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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Leading 2-0 at Anfield after just 28 minutes, Arsenal’s traveling fans were in dreamland.
By the end, the Premier League leaders were left clinging on for a point as Liverpool blew the title race wide open.
While it was the home crowd celebrating the loudest as the final whistle blew on a thrilling 2-2 draw, Manchester City feels like the biggest winner.
This could prove a pivotal weekend in determining who will be crowned champions, with the gap at the top down to six points and second-place City still having a game in hand on Arsenal.
With the leading pair also still to play at City’s Etihad Stadium at the end of the month, both teams can determine their own fate.
On the face of it, a point at Anfield is a solid-enough result at one of the most daunting stadiums in soccer. But this felt like an opportunity missed after Arsenal had cruised into a commanding position through goals from Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus and looked on course for an eighth straight win in the league.
That was until Granit Xhaka’s confrontation with Trent Alexander-Arnold late in the first half, which led to bookings for both players and also roused the home crowd.
Mohamed Salah scored almost immediately after that flashpoint and in the second half it was the Liverpool of old as the Merseyside club dominated the game.
Salah missed a penalty in the 54th minute and Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale produced a string of saves around substitute Roberto Firmino’s equalizer in the 87th.
“When you concede at the end it’s always two points dropped because you have it and you’re suffering in certain moments,” Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said afterward. “The feeling is ‘Ah we should have done it.’
“We have to look at ourselves in the mirror and we should have done better in the second half.”
City’s 4-1 win against Southampton on Saturday was the defending champions’ eighth win in succession, extending their unbeaten run to 12 games.
That is title-winning form and an ominous statement of intent to Arsenal, which has gone 19 years since last lifting the league championship.
The London club’s nerve will be put to the test when it travels to City on April 26 in what could effectively be a playoff for the title.
“Every single day is a test,” Arteta said. “The test now is how good are we going to be on Monday, and how well will we prepare and play the way we want to play to beat West Ham (next Sunday).”
LIVERPOOL BOUNCES BACK
For the best part of an hour, it was vintage Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp’s team produced a reminder of why it has been one of European soccer’s dominant teams in recent years.
Having already beaten City, Manchester United and Napoli at home this season, the Merseysiders brought Arsenal down to earth.
The problem for Klopp, whose team looks certain to miss out on Champions League qualification this season, is that Liverpool just cannot seem to do it on a consistent basis.
For example, Liverpool is still to win a game since routing United 7-0 last month.
“We lack consistency and confidence, these are the two things,” Klopp said. “We don’t have enough positive moments. We have these ups-and-downs in games and that is something we didn’t have ever before in six or seven years.
“This situation we are going through, it is not cool and not something we wanted.”
HODGSON LIFTS PALACE
Roy Hodgson’s golden touch continued as he made it two wins out of two since stepping out of retirement to help Crystal Palace’s Premier League survival bid.
A 5-1 rout of Leeds on Sunday, followed the 2-1 win against Leicester a week earlier in his second stint at the London club.
With Palace now up to 12th in the table and six points above the relegation zone, Hodgson has gone a long way to ensuring the club avoids the drop.
Not that he’s taking anything for granted.
“It gives us a nice Sunday evening and a nice Easter Monday and a nice week’s training, but it’s still divorced from the number of points we need to stay in the league,” said the 75-year-old former England coach.
“So there’s plenty more performances like today that we have to produce and the good thing I think is that we won’t need to produce them by pulling rabbits out of hats.”
Patrick Bamford had put fellow relegation-fighter Leeds ahead in the first half before Marc Guehi evened the score before the break at Elland Road.
A second-half goal spree secured the win with Jordan Ayew scoring twice and Eberechi Eze and Odsonne Edouard also netting.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-10T14:25:51+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/ap-sports/liverpool-blows-title-race-open-after-thrilling-arsenal-draw/ |
Jake Fraley Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Orioles - June 27
Published: Jun. 27, 2023 at 5:27 AM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds, including Jake Fraley (.452 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 95 points above season-long percentage), take on starter Tyler Wells and the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Tuesday at 7:05 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he went 1-for-5 against the Braves.
Jake Fraley Game Info & Props vs. the Orioles
- Game Day: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
- Game Time: 7:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Orioles Starter: Tyler Wells
- TV Channel: MASN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +675)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +200)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +150)
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Jake Fraley At The Plate
- Fraley is hitting .270 with nine doubles, 11 home runs and 25 walks.
- Fraley is batting .333 with three homers during his last outings and is on a five-game hitting streak.
- In 38 of 61 games this year (62.3%) Fraley has picked up a hit, and in 14 of those games he had more than one (23.0%).
- He has hit a long ball in 16.4% of his games in 2023 (10 of 61), and 4.9% of his trips to the dish.
- Fraley has picked up an RBI in 47.5% of his games this year, with two or more RBI in 18.0% of his games. He has also plated three or more runs in five contests.
- In 32.8% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had six games with multiple runs (9.8%).
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Jake Fraley Home/Away Batting Splits
Orioles Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Orioles has a collective 9.3 K/9, the eighth-best in the league.
- The Orioles have a 4.25 team ERA that ranks 16th across all league pitching staffs.
- The Orioles rank 19th in baseball in home runs surrendered (92 total, 1.2 per game).
- Wells (6-3 with a 3.22 ERA and 88 strikeouts in 86 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Orioles, his 15th of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when he tossed five innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up four hits.
- The 28-year-old's 3.22 ERA ranks 17th, .888 WHIP ranks first, and 9.1 K/9 ranks 28th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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WASHINGTON — Despite high interest rates and chronic inflation, the U.S. economy grew at a 2.9% annual rate from July through September, the government said Wednesday in an upgrade from its initial estimate.
Since then, though, most signs have pointed to a resilient if slow-moving economy, led by steady hiring, plentiful job openings and low unemployment. Wednesday’s government report showed that the restoration of growth in the July-September period was led by solid gains in exports and consumer spending that was slightly stronger than originally reported.
It marked the second of three estimates the Commerce Department will provide of economic expansion in the third quarter. In its initial estimate, the department had estimated that the economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate last quarter.
Economists expect the economy to eke out modest 1% annualized growth from October through December, according to a survey of forecasters conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The nation’s manufacturing sector is slowing despite an easing of supply chains that had been backlogged since the economy began rebounding from the pandemic recession two years ago. And inflation is threatening to weaken the crucial holiday shopping period. Retailers say inflation-weary shoppers are shopping cautiously, with many holding out for the most attractive bargains.
But a recession, if likely a mild one, is widely expected in 2023, a consequence of the Federal Reserve’s drive to tame the worst bout of inflation in four decades by aggressively raising interest rates. The Fed has raised its benchmark short-term rate six times this year — including four straight hefty hikes of three-quarters of a percentage point. The central bank is expected to announce an additional half-point hike in its key rate when it next meets in mid-December.
Because the Fed’s benchmark rate influences many consumer and business loans, its series of hikes have made most loans throughout the economy sharply more expensive. That has been particularly true of mortgage rates, which have proved devastating to the U.S. housing market. With mortgage rates having doubled over the past year, housing investment shrank in the July-September period at a 26.8% annual pace, according to Wednesday’s GDP report. | 2022-11-30T13:55:15+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-revises-up-last-quarters-economic-growth-to-29percent-rate/2022/11/30/3ec6d53e-70b4-11ed-867c-8ec695e4afcd_story.html |
The city of Wichita on Tuesday approved a $5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shot and killed by a police officer during a hoax call in 2017.
The settlement will go to the two children of 28-year-old Andrew Finch, who was shot by officer Justin Rapp as he stepped out of his house on Dec. 28, 2017, to see why it was surrounded by police.
Finch, who was unarmed, was shot by Rapp within 10 seconds of opening his door. Rapp has said that he thought Finch had a gun.
Finch’s death drew national attention to “swatting,” a form of retaliation in which someone reports a false emergency to get authorities, particularly a SWAT team, to respond to an address.
“While this settlement will not bring back our beloved Andy, it helps bring some closure as our family moves forward, especially Andy’s two young children,” Lisa and Dominica Finch, Finch’s mother and sister, respectively, said in a statement.
Investigators later determined the call was the result of a feud between two online gamers over a video game, Shane Gaskill of Wichita and Ohio gamer Casey Viner.
Authorities said Viner recruited Tyler R. Barriss to “swat” Gaskill. Barriss, a Los Angeles man who was known online for “swatting,” called police from Los Angeles to falsely report a shooting and kidnapping at the Wichita address.
But the address they used was old, leading police to Finch, who was not involved in the dispute or playing the video game.
Barriss is serving 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to 51 counts in April 2019. Viner was sentenced to 15 months in September 2019 after pleading guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Shane Gaskill was sentenced in September 2022 to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud,
Rapp was not charged and was later promoted from officer to detective. The city was dropped from the lawsuit but was responsible for Rapp’s legal costs.
The city will pay $2 million from its self-insurance fund and $1.5 million from the city council’s reserve fund, with AIG insurance paying the remainder of the settlement. | 2023-03-15T10:25:18+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national/ap-us-news/city-of-wichita-settles-fatal-swat-shooting-for-5-million/ |
FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the Fresno City Council joined with health and safety advocates from Alcohol Justice and the Friday Night Live Partnership at Fresno City Hall Tuesday to condemn California SB 930. The "gut & amend" bill, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Member Mark Haney (D-San Francisco) is the 5th attempt since 2013 to disrupt the protections of California's statewide uniform last call.
"All previous attempts to disrupt the protections of a uniform statewide 2 a.m. last call have failed and for good reason – it's a terrible public policy change for California," stated Cruz Avila, Executive Director of Alcohol Justice. "Today we are here together, in my home town of Fresno, to say NO to SB 930 and NO WAY to creating a dangerous new class of California late night, bar hopping, impaired commuters."
SB 930 would allow closing times for on-sale retailers to be extended from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. as part of a dangerous "pilot program." The experiment would take place in 6 cities: San Francisco, Oakland, West Hollywood, Cathedral City, Coachella, and Palm Springs. Fresno was originally the 7th city in the pilot program but requested to be removed from the bill due to intense opposition among Fresno city leaders who will be voting on an opposition resolution on Thursday.
"The effort to keep Fresno bars open until 4 a.m. from 2 a.m. was reckless and dangerous," said Fresno City Councilmember Gary Bredefeld. "Our great Fresno Police already have to deal with numerous DUI arrests nearly every day. That's why several Council colleagues and I are bringing forward a Council resolution on August 11th opposing this stupidity. This bill, SB930, not surprisingly is authored by one of the most left-wing, radical, pro-criminal politicians that exists in Sacramento. Should it pass, our citizens and their families will have a greater chance of being injured or killed due to having more drunk drivers on our roads. That is why I will do everything to make sure this doesn't happen. Having drinking continue until 4 a.m. will only yield more tragedies on our roads and highways and would be just one more insane policy from Sacramento politicians causing destruction in our community. This bill must be defeated."
" The City of Fresno has shown itself to be a leader in developing and upholding policies that put the well-being of its citizens first," stated Lynne Goodwin, Administrator Friday Night Live Partnership. " A city council resolution to oppose SB930 will demonstrate this city's continued commitment to putting the health and welfare of the people first. "
Public health and safety experts and advocates throughout the state are convinced there is no "local control" when it comes to alcohol because the danger, harms and costs will not stay in the "Pilot Project Cities" where the drinking and economic benefits occur. If the bill becomes law, all surrounding communities of pilot project cities will be threatened by late night drinkers traveling drunk and fatigued in the early morning commute hours.
"We already have a crisis of drunk drivers in Fresno County, said Steve Brandau, District 2 Supervisor Fresno County Board of Supervisors. "Fresno is considered the most dangerous city in California for drunk drivers, and 25th in the entire nation. Extending operating hours so bars can sell alcohol until 4 a.m. is a cocktail recipe for disaster – and a bad fit for Fresno. I am opposed."
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), California currently suffers more annual alcohol-related harm than any other state: 11,000 alcohol-related deaths, $35 billion in total costs, $18.5 billion in state costs. The CDC also identifies maintaining existing last call times as one of the 10 key policies for reducing the harms from reckless drinking and from alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths.
Fresno is following actions by the Los Angeles City Council which passed a resolution of opposition last week, and the powerful Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP) that came out against SB 930 in a recent letter to Senator Scott Wiener, co-author of SB 930.
"I've talked to our downtown businesses and they don't want 4 a.m., said Fresno Councilmember Miguel Arias (District 3). "It would impose more costs with very little extra revenue being generated. They also know that patrons leaving drunk at 4 a.m. will be running into farm workers on their way to work. This policy doesn't fit in our city, our community. It's just not necessary."
SB 930:
- Is a poorly conceived and inadequately funded pilot project
- Strips away uniform protections of statewide 2 a.m. last call
- Costs the state at least $3-4 million per year to administer, mitigate the harm, and clean the blood off the highway; costs cities and towns in "Splash Zones" millions more
- Disregards 40 years of peer-reviewed, public health research on the dangers of extending last call
- Ignores the existing annual catastrophe of alcohol-related harm in California
- Uses the false narrative of COVID economic recovery to subsidize and reward late-night alcohol-sellers at government and tax-payer expense
"Fresno leaders are absolutely using power in the right way," stated Carson Benowitz-Fredericks, MSPH, CHES, Research Director, Alcohol Justice. "As a public health expert, I would argue they are using power in the only right way—to protect the residents of this city from reckless, short-sighted, science-denying policies promoted by politicians who would tip the rest of the state off the cliff just to enjoy the drunken view from 4 a.m. Now, let's stand up for every community in this state and use every bit of power we have to stop SB 930."
Alcohol Justice encourages the public to TAKE ACTION to STOP SB 930: Text JUSTICE to 313131 or visit: https://alcoholjustice.org/take-action/stop-sb-930-no-late-last-calls-in-ca-not-now-not-ever
CONTACT: Jorge Castillo 213 840-3336
Michael Scippa 415 548-0492
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A wildfire fueled by strong winds on Tuesday burned parts of a seaside city on South Korea’s eastern coast, killing at least one person and forcing hundreds to flee before being slowed by rain.
It took eight hours and nearly 3,000 firefighters to put out the blaze that started on a mountain in a central part of Gangneung at around 8:30 a.m. and destroyed around 70 homes and other buildings.
More than 550 people evacuated to facilities that included an ice-skating arena and a middle school gym.
A man presumed to be in his 70s was found dead inside a burnt-down home while another resident and two firefighters sustained second-degree burns, officials said.
The Korea Forest Service said firefighters extinguished the blaze as of 4:30 p.m., helped by rain that began in the afternoon.
Their efforts were initially slowed by powerful winds that made it difficult to fly water-dropping aircraft, but officials managed to deploy helicopters in the afternoon.
The Korea Meteorological Administration said winds in the Gangneung area were blowing at 103 kilometers (64 miles) per hour. The strong winds also forced railroad operators to cancel at least a dozen passenger trains between Gangneung and other eastern coastal cities like Donghae and Samcheok.
The fire covered more than 379 hectares (936 acres). Firefighters during the earlier part of their response focused on establishing barriers to prevent the flames from spreading to more populated areas of Gangneung.
Photos showed firefighters spraying water toward burning homes and buildings and large, orange flames engulfing a pine forest near a seaside resort hotel. The Korea Forest Service said that the fire was likely sparked by a tree that fell over a powerline after being snapped by strong winds. | 2023-04-11T11:15:54+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/hundreds-flee-from-wildfire-in-south-korean-seaside-city/ |
Move Solidifies Commitment to Stop Loss Solutions for the Self-Insured Marketplace
EATONTOWN, N.J., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Crum & Forster (C&F) Accident & Health (A&H) announced the acquisition of medical stop loss insurance agency, Partners Managing General Underwriters LLC (PMGU), as the latest move in expanding its position in the self-insured marketplace.
C&F has been underwriting stop loss insurance for over 20 years and will continue to offer a broad suite of products and services on a direct and program basis through various distribution channels including managing general underwriters, managing general agencies, brokers and third party administrators. C&F's philosophy of diversification through its partners and unique industry segments has been a key factor in the success of the Accident & Health portfolio.
C&F continues to make investments in the Accident & Health operation to vertically integrate marquee products into its portfolio. This acquisition comes at a time of growth and evolution in the self-insured industry and demonstrates C&F's commitment to this central line of business.
Brian Miller, CEO of PMGU, shared, "I know I speak for all of PMGU in sharing our excitement as we officially become part of the C&F A&H family. We have been strategically aligned for nearly seven years, and this move is one that is not only great for our organization, but also for those we have and will continue to serve."
"The acquisition of PMGU marks an exciting start to 2023," said Gary McGeddy, President of C&F Accident & Health. "Our companies share the same vision and culture, and a commitment to partner service. Brian and his team will report into Gary Nidds, Executive Vice President of the Medical Business Unit, and the collective mission of our two organizations presents a wealth of opportunity to evolve and scale in a growing ecosystem."
About Crum & Forster Accident & Health
Crum & Forster, rated A (Excellent) by AM Best (2022), is a national commercial property and casualty group of insurance companies wholly owned by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. Since 2000, Crum & Forster's Accident & Health Division has offered a diverse portfolio of specialty insurance and reinsurance products nationwide. We place a strong focus on product development and creative distribution methods, along with excellent client service and support. In addition, our ability to provide international Accident & Health solutions through our Cayman Island captive facility as well as through various partnerships within the Fairfax family demonstrates our dedication to providing alternative strategies in an ever-changing insurance market. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
The C&F logo, C&F and Crum & Forster are registered trademarks of United States Fire Insurance Company.
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Inflation impacts Southern Nevada families with back-to-school spending on a budget
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - This year, inflation impacts parents’ back-to-school shopping plans.
Every year Goodwill stores in Southern Nevada see a high demand before school starts. This year, more parents are buying gently used clothes.
Bryan Stewart, VP of Marketing for Communications for Goodwill of Southern Nevada, said it’s a place parents can stretch a dollar.
“The good news is even though families are getting hit with inflation, Goodwill has not raised our prices significantly over the last three years,” Stewart said.
During a back-to-school pool party in North Las Vegas, FOX5 asked parents how shopping was going.
Misty Jones noticed the price of everything going up.
“Especially shoes like shoes are outrageously priced,” Jones said.
Nicole Noe said they’ve had no issues ordering pre-packed boxes of school supplies at her children’s school.
“The school that we go to they offer EduKit. I think it was about $75 and everything required for the grade for the school year was in a box by the time we came back to open house,” Noe said.
On Saturday Amazon held their annual back-to-school supply giveaway. They supplied 2,000 backpacks to students at Whitney Recreation Center.
Whitney Elementary Assistant Principal, Julie Causey, said the supplies are invaluable.
“They’ve just come alongside our families given them what they need they can come into school they’ve got backpacks, they’ve got pencils, they’ve got everything to hit the ground running and that’s invaluable for them,” Causey said.
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RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Drew Lock will get a significant amount of playing time in Seattle's final preseason game and still has a chance to win the Seahawks' starting quarterback job, coach Pete Carroll said Tuesday.
Carroll did not say whether it would be Lock or Geno Smith starting against the Cowboys on Friday. They are competing for the starting job to replace Russell Wilson following his trade to Denver in the offseason and Smith has continually been noted as the leader in the competition.
Seattle's plan for splitting playing time between the pair was thrown out of whack after Lock missed most of last week after testing positive for COVID-19. His workload against the Cowboys depends on how well Lock is able to handle the week of preparation.
“Drew needs to play a lot of football because he missed the game. So that’s the main thing (to) get done on this weekend,” Carroll said.
Lock was scheduled to start last Thursday’s second preseason game against Chicago, but tested positive for COVID-19 two days before the game. He returned to practice on Sunday and Monday’s practice was a lighter session for the Seahawks.
Carroll called the game against the Cowboys a “makeup deal,” for Lock in highlighting the importance of the final preseason contest. Carroll referenced the initial timeline he had for making a decision on who would be Seattle’s starting quarterback was altered after Lock’s illness.
“I had a set thought on what we would do with the timeline, but that got disrupted,” Carroll said. “And so we’re going to use all the time we need.”
That could mean even more evaluation time following the preseason finale. The Seahawks will have 17 days between the game in Dallas and the season opener on Sept. 12 against Denver and former franchise QB Russell Wilson.
While a decision seems likely before game week, Seattle could use those final practices next week.
“I’m not closing the book on anybody competing for their spots,” Carroll said. “We have two enormous weeks coming up: the finish of this one, next week is a huge week for us and then we come back with another full week and an extra day. So we got a lot of time here to work it out — on my schedule. Maybe you’re not feeling that schedule but on my schedule I’m OK.”
NOTES: Carroll expects CB Artie Burns (groin) and WR Dee Eskridge (hamstring) are both expected to play against Dallas should they make it through the week of practice. ... The status of RB Ken Walker III returning for the opener remains unknown. Walker had surgery to repair a hernia. “He’s doing fine, but how many weeks is it going to take, I don’t know that and then the doctors aren’t telling us either. So I think a lot is gonna have to do with him.” ... CB Tre Brown (knee) won’t be ready for the start of the season, Carroll said. Brown suffered a left patellar tendon injury midway through last season.
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Racism on the soccer field took a toll on Black players in England
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — When racism was rife in English soccer and hooliganism was on the rise, Black players were only just beginning to integrate into some of the league’s biggest teams.
Liverpool, arguably the most famous soccer club in the world at the time, fielded its first Black player in 1980. Chelsea followed two years later by bringing in Paul Canoville.
The Chelsea player was regularly called “the N-word,” often told to “go home” and had bananas thrown at him. “Why do they always throw fruit like a banana?” the British-born Canoville said in an interview with The Associated Press. “What, I’m going to act like an ape?”
Even more astounding was the source of the vitriol.
“It wasn’t the away fans that were racially abusing me. It was the majority of my own fans,” Canoville said. “I didn’t expect that at all.”
Now 61, Canoville has become a reference point to a shameful period in Chelsea’s — and English soccer’s — past, and provides a constant reminder of the work the sport still needs to do to fight racism amid increasing examples of players being subjected to hatred worldwide.
“If you want to keep this game alive, you’ve got to deal with this,” Canoville said. “Players like myself, young Black players, shouldn’t be quiet. They should say something right there and then.”
“I didn’t at that time and I’ve had to learn from that. That’s something I teach to up-and-coming players now.”
Canoville didn’t win any major titles while playing five years for Chelsea, but his name is indelibly written in the club’s history because of the vicious racial abuse he endured; he now has a hospitality lounge named in his honor at Stamford Bridge, the team’s home stadium in west London.
There was no safety net for Canoville or other Black players being racially abused — a problem epitomized by a heart-wrenching photo of Liverpool great John Barnes kicking a banana off the field with his heel in 1988.
“Five thousand people behind the goal singing ‘Black this, Black that.’ That’s difficult to play in front of,” said Mark Bright, who played for several English clubs in the 1980s and 1990s and is now an ambassador and talent scout for one of his former teams. “Black guy scored a goal and they didn’t like him and monkey chants come out.”
“The TV companies failed us, the radio failed us, the (Professional Footballers’ Association) failed us,” Bright, now 60, told the AP. “They didn’t make a stand against it.”
The problem is not restricted to the best players in the sport. British anti-racism charity Kick It Out says last year there was a 41% increase in reports of all forms of discrimination in youth and amateur soccer, the majority relating to race.
The Show Racism the Red Card campaign has helped raise awareness of the problem. The anti-racism charity, launched in 1996, continues to use soccer players to help educate young people and tackle racism in British society.
The experiences of Canoville and Bright could help younger players like Vinícius Júnior, the Real Madrid player who has been the target of some of the worst recent racist abuse. Vinícius, who scored a goal playing for Brazil’s national team at last year’s World Cup in Qatar, is widely-regarded as a potential heir to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as soccer’s next global superstar.
But, say players who recall past decades of abusive behavior, those in positions of power need to step in.
Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville, now a soccer television commentator, believes racism has been overlooked for too long and concedes he could have dealt with it better as a player and coach.
He was a member of the England national team when its Black players were racially abused during a game against Spain in Madrid in 2004.
“We came back into the changing room after the game and the attitude was, ‘Let’s get on with our jobs,’” Neville said. “You swept it under the carpet. You didn’t want to speak about it.”
He said that mentality continued when he was part of England’s coaching staff and another Black player, Raheem Sterling, raised concerns about attacks aimed at him in 2016.
“He came to me to say, ‘Why am I being victimized?’” Neville said. “I, as a coach, failed in my duty, I believe, to deal with it properly, not mentioning the fact that the color of his skin was causing … him to have treatment beyond players who were white.”
Neville has been outspoken on race and political issues in recent years, even criticizing then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2021 for failing to condemn fans who booed when England players took a knee before games following the death of George Floyd.
Black players like Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka have flourished even after being targeted online for missing penalties in England’s shootout loss to Italy in the European Championship final in 2020. But a third Black player who also missed a penalty and was racially abused, Jadon Sancho, has struggled on the field ever since.
None of those attacks came as a surprise to Canoville, whose own abuse came before the internet and mobile phones.
“I expected it right away,” he said, adding that Twitter and other social media platforms should have acted quickly to take it down. “They didn’t. They allowed that. That’s deadly, man, to read that.”
For Canoville, even taking the field led to a feeling of dread because of the abuse and he spent nights agonizing about his game in a bid to win over his abusers.
“The manager came to the side,” Canoville remembered. “He said he could imagine what I was feeling in that moment, but these are the same ignorant fans that are paying your wages.”
When his career was cut short by injury, Canoville fell into drug addiction and suffered mental health problems. In and out of rehab, he also underwent chemotherapy for cancer. He finally got clean, and was told he was cancer-free, in 2005. His award-winning memoir “Black And Blue” came out in 2008.
He believes many of his struggles with addiction stem from his experiences at Chelsea.
“I was trying to deal with it myself and that is not a good thing,” he said. “I probably had mental health issues that I didn’t realize because I thought it was my fault why I wasn’t accepted by certain fans.”
Canoville now runs a foundation to educate young people, holding events around the country that teach Black history, anti-racism, dealing with addiction and overcoming adversity. And after all these years, he is now treated like an all-time great by Chelsea fans — even some who abused him in the past.
“They explain, ‘I didn’t know what I was doing. I was just following my friends or my father,’” he said. “It is late, but they know now how I felt. That’s the good thing.”
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Pugmire reported from London.
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New coins featuring King Charles III revealed
Published: Sep. 30, 2022 at 7:29 AM CDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
(CNN) - Coins featuring King Charles III will enter circulation alongside those of Queen Elizabeth II, The Royal Mint confirms.
The official maker of coins in Great Britain said, “The first coins bearing the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III will enter circulation in line with demand from banks and post offices.”
This means coins featuring the king and queen will co-circulate for many years to come.
According to the UK coin maker, there are approximately 27 billion coins in circulation that feature Queen Elizabeth II.
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced today the launch of an initiative to develop a roadmap of standards and codes for electric vehicles (EVs) at scale. The ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP) will serve as the forum for development of the document.
In furtherance of the Biden Administration's goal for a clean energy future, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) issued a June 2021 lab call funding opportunity announcement. The lab call included a pillar on codes and standards with the goal to "identify and address challenges and barriers to the integration of EVs@Scale charging with the grid created by uncoordinated development of codes and standards and the rapid advances in vehicle and charging technologies." The EVs@Scale lab consortium formed in response committed to develop a 2022 roadmap like the earlier ANSI EV standards roadmap. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is the lead lab for the codes and standards pillar, supported by consortium members National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The EV@Scale initiative supports federal and state funding associated with deploying EV charging infrastructure nationwide.
