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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A leak in a fuel pipeline facility in California forced a shutdown of deliveries of gasoline and diesel from the Los Angeles area east to areas including Las Vegas and Phoenix, but officials said Friday they believed supplies would not immediately be affected.
Pipeline operator Kinder Morgan told The Associated Press the leak was discovered Thursday afternoon at a company station near Los Angeles and that its CALNEV and SFPP West pipelines were shut down while the Houston-based pipeline operator worked to resolve the issue.
“There are no injuries or fire reported as a result of this incident,” said a company statement, provided by Katherine Hill, communications manager for the publicly traded company. It did not say how much fuel leaked or when service would be restored.
Hill did not immediately respond to email and telephone messages seeking more information.
“The appropriate regulatory agencies have been notified, and an investigation into the cause and quantity of the release will be conducted,” the statement said. “We are working closely with our customers on potential impacts.”
In Las Vegas, officials were “monitoring the situation, believe we have adequate supply, and do not anticipate an immediate impact on gas availability,” according to a statement from Clark County spokesperson Erik Pappa.
The county said the pipeline provides fuel storage facilities in Southern Nevada with unleaded and diesel fuel. Another pipeline operated by UNEV Pipeline LLC serves the Las Vegas area from northern Utah.
The Kinder Morgan website says its 566-mile (911-kilometer) CALNEV pipeline transports gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from Los Angeles refineries and marine terminals through parallel 14-inch (35.5-centimeter) and 8-inch (20-centimeter) diameter pipelines to Barstow, California, and the Las Vegas area.
Airports it serves include Nellis Air Force Base and Harry Reid International in Las Vegas and Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert, the company said.
Kinder Morgan’s SFPP West pipeline runs approximately 515 miles (829 kilometers) to transport petroleum products from the Los Angeles area to Colton and Imperial, California, and east to Phoenix. | 2023-02-11T01:43:56+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/fuel-lines-from-los-angeles-to-vegas-phoenix-shut-by-leak/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationally recognized InnoVision Marketing Group has been named agency of record for Island Fin Poké. Continuing to expand at a steady pace, InnoVision will assist Island Fin Poké with branding, franchise development, digital marketing, and national public relations & outreach. This offers InnoVision the opportunity to help expand the national reach and awareness of Island Fin Poké.
The brand approached InnoVision after seeing the branding, positioning and marketing strategies that have led to much growth and success for other franchises on their client roster. Experts in branding and creating sticky campaigns, the campaign the company developed for Huey Magoo's, The Filet Mignon of Chicken, has received national praise and recognition.
San Diego-based InnoVision Marketing Group offers the full scope of marketing services completely in-house, including digital media, traditional media, web development, design, public relations, video production and more. Representing a variety of clients in different industries, Island Fin Poké adds to their franchise and fast-casual dining category.
"We are so honored to have the opportunity to work with Mark [Setterington]. His vision is clear, and his passion and enthusiasm are contagious," says Ric Militi, CEO / Executive Creative Director of InnoVision Marketing Group. "We look forward to helping Island Fin become the leader in the poke category – it's a goal we know is achievable, and we are excited to be part of it."
Coming in at #22, between Chipotle and Jersey Mike's, Island Fin Poké is a top mover and shaker, recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's 2022 Top Food Franchises Ranking, the 2022 Top New & Emerging Franchises Ranking and Fast Casual's 2022 Movers & Shakers List.
Offering fresh Hawaiian-style poke bowls, described as sushi in a bowl, Island Fin Poké serves fresh poke in endless combination options, creating customized bowls for every guest. Guests choose from responsibly-sourced ingredients and can personalize their own poke bowl with options including over eight proteins, 25 different toppings, gluten-free house-made sauces that have been creatively crafted, and specialty mix-ins. Island Fin Poké offers a unique and full-service experience to each and every guest that walks through their doors, implementing this approach into everything they do.
Entering into four new markets with four new locations by the end of this year, Island Fin Poké currently has 24 locations open, looking to double in the next year.
"Island Fin Poké could not be more excited to have InnoVision as our agency of record. We are truly humbled that such an incredible agency has committed to helping us to become the brand we know we can be," says Mark Setterington, Co-founder and CEO of Island Fin Poké.
InnoVision is made up of five divisions including public relations, film production, digital media, traditional media and Español. Representing brands in multiple categories, including airports, automotive, fast-casual dining, food & beverage, healthcare, soft drinks, casinos, retail, tribal government, economic development and nonprofit, the agency serves clients across the US.
To learn more about InnoVision Marketing Group, please contact Bianca Kasawdish at bianca@teaminnovision.com or click here.
What began as an idea of a way to better service clients, has turned into a brand that stands out among the rest. InnoVision Marketing Group is a full-service, nationally recognized agency, with clients across the country, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Phoenix, Tampa and Orlando. From branding to creative design, media buying, digital advertising, web development and SEO, video production, social advertising and management, PR and digital content, entirely everything is done in-house. Our client portfolio spans across several different industries, including casino, dining, jewelry, healthcare, lifestyle, nonprofit and more.
Since first opening in 2012, InnoVision has branched out from its humble beginnings, adding world-class clients to a growing roster that includes Valley View Casino & Hotel, Palomar Health, Huey Magoo's Chicken Tenders, and more. InnoVision also offers commercial film production through Pretzel Logic Productions, a wholly owned subsidiary, creating cutting-edge commercial and internet films while embracing storytelling and the brand vision.
At the heart of everything we do, InnoVision is committed to maintaining our unique culture. Team members at InnoVision are continually empowered, inspired and supported on a daily basis, no matter their position. We work hard to ensure an environment that team members thrive and grow in. The happier our team is, the better the work we produce – something we remember every day. To learn more about InnoVision, please visit TeamInnoVision.com.
Island Fin Poké is a Florida-based fast-casual concept known for its Hawaiian-style build-your-own poké bowls. From farm-to-fork, the brand uses the freshest ingredients to bring traditional flavors from the islands to local communities nationwide. Founded in 2017, Island Fin Poké has 20+ locations open, with numerous others in various stages of development. Island Fin Poké was listed in Fast Casual's 2022 Movers & Shakers List. For more information, or if interested in joining the brand's Ohana, please visit https://www.islandfinpoke.com/.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Workers at the Starbucks location on Wedington in Fayetteville became the first in the state to win their union election, according to a statement.
On Monday, Nov. 14, the location also became the 261st store in the country to vote in favor of unionizing. In October, the store was the first in the state to petition an election.
Out of 20 employees, 11 voted to unionize, representing the majority of the votes.
“This is an important step toward our goal of fair representation in the workplace. We are fighting for a true partnership between the baristas and the company. We hope that Starbucks will come to the bargaining table and hear what we have to say,” said Dylan Hartsfield, a shift supervisor at the store.
Last month, the workers began the process of unionizing after filing for a union election. At the time, they told 5NEWS that fair pay and fair hours were factors in why they wanted to unionize, but workers are also seeking better rights and protections for employees of color and LGBTQ workers.
“'Acting with courage, challenging the status quo, and finding new ways to grow our company and each other,' as stated in the Starbucks Missions and Values, is exactly what we have achieved today. We sigh a breath of relief knowing that our voices have been heard and that we can move forward together, truly, as partners,” said Justin Bean, a barista trainer at the store.
The National Labor Relations Board conducted the election on Nov. 14 from 9:30 to 5 p.m. Out of the 21 employees total, 20 voted.
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Magnitude 2.8 earthquake rattles St. Louis, USGS reports
Published: Apr. 29, 2022 at 6:56 PM CDT|Updated: 22 hours ago
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - A 2.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Missouri Friday evening about 22 miles outside of downtown St. Louis.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake struck near Fenton, Missouri, at about 5:30 p.m locally.
KMOV reports multiple residents felt the earthquake in St. Louis County and told news crews that they felt shaking or heard a large boom.
There were no immediate reports of major damage from the earthquake.
Copyright 2022 KMOV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-04-30T22:43:10+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/04/29/magnitude-28-earthquake-rattles-st-louis-usgs-reports/ |
The seventh-generation Ford Mustang is set to race all over the world in a number of different categories, with the latest of the many planned Mustang race cars scheduled to debut at Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps Circuit on June 28.
The car Ford will unveil is the Mustang GT4, designed for privateer racing in the popular GT4 class. GT4 cars are currently eligible to race in multiple series in the U.S. and Europe, so there will be plenty of options for teams purchasing a Mustang GT4. Multimatic Motorsports, which developed the successful Ford GT racer, will build the cars for all customer globally. The company also helped Ford Performance develop the car.
Other details are being kept until the reveal, but based on GT4 rules, expect this Mustang to hew closer to the road-going version than the Mustang GT3 revealed earlier this month. That car has been confirmed for North America’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the global FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Entry in the latter means the Mustang GT3 will race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2024.
Mustang-derived race cars are already competing in Australia’s Supercars series and the NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series, although the NASCAR versions still wear bodywork from the outgoing sixth-generation model for the time being.
Ford is also known to be working on a Mustang Dark Horse R race car that could form the basis of a new one-make series. It’s based on the track-focused Mustang Dark Horse road car, which will sit above the GT in the 2024 Mustang lineup, taking the place of models such as the Bullitt and Mach 1. It packs a 500-hp version of the 5.0-liter Coyote V-8, and will offer carbon-fiber wheels as a standalone option.
The 2024 Ford Mustang is scheduled to go on sale later this summer. Expect to see the GT4 race car on track next year.
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Resilient US consumers spend slightly more in August
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers spent a bit more in August than the previous month, a sign the economy is holding up even as inflation lifts prices for food, rent, and other essentials.
Americans boosted their spending at stores and for services such as haircuts by 0.4% in August, after it fell 0.2% in July, the Commerce Department said Friday. The government’s report also showed that an inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve rose 0.3% last month, faster than July.
The figures suggest that the economy is showing some resilience despite sharply rising interest rates, violent swings in the stock market, and high inflation. On Thursday the government confirmed that the economy shrank in the first six months of the year.
Still, there were signs that rising prices are weighing on shoppers. Consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, rose at an annual rate of 2% in the April-June quarter. Yet July and August data indicate that spending is on track to slow to about 0.5% annual growth in the July-September quarter, economists said.
Compared with a year ago, prices jumped 6.2%, down from a 6.4% annual gain in July. The figure is lower than the more widely-known consumer price index, released earlier this month, which reported an 8.3% price gain in August from a year earlier.
The two indexes differ for several reasons. For example, the consumer price index puts much greater weight on rents and housing costs, which have been rising steadily, than the measure released Friday, known as the price index for personal consumption expenditures.
Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 0.6%, much faster than July’s flat reading. They increased 4.9% from a year earlier, up from July’s figure of 4.6%.
Adjusted for inflation, consumer spending ticked up 0.1% last month, after falling slightly in July.
The inflation figures in Friday’s report echoed those released earlier this month, with core prices rising more quickly than headline inflation. Falling gas prices have reduced overall inflation, while stubbornly high costs for housing, cars, and services such as health care and hair cuts have pushed core prices higher.
Even adjusted for inflation, consumer spending ticked up 0.1% last month, after falling slightly in July.
Friday’s report also showed that personal income rose 0.3% in August for the second month in a row. Adjusted for price increases, disposable income -- what is leftover after taxes -- ticked up 0.1%, after a hefty 0.5% gain in July. Those income gains will help fuel spending.
But over a longer time frame, incomes are trailing inflation. In the April-June quarter, inflation-adjusted disposable income fell 1.5% at an annual rate.
The Federal Reserve is seeking to wrestle inflation under control with its most rapid series of interest rate hikes in four decades. It has pushed its benchmark short-term rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest since early 2008, up from nearly zero in March.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other officials have repeatedly underscored the Fed’s determination to bring prices down, even if their rate hikes result in layoffs and a higher unemployment rate.
The Fed intends its interest rate increases to slow borrowing and spending, which should in turn reduce inflation pressures in the economy.
Inflation has spiked globally, contributing to economic and financial turmoil in the United Kingdom, Europe, and a slew of developing countries, from Turkey to Argentina.
Also Friday, the 19 countries that use the euro currency reported that inflation spiked 10% from a year earlier, as prices for natural gas and electricity soared. European countries are struggling with an energy crunch in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Russia has reduced its supplies of natural gas to the European Union.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-30T14:42:46+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2022/09/30/resilient-us-consumers-spend-slightly-more-august/ |
A New Jersey man who owned a New York-based medical equipment and supply business and the manager of the company were convicted Tuesday for their roles in a $3.8 million health care fraud scheme, authorities said.
Ikechukwu Udeokoro, 47, of North Bergen, owned Meik Medical Equipment and Supply that was located in the Bronx and Ayodeji Fasonu, 56, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, managed the company, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
The business was listed online as “permanently closed.”
Through Meik, Udeokoro and Fasonu billed Medicare Advantage and Medicaid-managed care plans for hundreds of expensive patient support systems that were never provided to them or their caregivers, the office said.
These support systems included large devices that were designed to assist with lifting immobile patients and patients in nursing homes, federal prosecutors said. In reality, Udeokoro and Fasonu provided patients with recliner chairs that had a seat lift feature.
The pair fraudulently billed the two insurance companies more than $3.8 million between December 2010 and February 2014 and were paid about $2.4 million, investigators said.
Udeokoro and Fasonu were both convicted of health care fraud and were scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 14 and Aug. 16, respectively, the office said. They each face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
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Chris Sheldon may be reached at csheldon@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-02-08T02:59:58+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/02/nj-medical-equipment-supplier-convicted-in-38m-health-care-scheme.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.
Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional guarantee of abortion access, Kagan said the public’s view of the court can be damaged especially when changes in its membership lead to big changes in the law.
She stressed that she was not talking about any particular decision or even a string of rulings with which she disagreed.
Still, her remarks were similar to points made in dissenting opinions she wrote or contributed to in recent months, including in the abortion case.
“Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves … when they instead stray into places where it looks like they’re an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,” Kagan said at Temple Emanu-El in New York. The event was livestreamed.
The 62-year-old New Yorker struck a different tone from Chief Justice John Roberts, who spoke to a gathering of judges and lawyers in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last week.
“Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court,” Roberts said.
The chief justice has been a consistent defender of the court’s legitimacy against complaints that the court is not much different from the political branches of the government.
But Kagan said the court risks damaging its own legitimacy when big changes in the law follow changes in the court’s membership.
The public has a right to expect, she said, “that changes in personnel don’t send the entire legal system up for grabs.” Kagan joined the court in 2010, an appointee of President Barack Obama.
Three of the justices who are part of the court’s conservative majority were appointed by President Donald Trump. They voted to overturn Roe, and also imposed limits on the Biden administration’s efforts to fight climate change, expanded gun rights and weakened the separation between church and state.
In the court term that begins next month, the court will take up a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, just six years after the court reaffirmed affirmative action in higher education.
Kagan also briefly addressed the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion in the abortion case, saying it makes the justices’ jobs much harder “when you might wake up tomorrow morning and there’s an opinion on the front page of the newspapers.”
She said she does not know if the investigation Roberts ordered in May has determined the source of the leak. | 2022-09-13T03:24:39+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-justice-kagan-cautions-supreme-court-can-forfeit-legitimacy/ |
The City Council on Wednesday passed a $945 million budget for fiscal year 2023, which begins July 1, but most of the discussion focused on a paltry $3 million.
Before the vote, about two dozen members of the public rose to speak about the proposed funding package, with most objecting to a $2.55 million allocation to the Tulsa Police Department for a Real Time Information Center.
They repeatedly argued that the video technology at its heart would be used to surveil minorities and the poor, whose neighborhoods, they said, are already over-policed.
The speakers also picked up on Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper’s concern that if the city is going to fund such an enterprise, independent oversight of the Police Department should come with it. Such an oversight program has an estimated cost of approximately $500,000.
The fact that city councilors failed to include that funding in the budget was the reason Hall-Harper gave for voting against it.
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She was the lone dissenter on the nine-member body on the budget vote. Councilor Kara Joy McKee was not at the meeting.
“We continue to talk about all the other cities that have a Real Time Information Center,” Hall-Harper said. “But it seems like it just rolls off that these cities, most of whom have some kind of oversight, some years before they instituted these Real Time Information Centers, but we want to continue to ignore that.
“And I don’t think that is right.”
Before calling a vote on the budget, Council Chairwoman Lori Decter Wright made a motion to fund the Real Time Information Center out of the city’s dedicated permanent public safety sales tax to free up funding in the general fund that could be used for animal welfare, neighborhood improvements and housing.
The motion also sought to allocate $5 million from the public safety sales tax fund balance to be used for Fire Department salaries and staffing, subject to the department’s collective bargaining process with the city.
Wright said she was making the proposal, which ultimately failed, because she did not feel comfortable doing what has always been done, “which is: Receive something; kind of ask questions; be repeatedly told, ‘We’ll look into it, we’ll look into it’; and then we miss the opportunity,” Wright said. “I don’t want to miss the opportunity. Even if the opportunity fails, at least we tried.”
Speaking after the meeting, Mayor G.T. Bynum explained the rationale for funding a Real Time Information Center, which is a fraction of the Police Department’s $148.7 million FY 2023 budget — an increase of $26 million from the current fiscal year.
Bynum said Police Chief Wendell Franklin has been advocating for the RTIC since he became chief in part to help compensate for the shortage of officers.
“We have had such a surge in retirements in the last two years, and combine that with difficulty in hiring, and we’ve actually lost ground,” Bynum said. “We were up to 850 officers a year ago, and we are back to about 800 right now. …
“We are going to keep funding the staffing to hire, but in the interim, we still have a crime problem in Tulsa and a violent crime problem in Tulsa. And when we asked the Police Department leadership, ‘In the near term, is there anything we can do to make better use of the staff you already have?’ they told us, ‘A Real Time Information Center.’”
Bynum said he did not see the discussion surrounding a police oversight program as a funding issue.
“We have already funded it historically in the past,” he said. “The issue with OIM (Office of the Independent Monitor) is no consensus among the 10 of us who are elected policy makers at the city as to what it ought to look like.
“That is why it has repeatedly failed to get enough votes to be adopted.”
The budget approved by councilors Wednesday is approximately 18% higher than the original budget approved for the current fiscal year.
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March 30 video: Citizens comment on an Office of the Independent Monitor | 2022-06-16T04:01:21+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-council-approves-945-million-fy-2023-budget/article_f1d27c0c-ec41-11ec-9271-ebb229bcb750.html |
An official with the U.S. Air Force confirmed to the Post-Tribune Thursday that information from First Congressional District candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green’s military record, including details about a sexual assault while she was serving in Iraq, were released to a third party by an individual who did not follow proper procedure.
The details, first released earlier this month by the online media source Politico, have set off a firestorm in one of the most competitive congressional races in the country. The seat, held for decades by Democrats, appears to be up for grabs in a contest between U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, who first won the seat two years ago when Pete Visclosky chose not to seek another term after serving for 36 years, and political newcomer Green, a Republican living in Crown Point.
“Based on the preliminary findings of an investigation, it appears information from Jennifer-Ruth Green’s service record was released to a third party by a junior individual who didn’t follow proper procedures and obtain required consent,” Ann Stefanek, chief of media relations for the Department of the Air Force, said in an email.
“The Department of the Air Force takes its responsibility to safeguard private information seriously and the matter remains under investigation.”
Green’s campaign has said Mrvan’s campaign or someone affiliated with it acquired the military records and supplied them to a reporter with Politico, a charge Mrvan’s camp has denied. Green’s campaign has yet to provide documentation showing a chain of custody for the documents that placed them in Politico’s hands.
Still, controversy has swirled over the release of the confidential information, particularly involving a sexual assault, which would not typically be included in a release of information on service records from the Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act.
The way the release of information was handled by the Air Force was first reported late Wednesday by The Hill.
“The walls are closing in on Congressman Mrvan. He denied any involvement in obtaining and leaking Jennifer-Ruth Green’s military records in a desperate attempt to smear her. Now we know the Air Force did release documents illegally to a Democrat opposition research firm,” Kevin Hansberger, Green’s communications director, said in a statement.
His email included links to a website for the research firm and to the Federal Election Commission website, showing tens of thousands of donations by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to that firm, though it’s not immediately clear which campaign the funds were used on.
Mrvan thanked those who he said have confirmed his campaign is not responsible for the leaks.
“I appreciate that my Indiana Republican colleagues have confirmed that no one affiliated with my campaign is responsible. My wife and my family have endured vicious attacks due to these inaccurate and untrue allegations,” Mrvan said.
“I also take this opportunity to draw attention to the needs of all survivors. Please consider giving your time or donating to one of the many sexual trauma or rape-crisis centers in Northwest Indiana.”
alavalley@chicagotribune.com | 2022-10-27T23:09:48+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-jrg-records-st-1028-20221027-kho7dlujb5arlk77o5b4vsifgq-story.html |
SAN CARLOS, Calif., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XP Health, a company dedicated to democratizing vision care with a digital-first vision benefits platform, announced the addition of Ryan VanOverbeke as Chief Commercial Officer and Joel Alperstein as Chief Financial Officer.
As Chief Commercial Officer, Ryan VanOverbeke will be responsible for XP Health's commercial strategy and execution and will have direct oversight of sales, marketing, and customer success teams.
VanOverbeke is a talented healthcare leader with nearly 20 years of experience. Most recently, he was the chief revenue officer at Vimly Benefit Solutions, a SaaS platform designed to simplify the complexities of workforce and benefits administration. For six years he served as the senior vice president, healthcare partner executive of WEX Health where he had responsibilities for partner revenue growth and retention. During his tenure the business grew more than 500 percent through new sales and expanded distribution with 99 percent retention and revenue growth from $70 million to $370 million.
VanOverbeke also served as regional vice president of sales and account management for UnitedHealthcare where over nine years he held several sales, distribution, and leadership roles. VanOverbeke is a graduate of Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota with a bachelor of science in finance.
Joel Alperstein becomes XP Health's CFO, transitioning from his previous role at the company as fractional CFO. He is responsible for handling everything relating to cash flow, financial planning, and growth strategy initiatives.
Alperstein brings more than 30 years of fiscal experience including multi-faceted executive roles at AbsoluteCare and Avesis. As president, CFO, and board member at Avesis, a leading administrator of supplemental insurance benefits for government and commercial plans with 6.6 million members, he guided the company through their successful acquisition by Guardian in 2016. As chief administrative officer and a board member at AbsoluteCare, a leading value-based integrated healthcare provider focused on providing comprehensive and preventative care to the most vulnerable populations, Alperstein led the company through an investment of $105 million from Kinderhook Industries, LLC in December 2020. Alperstein has a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Delaware and a master's in business administration from Loyola University Maryland.
"We are excited to have Ryan and Joel, two extremely high-caliber executives, joining our team, to continue pushing us towards our mission to reinvent the vision insurance industry," said Antonio Moraes, CEO, and co-founder of XP Health. "As a new member of our leadership team, Ryan brings valuable insurance benefits provider and health plan experience for millions of members, and will be an exceptional brand ambassador, passionate about differentiating XP Health as a disruptor and leader in the vision care marketplace."
About XP Health
XP Health democratizes access to high-quality, delightful experiences in vision care that double coverage and reduce costs. It is a digital-first vision platform focused on eye exams and eyewear that uses customer-centric design and technology to create a better member experience and improve access. XP Health was founded to combat the often confusing, expensive, and frustrating experiences common with vision care and vision insurance. XP Health was named to Fast Company's 2021 list of "The World's Most Innovative Companies," and over the past year has expanded from 30 to 1500+ customers, including DocuSign, Navistar, Chegg, Sequoia Consulting, and strategic partner Guardian Life Insurance. To learn more visit xphealth.co.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s military acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian city not far from Ukraine’s border, injuring two and scaring local residents.
Belgorod, a city of 340,000 located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the Russia-Ukraine border, has faced regular drone attacks during Russia’s current military operation in Ukraine. Russian authorities blamed the earlier strikes on the Ukrainian military, which refrained from directly claiming responsibility for the attacks.
The explosion late Thursday was far more powerful than anything Belgorod residents had experienced before. Witnesses reported a low hissing sound followed by a blast that made nearby apartment buildings tremble and shattered their windows.
It left a 20-meter (66-foot) -wide crater in the middle of a tree-lined boulevard flanked by apartments, damaged several cars and threw one vehicle onto a store roof. Two people were injured, and a third person was later hospitalized with hypertension, authorities said.
Immediately after the explosion, Russian commentators and military bloggers were abuzz with theories about what weapon Ukraine had used for the attack. Many of them called for strong retribution.
But about an hour later, the Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged that a weapon accidentally released by one of its own Su-34 bombers caused the blast. The ministry did not provide any further details, but military experts said the weapon likely was a powerful 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) bomb.
Military experts charged that the weapon appeared to have been set to explode with a small delay after impact that would allow it to hit underground facilities.
Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said local authorities decided to temporarily resettle residents of a nine-story apartment building while it was inspected to make sure it hadn’t suffered structural damage that rendered it unsafe to live in.
Russian commentators questioned why the warplane flew over Belgorod and urged the military to avoid such risky overflights in the future.
In October, a Russian warplane crashed next to a residential building in the port city of Yeysk on the Sea of Azov, killing 15 people. Yeysk hosts a big Russian air base with warplanes that fly missions over Ukraine.
Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights have increased sharply during the fighting, so have crashes and misfires.
In another deadly incident in the Belgorod region, two volunteer soldiers fired at Russian troops at a military firing range, killing 11 and wounding 15 others before being shot dead. | 2023-04-21T12:28:15+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/russias-air-force-accidentally-bombs-its-own-city/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
Prices are surging, and Best Buy has a plan to draw in shoppers hunting for deals on TVs and laptops: more outlet stores.
Over the next year, Best Buy will double the number of outlet stores it has to 32 — starting with new outlets in Chicago, Houston, Phoenix and Manassas, Virginia — and add an outlet deals section to its website for the first time, the company said Wednesday.
Best Buy has operated outlet stores since 2014, offering discounts on TVs and major appliances that have been returned, repaired, exchanged or manufacturers have discontinued. It also has a similar "open-box" discount section at most of its approximately 1,000 stores.
Now, the chain is opening new outlet stores with a larger product assortment, including laptops, tables, gaming consoles and cell phones. It will add more services to these stores, such as same-day delivery, curbside pickup and a Geek Squad center where shoppers can get tech support.
Best Buy believes it needed to expand its outlet strategy so it can better appeal to customers who buy based on which discounts they can find.
The outlet stores are also a way for Best Buy to draw new shoppers and re-engage old ones. The retailer has thrived in recent years, but faces stiff competition in the consumer electronics business from Amazon, Costco, Walmart and others.
Best Buy said 16% of customers shopping at current outlet stores had never purchased from Best Buy, and 37% hadn't shopped at Best Buy in the prior year.
Outlet stores are "important to customers," said Damien Harmon, Best Buy's executive vice president of omnichannel, in an interview. "When you don't have a solution like that ... you also potentially disengage customers."
Opening new outlet stores carries other benefits for Best Buy, too, Harmon said.
It allows the retailer to move discount sections out of its regular stores and free up the space to showcase new, full-price merchandise.
And it gives Best Buy, the retail industry's largest recipient of returned consumer electronics, another way to sell those products and keep them out of landfills.
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Dear Amy: We are “Pat” and “Leslie.”
We were both retired when we married two years ago, and we signed a prenuptial agreement that keeps our finances separate.
We each own a house outright and we spend half our time in each.
We agreed to share daily expenses and set up an account, which we equally fund and from which either of us can draw for those expenses.
We both have our own trust which controls our assets.
Our assets, though, are considerably different, though our incomes while working were roughly the same.
Part of Pat’s assets come from a sizable inheritance and Pat believes that those funds are family money and must be passed down the generations.
Leslie believes that this is wise family planning. Leslie has invested a significant amount in the education of the offspring. Pat agrees that this, also, is wise family planning.
We were discussing travel and a proposal was put forth that the expenses for travel should be divided proportional to assets.
A similar proposal was put forth for medical expenses, as one of us has significantly higher medical expenses.
We look to your sage advice as to whether these are good and fair proposals.
– Pat and Leslie
Dear Pat and Leslie: Please come to my house and sort out my life.
Your decisions and distribution of assets seem fair (to me), and if this works for you, then carry on!
