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A free workshop on managing chronic pain begins Friday at the Dale Association, 33 Ontario St., Lockport.
Presented by the Nursing Division of the Niagara County Department of Health in partnership with the Niagara County Office for the Aging, it will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. every Friday for six weeks.
Topics will include exercise, healthy eating, fatigue, sleep problems, difficult emotions, weight loss and communicating with family, friends and co-workers. Topics will be personalized for each participant's needs.
People with chronic pain or their caregivers can register by calling Nursing Operations manager Stacy Knott at 716-278-1900. Organizations and groups also are welcome to call to schedule free diabetes and chronic disease self-management workshops for their staffs and clients.
- Dale Anderson | 2023-07-09T23:39:27+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/news/local/free-workshop-on-managing-chronic-pain-begins-this-week-in-lockport/article_e6709c1a-1ea2-11ee-a782-634317134801.html |
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Allisen Corpuz found herself on the biggest and most beautiful stage in women’s golf and made it look like a stroll on the beach.
Never mind that she had never won on the LPGA Tour or that she had heard all week about the historic occasion of the U.S. Women’s Open held at Pebble Beach for the first time. Nothing could make her crack.
“Every few holes I kind of looked out and said, ‘I’m here at Pebble Beach. There’s not many places that are better than this,’” Corpuz said.
There weren’t many better performances, either. Corpuz turned a tight duel with Nasa Hataoka into a runaway, closing with a 3-under 69 on Sunday for a three-shot victory to become the first American in 20 years to make the U.S. Women’s Open her first LPGA title.
At Pebble Beach, no less.
The 25-year-old from Hawaii was calm and cool, no matter the shot or the circumstances, until reality set in as she took a three-shot lead down the 18th fairway. It’s a path taken over the years by the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Tiger Woods, all of them U.S. Open champions at Pebble Beach.
“Just knowing the history … Tiger just absolutely annihilated this place. Yeah, it’s really special,” Corpuz said. “Twenty, 30 years from now, I think just the fact that it’s a U.S. Open means a lot to me. But know that it’s at Pebble makes it even sweeter.”
She won by three shots over Charley Hull (66) and Jiyai Shin (68) and claimed the $2 million prize, the richest ever for an LPGA major champion.
Corpuz couldn’t contain a wide smile when she tapped in for par, only to cover it with her hand as the tears began to flow. She wiped them with her Aloha-print tower.
Former President Barack Obama was among the first to congratulate her on Twitter. Both went to Punahou School in Honolulu.
“Unreal,” Corpuz said. “This week has felt like a dream come true.”
Hilary Lunke in 2003 at Pumpkin Ridge was the last American to get her first win at the U.S. Women’s Open, that one in a three-way Monday playoff.
Corpuz, who finished at 9-under 279, was the only player to break par all four days.
Corpuz never gave anyone much of a chance. Hataoka lost her one-shot lead on the opening hole when Corpuz hit her approach to 5 feet for birdie, and the 24-year-old from Japan dropped too many shots down the home stretch.
They were tied at the turn until Corpuz hit her approach to just inside 10 feet for birdie on the 10th. The key moment was at the par-3 12th, when Corpuz came up short in the bunker and had 15 feet for par. Hataoka rolled her birdie putt from the fringe 5 feet by the hole. Corpuz made her par, Hataoka missed her putt and the lead was at two.
It only got larger, Corpuz stretching it to four shots with superb wedges to 8 feet on the par-5 14th and 4 feet on the 15th, both birdies that made the final act a battle for second place.
Hull, who started the final round seven shots behind, closed to within two shots early on the back nine and stayed in the game with a 30-foot birdie putt on the 16th. Only later did she realize Corpuz was pulling away. Hull kept firing, hitting 3-wood from under the cypress tree in the middle of the 18th fairway and nearly pulling it off.
“Shy kids don’t get sweets,” she told herself on the 18th before lashing away and dropping to a knee to watch its flight.
Shin made a birdie on the 18th to join Hull as a runner-up. The two-time major champion from South Korea never had a serious chance to win, but she celebrated a big moment for Corpuz and for women’s golf.
“I’m only watching the TV to Pebble Beach and then finally we are here to play,” Shin said. “This course has a great history, and then finally the women’s history is in.”
That history belonged to Corpuz. She joined Michelle Wie West as the only major champions from Hawaii — Wie West won the Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2014 and played her final major this week at Pebble Beach.
They are linked by the Aloha State, their high school (Punahou) and their emphasis on education — Wie West graduated from Stanford, Corpuz got a business degree and an MBA from USC — and their early start in USGA events. Corpuz broke Wie West’s record as the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links as a 10-year-old.
“I never really thought I’d get this far. Just watching Michelle, she’s been such a huge role model to me, and it was really awesome to break her record for the Public Links,” Corpuz said. “But I’ve never really compared myself to her. I’ve always wanted to make my own name. She’s just served as a really big inspiration.”
Corpuz was playing in her 19th USGA championship. She knows the USGA formula of fairways and greens, and loads of patience. She is built for this, especially given her concentration that not even a gorgeous day on the Monterey Peninsula could crack.
Officiating behind the fifth green was Mary Bea Porter King, the pioneer of junior golf in Hawaii and one of the most influential figures in the game. Corpuz first came into the Hawaii junior program at age 7.
“She’s always been calm, cool and … I won’t say serious, but she just plodded along. She was sort of a giant killer,” Porter King said. “I don’t think she was fearful of anything.”
That much was obvious at Pebble Beach, which had enough wind to be challenging as ever. Only seven players finished under par.
Hataoka, whose 66 on Saturday was nearly nine shots better than the field, had a 40 on the back nine and tied for fourth with Bailey Tardy, the 36-hole leader who went 75-73 on the weekend for her best finish in her LPGA rookie season.
Rose Zhang, who dominated the amateur scene and then won her first LPGA Tour start as a pro, never got on track and closed with a 72 to tie for ninth. She now has top 10s in both majors as a pro, though this time she was never in the mix.
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-10T11:25:19+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/sports/ap-allisen-corpuz-wins-the-us-womens-open-at-pebble-beach-for-her-first-lpga-title/ |
PHOENIX, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trinity Capital Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIN, TRINL) ("Trinity Capital" or the "Company"), a leading provider of diversified financial solutions to growth stage companies, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Third Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Total investment income of $38.7 million, an increase of 77.5% year-over-year
- Net investment income ("NII") of $18.6 million, or $0.56 per share, an increase of 67.6% year-over-year
- Aggregate debt and equity investment commitments of $128.1 million
- Total gross investments funded of $94.2 million, comprised of $28.9 million across seven new portfolio companies and $65.3 million across 15 existing portfolio companies
- 15.4% Return on Average Equity "ROAE" (NII/Average Equity)
- 6.8% Return on Average Assets "ROAA" (NII/Average Assets)
- Debt principal repayments of $79.9 million including $48.5 million from early repayments
- Net asset value ("NAV") per share decreased to $13.74 from $14.62 on June 30, 2022
- Declared a dividend distribution of $0.60 per share, consisting of a regular dividend of $0.45 per share for the third quarter, an increase of 7.1% from Q2 2022, and a supplemental cash dividend of $0.15 per share.
Year-to-Date 2022 Highlights
- Total investment income of $104.0 million, an increase of 77.5% year-over-year
- Net investment income of $50.0 million, or $1.64 per share, an increase of 75.4% year-over-year
- Total gross investments funded of $510.5 million, an increase of 41.5% year-over-year
"Trinity generated exceptional third quarter NII performance, far exceeding our core quarterly dividend, and reflecting the strength and scale of our portfolio," said Steven Brown, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Trinity Capital. "We are executing against our strategy with the objective outlook needed in this challenging macro environment. Our fortified balance sheet and robust lending platform position us to deliver strategic financing to our existing portfolio companies while identifying the next generation of growth stage companies in which to invest. As we head into the fourth quarter of 2022, we will continue to utilize accretive, innovative growth levers to deploy capital and drive long-term shareholder value."
Kyle Brown, President and Chief Investment Officer of Trinity Capital, added, "Our experienced management team and best-in-class financing solutions will allow us to capitalize on the current VC market and industry trends. Trinity continues to meet the evolving needs of the venture debt ecosystem and add value beyond the term sheet for our portfolio companies."
Third Quarter 2022 Operating Results
For the three months ended September 30, 2022, total investment income was $38.7 million compared to $21.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2021. This represents an effective yield on the average debt investments at cost of 15.2% and 15.8% for the periods ended September 30, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Effective yields generally include the effects of fees and income accelerations attributed to early loan repayments and other one-time events and may fluctuate quarter-to-quarter depending on the amount of prepayment activity.
Total expenses, excluding interest expense and excise tax expense, for the third quarter of 2022 were $10.1 million compared to $5.6 million during the third quarter of 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to increased employee headcount and higher professional fees. Interest expense for the third quarter of 2022 was $9.3 million compared to $5.1 million during the third quarter of 2021. The increase is primarily attributable to the increase in the weighted average borrowings outstanding during the quarter under our KeyBank Credit Facility and additional debt issuance of our 7% Notes due 2025 ("2025 Notes").
Net investment income was approximately $18.6 million, or $0.56 per share based on 33.1 million basic weighted average shares outstanding for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $11.1 million or $0.42 per share for the third quarter of 2021 based on 26.6 million basic weighted average shares outstanding.
Third quarter 2022 net realized losses on investments were approximately $0.6 million compared to a net realized gain of $0.7 million during the third quarter of 2021.
Net unrealized depreciation was $30.0 million during the third quarter of 2022, compared to net unrealized appreciation of $15.4 million during the third quarter of 2021.
Third quarter 2022 net decrease in net assets resulting from operations was $12.0 million, or $(0.36) per share based on 33.1 million basic weighted average shares outstanding. This compares to a net increase in net assets resulting from operations of $27.2 million or $1.02 per share based on 26.6 million basic weighted average shares outstanding for the third quarter of 2021.
Trinity's higher weighted average share count for the third quarter of 2022 as compared to the third quarter of the prior year is primarily related to the 3.7 million shares of common stock issued in August 2022. The increase for the nine-month period in 2022 as compared to the same period in the prior year is the result of approximately 6.9 million shares of common stock issued in connection with overnight offerings in 2022, approximately 316,000 shares issued under the dividend reinvestment plan and ATM program and approximately 689,000 net shares issued in connection with restricted stock awards.
Net Asset Value
As of September 30, 2022, NAV per share decreased to $13.74, compared to $14.62 on June 30, 2022. The decrease in NAV was primarily the result of fair value adjustments on two portfolio companies and valuation adjustments due to market volatility and interest rate fluctuations. Total net assets at the end of the third quarter of 2022 increased by 5.3% to $482.5 million, compared to $458.3 million at the end of Q2 2022.
Portfolio and Investment Activity
As of September 30, 2022, Trinity Capital's investment portfolio had an aggregate fair value of approximately $1.04 billion and was comprised of approximately $751.2 million in secured loans, $246.0 million in equipment financings and $45.0 million in equity and warrants across 112 portfolio companies.
During the third quarter, the Company originated $128.1 million of total new commitments. Third quarter investments funded totaled approximately $94.2 million, which was comprised of $28.9 million of investments in seven new portfolio companies and approximately $65.3 million of investments in 15 existing portfolio companies. Investment fundings during the quarter for loans totaled $48.0 million, equipment financings totaled $44.6 million and warrants and equity investments totaled $1.6 million. The Company's floating rate loans accounted for approximately 62.2% of its debt portfolio based on principal outstanding as of September 30, 2022 as compared to 64.4% as of June 30, 2022.
Proceeds received from repayments of the Company's debt investments during the third quarter totaled approximately $79.9 million, which included $48.5 million from early debt repayments from secured loans. The portfolio increased by $21.1 million or approximately 2.0% on a cost basis and decreased by $8.9 million or approximately 0.8% at fair value as compared to June 30, 2022.
As of the end of the third quarter, loans to four portfolio companies and one equipment finance borrower were on non-accrual status with a total fair value of approximately $13.9 million, or just 1.3% of the Company's investment portfolio at fair value.
The following table shows the distribution of the Company's loan and equipment financing investments on the 1 to 5 investment risk rating scale at fair value as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 (dollars in thousands):
As of September 30, 2022, the Company's loan and equipment financing investments had a weighted average risk rating score of 2.9.
Secondary Offering
In August 2022, the Company closed an underwritten public offering of $55.0 million of its common stock at a public offering price of $15.33 per share. The offering was upsized from its announced offering of $50.0 million. In connection with the offering, the underwriters exercised their option in part to purchase additional shares of common stock resulting in additional net proceeds to the Company of $2.0 million.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had approximately $246.6 million in available liquidity, including $34.1 million in cash and cash equivalents. At the end of the period, the Company had $212.5 million in available borrowing capacity under its credit facility subject to existing terms, advance rates and regulatory and covenant requirements. During the quarter, the borrowing capacity under the credit facility with KeyBank was increased by $50.0 million to a total of $350.0 million with the addition of two new banks to the lending syndicate.
As of September 30, 2022, Trinity's leverage was approximately 118% as compared to 130% as of June 30, 2022. The decrease in the leverage ratio was primarily attributable to repayments on the credit facility partially offset by borrowings under the 2025 Notes.
Distributions
On September 15, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.60 per share with respect to the quarter ended September 30, 2022, which was paid on October 14, 2022, to shareholders of record as of September 30, 2022. The Company's Board of Directors previously expressed the intent to declare an equal supplemental cash dividend of $0.15 per share in the fourth quarter of 2022 for total supplemental cash dividends equal to $0.60 per share in 2022.
New Hire
On September 20, 2022, the Company announced the appointment of Lauren Cosentino as Managing Director, Life Sciences in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina. Ms. Cosentino, an established leader with over a decade of experience in the venture ecosystem, has been supporting venture capital-backed growth stage companies, primarily focused on the life sciences vertical.
Conference Call
Trinity Capital will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2022 financial results at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on Thursday, November 3, 2022.
To listen to the call, please dial (800) 245-3047 or (203) 518-9765 internationally, and reference Conference ID: TRINQ322 if asked, approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call.
A taped replay will be made available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call and will remain available for seven days. To access the replay, please dial (800) 839-7410 or (402) 220-6067.
About Trinity Capital Inc.
Trinity Capital Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIN and TRINL), an internally managed business development company, is a leading provider of diversified financial solutions to growth-stage companies with institutional equity investors. Trinity Capital's investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation through investments including term loans, equipment financings and equity-related investments. Trinity Capital believes it is one of only a select group of specialty lenders that has the depth of knowledge, experience and track record in lending to growth stage companies. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.trinitycap.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the economy, financial markets, our business, our portfolio companies and our industry. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. More information on risks and other potential factors that could affect the Company's financial results, including important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from plans, estimates or expectations included herein or on the webcast/conference call, is included in the Company's filings with the SEC, including in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of the Company's most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent SEC filings.
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Trinity Capital Inc.
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SOURCE Trinity Capital Inc. | 2022-11-03T21:00:49+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/11/03/trinity-capital-inc-reports-third-quarter-2022-financial-results/ |
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect additional fatalities.
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Eleven people are dead following a shooting at a clandestine horse track about 200 miles south of Juarez, Mexican authorities said.
Witnesses reported the armed attack around 7:45 p.m. on Sunday at a ranch in the farming community of El Sauz; five people died on the scene and two more perished overnight at hospitals, the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said in a statement on Monday.
Five adult males were found dead on the scene; 10 other men and women sustained gunshot wounds and six succumbed to their injuries late Sunday or early Monday, said Ana Antillon, a spokeswoman for the Chihuahua Public Safety Secretary.
Police recovered five vehicles, one motorcycle and a trailer with a horse from the scene. Hundreds of .223-caliber and 7.62mm bullet casings were also recovered, the AG’s Office said. That type of ammo is usually associated with AR-15 and AK-47 rifles.
Authorities on Monday declined to disclose a motive for the shooting but said no suspects were in custody. A Chihuahua state official told El Heraldo newspaper the horse track lacked permits and that its operators may be subject to a $5,000 fine.
This is the second massacre reported in Chihuahua – a state that borders Texas and New Mexico – in the past 10 days.
On Good Friday, five vehicles traveling on Mexico Highway 2 came under fire from gunmen through to be associated with La Linea drug cartel. Two Chihuahua state police officers, a Mexican immigration agent and three civilians were killed inside the vehicles which were later incinerated by the attackers.
Chihuahua police arrested seven people in the nearby town of Janos they said had links to organized crime, but a judge freed them last week.
In late March, gunmen killed 20 people at a clandestine cockfighting arena in the state of Michoacan. Mexican authorities told local media the attack came from a rival group targeting Jalisco New Generation Cartel leadership in the region. | 2022-04-26T08:50:00+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/border-report-tour/new-massacre-in-chihuahua-11-dead-at-clandestine-horse-track/ |
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in new religious groups in the Catholic Church after their unregulated proliferation in recent decades led to abuses in governance that allowed spiritual and sexual misconduct to go unchecked.
Francis issued a new decree published Wednesday that requires prior Vatican approval for bishops to erect new associations of the faithful, often the first step in the creation of a new apostolic society or institute of consecrate life.
The decree follows a similar one issued in 2020 that required prior Vatican approval for d iocesan-level religious orders, suggesting the Vatican was now cracking down even further to better regulate the origins of these new forms of religious life and take the decisions about them out of the hands of local bishops.
Francis has taken a series of disciplinary and regulatory actions in recent years after some founders and leaders of religious orders and new lay institutes turned out to be religious frauds who sexually and spiritually abused their members.
Some groups have been suppressed, others have been taken over by the Vatican for periods of reform while all have become subject to greater Vatican oversight.
In 2021, the Vatican also imposed term limits on the leaders of lay movements, which proliferated following the second Vatican Council in the 1960s as a new way for rank-and-file Catholics to get involved in the church beyond typical parish life. The Vatican said the term limits were necessary to prevent personality cults from arising around charismatic leaders.
One lay group targeted by the new reform was Communion and Liberation, an influential group in Italy that has a consecrated branch with a few members who help run the household of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
The term limits last year forced out Communion and Liberation’s Spanish head, the Rev. Julian Carron, who had been in charge since 2005.
Just this week, the head of the Vatican’s laity office, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, wrote to Carron’s successor complaining that Carron and his followers were still exercising influence against the Vatican’s reforms. According to a copy of the letter, Farrell faulted what he said was the “false doctrine” Carron promoted, claiming the unique spirit of the group passed from the founder through leaders like himself.
Farrell said Communion and Liberation’s new leadership must accept the Vatican’s line and “recognize the problems and review the teachings, practices, methods of government and internal organization forms that were shown to be inadequate or even harmful.” | 2022-06-15T18:54:32+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/pope-cracks-down-on-new-catholic-religious-start-ups/ |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s de-facto leader secured a pardon Friday of his conviction for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government, an act of leniency that underscored the tech company’s huge influence in the nation.
Lee Jae-yong’s pardon is partially symbolic since he was released on parole a year ago after serving 18 months of a prison term that would have ended in July, and critics say the billionaire has remained in control of Samsung even while behind bars. Still, the pardon will allow the heir to the electronics juggernaut to fully resume his management duties and could make it easier for the company to pursue investments and mergers.
The Justice Ministry said President Yoon Suk Yeol, who as a prosecutor investigated the corruption scandal involving Lee, will issue the pardon Monday, a national holiday when some 1,700 people are set to receive clemency, including other top business leaders.
Lee, 54, was convicted in 2017 of bribing former President Park Geun-hye and her close confidante to win government support for a merger between two Samsung affiliates that tightened Lee’s control over the corporate empire. Park and the confidante were also convicted in the scandal, which enraged South Koreans, who staged massive protests for months demanding an end to the shady ties between business and politics. The demonstrations eventually led to Park’s ouster from office.
While some civic groups criticized the decision, recent opinion polls have indicated South Koreans — years removed from the protests in 2016 and 2017 — largely favored granting Lee a pardon. That reflects the continuing hold Samsung has in a country where it makes not just smartphones and TVs but also issues credit cards, builds luxury apartment buildings and runs the country’s most sought-after hospital.
Business leaders and politicians had also called for Lee’s pardon, which they said would allow Samsung, one of the world’s largest makers of computer memory chips and smartphones, to be bolder and quicker in business decisions by fully reinstating his rights to run the business empire.
Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon said the pardons of the business tycoons were aimed at “overcoming the economic crisis through encouraging business activity” at a time when South Koreans are grappling with rising prices, high personal debt and a faltering job market.
Lee’s detractors say he already fully resumed his management duties once out on parole — even though South Korea’s law bans people convicted of major financial crimes from returning to work for five years following the end of their sentences. Former Justice Minister Park Beom-kye defended Lee’s involvement in Samsung’s management, insisting that his activities weren’t in violation of the ban because the billionaire wasn’t receiving wages from Samsung.
In a statement released through Samsung, Lee said he was grateful for “receiving an opportunity to start anew.”
“I want to express my apologies for causing concerns for many people because of my shortcomings. I will work even harder to fulfill my responsibilities and duties as a businessperson,” Lee said.
Lee still faces a separate trial on charges of stock price manipulation and auditing violations related to the 2015 merger.
Among others set to be pardoned is Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin, who received a suspended prison term in 2018 on similar charges of bribing Park, whom then-President Moon Jae-in pardoned in December. Chang Sae-joo, chairman of Dongkuk Steel Mill, and former STX Group Chairman Kang Duk-soo will also receive clemency.
A coalition of civic groups, including People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, issued a statement criticizing the move to pardon the business leaders, accusing Yoon of cozying up to “chaebol,” referring to the family-owned conglomerates that dominate the country’s economy.
“President Yoon Suk Yeol’s sell-out (to business) sends a signal to chaebol chiefs that they are free to commit all the crimes they want,” the groups said, accusing Yoon of damaging the rule of law.
Former President Park was convicted of a broad range of corruption crimes, including colluding with her longtime confidante, Choi Soon-sil, to take millions of dollars in bribes and extortion from Samsung and other major companies while she was in office.
She faced a prison term of more than two decades before Moon pardoned her in December, citing a need to promote unity in the politically divided nation. Choi remains in jail. Chang, of Dongkuk Steel Mill, was released on parole in 2018 with about six months left on a 3 1/2-year prison term on charges that he embezzled millions of dollars in corporate funds and used some of it to gamble in Las Vegas.
South Korea’s Supreme Court last year confirmed a suspended prison sentence for Kang, who headed STX from 2003 to 2014, on charges of embezzling corporate funds and other crimes.
A notable exclusion from Yoon’s pardons was former President Lee Myung-bak, who in June was granted a temporary release from a 17-year prison term after prosecutors acknowledged his health problems.
Han, the justice minster, said that the government did not consider the pardons of any convicted politicians or government employees this time, saying that the focus was on the economy.
Lee, a CEO-turned-conservative hero before his fall from grace, was convicted of taking bribes from big businesses including Samsung, embezzling funds from a company that he owned, and other corruption-related crimes before and during his presidency from 2008 to 2013. | 2022-08-12T12:55:32+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/south-korea-to-pardon-samsungs-lee-other-corporate-giants/ |
A sweet slice of history: Florida Keys celebrate 200th birthday with giant Key lime pie
BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — Partying never gets old in the Florida Keys — especially for a milestone birthday like No. 200.
The Florida Keys celebrated its bicentennial Monday along the Gulf of Mexico with a Key lime pie more than 13 feet in diameter — which organizers intend to certify as a world record.
The festivities marked the anniversary of the Florida Territorial Legislature’s establishment of Monroe County on July 3, 1823 and celebrated its history. The county contains all of the Keys and a portion of Everglades National Park.
During the Civil War, Key West remained in Union hands as a base for a naval blockade of Confederate shipping. In the early 1900s, Standard Oil millionaire Henry Flagler spearheaded the construction of the Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad that became widely known as the eighth wonder of the world.
And for nearly six months of his 1945-1953 presidency, Harry Truman governed the U.S. from his Key West “Little White House” that is now Florida’s only presidential museum.
Key lime pie, originating in late 1800s Key West, is a large part of the continental United States’ southernmost island chain’s heritage. In 2006, Key lime pie was designated Florida’s official pie by the state Legislature.
Monday’s bicentennial version of the creamy dessert, prepared by local chefs, featured a traditional graham-cracker crust and whipped cream topping as well as the juice from several thousand Key limes.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-04T11:16:17+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2023/07/04/sweet-slice-history-florida-keys-celebrate-200th-birthday-with-giant-key-lime-pie/ |
SEVEN HILLS, Ohio -- The Meals on Wheels program in Seven Hills requires those in need to pay $8.50 for daily weekday delivery of lunch and dinner.
While the delivery service is a low-cost way to help residents on fixed budgets, Seven Hills Director of Community Services Tony Terry said there are those folks who can’t afford the service.
However, a recent donation could help in making a big difference.
“A representative from Parma Elks Lodge #1938 recently reached out and told me that they were working on grant opportunities,” Terry said. “They asked where some of my needs were.
“I mentioned to them that we had a couple of residents who reached out to me. They were low-income and could not afford Meals on Wheels. The Elks Lodge then took it their board and decided to fill out for a grant to help offset the costs for our less fortunate residents for Meals on Wheels.”
Elks Lodge #1938, which is located at 2300 Snow Road in Parma, recently presented Seven Hills with a $2,000 donation toward the city’s Meals on Wheels program.
“The organization gives opportunities for local Elks, like Parma, to write grants for nonprofit organizations to help in their area of need,” Elks Lodge #1938 Exalted Ruler Larry Balduff said.
“We’ve written grants to support the local police and fire departments, along with the Parma City School District in the recent past. This year we contacted Tony Terry to see how we could help the city of Seven Hills. I thought what an excellent way to spend $2,000. I would like to see us continue this support in the coming years.”
Last year, Seven Hills volunteers donated 3,380 meals to homebound residents. Terry said currently there are 15 folks signed up for the program, which is provided meals by Coyne Catering.
“The Meals on Wheels program typically services people who maybe just got out of the hospital and aren’t able to cook or go shopping,” Terry said.
“So it’s as much for people who aren’t necessarily in need financially as much as people who are physically in need for somebody to prepare these meals.”
The $2,000 grant is expected to lower the daily cost and help five to 10 qualifying residents obtain a discounted price for Meals on Wheels.
“It is an absolute privilege to work in conjunction with the wonderful folks at Elks Lodge #1938,” Seven Hills Mayor Anthony D. Biasiotta said. “Their recent donation to the Seven Hills Meals on Wheels program is just a small example of all they do in the greater community.
“When accepting the donation, I found the leadership very welcoming and noticed several updates around the lodge so I decided to become a member. On behalf of the city and particularly members of our Meals on Wheels program, thank you Elks Lodge #1938.”
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half (NYSE: RHI) has again been named by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers. This is Forbes' most prestigious global employer accolade.
The annual list is based on an independent survey of nearly 150,000 employees in 57 countries. Respondents rated their employers on a variety of subjects including image, trust, gender equality, corporate social responsibility, culture and benefits.
"We are proud of our efforts to foster a culture where our employees around the world feel engaged, supported and valued," said M. Keith Waddell, president and chief executive officer of Robert Half. "Our enterprise values of integrity, inclusion, innovation and commitment to success are at the foundation of everything we do at Robert Half. Our employees – and their commitment to living these core values every day – are what make us a great place to work."
Robert Half has made significant investments in programs and initiatives designed to create a world-class experience for all employees. From flexible work options to a generous matching gifts program to wellness offerings and Employee Network Groups, employees have access to a variety of resources that allow them to connect, thrive and grow.
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – The lawyer for a pregnant woman arrested last week in connection to an incident at a Florida McDonald’s is accusing the Polk County sheriff of ridiculing and mocking her.
“The world may see Sheriff Grady Judd as the class clown of all of the Florida sheriffs departments,” said Jeremy McLymont, the attorney for Tianis Jones, in a news conference Friday. “I see him as someone who is very dangerous to our judicial system.”
Sheriff Judd held a news conference last Friday to discuss the May 19 incident, during which Jones, 22, was accused of having an outburst at the Lakeland McDonald’s and becoming “enraged” after trouble with her online order. In video of the incident, Jones can be seen slapping items off the counter before going behind the register and tossing cups on the floor. She also called 911 during the incident to complain, and stopped to twerk as she was leaving the restaurant.
At the news conference, Sheriff Judd called Jones “McMad.”
“I don’t know why this woman got as angry as she was, but as the saying goes, she’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal,” the sheriff said.
Video of the incident, and the sheriff’s commentary, has been viewed millions of times online.
At a news conference organized by Jones’ legal team, Jones said she did not have a reaction to the video, other than “getting justice.”
McLymont, her lawyer, says Jones has bipolar disorder and depression, and was not taking her medication due to her pregnancy. She was upset over a dispute concerning her food order and not getting a refund, which was also the reason she called 911, according to McLymont.
Sheriff Judd, last Friday, suggested that Jones and her legal team only brought up her pregnancy and mental health issues as an “excuse.”
Clayton Cowart, a local civil rights leader, criticized Sheriff Judd for the comments.
“Stick to McPolicing, stay out of the McCamera and stop trying to be a McMovie Star, mental illness is real,” said Cowart.
Jones is facing charges of burglary with assault, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and misuse of 911.
“[Sheriff Judd’s] unprofessional and dangerous comments stand to taint any potential jury pool that Ms. Tianis could potentially have in this case,” said McLymont.
The sheriff dismissed allegations his comments would taint a jury pool if the case were to go to trial.
“Do you think anybody’s gonna pay any attention to a press conference today at a jury trial a year or two or three years down the road? That’s nonsense,” said Sheriff Judd. | 2022-05-29T01:09:18+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/southeast-region/lawyer-for-woman-arrested-at-mcdonalds-accuses-sheriff-of-ridiculing-her-with-happy-meal-comment/ |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch financial prosecutors say they detained a man suspected of involvement in “concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering” through the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash.
The 29-year-old man was arrested Aug. 10 in Amsterdam, the financial prosecution service FIOD said in a statement Friday. The suspect’s identity was not released, in line with Dutch privacy regulations.
Mixing services combine various digital assets, including potentially illegally obtained funds and legitimately obtained funds, so the holders of illegally gained assets can obscure the origin of stolen funds.