The priorities of the codes and standards effort will be to identify the most critical standards for EVs at scale, including for standards to address high-power DC charging, storage (i.e., microgrid, distributed energy resource management systems) integrated with DC charging, vehicle grid integration, high-power scalable/interoperable wireless charging, and vehicle-oriented systems. Subject-matter experts interested in participating are invited to review the panel architecture and sign up for one or more working groups. A one-hour virtual kick-off event providing more details will be held June 15, 2022, at 12 noon Eastern. Register here. It is envisioned that the working groups will hold virtual meetings, twice per month, over the course of the coming year. A draft roadmap is targeted for mid-February 2023, which will then undergo public review before being finalized by mid-May 2023. Participation is open to EV stakeholders that have operations in the United States.
The ANSI EVSP is a cross-sector coordinating body whose objective is to foster coordination and collaboration on standardization matters among public- and private-sector stakeholders to enable the safe, mass deployment of electric vehicles and associated infrastructure in the United States with international coordination, adaptability, and engagement. Outputs of the EVSP in the 2011-2014 timeframe included a Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles (Version 2.0, May 2013), a Progress Report (November 2014) against same, and a Standards Compendium. Though the priorities have shifted in many respects with the new focus on EVs@Scale, aspects of the earlier EVSP work may be drawn upon as needed.
ANSI's facilitation of this initiative is supported in part by VTO/Argonne National Laboratory. Additional, exclusive sponsorship opportunities with appropriate recognition benefits are invited from industry and other directly affected stakeholders to help offset ANSI's costs of operating the EVSP.
"ANSI is pleased to once again offer its services as a neutral facilitator and bring together interested stakeholders to identify the latest standards and conformance needs and challenges associated with the deployment of electric vehicles," said S. Joe Bhatia, ANSI president and CEO.
For more information, visit ANSI's EVSP webpage.
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The Institute represents and serves the diverse interests of more than 270,000 companies and organizations and 30 million professionals worldwide. ANSI is the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). For more information, visit www.ansi.org.
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But the hype doesn’t match reality. Most of us are probably getting enough protein, although highly active people may need a little more.
“The devil is in the details,” said Stuart Phillips, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and an expert on protein, physical activity and health. Here are the five things you really need to know about protein.
Active people need more protein than couch potatoes
If you’re sedentary, you officially need about 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight, according to the recommended daily allowance set by the government’s Food and Nutrition Board. This translates to somewhere between 45 to 60 grams of daily protein for most people who rarely exercise — or approximately two chicken breasts (about 30 grams of protein each) or a 6-ounce can of tuna (about 40 grams) and a quarter-cup of almonds (about 8 grams).
But this amount is almost certainly too low for many of us. The recommendation “for protein might be enough to keep us alive, but it is too low for physically active people,” said Eric Rawson, a professor of nutrition and exercise at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
For active people, a better recommendation would be “1 to 1.2 grams per kilogram” of body weight each day, Phillips said, or higher, “up to a level of 1.6 grams per kilogram” of body weight daily if you’re physically active. In simple terms, if you weigh 160 pounds, or 72.5 kilograms, then 1 gram per kilogram of your weight is 72.5 grams of daily protein, which you could get by eating, over the course of your day, a 6-ounce steak (about 42 grams), a cup of Greek yogurt (about 17 grams) and a half-cup of tofu (about 20 grams).
Some researchers advocate for more, though, especially for athletes in the middle of heavy training, when their muscles are under constant strain. For them, the “optimal” amount of protein may be as high as 2.2 grams per kilogram of body weight every day or approximately a gram of protein for every pound of body weight, said Shawn Arent, the chairman of the department of exercise science at the University of South Carolina and a longtime sports nutrition researcher.
You can overdo the protein thing
Our muscles can only take in and use so much of this stuff.
“I don’t see data to suggest that our bodies can use protein beyond about 0.4 to 0.5 grams of protein per kilogram” of body weight at a single meal, Phillips said, which, for most of us, would equate to a large chicken breast.
Swallow more protein than that and the excess is stored as fat, used as metabolic fuel or transformed into urea, which is protein stripped of its nitrogen and excreted through the kidneys.
Extra-large portions of protein, in other words, produce expensive pee.
Thankfully, they won’t damage your kidneys, unless you already have kidney disease. That widespread belief is a myth, Phillips said.
But perhaps the most important thing to know about protein is that you’re probably getting enough.
“Most Americans are eating close to 1.0 to 1.2 grams per kilogram of their body weight” in protein most days, said Nicholas Burd, the director of the Nutrition and Exercise Performance Research Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which seems to be close to the nutritional sweet spot for most of us, assuming we’re active but not Olympians.
You don’t need that whey shake.
Still concerned about getting enough protein? Supplements, like shakes and bars “are convenient,” Phillips said. But so is a hard-boiled egg, which contains about 6 grams of protein, or a chicken breast. “I eat a lot of Greek yogurt and chicken,” he said.
There’s little evidence that certain proteins are more nutritious than others, although some people swear by whey powder. Derived from milk, whey is a good source of leucine, an amino acid that helps jump-start muscle building. “But so is Greek-style yogurt,” Phillips said, or salmon, which is packed with leucine.
“Whey protein has falsely been put on a pedestal as superior due to aggressive sports marketing campaigns,” Burd said.
Most people, including athletes, can get sufficient protein without needing powdered whey, even if they don’t eat meat.
“Vegetarian and vegan athletes can easily meet protein needs on a plant-based diet,” said Enette Larson-Meyer, the director of the Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Laboratory at Virginia Tech and co-author of Plant-Based Sports Nutrition.
Plant proteins may not be complete, she said, meaning they don’t contain all the amino acids we need, but “consuming a combination of different plant-based protein sources, such as beans and grain, will provide a balanced protein profile.” If your diet is plant forward, but not fully vegetarian, add an egg or some cheese to improve a mostly vegetarian dish’s “amino-acid profile,” she said.
Extra protein probably won’t help you lose weight
Because protein fills you up, it helps you eat less, and your body has to work harder to break it down. As a result, you expend more calories digesting protein compared to carbs or fatty foods.
But the actual amount of that extra calorie burn “is tiny,” Phillips said, and unlikely to have a meaningful effect on body weight.
In effect, despite many social media claims to the contrary, mainlining protein won’t incinerate body fat. To drop pounds, you must consume fewer calories, from any nutrients, than you burn.
But protein does play a role in keeping you healthy during weight loss, Arent said. It helps your body hang onto muscle tissue while you shed fat.
“Muscle is your health currency,” he said. “Don’t lose it!”
Protein after a workout and before bed may have benefits
“I’m an advocate of spreading protein throughout the day, especially making sure you consume enough at breakfast,” Burd said.
Protein is the most satiating of macronutrients, he pointed out, taking longer to digest than carbohydrates or fat, its fellow macronutrients, and leaving you feeling fuller. So, having protein at every meal helps control appetite and ensures a steady supply of amino acids for working muscles.
“Protein is a good foundation to each feeding,” Arent said.
Some people advocate eating protein after a workout and right before bed.
Protein after a hard workout, for instance, in conjunction with carbohydrates, might replenish lost fuel stores and speed recovery better than carbohydrates alone, Arent said, although that idea is controversial. “But the reality is that there is no upside to not having protein after a workout,” Arent said.
Likewise, a small portion of pre-bedtime protein, such as yogurt or a handful of nuts, has been shown in some studies to amplify muscle building overnight. “Nighttime protein ingestion is an excellent opportunity to increase muscle protein synthesis,” Rawson said, but the process “doesn’t have to be complicated.” If you have dinner at 6 p.m., “add a Greek yogurt at 9 p.m.,” he said.
Do you have a fitness question? Email YourMove@washpost.com and we may answer your question in a future column. | 2023-05-24T10:27:37+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/05/24/protein-weight-loss-muscle-facts/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tyrell Roberts scored 17 points as San Francisco beat Texas Southern 90-77 in a season opener on Monday.
Roberts was 5 of 8 shooting, including 2 for 3 from distance, and went 5 for 8 from the line for the Dons. Zane Meeks scored 16 points and added six rebounds. Marcus Williams recorded 14 points and shot 5 for 6, including 2 for 3 from beyond the arc.
The Tigers were led by PJ Henry, who posted 21 points and five steals. John Walker III added 19 points for Texas Southern. In addition, Davon Barnes finished with 14 points.
San Francisco entered halftime up 50-35. Williams paced the team in scoring in the first half with 12 points. San Francisco was outscored by Texas Southern in the second half by two points, with Roberts scoring a team-high seven points after halftime.
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Both teams next play Thursday. San Francisco hosts Cal Poly while Texas Southern visits Texas Tech.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-11-08T08:33:22+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Roberts-leads-San-Francisco-over-Texas-Southern-17566774.php |
CLEVELAND, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yogurt consumption, and demand for related packaging, has been steadily on the wane since the Greek yogurt trend peaked around 2015. Then the pandemic happened.
As consumers ate more meals at home, they also purchased more yogurt, including trying new brands and formats. Interest in yogurt as both a healthy snack and a better-for-you dessert rose, driving numerous introductions of innovative yogurt styles and flavor profiles, many premium items.
This had a significant impact on the $566 million market for yogurt packaging in the US, according to the Freedonia Group.
In a newly published analysis, the market research firm finds that the increase in yogurt consumption during the pandemic promoted demand for yogurt packaging such as single-serve cups, pouches, and bottles, and particularly larger bulk-volume tubs and pouches. Additionally, increased demand for sustainable packaging – which often costs more – promoted value gains. However, market maturity in the key spoonable segment continued to weigh down growth.
As in the larger food industry, improving packaging sustainability is an important goal of yogurt brands and their packaging suppliers, with reducing the use of virgin plastics and improving recyclability representing key targets of these efforts. For example:
- A growing number of yogurt producers are looking for ways to increase their use of paper, which is recycled at higher rates than plastic and has a sustainable, high-value image. Notably, in August 2021, Chobani launched a paper cup for its oat milk-based yogurt product line.
- Suppliers of plastic packaging are looking for ways to increase recycling rates and the use of recycled plastic content, but also to benefit from the appeal of paper with the use of higher-end wrap labels.
Additional strategies suppliers are pursuing to make yogurt packaging more sustainable include:
- innovations that make plastic easier to recycle (e.g., monolayer pouches)
- development of compostable and/or degradable alternative packaging materials
- source reduction efforts like replacing rigid lids with plastic or foil lidding
Yogurt Packaging, now available from the Freedonia Group, provides historical data (2010, 2015, and 2020) and forecasts for 2025 for yogurt packaging demand by value in current dollars (including inflation) by application, product, and material.
- spoonable yogurt
- squeezable yogurt
- drinkable yogurt
- cups
- tubs
- bottles and jars
- pouches (e.g., pillow, stand-up, and side seal) and bags
- boxes and folding cartons
- other yogurt packaging (e.g., lidding, sleeves)
- plastic (including bioplastics)
- other materials (e.g., paper and paperboard, glass, foil)
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NEW CASTLE, Ind. — A woman was arrested in New Castle on Wednesday for driving under the influence with a toddler in the back seat when she was coming back from a Fourth of July party.
According to documents filed Wednesday in Henry County, Summer Williamson was arrested early Wednesday morning in New Castle for one count of “operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person with a passenger less than 18 years of age,” a Level 6 felony. Williamson was also charged with two misdemeanors related to her alleged intoxication.
Williamson was allegedly pulled over by an officer with the Henry County Sheriff’s Department around 1:10 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of State Road 3 and Prairie Rd. in New Castle. According to the incident report, the officer saw Williamson in the front seat and a toddler in the back seat.
The officer reported that he could smell “a light odor commonly associated with an alcoholic beverage emitting from the driver’s breath.” Williamson reportedly told the officer she was heading home from a Fourth of July party in Lewisville.
Williamson took a number of standard field sobriety tests, as well as a certified breath test at the Henry County Jail. According to the incident report, Williamson allegedly had a .10 blood alcohol level.
According to court documents, Williamson has pleaded not guilty to the charges. A jury trial has been scheduled for 9 a.m. on Oct. 11 in Henry County Circuit Court No. Three. | 2023-07-06T21:48:12+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/indycrime/woman-arrested-for-driving-while-intoxicated-with-toddler-in-back-seat/ |
General Manager Shawn Loter joined us via Zoom to talk about how you can celebrate Cinco De Mayo and the Kentucky Derby at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds this weekend.
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General Manager Shawn Loter joined us via Zoom to talk about how you can celebrate Cinco De Mayo and the Kentucky Derby at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds this weekend.
For more information visit MVFair.com | 2023-05-03T19:03:10+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/living-local/celebrate-with-the-mississippi-valley-fairgrounds/ |
LINCOLN — The Lincoln City Council has approved resubmitting a grant application to help with the Veterans Park Project on Stemley Road.
During its regular meeting Tuesday, the council approved resubmitting for a Land and Water Conservation Fund Grant it had already received several years ago for the Veterans Park project. LWCF grants are a program meant to help development of public parks and other items for outdoor recreation. The Grants are provided by the U.S. Department of Interior and are meant to provide a 50/50 match to local investment from the applying government body.
Mayor Lew Watson said the city actually got the grant two or three years ago, but the funds were never dispersed at the federal level.
“What happened was they put out requests, people submitted projects and we were approved, that was about 2017 or 2018,” the mayor said. “The problem is congress never authorized the spending.”
Watson said earlier this year congress did approve that spending. He said that since prices had gone up since the grants were first approved, the grants were changed from being up to a matching amount of $350,000 to $500,000. The mayor said because of that change the program asked that the city resubmit its application.
“However, you can't change the project,” he said.
The city has been working on Veterans Park projects for several years, originally approving engineering services for its initial phases in 2020. The city also approved a $7,650,000 bond issue that same year to help pay for the park and Lincoln’s Landing, which has since taken a lot of the city’s focus.
Since then the city has also floated the idea of allowing non-profit Alabama Veterans to create a veterans transition facility adjacent to the future park, though no final decision has been made on the matter.
Watson said the grant will help the city get started on those first phases of the park, something the council said in its talks with Alabama Veterans it was still trying to finalize funds for.
In other matters, the council:
— Approved borrowing $600,00 from Metro Bank for the purchase of a 2021 Sutphen Custom Pumper fire truck. The truck was one the city’s budget this year, though Watson acknowledged the money to pay for it had not been borrowed at the time the budget was approved. He said the city has since gotten the truck so its now borrowing the money to pay for it;
— Authorized the mayor to executed a contract to pay 94.1 FM The River $1,000 a month for general promotion and marketing fo the city;
— Authorized the mayor to execute and agreement with John Obert, M.D. to serve as medical director for the fire department;
— Appointed Sadie Britt as chairman pro tempore for a period of July 2022 to April 2023;
— Approved change order number three on the McCaig Road sanitary sewer project form R&R Contractors, Inc in the amount of $5,000; and
— Approved waiting vendor license fees for the event at Lincoln’s landing and Angler’s pointe open July 2. | 2022-06-29T04:16:54+00:00 | annistonstar.com | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/lincoln-council-approves-resubmitting-grant-for-veterans-park/article_038e7a44-f756-11ec-9554-eb3f7229875b.html |
Olivia Newton-John, the top female pop vocalist of the 1970s who starred in movies including “Grease” and “Xanadu,” died Monday. She was 73.
Her husband posted the news on her official Facebook page, writing:
Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.
Chart historian Joel Whitburn ranked the warm-voiced Australia-bred singer as the No. 1 female soloist of the ‘70s. Her nine top-10 singles of the decade included three chart-topping 45s; the biggest of them, “You’re the One That I Want,” a duet with John Travolta drawn from the smash 1978 soundtrack of the musical “Grease,” spent nearly six months on the U.S. lists.
Newton-John remained a potent commercial force into the ‘80s; she logged the biggest hit of her career, “Physical,” in 1981. Though her other major toplining musical feature “Xanadu” was a costly 1980 flop, its double-platinum soundtrack spawned three hit singles, including the No. 1 radio ubiquity “Magic.”
Originally slotted as a country vocalist, she quickly conquered the pop charts with a succession of well-scrubbed tunes. Though the hits dried up in the early ‘90s, she remained a cherished performer into the new millennium, with a durable fan base sustained by the continuing popularity of “Grease” as a cable TV staple and sing-along theatrical screenings.
She was born September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, England. Her grandfather was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born. When she was six, her family moved to Melbourne.
Active in music from high school, Newton-John went pro in her teens, appearing on Australian TV. She returned to Britain on a plane ticket she won competing on the Aussie talent show “Sing, Sing, Sing.” Though she recorded for British Decca during her stay, she grew homesick and returned to the Antipodes, but moved back to England to perform with her music partner Pat Carroll.
After an ill-fated stint with Toomorrow, producer Don Kirshner’s attempt to formulate a U.K. equivalent of the Monkees, Newton-John’s solo career took off with “If Not For You,” a cover of the countrified Bob Dylan-George Harrison song, and a version of the folk standard “Banks of the Ohio.”
Both singles managed to chart in the U.S. in 1971, but she had to wait two years before making a major impact in the States. Her MCA singles “Let Me Be There” and “If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” reached the top 10 of both the country and pop charts. The former number garnered a Grammy Award for best female country vocal performance, and Newton-John scored an Academy of Country Music Award as most promising female vocalist.
Her early career peaked in 1974 with the ballad “I Honestly Love You,” which topped the pop chart and peaked at No. 6 country; the song earned Newton-John female vocalist of the year kudos from the Country Music Assn. in 1974. A second pop No. 1, “Have You Never Been Mellow,” arrived in 1975. Though she would tally three more top-five country singles and reliably crossed to the adult contemporary charts, she was firmly entrenched as a pop star in the U.S.
Newton-John’s career sizzled with the mega-hit “Grease.” Though the 29-year-old singer worried she was too old for her role, she turned in a confident performance in the ‘50s-themed musical as virginal high schooler Sandy Olsson, and displayed impressive chemistry opposite Travolta, coming off his “Saturday Night Fever” breakthrough and cast as bad boy Danny Zuko.
The Paramount release was an immediate hit, spawning a hugely successful soundtrack album. The Newton-John/Travolta duet “You’re the One That I Want” was succeeded by two more top-five singles, “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and “Summer Nights,” also drawn from the picture. The soundtrack LP sat at No. 1 for 10 weeks, and spent a total of 77 weeks on the charts.
Following the double-platinum 1978 album “Totally Hot,” Newton-John returned to the screen for the ill-starred “Xanadu.” The creaky roller disco-themed plot incongruously cast the singer as a Greek muse, opposite 68-year-old Gene Kelly. Greeted with dismal reviews, the picture was an instant flop. Its main beneficiary was Newton-John: the singles “Magic,” “Xanadu” (with the Electric Light Orchestra) and “Suddenly” (with Cliff Richard) pushed the No. 5 soundtrack album to double-platinum status.
Newton-John’s film career never really recovered from “Xanadu.” A re-teaming with Travolta in the 1983 rom-com “Two of a Kind” also stiffed at the box office, and her leading roles were thereafter restricted to TV movies.
Having successfully messed with her squeaky-clean image with her good-girl-gone-naughty turn in “Grease” and her album “Totally Hot,” Newton-John upped the ante with 1981′s single “Physical.” The sexed-up single’s lyrics were softened by a coy video implying that the song was actually about…working out.
The singer recalled in 2017, “I was having a panic attack when it came out because I thought, ‘Oh, I’ve gone too far! We just need to do a video about exercise.’ And that made it even bigger!” The single, her last No. 1, held the top of the chart for 10 weeks, shifting more than 1 million copies.
After the double-platinum “Physical” album of 1981 and the top-five singles “Make a Move On Me” (No. 5, 1982) and “Heart Attack” (No. 3, 1982), Newton-John’s pop career stuttered. She took a protracted hiatus from performing after the 1986 birth of her daughter Chloe (from her marriage to actor Matt Lattanzi, who she divorced in 1995).
She experienced business and personal setbacks in 1992. Koala Blue, a chain of boutique shops she operated with her onetime singing partner Pat Carroll, folded amid bankruptcy. She experienced a serious health scare when she was diagnosed with breast cancer; following a mastectomy, she became a high-profile spokesperson for cancer awareness, and established the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Victoria, Australia.
Following her Nashville return “Back with a Heart” (1998), Newton-John’s albums sold principally Down Under; a late exception was the 2012 Yuletide album “This Christmas,” a pairing with Travolta that reached No. 81 domestically.
She toured successfully with Aussie star John Farnham, and dueted with him at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She continued to act, taking an unusual turn as a gay ex-con country singer in the feature “Sordid Lives” and its cable TV spinoff. After guesting as herself in 2010 on Fox’s hit “Glee,” a remake of “Physical” with the cast reached No. 89, becoming her first pop single to reach the chart in 12 years.
She returned to the road in the U.S. for a well-received 2017 trek.
She is survived by second husband John Easterling and her daughter. | 2022-08-08T21:20:32+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/celebrity/ct-ent-olivia-newton-john-dies-20220808-am4fo6273bhefbvzlynahtk3ym-story.html |
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SAGINAW TWP, MI — Ben and Sarah Brandt, the owners of Saginaw County’s new Brandt Farm Co., know there’s more than one way to farm, and they want to share that knowledge and their harvest with the community.
“Our passion is teaching people you don’t have to have a lot of land to farm,” said Sarah Brandt while she and her husband gave MLive/The Saginaw News a tour of their approximately 9-acre farm Wednesday, July 7.
“Everybody thinks farming is just row-crop farming, like your corn field,” Ben Brandt said. “It’s incredible how much you can do with a small footprint of land with succession planting.”
The couple, who purchased the former Hemmeter’s Farm Market property at 4050 Lawndale Road in Saginaw Township, aims to make healthy, organic, affordable food accessible to everyone. Although it’s not a USDA-certified organic farm yet, the Brandts are following organic farming practices to grow tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, squash, zucchini, beans, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, microgreens, herbs and other produce.
The Brandts also plan to host school groups and offer classes for home gardeners.
“We want to be an educational farm, too,” Ben Brandt said.
“It’s surprising how many people don’t realize where their food comes from,” Sarah Brandt added. “We want to help people learn how to make the best use of a small space.”
The couple bought the property in early 2021 and have been reimagining and revitalizing it since then.
Inside the farm store, customers will find made-in-Michigan products, including produce, dairy, honey, maple syrup, pottery, candles, and skin care products made with herbs grown on Brandt farm. Their 20-year-old daughter, Victoria Brandt, has been instrumental in setting up the store. They also recently added hand-dipped ice cream in various flavors, including vegan offerings, which have been popular on hot summer days.
The Brandts still have day jobs, Ben Brandt works in sales, and Sarah Brandt is a Realtor, but farming is their passion.
“I grew up on a little farm, and then we always had a big garden,” Sarah Brandt said. “It is sort of in our roots.”
The Brandts look forward to watching their farm and their business continue to grow. They plan to add a commercial kitchen and bakery in the next year or so. Eventually, they hope to offer occasional farm-to-table dinners and add an outdoor pizza oven.
“We’ve got a lot of future plans,” Ben Brandt said. “We’re just getting going.”
Find Brandt Farm Co. on Facebook or visit www.brandtfarmco.com to learn more.
