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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Dubai court ruled on Monday that a British man suspected of masterminding a $1.7 billion tax scheme cannot be extradited to Denmark to face charges.
The decision in the high-profile case grants the hedge fund trader, Sanjay Shah, a victory against Danish authorities who sought him for his role in one of the country’s largest-ever fraud cases. Monday’s court ruling, which judges delivered without explanation, can be appealed by prosecutors within 30 days.
The elaborate tax scheme, which ran for three years beginning in 2012, allegedly involved foreign businesses pretending to own shares in Danish companies and claiming tax refunds for which they were not eligible.
“Of course we will try to get him (out) on bail now immediately,” Shah’s lawyer, Ali al-Zarooni, told The Associated Press from the Dubai courthouse.
Prosecutors in Copenhagen did not immediately respond to request for comment.
The 52-year-old financier has maintained his innocence in past interviews with journalists but never appeared in Denmark to answer accusations. Al-Zarooni had contested the extradition, arguing in past closed-door hearings that Denmark had “breached” the rules of international extradition treaties in unspecified ways. He declined to elaborate on Monday.
Shah’s lifestyle on Dubai’s luxurious palm-shaped island over the past few years had sparked outrage in Denmark. After Danish authorities signed an extradition agreement with the UAE, Dubai police arrested Shah in June. Shah is one of several suspects in the tax scheme sought by Danish authorities.
During his time in Dubai, the hedge fund manager ran a center for autistic children that shut down in 2020 as Denmark tried to extradite him. He also oversaw a British-based charity, Autism Rocks, which raised funds through concerts and performances.
His arrest comes as pressure grows on Dubai, the region’s financial hub, over its alleged weaknesses in combating illicit finance. The UAE, a federation of seven emirates, has long invited the wealthy, including disgraced public figures, to invest in the country without questioning where they made their money. Scrutiny of Dubai has intensified as the flashy city-state becomes a haven for Russian money amid Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
In recent months, however, the UAE has arrested several suspects wanted for major crimes, including two of the Gupta brothers from South Africa, accused of facilitating vast public corruption and draining state resources with former President Jacob Zuma. An Emirati official also recently became president of Interpol, the international police agency.
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Associated Press writer Isabel DeBre in Dubai contributed to this report. | 2022-09-12T11:36:19+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-dubai-court-rejects-danish-extradition-request-for-financier/ |
Woodforest proudly continues its expansion across Florida
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Woodforest National Bank® (Woodforest) headquartered in Montgomery County, Texas, with 760+ branches nationwide recently opened two new branches in Kissimmee and Brandon, FL.
The two new Woodforest branches are located inside Walmart® at 1471 East Osceola Pkwy., Kissimmee, FL 34744 and 11110 Causeway Blvd., Brandon, FL 33511. Woodforest now has nine branches across Florida. The new in-store branches offer full-service banking with lobby and ATM services for shoppers and area consumers.
"By having a larger branch network, we broaden access to retail banking services for families and the entire community. Our new Florida branches are designed for convenience, and bankers who are ready to help customers along their financial journey," said Julie Mayrant, President and Chief Retail Officer, Woodforest National Bank.
Celebrating over 40 years of community banking service, Woodforest National Bank has successfully stood among the strongest community banks in the nation, proudly offering outstanding customer service since 1980. Woodforest currently operates over 760 branches in 17 states across the United States and is an Outstanding CRA rated institution. For more information about Woodforest National Bank, please visit www.woodforest.com. Member FDIC.
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Fed officials signal rates may head to ‘restrictive’ levels
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials agreed when they met earlier this month that they may have to raise interest rates to levels that would weaken the economy as part of their drive to curb inflation, which is near a four-decade high.
At the same time, many of the policymakers also agreed that after a rapid series of rate increases in the coming months, they could “assess the effects” of their rate hikes and, depending on the economy’s health, increase rates at a slower pace.
After their meeting this month, the policymakers raised their benchmark short-term rate by a half-point — double the usual hike. According to minutes from the May 3-4 meeting released Wednesday, most of the officials agreed that half-point hikes also “would likely be appropriate” when they next meet in June and July. Chair Jerome Powell himself had indicated after this month’s meeting that half-point increases would be “on the table” at the next two meetings.
All the officials believed that the Fed should “expeditiously” raise its key rate to a level at which it neither stimulates nor restrains growth, which officials have said is a rate of about 2.4%. Some policymakers have said they will likely reach that point by the end of this year.
The minutes suggest, though, that there may be a sharp debate among policymakers about how quickly to tighten credit after the June and July meetings. The economy has shown more signs of slowing, and stock markets have dropped sharply, since the Fed meeting.
Government reports have indicated, for example, that sales of new and existing homes have faltered sharply since this month’s Fed meeting, and there are signs that factory output is growing more slowly. Gennadiy Goldberg, senior rates strategist at TD Securities, suggested that the minutes released Wednesday might reflect a more “hawkish” Fed — that is, more focused on rate hikes to restrain inflation — than may actually be the case now.
Some officials, particularly Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, have indicated since this month’s meeting that the Fed could reconsider its pace of rate hikes in September.
And Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, has said that if there’s “compelling evidence that inflation is moving down,” the Fed could slow its rate hikes, likely to a quarter-point pace.
“But if inflation has failed to moderate,” she added, “a faster pace of rate increases may be necessary.”
The minutes released Wednesday signaled a tentative acknowledgement by some Fed officials that recent inflation data “might suggest that overall price pressures may no longer be worsening.” At the same time, those officials — the minutes don’t name individual Fed policymakers — stressed that it was “too early to be confident that inflation had peaked.”
Fed officials unanimously agreed that the “U.S. economy was very strong, the labor market was extremely tight, and inflation was very high and well above” the Fed’s target of 2%. Powell had expressed similar sentiments at his May 4 news conference.
Fed officials are betting that the economy’s broad strength will enable it to withstand sharply higher borrowing rates without leading to extended layoffs or a recession.
When Fed officials decided this month to raise their benchmark rate by a half-point to a range of 0.75% to 1%, it was their first increase of that size since 2000. The officials also announced that they would start to shrink their huge $9 trillion balance sheet, which has more than doubled since the pandemic.
The balance sheet swelled as the Fed bought about $4.5 trillion in Treasury and mortgage bonds after the pandemic recession struck to try to hold down longer-term rates. On June 1, the Fed plans to let those securities start to mature, without replacing them. That should also heighten the cost of long-term borrowing.
Powell has said the Fed is determined to raise rates high enough to restrain inflation, leading many economists to expect the sharpest pace of rate hikes in three decades this year. Powell says the central bank is aiming for a “soft landing,” in which higher interest rates cool borrowing and spending enough to slow the economy and inflation. But most economists are skeptical that the Fed can achieve such a narrow outcome without causing an economic downturn.
Stock prices have plunged on fears that the Fed’s rate hikes will send the economy into recession. The S&P 500 has fallen for seven straight weeks, the longest such stretch since the aftermath of the dot-com bubble in 2001. The stock index nearly fell into bear-market territory last week — defined as a 20% drop from its peak — but rallied Wednesday.
The minutes also showed that some policymakers decided it was appropriate to consider selling some of its holdings of mortgage-backed securities, rather than simply letting them mature. Sales would make it easier for the Fed to transition to a portfolio composed mainly of Treasurys, the minutes said.
The Fed has said that by September it would allow up to $30 billion of mortgage-backed securities to mature each month, along with $60 billion in Treasurys. Many analysts doubt that the cap will be reached for mortgage-backed bonds, because mortgage rates have jumped more than 2 percentage points since the start of the year. That means that fewer homeowners will refinance their mortgages because their current loan rates are lower than the rates now available in the mortgage market.
Fewer refinancings would force the Fed to sell mortgage-backed securities to maintain its plans to reduce its balance sheet.
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Bush's® Beans is bringing the beautiful bean to the great outdoors with a one-of-a-kind stay in a giant bean can on wheels to kick off its partnership with the National Park Foundation
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Beans and camping are a beloved duo and to kick off its new partnership with the National Park Foundation, Bush's® Beans is bringing the beautiful bean to the great outdoors. The family-owned bean company is offering three fans and their favorite human bean (aka one guest) a once-in-a-lifetime stay in the Bush's Canper, a fully stocked giant bean can on wheels that you can camp in, near three national parks this summer: Big Bend National Park in Texas, Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming or the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, Bush's home state where they have been making beans for generations.
Bush's partnership with the National Park Foundation (NPF) will support the nonprofit's mission to protect and preserve the more than 400 national parks that make up the National Park System, which includes landscapes and wilderness, historical sites, and places of cultural significance.
Experience the national parks like never before with this bean lover's dream stay, which includes:
- All-expenses paid trip for the winner and their guest to one national park and a stay nearby in Bush's Canper (includes flights, ground transportation and a $200 travel stipend)
- The Canper features bean-themed design touches, is outfitted with water and power and comes stocked with food, beverages and custom Bush's Beans canping gear so you have all the comforts of home in the great outdoors
- Bean-centric, camping themed breakfasts and dinners prepared by a private chef, plus packed lunch on-the-go to stay fueled during all your park adventures
- Un-bean-livable guided excursion of your choice in or around the national park
"As a camping staple that fuels outdoor adventures, Bush's is excited to partner with the National Park Foundation and support their mission of protecting and preserving our national parks for current and future visitors," said Stephen Palacios, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Innovation at Bush's. "We know many of our fans are outdoor enthusiasts and turn to Bush's Beans as park-friendly fuel with plant-based protein. Additionally, our cans are infinitely recyclable and completely shelf stable, making them the perfect pairing for this unique Canper experience or any national park excursion."
Non-perishable and loaded with long-lasting energy, plant-based protein and fiber, Bush's Beans are a delicious campsite essential that fuels outdoor exploration and adventures year-round. The bean's delicious combination of flavor, nutrition and versatility, all the while being a sustainable staple that gives back more to the soil than it takes out, make it one mighty legume. Beans are a versatile, humble food that are equally good for humans and our precious earth.
"We're happy to welcome Bush's to the National Park Foundation family," said Chad Jones, Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships at the National Park Foundation. "We look forward to fostering a sense of fun and adventure centered on national park experiences this summer."
Starting Wednesday, April 5 at 8 AM CT through Wednesday, April 26 at 11:59 PM CT, fans can enter to win a 3-day, 2-night stay for themselves and a guest in the Bush's Canper at a campground near Big Bend National Park, Grand Teton National Park or the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by visiting www.bushscanper.com. Fans can enter to win the Bush's Canper experience near each park, however, if they are selected as a winner, they will only be eligible for one stay.
For more information on how to win this can-tastic stay, visit www.bushscanper.com and follow Bush's Beans on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok for other exclusive content.
About Bush's® Beans
Bush's® is That Beautiful Bean Co.—a quality-obsessed, family-owned business since 1908. We believe in the goodness of the humble bean, a food that's equally good for humans and the earth. When you enjoy our beans, you can trust that they're the very best. Because we wouldn't serve your family anything less. Since we got our start more than 110 years ago in Chestnut Hill, Tenn., Bush's has always maintained that quality is the best policy. We pursue excellence and exceptional taste in our beans, sauces and everything we do. That's why, from mouthwatering Baked Beans to Chili Beans to our newest Sidekicks, you're cooking up the best with Bush's. For more information, visit www.bushbeans.com.
About National Park Foundation
The National Park Foundation works to protect wildlife and park lands, preserve history and culture, educate, and engage youth, and connect people everywhere to the wonder of parks. We do it in collaboration with the National Park Service, the park partner community, and with the generous support of donors, without whom our work would not be possible. Learn more at nationalparks.org.
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OXFORD — Ole Miss junior rightfielder T.J.McCants hit a walk-off single in the ninth, and the Rebels took down Georgia 8-7 in the rubber match with the Bulldogs at Swayze Field Sunday afternoon. With the victory, Ole Miss has won its first SEC series of the season.
Junior third baseman Ethan Lege broke a 5-5 tie with a two-out RBI single — part of a two-run eighth inning — before Ben Anderson hit a two-run home run to tie the game at seven.
With a pair of runners on and one out in the ninth, McCants singled through the left side of the infield, and freshman pinch-runner Judd Utermark was able to score from second despite a play at the plate.
“I haven’t really (gotten) too many to fall for me, so I really appreciated (being able) to get one in that situation,” McCants said.
The Rebels (23-21, 5-16 SEC) hit three home runs Sunday, and freshman Grayson Saunier — making his first weekend start since March 25 against Florida — went a career-long six innings, gave up just two hits, one earned run and struck out six batters without surrendering a walk.
“(It’s been) kind of crazy. I hadn’t thrown in like two weeks, but then I got the start vs. State on Tuesday. So, it’s been a lot, mentally trying to figure some things out,” Saunier said. “But it’s been good getting to finally get back out here and pitch again.”
Ole Miss led 5-2 in the eighth, but Georgia tied the game off junior reliever Jack Dougherty. Lege gave the Rebels the lead while junior leftfielder Kemp Alderman added another run in a two-run eighth inning, both runs coming with two outs.
Lege and junior shortstop Jacob Gonzalez each hit two-run home runs against the Bulldogs, and senior second baseman Peyton Chatagnier added a solo home run in the sixth. Lege hit his monstrous shot in the first inning to set the pace, a ball that was a no-doubter into left field off the bat. Gonzalez’s longball to right-center came with one out in the fourth.
Saunier did not allow a baserunner through his first three innings of work. Georgia (24-20, 8-13) star Charlie Condon broke up the perfect game bid with one out in the fourth, hitting a solo home run to cut the Rebels’ lead in half. Gonzalez padded the lead in the bottom half of the inning, and Chatagnier’s home run came in the sixth.
The first three batters reached against sophomore Mason Nichols in the seventh, plating an unearned Bulldogs run and bringing Dougherty into the game. Dougherty got the Rebels out of the jam with a strike out, a pop up and a fly out. Georgia loaded the bases on Dougherty in the eighth, however, and plated three runs to tie the game.
After Lege and Alderman gave the Rebels a two-run cushion in the bottom of the eighth, Anderson struck with his game-tying, two-run home run in the ninth.
That’s when McCants created some much-needed magic to send the Rebels and the Swayze faithful home happy.
“The bottom (of the order), those guys really swung it well early in the season and haven’t swung it well in conference play,” head coach Mike Bianco said. “But Peyton with a big home run, home run earlier in the series as well, T.J. swinging it better — certainly the big hit — but he’s had some really good at-bats this weekend as well. And we’re going to need that. For you to be good offensively, you can’t just do it at the top. The bottom has got to throw some punches, too. And we were able to do that.”
Ole Miss hosts Arkansas-Little Rock at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network+. The Rebels then play at Missouri for a three-game set starting Thursday.
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JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – The mayor of Juarez on Wednesday invited residents of El Paso and Southern New Mexico to visit his city’s annual arts and entertainment fair, which begins on Thursday night.
He also said “it’s not a priority” of his administration to censor the artists who will perform at the event nor fine them for singing songs alluding to drug traffickers. At least two performers face fines in Chihuahua City for performing the so-called narco-corridos at the recently concluded Santa Rita Fair, local media reported.
The ban is part of efforts by the Mexican government and the state of Chihuahua to reduce drug violence that has reached record levels south of the border in the past three years. But the songs about people of humble beginnings achieving status, getting even with past oppressors and flooding America with drugs have proven resilient. Juarez radio stations still air them and people dunk dollar bills into jukeboxes at bars to hear them.
“It’s not convenient, it’s not realistic to ban certain songs,” Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar said. “I know there are some laws and authorities at certain levels interested in applying them, but as far as we’re concerned, it’s not a priority.”
The mayor said his main concern is ensuring the safety of the Mexican and foreign visitors to Feria Juarez 2022, and he plans to do that by deploying 300 police and 200 traffic officers to the event that will run from June 9 through July 3.
“If banning these songs were the answer to end insecurity, great. But we want people to enjoy themselves, (we want) each artist to sing whatever they are known for,” Perez Cuellar said. “We respect if state authorities have their own vision on the subject, but it’s not a priority for us. […] We are free.”
Asked by Border Report if he could guarantee the safety of American residents who attend the event at the park with the big red “X” just south of the Bridge of the Americans, the mayor said he would do his best.
“Though we cannot guarantee anything 100 percent, we will commit police, traffic and civil protection officers so that everything goes well,” Perez Cuellar said. “We want to invite people from El Paso and Las Cruces, and the entire region to visit us. It’s going to be a great show.”
Pop artists like Gloria Trevi, Kumbia Kings and Afrojack are scheduled to perform. Most of the other artists are Mexican regional bands.
Roberto Briones, the city’s Civil Defense Office director, said free buses would run nightly from Juarez City Hall, just south and east of the Paso del Norte Bridge, to the fairgrounds. He encouraged people who want to drink to take those buses from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. because Chihuahua just passed a law limiting drivers’ blood-alcohol level to .025. That’s about two beers.
“You can bring a designated driver, you can ask your spouse to drive, because we don’t want to have accidents,” Briones said.
Juarez officials are asking fairgoers to bring a mask to the fair because, even though it’s not mandatory outdoors, the fair has some indoor attractions where it should be worn.
This year’s fair will have a circus and 43 mechanical games including a 45-meter tall (147 feet) Ferris wheel. More than 100 merchants and artisans will be selling their wares; at least 80 food vendors will be on hand.
Admission is $2.50 and parking is free, though rides and concerts are extra. Perez Cuellar said parking attendants would be on hand to guard the vehicles against vandalism. They can be tipped or not. | 2022-06-08T22:34:46+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/border-report-tour/juarez-wont-ban-narco-corridos-at-annual-city-fair/ |
‘I can’t stop crying’: 25-year-old daughter secretly becomes her father’s kidney donor
KIRKWOOD, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) – A Missouri man has a shot at a longer life, thanks to his 25-year-old daughter who gave him her kidney.
The priceless gift was something dad John Ivanowski did not see coming. His daughter, Delayne Ivanowski, kept it a secret until her dad woke up from his surgery and learned who his kidney donor was.
Emotions on John Ivanowski’s face tell you everything he cannot describe.
“I can’t stop crying,” John Ivanowski said. “I mean, I was upset, but I’m so grateful.”
Delayne Ivanowski said her dad told her he knew that she was “up to something,” but didn’t realize how big that “something” was.
Delayne Ivanowski had the idea to become a kidney donor for her dad more than a year ago after doctors told her father he suffered from an Immunoglobulin A deficiency, causing an overactive immune system that attacked his kidneys.
“From there, it’s just been dialysis every couple of days since then. So, for over a year, he’s been hooked up to a machine for three, four, five hours a day. It’s not the right quality of life I don’t think anyone should have to live in,” Delayne Ivanowski said. “So, then my first thought was, why can’t he just have my kidney right now?”
Her father, however, was against it. He didn’t want his daughter going through a major surgery for his sake.
“I’m like, ‘You’re too young. You’ve got a long time to be here, and my time’s limited,’” he said.
His daughter, however, had other ideas.
“I don’t even know how I got his coordinator’s phone number, and I reached out to her, and I was like, ‘Hey, how can I do this. When can we start?’” she said. “And then as soon as he was good enough basically for the transplant, they started running me through a bunch of tests.”
Delayne Ivanowski was doing all the planning while her dad “had no idea it was going on,” she said.
As it turns out, Delayne Ivanowski was a match and would be able to donate a kidney to her father.
After eight months of secrecy, the day of the surgery arrived on Feb. 16.
The heartfelt moment of John Ivanowski learning his daughter was his kidney donor was caught on camera as he woke up in the hospital.
“I didn’t find out until the day of surgery after we were post-op. She opened the door and came through, and I was just like ‘Oh my lord,’” he said.
The emotional moment also hit the hearts of millions across social media after Delayne Ivanowski posted the video on TikTok.
“Oh my god, are you kidding me?” John Ivanowski says through tears in the video as his daughter walks into his hospital room, also dressed in a surgical gown.
In her TikTok video, Delayne Ivanowski asked her followers to donate just $1 each to help with her family’s medical costs.
“They’ve already gone through so much. Dialysis isn’t cheap,” she said. “I thought, why not reach out to social media, and I got a way bigger response than I ever was expecting to.”
Although he never wanted his daughter to donate her kidney, John Ivanowski said he ultimately feels grateful his daughter took the plunge and became his donor.
“Not to be hooked up to the machine anymore and be able to do what I need to do or what I want to do, it’s just a big relief,” he said.
Delayne Ivanowski said the experience will be an unforgettable one.
“If you are going to give a kidney, it is one of the greatest gifts you can ever give in the world,” she said. “It’s literally like donating life.”
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans that could increase the power of state lawmakers over races for Congress and the presidency, as well as redistricting, and cut state courts out of the equation.
The issue has arisen repeatedly in cases from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, where Democratic majorities on the states’ highest courts have invoked voting protections in their state constitutions to frustrate the plans of Republican-dominated legislatures.
Already, four conservative Supreme Court justices have noted their interest in deciding whether state courts, finding violations of their state constitutions, can order changes to federal elections and the once-a-decade redrawing of congressional districts. The Supreme Court has never invoked what is known as the independent state legislature doctrine, although three justices advanced it in the Bush v. Gore case that settled the 2000 presidential election.
“The issue is almost certain to keep arising until the Court definitively resolves it,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in March.
It only takes four of the nine justices to agree to hear a case. A majority of five is needed for an eventual decision.
Many election law experts are alarmed by the prospect that the justices might seek to reduce state courts' powers over elections.
“A ruling endorsing a strong or muscular reading of the independent state legislature theory would potentially give state legislatures even more power to curtail voting rights and provide a pathway for litigation to subvert the election outcomes expressing the will of the people.” law professor Richard Hasen wrote in an email.
But if the justices are going to get involved, Hasen said, “it does make sense for the Court to do it outside the context of an election with national implications.”
The court could say as early as Tuesday, or perhaps the following week, whether it will hear an appeal filed by North Carolina Republicans. The appeal challenges a state court ruling that threw out the congressional districts drawn by the General Assembly that made GOP candidates likely victors in 10 of the state's 14 congressional districts.
The North Carolina Supreme Court held that the boundaries violated state constitution provisions protecting free elections and freedoms of speech and association by handicapping voters who support Democrats.
The new map that eventually emerged and is being used this year gives Democrats a good chance to win six seats, and possibly a seventh in a new toss-up district.
Pennsylvania's top court also selected a map that Republicans say probably will lead to the election of more Democrats, as the two parties battle for control of the U.S. House in the midterm elections in November. An appeal from Pennsylvania also is waiting, if the court for some reason passes on the North Carolina case.
Nationally, the parties fought to a draw in redistricting, which leaves Republicans positioned to win control of the House even if they come up just short of winning a majority of the national vote.
If the GOP does well in November, the party also could capture seats on state supreme courts, including in North Carolina, that might allow for the drawing of more slanted maps that previous courts rejected. Two court seats held by North Carolina Democrats are on the ballot this year and Republicans need to win just one to take control of the court for the first time since 2017.
In their appeal to the nation's high court, North Carolina Republicans wrote that it is time for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the elections clause in the U.S. Constitution, which gives each state’s legislature the responsibility to determine “the times, places and manner” of holding congressional elections.
“Activist judges and allied plaintiffs have proved time and time again that they believe state courts have the ultimate say over congressional maps, no matter what the U.S. Constitution says,” North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger said when the appeal was filed in March.
The Supreme Court generally does not disturb state court rulings that are rooted in state law.
But four Supreme Court justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — have said the court should step in to decide whether state courts had improperly taken powers given by the U.S. Constitution to state lawmakers.
That was the argument that Thomas and two other conservative justices put forward in Bush v. Gore, although that case was decided on other grounds.
If the court takes up the North Carolina case and rules in the GOP’s favor, North Carolina Republicans could draw new maps for 2024 elections with less worry that the state Supreme Court would strike them down.
Defenders of state court involvement argue that state lawmakers would also gain the power to pass provisions that would suppress voting, subject only to challenge in federal courts. Delegating power to election boards and secretaries of state to manage federal elections in emergencies also could be questioned legally, some scholars said.
“Its adoption would radically change our elections,” Ethan Herenstein and Tom Wolf, both with the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program at the New York University Law School, wrote earlier this month.
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Robertson reported from Raleigh, North Carolina. | 2022-06-19T20:29:49+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/justices-poised-to-hear-elections-case-pressed-by-gop/507-1976cd41-4e93-456d-a205-12741ab6b9f0 |
When a top Belgian hurdler couldn't race in the European Athletics Team Championships, her team turned to its top shot-putter. So Jolien Boumkwo gamely ran the women's 100 meters hurdles, delivering two points for her team. She did it all with a smile.
"I really love it," Boumkwo said afterward, as videos of the towering athlete, gingerly bouncing her way over each hurdle on Saturday, became a sensation.
One day earlier, Boumkwo had finished seventh in the shot put, an event in which she recently broke her own national record. Normally, that would have been the end of her competition at the championships in Poland.
But she was called to duty on Saturday after Anne Zagré, the Belgian national record-holder in the 100-meter hurdles, was forced out with an injury. The country's Hanne Claes was also out. And with a Swiss hurdler disqualified in Heat A, it was up to Boumkwo to seize two points for Belgium.
"My team is the most important thing for me," Boumkwo told Agence France-Presse, adding, "I couldn't let it happen to lose by one point."
Boumkwo said she immediately said yes when her team asked whether she could possibly run hurdles, and her coach agreed — as long as she did it carefully. After all, as Boumkwo told Belgian public broadcaster Sporza, they sometimes include hurdles in her training.
Aside from the novelty of the event, Boumkwo said, it was unusual for her to feel like everyone in the stadium had their eyes on her.
With good reason. In the footage, Boumkwo waved as she was introduced, taking her spot in the blocks. There was no question of where she would finish: Although the shot-putter got through the race cleanly, her rivals were already facing their third set of hurdles as she got over her first obstacle.
At the finish line, Boumkwo's fellow racers greeted her with high-fives and handshakes. She set a season-best time of 32.81.
Her national team thanked her for her sacrifice, saying it was part of athletics — "and that's why we love it so much!"
If her two points might help Belgium stay in the top division, Boumkwo told Sporza, it would be worth it.
Despite Boumkwo's heroics, Belgium faces relegation to Division 2 in the next European Athletics Team Championships, having finished 14th out of 16 teams, just behind Greece. In the biennial competition, the bottom three Division 1 teams are relegated and replaced by the top three Division 2 teams.
But that hasn't stopped Belgium — and as of this week, legions of its track team's newest fans — from celebrating Boumkwo's athleticism and her commitment to helping her team.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-26T21:14:41+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-sports/npr-sports/2023-06-26/a-belgian-shot-putter-runs-the-hurdles-after-answering-her-teams-call-for-help |
OWASSO — Owasso will soon be home to a new apartment community.
Township 21, located on 86th Street North west of 145th East Avenue, is aiming to provide affordable, income-restricted housing at discounted rates for residents looking for a new place to call home.
The facility is managed by Valhalla Management out of Springfield, Missouri, that oversees rental properties in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Township 21 in Owasso is among several sites managed by Valhalla that accommodate people with fixed or lower income through Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Tax Code.
“We have lots of single parents who aren’t receiving child support and assistance from the state. We have lots of seniors who are living on social security, disability,” said Carri Eisenhauer, executive director for Valhalla Management.
“We’re kind of a step-up program … so we partner in this program to be able to provide housing to them that is going to be just like the market communities around us, but with a discounted rental rate.”
Township 21 offers two- and three-bedroom options, including 796 and 955 square feet for $625 and $700, as well as 1,075 and 1,254 square feet for $715 and $825.
All 58 units are pet-friendly and include open floor plans that feature fully equipped kitchens along with washer and dryer connections. The facility also hosts a fitness center, community room, office with computer stations and controlled access entry.
Township 21, under construction for the last year, plans to have the building occupied by the end of December. Staff started receiving applications at the end of September, and will move people in between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Eisenhauer said her team is excited to celebrate the grand opening of the new facility.
“Owasso is amazing,” she said. “We have sister properties in and around those general areas, so our developers work specifically with communities that are in search or in need of the affordable housing program.”
As executive director of the Tulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity, Kian Kamas has been instrumental in bringing $275 million in new investments to the area in the past fiscal year, according to the agency's annual report.
COVID pushed millions into remote or hybrid work, making it incumbent on employers to "attract their workforce back" with alluring amenities like the nine companies on CBRE's list.
Township 21, located on 86th Street North west of 145th East Avenue, will provide affordable, income-restricted housing at discounted rates for residents looking for a new place to call home | 2022-10-19T17:07:21+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/business/local/affordable-housing-apartment-community-township-21-nearing-completion-in-owasso/article_36c37eb4-4fc6-11ed-bebc-7bbb0d419809.html |
Republicans flex their new House majority with new committee chairs
Republicans will step into the leadership roles once held by Democrats as the GOP takes over control of the House.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Following the dramatic 15 rounds of votes that finally ended with Kevin McCarthy winning the gavel as Speaker of the House, Republicans are further asserting their majority by announcing new chairs of committees.
“We are laser focused on passing our ‘Commitment to America’ agenda,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
Committees are how the Republican majority can implement their agenda, determining what bills are voted on and what’s being investigated.
“The Speaker can’t do everything. And, there’s a lot of positions of genuine influence and power that don’t come with a Speaker attached to the title,” said Casey Burgat, Director, Legislative Affairs Program, George Washington University. “So when you get it, depending on your goals about policy, committee chairs are super-powerful because that’s where the legislating is done on that particular issue area. If political goals are your power, like what is the party investigating or what are their talking points, conference chairs are really powerful there.”
Yet the Republican majority remains narrow, just five seats.
“If you only have a five seat majority, you can’t lose, you can’t afford to lose more than five votes on a bill because then it’s dead. So you would think that you’d go try to pick up some Democratic support on that. But this is where Speaker McCarthy’s job is incredibly difficult, as we saw on the on the election of him for Speaker, that every vote you gain from a Democratic side is likely a vote lost from the more conservative wing, the Trump wing of the party, that they’re not willing to just accept any and all input on bills. And for them, they’ve actually campaigned on not working with Democrats at all. And so, politically speaking, that would be a no brainer for those MAGA Republicans to sit out those votes. It’s an impossible line to walk and we’re going to see them trying to do it,” said Burgat.
As for Democrats they say, they’re willing to compromise, but only so much.
“When they’re ready to get serious about the most pressing issues facing this country, House democrats stand ready for them to deliver. Until then we’re ready to call out their extremism each and every step of the way,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Democratic Caucus Chair.
Copyright 2023 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-11T01:27:36+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2023/01/10/republicans-flex-their-new-house-majority-with-new-committee-chairs/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — A woman who said Herschel Walker paid for her 2009 abortion is the mother of one of his children, according to a new report Wednesday, undercutting the Georgia Republican Senate candidate’s claims that he didn’t know who she was.
The Daily Beast, which first reported Monday on the abortion, said it had agreed not to reveal details of the woman’s identity to protect her privacy. But Walker, who has expressed support for a national abortion ban without exceptions, vehemently denied the story, calling the abortion allegation a “flat-out lie,” threatening a lawsuit against the outlet he has yet to file and saying he had no idea who the woman might be.