FIOD’s Financial Advanced Cyber Team launched an investigation into Tornado Cash in June.
The team said in a statement that Tornado Cash “has been used to conceal large-scale criminal money flows, including from (online) thefts of cryptocurrencies.”
It said some of the suspected criminal funds were stolen by hackers with links to North Korea.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department slapped sanctions on Tornado Cash, which has allegedly helped to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019.
At the time, Tom Robinson, co-founder of Elliptic, a blockchain analysis firm, said “it should be noted that there are legitimate uses of mixers such as Tornado, such as to preserve financial privacy.” | 2022-08-14T03:26:20+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/dutch-arrest-man-linked-to-currency-mixer-tornado-cash/ |
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. — A judge has ordered a mental evaluation at the request of the attorney for a man who was arrested in North Carolina while driving the car of a dead Lyft driver from Florida and who is also charged with murder in a separate case.
The order came Wednesday as Florida officials worked to extradite Matthew Scott Flores, who is a person of interest in the death of Lyft driver Gary Levin, WLOS-TV reported.
Flores, 35, appeared in court for a probable cause hearing in Rutherford County, where he was arrested after a vehicle pursuit in multiple counties and charged with a parole violation, being a fugitive, felony speeding to elude arrest, and driving while impaired. His attorney requested the evaluation, and the judge granted it, the station reported.
Flores has also been charged in Hardee County, Florida, with first-degree murder, grand theft auto, possession of a firearm by a felon, and tampering with evidence in the fatal Jan. 24 shooting of Jose Carlos Martinez, 43, in Wauchula, according to court records.
Police were searching for Flores in that case by Jan. 30, when Levin, 74, disappeared after dropping off a customer in Okeechobee, a small city about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Wauchula.
Levin’s Kia Stinger was spotted in Miami, Okeechobee and Gainesville, in north Florida, after his disappearance. The vehicle was stopped Feb. 2 in North Carolina, where a U.S. Marshals Service regional task force asked authorities to be on the lookout.
A dead body found in Okeechobee was eventually identified as Levin.
In North Carolina, District Attorney Ted Bell, who represents McDowell and Rutherford counties, told WLOS he plans to settle Flores’ North Carolina charges before he is sent to Florida.
“We’re not a jurisdiction that dismisses charges,” Bell said after the hearing. “We have been in close communication with folks from the state attorney’s office in Florida. We’ll continue to keep close contact with them as things progress in this case, which way is the better way forward is for everybody. I’m not inclined to dismiss him, it just depends on what’s best overall.” | 2023-02-23T14:54:58+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-ne-florida-lyft-driver-killing-mental-health-order-20230223-bfhzj26bjzakdhkirthmy5jmk4-story.html |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s president says tons of grain from his country will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine approaches and the global crises of food security and climate change put millions at risk.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comment came as Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of sending most of the grain from Ukraine’s reopened ports to Europe instead of poorer and hungrier parts of the world.
Speaking at an economic forum in Vladivostok on Wednesday, Putin suggested that Russia may talk with Turkey about revising the deal that lifted Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports and allowed ships safe passage. Russia has alleged this before, but this is the first time Putin has echoed it.
“With the exclusion of Turkey as a mediator, practically all the grain exported from Ukraine was sent to the (European Union) nations instead of the poorest countries,” Putin said, adding: “Maybe it’s worth thinking about restricting the exports of grain and other products on that route? I will certainly discuss the issue with the president of Turkey.”
The Russian president said of 87 ships loaded with grain from Ukraine, just two have carried grain for the U.N. World Food Program — 60,000 tons out of the total of about 2 million tons.
The first of those ships docked at the port of Djibouti last week with grain that WFP said would go to drought-affected Somalia and Ethiopia. It carried 23,000 metric tons of grain, which WFP called enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month.
Somalia especially needs help. The country had sourced 90% of its wheat from Ukraine and Russia before this year. It now suffers from a shortage of food and humanitarian aid as thousands of people die and the world largely focuses on Ukraine. On Monday, the U.N. cited “concrete indications” that famine will occur in part of the country, with over 850,000 people affected.
The Ukrainian president in a tweet Tuesday night said 28,600 tons of wheat will arrive in Somalia in the coming weeks and blamed the coming famine in that country on Russia’s actions this year.
“Ukraine continues to save the world with its grain,” Zelenskyy asserted.
African nations were at the center of Western efforts to reopen Ukraine’s ports as the United States and allies accused Russia of starving the world by denying exports from Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain exporters. African leaders also visited Russia to meet with Putin over the issue.
But now, Russia is trying to turn the food security issue question against the West. “They cheated the public and partners in Africa and other regions who acutely need food,” Putin said. “They were claiming that they were acting in the interests of developing countries, but acted entirely in their own interests.”
The Joint Coordination Center, run by the U.N., Turkey, Russia and Ukraine, in an email to The Associated Press said 100 outbound ships, almost all of them commercial vessels, have left Ukrainian ports so far carrying more than 2.3 million metric tons.
Breaking down the shipments by continent, the JCC said 47% of the cargo has been sent from Ukraine to Asia, with 20% of that to Turkey — a popular destination as a major miller of wheat. The JCC said 36% of cargo has been sent to Europe and 17% to Africa, with 10% of that amount to Egypt alone. Smaller amounts have gone to Sudan, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti.
“Ultimate destinations of vessels and their cargo is governed by commercial activity,” the JCC said. It added that a third WFP-chartered vessel was anchored at Istanbul on Wednesday with plans to collect more wheat from Ukraine.
Food security experts have said many of the shipments are deliveries on existing contracts that had been struck before Russia’s actions.
The JCC said the cargo from Ukraine breaks down as 57% corn, 22% wheat, 11% sunflower products, 7% barley and rapeseed, 1 % soya beans, and 4% “other.”
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Isachenkov reported from Moscow. Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed. | 2022-09-07T15:59:45+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-ukraine-says-grain-coming-to-somalia-but-russia-skeptical/ |
How Donald Trump is gaining an advantage in the battle for delegates
NEW YORK - Set aside the polls, the fundraising numbers or Donald Trump’s name recognition as metrics of his early dominance of the Republican presidential contest. He has what could prove to be the most important advantage in the race: a leg up in winning the delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
While the delegate count won't begin taking shape until voting begins next January, Trump's edge in the race to win their votes is years in the making. Many state Republican parties made changes to their rules ahead of the 2020 election by adding more winner-take-all contests and requiring candidates to earn higher percentages of the vote to claim any delegates. Those changes all benefit a front-runner, a position Trump has held despite his mounting legal peril, blame for his party's lackluster performance in the 2022 elections and the turbulent years of his presidency.
As Trump makes another run for the White House, he has been focused on the looming battle for delegates, according to people with knowledge of his effort who requested anonymity to discuss strategy. He’s had regular discussion with state party chairs, many of whose leadership races he got involved in, and has hosted delegations from Republican parties in Nevada, Louisiana and Pennsylvania at his homes in Florida and New Jersey.
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The moves are a sign of how Trump's team is focused on the crucial, if less glamorous, aspects of winning the GOP nomination. That's a notable change from his first bid for the White House in 2016, when his team of relatively novice operatives weren't familiar with the minutia of the delegate contest and sometimes found themselves outflanked by better-prepared rivals, particularly Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
That doesn't appear to be happening this time as election experts say it appears few other campaigns have been able to match Trump's yearslong work.
"They’ve been asleep at the switch," election lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg said.
More than 2,000 party activists, insiders and elected officials make up the pool of delegates who will cast votes at the Republican National Convention next summer to formally select a nominee. The rules governing how delegates are selected are determined by state parties, which have until October to submit their plans for next year's elections.
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Many of the proposed changes that are starting to emerge in state parties appear to benefit the former president.
In Michigan, where the state GOP has become increasingly loyal to Trump, the party’s leadership this year voted to change the state's longtime process of allocating all its presidential delegates based on an open primary election. Under a new plan widely expected to benefit Trump, 16 of the state’s 55 delegates will be awarded based on the results of a Feb. 27 primary. The other 39 will be distributed four days later in closed-door caucus meetings of party activists.
Other Republican parties are looking to shift away from primary elections toward party-run caucuses, where Trump’s support among the party’s grassroots activists could put his rivals at a disadvantage.
In Idaho, one of the country’s most Republican states, a new law passed by the state legislature earlier this year eliminated the presidential primary process by moving the state elections to May as lawmakers tried to consolidate the voting calendar. The party’s state central committee decided last month to instead hold caucuses on March 2.
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In Nevada, the state Republican Party is mounting a legal battle to try to hold a party-run caucus instead of a state-run primary election. The party chair, Michael McDonald, said he had spoken with Trump's team about the process and ongoing lawsuit but had not heard from the campaign of his strongest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Other changes in the works would reduce the potential of any last-minute maneuvering at the convention.
At least two states, Louisiana and Colorado, are proposing changes this year that would bind delegates to vote for their assigned candidate during a second round of voting the national convention in the unlikely event that no candidate has a majority on the first ballot.
Trump senior adviser Chris LaCivita said the campaign has had conversations with state parties all over the country about their delegate selection plans and is keeping close tabs on what its opponents are doing—or not doing.
As an example of the effort, LaCivita cited a a single-day trip he made to Las Vegas in May to speak to a gathering of hundreds of Nevada Republicans.
"We are aggressive on every level and on every front," he said. "We don’t let anything stand a chance."
In 2016, Trump barreled his way to nab the GOP nomination despite his campaign being being out-organized by Cruz's team. When Cruz swept all 34 of Colorado’s delegates after a process in which party insiders vote at a series of caucus meetings, Trump wrote an op-ed complaining about a "rigged" system. He threatened to sue after the primary in Louisiana, where he won a greater percentage of votes but Cruz was poised to pick up more delegates.
This time around, Trump is taking steps to cultivate ties with party insiders who might end up serving as delegates in 2024, making phone calls or in some cases schmoozing at big private dinners, like one he hosted in Iowa in May attended by the state’s attorney general, local lawmakers and precinct organizers. A similar Trump reception in South Carolina saw 75 people, including state Gov. Henry McMaster, state legislators and party activists packed in a sweltering tent.
"From a tactical perspective," LaCivita said, "Where we are today is leaps and bounds from where the campaign, a similar campaign, was in 2016."
DeSantis has veterans from Cruz’s 2016 campaign working on his behalf.
Jeff Roe, who served as campaign manager to Cruz’s campaign, is advising Never Back Down, a super PAC supporting DeSantis’ campaign, but the organization is not involved in delegate strategy and is not currently planning to be, according to a person familiar with the effort who wasn’t authorized to disclose internal strategy.
Sam Cooper, the political director of DeSantis' campaign and another veteran of Cruz's 2016 bid, said the Florida governor's team is closely monitoring developments in the states around delegate selection plans.
The DeSantis campaign is working to identify local party activists who could serve as delegates but also is specifically courting state lawmakers, who are typically active in their local GOP groups.
"They’re surrogates for us on the ground," Cooper said. "But also they’re close to the process."
The campaign boasts that more than 250 state lawmakers have endorsed DeSantis. The governor himself is very involved, Cooper said, and speaks speaks to legislators directly either in one-on-one calls or, as he did in June, in a Zoom call with more than 100 lawmakers around the country.
Cooper noted that DeSantis has made his own trips to speak before state and local GOP officials, appearing at 10 events in eight states since March and headlining fundraisers for Republican groups.
The DeSantis campaign declined to specify any states where the campaign provided feedback on a delegate selection plan, but Cooper said, the campaign feels "very good about the map."
"We haven’t seen a state party or a state make a move that’s so off the wall that could only support one candidate or the other," he said.
One potential opening for a challenger like DeSantis could be California, which has 169 delegates to dole out, more than any other state.
Thanks to changes passed by Democrats in the state Capitol, California’s primary contest will be on March 5, requiring the state GOP to change its delegate plan in order to comply with national GOP rules for early contests.
The changes, which the state’s Republican Party is set to consider and approve late this month, are set to award delegates proportionately to the candidate’s share of the vote, rather than award all delegates to the winner.
That could give a candidate trailing in second place a chance to make up ground—especially someone like DeSantis, who has made a point of campaigning in the state.
Bryan Watkins, the chief operating officer and executive director of the California GOP, said the organization has been in touch with Republican campaigns about the proposed change.
"As the state with the most delegates in the country, the CAGOP wants California to be a place where Republican presidential candidates will invest their time speaking to our voters and earning their support," he said in a statement. "So we appreciate the campaigns’ feedback and perspectives on the best way to accomplish that goal."
Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Steve Peoples in New York, Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan, Gabe Stern in Carson City, Nevada and Adriana Gómez Licón in Miami contributed to this report. | 2023-07-24T17:29:38+00:00 | fox13seattle.com | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/trump-gaining-advantage-battle-delegates |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With next year’s Paris Olympics on the horizon and Russia’s invasion looking more like a prolonged conflict, Ukraine’s sports minister on Friday renewed a threat to boycott the games if Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete and said Kyiv would lobby other nations to join.
Such a move could lead to the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War era.
No nation has declared it will boycott the 2024 Summer Games. But Ukraine won support from Poland, the Baltic nations and Denmark, who pushed back against an International Olympic Committee plan to allow delegations from Russia and ally Belarus to compete in Paris as “neutral athletes,” without flags or anthems.
“We cannot compromise on the admission of Russian and Belarusian athletes,” said Ukrainian Sports Minister Vadym Huttsait, who also heads its national Olympic committee, citing attacks on his country, the deaths of its athletes and the destruction of its sports facilities.
A meeting of his committee did not commit to a boycott but approved plans to try to persuade global sports officials in the next two months — including discussion of a possible boycott.
Huttsait added: “As a last option, but I note that this is my personal opinion, if we do not succeed, then we will have to boycott the Olympic Games.”
Paris will be the final Olympics under outgoing IOC head Thomas Bach, who is looking to his legacy after a tenure marked by disputes over Russia’s status — first over widespread doping scandals and now over the war in Ukraine.
Bach’s views were shaped when he was an Olympic gold medalist in fencing and his country, West Germany, took part in the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He has condemned that decision ever since.
Russia has cautiously welcomed the IOC’s decision to give it a path to the Olympics but demands it drop a condition that would leave out those athletes deemed to be “actively supporting the war in Ukraine.”
Russian Olympic Committee head Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who was a teammate of Ukraine’s Huttsait at the 1992 Olympics, called that aspect discriminatory. The IOC, which previously recommended excluding Russia and Belarus from world sports on safety grounds, now argues it cannot discriminate against them purely based on citizenship.
The leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania urged the IOC to ban Russia and said a boycott was a possibility.
“I think that our efforts should be on convincing our other friends and allies that the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes is just wrong,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said. “So boycotting is the next step. I think people will understand why this is necessary.”
The IOC said in a statement that “this threat of a boycott only leads to further escalation of the situation, not only in sport, but also in the wider context. It is regretful that politicians are misusing athletes and sport as tools to achieve their political objectives.”
It added bluntly: “Why punish athletes from your country for the Russian government starting the war?”
Poland’s sports minister Kamil Bortniczuk said as many as 40 countries could jointly condemn Russian and Belarusian participation at Paris in a statement next week but that it could stop short of a boycott threat. He told state news agency PAP that the IOC was being “naive” and should reflect on its position.
Denmark wants a ban on Russian athletes “from all international sports as long as their attacks on Ukraine continue,” said Danish Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt.
“We must not waver in relation to Russia. The government’s line is clear. Russia must be banned,” he said. “This also applies to Russian athletes who participate under a neutral flag. It is completely incomprehensible that there are apparently doubts about the line in the IOC.”
Asked by The Associated Press about the boycott threats and the IOC plan, Paris 2024 organizing committee head Tony Estanguet would not comment “about political decisions.”
“My job is to make sure that all athletes who want to participate will be offered the best conditions in terms of security, to offer them the chance to live their dream,” he said in Marseille.
Ukraine boycotted some sporting events last year rather than compete against Russians.
Huttsait said a boycott would be very tough, saying it was “very important for us that our flag is at the Olympic Games; it is very important for us that our athletes are on the podium. So that we show that our Ukraine was, is, and will be.”
Marta Fedina, 21, an Olympic bronze medalist in artistic swimming, said in Kyiv she was “ready for a boycott.”
“How will I explain to our defenders if I am even present on the same sports ground with these people,” she said, referring to Russian athletes. She noted her swimming pool in Kharkiv, where she was living when Moscow invaded, was ruined by the war.
Speakers at the Ukrainian Olympic Committee’s assembly meeting raised concerns about Moscow using Paris for propaganda and noted the close ties between some athletes and the Russian military.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday if athletes from the two countries compete, “it should be absolutely clear that they are not representing the Russian or Belarusian states.” Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympics.
If the IOC’s proposal takes effect, Paris would be the fourth straight Olympics where Russian athletes have competed without the national flag or anthem. The Russian teams at the Winter Olympics in 2018 and 2022 and the Summer Olympics in 2021 were all caught up in the fallout from a series of doping cases.
The last time multiple countries boycotted an Olympics was in 1988, when North Korea and others refused to attend the Summer Games in South Korea. The North Korean team was a no-show at the Tokyo Games in 2021, citing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The IOC barred it from the following Winter Games in Beijing as a result, saying teams had a duty to attend every Olympics.
Although the IOC set the tone of the debate by publishing advice on finding a way to help Russia and Belarus compete, decisions must be made for the governing bodies of individual sports that organize events on the 32-sport Paris program.
Those organizations, many based in the IOC’s home of Lausanne, Switzerland, run their own qualifying and Olympic competitions and decide on eligibility criteria for athletes and teams.
The International Cycling Union signed on to the IOC’s plan ahead of its Olympic qualifying events to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as “neutrals.”
Track and field’s World Athletics and soccer’s FIFA were among most sports that excluded Russian athletes and teams within days of the start of the war. Tennis and cycling let many Russians and Belarusians continue competing as neutrals. Other governing bodies are more closely aligned with the IOC or traditionally have strong commercial and political ties to Russia.
One key meeting could be March 3 in Lausanne of the umbrella group of Summer Games sports, known as ASOIF. It is chaired by Francesco Ricci Bitti, a former IOC member when he led the International Tennis Federation, and includes World Athletics president Sebastian Coe.
ASOIF declined comment Friday, though noted this week “the importance of respecting the specificity of each federation and their particular qualification process” for Paris.
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Graham Dunbar in Geneva, Bishr El-Touni in Marseille, France, Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, contributed.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eric Dixon scored 18 of his career-high 31 points in the first half, Cam Whitmore added 17 and Villanova defeated No. 19 Creighton 79-67 on Saturday.
Dixon also set a career high with six 3-pointers for Villanova (15-14, 9-9 Big East), which has won five of six.
“My teammates kept finding me in spots that I’m comfortable in,” Dixon said.
Arthur Kaluma scored 19 points and Ryan Kalkbrenner had 18 for Creighton (18-11, 12-6). The Bluejays have lost three of four following an eight-game winning streak.
“We ran into a buzz saw today,” Creighton coach Greg McDermott said. “Villanova was able to turn our defense inside out with Dixon’s ability to stretch the floor.”
The Wildcats have been the standard bearer for the Big East since the conference’s realignment in 2013, but they took some lumps for much of this season without Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright, who retired after last season. Now, first-year head coach Kyle Neptune has the Wildcats playing the kind of basketball that led them to seven of the last nine conference regular-season titles, five Big East Tournament titles over that span and national championships in 2016 and 2018.
Villanova again looks like a team that no one wants to play in March.
“We just had to grow as a team,” Neptune said. “Thank God our guys have continued to get better and better. Our goal is always to be the best team we can be by the end. Hopefully we can reach that goal.”
The Wildcats have been playing better since the return of Justin Moore from injury. The senior guard had eight points and eight assists in his ninth game back after tearing his Achilles tendon.
“You can see it coming as you watch them on film since Justin has returned,” McDermott said. “You can see growth every game. Frankly, I was afraid of this. Unfortunately, I was right.”
Dixon’s two free throws gave Villanova a 46-29 lead 2:57 into the second half to match the Wildcats’ biggest lead of the game. Creighton chipped away at the deficit and got within 52-45 with 12:37 remaining on Kalkbrenner’s two free throws.
But then Dixon heated up again, first hitting a 3 from the left baseline and then converting a traditional 3-point play on a drive and free throw to push the lead back to 58-45 with 11:18 to play.
Creighton couldn’t recover. Whitmore put an exclamation point on the victory with a driving, one-handed jam with 2:47 remaining.
MOORE FACTOR
Villanova improved to 5-4 since Moore returned to the lineup on Jan. 29 against Providence. The 6-foot-4 senior guard was projected to be a late first-round or early second-round pick in last spring’s NBA draft before tearing his right Achilles tendon in the Wildcats’ NCAA Tournament semifinal victory over Houston.
Like his team, Moore’s game has picked up lately. He is coming off his best performance, scoring 25 points while helping the Wildcats rally from a 13-point second-half deficit to win 64-63 at No. 16 Xavier on Tuesday.
HOME SWEET (OTHER) HOME
Villanova finished the season 3-1 at the Wells Fargo Center, the home court of the Philadelphia 76ers and the Wildcats’ secondary home floor. They won all three games here last season and are 62-37 all-time.
BIG PICTURE
Creighton: With games remaining against league bottom dwellers DePaul and Georgetown, the Bluejays look like a lock for an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. First, they’ll set their sights on the school’s first Big East Tournament title. Creighton has reached the championship game four times since joining the Big East in 2013 but have lost all four games, including in 2022 and 2017 to Villanova.
Villanova: The Wildcats likely will need a deep run in the Big East Tournament to have any shot at an NCAA Tournament at-large bid. Villanova is a middle-of-the-pack conference team this season but one that is getting hot at the right time.
UP NEXT
Creighton: Hosts Georgetown on Wednesday.
Villanova: At Seton Hall on Tuesday.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- Dodge Challenger voted Car of the Year
- Jeep® vehicles take two awards with Wrangler as 4x4/SUV of Year and Gladiator as Mid-size Truck of the Year
- Ram earns Full-size Truck of the Year
The Dodge, Jeep® and Ram brands earned top honors at the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas as show exhibitors voted for the top trend-setting vehicles that represent the best business opportunities in the automotive aftermarket.
The group awarded the Dodge Challenger as SEMA Car of the Year, Jeep Wrangler as SEMA 4x4/SUV of Year, Jeep Gladiator as SEMA Mid-size Truck of the Year and Ram as SEMA Full-size Truck of the Year.
"With four prestigious SEMA awards, it's clear that Stellantis is supportive and dedicated to the specialty equipment market," said Mike Spagnola, president and CEO, SEMA. "Voted on by the SEMA community, the awards validate that Stellantis is hitting the mark with the aftermarket."
The SEMA awards, launched in 2010, are the show's definitive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) honors, shining a light on the hottest, trend-setting vehicles that showcase and launch aftermarket parts.
Dodge Challenger
The Dodge Challenger still holds the title as the world's quickest, fastest and most powerful muscle car. The 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock continues to outperform the competition in the modern horsepower wars. From the most powerful and fastest muscle car, the SRT Super Stock, to the 303-horsepower V-6 efficiency and class-exclusive all-wheel-drive (AWD) capability on SXT and GT models, the Challenger meets the wants and needs of a wide range of Dodge performance enthusiasts.
Jeep Wrangler
The iconic Jeep Wrangler – the most capable and recognized vehicle in the world – delivers unmatched off-road capability and is produced with more than eight decades of 4x4 engineering experience. Powertrain options include a 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6, a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine, a 3.0-liter EcoDiesel engine with ESS, a 6.4-liter V-8 and the first ever Wrangler PHEV, the 4xe, which uses a 2.0-liter turbocharged gas engine, two electric motors and a high-voltage battery pack to deliver 21 miles of all-electric range and 49 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe). Wrangler continues to offer a body-on-frame design, front and rear five-link suspension system, solid axles, electronic lockers and is one of the few midsize SUVs to offer a six-speed manual transmission in addition to its available eight-speed automatic.
Jeep Gladiator
The Jeep Gladiator, engineered from the ground up to be the most off-road capable Jeep truck ever, builds on a rich heritage of tough, dependable trucks with an unmatched combination of rugged utility, authentic Jeep design, open-air freedom, clever functionality and versatility. Powertrain options include a 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine with engine stop-start (ESS) and a 3.0-liter EcoDiesel engine with ESS. Equipped with a versatile box, a body-on-frame design, front and rear five-link suspension system, solid axles and electronic lockers, Gladiator is one of the few midsize trucks to offer a six-speed manual transmission in addition to its available eight-speed automatic. Gladiator is built to handle the demands of an active lifestyle while delivering an open-air driving experience in a design that is unmistakably Jeep.
Ram Truck Brand
In 2009, the Ram Truck brand launched as a stand-alone division, focused on meeting the demands of truck buyers and delivering benchmark-quality vehicles. With a full lineup of trucks, the Ram 1500, 2500/3500 Heavy Duty, 3500/4500/5500 Chassis Cab and ProMaster, the Ram brand builds trucks that get the hard work done and families where they need to go.
Ram continues to outperform the competition and sets the benchmarks for:
- 1,075 lb.-ft. of torque with Cummins Turbo Diesel
- Towing capacity of 37,090 lbs. with Ram 3500
- Segment first 1,000 lb.-ft of torque with Cummins Turbo Diesel
- Payload of 7,680 lbs. with Ram 3500
- Most luxurious: Ram Limited with real wood, real leather and 12-inch Uconnect touchscreen
- Best ride and handling with exclusive link coil rear and auto-level air suspensions
- Most interior space with Ram Mega Cab
- The most cargo space available in any traditional full size cargo van
- Most capable full-size off-road pickup – Ram Power Wagon
- Ram 1500 TRX is the quickest, fastest and most powerful mass-produced pickup truck in the world
- Most awarded light-duty truck in America
- Highest owner loyalty of any half-ton pickup
The latest J.D. Power APEAL study, which rates the emotional bond between customers and their vehicles, named the 2022 Ram 1500 as the best vehicle in the large light-duty pickup category. This marks the third straight year Ram 1500 has received top honors.
The Ram 1500 lineup includes the Know & Go mobile app featuring an immersive experience for customers who want to learn more about their vehicles.
SEMA and the SEMA Show
The SEMA Show is a trade show produced by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), a nonprofit trade association founded in 1963. Since the first SEMA Show debuted in 1967, the annual event has served as the leading venue bringing together manufacturers and buyers within the automotive specialty equipment industry. Products featured at the SEMA Show include those that enhance the styling, functionality, comfort, convenience, and safety of cars and trucks. Additional details are available at www.semashow.com or www.sema.org, 909-396-0289.
Stellantis North America
Stellantis (NYSE: STLA) is one of the world's leading automakers and a mobility provider. In North America, it's best known for producing and selling vehicles in a portfolio of iconic and award-winning brands such as Jeep®, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, Alfa Romeo and Fiat. Powered by its diversity, Stellantis leads the way the region and the world move – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which it operates. For more information, visit www.stellantis.com.
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Kellen Amos scored 36 points as Central Connecticut beat Saint Francis Brooklyn 74-52 on Saturday.
Amos was 13 of 16 shooting, including 6 for 6 from distance, and went 4 for 6 from the line for the Blue Devils (3-13). Nigel Scantlebury added 13 points while finishing 6 of 8 from the floor, and he also had five assists. Jay Rodgers was 3 of 15 shooting (1 for 3 from distance) to finish with nine points.
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Today's Talker is all about a toddler who's gone viral for her friendship with her doll. But let's be clear, this isn't just any doll. It's a creepy doll!
This doll's name is Chloe. Three-year-old Briar was immediately drawn to Chloe when she saw her at a Halloween store.
Her mother relented and bought her the doll with its cracked face, red light-up eyes, and demonic laugh. She even nicknamed her "Creepy Chloe."
But, Briar loves Chloe, and when she took her on a trip to Disney World, the staff there was also smitten.
In full princess attire, Chloe got Briar and her mom special treatment, including a special cupcake and a backstage tour of the haunted mansion.
Pictures of the creepiest doll on earth in the happiest place on earth with her loving owner went viral on social media. | 2022-10-18T12:42:46+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/todays-talker/todays-talker-toddler-goes-viral-for-having-creepy-doll |
Maine town grants its first unicorn permit for 5-year-old girl
The Select Board voted to approve a 5-year-old girl's permit application
The Select Board voted to approve a 5-year-old girl's permit application
The Select Board voted to approve a 5-year-old girl's permit application
A 5-year-old girl in Lamoine has received permission to keep a unicorn on her family's property. Now she just has to find one.
The town's Select Board voted unanimously during Thursday's meeting to approve a permit application submitted by one of their youngest residents, Brielle.
That's after Brielle recently wrote to the board to ask for permission and an application.
The town's Select Board sent her the appropriate forms, and after due consideration of the completed application by the Board, it was granted.
To the town's knowledge, Lamoine is the first town in Maine to grant a permit for the magical creatures.
For now, it is unclear where she will begin her search for the unicorn, but we at WMTW News are sure that if anyone can find one, it's Brielle. | 2023-01-22T00:07:14+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/first-maine-town-grant-unicorn-permit/42604330 |
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PITTSBURGH, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create improved hearing protection that would comfortably accommodate the straps of any face mask," said an inventor, from Brooklyn, N.Y., "so I invented the EAR RELIEVERS. My design would provide added relief for the wearer's ears."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved set of ear defenders or hearing protection muffs for use with face masks. In doing so, it eliminates the pain associated with wearing masks loops around the ears. As a result, it enhances comfort and safety and it provides added protection and peace of mind while working during the pandemic. The invention features a practical design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for workers in industries that have noise levels above 85 decibels. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-JMT-129, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Australia's #MeToo movement is set to face one of its first real legal tests since erupting in spring 2021.
The trial of parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins' alleged rapist, which began on Tuesday and could last up to six weeks, may become one of the country's most-watched court cases in decades. Current and former political figures are likely to testify as witnesses.
What they say, and how the jury reacts, could roil a nation that's reforming gender inequality from the top down.
Higgins says she was raped inside Parliament House
Higgins, who served as an aide for Australia's liberal party, alleges she was raped in 2019 by Bruce Lehrmann, a fellow staffer at the time.
