text stringlengths 80 124k | date_download stringdate 2022-04-02 20:48:07 2023-07-31 23:59:06 | source_domain stringclasses 387 values | url stringlengths 21 528 |
|---|---|---|---|
DUBLIN (AP) — DUBLIN (AP) — James Hardie Industries PLC (JHX) on Monday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $100.1 million.
On a per-share basis, the Dublin-based company said it had profit of 22 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 29 cents per share.
The fiber cement maker posted revenue of $860.8 million in the period.
_____
This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on JHX at https://www.zacks.com/ap/JHX | 2023-02-13T23:58:09+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/james-hardie-fiscal-q3-earnings-snapshot-17782256.php |
NH Chronicle: The Granite State Ambassadors
Welcoming you to The Granite State
Advertisement
NH Chronicle: The Granite State Ambassadors
Welcoming you to The Granite State
Tonight, we meet The Granite State Ambassadors. They proudly sport their signature green shirts and are ready to help. The dedicated volunteers are highly trained and as Jean Mackin shows us. highly motivated to make NH Shine. Plus, The Phoenix uses exercise and activity to fight addiction and they do it through hiking, ice, and rock climbing and even dancing. Audrey Cox introduces us to some folks who are rising above their challenges one step at a time. On Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire: Governor William PlummerFor more information on tonight's stories: Granite State AmbassadorsThe PhoenixHosting this week from:Laconia Flight Academy
March 2nd, 2023 —
Tonight, we meet The Granite State Ambassadors. They proudly sport their signature green shirts and are ready to help. The dedicated volunteers are highly trained and as Jean Mackin shows us. highly motivated to make NH Shine.
Plus, The Phoenix uses exercise and activity to fight addiction and they do it through hiking, ice, and rock climbing and even dancing. Audrey Cox introduces us to some folks who are rising above their challenges one step at a time.
Advertisement
On Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire: Governor William Plummer
For more information on tonight's stories:
Hosting this week from: | 2023-02-24T17:43:00+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-chronicle-the-granite-state-ambassadors/43062273 |
Nestled in Newport on the northern beaches, Knap Store is a treasure trove of all things dopamine dressing. A vintage-lovers heaven, the store has stacks of well-worn Levi’s in all sizes, retro knits, '70s shirts and slip dresses aplenty.
Mixing home-grown brands such as Permanent Vacation and Jume, with international cult favourites like Paloma Wool and Baggu, you’re guaranteed to find trendy, sustainable pieces here.
With claw clips, miscellaneous homewares, books and handmade jewels also on offer, Knap Store is a one-stop shop on one of Sydney’s most idyllic beaches. | 2022-11-23T03:50:14+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/sydney/shopping/the-10-coolest-independent-clothes-boutiques-and-shops-in-sydney |
AP source: FBI search at Mar-a-Lago was related to whether Trump took classified information from White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI search at Mar-a-Lago was related to whether former President Donald Trump took classified information from the White House, according to an Associated Press source.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. The previous AP story follows below:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said in a lengthy statement Monday that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe.
The circumstances of the search were not immediately clear, though the Justice Department has been actively investigating the discovery of classified information in boxes of records that were taken to Trump’s Florida residence after he left the White House.
The action marks a dramatic escalation in law enforcement scrutiny of Trump and comes as he has been laying the groundwork to make another bid for president.
“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump said in his statement.
Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson declined to comment on the search, including about whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally authorized the search.
The discovery of classified information at Mar-a-Lago was referred to the Justice Department by the National Archives and Records Administration, which said it had found classified material in 15 boxes at the residence.
Federal law bars the removal of classified documents to unauthorized locations, though it is possible that Trump could try to argue that, as president, he was the ultimate declassification authority.
There are multiple statutes governing classified information, including a law punishable by up to five years in prison that makes it a crime to remove such records and retain them at an unauthorized location. Another statute makes it a crime to mishandle classified records either intentionally or in a grossly negligent manner.
A separate investigation related to efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has also been intensifying in Washington.
____
Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-09T00:10:03+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2022/08/08/former-president-donald-trump-says-fbi-is-searching-mar-a-lago-estate-florida-circumstances-unclear/ |
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and STEFANIE DAZIO
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Relatives of a family kidnapped at gunpoint from their trucking business in central California pleaded for help Wednesday in the search for an 8-month-old girl, her mother, father and uncle, who authorities say were taken by a convicted robber who tried to kill himself a day after the kidnappings.
Authorities at a news conference Wednesday showed surveillance video of a man kidnapping the baby, Aroohi Dheri; the child’s mother, Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, from their bussing in Merced, a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco in the San Joaquin Valley.
The video showed the suspect first walking by the property before talking to one of the men. Later, it shows him leading the men, who had their hands zip-tied behind their backs, into the back seat of Amandeep Singh’s pickup truck. The suspect then went back to the trailer that served as the business office and led Jasdeep Singh, who was carrying her baby in her arms, out and into the truck before the suspect then drove away.
Family members said nothing was stolen from the trucking company but that their relatives were all wearing jewelry. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said that after the kidnappings, an ATM card belonging to one of the victims was used in Atwater, a city about 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of Merced.
Warnke said the kidnapper made no ransom demands in what he believes was a financially motivated crime.
Relatives of the victims asked anyone who owns a convenience store or gas station in the area to check their surveillance cameras for images of the suspect or the family. They said they were worried the baby wasn’t being fed because the family didn’t have any baby food with them at the time of the kidnapping.
“Please help us out, come forward, so my family comes home safe,” Sukhdeep Singh, a brother of the victims, said, his voice breaking.
Relatives of Jesus Salgado, 48, contacted authorities reporting that he had admitted to them he was involved with the kidnapping, Warnke told KFSN-TV on Tuesday. Salgado tried to take his own life before police arrived at a home in Atwater, and he has since been hospitalized, he said.
Warnke said detectives have not been able to speak to Salgado, who has been under medical sedation in the hospital, but they are hoping to do so Wednesday with the help of doctors.
“I can tell you that every time he has even come near consciousness he has been violent,” Warnke said.
Warnke said he hopes Salgado decides to cooperate with law enforcement and lead them to the family.
“First and foremost, we want the family back,” he said. “I’m not worried about court right now, we’ll deal with court later.”
Salgado was previously convicted of first-degree robbery with the use of a firearm in Merced County, as well as attempted false imprisonment and an attempt to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness. He was sentenced to 11 years in state prison in that case, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He was released from prison in 2015 and discharged from parole three years later. He also has a conviction for possession of a controlled substance, the corrections agency said.
Investigators have not found a link between Salgado and the family to show they knew each other before the kidnapping.
“As of right now, we believe it was random,” Deputy Alexandra Britton said. “We don’t have evidence to prove otherwise.”
Family members told KXTV-TV that the trucking company office had only opened about a week earlier.
“My husband is very peaceful and calm person. We don’t have any clue why they kidnapped them,” said Jaspreet Caur, wife of the kidnapped uncle.
The sheriff said detectives believe the kidnapper destroyed unspecified evidence in an attempt to cover his tracks.
The sheriff’s office said that firefighters on Monday found Amandeep Singh’s truck on fire. Merced Police Department officers went to Amandeep Singh’s home, where a family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they were not able to reach their family members, they called the Merced County Sheriff’s office to report them missing, the office said.
Warnke said that while detectives have not established any motive or determined whether Salgado worked with any accomplices, he believes the suspect was driven by money and colluded with someone else.
“I fully believe that there was at least one other person involved,” the sheriff said, noting that he does not have any evidence to back that up.
He added: “My speculation is that it’s financial.”
The sheriff’s office said the FBI, the California Department of Justice, and other local law enforcement agencies are helping with the investigation.
___
Dazio reported from Los Angeles. News Researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York also contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-10-05T22:38:39+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/10/05/relatives-plead-for-tips-on-kidnapped-family-including-baby-2/ |
Student Government town hall addresses Pitt’s plan to improve ENS communication
2:20 am
Police Chief James Loftus opened the Student Government town hall by addressing the hoax active shooter incident on April 10 and the delayed ENS response that followed. Loftus shared that while Pitt and City police cleared both Hillman Library and Mervis Hall by 12:02 a.m., a message was not sent out to students until 12:37 a.m.
“As I said before, publicly and privately, that’s my fault,” Loftus said. “That’s my responsibility. That rests with me and a number of things contributed to that, but the lack of cohesive information was a big one.”
Student Government Board, the Graduate Student Government Board and the College of General Studies Student Government Board hosted a town hall Monday night in the William Pitt Union to address the University’s Emergency Notification System, evacuation and lockdown protocols and their response to the recent active shooter hoaxes on and near campus.
In a statement, SGB said it’s “concerned” and “disappointed” by the University’s failure to notify students of the hoax “in a timely manner” and wants to hear “concrete measures” the University plans to take to improve campus communication and safety.
At the town hall, Ted Fritz, the vice chancellor for public safety and emergency management, said the main difference in ENS messaging in the future is that they will provide enough detail about a situation to better inform students. He provided an example message that would alert students about police responding to an unconfirmed active shooter and to avoid the area.
Fritz added that Pitt is testing out ENS messages through small subgroups and Pitt IT is working to review the system technology. He also said dispatchers and supervisors of ENS will receive additional training.
“I can tell you that we’ve reengaged all the dispatchers and the supervisors in training by sending out the ENS messages,” Fritz said. “We have already started testing that. So, we have three 24/7 shifts at the Pitt police. All those shifts, and all those supervisors on those shifts, need to be prepared to do this.”
When addressing the University’s decision to provide certain resources for students after last week’s hoax incident, Provost Ann Cudd said classes likely would have been canceled if the hoax was a “credible situation,” and that canceling classes for this event “was not the right approach.”
“Think about all the different kinds of classes that are going on campus, many of the students in those classes had no experience like yours,” Cudd said. “I grant that everybody in this room had such an experience, but there are many students, graduate students, professional students, people who, you know, were not even in Pittsburgh during that day, who had no such experience. So why would we cancel for everyone when only, you know, a small number of the students by comparison with 30,000 students were actually affected?”
Cudd referenced past bomb threats at the University as an example of Pitt’s precedence for not canceling classes.
One audience member asked about evacuation procedures and lockdown protocol for students with disabilities, specifically students who use wheelchairs. Scott Bernotas, vice chancellor for facilities management, said Pitt’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety can prepare personalized plans to help students with disabilities “wherever they anticipate being” in the event of an emergency.
Loftus echoed Bernotas’ statement and said while the University has some plans in place for students with disabilities, it’s working on improving them.
“I think the number of individual evacuation plans that we have on file, it may be comprehensive, it may not,” Loftus said. “But we’re going to, and we are, marketing very heavily so we don’t leave anybody behind.
Many student audience members shared their experiences the night of the hoax active shooter incident with the panel. One student said the “radio silence” after students fled from Hillman Library is not an act of a “competent university.”
Loftus replied that although he is ultimately responsible for the delayed messaging, supervisors and dispatchers must wait for “total information” during these incidents.
“Everything was changing as they all do in these situations, and still I’m not offering that up as an excuse,” Loftus said. “I’m offering that up as a backdrop to what occurs.”
Some students also expressed discontent that Cudd was using her phone during the panel, calling it “disappointing.”
“Provost Cudd, I’m honestly very disappointed in you … I can tell that you’re looking down at your phone and I’m very disappointed. I don’t know what you’re doing,” Lucas McDonald, a senior political science major, said. “You know, you’re not giving us eye contact and I’m disappointed in you … but you know, I’d like to see that you’re paying attention and you’re taking us seriously because everyone else on this panel is.”
Cudd addressed the complaints about her phone usage during the panel, saying “I was on my phone looking at the study spaces that we are just now trying to roll out. I wanted to see what the URL was for that.”
Student organizers ended the town hall by sharing demands compiled by SGB president Danielle Floyd and Ben Wainwright, the vice president of the ACLU club, on behalf of SGB, organizations and students. These demands included receiving detailed messages from ENS that are opt-out instead of opt-in, providing greater disabilities accommodations during campus emergencies, committing to the renovations of older classrooms that need internal locking capabilities and providing more active shooter training to students, staff and faculty.
“What we’re going through is unheard of, and I truly hope that there’s some change in our nation for how we are addressing this issue,” Floyd said.
After the event, student audience member Sean Robinson said although the panel “touched on” student concerns, it’s important to see if the University will follow up on the demands called for safety.
“The problem is action takes time, and people I think are just genuinely scared, understandably so. I think we’re gonna be in a really weird situation for a little bit until we actually see if change occurs, and if change doesn’t occur, I don’t know if there’s a lot we can do,” Robinson, a senior molecular biology major, said. | 2023-04-18T09:55:14+00:00 | pittnews.com | https://pittnews.com/article/180841/news/student-government-town-hall-addresses-pitts-plan-to-improve-ens-communication/ |
Gov. Jay Inslee doesn’t think Washington should exempt tribal gas stations from climate laws that have driven up fuel prices across the state since taking effect at the start of this year, he told tribal leaders this week.
In a meeting Wednesday, Inslee rebuffed an exemption request from the Lummi Nation and a number of other Native American tribes, arguing the state’s new carbon-cap system is good for the tribes and making the case that giving the tribes special treatment would subvert the aims of the policy.
“The governor said exempting Tribal gas sales from pollution limits would result in a competitive advantage in sales of gasoline to the public at Tribal gas stations, undermining the purpose of the [Climate Commitment Act],” according to notes shared by Inslee’s office after Wednesday’s meeting.
Having made no inroads with Inslee, tribal leaders may now turn to the Legislature, Tom Wooten, chair of the Samish Nation, said Thursday.
“There’s no remedy there from the governor’s office, that was pretty plain,” Wooten said. “I wasn’t very happy with the meeting, I have to admit.”
In a written statement, Tony Hillaire, chair of the Lummi Nation, said that he hoped Inslee heard the concerns voiced by the tribes and that “we can work on shared solutions” to climate change while honoring treaty rights.
“Tribes aren’t just partners in climate change. We’re leaders,” Hillaire said.
“This issue is about our sacred and inherent responsibility to take care of our home, ourselves and each other. We are not the ones who have created the crisis caused by development and fossil fuel extraction. But we certainly pay the highest price,” he added, citing habitat loss and degradation for salmon and shellfish. “Our entire way of life as Lummi people is threatened.”
Adopted in 2021, the Clean Fuel Standard and Climate Commitment Act require major polluters like fuel suppliers to pay to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and to reduce their emissions over time. They’re designed to combat climate change, and fuel suppliers are passing their new expenses down the line to distributors and customers, including tribes.
A 2022 state-commissioned report predicted the CFS would cause gas prices to increase by less than 1 cent a gallon in 2023, and officials at one point predicted that the CCA would boost prices by 1%-3%. Inslee last year said he expected the pass-through impact on consumers would be “pennies.”
Though Washington’s average price at the pump is lower than a year ago, the difference between Washington’s average price and the national average has grown by about 50 cents a gallon, according to AAA data. Suppliers are citing the climate laws with surcharges on fuel invoices.
At Wednesday’s meeting, “Inslee expressed that he was proud to work with the Tribes to develop the CCA policy and ensure they benefit from the proceeds. But the governor also expressed his deep disappointment that some Tribes are now reversing course on the policy they helped create and are benefiting from — and erroneously claiming the CCA imposes taxes or fees on Tribes,” according to the notes shared by Inslee’s office.
Inslee scheduled the meeting with tribal leaders last month after some said they were taken aback by how much the climate laws seemed to be boosting gas prices, despite earlier assurances from the governor and his administration that the increases would be marginal.
Though state officials say the new charges on fuel suppliers are fees related to “compliance obligations,” rather than revenue-generating taxes, tribal members are paying more for gas than they would otherwise, the tribal leaders said, pointing out that state lawmakers have carved out exemptions for other fuel customers, like the aviation industry and farmers.
Lummi leaders described the system as an attack on tribal sovereignty. Inslee denied that this week.
“The CCA does not impede tribal sovereignty, nor does it determine any taxes or fees on Tribes,” the governor’s office said. “The CCA regulates and reduces climate pollution. Fossil fuel polluters incorporate their compliance costs into what they charge for their product, similar to any business with compliance costs related to things like workplace safety or bookkeeping.”
The participants in Wednesday’s meeting represented 12 of Washington’s 29 federally recognized tribes. In addition to the Lummi Nation, there were leaders from the Chehalis Tribe, Colville Tribes, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Makah Tribe, Nisqually Tribe, Nooksack Tribe, Samish Nation, Sauk-Suiattle Tribe, Stillaguamish Tribe, Squaxin Island Tribe and Yakama Nation. Some of the Puget Sound region’s tribes near urban areas didn’t participate.
Some tribal leaders pushed back Thursday against Inslee’s argument that it would be wrong to give tribal gas stations an advantage. Tribes made huge sacrifices when they signed their treaties and some are still struggling to help members get ahead in life, said Nino Maltos II, Sauk-Suiattle Tribe chair.
“We gave up a hell of a lot more than the advantages we get,” Maltos said. “For us smaller, remote tribes it’s very difficult to make it by as is.”
When tribal leaders “expended our political capital” to help pass the CCA in 2021, “we didn’t realize, no one realized,” what the impact was going to be, said Wooten, the Samish Nation chair. Wooten said he feels that Inslee, who isn’t running for governor again in 2024, doesn’t want to cede ground now on a policy that he considers crucial to his legacy as a “green governor.”
“I’ve lost a lot of respect for that man,” Wooten said, adding, “I don’t think the average citizen should be taking it on the chin.”
The meeting didn’t go “as anybody wanted it to,” Eric White, chair of the Stillaguamish Tribe, said after hearing from council members who attended.
“We are good stewards of the environment,” White said. “They have exemptions for agriculture and aviation … and that just, to us, doesn’t make sense when you give exemptions to the biggest polluting industries and not the ones who are actually taking care of the environment.”
Wooten echoed that point.
“We already do an extensive amount of restoration and climate change battling on our own,” he said. “Now we’re paying twice.”
The state partly refunds gas taxes to tribes based on agreements reached after years of sovereignty-related litigation. Tribes sold about 176 million gallons of fuel in 2022, paying about $87 million in gas taxes and receiving about $65 million back, according to state estimates shared by Inslee’s office.
Washington’s first quarterly auction of pollution allowances raised nearly $300 million and lawmakers have budgeted about $2 billion in anticipated revenue for projects intended to reduce emissions over the next two years.
The legislation requires that 10% of CCA revenues go toward tribally supported uses and projects. Tribes will receive about $130 million directly over the next two years (about 6.5% of CCA proceeds) and are eligible to apply for up to $120 million more, Inslee’s office added, noting that an additional $153 million in CCA proceeds will fund salmon recovery projects, “a top environmental priority of Tribes.”
Exempting tribal gas stations from the state’s climate laws would enable “the sale of even cheaper fossil fuel by entities that already receive gas tax refunds” and CCA dollars, Inslee’s office said, calling that course of action “antithetical to Washington’s climate efforts.”
In his response, Hillaire, from the Lummi Nation, mentioned that tribal enterprises such as gas stations, “fund reservation schools, health care, social services, youth programs and natural resources.” | 2023-06-02T02:34:32+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-rebuffs-tribes-seeking-relief-after-wa-climate-laws-boost-gas-prices/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
Target's CFO Michael Fiddelke revealed that it wasn't just inflation that was driving down profits for the company, it's also believed to be theft as well.
In a recent earnings call, Fiddelke pointed to "organized retail crime" for the huge chunk of profit losses the company has seen this year.
"At Target, year-to-date, incremental shortage has already reduced our gross margin by more than $400 million vs. last year," Fiddelke said.
"We expect it will reduce our gross margin by more than $600 million for the full year," he said.
Fiddelke said there are a "handful of things that can drive shrink in our business and theft is certainly a key driver. We know we're not alone across retail in seeing a trend that I think has gotten increasingly worse over the last 12 to 18 months. So we're taking the right actions in our stores to help curb that trend where we can, but that becomes an increasing headwind on our business and we know the business of others."
A spokesperson confirmed to Yahoo! Finance that Target believes the losses are specifically attributed to "organized retail crime."
Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer blamed the issue on people not "getting a fair shake" when talking about why there is theft of products.
Serwer said, "To some degree it’s a reflection of our times. Simply put, America’s social contract is straining."
Target said in a third quarter earnings report that comparable sales for the company had increased by 2.7 percent, and the company saw 12.7 percent growth last year. | 2022-11-16T22:10:17+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/target-estimates-organized-retail-crime-could-cost-company-600-m |
A man who federal agents say tried to board a plane in New Jersey with three guns, including a semi-automatic rifle, and a fake law-enforcement ID is in federal custody and facing two charges.
Seretse Clouden, who has a prior weapon-related conviction, is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and having a fraudulent ID, according to a complaint posted Monday.
The incident occurred as Clouden, 42, of Wallington, New Jersey, tried to board a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Dec. 30, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent that was filed in federal district court in Newark.
Agents screening checked bags found ammunition and a ballistic vest emblazoned with “Deputy Marshal” in one of Clouden’s bags, according to the affidavit. They retrieved more of his luggage from the plane and found an AR-15 rifle that “meets the definition of a machine gun,” another rifle, a handgun, a taser, a spring-loaded knife, an expandable baton, a “United States Marshal” badge and U.S. marshal credentials with Clouden’s name and photo, according to FBI agent Christopher Granato.
The FBI agent said the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed that Clouden is not and has never been employed by the agency.
An attorney listed in court records as representing Clouden did not immediately respond when emailed for comment. A U.S. magistrate signed an order Monday placing Clouden in federal custody and said Clouden and prosecutors want more time to negotiate a plea agreement.
Clouden was convicted in 2016 in New Jersey of unlawful possession of a weapon, according to Granato.
Last year, the Transportation Security Administration seized a record 6,542 guns at airports around the country. Most people who are stopped for having a gun at an airport checkpoint say they forgot they had the weapon with them. | 2023-03-01T00:09:42+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-fbi-says-man-had-guns-ammo-fake-marshal-id-in-baggage/ |
LIMA, Peru (AP) — LGBTQ rights activists rallied outside the prosecutor’s office Wednesday to demand an autopsy be performed on a Peruvian transgender man who died earlier this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.
Rodrigo Ventocilla, a 32-year-old graduate student at Harvard University, died Aug. 11 at a Bali hospital. He had been detained Aug. 6 after arriving at the island’s airport. His Peruvian husband, Sebastián Marallano, was also detained when he tried to help Ventocilla.
The couple, who married in Chile, went to Bali on their honeymoon.
Ventocilla’s body has been taken from Indonesia and is expected to arrive in Lima soon, and his relatives want officials in Peru to determine the cause of death, saying they suspect Indonesian authorities abused Ventocilla. Indonesian officials deny that.
“He was detained because of his gender identity. His identity document did not match his appearance. That made him a suspect for the Indonesian police. He was extorted, tortured and has died,” Luzmo Henríquez, a representative of the family of the deceased, told The Associated Press.
Indonesian authorities deny any act of violence and discrimination. “Everything went according to standard operation," Stefanus Satake Bayu Setianto, a Bali police spokesman, said Monday.
Officials in Indonesia said customs officers found a package of brownies with Ventocilla that they suspected might contain cannabis and turned him over to police. Officials said Ventocilla was taken to the hospital the morning of Aug. 9 after showing symptoms of depression and complaining of stomach pains. He died in the hospital Aug. 11.
LGBTQ activists protested in front of the Peruvian Foreign Ministry last week, complaining that Peruvian authorities did not independently investigate Ventocilla’s death and welcomed the Indonesian authorities’ version without any questions.
Credit: Cesar Campos
Credit: Cesar Campos
Credit: Cesar Campos
Credit: Cesar Campos
Credit: Cesar Campos
Credit: Cesar Campos | 2022-09-01T05:04:53+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/lgbtq-activists-in-peru-demand-autopsy-for-death-in-bali/XFV22J6ENJD43NDRFD7AEYBDKI/ |
Somerville Superintendent Mary Skipper, one of two finalists for the job running Boston schools, faced a rounds of questions Thursday, including what she did to advance the achievement levels of students of color, a major priority in the Hub.
Skipper said when she came to Somerville, leadership at the district was almost all white.
“I recognize that is a very big problem, given that we have a majority of our students speak a language other than English as their first language, and are students of color,” she said. “So one of the things I did was to start to develop a pipeline to get our talented educators of color…and to build that up.”
Today, her team ranges between 1/3 and 1/2 people of color, Skipper said.
“That has, in my mind, made all the difference in the world in our being able to walk the walk with the community,” she said.
Marinell Rousmaniere, a BPS parent and president and CEO of the nonprofit Edvestors, said Boston is “rich in resources and too often not strategic in how they are deployed.” She asked how Skipper would harness the “extraordinary partnership potential” that the city has among its nonprofit, higher education and philanthropic business communities to better serve young people.”
Determining what those three communities can offer and matching programming for those students is essential, Skipper said. It’s also important to identify ”holes” to make sure the resources are reaching the students.
Aisha Francis, a BPS parent and president and CEO of Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, Boston’s only technical college, asked how Skipper would improve the graduation rates of BPS “without going back to the drawing board.”
“The ultimate goal is that students can persist in and where they are, and by doing that, we need to make sure they’re prepared,” Skipper said. Teachers and principals need to identify students who are struggling and then build a menu of additional programming to address their needs, she said.
This afternoon, Skipper faces interviews with teachers and school leaders, students and families and ultimately the school committee this evening.
On Friday, Tommy Welch, BPS’s Region 1 K-12 superintendent, will follow the same schedule and answer the same questions, drawn from both the panelists and the public’s responses to a superintendent search survey. Questions may also be chosen live from the public via the question-and-answer function in Zoom.
The interviews will be conducted in the school committee chambers in the Bolling Building in Dudley Square in Roxbury and streamed on Zoom and on Boston City TV. | 2022-06-23T20:36:51+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/06/23/watch-live-boston-schools-superintendent-interviews/ |
BARCELONA – Nearly six years ago, the leader of Catalonia’s failed secession bid slipped secretly across the Spanish border to escape arrest and start a life as a self-styled political exile.
Now, Carles Puigdemont has the future of Spain’s government in his hands.
An inconclusive national election Sunday has left Spain in political limbo. No leader came close to an absolute majority or was left with a guaranteed path to forming a government in the 350-seat Parliament with 11 parties spread across the spectrum.
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is closest to solving the puzzle after his Socialist party resisted what polls had incorrectly predicted would be a right-wing landslide. But his party and allies on the left are still a few seats short of an outright majority.
This is where Puigdemont comes into play. Puigdemont’s Junts (Together) party will hold seven seats, whose support — even in the form of an abstention instead of a “Yes” vote — could be enough to give Sánchez another four-year term.
Puigdemont, 60, threatened to break up the eurozone's fourth-largest economy when he made a short-lived bid for Catalonia's independence in October 2017, which was not recognized internationally and produced a swift crackdown by Spanish authorities.
Since installing himself in Waterloo, Belgium, he has been able to forge a near cult-like following among his hundreds of thousands of supporters who consider him a hero as well as a victim of what they say is Spain’s quest to quash their political movement. That has helped him beat the odds and keep his political career alive, becoming a European Parliament member in 2019 even though he is hundreds of miles from the country he represents.
His reputation as a cunning thorn-in-the-side of Spain has grown as he has wiggled out of one tight squeeze after another following extradition arrests in Germany and Sardinia. He convinced Belgian courts to refuse to send him back to Spain.
But the price of a Puigdemont compromise may be too high for Sánchez.
Junts' goals are to force Spain to authorize a binding secession referendum and grant full amnesty for Puigdemont and what they say are thousands of others facing minor charges. Those were the demands his party laid out before election night, anticipating a scenario in which Junts could play kingmaker to Sánchez.
“We haven’t come this far to lower our demands. We are here to achieve them,” Junts president Laura Borràs said in Barcelona on Tuesday. “This is a key moment because the separatist movement and Junts can decide the government.”
Josep Rius, a spokesman for Junts, told The Associated Press by phone that Sánchez understands their demands.
“We are not surprised that he has nothing to offer so far, since we have been waiting to hear what his solution is to the political problem of Catalonia for years,” Rius said.
Sánchez has consistently rejected granting a referendum that could lead to Spain losing one of its wealthiest regions and abandoning millions who don’t want to live in another state. And that will not change now.
But Sánchez’s time in power has been defined in great part by his willingness to spend political capital to reduce tensions in Catalonia.
Sánchez pardoned nine cohorts of Puigdemont who did not flee in 2017 and had been convicted to long prison terms, and he eased laws on sedition and the misuse of public funds that lowered the potential punishments for Puigdemont and others.
So it is not unthinkable that he could help Puigdemont.
“This situation is a problem for the Socialists, but also an opportunity to end the deadlock,” Lluís Orriols, professor of political science at Madrid’s Carlos III University, said.
“(Junts) depends a lot on a charismatic leaders like Carles Puigdemont. His figure is pivotal in Junts, and Puigdemont’s problem with his likely imprisonment in Spain could play a key role in this negotiation.”
Puigdemont's legal defense suffered a recent defeat when Europe’s high court ruled this month that the European Parliament did not violate Puigdemont’s rights when it stripped him of his immunity as one of its members, as requested by Spain. Puigdemont has appealed that decision, but if he loses his case, Spain would be closer to bringing him home to face trial and sending him to prison for six to 12 years for misusing public funds in the secession bid.
On Monday, Spain’s state prosecutor’s office asked the Spanish judge leading the Puigdemont investigation to order a new international arrest warrant.
“One day you are decisive in order to form a Spanish government, the next day Spain orders your arrest,” Puigdemont wrote on Twitter on hearing that he was still a wanted man.
If Sánchez and Puigdemont cannot reach an understanding, Spain is likely headed for a repeat election in the coming months.
Catalonia, a region proud of its own language and customs, has not only been a headache for Sánchez. It was part of his salvation on Sunday.
Sánchez’s Socialists won the most votes in Catalonia, sending 19 lawmakers to Madrid. Junts and other separatist parties lost ground.