So on Wednesday night, The Daily Beast revealed that the woman — who was not named — was so well known to Walker that, according to her, they conceived another child years after the abortion. She decided to continue on with the later pregnancy, though she noted that Walker, as he had during the earlier pregnancy, expressed that it wasn’t a convenient time for him, the outlet reported.
The Daily Beast said the Walker campaign declined to comment on Wednesday’s story. Walker is scheduled to make a public appearance Thursday morning in Wadley, Georgia, as part of his Unite Georgia Bus Stop tour across the state.
The latest reporting ensures that abortion will continue to be a central issue in the Georgia race, one of the most competitive Senate contests in the country. Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock are locked in a tight contest that is key to the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
It adds to a series of stories about the football legend’s past that have shaken Walker’s campaign. Walker has been accused of repeatedly threatening his ex-wife’s life, exaggerating claims of financial success and overstating his role in a for-profit program that is alleged to have preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government.
Earlier this year, after a story by The Daily Beast, Walker acknowledged the existence of three children he had not previously talked about publicly.
The woman told The Daily Beast for Wednesday’s story that Walker’s denial of the abortion was somewhat surprising to her.
“Sure, I was stunned, but I guess it also doesn’t shock me, that maybe there are just so many of us that he truly doesn’t remember,” the woman said. “But then again, if he really forgot about it, that says something, too.”
In The Daily Beast report published late Monday, the news outlet said it reviewed a receipt showing her payment for the procedure, along with a get-well card from Walker and her bank deposit records showing the image of a $700 personal check from Walker dated five days after the abortion receipt.
During the Republican Senate primary, Walker openly backed a national ban on abortions with no exceptions for cases involving rape, incest or a woman’s health being at risk — particularly notable at a time when the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court precedent had been overturned and Democrats in Congress had been discussing codifying abortion rights into federal law.
“I’m for life,” Walker has said repeatedly as he campaigns. When asked about whether he’d allow for any exceptions, he has said there are “no excuses” for the procedure.
As the Republican nominee, Walker has sometimes sidestepped questions about his earlier support for a national abortion ban, a tacit nod to the fact that most voters, including many Republicans, want at least some legal access to abortion. | 2022-10-06T17:08:23+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-report-mom-of-walkers-child-says-he-paid-for-her-abortion/ |
An Oklahoma state lawmaker who identifies as non-binary, was censured by the state House of Representatives for allegedly impeding a law enforcement investigation after harboring a fugitive wanted for assaulting a fellow House member and a state trooper last week.
Rep. Mauree Turner, D-Oklahoma City was accused of allowing a fugitive wanted for questioning regarding an assault to hide in their office on Feb. 28, and as the person hid in the office, Turner rejected requests from law enforcement officials to access the fugitive.
The incident happened after the House passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors. Shortly after the bill passed, the suspected fugitive allegedly assaulted both a House member and an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer in the State Capitol building.
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On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted 81-19 to censure Turner.
House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, issued a statement, saying Turner "knowingly and willfully, impeded a law enforcement investigation, harboring a fugitive and repeatedly lying to officers" while using their official office and position to "thwart attempts" by law enforcement officials to contact the suspect.
"I want to make something very clear: I will not allow members of the House of Representatives to use their House assigned offices and official positions to impede law enforcement from carrying out investigations or making arrests in the State Capitol," McCall said. "Our law enforcement officers leave their homes every day to serve and protect us, never knowing if it might be the last time, they see their families. The House stands by our law enforcement, and will not allow what is an already dangerous and unpredictable job to become more dangerous due to the actions of a member of our body. The inappropriate, and potentially criminal, actions exhibited by this member of the House were deserving of censure, and the actions taken by the House today were both measured and just."
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Turner did not immediately respond to questions.
The legislator posted to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, though, accusing state Republicans of making Oklahoma "unsafe to Trans Oklahomans."
"When I walk into the chamber and there’s a gaggle of troopers talking about me, I think about how Republicans have used every resource in their *power to make this place unsafe to Trans Oklahomans. To Us. To Me…2-spirit, Trans & Gender Non-conforming Oklahomans," Turner Tweeted.
The censured legislator later tweeted that they have a "a lil heartburn goin’ on…lol." | 2023-03-08T02:43:08+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/oklahoma-non-binary-democrat-censured-for-harboring-fugitive-in-state-capitol-office/article_556a5410-f62a-5196-87ad-e878accf744c.html |
Erin Confortini, 23, taught herself to budget and invest in college when she realized she didn't know much about personal finance — even as a finance major.
Now, she shares the details of her financial life with hundreds of thousands of people online.
In a recent video posted to TikTok, she tells viewers exactly how much of her monthly $2,773 paycheck goes into taxes, insurance and retirement: $520, $25 and $305, respectively. It's gotten more than one million views.
In the absence of a national requirement for financial literacy in high school, teens and twenty-somethings are seeking out ways to save, budget and invest. And social media, especially TikTok, has become a textbook.
But personal finance experts — including content creators themselves — warn that social media should only be a starting point.
Who do you trust?
You can't believe everything you read on the internet — or scroll past on TikTok. There are sometimes competing messages, and influencers can recommend different things.
Confortini, who works full time as an internal auditor but moonlights as a personal finance content creator, is among dozens of social media influencers who've made their own personal finance journeys into a side hustle, scoring brand deals to promote products by fintech companies and selling downloadable templates of their budget spreadsheets.
"It really comes down to who you build trust with," says Grace Lemire, 24, a content creator from Massachusetts.
Lemire covers topics such as saving, traveling on a budget and the best beginner credit cards. She also talks about how to deal with money conflicts with friends and family.
"There are people who resonate with the content that I post, and they trust me and so they trust my advice," says Lemire, whose TikTok videos have racked up more than two million views. "But there are people who don't resonate with my content and so they don't trust my advice."
Lemire gets paid by brands to advertise products — she made $1,600 from content deals in January and is set to make $6,600 in February — and she says she vets the companies before agreeing to promote their stuff.
"It's a big role to have," she says. "You want to make sure you're doing the right thing because the stakes are so high."
Nearly 80% of Americans between 18 and 41 have gotten financial advice from social media, according to a survey by Forbes Advisor and market research company Prolific. But financial advisors warn there can be pitfalls.
Financial planner Lazetta Rainey Braxton says it's "wonderful" that social media influencers motivate people to get their finances in order, but influencers can't provide in-depth financial advice. There's no replacement for professional, time-earned expertise, she says.
"Most people want to do the least amount of work and get the greatest amount of benefit," says Braxton. "That's why TikTok is so attractive. It's like, what can you tell me in a sound bite that can save me some time and give me exactly what I want."
Plus, while social platforms can introduce people to new terms and ideas on how to save money, it can be dangerous to open new savings and investment accounts without a full understanding of the fine print, says Helen Ngo, a financial planner based in Atlanta.
"TikTokers bring awareness, but the videos don't give them enough [of a] timeframe to explain the context around what is legal and not legal to do," says Ngo.
Ngo says she recommends her clients do three things: open an emergency savings fund account, lay out financial goals for the next one to five years and then consider goals beyond that.
Nothing new under the sun
Sharing financial wins and losses with strangers online isn't new.
In 2010 and 2011, bloggers were creating the same sort of relatable content, putting out their stories about getting out of debt and reaching financial milestones — just as TikTok influencers are doing today. Mandi Woodruff, 35, followed that burgeoning scene back then. She's a career coach who hosts a podcast about wealth building for women of color and is a former personal finance journalist.
"What really launched my career was helping millennials overcome and recover from the Great Recession," says Woodruff.
Now, Woodruff says she's glad to see more people entering the personal finance content space. What she loved about blogging — and what she sees in social media now — was its power to share information.
"It removes a lot of the barriers that have traditionally been in place for young people and especially people of color," says Woodruff.
Typically, people start to learn to save and invest from their parents or close relatives, often leaving people from under-resourced groups behind, Woodruff says. "Our parents typically don't have the resources or knowledge themselves."
A desire to learn
For Anisha Singhal, a senior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, learning personal finance is a priority. While she found helpful information about student loans and college scholarships on social media, not all of the content she was recommended was directly applicable to her.
"With TikToks, the whole idea is to grab your attention and make you think, like, oh there's some sort of hack here — some little loophole that I can make more money through," she says.
In January 2021, Singhal wrote an article about teens' lack of financial literacy skills in her school paper, which prompted teacher David Peng to launch a personal finance course, offered as a math elective.
And the class is packed — Singhal wasn't able to get off the wait list until this year, the second year it's been offered.
Peng says his students are very engaged during lessons, and plenty of other students have asked to audit the course.
"Personal finance is an extremely hands-on course. You have to experience some of the decision making that adults have to go through," he says.
Peng, who is in his mid-30s and attended Stuyvesant himself, didn't learn personal finance as a student.
While he acknowledges that a lot can be learned online, Peng says it's hard to extract a lot of nuance from short form videos.
Singhal says social media is helpful — but it ranks below her personal finance course and her parents as sources of financial advice.
Information overload
"You need to do your own research. A thousand percent," says career coach Woodruff, who warns that people should never act on financial advice without assessing its benefit to their own financial situation.
Many content creators do advise their viewers to seek other resources. Confortini, for example, frequently encourages her followers to seek information beyond the platform and agrees that social media can feel like "information overload."
"I'm not going to be able, in a three minute TikTok video, be able to tell you everything you need to know about personal finance," she says.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-02-28T10:24:10+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/business-and-economy/2023-02-28/if-youre-getting-financial-advice-from-tiktok-influencers-dont-stop-there |
BELOIT—After two low-scoring games against Brodhead and Jefferson, Beloit Turner’s softball team broke out with an 11-2 victory over visiting Big Foot on Wednesday.
The Trojans belted out 11 hits and built an 8-0 lead through three innings.
Grace Olmstead led Turner, going 3-for-5 with three runs scored. Collecting two hits apiece were Kamdyn Davis, Paloma Reyes and Gabby Champeny. Mikaya Pingel was 1-for-4, but scored twice and knocked in two runs.
Champeny went the distance for Turner, allowing four hits and two earned runs. She walked three and struck out seven.
• HONONEGAH 6, ROCKFORD AUBURN 0: Pitchers Sierra Armstrong and Lexi Bach combined on a 1-hit shutout as the visiting Indians routed the Knights. Armstrong allowed the only hit in her 5 1-3 innings, walking one and striking out five. Bach worked 1 2-3 perfect innings.
Hononegah scored the only run it needed in the second inning when Briella Sendele walked, stole second and scored on an RBI single by Armstrong, who was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Zoey Calhoun, Amanda Williams and Sendele each had two hits.
Linescores:
Beloit Turner 11, Big Foot 2
Big Foot…000 200 0—2 4 4
Turner…..332 111 x—11 11 0
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so): BF, Bauman (L) 2.0-5-6-3-3-3; Kynell 4.0-6-5-2-2-3. BT, Champeny (W) 7.0-4-2-2-3-7.
Leading hitters: Olmstead 3x5, 3 runs; Davis 2x3, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Pingel 1x4, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Reyes 2x4, 1 run, 2 RBI; Champeny 2x4, 1 RBI. BF, A. Ries 1x3, 2 RBI. 2B: Davis, Pingel, A. Ries.
Hononegah 6, Rock. Auburn 0
Hononegah…014 001 0—6 11 2
R. Auburn….000 000 0—0 1 2
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so): Hono, Armstrong (W) 5.1-1-0-0-1-5; Bach 1.2-0-0-0-0-0. RA, Conklin (L) 7.0-11-6-4-2-1.
Leading hitters: Calhoun 2x4, 1 RBI; Williams 2x4, 1 run; Sendele 2x3, 2 runs, 1 RBI; Armstrong 3x4, 2 RBI; Bach 1x4, 1 RBI. 2B: Bach, Sendele.
• BASEBALL: HONONEGAH 20, ROCKFORD EAST 2 (4 inn.): The visiting Indians pummeled the E-Rabs again, collecting 17 hits in another mercifully short game.
Bryce Goodwine, Dylan Sayles and Ryan Hamilton put on an offensive show. Goodwine was 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBIs. Sayles was 2-for-3 with two doubles, two runs and 2 RBI and Hamilton was 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs.
Starter Ryan Anderson worked three perfect innings, striking out eight. Austin Dresser pitched one inning and allowed two hits and two runs.
• STILLMAN VALLEY 6, NORTH BOONE 1: After crushing South Beloit 20-3 on Tuesday, the Vikings found the going a bit rougher back in conference play. There were outhit 7-5 in losing to Stillman Valley.
The Vikings had only one extra base hit, a double by Ben Castillo. He scored the Vikings’ lone run.
Bryce Nolen started for the Vikings and took the loss. He allowed four hits and five runs (three earned) in his 5 1-3 innings of work. He struck out five. Matt Self pitched the final 1 2-3 innings and allowed three hits and one run.
Linescore:
Hononegah 20, Rock. East 2
Hononegah…173 9—20 17 0
R. East……..000 2—2 2 6
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so): Hono, Anderson (W) 3.0-0-0-0-0-8; Dresser 1.0-2-2-2-1-3. RE, NA.
Leading hitters: Hono, Goodwine 3x3, 3 runs, 2 RBI; Houi 1x1, 2 runs, 1 RBI; Sayles 2x3, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Hamilton 2x3, 3 RBI; Olsen 2x2, 1 run, 1 RBI; Roessler 1x2, 2 runs, 2 RBI. 2B: Sayles 2, Roessler, Hamilton.
Stillman Valley 6, North Boone 1
Stillman Valley…100 104 0—6 7 1
North Boone……000 010 0—1 5 2
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so): SV, Smits (W) 3.0-2-1-1-1-3; Cicogna 2.2-2-0-0-1-3. NB, Nolen (L) 5.1-4-5-3-4-5; Self 1.2-3-1-1-0-1.
Leading hitters: SV, Wilhite 2x4, 1 run, 1 RBI; Engel 1x3, 2 RBI; Rauman 2x3, 2 runs, 1 RBI; Voltz 1x1, 1 RBI. NB, Ford 1x3, Slater 1x3, Castillo 1x2, 1 run; Raabe 1x3, Danner 1x3. 2B: Rauman, Engel, Castillo. | 2022-05-12T07:40:26+00:00 | beloitdailynews.com | https://www.beloitdailynews.com/sports/preps-turner-softball-team-breaks-out-the-bats/article_5973e70a-d195-11ec-bb35-abc54d8b7881.html |
OWEN COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) - Help is coming to another area dealing with the aftermath of a tornado.
You may remember Owen County was hit by an EF-3 tornado a little over a month ago.
Two campers at McCormick's Creek tragically died. Much of the area was left changed forever.
The state of Indiana and FEMA will be opening a disaster recovery center. It will be open from May 4 thru May 6 and from May 15 thru May 17.
Those hours are 8 a.m. until 6 p.m., except on May 6 and May 17. The hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
People from FEMA and the state and US Small Business Administration will be there to provide resources.
That's at the Spencer/Owen Administration Building.
The deadline to apply for federal assistance is June 14. | 2023-05-04T20:19:43+00:00 | wthitv.com | https://www.wthitv.com/fema-and-indiana-to-open-disaster-recovery-center-in-owen-county-following-tornado/article_b7911110-eaa7-11ed-b253-f3105548e82d.html |
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Policymakers of the Group of 20 leading economies should focus on helping the world’s most vulnerable people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday as top-level financial talks kicked off in the Indian technology hub of Bengaluru.
“You represent the leadership of global finance and economy at a time when the world is facing serious economic difficulties,” Modi said in a video address to the finance ministers, central bank governors and other leaders attending the meetings, which wrap up Saturday.
“It is up to you, the custodians of the leading economies and market systems … to bring back stability, confidence and growth to the global economy,” he said.
As countries deal with slew of challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic, including unsustainable debt, conflict, inflation and eroding trust in international financial institutions, Modi said, “I urge you to focus on the most vulnerable people in the world.”
The meetings in Bengaluru are due to touch on a wide range of issues including digital currencies and payments, reform of institutions like the World Bank, climate change and financial inclusion.
Multiple meetings between various leaders were also scheduled, including talks between U.S. and British officials and meetings of India’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, with her counterparts from France and Brazil.
As is usually the case, broader issues such as the war in Ukraine are overshadowing the talks.
On Thursday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed she would push for stronger sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and better enforcement of restrictions meant to hinder Moscow’s war effort.
The G-20 meetings offer a chance for leaders to consider how to coordinate their policies: many central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve have been raising interest rates sharply to try to rein in decades-high inflation brought on by various factors including the war and rebounding demand for travel, goods and services following the COVID-19 pandemic.
With increases in income lagging far behind, rising costs for food, housing, fuel and fertilizer impose huge burdens, especially on the poor and in developing nations, where debt burdens have surged both at the national and household levels.
As the G-20 host this year, India is taking the opportunity to showcase its ascent as an economic power.
Modi suggested the gathering could “draw hope from the vibrant Indian economy,” which is forecast to grow at a more than 6% annual pace this year, making it one of the fastest growing in the world. He also pointed to the country’s digital payments technology as a model to be emulated. | 2023-02-24T12:05:09+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-modi-urges-g20-finance-leaders-to-focus-on-most-vulnerable/ |
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SEATTLE (AP) — In the midst of their July surge back into playoff contention, it's become clear the Seattle Mariners have figured out how to succeed in one-run games.
On Monday night, it was a formula of good starting pitching, key baserunning and some more hot hitting from Ty France.
“It really ends up defining your season finding ways to win games like tonight,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said.
France launched his 13th home run as part of a three-hit night, Cal Raleigh added an RBI single and the Mariners rebounded from a rough weekend with a 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers.
Erik Swanson escaped a ninth-inning jam and Seattle won for the 15th time in 18 games, a stretch of success interrupted over the weekend when the Mariners were swept at home by AL West-leading Houston following a 14-game winning streak. But Texas was a welcome visitor as the Mariners won their sixth straight over the Rangers and improved to 9-2 against them this season.
Seattle also won its eighth straight game decided by one run and is 22-12 on the season. The last time the Mariners lost a one-run game was June 26 against the Los Angeles Angels.
“We play so many of them that when the time comes we don’t fold into that pressure,” France said.
France singled in his first two at-bats, but it was his solo shot to center field in the fifth inning off starter Glenn Otto that gave the Mariners a 3-1 lead. France has homered in three of his past five games, including Seattle’s last one before the All-Star break when he went deep off Otto (4-7) in Texas.
Raleigh’s RBI single in the fourth drove in France, and the Mariners added another run in the inning when Eugenio Suárez scampered home on a wild pitch. Carlos Santana added an RBI groundout in the seventh.
Seattle starter Chris Flexen won his fifth straight decision and extended his streak of allowing three runs or fewer to 11 consecutive starts.
Flexen (7-8) pitched six innings, giving up two runs and four hits. He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third with only one run allowed and yielded Adolis García's 18th homer on the first pitch of the sixth.
“The thing with (Flexen), he’s never going to wow you. He’s just always going to keep you in the game," Servais said. “And I appreciate that. I think every manager appreciates those type of guys.”
Mariners reliever Diego Castillo ran into trouble in the ninth. Nathaniel Lowe led off with his 14th homer. Leody Taveras followed with a single and Kole Calhoun walked. Castillo struck out Ezequiel Duran before Swanson retired Josh Smith and Marcus Semien for his second save.
“We've got to continue to have conversations and figure out OK, there’s a lot of little plays in there that we have to make,” Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. “They made some plays, we didn’t. They made some pitches, we didn’t. We had opportunities at the end. If we’re going to win games, we've got to find a way to get it done there.”
Otto allowed three runs and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings, but has not earned a victory since beating the Mariners on June 4.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: RHP Dane Dunning is expected to be activated from the injured list to start Tuesday. Dunning has been out since July 11 due to an impingement in his right ankle.
Mariners: Servais was hopeful All-Star CF Julio Rodríguez (wrist) would be back in the lineup Tuesday. Rodríguez was expected to increase his baseball activity and take swings before Monday’s game to see how the wrist responds. ... LF Jesse Winker was out of the lineup after spraining his right ankle in Sunday’s loss to Houston. The injury isn’t considered serious and Winker is expected back Tuesday. ... OF Mitch Haniger (ankle) will have his rehab assignment transferred to Triple-A Tacoma starting Tuesday. Haniger played last weekend for Class A Everett. He has been out since late April and said he still needs significantly more at-bats before he’d be ready to rejoin the major league club. “I think I just need quantity right now. Just playing,” Haniger said. “I can’t tell you when that will be.”
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Rangers: Dunning (1-6, 4.42 ERA) will make his first start since July 10. He lasted just 2 1/3 innings and allowed four runs against Minnesota before landing on the injured list. He is winless in his past 13 starts.
Mariners: RHP George Kirby (2-3, 3.78) will make his first start since July 8. The rookie was optioned to the minors before the All-Star break in an attempt to control his innings.
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GLENDALE, AZ — “All my ex’s live in Texas” singer, George Strait, is coming to Arizona! The "King of Country" will hit the stage at State Farm Stadium!
Write this down, the King of Country is coming to town! 🤠 George is making his way to @StateFarmStdm on Saturday, May 6 with Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town. Presales kick off Oct. 26 with public on sale Nov. 4.
— State Farm Stadium (@StateFarmStdm) October 24, 2022
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The Glendale stop is the first show on George Strait’s 2023 Stadium Shows; the tour will have special guests Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town.
The Arizona tour stop is on Friday, May 6, 2023.
Here’s what you need to ‘write down’ in regard to ticket information:
- Presale tickets go on sale October 26 at 10 a.m.
- General public can purchase tickets on November 4.
- Venue: State Farm Stadium [1 Cardinals Dr] in Glendale. | 2022-10-25T18:59:49+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/george-strait-announces-2023-stadium-shows-tour-stops-in-arizona |
Angela Bassett may have gone home empty handed at the Oscars in March, but the two-time nominee will be getting a golden statuette this year after all – and in very good company too.
In November, Bassett, Mel Brooks and film editor Carol Littleton will receive honorary Oscars at the Governors Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday.
Michelle Satter, the founding senior director of the Sundance Institute’s Artist Programs, will also be given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the untelevised event.
“The Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to honor four trailblazers who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of filmmakers and movie fans,” Janet Yang, the academy’s president, said in a statement.
Most recipients of the academy’s honorary awards have not won competitive Oscars. Brooks, is an exception, however, having won an original screenplay Oscar for “The Producers.” At the ceremony, in 1969, he said he wanted to “thank the academy of arts sciences and money for this wonderful award.” In his speech, which had the audience in stitches, he also thanked Gene Wilder three times.
The 96-year-old, who began his career writing for Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows,” and over the next 70 years would write, direct, act, produce for film, television and Broadway and write books, including a recent memoir, is among the rare breed of EGOT-winners. (Those are entertainers who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.) He also received two other Oscar nominations, for writing the lyrics to John Morris’s “Blazing Saddles” song and another screenwriting nod for “Young Frankenstein,” which he shared with Wilder.
“Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humor, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment,” Yang said.
Bassett, whose credits include “Boyz N the Hood,” “Malcolm X,” “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” received her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and her second earlier this year for playing the grieving queen in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The 64-year-old told the AP earlier this year that “this moment has been so special, it’s been a highlight of my career.”
Yang said in a statement that, “across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting.”
Littleton’s name might not be as immediately recognizable as the celebrities being honored alongside but has been working behind the scenes with top filmmakers for nearly five decades. The 81-year-old Oklahoma native worked frequently with both Lawrence Kasdan and Jonathan Demme, editing films like “Body Heat,” “The Big Chill,” “Swimming to Cambodia” and “The Manchurian Candidate.” She received her first and only Oscar nomination for “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” the only film she’s edited for Steven Spielberg. She’s also married to cinematographer and former Academy president John Bailey.
The honorary awards are given, “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”
Satter, meanwhile, has led the Sundance Institute’s famed artist programs for more than 40 years, helping filmmakers at the earliest stages of their careers, from Paul Thomas Anderson to Ryan Coogler.
The Governors Awards will be held on Nov. 18 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. | 2023-06-27T14:10:11+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/angela-bassett-mel-brooks-to-receive-honorary-oscars/ |
Linnea Sorensen falls into a funk whenever her girlfriend of four years leaves for her six-month stints with the Marines, and the high school junior has trouble concentrating on her classwork.
"I'm somebody who struggles with my mental health quite a bit," said the 17-year-old, who attends school in Schaumburg, Ill., a suburb of about 77,000 people northwest of Chicago. "When you're in school and not fully mentally there, it's like you're not really grasping anything anyway."
Now Illinois is giving Sorensen and students like her a new option for dealing with mental health lows. The state allows K-12 students in public schools to have five excused absences per school year for mental health reasons, another example of the growing acknowledgment among lawmakers that emotional and physical health are intertwined. The new policy, which went into effect at the beginning of 2022, passed both chambers of the state legislature unanimously.
But such novel policies are, in many ways, a half-step toward addressing the crisis of teenage mental health that has been highlighted and exacerbated by the educational interruptions caused by the pandemic. Many parts of the country are woefully short of therapists who can work with students to address mental health problems.
Seventy percent of schools that responded to a federal survey in April said more students had sought mental health services since the pandemic started. The National Center for Education Statistics' polling also showed that only 56% of schools said they effectively provide mental health services to all students in need and just 41% reported hiring new staff members to help address students' mental health needs.
Nearly half the nation lives in a designated mental health worker shortage area, according to government data, and an estimated 7,550 new professionals are needed to fill that void nationwide. Even in places where mental health professionals are more plentiful, they often do not accept public insurance, making them inaccessible to many kids.
In other states where lawmakers have implemented policies that allow students to take mental health days — including Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Virginia — a lack of services for young people remains a concern.
Schools in Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, Utah and Washington, D.C., have tried to narrow the gap through less costly solutions, such as in-class meditation, mindfulness rooms and social-emotional learning. The latter became a curriculum target of conservative lawmakers in recent months.
Greatest mental health needs
In a 2020 Mental Health America survey of young people's greatest mental health needs, the top responses from 14- to 18-year-olds were access to mental health professionals and mental health absences or breaks as part of school or work.
"The more we can shift to a prevention mindset and integrate mental health promotion into schools from a young age, I see that as very key to helping reduce the needs for treatment that we see in young people," said Tamar Mendelson, director of the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Education officials and mental health experts in Illinois say the mental health day policy is a good start toward tamping down a youth mental health crisis that had been growing during an era of school shootings and cyberbullying and then exploded during the pandemic. The move is another indication that schools are increasingly being relied upon to meet students' social needs, from feeding, clothing and vaccinating them to spotting abuse and neglect.
"I've been a teacher for 19 years, and this is as bad as I've seen it," Ben Lobo said of the mental health of his students at Schaumburg High School.
Susan Resko, president and CEO of the Josselyn Center, a community mental health center north of Chicago, said the pandemic was "like putting a match to fuel."
Before March 2020, the nonprofit received about 50 new clients a month, Resko said. That number is now 250, and two-thirds are children or young adults. The organization hired 70 therapists in the past year and has received an influx of requests for mental health counseling services from local schools.
Some critics of the new Illinois law note that it excludes families that don't have ready access to child care. And a lack of data from some schools means officials don't know whether the policy is being used.
The Illinois State Board of Education does not require schools to report how many students are taking mental health absences. KHN contacted the 10 largest school districts in Illinois seeking that data. Six didn't respond (the districts based in Elgin, Aurora, Algonquin, Oswego, Romeoville and Schaumburg), and three said they either aren't tracking that number (Chicago) or couldn't release it (Rockford and Naperville).
School officials in Plainfield, Ill. — a town about 35 miles southwest of Chicago whose district has an enrollment of more than 25,000 — said 3,703 students took a combined 6,237 mental health days from early January through the end of the school year. That means nearly 15% of the student body used an average of 1.7 days per student. Officials also noted that 123 of those days were used on the last day of school before summer break.
The community had been seeking to provide more services to students even before the pandemic hit. In 2019, Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 added 20 social workers after data showed that overnight hospitalizations of any kind among students had more than doubled in the previous five years. That type of staff expansion just "doesn't happen in education," said Tim Albores, the district's director of student services.
No money, no staff
Under the state's new policy, after students have a second mental health-related absence, district officials are required to refer them to the "appropriate school support personnel." But many schools can't afford the types of services Plainfield is offering, education officials say, and in rural areas they sometimes have trouble finding people to fill those jobs.
Chicago isn't scheduled to have a social worker in each of its more than 600 schools until 2024. School social workers there often devote most of their time to students who receive special education services dictated by an individualized education program, or IEP.
"My door gets knocked on all day long. And I have to choose — am I going to reschedule my IEP services, or am I going to help a student who's experiencing a crisis like right now?" said Mary Difino, a social worker at Brian Piccolo Elementary Specialty School on Chicago's West Side. "The neighborhood I work in, there's a lot of trauma, there's a lot of community violence, there's a lot of death and hardship."
Fourteen-year-old Heaven Draper, an eighth-grader at Brian Piccolo, said she had used two mental health days: one to take a break from a chaotic classroom environment — she said she sometimes feels more like a teacher than a student — and another to de-stress from the pressures of applying and testing for high schools in the city. "This is our first year back in person from quarantine," she said. "It's gotten overwhelming at times."
Her classmate Ariyonnah Brown, 14, said she took a day to help defuse a situation with another student. She said she'd like to see more awareness of mental health among adults, especially in communities of color like hers.
"Parents need to be educated," said Sheila Blanco, 57, a food distribution purchaser from Chicago whose 14-year-old daughter, Carli, died by suicide in 2017. "So many parents, they don't know what resources are, and even if there are resources, to help out the child or help them to help the child."
Anna Sanderson, a Schaumburg High School junior, said she believes the policy is a good idea, just not for her. "If I miss a day because I'm overwhelmed or not feeling well mentally, I feel like when I go back, I'll only be worse," the 17-year-old said. "I'll have to make up assignments and tests and be behind in my classes."
But she said she hopes it's a sign of greater support for students' mental health. She said schools sometimes fail to acknowledge student suicides or to provide counseling that goes much beyond education.
"I feel like we get dismissed a lot of the time," she said.
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
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DENVER, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced that its Board of Directors voted to declare a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.25 cents per share. The dividend is payable Friday September 9, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Tuesday August 30, 2022. The ex-dividend date will be Monday August 29, 2022.
Lumen Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LUMN) is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences.
Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks of Lumen Technologies LLC in the United States. Lumen Technologies LLC is a wholly-owned affiliate of Lumen Technologies, Inc.
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The leading provider of recruitment technology powering the hiring of essential workers teams with Brandon Hall Group to research, identify and calculate the challenges and costs to hire an essential worker. Findings show the average cost to hire an essential worker is $340, and for organizations with 1,000 employees or less, the cost is $670.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Traditional hiring costs have skyrocketed as the shortage of essential workers continues, and many companies still struggle to meet hiring goals, because they don't know the real costs to reach the right candidates. A new report from the data-driven job and hiring event advertising platform, Talroo, and Brandon Hall Group identifies the top recruiting challenges companies are facing, their implications and the cost to hire an essential worker.
