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Baylor St. Luke's Ranked No. 2 in Houston Metro Area and No.3 in Texas
HOUSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is recognized as a Best Hospital for 2022-23 by U.S. News & World Report.
The annual Best Hospitals rankings and ratings, now in their 34th year, are designed to provide data-driven decision support to patients and their families so they, with their doctors, can make informed choices about where to seek care for specific hospital services.
In addition to being ranked No. 2 in the Houston Metro Area and No.3 in Texas, Baylor St. Luke's ranked nationally in the following six specialties:
- Cancer (Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center), ranked No. 35
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery (Texas Heart Institute), ranked No. 20
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, ranked No. 31
- Geriatrics, ranked No. 43
- Neurology & Neurosurgery, ranked No. 27
- Urology, ranked No. 38
Baylor St. Luke's also earned "High Performing" ratings in Pulmonology & Lung Surgery and the following procedures and conditions: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), colon cancer surgery, diabetes, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, acute kidney failure, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, stroke, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
"Continued recognition as a Best Hospital by U.S. News is a testament to the devotion of our expert clinical teams in delivering advanced treatments that promote the health and well-being of our patients," said Liz Youngblood, SVP/COO of St. Luke's Health and president of Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. "People in Houston and beyond should know that Baylor St. Luke's is committed to highly-specialized, high quality care, and the associated outcomes that patients expect and deserve."
"Now in its eighth year, the joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and St. Luke's Health continues to showcase itself as a phenomenal partnership," said Paul Klotman, M.D., President & CEO and Executive Dean of Baylor College of Medicine. "Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is delivering quality care and outstanding outcomes while training the next generation of physicians and health professionals."
"With Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center as our academic flagship, St. Luke's Health brings advanced care, world-class clinicians, and extensive research to patients in need of medically complex care," said Doug Lawson, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of St. Luke's Health. "It's a privilege to again be recognized as a Best Hospital by U.S. News and bring high value, high quality care to Houston and beyond."
For the 2022-23 rankings and ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide in 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions. In the 15 specialty areas, 164 hospitals were ranked in at least one specialty. In rankings by state and metro area, U.S. News recognized hospitals as high performing across multiple areas of care.
The U.S. News Best Hospitals methodologies in most areas of care are based largely on objective measures such as risk-adjusted survival and discharge-to-home rates, volume, and quality of nursing, among other care-related indicators.
Best Hospitals was produced by U.S. News with RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
For more information about the 2022-23 rankings and ratings, please visit usnews.com. The rankings will be published in the U.S. News "Best Hospitals 2023" guidebook (ISBN 9781931469999), available for pre-order now from the U.S. News Online Store and for purchase at other bookstores later this year.
For more information, visit Best Hospitals and use #BestHospitals on Facebook and Twitter.
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is an 881-bed quaternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and St. Luke's Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD. The hospital was the first in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet Recognition Program hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke's also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area.
U.S. News & World Report is the global leader in quality rankings that empower citizens, consumers, business leaders, and policy officials to make better, more informed decisions about important issues affecting their lives. A multifaceted digital media company with Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News, and 360 Reviews platforms, U.S. News provides rankings, independent reporting, data journalism, consumer advice, and U.S. News Live events. More than 40 million people visit USNews.com each month for research and guidance. Founded in 1933, U.S. News is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s spike in missile tests, growing nuclear ambitions and other provocative acts pose a “serious threat” that could lead to a dangerous miscalculation and spark a wider conflict, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday.
Speaking with The Associated Press at the presidential office in Seoul, the conservative leader reiterated his call for closer security cooperation with the United States and Japan to counter the “dangerous situation” being created by North Korea as he played down the prospect for direct negotiations like those pursued by his liberal predecessor.
“We’ve seen a miscalculation leading to serious wars many times in history,” Yoon said, adding that the North’s advancing nuclear arsenal poses a direct threat to the U.S. mainland as well as South Korea and nearby Japan.
Much of the nearly hourlong interview focused on North Korea, which carried out a record number of missile tests last year and just weeks ago violated South Korean airspace by flying drones across the border for the first time in five years.
That incursion prompted the South to fire warning shots, scramble jets and fly its own drones over the border.
Days later, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un began the new year by ordering the “exponential” expansion of his nuclear arsenal and the development of a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile.
Some experts believe the testing spree is largely meant to modernize an arsenal that North Korea would ultimately want to use as leverage in future dealings with the United States to wrest sanctions relief and other concessions.
“North Korea could have its own internal reasons, but there’s no way for our country or any other country to know exactly why they are conducting such provocations,” Yoon said.
“These unlawful North Korean provocations can only result in the strengthening of (South Korea’s) security response capabilities and a further strengthening of the security cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan,” he said.
Yoon, a former top prosecutor, took office in May vowing to take a tougher stance on North Korea. During the presidential election campaign, he accused his liberal predecessor, Moon Jae-in, of being “submissive” to North Korea.
Moon, who met Kim Jong Un three times, was credited with arranging now-dormant nuclear diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington and easing fears of war. But he invited criticism that his dovish engagement policy eventually helped Kim Jong Un buy time and perfect weapons technologies in the face of U.N. sanctions.
In a recent newspaper interview, Yoon cited discussions with the U.S. about joint planning potentially involving U.S. nuclear assets.
Asked for further clarity Tuesday, he said the proposed plans include “tabletop exercises, computer simulations and drills … on delivery means for nuclear weapons.”
“The discussions are under way over the so-called joint planning and joint execution, and I think it’s right for South Korea and the United States to cooperate because both of us are exposed to the North Korean nuclear threat,” Yoon said.
While Yoon didn’t reveal further details, some observers have said he likely wants to stress efforts to boost the viability of the U.S. security commitment to protect its Asian ally from North Korea.
In a policy report to Yoon on Wednesday, Defense Minister Lee Jong-Sup said the South Korean and U.S. militaries plan to hold a tabletop exercise next month to sharpen their response to scenarios where North Korea uses a nuclear weapon. Lee said that South Korea will push for the U.S. to deploy strategic assets near the Korean Peninsula more frequently, according to Lee’s office.
Despite the heightened animosities, Yoon maintained he won’t pursue talks for the sake of talks with North Korea, saying past inter-Korean discussions were often politically exploited by leaders in both countries and failed to eliminate the North’s nuclear program.
Yoon also accused North Korea of cutting off all communication channels with South Korea. Pointing at a white telephone on a desk that he said is meant for a direct hotline with the North Korean leader, Yoon said that “The North is obstructing this line and isn’t coming to dialogue.”
Yoon also voiced his support for Ukraine in its fight to repel Russia’s invasion, which he called “unlawful and illegitimate.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged South Korea to provide arms and other military equipment. The Asian country, a growing arms exporter with a well-equipped, U.S.-backed military, has provided humanitarian aid and other support while joining U.S.-led sanctions against Moscow. But it has stopped short of providing arms directly.
Yoon said Korean laws, as well as domestic public opinion, make it difficult for his government to arm Ukraine while it is at war.
An American official said in November that the U.S. agreed to buy 100,000 artillery rounds from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine. South Korea maintains that the rounds it was selling were meant to backfill depleted U.S. stocks.
Yoon expressed openness to similar deals in the future, noting the two allies regularly buy military equipment from one another.
“If the conflict (in Ukraine) isn’t resolved swiftly, it could send a message to North Korea that the international community would fail to respond to an act of invasion with the appropriate sanctions or punishment, and that message would further encourage the North to conduct provocations.”
On the domestic front, Yoon appeared to still be shaken by the crowd crush tragedy that killed nearly 160 Halloween revelers in late October in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood.
He described rushing to his office, not far from the neighborhood, soon after hearing the first reports. He said he initially did not know how many people had been killed and only later came to realize the scale of the disaster.
“It’s still hard for me to fully understand how such a huge crowd accident can happen in a country with a (developed) system like ours because of a failure in crowd management, ” he said.
Authorities ordered a sweeping investigation, but no senior officials have lost their jobs so far despite calls by families of the victims and members of the opposition for greater accountability.
Yoon said it was important to conduct a thorough investigation before assigning blame.
“For victims and relatives, the results of the investigation could provide a base to establish the government’s responsibility, so I instructed (officials) to thoroughly investigate the government’s responsibility, even if that means taking a lot of responsibility,” Yoon said.
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Associated Press writer Kim Tong-hyung contributed to this report. | 2023-01-11T19:50:10+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-the-ap-interview-korean-leader-cites-norths-serious-threat/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Tony Finau shot a 7-under 65 on Saturday to match Taylor Pendrith at 21-under 195 with a round left in the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
The 3M Open winner last week in Minnesota, Finau is trying to become the first to win consecutive regular-season tournaments in three years.
A stroke a ahead entering the round, Pendrith birdied four of the last five holes for a 66.
Rookie of the year front-runner Cameron Young (65) was four strokes back. He matched the Detroit Golf Club record with a 63 on Friday.
Stephan Jaeger was five shots back after a 65.
Patrick Cantlay, No. 4 in the world ranking, was six shots behind after a 66.
Pendrith was the second-round leader after setting the tournament 36-hole record at 15-under 129.
The 31-year-old PGA Tour rookie from Canada missed nearly four months this year with a broken rib,.
The duel in Detroit seemed like match play with Pendrith and Finau taking turns pulling and falling into ties and moving ahead.
Pendrith opened with 6-foot birdie putt to take a two-shot lead. Finau pulled within a stroke on the next hole, making a 20-foot chip from the greenside rough for birdie.
“Stay hot, Tony!” a fan shouted.
Pendrith, who had his share of fans back home in Ontario, looked cool as calm as he bumped fists with two young boys as he walked to the third tee.
Finau pulled into the lead with a 15-foot putt at No. 3, then Pendrith pulled his 3-foot putt to miss an opportunity to stay ahead.
Pendrith’s errant tee shot to the left on the par-5 631-yard fourth hole put him in the No. 6 greenside rough, leaving him behind several towering tees in his path to the green. He he hit a shot 104 yards to the hole, an approach within 16 feet and made the putt to restore his one-stroke lead.
Pendrith took a two-stroke lead at No. 6, making a 7-foot putt that curled in the right side.
Finau equaled Pendrith at 18 under at the turn after making birdies at Nos. 7 and 8 while Pendrith missed a 1-foot putt and make bogey on the ninth hole.
Pendrith ended up behind a tree again at No. 13, forcing him to chip back onto the fairway and leading to a bogey that dropped him him into a second-place tie with Young.
Finau took a two-shot cushion with an 8-foot birdie putt at 14.
Pendrith, who won twice on PGA Tour Canada, bounced back from his second bogey with three straight birdies to pull back into a tie with two holes to play.
Finau went ahead at 17 with a birdie, and Pendrith tied it again with a birdie on the 54th hole.
If Finau can outlast the competition to win Sunday, he will be the first to win two straight regular-season events since since Brendon Todd in 2019.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-31T03:14:27+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/ap-sports/tony-finau-taylor-pendrith-tied-for-rocket-mortgage-lead/ |
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Maricopa County has a failed process for verifying thousands of ballot signatures that even some of its own workers question, attorneys for Kari Lake, the 2022 Republican candidate for Arizona governor, argued in court Wednesday.
Lake's lawyers spent most of the first day of a three-day trial showing video and taking testimony from two previous signature screeners who alleged election workers was overwhelmed.
The allegations are the only remaining legal claim in challenge of her defeat six months ago to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the Arizona governor's race.
“There's simply no way to review signatures with respect to procedures,” Kurt Olsen, one of Lake's attorneys said.
The former TV anchor was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign.
Lake listened to the proceedings from a seat in the back of the courtroom but did not speak. She left two hours into the hearing.
While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake did not. She lost to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.
Courts have dismissed most of her lawsuit, but the Arizona Supreme Court revived one claim that challenges the implementation of signature verification procedures on early ballots in Maricopa County, home to more than 60% of the state's voters.
Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said in a ruling Monday that Lake alleges Maricopa County officials failed to perform any higher level signature verifications on mail-in ballots that had been flagged by lower level screeners for any inconsistencies.
In a subsequent decision, Thompson said Lake also is challenging any alleged violations of signature verification policies by lower level screeners, too.
The video footage shown by Lake's legal team came from a Maricopa County camera feed that purportedly shows a signature verified incorrectly and hastily by a worker.
Reynaldo “Rey” Valenzuela, Maricopa County director of elections, testified that the temporary worker simply didn't grasp the technological skills needed for the job and he was re-assigned elsewhere. Signature verifiers are also randomly audited.
“We review them for consistency,” Valenzuela said. “Was there some sort of inconsistency where someone did all good (signatures) or all bad?”
A lower-level worker also testified that higher-level signature reviewers were overwhelmed and kicked back ballot affidavit envelopes that seemed questionable.
Three workers on lower-level signature verification who filed declarations in court on Lake’s behalf have said they experienced rejection rates due to mismatched signatures on 15% to 40% of the ballots they encountered.
Attorneys for Arizona election officials said the workers’ speculation on signature verification efforts does not amount to a violation of the law or misconduct by election workers — and raised questions about whether the three workers could know the outcome of the specific ballots they had flagged.
Lake isn’t contesting whether voters’ signatures on ballot envelopes matched those in their voting records.
In a ruling Monday night, Thompson refused to throw out Lake’s claim.
Lake faces a high bar in proving not only her allegation over signature verification efforts but also that it affected the outcome of her race.
County officials say they have nothing to hide and are confident that they will prevail in court.
Lake’s lawyers say there was a flood of mail-in ballots in Maricopa County at a time when there were too few workers to verify ballot signatures. Her attorneys say the county ultimately accepted thousands of ballots that had been rejected earlier by workers for having mismatched signatures.
By reviving the claim, the Arizona Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that found Lake waited too long to raise it.
Earlier in her lawsuit, Lake had focused on problems with ballot printers at some polling places in Maricopa County. The defective printers produced ballots that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators at polling places. Lines were backed up in some areas amid the confusion. Lake alleged ballot printer problems were the result of intentional misconduct.
County officials say everyone had a chance to vote and all ballots were counted because those affected by the printers were taken to more sophisticated counters at election headquarters.
In mid-February, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected Lake's assertions, concluding she presented no evidence that voters whose ballots were unreadable by tabulators at polling places were unable to vote.
The following month, the state Supreme Court declined to hear nearly all of Lake’s appeal, saying there was no evidence to support her claim that more than 35,000 ballots were added to vote totals.
Earlier this month, the court sanctioned Lake's lawyers $2,000 for making false statements when saying that more than 35,000 ballots had been improperly added to the total count.
The trial beginning Wednesday will be the second conducted in Lake's election challenge.
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DENVER -- Yu Darvish pitched into the sixth inning to earn his 100th career win and was backed by five home runs as the San Diego Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 9-6 Friday night.
Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., Gary Sanchez, Trent Grisham and Brandon Dixon all went deep to help the Padres win consecutive games for the first time since May 25-26.
Darvish (5-4) earned the benchmark victory after allowing four earned runs and five hits while striking out six and walking four in 5⅓ innings.
Jake Cronenworth had his second consecutive three-hit game for San Diego after batting just .198 in his first 60 games of the season. After missing the past four games while tending to soreness in his left wrist, Xander Bogaerts had two runs and two hits, including his first double since May 14.
Machado's two-run homer, which spearheaded a three-run first inning, was his first since May 9 and a 425-foot solo shot from Tatis was his team-leading 12th of the season. Sanchez's two-run homer in the second inning was his fifth since joining San Diego on May 30 while Dixon's was just his second of the season.
Josh Hader picked up his 14th save of the season after forcing Elias Diaz to ground into a force out with runners on first and third.
The loss was Colorado's fifth in a row -- its second-longest drought of the season -- and its ninth in 11 games. The Rockies have now lost 14 of their past 15 games against NL West teams, including each eight straight.
Starter Austin Gomber (4-5) took the loss, giving up seven earned runs and 11 hits -- including three homers -- over four innings. He struggled with his fastball, as each of the three home runs he surrendered came on four-seam pitches. Over his past five starts, he has given up 23 earned runs in 20⅔ innings.
Mike Moustakas had two hits for Colorado, including a 441-foot, two-run home run in the eighth inning. | 2023-06-10T04:36:07+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37828913/padres-five-homer-barrage-lifts-yu-darvish-100th-win |
Sean Murphy Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Marlins - May 2
Published: May. 2, 2023 at 1:33 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Sean Murphy -- hitting .294 with four home runs, four walks and eight RBI in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves against the Miami Marlins, with Sandy Alcantara on the mound, on May 2 at 6:40 PM ET.
He strung together two hits (going 2-for-3) in his most recent game against the Mets.
Sean Murphy Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
- Game Time: 6:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Sandy Alcantara
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Sean Murphy At The Plate
- Murphy leads Atlanta with 24 hits, batting .282 this season with 15 extra-base hits.
- He ranks 47th in batting average, 13th in on base percentage, and second in slugging among the qualifying hitters in MLB action.
- In 52.0% of his 25 games this season, Murphy has picked up at least one hit. He's also had eight multi-hit games.
- Looking at the 25 games he has played this season, he's hit a home run in seven of them (28.0%), and in 7.7% of his trips to the plate.
- Murphy has had an RBI in 10 games this year (40.0%), including four multi-RBI outings (16.0%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- He has scored in 13 games this season (52.0%), including multiple runs in five games.
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Sean Murphy Home/Away Batting Splits
Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Marlins has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 19th in MLB.
- The Marlins' 4.48 team ERA ranks 18th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Marlins pitchers combine to rank 20th in baseball in home runs given up (36 total, 1.2 per game).
- Alcantara makes the start for the Marlins, his sixth of the season. He is 1-2 with a 5.34 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 30 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent outing on Wednesday against the Atlanta Braves, the righty went 5 2/3 innings, allowing two earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- The 27-year-old ranks 64th in ERA (5.34), 37th in WHIP (1.187), and 49th in K/9 (7.7) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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WASHINGTON – Those melancholy tunes sung by humpback whales may really be a sign of loneliness.
Scientists who tracked humpback whales in Australia noticed that fewer whales wailed to find mates as their population grew.
“Humpback whale song is loud and travels far in the ocean,” said marine biologist Rebecca Dunlop, who has studied humpback whales that breed near the Great Barrier Reef for more than two decades.
As whale numbers dramatically rebounded following the end of commercial whaling — one of the world’s great conservation success stories — she noticed something unexpected.
“It was getting more difficult to actually find singers,” said Dunlop, who is based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. “When there were fewer of them, there was a lot of singing — now that there are lots of them, no need to be singing so much.”
Scientists first began to hear and study the elaborate songs of humpback whales in the 1970s, thanks to new underwater microphones. Only male whales sing, and the tunes are thought to play a role in attracting mates and asserting dominance.
Eastern Australia’s humpback whales were facing regional extinction in the 1960s, with only around 200 whales left. But numbers grew and reached 27,000 whales by 2015 — approaching estimated pre-whaling levels.
As the density of whales increased, their courtship changed. While 2 in 10 males were singers in 2004, a decade later that ratio had dropped to just 1 in 10, Dunlop and colleagues report Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Biology.
Dunlop speculates that singing played an outsized role in attracting mates when populations were severely depleted.
“It was hard just to find other whales in the area, because there weren’t many," she said.
When whales live in denser populations, a male looking for a mate also has to ward off the competition, and singing may tip off other suitors, she explained.
“As animal populations recover, they change their behavior — they have different constraints,” said marine biologist Boris Worm of Canada's Dalhousie University, who was not involved in the study.
To be sure, the seas are still noisy. Many humpbacks woo with a combination of singing and physical jostling, the Australia researchers report.
“Such a big increase in animals over the time they were studying gave them a unique opportunity to get insights about changes in behavior,” said Simon Ingram, a University of Plymouth marine biologist in England, who not involved in the study.
Ingram said that while humpback whales must have been singers long before whaling depleted their numbers, the new study highlights just how essential their elaborate and beautiful songs were to their survival and recovery.
“Clearly singing became incredibly valuable when their numbers were very low,” he said. ___
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-02-16T21:06:26+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/weird-news/2023/02/16/lonely-tunes-humpback-whales-wail-less-as-population-grows/ |
Vallis to Succeed Jeff Seltzer Who Will Join Maria Stark as Co-Founder and Executive Board Member
LOS ANGELES, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hypothesis, an award-winning insights, strategy, and design agency, is excited and proud to announce the promotion of Maria Vallis to Chief Executive Officer, following eight successful years as an Executive Leadership Team member, most recently as Managing Partner. As CEO, Maria assumes leadership of Hypothesis' daily operations to steer the Insights Association Top 50 firm into its next generation of growth.
Vallis succeeds co-founder Jeff Seltzer, who will join founder Maria Stark as Executive Board Member. Jeff will continue to actively support the company as a strategic advisor, while focusing on company initiatives near and dear to his heart, such as the recently announced Hypothesis University.
Says Jeff, "Vallis played a critical role in supporting talent while growing and establishing Hypothesis' reputation as a go-to strategic partner for incredible clients. Hypothesis has never been stronger and is in the best possible hands with her at the helm. I look forward to where Maria and her incredibly gifted leadership team will take us from here."
Vallis, who joined Hypothesis in 2014 is a native of Australia and former GM at Kantar Millward Brown. She will continue to position, scale, and grow Hypothesis as a premium insights partner to the world's most important brands with an emphasis on custom creative approaches and sharp strategy designed to spark action within their organizations. Supported by a seasoned and talented leadership team, Maria will honor Hypothesis' core values and its culture of collaboration and empowerment.
Says Vallis, "I look forward to building upon what Maria Stark and Jeff Seltzer have created, an agency that brings together the best people in the business and empowers them to do their very best work for our clients. By attracting the best talent, and evolving alongside our clients to meet their needs, Hypothesis will continue to help important brands achieve amazing things."
According to founder Maria Stark, "These are challenging times for CEO's. They require empathy as well as expertise. Courage as well as inspiration. Maria and the diverse Hypothesis leadership team that has been formed in the past few years to support her are perfectly poised to undertake these challenges. I wish her tremendous success and know that Hypothesis and our clients are extremely fortunate to have her in this role."
Hypothesis is an Insights Association Top 50 Company that fuses insights, strategy, and design to help important brands do amazing things. We specialize in high-stakes questions that require creative, multi-dimensional approaches, thoughtful strategy, and a broad business perspective. Our client partners include many of the Fortune 500's most innovative and admired brands. Founded in 2000, Hypothesis remains fiercely independent, with offices in LA and Seattle and talented employees across the United States. Learn more at www.hypothesisgroup.com.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — After Tuesday evening’s drawing claimed no victors, the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot of the year will have its next drawing on Friday evening.
No ticket matched the numbers drawn on Tuesday evening, which were 3, 4, 33, 36, 52, and the gold Mega Ball 17, making the current jackpot jump to an estimated $510 million — a value of $266.8 million for the cash payout option.
Mega Millions announced there were ticket holders in Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas that took home smaller $1 million wins after Tuesday evening’s drawing. Nineteen ticket holders also won third-tier prizes.
If there are no winners in Friday’s drawing, the jackpot would become the 11th largest in the game’s history. There have only been three times when the jackpot was higher than $1 billion — the most recent being a $1.337 billion jackpot awarded in July.
Last month, a Powerball jackpot grew to a record-breaking $2.04 billion. The winning ticket was sold in Southern California. | 2022-12-21T20:11:12+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/mega-millions-jackpot-grows-to-510-million-after-no-winners/ |
California residents are reeling from this winter's intense storms. Climate scientists say these storms are just a fraction of what's expected in a warmer world.
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California residents are reeling from this winter's intense storms. Climate scientists say these storms are just a fraction of what's expected in a warmer world.
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PHOENIX, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following years of neurorehabilitation at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Jovanna Calzadillas, 35, has relearned to walk, talk and perform independent daily tasks never thought possible in the days following the shooting.
As the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the country's deadliest mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Calzadillas continues to make significant improvements in her recovery.
"I just recently stopped using my wheelchair," says Jovanna. "My speech and cognition have greatly improved, and I can be a hands-on mom and wife. I feel so fortunate and blessed."
Jovanna's brain was so critically injured that Las Vegas doctors didn't expect her to survive and suggested removing her from life support. Jovanna's husband, Frank Calzadillas, however, noticed small responses from his wife and asked to keep her on life support.
Jovanna was flown to Phoenix for care at Select Specialty Hospital, a long-term care facility that works closely with physicians from the world-renowned Barrow Neurological Institute. Christina Kwasnica, MD, medical director of Barrow's Neuro Rehabilitation Center, was asked to assess Jovanna and noticed small signs of responsiveness.
"Jovanna was shot on the left side of her brain which is the side that processes language, so I knew she wouldn't be able to comprehend language to follow commands but her eyes were open and she was able to track in a very small way with her eyes. This told me that she was unresponsive because of a language deficit, not because of the severity of her injury. She was not dying," said Dr. Kwasnica.
Within weeks, Jovanna was responsive and undergoing inpatient neurorehabilitation at Barrow. She continued years of intensive neuro-rehabilitation at Barrow's Center for Transitional Neuro-Rehabilitation (CTN) where she continued to significantly improve.
Gunshot wounds to the head are among the most difficult brain injuries to treat. Fifty percent of these injuries are fatal and patients who survive often have prolonged and difficult recoveries. Dr. Kwasnica calls Jovanna's recovery 'remarkable'.
Jovanna, who said during a press conference at Barrow in 2018, "I am not going to live my life in fear because of what happened to me," has held true to her words.
"I've been given a second chance of life and I'm determined to keep working hard to continue improving."
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SOURCE Barrow Neurological Institute | 2022-09-29T20:19:45+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/09/29/vegas-shooting-survivor-continues-remarkable-recovery-five-years-later/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on the pro-Russian head of Serbian intelligence on Tuesday, accusing Aleksander Vulin of involvement in illegal arms shipments, drug trafficking and misuse of public office.
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Vulin used his public authority to help U.S.-sanctioned Serbian arms dealer Slobodan Tesic move illegal arms shipments across Serbia’s borders. Vulin is also accused of involvement in a drug trafficking ring, Treasury said.
Vulin was appointed spy chief for the Balkan state last year.
He previously served as Serbia’s interior minister. In that role, he visited Moscow last August, a rare visit by a European state official that underscored Belgrade’s refusal to join Western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Vulin then told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that “Serbia is the only state in Europe that didn’t introduce sanctions and was not part of the anti-Russian hysteria.”
Serbia is a candidate for European Union membership, but its strained relationship with Kosovo has stymied its application and the nation has for years been drifting away from its EU path and toward allyship with Russia.
Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, said the U.S. “will continue to hold accountable those who further their political agenda and personal gain at the expense of peace and stability in the Western Balkans and advance Russia’s malign activities in Serbia and the region.” | 2023-07-11T21:53:35+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/ap-us-is-sanctioning-the-pro-russian-head-of-serbian-intelligence-for-alleged-corruption/ |
Bollinger delivers 49th fast response cutter to Coast Guard
Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC Douglas Denman to the Coast Guard in Key West, Florida.
This is the 175th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 49th fast response cutter delivered under the current program.
The USCGC Denman will travel to Alaska, where it will be commissioned in its new home port of Ketchikan.
The ship is named after Douglas Denman, who served on a Higgins boat in the Pacific during World War II and earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart for his heroism.
LWCC introduces safety grants program
Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corp. has introduced a Safety Grants Program that will provide up to $2,500 for policyholders to implement safety projects or purchase specialized equipment.
Applications will be accepted until July 22 and are available online at lwcc.com/safety-grants. Any of the organization's 20,000 active policyholders are eligible for the grants.
The money may be used for programs or equipment that will increase workplace safety and decrease the risk of accidents.
Open Health Care Clinic opens Baranco-Clark location
Open Health Care Clinic has opened a satellite location in the Baranco-Clark YMCA through a partnership with the YMCA of the Capital Area.
The clinic at 1735 Thomas H. Delpit Drive provides primary care, pediatric and behavioral health services. It accepts most private insurance plans as well as Medicare and expanded Medicaid coverage. Services are offered to uninsured patients on a sliding-fee scale based on income.
The clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. To schedule an appointment, call (225) 655-6422.
LED seeks small and emerging businesses for peer-to-peer learning program
Louisiana Economic Development has started recruiting for SEBD Roundtables, the peer-to-peer learning program that brings small and emerging business leaders together for a yearlong experience of collaborative learning, problem solving and professional development.
