (6.2%) on opening day rosters this season were Black players born in the U.S. That’s a nearly two-thirds decline from when the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports started compiling Racial and Gender Report Card data in 1991. Back then, it was 18%.
There were no U.S.-born Black players in last year's World Series for the first time since 1950, not long after Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color barrier.
It’s a far cry from when Smith was starring for the St. Louis Cardinals starting in the early 1980s. Smith said it’s a trend that concerns current players and his contemporaries alike.
The process of addressing that issue, to him, starts with getting minor league baseball opportunities for one player at a time, not expecting wholesale increases overnight. Over the long term, it’s also about generating interest and chances for kids like the thousands brought out to watch the Black College World Series games.
Only 8.4% of Black children aged 6-12 played baseball regularly, according to a 2020 report from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association.
Smith, who did not attend an HBCU, thinks part of the decline is kids seeing players having more rapid success in the NBA and NFL, instead of having to climb through the minor leagues. That includes high school phenoms-to-NBA stars like LeBron James and the late Kobe Bryant.
“Baseball probably will give you more longevity than some of the other sports, but because it’s not that instantaneous success in making to the big leagues, I think, is what holds them back a little bit,” Smith said. “If a kid can play football or he can play basketball, they look at that as a quicker avenue to stardom.”
LaMonte Wade, the only Black player on the San Francisco Giants, said events like the Black College World Series are a great first step.
“Anytime that you can promote Black players playing the game, and that’s what it sounds like they’re trying to do, I feel it will bring more attention,” Wade said before Thursday’s game at Arizona. “Representation is down, therefore not too many African-Americans are following the sport.
“Once you get into high school you kind of have to pick what sport you want to play,” he added. “Most African-Americans choose basketball or football. That’s mostly where our friends are playing, but if we can start them at a young age I think we can get the numbers up.”
Michael Coker, a former baseball player at Edward Waters College, started the Black College World Series in 2021. In May, MLB signed on to help support an event sponsored by Tyson Foods, which brought in some 10,000 youths from Montgomery and surrounding areas, according to company spokesman Derek Burleson.
“What’s really important for young kids is to see people that look like them,” said Jean Batrus, executive director of the Youth Development Foundation, a collective effort by MLB and the MLB Players Association. “And you’re more willing to play a game if you see a Black, African-American coach, you see other kids playing.”
Coker said none of the players have been drafted from the first two Black College World Series, though a handful of scouts have come out. The event, which concludes Saturday, includes Albany State, Savannah State, Bluefield State, Edward Waters, Miles College, Talladega College, Rust College, Wiley College and Paine College.
It’s not the only event geared toward increasing exposure for players from historically Black schools. The inaugural HBCU Swingman Classic will feature 50 HBCU players in July during MLB All-Star Week at the Seattle Mariners ballpark with Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. helping to assemble the roster. MLB’s Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program has also produced several Black big leaguers, including CC Sabathia and J.P. Crawford.
Four of the top five players selected in last summer’s MLB amateur draft are Black, and all were alumni of MLB’s Dream Series, a showcase event predominantly targeting Black players.
Montgomery resident Corey Cortner also said that representation, even at the BCWS level, was critical. Cortner helped helped chaperone the class of his son, who plays youth baseball, to watch Wiley and Rust on Friday. To him, “it’s a great event” getting college players exposure and even a chance to enjoy having kids ask for autographs.
“Overall, we need to try to increase participation in minorities in baseball and this is a great way to get that going,” said the 50-year-old Cortner, who is Black. “It gives them an opportunity to see people that look like themselves playing on the big stage.
“Just seeing yourself in someone else ... is a great motivation for all kids. That goes beyond race. That shouldn’t be just a Black thing.”
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AP freelance writer Jack Thompson in Phoenix contributed to this report. | 2023-05-12T19:12:01+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/2023/05/12/mlb-black-players-world-series/95bd60d6-f0f4-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html |
Putin foe Browder slams jacked-up fee to attend Davos event
By JAMEY KEATEN
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Bill Browder, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticized the World Economic Forum on social media for jacking up his entrance fee to the annual meeting in Davos that he has attended for the last 27 years. Browder told The Associated Press that it was wasteful to pay a quarter of a million dollars for a ticket and he thought organizers of the elite gathering in the Swiss Alps didn’t want him around. The former fund manager says he has set aside his commercial activities and devotes all of his time to getting justice for his former lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was killed in Russian police custody in 2009, and other victims of human rights abuses. | 2023-01-18T21:09:08+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/01/18/putin-foe-browder-slams-jacked-up-fee-to-attend-davos-event/ |
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Roberta Flack has ALS, making it 'impossible' for her to sing, speak easily, rep says
A representative for Roberta Flack announced Monday that the Grammy-winning musician has ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and can no longer sing.
The progressive disease "has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak," Flack's manager Suzanne Koga said in a release. "But it will take a lot more than ALS to silence this icon."
The announcement of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis comes just ahead of the premiere of "Roberta," a feature-length documentary debuting Thursday at the DOCNYC film festival.
Flack is known for hits like "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face," the latter of which catapulted her into stardom after Clint Eastwood used it as the soundtrack for a love scene in his 1971 movie "Play Misty for Me."
The release says that the Grammy-winning singer and pianist, now 85, "plans to stay active in her musical and creative pursuits" through her eponymous foundation and other avenues.
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The Antonino D’Ambrosio-directed documentary will be in competition at the festival and available via DOCNYC's website for a week after, before airing on television Jan. 24 as part of PBS' "American Masters" series.
Flack also plans to publish a children's book co-written with Tonya Bolden, "The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music," that month. The North Carolina-born, Virginia-raised Flack is the daughter of pianists and classically trained herself — her talent won her a full ride to Howard University at just 15.
"I have long dreamed of telling my story to children about that first green piano that my father got for me from the junkyard in the hope that they would be inspired to reach for their dreams," Flack was quoted in the release. "I want them to know that dreams can come true with persistence, encouragement from family and friends, and most of all belief in yourself."
The documentary's television debut and book's publication kick off 2023, which also will see the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of her fourth album, "Killing Me Softly," with a reissue. Her label for the first three decades of her career, Atlantic Records, is also celebrating its 75th anniversary.
Flack had a stroke in 2016 and spoke to The Associated Press a little over two years later about returning to performing. When asked if she’d sing one of her old hits at a then-upcoming event, she quickly retorted: "There’s no such thing as an old hit," preferring the term "classic" instead.
"I could sing any number of songs that I’ve recorded through the years, easily, I could sing them, but I’m going to pick those songs that move me," Flack said. "Now that’s hard to do. To be moved, to be moved constantly by your own songs." | 2022-11-14T21:51:46+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/roberta-flack-has-als-making-it-impossible-for-her-to-sing-speak-easily-rep-says |
MR. CAPEHART: Good afternoon. I’m Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at The Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post Live and another in our series on leadership during crisis co-produced with the Capehart podcast.
GOV. PRITZKER: Thank you, Jonathan. Great to see you.
MR. CAPEHART: Great to see you too, Governor. So, answer the question. Why did you feel compelled to send that tweet out and speak out so publicly and forthrightly?
GOV. PRITZKER: You know, my mother took me marching on behalf of women's rights and women's reproductive rights in the 1970s when I was young, and I really haven't stopped marching and being an activist on behalf of reproductive rights. Roe v. Wade is something that should be a concern to everyone. It's--if it gets overturned, we're going to see not only wiping away of women's rights to get an abortion, but we're also going to see the potential for eliminating marriage equality, eliminating birth control, and many other rights that have been established under that rubric of the right to privacy that was written into Roe v. Wade.
MR. CAPEHART: Right. And that's actually something I've written a column about. You know, after reading those 98 pages, that was the first thing that came to mind, that my own same-sex marriage could be invalidated, given the arguments that were in that ruling. But let's stick to abortion here, because you also refer to that draft ruling as, quote, "an atrocious opinion." I'm just wondering, should a sitting governor attack a draft that can still change?
GOV. PRITZKER: Well, you're damn right. It's important for us all to speak out, to make sure that our voices are heard. We need the voters to show up and vote on this issue, because ultimately, that's how the Supreme Court justices get on to the Supreme Court. So, we need to make sure that we have senators who are pro-choice. You know, we could have--if we had enough pro-choice senators, we could have seen a federal law passed to protect women's rights. We've done that here in Illinois. We have a supermajority pro-choice legislature. And not only did we remove our trigger laws several years ago, but a couple of years ago we also enshrined a women's right to choose and abortion rights into our state law. So, you know, it's important to speak out. It's important to make sure that people know that they can't do this, take away rights that have been established for 50 years. You know, this country has been expanding rights for people--human rights, civil rights for decades. And now all of a sudden, we're going to take those rights away? That's not the way this country operates. That's not what's, you know, best for the people of this country. And so, yes, I think it is my--not only my right but my duty to speak out.
MR. CAPEHART: You know, Governor, I'm glad we're having this conversation, because, you know, when folks hear Roe v. Wade, when they hear abortion, is instantly deemed a women's issue, especially women's reproductive issue, but it's a women's issue. Why is it important, Governor Pritzker, for men to speak out about what could potentially happen with the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
GOV. PRITZKER: Well, there are two big reasons. One is because again, this isn't just about a woman's right to choose. It's also about this larger set of privacy rights, and that affects men and women.
And second--and this is hugely important--that if Roe v Wade is overturned, you know, the people who will be most affected by this are people of color, people who are in marginalized communities. And the effect on women has another effect on the men. You know, we're the allies in this effort, right? This is--this is something that--I mean, again, I've been fighting for this my whole life. The women around me, my wife, my daughter, the extended family of mine, my neighbors and friends, they're all affected by this. So, we all need to band together to stand up for these rights.
MR. CAPEHART: Right. And I was--I was thinking of a comment that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made just a couple of days ago about the fact that, you know, if the right to choose goes away, it could--and she said set women back decades. And the economic impact of that, not just on women but on the country and on the American family, on families, however they are defined, would take a huge hit.
GOV. PRITZKER: It was a brilliant comment. She articulates something that we don't often talk about, which is the economic consequences of taking away people's rights, how we're going to, you know, move backward as a society. Women won't be able to go get a job because they'll be forced to have a child maybe at a moment in their lives when they can't afford to do so. And you know, the woman who stood up with me at the abortion clinic in Southern Illinois just recently said she was on her way to college, and she had just broken up with her boyfriend, and found out that she was pregnant. And if she had had to carry that baby to term, she wouldn't have gone to college and she wouldn't have been able to achieve the things she's already achieved in her career. And she wants to be able to choose when it is that she's going have a family. That affects everyone in our society, in my opinion. And you're right. Janet Yellen articulated so beautifully in a way that everybody should understand it affects them.
MR. CAPEHART: And I think you addressed this in the first answer, but I want to come at it so you--in another way so you can talk about this some more. But the right to choose, let's say Roe v. Wade is overturned along the lines of the Alito draft. Let's say that becomes the official opinion of the Supreme Court. The right to choose will then be up to all 50 state legislatures to determine their abortion regulations, if that does indeed happen. What will happen in Illinois, if that indeed happens?
GOV. PRITZKER: Well, we removed the trigger law back in 2017 with what's--we called it HB0040, and it was something that back then people said why do we need to do this. You know, Roe v. Wade isn't under attack right now. Why are we doing this right now? And of course, those of us who knew the direction the country was going under Donald Trump and the appointments he was making to the Supreme Court knew that there would come a day here. This has been a 50-year endeavor by the right wing to take away women's rights. So, we got rid of the trigger law in 2017, and we forced the governor then to sign it.
Now, in 2019, when I became governor, we put through what's called the Reproductive Health Act, which truly guarantees a woman's right to choose in Illinois. So that's not to say that it's in our Constitution. It's not to say that if we elect a Republican right-wing governor or a right-wing or Republican legislature that's anti-choice, that those rights couldn't be taken away.
But as of now, we have enshrined in our law the protections that allow women to go get an abortion if they need to, or other reproductive services, and make sure that they're covered by Medicaid, because most of the women who really need to be able to access reproductive choices are often people who don't have the resources to do so, and we need to make sure that they do. And so we've done that in Illinois. I'm proud of--we're an island, unfortunately, in the Midwest. If you look around us--I'm sure you've seen the map by now--every state around us, Iowa and Kentucky and Missouri and Wisconsin and--sorry, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and Indiana, all would become anti-choice states, if this draft becomes the law of the land.
MR. CAPEHART: And actually, that is a good segue to an audience question that we got in from Alaska, from Bob Woolf in Alaska. Will Illinois attempt to provide abortion services for women from surrounding states where those services are likely to become more limited?
GOV. PRITZKER: We wouldn't just attempt to do that. We are doing that now, because, unfortunately, reproductive rights have been limited in those states. They have Republican legislatures, all of those states. Three of them have Democratic--two of them have Democratic governors, three have Republican governors, but they've all restricted reproductive rights. So, we've already been seeing 10,000 women a year from outside of Illinois who come to Illinois to exercise their rights. We think that number may triple as a result of the passage, the decision that will come from the Supreme Court.
But we've been preparing for this. So, we're helping the clinics in Illinois to expand their services. We have relocation. We have logistics centers that help people with relocation that helped them with their needs, if they come to the state, a place to stay, a meal, whatever it is that they may need. And we think we're going to have to step up those efforts now.
MR. CAPEHART: You know, one of the things that was happening when it comes to trans kids, state legislatures were not only making it impossible or banning gender affirming care for trans kids in their states, but some states--I think it might--I think it might be in Idaho--that would--was going to make it criminalizing the parents seeking care out of state for their children. And I could foresee a situation if Roe is overturned and it's shifted back to the states, that some states will criminalize women for going out of state to seek--to seek reproductive care. Is that even constitutional? Can that withstand a legal challenge?
GOV. PRITZKER: It's a great question. I don't think it would. Having said that, you know that Missouri and other states have considered these laws--right?--to hold people either civilly or criminally liable if they assist somebody in getting an abortion in another state. So, we're obviously deeply concerned about that because we do see as a result of the limitations on the residents of Missouri, we're seeing a lot of women coming from Missouri to the health clinic that I was at just yesterday. And can you imagine if someone who drove their friend or their relative to the clinic in Illinois is then held liable in Missouri--or let's take an even more outrageous scenario, which is the people who work at the clinic and are providing care at the clinic are charged in Missouri with a crime. I mean that that truly is--seems unconstitutional to me. We certainly would challenge it. And we're looking in Illinois at the law that just passed in Connecticut and to see how we can tighten up at the edges to make sure that law will be effective for us and for other states that want to adopt it that will prevent someone from getting charged or held liable civilly.
MR. CAPEHART: And as--and as you were responding and I was off camera, I went to my phone to triple check. Yes, it was Idaho that was considering a bill to criminalize parents seeking gender affirming care for their kids out of state. But I also want to make another point for folks who are watching and listening who might not know, and that is Illinois has sort of a democratic trifecta. You're a Democrat and both chambers of the legislature are Democratic. So, the idea of a tussle between Democrats and Republicans dominated chambers in Illinois if Roe goes down is not in the offing. So, as they'll probably--go ahead.
GOV. PRITZKER: But we had a Republican governor just prior to me, and there was a tussle, and it was over this HB0040. The previous Republican governor threatened to veto HB0040. That was the bill that would remove the trigger law in Illinois. And he threatened for months to veto that bill. He received a lot of backlash. I mean, there were a lot of protests. I was one of those protesters, and I showed up at his office with thousands of postcards from people across the state to let him know that if he did this, that, you know, the people of Illinois don't agree with the position that he was taking. Now he ultimately was forced into signing it. But that tussle would exist--you're absolutely right--if we didn't have the Democratic and pro-choice trifecta. As you know, just being a Democrat doesn't mean that you're pro-choice. We saw that in the United States Senate. There is one member of the United States Senate who refused to vote in favor of a woman's right to choose. There's another who's not pro-choice but voted for the bill, and that was the courageous position to protect women's rights.
MR. CAPEHART: Right. Now that Senator you're talking about who's pro—choice--actually is pro-life but voted for the bill is Senator Casey of Pennsylvania. So but for folks who are watching, you are sitting in front of a banner that says "JBPRITZKER.COM." Clearly, you are running for re-election this fall. There's a divide between you and the--and any of your potential Republican opponents when it comes to the abortion issue. So, I'm just wondering, how do you think the abortion issue will play out politically in the Republican primary, which is coming up on June 28th?
GOV. PRITZKER: It's a great question. We will see. What I can tell you is that every candidate on the Republican side wants to take away a woman's right to choose. Every one of them. They've all pledged to do that, to varying degrees. You know, there are some that wanted--that even believe that women should be forced to take a baby to term even in the case of rape or incest. So, it's a radical agenda that they've got on the right. And I think that because of the draft opinion, you're seeing people wake up to the idea that that more and more your decisions about who you're going to vote for need to include the question is this person going to stand up for my reproductive freedom, is this person going to stand up for the broad set of privacy rights that were established in Roe v. Wade, if Roe v. Wade is overturned. And that's becoming a major issue, even in Illinois. We've had big protests all across Chicago. I was just at one last Saturday, and they're having another one this Saturday. I don't think it's going to stop, and I think you're going to see a tsunami across the country of people who support women's rights coming out. And they're not just going to protest. They're going to vote.
MR. CAPEHART: So then you think that the abortion issue is going to be a major factor, then, in the general election once you have a Republican opponent, that that is going to be an issue that you will be running on this fall?
GOV. PRITZKER: Absolutely. But I want to say, though, I've been running on this issue and believing in this and protesting about it literally my entire life, at least since I was very young, and so it's not new to me. But, yes, there's no doubt this is going to be an important issue not just in my election but in the election of members of the legislature, in the election of Tammy Duckworth, our United States senator who's on the ballot this year. No, this is going to be a very important issue in the fall election in Illinois.
MR. CAPEHART: So let's talk about COVID. Governor, about less than two weeks ago you re-issued a COVID-19 disaster proclamation extending COVID-19 rules through May 28th. Why?
GOV. PRITZKER: Well, let's start with we have a 30-day disaster proclamation that we can issue in the state. And as you know, even when you've got things like a flood, they don't necessarily last 30 days or less. And so you've got to reissue a disaster proclamation in the event that the disaster is ongoing. So that's the reason that you saw me reissue it. We've had a rise in cases. We are still in the pandemic. And we want to make sure that we can keep in place some of the provisions of executive orders that I put in place to keep people safe and alive. I think our mitigations have been highly successful, although we have lost many people in our state, as has happened across the country. But we've done better than almost every other Midwestern state. We certainly would have lost thousands of more lives if we hadn't had a disaster proclamation and our life mitigations to keep people alive. You know, my philosophy from the beginning has been that this is about trying to keep people alive. It's about maintaining lives and livelihoods. And I've leaned on the side of keeping people alive, because you can't have a livelihood if you don't have a life.
MR. CAPEHART: You mentioned that there's a--there's been a spike in cases. They've risen 41 percent. They rose 41 percent--by 41 percent--I'm sorry--at the beginning of this month. What do you think is causing this spike in cases?
GOV. PRITZKER: Well, there are some new strains of omicron, as you may have seen, that that have been afflicting people across the nation. Fortunately, what we've seen is that because we have great therapeutics that are out there, because people understand what the mitigations are, they can put on a mask and when you go into a public place make sure that you keep yourself safe and other people around you. And also, we have one of the best vaccination rates in the Midwest. So that's done a lot to keep people safe.
Our hospitalization rate is much lower than it was under the previous strain of omicron. And I think, again, that has to do with the fact that we widely distributed vaccinations, that we had 7,000 mobile vaccination units. We have the best record in terms of fighting COVID from an equity perspective, making sure that Black and brown people had access to and actually got their therapeutics and vaccinations. So, we're doing reasonably well given the spike that you're describing.
And also, the surge that's occurring is from a very low point. So, when we say 41 percent increase, it's 41 percent off of a relatively low point. So just an example, our hospitalizations are down 88 percent from the peak during January. And so we're at about, you know, 12 percent of where we--you know, of where we were back then.
And in addition, we're--although we are still seeing the loss of life, those numbers have come way, way down. So again, we don't like to see a spike in cases, but we're managing through.
MR. CAPEHART: And so does that then explain--given what you just said, does that explain why, while signing in this declaration--this disaster proclamation that you also didn't institute or reinstitute a mask mandate?
GOV. PRITZKER: That's right. We--right now, we've encouraged people who live in moderate transmission areas of the state, counties that have elevated transmissions, to wear a mask, you know, indoors when you're with a lot of people, and you know, telling people to be careful, especially the elderly, those who are immunocompromised, making sure that we're communicating constantly, even now about vaccinations. We didn't give up on that just because we've had a lower set of cases. We're still communicating on television. I say it all the time, remind people it's time to get vaccinated, not just your original vaccination, your first and second shot, but a third--and in my case, because of my age, a fourth. And it's--you know, it's an effective message. It really has worked. And so we're seeing, I think, some success in Illinois, keeping our hospitalizations down. And that's really the metric that we're using.
MR. CAPEHART: So we're around the same age because I, too, have a fourth shot because I reached that age, that age threshold.
Governor, we are--we are rapidly running out of time, and I've got one more big topic to talk to you about, and that's 2022. So, the midterm elections are coming up. You hosted a Democratic Party fundraiser in Chicago Wednesday night with the president, with President Biden. His approval numbers, not so good. They continue to be very low, in the low 40s in most polls. Two questions. Is he an asset to Democrats this fall? And will you campaign with him this fall in your own reelection campaign?
GOV. PRITZKER: Well, we are always pleased to have the president of the United States come to Illinois, especially reaffirming our values. And you know, he's been good to Illinois. This administration has been helpful, especially getting through the pandemic but in so many other ways, and I think it's been great for the rest of the nation, too.
Having said that, I understand what you're saying. I think that the president has been tasked with so many enormously challenging things, not only getting past the health pandemic but also the economic pandemic, the recession. And look at, you know, 8 million jobs created under this president in a terribly difficult time. And we are seeing inflation that's eating away at people's buying power. We're doing everything we can in Illinois, lowering taxes on groceries and gas tax and property taxes and sending people checks even now. And you know, so much of what the federal government has done a lot to lift people up. But, yeah, we've got to get through the war with--between Russia and Ukraine, which is affecting gas prices so severely, and also get our supply chain working in the right way. This president's been tasked with a lot to handle. They're not really state issues, many of those things, but some of them are. Much of it is about federal policies and whether the Fed will make decisions that will lower inflation. So, we'll see how that goes. But look, there's no doubt about it. I've now been governor two years under Donald Trump as president and about a year and a half under the Biden administration. And I must say, it's like night and day in terms of the relief that we get from the federal government, the support that we get. And I know that he'll continue to work hard for all of us.
