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Purdue became this season’s first unanimous No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday after wins over Michigan and Michigan State last week as chaos ensued behind the Boilermakers among other ranked teams.
More than half of Top 25 teams lost, including second-ranked Alabama, which was routed by Oklahoma in the Big 12-SEC Challenge. That allowed Purdue to grab the remaining No. 1 votes and tighten its grip atop the poll, while Tennessee jumped two spots to second and Houston held onto third in voting by 62 national media members.
The Boilermakers (21-1) have won eight straight since a one-point loss to Rutgers on Jan. 2.
“We’re the No. 1 team in the country because of how unselfish we are as a team,” Purdue guard David Jenkins Jr. said. “We had a lot of people doubting us in the beginning because, you know, we may not be the most talented team or whatever, but we’re close on the court and off the court and it’s really translating to how we’re winning.”
The Volunteers climbed to their highest perch since reaching No. 1 for four weeks during the 2018-19 season. They routed Georgia before becoming one of three SEC teams to beat Big 12 opponents on Saturday, knocking off No. 10 Texas 82-71 for their fifth consecutive win over a top-10 team.
Perhaps this is the year Rick Barnes finally gets the Vols through the Sweet 16 for the first time as their coach.
“We have a chance to be as good as we want to be,” he said. “It’s up to one thing: Are we tough enough to embrace the daily grind? And not worry about going to the Final Four or worry about going to the NCAA Tournament, but can we build a team that can be successful that time of year? It starts with truly embracing the grind.”
The Crimson Tide dropped to fourth after the blowout loss to the Sooners, when Alabama fell behind by 17 at halftime in an eventual 93-69 defeat. The Tide edged fifth-ranked Arizona by just two points in this week’s poll.
“It doesn’t have any effect on SEC standings, which is the only good thing to come out of this,” Alabama coach Nate Oats said of the lopsided loss. “Hopefully we’ll recover from a loss out of conference, but you know, it’s not good.”
Virginia was sixth and Kansas State, which rebounded from a narrow loss at No. 13 Iowa State by pummeling Florida on Saturday, fell two spots to seventh; the Wildcats face eighth-ranked Kansas in a top-10 showdown Tuesday night.
UCLA dropped to ninth after losing to Southern California and Texas rounded out the top 10.
Baylor continued its climb from unranked to No. 11 following wins over the Jayhawks and Arkansas. The Bears were followed by Gonzaga, Iowa State, Marquette and league rival TCU — the sixth Big 12 team in the top 15.
Xavier, Providence, Saint Mary’s, Florida Atlantic and Clemson completed the top 20, while poll returners Indiana and San Diego State joined Miami, UConn and Auburn in rounding out the Top 25.
RISING AND FALLING
The No. 11 Bears and No. 17 Providence made the biggest leaps, each climbing six spots from last week.
“I think our defense is better. Our turnovers are better. When you don’t give people easy transition baskets, now its five-on-five in the half court,” said Baylor coach Scott Drew, whose team had a date with the Longhorns on Monday night.
“We execute at a pretty high rate,” Drew said. “It really comes down to taking care of the ball, making sure we get shots up and when you don’t make them, you’ve got to get rebounds. And our guys are buying into that.”
Auburn took the biggest hit of those still in the poll, dropping 10 places after losses to unranked Texas A&M and West Virginia.
IN AND OUT
The Hoosiers returned to the poll at No. 21 and the Aztecs rejoined it right behind them. They took the place of Charleston, which fell out from No. 18 after losing to Hofstra, and New Mexico, which lost to Nevada in double overtime last week.
CONFERENCE CALL
The Big 12’s dominance of the SEC in the final year of their head-to-head challenge was rewarded in the poll, where the league led the way with six ranked teams and all of them in the top 15. The Big East has four teams in the poll but none higher than No. 14 Marquette, while the SEC and ACC have three teams apiece.
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With rent up 25%, experts say staying put this year may be cheaper than moving
A longer lease term could lead to more affordable rent
InvestigateTV - Rent.com has reported a 25% increase in rent on one-bedroom apartments nationwide from the same time last year. As a result, experts said many renters may be looking for ways to cut costs.
Brian Carberry, managing editor for Rent.com said apartment rental prices may start to come back down, but it could take months because of current inflation rates.
In the meantime, Carnberry said if your lease is up for renewal, there’s a good chance you will see the price rise. He said this may be the time to stay put rather than looking for a new apartment.
“It’s always going to be better for you to continue to rent where you are, to try to renew that lease, because your rate of increase is probably going to be a little bit less than it would be if you went out to try to rent somewhere new that you haven’t been before,” Carnberry said. “You’d likely have to pay more.”
Along with a potential increase in rent, the cost of moving, switching utilities, application fees and a security deposit will add to the overall price tag.
Carnberry suggested approaching your landlord to try to lock in a longer rental term along with a lower rate. Also, he said giving examples of how you have been a model tenant could help hold down prices.
If you are looking for a new rental, come prepared with references to prove that you are going to pay on time. This could be a boon when looking in a competitive market.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website has resources to help you find affordable rentals in your area and could offer rental assistance to those in need.
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NEW YORK, March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stax LLC, a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds, and investment banks, today announced the opening of its new London office as part of its product, market, and client vision to better serve private equity in London and EMEA. Located in Farringdon, the Central London office will function as the firm's European base of operations. The office expansion follows Stax's recent acquisition of AMR International, a London-based strategy consulting firm, in 2022.
"As Stax continues to grow intentionally, our new London office is part of our planful growth strategy to provide value to our private equity, hedge fund, and investment banking clients in EMEA," said Jayson Traxler, President. "And as we strive to deliver the highest level of service to our clients, we are also very focused on bolstering our European team and offering our colleagues with expanded resources and opportunities for professional growth and development."
"The office expansion follows on the heels of our own private equity clients who have expanded or established new operations in London over the last year, and as the private equity ecosystem in EMEA has seen significant growth recently," said Paul Edwards, Senior Managing Director. "Indeed, our European private equity engagements have more than doubled and this move will support the increased client demand and interest we are seeing in our unique, data-driven offerings."
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VIENNA (AP) — OPEC+ oil producers cut supplies of crude to global economy as oil prices have fallen because of recession fears.
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American Airlines told CNN on Thursday that it is cutting back some of its flights this fall after building toward returning to pre-pandemic levels.
According to CNN, American Airlines will cut 2% of its flights in September. Philadelphia will be a heavily impacted hub with 3% fewer American flights in September, growing to 5% in October.
The airline industry has become strained this year in returning to pre-pandemic levels. The Transportation Security Administration reports about a 10% drop in the number of passengers screened this summer compared to 2019.
Meanwhile, the federal government said it has received a number of reports from consumers about delayed or changed flights. In response, the Transportation Department is considering changes that would make it easier for consumers to be refunded for changed flights.
An American Airlines spokesperson told CNN it will "size our airline for the resources we have available and to build additional buffer into the remainder of our summer schedule." | 2022-08-05T18:11:39+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/american-airlines-cuts-back-its-schedule-as-airlines-struggle-with-returning-to-normal |
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cathay Bank announced the release of the Cathay Bank | UCLA Anderson Forecast U.S.-China Economic Report 2022 Fall Update. The update reviews the changes and trends in international trade, global supply chains, U.S. economic outlook amid inflation and rising interest rates, regional economic performance in the U.S., and the outlook for a slowing China economy.
Report authors UCLA Anderson Forecast director Jerry Nickelsburg and Forecast economist William Yu stated that the U.S. economy has been expanding, albeit more slowly, in the first half of 2022. In China, the real estate crisis and zero-COVID public health policy have become the heart of its current economic problems. Nevertheless, China remains the largest manufacturer and exporter in the world.
"Though decoupling between U.S. and China is happening with some speed in technology, it is happening possibly less rapidly in finance, and slowly in trade," said Nickelsburg. "But they remain large and important and, barring an unexpected geopolitical event, will continue to be so over the next few years."
"2022 marks our fifth year collaborating with UCLA Anderson Forecast. The data-driven forecasts provide insights to understand the economic development and trends," said Chang M. Liu, Cathay Bank's President and CEO.
The 2022 Fall Update is available for download in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese on the Cathay Bank website or on the UCLA Anderson Forecast website.
UCLA Anderson Forecast (uclaforecast.com) is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. The UCLA Anderson Forecast was credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to call the recession of 2001 and, in March 2020, it was the first to declare that the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic had already begun.
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Sentencing hearing set for Parkland school shooter
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s two-day sentencing hearing begins Tuesday with the families of the 17 people he murdered getting their chance after almost five years to address him directly about the devastation he brought to their lives.
After they and the 17 people Cruz wounded get their chance to speak, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer on Wednesday will formally sentence him to life in prison without parole for his Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She has no other option as the jury in his recently concluded penalty trial could not unanimously agree that the 24-year-old former Stoneman Douglas student deserved a death sentence.
The families gave highly emotional statements during the trial, but were restricted about what they could tell jurors: They could only describe their loved ones and the toll the killings had on their lives. The wounded could only say what happened to them.
They were barred from addressing Cruz directly or saying anything about him — a violation would have risked a mistrial. And the jurors were told they couldn’t consider the family statements as aggravating factors as they weighed whether Cruz should die.
Now, the grieving and the scarred can speak directly to Cruz, if they choose.
His attorneys say Cruz is not expected to speak. He apologized in court last year after pleading guilty to the murders and attempted murders — but families told reporters they found the apology self-serving and aimed at garnering sympathy.
That plea set the stage for a three-month penalty trial that ended Oct. 13 with the jury voting 9-3 for a death sentence — jurors said those voting for life believed Cruz is mentally ill and should be spared. Under Florida law, a death sentence requires unanimity.
Prosecutors had argued that Cruz planned the shooting for seven months before he slipped into a three-story classroom building, firing 140 shots with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle down hallways and into classrooms. He fatally shot some wounded victims after they fell. Cruz said he chose Valentine’s Day so it could never again be celebrated at Stoneman Douglas.
Cruz’s attorneys never questioned the horror he inflicted, but focused on their belief that his birth mother’s heavy drinking during pregnancy left him brain damaged and condemned to a life of erratic and sometimes violent behavior that culminated in the massacre — the deadliest mass shooting to go to trial in U.S. history.
Nine other people in the U.S. who fatally shot at least 17 people died during or immediately after their attacks by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 massacre of 23 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is awaiting trial.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-01T10:41:43+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/11/01/sentencing-hearing-set-parkland-school-shooter/ |
HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, announced Wednesday it will no longer finance new oil and gas fields as part of its updated climate strategy.
Climate campaigners welcomed the moved saying HSBC provided a new baseline for other major banks but urged the bank to go further.
The bank said it would still provide financing to existing fossil fuel projects “in line with current and future declining global oil and gas demand.” It would also continue to provide finance and advisory services to energy sector clients but will assess the companies’ plans to transition to clean energy.
“It sets a new minimum level of ambition for all banks committed to net zero,” said Jeanne Martin from the campaign group ShareAction. But she added the change “doesn’t deal with the much larger proportion of finance it (HSBC) still provides to companies that have oil and gas expansion plans.” She called for new proposals to address the issue of corporate-level financing for energy companies “as soon as possible.”
Climate experts said the move was nevertheless a big deal.
“Banks make everything possible, including either the entrenchment of the status quo, that is infrastructure based on fossil fuels, or a transition that’s at the pace and of the kind that science tells us that is needed to address the crisis of climate change,” said Timmons Roberts, a professor at Brown University and director of the Climate Social Science Network. “So big banks making pledges like this are a big deal, a very big deal.”
Roberts said there are incentives to make these pledges, following through is the harder part.
“They’ll need to be vigilant at tracking whether they keep their promise,” he said.
Aditi Sen, climate and energy program director at the Rainforest Action Network, said that each year their research on fossil fuel funding shows banks headquartered in the U.S. are the biggest culprits when it comes to fueling the climate chaos, “yet their commitments are flimsy at best and deliberately negligent at worst.”
The group found that the largest four U.S. banks together account for one quarter of all fossil fuel financing identified over the last six years.
“Today HSBC has made a big step forward on climate, which proves that U.S. banks can step it up to do the same,” Sen added. “Financial institutions writ large play a really, really important role in keeping afloat the fossil fuel economy that we have, but also they have a huge role and an opportunity to drive the shift towards a clean energy economy.”
In a report last year the International Energy Agency said investments in new coal mines, oil and gas wells need to end immediately if the world stood a chance of meeting its commitment in the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached $4.6 trillion U.S. dollars in the six years since the adoption of the agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone, according to the most recent Rainforest Action Network report.
Earlier this year a group of institutional investors found that several banks — including HSBC — would need to significantly step up their efforts on climate if the Paris goal is to be met.
Bank policies must be reconciled with the climate upheavals and economic threats posed by those upheavals that the banking industry warns about, said U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who is a leading advocate for strong action on climate.
“For a long time the banking industry has been talking out of two sides of its mouth. They’ve been offering these really grim warnings about the bursting of the carbon bubble and the collapse of coastal property values and all of that, while at the same time continuing to behave as if the things that they were saying weren’t true,” he said. “So this aligns HSBC policy with what the banking industry has been saying for a long time, and I think it’s welcome and overdue.”
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Ray Wylie Hubbard, who is scheduled to be among Hangover Ball performers Jan. 1 at Cain’s Ballroom, sang at Paul English’s memorial service in 2020.
Paul English?
Among other things, English was Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer, rascal, encourager, bodyguard, bookkeeper and gun-toting appearance fee collector.
One of the songs Hubbard sang at English’s memorial service was the obvious one: “Me and Paul.”
Nelson wrote “Me and Paul“ for a 1971 album (“Yesterday’s Wine”). The song was a peek into the road adventures Nelson shared with his best pal.
I guess Nashville was the roughest
But I know I’ve said the same about them all
People are also reading…
We received our education
In the cities of the nation, me and Paul
If you want the rest of the story, a recommended read is “Me and Paul: Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship.” Nelson, with assistance from David Ritz, wrote the released-in-September book about his partner in music and crime.
“I consider anyone who keeps me out of jail a hero,” wrote Nelson. “Paul did it at least twice.”
The super power of English, Nelson’s drummer for 53 years, was his ability to pop out of thin air to rescue the country music legend from peril. Occasionally, red-level threats were angry husbands or boyfriends. You romancing my girl?
Related to that topic: Mabee Center General Manager Tony Winters recently shared a story about receiving a letter for Nelson prior to a Nelson show at the venue.
Winters read aloud the letter to Nelson and his crew. The letter said something like “You may not remember me, but I ran a radio station in Nashville. What you might remember is you ran off with my wife.”
Winters was urged to keep reading. Said the letter: “Later on in life, I realized it was the best thing anybody ever did for me.”
That story isn’t in the book, but there is plenty of Oklahoma in its 200-plus pages, including multiple mentions of Bob Wills, who is eternally linked to Tulsa because he turned Cain’s Ballroom into the Carnegie Hall of western swing music.
Waylon Jennings wrote the song “Bob Wills is Still the King“ in the mid-1970s. The lyrics included this line: “It don’t matter who’s in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king.” English took that as a slight because, at the time, Nelson was ruling Austin. English voiced his objection to Jennings, who said he meant no offense. For what it’s worth, Nelson sided with Jennings. Wills was still the king.
Names of other Oklahoma-connected music artists appear in the book. Mae Axton. Jim Keltner (the major league drummer admired English’s playing ability, according to the book). Leon Russell.
In 1988, the year that Nelson took part in a Will Rogers Day parade in Claremore, he named Russell as his favorite performer.
“Leon was a bridge to a new generation of fans,” Nelson wrote in the book. “He was one of the greatest entertainers. Great pianist, writer and singer. Nine years younger than me, he kept his country roots and combined them with rock and soul. He became a cultural avatar. His Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour with Joe Cocker set the world on fire.”
Nelson again referenced Russell when talking about the 1973 launch of the Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic music festival.
“The idea was simple,” Nelson said. “Leon Russell would rustle up the hippies, and I’d rustle up the rednecks. By then, though, it was tough telling the two apart.”
Muskogee (Nelson digs you) and Tulsa snared mentions in the book. Nelson said he once made good money in Tulsa playing dominoes.
Win some, lose some. Nelson wrote that he was beaten by Ray Charles in chess. Yes, blind Ray Charles. Anything is possible when you go adventuring with Willie and Paul. They were this close to going into business with Jack Ruby when you-know-what happened in Dallas.
“It’s been said that a good friend knows all your best stories,” Nelson wrote. “But a best friend has lived them with you.”
Nelson and Jennings became the faces of the outlaw country movement in the ‘70s. English was the real outlaw. He was arrested more than 100 times as a teen, and he made a living in not-always-legal ways as an adult. He wore a red-lined black cape on stage and jokingly referred to himself as the devil.
“If you’re asking ‘Who’s crazier — Willie or Paul?’ The answer is simple: Who the hell knows?” Merle Haggard once said.
That quote appears in the book. So does this one from Oklahoma music artist Roger Miller: “Martin and Lewis were a great comedy team — and they were good musicians — but they didn’t last. They fell out. Willie and Paul are probably a better comedy team and better musicians — and they have lasted, and hell will freeze over before they ever fall out.”
A 65-year friendship ended when English died Feb. 11, 2020.
Hubbard, born in Soper, Okla., fulfilled an English request when he performed at the celebration of life. They shared adventures, too. In Hubbard’s autobiography, he recalled an instance when English and Nelson’s road manager knocked on his door at 3 a.m. and “abducted” him for a Dallas-to-Milwaukee beer festival bus trip. They didn’t give Hubbard time to pack. English advised Hubbard he could borrow Nelson’s toothbrush.
The intent of the “Me and Paul” book was to bring English “back.”
“Why were Paul and I so devoted to each other?” Nelson wrote. “Good question. That’s another reason I wrote this book — to show the mystical connection between me and Paul. ... It was like I knew him before we ever met. And now that he’s gone, he’s still here. He still knows me. He still lives in my heart and in the hearts of everyone whose lives he touched.” | 2022-12-30T05:35:10+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/books/me-and-paul-willie-nelson-book-lays-bares-his-adventures-with-closest-friend/article_f2688ee2-8087-11ed-a7ab-7f2cefc91aba.html |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Two people have been reported dead in Erie County after over-exerting themselves during the winter storm.
In an afternoon press conference, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz reported that two men died after suffering from cardiac events associated with the storm.
Both men were shoveling snow or using a snow blower when their deaths occurred.
Poloncarz additionally stressed in the presser that the snow is "exceptionally heavy and wet." Poloncarz also reminded County residents to "shovel smart because cardiac events, like heart attacks, are always occurring in these situations."
Additionally, in events unrelated to the two deaths, there have been reports of a building collapse in the Town of Hamburg as well as other issues arising from the heavy wet snow.
Unfortunately, we must report the passing of two Erie County residents - associated with cardiac events related to exertion during shoveling/snow blowing. We send our deepest sympathies and remind all that this snow is very heavy and dangerous. #ThatIPASnowStorm
— Mark Poloncarz (@markpoloncarz) November 18, 2022
There has been a partial building collapse in Hamburg due to the weight of the heavy, wet snow. #ThatIPASnowStorm
— Mark Poloncarz (@markpoloncarz) November 18, 2022
Dr. Gale R. Burstein of the UB School for Pediatrics stressed the following tips for Erie County residents in the snow:
- Going out in the snow can be dangerous for those with high blood pressure and other cardiac issues as they can go into cardiac arrest. The combination of extra exertion and cold weather can be too much for someone's heart.
- Using generators can pose a carbon monoxide risk. If possible run a generator 20 feet away from your home, a door, window, or vent. Carbon monoxide is odorless and deadly. Signs of carbon monoxide poisoning include headache, fatigue, dizziness, and confusion.
- Dr. Burstein also recommends checking on your elderly neighbors, and older adults that can easily get cold.
- Dr. Burstein also recommended safe sleeping for babies, and keeping them warm and bundled up as the temperatures drop. | 2022-11-18T22:13:09+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/poloncarz-reports-two-deaths-related-to-storm-in-erie-county |
WASHINGTON – The naming of a Miami-area street for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to four the number of sitting Supreme Court justices similarly honored and makes possible a high court-focused road trip between Florida and New York.
Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the court, was on hand for the naming ceremony Monday in the community where she was raised.
“To have my name so prominently displayed on a street in a community that has given me so much, that is a very special honor,” Jackson said.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Street in Miami-Dade County runs for about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 kilometers), just west of Biscayne Bay.
To start the trip, head north on Interstate 95. In Georgia, the highway crosses Interstate 16, not far from Savannah. That’s the Justice Clarence Thomas interchange. Drive into town to check out the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Clarence Thomas Center for Historic Preservation.
Continue all the way to New Jersey to drive along Justice Samuel Alito Way, in Hamilton Township, east of Trenton.
In New York City, roughly 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) from Jackson Street sits the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses and Community Center, the Bronx housing development where the justice grew up.
Sotomayor, the senior justice on the liberal side of the court since Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement last year, also is the court’s leader as measured by places named in her honor. Public schools in California, New Jersey, South Dakota and Texas also bear her name.
No one has as many public honors as Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person on the Supreme Court. Among the places named for Marshall are the international airport between Baltimore and Washington and 35 public schools in 18 states and the nation’s capital.
One of those schools, in a Maryland suburb of Washington, previously had been named for Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the pre-Civil War Dred Scott decision, which held that Black people could not be American citizens.
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Last week, Jackson had two firsts in her eight months as a justice. She wrote her first majority opinion for the court and likely cast her first deciding vote breaking a 4-4 deadlock.
She was in the majority of a 5-4 decision, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, in favor of people who were fined for violating a federal law regulating foreign bank accounts.
Because seniority means so much on the Supreme Court, Jackson, as the junior justice, is the last to speak in the private conferences at which the justices tentatively vote on the outcome of cases they have just heard.
So in the normal course of the court’s business, Jackson's eight colleagues would have been split when it was her turn to speak and decide how the case would come out.
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Gorsuch may not leave a big tip if a restaurant charges him for frozen salmon when the menu promises fresh. But he's not going to make a federal case out of it.
That was the thrust of his comments last week in arguments over the reach of a federal law that adds a minimum of two years in prison to fraud crimes that also involve identity theft.
Justices were trying out an array of made-up situations involving the use of a credit card to assess when dishonesty could become something more serious, in a case in which the Justice Department was defending an expansive reading of the law.
"Wouldn't it be enough for the day to say that this reading of the statute was overbroad and that it cannot possibly mean that every time I order fresh salmon at a restaurant and get billed for — given frozen salmon and billed for fresh — that cannot be federal identity theft?" Gorsuch asked.
It's clear that the Colorado-born justice is no vegetarian. In 2017, Gorsuch invoked his method of steak preparation in seeking to poke holes in the case advanced by opponents of the overly partisan drawing of electoral districts.
“It reminds me a little bit of my steak rub. I like some turmeric, I like a few other little ingredients, but I’m not going to tell you how much of each,” Gorsuch said. He wound up being in the majority of a 5-4 decision that closed federal courts to complaints about partisan gerrymandering.
It turns out that Sotomayor, who sits next to Gorsuch on the bench, also has an appetite for the food hypothetical. “It’s like, if I ordered a tomahawk steak and they gave me a big sirloin steak, that would be a fraud, but my name isn’t used in that way, correct?” Sotomayor asked in the identity theft case.
The two justices also engaged in a, wait for it, rhetorical food fight in a most unlikely setting, a case over coronavirus relief funds for Alaska Natives that the court decided in 2021.
The case turned on whether a federal law should be read so as to count Alaska Native corporations as Indian tribes.
Writing for a six-justice majority, Sotomayor said yes, it should. And she likened the language in federal law to a restaurant ad offering half off "any meat, vegetable, or seafood dish, including ceviche, which is cooked.”
Ceviche is a popular Latin American dish often made from fresh raw fish cured in citrus juices and served cold.
Conjuring a customer who ordered ceviche, Sotomayor wrote: “Would she expect it to be cooked? No. Would she expect to pay full price for it? Again, no.”
But the outcome would be different under Gorsuch's test, resulting in no discount for ceviche because it is not cooked, she wrote.
“That conclusion would make no sense to a reasonable customer,” Sotomayor wrote, labelling the ceviche a “red herring.”
In his dissenting opinion, Gorsuch rejected Sotomayor's criticism that his reading of the law was implausible. In a footnote, he called Sotomayor's example both colorful and "a bit underdone.”
There are other plausible ways to understand the ad, he wrote, including that the restaurant might “lightly poach” the seafood before using it in ceviche. Or, citing cookbook author Mark Bittman, Gorsuch wrote, "Maybe the restaurant meant to speak of ceviche as ‘cooked’ in the sense of ‘fish ... cooked by marinating it in an acidic dressing' like lime juice.'"
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When arguments at the court ended March 1 in a legal tussle between New York and New Jersey, Marshal Gail Curely announced an unusual time for the court's next meeting: Friday March 17 at 3 p.m.
The justices and the lawyers who make up the Supreme Court bar will be holding a memorial service, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in 2020.
The gathering is being held two days after what would have been Ginsburg's 90th birthday.
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Family of slain Lyft driver raises enough money to send his body home to Honduras
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - The family of a Louisiana Lyft Driver who was reportedly killed by his passenger is thanking their community for raising enough money to send their loved one’s body home to Honduras.
New Orleans authorities said 32-year-old Marvin Enrique Bardales Valle was shot and killed just after 2 a.m. on March 8 near an apartment complex.
Valle was working for Lyft at the time. Police said his passenger, 19-year-old Tarius Tully, fatally shot him.
Police arrested Tully on March 14 with the help of data investigators obtained through the ride-sharing app. Tully faces a second-degree murder charge.
Valle’s cousin, Isaac Bardales Lopes, launched a GoFundMe to give Valle a proper burial in his home country of Honduras.
The fundraiser has raised over $11,000 as of Monday, surpassing its original goal of $7,500.
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Federal appeals court hears case of hidden murals
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Associated Press (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York is considering whether the Vermont Law and Graduate School modified a pair of large murals when it concealed them behind a wall of panels nearly 30 years later against the artist’s wishes. The school said some in the school community found the murals entitled “Vermont, The Underground Railroad” and “Vermont and the Fugitive Slave” to be racially offensive. Artist Sam Kerson sued the school in federal court in Vermont and lost. He appealed, and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard his case on Friday. | 2023-01-27T22:05:09+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/01/27/federal-appeals-court-hears-case-of-hidden-murals/ |
MONTECITO, Calif., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosewood Miramar Beach was recently notified of a data security issue that involves SevenRooms, a third-party reservation platform used by the hotel's restaurants and bars. The incident occurred on the systems of a SevenRooms vendor and did not affect the hotel's own systems.
SevenRooms notified Rosewood Miramar Beach that, on December 11, 2022, an unauthorized party accessed certain information about reservations made at the hotel's restaurants and bars. The issue affected reservations that were made on or around July 25, 2020 using the SevenRooms platform, as well as prior reservation information transferred to SevenRooms from a previously used platform. The affected guests' personal information includes names, telephone numbers, email addresses and other information provided in reservation requests such as allergies and other health-related dining information. The relevant information varied for each affected guest. SevenRooms has informed the hotel that the issue did not affect payment card information.
Rosewood Miramar Beach was notified of the matter on December 18, 2022. As this incident involves systems used by SevenRooms, the hotel has been working with SevenRooms to address the issue and determine the facts. Rosewood Miramar Beach understands that SevenRooms took steps to secure the relevant systems, engaged an outside data security expert to conduct an investigation, and informed law enforcement of the issue.
Rosewood Miramar Beach regrets that this issue involving SevenRooms may affect certain guests of the hotel's restaurants and bar. The hotel recommends guests remain cautious of any unsolicited communications that ask for their personal information or refer them to a webpage asking for personal information, and avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails. Additional recommendations for affected guests are available at https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/miramar-beach-montecito. Guests with questions can call Rosewood toll-free at (800) 865-6375.
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2 men electrocuted while trying to steal from power substation, police say
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (Gray News) – Two men were electrocuted when they attempted to steal from a power substation in Georgia, according to police.
The Gainesville Police Department said emergency crews were called to a transformer fire at a power substation around 3 a.m. Monday.
When they arrived, first responders found two men dead from an apparent electrocution.
Investigators determined that the two men trespassed, broke into a fenced area, and tried to steal from the power substation when they were electrocuted and died.
The Gainesville Fire Department and Georgia Power worked to ensure the area was safe for first responders to recover the bodies.
Investigators are still working to identify the men.
Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to call the Gainesville Police Department at 770-534-5251.
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How to Watch the Middle Tennessee vs. Western Kentucky Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the C-USA Tournament Championship
Published: Mar. 11, 2023 at 11:13 AM CST|Updated: 49 minutes ago
The No. 1 seed Middle Tennessee Lady Raiders (27-4) will aim to claim C-USA championship along with a guaranteed spot in the NCAA Tournament bracket when they play the No. 2 Western Kentucky Lady Toppers (19-12) on Saturday at 5:30 PM.
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Middle Tennessee vs. Western Kentucky Scoring Comparison
- The Lady Toppers' 70 points per game are 13.8 more points than the 56.2 the Lady Raiders give up.
- Western Kentucky is 16-10 when it scores more than 56.2 points.
- Middle Tennessee is 22-2 when it allows fewer than 70 points.
- The Lady Raiders put up 73.6 points per game, 5.3 more points than the 68.3 the Lady Toppers allow.
- Middle Tennessee has a 17-1 record when scoring more than 68.3 points.
- Western Kentucky has a 15-5 record when allowing fewer than 73.6 points.
- The Lady Raiders are making 41.3% of their shots from the field, 14.1% lower than the Lady Toppers concede to opponents (55.4%).