An insufficient pipeline is the most common challenge in creating a top-tier talent acquisition (TA) program for 48% of the survey respondents. However, that challenge was not due to lack of investment. In this report, the TA budget was divided for respondents between the $0-500K or $500K+ range, with the latter used to calculate spend on other parts of the essential worker hiring process. In 2021, 25% of respondents had a TA budget of more than $2M, and 20% had a budget up to $100K. On average, organizations spent 31% of their annual TA budget on hiring essential workers, with $85K spent on TA technology and $120K on TA services. The amount of time it takes to hire an essential worker is 44 days on average, with 17% of the employees participating in some stage of the process.
"Findings showed organizations could be hiring essential workers much more efficiently, while reducing costs and improving the candidate experience," said Thad Price, CEO of Talroo. "Our research found gaps across the entire hiring process in accountability, communication of the organization's brand, and recruitment of non-standard employees such as contingent, part-time and contract workers. For most organizations, there is room for improvement for executing a more objective and data-driven approach to hiring essential workers," concluded Price.
Talroo offers the following seven recruiting solutions for organizations seeking to hire essential workers more efficiently:
- Eliminate Friction in Interviewing and Hiring – 69% of survey respondents identified a broken interview process as having the greatest impact on the eventual quality of hire for all workers. Job applications should be mobile-friendly and the interview should be reflective of the job description.
- Leverage Organizational Culture and Benefits – engagement boost with job applicants increased 83% when flexibility was mentioned and 67% for culture. Transparency is key and candidates respond to targeted messaging clearly outlining flexibility, competitive wages, culture and work/life benefits.
- Create Alignment with Organization Priorities – Treat every candidate like a potential customer and ensure that the people hired match up with organizational goals.
- Don't Be Overly Strict with Job Descriptions and Experience Requirements – previous Brandon Hall Group research showed that a candidate's number of skills matching the job description didn't correlate with hiring success. A better indicator was organizational fit and hiring manager satisfaction. Allowing for a range of skills, competencies and behaviors results in a better hire.
- Large-Scale Hiring Events Work – a Talroo 2021 survey showed 61% of job seekers would be interested in attending an in-person hiring event. These are most beneficial for filling high-volume, high turnover positions.
- Use Non-Traditional Recruitment Sources – include TA technology and services that cast a wider recruitment net and allow hyper-customization of messaging to target an exact candidate match.
- Improve the Use of Talent Acquisition Analytics – 90% of organizations say their hires are not quality hires. This can be greatly improved by making TA analytics a regular part of an organization's recruiting. By connecting standard recruitment metrics like source-of-hire, cost-per-hire, and time-to-hire with performance and tenure data, organizations can begin to focus on sourcing ROI.
Talroo is a data-driven job and hiring event advertising platform that helps businesses reach the candidates they need to build their essential workforce. Through AI, unique talent audiences, and a pay-for-performance model, Talroo enables companies to find their ideal candidates and reduce cost-per-hire. Talroo has earned a spot on the Inc. 500/5000 list of fastest-growing companies for six consecutive years. Visit https://www.talroo.com/ to learn more.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Protests are expected across Spain and in the capital of Morocco Friday amid a groundswell of calls for an investigation over the deaths of at least 23 people at the border between the Spanish enclave of Melilla and Morocco.
The deaths occurred on June 24 during repeated attempts by sub-Saharan migrants and asylum seekers to scale the border fence separating both territories.
Morocco’s Human Rights Association contested the official death toll, reporting instead that 27 migrants had died, while the Spanish NGO Walking Borders is reporting 37 fatalities.
Moroccan authorities said the migrants died as a result of a “stampede.”
The demonstrations are being held under the moniker “Las Vidas Negras Importan” in Spanish or “Black Lives Matter” in English. Videos and photos that emerged in the days following the deaths have sparked outrage and condemnation by several human rights organizations and officials including the United Nations Secretary-General.
In one video shared by the Moroccan Human Rights Association dozens of young Black men, some of them motionless and bleeding are seen strewn on the floor as Moroccan security forces stand over them. One uniformed man is seen poking one body with his baton. In another video published by several Spanish media outlets a group of migrants is seen climbing a fence, some hurling rocks at Moroccan anti-riot police trying to stop them. At one point, the fence collapses, sending them to the ground from a height of several meters.
“I am shocked by the violence on the Nador-Melilla border,” U.N. Chief Antonio Guterres tweeted this week. “The use of excessive force is unacceptable, and the human rights and dignity of people on the move must be prioritized by countries.”
Spain’s state prosecutors announced the launch of a probe “to clarify what happened” given the “significance and seriousness” of the events at the Melilla border.
Authorities in Morocco and Spain also reported that 140 security officers on the Moroccan side and 60 National Police and Civil Guard officers on the Spanish side, were injured.
In an exclusive interview with the Associated Press, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez defended the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants trying to cross into Melilla calling the attempt “an attack on Spain’s borders.”
Meanwhile, the dead have yet to be identified.
Omar Naji of Morocco’s Human Rights Association in Nador said they have been contacted by the families of Sudanese migrants believed to be among the victims but have not been allowed to see the bodies or the dozens of injured migrants being treated at a local hospital.
“We demand a thorough investigation to clarify who is responsible (for the deaths) as well as the necessary autopsies to identify the causes of their deaths,” he said.
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Tarik El-Barakah contributed to this report from Rabat.
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Follow AP’s coverage of migration issues at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2022-07-01T17:46:31+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/calls-for-probe-into-migrant-deaths-at-spain-morocco-border/ |
PARIS (AP) — The Balenciaga fashion house has cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, according to a news report.
The move came after several offensive comments from Ye, including antisemitic posts that earned him suspensions from Twitter and Instagram.
“Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” parent company Kering told Women’s Wear Daily in response to a query Friday without elaborating.
The company did not respond to multiple emails and calls from The Associated Press requesting comment. A representative for Ye also did not respond to a request for comment.
Ye had collaborated in several areas with Balenciaga and its artistic director, Demna Gvasalia. The label has also had an active relationship with Kim Kardashian, Ye’s ex-wife, who has appeared in their advertising campaigns and credits her former husband with introducing her to the brand.
Ye was recently blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram over antisemitic posts that the social networks said violated their policies. He has also suggested slavery was a choice and called the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast.”
After getting locked out of the social media platforms, he’s offered to buy right-wing-friendly social network Parler.
During Paris Fashion Week, the rapper walked as a model in Balenciaga’s ready-to-wear show — what designer Gvasalia at the time called an “iconic moment.” He was then seen at Givenchy’s collection wearing a Balenciaga-branded black tooth brace.
Ye was also criticized that week for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his Yeezy collection show in Paris and the shirt made an appearance on the runway itself. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, White Lives Matter is a neo-Nazi group.
In recent weeks, Ye has ended Yeezy’s association with Gap and has told Bloomberg that he plans to cut ties with his corporate suppliers. Adidas has placed its sneaker deal with Ye under review, and JPMorganChase and Ye have ended their business relationship — although the banking breakup was in the works even before Ye’s antisemitic comments. | 2022-10-22T12:05:40+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/ap-balenciaga-fashion-house-cuts-ties-with-ye-report-says/ |
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Alex Ovechkin will be away from the Washington Capitals to attend to a family matter and the health of a loved one and is expected to be gone for at least the rest of the week, if not longer.
General manager Brian MacLellan announced Ovechkin’s absence before the team’s morning skate Tuesday. No further details were released, though it appears Washington is preparing to be without its longtime captain and face of the franchise for an extended period.
Coach Peter Laviolette said he doesn’t envision Ovechkin will be back “in the foreseeable future.”
“When it comes to your family and parents, that’s what matters,” Laviolette said. “He’s going to deal with some things right now and we’re going to be supportive.”
Further complicating matters if Ovechkin needs to go home to Russia, where his parents and other family members live, are travel restrictions in place amid the country’s war in Ukraine. There are no direct flights between North America and Moscow.
The Capitals play two home games this week before facing the Carolina Hurricanes in the NHL’s Stadium Series outdoors in Raleigh on Saturday night.
“Sending positive thoughts on behalf of the organization,” the Hurricanes posted on Twitter before the team played at the Capitals on Tuesday night. “There is nothing more important than those we love. We are wishing the best for Alex and his family.”
Ovechkin, 37, leads Washington with 32 goals and 54 points. He has missed only 48 games throughout his 18-year NHL career, and the Capitals have lost 25 of them.
“We’ve been playing without key guys all season and last year and the year before. We’re going to miss him,” center Lars Eller said. “We’re a better team when he’s in our lineup, but other guys will have to fill the gap in the meantime and we can do that.”
The Capitals have been playing without top defenseman John Carlson since he took a puck to the head on Dec. 23. Also missing are first-line right winger Tom Wilson, fourth-line center Nic Dowd and now Ovechkin, so the team recalled winger Joe Snively from Hershey of the American Hockey League.
In all aspects of the game, Washington looks different without Ovechkin, who is the league’s career leader in power-play goals thanks to his signature spot in the left faceoff circle.
“Obviously teams are used to seeing (Ovechkin in) his office, so we all know what he’s capable of there, how he can score from there,” longtime teammate Nicklas Backstrom said. “Definitely going to miss him, but at the same time we have to find other ways to create chances and try to capitalize there.”
The Capitals enter an important stretch in a precarious position: holding on to one of two wild-card spots in the Eastern Conference and in danger of falling out of playoff position by the end of the week. Even before Ovechkin’s absence, they have averaged 2.27 goals over their past 14 games.
“You’ve got to score goals to win games,” Backstrom said. “You’re not going to win games with just one goal. I think we got to be a little more urgent out there we got to be a little more hungrier around the net.”
Ovechkin met with teammates Tuesday before leaving the Capitals’ practice facility. That gave players a chance to offer their support before preparing to take the ice without him.
“It’s nice to get to see him and give him a hug and let him know that we’re here for him in person rather than over text,” winger T.J. Oshie said. “We’re thinking about him and we’re missing him and wishing him all the best.”
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CALGARY, AB, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - High Tide Inc. ("High Tide" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: HITI) (TSXV: HITI) (FSE: 2LYA), a leading retail-focused cannabis company with bricks-and-mortar as well as global e-commerce assets, announced today that its Canna Cabana retail cannabis store located at 1055 Hillside Dr, Kamloops, British Columbia has begun selling recreational cannabis products and consumption accessories for adult use. This brings High Tide's total number of branded Canna Cabana locations across Canada to 151, including 7 in British Columbia. This new store represents the first Canna Cabana in the city of Kamloops and is a 15-minute walk from Thompson Rivers University, with an on-campus student population of over 13,000 and a scenic 250-acre campus. The store is also at the base of several hiking trails, and it is located in a shopping complex anchored by a major discount grocer and retailer. Finally, this bricks-and-mortar location is a short drive from Aberdeen Mall, a hub of retail activity in Kamloops.
"I am pleased to announce the opening of our first Canna Cabana in Kamloops, the 10th largest city in British Columbia. This beautiful city, nestled in the south-central part of the province, is a stop for many athletes each year as Kamloops plays host to hockey, baseball, curling and other tournaments. I hope we can welcome some of these visitors into our store, expanding our reach and brand recognition with Canadians," said Raj Grover, President and Chief Executive Officer of High Tide. "Anchored by a major discount retail chain, this location is poised to benefit from high levels of traffic coming into this power centre. This location is our seventh Canna Cabana in the province of British Columbia and moves us closer to our goal of reaching eight stores, the current maximum permitted by any entity in the province," added Mr. Grover.
Further to the Company's news release dated December 29, 2022, the Company paid an arm's length finders' fee of 136,266 common shares of the Company, in relation to the Company's successful acquisition of Jimmy's, which was based on 5% of the aggregate consideration and were issued on the basis of a deemed price of C$2.0365 per share.
High Tide is a leading retail-focused cannabis company with bricks-and-mortar as well as global e-commerce assets. The Company is the largest non-franchised cannabis retail chain in Canada, with 151 current locations spanning British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The Company is also North America's first cannabis discount club retailer, under the Canna Cabana banner, which is the single-largest cannabis retail brand in Canada, with additional locations under development across the country. High Tide's portfolio also includes retail kiosks and smart locker technology – Fastendr™. High Tide has been serving consumers for over a decade through its established e-commerce platforms, including Grasscity.com, Smokecartel.com, Dailyhighclub.com, and Dankstop.com and more recently in the hemp-derived CBD space through Nuleafnaturals.com, FABCBD.com, BlessedCBD.co.uk, BlessedCBD.de, and Amazon United Kingdom, as well as its wholesale distribution division under Valiant Distribution, including the licensed entertainment product manufacturer Famous Brandz. High Tide was featured in the Report on Business Magazine's ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies in both 2021 and 2022 and was named as one of the top 10 performing diversified industries stocks in the 2022 TSX Venture 50™. High Tide's strategy as a parent company is to extend and strengthen its integrated value chain while providing a complete customer experience and maximising shareholder value.
For more information about High Tide, please visit www.hightideinc.com and its profile pages on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. These statements relate to future events or future performance. The use of any of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on the Company's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events.
The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained herein include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the Company's business objectives and milestones and the anticipated timing of, and costs in connection with, the execution or achievement of such objectives and milestones (including, without limitation, proposed acquisitions and store openings); the Company's future growth prospects and intentions to pursue one or more viable business opportunities; the development of the Company's business and future activities following the date hereof; expectations relating to market size and anticipated growth in the jurisdictions within which the Company may from time to time operate or contemplate future operations; expectations with respect to economic, business, regulatory and/or competitive factors related to the Company or the cannabis industry generally; the market for the Company's current and proposed product offerings, as well as the Company's ability to capture market share; the Company's strategic investments and capital expenditures, and related benefits; the distribution methods expected to be used by the Company to deliver its product offerings; the competitive landscape within which the Company operates and the Company's market share or reach; the performance of the Company's business and the operations and activities of the Company; the Company adding the number of additional cannabis retail store locations the Company proposes to add to the Company's business upon the timelines indicated herein, and the Company remaining on a positive growth trajectory; the Company completing the development of its cannabis retail stores; the Company's ability to obtain, maintain, and renew or extend, applicable authorizations, including the timing and impact of the receipt thereof; and the Company's ability to successfully integrate the operations of any business acquired within the Company's business.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.A discussion of some of the material risk factors applicable to High Tide can be found in the "Non-Exhaustive List of Risk Factors" section in Schedule A to the Company's current annual information form, as such factors may be further updated from time to time in its periodic filings, available at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and reflect the Company's expectations as of the date hereof and are subject to change thereafter. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and such forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.
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The Region is Considered Ideally Suited as a 'Living Lab' for Innovation and
Collaboration Given its Leadership in Sustainability
SANTA ROSA, Calif. , July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition that climate impacts and marketplace dynamics are becoming more frequent and extreme for farmers, the Sonoma County Winegrowers invited experts from some of the country's most iconic and innovative companies to gather in Sonoma County last week for its inaugural Farm of the Future Summit. These leaders answered a call to action to collaborate with farmers in Sonoma County to ensure the future of agriculture. They convened to plan, identify challenges and discuss potential collaborations and pilot projects that will be tested throughout Sonoma County's certified sustainable vineyards.
The summit, hosted by Sonoma Winegrowers and facilitated by a leading professor from the Wharton School of Business, provided ample proof that the county has become a global leader for sustainability and regenerative agriculture. In fact, Sonoma County's certified sustainable vineyards are already serving as "living labs" for a host of pilot efforts and programs. In addition, there are more than 50 farmers who have already expressed interest in piloting technology and farming practices that will ensure the longevity of agriculture and specialty crops in Sonoma County and across the country. Companies that participated included Wilbur-Ellis, John Deere, Alaska Airlines, Pellenc, Agrology, NASA, PG&E, Wells Fargo, American AgCredit, Jordan Energy and Zenith Insurance Company among others.
"As one of the world's most sustainable winegrowing regions, Sonoma County has drawn the attention from visionary scientists, engineers, financers, designers, manufacturers, and more who see great potential to work together in a real-world environment towards climate stewardship," said Karissa Kruse, president and chief executive officer of the Sonoma County Winegrowers. She added, "This new collaboration is one of the most significant developments in Sonoma County's agricultural history. It signifies our commitment to farming for future generations which will not only protect our open space and maintain our rural lifestyle, but is recognized and shared by leading companies who will help drive the region's economy through their actions and effort."
What began two years ago with the Sonoma County Winegrowers' first-of-its-kind collaboration with Ford Pro, has expanded significantly since then with new pilot projects and partners. Earlier this year, Wilbur-Ellis began working with growers to assist them in becoming more efficient in addressing soil health, biodiversity, resource diversity and utilization, carbon and climate action and water utilization. Specifically, the company is working with seven pilot farmers to increase organic soil matter, map soil variability, conduct soil chemistry, develop prescriptive nutrition and soil health treatments, monitor and optimize soil moisture, identify optimal cover crops, monitor vine health and put new technology into real world trial work.
"This project is unique in that we will be working with winegrape growers throughout Sonoma County to establish pilot farm blocks of 10 to 50 acres in size so we can address soil and vine nutrition, soil balance, soil health and more – all of which can benefit agriculture in the near future," said Willie Negroni, vice president of Supplier Relations at Wilbur-Ellis. He added, "We are inspired by the sustainability leadership and vision of Sonoma County winegrowers, and we are excited that Wilbur-Ellis was invited to play a role in the Farm of the Future initiative."
The Wilbur-Ellis collaboration with Sonoma County Winegrowers will expand to growers around the county with different soils and climates to get a robust understanding of best practices that can be modeled throughout winegrape growing and beyond to other crops.
Another new innovative partnership was just announced with one of the country's leading ag tech startups, Agrology. The ag tech company has installed real-time carbon monitoring systems in two local vineyards including an Agrology Arbiter Carbon Monitoring System which was installed in the vineyards surrounding the Sonoma County Winegrowers' office. Those vineyards have evolved into a demonstration site for healthy soils, water monitoring and technology advancement. These monitoring systems will enable growers to monitor, measure, and qualify soil carbon emissions, irrigation, extreme weather and more.
"From the trucks that growers drive to the health of the soil, the Farm of the Future is setting an incredible example of how to apply technology to mitigate climate impacts and lower carbon emissions," said Adam Koeppel, co-founder and CEO of Agrology. "At the soil level, carbon plays a huge role in the health of our planet. Sonoma County is now the first wine region to showcase this proof of concept in a living lab. We are honored to partner with them on this endeavor."
These partnerships are the start of what is expected to be many more partnerships linked to Sonoma County Winegrowers' Farm of the Future and builds on the organization's role as a global leader in sustainable farming.
"By providing a living lab, we can pilot 'proof of concept' learning, like soil carbon measurement. This could eventually result in game-changing solutions that we can share with farmers across the country and around the world," added Kruse.
The Farm of the Future is a forward-thinking effort that is based in scenario planning to respond to climate impacts and changes in the marketplace effectively and quickly. It will serve as an innovation accelerator where businesses can share new technologies and put them into real-life practice. Partners and collaborators can leverage Sonoma County Winegrowers sustainability leadership and a network of climate stewards and forward-thinking change agents.
"Given Sonoma County's global leadership in sustainability and regenerative agriculture, this region may become as important an innovation hub for agriculture as Silicon Valley has been to technology," said George Day, professor emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Summit moderator.
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Kyle Curley pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he’s facing in connection with the killing of Erica Lara, who was found dead in 2021 in the Kelley Square apartment they shared in Worcester.
Curley, 32, pleaded not guilty in Worcester Superior Court to charges of first-degree murder, assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and intimidating a witness.
He was ordered held without bail due to the nature of the charges against him.
A grand jury indicted Curley on the charges on March 24 after he was initially arraigned in Worcester District Court on Dec. 9, 2022.
Worcester police found Lara’s body on June 29, 2021 after a death was reported.
In court documents, police detectives claim Curley assaulted Lara, who he was dating, after he discovered what he believed was proof she was cheating on him.
He had assaulted her so badly, police say, that out of fear she would go to the police he continued his attack “with such violence and over a prolonged period that there was a high likelihood of serious harm or death.”
The attack caused Lara to have a brain bleed which led to her death. Curley did not attempt to help Lara, according to police, and fled to Florida following the attack.
Curley already had a pending criminal case against him regarding an assault and battery against Lara, and there had been an open warrant out for his arrest at the time of the attack, according to police.
If Lara had not died following the attack, she would have been a witness in that criminal proceeding, police said.
Lara, who was 29 at the time of her death, was a mother of two daughters, according to her obituary.
“Erica was known for her huge heart and bubbly personality,” her obituary reads. “Erica was loving, caring, and would give the world to anyone who needed it, even when she didn’t have anything herself to give.”
While Lara did not have an easy life and “fought many demons,” her family wrote that she “remained strong and gave it her all through every obstacle.”
Curley is due back in court on June 12. | 2023-04-10T18:13:53+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2023/04/kyle-curley-pleads-not-guilty-in-killing-of-erica-lara-worcester-mother-of-two.html |
‘After Jackie’ explores integration of baseball
The History Channel presents “After Jackie” (7 p.m. Saturday, History). The documentary special commemorates the 75 years since the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson ended segregation in Major League Baseball.
“After Jackie” also focuses on the next generation of talent, personified by Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson, who endured racist attitudes well into the 1960s and ‘70s. Gibson, one of dominant pitchers of the 1960s for the St. Louis Cardinals, was also subject to prevailing myths that “Black players can’t pitch.”
Curt Flood brought the strident attitudes of the civil rights movement to Major League Baseball, challenging the league’s “reserve clause,” a legal practice that allowed teams to treat players like property, something Flood likened to slavery. His challenge came at the expense of his career, but he opened the way to players’ free agency.
“After” also interviews Bill White, a Gold Glove first baseman, better known for his work as an executive and sportscaster, integrating those echelons of the game decades after Jackie Robinson donned a Dodgers uniform.
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The music of the Beatles propels the period fantasy “Across the Universe” (7 p.m., HBO Signature). Beatle Paul McCartney turns 80 today. To put things in some perspective, he was 21 when he appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and just 26 during the rooftop concert captured in the 2021 Peter Jackson documentary “Get Back” (Disney+). | 2022-06-18T13:40:19+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/entertainment/tv-highlights-for-saturday-june-18-after-jackie-explores-integration-of-baseball/article_5fc573e0-ee6d-11ec-a910-6791a5490b0f.html |
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Dunking your face in a bowl of ice water isn’t just a great way to wake yourself up. Ice facials, in which you apply ice or chilly implements to your face, may also help improve your skin.
During an ice facial, also known as cold therapy, the chill from ice or a facial massager restricts the blood vessels in your face, which can help reduce redness, puffiness and the appearance of pores, as well as potentially help with lymphatic drainage. When the blood and oxygen that were restricted during the ice facial application come back as your skin temperature returns to normal, your skin may feel tighter and look more glowy, reports Town & Country Magazine.
Doing an at-home ice facial is as easy as sticking a sheet mask in the fridge or chilling down a facial massager to roll all over your face.
Some beauty experts say that adding a serum or skin care product before icing your face can increase the benefits of the technique.
“If you apply a serum to the skin and put ice on it afterward, the capillaries restrict and it creates a pulling effect that helps ingredients penetrate deeper,” aesthetician Renée Rouleau tells Vogue.
One thing that experts don’t recommend with an ice facial is applying ice directly to your skin. Wrap ice in a cloth or some sort of barrier to keep it from directly touching your skin. A “freezer burn” on your face is never a good look.
There are also many at-home products you can use for an ice facial.
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Spa Sciences ISLA, Sonic Ice and Heat Roller for Face, Neck, and Decolletage (Walmart, $27.99)
The Spa Science ISLA Sonic Ice and Heat Roller retails at Walmart for $27.99 and has a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars from 185 reviews.
This roller has detachable heads that you can heat or cool, is rechargeable and has high and low speed settings.
“ISLA pairs perfectly with my favorite serum or moisturizer and can also be used with a sheet mask,” a Walmart reviewer named Hendrika wrote. “I love using the ISLA for my eye area to depuff the skin and on my jaw area to release muscle tension that usually causes me to get tension headaches. As soon as I put the ISLA on my jawline it releases the tension and relaxes my whole jaw.”
MonétBeauty Ice Globes for Facials (Amazon, $22.99)
The MonétBeauty Ice Globes for Facials are $22.99 on Amazon and you can choose between three colors: purple, pink and blue.
These ice globes are made from durable borosilicate glass and filled with a non-toxic antifreeze liquid. They have 4.5 out of 5 stars among 1,989 ratings.
Amazon reviewer GSilver ordered these globes after experiencing them during a professional facial.
“I did a lymphatic drainage massage with them for about 10 minutes and can already feel a difference,” GSilver wrote. “Face feels less puffy and sinus feels drained. Such an amazing tool! So far very impressed.”
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These Pfefe stainless steel cryo sticks come with a storage case and retail on Amazon for $17.99.
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The Pfefe ice facial implements have 4.7 out of 5 stars with 693 ratings.
Amazon reviewer Caroline Pvong said she likes these because, “the curves fit perfectly to the face, cheeks, nose, eyes.”
As a side benefit, another Amazon reviewer named Dr. Jo said, “I use (them) for headaches and sinus pressure and — they just are nice massage tools for my face and neck!”
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This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-12-15T20:59:02+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/ice-facial-benefits |
In the Las Barrancas Women’s League Loretta Schneider and Tammy Dyer won gross. Bobbi Belllusci and Myrna Hammermeister were the net winners. Dawn Diamond, Tammie Hagen, Anne Marie Martin were on the winning team. In the Silver League Gary Sather and Mark Stoner won gross. Ron Thacker and Conrad Eisenach were the net winners. Dennis Christopher, Will Young, Royd Fettig and Wayne Gertin were on the winning team. In the Men’s Copper League John Cullen and Frank Russell won gross. Chris Hagen and Marco Viloria were the net winners. Bryan Boechler, Doug Haun, Don Flint and Dennis Hammermeister were on the winning team.
In the Foothills Women’s League Loretta Schneider, Dawn Diamond and Marilyn Denny won gross. Diane Guthrie, Bev Johnston and Pam Peddie were the net winners. Elaine Harrell, Laurie Russell, Maribeth Evens and Peggy Whithead were on the winning team. In the Men’s League John Cullen and Frank Russell won gross. Rick Brown and Rene Boudreau were the net winners. Fred Fortin, Bryan Boechler, Martin Ollsson and Dan Sutherland were on the winning team.
In the Can Am Men’s League at Mesa del Sol Jerry Timm, Hank Browning, Ron Stirler and Terry Matthews won with 71 points. Bob Dickson, Marty Schwab, Paul Follett and Mike Mikkola were second at 69. George Alcorn, Wayne Gunion, Ken McNeal and Chris Althof were third with 67 points.
In Al’s Picks at Mesa del Sol Clifford Weber and Mike Mikkola tied for first place. Sherrie Rohloff was third and Jack Parker fourth. Brad Rohloff was the unanimous pick again and won nothing.
In the Mesa del Sol Ladies Club Match Play Champion flight winners were Terri Paden, Donna Brown, Connie Donner and Donna Sawatzky. Those four will now compete for the Overall Championship. Flight gross winners in the “9 easiest holes” format were Marie Barchus and Lorna Johnson. Flight net winners were Kathleen Hunt and Lorraine Breault.
In the Mesa del Sol Men’s 4 man scramble Sam Samples, Robert Lauer, Michael Celentano and Curt Barter won with a 17 under par 55. Mike Bedoya, George Alcorn, Dwayne Szmyrko and Brad Rohloff were second at 56. David Henager, Art Scott, Maurice Thom and Stephen Parrish were third at 57.
Hole in One: Congratulations to Murray McLeod for his Ace on the 5 th hole at Foothills Executive.
Congratulations the scoring his first Ace to Mark Bergman for his One on the 5 th hole at Mesa del Sol.
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• March 25: Bridget’s Gift Charity Scramble for Breast Cancer Awareness at Mesa del Sol. Contact bggolftourney@yahoo.com. | 2023-02-05T13:09:45+00:00 | yumasun.com | https://www.yumasun.com/sports/schneider-dyer-win-gross-at-las-barrancas/article_2d22d98a-a4ea-11ed-a954-eb70f5b108c3.html |
NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. (KCAU) — The North Sioux City Airpark Development has secured around 95 acres with the North Sioux City Economic Development Committee.
According to a release from The Claussen Group, the Graham Airpark Development Project will be built around a public-use runway at Graham Airfield. The Airpark Owners Association was stated to be currently finalizing its covenants, rules, and regulations that will protect the expansive runway.
“With the support from the State of South Dakota, we are excited to see this monumental leap forward,” said Graham Airpark Developer Stephen Jones, “This investment from the State into North Sioux City will continue to pay dividends to all of us into the long future.”
The release stated that Jones indicated the development is a step forward to building a public-use executive airpark with a 6600’ runway in southeast South Dakota.
The groundbreaking is set for the spring of 2023 with the $17 Million capital investment for phase one. This phase will include developing the runway, west taxiway, and 24/7 landing systems that will have a two-year construction timeframe. The estimated completion date for this phase will be in 2025.
Graham Airpark has cooperated with the City of North Sioux City to bring the project closer to the river and expand the community, according to the release.
“The Claussen Group is committed to continue working tirelessly to deliver this runway and airport expansion to the community which will boost economic development in southeastern South Dakota,” said Jones, “we are grateful that this exciting project is helping our state grow.”
The release stated that the Federal Aviation Administration, the South Dakota Department of Transportation, and KLJ Engineering are collaborating with A-1 Development Solutions and Graham Airpark. This collaboration will present the opportunity to build the Design Group 3 runway in Union County. “This will allow large corporate aircraft and general aviation to have the ability to call southeast South Dakota ‘home,’” said Jones.
The release added that there will be a public forum for the community to attend and hear updates and plans for the airport project. The event will take place on November 1, at the Graham Airport at 5:30 p.m. | 2022-09-27T19:12:11+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/graham-airpark-secures-95-acres-for-runway-project/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newport Healthcare, a national network of evidence-based treatment programs for teens and young adults with primary mental health disorders, is pleased to announce the launch of its new Center for Research and Innovation. The Center merges research and data collection with clinical practice to advance mental health treatment efficacy.
"Millions of adolescents and young adults are impacted by mental health concerns each year, and that vast number is doubled and tripled by the number of caregivers and communities impacted," says the Center's Senior Director, Michael Roeske, PsyD. "Given how important treatment can be, how pivotal these experiences are for so many individuals and families, and the severity of what we see as a crisis in adolescent and young adult mental health, there is surprisingly little research on outcomes. The Center will play a vital role in supporting Newport Healthcare's mission to provide results-driven, state-of-the-art mental health care and to advance the field as a whole."