While Sánchez did extremely well with unionists, he also convinced some separatist-minded voters that he was the best guarantee to stop Spain's far-right Vox party, which is feared by many for its ultra-nationalist bent.
“At least they (Sánchez’ possible government) should give us something in return,” said Sergi Pons, a 46-year-old architect who normally votes for separatist parties but this time went for the Socialists. He hopes Sánchez stays in charge.
“If not, we will return to elections and that can lead to the right coming out stronger."
Puigdemont and Junts have already lost their grip on Catalonia's government, and the Socialists snatched control of the mayor’s office in Barcelona from the Junts candidate who had looked certain to take power. During his campaign, Sánchez felt confident enough to say: “Mr. Puigdemont is of the past. He was a problem for Spain. Today he is an anecdote.”
Now his Socialist party will face some very complicated negotiations with Puigdemont's team.
Puigdemont is considered public enemy No. 1 by many Spaniards, so just dealing with him is politically toxic. And in addition to being fiscally conservative and having little common ground with leftist parties, Junts is prisoner of its own rhetoric as true hardline separatists who won't accept watered-down deals.
For Oriol Bartomeus, professor of political science at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sánchez may conclude that a new election is preferable to being held political hostage by a fugitive.
“It is unclear that Junts would gain something by refusing and forcing a repetition of the elections," Bartomeus said. "In that case, Junts could lose all its influence in Spain and Puigdemont would have to accept that he will serve his full prison sentence.”
___
Associated Press video journalist Renata Brito contributed to this report. | 2023-07-25T18:14:44+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/world/2023/07/25/a-fugitive-catalan-separatist-may-hold-the-key-to-spains-government-after-an-inconclusive-election/ |
LE PECQ, France (AP) — French magistrates have filed preliminary charges against two Chinese citizens and two other people from France in an investigation of a leading chip supplier whose advanced technology with possible military uses was reportedly smuggled to China and Russia, allegedly skirting sanctions and export controls.
The probe of Ommic, a Paris-region semiconductor manufacturer now in American hands, was launched by France’s national prosecution service that specializes in cases involving arms proliferation.
The probe is now being led by magistrates investigating suspected illegal exports, forgery and other suspected crimes, according to a French judicial official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of secrecy laws that cover magistrates’ probes.
The official said four people — two French, two Chinese — have been placed under formal investigation since March. That means magistrates believe there is considerable evidence of potential crimes but want more time to investigate.
Two of the four people face preliminary charges of handing over protected know-how to a foreign power, the judicial official said. The official and the prosecution service, which also specializes in terrorism cases, refused to go into greater detail about the investigation.
The newspaper Le Parisien first reported on the case. It said investigators have uncovered nearly 12 million euros (more than $13 million) worth of suspected exports of technology.
It said the company’s French manager is suspected of having personally delivered chips to Russian clients. It said products were also exported to Chinese armament manufacturers with the help of forged paperwork.
The newspaper said a Beijing-based Chinese businessman with ties to China’s defense industry bought a majority stake and took control of Ommic in 2018.
France’s counter-espionage agency suspects the Chinese investor was seeking to transfer French technology to China, notably a semiconductor manufacturing process that Ommic specializes in, the newspaper said.
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc., a semiconductor supplier based in Lowell, Massachusetts, announced in February that it was acquiring Ommic for 38.5 million euros ($42.8 million). Le Parisien reported that French judicial authorities stripped Ommic’s Chinese investor of his stake and temporarily placed the company under state control before its sale.
Macom said Ommic’s portfolio of chips and its design know-how would strengthen its position in telecommunications, industrial, aerospace and defense markets. | 2023-07-27T13:24:27+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/france-is-investigating-suspected-smuggling-to-china-and-russia-of-advanced-chip-technology/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
BOSTON (AP) — Brad Marchand and Tyler Bertuzzi had power play goals and the Boston Bruins broke the NHL points record with a 5-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night in their regular-season home finale.
Under chants of “We want the Cup!” the Bruins’ won their seventh straight to push their points total to 133, one more than the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens. Those Canadiens played in an era without overtime and shootouts.
The Bruins broke the mark a game after setting the NHL victory’ record with 63 on Sunday at Philadelphia, breaking a tie with the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings and 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning.
Tomas Nosek, Garnet Hathaway and Jake DeBrusk also scored for Boston on Tuesday night in win No. 64.
A night after reaching 60 goals in season for the first time, David Pastrnak posted his 50th and 51st assists. Linus Ullmark finished with 19 saves, with left the game with just over nine minutes left with an undisclosed issue. Marchand and Patrice Bergeron added assists.
When the playoffs begin the Bruins will have home-ice advantage throughout in pursuit of the franchise’s first Stanley Cup championship since 2011.
Nick Jensen and Tom Wilson scored for the Capitals. Charlie Lindgren had 33 saves, including a one-handed, gloveless save on Pastrnak early in the third period.
Wilson narrowed what had been a two-goal deficit to 3-2 in the third before Nosek found Hathaway cutting toward the net for his 13th goal.
The Bruins got their first power play of the game with 12:24 left in the second after Matt Irwin was called for a cross-check on Taylor Hall.
Less than a minute later Boston turned it into a 1-0 lead when David Pastrnak gathered a pass from Patrice Bergeron, immediately drew some defenders in the middle of the ice and flipped it to bottom of the right faceoff circle to Marchand, who finished off his 21st goal of the season. It was his first goal in 17 games after having last scored in a loss to Edmonton on March 9.
Boston was on the power play again after Tom Wilson was called for roughing Charlie McAvoy with just under seven minutes to play in the period.
The Bruins made it 2-0 when Bertuzzi found himself in perfect position to rebound a shot by Pastrnak and push through his eighth goal of the season.
Jensen trimmed the margin to a goal with 4:53 left in the period, when his wrist shot appeared to clip McAvoy and trickle by Ullmark for Jensen’s fifth goal of the year of the year.
NOTES: It was just Boston’s second time with two power play goals in a game this season. It also had two in a 7-3 win over Florida on Dec. 19. … Washington’s Jensen has now scored in a career-high five games. … Henrik Borgstrom was recalled from the AHL Hershey Bears Tuesday and became the first Finnish player to dress for the Capitals in 14 years. It last happened in Oskar Osala’s last game with the team on March 27, 2009.
UP NEXT
Capitals: Host New Jersey on Thursday night.
Bruins: At Montreal on Thursday night.
___
AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-12T02:48:42+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/bruins-top-nhl-season-points-mark-beating-capitals-5-2/ |
(CNN) — Jim Brown, the transcendent athlete-actor-activist who ran roughshod over the NFL and its record books in the 1950s and 1960s and won multiple MVP awards before retiring abruptly at age 30 to focus on the civil rights movement and a career in Hollywood, has died, his former team and his widow said Friday. He was 87.
“It is with profound sadness that I announce the passing of my husband, Jim Brown,” Monique Brown wrote on Instagram. “He passed peacefully last night at our LA home. To the world he was an activist, actor, and football star. To our family, he was a loving and wonderful husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken…”
The sole team Brown played for, the Cleveland Browns, tweeted, “Jim Brown Forever.
“Legend. Leader. Activist. Visionary.
“It’s impossible to describe the profound love and gratitude we feel for having the opportunity to be a small piece of Jim’s incredible life and legacy. We mourn his passing, but celebrate the indelible light he brought to the world.
“Our hearts are with Jim’s family, loved ones, and all those he impacted along the way.”
Brown was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
“Yardage isn’t the big thing. Having your team win the championship is … That’s what I work for, winning the championship, and this requires a certain standard of performance,” Brown said, according to the Hall of Fame webpage honoring his career.
Before leaving the game, Brown made his film debut in 1964 in the Western, “Rio Conchos.”
He surprised sports fans two years later when, at the height of his career, the reigning NFL MVP announced his retirement from football while he was filming the World War II film, “The Dirty Dozen.” He appeared in more than 50 film and television projects in the years that followed, most recently “Draft Day” in 2014.
“I could have played longer. I wanted to play this year, but it was impossible,” he said in 1966, according to Sports Illustrated in 1966. “We’re running behind schedule shooting here, for one thing. I want more mental stimulation than I would have playing football. I want to have a hand in the struggle that is taking place in our country, and I have the opportunity to do that now. I might not a year from now.”
He added it was the right time to quit football. “You should get out at the top,” he said.
Brown also made his mark as a civil rights activist, working with inner-city gang members and prison inmates.
“His commitment to making a positive impact for all of humanity off the field is what he should also be known for,” Cleveland Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam said. “In the time we’ve spent with Jim, especially when we first became a part of the Browns, we learned so much from him about the unifying force sports can be and how to use sport as a vehicle for change while making a positive impact in the community.
“Jim broke down barriers just as he broke tackles. He fought for civil rights, brought athletes from all different sports together to use their platform for good. Many thought Jim retired from football too soon, but he always did it his way.”
But Brown also made news for his own legal issues.
Brown went to jail in 2002 after refusing the terms of probation for a misdemeanor charge of vandalizing his wife’s car three years earlier. After turning down counseling and probation, he was sentenced to six months in jail and served four.
After his release Brown told reporters, according to the Los Angeles Times: “Incarceration doesn’t work. It doesn’t make our communities any safer.”
Brown led the NFL in rushing a record eight times in his nine seasons and rushed for a record 12,312 yards.
He went to nine Pro Bowls and was an NFL champion in 1964. In his final season, Brown rushed for a league-high 1,544 yards.
“Jim Brown was a gifted athlete – one of the most dominant players to ever step on any athletic field – but also a cultural figure who helped promote change,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in statement. “During his nine-year NFL career, which coincided with the civil rights movement here at home, he became a forerunner and role model for athletes being involved in social initiatives outside their sport. He inspired fellow athletes to make a difference, especially in the communities in which they lived.”
Brown is also considered one of the greatest lacrosse players in history, earning first- and second team All-America honors while scoring more than 70 goals in two seasons at Syracuse University.
He was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1983.
Some NFL rushing legends tweeted their tributes:
- Emmitt Smith, the current all-time NFL rushing yards leader: “My heart aches at this very moment after hearing of the passing of Jim Brown. He is and was a true legend in sports and in the community using his platform to help others. Thanks King.”
- Barry Sanders: “You can’t underestimate the impact #JimBrown had on the @NFL. He will be greatly missed. Additionally, his generosity and friendship with my family is a gift that we will always treasure. Our thoughts & prayers are with the Brown Family & @Browns fans at this time.”
- Tony Dorsett: “There isn’t a man who played running back in the NFL who didn’t see Jim Brown as an iconic legend on and off the field. Rest easy, my brother.”
The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-20T00:38:31+00:00 | wsvn.com | https://wsvn.com/sports/jim-brown-legendary-nfl-running-back-who-left-game-to-become-activist-and-actor-has-died-at-87/ |
An impassioned speech railing against the “gluttony” of last-minute “pork” packed into a major infrastructure bill, made by Senate Majority Leader Steve Fitzpatrick on the Senate floor Thursday evening, failed to persuade his colleagues to strip out most of the projects that attracted vocal ire from him and the chamber’s fiscal leadership.
The debate stemmed from an evening meeting April 20 where Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Finance and Claims Committee passed a series of amendments adding more than $20 million in district-specific projects to the $1.2 billion House Bill 5, eventually spurring committee chair John Esp, R-Big Timber, to abruptly end the meeting in frustration.
Those line items, inserted in the spending bill with days left in the session, in effect short-circuited the Legislature’s standard process for infrastructure spending, which starts with agency-administered programs that solicit grant applications, rank projects and prepare funding lists included in the governor’s budget proposal, and then pass through multiple rounds of legislative review. Those efforts are intended to fairly divide limited dollars between different parts of the state and minimize the extent to which political horse-trading in the Legislature influences decisions about which projects get funded.
As HB 5 went before the full Senate for debate Thursday, Fitzpatrick, R-Great Falls, had prepared a series of amendments to strip out the finance committee’s line items. He urged his colleagues to vote for reverting the bill to its earlier form, calling the spending “inappropriate.”
“We take pride here in this Capitol that we are not Washington, D.C., that we follow the right process and we don’t lard up bills with unnecessary pork,” Fitzpatrick argued. “But that’s not what has happened down in Finance and Claims on House Bill 5. This thing has been larded up with a bunch of things that don’t belong in there.”
RELATED
The Senate’s infrastructure spending spree
As one of the session’s major infrastructure bills rolled through the Senate Finance and Claims Committee April 20, some of the committee’s 19 senators couldn’t resist packing a bit of pork sausage. Amid a flurry of earmark amendment votes that ultimately spurred committee chair Sen. John Esp, R-Big Timber, to abruptly end the meeting with the bill in limbo, lawmakers of both parties added millions of dollars for projects in their districts.
“This is really the session of gluttony,” he added, referring to spending made possible by the state’s $2.5 billion budget surplus. “Everybody is mad they’re not getting their spending and there’s this bitterness in the building because of it. And so it’s time that we stop. It’s time to take out the pork.”
Initially, it appeared senators might be chastened into following Fitzpatrick’s lead. Senators stripped $9.6 million in funding for a mining museum in Butte, an amendment that had been advanced in the finance committee by Butte Sen. Ryan Lynch, a senior Democrat.
Lynch voiced support for that removal. “I do agree — maybe this did go a little too far,” he acknowledged. The funding was removed on an overwhelming 46-3 vote.
As Fitzpatrick brought a second amendment, though, taking aim at another $5 million in state spending added at Lynch’s behest for a veterans’ home in Butte, the chamber began to balk. That amendment failed, 21-28.
The majority leader tried again, moving to strip funding for $1 million in water and sewer upgrades for the city of Columbus. That money had been inserted during the finance committee’s Thursday night session at the behest of Sen. Forrest Mandeville, R-Columbus.
“I don’t think the city of Columbus should be treated any differently than any of the other cities in the state of Montana,” Fitzpatrick argued. “The towns in my district, they apply to the local government and they do it that way. We don’t come into here, and I don’t go down into Senate Finance and Claims and I don’t ask for a million bucks for the city of Cascade.”
That motion also failed, 22-28. So did Fitzpatrick’s next attempt to target $60,000 backed by Sen. Jeff Welborn, R-Dillon, for building a warming hut in Bannack State Park.
At that point, the majority leader conceded defeat, abandoning other amendments. Late-process line items that added $8 million for a reservoir and park project near Billings and $2 million for a train depot renovation in Miles City remain in the bill. That spending had been championed by Sen. Tom McGillvray, R-Billings, and Sen. Kenneth Bogner, R-Miles City, respectively.
Earlier in the debate, McGillvray had picked up his mic to defend Lynch’s museum proposal — and his own reservoir funding. Unlike the federal government, he noted, the state isn’t running a budget deficit.
“Last time I checked, it’s the prerogative of any representative or senator to add an amendment to any bill,” he said.
“I had some constituents come to me and the senator across the aisle had some constituents come to him,” McGillvray said.
As the debate concluded, Fitzpatrick said he’d vote in protest against the infrastructure bill, which funds a slew of projects ranging from a $5 million grant program for homeless shelters to a $23.5 million building for Gallatin College, a two-year campus affiliated with Montana State University in Bozeman.
So did Sen. Mike Cuffe, the bill’s sponsor, who expressed disappointment at how the floor amendment votes had gone.
“There was some real opportunity for some conservative Republicans to step up,” said Cuffe, R-Eureka. “The majority chose to vote the way they did.”
The bill ultimately passed the Senate 34-14.
Fitzpatrick also said on the floor that he expects Gov. Greg Gianforte to veto the disputed line items — unless they’re amended out in final negotiations as lawmakers try to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the bill.
“He’s going to make us look bad and we’re ultimately going to hurt our own reputation,” Fitzpatrick said. “At some level we need to start policing ourselves.”
LATEST STORIES
ICWA for whom?
The Federal Indian Child Welfare Act is at risk. In the closing days of the session, a duel — or a duet? — of would-be replacements plays out.
Abortion clinics sue state over new restrictions on Medicaid coverage
Montana abortion providers on Friday sued the state health department in an attempt to block a new rule adopted by the Gianforte administration’s health department that restricts how the state will pay for abortions through its Medicaid program.
Bill banning greenhouse gas analysis from permitting decisions heads to governor
Lawmakers suspended their rules to allow for House Bill 971’s introduction and passed the measure along party lines. Republican lawmakers supported the bill, saying it will help unwind a recent court decision over a gas plant under construction. Democrats said it will weaken Montanans’ right to participate in government decisions. | 2023-04-29T11:04:22+00:00 | montanafreepress.org | https://montanafreepress.org/2023/04/28/montana-senate-leader-falls-short-in-anti-pork-crusade/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Entrada Therapeutics, Inc. ("Entrada" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TRDA). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Entrada and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
After the market closed on December 19, 2022, Entrada issued a press release announcing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") placed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug Application for ENTR-601-44 for the potential treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The FDA indicated that they would provide an official Clinical Hold letter to Entrada within 30 days.
On this news, Entrada's stock price fell $3.93 per share, or 19.76%, to close at $15.96 per share on December 20, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Pomerantz LLP | 2023-01-04T08:21:09+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/01/04/shareholder-alert-pomerantz-law-firm-investigates-claims-behalf-investors-entrada-therapeutics-inc-trda/ |
DALLAS (AP) — A ruling by a federal judge has ended — at least for now — the requirement that people wear masks on planes and public transportation, and there is plenty of confusion about the new, post-mask world of travel.
The decision by a lone judge in Florida toppled 14 months of government insistence that travelers wear masks to reduce transmission of COVID-19. Within hours, all major U.S. airlines and many airports announced — sometimes to passengers in the middle of flights — that travelers could take off their masks.
—-
WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE RULING?
In a 59-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Florida, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order that the Transportation Security Administration used to impose the mask mandate. She said the CDC didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures.
___
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Once TSA said it would no longer enforce the rule, airlines, airports, transit systems and ride-share services were free to decide for themselves whether to require masks. United, Delta, American, Southwest, Alaska, JetBlue and other airlines all made masks voluntary.
On the ground, however, requirements could vary from place to place. New York City’s public transit system planned to keep its mask requirement in effect. In San Francisco, the regional commuter rail system known as BART made masks voluntary, but the city transit authority did not.
The transit agency serving Philadelphia and its suburbs said masks will no longer be required on subways, buses and trains or in stations, even though the city has a mask mandate.
___
HOW SAFE IS IT TO TRAVEL NOW?
Air filtration on planes is generally excellent, but boarding and exiting a plane can put people close together in spaces with poor ventilation, said Dr. Babak Javid, a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco. The risk on other forms of transportation varies.
Dr. David Dowdy, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said planes can carry the virus from place to place, but that we should be focusing more on big indoor events such as concerts and sporting events — even large weddings —where people get together and talk, shout and sing.
___
SHOULD I STILL WEAR A MASK ON PLANES?
The CDC continues to recommend that people mask up indoors while traveling.
___
DO MASKS WORK IF NOBODY ELSE WEARS ONE?
Yes, masks still give some protection from COVID-19, but they work better if others wear them too.
High-quality masks work in two ways, said Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington evolutionary biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases: They protect the wearer by limiting the number of infectious particles inhaled, and they protect others by limiting particles exhaled if the wearer is infected.
___
WILL I STAND OUT?
Probably not. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, who favored dropping the rule, said before the judge's order that he expected to see a “surprising number” of passengers and airline employees wear masks even after the mandate expired.
“I may choose to wear a mask once in a while,” he said.
Still, tension among passengers over mask-wearing could continue, said Eileen Ogintz, who writes about family travel and advises parents of small children who can't be vaccinated to keep masking up.
“I wouldn't be surprised if you got some dirty looks or nasty comments” from unmasked passengers, she said. “That's a conversation to have with the kids ahead of time — why you're wearing masks."
___
CAN I GET A REFUND IF I DON'T WANT TO FLY NOW?
No, unless the airline cancels your flight.
However, if you call the airline and explain why you're not comfortable traveling without a mask mandate, most will let you change the flight for free or give you a credit that you can use later, said Scott Keyes, founder of Scott's Cheap Flights travel site.
___
WILL THE LIFTING OF THE BAN AFFECT INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS?
When flying between two countries, expect your airline to follow the rules in whichever country is more restrictive. Passengers flying to Canada, for example, will have to don masks at some point during the flight, but it's not clear exactly whether that means when crossing into Canadian airspace or some other point.
Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst for Atmosphere Research Group, said there might be international airlines that will still require masks even on flights to and from the United States.
___
WILL THIS MAKE MORE PEOPLE WILLING TO FLY?
Industry officials don't expect that. They say that there could be a small number of people who will start flying now because they don't have to wear a mask, but that will be offset by a few people deciding not to fly if others are unmasked.
Although the airline industry lobbied to kill the mandate — after supporting it originally — airlines don't expect the rule's demise to affect revenue. They are far more interested in seeing the United States repeal another pandemic-era rule: The requirement that people test clear of the virus within a day of flying to the U.S.
A Biden administration official said Tuesday that there were no changes expected to the pre-departure testing requirement.
___
WHEN DID THE U.S. REQUIRE MASKS?
The mask mandate for transportation began in February 2021, shortly after President Joe Biden took office, and was extended several times. Last week, the CDC extended it again until May 3. The CDC said the extra time was needed to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant, which is now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S.
___
HOW CAN A SINGLE JUDGE HAVE SO MUCH POWER?
Usually, decisions by a federal judge affect only the people involved in one case, or a limited geographic area. But judges can also issue so-called nationwide or universal injunctions that apply across the country, and it is happening more often — a practice that has drawn criticism from conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
___
WHO IS JUDGE KATHRYN KIMBALL MIZELLE?
Mizelle, 35, was nominated in 2020 by former President Donald Trump and confirmed in a party-line vote in the Senate, which was then controlled by Republicans, after Trump had lost his bid for re-election. She is the youngest Trump appointee on the federal bench, and the American Bar Association had rated her “not qualified” in part because she had only eight years experience in practicing law.
___
WILL THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION RESPOND?
The White House has acknowledged that because of Mizelle's order, the mask mandate “is not in effect at this time.” The administration could appeal the ruling; it hasn't said.
While the mask ban was popular in the beginning, support has waned over time, according to public-opinion polls. As state and local mask rules were scrapped, and Americans grew accustomed to going bare-faced, the mandate for transportation drew fire from Republican politicians and some Senate Democrats who face tough re-election fights.
___
IS THE TIMING OF THIS RIGHT?
New reported U.S. cases of COVID-19 are relatively low compared with the past two years, but they have increased lately and are likely an undercount. Hospitalizations are nearly flat and deaths are still declining.
Dowdy, the Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, said it's reasonable to consider removing the mask mandate on travel given the lull in severe disease.
“It would just be nice to do it when cases are falling rather than rising," he said, “and for the decision to be made by people trained in public health rather than law and politics.”
___
WHAT IF COVID CASES INCREASE?
A new surge in cases might not be enough to revive the mask rule, but it could roil travel in other ways. U.S. airlines canceled thousands of flights in late December and early January, largely because so many employees were out sick with omicron.
“Imagine what would happen if a critical mass of Southwest Airlines pilots are sick and can’t fly this summer?” said Harteveldt, the travel analyst. "Whether it’s Southwest or any airline, it could be highly disruptive to summer travel.”
___
Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state and Jessica Gresko and Zeke Miller in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report. | 2022-04-19T19:47:48+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/explainer-what-happens-in-the-post-mask-world-of-travel/HFTP7PBLRJGGTNFA76Y3B2T7GY/ |
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — A West Des Moines man is facing a charge for allegedly putting an Apple AirTag in his ex-wife’s vehicle in order to track her location.
Joseph Gentile, 43, was booked into the Polk County Jail Monday afternoon on a charge of trespass 1st offense-camera/electronic surveillance devices. According to the criminal complaint in the case, Gentile’s ex-wife discovered the AirTag on February 19, wrapped in duct tape and tucked into the jack compartment of her vehicle.
Investigators learned the AirTag was linked to Gentile’s phone number. The complaint said Gentile claimed that “the AirTag was for work, to track my iPad.”
Police said Gentile knowingly trespassed inside his ex-wife’s vehicle to place the Apple AirTag in order to surveil her location.
Online court records show Gentile and the victim were granted a divorce in August 2021.
A preliminary hearing for Gentile has been scheduled for March 17th. | 2023-03-07T20:10:40+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/iowa-news/police-iowa-man-tracked-ex-wife-using-apple-airtag/ |
President Joe Biden’s May trip to Northeast Asia rightly received extensive media coverage. By contrast, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s June journey to Southeast Asia has received much less.
Too bad. Asia has enormous strategic importance. President Richard Nixon deserves special credit for achieving direct U.S. ties with China.
Singapore, a main Austin stop, hosted the nineteenth in a series of conferences there sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Established in 1958 by the Ford Foundation, IISS is respected for providing reliable information on military developments worldwide, plus in-depth analyses of international security and strategic challenges
China’s defense minister also attended the conference, along with leaders from the Indo-Pacific region. Early this month, President Biden hosted a U.S. ASEAN (Association of Southeast Nations) meeting in Washington D.C.
In Singapore, Austin met with Indonesia Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto. A fortunate meeting, because that nation provides powerful evidence regarding Asia’s future course.
People are also reading…
Indonesia held the largest one-day free elections in the world in April 2019. President Joko Widodo enjoyed reelection for a second term by a majority.
In 2018, a Gallup Poll found that an unprecedented 75 percent of Indonesians believed elections are honest. This is the highest percentage ever, in a long-term upward trend in public confidence, following a troubled national history.
Gruesome earlier events provide graphic, important context. In May 2018, the Islamic State conducted bloody terrorist attacks in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city.
Terrorism is persistent though not frequent in Indonesia. In a 2016 attack, four people died. In 2002, the worst attack killed 202 people on Bali, including many foreign tourists.
Indonesia’s election took place in the world’s largest nation with a Muslim majority. Trade routes and commodities provide Indonesia with great strategic significance.
Washington has the opportunity to highlight Indonesia, and neighboring nations, as success stories of expanding political stability, modernization and the rule of law. In 1998, opponents forced Indonesia’s long-time autocratic president and former general Muhammad Suharto from power. Since then, the nation has had representative government.
Indonesia’s international conflicts today are largely technical and legal, notably the maritime disputes that involve the nations of East and Southeast Asia. Dictatorship has ended, though corruption remains a problem.
During the height of the Cold War, Indonesia enjoyed status as a pivotal power among Third World nations. Flamboyant nationalist President Sukarno played the Soviet Union and the United States off against one another. CIA efforts to bring Sukarno down were frustrated, and boomeranged.
During the 1960s, cooperation between Indonesia and the Soviet Union expanded exponentially. This development, vital in the massive U.S. military intervention in Vietnam in 1965, is rarely mentioned today.
British forces, with Australian and New Zealand allies, defeated Indonesian attacks on Malaysia. Earlier, Britain defeated an aggressive, virulent Communist insurgency in Malaya, which today is part of Malaysia.
Britain’s military avoided massive firepower, in contrast to the U.S. in Vietnam, especially from 1965. To be sure, the British military employed air strikes and artillery, but relatively selectively. Officials rightly regarded heavy bombing as counterproductive. Given American preferences for firepower and technology, we should keep this fundamental lesson always in mind.
With today’s firm foundation, the United States has promising opportunities. Stronger Indonesia ties can leverage influence and investment throughout the enormous Asia regions. Meanwhile, our veterans, especially of the Vietnam War, should feel pride in this long-term success.
We can continue that success if we demonstrate discipline – and maturity.
Arthur I. Cyr is the author of “After the Cold War” (Macmillan/Palgrave and NYU) and other books. His column appears weekly. Contact acyr@carthage.edu | 2022-06-24T13:37:45+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/opinion/columnists/cyr-indonesia-success-provides-great-opportunities/article_7a74526a-f309-11ec-9b97-b739ce85434b.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt of the St. Louis Cardinals has won the National League MVP award.
- Texas comedian dies in San Antonio after contracting RSV
- Former restaurant now serves porn? S.A. buildings repurposed.
- Psychologist Hillary Cauthen reaches settlement with Spurs, Primo
- Pearl-style Co-Op Marketplace coming to New Braunfels in 2024
- Football: New Braunfels prevails through adversity for playoff win
- Strong West Texas earthquake rattles San Antonio
- H-E-B recalls 94K pounds of ground beef products
- West Texas earthquake damages historic San Antonio building
MOST POPULAR
- D’Hanis volleyball bid for state title falls shortBlum defeated the Cowgirls in three sets to win the Class 1A state championship.By David Hinojosa | 2022-11-18T00:36:15+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Alert-Paul-Goldschmidt-of-the-St-Louis-17593555.php |
It's a year of notable firsts for the National Recording Registry.
One of the nation's most august collecting institutions, the Library of Congress, includes nearly four million sound recordings. Since 2000, the LOC has promoted its preservation work through the National Recording Registry.
"The National Recording Registry preserves our history through recorded sound and reflects our nation's diverse culture," said Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in a statement naming 25 recordings to be preserved for posterity this year.
The annual list usually includes a mix of popular songs, radio broadcasts, significant speeches and more, all intended to define the sound of the country's history and culture. But, for the first time, it will include the music of a female rapper and the soundtrack of a video game.
Queen Latifah recorded her breakthrough 1989 album All Hail The Queen when she was just a teenager. "Her album showed rap could cross genres including reggae, hip-hop, house and jazz — while also opening opportunities for other female rappers," the LOC statement said.
The original 1986 theme for the game Super Mario Bros. has also been selected, in what's hard not to see as a clever cross-promotional move, right when a movie version is storming theaters.
Composer Koji Kondo got the job as a college senior in Osaka, Japan. He responded to an ad on a university bulletin board. Now 61, Kondo said there wasn't much usable data for making music and sound effects at the time.
"So I really had to be very innovative and make full use of the musical and programming ingenuity that we had at the time," Kondo told the Library of Congress through an interpreter. "I used all sorts of genres that matched what was happening on screen. We had jingles to encourage players to try again after getting a 'game over,' fanfares to congratulate them for reaching goals, and pieces that sped up when the time remaining grew short."