MR. CAPEHART: So, if I heard you correctly, the president is an asset to Democrats this fall. You would campaign with him?
GOV. PRITZKER: Yeah. Look, I want to be clear that not every state needs to have the president coming in and, you know, doing a lot of campaign stops. But I do--I support--look, I've been very clear. I had a fundraiser for him yesterday. I'm happy to tell you that we have a Democratic president. That's very important. I mean, if you--if you believe in a woman's right to choose, if you believe that we ought to have equity in our nation, if you believe that we need to create jobs for people who often get left out and left behind, and if you believe that this is a great nation that should be standing up against Vladimir Putin and tyrants like him, then we've got the right president.
MR. CAPEHART: One more question for you related to the midterms, and particularly your--especially your race for governor. In two governors' races last year that I'm sure you watched closely, Republican Glenn Younkin won out over Terry McAuliffe in--Democratic McAuliffe in Virginia, and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Democrat, he won reelection, but by a much closer margin than anyone expected. Should Democrats view those races as a wakeup call? Do you have any concerns that that pattern may continue in Illinois?
GOV. PRITZKER: There's no doubt that this is going to be a tougher year for Democrats than 2020 or 2018. But it's in large part because of the challenges that COVID brought on and the things that we're all living with now in the wake of the worst parts of COVID. So, it's not because of Democratic policies. In fact, we're the ones who have lifted people up. Were the ones--who in Illinois anyway, Republicans voted against budgets that were increasing--you know, in funding police. They voted against budgets that provided childcare and small business support and rent and mortgage assistance. So, and that's happened federally as well. So, I want to be clear that the Republicans may think they have an advantage, but when we remind voters that it's Democrats that have rescued the economy, it's Democrats that have kept people safe and healthy when Republicans like Donald Trump were working against all of those things, I think people understand and will show up at the polls in November and vote for Democrats.
MR. CAPEHART: Governor J.B. Pritzker, 43rd governor of Illinois, thank you very much for coming to Capehart on Washington Post Live.
GOV. PRITZKER: Thank you, Jonathan.
MR. CAPEHART: And thank you for joining us. To check what--check out what interviews we have coming up, go to WashingtonPostLive.com. Once again, I’m Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at The Washington Post. Thank you for watching Capehart on Washington Post Live.
[End recorded session] | 2022-05-13T00:58:47+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2022/05/12/transcript-leadership-during-crisis-with-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-d/ |
Powerful Cyclone Ilsa lashes Australia’s northwest coast
By ROD McGUIRK
Associated Press
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Authorities say a powerful tropical cyclone has lashed Australia’s sparsely populated northwest coast with winds gusting at 289 kilometers (180 miles) per hour with no immediate reports of injury. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said Cyclone Ilsa crossed the Pilbara coast of Western Australia state on Friday as the most severe Category 5 storm but quickly slowed to a Category 3 system as it moved inland, Damage was still being assessed. Officials say the remote Pardoo Roadhouse and Tavern has been extensively damaged. Department of Fire and Emergency Services Superintendent Peter Sutton says his department has received no calls for assistance. Government meteorologist Dean Narramore says wind gusts in Ilsa’s path were recorded as fast as 289 kph (180 mph) at Bedout Island. | 2023-04-14T00:04:36+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/04/13/powerful-cyclone-ilsa-lashes-australias-northwest-coast/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Monday he will be making a “big announcement” next week as he teased a third presidential run while campaigning on the eve of the final day of voting in this year’s midterm elections.
“I’m going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump said before a cheering crowd in Vandalia, Ohio, Monday night, where he was holding his final rally of the midterm season to bolster Senate candidate JD Vance.
Trump explained that he wanted “nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow,” even after he had sparked a frantic effort to hold him off after he had told people he was considering officially launching his next campaign Monday night at the rally.
Trump has been increasingly explicit about his plans to seek another term, saying in recent days that he would “very, very, very probably” run again and would be formalizing his intentions “very, very soon.”
“I will probably have to do it again but stay tuned,” he said Sunday night in Miami. “Stay tuned to tomorrow night in the great state of Ohio.”
Republican officials and some people in Trump’s orbit had been urging him for months to wait until after the midterms were over to launch, in part to avoid turning the election into a referendum on him and to shield him from potential blame should Republicans not do as well as the party hopes on Tuesday.
But Trump has been eager to move forward, hoping to piggyback off expected Republican wins after endorsing nearly 300 candidates, as well as to stave off potential challengers like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others who have indicated they will run. Indeed, the date of Trump’s announcement — Nov. 15 — is the same day former Vice President Mike Pence will be releasing a book that is seen as part of his own potential campaign rollout.
Trump’s announcement comes as he confronts a series of escalating legal challenges, including several investigations that could lead to indictments. They include the probe into hundreds of documents with classified markings that were seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, as well as ongoing state and federal inquiries into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has also subpoenaed Trump and last month issued a letter to his lawyers saying he must testify, either at the Capitol or by videoconference, “beginning on or about” Nov. 14 and continuing for multiple days if necessary.
Trump won Ohio, once considered a bellwether, by 8 points in both 2016 and 2020. The state also proved an early test of his endorsement power when his decision to back Vance in the state’s hyper-competitive Senate primary vaulted the political newcomer to victory in a crowded Republican field.
Vance, an author, venture capitalist and onetime Trump critic, is part of a new generation of Republican leaders who have embraced Trump’s “American First” positions, including his isolationist foreign policy and focus on immigration. | 2022-11-08T17:27:43+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-says-hell-make-big-announcement-nov-15/ |
I-25 Studios expands, rebrands to Cinelease Studios
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Maybe you’ve driven by I-25 Studios in Albuquerque, and noticed, it’s not I-25 Studios anymore.
The national studio and leasing company Cinelease has taken over the massive studio lot, and it may look like a construction zone, but a local Cinelease rep said the studios have stayed up and running during the management shift.
Cinelease already has some presence in the Duke City, with its equipment rental warehouse, but now it’s expanding to the old I-25 studio space as a rep says the studio wants to increase its in-house production services.
The existing lot has five stages and Cinelease said there are newly renovated production spaces and offices.
The studio is now advertised as a “full-service studio,” meaning it’s a one-stop shop for clients with equipment on-site.
Cinelease has had its hand in several major films and TV shows, like “The Cleaning Lady,” filmed here in Albuquerque. Reps say Cinelease is looking forward to helping grow New Mexico’s booming film industry. | 2023-03-14T00:55:14+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/i-25-studios-expands-rebrands-to-cinelease-studios/ |
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (AP) - Results from Scotch football:
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St. Johnstone vs. Livingston FC, 10 a.m. | 2023-05-20T15:51:35+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/scottish-results-18110124.php |
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Doug Ghim rebounds from poor front in first round of the Fortinet Championship
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In his first round at the Fortinet Championship, Doug Ghim hit 8 of 14 fairways and 12 of 18 greens in regulation, and had a great back half recovery from a poor front nine. Ghim finished his round tied for 27th at 1 under; Greyson Sigg, S.H. Kim, Nick Taylor, and Byeong Hun An are tied for 1st at 5 under; Rickie Fowler, Taylor Montgomery, and Adam Svensson are tied for 5th at 4 under; and Stephan Jaeger, Joseph Bramlett, Emiliano Grillo, Scott Harrington, Sahith Theegala, Brandt Snedeker, Matt Kuchar, Chris Stroud, Corey Conners, and David Lipsky are tied for 8th at 3 under.
Doug Ghim got a bogey on the 436-yard par-4 first, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Doug Ghim to 1 over for the round.
On the 538-yard par-5 fifth, Ghim had a birdie after hitting the green in 2 and two putting. This moved Ghim to even-par for the round.
On the 360-yard par-4 eighth, Ghim had a bogey after hitting the green in 3 and two putting, moving Ghim to 1 over for the round.
Ghim got a bogey on the 422-yard par-4 10th, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Ghim to 2 over for the round.
At the 412-yard par-4 14th, Ghim reached the green in 2 and rolled a 39-foot putt for birdie. This put Ghim at 1 over for the round.
After a 282 yard drive on the 571-yard par-5 16th, Ghim chipped his third shot to 7 feet, which he rolled for one-putt birdie on the hole. This moved Ghim to even for the round.
On the par-4 17th, Ghim's 106 yard approach to 6 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Ghim to 1 under for the round.
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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Are you looking to add some sweetness to your makeup routine? You’re in luck: The Girl Scouts have a new cookie-inspired cosmetics line.
HipDot is teaming up with the Girl Scouts to make the new limited-edition makeup.
“Calling all Girl Scout Cookie fans and makeup enthusiasts!” the Girls Scouts of the USA announced on its website. “Get creative and express your inner makeup artist with our first ever makeup collaboration: the HipDot x Girl Scouts Collection.”
The line includes two “deliciously scented” eyeshadow palettes: Coconut Caramel and Thin Mints. There are also three colored lipsticks and a “custom-designed” eyeshadow brush set in a collectors box.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced it will expand its Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) futures offerings with the launch of U.S. dollar-denominated TOPIX futures on November 21, 2022, pending regulatory review.
This new contract will be cash-settled, designed to complement the existing Yen-denominated TOPIX futures contract launched in February 2018.
"The addition of U.S. dollar-denominated TOPIX futures represents a natural extension of our Japanese index offerings as we aim to become the primary international venue for trading Japanese equity benchmark products," said Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equity and FX Products, CME Group. "We are pleased to extend our partnership with JPX in launching this new product to provide our customers greater access to Japan's key benchmark, as well as carry that index exposure without FX risk, and have the opportunity to spread against other equity indices."
"With the launch of U.S. dollar-denominated TOPIX futures from CME Group, the world's leading derivatives market, in addition to the Yen-denominated product, investors of TOPIX futures around the world will be able to enjoy higher liquidity and more efficient price formation," said Miyahara Koichiro, President & CEO of JPX Market Innovation & Research, Inc. "This new product is just the latest example of how TOPIX is the benchmark for investing in Japanese stocks."
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INDIANAPOLIS — Meridian St. on the northside of the city is set to get a facelift with several improvements this spring.
From the White River to 96th St., Indy DPW will use $8 million to rehabilitate the pavement on Meridian St. and more. Sections of it now can be a rough ride with potholes filled in and unfilled.
”Terrible, up and down is terrible,” said Anthony Robinson, he commutes on Meridian St. “The congestion, the backups, the potholes, and then they try to patch it and the patches don’t work. It’s completely awful.”
Robinson said he’s driven Meridian St. every weekday for six years. He’s watched it get worse during that time.
“Almost everyday there is a new pothole that pops up,” Robinson said.
Mitchell Tor is another Meridian St. commuter. He takes it nearly all the way to his job near Carmel from where he lives close to Butler.
“Just kind of swerving around potholes here and there, not great,” Tor said.
Robinson pointed to his least favorite pothole near the corner of Meridian St. and 93rd St. He said it’s the size of a “hula hoop.” There are chunks of pavement scattered around the pothole and even a hubcap nearby.
It’s one of several problem potholes on this stretch.
“Hopefully you don’t hit one because it’s going to tear your car up,” Robinson said.
Indy DPW said the project will involve nine new and repaired drainage pipes, 19 ADA compliant curb ramps, new and upgraded traffic signals and rehabilitated pavement.
“I think that’ll probably help a lot, it’s just such a cyclical issue that just kind of doing these band aid fixes over and over again is going to get them anywhere,” Tor said.
Robinson is hopeful the drainage improvements will work. He said water can pool up on the streets when it’s raining.
“You may hydroplane here and there, I’ve done it a couple times,” he said.” You don’t see the potholes so you’ll hit it and pretty much bust your tire up.”
Robinson hopes the improvements can also slow down traffic in the area.
According to DPW, the four mile section of Meridian St. saw more than 300 crashes over the last three years – a third of those were from following too close.
“If you’re doing any type of deliveries, or anything like that, you’re getting pretty scared you’re going to get run over,” Robinson said.
DPW will keep one lane open on either side throughout the project. The project is expected to last less than a year, finishing up before 2023 is over. | 2023-02-16T22:01:47+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/meridian-st-set-for-pavement-drainage-traffic-light-improvements/ |
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Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) announced Monday he will not seek reelection in 2024 and will retire from the Senate at the end of his current term.
Carper, 76, made the news official during a press conference in Wilmington, Del., Monday morning, where he ticked through the highlights of his career before saying the time has come for him to retire from the upper chamber
“After a good deal of prayer and introspection and more than a few heart-to-heart conversations, we decided I should do neither,” Carper said referring to the possibility of a run next year and then “riding off into the sunset.” “But rather, I should run through the tape in the next 20 months and finish the important work that my staff and I have begun on a wide range of fronts.”
The four-term senator has been at the forefront of Democratic politics for decades in the First State. Prior to winning his seat in 2000, Carper served two terms as Delaware’s governor and in the state’s at-large House seat for a decade beforehand. All told, Carper has won 14 statewide elections.
Carper’s decision creates yet another open primary battle in a Democratic-leaning state. He is the fourth Senate Democrat to announce plans to retire at the end of this term. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) have decided to forego campaigns.
The odds-on favorite to replace the longtime Delaware politico is Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), who has indicated an interest in running for the Senate if Carper decided against seeking another term.
“If the seat was open, I would definitely consider it,” Blunt Rochester, who worked for Carper when he was a House member, told Politico earlier this year. She added she would remain focused on her work in the House, but she would “be prepared for whatever comes.”
Carper said he encouraged Blunt Rochester to seek the seat and that he would support her if she does.
“We love Lisa,” Carper said, noting that he spoke with her Monday morning ahead of his announcement. “I said, ‘You’ve been patient, waiting for me to get out of the way and I’m going to get out of the way, and I hope you run and I hope you’ll let me support you in that mission.’ And she said, ‘Yes, I will let you support me.’ And so I’m going to.”
Carper added he would wait to officially endorse until Blunt Rochester makes her campaign official.
A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Schumer spoke to Blunt Rochester shortly after Carper’s announcement.
“He told her he believes she could be a really good Senator and he looks forward to sitting down with her soon,” the spokesperson added.
If Blunt Rochester runs and wins, she would fill a void as there are no Black female senators in office. Vice President Harris was the most recent one.
The Delaware House member has held her seat since 2017. She has also been a key ally of President Biden, who carries significant political weight in the state he represented in the Senate for nearly four decades. She serves as a co-chairwoman of his 2024 reelection campaign.
Democrats this cycle are defending 20 Senate seats, while Republicans are only doing so for 11, limiting the pickup opportunities for Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is also still waiting on reelection decisions from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The news also has ramifications in Washington as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) would be in line to replace Carper atop the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Updated at 1:19 p.m. | 2023-05-22T18:18:06+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/hill-politics/delaware-sen-tom-carper-to-retire-from-senate-at-end-of-term/ |
A Buffalo e-cigarettes company had to pay $191,000 in back wages to employees after the company unknowingly violated a state law, state officials said Wednesday.
Magellan Technology/Demand Vapes owed 93 current and former employees additional wages following a New York State Department of Labor investigation.
The investigation found the employees had been shorted pay under the state's spread of hours law for service workers, according to the Labor Department. Employers are required to pay one additional hour per day at minimum wage when an employee works more than 10 hours or a split shift.
The Labor Department was made aware of the issue after a competitor filed a complaint. The investigation found Magellan Technology/Demand Vape had been shorting workers from January 2019 to April 2022, according to the department.
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The company said they were unaware of this law, conducted a self audit at the request of the Labor Department and paid all employees their owed wages in August.
"We are doing everything we can to not only protect workers, but also educate employers and businesses," Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon said in a statement. "The involvement of NYSDOL brought this issue to the employer’s attention and secured the recovery of the unpaid wages." | 2022-09-28T20:29:10+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/business/local/buffalo-e-cigarettes-company-owed-employees-191-000-in-unpaid-wages/article_cd28a584-3f5c-11ed-aa0f-876babd616c3.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — There was Kevin McCarthy, saying the White House was refusing to give on spending as the speaker returned to the Capitol one morning this week. Just a few hours later, there was McCarthy again, this time telling reporters that the sole concession that Republicans were making to the White House on the debt limit was in fact, simply to raise the debt limit, nothing else.
As representatives from the White House and the GOP-controlled House labor toward a deal that would pave the way for lawmakers to lift the debt limit, one side has been eager to speak publicly about the closed-door talks — trying to shape public perceptions of the negotiations.
It’s not the side that typically holds the bully pulpit.
President Joe Biden has made a deliberate decision to go quiet as his team gets down to the wire in the debt-limit talks, according to White House officials. It’s his view that speaking in public about negotiations does nothing to produce an outcome.
The voluble McCarthy, by contrast, is especially chatty these days, as he aggressively tries to set the terms of the public debate. His own negotiators also engage at length with journalists on the debt-limit talks.
“We have to get an agreement that’s worthy of the American people,” the speaker told a small clutch of reporters outside the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon, which — by his aides’ count — was at least his 12th gaggle or news conference with reporters this week alone.
In comparison, Biden has said little publicly on the standoff since he returned from an international summit earlier this week to deal with the debt disarray in Washington. He spoke for less than three minutes as he opened an Oval Office meeting with McCarthy late Monday afternoon, and stayed publicly mum until Thursday, when he gave a brief update ahead of a Rose Garden nomination ceremony for Gen. Charles Q. Brown, his pick as next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Default, he said, would harm Americans, whatever their financial current condition. There must be bipartisan agreement, he said. “There will be no default.”
The primary messenger for the White House has been press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in her daily news briefings. On Wednesday, she began by highlighting comments from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., openly saying that Republicans were holding the debt limit “hostage” in talks with the White House.
“This is a manufactured crisis,” said Jean-Pierre, who would not elaborate on any specifics of the ongoing talks.
But no surrogate can be a substitute for the principal, and Biden, by relinquishing the public megaphone to Republicans this week, risks ceding the narrative to them.
“The president needs to be more forward-leaning in making his case,” Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., said Wednesday. He continued: “The media is treating as reasonable a position that is inherently unreasonable. The position that Kevin McCarthy has taken is extreme. He’s leveraging the threat of default to extort a political concession that he could never have achieved through the normal democratic process.”
The White House has defended its communications approach, noting that Biden has made his policy priorities clear for months and saying that by taking a step back from the limelight, he was letting the negotiators have space to maneuver.
“The president is certainly not media shy,” Jean-Pierre said Wednesday, as she chuckled slightly. The chief spokeswoman for the White House noted that Biden spoke on Monday (albeit briefly) and on Sunday at a news conference in Hiroshima, Japan, and that “the president has been very clear where he stands on what Congress should be doing, which is dealing with the debt limit — something that is their constitutional duty.”
Earlier in the debt-limit talks, Biden was not shy about hammering on “MAGA Republicans,” most notably holding an event in suburban New York City one day after his first Oval Office meeting with the top four congressional leaders on resolving the standoff.
But this week, the president decided not to speak publicly right after he sat down one-on-one with McCarthy because, Biden believed, that would be more productive in trying to get a debt-limit outcome, said one White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal West Wing deliberations.
A second White House official also emphasized that Biden did not think it made much sense to be public about negotiations when the talks were productive, but no deal had yet been reached.
“It’s my expectation that if Republicans continue to play games with the American economy, threaten default and drive us into a very dangerous situation that we’ll begin to hear from the Biden administration, if not the president himself,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Wednesday when asked whether the president himself needed to be more outspoken on the ongoing talks.
It’s not just Biden.
His team, all veteran Washington operators who have spent most of their public service careers as senior aides, have been loath to speak to the press, particularly in the middle of tense and unfinished negotiations. The White House team is being led by Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president, legislative affairs director Louisa Terrell, and Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, who spent much of her career as staff director of the House Appropriations Committee.
On the other side, McCarthy’s emissaries are Reps. Garret Graves of Louisiana and Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, who are fluent in talking to the press as elected officials and as key allies of the speaker.
“What I’m telling you is that every once in a while, I feel like I’m buying a used car,” Graves said of dealing with the White House during one 42-minute gaggle with journalists on Tuesday afternoon, when negotiations seemed to be at a standstill.
Still, there are times when even the most talkative people go quiet. After returning from the White House late Wednesday afternoon from another negotiating session, Graves and McHenry hurried away from reporters pestering them for details — a notable contrast to the past several days.
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Associated Press writer Kevin Freking contributed to this report. | 2023-05-26T04:33:47+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-look-whos-talking-biden-mostly-mum-in-debt-negotiations-while-mccarthy-cant-stop-chatting/ |
Based on the trend, the Heat will blow a 23-point lead on Thursday night against the Houston Rockets.
Because on Monday night, there was a blown 19-point lead, before the Heat scrambled to a victory over the Indiana Pacers to start this four-game trip.
Wednesday night, the Heat topped that, blowing a 21-point lead before recovering for a 111-108 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder at Paycom Center.
No, not exactly the preferred path for recovery from the depths of the standings.
But apparently no escaping the drama.
With Tyler Herro taking care of the closing act, his 19-foot jumper with 4.9 seconds to play putting the Heat up two and the Heat then making a needed final defensive stand.
At 24 of 56 from beyond the arc, the Heat won with the long ball, setting a franchise record for 3-pointers.
Herro led the Heat with 35 points, with center Bam Adebayo adding a 15-point, 13-rebound double-double.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander paced the Thunder with 27 points.
Five Degrees of Heat from Wednesday’s game:
1. Closing time: It was tied 31-31 at the end of the first quarter. The Heat then opened the second period with a 20-2 run, going up by 21, before taking a 64-52 lead into the intermission.
After falling behind by two in the third, the Heat went into the fourth up 86-84.
The Thunder then moved to a seven-point lead midway through the fourth quarter.
From there, a Herro 3-pointer drew the Heat within 103-101 with 3:16 to play, with another Herro 3-pointer tying it with 1:27 to play.
Oladipo followed with a transition layup for a 108-106 lead with 66 seconds left. Fouled on the play, he missed the ensuing free throw.
Then, with 55 seconds left, the Heat challenged an out-of-bounds ruling that went in the Thunder’s favor, winning the challenge.
With 25.7 seconds to play, Gilgeous-Alexander got to the line when Adebayo fouled out, making both for a 108-108 tie.
That’s when Herro took a long inbounds pass into the backcourt, dribbled into space and drained a 19-foot jumper for a 110-108 lead, closing the scoring.
2. Herro ball: Given the keys to the offense with Butler out, all nine of Herro’s first-half shots were 3-pointers, converting six. The six 3-pointers set a career high for a half.
An 11-0 run by Herro at the start of the second period gave the Heat a 42-31 lead, with the Heat pushing it to a 20-2 surge.
Herro’s first two-point attempt was an errant driving layup with 9:01 to play in the third quarter.
He went from 20 points in the first half to three in the third.