- The Lady Toppers' 47.5 shooting percentage from the field is 11.6 higher than the Lady Raiders have conceded.
Middle Tennessee Schedule
Western Kentucky Schedule
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Matt Ryan can finally put the Falcons behind him.
Whether it was seeing his name on the back of a No. 2 Colts jersey hanging in his locker, or completing his first attempt — a 6-yarder to tight end Kylen Granson — the 37-year-old quarterback feels as if his transition to Indianapolis is complete.
“I’m part of this team and there’s 30, 40 other guys that it was their first time playing with the Colts today,” Ryan said following a 27-24 preseason-opening loss to the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. “We all got it under under our belt for the first time. And I think all of us, that entire group of new guys here is going to feel a lot better heading into next week.”
The Colts can begin feeling more comfortable following Ryan’s debut, which reflected many of his pass attempts: relatively short and efficient.
With Von Miller and the rest of the Bills starting defense sitting out, Ryan finished 6 of 10 for 58 yards, with two of his incompletions coming on fourth down. More importantly, the 15-year veteran didn’t commit a turnover while showing a nimbleness in the pocket by avoiding a defender to hit Michael Pittman in stride on a crossing route for a 17-yard completion.
“I thought he looked poised in the pocket. I thought he looked accurate. I thought every throw was pretty much right where it needed to be,” coach Frank Reich said. “I expected to see him do that, and he certainly delivered.”
Tyler Bass made a 46-yard field goal as time expired as Buffalo scored on three consecutive possessions in the final 8:10 to rally from a 14-point deficit. Matt Barkley oversaw the comeback in finishing 18 of 24 for 224 yards, with Raheem Blackshear rushing for touchdowns of 1 and 3 yards over a span of 4:19 to tie the game.
Buffalo won its ninth straight preseason outing, which ranks as the NFL’s second-longest active streak behind the Baltimore Ravens who have won a league-record 21 in a row.
Coach Sean McDermott took the good — the come-from-behind win — with the bad in an outing Buffalo committed five turnovers, including four in the first half.
“It was good to see us come together a little bit as a team and play better complementary football in the second half,” McDermott said. “Obviously, the turnovers and penalties in the first half can’t happen.”
With Buffalo also resting Josh Allen and its starting offense, the struggles fell on backup Case Keenum, who threw two interceptions and lost a fumble.
Keenum’s performance was a disappointment for a player the Bills are counting on to be Allen’s backup after acquiring the 10-year veteran in a trade with Cleveland. He finished 11 of 18 for 86 yards with his second interception coming one play after Bills safety Jaquan Johnson picked off Foles to give Buffalo the ball at the Colts 15.
“To go out and do that, that was uncharacteristic of me. I take full responsibility for all of those,” Keenum said. “Any time we don’t score a touchdown when we have the ball in our hands, it makes me mad. So there’s a lot of stuff I need to get better at.
Under Keenum, the Bills managed just 119 net yards offense and five first downs in the first half, with Buffalo’s only score coming on rookie linebacker Terrel Bernard returning Nick Foles’ fumble 69 yards for a touchdown.
Foles, who also threw an interception, finished 7 of 11 for 72 yards, including a 15-yard touchdown pass to an uncovered running back Ty’Son Williams.
Sam Ehlinger, the Colts’ sixth-round pick out of Texas last year, finished 10 of 11 for 88 yards with touchdown passes to tight ends Jelani Woods and Michael Jacobson.
Ryan is set to become the Colts’ fourth different opening day starter in as many years since Andrew Luck retired. He takes over after Indianapolis parted ways with Carson Wentz, who took the blame for the Colts squandering their playoff chances by losing their final two games, including a 26-11 season-ending dud at Jacksonville.
Reich provided Ryan the preseason start in part to provide the starter an extra chance to ramp up for the season-opener at Houston on Sept. 11. Reich is also mindful of how the Colts got off to a slow start in opening last season 1-4 under Wentz.
ROOKIE VS ROOKIE
Bills first-round draft pick, CB Kaiir Elam, got the better of Colts second-round draft pick, WR Alec Pierce, in forcing Indianapolis to go three-and-out on its opening possession. Elam stayed tight to Pierce on a slant route and got his hand on Ryan’s attempt on third-and-3 at the Colts 12.
INJURIES
Colts: CB Isaiah Rodgers who had an interception and recovered a fumble, did not return after sustaining a head injury in the first half. … WR Keke Coutee did not return due to a groin injury.
Bills: Elam returned after being evaluated for a head injury late in the second quarter.
UP NEXT
Colts: Host the Detroit Lions on Aug. 20.
Bills: Host the Denver Broncos on Aug. 20.
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Ralph Mantica, broker/owner of Kinzeler Realty at 2404 Far Hills Ave. in Oakwood, has been named president of the Ohio Realtors organization.
Mantica, of Kettering, was among three officers recently announced for new positions with the statewide real estate organization.
Others included President-elect Ali Whitley with RE/MAX Crossroads in Akron and Treasurer Michelle Billings, a Coldwell Banker real estate agent in Cincinnati, according to Ohio Realtors. Mantica served as the group’s treasurer the past year.
A University of Dayton graduate, Mantica has been a member of the Ohio Realtors Board of Directors since 2006, was named state Realtor of the year in 2018 and previously served as a National Association of Realtors director, officials said.
He has served as a member and in leadership on a variety of Dayton Area Board of Realtors committees and task forces, including as its president in 2015, three years before he was named the local group’s Realtor of the year, according to the Ohio board.
Mantica is a 2016 graduate of the Ohio Realtors Leadership Academy and has served as District 5 vice president, according to the state organization.
Mantica is a member and parish council member of St. Albert the Great in Kettering and a member of the Alter High School’s Knights of Gold, a football alumni association.
About the Author | 2022-09-22T21:08:03+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/just-in-kettering-man-with-oakwood-business-named-ohio-realtors-president/E377P45D4RA2ND5ACJ6BQMO56U/ |
Bond has been set for "Tiger King" star Bhagavan "Doc" Antle on charges he laundered more than half a million dollars.
A federal judge in South Carolina on Monday set a $250,000 secured bond for Antle. Prosecutors said he would be released Tuesday and required to stay at his wildlife park near Myrtle Beach. Federal authorities say Antle and one of his employees laundered $505,000 over a four-month period by doling out checks from businesses they controlled.
They each face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Antle also faces more than a dozen charges in Virginia including animal cruelty and wildlife trafficking.
Prosecutors had argued in court filings that Antle should remain in custody prior to his trial because he is a flight risk, noting his “significant financial resources” and “contacts that know how to make false identification documents.” | 2022-06-28T04:41:16+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/tiger-king-star-doc-antle-set-to-be-released-on-bond |
Tea lights are small versatile candles that can be used on their own or placed inside a candle holder. Perfect as table centerpieces or mantle accents, these inexpensive candles will set the tone for a party or a romantic night in.
The burn time varies with regular tea light candles, but each one should burn for at least a few hours, with the best tea lights lasting as long as eight. If you’re sensitive to fragrance or are using them during a dinner party, look for unscented candles.
Have you ever wondered why they’re called tea lights? They were originally designed to keep tea warm during a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. The candles produce about 30 watts of heat, which warmed up a cup of tea well. Today, you see tea lights not only as decorations but they’re also built into some food warmers and chafing dishes. Some modern teapot warmers also continue to use them as a heat source.
Create a glowing ambiance in nearly any room with these little votives. Here are five ways to decorate with them.
Floating Tea Lights
For a sophisticated display, fill a decorative glass bowl with water and add tea lights, which naturally float. Include a few flower blossoms or pedals for an extra romantic touch.
Additionally, you can create a tiered effect by inserting the lights into varying transparent bowls and vases filled with water. A few drops of food coloring will add an aesthetically pleasing effect.
Cluster To Brighten An Area
To instantly add a pop of warm light, arrange several tea lights to a ceramic or metal tray. This will brighten up an underutilized area.
Line The Windowsill Or Stairs
Place the tea lights in multiple votive holders or vases and scatter them along a windowsill. This looks great both inside and outside the house. Or line the edges of the stairs to create an inviting and welcoming atmosphere.
Create A Table Runner
Place tea lights along the center of the table in a straight line in one or multiple rows to create a table runner. You can also place them in-between tablescape items, such as near flowers or larger candles, for a softer effect.
Illuminate Lanterns
Light candles inside the lanterns and place them on the ground when entertaining outside. Inside, lanterns look great on dining tables or side tables.
Finding The Best Tea Lights
Tea lights are typically sold in bulk with either clear plastic or tin cup borders. Look for varieties made with paraffin wax. The little candles can be helpful to have on hand if the power goes out.
If you’re in the market for a set of small candles, check out our selection of the best tea lights that’s been vetted by a team of experts.
As with any open flame, tea lights can be dangerous if left unattended. If you’re using them outside or near an open window, a strong wind could trigger a fire. For safety purposes, some people prefer flameless candles, so they can leave them unattended without worry or concern. Just look for tea lights with realistic flames, as they do vary.
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2023-03-16T14:39:05+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/try-these-elegant-ways-to-decorate-with-tea-lights |
Time has generated a different perspective about New York. An appreciation. A regret. Maybe even a yearning for a reunion in free agency.
“I miss this place a lot,” Kristaps Porzingis said.
For three special seasons, Porzingis was the next megastar in the media’s capital. The Latvian had the city at his feet, looking up at 7 feet and three inches to his blonde crewcut. Porzingis had the recipe — the personality, the innocence, the spectacular dunks and rejections, the nickname “Unicorn,” the sense that his capabilities are beyond the scope of what we’ve previously witnessed.
But then Porzingis became the enemy within the same Madison Square Garden walls that made him a superhero, and his star faded quickly amid injuries and an underwhelming stint with the Mavericks.
“I went to Dallas, it didn’t work out the way I envisioned in Dallas, so that was a bit of a tough moment for me after New York,” Porzingis said. “New York obviously set the standard so high. Playing here, getting so much support from the fans, and so much love from the fans.
“It was insane, now when I think about it. When I’m older.”
Porzingis wants to mend fences. Re-establish a positive connection with the fanbase that provided the greatest thrills of his NBA career. Nobody enjoys being hated.
Fast approaching the four-year anniversary of the messy divorce, Porzingis wants to come clean — acknowledge his faults and vulnerability during a chaotic time with the Knicks. He was a 23-year-old blindly listening to advisers, adopting a slash and burn approach like skipping his exit meeting when dialogue was probably the better tact.
Then Porzingis was told to stay silent about his grievances, and he foolishly posted on Instagram, “The truth will come out.” There was no follow up.
“I did some dumb cryptic tweets and stuff. What was I. …the whole process was just a mess,” Porzingis said. “I didn’t like the way it ended. That wasn’t how I wanted it to end, if it did end. I tried to stay myself the whole time. Not do anything. Not say anything. If I did say anything, it would’ve been right after I was traded. Now it’s too late.”
Of course, the Knicks were far from blameless. Beyond the losing — beyond the dysfunction fueled by Phil Jackson’s Cold War with Carmelo Anthony — Porzingis was handed four coaches in his four years with the Knicks.
They were the NBA’s worst team, a full-fledged embarrassment under David Fizdale, when Porzingis didn’t play in 2018. And after the trade, the Knicks launched a PR smear campaign to paint Porzingis and his brother as hostile dissidents worthy of admonishment.
It was highly effective.
Porzingis endured screeching vitriol from Knicks fans during his first game as an opponent in 2019, the most vociferous targeted crowd attack on a single player in my days covering the franchise. The reactions to Trae Young were tame in comparison. Porzingis’ villain status persisted through the pandemic, but the volume noticeably decreased with each appearance at MSG.
Although he was booed during Wednesday’s game — when Porzingis put up 22 points in the Wizards victory — he recognized more support. There were kids wearing his old No. 6 Knicks jersey, asking Porzingis to come back to New York.
From five days earlier, when the Knicks played in Washington, a video emerged of a fan shouting at Porzingis to sign with the Knicks. Truth is, Porzingis didn’t hear the request. But his smile made it seem like Porzingis was at least intrigued.
“Now I think fans are easing up on me and realizing it was what it was in that moment. I was young. I was traded. Of course, I was hurt,” Porzingis said. “That’s why I put some dumb tweets out there. I think people are starting to forgive me now and we’re moving past that.”
That’s good for everybody involved. Knicks fans, Porzingis, the organization that has refused to acknowledge he once wore the uniform. Even now, with Julius Randle and Jalen Brunson making All-Star cases, no player since Porzingis has generated the same collective enthusiasm and adulation. It feels like the fans are waiting for the bottom to fall out with Randle, whereas they were anticipating the boundless heights with Porzingis.
In less than six months, Porzingis, 27, who switched representation in the offseason to power agent Jeff Schwartz, will contemplate his $36 million player option. If he makes the smart financial decision and rejects it for unrestricted free agency, what about a Knicks reunion? Should the Knicks target a rim-protecting 3-point specialist if he becomes available via trade? These were unthinkable questions not too long ago, but sometimes the grass isn’t always greener.
() | 2023-01-19T17:52:52+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/19/a-kristaps-porzingis-knicks-reunion-contemplating-the-once-unthinkable/ |
A former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired from the sport to become a New York City area police officer was killed in a wrong-way crash Sunday, authorities said.
Anthony Varvaro, 37, was on his way to an assignment at Manhattan's World Trade Center 9/11 ceremony when the crash happened, the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.
Varvaro, who was an officer at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department for about six years, previously played for the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners.
"The entire Port Authority family is heartbroken to learn of the tragic passing of Officer Anthony Varvaro" the Port Authority said in a statement to CNN affiliate WABC. "Officer Varvaro represented the very best of this agency and will be remembered for his courage and commitment to service."
"On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center -- including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department -- our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro," the statement said.
Varvaro leaves behind a wife and four children, according to the statement.
Varvaro played baseball in college at New York's St. John's University before his MLB career. The Staten Island native posted a career 3.23 Earned Run Average, according to a tribute posted online by the University.
"His baseball exploits speak for themselves, one of the best pitchers in St. John's history," longtime St. John's Baseball Head Coach Ed Blankmeyer said in the tribute. "He was a quiet leader, fierce competitor and great teammate. He had an arm like a firebolt, but a heart of gold. However, Anthony was much more than an athlete. He was a man of service, a tremendous father and family man."
Several of Varvaro's former teammates and teams, as well as law enforcement agencies and elected officials, took to social media to mourn his passing.
"Pour one out today for my former teammate Anthony Varvaro," former Boston Red Sox Pitcher Pat Light said on Twitter. "One of my favorite teammates. RIP my friend."
"Heartbroken by the tragic passing of Port Authority Police Officer Anthony Varvaro," New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy tweeted. "Officer Varvaro was an invaluable leader at the PA as an Academy Instructor."
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Virtu Financial, Inc., (NASDAQ: VIRT) between March 1, 2019 and April 28, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important July 18, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Virtu securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Virtu class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16420 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 18, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Virtu maintained deficient policies and procedures with respect to its information access barriers; (2) accordingly, Virtu had overstated the Company's operational and technological efficacy as well as its capacity to block the exchange of confidential information between departments or individuals within the Company; (3) the foregoing deficiencies increased the likelihood that Virtu would be subject to enhanced regulatory scrutiny; and (4) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nipsey Hussle was a hip-hop star who sought to raise up his neighborhood with him until a friend from the same streets gunned him down, a prosecutor said in his closing argument Thursday.
“This man was different,” Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John McKinney told jurors, seeking to humanize Hussle after two weeks of testimony that dwelled on the technical details surrounding the 2019 shooting. “He wanted to change the neighborhood. He kept the same friends. And the neighborhood loved him. They called him Neighborhood Nip.”
McKinney’s presentation came at the trial of Eric R. Holder Jr., who is charged with the first-degree murder of the 33-year-old Hussle, whose legal name was Ermias Asghedom.
Holder’s attorney Aaron Jansen acknowledged, as he has throughout the trial, that Holder shot and killed Hussle. But he argued to jurors during his own closing that they should find his client guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter because he was acting in the “heat of passion” after a conversation in which Hussle told him there were rumors of his informing to authorities.
“That heat of passion consisted of being called publicly a snitch by someone as famous as Nipsey Hussle,” Jansen said, later adding, “This is a provocation that stirs up rage and powerful emotion.”
Hussle and Holder were both rappers, one successful, one unsuccessful, who grew up as members of the same South Los Angeles gang, the Rollin’ 60s, the prosecutor McKinney said.
He showed the jurors a photo, taken moments before the shooting, of Hussle crouching down with a toddler wearing a shirt that read “Crenshaw,” bought from Hussle’s South LA clothing store, The Marathon, that they were standing outside of.
“He was no longer a gangbanger. He was a world-known recording artist and so much more,” the prosecutor said. “It really is a shame that his life was so brutally and coldly taken, on his own property, in his own neighborhood, by someone from his own gang. By somebody that he considered a friend.”
Jansen painted a similar picture of Holder, saying he had grown beyond his young gang life and moved miles away.
“By 2019 he had completely put the Rollin’ 60s in his rearview mirror,” Jansen said. “He was just living his life in Long Beach.”
Holder had not been to the neighborhood where he grew up in years, and only stopped at Hussle’s shopping center with a friend because he had a craving for food from a favorite fast-food place there. Jansen said he then found himself blindsided.
“This was a serious accusation that someone of Nipsey Hussle’s stature was making against little Eric Holder Jr., who had just come into the neighborhood to get his chili-cheese fries,” Jansen said.
He said it gave Holder reason to fear for his life and safety.
“What if he calls you a snitch in a song, and names you?” Jansen said.
McKinney downplayed this apparent motive, calling it a calm conversation that was “in the nature of advice,” and saying no one who observed it thought there was any real hostility or imminent danger.
“I submit to you that the motive for killing Nipsey Hussle had little or nothing to do with the conversation they had,” McKinney said. “There was already a preexisting jealousy or envy.”
There had been no testimony to this effect during the trial, and the defense objected. The judge let the statement stand, but reminded jurors to focus on the actual evidence from the trial.
McKinney used the extensive surveillance and police body-camera images surrounding the shooting to take the jurors through a minute-by-minute narrative of the day.
He repeatedly showed the video, taken by a camera across a parking lot, of the moment Holder appeared with guns and Hussle collapsed to the ground.
Holder was gone for about 10 minutes before returning and firing. McKinney told jurors that it was plenty of time for premeditation as defined by the law.
“He thought about it and he did it,” McKinney said. “That’s all premeditated means. It doesn’t mean he planned it for weeks.”
Jansen countered that it was “a short period of time for such a serious, life threatening provocation.”
“Clearly, emotions did not have time to clear in that short an amount of time,” the defense attorney said. “There was no cooling off period. There was no time to reflect.”
He even said the fact that Holder kicked Hussle in the head while he was on the ground is evidence that the lesser charge is more apt.
“That shows rage,” Jansen said. “That shows heat of passion.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are dominating the fight for campaign cash in the Republican presidential contest, according to federal filings made public Saturday. While some struggled, like former Vice President Mike Pence, others reported significant hauls that help ensure the GOP’s 2024 primary will be crowded for the foreseeable future.
On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has quickly amassed a sizeable fortune. But longshot Democratic primary opponent Robert Kennedy Jr. also raised enough to ensure he won’t be ignored.
Overall, the 2024 presidential class’s second-quarter filings with the Federal Election Commission, covering the period between April 1 and June 30, leave unanswered several questions. For example, the total numbers of individual donors for each campaign, a figure tied directly to GOP debate participation, won’t be known until the end of the month.
And each candidate’s allied super PACs, which in some cases account for the majority of their campaign’s cash, won’t file latest figures until the end of the month.
Still, the federal reports offer several insights six months before the first primary votes are cast. Here are some key takeaways:
TRUMP AND DESANTIS IN A TIER OF THEIR OWN
While Trump is leading most polls, he and DeSantis are in a tier of their own on the fundraising front.
Trump’s team recently confirmed that his joint fundraising operation — which splits money between Trump’s campaign and the Save America PAC — received $35 million in the second quarter. His campaign paid a little more than $153,000 for legal fees.
Overall, Trump’s campaign reported more than $22.5 million in the bank as of June 30. The average donation to the former president’s campaign now stands at $34, evidence, the campaign said, of his grassroots backing.
Meanwhile, DeSantis raised more than $20 million for the first six weeks he was in the race. While a massive sum, the Florida governor also burned through nearly $8 million over the same period, leaving his campaign with $12.2 million at the end of June. DeSantis’ report also shows a significant reliance on high-dollar donors who won’t be able to give any more money to his campaign.
Despite the potential warning signs, DeSantis’ allied super PAC, which is legally barred from coordinating with the campaign, said it raised a stunning $130 million since the committee launched in March. More than half of that came from a state-level political committee once controlled by DeSantis.
Regardless of where it came from, DeSantis’ fundraising will buy him some time to strengthen his candidacy as he struggles to catch Trump in the polls.
DEBATE IMPLICATIONS
The fundraising numbers carry additional significance because they are tied directly to the GOP’s first presidential debate next month.
Beyond a 1% polling threshold, the Republican National Committee has announced that candidates must have a minimum of 40,000 unique donors with at least 200 unique donors per state or territory, in 20 states and territories.
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy announced in recent days they had reached the 40,000 donor threshold. Pence has yet to make such an announcement.
Saturday’s federal filings do not provide a complete accounting of such figures, which won’t be available until the end of the month.
Overall, Haley’s campaign raised $7.3 million in the second quarter and ended June with $9.3 million in the bank. That’s as the main pro-Haley super PAC claimed $17 million cash on hand.
Scott raised nearly $6 million since announcing his campaign in May and finished the quarter with more than $21 million on hand, thanks to a big transfer from his Senate account. And Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old entrepreneur, raised more than $7.7 million in the quarter, including lending his campaign $5 million from his own personal fortune. He finished the quarter with more than $9 million on hand.
Christie, in the race for just 25 days of the second quarter, raised $1.65 million through his campaign and reported nearly $1.6 million in the bank as of June 30.
PENCE IN TROUBLE?
Pence raised less than $1.2 million and finished the quarter with nearly $1.1 million in the bank, according to his federal filing.
He still may ultimately hit the 40,000-donor threshold to qualify for the opening debate, but the extraordinary possibility remains that the former vice president might find himself excluded from the Aug. 23 primetime affair.
Pence has struggled to find his footing since launching his campaign in early June.
A lifelong conservative and staunch Trump loyalist while in office, Pence has been vilified by the GOP base for refusing to block the certification of Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021, as Trump insisted. The former vice president had no legal standing to block the election results despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, which sparked a violent uprising at the U.S. Capitol at which radicalized Trump supporters chanted for Pence to be hanged.
Others appears to be struggling to attract donations as well.
Former Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson announced a fundraising total of more than $743,000 including his principal campaign and his joint fundraising committee. On Friday, he said that he received contributions from 3,928 unique donors from April to June. And since July 1, he claimed contributions from another 2,516 unique donors.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, the only Hispanic candidate in the Republican primary, raised $945,000 since launching his campaign two weeks before the end of the quarter. California conservative Larry Elder raised just $467,000.
BIDEN STRONG, BUT NOT ALONE
Biden and the Democratic National Committee have raised more than $72 million for his reelection in the 10 weeks since he announced his 2024 candidacy.
The president’s fundraising total includes donations to his campaign and to a network of joint fundraising arrangements with the national and state parties. While that’s a huge sum, President Barack Obama raised $85.6 million during the April-to-June quarter in 2011 when he launched his campaign for a second term, although he announced his candidacy three weeks earlier.
The Biden campaign said the total came from nearly 400,000 donors, and that 97% of donations were under $200 and more than 30% of donors had not given to Biden in 2020.
Biden is especially well positioned, at least compared with Republicans, because he can devote his money toward the general election. The incumbent president faces only token opposition in the Democratic Party’s nomination contest, although one of his opponents, Kennedy, has raised enough money to ensure he won’t be ignored completely.
Kennedy’s campaign raised nearly 6.4 million for the quarter and had $4.5 million in the bank as of June 30. A pro-Kennedy super PAC, meanwhile, said it has raised more than $10 million so far.
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Associated Press writers Chad Day and Brian Slodysko in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-07-16T13:18:38+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/political-news/ap-politics/ap-fundraising-takeaways-trump-and-desantis-in-their-own-tier-as-pence-and-other-republicans-struggle/ |
Vancouver Whitecaps FC (8-10-6, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. LA Galaxy (9-11-3, ninth in the Western Conference)
Carson, California; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Los Angeles -169, Vancouver +420, Draw +310; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Chicharito leads the LA Galaxy into a matchup with the Vancouver Whitecaps after scoring two goals against Sporting Kansas City.
The Galaxy are 5-10-2 against conference opponents. The Galaxy have a 3-0-0 record in games they score three or more goals.
The Whitecaps are 7-6-3 against Western Conference teams. The Whitecaps have a 7-4 record in one-goal games.
Saturday's game is the first time these teams square off this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Dejan Joveljic has scored nine goals and added two assists for the Galaxy. Efrain Alvarez has one goal and three assists over the past 10 games.
Lucas Cavallini has scored eight goals and added one assist for the Whitecaps. Ryan Gauld has one goal and two assists over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Galaxy: 3-6-1, averaging 1.9 goals, 5.6 shots on goal and 6.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game.
Whitecaps: 3-3-4, averaging 1.1 goals, 3.7 shots on goal and 4.9 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.5 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Galaxy: Daniel Aguirre (injured), Jorge Villafana (injured), Victor Vazquez (injured).
Whitecaps: Sebastian Berhalter (injured), Deiber Caicedo (injured), Luis Martins (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-08-12T06:44:17+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Chicharito-and-the-LA-Galaxy-host-the-Vancouver-17368765.php |
Celtics vs. Heat Injury Report Today - May 17
The Boston Celtics (57-25) are dealing with zero players on the injury report as they prepare for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat (44-38) at TD Garden on Wednesday, May 17 at 8:30 PM ET.
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The Celtics are coming off of a 112-88 victory over the 76ers in their most recent game on Sunday. Jayson Tatum scored a team-leading 51 points for the Celtics in the win.
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The Heat's most recent contest on Friday ended in a 96-92 win over the Knicks. Jimmy Butler scored 24 points in the Heat's victory, leading the team.
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- When: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 8:30 PM ET
- Where: TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
- TV: TNT
Celtics Season Insights
- The 117.9 points per game the Celtics average are 8.1 more points than the Heat give up (109.8).
- Boston is 49-12 when scoring more than 109.8 points.
- The Celtics have been putting up 114.9 points per game in their last 10 times on the court, an average that's a little lower than the 117.9 they've scored over the course of the 2022-23 season.
- Boston hits 16 three-pointers per game (second-most in the league), 4.4 more than its opponents (11.6).
- The Celtics' 115.7 points per 100 possessions on offense rank third in the NBA, and the 108.8 points they allow per 100 possessions rank third in the league.
Heat Season Insights
- The Heat's 109.5 points per game are only 1.9 fewer points than the 111.4 the Celtics allow to opponents.
- Miami is 26-8 when it scores more than 111.4 points.
- While the Heat are scoring 109.5 points per game in 2022-23, they have bettered that mark over their last 10 games, tallying 111.6 a contest.
- Miami hits 12 three-pointers per game (16th in the league) while shooting 34.4% from beyond the arc (27th in NBA). It is making 1.1 fewer threes than its opponents, who drain 13.1 per game at 36.7%.
- The Heat rank 25th in the league averaging 110.4 points per 100 possessions on offense, and defensively are ninth, allowing 110.6 points per 100 possessions.
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Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta declined to discuss linebacker Patrick Queen’s fifth-year option during the NFL last week, but by Monday the team had made up its mind.
Baltimore is declining Queen’s option, his agent confirmed to The Baltimore Sun, meaning that the 23-year-old will be a free agent after this season.
The Ravens had until Tuesday to make a decision on the option, which would have cost $12.77 million.
With $100 million already tied up in fellow linebacker Roquan Smith, who will carry a $9 million cap hit this year, $13.5 million in 2024, $22.5 million in 2025 and $27.5 million in 2026 and 2027, that would have tied up a lot of money for two linebackers.
“Patrick is, in my mind, one of the better [inside] linebackers in the league,” DeCosta said Friday. “He’s smart, he works his butt off, he has a bright future. I think he’s a Pro Bowl linebacker in the making.”
It just won’t be with the Ravens beyond this season.
The decision was not a surprise, particularly after the Ravens drafted Clemson inside linebacker Trenton Simpson in the third round of the NFL draft on Saturday. He is a similar player to Queen, and now it appears he’ll be his eventual replacement.
“In Trenton, we get a guy that was honestly the very best player available at the time,” DeCosta said. “That’s our philosophy; that’s how we build our team. The fact that he’s an outstanding special teams player factored in because that transcends positional defensive football. That guy’s going to be on the field for us helping us win games, and that’s a huge thing for us. We love his mentality, we love his background, his family and it was an easy pick for us to make.”
Still, eventually losing Queen could be a blow. Over the past three seasons, he has steadily improved, with his Pro Football Focus grade going from 29.7 his rookie year in 2020, to 43.5 in 2021, to 70 last season after a career-best 117 tackles.
But Queen lost his inside linebacker spot in 2021 and was moved to the weak side, and he played about five defensive snaps per game fewer than he did as a rookie. Last season, however, he formed a dangerous duo alongside Smith after the latter arrived in Baltimore after a midseason trade.
This story will be updated.