Participation is open to both current and prospective Small and Emerging Business Development program participants. The roundtables convene in July and August; each group meets 10 times throughout the year to explore best practices, share business challenges and brainstorm solutions in a supportive environment.
SEBD intermediaries deliver technical and managerial assistance through the LED program and are certified to ensure a consistent experience. Current and prospective SEBD Program participants interested in taking part in the roundtables should contact the nearest SEBD Intermediary listed below for details about the application process:
- Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, New Orleans
- Microbusiness Enterprise Corporation of Ascension, Gonzales
- Small Business Development and Management Institute, Southern University at New Orleans
- Small Business Development Center, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond
- Small Business Development Center, Southern University in Baton Rouge
- Small Business Development Center, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- St. John the Baptist Parish in collaboration with the Small Business Development Center, Greater New Orleans and Bayou Region, New Orleans
- TruFund Financial Services, Baton Rouge
- Urban League of Louisiana, New Orleans
For more information, contact LED Senior Program Manager Tatiana Bruce at tatiana.bruce@la.gov or (225) 342-5663.
BBR seeks applications for 24-hour creative marketing marathon
BBR Creative is accepting applications for the 2022 CreateAthon, a 24-hour creative marketing marathon.
CreateAthon is a national organization whose mission is to champion effective, nonprofit marketing through pro bono “creative marathons.” BBR is accepting applications through Friday.
For 24 hours, the BBR team will cease all regular operations to focus their time and talents on marketing for nonprofits in the community. Since 2019, through a partnership with CreateAthon, BBR has donated over $382,000 worth of marketing services across nine Louisiana nonprofits, including Baton Rouge Blues Festival and Foundation, 323-HELP (211), Miles Perret Cancer Services and Acadiana Regional Coalition for Homelessness and Housing. This year’s event is on Sept. 22-23, and will provide free production deliverables for selected nonprofits.
Applicants must be registered with the Louisiana secretary of state as a 501(c)(3) organization, and in need of marketing support. In alignment with BBR’s giving philosophy, the nonprofits must focus on family and community welfare, health care services, education, youth programs or the arts.
Nonprofit partners will be vetted and selected by committee. All applicants will be contacted whether selected or not. Nonprofits interested in learning more or those who may have questions prior to or during the application process, are encouraged to contact createathon@bbrcreative.com. | 2022-07-03T06:33:33+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_fc038b1e-eda2-11ec-93ee-f3bb71e2ee24.html |
PAINCOURTVILLE, La. (BRPROUD) – A deputy with the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office initiated a traffic stop after seeing a vehicle commit a traffic violation.
The traffic stop took place on LA 69 near Grand Bayou and the vehicle had two occupants.
Wade Anthony Coleman, 34, of White Castle, was driving the vehicle and Stefan Jared Miller, 25, of White Castle was a passenger.
The deputy questioned both occupants and noticed “a strong odor of suspected marijuana emitting from the vehicle,” according to the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office.
This led to a K-9 checking the vehicle for any illegal narcotics.
The deputy performed a search of the vehicle after the K-9 “alerted positive to the presence of illegal narcotics,” according to the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office.
The search uncovered the items listed below:
- Marijuana
- Adderall
- Hydrocodone
- Methamphetamine
- Assorted drug paraphernalia
- 9mm handgun
The driver and passenger were arrested and both remain behind bars in the Assumption Parish Detention Center.
The charges and bond for each suspect are provided below:
Wade Anthony Coleman:
Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana
Possession with Intent to Distribute Adderall
Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine
Possession with Intent to Distribute Hydrocodone
Illegal Carrying of Weapons in the Presence of Controlled Dangerous Substances
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Driving Under a Suspended Driver’s License
Speeding
Insurance Required
$350,000 bond
Stefan Jared Miller:
- Illegal Carrying of Weapons in the Presence of Controlled Dangerous Substances
- Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine
- Possession with Intent to Distribute Hydrocodone
- Possession with Intent to Distribute Adderall
- Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana
- Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
- $350,000 bond | 2022-10-12T16:00:57+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/duo-arrested-after-discovery-of-marijuana-meth-handgun-and-more-during-traffic-stop-in-louisiana/ |
Updated December 1, 2022 at 1:50 PM ET
The U.S. and France are reinforcing their partnership to curtail Russian aggression in Ukraine, increase the use of clean energy and cooperate in space exploration, President Biden said during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron.
The press conference is part of Macron's three-day state visit.
"So Emmanuel, thank you again for all that our nations are doing together for cooperation," Biden said. "My administration built our foreign policy around the strength of our alliances, and France is at the very heart of that."
Macron focused his opening statement on the cooperation between the two allies in supporting Ukraine, addressing clean energy and he praised Biden for bringing the U.S. back into the international scene.
"The fact that you're back on major international challenges such as health and climate, it is really a new deal," Macron said.
Biden was asked about the effort to avert a rail strike, and he defended the deal he wants Congress to pass designed to avoid one – even though that negotiated deal doesn't include paid sick leave for rail workers.
"What was negotiated was so much better than anything they ever had," Biden said, adding that a strike would cost 750,000 jobs and send the U.S. into a recession.
He insisted the White House will renew its push for paid leave for all workers in all industries after Congress passes this draft deal.
Tensions over Democrats' climate bill
Biden also said he and Macron had a "detailed discussion" on the Inflation Reduction Act. French officials have raised concerns about the law's "Made in America" electric car provisions, which they say could put European carmakers at a disadvantage. And Macron has warned Europe may have to take action in response, including granting subsidies for European companies.
"I wrote the legislation and never intended to exclude folks who were cooperating with us," Biden said during the press conference. "That was not the intention. The intention was to make sure we were no longer in a position when there was a pandemic in Asia and China decided they're going to no longer sell us computer chips. We invented the damn things."
Biden assured that the U.S. would continue to create manufacturing jobs, but not at the expense of Europe.
Macron said he and Biden had agreed to "synchronize our approaches" on emerging industries in order to "create more industrial jobs in the long run."
The two nations are focused on Ukraine
Biden and Macron both agreed that there needs to be support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. But Biden also said he had "no plans to contact" Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war.
"I have no immediate plans to contact Mr. Putin," he said. "Mr. Putin is — I need to choose my words very carefully. I'm prepared to speak with Mr. Putin if, in fact, there is an interest in him — he's looking for a way to end the war. He hasn't done that yet."
He added: "The idea that Putin will ever succeed to defeat Ukraine is unimaginable."
Macron said he is confident that the U.S. Congress understands the objectives behind supporting Ukraine, even though Republicans in Congress have pushed back against providing more aid. And, he said, France has been following through with additional aid as well.
A three-day state visit
Macron's visit — the first state visit of the Biden-Harris administration — began earlier this week. On Wednesday, Macron and Vice President Kamala Harris visited the NASA headquarters. Last year, Macron and Harris agreed the two nations would increase cooperation in the space and cybersecurity sectors.
Later on Thursday, Biden and Macron will take part in a state dinner, which includes a performance by Jon Batiste.
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The 2023 Mexico Open At Vidanta Odds & Preview: Austin Smotherman
The Mexico Open at Vidanta is in progress, and following the second round Austin Smotherman is in fourth place at -9.
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Austin Smotherman Insights
- Over his last 16 rounds, Smotherman has shot better than par on seven occasions, while also posting two bogey-free rounds and nine rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded the best score of the day once in his last 16 rounds.
- Smotherman has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in one of his last 16 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day five times.
- In his past five tournaments, Smotherman has finished in the top five once.
- He has qualified for the weekend in four of his past five events.
- In his past five tournaments, Smotherman has finished within five shots of the leader once. He posted a score that was better than average twice.
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Mexico Open at Vidanta Insights and Stats
- Smotherman has one top-five finish in his past two appearances in this tournament. His average finishing position has been 36th.
- In his most recent two attempts at this event, he's made the cut every time.
- The most recent time Smotherman played this event was in 2023, and he finished fourth.
- This event will take place on a par 71 that registers at 7,456 yards, 161 yards longer than the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- The average course Smotherman has played i the last year (7,253 yards) is 203 yards shorter than the course he'll be playing this week (7,456).
Smotherman's Last Time Out
- Smotherman was in the ninth percentile on par 3s at the RBC Heritage, with an average of 3.31 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- He averaged 3.98 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 44) at the RBC Heritage, which placed him in the 59th percentile among all competitors.
- On the 12 par-5 holes at the RBC Heritage, Smotherman was better than 34% of the golfers (averaging 4.75 strokes).
- Smotherman fared worse on par 3s than the field his last time out, recording a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the RBC Heritage (the other golfers averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the RBC Heritage, Smotherman had three bogeys or worse (the field averaged 2.0).
- Smotherman's nine birdies or better on par-4s at the RBC Heritage were more than the field average of 6.2.
- At that last competition, Smotherman had a bogey or worse on seven of 44 par-4s (the field averaged 5.1).
- Smotherman finished the RBC Heritage with a birdie or better on four par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 3.8 on the 12 par-5s.
- On the 12 par-5s at the RBC Heritage, Smotherman fell short compared to the field average of 0.7 bogeys or worse on those holes by recording one.
Mexico Open at Vidanta Time and Date Info
- Date: April 27-30, 2023
- Course: Vidanta Vallarta
- Location: Vallarta, Mexico
- Par: 71 / 7,456 yards
- Smotherman Odds to Win: +5000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons.
Even as the already extreme temperatures are forecast to climb even higher, potentially topping records amid a major U.S. heat wave, tourists are arriving at this infamous desert landscape on the California-Nevada border.
Daniel Jusehus snapped a photo earlier this week of a famed thermometer outside the aptly named Furnace Creek Visitor Center after challenging himself to a run in the sweltering heat.
“I was really noticing, you know, I didn’t feel so hot, but my body was working really hard to cool myself,” said Jusehus, an active runner who was visiting from Germany. His photo showed the thermometer reading at 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 degrees Celsius).
Most visitors at this time of year make it only a short distance to any site in the park — which bills itself as the lowest, hottest and driest place on Earth — before returning to the sanctuary of an air-conditioned vehicle.
This weekend, the temperatures could climb past 130 F (54.4 C), but that likely won’t deter some willing to brave the heat. Signs at hiking trails advise against venturing out after 10 a.m., though nighttime temperatures are still expected to be over 90 F (32.2 C). The hottest temperature recorded at Death Valley was 134 F (56.6 C) in July 1913, according to the National Park Service.
Other parks have long-standing warnings for hikers. At Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, officials are cautioning people to stay off the trails for most of the day in the inner canyon, where temperatures can be 20 degrees hotter than the rim.
In west Texas, Big Bend National Park near the Rio Grande is expected to be at least 110 F (43.3 C). The National Weather Service has said it’s best to just stay off the trails in the afternoon.
The precautions vary across parks and landscapes, said Cynthia Hernandez, a park service spokesperson. Certain trails might be closed if conditions are too dangerous. Alerts and restrictions are posted on websites for individual parks, Hernandez said.
Preliminary information form the park service shows at least four people have died this year from heat-related causes across the 424 national park sites. That includes a 65-year-old man from San Diego who was found dead in his vehicle at Death Valley earlier this month, according to a news release.
Death Valley National Park emphasizes self-reliance over expectations of rescue. While rangers patrol park roads and can assist motorists in distress, there’s no guarantee lost tourists will get aid in time.
More than 1.1 million people annually visit the desert park, which sits over a portion of the California-Nevada border west of Las Vegas. At 5,346 square miles (13,848 square kilometers), it’s the largest national park in the Lower 48. About one-fifth of the visitors come in June, July and August.
Many are tempted to explore, even after the suggested cutoff times. Physical activity can make the heat even more unbearable and leave people feeling exhausted. Sunbaked rocks, sand and soil still radiate after sunset.
“It does feel like the sun has gone through your skin and is getting into your bones,” said park Ranger Nichole Andler.
Others mentioned feeling their eyes drying out from the hot wind sweeping through the valley.
“It’s very hot. I mean, especially when there’s a breeze, you would think that maybe that would give you some slight relief from the heat, but it just really does feel like an air blow dryer just going back in your face,” said Alessia Dempster, who was visiting from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Death Valley is a narrow, 282-foot (86-meter) basin that is below sea level but situated among high, steep mountain ranges, according to the park service’s website. The bone-dry air and meager plant coverage allows sunlight to heat up the desert surface. The rocks and the soil emit all that heat in turn, which then becomes trapped in the depths of the valley.
The park’s brownish hills feature signage saying “heat kills” and other messaging, such as a Stovepipe Wells sign warning travelers of the “Savage Summer Sun.”
Still, there are several awe-inspiring sites that draw tourists. Badwater Basin, made up of salt flats, is considered the lowest point in all of North America. The eye-opening 600-foot (183-meter) Ubehebe Crater dates back over 2,000 years. And Zabriskie Point is a prime sunrise viewing spot.
Eugen Chen from Taiwan called the park “beautiful” and an “iconic … very special place.”
Josh Miller, a visitor from Indianapolis who has been to 20 national parks so far, shared that sentiment.
“It’s hot, but the scenery is awesome,” he said. ___ Associated Press writer Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed to this story. | 2023-07-15T04:45:24+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-death-valley-visitors-drawn-to-the-hottest-spot-on-earth-during-ongoing-us-heat-wave/ |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Swimming in two plastic bins inside a brightly lit and sterile quarantine room at a Rhode Island zoo, 16 quarter-sized turtle hatchlings represent a growing worry for conservationist Lou Perrotti.
These eastern musk turtles, known for spending much of their lives in swamps and ponds and emitting a foul smell when threatened, were confiscated recently in a wildlife bust. And, though the reptiles are common, their illegal sale on the internet greatly concerns Perrotti, who directs conservation programs at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence.
“We are seeing an uptick in turtle poaching,” he said. “It’s getting ruthless where we are seeing thousands of turtles leaving the United States on an annual basis. … Turtle populations cannot take that kind of a hit with that much removal coming out of the wild.”
Wildlife trade experts believe that poaching — driven by growing demand for pets in the U.S., Asia and Europe — is contributing to the global decline of rare freshwater turtle and tortoise species. One study found over half of the 360 living turtle and tortoise species are at risk of extinction.
Such concerns have prompted a dozen proposals to increase protection for freshwater turtles at the 184-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meeting in Panama Nov. 14 through Nov. 25.
Precise figures on the turtle trade, especially illegal trade, can be hard to find. Based on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data, Tara Easter, a University of Michigan doctoral candidate who studies the trade, estimated the commercial export trade for mud turtles in the United States increased from 1,844 in 1999 to nearly 40,000 in 2017 and musk turtles from 8,254 in 1999 to more than 281,000 in 2016.
In their CITES proposal to ban or limit the commercial trade in more than 20 mud turtles species, the United States and several Latin American countries cited data from Mexico that found nearly 20,000 were confiscated, mostly at the Mexico City airport, from 2010 to 2022.
Among the world’s most trafficked animals, freshwater turtles are targeted by criminal networks that connect with buyers on the internet then transport the reptiles to black markets in Hong Kong and other Asian cities. From there, they are sold as pets, to collectors and for commercial breeding, food and traditional medicine. In many countries, trade is poorly regulated or not regulated at all.
The lucrative business — some turtle species coveted for their colorful shells or strange appearance can fetch thousand of dollars in Asia — adds to threats turtles already face. Those include climate change, habitat destruction, road mortality and predators eating their eggs.
Poachers are particularly problematic, experts say, because they target rare species and adult breeding females. Many turtle species, which can live for several decades, don’t reach reproductive maturity for a decade or more.
“The loss of large numbers of adults, especially females, can send turtles into a spiraling decline from which they cannot recover,” said Dave Collins, director of North American turtle conservation for the Turtle Survival Alliance. “Turtles have extremely low reproduction levels, producing a few eggs every year.”
Since 2018, the Collaborative to Combat the Illegal Trade in Turtles — an organization of mostly state, federal and tribal biologists who combat poaching of North American turtles — has documented at least 30 major smuggling cases in 15 states. Some involved a few dozen turtles, others several thousand.
Easter at the University of Michigan identified 59 U.S. cases over the past 20 years involving about 30,000 illegally traded turtles.
Earlier this year, a federal judge in North Carolina sentenced a man to 18 months in prison and fined him $25,000 for trafficking turtles in violation of the Lacey Act. The law bans trafficking in fish, wildlife or plants that are illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold.
The man trafficked 722 eastern box turtles — the North Carolina state reptile — as well as 122 spotted turtles and three wood turtles through a middleman for markets in Asia. The man received more than $120,000 for the turtles, which have a value of $1.5 million in Asia.
In 2021, a Chinese national was sentenced to 38 months in prison and fined $10,000 for money laundering after previously pleading guilty to financing a nationwide smuggling ring that sent 1,500 turtles worth more than $2.2 million from the U.S. to China.
The man used PayPal to purchase the turtles from American buyers advertising them on social media and reptile websites and sold them to Hong Kong reptile markets.
In 2020, a New Jersey man was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $350,000 in restitution and fines for smuggling 1,000 three-toed and western box turtles from Oklahoma to New Jersey in candy wrappers and socks.
The illegal trade has prompted governments to propose listing for the first time 42 turtles species under CITES — including North American musk turtles. Though some species like the eastern musk turtle are common, a listing means traders will need a permit to sell them internationally. Commercial sale of other species such as alligator snapping turtles, found in U.S. Gulf states and reaching up to 200 pounds, would be limited.
Proposals would also tighten regulations on 13 others already listed for protection.
“We think that’s really, really important just because of the trends that we’ve seen over the past couple of decades in international reptile and particularly turtle trade,” said U.S. Department of the Interior’s Matthew Strickler, who will head the American delegation at CITES.
“There’s significant demand from Southeast Asia for food and the pet trade, but also from Europe, for pets as well,” he said. “We’ve seen this pattern of turtles being depleted in one place, and then poachers and traffickers and traders moving to another place. Southeast Asia was depleted. They moved to Africa. Now, we see them moving to the Americas.”
The tiny musk turtles were spotted for sale online by a Rhode Island Environmental Police intern. They were only $20 each. The turtles, which grow to five inches (13 centimeters) and live for decades, are brown or black with a white or yellow line along their heads.
Police busted the seller in September after arranging an undercover buy at his house. The seller paid a $1,600 fine for possessing a reptile without a permit. The hope is that the turtles, now quarantined at the Providence zoo, are injury- and disease-free and can be released back to the wild.
“Obviously when we are talking about native species being removed even for pets, it has a big impact,” said Harold Guise, an environmental police detective who handled the case. “The commercialization of wildlife has an impact on wildlife that we can’t even measure until it has already happened. We need to get ahead of these things.”
For Perrotti the conservation director, it was a reminder that illegal trade once focused in Asia is increasingly happening in his backyard.
“I couldn’t believe there was a market for it and that someone was either mass producing these or mass collecting these to make a few bucks,” he said. “A $20 turtle. That’s ridiculous. … Wildlife is not a commodity for somebody to profit on.”
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US police rarely deploy deadly robots to confront suspects
By JANIE HAR and CLAUDIA LAUER
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to confront suspects.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 on Tuesday to permit police to use robots armed with explosives in extreme situations where lives are at stake and no other alternative is available. The authorization comes as police departments across the U.S. face increasing scrutiny for the use of militarized equipment and force amid a years-long reckoning on criminal justice.
The vote was prompted by a new California law requiring police to inventory military-grade equipment such as flashbang grenades, assault rifles and armored vehicles, and seek approval from the public for their use.
So far, police in just two California cities — San Francisco and Oakland — have publicly discussed the use of robots as part of that process. Around the country, police have used robots over the past decade to communicate with barricaded suspects, enter potentially dangerous spaces and, in rare cases, for deadly force.
Dallas police became the first to kill a suspect with a robot in 2016, when they used one to detonate explosives during a standoff with a sniper who had killed five police officers and injured nine others.
The recent San Francisco vote, has renewed a fierce debate sparked years ago over the ethics of using robots to kill a suspect and the doors such policies might open. Largely, experts say, the use of such robots remains rare even as the technology advances.
Michael White, a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, said even if robotics companies present deadlier options at tradeshows, it doesn’t mean police departments will buy them. White said companies made specialized claymores to end barricades and scrambled to equip body-worn cameras with facial recognition software, but departments didn’t want them.
“Because communities didn’t support that level of surveillance. It’s hard to say what will happen in the future, but I think weaponized robots very well could be the next thing that departments don’t want because communities are saying they don’t want them,” White said.
Robots or otherwise, San Francisco official David Chiu, who authored the California bill when in the state legislature, said communities deserve more transparency from law enforcement and to have a say in the use of militarized equipment.
San Francisco “just happened to be the city that tackled a topic that I certainly didn’t contemplate when the law was going through the process, and that dealt with the subject of so-called killer robots,” said Chiu, now the city attorney.
In 2013, police maintained their distance and used a robot to lift a tarp as part of a manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, finding him hiding underneath it. Three years later, Dallas police officials sent a bomb disposal robot packed with explosives into an alcove of El Centro College to end an hours-long standoff with sniper Micah Xavier Johnson, who had opened fire on officers as a protest against police brutality was ending.
Police detonated the explosives, becoming the first department to use a robot to kill a suspect. A grand jury declined charges against the officers, and then-Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown was widely praised for his handling of the shooting and the standoff.
“There was this spray of doom about how police departments were going to use robots in the six months after Dallas,” said Mark Lomax, former executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association. “But since then, I had not heard a lot about that platform being used to neutralize suspects … until the San Francisco policy was in the news.”
The question of potentially lethal robots has not yet cropped up in public discourse in California as more than 500 police and sheriffs departments seek approval for their military-grade weapons use policy under the new state law. Oakland police abandoned the idea of arming robots with shotguns after public backlash, but will outfit them with pepper spray.
Many of the use policies already approved are vague as to armed robots, and some departments may presume they have implicit permission to deploy them, said John Lindsay-Poland, who has been monitoring implementation of the new law as part of the American Friends Service Committee.
“I do think most departments are not prepared to use their robots for lethal force,” he said, “but if asked, I suspect there are other departments that would say, ‘we want that authority.’”
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin first proposed prohibiting police from using robot force against any person. But the department said while it would not outfit robots with firearms, it wanted the option to attach explosives to breach barricades or disorient a suspect.
The approved policy allows only a limited number of high-ranking officers to authorize use of robots as a deadly force — and only when lives are at stake and after exhausting alternative force or de-escalation tactics, or concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through alternate means.
San Francisco police say the dozen functioning ground robots the department already has have never been used to deliver an explosive device, but are used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations.
“We live in a time when unthinkable mass violence is becoming more commonplace. We need the option to be able to save lives in the event we have that type of tragedy in our city,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said in a statement.
Los Angeles Police Department does not have any weaponized robots or drones, said SWAT Lt. Ruben Lopez. He declined to detail why his department did not seek permission for armed robots, but confirmed they would need authorization to deploy one.
“It’s a violent world, so we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said.
There are often better options than robots if lethal force is needed, because bombs can create collateral damage to buildings and people, said Lomax, the former head of the tactical officers group. “For a lot of departments, especially in populated cities, those factors are going to add too much risk,” he said.
Last year, the New York Police Department returned a leased robotic dog sooner than expected after public backlash, indicating that civilians are not yet comfortable with the idea of machines chasing down humans.
Police in Maine have used robots at least twice to deliver explosives meant to take down walls or doors and bring an end to standoffs.
In June 2018, in the tiny town of Dixmont, Maine, police had intended to use a robot to deliver a small explosive that would knock down an exterior wall, but instead collapsed the roof of the house.
The man inside was shot twice after the explosion, survived and pleaded no contest to reckless conduct with a firearm. The state later settled his lawsuit against the police challenging that they had used the explosives improperly.
In April 2020, Maine police used a small charge to blow a door off of a home during a standoff. The suspect was fatally shot by police when he exited through the damaged doorway and fired a weapon.
As of this week, the state attorney general’s office had not completed its review of the tactics used in the 2018 standoff, including the use of the explosive charge. A report on the 2020 incident only addressed the fatal gunfire.
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Lauer reported from Philadelphia. AP reporter David Sharp contributed from Portland, Maine. | 2022-12-05T12:36:22+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/12/04/us-police-rarely-deploy-deadly-robots-to-confront-suspects/ |
Groups of teens in Texas are organizing and speaking out against gun violence despite the many challenges they face toward achieving their legislative and political goals.
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Groups of teens in Texas are organizing and speaking out against gun violence despite the many challenges they face toward achieving their legislative and political goals.
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LAVAL, Quebec (AP) — Jestin Porter’s 19 points helped Middle Tennessee defeat SFA 75-63 on Saturday night.
Porter was 5-of-6 shooting and 8 of 8 from the free-throw line for the Blue Raiders (4-2). DeAndre Dishman scored 17 points and added six rebounds. Eli Lawrence shot 4 for 8, including 2 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points.
Nigel Hawkins led the ‘Jacks (3-3) in scoring, finishing with 18 points and four steals. Kyle Hayman added 13 points for SFA. Nana Antwi-Boasiako also recorded nine points and two blocks.
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Gov. Mike DeWine has signed House Bill 99, allowing teachers and other school personnel to carry guns in the classroom, he announced Monday.
Speaking at Ohio Department of Public Safety headquarters in Columbus, DeWine and legislators backing the bill touted the measure as improving school safety and emphasized that it’s accompanied by further resources for youth mental health.
The bill will take effect in 90 days. It includes $6 million to expand the state’s network of school safety centers, DeWine said.
Early in the afternoon Nan Whaley, former mayor of Dayton and now the Democratic nominee running against DeWine for the governor’s office, held a virtual news conference to denounce HB 99 and other loosening of gun laws under DeWine. Whaley recalled that when DeWine visited Dayton immediately after the mass shooting in the Oregon District in August 2019, the crowd began chanting “Do something!” at him.
“It is one of the most powerful moments I have ever witnessed,” Whaley said.
In the aftermath, DeWine backed some gun control measures, but soon caved to political pressure and now claims to be doing what was asked, she said.
“It’s a complete bastardization of what people in Dayton said, frankly,” Whaley said.
DeWine’s announcement came the same day permitless concealed carry of handguns became legal under HB 215, which he signed March 14. Although his announcement on HB 99 was expected, DeWine prefaced it by listing related actions since he became Ohio attorney general in 2011: updating school safety plans, creating a task force focused on mental health and providing grants for schools to give active-shooter training. As governor, he put $84 million toward expanding behavioral health centers in children’s hospitals, DeWine said.
“That is a work in progress,” he said.
Student Wellness and Success Funds are now part of the standard school funding formula, DeWine said. In 2019, the state created the Ohio School Safety Center, which looks for threats on social media, runs the state tipline for potential school violence and offers vulnerability assessments of school facilities, he said.
Another $5 million for the center’s grant program was announced just before the May 24 shooting that killed 21 at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. DeWine said he’ll sign the state’s biannual capital project budget Tuesday, which includes $100 million that can be used to improve school safety. By March 2023, every school must have a team in place to assess students’ behavior for potential threats; teachers will be trained by staff from educational service centers, he said.
For a decade, Ohio law allowed three categories of people to carry guns in schools, DeWine said: police, hired security, or “any other person who has written authorization from the board of education or governing body of a school to convey deadly weapons.” But the Ohio Supreme Court ruled last year that those armed personnel had to have the same training as a police officer: more than 700 hours, or 20 years of law enforcement experience, he said.
That made it “impractical for most schools” to arm anyone but actual police, whether active or retired, DeWine said.
He worked with the General Assembly to craft HB 99 in response to that ruling. Schools will not be required to arm teachers or staff. Some districts have already said they won’t, some said they will, and many are undecided, DeWine said. Districts that already have police on hand may “very, very understandably” want to limit guns to those officers, he said.
The bill says teachers are required to have “up to” 24 hours of gun training, and DeWine said he’s directing the Ohio School Safety Center to develop curriculum for that maximum. Individual districts may insist their personnel get more training, and DeWine said he’s also asking the center to develop “above and beyond” training blocks for that purpose, plus a required 8 hours of extra training per year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden barnstormed the country during her debut year as first lady as if on a one-woman mission to help her husband’s administration tackle the problem of the moment: getting people vaccinated and boosted against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
New headwinds blowing in year two — President Joe Biden’s low standing with the public and November elections that could put Republicans back in control of Congress — have set her on a fresh mission: working to help elect Democrats who can help her husband.