Your financial blueprint for life appears both solid and responsible. But sometimes you need to color outside of the lines, because life has a way of derailing even the most finely laid plans.
You are extremely good at deciding, distributing, and dividing.
My one suggestion for you to consider would be to find ways to share more.
A somewhat radical idea would be for you to consider taking advantage of the hot housing market, sell your two homes and look for a home together which will be suitable in design and location for you to age comfortably in place. Together.
You could use the profit from the sales to fund a joint account to be used for travel and medical expenses – as needed.
Dear Amy: The following happened three times this month to people I know!
Here’s the story: Somebody died with no will, and left their loved ones to deal with the aftermath.
My friends are having trouble getting into bank accounts to pay funeral expenses, getting into apartments to clear out belongings, dealing with funeral homes, getting access to email accounts so they can notify the near and dear of the sudden departure, and trouble tracking down veterans’ benefits and mortgages and leases and insurance policies.
Squabbling over the heirlooms will happen next. Meanwhile, there are disputes about who shall serve as executors.
It would have been so simple for these now-departed souls to make some arrangements before the inevitable day arrived.
Passwords, bank details, powers of attorney, car titles and all other legal documents – these may be kept discreetly hidden, with an “in case of emergency” note prominently featured someplace in the home.
Copies of all the items in your wallet, such as licenses and credit cards (front and back) should be in there, too.
Banks are quick to freeze accounts. Thawing them can be difficult without the right paperwork.
Please use your platform to explain in your inimitable way that nobody gets out of here alive, and it is a kindness to formally make one’s wishes known and one’s arrangements transparent – instead of burdening those who love you with cleaning up your affairs while they grieve.
– Worried
Dear Worried: “Nobody gets out of here alive.” That’s as inimitable as it gets.
Thank you so very much for this important admonition. I hope your message reaches a lot of people, inspiring them to take these steps for the sake of those they will leave behind.
Dear Amy: I had to respond to the letter from “Fed Up,” who had endured 10 Thanksgivings with bickering sibling in-laws.
I had the best Thanksgiving ever last year.
After a horrendous Easter with so many changes and unnecessary demands I said no more, at least for a while.
I booked a flight and hotel and left town for Thanksgiving. I decided that a turkey sandwich alone was better than another mess. It was the best decision.
As a result, Christmas was wonderful. Sometimes you can solve a problem by not being a part of it.
– C. in Chicago
Dear C: Taking a breather can be good for everyone.
(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)
©2022 Amy Dickinson. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. | 2022-09-11T04:49:59+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2022/09/ask-amy-dying-without-a-will-leaves-loved-ones-squabbling-and-dealing-with-the-aftermath.html |
The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030, including expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food.
The administration, in a plan released Tuesday, is also seeking to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other diet-related diseases. It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition.
“The consequences of food insecurity and diet-related diseases are significant, far-reaching, and disproportionately impact historically underserved communities,” Biden wrote in a memo outlining the White House strategy. “Yet, food insecurity and diet-related diseases are largely preventable, if we prioritize the health of the nation.”
Biden is hosting a conference this week on hunger, nutrition and health, the first by the White House since 1969. That conference, under President Richard Nixon, was a pivotal moment that influenced the U.S. food policy agenda for 50 years. It led to a greatly expanded food stamps program and gave rise to the Women, Infants and Children program, which serves half the babies born in the U.S. by providing women with parenting advice, breastfeeding support and food assistance.
Over the years, cuts to federal programs coupled with stigmas over welfare and big changes to how food and farming systems are run have prompted declines in access to food.
Biden, a Democrat, is hoping this week's conference is similarly transformative. But the goal of Nixon, a Republican, also was “to put an end to hunger in America for all time.”
And yet 10% of U.S. households in 2021 suffered food insecurity, meaning they were uncertain they could get enough food to feed themselves or their families because they lacked money or resources for food, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
To succeed, Biden needs buy-in from the private sector and an increasingly partisan Congress. Some of the goals sound reminiscent of former first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative to tackle childhood obesity and promote healthy eating. The conference also will highlight the need for access to better, healthier food and exercise.
Biden said in his memo that over the past 50 years, “we have learned so much more about nutrition and the role that healthy eating plays in how our kids perform in the classroom and about nutrition and its linkages to disease prevention.”
Under the White House plan, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility would be expanded, children would get better access to free meals, and summer benefits would be extended to more school kids. Such changes would require congressional approval.
The other tenets of the strategy include the development of new food packaging to truth-check the “healthy” claims for some products, expanding SNAP incentives to select fruits and vegetables, providing more programs to encourage people to get outside and move, and boosting funding for research. | 2022-09-27T13:21:13+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/bidens-strategy-to-end-hunger-in-us-by-2030-includes-more-benefits |
GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — A man accused of harboring two teen girls at the center of a recent Amber Alert is being held in Williamson County.
KXAN’s sister station KWKT in Waco reported James Robert VanHouten was arrested by Williamson County authorities in connection with the disappearance of the two 14 year old girls.
Online Williamson County records show VanHouten was arrested by Georgetown Police and booked into the jail Tuesday. He has two charges of harboring a runaway child.
The McLennan County Sheriff’s Office said deputies found the girls “out of town.” They had been missing since late June out of McGregor, Texas, which is about 65 miles north of Georgetown.
MCSO said there could be more arrests in the coming days. | 2022-07-05T21:27:42+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/man-accused-of-harboring-teen-girls-at-center-of-amber-alert-in-custody-in-williamson-county/ |
(WIVB) – Anita Alvarez, a two-time Olympian from New York, had a scare Wednesday when she passed out in the pool during the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. But her coach said on social media that Alvarez is doing fine, and has been cleared by doctors.
Alvarez passed out at the end of her solo routine in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming. Andrea Fuentes, Alvarez’s coach, jumped in to rescue Alvarez from the bottom of the pool, lifting her to the surface. Another person helped Fuentes lift the swimmer out of the water, before she was placed on a stretcher.
“Anita’s solo was so good too, it was her best performance ever, she just pushed through her limits and she found them,” Fuentes later wrote on Instagram. “But Anita is OK and the doctors also said she is fine.
“We all know it happens in other sports: cycling, marathon, track and field … some don’t make it to the final line and some even finish crawling or passing out,” Fuentes added. “Our sport is very hard too. Now it’s time to rest and recover. Tomorrow is highlight day and free duet finals! Ready to give our best.”
Alvarez scored 87.6333 in the women’s solo free artistic swimming event, placing seventh.
Alvarez had previously passed out in the pool during an Olympic qualifying event in 2021.
When discussing the 2021 incident with Nexstar’s WIVB, Alvarez claimed she felt like she was merely falling asleep.
“I honestly thought I was asleep,” Alvarez told WIVB after the qualifier. “I started hearing people saying, ‘It’s going to be OK.’ I thought, ‘Stop telling me that! I’m trying to sleep.’ Then I realized that no, I was still in the pool.”
“Unfortunately, I’ve seen it happen to her before,” Alvarez’s mother said last year. “Never in competition, though. I knew right away. On their last element, I could tell something was up.”
In 2021, Fuentes had also dived into the pool, fully clothed, to rescue Alvarez.
“I felt more tired than usual, but I didn’t think I was going to pass out,” Alvarez remembered of the 2021 incident. “On that last arm, I’m like 45 degrees horizontal when I’m supposed to be vertical. I remember doing it and thinking I was vertical. Then the feeling kept spinning, like I was in a hamster wheel. I don’t remember anything until I got to the wall. They had already carried to me to the wall and I kind of woke up out of it and realized my coach was in the pool, and that was that.”
Alvarez attributed last year’s incident to exhaustion, as she was competing in several events in a short span. This time, she was coming back after a foot surgery, posting a photo with crutches as recently as five weeks ago.
Alvarez previously told WIVB she’s hoping to compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. For now, though, Team USA has not confirmed whether Alvarez plans to compete in the final later this week.
“Whether or not she will swim in the free team final on Friday … will be determined by Anita and expert medical staff,” USA Artistic Swimming said in a statement to the Associated Press. | 2022-06-23T19:17:36+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/photos-us-swimmer-anita-alvarez-rescued-by-coach-after-passing-out-at-world-championships/ |
Over half a million older Honda CR-V SUVs are being recalled in cold-weather states due to rust on the rear suspension.
Documents filed with U.S. safety regulators said road salt used to melt ice and snow can build up on the rear trailing arm, causing parts to rust and potentially break loose.
The recall covers nearly 564,000 CR-Vs from 2007 through 2011 that were sold or registered in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.
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Upon inspection of the car, dealerships will either install a support brace, repair the frame, or offer to buy the vehicle back from you. Owners who have already paid out of pocket to have the repairs made are eligible to be reimbursed.
Recall notification letters are expected to be mailed to owners by May 8.
In documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Honda says it has received 61 consumer complaints in the U.S., but there are no reports of any injuries or deaths related to the issue.
The recall has already been issued for CR-Vs sold in Canada. | 2023-04-07T17:43:09+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/honda-recalls-564k-cr-vs-in-cold-states-over-frame-rust-issue |
Katie Couric was diagnosed with breast cancer in June, the former “Today” host announced Wednesday in a call to others to get screened.
Couric, 65, was diagnosed on June 21, the first day of summer and her eighth wedding anniversary, she wrote in a blog post titled “Why NOT Me?” The plan, she wrote, had been to broadcast her routine mammogram to her audience, much like she had done in 2005 and with a colonoscopy in 2000.
Then, the doctor took a biopsy. Then, it was cancer.
“I felt sick and the room started to spin,” Couric wrote. “I was in the middle of an open office, so I walked to a corner and spoke quietly, my mouth unable to keep up with the questions swirling in my head.”
There was no history of breast cancer in her family; her mother had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and her father had prostate cancer. Pancreatic cancer killed her sister at 54 and colorectal cancer killed her husband at 42. But most women with breast cancer have no family history.
“I didn’t want to call Ellie and Carrie until I had a better idea of my prognosis. Finally, four days after I was diagnosed, I FaceTimed each of them. I tried to be as reassuring as [Dr. Lisa Newman at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center],” Couric wrote of her daughters.
“Their faces froze in disbelief. Then shock. Then they began to cry. ‘Don’t worry,’ I told Carrie then Ellie, ‘I’m going to be fine,’ trying to convince myself as well as them.
“They’d already lost one parent. The idea of losing another was unfathomable.”
In July, Couric had a lumpectomy. In September, she began radiation, which wrapped up Tuesday.
Her message, she wrote, is simple: get tested.
“Please get your annual mammogram. I was six months late this time. I shudder to think what might have happened if I had put it off longer,” she wrote.
“I can’t tell you how many times during this experience I thanked God that it was 2022. And how many times I silently thanked all the dedicated scientists who have been working their a–es off to develop better ways to analyze and treat breast cancer. But to reap the benefits of modern medicine, we need to stay on top of our screenings, advocate for ourselves, and make sure everyone has access to the diagnostic tools that could very well save their life.”
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Doctors reattach boy's head after car accident thanks to 'amazing' surgery
Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and managed to reattach a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike, a Jerusalem hospital announced this week.
Suleiman Hassan, a 12-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, suffered what is known as an internal decapitation, with his skull detached from the top vertebrae of his spine — officially known as a bilateral atlanto occipital joint dislocation, according to The Times of Israel.
Hassan was riding his bike when a car hit him. The boy was rushed to Hadassah Medical Center and immediately put into surgery in the trauma unit. The doctors said his head was "almost completely detached from the base of his neck."
Dr. Ohad Einav, the orthopedic specialist who led the operation, said the procedure took several hours and required the doctors to use "new plates and fixations in the damaged area."
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"Our ability to save the child was thanks to our knowledge and the most innovative technology in the operating room," Einav said, adding that the team "fought for the boy’s life."
Einav and his team said that Hassan has a projected survival rate of only 50%, and his recovery is nothing short of a miracle, according to i24 News.
The operation occurred in June, but doctors waited a month to announce the results. The hospital recently discharged Hassan with a cervical splint and will continue to monitor his recovery.
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"The fact that such a child has no neurological deficits or sensory or motor dysfunction and that he is functioning normally and walking without an aid after such a long process is no small thing," Einav said.
The sun shines on Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)
According to Israel's TPS news agency, Hassan’s father did not leave his son’s bedside during the recovery process, saying he had nothing but a "big thank you" for the medical staff.
"Bless you all," the father said. "Thanks to you, he regained his life even when the odds were low and the danger was obvious."
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"What saved him were professionalism, technology and quick decision-making by the trauma and orthopedics team," TPS reported the father as saying.
Dr. Marc Siegel, Clinical Professor of Medicine and a practicing internist at NYU Langone Medical Center and Fox News contributor, told Fox News Digital that the "amazing" surgery was only possible if major blood vessels remained intact.
"The key is preserving blood flow to the brain," Siegel said. "It sounds like — from the story — that the major blood vessels were likely not severed and that this involved an orthopedic rebuilding — probably using rods and reattaching ligaments and possibly bone grafts and implants."
Einav stressed that the surgery is "extremely rare," but the large size of a child’s head relative to an adult means they are "more susceptible."
"This is not a common surgery at all, and especially not on children and teens. A surgeon needs knowledge and experience to do this," he said.
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Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news. | 2023-07-13T22:48:26+00:00 | fox13seattle.com | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/hadassah-medical-center-doctors-reattach-boys-head-after-car-accident |
Sylvester Stallone's latest project has an incredible story behind it. The 76-year-old actor doesn't star in MVP, but he did executive produce the new film, which is the directorial debut of NFL alum and Green Beret veteran Nate Boyer.
MVP is based on the true story of the formation of Merging Vets & Players, a nonprofit founded by Boyer and Fox Sports NFL Insider Jay Glazer, which empowers and connects combat veterans and former professional athletes, providing them with a new team to assist with transition to civilian life, promote personal development, and show them they are never alone.
The film follows a recently retired NFL player (Mo McCrae) and a homeless veteran suffering from PTSD (Boyer), as they bond amid their search for real purpose and identity.
Co-starring Rich Eisen, Talia Jackson, Christina Ochoa and Dina Shihabi, the film also features appearances from Tom Arnold, military veteran Dan Lauria, and former professional athletes Randy Couture, Tony Gonzalez, Howie Long, Jarrod Bunch and Michael Strahan.
Additionally, Wiz Khalifa wrote and performed a new song, "Work4It," for the flick.
"Merging Vets & Players has had such a profound impact on my life, as well as the lives of so many of our brothers and sisters who either fought for freedom or gave their all on the field of play," Boyer said in a press release. "We set out to capture the story of MVP on screen."
"Like the two main characters in the film, many of us battle with personal struggles and are searching for that purpose, identity, and a community where we feel like we belong," he added. "We hope the release of this film elevates the conversation with audiences everywhere and helps us all remember that you are never alone."
FilmRise's MVP is now playing in theaters nationwide.
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Best cocktail bombs for a spring party
Step away from the stoves and put down the mug. There’s a new instant drink trend to try. Cocoa bombs make enjoying hot cocoa fun and easy as their chocolate shells melt to reveal cocoa mix and mini marshmallows. Cocktail bombs, also called cocktail drops, operate on a similar concept. Tightly packed sugars and flavorings dissolve into your drink for a hassle-free cocktail experience. Cocktail bombs make great party favors and they’re a fun addition to spring gatherings.
In this article: My Drink Bomb Margarita Cocktail Bombs, Thoughtfully Cocktails 3D-printed Margarita Drops and JoyJolt Four-piece Afina Martini Glass Set.
What are cocktail bombs?
Cocktail bombs make it easy to create a cocktail at home with just a few basic ingredients. If you don’t have bitters, unique liquors or fresh garnishes on hand, a cocktail bomb packs all those flavors into a small package.
Most work by dropping the cocktail bomb into sparkling water or club soda, then stirring in spirits. Others are made with sodium bicarbonate, much like bath bombs, so they fizz up and dissolve easily into drinks. Sugar and flavorings help transform plain spirits into a cocktail without the need for a long ingredient list or mixology skills.
Many classic cocktails have been reformulated into bombs, including margaritas, sangria and piña coladas. Champagne cocktails are also a popular choice for cocktail bombs because the sparkling wine helps activate the bomb and dissolve its flavors.
Cocktail bombs are most commonly shaped like small spheres, but some brands offer novelty shapes, such as diamonds for a bridal shower or cacti for a Cinco de Mayo party. Some cocktail bombs are also made with bright colors, dried fruits or flowers or even edible glitter and gold leaf for a unique cocktail experience.
Best cocktail bombs and mixers
Cocktail Bomb Shop Cocktail Drink Bombs
Choose from two variety packs of six handmade cocktail bombs featuring flavors such as orange mojito, spicy margarita, mimosa and more. The cocktail bombs are hand-crafted in Quebec and feature eco-friendly biodegradable and recyclable packaging.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
My Drink Bomb Margarita Cocktail Bombs
The six cocktail bombs in this set transform tequila and sparkling water into two instant margaritas. They’re made with cane sugar, natural lime flavors and edible drink shimmer
Sold by Amazon
Thoughtfully Cocktails 3D-printed Margarita Drops
Spice up your party with this set of colorful, glittery 3D-printed cocktail bombs. Shaped like piñatas, lime wheels and cactus, each shape showcases a different margarita flavor: strawberry, classic lime and jalapeno.
Sold by Amazon
My Drink Bomb Six-pack Cocktail Bombs Variety Set
Sample the most popular cocktail bombs with this set of six different flavors, including mango margarita, lavender, Cosmo and more. They’re gluten- and dairy-free and can make two cocktails per drink bomb.
Sold by Amazon
Teaspressa Luxe Bubbles Mimosa Bar Kit
Made with sugar, flavorings and pieces of real fruit, these elegant sugar cubes instantly transform sparkling wine or water into a mimosa-inspired beverage. The cubes can also be used in tea or other cocktails.
Sold by Amazon
Art of Sucre Cotton Candy Cocktail Glitter Bombs
Made by a social-media-favorite cotton candy company, these cocktail bombs start out as small puffs of cotton candy transform your drink into a glittery sweet treat. The set comes with eight individually packaged puffs.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
Best cocktail glasses
Dos Suenos Mexican Hand-Blown Margarita Glasses
Handmade from recycled glass and decorated with blue rims, each of these margarita glasses has a unique appearance. The sturdy glass is dishwasher-safe. The set comes with four 16-ounce glasses.
Sold by Amazon
JoyJolt Four-piece Afina Martini Glass Set
These martini glasses feature an unconventional stemless design with a hefty base, making them both sturdier and safer. They’re dishwasher-safe and sold in a set of four 8-ounce glasses.
Sold by Amazon
Lenox Tuscany Classics Four-piece Toasting Flute Set
These crystal champagne flutes are perfect for a special occasion. They come in a set of four, and they’re backed by Lenox’s lifetime warranty.
Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out for quick and easy cocktails
- My Drink Bomb Bellini Blush Cocktail Bombs transform sparkling wine into a peach-flavored Bellini.
- Steep Sayso Cocktail Tea Bags Instant Cocktail Mixers in spirits or water to make an old fashioned, a Moscow Mule and more.
- The instant drink pouches in Craftmix Cocktail Mixers Variety 12-pack are convenient and low-calorie.
- The Cocktail Box Co. Tropical Cocktail Kit Gift Set is perfect for travel, with enough ingredients to make three to six drinks.
- Thoughtfully Cocktails 3D-printed Champagne Cocktail Drops add sparkle and color to a glass of bubbly.
- Store Herb & Lou’s The Cooper Infused Ice Cubes in your freezer, then pop out a cube to shake into a cocktail.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
332 AM PDT Mon Sep 19 2022
...Cold and Wet Through Wednesday...
* An early season storm will continue bringing well below normal
temperatures and chances for rain, and even some snow for
elevations above 9000 feet, through Wednesday. A few
thunderstorms will be possible each afternoon as well, with a
10% chance for a stray nocturnal storm Tuesday night. While
overall rain rates do not appear excessive, burn scars in
northeast CA, such as the Dixie Fire, will still need to be
monitored for flood threats.
* Liquid totals will be highest for the northern Sierra into
northeast California, where 1-2 inches of rainfall is possible
over the multi-day period. Wetting rains are also anticipated
through the Tahoe Basin and into far northwestern Nevada. Totals
will be much less, if anything, from southern Mono County to
areas of western Nevada east of Highway 95.
* It will be rather damp and chilly through Wednesday with daytime
temperatures 10-20 degrees below average. Cloud cover will
moderate overnight lows through Tuesday, with Wednesday night
likely to be the coldest night as skies begin to clear.
Overnight lows could drop into the 20s in colder Sierra valleys,
with typically colder spots in western Nevada dipping to near
freezing.
* While snow will be limited to mainly areas above 9000-9500',
keep in mind travel can still be impacted by wet roads and
lowered visibility. Allow extra time, especially if you are
traveling across the Sierra.
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 AM PDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Portions of Monterey County including Highway 1, the
Monterey Peninsula, and up towards Watsonville.
* WHEN...Until 545 AM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 326 AM PDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated heavy rain. Minor flooding is already occurring in
Highway 1 between Ragged Pt to Pt Lobos. Between 0.5 and 2
inches of rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Salinas, Watsonville, Seaside, Monterey, Marina, Big Sur
Village, Corralitos, Pacific Grove, Carmel-By-The-Sea, Carmel
Valley Village, San Clemente Dam, Spreckels, Cachagua Near
The Los Padres Dam, Boronda, Pico Blanco Campground, Del
Monte Forest, Castroville, Andrew Molera State Park, Moss
Landing and Prunedale.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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GENEVA (AP) — A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s top human rights body to look into rights violations in Ukraine said Friday its initial investigation turned up evidence of war crimes in the country following Russia's invasion nearly seven months ago.
The experts from the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, mandated by Human Rights Council earlier this year, have so far focused on four regions – Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy.
Presenting their most extensive findings so far, they cited testimonies by former detainees of beatings, electric shocks and forced nudity in Russian detention facilities, and expressed grave concerns about executions the team was working to document in the four regions.
“Based on the evidence gathered by the commission, it has concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine,” Erik Mose, the commission's chairman, told the Human Rights Council.
Commission member Pablo de Greiff told reporters the team had “found two instances of ill-treatment of Russian Federation soldiers by Ukrainian soldiers. ... We have found obviously significantly larger numbers of incidences that amount to war crimes on the part of the Russian Federation.”
During a 10-day June trip to Ukraine, the team visited Bucha, a city outside Kyiv where Ukrainian authorities found mass graves and bodies strewn in the streets after Russian forces pulled out in late March.
“We were struck by the large number of executions in the areas that we visited. The commission is currently investigating such deaths in 16 towns and settlements,” Mose said. He didn’t specify who or which side in the war allegedly committed the killings.
The findings echo reports by news outlets and others of the destruction, death and despair in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on Feb. 24.
The commission's work could ultimately contribute to the work of International Criminal Court prosecutors who could bring charges over war crimes in Ukraine, although it remains uncertain whether Russia or other alleged perpetrators will ever face justice.
Anton Korynevych, ambassador-at-large for Ukraine's Foreign Ministry, joined envoys from a number of Western countries who spoke out against Moscow's war in the wake of the commission's presentation. Russia's delegation boycotted the council meeting.
Korynevych, speaking by video, called for the creation of a special tribunal that would have jurisdiction “over the crime of aggression against Ukraine” and investigate senior Russian political and military leaders who were allegedly responsible.
He said said accountability was crucial for rights violations and atrocities linked to Russia’s “aggression.” But Korynevych also highlighted how the war's impact has rippled through the world and “put numerous countries on the verge of hunger, exacerbated extreme poverty, created the threat of nuclear catastrophe unseen before” and harmed the livelihoods of millions of people.
Commission investigators visited 27 towns and settlements, as well as graves and detention and torture centers; interviewed more than 150 victims and witnesses; and met with advocacy groups and government officials, Mose said.
He said an unspecified number of Russian soldiers were found to have committed crimes of sexual or gender-based violence – with victims ranging in age from 4 to 82 years old.
The commission plans to gradually expand its investigation, with areas of interest including allegations of filtration camps for people being detained or deported, the forced transfer of people, and allegations of expedited adoption of children.
“The evidence of Russia’s atrocities becomes more horrifying by the day, most recently with the uncovering of mass graves in Izium, where the bodies show signs of torture,” Michele Taylor, the U.S. ambassador to the rights council, said, referring to a Kharkiv regional city that Ukrainian forces recaptured in recent weeks.
Taylor urged the commissioners to continue to “examine the growing evidence of Russia’s filtration operations, forced deportations and disappearances.”
She referred to “numerous sources” that indicated Russian authorities have interrogated, detained and/or forcibly deported between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, and reports that children were being deported from Ukraine and placed in Russian orphanages for adoption.
A handful of Russia’s allies took to the defense of Moscow.
Ina Vasileuskaya, the deputy permanent representative of Belarus to the U.N. in Geneva, said Russia’s invasion aim was to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine.
“Biased discussions in the Human Rights Council only accusing Russia are a dead end,” she said.
Vasileuskaya said her country was not a party to the conflict, although Belarus was one of the places Russian forces gathered before invading Ukraine.
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ANNISTON, Ala. (WIAT) — An Anniston man has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing another man to death.
On Wednesday, Anniston Police Department officers responded to disturbance calls in the 4000 block of Bynum Leatherwood Road at approximately 4:30 p.m. Authorities learned a stabbing victim was transported to Stringfellow Hospital by a personal vehicle before they arrived on the scene.
The victim was been identified as James Livingston, 54, of Alexandria. He was flown to UAB Hospital, where he later died.
APD’s investigation narrowed Stanley McCrelles, 59, as the prime suspect in the case. Investigators claim Livingston and McCrelles were involved in a fight prior to the stabbing.
On Thursday, McCrelles was located, arrested and charged with murder. He was transported to the Calhoun County Jail and is being held on $760,000 bond.
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SEATTLE — President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.
Biden’s order directs federal land managers to define and inventory mature and old-growth forests nationwide within a year. The order requires the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service to identify threats to older trees, such as wildfire and climate change, and develop policies to safeguard them.
The order does not ban logging of mature or old-growth trees, the White House said.
By signing the order on Friday, Biden can publicly reassert his environmentalist credentials at a time when his administration has been preoccupied by high oil and gasoline prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Gas costs have been a drag on Biden’s popularity and created short-term political pressures going into this year's midterm elections, yet the Democratic president has been focused on wildfires that are intensifying because of climate change.
The measure is intended to safeguard national forests that been severely damaged by wildfires, drought and blight, including recent fires that killed thousands of giant sequoias in California. Redwood forests are among the world’s most efficient at removing and storing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and provide critical habitat for native wildlife and watersheds that supply farms and communities in the West.
Blazes so intense to kill trees once considered virtually fire-proof have alarmed land managers, environmentalists and tree lovers the world over — and demonstrated the grave impacts of climate change. A warming planet that has created longer and hotter droughts, combined with a century of fire suppression that choked forests with thick undergrowth, has fueled flames that extinguished trees dating to ancient civilizations.
A senior administration official noted that forests absorb more than 10% of U.S. annual greenhouse gases, while also providing flood control, clean water, clear air and a home to wildlife. The official insisted on anonymity to discuss details of Biden’s order before it was made public.
Biden’s ambitious climate agenda has been marred by setbacks, a year after he took office amid a flurry of climate-related promises. The president hosted a virtual summit on global warming at the White House last Earth Day. He used the moment to nearly double the United States’ goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vaulting the country to the front lines in the fight against climate change.
A year later, his most sweeping proposals remain stalled on Capitol Hill despite renewed warnings from scientists that the world is hurtling toward a dangerous future marked by extreme heat, drought and weather.
In addition, Russia’s war in Ukraine has reshuffled the politics of climate change, leading Biden to release oil from the nation’s strategic reserve and encourage more domestic drilling in hopes of lowering sky-high gas prices that are emptying American wallets.
While Biden is raising fuel economy standards for vehicles and included green policies in last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law, the lack of greater progress casts a shadow over his second Earth Day as president.
Timber industry representative Nick Smith said before the order was made public that loggers are worried it will add more bureaucracy to a forest management framework already unable to keep up with growing wildfires due to climate change.
That would undercut the Biden administration’s goal of doubling the amount of logging and controlled burns over the next decade to thin forests in the tinder-dry West, said Smith, a spokesman for the American Forest Resource Council, an Oregon-based industry group.