() | 2023-05-01T18:28:41+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/01/ravens-decline-linebacker-patrick-queens-fifth-year-option-making-him-a-free-agent-after-2023-season/ |
by: Alex Sims Posted: Sep 2, 2022 / 06:01 PM EDT Updated: Sep 2, 2022 / 06:05 PM EDT SHARE SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WYSR-TV) – The Liverpool boys basketball team beat Henninger in the high school tournament at the New York State Fair 53-45. Andreo Ash led the way for the Warriors with 16 points. Jah’Deuir Reese added 11. | 2022-09-02T23:57:44+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/sports/local-sports/liverpool-boys-win-basketball-tournament-at-the-new-york-state-fair/ |
Illinois elections are a sham
There is an election coming up. We are encouraged from all sides to vote, to participate as a citizen should in a democracy.
But what’s the point? An “election” in Illinois is nothing but a cosmetic scam, a slap in the face of reason, a useless exercise in futility.
The illustrious Gov. Blimpzker and his merry band of Democratic “representatives,” led by the most successful Illinois criminal since Al Capone, the indicted former House Speaker Michael Madigan, have gerrymandered Illinois shut, so as to be Democratic forever.
Democrats, stay home. Don’t waste your time. Your vote isn’t needed. The fix is in, and your choice is guaranteed to slide in safely. Republicans, stay home. Don’t waste your time. Your vote is an irrelevant gesture with no chance of electing any non-Democrat candidate.
Multiple attempts at a fair drawing of legislative districts have battered themselves against the shoals of Madigan-bought-and-paid-for judges who find legalese somewhere on the head of a legal pin to counteract the will of the people.
Term limits? Same deal.
The boys in Springfield have things so sewed up that lots of them “run” uncontested.
Nobody wastes time running against them because of the futility of trying to swim against the gerrymandered tide and old-boy network. Were Republicans in power, they’d do the same thing if they could get away with it.
Nothing will change in our sinking-into-oblivion state until we have fair redistricting and term limits. Why kid yourself that an “election” in Illinois is anything but a sham?”
DAN METZ
Champaign | 2023-07-23T15:10:51+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-illinois-elections-are-a-sham/article_3a03bbf9-9282-59a2-be49-10cc1658e475.html |
LOS ANGELES – Pete Alonso was in the visitors' clubhouse at Truist Park last week when an attendant made a puzzling request: Would the New York Mets slugger take a call from Atlanta Braves skipper Brian Snitker?
“Why is the opposing manager calling me?” Alonso recalled thinking.
He quickly found out. Snitker was preparing to manage the National League All-Star squad and had an important question, based on a first-time, fan-friendly rule change.
If the score was even after nine innings in the All-Star Game on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium, Snitker asked, would Alonso participate in the new tiebreaking Home Run Derby that would decide the winning team?
“I’ll be your guy,” Alonso recalled telling him. “I think it’s fun. I think it’s going to be a great event if that does happen.”
Alonso wasn't aware of the novel format, in which three players from each league would take three swings apiece to decide the final result. He wasn't alone in finding out what could be on deck.
“That would actually happen?” Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton said. “This is news to me.”
With the All-Star Home Run Derby always popular the night before the game, Major League Baseball decided to make a slugging showcase part of the Midsummer Classic.
And no doubt, now a lot of fans will be rooting for a tie, just to see another launch of longballs.
Players, too.
“Are they doing that? That would be fun,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “We got Pete Alonso and Ronald (Acuña Jr.), so I like our chances.”
The provision paving the way to the innovation was buried in exhibit 13 of the memorandum of understanding that settled the MLB lockout in March 10.
Alonso has 24 home runs, third in the NL, and had won the Home Run Derby two straight times going into Monday's competition.
The rules of the tiebreaker, obtained by The Associated Press on Monday, state “the manager of each league’s All-Star team shall select three players on his team’s active roster who have agreed to participate in the All-Star tiebreaker, if applicable; one alternate player from his active roster who has agreed to participate in the All-Star tiebreaker, if necessary due to injury to a tiebreaker selection; an All-Star team coach who will throw batting practice during the All-Star tiebreaker; and an All-Star team bullpen catcher who will catch during the All-Star tiebreaker.”
Play would be paused briefly after the ninth inning “to allow the grounds crew to reconfigure the field in an arrangement suitable for the tiebreaker."
In the tiebreaker, “each player can take an unlimited number of pitches without it counting against their swing total. Players on each team may hit in any order during the All-Star tiebreaker; provided, however, the batters from each team shall alternate.”
As the visiting team, the AL would send a hitter to bat first, and players from each league would alternate.
“Once all six tiebreaker selections have completed their swings, the team with the most home runs shall be declared the winner of the All-Star Game,” the rules state. “In the event the teams have the same number of home runs following the tiebreaker, each manager shall select one tiebreaker selection to participate in another round in which the tiebreaker selection from each team takes three swings to break the tie. The aforementioned head-to-head format will continue until the tie is broken.”
The three batters picked by a league for the tiebreaker cannot be replaced unless injured or to protect player health.
The All-Star Game has gone to extra innings 13 times since it began in 1933, the last two times 10 innings in both 2017 at Miami and 2018 at Washington. Teams running short on pitchers has become an issue as managers try to get most pitchers in the game by the ninth inning, and the 2002 game at Milwaukee ended a 7-7, 11-inning tie when there were no available pitchers left.
A couple years ago, MLB was set to try out the automatic runner on second base if the All-Star Game went to the extra innings.
Thanks to Snitker, Alonso was ready to swing away in a new way of deciding who wins the All-Star Game.
“He had to tell me about the Home Run Derby stuff, because I didn’t know about it,” Alonso said.
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US states take control of abortion debate with funding focus
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Though the Insight Women’s Center sits at the epicenter of a reinvigorated battle in the nation’s culture wars, the only hint of its faith-based mission to dissuade people from getting abortions is the jazzy, piano rendition of “Jesus Loves Me” playing in a waiting room.
The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature is considering allocating millions of dollars in state funds to similar anti-abortion centers that persuade people to bring their pregnancies to term by offering free pregnancy tests and sonograms, as well as counseling and parenting classes taught by volunteers. They’re also considering offering millions more in income tax credits for donors supporting what they call “crisis pregnancy centers.”
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year and gave control of abortion policy to the states, it led to bans and restrictions in some states, and executive orders and laws protecting access in others. Those debates continue, but perhaps less noticed is how this change refueled the renewed battle over taxpayer money.
Supporters say the effort shows abortion opponents are addressing families’ social and financial needs. But critics say the amount of new funding proposed for organizations like Insight — either in direct funding or tax credits for their donors — fall far short of what’s necessary to improve people’s access to health care and address ongoing poverty.
“You funnel money through a short-term solution that makes it appear as though you are doing something,” said Alesha Doan, a University of Kansas associate professor who has studied and written books about abortion politics.
Increasingly, liberal cities and states are funding access to abortion, including telemedicine, which has seen a notable rise with more than half of U.S. abortions now done with pills rather than surgery. Meanwhile, states with GOP legislatures and governors are looking to put more taxpayer money into organizations that talk people out of ending their pregnancies.
Legislative committees held hearings Thursday on proposals for a 70% income tax credit to donors who support anti-abortion centers, with a cap of $10 million in total credits. A Senate committee might vote this week.
It’s similar to a longstanding Missouri law that provides income tax credits to donors supporting anti-abortion centers. Arizona has such a law, and Mississippi’s Republican House speaker is trying to expand a cap on tax credits to $10 million from the $3.5 million authorized last year.
Arkansas and Oklahoma are considering adding similar tax credits, according to the National Right to Life Committee.
In Missouri, donors to anti-abortion centers have received $15 million in total state tax credits over the past five years, and one state analysis estimates the centers served about 43,000 people last year.
Abortion opponents have operated centers like Insight for decades, and the practice of conservative-led states offering financial aid to them predates Dobbs — the decision in June overturning Roe v. Wade.
On the abortion-rights side, Oregon lawmakers last year created a $15 million abortion-access fund, with the first $1 million going to a nonprofit that covers the costs of patients’ travel and procedures. California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Washington have also allocated or are considering offering public funding for abortions or related services.
In New Mexico last year, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham pledged $10 million in state funds to the construction of a new abortion clinic.
Morgan Hopkins, president of the abortion-rights advocacy group All(asterisk) Above All praised the funding. “Budgets are a reflection of our values,” she said.
Kansas already provides grants to programs that provide prenatal care, and encourage people to carry their pregnancies to term. But it spends less than $339,000 in a state budget of $24 billion on the program — and made only two grants totaling less than $74,000 to anti-abortion centers.
Now, some abortion opponents talk about emulating Missouri’s more than $8 million annual funding, plus the income tax credits.
Abortion rights supporters are frustrated that the push for such support is coming so soon after an Aug. 2 statewide vote that decisively rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have allowed legislators to greatly restrict or ban abortion.
“I have general concerns that we’re not respecting what was the very clear will of voters,” said state Sen. Ethan Corson, a Kansas City-area Democrat who serves on the Senate tax committee.
Abortion rights advocates say the centers lure patients away from abortion clinics with free services, give them inaccurate medical information and counseling from people who are not trained therapists. Some see funding them as a political gesture designed to make abortion bans look less harsh.
Abortion opponents argue that centers like Insight offer patients a wide range of prenatal and post-birth classes, in addition to other help. They also argue that boosting funding for free services after the August vote is a promise not to abandon parents and families.
In Lawrence, where the nearest abortion clinic is a 40-minute drive away, 28-year-old Korbe Bohac is still visiting the Insight center nearly 8 months after her son Winston was born. She told legislators the classes and counseling make her a better, more confident parent — and helped preserve her mental health. She called it “a safety net.”
The Insight center, which is only a few miles from the University of Kansas, has two sonogram nurses, and a doctor and radiologist sometimes volunteer their time. But services depend mostly on about 50 volunteers. The $340,000 annual budget is mostly supplied by private donations, but the organization received a community development grant in 2014 to launch parent education programs.
Center staff said that although they do not refer clients to abortion providers, they discuss abortion as an option. They said some patients who met with them went on to have abortions, though this is not possible to verify given patients’ privacy protocols.
Insight has two separate waiting rooms — one for its educational programs and one for medical services. Executive director Bridgit Smith said one reason is that it keeps pregnant patients from being influenced by seeing babies and toddlers.
Smith said she believes the proposed tax credit would increase donations, helping Insight start a maternity home for people without shelter.
“We’re trying to build strong individuals and strong families. And isn’t that what we all want?” Smith said. “Even for the woman that doesn’t choose to parent, we still want her to be strong and healthy after the decision.”
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Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this report.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish officials say two people have died in a fire at a facility belonging to state-owned oil giant PKN Orlen in central Poland.
The fire at the plant near the town of Plock, which includes an oil refinery, was soon extinguished Tuesday, the company said.
Iwona Śmigielska-Kowalska, spokesperson for the prosecutors’ office in Plock, said two people died and an investigation has been opened into the incident.
Orlen said the blaze broke out in one of the furnaces but plant firefighters put it out. The other installations were not affected, Orlen said.
Also Tuesday Poland opened a new gas pipeline from Norway that is to bolster its energy independence from Russia. | 2022-09-27T15:58:40+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Blaze-at-state-oil-giant-PKN-Orlen-plant-in-17469704.php |
Millions of Americans watched as Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest after a hit on Monday Night Football. He reportedly received CPR on the field and was taken to a Cincinnati hospital after his heartbeat was restored.
What is cardiac arrest?
According to the National Institutes of Health, cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops pumping, preventing blood from flowing to the brain and other vital organs.
Signs of someone experiencing cardiac arrest include collapsing suddenly, having no pulse, non-responsiveness and not breathing.
"Nine out of 10 people who have a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital die — often within minutes," the NIH states on its website.
What causes cardiac arrest?
The NIH explains that the main cause of cardiac arrest is arrhythmias.
However, Hamlin's case may be different since he collapsed immediately after a hit on the field. One potential cause of his cardiac arrest could be commotio cordis, according to the American Heart Association. It's described as a rare phenomenon.
"The blow to the chest at precisely the wrong time in the cardiac cycle causes an electrical abnormality in the heart resulting in an irregular heart rhythm that cannot pump blood to the body," the American Heart Association states.
The organization says doctors will also attempt to determine whether Hamlin has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickened heart muscle. The Centers for Disease Control says the condition can lead to sudden death, especially in children, young adults, and competitive athletes. They are often unaware they have the condition.
How to respond when someone suffers cardiac arrest
Administering CPR and using an automated external defibrillator (AED) could be key to saving a person's life.
There are several ways to learn CPR. The American Heart Association offers in-person and online CPR and First Aid training classes. Similarly, the American Red Cross offers CPR certification courses. | 2023-01-03T23:00:20+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/heres-what-to-know-about-cardiac-arrest |
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Integration of capabilities creates a proven end-to-end, multi-source, multi-asset class ESG solution that helps clients meet global ESG regulatory deadlines and streamline ESG portfolio analysis and reporting
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Confluence Technologies, Inc. ("Confluence"), a global technology solutions provider that helps the investment management industry solve complex investment insight and regulatory challenges, announced today that its ESG solution is seeing significant industry adoption following the integration of capabilities through the successful acquisitions of Investment Metrics and Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS). In the first half of 2022, the end-to-end, multi-source, multi-asset class ESG solution has seen client adoptions double compared to the full year of 2021. New clients include leading asset managers, fund administrators, and management companies looking to meet global Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) regulatory deadlines and achieve greater ESG portfolio insights to grow and retain assets.
Confluence's ESG solution brings together multiple sources of ESG data and ratings, giving clients integrated access and enabling streamlined performance and risk analysis, in addition to regulatory reporting. With consistent data throughout the front, middle and back offices, the solution helps clients meet ever-increasing regulatory and reporting requirements around sustainable investments and gain greater insights into portfolio performance and risk to make better investment decisions.
"Whether it is SFDR, PRIIPs, AIFMD or MiFID II, asset managers and owners need a holistic approach to meet regulatory and disclosure requirements while driving down silo data costs," said Chris Riggio, Chief Revenue Officer, Confluence. "They also need a consistent and streamlined analytics approach to gain investment insights across multiple asset classes, funds and the funds of funds. This is why our clients come to us for our proven front-to-back office solution and our team of experts who monitor and provide guidance on ESG disclosure requirements and changes."
Confluence's ESG solution delivers multi-source ESG data and ratings, ESG portfolio analysis for sales and distribution, multi-asset class ESG performance and risk analytics, and ESG risk, client and regulatory reporting (including SFDR pre-contractual, periodic & Article 10 web summary disclosures along with the European ESG Template (EET)), helping our clients gain significant productivity and cost efficiencies.
To learn more about Confluence's ESG offering, visit https://www.confluence.com/solutions/esg-solutions/.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to buy more than 100 Australian-made combat vehicles as it moves ahead with plans to modernize its armed forces, the government said Thursday.
German and Australian officials signed an agreement to cooperate on the procurement of the new combat reconnaissance vehicles, based on the Boxer family of armored fighting vehicles and equipped with a 30-millimeter gun. The aim is for deliveries to start in 2025, the Defense Ministry said.
It didn’t give a price for the purchase. However, it said the money will come from a special 100 billion-euro ($108 billion) fund for the modernization of the military that Germany approved after Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
The new vehicles will replace the German army’s Wiesel 2 armored vehicles, the Defense Ministry said.
Germany’s military is widely acknowledged to be suffering from years of neglect and in particular from aging, poorly functioning equipment.
The German government has faced criticism for making a slow start to spending the special fund, but has said that 30 billion euros has already been committed to contracts.
In December, German lawmakers gave the go-ahead for a series of procurement projects including the purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets. | 2023-03-24T00:26:50+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/germany-plans-to-buy-australian-made-combat-vehicles/ |
Dear Annie: My sister passed away last week at the young age of 63. She was cremated and had served in the military. We had a small military service for her, and at her service, there were a few bunches of flowers sent to the funeral home, only three to be exact. Two were sent to the funeral home from my nephew’s company that he works for, and one was sent from an aunt and uncle. After the services, my aunt and uncle asked if they could have their flowers back!
I was appalled and caught off guard. My question is, was it OK for them to ask for their flowers back?! I always thought when you sent flowers to a funeral home, it was supposed to be a gift to the family. I’m just lost for words. How should I address this? Or should I just let it go? I have never asked for flowers back from any funeral I have sent flowers to. -- Sincerely Appalled
Dear Appalled: You’re not alone; I, too, am surprised by your aunt and uncle’s request. Sending flowers to loved ones who are grieving is a standard way to express sympathy and offer comfort after experiencing a loss. To ask for them back following the service seems insincere and, frankly, tacky.
While I can’t imagine a particularly good reason for them to ask this of you, I’d advise that the path of least resistance is your best way forward. I hope you took one of the other two flower arrangements home with you, as a token of your sister’s service instead. If she were still with us, I think she’d probably agree it’s not worth fighting over either.
I am so sorry for your loss. Wishing you nothing but peace as you heal during this most difficult time.
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Funds raised will support providing book choice and access to our most at-risk children as RIF and Macy's partner together to close the literacy gap
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of providing books and reading resources to children living in our nation's most under-resourced communities, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Macy's announced that over $1.5 million was raised last month as part of Macy's Mission Every One social purpose initiative, which included an in-store round-up and online donation campaign to support student literacy across the country. Funds raised during the campaign will support RIF's Race, Equity and Inclusion work providing diverse books and reading resources to underserved communities in an effort to help close the literacy gap, while also supporting RIF's second annual reading initiative, Rally to Read 100.
For 18 years, Reading Is Fundamental, the nation's preeminent children's literacy organization, has partnered with Macy's to foster a love of reading and learning. Macy's long-standing partnership has resulted in a total contribution of more than $46 million toward children's literacy, the distribution of almost 15 million books and the creation of more than 20,000 supplemental literacy resources and tools offered free to all children at RIF.org/Literacy-Central.
"Literacy is the very foundation of learning, and we are grateful to work with an organization that puts giving back as a core pillar of its values and prioritizes children's literacy," said Alicia Levi, President and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental. "Through Macy's generous donations, Reading Is Fundamental can continue to supply meaningful reading resources to children, educators and families. This is especially important as we strive to combat the many learning losses created by the pandemic, which only deepened the literacy gap in our most under-resourced communities."
"One of the goals of Macy's social purpose platform, Mission Every One, is to empower youth and to create a brighter future with bold representation for all. A core pillar of this initiative is our aim to provide young people with opportunities to learn, dream and create a successful future without boundaries. RIF is a critical partner in Macy's achieving this vision," said Sam DiScipio, Senior Director, Corporate Communications - Giving & Volunteerism at Macy's. "Macy's has partnered with RIF for 18 years now and in 2020 was a founding partner of their Race, Equity and Inclusion Initiative. Through our partnership with RIF, we are not only providing open access to resources and books to youth from underrepresented communities, but ensuring that those books serve as mirrors and windows; they are full of characters that look like them, written by authors they look up to, and enable them to re-discover their joy of reading and charting their paths to a bright future."
RIF is also thrilled this year to have the support of a schoolteacher turned actor, musician, two-time national poetry slam champion, entrepreneur, and Grammy-nominated poetic voice, Sekou Andrews. To support this month-long campaign, Sekou created five short poet voice videos as seen on the campaign sitelet and Macy's TikTok channel, that powerfully conveyed the importance of reading and books on empowering children to have brighter futures.
RIF is appreciative of Macy's once again choosing literacy as part of this campaign, and was honored to have won the 2022 Gold Halo Award with Macy's in the Best Education Initiative category for the Back-to-School Round-up Campaign, a similar campaign that took place in August 2021. The Halo Awards are North America's highest honor for corporate social impact initiatives that showcase outstanding consumer engagement or employee engagement efforts.
Macy's, the largest retail brand of Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M) serves as the style source for generations of customers. With one of the nation's largest e-commerce platforms powered by macys.com and mobile app, paired with a nationwide network of stores, Macy's delivers the most convenient and seamless shopping experience, offering great values in apparel, home, beauty, accessories and more. Macy's gives customers even more ways to shop and own their style through an off-price assortment at Macy's Backstage and at our highly curated and smaller store format, Market by Macy's. Each year, Macy's provides millions with unforgettable experiences through Macy's 4th of July Fireworks® and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade® and helps our customers celebrate special moments, big and small. We're guided by our purpose – to create a brighter future with bold representation that empowers more voice, choice and ownership for our colleagues, customers, and communities.
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Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is committed to a literate America by inspiring a passion for reading among all children, providing quality content to create impact, and engaging communities in the solution to give every child the fundamentals for success. As the nation's largest nonprofit organization for children's literacy, RIF has provided more than 422 million books to more than 129 million kids in all 50 states, inspiring generations to read, learn, and grow. Learn more at www.RIF.org.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
8-1-7-4
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
8-1-7-4
(eight, one, seven, four) | 2022-08-29T18:39:58+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-4-game-17405181.php |
The history behind Patriots’ Day
Published: Apr. 19, 2023 at 12:18 PM CDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - Patriots’ Day is a holiday that commemorates the start of the American Revolution.
The holiday is mainly celebrated in Massachusetts with reenactments, parades and more! The day commemorates what is called, “the shot hear ‘round the world” with the battles of Lexington, Concord and Menotomy.
Patriots’ Day was first celebrated in Massachusetts in 1894. A member of the Daughters of the American Revolution joined Tennessee Valley Living to talk about the significance of this important day.
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By STEVE LeBLANC (Associated Press)
BOSTON (AP) — When child welfare workers and police knocked on Sarah Perkins’ and Joshua Sabey’s front door well past midnight one weekend last summer, the parents were shocked to learn the state of Massachusetts had come to take their two young sons.
It’s the kind of harrowing scene that plays out daily across the country as social workers motivated by a desire to protect children run up against confused and concerned parents.
What followed was emotional anguish, a bureaucratic battle, vindication for the parents and a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a legal advocacy group. The couple hopes for a favorable ruling that will increase oversight of child removals nationwide.
The children were taken in Massachusetts because of a child abuse report stemming from a hospital visit. On July 13, 2022, Perkins whisked their 3-month-old son Cal to an emergency room. He had a 103-degree fever.
An X-ray checking for pneumonia found a rib fracture the couple hadn’t noticed. After speaking with the boy’s grandmother, they learned the injury may have happened weeks earlier as she removed Cal from a car seat. He slipped, and she caught him with one arm.
Citing the fracture, hospital officials reported potential abuse to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
“It was such a roller coaster — this total terror that we’re going to lose this child at the hospital and then complete relief after we’re allowed to go home with a safety plan,” Perkins said.
They returned to their Waltham, Massachusetts, home. DCF social workers made a surprise visit and found no evidence of abuse, according to the lawsuit.
Days later, around 1 a.m. on July 16, DCF workers and police officers knocked at their door to take both sons away. They didn’t have a warrant or a court order, neither of which are required to remove a child in Massachusetts and other states.
“It was intense. We see that these police officers are armed. We’re asking for paperwork and there’s none to be had,” Perkins said. “Eventually we were told that either we hand over the kids or they’re going to break down our door and take them by force.”
Within 24 hours, Sabey’s parents were allowed to act as foster parents. Four weeks later DCF let Sabey and Perkins take their children home, and after another three months and eventually about $50,000 in private attorney fees, the government restored full parental custody. A short time later the couple moved to Idaho.
The couple’s lawsuit alleges constitutional violations including the unreasonable search of their house, the unreasonable seizure of their children and the deprivation of parental rights without due process.
“What’s really frightening is that it happens a lot. What was unique was our ability to hire an attorney,” Sabey said.
The couple are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit focused on parental rights and other issues. It asks for compensatory and punitive damages.
It’s also part of a legal strategy to set precedent nationwide “confirming the importance of parental rights and clarifying the need to include a neutral judge in child removal decisions unless there is an emergency situation involving a risk of imminent harm to a child,” said Glenn Roper, a lawyer for the foundation.
The lawsuit names individual social workers, police officers and the City of Waltham, not the DCF. That’s in part because state agencies effectively can’t be sued in federal court for damages, according to Joshua Thompson, Pacific’s director of legal operations.
Perkins and Joshua Sabey say they feel responsible to pursue the lawsuit because many other parents can’t pay private attorney fees.
Joyce McMillan wasn’t so fortunate.
She relied on a public defender 23 years ago when her two children were removed after a drug test turned up positive for what the New York resident described as an illicit substance. McMillan said she had a job, a home, and was providing for her children.
“A drug test is not a parenting test,” she said.
McMillan said she fell into a depression and became homeless before getting her children back more than two years later. She’s currently executive director of the nonprofit JMACforFamilies. The group advocates for dismantling the child welfare system, which it calls “the family policing system.”
Welfare agencies should be required to advise families that they have a right to an attorney and typically don’t have to let them speak to their children or enter their home without a court order, McMillan said.
If she had deeper pockets at the time, “absolutely there would have been a different outcome,” she said.
A representative from the City of Waltham had no comment on the Massachusetts case.
The DCF also declined to comment. DCF policy allows the removal of a child without a court order when needed to avoid “a substantial risk of death, serious emotional or physical injury or sexual abuse” and when there’s “inadequate time to seek” one, but it must immediately file an affidavit.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, declined to comment on the lawsuit. She said her administration “is committed to making sure we do everything we can for the health and well-being of children and families.”
There are efforts to restrict the authority of child welfare agencies.
A bill before Massachusetts lawmakers would require child welfare workers get judicial approval within four hours of removing a child, according to bill sponsor Democratic state Rep. Joan Meschino. It would also make it easier for workers to contact judges outside of regular court hours, including overnight and on weekends.
An estimated 3 million children came under the scrutiny of child welfare agencies in the 2021 fiscal year. Nearly 600,000 were victims of mistreatment, according to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families.
An estimated 1,820 children died from mistreatment during that same period.
The report found that 76% were victims of neglect while 16% were physically abused, and 10% were sexually abused.
The child welfare system can be particularly risky for Black and indigenous families, according to Dorothy Roberts, professor of Africana studies, law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
“The main reason why families get investigated is accusations of child neglect, which is basically defined as not meeting the needs of children like sufficient clothing or housing or child care,” she said. “It’s basically a definition of poverty.”
Instead of removing children, the government could help parents meet their needs, she argued.
Roberts pointed to a 2017 study that estimates more than one-third of all U.S. children will be the subject of a child abuse or neglect report before they turn 18, an estimate that jumps to more than half for Black children.
But social workers aren’t out to get children; they’re trying to protect them, said Yvonne Chase, president-elect of the National Association of Social Workers.
When a hospital, school, neighbor or older child reports mistreatment, social workers apply a risk assessment to determine how agencies should respond, she said.
“The child protective agency doesn’t create the reports of harm. Somebody calls us,” said Chase, a former head of child protective agencies in Alaska and Washington. “If a child is being seriously abused, they may be very happy to see that some relief is coming.” | 2023-05-31T19:57:17+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/31/when-should-social-workers-separate-families-a-federal-lawsuit-raises-thorny-questions/ |
Bollman Hat Co., one of America’s oldest hat makers, is using dyeing and drying equipment it acquired from a Philadelphia company to expand its business, the company announced Wednesday.
Adamstown-based Bollman is using that equipment from G.J. Littlewood & Sons, located in Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood, to dye cleaned wool for its mixes and swirl hat styles and provide contract wool dyeing for other companies.
Bollman has 240 employees located on four continents and distributes products in more than 70 countries. Bollman did not disclose the price of the Littlewood equipment acquisition. Employees in Adamstown make wool felt, fur felt, straw hats, and knit caps.
The 158-year-old Littlewood & Sons discontinued its operations following a flood caused by Hurricane Ida in September 2021.
Bollman has always piece-dyed its wool felt hats in house but contracted with Littlewood for decades to fiber dye some of its wool to create heathered-colored hats.
Bollman brought the fiber-dyeing process in house to make heathered-colored hats by buying Littlewood’s equipment after it closed due to the flood.
The fiber-dyeing and piece-dyeing processes are different. When using fiber-dyed wool, Bollman combs (known in the industry as carding) and then felts wool with more than one color. Piece-dyeing wool creates a solid color after carding and felting.
Bollman’s expertise in wool processing includes its scouring plant in San Angelo, Texas, one of two scouring plants left in the United States. The other is in Jamestown, South Carolina. The scouring plant washes wool and also provides warehousing operations for the wool industry and Bollman’s historic wool felt hat making operation on Main Street in Adamstown.
“Our employee-owners are learning how to produce the outstanding color that was part of Littlewood for over 150 years,” said Don Rongione, Bollman president and CEO. Bollman is 100% employee owned through an employee stock ownership plan.
Bob Littlewood, former president of Littlewood, said the deal with Bollman makes Littlewood feel as if they still have a role in the industry.
The Bollman Group makes top brands that include Bailey, Betmar, Country Gentleman, Helen Kaminski and KANGOL. | 2023-06-21T21:41:24+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/business/local_business/bollman-hat-co-acquires-equipment-from-defunct-philadelphia-company/article_aa473690-106f-11ee-ae6f-abb91f408864.html |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Soccer sensation Wrexham is coming to America. Not just on television screens, but on the pitch.
The fifth-tier Welsh side, which has become a fan favorite since Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought it and launched a documentary series, "Welcome to Wrexham," will play Manchester United in a friendly on July 25 at San Diego State's 35,000-seat Snapdragon Stadium.
"We hope to become America's team — sorry," McElhenney said at news conference Monday, where he shared the dais with Andrew Cole, a former Manchester United player who is now an ambassador for the hugely popular team, and former U.S. national team star Landon Donovan, who is co-owner and executive vice president of soccer operations for the San Diego Loyal.
Wrexham will compete in a $1 million, winner-take-all, seven-on-seven tournament in June in Cary, North Carolina. But the match against Manchester United in the United States will be much bigger for many reasons.
"Not bad, not bad," McElhenney said. "We've been very clear from the very beginning that our ultimate goal is to get to the Premier League, which a lot of people laughed at, but I don't think they're laughing at us much now. The truth is, the system is in place for that very thing to happen.