The Newport Healthcare Center for Research and Innovation seeks to expand understanding of the needs of young people with mental health disorders, improve patient outcomes, and support professional development opportunities. As one of the few institutions of its kind, the Center firmly establishes Newport as a prominent thought leader in the adolescent and young adult mental health field and an innovator in bridging science and clinical practice.
The Center was born out of Newport's five years of outcomes research with third-party institutions and ongoing collaboration with Drexel University's Center for Family Intervention Science and Director Guy Diamond, PhD, co-model developer of Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT), the framework for Newport's family therapy model. The Center will prioritize treatment outcomes measurement and reporting by utilizing industry-established assessment tools, which also allows for continual evaluation and enhancement of Newport's family-based, whole-person approach.
"The idea of the Center also emerged from the desire to utilize Newport's resources and large data sets for the betterment of all," says Dr. Roeske. "The development of a body of research provides validation and credibility for mental health treatment and therefore supports relationships between treatment programs and accrediting organizations, licensing bodies, and insurance payers, ultimately increasing treatment accessibility so that individuals can get the help they need, when they need it."
Significant findings will be submitted for publication in multidisciplinary journals and presentations at national conferences. An online archive of treatment-related research and resources is also being considered, to help facilitate and disseminate the work of experts and to be a source for scholarly study and field-advancing knowledge.
Professional development opportunities for staff expand on Newport's current robust clinical training program and may include working with the Center as part of a thesis or dissertation requirement, presenting at a conference or continuing education event, or participating in an "idea share."
Dr. Roeske, a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked and studied in a variety of treatment settings including his prior position as Executive Director of Newport Academy Connecticut, will lead the Center. He is a trained assessor, supervisor, clinical director, educator, presenter, and operator of treatment programs, and now a pioneer in furthering mental health research and innovation.
For more information about Newport Healthcare, its outcomes research, and the new Center for Research and Innovation, visit NewportHealthcare.com.
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FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. — Three police officers were killed and several others were injured after a man opened fire on police who were trying to serve a warrant in eastern Kentucky.
According to Kentucky State Police, the incident happened in Allen City at a residence on Main Street, sometime after 5 p.m. Thursday night.
KSP told ABC affiliate WCHS, officers were attempting to serve a court-issued domestic violence warrant on Lance Storz, 49, when he barricaded himself in a home and began shooting.
According to his arrest citation, Storz used a rifle to fire multiple rounds, killing two officers and a K9 and injuring five others, including four additional police officers and an emergency management official.
One of the five officers, Canine Handler Jacob Chaffins, died in the hospital Friday evening, according to the Prestonsburg Police Department.
In a Facebook post, Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt identified the two officers who died at the scene as Floyd County Sheriff's Deputy William Petry and Prestonsburg Police Captain Ralph Frasure.
Multiple agencies responded to the call for help, including ATF Louisville’s Ashland and London Offices.
“There will be a strong police presence in this area for a considerable amount of time moving forward so we ask the public to avoid this area if at all possible,” KSP trooper Matt Gayheart told ABC36 reporters.
According to the Pike County Detention Center, Storz is charged with multiple counts of murder of a police officer, one count of first degree assault on a service animal, and multiple counts of attempted murder.
During his arraignment on Friday, a judge set Storz bond at $10 million, WCHS reports. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 11.
Governor Andy Beshear took to Twitter Friday morning, saying:
"Floyd County and our brave first responders suffered a tragic loss last night. I want to ask all of Kentucky to join me in praying for this community. This is a tough morning for our commonwealth. ^AB"
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Chiefs player brings joy to Kansas boy who’s been at Ronald McDonald House for nearly a year
By Betsy Webster
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — The average stay at the Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City is five nights. That just one thing that makes 9-year-old Ethan Frisbie exceptional. He has spent 267 days there. Monday night, he had many reasons to celebrate.
“We’re leaving tomorrow,” he said joyfully, sitting in a quiet living room across the street from the suite where he and his parents have lived for nearly a year.
The night before he left, he got a special visitor. Chiefs tight end Jody Fortson was visiting to serve up a meal and mingle with many Ronald McDonald House families. But, before the main event, Ethan got what we in the media call a one-on-one.
“Did you watch the game this past Sunday?” Fortson asked
“Yeah,” Ethan replied. “They tied, so you guys had to do overtime.”
The third-grader from Melvern, Kansas, quickly cut to pressing questions.
“After the games, do you say, ‘Good game’ to the other players?” he asked.
“Every time,” Fortson replied.
Other questions included whether the gear makes them sweaty, whether players get hurt and play through it, and how often they take breaks during practice. But, one question led to a long pause.
“Is it hard to do?” Ethan asked.
Sure, Fortson said, but it’s a job that you enter with a passion for what you do. That’s when he brought it back to Ethan.
“Like, what you’re doing is hard to do isn’t it?” Fortson asked. “You get up and fight every day and have the passion to do it. What you’re doing is way harder than what I’m doing, I promise you that.”
Last Christmas, Ethan was in the hospital.
“I had leukemia,” he said, quite matter-of-factly.
Had. Past tense. Two bone marrow transplants and countless chemo treatments later, he’ll make the hour-plus drive home cancer free.
“I’m going to spend a lot of time with my dad, Chris,” he said when asked what he’ll do when he gets home. “Probably going to practice riding my four-wheeler. And, probably going to do lots of things. Like, we’re celebrating Christmas there, too. At three places.”
That would be his parents’ house, his grandparents’ house and his aunt’s house. He has a lot of people who can’t wait to host.
Asked about all the treatments, Ethan didn’t complain. He said he was “asleep” for most of them, so they didn’t hurt. When he was hooked up to an I.V. on a pole, he was confined to his room for a long time. He said that was a bummer but that it wasn’t all bad because he got to build a lot of Minecraft LEGO.
After Fortson signed a football and a ballcap for Ethan, Ethan signed a Chiefs Kingdom flag for Fortson. The tight end said he’d be hanging it up at home for inspiration and motivation.
“Fighting leukemia, that’s no small task. That’s a large feat,” said Fortson. “That’s a strong individual right there. So, I’m going to hang this up in my game room with some pride.”
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At about summer’s halfway point, the record-breaking heat and weather extremes are both unprecedented and unsurprising, hellish yet boring in some ways, scientists say.
Killer heat. Deadly floods. Smoke from wildfires that chokes.
And there’s no relief in sight.
Expect a hotter than normal August and September, American and European forecast centers predict.
“We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world,” said NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. “The heat waves that we’re seeing in the U.S. and in Europe, in China are demolishing records left, right and center. This is not a surprise.”
Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto said examining what’s causing heat waves is “boring” in a way since it keeps happening. Yet she added that it matters “because it shows again just how much climate change plays a role in what we are currently experiencing.”
“This story, these impacts, are going to continue,” Schmidt said. “We’re going to be seeing this pretty much this year and into next year” with a natural El Nino warming of the Pacific adding to the overwhelming influence of human-caused climate change largely from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
Here’s a rundown of the summer of Earth’s discontent.
RECORD-SHATTERING HEAT
Globally, June this year was the hottest June on record — and scientists say July has been so hot that even before the month was over they could say it was the hottest month on record. But it’s individual places where people live that the heat has stuck around and killed.
Phoenix, where the last day of June and each day of July has been at least 110 degrees (43 degrees Celsius), set records for the longest mega-heat streak and longest stretch when the temperatures didn’t go below 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) at night.
El Paso, Texas, had 44 days of 100 degree (37 degree) heat. Schools closed in Nuevo Leon state in northern Mexico a month earlier than usual as temperatures reached 113 degrees (45 Celsius).
Farther east, Miami added humidity to high heat for 46 straight days of feels-like temperatures of 100 or more.
Beijing had its own record streak with at least 27 days of 95 degrees (35 Celsius) in July, after a three-day streak of at least 104 (40 Celsius) in June. And the country set it’s all-time highest temperature on July 16 in remote Sanbao township with 126 degrees (52.2 Celsius).
Heat records fell all over southern Europe. Sardinia, Italy, hit 117 (47 Celsius). Palermo in Sicily broke a record that goes back to 1791 by a whopping 3.6 degrees (2 degrees Celsius). Temperatures hit 115 (46 Celsius) in Gytheio, Greece.
Spain reported nearly 1,000 excess deaths from the heat, mostly among the elderly, by mid July.
In Argentina, where it’s mid-winter, temperatures were above 89.6 (32 Celsius) four straight days in June in the northern part of the county. One July night in Buenos Aires didn’t get below the 70s (low 20s Celsius).
TOO MUCH RAIN
More than 10,000 people had to be evacuated in central Hunan province in China where heavy rainfall caused at least 70 houses to collapse. In Yichang, rain triggered a landslide that buried a construction site and killed at least one person.
Australia’s Queensland outback got 13 times its normal monthly July rain in just one day.
Thousands of people were evacuated from Delhi in India as rains caused flash floods and landslides. Elsewhere in the country at least 100 people were killed by the downpours.
In the United States, sudden heavy rain killed people in Vermont, Connecticut and Pennsylvania with tragic stories of children washed away in flooding.
WILDFIRES AND SMOKE
Too little rain in Greece and Spain fed wildfires that proved difficult to fight. In the Canary Islands, a fire caused 4,000 people to evacuate, others to wear face masks and had 400 firefighters battling it.
Hot and dry conditions caused about 160 wildfires to break out in Israel in early June.
But what really brought fires home happened in parts of Canada where few people live. Rare far northern Quebec wildfires triggered nasty smoke that inflicted the world’s dirtiest air on cities like New York and Washington, then switched to the Midwest.
As of late July more than 600 wildfires were out of control in Canada. A record 47,490 square miles (123,000 square kilometers) burned, and fire season isn’t near done. That’s an area larger than the state of Pennsylvania or North Korea.
WATER TEMPERATURES
Water temperatures in the Florida Keys and off the Everglades hit the high 90s (high 30s Celsius) with Manatee Bay breaking 100 degrees twice in what could be an unofficial world record for surface water temperature, although that’s in dispute.
The North Atlantic had hot spots that alarmed scientists. The world’s oceans as a whole were their hottest ever in June and got even hotter in July. In Antarctica, sea ice smashed record-low levels.
Ocean temperatures take a long time to warm up and cool down, said University of Northern Illinois meteorology professor Victor Gensini. So it doesn’t look good for the rest of the summer, he said.
A HOT FORECAST
“We are favoring above normal temperatures for the next three months,” said NOAA Climate Prediction Center meteorologist Matt Rosencrans.
The only potential relief he sees, especially in the hot Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, is if a hurricane or tropical storm moves through.
The peak of hurricane season in September hasn’t even started.
When going through the litany of this summer’s weather extremes so far, University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann had one question: “How on God’s Earth are we still burning fossil fuels after witnessing all this?”
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Energy Market Data Leader Launches 60-Second Data Service to its Market-leading Power Market Platform, Creating Most Comprehensive Coverage Available
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yes Energy, a leader in North American power market data, is now delivering comprehensive 60-second New York (NYISO) and New England (ISO New England) generation and transmission data through its Live Power solution–the most comprehensive coverage available from any data vendor.
With the US grid facing unprecedented risk this winter, this state-of-the-art coverage enables two power markets with very high price exposure to cold weather conditions to navigate continuous change. This coverage surpasses anything available on the market and delivers immediate value to Yes Energy Live Power customers to make day-ahead and real-time trade decisions.
"This is just the beginning," said Live Power President, Jack Farley. "Live Power will continue growing its plant and transmission coverage aggressively. As always, we will focus on monitoring new capacity additions that give our customers efficient access to important data to support their tough commercial decisions day-in and day-out."
North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) officials recently warned that limited gas transportation capacity in New England could leave generators short this winter, impacting outages. Live Power's cutting-edge coverage helps power traders detect unforeseen plant supply issues in minutes, as well as track the production trends of critical supply resources.
Live Power data is integrated with Yes Energy's industry-leading data tools/services, including:
- Map layer with the full suite of Yes Energy data sets and customizable alerts;
- Hourly capacity factor tracking tool for the all monitored generation;
- Pre-built dashboards with price, supply, demand, and Live Power analytics auto-updating throughout the day;
- Industry-best database and API tools to import data directly to internal models and algorithms; and
- Superior data quality and customer support.
Yes Energy announced its acquisition of Live Power earlier this year. North American power markets are highly complex and data-intensive, requiring decision makers to constantly incorporate more and faster data into their decision models. Yes Energy serves some of the most sophisticated market analysis firms in the world, including commodity traders, hedge funds, power marketers, utilities and power plant owners. They use Yes Energy to support the most important decisions they make every day. Live Power adds to Yes Energy's data catalog by measuring grid activity, a critical leading indicator of market moves and volatility.
For more information or to schedule a demo for Yes Energy's Live Power solution, please visit the Yes Energy website.
About Yes Energy
Yes Energy provides the most comprehensive, robust, and high-quality power market data and analytics tools available, empowering companies to navigate highly complex and dynamic power markets to maximize their bottom line.
Yes Energy aggregates and standardizes data from all Independent System Operators (ISOs), non-ISOs, and third-party partnerships, and that includes historical data from the inception of the markets. We offer this data in the format best suited for your business, whether that's through our powerful user interface, an API, Cloud, or Lake. Together, we help you make game-changing power market decisions. Learn more at www.yesenergy.com.
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How to Watch the Wings vs. Mystics Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 2
Published: Jun. 2, 2023 at 12:30 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Dallas Wings (3-1) go up against the Washington Mystics (2-2) on Friday, June 2, 2023 at St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena. It starts at 7:00 PM ET on ION.
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Wings vs. Mystics Game Info
- Game Day: Friday, June 2, 2023
- Game Time: 7:00 PM ET
- TV: ION
- Arena: St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena
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Key Stats for Wings vs. Mystics
- Dallas put up an average of 82.9 points last year, seven more points than the 75.9 that Washington allowed.
- The Wings went 17-9 last season when they scored more than 75.9 points.
- Dallas shot at a 43.5% rate from the field last season, 0.5 percentage points greater than the 43% shooting opponents of Washington averaged.
- The Wings put together a 15-7 straight up record in games they shot over 43% from the field.
- Dallas knocked down 34.3% of its shots from three-point range, which was just 0.5 percentage points greater than the 33.8% Washington's opponents averaged last season.
- The Wings went 10-7 when shooting above 33.8% as a team from three-point range.
- Washington and Dallas rebounded at around the same clip, averaging 34.9 and 33.8 boards per game last season, respectively.
Wings Injuries
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Does your child have a peanut allergy? It’s one of the most common and most dangerous food allergies. But a new treatment being tested by the IU School of Medicine shows a lot of promise and could bring hope to millions of parents worldwide. Lead researcher, Doctor Kirsten Kloepper, and Gia Shields, the mom of a child taking part in the clinical trial joined Scott in the studio this morning to share more. For more information, click here. | 2023-07-10T15:07:36+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/peanut-allergy-patch-study/ |
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Mass shootings broke out at festivals, block parties and other gatherings in a handful of cities this week as the U.S. celebrated the Fourth of July.
Gun violence that flared in Washington, D.C, Louisiana, Florida, Philadelphia, Texas and Baltimore left more than a dozen dead and almost 60 wounded — including children as young as 2 years old.
In Shreveport, Louisiana, at least three people were killed and 10 others wounded late Tuesday night, Shreveport police Sgt. Angie Willhite said. One of the injured was in critical condition Wednesday but the others were expected to survive, she said. No arrests have been made.
“We are struggling with getting information from those who were present. We’re not getting a lot of cooperation,” Willhite said.
Another body was found in the area Wednesday morning, police Chief Wayne Smith said at a news conference.
“Chances are likely that it is a result of what occurred here last night,” Smith said.
The block party where the shooting took place has been held around the July Fourth holiday for at least 10 years, said Shreveport City Councilwoman Tabatha Taylor, who represents the neighborhood.
Independence Day celebrations in the nation’s capital also turned violent when nine people outside enjoying the festivities were shot and wounded early Wednesday, police said.
Officers who responded about 1 a.m. to the mass shooting in a neighborhood about a 20-minute drive east of the White House found a 9-year-old and a 17-year-old among the victims, Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Leslie Parsons said. The victims, who were not publicly identified, were hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, police said.
The gunshots were fired from a dark SUV seen driving through the neighborhood, Parsons said, calling the shooting targeted. It was unclear if there was more than one shooter in the vehicle, and no arrests had been made, police said.
In Florida, gunfire erupted after an altercation between two groups gathered for July Fourth celebrations along a causeway that crosses Tampa Bay, killing a 7-year-old, police said.
Investigators said the boy was sitting in a truck with his grandfather Tuesday when a bullet was fired into the vehicle, hitting the older man in his hand and the boy in the head.
Tampa Police Department Deputy Chief Calvin Johnson said Wednesday that no arrests had been made but investigators don’t believe the boy and grandfather were targeted.
The shooting stemmed from an argument over Jet Skis that one group said were coming too close to children playing in the water.
“There was no reason — no excuse that an argument can lead to gunfire, much less an argument over Jet Skis,” Johnson said at a news conference. “Now we got citizens’ families, folks in our communities, that have to deal with this tragic incident that happened on the Fourth of July.”
Even before the holiday, city streets turned deadly in other communities.
On Monday night, a shooter in a bulletproof vest opened fire on the streets of Philadelphia, killing five people and wounding two boys, ages 2 and 13, before surrendering, police said.
Three people were killed and eight others were injured when several men fired indiscriminately into a crowd of hundreds that had gathered in a Texas neighborhood after a festival in the area, authorities said. The shooting in the Fort Worth neighborhood of Como happened late Monday night, about two hours after the annual ComoFest ended.
Thirty people were shot, two fatally, at a block party in Baltimore early Sunday. Many of those shooting victims were children, authorities said. | 2023-07-05T20:45:30+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-3-killed-and-10-wounded-at-louisiana-block-party-one-of-several-shootings-over-july-fourth-holiday/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Since 1947, the oldest Dairy Queen in North Carolina has sat on a piece of property on Wilkinson Boulevard in west Charlotte.
Now, according to a real estate listing, the store at 2732 Wilkinson Blvd is up for sale.
The real estate listing shows the half-acre site offered at $1.4 million.
The property could be used for “fast food, express oil change, auto detailing/car wash,” and more, the listing states.
According to the Landmarks Commission, the store opened in 1947 and was one of only two Dairy Queens opened in Charlotte. The other opened on Central Avenue in 1950 and has since closed. | 2022-10-18T18:19:55+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/local-news/oldest-dairy-queen-in-nc-up-for-sale-in-west-charlotte/ |
-NCL Takes Viewers to the Land of Fire and Ice for the History-Making Debut of Its Newest Groundbreaking Ship in Reykjavik, Iceland, Followed by a First-Hand Look at Its New Elevated Onboard Experiences-
-Two-Part Episode Premieres Dec. 8, 2022 at 8 P.M. ET at www.ncl.com/embark-series -
MIAMI, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- - Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), the innovator in global cruise travel, today announced the premiere of its next episode of "EMBARK with NCL," a two-part feature chronicling the milestone launch of its record-breaking ship, Norwegian Prima, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022 at 8 p.m. at www.ncl.com/embark-series and on Facebook.
For the first time ever, NCL is pulling back the curtain and inviting viewers to be part of the most important milestone of any new ship, the christening ceremony and celebration with this first episode, "Christening Norwegian Prima: First in Class." The audience is given a front-row seat to the exclusive event which begins with a preview of the opening ceremony at the HARPA Concert Hall, the epicenter for the Icelandic cultural arts. The evening included performances by the award-winning Icelandic singer-songwriter Briet and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The festivities continue when Godmother Katy Perry boards Norwegian Prima to officially name and christen the vessel with the ceremonial champagne bottle break across the ship's hull, marking the start of Norwegian Prima's maiden voyage.
In part two, "Norwegian Prima: Discover Innovation," viewers receive an inside look into brand and industry first experiences debuting aboard the ship, including Indulge Food Hall featuring 11 different eateries; the three-level Prima Speedway; two adrenaline-pumping slides, The Drop and Rush; the sustainable Metropolitan Bar; and a three-story transformational theater showcasing "The Price is Right" and the Tony Award®-nominated musical "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical."
"With the debut of the Prima Class, we wanted our guests to be amazed from the moment they stepped on board, instantly creating everlasting memories with family and friends," said Harry Sommer, president and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line. "And what better way to kick off that very first memory than christening Norwegian Prima in one of the most beautiful and spectacular countries in the world, Iceland. With this EMBARK episode, I'm extremely excited to offer our guests, for the first time, an inside look at this momentous milestone, as well as inspire them to join us for their dream vacation at sea."
Hosted by American television personality and world traveler, Zay Harding, and Lexie Alford (aka Lexie Limitless), the Guinness World Record Holder for the youngest person to travel to every country by the age of 21, viewers will follow them along in this EMBARK episode as they experience everything Norwegian Prima has to offer, as well as discover the natural wonders of the land of fire and ice.
To watch the EMBARK with NCL episode featuring Norwegian Prima, tune in on Dec. 8, 2022 at 8 p.m. ET at www.ncl.com/embark-series or Facebook. The episode will be available on-demand following the livestream premiere. For more information on EMBARK with NCL, or to watch the complete series, visit www.ncl.com/embark-series.
For more information about the Company's award-winning 18-ship fleet and worldwide itineraries, or to book a cruise, please contact a travel professional, call 888-NCL-CRUISE (625-2784) or visit www.ncl.com.
ABOUT NORWEGIAN PRIMA
Norwegian Prima is the first of six vessels from Norwegian Cruise Line's Prima Class, the Brand's first new class of ships in nearly 10 years. Launched in August 2022, Norwegian Prima is the industry's most spacious new cruise ship with the most outdoor deck space and expansive accommodations of any new build. Built in Marghera, Italy by world-renowned Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, Norwegian Prima is 965 feet long (294 meters long), 143,535 gross tons and able to accommodate 3,100 guests at double occupancy. The vessel has 20 decks, featuring nearly 1,600 staterooms, 18 dining venues and 17 bars and lounges. The ship features striking hull artwork created by Italian graffiti artist Manuel Di Rita, known commonly as "Peeta," and was designed by world-class design and architectural teams including Italian designer Piero Lissoni and powerhouse architectural firms Rockwell Group, SMC Design, Tillberg Design of Sweden, YSA DESIGN and Miami-based Studio Dado who conceptualized and composed the aesthetic of various restaurants, staterooms and public areas on board. Norwegian Prima offers guests exciting itineraries, the highest staffing levels and space ratio of any new cruise ship in the contemporary or premium cruise category, and Brand-first experiences with Ocean Boulevard, Indulge Food Hall, The Concourse, Infinity Beach, Oceanwalk and the Penrose Atrium. Norwegian Prima also features multiple first-at-sea innovations including a three-story transformational theater-nightclub, the Prima Theater & Club; its three-level racetrack with the Prima Speedway; the fastest slides at sea, The Drop and Rush; and the cruise industry's first sustainable cocktail bar with The Metropolitan Bar.
ABOUT NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE
As the innovator in global cruise travel, Norwegian Cruise Line has been breaking the boundaries of traditional cruising for 55 years. Most notably, the cruise line revolutionized the industry by offering guests the freedom and flexibility to design their ideal vacation on their preferred schedule with no assigned dining and entertainment times and no formal dress codes. Today, its fleet of 18 contemporary ships sail to nearly 400 of the world's most desirable destinations, including Great Stirrup Cay, the company's private island in the Bahamas and its resort destination Harvest Caye in Belize. Norwegian Cruise Line not only provides superior guest service from land to sea, but also offers a wide variety of award-winning entertainment and dining options as well as a range of accommodations across the fleet, including solo-traveler staterooms, club balcony suites, spa-suites and The Haven by Norwegian®, the company's ship-within-a-ship concept. For additional information or to book a cruise, contact a travel professional, call 888-NCL-CRUISE (625-2784) or visit www.ncl.com. For the latest news and exclusive content, visit the NCL Newsroom and follow Norwegian Cruise Line on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTube @NorwegianCruiseLine; and Twitter @CruiseNorwegian.
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Cheerleader competes alone at state champs after squad quits: ‘It felt amazing’
LYMAN, Neb. - Sometimes you have to go at it alone, and that’s exactly what Katrina Kohel did.
The 17-year-old Morrill High School senior gained national recognition for competing— by herself— at the Nebraska state cheerleading championship on Feb. 17.
Days before the event, her three other teammates quit.
"The three freshmen quit for personal reasons," Kohel told FOX Television Stations.
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Kohel said her coach encouraged her to either go to the championship as a a spectator or a competitor. She chose the latter.
"I decided I wanted to go and still compete because I wanted to end my senior year with a bang, and I didn’t want to give up on cheerleading because it has been such a huge part of my life," she continued.
Video captured Kohel cheering solo on the mat at the event in Grand Island, Nebraska. She moved around the mat picking up different pom-poms and performing various cheers and moves.
Kohel said she wasn’t nervous until she stepped into the arena.
"I wasn’t (nervous) at first and then we got into the arena...and it all kind of started to hit me...and it felt like more real in the fact that I was there competing by myself," she continued.
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Not only did Kohel complete her routine, the crowd and her competitors cheered her on.
"It felt amazing," she continued. "It was just so awe-inspiring to me that they were willing to do that even though I was their competition."
Her grandparents attended the event and recorded Kohel’s solo routine. The rest of the family was attending her brother’s state wrestling championship that same day.
Kohel ended up placing 8th out of the 12 competing teams. The judges had to adjust her score because she couldn’t perform certain stunts alone.
Kohel said she’s touched by the acclaim she’s received for going at it with no team.
"It feels amazing to see how positive people are reacting to it and... how it’s showing them no matter what, as long as you put your mind to it, you can still do it," she said.
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"I’m just so proud of Katrina and the performance she put on out there on the mat," Kohel’s coach, April Ott, said to FOX Television Stations. "The amount of love and support from the spectators and teams in that arena was absolutely phenomenal and rewarding."
"What an amazing end to her senior cheer career. She will definitely be missed," Ott added.
Kohel said she holds no ill will towards her former teammates although she said one of them has apologized.
"They made their choice, so there’s nothing I can do about it," she continued.
Kohel plans to enlist in the U.S. Air Force before going to college. She doesn’t know if she will hang up her pom-poms for good.
"Undecided," she said. "Undecided on that one."
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2023-02-27T17:58:23+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/cheerleader-competes-alone-at-state-champs-after-squad-quits-it-felt-amazing |
Kim Shaver doesn’t do it for the money and recognition, she does it for the love of art.
As long as the art is functional, that is.
Shaver spends the majority of the winter season huddled in her basement in Laramie, working on the next wood-woven basket to add to her ever-growing collection. The rest of the time, she’s taking care of her boys or making trips to her childhood home — the Lindzey Family Ranch outside Centennial, where her parents still live.
It’s in this valley where she traverses along the bank of the Little Laramie River, collecting exclusively willow branches for her projects.
“I can’t imagine working with anything else,” Shaver said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon. “Because willow is not perfect, I am not perfect. And it doesn’t matter because it’s just so lovely. That just makes it perfect, in my eyes. Not being perfect is perfect for me.”
As much of the snow has begun to melt, leaves once again filling the long bare branches of deciduous trees across southeastern Wyoming, Shaver’s passion for foraging for materials has come to a seasonal close.
Unlike nearly every other activity in Wyoming, Shaver’s artistic occupation is best practiced in the winter, when the trees are dormant and branches die. This wood, cold and wet from the snow, is surprisingly malleable, even more so when soaked in water before being manipulated, if so needed.
Shaver said that most of the pieces she collects will bend to a 90-degree angle without added soaking. Not only is the use of willow unique, but it’s impressive, considering that it can be an “ornery” wood to work with, Shaver said.
There’s an abundance of willow to collect in the Centennial Valley, and Shaver needs a lot of long, thin branches to successfully execute her increasingly uncommon craft. It’s with these branches that she sets a base, weaves soft wood through different thread-like layerings and twists, slowly creating a sturdy wooden basket.
Despite her effort, she rarely sells her work and has little interest in making “art for art’s sake.”
“I made little fences outside my yard for my gardens, but usually it’s just baskets,” she said. “I usually try to make things that are functional, and that I would use. I’m not a traditional artist like that.
“I like it to be functional and beautiful. I can’t help it.”
Her mother was the one that taught her basket-making after studying the art form while visiting the Amana Colonies in Iowa. Both her mother and father still join her to collect branches during season.
Shaver’s two boys aren’t interested in carrying forward the craft of basket-making, but she’s hopeful there will be some women — a niece or daughter-in-law, she jokes — in the family that will eventually adopt the skill she inherited from her mother.
However, it might be time to start selling her work, since she estimates there are roughly 30 baskets currently at her home and 40 at Blue Door Arts here in Cheyenne, where she’ll sell her work, speak with attendees and teach her methods during the Cheyenne ArtWalk tonight starting at 5.
Shaver has loved the craft and what the creative process represents in her life since the early days of learning from her mother. It isn’t just about the valuable time spent with her parents, but the joy of working with the ornery willow branches that keeps her fulfilled.
She doesn’t expect she’ll migrate to working with another type of word or that she’ll abandon her craft anytime soon, not as long as the strong scent of wild willows continue to draw her in with their nostalgic allure.
“It’s just so joyful. (My parents and I) go out, and we pick willow, and we have the nicest time,” Shaver said. “We just sit after we picked a basket, and we talk about how beautiful they are and just how beautiful it is to be out there. It’s just a really nice, lovely time.
“I’m very lucky to be able to have such a beautiful time and make beautiful things that I love to make.” | 2023-05-05T20:07:10+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/wyoming-woman-weaves-willow-baskets-for-function-and-family/article_0363655a-eb5e-11ed-a86f-f32683a499dc.html |
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis will visit Hungary at the end of April, the Vatican said Monday, in a trip expected to focus on migration to Europe and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The April 28-30 trip to Budapest represents a proper state visit after Francis made a brief, hours-long stopover in 2021 to close out a church conference. That visit was visibly awkward, given that Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s hard-line views on migration and Francis’ call for countries to welcome those fleeing war, hardship and poverty.
Since then, Hungary has accepted hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion. Francis, who has repeatedly expressed solidarity with Ukraine, met at the Vatican with Orban last April and thanked him for taking them in.
Upon arrival, Francis will meet with Orban, a contentious leader who has centered his political brand around a staunch rejection of immigration and a focus on preventing Hungary from becoming “mixed race.”
While Hungary accepted Ukrainian refugees, it has refused to provide weapons to Kyiv or allow their transfer across its borders, and has lobbied against European Union sanctions on Moscow and held up some financial aid packages to Ukraine.
Francis has been supportive of Ukraine’s plight following Russia’s invasion — likening it to a 1930s genocide of Ukrainians blamed on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin — while Orban has been lukewarm in his support for Hungary’s eastern neighbor.
Still, Orban has cast his view of the war as being in line with the Vatican’s, saying during a speech Feb. 18 that his government and the papacy were the only powers in Europe advocating for peace in Ukraine.