She’s making no secret of her frustration with Washington.
“Joe truly believes in working with Congress and getting things done, but obviously the Republicans are pulling together and they’re not budging. They are not budging,” the first lady said at one of four fundraisers she headlined in the past month.
“Who would think that AR-15s make any sense for anything? Who doesn’t believe in the need to deal with climate change?” she said at a July fundraiser in Nantucket, Massachusetts, referencing Republican opposition to the president’s call for an assault weapons ban and more spending on climate change.
With school out for the summer, the teacher-first lady was free to travel again in her role as the president’s chief surrogate, highlighting administration accomplishments and showing a more political side while testing possible fall campaign messages before audiences big and small.
She put a voice to the urgency she and the president feel over unfinished aspects of his agenda.
After accompanying him to the scene of deadly mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the first lady — a community college professor — urged audiences to demand tougher gun laws from Congress.
“We need to fight, now, for the lives of our children and for the safety of our schools,” she told the National PTA Convention in June, shortly after they visited Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, where 19 pupils and two teachers were killed by a man firing an AR-15.
Congress represents “the will of the people,” she said, “and that’s why we need the people to speak up. Parents and teachers. All of us.”
She raised the gun issue later at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Boston in July, saying that “we believe that AR-15s, the weapon that tore apart 19 children and two teachers in their classroom, have no place on our streets.”
And she turned the Supreme Court’s decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion into an argument for sending more Democrats to Congress come November. President Biden has promised to sign a bill enshrining the right to an abortion in federal law, but there isn’t enough support for it in Congress, where Democrats have slim majorities.
“All of us have a teacher voice for when things go off the rails and now is the time to use it,” she said in Boston.
In Nantucket, the first lady defended her spouse of 45 years, saying “he’s just had so many things thrown his way” that weren’t expected, including the abortion ruling and Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“He had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to address the problems of the moment,” she told a group of about two dozen donors.
She said she also had become “first lady of the moment,” reacting to problems and not pushing her separate agenda.
Tammy Vigil, a Boston University communications professor, said it is typical for a first lady to defend the president and, for that reason, complaints about Republican opposition sound better coming from her than from President Biden. He would risk undermining his authority and appear “whiny” if he were to sound off about GOP roadblocks more often than he has, she said.
“If it’s going to be said, she’s the better person to say it,” said Vigil, who wrote a book about former first ladies Michelle Obama and Melania Trump.
Jill Biden’s summer has been busy — and uncharacteristically bumpy at times.
She went on a pair of solo foreign trips in May, traveling to Romania and Slovakia in eastern Europe to meet Ukrainian refugees. The trip included an unannounced detour into western Ukraine to meet first lady Olena Zelenska. She also traveled through Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica.
But by June, she had upset AIDS activists by hosting a White House event to unveil a postage stamp honoring first lady Nancy Reagan. Activists noted the Reagans’ indifference toward gays and lesbians at the start of the AIDS crisis, which exploded during Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
Last month, she was forced to apologize, through a spokesperson, for offending Latinos by describing their diversity as “distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio.”
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists tweeted in response: “We are not tacos.”
The first lady was also heckled last month on her way into a Connecticut ice cream parlor. A man in the sidewalk crowd shouted, “Your husband is the worst president we ever had” and “You owe us gas money.” A new CNN poll recorded her favorability rating at a low 34%, though only 29% have an unfavorable opinion of her. An additional 28% said they have no opinion of the first lady and 9% said they hadn’t heard enough of her.
The president’s positive COVID-19 tests have forced the couple to remain apart for about two weeks while he isolates at the White House and she stays at their home in Wilmington, Delaware.
She had welcomed Zelenska to the White House just before the president’s diagnosis.
Jill Biden, 71, is the first first lady to work outside of the White House. She is expected to resume teaching in September and juggle those demands with campaigning. She signed a new contract with Northern Virginia Community College on the morning of her speech to the AFT, she said.
So far this year, she’s done seven fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee, and the party is happy to have her.
“Jill Biden is one of the Democratic Party’s most important surrogates because she drives excitement from grassroots supporters across the country,” Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We’re grateful for the first lady’s commitment to electing Democrats up and down the ticket.”
Robert Watson, a history professor at Lynn University, said modern first ladies have become effective fundraisers in their own right, popular with the party faithful, especially women. He said it would be surprising not to see more of Jill Biden in the runup to the Nov. 8 elections.
“She is a strong defender,” said Watson, who studies the presidency. “Nobody’s interested in asking about her holiday cookie recipe.”
Whatever the outcome, the Bidens still have a happy occasion to look forward to after the election: the first White House wedding in nearly a decade.
Granddaughter Naomi Biden is set to marry Peter Neal on the South Lawn on Nov. 19. | 2022-08-04T14:11:02+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/jill-biden-carries-out-new-mission-in-2nd-year-as-first-lady/ |
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Appearing Wednesday on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ turf, California Gov. Gavin Newsom decried what he called a backward-looking conservative attempt to reshape education in the U.S. — most notably at progressive institutions like New College of Florida.
Newsom, a Democrat, met with more than a dozen students and faculty at a library near the New College campus in Sarasota as part of a tour of Republican-led states — aimed at boosting fellow Democrats and criticizing what he said are GOP efforts to ban abortion, tread on LGBTQ+ rights, weaken civil and voting rights, and marginalize people of color.
“I can’t believe what you’re dealing with. It’s just an unbelievable assault,” Newsom said. “It’s common with everything he’s doing, bullying and intimidating vulnerable communities. Weakness, Ron DeSantis, weakness masquerading as strength across the board.”
Newsom has frequently criticized DeSantis, even using some unspent campaign money for a television ad in Florida that urged people to move to California “where we still believe in freedom.” DeSantis once quipped that the carefully coiffed Newsom’s “hair gel is interfering with his brain function.”
Newsom also is mentioned as a potential future Democratic presidential candidate, a campaign that DeSantis is widely expected to launch on the GOP side for 2024 in the coming months. Newsom has said he won’t run for president in 2024, when President Joe Biden will seek reelection. His term for governor ends in 2026, so he could run for president in 2028.
Asked to comment on Wednesday’s visit, DeSantis spokesperson Bryan Griffin said in an email that the Florida governor “is focused on getting Florida’s public institutions of higher learning refocused on academics and truth. Stunts from political opponents don’t matter and have no effect.”
The overhaul of New College, a liberal arts school with about 700 students, began when DeSantis appointed a conservative majority to its board of trustees. The board replaced the school president with a DeSantis ally, former GOP House Speaker Richard Corcoran, and abolished its small office focused on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. More changes are expected to come.
This is part of a broader effort led by DeSantis and a compliant GOP-majority Legislature to reshape education at various levels, including getting rid of university DEI programs, encouraging private school attendance by offering taxpayer-funded vouchers regardless of income, restricting and banning books, and limiting discussion of LGBTQ+ topics in class. DeSantis lumps all these and other issues into a category he has labeled “woke” that must be eliminated in what he calls the “Free State of Florida.”
This week, Newsom and his family also visited a Black church in Mississippi, met with Democrats in Arkansas and toured a museum on the history of slavery in Alabama. The tour is part of Newsom’s goal to reshape the Democratic party’s message, which he believes has been too soft on Republicans in recent years.
“There’s a word: freedom. Not coercion. Academic freedom,” Newsom said. “I’m just trying to wake people up.”
The New College students and faculty who attended the meeting talked about the fear and anxiety many feel about the conservative changes. Mitzi Escalante, a second-year sociology and psychology major, said students never expected to become part of a fierce political debate that would directly affect them.
“It just feels like we are a pawn,” Escalante said. “I just don’t think education is something we should be weaponizing. It’s just like a personal attack.”
Walter Gilbert, former head of the Sarasota NAACP branch, urged the students to continue protesting and making their voices heard as the trustees attempt to push through more changes.
“Sometimes you’ve got to go out there and hold a protest sign,” said Gilbert, noting how long it took for Black people in once-segregated Sarasota to have the right to access local beaches. “You’ve got to do it.”
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Associated Press writer Adam Beam contributed from Sacramento, California. | 2023-04-06T05:23:18+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/on-desantis-turf-newsom-decries-conservative-education-push/ |
As Election Day approaches, the Journal is interviewing candidates for office in the Rapid City region. The Journal selected races where there are competitive candidates.
In instances where the Journal was unable to contact or interview a candidate, information was obtained via campaign websites or previously published stories during the June 2022 primary election.
Election Day is Nov. 8. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Additionally, in-person absentee voting is available at county auditor offices.
District 33 House — Two seats
Phil Jensen
Phil Jensen, a Rapid City Republican, is a candidate for state House District 33, which includes portions of Pennington and Meade counties, mostly west and southwest of Rapid City.
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Jensen is a current member of the South Dakota House of Representatives and serves on the House Education and Health and Human Services committees.
He has a long political career. Jensen was first elected to the state House in 2008 and served in that chamber before switching to the state Senate following the 2012 election. He switched again from the state Senate and was elected to the state House in 2020.
Jensen and his wife, Janet, have been small-business owners for 33 years and also own some rental property. Jensen has lived in South Dakota since 2003.
One of Jensen’s priorities in the Legislature will be addressing corruption in state government, he said in an interview with the Rapid City Journal. He is also concerned about election integrity and hopes to introduce bills to address those issues.
“Transparency in government is a big one for me because we see less and less and less of it,” Jensen said. “The legislative branch is giving away, year after year, more of its own authority to the executive branch and that is not a good thing.”
Another of Jensen’s priorities is limiting access to abortions. He said he would introduce a bill to prohibit companies from doing business in South Dakota if those companies pay for the costs for their employees to get abortions, specifically if an employee travels out of state to get an abortion.
Jensen and his wife have two children and two grandchildren.
Curt Massie
Curt Massie, a Rapid City Republican, is a candidate for state House District 33, which includes portions of Pennington and Meade counties, mostly west and southwest of Rapid City.
"I'm a big supporter of our education system. I believe a community needs good schools and a good education system," Massie said during a meet-and-greet with voters this spring. “I believe businesses are the economic foundation of our community and our state. When we have a healthy business climate, we're going to have a healthy state. We're going to have healthy communities. So I want to go to Pierre because growth is coming."
A South Dakota native, Massie grew up on a farm and ranch near Belle Fourche. He said he understands the agricultural community and economy.
“We need to ensure that property taxes on ag land are reasonable and in line with the use of the land to ensure that our South Dakota farms and ranches stay profitable so they can stay in business to continue to produce the food for our tables,” Massie said on his website, curtmassie.com. “I am a big believer in the importance of re-implementing Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL) Laws for beef. American consumers have the right to know what country the beef they are buying is from.”
Massie has lived in District 33 for 22 years. He worked for the South Dakota Department of Revenue as a tax auditor, a career that gives him an unparalleled amount of expertise and experience in South Dakota tax law that only a few in this state have, Massie said on his website. He now owns a private business tax consulting company.
Massie said he decided to run to improve education in the state, contribute to a better climate for business growth, and to fix the tax structure.
“Working for the state for over 24 years gives me an incredible amount of knowledge and understanding of what works in state government, and more importantly what doesn’t work in state government, and how to fix it that no other candidate has,” Massie said on his website.
Massie and his wife, Jodi, have two children.
Vince Vidal
Vince Vidal, a Rapid City Democrat, is a candidate for state House District 33, which includes portions of Pennington and Meade counties, mostly west and southwest of Rapid City.
“I believe the current legislature in Pierre does not accurately represent South Dakotans. I will be a kind, moderate voice within the State House,” Vidal said on his candidate website, votevincevidal.com.
Vidal serves on the Rapid City Planning Commission and has lived in Rapid City since 1995. According to his campaign announcement, Vidal said he promises to bring strong leadership, integrity and his decades-long background in management, finance and marketing, if elected as a state representative.
“I will work for you, listen to you and bring your ideas to Pierre," Vidal said. "I believe in putting people first and it’s time to get back to fair and proper representation in South Dakota, with a focus on the issues: education, health care, infrastructure, a living wage. Your voice and your vote matters."
Key issues Vidal highlights on his website include increasing quality jobs in the state. He wants to bring in higher wages and more opportunities for all.
Vidal also said he will work toward Medicaid expansion and providing health care access to low-income residents, noting that South Dakota is one of only 12 states that has refused federal funds to accomplish those goals. On the issue of legalizing marijuana, he said he will work tirelessly to be sure the will of South Dakotans is upheld. In 2020, voters approved legalizing both recreational and medical marijuana.
His focus on education will be to ensuring educators get the respect they deserve and the chance to focus on teaching.
“Truth in education matters to make sure our children are prepared to usher in a future that works for all South Dakotans,” Vidal said on his website.
Vidal served in the United States Navy for 20 years and after retiring from military service, he moved to the Black Hills. In recent years, he’s worked on the Ellsworth Air Force Base finance team, where Vidal also serves as vice president of the local union, according to his website.
Vidal and his wife, Peggy, have four children and five grandchildren. | 2022-10-24T21:18:28+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/three-candidates-on-ballot-for-house-district-33/article_4bd5bb96-0a9b-5031-ac75-e86623bc3d5a.html |
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TAIPEI, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the advent of talent shortages in an era where digitization is key to production, SOLOMON Technology Corporation is revolutionizing the industrial landscape by launching META-aivi — an industrial solution that combines AI-powered object recognition overlays with augmented reality — for companies to scale their production and enhance their workforce.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — As it marks its 25th anniversary Wednesday, the European Central Bank is readying a proposed design for a digital version of the euro, responding to pressure from developing technology that could change how money is used over the bank’s next decades.
ECB President Christine Lagarde says a digital euro could offer a way for people to buy things without depending on payment service providers controlled by non-European companies. Those could include Mastercard, Visa, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
The European Union’s executive Commission is expected to come up with proposed legislation on the idea in the next several weeks, ECB officials say, while the central bank will publish a detailed proposal for the design of a digital currency in October.
Central banks worldwide, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, are cautiously studying digital currencies as cash increasingly gives way to electronic payments. Some smaller economies such as Nigeria, the Bahamas and Jamaica already have introduced digital currencies, while China is holding trial runs.
Central banks also are responding to the emergence of cryptocurrencies, which have raised concerns that someday people could turn to rival forms of digital money that would undercut national currencies.
Digital currency backed by a central bank would be a safe and stable means of payment — unlike voltatile crypto, whose price crashes over the past year and collapses of exchanges like FTX have spurred calls for regulation. The EU became a global leader by giving final approval last week to rules for the freewheeling crypto sector.
As Europe considers its own central bank-based digital currency, the biggest question is: How would it improve on what’s already available for consumers?
“Nobody is able to answer this question, not even the ECB,” said Philipp Sandner, head of the Blockchain Center at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
“As the user I ask myself, ‘What is the benefit, why do we need another solution?’” he said.
Apple Pay, for instance, allows people to buy their morning coffee — and anything else — by tapping twice on their phones, a seamless experience the digital euro would have to match.
“You have to be at least as good as Apple Pay and Mastercard, which is difficult, otherwise people will not use it,” he said.
The goal of a digital euro would be Europe’s autonomy and resilience when it comes to the largely unseen but critical systems that move money from consumers to merchants through banks and payment services providers, Lagarde said in a recent panel discussion.
She drew an analogy to Europe’s previous reliance on Russian oil and natural gas, which led to an energy crisis when the invasion of Ukraine disrupted that supply.
“It’s very unhealthy to rely on one single source of energy, it’s very unhealthy to rely on one single source of payment,” she said.
A digital euro also could help people who don’t have bank accounts, the thinking goes, because they could hold money on their phones.
The move toward increased digitalization comes as the ECB marks 25 years since its creation on June 1, 1998, seven months ahead of the introduction of the euro currency. An anniversary ceremony with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and former ECB Presidents Mario Draghi and Jean-Claude Trichet was held Wednesday at the bank’s Frankfurt headquarters.
“Faced with shifting geopolitics, digital transformations and the threat of a changing climate, there will be more challenges ahead, which the ECB will need to address,” Lagarde said at the event. “We must continue to provide stability in a world that is anything but stable.”
Now, the ECB is envisioning a digital euro for retail use that could even be transferred offline using a digital wallet on people’s phones. Early designs call for a standard app, along with use through existing online banking apps. It wouldn’t replace cash but add another way to hold euros.
Even after the proposal is made, there would be three years of testing. A decision to actually introduce the digital euro would only come after that and require EU approval.
Fabio Panetta, a member of the ECB’s executive board and head of the digital euro task force, says it wouldn’t replace cash and people would have the option, not the requirement, to use it.
“It would reduce dependence on a few dominant providers, increasing competition and resilience,” he told European lawmakers last month.
Europe’s banks have greeted the proposal with caution. They warn that without strict limits, digital euros could draw deposits out of commercial banks — depriving them of funding for things like business loans and mortgages.
Panetta has indicated holdings could be limited to the value of banknotes in circulation, around 3,000 to 4,000 euros per person.
The European Banking Federation supports payment autonomy but said a digital euro alone would not accomplish that without banks and payment services companies creating new and better ways to handle payments themselves.
“A retail digital euro, particularly if not able to offer a concrete value-added compared to existing electronic payments, is not an appropriate or sufficient tool to meet all the goals that have been put forward,” the group said.
Merchants, in theory, could push for greater adoption if they find taking payment in digital euros helps them avoid the fees charged by credit card companies, said Sandner of the Frankfurt School. | 2023-05-25T00:33:44+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-ready-for-a-digital-euro-at-25-european-central-bank-preps-for-future-of-money/ |
MIAMI (AP) — A 20-year-old Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery, high-speed crash on a residential South Florida street last year might have been upset after learning he had lost a scholarship, federal investigators said.
The National Transportation Safety Board released new documents Tuesday saying the driver of the 2021 Model 3 sedan had learned several hours before the Sept. 13, 2021, crash that he had lost a scholarship at Florida International University. The school’s main campus is located just west of Miami.
The driver’s friends and family told investigators that he didn’t seem unusually perturbed about the scholarship, according to the NTSB report. But his passenger, a 19-year-old woman, texted her mother shortly before the crash that the driver was upset about the scholarship and that she was trying to make the him feel better.
The crash occurred after the driver accelerated to 90 mph (145 kph) through a Coral Gables intersection to beat a yellow light on a residential street, his speed tripling the 30 mph (49 kph) limit, investigators said. The driver had owned the car for about six days before the crash.
The driver lost control as he cleared the intersection and veered left onto the median, where the Tesla glanced off one large tree before before smashing its passenger’s side door into a second, the NTSB said. The driver never hit the brake, a report said, citing five seconds of data recovered from the car’s severely damaged event recorder.
The crash damaged the Tesla’s high-voltage lithium-ion battery and the car erupted into flames, killing the driver and passenger.
Tesla vehicles do not use gasoline that could raise the risk of a big fire after a crash, but the company’s guidance to first responders includes a warning about lithium-ion battery fires. Tesla representatives have said high-speed collisions can result in a fire for any kind of car. | 2022-09-14T20:37:21+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/report-tesla-driver-lost-scholarship-before-fiery-crash/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
LUBBOCK, Texas (KLBK) – Here is your updated forecast from the KLBK First Warning Weather Center:
Today:
Quiet weather is expected across the South Plains and the Rolling Plains on this Monday as we start a new workweek. Expect sunny to mostly sunny conditions with high temperatures in the lower to middle 50s. It will be a bit breezy today with a north-northeast wind 15-25 mph. Wind speeds will decrease by late afternoon and begin to shift more to the south-southeast.
Tonight:
We’re on track for a mostly clear and cold night across the region, with lows ranging from the upper 20s to the lower 30s. The wind will decrease to 5-15 mph and will turn from the southeast in the evening to southwesterly overnight.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny to partly cloudy conditions are forecast for Tuesday. It’ll be another breezy day with a southwest wind 15-25 mph. It’ll be a little warmer with high temperatures in the upper 50s and the lower 60s.
Extended Forecast:
Breezy to windy conditions will dominate the forecast for the majority of the week across the South Plains and the Rolling Plains. Forecast models hint at a slight chance for rain showers on Friday and Sunday. After the bitter cold weather late last week, we’re going to transition to more seasonal and slightly above seasonal temperatures this week as we end December and welcome January.
Daytime highs on Monday will range from the lower to the middle 50s. It’ll be a little warmer on Tuesday with upper 50s and lower 60s expected. Wednesday will be warm day with high temperatures ranging from the upper 60s to the lower 70s. We’ll drop back into the upper 50s and lower 60s on Thursday. Middle 50s are expected on Friday. Over the New Year’s weekend, we’ll range from the upper 50s to the lower 60s on Saturday and Sunday.
We’ll start Tuesday off with morning lows ranging from the upper 20s to the middle 30s. Upper 30s to lower 40s are the forecast morning lows on Wednesday. It will be mild Thursday morning with middle 40s areawide. Friday and Saturday morning low temperatures will range from the middle 30s to the lower 40s. On Sunday morning, expect upper 30s to lower 40s for lows.
Drought Update:
Moderate to extreme drought conditions continue to be reported across the South Plains and the Rolling Plains, according to the latest update of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Lubbock Climate Data for Monday, December 26:
Sunrise: 7:50 AM CST
Sunset: 5:46 PM CST
Normal High: 54°
Normal Low: 27°
Record High: 80° (2021)
Record Low: 0° (1918)
Your KLBK First Warning Forecast:
Today: Mostly sunny, breezy and mild. Highs in the lower to the middle 50s. North-northeast wind 15-25 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear and cold. Lows in the upper 20s to the lower 30s. Southeast wind in the evening, turning southwesterly overnight 5-15 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy, breezy and milder. Highs in the upper 50s to the lower 60s. Southwest wind 15-25 mph.
Have a great week!
Meteorologist Chris Whited
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Twitter: @severewxchaser | 2022-12-26T12:36:06+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/weather/klbk-monday-am-weather-update-12-26-22/ |
Director’s Guild of America reaches tentative deal as strike continues
(CNN, KYMA/KECY) - The writer's strike is still ongoing, but it looks like directors now have a deal with major film studios.
A 'historic' but tentative agreement is now in place between the Directors Guild of America.
The pact was reached to set the terms of a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with the alliance of motion picture and television producers.
The deal was reached Saturday night and affects wages, works hours, residuals and even artificial intelligence.
The tentative agreement will be submitted to the Guild's National Board at a special meeting Tuesday. | 2023-06-06T01:06:58+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/cnn-entertainment/2023/06/05/directors-guild-of-america-reaches-tentative-deal-as-strike-continues/ |
SEATTLE, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Verity, a leading provider of research management software, data, and analytics, today announced that it has partnered with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to help joint customers store and manipulate data through one system, driving efficiency and enhancing everyday business procedures.
Portfolio managers and analysts within the hedge fund, pension fund, mutual fund, and asset management spaces utilize multiple data tools to improve the internal research process in order to make informed decisions on behalf of their clients. The Verity-Snowflake partnership will provide joint customers with the ability to house Verity datasets within their Snowflake instance and manipulate them alongside other data sources – eliminating the need for error-prone and inefficient data migration processes.
"We always seek new ways to provide our clients with both the tools and resources to enhance their active investment management strategies," said Andrew Robson, Verity CEO. "This partnership with Snowflake further supports our clients in strengthening their data gathering, processing, and storing capabilities."
This partnership bolsters Verity's efforts to offer comprehensive data capabilities and integrations. VerityData's datasets include insider activity, management changes, stock buybacks, At-the-Market offerings, institutional holdings, SPACs, IPOs, lockups, and more. These comprehensive datasets have thousands of datapoints dating back 15+ years, and are supported by Verity's research team that elevates unusual activity for investor decision-making.
"Verity's Data platform, combined with Snowflake's Data Cloud, comprise a powerful suite of capabilities to streamline the investment-making process and mobilize data in service of the enterprise," added Tarik Dwiek, Head of Technology Alliances at Snowflake.
ABOUT VERITY
Verity is a leading provider of research management software, data, and analytics delivered through a comprehensive platform to provide best-in-class workflow, portfolio monitoring, and idea-generation solutions to more than 360 institutional investors globally. The platform is the result of a strategic merger between MackeyRMS and InsiderScore, sponsored by Resurgens Technology Partners. Verity delivers a powerful platform combining data, analytics, and research management software solutions for investment teams conducting fundamental research for actively managed client portfolios. The company is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York, Princeton, NJ, Seattle, and London. For more information, visit www.verityplatform.com.
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Dog stayed by hiker’s body until rescue teams found them, sheriff says
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (Gray News) – The search for a missing 74-year-old hiker came to a sad ending when search teams discovered his body Wednesday afternoon with his faithful dog still by his side.
According to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, Donald Hayes had been missing on Mingus Mountain since last Friday. After six days of searching, rescue teams found his body in a rugged area that was difficult to reach.
The sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post that Hayes’ dog, a black and white Labrador named Ranger, was found alive and sticking close by his owner’s body. Ranger was taken to an animal hospital for treatment.
Officials said they conducted a large search for days to find Hayes, including using helicopters and search dogs, but “had trouble due to the difficult terrain and the vast area to be searched.”
The search began when Hayes called Forest Patrol to tell them he had gotten lost on his hike on the mountain. Forest Patrol told Hayes to stay put at his location and informed him that a rescue team was on its way. However, officials said Hayes decided against that advice and continued to move around in an attempt to find his own way out. The sheriff’s office said this caused him to become further lost in the forest.
“I thank all the volunteer search and rescue teams and others who gave of their time for six days to locate the victim and bring him home,” Sheriff David Rhodes said. “Our searchers utilized every tool at their disposal to find Mr. Hayes and never gave up.”
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-19T17:11:26+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/05/19/dog-stayed-by-hikers-body-until-rescue-teams-found-them-sheriff-says/ |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conservative Kansas legislators are pushing back more aggressively this year on LGBTQ-rights issues than in the past two years, with proposals to ban gender-affirming care for trangender youth and restrict how public schools discuss sexual orientation and gender identity.
Top Republican lawmakers on Tuesday outlined an agenda for the year that includes culture war issues pursued by Republicans in other states, including a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s K-12, club and college sports. Their broader agenda on LGBTQ-rights issues this year in Kansas also comes after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly narrowly won reelection in November despite GOP attacks over her vetoes of two bills restricting transgender athletes.
On LGBTQ-rights issues, the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature focused in 2021 and 2022 on trangender athletes. Lawmakers haven’t considered a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth or bills to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use. Proposals on what schools teach on history and sexuality have not gone as far as a Florida law derided by critics as a “Don’t Say Gay” policy.
State Rep. Heather Meyer, a bisexual Kansas City-area Democrat with a transgender son, said this year, for GOP lawmakers, “It sounds like that the bigots are the priority, not our children.”
“They want to make it so that it’s like we never existed, so like the LGBTQ community is invisible,” she said.
Top Republican lawmakers pledged to keep pushing for a laws restricting transgender athletes. Eighteen states have such laws, including Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas, according to the nonprofit, pro-LGBTQ-rights Movement Advancement Project think tank.
Supporters of such laws argue that they preserve fairness in competition and college scholarship opportunities for what they call “biological” women.
As Kelly ran for reelection, her campaign said she believes decisions about transgender athletes should be made by schools, doctors, families and local officials. That statement came after she declared in a television ad that, “Of course men should not play girls’ sports. OK, we all agree there.”
Two of the Legislature’s most conservative Republicans, state Sens. Mark Steffen, from south-central Kansas, and Mike Thompson, from the Kansas City area, introduced a bill that would make it illegal to perform gender-affirming surgery or provide hormone therapy or puberty-blocking medications to anyone under 21. Doctors would face having their medical licenses suspended or revoked for “professional incompetency.”
Arkansas bans such care for minors; Alabama makes it a felony, and Arizona bans gender-affirming surgery for minors. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order last year treating gender-affirming care as child abuse. Proposals have been introduced in at least 10 other states.
“It’s a way of trying to protect these children from what could be life-altering and irreversible types of medical and chemical procedures,” Thompson told reporters after his bill was introduced.
It’s not clear how much support the measure has, and a hearing has yet to be scheduled. Senate President Ty Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican, expressed a willingness to consider the idea.
But Kelly is certain to be a big obstacle to such a policy. Asked about the proposal, Kelly told reporters Tuesday, “You can just imagine what I think of that.”