"We had hoped that at some point we'd be playing Manchester United in the Premier League," he added. "We didn't realize it would be in three years. Obviously this is a friendly. We had hoped that maybe in eight to 10 years time we'd actually be playing with you guys," McIlhenney said to Cole.
McElhenney said Wrexham will play other friendlies while in the United States with specific details to come.
Reynolds and McElhenney took over beleaguered Wrexham in February 2021 and their documentary — about their journey, the team, its fans and its city — premiered in August. Wrexham is the third-oldest football team in the world and plays in the English National League, the fifth tier of professional soccer.
"I believe we can become America's football team because we don't have to worry about the regionalization, right?" McElhenney said. "I'm a massive Philadelphia Eagles fan, so American football, and obviously if you're trying to grow that fan base in the U.S. it's tricky because there are various regions where people have their own teams. So with an English football team, or a Welsh team that plays in the English system, we don't have to worry about that regionalization. So you can be from Des Moines, you can be from Minnesota, you can be from West Texas and be a Wrexham fan."
McElhenney, who was wearing a Wrexham cap, said the team keeps selling out of its gear and knows it has a fan base on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
"We know it's a lot of Americans, we obviously know the postal codes, but also because a lot of baseball caps are getting sold and that's not a huge market in the UK," he said.
Several local United supporters attended the news conference and McElhenney told them: "One more thing I've found about football, too, is you can have two teams. Because we're separated by so many leagues — for the time being — you can have two teams. They're going to play their hearts out. Maybe you can fall in love with our team as well."
The match will be part of a summer U.S. tour by Manchester United. A youth-focused team drawn from its traveling squad, supplemented by academy prospects, will face Wrexham as part of a week-long training camp in San Diego.
Cole said he hasn't seen "Welcome to Wrexham" but knows that the documentary is "spreading football. Football is a global game. Even if you don't know about football, when it comes to World Cup time, everyone watches football. It's a language, football is. I think what Wrexham are doing is absolutely fantastic, having the opportunity to come out here and play football out here and spread it throughout the world."
Donovan said it's a big deal that this match is coming to San Diego, which is growing in stature in the soccer world.
"You can argue that these are the two most relevant soccer clubs, certainly by American standards," Donovan said. "I will say this anecdotally — my wife knows nothing about football/soccer at all. She knows who Manchester United is and she knows who Wrexham AFC is now, probably because two cute guys run the show."
On Saturday night, a crowd of 30,854 at Snapdragon Stadium — a record for a National Women's Soccer League opener — watched star Alex Morgan score on a penalty kick in the 88th minute of the San Diego Wave's 3-2 win against the Chicago Red Stars.
San Diego reportedly is in line for an MLS expansion team by December. | 2023-03-28T12:27:17+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/sports/wrexham-to-play-man-united-in-friendly-in-san-diego |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors say a failed GOP candidate accused of orchestrating a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of Democratic elected officials in New Mexico’s largest city is a danger to the community and should be detained pending trial.
They filed a motion Wednesday, asking that Solomon Peña be held without bond. He appeared via video shackled for an initial court appearance as a judge explained that he would remain in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for next month.
Defense attorney Roberta Yurcic said she would request conditions be set so her client can be released as his case proceeds through state district court. But prosecutors argued in the motion that no conditions would ensure the community's safety.
“The defendant’s actions show what lengths he is willing to go when he is dissatisfied with reality,” the motion states. “He arranged multiple shootings of multiple homes, and he personally participated in at least one of the shootings. There is no reason to believe that someone so unwilling to accept reality will give any credence to court ordered conditions of release.”
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Peña is charged with multiple counts stemming from shootings that started in early December and continued in January. The charges include shooting at a home, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, conspiracy and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Authorities identified the 39-year-old felon as the key suspect using a combination of cellphone and vehicle records, bullet casings collected near the officials’ homes and information from a confidential witness.
Peña had posted on social media after the November election that it was “rigged” and he would not concede despite losing his bid for the statehouse in a district that has been held by Democrats for years.
According to a criminal complaint, the political newcomer allegedly paid for four men to shoot at Democratic officials' homes, including one house where a 10-year-old girl was asleep.
The case of Peña, who had posted photos of himself online with Donald Trump campaign material, is one of dozens across the United States where people have threatened, and in some cases attempted to carry out, violence against members of Congress, school board members and other election officials.
A self-proclaimed “MAGA king,” Peña expressed discontent with the election and the certification of the results in a text message sent to one of his alleged coconspirators in November.
Other messages included the addresses of the officials that were targeted.
A SWAT team arrested Peña on Monday.
Peña spent nine years behind bars after his arrest in April 2007 for stealing electronics and other goods from retail stores as part of what authorities described as a burglary crew. He was released from prison in March 2016, and he had his voting rights restored after completing five years of probation in April 2021, corrections officials said.
Peña ran unsuccessfully in November against incumbent state Rep. Miguel P. Garcia, the longtime Democrat representing House District 14 in the South Valley. Peña got 26% of the vote.
On Nov. 15, he posted an image of himself in a “Make America Great Again” hoodie, saying “Trump just announced for 2024. I stand with him. I never conceded my HD 14 race. Now researching my options.”
No one was wounded in the drive-by shootings, and elected leaders on both sides of the aisle have condemned such violence, saying it has no place in the political process.
Police said Peña had previously shown up uninvited at the homes of two elected officials with what he claimed were documents proving that he had won his race. There was no evidence of widespread voter fraud, or any irregularity involving enough votes to change a result, in New Mexico in 2020 or 2022.
The criminal complaint says that Peña hired a father and son with criminal histories of their own as well as two brothers whom authorities have yet to identify. Albuquerque police said they expect to make more arrests.
According to the complaint, a witness told investigators that one of the men told the shooters to aim above the homes' windows to avoid striking anyone inside.
The witness said Peña wanted them to shoot lower and that his insistence that the men be more aggressive made the other participants uneasy.
Peña is accused of participating in the final shooting — the one that targeted the home of state Sen. Linda Lopez. The witness said Peña’s gun jammed and did not fire correctly but one of the other men fired multiple rounds from a Glock pistol into the home, where Lopez's daughter was sleeping.
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Applicaster, a powerful OTT and mobile app platform, has published a comprehensive guide to building, managing, delivering, and monetizing a streaming app.
NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In May 2022, Applicaster's "2022 OTT App Building Guide: The 10 Factors You Can't Miss" was released with checklists and recommendations for planning an OTT app delivery strategy. The guide was created by Applicaster's head of product, Gabriel Guy, and harnesses the team's decades of experience helping top media companies meet their streaming challenges.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrina Wisdom, author of Motherhood's Not For Punks, provides women with a road map to achieving success in areas where they may have previously felt they had to settle for the sake of a more healthy and balanced lifestyle.
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Following the completion of this weekend’s domestic league fixtures, the UEFA Champions League is set to return for the fourth matchday of the group stage on Tuesday.
Groups E-H will take the stage with Paris Saint-Germain vs. Benfica and AC Milan vs. Chelsea serving as the marquee matches on the card. Elsewhere, Manchester City travels to FC Copenhagen, Juventus pays a visit to Maccabi Haifa and Borussia Dortmund hosts Sevilla.
How should soccer bettors approach this card? Below are my two favorite total bets across the entire slate. Odds come courtesy of BetMGM and are reflective at time of writing.
Best total bet No. 1
Manchester City first-half team total over 1.5 (+125) vs. FC Copenhagen
Although it came in the friendly territory that is the Etihad, Manchester City absolutely had its way last week against Copenhagen.
Just in the opening 45 minutes, the Cityzens racked up three goals on 2.28 expected and 2.11 expected goals on target. For the match as a whole, manager Pep Guardiola’s side produced five tallies against 4.54 expected goals on target and five big scoring chances, per fotmob.com.
So, why just target the first half total with the visitors? Well, it happens to be the case that Manchester City face a weekend trip to Liverpool — a pivotal match in deciding the Premier League title fight — and I question whether City will be caught looking ahead in the second half. Plus, in the meeting last week, Guardiola subbed off superhuman Erling Haaland at the half, which naturally led to a drop-off in production for City.
If City races out to another early advantage, I could see a similar game script that sees Manchester City take its foot off the gas in the second half. Plus, this remains a Copenhagen side that, in two fixtures against City and Borussia Dortmund, has conceded two or more first-half goals in each.
Considering you’re getting plus-money with the best attack in the Champions League, I’ll be happy to limit my bet to the first 45 minutes. Back this market up to +105.
Best total bet No. 2
Maccabi Haifa/Juventus Over 2.5 Goals (-125)
The first meeting between these sides in Turin proved a raucous offensive showcase, and I expect nothing less for the meeting in Israel.
I’ve been quite impressed with the Maccabi Haifa attack in the first half of the group stage. In three matches, it has produced 3.8 expected goals on target and four big scoring chances. Just in its lone home match against Paris Saint-Germain, a defense I rate ahead of Juventus, the Israeli outfit produced 2.04 expected goals on target along with two big scoring chances.
Yet, Haifa has scored only two goals on those 3.8 xGOT and one goal on the 2.04 xGOT at home, suggesting positive offensive regression could be on the way.
All that said, I don’t trust this Haifa defense one bit. In its first three group matches, it has conceded 7.38 xGOT and has allowed all three teams to create at least 1.9 expected goals on target.
Given Juventus needs to chase as many goals as possible to improve its goal differential, I expect a free-flowing attacking style from the Old Lady. Will that lead to a lot of chances? Yes, but it will also leave its defense vulnerable at the back.
For those reasons, take this over at -135 or better. | 2022-10-10T21:47:28+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/betting/ct-odds-predictions-uefa-champions-league-best-total-20221010-bfqp3rz6gvbxhclydoi7vd7kae-story.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband carried zip ties with him when he broke into the couple’s San Francisco home, according to a person briefed on the investigation, in what is the latest parallel to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021.
The person was not authorized to publicly discuss the Pelosi case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday.
The attack on the Democratic leader’s 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, less than two weeks before the Nov. 8 election that will determine control of Congress as well as key statewide and local offices, was an unsettling reminder of the nation’s toxic political climate. With threats to public officials at an all-time high, members of Congress were being urged to reach out for additional security resources, including increased police patrols of their neighborhoods.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said in a weekend memo to lawmakers that the attack “is a somber reminder of the threats elected officials and families face in 2022.”
Police in San Francisco said the assault of Paul Pelosi was intentional. Authorities said the suspect, identified as David DePape, 42, confronted Paul Pelosi in the family’s Pacific Heights home early Friday and, the AP has reported, demanded to know, “Where is Nancy?”
The two men struggled over a hammer before officers responding to a 911 call to the home saw DePape strike Paul Pelosi at least once, police said. DePape was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, elder abuse and burglary. Prosecutors plan to file charges on Monday and expect his arraignment on Tuesday.
Eerie echoes of the Jan. 6 riot were apparent in the incident at the Pelosi home.
Rioters who swarmed the Capitol trying to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump roamed the halls and shouted menacingly, demanding “Where’s Nancy?” Some in the siege were seen inside the Capitol carrying zip ties. The presence of the zip ties on the suspect in Paul Pelosi’s assault was first reported by CNN.
Nancy Pelosi was in Washington when her husband was attacked at home. She soon returned to San Francisco, where her husband was hospitalized. He had surgery for a skull fracture, and suffered other injuries to his arms and hands, her office said.
“Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop,” she said in a letter late Saturday to colleagues. “We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving.”
Paul Pelosi remains hospitalized and “continues to improve,” she told colleagues.
With Election Day nearing and Trump relentlessly promoting claims he did not lose to Biden in 2020, federal agencies warned on Friday that domestic extremists fueled by election falsehoods “pose a heightened threat” to the midterms. The Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies said the greatest danger was “posed by lone offenders who leverage election-related issues to justify violence.”
Biden and other officials, Democrats and Republicans, condemned the attack on Paul Pelosi and said violence has no home in American politics.
“Enough is enough is enough,” Biden said while campaigning in Pennsylvania on Friday night.
Trump, in an interview taped Friday with Americano Media, a conservative Spanish-language network, called the attack on Paul Pelosi a “terrible thing,” but the former president also tried to link it to crime in U.S. cities.
For years, Republicans have tried to make Pelosi a campaign boogeyman, using the 82-year-old’s image as a recurring caricature in countless ads against Democrats, including many now airing in races nationwide during a hostile election season.
The head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, said Sunday it was “unfair” to blame the GOP for creating a political climate that could have laid the ground for such an attack.
“You can’t say people saying, ‘Let’s fire Pelosi’ or ‘Let’s take back the House” is saying go do violence,” she told “Fox News Sunday.”
The House GOP’s campaign chief, Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, was asked during a Sunday interview about a tweet promoting his own video, which shows him shooting a gun at an indoor target.
“Enjoyed exercising my Second Amendment rights,” Emmer tweeted, mentioning he was with two House GOP candidates. The video includes the imagery and sounds of the rifle being fired. The tweet was posted Wednesday, before Paul Pelosi was assaulted, and said: “13 days to make history. Let’s #FirePelosi.”
Emmer said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he was just “exercising our Second Amendment rights, having fun.”
Both McDaniel and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California said Paul Pelosi’s assailant was “deranged.”
McCarthy said on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that violence or the threat of violence “has no place in our society.”
Five years ago, a left-wing activist opened fire on Republicans as they practiced for an annual charity baseball game. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana was critically wounded. In 2011, then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot in the head at an event outside a Tucson grocery store.
Elon Musk jumped into the debate Sunday tweeting, then deleting, a link to a fringe website with an unfounded rumor about the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband. Sent to his millions of followers, Musk’s tweet came just days after his purchase of Twitter fueled concerns that the social media platform would no longer seek to limit misinformation and hate speech.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who leads the Senate committee overseeing security at the Capitol, said lawmakers are considering new measures, including taking their private information off the internet.
Klobuchar, D-Minn., noted, however that Nancy Pelosi “has been villainized for years and, big surprise, it’s gone viral, and it went violent.”
“I think it is really important that people realize that it is not just this moment of this horrific attack, but that we have seen violence perpetrated throughout our political system,” Klobuchar told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” | 2022-10-30T21:50:34+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/paul-pelosi-attacker-carried-zip-ties-ap-source/ |
Haslem serves as honorary NASCAR race official at Homestead
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Udonis Haslem thought he would be able to walk around unnoticed at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Not quite.
Oddly enough, a 6-foot-8 man — one of South Florida’s most recognizable athletes after 20 years and three championships with the Miami Heat — was somewhat easy to spot in the crowd Sunday, when he served as an honorary race official for NASCAR’s annual stop at Homestead.
“You can feel the energy coming from all angles,” said Haslem, the Heat captain. “You can feel it. The motors revving over here, you can feel the trucks over here, you can feel the fans coming this way … I was just taking it all in.”
Sunday marked Haslem’s first time experiencing NASCAR in person, but the sport isn’t completely foreign to him. Haslem’s grandparents are from Georgia, he said, “and NASCAR is something my grandparents have watched my whole life.”
“I sat there as a kid and I watched it,” Haslem said. “It’s overwhelming. It’s amazing. It’s just another whole community. I had no idea about being here. Watching it on TV doesn’t even compare to being here in person. It’s an amazing experience.”
Haslem’s original plans for Sunday included him meeting Bubba Wallace, the only Black full-time driver on the NASCAR circuit. Wallace’s one-race suspension — handed down after an investigation determined he deliberately spun reigning Cup champion Kyle Larson at Las Vegas in a “dangerous act” of retaliation last weekend before confronting him afterward — thwarted those plans.
“I’m a little disappointed, but obviously I understand alphas in alpha sports,” Haslem said. “I am an alpha. So I understand how that goes and our competitive nature.”
Haslem suggested he might want to take a car out on the track for a few laps. He wouldn’t reveal how fast he has ever driven — “Not going to snitch on myself,” he said — but revealed he has an electric Audi “that moves pretty well.”
Haslem plans on retiring after this NBA season and has talked about getting into ownership; he has made no secret that his goal is to eventually be involved with the Heat organization at an upper level of the front office.
But he is an active investor in a number of other businesses. And he wouldn’t be the first player to turn to NASCAR after an NBA career — Michael Jordan is an owner of the 23XI team that Wallace drives for, and Brad Daugherty has been involved in racing through ownership and as a television analyst for years.
“I’m a person that is very ambitious,” Haslem said, wearing a hat with the 23XI logo on the side. “And if it’s something that I’m interested in, and it’s something that I want to be a part of, then we’ll talk about it and we make that move. This is something that I’m definitely interested in. I like to compete, I like fast — and I know it’s kind of a parody but the movie ‘Talladega Nights’ is one of my favorite movies ever.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri resident who was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that likely happened after swimming in a southeastern Iowa lake has died, health officials said Friday.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said the patient died due to primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and usually fatal infection caused by the naegleria fowleri ameba.
Health officials said they believe the parasite was contracted at Lake of Three Fires near Bedford, Iowa, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) north of Kansas City. The name and age of the patient will not be released, officials said.
Iowa officials closed the Lake of Three Fires State Park near Taylor County as a precaution on July 7. The beach remains closed.
People are infected when water containing the ameba enters the body through the nose, usually while victims are swimming or diving in lakes and rivers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say. The fatality rate is more than 97%, according to CDC statistics.
The infections have primarily occurred in southern-tier states. It is the first case discovered in Iowa since infections were first confirmed in 1962 and possibly ever, the CDC said.
Among bordering states, Minnesota has had two cases and Missouri one, with none reported in Illinois, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Kansas has confirmed one case. | 2022-07-16T18:14:51+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Missouri-swimmer-likely-infected-with-amoeba-in-17309583.php |
Central Pennsylvanians will be able to enjoy some sunshine before the area is hit with more rain and strong winds, forecasters said.
The National Weather Service is calling for a sunny Tuesday, with low 50-degree highs.
Wednesday will also be sunny, with highs in the low 60s, but forecasters said there’s also a chance of more than 20 mph winds.
Forecasters said Thursday could see showers throughout the day and night. Highs will peak in the low 60s again, according to the NWS.
Temperatures will drop into the low 50s for a breezy Friday, forecasters said. Rain could fall until about 1 p.m.
Forecasters said Saturday and Sunday will be sunny and dry, with highs in the mid 40s and low 50s.
Today
Sunny, with a high near 54.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 63.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.
Thursday
High near 63. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Thursday Night
Low around 43. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Friday
Partly sunny, with a high near 50. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 23. | 2023-02-14T12:17:58+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/weather/2023/02/sunshine-on-the-way-tuesday-before-more-gusty-winds-rain.html |
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin announced on Friday, according to Russian state media.
The March 20-22 visit, Xi’s first trip to Russia in nearly four years, comes amid Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s efforts to present itself as a neutral arbiter of the conflict.
The two leaders are set to discuss “pressing issues related to the future of relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China,” the Kremlin said on Friday, per the Russian state-run news agency TASS.
Putin announced last month during a visit with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi that Xi planned to visit Moscow but had not provided a specific timeframe.
China recently presented a 12-point peace plan for “a political resolution of the Ukraine crisis,” which was followed by calls for a ceasefire and negotiations alongside Belarus. However, the U.S. has eyed Beijing’s peace efforts with skepticism, accusing China of “strongly considering” providing Russia with lethal aid for its war effort. | 2023-03-17T13:24:56+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/chinas-xi-to-visit-putin-in-moscow-for-first-time-since-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/ |
Brunch-N-Laugh offers good food, comedy from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 2 at MS-KICK
Chef Chris Holden tells KSLA’s Priscilla Borrego he’s making all the menu items from scratch
Published: Jun. 29, 2023 at 10:31 PM CDT|Updated: 5 minutes ago
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Laughter is food for the soul.
This weekend, if you’re looking for a fun time, Brunch-N-Laugh is happening at the Milam Street Kitchen Incubator & Community Kitchen (MS-KICK).
Professional chef Chris Holden joined KSLA on Thursday, June 29 to preview the event.
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A man who killed his ex-girlfriend and left a man critically injured in a shooting at a luxury Hallandale Beach resort killed himself in Plantation Wednesday, authorities said.
Hallandale Beach Police said the suspect in the Monday morning shooting had been found in the area of Cleary Boulevard between Pine Island Road and Lauderdale West Drive.
When authorities moved in to take him into custody, he fatally shot himself, police said.
Footage showed a person's body covered by a yellow tarp on the side of the roadway. The area had been closed off before it reopened later in the afternoon Wednesday.
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Monday's shooting happened just after 12:15 a.m. at the Beachwalk Resort located at 2602 East Hallandale Beach Boulevard.
Police said a man and a woman were in the valet area of the resort when the suspect approached and opened fire, killing the woman and leaving the man critically injured.
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Police haven't released the identities of anyone involved but said the gunman was the ex-boyfriend of the woman. The man who was critically injured was her new boyfriend.
"This is a tragic event and any way you look at it, a lot of, several mothers and fathers who are grieving the loss of several people, along with someone who's in the hospital in critical condition," Hallandale Beach Police Capt. Pete Abut said.
Abut said the suspect was identified shortly after the shooting and an arrest warrant was issued. Police reached out to the U.S. Marshals to help find the suspect.
He was found driving in Plantation but when authorities moved in, they heard a gunshot and found him suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Abut said.
Abut said the incident remains under investigation.
No other information was immediately known.
Check back with NBC 6 for updates. | 2023-04-26T22:25:10+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/suspect-in-fatal-shooting-at-hallandale-beach-resort-found-dead-in-plantation/3022519/ |
For a limited-time, Cinnabon drops the cinnamon and transforms popular BonBites™ into a chocolate-only treat as a new way to help fans satisfy cravings
ATLANTA, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The rumors are true! Cinnabon, known around the world for its ooey-gooey cinnamon rolls, today introduced Chocolate BonBites to bakery menus nationwide, making it the first time that U.S. bakeries offering Cinnabon's signature bite-sized cinnamon rolls will *drumroll please* not feature its famous cinnamon flavoring.
Chocolate BonBites are a new, chocolatey take on the beloved Cinnabon BonBites treat, baked with Cinnabon's classic dough, layered with a rich, chocolate schmear on the inside and topped with both chocolate frosting and Cinnabon's signature cream cheese frosting. Fans can get their hands on Chocolate BonBites at mall bakeries, Maverick and Pilot Flying J Travel Center locations and order on the new Cinnabon mobile app or via food delivery platforms, for a limited time this summer.
"We're a bakery-inspired brand, and that gives us the permission to experiment and get creative with new and popular dessert flavors, such as chocolate, within our treats," said Michael Alberici, Vice President of Marketing, Cinnabon. "We know chocolate is a classic, familiar flavor that Cinnabon fans love, and we are confident that guests nationwide will enjoy new Chocolate BonBites, too, no matter the occasion – whether it's a summer gathering or an anytime chocolate craving."
While the addition of new Chocolate BonBites makes this a hot "chocolate" summer at Cinnabon, fans can still cool down with the brand's signature MochaLatta Chill®, an irresistible combination of chocolate and coffee blended into a refreshing yet chocolatey beverage sure to hit different than any other iced drink.
Chocolate BonBites are available in a convenient 4-count or shareable 16-count pack, starting at $4.79. To learn more and find a bakery near you, visit Cinnabon.com/chocolatebonbites. To stay updated on all things Cinnabon, follow the brand on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram at @Cinnabon, like it on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Cinnabon or visit Cinnabon.com.
Founded in Seattle in 1985 and now based in Atlanta, Cinnabon Franchisor SPV LLC is the market leader among cinnamon roll bakeries. The company serves fresh, aromatic, oven-hot cinnamon rolls, as well as a variety of other baked goods and specialty beverages. Cinnabon currently operates over 1,200 franchised locations worldwide, primarily in high traffic venues such as shopping malls, airports, train stations, travel plazas, entertainment centers and military establishments.
Cinnabon is also a multi-channel licensor, focused on driving multi-channel growth across consumer relevant occasions whether on the go, in grocery stores, schools, at home or in the office.
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Rainbows decorated Roosevelt Park as community members came together for the Longmont Pride Festival, a free event Friday evening to celebrate and close out LGBTQ Pride Month.
LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit Out Boulder County coordinated the festival, having taken over the event from a different planning group in 2016. Juan Moreno, director of corporate sponsorships and special events for Out Boulder County, said the nonprofit was hoping for 3,000 attendees by the end of the festival, which ran from 4 to 8 p.m.
In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier Friday in 303 Creative LLC vs. Elenis, the festival carved out time for a solidarity rally at 6 p.m. Around 10 speakers took the stage under the park pavilion’s roof to condemn the court’s decision, which ruled in favor of a Colorado website designer who did not want to serve same-sex couples.
Several of Friday’s speakers also issued statements earlier in the day, including Out Boulder County and the Boulder Chamber. While many took a somber tone, they also thanked the Longmont Pride attendees for showing up and finding joy in the event, despite the ruling.
“Look around you, and see how many LGBTQ people are here and are allies,” said Mardi Moore, executive director of Out Boulder County, to the hundreds of Pride guests surrounding the stage. “Give it up for yourselves.”
Moore was followed by remarks from local and state officials, including state Rep. Brianna Titone, the first openly transgender state legislator elected in Colorado. In addition to encouraging guests to vote this fall, the officials spoke on how the court’s opinion makes it possible for businesses to refuse service to other protected groups on First Amendment grounds.
“We are now being governed by six people who have life tenure,” Boulder County Commissioner Claire Levy told the crowd. “And let’s be clear: This case would not have arisen but for the fact that people continue to hold homophobic views.”
A sense of outrage at the court’s decision was shared by many speakers, including Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett, Longmont Mayor Joan Peck and Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty. All affirmed Boulder County as an open and affirming community for LGBTQ individuals and emphasized their commitment to keeping it that way.
In his address, Dougherty also mentioned Thursday’s ruling on affirmative action, which made it unlawful for colleges to consider race as a factor in admissions.
“Normally, when we come together for Longmont Pride, it is a cause for great celebration to be in this wonderful community and be together,” he said. “The last 48 hours have been no reason to celebrate, because … the U.S. Supreme Court, in just two decisions, took two giant steps back for equality in this country.”
Other speakers were Boulder County NAACP President Annett James, Boulder Chamber’s Senior Director of Policy Programs Jonathan Singer and local legal expert Jean Dubofsky. Broomfield Mayor Guyleen Castriotta and Lyons Mayor Hollie Rogin were also present but did not speak.
This is the first year the festival has been held at Roosevelt Park; it was moved from its usual spot near Fourth Avenue and Kimbark Street to take the event off pavement and make it cooler for guests. Continued from previous years was the family-friendly, sober aspect of the festival, which Moreno said stands in contrast to many of Boulder County’s other Pride events.
“It’s a tradition that was passed on to us when we took over the event, and we always want to make sure that we honor that because Pride is for everybody,” he said.
The festival featured over 100 booths representing a wide variety of local businesses and organizations, including the Longmont Public Library, Envision Community Church, Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement and St. Vrain Valley Safe Schools Coalition.
“You get to know and love these people, so it’s been a blessing to be able to step that up in the sponsorship level,” said Natasha Hubbard, with Longmont’s Hubbard Homes, the presenting sponsor of this year’s festival.
The threat of rain didn’t deter visitors, who flocked to the park with Pride flags draped over shoulders, held in hands and even attached to their dogs’ collars. Between the live musical performances and vendor booths, guests could play games like cornhole and volleyball or receive hugs from a group of supportive parents.
A large crowd also came together for a Visibility March through downtown Longmont, led by Out Boulder County youth program assistant Chris Castañeda. Participants held signs and shouted, “We are Longmont, very gay Longmont,” along with other chants, as they paraded up and down Main Street.
“We’re going to be loud, we’re going to be proud, and we’re going to show everybody that we are not going anywhere,” Castañeda said. | 2023-07-01T06:26:49+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/06/30/local-community-shows-solidarity-at-longmont-pride-festival/ |
MONTERREY, Mexico -- It's been 16 games in 15 days. One host city, two stadiums.
The parameters of the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship look familiar. A top-heavy region known to have two global heavyweights -- and then everyone else -- has long held short, quadrennial qualifying tournaments each for the World Cup and Olympics. This time, there's a catch: double jeopardy.
Canada and the United States each qualified for the 2023 World Cup by advancing to the semifinals of the tournament in Monterrey, but only the winner of Monday's final will book a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The loser will wait a year before competing in a playoff against the winner of Monday's third-place match, either Costa Rica or Jamaica (both of which already qualified for the World Cup.)
"I think it's a double-edged sword," Canada head coach Bev Priestman said this week. "For players, for coaches, there's a lot on the line."
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A Canada-USWNT final is almost inevitable when both teams are participating in the tournament. When World Cup and Olympic qualifiers are separated, the final is a formality for bragging rights since both teams are already qualified. Monday's tournament championship means something, at least, but the jury is out on whether this is a better tournament format.
Grouping qualification for the World Cup and Olympics puts CONCACAF in line with other parts of the world -- and that is not necessarily a positive. In Europe, Olympic qualification is determined by order of finish in the preceding World Cup. CONMEBOL (South America) has long grouped together World Cup and Olympic qualification based on finishing place at the Copa America, which is also ongoing this month.
Europe's position has more to do with a congested schedule of already meaningful games. The quadrennial UEFA Women's Euros (stream matches now on ESPN+) is the biggest continental competition on the globe. UEFA runs years-long qualifying for both the Euros and the World Cup.
In other regions, however, the combined qualifying competition creates dormant women's teams whose federations scarcely invest in them. Ecuador, for example, appeared at its first Women's World Cup in 2015. The team lost all three matches there, then went nearly three years without playing an official match, reconvening ahead of the 2018 Copa America, which doubled as World Cup and Olympic qualifying. It lost every game at that tournament, finishing with a -13 goal difference over four games.