The oldest additions to the Registry this year date back to 1908 and 1909– they are the earliest surviving recordings of mariachi music, recorded in Mexico City in a performance for the country's president shortly before the Mexican Revolution. And the newest is a contemporary classical piece by composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the first woman to earn a doctorate in composition from the Juilliard School and the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize.
In between is a riotous mix of reggaetón, '80s pop, funk-infused jazz, gospel, political analysis and a reading of an influential 1994 book by Carl Sagan. The Librarian of Congress will discuss the National Recording Registry in the series "The Sounds of America" from NPR's 1A, which focuses on this year's selections.
Those selections follow, in chronological order:
1. "The Very First Mariachi Recordings" — Cuarteto Coculense (1908-1909)
2. "St. Louis Blues" — Handy's Memphis Blues Band (1922)
3. "Sugar Foot Stomp" — Fletcher Henderson (1926)
4. Dorothy Thompson: Commentary and Analysis of the European Situation for NBC Radio
(Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 1939)
5. "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" — The Fairfield Four (1947)
6. "What the World Needs Now is Love" — Jackie DeShannon (1965)
7. "Wang Dang Doodle" — Koko Taylor (1966)
8. "Sherry" — The Four Seasons (1962)
9. "Ode to Billie Joe" — Bobbie Gentry (1967)
10. "Déjà Vu" — Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970)
11. "Imagine" — John Lennon (1971)
12. "Stairway to Heaven" — Led Zeppelin (1971)
13. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" — John Denver (1971)
14. "Margaritaville" — Jimmy Buffett (1977)
15. "Flashdance...What a Feeling" — Irene Cara (1983)
16. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" — Eurythmics (1983)
17. "Synchronicity" — The Police (1983)
18. "Black Codes (From the Underground)" — Wynton Marsalis (1985)
19. Super Mario Bros. theme — Koji Kondo, composer (1986)
20. "Like a Virgin" — Madonna (1984)
21. "All Hail the Queen" — Queen Latifah (1989)
22. "All I Want for Christmas is You" — Mariah Carey (1994)
23. "Pale Blue Dot" — Carl Sagan (1994)
24. "Gasolina" — Daddy Yankee (2004)
25. "Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra— Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer (2012)
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-10T07:04:42+00:00 | lakeshorepublicmedia.org | https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-04-12/queen-latifah-and-super-mario-bros-make-history-in-national-recording-registry-debut |
Brewers starting lineup vs Braves: score, game updates in series opener at American Family Field
Todd Rosiak
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers (54-43) open a three-game series Friday at American Family Field against the Atlanta Braves (62-33), who have the best record in the National League and all of MLB.
Pitcher Freddy Peralta starts for the Brewers, who have won eight of their last 10 games.
First pitch is at 7:10 p.m.
Live Brewers updates
Get in-game updates from our Brewers beat reporters through this curated list on Twitter.
Brewers starting lineup today vs. Braves
- Christian Yelich, left field
- William Contreras, catcher
- Willy Adames, shortstop
- Jesse Winker, designated hitter
- Victor Caratini, first base
- Andruw Monasterio, third base
- Brice Turang, second base
- Blake Perkins, right field
- Joey Wiemer, center field
- Freddy Peralta, pitcher
Who's hurt?:Milwaukee Brewers players injury updates for 2023 season
Going to the game?:What you should know about the bag policy, parking at American Family Field | 2023-07-22T01:38:05+00:00 | jsonline.com | https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2023/07/21/milwaukee-brewers-starting-lineup-today-vs-atlanta-braves-score-game-updates-freddy-peralta/70443062007/ |
NEW YORK, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces that it is investigating potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Mallinckrodt plc (NYSE American: MNK) resulting from allegations that Mallinckrodt may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Mallinckrodt securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=13407 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On March 17, 2023, The Buxton Helmsley Group, Inc., a "New York City-based investment advisor to clients with financial interests in Mallinckrodt Plc." issued two open letters and press releases, later corrected. In a corrected press release, Buxton Helmsley Group alleged that it is "delivering the results of an extensive investigation into financial misconduct at the Company involving an evidenced scheme of concealing asset value depreciation/impairment expenses, in violation of GAAP ASC 350, 360 and Regulation S-X, taking place both before and after the Company's Chapter 11 Reorganization."
The Buxton Helmsley Group also alleged that it is "demanding the restatement of the historical financial statements of the Company, and demanding write-downs of post-reorganization asset values based on the Company's prior-professed standards of determining the fair value of asset's securing the Company's capital structure."
On this news, the price of Mallinckrodt's stock price fell 5% to close at $7.78 per share on March 20, 2023.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
Follow us for updates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rosen-law-firm, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosen_firm or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rosenlawfirm/.
Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Contact Information:
Laurence Rosen, Esq.
Phillip Kim, Esq.
The Rosen Law Firm, P.A.
275 Madison Avenue, 40th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Tel: (212) 686-1060
Toll Free: (866) 767-3653
Fax: (212) 202-3827
lrosen@rosenlegal.com
pkim@rosenlegal.com
cases@rosenlegal.com
www.rosenlegal.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Rosen Law Firm, P.A. | 2023-03-28T00:41:56+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/03/27/rosen-trusted-leading-law-firm-encourages-mallinckrodt-plc-investors-inquire-about-securities-class-action-investigation-mnk/ |
Allies of former President Trump ridiculed Ron DeSantis on the eve of his 2024 presidential campaign launch, bashing the Florida governor for making his expected announcement on Twitter and mocking his campaign rollout.
“This is one of the most out-of-touch campaign launches in modern history. The only thing less relatable than a niche campaign launch on Twitter, is DeSantis’ after party at the uber elite Four Seasons resort in Miami,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump-aligned Make America Great Again Inc., said in a statement.
“Every day more and more Americans are realizing just how out of step Ron DeSantis is with their values and how unelectable he really is,” Leavitt added.
Trump campaign aides also piled on after it was widely reported that DeSantis planned to formally enter the 2024 race during a Wednesday night conversation on Twitter Spaces with the company’s CEO, Elon Musk.
Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesperson, shared a screenshot of the announcement of DeSantis’s plans, which incorrectly listed the date for the event as March 24 instead of May 24.
“Amateur hour at the gator farm,” Cheung tweeted.
Cheung and another Trump campaign aide, Chris LaCavita, also swiped at DeSantis’s new website, which as of Tuesday afternoon featured only an image of a gator poking its eyes out of the water.
Cheung shared a picture of alligator skin boots, likely a nod to a viral image last year of DeSantis wearing boots with a heel, while LaCivita shared a photo of a gator being strung up by its tail.
Just before reports of DeSantis’s launch surfaced, LaCivita mocked DeSantis’s list of accomplishments by quote-tweeting a DeSantis-backer with the line: “his biggest accomplishment … is generating more candidates!”
The jabs from Trump’s team are likely a preview of things to come as DeSantis, who is widely viewed as the former president’s most formidable rival in a GOP primary, officially enters the race after months of speculation.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Trump leading among GOP primary voters with 56 percent of the vote, with DeSantis running in second at 19 percent.
DeSantis’s team has for weeks argued that the barrage of attacks from Trump’s orbit only illustrates that the former president views the Florida governor as his stiffest competition.
“If Republicans want to get this country back on track economically, socially, the ability for tomorrow to be a better day, they’re not gonna get that by putting up the same fight we lost in 2020,” Erin Perrine, a spokesperson for the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down. “It means a new direction, and that is showing that Ron DeSantis, this is a two man race, he’s the person to back in this race.” | 2023-05-23T21:51:31+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/trump-aides-mock-desantis-for-out-of-touch-campaign-launch-plans/ |
Bam Adebayo NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Heat vs. Bucks - April 19
Bam Adebayo and his Miami Heat teammates take the court versus the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2023 NBA Playoffs, at 9:00 PM ET on Wednesday.
In this article we will dive into Adebayo's prop bets, using stats to help you make good predictions.
Bam Adebayo Prop Bets vs. the Bucks
Looking to bet on one or more of Bam Adebayo's player prop bets? Sign up at DraftKings with our link to get a first deposit bonus today!
Bam Adebayo Insights vs. the Bucks
- Adebayo has taken 14.9 shots per game this season and made 8.0 per game, which account for 15.9% and 18.7%, respectively, of his team's total.
- Adebayo's opponents, the Bucks, have a middling offensive tempo, ranking 12th in the NBA with 102.4 possessions per game, while his Heat rank 29th in possessions per game with 99.2.
- Defensively, the Bucks are 14th in the league, allowing 113.3 points per game.
- The Bucks allow 44.2 rebounds per game, ranking 20th in the NBA.
- Giving up 23.9 assists per contest, the Bucks are the fifth-ranked team in the league.
Bam Adebayo vs. the Bucks
Want another way to try to win cash prizes? Add Adebayo or any of his Heat teammates to your lineup in FanDuel Daily Fantasy NBA contests. Use our link to sign up and get a great offer for new users. (See website for offer details, not available in all areas.)
Not all offers available in all states. Please gamble responsibly. If you or someone you know has developed a gambling problem or addiction, contact 1-800-GAMBLER.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-19T20:07:02+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/sports/betting/2023/04/19/bam-adebayo-nba-playoffs-player-prop-bets-heat-vs-bucks/ |
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — After days with almost no demonstrations, there were several small protests at this year’s UN climate conference calling Friday for the developed world to fight global warming more fairly and effectively.
Demonstrators called for rich nations to compensate developing countries for climate change, demanded that a pipeline project in Congo be scrapped and complained about a lack of political will to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the main cause of climate change.
U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Egypt Friday to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and then address delegates of other nations.
“I am standing shoulder to shoulder with my sisters and my brothers from Mother Africa,” said Imam Saffet Catovic of the Islamic Society of North America. “It’s time for the global north to pay for their responsibility.”
Lucky Abeng, a Nigerian activist from the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance, said the group would continue to pressure world leaders to do more and “will not be intimidated.”
Often a large presence at climate negotiations, protests had been mostly muted this year, a sharp contrast to previous climate conferences that featured large demonstrations. Activists blamed the high costs of travel and accommodation in this resort town. There were also concerns that the Egyptian government could crack down despite promising to allow protests in a designated venue. Street protests are virtually banned in Egypt. And activists also increasingly doubt demonstrations’ usefulness.
Sharm el-Sheikh has been for decades the government’s favorite spot for conferences and high-level summits because it is so easy to control. The city is isolated in the desert near the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, It’s a six-hour drive from the capital, Cairo. Drivers must pass through a closely guarded tunnel under the Suez Canal, then numerous checkpoints along the highway.
Friday’s protests, like others in recent days, took place inside and around the main conference center. Other Conference of Party meetings have seen raucous protests around various parts of host cities.
“We need countries like the United States to be a climate leader, to stand with the people, to stand with the planet, to stand with the coming generations,” said Vanessa Nakate, a climate activist from Uganda and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. “So my message to President Biden: will you show us the money? Will you stand with the most vulnerable communities?”
In one protest, dozens of medical workers from various countries laid down to perform what they called a “die-in,” and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation to show the urgency of addressing climate-change impacts. The activists called for a treaty to phase out fossil fuel.
“That’s the first stage on this emergency. And in the longer run, the long-term therapy is climate justice and systemic change,” said Bea Franziska Albermann, a Swiss physician and climate activist.
Some activists briefly interrupted President Joe Biden’s speech at the COP27 on Friday with shouts. They raised an orange banner with a slogan that read: “People vs. Fuels” and the protest ended peacefully,
Other protests featured signs with messages and chants like, “Pay up for loss and damage!” and “People vs. Fossil Fuels!”
“The main oil producers are here in this summit,” said Philbert Aganyo of Kenya, protesting a large pipeline in the Congo. “Why are we inviting polluters to conversations of an issue they caused?”
“We are aware that a just energy transition won’t happen overnight and that is why we are appealing for a systematic scale-down of the use of fossil fuels,” he said.
The pipeline, owned by Total Energies, China National Offshore Oil Corporation and the Ugandan and Tanzanian governments, runs from Hoima district in Uganda to Tanga Port in Tanzania. It’s criticized by international environmental groups and communities along the proposed route.
The pipeline represents “1443 kilometers (897 miles) of pollution, pain and misery,” said Philbert Aganyo, from Green Faith in Kenya.
In the first week of the two-week summit, several world leaders called for developed nations to spend much more to help developing countries confront the impacts of climate change and finance a transition to renewable energies. There have also been calls for drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, which continue to rise. Beyond leaders and negotiators, the summit includes scientists, academics, journalists and representatives from companies ranging from those developing low-carbon projects to traditional oil and gas firms.
Global Witness, Corporate Accountability and Corporate Europe Observatory said that they have counted 636 people linked to fossil fuel companies on the meeting’s provisional list of participants, an increase of more than 25% compared to the 503 fossil fuel lobbyists counted at last year’s climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.
“Tobacco lobbyists wouldn’t be welcome at health conferences, arms dealers can’t promote their trade at peace conventions,” the groups said. “Those perpetuating the world’s fossil-fuel addiction should not be allowed through the doors of a climate conference.”
Friday has a day for climate protests worldwide since Swedish activist Greta Thunberg launched the Fridays for Future movement in 2018. There were climate demonstrations in several countries, including South Africa, Italy and Sweden, on Friday.
Like most Fridays, Greta Thunberg rode a bike outside her country’s parliament. Thunberg didn’t plan to attend this year’s conference but said activists’ presence was important, .
“If we don’t have the public pressure from the outside that we need, the COPS as they are now are not going to lead to anything big,” she said.
____
Associated Press writer Charlène Pelé contributed from Stockholm.
____
Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2022-11-11T19:52:38+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/science/ap-science/ap-after-quiet-days-handful-of-protests-at-un-climate-summit/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Eiger" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: EIGR) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Eiger investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 10, 2021 and October 4, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
EIGR investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) defendants overstated Eiger's clinical and regulatory drug development expertise; (ii) defendants failed to properly assess, and/or ignored issues with, the design of the TOGETHER study and its ability to support the Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA") for the Company's product candidate, peginterferon lambda ; (iii) there were issues with the conduct of the TOGETHER study and/or the TOGETHER study was not properly designed for the peginterferon lambda EUA in the current context of the pandemic; (iv) as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unlikely to approve the submission of a peginterferon lambda EUA; (v) as a result of all the foregoing, peginterferon lambda's regulatory and commercial prospects for the treatment of COVID-19 were overstated; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Eiger during the relevant time frame, you have until January 9, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Levi & Korsinsky, LLP | 2022-12-01T11:17:14+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/12/01/eigr-lawsuit-alert-levi-amp-korsinsky-notifies-eiger-biopharmaceuticals-inc-investors-class-action-lawsuit-upcoming-deadline/ |
(The Hill) – Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is making a last-ditch effort to pass a budget reconciliation bill during the July and early August work period.
Schumer and centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have made progress on proposals to lower the cost of prescription drugs, extend Medicare’s solvency and raise taxes on some high-income earners.
Manchin and Schumer have worked out a proposal to impose a 3.8 percent tax on individuals earning over $400,000 and couples earning over $500,000 from pass-through businesses and will give the legislative language to the Senate parliamentarian to review.
The $203 billion raised would extend the solvency of Medicare’s hospital fund from 2028 to 2031.
But several major issues remain unresolved.
Sam Runyon, a spokesperson for Manchin, said her boss is glad that Democrats have agreed on a prescription drug proposal that they could pass with a simple-majority vote under special budget rules.
“Sen. Manchin has long advocated for proposals that would lower prescription drug costs for seniors and his support for this proposal has never been in question. He’s glad that all 50 Democrats agree,” she said.
But the Manchin aide waved off speculation that Schumer and Manchin are close to a deal on a broader reconciliation package that would include bold proposals to tackle global warming, a top priority of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and other Senate Democrats.
“Suggestions that a reconciliation deal is close are false. Senator Manchin still has serious unresolved concerns and there is a lot of work to be done before it’s conceivable that a deal can be reached he can sign onto,” she said.
That means a budget reconciliation package isn’t likely to reach the Senate floor before that fourth week of the upcoming month-long work period and Schumer may even keep his colleagues in town for the first week of the August recess, which is supposed to begin Aug. 6.
Schumer wants to get an agreement as soon as possible but has been careful not to lay out a precise timeline for getting it passed.
The budget reconciliation instructions will expire at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, which is the drop-dead deadline.
“It looks like it’s a much more serious set of conversations than two weeks ago or two months ago. That’s really encouraging but until the bill is on the floor, it would be risky to put any odds on it,” said Josh Freed, senior vice president for the climate and energy program at Third Way, a centrist Democratic advocacy group.
One big question is whether Schumer and Manchin can agree to a package of climate provisions to fight global warning, including clean energy manufacturing tax credits, a fee on methane emissions and a fee on carbon-intensive imports, such as steel.
Manchin has a proposal with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) to incentivize the manufacturing of new energy technologies with investments in rural communities and some Democratic senators feel confident the West Virginia senator will agree to a package of clean energy tax breaks.
Manchin and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) have worked on compromise legislation to impose a fee on methane emissions, and Carper has said he thinks Manchin will vote for it.
The third climate proposal under consideration, a carbon border adjustment tax that would impose fees on carbon-intensive imports, is less likely. Whitehouse, the chief sponsor, is pushing hard for the proposal and noted that Manchin praised it as a way to even the playing field with China for U.S. manufacturers at a recent appropriations hearing.
One person familiar with the negotiations said whether the climate piece gets done will depend a lot on how many concessions Manchin will insist on for the fossil fuel industry.
“They’re starting sequentially,” the source said, noting that the release of the prescription drug cand Medicare solvency components of the package during the recess “allows them to start the scrubbing process with the Republicans,” referring to the review in the parliamentarian’s office.
“The rest of the revenue and taxes are next up and then it’s the energy and climate portion,” the sourced added, cautioning “Manchin could walk away at any moment.”
“They’re very committed to get something on the floor in the July work period,” the source said.
Freed said Schumer and Manchin need to work out how much money to raise for climate programs and how long to set tax breaks for renewable energy technologies.
“The question is what’s the overall dollar figure,” he said, adding: “Right now the question is as much about lengths of the [tax] creds as about which tax credits are [included].”
Another obstacle is getting a deal on a broader tax reform proposal along the lines of what the White House negotiated with Manchin and fellow centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) last year.
The White House framework released in October included a 15 percent corporate minimum tax on companies that earn more than $1 billion in profits, a new 5 percent surtax on income over $10 million and an additional 3 percent surtax on income over $25 million and closing the Medicare tax loophole on the wealthy.
Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced in September that the White House and Senate Democrats had agreed on a menu of options that could be used to pay for a reconciliation package.
Manchin has said he wants roughly half of the revenue raised by the reconciliation package to go toward reducing the federal deficit.
The gathering momentum of the budget reconciliation negotiations is good news for Democrats but it also complicates passage of another of their top legislative priorities, the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, which would provide as much as $52 billion to help domestic semiconductor manufacturers.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) threatened to hold up the bill if Democrats move ahead with plans to pass a budget reconciliation bill without any Republican support.
“Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill,” he tweeted over the July 4 recess.
Schumer says he also hopes to schedule a vote on Steve Dettelbach, President Biden’s to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and a bipartisan bill to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 a month.
The prescription drug reform proposal that Schumer has sent to the parliamentarian’s office does not language capping insulin prices. | 2022-07-11T17:20:50+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/schumer-making-last-ditch-bid-to-pass-reconciliation-bill-this-summer/ |
Wildland firefighters are calling on Congress and the Biden administration to make good on a promise made last year to permanently boost their pay and benefits.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Wildland firefighters are calling on Congress and the Biden administration to make good on a promise made last year to permanently boost their pay and benefits.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-04-20T12:37:36+00:00 | kvpr.org | https://www.kvpr.org/2023-04-20/union-organized-event-pressures-congress-to-make-good-on-a-4-billion-promise |
Women's Viking Open Nottingham Preview: How to Watch, Odds
There are 12 matches scheduled today in the Viking Open Nottingham, across three different tournament rounds, with No. 119-ranked Elizabeth Mandlik against No. 214 Iryna Shymanovich looking like the best matchup.
Check out the latest odds for the entire Viking Open Nottingham field at BetMGM.
Viking Open Nottingham Info
- Tournament: Viking Open Nottingham
- Date: June 10
- TV Channel: NBC
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
- Venue: Nottingham Tennis Centre
- Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
Who will win the Viking Open Nottingham?
Want to bet on your pick to win the tournament? Head to BetMGM using our link for a bonus bet special offer for new players!
Today's Matches Info
Watch live sports without cable! Sign up today for a free trial to Fubo!
Not all offers available in all states, please visit BetMGM for the latest promotions for your area. Must be 21+ to gamble, please wager responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, contact 1-800-GAMBLER.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-10T14:45:55+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/sports/betting/2023/06/09/viking-open-nottingham-wta-tennis-preview-how-to-watch-odds/ |
(KTLA) – A singer-songwriter from Van Nuys, California and her fitness influencer friend may be facing federal charges after they were arrested in Alabama last week while allegedly trafficking more than 200 pounds of cocaine, according to reports.
Racquelle Dolores Anteola, 34, of Van Nuys and Melissa Dufour, 36, of Miramar, Florida, were arrested early Thursday while driving on Interstate 10 in Mobile County, Alabama, according to local media outlet Lagniappe.
Anteola, who performs under the name Rahky, is a singer and rapper based in Los Angeles, according to her Instagram profile.
Dufour, who goes by @melimacbarbie_on Instagram, is a fitness model and the owner and designer of a clothing brand called Sexy Sweats.
Sheriff’s officials told Lagniappe that the women were driving from Houston to Atlanta in a Ford Expedition with “hidden compartments” that contained 217 pounds of cocaine valued at about $3 million.
“The vehicle’s back seat was modified with a steel aftermarket compartment,” according to Lagniappe’s report. “The SUV’s floor had also been lowered and welded back together to provide storage room. The second compartment was located in the back of the SUV, where the side panels were hollowed out.”
The women were taken into custody by the MCSO and U.S. Border Patrol.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly attempting to take the women into custody to charge them at the federal level.
As of Thursday afternoon, the women are being held at Mobile County Metro Jail on cocaine trafficking charges, records show. Nexstar reached out to authorities to find out if either one had hired a lawyer, but didn’t immediately hear back. | 2023-06-09T23:35:04+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/singer-model-tried-to-traffic-more-than-200-pounds-of-cocaine-in-suv-sheriffs-office/ |
Julie Ann Johnson Julie Ann Johnson, McBain - age 36, of McBain, passed away April 19, 2023. The full obituary will appear on April 22, 2023.
Latest News
- CTC students learn about the criminal justice system by participating in mock trial
- Wexford GOP, Rep. Fox working to obtain state funding for LMSA sewer overhaul
- Manton's Colton headed to Alma for XC/track and wrestling
- Petoskey blanks Cadillac in soccer; more prep sports
- Northern Lakes CMH partnering to hold free virtual education series in May
- MSP, Oasis Family Resource Center partner to victims of sexual assault
- “There goes the neighborhood.” Purple martins arrive
- Today in history: Shotgun as burglar alarm wounds Manton youth
Most Popular
Articles
- Cadillac man headed to prison for dealing meth
- With state park closed for major upgrades, Cadillac West could take a hit this summer
- Whiskey tasting room opening up in Lake City
- Off to Boston: Lake City couple running Boston Marathon
- Public record — Wexford County 28th Circuit Court
- Jones' happy with Boston Marathon finish
- City to host public hearing on plan for Market improvements
- Manton man has CSC, child porn charges dismissed but will face new offenses
- Ground broken Wednesday on new pickleball courts in Cadillac
- Evart claims Cat Classic
Images
Videos
Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos.
Commented
Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles. | 2023-04-21T13:39:38+00:00 | cadillacnews.com | https://www.cadillacnews.com/obituaries/julie-ann-johnson/article_64d901a9-6993-51e7-8f4e-aeba90a836c6.html |
(The Hill) – One of the worst national security leaks in U.S. history may have begun with classified documents on Russia’s war in Ukraine and other issues spreading across fringe social media sites and messaging rooms for gamers.
The leak, which is being investigated by the Justice Department and Pentagon, was first reported last week by The New York Times.
Yet the earliest documents were spreading across servers on Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, for at least a little over a month, even though they are only now being investigated by the Justice Department and Pentagon.
Here’s how the documents appeared to have spread.
A ‘Wow Mao’ chatroom
Photographs of dozens of pages of the documents were shared on Feb. 28 and March 2 on Discord to a server called “Wow Mao,” The Washington Post reported.
The “Wow Mao” Discord server, seemingly named after a YouTuber’s account, may not have been the first Discord channel where the documents spread, however.
Members of a separate Discord community told Bellingcat, an investigative journalism group, the images were among a larger set of photos of documents posted to a since-deleted server on Discord dating back to January, wrote Aric Toler, Bellingcat’s director of research and training.
Bellingcat was not able to independently verify claims of those earlier documents.
The jump to Minecraft
After the photos were shared to the Wow Mao server, some of them were shared on another server about the popular video game Minecraft, Toler said.
Ten documents were posted in the server about Minecraft maps, which had a larger community following than the Wow Mao server.
In response to a “brief spat” with another person in the Minecraft chatroom, one user replied “here, have some leaked documents” and attached the 10 documents about Ukraine, some of which had the “Top Secret” markings, according to the Bellingcat.
From the Minecraft server, a handful of posts migrated over to 4chan and Telegram — and then “all hell breaks loose,” Toler said.
The images shared on a pro-Russian Telegram channel on Wednesday came after a user on 4chan posted seemingly similar but mostly different documents, according to Bellingcat.
For example, in one common image on the two posts is a map with statistics that include the cumulative number of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killed in action.
While the image is identical, the posts show different numbers killed in action. The image shared on 4chan showed more Russian losses than Ukraine, and the image shared on Telegram showed the reverse.
Toler said the second image, with the higher Ukrainian killed in action numbers posted on Telegram, appeared to have been manipulated.
How are platforms responding to the leak?
The breach, and reported manipulation of at least one of the images, is raising concerns about how information is being circulated online.
Steven Ward, a resident privacy and security fellow for R Street’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team, said the leaking of classified intelligence documents is concerning but “we should be cautious of the leaked documents’ authenticity.”
“In the last few years, dark underground communities like 4chan and Telegram have garnered more attention, expanding their reach and making them a viable option for distributing information to a larger audience,” Ward said in an email.
A Discord spokesperson said they are cooperating with law enforcement in regard to the “apparent breach of classified material.”
“As this remains an active investigation, we cannot provide further comment at this time,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that when Discord is “made aware of content that violates our policies, our Safety team investigates and takes the appropriate action, including banning users, shutting down servers, and engaging with law enforcement.”
Discord is not the only platform where the information is spreading. Images are now circulating on much more mainstream social media platforms, such as Twitter.
It’s not clear if Twitter has plans to try to bar the spread of the images. Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who bought the platform in the fall, seemed to sarcastically brush off the idea in a tweet last week.
“Yeah, you can totally delete things from the Internet – that works perfectly and doesn’t draw attention to whatever you were trying to hide at all,” Musk tweeted.
The scale of the exposure has yet to be determined. Also unclear is whether any government worked to share the documents or manipulate them.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-04-11T03:24:59+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/how-classified-us-documents-quickly-spread-from-gamer-chat-rooms-to-the-rest-of-the-internet/ |
MILFORD, Del., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a commitment to improve the quality of life in its communities, Perdue Farms is supporting La Plaza Delaware and its new Latino leadership program with a $20,000 grant funded through the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation. The donation from Perdue's charitable giving arm is part of the company's Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors® outreach focused on improving quality of life and building strong communities.
La Plaza's leadership program will aim to transform high-potential Latinos into high-performing leaders, focusing on GenZ and Millennials. Around 50 individuals from across Delaware will participate in the first year.
"We want to help rising leaders develop the skills necessary to promote immediate and sustainable results for themselves and the organizations they serve," said Mary Dupont, La Plaza Delaware executive director, at a press conference at Perdue's Milford, Del., operation.
La Plaza will use a nationally recognized curriculum from Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) that includes three months with programming content, networking, and collaboration in a group project. Nuestras Raices, the cultural nonprofit based in Wilmington, is a program partner. Additional funders include the Arsht Cannon Fund and the Delaware Hispanic Commission, which is also a program partner.
La Plaza Delaware is a nonprofit partnership created to increase opportunities, business savvy, and prosperity for Latino and minority-owned businesses.
Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long, said the First State should be proud of the organizations that are supporting La Plaza's leadership program.
"I am thrilled over the moon with the partnerships that we have here. This will make a difference in the lives of individuals who will go through the program . . . and to the state. We need to have true representation not only in workforce but in all leadership opportunities in our communities."
Gary Miller, Vice President of Human Resources and Interim Chief Diversity Officer for Perdue Farms, said the leadership program will strengthen the region as rising Latino leaders use the skills they gather to further their careers and serve the community in many meaningful ways.
"We are so grateful for an opportunity to invest in a leadership training program for the Latino population, specifically, and partner with such wonderful organizations as La Plaza Delaware," he added.
Delaware Hispanic Commission Chair Carlos de los Ramos said the Latino community is fast changing and evolving.
"We are the new leaders. We are the people who are moving and shaking the economy here in the state of Delaware. This program will help us nurture even more leaders," he said.
Funding from the Perdue Foundation will support HACE in southern Delaware, building on HACE's record of professional leadership development, with workshops, mentoring and leadership training for emerging community leaders and entrepreneurs.
Delaware is the 37th state to join HACE. Since 1982, HACE has been a resource for Latinos in the workplace and is an expert for corporations seeking to access diverse talent. Through professional development, resources and networks, and by offering access to meaningful career opportunities, HACE helps Latinos succeed.
"In our survey to assess the needs and capacity of Latino businesses in Sussex County, Del., a common theme emerged," said Dupont. "Business owners were reluctant to assume high-profile leadership roles, as they were focused on day-to-day business survival. However, they were confident that their children, who grew up here and are more comfortable with the language and culture, are in a better position to represent the community. This feedback underscored the need for a two-generation approach that includes business and leadership development to achieve the goals of capacity building, increased financial stability and self-reliance."