3. The 3-ball: In closing 16 of 29 on 3-pointers in the first half, the Heat set a franchise record for 3-pointers in a half, as well as a Thunder opponent record for 3-pointers in a half.
In addition to Herro’s 6 of 9 over the first two periods, Kyle Lowry and Duncan Robinson both were 3 of 5 from beyond the arc in the first half, with Victor Oladipo 2 of 3.
“As long as we’re getting good, clean looks, I think things will change for us in terms of percentage,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said going into the game. “That’s always been our thing. Can we get to our game a little bit more consistently? There’s a synergy and a flow and a rhythm that everybody benefits from when we’re getting paint attacks, the ball’s moving, make an extra pass, you’re really working together to try to generate shots.”
4. Further steps: Playing as the Heat’s first reserve, Oladipo provided a solid presence on both ends, including three first-half streals.
With the Heat bench limited, Spoelstra left Oladipo in the game even after Oladipo was called for his fourth foul with 2:28 left in the third period. Oladipo then also started the fourth quarter.
Now more than a week into his comeback from preseason knee pain, it would appear likely that Oladipo will be held out on the second half of the back-to-back set.
5. Plan B: Effectively serving as the Heat’s universal donor when it comes to replacing sidelined starters, Max Strus this time filled in for Butler. It was Strus’ 15th start in his 27 appearances.
With Strus elevated from the second unit, it opened bench roles for both Haywood Highsmith and Robinson.
Highsmith had not played in the previous two games. Robinson had been held out of four of the previous six.
The two other primary reserves Wednesday were Oladipo and Dewayne Dedmon.
Even with the Heat’s sizzling shooting start, Strus was 0 for 4 on 3-pointers in the first half.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Students returning to college are confronting a new reality in states such as Texas, Ohio and Indiana: Abortion, an option for an unplanned pregnancy when they were last on campus, has since been banned, often with few exceptions.
Students said they’ve made changes both public and intimate since the U.S. Supreme Court decision this summer that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Students said they’re using more birth control, and some have made a plan to leave the state for an abortion if they become pregnant. They’re also taking public stances, with increased activism by both opponents and supporters of abortion rights.
Conversations about the changing landscape of abortion access seem to have dwindled since early summer, said Brian Roseboro, a senior at Ohio State University who’s from Montclair, New Jersey. But the 21-year-old, who’s single, said the new law is making him more careful and conscious about using contraception this year.
“I’m definitely thinking about it way more,” Roseboro said.
Ohio State University said the ruling doesn’t change the services provided by its Student Health Services or its medical center, noting Ohio already prohibited state institutions from performing elective abortions. It also doesn’t affect how OSU’s Title IX office handles reports of sexual assault.
But some students say those situations have crossed their minds as they contemplate the fall of Roe and Ohio’s ban on abortions at the first detectable “fetal heartbeat.” That can be as early as six weeks’ gestation, before many people know they’re pregnant.
Nikki Mikov, an Ohio State junior from Dayton, said news of the legal changes initially made her nervous that her options would be limited if she became pregnant. But by the time she was back on campus last week, she said her thoughts were more focused on more immediate things — moving in, friends, classes.
Ohio University junior Jamie Miller said he participated in multiple protests this summer, including one where he gave a speech addressing how support for abortion rights overlaps with advocacy for bodily autonomy for transgender people like him.
More intimately, Miller, 20, said the new limits on abortion influenced the decision he made with his partner to avoid sexual activity that could risk pregnancy. After years of taking testosterone, going through with a pregnancy wouldn’t be healthy for him or for the child, he said, adding that it also would upend his education and put him into debt.
“It would be pretty catastrophic in every sense of my life,” Miller said.
After Emily Korenman, of Dallas, decided to study business at Indiana University, she was frustrated to learn her new state passed new abortion restrictions that take effect Sept. 15 and allow limited exceptions. The 18-year-old said it didn’t change her mind about attending a school she really likes, but she isn’t sure what she would do if she became pregnant during college.
“I personally don’t know if abortion would be the choice I would make,” Korenman said. “But I would respect anyone’s opinion, you know, whoever’s body it is, they have the right to make that choice.”
Anti-abortion activists in states such as Indiana and Ohio say they’re planning to advocate for more campus support for pregnant students, now that abortion is no longer an option in most cases.
Campus members of Students for Life of America say they plan to interact with like-minded organizations that support sexual assault survivors and collect baby items for parents in need.
They also hope to further their cause of stopping abortion. They want to build relationships, even with people who have different viewpoints on abortion, and “find where we can agree, so that we can help them and then go further into changing other people’s minds” about abortion, said Lauren McKean, a sophomore at Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Supporters of abortion rights also plan campus outreach.
Cleveland State University sophomore Giana Formica said she got hundreds of condoms through a nonprofit organization for her campus advocacy group to distribute, and she bought some emergency contraception to have in case someone she knows needs it.
“As like a queer individual in this stage of my life, I am most likely not going to be in a place where I become pregnant,” she said. “I’m doing this for other people because it’s not something that I need right this second.”
Formica said she’s also expecting to face more aggressive disagreement from abortion opponents during outreach activities on campus with her chapter of URGE — Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity. So she’s thinking about how to navigate those conversations with fellow students and where she draws the boundaries for cutting them off.
Zoya Gheisar is pondering how to talk about it, too. She leads a Planned Parenthood-affiliated student club at Ohio’s Denison University. On the cusp of the new school year, she was still trying to figure out what information peer sex educators will provide when they talk with first-year students, and how to help club members discuss abortion issues more empathetically.
“When we have conversations as a club, I really try to steer away from the rhetoric that can be so polarizing,” said Gheisar, a 22-year-old from Seattle.
Her hope, she said, is to move toward discussion that acknowledges “this is a truly intimate thing, with real people at its heart and core.”
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Franko reported from Columbus, Ohio. Associated Press reporter Patrick Orsagos in Columbus contributed.
Rodgers is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
The Associated Press education team receives support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2022-08-22T23:01:33+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/ap-top-headlines/college-students-return-to-campus-without-access-to-abortion/ |
Falcons’ Damien Williams placed on injured reserve
Posted/updated on: September 17, 2022 at 6:07 pmBy MICHAEL ROTHSTEIN
LOS ANGELES — The Atlanta Falcons have placed running back Damien Williams on injured reserve with a rib injury, it was announced Saturday.
The move, which means Williams will miss at least the next four games, comes one day after he was ruled out for Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams.
Williams suffered the injury on the second drive of the team’s season opener against the New Orleans Saints last Sunday. Though he returned in the fourth quarter, playing 10 total snaps in the game, Williams said he was still sore the next day and would see how things went in terms of his availability against the Rams.
The 30-year-old Williams said the injury occurred when a defensive lineman fell on him during a tackle.
“Oh man, all 300 pounds on that little baby rib, man. That’s all it was, man,” Williams said Monday. “All 300 pounds on that little baby rib, man. It got me, though. It got me.”
Williams, who was expected to split time with Cordarrelle Patterson as the team’s primary rushers this season, had totaled 2 yards on his first two carries. Patterson, in Williams’ absence, had career highs in carries (22) and rushing yards (120) against the Saints.
Williams signed with Atlanta after playing with the Chicago Bears last season. In his eight-year career — he opted out in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns — he has played in 98 games with 336 carries for 1,397 yards and 14 touchdowns.
With Williams out at least a month, the Falcons are likely to turn to rookie fifth-round pick Tyler Allgeier out of BYU. Allgeier got some work with the first team during the preseason but was inactive last Sunday against the Saints. Atlanta could also look to converted cornerback Avery Williams, who made the full-time move to running back this offseason and is the team’s punt returner, or to Caleb Huntley, who was given a standard elevation Saturday from the team’s practice squad.
The Falcons also elevated defensive lineman Abdullah Anderson from the practice squad, completing a busy week for him. Anderson was released prior to Week 1 and then signed with the team’s practice squad at the beginning of this week before being elevated Saturday. | 2022-09-18T01:33:59+00:00 | ktbb.com | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1163921 |
WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Syndax," the "Company" or "we") (Nasdaq: SNDX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 7,840,909 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $22.00 per share. This includes the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to 1,022,727 additional shares of common stock. The aggregate gross proceeds to Syndax from this offering were $172.5 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by Syndax. Following the closing of the Offering, Syndax has 68,100,918 shares issued and outstanding as of December 14, 2022.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan and Cowen acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. BTIG and B. Riley Securities acted as co-lead managers for the offering.
The shares were offered pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement previously filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering were filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC's website located at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from: Goldman Sachs and Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, telephone: 866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316 or by emailing Prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: (866) 803-9204, or by emailing prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; or Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, Attention: Prospectus Department, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at (833) 297-2926, or by email at PostSaleManualRequests@broadridge.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies. Highlights of the Company's pipeline include revumenib (SNDX-5613), a highly selective inhibitor of the Menin–MLL binding interaction, and axatilimab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks the colony stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) receptor, both currently in pivotal trials.
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BENSALEM, Pa., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Arqit Quantum Inc. ("Arqit" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ARQQ, ARQQW).
Class Period: September 7, 2021 – April 18, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 5, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Arqit investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The three still-unidentified aerial objects shot down by the U.S. in the past week likely had merely a “benign purpose,” the White House acknowledged Tuesday, drawing a distinction between them and the massive Chinese balloon that earlier traversed the U.S. with a suspected goal of surveillance.
“The intelligence community is considering as a leading explanation that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose,” said White House national security spokesman John Kirby.
Officials also disclosed that a missile fired at one of the three objects, over Lake Huron on Sunday, missed its intended target and landed in the water before a second one successfully hit.
The new details came as the Biden’s administration’s actions over the past two weeks faced fresh scrutiny in Congress.
First, U.S. fighter jets didn’t shoot down what officials described as a Chinese spy balloon until after had crossed much of the United States, citing safety concerns. Then the military deployed F-22 fighters with heat-seeking missiles to quickly shoot down what likely were harmless objects.
Taken together, the actions raised political as well as security questions, about whether the Biden administration overreacted after facing Republican criticism for reacting too slowly to the big balloon.
Even as more information about the three objects emerges, questions remain about what they were, who sent them and how the U.S. might respond to unidentified airborne objects in the future.
Still unaddressed are questions about the original balloon, including what spying capabilities it had and whether it was transmitting signals as it flew over sensitive military sites in the United States. It was believed by American intelligence to have initially been on a track toward the U.S. territory of Guam, according to a U.S. official.
The U.S. tracked it for several days after it left China, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. It appears to have been blown off its initial trajectory and ultimately flew over the continental U.S., the official said.
Balloons and other unidentified objects have been previously spotted over Guam, a strategic hub for the U.S. Navy and Air Force in the western Pacific.
It’s unclear how much control China retained over the balloon once it veered from its original trajectory. A second U.S. official said the balloon could have been externally maneuvered or directed to loiter over a specific target, but it’s unclear whether Chinese forces did so.
Even less is known about the three objects shot down over three successive days, from Friday to Sunday, in part because it’s been challenging to recover debris from remote locations in the Canadian Yukon, off northern Alaska and near the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Lake Huron. So far, officials have no indication they were part of a bigger surveillance operation along with the balloon that that was shot down off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4.
“We don’t see anything that points right now to being part of the PRC spy balloon program,” Kirby told reporters, referring to the People’s Republic of China. It’s also not likely the objects were “intelligence collection against the United States of any kind — that’s the indication now.”
No country or private company has come forward to claim any of the objects, Kirby said. They do not appear to have been operated by the U.S. government.
Kirby had hinted Monday that the three objects were different in substantive ways from the balloon, including in their size. And his comments Tuesday marked a clear effort by the White House to draw a line between the balloon, which officials believe was part of a Chinese military program that has operated over five continents, and objects that the administration thinks could simply be part of some research or commercial effort.
In Washington, Pentagon officials met with senators for a classified briefing on the shootdowns. Lawmakers conveyed concerns from their constituents about a need to keep them informed and came away assured the objects were not extraterrestrial in nature but wanting many more details.
Still, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the successful recent interceptions were likely to have a “calming influence” and make future shootdowns less likely.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters after the briefing that he didn’t think the objects posed a threat.
“They’re trying to figure out — you know there’s a bunch of junk up there. So you got to figure out what’s the threat, what’s not. You see something, you shouldn’t always have to shoot it down,” Graham said.
Biden has ordered National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to form an interagency team to study the detection, analysis and “disposition of unidentified aerial objects” that could pose either safety or security risks.
The recent objects have also drawn the attention of world leaders including in Canada, where one was shot down on Saturday, and in the United Kingdom, where the prime minister has ordered a security review.
Japan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that at least three flying objects spotted in Japanese airspace since 2019 are strongly believed to have been Chinese spy balloons.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials confirmed that a first missile aimed at the object over Lake Huron landed instead in the water, but that a second one hit the target.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military went to “great lengths” to make sure none of the strikes put civilians at risk, including identifying what the debris field size was likely to be and the maximum effective range of the missiles used.
“We’re very, very careful to make sure that those shots are in fact safe,” Milley said. “And that’s the guidance from the president. Shoot it down, but make sure we minimize collateral damage and we preserve the safety of the American people.”
The object taken down Sunday was the third in as many days to be shot from the skies. The White House has said the objects differed in size and maneuverability from the Chinese surveillance balloon that U.S. fighter jets shot down earlier this month, but that their altitude was low enough to pose a risk to civilian air traffic.
Weather challenges and the remote locations of where the three objects were shot down over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron have impeded recovery efforts so far.
Milley was in Brussels with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to meet with members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on additional weapons and defense needs for Kyiv in advance of Russia’s anticipated spring offensive.
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Copp reported from Brussels. AP writers Lisa Mascaro and Stephen Groves contributed from Washington. | 2023-02-15T03:49:12+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-1st-missile-strike-at-aerial-object-over-lake-huron-missed/ |
(The Hill) – Protesters rushed the stage as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) spoke during a GOP fundraising event in New Hampshire Friday, with the organization behind the protest calling him antisemitic as he gears up for an expected 2024 presidential campaign.
Two women shouted “Jews against DeSantis” from the stage as they were being quickly escorted out, while the governor disregarded their interruption.
“You’ve got to have a little spice in the speech,” he said.
DeSantis was headlining the Amos Tuck Dinner, a key fundraising event for the New Hampshire Republican Party. The governor has recently traveled to a number of states in the leadup to a likely presidential campaign announcement. Thursday he attended a GOP fundraiser in Ohio and earlier Friday addressed Liberty University in Virginia.
The women who disrupted his address in New Hampshire are with IfNotNow, an organization of American Jews protesting against the Israeli government and its treatment of Palestinians.
The organization called DeSantis an antisemite, pointing to what it characterized as his refusal to denounce white supremacist supporters and alliances with Christian nationalists.
DeSantis has consistently come in second behind former President Trump in 2024 GOP primary polls. A Morning Consult poll this week found Trump with a 33 point lead over the Florida governor.
He has not yet officially announced a presidential candidacy but is expected to soon.
Trump and DeSantis-aligned super PACs have already begun airing attack ads on the others’ candidate. On Friday, a pro-Trump PAC released an ad mocking DeSantis for an alleged incident where he ate pudding on a private jet with his fingers, and a pro-DeSantis PAC called out Trump for previous comments in support of gun control. | 2023-04-15T15:24:32+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/protesters-interrupt-desantis-speech-at-new-hampshire-fundraising-event/ |
Police: Marine recruiters help take down jewelry thieves attempting to escape
TORRANCE, Calif. (Gray News) - Two would-be robbers in California are in police custody thanks to the help of some military personnel.
According to the Torrance Police Department, officers were called to the Del Amo Fashion Center regarding a robbery call Tuesday night.
The department said a group of smash-and-grab thieves hit a jewelry store inside the mall. They were wearing masks, gloves and armed with hammers.
However, as the group was attempting to run out of the mall, Marine recruiters jumped in along with a couple of bystanders to catch two of the suspects. Police said they were able to hold down the men until officers arrived.
Torrance police thanked the bystanders and the recruiters for their help.
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Which cat fountain is best?
Your pets need proper hydration throughout the day, especially during the hotter months when you might not be home that often. Most owners put out a bowl of water, but you can’t predict how thirsty your pet will get.
An excellent solution is to get a cat fountain for your feline friend. With a steady supply of fresh, cold water, you can leave the house stress-free knowing that nourishing fluids are always available. The Catit Fresh & Clear Stainless Steel Cat Water Fountain is an excellent choice, as it has a large capacity and is partially made from metal.
What to know before you buy a cat fountain
Close to a wall socket
Any pet fountain must be placed close to a wall socket. The small internal water pump needs electricity to push the water through the system, or it won’t work. However, there are fountains that have a USB connection. These can plug into a wall socket through an adapter but can also operate off a power bank in an emergency or power cut.
Limited capacity
A cat fountain doesn’t connect to your main water line and has a limited capacity for water storage. When the levels get low, you must top up the tank. Depending on how many cats you have and average summer temperatures where you live, you might find yourself adding water more regularly. If tank capacity is a concern, it’s best to get two cat fountains and place them in different spots in the house.
Metal is better than plastic
Aim for a cat fountain made of metal instead of plastic. Not only does a shiny metal fountain look better, but it keeps the water fresher. Plastic can, over time, alter the water’s taste. Also, some cats can develop feline chin acne when eating or drinking from plastic bowls. It is essentially a cat allergy to plastic and should be avoided.
What to look for in a quality cat fountain
Filtration system
Stagnant or dirty water is dangerous to pets, especially cats with a delicate immune system. A good-quality cat fountain has a multi-step filtration system that clears the water of dust particles, debris or harmful elements. It’s not as complex as household filtration systems, and much easier to maintain.
In most cases, you simply pop out the filter and replace it with a new one — but there is a catch. It’s rare to find interchangeable filters between different brands. Usually, you can only use the same filters as the fountain maker.
Large water tank
With limited capacity, it’s essential that you get a fountain with a large water tank. The tank’s size determines the fountain’s overall height, but it shouldn’t be a problem for any cat to reach. A larger capacity means that more water is available during the day, and you wouldn’t need to top it up more than once or twice a week.
Easy to clean
Another crucial element of a cat fountain is maintenance. You don’t want to drink water from a dirty glass, so your cat shouldn’t have to drink from a dirty fountain. The water filters are simple to replace, but you must give the fountain a thorough cleaning regularly. A good-quality cat fountain makes this easy by being made of only a few components, and having them be ones that come apart and can be washed by hand or in a dishwasher.
How much you can expect to spend on a cat fountain
A cat fountain isn’t as expensive as you might think. A basic fountain with a replaceable filter costs $20-$30, while a metal fountain with a large water tank runs $40-$50. The filters are usually sold in packs of three or five, and go for $10-$25.
Cat fountain FAQ
Do you use tap water or bottled water for a fountain?
A. Tap water is perfectly fine for a cat fountain, as long as the water is also fit for human consumption. There’s no need to use bottled water — the filtration system will take care of any impurities.
How do you clean a cat fountain?
A. While water circulation prevents bacteria from growing, you can never be too cautious. Simply take the fountain apart and rinse it under hot water. Some fountain components are suitable for a dishwasher, too.
What’s the best cat fountain to buy?
Top cat fountain
Catit Fresh & Clear Stainless Steel Cat Water Fountain
What you need to know: This cat fountain has a plastic base and tank but there’s a metal water bowl on the top.
What you’ll love: The recirculating system cools and aerates the water while the internal carbon filter cleans the water of any debris. The tank has a capacity of around 64 fluid ounces.
What you should consider: The fountain comes with a 5-foot cable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Top cat fountain for the money
Petkit Eversweet Solo Dog & Cat Fountain
What you need to know: This half-gallon cat fountain is perfect for small to medium pets, as you can monitor their liquid intake through the transparent sides.
What you’ll love: The fountain has two operating modes: one that continuously circulates the water, and one that runs in a cycle of three minutes on and three minutes off. It’s made of plastic and includes a carbon filter.
What you should consider: It uses a USB cable, so you’ll need an adapter for a wall socket.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Worth checking out
Petdiary Automatic Cat Water Fountain
What you need to know: This 101-ounce fountain is made of food-grade melamine and has five filtration layers.
What you’ll love: The transparent sides let you keep an eye on the water level, but it has built-in dry run protection. There is also a light that turns on when the surroundings get dark.
What you should consider: It has a wall socket connection, so it isn’t compatible with power banks.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
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Displaced Bell Lofts families on verge of homelessness
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Almost two months after a flood related to the sprinkler system at a north Minneapolis apartment building displaced approximately 21 tenants, only about half have found permanent housing, and now the remaining group of nine families is facing the possibility of homelessness.
Steve Yang, his wife and their five children, who range in age from newborn through 12 years old, are among the group of former Bell Lofts tenants currently staying at the TownePlace Suites hotel in Minneapolis while they look for new housing.
"It’s horrible," said Vang. "It’s stressful, and it’s causing us to go crazy. You know, if I had long hair, longer than this, I would be pulling it out right now."
The flooded floors at Historic Bell Lofts sent families scrambling for new homes in late December, and the city condemned the building days later.
Like other residents, Vang was under the impression that the cost of their hotel stay has been taken care of by a group of nonprofits that have been involved in helping residents, including The Minneapolis Foundation, Pillsbury United Communities, and It Takes a Village, a small local nonprofit.
But this week, he learned from hotel staff that there is a large unpaid bill, and the residents, including five other families with children, will have to leave by Saturday.
Related stories: Bell Lofts: Ex-residents of condemned Minneapolis building plead for landlord accountability
Vang says he’s applied for rentals and for governmental help but has gotten nowhere. He’s heard the shelters are full and doesn’t know where to turn.
"It tells me I better just pack up and get my family into my vehicle," he said. "Wherever it takes us, we go there."
The Pillsbury Foundation Interim President and CEO Brenna Brelie sent an urgent letter Wednesday asking city and county officials to intervene and cover the cost of the resident’s hotel stay.
"Prevent them from becoming homeless and eliminate the stress that comes from the constant threat of being kicked out so they can focus on finding permanent housing, getting to work and taking care of their families," she wrote.
The residents have received help for relocation costs, including three months' rent for the city, as well as gift cards distributed by Pillsbury United, but there has not been consistent dedicated funding for the hotel stay.
Residents say their former landlord covered the first few days, from Dec. 28 through Jan.3 Then, the Minneapolis Foundation stepped in, but only for two weeks, covering Jan 4-18, according to a statement from the foundation.
At that point, the foundation made a grant of $50,000 to Pillsbury United Communities to "provide further support to families as they make the transition to stable housing." PUC received another $10,000 came from a Gofundme organized by the former landlord.
However, this meant there was no dedicated source of funding for the hotel costs. The north Minneapolis based nonprofit It Takes a Village paid at least some of that expense -- founder Dyonyca Conley-Rush told FOX 9 that her organization paid the hotel $10,000 on Wednesday, but emails shared with FOX 9 show that there is still an outstanding balance of at least $10,000.