During a 2021 police interview played during Tuesday's opening arguments, Higgins told police that she and Lehrmann agreed to split a cab home following a night of heavy drinking, but he asked to take a detour to the federal parliament building.
"It didn't seem inconceivable to go to Parliament," she said in the interview. "It felt like a safe space for me."
Higgins, then 24, says she fell asleep on a couch in a minister's office, awoke to a sharp pain and realized that Lehrmann was having sex with her.
"I said no at least half a dozen times," Higgins told police. "He did not stop, he kept going."
Higgins said that an unspoken "don't ask; don't tell" policy throughout Parliament House discouraged her from making a formal report internally, though she did tell her boss, then-Defense Minister Linda Reynolds, and a dozen others about the attack.
Lehrmann, 27, has repeatedly denied the allegations. He pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent, which carries a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison.
Politics fueled Australia's #MeToo movement
Lehrmann's lawyers argued in their opening statement that the tremendous public and media attention on the case cast unfair doubt on the defendant.
Higgins' allegations, which she shared with media in early 2021, inspired a wave of women in Canberra to come forward with stories of mistreatment. According to a government survey that followed, more than 1 in 3 women working in parliament had experienced sexual harassment.
Across the country, thousands more women took to the streets to protest misogyny, which they say is embedded in everything from coal mines to corporate halls of power.
Michelle Arrow, who studies politics and gender at Macquarie University, described Higgins' allegations as the "ignition point to a wider conversation."
"The appalling nature of the case and what Higgins says she experienced was important in its own right," Arrow told NPR. "But the fact that she says it happened in Parliament House — a place where powerful people work and decisions are made ... concentrated the conversation around women's access to power."
The national reckoning proved consequential in the country's federal election last spring, which saw the ruling conservative coalition ousted largely by independent female candidates and women voters.
The trial and its attendant media attention may also test reform appetite when it comes to the Australian judicial system. Critics say strict secrecy and defamation laws, which keep most of the country's sexual assault trials out of the public eye, were designed to protect defendants.
Media commentary has already led to one delay in the start of the trial.
Ahead of opening arguments this week, the judge urged jurors to tune out all coverage and "search their souls about whether they can be impartial," recusing themselves if necessary.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-10-07T09:31:24+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2022-10-07/trial-opens-for-the-case-that-ignited-australias-metoo-movement |
Deadly police shooting of teenager triggers protests and arrests across France By Leila Fadel, Rebecca Rosman Published June 29, 2023 at 5:05 AM EDT Facebook LinkedIn Email There have been more protests in France after a 17-year-old was shot dead by police during a traffic stop outside Paris Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-29T09:45:46+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-06-29/deadly-police-shooting-of-teenager-triggers-protests-and-arrests-across-france |
LOS ANGELES — George Maharis, a stage-trained actor with rough-hewn good looks who became an icon to American youth in the 1960s as he cruised the country in a Corvette convertible in the hit television series "Route 66," has died.
Maharis' friend and caretaker Marc Bahan said in a Facebook post that he died Wednesday. Bahan told the Hollywood Reporter, which first reported Maharis' death, that he died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, after contracting hepatitis. He was 94.
On "Route 66," Maharis played Buz Murdock, a hardened survivor of New York City's Hell's Kitchen. His co-star Martin Milner, who died in 2015, was Tod Stiles, a young man raised in wealth who upon his father's death was left with nothing but a shiny new Corvette.
The pair decided to travel the highway author John Steinbeck had dubbed "The Mother Road." Each week brought a new adventure in a new city, and audiences tuned in in droves.
"Route 66" was the rare series at the time that was filmed on location, moving to new towns and cities for each new episode. It featured as guest stars future stars including Robert Redford, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Alan Alda in some of their earliest roles.
The storied highway itself was as much a star of the show as Maharis and Milner. Since bypassed in favor of bigger, faster interstates, it stretched unbroken from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean and was venerated as a driving force behind the country's 20th century westward migration.
"Route 66" was said to have been inspired by Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," and it spawned its own hit song, an instrumental composed by Nelson Riddle. The more familiar tune, "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66," was not connected to the series.
Maharis left the show after the third season — it would continue for one more without him — and never again achieved the same fame.
He got a name check that introduced him to subsequent generations in director Quentin Tarantino's 2019 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," when fictional actor Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, says he was considered for the Steve McQueen role in "The Great Escape" along with three Georges: "Peppard, Maharis and Chakiris."
A native New Yorker, one of seven children born to Greek immigrants, Maharis really was raised in Hell's Kitchen. His parents ran a successful restaurant, and they wanted George to join the family business.
"Growing up in Hell's Kitchen, at least for me, was all about 'I'm not gonna stay here,' " he said in a 2007 interview. "Life is all about the journey, the going. I had to get out."
He hoped to be a singer but damaged his vocal cords, so he switched to acting. After training under Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Actors Studio, he began appearing in off-Broadway plays.
Excellent notices for his work in Edward Albee's play "Zoo Story," and in appearances on the television drama "Naked City," attracted attention. After a small role in the 1960 film "Exodus" and a few other parts, he landed "Route 66."
After leaving the series, Maharis was cast as a star in such films as "Quick Before It Melts," "The Satan Bug," "Sylvia." "A Covenant with Death." "The Happening." "The Desperadoes" and "Land Raiders."
In 1970, he returned to weekly television, playing a criminologist in "The Most Deadly Game," but the show lasted only one season.
Maharis kept acting in the ensuing decades, appearing in such TV movies as "Escape to Mindanao" and "Murder on Flight 502," "Disaster in the Sky," "Crash of Flight 401," "Death in Space" and on TV series including "Fantasy Island," "The Bionic Woman" and "Murder, She Wrote."
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TV20 UF Female Athlete of the Year: Trinity Thomas (Gymnastics)
Thomas produced a dozen perfect scores in the spring of 2022
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - This week, TV20 is recognizing the best of the 2021-22 Florida Gators athletic year by handing out some awards (for entertainment purposes only). From Monday, June 13 through Friday, June 17, we’ll honor an individual or a team in one of 10 different categories. Up Next is the category for UF Female Athlete of the Year. The five nominees, as selected and voted on by TV20 staff, are:
Annabell Fuller: The junior competed in all 11 golf tournaments between the fall and spring season. Playing in the No. 1 position in six of them. The 2022 all-sec second team member helped lead Florida to its first berth in the match play finals of the SEC Tournament.
Anna Hall: Hall became the first female in the history of the track and field program to win the heptathlon at the outdoor national championships, while helping the women’s team win their first indoor national title in 30 years and claim their first ever outdoor title.
Jasmine Moore: Moore’s unrivaled sweep of the indoor and outdoor horizontal jumps puts her in a class of her own. She won all eight events between the long jump and triple jump. She was also a key piece of Florida’s indoor and outdoor national championship teams.
Kiki Smith: Smith already won TV20′s “super senior” superlative, in part because she earned “1st team all-sec honors” and paced all Gator women’s basketball players in points, assists and steals. Her skills and leadership guided the team to its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since the 2015-16 season.
Trinity Thomas: Thomas recorded a staggering 12 “perfect 10′s” this spring, including four in-a-row at the NCAA Championships on her way to being crowned SEC Gymnast of the Year, along with winning the SEC All-Around and NCAA All-Around titles.
Copyright 2022 WCJB. All rights reserved. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. | 2022-06-18T00:53:09+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/06/18/tv20-uf-female-athlete-year-trinity-thomas-gymnastics/ |
Apple maintains prices on new iPhones despite inflation
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple’s latest line-up of iPhones will boast better cameras, faster processors, and a longer lasting battery — all at the same prices as last year’s models, despite inflationary pressure that has driven up the cost of many other everyday items.
That pricing decision, revealed Wednesday during Apple’s first in-person product event in three years, came as a mild surprise. Many analysts predicted Apple would ask its devout fans to pay as much as 15% more to help offset rising costs for many components.
The hoopla surrounding Apple’s new iPhone 14 models is part of a post-Labor Day ritual the company has staged annually for more than a decade. Wednesday’s event was held on the company’s Cupertino, California, campus at a theater named after company co-founder Steve Jobs. After Apple CEO Tim Cook strolled out on stage, most of the event consisted of pre-recorded video presentation that the company honed during previous events staged during the pandemic.
For several years, Apple’s new iPhones have mostly featured incremental upgrades to cameras and battery life, and this year’s models were no exception. Pricing for the standard iPhone 14 will start at $799; the deluxe iPhone 14 Pro Max will start at $1099.
Among the latest improvements is a 48-megapixel camera in the Pro and Pro Max models that the company said will produce especially crisp pictures. The iPhone 13 versions of the Pro and Pro Max have 12-megapixel cameras. This year’s high-end models will also have always-on displays that stay lit even when the device is locked, a feature that has long been available on many smartphones powered by Google’s Android software.
Beginning in November, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will be able to send SOS messages via a new satellite feature — a safety measure intended to let users request help when in remote areas without a wireless connection.
All the iPhone 14 models will include a motion senor capable of detecting serious car crashes and automatically connecting to emergency services.
With inflation still hovering at its highest level in 40 years, consumers have curbed their spending on many discretionary items. That’s likely contributing to a recent decline in smartphone sales, although the iPhone has fared far better than competing Android devices .
The dimming sales outlook prompted the research firm International Data Corp. to predict a worldwide decline in 2022 smartphone shipments of 6.5%, almost double the 3.5% decline it had estimated a few months ago. Despite that anticipated drop in sales, the average price for new smartphones is expected to finish this year about 6% higher than last year, IDC estimated.
Consumers have still been snapping up iPhones this year, even though Apple already charges among the industry’s highest prices. Apple sold an estimated 106 million iPhones through the first half of this year, an 8% increase from the same time last year, according to Canalys, another research firm.
Forrester analyst Thomas Husson hailed the new lineup for its faster chips, improved design and “some incremental innovative features.”
Apple shares edged up 1% in late afternoon trading.
The company’s Apple Watch Series 8, meanwhile, will include a new temperature sensor intended to help women retrospectively track their ovulation cycles in addition to the crash detection feature also debuting on the iPhone 14. The price for the latest Apple Watch, available in stores Sept. 16, will start at $399, the same as last year’s model.
In an effort to broaden the appeal of wearable technology, Apple is rolling out a Watch Ultra model designed to be more durable and offering a variety of special features tailored for hikers, scuba divers and other outdoor enthusiasts. The Watch Ultra, available in stores Sept. 23, will carry a premium price of $799.
CCI Insight analyst Leo Gebbie predicted that the Ultra will compete with existing sports watch brands like Garmin and some luxury Swiss watchmakers that market their products around extreme sports.
Apple also took the wraps off its next generation of wireless earbuds, the AirPods Pro 2, which will also maintain a starting price of $249.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-07T20:21:14+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/07/apple-maintains-prices-new-iphones-despite-inflation/ |
Mother says psychic’s tip led her to daughter’s remains
ELSMERE, Ky. (WXIX/Gray News) – The mother of a woman whose remains were found in Kentucky in September says she found them thanks to a psychic.
Tonia Litman told WXIX she spoke to her daughter, Kadidra Roberts, 28, every day. She said those phone calls were the substance of a strong bond the two had forged.
When the phone calls stopped after Aug. 17, Litman said she knew something was wrong. On Aug. 25, she went to police in Cincinnati to report Roberts, a mother of two, missing.
The phone calls may have stopped, but Litman says the communication continued.
“My daughter called out to me every day until I found her,” she told WXIX.
As the days passed, Litman grew frustrated with the police investigation and eventually sought information from psychics in the area.
“A detail one of the particular psychics told me took us to that house,” she recalled.
Litman organized a search at the house two weeks after she’d last seen her daughter.
She later told police she had acted on a tip about a man she remembered seeing a glimpse of over a video call with her daughter on Aug. 17.
According to the criminal complaint, Litman claimed she’d gotten third-party information the man was inside the home.
The complaint does not, however, mention how she “remembered how she knew” the man after being unable to identify him initially, nor how she was able to identify him by his name— Lamont—prior to police making the arrest.
Litman told WXIX the psychic’s tip only included that her daughter’s body was in a wooded area behind the home, nothing about the suspect.
Nevertheless, that is where Litman says she found her daughter’s remains.
“I went deeper into the woods, and I seen a shallow grave. I knew at that point, that was her. A mother knows... I knew,” Litman said.
Litman said she ran out of the woods and called the police.
Two days later, investigators executed a search warrant at the home and announced the discovery of the remains.
On Sept. 7, they confirmed a fingerprint match, identifying the remains as Litman’s missing daughter.
One day after that, the Kenton County Police Department and Elsmere police arrested 53-year-old Theodore Lamont Myers, who lives in the home suggested by the psychic.
According to the arrest warrant, security video from a nearby residence shows a man making multiple trips between the home and the wooded area where the remains were located around the time Roberts’ family stopped hearing from her.
Myers told authorities he’d met Roberts at a reggae event in Downtown Cincinnati and that they “partied together through the night.”
He said they went to his Spring Street home and “passed out.” When Myers woke up, he said, he had breakfast before passing out again. Roberts, he claimed, was unresponsive when he woke the second time, WXIX reported.
Panicked, Myers allegedly wrapped her body in fabric, put her in a large green trash bin and dumped her in a grave in the woods.
He allegedly put her clothes and a wig into a garbage bag and threw them in the trash.
“I’m real angry,” Litman said. “I am, because he didn’t have to do it. If he knew something was wrong, he should have called 911.”
Commonwealth’s Attorney Rob Sanders said Myers told detectives he didn’t call 911 because he had done drugs.
The cause of Roberts’ death remains unclear.
“Now I’m out of a best friend, because she was my best friend, and [her children] are out of their mother, and it’s just too much,” Litman said. “So, it’s going to be hard, and I don’t know if I can ever have peace.”
Myers faces charges of abuse of a corpse and tampering with records. Sanders said additional charges are possible.
Copyright 2022 WXIX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-16T19:44:55+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/12/16/mother-says-psychics-tip-led-her-daughters-remains/ |
Long before Juneteenth was recognized as a federal holiday, Sidney Cooper had been celebrating the hallowed day for decades. Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper remember their father who died in 2001.
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Long before Juneteenth was recognized as a federal holiday, Sidney Cooper had been celebrating the hallowed day for decades. Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper remember their father who died in 2001.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-06-17T13:25:01+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/2022-06-17/daughters-remember-their-father-the-man-who-brought-juneteenth-to-san-diego |
WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, October 28, 2022
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FROST ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
1018 PM PDT Thu Oct 27 2022
...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost
formation.
* WHERE...Northern Humboldt Interior, Southern Humboldt
Interior, Northern Trinity, Mendocino Coast, Northwestern
Mendocino Interior, Northeastern Mendocino Interior,
Southeastern Mendocino Interior, and Northern Lake.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM Friday.
* IMPACTS...Frost could kill sensitive outdoor vegetation if
left uncovered.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings are issued during the local
growing season as defined by climatology and local agriculture
experts. Once the growing season has ended these statements will
no longer be issued until the spring.
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHERE...Southwestern Humboldt, Southwestern Mendocino Interior
and Southern Lake Counties.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-10-28T06:14:27+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-EUREKA-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17540527.php |
A Los Angeles County jury on Wednesday convicted a man of first-degree murder in the 2019 fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle, according to the Associated Press. The man, 32-year-old Eric R. Holder Jr., was also found guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter for injuring others at the scene.
Hussle, the Grammy-nominated artist born Ermias Joseph Asghedom, was shot in March 2019 outside the Marathon Clothing Store, a business he owned in his south Los Angeles, his hometown. A coroner that same day determined that Hussle, 33, died of gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide.
Prosecutors said Hussle and Holder were both affiliated with the Rollin’ 60s Crips gang, according to the AP. Holder’s attorney Aaron Jansen didn’t deny during the trial that his client shot and killed Hussle, but he asked the jury to consider the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, the AP reported. Jansen said Holder acted in the “heat of passion” after Hussle said there were rumors Holder was working with authorities.
Jansen said in a statement Wednesday that he was “deeply” disappointed in the verdict and that he had expected an uphill battle “given the high-profile circumstances surrounding the case.” He added, however, that he was “grateful that the jury agreed with us, in part, that the case was overcharged”; prosecutors originally argued for two counts of attempted murder for the injured bystanders.
“We will move on to sentencing set for September 15, 2022, and then appeal,” Jansen added.
After years of putting out music, Hussle released his first and only studio album, “Victory Lap,” in February 2018; it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and peaked at No. 2 after his death. Hussle, who grew up in the Crenshaw neighborhood, was known to give back to his community through business deals and philanthropy. The day of Hussle’s death, a member of the Los Angeles police commission tweeted that he had a meeting scheduled with the rapper for the next day in an effort to reduce gang violence.
Prosecutors underscored Hussle’s community work during the closing arguments of Holder’s trial.
“This man was different,” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney told the jury, according to the AP. “He wanted to change the neighborhood. He kept the same friends. And the neighborhood loved him. They called him Neighborhood Nip.” | 2022-07-06T21:13:04+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/07/06/nipsey-hussle-murder-verdict/ |
PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On behalf of The Buyer and The Seller, Agent PHL / Compass Commercial has formally announced the sale and settlement of Kensington Courts Flats in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The off-market sale was brokered by Ryan McManus, Principal of Agent PHL / Compass Commercial, in a dual-agent transaction.
McManus said, "Kensington Courts is like a micro-city nestled high above the most popular residential submarket in Philly today – Fishtown/Kensington. The Riverwards Group masterfully transformed a 185,000 SF vacant parcel into a diverse new community of townhomes, apartments and retail– carefully balanced with ample parking and green space for its residents – homeowners and renters alike." He said, "Our Client, The Buyer, recognized this unique opportunity to acquire a best-in-class, brand new, stabilized rental community at an attractive basis, located in a growing, yet coveted area which suggests higher-than-average rent growth and asset appreciation for years to come, based on market KPI's and vital investment metrics."
The new construction apartment community built and sold by The Riverwards Group is located in the surging Fishtown/Kensington submarket, where investment demand is accelerating with activity from regional investors chasing yield and quality not found in other pricier East Coast metros like New York, Boston and Washington, D.C.
"Kensington Courts is a model example of a neighborhood-changing development – one that is diverse, spacious and that offers urban city living at prices that are very competitive," said Mo Rushdy, Principal of Riverwards Group. "This development will always be so close to our hearts," he said.
The +/-90,000 SF Property features a straightforward blend of spacious 2-bedroom/2-bathroom apartments atop four (4) commercial spaces throughout five (5) buildings, with modern amenities like a dog run, surface parking, club room and lounge, fitness studio and panoramic rooftop terraces with unparalleled views of the Philly skyline and bridges into New Jersey over the Delaware River.
Said Larry McKnight, Principal of Riverwards Group, "I grew up in Fishtown and saw the decline that areas like Kensington went through; I'm happy that with Kensington Courts, Riverwards Group was a major player in the rise and comeback of this neighborhood."
Please direct future sales enquiries to Ryan@AgentPHL.com or visit our website at www.AgentPHL.com.
Agent PHL was founded in 2016 by Ryan McManus as a full-service hybrid real estate sales firm focused primarily on land development, multifamily investment, and residential new construction listings. The firm has enough talent, tools and resources to compete with blue chip national real estate firms yet remains boutique and nimble enough to service the most distinct, exclusive listings with a neighborhood-based approach to sales. Agent PHL has the local expertise, reputation and connections to be considered the go-to sales team in Philadelphia. Backed by the power of Compass Commercial and its national network of top-producing agents and technology, Agent PHL services an interoffice pipeline of referrals and out-of-region enquiries on behalf of brokers, investors and developers.
RWG is a full-service development company driven by an internal team of qualified real estate professionals whose combined breadth of experience integrates all areas of real estate design and development. Open and clear communication as well as proficient execution enable us to successfully deliver our commitment to the highest standard that will exceed our customers' expectations. Our success over the years derives from the commitments we made a decade ago which formed four company's fundamentals that shapes our work processes, execution and delivery. We strive to create sustainable Luxury homes using the highest quality building practices alongside the development of spacious public areas to secure a high standard of living within the vibrant urban surrounding. Transforming challenging development opportunities into vibrant neighborhoods drive our properties' valuation to secures financial benefits to buyers at settlement and beyond. One of the driving forces behind our team is their deep desire to give back to the community. This talented posse has big plans that include developments built specifically for those who serve their communities. We develop an open and personal dialogue with our customers that contributes to our ability to deliver not only top-notch properties but also an exceptional long life for them and their families.
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'He was respectful with me': Kimbrady Carriker's grandmother talks of man accused in mass shooting
SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - Kimbrady Carriker is the man suspected of killing five people Monday night in Philadelphia and injuring several more. He is facing a long list of charges.
A woman who identified herself as 40-year-old Carriker’s grandmother spoke with FOX 29 on the condition that her face and her name are not identified.
Her grandson is accused of killing five innocent people in a mass shooting, according to police. Like herself, she says Carriker’s parents are also in shock.
"He didn’t come off like that. You see him one way and then you see something like that and it’s not connecting, so they’re devastated," the woman explained. "They want to know what happened, why. Everyone wants to know in the family."
Carriker was arraigned via video conference Wednesday morning on 10 sets of charges for 10 victims. The five who were murdered and the others wounded by gunfire or injured during the chaos.
He only spoke when answering "Yes" to a few basic questions.
Police say Carriker was arrested wearing a ski mask and bulletbproof vest, armed with an AR-style rifle and handgun after opening fire, seemingly at random, in the area of 56th and Chester Streets, around 8:30 Monday night.
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Officials say Carriker was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2005 that does not prohibit him from owning a gun. But, he was not licensed to carry.
Carriker’s grandmom says he told her he carried a gun for protection. "He said everybody should have one. I said, ‘No, not in my house.’ I never seen the gun he had. He just told me he had it."
"Was he angry about anything? Did he express that he was upset about anything?" FOX 29’s Kelly Rule asked.
"No, no I haven’t seen him for two months and that was unusual," the grandmother replied.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said a handwritten will dated June 23rd was found at Carriker’s home and people who lived with Carriker told his office it was normal for him to keep guns in the house and wear the vest, but he was becoming more and more agitated recently.
A neighbor told FOX 29 that he met Carriker last week. "Brought him to my crib, I met him, but he looked like he was fine. Wasn’t nothing wrong with him. Completely normal. He told me he was a town watchman around here. You know, yeah, he said he was a town watchman. I was like, ‘Alright.’"
Carriker’s grandmother says she never heard that directly from her grandson. "That’s what I heard from the streets. I’m telling you, that’s a whole different ball game for me. I didn’t know none of that stuff. It’s a whole new ball game. He was a respectful young man with me." | 2023-07-05T22:48:26+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/he-was-respectful-with-me-carrikers-grandmother-talks-of-the-man-accused-of-mass-shooting |
DES PLAINES, Ill., Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Americaneagle.com, a family-owned, global digital agency, and ImmunoProfile, a medical diagnostics company, are proud to jointly announce the launch of ImmunoProfile's new customer portal and updated website (www.immunoprofile.com).
Built by Americaneagle.com, the innovative website enables customers to view content, easily purchase ImmunoProfile's products, and seamlessly manage multiple logistical functions. In partnering with the digital agency, ImmunoProfile's website fulfills two important requirements. First, Americaneagle.com designed the website with a secure and confidential customer portal for purchasing ImmunoProfile's products. Second, the customer portal manages multiple logistical processes including those required for medical diagnostic testing in a CLIA/CAP-certified testing laboratory and the secure delivery of the customer's confidential test results.
To ensure each step of the order fulfillment process is carried out efficiently, Americaneagle.com integrated the idev portal with various third-party solutions, including an API integration with the test kit order fulfillment company; the CLIA/CAP-certified lab for test results data transfer; and a payment processing solution. The portal is also integrated with a third party for sales tax calculation and transaction invoice details.
"We're excited about the partnership we've built with ImmunoProfile," Michael Svanascini, President of Americaneagle.com, said. "It was a unique project with a lot of specific requirements and we're proud of what we've been able to accomplish thus far. ImmunoProfile empowers people across the country to take preventative measures with their health and we're certainly proud that our team was able to not only deliver on those requirements but exceed expectations in doing so."
ImmunoProfile offers the first-ever at-home collection Serology Antibody Test Panel for 11 common infectious diseases. The test is engineered to determine personal levels of antibody protection against multiple infectious diseases in one test panel. ImmunoProfile offers easy, accurate, and affordable information about a patient's antibody protection levels. It only takes a few minutes for an at-home finger prick with the testing then performed at a clinical laboratory.
ImmunoProfile matches an individual's test results to World Health Organization (WHO) standards for these 11 commonly vaccinated against infectious diseases. The results allow a person to learn their current health risk, which may be different from their risk in the past. With ImmunoProfile, patients learn their personal antibody protection levels for many infectious diseases. Diseases provided are diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, H. Influenzae B, measles, mumps, pertussis, polio, rubella, tetanus, and varicella.
To further increase brand awareness and drive more traffic to the brochure site, ImmunoProfile and Americaneagle.com are also partnering on digital marketing services. Through various search engine optimization and social media tactics, Americaneagle.com is helping the new biotechnology company expand its business so that more people across the country can begin their preventative health journey.
"We're delighted to be working with Americaneagle.com and will expand our partnership to include their digital marketing services," added William F. Shea, Chief Executive Officer of ImmunoProfile. "ImmunoProfile envisions a future where people can easily test their current level of antibody protection, stay informed of changes in their antibody status, and know their current risks to any of the infectious diseases on the test panel. ImmunoProfile believes this is an important part of the future of personalized healthcare and is developing products to make accurate information accessible, convenient, and affordable for everyone. Americaneagle.com is helping us communicate our message."
Americaneagle.com is a full-service, family-owned digital agency that has been dedicated to providing best-in-class web design, development, hosting, post-launch support, and digital marketing services for over 25 years. With a global team comprised of 700+ skilled professionals and subject matter experts, Americaneagle.com focuses on achieving measurable results and exceeding goals for all of our clients. Thanks to our flexibility and expertise in a wide range of online services, we have the capabilities to handle any business of any size, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, government organizations, small online storefronts, large multi-channel retailers, and more.
CONTACT:
Michael Svanascini, President
press@americaneagle.com
847-699-0300
ImmunoProfile www.immunoprofile.com is a medical diagnostics company focused on serology antibody testing for infectious diseases. ImmunoProfile's proprietary assay allows the company to utilize existing laboratory equipment and a proven CLIA/CAP certified laboratory to run the panel test at a fraction of historical costs. Together with the at-home finger prick test kit, ImmunoProfile makes individual knowledge convenient, simple, and cost effective for multiple diseases from the same specimen. The company believes that all individuals should know their current antibody protection levels for multiple infectious diseases. As antibody protection levels can change by disease over time, "knowledge" empowers individuals to make the best healthcare decisions based on their individual circumstances. ImmunoProfile does not provide and will not provide specific medical advice but only provides test results information to allow the customer and their physician to have a better understanding of the customer's health. Any and all specific medical advice including diagnosis and treatment will not be provided by ImmunoProfile and customers should consult a physician.
Note:
Must be age 18+ to be tested.
Available in 49 states and the District of Columbia. This test is not available in the state of New York.
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SOURCE Americaneagle.com | 2023-02-02T17:42:42+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/02/02/americaneaglecom-announces-launch-customer-portal-updated-website-at-home-antibody-test-panel-company-immunoprofile/ |
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Whirlpool Corp. (NYSE: WHR) announced today it has been named to Forbes' list of "America's Best Employers for Women 2022." The final list ranks 400 American companies that are admired by employees for their dedication to their female workforce and diverse representation across the organization.
"We are honored to have been recognized by Forbes for our efforts to support female employees and provide an environment for them to bring their talent and thrive," said Carey Martin, chief human resources officer for Whirlpool Corp. "For over 110 years, we have been committed to cultivating a diverse workforce, including more women in leadership roles, in order to help drive innovation at the company to improve the life at home for our consumers."
Whirlpool Corp. has taken meaningful actions to cultivate a strong, inclusive and diverse culture and support its female employees around the world. In 2018, CEO Marc Bitzer became a Catalyst CEO Champion for Change signatory with the pledge to increase the company's female representation in executive and senior level positions and ensure accelerated inclusion of women, including women of color, in senior roles. The company has also continued to action several initiatives to celebrate the diversity of its workforce, and has eleven employee resource groups (ERGs) worldwide, including the Whirlpool Women's Network (WWN), which empowers and engages women at all levels across the organization through networking events, career development programs, and advanced leadership opportunities.
Whirlpool Corp.'s commitment to its female employees is part of the company's core value of Inclusion and Diversity. In recognition of these efforts, Whirlpool Corp. is regularly recognized as a leading company in employee engagement and support. In 2022, the company was named to the 2022 Seramount Top Companies for Executive Women list as well as included on the 2022 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion for the sixth straight year.
America's Best Employers for Women 2022 were identified through a joint survey from Forbes and Statista of approximately 50,000 Americans working for companies with more than 1,000 employees in the United States. The survey evaluation was based on four different categorical criteria including:
- General work topics—women's evaluations of their employer's atmosphere and development, image, working conditions, salary and wage, workplace, and diversity and inclusion
- Topics related to women—women's evaluations of their employer's parental leave, family support, flexibility, discrimination, representation and career, and pay equity.
- Indirect recommendation—women's evaluations of other employers in their respective industries that stand out either positively or negatively in regard to diversity
- Diversity among top executives / board—an index was built based on the share of women in executive management or board positions.
- Click here to see the full list of Forbes "America's Best Employers for Women 2022."
About Whirlpool Corporation
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. In an increasingly digital world, the company is driving purposeful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and Yummly. In 2021, the company reported approximately $22 billion in annual sales, 69,000 employees and 54 manufacturing and technology research centers. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com
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Hit series ‘Yellowstone’ coming to an end
NEW YORK (AP) — The popular television western “Yellowstone” with Kevin Costner will end this fall and be replaced almost immediately by a sequel. But like any good drama, there’s some mystery involved.
The sequel, still untitled, will premiere December on the Paramount cable network, which also televises “Yellowstone,” Paramount said on Friday.