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, was established in 1957 by company founder Arthur W. Perdue and is funded through the estates of Arthur W. Perdue and Frank Perdue. As part of our belief in supporting the communities where and with whom we do business, the Foundation provides grants on behalf of Perdue Farms in communities where large numbers of our associates live and work. At Perdue Farms, we believe in responsible food and agriculture®.
We're a fourth-generation, family-owned, U.S. food and agriculture company. Through our belief in responsible food and agriculture, we are empowering consumers, customers, and farmers through trusted choices in products and services.
The premium protein portfolio within our Perdue Foods business, including our flagship PERDUE® brand, Niman Ranch®, Panorama Organic Grass-Fed Meats®, Coleman Natural®, and Yummy®, as well as our pet brands, Spot Farms® and Full Moon®, is available through various channels including retail, foodservice, club stores and our direct-to-consumer website, PerdueFarms.com.
Perdue AgriBusiness is an international agricultural products and services company.
Now in our company's second century, our path forward is about getting better, not just bigger. We never use drugs for growth promotion in raising poultry and livestock, and we are actively advancing our animal welfare programs. Our brands are leaders in no-antibiotics-ever chicken, turkey, pork, beef, and lamb, and in USDA-certified organic chicken and beef. Learn more at Corporate.PerdueFarms.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Perdue Farms | 2022-11-03T22:08:21+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/11/03/perdue-foundations-20000-grant-help-fund-la-plaza-delawares-new-leadership-development-program/ |
(The Hill) – Starbucks is planning to roll out “clearer” guidelines for stores on its decoration policies amid a clash with the company’s union over Pride-themed displays this month.
Sara Trilling, the executive vice president and president of Starbucks North America, emphasized in a memo to all U.S. partners on Monday that it has not made any changes to its policies on “our inclusive store environments, our company culture, and the benefits we offer our partners.”
“To further underscore this, we intend to issue clearer centralized guidelines, and leveraging resources like the Period Planning Kit (PPK) and Siren’s Eye, for in-store visual displays and decorations that will continue to represent inclusivity and our brand,” Trilling said.
The announcement comes as 3,500 workers from more than 150 stores plan to strike this week over the union’s allegations that Starbucks has banned Pride decorations in its stores. The coffee retail giant has denied that it has banned these displays and accused the union of spreading misinformation.
Trilling and Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan said in a post on Friday — after the Starbucks Workers United announced plans to strike — that the company raised the Progress Pride flag over its Starbucks Support Center as it has done consistently to celebrate other heritage months.
“We do this each year on behalf of partners around the world, to affirm the diversity of our LGBTQIA2+ community and as a call for a more inclusive society – a call we have made since our founding,” they said. “We want to be crystal clear – Starbucks has been and will continue to be at the forefront of supporting the LGBTQIA2+ community, and we will not waver in that commitment!”
Trilling said on Monday that Starbucks will continue to provide stores with “flexibility” that they need to allow stores to “reflect the communities they serve.”
The union has said it has received reports from stores across the U.S. that workers have not been allowed to decorate stores for Pride Month or have had their decorations taken down.
Starbucks filed two unfair labor practice charges against the union with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday, arguing that the union is conducting an “unlawful smear campaign” and making “maliciously and recklessly false statements.”
The charges allege the union has made false statements about the company’s policy on decorations and the benefits that Starbucks offers for gender-affirming care. The retailer said the union has “knowingly and falsely” claimed that the company eliminated or changed its benefits coverage for LGBTQ individuals.
The Hill has reached out to Starbucks Workers United for comment. | 2023-06-27T19:25:38+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/starbucks-planning-clearer-store-guidelines-after-clash-over-pride-displays/ |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
Laredoans are being invited to channel their inner superhero as Voz de Niños hosts the CASA Superhero 5K and Family Fun Walk on Saturday, March 11 at North Central Park.
The annual fundraiser is back for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants are encouraged to dress in capes, spandex or any other superhero gear and to run or walk at their own pace while supporting children and families in the Webb County foster care system.
The CASA Superhero 5K and Family Fun Walk begins at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 11 below the pavilion at North Central Park located at 10202 International Blvd. Registration begins at 7 a.m. The cost is $35 for runners and $20 for walkers
Runners will be chipped for the event as there will be prizes for the top 5K finishers. There will also be a costumer contest, a pet costume contest, other activities, vendor booths and more.
“Whether you want to set a new personal record, bring a furry friend or take it slow with friends and family, join us for a fun-filled day supporting a great cause,” Voz de Niños Executive Director Sara Cantú said. “We will have top female and male medals awarded in each race category, as well as top overall male and top overall female trophies awarded. We will also have prizes for best female, male, family and best pet costume.”
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteers. The CASA volunteers are trained then appointed by judges to advocate for either a single child or a group of siblings in the foster care system.
Voz de Niños advocated for 123 foster care children last year in Webb County, and the organization is seeking additional volunteers to help more of the local children.
“Our volunteers really make a difference for these children and their families,” Cantú said. “We want every child in foster care to have an advocate by their side, and our community’s support can help us make that happen. We hope to see you at North Central Park.”
For more information, visit vozdeninos.org. | 2023-03-09T20:43:47+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/laredo-s-voz-de-ni-os-supports-foster-care-casa-17829631.php |
Mother accused of pepper spraying school bus with children on board, authorities say
Published: Aug. 18, 2022 at 5:34 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (WFOX/WJAX) - A Georgia woman was taken into police custody after reportedly using pepper spray on a school bus on Tuesday.
A witness, who wanted to stay anonymous, said Shaquayle Cuyler got involved in a disagreement with one of her neighbors that day.
Georgia authorities said the 30-year-old mother then had an issue with the school bus driver and monitor that led to her using pepper spray.
According to school officials, the bus driver and monitor had to be taken to a hospital after the reported incident.
Authoroties said 24 students were on the bus. Emergency medical services treated them at the scene, and they were taken to school by another bus.
Copyright 2022 WFOX/WJAX via CNN. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-18T22:51:07+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/08/18/mother-accused-pepper-spraying-school-bus-with-children-board-authorities-say/ |
The tit-for-tat war between Zak Brown and Chip Ganassi took another turn Tuesday when Arrow McLaren SP announced it had signed both a Ganassi sponsor and Tony Kanaan to drive the Indianapolis 500.
Kanaan spent four seasons driving for Chip Ganassi Racing and the last two Indianapolis 500s. The 2003 winner finished third this past May at Indy.
Kanaan will be sponsored by NTT DATA for his 22nd Indy 500, and the technology and business solutions provider will also be the primary sponsor for Felix Rosenqvist for 10 races on the No. 6 Chevrolet.
NTT Data had been a Ganassi sponsor since 2013 and was the primary sponsor for 2020 champion Alex Palou, who spent most of the IndyCar season locked in a battle to move from Ganassi to McLaren in 2023.
Mediation led to a resolution in which Palou would finish the remaining year on his Ganassi contract and can test for McLaren’s Formula One team. But Palou’s sponsor is headed to McLaren early; Palou can’t drive an Indy car for McLaren before he makes his official move in 2024.
“We welcome the opportunity to partner with McLaren, a long-term and valued client, and to demonstrate how sponsorships simultaneously build awareness and enhance business-to-business relationships,” said Bob Pryor, CEO of NTT Data Services.
Brown and Ganassi have feuded for years but it reached a new height when Palou in July rebuked a Ganassi announcement that the option on his contract for 2023 had been picked up. He said he instead was moving to McLaren, which led to several civil court filings and the ultimate resolution for Palou to complete his Ganassi contract.
Also, McLaren team president Taylor Keil has left the organization and is expected to be announced as a Ganassi executive as soon as his non-compete clause expires. Keil is the stepson of longtime Ganassi managing director Mike Hull.
Kanaan, who spent four of the final six years of full-time IndyCar competition with Ganassi, is slowly moving toward retirement. His third-place finish at Indy in May made the Brazilian eager to return again in 2023 at age 48.
“I feel extremely lucky to get another shot racing in the Indy 500,” said Kanaan, who will be part of McLaren’s first four-car Indy 500 lineup alongside Rosenqvist, Pato O’Ward and 2015 winner Alexander Rossi.
“I’m excited to work with Pato, Felix and Alexander and race with the Arrow McLaren SP team. My biggest battle in last year’s race was against these three drivers so working with them and driving with them will be exciting for all of us,” Kanaan said.
Rosenqvist started his IndyCar career with Ganassi and drove the No. 10 sponsored by NTT Data for two seasons. Rosenqvist moved to McLaren ahead of the 2021 season, the first year of NTT Data’s last Ganassi contact extension, and Palou replaced Rosenqvist as the driver in the No. 10.
“I look forward to representing NTT DATA once again,” Rosenqvist said. “They’re a great partner and are committed to the series.”
___
AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-11-01T17:25:17+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-mclaren-plucks-away-ganassi-sponsor-and-kanaan-for-indy-500/ |
Legitimacy. The word has dominated discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court for years. Some, mostly on the left, claim that the court has lost its legitimacy. The debate on this question even has spread to the court itself, with comments on the matter made by Justices Elena Kagan, John Roberts and Samuel Alito over the summer.
But what does it mean for the current court to be illegitimate? Illegitimacy describes one or both of two conditions: First, it refers to someone occupying a position to which he or she possesses no right. Second, illegitimacy pinpoints the exercise of one’s power in ways flagrantly beyond its proper scope, so much so as to involve powers entirely foreign to the office.
Critics of the Supreme Court make both claims regarding its legitimacy. They argue the last three justices to be appointed — Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch — have no right to their seats. They further declare that recent decisions, especially during the court’s last term, go so far outside the court’s rightful powers as to make the institution itself illegitimate.
They are wrong on both counts. First, they morph the meaning of legitimacy into conformity with their preferences. They say that, in 2016, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell never should have refused to confirm President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, a move that led to Gorsuch’s appointment in 2017. They also claim that the unproven accusations made against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford disqualified him. Finally, they chafe at President Donald Trump’s nomination of Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, coming as it did right before the 2020 presidential election.
None of these accusations has anything to do with real legitimacy. In each case, the appropriate and constitutional process was followed. A sitting president made the nomination. The Senate either refused its consent, as it did in 2016, or gave it, as the body did in the cases of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. That is the only standard for a justice’s legitimacy to be on the court. It is the only one because it is the constitutional one, the dictate of the supreme law of the land.
We may debate the fairness of refusing a vote on Obama’s nominee. We can argue over the merits of the accusations against Kavanaugh. We even can question the choice of not waiting for the people’s decision in 2020 before adding a new member to the bench. But even if all these objections were right, they would not make any of the appointed justices illegitimate.
On the second count, the court’s last term did not render it an illegitimate institution. Those accusers again seek to replace constitutional standards with their own opinions. To be sure, the court announced monumental decisions last term on a host of hot-button issues concerning religious liberty, gun rights, the administrative state and, of course, the abortion precedents of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Yet, too many attack these decisions based on whether they follow popular opinion. Kagan, for one, argues, “If, over time, the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that is a dangerous thing for democracy.” The court’s role, however, isn’t to follow the lead of often-flawed opinion polling. The justices follow the people’s will insofar as that will is expressed through the law — the Constitution and subordinate congressionally passed statutes. Both get their ultimate origin in “we, the people.” In this written form, they encompass a much more stable and discernible articulation of public sentiment.
Kagan also critiqued the majority’s approach to ascertaining the people’s will as expressed through law, indicating that the majority hide behind claims of impartially applying the words of laws as written in order to realize their policy preferences. “If you’re a textualist, you’re not a textualist just when it’s convenient. You’re not a textualist just when it leads to the outcomes that you personally happen to favor,” she said.
This accusation doesn’t hold up to scrutiny when turning to particular cases. Justices will certainly disagree on the precise meaning of legal texts. But in last term’s decisions, the majority painstakingly parsed the words of the laws and the accompanying history. They then ruled not on the basis of their partisanships but on what the law meant at the time of its composition. The abortion ruling did not outlaw terminating a pregnancy, as anti-abortion-rights activists would want, but merely returned the decision to the political process. The court’s decision on guns made extensive use of history to understand the nature of that right in relation to current law. Finally, the court’s limiting of the administrative state defended the principles of separation of powers and consent of the governed that are essential to our constitutional framework.
Critics of the current Supreme Court should be more honest in their attacks. They object to how certain justices were nominated. They disagree strongly with the court’s recent decisions. But, even if true, neither makes the current court illegitimate. They’d be better served to focus their arguments on the majority’s decisions and reasonings.
Given the rightness and strength of both, critics are in for an uphill battle.
Adam Carrington wrote this column for the Chicago Tribune.
Join the Conversation
We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions. | 2022-10-07T14:07:58+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/10/07/adam-carrington-the-illegitimate-attacks-on-the-supreme-courts-legitimacy/ |
BALTIMORE, April 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Urology Care Foundation (UCF), the world's leading nonprofit urological health foundation and official foundation of the American Urological Association (AUA), announces the creation of the UCF Humanitarian Endowment for Pakistan. This fund will support humanitarian work specifically within the geographic area of Pakistan.
Harris M. Nagler, MD, Urology Care Foundation President, said, "The leadership of Dr. Badar Mian has been outstanding and demonstrates his commitment, and that of his colleagues, to the UCF's humanitarian efforts worldwide and to Pakistan."
An annual $4,500 grant will be available for this endowment starting in 2024, and the selected grantees and identified projects will support the improvement of urological care in underserved communities and/or research involving health policy to improve patient access to care and education.
"We are so appreciative for the UCF and to all the fellow urologists who contributed to make a pivotal project like this feasible," said Dr. Badar Mian, urologist at Albany Medical Center and primary coordinator of donations to bring the endowment to fruition. "There is a remarkable need in Pakistan for altruistic efforts like this to improve urologic care for their struggling communities, so we hope this endowment, which is entirely funded by AUA members, can help change lives."
The program is designated for AUA members who are board certified urologists, and for resident/fellow members who are sponsored by, and work in collaboration with, a board-certified urologist. Applicants must highlight their affiliation with an established organization and project taking place in Pakistan. A Program Announcement detailing the application requirements, review and selection process will be distributed by the Urology Care Foundation at the beginning of the application cycle.
For more information visit https://www.urologyhealth.org/humanitarianism/support-our-global-mission/endowments.
About the Urology Care Foundation: The Urology Care Foundation is the world's leading nonprofit urological health foundation, and the official foundation of the American Urological Association. Collaborating with physicians, researchers, patients and the public, the Foundation supports and improves urologic clinical care by funding research, developing patient education and pursuing philanthropic support. To learn more about the Urology Care Foundation and its programs visit: www.urologyhealth.org.
Media Contact:
Corey Del Bianco, Corporate Communications and Media Relations Manager
410-689-4033, cdelbianco@auanet.org
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Urology Care Foundation | 2023-04-29T16:27:49+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/04/29/urology-care-foundation-announces-new-humanitarian-endowment-pakistan/ |
This discussion with Jerry Craft is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.
Cartoonist and children's book author Jerry Craft published the Newbery award-winning graphic novel New Kid in 2019. New Kid also won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and the Kirkus Prize.
Craft followed the book with Class Act in 2020 and, coming in April 2023, School Trip. His novels focus on portraying the experiences of kids of color. Craft's work allows kids to see themselves in stories, provoking inspiration and giving voice to diverse experiences.
New Kid focuses on the experience of being Black and the "new kid" at a predominantly white school. It follows Jordan, a seventh grader and aspiring artist from Washington Heights, New York. Jordan's parents send him to a private school to invest in his academic future. As he navigates the differing environments in his neighborhood and his new school, he attempts to stay true to himself.
The book has been challenged in some school districts including in Texas and Pennsylvania, citing the teaching of critical race theory.
The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On capturing reality
In my opinion, a lot of the books with African American protagonists ... there's this really big thing that happens — a life changing event, catastrophic, death or police or someone goes to jail or drugs — and I didn't want to show that. So there is no catastrophe in New Kid, but it's just kind of the day-to-day code switching you get so used to at an early age. My dad lived in the time where they had white drinking fountains and Black drinking fountains. So, I'm only one generation removed from that. He didn't expect anything... So when you think of the things that our ancestors had to deal with and even stuff that my dad [dealt with], having someone call you the wrong name or touch your hair — it's not catastrophic by nature. It's annoying. I really did want to have a book where you could read it and relax and just kind of subtly point out things that we can all do to improve how these kids grow up.
On inspiring Black kids by depicting positive new narratives
You're trained in a lot of ways to be a second class citizen. Even taking my sons to the movies, whereas their white counterparts — if they wanted to see someone that looked like them — their parents took them to see Harry Potter and, you know, Percy Jackson. Our version was 12 Years a Slave and Harriet Tubman... There just aren't a lot of happy stories. Even when I was a kid, the show Good Times was very popular. But for a show called "good times," they never really had any good times.
... I have a teacher who emailed me [about how] all the kids were going around saying what they wanted to do when they grow up [and] a Black kid in class goes, "Well, if I live to be 18, I hope to... " So, I wanted to have a book where there is hope. In School Trip, which comes out in April, the kids go to Paris. And I'm already reading some early reviews [about how people] love the book...but occasionally someone will go "well I don't think the kids will be able to relate going to Paris... But [a] kid could relate to being a wizard like Harry Potter or going into space or going back in time or any of the other fantasy things. But a Black kid won't be able to relate to going to another country... If I wrote about a dystopian future where a 13-year-old white kid saves the world single handedly, that's relatable?
So, when I do new kid in class, not only am I doing this for kids to show that they do have hope and futures — but I also want to point out to parents and some of the teachers and librarians who put these emotional and mental shackles on their kids [thinking] 'I'm not even going to give them this book because [they'll] never be able to relate to going to Paris.' ...Why can't a kid have those kinds of aspirations where one day they're like, 'Oh, wow, I'd like to go there like Jordan Banks did' as opposed to, 'Hey, here's another gang book.' So what? I can relate to that, I can relate to being in a gang. I can relate to being enslaved... but it's such a discrepancy. ...They give them all these hard stories and then they forget that they're kids.
On representation in children and young adult books
When I do these [school visits] on zoom or in person, it's about me being a very reluctant reader. I hated reading books as a kid because — who were my heroes? The Black kid in Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn? There was no kid who looked like me that I was proud of. It was Black Panther ... which came out, what, five years ago, that was the first time where I had goosebumps. That and Into the Spider-verse. I felt like I was 10 years old. What I would have given to have something like that when I was ten.
But one of the big problems that I have is... [people saying], 'oh, well... you're making white kids feel bad.' A lot of these books — especially historical books — you'll have a book like Ruby Bridges, or stories where these 8-year-old kids are single-handedly integrating the school systems and there are people throwing stuff or cursing: So, those kids can handle that — but your little kid can't handle reading about that because it makes them feel bad? And I think most times kids empathize with the main characters. I don't think that kids ever empathize with the bullies. And if they do, I don't think that you're doing your job as a parent properly. Because when I read a graphic novel like El Deafo by Cece Bell, which is amazing, or Hey, Kiddo, Jarrett J. Krosoczka's book — these are all kids who are teased because they're different. And again, if you raise your kid to not be able to have empathy for the one who's the target of the bullies ... I have white kids dressing up like Jordan Banks and Drew for Halloween. It's one of their favorite characters, kids don't emulate the bad guys. And if they do, like I said, you might have missed a couple of parenting sessions that you probably should put in.
On who decides what is appropriate reading
I'm a parent... I do think that, as a parent, you have every right to decide what your kid can and cannot read... But you don't have the right to tell me what my kid can read. Because a lot of time kids will find themselves in books. They may not even be able to have [certain] discussions at home. I don't know what it's like at 12 years old to realize that I'm gay and I want to come out to my parents who are going to hate me and disown me because of that. But there are books with those characters that kids can find out that they're not the only ones.
Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-28T10:25:27+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-books/2022-12-28/banned-books-author-jerry-craft-on-telling-stories-all-kids-can-identify-with |
DAVISON, Mich. (WJRT) - A Davison man thought he was having a heart attack after realizing he won a six-figure jackpot from the Michigan Lottery's Fantasy 5 game.
The lottery says 66-year-old Greg Escue matched all five numbers on July 9 -- 19-24-29-33-34 -- with a ticket purchased at the Kroger gas station at 524 N. State St. He claimed nearly $193,000 after another player won the same jackpot.
Escue was in bed already on July 9 when he noticed someone hit the Fantasy 5 jackpot in that night's drawing. He got up to find his tickets, which he left in his car.
"Once I got back inside, I went through the tickets one-by-one, line-by-line," Escue said. "As soon as I saw five matching numbers, I had the craziest feeling. I was so excited, I thought I was having a heart attack."
He plans to take a vacation with his winnings and save the remainder.
"I always try to be positive and optimistic," Escue said. "I'm always telling people: 'When you buy a ticket, you go from no chance to as good a chance as anyone to win.'" | 2023-07-20T15:02:40+00:00 | abc12.com | https://www.abc12.com/news/lottery/davison-man-wins-nearly-193-000-fantasy-5-jackpot/article_53136da0-2706-11ee-9639-2701aa6c43c2.html |
The Franchise Business Review Award-Winning roofing and construction brand continues their nationwide expansion.
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Storm Guard – the innovative and community-driven roofing and construction brand – is celebrating 20 years of success while continuing to expand nationwide. They provide a wide range of services for both residential and commercial properties.
Storm Guard was founded in 2003 by Jim Linehan and Al Hertling with the goal of helping families after natural disasters. Thanks to Jim's innovative approach, combined with the dedication and expertise of his team, Storm Guard began to grow as a local company. Jim decided to begin franchising Storm Guard in 2013, and they have since grown to serve families across 17 states nationwide. Through franchising, Storm Guard has been able to build a network of like-minded individuals who were passionate about providing exceptional service and prioritizing employees. In 2014, Storm Guard experienced a significant milestone when it was acquired by Bobby Cox and Glenn Lynch, bringing new resources and expertise to the company
Storm Guard prides themselves on not only providing high-quality services, but also educating and providing expertise to help home and property owners navigate the often confusing process of insurance aided restoration, as well as always keeping their clients' best interest their top priority. Storm Guard has worked over the past two decades to give roofers a positive reputation by communicating with their clients honestly and transparently.
In the last year, Storm Guard opened five new locations, bringing the total operating locations to a total of 39. They are always looking for ways to improve and guarantee the best service for their clients. They strive to create a stress-free experience by providing free inspections, alleviating the need for visits from insurance providers, and offering a 5 year warranty on each project.
Most recently, Storm Guard was named a Top Franchise for 2023 by Franchise Business Review. Over 360 franchise brands participated in Franchise Business Review's research, and the top 200 were chosen based on survey responses from franchisees. Recognitions like these truly reveal how Storm Guard works to guarantee satisfaction from both franchisees and clients.
"This milestone is a testament to Storm Guard's achievements in reinventing the contracting industry through providing clients with the best possible service," said Shane Lynch, Storm Guard President, "Looking to the future, we hope to further enhance our brand by improving and ensuring the best prevention methods for our clients."
Storm Guard continues to look towards the future and accomplishing their goal of becoming the premier roofing contractor in the United States. Storm Guard is seeking self-driven entrepreneurs to help care for their local communities. The initial franchise fee for Storm Guard is $65,000 and the total investment ranges from $185,400-$221,600. To learn more about Storm Guard or inquire about franchising opportunities, please visit https://www.stormguardrc.com/.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Storm Guard | 2023-06-20T19:05:56+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/06/20/storm-guard-celebrates-20-years-revolutionizing-home-improvement/ |
Founder of BJK University, Bashar Katou, joined Inside South Florida to talk more about a program that helps its students earn income as an Amazon business.
“People always want to improve their lives, and to do that you have to be more valuable in the marketplace,” says Katou. “The curriculum walks them through how to start a business on Amazon, set up their store, find a product, and negotiate with suppliers.”
For more information, visit bjkuniversity.com
This Inside South Florida segment is paid for by HighKey Foundation. | 2023-03-08T01:52:15+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/inside-south-florida/how-to-earn-income-with-amazon |
What you need to cook pizza over a fire pit
Americans love their pizza. They also love gathering around a fire pit to relax and socialize in their own backyard. Solo Stove has combined these two pastime passions with the Pi Fire, a pizza oven attachment that lets you cook pizza directly over your favorite Solo Stove fire pit. The company also recently released over 20 new products, accessories and bundles. Best of all, everything is on sale at celebratory deep discounts, making it a great time to add to your Solo Stove collection.
In this article: Fire Pit Surround, Pi Fire and Bonfire Heat Deflector.
Solo Stove: from humble beginnings to a must-have line of innovative products
Solo Stove started when two brothers wanted to make a better camping stove — specifically, one that was efficient and didn’t run on fossil fuel. The result was a cylindrical design that burned wood at extremely high temperatures and didn’t really look like anything else out there.
Once the idea was brought to life, it didn’t take long to start adding to the line. One camping stove became three, and three fire pits were added to the ever-growing list of products. Now, this trusted company has a wide selection of options. You can purchase camping stoves, fire pits, pizza ovens, patio heaters, accessories, fuel and other items.
What’s new at Solo Stove?
The list of what’s new at Solo Stove is large. It includes such thoughtful accessories as precut firewood, Neapolitan dough balls for making pizza, a bamboo pizza peel, a heat deflector and new colors. However, the most exciting new releases are the Tower Patio Heater, the Mesa XL, the Pi Fire and the Fire Pit Surround. The last two are so innovative that they’re already in the BestReviews Testing Lab for a performance evaluation.
Best new Solo Stove products
To keep everyone a safe distance from their favorite fire pit, and to provide a convenient space for drinks and food, the Fire Pit Surround is the best way to go. It’s a perforated, powder-coated steel table with multi-surface feet that encircles your Solo Stove fire pit.
Sold by Solo Stove and Amazon
Mesa XL (estimated shipping date: March 20)
This new XL tabletop fire pit comes with a stand and a carry bag. The dual fuel system works with pellets and firewood. It’s easy to light, built to last and comes in six colors. It can burn for up to one hour and spreads warmth up to 3 feet.
Sold by Solo Stove
If you love pizza and the outdoors, this is what you’ve been waiting for. This extremely portable pizza oven fits on top of your favorite Solo Stove fire pit so you can make a fresh pizza, no matter where you are. The Pi Fire comes with a carrying case and gloves.
Sold by Solo Stove and Amazon
Tower Patio Heater (estimated shipping date: May 22)
While it’s not shipping until May, if you want the joy of indoor warmth in your backyard, you can get this patio heater right now for $300 off. It’s pellet-fueled through a gravity-fed hopper so it requires no electricity, and it provides warmth up to 10 feet away.
Sold by Solo Stove
If you’d like to spread the warmth of your Solo Stove fire pit, you need a heat deflector. This simple but effective accessory attaches to the top of your favorite Solo Stove fire pit to deflect the heat out to the people seated around the fire.
Sold by Solo Stove and Amazon
If you own the Pi Pizza Oven, this stand was designed for you. It’s a portable powder-coated steel stand with locking caster wheels that provides a home base for your Solo Stove pizza oven.
Sold by Solo Stove and Amazon
This upgraded pizza turner has a long handle so you can keep your hand far away from the heat. It also has a wider peel and a leather hanging strap for easy storage. It’s made of stainless steel and bamboo.
Sold by Solo Stove
Solo Stove accessories worth checking out
- This pre-cut box of Mini Oak Firewood is kiln dried, sustainably sourced and sized for the Mesa, Pi Pizza Oven and Fire Pit Cooking System.
- If you ordered the Tower Patio Heater, you’ll want to protect it with the Tower Shelter (estimated shipping date: May 22).
- The Fire Pit Surround Shelter protects your Fire Pit Surround from the elements all year long.
- This travel-sized flame-resistant blanket packs down to the size of a water bottle for easy transport.
- The Mesa Accessory Pack is what you need to get the most out of your tabletop fire pit (estimated shipping date: March 13 for the Mesa and March 27 for the Mesa XL).
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Allen Foster writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers.
Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-27T16:20:21+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/reviews/br/patio-br/fire-pits-heaters-br/solo-stove-debuts-new-fire-pit-size-pizza-oven-patio-heater-and-more/ |
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Law enforcement activity at a shopping center in Seminole County is creating traffic delays Thursday morning.
The shopping center is located at Red Bug Lake and Tuskawilla roads. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to a business in the plaza for reports of a device, which was later determined to not be an explosive.
[TRENDING: Social Security payments set for big increase. Here’s what to know | Win four 3-day park hopper passes to Walt Disney World | Become a News 6 Insider]
Eastbound lanes of Red Bug Lake Road are shut down and drivers should avoid the area.
**Update*^
— Seminole County S.O. (@SeminoleSO) October 13, 2022
Device located at business on Red Bug Lake Rd. and Tuskawilla has been disposed of. Later investigation determined it was not an explosive device.
Seminole County Public Schools sent a message to parents regarding school buses being impacted by delays on Interstate 4 and around Red Bug Lake Road.
“We appreciate your patience as we navigate a busy morning on the roadways. Transporting your children to and from school safely is our highest priority,” the district wrote.
This is a developing story and will be updated with more information as we receive it.
** POLICE ACTIVITY **
— “Trooper Steve” Montiero (@TrooperSteve_) October 13, 2022
Red Bug Lake Rd x Tuskawilla Rd
- shopping center completely blocked off #Seminole pic.twitter.com/3o1NujAbwc
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | 2022-10-13T14:06:04+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/10/13/law-enforcement-activity-at-shopping-center-in-seminole-county-creates-traffic-delays/ |
‘I’m so proud of him’: Friends, family celebrate World War II veteran’s 100th birthday
GARDEN CITY, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) - A highly decorated World War II veteran celebrated his 100th birthday in style this week.
WMBF reports Clarence Tompkins was joined by a large group of friends and family, who know him as Chuck, to celebrate the milestone birthday.