State Rep. Brandon Woodard, a gay Kansas City-area Democrat, called the measure “a garbage bill.”
“Gender-affirming care is live-saving and this bill is dangerous, hateful and will lead to death by suicide,” he said.
During a Statehouse news conference for introducing GOP leaders’ agenda, Masterson decried what he called a “sexualized, woke agenda” in public schools. Later, he told reporters that he wants to pursue a law that would spell out limits on what schools can teach or discuss about sexuality issues by grade level.
Masterson said he’s worried about schools focusing on people’s “innate characteristics” and “dividing us up into different groups.”
“We’ve gotten completely away from, basically, fundamental academics,” he said. “And it’s not helping our children.”
But state Rep. Susan Ruiz, a lesbian Kansas City-area Democrat, said the “radical right” is creating the problems.
“These are just kids who are trying to understand themselves,” she said. “They are coming after children who are vulnerable.”
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Follow John Hanna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/apjdhanna | 2023-01-11T05:08:40+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-kansas-right-pushing-back-more-aggressively-on-lgbtq-rights/ |
The Longtime Partners Introduce their Third Limited Edition Bottling, the Smokiest. Most Steak-Pairing-Friendly. Lagavulin. Ever.
NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From Hollywood blockbusters to balanced dinner plates (steak with two sides, of course) to trilogies of limited edition whisky releases in partnership with an iconic actor/author/woodworker, good things come in threes. For Nick Offerman, the rule of thirds is resoundingly true as he introduces his third Lagavulin Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Charred Oak Cask Aged 11 Years. An aficionado of all things wood, steak and scotch, Nick Offerman merged these three passions within his smokiest creation yet, a whisky aged in American and European oak casks that are shaved down then heavily re-charred, posing the perfect pairing for well-barked, medium-rare steak. Marking the longtime collaborators' 48th video spot together, Offerman and Lagavulin debuted this one-of-a-kind whisky in a thrilling, action-packed film that reveals Offerman embarking on his most dangerous Tale of Whisky to date: Nick Offerman's Smokiest Adventure Yet: Lagavulin Offerman Edition: Charred Oak Cask.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9096451-nick-offerman-new-lagavulin-offerman-edition-charred-oak-cask-whisky/
The video follows one whisky-loving man on a quest to bring the delicious pairing of steak and Lagavulin to mankind before it is lost forever. He'll stop at nothing to save the world make sure the smokiest, most steak-friendly Offerman Edition Scotch in existence is available to whisky-lovers everywhere. The tale unveils the epic lengths to which Offerman will go to protect the new Charred Oak Cask edition, the ultimate accompaniment to high-quality steak. To enjoy this whisky in peak form, Offerman recommends pairing with a perfectly seared cowboy ribeye.
"Believe me, if there was any way to bring the world this exclusive batch of superlative scotch without repeatedly defying death, I'd say sign me up. Pull me up a comfy chair," said Nick Offerman of his creation of the new liquid. "But we all know that's not the world we're living in. Your mission, if you have the guts to accept it, is to pair this new Offerman Edition with an exquisite steak and a mug of action. You won't be sorry…if you survive the pleasure."
For those that are 21 years or older that dare to taste this coveted Single Malt, the bottle has an SRP of $79.99 and will be available to purchase for a limited time only at select U.S. liquor retailers and can be shipped and delivered on ReserveBar.com, Drizly.com or the Drizly app, and at select retailers globally in Canada, Australia, Great Britain, China and The Netherlands.
Nick Offerman and Master Blender Stuart Morrison will also join a virtual tasting on Instagram Live at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, October 12, hosted by ReserveBar president Derek Correia @reservebarspirits and @lagavulinwhisky. They'll walk through the craftsmanship behind this exclusive new Single Malt Scotch and the smokier-than-ever tasting notes that make this whisky both distinctly Lagavulin and distinctly Nick Offerman. Be sure to pre-order a bottle for yourself on ReserveBar.com.
Lagavulin encourages those who are 21+ to please drink responsibly. More information on Lagavulin Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky and the distillery can be found at www.malts.com/en-row/distilleries/lagavulin/.
Nick Offerman is an actor, author, and woodworker, best known as the character of Ron Swanson on NBC's Parks & Recreation, Forest in Devs, the FX limited series from writer-director Alex Garland, Karl Weathers in the FX series Fargo and co-host and executive producer of NBC's Making It. He co-stars as Colin Kaepernick's father in the Netflix limited series Colin in Black & White, produced by Ava Duvernay, and is the voice of Beef Tobin in the FOX animated series, The Great North. Recent and upcoming projects include The Resort (Peacock), Pam & Tommy (Hulu), The Last of Us (HBO) and Amazon's A League of Their Own.
Offerman has written five New York Times Bestselling books, including his latest, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside (Penguin Random House, 2021), Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, and The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, written with his wife, Megan Mullally. Film credits include Hearts Beat Loud, Lucy in the Sky, The Founder, Bad Times at the El Royale, The Hero, The Lego Movie (1&2), White Fang, and The Little Hours. He publishes the Substack newsletter Donkey Thoughts, and in his spare time, he can be found at his woodshop in Los Angeles building hand-crafted items from wood, including spoons, canoes and ukuleles.
DIAGEO is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Casamigos, DeLeon and Don Julio tequilas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Tanqueray and Guinness.
DIAGEO is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: DGE) and their products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world.
For more information about DIAGEO, their people, brands, and performance, visit www.diageo.com. Visit DIAGEO'S global responsible drinking resource, www.DRINKiQ.com, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practices. Follow Twitter and Instagram for news and information about DIAGEO North America: @DIAGEO_NA.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, officially announced today the launch of Cloud Connect for AWS consisting of multiple service options for direct connectivity to Amazon Web Services through Amazon's Direct Connect locations in in Secaucus NJ, Boston MA, Ashburn VA, and soon in Miami FL. The services provide customers with direct, secure, all-fiber connectivity to AWS with bandwidth options up to 100 Gbps.
Direct, fiber-based services to cloud providers improves overall data throughput and end-user experiences, while also increasing network security by not utilizing the public Internet. As more businesses, educators, and governments adopt additional cloud applications and cloud data storage, the performance of connectivity to the cloud has become a critical component of overall network performance. At the same time, ever-increasing network security requirements make it prohibitive for organizations to connect to cloud services utilizing the public Internet.
Lightpath Cloud Connect for AWS will allow an organization to enhance and expand their use of cloud applications and data storage, which in-turn simplifies in-house IT operations and improves the end user experience. Cloud Connect for AWS offers Ethernet service options up to 10 Gbps and wavelength service options up to 100 Gbps.
"Lightpath Cloud Connect customers can achieve optimal performance of cloud applications while opening up the opportunity to expand the use of cloud applications, all with enhanced network security," explained Phil Olivero, CTO for Lightpath. "Whether your organization is cloud-centric or utilizes a hybrid-cloud strategy, fiber to the cloud accelerates all cloud-enabled strategies while also improving the end user experience."
Lightpath, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), is offering a complete cloud management portfolio that will give customers fast, flexible access to the cloud, in addition to:
- Reduction of networking costs with low data transfer rates out of AWS
- Multiple encryption options for securing your data
- Improving application performance
- Cost savings when compared to internet-based connections
With this AWS Direct Connect certification, Lightpath offers direct access to all AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Lightpath owns and operates a dense, all-fiber network spanning over 20,000 route miles and connecting over 13,500 service locations throughout New York Metro, Boston Metro, and Miami Metro.
Follow Lightpath on LinkedIn. For more information, visit www.lightpathfiber.com.
About Lightpath
Lightpath is revolutionizing how customers connect to their digital destinations by combining our next-generation network with our next-generation customer service. Lightpath's advanced fiber-optic network offers a comprehensive portfolio of custom-engineered connectivity solutions with unparalleled performance, reliability, and security. Our consultative customer service means we work with you to design, deliver, and support the solution for your unique needs, faster and more easily than ever before. For over 30 years, thousands of enterprises, governments, and educators have trusted Lightpath to power their organization's innovation. Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS) owns a 50.01% controlling interest in Lightpath and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP) owns 49.99% of the Company.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase.
The 11-year sentence represents a comeuppance for the wide-eyed woman who broke through “tech bro” culture to become one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated entrepreneurs, only to be exposed as a fraud. Along the way, Holmes became a symbol of the shameless hyperbole that often saturates startup culture.
But questions still linger about her true intentions — so many that even the federal judge who presided over her trial seemed mystified. And Holmes’ defenders continue to ask whether the punishment fits the crime.
At 39, she seems most likely to be remembered as Silicon Valley’s Icarus — a high-flying entrepreneur burning with reckless ambition whose odyssey culminated in convictions for fraud and conspiracy.
Her motives are still somewhat mysterious, and some supporters say federal prosecutors targeted her unfairly in their zeal to bring down one of the most prominent practitioners of fake-it-til-you-make-it — the tech sector’s brand of self-promotion that sometimes veers into exaggeration and blatant lies to raise money.
Holmes will begin to pay the price for her deceit on May 30 when she is scheduled begin the sentence that will separate her from her two children — a son whose July 2021 birth delayed the start of her trial and a 3-month-old daughter conceived after her conviction.
She is expected to be incarcerated in Bryan, Texas, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of her hometown of Houston. The prison was recommended by the judge who sentenced Holmes, but authorities have not publicly disclosed where she will be held.
Her many detractors contend she deserves to be in prison for peddling a technology that she repeatedly boasted would quickly scan for hundreds of diseases and other health problems with a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick.
The technology never worked as promised. Instead, Theranos tests produced wildly unreliable results that could have endangered patients’ lives — one of the most frequently cited reasons why she deserved to be prosecuted.
Before those lies were uncovered in a series of explosive articles in The Wall Street Journal beginning in October 2015, Holmes raised nearly $1 billion from a list of savvy investors including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. It was the duping of those investors that led to her prison sentence and a $452 million restitution bill.
Holmes’ stake in Theranos at one point catapulted her paper wealth to $4.5 billion. She never sold any of her stock in the company, though trial evidence left no doubt she reveled in the trappings of fame and fortune — so much so that she and the father of her children, William “Billy” Evans, lived on a palatial Silicon Valley estate during the trial.
The theory that Holmes was running an elaborate scam was buttressed by trial evidence documenting her efforts to prevent the Journal’s investigation from being published. That campaign compelled John Carreyrou — the reporter responsible for those bombshell stories — to attend court and position himself in Holmes’ line of vision when she took the witness stand.
Holmes also signed off on surveillance aimed at intimidating Theranos employees who helped uncover the flaws with the blood-testing technology. The whistleblowers included Tyler Shultz, the grandson of former Secretary of State George Shultz, whom Holmes befriended and persuaded to join the Theranos board.
Tyler Shultz became so unnerved by Holmes’ efforts to shut him up that he began sleeping with a knife under his pillow, according to a wrenching statement delivered by his father, Alex, at her sentencing.
Holmes’ supporters still contend she always had good intentions and was unfairly scapegoated by the Justice Department. They insist she simply deployed the same over-the-top promotion tactics as many other tech executives, including Elon Musk, who has repeatedly made misleading statements about the capabilities of Tesla’s self-driving cars.
According to those supporters, Holmes was singled out because she was a woman who briefly eclipsed the men who customarily bask in Silicon Valley’s spotlight, and the trial turned her into a latter-day version of Hester Prynne — the protagonist in the 1850 novel “The Scarlet Letter.”
Holmes steadfastly maintained her innocence during seven often-riveting days of testimony in her own defense — a spectacle that caused people to line up shortly after midnight to secure one of the few dozen seats available in the San Jose courtroom.
On one memorable day, Holmes recounted how she had never gotten over the trauma of being raped while enrolled at Stanford University. She then described being subjected to a long-running pattern of emotional and sexual abuse by her former lover and Theranos conspirator, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, and suggested his stifling control blurred her thinking.
Balwani’s lawyer, Jeffrey Coopersmith, denied those allegations during the trial. In Balwani’s subsequent trial, Coopersmith unsuccessfully tried to depict his client as Holmes’ pawn.
Balwani, 57, is now serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy.
When it came time to sentence the then-pregnant Holmes in November, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila seemed as puzzled as anyone about why she did what she did.
”This is a fraud case where an exciting venture went forward with great expectations and hope, only to be dashed by untruth, misrepresentations, hubris and plain lies,” Davila lamented while Holmes stood before him. “I suppose we step back and we look at this, and we think what is the pathology of fraud?”
The judge also hearkened back to the days that Silicon Valley consisted mostly of orchards farmed by immigrants. That was before the land was ceded to the tech boom beginning in 1939 when William Hewlett and David Packard founded a company bearing their surnames in a one-car garage in Palo Alto — the same city where Theranos was based.
“You’ll recall the wonderful innovation of those two individuals in that small garage,” Davila reminded everyone in the rapt courtroom. “No exotic automobiles or lavish lifestyle, just a desire to create for society’s benefit through honest hard work. And that, I would hope, would be the continuing story, the legacy and practice of Silicon Valley.”
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Michael Liedtke has been covering Silicon Valley for The Associated Press for 23 years. | 2023-05-28T10:42:43+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-as-elizabeth-holmes-heads-to-prison-for-fraud-many-puzzle-over-her-motives/ |
Monica Poole looked forward to voting in Georgia's primary in May.
But after breaking her ankle, she couldn't drive. Even navigating the stairs from her second-floor Atlanta apartment was impossible, so waiting in line to vote wasn't an option. Poole applied for a mail-in absentee ballot, like many Georgians have in recent years, and wanted to return it using a drop box.
But the nearest one in Fulton County, where Poole lives, was a 20-minute drive and accessible only during limited hours and days, unlike 2020 when drop boxes were available all across the county and accessible seven days a week around the clock until Election Day.
The new restrictions made the drop boxes difficult to use for Poole, who had limited mobility and a rigid work schedule. So she was forced to mail in her ballot.
But Poole's ballot didn't count, because it didn't arrive at the county's elections office in time.
"To find out I did all that and still didn't get my vote in, I feel discouraged," Poole said. "I'm an African American female, and we weren't able to vote for many years, so I feel like it's my civic duty."
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Poole is one of millions of Georgia voters affected by sweeping changes to state election laws enacted by lawmakers last year. The changes include restricting access to drop boxes in counties that used them the most, which also have the highest number of voters of color and Democrats, according to an analysis by NPR, WABE and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) of drop box locations, voter registration and other data.
NPR, WABE and GPB compiled drop box usage data by reviewing thousands of forms used to document the number of ballots deposited in drop boxes daily across Georgia in 2020 and calculating travel time intervals to a drop box for more than 7.5 million voters. 2022 drop box locations are current as of Georgia's May 24 primary.
An analysis by NPR, WABE and Georgia Public Broadcasting also found:
NPR, WABE and GPB compiled drop box usage data and locations by manually reviewing more than 9,000 collection forms from drop boxes used in the 2020 presidential election. Poll workers documented the number of ballots deposited in 295 drop boxes across the state daily.
Ballot drop boxes were provided to Georgia voters in the 2020 primaries for the first time as a way to vote safely while COVID-19 ravaged communities. Even before the pandemic, they were a popular tool for voters in states such as Oregon, Washington and Colorado.
After former President Donald Trump's defeat, many of his allies in Georgia and elsewhere equated drop boxes with voter fraud. So, Republican lawmakers, particularly in Georgia, have moved to curtail access to the boxes before the November midterm election.
The new law, known as Senate Bill 202, requires all 159 Georgia counties to have at least one box — but no more than one per 100,000 voters. Instead of making them available outdoors 24 hours a day as in 2020, the drop boxes must be kept inside early voting locations with limited hours — typically 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. That can be problematic for voters with inflexible work schedules or those with other time constraints. The bill received no Democratic support.
While it's too early to measure the law's impact on turnout, experts say even small changes to voter behavior and turnout can sway election outcomes and erode trust in the voting system, especially in a politically divided state like Georgia with a history of discriminatory voting practices that disproportionately impact people of color.
"In any state that's going to have tight elections, and Georgia's had some nail biters, then even those marginal changes could have significant effects on the outcome of elections," said Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, who teaches political science at San Diego State University and has studied drop box access and voter turnout. "Not every election is decided by tens of thousands of votes. Some are decided by under 100 votes."
In 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes. In 2018, Republican Brian Kemp defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams by 54,723 votes — 50.2% to 48.8% — in the race for governor. Polls show similarly tight races this year that could decide control of Congress and who becomes the next governor.
Drop boxes became a political target
Forty-three states used drop boxes during the 2020 election. But in the months following, ballot drop boxes became a stand-in for more sweeping debates around voting rights and election integrity in Georgia and around the country, though they were used by voters of all political parties and in many states like Georgia they were under round-the-clock surveillance. They became a target of conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud promoted by Trump and his allies.
Even after voting to officially add drop boxes as a voting method in 2021, some Republican lawmakers who faced far-right primary challengers later tried unsuccessfully to completely eliminate them, claiming concerns about security and fraud.
"Drop boxes were introduced as an emergency measure during the pandemic, but many counties did not follow the security guidelines in place," Georgia Senate President Pro Tem Butch Miller said after proposing that drop boxes be banned altogether. "Moving forward, we can return to a pre-pandemic normal of voting in person. Removing drop boxes will help rebuild the trust that has been lost."
Miller lost his primary election to be the party's lieutenant governor nominee, and the legislation banning drop boxes failed to gain traction.
NPR, WABE and GPB reached out to five Republican sponsors of the new election law, including Miller. None responded to requests for interviews.
In an interview with GPB, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended the election law as a balance of accessibility and security. He said the state's recent primary election was proof that Georgia has "tremendous opportunities for people to access the vote," including by drop box.
"We have record registrations, we have record turnout," he said. "And we have the appropriate guardrails of making sure that the drop boxes are on government property, that they're now inside an office under the physical surveillance of election workers."
State Rep. Bee Nguyen disagreed. The Atlanta Democrat voted against the 98-page election law and said her colleagues approved the changes to placate voters who agreed with Trump's election lies. She said the law intentionally makes voting by drop box harder for Democrats and nonwhite voters in cities and suburbs.
"The attacks were not backed up by any kind of facts," said Nguyen, who is the Democratic nominee for secretary of state. "All of this was wrapped up in the greater scheme of the 'Big Lie.'"
The Georgia State Board of Elections recently dismissed a handful of complaints about drop boxes, where voters were alleged to each have deposited multiple ballots in a drop box. Investigators determined in each case that voters were legally dropping off ballots for their family members.
Concerns over drop boxes are not limited to Georgia. In Wisconsin, for example, the Supreme Court recently ruled that ballot drop boxes were not allowed under state law. The court suggested that votes cast that way "weaken the people's faith that the election produced an outcome reflective of their will," despite no evidence of fraud.
The provision had a disparate impact
Rep. Jan Jones, Georgia's Republican House speaker pro tem, said during a 2021 floor debate on the law that the drop box provision would provide parity for all Georgia voters.
"The vast majority of counties that offered one drop box will continue to do so," Jones said at the time. "And the very few that had multiple drop boxes will have them according to their population."
But NPR, WABE and GPB found that the uniformity of drop boxes across the state came at the expense of urban and suburban voters, who make up most of the electorate.
The drop boxes in cities and suburbs are now so widely spread out that they have become complicated to access in places already dealing with traffic gridlock or unreliable public transportation.
When Jessica Owens arrived at the library branch a 10-minute drive from her suburban Atlanta home to deposit her ballot in the May primary, the drop box she used in 2020 was gone.
After several hours driving around Gwinnett County with her two toddlers in the backseat, poring over maps and scouring the internet to try and find one, Owens was almost ready to give up. She finally contacted her state representative, who told her that the closest one was now nearly an hour drive roundtrip.
"Now, I have to plan my day around dropping off the ballot," Owens said. "An hour doesn't feel like a long time, but when you have two small kids, it is."
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Twenty-three drop boxes were spread across Gwinnett County in 2020. Under the new law, only six remain in Georgia's second-largest county — one of its most diverse.
In 2020, more than 70% of urban and suburban voters lived within 10 minutes' travel of a drop box, the analysis by NPR, WABE and GPB found. That number dropped to less than 50% for this year's midterms.
The percentage of rural voters who can access a drop box within 10 minutes of their home this year is 22%, about the same as it was two years ago, the analysis found.
In one urban county, drop box use plummeted
Edward Grimes, 71, showed up at the C.T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center in Atlanta. It was the last day of early, in-person voting before the May primary, and Grimes wanted to deliver his ballot in the drop box.
"You don't have to stand in line, you just go in, put it in the box and you're out," Grimes said, noting the line of mostly Black voters that coiled around the lobby. "I don't think you can beat that."
Grimes is in the minority. Less than 1% of Fulton County voters used a drop box this year, compared to 6.3% in the 2020 primary, according to county election officials.
Interim Fulton County Elections Director Nadine Williams said many voters who took advantage of a drop box in 2020 did not use it again in 2022, mostly because the new laws have made them inconvenient.
"If you're going to have to get out of the car to go inside, you might as well go ahead and vote," Williams said.
Fulton County, like other mostly urban and suburban counties, invested heavily in drop boxes in 2020 as a way to remove voting barriers. But when state lawmakers imposed new limits on the boxes a year later, election officials were forced to slash the county's drop box offerings from 38 to seven.
"There was no way we could possibly cover everything 100%," Williams said. "We did the best we could."
Limiting access to drop boxes could also worsen existing voting problems in these mostly communities of color, which already have more voters assigned to polling places and longer lines on Election Day.
An NPR/ProPublica analysis in 2020 found about two-thirds of Georgia's polling places that had to stay open late because of long lines in the state's primary were in majority-Black neighborhoods, despite those neighborhoods comprising about a third of the state's polls.
Some election experts also worry that restricting drop boxes not only makes it harder for voters to cast their ballots but may discourage them from voting at all.
"When we look at it in terms of the data, it may be a two-minute increase (each way)," Gonzalez O'Brien said. "That may be something that for some voters will lead to them not casting a ballot."
The actual burden on voters is difficult to measure, since the data analysis doesn't take into account other factors such as rush-hour traffic, he said.
Gonzalez O'Brien has co-authored two studies that examined drop box access and voter turnout in Washington state, which has conducted solely absentee voting since 2013. The studies suggest that proximity to a drop box isn't just a matter of convenience; living farther away from a drop box is associated with a lower likelihood of voting.
But little research has been done on drop boxes and turnout. Studies on other similar voting methods, like vote by mail, have had mixed results. Still, Gonzalez O'Brien said that voting methods proven to be secure should be available to voters.
"I don't believe there are any studies saying making voting easier actually leads to less voting," he said.
While some voters in urban and suburban communities find ways to overcome the new obstacles of using a drop box, doing so is even harder for marginalized populations, such as voters who are less likely to own a car.
In 2020, nearly 90% of voters in those communities were able to reach a drop box within 10 minutes. By 2022, that plummeted to 56%, NPR, WABE and GPB found. The bulk of these neighborhoods are majority Black and voted overwhelmingly for Biden.
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Kristin Nabers, the Georgia state director of All Voting is Local, a voting rights nonprofit, said even with restrictions on the location and hours, drop boxes remain valuable for people with limited options.
"I think it's key that we keep those drop boxes available for people who need to send their ballot with a family member or a disabled person who needs to send it with a caretaker," she said.
Nabers said that Georgia's history with laws that discriminate against nonwhite voters also looms over the drop box changes, prompting voting rights groups to educate voters of the changes.
"I truly believe that the motivation for rolling back drop boxes is to make it harder for voters, particularly in urban communities, to vote," Nabers said. "And I really think it's a shame that our leaders listened to the conspiracy theorists and actually took action that made voting harder."
"We basically have a useless drop box"
While Georgia Republicans have touted expanding access to drop boxes in counties that did not offer them in 2020, voters in many of those communities — mostly rural — haven't used them.
In Heard County, near the Alabama border, elections director Tonnie Adams said the one drop box he's required by law to keep is pointless for his county's roughly 8,000 voters. Voters encounter three election employees before getting to the drop box, so they just drop off the ballots with them.
"We basically have a useless drop box," he said, adding that no one used the drop box in the May primary.
In most elections, especially in rural areas, an overwhelming number of Georgians vote in person — either during the three week early voting period or on Election Day.
In Putnam County, about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta, 107 of the nearly 12,000 ballots were returned via drop box in the November 2020 election. Chattahoochee County saw only 10 ballots returned in the drop box, according to election records.
Election directors are now required to follow the new law instead of making decisions that best serve their voters.
"The nice thing about having local control over elections is that we can all take care of our citizens in a way that works for our citizens," said Joseph Kirk, elections director of Bartow County, 40 miles northwest of Atlanta.
Democrats, including Biden, have slammed provisions in the new law as being akin to "Jim Crow 2.0." But Republicans have publicly insisted the law makes it "easy to vote and hard to cheat."
The reality of Georgia's drop box changes tracked through the analysis by NPR, WABE and GPB paints a more complex picture than political absolutes. Gonzalez O'Brien said that any changes to voting laws, particularly the use of drop boxes, matter.
"Could it only have effects on the margins for certain voters? Sure," he said. "But even if those effects are only marginal, what is the justification for it?"
So far, the changes have been more than marginal for some Georgia voters, including Monica Poole.
In the May primary, Poole's absentee ballot was one of about 1,200 rejected for arriving too late, records show.
She said she has lost confidence in Georgia's voting system and didn't vote in the runoff election in June.
"It just makes you feel apathetic," Poole said.
This story is a collaboration from NPR's Station Investigations Team, which supports local investigative journalism; NPR member station WABE in Atlanta; and Georgia Public Broadcasting.
How NPR estimated the amount of time different voters need to travel to a drop box
For each drop box location, NPR generated travel time maps, or areas in which a voter can travel to the drop box by driving and public transit within given time frames. NPR used TravelTime to generate transit travel time maps and here.com for driving travel time maps. NPR then overlaid the travel time maps with voter addresses to estimate the minimum time frames it would take for each voter to get to a drop box within their county. NPR used the drop box data, 2022 drop box locations provided by the state, and Georgia's voter rolls to calculate travel time intervals to drop boxes available in 2020 and 2022 for nearly every voter.
The travel time analysis excluded one drop box in Chattahoochee Hills, Ga., that was available for just over a week during the 2020 election season. You can view the analysis here.
Characteristics of each voter including race and ethnicity are from the registered voter list from the Georgia secretary of state; the census-tract-level income and ownership data comes from American Community Survey, and precinct voting data is compiled by The New York Times.
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A man escaped from Iberville Parish Jail Tuesday by driving away from the facility in a decommissioned vehicle stolen from the Iberville Sheriff's Office, the department said.
According to Sheriff Brett Stassi, Timothy Billiot, 55, of Morgan City, drove off the back lot of the jail in a 2014 gray Dodge Ram at around 5:30 a.m. July 4.
Billiot, who was on trustee status, was convicted in St. Mary Parish on 15 counts of possession of child pornography, Stassi said. He has been incarcerated in Iberville Jail for more than three years.
The truck that authorities believe Billiot is driving has dark tinted windows, including the front windshield, with a plate number of C291541, a statement from IPSO said.
The department said it's possible the vehicle's plate has since been removed.
Billiot is now wanted for simple escape and theft of a motor vehicle. Stassi asked anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact the sheriff's office at (225) 687-3553. | 2023-07-05T19:23:39+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/man-escaped-from-iberville-jail-in-stolen-sheriffs-vehicle/article_9ec094c2-1b57-11ee-869c-afd6df9d4f5b.html |
Susan Davis is a congressional correspondent for NPR and a co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. She has covered Congress, elections, and national politics since 2002 for publications including USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, National Journal and Roll Call. She appears regularly on television and radio outlets to discuss congressional and national politics, and she is a contributor on PBS's Washington Week with Robert Costa. She is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., and a Philadelphia native. | 2022-11-09T11:36:01+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/politics-and-government/politics-and-government/2022-11-09/tuesday-was-the-final-voting-day-of-the-2022-midterm-elections |
You don’t have to wait until Memorial Day to snag these discounted Samsung appliances
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What to know about the Samsung Memorial Day sale
From now until June 7, Samsung is offering deep discounts on a variety of home appliances, including vacuums and microwaves. While the electronics company first started with black and white televisions, Samsung is now known for quality products across home and technology fields. Historically, Memorial Day is one of the best times of the year to find savings on items that improve the interior and exterior of the home.