Behind Costner, who plays Montana rancher John Dutton, series creator Taylor Sheridan launched a phenomenon. The opening of its fifth season last November was seen by 12.1 million viewers on the night of its debut, more people than any other scripted series last fall — a remarkable feat for a show not on a broadcast network.
“We’ve been able to create a show that didn’t start out being popular but did it on its own terms,” Costner told The Associated Press last fall.
“Yellowstone” will wrap up with new episodes airing in November; how many was not announced on Friday. Those episodes haven’t been filmed yet, and it’s not clear whether Costner will participate following reports that he may want out of the series.
Paramount would not comment on that Friday, with a spokesperson saying only, “Kevin Costner is a big part of ‘Yellowstone’ and we hope that’s the case for a long time to come.”
David Glasser, CEO of 101 Studios, which produces “Yellowstone” with MTV Entertainment, said the new series “will be picking up where ‘Yellowstone’ leaves off in another epic tale.” While the series hasn’t been named, the word “Yellowstone” will be part of the title — an important distinction because that wasn’t the case for spinoffs like “1883″ or “1923.”
Paramount has denied published reports that actor Matthew McConaughey is signed to star in the sequel. But a spokesperson said Friday that McConaughey “is a phenomenal talent with whom we’d love to partner.”
Following its debut on the cable network, the sequel will also air on the Paramount+ streaming network.
That’s a hugely important distinction for the company. “Yellowstone” streams on NBC Universal’s Peacock service, owned by Comcast, meaning a big chunk of revenue created by the popular drama has been going elsewhere.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-05T15:39:02+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2023/05/05/hit-series-yellowstone-coming-an-end/ |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo Police are investigating after recovering two BB guns from a vehicle in the South Park Avenue Tops parking lot Sunday afternoon.
Officers responded to the Tops at 1460 South Park Ave. just after 2:30 p.m. They recovered the BB guns, cuffed a man and transported him to Erie County Medical Center for evaluation, a BPD spokesperson told News 4.
No charges have been filed.
“Tops is cooperating with authorities re: this ongoing investigation. There were no firearms involved in this incident nor was there any threat to anyone inside/outside of the store.”
Kathy Sautter, Tops Friendly Markets, public and media relations manager
This incident comes more than four months after a white supremacist gunman shot and killed ten Black shoppers and injured three others at the Tops store on Jefferson Avenue.
In July a man from Lynnwood, Washington was charged in a separate case for calling the Tops store on Elmwood Avenue and threatening to shoot Black shoppers. | 2022-09-26T19:55:10+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/regional-news/police-2-bb-guns-recovered-at-south-buffalo-tops-markets/ |
NEW YORK – The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby's announced Tuesday.
The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby's natural history auction on July 28, the auction house said.
The Gorgosaurus was an apex carnivore that lived in what is now the western United States and Canada during the late Cretaceous Period. It predated its relative the Tyrannosaurus rex by 10 million years.
The specimen being sold was discovered in 2018 in the Judith River Formation near Havre, Montana, Sotheby's said. It measures nearly 10 feet (3 meters) tall and 22 (6.7 meters) feet long.
All of the other known Gorgosaurus skeletons are in museum collections, making this one the only specimen available for private ownership, the auction house said.
“In my career, I have had the privilege of handling and selling many exceptional and unique objects, but few have the capacity to inspire wonder and capture imaginations quite like this unbelievable Gorgosaurus skeleton,” Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby's global head of science and popular culture, said.
Sotheby's presale estimate for the fossil is $5 million to $8 million. | 2022-07-05T17:34:41+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/weird-news/2022/07/05/76-million-year-old-dinosaur-skeleton-to-be-auctioned-in-nyc/ |
Vols fan celebrates too hard, tears ACL after Tennessee win over Alabama
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – A Volunteers fan celebrated a little too hard after Tennessee’s winning field goal over Alabama and tore his ACL.
Saturday, the Vols managed a 52-49 victory over the Tide in a last-second field goal. After the game, fans rushed the field, tearing up the turf and even taking the goalposts to the Tennessee River.
Matt Wheeler wasn’t at the game, but his celebrations ended in some damage of his own.
“It’s kind of like a knife being shoved in the side of your leg. Maybe a really sharp and intense pain and then I don’t know if it was the adrenaline or me being so happy, but I didn’t really feel it until I went to bed that night,” Wheeler described of the moment he tore his ACL.
Wheeler jumped in the air while watching the immediate aftermath of the historic game.
He sent a video to WVLT News and said an MRI confirmed the injury.
“I guess I’ll be more calm going forward unless they beat Georgia and then it’ll break the other one,” Wheeler joked.
Copyright 2022 WVLT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-20T16:25:39+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2022/10/20/vols-fan-celebrates-too-hard-tears-acl-after-tennessee-win-over-alabama/ |
For the official ceremony installing her as president of CSU Monterey Bay on Friday, Feb. 10, Vanya Quiñones and her administrative leadership team walked into the World Theater to the tune of “One Love” by Bob Marley and The Wailers, with the message of “Let’s get together and feel all right.” During her first six months as president beginning in August, the love apparently did not extend to one member of her management team, Larry Samuels, who was serving as vice president of strategic initiatives.
In an email sent Dec. 1, Quiñones announced to faculty and staff that she was streamlining operations by eliminating Samuels’ vice president position and shuffling him back to a lower-level position he previously held for a time under former CSUMB president Eduardo Ochoa, special assistant to the president. Samuels was no longer a member of the president’s cabinet and no longer executive director of University Corp., a legally separate nonprofit that manages grants and contracts for CSUMB and manages housing, dining and other campus services. No announcement was made to the public about the reorganization.
Quiñones put Glen Nelson, vice president of administration and finance and CSUMB’s chief financial officer, in charge of University Corp., with over $68 million in assets reported to the IRS in 2021. CSUMB’s director of strategic initiatives, Anya Spear, was moved to the Division of Administration and Finance. Quiñones announced other changes to her administration as well.
Within days, Samuels was gone from CSUMB. He took a job with UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive as special adviser for economic development and partnerships, a similar role to the one he had for years at CSUMB: fostering relationships with local governments and partnerships with private businesses to pursue projects designed to further the educational mission of the university. Samuels confirmed his new job, but declined to comment on his departure from CSUMB.
One of Samuel’s public/private partnership development projects announced in October is now off, according to an email sent to faculty and staff on Jan. 24 by Nelson. The planned 72-acre development at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 8th Street in Marina included up to 1,700 apartments for families and senior citizens and a town center with shops and restaurants, open space, trails and a gathering and entertainment space.
Nelson said that after a review of feedback from the CSUMB community, the financial needs of the project and its possible benefit to students, the CSUMB “leadership team has determined development of the site is not an option at this time.
“Given our need to focus resources and attention on increasing enrollment and improving the student experience on campus, we want to direct our collective energy and resources on projects” directly related to students and the campus community, Nelson wrote. Like the rest of the California State University, which is down 7-percent in enrollment this year, CSUMB has seen a decline in student enrollment by at least 5 percent since 2020.
Nelson added that the parcel “remains an important part of CSUMB’s future and we are open to pursuing the appropriate development of the site, with campus input, at some point in the future.” | 2023-02-16T12:11:58+00:00 | montereycountyweekly.com | https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/csumb-s-new-president-shakes-up-her-administration-and-a-big-building-project-is-shelved/article_c88d1dfc-ad7a-11ed-bb3a-bb9b351a1c76.html |
Application threats and vulnerabilities are secured earlier in the development lifecycle with Prisma Cloud, the industry's most comprehensive code-to-cloud platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Cider Security (Cider), a pioneer in application security (AppSec) and software supply chain security. Modern applications are developed rapidly through continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, but security at this stage of the application lifecycle is inconsistent, siloed or worse: simply absent. According to Gartner®, by 2025, 45% of organizations worldwide will have experienced attacks on their software supply chains, a three-fold increase from 20211. With the addition of Cider's cutting-edge capabilities, Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Cloud platform helps customers "shift security left" to proactively prevent threats and vulnerabilities before applications are deployed in production cloud environments.
"We are thrilled to officially welcome Cider Security to Palo Alto Networks," said Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO, Palo Alto Networks. "Cider's technology provides deep visibility and analysis of the tools and processes that are being used throughout the application development lifecycle, resulting in the ability to identify and remediate critical risks at every step. This is consistent with Prisma Cloud's shift left security strategy, as we continue offering innovative solutions that help protect our customers from emerging threats."
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud is the industry's most complete cloud-native application protection platform, revolutionizing how organizations protect their multicloud environments. In addition to recently adding Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Secret Scanning capabilities to its Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Prisma Cloud's integration of Cider capabilities will bring security to the forefront of the development lifecycle that can alert to potential CI/CD pipeline risks and deliver remediation solutions. With Prisma Cloud, customers bolster their ability to build secure applications and improve security posture, delivered from a single unified platform to secure complex cloud environments.
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The FinTech leader's J.D. Power recognition is their 20th top ranking for client satisfaction, including eight #1 rankings for mortgage servicing
DETROIT, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rocket Mortgage, part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), was today named #1 in the nation for client satisfaction in primary mortgage origination by J.D. Power. This is the 12th time Rocket Mortgage has earned the accolade, which is based entirely on client feedback collected by the independent research firm.
"At Rocket Mortgage, one of our ISMs – the core philosophies which define our culture and guide our decision making – is 'Obsessed with Finding a Better Way.' J.D. Power's recognition is further confirmation we are listening to our clients and consistently innovating to best meet their needs" said Bob Walters, CEO of Rocket Mortgage. "This award is particularly special this year because we created ways to support our clients during a period of change in the mortgage industry."
In addition to taking the top spot for overall satisfaction, J.D. Power's study ranked Rocket Mortgage as the #1 lender that clients described as "easy to do business with." Combining the mortgage origination and servicing studies, Rocket Mortgage has now earned 20 total accolades from J.D. Power – the most of any mortgage lender.
"Our mortgage bankers, operations team and many other hard working team members across the company showed up in a big way for our clients. We could not have achieved this accolade without their passion and innovation. Every day, I am proud of what we continue to accomplish together," said Heather Lovier, Chief Client Experience Officer of Rocket Mortgage.
Rocket Mortgage develops technology to improve the home loan experience. Also part of the Rocket platform, sister company Rocket Money uses tech-driven tools to help consumers improve their entire financial lives. Starting from canceling subscriptions and creating budgets, Rocket enhances the consumer experience by providing clients with the right product at the right time – from a new car to a new home or the ability to power their home with solar panels.
Keeping clients top-of-mind, Rocket Mortgage recently launched several new programs to help homebuyers. In August, Rocket Mortgage introduced a home equity loan – providing a new option to combat rising consumer debt. The company also announced Inflation Buster – lowering a homebuyers' interest rate by one percentage point on most loans for the first year, completely free. Most recently, Rocket Mortgage introduced Rocket Rewards, an innovative loyalty program empowering consumers to accrue points that can be redeemed to save money on closing costs when buying a home through Rocket Mortgage, or toward various financial transactions across the Rocket Platform.
Homebuyers can apply for financing at RocketMortgage.com
About Rocket Mortgage
Detroit-based Rocket Mortgage, a part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), enables the American Dream of homeownership and financial freedom through its obsession with an industry-leading, digital-driven client experience. In late 2015, it introduced the first fully digital, completely online mortgage experience. Rocket Mortgage closed $351 billion dollars of mortgage volume across all 50 states in 2021.
Rocket Mortgage moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit in 2010. The company generates loan production from web centers located in Detroit, Cleveland and Phoenix. Rocket Mortgage ranked highest in the country for client satisfaction for primary mortgage origination by J.D. Power. Combining the mortgage origination and servicing studies, the company has earned 20 total accolades from J.D. Power – the most of any mortgage lender.
Rocket Companies, Rocket Mortgage's parent company, ranked #7 on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" in 2022 and has placed in the top third of the list for 19 consecutive years.
For more information and company news visit RocketMortgage.com/PressRoom.
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NEW YORK (AP) — As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from Russia, have embraced a short-term fix: A series of roughly 20 floating terminals that would receive liquefied natural gas from other countries and convert it into heating fuel.
Yet the plan, with the first floating terminals set to deliver natural gas by year’s end, has raised alarms among scientists who fear the long-term consequences for the environment. They warn that these terminals would perpetuate Europe’s reliance on natural gas, which releases climate-warming methane and carbon dioxide when it’s produced, transported and burned.
Some scientists say they worry that the floating terminals will end up becoming a long-term supplier of Europe’s vast energy needs that could last years, if not decades. Such a trend could set back emission-reduction efforts that experts say haven’t moved fast enough to slow the damage being done to the global environment.
Much of the liquefied natural gas, or LNG, that Europe hopes to receive is expected to come from the United States. The need arose after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered its ties with Europe and led to a cutoff of most of the natural gas that Moscow had long provided. Along the U.S. Gulf Coast, export terminals are expanding, and many residents there are alarmed about the rise in drilling for gas and the resulting loss of land as well as extreme weather changes associated with burning fossil fuels.
“Building this immense LNG infrastructure will lock the world into continued reliance on fossil fuels and continued climate damage for decades to come,” said John Sterman, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Natural gas contributes significantly to climate change — both when it’s burned, becoming carbon dioxide, and through leakages of methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas. Yet European nations, which for years have been leaders in shifting to cleaner energy, have proposed bringing more than 20 floating LNG terminals into their ports to help compensate for the loss of Russia’s natural gas.
The terminals, which tower over homes and stretch nearly 1,000 feet (304 meters), can store roughly 6 billion cubic feet (170,000 cubic meters) of LNG and convert it into gas for homes and businesses. They can be built faster and more cheaply than onshore import terminals, though they’re costlier to operate, according to the International Gas Union.
“Every country needs to prepare for a scenario where there may be a cut in Russian supplies,” said Nikoline Bromander, an analyst with Rystad Energy. “If you are dependent, you need to have a backup plan.”
Many environmental scientists argue that the money being earmarked for the ships — which cost about $500 million each to build, according to Rystad — would be better spent on rapidly adopting clean-energy or efficiency upgrades that could reduce energy consumption.
Constructing more solar or wind farms, which takes years, wouldn’t immediately replace Russian gas. But with adequate funding, Sterman suggested, greater energy efficiencies — in homes, buildings and factories, along with the deployment of wind, solar and other technologies — could vastly reduce Europe’s need to replace all the gas it’s lost.
Germany, among Europe’s strongest advocates for the floating LNG terminals, is expecting five of the ships and has committed roughly 3 billion euros to the effort, according to Global Energy Monitor. Germany has also approved a law to fast-track the terminals’ development, suspending the requirement for environmental assessments.
It’s a move that troubles environmental groups.
“It’s totally obvious,” asserted Sascha Müller-Kraenner, CEO of Environmental Action Germany, that “the provisions of the law were developed in close dialogue with the gas industry.”
Germany’s government and energy industry have defended their embrace of the LNG terminals as an urgent response to the loss of most of the Russian gas they had long received, which they fear Moscow will shut off completely.
“In an exceptional situation such as this, where it’s a matter of Germany’s gas supply security, it is justified to accelerate the approval process,” Germany’s energy industry association, BDEW, said in a statement.
Susanne Ungrad, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry, noted that efforts are being made to lower methane emissions in exporting countries like the United States. And she said that in pursuing the construction of LNG terminals, Europe authorities will conduct comprehensive assessments.
Greig Aitken, an analyst at Global Energy Monitor, noted that a terminal that’s set to open near Gdansk, Poland, has signed contracts with American LNG suppliers that extend well past 2030. That could make it problematic for the European Union to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030.
Italy, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Slovenia and the U.K. all have one or more floating LNG terminals planned, according to Rystad Energy.
In some cases, proponents argue, the ships could aid the environmental cause. They note, for example, that as Russian gas supplies have dwindled, communities in Germany and elsewhere have been burning coal, which typically produces more emissions than natural gas. Increasing the supply of natural gas would make this less necessary.
Still, methane can frequently leak along the natural gas supply chain. So in some cases, the net climate effect of burning natural gas may be no better than coal.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that continuing to use the fossil fuel infrastructure already in place would cause global warming to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). At that level, heat would be expected to worsen the flash floods, extreme heat, intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires that have resulted from climate change and have cost lives.
“It is a little disheartening to see Europe, which has been the seat of so much energy and action and bold emissions targets, being home to this particular way with doubling down on fossil fuel infrastructure,” said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University.
In the United States, the largest export market for Europe-bound LNG, three new export terminals are under construction. Eleven additional terminals and four expansions are in the planning stages. Some export terminals that had struggled to attract financing are now seeing more investment and interest, said Ira Joseph, a longtime energy analyst.
“What you’ve seen happen over the last two months — they’re signing up sales and purchase agreements, right and left,” Joseph said.
Rio Grande LNG, an export terminal proposed by Next Decade in Brownsville, Texas, for example, appeared to stall last year in the face of environmental protests. But this spring, a French company, Engie, and several clients in Asia signed long-term contracts to buy LNG from the terminal. Now, Next Decade says it’s likely to obtain all the financing it needs.
Europe’s gas scarcity has escalated global LNG prices, leading buyers in China and elsewhere to sign long-term contracts with suppliers in the United States. American LNG exports will likely grow by 10 million tons over the next year, said Bromander, the Rystad analyst.
The floating LNG ships have been billed as a short-term solution to keep gas flowing for a few years while cleaner energy sources like wind and solar are built up. But critics say it’s unlikely that a ship built to last decades would permanently halt operations after a few years.
Once the floating terminals are built, they can be used anywhere in the world. So if European nations no longer want floating LNG terminals as they transition to cleaner energy, the ships could sail off to another port, essentially locking in the use of natural gas for decades.
And in some cases, particularly in Germany, some of the proposed floating terminals appear to be paving the way for on-shore terminals that would be built to last 30 or 40 years — well past the point that nations should be burning fossil fuels, environmental groups say.
“After the war is resolved and, as we all hope, peace is restored, are they really going to say, ‘Oh, let’s take it to the scrap yard?,’” Sterman asked. “They’re not going to do that.”
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AP Writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. | 2022-08-31T10:53:40+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/science/ap-science/ap-europe-plan-for-floating-gas-terminals-raises-climate-fears/ |
NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Latino Media Network (LMN) announced that Rose-Anne Tifre has been named Chief Revenue Officer for the rapidly growing multiplatform audio and digital media network. She joins founders Stephanie Valencia and Jessica Morales Rocketto and CEO Sylvia Banderas Coffinet, creating one of the largest Latina-owned and operated audio & media companies in the US Hispanic market today.
Tifre will oversee the commercial strategy for LMN and be responsible for positioning Latino Media Network as a leading multi-channel platform. She will focus on growing its revenue both locally and nationally and building and leading a high-performing sales team.
"We welcome Rosie to the LMN familia. As an esteemed and accomplished sales leader with audio and digital platforms, Rosie will be able to position Latino Media Network with advertisers who want to reach the fastest growing part of the US population," said Valencia and Rocketto.
"I am thrilled to work for a Latina owned media company aimed at informing, enriching and celebrating Latinos. Our stations can reach 1 in 3 Hispanics in the US and I am confident we can connect marketers to local and National Hispanic markets through the power of LMN's audio and digital platforms."
Tifre's career in advertising sales and marketing management experience spans more than 25 years. Over the course of her career she has overseen over $350 million in ad revenue and grown incremental revenue as a lead in both total market and multicultural sales in audio and digital channels such as streaming, podcasts and satellite. Additionally, her vertical sales experience spans several categories including auto (luxury and domestic), CPG, beauty, retail, healthcare, telcom, home, and entertainment.
Tifre was the recipient of the "Distinguished Publisher Award" by the NYC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She was also part of the leadership team recognized on ADWEEK/BRANDWEEK's Hot List for 2 consecutive years during her tenure at Selecciones. Tifre is a graduate of New York University and lived in Madrid, Spain to complete a B.A. degree in Journalism, Spanish and History.
Considered to be the largest radio deal of the last three years, Latino Media Network was formed to serve the country's surging Hispanic demographic through a media company that is built and led by Latinos. Despite representing nearly 20 percent of the population, Latinos continue to be grossly underrepresented in the media landscape, offering LMN the opportunity to fill a space that is in desperate need of culturally and linguistically diverse content.
About Latino Media Network
Latino Media Network is a media company serving the Latino community by helping us make sense of the world and their place in it. We will inspire, inform and celebrate Latinos through an audio focused multimedia network, owned and operated by members of our community. We will focus on content creation across a variety of culturally relevant subjects and help our community navigate the ocean of information that exists in our society. The network will create cultural pride by telling our stories, addressing our concerns and talking about opportunities for a better future.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Unionized UPS workers voted overwhelmingly on Friday to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and Teamsters can’t come to an agreement before their contract expires next month.
The Teamsters said 97% of unionized workers voted for the authorization.
The Teamsters have urged workers to authorize a strike to give them more leverage in negotiations with the company, but a yes vote does not mean a strike is imminent.
“This vote shows that hundreds of thousands of Teamsters are united and determined to get the best contract in our history at UPS,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a prepared statement. “If this multibillion-dollar corporation fails to deliver on the contract that our hardworking members deserve, UPS will be striking itself. The strongest leverage our members have is their labor and they are prepared to withhold it to ensure UPS acts accordingly.”
The Teamsters represent about 340,000 UPS employees, more than half of the company’s workforce. If a strike occurs, it would be the first massive work stoppage at the company since a 15-day walkout by 185,000 workers crippled the company a quarter century ago.
UPS has grown vastly since then and become even more engrained in the U.S. economy. UPS says they deliver the equivalent of about 6% of nation’s gross domestic product. A strike would carry with it potentially far-reaching implications for the economy.
UPS said in a prepared statement the strike vote does not impact the company’s “current business operations in any way.”
“Authorization votes and approvals are normal steps in labor union negotiations,” the company said. “We continue to make progress on key issues and remain confident that we will reach an agreement that provides wins for our employees, the Teamsters, our company and our customers.”
UPS workers are still seething about the current contract, which they feel was forced on them by prior union leadership in 2018 based on a technicality. Wording in that contract, called the “22.4 provision,” created two hierarchies of workers with different pay scales, hours and benefits. The union wants it eliminated.
In addition to addressing part-time pay and what workers say is excessive overtime, the union wants improvements to driver safety, particularly the lack of air conditioning in delivery trucks, which has been blamed for the death of a driver and hospitalizations of others.
On Tuesday, the union and the company announced they reached a tentative agreement to equip more trucks with air conditioning equipment. Under the agreement, UPS said it would equip U.S. small delivery vehicles purchased after January 1, 2024 with air conditioning and where possible, allocate these vans to the hottest part of the country first.
But those changes aren’t extending to vehicles already in operation – at least not yet. Instead, the union says two fans would be installed in all package cars following the ratification of a new contract. It also said the company agreed to add heat shield to newer non-electric UPS vehicles and put air vents in the cargo compartments of new and existing package cars.
Under the agreement, UPS says roughly 95% of its existing U.S. package delivery fleet will be enhanced.
Teamsters spokesperson Kara Deniz said both sides have reached two dozen tentative agreements since the negotiations began in May.
UPS delivers around 25 million packages a day, representing about a quarter of all U.S. parcel volume, according to the global shipping and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. That’s about 10 million parcels more than it delivered each day in the years leading up to the pandemic.
At the same time, UPS profits have soared since the pandemic began in 2020, as millions of Americans grew to rely even more on the delivery of essential household goods to their doorstops.
Annual profits at UPS in the past two years are close to three times what they were pre-pandemic. The Atlanta company returned about $8.6 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and stock buybacks in 2022, and forecasts another $8.4 billion for shareholders this year.
The Teamsters say that profit growth is largely due to the hard work of UPS drivers and warehouse workers, who carry everything from 50-pound bags of dog food, cases of wine and essential medicine.
The acrimony over the current contract was the impetus for workers rejecting a candidate to lead the Teamsters favored by longtime union head James Hoffa. Union members instead chose Sean O’Brien, who has dug in on the Teamsters’ contract demands of UPS.
A win at UPS could have implications for the organized labor outside the company.
There have been prominent labor organization campaigns at Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Apple, even strippers at a dance club in Los Angeles.
Teamsters are also attempting to organize workers at Amazon, which has fought back against organizing efforts for years and is petitioning to throw out the sole labor victory at a company facility in the New York City borough of Staten Island.
Teamsters announced in April dozens of delivery drivers and dispatchers who work for an Amazon contractor in California joined the union. Amazon said it fired the contractor well before the announcement and has accused the Teamsters of spreading false information about how the company works. | 2023-06-16T18:03:25+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ups-workers-vote-to-authorize-strike-in-high-stakes-negotiations-for-a-new-contract/ |
Frank Shorter has forged a remarkably successful life based upon, as he often describes it, the simple concept of putting one foot in front of the other. Then repeat that motion as rapidly and consistently as possible.
Shorter always has been on the move. And so his latest honor, one that will simultaneously recognize the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest accomplishments in American distance running history while offering a festive re-start to the Bolder Boulder, comes with a caveat that goes against Shorter’s very nature.
As the official starter for the 2022 Bolder Boulder, Shorter, at least for a little while on Memorial Day morning, will be required to stand still.
“I won’t get to run,” Shorter said, “But I guess maybe I’ll run the course for fun on another day.”
After two years on the sideline due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bolder Boulder is set to make its triumphant return when the 42nd edition of the country’s biggest 10-kilometer road race takes off on Monday morning.
It is perhaps fitting that it will be Shorter who will signal the official re-start of one of Boulder’s biggest annual traditions.
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of an event that was roundly credited with sparking a new enthusiasm in America for distance running, both competitively and recreationally.
At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, just days after he finished fifth in the 10,000-kilometer run while setting an American record he set previously during the qualifying heats, Shorter made history by winning gold in the marathon. Shorter captured the silver medal at the Montreal Games four years later, finishing behind an East German runner, Waldemar Cierpinski, who later was implicated in a pervasive East German doping scandal.
He remains the only American athlete to win a pair of Olympic medals in the marathon.
“I never would have imagined 50 years ago what life might be like, literally and figuratively, 50 years down the road,” Shorter said. “There are so many people, starting with that first (Bolder Boulder) race, I love to do, which is put one foot in front of the other and go down the road. There are a lot of people out there who, like me, have it for stress relief and relaxation. I discovered it at age 10, and I like to think I helped a lot of other people discover it maybe at a later age.
“In a way, I’m in a very thankful mode now. It’s all been a part of the process, and the Bolder Boulder was one of the first major road races to come along in the 1970s. It’s always nice to know where you came from, and this is a big part of that.”
Shorter, of course, is part of the Bolder Boulder’s rich history as well. He was there when the first race sent off in 1979, a competition that was more of a vision than anything awe-inspiring for the scant 2,700 entrants that participated. Shorter won the third Bolder Boulder in 1981 — by then, the entrants already had climbed to 9,000 — in the first race that featured the festive finish within Folsom Field.
Shorter’s statue remains a fixture near Folsom Field, but that fixed pose and Shorter’s brief tenure on Monday morning as the Bolder Boulder’s might be the only instances of Shorter not being a man in motion. Once his duties as the official starter are complete, Shorter will hustle over to Folsom Field to assume his annual chore as the television analyst for the Bolder Boulder broadcast.
“This is a celebration of the 50-year anniversary of him winning the gold medal in 1972, but it also represents him being the champion in 1981 in the third year,” Bolder Boulder race director Cliff Bosley said. “That third race in 1981 was the first one that finished at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field. So he’s the first official finisher at Folsom of over one million, 300 thousand people. He finished first. That’s a unique tie to the race and the University of Colorado, and Frank is kind of in the middle of it.” | 2022-05-28T23:41:50+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/05/28/frank-shorter-honored-to-re-start-the-bolder-boulder/ |
(KTLA) – Disneyland Resort announced Monday that it would resume sales of its Magic Key annual passes on April 11. All pass types, including the Enchanted Key, will be available for purchase.
The passes will go on sale no earlier than 9 a.m. PT and Disney fans can join the online queue to purchase a magic key on the Disneyland website.
Current pass holders can upgrade their passes at ticket booths at the theme park.
The resort offers four tiers of annual passes:
Inspire Key
- Price: $1,599
- Benefits: Free standard parking, 20% off select merchandise, 15% off select food and drinks, Unlimited Disney Photo Pass digital downloads, and 20% off Disney Genie+.
Believe Key
- Price: $1,099
- Benefits: 50% off standard parking, 10% off select merchandise, 10% off select food and drinks, Unlimited Disney Photo Pass digital downloads, and 20% off Disney Genie+
Enchanted Key
- Price: $699
- Benefits: 25% off parking at the Toy Story Lot, 20% off purchase of Disney Genie+, 10% off select merchandise, 10% off select dining
Imagine Key (Southern California residents only)
- Price: $449
- Benefits: 25% off parking at the Toy Story Lot, 10% off select merchandise, 10% off select food and drinks, and 20% off Disney Genie+.
Magic Key passes are subject to availability based on the pass type. Disneyland says some passes may be unavailable occasionally as they balance the number of passes they sell and manage crowds.
Disneyland launched the Magic Key program in August 2021 after retiring the popular annual passports during a yearlong shutdown of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The keys give park guests access to the parks on select dates, depending on availability and pass type, along with select discounts on food, merchandise and Genie+, the park’s paid line-skipping service that replaced the Fast Pass program.
Annual passes for Walt Disney World will be available later this month after sales were abruptly halted last year. | 2023-04-10T23:33:46+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/disneyland-to-resume-magic-key-annual-pass-sales/ |
Ruth W. Shirk, 76, of Martindale, died Thursday, November 17, 2022, at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Born in West Earl Twp., she was the daughter of the late Martin S. and Esther B. (Weaver) Shirk.
Ruth worked for more than 40 years at Ephrata Community Hospital in the dietary department. She was a member of Martindale Mennonite Church, Groffdale Conference.
Surviving is a brother, Eli married to Anna Shirk, Mifflinburg, four sisters: Mary Leid, Edna Martin, Esther Shirk, all of Martindale, and Martha married to J. David Martin, Shippensburg, and two sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Shirk, Shiloh, OH and Arlene Shirk, Beavertown, and 43 nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Susie Shirk and two brothers, Edwin and Clarence Shirk.