He joined the United States Army in 1942.
On June 12, 1944, Clarence Tompkins escorted a medic to another wounded soldier while under heavy attack during the Battle of Normandy.
He then helped evacuate both soldiers to safety while taking sniper fire.
“He’s been very humble, even though he went through a lot in the war, and he saved several people’s lives,” his son Keith Tompkins said.
During his time in the service, Clarence Tompkins received two Purple Hearts, a Combat Infantry Badge and two stars.
His family said he’s often asked what his secret is to make it far in this life.
“He is always moving and always doing something, and I think that is the secret to his long life,” his daughter Pat Tompkins-McCormick said.
On Friday, the group came together at a sports bar, one of his favorite spots, to celebrate the WWII veteran turning 100-years-old.
“I’m so proud of him; I’m already planning for next year,” his best friend Ed McCormick said. “He’s in such great health and has a great attitude.”
Clarence Tompkins has been in Myrtle Beach for about three years and said his relationships remain very important, just as important as his relationship with his soldiers.
Copyright 2022 WMBF via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-28T17:55:59+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2022/05/28/im-so-proud-him-friends-family-celebrate-world-war-ii-veterans-100th-birthday/ |
___
- National Weather Service issues tornado warning for Laredo area
- LPD: Sinkhole forms off I-35 exit ramp
- First monkeypox case confirmed in Laredo
- Affidavit: Man recorded himself raping woman
- Rain causes flooding around city streets, UISD closes
- UISD school reverses cellphone policy after mother's concerns over safety
- Affidavit: Man punched an LPD officer, wanted to beat up a male
- Laredo school districts receive A ratings from TEA for 2022
- Two arrested for selling alcohol to minors during TABC operation
- Laredo DJ, music producer sees her talent showcased in Spain
- Affidavit: Man sexually assaulted girls multiple times
- Body found inside school bus in downtown Laredo
- Laredo has 4 pending monkeypox cases as vaccines arrive
- Woman dies after fleeing suspect crashed into her vehicle
- 'Late for a haircut': Man speeding caused 8 injuries in crash, affidavit...
- Drive-by shooting recorded in surveillance video
MOST POPULAR | 2022-08-16T08:37:23+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Texas-Team-Stax-17376080.php |
▶ Watch Video: Possible overturn of Roe v. Wade could affect midterms, governor’s races Washington — A bombshell draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court may strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has rattled Washington and the nation, prompting Democrats and abortion rights supporters to sound the alarm about the future of abortion access in the United States. Such a decision from the Supreme Court, if final, would upend 50 years of abortion precedent and put officials at the state level in the driver’s seat of determining abortion access, resulting in a patchwork of laws that vary based on where a person lives. The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion in a statement Tuesday morning but stressed it does not represent any members’ final position on the issues in the case, which involves a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Obtained and published by Politico late Monday, the draft opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated among the justices in February. The document indicates a majority of the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe, though justices can — and have — changed their votes after drafts have been exchanged. A decision from the Supreme Court in the Mississippi case is expected by the end of the court’s term in late June or early July. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote, adding, “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representative.” In the Roe decision, the court held that the Constitution protected a woman’s right to an abortion before the point at which a fetus is viable outside the womb, typically around 24 weeks of pregnancy. Overturning Roe, and a 1992 case that reaffirmed its ruling, would allow states to determine their own abortion restrictions or protections. A number of Republican-led have already taken action to roll back abortion access, passing laws that outlaw abortions at various stages in a pregnancy. Democratic-led states, meanwhile, have acted to protect abortion rights. And the state-level action on the issue of abortion has taken place not only in state legislatures across the country, but also in their own courts. An analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that 23 states have laws on the books that could be used to restrict abortion rights if the Supreme Court overturns or weakens Roe, as of May 1. Here is where the states stand on abortion access: States with “trigger” laws Thirteen states have so-called “trigger” laws that would restrict abortion should Roe v. Wade be overturned by the Supreme Court: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. Some of the states’ laws would go into effect immediately following a Supreme Court decision, while others would kick in after 30 days. In several cases, the bans take effect once the state attorney general or another official certifies that the Supreme Court’s decision reverses Roe, but that could take just days following the court’s decision. Lawmakers in Nebraska attempted to pass a trigger ban this year, but it failed in the state senate in April. States with six-week bans Anti-abortion rights advocates have been pressing states to enact legislation banning the procedure once an embryonic heartbeat is detected, after about six weeks of pregnancy. Eleven states have done so, though nearly all of the measures have been blocked: Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Only the Texas law is in effect, as the Supreme Court last year declined to block it from being enforced. The measure has a novel enforcement mechanism that tasks private citizens, not state officials, with enforcing it by filing lawsuits in state court against anyone who performs an abortion or “aids or abets” them. Its design has inspired bills in other GOP-led states that mirror the Texas measure. State with eight-week ban In 2019, Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons, a Republican, signed into law a bill that made abortions illegal after eight weeks of pregnancy. A federal district court blocked the measure from taking effect, and a three-judge panel on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to lift the lower court’s injunction. The full 8th Circuit heard arguments in the challenge to the law brought by Planned Parenthood last year. States with 15-week bans In Florida, a 15-week ban was signed into law in April and goes into effect July 1. Mississippi’s law, passed in 2018, is at the center of the dispute currently before the Supreme Court. Louisiana’s 15-week measure was signed into law in 2018 by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, though it will only take effect if Mississippi’s law is upheld. In Kentucky, the state legislature overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy last month. But a U.S. district court granted Planned Parenthood’s request for a temporary restraining order, blocking the bill from taking effect. States with 20-week bans Four states have laws on the books banning abortions after 20 weeks: Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska and North Carolina. In Montana, Gov. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, signed a law outlawing abortions after 20 weeks last year, but a state court judge blocked the measure and two other abortion laws from taking effect in October. States with abortion bans that pre-date Roe v. Wade In addition to having newer laws on the books that impose limits on when in a pregnancy abortions can be performed, nine states have laws enacted before the 1973 decision in Roe that were never removed. Those states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. In Michigan, though, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, preemptively sued 13 county prosecutors with abortion clinics in their jurisdictions in an effort to circumvent the state’s 1931 pre-Roe abortion ban. States with the right to an abortion enshrined in their constitutions The highest courts in 10 states have recognized the right to an abortion under their respective constitutions, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. The state constitutional protections ensure abortion will remain legal even in the wake of a Supreme Court decision upending Roe. Some of these states, such as Florida, have passed laws restricting access, while others, like Montana, have had abortion restrictions temporarily blocked. The 10 states are Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana and New Jersey. In Iowa, an effort is underway to overturn the state Supreme Court ruling protecting the right to an abortion. That decision is expected in the next few months. Should the decision be overturned, Iowa’s GOP-controlled legislature and governor have signaled they will move to further restrict abortion access. In Kansas, an amendment allowing for the regulation of abortion goes before voters in August, and pro-abortion rights groups in Michigan also launched a ballot drive to enshrine the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution. States with laws protecting the right to an abortion While many Republican-led states have passed laws restricting abortion access, Democratic-led states have moved to preserve abortion rights. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have taken such steps: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. | 2022-05-03T22:58:25+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/which-states-would-restrict-or-protect-abortion-rights-if-roe-v-wade-falls-3/ |
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (WTVO) — According to the FBI, an accused polygamist cult leader in Arizona had 20 wives, including underage girls and one who was possibly his own daughter.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation filed an affidavit in federal court on Friday accusing Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, of transporting minors between Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and Nebraska to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
He has not been charged with sexual abuse, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, but was arrested on charges of child abuse. He has been in jail since his arrest.
Bateman pleaded not guilty in September to charges of tampering with evidence and attempting to destroy records after he was stopped on a highway and police found young girls inside an enclosed trailer.
According to KSAZ, authorities found three girls between the ages of 11 and 14 inside the unventilated trailer, which also contained a makeshift toilet, couch, and camping chairs.
Law enforcement said Bateman, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), is part of a small group that practices polygamy, even though it is illegal in the U.S.
The Mormon church has denounced FLDS and maintains that polygamy is grounds for ex-communication from the faith.
The FBI said eight girls were found at Bateman’s Colorado City home during an FBI raid on Sept. 13.
The affidavit described Bateman as a cult leader with “approximately 50 followers and over 20 wives, many of whom are minors, mostly under the age of 15,” the FBI said.
One of the girls was reported to be 9 years old.
Bateman is also accused of trying to marry his own daughter, according to the FBI, who spoke to a couple who were filming a documentary about his community.
“Bateman allegedly has ‘impressions of Heavenly Father’s will’ to encourage his followers, including the minor children, to engage in sexual acts and relies on that submission to do his own will,” the affidavit reads.
The affidavit also says that Bateman would arrange for group sex acts in a “Binding of Brothers” ritual in which he would have sex with the wives of his male followers while other men and underage girls looked on.
Bateman said the “Heavenly Father” ordered him to “give the most precious thing he has, his girls’ virtue,” to his male followers. One of the girls was reportedly only 12 years old.
“The girls, who were crying on the recording, said they hurt but there was not darkness. Bateman said the girls have sacrificed their virtue for the Lord,” Special Agent Dawn Martin wrote in the affidavit.
Bateman is also reported to have been a follower of Warren Jeffs, the former leader of FLDS who was ultimately charged with sexual assault of minors in three states.
Jeffs denounced Bateman in a message sent to his followers from prison, according to KSAZ. | 2022-12-06T01:13:29+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/fbi-arizona-cult-leader-had-20-wives-some-as-young-as-9/ |
Former Warner Theatre General Manager and DC's Former Director of the Office of Cable, Television, Film, Music and Entertainment Assumes Day to Day Leadership of Washington DC's Official Convention and Sports Authority
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Events DC today named Angie M. Gates president and chief executive officer of the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia, following a comprehensive national search. Gates, who most recently served as DC's Director of the Office of Cable, Television, Film, Music and Entertainment (OCTFME), will guide the organization tasked with generating economic and community benefits for DC residents and businesses through premier events beginning on November 14, 2022.
"On behalf of Events DC's board of directors, I am thrilled to welcome Angie M. Gates as our new president and CEO," Max Brown, chairman, Events DC board of directors. "Following a rigorous selection process by our search committee and search firm, we are confident in our decision to name Angie as Events DC's newest leader. With decades of experience in the venue management and entertainment industries and a deep understanding of DC, Angie will work tirelessly with staff, our customers, and other stakeholders to guide our organization through an extraordinary time in the District."
A 20-year veteran in the fields of event management, entertainment, film and public service, Gates' expertise ranges from tourism and hospitality to film and venue operations. Notably, Gates was named the first African American General Manager of the iconic Warner Theatre and earned Washington, DC its first Emmy at the 60th Annual National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Award show.
In 2020, Gates was appointed to serve on the Washington, DC ReOpen DC Advisory Group, the COVID-19 task force charged with delivering recommendations and a plan to reopen DC safely and sustainably.
Added Brown, "Angie's demonstrated leadership throughout her career, her expertise in venue management, large scale event oversight and management, and work to establish DC as a world-class film and entertainment location made her the ideal candidate to guide Events DC into the future."
Under Gates' leadership, Events DC will further its mission of building community connections through impactful events and programming as the city continues to flourish following the COVID-19 pandemic. As the conventions, meetings, sports and entertainment industries continue to evolve, Gates will be tasked with driving sustainability, innovation and a thriving tourism economy in DC that will serve as a national model.
"As a Ward 6 resident, Washington, DC has been my home for many years, and the opportunity to lead this organization is an incredible honor," said Gates. "When I look toward the future, I'm inspired by the work of my predecessors and the commitment of the Events DC team to foster community across all eight Wards and continue to bring in conventions and meetings from across the country and indeed, the world. I will continue to further Events DC's initiatives such as our 9th Street retail project, booking events at the ESA in Ward 8, and importantly, supporting our customers and partners who rely on us every day at the Convention Center."
Gates succeeds Samuel R. Thomas, Chief Operating Officer, who served as interim president and CEO following the resignation of Gregory A. O'Dell in March 2022.
"We are grateful for Samuel's leadership as interim president and CEO for the last five months, and for his commitment to the organization throughout his time as Chief Operating Officer," said Events DC Board Member Jay Haddock-Ortiz. "Under the leadership of Angie, Samuel, the entire executive team and our board members, I am confident that Events DC will continue to flourish."
Events DC, the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia, delivers premier event services and flexible venues across the nation's capital. Leveraging the power of a world-class destination and creating amazing attendee experiences, Events DC generates economic and community benefits through the attraction and promotion of business, athletic, entertainment and cultural activities. Events DC oversees the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, an anchor of the District's hospitality and tourism economy that hosts more than 1.7 million visitors and generates more than $400 million annually in direct economic impact and the historic Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square. Events DC manages the RFK Stadium-Armory Campus (RFK Campus), including Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Festival Grounds at RFK Campus, the non-military functions of the DC Armory and the Skate Park at RFK Stadium. Stay current on the 190-acre RFK Campus Redevelopment Project at www.RFKFields.com. Events DC also built and serves as landlord for Nationals Park, the first LEED-certified major professional sports stadium in the United States. Events DC manages Gateway DC, R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center and Entertainment & Sports Arena all conveniently located in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.eventsdc.com and find us on social media – Facebook, Instagram and YouTube (Events DC), and Twitter (@TheEventsDC) — and on our new hub for live and on-demand event programming on GATHER by Events DC at www.gatherbyeventsdc.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Events DC | 2022-10-13T18:10:07+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/13/events-dc-names-angie-m-gates-president-chief-executive-officer/ |
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The stepmother of an 11-year-old boy who was found dead in a storage bin at a Northern California home was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison.
Lindsay Piper was sentenced after pleading no contest in May to second-degree murder in the death of Roman Lopez. She had changed her plea from not guilty.
The boy was reported missing in January 2020. Hours later, his body was found in a storage bin in the basement of the family's home in Placerville, east of Sacramento.
Police said an autopsy failed didn't discover any obvious signs of trauma but Roman was found to be severely malnourished and dehydrated.
Piper and the boy's father, Jordan Piper, were arrested last year and initially were charged with child abuse, torture and other charges. Charges of second-degree murder were added later.
At the time of the boy’s death, the Pipers were caring for seven other children, ranging in age from 1 to 17 years old. They were placed with child welfare officials and other families.
Jordan Piper has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge. | 2022-07-09T04:55:08+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Stepmother-sentenced-in-death-of-11-year-old-17294013.php |
The Black men’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has announced it will move its 2025 general convention from Orlando in light of “racist” policies.
The fraternity announced the news Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, citing “Governor DeSantis’ harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against the Black Community,” as the reason behind the decision.
Willis L. Lonzer III, the fraternity’s general president, told The Hill that last week’s controversy surrounding new education standards in the state became the tipping point in the fraternity’s decision.
“Governor DeSantis has continuously advocated for laws and policies that negatively impact Black people and other marginalized communities,” Lonzer said.
“We start first with the laws rejecting the teaching race and the cultural diversity of our nation. We can even talk about the bill that he supported, banning [diversity, equity and inclusion] initiatives in colleges and universities. But the final straw really was his advancement of this new curriculum standards released last week, suggesting enslaved people developed skills that could later be a personal benefit to them, which is absolutely absurd.”
The Hill has reached out to DeSantis’s office for comment.
Florida’s new guidelines, approved last week, require lessons on race be taught in an “objective” manner that does not seek to “indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.”
One of the updated standards that received backlash requires instructors to teach that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Another requires that students must learn about “acts of violence perpetuated against and by African Americans.” This includes massacres such as the Tulsa Race Massacre.
The new education standards were immediately met with backlash from Black leaders around the nation, including Vice President Harris, who blasted DeSantis in a speech in Jacksonville for “pushing propaganda” on children.
The latest set of guidelines follows the state’s decision earlier this year that prohibited an Advanced Placement African American studies course from running. At the time, the state said the class lacked educational value.
Alpha Phi Alpha was the fraternity of some of the most prominent Black leaders in America, and remains so today. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Whitney Young and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall were all members of the fraternity.
Today, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, are all members.
While a new location has not been decided upon just yet, Lonzer said the fraternity expects their decision will cost the greater Orlando area some $4.6 million in revenue.
“We will not spend our money where Black people and other marginalized communities are continuously harmed by policies at the highest level of government,” Lonzer said.
He added that other members of the Divine Nine — a group of nine historically Black fraternities and sororities — are all “aligned” on the significance of ensuring that all people are treated with respect.
But he also urged those in Florida to exercise their right to vote when the time comes.
“We have not forgotten our membership or the citizens of Florida,” Lonzer said. “We are committed to encouraging them to stay vigilant and to ensure that they are in the voting process. We will continue to make our voter education opportunities available as we funnel funds to the state of Florida to ensure that they can hold various forums and can have the appropriate conversations. When the time comes to vote, we will get them out to vote.” | 2023-07-27T06:58:15+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/alpha-phi-alpha-moves-2025-convention-out-of-florida-over-racist-policies/ |
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and CHICAGO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmer sentiment weakened again in October as the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer dropped 10 points to a reading of 102. Both of the barometer's sub-indices also declined this month. The Current Conditions Index dipped 8 points to a reading of 101 while the Future Expectations Index dropped 11 points to a reading of 102. The Ag Economy Barometer is calculated each month from 400 U.S. agricultural producers' responses to a telephone survey. This month's survey was conducted between October 10-14.
"Concern over rising interest rates grew once again in October and is adding to the unease amongst producers who are worried about its impact on their farm operations," said James Mintert, the barometer's principal investigator and director of Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture. "Additionally, challenging shipping conditions throughout the Mississippi river valley have hampered exports recently and the corresponding widespread weakening of corn and soybean basis levels could be contributing to heightened unease about financial performance."
Producers' concerns about their farm's financial performance were one of the primary drivers of weakening sentiment in October. The Farm Financial Performance Index fell 13 points this month to 86 and was a distillation of producers' concerns about high input costs combined with weaker commodity prices. Looking ahead to next year, over 40% of producers viewed high input costs as their top concern, followed by 21% who chose rising interest rates, 13% who chose lower output prices, and 13% who chose input availability.
After dipping to a new record low last month, the Farm Capital Investment Index improved 7 points this month to a reading of 38. Producers who viewed this as a bad time for large investments revealed that increasing prices for farm machinery and new construction (40% of respondents) was the primary reason for their negative outlook, followed by rising interest rates (20%) and uncertainty about farm profitability (17%).
Producers' expectations for short and long-term farmland values rose this month. The Short-Term Farmland Value Expectation Index rose 10 points to a reading of 133 while the Long-Term Farmland Value Index rose 5 points to 144. Strength in both indices comes on the heels of reports from farmland auctions around the Corn Belt that land values are setting new record highs again this fall. Even with this month's rise both indices remain weaker than a year earlier. The short-term index this month was 15% lower and the long-term index was 11% lower than in October 2021.
Farm policy discussions are underway as Congress prepares for debate on a new Farm Bill in 2023. As a result, several farm policy related questions were included in this month's barometer survey and posed to crop producers. Crop producers were asked which two policies or programs would be most important to their farm in the upcoming five years. More than one-third (36%) of crop producers chose interest rate policy as the most important policy issue for their farming operation, followed by crop insurance program (27%), environmental policy (16%), conservation policy (11%) and climate policy (10%). When asked how effective the current ARC-County and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs are at providing a financial safety net, 72% of respondents rated the two programs as either "somewhat" (61%) or "very effective" (11%). When the same question was posed relative to crop insurance, 84% of respondents rated it as either "somewhat" (56%) or "very effective" (28%).
Read the full Ag Economy Barometer report at https://purdue.ag/agbarometer. The site also offers additional resources – such as past reports, charts and survey methodology – and a form to sign up for monthly barometer email updates and webinars.
Each month, the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture provides a short video analysis of the barometer results, available at https://purdue.ag/barometervideo. For more information, check out the Purdue Commercial AgCast podcast available at https://purdue.ag/agcast, which includes a detailed breakdown of each month's barometer, in addition to a discussion of recent agricultural news that affects farmers.
The Ag Economy Barometer, Index of Current Conditions and Index of Future Expectations are available on the Bloomberg Terminal under the following ticker symbols: AGECBARO, AGECCURC and AGECFTEX.
About the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture
The Center for Commercial Agriculture was founded in 2011 to provide professional development and educational programs for farmers. Housed within Purdue University's Department of Agricultural Economics, the center's faculty and staff develop and execute research and educational programs that address the different needs of managing in today's business environment.
About CME Group
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec and EBS are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD and EBS Group LTD, respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Writer: Kami Goodwin, 765-494-6999, kami@purdue.edu
Source: James Mintert, 765-494-7004, jmintert@purdue.edu
Related websites:
Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture: http://purdue.edu/commercialag
CME Group: http://www.cmegroup.com/
Photo Caption: Ag Economy Barometer declines again, producers express concern about interest rate policy. (Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer/James Mintert). https://www.purdue.edu/uns/images/2022/ag-barometer1022LO.jpg
View original content:
SOURCE CME Group | 2022-11-01T17:17:38+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/11/01/ag-economy-barometer-declines-again-producers-express-concern-about-interest-rate-policy/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Have your feet been aching lately? You might have “pandemic foot.” Don’t worry, it’s got nothing to do with the latest COVID-19 strain – and curing this ailment appears to be much easier.
The reason for an uptick in reported foot pain over the past few years is probably related to an increase in working from home, doctors say. It’s because many people don’t wear shoes in the house, and walking barefoot so often can cause problems.
“Walking around barefoot, with socks or house slippers can put you at increased risk for foot problems, including plantar fasciitis, tendinitis and metatarsalgia (pain and inflammation in the ball of your foot),” said Dr. Mark Weissman, a podiatric surgeon with Cedars-Sinai Hospital.
Being barefoot can hurt people with flat feet, as well as people with high arches. When you have flat feet, not wearing shoes with arch support puts extra strain on your ankle and the inside of your foot, Weissman said. If you have high arches, being barefoot can put extra pressure on the balls of your feet and heels.
Either way, it can lead to strain and pain.
“While working from home, a type of shoe you could wear would be an athletic shoe with an arch support and a deep heel counter, which prevents your foot from rolling to the inside when you’re walking. This support helps with what we call pronation so that your foot doesn’t fall to the inside when you walk. A slipper with arch support can also be a great option,” said Dr. Joy Rowland, a Cleveland Clinic podiatrist.
Socks, flip-flops and average slippers don’t help either. “You want a stiff shoe, like an athletic sneaker,” said Dr. Jessica Milliman, a podiatrist at University Hospitals in Ohio. “A stiff shoe means you can’t fold it in half or twist it.”
If wearing shoes in the house grosses you out, you can buy a pair just for indoors, Milliman suggested. If your feet sweat, Rowland suggested taking shoes off while you sit but slipping them back on when you get up.
Sitting for too long and bad posture could also be contributing to your foot pain, Rowland said. She recommended stretching frequently and taking breaks to stand up and get your body moving.
If you make changes and still experience pain, Rowland recommended making an appointment with a podiatrist. | 2023-02-06T08:27:41+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/having-foot-pain-why-doctors-say-working-from-home-may-be-to-blame/ |
"Sound of Freedom," the new film from Angel Studios that's taken the box office by storm, is based on the true story of Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard and his work to save sex trafficking victims.
The concept of the film isn't new — we've seen it before in movies like "Taken." It's the studio and fundraising techniques behind the film that are gaining attention, using a pay-it-forward method and encouraging audiences to buy tickets for others who may not be able to afford the film.
That makes it hard to know how many people are actually seeing the movie. But the numbers don't lie, with the film bringing in $40 million dollars in its first week.
"For independent movies right now, especially since the pandemic, that is very, very strong," said Jeremy Fuster, box office reporter at The Wrap. "It's on pace to be one of the highest-grossing indie films alongside films like "Everything Everywhere All at Once.'"
SEE MORE: AMC theaters: Thousands have booked Barbie-Oppenheimer double features
The Christian movie team behind the flick isn't new to the genre or finding its niche among a Christian audience. Part three of its series "The Chosen" earned $8 million in its opening week.
"They've built such a buy-in among fans of 'The Chosen' — among evangelical groups — that when they hear Angel Studios is going to have a thing in theaters, they'll come out to see it," Fuster explained.
"Sound of Freedom"'s lead, Jim Caviezel, is also popular in some conservative-leaning circles and has a following from those who remember him for his role as Jesus Christ in the 2004 film "Passion of the Christ." However, "Sound of Freedom" has been panned by some critics who say it feeds into QAnon theories of underground sex trafficking rings run by elites. Caviezel has also espoused similar views.
Still, there's a market for those willing to invest in faith-based entertainment.
"Lionsgate, for example, formed a partnership back in 2020 with the Kingdom Story Company, which is a faith-based film studio from Jon and Andrew Erwin," Fuster said. "They had a movie called "I Can Only Imagine" and it's been a very lucrative project."
"If you release it in 2,800 theaters and select parts of the country and make it at the right price tag, you're going to get a really strong return on investment every time," he added.
SEE MORE: New 'Barney' film will be adult-focused, exec says
Pure Flix, the streaming service aimed at faith and family, has found success with its religiously themed movies and love stories. The Great American Family channel has taken on the movie market too, securing a deal with Hallmark favorite Candace Cameron Bure. And popular producer Tyler Perry got his start with the biblically themed "Madea" plays and movies, turning them into a billion-dollar success story.
"Sound of Freedom" will face some competition this weekend when another action thriller, "Mission Impossible," hits the big screens.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-07-14T20:51:37+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/defying-expectations-sound-of-freedom-takes-box-office-by-storm |
Research published in Cell Chemical Biology showed lenalidomide can enhance cancer-treating ability of PD-1 antibody
SAN DIEGO and SHANGHAI, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Degron Therapeutics ("Degron"), a biotechnology company developing a new class of small-molecule medicines that target previously undruggable targets, today announced research suggesting lenalidomide, a molecular glue degrader of IKZF1 and IKZF3, can enhance the potential of the programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) antibody to treat cancer. The research was led by Yong Cang, Ph.D., Degron's co-founder and chief scientific officer, and conducted by Dr. Cang's research group at ShanghaiTech University's School of Life Science and Technology.
Published in the journal Cell Chemical Biology, the study, "Lenalidomide bypasses CD28 co-stimulation to reinstate PD-1 immunotherapy by activating Notch signaling," found that the molecular glue drug lenalidomide could restore the tumor immunotherapy effect of the PD-1 antibody and inhibit tumor growth in mice lacking T-cell co-stimulatory signals. PD-1 is a checkpoint protein on T cells. It normally operates as a type of 'off switch' that helps keep T cells from attacking other cells in the body.
"Science-based innovation is core to Degron's exploration into the mechanisms of molecular glue drugs and cancer immunity. The work performed in Dr. Cang's lab reveals that degradation of IKZF1 and IKZF3, can reinvigorate T cells to attack cancers by modulating immune regulatory networks," said Lily Zou, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of Degron. "This discovery provides new ideas for Degron to dial in such activities into our molecular glue programs when appropriate."
"Degron's pipeline of molecular glue degraders against novel oncology targets can be chemically modified to selectively retain the ability to degrade IKZF1 and IKZF3. As a result, such drugs can kill cancer cells by two different mechanisms, directly inactivating oncogenesis and by inducing T cells to target the cancer cells," said Dr. Cang.
Dr. Cang's group constructed a humanized mouse model of cereblon (CRBN) that is sensitive to lenalidomide and proved that lenalidomide can co-stimulate CD8+ T cells in the absence of CD28 receptors. Using CD28-KO CRBN humanized mouse models and tumor samples from colorectal cancer patients, the researchers demonstrated that lenalidomide could restore the response of CD28-CD8+ T cells to PD-1 antibodies, thereby enabling the recovery of PD-1 antibody therapy failure due to CD28 deficiency.
Dr. Cang's team demonstrated that lenalidomide could co-stimulate T cells by upregulating the secretion of the immune system signaling molecule, interleukin-2 (IL2). Through transcriptome sequencing, the researchers found that lenalidomide can also upregulate Notch targets. Simultaneously blocking both IL2 and Notch signaling pathways simultaneously limits the co-stimulatory effect of lenalidomide on T cells, rendering the combination therapy of lenalidomide and PD-1 antibody ineffective.
Approved for marketing in 2005 as an anti-myeloma drug, lenalidomide kills myeloma cells directly while enhancing T-cell anti-tumor activity to inhibiting tumor growth. Lenalidomide is approved for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM), deletion 5q myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), mantle cell lymphoma, and other hematological tumors. In addition, lenalidomide's iterative product, pomalidomide, a third-generation immunomodulatory agent that acts as molecular glue, has also achieved great success as a treatment for relapsed and refractory MM.
The research was mainly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, and ShanghaiTech University.
Link to the original paper abstract:
https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-9456(22)00204-5#%20
Download the full text for free:
https://bit.ly/3Amwy0b
About Degron Therapeutics
Degron Therapeutics is a biotechnology company advancing human health by developing novel medicines using its robust molecular glue-based targeted protein degradation drug discovery platform. The company's unique GlueXplorer® platform has created a rapidly expanding IP-protected compound library and screening system to develop a new class of small-molecule medicines that target previously undruggable disease targets. The company's pipeline includes a growing number of preclinical compounds for oncology, inflammation, metabolic disease, and rare diseases. For more information, please visit www.degrontx.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Degron Therapeutics | 2022-06-27T12:38:10+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/06/27/degron-therapeutics-co-founder-provides-new-strategy-molecular-glue-tumor-immunotherapy/ |
ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. (BBW) on Thursday reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $14.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the St. Louis-based company said it had net income of 89 cents.
The toy retailer posted revenue of $117.7 million in the period.
Build-A-Bear expects full-year revenue in the range of $440 million to $460 million.
Build-A-Bear shares have decreased 15% since the beginning of the year. The stock has climbed 65% in the last 12 months.
_____
This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on BBW at https://www.zacks.com/ap/BBW | 2022-05-26T11:37:51+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/Build-A-Bear-Fiscal-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17200122.php |
TOKYO (AP) — Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search came to an end Friday when he was reunited in Tokyo with a cherished guitar 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto hotel.