CONCACAF proactively tried to combat this problem and incentivize its smaller member nations to invest in and keep active their women's teams by creating new competitions outside of qualifying. A Nations League like the men's competition is scheduled to begin in September 2023, and an inaugural Gold Cup will take place in summer 2024.
CONCACAF said upon announcing the sweeping calendar changes last year they "will double the number of official senior women's national team matches compared to the previous cycle."
In theory, that creates more meaningful games for programs ranging from those who have never qualified even for the final round of a CONCACAF event, to Jamaica and Costa Rica, teams which have now qualified for multiple World Cups and hope to better challenge the U.S. and Canada in the future.
Creating those opportunities is a positive, but the dichotomy of the progress made for pre-qualification, and CONCACAF doubling down on the two-week final tournament, is perplexing. For all the attempted hype around the region's most important competition, the U.S. and Canada qualified for the World Cup by winning two games apiece. Tournament hosts Mexico, after some impressive results in the past year in friendlies (including a win over Canada) and victories in pre-qualifying, saw its World Cup hopes slashed for the second straight cycle in a matter of three games at the final stage.
Combine all that with embarrassing crowds (save for the 20,000 fans for the USWNT-Mexico) throughout the tournament for the under-marketed competition -- one which is also being played in a city enduring a dire drought which has created local water shortages -- and the entire tournament has been anticlimactic. By design, Monday's final and third-place matches acting as Olympic qualifying salvages some interest.
"I personally don't like the format," Jamaica coach Lorne Donaldson said. "But again, this is what we have. Everybody has to play through the same rules and the same tournament. Usually, the deeper your bench is or the deeper your roster is, the better off you are in a tournament like this. Obviously, [Canada and the U.S.] have proven themselves and they have a very deep roster, but we have to try to come in and take are of stuff and see if we can unseat somebody."
The big question is whether a proper, balanced qualifying schedule will ever exist on the women's side. World Cup expansion on the men's side will erode the drama of the "The Hex" -- the six-team, 10-game final round of World Cup qualifying which saw each team play the other five once at home and once away. That has already expanded to eight teams. The format produced drama on every matchday, including in back-to-back cycles when Mexico barely even qualified for the intercontinental playoff on the final day (for 2014 World Cup), and the U.S. eliminated from the World Cup entirely on the final day of the subsequent qualifying.
Like FIFA expanding the Men's World Cup to 48 teams in 2026, the expansion of the Women's World Cup to 32 teams next year means that six of the eight regional finalists keep World Cup hopes alive coming out of the CONCACAF W Championship. It is difficult to find any format which would make that dramatic, but there are options which would allow each nation to host final-stage games and harbor greater hopes for a longer period of time.
For better or worse, each CONCACAF nation boasts peculiar challenges which make playing there difficult for visiting sides. From a flooded field in Trinidad, to a raucous crowd in Mexico, or hotel alarms getting pulled in the middle of the night in Honduras -- all of which are stories told on the men's side -- there are serious challenges to life on the road which can test the mental fortitude of even the best teams.
Canada and the U.S. -- especially as more professionalized teams with resources like private chefs -- simply don't face this type of adversity in games that matter. Not until the World Cup or Olympics themselves.
How would the U.S. have handled early pressure from Haiti in the opener, when the Americans nearly conceded three times in the first half, had they been playing in front of a sellout crowd in Port-au-Prince? How much more difficult would it have been for the U.S. to beat an organized Costa Rica side in a must-win game if the Americans couldn't hear themselves communicate in Saprissa? And how much better would everyone be for it, from the U.S. gaining valuable experience in adversity to challenger nations growing interest in their women's teams?
"It's absolutely critical to have games like this," U.S. captain Becky Sauerbrunn said after Monday's narrow 1-0 victory over Mexico, recalling the U.S.'s loss to Mexico in Cancun 12 years prior which nearly caused the world's No. 1 team to miss the 2011 World Cup.
"It's really hard to replicate these types of games, with this type of crowd, playing in front of the home crowd."
United States head coach Vlatko Andonovski deflected earlier in the tournament when asked about the format. On the eve of the semifinals, Priestman said she sees both sides, but embraced the added pressure.
"For me personally and for this group, it's probably the reach that we want," Priestman said. "I think setting that bar high and reaching for it is something that the best players in the world want to do. So, I think to have both on the line is important. I think that sort of safety net, if you don't finish top of this tournament, to then be able to go and qualify, is also great. What you're seeing in this tournament is how the gap is closing. That makes it even more difficult and there's more on the line.
"There's pros, there's cons, but I think everyone knew what they were coming into and we're here to make sure that we get to that Olympics."
Canada star Christine Sinclair, the world's leading goal-scorer, echoed much of what her coach said about the tournament format before ending with a laugh: "We'll see if we win, then we'll love it." | 2022-07-18T10:14:23+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/concacaf-w-championship/story/4702797/should-concacaf-persist-with-the-w-championship-format |
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DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Stars center Joe Pavelski didn't travel with the team to Minnesota for Games 3 and 4 of the first-round playoff series against the Wild while still in concussion protocol from a crushing hit in the opener.
Coach Pete DeBoer said Thursday before the Stars left for Minnesota that he has “lots of hope” that Pavelski can return at some point during the series.
"He’s getting better every day,” DeBoer said. “He was at the game last night, just not coming on this trip.”
After Game 3 on Friday night and Game 4 on Sunday, the best-of-seven series that is now tied at a game each will return to Dallas for Game 5 on Tuesday night.
The 38-year-old Pavelski had just cleared the puck midway through the second period of Game 1 on Monday night when he took a big hit from Minnesota defenseman Matt Dumba. Pavelski banged his head hard on the ice when he fell.
Pavelski missed the first six games of the Western Conference semifinals for San Jose against Colorado in 2019 after a hit he took in Game 7 of the first-round series against Vegas. Pavelski was the Sharks' captain at the time, and DeBoer was their coach.
DeBoer had said before the Stars won Game 2 on Wednesday night that Pavelski “was in a much worse place at that time” than he is now.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature passed a bill banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy during a marathon special session Tuesday that continued late into the night.
Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered the rare session after the state Supreme Court declined to reinstate a practically identical law that she signed in 2018.
Abortion is currently legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. The legislation will take immediate effect with the governor’s signature. It will prohibit almost all abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new ban on almost all abortions in Iowa after roughly six weeks of pregnancy prevailed with exclusively Republican support in one chamber of the Legislature late Tuesday night as tensions flared during a special session ordered by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The marathon day of committee meetings, floor debates and votes in both chambers exceeded 13 hours when the House voted just after 9 p.m. in approval of the bill. The bill now moves to the Senate, where, like in the House, Democrats have spent hours of debate questioning their Republican colleagues on the details.
The vast majority of demonstrators at the Capitol throughout the day voiced loud opposition to the bill. Two Republican representatives voted against the bill.
Reynolds ordered the rare session after the state Supreme Court declined to reinstate a law she signed in 2018 that is practically identical to the one being proposed Tuesday. Abortion is currently legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The current draft, like the 2018 law, would prohibit abortion once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.
Chants from abortion advocates echoed through the rotunda and could be heard from rooms where state representatives and senators were meeting in the morning and afternoon. Members of the public for and against the bill alternated conveying their viewpoints to lawmakers from both chambers for nearly four hours in total.
Sara Eide of the Iowa Catholic Conference encouraged lawmakers to vote in favor.
“The unborn child is a distinct human life with her own value, with her own DNA, and with her own right to life and right to legal protections,” she said. “As a state and as a society, we should commit ourselves to protect all vulnerable populations wherever we find them.”
Hilary McAdoo, a fertility nurse, said her two daughters motivated her to voice her opposition Tuesday.
“Just because a person has the ability to become pregnant does not mean they should be forced to become a mother,” she said. “The people before me want to govern women’s bodies without understanding how they work."
McAdoo called the six-week cutoff “impossible and irresponsible.”
Laws such as Iowa's ban abortion when a " fetal heartbeat " can be detected, a concept that does not easily translate to medical science. That's because at the point where advanced technology can detect that first visual flutter, the embryo isn't yet a fetus, and it doesn't have a heart. An embryo is termed a fetus beginning in the 11th week of pregnancy, medical experts say.
A district court found the 2018 law unconstitutional in 2019 based on rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and Iowa's Supreme Court that had affirmed a woman's fundamental constitutional right to abortion.
After both bodies overturned those rulings last year, the governor sought to reinstate the 2018 law. But the state's high court deadlocked last month without ruling on the merits of an abortion ban, leaving the law permanently blocked.
And so Reynolds called lawmakers back to Des Moines.
Maggie DeWitte, the executive director of Pulse Life Advocates, an organization that opposes abortion, said the bill has been “a long time coming.”
“It is beyond time to once and for all have this heartbeat law passed for the second time, signed into law for the second time, but now able to be enforced,” she said.
There are limited circumstances under the measure that would allow for abortion after that point in a pregnancy — such as rape, if reported to law enforcement or a health provider within 45 days; incest, if reported within 145 days; if the fetus has a fetal abnormality “incompatible with life;” and if the pregnancy is endangering the life of the pregnant woman.
The draft of the measure released Friday indicates that Republican lawmakers want it to take immediate effect with the governor's signature.
If passed, Planned Parenthood North Central States is prepared to quickly challenge the law in court, and will meanwhile refer patients out of state if they're scheduled for abortions in the next few weeks. It will continue to provide care to patients who present before cardiac activity is detected.
Democratic lawmakers proposed amendments to the language to expand the exceptions, which were swiftly rejected.
"Iowa women are less free than they were a week ago and it’s because of the work of Republicans in the legislature and the governor,” said House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst, who voiced concerned that there will be instant chaos and confusion if and when the bill is signed into law. ”We will spend every day between now and Election Day letting voters know that the Republican Legislature was too extreme, went too far and voted against the interests of everyday Iowans."
Most Republican-led states have drastically limited abortion access in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed authority on abortion law to the states. More than a dozen states have bans with limited exceptions and one state, Georgia, bans abortion after cardiac activity is detected. Several other states have similar restrictions that are on hold pending court rulings.
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Credit: AP | 2023-07-12T04:21:10+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/iowa-house-approves-law-banning-most-abortions-after-about-6-weeks/SNJIHEBIANCADBX44QKKJHWSLY/ |
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian Afrobeat star was arrested Monday after being accused of assaulting a police officer in the commercial hub of Lagos.
Seun Kuti was detained at the Lagos State police headquarters after turning himself in, according to police spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin, who tweeted photos of the celebrity in handcuffs.
The son of Nigerian musical icon and political agitator Fela, who himself was serially detained by Nigerian military regimes, Kuti was “captured on video assaulting a police officer in uniform,” the police said.
Videos posted online appeared to show an agitated Kuti pushing a police officer as the officer stood beside a police vehicle along a major road in Lagos on Saturday.
It was unclear what led to the confrontation, though Kuti tweeted that the officer in question “tried to kill me and my family.” He suggested the officer tried to ram their car.
Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba ordered an investigation into the incident. The inspector general “assures Nigerians that acts of contempt/disdain for symbols of authority will not be tolerated while offenders of such hideous crimes will be surely brought to book,” the police said. | 2023-05-16T11:43:48+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/nigerian-afrobeat-star-kuti-arrested-over-alleged-police-assault/ |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
6-1-1
(six, one, one)
¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | 2022-12-25T04:33:50+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17676421.php |
Tampa Bay's Russell Gage released from hospital after suffering concussion in Monday night's game
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Russell Gage has been released from the hospital after being injured during a NFL Wild-Card playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys Monday, the team said.
The game was paused with two minutes and 55 seconds left in the fourth quarter after Gage fell awkwardly after he was hit across his neck on a second down play at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.
Gage appeared to try to get up but couldn't and was quickly swarmed my medical staff.
"They took him to the hospital right now, he has a concussion. They'll also test him for potential neck injuries," Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles told reporters in the postgame news conference following the team's 31-14 loss to the Cowboys.
When asked if Gage had movement in his extremities, Bowles replied: "His fingers were moving when he was down there. I don't know about the rest."
On Tuesday, the team announced Gage "was evaluated and released this afternoon after all the tests came back normal — other than a concussion which he sustained on the play."
After he was injured, trainers surrounded Gage and players from both teams knelt while he was receiving medical care. The broadcast showed Gage moving his legs while trainers were administering care. He was later immobilized and carted off the field.
Gage's on-field injury came just two weeks after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed after making a tackle during another Monday night game.
A medical team resuscitated the 24-year-old before an ambulance carried him off the field in critical condition. He was discharged from the hospital last week. | 2023-01-18T16:10:39+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/tampa-bay-buccaneers-wide-receiver-russell-gage-has-been-released-from-the-hospital-after-being-injured-in-monday-night-s-game-team-says/42544005 |
DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) — Police have released the name of the man with a handgun they fatally shot at a Dallas-area gymnasium where about 150 children were attending a day camp.
Brandon Keith Ned, 42, of Dallas, was the man they killed in a Monday morning gunfight at the Duncanville Fieldhouse, Duncanville police said in a statement released Tuesday. The police said no other information would be released at this time, citing the ongoing investigation by the Texas Rangers.
No children, staff or police were injured in the incident.
On Monday, police said the man brandishing a handgun entered the lobby, where he fired a shot, then tried to enter a classroom containing children. Finding the door locked, he fired a shot at the door and went to the gym, where other children were present. That was when officers arrived, two minutes after receiving the report, and shot the man in an exchange of gunfire, police said. | 2022-06-14T20:53:31+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/police-id-gunman-fatally-shot-at-texas-childrens-day-camp/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Global hospitality brand honors women around the world with star-studded performances, limited-edition merchandise, and specialty beverages for an 'International Women's Month' celebration
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hard Rock Heals Foundation® is committing to "Rock Women's Health" this March in partnership with multi-platinum recording artist and actress, Jordin Sparks, and fellow champion of women, Women Who Rock (WWR)™. While International Women's Day is March 8 and March is Women's History Month, Hard Rock's celebration – dubbed 'International Women's Month' – aims to empower women and raise awareness for women's health all month long. To kick off the celebrations, Hard Rock hosted Sparks at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood for a special performance at the Hard Rock Cafe on February 28. A special International Women's Day performance featuring Maren Morris, Bebe Rexha, Ingrid Andress and Jax will follow later this month at Hard Rock Hotel New York.
In partnership with WWR, an organization focused on educating, supporting and funding women-centric health research, Hard Rock will advocate for the future of women through the power of music. Hard Rock Cafes around the world will mark the month-long occasion with a series of iconic performances, limited-edition merchandise and special food & beverage items, benefitting the nation's largest research institute dedicated to women's health, Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation.
"The 'Rock Women's Health' initiative brings to life Hard Rock's 'All is One' Motto that we strive toward each and every day," said Tracy Bradford, President of Seminole Hard Rock Support Services and Co-founder of Seminole & Hard Rock Women in Leadership internal mentoring program. "We're fortunate to partner with amazing organizations like Women Who Rock to continue to amplify the important messages of women's rights and health awareness in ways that are integral to our company values."
Now through March 31, Hard Rock Cafes, WWR and Gibson Gives Foundation together will present a series of all-female performances by iconic and up-and-coming artists, that will include: Orianthi's March 8 performance at Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood Blvd, Hobbs Sisters & Natalie Brady's March 10 performance at Hard Rock Cafe Nashville and Margot Bingham's March 18 performance at Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta. Throughout March, three specialty beverages – Rock'n Rose Spritz, Tito's CAUSE-MO, and a Strawberry Basil Lemonade mocktail – will be available at Hard Rock Cafes around the world, as well as a special co-branded t-shirt, designed by WWR, that will be available online and at Rock Shops, through April 15. A portion of proceeds from both the specialty beverages and the co-branded t-shirt will benefit Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation via the Hard Rock Heals Foundation®.
"Women Who Rock is thrilled to bring the future of women's health to the global stage through this incredibly powerful partnership with Hard Rock Heals Foundation," said Melinda Colaizzi, Founder, Women Who Rock. "WWR is dedicated to using the power of music to impact and empower the lives of women around the world and we will ignite the power and strength of women worldwide, one Hard Rock stage at a time."
"This amazing partnership is helping fund critical research that impacts and improves women's lives globally," added Michael Annichine, CEO, Magee-Womens Research Institute. "Our research is helping to: stop the spread of HIV, reduce infant and maternal mortality, and improve survival rates for women's cancers. Hard Rock Heals Foundation is helping us achieve our goal to rock women's health worldwide!"
In addition, Hard Rock Hotel New York will host Audacy's 'Leading Ladies' on International Women's Day on March 8, featuring Maren Morris, Bebe Rexha, Ingrid Andress and Jax. Leading Ladies is dedicated to uplifting women's voices and championing a more equitable and inclusive world, while giving listeners the opportunity to win tickets to the private event.
Hard Rock International continues to provide career mentorship between junior and senior executives and provide tools and resources through its Women in Leadership® program. Since the program's inception in 2016, over 1,000 female team members have participated in the mentorship program and/or a brand-hosted educational conference. Hard Rock now exceeds the industry standard of 22 percent for women's representation in leadership roles and planning to expand the Women in Leadership® program to Europe.
For the full Hard Rock International Women's Month performance schedule, please see here. Information on Hard Rock International can be found by visiting www.hardrock.com.
About Hard Rock Heals Foundation®:
The Hard Rock Heals Foundation® is a 501c(3) founded in 2016 in order to unite all philanthropic efforts, including global initiatives and local events, under one charity platform to benefit one common goal: making the world a better place by serving people and our planet.
The foundation's motto, Love.Amplifed., seeks to inspire us all to turn up the volume and deliver the message that lives can be improved by the healing power of music. The Hard Rock Heals Foundation® provides grants and assistance to health and wellness, disaster relief, humanitarian causes and more around the world. All funds raised through Hard Rock's various philanthropic efforts at cafes, hotels, casinos and other venues will be used to support global and local efforts that align with Hard Rock's core values of philanthropy and giving.
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DETROIT (AP) — Shane Bieber pitched seven dominant innings, Oscar Gonzalez drove in two runs and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2 Tuesday night for their third straight win.
Bieber (7-6) allowed just four singles and a walk while striking out eight. Amed Rosario had three hits, including two doubles, while scoring a run and driving in another.
Bieber has won his last three starts, giving up just three earned runs in 20 innings during that stretch.
“Even tonight, he kind of mentioned to (pitching coach Carl Willis) that he was frustrated trying to find his release point,” manager Terry Francona said. “If that's frustration, I hope he's frustrated a lot because I thought he was really good.”
In the Guardians' previous two victories, starters Cal Quantrill and Triston McKenzie also held the opposition scoreless.
“We want to keep it rolling and kind of pass the torch,” Bieber said. “We all know what we can do as a clubhouse, as a team, especially when we're playing aggressive on the mound, in the box and on the base paths. We want to put pressure on the opponent and we were able to do that tonight and in the past few games.”
Cleveland entered the night trailing first-place Minnesota by one game in the American League Central Division.
Tyler Alexander (2-6) gave up two runs and seven hits in seven innings for Detroit. The Tigers barely avoid getting shut out for the second straight game, as Eric Haase drew a two-out, bases loaded walk against Eli Morgan in the ninth. They added another run on a wild pitch by Emmanuel Clase.
“Our guys are still trying,” Detroit manager A.J. Hinch said. “That's a tough task tonight, especially when Bieber is locating his pitches the way he was. They live through their starters and they've got a strong pen. A lot of it is because they can utilize them when they have to late in the game and they're fresh.”
Clase then recorded his 25th save by getting Akil Baddoo to ground out.
Cleveland scored the first run of the game in the fifth. Owen Miller and Andres Gimenez hit back-to-back, one-out singles. Miller came home on Austin Hedges’ sacrifice fly.
The Guardians made it 2-0 in the sixth on back-to-back doubles by Steven Kwan and Rosario.
Cleveland tacked on three more runs in the eighth off reliever Will Vest. Gonzalez's two-out double off the right-field wall drove in Kwan and Rosario. Josh Naylor knocked in Gonzalez with a single.
“It was a close game there,” Bieber said. “It was nice to break it open in the eighth and let the bullpen come in and shut it down.”
TRAINER'S ROOM
Guardians: RHP Aaron Civale (right wrist inflammation) will be activated from the 15-day injured list and start Wednesday's game. Civale threw a four-inning rehab start at Triple-A Columbus on Friday. ... RHP James Karinchak will not make the trip to Toronto for the team's weekend series due to his vaccination status.
Tigers: RHP Beau Brieske (right forearm soreness), who was scheduled to start the series finale on Thursday, will remain on the 15-day IL. He felt discomfort during a bullpen session and was diagnosed with biceps tendonitis. “I wouldn't expect him in the next couple of series,” manager A.J. Hinch said. ... OF Austin Meadows (right and left Achilles strains) will begin a rehab stint at Triple-A Toledo on Wednesday. Meadows will remain there 7-10 days before he may be activated.
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Guardians: Civale (2-5, 6.17 ERA) is 7-0 in eight career starts against the Tigers with a 1.94 ERA and 0.79 WHIP. He held them without an earned run in 6 1/3 innings on May 20.
Tigers: RHP Drew Hutchison (1-5, 4.37 ERA) gave up four runs (two earned) and eight hits in six innings against Tampa Bay in his last start. Hutchison is 1-1 with a 6.85 ERA in six career outings against the Guardians.
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RICE LAKE, Wis., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On this Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, Henry Repeating Arms, one of the country's leading firearms manufacturers and longtime supporter of our men and women in uniform, is announcing recent donations made to the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Sheriffs' Association, and the American Association of State Troopers for a total of $200,000 contributed to law enforcement organizations since June 2022. The slew of donations is part of the company's $1 million pledge through its charitable arm called Guns for Great Causes, which helps support military veterans and first responder organizations, individual families of sick children and children's hospitals, wildlife conservation, and Second Amendment advocacy.
"I grew up in my family's police equipment shop right across the street from the New York Police Department headquarters, so I have a longstanding respect for law enforcement officers and what they have to endure daily," says Anthony Imperato, CEO and Founder of Henry Repeating Arms. Imperato continues, "More than ever, they need not just our support, but the support of the people they serve and protect day in and day out on a local, state, and national level. Our hat's off to the employees and volunteers of the organizations that make it their mission to support the men and women of law enforcement."
On December 15th, 2022, Imperato visited the offices of the Fraternal Order of Police and the National Sheriffs' Association in the Washington metropolitan area to present each with a check for $25,000. The following day, Imperato presented another $25,000 check to the American Association of State Troopers at Henry Repeating Arms' manufacturing facility in Bayonne, New Jersey. Earlier in the year, Henry Repeating Arms also donated $50,000 to Tunnel to Towers, $50,000 to the First Responders Children's Foundation, and $25,000 to Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.).
The firearm manufacturer's support for police manifests in other ways, like the fully engraved and hand-painted Law Enforcement Tribute Edition rifle, a permanent fixture in the company's product catalog. Henry Repeating Arms offers several other models exclusively to law enforcement officers, like their American Sheriff Tribute Edition rifles, Fraternal Order of Police Tribute Edition rifles, and a unique program offering custom engraved rifles for departments.
"My vision is to return to the law enforcement business at some point; I love it that much. Henry Repeating Arms will always be a staunch supporter of those whose job it is to protect us and who risk their lives every day to do so," Imperato concludes.
For more information about Henry Repeating Arms and its products, visit henryusa.com or call 866-200-2354 for a free catalog.
Henry Repeating Arms is one of the leading rifle and shotgun manufacturers in the United States and a world leader in the lever action category. The company motto is "Made in America, or not made at all," and its firearms come with a lifetime guarantee backed by award-winning customer service. The company is also known for its Guns For Great Causes charitable program, which focuses on assisting the families of sick children, children's hospitals, military veteran organizations, law enforcement and first responder groups, Second Amendment advocacy groups, and wildlife conservation organizations. The company currently employs over 600 people and has over 330,000sf of manufacturing space in its Wisconsin and New Jersey facilities. The company is named in honor of Benjamin Tyler Henry, who invented and patented the Henry lever action rifle in 1860 – the first practical repeating rifle and America's unique contribution to the international stage of firearms design. Visit Henry Repeating Arms online at henryusa.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/HenryRepeating, and @henry_rifles on Instagram.
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is scheduled to meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Capitol on Tuesday, marking the first visit from a foreign leader during the California Republican’s Speakership.
Abdullah’s trip to Capitol Hill comes as tensions ratchet up in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. An Israeli raid on a camp in the occupied West Bank led to the deaths of 10 residents on Thursday, the majority of whom were gunmen, according to Reuters. One day later, at least seven people were fatally shot near a synagogue in Jerusalem on Friday, when worshippers were observing Shabbat.
The casualties came amid a tension-filled month — and year — among Israelis and Palestinians. Last year marked the one of the deadliest for fatal fighting between Israel and Palestine.
Abdullah hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — with whom he’s had a rocky relationship — for a surprise visit last week, before the latest round of gunfire, according to The Associated Press.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on a three-day trip to the Middle East on Sunday that will include stops in Egypt, Israel and the West Bank. During the swing, he is scheduled to meet with Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“With both Israeli and Palestinian leaders, the Secretary will underscore the urgent need for the parties to take steps to deescalate tensions in order to put an end to the cycle of violence that has claimed too many innocent lives,” the State Department wrote on its website.
McCarthy’s meeting with Abdullah will be his first gathering with a foreign leader since he won the Speaker’s gavel earlier this month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Capitol in December, at the end of the 117th Congress and right before Republicans took control.
President Biden met with Abdullah in July during a trip to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he “reaffirmed the enduring strength of the strategic friendship between the United States and Jordan,” according to a joint statement following the huddle.
“The two leaders discussed efforts to further advance the close and historic partnership between the United States and Jordan, and coordination in addressing regional and international challenges,” the joint statement added. | 2023-01-30T23:33:57+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/politics/hill-politics/mccarthy-to-meet-with-king-abdullah-ii-of-jordan-on-tuesday/ |
John Fowler sat in the lobby of the Charles Theater comparing it to the place he used to know.
There was no marquee outside announcing the next performer. The restaurants and shops around the street had changed. The building that used to have a library now consisted of popcorn machines and movie posters. And the two flights of stairs that had previously led to a ticketing area and a stage had disappeared.
The building in downtown Baltimore used to be known as the Famous Ballroom. It's where Fowler spent most Sunday evenings decades ago, helping put together jazz concerts with some of the genre's giants: Art Blakey. Duke Ellington. Count Basie. John Coltrane.
"There were plastic stars and plastic moons and plastic clouds in the ceiling," Fowler said. "It was a canopy that looked like a circus tent. It was a dance hall, but everybody knew: on Sundays, come to Charles Street."
From the mid 1960s into the early '80s, nearly every Sunday starting at 5pm, the Famous Ballroom was reserved for concerts put on by volunteers from the Left Bank Jazz Society. Fowler was a charter member.
"My son grew up here. You could bring your kids; the word got out that a woman could come to the Ballroom and not be bothered if she didn't want to be bothered," Fowler said. "So we put all of that together. We've had 1,200 people in that room."
After hundreds of shows, the Ballroom deteriorated and the organization moved out by the early '80s. Still, hundreds of those live shows were recorded, mostly for the private listening of the Left Bank and for the artists themselves.
Those recordings had been stored away for decades and only about a dozen had been released commercially. But now, thanks to a couple of producers, three more recordings are out for the public to hear.
Bringing the legends back
Three albums came out last month featuring performances by saxophonist Sonny Stitt, organist Shirley Scott, and pianist Walter Bishop, Jr.
These releases come after years of work by producer Zev Feldman and musician Cory Weeds. Feldman grew up less than an hour from Baltimore, in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, and has become a jazz detective, making a career out of finding archival jazz recordings. So once he had the opportunity to dive into the Famous Ballroom's, he took it.
"We're talking about artists that traveled the whole world, but this is Maryland history," Feldman said. "This is Baltimore history. And it started here."
Feldman said he wanted to honor the history of the Famous Ballroom and the Left Bank Jazz Society in producing these records, but also recognize these three artists that don't always feature in the jazz conversation.
For him, the raw material he digs up can't simply be good; it has to be great. That's what he found in these recordings, after shifting through many boxes in Fowler's basement in Baltimore.
Take, for example, the recording of a 1973 performance by Sonny Stitt – a pioneer in the industry who hailed from the bebop jazz movement.
"He was someone who was one of the most amazing gunslingers, if you will, in jazz, with dexterity in the way he played," Feldman said.
The newly-released record is called, Boppin' at the Bank: Live at the Left Bank. Fowler said the organization booked the saxophonist nine times: "In Baltimore, you say Sonny Stitt, you got a packed audience."
"When he came to town, every local horn player in the city showed up. They all stood at the back of the Ballroom, like listening to the master," he said. "And once in a while, he would let one or two of them come up on stage. But, you know, you couldn't find anything better."
Then there's the record titled Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank, recorded when Shirley Scott performed at the Famous Ballroom in 1972.
"It was a really wonderful live date. We were really struck by the energy. She opens up the recording with John Coltrane's 'Impressions,' but there's also some pop music and things from the day," Feldman said.
Scott was an influential jazz artist, but as Fowler put it, she received less attention due to her gender.Women had to be harsh to make their way through the industry, he said, demanding respect and appropriate pay.
"Of course, the men would say, 'Oh, they're ball busters,' [but] they were just looking out for themselves," Fowler said. "You could be as good on your instrument as the next guy, but because he was a man, he got better treatment than you got."
Scott's marriage to another great saxophonist, Stanley Turrentine, also pushed her name to the side.