The letter from Pillsbury United also asked the city to help the tenants who lost their homes and to develop protocols for when emergencies like this pop up, as they also did after the Drake Hotel fire in 2019.
But it might not be soon enough for the Vangs.
"My kids, they start crying because they see other kids talk about how they’re going to go home with their family and spend time with their family, and they don’t have a home to go to," Steven Vang said.
Mayor Jacob Frey’s office tells us the city is open to conversations about improving protocols after emergencies.
The landlords say they’re working with everyone who’s trying to help the former residents. They also hope to get Bell Lofts back open for tenants, but they don’t have a timeline. | 2023-02-16T06:16:46+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/displaced-bell-lofts-families-on-verge-of-homelessness |
BERLIN (AP) — German police warned Wednesday of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two teenage girls was linked to the drug.
Police in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania said that a 13-year-old girl from the town of Altentreptow died Monday at a hospital after taking one of the blue pills featuring a skull logo associated with the Marvel comic book character The Punisher.
Two other teens, ages 14 and 15, were also hospitalized after taking the drug, police said. A 37-year-old German man has been detained in connection with the girl’s death.
Authorities in the neighboring state of Brandenburg are also investigating the death of a 15-year-old girl who died in the town of Rathenow over the weekend after a suspected narcotics overdose. Prosecutors say an autopsy will determine whether she, too, died after consuming the drug
“We warn against any consumption of narcotics, but especially the dangerous ‘Blue Punisher’ pill,” Neubrandenburg police said in a statement. “These pills have a very high dose of (the chemical) MDMA.”
It added that even half a pill, which is in circulation in the region, could cause life-threatening illness. | 2023-06-28T20:17:24+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/german-police-warn-of-blue-punisher-ecstasy-pills-after-2-teenage-girls-die/ |
Today's fastest-growing AI-powered retail-planning provider seizes the opportunity to exploit complementary, innovative AI technologies.
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md., June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Impact Analytics™, a leading provider of SaaS AI-based supply chain and merchandise planning solutions for retail, CPG, and manufacturing, today revealed the depth of its product integration with Open AI's GPT models and other generative AI technologies. The company announced it has already enabled generative AI capabilities in its assortment, pricing, and planning tools, and is using the technology to provide automated recommendations as well as more efficient onboarding.
"We're making the most of generative AI to improve what our clients say is already the retail industry's most robust, efficient, secure, and user-friendly AI-driven system, the Impact Analytics SmartSuite™ solution set," said Prashant Agrawal, Impact Analytics founder and CEO. "Generative AI technologies are vastly useful and, at least for us, easily incorporated because we've developed our products on a flexible AI engine right from the start."
Generative AI significantly uplevels the functioning of Impact Analytics products in the following areas:
- Data transformation: Generative AI enables Impact Analytics products to quickly convert massive amounts of raw data to a readily digestible in-house format. "Transformation" is about more than simply converting data—the key is to create meaningful, structured information that's easily consumed by various models and products. Generative AI also enables Impact Analytics to present a standard format across clients, which enables the company's integrated platform team to onboard clients faster and more easily.
- Data validation: Impact Analytics uses generative AI-powered data validation procedures, such as enhanced automated quality checks, to ensure the integrity of raw data and to enhance process efficiencies. Open AI's GPT models and other generative AI tools enable the company's products to detect and rectify anomalies or inaccuracies early in the process, ensuring data is accurate and reliable.
- Query generation: The company uses generative AI to provide basic and optimized SQL query generation, ensuring Impact Analytics products very quickly and efficiently extract and manipulate data for better performance and faster results.
- User benefits: That same generative AI technology enables Impact Analytics customers to use natural, intuitive language, and more easily navigate and use services, when engaging with Impact Analytics products.
- Security and privacy: Rest assured—Impact Analytics protects client data against all possible security/privacy risks by exposing only the data schemas to the generative AI code—never the actual client data itself. And the company uses state-of-the-art static code analysis and static application security testing processes to find and remove any potential security vulnerabilities in the generative AI code.
"We're excited to take advantage of any generative AI capability that benefits our products and services and, ultimately, our customers," said Agrawal. "We wouldn't be on Fortune's list of most innovative companies if we didn't."
Impact Analytics was recently ranked in the top 100 of Fortune's 2023 list of the Most Innovative Companies in America, which may explain why in 2023 it also made The Financial Times' list of America's fastest growing companies—for the fourth straight year.
ABOUT IMPACT ANALYTICS
Impact Analytics is a proven leader in Retail, CPG, Manufacturing and Supply Chain focused enterprise AI SaaS solutions. Its suite of products for planning, forecasting, merchandising and end-to-end lifecycle pricing is empowering leading retailers to make smart data-based decisions, transform their businesses, and achieve substantial business benefits. Impact Analytics' unique engagement model allows for quick implementations to be executed in a cost-efficient manner with lower TCO. To learn more, visit www.impactanalytics.co.
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WESLACO, Texas (ValleyCentral) —South Texas Health System ER Weslaco has earned a level three geriatric emergency accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians.
The bronze-level designation by the organization dedicated to advancing emergency care acknowledges STHS ER Weslaco’s dedication to providing a high standard of care that meets the unique health care needs of older adults living in the Rio Grande Valley, a news release stated.
“Weslaco’s accreditation signals to the public that your institution is focused on the highest standards of care for your communities’ older adults,” read the official letter from ACEP. “Led by a remarkable team of interdisciplinary leaders, including Gerald Banks, MD, MS and Christen Ann Wirth, RN, BSN, this accreditation signals to the public that [the] institution is focused on the highest standards of care for your communities’ older adults.”
The Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation program was developed by the American College of Emergency Physicians along with the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Emergency Nurses Association and American Geriatrics Society to improve and standardize emergency care for older patients. The program will do so by enhancing staffing and education, focusing on geriatric-focused policies and protocols and more efficient preparation of the treatment area.
The freestanding emergency department will comply with geriatric guidelines by recommending measures ranging from adding geriatric-friendly equipment to specialized staff to more routine screening for delirium, dementia and fall risk, among other vulnerabilities.
“South Texas Health System strives to be a national leader in providing quality, compassionate evidence-based care for the populations we serve, including the elderly,” said Brenda Ivory, Chief Executive Officer, South Texas Health System Heart. “This certification is living proof of our commitment to bring an underserved population important access to healthcare that’s focused on their specific needs and special requirements.” | 2022-11-28T18:56:25+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/south-texas-health-system-er-weslaco-earns-level-3-geriatric-emergency-accreditation/ |
Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, was kicked out of the hotel where the Conservative Political Action Conference is taking place, a CPAC spokesman confirmed to NPR.
Spencer was spotted in the lobby of the Gaylord National Resort outside Washington, D.C., talking with reporters. That's when CPAC officials were alerted to Spencer's presence.
"His views are repugnant and have absolutely nothing to do with conservatism or what we do here," said CPAC spokesman Ian Walters.
Spencer purchased a general admission pass Thursday morning, Walters said.
"He's anti-free markets, anti-Constitution, anti-pluralism," Walters added. "This was one bad egg who bought a ticket."
He described the alt-right and Spencer's views as "vile," "venomous," "horrible" and "repulsive."
CPAC is trying to send a message that it wants nothing to do with the so-called alt-right, a white nationalist movement that latched on to Donald Trump's rise. The president's chief strategist in the White House, Steve Bannon, ran Breitbart, which he called a "platform for the alt-right." Bannon and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are speaking at CPAC Thursday afternoon.
CPAC also invited then disinvited Milo Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart editor with controversial views, after video surfaced of him seeming to endorse pedophilia.
Dan Schneider, executive director of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC, spoke out forcefully against the alt-right at an earlier event.
"CPAC, we have been slapped in the face," Schneider said. "There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way in, into our ranks."
The alt-right, which "had been used for a long time in a very good and normal way," had been "hijacked [by a] hate-filled, left-wing fascist group," Schneider said. "We must not allow them to be normalized. They are not part of us."
Walters noted, "It's not even close to even being somewhat representative of what goes on here. And everyone here is in agreement."
He noted that Schneider's speech was a deliberate addition to a four-part series of speeches here on conservatism.
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Earlier this fall, Mansion Church Pastor Terry Dinkins decided to organize a cleanup of Bangor’s parks and walking trails. So on Oct. 1, he and a group of roughly 35 volunteers collected thousands of used syringes that littered the ground.
“It opened my eyes to how bad the situation really is — I didn’t expect that many needles,” Dinkins said. “I think it’s terrible. These are in our parks and walking trails, and we need to do something.”
Dinkins’ clean-up event offered a snapshot of the growing amount of used syringe waste the city has seen since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the city’s homeless population — including many with substance use problems — has grown. Though Bangor has 10 needle collection boxes scattered around the city, thousands of syringes are still ending up on the ground in public spaces and throughout the city’s homeless encampments.
Now, Bangor’s public health department wants to collaborate with state government and the organizations that distribute sterile syringes to reduce the used needles around Bangor, which poses a public health risk in addition to being an eyesore.
The city wants help to craft a plan to address the proliferation of discarded needles, especially as the city’s cleanup costs have risen, said Patty Hamilton, Bangor’s public health director. That plan could involve more funding for the program that distributes sterile needles so they have more resources to clean them up.
“The goal is to bring attention to the issue and get action from the state government to recognize that it is an issue,” she said. “My hope is that they consider fully funding the syringe services programs to do that work. It’s a complicated societal problem, and it’s going to take all of us to solve it.”
Maine has 18 programs licensed to distribute sterile needles and other harm reduction supplies, such as naloxone and fentanyl test strips. Distributing clean needles is a harm reduction tactic because it protects those who use drugs from contracting bloodborne diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis C, from used or shared contaminated syringes.
In Bangor, the Health Equity Alliance and Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness are licensed to distribute syringes and other harm reduction materials, according to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
“We are also providing a safe place for people without shame and judgment,” said Jennifer Sinclair, the Health Equity Alliance’s harm reduction program supervisor. “Creating this atmosphere for people who use drugs and showing them that they deserve to be heard gives them more of a chance to enter treatment.”
Gov. Janet Mills temporarily lifted the requirement that syringe exchange programs collect one used syringe for every clean syringe they hand out from March 2020 to August 2021, during the state’s pandemic civil emergency. That allowed people to continue receiving clean syringes while coming into contact with others less often to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Today, the Health Equity Alliance encourages a one-for-one exchange, but state rules allow the group to give someone up to 100 new needles if they have no used syringes to trade in, Sinclair said.
“COVID brought a lot of things to us, and everyone did their best to meet the needs of people who use drugs to keep them safe,” Hamilton said. “What we saw as a result of that is more needle waste seemed to be developing in our community. This consequence wasn’t envisioned, but it’s here and we’re trying to adapt.”
Maine’s syringe distribution programs gave out nearly 2.4 million sterile needles last year and collected more than 1.7 million used ones, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The Health Equity Alliance’s Bangor distribution site was the busiest in the state, handing out almost 794,000 clean needles and collecting and disposing of almost 618,000.
Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness only became certified as a syringe distribution program in February 2021, according to the Maine CDC.
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Bangor’s Parks and Recreation and Public Works departments will safely dispose of used needles found in public places, Hamilton said, and the city offers the 10 community disposal boxes. Bangor, however, has to pay the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to collect those boxes, and that cost has risen in tandem with the increasing litter.
“The cost varies on the weight of the box, and the amount and weight of the needles we’re picking up has increased, so the burden to the municipality has risen quite a bit,” Hamilton said. “It would be helpful if we could work with the state to figure out a plan for that.”
The Maine CDC and Bangor Public Health are working with the city’s syringe distribution programs to explore solutions, said Jackie Farwell, a Maine CDC spokesperson.
“As we continue to explore solutions, syringe service programs are increasing their outreach in the region to help address this concern,” she said. “Syringe service programs provide an important public health service and have been proven to reduce the spread of viruses like HIV and hepatitis C.”
The Health Equity Alliance’s harm reduction team does community cleanups and will help residents safely dispose of needles found on private property, Sinclair said. The organization also empties biohazard sharps boxes held at multiple local businesses.
“We also offer training for anyone willing to learn about harm reduction, which includes education on our disposal process of syringes,” Sinclair said. “Anyone can come to exchange and use the safe disposal system we have or request a sharps container.” | 2022-12-05T06:21:24+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/12/05/news/bangor/used-needles-cleanup-joam40zk0w/ |
YOUNGSTOWN, N.Y. — New York's new gun laws have created an "unintended consequence" that operators of state historic sites say could open up reenactors to a Class E felony.
Under the new laws, state parks like Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown are one of a number of new "sensitive locations" where public firearm possession is prohibited.
Executive Director Robert Emerson told 2 On Your Side Tuesday that while Old Fort Niagara did not cancel any of its late summer events because of the new law, he worries it could impact future ones and the fort's bottom line.
"Historical reenactments are about 20% of our budget," Emerson said.
Reenactments also provide a unique educational environment unlike any other for people of all ages. "You get the flash, you get the bang.... it puts you in the battle," Emerson added.
The new laws do include exceptions for antique firearms but Emerson worries that the expanded definition of "rifle," which now includes black powder, flint-lock, and other muzzling-loading weapons could still open up reenactments to scrutiny.
In response to these concerns, the Governor's office has repeatedly stated that historical reenactments are excluded, although different interpretations of the laws have stated otherwise.
“Governor Hochul passed new public safety laws to protect New Yorkers and keep them safe from gun violence. These laws allow historical re-enactments to occur, and we will work with legislators and local law enforcement to ensure these events can legally and safely proceed." - State Spokesperson
Assemblyman Angelo Morinello (R) wants to ensure that regardless of who is interpreting the law, reenactments are able to happen without legal worry. He doesn't believe these historical situations were an oversight but a lack of research.
"I believe it was a typical example of hastily putting legislation together with those with experience or knowledge of issues," said Assemblymember Morinello. | 2022-10-12T02:40:05+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/new-gun-laws-lead-to-questions-about-historical-reenactments-wny-jail-rights/71-6f2f00ae-d982-43f3-914e-55f1837e2488 |
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Friday to work constructively with Scotland’s leader despite tensions over her administration’s wish for a new independence referendum.
Sunak held private talks with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during his first visit to Scotland since taking power, saying that while they are “not going to agree on everything,” he believes there is scope for cooperation. Sturgeon’s relationship with Sunak’s two predecessors, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, had been frosty in light of Sturgeon’s demand for Scottish independence.
“What I want to do as prime minister of the United Kingdom is work constructively with the Scottish government to make a difference to people in Scotland,” Sunak told the BBC. “We’ve got lots of challenges that we all face collectively around the U.K., and where we can work together and make a difference, we should.”
Sturgeon described their meeting as having been “perfectly constructive and cordial.”
The U.K. government said the question of independence was settled in a 2014 referendum, when Scottish voters rejected the referendum by a margin of 55% to 45%.
Sturgeon has argued the situation has changed since then, and her semiautonomous government has pushed for a new vote. But in November, the U.K. Supreme Court said her government didn’t have the power to hold a new independence referendum without the consent of the U.K. government. | 2023-01-13T23:36:53+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-sunak-pledges-to-work-constructively-with-scotlands-leader/ |
FLANERY, Jonathan S.
Age 72, of Huber Heights, Ohio, passed away on January 22, 2023. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Newcomer Funeral Home, North Chapel, Dayton, OH.
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High school football player collapses, dies during practice
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – A high school student in Mississippi died after he collapsed on the field during football practice on Monday.
The Brandon High School community is in shock following the sudden death of 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr. He was just weeks away from starting his senior year and was determined to help his football team win the state title.
Laster’s body was taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office to rule a cause of death.
His family said Laster spent his final moments on the football field doing what he loved.
His father, Phillip Laster Sr., said he was driving when he received a call from his son’s football coach on Monday. By the time his father made it to the hospital, it was too late.
“[The coach] told me it would probably be best for me to just come on in if I could because it was a serious situation,” Phillip Laster Sr. said. “On my way, I got the call that they lost him.”
Phillip Laster Jr. leaves behind his parents and three siblings. His family remembers him as a “gentle giant” who was loved by many.
“I’m speechless that I’m not going to hear his footsteps coming through the door, or ‘Mom, what are you cooking?’ in his deep voice,” his mother, Ashanta Laster, said. “He was a lovely kid. I love my son.”
Phillip Laster Sr. said his son was the kind of person who no one could say a bad word about.
“It’s just hard to find anybody that has anything bad to say about this guy,” he said. “The outpouring of love is just a testament to what his life was like. This was a good kid.”
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Ophelia L.
Ophelia L. Robinson-Allen, age 77, of Dayton, passed away on Monday, February 6, 2023. She was born in Jackson, TN, on June 20, 1945. Ophelia graduated from West H.S. in Jackson, TN. She retired from Good
Samaritan Hospital after 30 years of service. After her retirement, she spent 10 years with Comfort Keepers as a home care provider. She was a longtime member of the Mt. Hermon Missionary Baptist Church of Dayton, OH. She was preceded in death by her mother, Naomi Weddle; son, Tracy Robinson; and grandson, Jason Robinson. She was a devoted mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. The family will receive friends on Monday, February 13, 2023, from 12-1pm at Harvest Grove Baptist Church, 3323 Highview Hills Rd., Dayton, OH 45417. The service will follow at 1pm. Ophelia will be laid to rest at West Memory Gardens. | 2023-02-11T07:45:09+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/obituaries/allen-ophelia-robinson/EQEXPCXSKRFHRO6OK7D5SZFOFQ/ |
A water leak along Perkins Road caused flooding Thursday morning near Campus Federal, Baton Rouge police said.
BRPD spokesman Lt. Don Coppola said only the turning lanes along Perkins Road near Quail Drive were passable as of 7:30 a.m.
Videos on social media showed police officers directing traffic as water pooled into the roadway.
#NOW: A ruptured water main is causing flooding along Perkins Road.
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No information was immediately available about what may have caused the leak.
Authorities said the Department of Public Works and the water company have been notified about the leak. | 2022-09-08T12:54:05+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_cbb61a92-2f71-11ed-9a2d-0ffbf10b34dc.html |
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- England Logistics, one of the nation's top freight brokerage firms, has been awarded a silver Stevie® Award in the 20th annual American Business Awards® Achievement in Customer Satisfaction category in recognition of exceptional service provided by their full truckload team. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.
The England Logistics team received accolades for exceptional efforts in the implementation of technology to enhance the client experience and educational opportunities to help shippers optimize their business strategy.
"We are very honored to be recognized as a Stevie® Award winner for outstanding service to our clients," stated Shaun Beardall, executive vice president of logistics services. "We are committed to identifying and implementing technology and education to help our clients find stability in an ever-changing supply chain environment."
The American Business Awards® (ABA) is the nation's premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the United States, both public and private, are eligible to submit nominations to the ABA. The applications were reviewed by 240 professionals worldwide, and the scored average determined the winners.
England Logistics offers a vast portfolio of non-asset based transportation solutions including full truckload services, intermodal, dry and temp controlled LTL, parcel, and complete supply chain management. The company was recently recognized among the 50 Best Companies to Sell For by Selling Power magazine, ranked in the Training Top 100 by Training magazine, and awarded multiple Stevie® Awards by the American Business Awards. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company also has offices nationwide. For more information visit www.englandlogistics.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Roy Kent cries. Nate Shelley apologizes. Rebecca Welton lets her anger go. Trent Crimm finishes his book. Keeley Jones embraces her strength. And the kind-to-a-fault but often lost Ted Lasso finally — after three seasons, but arguably after nearly a lifetime — figures out exactly where he needs to be.
Criticized by some for losing its way in its third season, “Ted Lasso” ended up exactly on brand — by taking a sharply drawn crew of characters who had lost their ways and gotten stuck and freeing them from shackles that were often of their own making. “Can people change?” Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) wonders. The answer, after Wednesday, is a resounding “probably.”
“Perfect is boring,” Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) says at one point in the season ( and likely series ) finale. And if there had been a travel guide to the three seasons of the Apple TV+ show, that quote might well have sat opposite the title page.
“Ted Lasso” has been a Whitman’s Sampler of pandemic-era stuckness with a message that, whether it was delivered with a subtle glance or a giant narrative mallet, couldn’t help but resonate in a post-pandemic landscape: The moments that have trapped you don’t have to last forever.
It was difficult to find a show with more of a collection of people who were stuck — trapped in the amber of their own circumstances or choices. Keeley (Juno Temple) was stuck. Roy was stuck. Jamie (Phil Dunster) was stuck. Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) was stuck. Trent, Colin and Sam (James Lance, Billy Harris and Toheeb Jimoh) were stuck. Nate (Nick Mohammed) was stuck. Even Sharon the sports psychologist (Sarah Niles) was, to some extent, stuck.
And of course Ted himself (Jason Sudeikis), a lost boy with a mustache and a plenitude of platitudes who had been stuck in the quicksand of grief for most of his life and, it turned out, needed a mission to get others unstuck to help him find his own way forward.
‘STUCK’ IS A THEME TV LOVES
The character who’s stuck in the mire is nothing new. It has been a useful and oft-used narrative engine from “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) through “Groundhog Day” (1993) and beyond. But something more intense is happening lately. Take a tour across genres in the American streaming landscape over the past, say, four years, and you’ll find a surfeit of stuckness in pretty much every direction you look.
The Scarlet Witch in Marvel’s “WandaVision”? Stuck. Nadia in “Russian Doll”? Stuck in strikingly different ways in seasons one and two. Alma in “Undone,” Carmy in “The Bear” and “Mare of Easttown”? Stuck, stuck and stuck. Even some of streaming’s most recent stars — “Severance,” “Shrinking” and the recently concluded “ Star Trek: Picard ” — focus on central characters who are stuck by bad choices, trauma or a lost sense of purpose.
Then there are the shows about the very embodiment of stuckness: “Ghosts” and “School Spirits,” both of which address the problem from the vantage point of people who have shuffled off the mortal coil but — even then — can’t seem to figure out how to get where they’re going.
“Ted Lasso” distilled this theme to the Nth degree without resorting to supernatural activity. This batch of humans was, viewed from a bit of a distance, an entire citadel of stuckness — albeit in varied ways.
Keeley was paralyzed by uncertainty, Roy by anger, Jamie by trauma and ego, Trent by expectations. Nate was being derailed by feelings of inadequacy and Colin by a fear of judgment. Sam was stuck by expectations familial and national. Rebecca was drowning in the scars of a partner’s psychological abuse. Arguably the only main character not stuck was Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift), jazz virtuoso and dedicated family man — and the only character to understand all along that right here, right now was the place he wanted to be.