“My girlfriend is right there,” said Bachman, 78, a former member of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as the Gretsch guitar on which he wrote “American Woman” and other hits was handed to him by a Japanese musician who had bought it at a Tokyo store in 2014 without knowing its history.
He said all guitars are special, but the orange 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins he bought as a teenager was exceptional. He worked at multiple jobs to save money to buy the $400 guitar, his first purchase of an expensive instrument, he said.
“It made my whole life. It was my hammer and a tool to write songs, make music and make money,” Bachman told The Associated Press before the handover at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo.
When it was stolen from the Toronto hotel in 1977, “I cried for three days. It was part of me,” he said. “It was very, very upsetting.” He ended up buying about 300 guitars in unsuccessful attempts to replace it, he said.
Bachman talked frequently about the missing guitar in interviews and on radio shows, and more recently on YouTube programs on which he performed with his son, Tal.
In 2020, a Canadian fan who heard the story of the guitar launched an internet search and successfully located it in Tokyo within two weeks.
The fan, William Long, used a small spot in the guitar’s wood grain visible in old images as a “digital fingerprint” and tracked the instrument down to a vintage guitar shop site in Tokyo. A further search led him to a YouTube video showing the instrument being played by a Japanese musician, TAKESHI, in December 2019.
After receiving the news from Long, Bachman contacted TAKESHI immediately, and recognized the guitar in a video chat they had.
“I was crying,” Bachman said. “The guitar almost spoke to me over the video, like, ’Hey, I’m coming home.’”
TAKESHI agreed to give it to Bachman in exchange for one that was very similar. So Bachman searched and found the guitar’s “sister” — made during the same week, with a close serial number, no modifications and no repairs.
“To find my guitar again was a miracle, to find its twin sister was another miracle,” Bachman said.
TAKESHI said he decided to return the guitar because as a guitar player he could imagine how much Bachman missed it.
“I owned it and played it for only eight years and I’m extremely sad to return it now. But he has been feeling sad for 46 years, and it’s time for someone else to be sad,” TAKESHI said. “I felt sorry for this legend.”
He said he felt good after returning the guitar to its rightful owner, but it may take time for him to love his new Gretsch as much as that one.
“It’s a guitar, and it has a soul. So even if it has the same shape, I cannot say for sure if I can love a replacement the same way I loved this one,” he said. “There is no doubt Randy thought of me and searched hard (for the replacement), so I will gradually develop an affection for it, but it may take time.”
Bachman said he and TAKESHI are now like brothers who own guitars that are “twin sisters.” They are participating in a documentary about the guitar on which they plan to perform a song, “Lost and Found,” together.
They also performed several songs at Friday’s handover, including “American Woman.”
Bachman said he will lock the guitar up in his home so he will never lose it again. “I am never ever going to take it out of my house again,” he said. | 2022-07-02T15:34:28+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/entertainment-news/rock-star-randy-bachman-reunited-with-beloved-stolen-guitar/ |
Companies are racing to accelerate and commercialize in-vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, which would make human eggs and sperm in the lab from any cell in the body containing anyone's DNA.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Companies are racing to accelerate and commercialize in-vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, which would make human eggs and sperm in the lab from any cell in the body containing anyone's DNA.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-12T22:25:36+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/health/health/2023-07-12/biomedical-startups-are-racing-to-revolutionize-the-way-humans-reproduce |
Ken Midgett and Dan Clapper join the global provider of digital learning solutions for the skilled trades, enhancing the company's growing team of experts with extensive plumbing and HVAC experience
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Interplay Learning, the leading provider of online and VR training for the essential skilled trades, announces the addition of two leading residential and commercial services authorities to its roster of training experts.
Ken Midgett has been named Interplay Learning's plumbing market director, and Dan Clapper has been named commercial HVAC and facilities maintenance market director. In their new roles, Midgett and Clapper help business owners and leaders leverage Interplay's 3D simulation-based skilled trades training to attract talent and upskill employees more efficiently than ever before.
"Ken and Dan share the vision that drives Interplay Learning to continue innovating," said Doug Donovan, founder and CEO of Interplay Learning. "With their decades of experience in a wide range of positions throughout their respective industries, they understand the challenges trades business owners face. They're each in a unique position to develop and implement advanced training solutions to help businesses enhance technician productivity and drive growth."
Midgett has more than 40 years of experience in the industry as a licensed master plumber, business owner, industry advocate, and career and technical education instructor. In 2013, Midgett received NOCTI's highest honor, the C. Thomas Olivo Outstanding Service Award. In 2019, he was named PHCC – National Association Plumbing Instructor of the Year.
"Interplay Learning offers an unprecedented opportunity to elevate the quality of training in the plumbing industry," Midgett said. "The company is committed to developing and delivering effective, engaging training technology that produces meaningful, measurable results."
Clapper brings more than 25 years of experience in the HVAC market to Interplay Learning. Dan started with installation and service in his family's HVAC company, then held various regional and national leadership roles with top HVAC manufacturers. He is the author of "Get More HVAC Leads: Five Must-Have Strategies for 2018."
"The tools we offer can change the lives of technicians, contractors and business owners," Clapper said. "Equipping team members to develop better skills faster impacts every level of a service business, from customer experience to productivity, retention and profitability. It's incredibly gratifying to be in a position at Interplay Learning to do that every single day."
Interplay Learning, a global provider of scalable, highly effective hands-on digital learning simulations for the HVAC, plumbing, electrical, solar and facilities maintenance industries, is building better training, better careers and better lives for its customers and their employees. Interplay Learning's digital experiential learning platform, SkillMill, conveniently turns any space into a training lab with short video courses, 3D simulations, knowledge checks, and other advanced features that prepare users to be job-ready in weeks, not years.
For more information, visit www.interplaylearning.com.
Since 2016, Austin-based Interplay Learning has been building better training, better careers and better lives for its customers and their employees. Its award-winning online and VR training for the essential skilled trades, including HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Solar, Multi-Family Maintenance and Facilities Maintenance workforces, is scalable and more effective than traditional training methods. By leveraging immersive learning technology, Interplay's customers are able to train and practice hands-on learning from a desktop, phone, tablet or in virtual reality. The result is a highly trained employee who is job-ready in weeks, not years. Its digital learning platform, SkillMill, conveniently turns any space into a training lab with its short video courses, 3D simulations, knowledge checks, coaching and connectivity. Recent accolades include recognition by Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards in the Education, General Excellence and On the Rise categories. Welcome to the next generation of the skilled labor workforce. Visit www.interplaylearning.com to learn more.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Heather Ripley
Ripley PR
(865) 977-1973
hripley@ripleypr.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Interplay Learning | 2022-09-22T12:57:48+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/09/22/interplay-learning-continues-building-industry-leading-training-team/ |
By HARM VENHUIZEN
Associated Press/Report for America
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters with disabilities are celebrating a win after a federal judge, citing the Voting Rights Act, ruled that they may get assistance returning their ballots. Several voters sued after a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that cast doubt on whether they could. While that resolved the issue in Wisconsin, disabled voters elsewhere may not be so lucky. As Republicans have pushed to tighten voting restrictions amid former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election, the voting rights of people with disabilities have sometimes been harmed. They are pushing back, with legal challenges in at least eight states that make it difficult or impossible for people with certain disabilities to vote.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-09-14T18:49:40+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2022/09/14/disabled-voters-win-in-wisconsin-legal-fights-elsewhere/ |
Funerals held for victims of Michigan State campus attack
GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. (AP) — The first funerals are being held for students who were killed in this week’s mass shooting at Michigan State University. Mourners in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms filed into St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church on Saturday to remember sophomore Brian Fraser, who was one of three students killed in Monday’s attack. At the same time, a funeral was taking place for Alexandria Verner at the Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Clawson, a suburb a few miles to the northwest. The Detroit News reports that a memorial service is scheduled for later Saturday for the third student killed, Arielle Anderson, whose funeral is set for next week. Five other students were wounded in the attack. | 2023-02-18T21:40:17+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/02/18/funerals-held-for-victims-of-michigan-state-campus-attack/ |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration moved last week to ban Juul products from sale, but that’s not the end of it.
The order has been held up in court as Juul appeals. Anti-smoking advocates like the American Lung Association say they are optimistic Juul will not see a return to the market based on data they submitted to the FDA, but pro-vaping groups warn new regulations could backfire on public health.
“Yes, some progress is being made but more is necessary,” Paul Billings of the American Lung Association said.
He said Juul is to blame for fueling the teen vaping epidemic and says its devices should never have made it to the market in the first place.
“Sadly, in the interim, millions have become addicted,” Billings said.
He said the FDA should get all flavored and synthetic vaping products off the shelves.
“Congress has made it clear FDA has that authority and has put the FDA on a strict timeline,” Billings said.
But Juul is not going down without a fight and adult smoking advocates say they hope Juul’s appeal succeeds. They argue the FDA’s crusade will do more harm than good.
“I thinks FDA’s reasoning is flawed,” Guy Bentley of libertarian think tank Reason said. “If Juul was taken off the market, it would be a really devastating blow to public health. Juul has helped hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of smokers transition away from the most dangerous form of nicotine consumption, which is smoking cigarettes.”
“We need to recognize the facts of life,” he continued, “that people are going to seek out these products and seek out nicotine. It is far better to have safer alternatives in a regulated market than push things to the black market.”
There’s no telling how long the appeal process will take. In the meantime, Juul products are still being sold. | 2022-07-01T21:15:04+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/the-fda-banned-juul-so-whats-next/ |
The University of Maine’s football team, in its third game this year, took its first two leads of the season in Saturday night’s game against Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
But after Cole Baker’s 45-yard field goal staked the Black Bears to a 3-0 lead and Joe Fagnano’s 17-yard touchdown pass to Shawn Bowman answered a 51-yard TD pass from Phil Jurkovec to Zay Flowers, the Eagles rattled off 24 unanswered points and then their defense made two crucial stops in the fourth quarter to stunt a UMaine rally and earn a 38-17 victory at Alumni Stadium.
The win for BC, which plays in higher-level Football Bowl Subdivision and Atlantic Coast Conference, was its first of the season after two losses, while Football Championship Subdivision team UMaine fell to 0-3 for the first time since 2016.
BC outgained UMaine 431-378 over the 60 minutes.
Trailing 31-17, the Black Bears drove 74 yards to the BC-10 with 9:03 left in the game but failed to pick up a first down on a fourth-and-two when Elijah Barnwell was stacked up at the line of scrimmage and fumbled. BC’s Josh DeBerry recovered it.
“We had the play (to pick up the first down) but Elijah never really had the ball secured so he couldn’t just run downhill,” said UMaine head coach Jordan Stevens.
Following a BC three-and-out, UMaine took over possession off a BC punt at BC’s 47-yard line and a Fagnano pass to Montigo Moss moved the ball to the BC-39.
But Fagnano’s next pass was intercepted by BC linebacker Kam Arnold and he returned it 49 yards to the UMaine-20 with 6:47 left and that sewed up the win.
“Joe fought all game long. He has taken a lot of hits over three games. He needs the bye week to get healthy,” said Stevens.
UMaine has next weekend off.
Pat Garwo III capped the scoring with a 30-yard run with 1:48 to go after UMaine had turned the ball over on downs.
The Eagles, who had averaged 233.5 yards of total offense in losses to fellow FBS teams Rutgers (22-21) and Virginia Tech (27-10), racked up 253 yards of offense in the first half alone thanks to seven plays of at least 11 yards, including two in excess of 50 yards.
Following Bowman’s TD, the Eagles took the lead for good 2:21 later on Jurkovec’s 2-yard TD pass to 6-foot-6 tight end and Notre Dame transfer George Takacs. A 53-yard pass from Jurkovec to Jaden Williams had set up the TD.
Williams scored on a 9-yard run around the right end to extend the lead to 21-10 just 2:56 into the second quarter, completing a 6-play, 46-yard drive.
All-ACC running back Garwo III closed out the first-half scoring with a 1-yard touchdown run to finish off an eight-play 71-yard drive with 1:08 left in the half.
A 12-yard pass from Jurkovec to Takacs on a third-and-four at the UMaine-13 preceded the TD run.
Connor Lytton kicked a 46-yard field goal 3:46 into the second half but UMaine cut the lead to 31-17 later in the third period when the Black Bears strung together an 8-play, 75-yard drive that produced a 4-yard TD pass from Fagnano to Moss.
A 49-yard pass from Fagnano to Zavier Scott and a 17-yarder to Bowman were key plays on the drive.
But UMaine couldn’t get any closer.
Jurkovec finished with 25 completions in 37 attempts for 320 yards and two TDs. Two-time All-ACC wide receiver Flowers caught eight passes for 89 yards and Takacs snared seven for 66 yards. All-ACC running back Garwo rushed for 78 yards on 17 carries and two TDs and the defense was paced by linebacker Vinny DePalma (8 tackles), safety Jaiden Woodbey (7) and cornerback DeBerry (7).
Fagnano completed 21 of 43 passes for 289 yards and two TDs with two interceptions. Scott caught a career-high eight passes for 135 yards and Moss had a career-high six catches for 43 yards. Tavion Banks led the rushers with 34 on six carries. Cornerback Kahzir “Buggs” Brown was involved in a game-high 11 tackles, linebackers Adrian Otero and Brian Lee Jr. had 10 and 8, respectively. Defensive tackle Raffaele Salamone from Portland had seven.
Stevens felt his team’s performance was its best of the season against its best opponent to date, although he noted that New Mexico is also a very good team. FBS team New Mexico beat UMaine 41-0 in the opener.
“I am really encouraged. A lot of guys did a lot of good things,” he said. “We’re improving every game. We’ve got to close out games better. That’s the next step.”
Pivotal plays: UMaine’s inability to pick up a first down after being second-and-three at
the BC-11 when BC stopped Barnwell’s fourth-down run was the first game-changing play and then Arnold’s interception and return was the second one. Those plays enabled the Eagles to hold off the Black Bears, who moved the ball effectively in the second half but couldn’t turn those two fourth-quarter drives into points.
Takeaway: UMaine has something to build on and will have a week off to prepare for the Oct. 1 visit of Villanova in its Colonial Athletic Association opener. But the Black Bears have to run the ball more effectively, finish drives and be able to convert on short yardage situations on third and fourth downs.
What’s next: UMaine hosts Villanova on Oct. 1 at 1 p.m while BC travels to Florida State for a game next Saturday night at 8. | 2022-09-19T09:34:18+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/17/sports/umaine-sports/umaine-boston-college-football/ |
WT Lecture Series to bring Hispanic Culture to Life through poetry
CANYON, Texas (KFDA) - WT will be hosting an award winning Mexican poet who will share poetry that honors the perspectives of Native American and Latin American customs and traditions.
Judith Santopietro will be reading “Latinx Poetry and the Stories of America” at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18, in the Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall.
The Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages will host the event, which is free and open to the public.
“The WT Spanish program has been bringing Hispanic women poets each fall semester since 2017,” said Dr. Andrew Reynolds, professor of Spanish. “We are very excited about Judith’s visit and the way she gives voice to indigenous cultures that are often forgotten or left out when we think about ‘Hispanic’ or ‘Mexican-American’ stories.”
“I became a poet because I wanted to recreate in my poems those extraordinary characters of the oral history—nahuales, chaneques, flying women and other extraordinary beings,” Santopietro said.
Copyright 2022 KFDA. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-14T20:24:08+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/10/14/wt-lecture-series-bring-hispanic-culture-life-through-poetry/ |
On the latest edition of the 1st & Orange podcast, Denver Post Broncos beat reporters Parker Gabriel and Ryan McFadden break down Denver’s addition of pass-rusher Frank Clark, what they learned during OTAs and what’s ahead for Sean Payton’s team during next week’s mandatory minicamp.
Watch
Listen
Subscribe to the podcast
SoundCloud | iTunes | Stitcher | RSS
Want more Broncos news? Sign up for the Broncos Insider to get all our NFL analysis. | 2023-06-09T20:46:42+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/09/broncos-podcast-denver-frank-clark-otas/ |
(KTLA) – Disgraced comedian and actor Bill Cosby is facing a new lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct in Los Angeles County, The Washington Post reports.
Cosby, 85, is being sued by Victoria Valentino for an alleged drugging and rape that took place in 1969.
According to Valentino, Cosby offered her and her friend pills at a Los Angeles restaurant, then later took them to his office, where they passed out from the drugs and he tried to rape Valentino’s friend.
When Valentino awoke, she stopped Cosby, who then raped her instead, she claims.
Valentino, a former Playboy model, came forward with rape claims against Cosby in 2014, being one of dozens of women who have done so.
She filed this lawsuit under California’s Assembly Bill 2777, a law that allows sexual abuse victims to sue the perpetrators even if the crime occurred outside of the statute of limitations, according to the National Law Review.
Cosby was convicted of sexual assault in 2018, though the verdict was thrown out on appeal in 2021 due to a technicality. He served more than two years in prison.
In response to the lawsuit, Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt told the Post that “in my opinion, these women are not victims of sexual assault, they are victims of greed.”
Wyatt added that the claims are part of a “formula” to take down successful Black men like Cosby and singer R. Kelly, the Post reported.
“They don’t want this Black man to leave this earth as America’s dad. They don’t want white kids looking up to him as America’s dad and wanting their fathers to be like him,” Wyatt said.
Cosby said late last year that he plans to go on a comedy tour in 2023. | 2023-06-02T16:02:55+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/bill-cosby-faces-new-sexual-assault-lawsuit/ |
BOSTON, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - On-demand workforce technology company, LiveXchange, is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert DeAngelis as the company's new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Robert brings a wealth of experience and expertise in finance, strategic planning, and corporate leadership to his new role.
As the CFO, Robert will oversee all financial operations, drive financial growth strategies, and play a vital role in shaping the company's financial future. With his extensive background in financial management, Robert will provide valuable insights and guidance to propel LiveXchange towards continued success and market leadership.
CEO Brian Prichard expressed his enthusiasm about Robert joining the company, saying, "We are thrilled to welcome Robert DeAngelis to the LiveXchange team as our new CFO. Robert's proven track record and deep understanding of financial dynamics in the customer experience industry make him an exceptional addition to our executive leadership team. His strategic mindset and commitment to excellence align perfectly with our company's vision and goals."
Robert DeAngelis brings over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting, having held key leadership positions in organizations in the U.S., including Port of San Diego and Teleperformance. His expertise includes financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, capital management, and risk assessment. Robert has demonstrated ability to drive financial performance and optimize business operations.
"I am honored and excited to join LiveXchange as the CFO," said Robert DeAngelis. "The company's commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and growth aligns perfectly with my professional values. I look forward to working closely with the talented team at LiveXchange and contributing to the company's continued financial success and growth."
ABOUT LIVEXCHANGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.™
LiveXchange, founded in 2002, provides innovative solutions, revolutionizing how companies source, train, manage, and compensate their customer experience (CX) talent. Their GigCX Marketplace gives users access to 250K+ on-demand global CX workers all secured with their PCI Level 1 Certified Secure WorkSpace virtual desktop, and complimented by its fully integrated payment platform, PayShark.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE LiveXchange Technologies, Inc. | 2023-07-19T11:24:58+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/07/19/livexchange-technologies-inc-announces-robert-deangelis-new-chief-financial-officer/ |
CALGARY, AB, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (TSXV: GRD) (OTCQB: GRDAF) - Grounded Lithium Corp. ("GLC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce we filed an updated National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") effective November 30, 2022 (the " Updated Technical Report") on our Kindersley Lithium Project ("KLP"). The Updated Technical Report was prepared or under the supervision of certain qualified persons (as defined in NI 43-101) by Sproule Associates Limited ("Sproule"), a global leader in subsurface fluid resource evaluations with over seventy years of experience.
The Updated Technical Report concludes that the inferred resource of lithium carbonate equivalent ("LCE") for the KLP totals 3.7 million tonnes. This represents a 28% increase from our previous NI 43-101 technical report dated April 15, 2022 which reported a total LCE inferred resource of 2.9 million tonnes for the KLP. The increase is largely the result of continued consolidation of the Company's overall land base in the KLP as well as key learnings from the Company's recently completed lithium test well, the results of which were communicated in our press release dated December 13, 2022. The Company's total land position for the KLP currently equals 266 sections (approximately 69,000 hectares), both gross and net, with total Company landholdings at 300 sections (approximately 78,000 hectares), again both gross and net.
The Updated Technical Report incorporates a thorough assessment similar to the rigour used in understanding subsurface fluid dynamics used by operators in the petroleum industry. The Updated Technical Report contains the most accurate representations possible of the subsurface porosity which were derived by completing a petrophysical analysis that corrects porosity measurements for each rock type. With a relatively consistent geology across the area, our analysis involved an extensive three-dimensional geological model correlating or connecting the depositional layers between the wells. In the overall determination, Company owned land parcels within the KLP received this far more accurate representation of the brine-in-place as opposed to a simple general assumption of average porosity and average thickness.
The Company's Updated Technical Report can be found on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or on the Company's website (www.groundedlithium.com)
GLC is a publicly traded lithium brine exploration and development company that controls 3.7 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent of inferred resource over our focused land holdings in Southwest Saskatchewan. GLC's multi-faceted business model involves the consolidation, delineation, exploitation and ultimately development of our opportunity base to fulfill our vision to build a best-in-class, environmentally responsible, Canadian lithium producer supporting the global energy transition shift. U.S. investors can find current financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for the Company on https://www.otcmarkets.com/.
Scientific and technical information contained in this press release has been prepared under the supervision of Doug Ashton, P.Eng, Suryanarayana Karri, P. Geoph., Alexey Romanov, P. Geo. and Meghan Klein, P. Eng., each of whom is a qualified person within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. The opinions, forecasts, projections and statements about future events of results, are forward looking information, forward-looking statements or financial outlooks (collectively, "forward-looking statements") under the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. These statements are made as of the date of this press release and the fact that this press release remains available does not constitute a representation by GLC that the Company believes these forward-looking statements continue to be true as of any subsequent date. Although GLC believes that the assumptions underlying, and expectations reflected in, these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions and expectations will prove to be correct. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the consolidation, delineation, exploitation and development of GLC's opportunity base, and GLC's vision of becoming a best-in-class, environmentally responsible, Canadian lithium producer supporting the global energy transition
Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are: GLC's expectation that our operations will be in Western Canada, unexpected problems can arise due to technical difficulties and operational difficulties which impact the production, transport or sale of our products; geographic and weather conditions can impact the production; the risk that current global economic and credit conditions may impact commodity prices and consumption more than GLC currently predicts; the failure to obtain financing on reasonable terms; the risk that unexpected delays and difficulties in developing currently owned properties may occur; the failure of drilling to result in commercial projects; unexpected delays due to the limited availability of drilling equipment and personnel; and the other risk factors detailed from time to time in GLC's periodic reports. GLC's forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Grounded Lithium Corp | 2022-12-20T12:43:29+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/12/20/grounded-lithium-announces-28-increase-lithium-carbonate-equivalent-inferred-resources-37-million-tonnes/ |
Biden to visit Ireland, mark Good Friday accord anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland next week in part to help mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday accord, a U.S.-brokered agreement that helped end decades of deadly sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
Biden will first visit Belfast, Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., from April 11-12 to mark progress since the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was signed a quarter century ago and to underscore U.S. readiness to support Northern Ireland’s economic potential, the White House said.
Biden will then spend April 12-14 in the Republic of Ireland, holding engagements in Dublin, County Louth and County Mayo, where he will deliver an address celebrating the “deep, historic ties” between the United States and Ireland, the White House said.
Signed on April 10, 1998 — which was Good Friday — the landmark accord helped end three decades of sectarian violence over the issue of Northern Ireland uniting with Ireland or remaining in the United Kingdom.
The anniversary is being marked with celebration that peace has endured, but concern about entrenched divisions and political instability. And the specter of violence has not wholly disappeared — last month U.K. intelligence services raised the terrorism threat level for Northern Ireland from “substantial” to “severe.”
Asked whether the heightened terrorism threat level would affect his plans to visit, Biden, who is proud of his Irish heritage and has long wanted to visit Ireland, said it would not.
“No, they can’t keep me out,’ he said last month.
The agreement has come under increasing stress following the U.K.’s exit from the European Union. A recent accord known as the Windsor Framework between the U.K. and the EU addresses some of the issues that arose around commerce and goods that cross the Irish Sea from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
Biden, who quotes Irish poets quite often, recently praised the Windsor Framework as an important step in maintaining the peace accord, though Northern Ireland’s political leaders have called for changes.
“It’s a vital, vital step and that’s going to help ensure all the people in Northern Ireland have an opportunity to realize their full potential,” Biden said of the framework during remarks at a Capitol Hill luncheon on St. Patrick’s Day.
Biden had hosted Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office and at a White House reception on the holiday, a tradition that had been scuttled in recent years by the coronavirus pandemic.
Varadkar promised Biden a jolly good time when he visits.
“I promise you that we’re going to roll out the red carpet, and it’s going to be a visit like no other,” Varadkar told Biden in the Oval Office. “Everyone is excited about it already. We’re going to have great crowds who would love to see you.”
The last U.S. president to visit Belfast was Barack Obama in 2013.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-05T12:10:15+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2023/04/05/biden-visit-ireland-mark-good-friday-accord-anniversary/ |
Statistics after 16 games
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Statistics after 16 games
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad | 2023-01-07T15:38:10+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Los-Angeles-Chargers-17701318.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Texas Rangers will host Major League Baseball’s 2024 All-Star Game, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Thursday.
Speaking at the conclusion of this week’s owners’ meetings in New York, Manfred announced the game will be held July 16, 2024 at Globe Life Field, which opened during the 2020 pandemic season. The stadium hosted the neutral site World Series and NL Championship Series that season.
Next year’s game will take place in Seattle, which last hosted in 2001 in Ichiro’s rookie year and Cal Ripken Jr.’s final season.
The 2026 game will take place in Philadelphia to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. No announcement has been made about the 2025 game.
Texas will host its second All-Star Game and first since the National League claimed a 3-2 victory in 1995 at The Ballpark in Arlington. That was the first midsummer classic since a contentious strike canceled the remainder of the 1994 regular season and postseason and reduced the 1995 season to 144 games.
“The Texas Rangers are honored to be awarded the 2024 All-Star Game,” said Rangers Majority Owner and Managing Partner Ray Davis in a statement “With the opening of Globe Life Field in 2020 and the incredible development that continues to take place around the park, Arlington is an ideal location to host Major League Baseball and the Midsummer Classic.
“We are honored to be selected by MLB to host the All-Star Game once again,” Arlington Mayor Jim Ross said in the statement. “We look forward to welcoming the most talented baseball players to show off their skills in one of the best stadiums in the country. Globe Life Field and Arlington’s Entertainment District are ready to put on a spectacular 2024 All-Star Week for baseball fans from all over the world.”
___
AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-11-17T23:50:07+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-texas-rangers-to-host-mlbs-2024-all-star-game/ |
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A horticulture teacher from Minnesota set a new U.S. record Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after raising a giant gourd weighing 2,560 pounds.
Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota set the new record and won an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California.
“Minnesota has a great midyear, but our spring in our parts is really, really tough. So to do it in Minnesota, it just shouldn’t happen,” Gienger said. “It’s like winning the Tour de France on a big wheel. You know, you can only hope, but it worked.”
Gienger drove the gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to see his hard work pay off at the 49th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
“You think driving in a snowstorm is bad? Try driving one of these things,” he said.
Gienger, who also won the same contest in Northern California in 2020, broke a record set last week in New York where a grower raised a massive pumpkin weighing 2,554 pounds.
A grower in Italy holds the world record for the heaviest pumpkin. He grew a 2,702-pound squash in 2021, according to Guinness World Records. | 2022-10-11T21:34:42+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/offbeat-and-unique/ap-2560-pound-pumpkin-wins-california-contest-sets-record/ |
Trump ex-lawyer Cohen meets again with New York prosecutors
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen said he was meeting yet again Wednesday with New York City prosecutors who have spent years examining the former president’s financial dealings.
Cohen stopped briefly to talk with reporters as he entered the Manhattan district attorney’s office. He said it was the 15th time he had met with prosecutors.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently convened a new grand jury to hear evidence related to payments Cohen helped arrange in 2016 to two women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Trump.
“I don’t know why I’m here yet. We’ll find out as soon as I get upstairs,” Cohen said.
Cohen was previously one of Trump’s top lieutenants, acting as a liaison with the media and handling some of his legal and business affairs. But after federal prosecutors charged Cohen with tax evasion and criminal campaign finance violations, the two have become enemies.
Cohen testified before Congress that Trump’s company misled banks and others about the value of its assets, helping to spur investigations that led to the Trump Organization’s conviction in December on charges that it helped some of its executives avoid personal income taxes.
The existence of the new grand jury was previously confirmed by two people familiar with the investigation, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the secret proceeding.
Trump has denied having extramarital affairs with either of the women — porn star Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal. Trump’s lawyers have said the payments were legal and that the investigation is politically motivated.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-08T17:20:15+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/02/08/trump-ex-lawyer-cohen-meets-again-with-new-york-prosecutors/ |
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian plowed a car into a crowded bus stop in east Jerusalem on Friday, killing two people, including a six-year-old, and injuring five others before being shot and killed, Israeli police and medics said, the latest escalation as violence grips the contested capital.
The car-ramming took place in Ramot, a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. Tensions have soared in the Israeli-annexed eastern half of the city, following a Palestinian shooting attack outside a synagogue on Jan. 27 that killed seven people in the deadliest attack in Jerusalem in over a decade.
The Israeli rescue service identified the two killed as a six-year-old boy and a man in his 20s. It said medics were treating five injured, including an eight-year-old child in critical condition undergoing CPR. Others, ages ranging from 10 to 40, were in moderate to serious condition. They had been waiting at the bus stop before the car came crashing to a stop, police said.
“It was a shocking scene,” said paramedic Lishai Shemesh who happened to be driving by at the time of the attack. “I was in the car with my wife and children and noticed a car driving fast into the bus stop and crushing the people who were waiting there."