The third and last album features Walter Bishop, Jr. It's titled Bish at the Bank: Live in Baltimore, from a show recorded in 1967.
"When I listen to Walter Bishop, Jr., I hear the traditions of bebop jazz," Feldman said." You can hear it in his comping and his voicings, in his approach to playing the piano. And you hear that music; you hear that tradition."
Talking about these three tapes, Feldman harped on the idea of enjoying the tapes: "You don't need an owner's manual. All you need to do is put it on and listen. And this music feels good."
Connecting with the old to understand the new
For Fowler, knowing the history of Baltimore's jazz scene is vital for understanding the current state of the genre.
He said the reason why the city appealed to musicians for these legendary performances was, in part, because of its proximity to New York. But also, the Left Bank paid them on time.
"Once the word got out, the phone would literally jump off the hook. Everybody wanted to come down and everybody wanted to bring the new group down to try them out in Baltimore," Fowler said.
The Left Bank volunteers continued to put out shows in other venues after moving out of the Ballroom, but the crowds of jazz fans had started dwindling with the rise of other genres. In total, the organization promoted shows in Baltimore for about 40 years.
But the way Fowler described it, the vibe at the Famous Ballroom was unmatched, on and off the stage.
"Everybody had fried chicken, crab cakes, homemade potato salad, [even] the liquor, because you could bring everything with you. Once you walked through the door and bought your ticket, you could even bring your own ice if you wanted to," he said.
That brought a diverse audience: young and old, and Black and white – something unusual at the time.
"We didn't realize until a couple of writers from the newspaper mentioned that Left Bank was one of the few integrated concert venues in 1964," Fowler said. "We just said, 'Hey, they're jazz fans, we don't give a damn. You know, they could be green.' As long as you got the price of admission, we don't care."
It was also a very demanding audience: "Gimmicks didn't work in Baltimore, you had to play. When you got a standing ovation at the Ballroom, you had really played."
And for Fowler and Feldman, unearthing these recordings is about appreciating the history of this genre, to better understand where it is now, especially with the increasing number of vinyl album sales in the past 16 years.
But Fowler turned to a quote that is commonly attributed to Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots."
"Unless you understand this, you're going to miss Christian McBride and all of the new cats, but you've got to start with the basis," Fowler said.
And putting that work in front of the public is what they are trying to do – with these three albums and future ones from the Left Bank Jazz Society.
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Carlos Santana postpones some concerts after health scare
DETROIT (AP) — Carlos Santana has postponed his next six shows after collapsing on stage during a concert on Tuesday, temporarily stepping away from the stage “out of an abundance of caution for the artist’s health.”
July concerts in Noblesville, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rogers, Arkansas; Dallas, Texas; and Woodlands, Texas, have been pushed back, Michael Vrionis, Santana’s manager said in a statement.
“Carlos is doing well and is anxious to be back on stage soon. He just needs rest,” Vrionis said. “Doctors have recommended that Mr. Santana gets rest to recuperate fully.”
Live Nation will be announcing the rescheduled show dates. All shows as planned beginning July 23 in Paso Robles, California, through the end of 2022 are still confirmed and will be performed as scheduled.
On Tuesday, the legendary guitarist was taken to a hospital after suffering heat exhaustion and dehydration while performing at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, some 40 miles northwest of Detroit.
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Tyre Nichols' family to address additional police discipline
Video above: Protesters march through streets of Boston after Tyre Nichols video released
On the eve of Tyre Nichols' funeral, his family plans to gather Tuesday with the Rev. Al Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump at the historic Mason Temple in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech the night before he was assassinated, to speak about the latest developments in the case.
Two more Memphis police officers were disciplined and three emergency responders were fired in connection with Nichols' death, officials said Monday. Officer Preston Hemphill, who is white, and another officer whose name wasn't released, have been suspended, police said.
Five Black officers were fired last week and charged with second-degree murder and other offenses in Nichols' Jan. 7 beating and death three days later. Video of the beating, which was released publicly last week, shows that many more people failed to help Nichols beyond the five officers charged in his death.
Video below: People march in Milwaukee in solidarity with Tyre Nichols
Six officers were part of the so-called Scorpion unit, which targeted violent criminals in high-crime areas. Other Memphis residents who say they also were "brutalized" by officers in the unit will speak, according to a statement from Crump.
Police Chief Cerelyn "CJ" Davis said after the video's release that the unit has been disbanded.
"It's a step in the right direction, but due to the severity of the situation it's not enough," Damion Carrick, 44, said as he participated in a protest Monday evening at Shelby Farms Park. "You got a man dragged out of his car, beaten senseless, to a pulp and nobody doing nothing about it. It's heartbreaking."
Nichols' death was the latest in a long string of early accounts by police about their use of force that were later shown to have minimized or omitted violent and sometimes deadly encounters.
Memphis Police Department officers used a stun gun, a baton and their fists as they pummeled Nichols during the nighttime arrest. Video shows Nichols running away from officers toward his house after he was pulled over on suspicion of reckless driving. The video footage released Friday shows the 29-year-old father calling for his mother and struggling with his injuries as he sits helpless on the pavement.
Video below: Rally for Tyre Nichols held in NYC
The five officers chatted and milled about for several minutes as Nichols remained on the ground, but there were other authorities on the scene. Two Shelby County sheriff's deputies also have been suspended without pay while their conduct is investigated.
Nichols' older brother, Jamal Dupree, told CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday that he feels guilty because he wasn't there to protect his younger sibling.
"I'm 99% sure that my brother has never gotten into a fight before. And the one time he got into an altercation with other humans, we wasn't there to protect him. My brother was trying to cooperate with them," Dupree, who lives in California, said of the Memphis officers.
Dupree said he hasn't watched the police video.
"I already knew how they treated him because I've seen it all over the world," Dupree said. "Police brutality is nothing new. I already knew they treated my brother like an animal. They treated him like he was nothing. I don't have to watch the video to know that."
He said he has seen reports about his brother and thinks other people are learning about who he was as a person.
Video below: Childhood friends reflect on growing up in Sacramento with Tyre Nichols
"I think people really know my brother did not deserve this," he told CNN. "He was not that type of person. Yeah, he was just a good guy around the board. ... We want justice."
RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, the mother and stepfather of Nichols, have accepted an invitation to attend President Joe Biden's State of the Union address next week at the Capitol. They will attend with Rep. Steven Horsford, a Nevada Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, according to Vincent Evans, a spokesperson for the caucus.
Nichols' funeral is set for Wednesday at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis. Sharpton will give the eulogy and Crump will speak immediately after the funeral. Those expected to be in attendance include Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, and Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd.
The deaths of Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, and Floyd in Minneapolis, at the hands of police sparked protests across the nation about racial injustice.
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Associated Press journalists Gary Fields in Memphis; Darlene Superville in Washington; and Rebecca Reynolds in Louisville, Kentucky, contributed to this report. | 2023-01-31T18:45:35+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/tyre-nichols-family-addresses-additional-police-discipline/42723113 |
HONG KONG, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SIMCERE PHARMA (HK.2096) announced that SIM0417, a candidate drug against SARS-Cov-2, for which the Company holds license from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) and Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has obtained the Clinical Trial Approval issued by the National Medical Products Administration in China, and is proposed for post-exposure prophylaxis for close contacts of individuals who test positive for SARS-CoV-2.
ABOUT SIM0417
SIM0417 (molecule serial number SSD8432) targets 3CL protease, which is a key protease required for SARS-CoV-2 replication. It is currently under clinical development for SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. SIM0417 has shown broad-spectrum antiviral activity, good in vivo pharmacokinetic properties, and safety in pre-clinical studies. It is a highly active, low toxicity, orally administrable small molecule anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug candidate.
- · On November 17, 2021, Simcere established the collaboration with SIMM, etc. on the co-development and commercialization of SIM0417.
- · On March 28, 2022, the first Clinical Trial Approval in China is obtained, for SARS-CoV-2 infected patients.
- · On April 10, 2022, first subject enrolled in phase 1 study accomplished in Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital.
- · On May 13, 2022, the second Clinical Trial Approval is obtained, for post-exposure prophylaxis in close contacts of individuals who test positive for SARS-CoV-2.
ABOUT SIMCERE
Simcere Pharmaceutical Group is an innovation and R&D-driven pharmaceutical company. It has established a National Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine and Innovative Drug Development. The company focuses on three therapeutic areas, oncology, central nervous system and autoimmune diseases, with forward-looking layout of disease areas that may have significant clinical needs in the future, aiming to achieve the mission of "providing today's patients with medicines of the future." Leveraging its R&D capability and commercialization excellence, Simcere has built a market-leading product portfolio in China. Its vigorous in-house R&D efforts and extensive R&D collaborations have made it a strategic cooperation partner with world leading innovative companies and research institutes.
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UK official visits Hong Kong in years after strained ties
By KANIS LEUNG
Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — The first British minister visiting Hong Kong in five years said his country will not “duck” its historic responsibilities to people living in its former colony while engaging with China in areas they share common interests. The remarks by Dominic Johnson were published in the South China Morning Post on Tuesday. He wrote the U.K. will be clear about its right to act when China breaks its international commitments or abuses human rights. His trip came after relations between Hong Kong and Britain became increasingly strained following the enactment of a Beijing-imposed national security law. | 2023-05-09T06:49:23+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/05/08/uk-official-visits-hong-kong-in-years-after-strained-ties/ |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday revoked the Palestinian foreign minister’s VIP travel permit, part of a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians that Israel’s new hard-line government announced days ago.
Riad Malki said in a statement that he was returning from the Brazilian president’s inauguration when he was informed that Israel rescinded his VIP travel permit, which allows top Palestinian officials to travel more easily in and out of the occupied West Bank than ordinary Palestinians. It was not clear whether the permits of other officials had been revoked as well.
Israel’s government on Friday approved the steps to penalize the Palestinians in retaliation for them pushing the U.N.’s highest judicial body to give its opinion on the Israeli occupation. Rulings by the International Court of Justice are not binding, but they can be influential on world opinion.
The decision highlights the tough line the current government is already taking toward the Palestinians just days into its tenure. It comes at a time of spiking violence in the occupied West Bank and as peace talks are a distant memory.
In east Jerusalem, a flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian tensions, Israeli police said they broke up a meeting by Palestinian parents about their children’s education, claiming it was unlawfully funded by the Palestinian Authority. Police said the operation came at the behest of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist with a long record of anti-Arab rhetoric and stunts who now oversees the police.
The Palestinians condemned the revoking of Malki’s permit, saying Israel should be the one being “punished for its violations against international law.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of his Cabinet on Sunday the measures against the Palestinians were aimed at what he called “an extreme anti-Israel” step at the U.N. Israel’s Defense Ministry confirmed that Malki’s permit had been revoked. Malki’s office said he was still permitted to travel like ordinary Palestinians, but had lost the VIP privileges that allow him to bypass lines and move quickly through Israeli checkpoints or through the West Bank’s crossing into Jordan.
On Friday, the government’s Security Cabinet decided Israel would withhold $39 million from the Palestinian Authority and transfer the funds instead to a compensation program for the families of Israeli victims of Palestinian militant attacks.
It also said Israel would further deduct revenue it typically transfers to the cash-strapped PA — a sum equal to the amount the authority paid last year to families of Palestinian prisoners and those killed in the conflict, including militants implicated in attacks against Israelis. The Palestinian leadership describes the payments as necessary social welfare, while Israel says the so-called Martyrs’ Fund incentivizes violence. Israel’s withheld funds threaten to exacerbate the PA’s fiscal woes.
The Security Cabinet also targeted Palestinian officials directly, saying it would deny benefits to “VIPs who are leading the political and legal war against Israel.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s new defense minister, Yoav Gallant, said he was stripping three senior Palestinian officials of VIP privileges allowing them to enter Israel. The move came after they visited an Arab citizen of Israel who was released from prison last week after serving 40 years for the murder of an Israeli soldier.
The police operation Saturday came days after Ben-Gvir took office. Police alleged the parents’ meeting was funded by the Palestinian Authority and attended by PA activists, which it said was in violation of Israeli law. Police said they prevented the meeting from taking place and that they were operating under an order by Ben-Gvir to shut it down. Police declined to provide evidence backing up their claim and a spokesman for Ben-Gvir referred questions to the police.
Ziad Shamali, head of the Students’ Parents’ Committees Union in Jerusalem, which was holding the meeting, denied there was any PA involvement, saying it was being held to discuss a shortage of teachers in east Jerusalem schools. He said he viewed the claim of PA ties as “a political pretext to ban” the meeting.
The Palestinian Authority was created to administer Gaza and parts of the occupied West Bank. Israel opposes any official business being carried out by the PA in east Jerusalem, and police have in the past broken up events they alleged were linked to the PA.
Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it, a move unrecognized by most of the international community. Israel considers the city its undivided, eternal capital. The Palestinians seek the city’s eastern sector as the capital of their hoped-for state.
About a third of the city’s population is Palestinian and they have long faced neglect and discrimination at the hands of Israeli authorities, including in education, housing and public services.
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Associated Press writer Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv contributed to this report. | 2023-01-09T00:56:38+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-palestinian-fm-israel-revokes-travel-permit-over-un-move/ |
As the City of Twin Falls continues to grow, many residents are concerned with motorist/pedestrian safety
About 100,000 vehicles use Blue Lakes Boulevard daily, and there has been an increase in reckless driving behavior.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — A recent series of fatal motor vehicle collisions, that have led to two deaths, has some Magic Valley residents concerned about how safe our roads and sidewalks are for pedestrians and bicyclists.
“Oh, its grown quite a bit. I can’t say the numbers. I remember when the Pole Line was just a two-lane road,” said Coranado
Twin Falls Police Patrol Sergeant Lou Coranado says about 100,000 vehicles use Blue Lakes Boulevard daily, and there has been an increase in reckless driving behavior, partially due to traffic congestion.
“I would say it’s late for work, off works and hurry to get home, and Twin Falls has just grown so much,” said Coranado.
This past week a pedestrian and bicyclist were killed in vehicle collisions.
The motorist who killed the pedestrian ran a red light, which for the driver, could lead to a vehicular manslaughter charge, jail time, and loss of his license.
Because the person did die would it be a felony? “It would depend upon his negligence.” Said Coranado.
Additionally this past week, the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Department had a report of a motorist driving through a Kimberly School District bus stop arm.
“Every school year there is a concern about people paying attention to the school zones doing what they should around school buses,” said Craner.
Twin Falls School District Community Relations Specialist Eva Craner says so far this school year her district has not seen an increase in incidences, but their schools do have crossing guards, and they provide safety busing.
“So any student that would have to cross major thoroughfare to get to school, there is a bus route available to them,” said Craner.
To help address the issue, Sergeant Coronado says the Twin Falls Police Department is starting a yearlong aggressive driving grant, which will be targeted for weekends.
“Which typically those groups are out there racing and driving aggressive so hopefully we will get those officers out there an target those vehicles,” said Coranado.
Coronado says vehicles colliding with pedestrians is rare for Twin Falls, and he and others hope we don’t see anymore.
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By ASHRAF KHALIL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Muriel Bowser was poised to coast to a third term Tuesday after a campaign focused on her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and on her history as one of the faces of Washington’s ongoing quest for statehood.
In June, Bowser, 50, defeated a pair of challengers from the District of Columbia Council in the Democratic primary, a race that is largely held to be the de facto mayoral race in the overwhelmingly Democratic district.
In the general election, Bowser faced a trio of challengers — all considered marginal: Republican Stacia Hall, Statehood Green Party nominee Corren Brown and independent candidate Rodney “Red” Grant.
Bowser has largely presided over a period of prosperity but has faced steady accusations of being too close to developers and business interests as an uncontrolled gentrification wave prices out longtime Black residents.
Grant, a longtime actor and comedian, took aim at that perception, saying in a campaign video that Bowser has “focused on developing buildings in our city but has forgotten to develop our youth and a real comprehensive plan to reduce crime.”
Public safety and crime dominated the primary campaign. Homicides have risen for four years straight, and the 2021 murder count of 227 was the highest since 2003. Both primary challengers, D.C. Council members Robert White and Trayon White, harshly criticized her response to the spiraling violent crime rates.
But despite her vulnerability on public safety and rising public anxiety over crime, Bowser emerged from the Democratic primary with a double-digit victory.
Bowser gained national attention in the summer of 2020. Following mass protests over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, she publicly feuded with then-President Donald Trump after racial justice protesters were forcibly cleared from an area near the White House.
Bowser responded by renaming the protest epicenter Black Lives Matter Plaza and commissioning a mural with “Black Lives Matter” painted on a stretch of 16th Street, one block from the White House, in giant yellow letters. The move was publicly dismissed as “performative” by the local Black Lives Matter affiliate, a regular Bowser critic.
Under pressure from activists calling to defund the police, Bowser largely stood by her police department, fighting public battles with the D.C. Council over the police budget. She quietly replaced an older white police chief with a younger Black successor and has pushed for funding to build Metropolitan Police Department staffing, currently at 3,500, up to 4,000 officers over the next decade.
A victory would make Bowser the second D.C. mayor to win three consecutive terms, tying with Marion Barry, who presided over the city continuously from 1979 to 1991.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against GrafTech International Ltd. ("GrafTech" or the "Company") (NYSE: EAF).
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Coming off one of their most embarrassing defeats of the season, the Los Angeles Clippers will try to maintain their grasp on a top-six spot in the Western Conference with a home matchup Monday night against the Chicago Bulls.
The Clippers (39-36) were trounced at home 131-110 by the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday. The setback left Los Angeles with losses in three of its last five games, and seven games remain in the regular season.
The Clippers don’t expect Paul George (knee) to return before the end of the regular season, with fellow star Kawhi Leonard held to 12 points on 4-of-16 shooting from the field against the Pelicans. He missed all six of his attempts from 3-point range.
Leonard left the game with a facial contusion.
“We get stagnant at times trying to look for Kawhi, and when he doesn’t have a good one, we just have to continue to run our offense,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. “We’ve been doing a good job of it since Jan. 1, but tonight was one of those nights.”
Bones Hyland ended up leading the Clippers with 18 points. It was just the seventh game Hyland has played for the Clippers since he was acquired in a February trade from the Denver Nuggets.
After appearing to get their defense in order following a recent lull, the Clippers saw the Pelicans shoot 53.1 percent from the field and 61.8 percent from 3-point range.
“It’s back to the drawing board,” Lue said. “There’s things we can clean up; taking care of the basketball, getting back in transition defensively and understanding what we’re doing defensively.”
The Bulls (36-38) will remain in Los Angeles after Sunday afternoon’s 118-108 victory over the Lakers. UCLA product Zach LaVine scored 32 points for Chicago, while former Clippers and Lakers defensive standout Patrick Beverley made a general pest of himself with 10 points against the team that traded him last month.
After one late basket over Lakers star LeBron James, Beverley reached toward the ground to give the “too small” gesture.
“I do it to everybody, you know,” Beverley said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “Just having fun, getting lost in the game. We’re not construction workers, we’re not guys that have to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning. We’re professional basketball players. It’s all about having fun.”
The Bulls’ real fun has come in a run where they have won five of their last six games and seven of nine. Sunday’s victory helped Chicago solidify its spot as the final team currently qualified for the Eastern Conference play-in tournament.
The only negative out of Sunday’s game for the Bulls was the ejection of Nikola Vucevic, who received two quick technical fouls for a verbal outburst toward officials just before halftime. He finished with four points in 15 minutes.
“It was a bad decision by me to react the way I did,” Vucevic said. “In a game as important as it was for us, I’ve got to be better, control my emotions in the moment. My mistake. My teammates came through once again for us. Makes me feel less bad about myself.”
–Field Level Media | 2023-03-27T19:47:50+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/nba-basketball/clippers-look-to-get-back-to-winning-ways-vs-bulls/ |
The widow of singer Chris Cornell and his former bandmates in Soundgarden said Monday that they have resolved her lawsuit against them, clearing the way for the release of the band’s final recordings more than five years after his death.
Vicky Cornell sued Soundgarden in federal court in 2019 over royalties from recordings her husband had made that she said were intended to be a solo project but the band contended were part of their partnership with him.
“ Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell, on behalf of the Estate of Chris Cornell, are happy to announce they have reached an amicable out of court resolution,” the two sides said in a statement. “The reconciliation marks a new partnership between the two parties, which will allow Soundgarden fans around the world to hear the final songs that the band and Chris were working on.”
No details of the agreement were released, and no court documents declaring that a deal had been reached have been filed in court. An email seeking details from Soundgarden’s lawyers was not immediately returned.
Chris Cornell made the seven disputed recordings in his Miami Beach home studio in the months before his death in May 2017 after a Soundgarden concert in Detroit, according to the lawsuit, whose defendants included the band’s guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd.
It alleged the band was denying hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties from Vicky Cornell and the couple’s two children.
In 2021, Cornell’s family settled a different lawsuit against a doctor they alleged over-prescribed him drugs before his death, which was ruled a suicide.
Soundgarden was founded in 1984, and broke nationally during the rise of Seattle’s grunge music scene in the late ‘80s and early ’90s. Their best-known songs include “Black Hole Sun,” “Jesus Christ Pose,” “Outshined” and “Spoonman.” Cornell was also part of the bands Audioslave and Temple of the Dog.
“The two parties are united and coming together to propel, honor and build upon Soundgarden’s incredible legacy,” Monday’s statement said, “as well as Chris’s indelible mark on music history as one of the greatest songwriters and vocalists of all time.”
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Academy Award Winner and Tony Nominee Ariana DeBose to Host Sunday, June 12, on CBS
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS, The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing will broaden access to THE 75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS® by providing, for the first time, audio description for the live telecast. The addition of audio description, which provides audio-narrated descriptions of a program's key visual elements, ensures that viewers who are blind and low vision will be able to take in all the action occurring on the screen, and provides a much richer experience of the event. The audio description will be provided on the Secondary Audio Programming (SAP) channel by industry leaders VITAC and Audio Eyes.
Live from the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York and hosted by Academy Award winner and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose, THE 75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS will be broadcast Sunday, June 12 (8:00-11:00 PM, LIVE ET/5:00-8:00 PM, LIVE PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*.
Since April 1, 2002, CBS has continuously provided audio description and is proud to have been an industry leader and innovator in the voluntary provision of the service. The Network offers audio description with nearly all its regularly scheduled scripted primetime programs, all movies, selected specials and the entire CBS DREAM TEAM Saturday morning block of educational/informational children's programming.
"For over 20 years, CBS has continually improved upon and increased the availability of audio description in our programming. We are proud to be able to offer THE 75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS to an even wider and more inclusive audience," said Mark Turits, vice president of captioning and audio description at Paramount Global.
The 75th Tonys television event will recognize all the award categories and honor the incredible artistry of the 2021-2022 season. The Tony Awards, which honor theater professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway, is presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing and has been broadcast on CBS since 1978.
The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment. Weiss will serve as director.
About the Tony Awards
The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Award, which was founded by the American Theatre Wing in 1947, is bestowed annually on theater professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast – the night America watches Broadway – is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
About AUDIO EYES
Audio Eyes is a partnership of audio engineers, producers, accessibility experts, blind professionals and audio description professionals who are passionate about providing high quality services in a creative, inclusive work environment. The Audio Eyes production team has more than a decade of experience providing live audio description in theaters as well as recorded audio description for broadcast television networks, nationally distributed DVDs, government agencies and private entities. Additionally, they have extensive experience producing audio dramas, audio books, music, radio programs, radio ads and a variety of business-to-business audio products. The Audio Eyes progressive work environment, inclusive hiring practices and technical expertise keep the company at the leading edge of the accessible media production industry.
About VITAC
VITAC, a Verbit company, is the largest provider of accessible video products and services in North America. Responsible for captioning hundreds of thousands of programming hours each year, its customers include every broadcast company and most cable networks, as well as Fortune 1000 corporations, educational institutions, government agencies, plus stadiums and arenas.
*Paramount+ Premium subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service as well as on demand. Essential-tier subscribers will have access to the program on-demand the day after the special airs.
Audio Description on Paramount+ will only be included in post-live air streams.
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BOSTON, March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvard Business School's (HBS) Klarman Hall was packed to capacity yesterday evening, with spectators there to support the 12 student finalist teams competing in the finale of the 26th annual HBS New Venture Competition (NVC). At stake was $225,000 in cash plus in-kind prizes to fund the startups. The top prize in the Student Business Track and Student Social Enterprise Track was $75,000 each, with runner-up prizes of $25,000; two audience prizes of $5,000; and $15,000 in Tough Technology prizes.
The NVC is open to all students and alumni interested in launching new business and social impact ventures. The School's Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), in partnership with HBS Alumni Clubs & Associations, host the annual competition. This year, 318 teams entered the competition—122 in the Student Business Track, 57 in the Student Social Enterprise Track, and 139 Alumni Track teams in eight regional competitions around the world. Since its inception in 1997, there have been 6,022 participants, and $2,980,000 has been awarded to the students and alumni who are creating groundbreaking new businesses and social impact ventures.
This year's new venture pitches were vetted by more than 300 judges, including many HBS graduates, from fields such as venture capital, private equity, law, accounting, philanthropy, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship. The result was 20 finalists, eight in the Student Business Track, four in the Social Enterprise Track, and eight in the Alumni Track, in fields as varied as healthcare, sustainability, artificial intelligence, cosmetics, and even hair braiding.
"Our entrepreneurs have been working diligently on their ventures for the past year or two, and the NVC is the culmination of that work," said Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. "They have cultivated their ideas, often collaborated with classmates, and taken advantage of the many entrepreneurship resources the School has to offer. Now, with the experience of crafting, refining, and delivering a pitch, and in some cases a cash prize, they can continue their journey."
"Many of this year's ventures have the potential to drive sustained, high-impact social change, core to what drives social enterprise," Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), interim director of the Social Enterprise Initiative, commented. "Our students have had the opportunity to stress test their ideas through the competition process and will to continue to iterate and improve their organizations, as they tackle societal issues."
During the ceremony, HBS Professor Shikhar Ghosh, faculty co-chair of the Rock Center, addressed the participants and the importance of their work. "While we're entering a world where exponential change is coming, things are already changing all around us," he noted. "What we need is a set of entrepreneurs that are willing to step out of their comfort zone, go into the world and look at the way we organize society, medicine, education, and ourselves, because all of those things are going to change thanks to the power of technology."
In addition to the $225,000 in cash prizes, sponsors have donated in-kind tools and services that will help the startups launch and grow. In-kind sponsors are Foley Hoag LLP Law Firm, All Stage, AWS Activate, Case Smart Impact Capital, Harvard Innovation Labs, HBS's Baker Library, HubSpot for Startups, MassChallenge, and Wix.
This year's winners are:
Student Business Track
The Dubilier Prize was established by New York and London-based private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in 1998 in honor of their founder, Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952), to support entrepreneurship.
The Satchu-Burgstone Prize honors Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999), Asif Satchu (MBA 1999), and Reza Satchu (MBA 1996), all recipients of the runner-up prize in the 1999 competition with their plan for SupplierMarket.com.
The Dubilier $75,000 Grand Prize: Halo Braid
Halo Braid reduces braiding time from hours to minutes, saving time for clients, empowering Black salon owners to double or triple their business, and addressing the eight billion hours spent braiding hair each year.
Team:
- Yinka Ogunbiyi (MS/MBA 2023), Founder and CEO
- David Afolabi (MBA 2023), Co-Founder
- Christian Knight (MBA 2023), Co-Founder
Satchu-Burgstone $25,000 Runner Up Prize: DoriVac
DoriVac is working to solve huge unmet health needs in cancer treatment through the intersection of innovative life science approaches in cancer immunotherapy, nanomaterials engineering, and leadership spanning the medical, science, and business fields.
Team:
- Kevin Emancipator (MBA 2023), CBO
- Claire Zeng, CEO
Crowd Favorite Prize: Halo Braid
Student Social Enterprise Track
The Sacerdote Prizes were initially established in 2003 by Peter M. Sacerdote (MBA 1964) to encourage more HBS graduates to become involved in social enterprises and to support their efforts.
Peter M. Sacerdote $75,000 Grand Prize: The MV3 Foundation
The MV3 Foundation empowers Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences.
Team:
- Ashley Kyalwazi (MD/MPP 2024), Founder and CEO
- Leonard Nettey (MD/PhD), COO & Research Lead
Peter M. Sacerdote $25,000 Runner Up Prize: Pando
Pando democratizes credit for 150 million underbanked Indonesians by providing alternative loans and helping them build a credit history.
Team:
- Claire Wu (MBA 2023), CEO
- Andrew Setiawan, President
Crowd Favorite Prize: Pando
Tough Technology Prize
This is the fourth year for the Tough Technology Prize, sponsored by the Rock Center in collaboration with the HBS Digital, Health Care, and Business and Environment Initiatives, to recognize ventures working on transformative technology that solves the world's most important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. This year there are three $5,000 Touch Tech Venture Awards for Most Promising Climate Tech, Deep Tech and Pharmaceutical Ventures.
Tough Tech: Most Promising Climate Tech Venture $5,000 Prize: Grensol
Region: Europe
Grensol closes the materials loop for car recycling to valorize industrial waste, recover valuable resources, and produce energy.
Rajiv Singhal (MBA 2007), Founder & CEO
- Team:· Federico Bussman, Business Development
- Dr. Joseph Laux, CTO
- Dr. Bhawna Nagar, Research Projects
Tough Tech: Most Promising Deep Tech Venture $5,000 Prize: Phenegra
Region: Northeast U.S./New York
Phenegra re-imagines the potential of reactive graphene to attack problems that imperil the natural environment, like oil spills, unrecycled garbage, depleted soil. The organization begins humbly with the global challenge to fix broken paving asphalt, and the soil and water pollution it leaves.