Read more on MLive:
Growing agritourism business brings new life to historic Frankenmuth farm
Downtown Saginaw Farmers’ Market opens for 2022 season May 25 | 2022-07-09T12:23:51+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2022/07/brandt-farm-co-reimagines-former-hemmeters-farm-market-property-in-saginaw-county.html |
223, Justin Jefferson, MIN at DET 12/11 (11 rec., 0 TD)
193, Justin Jefferson, MIN at BUF 11/13 (OT) (10 rec., 1 TD)
190, Tyreek Hill, MIA at BAL 9/18 (11 rec., 2 TD)
188, Tyreek Hill, MIA at DET 10/30 (12 rec., 0 TD)
184, Justin Jefferson, MIN vs. GB 9/11 (9 rec., 2 TD)
179, T.J. Hockenson, DET vs. SEA 10/2 (8 rec., 2 TD)
177, Davante Adams, LAS vs. LAC 12/4 (8 rec., 2 TD)
177, Tyreek Hill, MIA vs. MIN 10/16 (12 rec., 0 TD)
171, Gabe Davis, BUF vs. PIT 10/9 (3 rec., 2 TD)
171, Jaylen Waddle, MIA at BAL 9/18 (11 rec., 2 TD)
169, DeVonta Smith, PHI at WAS 9/25 (8 rec., 1 TD)
162, Evan Engram, JAC at TEN 12/11 (11 rec., 2 TD)
162, Garrett Wilson, NYJ at MIN 12/4 (8 rec., 0 TD)
160, Tyreek Hill, MIA at CIN 9/29 (10 rec., 0 TD)
159, DeAndre Hopkins, ARI at MIN 10/30 (12 rec., 1 TD)
158, Mack Hollins, LAS at TEN 9/25 (8 rec., 1 TD)
156, A.J. Brown, PHI vs. PIT 10/30 (6 rec., 3 TD)
156, DeVante Parker, NE vs. BAL 9/25 (5 rec., 0 TD)
155, Tyler Boyd, CIN vs. ATL 10/23 (8 rec., 1 TD)
155, A.J. Brown, PHI at DET 9/11 (10 rec., 0 TD)
154, Justin Jefferson, MIN vs. CHI 10/9 (12 rec., 0 TD)
152, DJ Moore, CAR at ATL 10/30 (OT) (6 rec., 1 TD)
150, CeeDee Lamb, DAL at GB 11/13 (OT) (11 rec., 2 TD)
149, DK Metcalf, SEA at DET 10/2 (7 rec., 0 TD)
148, Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. TEN 9/19 (12 rec., 3 TD)
148, Stefon Diggs, BUF at KC 10/16 (10 rec., 1 TD)
148, Tee Higgins, CIN at PIT 11/20 (9 rec., 0 TD)
147, Chris Olave, NO at CAR 9/25 (9 rec., 0 TD)
147, Justin Jefferson, MIN at NO 10/2 (10 rec., 0 TD)
146, Davante Adams, LAS at JAC 11/6 (10 rec., 2 TD)
146, Tyreek Hill, MIA at SF 12/4 (9 rec., 1 TD)
145, Zay Jones, JAC vs. BAL 11/27 (11 rec., 0 TD)
143, Tyreek Hill, MIA at CHI 11/6 (7 rec., 1 TD)
141, Davante Adams, LAS at DEN 11/20 (OT) (7 rec., 2 TD)
141, Davante Adams, LAS at LAC 9/11 (10 rec., 1 TD)
140, Marquise Brown, ARI vs. LAR 9/25 (14 rec., 0 TD)
139, Justin Jefferson, MIN vs. NE 11/24 (9 rec., 1 TD)
134, Mike Williams, LAC at CLE 10/9 (10 rec., 0 TD)
134, Michael Pittman Jr., IND vs. JAC 10/16 (13 rec., 0 TD)
132, Ja'Marr Chase, CIN at NO 10/16 (7 rec., 2 TD)
131, Amari Cooper, CLE vs. CIN 10/31 (5 rec., 1 TD)
130, Ja'Marr Chase, CIN vs. ATL 10/23 (8 rec., 2 TD)
129, Ja'Marr Chase, CIN vs. PIT 9/11 (OT) (10 rec., 1 TD)
129, Jaylen Waddle, MIA vs. MIN 10/16 (6 rec., 0 TD)
128, Tyler Lockett, SEA at LAR 12/4 (9 rec., 1 TD)
128, Cooper Kupp, LAR vs. BUF 9/8 (13 rec., 1 TD)
128, Terry McLaurin, WAS at PHI 11/14 (8 rec., 0 TD)
128, Demarcus Robinson, BAL vs. CAR 11/20 (9 rec., 0 TD)
128, Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. MIN 11/13 (OT) (12 rec., 0 TD)
127, Cooper Kupp, LAR at TB 11/6 (8 rec., 1 TD)
127, DK Metcalf, SEA at LAR 12/4 (8 rec., 1 TD)
126, Davante Adams, LAS vs. IND 11/13 (9 rec., 1 TD)
125, Cooper Kupp, LAR vs. DAL 10/9 (7 rec., 1 TD)
124, Davante Adams, LAS at KC 10/10 (3 rec., 2 TD)
124, JuJu Smith-Schuster, KC at SF 10/23 (7 rec., 1 TD)
124, Tee Higgins, CIN vs. MIA 9/29 (7 rec., 1 TD)
124, Chris Moore, HOU at DAL 12/11 (10 rec., 0 TD)
123, Mike Evans, TB vs. BAL 10/27 (6 rec., 0 TD)
122, Stefon Diggs, BUF at LAR 9/8 (8 rec., 1 TD)
122, Amon-Ra St. Brown, DET vs. BUF 11/24 (9 rec., 1 TD)
122, Courtland Sutton, DEN vs. HOU 9/18 (7 rec., 0 TD)
122, Cooper Kupp, LAR at SF 10/3 (14 rec., 0 TD)
121, Travis Kelce, KC at ARI 9/11 (8 rec., 1 TD)
121, Michael Pittman Jr., IND at HOU 9/11 (OT) (9 rec., 1 TD)
120, Mike Williams, LAC at HOU 10/2 (7 rec., 0 TD)
119, Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, TEN vs. DEN 11/13 (5 rec., 2 TD)
119, A.J. Brown, PHI vs. TEN 12/4 (8 rec., 2 TD)
119, Ja'Marr Chase, CIN vs. CLE 12/11 (10 rec., 1 TD)
119, Amon-Ra St. Brown, DET at CHI 11/13 (10 rec., 0 TD)
117, Christian Kirk, JAC at WAS 9/11 (6 rec., 0 TD)
116, Amon-Ra St. Brown, DET vs. WAS 9/18 (9 rec., 2 TD)
116, Mike Williams, LAC vs. MIA 12/11 (6 rec., 1 TD)
116, Allen Lazard, GB vs. NE 10/2 (OT) (6 rec., 0 TD)
115, Travis Kelce, KC at LAC 11/20 (6 rec., 3 TD)
115, Deebo Samuel, SF vs. LAR 10/3 (6 rec., 1 TD)
115, Justin Jefferson, MIN at WAS 11/6 (7 rec., 1 TD)
115, Garrett Wilson, NYJ vs. NE 10/30 (6 rec., 0 TD)
114, Amon-Ra St. Brown, DET vs. JAC 12/4 (11 rec., 2 TD)
114, Tee Higgins, CIN at TEN 11/27 (7 rec., 1 TD)
114, Jarvis Landry, NO at ATL 9/11 (7 rec., 0 TD)
114, Donovan Peoples-Jones, CLE at CIN 12/11 (8 rec., 0 TD)
113, Amari Cooper, CLE at BUF 11/20 (8 rec., 2 TD)
113, JuJu Smith-Schuster, KC vs. BUF 10/16 (5 rec., 1 TD)
113, Mike Williams, LAC at KC 9/15 (8 rec., 1 TD)
113, Terry McLaurin, WAS at IND 10/30 (6 rec., 0 TD)
112, Jerick McKinnon, KC at DEN 12/11 (7 rec., 2 TD)
111, Jakobi Meyers, NE vs. DET 10/9 (7 rec., 1 TD)
111, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, KC at SF 10/23 (3 rec., 0 TD)
111, Treylon Burks, TEN at GB 11/17 (7 rec., 0 TD)
110, Christian Watson, GB at PHI 11/27 (4 rec., 1 TD)
110, Nelson Agholor, NE at PIT 9/18 (6 rec., 1 TD)
110, Chris Godwin, TB at CLE 11/27 (OT) (12 rec., 1 TD)
109, Tony Pollard, DAL at MIN 11/20 (6 rec., 2 TD)
108, Cooper Kupp, LAR vs. ATL 9/18 (11 rec., 2 TD)
108, Rashod Bateman, BAL vs. MIA 9/18 (4 rec., 1 TD)
108, Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. GB 10/30 (6 rec., 1 TD)
108, Travis Kelce, KC vs. BUF 10/16 (8 rec., 0 TD)
107, Christian Watson, GB vs. DAL 11/13 (OT) (4 rec., 3 TD)
107, Justin Jefferson, MIN at MIA 10/16 (6 rec., 0 TD)
107, Tyler Lockett, SEA at SF 9/18 (9 rec., 0 TD)
106, Jaylen Waddle, MIA at DET 10/30 (8 rec., 2 TD)
106, Joshua Palmer, LAC vs. KC 11/20 (8 rec., 2 TD)
106, Mark Andrews, BAL at NYG 10/16 (7 rec., 1 TD)
106, CeeDee Lamb, DAL vs. NYG 11/24 (6 rec., 0 TD)
106, Chris Olave, NO at ARI 10/20 (7 rec., 0 TD)
106, Joshua Palmer, LAC at ATL 11/6 (8 rec., 0 TD)
106, Travis Kelce, KC vs. TEN 11/6 (OT) (10 rec., 0 TD)
105, Dyami Brown, WAS vs. TEN 10/9 (2 rec., 2 TD)
105, Christian Kirk, JAC at KC 11/13 (9 rec., 2 TD)
105, Tyler Boyd, CIN at NYJ 9/25 (4 rec., 1 TD)
105, Terry McLaurin, WAS at NYG 12/4 (OT) (8 rec., 1 TD)
105, Tre'Quan Smith, NO at CAR 9/25 (4 rec., 0 TD)
104, Tyler Lockett, SEA at NO 10/9 (5 rec., 2 TD)
104, Mark Andrews, BAL vs. MIA 9/18 (9 rec., 1 TD)
104, Christian Kirk, JAC at DET 12/4 (6 rec., 0 TD)
104, Marvin Jones Jr., JAC vs. HOU 10/9 (7 rec., 0 TD)
103, Mike Evans, TB vs. KC 10/2 (8 rec., 2 TD)
103, DJ Moore, CAR vs. DEN 11/27 (4 rec., 1 TD)
103, Greg Dortch, ARI vs. SF 11/21 (9 rec., 0 TD)
103, DeAndre Hopkins, ARI vs. NO 10/20 (10 rec., 0 TD)
102, Garrett Wilson, NYJ at CLE 9/18 (8 rec., 2 TD)
102, Jerry Jeudy, DEN at SEA 9/12 (4 rec., 1 TD)
102, Chris Olave, NO vs. LAR 11/20 (5 rec., 1 TD)
102, DeVonta Smith, PHI vs. TEN 12/4 (5 rec., 1 TD)
102, Robbie Anderson, CAR vs. CLE 9/11 (5 rec., 1 TD)
102, Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. PIT 10/9 (8 rec., 1 TD)
102, Jaylen Waddle, MIA vs. BUF 9/25 (4 rec., 0 TD)
102, George Pickens, PIT vs. NYJ 10/2 (6 rec., 0 TD)
102, Terry McLaurin, WAS vs. PHI 9/25 (6 rec., 0 TD)
101, Amari Cooper, CLE vs. PIT 9/22 (7 rec., 1 TD)
101, Amari Cooper, CLE vs. NYJ 9/18 (9 rec., 1 TD)
101, Davante Adams, LAS vs. DEN 10/2 (9 rec., 0 TD)
100, Dallas Goedert, PHI at HOU 11/3 (8 rec., 1 TD)
100, Breece Hall, NYJ vs. MIA 10/9 (2 rec., 0 TD)
100, Wan'Dale Robinson, NYG vs. DET 11/20 (9 rec., 0 TD) | 2022-12-14T15:21:48+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/NFL-Top-Performers-Receiving-17653416.php |
Mental health crisis response program launches in Ames
AMES, Iowa (KCCI) -Calls to 911 in Ames could now connect residents to mental health needs providers KCCI’s Kayla James reported. It’s all thanks to a new pilot program called ARCH, with stands for Alternative Response for Community Health.
ARCH is a joint partnership between Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames Police Department, and Iowa State University Police Department. It pairs an EMS provider with a social worker, as they respond to calls that don’t require a police presence.
“We want to kind of help turn down the crisis in a way that’s calming and soothing,” said Nick Toornstra, an EMS supervisor with Mary Greeley Medical Center.
Toornstra is the EMS who will be paired with a social worker during the pilot program’s first six months. They will work five days a week, for a total of 40 hours. The hope is that following the pilot program’s six months, data will show that there is definitely a need and the ARCH team can grow and be 24/7.
“Our job as EMS is just to assess the patient for any immediate medical needs they have and make sure they don’t maybe need an ambulance and then the social worker kind of takes it from there,” Toornstra said.
The social worker will help connect people with local resources.
ARCH is funded by grants. In addition to helping 911 callers, the hope is to alleviate some of what police officers have to respond to.
“Like the Ames police chief said, they’re [police] are great problem solvers, but at the same time they’re called for a lot of different things,” Toornstra said.
Here’s how it works: people dial 911 as usual. Dispatchers at the call center will triage those calls and reach out to the ARCH team if needed.
“We’re just trying to find better ways to help service people with mental health needs and homelessness and other crisis they encounter,” Toornstra said.
Copyright 2022 KCRG. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-15T16:15:38+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/10/15/mental-health-crisis-response-program-launches-ames/ |
You’ve heard of the player who wanted to re-sign with the Red Sox, didn’t get enough interest from the club and ended up signing a surprising deal with the Padres, right?
No, not Xander Bogaerts. Michael Wacha, on a much smaller deal, did something similar this winter. After a good season in Boston, the veteran right-hander also went to San Diego, signing a creative deal that amounts to a four-year, $26 million guarantee with options that can be picked up by both the team and player. That deal took until mid-February to complete. Though the Red Sox were looking to add rotation depth throughout the winter and Wacha would have liked to return, it doesn’t appear Boston got anywhere close to re-signing the righty.
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“I don’t know. I guess you might have to ask Chaim (Bloom) about that one,” said Wacha when asked why nothing worked out with the Red Sox. “They were showing interest.
“They reached out, for sure,” the righty added last weekend at Truist Park in Atlanta. “But just wasn’t able to get something worked out with them. It is what it is, I guess.”
Wacha was perhaps Boston’s best starting pitcher in 2022, posting an 11-2 record and a 3.32 ERA in 23 starts. His under-the-hood numbers, however told a different story, as he ended the season with a 4.14 FIP and a league-average 20.2% strikeout rate. Also concerning were Wacha’s injury issues; the 31-year-old had two different IL stints due to an intercostal strain and shoulder inflammation. In total, he was limited to 127 ⅓ innings.
As the winter began, the Red Sox had a clear preference when it came to their own free agent starting pitchers, according to sources. While the club wanted to aggressively pursue Nathan Eovaldi (and proved their interest by issuing him the qualifying offer), they were only going to offer Wacha a certain price. The league seemed to agree with Boston’s assessment, as no one asked Wacha’s asking price until the first week of spring training. At the time of signing, he was by far the best free agent available. The creative structure of his deal gives him upside if he pitches well in 2023. So far he has, allowing four earned runs in 12 innings (3.00 ERA) while striking out 12 hitters in two starts.
“We were trying to go into free agency looking for a multi-year offer and I wasn’t getting many of those early on,” Wacha said. “When the Padres came with theirs, while it was unique, it gave me multiple years. It was on a competitive team that could go out there and make some noise. That was really important to me as well. Just really excited we were able to get something done.”
While Wacha declined to get into details about his negotiations with the Red Sox, it’s clear the sides never came particularly close to agreeing on his value. On a much smaller scale, the situation was similar to that of Bogaerts, who eschewed multiple offers from Boston to sign an 11-year, $280 million contract with San Diego. Wacha, who once faced off against Bogaerts in the 2013 World Series as a member of the Cardinals, has now called him a teammate with two different organizations on two different coasts in the last two seasons. He was happy to reunite with the shortstop this spring.
“It was very cool getting to see him again in spring training, walking through the door and seeing a familiar face there,” Wacha said. “He’s a stud and I’m looking forward to having a big year with him.”
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Wacha said Bogaerts had already become a leader for the Padres early in the season.
“He just goes about his business the right way,” the righty said. “If you watch from a distance, he’s doing everything the right way. He’s putting in his work. It shows in the field whenever he goes out there and plays. He’s one of the leaders of this team and we go to him if we need something.”
Though Wacha spent only one year with the Red Sox, he remembers his time with the organization fondly. After spending the seven years with St. Louis from 2013 to 2019, he has now been with five different organizations (the Cardinals, Mets, Rays, Red Sox and Padres) in five seasons. Of the last four seasons, the 2022 season in Boston was his best.
“It was a great group of guys over there,” Wacha said. “Going into a new spot where I didn’t know very many people. Leaving there, I learned a lot from having A.C. (Alex Cora) as a manager and Bushy (Dave Bush) as a pitching coach.
“I learned a lot there, as well as being around a lot of those players as well,” Wacha added. “They’ve got some studs over there. Just taking little bits from each spot I’ve been. Looking to up my game any way I can. It was a good clubhouse and a good group of guys.” | 2023-04-14T10:51:05+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/04/red-sox-didnt-just-lose-xander-bogaerts-to-padres-youll-have-to-ask-chaim-says-michael-wacha.html |
Video shows Florida man bitten while trying to remove alligator from property
A Florida man was bitten Tuesday morning while trying to remove an alligator from a property in Englewood.
According to WINK, a call was made to Florida Fish and Wildlife around 10 a.m. regarding a gator at a home. The property owner had tried to remove the reptile himself and was bitten on the arm.
Auzjia Dickerson was the one who found the man who tried to help.
“He’s a dog trainer. So, he came out with like gloves and a sweatshirt,” Dickerson said. “Like he kind of knew what he was doing. But it was fast. He moved too fast. It just didn’t go well.”
The irritated alligator flew around and clamped down on the man's arm.
“Someone had a broomstick and they used the broomstick to help pry open the gator’s mouth so he could get his arm out,” Dickerson said.
A nuisance alligator trapper was dispatched and removed the gator. The FWC is investigating the incident. | 2022-10-26T19:49:29+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/florida-man-bitten-gator/41779617 |
2022 marks the year that five Florida Supreme Court justices will stand for retention election, meaning voters have the power to kick them out, should they so choose. Justices Jorge Labarga, Ricky Polston, Charles Canady, Jamie Grosshans and John Couriel will all be on the ballot in this fast-approaching election, and among these overwhelmingly conservative justices all that remains to be seen is just how much of a rubber-stamp most of them are going to be for Gov. Ron DeSantis, should he win re-election.
Regarding the District 5 Court of Appeals candidates on your ballot, here's a handy Orlando Weekly life hack for you: If a judge's bio proudly touts their membership in the truly awful Federalist Society, just go ahead and vote against them, no questions asked. Of this crop of candidates, only Judge Jay Cohen is a strong yes for us; though we can't say we really love any of the rest. (Only Wozniak and Nardella are members of the Federalist Society.)
Ricky Polston: If you've ever wondered who's responsible for those ugly "Choose Life" license plates, thank Polston. Appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by Charlie Crist, Polston has a track record of prioritizing his religious beliefs when it comes time for decision-making, as seen in his time as an appeals court judge when he argued against the state constitution in an attempt to grant state money to religious charter schools. He's best known for his strong anti-abortion stance, as when he dissented in a case blocking the 24-hour abortion waiting period — and, of course, those heinous and triggering license plates. Another of Polston's highly notable decisions was his dissenting opinion against the Florida Bar's amicus brief opposing a law that enabled the prohibition of LGBTQ+ families adopting children. Polston has also expressed interest in returning to his alma mater, Florida State University, to serve as the university's president. Maybe it's time for him to leave the court for good.
Jorge Labarga: Labarga seems to stand alone instead of alongside his colleagues who are also facing re-election. Labarga, also appointed by then-Republican Gov. Crist, holds moderate views when compared to the overbearingly conservative decisions upheld by his fellow justices. He notably dissented on a 4-1 decision that blocked the application of a wider-range ruling on intellectual disability in relation to death sentencing case from decades prior. Labarga said that this decision would create an "increased risk" for execution. He also was the lone dissent against DeSantis' controversial plan for redistricting throughout the state. One of Labarga's passion projects has been the creation and permanent preservation of a panel allowing moderate- to low-income residents better access to the civil-legal system in order to close a "civil justice gap." Labarga became the Florida Supreme Court's first Cuban-American chief justice upon his appointment in 2014. He held the position until 2018, becoming the first chief justice in a century to serve consecutive terms. Although he still leans right, he is the least extreme of the justices up for retention.
Jamie Grosshans: If we're talking about personal politics, Washington, D.C., may have SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett, but Florida has Jamie Grosshans. Grosshans may be a lone wolf as the only woman on the Florida Supreme Court up for retention, but she joins her fellow justices in the conservative majority. Although newly appointed in 2020 by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the judge from Central Florida has not wasted time making her actions speak louder than her words. Grosshans declined to hear arguments for a case centered on giving charter schools voter-approved tax funds reserved for traditional public schools. (The funds would've been used to help with school safety and teacher pay.) She also refused to hear from voting rights groups on a case of DeSantis' plan for reconstructing voter congressional lines in Florida. Her refusal to intervene has allowed the 1st District Court of Appeals to bar a Lee County Circuit Judge from making any decisions.
John Couriel: With a background in corporate law, it's no surprise Couriel is a big-time ally to major corporations. Appointed by DeSantis in 2020 and up for a first-time retention, Couriel notably concurred in what was one of the biggest cases taken against Big Tobacco, joining the conservative majority to make it much harder for Floridians to sue for smoking-related diseases and wrongful deaths. Couriel also concurred with the majority opinion to extend protection under the apex doctrine to DeSantis, so he won't be required to give a deposition regarding why he booted a Hillsborough state's attorney who said he would not prosecute women who sought abortions, abortion providers, or doctors who provide gender-affirming treatment to minors. Couriel also refused to challenge DeSantis' controversial plan for redistricting voter lines throughout the state, leaving the decision up to the 1st District Court of Appeals and likely to go DeSantis' way.
Charles Canady: Charles Canady has had a long career in politics and is no stranger to retention, as this is his third time up for re-election. The former Chief Justice and Congressman has been on the bench for 14 years and was appointed by Crist in 2008. While the Florida Supreme Court had a liberal majority prior to 2018, Canady was a frequent dissenter. Canady has written many notable decisions, such as his dissent in a 2016 death penalty case that was overturned in 2020. The 2016 case focused on cutting out the role of the jury and giving a judge more power to impose a death sentence. The liberal majority issued a ruling that deemed a unanimous jury had the right to impose a death sentence and concluded that the Florida death penalty system was unconstitutional. Canady wrote that jurors should not determine a death sentence. He also dissented in a 2015 case centering on redistricting lines in congressional districts that had issues with gerrymandering. Canady frequently joins Polston when ruling on cases; both justices dissented on the aforementioned case centering on LGBTQ+ adoptions. | 2022-11-02T13:42:40+00:00 | orlandoweekly.com | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-judges-up-for-retention-are-the-part-of-the-ballot-you-might-be-tempted-to-skip-32815534 |
A low pressure system exiting the state will bring the chance for a few isolated rain showers today but most will be on the drier side with some sun and some clouds. It’ll be cooler today, and just slightly warmer tomorrow and Thursday, but we’ll be a lot warmer into the weekend.
Today’s highs will be near 70 with many staying in the 60s! Winds will be generally westerly at 5-10mph. We’ll have some sun, some clouds, and have the chance for a few showers across the area, particularly closer to the 127 corridor.
Tonight we’ll be partly cloudy with a light west wind. Temps will fall to the mid 50s.
Tomorrow will be filled with sunshine with highs in the mid 70s, and Thursday will feature more of the same.
Friday will be a bit warmer with temperatures reaching into the lower 80s, and we’re then into the mid 80s for the weekend! | 2022-09-13T13:53:43+00:00 | abc12.com | https://www.abc12.com/weather/september-13th-2022-morning-weather/article_89d85020-335b-11ed-a7e4-ab318717cd91.html |
LONDON (AP) — With Manchester City easing toward another big English Premier League victory, the only question still lingering an hour into the game was whether Erling Haaland would get in on the scoring.
Of course he would.
Haaland netted his 15th league goal in the 65th minute to put the finishing touches on a 4-0 win over Southampton on Saturday, taking the Norway striker's remarkable scoring streak to 10 straight games in all competitions.
“Incredible weapon for us, a big threat,” City manager Pep Guardiola said of Haaland.
The win lifted City two points ahead of Arsenal before the Gunners’ game against Liverpool on Sunday. City is the only team still unbeaten after nine rounds.
Haaland has been in such prolific form that going without a goal for more than 60 minutes is enough to raise eyebrows these days. His teammates were happy to fill the void, though, with Jose Cancelo and Phil Foden making it 2-0 by halftime before Riyad Mahrez netted the third in the 49th.
And after Haaland missed a couple of chances he normally puts away, he showed again that he simply cannot be contained. Cancelo pulled the ball back from the left and Haaland sent a first-time strike into the net. He has been held scoreless in just one match all season.
“I am so upset with him," Guardiola joked. “He didn’t score three goals!”
Chelsea kept up its recent momentum under Graham Potter, beating manager-less Wolverhampton 3-0 at Stamford Bridge, while Tottenham ended a difficult week beating Brighton 1-0.
American forward Christian Pulisic made the most of a rare start for Chelsea by making it 2-0 in the 54th minute, after Kai Havertz opened the scoring deep into first-half injury time. Armando Broja added the third.
Former Chelsea striker Diego Costa made his debut for Wolves but had little impact on the game before being taken off after less than an hour — getting a big ovation from the home crowd.
Newcastle climbed up to fifth place with a 5-1 win over Brentford. Newcastle was again without injured record signing Alexander Isak but he was hardly missed as its attack tore Brentford apart at times. Bruno Guimaraes scored twice.
Also, Bournemouth came from behind to beat Leicester 2-1 at home with its prospective new owner watching on. American businessman Bill Foley was in the stands at Vitality Stadium amid reports that he is close to completing a takeover of the club.
Brighton hosted Tottenham in the late game.
GOOD WEEK FOR POTTER
Chelsea seems to be adapting well to Potter's ideas, even though they can change quickly from game to game.
Potter made seven changes from Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League win over AC Milan and changed his tactical system to boot. Chelsea still looked fluid and overwhelmed Wolves, missing a number of chances before Havertz headed home a cross from Mason Mount just before the break.
Pulisic looked especially resurgent after a difficult start to the season, and forced a stellar save from Jose Sa with a long-range strike towards the top corner after a well-worked team move.
But the American got his goal shortly after the restart with a delicate chip past the goalkeeper from a tight angle.
Potter is unbeaten in four games as Chelsea manager since taking over from the fired Thomas Tuchel. The Blues are on a three-game winning streak in all competitions.
“The week we’ve just had has been fantastic," Potter said. “We’ve made some steps with the group with how we’re acting.”
SPURS WIN FOR VENTRONE
Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris walked over to the away fans after the final whistle in Brighton holding up a team shirt with “Gian Piero” on the back.
This win was for Gian Piero Ventrone, the team's popular fitness coach who died this week at the age of 61.
“It’s been a difficult week to say the least, and it was nice to get the win today,” said striker Harry Kane, who scored the only goal with an instinctive header in the 22nd minute.
Kane reacted quickly to get his head onto a cross from Son Heung-min and steer in his eighth league goal in nine matches. Tottenham bounced back from a loss to Arsenal in the north London derby last weekend and a disappointing 0-0 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League in midweek.
Tottenham is third in the standings, three points behind Man City, with Chelsea another four points behind in fourth having played a game less.
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WORCESTER, Mass., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National multifamily real estate development leader Wood Partners today announced groundbreaking on its newest high-end residential community, Alta on the Row, marking the company's first development in Worcester, Massachusetts. Opening of the community is slated for December 2023 with pre-leasing officially starting in October 2023.
Located at 22 Mulberry Street, Alta on the Row will be positioned in the heart of Worcester's renowned "Restaurant Row," providing residents with a wide range of dining and entertainment opportunities, including Wormtown Brewery and Leo's Ristorante, directly adjacent to the property. Alta on the Row will also provide residents with quick access to some of the city's top employers including UMASS Memorial Health, Saint Vincent Hospital, Hanover Insurance Group, as well as top higher education institutions including UMASS Chan Medical School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Holy Cross.
"Wood Partners is thrilled to break ground on Alta on the Row, our first luxury property in the thriving City of Worcester," said Jim Lambert, Managing Director. "Working with the City of Worcester on this project has been a truly collaborative process from the start, which makes us all the more excited to welcome new residents to the community next year and introduce them to Wood Partners' signature approach to sophisticated living."
At completion, Alta on the Row will offer 370 apartments comprised of one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Featuring sophisticated, modern design finishes, each of Alta on the Row's apartment homes will be fully outfitted with luxurious wood-style plank flooring, top-of-the-line stainless steel Samsung appliances, and quartz countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms to provide a cozy and welcoming place to call home. Additional high-end features include full-sized in-home washer and dryers, Schlage smart locks, shower and tub tile surrounds, and modern kitchen pendant lighting in select homes.
Throughout the property, residents can also indulge in Alta on the Row's best-in-class community amenities, including a rooftop lounge with unobstructed views of downtown Worcester, a resort-style pool with turf surround, multiple grilling stations and firepits, an outdoor "living room" connecting the two courtyards, and an on-site pet spa and dog park with covered dog wash stations. Inside, residents will also have access to a 24/7 state-of-the-art fitness area with cardio and strength equipment, a game lounge and golf simulator lounge, co-working spaces, and ample lounge seating adjacent to both of the courtyards, as well as the rooftop lounge and clubhouse.
Alta on the Row's prime location will be within walking distance of Union Station, enabling residents to easily reach Boston via the MBTA Commuter Rail. Closer to home, residents will have no shortage of great shopping and entertainment options with leading retail sites like Mercantile Center and Worcester Common, as well as the DCU Center and Polar Park just a few miles from the property.
About Wood Partners
Wood Partners is a national leader in the development, construction, and management of multifamily communities across the United States. The company has been involved in the acquisition and development of more than 90,000 multifamily homes with a combined capitalization of $17.5 billion. The company currently owns 70 properties across the United States representing more than 20,000 homes. Headquartered in Atlanta, Wood Partners has offices in 22 major markets across 15 states nationwide. The company also operates Wood Residential, an award-winning, full-service property management group that proudly operates both properties developed by Wood Partners and communities owned by third parties. For two years running, Wood Residential has ranked No. 1 nationally for online reputation in the J Turner ORA™ Power Rankings (Division III). For more information, visit woodpartners.com.
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7-Eleven's 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' returns for 2nd time this year for Slurpee fans
7-Eleven is reviving its Bring Your Own Cup Day for a second time this year.
The day is currently set for Saturday, Aug. 27, and comes three months after the convenience store chain reestablished the day in Canada, which had gone on a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
August’s Bring Your Own Cup Day in the U.S. also follows the return of 7-Eleven Day (aka Free Slurpee Day) – which is observed each year on July 11 – after 47 days.
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The company canceled its Free Slurpee Day in 2020 and 2021, also due to pandemic concerns.