An off-duty detective shot and killed the suspected attacker at the scene, police added, identifying him as a Palestinian in his 30s from east Jerusalem.
Speaking from the scene of the suspected attack, Israel’s hard-line national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, ordered police to set up checkpoints around the driver's neighborhood of Issawiya to “check every vehicle" and “create a full blockade.”
The Islamic militant groups Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the rampage but did not immediately claim responsibility. Footage from the scene showed police and paramedics swarming a mangled blue Mazda that had slammed into the bus stop. Bodies lay strewn along the way.
Israel’s largely ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, expressed shock and offered condolences to the families of the victims. “Our hearts are pained by the terrible news,” he said.
Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital, while the Palestinians seek east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as a capital of their future state.
Hostilities have increased in east Jerusalem and the West Bank since Israel stepped up raids in the occupied territory last spring, following a series of deadly Palestinian attacks within Israel.
Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem in 2022, making it the deadliest year in those territories since 2004, according to leading Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Last year, 30 people were killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.
So far this year, 43 Palestinians have been killed, according to a count by The Associated Press — 10 of them in a gunfight last month during an army raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Israel's new far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, had accused the previous government of inaction in the face of a deadly wave of Palestinian assaults last year, stirring questions about its stance toward the Palestinians at this time of heightened tension.
Netanyahu's office said he dispatched more police forces to the area and directed them to arrest those in the driver's "circle." He and Ben-Gvir called for the immediate sealing of the assailant's home ahead of its planned demolition.
Israel defends such home demolitions of Palestinian attackers' family homes as a deterrent meant to prevent future attacks. But human rights groups criticize the practice as collective punishment, prohibited by international law, leaving relatives homeless who had nothing to do with the attack.
The new government has announced its intention to accelerate the decades-old policy of home demolitions, sealing the family homes of two attackers in east Jerusalem following a pair of shootings last month
Officials have also escalated the demolitions of Palestinian homes built without hard-to-get Israeli building permits in the city's east, where some 200,000 Israelis live in Jewish neighborhoods that most of the world consider to be in occupied territory.
In the area of Wadi Qaddum earlier on Friday, Palestinians held midday prayers in protest outside an apartment building housing 100 residents that is slated to be razed. Netanyahu's office has reportedly delayed the demolition. Heavily armed police burst into the area as men gathered in prayer, confiscating Palestinian flags and firing tear gas to disperse the demonstration.
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP
Credit: AP | 2023-02-10T14:55:23+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/israeli-police-2-killed-5-wounded-in-jerusalem-car-ramming/3MVBBHED3NE2BPQCNTWI7KZYLQ/ |
BOSTON (SHNS) – The recently-announced independent team working to get to the bottom of delays in construction and delivery for more than 300 new Red and Orange Line cars won’t cost the state additional dollars, according to the governor’s office, but will drain funds from a contractual contingency account.
Gov. Maura Healey announced in early February that the MBTA convened a team of experts to “evaluate what changes and process improvements need to be implemented now, in order to accelerate the delivery of cars,” by looking into manufacturing management operations, delivery schedule, market conditions and the contractual terms the MBTA has with Chinese rail company CRRC.
The T has for years had contracts worth nearly $900 million with CRRC to replace the entire Red and Orange Line fleet with 404 brand new vehicles, but the timeline has been kicked down the road several times, most recently to December 2023 for the Orange Line and December 2026 for the Red Line. Plus, there have been recent reports of mismanagement and safety issues at the Springfield factory assembling the new cars.
The Healey administration told the News Service that the state has hired Hatch (formerly LTK Engineering), and WilmerHale and Holland & Knight law firms as consultants for the working group.
“Hatch’s expertise will be valuable in understanding the barriers that have kept CRRC MA from reaching the car delivery levels. Wilmer Hale and H&K’s expertise will be valuable in evaluating the contract, tariff and regulatory implications of potential changes to the contract that would enhance performance and increase the rate of delivery and ensure safety,” Healey spokeswoman Karissa Hand said.
The cost of the consultants will be accommodated within the existing budget for the car replacements, Hand said. It will fall under a built-in contingency for unknown costs in the current CRRC contracts, and won’t cause the state to exceed its current budget for the project. Hand did not say how much the actual price tag is expected to be for the group.
Healey, who took over the governor’s office from Republican Charlie Baker, said on WBUR’s Radio Boston on Wednesday that she first heard about the car delivery delays “two weeks into our job.”
“What I did immediately was to assemble a team, and they have already started work,” she said on Wednesday. “In fact, our secretary of transportation was out there on the ground on Monday, and we are going to be all over this.”
The consultants have been physically on the premises of the Springfield factory, Healey said, and will have a “constant presence.”
“There are operational issues that need to be addressed and problems are being corrected as they occur,” she said. “You have to be physically there.”
The governor outlined some of the issues at the Springfield factory for WBUR listeners.
“Years ago, the state struck a deal with a Chinese company to manufacture, to fabricate, actually, because a lot of these cars are — most of these cars, are sort of made in China and then they’re shipped over for final fabrication. Well, it turns out that, you know, there were certain things missed in the process. And it looks like the facility itself didn’t actually have the capability to fabricate it as quickly or in the way it needed to,” Healey said.
“When I learned about this, my job was to get right on it, put a team together of technical experts, engineers, to figure out how to retool things at the facility and how to operationalize that so we can expedite the production and the delivery of these cars as quickly as possible,” she said. | 2023-02-15T23:51:12+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/engineers-law-firms-digging-into-subway-car-deliveries-2/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will campaign with Georgia’s incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp the day before this month’s GOP primary in his most significant political break with former President Donald Trump to date.
Kemp’s campaign announced Friday morning that Pence will headline a get-out-the-vote rally for Kemp on Monday, May 23rd, the day before the vote. That puts Pence in direct conflict with Trump-endorsed candidate David Perdue, who has been trailing in the polls. Kemp is one of Trump’s top targets this election cycle because of his refusal to cooperate with Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“Brian Kemp is my friend, a man dedicated to faith, family and the people of Georgia,” Pence said in a statement. “I am proud to offer my full support for four more years of Brian Kemp as governor of the great state of Georgia!”
The news comes as Pence has taken steps to distance himself from Trump as the former congressman and Indiana governor considers a 2024 presidential run that could put him into direct competition with his former boss.
That has included calling out Trump by name. In February, Pencesaid Trump was “wrong” to insist that Pence had the power to unilaterally overturn the results of the 2020 election — a power vice presidents do not possess. In a separate speech before top Republican donors, Pence urged the GOP to move on from Trump’s election grievances and said there was “no room in this party for apologists” for Vladimir Putin after Trump praised the Russian leader’s maneuvering as “genius” before his brutal invasion of Ukraine.
“Elections are about the future,” Pence said in March. “My fellow Republicans, we can only win if we are united around an optimistic vision for the future based on our highest values. We cannot win by fighting yesterday’s battles, or by relitigating the past.”
In an interview with radio host John Fredericks on the conservative Real America’s Voice, Trump declined to unleash on Pence when asked about his decision to campaign with Kemp.
“Well, Mike is trying to get involved and he’s a very nice man,” he said. “But he really let us all down.”
The former president, meanwhile, continued to pan a trio of current and former Republican governors, including New Jersey’s Chris Christie, whom he had previously labeled “RINOs” — or “Republicans in Name Only” — for supporting Kemp.
“We have to fight these people,” Trump said Friday.
Earlier this week, Trump had said their support “tells you all you need to know about what you are getting in Georgia — just a continuation of bad elections and a real RINO if you vote for Brian Kemp.”
“Maybe the ‘R’ in RINO really stands for reelected,” Christie quipped back.
The Georgia race is a gamble for Trump, who notched a major victory in Ohio earlier this month when JD Vance, the candidate he endorsed, came from behind to win a competitive GOP Senate primary. But last week, his pick for governor in Nebraska, Charles Herbster, lost his primary amid groping allegations. And Trump faces further challenges ahead, including in Pennsylvania next week, where his pick for Senate, celebrity heart surgeon Mehmet Oz, is locked in a tight, three-way race.
Kemp had been substantially ahead of Perdue in polls in March and April, and many expect Kemp will be able to prevail without a June runoff, which would be triggered if no candidate won a majority of the vote.
Still, Trump voiced optimism for his candidate Friday, saying he’d been “hearing good things” about Perdue’s standing. Perdue’s campaign has argued this week that record turnout during Georgia’s early-voting period, especially among Republicans who haven’t traditionally voted in primaries, is good for their candidate. They claim pollsters have missed Perdue’s support, although there’s no way to know whom primary voters are selecting.
Perdue, a former senator, has also been lagging infundraising and had about $900,000 cash on hand on April 30, less than a month before the May 24 primary, while Kemp had $10.7 million.
Trump’s political action committee last month gave $500,000 to a group running attack ads against Kemp — his first major spending in any race this cycle, despite entering the year with more than $120 million in cash. Trump rallied for Perdue and his other favored candidates in Georgia in March, but hasn’t scheduled a return.
But the Republican Governors Association has spent millions to support Kemp, exacerbating Perdue’s financial disadvantage. Christie, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey are all supposed to stump for Kemp in the closing days as part of that push.
In-state Republicans are also rallying to Kemp. Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, whose relationship to Kemp was rocky in the first 18 months of Kemp’s term, said Thursday that “Gov. Kemp is my governor, and I’m going to support him,” on Thursday after the governor signed the upcoming state budget in Ralston’s hometown. Ralston said Kemp has “taken a lot of unfair hits.”
The winner will face Democrat Stacey Abrams, who has raised more than $20 million so far and had $8 million in cash on April 30.
___
Associated Press writer Jeff Amy contributed from Atlanta. | 2022-05-14T15:42:22+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/pence-to-rally-with-kemp-in-georgia-in-break-with-trump/ |
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) _ Simmons First National Corp. (SFNC) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $27.5 million.
The Pine Bluff, Arkansas-based bank said it had earnings of 21 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 52 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 46 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $245 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $225.3 million, also surpassing Street forecasts.
_____
This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on SFNC at https://www.zacks.com/ap/SFNC | 2022-07-21T14:37:16+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Simmons-First-National-Q2-Earnings-Snapshot-17319256.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — Terrence Shannon Jr. scored 12 of his 16 points in overtime, including the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 3:34 remaining, and No. 17 Illinois rallied to hand second-ranked Texas its first loss of the season, 85-78 on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Jayden Epps added 11 points, including the final five points of regulation — a 3-pointer with 35 seconds left and two tying free throws with 8 seconds remaining. Epps then blocked Marcus Carr’s jumper in the lane just before the buzzer to force overtime in an entertaining showdown at Madison Square Garden.
Matthew Mayer, who faced Texas several times at Baylor, tied a career high with 21 points as he made his first seven shots and finished 8 of 10.
Shannon, who missed eight of nine shots in regulation, took over in the extra period to help Illinois (7-2) beat a ranked foe for the second time this season. He opened overtime with a jumper after Carr was called for traveling and then hit an open 3 from the right wing over Brock Cunningham for a 73-70 lead.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
“I was telling my teammates way to keep us in it, they were just great,” Shannon said. “I just kept telling them, like praising them, ‘Man, good job, you’re keeping us in it, you’re all playing great. I got you and I’m going to come through for you eventually,’ and that’s what I kept telling them in overtime.”
Shannon converted a reverse layup and finished a three-point play to make it 77-70 with 2:16 left. Carr hit two free throws to get Texas within one with 1:28 remaining.
Jayden Epps made a layup, RJ Melendez sank two free throws to put Illinois ahead by five, and Shannon made two free throws with 27.7 seconds left.
“They were all under control,” Illinois coach Brad Underwood said. “They were all poised.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
“Those were plays that weren’t just reckless. Those were plays that were poised, patient and he stopped to make the right play. Just really good basketball plays.”
Shannon, who received four stitches under his right eye during Friday night's loss at No. 13 Maryland, came through against his former coach Chris Beard, for whom he played two seasons at Texas Tech.
“When it came to winning time, he played his best,” Beard said of Shannon.
Timmy Allen scored a season-high 21 points for Texas (6-1), which failed to open 7-0 for the first time since 2014-15. Tyrese Hunter added 10 points but Carr was held to nine points on 3-of-14 shooting as Texas had 12 shots blocked and shot 42%.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Texas took its only double-digit lead when Dillon Mitchell hit a layup with 8:28 left. Illinois cut the lead to 58-56 on a 3 by Melendez nearly four minutes later. After Cunningham hit an open 3 with 4:15 remaining, Si’Jabari Rice made a 3 for a 64-58 lead.
Allen found Cunningham for an open jumper that counted when officials called goaltending on Illinois’ Coleman Hawkins. That gave Texas a 66-61 lead with with 1:51 remaining.
Carr’s rainbow jumper in the lane made it 68-63 with a minute left and Illinois had a 3-pointer by Melendez waved off because it called timeout with 45.3 seconds left.
After the timeout, Epps made an open corner 3 with 33 seconds remaining.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Hunter missed the front end of a 1-and-1 to set up Epps’ tying free throws and subsequent block against Carr.
“I think Marcus’ heart was in the right place, he was trying to go win the game but probably too crowded,” Beard said. “Probably should have kicked it out."
BIG PICTURE
Illinois: The Illini continued to struggle with turnovers, committing 17. But only two of them came in the final 10-plus minutes of regulation or overtime. Illinois’ 15th turnover was an offensive foul by Mayer, which sent him to the bench with four fouls with 10:42 remaining. Several of the turnovers were offensive fouls, something Illinois had practiced because the Longhorns take a lot of charges.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Texas: The Longhorns had little offense beyond Allen and Hunter. While the duo was a combined 13 of 29, the rest of the team missed 24 of 40 shots.
UP NEXT
Illinois hosts Penn State in its second Big Ten game on Saturday.
Texas hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the Jimmy Blacklock Classic on Saturday.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
___
AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2022-12-07T04:02:26+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/No-17-Illinois-rallies-late-beats-No-2-Texas-17636348.php |
Alabama Republican Party will reconsider challenge in contentious Auburn Senate primary
The Alabama Republican Party late Wednesday night said it would reconsider a challenge to an Auburn-area Senate primary decided by a single vote.
A committee of the party on Saturday declared the race a tie after a Dadeville-area voter who voted for incumbent Sen. Tom Whatley said she was wrongfully excluded from the voter rolls. But Auburn City Councilman Jay Hovey, who prevailed in the May 24 primary, filed a challenge on Wednesday after the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said it could not find evidence that the voter had completed the registration process.
"Election security and making sure that every vote is counted properly is of paramount importance to the Alabama Republican Party," the party said in a statement Wednesday.
The party did not set a date for the rehearing.
"I'm pleased the party accepted our request and I look forward to a further review of the facts," Hovey wrote in a message Thursday morning.
A message seeking comment was sent to Whatley on Thursday morning.
Senate District 27 includes Lee, Russell and Tallapoosa counties. Whatley, who spent $1.3 million on the race, dominated the vote in Russell and Tallapoosa counties. But Hovey, who spent $103,000 on the primary, took 63% of the vote in fast-growing Lee County. That led him to prevail by a single vote in an election where nearly 17,000 ballots were cast.
More:Jay Hovey wants reconsideration of AL GOP decision in contentious Auburn Senate primary
More:'I did everything I was supposed to do': Voter at center of Auburn GOP primary dispute
But Whatley's camp challenged the results based on a statement from Patsy Kenney, a voter in Dadeville. Kenney said that she went to obtain a driver's license and to register to vote in Opelika on April 28, and left with the understanding that a worker had taken her voter registration and that she would receive a license after a vision exam scheduled for July. When Kenney tried to vote on May 24, she said, she was told that she was not on the voter rolls and told to vote provisional.
"Before I left, she took all of my information — my name, my address, and everything else, and put it into her computer system," Kenney said in a statement on Monday. "At no time did she explain to me that she was no longer registering me to vote. I did everything I was supposed to do." Kenney added that she received a voter registration card after the race and that she was able to vote in the June 21 runoff.
A committee of the party on Saturday voted to accept Kenney's ballot. The party said in a statement it was "improperly excluded from the vote totals."
But a few hours later, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said it had no record of Kenney receiving a license or completing the registration process.
"Voter registration information from ALEA's Driver License Division is only sent after the credential is issued and the customer signs the required voter declaration, which did not occur in this specific incident," the statement said.
Hovey requested a rehearing on Wednesday.
If Hovey prevails, he will face Democratic nominee Sherri Reese in November. If the tie is upheld, the outcome will be determined by lots, most likely a coin flip.
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Brian Lyman at 334-240-0185 or blyman@gannett.com. | 2022-06-30T14:16:04+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/06/30/alabama-gop-reconsider-challenge-auburn-senate-primary/7776026001/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another competitive U.S. House fight is shaping up in California’s Central Valley farm belt, where Republican Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln announced Tuesday he will try to oust Democratic U.S. Rep. Josh Harder next year.
Republican and Democratic leaders agree that the outcome in a string of contested California districts will be critical in determining the balance of power in the House, where only a handful of seats separate the two parties. The nation’s most populous state played a pivotal role in 2022 in securing the gavel for Republicans and installing Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield as speaker.
Lincoln surprised California’s political establishment in 2020 when he ousted Democratic Mayor Michael Tubbs, who had become a darling of the party’s progressive wing for starting a privately funded program to give financially struggling residents $500 a month in guaranteed income. Tubbs, one of the youngest mayors in the country and the city’s first Black leader, had support from big names like Oprah Winfrey.
Lincoln, 42, is Latino and Black. He was born and raised in Stockton and left to join the Marines in 2001. He later landed an assignment on Marine One, the helicopter that carries the president, during George W. Bush’s administration. He returned to California and worked for a private security company in Silicon Valley before returning to Stockton to become a church’s executive pastor.
In a statement, Lincoln depicted Harder as a rigid partisan who backed President Joe Biden’s agenda, leading to higher costs at the grocery store and gas pump. The announcement noted that while Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom was easily reelected in 2022, he lost Harder’s 9th district, which is anchored in Stockton.
“I refuse to stand by any longer while Washington neglects our communities,” Lincoln added, describing himself as a problem-solver willing to work across party lines.
Harder’s campaign labeled Lincoln a failure in Stockton, which like many California cities is contending with homelessness and violent crime.
Speaker “McCarthy’s grip on power is clearly hanging by a thread and this proves he’s getting more desperate by the day,” spokesperson Jen Fox said in a statement.
Harder, a 36-year-old venture capitalist, was first elected in 2018, when he defeated a four-term GOP incumbent.
The state is known as a Democratic stronghold, but Republicans retain pockets of political strength in some Southern California suburbs and vast rural stretches, including the Central Valley. Harder’s seat is one of several in the region expected to be competitive.
Like others in the farm belt, Harder’s district has a prominent Democratic tilt in terms of voter registration — a 15-point advantage over Republicans — and a large Latino population. But the most likely voters tend to be white, older, more affluent homeowners, while working-class voters, including many Latinos, are less consistent in getting to the polls.
For example, Republican Rep. David Valadao narrowly prevailed in the neighboring 22nd District in 2022, overcoming a double-digit Democratic registration advantage.
Also on Tuesday, the Democrat Valadao defeated in 2022, former state Assembly member Rudy Salas, said he was launching another bid to take the seat in 2024. | 2023-07-19T12:17:52+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-california-gop-mayor-announces-us-house-campaign-setting-up-another-competitive-congressional-race/ |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The crowd hung on his every word, cheering him on and booing his opponents. At one point, emotions ran high enough that someone in the crowd bellowed “Lock him up!”
This was no Donald Trump rally featuring the former president vowing to use prison to settle political scores. This cry came as President Joe Biden addressed top Democratic leaders at a riverside resort outside Washington, warning about “Trumpers” attempting to destroy U.S. democracy.
And, rather than urge bipartisan civility, Biden didn't miss a beat.
“We have to win this off-year election," the president said, "for more reasons than just being able to move our agenda forward.”
The boisterous mood of the Democratic National Committee's recent summer gathering at National Harbor, just across the Potomac River from the nation's capital, follows a new, sharper tone from Biden as he warns that the GOP's Trump wing is a threat to core American values. The atmosphere signaled an emboldened party less than two months from Election Day, sensing that a year of political liabilities ranging from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to rising inflation is finally easing.
The Supreme Court's decision invalidating a woman's constitutional right to an abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade may prove to be a turning point that energizes Democratic voters in November, the party argues. Since then, Republican Kansas rejected a statewide abortion ban, and Democrats notched notable victories in special House elections in New York and Alaska.
“There’s a real sense that Republicans kicked the bee hive,” said Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, which wants to flip a Senate seat held by Republican Ron Johnson while retaining the governorship.
But as the party navigates an unexpected sense of momentum, it risks tapping into the same divisiveness Trump and his supporters relish — and that Democrats have said is undermining democratic norms. Democrats, however, insist that they must be clear about the stakes of the campaign.
“Republicans use fear as a tactic,” said Democratic Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly. “It seems like, a lot of times, that we might have to do a little bit of that, too.”
Biden, who rarely referred to his predecessor during the opening phase of his presidency, is increasingly vocal about the need to confront Trump. “This guy never stops and we’ll never stop, either," he told the DNC.
Vice President Kamala Harris told the conference, “We refuse to let extremist so-called leaders dismantle our democracy.”
“Democrats, we, here, rise to meet this moment,” Harris said.
Making his own rounds at the DNC, Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, used sarcasm to slam even more moderate Republicans who have dared break with Trump on key issues like denouncing year's deadly mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“We’ve got some Republicans who are saying the right things on say, I don’t know, treason? Like, as if pushing back on treason is somehow, you should be honored," Emhoff told the DNC’s Midwestern conference to hoots of laughter and cheers. “That was in the oath of office that we all took. That’s the job.”
Trump rose to power with a divisive approach to politics. He encouraged violence against protestors at his rallies during the 2016 campaign and branded the media the “enemy of the people.” As president, he said several liberal congresswomen of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all are American citizens and three were born in the U.S. The final days of his administration were consumed by efforts to remain in office, including Trump's personal role in sparking the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Republicans who were largely silent then are now blasting Biden and Democrats for picking political fights.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has called the president “the divider-in-chief” and dismissed "the current state of the Democrat Party: one of divisiveness, disgust, and hostility towards half the country.”
While Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their prospects, there's still plenty of reason for caution. The party's grip on Congress is already tenuous and many of the races that could determine control on Capitol Hill may be decided by narrow margins. Democrats have also missed signs of strong GOP turnout in the past several elections — leading to surprise setbacks in places like South Florida.
More fundamentally, the party that wins the presidency almost always loses congressional seats the next cycle, and inflation remains at near-record highs despite some recent indications it might be cooling. Biden's approval ratings, while improving, remain low.
Ken Martin, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and DNC vice chair, suggested that the key to midterm gains doesn't have to be confrontational and can just mean trumpeting the accomplishments of Washington under Democratic control.
“Everywhere I go, I see Democrats hanging their head, wringing their hands, wondering, ‘Well, What are we going to do to win?’ You know what you need to do to make sure we win? Tell the story,” Martin said of promoting the party’s achievements. “President Joe Biden has led the way, delivered on almost every single promise.”
But Martin also suggested that simply staying positive may not be enough, adding that Democrats must “be willing to fight for our president” and “fight for our party.”
Wikler, the Wisconsin state Democratic chairman, said his party turned the GOP playbook back on Republicans to boost turnout in local elections throughout the state.
Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin’s harnessing parental frustration over schools that were closed during the pandemic helped key his upset win of the state's governorship last year. Wikler said Democrats successfully argued in the latest round of local elections that so-called parental activism was actually built on conservative attacks on teacher authority, transgender students and how history is taught — with the ultimate goal of shifting taxpayer funding away from public schools.
“Explaining why the other side is doing what they’re doing can take the sting out of it,” Wikler said.
DNC Chair Jamie Harrison suggested his party has regained some of its political swagger nationally, calling the coming election “Roe-vember” as a way of predicting that support for abortion rights will lift Democrats.
But, as he traveled around the conference meeting with smaller caucus groups, Harrison also reminded them that Democratic leaders in critical swing states like Wisconsin and Michigan helped safeguard the electoral system from Trump's lies about widespread fraud that did not occur in 2020. He said winning key races in such states this year is the best way to ensure the system holds after 2024's presidential race results are in.
“If we are not successful in those elections,” Harrison said, “God help us all.” | 2022-09-13T05:22:41+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Democrats-try-to-seize-political-offensive-ahead-17437459.php |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia must remove the plywood box it placed over a statue of Christopher Columbus after 2020 protests over racial injustice, a judge ruled Friday.
In her ruling, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said that if the city disagrees with the “message” the statue sends, it can add its own plaque with what it wants to convey.
“More to the point, the City accepted the donation of the Columbus statue in 1876. It has a fiduciary duty to preserve that statue, which it designated an historic object in 2017. The Columbus statue is not City property as is, for example, a City snowblower,” the judge wrote.
Kevin Lessard, spokesman for Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney, said the ruling disappointed officials but the city will respect the judge's decision and remove the box as soon as it’s “practically and logistically feasible.”
“We will also continue to explore our options for a way forward that allows Philadelphians to celebrate their heritage and culture while respecting the histories and circumstances of everyone’s different backgrounds,” Lessard said via email.
The statue has been the subject of a long-running dispute between the city and the Friends of Marconi Plaza, where the likeness stands.
It dates to 1876 and was presented to the city by the Italian-American community to commemorate the nation’s centennial, according to the 16-page ruling from the state’s Commonwealth Court.
Supporters say they consider Columbus an emblem of the deep Italian heritage in the city. A message seeking comment on Friday's ruling from the attorney representing the statue’s supporters was not immediately answered.
Kenney has said Columbus was venerated for centuries as an explorer but had a “much more infamous” history, enslaving Indigenous people and imposing punishments such as severing limbs or even death.
After protests about racial injustice began in June 2020 and some of them focused on the statue, Kenney ordered its removal, calling it a matter of public safety. But last year a judge reversed the city's decision, however, saying it had failed to provide evidence that the statue's removal was necessary to protect the public.
The box covering the statue has been painted in green, white and red bands, mirroring the Italian flag, at the request of the city council member who represents the district. | 2022-12-09T23:54:52+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/philadelphia-ordered-to-remove-box-covering-columbus-statue/OZFACHAW3VBFLJVUSJU5WJNRTM/ |
In a fascinating new essay for the New Yorker, Prince Harry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer opens up about a particularly combative scene between the two during the mostly friendly, but often intense two-year process of writing and editing the Duke of Sussex’s best-selling memoir, “Spare.”
The scene revealed something essential about Harry’s insecurities and motivations for writing the book, according to Moehringer’s essay: Harry wants to be taking seriously, he wants to be seen as “smart.”
Harry thought he could do this by proving he had his “wits” about him during a particularly grueling moment in his life — in January 2012, when he, a British army captain, underwent a brutal military exercise before his second deployment to Afghanistan. As described in “Spare” and Moehringer’s essay, Harry was “captured” by pretend terrorists in a simulation to find out if he had the toughness to survive an actual capture on the battlefield. After he was hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, “beaten, frozen, starved, stripped and forced into excruciating stress positions,” one of his balaclava-wearing captors hurled a vile insult to him about his late mother, Princess Diana.
For the memoir, Moehringer said Harry wanted him to include his response to the insult, which everyone involved in the simulation knew broke an “inviolate rule,” in that it recalled the memory of the prince’s beloved mother.
The response was a clever comeback that Harry managed to summon in this intense moment. But as Moehringer describes Harry’s comeback, it sounds like it one of those snappy things a Bruce Willis-type action-thriller protagonist would say at the moment in a fight scene when the bad guy appears to have the upper hand.
Moehringer wrote that the comeback “struck me as unnecessary, and somewhat inane.” Moehringer said, “Good for Harry that he had the nerve, but ending with what he said would dilute the scene’s meaning: that even at the most bizarre and peripheral moments of his life, his central tragedy intrudes.”
For months in the writing and editing process, Moehringer said he had been crossing out the comeback, while Harry had been pleading for it to go back in. During that 2 a.m. Zoom call, Harry was no longer pleading, he was “insisting … and I was starting to lose it,” Moehringer said.
Moehringer explained it was his job as a ghostwriter to push back. After Harry glared into the camera, he exhaled and “calmly explained that, all his life, people had belittled his intellectual capabilities.” Harry felt that his “flash of cleverness proved that, even after being kicked and punched and deprived of sleep and food, he had his wits about him,” Moehringer wrote.
Moehringer said Harry’s insistence “made sense now.” But still, he refused to put the line back in.
The ghostwriter told Harry: “You want the world to know that you did a good job, that you were smart.” Moehringer explained that his memoir wasn’t really a story about his life, but it should present “a particular series of events chosen because they have the greatest resonance for the widest range of people.” At this point in the story, Moehringer said, “people don’t need to know anything more than that your captors said a cruel thing about your mom.”
After what seemed like another hour, Moehringer said Harry looked up and said, “OK.” He finally understood why his quippy comeback needed to stay out of the book.
The millions around the world who read “Spare” can debate whether Harry comes off as “smart.” Moehringer said Harry also wanted to use “Spare” to rebut “every lie ever published about him.”
Many readers were moved by Harry’s story about growing up in the glare of a harsh media spotlight and in a family that comes off as averse to normal human interaction and affection. “Many said Harry’s candor about family dysfunction, about losing a parent, had given them solace,” Moehringer said.
On the other hand, late-night comedians and people on Twitter had fun with scenes in the memoir that, to them, confirmed the idea that Harry was the less serious second son of King Charles III. Harry’s descriptions about his kitchen tussle with heir-to-the-throne Prince William or his frostbitten penis had him coming off as “the clown prince,” as one royal commentator said.
Moehringer also may not have done Harry favors when he had him complaining about being cut off financially by Charles when he and his wife, Meghan Markle, decided to leave royal life in 2020 and seek their fortune in the United States. At the time, Harry was wealthy in his own right, having inherited an estimated $10 million from Diana, according to Forbes. But at least Moehringer had Harry recognize the “absurdity” of being a privileged man in his mid-30s, no longer able to rely on his father for a regular salary.