He had a leg up on many of us. The COVID-19 pandemic was, for a time, stuckness incarnate. “Ted Lasso” debuted right in the middle of it, on Aug. 14, 2020. Now, almost three years later, aren’t we navigating through an entire generation coming of age amid an isolating pandemic and deep political fissures? Aren’t there millions of folks across the republic locked in tiny, individual struggles to avoid getting stuck or — possibly even more daunting — trying to avoid staying that way?
AMERICANS LEARN FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND
The other elephant in the “Ted Lasso” room — one directly related to stuckness — is also something that invoked the British-American divide so often played for laughs on the show.
A few weeks back, the “Lasso” cast visited the White House to talk about mental health. At the time, Sudeikis said this: “We shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help ourselves.”
That suggests — no, proposes overtly — that going it alone, “American-style,” isn’t always plausible and that, as the poet John Donne put it so many centuries ago, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” The bringing together of so many different people from so many places — an international soccer team — provided the ideal canvas for the show’s thesis. Turns out that varied points of view can produce better results. Go figure.
Those who say “Ted Lasso” was treacly and wandered a bit during the third season make legitimate points. Plot lines were dropped or overly compressed. Nuanced antiheroes were not this show’s jam, and never did dark doings define the day. The only true villain — Rupert Mannion (Anthony Head) — was a mustache-twirler with a goatee (the mustache was, of course, already taken) and mostly a foil, a scheming island alone in a sea of sentimentality.
That was OK. Because if the show had a message for the stuck among us, it was this: Maybe, just maybe, rank sentimentality can get you unstuck. And more to the point, maybe you get unstuck by bringing a piece of yourself to everyone else. “The best we can do,” Higgins says, “is to keep asking for help and accepting it when you can.”
In the United States in 2023, that’s still a harder message to sell than it should be. But it’s more relevant than ever. Feelings get you stuck, but feelings also set you free. Effort can make you vulnerable, but effort matters.
“I just had to try,” Rebecca tells Ted at one point in the finale. That’s ultimately the answer to getting unstuck. And it points right back to the song we heard every week in the opening credits — the key, in the end, to unlocking the whole show.
“It might be all that you get.
I guess this might well be it.
But heaven knows I tried …”
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Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation at the Associated Press, has been writing about American culture since 1990. Follow him on Twitter here. | 2023-06-01T20:02:27+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ted-lasso-finale-proved-its-whole-point-that-those-who-are-stuck-can-overcome-spoilers/ |
U.S. Secret Service Assistant Director Anthony (Tony) Ornato has announced his retirement amid an ongoing investigation by a House select committee into what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., as Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building.
As Politico reported, the agency confirmed Ornato's departure, an announcement released earlier Monday within the U.S. Secret Service. Ornato is now a private citizen and no longer a federal employee.
According to Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi, Ornato became eligible for retirement this year and will leave the agency in good standing. Ornato joined the U.S. Secret Service in 1997.
As CNN reported, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection confirmed it believes Ornato was a central figure on Jan. 6 and believes he could provide much-needed information on former President Trump's intentions in the moments surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection.
According to Politico, Ornato has indicated he would be willing to testify before the select committee to respond to former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's allegations that he said Trump was irate about being denied a trip to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Ornato has not yet testified.
Guglielmi said, “We have continuously made Tony Ornato available.”
Secret Service Director James Murray announced his own intentions to retire, but put a pause on those plans citing pending investigations into Secret Service conduct, according to Politico. | 2022-08-30T01:37:39+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/us-official-at-center-of-jan-6-probe-secret-service-assistant-director-anthony-ornato-retires |
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Monday that a woman has confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of the interstate.
Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis said Carlee Russell’s attorney, Emory Anthony, provided a statement on Monday saying there was no kidnapping.
“There was no kidnapping on Thursday July 13. My client did not see a baby on the side on the road,” the statement read, according to Derzis, who read it at a news conference. She did not leave the city, and acted alone, the statement added.
“My client apologizes for her actions to this community, the volunteers who were searching for her, to the Hoover Police Department and other agencies as well, as to her friends and family,” Anthony said in a statement. “We ask for your prayers for Carlee, as she addresses her issues and attempts to move forward, understanding that she made a mistake in this matter. Carlee again asks for your forgiveness and prayers.”
The Hoover Police Department announced the development five days after casting doubt on Russell’s story. Derzis said it is possible that Russell could face charges. He said they are trying to determine where she was in the two days she was gone.
“This was an elaborate deal. When you talk about calling 911,” the chief said.
Russell, 25, disappeared after calling 911 on July 13 to report a toddler wandering beside a stretch of interstate. She returned home two days later and told police she had been abducted and forced into a vehicle.
Her disappearance became a national news story. Images of the missing 25-year-old were shared broadly on social media.
Russell told detectives she was taken by a man who came out of the trees when she stopped to check on the child, put her in a car and an 18-wheel truck, blindfolded her and held her at a home where a woman fed her cheese crackers, authorities said at a news conference last week. At some point, Carlee Russell said she was put in a vehicle again but managed to escape and run through the woods to her neighborhood.
Investigators cast doubt on her story in a news conference last week. They said in the days before her disappearance, she searched for information on her cellphone about Amber Alerts, a movie about a woman’s abduction and a one-way bus ticket from Birmingham, Alabama, to Nashville, Tennessee, departing the day she disappeared. Her phone also showed she traveled about 600 yards while telling a 911 operator she was following a 3- or 4-year-old child in a diaper on the side of the highway.
Hoover is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Birmingham. | 2023-07-25T12:01:36+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-alabama-woman-confesses-to-fabricating-kidnapping/ |
Idaho’s Constitution does not implicitly enshrine abortion as a fundamental right, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday as it dismissed a series of lawsuits brought by Planned Parenthood.
The ruling was a blow against those who are fighting Idaho laws that took effect in August, including one criminalizing all abortions after six weeks of gestation except to save a pregnant person’s life or because of rape or incest.
“This is a dark day for the state of Idaho. But our fight is far from over,” Rebecca Gibron, CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, said in a statement.
Planned Parenthood and a family physician brought three lawsuits against the governor and leaders of the Legislature in an effort to block new abortion bans. One of the laws allows the potential family members of a fetus to sue a health care professional who performs an abortion. Another made it a crime for medical professionals to perform an abortion after electrical activity is detected. And a third effectively banned all abortions but allowed doctors to defend themselves in court by proving that the abortion was done to save the life of their patient.
The Idaho Supreme Court heard arguments for all the lawsuits in a joint hearing last year. Thursday’s ruling applied to all three of the cases.
Planned Parenthood claimed the laws offend constitutional principles such as equal protection and due process, the high court justices noted.
But a majority of the justices said in the ruling that the state Constitution offers no fundamental right to abortion.
“Since Idaho attained statehood in 1890, this Court has repeatedly and steadfastly interpreted the Idaho Constitution based on the plain and ordinary meaning of its text,” the justices said.
If they made the jump and concluded that the document implicitly protected abortion rights, the Constitution “would be effectively replaced by the voice of a select few sitting on this Court,” the justices maintained.
Idaho Supreme Court Justices Colleen Zahn and John Stegner dissented with the majority’s opinion. Zahn said, “Idaho’s Constitution did not freeze rights as they existed in 1890.”
“We should look to Idaho’s history and traditions to determine the framers’ intent but not be locked into examining those rights only according to the circumstances in which they existed circa 1890,” Zahn wrote.
In his dissent, Stegner noted the impact pregnancy has on women, saying the majority opinion “strips Idaho’s women of their most basic rights.”
“Idaho women have a fundamental right to an abortion because pregnancy — and whether that pregnancy may be terminated — has a profound effect on pregnant women’s inalienable right to liberty, as well as their rights to life and safety,” Stegner wrote.
The Idaho bans have increased pressure on abortion facilities in neighboring Oregon, where abortion rights are protected.
In South Carolina, the state Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ban on abortion after cardiac activity is detected, ruling the restriction violates a state constitutional right to privacy.
The South Carolina court said the state has the authority to limit the right of privacy that protects a woman from state interference with her decision, but any limitation must afford a woman sufficient time to determine she is pregnant and “take reasonable steps to terminate that pregnancy.”
The Idaho Supreme Court said its case was narrowly focused.
“All we are deciding today is that the Idaho Constitution, as it currently stands, does not include a fundamental right to abortion,” Justice Robyn Brody wrote in the majority opinion.
Brody said Idaho’s new anti-abortion laws are “rationally related to the government’s legitimate interest in protecting prenatal fetal life at all stages of development.”
The Idaho laws came about after the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, which guaranteed a right to abortion under the U.S. Constitution.
A narrow portion of one of Idaho’s abortion bans has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in a separate case.
Abortion foes applauded the Idaho court’s decision.
“Today is a great day for precious preborn babies in Idaho,” said Blaine Conzatti, president of Idaho Family Policy Center, a conservative Christian policy research and educational organization.
Planned Parenthood said the court’s ruling would especially affect people who already face the greatest barriers to health care because of a legacy of racism and discrimination, including people of color, people with low incomes, immigrants and others. | 2023-01-06T12:36:01+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-idaho-court-tosses-lawsuit-that-aimed-to-block-abortion-bans/ |
Syria says Israel attacked Aleppo airport, no casualties
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media says an Israeli airstrike has targeted the international airport of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, causing material damage in the second attack on the facility this month. State news agency SANA, quoting an unnamed military official, did not mention if Wednesday’s strike caused any deaths or injuries. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations. Israel has targeted airports and seaports in the government-held parts of Syria in an apparent attempt to prevent arms shipments from Iran to militant groups backed by Tehran. | 2023-03-22T08:34:39+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/21/syria-says-israel-attacked-aleppo-airport-no-casualties/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man using drugs who hadn't slept in days shot and killed five people in a South Carolina home where people gathered to get high, a sheriff said Tuesday.
James Douglas Drayton, 24, was arrested on Monday in Burke County, Georgia, after crashing during a police chase, said Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright at a news conference. Drayton was driving a car taken from the home where the shooting took place in the city of Inman, the sheriff said.
Burke County deputies said they chased Drayton after he tried to rob a convenience store at gunpoint and kidnap an employee. It’s about 145 miles (233 kilometers) between the house in Inman and the gas station.
Wright said Drayton confessed to the killings, telling police that he was high on methamphetamine, hadn't slept for four days and handed over the gun he said he used to kill everyone in the home where he was also staying.
“I don’t have answers as to why. He said some things in his interviews that I’m going to hold on to because his attorney probably needs to process some of this stuff,” Wright said. “It’s awful.”
Drayton is being held in the Burke County jail awaiting extradition. He will be charged with five counts of murder, authorities said. Records did not list an attorney.
The killings happened Sunday at a home where people frequently went to use drugs, Wright said.
But the sheriff said the fact that the victims were using drugs doesn't mean he will treat the killings any differently.
“Wouldn’t have mattered to me if they were church members and never did any of that stuff, or they were heroin addicts. They were still somebody's son, brother, friend, dad," Wright said. “They are all a child of God — they didn’t deserve what they got.”
The shootings apparently happened Sunday morning, but deputies were not called for about 10 hours, authorities said.
Four of the victims have been identified. They are Thomas Ellis Anderson, 37; Adam Daniel Morley, 32; Mark Allen Hewitt, 59; and Roman Christean Megael Rocha, 19 , according to the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office.
The family of the fifth victim has not been notified yet, the office said.
Wright said this s the largest number of people he can remember killed in one episode in Spartanburg County. Four people were shot to death at the Superbike motorcycle shop in November 2003 by a man who went on to plead guilty to seven murders over a decade. | 2022-10-11T22:04:07+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Sheriff-Man-who-killed-5-was-high-hadn-t-slept-17502370.php |
IRVING, Texas, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra (NYSE: VST) announced today that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.193 per share of Vistra's common stock, reflecting an estimated aggregate payment of $75 million this quarter, and together with dividends paid in the first, second, and third quarters, ~$300 million cumulatively in 2022. This represents a ~29% increase in the company's quarterly common stock dividend per share from its fourth quarter 2021 dividend. The common dividend is payable on Dec. 29, 2022, to common stockholders of record as of Dec. 20, 2022. The ex-dividend date for the common dividend will be Dec. 19, 2022.
The board of directors also declared a semi-annual dividend on the company's 7.0% Series B Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Green Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock. The Series B dividend is $35.00 per preferred share, or $70.00 per share of Series B preferred stock on an annualized basis. The Series B dividend is payable on Dec. 15, 2022, to Series B preferred stockholders of record as of Dec. 1, 2022.
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Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. Serving approximately 4 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 37,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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YouTube took down a clip uploaded by the Jan. 6 committee to the video platform, saying the video, which featured a clip of former president Donald Trump telling lies about the 2020 election, spread misinformation without the proper context.
The video featured former Attorney General William Barr but also included a clip of a TV interview in which Trump said some of his votes had been given to Joe Biden. The video was short, and didn’t include Barr or anyone else specifically calling out Trump’s statement as a lie.
“Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context,” said YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi. “We enforce our policies equally for everyone.”
In the wake of the 2020 election, YouTube changed its policies to ban claims that the election was fraudulent or stolen. In the days after Jan. 6, it banned Trump’s channel from the platform, an action that was also taken by Facebook and Twitter on their sites.
YouTube has for years been a key platform used by conspiracy theorists to broadcast false claims about vaccines and election results. During the pandemic, the company began clamping down on lies about covid-19 and the efficacy of vaccines. The 2020 election and the campaign by Trump and his supporters to have its results overturned forced the company to grapple even more with its role as a broadcast platform for false claims that may undermine people’s faith in elections.
The company’s leaders have said repeatedly they don’t want to act as political censors or gatekeepers and have tried to craft policies that they can enforce in a way that appears neutral. That appears to be the reasoning behind taking down the Jan. 6 committee’s clip. | 2022-06-17T20:16:13+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/17/jan6-youtube-committee-clip-pulled/ |
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — NV5 Global, Inc. (NVEE) on Thursday reported earnings of $5.9 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Hollywood, Florida-based company said it had net income of 39 cents. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs, came to 88 cents per share.
The engineering services provider posted revenue of $184.3 million in the period.
NV5 expects full-year earnings in the range of $5.28 to $5.69 per share, with revenue in the range of $878 million to $915 million.
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Tesla's lawyers may need to make a trip to the trademark office … in China.
The brand's upcoming Cybertruck is already facing competition from a new model unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show called the Cyberp!ckup.
The six-wheel vehicle is an electrified monster truck designed by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor and could be heading to production.
The Cyberp!ckup is based on the conventional, two-axle Shanhai Cannon that is currently on sale.
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It has been modified with a third axle, flared fenders and a redesigned grille equipped with a light bar.
Power comes from a plug-in hybrid drivetrain that uses a turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 and is capable of all-electric driving over short distances.
Five locking differentials provide maximum traction across its six wheels.
While technically a show truck, Australia's CarExpert reports that it has already been confirmed for production in China and could be exported.
"The local team always keeps a close eye on new models and concepts that might be of interest for the Australian market. The Cannon 6×6 has certainly caught our eye," A Great Wall Motor Australia spokesperson told the outlet.
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"While we can confirm that it’s intended for full production, we’ll need to see whether it’s viable for Australia. The potential for the large pickup segment is something that we’re very aware of so let’s watch this space."
Six-by-six trucks have becoming increasingly popular in recent years.
Companies like Hennessey Performance and Apocalypse building custom trucks that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even Mercedes-Benz once offered a production model called the G63 AMG 6x6 that listed for over $500,000.
Great Wall Motor did not say how much the Cyberp!ckup will cost, but the standard Shanhai Cannon 4x4 starts around $50,000. | 2023-04-19T14:07:41+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/tesla-cybertruck-gets-competition-from-chinas-cyberp-ckup/article_55135af8-9ea4-5d4d-b4e2-a746502abb35.html |
Below are the updated state tournament brackets following Wednesday’s first-round Non-Public games.
Sectional Tournament Brackets
- Non-Public A
- Non-Public B
- North, Group 1
- North, Group 2
- North, Group 3
- North, Group 4
- South, Group 1
- South, Group 2
- South, Group 3
- South, Group 4
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The 2021 San Francisco Giants were the surprise success story of MLB, and that surprise largely came from developing unheralded pitchers.
Under director of pitching Brian Bannister, a scrappy staff became one of the best in baseball. Longtime underachiever Kevin Gausman became an All-Star, and Logan Webb became one of the top young starters in the league, which Webb has largely credited to Bannister's coaching.
The staff has been without Bannister this year, though. In fact, they haven't worked with him in person since the start of the 2021 playoffs, as The Athletic reported Wednesday. That's because he's refused to take a coronavirus vaccine, as MLB requires for all on-field staff.
While Bannister is not in the dugout for games, he is one of team president Farhan Zaidi's trusted lieutenants. As The Athletic put it, "there aren’t many minds within the game who are as adept at Bannister at communicating concepts and providing pitch-by-pitch feedback." By refusing to vaccinate himself, Bannister is limited to video calls and phone communication with prospects and big leaguers alike.
While Zaidi clearly sees Bannister's influence as valuable enough to be worth the hassle, he admitted the "logistical realities" are a challenge. During the 2021 stretch run, Giants hitting coach Justin Viele was lost to the club for nearly two weeks due to being an unvaccinated close contact to a positive case. Viele has been in the dugout nightly this year, strongly implying he got up-to-date on his shots over the offseason.
Giants pitching coach Andrew Bailey has been "in regular contact with MLB officials" about the vaccine requirements, according to The Athletic. (It's unclear why the Giants need a pitching coach to do their lobbying when they could just hire a lobbyist to do it.) It would be wholly unsurprising to see MLB quietly shelve the mandate this winter as soon as they see the opportunity, but until then, it seems the Giants' pitchers will have to hope they can get by with limited support from a pitching development leader prioritizing himself over the organization. | 2022-09-21T20:56:59+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/giants-pitching-coordinator-refused-vaccine-17457405.php |
Senators on Thursday added a list of amendments to a sweeping 4,155-page government funding bill that now heads to the House.
During the hours-long voting session, senators voted on a series of 15 amendments, ranging from measures that sought to extend a Trump-era immigration policy to legislation aimed at expanding protections for breastfeeding workers.
The $1.7 trillion funding package passed the Senate in a 68-29 vote and now heads to the House, where some top Democrats are hopeful for a swift passage.
Below are some of the changes senators voted to adopt as part of the process:
The Pump Act
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the fiscal 2023 budget at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 2022.
The Senate approved adding the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers (PUMP) Act, which seeks to strengthen breastfeeding protections for workers, in a 92-5 vote.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who co-sponsored the bill, called its passage “a win that’s been years in the making” in a tweet published moments later.
“Everyone should have the space and privacy to pump at work, and no one should be forced by their employer to stop nursing,” he said.
Compensation for victims of terrorism
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J) speaks during a news conference following the Democrats’ policy luncheon meeting on Capitol Hill on Sept. 20, 2022, in Washington.
Added into the package is a bill sponsored by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) that will allow specific groups of victims of terrorism access to a compensation fund for terrorism victims, from which these groups were previously excluded.
They include direct families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, victims of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and the 1996 attack on the Air Force barracks in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
The bill, called the Fairness for 9/11 Families Act, had stalled amid opposition from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) over it initially not including the Beirut victims. The compromise was offered as an amendment to the 2023 funding bill and passed the Senate 93-4.
Using forfeited property to help Ukraine
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joins a group of Republican senators who are upset that members of the military are required to get the COVID-19 vaccine and are threatening to withhold their votes to advance the annual National Defense Authorization Act unless the vaccine issue goes to a vote, at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 30, 2022.
Another amendment that made the cut, offered by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), would “authorize the transfer of the proceeds of certain forfeited property to help Ukraine.”
That extends to property that was “possessed by, or was controlled by a person subject to sanctions and designated by the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary of State.”
The amendment, which was approved by a voice vote, comes months after Graham — along with Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) — introduced legislation aimed at allowing the assets of Russian oligarchs to be used to support efforts to aid Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
Pregnant Fairness Workers Act
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) speaks to a reporter as he leaves a Senate Republican Conference luncheon on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
The Senate voted 73-24 to adopt an amendment brought by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to attach the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to the omnibus.
A release from the office of Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who has also been pushing for the legislation, said the bill follows a model similar to the Americans with Disabilities Act and would “require employers to make reasonable accommodations to allow pregnant workers to continue working safely, such as additional bathroom breaks, light duty, or a stool to sit on if a worker stands all day.”
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) lauded the vote in a statement not long after, calling it “one of the most significant improvements to workplace protections in years.”
“The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act makes a simple assertion: if you are pregnant, if you are working during your pregnancy, you should have the right to basic workplace accommodations,” he said.
Payment for Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) speaks during a news conference on spending, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
An amendment to provide for the continuation of pay and benefits of Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis also passed. According to Deseret News, his pay was cut while serving a three-year sentence in a prison in Japan after a car accident that killed two citizens.
Alkonis was determined by a judge in Japan to have been sleeping behind the wheel during the accident, but U.S. Navy investigators found that Alkonis suffered from acute mountain sickness and lost consciousness.
The Senate approved the amendment, offered by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), in a voice vote.
Laura Kelly contributed. | 2022-12-22T22:49:28+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/these-are-the-last-minute-changes-the-senate-voted-to-add-to-1-7-trillion-omnibus/ |
Fort Wayne police searching for shooting suspect
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WISH) — The Fort Wayne Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred at 10:13 p.m. Thursday in the area of Winter Street and Colerick Street. Police arrived to the scene and located a man suffering from a gunshot wound.
The man drove to the liquor store to make a purchase. After leaving the store, He was confronted by a male suspect in the parking lot. The suspect demanded money, pulled out a gun, and shot the man.
The man and a witness left the scene and called police from another location.
The suspect is described as a black male, 130 pounds, light complexion, having short hair, and wearing a dark green hoodie with jeans.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to please call the Fort Wayne Police Department at 260-427-1201. | 2023-05-19T19:25:16+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana-news/fort-wayne-police-searching-for-shooting-suspect/ |
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The man credited with inventing the cellphone 50 years ago had only one concern then about the brick-sized device with a long antenna: Would it work?
These days Martin Cooper frets like everybody else about his invention’s impacts on society — from the loss of privacy to the risk of internet addiction to the rapid spread of harmful content, especially among kids.
“My most negative opinion is we don’t have any privacy anymore because everything about us is now recorded someplace and accessible to somebody who has enough intense desire to get it,” said Cooper, who spoke with The Associated Press at the telecom industry’s biggest trade show in Barcelona, where he was receiving a lifetime award.
Yet the 94-year-old self-described dreamer also marvels at how far cellphone design and capabilities have advanced, and he believes the technology’s best days may still be ahead of it in areas such as education and health care.