"We know that Slurpee drinks are a summertime staple for customers, so we're bringing back BYOC Day to celebrate the popular frozen beverage for a second time this summer following a very successful Slurpee Day," Dennis Phelps, 7-Eleven’s proprietary beverages senior product director, said in a statement.
Bring Your Own Cup Day participants were last able to get Slurpees poured into pre-owned cups at 7-Eleven locations in Canada in May 2022, and the day was extended into a two-day event.
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"We want customers to build the Slurpee drink of their dreams while having fun with their vessel of choice – and we can't wait to see some of the creative cups they come up with," Phelps added.
The press announcement for Bring Your Own Cup Day says customers can bring whatever cup or container they wish, whether it be a cookie jar or fishbowl.
All that matters is that a customer’s chosen cup is clean, leak-proof and fits upright under the dispenser hole in the Slurpee machine, which has a 10-inch diameter, according to 7-Eleven.
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The chain’s press release states that Bring Your Own Cup Day is reserved for 7Rewards and Speedy Rewards loyalty members and will be hosted at participating 7-Eleven, Stripes and Speedway locations.
Eligible customers who find a participating location will be able to snag a Slurpee in any cup of their choice for $1.99.
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The company’s signature Slurpee flavors include Blue Raspberry, Cherry, Pina Colada or Coca-Cola while the seasonal offering is Mango Lemonade. Even better, 7-Eleven says customers are allowed to mix flavors if they wish to.
7-Eleven, Inc. is an American convenience store chain that's headquartered in Irving, Texas.
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SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — Lucy Li played with a lead for the first time on the LPGA Tour and the 19-year-old was up to the task Saturday, recovering from a sluggish start for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead in the Dana Open.
Li was 2 over through seven holes and quickly fading from the picture at Highland Meadows when she responded with five birdies over the next 10 holes to regain the lead and set up a final round filled with possibilities.
Lexi Thompson ran off three straight birdies late in the round for a 65, while Caroline Masson of Germany also had a 65. They were one shot behind.
Six other players were three shots back, including Lydia Ko, a two-time tournament winner who had the low round of the day at 64.
“I was probably a little nervous. It wasn’t anything crazy, but haven’t felt nervous in a long time,” Li said. “Actually making those bogeys might have helped a little, just getting that out of the way and knowing that I could just freewheel it out there a little.”
Li was at 14-under 199, and the final group offers a pair of prodigies.
Thompson was 12 when she first qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles. Seven years later, Li broke her record when she qualified for the 2014 Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2.
“It’ll be great,” Thompson said. “I played with her a little bit — not so much out here. But I think everybody knows how amazing of a player she is. Just speaks wonders to the amount of work that she’s put into her game, just the amount of talent she has.”
Li recalls playing a practice round with Thompson in the ‘14 Women’s Open.
“She outdrove me by like 60 yards. She probably still outdrives me by 20 yards,” Li said. “I haven’t spent that much time on the LPGA, so I haven’t really gotten to know her that well. She’s a lot — quite a bit older than me.”
Thompson is 27.
This week already has felt like a bonus for the California teen. Li secured her LPGA Tour card for next year with two wins and a runner-up finish on the Epson Tour, which offers LPGA cards to its leading 10 players.
Li received a sponsor’s invitation in Canada last week and tied for ninth in the CP Women’s Open, which got her into the field in Ohio. Now she has a chance to win and join the LPGA Tour for its final two months of the season.
But it will require navigating through a traffic jam of key players, a list that includes four major champions. Also in the mix is Nasa Hataoka, the defending champion, who had a 67 and was part of the big group at 11-under 202.
Equally daunting is Ko, who won at Highland Meadows in 2014 and 2016 and had a great chance in 2020 until a bogey on the par-5 closing hole.
Ko started on the back nine and after a bogey on the 11th, she holed out for eagle on No. 12 and ran off a series of birdies. She had a chance to go even lower on her final hole, the reachable par-4 ninth. But her chip from right of the green didn’t get up the hill, she chipped strong and missed the par putt.
“They moved the tee forward a little on 12 and I was just, ‘Hit driver off the tee.’ I only a gap wedge,” she said. “It’s not the greatest finish. … I did what I needed to do.”
For Thompson, the No. 7 player in the women’s world ranking, it’s another chance to end more than three years without winning.
“I go into every tournament wanting to win. Yeah, it has not worked out the way I want it to in a few events, but that’s golf,” Thompson said. “I think you never lose; you’re always learning. There is always something to build on and learn from those days.
“It’s golf. I mean, it’s a crazy game. It can be with you one day and not the next.”
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Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest after making a tackle during a Monday night football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2. Millions of fans watched in shock as paramedics performed CPR on the 24-year-old during the nationally-televised game, which the NFL eventually postponed.
In a statement shared on Twitter, the Buffalo Bills said Hamlin’s heartbeat was restored on the field and he was transferred to the hospital where he remains in critical condition as of Jan. 3.
After Hamlin’s on-field injury, there was an outpouring of support from fans, including many who rushed to donate to a GoFundMe that appears to have been set up by Hamlin himself — but is the fundraiser actually legit, and are scammers looking to take advantage of people?
THE QUESTION
Is Damar Hamlin's toy drive GoFundMe a real fundraiser?
THE SOURCES
- "The Chasing M's Foundation Community Toy Drive" fundraiser
- GoFundMe
- Instagram posts by Damar Hamlin
- Tweet from Jordon Rooney, Damar Hamlin’s marketing representative
- The Hamlin Family
THE ANSWER
Yes, Damar Hamlin's toy drive GoFundMe is a legitimate fundraiser. But beware of phony fundraisers that are purporting to be affiliated with Hamlin.
WHAT WE FOUND
Damar Hamlin grew up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as McKees Rocks. He created the Chasing M's Foundation to “use as a vehicle to bring lasting impact to his community.”
The foundation’s first program, the 2020 Community Toy Drive, set out to buy gifts for children in Hamlin’s hometown who were impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Using GoFundMe, Hamlin set up a toy drive fundraising campaign with a goal of $2,500. The fundraiser remained active for two years – ultimately reaching its goal in 2022.
GoFundMe, Hamlin’s family and Jordon Rooney, Hamlin’s marketing representative, have all issued statements on Twitter confirming that the toy drive fundraiser is real. Hamlin’s family also said on the official GoFundMe page that the fundraiser is the only way fans should donate to support Hamlin’s “community initiatives” and “his current fight”:
“This fundraiser was initially established to support a toy drive for Damar’s community, sponsored by the Chasing M’s Foundation.
However, it has received renewed support in light of Damar’s current battle and we can’t thank all of you enough. Your generosity and compassion mean the world to us.
If you would like to show your support and contribute to Damar’s community initiatives and his current fight, this is the place to do so. This is the only current fund that is being used by the Hamlin Family.
Again, thank you for your thoughts, prayers and generous support during this time.”
On Twitter, Rooney warned that scammers have been setting up fake fundraisers using Hamlin’s name. These campaigns are not connected to the athlete, and VERIFY found one that has since been deleted from GoFundMe.
If you want to support Hamlin’s initiatives, be sure to avoid giving money directly to someone claiming to represent Hamlin, such as through mobile payment apps like Venmo or PayPal. You should also make sure you’re donating to the official GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/01e78364.
As of Jan. 3, more than $5 million in donations — and counting — in support of Hamlin’s foundation have been received.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Mile-long school bus convoy honoring child victims of gun violence visits Sen. Ted Cruz
HOUSTON - A mile-long convoy of school buses filled with mementos of children who have lost their lives to shootings since 2020 is visiting Senator Ted Cruz in Houston on Thursday morning.
Change The Ref, a gun control and anti-gun violence advocacy organization, is behind the convoy of 52 buses, which they are calling the NRA Children's Museum. They stopped by the senator's home and then went to his offices, where they lined up into the afternoon.
According to a press release, the campaign is calling on Sen. Cruz to "immediately renounce future political funding from the NRA and listen to the people’s will to enact legislation for universal background checks – a commonsense gun law reform that an overwhelming percentage of his constituents in Texas support, including Republican voters."
The senator is the leading recipient of gun lobbyist funding in Texas, according to Change The Ref.
The buses, whose empty seats represent more than 4,000 children who died of gun violence, are filled with their photos, videos, audio recordings, and personal memories – from a Nickelodeon backpack from Santa Clarita, California to a girl scout sash from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sen. Cruz will also be presented with a "gift" by Manuel and Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin Oliver was one of the 17 victims in the 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting. The gift is a letter from Joaquin asking for background checks on gun sales written when he was 12, less than five years before the tragedy that took his life.
"To commemorate this horrific historic moment, we are showing American voters the toll these politicians have taken on our children's lives with this all-too-real archive," said Manuel, who co-founded Change the Ref with his wife Patricia in Joaquin’s memory. "And this is only the beginning. We will not stop with Sen. Ted Cruz. To every politician who has stood by, taken NRA money, and refused to listen to the people they represent: the museum is on the way to honor you next."
Patricia and Manuel Oliver co-founded Change the Ref in their son Joaquin’s memory. He was one of the 17 victims in the Parkland school massacre.
"We want to display, for the voters who keep these politicians in office, the consequences of those choices. We want voters to remember which politicians are in the pocket of the NRA when they visit the polls in November," added Patricia. "We urge everyone to join us in our mission to fight for every innocent soul lost to gun violence and to demand universal background checks on gun sales."
FOX 26 reached out to Sen. Cruz for comment. His spokesman released the following statement:
"Senator Cruz is committed to enacting policies that would stop school shootings. To that end, he introduced legislation to double the number of school resource officers, hire 15,000 school-based mental health professionals to ensure there is early intervention to identify and help at-risk kids, to provide significant resources for enhanced school safety, and to improve the gun background system and prosecute persons who try to illegally buy guns." | 2022-07-16T00:41:28+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/school-bus-nra-museum-children-gun-violence-sen-ted-cruz-houston |
CONWAY, Miss. — A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is suspected in a Monday night killing died after barricading himself in a home and setting it on fire during an armed standoff with deputies, authorities said Wednesday.
Plumes of smoke emanated from the charred remains of the home in Conway, hours after a body was recovered. Dylan Arrington, 22, perished inside the home, setting it ablaze after shooting a deputy in the leg, Leake County Sheriff Randy Atkinson told The Associated Press.
"He inflicted that kind of terror after escaping from jail, killing people and shooting law enforcement. But that guy won't be killing anyone else," Atkinson said.
In a statement posted online in the evening, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said the remains had been positively identified as Arrington. The cause of death was under investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Authorities have been pursuing Arrington and three other inmates who broke out over the weekend from a Mississippi jail under federal scrutiny. Arrington is suspected of killing a man and stealing his pickup truck after the escape.
The owner of the torched Conway home said he saw someone matching Arrington's description hiding inside a trailer behind his house on Tuesday evening. He notified the sheriff's office and fled with his family. Investigators searched the property, but there was no trace of Arrington. They continued the search through the night with drones and a helicopter.
Around 7 a.m. Wednesday, Atkinson and a deputy returned to the property with the homeowner. After a short meeting, the homeowner discovered Arrington inside. He sprinted outside and alerted the officers, who were standing in the driveway. Arrington then exchanged gunfire with them through a window, striking the deputy in the leg, Atkinson said.
Within a two-hour period, the house was set ablaze from within, he said. Investigators waited until the fire was out before they approached the home and found a body.
The injured deputy was transported to a hospital where he was stabilized.
Multiple law enforcement agencies continued searching parts of the state, after the Leake County Sheriff's Office told residents to "please keep your doors locked and have no keys or weapons in your vehicles."
The U.S. Marshals Service and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation are among the agencies assisting in the search.
Police said Anthony Watts, a 61-year-old church pastor, was shot and killed Monday around 7 p.m. on Interstate 55 in Jackson after he pulled over to help a man who had wrecked a motorcycle. That man shot Watts several times and then stole his Red Dodge Ram, police said. Watts died at the scene.
The suspect in that shooting fit the description of Arrington, Jackson Police Chief James E. Davis said.
Casey Grayson, Corey Harrison and Jerry Raynes are the other three prisoners who escaped Saturday night from the Raymond Detention Center, a facility near Jackson, through breaches in a cell and the roof. Jones said the men might have camped out on the roof before fleeing and going their separate ways.
Raynes was spotted on surveillance footage at a service station in Spring Valley, a suburb of Houston, at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jones said Wednesday in a statement. Investigators believe he fled to Texas after stealing a Hinds County Public Works vehicle, which was recovered in Spring Valley. It was unknown whether Raynes traveled alone.
The four escapee had been in custody for various felony charges, most involving theft. Arrington had charges of auto theft and illegal possession of a firearm, WAPT-TV reported.
Watts' stolen Red Dodge Ram, which has tan trim and Cowboys stickers on the front and the back, was last seen heading south on I-55 in Terry, Mississippi, police said.
Investigators also believe a stolen Chevy Silverado is connected to the escape.
Raynes, Grayson and Harrison remained at large.
In July, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves ordered a rare takeover of the Raymond jail after he said deficiencies in supervision and staffing led to "a stunning array of assaults, as well as deaths."
But before the appointed receiver was scheduled to assume control over the jail Jan. 1, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the lower court's order until it ruled on the county's motion for reconsideration.
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With no clear front-runner to succeed him, most political observers had predicted Johnson would defeat the challenge. But the rebellion could still be a watershed moment for him — and is a sign of deep Conservative divisions, less than three years after he led the party to its biggest election victory in decades.
Johnson’s winning margin is less than that secured by his predecessor Theresa May in a similar vote in December 2018. She was forced to resign six months later.
Since replacing May as prime minister in 2019, Johnson has led Britain out of the European Union and through a pandemic, both of which have shaken the U.K. socially and economically. The vote comes as Johnson’s government is under intense pressure to ease the pain of skyrocketing energy and food bills.
But the main blow to his leadership has been revelations that he and his staff repeatedly held illegal parties during lockdowns. That caused anger in the country, and unease among many Conservatives.
Discontent that has been building for months erupted after a 10-day parliamentary break that included a long weekend of celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. For many, the four-day holiday was a chance to relax — but there was no respite for Johnson, who was booed by some onlookers as he arrived for a service in the queen’s honor at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Friday.
Conservative Party official Graham Brady announced Monday that he had received letters calling for a no-confidence vote from at least 54 Tory legislators, enough to trigger the measure under party rules. Hours later, party lawmakers lined up by the dozen in a corridor at Parliament to cast their ballots in a wood-paneled room, handing over their phones as they entered to ensure secrecy.
Johnson addressed dozens of Conservative lawmakers in a House of Commons room before the vote as he tried to shore up support, vowing: “I will lead you to victory again.”
Johnson’s allies had insisted he would stay in office if he won by even a single vote.
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said Johnson had won the vote “handsomely,” and urged the party to “draw a line under this now.”
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, one of the favorites to succeed Johnson if he is ousted, tweeted: "Pleased that colleagues have backed the Prime Minister. I support him 100%. Now’s the time to get on with the job.”
But previous prime ministers who survived no-confidence votes emerged severely weakened.
Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, capping a rollercoaster journey to the top. He had held major offices, including London mayor and U.K. foreign secretary, but also spent periods on the political sidelines after self-inflicted gaffes. He kept bouncing back, showing an uncommon ability to shrug off scandal and connect with voters that, for many Conservatives, overshadowed doubts about his ethics or judgment.
But concerns came to a head after an investigator’s report late last month that slammed a culture of rule-breaking inside the prime minister’s office in a scandal known as “partygate.”
Civil service investigator Sue Gray described alcohol-fueled bashes held by Downing Street staff members in 2020 and 2021, when pandemic restrictions prevented U.K. residents from socializing or even visiting dying relatives.
Gray said Johnson and senior officials must bear responsibility for “failures of leadership and judgment.”
Johnson also was fined 50 pounds ($63) by police for attending one party, making him the first prime minister sanctioned for breaking the law while in office.
The prime minister said he was “humbled” and took “full responsibility” — but insisted he would not resign.
But a growing number of Conservatives feel that Johnson is now a liability who will doom them to defeat at the next election, which must be held by 2024.
“Today’s decision is change or lose,” said Jeremy Hunt, who ran against Johnson for the Conservative leadership in 2019 but has largely refrained from criticizing him since. “I will be voting for change.”
Lawmaker Jesse Norman, a longtime Johnson supporter, said the prime minister had “presided over a culture of casual law-breaking” and had left the government “adrift and distracted.”
Despite his victory, Johnson is likely to face more pressure. The war in Ukraine, a simmering post-Brexit feud with the EU and soaring inflation are all weighing on the government.
Polls give the left-of-center opposition Labour Party a lead nationally, and the Conservatives could lose special elections later this month for two parliamentary districts, called when incumbent Tory lawmakers were forced out by sex scandals.
Johnson tried to focus on broader issues, promising colleagues he would cut taxes — a policy popular with Tories — and noting that he spoke Monday to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine’s cause, a stance shared by his possible successors.
Cabinet minister Steve Barclay, a Johnson ally, said toppling the leader now would be “indefensible.”
But Steve Baker, a strong Brexit supporter whose opposition to May helped Johnson take power, said he was voting for Johnson to go because the prime minister had broken the law.
He predicted before the vote that Johnson would likely “formally win” but said that would not settle the matter.
“What that means over the months ahead, I don’t know,” Baker said.
Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, announces that Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by Tory MPs to oust him as party leader following a confidence vote in his leadership at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Monday June 6, 2022. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
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Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, announces that Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by Tory MPs to oust him as party leader following a confidence vote in his leadership at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Monday June 6, 2022. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
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FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie, are seated during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, in London, Sunday June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Britain's governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain's leader. (Chris Jackson/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie, are seated during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, in London, Sunday June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Britain's governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain's leader. (Chris Jackson/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens to the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani speak at the start of their meeting inside 10 Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, FILE)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens to the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani speak at the start of their meeting inside 10 Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, FILE)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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FILE - An anti-Conservative Party protester holds a placard with an image of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson including the words "Now Partygate" backdropped by the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. Johnson has been struggling to turn a page on months of ethics scandals, most notably over rule-breaking parties in government buildings during COVID-19 lockdowns. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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FILE - An anti-Conservative Party protester holds a placard with an image of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson including the words "Now Partygate" backdropped by the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. Johnson has been struggling to turn a page on months of ethics scandals, most notably over rule-breaking parties in government buildings during COVID-19 lockdowns. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie Symonds arrive for a service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Friday, June 3, 2022 on the second of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Britain's governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain's leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie Symonds arrive for a service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Friday, June 3, 2022 on the second of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Britain's governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain's leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, Jan. 5, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
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FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, Jan. 5, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
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FILE - Anti-Boris Johnson and anti-Brexit protesters hold placards by Parliament Square, in London, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. Johnson has been struggling to turn a page on months of ethics scandals, most notably over rule-breaking parties in government buildings during COVID-19 lockdowns. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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FILE - Anti-Boris Johnson and anti-Brexit protesters hold placards by Parliament Square, in London, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Britain’s governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain’s leader. Johnson has been struggling to turn a page on months of ethics scandals, most notably over rule-breaking parties in government buildings during COVID-19 lockdowns. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas at 10 Downing Street, London, Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas at 10 Downing Street, London, Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, reacts as he sits next to his wife Carrie Johnson, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Home Secretary Priti Patel, right, at the National Service of Thanksgiving held at St Paul's Cathedral as part of celebrations marking the Platinum Jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, in London, Friday, June 3, 2022. Britain's governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain's leader. (Phil Noble/Pool photo via AP, File)
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FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, reacts as he sits next to his wife Carrie Johnson, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Home Secretary Priti Patel, right, at the National Service of Thanksgiving held at St Paul's Cathedral as part of celebrations marking the Platinum Jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, in London, Friday, June 3, 2022. Britain's governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, June 6, 2022 that could oust him as Britain's leader. (Phil Noble/Pool photo via AP, File)
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Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, announces that Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by Tory MPs to oust him as party leader following a confidence vote in his leadership at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Monday June 6, 2022. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
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Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, announces that Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived an attempt by Tory MPs to oust him as party leader following a confidence vote in his leadership at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Monday June 6, 2022. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
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A general view at dusk of 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, June 6, 2022. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote on Monday, securing enough support from his Conservative Party to remain in office despite a rebellion that leaves him a weakened leader with an uncertain future. (AP Photo/David Cliff)
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A general view at dusk of 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, June 6, 2022. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote on Monday, securing enough support from his Conservative Party to remain in office despite a rebellion that leaves him a weakened leader with an uncertain future. (AP Photo/David Cliff)
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SYDNEY, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fr0ntierX, a leading NFT curation and brand launchpad with its own white-label marketplace and issuance platform, announced that it is partnering with Immutable X to be its Layer 2 scaling solution integration partner on Ethereum. The exclusive partnership will empower the world's biggest brands to run high-quality, curated NFT launches that are 100% gas-free and carbon-neutral. With this partnership, Fr0ntierX is another step closer to becoming the global leader in bringing brands from web2 to web3 in the maturing NFT market.
Historically, it's been difficult for brands to enter the NFT space. Fr0ntierX, the only true, full-turnkey, white-label solution provider in the NFT space, is changing that. Founded in 2021 by Drebin.eth and Zak Manhire, Fr0ntierX's dynamic team of 28 has already signed exclusive deals with many major brands. The team has taken an innovative approach to partnership methodology and ideology within web3.
Organizations want an environmentally-friendly way to run their NFT activities. This strategic partnership with Immutable X makes that possible and assists with their CSR objectives in the physical world. While Layer 1 activities on the Ethereum network are known for consuming high volumes of energy, Immutable X's protocol will uplift any carbon footprint that users make when they mint or trade on its Layer 2.
The partnership will also allow Fr0ntierX to support Immutable X with existing NFTs in games, including Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardian, Ember Sword, Habbo, TikTok and more. Since Immutable X is built with StarkWare's unmatched ZK roll-up technology, Fr0ntierX clients will enjoy highly scalable NFTs of 9,000 TPS without compromising their digital assets' safety, as the protocol inherits Ethereum's battle-tested security.
"The next logical step for NFTs is the ability to become feasible for big brands and their customers. As a true layer 2 for Ethereum, and one specifically focused on NFT usage and adoption, Immutable X is the perfect partner for us to integrate. Perfectly suited for mainstream adoption, being 100% carbon neutral and no gas fees is a game changer for us when we talk to global brands. We are thrilled to be in full exclusive partnership with Immutable X, and are excited to see our joined ecosystem continue to develop and flourish," said drebin.eth, Co-founder and CEO at Fr0ntierX.
"At Immutable X, we are powering the next generation of web3 games and NFT projects, this strategic partnership with Fr0ntierX takes us one step closer. As Fr0ntierX is focused on guiding major brands into the new NFT frontier, our partnership will ensure that these organizations meet their objectives of driving innovation while remaining environmentally responsible," said Robbie Ferguson, co-founder at Immutable. "Together, we have the opportunity to change the dynamics of how consumers and brands interact, and we look forward to welcoming Fr0ntierX's growing community into the Immutable ecosystem."
After the full integration is complete in June 2022, brands and creators can take advantage of the Fr0ntierX launchpad to successfully launch the next generation of NFT projects while absorbing all the benefits Immutable X has to offer as part of the alliance.
Fr0ntierX is revolutionizing the way that web2 brands enter web3 by making it easy, credible, and scalable. Supported by a world-class team, Fr0ntierX is breaking boundaries with its tech and methodology for web2 brand partnerships and support. "Web2 brands are often lost in the noise and chaos of web3, and don't truly understand the long term potential and the short term risks to brand equity if executed poorly. Fr0ntierX ensures web2 brands enter this exciting space in a safe, strategic and creative way", said Zak Manhire, Co-Founder and Head of Brand Partnerships at Fr0ntierX.
Immutable X is the leading Layer 2 scaling solution for NFTs to enable gas-free minting and trading, while not compromising the security of the most used blockchain globally for NFTs, Ethereum. The solution, powered by StarkWare's innovative technology, offers instant trade confirmation, massive scalability (up to 9,000 transactions per second), and fantastic developer and user experience. Immutable X is powering some of the largest NFT plays across consumer apps (TikTok), DeFi (SuperFarm), and gaming (GameStop, Highrise, ESL Gaming, Ember Sword, Planet Quest, Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardians, GreenPark Sports, Illuvium, MyCryptoHeroes+).
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Saturday, June 17
Who are the probable pitchers lined up to start on Saturday? Below, we list every starting pitching matchup for the day, which includes Lucas Giolito toeing the rubber for the White Sox, and Logan Gilbert getting the nod for the Mariners.
Keep scrolling to find the likely starting pitchers for every game on the calendar for June 17.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Tigers at Twins Probable Pitchers
The Detroit Tigers will send Joey Wentz (1-6) to the mound as they play the Twins, who will give the start to Jose De Leon (0-1) when the clubs meet Saturday.
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Orioles at Cubs Probable Pitchers
The Baltimore Orioles will send Kyle Gibson (8-3) to the mound as they take on the Cubs, who will hand the ball to Justin Steele (6-2) when the clubs face off Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Orioles at Cubs
- CHC Odds to Win: -130
- BAL Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 8 runs
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Marlins at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The Miami Marlins will send Braxton Garrett (2-2) to the mound as they play the Nationals, who will counter with Jake Irvin (1-3) for the matchup between the clubs on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Marlins at Nationals
- MIA Odds to Win: -155
- WSH Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Blue Jays at Rangers Probable Pitchers
The Toronto Blue Jays will send Kevin Gausman (6-3) to the mound as they take on the Rangers, who will hand the ball to Dane Dunning (5-1) for the game between the teams Saturday.
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Phillies at Athletics Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Cristopher Sanchez (0-0) to the hill as they play the Athletics, who will counter with James Kaprielian (2-6) for the game between the clubs on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Athletics
- PHI Odds to Win: -175
- OAK Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 9 runs
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Pirates at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send Mitch Keller (8-2) to the bump as they take on the Brewers, who will counter with Wade Miley (3-2) when the clubs play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Pirates at Brewers
- MIL Odds to Win: -110
- PIT Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 8.5 runs
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White Sox at Mariners Probable Pitchers
The Chicago White Sox will send Giolito (5-4) to the mound as they take on the Mariners, who will counter with Gilbert (4-4) when the teams play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for White Sox at Mariners
- SEA Odds to Win: -155
- CHW Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 7 runs
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Reds at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Hunter Greene (1-4) to the mound as they take on the Astros, who will look to Brandon Bielak (3-3) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -130
- CIN Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Rockies at Braves Probable Pitchers
The Colorado Rockies will send Connor Seabold (1-2) to the mound as they play the Braves, who will hand the ball to Bryce Elder (4-1) when the teams face off on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rockies at Braves
- ATL Odds to Win: -300
- COL Odds to Win: +240
- Total: 10 runs
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Angels at Royals Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Griffin Canning (5-2) to the bump as they play the Royals, who will look to Mike Mayers (1-2) for the matchup between the clubs on Saturday.
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Cardinals at Mets Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Adam Wainwright (2-1) to the mound as they face the Mets, who will hand the ball to Kodai Senga (6-3) for the matchup between the teams Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Cardinals at Mets
- NYM Odds to Win: -150
- STL Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Yankees at Red Sox Probable Pitchers
The New York Yankees will send Clarke Schmidt (2-6) to the hill as they play the Red Sox, who will look to Brayan Bello (3-4) when the teams play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Yankees at Red Sox
- BOS Odds to Win: -130
- NYY Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9 runs
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Rays at Padres Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send Zach Eflin (8-2) to the mound as they face the Padres, who will hand the ball to Blake Snell (2-6) for the game between the teams Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at Padres
- TB Odds to Win: -115
- SD Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 8 runs
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Giants at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The San Francisco Giants will play the Dodgers, who will counter with Bobby Miller (3-0) for the game between the teams Saturday.