Her funeral will be held on Wednesday, November 23, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. at Martindale (Frame) Mennonite Church with Bishop Leon Zimmerman, Alvin Leid, Leon Horst, John Mark Martin, and Jerome Wanner officiating. Interment in the adjoining church cemetery. A viewing will be held at the home of Mark Leid, 1126 Martindale Rd., Ephrata on Tuesday from 2- 4 p.m. and 6 8 p.m. Kindly omit flowers. The Eckenroth Home for Funerals, Terre Hill, is in charge of arrangements.
A living tribute » | 2022-11-19T05:53:52+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/ruth-w-shirk/article_a36bc1ae-e14f-599e-91ca-21727df42073.html |
Welcome to the latest session of food exposure therapy. You're late — most likely years late in conquering today's food phobia: anchovies. Relax and take a deep breath. By the time we're done, you'll be on your way to overcoming your fear. You might even learn to love them.
Anchovies, those scary slivers of canned fish, have a taste so pungent, so intensely fishy and salty that when served improperly, they can make the heartiest eater recoil from their punch.
However, these members of the herring family, which swim in warm waters all over the world and average 1 to 4 inches in length, have been a staple of the global diet for thousands of years. And not just any staple, but one so highly prized that it was used to make a condiment, garum, during the Roman Empire that cost as much as the finest perfumes.
Why the obsession over anchovies? Because these bright-eyed, oily fish have what scientists and food experts call "umami," an almost indescribable fifth taste that takes your eating experience beyond salty, sweet, sour and bitter. Umami can best be characterized as a "savory" taste, but a savory so satisfying that it lingers on your taste buds like the final chords of your favorite song. Your impulse is to hit replay to hear the song again, which is what we do when we reach into a bag of Doritos or twirl another strand of instant ramen into our mouths; both contain monosodium glutamate, the artificial additive that contains umami. However, umami also can be found naturally in foods such as Parmesan cheese, seaweed, truffles, meats, mushrooms and certain fish.
It's this secret fifth taste that has kept anchovies among the top tunes our taste buds have downloaded throughout the ages. It's the processing of anchovies that has given this fish its bad reputation. Because of their size and oil content, they don't transport well, though you should jump at the chance to try fresh anchovies; you'll marvel at their delicate, naturally oily flavor. Most anchovies are cured either as filets, packed in barrels or flats of salt for several months, or as a concentrated fish sauce used as a seasoning in meat and vegetable dishes. The preserved fillets, whose white flesh turns the familiar reddish-brown hue from the salting process, are packaged flat or rolled in cans, sometimes coiled around a caper, whose briny piquancy can stand up to the fish.
To make fish sauce, anchovies are packed in salt in wooden flats or earthenware jars and allowed to "autolyze" in the hot sun — a process by which the enzymes in the fish break down the tissue, liquefying the fish into a concentrated sauce. (The salt helps prevent bacterial buildup.) What you have after nine months is umami in a bottle, though the liquid is so fishy in flavor that it is not meant to be consumed on its own. I once dropped a full bottle of fish sauce in my kitchen, and after repeated scrubbing and mopping, I still could not get the fishy smell out of my house for a week.
If you're trying to condition yourself to appreciate this fine fish, don't eat them individually as you would on a pizza. The anchovies at pizza joints are usually the cheapest available. ... Find a good Caesar salad or puttanesca sauce that calls for a few anchovies mixed into the dish.
Despite the risks in handling it, fish sauce has found its way into kitchens around the world. Romans had their coveted garum. The Indonesians have kecap ikan, which dates back to the 15th century. Koreans use aek jeot to make their national side dish, kimchi. The Filipinos have patis. The Vietnamese have nuac mom, and the Thais have nam pla, an essential ingredient in so many Thai dishes. They all usually contain anchovies.
Even the bottle of ketchup in everyone's fridge owes its existence to anchovies. "Ke-chiap," a popular fish sauce made in southern China, was exported to Europe many centuries ago. In the 19th century, tomatoes, brought over from the New World, were incorporated into the European recipes of "katchup" until over time we ended up with the modern version, sans anchovies.
There are, I believe, two reasons why we don't care for anchovies in this country: We don't achieve the right balance of anchovies in our dishes, and we don't use quality anchovies.
If you're trying to condition yourself to appreciate this fine fish, don't eat them individually as you would on a pizza. The anchovies at pizza joints are usually the cheapest available; the hot oven also concentrates their saltiness. Find a good Caesar salad or puttanesca sauce recipe that calls for a few anchovies mixed into the dish. Or make an olive tapenade that you can smear on baguette slices. You can use the cheaper anchovies for these recipes. Once you get accustomed to the subtle fish taste, seek out the more expensive anchovies, often found in a jar, not a can, at specialty food stores or Italian or Spanish markets. You'll be surprised by the difference in flavor.
Soon you'll be ready to enjoy them on their own, as I did on a recent trip to Barcelona, where I ordered anchovies smothered in golden Spanish olive oil, anchovies wrapped around olives and pickled green beans or speared with marinated artichoke hearts. The most memorable dish during my travels? Two beautiful anchovy fillets on a bed of homemade Catalan mato cheese, the consistency of ricotta, served with salt and fresh cracked pepper and drizzled with thick olive oil.
Still hung up on anchovies? Don't listen to me. Listen to history. Take a cue from food lovers around the world and learn to love this remarkable little fish.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open will double the size of its men’s and women’s wheelchair singles and doubles tournaments, and add a junior championship at this year’s tournament.
The expansion announced Wednesday means there will be 16 men and 16 women in the singles draws, along with eight men’s and eight women’s doubles teams. The U.S. Tennis Association said that was the largest draw expansion in Grand Slam history.
The U.S. Open junior wheelchair championships will feature eight boys and eight girls.
It’s the second straight year the U.S. Open has expanded its wheelchair tournament. Last year, the quad division field grew from four to eight competitors.
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NEW YORK, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Palistar Capital LP ("Palistar"), an alternative asset manager focused on mission-critical communications and digital infrastructure, today announced the addition of Gonçalo Bernardo as a partner on its investment team.
Mr. Bernardo will help identify and execute investments in the digital infrastructure sector in the domestic U.S. market and globally. Mr. Bernardo has nearly two decades of experience in the sector holding roles as an infrastructure and private equity investor and investment banker.
"We are very excited about Gonçalo joining our team," said Omar Jaffrey, Sole Founder and Managing Partner of Palistar. "His addition to our team underscores our continued commitment to further cultivating a team of leading experts in digital infrastructure investing. Gonçalo has a long history of working closely with high quality management teams and companies around the world, and I look forward to working with him as our newest member of the Palistar team."
Mr. Bernardo said, "I am delighted to join the talented Palistar team. Palistar is well positioned for further success with many opportunities to grow and capitalize on investments in the expanding digital infrastructure sector for the benefit of its investors."
Mr. Bernardo previously served as Head of Telecom & Digital Infrastructure for the Americas and Co-Head of Infrastructure for Latin America at OMERS Infrastructure, where he led many transactions and investments, and oversaw the asset management of companies focusing on communications infrastructure, satellite, cable, wireless, enterprise communications and the Internet of Things sectors. Before joining OMERS Infrastructure, Mr. Bernardo spent more than a decade at Morgan Stanley between EMEA and Latin America where his last position was that of Executive Director within its Investment Banking Division.
Mr. Bernardo holds a Licenciatura in Business Administration from the faculty of economic sciences of the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon.
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Palistar Capital LP is an alternative asset manager led by Managing Partner and sole Founder, Omar Jaffrey, focused on communications infrastructure. The firm seeks to invest through direct asset ownership as well as by developing innovative financing solutions to complex problems for leading global communications companies. To learn more about Palistar, visit www.palistar.com.
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Hurricane Ian causing major damage Wednesday in Southwest Florida, President Joe Biden spoke with the Fort Myers mayor and tried to reach other local officials, the White House said.
“President Biden was able to reach Mayor Kevin Anderson, and they discussed Fort Myers’ ongoing needs including support for the elderly members of the community, families that live in mobile homes and other community members who are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of the storm,” a White House summary of the conversation said.
The summary said Biden also left messages for the mayors of Cape Coral and Sarasota and the chair of Charlotte County. It said Biden made the calls to “let them know their communities have the full force of the federal government behind them as Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida.” Biden is scheduled Thursday to go to the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., to get a briefing on the hurricane. | 2022-09-30T02:05:26+00:00 | orlandoweekly.com | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/president-joe-biden-called-ft-myers-mayor-in-wake-of-hurricane-ian-32575610 |
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022.
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Wells Fargo & Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Wells Fargo you have until August 29, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Vanishing whale’s decline worse than previously thought, feds say
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A review of the status of a vanishing species of whale found that the animal’s population is in worse shape than previously thought, federal ocean regulators said Monday.
The North Atlantic right whale numbers less than 350, and it has been declining in population for several years. The federal government declared the whale’s decline an “unusual mortality event,” which means an unexpected and significant die-off, in 2017.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released new data that 114 of the whales have been documented as dead, seriously injured or sub-lethally injured or sick since the start of the mortality event. That is an increase of 16 whales since the previous estimate released earlier this year.
The agency recently completed a review of the whales using photographs from researchers and surveys to create the new estimate, said Andrea Gomez, a spokesperson for NOAA.
“Additional cases will continue to be reviewed, and animals will be added if appropriate, as more information is obtained,” Gomez said.
Thirty-six of the 114 whales included in the estimate had died, NOAA documents state. The agency cautioned that only about a third of right whale deaths are documented, so the total number of dead or injured animals could be much higher.
Right whales are found off the Atlantic coast of the U.S. They are vulnerable to collisions with large ships and entanglement in commercial fishing gear. The federal government has worked to craft stricter rules to protect the whales from both threats.
Commercial fishing and shipping interests have both vowed to fight stricter protections. A federal appeals court sided with fishermen last month after they filed a complaint that proposed new restrictions could put them out of business.
The new information illustrates how dire the situation is for the whales, said Sarah Sharp, an animal rescue veterinarian with International Fund for Animal Welfare. The number of injured animals is especially significant because injured whales are less likely to reproduce, Sharp said.
“If animals are putting energy into healing from a wound, they are not necessarily going to have those energy stores for other things,” Sharp said. “I think this just paints a much more accurate picture of the threats these whales are facing.”
The whales give birth off Florida and Georgia, and feed off New England and Canada. They have been protected under the Endangered Species Act for decades, and federal authorities ruled in December that they must retain that protection.
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DETROIT, MI – Thousands of Swifties lined the sidewalk outside Ford Field Friday night as they waited to enter the venue for the first of two nights of concerts for The Eras Tour.
Tickets for the sold-out event have been highly sought-after in the months leading up to the concert, and the resale value finally dipped below $1,000 Thursday for those hunting for a last-minute seat. Front-row tickets commanded prices of $4,000 or more.
Fans young and old arrived decked out in pink cowboy hats, western boots, sequined dresses and even song-specific cosplay. Many fans passed out armfuls of the beaded friendship bracelets exchanged within Swift’s fan circles.
A merchandise truck that arrived Thursday also drew a massive crowd, packing the area with fans from early morning until it closed at 6 p.m.
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After record deforestation and environmental deregulation in the past few years, the result of the Brazilian election could very well determine the fate of the Amazon rainforest.
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Alabama birthday girl begged dying brother to ‘stay with me’
DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alexis Dowdell’s Sweet 16 birthday party ended with her kneeling beside her fatally wounded brother on the blood-slicked floor of a dance studio in small-town Alabama, the bodies of other wounded teens scattered around them.
Dowdell told the story of Saturday’s terror in Dadeville to The Associated Press on Monday surrounded by family. The shooting left her 18-year-old brother, Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, and three others dead, along with another 32 injured, some critically.
“I got on my knees and he was laying face down. And that’s when I grabbed him. I turned him over, I was holding him,” Alexis Dowdell said, recalling the moment she found her brother with the life ebbing out of him.
She tapped her brother’s face, begging him to, “stay with me.” “I wasn’t crying at the moment because I was trying to be strong instead of panicking. And so I said, ‘You’re going to be all right. You’re a fighter, you’re strong,” she recalled.
As of Monday evening, state officials had yet to release much information about their investigation. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said only that shell casings from handguns had been found, noting that there was no evidence a high-powered rifle was used. Investigators continued to appeal for information from the public, including videos.
The weekend was marked by a series of high-profile shootings in the U.S. One left two people dead and four wounded Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky; another resulted in four men being shot — one fatally — in Los Angeles; and a third left two women wounded at Lincoln University in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Saturday night in Dadeville, about an hour’s drive northeast of Montgomery, began as it should have, with “everybody dancing, vibing to the music,” Alexis Dowdell said. Keenan Cooper, the DJ at the party, told WBMA-TV the event was stopped briefly when partygoers heard someone had a gun. He said people with weapons were asked to leave, but no one did.
Soon after, the shooting started.
Dowdell said she dove to the floor near the DJ as the dozens of revelers ran. She “didn’t know where to run,” in part because shots seemed to come from multiple directions.
When there was a break in gunfire, she bolted for the front door. But someone pushed her. It was her brother, trying to protect her.
“I guess he tried to push me out the door as fast as he could, but I ended up slipping on blood, because it was a whole bunch of blood on the floor,” she said.
Once outside, she found her mother and stepfather. “Where are my cousins, where are my friends? Where is my brother?” Dowdell pleaded.
Making their way back to Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio, the children’s mother looked inside. “She came out and she was like ‘My baby, my baby’s gone,’” she said.
Phil Dowdell, a star wide receiver with plans to play football in college, was fading in and out of consciousness. His sister made her way to him, begging him to stay with her. She checked on wounded friends, including one she said was shot in the head. By the time paramedics arrived, Phil no longer had a pulse.
“When they came in, I said ‘Can you check on my brother?’” Alexis Dowdell recalled. “And he checked my brother’s pulse and I was like, ‘Is he alive or is he dead?’ And the people didn’t want to tell me, so they just gave me, like, a certain look. And I just knew he was just gone.”
In addition to Phil Dowdell, Tallapoosa County Coroner Mike Knox said the dead included fellow Dadeville High senior Shaunkivia Nicole “KeKe” Smith, 17, an athlete-turned-team manager; 2022 Opelika High School graduate Marsiah Emmanuel “Siah” Collins, 19, an aspiring singer whose father told AL.com that Collins planned to start college this fall; and 2018 Dadeville High graduate Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 23, another former athlete at the school.
In the aftermath of the shootings, friends and family remembered details large and small about the dead.
Smith was so excited about finishing high school and starting college that when a former neighbor asked her about it, Smith responded with the exact hour she was supposed to graduate.
She had already shared selfies taken in her cap and gown, writing “almost out.”
Amy Jackson, an older cousin of Smith’s who said she was more of an aunt to the teenager, recalled her “million-dollar” smile.
“She would light the room up when she walked in. She was that type,” Jackson said. She described her as a talented athlete who ran track and played multiple team sports until a knee injury sidelined her.
Smith’s last act before leaving for the party Saturday was to get her little sister ready for bed.
“That was her nature. She was a caretaker,” Jackson said.
Much of the early public attention focused on Phil Dowdell, because he was a star football player in a state where high school football rules Friday nights in the fall.
Antreal Allen, an assistant coach at Georgia State University and an uncle to the Dowdells, said his nephew was “super excited to go play football at the next level” at Jacksonville State University east of Birmingham.
But Allen said it was about more than football. The uncle said he was the first college graduate in the family and that Phil “was up next.”
“He had a lot of the younger generation looking up to him. He tried to lead by example,” Allen said. ___
This story has been updated to correct the year that Corbin Dahmontrey Holston graduated high school to 2018.
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Amy reported from Atlanta.
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Smith, a seasoned senior healthcare executive, will lead the company's previously announced Phase 2 strategy and execution
Board of Directors thanks Michael Goettler, who will support a smooth transition prior to his departure
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ: VTRS), a global healthcare company, today announced that as it prepares to enter Phase 2 of its previously announced strategic plan in 2024, Scott A. Smith has been appointed by its Board of Directors to lead the execution of that plan as Viatris' new Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2023. In the interim, current CEO Michael Goettler will be working closely with Smith to support a smooth transition and will then depart as CEO and as a member of the board.
Smith has been a member of the Viatris Board since December 2022 and is a deeply knowledgeable senior global biotechnology and pharmaceutical executive with more than 35 years of experience. As a former President and Chief Operating Officer at Celgene Corporation, he rose up the ranks, including holding the roles of SVP and Global Head of Immunology, as well as President of Inflammation and Immunology.
Most recently, he served as President of BioAtla, Inc., a publicly traded global biotechnology company focused on the development of Conditionally Active Biologics™ (BAC) antibody therapeutics.
The Viatris Board believes that Smith is a seasoned builder who possesses vast global commercial and pharmaceutical expertise and a proven ability to build, grow and manage large complex organizations. He also has substantial experience in developing and executing regulatory, clinical, and business development strategies. One of his many achievements during his 10-year career at Celgene was to build and oversee the clinical development, registration, launch and global commercial success of the blockbuster drug Otezla®.
Robert J. Coury, Executive Chairman of Viatris said, "As we now prepare to enter into Phase 2 of our evolution for 2024 and beyond, we believe Scott Smith is the absolute right leader to guide Viatris into a period of renewed growth and leadership in our sector. The Board sees his strong commercial and strategic expertise being complemented by his experience in organically building product franchises, business development and partnering activities. I have personally been extremely impressed with his overall approach to leadership, deep industry knowledge and forward-looking business mindset. The Board believes that the foundation is now firmly in place for Phase 2 of the company's strategic plan, including the recent divestiture of our biologics business to Biocon Biologics as well as our other upcoming planned divestitures, and the recent establishment of the Viatris Eye Care Division. This positions Scott well to expand upon and grow Viatris' success in the years ahead."
Smith said, "It is an incredibly exciting time to become Viatris' CEO. I watched closely in November as the company laid out the next important steps in its well-crafted strategic plan, including its commitment to its future capital allocation priorities, which I totally support. Since then, and particularly after joining the board and seeing their incredible level of engagement, I have been extremely impressed by everyone that I have met during this process and have also been inspired by all that has been accomplished in such a short period of time. Just as importantly, I am also motivated by the Company's strong financial profile and financial flexibility, including one of the strongest balance sheets in the sector. I can see many additional opportunities and options for Viatris to accelerate its growth in the coming years."
Smith continued, "I believe that my background in franchise building, business development and biotech, coupled with the great platform we have to work from, can accelerate Viatris' momentum and help deliver on its full value and potential. I look forward to collaborating with Michael during this transition and am very excited about the prospect of working together with the board, Rajiv Malik, Sanjeev Narula, the entire management team, and especially the company's 37,000 employees around the world on the execution ahead."
Coury added, "The Board of Directors and I would like to personally thank Michael Goettler for his service and dedication during the critical time of the creation of Viatris and the establishment and ongoing execution of our Phase 1 strategy. There is a lot that has been accomplished and we are deeply grateful for the important part he played in the Company's success to date. We wish him nothing but the best as he moves forward."
Goettler stated, "It has been my sincere honor to serve as Viatris' first CEO. Having had the opportunity to help create a new kind of global healthcare company has been an experience that I will never forget and always value. I am incredibly proud of our eight consecutive quarters of successful performance and the work that we have done to set up Viatris for long-term success. I want to thank Robert, the entire Viatris Board of Directors, the management team and especially the thousands of Viatris colleagues with whom I have had the privilege to share this journey. I am pleased to welcome Scott into Viatris and am looking forward to supporting him during this transition, as he is well positioned to continue to build on the Company's momentum."
Coury and Smith will be joining Goettler, Malik and Narula for Viatris' previously announced fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results conference call later this morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Investors and the general public are invited to listen to a live webcast of the call at investor.viatris.com or by calling 866.342.8591 or 203.518.9713 for international callers (Conference ID: VTRSQ422). A replay of the webcast also will be available on the website.
About Viatris
Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ: VTRS) is a global healthcare company empowering people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life. We provide access to medicines, advance sustainable operations, develop innovative solutions and leverage our collective expertise to connect more people to more products and services through our one-of-a-kind Global Healthcare Gateway®. Formed in November 2020, Viatris brings together scientific, manufacturing and distribution expertise with proven regulatory, medical, and commercial capabilities to deliver high-quality medicines to patients in more than 165 countries and territories. Viatris' portfolio comprises more than 1,400 approved molecules across a wide range of therapeutic areas, spanning both non-communicable and infectious diseases, including globally recognized brands, complex generic and branded medicines and a variety of over-the-counter consumer products. With approximately 37,000 colleagues globally, Viatris is headquartered in the U.S., with global centers in Pittsburgh, Shanghai and Hyderabad, India. Learn more at viatris.com and investor.viatris.com, and connect with us on Twitter at @ViatrisInc, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release includes statements that constitute "forward-looking statements." These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward looking statements may include statements about Viatris' Phase 2 strategy, Viatris entering into a period of renewed growth and leadership in its sector; that the foundation is now firmly in place for Phase 2 of Viatris' strategic plan, including the recent divestiture of its biologics business to Biocon Biologics as well as its other upcoming planned divestitures, and the recent establishment of the Viatris Eye Care Division; future capital allocation priorities; additional opportunities and options for Viatris to accelerate its growth in the coming years; and acceleration of Viatris' momentum and delivering on its full value and potential; that this positions Scott well to expand upon and grow Viatris' success in the years ahead. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: the possibility that the Company may be unable to realize the intended benefits of, or achieve the intended goals or outlooks with respect to, its strategic initiatives; the possibility that the Company may be unable to achieve expected benefits, synergies and operating efficiencies in connection with acquisitions, divestitures, or its global restructuring program, within the expected timeframe or at all; impairment charges or other losses related to the divestiture or sale of businesses or assets; the Company's failure to achieve expected or targeted future financial and operating performance and results; the potential impact of public health outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, including the ongoing challenges and uncertainties posed by COVID-19; actions and decisions of healthcare and pharmaceutical regulators; changes in healthcare and pharmaceutical laws and regulations in the U.S. and abroad; any regulatory, legal or other impediments to Viatris' ability to bring new products to market, including but not limited to "at-risk" launches; Viatris' or its partners' ability to develop, manufacture, and commercialize products; the scope, timing and outcome of any ongoing legal proceedings, and the impact of any such proceedings; any significant breach of data security or data privacy or disruptions to our information technology systems; risks associated with international operations; the ability to protect intellectual property and preserve intellectual property rights; changes in third-party relationships; the effect of any changes in Viatris' or its partners' customer and supplier relationships and customer purchasing patterns; the impacts of competition; changes in the economic and financial conditions of Viatris or its partners; uncertainties and matters beyond the control of management, including general economic conditions, inflation and exchange rates; failure to execute stock repurchases consistent with current expectations; stock price volatility; and the other risks described in Viatris' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Viatris routinely uses its website as a means of disclosing material information to the public in a broad, non-exclusionary manner for purposes of the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD). Viatris undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release other than as required by law.
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Indiana Republican governor is latest US official to visit Taiwan
By Jennifer Deaton and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indiana on Sunday announced that he arrived in Taiwan, becoming the latest US official to visit the self-governing island amid its escalating tensions with China.
“I appreciate the warm welcome to Taiwan from Douglas Hsu, Taiwan Director of North American Affairs,” the governor posted on Twitter, along with a photo of him and Hsu.
Holcomb and a delegation that includes Indiana’s commerce secretary are in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei to kick off an “economic development trip” in Taiwan and South Korea, following the signing of the federal CHIPS Act and the recent announcement that Taiwan-based semiconductor company MediaTek will open a design center in Indiana, his office said in a statement.
Holcomb’s trip follows a visit to Taiwan earlier this month by Nancy Pelosi, who became the first US House speaker in 25 years to visit the island at a time when Washington-Beijing relations have been particularly tense. Her visit upset China, which responded by launching extensive military drills around Taiwan and suspending key diplomatic communications with the US.
Last Sunday, a second US bipartisan congressional delegation, led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, visited Taipei in an effort to “reaffirm the United States’ support for Taiwan” and “encourage stability and peace across the Taiwan Strait.”
China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party sees Taiwan as part of its territory, despite having never controlled the democratic island, and Beijing has long vowed to “reunify” the island with China, by force if necessary.
The White House has said that there is no change to the United States’ “One China” policy and that Washington recognizes the People’s Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China.
The US maintains close unofficial ties with Taiwan and is bound by law to provide Taiwan with defensive arms. But the US remains deliberately vague on whether it would defend Taiwan militarily in the event of a Chinese invasion, a policy known as “strategic ambiguity.”
Holcomb is the first US governor to visit Taiwan since 2019 and the first Indiana governor to travel to the island in 17 years, his office said in a statement.
While in Asia, he plans to meet with Taiwanese and South Korean government officials, business leaders and academic institutions.
“The delegation will focus on strengthening Indiana’s economic and academic partnerships and reinforcing the state’s commitment to innovation, as well as committing to working together to build the economy of the future on an international scale,” his office said.
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ROGERS, Ark. — The Wood family is recovering after their family-owned business, Tanglewood Lodge caught fire Monday.
Multiple fire departments responded to a residential fire on Monday at Tanglewood Lodge in the Rocky Branch area.
John Wood and his wife, Holly, operate the lodge, which is owned by their son and daughter.
Holly had been in the lodge's office working on summer reservations when smoke came through the vents. Woods said "it was blazing long, pretty good. By the time she realized that there was a fire going on."
The lodge is over 20 minutes from downtown Rogers. John Wood said "they were here as fast as anyone could expect and did everything they could to mitigate the fire from spreading any further than it did. We appreciate that."
Yet, much of the damage had already occurred. While only half of the building was visibly burned down, Wood explained that the fire had spread through the attic, affecting the rest of the building.
"It's a loss for the people who have 40-plus years of memories coming out here to this lodge, and vacationing here on Beaver Lake," Wood said.
John Wood said that the lodge is one of the few locations directly on the waterfront. He added that "in the summertime, we'll have boats pulled up here on the shoreline and folks here enjoying the summer weather and beautiful Beaver Lake."
"We had people who specifically requested a certain room because that's the room they had when they were little kids. That's where they had their memories. And now it's pretty much burned down to the ground," Woods said.
With 3 months until their busy season, the family is already looking to rebuild and move forward.
"Our intent and goal would be to just rebuild and stay here. It's a family tradition for so many people that have come here over all these years," said Wood.
The Rocky Branch Fire Department Chief said that the cause is still unknown and that the investigation is ongoing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has stopped talking so much about inflation worries.
His remarks in Columbus, Ohio, in suburban Washington at a Democratic fundraiser, at a Cabinet meeting and in Labor Day speeches in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh were all missing a once-common refrain about families at the kitchen table straining under the rising costs of food and gasoline.
It's a self-edit ahead of the midterm elections in November, prompted in part by the easing of inflationary pressures. But Biden is also attempting to shift the spotlight to his legislative wins, the loss of abortion protections and the threats he says are posed to democracy by the many Republican leaders still under the sway of former President Donald Trump.
When Biden did address inflation in his speech at the fundraiser, he stressed progress, rather than financial pain. The administration says that fight remains its top economic priority, but the president has largely put the blame for it on global forces such as Russian President Vladimir Putin's February invasion of Ukraine.
“We’re making progress on global inflation caused by the pandemic and Putin’s war in Ukraine,” Biden said. "Gas prices are down over $1 since we started this effort."
Prices at the pump are averaging $3.72 a gallon, after having crested above $5 a gallon in mid-June, and the president's approval ratings have recovered somewhat. Yet inflation still remains a challenge.
The government on Tuesday will release its consumer prices report for August, with economists surveyed by FactSet expecting annual inflation to be at 8.1%. That's down from the 40-year peak of 9.1% in June, but it's well above the Federal Reserve's target of 2%.
“The most public price — gasoline — has been falling significantly,” said Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economist and former Obama White House aide. “In that kind of environment, other concerns tend to move up on people’s lists. That could certainly change if the inflation numbers start getting worse.”
A senior White House official, insisting on anonymity on a Thursday call with reporters, said recent trends in inflation have given the administration some guarded optimism. The White House is banking on the possibility that interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve will lead inflation down to pre-pandemic levels without sacrificing the job gains of the past 18 months.
“The Fed is going to need great skill and also some good luck to achieve what we sometimes call a soft landing," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday on CNN. “I believe there is a path to accomplishing that.”
Still, many leading economists, including researchers who presented this week at the Brookings Institution, warn that bringing down inflation will likely mean layoffs and a drastic rise in the unemployment rate despite Biden's hopes.
There is a risk for Biden in pivoting away from discussing inflation, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist who has advised Republican campaigns and is now president of the center-right American Action Forum. Holtz-Eakin noted that oil prices have largely fallen as demand from China has waned, something that could reverse in October if that country lifts it coronavirus lockdowns.
He said that Democratic fortunes could ultimately rest on the movements of global energy markets with their mix of geopolitics, corporate profits and financial speculation.
“They do this at their peril,” Holtz-Eakin said about the change in messaging. “When you look at the numbers, there really has not been great progress on inflation. Everything they’ve gotten on inflation has been driven by international conditions and global oil prices.”
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers are trying to keep voters focused on the GOP version. They say Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package and resistance to oil drilling leases has led to inflation, although prices are rising worldwide because of the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and troubled supply chains.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell noted the financial pain being felt by manufacturers, farmers and construction firms in his home state of Kentucky.
“Washington Democrats have spent nearly two years borrowing, printing, and spending our economy into turmoil,” McConnell said in a Wednesday speech to the Senate. “Since President Biden took office, prices in (Kentucky) have spiked by 13%.”
That figure cited by McConnell comes from Republicans on Congress' Joint Economic Committee. It's higher than the inflation numbers seen by most Americans because it’s over the span of Biden’s presidency, rather than the annual rate that commonly gets cited.
White House officials still describe inflation as Biden's top economic priority. The administration released a 58-page economic blueprint last Friday that details its work on infrastructure, climate change, computer chip production and other policies.The blueprint said that going forward, “The president’s near-term priority when it comes to the labor market is bringing down inflation without giving up the substantial progress we’ve made for American workers.”