“The federal government has an urgent need to reduce massive greenhouse gas emissions from severe wildfires, which can only be accomplished by actively managing our unhealthy and overstocked federal forests,” he said.
But former U.S. Forest Service Deputy Chief Jim Furnish said wildfire risks and climate change would be better addressed by removing smaller trees that can fuel uncontrolled blazes, while leaving mature trees in place.
For many years the Forest Service allowed older trees that are worth more to be logged, to bring in money for removal of smaller trees, Furnish said. But that’s no longer necessary after Congress approved more than $5 billion to reduce wildfire risks in last year’s infrastructure bill, he said. The law includes money to hire 1,500 firefighters and ensure they earn at least $15 an hour.
Timber sales from federal forests nationwide more than doubled over the past 20 years, as Republicans and Democrats have pushed more aggressive thinning of stands to reduce small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires.
Critics, including many forest scientists, say officials are allowing removal of too many older trees that can withstand fire.
A letter signed by 135 scientists called on Biden to protect mature and old-growth forests as a critical climate solution.
“Older forests provide the most above-ground carbon storage potential on Earth, with mature forests and larger trees driving most accumulation of forest carbon in the critical next few decades. Left vulnerable to logging, though, they cannot fulfill these vital functions,’’ the scientists wrote Thursday. Former Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck and Norman Christensen, founding dean and professor emeritus at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, were among those signing the letter.
Protecting mature forests also “would set an important, highly visible example for other major forest-holding nations to follow as they address climate change threats,’’ the scientists wrote.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed to this story. | 2022-04-22T11:07:40+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-order-aims-to-protect-old-growth-forests-from-wildfire/2022/04/22/330c5116-c226-11ec-b5df-1fba61a66c75_story.html |
LOS ANGELES , July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. ("Axsome" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: AXSM) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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According to the Complaint, the Company made false and misleading statements to the market. Axsome failed to maintain sufficient chemistry, manufacturing, and control ("CMC") practices related to the manufacture of AXS-07. Due to its CMC issues, the Company was unlikely to submit an NDA for AXS-07 on the timeline it shared with investors. The Company failed to resolve its CMC problems before the FDA resolved AXS-07. The FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA as submitted. Based on these facts, the Company's public statements were false and materially misleading throughout the class period. When the market learned the truth about Axsome, investors suffered damages.
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Remember earlier this fall when the country came within hours of a nationwide rail strike?
We could soon see a repeat of that scenario. The nation's freight rail companies and some of their workers have yet to settle on a new contract after three years of negotiations.
You could be forgiven for thinking — Wait, what? Wasn't there a deal?
Well, yes and no.
The tentative agreement brokered in Washington disappointed many rail workers
In mid-September, following marathon negotiations in Washington that dragged on into the wee hours of the morning, there was an agreement — a tentative one. Based largely on the recommendations of an emergency board appointed by President Biden, the deal gave workers a 24% raise over five years, one additional personal day, and modest modifications to strict attendance policies, among other things.
President Biden called it an important win for the economy, the American people, and for rail companies and workers alike.
The Association of American Railroads hailed the agreement as historic, noting that upon ratification, workers will see an immediate average payout of $16,000 in retroactive raises and bonuses.
But a significant number of rail workers have said it's not enough.
The proposed wage increases barely keep up with inflation, they say, while their health care premiums could nearly double by the end of the contract. Moreover, paid sick days are not part of the agreement. For some, that's proving to be a deal breaker.
All 12 unions must ratify the deal to avoid a rail shutdown
The way the rail unions operate — all 12 unions representing roughly 115,000 freight rail workers must ratify the new contract to prevent a nationwide rail shutdown. If one strikes, the others all honor the picket lines.
If that were to happen, not only freight trains but some Amtrak trains and commuter rail systems would come to a halt. It would be an economic disaster, costing the country as much as $2 billion a day, the railroad industry has warned.
Congress could then intervene and simply impose the recommendations of Biden's Presidential Emergency Board. The unions would lose some of the sweeteners that were added in the eleventh hour.
So far, seven unions have voted to ratify the tentative agreement. But three others representing roughly 30,000 workers have voted it down. And the largest two unions, representing roughly 60,000 locomotive engineers and train conductors, are voting now, with results expected next week.
Should any one of them fail to reach an agreement, a strike or a lockout by the rail companies could come as early as 12:01 am on December 9.
Even before that, some rail service could be suspended, as we saw happen in September. The railroads have plans in place to stop shipments of hazardous materials starting 96 hours before a strike deadline. Amtrak would start cancelling its long-distance trains soon after.
A mechanic says the new contract is merely "treading water"
In Richmond, Virginia, roadway mechanic Reece Murtagh would gladly join a picket line.
His union — the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 19 — was on the verge of a strike in September after members rejected an earlier version of the contract and voted overwhelmingly to strike.
"We were ready to go," Murtagh says. "There was excitement in the air."
Instead, the union leadership extended the strike deadline as negotiations with other unions played out in Washington. Then in a second vote in early November, his union ratified what union leaders presented as an enhanced agreement.
Murtagh was among the 48% who remained opposed.
He's unhappy not just with the rail company whose heavy equipment he maintains and repairs, but also with his union leadership for not fighting harder.
"You're more or less treading water. You're not really gaining a whole lot," he says of the agreement.
Like many rail workers, he expected better, in part because of what he'd been hearing from the White House. President Biden has repeatedly talked of being the most pro-union administration in American history. He appointed former union leader Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor. If anyone would go to bat for rail workers, it would be this president and this labor secretary, Murtagh believed.
"It was like, this is our time," he says.
He was stunned when Biden's Presidential Emergency Board released its recommendations, which became the framework for the tentative agreement. The unions had requested 15 paid sick days, up from zero. The board responded by recommending just one additional personal day.
"We carried a railroad on our backs through a pandemic," says Murtagh, who was on a team repairing rail in the Berkshires in the spring of 2020 when everything around them was closed. "We were surviving off Gatorade and peanuts. Everyone in the team got COVID. We never skipped a beat."
Railroad companies say workers already have paid sick leave
The freight railroads point out that their workers do get paid sick leave. Under the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, those unable to work due to sickness can receive up to 26 weeks of partial pay, after a waiting period.
But the unions counter that this amounts to short-term disability coverage, not the kind of paid sick days that workers need when they wake up with flu symptoms or a migraine or have a sick child at home to care for.
Richard Edelman, an attorney for two of the unions that have voted no on the tentative agreement, says they are still seeking at least four days of paid sick leave, but so far, the railroads have not shown interest.
Reductions in the workforce have contributed to big profits for the railroads
The railroad industry says its goal is still to reach voluntary agreements with all 12 unions.
Edelman is not sure it can happen unless the railroads budge on sick leave.
"The railroads really are self-deluded," he says. "They seem to believe that the workers are happy, or ought to be happy, and just don't understand the level of anger."
A lot of the anger stems from the fact that in recent years, the railroads have reduced the workforce by 30%. A smaller workforce is now moving more freight, resulting in stunning profits for the railroads over the last five or six years, Edelman says.
On the road, Murtagh has felt the effects of a smaller workforce. Until late last year, he was a traveling mechanic, routinely working 14-hour days on a team tasked with replacing sections of rail.
"We never have enough people to fill the positions," he says. "The manpower that we have is having to do the work of an extra person, or work an extra five hours. It's a hard lifestyle."
He's considered quitting and taking his skills somewhere else, maybe John Deere. But the latest contract fight has lit a fire under him. He's now running for president of his union.
"People want change," he says. "I'm going to be the person to bring that change."
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VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Funerals for three people killed by a gunman during a church potluck dinner in Alabama will be held this week, the church's pastor said Monday.
Services for Walter Bartlett Rainey, Sarah Sharon Yeager and Jane Pounds will take place at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, where the three church members were fatally shot Thursday night, the Rev. John Burruss wrote in a post on the church's website.
The church was holding a monthly dinner described as a “Boomers Potluck” on Thursday when a visitor sitting by himself drew a handgun and began shooting. Rainey, Yeager and Pounds were all shot before another church member struck the gunman with a chair and disarmed him, according to a former St. Stephen's pastor who spoke with witnesses. The attacker was then held until police arrived.
Prosecutors have charged Robert Findlay Smith, 70, with capital murder in the shootings.
Funerals for Rainey and Yeager are scheduled for Wednesday, the pastor said, followed by the funeral service for Pounds on Thursday. | 2022-06-21T00:51:46+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Funerals-announced-for-3-killed-at-Alabama-church-17254112.php |
3 killed, 1 wounded in Philadelphia shooting; 2 in custody
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three people were killed and one was wounded in a shooting at a home in northeast Philadelphia, authorities said.
Lt. John Stanford told reporters that officers called to the residence in the Lawncrest neighborhood shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday and found one person shot on the sidewalk, another on the porch and a third victim inside the home. All three were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said another 16-year-old male victim arrived in a car at Jefferson Frankford Hospital. Stanford said at least two people were taken into custody and a gun was recovered from the vehicle.
Police said the victims were all between 15 and 20 years old. WPVI-TV reported that officials from the School District of Philadelphia confirmed that at least two of the deceased victims were students in the school district, one in the eighth grade and the other in the 11th grade. No identities were immediately released.
Two weeks ago, more than two dozen shots were fired during a gun battle outside the Lawncrest Recreation Center, one bullet entering the window of a day care, WPVI-TV reported.
Stanford acknowledged frustration at the ongoing violence in the city, but said “we can’t lose hope, because if we lose hope then everybody in this city will lose hope.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-29T13:46:26+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2023/04/29/3-killed-1-wounded-philadelphia-shooting-2-custody/ |
Las Vegas local hits $6.4M jackpot at Strip property
Published: Jan. 9, 2023 at 6:12 AM PST|Updated: 1 hour ago
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas local won big on the Strip over the weekend.
According to the Flamingo on Sunday, the guest, identified as Thomas Z. from Las Vegas, hit a Pai Gow Progressive jackpot worth $6,443,401.
No further information was provided.
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The new Victoria's Secret x Naomi Osaka collection celebrates self-care, the beauty of embracing your dreams, designed to reflect playful ease and whimsical charm.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Victoria's Secret has announced the launch of Victoria's Secret x Naomi Osaka, a first design collaboration with athlete, equality advocate and Victoria's Secret, Naomi Osaka. Inspired by self-love, the collection includes a variety of casual sleepwear pieces and intimates that encompass the wonder of dreaming. Featured in the collection is Victoria's Secret's new Forever Bra, which includes the brand's first-ever bra pad that can be fully recycled in a closed-loop system developed in partnership with MAS Holdings.
Evoking a serene, dream-like essence, the campaign was shot by photographer Brad Ogbonna and styled by Karolyn Pho. The campaign features Naomi Osaka in a natural setting, inspired by the calmness of sunrises and sunsets and reflective of the soft tones and patterns featured in the collection.
"VS x Naomi Osaka beautifully represents the tranquility and happiness that comes when you take a moment to embrace you – I believe everyone should prioritize self-care. I am proud to have collaborated with Victoria's Secret in designing a collection that brings this message to life through dreamlike styles. We had a fully immersive design process together where we thoughtfully chose light, soft fabrics in a calm color palette reflective of sunsets and sunrises. I can't wait for everyone to relax and enjoy wearing each and every one of these pieces," said Naomi Osaka, Athlete, Equality Advocate and Victoria's Secret Collective Partner.
"We are honored to have partnered and designed with Naomi on our first-ever collaboration with a Collective partner. As a champion of self-love and a true inspiration to women all over the world, Naomi encourages us all to celebrate our dreams through this special collection. Designed with dreamy color blends, unique patterns and absolute comfort in mind, each VS X Naomi Osaka piece embodies the beauty and peacefulness of taking time for you, and we look forward to sharing it with everyone," said Janie Schaffer, Chief Design Officer for Victoria's Secret.
The collection ranges from intimates to casual sleepwear, including robes, rompers, sleep shirts and shorts. The designs featured throughout include pastel lavenders, light jades and muted pinks, alongside ombres & dye effects. Victoria's Secret X Naomi Osaka pieces start from $32.00 and up. Casual Sleepwear pieces, panties and thongs are available in sizes XS – XXL, and the bra is available in sizes from 34B – 40DD.
Victoria's Secret x Naomi Osaka is now available nationwide in stores and online at VictoriasSecret.com. Beginning today, Victoria's Secret x Naomi Osaka will also be available in select international stores and online.
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SC lawmakers push ban on transgender healthcare options for minors
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A new bill would ban minors in South Carolina from receiving gender-affirming care.
It’s a push happening in other states across the country right now, including Georgia, where a similar ban just became law Thursday.
A majority of the state Senate — 25 of the chamber’s 46 members, all of them Republican — has signed on as sponsors of this bill.
Senators on a Medical Affairs subcommittee heard two hours of testimony from invited speakers this week on the legislation, S.627, with more public comment scheduled for next week.
This bill would ban anyone under 18 from undergoing gender transition procedures, which are defined as medical or surgical services performed with the purpose of assisting with a physical gender transition.
That includes gender-affirming surgeries, which doctors have testified are not performed on minors in South Carolina, as well as puberty-blocking drugs and hormone therapy.
“Puberty blockers essentially buy the adolescent time, protecting their mental health while they have a chance to grow, develop, and make more adult decisions about their future,” Dr. Deborah Greenhouse, a Columbia pediatrician, said.
In addition to banning these procedures for minors, this bill would also prohibit state dollars be used directly or indirectly on these procedures for anyone, including adults.
South Carolina pediatricians told senators this care is what national medical associations recommend for kids and teens with gender dysphoria, the distress or discomfort some transgender people may feel when their bodies don’t match their gender identity.
“The truth is that this is the safe way to care for children, and so if we’re protecting children, gender-affirming care is the way to go,” Dr. Elizabeth Mack, a pediatric ICU physician in Charleston, said.
But supporters contend this bill would protect some minors from medical procedures they might later regret.
“This is not a bill about hating anybody. This is not a bill that restricts the right of any adult to do what he or she so desires or chooses with their lives,” Sen. Josh Kimbrell, R-Spartanburg and one of the bill’s sponsors, said.
Another section of that bill would require schools notify parents if they believe their child suffers from gender dysphoria or identifies with a gender different from their sex.
Senators are also considering a second bill, S.623, that would only allow male and female genders on birth certificates, and it would only let gender be changed on this document if it is because of a clerical error or within 12 months of birth.
The subcommittee did not vote on whether to advance these bills during their meeting this week. They plan to hear more testimony from the public at another meeting next Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Copyright 2023 WCSC. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-26T21:39:35+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/03/25/sc-lawmakers-push-ban-transgender-healthcare-options-minors/ |
Early rock recording executive Art Rupe has died at 104. He founded Specialty Records, which launched the careers of Little Richard and Sam Cooke, and helped make R&B popular with white audiences.
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Early rock recording executive Art Rupe has died at 104. He founded Specialty Records, which launched the careers of Little Richard and Sam Cooke, and helped make R&B popular with white audiences.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-04-18T22:34:37+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-04-18/art-rupe-influential-early-rock-recording-executive-has-died-at-104 |
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — A little girl from Panama born with heart problems died in Border Patrol custody Wednesday, the second death of a child from Latin America in U.S. government custody in two weeks.
The 8-year-old girl and her family were being held in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for migrant crossings. The Border Patrol’s parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, has struggled with overcrowding at its facilities, spurred by a large increase in migrants ahead of the expiration last week of a key regulation on immigration linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The girl experienced “ a medical emergency ” and emergency medical services were called. They took her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead, the agency said. An autopsy has been ordered.
The girl’s name was Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, said Honduran Consul José Leonardo Navas, who is based in McAllen, Texas. He said she is from Panama, although her parents are from Honduras. The consul said she was traveling with her father, mother and two older siblings.
She was born with heart problems and was operated on three years ago in Panama, according to her father who spoke with the consul.
Customs and Border Protection’s internal affairs office will investigate the girl’s death, and the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general and Harlingen police have been notified, Customs and Border Protection said.
Her death comes a week after a 17-year-old Honduran boy, Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, who was traveling alone, died in U.S. Health and Human Services Department custody.
Also, earlier this year, a 4-year-old “medically fragile unaccompanied child from Honduras” died at a hospital in Michigan, Health and Human Services said in a statement Thursday. The agency said the child, who was in the care of the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, was taken to the hospital on March 14 following a “cardiac arrest event.” She died three days later, the agency said.
In recent weeks the U.S. has struggled with large numbers of migrants coming to the border in expectation of the end of Title 42, a regulation that had curbed migration during the pandemic.
Last week, hundreds of migrants were held in open air on U.S. soil between two border walls in San Diego. Many subsisted for days on a limited Border Patrol diet of water and chips or granola bars and whatever volunteers or vendors passed through openings in the wall.
Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S.-Mexico border program, said Thursday that portable bathrooms were too full to use, forcing migrants to relieve themselves outdoors. He said the Border Patrol told him to call 911 when volunteers encountered an 8-month-old child between the walls was “listless and vomiting.” The camp has since been disbanded.
On Thursday, advocates also warned of dangerous conditions for migrants who are still in Mexico trying to gain entry to the Untied States. Advocates said during a news conference with journalists that they had visited a number of encampments in Mexico to assess conditions there and found little in the way of medical care.
Amy Fischer, director of Refugee and Migrant Rights at Amnesty International USA, said “almost everyone” they saw on the Mexico side of the border “had some type of health condition that they were dealing with.” She said that was “almost universal” that migrants were “lifting up their shirt and showing a rash or saying that my kid had X kind of sickness.”
Last week, the Border Patrol began releasing migrants in the U.S. without notices to appear in immigration court, instead directing them to report to an immigration office within 60 days. The move spares Border Patrol agents time-consuming processing duties, allowing them to open space in holding facilities. A federal judge in Florida ordered an end to the quick releases.
The Border Patrol had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, the day before pandemic-related asylum restrictions expired, which was double from two weeks earlier, according to a court filing. By Sunday, the number had dropped 23% to 22,259, still unusually high.
The Border Patrol has a network of stations and processing facilities across the southwest border where it holds and processes migrants agents encounter before they’re either released into the U.S. or turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On its website, the agency says it has a maximum capacity of 5,000 although the agency has been rapidly expanding capacity in recent months.
The average time in custody on Sunday was 77 hours, five hours more than the maximum allowed under agency policy.
During the Trump administration, the deaths of children in U.S. custody became flashpoints of controversy, calling into question the administration’s efforts to protect the most vulnerable migrants at a time when the U.S. was seeing a rise in the number of families with children coming to the southern border. At least six children died during a roughly year-long period from 2018 to 2019; they were held in either Border Patrol or Health and Human Services custody.
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This story has been corrected to note that the girl died in Border Patrol custody, not at a Border Patrol station.
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Santana reported from Washington. Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Gisela Salomon in Miami contributed to this report. | 2023-05-19T10:32:05+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-8-year-old-girl-dies-in-border-patrol-custody-in-texas-as-agency-struggles-with-overcrowding/ |
DETROIT (AP) — William Lucas, a Black man who made national headlines when he switched political parties to become the Republican nominee for Michigan governor in 1986, has died at age 94, his family said.
Lucas died of natural causes Monday.
“He was a fine public servant who provided decades of dedicated service to the people of Detroit and Wayne County," Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said.
Lucas, a New York City native, landed in Michigan as an FBI agent. He quit to become Wayne County undersheriff and subsequently was appointed sheriff to fill a vacancy. He was elected in 1970 and twice reelected.
Lucas won an election in 1982 for the new position of county executive. But his biggest political move came four years later when he switched parties to challenge Gov. Jim Blanchard, a Democrat.
“Bill Lucas has three million constituents — that’s why the Republican Party is rolling out the red carpet for him,” Republican state Sen. John Engler, a future governor, told The New York Times in 1986.
Republicans believed Lucas could get crucial votes in heavily populated southeastern Michigan, but Blanchard won in a landslide.
Lucas later served as a Detroit-area judge. | 2022-05-31T15:02:41+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/William-Lucas-dies-at-94-Black-Republican-ran-17209341.php |
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff’s deputy told The New York Times.
That would mean a second missed opportunity for officers to stop Salvador Ramos before the May 24 rampage inside the school that killed 19 children and two teachers. Officials previously said that another officer, with the school district’s police, had driven past Ramos without seeing him in the school parking lot.
The unidentified Uvalde city officers, one of whom was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, said they feared hitting children playing in the line of fire outside the school, Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios of nearby Zavalla County told the newspaper.
The officers’ chance of stopping Ramos passed quickly, perhaps in seconds, Rios said.
Messages from The Associated Press to Rios and the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office have not been returned. The Zavala County sheriff’s officials responded to the shooting in support of Uvalde and Uvalde County officers.
Rios said he had shared the information with a special Test House committee investigating the school massacre.
Uvalde police officials agreed Friday to speak to the committee investigating, according to a Republican lawmaker leading the probe who had begun to publicly question why the officers were not cooperating sooner.
“Took a little bit longer than we initially had expected,” state Rep. Dustin Burrows said.
On Thursday, Burrows signaled impatience with Uvalde police, tweeting that most people had fully cooperated with their investigation “to help determine the facts” and that he didn’t understand why the city’s police force “would not want the same.” He did not say which members of the department will meet with the committee, which is set to continue questioning witnesses in Uvalde on Monday about the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers.
Uvalde police did not reply to messages seeking comment.
Weeks after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, law enforcement officials have stopped providing updates about what they’ve learned about the shooting and the police response. Their silence comes after authorities gave conflicting and incorrect accounts in the days after the shooting, sometimes withdrawing statements hours after making them.
Officials also haven’t released records sought under public information laws to media outlets, including The Associated Press, often citing broad exemptions and the ongoing investigation. It has raised concerns about whether such records will be released, even to victims’ families.
The state House committee has interviewed more than a dozen witnesses behind closed doors so far, including state police, school staff and school district police. The list of witnesses provided by the committee so far has not included Pete Arrendondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, who has faced criticism over his actions during the attack.
Burrows defended the committee interviewing witnesses in private and not revealing their findings so far, saying its members want an accurate account before issuing a report.
“One person’s truth may be different than another person’s truth,” Burrows said Friday.
Since the shooting, Republican leaders in Texas have called for more mental health funding but not new gun restrictions. Authorities say the 18-year-old gunman used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle. Police did not confront he gunman for more than an hour, even as anguished parents outside the school urged officers to go in. | 2022-06-18T17:03:56+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/texas-news/deputy-2-officers-had-chance-to-shoot-uvalde-school-gunman/ |
A team of scientists have identified a geological site in Canada that they say best reflects a new epoch in Earth's history — the Anthropocene era.
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BANGOR, Maine — A Presque Isle man will serve two years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking.
U.S. District Court Judge Lance E. Walker sentenced Connor Clark, 24, Tuesday at Maine District Court in Bangor to the prison term plus five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee.
Clark was charged with conspiring to distribute and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. He and other members of the conspiracy distributed large quantities of the drug in northern Maine between January 2017 and August 2018, according to court records.
Clark coordinated multi-pound shipments of methamphetamine from Arizona to fellow conspirators, who distributed it in Aroostook County, and sent thousands of dollars in cash to the out-of-state supply source, court records said.
Clark pleaded guilty in November 2021. | 2022-08-16T20:14:25+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/16/news/bangor/presque-isle-man-gets-2-years-for-meth-trafficking/ |
Mushrooms are a source of glutamate, a naturally occurring compound that gives the fungi their umami flavor. But to really give these “patties” a savory boost, we brush them with vegetarian steak sauce. Add a simple side salad or some grilled veggies for a satisfying and easy dinner on the grill.
Vegetarian All-American Portobello Burgers
Serves 4
Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
4 portobello mushroom caps, gills removed if desired
Cooking spray
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
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4 teaspoons steak sauce, vegetarian style
4 slices American cheese
4 whole-wheat buns, toasted if desired
1 cup shredded iceberg lettuce
4 large tomato slices
Thinly sliced red onion & pickles (optional)
1. Preheat grill to medium-high.
2. Coat mushrooms with cooking spray and sprinkle with pepper. Grill, turning occasionally, until tender, 10 to 12 minutes total.
3. Meanwhile, mix mayonnaise, ketchup and relish in a small bowl.
4. Transfer the mushrooms to a plate and pat dry with paper towels. Brush with steak sauce and top the gill side of each mushroom with a slice of cheese. Return the mushrooms to the grill and cook until the cheese is just melted, about 1 minute more.
5. Serve on buns with the sauce, lettuce, tomatoes and onion and pickles, if desired.
Recipe nutrition per serving: 275 Calories, Total Fat: 13 g, Saturated Fat: 4 g, Cholesterol: 24 mg, Carbohydrates: 33 g, Fiber: 5 g, Total Sugars: 11 g, Added Sugars: 3 g, Protein: 10 g, Sodium: 713 mg, Potassium: 655 mg, Iron: 2 mg, Folate: 53 mcg, Calcium: 200 mg, Vitamin A: 508 IU, Vitamin C: 4 mg.
(EatingWell is a magazine and website devoted to healthy eating as a way of life. Online at www.eatingwell.com.) | 2022-09-03T10:49:53+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/eatingwell-make-room-on-the-grill-for-these-delicious-veggie-burgers/article_6aae14b5-3763-54ee-89ab-01095e7bbf83.html |
ITHACA, New York — Cameron Billings from Brewer graduated from Ithaca College with a BA in music. More articles from the BDN | 2022-07-07T01:25:03+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/06/bdn-maine/billings-graduates-from-ithaca-college/ |
CHICAGO (WGN) — A man is speaking out from his hospital bed two days after he was shot in a Chicago neighborhood while trying to protect his young son from gunfire.
At the intersection of 70th and Clyde, Donald Muhammad says he was trying to take his 4-year-old son out of the car Sunday night when gunfire erupted. The father said he barely parked and exited the car before the gunshots erupted.
“This is an epidemic and it doesn’t just affect me, it affects children every day. It affects adults. It affects innocent people,” Muhammad told Nexstar’s WGN.
It’s why Muhammad says he’s chosen to speak out after surviving the shooting.
“Physically, I’m well but emotionally and mentally, you’ll never get over that, especially when it involves children,” he said.
Muhammad, a 6-foot-8-inch security and public safety professional, said it wasn’t only his training that kicked into gear but his instincts to protect what matters most to him. He described trying to stay low and using his body to shield his son.
He was struck in the buttocks in the process.
The 45-year-old was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he spoke with WGN from his hospital bed on Tuesday. He wanted to share his gratitude for the officers who rushed to his side and helped him and his son, who wasn’t injured, as well as the city’s emergency response and medical staff at the hospital.
“If I had to use the word hero, they were the real heroes here,” Muhammad said.
Sunday’s shooting occurred just feet from an elementary school where children about Muhammad’s son’s age go to learn. As he recovers from his injuries, he told WGN his number one priority is making sure his little boy is emotionally and mentally OK.
“They say time heals all wounds, and even as a 4-year-old, we don’t know what children really experience,” he said.
The shooting remains under investigation and nobody has been taken into custody, according to Chicago Police. | 2023-05-10T13:47:26+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/father-injured-while-shielding-4-year-old-son-from-gunfire-in-chicago-neighborhood/ |
DALLAS (AP) _ Triumph Financial, Inc. (TFIN) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $17.6 million.
The Dallas-based company said it had net income of 67 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 62 cents per share.
The financial holding company posted revenue of $118.4 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $112.8 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $102.3 million, or $3.96 per share. Revenue was reported as $484.6 million.
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CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) — A former respiratory therapist charged with first-degree murder in the death of a patient in Missouri 20 years ago has been arrested in northeastern Kansas, authorities said.
Jennifer Hall, 41, was arrested in Johnson County, Kansas, on Thursday evening under the name Jennifer Semaboye, of Overland Park, Kansas, the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office said. The discrepancy in her last name wasn’t immediately clear, but a worker with the Johnson County jail said booking documents showed she was divorced and that she also went by the name Jennifer Hall.
She wascharged this month in the 2002 death of Fern Franco — one of nine people who died at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe over several months in 2002 amid a series of “medically suspicious” events at the hospital, according to court documents in Hall’s case.
Hall worked as a respiratory therapist at the hospital when the patients all died from cardiac collapse, officials have said. Matthew O’Connor, who has represented Hall in the past, said earlier this week that no evidence exists to connect Hall to the deaths. Hall has previously denied any involvement.