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Guardians at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The Cleveland Guardians will send Shane Bieber (5-3) to the mound as they face the Diamondbacks, who will counter with Tommy Henry (3-1) when the clubs face off on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Guardians at Diamondbacks
- CLE Odds to Win: -130
- ARI Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food and even toilet paper. And now some restaurants are betting they’ll do the same for their favorite meals.
Large chains like Panera and P.F. Chang’s as well as neighborhood hangouts are increasingly experimenting with the subscription model as a way to ensure steady revenue and customer visits. Some offer unlimited drinks or free delivery for a monthly fee; others will bring out your favorite appetizer each time you visit.
They’re following a trend: The average American juggled 6.7 subscriptions in 2022, up from 4.2 in 2019, according to Rocket Money, a personal finance app.
“This is just another way for customers to provide a level of support and joy and love for our offerings,” said Matt Baker, the chef at Gravitas, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Washington.
For $130 per month, Gravitas Supper Club subscribers get a three-course takeout meal for two. Baker said Gravitas shifted to takeout during the pandemic but saw demand fizzle once its dining room reopened. The Supper Club — which serves about 60 diners per month — keeps that revenue flowing.
The upscale Chinese chain P.F. Chang’s also saw an opportunity to increase to-go orders with its subscription plan, which launched in September. For $6.99 per month, members get free delivery, among other perks.
Other restaurants are experimenting with memberships, which let diners pre-pay toward their visits.
El Lopo, a San Francisco bar, has 26 members in its Take-Care-Of-Me Club. They pay either $89 per month for $100 in dining credits or $175 per month for $200 in credits. When members come in, El Lopo starts bringing out their favorite dishes. Each visit, they can gift a free drink to anyone in the bar.
El Lopo owner Daniel Azarkman started the club in March 2021 to encourage patrons to return as the pandemic eased. Now, he’s hearing from restaurants all over the country who are interested in starting similar programs.
“What it really achieves is getting them in more often,” he said.
Rick Camac, executive director of Industry Relations at the Institute of Culinary Education, said he expects many more restaurants to offer subscriptions in the coming years. Consumers are accustomed to them, he said, and the regular monthly income helps restaurants manage their cash flow.
But not all subscription programs have had success. In 2021, On the Border Mexican Grill introduced its Queso Club, which offered free cheese dip for a year for $1. The program stopped taking new subscribers a year later.
Edithann Ramey, On the Border’s chief marketing officer, said more than 150,000 people signed up for the Queso Club, and members visited seven times more often than the average guest. But the Dallas-based chain wasn’t making enough to cover the cost of the dip.
On the Border is now retooling the program and expects to reintroduce it later this year. It may charge more or move to a monthly model, Ramey said, but the subscription element will remain.
“It’s becoming kind of a hot trend and we want to stay as a leading brand,” Ramey said.
Taco Bell is also tinkering with its $10 Taco Lover’s Pass, which lets subscribers get a taco every day for a month. The pass was introduced in January 2022 and again in October; it generated buzz, but the chain is trying to think of ways to make it more valuable to consumers, said Dane Matthews, Taco Bell’s Chief Digital Officer. A subscription could promise faster service, for example, or unlock unique menu items.
Other restaurants have dropped subscriptions, saying they have their hands full just running the kitchen.
In late 2020, SheWolf, an upscale Italian restaurant in Detroit, started sending subscribers a box of pasta, sauces and other treats for $80 per month. But when its dining room fully reopened six months later, it was too much work to put together hundreds of boxes.
Still, SheWolf is keeping one foot in the subscription space. Dan Reinisch, the restaurant’s beverage director, sends Italian wines to about 80 subscribers who pay $60 or more each month.
Other businesses have had better luck. St. Louis-based Panera had nearly 40 million members in its loyalty program in early 2020, but it wanted to convince them to drop in more often. So it launched a subscription program that offered unlimited coffee and tea for $8.99 per month. Customers started coming in several times a week, and about one-third of the time they bought food.
Last year, Panera expanded the subscription. Now, members can pay $11.99 per month or $119.99 per year for unlimited hot and cold drinks. Annual subscribers also get free delivery.
Eduardo Luz, Panera’s chief brand officer, won’t share exact numbers but he said members now make up 25% of the chain’s transactions.
“It’s a huge traffic driver,” Luz said.
The idea quickly spread overseas. Pret A Manger, a sandwich chain owned by the same private company as Panera, launched its own coffee subscription in the U.K. in 2020. As of November, it was being used 1.2 million times per week. Pret also offers subscriptions in France and the U.S.
Chris Hosford, a communications consultant in southern California, joined Panera’s subscription plan a year ago. He passes four or five Paneras on his regular routes and often stops to grab a coffee and a bite to eat.
“It’s not a huge amount of savings for me — probably $5-10 in the average month,” Hosford said. “But I’m good with that.” | 2023-02-21T19:30:17+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/would-you-subscribe-to-your-favorite-restaurant/ |
Hasser, Mark
Age 71, of Xenia, OH, passed away December 5, 2022. Visitation will be held on Thursday, March 30, 2023 from 2-4pm. Jackson Lytle & Lewis Funeral Home, Yellow Springs, OH.
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Grant funding will help Hollander Chocolate move from Fox Point to Port Washington
Fox Point-based Hollander Chocolate Inc., which last year received Port Washington approval to relocate its company headquarters to Port, is one step closer to redeveloping a former car dealership to make that happen.
On Tuesday, the Port Washington Common Council unanimously approved a $187,000 Community Development Investment grant between the city and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to provide funding for repurposing the commercial property.
Hollander's new headquarters will be located at 1180 Spring St. in Port Washington, where the company hopes to consolidate its existing office personnel into one location, according to its proposal.
The company plans to create a product innovation lab where the public could come for product tastings.
Hollander estimates it will cost about $750,000 to redevelop the property, said owner Doug Podzilni at the meeting.
The grant funds will be for a coffee shop, an interactive museum and a gift shop, Podzilni said.
"We really couldn't have done this without this grant," Podzilni said.
Last year, city officials approved Hollander's building, site and operations plan to relocate their headquarters to Port Washington.
With the acceptance of the grant, Hollander is obligated to provide the city with semi-annual performance reports during the construction phase of the project. They will also be required to hire an independent auditor.
Under the grant, Port Washington will not be responsible for other financial obligations by Hollander relating to the project, according to the agreement.
Hollander plans to redevelop the property in three phases. The first phase includes removing all remnants of the old car dealership and brining the building up to food grade standards, as well as refinishing the façade.
The second phase includes remodeling office space and building the product innovation lab; phase three involves building the areas for the public, including the coffee shop, gift shop and museum.
The company plans to move employees to the new offices before the end of the year and open the public and retail space next year, said Port Washington's Director of Planning and Development Bob Harris.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major action to address climate change, the Senate on Wednesday ratified an international agreement that compels the United States and other countries to limit use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigeration and air conditioning that are far more powerful than carbon dioxide.
The so-called Kigali Amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on ozone pollution requires participating nations to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, by 85% over the next 14 years, as part of a global phaseout intended to slow climate change.
The Senate approved the treaty, 69-27, above the two-thirds margin required for ratification.
HFCs are considered a major driver of global warming and are being targeted worldwide. Nearly 200 nations reached a deal in 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda, to limit HFCs and find substitutes more friendly to the atmosphere. More than 130 nations, including China, India and Russia, have formally ratified the agreement, which scientists say could help the world avoid a half-degree Celsius of global warming.
President Joe Biden pledged to embrace the Kigali deal during the 2020 presidential campaign and submitted the agreement to the Senate last year, months after the Environmental Protection Agency issued a rule limiting U.S. production and use of HFCs in line with Kigali. The EPA rule, in turn, followed a 2020 law passed by Congress authorizing a 15-year phaseout of HFCs in the U.S.
Biden called the Senate vote “a historic, bipartisan win for American workers and industry” and said it would allow the U.S. “to lead the clean technology markets of the future” while advancing global efforts to combat climate change.
The president’s climate envoy, former Secretary of State John Kerry, said the agreement will drive American exports, avoid up to half-degree of global warming and ensure strong international cooperation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the Kigali vote, along with passage of a major climate law last month, “the strongest one-two punch against climate change any Congress has ever taken.”
Ratification of the treaty not only “will protect our planet,” it also will provide “a golden opportunity to help American businesses dominate in an emerging (global) business” of refrigerants that do not rely on HFCs, said Schumer, D-N.Y..
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and other Republicans opposed the treaty, saying it would give China preferential treatment by designating it as a developing country.
“Under this treaty, China would get an extra decade to produce HFCs,” placing the United States at a competitive disadvantage to China, Barrasso said. “There is no excuse for any senator to give China a handout at the expense of the American taxpayer.”
The Senate approved a largely symbolic amendment by GOP Sens. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Mike Lee of Utah declaring that China is not a developing country and should not be treated as such by the United Nations or other intergovernmental organizations.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was among those urging approval, calling the amendment “a win for the economy and the environment.”
Senate ratification “would enhance the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers working to develop alternative technologies, and level the global economic playing field,” the group said in a letter to the Senate.
Ratification of the amendment “would continue the important, bipartisan action Congress took in 2020 with passage of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, which phased out domestic HFC manufacturing,” said Jack Howard, the chamber’s senior vice president for government affairs.
Chris Jahn, president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council, an industry group, called the amendment a “tremendous market opportunity for our members to take advantage of game-changing technologies” that allow refrigeration in a more environmentally responsible manner than HFCs.
“”This is one of those truly rare things you get in the policy world where it is a win-win” for the environment and business, he said in an interview.
Every year, millions of refrigerators and air conditioning units are sold around the world, and U.S. businesses are prepared to meet that demand, Jahn said, citing growing markets in Asia, South America and Europe.
David Doniger, a senior climate and clean energy official with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the Kigali Amendment builds on the the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which he called “the world’s most successful environmental treaty.″ He said “the ozone is on the mend because the world took action to eliminate″ chlorofluorocarbons, also known as CFCs, and other ozone-destroying chemicals, Doniger said.
The next logical step is to replace HFCs with safer, commercially available alternatives, Doniger said.
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said ratification of the Kigali Amendment would “unleash billions of dollars in U.S. economic benefits and create some 150,000 American jobs by 2027.”
Carper and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., pushed for the 2020 law phasing out HFCs, saying it would give U.S. companies the regulatory certainty needed to produce alternative coolants. Both men represent states that are home to chemical companies that produce the alternative refrigerants.
“Today, the Senate defended U.S. innovation and countered the economic rise of China and other bad actors at a time when American workers and consumers need all the commonsense support they can get,” said Kennedy.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, hired Mansoor Basha as chief technology officer (CTO) of the Stagwell Marketing Cloud (SMC). Joining from the Applied Intelligence Practice at Accenture, Mansoor will be responsible for the technology roadmap, data strategy and cloud portfolio integration across the SMC, Stagwell's proprietary suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and data-as-a-service (DaaS) products built for in-house marketers.
Mansoor brings more than 20 years of experience across product development, management and marketing, engineering, and new business development. While at Accenture, he was responsible for strategy and consulting, data-led transformation, cloud analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning-based use cases, and scenario analysis for several Fortune 500 companies.
"Every company is now a digital marketing company but most lack the resources to develop the tools they need to actually engage in modern marketing," said Mark Penn, chairman and CEO, Stagwell. "With Mansoor's deep background in both building and marketing innovative tech solutions, the Stagwell Marketing Cloud is well positioned to build a digital marketing infrastructure that any CMO, at any company, can take advantage of."
"I've spent my career blending business strategy and technical acumen to bring transformative products to market – the very same special combination that attracted me to Stagwell and the Marketing Cloud," said Mansoor Basha, CTO, Stagwell Marketing Cloud. "From the acquisition of Apollo Program to boost its first-party data infrastructure, to the recent launch of the first shared augmented reality experience in a live event setting with ARound and the Minnesota Twins, it's clear that Stagwell takes a thoughtful, strategic approach to building the SMC, paving the way for organizations to deliver marketing innovation at whatever scale they need."
Mansoor also currently serves as an investment advisor to 11.2 Ventures and Purple Arch Ventures, as well as an adjunct faculty member teaching digital marketing at New York University. He will join Chief Product Officer Abe Geiger, Chief Marketing Officer Elspeth Rollert and Managing Director Matthew Lochner on the SMC leadership team.
The Stagwell Marketing Cloud is a proprietary suite of SaaS and DaaS tools built for the in-house marketer, spanning capabilities such as brand intelligence to media activation and influencer management. Products within the cloud include ARound, a first-of-its-kind stadium-level shared augmented reality platform; PRophet , a predictive AI platform for PR professionals; Koalifyed, an end-to-end influencer management platform; the Harris Brand Platform, delivering competitive brand intelligence; and more.
Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 13,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
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DEAR AMY: I retired at 62 and consider the ability to do so a blessing.
In the lead up to this momentous event, I alerted family and friends of my decision, which yielded a barrage of unsolicited warnings that my body would wither, and my brain turn to an inoperative mush.
Now that I am retired and living in a new community, I am questioned incessantly by apparently well-meaning people about what I do all day, as if enjoying my leisure is a crime.
In fact, I am researching my genealogy, reading, investing, catching up remotely on long-neglected relationships, and enjoying the life I worked 40 years to afford.
In truth, I don’t need to explain myself to anyone, but apparently some justification is expected.
Have you any insights on how to approach these invasive comments?
– Life Is Good
DEAR LIFE IS GOOD: It’s possible that people are asking you how you spend your time, not to accuse you of the crime of enjoying your leisure (how dare you!), but because they’re genuinely curious.
The kindest response is to assume they are being genuine. You can say, “After retirement, I’m exploring all of those things that have fascinated me, but which I never had time for. Honestly, I enjoy every day.”
If you discern that people are actually searching for a path to denigrate you, you could add: “… and I play a lot of mini-golf and eat ice cream for dinner. Basically, I’m Ferris Bueller, and every day is a day off.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Public parks play a vital role in fostering community engagement and supporting the well-being of nearby residents, but their impact depends not only on the physical but also the social dimensions, such as perceived safety and availability of community programming.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a team of researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) a five-year, $6.7 million grant to design and implement programmatic strategies to enhance the social environment of neighborhoods by leveraging newly renovated public parks in low-income New York City neighborhoods.
In New York City, as part of the equity-based Community Parks Initiative, 64 neighborhood parks in low-income communities with a high concentration of Black and Latino residents have been redesigned and renovated since 2017, providing a unique opportunity to work with neighborhood and city partners in a community-engaged, community-level intervention to leverage the new park facilities to enhance the social dimension of these neighborhoods, as a way to improve community-level health outcomes.
The researchers, led by CUNY SPH Professor Terry T-K Huang, will conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized stepped wedge trial in eight neighborhoods to determine the impact on community-level health-related quality of life and mental health of a community-engaged intervention that enables local stakeholders to design and implement programmatic strategies in the newly renovated parks.
The team will employ human-centered design (HCD), a process methodology for problem-solving and innovation, in an asset-based approach to collaborating with local partners. Specifically, each community will design one primarily physical activity strategy that promotes reach and inclusive participation among adults and one primarily social strategy—such as music, outdoor market, park beautification groups—that enhances social interaction and relationships. Unlike past research in public health, the research team will not prescribe the specific park-based activities; rather, the community will have the opportunity to design them based on what fits with the local context. The research team will provide each community financial resources and core services on formative research, design, and rapid prototyping and testing.
Marrying HCD with community engagement will result in community-owned park strategies that align with true community-identified values, needs and assets and improve the social infrastructure of neighborhoods, the researchers say, leading to sustained health impact and reduce health disparities at the community level.
"Parks are critical for neighborhood engagement and vibrancy, which in turn contribute to community well-being," says Dr. Huang. "This study is significant both conceptually and methodologically. It pushes health disparities research from being community-participatory to community-centered, where the solutions are community-driven and based on authentic community needs, values and culture. We will also be able to empirically test, for the first time, the impact of HCD as a process for community-driven innovation on community-level health outcomes."
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two years after a former Gettysburg College student finally saw charges filed over her 2013 campus sexual assault, the man suspected of sending her a Facebook message that said, “ So I raped you,” remains on the run.
Shannon Keeler, 28, and her attorneys question how Ian T. Cleary has avoided capture in an age when people are tracked by their cellphones, internet connections, security cameras and credit card purchases. Investigators, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, believe the 30-year-old from Silicon Valley is likely overseas and on the move.
“How is he financially supporting himself? How is he able to travel abroad without detection? Has he assumed a false identity?” asked Andrea Levy, legal director of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, who represents Keeler. “Who’s helping him?”
Keeler was sexually assaulted on a snowy December night in her dorm room. She texted friends for help even before he fled, and went to police the same day.
For years, local officials declined her pleas to file charges, even after she showed them the startling Facebook messages she discovered in 2020. They reversed course weeks after she went public in an Associated Press story that examined the reluctance of local agencies to prosecute campus sexual assaults.
For Keeler, the years of limbo have been painful, even as she moves forward with her life and career. She works for a software company and is getting married this fall. But she remains on high alert for an arrest that could come at any time, knowing a trial could disrupt her life for months or even years.
“She’s had to push and push and put herself out there … and then he’s just literally gone on with his life. It’s hard to measure that impact on her as a human being, (and on) her family, her partner,” Levy said. “There’s a cost. There’s a real human cost. It’s someone’s life.”
After leaving Gettysburg, Cleary, 30, graduated from Santa Clara University, near a family home in Saratoga, California, worked for Tesla, then moved to France for several years, according to his website, which describes his self-published medieval fiction.
Adams County District Attorney Brian Sinnett, who filed the arrest warrant on June 29, 2021, called the duration of the search “somewhat frustrating.”
“I just have to think this person is accessing resources from somewhere,” Sinnett said.
Neither Cleary’s father in California, a marketing executive who has served as a professor and trustee at Santa Clara, nor his mother in Baltimore returned messages this month seeking comment.
U.S. marshals said the search remains active. An Interpol Red Notice has been issued, asking police agencies worldwide to detain Cleary, although he is not yet listed in the public database, which includes a few dozen rape and sexual assault cases.
“We put a lot of work and effort into it,” said Deputy U.S. Marshal Phil Lewis, warrant supervisor for the office in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. “Any crimes against women and children, we take seriously and we make those types of cases a priority.”
As the #MeToo movement continues to shape society — and some adults, including accusers of Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, use the courts to seek monetary damages if it’s too late for criminal charges — college students are also seeking accountability.
In California, students are lobbying for campus health centers to keep rape kits on hand, or pay for victims in the throes of trauma to travel to a hospital for an exam. More states are requiring colleges to survey students on the climate around sexual assault, and groups such as End Rape on Campus are working on tools to make school data more accessible.
And some law enforcement agencies have shown sustained commitment, including police who stayed on top of advances in DNA science to make an arrest this year in a 2000 knifepoint rape on a Penn State golf course.
In 2004, they matched the DNA to an unsolved 1999 golf course rape in Michigan. In 2011, they filed a “John Doe” arrest warrant, identifying the subject only by his DNA before the 12-year statute of limitations in Pennsylvania expired. Using genetic genealogy, they identified the suspect this year as Michigan business owner Kurt Rillema, and matched the DNA samples to a coffee cup he discarded at a Lexus dealership before charging him in both cases.
“The police so often get beat up for doing the wrong thing. Here, it’s pretty impressive, they were on the ball,” said lawyer Conor Lamb, who sued Rillema last month on behalf of the Penn State accuser, a 42-year-old woman in suburban Philadelphia.
Rilemma’s lawyers plan to challenge the privacy issues raised by the genetic sleuthing, especially the way his DNA from the coffee cup was obtained without a warrant.
“Everybody wants to solve old crimes, but the process is so invasive, and when it’s done without a warrant, people ought to think about that. It’s creepy and scary,” said defense lawyer Deanna Kelley of suburban Detroit.
In Gettysburg, meanwhile, a small town known for its Civil War history, Sinnet said there is now more coordination between campus and local police, in the hope that more college rape victims can have their day in court.
Keeler is still waiting for that day, nearly a decade after she reported the attack and Cleary left school, ending the college’s Title IX investigation.
“Since then, he has again run away from facing this felony charge,” she said, while she tries to “to finally close this never-ending, painful chapter of my life.” | 2023-06-21T18:57:12+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/so-i-raped-you-man-still-on-the-run-2-years-after-facebook-message/ |
BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — Three young boys are kicking off the summer with some new wheels, thanks to a pay it forward organization called Preston's March.
14 year old Elijah, 10 Year old Jamie and 10 year old Jacob, all receiving their very own adaptive bicycles during an event Saturday morning at the Rose Garden playground in Buffalo's Delaware Park.
All three boys live with autism and have low muscle tone and and other medical issues, which makes it impossible for them to balance and ride traditional bikes.
The adaptive bikes are custom designed especially for each boy, helping them to get outdoors and enjoy exercising and having fun with their family and friends this summer.
Preston's March is a non-profit organization based in Delaware that provides adaptive bikes to children with disabilities across the United States.
So far it has given away 600 bikes in 35 states. | 2022-04-24T00:58:05+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/new-adaptive-bikes-for-three-boys-in-wny |
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Fresh off an event trumpeting Kentucky’s largest-ever economic development project, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear filed for reelection Monday, touting his work to increase jobs, expand health care and support teachers during a term marred by a pandemic and deadly storms.
Beshear defended his efforts to combat COVID-19 and downplayed any potential political backlash from virus-related restrictions he placed on businesses and gatherings. The global health crisis gave him unprecedented access to Kentuckians through frequent news conferences held to guide them through the crisis.
“I think the voters of Kentucky — who by now know me pretty well — know that I’ll work for them tirelessly each and every day,” the governor told reporters Monday at the state Capitol.
Beshear, 45, the son of former two-term Gov. Steve Beshear, was accompanied by his wife, their two children and his parents as he submitted paperwork to the secretary of state’s office for the 2023 election. Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, who will run with him again next year, also joined him.
Polling has consistently shown the governor receiving high job-performance ratings from Kentuckians. But Beshear faces a tough reelection fight in a state trending heavily in favor of Republicans. GOP candidates, including several who have battled him on legal and political fronts during his first term in office, are lining up for the chance to challenge him next year.
“The fundamentals are strong for a Republican candidate to defeat him, and we stand ready to support our nominee once the primary process is concluded,” state GOP spokesman Sean Southard said in a statement Monday. “In 2023, the Andy Beshear show will have its final season.”
With the spring primary months away, Beshear batted away questions about potential rivals.
“When you’ve governed through a pandemic and tornadoes and ice storms, who your potential opponents are don’t keep you up at night,” he said. “I’m focused on doing a good job.”
Earlier in the day, Beshear spoke at an event showcasing progress by Ford and its South Korean partner in developing a battery production venture at Glendale in central Kentucky. The mega-project — landed by Beshear last year and ranking as the largest in state history — will employ 5,000 workers to produce batteries for future Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles.
The governor has consistently touted the state’s economic successes during his tenure. On Monday, he declared it the state’s “greatest two years of economic development in our lifetime, creating more jobs than ever before.”
Beshear pointed to his efforts to expand access to health care. He relaunched a state-run web portal first started by his father’s administration that signs up Kentuckians for health coverage, which had been dismantled by the Republican governor who served for a single term between them, Matt Bevin.
Beshear said he will keep pushing for higher pay for educators to help overcome a statewide teacher shortage.
The governor has urged the legislature to reopen the state budget next year amid unprecedented budget surpluses to pump more money into public schools. Lawmakers left it up to local school districts to decide whether to use additional state funding to provide higher pay to teachers and other school staff. Most districts have awarded pay raises, Republicans say.
But the governor says more needs to be done. Republicans, meanwhile, are trying to blame Beshear for the pandemic-related setbacks in statewide test scores.
Beshear said Monday that Kentuckians will be remembered for their perseverance against the pandemic and in overcoming deadly tornadoes and flooding during his term. He has come under blistering GOP attacks for his handling of the pandemic, but he stoutly defended his actions.
“We made the hard decisions when they were the right decisions,” Beshear said. “I was going to put the lives of our people ahead of any personal ambition. And what I said then, is if we saved more lives but they ran me out of town, then OK. I’m going to remain proud of what our team did together, regardless of any consequences.” | 2022-12-06T21:48:24+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/political-news/ap-politics/ap-kentuckys-dem-governor-files-for-red-state-reelection-bid/ |
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ST. JOHNSBURY, Vermont (AP) — The immigration deal expected to be announced Friday by U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would end a process that has enabled tens of thousands of immigrants from across the world to move between the two countries along a back road between New York state and Quebec.
Since early 2017, these migrants have entered Canada via Roxham Road outside Champlain, New York, where a reception center staffed by agents of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been set up to process them, about five miles (8 kilometers) from the official border crossing where they’d be returned to the United States.
The Mounties warn that they’ll be arrested if they take one more step. Then they do — and without being handcuffed, they are processed and usually released to live in Canada while their asylum cases are pending, which can take years.
Canada is expected to announce as part of the agreement that 15,000 migrants from the Western Hemisphere will be given slots to apply to enter the country. The policy applies to people without U.S. or Canadian citizenship who are caught within 14 days of crossing the border.
The deal comes as the U.S. Border Patrol also responds to a steep increase in illegal southbound crossings along the wide-open Canadian border. Nearly all happen between the biggest population centers in both countries, from Quebec into upstate New York and Vermont.
While the numbers are still tiny compared to the U.S.-Mexico border, it’s happening so frequently now that the Border Patrol increased its staffing in the region and has begun releasing some migrants into Vermont with a future date to appear before immigration authorities.
Canadian officials have struggled to cope with this since early 2017. Many northbound migrants said they were fleeing because they feared President Donald Trump’s immigration policies were hostile to their presence in the United States. The process continued since the Biden administration took office.
These migrants have taken advantage of a quirk in a 2002 agreement between the U.S. and Canada that says asylum seekers must apply in the first country they arrive in. Migrants who go to an official Canadian crossing are returned to the U.S. and told to apply there. But those who reach Canadian soil somewhere other than a port of entry are allowed to stay and request protection.
Meanwhile, southbound migrants are straining U.S. border officials.
U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped migrants entering illegally from Canada 628 times in February, more than five times the same period a year earlier. Those numbers pale compared to migrants entering from Mexico – where they were stopped more than 220,000 times in December alone — but it is still a massive change in percentage terms.
In the Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector, which stretches across New Hampshire, Vermont and a portion of upstate New York, agents stopped migrants 418 times in February, up more than 10 times from a year earlier. About half entering from Canada have been Mexicans, who can fly visa-free to Canada from Mexico.
About an hour south of the border, the police chief in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, population 6,000, alerted state officials that the Border Patrol had dropped off a vanload of immigrants with just a few minutes notice at the community’s welcome center. The same thing happened several times before within the last few weeks.
In a statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the migrants dropped off in St. Johnsbury had been apprehended along the border after entering the U.S. without authorization, and were given a notice to appear for later immigration proceedings.
They were dropped off in St. Johnsbury because it has a station where migrants can take a bus to a larger city.
“In such circumstances, USBP works in tandem with local communities to ensure the safety of all parties—both community members and migrants—and to ensure stability in the community’s resources,” the statement said.
But local officials said they weren’t given time to prepare. State officials are now working to set up a system to provide migrants services they might require.
On Thursday, a Haitian couple and their children, boys aged 17 and 9 and a 15-year-old girl, were dropped off at the welcome center. The family, who did not want to give their names, wanted to take a bus to Miami.