Francis has also tried to maintain relations with Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church. Hungary was key in blocking the EU from sanctioning the head of the Russian church, Patriarch Kirill, over his support for the war.
Francis will meet with refugees during his visit, as well as children. On his final day, he will deliver a speech to the Hungarian academic and cultural world, in which he is likely to issue a message to Europe at large.
Francis, who just returned from Congo and South Sudan, has other trips confirmed or in the works this year. The 86-year-old pope, who marks his 10th anniversary as pontiff next month, is due to participate in World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal in August. He has said the Vatican is studying a possible trip to Mongolia at the end of September, after a brief stop in Marseille, France.
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Justin Spike reported from Budapest, Hungary. | 2023-02-27T13:10:04+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-pope-to-visit-hungary-in-april-migration-and-war-on-agenda/ |
CLEVELAND, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE: TDG) ("the Company") announced today the upcoming retirement of Chief Operating Officer Jorge L. Valladares III, the appointment of Mr. Valladares to the Company's Board of Directors, the appointment of Mike Lisman and Joel Reiss as Co-Chief Operating Officers, and the appointment of Sarah Wynne as Chief Financial Officer.
Retirement of Chief Operating Officer Jorge L. Valladares III
Mr. Valladares will retire at the end of the TransDigm's 2023 fiscal year and has served as the Company's Chief Operating Officer for the past four years. Mr. Valladares' prior roles include co-COO, Executive Vice President, and President of three TransDigm operating units. Mr. Valladares will aid in the transition of his role to Mike and Joel until his retirement date. He has also joined the Company's Board of Directors, effective as of today.
Mr. Stein, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "During Jorge's recent tenure as COO and across more than 25 years at the Company, he has been an integral part of the long-term value creation at TransDigm and a key player in the cultural preservation of the Company. Jorge has done a truly outstanding job, and we sincerely thank him for his dedication. We look forward to having Jorge continue to contribute to the growth of TransDigm as a member of the Company's Board."
Appointment of Mike Lisman and Joel Reiss as Co-Chief Operating Officers
Mr. Lisman, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Reiss, an Executive Vice President of the Company, have now assumed the roles of co-COOs.
Mr. Lisman has served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer for the past five years. Prior to becoming CFO, he worked at AeroFluid Products (a TransDigm operating unit) and on the Mergers & Acquisitions team at TransDigm. Before joining the Company, Mike worked at Warburg Pincus.
Mr. Reiss is a long-time employee of TransDigm, having joined the Company in 2000. He has been an Executive Vice President for the last eight years. Prior to that, Mr. Reiss served as President of Hartwell Corporation and President of Skurka Aerospace, both of which are operating units of TransDigm. Before becoming an operating unit President, Mr. Reiss was the Director of Operations at TransDigm's Adams Rite Aerospace operating unit.
Appointment of Sarah Wynne as Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Wynne has assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer, after having served as TransDigm's Chief Accounting Officer for the past five years. She brings strong experience in operational and GAAP accounting to her new assignment and has been with TransDigm for 20 years.
Before becoming the Company's Chief Accounting Officer, she served as a Group Controller overseeing the financial reporting of several operating units. Prior to that, Ms. Wynne served as a Controller at the Company's AeroFluid Products operating unit and held various accounting positions in TransDigm's corporate office.
Mr. Stein, stated, "Sarah, Mike and Joel bring a unique mix of experience in a broad range of aerospace businesses to their new roles. They are experienced senior executives with proven track records. We are very excited to be able to promote internally-developed, long-term employees to each of these roles to continue to perpetuate our unique culture. I'm confident that they will continue to create the kind of value that has been the long-term hallmark of TransDigm."
About TransDigm Group
TransDigm Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a leading global designer, producer and supplier of highly engineered aircraft components for use on nearly all commercial and military aircraft in service today. Major product offerings, substantially all of which are ultimately provided to end-users in the aerospace industry, include mechanical/electro-mechanical actuators and controls, ignition systems and engine technology, specialized pumps and valves, power conditioning devices, specialized AC/DC electric motors and generators, batteries and chargers, engineered latching and locking devices, engineered rods, engineered connectors and elastomer sealing solutions, databus and power controls, cockpit security components and systems, specialized and advanced cockpit displays, engineered audio, radio and antenna systems, specialized lavatory components, seat belts and safety restraints, engineered and customized interior surfaces and related components, advanced sensor products, switches and relay panels, thermal protection and insulation, lighting and control technology, parachutes, high performance hoists, winches and lifting devices, and cargo loading, handling and delivery systems.
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MNA nurses at Heywood Hospital sound alarm about the closure of mental health and pediatric beds and lack of transparency from Heywood as the system talks affiliation with UMass
GARDNER, Mass., May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heywood Hospital nurses' existing concerns about the quiet closure of mental health and pediatric beds at the hospital in recent years were intensified with the announcement that Heywood Healthcare is considering an affiliation with UMass Memorial. The closures have happened without public input or widespread community knowledge, prompting Heywood nurses to scrutinize the UMass affiliation talks and renew their calls for restoration of essential services.
Statement from Heywood Hospital MNA Co-Chairs Paula Robichaud, RN, and Kim Fuller, RN:
"Heywood Hospital nurses, represented by the MNA, will be scrutinizing the talks with UMass to protect patient care quality and ensure Heywood adheres to its obligations to nurses and the community. We hope that if there is an eventual affiliation with UMass, it would mean a restoration of essential pediatric and mental health services that have quietly closed at Heywood in recent years.
"CEO Win Brown has been dismantling services at Heywood without giving the public a chance to understand the impact and speak up for themselves. At least 12 adult mental health beds and a pediatric unit have closed at Heywood without Department of Public Health hearings. These bed closures have created barriers to care in a region already stricken by closures of similar units. Heywood's maternity unit is also at risk because of chronic understaffing.
"This cost-cutting by Heywood and Brown has threatened patient care quality and made working conditions worse for nurses and other staff members. We call on Heywood Healthcare to keep care local, re-open or maintain essential healthcare services, and invest in improved staff recruitment and retention."
Prior to the announcement, Heywood nurses had launched a community petition about the closure of hospital services: www.massnurses.org/HeywoodPetition. The petition reads, in part:
"Heywood Healthcare and CEO Win Brown must Keep Care Local:
- Reopen the pediatric unit. These beds are an essential part of our community's healthcare system and serve a particularly vulnerable patient population.
- Reopen the mental health unit. There were already patients waiting for mental healthcare in emergency departments before the pandemic. Now in communities like Gardner where mental health beds have closed, patients wait even longer or receive no care at all.
- Protect the maternity unit. Understaffing places mothers and newborns at unnecessary risk for negative outcomes. If Heywood were to close the unit entirely, patients would have to travel much farther and longer, imposing a financial burden and creating potentially unsafe circumstances when a mother is in labor."
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This year, Amazon surprised its Prime members with a second 48-hour sale called the Prime Early Access Sale. We’ve noticed that, as in years past, the company is offering huge discounts on smart home gear, such as the Echo Show 8 and Amazon Smart Plugs, as well as other personal essentials, including the Conair Hair Dryer by Leandro Limited and Crest 3D Teeth-Whitening Strips.
We’ve compiled a list of the best deals on everyday essentials. To help you quickly navigate to the products you need most, we’ve organized this list into seven sections: trending, tech and electronics, apparel and accessories, home and kitchen, lawn and garden, sports and fitness equipment and health and beauty.
Deal availability/pricing are always subject to change. BestReviews will be updating this roundup several times through the duration of Prime Day. We recommend checking back throughout the duration of the event as we add more worthwhile bargains. Updated: October 11, 3 a.m. PT
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An air fryer is a game-changing countertop appliance. You can use it to cook up your favorite comfort foods in just a few minutes. Best of all, you’ll be using less oil. The Instant Vortex Plus is a versatile model that offers a broad range of cooking features.
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JBL Reflect Aero earbuds are essential accessories that help you stay motivated during the toughest workouts. The Smart Ambient automatically adjusts noise cancellation levels to eliminate audio distractions while keeping you alert to your surroundings. Now is a great time to get these trending earbuds because they are so deeply discounted for the Prime Early Access Sale.
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Fire HD 8 Essentials Bundle: 44% off
When you are creative, you need a tool that is as versatile as your mind. The Fire HD is a top-performing tablet that is adaptable to your needs. It has super-fast processing, an abundance of on-board storage and vivid graphics.
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Panasonic Cordless Men’s Beard Trimmer: 27% off
Facial hair can look sloppy in just one day. To keep it crisp, no matter what your style, you need a high-quality razor. The Panasonic cordless trimmer delivers a smooth shave that won’t irritate your face. It’s easy to clean and currently available at a sizable discount.
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3-Pack, 6-foot Certified Lightning Cable: 62% off
Find yourself always looking for your missing iPhone cable? You’re not alone. This 3-pack of charging cables will make sure you’re always charged and ready to go. Don’t worry about sitting next to an outlet, as these cords extend 6-feet-long for your convenience.
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Ring video doorbells, Anker portable chargers and other tech and electronics deals
Ring Video Doorbell bundle with Echo Show 5: 56% off
If you’ve ever had a stranger show up at your door, you know how uncomfortable that can make you feel. With the Ring Echo Show 5, you can see who is on the other side and communicate without ever opening the door and making yourself vulnerable. The peace of mind this model offers is priceless. Since it is currently on sale, that makes it an even greater value.
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Echo Dot Smart Speaker: 55% off
Without an assistant that listens to you, you cannot get the most out of your smart home. Amazon’s Alexa devices are reliable tech that puts you in control. The Echo Dot is one of the most popular models in the company’s line, and it is designed to make your life easier.
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GRV Smart Watch for iOS and Android: 32% off
Watches are becoming more and more essential to your overall health. The GRV Smart Watch monitors your heart rate, senses oxygen levels in your blood and more. Your doctor may even recommend you purchase one. Since this model is discounted during the Prime Early Access Sale, it’s a great time to put the focus on your health.
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4: 24% off
If you had to get rid of every tech device you owned but one, chances are, you’d keep your phone. That shows how important this versatile gadget is in your life. With that being the case, you want to be sure you get the best. The Samsung Galaxy Z will not let you down. It gives you everything you need in one compact device.
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Kasa Smart Plug Mini: 23% off
Not everyone wants a smart home. However, we could all use a little convenience. If all you want is control over a single, hard-to-reach light or you want to turn on the fan without getting up, the Kasa Smart Plug is the device to get.
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- Pick up a new laptop — the Acer Chromebook 512 Laptop is now 60% off
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Boots, Swarovski jewelry and other apparel and accessories deals
Silentcare Mens Winter Mid-Calf Snow Boot: 18% off
As winter approaches, you need to keep your feet warm. These snow boots are not only great for colder weather, but they add a great accent to nearly any ensemble. Strut comfortably through any season with this stylish option.
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Aloodor Sweatsuit for Women: 20% off
Comfort is a priority when it comes to casual wear. And there are few items that are more comfortable than this two-piece sweatsuit. Whether movie night involves a trip to the theater or a snuggle on the couch, these are the sweats you want to wear.
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If your feet are uncomfortable, your whole body can suffer. That is why it is essential to have supportive footwear. These Ugg boots are not only comfortable, but they are stylish too, so you can wear them in nearly any situation.
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It’s the little things that complete a look. With these Swarovski earrings, you can take your fashion game to the next level. They are sophisticated and cost less than you would expect for such an attention-getting accessory.
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Silver Jeans Co. Men’s Zac Straight Leg Jeans: 69% off
Pants can be the most overlooked item in your wardrobe. You purchase what fits but aren’t always particularly concerned with how they complement your body. These Silver Jeans Co. pants have a flattering silhouette and a comfortable fit. You’ll truly look as good as you feel.
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Instant Pots, Hamilton Beach blenders and other home and kitchen deals
Instant Pot Pro 10-in-1 Pressure Cooker: 24% off
The Instant Pot is a versatile countertop appliance that can make anything from brisket to yogurt. All it takes is a tap or two, and you’ll have a dish with robust, mouth-watering flavor. The best news is, this model is currently available at a huge savings.
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Hamilton Beach Personal Blender: 39% off
A blender is a quick way to make a healthy, drinkable meal. To get the best one, you need power and control. The Hamilton blender offers both of those features and more, which is why it is a top-of-the-line model.
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Kitchenaid Artisan Mini Plus: 32%
A hand mixer is OK for the casual cook. But if you love baking and cooking, you’ll want to step up to a versatile stand mixer. The Kitchenaid stand mixer gives you power, convenience and hands-free operation so you can multitask.
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If you have a lawn, patio or yard you need a way to easily rake and clean debris. The best models, like this Scotts Lawn Sweeper, will have the size and lightweight design you need to get the job done. The bells and whistles found on this popular model are highly desirable.
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Vigbody bikes, Gaiam yoga gear and other sports and fitness equipment deals
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Who needs a gym membership when you have a Vigbody bike? This popular exercise bike has the workouts and range of resistance that will keep you engaged and pedaling toward your fitness goals. Thanks to Amazon Prime, you can get it at a wallet-friendly price.
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Gaiam Premium Yoga Mat: 44% off
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig did not have a criminal attorney with him and felt compromised partly because of his mental health issues at an interview with federal agents investigating an illegal gambling operation, according to a statement Tuesday night from his agent.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that Puig, 31, will plead guilty to lying at that interview. Court documents say he has agreed to plead guilty to one count of making false statements and after doing so could face up to five years in federal prison. He also agreed to pay a fine of at least $55,000.
“The government’s indictment arises out of a single interview he gave back in January via Zoom,” said Puig’s agent, Lisette Carnet of Leona Sports Agency.
“He came to the interview feeling rushed, unprepared, without criminal counsel with him, and also lacked his own interpreter. Given his history growing up in authoritarian Cuba, government interviews are triggering and only worsen his ADHD symptoms and other mental health struggles, for which he is in treatment. He would have benefited from this care at the time of the interview.”
Carnet said Puig’s lawyer, Keri Axel, has also clarified that under the sentencing guidelines he is eligible for probation.
“I want to make clear that many headlines have been completely misleading, with some articles making downright false statements,” Carnet said. “Yasiel Puig has not been charged with illegal gambling, was not a member of a gambling ring, nor did he bet on baseball. He has not been indicted for gambling of any kind on any sport whatsoever nor for any involvement with any illegal gambling. The absolute ‘only conduct at issue is what he said or did not say during an interview’ conducted by IRS and HSI Officials, as described in a statement released by his attorney.
“Yasiel Puig was not the target of the government’s investigation; he was asked by the government to be a witness against the gambling organizers and others.”
Puig batted .277 with 132 home runs and 415 RBIs while appearing in seven major league seasons, the first six with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He earned an All-Star selection with the Dodgers in 2014.
Puig played for Cincinnati and Cleveland in 2019 before becoming a free agent. He then played in the Mexican League and last year signed a one-year, $1 million contact with South Korea’s Kiwoom Heroes.
Carnet said Puig’s legal trouble does not prevent him from playing in the major leagues or abroad “per organization regulations.”
“Puig took responsibility, and this agreement with the government should end this whole unfortunate incident,” Carnet said.
MLB would not investigate unless Puig attempts to sign with a big league organization.
In an August plea agreement, Puig acknowledged that over only a few months in 2019 he wracked up more than $280,000 in losses while wagering on tennis, football and basketball games through a third party who worked for an illegal gambling operation run by Wayne Nix, a former minor league baseball player.
Puig placed at least 900 bets through Nix-controlled betting websites and through a man who worked for Nix, authorities said.
In his plea agreement, Puig acknowledged lying in January to federal investigators who were looking into the business, denying he had placed bets through the operation.
Nix pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to operate an illegal sports gambling business and filing a false tax return. Prosecutors said Nix’s operation ran for two decades and included both current and former professional athletes as clients or employees.
Federal prosecutors also announced Monday that another former MLB player, Erik Kristian Hiljus, 49, of Los Angeles, had agreed to plead guilty to two counts of subscribing to false tax returns. They said he was an agent for Nix’s operation.
Hiljus was drafted by the New York Mets in 1991 but made his major league debut in 1999 with the Detroit Tigers. He also played for the Oakland Athletics in 2001 and 2002. He pitched 124 innings in four seasons, going 8-3 with a 4.72 career ERA.
Hiljus could face up to six years in federal prison at sentencing.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheetah, the fast-growing, sustainability-focused, and technology-driven restaurant supplier announces a major milestone in its growth plan to become the leading distributor of choice for independent restaurants and artisanal suppliers with the conclusion of this triple acquisition transaction.
This is the beginning of an effort to build one of the largest local and specialty, product-driven food distribution companies in the country by identifying the best independent & artisanal food distributors to become a part of Cheetah's nationwide expansion. These acquisitions further solidify Cheetah's plan to continue to provide the local community of independent restaurants in any market, the same attention and customer experience of dealing with a smaller family-owned distributor, but with the more robust buying power and capabilities of a tech-enabled, national firm. This week, Palo Alto Foods, Esteson, and Joseph Martin Foods became a part of Cheetah's vision. Cheetah identified these businesses and their founders as phenomenal enterprises with rich history and values, perfectly aligning with the company's mission.
Na'ama Moran, CEO, and Co-Founder of Cheetah states, "We couldn't be more excited to bring these amazing businesses and teams into our family. The foodservice industry, post-pandemic, is an increasingly difficult landscape to navigate, but independent restaurants are still the lifeline of the foodservice industry. We found a path to partner with dedicated family-owned businesses to create a scalable, increasingly efficient business that strengthens the breadth of our product catalog, the capabilities of our now broader team, and enhances the customer experience for the entire Cheetah family of restaurant customers." She adds, "It's critical to note that the storied history of these businesses won't disappear, they become celebrated and part of a combined story of a growing company that recognizes the generations of effort that go into creating companies like these."
Paul Jensen, CEO of Palo Alto Foods, considered a pioneer in the adoption and celebration of organic products, shares that, "This is such an exciting and important time in the history of our company. This is a business my father owned when we were just selling eggs. Forty-one years ago as children, my brother Eric and I worked side by side with him before eventually taking over the company. I can remember the landscape of Silicon Valley in a very different way. We've been fortunate to successfully grow with our customers such as Google, Pixar, and Stanford Hospital, over the years. We are ecstatic about taking the history and lineage of Palo Alto Foods and weaving it into Cheetah's vision. The technology tools and infrastructure Cheetah has developed will only make our customers happier and I'm looking forward to where we can take this together."
Jim & Cathy Tsiboukis have a similar story; Cathy's Father Harold Estes founded Esteson in 1952 and was largely in the egg business, supplying the Bay Area's best bakeries. Cathy had been working there since she was 12 years old. In 1979, when her father passed away, she and her husband Jim took the reins of the company. She remembers growing up with conversations around the kitchen table talking about the real origins of farm-to-table. These days conversations start around importing the finest olive oil, and Greek wines, and when the latest import shipment would arrive. Her husband Jim's dedication to the business shows in his work schedule, starting his day at 10pm in the office and finishing at 9am. Jim adds some color to that, "When our customers are going to sleep, Greece is just waking up, and that's when I need to be at my prime." The family's hand-crafted line of Estia products, a line of thoughtfully curated and imported premium Mediterranean products, will become a staple in the Cheetah catalog and will be available to the entire family of customers, especially those in the Mediterranean category. Cathy adds, "This company represents generations of love, care, and dedication. It's important to know that the relationships that made us successful will continue in our new partnership with Cheetah. They view our customers the same way we do, as the heart of our business."
Cheetah's Marketplace and Last-Mile Logistics platforms are focused on local, artisanal, and specialty products, accessible with the ease of an Amazon-like shopping experience. The company's commitment to pricing transparency is oddly unique in the food distribution industry. Cheetah's commitment to making sure all customers receive the same fair price, regardless of their size or negotiating skills, has been paramount to the company's growth. Cheetah's Marketplace is giving smaller, artisanal vendors a major platform for last-mile distribution, changing the way restaurants have access to unique, local, products. This platform fits perfectly with giving greater access to the customers of Palo Alto Foods, Esteson, and Joseph Martin. Looking forward, Cheetah has committed itself to becoming the sustainability leader in foodservice distribution. Major efforts are underway to create a truly sustainable company that fits with the needs and demands of today's restaurants and restaurant customers.
While details of each transaction are confidential, they are structured so that all parties are keenly aligned in the company's success through a substantial equity component. A success for the ever-growing Cheetah, is a success for the families and individuals that made Esteson, Palo Alto Foods, and Joseph Martin evergreen brands in the Bay Area for decades. Nearly 100% of the staff of all three companies will be part of Cheetah moving forward.
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For independent, like-minded distributors interested in contacting Cheetah's Mergers and Acquisitions team please reach out to daniel.cerda@gocheetah.com.
Cheetah (www.gocheetah.com) is a tech-enabled platform designed for independent restaurants to order wholesale foods and supplies for next-day delivery. Cheetah delivered its first orders in 2015 and has grown to become the foodservice distributor that thousands of restaurants rely on for everything they need to run their business. Cheetah is founded and run by food industry veterans, supply chain and logistics experts, chefs, engineers, and data scientists who have come together in their mission to empower restaurateurs and help their business thrive.
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Industry-leading food tech company Meatable held its first-ever cultivated meat tasting in Singapore with future commercial partners and the Singapore Economic Development Board
Meatable received approval from the Singapore Food Agency for the first tasting, an important step towards receiving regulatory approval for sale of its cultivated meat
With this milestone, Meatable is on track to launch into the Singaporean market in 2024, followed by the US
DELFT, Netherlands, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Meatable, the innovative Dutch food tech company that is on a mission to deliver cultivated meat at scale, has reached a major milestone in its history by holding its first-ever tasting in Singapore after receiving the Singapore Food Agency's (SFA) approval.
The SFA has stringent safety requirements to give approval for holding cultivated meat tastings, with a clear framework of criteria that companies need to meet. In the last few months, Meatable has worked in cooperation with the SFA to ensure it fulfilled all these criteria to gain approval for its first-ever tasting. This is an important step in the process for Meatable on the way to receiving regulatory approval for sale of its cultivated meat products.
Following this approval, a select group of retail partners and the Singaporean Economic Development Board (EDB) were invited to try the company's cultivated meat product, a cultivated pork sausage, featuring the pronounced pork flavor, bite, and texture that is found in traditional meat. These partners will help Meatable to develop, optimize and launch its products in restaurants and supermarkets, with the plan to have them on sale in 2024.
Karen Tay, Managing Director at Classic Fine Foods Singapore – a leading global distributor of fine food across Asia, the Middle East and the UK said: "My vision for cultivated meat is that it will become a mainstream option. Some existing processes and practices are not sustainable for the world that we live in. The Meatable sausage I tasted today was very delicious. I wouldn't have known if you didn't tell me it was cultivated meat."
Tom Gray (pictured on the right), Commercial Director at Little Farms – Singapore's freshest grocery, said:
"The taste and texture were great. It was a very satisfying and a very interesting experience all around."
Andre Huber, Executive Director at Huber's Butchery – Singapore's premier butcher, said:
"I think cultivated meat is probably the future of meat. We had conventional, traditional meat for centuries and thankfully now we found a new way to produce meat. To help our earth, to help our future generations. I've tried Meatable's sausage and I like where it stands. It has that nice meaty texture and it clearly has that meat flavor which plant-based proteins are lacking."
The first of many tastings to educate the world
As the first country to approve cultivated meat in 2020, Singapore has quickly become one of the most forward-thinking regulatory environments in the world for cultivated meat. Its 30 by 30 strategy means the country is working to build up its agri-food industry's capability and capacity to produce 30% of its nutritional needs locally and sustainably by 2030.
This also makes Singapore the perfect launch country for Meatable's first products, followed later by the US. The tasting follows previous investments Meatable has made in Singapore's growing innovative food ecosystem, including a partnership with Esco Aster, the first and only commercially licensed cultivated meat manufacturer, and a collaboration with plant-based butcher Love Handle. The recent tasting took place at Country Foods' Experiential Centre at The Arts House (Old Parliament House), where Meatable and Love Handle are building their Future of Food Innovation Centre together in downtown Singapore.
In the coming months, Meatable will organize more tastings in Singapore and internationally, to educate future partners and consumers as well as gain learnings as a company on how to best develop and provide cultivated meat at scale.
Krijn de Nood, co-founder and CEO of Meatable, said: "We were delighted to receive the exemption from the SFA to deliver our first tasting in Singapore. This marks a significant milestone for Meatable. First of all, it allows our partners to taste and experience our delicious products and secondly for us as a company, this is an important step towards regulatory approval for sales in Singapore. This is all part of our mission to satisfy the world's appetite for meat without harming people, animals, or the planet."
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Meatable is an innovative, Dutch food company, aiming to deliver, at scale, the new natural, cultivated meat that looks like, tastes like, and has the nutritional profile of traditional meat. Use of opti-ox™ technology enables Meatable to produce meat rapidly, sustainably, and without harming animals. Founded in 2018 by Krijn de Nood (CEO), Daan Luining (CTO), and Dr. Mark Kotter (principal inventor of opti-ox technology), Meatable has brought together a team of experts with unique knowledge in fields including molecular biology, chemistry, tissue engineering, bioprocess development, food safety, and food science to create the new natural meat. The company has raised $60 million in funding from leading life science and food investors including Section 32, DSM Venturing, BlueYard Capital, Agronomics, and Dr Rick Klausner. Follow Meatable: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.
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The 2023 Wells Fargo Championship Odds & Preview: Wyndham Clark
After the second round of the Wells Fargo Championship, Wyndham Clark is atop the leaderboard with a score of -8.
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Wyndham Clark Insights
- Clark has finished below par on 15 occasions, completed his day bogey-free four times and finished 18 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 20 rounds played.
- He has recorded a top-five score in four of his last 20 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day six times.
- Clark has registered a score within three shots of the day's best in seven of his last 20 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day 12 times.
- Clark has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes in his past five appearances.
- In his past five events, Clark has finished within five shots of the leader twice. He posted a score that was better than average five times.
- Clark will look to make the cut for the 15th time in a row by qualifying for the weekend in this tournament.
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Wells Fargo Championship Insights and Stats
- Clark finished 43rd in his only finish at this event in two visits.
- In his past two appearances at this event, he made it to the weekend once.
- Clark finished 43rd in his most recent appearance at this tournament (2021).
- Quail Hollow Club measures 7,538 yards for this tournament, 243 more than the average course on the PGA Tour inthe past year (7,295).
- In the past year, PGA Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Quail Hollow Club has a recent scoring average of -1.
- The average course Clark has played i the last year (7,328 yards) is 210 yards shorter than the course he'll be playing this week (7,538).
- Events he has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -5. That's lower than this course, which has a scoring average of -1.
Clark's Last Time Out
- Clark finished in the 56th percentile on the 20 par-3 holes at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, with an average of par.
- He shot well to finish in the 88th percentile on par 4s at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, averaging 3.89 strokes on those 36 holes.
- Clark was better than 43% of the field at the Mexico Open at Vidanta on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.63 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.60.
- Clark recorded a birdie or better on two of 20 par-3s at the Mexico Open at Vidanta (the field averaged 1.8).
- On the 20 par-3s at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, Clark carded two bogeys or worse (less than the field average of 2.4).
- Clark had more birdies or better (10) than the tournament average of 5.0 on the 36 par-4s at the Mexico Open at Vidanta.
- At that last outing, Clark carded a bogey or worse on five of 36 par-4s (the field averaged 5.3).
- Clark ended the Mexico Open at Vidanta outperforming the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (5.5) with seven on the 16 par-5 holes.
- On the 16 par-5s at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, Clark fell short compared to the tournament average of 0.8 bogeys or worse on those holes by carding one.
Wells Fargo Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: May 4- 7, 2023
- Course: Quail Hollow Club
- Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
- Par: 71 / 7,448 yards
- Clark Odds to Win: +1000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B over consumer loan violations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer banking giant Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle charges that it harmed consumers by charging illegal fees and interest on auto loans and mortgages, as well as incorrectly applied overdraft fees against savings and checking accounts.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday ordered Wells to repay $2 billion to consumers and enacted a $1.7 billion penalty against the bank. It’s the largest fine to date against Wells, which has spent years trying to rehabilitate itself after a series of scandals tied to its sales practices.
The bureau says the bad behavior by the bank impacted more than 16 million customers. In addition to improperly charging its auto loan customers with fees and interest, in some cases the bank wrongfully repossessed borrowers’ vehicles. The bank also improperly denied thousands of mortgage loan modifications.
Wells Fargo has been repeatedly sanctioned by U.S. regulators for violations of consumer protections law going back to 2016, when Wells employees were found to have opened millions of accounts illegally in order to meet unrealistic sales goals. Since then, Wells has repeatedly said it’s cleaning up its act, only to be fined for additional violations of consumer protection law.
Back in 2018, Wells paid a $1 billion penalty to cover widespread consumer law violations.
The bank remains under a Federal Reserve order forbidding it from growing any larger until the Fed deems that its corporate culture problems are resolved. That order, originally enacted in 2018, was expected to last only a year or two.
In a statement, CEO Charles Scharf said the agreement with the CFPB is part of the effort to “transform operating practices at Wells Fargo and to put these issues behind us.”
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Powell’s Jackson Hole speech will stir speculation on rates
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — When Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivers what will be his most closely scrutinized speech of the year Friday, investors and economists will be turning over his remarks for any clues about how fast the Fed may continue to raise its short-term interest rate — and for how long. With inflation hovering near a four-decade high — almost 9% — Powell will likely stress that the Fed is determined to bring it down to its 2% target, no matter what it takes. The Fed’s rate hikes may well defeat inflation in time. But fear is growing that they may cause a recession in the process. Powell’s remarks will kick off the Fed’s annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole. | 2022-08-26T05:34:36+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/08/25/powells-jackson-hole-speech-will-stir-speculation-on-rates/ |
WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 6, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
246 PM PDT Fri Aug 5 2022
...HOT...VERY DRY...AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS EXPECTED
THIS WEEKEND NEAR THE COLUMBIA GORGE AND WILLAMETTE VALLEY...
...BREEZY OFFSHORE FLOW SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING...
.Offshore flow is beginning to develop across Southwest Washington
and Northwest Oregon today, which will eventually bring hot and
very dry air into the region for the weekend. North to northeast
winds will increase Saturday afternoon, turning more easterly
Saturday night and Sunday. Thermal low pressure will build over
the Willamette Valley and Cascades Saturday, and will enhance
instability while crossing back over the Cascades on Sunday.
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY MORNING
THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR
FIRE WEATHER ZONES 604 AND 667...
The National Weather Service in Portland has issued a Fire
Weather Watch for wind and low relative humidity, which is in
effect from late Saturday morning through Saturday evening.
* AFFECTED AREA...
In Oregon,
Fire Weather Zone 604 - Willamette Valley.
In Washington,
Fire Weather Zone 667 - Clark County Lowlands.
* WINDS...North 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 15 percent.
* IMPACTS...Conditions may be favorable for rapid fire spread
which may threaten life and property. Use extra caution with
potential ignition sources, especially in grassy areas.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible
Red Flag Warnings.
THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING FOR WIND, LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY, AND
INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 605, 607,
AND 660...
Weather Watch for wind, low relative humidity, and increasingly
unstable conditions, which is in effect late Saturday morning
through Sunday.
Fire Weather Zone 605 - North Oregon Cascade Foothills.
Fire Weather Zone 607 - Mt. Hood National Forest West of
Cascade Crest.
Fire Weather Zone 660 - Extreme South Washington
Cascades and Foothills.
* WINDS...Northeast 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
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Many people think about postpartum depression, but perinatal psychiatric care involves taking care of patients during and after pregnancy and includes a larger spectrum of disorders including anxiety, bipolar, psychosis, OCD, and any other mental illness.
Doctor Sashalee Stewart from Avance Care Psychiatry breaks down why this topic is so important.
According to Avance Care Psychiatry, Perinatal depression is the most common complication in pregnancy affecting up to 1 in 7 women. Ideally, treatment should start preconception, but the reality is many women are not actively planning when this happens. Untreated perinatal mood and anxiety disorders affect mother, baby, and family unit:
Medications now must describe any risks associated with use during pregnancy and breastfeeding – so that safe medications can be selected. But medication is not the only option! There are individual therapy and group psychotherapy.
If someone does not have a psychiatric provider they should talk to their PCP, OBGYN, pediatrician, any specialist who can help them identify concerning symptoms. For more information go online to avancecare.com.
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Police: Woman’s 911 text leads to shooting of kidnapping suspect
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Police in Las Vegas are investigating the officer-involved shooting of an armed kidnapping suspect. The incident happened after a woman texted 911 saying she had been kidnapped by a man.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says dispatch received a request about 12:43 a.m. Friday from the Boulder City Police Department for assistance with a vehicle pursuit regarding a kidnapping.
Boulder City Police later said their investigation began after they received a 911 text message about 12:21 a.m. from a woman stating that she had just been kidnapped by a man, KVVU reports.
Las Vegas police officers took over the pursuit at about 2 a.m., and the suspect vehicle was then “forcibly stopped” near the intersection of Lamb and Charleston Boulevards, according to the department.
The kidnapping suspect allegedly pointed a firearm toward a person inside the car during the incident. Police say this led to an officer discharging his firearm and striking the suspect. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Las Vegas Police Capt. Joshua Martinez said during a briefing there were three additional people in the suspect’s car. Two kidnapping victims were taken to local hospitals, according to the department. Their conditions were not immediately provided.
Boulder City Police initially located the victim and the male suspect in the vehicle in the area of U.S. Route 95 and Black Hills. A pursuit began after the vehicle fled from officers, police say.
The incident marks LVMPD’s third officer-involved shooting of 2023, the agency said. Per the department’s policy, the identity of the officer involved will be released after 48 hours.
The incident remains under investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the LVMPD Force Investigation Team at 702-828-8452. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 702-385-5555 or online at crimestoppersofnv.com.
Copyright 2023 KVVU via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-25T10:11:55+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2023/06/25/police-womans-911-text-leads-shooting-kidnapping-suspect/ |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education (DCE) announced a significant modification to the degree residency requirement at the Harvard Extension School (HES) to provide greater access to adult learners worldwide. These changes, designed to be flexible and inclusive, will broaden access for students who may be challenged by multiple trips to Harvard's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Starting in the upcoming academic year, the Harvard Extension School will offer the majority of courses for the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) graduate degrees online with a low residency requirement. This decision reduces the barrier of geography for those outside of the greater New England area.
Dr. Nancy Coleman, Dean of Harvard's Division of Continuing Education and University Extension, saw the need for this transformative change stating, "We have always been committed to removing barriers and expanding access to a world-class education. By offering online courses paired with an immersive purpose-driven on-campus experience, we can provide adult learners from around the globe with a unique opportunity to engage in rigorous academic programs while benefiting from the vibrant Harvard campus community."
To complement the online coursework, each program requires four credits of residency. These active residency components range in length from two weekends to three weeks. Through experiential learning, students will collaborate with peers, instructors, and immerse themselves in the Harvard University campus, building connections and skills for real-world impact.
HES Dean of Academic Programs Suzanne Spreadbury, Ph.D., emphasized the innovative approach, saying, "Our vibrant learning environment combines the convenience of online education with the importance of in-person interaction. Our flexible and immersive model caters to the needs of diverse learners worldwide, enhancing their educational experience."
Harvard Extension School's revision of the degree residency requirement represents a progressive approach to education, ensuring that adult learners worldwide can pursue advanced degrees on their terms.
About the Harvard Division of Continuing Education
A division of Harvard University dedicated to bringing rigorous programs and innovative online teaching capabilities to modern purpose-driven learners including working professionals, high school students, visiting college students, and those seeking higher learning in retirement. We've been fueled by innovation and dedicated to excellence for over 100 years. Learn more about DCE here.
Contact: inquiry@extension.harvard.edu
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Maryland’s quarterback with three years of starting experience and thousands of passing yards on his résumé had to watch from the sideline. Instead, Billy Edwards Jr., a redshirt freshman who had never before started a college game, trotted onto the field for a critical late drive against Northwestern.
After Hemby’s go-ahead touchdown, junior safety Beau Brade grabbed an interception to halt Northwestern’s hopes of tying the game. The Maryland offense then successfully drained the clock, sealing the game with Edwards’s 32-yard run on third down. He showcased his ability as a runner with 66 yards, a vital boost throughout the game given his lackluster 166 yards on 18-of-28 passing.
Maryland’s first three drives of the game stalled before the Terps (6-2, 3-2 Big Ten) found a rhythm with Edwards under center. They played from behind through much of the game against the Wildcats, who have now lost six straight. This should have been one of Maryland’s least challenging tests of the season, but the absence of Tagovailoa inserted uncertainty into the outcome.
With a bye next week, Tagovailoa, the Terps’ three-year starter, will have extra time to recover from a sprained medial collateral ligament, the injury he suffered a month ago and aggravated last weekend against Indiana. Edwards, a transfer from Wake Forest, led Maryland to a win against the Hoosiers after Tagovailoa left with the injury, but this game marked his first glimpse of extended action at the college level.
Hemby took pressure off the inexperienced quarterback by rushing for 179 yards and three touchdowns. His touchdown in the first quarter capped Maryland’s first successful drive in the game, and his final score on the first play of that key late drive tilted the game in Maryland’s favor for good.
On homecoming, the Terps notched their sixth win that makes them eligible for a bowl game. Doing so through eight games is an improvement from last year, when Maryland needed to win its final regular season matchup to earn a bowl berth, and it’s the earliest the Terps have hit the six-win benchmark since 2010.
Maryland’s defense, hampered by injuries and then lapses in the first half, returned from the break and delivered key stops sandwiched between the offensive drives that helped the Terps pull ahead. Maryland faced a 17-10 deficit at halftime, but safety Dante Trader Jr. picked off Brendan Sullivan’s pass during Northwestern’s first possession of the third quarter. The Terps then forced a punt and derailed the Wildcats’ following scoring opportunity with a fourth-down stop.
Northwestern (1-6, 1-3) responded by tying the game on a 72-yard touchdown drive with 3:34 remaining — only for Hemby to quickly quell concerns with his sprint to the end zone.
Maryland’s offense leaned on the running game far more than it usually does with Tagovailoa at quarterback, but star receiver Rakim Jarrett emerged as an effective target for Edwards. He racked up 82 yards and a touchdown on eight catches. Partially because of how Maryland spreads the ball around to its playmakers, Jarrett’s production hasn’t matched the lofty expectations that surrounded him entering his junior season. In this game, though, he had a few standout moments that helped the offense that needed time to settle in.
Northwestern had success plowing through Maryland’s offensive line and pressured Edwards often. Edwards led the offense through an erratic first half, with nearly all of its yards (173 of 176) coming on two possessions. After three straight dreadful drives to start the game, the unit finally mustered a methodical march down the field, ending with a 14-yard rushing score from Hemby. Another series stalled, and Edwards strung together some efficient plays with his arm and feet. But after the Terps crossed the 10-yard line, they failed to reach the end zone on five attempts and instead settled for a short field goal.
Injuries again depleted Maryland’s defensive unit: Standout freshman Jaishawn Barham and junior Ruben Hyppolite II, both starting linebackers, missed the game with injuries. Transfer linebacker Vandarius Cowan and freshman defensive back Gavin Gibson, who have each played meaningful minutes, were also out.
Maryland’s defense struggled at times early, allowing the Wildcats to pull ahead. Maryland only gave up one long pass — a 46-yard reception by Malik Washington in the first quarter — but it set up a touchdown. Pass interference calls on back-to-back plays later set up a field goal. But after the break, Maryland limited Northwestern to one touchdown and forced two turnovers that allowed the offense to finally grab a lead. | 2022-10-23T00:10:30+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/10/22/maryland-beats-northwestern-billy-edwards/ |
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has said he wants to have his father and brother back and that he wants “a family, not an institution,” during a TV interview ahead of the publication of his memoir.
The interview with Britain’s ITV channel is due to be released this Sunday. In clips released Monday, Harry was shown saying that “they feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains” and that “they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile” — though it was not clear who he was referring to.
Harry, also known as the Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan have aired their grievances against the British monarchy since the couple stepped down as senior royals in 2020 and moved to California, where they now live with their two young children.
Harry, 38, has previously spoken about his estrangement from his father, King Charles III, and elder brother Prince William since his departure from the U.K.
Last month Netflix released “Harry & Meghan,” a six-part series that detailed the couple’s experiences leading to their decision to make a new start in the U.S.
In that documentary, Harry was scathing about how the royal press team worked, and spoke about how his relationship with William and the rest of the royal household broke down. Meghan described wanting to end her life as she struggled to cope with toxic U.K. press coverage.
Harry’s autobiography, titled “Spare” — recalling the saying “the heir and the spare” — is being released on Jan. 10. | 2023-01-03T14:29:00+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-prince-harry-says-he-wants-his-father-and-brother-back/ |
Playing from behind has become the norm for the Detroit Red Wings ever since the Christmas break and they will search for a different narrative Friday against the Florida Panthers.
On Dec. 28, Detroit trailed Pittsburgh 4-0 in the first period before rallying for a stirring overtime victory. A day later, the Red Wings watched the Buffalo Sabres score the first five goals as they absorbed a 6-3 defeat.
On New Year’s Eve, Detroit trailed Ottawa 2-0 after the first period but came back to claim a 4-2 win. And then on Wednesday, the Red Wings had no answers after the New Jersey Devils scored two second-period power-play goals on the way to a 5-0 deficit and a 5-1 defeat.
Detroit team captain Dylan Larkin knows that better starts are essential to long-term success.
“That’s just not sustainable, especially on home ice,” Larkin said. “You have to play a full 60 minutes at home. You’ve got the matchups and you are comfortable in the environment. You’ve got to find a way to get a goal.”
Detroit coach Derek Lalonde felt the score on Wednesday was not indicative of how the game was played. Detroit outshot New Jersey 33-27 but Devils goaltender Vitek Vanecek made 32 saves.
“On the whole, that was an incredibly frustrating night in that poor special teams and a great performance by their goalie overshadowed a pretty good 5-on-5 game for us,” Lalonde said. “You have to execute better on special teams, and that’s happened to us a few times this year.”
Red Wings forward Robby Fabbri made his season debut against New Jersey. He tore the ACL in his right knee in March.
“I like Fab’s game,” Lalonde said. “He created some offense with his line, he set up (Oskar Sundqvist) all alone in the slot and our goal came off a turnover he created. We haven’t done much of that this year.”
The Red Wings also absorbed a 5-1 defeat in their first meeting with the Panthers this season. Florida scored four goals in the second period of that Dec. 8 contest.
Florida has gone 4-8-0 since that night. One of the victories came against the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday, when the Panthers scored two goals late in the second period and held on for a 5-3 victory.
Matthew Tkachuk collected his first hat track since he was traded during the offseason from Calgary.
“I’m shooting the puck more, which is a big thing for myself personally,” Tkachuk said. “Being around the net, obviously that’s something that I pride myself on. I have a whole lot more to give and another level to get to. Hopefully I can pick it up here in the second half.”
The Panthers will need many more big nights from the high-scoring Tkachuk to get back in the playoff chase.
“He’s still a young man,” Panthers head coach Paul Maurice said of the 25-year-old. “He’s still just coming into it. There’s a whole bunch of the game he’s going to get better and better at. This guy’s a rock star.”
Florida’s contest in Detroit begins a stretch when it will play seven out of eight games on the road.
“They’re all important now the rest of the way,” Florida defenseman Marc Staal said. “We took care of a team we should take care of, and now we get on the road and will try and string some wins together.”
–Field Level Media | 2023-01-06T21:13:14+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/red-wings-out-to-avoid-uphill-battle-vs-panthers/ |
New COMPANION™ RTU disinfectant removes the need to mix, saving animal health providers time and ensuring accurate concentrations
LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has added COMPANION™ RTU, a ready-to-use formulation of its COMPANION disinfectant, to its veterinary biosecurity portfolio.
COMPANION RTU has been formulated for use in veterinary practices, animal care facilities, and animal laboratories. This ready-to-use, non-irritating, non-corrosive disinfectant requires no mixing, ensuring dilution accuracy and saving users time in their biosecurity efforts.
"Stopping the spread of disease before it starts is a key aspect of keeping animals both safe and healthy," said Dr. Joseph Lyman, Director of Professional Services and Product Development at Neogen. "This ready-to-use formulation of our COMPANION disinfectant makes it easier for all those who work closely with animals to quickly sanitize their facilities and get back to providing expert care."
COMPANION RTU is a combination of quaternary ammonium and glutaraldehyde dual-active disinfectant that kills both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including the viruses that cause Canine Parvovirus and COVID-19. It can be applied both indoors and outdoors with a cloth, sponge, mop, or mechanical coarse spray device*, and will not damage equipment, peel paint, or stain floor finishes.
Neogen's comprehensive suite of COMPANION products includes surface disinfectants, disinfectant wipes, and hand hygiene products and is primarily developed for use in veterinary and companion animal markets, but many are useful in preventing the spread of disease — wherever it exists. For more information, contact Neogen at 800.621.8829 (U.S./Canada), 859.254.1221, or visit https://www.neogen.com/solutions/sanitation-hygiene.
About Neogen
Neogen Corporation develops and markets comprehensive solutions dedicated to food and animal safety, operating with the intention to "Every day, protect the people and animals we care about." The company's Food Safety segment markets dehydrated culture media and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases, and sanitation concerns. Neogen's Animal Safety segment is a leader in the development of genomic solutions along with the manufacturing and distribution of a variety of animal healthcare products, including diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary instruments, wound care, and disinfectants, as well as rodent and insect control solutions.
*Directions for Use: It is in violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner that is inconsistent with its labeling.
CONTACT: Katlyn Connelly, Animal Safety Product Manager
859.254.1221, kconnelly@neogen.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought, but low groundwater levels remain a persistent problem, U.S. Drought Monitor data showed Thursday.
The latest survey found that moderate or severe drought covers about 49% of the state, nearly 17% of the state is free of drought or a condition described as abnormally dry. The remainder is still abnormally dry.
Just three months ago virtually all of California was in drought, including at extreme and exceptional levels. Water agencies serving millions of people, agriculture and industry were told to expect only a fraction of requested allocations.
The turnabout began with a series of atmospheric rivers that pounded the state from late December through mid-January, building a huge Sierra Nevada snowpack. After a few largely dry weeks, powerful storms returned in February. Water authorities began boosting allocations.
The monitor shows three regions have received the most benefit from copious precipitation, including snowfall measured in feet rather than inches.
The central Sierra and foothills are now free of drought or abnormal dryness for the first time since January 2020, the monitor said. The central coast from Monterey Bay to Los Angeles County is also now drought-free, along with two counties on the far north coast.
“The rain has improved California soil moisture and streamflow levels, while the snow has increased mountain snowpack to much above-normal levels,” the monitor said. “Most California reservoirs have refilled with water levels near or above average, but groundwater levels remain low and may take months to recover.”
The water content of the Sierra snowpack, which provides about a third of California’s water, is more than 160% of the historical average on April 1, when it is normally at its peak, according to the state Department of Water Resources.
The U.S. Drought Monitor is a joint project of the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. | 2023-03-02T23:55:40+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-half-of-california-freed-from-drought-thanks-to-rain-snow/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied Thursday after a group of big banks offered a lifeline to the bank that investors had zeroed in on in their hunt for the industry’s next victim.
The S&P 500 jumped 1.8% for its best day in nearly two months after 11 of the biggest banks said they would deposit a combined $30 billion into First Republic Bank. The Dow Jones Industrial Average erased an early loss of 300 points to climb 371 points, or 1.2%, while the Nasdaq composite jumped 2.5%.
This week has been a whirlwind for markets globally on worries that banks may be bending under the weight of the fastest set of hikes to interest rates in decades. The concerns have been flaring since Friday’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which was the second largest bank failure in U.S. history.
Since then, Wall Street has tried to root out banks with similar traits, such as lots of depositors with more than the $250,000 limit that’s insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., or lots of tech startups and other highly connected people that can spread worries about a bank’s strength quickly.
First Republic Bank has been at the center of the market’s swivels, and it rose 10% Thursday after slumping as much as 36% early in the day. In the statement announcing their deposits, the group of 11 banks said the move “reflects their confidence in First Republic and in banks of all sizes.”
Besides stocks, Treasury yields also strengthened suddenly following the first reports of a possible rescue by the industry. That was a sign of increased confidence from the bond market.
Across the Atlantic, European stocks rose after the European Central Bank announced a hefty increase to interest rates. Concerns there were also easing about another bank, Credit Suisse, which helped cause markets to tumble sharply Wednesday. The Swiss bank has been battling troubles for years, but its plunge to a record low raised concerns just as more attention was shining on the wider industry.
Credit Suisse’s stock in Switzerland leaped 19.2% Thursday after it said it will strengthen its finances by borrowing up to 50 billion Swiss francs ($54 billion) from the Swiss National Bank.
Much of the damage for banks is seen as the result of the Federal Reserve’s fastest barrage of hikes to interest rates in decades. They’ve shocked the system following years of historically easy conditions in hopes of driving down painfully high inflation.
Higher rates can tame inflation by slowing the economy, but they raise the risk of a recession later on. They also hurt prices for stocks, bonds and other investments. That latter factor was one of the issues hurting Silicon Valley Bank because high rates forced down the value of its bond investments.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told a Senate committee on Thursday that the nation’s banking system “remains sound” and Americans “can feel confident” about their deposits.
“Fast-moving disruptions in the global banking industry are making for highly fluid and uneasy markets,” said John Gentry, head of corporate fixed income group at Federated Hermes. “It’s never comfortable when” markets are trying to figure out the correct price for things amid deep uncertainty. “But we suggest caution in trying to draw strong parallels to 2007-09,” when a financial crisis torpedoed the global economy.
Wall Street increasingly expects this week’s turmoil to push the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates next week by only a quarter of a percentage point. That would be the same sized increase as last month’s, and it would be counter to expectations from earlier this month for a hike of 0.50 points, as it had been potentially signaling.
The European Central Bank on Thursday raised its key rate by half a percentage point, brushing aside speculation that it may reduce the size because of all the turmoil around banks.
Some of Wall Street’s wildest action this week has been in the bond market, as traders rush to guess where the Fed is heading.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.57% from 3.47% late Wednesday. Earlier in in the day, it dropped as low as 3.37% and has been veering sharply since climbing above 4% earlier this month. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
All the stress in the banking system has raised worries about a potential recession because of how important smaller and mid-sized banks are to making loans to businesses across the country. Oil prices have slid this week on such fears.
Reports on the U.S. economy, meanwhile, continue to show mixed signals.
The job market looks remarkably solid, and a report said fewer workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected.
But other pockets of the economy are continuing to show weakness. Manufacturing has struggled, for example, and a measure of activity in the mid-Atlantic region weakened by more than forecast.
The housing market has also struggled under the weight of higher mortgage rates, though homebuilders broke ground on more projects last month than expected. That could be a signal the industry is finding some stability.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 68.35 points to 3,960.28. The Dow gained 371.98 to 32,246.55, and the Nasdaq jumped 283.22 to 11,717.28.
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AP Business Writers Joe McDonald and Matt Ott contributed. | 2023-03-17T01:32:36+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/asian-stocks-fall-after-wall-st-sinks-on-new-bank-fears/ |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal trial for the man who fatally shot 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue approached its conclusion Friday as the defense, trying to persuade a jury to spare his life, pressed its case that mental illness spurred the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack.
Robert Bowers, a 50 year-old truck driver from suburban Baldwin, was convicted in June on 63 criminal counts for the 2018 massacre at Tree of Life synagogue. The jury has been hearing testimony in the penalty phase of the trial and will decide whether Bowers will receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors have presented evidence that Bowers was motivated by his hatred of Jewish people when he opened fire at the synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, killing members of three congregations gathered for Sabbath worship and study. The defense argues Bowers has schizophrenia and acted out of a delusional belief that Jews were participating in a genocide of white people.
On Friday, a defense psychiatrist who met with Bowers 10 times for nearly 40 hours said Bowers saw himself as a soldier of God in a war in which Satan was trying to use Jewish people to bring about the end of the world. Dr. George Corvin, of Raleigh, N.C., said it was a delusion brought on by psychosis.
Corvin said Bowers continues to express delusional beliefs about Jews — “disgustingly so” — and that he is incapable of remorse. He said Bowers should be on anti-psychotic medication.
Bowers “has a belief that we’re at the end of a war that’s been going on for thousands of years,” Corvin testified. “He still envisions what he did as an unfortunate act of violence at the direction of God — that it will save lives. He believes he’s a tool for God. I know it sounds absurd. It’s psychotic.”
Corvin continued: “This is the result of a mental illness.”
Corvin was one of several defense experts who diagnosed Bowers with schizophrenia, a serious brain disorder whose symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. A neurologist testifying for the prosecution disputed that Bowers has schizophrenia, saying Bowers has a personality disorder but is not delusional, and that mental illness did not appear to play a role in the attack. Prosecutors have noted Bowers spent six months planning the shooting.
Also testifying Friday were Bowers’ aunt and uncle.
The uncle, Clyde Munger, said he visited with Bowers in prison because “he is my nephew and I love him.” He said he prays for Bowers every morning.
The aunt, Patricia Fine, was expected to the final defense witness. She said Bowers had a difficult childhood from infancy, describing the house where he lived as unsafe. She said he was a sad child and that she “was convinced” he would take his own life. A defense expert previously described Bowers’ early life as deeply unstable and said he attempted suicide several times in his teens.
Fine’s testimony was scheduled to resume Monday, with closing arguments and jury deliberations expected to follow. | 2023-07-29T13:00:16+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-defense-presses-case-that-mental-illness-spurred-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre/ |
CLEVELAND (AP) — New York Knicks All-Star forward Julius Randle aggravated a left ankle injury late in the first half of Game 5 on Wednesday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Randle, who missed the final five games of the regular season and has been slowed in the playoffs, went down with 1:17 left in the half and the Knicks leading by double digits. He didn’t play in the second half.
After trying to block Caris LeVert’s jumper, Randle landed awkwardly and stayed on the floor for a few minutes while being checked by medical staff. He was helped to his feet but defiantly walked off the floor and headed to the locker room for treatment at halftime.
Randle returned to the bench area in street clothes early in the fourth quarter to see if the Knicks could close out the seven-game series.
Obi Toppin started the second half in place of Randle, who scored 13 points with four rebounds and six assists in 16 minutes before getting hurt.
Toppin had a quick seven points in the first three minutes of the third quarter. He scored 12 points in the period, playing all 12 minutes.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-27T01:48:36+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/knicks-randle-aggravates-ankle-injury-in-game-5-doubtful/ |
Developed in Coordination with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the Plan Offers an Estimated $50 Billion of Impact
- 25 new stores in LMI and/or majority-minority communities
- $21 billion in home lending to Low- and Moderate-Income and diverse borrowers
- $7.75 billion in small business lending
- $17.5 billion in community development loans and investments
CHERRY HILL, N.J., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, today announced a five-year Community Benefits Plan (CBP), developed in coordination with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC). The CBP will provide an estimated $50 billion of impact to local communities across TD Bank's expanded U.S. presence following the approval and close of its planned acquisition of First Horizon Corporation. This plan will provide lending, philanthropy, banking access and other activities for the benefit of diverse and underserved communities.
"Banks have an important role in providing economic opportunity and supporting changes that help Low- and Moderate-Income (LMI), diverse and underserved communities achieve their financial goals," said Leo Salom, President and CEO of TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®. "This is rooted in the belief that our business only does well when the people we serve are flourishing. Our Community Benefits Plan builds on TD Bank's and First Horizon's longstanding focus on our communities. We are excited to continue this focus in First Horizon markets as we move forward with combining our two organizations. Thank you to the NCRC and its member organizations for their collaboration and critical insight as we developed an effective Plan that addresses the priorities and needs of the communities we serve."
To identify areas of greatest need in communities across 22 states and Washington, D.C., the bank solicited feedback from NCRC leadership and non-profit groups from both TD and First Horizon markets through months of consultation. TD will meet annually with the NCRC to discuss and measure progress on the elements of the Plan.
"TD Bank's brought dedication and open minds to the meetings with NCRC members that brought us to this strong and promising agreement," National Community Reinvestment Coalition President and CEO Jesse Van Tol said. "The deal we just signed will ensure that communities of need see tangible increases in resources and economic opportunity in their neighborhoods – as every bank merger is legally required and morally bound to do. This agreement reflects the hard work of our members and the bank's staff in numerous ways, including TD's commitment to opening 25 new physical bank branches in marginalized communities – the largest such pledge to date by any of the 20-plus banks that have signed onto a community benefits agreement with NCRC members. I applaud everyone involved for bringing the candid, constructive energy these deals require to our meetings and producing such a robust final package."
Advancing TD and First Horizon's Strong Track Records of Community Engagement
The CBP extends TD and First Horizon's shared commitment to positively impact social and economic outcomes in local markets and address financial inclusion across diverse communities, including Black, Indigenous, minority, women, veteran and LGBTQ2+ individuals and their businesses, while also enhancing access to safe and affordable products and services. The plan includes the following:
Banking Access
Consistent with TD's goal to make banking accessible to its customers, it will open at least 25 new stores and 25 ATMs in LMI and/or majority-minority markets over the next five years. The bank also commits that all banking locations will be open at least five days a week. In addition, there will not be any merger-related First Horizon store closures.
Mortgage Lending and Consumer Products
TD Bank will enable affordable home ownership by increasing residential mortgage loans, including first-time homebuyer and home improvement loans to $21 billion for LMI and minority borrowers, and in LMI and majority-minority census tracts, which represents a 65% increase. In support of this goal, TD will hire additional diverse Mortgage Loan Officers and Community Mortgage Loan Officers who reflect the communities we serve.
The bank will also provide affordable retail products and services that are designed to meet the needs of economically vulnerable consumers across the footprint.
Small Business Support
The Plan builds on the bank's ongoing commitment to support the critical role small businesses play in local economies by offering an estimated $7.75 billion in lending to small businesses with under $1 million in annual revenue, with a focus on minority- and women-owned businesses and those in LMI and/or rural areas.
Community Development Loans and Investment
TD Bank will provide $17.5 billion in community development loans and other investments to support economic development activities and affordable housing projects (including rental housing) within TD and First Horizon markets. This represents a 21% increase over the combined TD and First Horizon previous five-year average.
Additional Highlights
- $200 million in Community Reinvestment Act-related philanthropy through the TD Office of Charitable and Community Giving, which includes creating a $40 million TD New Horizon Foundation, with a focus on giving in Memphis, TN, and other First Horizon markets over five years.
- Creation of a Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) / Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) Impact Strategy, to provide lending and equity investments, with a total estimated impact of $1 billion.
- Increased spending with certified diverse suppliers in the US by 50%.
- Engagement and support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through institutional support, recruitment of students and alumni, and financial access.
Additional Information Regarding the CBP
TD and the NCRC are pleased that 59 community organizations have endorsed this impactful CBP. For more information and resources, please visit: https://stories.td.com/us/en/article/td-bank-community-benefits-plan.
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NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon Prime Day is here. And, once again, experts are warning consumers of scams.
Scams targeting online shoppers — often by impersonating companies like Amazon and other major retailers — are nothing new. But phishing attempts increase amid busy spending seen during significant sales events — from Black Friday to, of course, Prime Day, according to the Better Business Bureau.
“This is a huge moment on the retail calendar,” Josh Planos, vice president of communications and public relations at the Better Business Bureau, told The Associated Press. “And because of that, it represents an enormous opportunity for a scammer, con artist or even just an unethical business or organization to capitalize on the moment and separate folks from their hard-earned money.”
Prime Day, a two-day discount event, kicks off on Tuesday and runs through Wednesday. In guidance published last week, the Better Business Bureau reminded consumers to watch out for lookalike websites, too-good-to-be-true social media ads, unsolicited emails or calls and more near Prime Day and other sales events this month beyond Amazon’s.
Scott Knapp, director of worldwide buyer risk prevention at Amazon, identifies two scams that the company has seen in recent years around Prime Day: Prime membership and order confirmation hoaxes.
Last year, for example, people reported getting unsolicited calls or emails saying that there was something wrong with their Prime membership. Then, they were asked for payment information, like a credit card, and sometimes login credentials as well, Knapp explained — adding that Amazon “or any reputable business” wouldn’t ask for those details in that way.
Urging consumers to confirm an order they didn’t place is also a common tactic at this time of year, he adds. Scammers might pick something expensive, like a smartphone, to get attention — and again ask for payment information or send a malicious link.
“We sell a lot of stuff and people know the (Amazon) name,” Knapp told the AP. “Bad actors try to take advantage of that.”
Of course, there’s loads of additional scams out there — it’s hard to identify more specifics for this year’s Prime Day before it begins. Still, experts add, scams will often iterate year after year.
“Typically, the bones remain the same,” Planos said, pointing to repeating fake delivery scams, email phishing and more. “It’s always a ploy to separate consumers from (their) personal and payment information.”
But online hoaxes are also constantly evolving to become more sophisticated, Planos and others warn. That means images might look more legit, text messages may sound more convincing and fake websites are starting to look very similar to your typical shopping destinations.
Artificial intelligence is also “starting to leak in,” Knapp said. “But they still follow the same approaches. It’s just now a machine is maybe populating the email or text.”
According to February data from the Federal Trade Commission, consumers reported losing about $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022, a 30% jump from 2021. Online shopping scams was the second most-reported form of fraud, following imposter scams, the FTC said.
Both the FTC and Better Business Bureau provide consumers with tips to avoid scams year-round. Guidance includes blocking unwanted messages, not giving financial information to unsolicited callers and checking links before clicking — secure websites, for example, will have “HTTPS” in the URL, Planos notes, never “HTTP.”