The case was revived after an analysis of Franco’s tissue samples found morphine and a powerful muscle relaxant used in anesthesia in her system. Neither drug was prescribed or ordered for her by her doctors, investigators said.
Some staff at the hospital believed Hall was responsible because of her proximity to the stricken patients, her access to deadly pharmaceuticals, and because she notified staff of every patient’s cardiac emergency, according to court documents.
Hall was placed on administrative leave three days after Franco’s death. | 2022-05-13T19:03:02+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/woman-arrested-in-2002-missouri-hospital-patients-death/ |
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Report: 14% of doctors admit drinking or doing drugs at work to cope with stress
Published: Aug. 18, 2022 at 3:20 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) – The COVID-19 pandemic has some healthcare workers stressed out and looking for ways to ease their tensions.
According to a report on healthcare workers’ mental health released Thursday, 21% of physicians say they’ve taken drugs or drank alcohol more than once per day.
Additionally, 14% report consuming alcohol or controlled substances while at work.
The findings from the Mind-Body Health treatment chain APN were based on 1,000 healthcare workers questioned in July.
Researchers also say many of these healthcare workers suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder while experiencing trauma similar to what wartime soldiers go through.
Copyright 2022 CNN. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-18T21:25:35+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/08/18/report-14-doctors-admit-drinking-or-doing-drugs-work-cope-with-stress/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks inched higher Friday to close out a listless week for Wall Street, as investors wait for next week’s slate of potentially market-moving updates.
The S&P 500 rose 4.93, or 0.1%, to 4,298.86 to cap its fourth straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 43.17, or 0.1%, to 33,876.78, and the Nasdaq composite gained 20.62, or 0.2%, to 13,259.14.
Tesla was at the front of the market, rallying 4.1% after announcing General Motors electric vehicles will be able to use much of its extensive charging network beginning early next year. GM rose 1.1%.
Energy stocks fell along with the price of crude oil. Exxon Mobil slipped 0.7% and was one of the heavier weights on the market. Ski resort operator Vail Resorts dropped 7.1% after reporting weaker results for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
This week has been relatively quiet for markets, even with the benchmark S&P 500 index gaining enough Thursday to close 20% above its October low, entering a new bull market. More fireworks could arrive next week when the U.S. government releases the latest monthly updates on inflation at the consumer and wholesale levels. The Federal Reserve will also announce its latest move on interest rates.
So far, the economy has been able to avoid a recession even though the Fed has jacked rates up at a furious pace for more than a year in hopes of driving down inflation. The highest rates since 2007 have helped inflation come down some, but it’s still above everyone’s comfort level.
That means the big question on Wall Street is whether inflation will come down quickly enough for the Fed to take it easier on interest rates before high rates force the economy into a recession. A stronger-than-expected report on hiring last week raised hopes that the economy can slide through its troubles without a recession, but many other areas have already begun to crack.
Besides helping to cause three-high profile U.S. banking failures since March, high interest rates have also pushed the manufacturing industry to shrink for months. The banking industry’s turmoil has also caused banks to make it tougher for customers to get loans, which adds more stress to the economy.
“I can’t tell you precisely when this recession will come to roost, but it feels likes it’s coming,” said Amanda Agati, chief investment officer of PNC Asset Management Group. “And the market is not priced for it. I don’t want to be dramatic and say a day of reckoning is coming, but there will be a wakeup call.”
She’s expecting only a modest recession, not a deeply painful one like the downturns following the 2007-08 financial crisis and the 2020 onset of the COVID pandemic. But she is concerned by how high the stock market has climbed, driven in particular by just a small handful of stocks.
“This is the market thinking we’re going to muddle along and then the Fed is going to get out of the driver’s seat: The Fed is going to cut rates, and we’re going to power into 2024,” Agati said. “And I think that’s awfully delusional.”
She says rates could climb higher than Wall Street expects and stay high for longer than investors are forecasting because inflation has remained too stubbornly high.
The wide expectations among traders is that the Fed will hold interest rates steady at its meeting next week. If it does, that will be the first meeting where the Fed hasn’t hiked rates in more than a year. After that, the widespread bet is that the Fed may hike one more time in July before going on hold or even cutting rates by the end of the year.
Elsewhere on Wall Street, Adobe rose another 3.4% to add to its 5% leap from the day before following its announcement of a new artificial-intelligence offering for businesses. It joined a frenzy around AI that has sent a select group of stocks soaring, such as a 165% surge for chipmaker Nvidia so far this year.
Proponents say AI will be the next revolution to remake the economy, while critics say it’s inflating the next bubble.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.74% from 3.72% late Thursday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, rose to 4.62% from 4.52%.
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AP Business Writer Yuri Kageyama contributed. | 2023-06-09T22:37:14+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/stock-market-today-asian-shares-mostly-rise-lifted-by-bull-market-on-wall-street/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Eight Indonesian fishermen are feared drowned and another 11 have been rescued after spending six days without food or water on a barren island off the northwest Australian coast after a powerful tropical cyclone, authorities said Wednesday.
Two primitive wooden Indonesian fishing boats were caught in the path of Cyclone Ilsa, which made landfall Friday as Australia’s most powerful storm in eight years, with winds gusting at an apparent record of 289 kilometers (180 miles) per hour.
One of the boats, Putri Jaya, sank in “extreme weather conditions” on April 11 or 12 while Ilsa was gathering strength over the Indian Ocean and heading toward the coast, Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement, citing survivors.
The other boat, Express 1, ran aground with 10 men aboard in the early hours of April 12 on Bedwell Island, a sandy outcrop some 300 kilometers (200 miles) west of the Australian coastal tourist town of Broome, the authority said. The only known survivor from the Putri Jaya spent 30 hours in the water before washing ashore on the same island, the statement said.
“They all remained (on Bedwell Island) for six days without food and water before being rescued on Monday night,” the authority said.
The Putri Jaya survivor used a fuel can to stay afloat at sea, Indonesian officials told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The survivors were spotted Monday by the Australian Border Force, which patrols Australia’s northern approaches for smuggling and other illegal activity, from a plane on a routine surveillance mission. A Broome-based rescue helicopter was deployed and winched all 11 aboard in failing light.
Gordon Watt, a manager at helicopter provider PHI Aviation, said the rescue helicopter crew had been unable to land on the sand.
“They had to conduct winch recoveries which, in itself, is a challenging task,” Watt said. “The time of day meant that nightfall was upon the crew during the rescue, so they had to transition to using night vision goggles.”
The survivors were taken to Broome Hospital where Border Force said in a statement they were reported to “be in good health despite their ordeal.”
They have been flown from Broome to the northern city of Darwin from where they will be flown back to Indonesia, the statement said. Indonesian authorities have been notified.
“This incident highlights the dangers of undertaking journeys in small boats unsuited to rough seas and adverse weather events, both of which are common in Australia’s northern waters,” the statement added.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which manages searches and rescues in Australian waters, did not immediately respond on Wednesday when asked if there had been a search for other potential survivors.
Bedwell Island is part of the Rowley Shoals, a group of three coral reefs.
The missing Indonesian fishermen are expected to be the only fatalities from Ilsa, which was a maximum Category 5 cyclone when it crossed the Pilbara region coast of Western Australia state southwest of Broome.
A gust of 289 kph (180 mph) recorded on an island off the Pilbara coast was the fastest ever recorded by Australia’s weather bureau equipment in the country. While the reading remains preliminary and requires further analysis, the bureau said Tuesday it beats the previous record of 267 kph (166 mph) set by Cyclone Vance on the Pilbara coast in 1999.
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This version has corrected that eight fishermen were reported missing, not nine. | 2023-04-19T07:27:11+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/9-indonesian-fishermen-feared-dead-11-rescued-off-australia/ |
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Whole-Algae Astaxanthin Supports Mind-Body Wellness
KIBBUTZ KETURA, Israel, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of a recently published clinical study demonstrated that AstaPure Arava® by Solabia- Algatech Nutrition can have a beneficial effect on the immune system and global well-being. A key function revealed in the research was significant reduction in the stress hormone cortisol, coupled with positive changes in the gut microbiome, interacting along the full continuum of what is now called the "Gut-Immune-Brain" Axis.
AstaPure Arava is a whole-algae ingredient of Haematococcus pluvialis and a unique source of minimally processed, unrefined natural astaxanthin source that also contains all of the vital nutrients naturally found in microalgae. It is a full-spectrum microalgae complex, providing 3% astaxanthin, 50% polysaccharides and dietary fibers, 28% lipids, 14% proteins, and a variety of B-complex vitamins and trace minerals. Multiple studies have shown that astaxanthin and other compounds in H. pluvialis deliver an impressive variety of health supporting advantages.
Astaxanthin is one of the most powerful and bioavailable antioxidants known, and H. pluvialis algae is the most concentrated natural source of astaxanthin. Astaxanthin is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and blood-retinal barriers. It can reach cells throughout the body, including the retina, muscle, and skin. Due to its unique structure, astaxanthin helps protect cells from both internal and external oxidative stressors, supporting general health and well-being.
In the current, double-blind placebo-controlled study1, the effects of the dietary supplementation of AstaPure Arava on upper-respiratory tract complaints (URTCs) and psychological mood state were examined on fit adult male and female recreational runners experienced in training and competing for half-marathon to marathon-distance. Since physical activity puts specific stressors on the muscles, organs, brain, and mind, athletes and similarly active adults are especially good models for showing the beneficial effects of dietary supplements on the immune system and stress.
Subjects took either 8mg of AstaPure Arava or a placebo (maltodextrin) daily for three weeks before, and one week following, a competitive marathon or half-marathon. The 32 subjects (16 male, 16 female) who finished the study completed a profile of mood state psychological assessment and a health log questionnaire assessing health status and URTCs, plus provided saliva and fecal samples for measurement of cortisol and microbiome balance.
Subjects in the AstaPure Arava group reported significantly fewer URTC complaints——and better overall sense of well-being. In the supplement group the total number of URTC symptoms reported such as cough, sore throat, sniffles, stuffiness, etc., were 78% lower compared to placebo, while the Global Mood State (i.e. "overall well-being") was improved by 14% compared to no change in the placebo group.
Cortisol, the primary stress hormone related to both mood and immune function, was reduced at the end of treatment in the supplement group. It was also 25% lower than the placebo group. There was no significant difference in overall microbiome indices following the endurance run. However, following supplementation, Streptococcus thermophilus values were 72% higher in the AstaPure Arava group, suggesting improved immune system regulation.
Excessive training is known to suppress immune system vigilance and increase susceptibility to many disease states, including upper respiratory tract infections. In addition, chronic overload cause psychological stress and deteriorations in mood state. "Athletes building up for an endurance competition such as a half-marathon or marathon are exposed to strenuous physical and mental conditions," explains Shawn Talbott, PhD, Chief Science Officer at Amare Global Research and co-author of the study, published August 24, 2022 in EC Nutrition. "The one-to-two-week period following intense endurance competition represents a period of particularly elevated susceptibility to immune deficiency and psychological stress."
"These results suggest that AstaPure Arava could help improve the immune system's acuity and improve the overall sense of well-being following stress conditions," explains Dr. Solli Brawer, Chief Scientific officer of Solabia-Algatech Nutrition. "The lower cortisol and superior microbiome parameters, suggest that immune vigilance and mental well-being are linked through the microbiome and stress response pathways. This research also adds to the growing scientific literature supporting the amazing arsenal of benefits astaxanthin together with other algal compounds, confers to our physical health and mental wellness."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation directing President Joe Biden to remove some 900 U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days was soundly defeated in the House on Wednesday as opponents of the measure warned that it could allow a dismantled Islamic State group to reorganize and endanger the U.S. and its allies.
The resolution introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., was voted down 321-103. Gaetz introduced the measure after four U.S. servicemembers were wounded during a helicopter raid last month in northeastern Syria that killed a senior IS leader. Despite their defeat in Syria, IS sleeper cells still conduct attacks around Syria and Iraq where they once declared a “caliphate.”
In arguing for his legislation, Gaetz said he didn’t believe that “what stands between a caliphate and not a caliphate are the 900 Americans who have been sent to this hellscape with no definition of victory.”
Support is growing in Congress for ending decades-old authorizations for the use of American military force. A Senate panel on Wednesday approved a bill 13-8 that seeks to formally end the authorizations for the Gulf and Iraq wars. But Gaetz’s effort was too abrupt for many Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said the U.S. was involved last year in operations with partners that killed 466 ISIS operative and detained 250 others. He said that if the U.S. withdraws troops now, it could lead to the resurgence of ISIS.
“Withdrawal of this legal, authorized U.S. troop deployment must be based on the total defeat of ISIS,” McCaul said.
The ranking Democratic member of the committee, Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, said he opposes an indefinite U.S. military presence in Syria, but said of Gaetz’s bill: “This measure forces a premature end to our mission at a critical time for our efforts.”
IS lost all territorial control in Iraq and Syria in 2019, following a years-long U.S.-backed campaign that defeated the so-called caliphate, where Raqqa was once the IS de facto capital. But militant sleeper cells persist and have since killed scores of Iraqis and Syrians. Syrian Kurdish and U.S. forces frequently conduct raids targeting IS sleeper cells in northern and eastern Syria.
“The hard truth is this, either we fight them in Syria or we’ll fight them here,” said Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont. “Either we fight and defeat them in Syria, or we’ll fight them in the streets of our nation.”
Last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley made a surprise visit to Syria to get updates on the U.S. counter-IS mission, review force protection measures and assess repatriation efforts for a sprawling refugee camp housing tens of thousands of mostly IS-linked women and children.
The legislation attracted support from some of the same conservatives who oppose continuing aid to Ukraine. Some say the money would be better spent boosting security on the U.S.-Mexico border.
But the legislation also attracted support from several of the chamber’s more liberal Democratic lawmakers. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who voted for the measure, said the core of the bill was to underscore that it is the job of Congress to “determine where and when we go to war, take on hostilities.”
In the end, 47 Republicans voted for the bill with 171 opposing, while 56 Democratic lawmakers voted for the bill with 150 opposing.
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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) _ Staar Surgical Co. (STAA) on Wednesday reported profit of $9.6 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Lake Forest, California-based company said it had profit of 19 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, came to 29 cents per share.
The maker of implantable lenses posted revenue of $63.2 million in the period, beating Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $59.8 million.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarim Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: CLRMU, CLRM, CLRMW) (the "Company") will be holding a Special Meeting of stockholders on December 7, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, at the offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, located at 601 Lexington Avenue, 50th Floor, New York, New York 10022 (the "Special Meeting"). At this Special Meeting, stockholders will be asked to vote on, among other matters, a proposal to amend the Company's amended and restated certificate of incorporation (the "Charter"), which would, if implemented, allow the Company to redeem all of its outstanding public shares prior to December 30, 2022, in advance of the automatic termination date of February 2, 2023 (such earlier termination date, the "early termination date").
If approved by stockholders at the Special Meeting, the Board of Directors of the Company expects to file the amendment to the Charter on December 7, 2022 and establish December 7, 2022 as the early termination date. If the amendment to the Charter is implemented following stockholder approval, the last day of trading of the Company's public shares and units on the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC will be December 7, 2022.
Pursuant to the Company's Charter, a public stockholder may request that the Company redeem all or a portion of such stockholder's public shares for cash if the proposed amendment to the Charter is approved and the Charter is amended (a "voluntary redemption"). If the amendment to the Charter is implemented on December 7, 2022, the Company expects to complete such voluntary redemption on or about December 8, 2022. Moreover, because the Company will not be able to complete an initial business combination by the early termination date, the Company will be obligated to redeem the remaining public shares as promptly as possible, but not more than ten business days after the early termination date (a "mandatory redemption"). If the amendment to the Charter is implemented following stockholder approval, the Company expects to complete the mandatory redemption on or about December 12, 2022.
For more information, please see the definitive proxy statement filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on November 14, 2022.
Specific procedures regarding redemptions can be found in the definitive proxy statement. Holders of the Company's units must elect to separate the underlying public shares and public warrants prior to exercising redemption rights. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to the Company's warrants, which will expire worthless at the early termination date if the amendment to the Charter is approved by stockholders and implemented. Stockholders are encouraged to contact their brokerage firm or bank or the Company's transfer agent for additional information regarding redemption procedures.
This press release includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the proposed early termination of the Company, anticipated redemptions, liquidation and dissolution. These forward-looking statements involve many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including, without limitation, the receipt of the requisite stockholder approval to effect the proposed amendment to the Charter. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the foregoing communication, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. Please refer to the publicly filed documents of the Company, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, for risks and uncertainties related to the Company's business which may affect the statements made in this communication.
On November 14, 2022, the Company filed a definitive proxy statement with the SEC in connection with its solicitation of proxies for the Special Meeting. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND OTHER DOCUMENTS THE COMPANY FILES WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the definitive proxy statement (including any amendments or supplements thereto) and other documents filed with the SEC through the web site maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov or may be obtained by contacting the Company.
The Company, Clarim Partners LLC and their respective directors and officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in connection with the Special Meeting. Additional information regarding the identity of these potential participants and their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, is set forth in the definitive proxy statement. You may obtain free copies of these documents using the sources indicated above.
Clarim Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination involving one or more businesses or entities. While the Company may pursue an initial business combination target in any business, industry or geographical location, it intends to focus our search primarily within the consumer-facing e-commerce sector. The Company is led by James F. McCann, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
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Denim as we recognize it today has been in use for nearly 200 years as a dependable low-cost material. Or at least, it’s low-cost when not in the hands of high-end fashion designers. It’s highly versatile, too, being used for all manner of clothing and other items such as bags.
It can be worn as a part of an outfit or worn as the entirety of one. It even comes in endless colors and shades so you can dress with light colors, dark colors or somewhere in the middle.
In this article: Amebelle Denim Shirt, Hengao Denim Jeans and Levi’s Denim Jacket.
Denim clothing types
Denim, like any clothing material, can be used to make nearly any type of clothing. However, denim is used most commonly for four types of clothes: shirts, pants (usually called jeans), shorts and jackets.
Best denim shirts for women
Amebelle Women’s Three-Quarter Sleeve Chambray Denim Crop Top
Denim shirts aren’t inherently “country,” but this tied-at-the-waist one can be the perfect shirt for a honky tonk if you pair it with a cowboy hat. It comes in six sizes and three colors.
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Wrangler Women’s Retro Long-Sleeved Western Denim Snap Shirt
This straightforward shirt is perfect for wearing to a job that’s a little more hands-on than others. The buttons are snaps, and it comes in seven sizes and two colors.
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Best denim shirts for men
Legendary Whitetails Men’s Outlaw Western Shirt
Denim doesn’t have to mean solid blue all of the time. Take a look at this plaid-focused shirt as a great example (though there is still a solid blue option). It comes in nine sizes.
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Milwaukee Leather Men’s Gray Armored Denim Shirt
It’s a dangerous world out there, especially if you go it alone. This shirt is ready-made to help protect you with motorcycle armor and Kevlar-reinforced shoulders and elbows among its features. It comes in eight sizes.
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Wrangler Western Long-Sleeved Snap Firm Finish Shirt
Sometimes it’s hard to parse what “business casual” actually means. This shirt is one answer. It comes in four sizes and three colors.
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Best denim jeans for women
Jeans can get surprisingly complicated with all the different styles, cuts and terminology, but not these. These are the classic kind of jeans. They come in 24 sizes and six colors.
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The legs of these jeans end a little higher up the ankle than most, perfect for showcasing new shoes or your favorite pair of boots. They come in 17 sizes and 16 colors.
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Wrangler High-Rise Skinny Jeans
With a good, dependable pair of skinny jeans and a high waist, you’ll be showing off your legs in true style with these jeans. They come in 12 sizes and nine colors.
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Best denim jeans for men
Hengao Mens Fashion Slim Fit Skinny Destroyed Ripped Jeans
The ’90s called. They said you can relive all your favorite grunge styles with these jeans. They come in 11 sizes and 27 styles, with some using a zipper and others having buttons.
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Levi’s Men’s 514 Straight Fit Jeans
If it weren’t already evident by the basic design that these are meant to be your “everyman” jeans, the 48 sizes and 42 colors they come in would give it away.
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Wrangler Authentics Men’s Classic 5-Pocket Regular Fit Cotton Denim Jean
These jeans are like most with their small fifth pocket originally meant to hold a pocket watch. Today, the fifth pocket is mostly for show. They come in 87 sizes and seven colors.
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Best denim shorts for women
Sometimes it’s hard to find good denim shorts that aren’t daisy dukes. These, however, come in 41 colors and five sizes, none of which is short enough to qualify.
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Milumia Rolled Hem Denim Shorts
High-waisted shorts are an easy way to help accentuate your natural curves. It doesn’t hurt that these have reasonable pocket space. They come in four sizes and three colors.
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Usually, the waistline of anything denim is set in stone, making it easy for you to feel uncomfortable as the day goes on. These have a drawstring waistband to avoid that. They come in six sizes and 36 colors.
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Best denim shorts for men
Lee Men’s Carpenter Jean Shorts
These shorts have extra slots and pockets on the side, perfect for keeping some tools on hand as you go about fixing leaks and other issues. They come in nine sizes and five colors.
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Wrangler Authentics Men’s Classic Relaxed Fit Five-Pocket Jean Short
These classic denim shorts are exactly what you need on a hot summer day while you barbecue in the backyard. They come in 14 sizes and nine colors.
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Best denim jackets for women
Levi’s Women’s Ex-Boyfriend Trucker Jacket
This basic denim jacket is a great addition to any outfit when the weather is a little too cool, but not cold enough for something thicker. It comes in nine sizes and 13 colors.
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Riders by Lee Indigo Denim Jacket
The sleeves of this jacket are a little on the thin side by design. This lets you roll them up for a more casual, fun look. It comes in five sizes and 12 colors.
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Floerns Women’s Ripped Distressed Casual Long-Sleeved Denim Jacket
This jacket is a little oversized and a bit torn to help you achieve a grungier look, perfect for music festivals and similar events. It comes in four sizes and seven colors.
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Best denim jackets for men
Signature by Levi Strauss And Co. Gold Label Men’s Signature Trucker Jacket
This jacket is on the refined side, making it perfect for putting together an all-denim outfit. It comes in five sizes and nine colors.
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This jacket is packed with front pockets so you can carry everything you need. It comes in five sizes and two styles, one with and one without a light brown collar.
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Migrants have been making their way across Africa and Europe to the northern French coast for years now. The goal is to enter Britain, where they believe they have a better chance of getting asylum and work. Heightened security around the Channel Tunnel pushed migrants to cross and boats and rafts. Now there is a new agreement between the French and British governments to further crack down on migration. Aid workers say it's not solving the problem. Here's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley.
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: A sprawling migrant camp in the sand dunes outside Calais known as the Jungle was dismantled by authorities years ago, but that hasn't stopped migrants from coming. The muddy encampments are just smaller and scattered.
You see places where people have been cooking in their shoes everywhere and garbage bags full of old clothes and packs of milk empty, all the things that migrants have discarded probably over the last months or even years.
Hello. Do you speak English?
Twenty-year-old Adam Eissel is from Sudan.
Why did you leave Sudan?
ADAM EISSEL: Because of insecurity. And, you know, it's not safety. And wars. Always we, you know, face attack from neighbors and from the others, like robbers.
BEARDSLEY: Those robbers, the Janjaweed militia that have terrorized Darfur. Before he fled a year ago, Eissel was in management school. Now he's ready to pay up to 2,500 euros to smugglers for a slot in an overcrowded raft and the chance to reach Britain.
PIERRE ROQUES: What we can, like, see is people are desperate. They have bad welcome everywhere else, so it's kind of like the last chance, the last resort, the U.K.
BEARDSLEY: That's Pierre Roques, with the aid group Auberge des Migrants. He says there's a constant cat-and-mouse game along the French coast - migrants trying to avoid police, who are trying to enforce rules against migrants establishing permanent bases.
ROQUES: The police arrive on the camps - people have to move their tents, like, some hundred meters, and if they are not there, the police - they take their personal stuff. They confiscate it, and - but it's almost impossible to get it back, and it's broken in the process.
BEARDSLEY: Roques calls this a humanitarian crisis but says the French and British governments are treating it like a security problem. A recent deal has Britain paying France $75 million over the next year to beef up police patrols along the coast, but that won't keep people from coming here, says Andrea Spiker, an aid worker with organization Stand by You.
ANDREA SPIKER: No, because they don't want to stay here. They are just here to leave. They're coming here because this is the shortest way on the sea to U.K.
BEARDSLEY: Spiker's group offers hot meals once a month in this makeshift camp. They've set up a phone charging tent. She says increased police presence will only push the migrants to depend more heavily on smugglers. What's needed, she says, is a way for them to apply for asylum in Britain legally without getting on a boat.
SPIKER: It's OK for you? OK, OK.
BEARDSLEY: French volunteer Chloe doesn't want police to know her last name. She helps operate a van offering hot showers to the migrants, which include a few women, children and unaccompanied minors.
CHLOE: (Speaking French).
BEARDSLEY: "And we bring music," she says. "We bring a speaker, so they play the music they want."
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
BEARDSLEY: The music brings smiles and a rare moment of relaxation as people sway to the rhythm.
SAMIULHAQ AYUOBI: I will report all of your helping to my mother and father.
BEARDSLEY: Afghan lawyer Samiulhaq Ayuobi thanks the volunteers for the joy they bring. He says he had to leave when the Taliban told him all the laws he defends are against Islam. He hopes to cross to Britain in a raft despite the danger.
AYUOBI: Yeah, I know. I know. Everything is dangerous. But we don't have any other way.
BEARDSLEY: Humanitarian worker Pierre Roques says authorities should be making the migrants' lives a little less desperate.
ROQUES: People are not going to come in Calais from Afghanistan because you have two more toilets or, like, some more heating system, you know? It doesn't work like this. This is a narrative of fiction from the far right.
BEARDSLEY: Aid workers say what's needed is a coordinated Europe-wide approach to migrant arrivals based on humanitarian principles. They say ad hoc measures at migration hotspots like Calais only create crises that populists can exploit. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Calais. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2022-12-06T13:32:23+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2022-12-04/migrants-cross-the-english-channel-to-reach-britain-despite-an-agreement-between-the-u-k-and-france |
The case against three people who allegedly were part of a murder in Auglaize County has been moved to federal court.
According to Auglaize County Sheriff Mike Vorhees, the cases for Amanda Hovanec, Anthony Therodorou, and Anita Green have been moved to the Northern Ohio Court in Toledo. Vorhees informs that his detectives are still working with the FBI on the investigation into the death of Timothy Hovanec. Vorhees says they decided that it would be better off if the U.S. Attorneys handle the prosecution of the case.
According to the affidavit filed in federal court, Timothy Hovanec was reported missing from Wapakoneta Hotel he was staying at on April 26th. Timothy was in Auglaize County to attend a custody hearing for his children he had with Amanda. Timothy’s vehicle had an in-car camera, that recorded him coming to Anita Green’s house to drop off the kids on April 24th. After the kids went inside the home with Green, Amanda allegedly attacked him with a syringe that contained a drug that led to Timothy’s death. The in-car camera recorded video and audio of the attack.
Therodorou and Amanda then dumped Timothy’s car and the other evidence, including the syringe and the drug, in a dumpster in Dayton. Then Green drove Amanda and Therodorou to a wooded area in rural Auglaize County where they buried Timothy’s body. Ohio BCI was able to get the video off the in-car camera of the attack. Hovanec, Therodorou, and Green have been moved to Lucas County Jail and a detention hearing has been set for Friday in the case. | 2022-05-03T19:47:33+00:00 | hometownstations.com | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/the-cases-of-the-3-people-charged-with-murder-in-auglaize-co-move-to-federal/article_d6794510-cb00-11ec-9f55-b7d76994743f.html |
Jeremy Ryzhonkov was basking in the afterglow. The 11-year-old had just scored a big sale while working his lemonade stand at a busy intersection near his home in Everett, Wash. A man bought about $20 worth of snacks and drinks from Jeremy’s cooler, and the boy planned to use the profits to keep building his business while sending a portion of the funds to people in war-torn Ukraine.