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BENTLEYVILLE, Ohio
Failure to drive in marked lanes: drunk driving: Cannon Road
A motorist called dispatch around 9:15 p.m. Oct. 12 to report another driver who was “all over the road” while southbound on SOM Center Road. The caller was unable to keep up with the erratic driver once he turned onto Cannon Road and accelerated to a high rate of speed.
Police did catch up with the Moreland Hills man, 54, who showed signs of possible intoxication, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence -- with one prior conviction more than 20 years ago. He wound up registering a .180 blood-alcohol content on the Breathalyzer -- more than twice the legal limit of .08 BAC.
Driving under suspension, expired plates: Miles Road
A Cleveland man, 25, was stopped initially for no rear license plate illumination around 10:30 p.m. Oct. 10, for which he received a warning.
He was cited for driving on a license suspended for non-compliance with the Ohio Financial Responsibility Act (FRA suspension), as well as having a license plate that expired in mid-April.
Police noted that he still did not have any proof of insurance for the car, which was turned over at the scene to a valid driver.
Speeding (mandatory court appearance): Solon Road
An Akron woman, 34, was stopped at 8:44 p.m. Oct. 15 driving 59 mph in a 35-mph zone. Because her speed was 21 mph or more over the posted limit, she was required to appear in Bedford Municipal Court.
-- A Solon man, 68, was stopped at 9:10 p.m. Sept. 24 going 57 mph in a 35-mph zone, also requiring a personal appearance in traffic court.
Driving under suspension: Solon Road
A Bedford woman, 28, was stopped at 10:47 p.m. Sept. 24 after a random registration check showed that the owner and operator had her license suspended through Euclid Municipal Court.
She said she was unaware of the court suspension that led to an additional DUS charge against her. Her car was turned over to a valid driver who arrived on the scene.
Read more from the Chagrin Solon Sun. | 2022-10-22T05:10:38+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/community/2022/10/another-one-of-those-all-over-the-road-calls-bentleyville-police-blotter.html |
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr made impassioned remarks on Tuesday during a pregame press conference as he headed into Game 4 of the Western Conference finals.
As Kerr became visibly emotional and upset he told reporters that Basketball questions didn't matter to him at that moment.
"Since we left shootaround, 14 children were killed, 400 miles from here. And a teacher," Kerr said as he commented on the shooting earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, ESPN reported.
The death toll rose to 18 children and two adults later on Tuesday, according to local authorities.
RELATED: Texas elementary school shooting kills 18 children, 3 adults
Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas. pic.twitter.com/lsJ8RzPcmC
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) May 24, 2022
"When are we going to do something," Kerr yelled, slamming his fists on the table. "I'm tired. I am so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there. I am so tired of the excuse, I am sorry, I am tired of the moments of silence. Enough!"
As ESPN reported, Kerr has long been outspoken against gun violence after his father was shot and killed in Beirut in 1984. | 2022-05-25T02:17:51+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/golden-state-warriors-head-coach-steve-kerr-makes-impassioned-remarks-after-texas-school-shooting |
Top Player Prop Bets for Reds vs. White Sox on May 5, 2023
Andrew Vaughn and Jonathan India are among the players with prop bets available when the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds meet at Great American Ball Park on Friday (first pitch at 6:40 PM ET).
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Reds vs. White Sox Game Info
- When: Friday, May 5, 2023 at 6:40 PM ET
- Where: Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio
- How to Watch on TV: Apple TV+
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MLB Props Today: Cincinnati Reds
Hunter Greene Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 6.5 (Over Odds: -149)
Greene Stats
- Hunter Greene (0-1) will take to the mound for the Reds and make his seventh start of the season.
- He has earned a quality start two times in six starts this season.
- Greene will look to finish five or more innings for the third start in a row.
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Jonathan India Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -189)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +700)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +255)
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- India has 32 hits with eight doubles, a home run and 16 walks. He has driven in 12 runs with five stolen bases.
- He has a .281/.378/.377 slash line so far this year.
- India hopes to build on a two-game hitting streak in this matchup. In his last five games he is hitting .250 with an RBI.
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Nick Senzel Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -169)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +850)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +850)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +240)
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- Nick Senzel has collected 19 hits with two doubles, three home runs and seven walks. He has driven in 12 runs with two stolen bases.
- He has a .288/.356/.455 slash line on the year.
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Andrew Vaughn Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -204)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +130)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +180)
Vaughn Stats
- Vaughn has 10 doubles, three home runs, 16 walks and 20 RBI (29 total hits).
- He has a .252/.363/.417 slash line so far this season.
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Luis Robert Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -196)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
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- Luis Robert has put up 26 hits with seven doubles, six home runs and 10 walks. He has driven in 16 runs with one stolen base.
- He's slashing .218/.290/.429 so far this season.
- Robert takes a three-game streak with at least one hit into this matchup. In his last five games he is hitting .250 with a double, a home run, six walks and three RBI.
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HENRY COUNTY, Va. – A Martinsville man who police say was involved in a hit-and-run incident that injured an 8-year-old boy has learned his fate.
The crash happened back in Sept. 2021 and according to our previous reporting, 57-year-old David Paul Walker, of Martinsville, hit an 8-year-old boy while he was getting off his school bus in Henry County and kept on going.
The 8-year-old victim was flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries sustained in the crash, according to state police.
On Wednesday, Walker was sentenced to 18 years with 15 years and 4 months suspended, meaning he will spend two years and 8 months behind bars.
Walker was faced with several charges, which include:
- Hit and run- Personal injury
- Fail to stop for the school bus
- Reckless driving
- Conceal evidence of a felony
- Drive suspended
Of those charges, he pleaded guilty to hit and run - personal injury, failing to stop for a school bus, driving on a suspended license and concealing evidence of a felony. | 2022-08-04T14:26:02+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/04/martinsville-man-sentenced-for-hit-and-run-that-hospitalized-8-year-old-school-boy/ |
BLOOMFIELD, Conn., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to recent media misrepresentations, Cigna Healthcare, the health benefits provider of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), today shared information about one of its processes used to expedite payments to health care clinicians for a small number of relatively low-cost procedures. Cigna believes that the inaccurate portrayal of the PxDx – or "procedure to diagnosis" – process may lead to confusion or misunderstanding about how it works and how it is used.
Here are the facts about this claims review process:
- PxDx is a simple process that has successfully helped accelerate payments to physicians for common, relatively low-cost tests and treatments over the last several years. The post-treatment review process works through software (not artificial intelligence or an algorithm) that matches the codes submitted by the physician with diagnosis codes that are considered medically necessary for a procedure under Cigna's publicly posted clinical coverage policies.
- Patients are not denied care through this review in any way – it occurs after the patient has received treatment and once their physician bills for the treatment.
- Most individuals do not experience any additional costs if their claim is denied via PxDx. If a patient received care from an in-network provider, the provider should not bill them if payment on a specific service is not paid via PxDx.
- This process is used for approximately 50 low-cost tests and procedures that are only covered for specific diagnoses – such as dermabrasion, chemical peels, or vitamin D screenings.
- The vast majority of claims reviewed through this process are automatically paid. Claims that are denied for payment through this process represent less than 1% of Cigna Healthcare's total volume of claims.
- Similar versions of this process are used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other health insurers.
More information about this claims review process is available here.
About Cigna Healthcare
Cigna Healthcare is a health benefits provider that advocates for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of The Cigna Group (NYSE:CI), including Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Evernorth Health companies or their affiliates and Express Scripts companies or their affiliates. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits, and others. Learn more at cignahealthcare.com.
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(KTLA) – Feel like a burger combo meal costs a lot in your city? It may still be cheaper than some U.S. cities, a new report found.
The financial advice website MoneyGeek analyzed the cost of a burger, french fries, and a drink across 145 restaurants in the 50 largest cities. They looked at menus of “major chains,” using allmenus.com and GrubHub.com for pricing info.
The report found San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York were the most expensive cities, with diners paying more than $14 for a burger combo at the major fast food chains.
The U.S. city with the least expensive burger combos was Tulsa, Oklahoma, where diners are only paying an average of $6.55.
Here are the 10 most expensive cities for burger combos, according to MoneyGeek:
- San Francisco, California: $15.30
- Los Angeles, California: $14.59
- New York, New York: $14.22
- Long Beach, California: $13.08
- Washington, D.C.: $12.94
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: $12.89
- Boston, Massachusetts: $12.69
- Sacramento, California: $12.67
- Seattle, Washington: $12.58
- Mesa, Arizona: $12.46
While the most expensive combos are primarily found on both coasts, the cheaper combos were largely across states in the central U.S.
MoneyGeek found these 10 cities had the cheapest combos, on average:
- Tulsa, Oklahoma: $6.55
- Wichita, Kansas: $7.22
- El Paso, Texas: $7.79
- New Orleans, Lousiana: $7.93
- Detroit, Michigan: $8.79
- Austin, Texas: $8.88
- Denver, Colorado: $9.19
- Memphis, Tennessee: $9.28
- Indianapolis, Indiana: $9.30
- Atlanta, Georgia: $9.36
For the full rankings of all 50 cities, click here.
MoneyGeek determined burger meal prices have risen 9% from 2021 to 2022.
Burger King had the largest price increase, rising 21% across 39 cities, while Five Guys is the most expensive with a combo meal costing around $20. | 2022-10-23T22:26:44+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/these-cities-have-the-most-expensive-fast-food-burger-combos-in-the-us-report/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Enviva Inc. (NYSE: EVA) between February 21, 2019 and October 11, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important January 3, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Enviva securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Enviva class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9162 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 3, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Enviva had misrepresented the environmental sustainability of its wood pellet production and procurement; (2) Enviva had similarly overstated the true measure of cash flow generated by the Company's platform; (3) accordingly, Enviva had misrepresented its business model and the Company's ability to achieve the level of growth that defendants had represented to investors; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Enviva class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9162 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education (DCE) announced a significant modification to the degree residency requirement at the Harvard Extension School (HES) to provide greater access to adult learners worldwide. These changes, designed to be flexible and inclusive, will broaden access for students who may be challenged by multiple trips to Harvard's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Starting in the upcoming academic year, the Harvard Extension School will offer the majority of courses for the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) graduate degrees online with a low residency requirement. This decision reduces the barrier of geography for those outside of the greater New England area.
Dr. Nancy Coleman, Dean of Harvard's Division of Continuing Education and University Extension, saw the need for this transformative change stating, "We have always been committed to removing barriers and expanding access to a world-class education. By offering online courses paired with an immersive purpose-driven on-campus experience, we can provide adult learners from around the globe with a unique opportunity to engage in rigorous academic programs while benefiting from the vibrant Harvard campus community."
To complement the online coursework, each program requires four credits of residency. These active residency components range in length from two weekends to three weeks. Through experiential learning, students will collaborate with peers, instructors, and immerse themselves in the Harvard University campus, building connections and skills for real-world impact.
HES Dean of Academic Programs Suzanne Spreadbury, Ph.D., emphasized the innovative approach, saying, "Our vibrant learning environment combines the convenience of online education with the importance of in-person interaction. Our flexible and immersive model caters to the needs of diverse learners worldwide, enhancing their educational experience."
Harvard Extension School's revision of the degree residency requirement represents a progressive approach to education, ensuring that adult learners worldwide can pursue advanced degrees on their terms.
About the Harvard Division of Continuing Education
A division of Harvard University dedicated to bringing rigorous programs and innovative online teaching capabilities to modern purpose-driven learners including working professionals, high school students, visiting college students, and those seeking higher learning in retirement. We've been fueled by innovation and dedicated to excellence for over 100 years. Learn more about DCE here.
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Many lawmakers try to line up near the aisle of the House chamber in hopes of getting a few seconds of time with the president before State of the Union addresses. On Tuesday, Rep. George Santos and Sen. Mitt Romney were among those members.
Cameras captured an exchange between Romney and Santos in the moments before President Joe Biden walked down the aisle. What did Romney have to say to Santos, who has been accused of lying about his credentials during the election?
“I didn’t expect that he would be standing there trying to shake hands with every senator and the president of the United States given he is facing an ethics investigation,” Romney told reporters. “He should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the president and people coming into the room.”
Romney added that Santos “should not be in Congress” and that he is disappointed Speaker Kevin McCarthy has not called on Santos to resign.
Santos appeared to fire back at Romney, tweeting, “Just a reminder that you will NEVER be PRESIDENT!”
Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Cairo joined dozens of other local leaders last month to demand that Santos step down.
"George Santos campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies, and fabrication," Cairo said.
Although Santos has remained defiant about calls to resign, he said he would not take committee assignments as he faces various ethics probes. | 2023-02-08T15:56:04+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/sen-romney-exchanges-with-rep-santos-at-state-of-the-union |
An alligator was caught in New Plymouth, Idaho, and taken in by Idaho Fish and Game on Friday morning, according to a press release from Idaho Fish and Game.
Thursday night, a resident was walking their dog when they saw something moving in the brush. After identifying the animal as a 3.5-foot alligator, the resident caught the animal, loaded it into a nearby horse trailer and called Fish and Game. The alligator is currently being housed at a Fish and Game facility.
"Again it goes back to that kind of common sense. If there is a potentially dangerous animal that would be fun as a pet, make sure you can legally possess it. And please don't bring it into the state," said Idaho Fish and Game public information supervisor Rodger Philips.
In Idaho, it is illegal to possess alligators, or any crocodilian, without proper permits.
Alligators generally are native to the southeastern United States and are not native to areas north and west of Arkansas.
Idaho Fish and Game is currently investigating where the alligator may have come from. Anyone with information is asked to call the Southwest Regional Office at 208-465-8465 during normal business hours. You can also call the Citizens Against Poaching hotline at 1-800-632-5999.
This article was written by Cooper Waytenick for KIVI. | 2022-10-24T19:44:31+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/dog-walker-catches-alligator-in-idaho |
The plot may sound eerily familiar to New York Giants fans: A shy quarterback with a magic arm leads a team of unlikely players on a heroic adventure.
No, this isn’t a story about Eli Manning and one of his astonishing Super Bowl victories.
But it is a new children’s animation series from the quarterback coming soon to your TV.
Manning, 41, is partnering with Headline Studio at ADVANCE to develop the series; the two-time Super Bowl champion and 16-year NFL veteran will serve as Executive Producer and also voice a supporting character on the show. The series marks the latest foray into media for Manning, who, along with his brother Peyton, won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Live Series for the “ManningCast,” their alternative Monday Night Football broadcast on ESPN2.
A father of four young children, Eli Manning said the opportunity to develop a series that both parents and kids can enjoy together was a primary reason behind his involvement.
“Being able to sit down with my children, to watch this with them, and to know that the stories we’re telling in each episode are helping to reinforce lessons that all parents want to impart to their kids — that’s really special,” Manning told NJ Advance Media. “We hope that children see themselves and their friends in these characters in some way, and that living through the experiences of the characters, they can relate that to moments in their own lives.”
Richard Diamond, Headline Studio President, said the company is developing the series with Manning’s interests and personality in mind. His colorful, often deadpan humor — a surprise to some football fans who remember Manning for his mostly understated interactions with the media during his playing career — has been showcased in primetime this year during the ManningCast. Manning famously swiveled his hips on camera to showcase how quarterbacks warm up before games, and he has earned comedic praise for his many playful swipes at older brother Peyton.
The new series will serve as another opportunity for Eli Manning to branch out from his post-playing days.
“We had several meetings with Eli, but we instantly realized that we were aligned in that vision and desire to tell inspirational stories through the lens of sports,” Diamond said. “It just became a great fit and a natural partnership. He’s got a great sense of humor, he’s incredibly humble, he doesn’t take himself too seriously, and he’s proven to be really interested in wanting to dive into this process and collaborate with us.”
The partnership with Headline Studio marks one of Manning’s first new projects since joining Brand Velocity Group. Together, Manning and BVG plan to pursue additional ventures that highlight their collective expertise and align with their values.
The project will be supported by Excel Sports Management, Manning’s representation agency, and its Excel Media content arm, which recently co-produced Joe Montana’s docuseries “Cool Under Pressure” and the upcoming Derek Jeter docuseries “The Captain.”
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Matthew Stanmyre may be reached at mstanmyre@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattStanmyre. Find NJ.com on Facebook. | 2022-06-14T16:36:56+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/sports/2022/06/super-bowl-champ-eli-manning-collaborating-with-advance-for-new-childrens-series.html |
MIAMI, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Virtual Restaurant company Virturant, announced a substantial upgrade to its in-house SaaS technology suite with the launch of its Virtual Restaurant Order Manager App on the Google Play Store.
The Virtual Restaurant Order Manager includes a powerful collection of industry-leading features to assist restaurant owners with seamlessly integrating virtual restaurant brands into their current operations quickly & effortlessly.
Virturant Virtual Restaurant Order Manger includes:
- 30+ Delivery & White Label Platform Integrations (Uber Eats, DoorDash, etc.)
- Direct Menu Management
- Order Consolidation
- Live Sales Monitoring
- Direct Printer Integration (Star, Epson, Radiant)
- In-Depth Dashboard Reporting, Sales Trends & Analytics
Virtual Restaurant Order Manager is available at no-cost to all current Virturant Fulfillment Partners nationally, and available to new and outside restaurant groups for a $29 monthly fee.
Next month (Nov 2022), Virturant will be unveiling its custom Virtual Restaurant Payment SaaS Suite. With this new custom software, Virturant is leading the Virtual Restaurant technology revolution.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration officials urged Congress on Tuesday to renew a surveillance program the government has long seen as vital in protecting national security but whose future is uncertain because of scrutiny from an unusual alignment of civil liberties advocates and some Republicans.
The program, which is under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, grants American spy agencies sweeping powers to surveil and examine communications of foreigners located outside the United States. It’s set to expire at year’s end unless Congress agrees to renew it.
Officials in the Democratic administration, bracing for a contentious debate on Capitol Hill about reauthorizing the program, sought on Tuesday to make a public case about the value of the statutory authorities that are at risk of expiring. They asserted that the program in recent years has yielded valuable insight into ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure, helped disrupt potential acts of terror and efforts to recruit spies, and contributed to the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a drone strike last August.
At issue is a provision of FISA known as Section 702, which allows spy agencies to collect huge swaths of foreign communications without a warrant. But that tool has drawn scrutiny from civil liberties advocates because it results in the incidental collection from Americans when those Americans are in contact with the foreign surveillance targets.
“As of today, I don’t accept the claim that Americans’ privacy is adequately protected under the current 702 program,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a longtime Senate Intelligence Committee member who has long pressed U.S. spy agencies on their compliance with civil liberties.
Wyden said he had already spoken to administration officials about disclosing how often officials search “incidental collection” for information about Americans. The intelligence agencies issue an annual “transparency report” but have not published a precise number of U.S. searches.
“This is representative of one of the most important challenges of our time, particularly for policymakers, which is to demonstrate that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive,” Wyden said in an interview.
Section 702 was first added to FISA in 2008 and was renewed for six years in 2018, when then-President Donald Trump, who routinely lambasted government intelligence agencies, originally tweeted opposition to the program but then reversed himself.
This year’s fight for renewal is again unfolding in a polarized political climate. Republicans still angry over FBI errors during the investigation into links between Russia and Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign say they’re skeptical of the government’s need for broad spy powers and maintain the authorities are ripe for abuse and overreach.
But the flaws during the Russia probe, which involved warrants to a secretive surveillance court to monitor the communication of a former Trump campaign aide, are different from the Section 702 authorities, which allow for communications to be collected without a warrant.
Even so, the new Republican majority in the U.S. House has already formed a panel on the “weaponization” of the federal government, aligning with progressive Democrats who have pushed for more curbs on warrantless surveillance.
Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, said he believed Congress would ultimately reauthorize the program but that getting Republican support “is going to be harder than it’s ever been.”
“The importance of it is such that we can’t fail,” said Stewart, a House Intelligence Committee member. “But it’s going to be very difficult.”
As part of an effort to persuade Congress to renew the program, and to assuage potential privacy concerns, Biden administration officials held a background briefing for reporters and released a statement from national security adviser Jake Sullivan and a letter to lawmakers from Attorney General Merrick Garland and the national intelligence director, Avril Haines.
Separately, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, the Justice Department’s top national security official, delivered the same message in a speech at the Brookings Institution think tank.
“The bottom line is that Section 702 gives us the intelligence that’s necessary for us to stay one step ahead of our adversaries, and we cannot afford to let it lapse,” Olsen said. “So, it is time to sound the alarm. We must act with urgency, and that is why I am here today.”
National security officials say Section 702 makes possible their most critical work, from collecting intelligence on China to stopping ransomware attacks and other cyber intrusions that have disrupted government agencies and a wide range of industries. But they have declined to publicly give specifics of how they use surveillance programs, saying those are classified.
Courts and lawmakers have gotten a more detailed look at the program, but in private. Intelligence leaders have already been speaking to key lawmakers about Section 702 and will give classified and unclassified briefings to Congress later this year.
In their letter to Congress, Garland and Haines note that every court to consider Section 702’s bulk data program “has found it to be constitutional.”
The intelligence community has also never released a precise figure on how many searches are conducted of its bulk data for information on Americans. In its most recent transparency report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the FBI had conducted “fewer than 3,394,053” searches during 2021.
Besides civil liberties concerns, there are also questions about whether power given to U.S. intelligence after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks should be extended as intelligence agencies broadly refocus from counterterrorism to what’s often called “great power competition” — Washington’s rivalries with Beijing and Moscow — and a range of other threats including cyberattacks. | 2023-03-01T03:02:33+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-us-officials-make-case-for-renewal-of-surveillance-powers/ |
ATLANTA , Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PureCars, the leading provider of digital marketing technology and services for automotive dealers, has announced the appointments of Bryan Urroz as Chief Financial Officer and Matthew Groner as Chief Product Officer.
Bryan Urroz has spent much of the last decade in private accounting roles for companies ranging from mid-market to large global businesses. His comprehensive skill set gives him the ability to successfully navigate complex business environments, including strategy, operations and culture.
Urroz's extensive financial background includes experience in financial team development, SaaS revenue programs, financial structure development and M&A transactions. Prior to joining PureCars, Urroz served as the Chief Financial Officer of DealerBuilt.
Matthew Groner has over 25 years of experience leading product development teams for multinationals and start-ups. During his time at companies such as Viacom, TransUnion, AdTheorent, DoubleVerify and Mediaocean, he focused on driving growth and revenue while building skilled and enthusiastic product teams.
Groner joined AdTheorent in its early days and built the product team from scratch, leading the company's Demand Side Platform to become one of the best performing and highest margin DSPs in the AdTech ecosystem. AdTheorent subsequently went public with a valuation of $1B.
"As an industry leader, it is essential for PureCars to have a solid executive leadership team in place to drive vision and value for its customers, partners and employees," said Stephane Ferri, CEO of PureCars. "We believe that Bryan and Matthew significantly strengthen our leadership team and possess the strategic vision to help PureCars maintain its competitive position as the leading digital advertising provider in the automotive industry."
Since 2007, PureCars has helped thousands of dealers improve their advertising effectiveness, while lowering ad costs per unit sold and per repair order. Through our unique combination of advanced advertising solutions, digital merchandising and market analytics, we provide dealers and partners with best-in-class solutions that increase efficiency and profitability. We are a certified digital provider for 16 OEMs in the U.S. and 1 in Canada, compliant with 40+ brands and serve 65 of the top 100 dealer groups in North America. To learn more, please visit http://www.purecars.com.
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A look at the type of gun used in the 'Rust' movie set shooting
Target 7 learned a lot more about what guns and ammo were on the set of the movie 'Rust'.
"That firearm was a F.lli Pietta long Colt 45 revolver," said Sheriff Adan Mendoza, at a news conference.
That is the type of gun Alec Baldwin fired on the set of the movie 'Rust'.
Related: What we know about the 'Rust' shooting
This type of Colt 45 was designed in 1873, and we found one at a gun shop in Albuquerque.
"It was a big advancement over the past firearms, which are percussion, firearms," said Robert Theige, at Ron Peterson Firearms.
Theige specializes in antique guns.
"They use this more than any other firearm for Western movies. There's a single action army perfect," Theige said.
Related: How much jail time could Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed face?
He explained how to load the gun.
"You go to halfcocked right there. Open your gate. Turn your firearm up. And this right here is the ejector. You push it down and it would knock out the cartridge,” Theige said.
Theige also showed Target 7 the type of ammunition it uses.
"It's a very powerful handgun. Forty-five Colt is a powerful round," Theige said.
Court documents show that normally film crew members spin the gun's cylinder to determine if there are blanks in it.
Theige explained it is not easy to check this gun for blanks.
“The only way they could check it would be to open it. And you cannot really tell without dropping the rounds and looking at them,” Theige said.
Sheriff's officials Wednesday acknowledged there was some complacency on the set that led to the shooting.
Related: Former camera man said there were 2 previous accidental shootings on set | 2023-01-19T22:20:16+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/alec-baldwin-charged-rust-shooting-gun-analysis/42578415 |
HOUSTON, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Digital Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRCT) ("Direct Digital Holdings" or the "Company"), a leading advertising and marketing technology platform operating through its companies Colossus Media, LLC ("Colossus SSP"), Huddled Masses LLC ("Huddled Masses") and Orange142, LLC ("Orange142"), today announced that the Company will participate in the 25th Annual ICR Conference from January 9-11, 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
Mark Walker, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Keith Smith, President, and Susan Echard, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in the conference. Management will be hosted in a fireside chat on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM ET and will also be available for meetings. A replay of the fireside chat will be available the following day on the Direct Digital Holdings IR Website at https://ir.directdigitalholdings.com/.
Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT), owner of operating companies Colossus SSP, Huddled Masses, and Orange 142, brings state-of-the-art sell- and buy-side advertising platforms together under one umbrella company. Direct Digital Holdings' sell-side platform, Colossus SSP, offers advertisers of all sizes extensive reach within general market and multicultural media properties. The company's subsidiaries Huddled Masses and Orange142 deliver significant ROI for middle market advertisers by providing data-optimized programmatic solutions at scale for businesses in sectors that range from energy to healthcare to travel to financial services. Direct Digital Holdings' sell- and buy-side solutions manage approximately 90,000 clients monthly, generating over 100 billion impressions per month across display, CTV, in-app and other media channels. Direct Digital Holdings is the ninth black-owned company to go public in the U.S and was named a top minority-owned business by The Houston Business Journal.
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 15, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
637 PM CDT Sat Apr 15 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL JEFFERSON...SOUTHEASTERN HARDIN...NORTHWESTERN
ORANGE AND SOUTH CENTRAL JASPER COUNTIES...
At 637 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Bevil Oaks, or
near Lumberton, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Beaumont, Lumberton, Silsbee, Sour Lake, Bevil Oaks, Rose City, Pine
Forest, Lakeview and Weiss Bluff.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Nueces,
central Jim Wells and northwestern Kleberg Counties through 715 PM
CDT...
At 639 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Bishop, or near Driscoll, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Kingsville, Driscoll, Bishop and Kingsville Naval Air Station.
This includes US Highway 77 between mile markers 676 and 694.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2772 9797 2774 9773 2746 9771 2747 9801
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 002DEG 9KT 2764 9786
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
The National Weather Service in League City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Montgomery County in southeastern Texas...
Southwestern San Jacinto County in southeastern Texas...
Southeastern Walker County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 715 PM CDT.
* At 640 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over New Waverly,
or 8 miles north of Willis, moving southeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Cut And Shoot, New Waverly and Evergreen.
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
Southwestern Fayette County in south central Texas...
* Until 745 PM CDT.
* At 640 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast
of Smithville, moving southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
Muldoon around 700 PM CDT.
Schulenburg around 730 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Floy,
Swiss Alp, Freyburg, Plum, Dubina, Ammannsville, High Hill, Engle,
O'Quinn and West Point.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill aimed at transgender health care puts the state in the middle of a national fight, but with more immediate consequences as the state’s looming election offers an early test on the state-by-state assault on gender-affirming care for minors.
The veto issued Friday set off competing messages likely to be repeated until the November election — when Bluegrass State voters will decide whether to reward the Democratic governor with a second term or hand over the governor’s office to a Republican. No one seems to know yet how much weight voters will put on the transgender issue with the general election more than seven months away.