Scammers will often pressure you to act immediately, experts say. It’s important to pause and trust your gut. Experts also urge consumers to report scams to regulators.
Beyond scams that impersonate companies or retailers, it’s also important to be cautious of counterfeit products and fake reviews which can be found on the sites of retailers you might trust. Just because you’re shopping on Amazon, for example, doesn’t mean you’re buying from Amazon, as the online shopping giant, like eBay, Walmart and others, has vast third-party marketplaces.
The quality and look of counterfeit products has significantly increased over recent years, Planos notes, making the activity difficult to police. A good rule of thumb is looking at the price tag — if the product is being sold for less than 75% of its year-round market rate “that’s a pretty big red flag,” he adds.
Sketchy sellers can show up on different platforms, including sites like Amazon, “all the time” Planos said, urging consumers to check out businesses at the Better Business Bureau’s website. Like other scams, counterfeit products may increase around high spending periods like the holidays or, again, near sales events like Prime Day.
Amid increasing pressure to tackle counterfeit products, Amazon has reported getting rid of millions of phony products over recent years, and blocked billions of bad listings from making it on to its site. In 2022, the company said more than 6 million counterfeit items were “identified, seized and appropriately disposed of.”
In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant said it had “zero tolerance” for both counterfeit products and fake reviews, noting that the company blocked over 200 million suspected fake reviews in 2022.
Customers can also report fake reviews and other scams on Amazon’s website, Knapp said. For “rare” cases when a customers purchase “an item that Amazon detects to be counterfeit,” the company added, “we proactively contact the customer, inform them that they purchased a counterfeit product and we fully refund their purchase.” | 2023-07-11T12:26:38+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/national/2023/07/11/be-wary-of-scams-as-amazon-prime-day-kicks-off-experts-warn/ |
Dooley, 90, released from hospital after mild COVID-19 case
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Former Georgia coach Vince Dooley has been released from a hospital after being treated for COVID-19. Georgia says the 90-year-old Dooley was released from an Athens-area hospital on Monday, two days after he was admitted. The school says he was treated for a “mild case” of COVID-19. Dooley said in a statement he plans to attend No. 1 Georgia’s homecoming game against Vanderbilt on Saturday and participate in a planned book signing. Dooley was 201-77-10 in 25 years as coach of the Bulldogs. He also served as athletic director until 2004. | 2022-10-12T16:44:02+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/12/dooley-90-released-from-hospital-after-mild-covid-19-case/ |
DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Monday that it plans to reintroduce wolves in the state by this December.
Gray wolves are listed under the federal Endangered Species Act, which makes it unlawful for anyone to harass, hunt, shoot, kill, trap, collect, wound or harm any animal listed in the act.
Earlier this year, Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill that could have set the plan back several years because ranchers and the Colorado Farm Bureau raised concerns about the safety of livestock.
But Polis said that bill was unnecessary, and wrote “The management of the reintroduction of gray wolves into Colorado is best left to the Parks and Wildlife Commission as the voters explicitly mandated.”
The final Wolf Restoration and Management Plan passed on May 3. On Monday, CPW released information about how the plan will accommodate livestock concerns.
Fladry, flagging interspersed on twine, is a portable barrier that CPW said is used to surround livestock pastures or holding areas. It triggers an electric shock, which reinforces a wolf’s fear response so they will avoid the fladry, according to CPW.
This is one of the methods that the department said will “help minimize conflicts with livestock producers and reduce the risk of wolf-livestock depredations.”
CPW will provide fladry and other scare devices will be provided on a case-by-case basis. In the event that a wolf does harm or kill livestock, livestock owners can file a claim and CPW will provide “100% fair market value compensation” up to $15,000, according to the final plan document.
There are also educational resources from CPW for livestock owners to learn about other minimization techniques.
According to the final plan document, CPW will try to transfer 30 to 50 wolves to Colorado over the span of three to five years, with 10 to 15 each year. Wildlife management agencies will do so in the fall and winter by trapping, darting or net gunning. | 2023-07-18T17:19:04+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/how-cpw-plans-to-avoid-livestock-conflict-while-reintroducing-wolves/ |
CALGARY, AB, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - BioAro Inc. and the Prostate Cancer Centre (PCC) are excited to announce a new partnership. Together they will change the way metastatic prostate cancer patients are treated – improving the patients' quality of life as they navigate their treatment options. BioAro will be providing complimentary genomic testing services for up to 100 eligible patients referred through specific Urologists of the Southern Alberta Institute of Urology (SAIU).
This is the first-time genomic testing, analysis and support for companion diagnostics of this magnitude has been offered at no cost to AB cancer patients from a local company.
Genomic testing will assist physicians in predicting the behaviour or aggressiveness of an individual's cancer and how they may respond to different treatments. It can also assist with selection of targeted treatment options that may result in improved response rates and lower side-effects.
"One in six men in Alberta will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. This gift will positively impact many of our patients and their families now, and into the future," says Jeff Davison, CEO of the PCC. "Genetic testing will help us advance our search for answers to this disease that affects so many men and their families in our province."
The PCC is a charitable organization that provides personalized care, research and education to men and their families fighting prostate cancer. The PCC provides continuous support and wrap around care to those impacted by prostate cancer through personalized care, consultation, diagnosis, information on treatment options and access to research – and now genetic testing can be included in that care.
BioAro Inc, a Calgary-based Precision Health biotechnology company, is providing equitable GenOMIC testing & analysis services with detailed genomic analyses that will help identify genetic biomarkers that can be used for developing companion diagnostics. BioAro has multiple laboratories and sample collection centers across Canada, including a local facility in Calgary, which helps reduce turnaround time for testing. Samples are tested locally and data is analyzed and stored within Canada, helping maintain privacy of Canadian patients.
"We are on a mission to build a community of individuals, healthcare providers and researchers to transform the healthcare landscape, drive transformative genetic discovery of biomarkers for precise and personalized management of our patients," says Dr. Anmol Kapoor, CEO of BioAro Inc. "This donation will help so many individuals (and their families), to hopefully find answers to their health problems. It would likely help improve the outcomes of targeted anti-cancer therapy and make GenOMIC testing more equitable and easier to access."
BioAro Inc. is proud to undertake this initiative with the PCC to give the gift of equitable GenOMIC testing and information to prostate cancer families in need.
For more information, please visit BioAro.com /pcc
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You know that song that you just can't get out of your head? Well, public radio has those too. Below you'll find some of the songs that music programmers at public radio stations across the country keep spinning over and over this year: nine stations from across the country, one pick per station, in alphabetical order by artist name.
All of this year's picks are available to stream on the Heavy Rotation Spotify and Apple Music playlists at the bottom of the page. As always, you can discover fantastic music programming happening across the country in real time by clicking the links to each station's website.
Beach House, "Once Twice Melody"
On the title track from Beach House's Once Twice Melody, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally open a musical door that instantly welcomes you into their world with pulsing, electronic indie-pop lushness. The song embraces you with a hug of warm light, opening up endless emotional, yet nostalgic possibilities. —Bruce Warren, WXPN 88.5 Philadelphia
Leyla McCalla, "Vini Wè"
Leyla McCalla's new album, Breaking the Thermometer, grew out of a theater project that explores the archives of Radio Haiti, the first radio station in Haiti to broadcast in the Kreyòl language. "Vini We" is a love song. And it's a reminder, according to McCalla, that it's love which offers hope when there seems to be nothing but darkness and struggle. —Elena See, FolkAlley.com
Mitski, "The Only Heartbreaker"
When Mitski reemerged on social media with the announcement of her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell, putting an effective end to her industry hiatus, she didn't disappoint. As one of the record's lead singles, "The Only Heartbreaker" boasts Mitski's signature analysis as the narrator explores the intricacies of a dying flame, but does so with an undeniable gusto that's a marked expansion of her catalog. Ripe with '80s synth-pop sheen, the brooding track has all the makings of a dance hall staple that's just as incisive as it is catchy. —Desiré Moses, WNRN, 91.9 Charlottesville
Robert Glasper, "Black Superhero"
Producer and pianist Robert Glasper teams up with Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Kid and Big K.R.I.T. on an uplifting anthem that uses a heavy beat and the voices of a gospel choir to reflect upon our current times and the importance of role models in our society. —Brian Burns, WUNC 81.5 Chapel Hill
Saba feat. Krayzie Bone, "Come My Way"
Coming of age hip-hop. Is that a subgenre? Into the lineage of Ghostface Killah's "All That I Got Is You" now arrives "Come My Way" by Saba. Armed with a Krayzie Bone feature, a Stylistics interpolation and reminiscences of growing up on Chicago's West Side, Saba's track is an instant classic. —Ayana Contreras, WBEZ, Vocalo Radio 91.1
Sarah Borges, "Wouldn't Know You"
Boston's Sarah Borges has chugged through two decades of consistent and solid music making. She is especially in the pocket for her latest album Together Alone, produced by Eric Ambel. "Wouldn't Know You" fine-tunes her easy rolling, roots-rock vibe. —Jessie Scott, WMOT Roots Radio 89.5
Spoon, "Wild"
Making Austin, Texas proud once again, Spoon returned with its 10th studio album this year. The second single, "Wild," immediately draws you in with an ear-catching '90s vibe. To many, Spoon continues to be an underrated band, but those of us clued in can't help but listen on repeat. —Misti Mundae, 90.9 The Bridge, MO
The Lumineers, "Where We Are"
Inspired by a car crash, the gentle melody of "Where We Are" is both eerie and delicate — that disconnected feeling is something many of us can relate to. But The Lumineers land on a positive sentiment ('It will be OK'), offering just enough to keep us going. —Margot Chobanian, The Colorado Sound, KJAC 105.5
Toro y Moi, "Postman"
Signed, sealed, delivered — Chaz Bear, we are forever yours. From the deliciously bouncy opening seconds of this funky, feel-good jam, we knew it was a lock to top our list of 2022 favorites. —Marion Hodges, KCRW, 89.9 FM
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket made almost completely of 3D-printed parts came within a half-second of blasting off Saturday on its debut flight, but remained grounded after back-to-back launch aborts.
The engines ignited, but abruptly shut down, leaving Relativity Space’s rocket, named Terran, standing on its pad.
Launch controllers reset the countdown clocks and aimed for the last possible moment of the three-hour window at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. But once again, on-board flight computers halted the countdown, this time with 46 seconds remaining. No cause was given for the problems.
The first launch attempt, on Wednesday, was aborted at the one-minute mark because of a bad valve.
There was no immediate word on when the company might try again.
At 110 feet (33 meters), the rocket is relatively small. Relativity Space said 85% of the rocket, including its engines, came out of its huge 3D printers at company headquarters in Long Beach, California.
Given this is a test flight, all that is aboard the rocket is the company’s first 3D metal print. The company aims to put the souvenir, along with the second stage, into a low, short-lived orbit.
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By JULIE WATSON and DOUG GLASS (Associated Press)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Relentless storms from a series of atmospheric rivers have saturated the steep mountains and bald hillsides scarred from wildfires along much of California’s long coastline, causing hundreds of landslides this month.
So far the debris has mostly blocked roads and highways and has not harmed communities as in 2018 when mudslides roared through Montecito, killing 23 people and wiping out 130 homes.
But more rain is in the forecast, increasing the threat.
Experts say California has learned important lessons from the Montecito tragedy, and has more tools to pinpoint the hot spots and more basins and nets are in place to capture the falling debris before it hits homes. The recent storms are putting those efforts to the test as climate change produces more severe weather.
WHY IS CALIFORNIA PRONE TO MUDSLIDES?
California has relatively young mountains from a geology standpoint, meaning much of its steep terrain is still in motion and covered in loose rocks and soil that can be sloughed off easily, especially when the ground is wet, according to geologists.
Almost all of the state has received rainfall totals of 400% to 600% above average since Christmas, with some areas receiving as much as 30 inches of precipitation, causing massive flooding. The severe weather has killed at least 19 people since late December.
Since New Year’s Eve, the California Department of Conservation’s landslide mapping team has documented more than 300 landslides.
The state’s prolonged drought has made matters worse.
Dan Shugar, an associate professor of geoscience at the University of Calgary, said drought can have a counterintuitive effect when combined with the incredible rainfall California has seen in recent days.
“You’d think if the ground is dry it should be able to absorb a lot of water, but when ground becomes too dry, the permeability of the ground actually decreases,” he said. As water runs off the hardened soil, moving downward and picking up energy, it can begin carrying soil and debris away, he said.
Added to that, wildfires have left some hillsides with little to no vegetation to hold the soil in place.
WHAT ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE AREAS?
The most vulnerable areas are hillsides that have burned in the past two to three years with communities below them, said Jeremy Lancaster, who leads the California Department of Conservation’s geological and landslide mapping team.
That includes areas that recently burned in Napa, Mariposa, and Monterey counties, he said.
In 2018, the deadly mudslides in Montecito occurred about a month after one of the largest fires in California’s history tore through the same area, charring 280,000 acres.
Montecito is sandwiched between the Santa Ynez mountains and the Pacific coast. On the fifth anniversary of that tragedy, the entire community was ordered to evacuate on Jan. 9 as rains pummeled the area and debris blocked roads.
Lancaster warned that the threat of landslides will linger long after the rains have subsided as the water seeps 50 to 100 feet into the soil, dislodging things.
“They can occur weeks later, if not months,” he said.
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES?
Lancaster said California has dramatically increased its efforts to identify hotspots since the Montecito mudslides. His department continually updates its map so local communities are aware and can make decisions, including whether to evacuate an entire community.
The state is also working on a system to better pinpoint how much rain might trigger a landslide.
Marten Geertsema, who studies natural hazards and terrain analysis at the University of Northern British Columbia, said agencies use a variety of tools to gauge the likelihood of landslides in a given area, including terrain maps and lidar – pulsed light from lasers to penetrate foliage to see the ground. Then they can watch for early warnings, such as changes over time in photos taken from the air, or from satellites, or in data from GPS monitoring stations, tilt meters and or other on-site instrumentation.
WHAT IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST MUDSLIDES?
One of the best ways to manage landslides is with debris basins – pits carved out of the landscape to catch material flowing downhill.
But basins, which can require a lot of land, can also disrupt the natural ecosystem and lead to beaches needing to be replenished by collecting sediment that flows out of the canyons, according to experts.
And they are costly, said Douglas Jerolmack, a professor of environmental science and mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. And if old debris isn’t removed, they can be overwhelmed by new landslides or mudslides.
Some might also not be big enough to deal with future slides worsened by climate change, Jerolmack said.
After the 2018 mudslides hit Montecito, the Los Angeles Times reported that debris basins above the community were undersized and hadn’t been sufficiently emptied.
The tragedy galvanized the community, which raised millions to address the problem, said Patrick McElroy, a retired Santa Barbara fire chief who founded the nonprofit organization, The Project for Resilient Communities.
The organization hired an engineering company to map the canyons and installed debris nets. He said the recent storms put them to the test: One net measuring 25 feet tall filled nearly to capacity.
McElroy said he’s still haunted by memories from 2018 but feels better, knowing that the community might be safer now.
“I’m not over it yet. But to wake up, you know, the other day and see no injuries and no fatalities. I just can’t tell you how impressed I am,” he said of the nets.
The best solution for the Montecito and Santa Barbara area is to have both nets and debris basins, according to Larry Gurrola, the engineering geologist hired by the organization.
But nothing is cheap. Santa Barbara County’s spent $20 million on a new basin after 2018, while McElroy’s organization spent close to $2 million on installing the nets, which includes liability insurance and other fees. They have a five-year permit for the nets, which will be removed if it is not renewed.
Gurrola said the alternative is more costly. With the recent storms, more than half of California’s 58 counties have been declared disaster areas and repairing the damage may cost more than $1 billion.
“Most importantly these things protect the community and save lives,” he said.
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Glass reported from Minneapolis.
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TOKYO (AP) — Kazuya Nakamura says he was 15 when one of the most powerful men in Japanese entertainment history forced him to have sex while he was part of a troupe of backup dancers managed by the legendary talent agent.
At least a dozen other men have come forward this year to say they were sexually assaulted as teenagers by boy band impresario Johnny Kitagawa, who died in 2019, beginning with three who spoke anonymously to the BBC for a documentary broadcast in March.
The story has all the elements of a major #MeToo reckoning, but in Japan, response has been muted.
While opposition politicians set up a committee in parliament to investigate, and the talent agency Kitagawa founded promised to do the same and offered a brief apology, the news still rarely makes the front pages or lead television news broadcasts.
Kitagawa shrugged off similar allegations for decades. National media almost completely ignored the story, and Kitagawa’s business continued to thrive, even when a Tokyo appeals court found several accusers to be credible in a libel case in 2003. When Kitagawa died, he was honored with a massive funeral that filled a stadium.
Nakamura hopes that this time, Japanese society will acknowledge what happened to him.
“I just want to speak the truth,” Nakamura said. “It happened.”
The Associated Press does not usually identify people who say they were sexually assaulted, but Nakamura has chosen to identify himself in the media.
Kitagawa’s agency, Johnny and Associates said in response to the AP’s request for comment that all matters had been placed under investigation, and that it will also help with the “mental care” of those who come forward.
In 1999, Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun wrote in a series of articles based on anonymous interviews with former performers that Kitagawa forced boys to have sex.
Kitagawa sued the magazine for libel in 2000, beginning a four-year legal battle that ended with an appeals court finding that “it was demonstrated that the sexual harassment was factual,” and the testimony of the accusers, who appeared in court anonymously, was reliable.
In Japan, the imported phrase “sekuhara,” short for “sexual harassment,” is used to refer to all kinds of sexual misconduct.
However, the magazine was ordered to pay damages over assertions that Kitagawa gave minors cigarettes and alcohol.
Mainstream Japanese media almost completely ignored the story. No criminal charges were filed, and Kitagawa and his agency remained popular and powerful.
Toshio Takeshita, who teaches journalism at Meiji University in Tokyo, blames cozy relationships between corporate media and entertainment companies for the long silence. Access to stars is essential to media companies, so they’re often afraid to cross powerful entertainment figures.
Nakamura joined the Johnny’s Jr. backup dancers in 2001, after his mother helped him apply.
Johnny’s Jr. is the first step on the ladder for many aspiring Japanese male performers, a barely paid training camp for dancers and singers. Hundreds of boys practice with the group every year, and the most successful are picked to perform alongside stars represented by Johnny’s. A select few become stars themselves.
Nakamura said that on Oct. 19, 2002 — he remembers the exact date — he spent the night at Kitagawa’s home after a performance at the Tokyo Dome stadium.
Kitagawa regularly invited dozens of boys to stay at his home, which had a swimming pool, and was stocked with snacks and video games, according to Nakamura and other accusers.
Nakamura said he was sleeping in a bed with two other Johnny’s Jr. members, lying in the middle, when Kitagawa, then 70, forced him to have sex. He just closed his eyes and prayed it would be over. The other two boys kept quiet, sleeping or feigning sleep.
The following day, Nakamura said, Kitagawa handed him one or two 10,000 yen ($125 at the time) bills. He refused, but Kitagawa squeezed the money into his hand.
He performed again that evening. “When you’re on stage at the Tokyo Dome, the view of the penlights is so beautiful,” he said. “It was still so beautiful, but I couldn’t feel the joy.”
He stopped going to the dance lessons.
For years, Nakamura felt ashamed and told only a few close friends and his mother.
He said that he decided to break his silence after another accuser came forward earlier this year. Kauan Okamoto alleged in a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Tokyo that Kitagawa forced him to have sex repeatedly, a month after the BBC’s documentary aired. Okamoto was the first person in decades to accuse Kitagawa without anonymity.
Okamato said he was assaulted beginning in 2012, a decade after Nakamura. It made Nakamura regret not coming forward sooner.
He gave an interview to Shukan Bunshun in June, and was asked to speak to the committee in parliament later that month.
In May, following a new series of public allegations and the start of a parliamentary investigation the new head of Johnny’s apologized to fans in a YouTube video. Company President Julie Keiko Fujishima also hired former prosecutor Makoto Hayashi to head a three-person investigation.
Hayashi said that the company is not considering monetary compensation, but he said the investigation will move forward with the assumption the sexual assault took place.
But Nakamura said he couldn’t reach the investigators.
He filled out a form on the company’s website to take part in the investigation, he said, and was given a time for a phone call with an administrative assistant, which led to another call, and then an email about scheduling yet another, still not with Hayashi or his team. Nakamura gave up after two weeks of back and forth.
Hayashi declined to be interviewed for this story, and said he did not have a timeline for completing the investigation.
Nakamura said he was planning Japan’s equivalent of a class action with several others. Details were still undecided, and the case’s legal prospects are even more uncertain.
“This is not about winning or losing. It’s important we raise our voices,” he said.
Kitagawa’s accusers, and others, are hoping that more attention will lead to changes in Japanese society.
Japan has been criticized by the U.N. for not doing enough to protect children, amid widespread reports of corporal punishment, neglect and sexual abuse by adults, including parents and teachers.
A legal revision that officially banned violence against children kicked in only three years ago. Last month, Japan raised the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16.
Both Nakamura and Okamoto have testified in parliament, although the opposition, in charge of the investigation, is greatly outnumbered by the ruling coalition and has little power on its own to change legislation.
Okamoto gathered more than 40,000 signatures on a petition to demand tougher laws to protect children, which he submitted to parliament last month.
Yoichi Kitamura, a lawyer who defended Shukan Bunshun in the libel lawsuit and is giving legal advice to Nakamura and other accusers, said the case could be a turning point in Japanese attitudes.
But he’s been disappointed before.
During the trial, Kitamura said, “I felt: We got him.”
Now, decades later, he’s again helping Nakamura and others seek resolution.
Nakamura said that Kitagawa’s accusers doubt that a moment like this will come again.
“We all feel that this is our last chance,” he said.
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Yuri Kageyama is on Twitter https://twitter.com/yurikageyama | 2023-07-13T11:05:55+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-former-teen-performers-accuse-an-agent-of-sexual-assault-theyre-hoping-its-japans-me-too-moment/ |
Workers at an Amazon warehouse near Albany begin voting on whether to unionize. The Amazon Labor Union formed last spring after employees at a Staten Island warehouse voted to unionize.
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse near Albany begin voting on whether to unionize. The Amazon Labor Union formed last spring after employees at a Staten Island warehouse voted to unionize.
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See Zephyr RTOS in Action at Embedded World on March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Zephyr® Project announced that Blues Wireless, IRNAS and Sternum have joined as Silver members just as the real-time operating system (RTOS) has hit widespread adoption in products. Members such as Google, Oticon and T-Mobile have products powered by Zephyr RTOS.
"Adoption of Zephyr has increased dramatically in the last few years," said Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems. "In addition to Zephyr being used in a variety of industrial applications, we're finding it in all sorts of emerging markets like wearables, trackers, intelligent IoT devices, animal monitoring systems, and more. We hope being product ready will help these new members and the community with development, delivery, and maintenance across a wide variety of additional devices and solutions."
Products that are powered by Zephyr include:
- Google Chromebooks: The embedded controller is an ultra low-power microcontroller that is always on. It is critical to the all-day battery life as it handles all the things a Chromebook has to do when the application processor is off or sleeping. Google recently decided to move the EC application to Zephyr so that vendors can write their drivers once and capture design wins in product areas beyond Chromebooks. Zephyr's device model is based on the industry standards of devicetree and Kconfig. These technologies simplify the customization steps needed for each Chromebook model, lessening the engineering effort for Chromebook manufacturers. Learn more here.
- Oticon MoreTM Hearing Aids: The revolutionary Oticon More is the world's first hearing aid that allows users to hear all relevant sounds thanks to an on-board Deep Neural Network. It is powered by the Polaris chipset, integrating Zephyr RTOS for Bluetooth LE connectivity. This novel hearing instrument is an advanced medical product that will help millions of hearing-impaired people to a better quality of life. Learn more here.
- T-Mobile's DevEdge: The DevEdge is a self-serve developer platform that offers access to the T-Mobile network to create connected wireless solutions. The IoT Developer Kit, which runs on Zephyr RTOS, gives developers immediate access to T-Mobile's network – no testing hardware, no lengthy build time required. Learn more here.
Even as a new member, IRNAS has been using Zephyr RTOS for the last 4 years as part of their strategy to work with the best technologies to build industrial solutions for global clients, particularly focusing on Zephyr RTOS running on Nordic Semiconductor's nRF52 and nRF91 series products. Advanced applied solutions range from critical infrastructure monitoring devices such as RAM-1 developed for Izoelektro all the way to livestock management and tracking products engineered for Telespor. As part of the IRNAS responsible environmental strategy, they also formed a partnership with Smart Parks to design Open Collar animal trackers for nature conservation. These are mounted on wildlife animal collars for monitoring and their safety.
"Zephyr has been at our core for a number of years and now we are happy to take the next step and support the project that enabled us to build better connected products and be part of the Zephyr community," said Luka Mustafa, CEO and Founder of IRNAS. "Zephyr RTOS has already achieved significant adoption in industry, enabling us to design applications and value add logic to products running on multiple architectures, designing products that can continue evolving over the decades to come without massive rewrites in the process."
Blues Wireless and Sternum also joined the project as Silver members.
"At Blues, we are proud to support the Zephyr Project and officially join the community," said Brandon Satrom, Vice President of Developer Experience & Engineering at Blues. "Zephyr's open source, multi-architecture approach is perfect for our customers as they scale, and are looking for a robust RTOS to pair with the device agnostic, secure, and simple cellular connectivity that Blues provides. We look forward to introducing more of our customers to Zephyr, and leveraging our expertise to help Zephyr developers add low-power cellular to their tool belt."
"Zephyr is already the platform of choice for some of our largest customers, allowing us a clear view of how it's being used to power medical devices, payment devices, gateways, and industrial infrastructure," says Natali Tshuva, CEO and Co-Founder of Sternum. "We see growing demand from device manufacturers for advanced security controls, post-market surveillance capabilities, and threat mitigation that go beyond perpetual security patching. Our built-in support for Zephyr RTOS and toolchains allows us to address these needs and offer an easy way to bring our patented technology to all Zephyr-based devices."
Zephyr, an open source project at the Linux Foundation that builds a safe, secure and flexible RTOS for resource-constrained devices, is easy to deploy, connect and manage. It supports more than 450 boards running embedded microcontrollers from Arm and RISC-V to Tensilica, NIOS, ARC and x86 as single and multicore systems. It has a growing set of software libraries that can be used across various applications and industry sectors such as Industrial IoT, wearables, machine learning and more. Zephyr is built with an emphasis on broad chipset support, security, dependability, longterm support releases and a growing open source ecosystem.
Zephyr Project Platinum members include Antmicro, Baumer, Google, Intel, Meta, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP, Oticon, Qualcomm Innovation Center and T-Mobile. Silver members include AVSystem, BayLibre, Golioth, Infineon, Laird Connectivity, Linaro, Memfault, Parasoft, Percepio, SiFive, Silicon Labs, Synopsys, Texas Instruments and Wind River.
Where to see Zephyr
Zephyr will be on-site at Embedded World on March 14-16 in Nuremberg, Germany. The booth, located in Hall 4 - Stand 170, will host live demonstrations from members such as Antmicro, AVSystem, Blues Wireless, Golioth, IRNAS, Memfault, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP, Parasoft and Sternum. Stop by to talk to project members and ambassadors about these demos and check out products running on Zephyr. Click here for a total list of demos and products featured at Embedded World.
Additionally, the Zephyr community will be at the Zephyr Developer Summit, which takes place on June 27-30 in Prague, Czech Republic, and virtually as part of the first-ever Embedded Open Source Summit (EOSS). The annual Zephyr Developer Summit, which launched in 2021, is for developers using or considering Zephyr RTOS in embedded products. This year will focus on topics of interest to users, developers contributing upstreams and maintainers who want to learn more about technical details, products that leverage the RTOS and the ecosystem.
To submit a speaking proposal, click here by February 27. Learn more about sponsoring the event here or register to attend the event here.
About the Zephyr Project
The Zephyr® Project is an open source, scalable real-time operating system (RTOS) supporting multiple hardware architectures. To learn more, please visit www.zephyrproject.org.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — In the hurdles world before Sydney McLaughlin, it took years to shave fractions of seconds off records, and winning races didn’t always mean rewriting history.
This once-in-a-lifetime athlete is obliterating that mindset as quickly as she’s destroying the records she sets again and again and again.
For the fourth time in 13 months, the 22-year-old McLaughlin set the world record. On Friday, she ran the 400-meter hurdles at world championships in 50.68 seconds. She shattered her old mark by 0.73 seconds, a ridiculous number for a race of this distance and an amount of time that, in the world before McLaughlin, it had taken 33 years to trim.
“It’s unreal,” McLaughlin said in the post-race interview on the track.
Also unreal: The 1.59-second margin between her and second-place finisher Femke Bol. And that McLaughlin’s main rival, Dalilah Muhammad, finished third in 53.13 seconds, a time that would’ve won the world title with ease a mere seven years ago.
After McLaughlin received her gold medal and listened to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” World Athletics President Sebastian Coe handed her a $100,000 check — the prize for breaking the record at worlds. This marked the fourth straight major race in which she’s bettered the mark.
On a clear, perfect, 72-degree night at Hayward Stadium, McLaughlin left Bol and Muhammad behind by the 150-meter mark. By the time the American reached the final curve, it was clear this would strictly be a race against the clock.
“Honestly, I just wanted to run and go for it,” she said. “That last 100 really hurt.“
When she finished, she bent to the ground, looked at the scoreboard and said, “That’s great, that’s great.” She clutched her knees and smiled. A minute later, the mascot, Legend the Bigfoot, photo bombed her while holding a sign saying: “World records are my favorite food.”
The 400-hurdles record of 52.34, held by Yuliya Pechonkina of Russia, had sat on the books for 16 years when Muhammad, not McLaughlin, lowered it to 52.20 at U.S. championships in Iowa in 2019.
Back then, Muhammad’s coach, Boogie Johnson, said there had long been the thought that the Russian’s record seemed “a little soft” and ripe for a takeover. Muhammad broke it again, at 52.16, at world championships in 2019.
That was a race in which McLaughlin lost by a mere 0.07, and started thinking about making changes.
Since connecting with coach Bobby Kersee, she has broken the record at last year’s Olympic trials (51.90), the Olympics (51.46) and nationals last month. (51.41). Now, this — a trip below the 51-second barrier that hardly anyone was thinking about a mere five years ago.
McLaughlin has set three of those four records on this very track at Hayward Stadium. She has turned what used to be the best one-on-one showdown in sports — her vs. Muhammad — into a one-woman show for the time being.
The big question: how?
Some answers lie in the mix of improved track surfaces, new technology in the spikes that hurdling great Edwin Moses compared to “having trampolines on your shoes,” and a new coaching regimen employed by Kersee in the run-up to last year’s Olympics.
But mostly, pure talent.
Another way to look at McLauglin’s dominance: Traversing the track while leaping 10 hurdles took her only 1.57 seconds longer than Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas needed to win the 400-flat, held about a half-hour before the main event.