But suspicion started to nag at Jeremy after the customer walked away from the stand where, aside from lemonade, he sells popcorn, cotton candy and a variety of sodas, KCPQ reported. The $100 bill the man had given him didn’t feel right, and its coloring seemed off. Jeremy went to a nearby gas station, where a clerk gave him the bad news.
“Nope, not real,” Jeremy said, recounting the interaction to the TV station.
Having gotten some $80 in change for the C-note, the man had scammed the 11-year-old out of all the money he’d earned that day, which Jeremy planned to use to expand his growing set of entrepreneurial endeavors — selling snacks in person, selling them via vending machines, shoveling snow in the winter, mowing lawns in the summer. The boy reported the con to the Everett Police Department, which told The Washington Post that detectives are still investigating, working tips they’ve received since going public with the case last week.
While filming for his YouTube channel, Jeremy captured video of the June 15 transaction and the suspect. Police released a still image of that footage last week. Although two men are shown in the screenshot, detectives have only described one as a suspect.
The budding entrepreneur said he started his myriad businesses so he could make money to grow his empire, to send what he could to his ancestral homeland of Ukraine and to, well, buy things he wants — and he knew no one was going to just give him the cash for all that.
“I think there is nothing in the world that is free,” he told KING.
The scammer hit the lemonade stand on June 15, Everett police told The Post in an email. Jeremy said the incident left him “very disappointed, very sad,” especially because it forced him to shut down. On Thursday, Everett police went public with what happened, and after several requests from people wanting to help, Jeremy’s neighbor, Amy Steenfott, started a GoFundMe campaign to help Jeremy recoup his losses. She set a goal of raising $250.
That turned out to be unambitious. By Saturday, she’d raised some $1,800. By Tuesday, $13,000. And by early Wednesday, some 1,100 people had donated nearly $25,000. On the site, Steenfott said she’d tied the Ryzhonkovs to the GoFundMe campaign so they could withdraw money directly.
“This proves that there are so many great people in this world and we far surpass the bad ones,” Steenfott wrote in an update on Sunday.
Jeremy, who turned 12 last week, reopened his stand on Friday, KING reported. He was back to hawking snacks, selling drinks and spinning sugar floss into cotton candy. Although he didn’t allow getting swindled to shut him down permanently, he reopened with some new rules. Starting now, he only accepts small bills and makes sure to check them twice.
Strangers helped on that front, too. While he was working his stand late last week, a woman stopped by to give Jeremy a counterfeit detection pen, KING reported. “Next time somebody does that, mark the bill. If it comes up a weird color, it’s fake,” she told him.
Jeremy’s father, Sergiy Ryzhonkov, implored the scammers to change their ways. “Look at your future,” he told KCPQ. “Where are you going to end up? These kids trust in you as you are [an] adult. You should [be an] example for them.”
His son was more direct in his message to the men who ripped him off.
“Stop scamming, like, kids.” | 2022-08-10T10:20:38+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/10/counterfeit-bill-scam-lemonade-stand/ |
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following Senate passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the United States House of Representatives today passed this historic gun safety legislation that includes several important firearms' reforms that American mayors have championed for years as well as a significant increase in resources to address mental health needs. In response, United States Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran released the following statement:
"This is a momentous day for the country and for American mayors who have fought for stronger gun safety laws for decades. Too many of our people have died on our streets, in our schools, and at our places of worship. We applaud the bipartisan members of Congress for taking action that will save lives. More must be done, and mayors will continue to advocate for additional policies at the federal, state, and local level, but this legislation is an historic achievement. We thank Senators Cornyn and Murphy for their steadfast leadership and thank House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for quickly moving the bill today. This is not the end of the battle against gun violence, but we have now made real progress that will make our cities safer."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Labor quickly sent compliance officers to the site of Thursday's deadly South Park five-alarm fire in Charlotte to begin an inspection. That inspection focuses on ensuring crews followed all state and federal rules. Those investigations usually take at least six months to complete.
When someone dies while at work in the Carolinas, Occupational Health and Safety Administration data shows, more often than not, inspectors find violations.
National Fire Protection Association research reveals an increase in construction site fires leading up to the pandemic. The NFPA reports an average of 4,300 every year.
"It tells me that we are not good at keeping our construction sites fire safe," NFPA Director of Research Birgitte Messerschmidt said.
She said those fires are often hindered by the fact the same fire protection devices installed to keep people safe when they move in are usually not working at this phase of the building process.
"The things that are protecting the combustibles, the sprinkler systems and so on, are often not functioning during the construction," she said.
While deaths are usually rare in these cases, with an average of five a year, the NFPA strongly recommends a fire prevention program manager be on site.
"Somebody that's responsible for making sure that the fire prevention measures are in place when you are doing construction," she added.
OSHA has a laundry list of safety requirements for construction sites, including an emergency action plan in writing at the workplace in certain instances, along with clear escape route procedures and an employee alarm system.
"Safe escape for the construction workers, how do you get out if something happens, is absolutely key," Messerschmidt added.
North Carolina Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson knows construction deaths made up the most workplace fatalities in this state in 2022. He previously pledged to focus on improving safety in hopes of driving down those numbers.
"We're going to double down on that and try to do more training," he told WCNC Charlotte earlier this year.
Before Thursday's fire, at least five other people were killed on the job due to a fire in the Carolinas since 2018, according to OSHA data, but not at construction sites from what WCNC Charlotte can tell.
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WCNC Charlotte is always asking "where's the money?" If you need help, reach out to WCNC Charlotte by emailing money@wcnc.com. | 2023-05-19T20:46:43+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/investigations/department-of-labor-investigation-fatal-south-park-fire/275-eb2ce6ab-9fef-47f7-bfd6-d0eaee77a40d |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna will follow-up her soaring Super Bowl halftime show with a performance at the Super Bowl of movies — the Oscars.
Producers of the telecast said Thursday that the music superstar will sing “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“Lift Me Up,” with music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson and lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler, is nominated for original song. It is Rihanna’s first Oscar nomination.
Earlier this month, the Barbadian superstar, dressed in a bright red jumpsuit, plowed through 12 of her hits in 13 minutes, at the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The performance doubled as an announcement to the world that she was pregnant with her second child.
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 95th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on March 12.
Among Oscar competitors that Rihanna faces is Lady Gaga, who was nominated for “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick.” Lady Gaga co-wrote the song with BloodPop and it’s her fourth nomination; she won an Oscar in 2019 for “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper.
Another nominee is Diane Warren, who received her 14th Oscar nomination through her song “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman.” The prolific songwriter was recognized with an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards last year.
Other best original song nominees are M.M. Keeravaani’s “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR,” which was written by Chandrabose, and “This is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The latter track was created by Mitski, David Byrne and Ryan Lott, who along with his band Son Lux was also nominated for best original score.
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For more coverage of this year’s Oscars, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards | 2023-02-23T23:09:29+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-rihanna-will-sing-lift-me-up-at-the-oscars-next-month/ |
Which laptop mount is best?
Office desk areas can get cluttered, and although you may be unaware, this can affect your productivity. Maintaining a tidy workspace can be challenging, but it can boost your efficiency, making a laptop mount a worthwhile investment.
A laptop mount frees up desk space and helps you keep your cords, extension cables and office accessories organized. The best laptop mounts, such as the Vivo Single Laptop Notebook Desk Mount Stand, are easy to install, offer several degrees of articulation and have ventilated trays to combat overheating.
What to know before you buy a laptop mount
Improved posture
Sitting at a desk for hours can wreak havoc on your neck and back. A poorly positioned monitor can cause or exacerbate neck and back strain, as staring downward or upward at your computer monitor or laptop can be strenuous over extended periods. Laptop mounts are made with a primary focus on ergonomics and let users continue working while standing.
Size
You can set up a laptop mount on a desk of any size, but they vary in size, so determine which size works best with your office or work area. Laptop mounts with a long arm and a tall center pole naturally work better with larger desks but may look out of place on a smaller one.
Two-in-one
A two-in-one stand is convenient for those who use a laptop and an external computer monitor simultaneously. These mounts come with two arms, one with a tray for your laptop and the other with a stand for your monitor. This setup lets you look at both screens without straining your neck.
What to look for in a quality laptop mount
Adjustability
The whole point of a laptop mount is to give you more freedom in your work area. That’s why it’s best to look for one that lets you position it the way you want.
For example, most mounts can swivel, tilt and rotate in varying degrees so you don’t have to flip the monitor or screen around if you want to lean to the side as you work or show something to a co-worker sitting beside you.
Also, an articulating arm lets you raise or lower the mount effortlessly so you can face your screen at eye level and reduce neck strain.
Detachable clips
The best laptop mounts have detachable clips along the arms that can be used to keep cords in place. This helps clear the clutter of an entanglement of cables and wires behind your monitor or laptop, freeing up space for accessories and peripherals.
Video Electronics Standards Association
VESA standard size refers to the distance between the four mounting holes on the back of a monitor or TV and is an easy way to determine which mounts fit with a specific monitor. If you’re looking to buy a two-in-one monitor, you can make installation easier by checking your monitor’s manual for its VESA standard size.
If you can’t find your monitor’s VESA standard size, you can measure the distance in millimeters between the left and right holes and between the top and bottom holes. For example, if the first measurement is 300 millimeters and the second is 200, your monitor has a VESA standard of 300×200.
How much you can expect to spend on a laptop mount
Most laptop mounts are inexpensive, typically costing $30-$60. However, if you want something more comprehensive, such as a two-in-one mount for a monitor and laptop, expect to pay up to $120.
Laptop mount FAQ
Are any tools required to assemble and install a laptop mount?
A. Most laptop mounts have all the necessary hardware and tools, but some require a sold-separately screwdriver.
Do I need a laptop with a cooling pad?
A. Although it isn’t necessary, a cooling pad regulates your laptop’s temperature by expelling hot air, helping prevent it from overheating, which can damage it.
What’s the best laptop mount to buy?
Top laptop mount
Vivo Single Laptop Notebook Desk Mount Stand
What you need to know: This mount is simple, affordable, fits most laptops and is excellent for saving space in your office.
What you’ll love: It has a ventilated 14- by 12-inch tray and can support up to 22 pounds. It has an adjustable arm that offers a 15-degree tilt, 180-degree swivel and 360-degree rotation. You can keep your cords organized with the detachable clips along the arms and center pole.
What you should consider: Although it supports 17-inch laptops, the weight of some models drags the arm down. Also, there are a few reports of the tray being wobbly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top laptop mount for the money
Viozon 2-in-1 Monitor and Laptop Mount
What you need to know: This mount is ideal for those looking to save space in a larger office or desk area.
What you’ll love: It supports monitors between 17 and 32 inches weighing up to 19.8 pounds and is compatible with VESA monitors manufactured by top computer brands. It can safely hold a 12- to 17-inch laptop and has a maximum extension length of 20.5 inches and a height of 16.9 inches.
What you should consider: The center pole is shorter than on other laptop mounts and cannot be adjusted to accommodate taller people when standing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Huanuo Notebook Desk Mount Stand
What you need to know: This mount is easy to install, sleek and excellent for improving office posture.
What you’ll love: This stand helps reduce neck strain and lets users switch their focus between their laptop and monitor effortlessly. It has a full-motion arm with three joints for adjusting its position and a computer fan that expels hot air from your laptop or monitor to prevent overheating.
What you should consider: Some customers report squeaking and the tray tilting if the laptop isn’t positioned off-center.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Disruptive Futures Institute releases the second Volume from the The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption, providing the ultimate tools you need to stay relevant in the complex and unpredictable 21st century.
This standalone Volume II - "Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty" - is filled to the brim with invaluable toolkits, models, and resources. Chapter titles include:
- Agency to Become AAA+
- Aligning Values & Ethics
- AAA Framework Fundamentals: Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility
- Antifragile: Building the Foundations
- Anticipatory: The Capacity to Prepare for Constant Disruption
- Agility: Bridging Short- and Long-Term Decision-Making
- The 6 i's Framework: Intuition, Inspiration, Imagination, Improvisation, Invention, Impossible
- Israel: Tiny & Mighty Country Showcases the Power of the 6 i's
- Eastern Philosophy & Zen Buddhism: From 6 i's to One Integrated "We"
- Science Fiction: A Technological Toolkit for Harnessing the 6 i's
- Futures Frameworks & Foresight Fundamentals Workbook
Together, the actionable insights, frameworks, and workbook from Volume II ensure that you'll go beyond resilience or adaptability to actually thrive on disruption. "Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty" includes a valuable reference workbook used by professional futurists that shows readers how to use practitioner Futures Frameworks & Foresight Fundamentals to imagine and create desired futures.
Lieutenant Colonel Jake Sotiriadis, Ph.D., Director, The Center for Futures Intelligence, National Intelligence University, wrote the Foreword to Volume II:
"Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty will help you develop anticipatory thinking… Throughout the Guidebook, you'll learn how to be inquisitive and how to adapt to rapid change with a diverse set of tools and models - which will quickly become your own."
- Dr. Jake Sotiriadis, Excerpt from Volume II Foreword "Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty"
After today's launch of Volume II, the final two Volumes will be released in January and February 2023 respectively:
- Volume III - YOUR LIFE. Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World: What does constant change and uncertainty mean to you as an individual?
- Volume IV - YOUR BUSINESS. Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation: What does our unpredictable, complex, and systemic world mean for you as a business?
Roger Spitz and Lidia Zuin draw on decades of insights from advising entrepreneurs, CEOs, boards, and shareholders in Silicon Valley and globally on evaluating their companies, competitiveness, strategic investments, and disruptions ahead. A foresight strategist, investor, and writer, Roger's expertise lies at the intersection of futures studies and sustainable value creation building on his experience leading global investment banking and venture capital businesses. Lidia is a journalist, science fiction writer, and professional futurist.
Further information, including extensive media interest and praise, is available on www.thrivingondisruption.com.
The printed Guidebook is available to order at bookstores (Amazon, Barnes & Noble…), while the eBook is downloadable on Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Kobo…
Details of Volume II - "Reframing and Navigating Disruption"
Publisher: Disruptive Futures Institute LLC
Language: English
Paperback: 556 pages
ISBN: 978-1-955110-02-0 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-955110-03-7 (ebook)
About the Collection
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption is a four-Volume Collection published by Disruptive Futures Institute. The lead author is Roger Spitz, in collaboration with Lidia Zuin.
About the Disruptive Futures Institute, the World's Capital for Understanding Disruption
San Francisco-based Disruptive Futures Institute is a Think Tank offering education, research, and thought leadership on adapting to our increasingly complex and uncertain world.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Southern University is getting $7.6 million to reduce erosion in a 45-foot-deep (13.7-meter-deep) ravine through the Baton Rouge campus that threatens to drop university buildings into the Mississippi River, officials announced Wednesday.
“This is more than funding for a drainage project. This is a move that will protect and shore up this historically Black university for the next generation,” U.S. Rep. Troy Carter said in a news release.
The money “will do more than put a band-aid on this problem, it will be a long-term solution to protect Southern University — and this beautiful community space — from tumbling down the bluff,” Carter said.
The grant from a U.S. Department of Agriculture emergency watershed protection program will go toward a $35 million project to stabilize the ravine, officials said.
About $43 million worth of buildings, parking lots and support equipment is at risk, according to the state Department of Transportation and Development.
The ravine carries out water from about 852 acres (345 hectares) of land along the Mississippi River.
When the river rises, its backwater fills the ravine’s main stem, “killing vegetation that holds the bank and bottom soils in place," according to a letter sent in February from the state department to USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. When the river falls again, the moving water ”creates soil instabilities on the embankment,” it said.
The department said it spent $9 million in 2019 to stabilize and improve drainage at two crossings, and is working on another $3 million in emergency repairs approved last year.
Work under the new grant covers several features, including shoring up a retaining wall, installing weirs to control river flow and modifying the water channel alignment to mitigate erosion.
“Investing in our state’s infrastructure is a top priority and funding plays a critical role in its preservation and expansion,” the governor said. He thanked Carter for “bringing this opportunity to DOTD.” | 2022-06-01T21:21:39+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Southern-U-gets-7-6M-to-reduce-erosion-in-ravine-17213167.php |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia cancels game against rival Virginia Tech following death of three football players on campus.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting outside U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home is giving the Republican a fresh, personal perspective on the kind of violent crime that has been a focus of his campaign for governor.
Two 17-year-old boys were wounded by gunfire from a moving car Sunday afternoon while walking in front of Zeldin’s home, police said. Zeldin’s daughters, both 16, heard the gunshots, locked themselves in a bathroom and called 911.
“It doesn’t hit any closer to home than this,” Zeldin said to a reporter while marching in a parade on Monday. “This could be anyone across this entire state.”
Police have divulged few details about the wounded teens, whose wounds were not life threatening, or what might have led to the shooting.
Speaking to reporters outside Zeldin’s home Monday, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said investigators suspect the victims were targeted and were looking in to whether the shooting might be gang related. No arrests have been made.
Harrison said he’s deploying more officers to Zeldin’s neighborhood, in Shirley on Long Island’s South Shore, as a precaution. A squad car was parked Monday near Zeldin’s home.
Zeldin, who is running against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, has made tackling violent crime a pillar of his campaign.
Overall, statistics show Suffolk County, where he lives, is relatively safe.
Linked in popular imagination with the Hamptons and its beachy coastlines, the county is one of the richest in the United States. Last year it had the fifth-lowest violent crime rate of the state’s 62 counties, according to state data.
Through August this year, the Suffolk Police Department, which patrols much of the county of 1.5 million people, had reported 47 shootings and 12 shooting deaths. That’s fewer than at this same point in 2021.
Zeldin and his wife were returning from a parade in the Bronx and weren’t home at the time of the shooting. Police said they had no reason to believe it had any connection to him. The wounded teens were from the nearby towns of Mastic and Mastic Beach.
Zeldin said his daughters were rattled but otherwise safe. They marched with him Monday in the 78th Annual Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan.
“Yesterday was a pretty traumatic day,” Zeldin said. “When they heard the screaming the concern was — for them, what was most traumatic, was that they thought that these people were trying to get in the house.”
It’s the second scare Zeldin has had in several months.
In July, he was assaulted while campaigning in upstate New York when a man approached him onstage and thrust a sharp object near his head and neck. He was uninjured and the man was arrested.
Zeldin has pledged to fight crime by scaling back the state’s bail reforms, which went into effect in 2020, and has singled out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, saying he’d seek to remove him from office, if elected.
He also applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that struck down a New York gun law and made it easier for people to own guns.
There have been at least three other shootings in other parts of Zeldin’s town, Shirley, this year.
In January, a 34-year-old man was shot and killed about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Zeldin’s home. In February, a man was wounded, and three houses were struck by gunfire. In August, a couple died of gunshot wounds in a suspected murder-suicide. | 2022-10-11T00:03:05+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/shooting-brings-violent-crime-to-rep-zeldins-doorstep/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
In rural Arizona’s La Paz County, on the state’s rugged border with California, the decision by a Saudi-owned dairy company to grow alfalfa in the American Southwest for livestock in the Gulf kingdom first raised eyebrows nearly a decade ago. Now, worsening drought has focused new attention on the company and whether Arizona should be doing more to protect its groundwater resources.
Amid a broader investigation by the state attorney general, Arizona last week rescinded a pair of permits that would have allowed Fondomonte Arizona, a subsidiary of Almarai Co., to drill more than 1,000 feet (305 meters) into the water table to pump up to 3,000 gallons (11 kiloliters) of water per minute to irrigate its forage crops.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Attorney General Kris Mayes said she thought most Arizonans see it as “outrageous” that the state is allowing foreign-owned companies “to stick a straw in our ground and use our water for free to grow alfalfa and send it home to Saudi Arabia. We just can’t — in the midst of an epic drought — afford to do dumb things with water in the state of Arizona anymore.”
Mayes, a Democrat, sought the revocations after she said her office had found inconsistencies in the permit applications. Mayes vowed to look into Fondomonte’s operations and water use last year after the Arizona Republic reported that the Arizona State Land Department leased the company thousands of acres of farmland for below market value.
Fondomonte did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the AP. Its lawyers have said previously that the company legally leased and purchased land in the U.S. and spent millions on infrastructure improvements.
Years of drought have ratcheted up pressure on water users across the West, particularly in states like Arizona, which relies heavily on the dwindling Colorado River. The drought has also made groundwater — long used by farmers and rural residents with little restriction — even more important for users across the state.
Saudi Arabia, struggling with its own water shortages in the past decade, restricted the growth of some forage crops in the country. That Fondomonte chose Arizona as a place to grow such crops has angered some in the state, which has faced two consecutive years of federal water cuts from the Colorado River, a primary water source for the state.
Officials from both parties have criticized the use of state water by foreign-owned entities, with Gov. Katie Hobbs, also a Democrat, saying in her January state of the state address that she, too, would look into the practice. The state’s groundwater, Hobbs said, “should be used to support Arizonans, not foreign business interests.”
That same month, Republican state legislators introduced a bill to prohibit sales of state lands to foreign governments, state enterprises and any company based in China, Russia or Saudi Arabia.
“There’s a perception that water goes to local uses,” said Andrew Curley, a professor of geography and the environment at the University of Arizona. “When you recognize it’s going far away, that the products and benefits of this water are exported overseas, that really provokes people’s attention.”
Foreign entities and individuals control roughly 3% of U.S. farmland, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Canada is the largest holder — mainly of forestland. Fourteen U.S. states have restrictions on foreign individuals or entities owning farmland, but limitations vary widely and no state completely prohibits it.
Fondomonte also farms in California’s Palo Verde Valley, an area that gets its water from the Colorado River. Those operations have attracted less scrutiny. And it’s not the only foreign company that farms in the Southwest. The United Arab Emirates-owned Al Dahra ACX Global Inc. grows forage crops in Arizona and California, and is a major North American exporter of hay.
U.S. farmers themselves export hay and other forage crops to the Middle East — mainly to Saudi Arabia. China is the primary export market for U.S. hay.
In Arizona, renewed attention to Fondomonte’s water use is raising questions about the state’s lack of regulation around pumping groundwater in rural parts of the state.
Phoenix, Tucson and other Arizona cities have restrictions on how much groundwater they can pump under a 1980 state law aimed at protecting the state’s aquifers. But in rural areas, little is required of water users besides registering wells with the state and using the water for activities, including farming that are deemed a “beneficial use.”
“Frankly, I believe they are not doing their jobs,” Mayes said about Arizona’s Department of Water Resources’ oversight of rural areas. The department declined to comment on the revoked drilling permits or the need for more groundwater regulation.
Mayes, along with hydrologists and environmental advocates, says more studies are needed of groundwater basins in rural areas — such as La Paz County, an agricultural county of about 16,000 people. Currently, Arizona doesn’t measure how much groundwater users pump in such areas, which means there is little understanding of how much water an operation like Fondomonte — or other farms — uses.
Almarai’s holdings in the Southwest are just one example of the farmland the company and its subsidiaries operate outside Saudi Arabia. It farms tens of thousands of acres in Argentina, which has also faced severe drought conditions in recent years.
Holly Irwin, a member of the La Paz County Board of Supervisors, has long opposed Fondomonte using water in the county. She said she’s fielded complaints from residents for years that it’s getting harder to pump water in nearby wells and has repeatedly asked the state to do something about it.
“We need to have some sort of regulation so it’s not all just being pumped out of the ground,” Irwin said.
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A hospital on the southwest coast of Florida has seen a surge of patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Reporter Stephanie Colombini traveled there to see how the health care system is coping.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Devils vs. Hurricanes NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 4 on May 9, 2023
Player props are available for Jack Hughes and Martin Necas, among others, when the New Jersey Devils host the Carolina Hurricanes at Prudential Center on Tuesday at 7:00 PM ET.
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Devils vs. Hurricanes Game Info
- When: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS
- Where: Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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NHL Props Today: New Jersey Devils
Jack Hughes Props
- Points Prop: 1.5 (Over Odds: +185, Under Odds: -233)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -115, Under Odds: -115)
Hughes is one of New Jersey's leading contributors (99 total points), having registered 43 goals and 56 assists.
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Nico Hischier Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -175, Under Odds: +140)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +100, Under Odds: -130)
Nico Hischier is another of New Jersey's offensive options, contributing 80 points (31 goals, 49 assists) to the team.
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Dougie Hamilton Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -115, Under Odds: -115)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +140, Under Odds: -175)
Dougie Hamilton has 22 goals and 53 assists for New Jersey.
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Martin Necas Props
- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -141, Under Odds: +110)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +140, Under Odds: -175)
Necas' 28 goals and 43 assists in 82 games for Carolina add up to 71 total points on the season.
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- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -145, Under Odds: +115)
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Sebastian Aho is one of the top contributors for Carolina with 68 total points (0.9 per game), with 36 goals and 32 assists in 75 games.
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DOJ faults Alaska district for use of seclusion, restraints
By MARK THIESSEN
Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and restrained students with disabilities. That’s according to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement following an investigation into alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to an agreement reached between the Justice Department and Anchorage schools, the district will eliminate the use of seclusion at all schools and ensure that students are only restrained when there is imminent danger of “serious physical harm to the student to another person.” The Anchorage School District superintendent siad they refute there was discrimination bsed on disability. But regardless, he said they don’t believe seculsion is the best practice and is moving to a new direction. | 2023-02-17T02:25:17+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/16/doj-faults-alaska-district-for-use-of-seclusion-restraints/ |
DUBAI – A fire broke out early Monday morning at a 35-story high-rise building in Dubai near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.
It wasn't immediately clear if there were any injuries in the blaze at the apartment building, which had been extinguished by the time an Associated Press journalist reached the site.
Black char marks from the blaze could be seen stretching up the building that's part of a series of towers called 8 Boulevard Walk by Emaar, the state-backed developer in the emirate.
Dubai police and civil defense did not immediately acknowledge the blaze. Emaar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A series of fires in tall buildings in skyscraper-studded Dubai in recent years has revived questions about the safety of cladding and other materials used in the country.
On New Year's Eve in 2015, a blaze raced through the Address Downtown, one of the most upscale hotels and residences in Dubai near the Burj Khalifa. | 2022-11-07T03:20:10+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/world/2022/11/07/dubai-fire-races-up-high-rise-near-worlds-tallest-building/ |
We Won't Go Back rally turns focus toward upcoming elections
We Won't Go Back rally turns focus toward upcoming elections
FEDERAL LEVEL. MEANWHILE, A PRO-CHOICE RALLY IS TAKING PLACE IN DOWNTOWN DES MOINES THIS AFTERNOON CASEY HAS AMANDA ROOKER WAS AT CITY HALL AND SHE TELLS US HOW SOME IOWANS ARE RESPONDING TO THIS BIG RULING. WE’LL JUST MINUTES AGO THIS AREA OUTSIDE DES MOINES CITY HALL WAS PACKED WITH PROTESTERS OR MOTIONS ARE STILL RUNNING HIGH JUST DAYS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT DECIDED TO OVERTURN ROE V WADE PEOPLE HERE NOW TURNING THEIR FOCUS TO THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. WITH SIGNS IN HAND PROTESTERS FROM EVERY GENERATION GATHERED AT DES MOINES CITY HALL SUNDAY UPSET OVER THE SUPREME COURT DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V WADE SOME PROTESTERS CHEERING OVER CRIES TO MODIFY ABORTION RIGHTS INTO FEDERAL LAW OTHERS BOOING REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS OVER CONCERNS THAT THEY COULD FURTHER RESTRICT ABORTIONS IN IOWA SPEAKERS ENCOURAGED CROWDS TO FOCUS ON ELECTING LAWMAKERS IN NOVEMBER THAT WILL SUPPORT ABORTION ACCESS AND RALLYING CROWDS TO TAKE EVERYONE THEY KNOW WITH THEM TO THE POLLS LET YOUR LEGISLATORS EVERYONE THAT IS IN GOVERNMENT KNOW THAT THEY’RE GONNA GET FIRED IF THEY DON’T HELP US GET BACK OUR HEALTH CARE IN DES MOINES AMANDA
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We Won't Go Back rally turns focus toward upcoming elections
Days after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, protestors gathered outside of Des Moines City Hall to turn their focus to the November elections. Protestors gathered to call for abortion rights to be codified into federal law and to voice concerns that Republican lawmakers could further restrict abortions in Iowa.Speakers encouraged crowds to focus on electing lawmakers in November that will support abortion access and to take everyone they know with them to the polls."Let your legislators know, they're gonna get fired if they don't get back our health care," said Susan Mrzena, an abortion-rights advocate.Other headlines:
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Days after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, protestors gathered outside of Des Moines City Hall to turn their focus to the November elections.