They said they’d been in Canada for two months, but wouldn’t talk about what prompted them to keep moving.
They missed the Thursday bus that would allow them to connect to a bus to Boston, where they could catch another bus to Miami. A team of local volunteers spent the day getting them something to eat, finding them a place to stay the night and arranging for them to take the bus on Friday.
Police chief Tim Page said St. Johnsbury wants to help these migrants, but not on the fly.
“We need to get something down so we know what we are going to do when these families arrive,” he said. “We don’t have a system set yet, so when we do I am sure this will all go a little smoother.” | 2023-03-24T20:59:38+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/us-canada-migration-deal-could-end-walk-around-crossings-2/ |
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China said Wednesday it has dispatched navy ships in preparation for joint exercises with Russia’s sea forces, in a sign of Beijing’s continuing support for Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The move comes despite the growing economic and humanitarian repercussions of the bloody 16 month-old air, sea and ground assault.
China claims to be neutral in the conflict, but has accused the U.S. and its allies of provoking Russia and has maintained robust economic, diplomatic and trade ties with Moscow. The exercise involves more than 10 ships and 30-plus aircraft, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.
The ministry and Xinhua gave no details, but the exercises are believed to be set for parts of the Sea of Japan in coming days.
China has reliably backed Russia in opposing U.S. condemnation of the Ukraine invasion in international forums, but says it won’t provide arms to either side in the war.
The Defense Ministry said in a news release Wednesday that Chinese ships had linked up with their Russian counterparts at noon. Those included the guided missile destroyers Qiqihar and Guiyang, the guided missile frigates Zaozhuang and Rizhao and the supply ship Taihu. The Chinese ships carried four helicopters, the report said.
Russian participants included the frigates Gromkiy and Otlichnyy, which have been hosting visitors for a week in the financial hub of Shanghai, China’s largest city and biggest port.
A pair of Russian navy ships are visiting China as the countries reaffirm their military ties amid the war in Ukraine.
The joint drills focus on ship-to-ship communications, maneuvering in formation and maritime search and rescue, according to Chinese reports.
The visit follows a meeting in Beijing between China’s defense minister and the head of Russia’s navy, the first formal military talks between the friendly neighbors since a short-lived mutiny by the Russian mercenary group Wagner.
China has reassured Russia of its continued support since the uprising. Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu told Russian Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov that China hoped for increased exchanges, joint exercises and other forms of cooperation to help defense ties “reach a new level,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said.
China operates the world’s largest navy by number of hulls and vastly outstrips Russia’s navy in both size and technical ability. The countries’ fleets have held a series of exercises and joint maneuvers since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, as have their air forces. | 2023-07-19T23:32:10+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-china-prepares-for-naval-drills-with-russia-in-sign-of-continuing-support-amid-ukraine-conflict/ |
The daughters of former NBA All-Star Jayson Williams have denounced St. John’s University for its decision to induct their father into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame because of accusations of neglect in their lives following his role in the 2002 fatal shooting of a limousine driver.
Tryumph and Whizdom Williams both wrote open letters they sent Friday to The Associated Press, and also planned to send to St. John’s, that said the school should be ashamed for his induction into the class during Saturday’s homecoming weekend.
The 54-year-old Williams served more than a year in prison for the accidental shotgun death in his New Jersey mansion of chauffeur Costas Christofi.
Whizdom J Williams, an 18-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, accused her father of being an alcoholic and ”a deadbeat father who lacks any sense of remorse.”
The sisters each accused Williams of neglect, emotional and verbal abuse and that the power forward who once signed a six-year, $86-million deal with the New Jersey Nets failed to provide adequate financial support. Tryumph Jaye Williams, a 19-year-old studying theater at DePaul University, detailed accusations that her sister was locked in a trash chute by Williams. Tryumph also lashed out at St. John’s as ”possibly, fools, misusing money to honor Jayson Williams.”
”Why are you being honored and inducted into the hall of fame when I’ve always had to earn my survival, let alone my success, in spite of you? St. John’s University – you should be ashamed of yourself,” she wrote.
Williams killed Christofi with a 12-gauge shotgun while showing it to friends, having failed to check the weapon’s safety mechanism before snapping the gun closed. Williams then wiped down the weapon and placed it in the chauffeur’s hands, stripped off his own clothes, handed them to a friend and jumped into his pool, according to testimony. Williams’ lawyers maintained that the shooting was an accident and that his actions were driven by panic.
Williams made a tearful apology to the victim’s family when he was sentenced for the shooting in 2010.
But his daughters wrote that Williams never made amends with them.
”I knew that I couldn’t change who my father was or the way he viewed and treated me,” Whizdom wrote. ”I knew that the contrition and apologies were never coming.”
She also wrote a poem about her father and dedicated it: ”To the weakest man I know, Jayson.”
Williams declined comment to the AP. St. John’s planned to go ahead and include Williams in the weekend ceremony.
”Jayson Williams’s life journey is one that includes childhood trauma, time spent in a homeless shelter, addiction, incarceration, and recovery; issues that impact countless American families. The family dynamic between Jayson and his children is not a matter that St. John’s University will discuss,” St. John’s spokesperson Brian Browne wrote in an email statement to the AP.
”Part of the recovery and redemption process is restoring trust, accepting help, and finding comfort and support in the journey and that, coupled with his athletic accomplishments, is what St. John’s University recognizes with Jayson Williams during this Homecoming weekend.”
Williams averaged 8.1 points and 12.1 rebounds over nine seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets. The 6-foot-10 Williams was among the NBA’s best rebounders when leg injuries led to his retirement from the Nets in 2000.
Williams is scheduled to join a seven-person class at St. John’s induction ceremony that also includes 2016 Olympic high jumper Priscilla Frederick and 2016 Olympic fencing silver medalist Daryl Homer. Williams played three seasons at St. John’s under Hall of Fame coach Lou Carnesecca. A co-captain in 1989-90, Williams was part of a St. John’s team that won 24 games and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He was the 21st overall pick in the 1990 draft and finished with 3,472 points, 3,584 rebounds and 301 blocks during his pro career.
Williams, divorced from his daughters’ mother, Tanya, paid Christofi’s family more than $2 million in 2003 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.
He has since founded the addiction rehabilitation program the Rebound Institute in Florida, that has been promoted by St. John’s as a success story.
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Apprenticeship Week shines a spotlight on states that are embracing this impactful way of training tomorrow's workforce
MISSOURI, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The shortage of skilled workers is effecting businesses nationwide – but one state is doubling down on its commitment to training people in high-demand industries. Missouri is ranked third in the U.S. for the most completed apprenticeships.
More than 3,230 people completed apprenticeships in Missouri last year, securing the state's position as one of the top locations for apprenticeship programs. Missouri ranked 4th in the country for the highest number of new apprentices, with 8,100+ registered in the state.
In 2020, the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development and the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced the start of a new statewide apprenticeship matching service that helps employers with registered apprenticeship programs find aspiring apprentices.
The matching service makes it easier for Missourians to take advantage of career opportunities that apprenticeships provide. It also enhances Missouri's leadership role in using apprenticeships to help train the state's workforce.
Missouri's apprenticeship programs help businesses find high-quality job candidates and provide workers with good-paying jobs. For apprentices who finish their program in Missouri, 83 percent of them are still employed with the company that sponsored their apprenticeship twelve months after completion.
In addition to the state's leadership role in apprenticeship programs, Missouri is also ranked 1st in the U.S. for on-the-job training.
Missouri Partnership is a public-private economic development organization focused on attracting new jobs and investment to the state and promoting Missouri's business strengths. Since 2008, Missouri Partnership has worked with partners statewide to attract companies that have created 31,000+ new jobs, $1.6 billion+ in new annual payroll, and $6 billion+ in new capital investment. Some recent successful projects that led to major investment in Missouri include Accenture Federal Services LLC, American Foods Group, Casey's, Chewy, Inc., James Hardie, Meta, Square, Swift Prepared Foods, USDA, and Veterans United.
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After another mass shooting, Texas Democrats again push for gun control measures
The question moving forward is whether Democrats, outnumbered in the Texas Legislature for two decades, will be able to put enough pressure on lawmakers to move on a previously intractable issue in gun-friendly Texas and that Republicans, who support looser gun laws, will fight tooth and nail.
UVALDE, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE) - After the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 people dead, Texas Democrats are once again urging state leaders to enact gun control measures to help prevent similar tragedies in the future.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke confronted state leaders last week during a news conference, telling his Republican opponent, Gov. Greg Abbott, he was “doing nothing” and saying the mass shooting was “totally predictable.” The party’s candidate for lieutenant governor, Mike Collier, has blamed Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for loosening gun laws in the state instead of tightening them after previous mass shootings. And on Saturday, Texas Senate Democrats sent a letter to the governor demanding a special session to pass gun control legislation.
“‘Thoughts and prayers’ are not enough,” 13 Democrats wrote in the letter.” We need evidence-based, common sense gun safety laws.”
The question moving forward is whether Democrats, outnumbered in the Texas Legislature for two decades, will be able to put enough pressure on lawmakers to move on a previously intractable issue in gun-friendly Texas and that Republicans, who support looser gun laws, will fight tooth and nail.
Mark Owens, a political scientist at the University of Texas at Tyler who conducts regular polling on state politics, said there is an opportunity for Democrats because Texans have been dissatisfied with the state’s response to previous mass shootings. Last April, 59% of Texans surveyed in a poll by the university and The Dallas Morning News said they disagreed that elected officials were doing enough to prevent mass shootings. Only 21% of respondents agreed.
“The public wants to see this issue continue to be looked at based on the evidence that they were dissatisfied in the last legislative session,” Owens said.
Democrat proposals
Texas Democrats have so far laid out a broad range of proposals in response to the shooting.
O’Rourke, the state’s most high-profile Democrat, is inching back toward the call to ban assault rifles that he became known for after the El Paso mass shooting in 2019 during his presidential run.
At the time, he called for a mandatory assault rifle buy-back program, but he’s been less vocal about such bans during his run for governor.
This week, however, he lamented to reporters that it was “insane that we allow an 18-year-old to go in and buy an AR-15.”
He also tweaked language on his campaign website this week that previously said, “We need to reduce the number” of assault rifles on the streets. Now it more firmly says “I don’t believe any civilian should own an AR-15 or AK-47.”
On Friday, O’Rourke’s campaign released a nearly two-minute online ad blasting Abbott for signing a bill that would allow Texans to carry a handgun without a license or training in last year’s legislative session, which followed mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa in 2019.
The ad includes footage of two police chiefs speaking against the proposal and saying it would make the jobs of their officers more difficult.
The letter from Texas Senate Democrats laid out five specific gun control proposals it urged the Legislature to pass immediately in a special session: raising the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, requiring universal background checks for all firearm sales, implementing “red flag” laws to allow the temporary removal of firearms from those who pose imminent danger, require a waiting period for the purchase of a gun, and regulating civilian ownership of high-capacity magazines.
Collier, the lieutenant governor candidate, and Democratic attorney general candidate Rochelle Garza have also called on Abbott to convene a special session of the Legislature to respond to the Uvalde shooting.
“How many years ago was El Paso? How many years ago was Santa Fe? How many years ago was Sutherland Springs?” Collier said, referring to past mass shootings. “For them, they refuse to talk about it ever. All they’re trying to do is cover their sorry asses, and children are getting killed. I think we gotta talk about it right now.”
Collier said he would push to eliminate the law passed last year that allows Texans to carry handguns without a license or training and would instead urge lawmakers to pass red flag laws, stronger background checks for gun sales, safe gun storage requirements and raising the minimum age to buy guns from 18 to 21.
Collier said there’s a political appetite to make change at the Legislature, but it is stopped by Patrick.
“Take Dan Patrick out, put Mike Collier in, then the Senate will work with the House to get this done,” he said.
During his travels throughout the state, Collier said he’s met many Republican officials who support the gun control measures he is discussing but they are afraid to discuss it publicly.
“You talk to ordinary Texans — Democrats, independents and Republicans — and they want gun safety,” he said.
Republican opposition
But Democrats won’t be working in a vacuum. Republican leadership is already flatly rejecting gun control measures, opting to focus on arming more teachers, increasing mental health resources and increasing police staffing at schools. Texas members of the National Rifle Association, a powerful voting bloc in conservative politics, told The Texas Tribune on Friday at the organization’s annual conference in Houston that they were unwilling to support any new gun restrictions.
On Friday, Abbott dismissed any suggestion of rolling back gun laws he signed to loosen gun restrictions and he dismissed the efficacy of background checks.
“Let’s be clear about one thing, none of the laws I signed this past session had any intersection with this crime at all,” Abbott said. “No law that I signed allowed him to get a gun.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Democrats and news reporters were trying to “politicize” the tragedy.
“Inevitably when there’s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,” Cruz told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “That doesn’t work. It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.”
Owens said that given voter support for Republicans in the state, GOP lawmakers won’t feel a need to make changes unless polling starts indicating that voter feelings toward mass shootings and the state’s response to them are becoming more negative.
In last April’s poll, 51% of Republicans and 37% of independents said state officials were doing enough to prevent such events.
“If the polls start shifting and races get closer and the public continues to talk about the topic, then the incumbent begins to talk about what they’d do as well,” Owens said.
David Thomason, a political scientist at St. Edward’s University, said Democrats would have to be careful about their approach if they want to win over the Texas public. The party would need buy-in from independent voters and Republicans, some of whom support limited gun control measures. Sixty percent of independent voters said they disagreed that state leaders had done enough to prevent mass shootings in last year’s UT-Tyler poll.
But pushing forward on measures seen as too extreme, like the mandatory gun buybacks O’Rourke has pushed in the past, could turn off rural, suburban and independent voters who could be persuaded to support other measures.
“The Democrats need to rethink how they approach guns and the relationship between guns and violence,” Thomason said. “It’s not a single issue — a single regulation will not change how someone commits violent actions. There are many pieces to it.”
Thomason also said the Democrats would have to strike the right tone in persuading pro-gun Texans to push for gun control measures. He said O’Rourke’s interruption of a press conference updating the public on the shooting would probably play against him in many parts of the state he needs to win over.
“Although he expresses what so many Texans feel, the consequences of that for voters that are in rural areas and suburban areas that are in the middle trying to decide do they want to stay with Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick or do they want to jump onto a new train, that didn’t help him with those voters because it doesn’t show leadership,” he said. “[The Republicans will] easily show him as just creating a political circus out of a moment of tragedy.”
So far, Democrats are not heeding that advice, confronting Republicans directly and publicly.
“When I heard [Abbott] was not going to do a single thing I knew I had to speak up and to do this on behalf of everyone who wants us to actually change things so that no family has to deal with the loss of a child or a loved one,” O’Rourke said in Uvalde. “We need to be honest about what’s happening and why it’s happening and what we have to do to keep it from happening and that’s all I’m trying to do.”
Joshua Blank, research director for the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, expressed skepticism that O’Rourke’s decision to confront Abbott would backfire politically. He said the stunt tapped into the outrage many Texans feel over how state leaders have responded to the shooting.
“Anyone who thinks it was a bad idea probably wasn’t going to vote for O’Rourke anyway,” Blank said. “What O’Rourke was doing was expressing the frustration and anger that a lot of Democrats feel, and independents feel and Republicans feel. That’s not something he could wait two weeks to do; it wouldn’t have the same weight.”
Thomason said any policy change will be a heavy lift that will require compromise, something that is in short supply in politics these days.
“The smart move politically right now is to say ‘Let’s work together and not put your finger out and start yelling,’” Thomason said. “Put your hand out like a handshake and say let’s work together to solve this.”
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Netanyahu says he has formed new coalition government.
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RUSSELL TOWNSHIP, Ohio—
Assistance, Music Street:
A Russell Township man called police 3:30 p.m. June 16 because the previous day he bought a boat but later found problems with it and wanted to return it. He asked for a police escort to the seller’s house, where the transaction was made. An officer advised him it was a civil matter, and police could not get involved in obtaining a refund for the boat.
He was told to call them if there was a problem. At that point they could respond to keep the peace. He said he would come to the police station before going to the seller’s house, but he did not arrive.
Assist fire department, Fairmount Road:
An officer was sent to assist EMS with a report 3:44 p.m. June 16 of an Amazon driver who fell and possibly broke her ankle. Her vehicle was secured and she was given the keys to have it removed later. She was transported to the hospital by the rescue squad.
Assistance, Chillicothe Road:
An elderly motorist was confused and out of gas midnight June 21. An officer contacted her daughter who verified that the woman had dementia. The daughter picked up her mother at the police station and took her home. Her vehicle was parked at the station and arrangements were made for it to be retrieved later in the day by a family member.
Traffic complaint, Fedeli Lane:
An anonymous report was made 10:11 a.m. June 22 of two riders on dirt bikes driving at high rates of speed on the road. The responding officer found a dirt bike and four-wheeler on the road. The juvenile drivers turned into a residential driveway. They were told they cannot drive these off-road vehicles on the road. Their mother said before she went for a walk she told them not to ride while she was away. An officer advised her of the complaint.
Suspicious, Cloveridge Road:
Police are investigating a report of a suspicious activity 3:50 a.m. June 21. It was determined that a theft occurred. Further information was not available pending the outcome of the investigation.
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Alabama freeze: Even outside pets will need shelter
A lingering hard freeze will settle across Alabama over Christmas weekend, and experts warn that dogs and most other pets that are usually left outside in the South will not be able to fend for themselves in those conditions.
Temperatures were expected to plunge into the teens by early Friday, and the National Weather Service warned it could stay there for days, creating a dangerous situation. Few areas of Alabama were expected to make it out of the 20s on Friday and not warm up much until at least Christmas Day.
A biting wind will make things feel even colder.
The National Humane Society asks pet owners take these steps to help their furry companions during the kind of freeze expected in Alabama.
- Bring pets inside. Even "outside" pets will need a shelter. If your dog must be outdoors for a while, they should at least be protected by a dry, draft-free shelter that's big enough to move around but small enough to hold in body heat. The floor of the shelter should be kept off the ground, and the ground can be covered with cedar shavings or straw. The door of the shelter should be covered with waterproof burlap or heavy plastic. Cat shelters can be made quickly and easily with a plastic tub.
- Being in the cold burns more energy. Pets in colder conditions will need more food. Use plastic food and water bowls because a pet's tongue can stick to metal in the cold.
- Watch for signs of frostbite. Wind chills like the ones expected across Alabama this week put pets in danger for skin damage that can threaten their life, particularly on noses, ears and paw pads. Frostbitten skin usually appears pale or gray and can be treated by wrapping with a towel to gradually warm it. If you suspect frostbite, check with a veterinarian.
- Be careful of antifreeze. It's deadly to animals but it can taste sweet to them. Clean any spills immediately and keep containers out of reach.
- Check for animals before starting your car. Pets and other animals sometimes crawl under car hoods for warmth. Bang on the hood to scare away any creatures.
- Go out with your pet when they take a bathroom break. If it's too cold for you to stay out, it's probably too cold for them.
Brad Harper covers business and local government for the Montgomery Advertiser. Contact him atbharper1@gannett.com. | 2022-12-22T16:48:01+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/weather/2022/12/22/alabama-freeze-even-outside-pets-will-need-shelter/69750612007/ |
MIAMI (WSVN) - The City of Miami Police Department Special Victims Unit is asking for the public’s help to find a missing 46-year-old man.
Joe Ronald Orta was last seen on August 14 in the area of Allapatah.
He is bald, has brown eyes, stands at 5 foot, 11 inches, and weighs 170 pounds.
It is known what color Orta’s clothes were, but he was last seen wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Baluja or any on-duty detective of the City of Miami Police Department Special Victims Unit at 305-603-6300 or 305-579-6111.
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Green Giant® Restaurant Style Sides, Green Giant® Zucchini Tots and Green Giant® Veggie Spiral Skillets Offer Families Exciting New Ways to Cook With Veggies
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Giant®, the iconic brand synonymous with delicious and high-quality vegetables for families, announced today the introduction of three new category innovations: Green Giant® Restaurant Style sides, Green Giant® Zucchini Tots and Green Giant® Veggie Spiral Skillets to its growing portfolio of frozen sides and meals. All three lines of new releases will begin to appear in the freezer aisle of select grocers nationwide this month.
"The continued success of our Veggie Swap-Ins® line proves that consumers are always looking for creative new ways to cook and eat their vegetables," said Kristen Thompson, President of Frozen & Vegetables and Senior Vice President of B&G Foods. "We developed our latest innovations in partnership with highly trained chefs to help make cooking delicious, restaurant-quality veggie-based meals and sides at home more convenient – and flavorful – than ever."
The cornerstone release, Green Giant® Restaurant Style sides, are vegetable-based side dishes inspired by some of America's favorite restaurants. The hearty cuts of premium vegetables include savory sauces and come ready-to-sauté directly in a skillet or pan – providing an unparalleled restaurant-like experience right at home. The four bold and savory varieties include: Cauliflower & Fire Roasted Onions with Garlic Butter, Honey Glazed Carrots with Sage Butter, Garlic Parmesan Green Beans, and Teriyaki Cauliflower & Broccoli.
Green Giant® Zucchini Tots mark the brand's first zucchini-based tots available at market. Loaded with zucchini as the first ingredient, these versatile tots, available in Parmesan Cheese, Sour Cream & Onion, and Pizza varieties, can be enjoyed as a side dish, snack, or appetizer, and are perfect for use in air fryers.
To round out its new releases, Green Giant® is expanding its popular Green Giant Veggie Spirals® line with the introduction of Green Giant® Veggie Spiral Skillets. Chef-made sauces combine with zucchini veggie spirals and crisp vegetables to create this perfect side dish or meal starter that cooks in the skillet, or microwave, in minutes. Three varieties, Marinara, Teriyaki, and Garlic Basil, offer a new, flavorful spin on this classic favorite.
For more information about the Green Giant® brand, including Green Giant® Restaurant Style sides, Green Giant® Zucchini Tots, and Green Giant® Veggie Spiral Skillets, please visit www.greengiant.com.
About Green Giant®:
Green Giant® has been helping families find new ways to enjoy vegetables picked at the peak of perfection® for over 100 years. Through the years, the iconic Green Giant brand has introduced innovative products and become synonymous with delicious and high-quality vegetables for families. Most recently, the Green Giant brand's launch of its convenient and award-winning Veggie Swap-Ins® line, which includes Green Giant Riced Veggies, Green Giant Veggie Tots®, Green Giant Mashed Cauliflower and Green Giant Veggie Spirals®, has reinvigorated the frozen vegetable category.
For more information, recipes and videos of the latest product introductions from the Green Giant brand, visit GreenGiant.com.
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- The boutique coffee chain will usher in the fall season with a variety of flavorful drinks highlighted by a fan favorite – the Pumpkin Blondie -
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Rock Coffee Bar, a national boutique coffee chain, will celebrate the fall season with its new lineup of drinks that will be available from September 1 – October 31st in all its more than 100 Black Rock Coffee Bar stores across seven states, including OR, WA, AZ, CA, ID, CO and TX.
Highlighting its fall menu is Black Rock's Pumpkin Blondie (served hot, iced or blended), which combines a pumpkin pie flavor with an iteration of ingredients found in Black Rock Coffee Bar's signature drink, the Caramel Blondie.
Rounding out the fall 2022 drink menu is the Salted Caramel Chai, Candied Cranberry FUEL and the Caramel Apple Smoothie. With this menu, the fast-growing coffee chain aims to provide its customers with a variety of flavorful drinks to choose from.
- Pumpkin Blondie – To get into the spirit of the season, the Pumpkin Blondie is a twist to Black Rock's all-time favorite drink, the Caramel Blondie. The Pumpkin Blondie is made with hints of caramel, white chocolate and pumpkin. For a finishing touch, it is topped with cinnamon + nutmeg. The Pumpkin Blondie can be served hot, iced or blended. The Pumpkin Blondie can also be prepared as a shake without the coffee.
- Salted Caramel Chai – The Salted Caramel Chai combines chai, milk and salted caramel topped with a caramel drizzle. It can be served hot, iced or blended. Its blended version features a refreshing ice cream base mixed with a delicious, salted caramel flavor.
- Candied Cranberry FUEL – The iced Candied Cranberry FUEL features Black Rock's popular energy drink brand, FUEL fused with almond and pomegranate and a splash of cranberry juice on top.
- Caramel Apple Smoothie – Black Rock's Caramel Apple Smoothie features an ice cream and green apple base mixed with caramel, ice, and whipped cream. Topping off the perfect smoothie is a yummy drizzle of caramel on top.
Each drink price will vary depending on modifications to the original receipt including alternative milks, additional flavors or additional shots.
Guided by its three principles - coffee, community and connection, the popular coffee chain was founded in Oregon and is known for its premium roasted coffees, teas, smoothies and flavorful Fuel® energy drinks. Its mission is to be a positive force in the communities it serves. The boutique coffee chain was named the Fastest Growing Private Company in Oregon and SW Washington in 2021 by the Portland Business Journal. Most recently, Inc. Magazine ranked Black Rock Coffee Bar No. 837th on its 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
Black Rock Coffee Bar is a national boutique coffee shop that is known for its premium roasted coffees, teas, smoothies and flavorful blended energy drinks. Founded as a family owned and operated business in Oregon in 2008, Black Rock Coffee Bar has grown to more than 100 retail locations in seven states. The Black Rock culture emphasizes personal and professional growth for each Black Rock employee and ensuring that they provide compassionate customer service towards each person who experiences the store.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Unilever PLC ("Unilever") (NYSE: UL) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Unilever American Depositary Receipts between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Unilever, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Unilever includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: a) in July 2020, the board of Ben & Jerry's, one of Unilever's marquee brands, passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" ; and b) this boycott decision risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states.
DEADLINE: August 15, 2022
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Companies building on Stellar can now leverage Nium's global platform for near-instant payouts without pre-funding requirements
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nium, the global platform for modern money movement, and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of the open-source public blockchain Stellar, today announced a partnership to enable payouts to 190 countries.
Businesses can now facilitate fiat payouts to 190 countries on Stellar, a network purpose-built for fast and efficient payments. Stellar's faster, more convenient approach to cross-border payouts improves upon the traditional correspondent banking system, accelerating the receipt of funds, reducing settlement risk, and removing pre-funding requirements.
"The scale at which Nium is able to offer cross-border payouts around the world is further enhanced by the speed with which we are able to deliver payments for businesses," said Joaquin Auyso, Head of Nium Crypto. "Our approach to modern money movement on Stellar innovates on legacy approaches well past their prime. It showcases both Nium's global reach and real-time payment capabilities to a thriving network of business leaders and innovators."
By launching an API connection that conforms to Stellar interoperability standards, Nium will be able to provide clients on the Stellar network with a suite of payment services that can scale as their global money movement needs evolve and progress. In addition to its ability to send payments anywhere in the world, Nium offers enhanced real-time payment capabilities. With Nium, businesses are not required to build their own payment infrastructure. Instead, they can simply build their brand on top of an existing platform and leverage Nium's regulatory licenses and authorizations in over 40 countries.
This integration is noteworthy for senders of cross-border payments, who can benefit from Nium connecting them to new markets, as well as for Stellar-connected wallets, which can leverage Nium's fiat on/off ramps to expand into new countries. Nium's integration with the Stellar network will allow companies to facilitate near-instant payouts without having to prefund their local treasuries.
"This integration truly drives home the value that blockchain-powered cross-border payment solutions bring to the current financial system," said Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation. "At SDF, we are always working to fill up the map and connect the network to more of the globe. Together with Nium, we are thrilled to expand the reach of the Stellar network so significantly."