Like McLaughlin, Miller-Uibo has dominated her race over the past year-plus. Like McLaughlin, this was Miller-Uibo’s first world championship. She beat Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic by 0.49 seconds for a repeat of the same 1-2 finish as in Tokyo last year.
In the men’s race, American Michael Norman won the world title in 44.29 seconds, pulling away from 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James over the final 80 meters.
Norman received massive applause from the nearly full stands, which saw the U.S. win medals Nos. 23 through 26 on Day 8.
The Americans head into the relay-heavy weekend, which will include the surprise return of Allyson Felix in the 4×400, needing five more to top their championships record, set five years ago in London. They won 26 medals last year in Tokyo.
While McLaughlin’s win was huge, the emotional center of the evening came a few minutes earlier. Javelin thrower Kara Winger threw 64.05 meters (210 feet, 1 inch) on her sixth and final throw to finish second behind Australia’s Kelsey-Lee Barber.
It was the first medal in any major competition for the eight-time national champion, who rigged up a cable-and-pulley system in her backyard to keep up with her training during the pandemic.
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More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-23T04:16:49+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/ap-sports/sydney-mclaughlin-obliterates-world-record-in-400-hurdles/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Power was briefly knocked out at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, leaving many passengers at one of the world’s busiest airports in the dark and halting security checks, authorities said.
The airport tweeted at around 2:30 p.m. PT that some terminals, along with traffic lights and other systems, may have lost power, although it said the airfield was operating normally.
The Transportation Security Administration stopped screening passengers in most terminals, the airport said, and it urged people to allow extra time for security checks.
The airport later tweeted that most terminals had lost electricity and added that some departing flights may have been affected because the jet bridges used to board passengers weren’t working.
The airport said most power was restored shortly after 3 p.m.
“Our crews were able to make switches in the field to reroute power to LAX and restore service,” the city Department of Water and Power tweeted.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many flights were affected but the LAX website showed that at least three dozen departing flights scheduled to take off during the outage period were delayed.
The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately clear.
According to Los Angeles World Airports, which operates LAX, it is the fourth-busiest airport in the world and second-busiest in the United States, based on number of passengers. | 2023-02-02T16:20:45+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-power-outage-blacks-out-terminals-at-los-angeles-airport/ |
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — For years, the Indian Garden name assigned to a popular Grand Canyon campground has been a painful reminder for a Native American tribe that was displaced by the national park.
Now, the name will finally be changed.
The Havasupai Tribe and Grand Canyon National Park announced Monday that Indian Garden will be renamed Havasupai Gardens.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names gave unanimous approval this month to the request from the National Park Service on behalf of the tribe, known internationally for the towering blue-green waterfalls on its reservation.
The area, about 4½ miles (7.2 kilometers) down the popular Bright Angel Trail on the South Rim, originally was called Ha’a Gyoh by the tribe. But by 1928, the park service had forcibly removed the last Havasupai resident from the inner canyon where his family had farmed for generations to make way for trails and a ranger station.
The park service later built a handful of small cabins for tribal members on the South Rim. The Havasupai reservation lies deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon and is accessible only by mule, foot or helicopter.
“The eviction of Havasupai residents from Ha’a Gyoh coupled with the offensive name, Indian Garden, has had detrimental and lasting impacts on the Havasupai families that lived there and their descendants,” Tribal Chair Thomas Siyuja Sr. said in a statement. “The renaming of this sacred place to Havasupai Gardens will finally right that wrong.”
Grand Canyon Superintendent Ed Keable said he is proud of the collaboration with the Havasupai Tribal Council.
“This renaming is long overdue,” Keable said in a statement. “It is a measure of respect for the undue hardship imposed by the park on the Havasupai people.” | 2022-11-22T23:10:01+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-grand-canyon-park-changes-campground-name-that-haunted-tribe/ |
ROSEMONT, Ill. , March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2023 American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting will take place March 17-21 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. The meeting will feature more than 300 educational sessions on the latest information on skin, hair and nails, presented by more than 1,100 world-renowned experts in the field of dermatology.
The following news releases offer information from some of the noteworthy topics presented at the meeting:
- Treatment Options for Pregnant Women Living with Eczema and Psoriasis
- Research Suggests Connection Between Hair Loss in Women and Other Diseases
- Could a Metal Implant Affect Your Skin?
- How Climate Change and Wildfire Smoke Can Impact the Skin
Media who meet the Academy's Press Guidelines and would like to attend the 2023 AAD Annual Meeting must register on-site at the press office, located in Room 263 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Friday, March 17, or 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, March 18, through Monday, March 20. The Press Office is not open on Tuesday, March 21.
About the AAD
Headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., the American Academy of Dermatology, founded in 1938, is the largest, most influential and most representative of all dermatologic associations. With a membership of more than 20,800 physicians worldwide, the AAD is committed to advancing the diagnosis and medical, surgical, and cosmetic treatment of the skin, hair, and nails; advocating high standards in clinical practice, education and research in dermatology; and supporting and enhancing patient care because skin, hair, and nail conditions can have a serious impact on your health and well-being. For more information, contact the AAD at (888) 462-DERM (3376) or aad.org. Follow @AADskin on Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube and @AADskin1 on Instagram.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of protestors are expected to rally in Washington, D.C., Saturday and in separate demonstrations around the country as part of a renewed push for nationwide gun control. Motivated by a fresh surge in mass shootings, from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, protestors say lawmakers must take note of shifting public opinion and finally enact sweeping reforms.
Organizers expect the second March for Our Lives rally to draw around 50,000 demonstrators to the Washington Monument. That’s far less than the original 2018 march, which filled downtown Washington with more than 200,000 people. This time, organizers are focusing on holding smaller marches at an estimated 300 locations.
“We want to make sure that this work is happening across the country,” said Daud Mumin, co-chairman of the march’s board of directors and a recent graduate of Westminster College in Salt Lake City. “This work is not just about D.C., it’s not just about senators.”
The first march was spurred by the Feb. 14, 2018, killings of 14 students and three staff members by a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. That massacre sparked the creation of the youth-led March For Our Lives movement, which successfully pressured the Republican-dominated Florida state government to enact sweeping gun control reforms.
The Parkland students then took aim at gun laws in other states and nationally, launching March for Our Lives and holding the big rally in Washington on March 24, 2018.
The group did not match the Florida results at the national level, but has persisted in advocating for gun restrictions since then, as well as participating in voter registration drives.
Now, with another string of mass shootings bringing gun control back into the national conversation, organizers of this weekend’s events say the time is right to renew their push for a national overhaul.
“Right now we are angry,” said Mariah Cooley, a March For Our Lives board member and a senior at Washington’s Howard University. “This will be a demonstration to show that us as Americans, we’re not stopping anytime soon until Congress does their jobs. And if not, we’ll be voting them out.”
The protest comes at a time of renewed political activity on guns and a crucial moment for possible action in Congress.
Survivors of mass shootings and other incidents of gun violence have lobbied legislators and testified on Capitol Hill this week. Among them was Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old girl who survived the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. She told lawmakers how she covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot.
On Tuesday, actor Matthew McConaughey appeared at the White House briefing room to press for gun legislation and made highly personal remarks about the violence in his hometown of Uvalde.
The House has passed bills that would raise the age limit to buy semi-automatic weapons and establish federal “red flag” laws. But such initiatives have traditionally stalled or been heavily watered down in the Senate. Democratic and Republican senators had hoped to reach agreement this week on a framework for addressing the issue and talked Friday, but they had not announced an accord by early evening.
Mumin referred to the Senate as “where substantive action goes to die,” and said the new march is meant to spend a message to lawmakers that public opinion on gun control is shifting under their feet. ”If they’re not on our side, there are going to be consequences — voting them out of office and making their lives a living hell when they’re in office,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Ian Mader in Miami contributed to this report. | 2022-06-11T05:12:47+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Thousands-rally-for-gun-reform-after-surge-in-17234822.php |
The regular season is a wrap and now the three county varsity softball teams are making plans for the Mid-State 2A and 3A Conference tournaments that begin next week. The Reidsville Rams didn’t field a team this season, but McMichael, Morehead and Rockingham look like contenders.
The cream of the crop this season is undefeated McMichael at at 22-0. Top-to-bottom, this team is built for bringing home a title.
McMichael
No question about it, the Phoenix (8-0, 22-0) are state championship contenders. Throw into the mix, McMichael has several standout players from the Phoenix NCHSAA 2A state volleyball team and these girls are bonded, not to mention hungry, and they are committed to doing the same on the diamond.
Head coach Bob Casto says his team is a squad you can’t pitch around and the Phoenix have the numbers to prove it. They have dominated the Mid-State 2A Conference as well as the rest of the regular season competition.
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According to HighSchoolOT's latest statewide top 25 softball poll, McMichael has taken the No. 1 ranked team in the state.
Rockingham
The Cougars (14-0, 16-5) is no slouch either whatsoever. Rockingham has been a state title contender for several years and now they are poised to do some serious damage and contend for championships in the next few weeks.
The Cougars blasted the completion last week with 15-0 wins over Atkins, followed by an 18-0 victory over Dudley and a 19-zip route of Northeast Guilford in the regular season finale. That confidence will be formidable heading into the tournament.
Morehead
The Panthers have challenged all year in the league play. Year-in-and-out, they are always on the radar in terms of state championship contenders. As of Friday, Morehead was tied for second in the conference, so a lock in the post season is not guaranteed. Most know, a first and second place regular season finish is the only automatic lock for the post season. However with a stellar record of 12-4, they are in and likely will host in the first round regardless of what happens in the tournament.
It should be a fun ride heading into the sunset. | 2023-04-29T17:16:33+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/community/rockingham_now/sports/county-softball-teams-close-out-regular-season-with-an-eye-to-earning-postseason-hardware/article_c767dd2c-e696-11ed-a9b4-0bcab713e519.html |
President Biden is set to visit eastern Kentucky Monday to see the catastrophic damage from last month's flash flooding. More than three dozen people were killed and some are still missing.
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President Biden is set to visit eastern Kentucky Monday to see the catastrophic damage from last month's flash flooding. More than three dozen people were killed and some are still missing.
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UCF will be playing in a bowl game the program has never appeared in and against an opponent the Knights have never faced on the football field on Dec. 28 in the Military Bowl.
For the president of the Military Bowl Foundation, which is responsible for the operation of the bowl game, it’s an exciting opportunity to have Gus Malzahn’s team face Duke in Annapolis, Md.
“This is our last chance to get [UCF] because they’re off to the Big 12,” said Steve Beck, who’s in charge of the Military Bowl which has been an ACC-vs.-AAC matchup since 2014. “At least this cycle, it’s our last chance to get them. We never know what might happen down the road.
“I’m excited for Gus to go to this next level and take the Knights into the new conference but they’ve had a great run,” Beck added.
For UCF, it’s a chance to win 10 games this season — something the program has only done seven times since 2000 — and compete against another Power Five opponent.
“That’s always great,” Malzahn said about taking on a Power Five team. “Obviously playing a team like them is really good. They had an outstanding season so we’re looking forward to it.”
Last year the Blue Devils went 3-9 overall and 0-8 in ACC play. But under first-year coach Mike Elko, there’s been a quick turnaround.
Duke (8-4, 5-3 ACC) finished tied for second in the league’s Coastal division and Elko was named the ACC Coach of the Year.
“I’ve always been impressed with him as a coach,” Malzahn said. “He was the coach of the year in the conference, which is well deserved.”
Malzahn and Elko have history. The Duke coach served as the defensive coordinator at Texas A&M from 2018-21. When Malzahn coached at Auburn, the Tigers went 2-1 against the Aggies with Elko on staff.
“We went against each other, against his defense,” Malzahn said. “He was really good and did a super job with that.”
[ UCF football transfer tracker: Nine Knights enter the portal ]
Malzahn said UCF will wrap up the fall semester with final exams this week and take some time off next week before diving into bowl prep.
By going to a bowl game, the Knights will be able to take part in additional practices that they wouldn’t have gotten if UCF didn’t qualify for one.
Malzahn explained how the Knights will handle the extra practice time.
“Usually, there’s a transition period and the first couple [of practices] are developing your young guys,” he said. “A lot of them improve so much just [by] being on the scout team. It’s always good to see them play. Then, you start getting into your routine for your opponent.”
Although the Knights fell short of their goal of capturing one more AAC championship before departing for the Big 12, Malzahn feels confident about his team’s attitude moving forward.
“When you lose a championship game, it’s tough and it stings. And it should,” he said. “When we can remove ourselves, we’ll look back and have a lot of things we can be proud of.
“We made it to the championship game, we came up a little short but now we’ve got to move forward with the bowl.”
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Email Jason Beede at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @therealBeede. | 2022-12-07T01:33:34+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/os-sp-ucf-knights-football-duke-blue-devils-military-bowl-folo-20221207-6p4pjj3r3zdfbl26dfxvagf3oy-story.html |
Community center gives away hundreds of tennis shoes
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Today, a community center here in Eastern Carolina offered free foot care.
From 9 to 12, community members were able to come to Joy Community Center to see a podiatrist and were provided free foot diabetic screenings, wound care, and hygiene supplies.
Along with getting a free pair of socks and shoes, sponsored and sized by Fleet Feet, who have donated shoes to Joy’s for the past three years.
The Executive Director of Joys Community Center, Tom Quigley said he learned through his time in the military just how important foot care was, so he loved the idea of proving some to his community.
“You learn through the Marines that you gotta take care of your feet, and some people don’t have the opportunity they don’t have the means to get themselves good shoes. We got people coming in here with duck taped flip flops on, and this is an opportunity for them to get sized and fitted correctly for a pair of shoes that will carry them to the next day,” said Quigley.
Fleet Feet donated over 300 pairs of shoes and over 500 pairs of socks to the community.
Attendees were also able to take a free bagged lunch with them as they left the clinic.
Copyright 2023 WITN. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-26T01:42:36+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/06/26/community-center-gives-away-hundreds-tennis-shoes/ |
Updated April 21, 2023 at 3:48 PM ET
BuzzFeed is shutting down its Pulitzer Prize-winning news division as part of a 15% reduction in force across the company, BuzzFeed CEO and co-founder Jonah Peretti announced.
"While layoffs are occurring across nearly every division, we've determined that the company can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News as a standalone organization," Peretti wrote in the memo shared on Thursday via social media.
Today I was laid off while on maternity leave. Please keep me in your thoughts. Absolutely no words. Thanks buzzfeed.
— Alana M. Yzola (@AlanaMYzola) April 20, 2023
Peretti said he made the decision to "overinvest in BuzzFeed News because I love their work and mission so much." But this decision — in addition to a rough few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tech recession and a decelerating digital advertising market — made it impossible to financially support the news division any further, he said.
Moving forward, BuzzFeed will "concentrate our news efforts in HuffPost, a brand that is profitable with a highly engaged, loyal audience that is less dependent on social platforms," Peretti said. HuffPost and BuzzFeed Dot Com will have a number of select roles opened for members of BuzzFeed News, he said.
Former BuzzFeed editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, discussed the early days of BuzzFeed News where he worked alongside Pereeti on Morning Edition. Smith said that in the beginning, there was a mix of hard news, funny quizzes, and social media posts, which meant some media innovation. But with the 2016 United States election, this approach became toxic, and many people got "a little sick" of consuming news through Facebook and online algorithms.
When asked about the reasons for the closure of BuzzFeed's news division and the layoffs, he said that fewer people use social media platforms and that less news is being shared on these platforms.
"I think we all wound up feeling overwhelmed, feeling that news is being fed to us through algorithms, and, you know, sort of pander to in certain ways," he told NPR's Michel Martin.
When asked about how to improve and better serve public media, Smith, who now runs the global news startup Semafor from New York, was uncertain and did not predict a better alternative or provide a specific solution. But he added that "a lot of people are watching short videos, instead of going on social networks. They're consuming a lot of email. And they're going to events."
BuzzFeed is just the latest media company to announce major layoffs. In recent weeks, NPR cut around 100 people and announced plans to ax four podcasts. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, nixed its Sunday magazine and a handful of other newsroom jobs in January. Insider also announced this week it was laying off 10% of staff due to a decline in advertising revenue.
BuzzFeed said it reduced its New York real estate footprint last year, but that it will also be reducing its real estate in Los Angeles now, "from four buildings down to one, which saves millions in costs as well as mirrors our current hybrid state of work."
BuzzFeed News started in 2012 and grew to have more than 100 journalists across the world. The news division was a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Its 2021 Pulitzer Prize award was for the company's international reporting in uncovering the Chinese government's mass detention of Muslims.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-21T20:23:19+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-04-20/buzzfeed-shutters-its-newsroom-as-the-company-undergoes-layoffs |
The U.S. Senate is poised to pass legislation that would codify same-sex marriage protections.
The Respect for Marriage Act earned 62 votes on Wednesday, which was needed to bypass a filibuster. Twelve Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting for the bill.
The bill will be debated before a final vote is taken. If the Senate passes the bill, which is now expected, it will have to go to the House for a vote before President Joe Biden can sign it into law.
The senators who crafted the bill said they used "commonsense language to confirm that this legislation fully respects and protects Americans’ religious liberties and diverse beliefs, while leaving intact the core mission of the legislation to protect marriage equality."
Congress has been moving to protect same-sex marriage as support from the general public — and from Republicans in particular — has sharply grown in recent years, as the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalized gay marriage nationwide.
Recent polling has found more than two-thirds of the public supports same-sex unions.
The legislation would repeal the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act and require states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed.
The new Respect for Marriage Act would also protect interracial marriages by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin." | 2022-11-16T21:49:35+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/bill-to-codify-same-sex-marriage-protections-clears-60-vote-threshold-in-the-senate |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to overturn a judge's appointment of an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
The appeal is the latest salvo in weeks of litigation over the scope of duties of the arbiter, also known as a special master. He was assigned last month by a judge to inspect the thousands of records taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and weed out from the investigation any that may be protected by claims of legal privilege.
The special master process has caused some delays to the Justice Department’s investigation into the storage of top-secret documents at the home. But a major hurdle was cleared last month when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit lifted a temporary bar on the department’s ability to use the seized classified documents as part of its criminal probe.
The move permitted a core aspect of the probe to resume, greatly reducing the chances that the special master process could have a significant impact on the investigation. But department lawyers returned to the court Friday to ask for the entire special master review to be shut down, saying the judge who made the appointment had no basis for doing so and Trump was not entitled to an independent review of the seized records or to claim privilege over them.
“Plaintiff has no plausible claim of executive privilege as to any of the seized materials and no plausible claim of personal attorney-client privilege as to the seized government records — including all records bearing classification markings,” according to the department's brief.
“Accordingly," they added, ”the special-master review process is unwarranted." | 2022-10-14T21:47:57+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Justice-Dept-seeks-end-to-arbiter-s-review-of-17510262.php |
7News First Alert Weather: Slow moving upper-level low keeps on-and-off showers through Friday
Storm System #2 to provide widespread rainfall totals between 1-2′' with localized higher amounts
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For tonight, isolated-to-scattered strong-to-severe storms are possible before 2:00 AM. The main threats for storms that become severe will be wind gusts up to 60 mph, hail up to the size of half dollars, localized flooding and the chance for a brief spin-up west of a Quanah-to-Throckmorton line. Thunderstorms will transition to cold showers before daybreak with overnight lows falling into the upper 40s.
On Friday, a slow moving upper-level low along the Red River will allow for steady rain to continue throughout much of the day. The placement of the surface low and accompanied cold front will be well south of Texoma only allowing high temperatures to warm into the mid 50s. Winds will be out of the northeast at 10-20 mph.
Any lingering showers will come to an end by Saturday morning with rainfall totals for storm system #2 ranging between 1-2′'. As the upper-level low moves to the northeast it gives way to a pleasant Halloween weekend with highs in the 60s and low 70s.
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Amazon dominates online sales, but in the early days of e-commerce, a traditional retail giant almost crushed them. Walmart eventually learned from Amazon, and the two companies’ rivalry inspired innovation, but also revenge plots and the erosion of worker protections.
Jason Del Rey dove deep into the struggle, interviewing more than 150 people, including C-suite executives at both. He spoke with Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee about the resulting book, “Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets.”
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-23T18:52:42+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-06-23/winner-sells-all-reveals-rivalry-between-retail-titans-amazon-and-walmart |
Former Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy spent the 2021-22 season moving pieces around, trying to figure out the best way to distribute his most productive offensive players across different lines.
This season, when current Bruins coach Jim Montgomery tweaks the lineup, he knows he’s not searching for productivity or trying to squeeze out drops of offense wherever he can find them. He knows it will be there.
Twenty-three players have scored for the Bruins this season, and 10 have notched at least 10 goals. David Pastrnak (45), Patrice Bergeron (23), and Brad Marchand (20) have cracked the 20-goal plateau, while Jake DeBrusk (19), Pavel Zacha (16), and Taylor Hall (16) are all within reach.
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“It’s a luxury,” Montgomery said. “It allows me to roll lines because I know all four lines can make plays offensively and most importantly shut other teams down defensively. And I think it gives our team confidence overall with as many diverse goal scorers as we have that we can come back because we can attack people wave after wave.”
As much as anything, Marchand said, the Bruins’ scoring depth is one reason they’ve put together the best record in the league and one of the best regular seasons in franchise history.
“I think that’s why we’re having such a great year,” Marchand said. “We don’t rely on one line every night. Obviously, we have guys that produce each night, but we win as a group.
“On any given night, we could have a different line step up. And that’s tough, I think, for other teams to play where it could be the first or the fourth line that comes through with the big goal or a couple of [defensemen] that night. That’s hard to defend.”
There are deep teams across the NHL. Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel, Evgeni Malkin, Rickard Rakell, and Jason Zucker have all cracked 20 goals for the Penguins. The Sabres have five 20-goal scorers in Dylan Cozens, Victor Olofsson, Jeff Skinner, Tage Thompson, and Alex Tuch. So do the Maple Leafs in Michael Bunting, Mitch Marner, Auston Matthews, William Nylander, and John Tavares.
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Depth is a part of the identity of winning Bruins teams. If they end up with six 20-goal scorers, it will be the 24th time in franchise history that they’ve had that many.
But this kind of production has been rare recently. The last time the Bruins had six 20-goal scorers was 2011-12. Before that, it was 2008-09.
The standard for spreading the scoring wealth remains the 1977-78 Bruins. That team scored 333 goals (third in the league) and had 11 players score at least 20. That scoring balance got them to the Stanley Cup Finals. Thirteen players found the net at least once in the postseason.
Depth generally pays off — both in the regular season and the playoffs.
“That’s something that’s going to allow us to have success down the road is we win all the way through our lineup,” Marchand said. “That’s typically when most teams will make really good Cup runs.”
Last year, the Avalanche scored 308 goals (fourth in the league) and had seven 20-goal scorers. They won the Stanley Cup but had to survive a second-round series against the Blues, who scored 309 goals (third) and had nine players finish with 20 goals.
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Regular-season depth doesn’t guarantee postseason success, but it helps. Since 2000, 39 teams have had at least six 20-goal scorers; six reached the Stanley Cup Finals and four won it. But 15 lost in the first round and 25 didn’t make it past the second round. Three missed the playoffs.
Generally, scoring depth in the regular season holds up in the playoffs. Of the 39 teams with at least six 20-goal scorers since 2000, 17 got goals in the playoffs from each of those players. Nine got scores from all but one.
The defending champion Avalanche are a prime example of depth paying off. Andre Burakovsky, Nazem Kadri, Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Valeri Nichushkin, and Mikko Rantanen each had 20-goal regular seasons in 2021-22. When the playoffs came, they all contributed.
Overall, the Avalanche had 16 players score 85 goals in the playoffs, but those seven players who fueled their offense in the regular season combined for 56 goals.
Last year’s Wild team was an example of the opposite extreme. They won 53 regular-season games. Joel Eriksson Ek, Kevin Fiala, Marcus Foligno, Ryan Hartman, Kirill Kaprizov, and Mats Zuccarello all hit the 20-goal mark. But against a Blues team with even more depth, Minnesota’s depth went missing. Fiala, Foligno, and Hartman were all held goalless over the six-game series.
The worst case over the past 25 years was the 2016-17 Blackhawks team that won 50 regular-season games and had six players reach 20 goals. They were swept in the first round by the Predators and mustered just three goals in the four games.
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Going into the playoffs last year, the Bruins were confident they had enough punch with Pastrnak (40 goals), Marchand (32), Bergeron (25), DeBrusk (25), and Hall (20). That group accounted for 56 percent of the team’s 253 goals in the regular season.
To an extent, they did deliver. The Bruins scored 20 goals over the course of a seven-game first-round series against the Hurricanes. Their five top goal-scorers lit the lamp 14 times. But they scored only six goals on the road. Marchand, the Bruins’ third all-time postseason goal-scorer, didn’t find the net in any of the four games in Raleigh.
Overall, the Bruins got the scoring they were looking for from the players they were counting on, but they didn’t get it on the road when they needed to close out the series. They lost Game 7, 3-2.
This year, they’re confident that they’ll be able to turn to any number of options for a score.
“I think that’s the biggest reason why we’re winning is our depth throughout the whole year,” DeBrusk said. “It’s one of those things where it’s been really exciting to be part of and you can tell by the way we play.
“We have the ultimate belief that somebody will do it. We don’t need a hero. We’ve got guys that are Olympic champions, Stanley Cup champions, obviously great leaders, but we know that we don’t need to do that every single night. There’s going be times when it’s your turn.”
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Julian Benbow can be reached at julian.benbow@globe.com. | 2023-03-10T18:56:15+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/10/sports/nhl-how-does-scoring-depth-translate-regular-season-playoffs/ |
2023 U.S. Women’s Open Schedule: Saturday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
Published: Jul. 8, 2023 at 2:38 AM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
After two rounds of play in the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, Bailey Tardy is atop the leaderboard (-7). Tune in to see the rest of the action unfold.
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Security camera captures the moment a tornado hit a high school
Published: Mar. 28, 2023 at 3:38 PM CDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
AMORY, Miss. (Gray News) – A security camera at a high school in Mississippi caught the moment a tornado hit the campus.
Sam Strickland, the IT director for the Amory School District, posted the video on social media.
Despite the damage seen on camera, Strickland said he didn’t want to give parents and students the false impression that the whole school was damaged or destroyed.
Strong storms swept through Mississippi Friday, leading to the deaths of at least 21 people, according to officials. Dozens of other people were injured.
The National Weather Service in Jackson said the tornado received a preliminary EF-4 rating.
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- The Royal Mint has revealed a range of commemorative coins to celebrate the upcoming Coronation
- The commemorative coin range features the first official crowned coinage portrait of His Majesty The King, designed by Martin Jennings
- The range will go on sale at 9am (UK time) on Monday 24th April 2023.
- An uncrowned version of the 50p designed by Royal Mint designer Natasha Jenkins, is set to enter circulation later in 2023
LLANTRISANT, Wales, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Mint, the official maker of UK coins has today unveiled a range of commemorative coins to celebrate the upcoming Coronation including a 50p and £5 coin.
The commemorative coronation coin range features a crowned effigy of His Majesty The King designed by artist and sculptor Martin Jennings - the first crowned effigy of His Majesty to feature on a coin. The effigy of King Charles III for non-commemorative coins was unveiled following His Majesty's Accession late last year and in line with tradition, The King is shown not wearing regalia.
The new, crowned coin effigy has been created specifically for the Coronation, ahead of the historic event on May 6th and will feature on the commemorative range produced by The Royal Mint to mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla. The crowned effigy is reserved specifically for collectable, commemorative coins and will be reserved for very special collections moving forwards.
The portrait features the Tudor Crown which was personally selected by His Majesty The King for the portrait. Although the Tudor crown was destroyed in the 1640s it is still used heraldically and has been used on previous crowned portraits of Kings from the 20th century. The Tudor Crown also features on His Majesty's cypher. Martin Jennings comments: "Following my work on the uncrowned coin effigy of His Majesty, I am delighted to have had the opportunity to work on a crowned version for the coronation range. Each detail of the crown has to be scrupulously correct so it has taken considerable work to get it right. I'm proud to have had the opportunity to realise a design that is both dignified and celebratory for this historic occasion."
The new, highly collectable 50p featuring the iconic Westminster Abbey has been designed by Royal Mint designer Natasha Jenkins. Natasha has worked for The Royal Mint for nearly seven years, and this is the third time one of her designs has been selected for use on a UK coin.
Natasha Jenkins, Product Designer at The Royal Mint, comments: "I feel so privileged to have had the opportunity to work on this project. I was inspired to feature Westminster Abbey as it plays such an iconic role in the coronation, so I chose to opt for a stylised line drawing of Westminster Abbey that is instantly recognisable with Britain, along with King Charles' cypher and crown to mark him being crowned as King.
I am always aware of finishing touches during the design stage. This is why I chose a linear design, as I knew the negative areas of the design would be polished, and the relief areas would be frosted. This will give the coin a lot of opportunity for light play."
In the future I will be able to look back and show my children this coin that I designed for the Coronation and feel proud."
Five million 50ps are set to enter circulation later in 2023 featuring the original, uncrowned effigy of King Charles by Martin Jennings. This follows the five million memorial 50ps that have already entered circulation – the first circulating coinage of the new monarch, that will co-circulate along with that of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Coronation range also includes a £5 coin features the crowned coinage portrait of His Majesty on the obverse and a beautiful design by Timothy Noad on the reverse, featuring the St Edward's Crown.
The range also features a number of ounce coins, that are available in several editions and sizes, each featuring the crowned coinage portrait of His Majesty on the obverse and a beautiful design by John Bergdahl on the reverse.
Rebecca Morgan, Director of Collector Services at The Royal Mint, comments: "The Coronation range is a celebration of the Coronation and His Majesty The King's formal investiture, exhibiting exemplary British craftsmanship, with a range of price points making it accessible for all. We're particularly excited to unveil the unique crowned effigy, making this range highly collectible and a wonderful keepsake of such a historic occasion."
Rebecca continues: "The Royal Mint has struck the coins of the monarchy since the times of Alfred the Great. The Royal Mint has played a role in coronations for years, traditionally producing coins and medals for previous monarchs. We are marking a moment in history and a new chapter in British coinage. This is a wonderful opportunity to grow an existing coin collection or to start collecting for the first time."
The range will go on sale at 9am (UK time) on Monday 24th April 2023. For more information about the range, visit The Royal Mint's website.
The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III 2023 £5 Commemorative Coin Specifications
The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III 2023 50p Commemorative Coin Specifications
The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III 2023 Gold Proof Ounces Coin Specifications
The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III 2023 Silver Proof Ounces Coin Specifications
About The Royal Mint
With a history spanning more than 1,100 years, The Royal Mint is Britain's oldest companies and the original maker of UK coins. Today The Royal Mint is a premium British maker, providing carefully crafted coins and precious metal products for the UK and overseas. Based in Llantrisant, South Wales it has three main focuses as a business: Currency, Consumer (collectable and rare, historic coins) and precious metals investment.
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