“Between the cellphone and medical technology and the Internet, we are going to conquer disease,” he said Monday at MWC, or Mobile World Congress.
Cooper, whose invention was inspired by Dick Tracy’s radio wristwatch, said he also envisions a future in which cellphones are charged by human bodies.
It’s a long way from where he started.
Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable telephone on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, using a prototype that his team at Motorola had started designing only five months earlier.
To needle the competition, Cooper used the Dyna-TAC prototype — which weighed 2.5 pounds and was 11 inches long — to call to his rival at Bell Labs, owned by AT&T.
“The only thing that I was worried about: ‘Is this thing going to work?’ And it did,” he said.
The call helped kick-start the cellphone revolution, but looking back on that day Cooper acknowledges, “we had no way of knowing this was the historic moment.”
He spent the better part of the next decade working to bring a commercial version of the device to market, helping to launch the wireless communications industry and, with it, a global revolution in how we communicate, shop and learn about the world.
Still, Cooper said he’s “not crazy” about the shape of modern smartphones, blocks of plastic, metal and glass. He thinks phones will evolve so that they will be “distributed on your body,” perhaps as sensors “measuring your health at all times.”
Batteries could even be replaced by human energy.
“You ingest food, you create energy. Why not have this receiver for your ear embedded under your skin, powered by your body?” he imagined.
While he dreams about what the future might look like, Cooper is attuned to the industry’s current challenges, particularly around privacy.
In Europe, where there are strict data privacy rules, regulators are concerned about apps and digital ads that track user activity, allowing technology and other companies to build up rich profiles of users.
“It’s going to get resolved, but not easily,” Cooper said. “There are people now that can justify measuring where you are, where you’re making your phone calls, who you’re calling, what you access on the Internet.”
Smartphone use by children is another area that needs limits, Cooper said. One idea is to have “various internets curated for different audiences.”
Five-year-olds should be able to use the internet to help them learn, but “we don’t want them to have access to pornography and to things that they don’t understand,” he said.
As for his own phone use, Cooper says he checks email and does online searches for information to settle dinner table arguments.
However, “there are many things that I have not yet learned,” he said. “I still don’t know what TikTok is.” | 2023-02-28T18:03:26+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/ap-father-of-cellphone-sees-dark-side-but-also-hope-in-new-tech/ |
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Most people know the standard rule to wait 30 to 60 minutes after eating to swim. But is it grounded in science? As it turns out, waiting to swim after you eat isn’t a must-do, but it’s also not a bad idea. There’s room for nuance because everyone’s body is different.
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Is swimming after eating dangerous?
In short, no. Swimming after eating is no more hazardous than enjoying other forms of recreational exercise after a meal.
The myth
As the myth goes, according to the Mayo Clinic, if you don’t wait at least 30 minutes after eating before you swim, you could experience stomach cramps, muscle cramps or fatigue, all of which increase the risk of drowning.
The science
After you eat food, about 20% to 25% of your blood flow diverts to your abdomen to aid digestion, according to AARP. That’s helpful to know if you’re planning on exerting yourself as a professional athlete, but recreational swimmers don’t need to worry.
The truth
Swimming after eating is not dangerous and doesn’t pose any more threat than going for a walk after dinner. The rumored rule to wait up to an hour before stepping in the pool is not based on evidence. According to the Mayo Clinic, though you may not feel the most comfortable after filling up on a meal, it’s perfectly OK to go for a light swim after you eat.
Factors to consider before eating and swimming
The bodily response to eating before swimming differs from person to person. It depends on various factors, so it’s most important to pay attention to how you feel after you eat and listen to your body before diving back into the water.
Type of food
The kinds of food you eat can change how your body reacts and digests. It’s not surprising that a salad will make you feel differently than a few slices of pizza. If you notice your body needs more time to digest certain foods, you can avoid those before you swim.
Amount of food
Another thing to remember is the size of the meal you eat before swimming. For example, eating a full Thanksgiving dinner might make you feel more groggy than if you were eating a regular lunch. Eating a full, well-balanced meal is always good, but stuffing yourself before swimming could lead to feeling bloated or overfull, which could be uncomfortable in the water.
Level of activity
One of the drivers behind the wait-to-swim mentality is that rigorous exercise after a meal could demand more blood flow, which your body needs to digest the food you just ate. However, if your exercise in the water is light to moderate, you don’t need to worry. According to AARP, light exercise after a meal is always OK, whether a walk around the block or a light swim.
Hydration and sun exposure
Everyone interested in swimming should work to stay hydrated and use sunscreen regularly. Drinking enough water keeps your body functioning properly, and sunscreen helps combat heat exhaustion, which can happen more often if you’re swimming or sweating, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Digestive health
Finally, consider your medical history before swimming, including any medications that may affect digestion or digestive conditions. This can help identify foods that will feel better in your belly before stepping into the water.
FAQ
Q. Are there benefits to eating before swimming?
A. The clearest benefit of eating before swimming is that you’ll feel satiated. Beyond combating the common “hangry” feeling, eating well before working out in the water ensures your body has enough energy to last through your swim session until your next snack or meal.
Q. What types of food are best to eat before swimming?
A. Healthy snacks and meals are always good options before swimming or any form of exercise. If you’re an endurance swimmer, a carbohydrate-loading diet may help your body store and use enough fuel during long stretches of 90 minutes or more, according to the Mayo Clinic. For everyone else, following your routine eating habits will suffice. Planning pre- and post-workout snacks will help get your body the nutrients it needs to recover.
Q. What types of food should you avoid before swimming?
A. Many foods to avoid may be obvious, such as alcohol or coffee. Others may include legumes, dairy or foods high in fiber, as those can all cause digestive distress, which may be uncomfortable in the water. However, each person’s tolerance is unique, so pay attention to what works and doesn’t work for your body.
Q. Why does swimming make you hungry?
A. Swimming, like any physical exercise, may make you hungry. It’s not uncommon to crave food after burning calories during a workout, and swimming is no different. One study measured participants’ appetite and food intake before and after swimming. It found that water temperature may play a role in stimulating appetite, though swimming did change how much food a person actually consumes.
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HONG KONG, June 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong Second Home Plan, the second human living and production base on Mars, has attracted the attention of various industries since its launch, and has also aroused heated discussion in the media at home and abroad, setting off a period of "space travel craze" and "Asian Iron Man craze". On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Hong Kong's Return to the Motherland, Ms. Yu Min, the chairman of Hong Kong Second Home Plan Technology Company, presented a gift to the Anniversary of the Return of Hong Kong with the achievements of full-service line.
Direction of five major industries
Hong Kong Second Home Plan now embraces rocket launching business, robot development and manufacturing, and new energy vehicle production and assembly business. It has recently stationed Xiangshan Launch Base, the Fifth Aerospace Town in China, and continues to give full play to the efficacy of the industrial chain.These practical achievements have attracted many high-quality enterprises for cooperation, such as jointly developing vehicle-machine interaction systems and optical accessories with Huawei, and "exterminating Robot" with Zhongguancun scientific research and creation team. cooperation with China Telecom satellite phone communication package and so on. After recent running-in and research, Second Home Plan has improved five industrial directions, which will carry out work by landing on Mars in a more targeted way as the core.
The overall five industrial directions are as below:
First: commercial aerospace business, commercial rocket launch, 60 communications satellite networking, the completion of ground-to-air communication integration, gradually achieve manned travel, interstellar travel will no longer be far away.
Second: Xiangshan Industrial Base, the fifth Aerospace Town in China-Zhejiang Xiangshan, infrastructure manufacturing, integrate upstream and downstream industrial chain subdivision of enterprises to form a cluster effect.
Third: Hong Kong's Second Home Plan Exchange, which serves commercial aerospace industry chain enterprises, helps to capitalize their data, and raises funds on the digital assets exchange ICO to feed industrial manufacturing and production development.
Fourth: biological life technology, AI bionic robot, biological intelligent new materials are applied in the multi-planetary environment for ecological sustainable development and medical security.
Fifth: new energy, clean energy technology transformation, transportation and energy storage supply use block chain technology and sharing of earth-Mars scenes.
The weather vane of these industries is conducive to the efficient collaboration of enterprises of the same type, to the driving of a series of supply cooperation, and to the gathering of global technology and capital to serve exploration on Mars.
Embrace global partners
In the early stage of Hong Kong Second Home Plan, 60 satellites will be launched into orbit to complete the task of building a satellite network, which will result in the increase for a large number of industrial equipment production tasks and the demand of supply chains. The Martian container residential appliance integration scheme designed will also drive electrical appliances, daily necessities, building materials, energy storage and other industrial enterprises. The container scheme is also a life guarantee project for landing on Mars, that is, in the container, there is a complete combination of accommodation, household appliances and daily products to create a Martian living environment. According to the scene assembly, it can be reused, migrated and packaged. The container operation of family accommodation allows users to select and combine online; offline, the customized container capsules can be sent directly to the designated Martian location, where after the installation of the robot, virus eliminating and cleaning, users will move in carrying bags.
In addition to the above-mentioned business sectors that need to be supplied upstream and downstream, Hong Kong Second Home Plan embraces global partners:
- Rocket launching and carrying business: enterprises with global launch demand can choose "core journey" rockets while carrying out commercial space travel-Karman Line tourist airship business.
- Robot production base for customizable R&D and production, robotic arms, biological components, infrastructure robots.
- New energy vehicles: after the launch of the Mars rover model, the manufacturing orders of other brands are undertaken for open innovation and research.
- The released digital works of art of Mars Hero have become popular on OPENSEA: NFT, as an interactive medium for the new planet, can be used as a voucher for Mars rovers and tickets for space travel, which awaits the joint construction of communities around the world.
- Technical team: the technical echelon of the global top laboratories is invited to overcome the difficult problems in the subdivision of Mars landing.
Yu Min, chairman of Second Home Plan Technology, said that landing on Mars to establish a second living and production space is a common cross-planetary goal for mankind, so more partners are needed, and global capital is welcome to participate in Hong Kong Second Home Plan.
Presenting Gift to the 25th Anniversary
To support the space exploration, research, development and exploitation of Hong Kong's Second Home, Second Home Plan Technology Company will take the lead and set up a 5 billion yuan fund to support the block chain of enterprises in the industrial base and the interstellar application of web3.0 in the near future. After that, it will continue to provide capacity transformation, data asset refinement, ICO services for enterprises, speed up the support of upgrading industrial chain, and accelerate infrastructure achievements and landing efficiency for various enterprises in the industrial chain.
Ms. Yu Min said that Hong Kong's future digital assets will have a large increment and sufficient market space, and the launch of Second Home Plan Exchange is to serve the digital assets of enterprises in Hong Kong driven by commercial aerospace. The Exchange aims to serve various enterprises in the industrial ecology of the Second Home Plan for digital services for their data capitalization; it is also the first trading platform with digital assets of enterprises in the aerospace industry chain as the core. It also provides digital monetary and financial support in its own supply chain, mixes the data chain with the capital chain, opens up the demand and supply, and uses digital financial tools to feed the development of the industrial foundation. It will also lay the groundwork for the exchange ecology of trade on Mars.
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Warriors vs. Kings: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Spread, Home/Road Splits
The Golden State Warriors are 1.5-point favorites heading into Game 2 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on Monday, starting at 10:00 PM ET on TNT, NBCS-CA, and NBCS-BA. The Kings lead the series 1-0. The over/under is set at 239.5 in the matchup.
Warriors vs. Kings Odds & Info
- When: Monday, April 17, 2023 at 10:00 PM ET
- Where: Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California
- TV: TNT, NBCS-CA, and NBCS-BA
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Warriors Betting Records & Stats
- In 34 of 82 games this season, Golden State and its opponents have gone over 239.5 points.
- Golden State's matchups this year have an average point total of 236.1, 3.4 fewer points than this game's over/under.
- The Warriors are 39-43-0 against the spread this season.
- This season, Golden State has won 37 out of the 59 games, or 62.7%, in which it has been favored.
- This season, Golden State has won 37 of its 57 games, or 64.9%, when favored by at least -120 on the moneyline.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Warriors have a 54.5% chance to win.
Kings Betting Records & Stats
- Sacramento's games this season have had a combined scoring total higher than 239.5 points in 36 of 82 outings.
- Sacramento's contests this season have a 238.8-point average over/under, 0.7 fewer points than this game's total.
- Sacramento is 45-37-0 ATS this year.
- The Kings have been underdogs in 30 games this season and have come away with the win 13 times (43.3%) in those contests.
- This season, Sacramento has won 13 of its 30 games, or 43.3%, when it is the underdog by at least +100 on the moneyline.
- Sacramento has an implied victory probability of 50% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
Warriors vs. Kings Over/Under Stats (Regular Season)
Additional Warriors Insights & Trends
- The Warriors have gone 7-3 in their past 10 contests, with a 5-5 record against the spread in that span.
- Five of Warriors' past 10 contests have gone over the total.
- Against the spread, Golden State has performed better when playing at home, covering 27 times in 41 home games, and 12 times in 41 road games.
- The 118.9 points per game the Warriors average are only 0.8 more points than the Kings give up (118.1).
- Golden State has a 29-17 record against the spread and a 34-12 record overall when putting up more than 118.1 points.
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Additional Kings Insights & Trends
- Sacramento has a 5-5 record against the spread while finishing 5-5 overall in its past 10 contests.
- Three of the Kings' past 10 games have gone over the total.
- In 2022-23 against the spread, Sacramento has a lower winning percentage at home (.439, 18-23-0 record) than away (.659, 27-14-0).
- The Kings put up an average of 120.7 points per game, only 3.6 more points than the 117.1 the Warriors allow to opponents.
- Sacramento is 34-15 against the spread and 40-9 overall when it scores more than 117.1 points.
Warriors vs. Kings Betting Splits
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Once prominent and soon-to-be disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been indicted again, this time prosecutors saying his crimes extended to an eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring with a friend and former client charged with trying to help him commit suicide.
Murdaugh wrote 437 checks worth $2.4 million that Curtis “Eddie” Smith cashed over eight years, keeping some of the money for himself and giving the rest for wide-ranging illegal activities, according to indictments handed up last week and unsealed Tuesday.
That illegal activity included a "distribution network" for the painkiller oxycodone, according to prosecutors, who did not specify any of the other possible crimes. Both men were charged with possessing, manufacturing or distributing narcotics, but court records did not provide additional details.
It's the 16th indictment against Murdaugh on charges ranging from lying to police and trying to arrange his own death to stealing money from clients to arranging a $4.3 million in wrongful death settlements for a housekeeper who died in a fall at his home, then not giving her family a dime.
But still unsolved are the shooting deaths of Murdaugh's wife and younger son outside their home in June 2021. Their killings are not referenced in any of the new indictments and both Murdaugh and Smith have adamantly said they had nothing to do with them.
Murdaugh and Smith started laundering more money and stopped taking precautions to avoid detection about three months before the killings, said Creighton Waters, the chief of the state Attorney General Office's State Grand Jury Division.
Waters did not give any more details at Smith's bond hearing Tuesday.
Murdaugh is also awaiting a formal order revoking his law license. He decided to not fight the state Supreme Court's decision last week, which ends the legal career of a member of a prominent family that has dominated the legal scene in tiny Hampton County for nearly a century. Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather were the area’s elected prosecutors for 87 years straight.
Murdaugh, 54, was charged in the latest indictments with criminal conspiracy and possessing, manufacturing or distributing narcotics.
Most of the indictments were against Smith, who met Murdaugh when he needed a lawyer for a worker's compensation suit. After his law firm discovered he was stealing money, Smith is the man Murdaugh said he called when he wanted someone to kill him so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy.
Smith's shot only grazed Murdaugh's head on the side of a two-lane road last September, police said. Both men were charged last year in that incident.
Smith, 61, now faces four counts of money laundering, three counts of forgery, possessing, manufacturing or distributing narcotics. trafficking in methamphetamine and other charges. Each money laundering charge on its own carries up to 20 years in prison.
At his bond hearing Tuesday, Smith told the judge he was pulled into the scheme not by his own choice and he looked forward to clearing his name. His bond was set at $250,000.
Smith's lawyer said he is not sure his client can afford it.
"We’re just going to have to wait and let more facts come out,” Jarrett Bouchette said. “As we’ve seen over the last year or so, things have changed over time that weren’t what they initially appeared to be.”
The indictments said Murdaugh wrote almost all the checks for Smith for under $10,000 to avoid federal requirements that banks report large transactions.
Smith forged the names of both his daughter and his girlfriend over the eight years he handled Murdaugh's checks, prosecutors said.
Smith is the third associate and friend of Murdaugh to face criminal charges. The state grand jury also has indicted another attorney and banker, saying they helped Murdaugh take money from clients.
In 81 indictments against Murdaugh, prosecutors say he stole at least $8.4 million. He also faces a growing numbe r of civil lawsuits.
Earlier this month, the anniversary of the June 7, 2021, deaths of Murdaugh’s wife, Maggie, 52, and son, Paul, 22, passed with no arrests and no additional information from the State Law Enforcement Division. Its agents have revealed little beyond the fact that the two were shot outside their Colleton County home and Murdaugh called 911, saying he discovered the bodies.
Murdaugh has said he was visiting his mother and ailing father when his wife and son were killed.
Murdaugh has been in jail since October on $7 million bond for the various financial charges.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation's No. 4 cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
COVID-19 deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle fatalities and shootings. In 2020 and 2021, only heart disease and cancer were ahead of the coronavirus.
U.S. deaths usually rise year-to-year, in part because the nation’s population has been growing. The pandemic accelerated that trend, making 2021 the deadliest in U.S. history, with more than 3.4 million deaths. But 2022 saw the first drop in deaths since 2009.
The 2022 tally was about 3.3 million — a 5% decline from 2021 but still much higher than in the years before the pandemic. The CDC cautioned that last year's numbers are preliminary and may change a little after further analysis.
Coronavirus-associated death rates fell for nearly all Americans. The virus was deemed the underlying cause of about 187,000 U.S. deaths last year, accounting for about 6% of deaths. The highest COVID-19 death rates were in the South and in an adjacent region that stretches west to Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, the CDC said.
The death rates for heart disease and cancer increased during the pandemic, the CDC said. The cancer death rate had been falling for 20 years before COVID-19 hit.
The CDC report indicated a slight decline in the number of injury deaths last year, falling to about 218,000 from about 219,500 the year before. That would be a surprise, given recent trends in rising drug overdose and gun deaths.
CDC officials noted that number could rise. Death certificate data for injury deaths tends to take longer because many involve police investigations.
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Falcons Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
As of December 31 the Atlanta Falcons' odds of winning the Super Bowl, +6600, place them 19th in the league.
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Falcons Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the NFC South: +220
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +6600
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Atlanta Betting Insights
- Atlanta won nine games against the spread last season, failing to cover seven times.
- Falcons games hit the over seven out of 17 times last season.
- Atlanta put up 318.3 yards per game on offense last year (24th in NFL), and it gave up 362.1 yards per game (27th) on the defensive side of the ball.
- The Falcons were 6-3 at home last year, but they won only one game on the road.
- When favored, Atlanta went undefeated (4-0) a season ago, and 3-9 as the underdog.
- The Falcons were 6-6 in the NFC, including 2-4 in the NFC South.
Falcons Impact Players
- In 16 games last year, Tyler Allgeier ran for 1,035 yards (64.7 per game) and three touchdowns.
- Also, Allgeier had 16 catches for 139 yards and one touchdown.
- In 13 games, Cordarrelle Patterson ran for 695 yards (53.5 per game) and eight TDs.
- In nine games with the Commanders a season ago, Taylor Heinicke threw for 1,859 yards (206.6 per game), with 12 touchdowns and six interceptions, and a completion percentage of 62.2%.
- Drake London had 72 receptions for 866 yards (50.9 per game) and four touchdowns in 17 games.
- On defense last year, Richie Grant helped keep opposing offenses in check with two interceptions to go with 122 tackles, 3.0 TFL, and seven passes defended in 17 games.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The pending U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and women’s abortion rights will likely motivate Ohio voters in November, but it remains to be seen whether any candidate’s abortion position will push them across the finish line.
We’re talking about the distinct abortion views of Gov. Mike DeWine and his challenger, Democrat Nan Whaley, on Today in Ohio.
Listen online here. See the automated transcript at the bottom of the post.
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It’s the issue of the month, and reporter Laura Hancock examined it with respect to election. How might the Supreme Court’s likely rescinding of a Constitution right to abortion play out when Ohio voters go to the polls in November?
Cleveland officials are trying to portray this next one as an experiment, but it sure sounds like a huge oopsie to me. What was wrong with Mayor Justin Bibb’s well-intentioned move to clear the records of 4,000 people involving minor marijuana cases?
We saw some movement in the push for fair Congressional districts late last week. What was it, and what was the obstructionist move made by Republican leaders in the battle over legislative districts?
Why is the use of millions of stimulus dollars to install surveillance cameras in Northeast Ohio controversial?
First the sheriff abruptly resigned. Now Cuyahoga County’s public safety chief is out the door. What is going on with the administration of County Executive Armond Budish?
With more people taking advantage of Cleveland’s waterfront, more people are breaking the rules along the waterfront. What’s the problem lake lovers are trying to solve as the boating season approaches?
We talked a while back about how preservationists wanted to stop MetroHealth from tearing down some buildings for the park planned as part of the hospital’s transformation. How’d it work out?
The ailing Akron Canton airport is getting some flights this fall. Where to?
We had a case involving $24 million in fake loan applications for coronavirus relief funds in Northeast Ohio. What was involved, and what’s happening to the guys who were behind it all?
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Chris: [00:00:00] Forgive me. If I stumbled today, my head is pounding because of allergies. I’m going to make mistakes. It’s today in Ohio, the news podcast discussion from a cleveland.com and the plain dealer. I’m Chris Quinn here with Lisa Garvin, Layla, uh, Tasi and Laura Johnston. Ready for a Monday conversation. They’re always good because we have a whole weekend, a good stuff to talk about.
Let’s begin. It’s the issue of the month and reporter Laura Hancock examined it with respect to the elections. How might the Supreme court’s likely rescinding of a constitutional right to abortion play out when Ohio voters go to the polls in November, Lisa, what did Laura find?
Lisa: I think this leaked draft decision has drawn a bright line in the sand for the November election, with Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other, and the independence are going to have to choose a side.
Apparently. Um, Laura talked to case Western reserve university. Political science professor Karen [00:01:00] Beckwith. And she said, turnout is key for both parties in the governor and Senate races, because there are now clear distinctions between the candidates in both races. So let’s look at the governor’s race.
First. We know that the incumbent Mike DeWine is very anti-abortion and always has been, but, and he not going to change. And also, they’re not sure that he’s going to get. More support beyond his current voters for his anti-abortion stance. He probably already has them in his camp, but Nan Whaley has democratic, uh, uh, challenger is very, uh pro-choice and, uh, she will probably use that quite a bit in the, uh, ads leading up to November.