But the president has also gone on the political offensive regarding inflation, noting that the GOP opposed the law he signed last month that limits prescription drug prices, funds climate-related investments, raises corporate taxes and reduces the federal budget deficit.
Biden says the measure, which Democrats call the “Inflation Reduction Act,” will help to lower prices, although outside analyses suggest the impact could be negligible.
“You think if they really cared about inflation — reducing it — they would have voted for the Inflation Reduction Act,” Biden said in his Thursday speech at a Democratic fundraiser. “Every Republican in the House, every Republican in the Senate, they voted against it. Everyone.” | 2022-09-12T16:17:53+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Biden-s-midterm-self-edit-Less-talk-about-17435804.php |
A special limited edition Aku x Paper Planes 9Fifty Snapback Hat will be available exclusively to Akutar holders
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aku, the cryptonative NFT character created by artist and former professional athlete Micah Johnson, and Paper Planes, New York based fashion brand that combines culture and streetwear fashion, announce their collaboration to create a special edition, limited run of 350 Aku x Paper Planes 9Fifty Snapback hats, which will be available exclusively to Akutar holders.
The limited run Aku x Paper Planes 9Fifty Snapback Hat is black with a green undervisor, features the embroidered Paper Planes logo alongside Aku graphic details on the front, removable Paper Planes and Aku logo pins on the crown, and additional Aku artwork on the right side.
The original Paper Planes hat has become highly coveted within the streetwear community, often referred to as the "The Crown." The Aku x Paper Planes collaboration is significant as it is only the second Paper Planes crown in history to allow a partner's design to be featured alongside the Planes logo on the front of the hat, as past collaborations usually leave their imprint on the designated hallmark right side of the hat.
"Paper Planes and Aku both remind us to dream, and aim to inspire us with the confidence and patience to pursue greatness in achieving our dreams. We've been mission aligned from the beginning, and excited to be able to share the piece of history this collab will represent." - Summer Watson, President and Co-Founder of Aku.
Aku and Paper Planes first collaborated in December 2021 for Aku's Chapter 7: Candle following an organic "aha" moment between Paper Planes Co-Founder Emory Jones, Aku Co-Founder Summer Watson and Aku Creative Council founding member Upscale Vandal. The concept and seamless collaboration for this limited edition hat came together the very next day after Chapter 7's release.
Paper Planes joined a select group of partners for the April 2022 launch of Aku's PFP collection of 3D avatars, Akutars, where Paper Planes designed unique one-of-one Akutar designs and rare traits for the collection of 15,000 Akutars.
In June 2022, the 323 Akutar Paper Planes trait holders were airdropped a surprise NFT package, currently available on secondary markets such as OpenSea, which they will be able to redeem for the physical Aku x Paper Planes hat starting today.
Aku began as an NFT series based on its creator Micah Johnson's own experience of hearing a young boy ask if astronauts could be Black. The first set of NFTs launched as short videos that followed Aku, a young boy with an oversized space helmet that acts as a portal to his dreams and digital exploration. The 10-part series was released in 10 chapters from February 21, 2021 to February 21, 2022, generating over $24MM in sales to date. Aku Chapters were followed by the release of 15,000 unique 3D avatars, or Akutars, injecting an impactful image of a young, confident, Black boy in the social media profiles of crypto and culture enthusiasts alike.
Notable Aku NFT collectors include: Pusha-T, Pharrell Williams and more.
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Aku is a digital explorer and crypto-native IP created by artist and former MLB player, Micah Johnson. Launched in February 2021, Aku has since become the first NFT to be optioned for film and television projects, as well as the first NFT to travel to space. Aku is a conduit to empower the next generation of astronauts, explorers, and dreamers. Aku has been named to Fast Company's prestigious annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022.
Micah Johnson is the creator of Aku. After hearing a young boy ask his mom if astronauts could be Black, Micah released an NFT of a 3D animation depicting a boy with an oversized astronaut helmet. In less than one year, that NFT took Micah from a retired athlete to "2020 NFT of the Year" and the first creator to have an NFT optioned for a major feature film. Named one of the "Top 50 Most Influential People in NFTs" by Fortune, Micah's foresight and belief in the web3 communities to evangelize IP has resulted in over $24MM in sales volume for Aku to date.
The Paper Plane logo symbolizes the idea that as big as the world is, it is still accessible. Your imagination can take you anywhere you want to go - a message that resonates with the spirit and culture of streetwear.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia hardly looked like the nation’s best team, struggling to put away Kent State.
The No. 1 Bulldogs ultimately prevailed, holding on for a 39-22 victory Saturday, but their two-week run atop the rankings could be in jeopardy.
Brock Bowers scored two more touchdowns and Georgia survived a sloppy performance and surprisingly gritty effort from the Golden Flashes.
The Bulldogs (4-0) turned it over three times, struggled in the red zone, were burned on a fake punt and gave up several big plays to Kent State (1-3) in what was easily their worst performance of the season.
Was it bad enough to knock Georgia out of the top spot in the rankings? Check back Sunday.
“We don’t care too much about the rankings,” defensive lineman Nazir Stackhouse said. “We focus on us. It’s always a ‘we’ thing. We’re always focused on our development as a team, no matter where we are in the rankings.”
Kent State had a chance to make it a one-score game with less than 13 minutes remaining after Marquez Cooper powered in from the 1 to cap a 12-play, 75-yard drive. But a two-point conversion failed, leaving the Bulldogs with a 32-22 lead.
Georgia then finished off the Golden Flashes, driving 75 yards for Kendall Milton’s 1-yard plunge on fourth-and-goal with 5 1/2 minutes to go.
Georgia coach Kirby Smart insisted that he wasn’t all that displeased with his team’s performance. He pointed out that the Bulldogs never had to punt, blocked a punt for a safety and finished with a 529-281 edge in total yards.
But Georgia has plenty to clean up.
“The fake punt is like a turnover,” Smart said. “When you have four turnovers, you’re gonna have a game like that.”
Fortunately for the Bulldogs, they have Bowers.
Coming off a three-touchdown performance against South Carolina, he took it to the end zone on the second play of the game with a dazzling 75-yard run.
Going in motion to take a handoff, the sophomore tight end found a big hole around right end and never stopped running, turning on his impressive speed down the sideline in front of the Georgia bench.
Bowers also scored on a 2-yard scamper, making it three touchdowns on three carries this season for the sophomore tight end.
Or maybe he should be listed as a running back.
“I guess I’m a tight end,” Bowers said. “But I just line up wherever the tell me.”
Bowers strengthened his credentials as one of the nation’s most dynamic offensive players.
“What a weapon he is,” Smart said. “He can line up and play just about anywhere.”
But Bowers was the exception for the Bulldogs on this day.
Ladd McConkey lost a pair of fumbles, one on a punt return when he probably should have called for a fair catch, another after being stripped on a catch catching a pass in Kent State territory.
Stetson Bennett threw his first interception of the season, though he did score on a 1-yard dive, sticking the ball across the line while falling on his back with 8 seconds left in the first half to put the Bulldogs up 26-13.
Georgia settled for three field goals by Jack Podlesny after driving inside Kent State’s 20-yard line, which allowed the Golden Flashes to hang around.
“That’s a really good football team,” Smart said. “They proved that today.”
Kent State was facing a team currently ranked in the AP Top 25 for the third time in its first four games, having already lost to No. 18 Washington and No. 6 Oklahoma.
This figured to the their toughest test yet. But the Golden Flashes actually made things tough on the Bulldogs, who came in as 44 1/2-point favorites.
“I’m really pleased with the way that our kids fought,” Kent State coach Sean Lewis said. “We have a really talented ball club that has gone through tremendous adversity and conflict in the month of September. They embraced it and got better because of it.”
Kent State became the first team all season to score a touchdown against Georgia’s first-team defense when Devontez Walker hauled in a short pass from Collin Schlee along the sideline and took it 56 yards to the end zone.
THE TAKEAWAY
Kent State: The Golden Flashes have a lot to build on as they prepare to face teams more their size. Most notably, they put together scoring drives of 70 and 75 yards against a defense that had allowed just 10 points through the first three games.
Georgia: The Bulldogs played like a team that paid far too much attention to all the accolades after their first three games. That’s just what Smart was worried about, but it gives him plenty of things to work on when his team returns to the practice field.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
If the Associated Press voters follow the same pattern they did with Alabama, Georgia is likely to get bumped from the top spot. The Crimson Tide started the season No. 1 but swapped places with Georgia after a surprisingly tough 20-19 victory at Texas two weeks ago. Alabama was hosting Vanderbilt later Saturday.
UP NEXT
Kent State: Having completed the brutal part of the schedule, the Golden Flashes open Mid-American Conference play by hosting Ohio next Saturday.
Georgia: Travels to Missouri for its second Southeastern conference game in a Saturday night clash.
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The AR print publishing studio is launching with two new fine art prints by renowned artists; Projects from Marilyn Minter, Kenny Scharf, and Matthew Brandt Planned for the Fall
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ADLAR Studio, the fine art print publishing company, today launched its digital augmented reality (AR) platform to bring a series of limited-edition prints to life for art enthusiasts across the globe. Using world-class creative special effects and technologists, many with decades of experience working in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, ADLAR creates artworks in the emerging AR genre. ADLAR Studio is making it possible to experience fine art on the wall and as an enhanced digital asset through its new free mobile app, now available for iPhone users.
Launching with prints from Analia Saban, and Shane Guffogg and our never-before-seen AR activated technology, these works are available for purchase via ADLARstudio.com/store at $4,900 and $3,950, respectively.
In addition, ADLAR Studio is in development on future projects with Marilyn Minter, Kenny Scharf, and Matthew Brandt, among many other artists. The studio expects to make announcements in the coming months as the studio builds its print and digital fine art collection.
"More people are experiencing art in different ways, and we are excited that ADLAR Studio is bringing both traditional printmaking and cutting-edge AR technologies to fine art print collectors and new digital natives, whether they are just beginning to collect or have established collections," said Larry W. Jones, co-founder of ADLAR Studio. "The technology now available on our mobile devices is ushering in a whole new way to experience traditional printmaking. This is just the beginning of us doing our part in building the metaverse of the future."
The "AR" in Art
The ADLAR Studio app was created using the Unity gaming engine and Apple's ARKit development platform for iOS devices to bring these ADLAR fine art prints to life with augmented reality at the click of a button. ADLAR works with a group of award-winning VFX technicians who are masters in 3D animation, volumetric capture, artificial intelligence, world building, motion capture, and digital humans, among other skills. To activate a limited-edition ADLAR print, one simply opens the ADLAR app, scans the image, and the AR comes to life.
"I'm inspired by technology and I'm always thinking about how new technologies change the course of Art History. The same way that the introduction of industrial processes, new pigments, or photography has had a deep effect on Art, I've been thinking about how crypto, NFTs, virtual and augmented realities will affect the way we make and consume Art. It's been a pleasure to work with Larry, Adam and their staff at ADLAR on how to translate my practice into a new project that incorporates Augmented Reality. Larry's experience in cutting edge digital AR content creation and Adam's understanding of the collaborative nature of fine art printmaking makes for a perfect fit for artists like myself who are interested in exploring these mesmerizing emerging technologies." – Analia Saban
"We are thrilled to be launching ADLAR Studio with Analia Saban and Shane Guffogg. This is a dream come true to work directly with artists to help make their art come to life in the physical and virtual worlds," said Adam F. Gross, co-founder of ADLAR Studio.
Co-founders Adam F. Gross and Larry W. Jones brought together years of experience in fine art print-making with Gross at Lapis Press, and in content creation with Jones at Viacom/CBS, to build ADLAR Studio—a company that focuses on the co-founders' shared passion to marry traditional visual art with highly-experienced digital experts, engineers, and technologists.
The ADLAR app is now available for download in the Apple App store and will roll out on Google Play in the coming months. To learn more about ADLAR Studio, and how to purchase the artwork or experience the AR, visit ADLARstudio.com/store.
About ADLAR Studio
We combine the highest quality limited-edition prints with cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) activations. ADLAR Studio brings together talented and provocative artists, master printers, and world-class, award-winning special effects experts and engineers to create the highest quality prints and bring them to life via AR. The ADLAR Studio team pushes the boundaries of what is possible in augmented reality.
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(NEXSTAR) – Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce made a unique announcement in the days leading up to the Super Bowl: his wife, Kylie, would be bringing her OB-GYN to State Farm Stadium on Sunday.
Kylie is 38 weeks pregnant with the couple’s third child, Kelce said on Wednesday’s episode of the “New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce” podcast, which he hosts with his brother, Kansas City Chief’s tight end Travis Kelce.
“If she has a baby in the stadium, it’s officially scripted,” the center joked.
While speaking with People, Kylie said she would bring two OB-GYNs because she “didn’t necessarily want one to be by themselves.”
“I know they can’t like practice medicine in the hospital that’s out in Arizona, but they’ll be my support person because Jason is of absolutely no use to me in Arizona at any time, even before game time,” she added.
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Should Kylie have her baby on Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, it would, most likely, be the first time a child is born at the Super Bowl.
Earlier Sunday, Kansas City Chiefs guard Nick Allegretti and his wife, Christina, welcomed twin girls. The Allegretti twins were born in Chicago at 3:30 a.m. Sunday, and Nick and his parents FaceTimed live from the Chiefs’ hotel, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported.
Chiefs wide receiver Mecole Hardman tweeted Sunday morning to announce his girlfriend, Chariah Gordon, had her water break the morning of Super Bowl LVII. He was listed as out for the game after being placed on injured reserve following the AFC Championship game against the Cincinnati Bengals. | 2023-02-13T01:54:34+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/the-big-game/will-philadelphia-eagles-jason-kelces-wife-have-her-baby-at-the-super-bowl/ |
RICHARDSON, Texas, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NuZee, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUZE), a leading coffee technology and co-packing company, announced today that Masa Higashida, Chief Executive Officer and Travis Gorney, Chief Innovation Officer will present a corporate overview at the LD Micro Invitational XIII 2023 Conference. The conference is being held on June 6 – 8, 2023 at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.
In addition to participating in the conference, the Company will display its innovative product line at the NuZee Booth, and provide complimentary coffee service to conference guests.
Mr. Higashida and Mr. Gorney will be available for one-on-one meetings with registered attendees of the conference.
About NuZee Coffee
NuZee, Inc., (NASDAQ: NUZE), is a leading co-packing company for single serve coffee formats that partners with companies of all sizes to help them develop within the single serve and private label coffee category. Providing innovative and eco-conscious solutions with the flexibility and capacity for both small roasters and large global brands, NuZee is revolutionizing the way single serve coffee is enjoyed in the United States. Through the brand's unique process, NuZee fulfills every aspect of co-packing needs, from roasting and blending, to packing and packaging.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. NuZee cautions you that such statements are simply predictions and actual events or results may differ materially. These statements reflect NuZee's current expectations and NuZee does not undertake to update or revise these forward-looking statements, even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied in this or other NuZee statements will not be realized. Further, these statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond NuZee's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, include: NuZee's plan to obtain funding for its operations, including funding necessary to develop, manufacture and commercialize its products; the impact to NuZee's business from COVID 19 global crisis; general market acceptance of and demand for NuZee's products; and NuZee's commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and strategy; for description of additional factors that may cause NuZee's actual results, performance or expectations to differ from any forward looking statements, please review the information set forth in the 'Risk Factors' and " Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of the NuZee's public reports and NuZee's other filings made with the SEC.
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PHOENIX, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fritz Pollard Alliance announces the honorees of the 18th Annual Johnnie L. Cochran Salute to Excellence Awards, held on Thursday, February 9, 2023 at the Courtyard Marriott Phoenix,132 S. Central Avenue at 12noon. This year's theme, Black Resistance: Building Bridges, Navigating Barriers, is a reminder that our work is unfinished. Sports luminaries will receive six prestigious awards including Leslie Frazier, assistant head coach and defensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills and Perry Fewell, Senior Vice President of NFL Officiating Administration, will receive the Salute to Excellence Award in recognition of exceptional performances of an individual in sports. The recipient of the John B. Wooten Award is the San Francisco 49ers for taking extraordinary steps to advance diversity, equity and inclusion. This year's Paul J. Tagliabue Award goes to the Women's National Basketball Association for raising the diversity benchmark, in the sports industry. The collegiate Award goes to Deslin Alexandra, a student-athlete whose performance on and off the field exudes the spirit of Fritz Pollard.
The highest award by the FPA is the Daniel M. Rooney Lifetime Achievement Award, which is awarded to Kevin Demoff, Chief Operating Officer of the Los Angeles Rams for his dedication and long-term meritorious history to improve the workplace surrounding the game of football.
"We are fortunate to have the platform that the National Football League provides to lead and push for a more diverse and inclusive landscape within sports and beyond," said Demoff. "It is a tremendous honor to receive the Dan Rooney Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fritz Pollard Alliance and to be associated with two legends who helped transform the NFL in Dan Rooney and Fritz Pollard. This is a crucial time to advocate for more access to opportunity and equity in our game and I am grateful to the Fritz Pollard Alliance for their commitment to and leadership in this work."
Rod Graves, Executive Director of Fritz Pollard Alliance recently posited, "Our mantra is to resist the status quo of diversity hiring practices in the NFL, as we build bridges and navigate barriers. Although the doors are open to ownership conversations, in many cases, the results remain barren of inclusive successes."
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WeightWatchers soared Tuesday after the company said it was getting into the prescription drug weight loss business with the acquisition of Sequence.
Sequence, a telehealth operator, says that its specialists can prescribe medications under brand names including Ozempic, Wegovy and Trulicity.
Shares of WW International Inc. jumped nearly 29% at the opening bell.
WeightWatchers offers subscribers meal plans with the goal of losing excess weight. With the acquisition of Sequence, the company is tapping into a red-hot market for prescription drugs that addresses obesity, and broadening what it offers to customers.
“It is our responsibility, as the trusted leader in weight management, to support those interested in exploring if medications are right for them,” said CEO Sima Sistani said in a prepared statement late Monday.
Ozempic, also known as semaglutide, works by stimulating the body’s own insulin production and reducing appetite. While it is prescribed for diabetes, Ozempic can also help people lose weight.
If it's not treated, obesity can lead to lifelong health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and depression.
"This deal brings access to prescription drug solutions for weight loss to WW’s historical focus on behavior modification model," wrote UBS analyst Michael Lasser. "This is a significant change in the business. While the deal could bring considerable upside, it also carries sizable risks,"
Lasser said that WW's business has been disrupted over the last several years and is now trying to take big steps to course correct. “We think it will take time to see if this action really produces a change in the company's fortunes,” he said.
WW International, Based in New York City, will pay $106 million for Sequence, which served about 24,000 members across the U.S. as of February, with annual revenue of about $25 million.
The acquisition is expected to close in the fiscal second quarter. | 2023-03-07T15:44:12+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2023/03/07/weightwatchers-gets-into-prescription-weight-loss-business/ |
Michelle Peace will sometimes dip into a convenience store and emerge with a handful of hemp products like delta-8. They come in gummies, tinctures, vape cartridges and joints and they're designed to get you high.
Despite knowing glances from cashiers, Peace isn't headed to a party. She's the director of the laboratory for forensic toxicology research at Virginia Commonwealth University, and she's bringing her collection to the lab to see what's inside. In some cases, no one else is checking.
Hemp products that can get you high have proliferated online and at corner stores, even in places where marijuana remains illegal. The products, marketed under names like delta-8 and delta-10, have been a lifeline for the struggling hemp industry. Even critics of the products acknowledge some companies maintain high standards for their products, with credible lab testing and careful quality control.
But federal regulators aren't monitoring what's in the products. Peace and other researchers have found problems ranging from irregular dosing to heavy metals. Some edibles have packaging and labels that mimic common candy or cereal ("Stony Patch THC Gummies" or "Fruity Pebblez"), and there's been a spike in calls to poison control centers related to delta-8. Newer products, like THC-O, can be even more potent, according to Peace.
"Delta-8 is like, 'Look at me, look at me,' and there's a monster behind the bush," Peace said.
Still, a recent federal appeals court verdict appeared to uphold the legality of delta-8 products on the federal level. In the absence of clear federal regulations or guidance, lawmakers in states like Colorado and Oregon have taken matters into their own hands with bans on the products.
"There has been a real battle going on in state capitals across the country to try to resolve this issue," said Jonathan Miller, general counsel at the U.S. Hemp Roundtable.
Some in the hemp industry are fighting back. State regulators in Texas, Kentucky and Kansas are facing lawsuits from the hemp industry over new restrictions. In Virginia, regulators were met with occasional jeers and angry outbursts at a meeting earlier this month after they announced new restrictions on edible delta-8 products.
Some of the hemp entrepreneurs at that meeting said regulators were using bad actors to villainize an entire industry. Many argued for regulation rather than prohibition, which they argued would just hurt Virginia's competitiveness in relation to other states with friendlier laws.
"I'm about 45 minutes from the Tennessee border," hemp processor Kerry McCormick told Virginia's hemp commission. "About 15 of my jobs are about to get outsourced to Tennessee. That's going to be on this committee."
The products have their origin in the 2018 federal Farm Bill legalizing hemp. The bill defined hemp as containing less than 0.3% delta-9 THC – the chemical compound in marijuana largely responsible for the high. But the bill was silent on other psychoactive compounds like delta-8 THC. It's found in trace amounts in cannabis plants, but can be created in larger quantities by chemically synthesizing cannabidiol, a chemical better known as CBD that is found in cannabis plants, in a process that involves acid, time and post-processing. Unlike THC, CBD does not create euphoria or intoxication.
Miller, who helped write the 2018 legislation, said its authors had no intention of legalizing intoxicating products.
"I can assure you that as of 2018, neither I nor most of the folks that were involved in drafting this legislation, such as Senator Mitch McConnell [R-Kentucky], had any idea what delta-8 THC was," Miller said.
In May, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California said that wasn't an excuse. If Congress didn't intend to legalize delta-8, "then it is for Congress to fix its mistake," the three-judge panel wrote in its unanimous decision.
Miller said the 2023 Farm Bill may do just that by bringing together scientists and regulators to try to close the loophole. And last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer introduced a bill decriminalizing marijauana that would also regulate products with other types of THC, like delta-8 and delta-10, though it faces steep hurdles to passage.
Some customers, like 23 year-old Sean Dudley, said the products are most appealing when legal marijuana isn't available. Dudley said he tried delta-8 after moving to Wisconsin, where marijuana remains illegal, during a post-college funk.
"I found ultimately that using delta-8 was a much more introspective and nice experience than any time that I used weed," Dudley said.
Still, Dudley said he returned to legal marijuana after moving back to Virginia, where possessing marijuana is legal but retail sales have yet to begin.
Some cannabis entrepreneurs say moving the needle on retail marijauna sales should be the focus rather than dwelling on products like delta-8. Anthony Miyares, who grows, processes, and sells hemp products out of Old Manchester Hemp Company in Richmond, Va., would rather focus his activism on that goal in Virginia, where lawmakers in the divided state legislature failed to agree on a path forward for retail marijuana sales.
"I wish that people were fighting this hard to regulate cannabis," Miyares said.
Copyright 2022 VPM | 2022-07-30T09:42:24+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/npr-headlines/2022-07-30/states-look-to-regulate-weed-alternatives-like-delta-8-as-sales-explode |
The Aurora City Council this week approved two different contracts to get Wi-Fi at RiverEdge Park installed and ready.
At the Sept. 27 council meeting, aldermen approved about a $1.1 million contract with National Technologies NTI LLC. to install fiber optic wiring throughout the park and on the pedestrian bridge.
The fiber optic wire would connect all the access points as well as about 55 security cameras placed throughout the park, the bridge and places on the West Side across from the park.
Information technology officials for the city have said they not only looked at the installation from an IT perspective of connectivity, but also from what would be needed from a security standpoint.
So, in addition to the connectivity contract, aldermen also approved a $494,227 contract with Scientel Solutions LLC to provide the hardware — different kinds of cameras and other things needed at the access points.
The fiber wire will be installed this year. Officials have said the driving force for the timing is the Christkindlmarket, which German American Events LLC is bringing to RiverEdge Park this year.
The Christkindlmarket is the most authentic traditional holiday market of its kind outside of Europe, offering shopping, family-friendly events and intercultural activities, according to German American Events. It is scheduled to run Nov. 18 through Dec. 24.
The contract with Scientel for the equipment will roll out more deliberately. Officials have said the city plans to have all the equipment installed on the East Side of the river this year, but will wait until 2023 for the West Side. | 2022-09-30T22:54:51+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-aurora-riveredge-park-wifi-st-1002-20220930-i22hwe7cv5hstjqpeu6harxfoe-story.html |
Last fall, NPR asked people to tell us how abortion laws in their states had affected their lives. 350 people responded, and several of them became the subject of stories in a series entitled Days & Weeks. On the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, we revisit some of the women featured in the series to see how they’re doing now.
NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffi, the creator of the series, joins Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-23T19:41:24+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/2023-06-23/checking-in-with-people-affected-by-abortion-laws-one-year-since-dobbs-decision |
VAIL, Colo., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vail Mountain received over 18" if natural snowfall during this week's winter storm, allowing the resort to open the Legendary Back Bowls on the resort's 60th birthday. A massive undertaking, the resort prepared and opened 2,000 acres of terrain. There are currently 3,200 acres available for skiing and riding. In addition to this enormous terrain opening, Vail Mountain kicked off its 60th Birthday Bash with the launch of the Eagle's Nest Ice Bar and a complimentary champagne toast for guests!
- Sun Up Bowl and Sun Up Express (#9)
- Tea Cup Bowl and Tea Cup Express (#36)
- China Bowl and Orient Express (#21)
- Siberia Bowl with connection via Silk Road
- Inner Mongolia Bowl (available as hike-to terrain)
- Outer Mongolia Bowl (available as hike-to terrain)
60th Anniversary Birthday Bash: The 60th Anniversary Birthday Bash kicks off today with the launch of the Eagle's Nest Ice Bar – one of two planned Ice Bars for the 60th Season. Guests joined for a complimentary champagne toast and live mountaintop DJ set. Free concerts and more are happening all weekend long – visit vail.com for more!
- Bistro 14 – A new fine art experience featuring Gray Malin: Bistro 14 relaunched as a fine art photography gallery experience featuring fine art photographer Gray Malin. The legendary photographer is debuting a new series, Gray Malin in Vail, on Jan. 17, and Vail Mountain guests get an exclusive first look only at Bistro 14. See his aerial collection at graymalin.com
- Snow Bungalows: Four exclusive snow bungalows are open for guests today, and will be available for reservation later this month. The Snow Bungalows are conveniently situated at the Eagle's Nest Ice Bar and Bistro 14, and are your personal mountaintop retreat for an elevated day on the slopes.
- Vail Mail: Write a postcard from Vail's highest mailbox at the Legacy Hut. Postcards feature artwork by Gray Malin and postage is courtesy of Vail Mountain. Send a letter from the highest mailbox in Vail - in true throwback and analogue fashion.
- Vail Mountain 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Rye Bourbon: Vail Mountain collaborated with local distillery, 10th Mountain Whiskey & Spirits, for a one-of-a-kind Limited Edition spirit that is now available on Vail Mountain and throughout select lodging locations. Grab a taste at the Eagle's Nest Ice Bar.
- Murals and more: Vail Mountain has new murals and must-visit photo spots across the mountain. Visit a large recreation of Vail Mountain's original Opening Day sign at the top of Wildwood Express (#3) and the new Mt. of the Holy Cross archway at the top of Eagle's Nest which beautifully frames up the mountain's closest 14,000' peak.
With over 100" of natural snowfall so far this season, and a long list of celebratory touches planned all season long, there's no better time to visit Vail Mountain.
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Increasing Footprint Across Five States
CHICAGO, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) plans its largest-ever service area and product expansion in 2023, increasing health care coverage options for as many as 1.1 million additional Medicare-eligible individuals in more than 150 new counties across Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
The proposed expansion, which focuses on providing access to care in rural and underserved areas, allows the company to offer Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MAPD) plans to 7.5 million people in more than 330 total counties across the states it serves – a more than 40% increase from 2022's record buildout.
"We're excited to follow up last year's historic expansion with an even bigger launch for 2023, building on our long-standing commitment to increase access to quality, cost-effective and equitable health care in the communities we serve," said Christine Kourouklis, HCSC's Medicare President. "We're not just expanding our geographic reach – we're also expanding our products and services to best serve the specific needs and lifestyles of the growing Medicare population."
HCSC currently insures more than 17 million Americans in five states, including seniors who enjoy coverage through its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Many HCSC MA plans provide additional benefits beyond traditional Medicare, including dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage at a variety of price points, including options with $0 monthly premiums.
For 2023, HCSC's MA plans and benefits are designed to meet the evolving and diverse needs of Medicare members, including options intended to lower out-of-pocket costs, support affordability of prescription drugs and increase access to enhanced benefits.
"As we continue to grow our Medicare offerings, we've carefully chosen the expansion areas and product offerings to provide access to equitable, affordable and quality care to our members and potential new members," said Nathan Linsley, HCSC Senior Vice President, Government and Individual Markets. "We are committed to the Medicare population and will continue to grow and evolve our products and networks to deliver the best member experience and overall outcomes."
HCSC is supporting the MAPD county footprint with an expansion of provider networks across all five states to help members have access to specialized care when and where they want and need it.
HCSC is in the process of seeking all necessary regulatory approvals for 2023. The Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Annual Election Period starts October 15 and ends December 7, 2022. For more information, visit.medicare.gov.
Health Care Service Corporation is the country's largest customer-owned health insurer, with nearly 17.5 million members in its health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, HCSC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lument Securities (Lument) recently advised Stonerise Healthcare (Stonerise), the leading skilled nursing and transitional care provider in West Virginia, on its sale to a group consisting of a New York-based real estate investment firm and an operating partner —CommuniCare Health Services.
Stonerise was founded in 2009. Its integrated network of care includes transitional and skilled nursing care, therapy, home health, and hospice services, which it provides throughout West Virginia and in Southeast Ohio. The skilled nursing portfolio of 18 owned and operated facilities across West Virginia totals 1,955 licensed beds, including a new 90-private-bed facility set to open in late 2022.