The legislation in Kentucky is part of a widespread movement, with Republican state lawmakers in other states approving extensive measures that restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ people this year, from bills targeting trans athletes and drag performers to measures limiting gender-affirming care.
Beshear framed the Republican-backed bill in Kentucky as an example of government overreach into parental rights. The sweeping bill would ban gender-affirming care for minors — one of many provisions that would affect the lives of young transgender people.
“At the end of the day, this is about my belief — and, I think, the belief of the majority of Kentuckians — that parents should get to make important medical decisions about their children, not big government,” Beshear told reporters soon after his veto.
Kentucky’s GOP-dominated legislature passed the bill by lopsided margins. Lawmakers will reconvene Wednesday for the final two days of this year’s session, when they could vote to override the veto.
Republicans took immediate aim at the governor’s veto, saying he veered too far for most Kentuckians. Republican Party of Kentucky spokesperson Sean Southard asked: “Is Andy Beshear the governor of Kentucky or California?” He predicted the governor will pay a political price for his action.
“Once this campaign is over, today may very well be remembered as the day Andy Beshear lost his bid for reelection,” Southard said Friday.
Republicans could try to capitalize on the political divide over transgender rights to motivate socially conservative voters to flock to the polls in November, when state constitutional offices are on the ballot. Several leading GOP contenders for governor were aligned in condemning Beshear’s veto.
“If the Republicans choose to make this a centerpiece of the campaign against Beshear, it’s going to hurt him,” said Scott Jennings, a Kentucky-based Republican political commentator.
Beshear cited his own religious faith as a factor in rejecting the bill, saying: “I believe every single child is a child of God.”
Twelve candidates in all are competing for the Republican nomination for governor in the state’s May primary. Beshear’s bid for a second term is drawing national attention to see if the popular incumbent can win again in the Republican-trending state. Beshear has won praise for his responses to devastating tornadoes and flooding, as well as a series of economic development successes.
The bill’s opponents say they’ve got the public on their side and predict Beshear will benefit. They pointed to statewide polling released last month showing a majority of Kentuckians believe decisions over a transgender teen’s health care should be left with the parent, not determined by the state.
“Folks who have never been involved with politics or legislation have been activated by the Kentucky General Assembly’s all-out war on LGBTQ kids,” said Chris Hartman, executive director of the Kentucky-based Fairness Campaign.
Social conservatives in Kentucky were dealt a setback in last year’s general election when statewide voters rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any constitutional protections for abortion.
The transgender health care bill sparked emotional responses from opponents as it was fast-tracked to legislative passage by GOP supermajorities in mid-March. It would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. It would outlaw gender reassignment surgery for anyone under 18, as well as the use of puberty blockers and hormones, and inpatient and outpatient gender-affirming hospital services.
Doctors would have to set a timeline to “detransition” children already taking puberty blockers or undergoing hormone therapy. They could continue offering care as they taper a child’s treatments if removing them from the treatment immediately could harm the child.
The bill’s supporters say they’re trying to protect children from undertaking gender-affirming treatments they might regret as adults. Research shows such regret is rare. Gender-affirming medical treatments have long been available in the U.S. and are endorsed by major medical associations.
The bill would require school districts to devise bathroom policies that, “at a minimum,” would not allow transgender children to use the bathroom aligned with their gender identities. And it would allow teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use and would require schools to notify parents when lessons related to human sexuality are going to be taught.
Debates over transgender rights garnered considerable attention throughout Kentucky’s legislative session, but in Pike County in eastern Kentucky, the issue has been a non-factor, said Pike County Judge-Executive Ray Jones II, a Democrat who supports Beshear.
“It’s not even been an issue up here,” said Jones, a former state senator. “People are worried about inflation, they’re worried about the economy, they’re worried about jobs. Nobody’s called my office to discuss transgender issues.”
Summing up the potential political fallout from the veto, Jones said: “People who would vote because of the governor’s veto would likely not vote for him anyway.” | 2023-03-27T07:05:34+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/veto-puts-kentucky-in-thick-of-fight-over-transgender-rights/ |
A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week:
Krispy Kreme
North Carolina-based donut shop chain Krispy Kreme reports its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Analysts surveyed by FactSet forecast its profit slipped to 4 cents a share from 6 cents a year ago. Krispy Kreme operates over 300 shops in the U.S. as well as in around 30 other countries. The company forecasts annual sales of up to $1.52 billion and profit as high as 32 cents a share.
Target
Minneapolis-based retail giant Target reports its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Analysts expect its profit fell to $2.12 last quarter from $3.03 a year before. The chain of nearly 2,000 stores has seen its shares lose almost 30% this year. It has said it plans to hire up to 100,000 seasonal employees in stores and distribution centers this holiday season, in line with a year ago. | 2022-11-14T07:18:30+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/this-week-tyson-foods-krispy-kreme-target-earnings/2022/11/14/b1e96656-63e1-11ed-b08c-3ce222607059_story.html |
Through May of this year, there have been 27 claims of catalytic converter thefts in Bexar County processed by AAA Texas, the fourth-most in the state of Texas.
The county has already surpassed the 20 claims that AAA processed in 2021. In 2019, claims of stolen catalytic converters skyrocketed 5,300% in Texas. Last year, according to the San Antonio Police Department, there were 1,700 catalytic converter thefts, peaking last July with 222 incidents.
Through chemical reactions, catalytic converters change harmful substances in a car's exhaust gases into less harmful substances like carbon dioxide and water vapor. Catalytic converters can be sold for up to $250 to recyclers and metal scrappers.
On ExpressNews.com: Map: Catalytic converter theft in San Antonio
Two of the three earth metals used in catalytic converters, rhodium and palladium, are worth more per ounce than gold.
The most common vehicles targeted for catalytic converter theft include the Toyota Prius, SUVs and fleet vehicles like school and city buses. The Prius has two catalytic converters.
The cost of replacing the part for car owners can be between $1,000 and $3,000, depending on the vehicle's make and model. Vehicles without catalytic converters may not be legal to drive until the part is replaced.
The automobile association said Harris County, where Houston is located, has had the most claims so far this year. Through May, there have been 115 claims, compared to 114 in all of 2021.
Fort Bend and Dallas counties are second and third, respectively.
Information on how to avoid catalytic converter theft can be found here.
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BEIJING, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China and Cuba on Friday vowed to deepen practical cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation plan, firmly support each other on issues concerning each other's core interests, strengthen coordination in international and regional affairs as well as jointly build socialism with local characteristics, during a meeting between Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban president.
The two leaders witnessed the signing of bilateral documents regarding inter-party exchanges, BRI cooperation and a consultation mechanism between their foreign ministries.
The two sides also issued an 18-point joint statement on deepening China-Cuba relations in the new era. Cuba reiterates its firm position of unconditionally abiding by the one-China principle, stressing that Cuba firmly opposes any attempt to use the Taiwan question to interfere in China's internal affairs.
China firmly supports the Cuban people in their just struggle to defend national sovereignty and oppose external interference and blockades. China supports ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba, according to the joint statement.
The two sides agreed to deepen high-quality BRI cooperation and strengthen cooperation in areas such as biotechnology, renewable energy, health, economy, trade, finance and cyber security, and China will continue to provide support and assistance to Cuba within its capacity, the statement said.
Chinese observers said Diaz-Canel's visit came amid recent frequent visits of leaders from socialist countries, showing that these countries are deepening exchanges in theory and practice, and as they are also developing countries, the exchanges also let the world hear stronger voices from developing nations, which is conducive to promoting a world order that is fairer.
They stressed that China-Cuba cooperation and China-Latin America cooperation benefit both sides and do not target any third party.
Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, said to Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban president, that Diaz-Canel is the first Latin American and Caribbean head of state received by China since the 20th CPC National Congress held last month, which fully demonstrates the special friendship between the two countries and parties.
"Cuba is the first country in the Western Hemisphere that established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Our ties have become an example of solidarity and cooperation between socialist countries, as well as an example of sincere mutual assistance between developing countries," Xi said.
Li Haidong, a professor from the Institute of International Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times on Friday that the "special friendship" between the two countries and two parties mentioned by Xi was embodied in the long-term friendship of the two socialist countries since the two established diplomatic ties, as Cuba was the first country in Latin America to establish diplomatic relations with China, which laid the foundation for other Latin American countries to establish diplomatic ties with China, and the two sides enjoy a friendship forged by the older generation of leaders, which has become a precious legacy of the two countries that should be cherished and consolidated.
The two parties in China and Cuba have united and led their peoples to withstand various negative influences from the international and domestic environment, overcome risks and challenges through great struggles, and can also support and coordinate with each other to defend fairness and justice in multilateral and international affairs, showing the strong vitality of the Marxist party and the socialist system, Pan Deng, executive director of the Latin American and Caribbean Region Law Center of China University of Political Science and Law, told the Global Times.
According to Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, Diaz-Canel travelled with several senior officials, including Deputy Prime Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas and Alejandro Gil, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, and Ministers Rodrigo Malmierca (Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment) and Vicente de la O (Energy and Mines).
Cuba's delegation includes several senior officials from different sectors, which showed that Cuba wants to comprehensively boost ties with China, analysts said.
Han Han, secretary general of the Center for the Cuba Studies Institute of Latin American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Science, told the Global Times on Friday that China and Cuba have always maintained frequent and consistent bilateral exchanges between the leaders and the two ruling parties, and this is key to promoting China-Cuba ties as well as to ensuring policy coherence and smooth implementation of pragmatic cooperation under the BRI.
Energy prices have continued to rise with increasing global demand, posing a great challenge to Caribbean countries like Cuba that depend greatly on external energy supplies, Han said. She said improving energy supplies, building power plants and more infrastructure are crucial for Cuba to realize its development goals, and in these fields, China and Cuba could strengthen their win-win cooperation.
China is receiving intensive visits recently from socialist countries, including previous visits by general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith in the coming week.
The current international order is at a crossroads and many socialist countries which are also developing countries are working hand-in-hand with other developing countries to push the international order to a more just and fair direction and to promote the development of a multi-polar world, Chinese observers said.
Vanguard in Latin America
China-Latin America cooperation is based on mutual respect and benefit, which serves the common interests of countries in the region, and China stands ready to work with Cuba and other Latin American and Caribbean countries to advance high-quality BRI cooperation and promote greater development of China-Latin America comprehensive cooperative partnership in the new era, Xi said.
Cuba is a bellwether country in Latin America and the spiritual vanguard of the leftist, Li said, adding that Cuba is a model of independence and self-reliance in Latin America.
To date, about two-thirds of Latin American countries have elected leftist governments, most of which pursue a "Latin America of Latin Americans", Chinese observers said.
Strengthening ties with countries like China has expanded the space for Latin American countries to make strategic choices and boosted their strategic independence and confidence, observers said.
China-Latin America economic and trade cooperation has overcome the adverse impact of the pandemic, showing strong resilience and development momentum, Shu Jueting, spokesperson from the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), said on Thursday.
Wang Youming, director of the Institute of Developing Countries at the China Institute of International Studies in Beijing, told the Global Times on Friday that China's cooperation with Latin America is based on mutual respect and benefit that local people welcome, and does not target any third party.
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SOURCE Global Times | 2022-11-28T14:34:09+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/11/28/global-times-china-cuba-eye-deepening-bri-cooperation/ |
A 49-year-old Georgia man pleaded not guilty to several sex crimes Friday, July 30, in Pennington County Court.
A grand jury charged Christopher Thomason in an April 26 indictment with fourth-degree rape, sexual contact with a child under 16, and two counts of indecent exposure.
Fourth-degree rape — sexual penetration of a child older than 13 but younger than 16 by someone at least three years older than them — is a class 3 felony with a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and up to a $30,000 fine. Sexual contact with a child under 16 is also a class 3 felony.
Indecent exposure is a class 1 misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of one year in the county jail and up to a $2,000 fine.
Thomason initially appeared in court on the charges on June 5. He appeared for his arraignment on June 30, where he entered not guilty pleas.
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According to the indictment, Thomason committed the crimes on April 5, 2021. The alleged victim of the rape and sexual contact was 14 at the time.
Court records show Thomason posted a $35,000 bail on June 20. As a condition of his bond, the court ordered he have no contact with the alleged victim and another minor.
Thomason is scheduled to appear in court at 3 p.m. on Oct. 6 for a motions hearing. | 2023-07-05T23:32:44+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-courts/christopher-thomason-pennington-county-court/article_ceccd1d0-1b66-11ee-a06f-2fb8c67683dc.html |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities in Las Vegas are investigating the death of a 20-year-old UNLV football player from Chicago who was found unresponsive in bed in a studio apartment, officials said Tuesday.
The Clark County coroner said a cause and manner of Rebels defensive lineman Ryan Keeler’s death was pending following his death on Monday. Medical examiner blood toxicology test results can take several weeks.
Las Vegas police Officer Robert Wicks said an investigation of Keeler’s unexpected death remained open pending coroner and detective findings. Wicks said the call was initially handled as a medical call.
UNLV head coach Barry Odom announced Keeler’s death on Monday, saying that since the 6-foot-6, 275-pound defensive lineman arrived by transfer from Rutgers University, he stood out to coaches as “an incredible person, student and teammate.”
Keeler played in seven games as a redshirt freshman last season, and he made the academic All-Mountain West team with a 3.8 grade-point average, Odom said.
UNLV was waiting for more information about Keeler’s death, Rebels football spokesman Mark Wallington said. A memorial service was not immediately scheduled.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The leader of Vermont's state Senate, Becca Balint, won the Democratic Party primary on Tuesday for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, meaning she could become the first woman and the first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.
In deep blue Vermont, it’s likely the Democratic candidate will also clinch the general election in November. A win by Balint, who is white, would help erase what some consider to be the blot on the liberal state’s reputation of only being represented by white men.
Balint garnered support from the progressive wing of the state party, including the state’s independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, and national progressive leaders such as Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Balint had campaigned with Sanders late last month.
Balint defeated Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, the centrist candidate who was supported by the state’s Democratic establishment including Leahy and former Democratic governors Howard Dean and Madeleine Kunin.
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Vermont voters also chose Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Welch to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a fellow Democrat who has held the seat since 1975 and was the last of Congress’s so-called Watergate babies.
Welch easily defeated two little-known candidates to move on to the general election in November. During the years he has been in Congress, Welch has been one of Vermont’s top vote-getters and would be an odds-on favorite to win the general election.
Incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Scott also cruised to a his party’s primary victory, defeating two candidates as he seeks a fourth term. The lone candidate for the Democratic nomination is activist Brenda Siegel, of Newfane. Last fall she spent 27 nights sleeping on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse to highlight the state’s homelessness challenge.
Elected to his first two-year term as governor in 2016, Scott has focused his time in office on making Vermont more affordable and working to attract more people to the state to counter a demographic trend of an aging population with a shrinking workforce and fewer school-age children.
Welch’s decision to run for the Senate seat opens up his seat in the House, the first time since 2006 that there have been any openings in Vermont’s three-member congressional delegation.
The two leading Republican candidates vying to face off against Welch in the Senate race are Vermont's former U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan and retired U.S. Army officer Gerald Malloy.
Both believe they can win the seat, although Vermont is considered by many to be one of the most liberal states in the country. No Republican has represented the state in Washington since 2001 when the late Sen. Jim Jeffords left the GOP to become an independent, switching control of the Senate from Republican to Democratic.
The two leading GOP candidates for the U.S. House nomination are Ericka Redic, of Burlington, and Liam Madden, a Marine Corps veteran from Bellows Falls.
Redic says that if elected she would focus on fighting inflation, illegal immigration, drug misuse and government overreach, particularly as it concerns vaccine mandates.
Madden, a non-traditional candidate in the Republican primary, says he's an independent. He said he had thought of declining the nomination if he wins, until he learned that would allow the party to choose a replacement for the November ballot. | 2022-08-10T01:35:40+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/balint-wins-vermonts-democratic-primary-for-us-house/article_a0ffe729-33e3-5438-bc63-d1fc891c38d9.html |
Woman rescues dog abandoned in NYC subway station
NEW YORK (WABC) - A woman rescued a dog abandoned in a New York City subway station after seeing an Instagram post on an account that helps unwanted belongings find a new home.
The “NYC Free at the Curb” Instagram account is a handy public service. Eagle-eyed New Yorkers send pictures of furniture or useful items that have been tossed out in the hope those items can find a new life in a new home.
A woman on her way to work last Monday sent in a photo of a confused, sad-looking pit bull mix she spotted tied up with a rope in the Fulton Street subway station.
Heather Hamm had been thinking about getting a dog for some time. That night, she was home looking at her phone when she saw the post about the abandoned dog.
“I was actually just looking previously at foster dogs, and then, I had opened up Instagram and I saw her. She was the first post on there, and I was like, ‘There she is,’” Hamm said.
Hamm couldn’t resist. She hopped in a Lyft and headed to the subway station, where some police officers were standing with the dog.
“And I was just like, ‘Can I have her?’ And they’re like, ‘Well, she’s your dog now because she obviously likes you,’” Hamm said. “I called her Peaches, and she responded. So, I kinda think that’s already her name.”
Less than 24 hours after the rescue, Peaches had not only a new name but a new pink harness and a clean bill of health from the veterinarian, who found no microchip and estimated her age at 6 to 9 months.
Hamm and Peaches couldn’t be more of a perfect match, as Hamm works in a studio that’s dog-friendly, giving Peaches a place to make new dog friends.
“It’s been a running thing in my studio where everyone’s like, ‘Heather, you need to get a dog,’” Hamm said.
What’s more, Hamm grew up with a dog and had been hoping to adopt one of her own; though rescuing one from an Instagram account where she had previously gotten pieces of furniture wasn’t quite what she had in mind.
“I found my coffee table. I found my couch that I was sitting on when I saw this dog. I found so much on this page, so, this is just my craziest stoop find yet,” Hamm said.
The identity of whoever abandoned Peaches in the subway is a mystery. While there are plenty of cameras above ground in the Financial District and in the subway station itself, there are none in the stairwell where the dog was found.
However, there is enough foot traffic in the area at all hours to ensure somebody would find her.
Copyright 2023 WABC via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-03T09:53:45+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/04/03/woman-rescues-dog-abandoned-nyc-subway-station/ |
A quarantine zone has been established in Broward County after a giant African land snail was spotted in Miramar on June 2.
The quarantine, which was announced on Tuesday, means that giant African land snails or plants (including soil, compost, and yard waste) cannot be moved in or out of the zone without a compliance agreement from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
The zone stretches from Pembroke Road to the north, NW 215th Street in Miami-Dade to the south, South University Drive to the west, and SW 62nd Avenue to the east.
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The quarantine is in place so that the FDACS can effectively eradicate the giant African land snail.
The snail is one of the most invasive pests on the planet, causing agricultural and environmental damage, according to the FDACS. They eat over 500 types of plants and can eat the stucco off of buildings.
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They can grow up to eight inches long, and can potentially carry the parasite rat lungworm, which may cause meningitis in humans and animals.
The snail should not be handled without gloves because of the meningitis risk.
The FDACS will spray the pesticide metaldehyde, also known as "snail bait," in two treatment centers within the quarantine zone. Metaldehyde disrupts mucus production in snails, leaving them to dry out and usually die within a few days.
The pesticide is typically applied around plants or crops in order to protect them, the FDACS said. Property owners inside of the treatment centers will be notified within 24 hours of the pesticide's application.
The snails can lay over 2,500 eggs in just one year, making the population difficult to contain.
Florida has successfully eradicated the giant African land snail twice before, in 1975 and 2021.
The state used labrador retriever dogs to help curb the snail population in 2021.
The USDA trained the dogs to sniff out the giant African land snails. | 2023-06-21T14:55:13+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/quarantine-zone-established-after-giant-african-land-snail-spotted-in-broward-county/3056940/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of a leading grant program for women's artists will be honored by the MacDowell artists' retreat this fall. Visual artist Susan Unterberg has been named this year's winner of the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award, cited for her leadership of Anonymous Was a Woman.
“As an artist, I am very aware of the challenges faced by mid-career artists, especially women, and I celebrate the support provided by places like MacDowell, which give artists time, space, and recognition,” Unterberg said of MacDowell in a statement Sunday.
"Direct support is what most effectively impacts artists and our work; I am thankful to be recognized in contributing to this support, which is best exemplified by the 265 artists who have received AWAW Awards to date,” she said.
Unterberg started AWAW in 1996, and kept her identity hidden for more than 20 years, as a way of highlighting the anonymity of so many women in the arts. The expression is based on an observation by Virginia Woolf, who once noted that many anonymous poems turned out to be written by women. AWAW has given out nearly $7 million in grants, awarding $25,000 each to visual artist Carrie Mae Weems and Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras among many others.
Unterberg will be formally honored Oct. 17 at a MacDowell benefit in Manhattan, where Rosanne Cash is scheduled to perform.
The venerable artist retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire, was founded in in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, the musician and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. | 2022-08-15T03:18:59+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/susan-unterberg-honored-by-macdowell-for-her-arts-advocacy/YVTWHDE4IRCTFHI4PTRMWMGZCA/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. Each year, about 2.3 million people in the world develop the disease. Catching breast cancer early is critical for survival. That’s why researchers are studying how breast cancer spreads in the body. They’ve uncovered some interesting clues about when the cancer travels in the body.
About one in every eight women will develop breast cancer during her life.
Kristen Lyons says, “I just, I felt something and I thought, huh, it was real tiny, but it just felt different.”
Kathleen DePalo says, “I was never one for self-examination, and that was a big mistake.”
When breast cancer is found early, it’s highly treatable. But if it’s spread, or what doctors call “metastasized”, the prognosis isn’t so good.
“So, we understand metastatic breast cancer, it’s not curable.” explains Sara Hurvitz, MD, UCLA/Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Ctr.
Scientists know metastasis happens when circulating cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel in the body via blood vessels. Until now, researchers assumed tumors released cells continuously and haven’t known much about when tumors spread.
In a new study published in the Journal Nature, Swiss researchers examined mice and female cancer patients. They found circulating cells that later form metastases mainly arise during sleep. In other words: when a person or animal is asleep, the tumor seems to “wake up.” Cells that leave a tumor at night also seem to divide more quickly compared to cells that exit in the daytime. Researchers say this isn’t just an interesting finding, it could help improve the way breast cancer is diagnosed and treated in the future. For instance, the next step is to see if giving patients therapies at different times of the day has an effect on outcomes. New information that could change how doctors manage women with breast cancer.
The researchers say these findings suggest that the escape of circulating cancer cells from the tumor may be controlled by hormones, such as melatonin, which determine a person’s rhythms of day and night. They say more studies are needed to determine how to put this discovery into practice.
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ADANA, Turkey (AP) — They lifted slabs of cement with enormous cranes and smashed rubble with jackhammers. Then, they stopped.
Silence.
Key to detecting the faintest noise, which could be the sign of a survivor buried beneath rubble from Monday's quake in Turkey and Syria.
Among the wreckage of a collapsed 14-story building in the Turkish city of Adana, the shriek of a whistle pierced the noise every few minutes on Wednesday. Rescue workers hollered for quiet, and listened for any hint of voices from the debris. Hundreds of people watching hushed.
During one moment of digging, Volunteer Bekir Bicer uncovered a crushed birdcage, he said. Inside was a blue-and-yellow bird, alive after nearly 60 hours.
“I was very happy. I nearly cried,” Bicer said. “The cage was broken, but the bird was still inside.”
Friends and family of the trapped sat beside fires, waiting for a miracle even as the survival window for those trapped under the rubble was closing.
Suat Yarkan, 50, said his aunt and her two daughters lived in an apartment on the building’s fourth floor. They would have been home asleep when the quake struck. He was desperate for hope that they could be rescued alive.
“Look at the bird. Sixty hours,” he said. “It makes me feel like maybe God is helping us ... I have to believe that they will recover everyone.”
Regular moments of silence are essential to such operations, said David Alexander, professor of emergency planning and management at University College London.
“We often find helicopters chattering overhead, making a huge noise and sometimes also blowing up dust whilst the teams are desperately trying to listen for any kind of noise that might indicate someone alive and moving under the rubble,” he said.
Sophisticated rescue teams will use microphones to pick up faint noises, while specially trained dogs and fiber-optic cameras pick up heat inside mounds of debris. But given the need to move quickly, and the limited number of rescue teams deployed across a huge area, cries for help are key.
“If a person can attract attention under the rubble, their chance of being saved is about three times higher than it would be if they’re in a coma, statistically speaking,” Alexander said.
As the sun set Wednesday for the third time on devastated cities and towns in Turkey and Syria, the push to recover survivors became more urgent as the lack of food and water, bitterly cold weather and potential injuries grew even more acute.
Prospects for finding survivors almost three days after the quake are narrow, experts say.
“The first 72 hours are considered to be critical as the condition of people trapped and injured can deteriorate quickly and become fatal if they are not rescued and given medical attention in time,” said Steven Godby, an expert in natural hazards at Nottingham Trent University in England.
In Adana on Wednesday, rescue workers at another collapsed building draped a white sheet across a recess in the mound of debris, obscuring the view of what they’d discovered there.
The digging machines came to a stop, and a stretcher was pulled behind the sheet as the workers looked on in silence.
An ancient city of more than 2 million inhabitants just 20 miles (32 km) from the Mediterranean Sea, Adana has experienced earthquakes before. A 6.3 magnitude tremor in 1998 killed nearly 150 people in the city and its surroundings, and left thousands homeless.
This week's stronger quake left a large number of Adana’s buildings, many of them modern, seemingly untouched. Many high-rise apartment buildings appeared entirely undamaged. On the city’s northern fringe, however, several 14-story buildings collapsed.
As of Tuesday night, Turkey’s government reported that 167 people had been killed by the earthquake in Adana, with others still trapped beneath the rubble. That was only a tenth of the deaths reported in the devastated Hatay province, miles away.
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Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Frank Jordans in Berlin, and Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report. | 2023-02-08T19:41:15+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/in-earthquake-rescues-noisy-gear-and-digging-17771882.php |
CHICAGO — A tornado touched down Wednesday evening near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, prompting passengers to take shelter and disrupting hundreds of flights. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
A confirmed tornado was on the ground around 7 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in Chicago.
"This tornado has been touching the ground intermittently so far and is moving east. There are additional circulations along the line south of O'Hare. Seek shelter if in the warned area," it said.
By 8 p.m. the weather service said the Chicago forecast area was "currently tornado warning free." It said the storm was moving east toward Michigan, where tornado warnings were issued.
Video from TV stations showed hundreds of people taking shelter in an O'Hare concourse. Some 169 flights were canceled and nearly 500 were delayed, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware.
The National Weather Service issued two tornado warnings for portions of the city Wednesday evening. Tornado sirens sounded at least twice across Chicago, warning people to take cover and ringing through the city's buildings.
Lynn Becker, a longtime Chicago resident, posted video to Twitter with the sirens sounding out across the city's iconic skyline.
"I'm in a 60 story apartment building so my options are somewhat limited," he said. "We have to, I assume, go into the core of the building."
Becker said news of the storm was featured across local media.
"There's a certain panic when you're watching a TV screen and everything is in red ... but the hope is that the damage is minimal," he said.
Local news outlets said warehouses were reported damaged near O'Hare.
The weather service quoted an unidentified emergency manager as saying a roof was blown off in the community of Huntley in McHenry County and a trained weather spotter saying trees were uprooted and roofs blown off in Cook County, where Chicago is located.
Earlier Wednesday, the weather service's Storm Prediction Center had said there was an enhanced risk for severe weather, including tornadoes in northern Illinois, including Chicago.
Many tornadoes have struck in the Chicago metropolitan area, and several have hit within the city limits of Chicago, according to the National Weather Service. Between 1855 and 2021, the weather service recorded 97 significant tornadoes in the Chicago metro area.
The deadliest formed in Palos Hills in Cook County on April 21, 1967. The twister traveled 16 miles (26 kilometers) through Oak Lawn and the south side of Chicago, killing 33 people, injuring 500 and causing more than $50 million in damage, according to the weather service.
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GOLETA, Calif., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teva®, a division of Deckers Brands (NYSE: DECK), is thrilled to announce the release of its collaboration with eyewear designers and DJ twins, Coco and Breezy, consisting of sandals and sunglasses made with earth-conscious materials and available in all-gender sizing. The collection of outdoor fashion essentials makes its debut just in time for summer and celebrates self-expression and the freedom to explore.