Nium is the global platform for modern money movement. It provides banks, payment providers, and businesses of any size with access to global payment and card issuance solutions. Its modular platform powers frictionless commerce, helping businesses pay and get paid across the globe. Once connected to the Nium platform, businesses are able to pay out in more than 100 currencies to over 190 countries – 100 of which in real time. Funds can be received in 35 markets, including Southeast Asia, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, India, and the US. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries, including Europe (SEPA), the UK, Australia and Singapore. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in over 40 countries, enabling seamless global payments and rapid integration, regardless of geography.
For more information, visit: https://www.nium.com or connect with a specialist here.
Stellar is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world's financial infrastructure. Financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 6 million accounts. For more information, visit stellar.org.
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world's financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation helps maintain Stellar's codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world's economic potential through blockchain technology. For more information, visit stellar.org/foundation.
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SHENZHEN, China, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Taoping Inc. (NASDAQ: TAOP, the "Company" or "Taoping"), today announced the Company plans to launch Cloud Nest AI, a powerful generative AI system across the Cloud to accelerate growth. Cloud Nest AI will leverage the Company's existing cloud-based technology and applications and integrate AI with intelligent Cloud platform technology and product capabilities. End users are empowered with smart scene terminals, that deeply integrate numerous industry-specific application scenarios across all major industries and subsegments.
Taoping's industry specific applications for different scenarios based on the Cloud Nest AI system are expected to provide multi-dimensional empowerment for various industries from multiple perspectives, such as content generation, human-computer interaction, visual perception, and cognitive decision-making. In the field of advertising media, Taoping's cloud platform allows advertisers to provide creative content, such as graphics, videos, and texts for specific promotional strategies, while artificial intelligence can then effectively develop mixed-media promotions.
Taoping will also integrate the new generative AI system into its other smart solutions to better help customers harness the latest technology development to achieve a higher return on investment, lower cost of ownership, an improved overall customer experience. This includes the Company's intelligent cleaning robots, which are pushing industry-leading performance in terms of unmanned driving, intelligent decision-making, and human-machine collaboration to solve complex urban outdoor and indoor scenarios. Another example is in the field of ecological environmental protection, where the Company's off-grid sewage treatment equipment adopts microbial control technology and intelligent monitoring system to accurately implement sewage treatment from the source of sewage generation, which is highly efficient, energy-saving and environmentally friendly.
Mr. Lin Jianghuai, Chairman and CEO of Taoping, said: "The Cloud Nest AI generative AI system will be another important milestone based on the strategic upgrade of Taoping's Cloud-based technology and applications. We have been investing in and actively deploying a series of exciting new products to help our customers better embrace superior new technologies and systems, which in return will accelerate our revenue growth. We look forward to continuing to open new commercial and industrial opportunities for our Cloud Nest generative AI system, and will keep the market updated on our progress."
About Taoping Inc.
Taoping Inc. (Nasdaq: TAOP) has a long history of successfully leveraging technology in the development of innovative solutions to help customers in both the private and public sectors to more effectively communicate and market to their desired targets. The Company has built a far-reaching city partner ecosystem and comprehensive portfolio of high-value, high-traffic areas for its products, which are aligned together with Taoping's smart cloud platform, cloud services and solutions, new media and artificial intelligence. For more information about Taoping, please visit www.taop.com. You can also follow us via LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police backed by commandos staged a massive raid on Tuesday and said they rescued more than 2,700 workers from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and more than a dozen other countries who were allegedly swindled into working for fraudulent online gaming sites and other cybercrime groups.
The number of human trafficking victims rescued from seven buildings in Las Pinas city in metropolitan Manila and the scale of the nighttime police raid were the largest so far this year and indicated how the Philippines has become a key base of operations for cybercrime syndicates.
Cybercrime scams have become a major issue in Asia with reports of people from the region and beyond being lured into taking jobs in countries like strife-torn Myanmar and Cambodia. However, many of these workers find themselves trapped in virtual slavery and forced to participate in scams targeting people over the internet.
In May, leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed in a summit in Indonesia to tighten border controls and law enforcement and broaden public education to fight criminal syndicates that traffic workers to other nations, where they are made to participate in online fraud.
Brig. Gen. Sydney Hernia, who heads the national Philippine police’s anti-cybercrime unit, said police armed with warrants raided and searched the buildings around midnight in Las Pinas and rescued 1,534 Filipinos and 1,190 foreigners from at least 17 countries, including 604 Chinese, 183 Vietnamese, 137 Indonesians, 134 Malaysians and 81 Thais. There were also a few people from Myanmar, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria and Taiwan.
It was not immediately clear how many suspected leaders of the syndicate were arrested.
Police raided another suspected cybercrime base at the Clark freeport in Mabalacat city in Pampanga province north of Manila in May where they took custody of nearly 1,400 Filipino and foreign workers who were allegedly forced to carry out cryptocurrency scams, police said.
Some of the workers told investigators that when they tried to quit they were forced to pay a hefty amount for unclear reasons or they feared they would be sold to other syndicates, police said, adding that workers were also forced to pay fines for perceived infractions at work.
Workers were lured with high salary offers and ideal working conditions in Facebook advertisements but later found out the promises were a ruse, officials said.
Indonesian Minister Muhammad Mahfud, who deals with political, legal and security issues, told reporters in May that Indonesia and other countries in the region have found it difficult to work with Myanmar on cybercrime and its victims.
He said ASEAN needs to make progress on a long-proposed regional extradition treaty that would help authorities prosecute offenders more rapidly and prevent a further escalation in cybercrime. | 2023-06-27T16:37:56+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/technology/ap-technology/philippine-police-raid-alleged-cybercrime-buildings-rescue-2700-workers-from-18-countries/ |
NEW YORK — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were pursued by photographers in cars after a charity event in New York, the couple’s office said Wednesday.
The pair, together with Meghan’s mother, were followed for more than two hours by a half-dozen vehicles with blacked out windows after leaving the event.
Their office said in a statement that the chase “resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD officers.” It called the incident “near catastrophic.”
Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, died in a car crash in 1997 while being pursued by paparazzi in Paris.
The NYPD did not provide immediate comment to describe or corroborate the royals’ statement about the incident.
“While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone’s safety,” the statement from the couple said.
Security for Harry and Meghan has been an issue since the British government stripped them of protection when they moved to California in 2020 and it figures in three of his legal cases against the government and tabloid press.
The chase occurred the same day a lawyer for Harry argued in a London court that he should be able to challenge a government decision denying him the right to pay police for his own security in the U.K.
Harry has argued his safety was “compromised due to the absence of police protection” during a short visit to the U.K. in July 2021, when his car was chased by photographers as he left a charity event.
The couple have said they funded their own security after former President Donald Trump said the U.S. government wouldn’t pay to protect them.
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had been in New York to accept the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Award with Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown.
The gala kicked off the foundation’s largest fundraising campaign ever — $100 million over the next 12 months — that will be used to further the organization’s equity-centered initiatives and its mission of advancing women’s collective power.
With her mother, Doria Ragland, in the audience, Meghan recounted how Ms. Magazine was always in their house and how it affected her world view.
“I am a woman who remains inspired and driven by this organization,” she said, looking over at Ms. Foundation co-founder Gloria Steinem. “It allowed me to recognize that part of my greater value and purpose in life was to advocate for those who felt unheard, to stand up to injustice, and to not be afraid of saying what is true and what is just and what is right.”
The event was her first public appearance since she skipped the coronation of her father-in-law King Charles III earlier this month in order to stay at home in California for her son Prince Archie’s fourth birthday. Her husband Prince Harry attended the coronation in London and then rushed back to California. | 2023-05-17T15:44:55+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/prince-harry-meghan-involved-in-car-chase-while-being-followed-by-photographers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. apologized privately to his San Diego Padres teammates for testing positive for a performance enhancing-drug.
"I have made a mistake, and I regret every single step I have taken in these days," Tatis said.
Tatis has been given an 80-game suspension that will keep him off the field well into next season.
The star shortstop says he's “really sorry for mistakes” and that his dreams have turned into his worst nightmares.
He was suspended on Aug. 12 after MLB said he tested positive for Clostebol, an anabolic steroid.
Tatis claimed the steroid got into his system after taking a skin medication to treat an infection.
He said there's no one to blame other than himself because he should know what's going into his body. However, he dismissed claims that he was taking the steroid to improve his physical performance. | 2022-08-24T20:48:48+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/tatis-apologizes-to-padres-fans-for-80-game-drug-suspension |
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for TBLT, EVOP, SIGA, DTC, and ARLP.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The Republican candidate for governor wants Kansans to retire tax free.
In a statement issued Wednesday Kansas Attorney General Governor Derek Schmidt said he would like to focus on a plan to eliminate state income tax on Kansans’ retirement benefits and savings.
“To every retiree considering leaving Kansas after a lifetime of working and living here, we want you to stay. To every retiree in another state looking to move, come to Kansas,” Schmidt said.
Schmidt cited data from moving companies that ranked Kansas among the states with the highest outbound migration. Schmidt said departing retirees are a major cause of that outmigration. Schmidt said he believes the reason people are leaving the state is the state’s high tax burden.
Schmidt said he would work closely with the legislature to avoid shifting the tax burden while still cutting taxes but did not give specific examples.
Kansas Capitol Bureau asked Schmidt in an interview Wednesday, if there are also plans to lower or eliminate the income tax for all Kansans or younger populations as well.
“I’m certainly a believer that lower taxes are better than higher taxes… I believe that my entire career… I believe it now. It’s one of the reasons I’m Republican, so I’m always interested in ways we can lower the tax burden,” Schmidt said. “It’s also important to recognize that the numbers have to work. It doesn’t work if you simply reduce the state’s income, and don’t deal with the expenditure side, so we have to start somewhere.”
“We can’t do everything at once. We think there’s great potential to get a lot of ‘bang for the buck,’ so to speak, by focusing on this retire tax free plan, because retirees are people who are, by definition, highly mobile,” he explained. “That is to say they are at a point where their career has come to a close. Often, if they have a family or had children, their kids are no longer at home. There’s an opportunity to reassess where you want to be. And, right now, too many are voting with their feet and leaving the state.” | 2022-06-22T19:50:36+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/kansas-ag-proposes-retire-tax-free-plan/ |
Sales Leaders from Canva, Infor, Reddit and SAP Join Outreach to Present Strategies for Creating and Closing More Pipeline
LONDON, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Outreach, the leading sales execution platform helping revenue organizations create and close more pipeline, today hosted its first-ever Revenue Innovators EMEA Summit in London.
The event brought customers together to share strategies to deliver predictable, efficient growth during times of economic uncertainty. Outreach executives were joined by customer speakers from Canva, Infor, Reddit, and SAP, to discuss how they're increasing seller productivity to close the Sales Execution Gap.
"We're excited to host sales leaders from around Europe to discuss how to create more pipeline efficiently and close more deals predictably," said Nick Bowles, VP of EMEA at Outreach. "Our goal is to provoke innovation among attendees and empower them to confidently guide their sales team through today's challenging business environment. We're also looking forward to showing off the latest innovations across our platform and demonstrating our commitment to our European customers."
Outreach VP of Evangelism Mary Shea introduced new data around the generational shifts that are fundamentally changing seller dynamics in the UK. The findings revealed that globally, millennials make up 49% of B2B buyers. As millennial buyers exert increasing influence on business decisions they want and expect tech-savvy, values-based experiences, and want to interact with a sales team that reflects the world around them. A recent Outreach survey confirmed the importance of working with a values-based organization - 87% of UK respondents said their organization's DE&I policies have a positive impact on their sales and customer retention efforts.
At the event, Outreach announced the company's real-time conversation intelligence tool in Outreach Guide, Kaia, is now available in French. Users will now be able to select French as the primary language for recording and transcribing calls in real-time. Sales teams will benefit from Kaia's post-call meeting summaries with action items and features including search, filter, and analytics. Outreach plans to roll out additional language offerings for Kaia in 2023.
In addition, Outreach introduced the ability to conduct Parallel Forecasting in Outreach Commit, the company's revenue operations solution for forecasting and sales analytics. Parallel Forecasting allows users to view side-by-side forecasts across different dimensions, such as by a specific product or new logo and expansion ARR, so they can easily uncover potential risks and opportunities.
At the Summit, Cognism CEO James Isilay introduced a new integration with Outreach, allowing mutual customers to access Cognism's industry leading B2B contact database without leaving Outreach. The new Chrome browser extension enables sellers to easily access compliant, accurate data throughout all their customer interactions. To learn more about Cognism, please visit www.cognism.com.
To learn more about Outreach's latest innovations, register to attend our virtual conference Outreach Explore on December 6, 2022.
Outreach is the leading sales execution platform that helps market-facing teams efficiently create and predictably close more pipeline. From prospecting to deal management to forecasting, our platform leverages automation and artificial intelligence to help revenue leaders increase efficiency and effectiveness of all go-to-market activities and personnel across the revenue cycle. Outreach is the only company to offer sales engagement, revenue intelligence, and revenue operations functionalities in a unified platform. More than 5,500 companies, including Zoom, Siemens, Okta, DocuSign, and McKesson depend on Outreach to power their revenue organizations. Outreach is a privately held company based in Seattle, Washington, with offices worldwide. To learn more, please visit www.outreach.io.
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MILWAUKEE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating Hanger (NYSE: HNGR) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Patient Square Capital.
Click here to learn how to join the action: https://www.ademilaw.com/case/hanger-inc or call Guri Ademi toll-free at 866-264-3995. There is no cost or obligation to you.
Ademi LLP alleges Hanger's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet Hanger holders will receive only $18.75 in cash per share, with a total enterprise value for Hanger of approximately $1.25 billion. Upon completion of the transaction, Hanger will become a privately held company, and its common stock will no longer be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for Hanger by imposing a significant penalty if Hanger accepts a superior bid. Hanger insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of Hanger's board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for Hanger.
If you own Hanger common stock and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Guri Ademi either at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995, or https://www.ademilaw.com/case/hanger-inc.
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PLEASANT HILL, Mo. (WDAF) – A 78-year-old woman is accused of robbing a bank Wednesday in Missouri, and it’s not the first time.
Bonnie Gooch is accused in the robbery of Goppert Financial Bank in Pleasant Hill. Three years ago, at age 75, police arrested her in Lee’s Summit after a different bank was robbed.
In the 2020 robbery, Gooch was charged with stealing and convicted, but her sentence was suspended and she was ordered to have supervised probation, which expired in November 2021.
Incidentally, the latest accusation comes 46 years after another Gooch conviction. According to the 2020 criminal complaint, she was convicted of bank robbery in California in 1977.
Wednesday’s arrest happened only a few hundred yards from Goppert Bank, at Guido’s Pizza Place.
“And I saw two police cars pull up to the bank,” said Guido’s manager Justin Lewis. “I was driving into work and the girl was getting out. And I was like, ‘What the heck? An old lady?'”
Pleasant Hill Police Chief Thomas Wright said, “Obviously, it was a tense situation. But when the hands of an elderly woman come out of the car and that is who is driving the suspect vehicle, it’s a little shocking.”
Court documents show that when the 75-year-old Gooch robbed the Bank of the West in Lee’s Summit, her son called authorities and said “that his mother was ‘off her rocker’ and left the house angry, saying she was going to rob a bank.”
Police told Nexstar’s WDAF that in Wednesday’s bank robbery, employees were handed a note.
“Well, she’s very wily,” Wright said. “She did have an N95-type mask on. Sunglasses and plastic gloves.”
Maggie Kornis, 89, who was bringing her dog to a nearby animal clinic, stopped by the scene of the arrest. She said she can’t relate to a life of “senior crime.”
“I wouldn’t have the energy to do it myself,” she said. “You can’t run very fast at 78, I’ll tell you.”
“I mean, it doesn’t seem or sound believable,” Guido’s Lewis said. “My first reaction was like, ‘Of course in Pleasant Hill.'”
“Well, maybe she was desperate,” Kornis said. “You know sometimes we don’t save enough money.”
Wright said police are planning to look at Gooch’s overall health and financial situation as the case moves through the justice system. | 2023-04-07T20:34:36+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/78-year-old-missouri-woman-accused-of-bank-robbery-for-a-third-time/ |
TRUMBULL COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) – The Supreme Court of Ohio has set an execution date for the man convicted of attacking, raping and killing a 12-year-old boy more than 35 years ago.
According to court documents, Danny Lee Hill will be put to death on July 22, 2026. If that date holds, it will be 41 years since Raymond Fife was killed.
Hill is on death row for the 1985 death of 12-year-old Fife.
Court documents say Fife had been riding his bike to visit a friend in Warren when he went missing. His father later found him murdered in a field.
Hill had claimed he was intellectually disabled when he killed Fife.
The most recent appeal from Hill involves bite mark evidence pending in the 6th circuit court of appeals and it is being handled by Ohio Solicitor Ben Flowers.
In a separate state action, the federal public defender’s office is attempting to relitigate for a second time Hill’s mental retardation claim. A hearing has been set for November in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
Prosecutors say both these claims have been fully litigated in the state and federal systems and lost by Hill.
Miriam Fife, the victim’s mother, and prosecutor Dennis Watkins say they are very disappointed by the 2026 execution date.
“That’s a long time to wait when you are 82,” Fife told the FOX 8 I-Team. | 2022-09-22T17:17:59+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/crime/killer-scheduled-for-execution-41-years-after-childs-rape-and-murder/ |
New group will be led by one of the world's leading testifying experts on digital economy matters alongside award-winning antitrust economists to address disputes and industry-wide challenges
EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the digital transformation sweeps through the traditional economy, global expert services and consulting firm Berkeley Research Group (BRG) announced today that it has launched a Digital Economy and Platform Markets practice composed of the world's foremost digital economy and platform markets experts.
Led by Dr. David Evans, one of the top testifying experts on matters involving the digital economy and platform markets, the practice will work with the world's leading law firms, advise digital businesses and work with international and US government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. The practice's services will span platform economics and big data and will help clients across sectors including online media and advertising, e-commerce, delivery and logistics, online payments and financial services, software platforms and apps, online gaming, transportation and travel, blockchain and cryptocurrency, emerging technology and infrastructure.
Dr. Rosa (Romy) Abrantes-Metz and Dr. Richard Schmalensee, top experts in platform economics, and digital businesses, will join the group alongside Evans. BRG Executive Chairman Dr. David Teece, a professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, will support on select client matters.
"In the past decade, the digital economy has been growing more than twice as fast as physical-world GDP—creating complex disputes in areas ranging from antitrust and mergers to consumer protection, employment, securities, bankruptcy and the application and development of new regulatory regimes," said Evans. "To resolve these disputes, global businesses will need a diverse group of future-looking digital economy experts and leading-edge data analytics capabilities. That's what we've built at BRG. I couldn't be more proud to lead the most experienced practice in the market dedicated to these issues."
BRG's global team has consulted and testified in the United States, European Union, China, South Korea and other jurisdictions. The practice will staff cases with top economic scholars, subject-matter specialists and data scientists with experience handling massive databases. In addition to those named above, BRG experts John Blair, Thomas Brown, Richard Finkelman, Dr. Steven Gawthorpe, Eric Matrejek, Dr. Albert Metz, Bradley Mirkin, Walter J. Mix III, Ron Schnell and Amy Worley will support the practice's clients in matters involving data privacy, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, sanctions, risk modeling, cybersecurity and disruptive technology, among others.
Taken together, these experts have served on matters involving most of the world's large digital platforms and across almost all major products and services provided by digital businesses. They have also written award-winning and oft-cited books and articles on platform economics and regularly appear in global media outlets like CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Financial Times, Sky News, Bloomberg and more.
BRG is particularly well equipped to support clients in matters involving platform markets. Courts and regulators around the world increasingly recognize the importance of platform economics in understanding—and deciding—the matters before them when multisided businesses are involved. BRG is uniquely qualified for this work given that members of its team have led the development of the platform economics field over the last 20 years, particularly in its application to law and regulation.
The firm's investments in data analytics will be critical as well. Analyzing issues in digital economy cases often requires managing massive datasets and providing highly elastic computing power for data analytics and econometric modeling. BRG's extensive analytical capabilities will enable the team to analyze billions of transactions and bring economic analysis and big data to inform decisions around disputes. BRG's data science work also includes building AI and machine learning models to support specific case activities.
Commenting on the significance of the practice's launch, Teece said, "This is a pivotal moment for our firm. We've brought the world's most distinguished experts together to launch our new practice, which is exceptionally positioned to handle the most sophisticated and high-profile work related to the digital economy. What's more, we expect to add to this team with hires in key European markets in the months to come. The value, experience and reach of this practice will be unmatched. I'm eager to work alongside them."
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BOISE, Idaho — Jurors on Friday found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of murdering her children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow, and conspiring to murder her husband’s former wife, Tammy Daybell, in 2019.
Prosecutors ‘very pleased with the jury’s verdict’
Update 4:15 p.m. EDT May 12: In a statement obtained by CNN, prosecutors Rob Wood and Lindsey Black said they were “very pleased with the jury’s verdict.”
“We want to assure each of you that we remain committed to pursuing justice for Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow and Tammy Daybell,” Prosecutors Rob Wood and Lindsey Blake said in a joint statement Friday.
“We also want to express sincere appreciation to the many members of law enforcement and the community who tirelessly worked together to hold Lori Vallow Daybell accountable.”
Chad Daybell is expected to face a jury next year after he pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Tylee, JJ and Tammy Daybell, according to Court TV and KSL-TV.
Jury finds Vallow Daybell guilty of all charges
Update 3:10 p.m. EDT May 12: The jury found Vallow Daybell guilty on all six counts she faced, including two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and three counts of grand theft by deception.
Jurors deliberated for about seven hours before handing down their verdict on Friday. She faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Original report: Jurors reached a verdict Friday in the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman accused of killing her two children and conspiring to kill her husband’s former wife in 2019.
Jurors reached their verdict after hearing more than four weeks of testimony from 60 witnesses, according to KSL-TV. Vallow Daybell’s defense attorneys did not call any witnesses to the stand, the news station reported.
The jury got the case Thursday afternoon and deliberated for about seven hours before handing down a verdict, according to EastIdahoNews.com.
Vallow Daybell is charged with murder, conspiracy to murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of her children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow, and her husband’s late wife, Tammy Daybell, KTVB reported. Tylee and JJ were found buried on property owned by Chad Daybell, Vallow Daybell’s husband, one year after they were last seen in 2019. Tammy Daybell died in the same year the children vanished.
In opening statements, prosecutors said that Vallow Daybell and her husband believed that God had tasked them with gathering his chosen 144,000 for the end times, and that Vallow Daybell told a friend that she wanted to focus her attention on that mission, according to KBOI and EastIdahoNews.com. Vallow Daybell’s attorney argued that his client had an alibi for the deaths of her children and her husband’s former wife.
Prosecutors told jurors that the case was about “sex, power and money.” They described Vallow Daybell as a money-hungry woman who was tired of parenting Tylee and JJ and wanted to live her life with Chad Daybell without any other “obstacles,” KBOI reported. They framed her as the person who plotted the killings, KSL-TV reported.
“She wants her children gone,” prosecutor Rob Wood said, according to KSL. “There is no doubt, she wants these children gone. She is encouraging their murder.”
Defense attorney R. James “Jim” Archibald argued in closing arguments that Vallow Daybell fell under the influence of Chad Daybell and that she was previously a good mother to JJ and Tylee, KSL-TV reported.
“No one here thinks Lori actually killed anyone. That’s why she’s charged with conspiracy, because they think someone else did the killing,” Archibald said, according to KSL. “If you find her not guilty, will that bring the kids back? Nope. What you need to be concerned of is following the law, and the lack of evidence.”
Vallow Daybell is also charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with the 2019 death of her previous husband, Charles Vallow. | 2023-07-31T14:50:35+00:00 | whio.com | https://www.whio.com/news/trending/lori-vallow-daybell-trial-jury-reaches-verdict/7VN67DQ2HFEHFCMKUFGAIPTVSQ/ |
Police: Man accused of driving with blood alcohol level of .338 crashes into 3 cars, killing teen
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) – A man in Kentucky was charged with murder after being accused of driving under the influence and crashing into three cars, killing a teenager.
According to a toxicology report, 27-year-old Ernesto Ocampo had a blood alcohol level of .338, four times the legal limit.
Those with a blood alcohol concentration of .35-.40 could be on the brink of a coma or have loss of consciousness, according to Stanford University. Those with a BAC level of .25-.30 are considered severely intoxicated, have mental confusion and would likely need assistance walking.
Police said he was driving a Mazda when he crashed into the back of a Toyota. The citation said there was no evidence Ocampo tried to brake before hitting the car.
The Toyota was shoved forward into a Pontiac, which then hit a Buick.
Police said the driver of the Buick, Pontiac and Toyota were all taken to the hospital, as well as the front-seat passengers in the Toyota and Pontiac.
The passenger in the back of the Toyota, 17-year-old Mohammed Hussein, was also taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Police said Ocampo was driving at a high rate of speed when the crash happened and did not have a driver’s license.
Investigators said there were several empty bottles and one full bottle of Corona found inside the Mazda.
Ocampo was arrested and charged with one count of murder, operating a motor vehicle under the influence and driving without a license.
Police also charged him with five counts of wanton endangerment, the extreme indifference to the value of human life.
Copyright 2023 WAVE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-25T16:53:58+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/04/25/police-man-accused-driving-with-blood-alcohol-level-338-crashes-into-3-cars-killing-teen/ |
Go Green in the City returns to downtown York on Saturday
A long-running event will make its return to York City this weekend.
Go Green in the City, entering its 15th year, will be held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday along North and South Beaver Street between King and Philadelphia streets.
The street fair, which will host live entertainment, kids' activities, food vendors and eco-friendly vendors, will once again be powered entirely by renewable energy credits from energy sponsor Enel Green Power.
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“Every year, we look forward to welcoming thousands of visitors to Downtown York for Go Green in the City,” Jonathan Desmarais, director of Downtown Inc, said in a news release. "This event provides us with the opportunity to showcase our community’s improved quality of place and growing and thriving small business community, while educating and inspiring all to make responsible and sustainable decisions.”
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The event will feature live entertainment from bands Soji, Before the End, Nick DiSanto One-Man Band, Hot Slop Boogie Bop and Mother Dimension. Vendors include Lancaster Conservancy, Shear Heaven Farm, Children's Aid Society of York, Watchmaker's Daughter and event sponsor UPMC.
For more information on Go Green in the City, including a full list of vendors, entertainment and food options, visit Downtown York's website.
— Reach Matt Enright via email at menright@yorkdispatch.com or via Twitter at @Matthew_Enright. | 2023-04-17T20:11:34+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/york-county/2023/04/17/go-green-in-the-city-returns-to-downtown-york-on-saturday/70121462007/ |
Cirba Solutions welcomes Troy Thennis as SVP, Growth Projects & Technology
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cirba Solutions, the largest and most comprehensive battery management and materials company for end-of-life batteries and gigafactory manufacturing scrap, today announced it has appointed Troy Thennis as its Senior Vice President of Growth Projects & Technology. Troy has over 30 years of expertise in the chemical industry with a focus on lithium processing and will lead the organization's build-out of its expanding processing footprint including technology development.
"I am thrilled to be working with Cirba Solutions. Their legacy in the battery materials market is extensive and I believe their roadmap to support the growth of electric vehicles is critical to help ensure we provide sustainable battery materials to the market." says Troy Thennis. "To be part of an organization that is rapidly expanding its operational footprint is exciting. I am excited about what currently are accomplishing in the marketplace and looking forward to what we will be bringing to the lithium-ion battery supply chain in the near term."