Chris: I do wonder how much. It’ll make a difference because in rural Ohio there just don’t get independent sources of information. So is, is what they say, going to be wholly dependent on ads that play [00:02:00] on TV and radio stations in their area. I mean, we’re having. This big debate. Everybody’s talking about it.
Passions are running high and there’s lots of material to digest. You all read voraciously and we have a good newsroom in Cleveland, but what about the rest of the state where most of the votes come.
Lisa: I don’t know, it’ll be very, very interesting to see, but this will be top of the news and the decision is expected in June.
So, I mean, we’ll have a whole nother, you know, round of this coming up to November, um, Laura also talked to greater Columbus, right to life executive. You’re Beth Vander, coy. And she said, and this has become a key discussion point in the wake of this leak is that she said, we need to show that we can have a social structure to protect the health of women and children after the children are born.
And that’s been the biggest argument against, uh, the pro-life people is that they don’t care about babies after they’re born. But here’s somebody saying that we [00:03:00] really need to change that narrative. We’ll see if they can. Uh, let’s now look at the Senate race. J D van. It’s the sense that this is a quote from JD Vance.
He says, it’s about, it’s about whether a child should be allowed to live. We want women to have choices, but we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life. And I’m not sure what to think about that quote.
Chris: Yeah, he’s trying to play both sides. I guess. I, I don’t know. There’s been so little is actually known about who JD Vance is because he’s such a chameleon.
It’s going to be interesting to be examining him from now until November. I do think abortion will. It won’t just be in June, I think will be a nonstop source of conversation and social media discussions from now all the way to November. I don’t know that any of the. Subject will consume as much attention.
Lisa: And I think we need to look at a very important race here before we go. The Ohio Supreme court, chief justice race, [00:04:00] Sharon Kennedy, uh, the re the Republican in the race, spoken to Toledo, right to life event back in 2017, while a case concerning a Toledo surgical abortion. Was in their court. She did not recuse herself.
The court ruled against the clinic five to two back in 2018. This was over a transfer agreement with local hospitals. So that’s going to be a race to watch.
Chris: Yes, it will. It’s today and alive. Cleveland officials are trying to portray this next one as an experiment, but it sure sounds like a huge oopsie to me.
What was wrong with mayor Justin bibs? Well-intentioned move to clear the records of 4,000 people in bobbing, minor marijuana cases, lay all the claim that this was unsettled law and they wanted the test. It sounds completely bogus. Yeah, it
Leila: totally does. So yeah, we remember how mayor bib and, and a whole group of.
City dignitaries went to Cleveland muni [00:05:00] court on April 6th, and they made this huge event out of their announcement that they were going to file these motions to expunge more than 4,000 minor misdemeanor, marijuana convictions and charges that were filed since 2017. And they were bringing with them all these boxes of legal paperwork through the downtown courthouse and then hand delivered them to the clerk of court.
Well, it turns out. It’s not that easy. The courts administrative judge Michelle early told Courtney last week that Ohio law doesn’t allow the city to initiate the sealing or expungement process. Only individuals can do that. They can represent themselves and file the paperwork, or they had can have an attorney represent them, but they have to be a party to it.
The city just can’t unilateral. Do it for them in the weeks after this big announcement, city officials have tried to find a solution to this problem early and the city law director, Mark Griffin, county, public defender, Colin Sweeney, whether his office on behalf of [00:06:00] those involved in these thousands of cases could initiate the expungements in mass.
But the Ohio Supreme court’s board of professional conduct told Sweden. That doing that could really run a foul of professional conduct rules because attorneys are gated to follow their client’s wishes. And that would be impossible to do if the clients don’t even know they’re being represented. So the city is going to have to try this another way they, they planned on Friday and we’re going to follow up to see if they’ve done it to file superseding motions, to vacate convictions and dismiss charges.
That’s so this is going about another way. Take two here. The problem with that is that it. Really do everything that babe wants sealing a record means the public can no longer find any evidence of the case having occurred. But when you vacate a conviction, there’s still some trace of it out there. It would still come up on an employer’s background search.
So to deal with that, then the city [00:07:00] plans on then sending notices to the people affected to let them know that they can also seek a ceiling of their arrest. The notice will then point them to the muni courts website, which will prominently feature this online forum. That would help them seal, you know, request a seal.
So there’s going to be a whole lot more steps than simply just rolling in all the boxes of records and, you know, dumping the requests on the, on the clerk’s desk and, and, uh, you know, tooting the horn.
Chris: Um,
Leila: right. That’s right. There’s another wrinkle here because unlike the expungement, when a case is when a case is vacated, The city then owes those defendants refunds on the fines and the court costs that they paid on their cases.
And that might sound like it would really add up for the city of Cleveland, given that we’re talking about more than 4,000 cases. But as it turns out in many of these cases, defendants didn’t really, they didn’t pay their fines. So there really isn’t that much to refund. The city is estimating. It’s going to cost [00:08:00] them about $140,000 to refund that money.
If they can’t find the recipients, which is likely because these go back, you know, five, six years, you know, that money will go into an unclaimed fund, this account until the recipients can be located. But so it got, got super messy. Well is probably should have thought this out,
Chris: right? It’s more of. You’ve got a bunch of new faces at Cleveland city hall.
You don’t really have any wise and veterans to kind of say, Hey, hold on. Let’s think this through, we can’t just go in and represent people without telling them first, that’s kind of an automatic and they raced in and they got the big publicity. They’re all excited for social justice and it’s turned into a colossal mess, vacating.
It does not do what is needed. They, they need to get these things seal. And if they had thought about it, maybe they would have sent out 4,000 letters saying, Hey, we want to end your case. We want to help you do it. Free of charge. Get in touch with us here. We’ll take care of it, but then you [00:09:00] don’t get the big splash.
Right? You don’t get the picture of you walking in with cartons of documents.
Leila: I mean, they could have, they could have done the, you know, hold a series of legal clinics and, and publicize that. But that’s something that, you know, the, you know, has been done many times legally does that the court does. It’s kind of a common thing.
So it’s not as. It’s not as exciting as, as the big, you know, get the, get the Dolly. We got all these boxes to load up. We got so many cases, you know, that’s, that was the
Chris: way to do it. Claim that, you know, it wasn’t clear that you had to represent them. So we figured we tested to see. You know, if that were true, you to check beforehand, you wouldn’t wait until the cases are filed to get an opinion for them to Supreme court.
And really anybody in the legal profession would have told you, you can’t do this. You can’t represent people without having their oath authorization. That seemed like such a bogus excuse for their slipshod way of [00:10:00] doing what is a noble thing. You know, the
Leila: law director also said that Ohio. Only states that the individual charged may see may seek to seal their own record, but it doesn’t appear to explicitly prohibit prosecutors from initiating the ceiling of a record.
And it sounds like judge early kind of just like roll their eyes at that was like, no, you gotta do this the right way. Get outta here.
Chris: Right? Because everybody knows the way it should have gone. So they’ll get it fixed. I good luck trying to reach 4,000 people, uh, to let them know that they can get it sealed.
Good stuff by Courtney a Staffie check it out on cleveland.com. You’re listening to today in Ohio. We saw some movement in the push for fair congressional districts late last week. What was it? And what was the obstructionist move made by Republican leaders in the battle over the legislative districts?
Laura, the Supreme court has to weigh in. You would think this week to bring some order to this
Laura: [00:11:00] thing you would think. So, because, I mean, we’ve said constitutional crisis before, but I feel like it’s, you know, we’re teetering on this perilous edge. So let’s start with the legislative districts because. If you’re following this, you know, there’s two separate tracks for legislative and congressional.
We have not yet voted on the legislative districts because that’s been such a mess. And so the Supreme court has rejected these maps four times the latest deadline the Supreme court gave. Commission was Friday morning and they basically blew past that on Thursday, even with the two replacement members for a cup and Hoffman, they chose to thumb their nose at the Supreme court again.
And instead of approving new maps, as they were ordered, they voted to resubmit the state legislative plan. They’d already, the court had already rejected as a legally gerrymandered. So now the courts guy to decide whether to find the commission and contempt. Or basically allow the Republicans to run the clock until May 28th.
That’s when a federal court, sorry has said it will order the February 24th map one. That’s already been declared [00:12:00] illegal to be implemented for a special election on August 2nd. And I mean, they’ve shifted their explanations. Now they’re saying they don’t have enough time to do it the right way. I mean, they’re the ones who have been pushing this back ever since September.
Chris: What’s more defiant giving the court maps that it’s already set or unconstitutional or just missing the deadline. I think just missing the deadline would have been the smarter move. You’re really in the face of the justices now pushing back saying here’s our maps and they’re the very ones that were rejected.
What’s going on with the congrats. So
Laura: there’s a filing actually a couple of filings, but they’re basically pushing for the same thing that came on Thursday. This national democratic group is pressing the court to reject the congressional map. The one we just use for voting and appoint its own mapmakers to develop a new one.
Some of them. Uh, that are in the exact same position. Just want them to reject it period. And they argue this map is disproportionately slanted in favor of Republicans, which it is it’s 10 of 15 [00:13:00] congressional districts would go to the Republicans. And two of the democratic districts are like tightly competitive toss ups.
So this would be for the 20, 24 election that.
Chris: Okay, well, we’ll be watching the Supreme court this week. If they don’t do anything this week, then it’s going to be pretty clear that they’ve decided to let this go because time would be of the essence if they’re going to force something. So it’s in Maureen O’Connor’s hands.
She’s the chief justice. Who’s the deciding vote.
Laura: Numerous times that you want to see them in orange jumpsuits. I just it’s, it’s hard to believe that it’s gotten to this far, went back in September when we were talking about them, you know, defining the will of the voters, right. Because. This was passed by voters.
This is what they wanted to see happen. And they just did every turn basically said, we don’t care. We want to do it our own way. We want to keep these Republican
Chris: districts. Yeah. But if the court doesn’t do something, it’s setting a precedent that the, the court is much weaker than the other bodies of the government.
[00:14:00] I will see that a lot to happen yet. It’s today in all that. Why is the use of millions of stimulus dollars to install surveillance cameras in Northeast, Ohio, controversial Layla, and another installment of stimulus watch?
Leila: Yeah, our new stimulus watch report or Lucas really brings us this really interesting weekend read and, and combing through the ARPA spending trends across the region.
He noticed. Quite a few Northeast Ohio communities, including Cleveland and Akron, we’re investing police in police surveillance technology. And, and while we might really gloss over that fact, because cameras are so ubiquitous in our lives, Lucas explored the very real controversies that have emerged around the increased use of cameras, especially because there has their technology improves.
It allows for increased invasion of our privacy and civil libertarians point to cases of racial and ethnic profiling is evidence that surveillance programs can easily be abused. For example, in 2018 New York police department settled a lawsuit after [00:15:00] illegally spying and mosques and Muslim groups. And in 2020, the U S Marshall service were accused of using drones to spy on black lives matter protestors in Washington, DC, something similar happened in San Francisco.
So that’s really the backdrop here. Leading to the city of Cleveland approving spending about four and a half million dollars upgrading its surveillance network in the fall. And during a recent public safety committee hearing the question was raised about whether that could lead to the widespread use of facial recognition technology here in Cleveland.
And in fact, police. Used to answer questions about that at the committee table. And, uh, they, they wouldn’t even answer whether they were already in use and they told Councilman , uh, we’ll talk to you later if you want to hear more about that. And so sketchy, so sketchy. So, and also, you know, the city of Akron is considering this two-pronged surveillance plan that would add police cameras on streets and busy areas, and then provide personal doorbell cameras for people and businesses using ARPA-E money.
But then [00:16:00] there’s this question. Who would own the ring doorbell because if the city owns it, not only do they have the right to access that footage whenever they please, but they can actually tap into it in real time and view your livestream. And mayor Dan Horrigan was like, oh, I don’t think we would do that.
So it’s all. Creepy, when you think about it. And that’s the argument that the civil rights attorneys were making, they, they also pointed the fact that, you know, it’s not quite clear how successful some of these tools are at preventing or solving crimes, you know, ring doorbell, for example, conducts its own studies and promises communities that its products can reduce theft or property crime by a certain percent, but independent studies and reporting that Lucas found across the country.
Said that in cities where they’ve been piloting the ring system, the, the effect on crime or the police department solve rate is, is kind of negligible when it comes to, you know, the use, the impact that ring has had. So what’s really the return on giving up that little piece of privacy.
Chris: Well, [00:17:00] the only problem with that was.
Yeah. There’s always been the adage that if you have a dog, the bird or go to the next house that doesn’t have a dog. And what you don’t know is if the people who have cameras have had less crime and the crime has gone to people that don’t have it, I was a little bit surprised at the cat, the council meeting where police said, yeah, we’re not going to talk about that.
And the council. Didn’t enforce it when I used to cover council that would never have accepted that, but it must be a docile council. Now the police come in and say, yeah, we don’t want to talk about that. And they say, okay, fine by us. Oh,
Leila: maybe, maybe since they were promised to secret briefing. That was fine.
Okay. You don’t want to tell the public. Okay. You can tell us in private,
Chris: you’ll tell us because we’re the representatives and we’ll turn your secrets.
Lisa: Go ahead. No, I was just gonna say the, the frightening, frightening little fact lit in this story is that these new cameras that they’re going to get are going to be 10 80 key.
And they’re going to have a 32 X zoom. [00:18:00] Why the fall,
Chris: let me play devil’s advocate though. Clearly America has embraced these cameras because many, many people have them and they, they shoot public areas. They shoot the. How was that an invasion of. No,
Leila: but I think that what the civil libertarians is pointing out here is that communities of color are often more heavily surveilled than others.
And sometimes these cameras and these systems are abused when it comes to things like these protests or, or groups like, you know, the Muslim community or groups that are suspected of things that maybe they’re not, they shouldn’t be suspected of doing. And suddenly they are, they are, uh, their privacy is being.
Is being invaded for no good purpose. Do you
Chris: have a right to privacy when you’re on a public?
Lisa: Okay. Yeah, but when you have a powerful camera that that can look into your windows. I mean, and even
Chris: nobody’s, nobody’s saying that though there, and there is no [00:19:00] evidence that they’ve done that they’ve largely put these on light poles in areas that are either high crime or heavily commercial.
And I get what you’re saying lately. Take all these cameras and they put them largely in black neighborhoods. That’s clearly a problem. But when Akron is saying, Hey, we’re going to make these available. If you want one, come get one with ARPA dollars. That’s not profiling. And I still ask the question. If I’m out in a public place, what is my right to practice?
Would you
Leila: put one of these free ring cameras on your door and let them tap into a free stream, live stream of your friends. Oh,
Chris: but I have a camera on my door. I didn’t get it from the city. And so they don’t get to tap into it. So,
Leila: yeah. Right. So yeah, I mean, I guess that’s the thing is that people are, you know, they like freebies and often they might not think because these ring cameras are kind of expensive.
Aren’t they, if you’re going to go buy one on your.
Chris: Not that bad now. I mean, they’ve really come down in price, but you have to pay a subscription. If you want to [00:20:00] archive the video for any amount of time. I just, I’m having a hard time understanding if, if you have a high crime area or if you have a commercial district where there’ve been carjackings and police say we’re going to put cameras up so we can detect the patterns and see what’s going on.
I just don’t get the privacy argument. I mean, it’s there to try so that the criminals know. I’m being watched. I’m not going to carjack people in this neighborhood. I’m going to go to the next neighborhood. You
Lisa: have a camera on a light pole across the street from your house. They can see you on your front porch and extensibly look through your window as well.
I mean, how do you feel about that?
Chris: I don’t think there’s any evidence that’s happening. I don’t, there was nothing in Lucas’s story and I haven’t, I do a lot of reading. I haven’t ever seen that. If they started to use cameras to peer into your house, that’s clearly a violation of privacy and they would get into huge trouble because.
Anyway, good stuff. It’s why we did the story it’s controversial. And when Lucas very expertly explores the controversy, [00:21:00] you can read his story on cleveland.com. It’s today in Ohio first, the sheriff abruptly resign now Cuyahoga county’s public safety. Chief is out the door. What’s going on with the administration of county, executive Arvin, Buddhists, and lately you’re doing all your work in the first part of the podcast.
Leila: I’m just going to log off after. Peace out this. So yeah, this administration is beginning to hemorrhage. It seems Caitlin Durbin reported late last week that Robert Corey, the county’s chief of public safety and justice services has resigned to become the safety director in Parma. Corey was picked to lead the department two years ago.
Overseeing the Sheriff’s department, the medical examiner clerk of courts and consumer affairs department. He also coordinates with the public safety department, which manages emergency dispatch services, but one of his chief roles was working with the sheriff on reducing the inmate population and making jail operations more efficient.
Christopher villain of course, was that sheriff for the past year, working for Corey. And he roughly resigned a couple of weeks [00:22:00] ago. We don’t know yet exactly why villain resigned, but sources seem to be pointing to his frustration with how little autonomy he had as sheriff under Buddhists and under this form of government.
And if that’s true, I don’t really know exactly how Corey factors into that equation because he was the link in the chain of command directly between Buddhists and villain. Um, you know, it’s also just quite likely that the writing is on the wall for many Buddhists administrators. Their time is coming to a close.
So if a good opportunity presents itself, it would be foolish to let us slip past. Right. I, I do suspect we’ll be, you know, we’ll begin to see an Exodus in the coming months. So either one of those things could be true. This could be part of the whole villain thing, or maybe this is just like a coincidence that Corey also was, you know, looking at other opportunities and saw it as a good time.
Chris: Yeah, with Corey, I think that’s possibility would villain he abruptly resigned for sure. Something, something, yeah, the, the, this is bad news for the jail [00:23:00] for the next seven months, because you’re not going to get great people to come in, to work for seven months and do this stuff so that whoever is appointed.
I guess if they appoint a sheriff, that person has a little bit of longevity beyond the next county executive because of the charter change we made. So maybe you find somebody for that, but for the public safety chief, why would anybody take that job knowing they’re going to be out of it in seven months?
I guess, I guess what Buddhists could do if you were a magnanimous, is. Chris Ronayne the Democrat is likely to win and talk to Chris about who he might want as his public safety chief. Bring that person in early. Wouldn’t that be interesting to see that happen? I don’t think so. Nope. Nope. That would be public service.
That would be public minded. That would be looking toward the future. And we wind girts listening to this right now. Go. What about me? What about me? You’re a Republican snowball’s chance. It’s today in Ohio. With more [00:24:00] people taking advantage of Cleveland’s waterfront, more people are breaking the rules along the waterfront.
What’s the problem that lake lovers are trying to solve as the boating season approaches and Laura you’re down there a lot. Have you seen. I
Laura: have not personally witnessed this, but the issue is too much weight. We’re talking about big, fast power boats that are being unsafe and causing problems for other boats, big and small, small as up, you know, stand up paddle board and as big as the good time three, and the issue came up at a meeting of the Cuyahoga.
Safety task force, which I’ve been to many of their meetings. And there some very passionate folks about the lake and the river of the coast guard, the rowing and sealing programs that Lakers the yacht clubs. They all have representatives there. And apparently I did not know this there’s a 10 mile per hour speed limit in the Harbor within the break wall.
That’s five miles. Across on the coast of Cleveland and most voters don’t know it exists. Um, but that’s the problem. If you go too fast, you’re just sending all of these waves and because of the [00:25:00] Harbor and because of the steel walls of the river, it acts as a bathtub and it just basically sends all these waves back and forth and Jostle’s everyone.
And you’ve got all of these little Foundry, dinghies learning how to sail and they can, they can capsize if they get awake to.
Chris: Yeah. The part of that, that I don’t find credible is that the power boaters aren’t aware of the speed limit. Every power boater knows that when you’re in certain areas, you slow down, you don’t leave awake.
Anybody that. Taken a bugger safety course knows this and, and you can see what you’re doing when you’re at there. It’s not like the week is invisible. I’m surprised it’s happening. What was interesting is I heard from some people that don’t get down that far, that they row up river, and they’ve never seen anything of this, but I heard from a bunch of people as a result of the story saying, this is a big problem.
This really needs to be addressed because more and more people are taking advantage up there. It would be terrifying to be in a small craft and have that [00:26:00] kind of wave action thrown you
Laura: about absolutely. And you’re right, exactly. The more people you have using the river, the busier, it is the more dangerous it is.
If you’ve got a big wake and you shouldn’t be going that fast there, the entire river is a no wake zone. And those zones are also within 300 feet. The Marina’s boat launches and Harbor entrances, which that’s, you know, there’s a lot of those. So you should be not be going fast where you’re cutting. Havoc to other boats.
Chris: Is there patrolling, that’s done. It would seem like the easiest way to fix this, but just to start giving some big fines to the abusers. Yeah. The
Laura: coast guard patrol. So does the state department of natural resources, Rocky river has a police boat. It can go all the way up there. The problem is that they’re few and far between, and they don’t have radar guns to just be.
You’re going to fast. Here’s your ticket? I think it’s a lot more involved in that. So would they believe in the river safety task force is that they should be doing more boater education because the majority of voters want to do this [00:27:00] safely. They want everybody to be out there and have a good time and not have to worry and not be.
I
Chris: would imagine too, you would need some undercover police boats because like people on the turnpike, if you see the police, you’re not going to go fast. They could use the radar though. If they put a stationary unit on the break wall and then had the police pull them over, they’re meeting about it.
They’re looking for solutions. The stories on cleveland.com it’s today in Ohio, we talked a while back about how preservation. Wanted to stop MetroHealth from carrying down some buildings for the park planned as part of the hospital’s transformation, the issue is ended. How did it work out Lisa?
Lisa: Well, two of the three historic buildings that are sitting on this chunk of land along west 25th street will be raised.
That will be the 1950 St. Nicholas Belarusian church and the 1888 Farnsworth. The Cleveland planning commission met on Friday and voted to approve Metro health plans for a [00:28:00] three acre park in that area. That’s at west 25th in south point drive. And this park is part of a larger 12 acre park that will be realized as the MetroHealth renovations go on.
But the M the, uh, 1925 Emanuel church will be saved. That’s at the south end of this area. At 35, 25 west 25th. It’s serving as a construction office now for the MetroHealth renovations, but they’re going to, you know, consider public input on what they could use it for afterwards. It could be a gallery of youth center, a meeting space, but there is a public hearing tomorrow at six o’clock at bridge Cleveland at 33 81 Fulton road.
And they’re going to discuss plans for the entire 12 acre park. And they want the public’s input on. It
Chris: does seem check me if I’m wrong. That the benefit to that neighborhood of having a decent part would outweigh saving a couple of buildings for which no one has a use. Right.