Protestors gathered to call for abortion rights to be codified into federal law and to voice concerns that Republican lawmakers could further restrict abortions in Iowa.
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Speakers encouraged crowds to focus on electing lawmakers in November that will support abortion access and to take everyone they know with them to the polls.
"Let your legislators know, they're gonna get fired if they don't get back our health care," said Susan Mrzena, an abortion-rights advocate.
Other headlines: | 2022-06-27T00:42:50+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/des-moines-we-wont-go-back-rally-turns-focus-toward-upcoming-elections/40426090 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was ejected from a playoff game after stomping on the chest of Sacramento's Domantas Sabonis.
The play happened in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the first-round playoff series on Monday night after Stephen Curry grabbed a defensive rebound.
With the Warriors pushing the ball up court and Sabonis on the ground, Green took a hard step right on Sabonis' chest. Sabonis stayed down for a a few minutes as the officials reviewed the play.
Sabonis was called for a technical foul for grabbing Green's leg and Green was given a flagrant-2 foul that led to an automatic ejection.
During the review, the fans in Sacramento yelled derogatory chants toward Green, who egged them on by waving his hands, holding a hand to his ear calling for louder cheers and standing on a chair.
This isn't the first playoff infraction for Green, who got suspended for one game during the 2016 Finals after accumulating too many flagrant fouls in the playoffs that season.
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Carolina Panthers unveil alternate black helmet
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Carolina Panthers revealed a new alternate black helmet Tuesday.
The Panthers will pair the new helmet with all-black uniforms for the team’s Thursday Night Football game against the Falcons on Nov. 10 at Bank of America Stadium.
“Sometimes guys tap into an alter ego depending on what they’re wearing,” Panthers defensive end Brian Burns said. “Whenever a team wears all black, or black accessories, it just brings out that dog in them, the evil side. When I saw this, I was like, ‘This will be tough.’ Especially on defense, they call us the dark side anyway, so it brings it all together.”
“Oh yeah, it matters,” safety Jeremy Chinn added. “It sets the tone. Guys will be fired up, for sure. I know fans have wanted it for a long time. The all-black is one of my favorite uniforms anyway. So this is like the icing on top.”
The alternate helmet has long been requested by Carolina fans but the team was previously unable to introduce alternate helmets because of an NFL rule that required teams to use one look for the entire season. Those rules were relaxed this year, and the Panthers will wear the black helmets once during the season.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he has suffered a minor stroke and is being treated at George Washington University Hospital. The Maryland Democrat says he has been told there are no long-term effects or damage.
In a statement Sunday night, Van Hollen said he has been advised by doctors to remain under observation at the hospital for a few days out of an abundance of caution.
Van Hollen, 63, was elected to the Senate in 2016 after serving seven terms in the U.S. House.
The senator said he experienced lightheadedness and acute neck pain while delivering a speech in western Maryland. On the advice of a physician, he sought medical attention upon his return home.
An angiogram indicated a minor stroke in the form of a small venous tear at the back of his head, Van Hollen said.
“I look forward to returning to work in the Senate later this week and thank the medical team for their excellent care,” he said. | 2022-05-16T18:33:28+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-political/marylands-sen-chris-van-hollen-treated-for-minor-stroke/ |
China-made Paris Olympics mascots fuel criticism in France
PARIS (AP) — The mascots for the 2024 Paris Olympics are a symbol of the French Republic. Most of them are made in China, and that does not go down well in France.
The Phryges mascots are manufactured by French companies Gipsy Toys and Doudou et Compagnie. They use fabric developed in the French region of Brittany, but the toys are primarily manufactured in China. Only about 8% of the mascot will be made in France.
At a time when European Union leaders express increasing concern about economic dependency on the world’s second-largest economy, the manufacturing of the stuffed toys shaped like a Phrygian cap is fueling criticism.
The manufacturing of the mascots in China was due to a “structural problem,” French government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Thursday.
“I would love, and we fight for it, that in France, we would be able to have enough raw materials and textile factories to manufacture two million stuffed animals in a few months,” Veran told France 2 TV. “The fact is that, today, we do not know how to do it.”
Véran added the government was trying hard to try and relocate French businesses that are producing in China to make sure “we will, tomorrow, be able to produce what we no longer know how to produce today.“
Véran spoke after Christophe Béchu, the minister of ecological transition, admitted this week that manufacturing the mascots in China was a problem and hoped that France could find a better solution amid environmental concerns.
“As we explain that we need short circuits and relocation, we will not end up with a production of mascots that is done at the end of the world, including when we defend the prospect of fighting against global warming, which implies promoting what is manufactured nearby,” Béchu said.
Organizers said when they unveiled the mascots that they didn’t want to choose an animal or other creature, but instead wanted something that represented an “ideal.”
The Phrygian cap is an updated version of a conical hat worn in antiquity in places such as Persia, the Balkans, Thrace, Dacia and Phrygia, a place in modern day Turkey where the name originates. It later became a symbol of the pursuit of liberty in the French Revolution.
The Paris Olympics will be held in July-August 2024, and the Paralympics in August-September.
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Vietnamese automaker VinFast reported last week that it had shipped its first batch of VF 8 electric SUVs for the U.S., with the first deliveries due before the end of the calendar year.
The shipment of 999 EVs departed Hai Phong, Vietnam, Nov. 25 for what is scheduled to be a 20-day voyage to California, where they’ll be offloaded and sent to customers, according to a company press release. Following delivery of the first batch of U.S.-market cars, VinFast plans to start deliveries of the VF 8 in Canada in Europe in early 2023.
The VF 8 will be followed to market by the larger VF 9, which will begin deliveries in Vietnam and other markets in the first quarter of 2023, VinFast said, confirming a delayed timeline first hinted at in September, when the first 100 VF 8 electric SUVs were handed over to customers in the automaker’s home market.
In the same release, VinFast noted that it signed a deal with subscription service Autonomy at the 2022 Los Angeles auto show for 2,500 VF 8 and VF 9 models, but didn’t specify whether any cars from the initial shipment would go toward that order. Earlier this year, Autonomy announced the fleet purchase of 23,000 EVs that it will then offer to customers on a subscription basis, and VinFast is one of the 17 automakers with vehicles included in the deal.
The VF 8 is 187.0 inches long, 76.1 inches wide, and 65.6 inches tall. It launches in Eco and Plus forms, both with dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrains. The Eco version makes 349 hp and about 369 lb-ft of torque, while the Plus version makes 402 hp and about 457 lb-ft. Based on the European/global WLTP cycle, VinFast claims a range of up to 260 miles for the Eco and up to 248 miles for the Plus.
As with Vietnamese-market models, VinFast is expected to offer a number of driver-assist features in the U.S., including adaptive cruise control, active lane control, automated parking, and a summon feature. VinFast also has a bundle of Smart Services, encompassing an app and features like voice recognition, and in-car online shopping and video games.
VinFast’s timeline in the U.S. has indeed been very fast. It established its U.S. headquarters just last November, and that same month displayed early prototypes of the VF 8 and VF 9—then named VF e35 and VF e36, respectively. A prototype drive showed the VF 8 had a long way to go, but the company has continued moving fast, spooling up production and opening its first U.S. retail stores in California in July. VinFast has said it will expand its retail footprint to other states in the future.
While initial deliveries for the U.S. are being sourced from Vietnam, VinFast is planning a factory in North Carolina to build U.S.-market VF 8 and VF 9 EVs starting in 2024. The company received $1.2 billion in incentives for the factory, which it claims is the largest economic incentive package ever from North Carolina.
In addition to the VF 8 and VF 9, VinFast said it will soon start reservations for smaller VF 5, VF 6, and VF 7 electric crossover models. A collaboration with Chinese battery supplier CATL may mean more EVs for emerging markets as well.
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BERLIN >> Germany will soon drop a mask mandate on long-distance trains and buses, one of the country’s last remaining COVID-19 restrictions, the health minister said today.
The mandate will be dropped on Feb. 2, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced in Berlin.
Other European countries already have scrapped mask mandates in public transport, and Lauterbach faced increasing pressure to follow suit in recent weeks. Masks remain mandatory in doctors’ practices, while masks and negative tests are still required to enter hospitals and nursing homes.
Rules for local transportation are a matter for Germany’s 16 state governments, and an increasing number have dropped or are dropping their mask mandates. Some also have scrapped rules requiring infected people to isolate at home.
The long-distance transportation rules were scheduled to end on April 7, though legislation allows for them to be suspended earlier if the situation is better than expected.
After one of Germany’s top virologists said shortly after Christmas that the pandemic is over, Lauterbach — who has long taken a cautious stance — faced mounting calls from inside and outside the governing coalition to do away with them.
“The pandemic situation has stabilized,” the minister said today, with the number of known or suspected infections stagnating or falling, and the number of people hospitalized continuing to decline.
“The population has built up high immunity, and the experts who advise us no longer believe there will be another big, serious winter wave,” he added. “At this point, we also don’t foresee particularly dangerous variants reaching us in the coming weeks and months.”
Lauterbach appealed to people who want to continue protecting themselves and others to continue wearing masks voluntarily when indoors and on trains. | 2023-01-13T23:39:38+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/01/13/breaking-news/germany-to-scrap-mask-mandate-in-long-distance-transport/ |
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his troops are in their field camps, the president of Belarus said Thursday, raising new questions about the deal that ended the extraordinary challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s rule.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s claim could not be independently verified, and the Kremlin refused to comment on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s whereabouts. But Russian media have reported he was recently seen at his offices in St. Petersburg.
It was not clear if Prigozhin’s presence in Russia would violate the deal, which allowed the head of the Wagner Group military contractor to move to Belarus in exchange for ending the rebellion and a promise of amnesty for him and his troops. But the reports signaled that the agreement may have allowed him to finalize his affairs in Russia.
If that’s true, it could suggest the threat posed by Prigozhin has not yet been fully defused and that the Kremlin is treading carefully with him until it can figure out what to do with troops who may still be loyal to him. Putin has said that Wagner troops can join the Russian military, retire from service or move to Belarus.
But much about the the agreement, which was brokered by Lukashenko, remains murky.
Last week, Lukashenko said the mercenary leader was in Belarus, but on Thursday he told international reporters that Prigozhin was in St. Petersburg and could also travel to Moscow if he wishes, while Wagner’s troops were in their camps. He did not specify the location of the camps, but Prigozhin’s mercenaries fought alongside Russian forces in eastern Ukraine before their revolt and also have bases on Russian territory.
He also said that Prigozhin has been given back the cash and weapons that were confiscated by Russian authorities.
Asked where Prigozhin is, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov shrugged off the question, saying that the Kremlin has neither the desire nor the means to track his movements — but reaffirmed that the deal that ended the mutiny envisaged his move to Belarus.
Lukashenko said his government offered Wagner, which has sent troops around the world to fight for Russia’s interests, the use of Belarusian military camps but that the company had not made a final decision.
The Kremlin has played down the fact that Prigozhin escaped punishment for his mutiny while other Putin critics have been met with harsh prison sentences, exile or even death, saying that the deal with the Wagner chief was necessary to avoid massive bloodshed.
The Belarusian leader shrugged off suggestions that Putin might order Prigozhin killed, saying: “If you think that Putin is so vicious and vindictive to finish him off, no, it’s not going to happen.”
On Wednesday, Russian online newspapers Fontanka and Izvestia posted videos and photos of Prigozhin’s opulent mansion in Russia’s second-largest city that showed stacks of cash and gold bullion. The images appeared to be part of the authorities’ efforts to denigrate Prigozhin, who has postured as an enemy of corrupt elites even though he has owed his wealth to Putin.
A photo hanging in the mansion showed a lineup of decapitated heads. In one published image, an oversized souvenir sledgehammer could also be seen with the inscription “for important negotiations.” The sledgehammer has become a symbol of Wagner after reports its troops used the tool to beat defectors to death.
The Russian media also published a collection of selfies that showed him posing in various wigs, fake beards and foreign uniforms, an apparent reflection of Wagner’s deployments to Syria and several African countries.
Asked if Prigozhin and his mercenaries would eventually move to Belarus, Lukashenko answered evasively that it would depend on the decisions of the Wagner chief and the Russian government.
The Belarusian leader said he doesn’t think the mercenaries’ presence in his country would lead to its destabilization and said any Wagner troops there would be required to sign a contract with Belarusian authorities that would outline conditions and limitations of their actions.
Belarusian political analyst Valery Karbalevich argued, however, that Lukashenko could feel uneasy about Wagner’s presence on his turf. “If this structure rebelled against its master once, it can do it again and again and march on Minsk instead of marching on Moscow,” Karbalevich said.
The Belarusian president dismissed suggestions that the mercenaries could attack Ukraine from Belarusian territory, which Russian troops used as a staging ground ahead of their invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow has also maintained a military presence in Belarus.
During their short revolt, Prigozhin’s mercenaries quickly swept through the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and captured the military headquarters there before marching to within about 200 kilometers (125 miles) of the Russian capital. Prigozhin described it as a “march of justice” to oust his longtime foes — Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the military’s general staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, whose handling of the war in Ukraine he criticized.
The Wagner fighters faced little resistance, smashing occasional roadblocks. They also downed at least six helicopters and a command post aircraft, killing at least 10 airmen.
When the deal was struck, the Wagner chief ordered his troops to return to their camps.
The abortive rebellion represented the biggest threat to Putin in his more than two decades in power, exposing his weakness and eroding the Kremlin’s authority. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Shoigu and Gerasimov retained Putin’s favor after vanishing from public view during the mutiny, but so far they have kept their positions.
Lukashenko said he warned Prigozhin that he and his troops would be destroyed if they failed to make a quick deal to end their mutiny and that Belarus would send a brigade to help protect Moscow.
“It was necessary to nip it in the bud. It was very dangerous, as history shows,” Lukashenko said.
Asked about the deployment of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, Lukashenko said they are intended to deter any aggression against the country. Putin and Lukashenko both have said that some of them already have been moved to Belarus, and the Belarusian leader reaffirmed Thursday that a “certain number” of them have been flown to Belarus and the rest will be delivered before the year’s end.
Lukashenko said that Russia would consult him on any possible use of those weapons, adding that it could only happen in response to an act aggression by NATO against Russia or Belarus.
The Belarusian leader noted that “these weapons serve strictly defensive purposes.”
He added: “Don’t touch us, and we will never use these deadly weapons.” | 2023-07-06T16:06:26+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/ap-wagner-chief-prigozhin-is-in-russia-president-of-belarus-says/ |
GENEVA (AP) — A cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women the hardest, the World Economic Forum reported Wednesday, pointing to a widening gender gap in the global labor force.
The Geneva-based think tank and event organizer, best known for hosting an annual gathering of elites in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos, says a hoped-for recovery from a ballooning gender gap hasn’t materialized as expected as the COVID-19 crisis has eased.
The forum estimates that it will now take 132 years — down from 136 — for the world to reach gender parity, which the organization defines around four main factors: salaries and economic opportunity, education, health, and political empowerment.
A breakdown by country gave top marks to Iceland, followed by several Nordic countries and New Zealand, as well as Rwanda, Nicaragua and Namibia. Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, came in 10th place in the report of 146 countries. Further down the list were the world’s biggest economies: the U.S. was at No. 27, China at No. 102 and Japan at No. 116.
Saadia Zahidi, managing director at the forum, say women have been disproportionately affected by the cost-of-living crisis following labor market losses during the pandemic and insufficient “care infrastructure” — such as for the elderly or children.
“In face of a weak recovery, government and business must make two sets of efforts: targeted policies to support women’s return to the workforce and women’s talent development in the industries of the future,” she said. “Otherwise, we risk eroding the gains of the last decades permanently and losing out on the future economic returns of diversity.”
The report, now in its 16th year, aims to track shocks to the labor market that can impact the gender gap.
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This story has been updated to show that the U.S. is No. 27 in the report, not No. 10. | 2022-07-14T02:02:21+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/cost-of-living-crisis-to-hit-women-hardest-report-says/ |
CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty HealthShare is excited to announce that it has signed on as an official sponsor for Miles for Hope in 2023. The virtual event, presented for the second year by Hope Mommies, will be held during the entire month of April.
Hope Mommies is a 501(c)3 non-profit Christian organization. Its sole purpose is to come alongside moms and families who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss, bringing comfort, encouragement, companionship and hope as they continue to walk this side of eternity without their beloved son or daughter.
"Knowing the heartbreak this sort of loss can bring to a family, helping Hope Mommies through the Miles for Hope walk was something I knew our members and employees would support," said Pastor Wes Humble, Liberty HealthShare's director of community engagement. "Even if you haven't been through this suffering, chances are you know someone who has."
Pastor Humble added, "I have prayed with many mothers and fathers who have experienced the pain that this organization seeks to lessen."
Across North America, Hope Moms and their supporters will try to walk as many miles as possible in the month of April to raise funds and awareness for their cause. Each walker sets a goal for the month, gains pledges per mile from their friends and families and walks as many miles as possible.
You can learn more about Hope Mommies at https://hopemommies.org. To register for the walk and bring hope, awareness and funds for those who experience pregnancy loss, stillbirth and infant mortality, go to https://hopemommies.dojiggy.io/hope.
Liberty HealthShare is a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable Christian medical cost-sharing ministry focused on members helping each other in times of need. The faith-based program, which facilitates healthsharing for nearly 90,000 members, is a caring community of health-conscious individuals and families who choose to support one another and agree to the Christian values of stewardship to make healthcare affordable for all.
As it is not insurance, Liberty HealthShare enrollment is available year-round, with no requirement for special life events to qualify. For more information about its healthcare sharing programs visit libertyhealthshare.org or call (855) 585-4237.
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Renowned Global Architecture Firm Henning Larsen Has Designed the Innovative UK Facility in St John's Innovation Park
CAMBRIDGE, England, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Breakthrough Properties, a leading global life sciences real estate developer, today unveiled development plans for Vitrum by Breakthrough, a world-class research and development environment tailored to cutting-edge biotechnology companies that rely on modern, flexible workspaces to advance scientific discovery.
Located inside St John's Innovation Park in Cambridge, England, Breakthrough will transform the existing 1.8-acre site into a flexible, high-performance laboratory. Working with world-renowned architectural studio Henning Larsen, Breakthrough has designed the five-story, 132,588-square-foot building for maximum flexibility and adaptability for a wide range of scientific uses.
Vitrum by Breakthrough will promote site biodiversity and embrace the theme of "nature as a workplace." The unique design will harness the natural green spaces of St John's Innovation Park, extending them into the entrance plaza and the foyer of the building through the transparent façade. The surrounding landscaping is continued on the landscaped terraces and roofs. The ground floor will feature a co-working area, event space and coffee provisions to increase opportunities for interaction between people and teams, sharing knowledge and experiences. Construction is expected to begin in 2024, with occupancy anticipated in 2026.
"Vitrum by Breakthrough will further enhance the vitality of the local Cambridge market by offering an innovative and collaborative scientific environment for companies to advance life-changing research," said Breakthrough Properties Chief Information Officer Daniel D'Orazi. "The development will appeal to R&D companies across the industry spectrum looking to establish a presence in the North Cambridge cluster where there is limited availability of purpose-built, Class A lab space."
Breakthrough's plans reflect the company's ongoing commitment to increasing energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and providing healthy workspaces. As with all of its European projects, Breakthrough commits to at least BREEAM Excellent certification, while striving to reach BREEAM Outstanding. Net zero in both construction and operation (for landlord areas only) is also being targeted for the project, as are WELL Platinum, WiredScore and ActiveScore accreditations.
The building is designed to function free of fossil fuels, with all-electrical heating and cooling systems. Built-in climate resilience will be achieved through passive design and reduced water consumption, mitigating flood risk and reducing the urban heat island effect. The facility will include more than 102 parking spaces and on-site electric vehicle charging stations, as well as dedicated bicycle storage.
"Vitrum by Breakthrough reflects our signature eye for design, landscaping, and wellbeing elements, with our uncompromising approach to specification, lab efficiency and functionality," said Thomas Renn, Breakthrough Properties Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for Europe. "More than ever, clients are seeking developments that offer best-in-class environments within world leading ecosystems. The planned Vitrum by Breakthrough delivers on both of these fronts with unrivaled work spaces, labs and amenities."
St John's Innovation Park sits on 21 acres with access to both the Cambridge town center and major transportation routes. Breakthrough intends to work collaboratively with local stakeholders to reposition Vitrum by Breakthrough in a manner that respects and enhances the long-term plan for the campus.
Founded in 2019, Breakthrough has established itself as one of the most active players in the life sciences sector, with approximately five million square feet of projects in its global pipeline. Earlier this year, Breakthrough unveiled its plans to transform Trinity by Breakthrough, located in Oxford, England, into a unique life sciences environment featuring nearly 170,000 square feet of bespoke labs and offices.
Breakthrough is also active in major life science markets throughout the United States. In Boston, it recently completed The 105 by Breakthrough, which now serves as CRISPR Therapeutics' U.S. Research & Development headquarters. It is also currently constructing Torrey View by Breakthrough, a 10-acre research and development campus in San Diego that will be anchored by a new innovation center for Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD).
About Breakthrough Properties (www.btprop.com)
Formed in 2019 as a joint venture between global real estate owner, developer, and investor Tishman Speyer and biotechnology investment firm Bellco Capital, Breakthrough Properties is a life science real estate development company that leverages cross-sector collaboration to deliver environments that foster innovation and scientific breakthroughs. Breakthrough Properties' mission is to acquire, develop and operate the best life science properties in leading urban technology centers around the world and support scientific innovation across biotechnology, agriculture, and nutrition. Breakthrough combines Tishman Speyer's decades of global real estate development experience with Bellco Capital's industry-making biotechnology entrepreneurship to reimagine environments where companies can create life-changing therapies for patients.
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ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD) – A young woman is recovering after she was bitten by a shark Sunday afternoon on the Isle of Palms.
The woman was in the water – about waist deep – near the 31st Avenue beach access when the bite happened around 5:00 p.m., according to officials.
Law enforcement helped the woman to the 25th Avenue beach access where they met Charleston County EMS. She was then taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Isle of Palms Public Safety officials tell News 2 there were bite marks on the woman’s right lower leg and around the thigh area.
She has since been released from the hospital. | 2023-05-16T05:50:39+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/southeast-region/woman-recovering-after-shark-bite-on-isle-of-palms-in-sc/ |
First vendor in category to become a Three-time Winner of Best in KLAS
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marathon Health, a national leader in delivering advanced primary care solutions for employers, today announced its selection as 2023 Best in KLAS in the employer sponsored healthcare services category. For employers of all sizes who struggle with how to contain the ever-rising cost of providing healthcare for their employees, Marathon Health is a proven solution that delivers cost savings and better health outcomes.
"Achieving the No. 1 ranking in our industry is a tremendous honor for our care teams who work hard every day to provide the best care for our members. They deserve all the credit for this one," said Jeff Wells, MD, CEO and co-founder of Marathon Health. "Earning Best in KLAS is special because the rankings are based exclusively on client experience. Every opportunity to use client feedback to improve where we can do better and celebrate when we're excelling is so valuable. It's an honor to partner with employers who care so deeply about creating a great culture for their employees and their families."
This award marks the third time that Marathon Health has earned Best in KLAS. To arrive at the rankings, KLAS validated experiences with more than 100 employers. Marathon Health achieved a score of 91.2 against a category average of 86.8 and earned the highest marks for loyalty, product, value and relationship.
"The 2023 Best in KLAS report highlights the top-performing healthcare solutions as determined by extensive evaluations and conversations with customers. These distinguished winners have demonstrated exceptional dedication to improving and innovating the industry, said KLAS CEO Adam Gale.
One surveyed client commented, "Marathon Health consistently exceeds our expectations. Their strength is their commitment to flexibility. They find solutions and provide us with options. Our numbers show that once we get our employees, their spouses and their dependents in the door, they are repeat customers. That says a lot about the team at Marathon Health."
Marathon Health's independent primary care platform gives providers extra time to build relationships with their patients and remains free of any hospital or health system affiliation. Members who engaged with Marathon Health save their employers up to $2,000 per year and report better management of chronic conditions and overall health. To date, Marathon Health has saved its clients more than $1 billion in healthcare costs.
About Marathon Health
Marathon Health simplifies healthcare for employers by combining independent primary care with value-driven population health management to deliver healthier members and meaningful savings. It operates physical and virtual health centers in all 50 states for employers of all sizes. Marathon Health is a three-time winner of "Best in KLAS" by KLAS research and is a five-time Modern Healthcare Best Places to Work in Healthcare winner. For more information, please visit www.marathon-health.com.
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KLAS has been providing accurate, honest, and impartial insights for the healthcare IT (HIT) industry since 1996. The KLAS mission is to improve the world's healthcare by amplifying the voice of providers and payers. The scope of our research is constantly expanding to best fit market needs as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated. KLAS finds the hard-to-get HIT data by building strong relationships with our payer and provider friends in the industry.
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Saddleback Church, the Southern California megachurch founded by best-selling author Rick Warren, is appealing its ouster from the Southern Baptist Convention for having women pastors on staff, according to the denomination.
Saddleback is asking the annual meeting of the SBC, which convenes next month in New Orleans, to overturn a February decision by the denomination’s Executive Committee to expel it.
The committee said Saddleback “has a faith and practice that does not closely identify with the Convention’s adopted statement of faith, as demonstrated by the church having a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor.” That was an allusion to Stacie Wood, wife of Lead Pastor Andy Wood, who holds the role of teaching pastor.
The appeal extends the standoff between the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and one of its largest, most successful churches.
Saddleback was one of five congregations that the committee ousted over the issue of women as pastors. One of those congregations, Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, is also appealing its dismissal.
Under SBC bylaws, churches can appeal a dismissal by the Executive Committee to the full SBC annual meeting. Monday was the deadline for filing appeals.
The SBC’s statement of faith says that men should be in authority in families and churches. “While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture,” the statement says. The SBC is not a hierarchy and can’t tell a member congregation what to do, but it can deem a church to be “not in friendly cooperation with the Convention,” the verbal formulation for ouster.
Saddleback, with multiple campuses across Southern California, had 54,000 members as of 2021, according to its annual membership report to the SBC. It averaged attendance of 28,000.
The standoff began in 2021 when Saddleback announced it was ordaining three women as pastors. After founding pastor Warren retired in 2022, he was succeeded as lead pastor by Andy Wood, whose wife, Stacie Wood, then assumed a role as teaching pastor.
And earlier in May, Saddleback announced that Katie Edwards, one of the three women ordained in 2021, would assume the role of pastor of its flagship Lake Forest campus.
Saddleback did not issue a statement on the appeal this week.
But in a video statement released in March after the Executive Committee vote, Andy Wood said that the church’s leaders do interpret the Bible to say that men should be in authority over a church — but that they can authorize women to be pastors. All of the elders at Saddleback are men, he said.
“A man who is an elder can empower women and mobilize women to use their spiritual gifts in the local church,” he said, saying there are examples of this occurring in the Bible.
Fern Creek Baptist Church also sent formal notice to the SBC that it is appealing the decision to oust it. The Rev. Linda Barnes Popham has served as Fern Creek’s pastor since 1993.
“We obviously interpret scripture referring to women in ministry differently than some others in Baptist life,” the church said in an earlier response to the SBC’s Credentials Committee, which reviews churches’ qualifications and can recommend their dismissal to the Executive Committee. “We are happy to meet with you to further discuss how we feel Jesus has led us to this interpretation.”
Fern Creek said the question of women in ministry should be a “second or third tier issue” on which Baptists can disagree.
Other churches that were ousted in February, and which are not appealing, said they would continue to operate with women as pastors. They include Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi; New Faith Mission Ministry in Griffin, Georgia; and St. Timothy’s Christian Baptist Church in Baltimore.
Also appealing its dismissal on a separate issue is Freedom Church in Vero Beach, Florida. It is disputing the Executive Committee’s decision to dismiss it “based on a lack of intent to cooperate in resolving concerns regarding a sexual abuse allegation.” The denomination has been roiled by allegations in recent years of sexual abusers remaining in ministry, prompting the convention to vote for stricter policies.