Team:
- Ronald Terrazas (MBA 1978), Co-Founder & CEO
- Dr. Gordon Chiu, President, Director & CTO
- Bruce Paschal, Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs
- Jessica Pitsillides, HFAS 2025, Special Adviser
Tough Tech: Most Promising Pharmaceutical Venture $5,000 Prize: Believer Pharmaceuticals
Believer Pharmaceutical is developing novel protein degradation therapeutics targeting Zinc Finger transcription factors for intractable cancer treatment along with an ultrasensitive companion diagnostic assay.
Team:
- Iris Li (MBA 2024), Business Development Director
- Giovanni Amabile, HMS, Acting CSO
- Professor Li Chai, HMS, PI & Co-Founder
- Jun Liu, HMS, Scientific Director
- Professor Daniel Tenen, HMS, PI & Co-Founder
Alumni Track
Separately, HBS alumni were invited to participate in the Alumni New Venture Competition (aNVC). The 139 teams competed in eight regions around the world, where regional finalists were sent to the Global Finals round to compete for over $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes. More than 100 judges participated. Winners were announced at the Global Finale held virtually on March 23.
$75,000 Grand Prize: M7 Health
Region: New York
M7 Health is making nursing jobs work for nurses.
Team:
- Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022), Co-Founder & CEO
- Eric Gruskin (MBA 2022), Co-Founder & COO
$25,000 Runner Up Prize: Hue
Region: Northeastern US/Boston
Hue helps brands and retailers embed TikTok-style shoppable videos on their e-commerce websites to give customers of beauty products the confidence to add to products to their cart.
Team:
- Janvi Shah (MBA 2022), Co-Founder & CEO
- Nicole Clay (MBA 2022), Co-Founder & CMO
- Sylvan Guo (MBA 2022), Co-Founder & COO
Crowd Favorite $5,000: Tilden
Region: Western US/Southern California
Tilden creates non-alcoholic beverages that change the way society thinks about celebrating.
Team:
- Mariah Hilton Wood (MBA 2022) Co-Founder & COO
- Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022), Co-Founder
Read more about some of the New Venture Competition Business Track, Social Enterprise Track, and Alumni Track finalist teams, and for further information please visit the following websites:
Media Contact:
Mark Cautela
mcautela@hbs.edu
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BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Police have charged a 19-year-old man with killing two teenagers and wounding four others in an early Sunday shooting at a house party on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Cameron Everest Brand of Pass Christian is charged with murder and aggravated assault, jail records show. Bay St. Louis Police Chief Toby Schwartz said in a news release that police identified Brand as the sole shooter through witness and victim statements.
An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old died in a New Orleans hospital, Schwartz said. The Orleans Parish coroner did not return a phone call seeking to confirm their identities.
Friends and family identified them as De’Arreis “DD” Smith, 18, and Haeleigh Stamper, 16, classmates at Hancock High School.
Smith was a senior getting ready to graduate, according to Kecia Sams, who considered him an adopted member of her family.
“De’Arreis Smith was an amazing soul, a loyal friend, brother and uncle,” Sams told Nola.com. “He was loved by many and will be missed so very much by his family.”
A GoFundMe account was set up to help with funeral expenses for Stamper. In the posting, the organizer, Lillie Smith, described the teen as a “sweet soul.”
“Her beautiful smile would light the whole room up,” Smith said.
Brand was arrested at his home in neighboring Pass Christian and taken to jail, Schwartz said. Bay St. Louis Municipal Court Judge Stephen Maggio denied Brand bail, and he was being held in the Hancock County jail. It is unclear if Brand has a lawyer who could speak for him.
Students had gathered for a party at the home on a sparsely populated road after Bay High School’s prom. Local news outlets reported that trails of blood could be seen on the pavement Sunday outside the home, while cars were peppered with bullet holes. The home is less than a mile from Bay High.
Police said the six victims wounded by gunfire ranged in age from 15 to 18. All were taken to area hospitals, some by helicopter.
Casey Woods, an 18-year-old student at Pass Christian High School, told the Sun Herald of Biloxi that he was at the party with a girlfriend. He told the paper he saw Brand talking to people and then walking away before he returned and the shooting started.
“Me and my girl looked up and saw sparks coming from the gun,” Woods said, adding many people ran into the woods.
Both of the teens who died had attended nearby Hancock High School in Kiln, officials in that school district said. Two more Hancock High students were shot and wounded, as were two students from Bay High. Those are the only two public high schools in Hancock County, on the western end of the Mississippi Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Gulfport.
“Our hearts are broken as we mourn the tragic loss of two Hancock High School students who were victims of the shooting in Bay St. Louis last night,” the Hancock County school district said in a statement, saying counselors would be available Monday at school. “Let us come together as a community to show our support and love during this difficult time.”
Sandra Reed, superintendent of the Bay St. Louis-Waveland school district, said both of the wounded Bay High students were expected to recover. Bay High Principal Amy Necaise said the school was making faculty and staff available on campus Sunday afternoon to counsel students. | 2023-05-01T11:32:22+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/2-killed-4-wounded-in-mississippi-shooting-man-arrested/ |
HE Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi Meets South Florida Mayors and Business Leaders to Strengthen UAE-US Commercial Ties
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State for Foreign Trade HE Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi recently concluded a successful two-day visit to Florida, which focused on expanding the bilateral UAE-US trade and commercial relationship. His trip to the "Sunshine State" builds on recent economic development missions to the UAE by local South Florida officials.
Minister Al Zeyoudi met with Broward County Mayor Michael Udine, Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam, and Chairman of the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners Jose "Pepe" Diaz.
The leaders discussed ways to enhance collaboration between the UAE and Florida, with a focus on investment, tourism, city planning, and healthcare. These meetings follow a delegation in March by Florida mayors to Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai where they engaged with the UAE business community and attended closing events for Expo 2020 Dubai including visiting the US Pavilion.
"Florida is the commercial gateway to the Americas and the UAE sits at the crossroads of global trade and commerce. It makes perfect sense that the Emirates is developing close ties with this economically vibrant region," said UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade HE Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi. "The UAE was pleased to host multiple delegations of Florida mayors recently and we remain committed to expanding economic partnership opportunities here."
In Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Minister Zeyoudi attended high level business development and networking events and meetings hosted by the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council, The International Trade Consortium (ITC), Enterprise Florida, a public-private partnership promoting economic development in Florida, and eMerge Americas, an organizing focused on establishing Miami as the tech hub of the Americas.
In 2021, Florida exported over $1 billion of goods to the U.A.E., making it one of the top 10 states exporting to the Emirates. These exports supported an estimated 6,000 U.S. jobs. The U.A.E. also exported over $180 million of goods to Florida that same year.
During Miami Mayor Frances Suarez's visit to the UAE in March, he signed a sister city agreement alongside HE Abdulla Al Basti, Secretary-General of The Executive Council of Dubai, deepening ties between the cities of Dubai and Miami. Crown Prince of Dubai H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attended that signing ceremony.
In July 2021, Emirates Airline began its first-ever passenger service between Dubai and Miami, opening new business and leisure opportunities between the U.A.E. and South Florida. Emirates has also been flying to Orlando since 2015, and it previously serviced South Florida through Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from 2016 through 2020.
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LONDON (AP) — As Britain swelters through a roasting summer, and braces for a cold financial reckoning in the fall, calls for the Conservative government to act are getting louder.
But the Conservatives are busy choosing a new leader, through a prolonged party election whose priorities often seem remote from the country’s growing turmoil.
Britons’ energy bills have soared — and further hikes are coming — as the war in Ukraine squeezes global oil and gas supplies. The Bank of England is predicting a long, deep recession later this year alongside 13% inflation. Meanwhile, temperatures in Britain hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in July for the first time ever, and millions are facing limits on water use as England’s green and pleasant land dries to a desiccated brown.
There is little sense of crisis among Conservatives as Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak crisscross the country wooing the 180,000 party members who will choose a successor to departing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Under Britain’s parliamentary system, the winner of the Tory leadership race — to be announced Sept. 5 — will also become prime minister, without the need for a national election.
Conservative members are largely middle-aged or older, mostly middle-class or affluent, and their views don’t always reflect those of the country as a whole.
“I’d like to see some true Conservative policies,” said Helen Galley, a lawyer and local Conservative official attending a candidates’ meeting in the English seaside town of Eastbourne. “Low taxation, smaller state, less regulation, freeing industry and commerce from EU regulations. … Some self-reliance and sense of responsibility for yourself.”
Those priorities are mirrored in the campaign pitches of Truss and Sunak, who say they will tackle the cost-of-living crisis through long-term measures to boost the economy. Truss says she would cut individual and corporate taxes rather than give people “handouts.” Sunak says he’ll tackle inflation before lowering taxes, and will offer unspecified help to people struggling to pay their bills.
Critics say neither candidate is grasping the scale of the crisis. Millions of households face a financial squeeze in October, when a cap on household energy bills tied to wholesale prices is next raised. Consulting firm Cornwall Insight forecasts the average household will then be paying over 3,500 pounds ($4,200) a year for gas and electricity, more than double the amount a year earlier — with a further hike due in the new year.
Martin Lewis, a consumer champion who runs the popular Money Saving Expert website, has warned that “we are facing a potential national financial cataclysm,” with millions unable to heat their homes this winter.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who led the U.K. during the global financial crisis of 2008, called for Johnson, Truss and Sunak to get together and draw up an emergency budget in preparation for a “financial time bomb” in October.
“It’s not just that they’re asleep at the wheel — there’s nobody at the wheel at the moment,” Brown, a member of the opposition Labour Party, told broadcaster ITV.
Brown’s call was echoed by Tony Danker of business group the Confederation of British Industry, who said “we simply cannot afford a summer of government inactivity while the leadership contest plays out.”
But with Parliament adjourned for its summer recess and Johnson whiling away his last weeks in office, big policies are on hold. The few government announcements in recent weeks have been decidedly modest — one was a plan from a “Chewing Gum Task Force” to get sticky stains off city streets.
Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain, said the outgoing leader is barred from making “major fiscal interventions” during the transition period, and any new cost-of-living remedies must be for the next prime minister to decide.
“The Conservative Party — and therefore the government — is having a completely different conversation to the public,” said Alan Wager, a research associate at the U.K. in a Changing Europe think-tank. “And it’s quite a serious time to be having this very big disjuncture.”
Anti-poverty and environmental protesters have dogged Truss and Sunak at campaign events — a reminder of the world outside the Conservative bubble. In Eastbourne, several climate activists who had infiltrated the crowd stood to heckle Truss for failing to tackle the climate crisis. They were removed to chants of “Out, out, out” from the Conservative audience.
The environment has scarcely featured in the contest. Both Truss and Sunak say they will keep the government’s target of cutting Britain’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, while offering policies that would make that harder.
Truss supports fracking and renewed North Sea oil and gas extraction and says she will suspend green levies used to fund renewable energy projects. Sunak wants to ban new onshore wind farms, though he supports offshore wind and more nuclear power to cut Britain’s carbon footprint.
Party polls suggest Truss likely has an unassailable lead in the contest. Sunak is regarded with suspicion by some Tories for quitting the scandal-plagued government last month, a move that helped bring Johnson down. The former finance minister has been painted by opponents as a high-taxing, high-spending near-socialist because of the billions he spent to prop up the economy during the coronavirus pandemic.
Truss styles herself as a disruptor who will “be bold” in slashing taxes and ripping up red tape — a message many Tories are keen to hear.
Party member Robbie Lammas, part of a “Liz for Leader” contingent at the Eastbourne event, said he likes Truss’s “more optimistic view” of the economy.
“It’s good to be bold and good to challenge orthodoxy,” he said.
Another audience member, Wilhelmina Fermore, said she was “on the fence,” but leaning toward supporting Truss because “she’s more engaging and I think that she relates to people on the street.”
Yet what appeals to the Conservative Party does not necessarily appeal to the country. And Chris Curtis, head of political polling at research company Opinium, says the candidates’ economic promises will soon collide with stark reality.
“Liz Truss can believe all she likes that she’s going to be able to solve this thing through tax cuts, but there’s a big chunk of the population that’s about to get hammered,” he said.
“Talking about how you are going to help those people is not the kind of thing that will appeal to Conservative Party members … (but) there is going to have to be a new massive intervention to help people this autumn.” | 2022-08-10T22:29:07+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/in-race-to-win-uk-conservatives-accused-of-ignoring-crises/ |
Raspberry Rally Girl Scout cookies sold out in a few hours. Delaware scouts, customers frustrated
Girl Scouts of the USA released a limited-edition Raspberry Rally cookie last week and quickly sold out.
For Girl Scouts and customers, the high demand for the coveted cookie has created a maelstrom of frustration.
The Raspberry Rally cookie was available for online purchase only on Monday, Feb. 27, months after it was initially teased back in August.
So, what's the deal with Raspberry Rally?
Unlike other cookie flavors which can be purchased at booths or sold door-to-door by local troops, this limited-supply cookie would only be available online, to be directly shipped to customers, as long as supplies lasted.
Preorder options were not available.
While fans of Thin Mints and other favorites were able to stock up, when the new flavor was wiped off the market mere hours after orders opened, many cookie lovers found themselves empty-handed as their months of anticipation resulted in no Raspberry Rally cookie bounty.
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Cookie sellers weren't happy either
“We lost so many cookie sales for people waiting for this cookie. The sellout speed is insane [especially] since we understood the end of season delay was to support the supplier to be able to meet demand asks. This is overall incredibly disappointing and frustrating,” said one Facebook commenter.
“Everything about the campaign for [Raspberry Rallys] has been inconvenient for Scouts and for customers. I hope GS gets rid of this model entirely for next year,” another comment read.
Local troops saw “unexpected interest” in the new release and found the amount of fanfare Raspberry Rallys garnered before their online availability exceeded expectations, said Lauren Wells, director of marketing and communications for Girls Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay, which serves Delaware and the eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia.
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What's with the cookie shortage?
Due to supply chain challenges experienced by their supplier, Little Brownie Bakers, shortages of cookie flavors have been a nationwide issue since the pandemic began. Last year, Adventurefuls were a scarce commodity after experiencing setbacks due to supply issues, said Wells. (Adventurefuls are described by the Girls Scouts as "Indulgent brownie-inspired cookies topped with caramel flavored crème with a hint of sea salt.'')
“We do our best to replenish our stock throughout the season, but there are some customers who were not able to get their hands on any,” said Wells. “We have seen some direct challenges with other flavors like Samoas and Toffee-tastic.”
Raspberry Rally selling on eBay
Unlike cookie flavors that are annual regulars on the cookie-sale circuit, Raspberry Rally fanatics who were unsuccessful in getting any boxes have no idea if or when the cookie will be available again.
Now, high demand for the hard-to-get goodies has resale prices skyrocketing, much to the dismay of cookie lovers.
Girl Scout cookies usually sell for $5 or $6 a box. Now, resellers can be found charging $36 for a single box of the limited release, with some listings going beyond those upcharges.
"As I was searching for these new cookies, check out eBay, you can find these cookies on EBay … smh at a tremendous mark up,” a Facebook comment read.
“We, too, missed orders as many wanted them. Shipping is outrageous in general. Such a shame that supplies only lasted a few hours. Very disappointing,” commented a Facebook user.
So who did get the Raspberry Rally cookies?
Raspberry Rally inventory was distributed among councils based on council size and how successful their sales have been in the past.
While Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay is a relatively small council, according to Wells, Delaware sales clocked in at 4,660 boxes of Raspberry Rally.
Despite those sales, some are disgruntled about the way the cookies were sold and feel it does not align with the spirit of the organization.
“I feel the way these cookies were handled is contrary to what the cookie program is supposed to be about. Our girls are supposed to sell cookies, not a computer,” said a Facebook user.
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“Bad business practice GS ... thanks for making it my kid’s problem to apologize and explain that GSCB made us wait until today to order this cookie then not be able to follow through with the product,” said another.
“I combined my customers’ requests to minimize shipping costs. I’ve got a tally sheet for my customers. It’s a shame that kids would be penalized for pre-collecting order based on how you guys set up this cookie this year,” a comment read.
Girl Scouts policy states members are not supposed to purchase Raspberry Rally cookies and resell them to customers, a promise each troop is expected to uphold.
Although online comments suggest that some members did do this, causing others to ask how this was allowed and if the sales will be valid due to the rule-breaking, councils do not know what the intended use is when orders are bought in bulk and cannot prevent bulk sales, said Wells.
Did cookie controversy hurt local troops' sales?
Even with the Raspberry Rally debacle, regional troops are still in good standing with their sales and near the end of a successful season.
“We have had a really successful cookie program locally, so it hasn’t affected our sales much,” said Wells. | 2023-03-07T11:41:02+00:00 | delawareonline.com | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2023/03/07/raspberry-rally-girl-scout-cookies-sold-out-fast-prices-skyrocket/69976956007/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — New DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran debuted their plans for a revamped and newly unified DC Universe of films and television series, including a new Superman film in 2025, a Wonder Woman prequel and a Batman movie that won’t star Robert Pattinson.
In all, Gunn and Safran laid out plans for five new films and five new series in a presentation Tuesday that they said would constitute much of the first chapter — themed as “Gods and Monsters” — in an ambitious eight- to 10-year plan to reshape the DCU. After years of fitful success and some much-maligned duds, Gunn and Safran are making their bid for some cohesion and fresh creativity in Warner Bros.’ comic book empire.
After a several inherited projects debut in the next two years — including “The Flash,” with Ezra Miller, which Gunn said “resets the entire DC Universe” — their slate will launch with “Superman: Legacy” on July 11, 2025. Gunn is writing that film, which is described as about Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. No casting has yet been announced, though Henry Cavill has departed the role despite a recent cameo in 2022’s “Black Adam” — a sequel to which also isn’t part of Gunn and Safran’s plans despite Dwayne Johnson’s impassioned lobbying.
Who’s in and who’s out at DC has been the subject of much conjecture since October, when Gunn and Safran were named co-chairmen and co-chief executive officers of DC Studios. Among those making the cut: Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller, the Swamp Thing and a Batman and Robin film.
First, Robert Pattinson’s Batman will return in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman Part II,” opening Oct. 3, 2025. That film, though will lie outside the DCU and — like Todd Phillips 2024 “Joker” sequel — be labeled “DC Elsewhere” to signify that it stands outside the central, overlapping DC universe. Another Caped Crusader film, though, is coming at an unknown date: “The Brave and the Bold,” a Batman and Robin tale inspired by Grant Morrison’s comic series.
Also coming is “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow,” based on Tom King’s comics, and a big-screen standalone for the Swamp Thing. The all-women island birthplace of Wonder Woman will also be the setting of a drama series titled “Paradise Lost.” Some series will mix animated and live-action interpretations of DC characters. The animated “Creature Commandos,” the first season of which was written by Gunn, features Davis’ Waller and a black ops team, while the live-action “Waller” will star Davis and be written by Christal Henry (“Watchman” ) and Jeremy Carver (“Supernatural”). The planned series “Lanterns” will feature multiple Green Lanterns.
Gunn first came to DC after directing Marvel’s well-regarded “Guardians of the Galaxy” films. When the Walt Disney Co. temporarily dropped Gunn, he jumped to DC and made the supervillain film “The Suicide Squad,” a kind of blockbuster do-over that followed David Ayer’s much-maligned “Suicide Squad.” He and the veteran producer Safran came aboard with several upcoming DC films already on their way to theaters, including “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” (out March 17), “The Flash” (out June 16) and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (Dec. 25).
In a taped video message post on social media, Gunn pledged that the new DC Universe will be characterized by filmmaker freedom and distinctive narratives.
“I knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that’s very different,” Gunn said. “One of the things that’s very important for me in all of these movies and TV series is that the director’s vision and the vision of the writers and all of the creators is unique and something special. Storytelling is always king. That’s all that matters to us.” | 2023-02-01T07:33:19+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/ap-gunns-new-dc-slate-features-superman-supergirl-and-batman/ |
Miro Heiskanen Player Prop Bets: Stars vs. Kraken - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 6
Miro Heiskanen will be on the ice when the Dallas Stars and Seattle Kraken face off in Game 6 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round, at 7:00 PM ET on Saturday, May 13, 2023. If you're thinking about a bet on Heiskanen against the Kraken, we have lots of info to help.
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- When: Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
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- Points Prop: 0.5 points (Over odds: -164)
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- In 79 games this season, Heiskanen has a plus-minus of +12, while averaging 25:29 on the ice per game.
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- Heiskanen has a point in 47 games this year (out of 79), including multiple points 23 times.
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- The team has the NHL's 10th-best goal differential at +37.
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HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP) – UMassFive College Federal Credit Union (UMassFive) is hosting its winter coat and cold-weather clothing drive.
The clothing drive will take place at their Hadley, Northampton, and Springfield branches throughout December, according to a new release sent to 22News from UMassFive News. This drive is held to ensure that all community members have access to cold-weather clothing during the winter. Donations will be given in partnership with the Amherst Survival Center.
UMassFive will accept any and all clean, new, or gently used coats, gloves, scarves, hats, sweaters, and blankets. Donations are encouraged to be placed in a bag and can be dropped off during business hours at the Hadley branch at 200 Westgate Center Drive, the Northampton branch at 225 King Street, or the Springfield branch at 233 Carew Street.
“We know that our neighbors in need have come to count on the coats and warm clothing our members donate during this drive,” says Cait Murray, UMassFive Community Outreach Manager. “We are so grateful to partner with the Amherst Survival Center to ensure that donations are directed where they can have a significant impact.” | 2022-12-14T19:57:13+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/umassfive-hosts-winter-coat-and-clothing-drive/ |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company bet more on high-tech darling Apple and e-commerce giant Amazon during the second quarter, while also investing billions in old-school oil producers Occidental Petroleum and Chevron.
Berkshire Hathaway detailed all its second-quarter investments Monday in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Wall Street follows Berkshire’s investments closely because of Buffett’s remarkably successful track record over the decades.
Berkshire had already disclosed its biggest move in the quarter — investing $1.4 billion in oil producer Occidental Petroleum — because that investment’s size required more immediate updates. Berkshire now owns more than $11 billion worth of Occidental stock, and it controls more than 20% of the company after making several more purchases since the quarter ended on June 30.
But Monday’s filing revealed a number of smaller moves Berkshire made during the second quarter, including adding to its stakes in Apple, Amazon, Chevron, Ally Financial, Activision Blizzard, Paramount Global and several other stocks. Berkshire also trimmed its holdings in General Motors, US Bancorp and Kroger stocks while eliminating a stake in Verizon Communications.
Although Berkshire was active during the second quarter, it didn’t do nearly as much as it did in the first three months of the year when it invested $51 billion in an assortment of stocks.
Berkshire’s biggest single investment got a bit bigger during the quarter because it bought nearly 4 million more Apple shares, giving it 894.8 million shares of the iPhone maker.
The famously tech-averse investor’s conglomerate also picked up more than 10 million Amazon shares, giving it nearly 10.7 million shares.
Monday’s filing doesn’t make clear which investments Buffett handled and which ones were made by the two other investment managers at Berkshire, but Buffett typically handles all the larger investments worth more than $1 billion, such as the company’s major stakes in Apple, Bank of America, American Express and Coca-Cola stocks. Berkshire officials don’t typically comment on these quarterly filings.
Berkshire now owns 68.4 million Activision Blizzard shares after picking up more than 4 million more during the quarter. Buffett has said that investment is a bet that Microsoft’s acquisition of the video game maker will go through.
Besides investments, the Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire also owns more than 90 companies outright, including Geico insurance, BNSF railroad, several major utilities and an eclectic collection of manufacturing and retail companies, such as Dairy Queen and Precision Castparts. | 2022-08-16T21:04:43+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/buffetts-firm-buys-more-apple-amazon-while-betting-on-oil/ |
Many of us were introduced to Taraji P. Henson in Baby Boy, John Singleton’s Shakespearan saga about how one father bumbles into manhood. Henson was our Yvette, the situationship-stricken mother of the man’s young son. Just over 20 years later, she’s a mother once again. This time she’s Vanetta, Janine Teague’s (Quinta Brunson) fiscally irresponsible mother, in Abbott Elementary. She’s again parenting an adult child on screen, a signifier that she’s entered a new phase of her career and life.
“At first it was like, ah, mom? Why can’t I be her sister?” Henson says. “Then I looked at her age and I said, ‘Bitch, because you old enough to be her mother. Like, stop playing,’” she says with a laugh. “I’m not going to fight age. I’m going to age gracefully.”
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Realizing that it’s past noon can shock the system, especially since there’s a constant cultural emphasis on the new and now. TikTokers think commenting “YOU’RE 30!” under an innocuous music take is an insult with a poisonous tip. Online battles over the appropriateness of the “auntie” moniker roll on almost annually. We’re primed to the point of exhaustion for college, weddings, and motherhood (well, sorta)—the early life milestones we’ve come to define ourselves. But where’s the celebratory welcoming committee for the 40+ honey dips with nothing to prove? Youth ain’t everything.
Henson, 53, is a Hollywood pillar with credits in blockbusters like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Hidden Figures. She’s given color and complexity to the characters that we tend to overlook in everyday life. We’ve been conditioned to avert our gaze away from baby mamas, service employees, and sex workers. Henson looked them square in the eye.
In 25 years, she’s become our favorite homegirl in film and television, with one of her biggest projects in recent rearview being Fox’s Empire. She’s currently pitching a sitcom with her Think Like a Man co-star Kevin Hart. “When I set my eyes on coming out to Hollywood back in 1996, I was coming out here to book a comedy,” she reveals. “I had started out doing a lot of comedy. I was on Sister, Sister, Parenthood, Smart Guy. I was booking guest appearances on these sitcoms, thinking in my mind it was going to lead to me booking a series regular on a sitcom and it never happened.” Getting Baby Boy led to more dramatic roles, but she’s confident her TV idea will land at the right network.
As she juggles projects, one of them being playing Shug Avery in a musical remake of The Color Purple, the D.C. diva is continuing to put herself first. She’s nurturing her health and well-being in spite of the “go-grind-go” nature of the industry. In 2021, she opened up about having leaky gut syndrome and the measures she took to alleviate the gastrointestinal issues that sprang up as a result. Doctors told her that if she didn’t course correct, she could develop stomach cancer. Exercising wasn’t as much of a wrestling match as the food she ate. “I’ve been training on and off since I started in the film industry with Baby Boy,” she says. “That’s something that I kind of fall on and off the wagon, but for me, the biggest transition was diet. I hadn’t really leaned on and cleaned up my diet, as well as I had in the past. Understanding that food can heal, [and] it can also hurt.”
Henson also spoke about the myth of thinness as health, a harmful ideology fueled by fatphobia. ”I think we are under the misconception that just because someone is small that means they’re healthy,” she says. “Or just because someone is on the heavier side, that they’re not healthy, and that couldn’t be furthest from the truth. I was small, I was within my weight from my height and my age, and I was unhealthy.” Untangling fact from fiction is essential to the future of Black women’s wellness. Maybe one-day society, and by proxy, the entertainment world, will deprioritize aesthetics and embrace vitality. I’ll bow my head, but should I hold my breath?
“No one can prepare you for that. I don’t care who talks to you, no one can prepare you. You just got to jump in and get your feet and your hands dirty.” -Taraji P. Henson on motherhood
This year marks Henson’s 29th Mother’s Day—she gave birth to her son, Marcell, two days after the holiday in 1994. Her fans have long appreciated her frankness about the trials she faced as a working single mother and college student. Carving out time for herself was a spiritual poultice. “I couldn’t afford babysitters and nannies and things like that. But what I did do was I made sure my child went to bed at a certain hour. My baby couldn’t stay up all night because that was my time to decompress. He had to be in bed by 8:30 so that mommy [could] have her me time.”
Mothers aren’t human, haven’t you heard? They’re one-note, self-sacrificing, and supernatural, free of all needs and individuality. Nothing, not even their cracking bones and tinted-under eyes, belongs to them. Their vessel is for giving. They exist to serve. That’s why one mom employing a postpartum doula went viral, with people dunking on her “laziness.” It’s also why we have a hard time seeing mothers as angular and paradoxical when necessary. And for the mamas knee-deep in the work? Forget about it. If you’re not giving past the point of depletion, honey-child, you’re doing it wrong.
It’s true that parenting is harder than hell and then some. “No one can prepare you for that,” Henson remarks. “I don’t care who talks to you, no one can prepare you. You just got to jump in and get your feet and your hands dirty. You learn as you go, because there is no book that can teach you. There is no book that can prepare you, really, because everybody’s story and circumstances are different.” Even with the strain, you have to leave room for yourself. If not, you’ll look up one day and wonder why it seems like everyone else is facing the sun as you wilt. The upkeep may seem small—a self-administered manicure here, a night with the girls there—but it adds up.
In addition to her enviable career as an actress, Henson has further established herself as a fashionista and blossomed as an entrepreneur. She recently shook things up with sexy looks from Marc Jacobs and Fear of God. She’s been into clothes since childhood, with her mother, Bernice, working in corporate for the now-defunct department store Woodward and Lothrop. She was crafty, mixing the minimally-damaged luxury brand items her mother would get for cheap at work with more affordable clothing. She’d also reappropriate the label on the high-end clothing, attaching them to shirts and pants from discount spots. “I had a lot of fly shit, but we couldn’t afford it.”
On the business side, she’s the founder of TPH by Taraji, a scalp-first haircare line born out of her years-long love of cosmetology. Last year, the line expanded into bodycare products and Henson couldn’t be prouder. “It’s like it’s my baby,” she says, agreeing that leading a venture is kind of like rearing kids. “It’s only going to succeed if I nurture it.” The brand’s financial growth was in the double digits between 2021 and 2022 versus the previous year.