The sale of Stonerise's businesses in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and a therapy company closed on June 30. The sale of the home health and hospice agencies, institutional special needs plan, and development project is expected to close upon receipt of customary regulatory approvals.
Managing Director Laca Wong-Hammond and Associate Director Dominic Porretta led the transaction for Lument Securities, which served as exclusive financial advisor to Stonerise. The transaction is the capstone of a decade-long U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) financing relationship between Lument and Stonerise, which was led by Managing Director Thomas Gale.
"As we assessed our strategic alternatives, we gained confidence that Lument's M&A team had the depth of experience and proven track record to continue serving our company as we scripted the next chapter," said Larry Pack, co-founder and CEO of Stonerise. "This transaction achieved all of our objectives including a confidential process, stability for ongoing operations, and a solution for many ancillary businesses. We knew the magnitude of our statewide franchise, coupled with our expectations on value and a smooth transition for our workforce, required superior execution – our investment bankers delivered."
"This transaction is an ideal example of our ability to bring the full array of expertise for closely-held businesses, including creating tax-advantaged exit structures, leveraging our buyer relationships, and delivering results in-spite of volatile capital markets and operating environments," said Wong-Hammond. "Together, we pushed the limits to achieve an extremely strong outcome for Stonerise."
ORIX Real Estate Capital Holdings, LLC, d/b/a Lument, is a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA. Lument is a national leader in commercial real estate finance. As the combined organization of legacy industry experts Hunt Real Estate Capital, Lancaster Pollard, and RED Capital Group, Lument delivers a comprehensive set of capital solutions customized for investors in multifamily, affordable housing, and seniors housing and healthcare real estate. Lument is a Fannie Mae DUS®, Freddie Mac Optigo®, FHA, and USDA lender. In addition, Lument offers a suite of proprietary commercial lending, real estate investment sales, investment banking, and investment management solutions. Lument has approximately 600 employees in over 25 offices across the United States. Securities, investment banking, and advisory services are provided through OREC Securities, LLC, d/b/a Lument Securities, Member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services are provided by OREC Investment Management, LLC, d/b/a Lument Investment Management. OREC Investment Management is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, visit www.lument.com.
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Journalist and economist Robert Kuttner has reported on elections for over three decades. His latest book, Obama's Challenge, looks at the many Herculean obstacles the president-elect faces — and what it will take to tackle them.
"If he is able to rise to the moment," Kuttner writes, "he could join the ranks of a small handful of previous presidents who have been truly transformative, succeeding in fundamentally changing our economy, society, and democracy for the better."
Kuttner's previous works include The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity, Making Work Pay: America after Welfare and The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy after the Cold War.
He is co-editor and co-founder of The American Prospect.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. | 2022-08-28T09:37:14+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2008-11-06/obamas-challenge-a-transformative-opportunity |
The majority of Americans want even higher amounts of food aid for struggling families, according to a new poll from the Save the Children Action Network.
The survey, shared exclusively to The Hill, could be a warning sign for conservatives seeking to cut payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as part of the discussion on a new farm bill this year.
“It’s important to note: If anything, most people would opt to increase benefits. Only 4 percent wanted to decrease them,” said Lori Weigel, who runs the polling firm New Bridge Strategy, which interviewed Republicans for the bipartisan results.
Liberal polling firm Hart Research rounded out the survey on the Democratic side.
Weigel said that the “vast majority of people — across party lines for basically every policy that we tested [to increase the reach of SNAP] was saying, ‘Yeah, that sounds like common sense and something we should be doing.’”
“This is not partisan in the eyes of voters,” she added.
SNAP makes up 80 percent of the spending for the Farm Bill, which also provides crop insurance and conservation programs for farmers. Conservatives eyeing reductions in spending have discussed cuts to all those programs.
Tougher work requirements for SNAP were included in the debt ceiling deal approved by Congress and signed into law by President Biden. Polls do show support for such requirements, and the Save the Children Action Network poll suggests cuts could spark a backlash.
About 85 percent of voters surveyed said that the government should do more to help those struggling to pay for groceries, including 53 percent who said policymakers should do “much more.”
Perhaps most strikingly, the respondents support bolstering SNAP even while they overestimate how generous the program’s payments are currently. On average, respondents thought recipients get $50 per day for food — with the median estimate being $20. The actual number is more like $6 per person.
Other research suggests that this money doesn’t go far enough. In 78 percent of counties, SNAP benefits don’t cover the cost of a “moderately-priced meal” cooked at home, according to the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson foundation. Such a meal costs $3.14 nationwide, that report found — while SNAP benefits top out at $2.75 per meal.
Weigel said the broad sympathy for SNAP recipients came from the surprising number of respondents who had friends or families who had benefited from the program, and widespread concern over rising food prices — something that 85 percent of people see as a serious issue.
Weigel’s polling found that support for SNAP was significantly stronger among Democrats — but that a majority of Republicans nonetheless supported the program and opposed cuts in benefits.
More than 50 percent of Republicans told the pollsters that SNAP benefits were too low — and said they would look unfavorably upon representatives who sought to reduce them further.
And about two-thirds of white men without college degrees and rural residents — both key Republican constituencies — said they would “feel less favorable” toward even their own representatives if they voted to reduce SNAP.
The poll also found widespread support for programs to help SNAP recipients make their dollars go further — including one that doubles recipients’ money if they spent it on fruits, vegetables and healthy foods, an idea that 94 percent of recipients supported.
Meanwhile, 87 percent supported policies making it easier to apply for SNAP benefits remotely; 83 percent supported the existing programs that allow doctors to “prescribe” free fruits and vegetables, and 70 percent would like to see SNAP recipients have to fill out less paperwork.
The poll results suggest that opposition to SNAP could hurt Republicans, and Democrats have already begun to target “many of those vulnerable Republicans for their support of the debt deal and the new SNAP restrictions in it,” according to Politico.
In the campaigns to come, those who are able to talk of dollars and cents may have the edge over those who talk of billion and trillions, Weigel said.
New Bridge’s polling found that respondents had far more concern for families struggling to make ends meet than for abstract questions around the size of the debt.
At her firm, “we test budgets [with focus groups] and we’re testing, you know, millions, billions trillions of dollars. And that means so little to people.”
By contrast, respondents “understand what it costs to go grocery shopping. People, like, they know what the price of eggs is, right? As George Bush Sr. found out, they know the cost of a gallon of milk, right?”
“And when you break it out like they’re that they’re like, ‘Wait a minute. Wow, how can, you know, how can someone make that work?’”
—Updated at 6 p.m. | 2023-07-17T22:32:02+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/hill-politics/majority-of-voters-want-snap-increased-not-cut-poll/ |
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – A pair of Mountaineer legends are being considered for the College Football Hall of Fame once again.
The National Football Foundation released its full ballot for the Class of 2024 Monday, which includes the late WVU coach Jim Carlen and former Mountaineer cornerback Aaron Beasley. Carlen and Beasley are two of 87 total candidates on the ballot.
Players become eligible for the ballot 10 seasons after their final collegiate game if they received First Team All-American honors.
Coaches, however, become eligible three seasons after their retirement or immediately after their retirement if he is 70 years old. Nominees must hold a .600 winning percentage for at least 10 years and 100 games at the helm.
Carlen coached WVU to a 25-13-3 record in four seasons in Morgantown that included a first-place finish in the Southern Conference in 1967, and a Peach Bowl victory in 1969. He finished his career with a 107-69-6 record with stops at Texas Tech and South Carolina. He died in 2012 at 79 years old.
Beasley holds the single-season record in interceptions with his 10-pick campaign in 1994. He led the nation in interceptions that year. He tallied 19 interceptions, three of which went for touchdowns, in his 43-game career at WVU.
In those 43 games, he made 36 consecutive starts at cornerback. He recorded 143 tackles – 97 of them being solo – in a three-year stint that saw him become one of the best defensive players in Mountaineer history.
“Being on the ballot is a huge honor, and all of the names seen here rank among the greatest players to ever set foot on the collegiate gridiron,” NFF chairman Archie Manning said in a release. “The membership vote plays an important role, providing key insights to the NFF Honors Court, which makes the final decision on the inductees.”
Former WVU coach Frank Cignetti was the last Mountaineer to be inducted, and the 13th former WVU player or coach to be in the College Football Hall of Fame.
Voting is done by NFF members and current Hall of Famers. Inductees will be announced in January of 2024. | 2023-06-05T19:48:11+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/goldandbluenation/jim-carlen-aaron-beasley-placed-on-ballot-for-college-football-hall-of-fame/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic-backed candidate Janet Protaswiecz’s victory in Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court election is a fresh example of the enduring political power of abortion rights in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s reversal.
Protasiewicz defeated her conservative opponent, Dan Kelly, by an astonishing 11 percentage points in Tuesday’s election. Her win will give Democratic-backed justices a 4-3 majority when she takes office in August, putting progressives in a prime position to overturn the state’s 174-year-old abortion ban and undo a host of other Republican-written policies and statutes.
“The results … send a clear message,” Steven Webb II, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, said in a statement. “Wisconsinites are committed to reproductive freedom and upholding our state’s proud tradition of civic engagement.”
Protasiewicz leaned into the high stakes during her campaign, announcing in ads that she supports abortion rights. It was an unusual tactic for a judicial candidate to openly announce a position on an issue, but it resonated with voters.
Spending on the race topped $42 million, nearly triple the national record for a court race. Protasiewicz and her supporters outspent Kelly and his supporters by about $6 million. Almost 40% of the state’s eligible voters cast a ballot, the highest turnout for a spring election that didn’t feature a presidential primary in 20 years.
“I’m flabbergasted (at the turnout),” said Charles Franklin, a Marquette University political scientist. “Abortion was very salient. You look at the content of (Protasiewicz’s) campaign and how clear her position was and the results being lopsided, it certainly points to that as a key driver.”
Wisconsin was just the latest state where abortion has been a crucial factor motivating Democratic voters since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer that ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years.
Abortion rights were on the ballot in six states in 2022, and in every contest voters opted to protect them. That included contests in states like conservative Kansas, where former President Donald Trump twice won by double-digit margins, and Michigan, a political battleground where the issue helped Democrats win reelection to all statewide offices and retake control of the state Legislature for the first time in decades.
The issue will be on the ballot in New York and Maryland in 2024, and other states may also consider abortion ballot measures, including Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Dakota.
Democrats also pointed to the issue as the reason for their better-than-expected performance in midterm elections across the U.S. and in Congress. According to AP VoteCast, a survey of the midterm electorate, about 6 in 10 voters said they were angry or dissatisfied by the court’s decision, and roughly the same number said they favor a law to guarantee access to legal abortion nationwide.
“Republicans are in a difficult position,” said Anthony Chergosky, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse political scientist. “They won a monumental victory with overturning Roe vs. Wade, but now they’re experiencing the political backlash from that victory.
“Any state at any time could become the next battleground over the issue of abortion. This was Wisconsin’s turn to be that battleground. The politics of abortion have just utterly been transformed.”
Wisconsin Republicans were largely silent Wednesday about Protasiewicz’s win. Some tried to downplay the role that abortion played in the race.
Republican strategist Mark Graul said her victory was as much about how her spending enabled her to get her name out to voters as abortion rights.
Julaine Appling, executive director of the anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action, said people were wrong to see the election as a referendum on abortion. She predicted that the new liberal-leaning court would undo Republican efforts to expand school choice and rework GOP-drawn legislative boundaries.
“We certainly talked about all the other issues (during the campaign),” Appling said. “Many people are going to be surprised when they start seeing decisions coming out of this court that impact many other areas of their lives.”
Former President Donald Trump tweeted that Kelly lost because he didn’t seek Trump’s endorsement.
Some abortion rights opponents say they’re frustrated with answers like that as Democrats continue to score wins.
“It’s clear that abortion is a top issue and it isn’t going away,” said Kelsey Pritchard of Women Speak Out PAC, a partner of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, one of the country’s most influential anti-abortion organizations. “Allowing their Democratic opponents and the radical pro-abortion lobby to control the narrative will never win them elections.”
Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Mark Jefferson acknowledged that the GOP failed to address to the anger over the Roe v. Wade reversal.
“The Democrats were successful in pushing the abortion issue because we did not respond to the attacks effectively with a message of our own,” Jefferson said. “We did not have a coherent response on our side of the aisle.”
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This story has been updated to correct that total spending, not fundraising, in the court race topped $42 million. The update also corrects that Protasawicz and her supporters outspent Kelly and his supporters by $6 million and that the 40% turnout was the highest for a spring election that didn’t feature a presidential primary in 20 years.
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Burnett reported from Chicago.
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Harm Venhuizen is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Venhuizen on Twitter. | 2023-04-06T11:45:25+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/abortion-drives-liberals-win-in-wisconsin-court-election/ |
Keeping your floors and carpet clean can be challenging. Busy schedules and a lack of motivation to grab the mop or vacuum can keep this chore at the bottom of your to-do list.
Robotic vacuums are an innovative, convenient way to clean your floors and carpet regularly without ever having to lift a finger. With preset schedules and the capacity to clean all your home’s surfaces, investing in a robotic cleaner can reduce your workload without sacrificing your home’s look and cleanliness.
In this article: iRobot Roomba s9+, Shark Ion Robot Vacuum RV761 and ILife V3s Pro Robot Vacuum Cleaner.
Not all sensors are the same
Robotic vacuums are marketed as being able to detect objects in front of them. This keeps them on a clear path and prevents them, in theory, from sucking up cords and cables that are in the way.
But they don’t all work with the same sensitivity and precision. Higher-priced vacuums tend to have more advanced sensor technology that has perfected identifying cords and other objects that can easily get caught up in the brushes.
This also applies to cliff-detection sensors, which keep the vacuum from going over the edge of stairs or balconies. This technology works well, but some basic models do not have a cliff-detection feature. This can be risky if your home has several drop-off points.
How much control do you want?
Most robotic vacuums have an integrated phone app that lets you control them when you’re away. You can turn them on and off, set new schedules and get status reports.
More expensive vacuums can also integrate with personal-assistant devices, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. You can use voice commands to operate the vacuum while you do something else.
Mopping is an option, too
Some robotic vacuums go beyond sucking up dirt and debris on your carpets and hardwoods. These advanced robots include a mopping feature for tile and laminate floors. This feature can be manually operated, but there are models with a built-in sensor that detects when the vacuum is no longer on carpet and transitions to a heavy-duty mopping application.
Let the vacuum take out the trash
Most robotic vacuums require the home owner to empty the collection bin periodically, but some newer models are connected to a large trash container the vacuum empties itself into after each run. This allows for longer use.
The batteries need recharging
Since robotic vacuums are cordless, they won’t run endlessly. Their batteries typically run from 60 to 150 minutes, depending on the battery and model. Based on your home’s size, choose a vacuum that will finish the job in one pre-charged pass.
Best robotic vacuums
Its navigation system creates smart maps to maximize your home’s cleanliness, and its self-emptying feature works up to 60 days without human intervention. It has a corner brush for cleaning along edges, and its rubber brushes don’t get tangled by pet hair.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Featuring three brush types, this robot vacuum cleans both carpets and hard floors. The SharkClean app gives you flexible scheduling. It is voice-command compatible with personal assistant devices.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
ILife V3s Pro Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Working on tile, laminate, hardwood and carpet, this robotic vacuum returns to its docking station and runs up to 100 minutes on a charge. The slim design permits it to run underneath sofas and beds. It comes with a one-year warranty.
Sold by Amazon
This vacuum uses sonic technology to mop floors but detects carpet and returns to vacuum mode automatically. Multidirectional floating brushes stay close to the surface for deeper cleaning. The cleaning app sets exact mopping and vacuuming routes.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
With a quiet operation and 2.85-inch height, this robotic vacuum runs up to 100 minutes per battery charge. It automatically increases suctioning power as needed and is voice-controlled with personal-assistant devices.
Sold by Amazon
With four cleaning modes, this robotic vacuum meets all your cleaning needs. It runs up to 150 minutes and can clean over 2,000 square feet. The anti-collision sensors keep it on its route, and it has a one-year satisfaction guarantee.
Sold by Ebay
Ecovacs Deebot 500 Wi-Fi Connected Robotic Vacuum
The smart app has advanced features, including status update and direct control. It can double the suctioning power for difficult cleaning jobs. It runs 110 minutes and works well on pet hair.
Sold by Amazon
SereneLife Pure Vacuum Cleaner
With a one-touch power system, this affordable vacuum cleans hardwood and carpet. At under 3 inches high, it fits under tables, beds and other low-clearance items. The high-efficiency filter is excellent for allergies.
Sold by Amazon
bObsweep Pet Hair Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
The cleaner has a vacuum, mop and ultraviolet light that operate simultaneously to clean up pet hair. The triple-layer filter captures pathogens, and the large dustbin collects hair and food scraps.
Sold by Home Depot
Kalorik Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
This robotic vacuum has ionic air purifying technology and four cleaning modes, and it can be controlled manually via remote control. Anti-fall sensors keep it from going over edges.
Sold by Home Depot
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For thousands of years, the Great Wall has guarded the Chinese territory and the homeland of the Chinese people. On September 3, in a rolling, lush alpine grassland, a string of moving poems composed by little poets living in the mountainous areas made a magnificent "Great Wall of Poetry", which helps protect the spiritual homeland of these children as well as the common spiritual world for everyone.
This is a special public welfare program called "The Great Wall of Poetry -- Let the Undiscovered Literary Talents of Children in the Mountainous areas Shine" launched by this year's Poetry POS campaign launched by China UnionPay, the country's top bank card organization. Via livestreaming, the program seeks to display the talents of children in the mountainous areas to the world.
Two representatives of the little poets came to the event site and recited their poems in a grassland surrounded by mountains in Zherong County, Ningde City of southeast China's Fujian Province. Their voices echoed in the mountains, leaving the poetic feel flow along the "Great Wall of Poetry". There were also some local intangible heritage performances, which turned this public welfare livestreaming into a cultural feast. In the online livestreaming platform of Xinhua News Agency's English app, more than 10 million viewers shared this poetic spectacle.
It is worth mentioning that the warm-up of this event has also attracted the attention and support of many famous people at home and abroad. Jake Pinnick, an American who has been practicing martial arts for more than ten years, Robert Adolf, a German who loves Chinese cuisine, Cai Zi, a well-known host, Xiaolin, a painter, and Pan Jiangxue, a pioneer in poverty alleviation, read these children's poems earnestly in recognition and support of this special public welfare program.
At the event, people got a POS receipt printed with poems by donating one yuan at the UnionPay Poetry POS, and all proceeds will be donated to the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation.
China UnionPay Poetry POS campaign was officially launched in July 2019. Over the past four years, the donations raised have been used in Anhui, Henan, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan and other regions, helping nearly 5,000 children enjoy artistic literacy lessons.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday is hosting a virtual summit with the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa collectively known as the “BRICS,” amid rising concerns over the global economic outlook and a growing political divide between Beijing and New Delhi.
While no agenda has been issued for the talks, Ukraine is likely to feature heavily in the background. China has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion while criticizing sanctions brought against Moscow. India has bought large amounts of Russian oil at a heavy discount, and South Africa abstained on a United Nations vote condemning Russia’s actions.
Along with Xi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are scheduled to join the two days of discussions.
China has sought to use the BRICS meetings to further its vision of an alliance to counter the U.S.-led liberal democratic world order while expanding its economic and political footprint.
That has produced few tangible results, but Xi remains committed to the idea of an alternative — and principally authoritarian — global governance mode, investing heavily in countries like Cambodia while cracking down on civil rights in Hong Kong and boosting its military to assert its claims in the South China Sea and threats to annex Taiwan by force.
In an address to the BRICS Economic Summit on Wednesday, Xi said the conflict in Ukraine has “sounded an alarm for humanity,” continuing its formal position of neutrality while backing its ally Russia.
Xi said imposing sanctions could act as a “boomerang” and a “double-edged sword,” and that the global community would suffer from “politicizing, mechanizing and weaponizing” global economic trends and financial flows.
“Economic globalization is an objective requirement for the development of productive forces and an irresistible historical trend,” Xi said.
In a recorded video, Bolsonaro made no mention of any country and said that “the current international context is a cause for concern because of the risks to trade and investment flows to the stability of energy supply chains and investment.”
“Brazil’s response to these challenges is not to close itself off. On the contrary, we have sought to deepen our economic integration,” he added.
The BRICS collective was founded in 2009 when the countries were seen as the potential engine for future global economic growth.
Since then, South Africa and Brazil have seen their economies become mired in crisis while China’s growth has sharply declined and Russia has become embroiled in its invasion of Ukraine and punishing economic sanctions imposed by the West.
China and India have meanwhile feuded over their disputed border and New Delhi’s defense partnership with the U.S., Japan and Australia in what is known as “The Quad.” Skirmishes along the frontier resulted in a major standoff in 2020 leading to casualties on both sides. | 2022-06-23T16:33:16+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/china-hosts-brics-meeting-amid-rising-economic-concerns/ |
Integration of CRM with existing Unanet AE ERP will allow firm to streamline its new business processes
DULLES, Va., Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Unanet, the leading provider of project-based ERP and CRM for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, today announced that GSG Architecture has selected Unanet CRM to complement its existing Unanet ERP AE solution and integrate all its business processes, from new business proposals to invoicing.
Based in Casper, Wyo., with offices in Greeley, Colo., GSG has grown rapidly through civic and municipal projects and work in the healthcare, education, hospitality, and retail segments. Several years ago, GSG executives grew frustrated with the firm's legacy ERP software for its inflexibility and its inability to connect data and customize business processes as the firm evolved and expanded. Ultimately, GSG decision-makers chose Unanet ERP AE over a wide range of options, an upgrade that has enabled the firm to tailor hundreds of business processes to its unique needs, and to capture and gain actionable insight from data in key areas like resource management and project planning.
Having experienced the benefits that a modern ERP solution brings, the firm then turned its attention to modernizing its customer relationship management processes after determining it needed to become more efficient at winning business to execute its growth strategy. After carefully evaluating the options, GSG chose Unanet CRM for its ability to help the firm win the right business more cost-effectively via streamlined, automated proposal-generation processes, and for its seamless integration with Unanet ERP AE.
"Unanet will help us simplify many of our business development processes, including reviews from multiple consultants, that we weren't able to execute previously," said Michael Hoffman, chief financial officer at GSG Architecture. "These process improvements will not only significantly reduce time and save us money, in a competitive market like this, they could literally mean the difference between winning and losing a project."
Many AEC firms report that their project pipelines are full and new work is plentiful, as more than half (58%) of firms expect profits to exceed 20% in the next year, according to Unanet's 2022-2023 Inspire Report, a widely referenced benchmarking report that highlights trends, best practices and business challenges in the architecture, engineering and construction industries. However, more than 40 percent of firms say they lack the business development tools to provide insight and capture the right new business. A modern CRM tool integrated with ERP will help firms like GSG be most efficient in optimizing business development workflows and cultivating new work.
More than 1,850 architecture, engineering and construction companies select Unanet ERP AE and Unanet CRM because they have the right mix of functionality and accessibility, while also offering the ability to scale and grow seamlessly. To learn more about Unanet CRM and ERP AE please visit https://unanet.com/crm-aec and https://unanet.com/erp-for-a-e/erp-for-a-e-overview/.
About Unanet
Unanet is a leading provider of project-based ERP and CRM solutions purpose-built for government contractors, architecture, engineering, construction, and professional services. More than 3,700 project-driven organizations depend on Unanet to turn their information into actionable insights, drive better decision-making, and accelerate business growth. All backed by a people-centered team invested in the success of your projects, people, and financials. For more information, visit www.unanet.com.
About GSG Architecture
Since 1970, GSG Architecture has been designing for the future. The company's extensive work in the public sector has helped communities and civic institutions improve lives, and their work in the private sector has been instrumental in increasing the efficiency and profitability of business allies. GSG Architecture offers a broad range of architectural, engineering, management. and investigative services. Our clients include healthcare, municipal government, higher and K-12 education, justice, and other civic institutions. GSG also has private enterprise clients in hospitality, retail and purpose built and spec offices, as well as specialty structures of all kinds. Using the vision of clients, GSG helps bring the future into focus.
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Three arrested for North Codorus Township armed robbery
Three people were arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy in the robbery of the Rutter’s Farm Store in North Codorus Township.
Wilmer Febus-Lopez, 29, and John Taylor-Williams, 22, both from Spring Grove, and Ciera Reisinger, 21, of Glen Rock, were arrested following an armed robbery on Aug. 27, according to a statement from Northern York County Regional Police.
All three were arraigned on various charges in the Magisterial District Court of Judge Thomas J. Reilly on Aug. 27.
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Febus-Lopez was charged with Conspiracy-Robbery-Threat of Immediate Serious Injury (first-degree felony) and Terroristic Threats with the Intent to Terrorize Another (third-degree felony). He also faces three misdemeanor charges of various degrees.
Febus-Lopez's bail was set at $40,000.
Taylor-Willams was charged with Conspiracy-Robbery-Threat of Immediate Serious Injury (first-degree felony), Possession of a Prohibited Firearm (second-degree felony), Terroristic Threats with the Intent to Terrorize Another and Firearms Not To Be Carried without License (third-degree felonies). Taylor Williams was also charged with three first-degree misdemeanors and a second-degree misdemeanor.
Bail for Taylor-Williams was set at $50,000.
Reisinger faces felony charges of Conspiracy-Robbery-Threat of Immediate Serious Injury (first-degree felony) and Terroristic Threats with the Intent to Terrorize Another (third-degree felony). She also faces two first-degree misdemeanors in the case.
Reisinger’s bail was set at $30,000.
All three will face a preliminary hearing on the charges Sept. 12
According to a statement from Northern York County Regional Police, one of their officers observed two men walk into the store and later saw the same two men running from the store and get into a 2005 gold Jeep Grand Cherokee. The officer began to follow the Jeep and learned from 911 dispatch that the clerks were robbed at gunpoint.
The officer pulled over the vehicle in Glen Rock and was assisted by officers from the Southern York Regional Police and Pennsylvania State Police.
The woman driver and two male passengers were taken into custody without incident.
— Reach Anthony Maenza at amaenza@yorkdispatch.com or @atmaenza on Twitter. | 2022-08-31T14:22:47+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2022/08/31/three-arrested-north-codorus-township-armed-robbery/7947684001/ |
Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval dies; 3 left from group
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died.
Sandoval died late Friday at a hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico, his wife, Malula told The Associated Press on Saturday. He was 98.
Hundreds of Navajos were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to serve as Code Talkers with the U.S. Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today: Peter MacDonald, John Kinsel Sr. and Thomas H. Begay.
The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists. The Code Talkers are celebrated annually on Aug. 14, the day the Japanese surrendered.
Malula Sandoval said her husband had been looking forward to participating in the celebration this year and seeing a museum built in honor of the Code Talkers.
“Sam always said, ‘I wanted my Navajo youngsters to learn, they need to know what we did and how this code was used and how it contributed to the world,’” she said Saturday. “That the Navajo language was powerful and always to continue carrying our legacy.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-30T23:31:52+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2022/07/30/navajo-code-talker-samuel-sandoval-dies-3-left-group/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer was convicted Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.
Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.
Schulte watched without visibly reacting as U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman announced the guilty verdict on nine counts, which was reached in mid-afternoon by a jury that had deliberated since Friday.
The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
A sentencing date was not immediately set because Schulte still awaits trial on charges of possessing and transporting child pornography. He has pleaded not guilty.
Attorney Sabrina Shroff, who advised Schulte during the trial, told Schulte’s mother after the verdict that the outcome was a “kick to the gut, the brain and heart.” It was unclear if Shroff was expressing her own sentiments or Schulte’s.
In his closing, Schulte claimed he was singled out even though “hundreds of people had access to (the information). … Hundreds of people could have stolen it.”
“The government’s case is riddled with reasonable doubt,” he added. “There’s simply no motive here.”
Prosecutors alleged the 33-year-old Schulte was motivated to orchestrate the leak because he believed the CIA had disrespected him by ignoring his complaints about the work environment. So he tried “to burn to the ground” the very work he had helped the agency to create, they said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Denton encouraged jurors to consider evidence of an attempted cover-up, including a list of chores Schulte drew up that had an entry reading, “Delete suspicious emails.”
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that Schulte was convicted of “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history.”
Williams said Schulte, motivated by resentment toward the CIA, leaked to the public and to U.S. adversaries some of the nation’s “most valuable intelligence-gathering cyber tools used to battle terrorist organizations and other malign influences around the globe.”
The prosecutor said Schulte knew the leak would render the CIA’s tools “essentially useless, having a devastating effect on our intelligence community by providing critical intelligence to those who wish to do us harm.”
While behind bars awaiting trial, prosecutors said he continued his crimes by trying to leak additional classified materials as he carried on an “information war” against the government.
Once the jury left the courtroom for deliberations, the judge complimented Schulte on his closing argument.
“Mr. Schulte, that was impressively done,” Furman said. “Depending on what happens here, you may have a future as a defense lawyer.”
A mistrial was declared at Schulte’s original 2020 trial after jurors deadlocked on the most serious counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information. Schulte told the judge last year that he wanted to serve as his own attorney for the retrial.
He has not announced whether he wants to represent himself at his next trial, which involves allegations that after leaving the CIA, Schulte moved to New York from Virginia with a computer that contained images and videos of child pornography he had downloaded from the internet from 2009 to March 2017.
Schulte has been held behind bars without bail since 2018. Last year, he complained in court papers that he was a victim of cruel and unusual punishment, awaiting the two trials in solitary confinement inside a vermin-infested cell of a jail unit where inmates are treated like “caged animals.” | 2022-07-14T19:53:51+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ex-cia-engineer-convicted-in-massive-theft-of-secret-info/ |
China General Chamber of Commerce - USA Releases its 9th Business Survey Report on Chinese Enterprises in the U.S.
NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China General Chamber of Commerce - USA (CGCC) and CGCC Foundation released their 2022 Annual Business Survey Report on Chinese Enterprises in the U.S. The launch event convened nearly 200 guests from the U.S.-China business communities at Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
In its ninth consecutive year, the report details the experiences and sentiments of Chinese companies in the U.S., based on responses from 111 companies and a select number of executive interviews. In 2021, company performances have stabilized and slowly recovered from disruptions since the pandemic. Company satisfaction of the U.S. investment and business environment has rebounded, but the results vary in sectors. While companies continue to be optimistic about their opportunities in the U.S., that optimism is in decline due to sustained trade disruptions, an increasingly uncertain regulatory environment, difficulty attracting and retaining talent, and the U.S.-China relationship in a stalemate. More companies reported dimmed expectations of the future U.S.-China bilateral and economic relationship. The 2022 survey also features insights into areas of Legal and Compliance and Brand and Trust.
The launch event opened with remarks from CGCC Vice-Chair, Chair of ICBC US Region Management Committee Jianyu ZHANG. "As the largest independent, non-partisan, non-governmental chamber of commerce connecting American and Chinese enterprises in the U.S., we hope this survey will continue to act as a valuable reference for both the business community and policymakers in the U.S. and China," remarked Zhang.
Abby LI, Director of Corporate Communication and Research at CGCC shared highlights from the report and various key findings. "An already challenging situation continues to worsen for many Chinese companies here in the U.S. Most respondents to this survey had suffered some sort of impact from the recent tumultuous circumstances," said Li.
The launch event concluded with a panel discussion featuring Linhua GUAN from Surge Energy America, James SHIH from SEMCORP Group, and Paul Nash from ICBC New York Branch and Former Senior Deputy Comptroller of the OCC. Moderated by Lu CAO, Managing Director in the Corporate and Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan, the panel delved deeper into some of the survey's key themes and shared their experiences in leading roles at Chinese companies in the U.S., including challenges faced, and advice for Chinese companies looking to expand in the U.S.
Click here to read the full survey report.
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Throughout August Hancock Health is highlighting lactation services, classes and support for new mothers.
The health system also has a long-term relationship with The Milk Bank, an Indianapolis organization that collects milk from donors who are making extra milk and want to help save the lives of newborns in need. Hancock Regional Hospital is a drop-off site for existing donors.
Despite significant action from the federal government, the nationwide baby formula shortage is deepening. More than 30% of formula products are out of stock, and infants are in need of sustenance.
For more information, click here. | 2022-08-11T20:40:01+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/lifestylelive/breastfeeding-awareness-month-highlighting-hancock-healths-lactation-services/ |
Inspira Technologies CTO Daniella Yeheskely-Hayon, Ph.D., will deliver a guest lecture during Physiology & Technology session
RA'ANANA, Israel, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inspira™ Technologies OXY B.H.N. Ltd. (Nasdaq: IINN) (Nasdaq: IINNW) (the "Company" or "Inspira Technologies"), a groundbreaking respiratory support technology company, announced today that the company will present at the annual iECOs Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 10th, 2022.
The company's CTO, Daniella Yeheskely-Hayon, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in blood oxygenation, will guest lecture at the Physiology and Technology session and present the company and its groundbreaking technology to key medical opinion leaders.
Inspira Technologies' scientific team will be available at the company's booth to demonstrate and answer questions about the technologies and products currently in development. To schedule a meeting with the company, please contact: info@inspira02.com
About iECOs
iECOs, known as the Israeli ECMO Society, is a medical organization for medical professionals in the fields of ICU medicine including pediatrics, cardiac medicine and surgery, heart-lung specialists, emergency medicine and heart failure to share knowledge and professional experiences, to improve and promote extracorporeal oxygenation education and medical practice.
Inspira Technologies OXY B.H.N. Ltd.
Inspira Technologies is an innovative medical technology company in the respiratory treatment arena. The Company has developed a breakthrough Augmented Respiration Technology (INSPIRA™ ART), designed to rebalance patient oxygen saturation levels. This technology potentially allows patients to remain awake during treatment while minimizing the need for highly invasive, risky, and costly mechanical ventilation systems that require intubation and medically induced coma. The Company's products have not yet been tested or used in humans and have not been approved by any regulatory entity.
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Police: Fan arrested for shooting at neighbor’s house after argument over football game
FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - An Alabama man has been arrested after reportedly having a dispute with his neighbor over a college football game.
According to the Florence Police Department, Ricky Franks Jr. was involved in an argument with a neighbor after Alabama suffered its first loss of the season to Tennessee over the weekend.
The Crimson Tide fell to the Volunteers 52-49 on a field goal as time expired.
Franks Jr. allegedly left the neighbor’s home following a verbal argument about the game and fired a shotgun at the home.
WAFF reports the house was hit, but no one inside was injured in the shooting.
Officers with the Florence Police Department said they arrested Franks Jr. without any further incident.
Franks Jr. was released on a $30,000 bond.
Copyright 2022 WAFF via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-19T00:36:01+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/10/18/police-fan-arrested-shooting-neighbors-house-after-argument-over-football-game/ |
(WGHP) — Chick-fil-A announced on Thursday that the company will now be selling salad dressings at retail locations across Tennessee and in Cincinnati.
The four most popular salad dressings are for sale at Walmart and Kroger, according to a statement released by Chick-fil-A.
The dressings are:
- avocado lime ranch
- garden herb ranch
- creamy salsa
- zesty apple cider vinaigrette
The company plans to expand the salad dressing availability next spring. | 2022-10-14T21:01:06+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/chick-fil-a-now-offers-salad-dressings/ |
TYSONS, Va., Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Global Systems (DGS), an innovator and leader in radio frequency (RF) awareness technology, today announced it has been granted its 100th patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, supporting its ability to deliver advanced spectrum management solutions. This news showcases DGS' commitment to delivering solutions focused on frequency agility and resiliency fortifying network performance in crowded, shared spectrum environments.
As a result of its innovation and leadership, DGS leads the spectrum management industry in three of the four key technology areas – Radio Frequency Analysis, Actionable Data Extraction, and Process Optimization – needed for spectrum optimization and management. In total, the firm's patent portfolio ranks second out of the top 10 U.S spectrum management patent holders. This positions the company as a leader in delivering agile and resilient solutions underpinning growth in 5G and spectrum sharing technologies.
The company's solutions improve spectrum utilization and empower low-latency, high-reliability applications and services. Together, the patents represent how DGS is ushering in the promise around private wireless 5G capabilities and paving the way for new multi-dimensional RF awareness capabilities. Notably, DGS' patents fall into four main categories:
- RF Capture:
- Actionable Data Extraction
- RF Analysis at the EDGE
- Process Optimization
The wireless industry remains focused on improving spectrum access through spectrum sharing initiatives including CBRS, despite some groups questioning its viability. DGS supports the notion that CBRS and lightly licensed private wireless networks can scale to support large numbers of users, and overcome current deficiencies through leveraging RF Awareness.
"The telecom industry is at a critical inflection point, and DGS's technology provides an opportunity to address scalability, interference management and reliance on static propagation models for spectrum access. Our patents enable dynamic spectrum sharing, which will be a requirement of future spectrum auctions. We also enable frequency resiliency and reliability which is now critical for defense applications," said Fernando Murias, chairman and CEO of DGS. "Frequency agile solutions delivering both resiliency and reliability are key elements in wireless growth going forward. Securing our 100th patent is a major milestone for DGS, and we look forward to supporting the future of wireless innovation.
For more information on DGS' patented solutions, visit www.digitalglobalsystems.com.
About DGS
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in northern Virginia, DGS blends broad experience and deep expertise in the fields of spectrum monitoring, telecommunications, critical infrastructure protection, and defense. DGS has been awarded 100 patents with 25 patents pending for the advancement of spectrum monitoring and RF data management, enabling the capture and analysis of wideband spectrum data at the point of intercept for applications that deliver real-time situational awareness.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thompson Thrift, a full-service nationally recognized real estate company and one of the nation's leading multifamily developers, announced today the development of The Depot, a 300-unit Class A multifamily community in the Kansas City suburb of Raymore. Thompson Thrift expects to break ground in September and plans to welcome new residents starting in the spring of 2024.
"The suburbs south of Kansas City have seen impressive job and population growth in recent years," said Josh Purvis, managing partner for Thompson Thrift Residential. "There is strong demand for multifamily rental options and The Depot will provide a luxury-living experience with convenient access to the area's major employers as well as a variety of retail and dining options."
Located off Dean Ave and E 171st St, The Depot will offer nine three-story buildings with one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment homes averaging just under 1,000 square feet. Residents will enjoy premium interior finishes including gourmet bar-kitchens with quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, tiled showers with glass doors, 9-foot ceilings, wood-inspired flooring, walk-in closets with custom wood shelving and full-sized washers and dryers. The luxury-living experience will continue throughout the community with a professionally decorated clubhouse, 24-hour fitness center, resort-style swimming pool and a dog park.
The Depot sits adjacent to the Raymore Galleria, a 400,000-square-foot shopping center anchored by a Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and Lowe's. The property enjoys nearby access to Interstate 49, which will provide residents with easy commutes to neighboring communities and major employers such as Cerner Corporation, Honeywell and Saint Luke's East Hospital.
The multifamily housing market in Raymore is in high demand for new development. During the past 10 years, the rate of population growth within a one-mile radius of the site has been almost double that of the larger Kansas City metro area.
The Depot will be Thompson Thrift's third community in Missouri, joining The Element and Avenue64.
During the past 30 years Thompson Thrift has developed more than $4 billion of ground-up development projects across the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest. The company made a name for itself by being one of the few developers to build Class A residential communities in markets across the country with a variety of conventional, luxury leased villa and townhome-style communities, and has become known as a trusted partner committed to developing high-quality, attractive commercial and multifamily communities.
Thompson Thrift is an integrated full-service real estate company with offices in Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana; Denver, Houston and Phoenix. Three business units drive Thompson Thrift's success—Thompson Thrift Residential which is focused on upscale Class A multifamily communities and luxury leased homes, Thompson Thrift Commercial which is focused on ground-up commercial development, and Thompson Thrift Construction, a full-service construction company. Through these business units, Thompson Thrift is engaged in all aspects of acquisition, development, construction, leasing, and management of quality multifamily, mixed-use, retail, industrial and commercial projects across the country. We are passionate about our customer's success and strive to ensure our projects not only meet the needs of our customers but also the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.thompsonthrift.com
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Cambodian American Eden Teng was was born in a refugee camp on the border of Thailand and Cambodia just a few years after the Cambodian genocide. She moved to the U.S. with her mom and aunt when she was 6.
Teng attributes much of her own resilience in transitioning to the U.S. to her exuberant mom, who wore whatever she wanted and wasn't afraid to defy social norms — even when it was embarrassing for a teenage Teng.
But when she was growing up, Teng also witnessed the negative impacts of historical, racial and intergenerational trauma on her mom's wellbeing. Teng often felt confused by the way her mom's emotions could spiral out of control for seemingly no reason, or why why she had so many health problems.
When Teng first encountered psychology in college, she realized that her mother's past was directly connected to her emotional and physical health. (Scientists are learning that stress and trauma are sometimes linked to chronic illnesses, like hypertension, diabetes and kidney disease.)
It was this realization that compelled Teng to become a therapist; in 2018 she began her graduate studies in Seattle.
But when COVID-19 hit and the Black Lives Matter movement came into full force, with communities of color having a more public conversation about their struggles in the U.S., Teng says she started feeling differently about her training and the profession she'd be entering. She began to notice how dealing with certain issues, including race and immigration, were not given priority in her clinical training — even though she knew how important they are in shaping a life.
"I didn't feel represented, and I felt that so much of my family's history just didn't feel like it was considered," she says, adding that she was studying under teachers who were predominantly white. "I just felt silenced in my own history [and] my own experience in the work that I was doing."
Teng's graduate program isn't the only one like this. Therapy is a predominantly white field in the U.S. — 80% of psychologists, 63% of counselors and 59% of social workers are white, according to Data USA, a website that constructs visualizations of public federal data.
Many of the founding ideas, techniques and schools of practice of therapy were developed by white scholars or practitioners. As a result, the field has marginalized the experiences of people of color, therapists and patients say. Microaggressions are also pervasive in psychological practice, researchers note, and many immigrants report not attending therapy because of language barriers, a lack of insurance and high costs.
That's why Teng wanted to take a new approach. For her, that meant joining a growing movement of other counselors hoping to transform the practice of therapy, to make it more accessible and relevant to people of color and — ultimately — to help them find healing.
Embracing a practice of 'decolonizing therapy'
Teng was initially inspired by people like Dr. Jennifer Mullan, who refer to this work as "decolonizing therapy," a process of addressing the structural racism and other forms of oppression that keep therapy from serving many marginalized communities.
"I think the best way to describe decolonized therapy is that it is really making space to examine the external pressures, stressors, and layers of oppression that my clients have endured and survived," Teng says.
She gives the example of microaggressions in the workplace, or job interviews. "There are opportunities that are not given to you because of your identities," she says, "But if we look at it through the lens of self-esteem, it's like 'Something is wrong with you. You just need to think better about yourself,' right? Like you need to be more positive."
But for people of color, that framework of just being "more positive" doesn't always work. It doesn't account for racism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination directed toward them. "The challenge," Teng explains, "is to recognize that how you're feeling about yourself can also be internalized oppression."
Teng's practice in decolonizing therapy digs into family history, helping her clients of color better understand how the historical oppression of their ancestors affects them. She says this is true for people from her own community, who experienced the genocide when the Khmer Rouge regime killed about 2.2 million people. "When we're talking about Cambodian refugees and immigrants, there's a history here that is so horrific, rich, and devastating."
Teng finds children of Cambodian refugees who have been through the genocide can struggle with guilt. "In first-generation or second-generation Cambodian Americans, there's this experience that your parents have sacrificed or have gone through so much," she says. "They've experienced tremendous loss. And having that sense of their sacrifices, we feel we need to hold that harm and that grief and that pain."
Holding onto a parent's pain leads into tricky territory, says Teng. "We also feel that we have to transcend it by being perfect or striving to be so successful that we are becoming millionaires ... versus really being with the gentleness of the grief, and the emotions that are being held and passed down."
Using culturally responsive techniques
To respond to these issues, Teng has developed a few approaches that are different from the way she was trained. First, Teng often brings in the family to her practice.
"This may mean that we involve parents in sessions so that we can hear from their point of view," she says. "When we're in that space, there are a lot of opportunities to shed light on the impacts of being a child of immigrants. And through that lens — of being someone like a first generation immigrant — we can discuss the harm that is very much connected to the harm that parents have navigated."
Teng supports the children and parents in openly discussing experiences like racism and genocide in a secure and validating environment. She says many who survived the genocide, had to suppress their feelings. "And so, when you have the experience of suppressing those [painful] emotions, you're also suppressing joy and connection, belonging."
Allowing her clients and their parents to experience the full spectrum of emotions can be healing, she says. "[They] can allow for positive attachments and relationships that feel meaningful."
Teng also works against the stereotype of the detached therapist-as-expert. She makes clear to her clients that she may not have all of the answers, and prefers to be transparent with her clients about her own intergenerational trauma. "When we can really be with what's hurting, we know we're together in this," she says. "I'm a part of this collective healing journey with my clients."
Growing acceptance of the role of historical trauma
Like Teng, Ramona Beltran became interested in decolonizing therapy because of the issues she was seeing in her community of origin. She identifies as Xicana of Yaqui and Mexica descent and is a professor of social work at the University of Denver.
When she was at the start of her career, several of her family members passed away before they reached 60 years old and she found herself asking what the links are between her community's history of trauma and their health.
When Beltran entered a doctorate program to study historical trauma 20 years ago, she wasn't taken seriously at first, she says — such as when she gave some presentations on the theoretical framework of historical trauma and healing. "I remember this one [presentation] where they forwarded me the feedback, and several people were like, 'This is political. It's ideological. It doesn't count as research. There's nothing empirical about this. This isn't like real academic work.'"
Now, Beltran says things have changed, "I teach a whole class on historical trauma and healing, and it's always one of the classes that gets filled up right away," she says. "And that, to me, is progress."
When she was working on her master's degree in social work, she says, she noticed that all of the evidence-based styles of practice she had learned in grad school weren't enough.
"They were just like these kind of mainstream approaches to therapy that were generated from, primarily white, primarily middle class families," Beltran remembers. "And so maybe they would be translated into Spanish, but to me, what I was seeing was that those practices weren't really generating a lot of healing."
Now when she teaches, Beltran emphasizes that decolonizing can take different forms, depending on the experience of the therapist and the shared experiences of the community the therapist is trying to reach.
She highlights three key aspects of culturally responsive therapy: building authentic relationships, ensuring community representation, and re-connecting with one's cultural background. Like Teng, Beltran is especially interested in working with clients to help them see their culture as a form of intergenerational strength, rather than suffering.
A growing need for culturally responsive therapy
While therapists like Beltran and Teng are committed to making therapy more inclusive, communities of color continue to struggle with getting access to therapists. Teng gets a lot of people contacting her who she simply cannot help. "I'm only licensed to see folks in my area, and there are so many that are interested. And it breaks my heart every time, where I'm not able to provide support."
She notes that this is especially common for clients living in areas with few clinicians available. "I had one from Kansas most recently, who was like, 'We don't have any Khmer therapists anywhere in the state.' But, unfortunately, I'm not able to provide that service."
Teng knows what it's like to lack access to therapy. "I myself haven't had a therapist of my own who practiced the way that I do until most recently," she says.
But there have been some recent moves in the right direction, Teng says. Organizations like Inclusive Therapists created the BIPOC Therapy Fund to provide financial help for at least four initial sessions for people of color seeking therapy. The Asian Mental Health Collective also created the Lotus Therapy Fund to provide financial support to Asian therapy seekers for eight sessions.
And the largest professional organization of psychologists in the U.S. is also promising to make changes. Last year, the American Psychological Association issued a formal apology for its role in what it called "promoting, perpetuating and failing to challenge racism, racial discrimination and human hierarchy in the U.S."
The APA promised to support more research centered on non-Western perspectives, provide more access to culturally competent training, and create more opportunities for people of color to enter the field of psychology. This August, the organization committed $1.1 million to a new Racial Equity Fund to carry out these three goals.
Teng says she hopes to see more funds dedicated to helping people of color get access to therapy that recognizes their history and experiences.
"There's no way that we can just say that we're going to look at this from a cultural lens without actually looking through the historical, intergenerational lens," she says. "And so, it has to be comprehensive and interconnected for it to truly honor the human being that is in front of you."
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Updated July 23, 2023 at 6:53 PM ET
More changes are coming to Elon Musk's Twitter, as the billionaire owner of the site announced plans to replace the company's iconic blue bird logo with the letter "X."
An interim new logo is expected to go live sometime on Sunday, Musk said, as he announced that the URL "X.com" would now automatically redirect users to Twitter.
Taken together, the two changes mark the latest and arguably most dramatic changes for the social platform since the billionaire's purchase last year. It may signal a new era for the platform — which Musk has long envisioned as a super app that will offer a variety of services from online banking to video messaging.
"X will be the platform that can deliver, well....everything," Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote Sunday on Twitter.
Musk has hinted at changing Twitter's name to "X" since last year when he was days away from officially owning the company. "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app," he said on Twitter.
Musk's vision for an "everything app" has been compared to platforms like the ubiquitous WeChat app in China.
"He wants to create an app similar to how WeChat is used in China, where it's part of the fabric of day-to-day life. You use it to communicate, to consume news, to buy things, to pay your rent, to book appointments with your doctor and even to pay fines," Ashlee Vance, the author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, told NPR in a May interview.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
Social media experts are doubtful of Musk's "everything app"
Twitter' new logo is sleeker and on par with the futuristic style of Elon Musk's other business ventures, Tesla and SpaceX. But social media expert Jennifer Grygiel is skeptical that Musk can create an innovative Twitter as the re-branding suggests.
"I'm not sure he has enough trust from his user base to get people to actually exchange money or attach any type of financial institution to his app," Grygiel, a professor at the University of Syracuse, told NPR.
Grygiel added that Musk hurt Twitter's integrity with decisions like removing blue checks, firing thousands of Twitter staff and reinstating problematic accounts.
Jeffrey Blevins, a journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati, agreed that Musk has dismayed a significant portion of Twitter users — so much so that a rebranding can't hurt.
"I think this is a way, maybe, to try to save it essentially by destroying it and recreating it as something else," he said.
Musk really likes the letter "X" but no one really knows why
For years, the billionaire has been known for having an affinity for the letter X — though he has shared little explanation as to why.
In one of his earliest ventures, Musk called his online bank X.com. That name was later dropped when the platform merged with a competitor to become PayPal.
"Everyone tried to talk him out of naming the company that back then because of the sexual innuendos, but he really liked it and stuck with it," said Vance.
"X" is already the name of Tesla's third electric car model, which debuted in 2015. Musk's spaceflight company is called SpaceX. And in 2020, Musk and his then-partner, the Canadian musician Grimes, named their youngest son "X Æ A-12."
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NEW YORK (AP) — “Space Disco Cowboy.” “Yacht Shabbat.” “Burning Man Formal”? More couples are tossing tradition when it comes to what wedding guests should wear, to some befuddlement among invitees.
Maggie Long, 34, recently attended the nuptials of a close friend in a low-key Denver lounge. The suggested dress? “Dive Bar Semiformal.”
“I love a theme,” said Long, who lives in New York. "It's fun that people aren't taking weddings so seriously, but I had no idea what that meant."
After exchanging thoughts for months with the officiant, who is also a friend, Long took her outfit idea — a strappy-back, low-cut ultra-mini purple dress with a high side slit — to the bride. The bride deemed it a bit too “Kardashian cosplay.” Long finally settled on a longer gold lamé dress by Norma Kamali, and a great time was had.
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“There were a lot of vintage jumpsuits. One of our friends went full 1960s with go-go boots and a bouffant. A lot of sequins were happening," Long said.
Some couples are offering mood boards as a way to guide guests, including older ones. At the dive bar wedding, Long said plenty of older guests got into the spirit. One donned a rainbow tie-dye T-shirt, à la the Grateful Dead.
Other wedding guests have contended with “Tropical Formal," “Snappy Casual” and “Garden Party Whimsical.”
Heading into the busy summer season for weddings and other special events, Indya Wright in Washington, D.C., has had enough.
She recently posted on Twitter: “These new age event dress codes are the bane of my existence. What happened to just 'casual,' ‘cocktail’ and ‘formal’? Now I gotta Google ‘After 5 Formal Festive Renaissance attire’ to figure out if you want me to give Great Gatsby or King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table.”
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Wright, 35, remains frustrated. The wedding of a college classmate had a “smart, but not too smart casual” dress code.
Renée Strauss, co-founder and CEO of the destination wedding planning company Wedaways in Beverly Hills, California, said wacky dress codes come down to couples striving to make their nuptials custom and unique.
“The key is making sure there’s communication behind the dress code. Don’t just confuse guests,” she said.
When her company builds wedding websites for clients, it includes descriptions for dress codes like “Wine Country Chic,” urging couples to offer a broad enough palette for people to express themselves. “Tropical Formal,” for instance, could be long, flowing dresses in bright summer colors and linen suits with playful ties.
“Most guests have a lot of fun with it,” Strauss said.
Rikki Gotthelf, 32, in Los Angeles, attended a wedding recently and has three more this year. She was a bridesmaid for the “Space Disco Cowboy” nuptials of friends who shuttled their guests to an abandoned ghost town near Austin, Texas.
“We had these shiny intergalactic Batsheva prairie dresses. Mine was iridescent,” Gotthelf said. “Another wedding I went to was ‘Funky Formal.’”
For guidance, Gotthelf turned to Sophie Strauss, who bills herself as a “stylist for regular people.” Strauss suggests following up with the couple if they haven't made themselves clear.
“They won’t be offended,” she said. “They’re invested enough in how everyone looks to have put forth a kooky dress code.”
One of her clients has a “Music Festival Formal” wedding coming up.
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“He clarified with the couple that it’s more Woodstock, less Burning Man. Good to know,” Strauss said.
The difference? Hippie flowy dresses, bell bottoms, tunics, tie dye, big round sunglasses and woven headbands for the former. “Mad Max-meets-Carnival on mushrooms” in lamé, combat boots, rhinestones, body paint and goggles for the latter, she said. Her client decided on a neutral-tone linen suit with a vintage beaded necklace or two.
Strauss implored guests staring down out-there dress codes to remember: “It's not a costume. Unless, of course, it's literally a costume party.”
Small adjustments may be enough, like wearing a regular suit but swapping out a dress shirt for one in an on-theme pattern. James Berger, 32, in Las Vegas, was among guests told to express their inner spirit. He managed a black polka dot bow tie with a formal suit that left him feeling “slightly out of place” among a sea of vibrant colors.
Strauss regularly faces the issue among her clients.
“I had a client who had to do a ‘Fancy Ranch’ theme a few months ago and she was tempted to go buy a new outfit from head to toe,” Strauss said. “But pairing some cowboy boots with a sundress or swapping a tie for a bolo tie goes a long way. And if you’re really into it you could add a cowboy hat. You don’t need to dress like Orville Peck to fit the theme, though if that’s your style, oh my god go for it!”
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There's often sentimental meaning behind wedding themes. Madison Smith, 32, is a May 2024 bride and her dress code calls for “Black Tie Sunset Glam.” The wedding will be held at the Bonnet Island Estate in Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
“It's in honor of my late grandfather," she said of the theme. “His favorite thing was the sunsets where I’m getting married."
Her vision? Sunset-colored gowns of oranges, yellows, purples, blues and pinks with fun accessories, and tuxedoes with bow ties and pocket squares of the same colors.
Smith, in Arlington, Virginia, hasn’t left guests guessing. She works for Pinterest and has already been pinning inspiration to give them a boost. Her bridal shower guests have a board of their own to tackle Smith’s “LoveShackFancy” dress code.
“They have no precedent for an unusual dress code where a couple calls for something other than black tie, formal, cocktail or casual attire. When you receive an invitation that reads ‘Festive Hudson Valley Chic’ or ‘Tropical Hipster,’ it can certainly bode more questions than less for those used to more traditional themes,” said Amy Shey Jacobs, founder of Chandelier Events in New York.
“Chic as F—k.” “Gay Garden Party.” “Black Tie Fabulous.” “Colorful Cocktail.” “Sparkle and Shine.” “Red Carpet Ready.” Jove Meyer, owner and creative director of an eponymous event planning company in Brooklyn, has handled all of the above in dress codes.
“As much as I love a fun and unique dress code, I always suggest couples clarify exactly what they mean with a descriptive sentence or two so there's no guessing,” he said.
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Brittny Drye, editor in chief of the wedding resource magazine Love Inc., said guests shouldn't be reluctant to quiz the bridal couple about a puzzling dress code.
“We never want to bombard the couple,” she said, “but when they’re asking their guests to abide by a nontraditional dress code, they’re signing themselves up to be asked questions.” | 2023-06-28T14:04:47+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/28/lifestyle/space-disco-cowboy-couples-ditch-traditional-wedding-dress-codes-favor-out-there-themes/ |
Braves vs. Orioles Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - May 5
Friday's contest between the Atlanta Braves (22-10) and Baltimore Orioles (21-10) going head to head at Truist Park has a projected final score of 4-3 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Braves, so expect a competitive matchup. The game will begin at 7:20 PM ET on May 5.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Braves will send Max Fried (2-0) to the mound, while Dean Kremer (2-1) will answer the bell for the Orioles.
Braves vs. Orioles Game Info & Odds
- When: Friday, May 5, 2023 at 7:20 PM ET
- Where: Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia
- How to Watch on TV: BSSE
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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- Total Prediction: Under 8 runs
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Braves Performance Insights
- In eight games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Braves have a record of 6-2.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Atlanta and its opponents are 7-3-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Braves' last 10 games.
- This season, the Braves have been favored 27 times and won 18, or 66.7%, of those games.
- Atlanta has entered six games this season favored by -225 or more, and won each of those games.
- The implied probability of a win from the Braves, based on the moneyline, is 69.2%.
- Atlanta has scored the fifth-most runs in the majors this season with 176.
- The Braves' 3.51 team ERA ranks sixth among all MLB pitching staffs.
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Denny McCarthy putts well in round one of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday
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Denny McCarthy holes birdie putt from off the green at the Memorial
In the opening round of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday 2022, Denny McCarthy makes birdie on the par-5 15th hole.
In his first round at the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Denny McCarthy hit 8 of 14 fairways and 10 of 18 greens in regulation, and had a great day on the green leaving no misses on putts within 10 feet.
At the 455-yard par-4 sixth, Denny McCarthy reached the green in 2 and rolled a 32-foot putt for birdie. This put Denny McCarthy at 1 under for the round.
After a 300 yard drive on the 582-yard par-5 seventh, McCarthy chipped his third shot to 3 feet, which he rolled for one-putt birdie on the hole. This moved McCarthy to 2 under for the round.
At the 180-yard par-3 12th, McCarthy hit a tee shot 168 yards at the green, setting himself up for the 4-foot putt for birdie. This moved McCarthy to 3 under for the round.
McCarthy got a bogey on the 455-yard par-4 13th, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving McCarthy to 2 under for the round.
On the 360-yard par-4 14th hole, McCarthy reached the green in 2 and sunk a 19-foot putt for birdie. This moved McCarthy to 3 under for the round.
At the par-5 15th, McCarthy chipped in his fourth shot from 12 yards off the green, scoring a birdie for the hole. This moved McCarthy to 4 under for the round.
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CLEVELAND (AP)Setric Millner Jr. and El Farmer had 19 points each in top-seeded Toledo’s 91-75 win against eighth-seeded Miami (Ohio) on Thursday in the Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinals.
Millner had seven rebounds for the Rockets (26-6). Farmer was 5 of 6 shooting and 8 of 10 from the free throw line to add 19 points. JT Shumate shot 7 for 10 and 2 of 4 from the free throw line to finish with 17 points, while adding three blocks. It was the 15th victory in a row for the Rockets.
Morgan Safford led the way for the RedHawks (12-20) with 21 points and seven rebounds. Anderson Mirambeaux added 16 points and six rebounds for Miami. Julian Lewis also had 13 points, eight rebounds, two steals and two blocks.
Toledo led 48-33 at halftime, with Millner scoring 12 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-03-10T17:03:12+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/toledo-secures-91-75-victory-in-mid-american-tournament/ |
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