Freedom Church, in an earlier letter to national, state and local Southern Baptist entities, disputed any allegation of abuse and asked for additional information about the decision.
Warren, author of the widely successful “The Purpose Driven Life,” started Saddleback Church with his wife, Kay Warren, more than four decades ago. With Warren’s charisma and easy, informal preaching style, Saddleback eventually attracted tens of thousands and fostered an ambitious plan to expand the church’s reach across Southern California as well as globally — a vision his successor has promised to continue.
David Sons, chairman of the Executive Committee, said this will be the first time any churches have ever appealed their dismissals to the Southern Baptists’ annual meeting. He urged representatives attending the meeting “to be prepared and informed about the process.”
Ed Stetzer, a church-growth expert and professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, said Saddleback succeeded in connecting with the contemporary, casual culture of its surroundings while holding firm to its core beliefs.
“It’ll be the choice of the convention” whether Saddleback still holds essential Southern Baptist beliefs, as it claims to, said Stetzer, a former director of the SBC-affiliated Lifeway.
But if the convention upholds the church’s ouster, “it will lose something that Saddleback has brought to the SBC for decades — a vibrancy, a new way of thinking.”
The SBC has been in membership decline for nearly two decades. In statistics released earlier this month by Lifeway Research, the denomination fell to 13.2 million members in 2022. That is the lowest level since the late 1970s, which marked the start of years of doctrinal battles that led to a strong rightward shift in the convention.
Southern Baptists’ rate of baptisms — seen by many as a better sign of spiritual vitality than membership — are also in long-term decline despite a small post-pandemic bounce in 2022.
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Reporter Deepa Bharath contributed to this report
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High-rise fire kills 1, displaces 400 residents in DC suburb
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — One person died and one is in critical condition after a fire early Saturday at a high-rise apartment building in a suburb of Washington, D.C., the Washington Post and other local media reported.
The fire in downtown Silver Spring sent more than a dozen other people, including three firefighters, to the hospital and displaced more than 400 residents, the Post reported.
Officials told the newspaper that the fire was reported in an apartment on the seventh floor of Arrive, a 15-story building, and estimated the damage at $2 million.
Vic Washington, who lives on the third floor, told the Post that he heard two explosions around 6 a.m.
“It definitely startled me,” he said. “The alarms were going off. It was very traumatic.”
Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott E. Goldstein said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Godstein added that officials are aware of reports of loud booms and that they believe they could be related to aerosol cans that were in the apartment. He said the fire was contained to an apartment on the seventh floor.
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Fans can flaunt their ALDI love with new, limited-edition merchandise
BATAVIA, Ill., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ALDI, one of America's fastest-growing grocers, is launching its largest ALDI Gear Collection, which officially drops on March 22, complete with trendy belt bags, bucket hats and track suits (all under $10!).
The expanded line is created for ALDI fans, inspired by ALDI fans, combining signature ALDI colors and bold stripes with retro vibes and a modern twist. ALDI boasts a dedicated following of loyal, passionate customers, something that sets it apart from other stores. Their latest ALDI Gear Collection gives shoppers a fun new way to wear their fandom loud and proud on their sleeve (or head, shoulders or feet).
"ALDI fans' love for our brand is unmatched. After we saw the success of our 2022 collection, it only made sense to up the ante this year," said Joan Kavanaugh, Vice President of National Buying at ALDI. "We see shoppers celebrating ALDI products, prices and value on a daily basis, and this impressive line of apparel, that's not only stylish but versatile, gives us a chance to celebrate our customers right back."
The original ALDI Gear Collection launched in the U.S. in 2022 and featured top-selling items like hydration bottles, slides, pajama sets and keychain quarter holders.
With items ranging from $1.49 to $9.99, the expanded line stays true to the ALDI Price Promise to be the low-price leader in every community served. The 2023 Gear Collection has inclusive sizes across clothing and footwear including:
- Keychain Quarter Holder - $1.49
- Bucket Hat or Cap - $3.99
- 2 Pack Socks - $4.99
- Umbrella - $4.99
- Slides - $4.99
- Tumbler - $6.99
- Belt Bag - $6.99
- Windbreaker - $9.99
- Jogger - $9.99
- Pullover - $9.99
The limited-edition ALDI Gear Collection will be available in stores nationwide within the ALDI Finds aisle, while supplies last. ALDI Finds are limited-time, specialty items ranging from unique foods and home goods to unexpected finds that are intended to delight shoppers with new and innovative products.
Like many Finds products, the ALDI Gear Collection is expected to sell out fast, so shoppers are encouraged to visit their local ALDI store or go online to order via Instacart beginning March 22 to score their gear. For more information, visit ALDI.us or follow @aldiusa on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok and @aldi.usa on Facebook.
ALDI is one of America's fastest-growing retailers, serving millions of customers across the country each month. When it comes to value, ALDI won't be beat on price. ALDI has also been No. 1 for price according to the dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index Report for six years running. Since 1976, ALDI has offered a unique shopping experience where customers never have to compromise on quality, selection or value. In fact, 1 in 3 ALDI-brand products are award-winning. Customers can save time and money by conveniently shopping in-store or online at shop.aldi.us. ALDI also proudly serves as a Feeding America Leadership Partner, donating 30 million pounds of food each year in an effort to end hunger in America. For more information about ALDI, visit aldi.us.
*According to the dunnhumby® ©2023 Retailer Preference Index.
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Turning point: Philly developer wants to forge a legacy that transcends his past
Dawud Bey spent more than a decade in prison for drug trafficking. Now he’s building on city land and renovating properties with multimillion-dollar loans.
Inside a modern two-bedroom apartment on North Broad Street, developer Dawud Bey walks around with a strip of blue painter’s tape, tearing off small pieces to mark spots that haven’t been cleaned to his standards.
In the coming days, the place will be professionally photographed so that the 18-unit development, Bey’s biggest to date, can be marketed to prospective tenants.
It’s a step more than two years in the making. And he wants everything to be perfect.
“Little stuff like that,” Bey, 54, tells his daughter Shaakira after pointing out a painted-over door hinge. “But this is absolutely a good job. And everything is looking much better.”
The $3 million development is the kind of project Bey dreamed of while he was serving a federal prison sentence for drug trafficking and witness tampering. It’s also not the kind of project most formerly incarcerated people get the opportunity to realize.
Bey knows this. It’s a big part of what drives him as a developer — showing others that street crime isn’t the only way to make a living, to earn respect and admiration.
“I want young Black men to see that young Black men can do this,” said Bey, who is Black.
“I want them to see that this is a sexy business to be in. You know, you can still get girls and be attractive and all of that. That one of the easiest ways you can get that Bentley that you see on TV is through development and real estate.”
The ‘turning point’
Bey is founder and CEO of Fine Print Construction. Under that banner, he builds market-rate developments like the one on North Broad. But the anti-violence activist also builds affordable housing projects.
His goal is to develop more housing units than his mentor and music icon Kenny Gamble, who founded Universal Companies, a nonprofit developer and charter school operator, after stepping away from the spotlight.
He’s got a ways to go, but Bey feels like he’s on the right path.
“This is the turning point of my career,” he said.
With support from City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson, the city recently awarded Bey more than 50 vacant lots in Grays Ferry and Point Breeze. All of the parcels, acquired through a competitive bidding process, will be transformed into workforce housing for first-time homebuyers.
Bey is also renovating a Victorian-style apartment building in Parkside through the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund, a nascent nonprofit dedicated to giving Black and brown developers real estate developers access to capital they typically have a harder time securing than their white counterpart. The $2.7 million revamp is the fund’s first and will feature a mix of market-rate and affordable units.
It’s expected to be Bey’s most profitable project to date. The imposing building was recently appraised at $3.6 million.
“I’m impressed with where he was when we had that first conversation and what he’s doing now. He was doing some things at the time, but not to the scale he’s doing now,” said developer and friend Jeffrey Tubbs, who met Bey four or five years ago.
Gary Jonas, president of the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia, said people want to work with Bey — and give him bigger opportunities — because he’s genuine and has good follow-through.
“When he tells you something, he means it,” said Jonas, another one of Bey’s mentors. “People recognize that in him immediately, and that’s a unique trait.”
Bey’s success has come with some criticism.
In Grays Ferry, a group of residents and activists are upset that a cluster of vacant lots will be replaced by eight homes priced above what most longtime residents could afford. Under the city’s “Turn the Key” initiative, the properties on Myrtlewood Street will be sold for up to $230,000. The median sale price for homes in the neighborhood was $167,700, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
“This is considered a low-income area. You putting expensive houses that sit up there … that raise everybody’s taxes around,” Christal Heath, who grew up near the lots. “This is why so many people are losing their houses.”
“I blame Dawud because he knows this neighborhood,” she said.
Overcoming obstacles
Bey started out as a general contractor renovating single-family homes in South Philadelphia, where he grew up. He was in his early 30s and still selling drugs, but wanted a way to earn a legitimate income and create generational wealth.
Real estate investment was his answer.
In 1994, he bought a large hair salon in Point Breeze, which helped generate clients for his contracting business andbuild connections for his investment portfolio. The same year, he bought a shell of a property at 18th and Carpenter streets in Graduate Hospital, then a predominantly Black neighborhood with little developer interest.
He paid $2,000 for it.
“I was saying, ‘Man, this is Center City. This is Center City. Nobody would believe me during that time,” said Bey during a recent interview at his office near Fishtown.
The investments would prove critical to Bey’s future, including his development career.
After refinancing the hair salon, Bey bought five depreciated rowhouses in North and South Philadelphia. But the abandoned properties were stolen, part of a ring that poached at least three dozen houses from their legal owners by filing bogus deed transfers with the city, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.
More than a dozen people were charged in connection with the scam, including Bey.
A judge later found him not guilty of conspiracy, forgery, and related charges after a nonjury trial. But Bey said the episode created debt — the $170,000 he spent on the properties plus legal fees — that remained when went to prison.
He sold the hair salon to help.
After he was released from prison in 2015, Bey was determined to start developing real estate again. But his record made it challenging for him to get the kind of financing he needed to complete the projects he wanted to pursue. He didn’t have any recent financial history to justify larger loans.
“All I ran into was hard money lenders that only wanted to give me about $100,000. I couldn’t really do nothing with that. I probably would have ended up going back to the streets with that small amount of money,” said Bey.
But he had a lifeline. He still owned the duplex he renovated in Graduate Hospital, which continued to gentrify while he was in prison and became one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods.
Bey easily sold the property for $500,000. The money helped give him the second chance he’d been preparing for while he was behind bars.
‘No alternative’
Bey grew up in poverty in Point Breeze in the 1970s, at a time when the neighborhood was gripped by a heroin epidemic.
His father belonged to the Nation of Islam. But he was also a prominent member of the Black Mafia, a violent organized crime syndicate that operated in various African American neighborhoods in North and South Philadelphia.
Later nicknamed the “Muslim Mob,” the infamous group was one of the city’s major drug traffickers during the height of its power.
Bey’s mother was also involved in criminal activity, shoplifting luxury items like fur coats and reselling them. She went to prison for it.
By the time Bey was a teenager, neither of them was around much.
He said he started selling drugs to survive.
“I can see, in hindsight, other things that I could of did as a choice. But during that time, because of the negativity that’s in the environment, you can’t see it. You can’t see the opportunities that’s around you because all you really see is death and destruction,” said Bey.
He started dealing marijuana before turning to cocaine. At the time, Philadelphia, like many big cities around the U.S., was in the throes of a crack epidemic.
Bey became, in his words, a “Big Kahuna.”
In his early 30s, Bey began doing business with North Philadelphia drug lord Kaboni Savage.
The relationship forever altered his life.
In 2005, Bey pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine that Savage supplied to him. Federal prosecutors had recordings of phone conversations Bey had with other associates about the notorious drug trafficking operation.
The government also had recordings of conversations that Bey had with Savage while the two were awaiting trial at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia. The two used the facility’s phones, and other means, to intimidate and threaten their associates and their family members, according to a 2009 indictment. The goal was to coerce them into refusing to testify in court.
Between the two cases, Bey served a total of 10 ½ years in federal prisons around the country — a stretch he called a test on his “soul and character.”
An ‘aha moment’
While he was behind bars, Bey made it his mission to learn everything he could about the development world — from financing to construction.
“I just start ordering books,” said Bey.
“Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” Robert Kiyosaki’s controversial bestseller about financial literacy and accumulating wealth; “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” Stephen Covey’s bestselling book about self-improvement; “The Power Broker,” Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winner about powerful New York city planner Robert Moses.
He went through the 1,300-page book three times.
But about five years into his sentence, Bey read something that stopped him in his tracks.
It was a letter from his first wife. Bey said every syllable she wrote “jumped off the page.”
“It wasn’t arrogant or belligerent. It wasn’t one of them cuss me out letters or nothing like that. It was just one of them letters that just told what the struggle was, their current conditions because of my incarceration,” he said.
It stung, but Bey said the letter made him want to change.
Driven to do better by his family, Bey’s determination to make it as a developer — and not return to a life of crime — deepened.
When he was on probation after his release and prohibited from managing real estate, Bey spent hours researching properties while working construction for a friend’s company.
When the pandemic forced everyone indoors, Bey spent a lot of time at home building his business on paper.
Thinking about his legacy has also motivated him. He doesn’t want to be remembered as a bad guy.
“I would want the better part of what you can remember to shine most in your mind. And I believe that’s kind of like all of us,” said Bey. “We all big walking contradictions. And I’m no different than anybody else.”
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(NewsNation) — Consumers are getting incorrectly and unfairly charged by Lyft drivers for damage fees that they didn’t leave behind.
A NewsNation investigation found It’s become a common scam. A rider gets out of a Lyft and gets a notification that they are being charged for damages to the car that they didn’t cause. When they contest the charges, Lyft tells them it’s investigated, and the rider is shown photos as proof.
On a recent trip to Miami, Emily Eliseo did what she’s done countless times before: She ordered a Lyft — the ride was short and unmemorable until she got home.
“I got a notification saying that I was charged for damages,” Emily Eliseo recalled. “The driver had sent in photos that I had damaged the car, and it’s Lyft’s policy to charge a fee depending on the damage, so they charged $150 for the alleged damage.”
Her driver said she damaged the car and even sent Lyft pictures of what Emily said looked like vomit. She tried to get in touch with Lyft, but without any luck, she turned to social media
“That’s the only way to get these companies’ attention,” Eliseo said.
On Twitter, Eliseo realized she was not alone. In April, Paul, a frequent Lyft rider, said he was charged $80 for reportedly spilling a drink in his Lyft.
“I wrote to them and I said what was this for and they said this is for having an open container of beer in the car and spilling it,” Paul said.
Chris Elliott, who runs the consumer advocacy blog Elliott Advocacy, says he’s seen a recent uptick in these Lyft damage scams.
“It is the perfect scam because it’s very difficult to disprove that you’ve smoked in a car or you’ve spilled a drink,” he said.
“They all are very similar — they involve someone taking a ride, usually just a short ride, they get out, and then there’s a charge on their card,” Elliott explained. “They send you the photos, and they charge you and there’s really nothing you can do about it.”
He says some Lyft drivers see the scam as easy money.
To avoid becoming a victim, Elliott says: “When you get in the car, take a picture. and when you get out of the car, take a picture. Also, engage in some conversation with the driver; establish some rapport. I would say it’s far less likely that your driver is going to report you for a false damage claim if you have a rapport.”
If you do find yourself facing a damage claim, ask for photos and to see the report. If all else fails reach out to your bank and file a fraud claim.
“Fortunately, my bank did refund me after disputing the charge and saying it was like a scam and fraudulent, they refunded it back,” Eliseo said. “It’s like it really isn’t the bank’s responsibility to do that. it’s Lyft’s.”
NewsNation reached out to Lyft to find out what it’s doing to protect customers, but the company did not respond to our request for comment. | 2022-09-21T15:55:20+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/morning-in-america/lyft-customers-being-charged-for-fake-damage/ |
‘Love and support’: Oreo celebrating Pride Month with pride cookie packages
(CNN) - Pride Month doesn’t start until June, but it’s never too early to stock up on snacks.
Oreo is planning on customers doing just that as it is creating official pride cookie packs.
The cookie maker reports that the limited-edition packages have a brightly-colored message of love and support for the LGBTQ+ community. There’s also a blank space for a personalized message.
And the pride theme continues inside the wrapper, with the word “Proud” stamped on each Oreo.
PFLAG, the first and largest gay rights organization, has also joined the awareness campaign for the limited-edition pride cookies, according to Oreo representatives.
The pride packs can be ordered from Oreo’s website or purchased at retailers starting on May 18.
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MS. STEAD SELLERS: Hello, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Frances Stead Sellers, a senior writer here at The Washington Post.
Bob Kagan, a very warm welcome to Washington Post Live.
DR. KAGAN: Thank you. It's great to be here.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: We are, of course, delighted to have you, and we’re going to be talking about this book which focuses--your new book, “The Ghost at the Feast”--on the early part of the 20th century. But I want to first talk to you about the immediate post-Second World War period and a period you called “The World America Made” in another book. Tell us about that foundational moment.
DR. KAGAN: Well, World War II obviously was--it came about because Americans felt that the liberal world order that was already in shaky condition by the 1930s was about to be exploded by the expansion of the power of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The United States wound up going to war to defeat them and really, I think, to reassert and reestablish a liberal democratic hegemony in the world, and that’s basically what the United States did after World War II. Instead of retreating back within its own borders and letting the world take whatever course it was going to take, the United States established the NATO alliance, relationships in Asia, and created a situation which for all its flaws--and there were many mistakes, and we all know about Vietnam and Iraq, but overall created a situation of global peace among great powers, which lasted eight decades and is really one of the longest periods of great-power peace in history. And I think that’s quite an accomplishment, and that is what is being tested again today.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Just going back to that moment, how much was it an issue that was specifically American, or was it, this moment after the Second World War, one driven by the circumstances of the moment?
DR. KAGAN: Well, it was driven by the circumstances of the moment, obviously, but Americans have a certain view of how the world should be shaped. They’ve demonstrated that time and again ever since the United States became a great power at the beginning of the 20th century, both in the First World War and in the Second World War and during the Cold War, and the world has been shaped in a way as is always the case with world orders. It’s shaped by the leading powers in the system. That would be the United States and its democratic allies, and that is--you know, we have a democratic liberal world today because the strongest powers in the world are liberal democracies. In different periods of time, we’ve had autocracies being the dominant powers, and so the world was fundamentally one of authoritarian government.
So the way the world looks today reflects clearly the preferences of the American public, which are widely shared around the globe when it comes to how do people want to govern themselves. So the United States found a lot of allies in this task, but it definitely was the power of the United States after World War II that made this world possible.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: So tell me a little bit more, again, about what is specifically American. What are these American values that allowed this sort of universalist approach to happen after the Second World War?
DR. KAGAN: Right. Well, I mean, the United States is the first government founded on universal principles, as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. Before that, there really was no kind of liberal democracy in the world, and when the United States emerged as a liberal democracy, it faced, you know, significant outside pressures from absolutist governments that felt threatened by the United States. My first volume in this series of histories of American foreign policy is called "Dangerous Nation" because that is how the authoritarian governments of Europe viewed the young United States rising as a, in their view, liberal democratic but, more importantly, revolutionary society. So the United States does bring special qualities to this that I think other countries obviously wouldn't. Although today the idea of universal rights has spread enormously around the globe, it's worth remembering that that was quite the opposite case when the United States first came on the scene in the late 18th century.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: So you’re sort of proposing this sort of benevolent global hegemony, U.S.-led. Is there a precedent for it? How very different is it from the--well, let’s say the British Empire.
DR. KAGAN: It is different from the British Empire in the sense that, first of all, it’s not an empire, despite what everybody likes to say. The United States--it’s rather remarkable how much the degree to which other countries in the world have welcomed America’s involvement in power in international affairs. If you look at, you know, the way Europe has responded whenever the United States has pulled back, they’ve basically begged the United States to come back in, and I think that’s an important attribute, that it’s worth remembering that the United States is not asserting, you know, its dominance over other countries. What it’s doing is creating an environment in which people who want liberal democracy have an opportunity to practice it.
Now, if you are not a liberal democracy, if you're an autocracy like China and Russia, then you do feel that the United States is imposing its will on the world, and there's truth to that from their perspective. That's the way the world looks.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: But forgive me if I oversimplify, but I'm thinking about the emails I'll get later, and there will be people who will say, you know, the U.S. for a long time has been hypocritical about these issues. It has advocated for rules governing the world but hasn't always signed on to treaties. And more recently, it seemed unreliable, and we can think of the Paris Accord signing then going back. So what is the rest of the world to make of this notion? How am I going to answer of my emails, just quickly?
DR. KAGAN: [Laughs] Well, I mean, the United States is like all organizations of human beings. It is hypocritical. It’s selfish. Americans are not less selfish than other peoples in the world. It’s just that the question that other peoples in the world have to ask themselves is what kind of world do they want to live in. It’s not--the choice is not between having American power and no power. Other countries will fill in the vacuum. If countries want to see Russia and China be more dominant than the world, they have that--they have that option.
But I think what we’re seeing around the world, rather remarkably, is the degree to which other countries do not want to be under the thumb of China and Russia and look to the United States. Despite all its flaws and all its mistakes and all the things that we can point to that have gone wrong in American foreign policy, I think the remarkable thing is, nevertheless, how many countries in the world continue--and even more today than in the past--look to the United States for support and protection and to sustain this liberal order that they and Americans all benefit from.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Oh, just expand on that a little bit, if you could, about how Americans benefit from this liberal world order you're talking about it, and do they understand that they're benefiting you from it?
DR. KAGAN: Well, that’s the question that I’ve been--that I raised in this book and you--the introduction quoted by writing about the ambivalence that Americans have. I think Americans are fundamentally often not conscious that there is a certain kind of world system from which they do benefit. How do they benefit? America has always benefited from a free-trade international environment. I know people think that that has cost us jobs, but on net, it has made the United States the wealthy country that it is. I think that most people understand that, you know, we would rather live in a world that was dominated by democracy and liberalism rather than a world dominated by autocracies.
And if you look at the American public’s reaction to what’s happening in Ukraine, for instance, you know, that can only be explained in terms of American support precisely for a liberal world order where countries like Ukraine are not invaded by autocratic militaristic regimes like Russia, just as Americans responded in the past to aggressions from Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany and Imperial Germany. It’s a pretty consistent pattern, and while I think that Americans are often--have a very complicated notion of what their interests are, if you look at the way they behave, it’s pretty clear that they have been repeatedly willing to make sacrifices, both in physical terms and in moral terms, really, to support this democratic liberal order against the challenges that constantly face it.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: You have talked before and you talk in this book about this tension, this ongoing tension between individualism and universalism, and I think we’ve come to see it play out domestically a lot in this country. But tell us a little bit more about how it informs how Americans see their roles as well--or their country’s role as a world leader.
DR. KAGAN: Well, you know, again, it is revolutionary to focus on the rights of the individual rather than the state. Throughout history, people--everybody has always focused on the rights of the state and the subordination of the individual, and it wasn’t until the American Revolution that the individual really became the focus of government. And I think that Americans, therefore, are very--in their own way, they’re very aware that this is a fragile situation, that if you look at the whole sweep of human history, democracy is the rarest form of government. Liberalism is the rarest type of society. And they--therefore, they tend, sometimes almost in a paranoid fashion, to fear that this is somehow going to be taken away from them.
I mean, a lot of the fear of communism during the Cold War had to do with fear that somehow these individual liberties would be lost, and today I think Americans are also worried domestically as to whether their individual liberties are being threatened. This has been--this is a constant theme in American history is this great fear that--and I think legitimate fear that this system is very tenuous and really needs to be defended and can be threatened by external movements as well as internal movements.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: What would you count as the biggest ruptures in this American-led world order in the 20th century? You mentioned Iraq, of course.
DR. KAGAN: Well, you know, the biggest rupture is--occurs really when the West itself is divided within itself. I think one of the things that we’ve seen is that when the West has been unified, it’s very difficult for other powers outside that system to take the West on.
We saw these divisions during the Cold War, for instance, when Germany was pursuing Ostpolitik. You know, there have been fractures in the Western system. There have been times when the United States has essentially, you know, backed away from its responsibilities, as obviously happened in the 1920s and '30s, and that has an enormous effect on the world.
But, you know, I’m actually very sort of heartened by the degree to which the liberal world order has held together in this--in this time of crisis. It’s been really good to see how many democracies rallied around defending Ukraine and have been helping, despite the tensions and complexity of our relationship with some of these countries. It’s obviously very difficult for Germany to engage in military activity given its history, and I think that’s quite understandable. And it’s a real tribute to the strength of the liberal world order that Germany has found a way to do that in a way that is not threatening to its neighbors.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: So just going back a few decades, you mentioned the Cold War, obviously, but what impact did the fall of the Soviet Union have on America's sense of self and role in the world?
DR. KAGAN: Well, that’s a good question. I think it had--as always in the case of Americans, it had--it had two opposite effects. I mean, on the one hand, it did make America--it gave America a certain amount of confidence to be--to be more involved in the world, which led I think, to some extent, to some of the interventions that were carried out in the 1990s under the Clinton administration.
But it also--a lot of Americans after the end of the Cold War felt that, well, therefore, there’s no need for us to have a vigorous foreign policy anymore, that the only threat we had to worry about was the Soviet Union. That’s now gone. There were a lot of theories in the 1990s about how great-power politics were no longer relevant. It was all about economics or globalization or what have you, and I think that obviously we’ve had a pretty rude awakening over the past decade, as we’ve seen the return in a very traditional way of great-power challengers in Russia and China, in particular. In a way, they’ve sort of taken the place of what had been the challenges in the first half of the 20th century, Germany in Europe and Asia--and Japan in Asia. Well, now it’s China in Asia, and it’s Russia in Europe. But it’s a pretty similar situation, and this time, I think the American response has been better than the last time it faced that kind of dual challenge.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Before we get to China, I do want to ask you, though, about the interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan and how they changed people overseas' perceptions of the United States and its involvement in the rest of the world.
DR. KAGAN: You know, it’s a good question, and I’m--but my basic view is that it had a much larger effect on Americans and American attitudes towards foreign policy than it did on the rest of the world. I think we somehow believe that the world supports the United States when the United States is doing nice things and then turns against the United States when it’s doing things that the world doesn’t like or that Americans themselves don’t like.
But let’s be, you know, cold-blooded about this. Countries basically, like people, their number one question is, what can you do for me now when I need you? And what we’ve seen, I think, over and over again is that whatever misgivings people around the world have--and they do have them--about the exercise of American power, especially when it doesn’t go well, nevertheless, when they find themselves threatened, they don’t hesitate for a second to turn to the United States for help.
And I think that, you know, Iraq, as I say, had a huge impact on Americans, which were still, you know, feeling in terms of a reluctance to get involved again in the world, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned, they've long since forgotten about Iraq, and they just want to know that the United States is going to be there for them.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Bob, I want to read to you a line that struck me from your book, “The World America Made.” Let me read it to you: “Americans’ lack of self-awareness has paradoxically made their awesome power less threatening than it might be. Americans would be scarier if they actually had a plan.” Is this an argument to be without a plan, or do we have one right now?
DR. KAGAN: You know, Americans don’t have a plan in the sense that, you know, if you look at some countries, rising powers, you know, they need to take this set of islands and they need to take that set of islands or they need to--they need to expand and regain, as Russia is trying to do, regain hegemony, so step one is Ukraine, step two is the Baltics and something like that.
The United States is what they call in the international relations field “a satisfied power.” I mean, the United States is a revolutionary power because of its ideology, but geopolitically, the Americans are pretty happy with the state of the world, and therefore, they tend to just want to keep things as they are. And I think the rest of the world understands perfectly well that the United States does not have a plan for expansion or have particular ambitions to have more territory. And so--and I think they’re also aware, you know, to some extent, that the American people, in some sense, don’t always know what they want. And, you know, this is a problem for American foreign policy and the conduct of foreign policy, but it does make Americans less threatening than if it looked like Americans knew exactly what--how they wanted to run the world and were going to take all these different steps.