But it’s clear from Moehringer’s essay that he “just liked” Harry and felt “honored” by his candor. Moehringer said they bonded over the grief of losing their mothers and came to call each other “dude.” At one point, Moehringer stayed in Harry and Meghan’s guest house in Montecito, where Meghan and their son Archie would visit him on afternoon walks and bring him “trays of food and sweets.”
The ghostwriter said he felt infuriated by the “grotesque” way the duke had been treated throughout his life “by both strangers and intimates” and was gratified by his role in helping him tell his story.
“Harry first felt liberated when he fell in love with Meghan, and again when they fled Britain, and what he felt now, for the first time in his life, was heard,” Moehringer wrote. | 2023-05-09T22:43:09+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/09/prince-harrys-big-concern-with-memoir-being-seen-as-smart-ghostwriter-says/ |
Spotswood got off to a hot start and never looked back in a 55-25 victory over Somerset Tech, in Spotswood.
After leading 21-9 after just the first quarter, Spotswood (8-2) wouldn’t allow more than four points in a single quarter for the rest of the game. The Chargers scored at least nine points in each of the final three quarters.
Allie Costantino led Spotswood with 19 points, eight rebounds, three assists, and a block and steal each. Lizzie Calandruccio added 17 points, four steals, two rebounds, an assist, and a block. Nine of Calandruccio’s 17 points came three-pointers.
Ava Fama pulled down a game high 20 rebounds while adding three blocks and four points.
For Somerset Tech (1-5), Jayla Worthey (11 points) and Fiona Shanahan (eight points) led in scoring.
The N.J. High School Sports newsletter now appearing in mailboxes 5 days a week. Sign up now and be among the first to get all the boys and girls sports you care about, straight to your inbox each weekday. To add your name, click here.
Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting NJ.com with a subscription. | 2023-01-12T03:53:25+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/girls-basketball-spotswood-crushes-somerset-tech.html |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
7-0-6-3
(seven, zero, six, three)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
7-0-6-3
(seven, zero, six, three) | 2022-06-17T03:42:14+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Evening-game-17247732.php |
Insagic expertly unites data science with social science, delivering actionable insights that power modern healthcare marketing
NEW YORK, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Publicis Health today announced the launch of Insagic, a new insights and advisory business that combines data, design, and dialogues to deliver the activatable insights and transformational intelligence that healthcare marketers need to succeed and grow in today's platform world.
The Insagic Platform is built on an activatable, real-world data foundation, purpose-built for healthcare and the new outcomes economy. Its proprietary data architecture uniquely crosswalks billions of clinical and lifestyle data points, including the largest consumer database from Epsilon and more than 1.6 million minutes of exclusive, real-world doctor-patient dialogues.
"We believe human-centered, context-sensing, hyper-individualized patient support models—built in collaboration with stakeholders throughout the industry, sourcing data from across the healthcare ecosystem—will transform the larger healthcare industry as we know it. And Insagic is the indispensable partner that healthcare marketers need to make this transformation," said Larry Mickelberg, Chief Commercial Officer, Publicis Health.
At launch, Insagic's service offerings include: patient and HCP analytics; audience finding and segmentation; advanced targeting; persuasion modeling; intervention design; and outcomes optimization. Key product offerings are Verilogue DialogueStudies, HealthStyles, and SmartStudio.
"We know that diverse minds coming together to tackle complex healthcare and business challenges will always yield better results and better patient outcomes," said Susan Manber, Chief Patient Officer, Publicis Health. "By bringing together an array of experts—from world-class linguists to leading data scientists—we can help health and wellness brands purposefully realize the promise of true patient centricity."
Insagic's launch partners include several of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, leading retail pharmacies, and innovative diagnostic providers, helping them address a wide range of key business questions, including, among others:
- How can we get more people to participate in clinical trials?
- What are the different patient types and how hyper-personalized content can drive behavior change?
- What do we need to do to take action to serve the underserved?
- Can we predict HCPs that are most likely to try, adopt, and remain loyal – and design an engagement strategy to drive productivity?
- Can we predict patients at the highest risk of lapsing therapy and design programs to change behavior?
"We understand that our clients don't need more data—they need more insight," said Mickelberg. "By expertly uniting data science with social science, we deliver actionable insights that power modern healthcare marketing."
Insagic is headquartered in New York City and joins Publicis Health's existing offices in Boston, Chicago, London, Paris, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Windsor.
About Insagic
Insagic, a Publicis Health company, is a next-generation insights and advisory business that combines data, design, and dialogues to deliver the activatable insights and transformational intelligence that healthcare marketers need to succeed and grow in today's platform world. Insagic is home to more than 50 innovative behavior scientists, data scientists, ethnographers, linguists, strategists, researchers, and designers—all united around the vision of creating a world where connected health intelligence accelerates the path to better outcomes. For more information, visit us at www.publicishealth.com/insagic.
About Publicis Health
At Publicis Health, we are united around one purpose: to create a world where people are equipped and motivated to take control of their health. We transform healthcare marketing and communications into healthcare engagement. We believe healthcare marketing is healthcare, fostering healthy conversations, healthy behaviors and healthy people. With 40 offices and 11 brands across the globe, Publicis Health's worldwide staff is comprised of more than 3,000 healthcare professionals who are experts in advertising and branding, data and analytics, strategic planning, service design, digital media and technology, science, and medicine. Publicis Health companies include Digitas Health, Heartbeat, Insagic, Langland, Payer Sciences, Publicis Health France, Publicis Health Media, Razorfish Health, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, and Verilogue. For more information, visit us at www.publicishealth.com.
Contact: Kipp Jarecke-Cheng, kipp.cheng@publicishealth.com
View original content:
SOURCE Publicis Health | 2023-03-02T13:05:05+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/03/02/publicis-health-launches-insagic-groundbreaking-insights-advisory-business/ |
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Bridgeport StoryWalk celebrated their guest author, Matt Browning, and showcased his book at the Bridgeport City Park on Saturday, June 4.
Melanie Groves, the Bridgeport StoryWalk Coordinator, reached out to Browning about his children’s book, Chicks and the City, and asked him to participate in her StoryWalk for the month of June. He was more than honored to drive from Charleston, W.Va. to showcase his book.
The book signing started at 1 p.m. at the park, where each page of his book was put on signs to walk the trail and read. Multiple kids and families took a stroll to either read or scan the QR codes to listen to the book.
There was even a little girl who brought her pet chicken to the walk to represent the chicken in the story. She read to her chicken at every sign, and said that she likes to read to her other chickens as well.
The book is about a chicken named Stu, who finds himself in the city, and becomes overwhelmed. He shortly finds his way through the city and finds a great outcome in his journey. Inspiration for this book came to Browning at his previous job in marketing for and urban agriculture event. They developed the chicken with a necktie as their mascot, he then began to come up with a backstory for “Stu,” and realized “there is a story somewhere in this.”
Browning felt a certain way about his book being chosen for the StoryWalk. He said, “you know, I think it was such an honor to be asked, but to be here today and see it in person is just such an icing on the cake for me. Because I had never, I had heard of a story walk, but I had never been here myself to see one. So to be walking around and look over, and here are the pages of my book. You know, for the whole world to see and enjoy, is really, really humbling.”
He has two other books called, “Bookstore Explorer: West Virginia” and “The Definitive Golden Girls Cultural Reference Guide.” If interested in buying any of his books, you can find them on his website.
Bridgeport StoryWalk had some exciting news to share on Saturday. They received a generous donation from a sponsor to get more resilient page holders on the trail.
The next StoryWalk will be held during the first week of July, where the featured author will be Cathy Bonnstetter from Morgantown.
To keep up to date on when future StoryWalks will be held, click here. | 2022-06-05T02:26:35+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/harrison/bridgeport_storywalk_unveils_june_book/ |
ISTANBUL (AP) — An anti-LGBTQ group marched Sunday in Istanbul, demanding that LGBTQ associations be shuttered and their activities banned, in the largest demonstration of its kind in Turkey.
Several thousand people joined the demonstration dubbed “The Big Family Gathering.” Kursat Mican, a speaker for the organizers, said they had gathered more than 150,000 signatures to demand a new law from Turkey’s parliament that would ban what they called LGBTQ propaganda, which they say pervades Netflix, social media, arts and sports.
Hatice Muge, who works as a nanny, came to the gathering from Bursa province.
“People are here despite the rain for their children, for future generations,” she said, urging the Turkish government to take action. “They should save the family, they should save the children from this filth.”
The group held banners that read: “Protecting the family is a national security issue.”
LGBTQ parades have not been allowed in Turkey since 2015.
Ahead of Sunday’s demonstration, the organizers circulated a video using images from past LGBTQ Pride marches in Turkey. The video was included in the public service announcement list of Turkey’s media watchdog.
The video and the demonstration prompted an outcry from LGBTQ associations and other rights groups. The organizers of Istanbul Pride called on the governor’s office to ban the event and authorities to take down the video, arguing both were hateful.
ILGA Europe, which works for LGBTQ equality, tweeted it was extremely concerned about the risks of violence.
“The Turkish state needs to uphold its constitutional obligation to protect all its citizens against hate and violence,” it said.
Amnesty International’s Turkey office said public service announcements listing the event violated Turkey’s equality and non-discrimination principles.
Top Turkish officials have called LGBTQ people “perverts” who aim to hurt traditional family values. | 2022-09-19T07:15:08+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/ap-anti-lgbtq-protest-in-turkey-backs-protecting-family-values/ |
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP)Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves as the Florida Panthers defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Tuesday night, ending Vegas’ three-game winning streak.
Ryan Lomberg and Aleksander Barkov each scored a goal for the Panthers, which has now won two in a row as they kept pace in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Florida is 4-1-0 all-time against the Golden Knights in Sunrise.
Shea Theodore scored the lone goal of the game for Vegas. Adin Hill made 40 saves in the loss.
“We chased the game the whole night and never caught up to them,’’ Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “We stayed in the game, which was good. … But you got to be ready when the puck drops. And they were; we weren’t.”
Florida opened the scoring at 4:25 on a blistering snapshot off the stick of Lomberg for his ninth goal of the season.
“We needed a big start and I think the guys responded,” Lomberg said. “For the last chunk of games, there has been no doubt that guys are going to show up. These are all big games and this was a big win for us. No surprise the guys came ready to play.”
The Panthers extended their lead at 4:05 of the second when Barkov one-timed a pass from Anthony Duclair from 5 feet in front of the net.
Even through the two teams traded a bunch of scoring chances, the score remained 2-0 until Theodore fired off a shot from just inside the blue line which avoided traffic and beat Bobrovsky halfway through the second.
Bobrovsky ended up making 10 saves in the third period.
“I think we could have played better especially in that second,” Barkov said, “but (Bobrovsky) was excellent in the game, as always, and kept us in it. It is huge to have a goalie like that, playing at a level like that. It is amazing and we are really confident playing in front of him.’’
NOTES: All-Star forward Matthew Tkachuk appeared to be hurt after blocking a shot with 6:37 remaining in the game. Tkachuk appeared to be in pain on the ice and crawled to the bench where he was helped to the team’s dressing room. He returned a few shifts later. Panther coach Paul Maurice said he thought he was going to be fine. … Linesman Tommy Hughes left the game in the second period and did not return due to injury. The game went on with two referees and one linesman. … With his goal, Barkov moved within seven points of former linemate Jonathan Huberdeau for the franchise points lead. Barkov has 606 points since Florida selected him with the No. 2 selection of the 2013 draft. … In Hill’s previous start on last Friday, his 100th NHL game, he set the Vegas franchise record with 47 saves in a win against the Devils. Hill came into Tuesday 6-1-0 since the All-Star break. … Defenseman Casey Fitzgerald was a healthy scratch by Florida, Vegas did not dress Nicolas Roy, Pavel Dorofeyev, Ben Hutton and William Carrier.
UP NEXT
Golden Knights: Visit Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
Panthers: Host Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.
—
AP NHL: https://www.apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://www.twitter.com/AP-Sports | 2023-03-08T21:46:15+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/bobrovsky-comes-up-big-as-panthers-defeat-golden-knights-2-1/ |
In The Kitchen (Taste)- 07/18/22 July 18, 2022 Rebecca Hall, Categories: Cooking, FEATURES-APP, In the Kitchen Tags: kitchen FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin | 2022-07-19T02:31:31+00:00 | wcbi.com | https://www.wcbi.com/in-the-kitchen-taste-07-18-22/ |
The products and services mentioned below were selected independent of sales and advertising. However, Don't Waste Your Money may receive a small commission from the purchase of any products or services through an affiliate link to the retailer's website.
Let’s face it: even the best night’s sleep still leaves some of us with puffy or dark circles under the eyes. After all, those unsightly eye bags could have multiple causes, including genetics, aging, diet and allergies.
In general, swelling in your under-eye area isn’t dangerous, but you may hate the way it looks. If you’re trying to minimize the appearance of puffiness or dark circles, we suggest opting for products that pack a punch. Look for ingredients that firm and tighten the skin while moisturizing. If you’re battling dark circles, you may want one that provides highlighting effects, too.
As we age, our natural levels of hyaluronic acid, which hydrates skin and keeps it flexible, start declining. Applying it topically can help counterbalance loss.
There’s a hyaluronic acid eye balm that customers swear by, claiming it rids them of their dark circles and under-eye puffiness. Tula eye balm is only $30 on Amazon!
Tula Skin Care Rose Glow & Get it Cooling & Brightening Eye Balm
Tula’s best-selling eye balm comes with rosehip oil, which is a plant-based retinol alternative, and rose water, which contains antioxidants and skin-soothing properties.
Tula eye balm is also described as being jam-packed with other good stuff, like caffeine to firm and tighten the appearance of skin, blueberry to hydrate, and probiotic extracts to seal in moisture and smooth out the skin. The combination is said to have an energizing and cooling effect. The balm also reportedly leaves behind a dewy glowy look, thanks to “topical brightening particles.”
Tula says its products feature probiotic extracts and skin superfoods, like aloe leaf juice and fruit extract, to nurture balanced, healthy skin. The company notes that its products are clean and clinically proven and effective. It says that in a small study of 32 subjects that used this product for one week, 93% felt their skin felt less puffy.
We like that it’s travel-sized and can be reapplied throughout the day. It can be used on top of the cheekbones for a quick perk-up, too.
Amazon reviewer Alexis, who uses Tula eye balm even without makeup, said, “It gives the perfect amount of glow without looking like too much. It adds moisture to my skin and can be applied before or after makeup. It doesn’t give off a certain color, it’s a perfect sheen glow.”
Sam S. said she can’t recommend Tula eye balm enough, gushing, “This under eye balm is nothing short of amazing. I always struggle with puffy eyes in the morning, but this balm invigorates my skin and actually leaves me feeling more alert! I was worried because I have sensitive skin, but I have had zero irritation whatsoever.”
Are you thinking you could use a quick boost to help brighten your eyes? There’s also a 30-day return policy, so you can try it worry-free.
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2022-07-19T16:34:57+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/tula-eye-balm-dark-circles-puffiness |
Homeownership company expands to Louisville market with partner Finish Line Realty, to offer certainty in the home transaction to buyers and sellers
NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ribbon, the homeownership company, has expanded into Kentucky, a move that empowers Kentucky homebuyers to make all-cash offers with RibbonCash and guarantee closing.
Kentucky represents a major milestone of fifteen states of operation for Ribbon. Kentucky is the company's eighth expansion state this year alone - on its way to half of the U.S. by the end of 2022.
Considered a cornerstone of the American Dream, hopes of homeownership have dwindled for many in the face of rising interest rates, on top of increased competition from wealthy investors. At the end of 2021, total home sales skyrocketed to their highest annual level ($6.2 million) since 2006. In January, high prices and the lowest inventory of unsold homes (860,000 units) plagued the nation.
Home sales in Louisville rose 3.5% in June 2022 compared to last year, selling for a median price of $211,000. Homes sat on the market for 15 days - on par for a tight market compared to 16 days a year ago when competition was at its peak. With high mortgage rates causing additional disruption, buyers lean on real estate brokerages to get the most value for their purchase while sellers prioritize certainty in the transaction.
"Buyers in the market are swimming against a current of fluctuating costs, rising rates, and low inventory," said Shaival Shah, co-founder and CEO of Ribbon. "At Ribbon, we advocate for everyday people who want to own a home - not investors. We're leveling the playing field by equipping buyers with the most powerful offer in real estate and working directly with their agent and loan officer of choice. Further, sellers can feel confident that their deal will close, so they can move on to the next chapter."
RibbonCash Offers are guaranteed to close, providing sellers certainty even in the most competitive and volatile markets. And in a time of fluctuating interest rates, buyers utilizing Ribbon can shop around for the best mortgage rates, elevate their home purchase options, and bid with confidence for the home of their dreams using the most powerful offer in real estate.
As the only cash offer company that does not displace the local ecosystem, Ribbon works directly with real estate professionals and lenders who remain key advocates for buyers and sellers.
Ribbon will hold Kentucky-specific webinars on July 26th & 28th at 10am ET.
To ensure the broadest access for consumers, Ribbon is partnering with Finish Line Realty in Louisville, Kentucky. Through this partnership, Finish Line Realty can now provide all-cash, non-contingent offers on homes that pass inspection to its customers - empowering them to more effectively compete with the institutional investors snapping up residential homes and driving up prices beyond actual value.
"Finish Line Realty's goal is to help everyday buyers achieve their home ownership goals in Louisville's challenging housing market," said Scott Hack, Broker/Owner at Finish Line Realty. "Leveraging Ribbon's all-cash offers allows us to make the American Dream, with all its traditions, a reality for more of our clients."
With its growth into Kentucky, Ribbon now operates across the U.S. in 15 states. The company plans to expand to half of the U.S. by the end of 2022. For more information about Ribbon, visit www.ribbonhome.com.
Founded in 2017 in New York and Charlotte, Ribbon is on a mission to make homeownership achievable. Ribbon allows everyday families to compete on a level playing field with high-net-worth individuals and institutional buyers by upgrading their offers to winning RibbonCash Offers. As the leading real estate technology platform, Ribbon empowers agents, brokerages, and lenders to create a world-class experience for home buyers and sellers through powerful financial products and digital workflow software. Visit ribbonhome.com.
Finish Line Realty has been helping buyers and sellers in metro Louisville, Kentucky since 2011. As a tech-forward independent brokerage, the focus remains on offering or partnering with services and tools that give clients an advantage in the constant changing real estate market. The agents of Finish Line Realty strive to offer an experience that creates raving fans and clients for life. Learn more at louisvillerealestate.com.
Media Contact:
Charlie Ozuturk
Go-to-Market Communications Manager, Ribbon
charlie.ozuturk@ribbonhome.com
732.552.5080
Media Contact:
BLASTmedia for Ribbon
ribbon@blastmedia.com
317.806.1900
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Ribbon | 2022-07-26T14:09:51+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/07/26/ribbon-launches-kentucky-reaching-expansion-milestone-15-states/ |
Utah's first drone show company, Open Sky Productions, created a custom drone show for private equity firm Mercato Partners. Open Sky's show was a surprise for attendees at MercAUTO but a video from the event is making its rounds now.
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Sky Productions has created one of its remarkable drone shows for private equity firm Mercato Partners as a surprise for guests at its MercAUTO event in Cottonwood Heights. The drone show was not announced ahead of time so guests were surprised with the 12-minute show that included 140 drones set to music in a custom show.
"We really wanted to surprise and delight our guests with something they were not expecting and wanted them to leave with a memorable experience," said Alycia Simons, executive assistant at Mercato. "We would jump at the chance to do this again. It really was the icing on the cake for our event."
Open Sky has created epic drone shows for private parties and events in the western U.S. and for several public events, like the recent Sandy City Balloon Festival and Renaissance Fair at Thanksgiving Point. Drone shows are a safer alternative to fireworks shows, which may be why they have become popular in states with high wildfire risk, like Utah and Arizona. This month they're also heading to the east coast for a show at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania.
Designer Justin Eggbert and Chief Pilot Evan Petri visualize and program hundreds of drones, coordinating custom outdoor performances that light up the sky.
For those who haven't had a chance to see a live drone show, Open Sky is releasing a video of clips from the recent show for Mercato.
"Watching the show was mesmerizing. It was amazing to watch it, but better yet was hearing the crowd around me cheer and gasp," Simons said. "It really blew everyone away."
Open Sky Productions is a Utah-based drone light show company, from some of the same team behind the award-winning frozen attraction Ice Castles. Open Sky has created remarkable and safe drone shows in multiple U.S. states. Visit openskypro.com or Instagram.com/openskypro to see clips of magical drone shows and information about how to hire Open Sky Productions.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Open Sky Productions | 2022-10-17T12:06:24+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/10/17/surprise-drone-show-mercato-event-cottonwood-heights-wows-spectators/ |
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's recently inaugurated Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek plans to ask lawmakers to allocate more than $1 billion to housing and hundreds of millions more to mental health and education, unveiling her strategy for tackling the state's most pressing crises in a budget proposal released Tuesday.
Oregon is short 110,000 homes and has some of the highest rates of homelessness and drug addiction in the nation, overwhelming service providers, the criminal justice system and the beleaguered state psychiatric hospital.
“You will see in the budget that the state is taking a bigger role on housing and homelessness, because we have to,” Kotek told reporters Tuesday at the State Library of Oregon in Salem. “I’m proposing investments to disrupt the harmful and expensive pipeline of Oregonians who move from homelessness to jail or the state hospital.”
Of the total money requested for housing, Kotek has asked the Legislature to act as quickly as possible to allocate a $130 million homeless package aimed at reducing the number of people living outside. The package would fund 600 new shelter beds and provide rental assistance for tenants and landlords in order to stem evictions.
Kotek said the biggest issue in drafting the budget was determining how to keep programs afloat with $3.5 billion in one-time federal funding set to expire as the national COVID-19 emergency winds down. Federal relief money, along with higher-than-expected revenue growth, helped state governments including Oregon build historic cash surpluses during the pandemic.
State fiscal analysts expect to have a $4 billion surplus at the end of the current budget cycle. But they have also forecast a mild recession this year that could help flip the surplus into a $560 million budget deficit during the next two years.
Despite those projections, Kotek said that her budget wouldn’t tap into the $2 billion currently in the state’s reserve funds; instead, it would redirect $765 million that was set to be deposited into the reserve toward her priorities.
The proposed budget wouldn’t raise new taxes, Kotek said, although it does assume that lawmakers will pass a bill that would create a monthly cell phone tax to fund the new national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Republicans in Oregon's House of Representatives said they were “optimistic” that the budget wouldn't increase taxes, but also expressed concern about spending not being equitably distributed across urban and rural communities.
“One of our greatest concerns remains that the Governor’s proposed homelessness initiative does not reach beyond the urban centers of our state,” the House Republican caucus said in a news release. "If Governor Kotek is going to stay ‘Mission Focused’ on being a Governor for all of Oregon, this must start now.”
Some Republican lawmakers have criticized an executive order that Kotek signed on her first full day in office earlier this month pronouncing a homeless state of emergency. The order only declares an emergency in parts of the state where unsheltered homelessness has increased by at least 50% since 2017, leaving out some rural areas.
The bulk of the proposed $1 billion in housing money would fund the construction and preservation of affordable housing. About $770 million in general obligation bonds would go toward building more units for renters and new homeowners and $118 million in lottery and general fund money toward keeping existing affordable homes on the market.
Highlighting the intersection of the homeless, mental health and criminal justice crises, Kotek has asked that $50 million be allocated to the understaffed Oregon State Hospital, which is at overcapacity. The majority of patients in the public psychiatric hospital are people charged with crimes who have been sent there by a judge to receive treatment aimed at helping them participate in their own defense. Of those so-called aid and assist patients, 60% were homeless prior to their arrest, Kotek said in her budget request.
Kotek also sees boosting the capacity at local mental health and addiction treatment centers as a way to unload some of the burden on the state hospital.
Oregon has grappled with its approach toward drug use. In 2020 it became the first state in the nation to decriminalize small possessions of hard drugs after voters approved Ballot Measure 110. The measure was supposed to channel hundreds of millions of dollars of cannabis tax revenues into drug treatment and harm reduction programs, but a recent audit found that money has been slow to get out the door. In the meantime, overdose deaths fueled by meth and opioids have continued to rise.
Kotek’s proposed budget would direct nearly $280 million toward addiction treatment, overdose prevention and peer support services, drawing from Measure 110 money and federal Medicaid funding.
Education and early learning are other funding priorities for Kotek. Math and language test scores plummeted in Oregon because of the pandemic, and every county in the state is considered a child care desert for infants and toddlers, meaning the number of children needing care outnumber available slots by at least 3-to-1.
Kotek's budget would invest $100 million in literacy programs aimed at helping children learn how to read, and a similar amount in expanding and creating more child care and preschool facilities. More than $60 million would help provide a living wage to child care workers, who often cite low pay and lack of benefits as reasons for leaving the sector or not entering into it.
Universities, however, say the budget's proposed funding for higher education is insufficient.
"Oregon’s public universities require greater state support today than ever before to maintain essential programs and wraparound services for an increasingly diverse student body and soften the impact of inflation on students and their families and assuring them a higher standard of living immediately after graduation,” the presidents of Oregon's eight public universities said in a news release.
Kotek acknowledged that her budget won't finance the major capital improvement projects that universities have requested funding for, as it would spent the bulk of the state's general obligation bonds on housing.
The Legislature will have to approve Kotek’s budget request in the coming months before the next budget biennium for 2023-2025 begins in July.
___
Claire Rush 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. | 2023-02-01T01:35:58+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/oregon-s-new-governor-requests-1b-for-housing-17755316.php |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Alex Palou’s top priority remains winning a second straight IndyCar championship.
His future after this year is looking awfully murky.
Shortly after Chip Ganassi Racing announced Tuesday it would exercise a team option to keep the star Spaniard next season, Palou and Arrow McLaren SP said they had agreed to a deal for 2023.
“I have recently learned from the media that this afternoon, without my approval, Chip Ganassi Racing issued a press release announcing that I would be driving with CGR in 2023,” Palou wrote on Twitter. “Even more surprising was that CGR’s release included a ‘quote’ which did not come from me. I did not author or approve that quote. As I have recently informed CGR, for personal reasons, I do not intend to continue with the team after 2022.”
It’s an odd twist in a big week for the McLaren team.
Colton Herta, the young American star who team owner Michael Andretti hopes to put in a Formula One car, spent Monday and Tuesday testing for McLaren in Portimao, Portugal.
Then Ganassi’s team made its announcement.
“Alex’s track record speaks for itself,” Ganassi said in the news release. “He’s a proven champion and one of the most formidable drivers in the world. We are very excited to continue working together.”
One side, at least, is eager to stay together.
Palou emerged as a star last season by becoming the first Spaniard to win an IndyCar title while giving Ganassi a 14th series crown. Palou hasn’t disappointed this year either, posting four top-five finishes and seven top-10s in the first nine races.
Although he hasn’t won a race, Palou is fourth in the standings, 35 points behind Indianapolis 500 champ and teammate Marcus Ericsson heading into Sunday’s race at Toronto.
“It’s a great feeling to know I will keep working with Chip Ganassi Racing next season,” Ganassi’s press release quoted Palou as saying. “The team welcomed me with open arms from Day 1 and I’m excited to continue working with Chip, (managing director) Mike Hull, the folks on the No. 10 NTT Data car and everyone within the organization. The goals remain the same and we will continue to work relentlessly towards achieving them.”
Shortly thereafter, Palou said he has other plans.
While the 25-year-old owns 12 top-three finishes in 25 races since joining CGR, he sounds like he’s ready for a change.
“This evening’s unfortunate events aside, I have great respect for the CGR team and look forward to finishing this season strongly together,” Palou wrote.
McLaren also issued a statement saying Palou would serve as a test driver for its F1 team in addition to his full-time IndyCar duties.
If Palou changes teams, it would mark the second major addition for McLaren in less than two months. Alexander Rossi, the 2016 Indy 500 winner, announced in June he also would be joining McLaren.
“We have always said that we want the best talent at McLaren, and it’s exciting to be able to include Alex (Palou) on that list,” McLaren CEO Zac Brown said. “Alex is an incredibly talented driver who has won in every series he has raced in and I’m happy to welcome him to the McLaren family.”
___
More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-13T14:38:55+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/sports/ap-sports/indycar-champ-palou-says-hes-leaving-ganassi-for-mclaren/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Avaya Holdings Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of AVYA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/avaya-holdings-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=35460&from=4
CLASS PERIOD: November 22, 2021 to November 29, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's internal control over financial reporting was deficient in several areas; (ii) as a result of these deficiencies, the Company had failed to design and maintain effective controls over its whistleblower policies and its ethics and compliance program; (iii) the Company's deteriorating financial condition was likely to raise substantial doubt as to its ability to continue as a going concern; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: March 6, 2023 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/avaya-holdings-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=35460&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of AVYA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is March 6, 2023. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
15 West 38th Street, 12th floor
New York, NY, 10018
Email: dg@securitiesclasslaw.com
Phone: (646) 453-8903
View original content:
SOURCE The Gross Law Firm | 2023-01-11T11:35:10+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/01/11/shareholder-alert-gross-law-firm-notifies-shareholders-avaya-holdings-corp-class-action-lawsuit-lead-plaintiff-deadline-march-6-2023-nyse-avya/ |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, October 12, 2022
_____
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
735 PM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ROBERTSON AND
SOUTHWESTERN LEON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning has
been cancelled.
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Beauregard Parish in southwestern Louisiana...
Southwestern Vernon Parish in west central Louisiana...
Northeastern Newton County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 815 PM CDT.
* At 738 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Stringtown,
or near Newton, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
De Ridder, Newton, Rosepine, Merryville, Singer, Junction and
Stringtown.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-10-13T02:22:57+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-DALLAS-FT-WORTH-Warnings-Watches-and-17505489.php |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.