Lisa: That’s that’s the way I feel.
And I I’m very [00:29:00] pro preservation, but I think. The point, the transformation of that property is much more important than trying to retrofit, you know, old buildings, a Barb garden who’s with the near west side design review commission has been pushing to save these buildings and he says, it’s a shame, but he understands the overall plan.
So, I mean, it’s, he laments it, but it’s like, well, you know, this is progress and it’s and it’s going to be good progress.
Chris: Yeah, Metro health went out of its way with the design of this to really make it a community community oriented site. And so it, it, it’s going to be fairly spectacular and there was quite a bit of public comment leading into it.
So it’s nice. They made a compromise, they’ll save the one building, but overall the park will benefit the community it’s today in Ohio. We’re not going to get to a couple of subjects today. We talked long. We’ll try and get to them tomorrow. So thank you, Lisa. Thank you, Layla. Thank you, Laura. Thanks to everybody who listens to this podcast.[00:30:00] | 2022-05-09T15:54:22+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/05/how-much-will-the-abortion-issue-drive-voting-in-ohio-today-in-ohio.html |
Inequality, misinformation and holding the powerful accountable are common themes in the journalism produced by the finalists for the 69th Scripps Howard Awards. This year, viewers will get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the work of journalists whose relentless reporting exposed previously undisclosed or misunderstood information.
The Scripps Howard Awards judges – a panel of veteran journalists and media leaders – selected the 2021 finalists from more than 800 entries across 15 categories, with a focus on high-impact journalism.
The Scripps Howard Foundation will present $170,000 in prize money to the winning news organizations and journalists. The winners will be announced June 12 during a special program airing at 8 p.m. ET on Newsy, the national news network owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP).
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The 2021 finalists are:
Excellence in Coverage of Breaking News Houston Chronicle – “Astroworld” NBC News – Richard Engel's Reporting on the “Taliban's Takeover of Afghanistan” The Tennessean – “The Floods of Waverly”
Excellence in Broadcast Local Coverage, honoring Jack R. Howard KNTV-NBC Bay Area (San Jose) – “The Moms of Magnolia Street” KUSA-TV and KARE-TV – “Prone” WTVF-NewsChannel 5 (Nashville) – “Gideon’s Army”
Excellence in Broadcast National/International Coverage, honoring Jack R. Howard 48 Hours/CBS News – “What Happened to the Perfect Child?” ABC News – “Blindsided/Out of Bounds” CBS News – “Behind the Badge”
Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting FRONTLINE (PBS) and The New York Times – “Boeing’s Fatal Flaw” The California Newsroom, KRCB and KQED – “Bankrupt” ProPublica – “The Secret IRS Files”
Excellence in Environmental Reporting, honoring Edward W. “Ted” Scripps II Los Angeles Times – “Extreme Heat’s Deadly Toll” ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Mountain State Spotlight – “Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution” The Coloradoan, The Arizona Republic, The Desert Sun and The Spectrum – “Draining the Forests”
Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, honoring Edward Willis Scripps KQED and NPR – “On Our Watch” Miami Herald and ProPublica – “Birth & Betrayal” The Arizona Republic – “Democracy in Doubt”
Excellence in Human Interest Storytelling, honoring Ernie Pyle Los Angeles Times – “Disease, Inequity and Resilience in South L.A.” The Boston Globe – “Under the Wheel” The Wall Street Journal – “Abandoned at Sea”
Excellence in Innovation, honoring Roy W. Howard The Markup – “Citizen Browser” The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica – “Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem” The Outlaw Ocean Project – “The Outlaw Ocean Music Project”
Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting Miami Herald – “House of Cards” Nashville Public Radio's WPLN News and ProPublica – “Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge” The Arizona Republic – “Democracy in Doubt”
Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize ICIJ, The Washington Post and media partners – “Pandora Papers” The Wall Street Journal – “The Facebook Files” The New York Times – “Airstrikes Gone Wrong”
Excellence in Multimedia Journalism Bloomberg News – “The Vaccine Rollout” Frontline (PBS) – “Un(re)solved” The New York Times – “Inside the Capitol Riot”
Excellence in Opinion Writing Detroit Free Press – Opinion Writing by Nancy Kaffer San Francisco Chronicle – City Hall Columnist Heather Knight The Boston Globe – Columnist Jeneé Osterheldt
Excellence in Radio/Podcast Coverage, honoring Jack R. Howard Latino USA – “Mississippi River” NBC News – “Southlake” The Washington Post – “Four Hours of Insurrection”
Excellence in Visual Journalism STAT – “DISTANCED: Pandemic Stories of Black Life in the Rural South” Los Angeles Times – “Sorrow and Defiance: Under Taliban Rule, Afghan Women Navigate a Landscape of Loss” The Associated Press – “The Cost of War”
Teacher of the Year
Dr. Nicole Kraft – The Ohio State University School of Communication
Dr. Nicole Smith Dahmen – University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication
Administrator of the Year
David Boardman – Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication
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FRANKLIN, Ill. — For nearly 50 years, the ornate box turtle has been endangered or threatened. Highly sought after as pets, they're even poached and traded on the black market.
Conservationists are enlisting the unique help of man's best friend to try and save the turtles.
John Rucker's Boykin spaniels have a nose for something unique. They aren't searching for a lost person or helping solve crimes. They're on the hunt for ornate box turtles.
The turtle-sniffing dogs are assisting a team of researchers on an expedition.
“If the turtles aren't moving, the dogs won't find them,” said Dr. Matt Allender, director of the University of Illinois wildlife epidemiology lab at the Brookfield Zoo.
“And it's likely tied to their urine as they're depositing that trail. A dog has to just come in to cross that pattern. They'll stop and then they'll follow that trail until they find that turtle.”
Habitat loss, road collisions and the pet trade have all contributed to shrinking populations of ornate box turtles.
“We've converted most of their prairie land into crops and agriculture,” he said. “There's obviously good reasons for that as well, but that's how we end up in this situation.”
Over the years the Nature Conservancy began to acquire space like the 4,000-acre Nachusa Grasslands Preserve to help restore habitat and build back populations.
“We actually have 25 threatened and endangered species at the state or federal level that use the habitat here at Nachusa grasslands,” said Elizabeth Bach, a research scientist at the Nature Conservancy Illinois.
On this day, Dr. Allender and his team of veterinary researchers are collecting these specimens to get a sense of how well they’re doing.
Scientists say protecting biodiversity and these turtles have a wider ecological impact because they are sentinels of the habitat. Changes in their health can indicate changes in the ecosystem.
Each time a dog finds a turtle, it’s methodically documented.
“We've developed the strategy that as soon as a turtle is found, we mark it with a GPS location and then we tie kind of what we call flagging tape. It's a bright orange tape, so that's easy for us to find,” said Allender.
That’s important because the turtles have an intensely strong connection to their homes. If they’re not returned, they search 25 times longer and travel 25 times farther to find home.
“Then they're intersecting with a lot more roads, a lot more predators,” he said.
One predator is humans.
“So poaching is one of the top two threats to the species. Habitat loss and poaching,” said Bach.
The turtles remain protected in Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas and Wisconsin.
The state of Kansas is considering legislation that would ban people from capturing or possessing them.
“These turtles are highly coveted in kind of the black market pet trade and it's a major concern,” said Bach. “Understanding things like potential parasite loads or threats from predators helps us understand how they're interacting with the ecosystem.”
The field health assessments include taking measurements and blood samples and even checking their heart rates.
“If we have a range of sick and healthy turtles, then we know that there are pockets of sick and healthy areas of the ecosystem,” said Allender.
And with the help of the enthusiastic canines, the hope is that these unique reptiles and their natural habitats will flourish for years to come. | 2022-05-23T17:21:33+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/dogs-helping-scientists-assess-health-of-threatened-ornate-box-turtles |
Ex-head of Michigan marijuana board admits he took bribes
By ED WHITE
Associated Press
The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in bribes when he led the panel over a two-year period, authorities said Thursday.
Rick Johnson acknowledged in a signed court filing that he acted “corruptly” when he accepted cash and other benefits to help businesses get licenses.
Charges against Johnson and three other men were announced by U.S. Attorney Mark Totten at a press conference near the Capitol in Lansing.
Johnson, 70, was chairman of the marijuana board for two years until spring 2019. The Republican years earlier also was a powerful lawmaker, serving as House speaker from 2001 through 2004.
“Public corruption is a poison to any democracy. … That poison is especially toxic here,” Totten said. “The marijuana industry has been likened to a modern-day gold rush, a new frontier where participants can stake their claim and just maybe return big rewards.”
The marijuana board reviewed and approved applications to grow and sell marijuana for medical purposes.
A message seeking comment from Johnson’s attorney wasn’t immediately returned.
Agreements with Johnson and others to plead guilty were filed simultaneously with charges in federal court in Grand Rapids.
Johnson accepted $110,200 in cash and benefits from at least two companies while voting in favor of granting them marijuana licenses, according to the bribery charge.
Johnson “provided valuable non-public information about the anticipated rules and operation of the board and assistance with license application matters,” the court filing states.
John Dalaly, who got a marijuana business license, has agreed to plead guilty to providing at least $68,200 in cash and other benefits to Johnson, including two private flights to Canada, according to court documents.
Two lobbyists, Brian Pierce and Vincent Brown, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to pass bribes to Johnson, filings show.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer abolished the medical marijuana board in 2019, a few months after taking office, and put oversight of the industry inside a state agency.
Michigan voters legalized marijuana for medical purposes in 2008. A decade later, voters approved the recreational use of marijuana.
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Latest updates make it easier for customers to blend relevant data sets and introduce new pre-built visualization capabilities
AUSTIN, Texas, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To help organizations further enhance decision making and uncover new revenue streams, Oracle NetSuite today announced updates to NetSuite Analytics Warehouse. The latest updates enhance the first and only prebuilt data warehouse and analytics solution for NetSuite customers by making it easier for customers to blend relevant data sets and introducing new pre-built visualization capabilities.
"Despite having more data available, many business leaders feel that decision making is harder than ever," said Gary Wiessinger, senior vice president, Product Management, Oracle NetSuite. "By harnessing the machine learning-powered analytical capabilities of Oracle Analytics Cloud and the highly automated Oracle Autonomous Database for analytics and data warehousing, the enhanced NetSuite Analytics Warehouse provides organizations with relevant and reliable data. As a result, customers are able to streamline the decision-making process to boost productivity and growth."
Built on Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Database for analytics and data warehousing (ADW), NetSuite Analytics Warehouse helps customers spot patterns and quickly surface insights from NetSuite and third-party data. The new updates make it easier for customers to blend standard NetSuite transactional data with custom data, legacy data, and an expansive collection of third-party sources. Additionally, enhancements to pre-built visualization capabilities enable customers to quickly see key performance indicators and identify trends and new data relationships. Updates to NetSuite Analytics Warehouse include:
- Custom Attribute Mapping Editor: Customers can now select the custom data to flow from NetSuite into the data warehouse on the next scheduled refresh, and its placement in a subject area data snapshot – such as finance, purchasing, inventory, sales and more – in just a few clicks and with no coding required.
- Content Bundle Feature: Customers can now export content from one NetSuite Analytics Warehouse instance to another, providing efficiency and flexibility. For example, a customer can create a Workbook and dashboard in a sandbox account and then use Bundles to export it into a production account.
- Expanded Collection of Pre-built Subject Matter Data Snapshots: Customers can now access an expanded list of pre-built subject matter data snapshots and key metrics for role-specific business insights. The following enhancements are now available as part of the standard daily refresh:
- Enhanced Vertical Functionality: Services customers can now access a new subscription-centric project management module to optimize revenue management.
Customers Experience the Benefits of NetSuite Analytics Warehouse
"Collecting the data and keeping it accurate is important, but it's insignificant if we aren't driving meaningful action and decision-making with it," said Cari McCoy, CEO, Clickstop. "NetSuite Analytics Data Warehouse makes both accurate data collection and strategic decision-making possible."
"With NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, I was surprised at how easily we could manipulate data flows to what we needed, and then augment the data with multiple sources," said Mitch Sanders, COO, Thread Wallets. "Two big benefits of NetSuite Analytics Warehouse are more accountability across the whole organization and more adoption of using data to drive decision making."
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(NEXSTAR) – While it may be tempting to view artificial sweeteners as a guilt-free way to sweeten one’s coffee or tea, the World Health Organization urged people on Monday not to use the sugar substitutes to control weight or avoid certain diseases.
“Replacing free sugars with non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) does not help with weight control in the long term. People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverages,” Francesco Branca, WHO Director for Nutrition and Food Safety, said in a news release.
The recommendation applies to “all synthetic and and naturally occurring or modified non-nutritive sweeteners that are not classified as sugars.”
“NSS are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value,” Branca added. “People should reduce the sweetness of the diet altogether, starting early in life, to improve their health.”
World Health Organization officials say evidence shows that the popular sweeteners are not effective over the long term when it comes to reducing body fat among adults and children. Furthermore, the WHO says, the study suggests that use of the sweeteners may have “undesirable effects” when used over long periods of time, including the elevated risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mortality in adults.
A study released earlier this year found that a sweetener popular in keto diets, erythritol, has been linked to strokes, heart attacks, blood clots, and death.
Branca added that the WHO’s stance is solely meant for people using the sweeteners to lose weight or live a healthier lifestyle.
“This recommendation is not meant to comment on safety of consumption,” Branca told CNN. “What this guideline says is that if we’re looking for reduction of obesity, weight control or risk of noncommunicable diseases, that is, unfortunately, something science [has] been unable to demonstrate.”
The WHO added that the recommendation to avoid NSS does not apply to people with pre-existing diabetes and doesn’t cover personal care products such as toothpaste, skin cream and medications. Low-calorie sugars and sugar alcohols are also not included.
Common sugar substitutes include acesulfame K, aspartame, advantame, cyclamates, neotame, saccharin, sucralose, stevia and stevia derivatives. | 2023-05-15T23:41:18+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/stop-using-non-sugar-sweeteners-for-weight-loss-who-says/ |
Abortion restrictions across the U.S. affect transgender men and non-binary people who can get pregnant. For many trans people, getting an abortion is already a challenge even without restrictions.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Spokane WA
1202 PM PDT Sun Jul 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of East Central and Northeast Washington,
including the following counties, in East Central Washington,
Lincoln. In Northeast Washington, Ferry.
* WHEN...Until 200 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1200 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Local rain amounts up to 0.75
inches has already fallen with up to an additional 0.50
possible.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Lincoln, Wilbur, Creston, Coffeepot Lake and Sherman.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 1, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
803 PM PDT Mon Aug 1 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The temperatures have cooled this evening are expected to cool
overnight. High temperatures tomorrow will be in low to mid 90s.
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Monticello controlled the action to earn an impressive 71-45 win against Goose Lake Northeast in an Iowa girls basketball matchup.
In recent action on January 3, Goose Lake Northeast faced off against Tipton and Monticello took on Center Point CPU on January 6 at Center Point-Urbana High School. For a full recap, click here.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said Friday, a sign of the extreme risk that comes with being stuck in Mexico as the Biden administration increasingly relies on that country to host people fleeing poverty and violence.
The fires were set Wednesday and Thursday at the sprawling camp of about 2,000 people, most of them from Venezuela, Haiti and Mexico, in Matamoros, a city near Brownsville, Texas. An advocate for migrants said they had been doused with gasoline.
“The people fled as their tents were burned,” said Gladys Cañas, who runs the group Ayudandoles A Triunfar. “What they’re saying as part of their testimony is that they were told to leave from there.”
There were no reports of deaths or significant injuries. But about 25 rudimentary shelters made up of plastic, tarps, branches and other materials were torched in a sparsely populated part of the camp. Many who lived there also apparently lost clothing, documents and whatever other modest belongings may have been left inside.
Margarita, a Mexican woman staying at the camp, said Friday she saw migrants from Venezuela screaming during the previous day’s blaze.
“They had their children with them and a few other things they had a chance to get,” Margarita said. She spoke on the condition that her last name not be published due to fears for her safety.
Gangs recently threatened migrants who were wading across the river border illegally, as well as their guides, Margarita said, but the crossings had continued.
Criminal groups often prey upon migrants in the area and demand money in return for permission to pass through their territory.
However, Juan José Rodríguez, director of the Tamaulipas Institute for Migrants, a state agency coordinating with Mexico’s federal government, said he had no information that a gang was responsible for the fires.
Rodríguez attributed them to a group of migrants and said some 10 tents that had already been abandoned were burned. He added that they apparently set the fires to express frustration with a U.S. government mobile app that assigns turns for people to show up at the border and claim asylum.
Migrants have been applying for 740 slots made available daily on the glitch-plagued app, CBPOne, which allows them to enter the U.S. legally at an official crossing.
There are far more migrants than available slots, exacerbating tensions in Mexican border cities that house them, often in shelters and camps like the one in Matamoros. Last year hundreds of migrants blocked a major pedestrian crossing between Tijuana and San Diego until authorities shut down the protest.
In Matamoros on Wednesday night, about 200 migrants gathered on the southern side of an international bridge and halted all U.S.-bound traffic, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported. Vehicles were able to resume crossing after about two hours and pedestrians were allowed to cross after about four hours.
CBP made no mention of fires at the Mexican camp in its statement about the bridge shutdown.
The tent fires in Matamoros come on the heels of a March 27 blaze that killed 40 men at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. The fire was allegedly started by a detained migrant to protest conditions at the facility in the city across from El Paso, Texas.
The U.S. government is increasingly turning to Mexico while preparing to end pandemic-era asylum restrictions, known as Title 42 authority, on May 11. Mexico recently began accepting people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who cross the border irregularly and are turned back by the U.S.
The Biden administration also is putting final touches on a policy under which asylum would be denied to people who pass through another country, such as Mexico, to reach U.S. soil.
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Associated Press writer Alfredo Peña in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, contributed to this report. | 2023-04-22T10:55:39+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/mexico-migrant-camp-tents-torched-across-border-from-texas/ |
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Former president Donald Trump will be arraigned Tuesday morning, answering to 37 counts in the federal indictment filed against him. The Justice Department in its criminal indictment, which was unsealed on Friday, alleges that Trump stored classified documents at his Florida resort while flaunting documents to people without security clearance.
The evidence unsealed in the indictment includes photos showing boxes allegedly containing classified documents stored in places such as next to a shower and a toilet at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida residence. The photographs are a key piece in the prosecution’s strategy, said Jon Getz, a New York and California attorney and former director of the Innocence and Justice Project at University of Buffalo Law School.
“They’re letting the public know the evidence is overwhelming against Trump,” Getz said. “The pictures are the monster portion.”
In a federal indictment, multiple photos are not usually included, Getz said, adding that the photos are a public relations strategy on the prosecutors’ part.
“They’re saying, 'Look at the evidence,'” Getz said.
The boxes don’t show any of the documents themselves, but the presence of the boxes is the prosecution’s attempt to illustrate their case, he said.
SEE MORE: Here's what will happen when Trump appears in court Tuesday
The indictment comes after an investigation into whether Trump broke the law by holding on to hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property and whether Trump attempted to obstruct the government’s efforts to recover the records.
Prosecutors say Trump took about 300 classified documents to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House, and that tens of thousands of members and guests were invited to the social club between the end of Trump’s presidency in January 2022 and August 2022 when the property was searched.
Photos in the indictment include boxes stacked on a ballroom’s stage, in a storage room, in a bathroom and its shower space and in an office.
The prosecution is setting the stage for their story with the pictures, Getz said.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-12T19:06:56+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/strategy-behind-the-photos-in-trump-indictment |
The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) annually recognizes the leading finance groups for innovation, collaboration and results.
BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Capital Corporation, Marsh McLennan and Oracle Cerner are finalists for the Association for Financial Professionals' 2022 Pinnacle Award. Sponsored by MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group NYSE: MUFG), the AFP Pinnacle Award was established in 1997 to recognize excellence in treasury and finance.
Finalists were selected by a jury of treasury and finance professional peers. Decisions were based on innovative solutions that progress the efficiency and effectiveness of their organization's treasury and financial operations. Voting is currently open for the submissions, and the Grand Prize winner will be announced during AFP 2022. MUFG will make a $10,000 donation to a charity of the winner's choice.
"AFP is proud to recognize the 2022 Pinnacle Award finalists, as they represent some of the cutting edge of treasury and finance," said Jim Kaitz, president and CEO of AFP. "The teams at Comcast Capital Corporation, Marsh McLennan and Oracle Cerner have developed unique solutions that advance not only their organizations but also the treasury and finance profession at large."
"MUFG is honored to sponsor the Pinnacle Awards, which acknowledge innovation among treasury and finance professionals who are driving transformation across their organizations to achieve business objectives," said Ranjana Clark, Head of Global Transaction Banking, MUFG. "MUFG supports the AFP's continued commitment to education and recognizing excellence in treasury and finance as demonstrated by these Pinnacle Award finalists."
Register for AFP 2022 by September 16 to save $350. For press inquiries or if you are interested in covering AFP 2022, please contact Melissa Rawak, managing director, at mrawak@afponline.org.
Comcast Capital Corporation's entry focused on a global treasury transformation journey involving the implementation of a global in-house bank (IHB) structure that allowed the company — which had accumulated 100 bank relationships and 3,800 bank accounts across more than 500 entities — to move toward an optimal banking structure, create shared liquidity and access cash in an efficient manner. In the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, the amount of cash incorporated in a liquidity management structure increased from 55% to 80%, leading to an extra $1 billion+ in available liquidity. Key lessons from the EMEA implementation of the global treasury transformation journey will shape future implementations, including in North America, over the next few years.
Marsh McLennan's entry focused on training a machine learning model to predict client churn, a critical metric for driving business that had previously been calculated through a quarterly, and sometimes even monthly, manual review process. Using several years of transactional invoice data, the model computed the client retention rate in Mexico, achieving the same or slightly better accuracy than the manual process. The model removed manual workload from the financial planning & analysis teams and allowed client teams to proactively manage client relationships. Marsh McLennan is now migrating the model to full implementation and scaling it up to include other countries where the company has a large presence.
Oracle Cerner's entry focused on building a solution to manage the company's data volume in collaboration with internal engineering partners and external vendors and banks. A task force, identified by Treasury, assessed key requirements to achieve the immediate need for compliance, transferred SWIFT BIC Codes, maintained standardization of AL2, and became more independent and future-proof. The task force eliminated a $4 billion payments bottleneck, helped to address potential reputational and financial damage, and delivered a solution that will help the company to refine its processes for years to come.
Headquartered outside of Washington, D.C., and located regionally in Singapore, the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) is the professional society committed to advancing the success of treasury and finance members and their organizations. Established and administered by AFP, the Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Corporate FP&A Professional credentials set standards of excellence in treasury and finance.
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