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"Teva was built on a foundation of creativity and freedom to explore. We inspire those who crave experiences and connections, in whatever form they take. Through our collaboration with Coco and Breezy, and as brands who value inclusion in the outdoors and celebrate expression through personal style, we wanted to design a collection of summer essentials that elevate your adventures, no matter where they bring you," Anders Bergstrom, Vice President, Global GM of Teva Footwear at Deckers Brands, stated.
The matching exclusive sunglasses exude Coco and Breezy's signature laid-back style and are designed with love. The earth conscious acetate wayfarer shaped frames have premium finishes, gold metal accents and tinted lenses. The sunglasses come in transparent green and brown colorways in sizing for adults and kids, perfectly complementing the footwear.
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This recipe from NeighborFood blogger Courtney Rowlands and the Idaho Potato Commission is the stuff of smoky barbecue dreams.
The secret to this epic potato salad is in the drizzle. You drizzle reserved bacon grease on the vegetables — corn, jalapenos and red onions — before grilling them, then mix everything together with a creamy, cilantro-based dressing. You’ll never go back to store-bought again.
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GRILLED JALAPENO, CORN AND IDAHO POTATO SALAD
Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients:
1/2 pound bacon
2 pounds Idaho red potatoes, cut into wedges or bite-sized chunks
2 jalapeños, seeded and chopped
Kernels cut from 2 ears of corn
1/2 red onion, chopped
Salt and pepper
Dressing:
3/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup cilantro, plus more to garnish
1 jalapeño, seeded and roughly chopped
Juice of 1 lime
1 teaspoon honey
2 teaspoons minced garlic
Directions:
Heat the grill over medium-high heat (400 to 425 degrees Fahrenheit).
In a skillet on the stove, cook the bacon until crispy. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate. Reserve the grease.
Place two long pieces of foil in a T shape on your work surface. Spread half the potatoes in a single layer in the center of the T. Top with half the jalapeño, corn and red onion. Repeat with a second set of foil and the rest of the vegetables. Drizzle the vegetables with the reserved bacon grease and sprinkle evenly with salt and pepper.
Fold the foil over the vegetables and seal tightly. Place the packets on the grill for 10 minutes. Flip, then grill for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, or until potatoes are tender and can be pierced with a fork.
Meanwhile, make the dressing: Place all the dressing ingredients in a food processor or blender and blend until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
When the potato packets are done, open the foil and transfer the potatoes and vegetables to a large bowl. Gently toss with the dressing and crumbled bacon. Serve warm or chilled, garnished with additional chopped cilantro.
— Recipe courtesy of the Idaho Potato Commission and blogger Courtney Rowlands
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A 19-year-old driver was arrested on Wednesday after deputies in Oregon clocked him speeding at 176 miles per hour.
A deputy with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office had spotted the driver early Wednesday morning while on speed-enforcement duty on I-5, according to the department. The deputy “saw and heard” the driver’s car, a 2016 BMW M3, traveling “extremely” fast in the southbound lanes before confirming its speed with a Lidar speed-detection device.
The car was traveling at 176 mph, the device determined. The speed limit on most interstates in Oregon is 65 mph.
“The deputy told dispatch about the speeding vehicle by radio, gave a description of the vehicle, and asked for other deputies in the area to assist,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a press release issued earlier this week.
Authorities said they managed to catch up to the driver when he stopped at an off-ramp.
The motorist, identified as 19-year-old Milo Schneider, is said to have cooperated with the deputies. Officials also claimed that Schnieder admitted to going 183 mph at one point.
Schnieder was arrested for reckless driving and booked into the Washington County jail. | 2023-05-20T17:42:59+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/teen-arrested-for-allegedly-driving-176-mph-on-oregon-interstate-deputies-say-he-admitted-to-going-even-faster/ |
A summer edition of NPR's Books We Love. Today, we hear recommendations from our staff for three non-fiction titles: "Making Videogames," "The Nineties," and "Korean American."
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A summer edition of NPR's Books We Love. Today, we hear recommendations from our staff for three non-fiction titles: "Making Videogames," "The Nineties," and "Korean American."
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
06-11-14-36-42
(six, eleven, fourteen, thirty-six, forty-two) | 2022-06-21T04:24:49+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Hit-5-game-17254401.php |
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ABC 10 News, MI – We’re more connected to each other than ever before thanks to the internet. But while it’s a useful tool if used safely, scammers, bullying, and malware can be a few of the many dangers hiding in its depths.
The internet makes it easy for people to lie about who they are and what their intentions are. Anyone can hide their true identity behind a profile picture and screen name. This anonymity makes socializing online dangerous for unsuspecting users.
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If you are concerned about your child’s online activity, sit down with them and have an honest and open discussion about the dangers of the internet. Kidshealth.org has resources for parents and kids when it comes to internet safety. | 2022-09-30T01:25:12+00:00 | abc10up.com | https://abc10up.com/2022/09/27/kids-and-internet-safety/ |
You won’t want to miss this special edition of “The Bachelorette.”
On Monday, August 29 at 8 p.m. ET, a twist episode will air called “Men Tell All,” which will bring back all the former contestants from the season.
The bachelorettes Rachel and Gabby, along with the former contestants, will be on the hot seat as they reflect on their journey. Joining them will be host Jesse Palmer and actors Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane.
Viewers can watch this season and the new episode on streaming services like DirecTV and fuboTV. Both platforms offer a free seven-day trail upon signing up for a membership.
Viewers can watch an overview of the latest episode below.
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You can watch the show on streaming platforms like DirecTV and fuboTV. Both offer free trials when signing up for memberships. | 2022-08-29T22:13:53+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/shopping-deals/2022/08/how-to-watch-the-bachelorette-the-men-tell-all-for-free-online.html |
WASHINGTON – Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility.
More than 8,000 subreddits were dark as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a tracker and live Twitch stream of the boycott. Participants ranged from small forums to large communities with tens of millions of subscribers — including the r/funny, r/music and r/todayilearned pages seen on the online discussion site.
“Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself)," other subreddits wrote in posts seen on the platform's homepage.
The new fees are part of broader changes to Reddit's API, or application programming interface, that the company announced recently.
Organizers of the blackout, which began Monday, say Reddit's changes threaten to end key ways of historically customizing the platform — which relies heavily on the work of volunteer moderators. Subreddit “mods" often use tools outside of the official app to keep their forums free of spam and hateful content, for example, as well as improve accessibility.
Reddit, a subsidiary of New York-based Advance Publications, says supporting large, high-usage third-party developers to access its data is too expensive. The company also notes that the new fees will only apply to eligible apps that require high usage limits, and the majority of API users will not have to pay for access.
Here's what you need to know.
WHAT IS API? AND HOW IS REDDIT CHANGING ACCESS TO THIRD-PARTY APPS?
In short, an API allows computer programs to communicate with each another. Third parties have used Reddit's free API access in the past, for example, to request data and build apps that work with the platform.
But Reddit announced it would be changing its API access polices earlier this year. Starting July 1, Reddit plans to charge third-party apps requiring higher usage limits.
“Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wrote in a Friday “ask me anything” (AMA) on the platform, where he took questions from users about the changes.
Not all third-party apps will be charged, as the policy is based on usage levels, and noncommercial, accessibility-focused apps will also continue with free access, the company said. Reddit also noted that API access will remain free for moderator tools and bots.
WHY ARE SUBREDDITS PROTESTING THIS CHANGE?
Reddit's API changes have caused outrage — as many Redditors say they are concerned about losing long-used third-party resources. Popular third party apps, including Apollo and Reddit Is Fun, have already announced plans to shut down at the end of the month due to costs of the API changes — with Apollo developer Christian Selig estimating fees would total about $20 million a year.
Reddit's backbone of volunteer moderators who rely on these and similar apps will likely feel the brunt of the impacts, experts note.
“While Reddit has promised that moderation tools will not be affected by changes to the API, many moderators rely on third party apps and access to data archives to effectively do their work,” Sarah Gilbert, postdoctoral associate at Cornell University and Citizens and Technology Lab research manager, said in a statement — later pointing to how risks of moderator burnout and essential retention.
Gilbert added that API access helps moderators keep communities safe and “more quickly respond to spam, bigotry, and harassment.” Third-party apps are also important for screen readers, she said, as the official Reddit app is not accessible for people who are visually impaired.
WHEN WILL THE REDDIT BLACKOUT END?
Some subreddits participating in this week's blackout will return to Reddit in 48 hours, organizers said.
Others said they may boycott for longer, with the possibility of leaving the platform permanently “unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren’t able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app,” one widely-circulated Reddit post about the protest read, per The Verge.
“This isn’t something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love,” the post continued.
In Friday's AMA, Huffman addressed moderators' feedback and said that Reddit respects “when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need.”
Beyond Reddit, Twitter ended free API access earlier this year, in a move that also sparked outrage. | 2023-06-13T23:59:14+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/business/2023/06/13/thousands-of-reddit-communities-go-dark-to-boycott-third-party-app-charges/ |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
2-0-1-7, WB: 5
(two, zero, one, seven; WB: five)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
2-0-1-7, WB: 5
(two, zero, one, seven; WB: five) | 2022-07-12T19:44:36+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17300057.php |
By JILL LAWLESS (Associated Press)
LONDON (AP) — “Titanic” director James Cameron says the search operation for a deep-sea tourist sub turned into a “nightmarish charade” that prolonged the agony of the families of the passengers.
Cameron told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday that he “felt in my bones” that the Titan submersible had been lost soon after he heard it had lost contact with the surface during its descent to the wreckage of the ocean liner at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
He said focus in the media over the next few days about the submersible having 96 hours of oxygen supply — and that banging noises had been heard — were a “prolonged and nightmarish charade.”
“That was just a cruel, slow turn of the screw for four days as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “Because I knew the truth on Monday morning.”
The Titan launched at 8 a.m. on Sunday, and was reported overdue that afternoon about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland. On Thursday, U.S. Coast Guards said debris had been found on the ocean bed. Authorities said all five people aboard the submersible died when the vessel imploded.
Cameron, who has made more than 30 dives to the wreckage of the Titanic, said he knew an “extreme catastrophic event” had happened as soon as he heard the submersible had lost navigation and communications during its descent.
“For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously — sub’s gone,” he told the British broadcaster.
“For me, there was no doubt. I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position, and that’s exactly where they found it. There was no search. When they finally got an ROV down there that could make the depth, they found it within hours. Probably within minutes.”
The filmmaker has been an oceanography enthusiast since childhood and has made dozens of deep-sea dives, including one to the deepest point on Earth — the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
Cameron said that “one of the saddest aspects of this is how preventable it really was.”
“We now have another wreck that is based on, unfortunately, the same principles of not heeding warnings,” he said.
Deep-sea explorers have voiced concerns about OceanGate Expeditions’ Titan submersible, saying it was too experimental to carry passengers.
OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein told Times Radio that chief executive Stockton Rush, who was one of those onboard the Titan, was “extremely committed to safety.”
“He was also extremely diligent about managing risks, and was very keenly aware of the dangers of operating in a deep ocean environment,” said Söhnlein , who no longer works for OceanGate. | 2023-06-24T02:01:44+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/23/titanic-director-james-cameron-says-the-search-for-the-missing-sub-became-a-nightmarish-charade/ |
Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones.
American unmanned aircraft, which have been keeping an eye on overland evacuation routes for days, provided armed overwatch for a bus convoy carrying 200 to 300 Americans over 500 miles or 800 kilometers to Port Sudan, a place of relative safety, U.S. officials said.
The U.S., which had none of its officials on the ground for the evacuation, has been criticized by families of trapped Americans in Sudan for initially ruling out any U.S.-run evacuation for those among an estimated 16,000 Americans in Sudan who wish to leave.
U.S. special operations troops briefly flew to the capital, Khartoum, April 22 to airlift out American staffers at the embassy and other American government personnel. More than a dozen other nations have already been carrying out evacuations for their citizens, using a mix of military planes, navy vessels and on the ground personnel.
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A wide-ranging group of international mediators — including African and Arab nations, the United Nations and the United States — has only managed to achieve a series of fragile temporary cease-fires that failed to stop clashes but created enough of a lull for tens of thousands of Sudanese to flee to safer areas and for foreign nations to evacuate thousands of their citizens by land, air and sea.
Since the conflict between two rival generals broke out April 15, the U.S. has warned its citizens that they needed to find their own way out of the country, though U.S. officials have tried to link up Americans with other nations’ evacuation efforts. But that changed as U.S. officials exploited a relative lull in the fighting and, from afar, organized their own convoy for Americans, officials said.
Without the evacuation flights near the capital that other countries have been offering their citizens, many U.S. citizens have been left to make the dangerous overland journey from Khartoum to the country’s main Red Sea port, Port Sudan. One Sudanese-American family that made the trip earlier described passing through numerous checkpoints manned by armed men and passing bodies lying in the street and vehicles of other fleeing families who had been killed along the way.
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State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the convoy carried U.S. citizens, local people employed by the U.S. and citizens of allied countries. “We reiterate our warning to Americans not to travel to Sudan,” he said.
From Port Sudan, away from the fighting, the Americans in the convoy can seek spots on vessels crossing the Red Sea to the Saudi port city of Jeddah. U.S. officials also are working with Saudi Arabia to see if one of the kingdom’s naval vessels can carry a larger number of Americans to Jeddah.
U.S. consular officials will be waiting for the Americans once they reach the dock in Jeddah, but there are no U.S. personnel in Port Sudan, officials said.
Two Americans are confirmed killed in the fighting that erupted April 15. One was a U.S. civilian whom officials said was caught in crossfire. The other was an Iowa City, Iowa, doctor, who was stabbed to death in front of his house and family in Khartoum, in the lawless violence that has accompanied the fighting.
In all, the fighting in the east African country has killed more than 500 people,.
The U.S. airlifted out all its diplomats and military personnel and closed its embassy April 22. It left behind several thousand U.S. citizens still in Sudan, many of them dual-nationals.
The Biden administration had warned it had no plans to join other countries in organizing evacuation for ordinary U.S. citizens who wanted out, calling it too dangerous. There were no known U.S. government personnel on the ground in Sudan assisting the convoy. | 2023-04-29T20:29:52+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/us-conducts-1st-evacuation-of-its-citizens-from-sudan-war/3130298/ |
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Mercy Corps CEO Tjada D'Oyen McKenna about Russia's decision to end a Black Sea grain shipping deal and the impact on global food prices.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Mercy Corps CEO Tjada D'Oyen McKenna about Russia's decision to end a Black Sea grain shipping deal and the impact on global food prices.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-18T11:56:42+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2023-07-18/what-russias-move-to-end-the-black-sea-grain-deal-could-mean-for-global-food-prices |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — It’s been a big year for Sahlen Packing Co., which just launched a second new hot dog product: Sahlen’s Cocktail Wieners.
The company, which employs about 85 people at its Buffalo plant, started selling the tiny hot dogs in September, just seven months after debuting its pre-grilled “Grilled for You” hot dog.
“Around the holidays and football season, everybody loves the pigs in a blanket or bacon-wrapped hot dogs,” said Mike Eckert, who does brand marketing for Sahlen’s. “So, this is something we’ve been thinking about for a while. We’ve had great success with our regular hot dogs, so we wanted to make them a little bit smaller and bite-size for people to enjoy.”
Read the full story from our partners at Buffalo Business First. | 2022-11-29T14:58:36+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/money/business/sahlens-looks-for-big-growth-in-a-much-smaller-hot-dog-size-buffalo-business-first/71-6ffafd19-9fde-44e1-a7ce-b18a3e715178 |
Time for Ja Morant to change his behavior, there’s been enough talking, Grizzlies GM says
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies general manager Zach Kleiman said the 25-game suspension the NBA slapped guard Ja Morant with “was appropriate,” and it is up to Morant to change the behavior that led to two bans in four months.
The Grizzlies’ vice president of basketball operations made the comments after Thursday night’s NBA draft. Kleiman is the first team official to publicly discuss Morant’s situation and the NBA’s punishment of the two-time All-Star for flashing a gun on social media after the season.
Kleiman said the latest incident is part of a pattern of “problematic behavior” for Morant, the No. 2 overall pick in 2019 and the 2020 Rookie of the Year.
“At this point, it doesn’t matter until he follows through,” Kleiman said. “I couldn’t care less about words. Ja has to prove it.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced the latest suspension June 16, and Silver made clear the guard must stop his “alarming” habit of flashing guns on social media.
The suspension for the upcoming season comes a month after a second video of Morant flashing a handgun was streamed online. The video of Morant showing a gun while sitting in the passenger seat of a car was posted after his eight-game suspension in March for a video in which he flashed a handgun in a Denver-area strip club.
The Grizzlies suspended Morant indefinitely from team activities after the second video surfaced. The team had issued only a statement that it supported the NBA’s punishment for this “latest episode.”
Morant is due to make around $33.5 million this season. He now stands to lose just over $300,000 per game — or approximately $7.5 million. He also will have to adhere to certain conditions before being reinstated, the NBA said.
Silver said the two-time All-Star’s decision-making is “disconcerting.”
Morant issued an apology to everyone after his latest suspension through his representatives.
There still apparently are some discussions about what Morant is allowed to do during the suspension. Kleiman expects once Morant is ‘”re-integrated into the team environment” that he will be allowed to take part in individual workouts, conditioning and have access to team medical facilities.
The Grizzlies will be without Morant for the first 25 games when the season starts in October, and the guard’s margin for error is zero.
“There’s no room for steps back,” Kleiman said. “Ja has the opportunity to come back from this. And everyone wants him to be successful.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Good as she’s been this year, Iga Swiatek came to the U.S. Open unsure of what to expect.
She complained that women use different, slightly lighter, tennis balls than the men do at Flushing Meadows, where she’d never been past the fourth round. She was trying to grow accustomed to the noise and distractions, the hustle and bustle, of the Big Apple. And she arrived with a record of just 4-4 since her 37-match winning streak ended in July.
None of that matters now. Cementing her status as her sport’s new dominant figure by winning what is expected to be the last tournament of Serena Williams’ career, the No. 1-ranked Swiatek outplayed No. 5 Ons Jabeur 6-2, 7-6 (5) in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday to claim her first championship at the U.S. Open and third Grand Slam title overall.
“It’s something that I wasn’t expecting, for sure. It’s also like a confirmation for me that the sky’s the limit,” said Swiatek, who is 55-7 in tour-level matches with seven trophies in 2022, both best in the WTA. “I’m proud. Also surprised little bit.”
She acknowledged harboring concerns about the U.S. Open after a couple of shaky showings at hard-court tune-up tournaments.
It turned out OK: She is the first top-seeded woman to win the U.S. Open since 23-time major champion Williams in 2014.
“I feel like on court, I can just do my job,” Swiatek said, “and I’m happy about it, that I kind of can make these doubts go away.”
Swiatek, like Jabeur, travels with a sports psychologist, and it took some fortitude to finish this one off. At 6-5 in the second set, Swiatek held her first championship point. Right before Jabeur served, Swiatek jogged over to the sideline to change rackets — an unusual choice at that moment.
When action resumed, Swiatek missed a backhand. That could have been tough to recover from. Indeed, Jabeur pushed things to the tiebreaker, which she then led 5-4. But Swiatek steeled herself, took the last three points and soon was accepting the silver trophy and a $2.6 million winner’s check, joking: “I’m really glad that is not in cash.”
The 21-year-old from Poland won the French Open for the second time in June and is the first woman since Angelique Kerber in 2016 to collect two major titles in a single season.
“She’s really set the bar very high. It’s great for our sport,” said Jabeur, a 28-year-old from Tunisia who will rise to No. 2 in the rankings on Monday.
She is the first African woman and first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final and was participating in her second in a row.
But she is 0-2 at that stage, including a runner-up showing at Wimbledon in July.
“Definitely, I’m not someone that’s going to give up,” said Jabeur, whose support team wore black shirts with white writing that read “Yalla Habibi,” Arabic for “Let’s go, my love!”
“I am sure,” she added, “I’m going to be in the final again.”
Didn’t help on this sunny, 85-degree Fahrenheit (29.4 Celsius) afternoon that Jabeur needed to deal with Swiatek, who has won her past 10 finals — all in straight sets — and was great from the get-go.
Jabeur did not face a single break point in her semifinal victory, but she got broken right away when Swiatek laced a cross-court backhand winner off a short ball to cap a 15-stroke exchange.
“The only match here where I started that well,” said Swiatek, who had to come back from a set down in the fourth round and the quarterfinals.
Eight minutes in against Jabeur, Swiatek had grabbed 12 of the first 14 points for a 3-0 edge.
“Put a lot of pressure on me,” Jabeur said.
Using her heavy topspin forehand to take charge from the baseline, Swiatek dictated the tempo and trajectory of points. She ran her opponent this way and that, never letting Jabeur use the sorts of spins and variety that she’s accustomed to.
When Jabeur did show off some of what she can do, Swiatek would manage, more often than not, to elongate points. She used her strong court coverage, backed by a soundtrack of squeaky sneakers as she darted everywhere, sometimes even sliding as she arrived at a ball, the way one does on red clay, her favorite surface.
When Jabeur missed a slice forehand early in the second set, she dropped her racket to reflect her despair. A few points later, she flung her racket while off balance and falling face down. A running, down-the-line backhand passing shot from Swiatek on the next point made it 2-0 in that set. Swiatek raised a clenched fist and yelled, “Come on!”
Then Jabeur did make things interesting, briefly.
But only briefly.
She got to 4-all and, after ending up on her back when an off-balance backhand won a point in the next game, she stayed there, enjoying the moment, pumping her fists while laying on the ground.
Jabeur earned three break chances in that game, any one of which would have allowed her to serve for the set. She could not cash in there, though, missing a groundstroke on each.
Swiatek needed to wait 10 minutes from her first match point to the one that closed the contest, but close it she did. Maybe she’ll feel more comfortable at the U.S. Open from now on.
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More AP coverage of U.S. Open tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/us-open-tennis-championships and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-11T17:53:14+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-iga-swiatek-beats-ons-jabeur-for-1st-us-open-title-3rd-slam/ |
Carlsbad's Mikaila Arnold serves at US Navy Helicopter Squadron in Japan
This article was first published by Navy Outreach May 12, 2023.
ATSUGI, Japan - Petty Officer Third Class Mikaila Arnold, a native of Carlsbad, New Mexico, serves in the U.S. Navy as a member of a helicopter squadron forward deployed to Japan.
Arnold attended Carlsbad High School and graduated in 2020.
Arnold joined the Navy three years ago.
“I joined the Navy because I wanted to have a different challenge in my life,” said Arnold.
Today, Arnold serves as an aviation ordnanceman with Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 77.
Skills and values learned in the Navy are similar to those found in Carlsbad.
“When I was younger, I learned to look at the positive and not the negative because things can get worse,” said Arnold.
Members of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 77 fly and maintain helicopters for the U.S. Navy. Navy helicopters are able to perform many different missions. Some of the most common operations include search and rescue, air assaults, medical evacuations, supply transport and hunting submarines.
This year commemorates 50 years of women flying in the U.S. Navy. In 1973, the first eight women began flight school in Pensacola; one year later six of them, known as "The First Six," earned their “Wings of Gold.” Over the past 50 years, the Navy has expanded its roles for women to lead and serve globally and today our women aviators project power from the sea in every type of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard aircraft. Our Nation and our Navy is stronger because of their service.
As a member of the Navy, Arnold is part of a world-class organization focused on maintaining maritime dominance, strengthening partnerships, increasing competitive warfighting capabilities and sustaining combat-ready forces in support of the National Defense Strategy.
“The Navy is important to national defense because it is a show of force to our enemies,” said Arnold.
Arnold serves in Japan as part of the Forward Deployed Naval Forces. These naval forces operate with allies and partners to preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Service members in this region are part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which has the largest area of responsibility in the world.
“As the largest force in our nation’s front line against revisionist actors, U.S. Pacific Fleet meets this great responsibility with strength, resolve and confidence," said Adm. Samuel Paparo, U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander. "Together with our joint and combined partner operations, we are positioned to defend - across all domains - any attempts to threaten our nation, our allies and partner’s security, freedom and well-being."
Arnold and the sailors they serve with have many opportunities to achieve accomplishments during their military service.
“I’m most proud of being mentally strong while being away from my family and my friends,” said Arnold.
As Arnold and other sailors continue to train and perform missions, they take pride in serving their country in the United States Navy.
“To me serving in the Navy is taking pride in showing my younger siblings and cousins that they can do anything that they put their mind to,” said Arnold.
Arnold is grateful to others for helping make a Navy career possible.
“I would like to thank my dad, grandparents and aunts,” added Arnold. | 2023-05-25T15:32:33+00:00 | currentargus.com | https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/2023/05/25/carlsbads-mikaila-arnold-serves-at-us-navy-helicopter-squadron-in-japan/70244781007/ |
SAN ANTONIO – There are new members on the San Antonio City Council and budget season is just around the corner.
On Sunday, District 2 City Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and District 10 City Councilman Marc Whyte joined Leading SA to discuss current council initiatives and planning for the budget.
“We had a very ambitious first term, and I think I set a record for most council consideration requests for a first-term councilperson. And some of those initiatives include an Office of Crime, Recidivism Prevention, a food access master plan, an insulin cost share program, and, of course, an animal care services master plan that takes our strategic plan a little bit further,” said McKee-Rodriguez.
The District 2 Councilman is entering his second term in office, and he already has some big plans underway, including a new council consideration request to help teachers become homeowners.
“I’m calling for an expansion to our homeowners’ support programs to include a teacher homebuyer program. We want to attract teachers. We want to make it a little bit easier for teachers to live in the communities that they serve, to be able to buy a house and to, you know, be a teacher long term...,” McKee-Rodriguez said.
On the other side of the political spectrum, newly-elected District 10 City Councilman Marc Whyte is hitting the ground running.
“It’s been great. I really enjoyed getting to know the other members of the council. There’s a lot of information coming at me seemingly every day, but we’re taking it, and we’re looking at it and trying to decide how we can best move forward for the city in terms of priorities for the first term...,” Councilman Whyte said.
Recently the city announced San Antonio is joining the City of Houston to sue the state over HB 2127, a law set to take effect September 1, that critics said would sharply curtail the ability of cities and counties to pass local regulations.
Councilman Whyte disagrees with the suit, which he referred to as unnecessary litigation.
“You know, for the life of me, I don’t understand our city’s position on this. I think it’s a good bill. I think it’s really going to help businesses across the state. I mean, imagine a business trying to do work in all these different jurisdictions and having to comply with different sets of laws in each one. It’s burdensome, it’s expensive, and this Regulatory Consistency Act is designed to do away with that. So I wish we would not have filed this lawsuit. I’m in favor of this bill. And, you know, maybe even a bigger issue here is the fact that in, I’ve only been on the job two months, but what I’ve seen already is our city’s inability to work with with other governments...,” Councilman Whyte said.
The budget formation is also just around the corner, and both city councilmen have priorities they want to be addressed.
“Community health and the disparities that exist in our communities, such as diabetes, lack of access to greenspace, asthma, lack of access to health care facilities that make it so that we’re much more susceptible to pandemic, you know, disaster like the pandemic and continuing to focus on crime prevention initiatives and investing in opportunities for our young people and of course, infrastructure following through on our new equity lens that is going to make it so that districts like District Two on the East Side will receive an even greater share of infrastructure funding and achieve comparable streams by 2030...,” McKee-Rodriguez said.
“We’ve got to get more money in this budget for additional police. I think we’re going to be at least able to get enough for 100 new officers. That’s something I talked about a lot on the campaign trail, and I think we’re going to be able to get done. The other big issue, of course, is homelessness in the city. And we’re going to have to find a way to get some money there to clean up the encampments and help get these folks off of the streets. You know, it’s a, it’s a public safety issue, and it’s also an economic development issue,” Whyte said. | 2023-07-31T14:19:13+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/07/30/leading-sa-district-2-10-city-councilmen-discuss-budget-priorities-new-initiatives-underway/ |
Dryers have been around nearly 100 years with impressive technological advances. Home Depot has been in business for 45 years and sells some of the best known brands of dryers in all sizes and finishes.
In this article: LG 7.4-Cubic-Foot Large Capacity Vented Smart Stackable Electric Dryer, GE 7.2-Cubic-Foot Vented Gas Dryer and Samsung 7.5-Cubic-Foot Vented Stackable Electric Dryer.