In this new season, Henson has also become a mentor of sorts to younger stars, sitting down for an episode of Mary J. Blige’s The Wine Down with Yung Miami and being an early supporter of Megan Thee Stallion. Her brand of cool af-meets-approachable makes her feel like the big cousin everyone wants advice from. (We wouldn’t mind borrowing some gold hoops and a cropped fur jacket from her either.) For Henson, she wraps Black women in hugs because she knows that we’re all we got. “We need each other,” she says with conviction. “We ain’t shit without each other. This world is against us. We are at the bottom of every pay grade, everywhere you go, the Black woman is the last to be thought about. We don’t have time to compete with each other, to go against each other, to fight with each other.”
She’s not wrong. With our knuckles and arms aching from fighting for, well, everything, who really has the energy to tussle with the next girl? And over what—a man? A gig? Chile, boo. There are bigger fish to fry and stepping on heads comes at a price. See, being grown means seeing the bigger picture. One that includes people and waters them along the way. And baby, Taraji is good and grown. Know that.
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Collaboration to bring multi-faceted and lasting benefits to New Orleans and Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LCMC Health and Tulane University today announced that the organizations have finalized their partnership, following approval from the Louisiana Department of Justice. Through this partnership, Tulane Medical Center, Lakeview Regional Medical Center, and Tulane Lakeside Hospital will join LCMC Health.
This partnership brings wide-ranging benefits to New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana by expanding access to comprehensive and specialty care, advancing academic medicine, boosting innovation and training in the region, and providing investment and other benefits to the community.
"The shared vision between LCMC Health and Tulane University to provide unparalleled patient care and medical research advancements in Southeast Louisiana made this partnership a natural fit," said LCMC Health CEO Greg Feirn. "As we integrate our operations, we are able to make locally-based decisions that best serve the comprehensive and specialty care needs of patients in our region."
All employees at the three HCA hospitals – Tulane Medical Center, Tulane Lakeside Hospital, and Lakeview Regional Medical Center – will continue to have jobs under the partnership as well as new and expanded opportunities for growth and advancement. The combined organization will also mean more investment in groundbreaking research, innovative technology, and lifesaving treatments.
"I can't overstate how important this partnership will be to improving healthcare and boosting medical research in our community," Tulane University President Michael A. Fitts said. "Combining the best community healthcare with the latest advances in academic medicine will provide the best care for our families, friends and neighbors while helping to drive our region's economy."
The integration of Tulane University's facilities with LCMC Health will take place over the next 12-24 months. Operations at all facilities will continue as normal while LCMC Health and Tulane collaborate to ensure a seamless transition for patients, physicians, and staff.
Over time, Tulane Medical Center will shift the majority of its services to East Jefferson General Hospital and University Medical Center New Orleans. This will create expanded opportunities for comprehensive, integrated care at facilities that can support new growth and provide an enhanced patient experience.
This approach will increase access to comprehensive care in downtown New Orleans and create expanded hubs for specialty care, innovation, and academic medicine in both Orleans and Jefferson Parishes.
This partnership is part of Tulane University's transformative commitment of $1 billion to Louisiana's economy. This commitment will emphasize commercialization of research and entrepreneurship and include reimaging of the Charity Hospital and Tulane Medical Center buildings. Together these facilities will house a new nursing program, clinical research programs, educational space for students, an exponential increase in space dedicated to research, as well as graduate programs in public health, social work, and medicine. All told, these efforts will create an estimated 2,300 jobs in New Orleans and across Louisiana.
These jobs will come in areas across clinical, educational, and support departments, helping to attract and retain talent in the local community. Through this partnership, Tulane University's new nursing program will help address the nursing shortage in Louisiana by expanding the pipeline of students entering the nursing field – making meaningful progress towards addressing the 2,475 unfilled full-time nursing positions projected in New Orleans by 2025.
For more information, please visit www.lcmchealth.org/extraordinarytogether.
Established in 2009, LCMC Health is a Louisiana-based, not-for-profit hospital system serving the healthcare needs of the Gulf Coast region. LCMC Health currently manages Children's Hospital New Orleans, East Jefferson General Hospital, New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, University Medical Center New Orleans, and West Jefferson Medical Center.
Founded in 1834, Tulane University is one of the country's most highly ranked, sought-after universities. It is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, a select group of the 63 leading research universities in the United States and Canada with "preeminent programs of graduate and professional education and scholarly research." Tulane also is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a university with "very high research activity." Of more than 4,300 higher educational institutions rated by the foundation, Tulane remains in a prestigious category that includes only two percent of universities nationwide.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s commissioner for health is urging the bloc’s governments to step up their efforts to tackle the expanding monkeypox outbreak in the region, which she says is “the epicenter of detected cases.”
In a letter to the EU’s 27 health ministers obtained by The Associated Press, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides called Wednesday for a “reinforced, concerted and coordinated action.”
“There is no time for complacency and we need to continue working together to control the outbreak,” she wrote.
Last week, the World Health Organization declared the monkeypox outbreak a global emergency. It is WHO’s highest level of alert but the designation does not necessarily mean a disease is particularly transmissible or lethal. Similar declarations were made for the Zika virus in 2016 in Latin America and the ongoing effort to eradicate polio, in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Kyriakides said the bloc’s priorities at this stage must include stepping up the identification and reporting of cases and preventing the spread of infection.
The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, has secured the purchase of 160,000 doses of vaccines for the disease and Kyriakides said two joint procurement procedures are in preparation for the purchase of further jabs and the antiviral drug Tecovirimat.
Although monkeypox has been established in parts of central and west Africa for decades, it was not known to spark large outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread widely among people until May, when authorities detected dozens of outbreaks in Europe, North America and elsewhere.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 74 countries since about May. To date, monkeypox deaths have only been reported in Africa, where a more dangerous version of the virus is spreading, mainly in Nigeria and Congo.
WHO’s top monkeypox expert, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, said that 99% of all the monkeypox cases beyond Africa were in men and that of those, 98% involved men who have sex with men.
While Kyriakides encouraged EU ministers to intensify their public risk communication with the risk groups, she said the particular group of men that have sex with men “should not be targeted, victimized or marginalized because of the outbreak.” | 2022-07-27T16:18:39+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/health/eu-health-commissioner-urges-reinforced-monkeypox-action/ |
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy consumer and retail industry press releases from PR Newswire, including Subway®'s celebration of nurses and Mindy Kaling's new swimwear line.
NEW YORK, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the consumer and retail industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Subway® Celebrates Nurses and Teachers Nationwide With a Week of Free Subway® Series Subs
Nurses and teachers can win one of 10,000 free Subway Series sandwiches through a new program, Subway Serves, that runs from May 8 through May 12. - Mindy Kaling and Andie Swim Announce the Launch of Mindy x Andie Swim Collection
The Mindy x Andie collection features 33 SKUs and is now available for purchase on AndieSwim.com. This collection marks Mindy's debut in swim design and features an array of colors, fabrics, and silhouettes that retail from $52 - $128. - belVita Breakfast Biscuits and Tamera Mowry-Housley Team Up to Help Busy Moms "Rise & Thrive" This Summer
"At belVita we're passionate about celebrating moms as their partner in shine to help spread positivity all morning long," said Mariama Boamah, Marketing Director, belVita at Mondelēz International. - Leading Global Bedding Company Tempur Sealy to Acquire Mattress Firm, the Nation's Largest Mattress Specialty Retailer
Together, Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm's combined global footprint will include approximately 3,000 retail stores, 30 e-commerce platforms, 71 manufacturing facilities, and 4 state-of-the-art R&D facilities worldwide. - Introducing AeroPress Clear: The Highly Anticipated & Sought-After Coffee Press from AeroPress, Inc.
Designed to meet consumer demands for aesthetically pleasing coffee brewing solutions and give users the ability to observe and adjust their brew, the AeroPress Clear features the same revolutionary, patented brewing technology as the AeroPress Original in a new crystal-clear form, made from Tritan™. - OLD BAY Seasoned Goldfish® Crackers Return for a Limited Time
Along with bringing back the quick-to-sell-out snack, Goldfish is releasing a reimagined version of a '90s classic hit song with artist and champion for broken hearts, Lisa Loeb. - L'Oréal Paris Announces The 'L'Oréal Paris League of Experts,' an Artistry-Focused Talent Collective
This group of experts will be tapped for everything from creating red carpet looks during key tentpole moments and having a presence at influencer events to providing digital-first educational content. Together, with the brand, they will continue to highlight their individual, expert points of view and support the brand's worth equity. - Dos Equis® Introduces New Products -- Its First Non-Alcoholic Beverage, A Classic Mexican Drink, & A Conveniently Canned Cocktail
"With the summer months approaching and more occasions to celebrate, we know that ready-to-drink products are what people are seeking to share with family and friends. We are also looking forward to introducing Dos Equis Lime & Salt ZERO to market, giving consumers another option for when they can't or don't want to drink," said Ligia Patrocinio, Senior Brand Director, Dos Equis, HEINEKEN USA. - Wendy's Taps Google Cloud to Revolutionize the Drive-Thru Experience with Artificial Intelligence
In June, Wendy's plans to launch its first pilot of Google Cloud's AI technology in a Columbus, OH-area, Company-operated restaurant, using those learnings to inform future expansions to more Wendy's drive-thrus. - Americans Won't Sacrifice Grilling Out This Summer, Despite Food Inflation
A recent Harris Poll commissioned by Omaha Steaks found while 40% of Americans have cut back on purchases – more than half (55%) are unwilling to sacrifice their summer grill-outs with family and friends. - REVOLVE Announces Exclusive Line: LOBA by Cindy Kimberly
The collection is inspired by the dream of summer and an ode to Cindy's summer home on the coast of Spain, where she grew up in a colorful beach town. Styles within the collection include an array of vibrant fairy-like corset tops and sets, lace, flowy and fitted mini and maxi skirts, as well as gorgeous cutout dresses. The collection aims to evoke the softness and ease of throwing on something beautiful and free when it's warm outside. - Panera Partners with Kyle Kuzma to Launch Free Sips Through July 4
Guests who sign up for Unlimited Sip Club now through May 18 will receive a free membership to the monthly Unlimited Sip Club program through July 4, as well as be entered for a chance to win an upgraded Annual Unlimited Sip Club membership. - Miller High Life and the Planters® Brand Are "A Match Made in the High Life"
For the first time ever, the makers of the two brands are coming together to kick summer off right with "A Match Made in the High Life," a new partnership that includes co-branded merch, retail displays and a national-consumer promotion. - A Matcha Made in Heaven! Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur Partners with Cha Cha Matcha to Create the Most Insta-Worthy Drink of the Season
Just as the temperatures rise and iced matcha becomes the drink of choice, Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur has teamed up with the iconic matcha brand, Cha Cha Matcha, to share the newest colorful cocktail of the season - the Baileys Sun-Kissed Matcha.
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The NFL announcedthat quarterbacks will wear specialized helmets, saying the new headgear will better protect passers from head injuries.
The announcement comes two years after the NFL implemented position-specific helmets for offensive and defensive linemen.
The NFL said impact to the ground causes about half of all head injuries among quarterbacks. The new VICIS ZERO2 MATRIX QB helmet is said to perform 7% better in testing compared to the helmet most commonly used by quarterbacks last season.
The NFL said position-specific helmets “take into account the unique locations and speeds of head impacts for each position group to offer players more customized protection.” The league said the new helmets designed for offensive and defensive linemen were among the highest-rated by players.
“Helmets customized to the unique experiences of a position group promotes player safety,” said Jeff Miller, NFL executive vice president overseeing player health and safety. “This is the next evolution in a rapidly advancing market for improved helmets. We’re proud to share the data necessary to design and build better equipment.”
Helmets are designed to protect the skull from direct impact, but the design of helmets can cause the head to absorb much of the impact to a helmet, causing the brain to rattle and deform. This deformation causes concussions.
SEE MORE: Tua Tagovailoa's brain injury reignites NFL concussion safety debate
The redesigned helmet comes after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a head injury last season and was allowed to reenter the game despite displaying some head injury symptoms. Both the NFL and NFL Players Association released a statement saying, “The outcome in this case is not what was intended when the protocols were drafted.”
“The protocol exists to establish a high standard of concussion care for each player whereby every medical professional engages in a meaningful and rigorous examination of the player-patent,” the NFL and NFLPA said in a joint statement. “To that end, the parties remain committed to continuing to evaluate our protocol to ensure it reflects the intended conservative approach to evaluating player-patients for potential head injuries.”
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-04-14T16:13:48+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/nfl-quarterbacks-get-redesigned-helmets-to-limit-concussions |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Saúl Álvarez says he was determined to fight at home again in Mexico this year. The massive financial sacrifice necessary to make it happen didn’t bother Canelo in the slightest.
“Sometimes it’s not about money,” Álvarez said Thursday. “Sometimes it’s about pride, and it’s that time. I don’t need to say how much I lose, because I don’t care. I feel good to fight in my hometown, and I’m proud.”
When Álvarez steps into the ring in his native Guadalajara on May 6, he will make about half of what he would have made if the fight were held in Las Vegas, promoter Eddie Hearn told The Associated Press on Thursday in San Diego.
Álvarez is eagerly taking that major pay cut — quite possibly more than $10 million — to take on Britain’s John Ryder for all four super middleweight world title belts in front of more than 50,000 frenzied hometown fans at Akron Stadium.
“It’s unbelievable, because it affected me,” Hearn said with a grin. “Actually, I think it’s great. Saul has got a lot of money, so that’s (a factor). but it’s still quite unusual. I’ve not really seen a lot of fighters that would take a lot less to do it at home.”
Although Álvarez (58-2-2, 39 KOs) and trainer Eddy Reynoso were determined to hold the 168-pound champion’s next fight to Guadalajara, Hearn still dutifully fielded offers from Vegas, London and even the Middle East for the next fight from arguably the sport’s most bankable fighter over the past decade.
“The first round (of offers), it was already much more (than Guadalajara),” Hearn said. “And then when we went back and said, ‘No,’ it kept going up. And I kept going back, and in the end, (Álvarez) told me to stop. ‘Stop. Shut up. We’re doing it.'”
Hearn can’t yet give specifics about the size of Álvarez’s payday, but Canelo was widely reported to have a guaranteed purse of $45 million for his trilogy bout with Gennady Golovkin last year — with his final earnings likely much higher, perhaps near $100 million. Álvarez also made well over the $15 million guaranteed purse for his bout against Dmitry Bivol last May.
The 32-year-old Álvarez turned pro at 15 in Guadalajara, but he hasn’t fought in Mexico since November 2011, when the skyrocket of his career made it financially unwise. His last 22 fights have been in the U.S. in locales ranging from Vegas and Miami to the Dallas Cowboys’ cavernous home stadium.
But Álvarez and Hearn have been working toward a fight in Mexico ever since the British promoter hooked up with the Mexican superstar six fights ago. While Canelo recovered from surgery on his left hand over the holidays, he and Reynoso decided the time had arrived to take a mandatory title defense in front of the fans who first roared for him. Even his grandmother will be in the crowd, he said.
“We are so crazy,” Álvarez said. “The vibes are just different. It’s amazing. You feel the energy. Everything moves when the people scream. It’s just the best.”
The move also comes with pressure: His fans will be expecting something spectacular against an opponent not thought to be on his lofty level. A certain segment of Mexican fans have soured on Álvarez for reasons ranging from his two unimpressive performances in 2022 to his primary residency in San Diego, where he plays golf almost daily.
And Ryder (32-5, 18 KOs) is no pushover: The North London native has won four straight fights to earn this shot, including a victory over former champ Danny Jacobs. Ryder has plenty of experience with hostile crowds after traveling to Callum Smith’s native Liverpool in 2019 for a 168-pound title fight that began with fans making throat-slashing gestures at him on the way to the ring.
“I’ve earned it, and I think it’s great fun,” Ryder said. “I’ll keep the blinkers on, put on the hat and just get in the ring.”
Álvarez said his hand is healed from surgery, and his biggest challenge is regaining full confidence in his left hook. After this homecoming bout in which Álvarez will be a significant favorite, he wants an even bigger challenge: a rematch with Bivol, who sent Canelo to his first loss in nearly nine years last May in a light heavyweight bout.
“I wasn’t 100% in that fight, and I have a lot to prove in that (rematch),” Álvarez said. “But first, I have to do what I want to do at home. That’s the most important thing.”
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BEREA, OH - Jonathan "Jon" Gentry Thomson was born November 30, 1936, in Berea, Ohio, the son of Malcolm and Velma "Peach" (Gentry) Thomson, and died at Sanford hospital in Bismarck, North Dakota on October 17, 2022 at the age of 85.
A private family burial will take place at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.
He was raised in Olmsted Falls, Ohio and at age eight moved to Dearborn, Michigan, where he attended Henry Ford's private school in Greenfield Village, and then Fordson High School. He graduated from Michigan State University in the spring of 1958 and traveled throughout Europe that summer. He also traveled to Cuba and attended college in Mexico City. He served in the Army and was stationed at Fort Ord and Fort Lewis. He taught Spanish at St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin. He received a master's degree in political science from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and also did doctoral study at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
On June 13, 1964, he married Jane Brant in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and they lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Tucson, Arizona; and Mankato, Minnesota, where their two children were born, and where he was on the political science faculty at Mankato State University. They later moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, while Jon worked as the Administrative Assistant to the Minnesota Senate Minority Leader at the Capitol in St. Paul. In 1978 they moved to Bismarck where he worked as the Executive Director of the Republican Party of North Dakota. Prior to retirement, he worked with refugee resettlement for Lutheran Social Services.
In Bismarck, Jon served as president of the Board of Dakota Stage Limited, president of the Board of Charles Hall Youth Services, served on various boards and committees at the United Church of Christ and the First Presbyterian Church, and was the longtime secretary of the Bismarck-Mandan Tennis Association. He was a member of the Masonic Temple and became a Shriner.
Jon loved writing letters and sending postcards and birthday cards. He had a great sense of humor, loved to dance and was very social. He loved making margaritas and Manhattans for others. He loved tennis and played regularly until he was 80 years old and shared his love of the game with his children and grandchildren. He also travelled to many professional tennis tournaments with his son and his friend Allen Hoberg. He loved the arts in general and performed in many theater productions as well as local television commercials. He enjoyed making phone calls to friends and family, watching television, and reading magazines, newspapers, and historical biographies. He also had a strong interest in politics and presidential history. He was also known for his hobby of entering sweepstakes and won many prizes including two cars and multiple vacations. Jon was a very empathetic person. He was always concerned for the welfare of those less fortunate and belonged to many human rights organizations that seek to relieve the suffering of others.
He is survived by his wife, Jane, their son Tyler and Amy (Behm) Thomson, their daughter Lindsay and Carl Franks, and grandchildren Kyah Franks, Macyeo Franks, Bryter Thomson, and Lincoln Thomson. He was preceded in death by his parents and his only sibling, Malcolm Thomson, Jr.
Memorials in Jon's memory can be made to Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders or any humanitarian organization of your choice.
Arrangements with Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck. | 2022-10-21T05:50:44+00:00 | bismarcktribune.com | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/obituaries/jonathan-jon-gentry-thomson/article_e3f3d2c1-7d40-53bb-999e-ecf36c8b9143.html |
HELSINKI, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanoform Finland Plc., an innovative nanoparticle medicine-enabling company, today announced that it has partnered with Pharmanovia, a fast-growing specialty pharma business with a portfolio of over 20 branded drugs in 140 markets.
The new strategic partnership aims to add value to branded prescription medicines. Pharmanovia will look to apply Nanoform's proprietary nanoparticle technologies and formulation know-how to leading established pharmaceutical brands.
The partnership starts with an iconic branded medicine where both parties see value in enhancing bioavailability for patient benefit. The value of the stage-gated agreement is according to Nanoform's business model for non-GMP and cGMP work.
"This partnership is a great example of where the power of small can add value for iconic medicines to make them even more effective. Pharmanovia's business model enables brand loyalty to continue from one generation to the next," said Christian Jones, Chief Commercial Officer of Nanoform.
For further information, please contact:
Christian Jones, CCO
Christian.jones@nanoform.com / +44 7804 474771
For investor relations queries, please contact:
Henri von Haartman, Director of Investor Relations
hvh@nanoform.com / +46 7686 650 11
About Nanoform
Nanoform is an innovative nanoparticle medicine enabling company. Nanoform works together with pharma and biotech partners globally to provide hope for patients in developing new and improved medicines utilizing Nanoform's platform technologies. The company focuses on reducing clinical attrition and on enhancing drug molecules' performance through its nanoforming technologies and formulation services. Nanoform's capabilities include GMP manufacturing, and its services span the small to large molecule development space with a focus on solving key issues in drug solubility and bioavailability and on enabling novel drug delivery applications. Nanoform's shares are listed on the Premier-segment of Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Helsinki (ticker: NANOFH) and Stockholm (ticker: NANOFS). Certified Adviser: Danske Bank A/S, Finland Branch, +358 40 744 1900. For more information, please visit http://www.nanoform.com
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DENVER, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris Animal Foundation announced a new multimillion-dollar research initiative focused on hemangiosarcoma, the leading cause of cancer deaths in the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study.
A major goal of the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study is to help focus research dollars in areas identified as critical to improving canine health. After 10 years of data reporting, enough data has been gathered to show the outsized impact of hemangiosarcoma on cancer deaths in the study cohort of 3,044 dogs.
"Hemangiosarcoma, an almost universally fatal cancer, accounts for approximately 70% of cancer deaths to date in our study cohort," said Dr. Kathy Tietje, Vice President of Scientific Operations at Morris Animal Foundation. "With meaningful and targeted research efforts, and a greater investment of funding, we hope we can improve the outlook for all dogs diagnosed with this devastating disease."
The Foundation will open a call for proposals on January 12, 2023, focused on advancing the prevention, detection, treatment of, and potentially cures for, hemangiosarcoma.
For this grant call, proposals should have a high potential for translation to clinical practice in the areas of:
- Early disease diagnosis
- New therapeutic approaches, either alone or paired with diagnostics to monitor treatment efficacy
- Genomic prediction of breeding values
Researchers and research groups will have access to samples and data from the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, although other samples and datasets may also be used.
"Hemangiosarcoma is one of the deadliest forms of canine cancer," said Tietje. "This upcoming research initiative is dedicated to our Golden Retriever Lifetime Study dog owners and veterinarians and their beloved golden retrievers. They are helping the research community move the needle on this deadly disease."
All proposals submitted to Morris Animal Foundation in response to this RFP will undergo administrative and scientific review by a Scientific Advisory Board. Interested researchers can find additional information, including award types and funding levels at Morris Animal Foundation Apply for a Grant.
More information about the initiative can be found in the Foundation's Hemangiosarcoma Initiative prospectus.
Founded in 1948, Morris Animal Foundation is one of the largest nonprofit animal health research organizations in the world, funding more than $149 million in critical studies across a broad range of species. Learn more at morrisanimalfoundation.org.
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SOURCE Morris Animal Foundation | 2022-11-02T18:36:27+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/11/02/morris-animal-foundation-launches-research-initiative-into-leading-cause-canine-cancer-deaths/ |
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — The relentless grind of the NASCAR Cup Series pauses this week, and just about everybody involved with the cars is looking to take advantage.
Martin Truex Jr. plans to go fishing after claiming his second victory of the season on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway. Aric Almirola’s wife and children were in wine country to watch his surprising Xfinity Series victory at Sonoma on Saturday because they’re all spending the next 10 days in California, surfing and hiking and going to a Dodgers game on Father’s Day.
NASCAR’s schedule in its top flight is famously busy: This is the teams’ sole weekend without a race between the Daytona 500 on Feb. 19 and the Cup Series championship at Phoenix on Nov. 5.
But for the teams and drivers doing their best work now, it’s natural to wonder whether the break could slow their momentum right before the start of the 10-race sprint to the 10-race Cup playoffs.
Kyle Busch is the hottest driver on the grid, with four straight top-10 finishes, culminating in a victory outside St. Louis and a second-place finish behind Truex in Sonoma.
“I mean, I don’t know if I want an off week,” Busch said Sunday, wearing the closest facial expression he ever makes to a smile. “Let’s go, right? We’re rolling right now.”
“It’ll be a good break for everybody to regroup and refocus and set in,” Busch added. “All in all, just real proud of the guys and the communication and the way they’re able to go to work and kind of work through some of our issues and try to improve on what I need to be able to feel in a race car to be able to put out finishes like that. If we can keep doing those things, we’ll be a force.”
In truth, Busch and his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet team are already a force.
He won at Fontana last February in only his second race for his new team after a 15-year tenure at Joe Gibbs Racing. After a few early season bumps, he has surged up to sixth in the driver standings with a playoff spot secure through his three victories — tied with William Byron for the Cup wins lead.
Truex and his team also are on a roll, with two victories and four top-five finishes in the last six races. His only finish outside the top 10 in this stretch was last month at Darlington, where he won the pole and had a dominant car that led the most laps before collisions with Ross Chastain and Joey Logano knocked him out of the race.
“I don’t know that it really matters,” Truex said of the one-week break. “We’ve got a great team. We know what we are capable of now. We have a lot of confidence back that we lacked last year in our decision-making, whether it was strategy or whatever. It seems like things are clicking right now. I don’t know that an off week will change anything. We could probably use a few more off weeks before the playoffs, if I’m being honest with you, but we don’t get those, so I’m ready whenever.”
The improvements by Truex’s JGR team and Toyota were the talk of the paddock after his dominant victory at Sonoma, with Gibbs and crew chief James Small praising their ability to learn from a disappointing 2022. They’re a clear championship contender after Truex went to the top of the overall driver standings in Sonoma.
So while Truex said he will enjoy his time away with that fishing trip or “just hanging out,” he expects to be right back in front when racing resumes at Nashville Superspeedway next weekend.
“I try to get away from racing a couple of days a week no matter what, just to keep my sanity,” the 42-year-old Truex said. “I’ve been doing this a long time. I’ll talk to James on Monday. I’ll talk to James usually on Wednesday or Thursday again. So I’ll have a few days in between there to kind of regroup and keep my sanity.”
Just don’t call too soon this week: After raising a victorious wine glass in Sonoma, Small said he was headed to Colorado for a short break to clear his own head before NASCAR’s sprint to the finish.
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AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-13T14:39:16+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/sports/ap-sports/top-teams-not-worried-when-nascar-cup-series-takes-only-break-in-grinding-schedule/ |
Pet Honesty's exclusive national pet retail partnership with Petco is the ecommerce brand's first leap to brick-and-mortar stores
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pet Honesty, a leading natural, premium pet health supplements brand, announced today that its fan favorite dog supplements are now available at over 1,500 Petco locations nationwide and at Petco.com through an exclusive national pet retail partnership with Petco Health and Wellness Company.
"Over the last four years, Pet Honesty has built a loyal and growing online following of health-conscious pet parents who seek products made with natural ingredients," said Richard Greenberg, CEO of Pet Honesty. "We are on a mission to help pet parents elevate pet vitality for more joyful moments together and are thrilled to advance this cause by providing our most popular pet supplements at trusted Petco stores nationwide."
Pet Honesty continues to expand its availability and leadership in helping pet parents support their four-legged family members' health through pet supplements made with sought-after natural and premium active ingredients in a soft chew form and a variety of delicious tastes loved by 98 percent of dogs¹. Pet Honesty starts with a proactive approach to health with its leading Multivitamin 10-in-1, which is formulated to support adult dogs' overall health everyday through a variety of supplements and vitamins they do not typically get in food alone. Pet Honesty also offers a full range of pet supplements that are formulated to support key functional areas for dogs and cats when more targeted support is needed such as joint health, immune health, digestive health, skin health, calming and more.
The Pet Honesty point-of-purchase display at Petco stores provides pet parents with an educational shopping experience that is comparable to when they seek supplements for their own health. According to the latest Packaged Facts survey data², pet supplement purchasers are more likely to be supplement takers themselves. With 80 percent of Americans now using dietary supplements³, Pet Honesty is poised to help more health-conscious pet parents across the country include their pets in a supplement routine that is specially formulated for them.
Pet Honesty has earned the NASC Quality Seal and is committed to educating pet parents about the functional benefits of its vet-recommended supplements with full transparency on its labels and all consumer touchpoints. The brand's product pledge to pet parents is to provide a taste your pet will love and results you can trust with the most effective natural and other premium ingredients, and no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors and formulated without wheat, soy or corn.
Pet Honesty, a trusted leader in premium, natural pet health products, is on a mission to help pet parents elevate their pet's vitality for more joyful moments together. Founded originally as an innovative e-commerce brand in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, TX, the company specializes in vet-approved pet supplements made with natural base ingredients and premium active ingredients, providing functional pet health benefits backed by science and certified by the NASC. Pet Honesty products are formulated in an FDA registered facility in the U.S.A. and available for purchase online at Pethonesty.com, Amazon, Chewy, Petco.com, and at Petco retail stores nationwide and select neighborhood pet retailers. For personalized guidance and education about Pet Honesty products, visit Pethonesty.com and follow @PetHonesty on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.
¹Pet Honesty is committed to ensuring pets enjoy the taste of their chewy supplements by commissioning independent acceptability studies using industry standard methodologies to measure taste preferences.
²Source: Packaged Facts: Pet Supplements in the U.S., 8th Edition
³Source: The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) 2021 Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements
Contact:
Ashley Li, ashley.li@pethonesty.com
Denise Paleothodoros, denise@citrineminds.com
SOURCE Pet Honesty | 2022-09-07T16:02:43+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/07/online-fan-favorite-pet-honesty-supplements-sought-after-its-natural-ingredients-now-available-1500-petco-stores-nationwide/ |
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