And in some respects, you know, the British Empire, which people talk about as being, you know, acquired in a fit of absentmindedness, but there really was some intentionality to the British Empire. Whereas, in the case of the United States, I would say we have--Americans have backed into most of their global commitments rather than seizing them. They usually are responding to threats rather than going out and trying to shape things. I think they would do better if they spent more time shaping. There would be fewer conflicts, actually, but that's the way Americans are. And I think that's just the way a democracy is when it comes to global affairs.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Bob, here I am asking you about plans on the day of the State of the Union. Your 2012 book famously influenced President Obama in his State of the Union address. You've had influence over Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate. What do you hope to hear this evening from President Obama about foreign policy?
DR. KAGAN: [Laughs] President Biden? I assume that he’ll talk--
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Biden. Sorry.
[Laughter]
DR. KAGAN: That’s okay. I assume that he’ll--
MS. STEAD SELLERS: President Biden. Let's get that right.
[Laughter]
DR. KAGAN: I’m assuming he will talk about--I would like to see him talk about the importance of American leadership in the world and why the world is still and always will be a place of challenges, and that there are those out there in the world who not only may or may not mean us ill, but they certainly are not in favor of democracy and would stamp it out if they could. And America has traditionally done something to prevent that from happening and are doing so now, and I hope he would make the broad case.
I think--you know, I think presidents are sometimes reluctant to make a broad case because they think they'll lose more support that way. You can just talk about how barbaric the Putin invasion of Ukraine is, but I would rather see him talk in more general terms about the role of the United States in the world.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: So there are those who would argue that the greatest threat is not another superpower right now, but global health security, climate change, does that require a different approach to foreign policy than the one you have been talking about?
DR. KAGAN: Well, I mean, those--
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Or maybe you wouldn't agree with the premise.
DR. KAGAN: No, I agree with the premise that these things are all difficult to deal with, but I also--unfortunately, I think the reality is that geopolitics tend to trump everything else, and if--and, you know, there are many difficulties that we face in dealing with climate change, but not the least of them is the fact that, you know, two of the most important countries in this regard, China and India in addition to the United States and Europe, you know, they see the United States and the West in general as using climate change as a way of keeping them from furthering their own industrial and technological development. You know, they say, you know, after spending decades polluting the world, now you want us all to stop it, but we’re still in our developmental phase.
I think you see resistance in other countries, not only--not because they disagree with the goal but because they see an inequity in the way we’re approaching this. And that’s a real obstacle to dealing with this problem and with many of these problems. As we saw, even something like an international pandemic is not free from geopolitics, that, you know, the U.S.-China relationship has both affected and been affected by China’s response to the covid strain.
So, you know, it would be nice if you could sort of set aside all these geopolitical issues and focus on these global issues, but unfortunately, the world doesn't allow you to do that.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: So, in 2012, when you wrote that book, there were rumblings about America being in decline. You fought back forcefully, but I’d like you to up to date--update that and talk about that narrative. Now in 2023, where do we stand, and how does China fit into it?
DR. KAGAN: Oh, that's a large question. [Laughs]
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Yeah.
DR. KAGAN: But I think, you know, we are--decline seems to be our favorite topic, and, I mean, Americans have been talking about their decline literally since the time of the Revolution.
I remember a great--a sort of great speech by Patrick Henry, I think, at the time of the constitutional ratification debates, talking about how America in its youth used to be more virtuous. So there is a--there’s a constant theme of decline in the United States, but I think we have seen time and again that these predictions of American decline turn out to be premature, not because someday they won’t be correct. I’m sure, you know, what goes up must come down, and eventually, the United States will be in decline, but we’re not there yet.
And I think one of the interesting things, beta points in that, is precisely what's going on in Ukraine right now. You know, Russia is supposed to be and is, in many respects, a major military power, at least in the same, you know, general category as the United States. But look how poorly it's functioning in this war, and it's pretty clear even now that the Western technology is superior and is allowing a relatively, comparatively speaking, much weaker country to hold its own against a much stronger country. That's just one data point.
You know, the American economy, I don't know how many times I've heard that the dollar is no longer going to be the universal currency, that it's going to be supplanted by something else, but that clearly isn't the case, and the United States is still the place where people feel it's the best place to invest their money, despite everything, despite the growth of China.
So, you know, I think that we should not be so focused on our decline but talk about what we need to do with our power that can maintain a peaceful world. China is certainly rising, but, you know, if you compare China to past great powers, ambitious, great powers like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan or Imperial Germany, you know, China is not as strong as those countries were and not as--it’s a threat. It’s a challenge. It’s something the Americans need to deal with and I think can deal with, but I don’t think we need to be too hysterical about creating an image of China as something that is an unstoppable force that we can’t deal with.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Bob, in a recent Wall Street Journal piece, you made a case that a war with China could bring Americans together, and forgive me if I'm oversimplifying. The balloon clearly divided us. Tell me about what you meant by making that statement about bringing us together.
DR. KAGAN: Well, I didn’t--I’m not saying let’s have a war with China so we can bring ourselves together. I actually was responding to the--often case, one of the arguments about American decline is that it’s to talk about the health of our political system, which clearly is not in great health right now. But I--the piece I wrote in the Journal was really meant for the Chinese, more than for Americans. And I don’t--I was basically trying to disabuse them of the notion that because America seems divided now, this is a good opportunity for China to strike, because I think it is true that were China to take some aggressive move now, the country--there would be tremendous bipartisan support for, you know, dealing with that problem.
And I--even the balloon thing, even though Republicans sort of made fools out of themselves, you know, complaining about not shooting it down or saying that they should shoot it down with their own guns or whatever nonsense they were saying, I mean, the general thrust of America’s response to the balloon was pretty bipartisan. Republicans were trying to score political points, but I don’t think that there’s a great disagreement that Americans were unhappy about the balloon event. But in general, that it was symbolic of what Americans increasingly--and again, on both sides of the political aisle--see as an increasingly difficult China problem.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Yeah. And how should the U.S. address a rising China without making war inevitable?
DR. KAGAN: I think, well, first of all, the number one thing is deterrence. I think it--the Chinese need to have real doubts in their mind that they can succeed in, for instance, embargoing or taking Taiwan in some fashion, whether it’s through a naval blockade or some other fashion. They really--I think they need to sort of get past that, and so, you know, that’s the--that’s the kind of message I’m trying to send to them, that they need to be careful because, you know, they’re--they are in a disadvantageous situation.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: And in your new book, you certainly seem to sort of draw some parallels between the first half of the 20th century and now. Just play those out a little bit for us before we finish and give us a taste of what you're arguing there.
DR. KAGAN: Sure. I mean, obviously, history doesn’t repeat itself, and we’re facing a very different set of circumstances than we were in the 1920s and ’30s, but the general structure of the international system has not really changed all that much. And I--the key element of that system is the sort of new factor that came into place after the turn of the 20th--after the--you know, after 19--at the turn, the birth--beginning of the 20th century--sorry--that created a situation where the United States was sort of the dominant power.
You talked in the introduction about how the United States was a dominant power after World War II. It was even more a dominant power after World War I and had a real opportunity then, I think, to establish this--a kind of lasting peace, and we could have avoided World War II if Americans have been more willing to be just a little bit more involved in Europe rather than turning their backs on it entirely.
And that's, I think, a message that is relevant today. It is possible for the United States to maintain a reasonable peace in the world without conflict if it is willing to be strong enough to deter and measured in its approach to the world.
I mean, you asked how to deal with China. I think the lessons of the first half of the 20th century are very clear that if you can deter a country militarily, you at the same time can urge them to take part in what is really, you know, global economy, global politics. Other countries have made that decision. There are countries that were once militaristic aggressors that are now democracies and upholders of the liberal world order. I don't expect that from China, but I think our best approach, again, learning those lessons, is to be strong enough to deter while welcoming them into the system as best as possible.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Bob, as a last question, I spent yesterday evening rereading an essay you wrote in September 2021 about the constitutional crisis already being here in the United States. Right now, are you more or less optimistic about the United States and the state of democracy here?
DR. KAGAN: Well, I’m still quite worried, I have to admit. You know, I know there was this great desire to sort of pretend that Donald Trump is going away and there’s a lot of--you know, there’s still a lot of articles about how he doesn’t have the clout that he once had. I still think he’s the odds-on favorite to be the nominee of the Republican Party, and if that’s the case, then we are going to face in 2024, once again, a real challenge to our system because if, as I suspect would be true, Trump would probably lose a general election by some margin, I think at this point we can anticipate that he and his many, many millions of followers will insist that he did not lose. And then we will be in this constitutional crisis with no obvious escape.
So I think we--you know, we are far from being out of the woods. The 2022 midterms were encouraging, but I think they were just temporary. There were some encouraging elections in Germany too on the way to--on the way to Hitler taking power. So I think we need to still be very vigilant, and I still can only hope the Republicans understand the danger of trying to reelect Donald Trump.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Bob Kagan, author of “The Ghost at the Feast” and editorat large at The Washington Post, thank you so much for joining me today on Washington Post Live.
DR. KAGAN: Thank you. Enjoyed it.
MS. STEAD SELLERS: Thank you also to all our viewers. It was great to have you. As you know, you can find further programming on WashingtonPostLive.com.
I am Frances Stead Sellers, and thank you.
[End recorded session] | 2023-02-07T21:26:01+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2023/02/07/transcript-explaining-america-with-robert-kagan/ |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Legislation that would have allowed special elections for the removal of municipal officials from office in Mississippi was defeated in the state House Thursday.
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The bill was defeated in a bipartisan 60-53 vote after Democratic legislators said the bill was targeted at Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat who leads the 80% Black city. Legislators opposing the bill also said it would wreak havoc in small towns where the threshold to unseat municipal officials wouldn't require many people.
“I think we all know that this bill is about Jackson, but we can pull off the vision we use by just looking at Jackson,” said Democratic Rep. Bryant Clark of Pickens. “This bill is bigger than Jackson. It's going to affect all of your communities, and it's going to create turmoil in communities.”
Rep. Shanda Yates, an independent from Jackson who sponsored the bill, said in an earlier House debate that some of her constituents had asked whether there is a process for removing a city leader from office. Mississippi law currently allows recall elections for county officials but not city officials.
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Under Yates’ proposal, a special election for the removal of a mayor would be held if at least 30% of a city’s registered voters sign a petition saying the mayor has failed to fulfill obligations of the job. The governor would then appoint three municipal judges from other cities to determine whether “there is a substantial basis for a removal election.” If the judges find there is, a special election would be held.
For the removal to have been successful, at least half of the qualified voters in the city must take part in the election — and a majority of those casting ballots would have to vote to remove the mayor.
Yates introduced her proposal as several others bills impacting Jackson's affairs advanced in the Republican-controlled Legislature. One would transfer the ownership of the city's troubled water system to a regional board.
Another bill would create a new court district in part of the capital city of Jackson with judges who would be appointed rather than elected. Yates was the only Jackson lawmaker to vote in favor of that bill.
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Michael Goldberg is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mikergoldberg. | 2023-02-09T19:33:47+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/bill-that-could-have-unseated-mayors-fails-in-17774519.php |
New Milford woman no longer involved in gun lawsuit
NEW MILFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - The New Milford woman at the center of a national gun rights group’s lawsuit against CT, seeking to get rid of a ban on assault weapons, is no longer involved with the case. She tells Channel 3 why.
Patricia Brought of New Milford wants to set the record straight, she does not own any semi-automatic weapons. In fact, she doesn’t even own any guns. She says it is all a misunderstanding and the gun rights group had made a mistake.
Patricia Brought says the last few days have been stressful. A lawsuit was filed last week, in her name, alongside the National Association for Gun Rights, seeking to get rid of a ban on assault weapons in the state. But many of the arguments in the lawsuit, Patricia says, were not her own, including the argument that she owned semi-automatic weapons.
“I absolutely do not own any guns and I don’t even own a slingshot at the moment,” says Patricia Brought. “I’m not militant.”
Patricia says she was asked to be a part of the lawsuit, by an association spokesperson. She had donated to the group before, and that is how they found her name. She says she was told the lawsuit was about protecting gun rights. The 84-year-old believes in the right to own a gun and thinks it should be an option for people like her to have, so she was on board.
“I just want the ability to know that if things got really bad, I would be able to have some way of protecting my family, “says Patricia Brought. “I hate to think that America, during my lifetime, is going to lose their freedom.”
But the lawsuit actually seeks to overturn Connecticut’s ban on high-capacity magazines and assault weapons passed after the Sandy Hook massacre. Patricia called the group, after seeing the lawsuit in the media, and told them they had her words wrong.
When asked if people should be able to have machine guns she says, “no that should only be for the military.” But she says the AR-15 ban should be more of a discussion, because “it’s used as a hunting rifle, people have been using it for years and years.”
Patricia says the pro-gun group explained a worker had mixed her viewpoints up with another persons who originally wanted to be a part of the lawsuit but later dropped out.
She says she knows the mistake wasn’t intentional but says because she’s had to deal with many angry calls, it’s important to let the public know why she agreed to be involved in the first place.
“My opinion was, or my reason was, that I needed to make it clear that we need to keep our own legal gun for protection, for our family and our property and our lives,” says Patricia Brought.
The National Association for Gun Rights resubmitted the lawsuit to federal court Tuesday, with a new plaintiff. It now lists a Granby woman. We reached out to the pro-gun group; they have not responded. They are suing 7 states, including Connecticut.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Several SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk’s behavior have filed a complaint accusing the company of violating labor laws.
The complaint, made Wednesday to the National Labor Relations Board, details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, among other things, called on executives to condemn Musk’s public behavior on Twitter — including making light of allegations he sexually harassed a flight attendant — and hold everyone accountable for unacceptable conduct.
The letter was sent weeks after a media report surfaced that Musk paid $250,000 to the flight attendant to quash a potential sexual harassment lawsuit against him. The billionaire has denied the allegations.
Employees in their letter urged SpaceX to uniformly enforce its policy against unacceptable behavior and commit to a transparent process for responses to claims of misconduct. A day later, Paige Holland-Thielen and four other employees who participated in organizing the letter were fired, according to the filing, which was made by Holland-Thielen to a regional NLRB office in California. Four additional employees were fired weeks later for their involvement in the letter.
A company spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and is currently running Twitter, prefers to do things his own way even if that means running afoul of rules and regulations. He’s currently in a defiant fight with Civil Rights department, a California regulator that is suing Tesla for alleged racial discrimination.
Some view Musk’s management style as autocratic and demanding, as evidenced by a recent email he sent to Twitter staff giving them until Thursday evening to decide whether they want to remain a part of the business. Musk wrote that employees “will need to be extremely hardcore” to build “a breakthrough Twitter 2.0″ and that long hours at high intensity will be needed for success.
A number of engineers also said on Twitter they were fired last week after saying something critical of Musk, either publicly on Twitter or on an internal messaging board for Twitter employees.
In a statement, Holland-Thielen said as a woman engineer at SpaceX, she experienced “deep cultural problems” and comforted colleagues who had experienced similar issues.
“It was clear that this culture was created from the top level,” she said.
Still, she said part of what she liked about the company was that any person could escalate issues to leadership and be taken seriously.
“We drafted the letter to communicate to the executive staff on their terms and show how their lack of action created tangible barriers to the long term success of the mission,” Holland-Thielen said. “We never imagined that SpaceX would fire us for trying to help the company succeed.”
The firings coincide with Musk’s $44 billion buyout of Twitter. Around the same time, the billionaire used a sexual term to make fun of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ belly and also posted a poop emoji during an online discussion with then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
After terminating the first set of employees, SpaceX allegedly interrogated dozens of others over the next two months in private meetings, telling them they couldn’t disclose those conversations to anyone else due to attorney-client privilege, according to the complaint. Four additional employees who helped draft or share the letter were fired in July and August, the filing said, adding up to nine terminations in total.
“Management used this ‘ends justifies the means’ philosophy to turn a blind eye to the ongoing mistreatment, harassment, and abuse reported by my colleagues, much of which was directly encouraged and inspired by the words and actions of the CEO,” said Tom Moline, who was also fired from SpaceX after organizing the letter.
Jeffery Pfeffer, a professor who specializes in organizational behavior at Stanford University’s business school, said that the allegations were hardly a surprise given Musk’s leadership style at Twitter. Musk’s success at companies like Tesla and SpaceX have created what he labeled as hubris under the false notion that it was “all about individual genius.”
“Powerful people get to break the rules. They don’t think they are bound by the same conventions as other people,” Pfeffer said, criticizing Musk’s behavior. He said it showed the arrogance of Musk, one of the world’s richest men: “Why would he think he is a mere mortal?” | 2022-11-18T17:33:11+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/fired-spacex-employees-accuse-company-of-violating-labor-law/ |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With the Minnesota Vikings gathered in their humbled locker room at halftime in a huge hole, cornerback Patrick Peterson set the tone for an historic escape by promising his offensive teammates the defense would do its part to hold the Indianapolis Colts.
“You just need five touchdowns,” Peterson told them. “That’s nothing.”
This rally sure was something, though.
The Vikings completed the biggest comeback in NFL history, erasing a 33-point deficit by beating the Colts 39-36 on Greg Joseph’s 40-yard field goal with three seconds left in overtime Saturday to win the NFC North division in their typical dramatic fashion.
Kirk Cousins passed for 460 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Vikings (11-3), who trailed 36-7 late in the third quarter and became just the third team in league history to win 10 games in a season by eight points or fewer.
“We’re going to grind it out until they tell us there’s no more ball left to play,” coach Kevin O’Connell said.
The Colts (4-9-1) landed on the infamous side of this list, just ahead of the Houston Oilers in the 1992 postseason. They blew a 32-point lead (35-3) and lost to Buffalo (41-38) in overtime.
“When you have chances to put people away, we’ve got to do a better job than we’ve done up until this point,” quarterback Matt Ryan said.
According to Sportradar data available since 1930, the Vikings became only the second team in 1,551 regular-season or playoff games to trail by 30 or more points and still win.
“Nothing fazes us. We showed that in Buffalo,” said Peterson, who aided a 33-30 overtime victory over the Bills on Nov. 13 after a 17-point deficit. “We showed that again today.”
The Vikings took this rally all the way to their second possession of overtime. Cousins hit K.J. Osborn — who caught the first score and had a career-high 157 yards — for 15 yards. He found Adam Thielen — who had the second of three fourth-quarter touchdown passes — for 21 yards. Then he threw to Justin Jefferson for 13 yards to move into range.
Ifeadi Odenigbo was called for delay of game for lying on Jefferson to try to keep the Vikings from setting up for the kick, putting Joseph 5 yards closer for the winner.
“It’s a special group, a lot of fighters,” Thielen said.
Colts interim coach Jeff Saturday didn’t exactly get conservative in this collapse. Ryan was stopped short on a fourth-and-1 sneak at the Minnesota 36 with 2:19 left in regulation. Then Cousins hit Dalvin Cook for a 64-yard touchdown on a screen pass on the next play and T.J. Hockenson for the 2-point conversion to tie the game before the 2-minute warning.
“We would have closed the game out and ended the game,” Saturday said. “I’m in. Everybody’s in. We didn’t convert.”
Outscored 33-0 in the fourth quarter of their most recent game, a 54-19 loss to Dallas on Dec. 4, the Colts came back fresh from their bye week and stunned the Vikings with a 33-0 halftime lead that was the second-largest in the NFL this season. Cincinnati led Carolina 35-0 on Nov. 6.
The intermission deficit for Minnesota was the second-biggest in franchise history, behind a 45-10 score at Seattle in 2002.
The Vikings even overcame a pair of fumble returns for touchdowns by Chandon Sullivan that were wiped out by the whistle.
“I know that there’s other games that don’t end like that. It was just cool to see everybody battle back and I’m just happy that I get to share this moment with my teammates,” linebacker Eric Kendricks said, wiping away tears.
YOU LIKE THAT?
The last team to overcome a deficit of 24-plus points to win a regular season game was Washington over Tampa Bay in 2015, when Cousins was the quarterback. The previous regular season comeback record was 28 points in 1980, when San Francisco rallied from down 35-7 to win 38-35.
ALARMING START
The special teams units bore the brunt of the brutal start for the Vikings. Dallis Flowers returned the opening kickoff 49 yards, and the Colts were in scoring position within seconds.
Odenigbo plowed past two blockers and sideswiped Ryan Wright’s punt with his right arm. JoJo Domann caught the deflected ball and returned it 24 yards for the too-easy score and a 10-0 lead.
Then with the Vikings trailing 20-0 on fourth-and-1 from their own 31, Wright’s pass on a fake punt sailed over Jalen Nailor’s head for a second straight turnover on downs.
JEFFERSON WATCH
Jefferson left the game twice for brief examination following jarring hits to the chest. On the second occurrence, Stephon Gilmore also got him in the facemask and drew an unnecessary roughness penalty in the fourth quarter.
Both times after Jefferson left the game, Cousins threw to Jalen Reagor on the next play and was intercepted after an apparent miscommunication on the routes. The first one was returned by Julian Blackmon for a 17-yard touchdown that made it 30-0 in the second quarter.
Jefferson had 12 catches for 123 yards and a touchdown and raised his season total to 1,623 receiving yards. Calvin Johnson’s all-time record of 1,964 yards was set in 16 games in 2012.
INJURY REPORT
Colts: RB Jonathan Taylor (ankle) left the game on the opening drive after a hard tackle as he tumbled out of bounds. He missed three games with the injury earlier this season.
Vikings: LT Christian Darrisaw returned from a three-game absence for a concussion. He limped off twice in overtime with leg cramps. Peterson left briefly with the same problem.
UP NEXT
Colts: Host the Los Angeles Chargers on Dec. 26.
Vikings: Host the New York Giants on Dec. 24.
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Updated May 29, 2023 at 1:00 PM ET
Uganda has passed one of the world's toughest anti-gay laws that calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed the bill on Monday despite widespread condemnation from many Western governments and human rights activists.
Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, a religiously conservative East African nation. But the new law levies harsher penalties for LGBTQ people. It calls for the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," which is defined as same-sex relations involving HIV-positive people, children or other vulnerable people. Anyone convicted of "attempted aggravated homosexuality" can be imprisoned for up to 14 years. Ugandans who engages in gay sex can receive life in prison, while anyone who attempts to have same-sex relations can face 10 years in prison.
The new law drew swift condemnation from human rights organizations and LGBTQ rights groups in Uganda and throughout the world.
"We are appalled that the draconian and discriminatory anti-gay bill is now law," the United Nations' Human Rights office said in a tweet on Monday. "It is a recipe for systematic violations of the rights of LGBT people & the wider population. It conflicts with the Constitution and international treaties and requires urgent judicial review."
Roland Ebole, the regional researcher for Amnesty International, said the group is calling for repeal of the law.
Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among cheered the decision, saying in a statement the president had "answered the cries of our people" in signing the bill. "With a lot of humility, I thank my colleagues the Members of Parliament for withstanding all the pressure from bullies and doomsday conspiracy theorists in the interest of our country," the statement said.
An earlier version of the bill was passed overwhelmingly by Uganda's parliament in March. It created a backlash from business and the international community, and was sent back for alterations after Museveni vetoed it. The amended, final version stipulates that merely identifying as LGBTQ isn't a crime. It also altered a measure that required people to report homosexual activity if a child is involved.
Uganda passed a previous anti-homosexuality law in 2014, but the courts struck it down on procedural grounds following outrage in Uganda and from international donors. Homosexuality is criminalized in more than 30 of Africa's 54 countries.
Widespread anti-gay sentiment in Uganda and the threat of imprisonment has forced many in the LGBTQ community to flee the country over the past few years. The new law has sent many others into hiding.
Frank Mugisha, head of the banned group Sexual Minorities Uganda, says instead of targeting LGBTQ people, the government should be focused on tackling some of the greater social problems in the country.
"They should target individuals who are engaged in direct gross human rights violations and undermining democracy," he said. "But also, corruption, abuse of other human rights as well."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-29T17:11:33+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-05-29/a-new-anti-gay-law-in-uganda-calls-for-life-in-prison-for-those-who-are-convicted |
Huskers top Hawkeyes, 81-77
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KOLN) - The Nebraska men’s basketball team used a strong shooting performance and a suffocating defensive effort down the stretch to rally from a seven-point second-half deficit for an 81-77 win at Iowa Sunday afternoon.
With its fifth win in its last six games, Nebraska ended the regular season with a 16-14 record. The Huskers finished 9-11 in the Big Ten Conference, earning the No. 11 seed for the conference tournament. Nebraska will face No. 14 seed Minnesota on Wednesday, March 8, at approximately 8 p.m. inside the United Center in Chicago. Iowa, which lost for just the third time at home, finished its regular season with a 19-12 record, including an 11-9 mark in Big Ten play.
The Huskers completed the season sweep of the Hawkeyes thanks to a strong shooting performance. Nebraska shot 58 percent from the field in the game, helping the Big Red post the victory in a game where Iowa attempted 21 more shots, nine more free throws and committed nine fewer turnovers than Nebraska. The Huskers were 31-of-53 on the day, including 14-of-26 from the 3-point line (54 percent).
It was a balanced effort offensively, as all nine Huskers who attempted a shot scored at least nine points. Sam Griesel led the way with 16 points - including 3-of-4 from beyond the arc - and grabbed six rebounds. Jamarques Lawrence scored 15 points, knocking down five of his eight 3-point attempts. C.J. Wilcher was 5-of-7 from the field on his way to 12 points, while Keisei Tominaga added 11 points. Derrick Walker and Wilhelm Breidenbach chipped in nine points apiece. Walker flirted with a triple double as he added 12 rebounds and eight assists to go along with his nine points.
Defensively, Nebraska limited Iowa to 36 percent shooting. In the second half, the Husker defense harassed the Hawkeyes into an 11-of-37 performance (29.7 percent), including just 3-of-16 (18.8 percent) from the 3-point line. Nebraska’s defense did not allow a field goal over the game’s final 6:12, as Iowa missed its final seven shots.
Patrick McCaffery and Kris Murray led Iowa with 23 and 22 points, respectively. The Hawkeyes pulled down 21 offensive rebounds in the contest, leading to 31 second-chance points. Iowa added 21 points off Husker turnovers, but a 31-point advantage in those two categories was not enough to prevent Nebraska’s season series sweep.
Copyright 2023 KOLN. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-06T01:25:03+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2023/03/06/huskers-top-hawkeyes-81-77/ |
Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia had no problem sending one man home early. On Monday's episode of The Bachelorette, several men alerted Rachel to the fact that Chris, a mentality coach, had been discussing the Fantasy Suites just days into the season.
Throughout the episode, Chris told some of his fellow suitors that it'd be a "deal-breaker" for him if the Bachelorette "decides to have sex with multiple people." He also confessed that he may not tell Gabby and Rachel his ultimatum ahead of time, leading some of the men to call Chris "manipulative" and "presumptuous," and slam him for having "preconditions to love."
Upon learning of Chris' comments, Rachel, feeling "sexualized," and Gabby, finding the whole thing "entirely ridiculous," asked him to leave the mansion.
"It was a little bit of a controlling situation, so Gabby and I were made aware of it, and we did ask him to leave," Rachel told ET. "That was definitely difficult to deal with last rose ceremony."
Gabby agreed, telling ET that Chris "was jumping to a discussion about Fantasy Suites and being really open about his opinions."
"Rachel and I decided that it was a control factor," Gabby said. "He was trying to control our journey, and nobody should be talking about Fantasy Suites right now or reduce the whole experience to one week."
"We call it a journey for a reason, because there's always room for growth and for change," she added. "To be thinking that far ahead is really unfair to us... so we sent his a** home."
The joint decision to send Chris home was just one example of how serious Rachel and Gabby are about their journey to find love.
"Gabby and I are both really strong women and we're really not afraid to do whatever we need to to find our person at the end of this," Rachel said. "We're really confident that we're going to find him."
Monday's episode wasn't all negative, as Gabby had an unforgettable one-on-one date with Nate.
"He's so much fun to be around," Gabby said of Nate. "He's so confident. He has very easily and early shown interest in me, not in an overbearing way, just in a really fun way. We have great conversation. We have a ton in common."
Despite sending Jordan V. home after her one-on-one date with him, Rachel is likewise hopeful about her chances for love following week two of her journey.
"The guys have been really great at supporting us and uplifting us," she said, "so we definitely have a great group of guys here."
The Bachelorette airs Mondays on ABC. Keep up with the historic season by following along with ET's coverage of the series.
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