Which type of dryer is better?
Electric dryers typically have a lower upfront cost and more models available. Gas dryers may cost more initially, but they use less electricity.
Does your dryer need to be compatible with your washer?
Some dryers are designed to stack vertically with a washer of the same brand and size. Other dryers have built-in technology to communicate with a compatible washer.
Is remote technology worth it?
You will pay more for dryers that can be operated remotely by a smartphone app, but the convenience may be worth it. If you don’t mind keeping a closer eye on your laundry, then a more basic dryer will suffice.
Best electric dryers on the Home Depot website
LG 7.4-Cubic-Foot Smart Stackable Electric Dryer
This stylish large-capacity electric dryer not only dries more clothes at one time, but it comes with artificial intelligence technology that automatically selects the right temperature and drying mode for the current load.
Samsung 7.5-Cubic-Foot Stackable Electric Dryer
This large-capacity electric dryer has 10 preset drying cycles and a built-in sensor to optimize the temperature and time. It comes with smart care technology that provides remote control from your smartphone.
GE 7.2-Cubic-Foot Vented Electric Dryer
With four drying cycles and four heat selections, this reliable electric dryer has easy-to-operate front controls and an aluminum drum that is rust-resistant. It has a wrinkle care feature and is designed to run quietly.
Maytag 7.0-Cubic-Foot Vented Electric Dryer
This dependable electric dryer has a spacious 7-cubic foot powder-coated steel drum. It features wrinkle prevention, end-of-cycle signal and easy-to-operate knob controls. It comes with an impressive 10-year warranty.
Hotpoint 6.2-Cubic-Foot Electric Vented Dryer
This affordable and reliable electric dryer has a one-year warranty on the entire dryer. It has three heat settings and a delicate cycle for lighter fabrics. The aluminum drum is energy-efficient and corrosion-resistant.
LG 9.0-Cubic-Foot Smart Stackable Electric Dryer
With extra-large capacity and virtual operation via the LG app, this high-tech dryer does it all. It has 14 drying settings, including steam technology to reduce wrinkles and odors.
Samsung 7.4-Cubic-Foot Smart Electric Dryer
This high-tech electric dryer can be started and programmed with your smartphone on the SmartThings app. The Steam Sanitize cycle kills over 95% of bacteria and dust mites.
Whirlpool 7.0-Cubic-Foot Electric Dryer
This electric dryer features the Wrinkle Shield technology that keeps clothes tumbling to prevent wrinkling. It comes with the AutoDry system that automatically detects when clothes have reached the ideal moisture content.
GE 7.8-Cubic-Foot Smart Stackable Electric Dryer
With the Energy Star approval, this dependable electric dryer includes a wrinkle-prevention mode and a sanitize cycle that kills household germs. It has built-in Wi-Fi capabilities to operate the dryer remotely.
Samsung 7.2-Cubic-Foot Electric Dryer
With four temperature levels and eight preset drying options, this electric dryer has tremendous versatility. It includes an automatic sensor detecting when clothes have reached the end of the cycle.
Best gas dryers on the Home Depot website
This gas dryer features temperature monitors to keep clothes from over-drying by setting the optimal drying time. It has four drying cycles and four heat options based on fabric type.
LG 7.4-Cubic-Foot Smart Stackable Gas Dryer
This is designed with narrow depth, but it still holds an impressive amount of clothes. The high-efficiency sensors help the dryer use 20% less energy. Built-in Flow Sense technology detects when ducts and filter need cleaning.
Samsung 7.5-Cubic-Foot Stackable Gas Dryer
With 10 preset drying cycles and a large capacity, this gas dryer can handle anything an active family puts inside it. It has automatic drying sensors and the Smart Care app for diagnosing problems.
Maytag 7.0-Cubic-Foot Gas Dryer
Assembled in the United States with a 10-year limited parts warranty, this sturdy gas dryer can handle up to 16 towels at one time. It has a wrinkle-protection feature, plus an end-of-cycle alert.
Whirlpool 7.0-Cubic-Foot Gas Dryer
This reliable gas dryer has a wide range of features, including a wrinkle shield that periodically tumbles clothes that haven’t been removed yet. The AutoDry system detects when clothes are fully dry.
GE 7.8-Cubic-Foot Smart Stackable Gas Dryer
This smart gas dryer is able to detect just about everything going on inside of it. It has automatic sensors for determining the right temperature. It has an alert for dampness, plus a sanitize feature for killing bacteria.
LG 9.0-Cubic-Foot Smart Stackable Gas Dryer
Big enough for a king-size comforter, this extra-large gas dryer has a quiet design and features the ThinQ app for remote operation. The built-in technology has automatic drying sensors.
Hotpoint 6.2-Cubic-Foot Gas Dryer
This affordable dryer has three heat settings and a sturdy aluminum drum. It features a delicate cycle and end-of-cycle alert. There is 120 feet of venting capacity making for easier installation.
Maytag 7.4-Cubic-Foot Smart Capable Gas Dryer
This gas dryer features a one-push button for extra power that extends time and heat for heavy loads. It has advanced moisture sensing technology for even drying. It has a quick dry feature and wrinkle protection.
Samsung 7.4-Cubic-Foot Gas Dryer
This reliable gas dryer features the Smart Care app for controlling the dryer via your smartphone. It has automatic drying sensors and determines when the lint filter is full.
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LONDON (AP) — Four people were hospitalized in critical condition on Friday after hundreds of people forced their way into a London concert venue during a performance by Nigerian Afrobeats star Asake.
Police said eight people were taken to hospitals after being caught in a crowd of people trying to get into the O2 Brixton Academy. Two other injured people were treated at the scene.
Police said emergency services were called Thursday night after “a large crowd attempted to gain entry without tickets.” Video footage shot by bystanders shows a crowd of hundreds outside the concert hall, and scores of people pushing through the doors and rushing upstairs.
The concert was halted, with a promoter going onstage to tell the audience that people had “breached the doors.”
The Metropolitan Police force said officers, ambulance crews and firefighters arrived and found “a number of people with injuries believed to have been caused by crushing.”
The force said it would hold a thorough investigation into what happened and how officers responded. One piece of footage shows an officer appearing to shove a woman down a few stairs at the venue entrance.
Metropolitan Police Gold Commander Ade Adelekan said officers who use force “know they have to be accountable for their actions.” He said officers’ body-worn video footage would be studied as part of a probe into the incident.
“This is an extremely upsetting incident which has left four people critically ill in hospital. My thoughts and prayers are with them and their families,” he said. “A police investigation has been launched, and it will be as thorough and as forensic as necessary to establish exactly what happened last night.”
The Brixton Academy in south London is one of the city's most famous music venues. Built as a movie theater in the 1920s, it has a capacity of just under 5,000. | 2022-12-16T09:55:31+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/4-in-critical-condition-after-crush-at-London-17658128.php |
WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Thursday's results
Red Deer 4 Calgary 1
Friday's results
Swift Current 4 Lethbridge 3
Regina 4 Prince Albert 3 (OT)
Brandon 11 Moose Jaw 2
Winnipeg 2 Saskatoon 0
Red Deer 6 Edmonton 2
Kamloops 4 Prince George 2
Vancouver 4 Victoria 3 (SO)
Spokane 2 Tri-City 1
Seattle 4 Kelowna 1
Portland 5 Everett 1
Saturday's results
Moose Jaw 6 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 2 Saskatoon 1 (OT)
Swift Current 4 Medicine Hat 3 (OT)
Portland 7 Everett 2
Prince George 10 Kamloops 6
Seattle 2 Kelowna 0
Tri-City 7 Spokane 6 (OT)
Sunday's results
Red Deer at Calgary, 1 p.m.
Lethbridge at Edmonton, 2 p.m.
Prince Albert at Regina, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Calgary at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Everett at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Red Deer at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Portland at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Everett at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Victoria at Spokane, 7:05 p.m. | 2023-01-01T23:40:12+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17688916.php |
Ukraine: Zelenskyy seeks more sanctions, fighting grinds on
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting is grinding on in Ukraine after the country marked the anniversary of Russia’s invasion, with Ukrainian authorities on Saturday reporting dozens of new Russian strikes and attacks on cities in the east and south.
After a somber and defiant day of commemorations on Friday and a marathon news conference, Ukraine’s seemingly indefatigable president followed up with new video posts a day later in which he declared that “Russia must lose in Ukraine” and argued that its forces can be defeated this year.
In a separate tweet, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also pushed for more sanctions pressure on Russia after the U.K., U.S. and the European Union all announced new measures aimed at further choking off funding and support for Moscow.
“The pressure on Russian aggressor must increase,” Zelenskyy tweeted in English.
He said Ukraine wants to see “decisive steps” against Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and the Russian nuclear industry as well as “more pressure on military and banking.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week that Rosatom and his Defense Ministry need to work on ensuring that Russia is ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if needs be. He alleged that the U.S. is working on nuclear weapons and that some in the U.S. are pondering plans to carry out nuclear tests banned under the global test ban that took effect after the end of the Cold War.
“If the U.S. conducts tests, we will also do it,” Putin said.
Russia has already become the most sanctioned nation in the world over the past year, targeted with sanctions by more than 30 countries representing more than half of the world’s economy. But the squeeze on its economy, trade and firms has yet to deliver a knockout blow.
Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, called the latest U.S. sanctions “thoughtless.”
“We have learned to live under economic and political pressure,” Antonov said. “The experience of previous sanctions has shown that they harm the world market to a greater extent, worsen the situation of ordinary citizens in states that initiate or support reckless sanctions.”
The Feb. 24 anniversary of last year’s invasion brought no respite in Russian attacks.
Still, in one of his video posts on Saturday, Zelenskyy asked: “Is it possible for us to win?”
“Yes,” he said. “We are capable of this in unity, resolutely and unyieldingly, to put an end to Russian aggression this year.”
Ukraine’s military on Saturday reported 27 Russian airstrikes and 75 attacks from multiple rocket launchers in the most recent 24-hour spell. It said Russian offensive efforts continue to be concentrated in Ukraine’s industrial east and northeast. Five wounded civilians were reported in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk province, where territory is roughly split between Russian and Ukrainian control.
In the southern Kherson region, Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin also reported 83 Russian shelling attacks, with the regional capital, also called Kherson, hit nine times, and residential buildings, a preschool and a medical institution struck. The head of Ukraine’s presidential office reported three civilian wounded in the region.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday that he aims to discuss peace efforts related to the Ukraine war with China when he travels there in April. China has called for a cease-fire and peace talks. Zelenskyy on Friday gave qualified support for Beijing’s apparent interest in playing a role.
Macron said in Paris that “China must now help us to put pressure on Russia.”
“Obviously so that Russia never uses chemical nor nuclear weapons,” he said. “But also so that (Russia) stops this aggression as a condition for a negotiation.”
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Elise Morton in London, and Sylvie Corbet in Paris, contributed to this report.
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A Collaboration For Conservation Launches with Martin Guitar and Thomas Rhett
BOZEMAN, Mont., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SITKA Gear is thrilled to introduce SITKA STUDIO, a new innovation incubator that aims to expand the boundaries of culture through design exploration, brand collaborations and conservation. To debut SITKA STUDIO, the brand has partnered with one of America's oldest instrument makers, Martin Guitar, and three-time ACM Male Artist of the Year winner, Thomas Rhett, in a Collaboration for Conservation. "Together we created a custom Martin guitar symbolizing our collective stoke for wild places, craftsmanship and music," said SITKA STUDIO's Brand & Creative Leader, Brad Christian.
In honor of these iconic brands, SITKA STUDIO has customized a one-of-one Martin HD-28 to feature a GORE-TEX Fabric pickguard in OPTIFADE Camo and SITKA's "Darkest Before Dawn" mallard design inlay.
From September 29, 2022 through November 15, 2022, SITKA will auction off the customized guitar, which Thomas Rhett has been playing on his BRING THE BAR TO YOU TOUR, with the goal to fund an ambitious waterfowl research project with partners including University of Arkansas at Monticello, California Waterfowl, Five Oaks Ag Research & Education Center, Delta Waterfowl, Ducks Unlimited and other conservation organizations. The monies raised by the sale of this guitar will be used to encourage a national collaboration with on-going projects to establish a continent-wide study of Mallard ducks. SITKA will match auction bids up to $50,000 to help further fund these efforts.
"This guitar has been out with me from coast to coast this summer and I'm pumped to pass it on to the new owner in November," said Thomas Rhett, a special friend of SITKA and Martin Guitar ambassador. "It makes more than music. It makes a statement that represents my love for the outdoors and our efforts to keep it wild for generations to come."
"As hunters and harvesters, we have the opportunity, and responsibility, to support the ecosystems that sustain us. It's this belief that fuels SITKA's relentless support of conservation efforts and with the Collaboration for Conservation, we couldn't be more excited to contribute to this waterfowl research project as a part of our wider effort," said Lindsey Davis, SITKA's Director of Conservation
Bid on this guitar or see how you can get involved in making a difference at https://app.galabid.com/thomas-rhett-guitar
About SITKA STUDIO
SITKA Studio is a new innovation incubator, brought to life by SITKA Gear, that strives to press the boundaries of creativity and build unique products and experiences. In 2022, SITKA Studio was founded and built on similar principles and culture through design exploration, brand collaborations, and conservation.
For more information, visit Sitka.com or follow us on Instagram @sitkastudio
About Thomas Rhett
Ten years after signing his record deal with Big Machine Label Group's The Valory Music Co., arena-packing superstar Thomas Rhett — dubbed "the most reliable maker of No. 1 singles in country music" (Variety) — has 19 multi-PLATINUM and GOLD-certified No. 1 hits, 12 BILLION streams and the longest current active streak of consecutive No. 1s in the format (Mediabase/Country Aircheck Chart). Declared "a prince in the genre" (USA Today), he has been honored with eight ACM Awards including Entertainer of the Year, two CMA Awards, five GRAMMY nominations, plus trophies from the CMT Music Awards, Billboard Awards and iHeartRadio Awards, in addition to being recognized with two CMA Triple Play awards for penning three No. One songs within a 12-month period. The superstar's critically-acclaimed sixth studio album WHERE WE STARTED is available now, with single "Half of Me," featuring Riley Green, currently climbing the charts. Inspired by family, friends and his love of the outdoors, Thomas Rhett is also the co-founder of Dos Primos Tequila and is collaborating with Chaco on an exclusive sandal line. He is currently taking the hits on the road with his BRING THE BAR TO YOU TOUR. For more information, visit https://www.sitkagear.com/guitar
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Feb. 17 — NextEra Energy 250, Daytona Beach, Fla.
March 3 — Victoria's Voice Foundation 200, Las Vegas
March 18 — Fr8 208, Hampton, Ga.
March 25 — XPEL 225, Austin, Texas
April 1 — SpeedyCash.com 220, Fort Worth, Texas
April 8 — x-Qualifying Race 1, Bristol, Tenn.
April 8 — x-Qualifying Race 2, Bristol, Tenn.
April 8 — x-Qualifying Race 3, Bristol, Tenn.
April 8 — x-Qualifying Race 4, Bristol, Tenn.
April 8 — Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt, Bristol, Tenn.
April 14 — NASCAR Craftsman Series Race at Martinsville, Ridgeway, Va.
May 6 — Heart Of America 200, Kansas City, Kan.
May 12 — NASCAR Craftsman Series Race at Darlington, Darlington, S.C.
May 20 — NASCAR Craftsman Series Race at North Wilkesboro, North Wilkesboro, N.C.
May 26 — North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Concord, N.C.
June 3 — Toyota 200, Madison, Ill.
June 23 — Rackley Roofing 200, Lebanon, Tenn.
July 8 — O'Reilly Auto Parts 150 at Mid-Ohio, Lexington, Ohio
July 22 — CRC Brakleen 150, Long Pond, Pa.
July 29 — Worldwide Express 250, Richmond, Va.
Aug. 11 — TSport 200, Indianapolis
Aug. 27 — NASCAR Craftsman Series Race at Milwaukee, West Allis, Wis.
Sept. 8 — Kansas Lottery 200, Kansas City, Kan.
Sept. 14 — UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics, Bristol, Tenn.
Sept. 30 — Talladega 250, Talladega, Ala.
Oct. 21 — Baptist Health 200, Homestead, Fla.
Nov. 3 — Lucas Oil 150, Avondale, Ariz. | 2023-01-17T19:43:30+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/NASCAR-Gander-Outdoors-Truck-Schedule-Winners-17723318.php |
BROOKINGS, S.D. (KELO) – Welcome to the 4th journal of 5th Down. Originally each week five members of the Jackrabbit program were asked to answer five questions, but we’re making a little change.
In an attempt to take a deeper dive into who these young men are as people, we will now feature just three members of the Jackrabbit football program each week.
Dyshawn Gales | Senior cornerback | Chicago, IL (North Chicago Community HS)
Major: Physical Education/Teacher Education
Background bio:
Growing up on the north end of Chicago, early on, football wasn’t something that seemed to be a part of Gales future.
“I was actually scared to play football at first,” Gales said with a laugh. “But my uncle put some shoulder pads on me and my cousin in the yard and he had us tackle each other and he said see, it doesn’t hurt that bad!”
The following year Gales would begin playing organized football as a quarterback, the position he would play all throughout high school as well. He would play just four games on defense as a safety, where he would amass a team high in total interceptions during his senior season.
A few Division III schools had shown interest, but Gales felt he was being overlooked. That’s when SDSU came into the picture… in quite a unique way.
Dyshawn’s high school basketball coach was friends with a middle school coach in the area. That middle school coach just happened to be Jason Eck’s (former SDSU offensive coordinator) brother. After a few phone calls, Dyshawn found himself on a visit to Brookings.
“They asked me if I would be willing to play corner. I said yea, even though I’d never played corner in my life before I came here,” Gales expressed.
Years later, Gales is now an integral part of the Jackrabbit defense.
- Toughest moment of your career and how did you get through it?
“I’d probably say freshman year, my spring season, I wasn’t on scholarship because of course I walked on. I was hurt a lot that spring and I knew I had to show a lot. I had hamstring and quad injuries and didn’t think I’d get put on scholarship,” Gales remembered.
“But that summer I was healthy, I had learned the playbook and I was put on scholarship that fall. It was pretty cool.”
2. Growing up, who was your role model?
“I used to always go to high school games and stuff like that and whoever were the stars, I always looked up to them. There was two guys named Arnold ‘Poota’ Shead and Aaron Simpson. Just the way they carried themselves in sports and everything, I always wanted to be a good athlete and be like them.”
3. What one word best describes you as a person?
“Enjoyable – I love to play around and have fun, spend time with people and build connections and relationships.”
Bryce Johnson | Freshman Linebacker | Parker, Colorado (Lutheran HS)
Major: Human Biology/Pre-Medicine
Background bio:
The one-time Colorado State commit comes from Parker, Colorado, about 45 minutes southeast of Denver. Beginning flag football as a 5-year-old, Johnson played a multitude of different sports growing up.
“I played football, wrestling, lacrosse, I did a bunch,” Johnson said.
As a youngster on the gridiron, Johnson lined up at running back, wide receiver and safety, but it wasn’t until his senior year of high school that he would first play linebacker, the position he currently plays for the Jackrabbits.
- Toughest moment of your career and how did you get through it?
“Before my 8th grade football season, I tore the hamstring of my pelvis. That in itself was a big recovery, I had to have surgery, was on crutches for two months,” Johnson stated.
“I started getting back into sports that winter and spring, and then I did it again playing lacrosse during the spring. It turned into an 18 month process between the two. It was really tough mentally,” Johnson said.
“As an athlete, you kind of build your identity around your sport and that’s something I learned through that process to get away from. You need to have your identity in something unchanging so that it cannot be taken away in an instant.”
2. Growing up, who was your role model?
“My dad. He’s a high character, does everything with integrity, super hard worker, great leader, defiantly someone I want to follow.”
3. What one word best describes who you are as a person?
“Integrity – It’s the characteristic I’ve been raised upon. It’s doing the right thing no matter who’s watching.”
Landon Wolf | Senior wide receiver | Tulsa, OK (East Central HS)
Major: Sociology
Background bio:
Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Wolf was introduced to football at the age of 4 as a quarterback and safety, before switching to wide receiver in middle school.
“I went to a new school and we had a really good quarterback; he actually ended up going to Missouri (Micah Wilson). He was really good, so I played running back and receiver,” Wolf remembered.
He would graduate high school in 2016 with a few Division II and NAIA scholarship offers.
“I felt like I could play somewhere above the level I was being recruited at. So, I ended up walking on at Oklahoma State and got put on scholarship after two years,” Wolf said.
He would spend five years as a Cowboy, gathering 82 total receptions before deciding to grad transfer for his final year of eligibility. He was in the transfer portal for only a few weeks before deciding on South Dakota State.
- What was the toughest moment of your career and how did you get through it?
“Getting hurt last year. (On his first live snap as a Jackrabbit.) I transferred and wanted to have a big last season and I never expected to have a 7th year of college football; but, here we are,” Wolf said with a smile.
“I had never been through a situation where I couldn’t play football. A lot of times football is an escape. So, not having that and not being able to walk was tough. Being able to lean on people like Charlie and Kelsey and other trainers that we have and just my teammates, they supported me and really encouraged me,” Wolf continued.
“There’s a lot of love around here.”
2. Growing up, who was your role model?
“I grew up with a single mom and didn’t have a father in the house,” said Wolf.
“We had coaches that were like father figures that played ball, grew up the same way we grew up. Those are the people we kind of looked up to, took us under their wing. Coach Marquese Williams. He taught me when I was four and he ended up coaching me in high school. He taught me everything I know about football.”
3. What one word best describes who you are as a person?
“Persistent – If I have a goal or an ideal image of the way I want things to work out, then I’m going to do my best to put everything into it so I don’t leave no regrets and can walk away feeling that I did my due diligence. So, if it works out I’m good and if it doesn’t then I know I didn’t leave anything to chance.” | 2022-09-16T03:00:51+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/5th-down-south-dakota-state-football-journal-four/ |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
0-2-2-6
(zero, two, two, six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
0-2-2-6
(zero, two, two, six) | 2022-11-17T04:09:21+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Evening-game-17591016.php |
Rural community, critical access, and specialty hospitals leverage Oracle Cerner CommunityWorks technology to help provide better, more consistent care to patients
AUSTIN, Texas and KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population lives in rural areas and can face barriers to accessing healthcare for a variety of reasons. Without rural hospitals, millions of Americans could face delays and travel challenges to seek the diagnosis, treatment, and care they may need. To better help serve their communities, 32 new clients selected Oracle Cerner CommunityWorks last year, including OSS Health and Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District.
Oracle Cerner CommunityWorks is designed to meet the unique needs of smaller communities. Today, more than 300 rural community, critical access, and specialty hospitals in 45 US states are more effectively and efficiently treating patients closer to home using Oracle Cerner's technology.
"People should have access to healthcare no matter the size of the city, town, or county where they reside," said Eric Geis, national vice president of client relationships, Oracle Cerner. "Because rural providers are often caring for their neighbors, they know their patients well. With limited resources and staffing challenges, they need the right tools to expand access to quality care that will allow them to do the most with what they have. Our technology is tailored to support them, offering a more personalized and simplified experience for both patients and providers."
More patients in smaller communities to benefit from integrated health record
Healthcare providers in small communities are often challenged with how to do more with less while trying to provide the best care for their patients. Geographic location, workforce shortages, technology disparities, and diminishing resources are all examples of how it can be harder to deliver care in some communities. Oracle Cerner technology provides clinicians with an integrated digital record of the patient's health history, including clinical and financial data.
One example is OSS Orthopedic Hospital, LLC dba OSS Health, in rural Pennsylvania, which seeks to consolidate their disparate ambulatory and hospital systems into a single digital patient record. Their work with Oracle Cerner will help optimize workflows, interoperability across systems, and offer customizable automation to help eliminate inefficiencies, improve patient experience, and optimize provider care delivery which can lead to higher value healthcare.
"Oracle Cerner offers an approach focused on helping us with implementation, support, and innovative vision for the future of healthcare technology," said Troy Phillips, CEO, OSS Health. "We're excited about analytics we'll gain to help with data-driven decision making and a revenue cycle platform that improves charge capture, submit clean claims more quickly, and automates many of the manual workflows."
Additional CommunityWorks client contracts recently signed include:
- Uintah Basin Healthcare is Utah's largest rural independent healthcare system. A new emergency room was added recently to the Vernal campus with expanded radiology (including Xray, MRI, CT, and Ultrasound), lab services, and additional clinic space. All services are using Oracle Cerner for an integrated, patient centered electronic health record (EHR) platform across their continuum of care. Community members will be provided more options and more opportunities to receive quality healthcare.
- Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH), a non-profit 61-bed hospital serving communities across southern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, extended their agreement with Oracle Cerner through 2027. Working with Oracle Cerner, BMH has committed to leveraging innovative and data-driven technologies with the goal to continuously enhance the patient and caregiver experience, community outreach services, and revenue cycle outcomes.
- Sierra Vista Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in New Mexico, selected Oracle Cerner as its new EHR platform based on staff output, because of CommunityWorks' efficient process to obtain data and is a user-friendly platform.
- Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District (PMHD), a 107-bed community hospital located in California, chose CommunityWorks due to the value of true integration, ease of use, stability, and autonomy. After utilizing disparate EHR's throughout its health system for years, PMHD will now consolidate to a single integrated record to better support its patient and caregiver needs.
Additionally, Carroll County Memorial Hospital (CCMH) in rural Missouri has worked with Oracle Cerner since 2010. Key benefits they state they have experienced include being able to better manage regulatory and quality information as well as supporting caregivers with a single patient record. Health information is centralized into one view for caregivers, no matter what area of the hospital or what clinic the patient visits, which CCMH believes is pivotal to patient safety and care. See their video to learn more.
Visit the website to learn more about how Oracle Cerner supports caregivers in smaller communities.
About Oracle Cerner
Oracle Cerner's health technologies connect people and information systems at thousands of contracted provider facilities worldwide dedicated to creating smarter and better care for individuals and communities. Recognized globally for innovation, Oracle Cerner assists clinicians in making care decisions and assists organizations in managing the health of their populations. The company also offers a connected clinical and financial ecosystem to help manage day-to-day revenue functions, as well as a wide range of services to support clinical, financial, and operational needs, focused on people. For more information, visit Cerner.com, Oracle Cerner Perspectives, connect on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or join the discussion on Oracle Cerner's podcast Perspectives on Health & Tech.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The nation’s ninth-busiest port is at risk of pollution by more than 100,000 gallons (378,500 liters) of fuel from a Navy aircraft carrier that served in World War II and the Vietnam War before its decommissioning and designation as a National Historic Landmark.
The USS Yorktown — located in Charleston Harbor — is experiencing continued corrosion on its outer hull. If hazardous materials leak into the harbor, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster warned it would impair commercial shipping and harm the ecosystem.
McMaster — who has supported environmental protection in office but failed to get the endorsement of conservation groups in his 2018 gubernatorial bid — took steps Monday to minimize that risk.
Speaking at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, the Republican governor announced an executive order directing the state’s Office of Resilience to study the cost of remediation efforts and remove all 140,000 gallons (530,000 liters) of fuel from the USS Yorktown.
The aircraft carrier also picked up the Apollo 8 crew and spacecraft in 1968 after the first human mission to the moon.
“This is a special place for a whole lot of reasons,” McMaster said at a Monday afternoon news conference. “It’s been entrusted to us. And we have to be sure that it continues to flourish.”
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina called the action “a win for our community” and “for the environment.”
Two of the substances found on the ship are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls, according to Robert Boyles, Jr., director of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Those two substances are not water soluble. If they are not removed, Boyles said they could accumulate in the sediment and sit at the bottom of Charleston Harbor “for a long time.”
Mount Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie, an ex-officio member of the Patriots Point Development Authority Board, said the executive order would protect the state’s coastline as well as its seafood and tourism industries.
“When you pick up any piece of grass or any twig, you realize you’re connected to the entire universe,” Haynie said, paraphrasing naturalist John Muir. “Everything on that ship, effectively, can negatively affect the entire universe.” | 2022-07-11T19:58:42+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/SC-Governor-seeks-to-protect-port-from-landmark-s-17297639.php |
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