Thennis was most recently responsible for leading manufacturing for the anode copper foil and hydrometallurgical refining businesses at Redwood Materials. Prior to this, he was responsible for overall global process technology strategy for lithium salts at Albemarle Corporation and Rockwood Lithium. He brings a pragmatic and solution-oriented approach to challenges. Operating with a collaborative and innovative leadership style, he lives Cirba Solutions' core values.
"It is an exciting time at Cirba Solutions to have someone of Troy's caliber join our team." says David Klanecky, President & CEO of Cirba Solutions. "His leadership and experience in hydrometallurgical processes refining, lithium extraction, and the global battery market is a complement to the strategic focus we have on providing the best options for our customers. I have no doubt that his team of esteemed experts will continue to lead us into our next phase of growth, and I look forward to what is ahead."
Troy received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and was recognized by the university in 2001 as the Outstanding Recent Chemical Engineering Graduate.
About Cirba Solutions
Cirba Solutions is the most trusted and only complete service provider in the battery management industry, taking batteries at end-of-life, processing them to extract critical materials, and supplying those materials back into the supply chain. With an operational, differentiated platform, its full suite of capabilities addresses lithium-ion and cross-chemistry battery demand supporting a circular battery supply chain for the industry. It is the leader in end-to-end battery recycling management solutions, offering battery-centric logistics, collection program solutions, second-life applications, and validating cathode production, with technological processes that emphasize environmental compliance. Cirba Solutions combines the resources and expertise of Heritage Battery Recycling, Retriev Technologies, and Battery Solutions.
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SOURCE Cirba Solutions | 2023-02-21T18:04:46+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2023/02/21/troy-thennis-joins-cirba-solutions-expand-ev-closed-loop-supply-chain-footprint/ |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A nurse who previously worked at a Florida hospital has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing fentanyl and replacing the powerful pain medication with saline.
Monique Elizabeth Carter, 36, of Middleburg, was sentenced Tuesday in Jacksonville federal court, according to court records. She pleaded guilty in April to tampering with a consumer product.
According to the plea agreement, Carter was working in the neural intensive care unit of Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville last September when a hospital pharmacist examining the ICU wing’s inventory of fentanyl found a syringe missing a tamper-proof cap but with some form of foreign adhesive remaining at the tip. A second fentanyl syringe had a cap that appeared to have been glued back onto the syringe, it said.
Authorities said a pharmacist supervisor reviewing hospital records found a pattern of Carter checking out doses of fentanyl for patients but then canceling the transactions and checking syringes back into the hospital’s inventory. Records showed that Carter did so 24 times over the preceding month.
When confronted with the findings, Carter eventually admitted that she had been stealing fentanyl for personal use for several months, officials said. Carter denied injecting herself with the drug while on duty. Law enforcement officers reported finding needles, saline syringes and adhesive in her bag.
As a registered nurse, Carter knew that her actions likely resulted in critically ill patients receiving diluted fentanyl that was not safe and effective, prosecutors said. Having been deprived of sterile, medically necessary medication, such patients were exposed to possible infection and endured unnecessary pain and suffering, officials said. They said the failure to anesthetize or control pain in intensive care unit patients can also increase the risk of illness or death from respiratory, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal complications. | 2022-07-21T13:04:18+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/nurse-gets-year-in-prison-for-replacing-fentanyl-with-saline/ |
(AP) — Bob McGrath, an actor, musician and children’s author widely known for his portrayal of one of the first regular characters on the children’s show “Sesame Street” has died at the age of 90.
McGrath’s passing was confirmed by his family who posted on his Facebook page on Sunday: “The McGrath family has some sad news to share. Our father Bob McGrath, passed away today. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family.”
Sesame Workshop tweeted Sunday evening that it “mourns the passing of Bob McGrath, a beloved member of the Sesame Street family for over 50 years.”
McGrath was a founding cast member of “Sesame Street” when the show premiered in 1969, playing a friendly neighbor Bob Johnson. He made his final appearance on the show in 2017, marking an almost five-decade-long figure in the “Sesame Street” world.
The actor grew up in Illinois and studied music at the University of Michigan and Manhattan School of Music. He also was a singer in the 60s series “Sing Along With Mitch” and launched a successful singing career overseas in Japan.
“A revered performer worldwide, Bob’s rich tenor filled airwaves and concert halls from Las Vegas to Saskatchewan to Tokyo many times over,” Sesame Workshop said. “We will be forever grateful for his many years of passionate creative contributions to Sesame Street and honored that he shared so much of his life with us.”
He is survived by his wife, Ann Logan Sperry, and their five children.
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This story corrects that McGrath studied at the University of Michigan, not Maryland. | 2022-12-05T10:41:14+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/entertainment-news/bob-mcgrath-sesame-street-legend-dies-at-90/ |
A Hammond man is claiming “road rage” led him to shoot a man dead near a busy intersection.
Trinidad Cervantes, 19, of Hammond was charged Friday with the May 3 death of Rajesh Bhagwandeen, 26, of Hammond.
Court records indicate he is in police custody in Bridgeview, Illinois, outside Chicago. He is ordered held without bond in Crown Point.
Police arrived at 5:09 p.m. May 3 to the crime scene near 165th Street and Calumet Avenue.
The driver’s door on Bhagwandeen’s black 1996 BMW was still open. The car was in the middle of the street. It had four bullet holes with seven bullet casings found on the street.
He was taken to the hospital after he was shot “several” times. Bhagwandeen was pronounced dead at 5:41 p.m. at Community Hospital, according to court records.
A white “box truck” pulled up alongside him west on 165th before shots rang out, according to witnesses. It swerved around a couple cars in oncoming traffic, then headed north on Calumet Avenue.
They described the alleged shooter as Hispanic, wearing a gray sweatshirt and yellow work vest.
Bhagwandeen was shot six times — in the right bicep, forearm, below the right armpit, in the right chest, left abdomen and left armpit.
Seven gunshots were recorded on a car’s dash camera, then the white box truck drives briefly into view.
Police matched the truck from the video to the license plate reader database. Two hours after the shooting, officers found the truck at a Hammond storage lot, 19 Industrial Highway.
The truck’s owner and another man were found nearby. The man said he let his daughter’s boyfriend, Cervantes, borrow the vehicle.
The owner let police impound the truck. He said he subcontracted construction work to Cervantes, who took the truck at 11 a.m. for a job in Cedar Lake.
His daughter called at 5 p.m. to say Cervantes shot someone.
Cervantes claimed in texts it was “road rage” and said the other driver was about to pull a gun, so he shot him first.
“Did you tell them it was me,” Cervantes asked the man. “I’m going to get a lawyer.”
“I’m going to tell them it was self-defense,” he said, adding he was in Chicago.
Cell phone records show Cervantes was in the area at the time of the shooting, the affidavit alleges.
Police surveilled Cervantes, who was arrested after running briefly from police from a home on the 8700 block of Olympic Drive in Bridgeview.
Cervantes refused to give a statement to police on May 4. He declined again with a lawyer later that day. | 2023-05-08T22:09:05+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-cervantes-st-0509-20230508-c3bxxup6ifcanhrnl2i7vcio2a-story.html |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Karen Walsh is the new president of the Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Walsh takes over after serving as vice president for the past year. She ran uncontested in Friday’s election after Ed Manydeeds declined to run again for board president and instead backed Walsh, who was appointed to the board by Gov. Tony Evers in 2019.
“I’m humbled to lead such a talented, cohesive group of colleagues,” Walsh said in a statement. “Their passion for public higher education and the Wisconsin Idea is matched only by the dedication and creativity of our faculty, staff and students.”
A former assistant dean for external relations of the engineering school at UW-Madison, Walsh is director of the BerbeeWalsh Foundation, a family organization dedicated to human and animal health and welfare.
Walsh is the third woman to lead the board since the UW System was formed more than 50 years ago. The others were Joyce Erdman in 1980-82 and Regina Miller in 2015-2017.
Amy Blumenfeld Bogost was elevated to vice president of the board in another uncontested vote. Bogost works as a federal Title IX lawyer and joined the board in May 2020. | 2022-06-11T18:54:11+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Walsh-becomes-3rd-woman-to-lead-Wisconsin-Board-17235430.php |
Fuel leak interrupts launch countdown of NASA moon rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A fuel leak interrupted NASA’s launch countdown for its new moon rocket early Monday, reappearing in the same place that saw seepage during a dress rehearsal back in the spring.
Launch controllers halted the tanking operation, which already was running an hour late because of thunderstorms offshore. They slowly resumed the process to confirm that it was, indeed, a hydrogen fuel leak and not faulty sensors, but alarms forced another temporary pause as precious minutes in the countdown ticked away.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket is the most powerful ever built my NASA, out-muscling even the Saturn V that carried astronauts to the moon a half-century ago.
This test flight, if successful, would put a crew capsule into lunar orbit for the first time in 50 years.
No astronauts were inside the Orion capsule atop the rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Instead, three test dummies were strapped in for the lunar-orbiting mission, expected to last six weeks.
Even with no one on board, thousands of people jammed the coast to see the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket soar. Vice President Kamala Harris flew into Orlando with her husband, but had yet to make the hourlong drive to Cape Canaveral for the planned liftoff.
The next launch attempt wouldn’t be until Friday at the earliest.
Hydrogen fuel leaks marred NASA’s countdown test back in April, prompting a slew of repairs. The demo was repeated with more success in June, but that, too, experienced some leakage. Managers said they would not know for certain whether the fixes were good until attempting to load the rocket’s tanks with nearly 1 million gallons of super-cold fuel on Monday.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team also had to deal with a communication issue involving the Orion capsule.
Engineers scrambled to understand an 11-minute delay in the communication lines between Launch Control and Orion that cropped up late Sunday. Although the problem had cleared by Monday morning, NASA needed to know why it occurred before committing to launch.
This first flight of NASA’s 21st-century moon-exploration program, named Artemis after Apollo’s mythological twin sister, is years overdue. Repeated delays have led to billions in budget overruns; this demo alone costs $4.1 billion.
Assuming the test goes well, astronauts would climb aboard for the second flight and fly around the moon and back as soon as 2024. A two-person lunar landing could follow by the end of 2025. NASA is targeting the moon’s south pole.
During Apollo, 12 astronauts landed on the moon from 1969 through 1972, with stays of no more than a few days. NASA is looking to establish a lunar base during Artemis, with astronauts rotating in and out for weeks at a time. The next step would be Mars, possibly in the late 2030s or early 2040s.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-29T09:12:55+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/08/29/fuel-leak-interrupts-launch-countdown-nasa-moon-rocket/ |
Retired park ranger saves boy, 9, after family truck sinks
SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah (KSTU) - A 9-year-old boy is on the road to recovery after nearly drowning in a Utah reservoir, if not for a retired park ranger who rescued him.
Paxton, 9, was at Smith and Morehouse Reservoir near Oakley, Utah, on Monday with family members. As the family was unloading kayaks from their truck, the vehicle, with Paxton and two other kids inside, rolled into the water.
“We’re not sure what happened at that point. The truck started to roll down. They tried to get the kids out of the car,” said Paxton’s aunt, Kelley Carpenter.
Two of the kids, a 9-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl, got out safely, but Paxton was still in the truck when it sank.
Joe Donnell, a retired park ranger who was kayaking nearby, made several attempts to get to the boy before he was able to rescue him, according to Carpenter.
“We’ve heard that the gentleman had to dive down about seven times before he finally grabbed some clothing and was able to get Paxton out,” Carpenter said.
Paxton was underwater for more than 10 minutes. He was airlifted to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where he was placed on life support in the intensive care unit. His aunt went to visit him Tuesday.
“The doctors say that he is doing well and is able to respond to some of their tasks. They did not think that he would survive,” Carpenter said. “Every time I spoke to him, he responded to me, whether that be squeezing my hand, shaking his head ‘yes’.”
Before the incident, Carpenter says Paxton had just started fourth grade at New Hope Academy in Lehi. She describes him as funny, energetic and loving.
“He’s very outgoing, loves to be around all his nieces and nephews, loves playing ‘Fortnite’ with us,” she said.
Carpenter is optimistic Paxton will continue making progress in his recovery.
“He’s going to keep fighting, as long as all of us,” she said.
The family is hoping that when Paxton feels up to it, he can be reunited with the retired park ranger who saved his life.
Copyright 2022 KSTU via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-25T05:15:05+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/08/25/retired-park-ranger-saves-boy-9-after-family-truck-sinks/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)Lamar Jackson threw for 238 yards and two second-half touchdowns to lead the Baltimore Ravens to a come-from-behind 27-22 victory over Tom Brady and the struggling Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night.
The Bucs (3-5) lost for the fifth time in six games following a 2-0 start, and the 45-yard-old Brady finds himself riding a three-game losing streak for the first time since 2002 – his first season as a full-time starter with the New England Patriots.
Jackson beat the seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback for the second time in as many career meetings, directing TD drives of 77, 80 and 85 yards after Baltimore sputtered early and trailed 10-3 at halftime.
The Ravens rushed for 233 yards, while Jackson completed 27 of 38 passes without an interception, including TD throws of 5 yards to Kenyon Drake and 10 yards to Isaiah Likely in the third quarter.
Baltimore scored on its first four possessions after halftime, with Justin Tucker booting a 30-yard field goal to make it 27-16 with a little over two minutes remaining.
Brady threw an 8-yard TD pass to Julio Jones with 49 seconds remaining, finishing 26 of 44 for 325 yards without an interception. He was sacked three times.
Leonard Fournette scored on a 1-yard run, and Mike Evans had six receptions for 123 yards for the Bucs.
Fournette’s TD was the first the Bucs have scored in the opening quarter this season. Brady spoke earlier in the week about how helpful it can be to play with a lead, however the offense did little to build on the early advantage after Ryan Succop’s 31-yard field goal made it 10-3.
The Ravens, meanwhile, wasted a couple opportunities take control early, settling for a 22-yard field goal after recovering a fumble at the Bucs 6 on a punt return and coming away with no points when Jackson threw incomplete into end zone on 4th-and-3 from the Tampa Bay 10 late in the second quarter.
Another chance to cut into their 10-3 deficit was thwarted when Justin Tucker’s 61-yard field goal attempt was deflected at the line as time expired in the half.
INJURIES
Ravens DE Calais Campbell (illness) was inactive. … Ravens TE Mark Andrews (shoulder) left in the second quarter and did not return. …CB Marlon Humphrey (hamstring) missed time in the first half, but returned at the start of the third quarter. … WR Rashod Bateman (foot) sat out most of the second half. … Edwards (hamstring) departed late in the fourth quarter, finishing with a team-leading 65 yards on 11 attempts.
Buccaneers: Played without three starters in the secondary – S Antoine Winfield Jr (concussion) and CBs Carlton Davis (hip) and Sean Murphy-Bunting (quad). WR Russell Gage (hamstring), G Luke Goedeke (foot), TE Cameron Brate (neck) and DL Akiem Hicks (foot) were inactive, too. … LB Shaquil Barrett (ankle) limped off the field early in the third quarter and rode to the locker room on a cart.
UP NEXT
Ravens: Travel to New Orleans to face Saints on Monday, Nov. 7.
Buccaneers: Host defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, Nov. 6.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP-NFL | 2022-10-28T11:38:48+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/nfl/nfl-dallas/jackson-shines-ravens-beat-brady-struggling-bucs-27-22/ |
Researchers find alarming rise in cancer among young people across globe
(CNN) – More young people around the globe under the age of 50 are being diagnosed each year with early-onset cancer, according to a new study.
Dr. Suneel Kamath, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said the variety of different cancers on the rise in young people really surprised him.
“The number of people that are presenting with advanced and unfortunately often incurable cancers in their 20s and 30s definitely seems to be skyrocketing,” Kamath said.
Early-onset cases are rising for 14 types of cancers, many of which affect the digestive system, according to a review of 44 countries’ cancer registries published in the journal Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology.
“The typical risk factors we think of that would cause these different tumor types are definitely different, specific to each one,” Kamath said.
The review mentions that sensitive testing happening more in young people could account for part of the upswing, but many, including Kamath, say it mostly comes down to lifestyle: obesity, diets rich in processed foods, smoking and alcohol consumption are among the factors.
Kamath said one of the most important things young people can do is advocate for themselves when something doesn’t feel right.
“Pay attention to, you know, what’s going on with your body,” Kamath said. “Some people are going to get some resistance from their medical team, and it does mean they need to push a little harder to get to the bottom of what’s going on.”
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a better way for individuals with limited hand dexterity to grip and use a toothbrush," said an inventor, from Garfield Heights, Ohio, "so I invented the DENTA FRESH TOOTHBRUSH. My design could help to improve oral care without the worry of dropping your toothbrush."
The invention provides an improved way for individuals with limited manual dexterity to brush their teeth. In doing so, it ensures that the toothbrush remains firmly within the user's grasp. As a result, it helps to reduce pain and the need for assistance. It also helps to prevent the user from dropping the toothbrush. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for individuals with limited manual dexterity or compromised hand strength. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Cleveland sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DKC-145, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Thursday’s practice runs at the Quad City Air Show captivated people who showed up to watch. Clear conditions provided a perfect landscape for the pilots.
“My husband is retired Air Force,” Walcott’s Kimberly Collins said. “He served 28 years in the Air Force. It was very common to hear the Thunderbirds fly over all the time while we lived in base housing. … We’re coming out here to watch them practice, and we were just filled with all kinds of emotions and feeling so blessed to actually get to see the Thunderbirds again.”
Even the new F-22 Raptor was out at 10:30 in the morning.
“It was cool, definitely something you don’t see everyday, unless you live near an Air Force base,” Port Byron’s Corey Wolfe said. “I’m sure they woke up the entire Quad Cities if people were still sleeping in.” | 2023-06-23T15:59:15+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/practices-underway-for-quad-city-air-show/ |
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Anthony Davis and LeBron James tore apart the NBA’s top-rated defense and gave Los Angeles Lakers coach Darvin Ham a triumphant return to Milwaukee.
Davis scored a season-high 44 points and James passed Magic Johnson on the NBA’s career assists list Friday night in the Lakers’ thrilling 133-129 victory over the Bucks.
It marked Ham’s first game in Milwaukee since taking over as Lakers coach after working as an assistant on Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer’s staff from 2018-22.
Ham and Budenholzer shared a big hug before the game.
“It was a beautiful night,” said Ham, who also played for the Bucks from 1999-2002.
It also was quite a night for Davis, a Green Bay Packers fan who delivered his big performance with Aaron Rodgers in the stands. Davis spoke with the Packers’ four-time MVP quarterback before and after the game.
“I saw him before the game and he said, ‘I need 30 tonight,’” Davis said. “I just saw him and he said, ‘I only said 30, not 40.’ It’s always good for him to come out and watch the Lakers play.”
James made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 3:22 left and finished with 28 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds. He upped his career assist total to 10,144 and moved into sixth place, ahead of Johnson’s 10,133.
“It means a lot, obviously,” James said. “The way Magic approached the game, it was very infectious. His teammates loved playing with him because of the joy he played with and the ability to pass the ball and get other guys involved. He was always excited about seeing his teammates be great. I always admired that in him. What’s even more humbling and super duper cool is the fact that I’m doing it in a Laker uniform and knowing how much Magic means to the Laker franchise.”
The Lakers had the highest point total and field-goal percentage (.536) the Bucks had allowed all season. Milwaukee entered Friday with the NBA’s top defensive rating.
“It was too easy, too easy, too easy,” Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo said. “They were living in the paint. That’s not who we are.”
Los Angeles withstood a 40-point performance from Antetokounmpo, who also had seven rebounds and five assists.
The Lakers also spoiled the 2022-23 debut of Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton, who had 17 points and seven assists in his return from offseason wrist surgery.
Milwaukee missed two potential tying 3-pointers in the final 20 seconds.
After Davis missed a fadeaway jumper, the Bucks called a timeout with 21.4 seconds left and then found an open Grayson Allen, whose 3-point attempt went off the side of the rim.
The Lakers’ Russell Westbrook missed two free throws with 13.3 seconds remaining, but Jrue Holiday couldn’t connect on a 3-pointer with just over five seconds left. Davis made a clinching free throw with 4.5 seconds left.
“Grayson got a good look,” Budenholzer said. “Good execution. Good screening. We’ll live with that shot all the time. And Jrue, similar. We got the kick ahead, playing against a defense that’s not set. Jrue, kind of a good rhythm shot for him. It was contested, but Jrue was 6 of 12 tonight (from 3-point range). He was feeling it.”
Holiday had 28 points for the Bucks, and Bobby Portis added 15 points and 10 rebounds. Westbrook had 15 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Lakers.
WESTBROOK’S BUSY NIGHT
Westbrook exchanged words with a fan early in the game and indicated afterward he’d approach the league office about it. Westbrook didn’t specify what the fan said to him.
“I don’t mind you coming to the game and heckling and doing certain things, but there’s a certain line you don’t cross,” Westbrook said. “I feel like he crossed it.”
Westbrook also got called for a lane violation on a foul shot by Antetokounmpo early in the game. Westbrook appeared to start counting the number of seconds Antetokounmpo took before his next free throw.
Antetokounmpo got called for a 10-second violation on a free throw later in the game.
TIP-INS
Lakers: Davis also had 10 rebounds. He’s collected at least 20 points and 10 rebounds in nine straight games. … The Lakers opened a six-game trip. … James played his 1,381st career regular-season game to move into sole possession of 13th place. He had been tied with Clifford Robinson.
Bucks: Antetokounnmpo has scored at least 30 points in six straight games. … Portis had his 13th double-double. He entered Friday one of 12 NBA players averaging a double-double. Portis was the only one who isn’t a consistent starter.
UP NEXT
Lakers: At Washington on Sunday.
Bucks: At Charlotte on Saturday in their first matchup of the season.
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Chambersburg took the top two spots in the girls long jump Saturday at Carlisle’s Stan Morgan invitational.
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NEW YORK, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Inspirato Incorporated (NASDAQ: ISPO) between May 11, 2022 and December 15, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important April 17, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline, in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
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RENTON — How much do running backs matter?
The Seahawks may find out the answer to the question that has been one of the biggest topics of the NFL offseason far quicker than they would have liked.
For the last two practices, including Sunday’s at the VMAC, the Seahawks had just four running backs on hand with the top two players on the depth chart — second-year vet Kenneth Walker III and rookie Zach Charbonnet — out with injuries. Walker is dealing with a groin issue and has not practiced since the first day of camp Wednesday and Charbonnet has pain in his shoulder and has not practiced since Thursday.
Of Walker, coach Pete Carroll said: “He’s got a little groin thing that kind of bothered him getting into camp here so we’re just keeping him quiet for a bit.”
Carroll seemed to indicate the team isn’t too worried about Walker, saying “because it’s a groin we’ve got to make sure. He doesn’t feel bad. It’s not a terrible injury or anything like that. We just don’t want to aggravate it now and make it something that lingers throughout camp.”
As for Charbonnet, Carroll said: “He’s got a little shoulder thing that we’re checking out right now. Take some time to figure it out. … It just kind of creeped up on him. He didn’t get hit or anything like that. All the sudden he started to feel something — checking him out and being really cautious right now.’’
Since it’s just July 30 and the Seahawks don’t play a regular-season game until Sept. 10, any concern over the injuries might be much ado about nothing.
Still, as Carroll said, “We would love to have those guys (practicing). We’d love to have them back out there. But they’re not ready to go.’’
For now, each is out indefinitely, even if they may miss only a week or two. It might not be that long, especially if nothing of concern is revealed in the tests on Charbonnet’s shoulder.
Walker was taken in the second round in 2022 and emerged as only the second rookie in Seahawks history to rush for more than 1,000 yards, assuming the starting role when Rashaad Penny suffered a season-ending ankle injury in the fifth game of the year.
Charbonnet, a UCLA product, was taken in the second round last April, 52nd overall.
That was a pick some questioned given the presence of Walker and the increasingly popular idea that productive running backs can just as often be found in later rounds.
The Seahawks countered that with, the way they want to play offensively, they need to assure they have good depth, noting the injuries that have roiled the position the past few years. Chris Carson was forced to retire a year ago because of a neck issue, and Penny played just 28 games in his last four years.
Even for as durable as Walker was last season he also missed two games — the opener against Denver after dealing with a hernia issue in camp, and a late-season loss to Carolina with an ankle injury.
With Walker and Charbonnet out, fourth-year player DeeJay Dallas and rookie seventh-round pick Kenny McIntosh got the snaps with the starting offense with Dallas typically the starter in the two-minute/goal-line packages.
The only other two running backs on the roster are free-agent signee Bryant Koback of Toledo and Wayne Taulapapa, who was the leading rusher last season for the Washington Huskies after spending four years at Virginia. Taulapapa was a tryout player during the team’s rookie minicamp in May and was signed on Friday to add depth after the team learned of the issues with Walker and Charbonnet.
Koback spent last season on Minnesota’s practice squad before being signed by the Seahawks after the draft.
As Carroll said, the player who may benefit the most for now is McIntosh, noting that the team knows a lot about Dallas, who has played in 44 games the past three years with two starts.
“We’re getting a lot of information on him,’’ Carroll said of McIntosh. “We don’t need much on DeeJay. We know him. But for Kenny McIntosh this is really important.’’
The Seahawks weren’t necessarily intending to take another running back in the draft before their pick came at 237 overall and McIntosh was still available.
McIntosh led national champ Georgia in rushing in 2022 with 829 yards and 10 touchdowns and was expected to go in the middle rounds. But a slower-than-expected 4.62 40 time at the NFL combine helped contribute to his fall
Since McIntosh arrived last May, the Seahawks felt he has played faster than that reported time, and maybe even faster through the first four days of camp than he did in the spring.
“He looks really quick out there,’’ Carroll said, adding that McIntosh has dropped about 10 pounds since the spring (he’s listed at 204).
“He’s probably been one of the highlights,’’ Carroll said. “… He’s in great shape and he’s just razor sharp. He’s been explosive and innovative with his running and his cuts. He’s caught the ball really well.’’
Even if the team knows Dallas well, he showed up with a different look this fall that could make the team decide to use him in different ways.
Carroll said Dallas, who is listed at 214, is “a little bigger than he’s been,’’ saying he’s weighing “230 right now. I like him running with power and being physical as a different kind of guy for us. We’re going to see how that works for him.’’
What the Seahawks hope is that Walker and Charbonnet will provide the kind of week-in and week-out 1-2 punch the team has tried for most of Carroll’s tenure to assemble, but too often seen go awry because of injuries. | 2023-07-31T01:36:12+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/seahawks-could-find-out-if-running-backs-matter-as-the-position-has-been-hit-with-injuries/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seahawks |
One killed, two injured in fire on Detroit's east side
Detroit — A fire in a home on the city's east side on Friday night killed one woman and injured two others from smoke inhalation, Detroit Fire Chief James Harris said.
The fire started around 9:30 p.m. in a one-and-a-half-story home in the 900 block of King Street, Harris said. The female victim was approximately 21 years old. The fire department is not sure if the home was her residence.
A 64-year-old male and a 57-year-old female were injured. They were taken to a hospital and the injuries didn't seem life-threatening, Harris said.
The Detroit Fire Department is investigating the cause of the blaze, which was extinguished in about an hour, Harris said. The building was engulfed in flames, he said, and "burned pretty bad."
hmackay@detroitnews.com | 2023-02-18T18:10:25+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/02/18/one-killed-two-injured-fire-detroit-east-side/69918599007/ |
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — The Department of Human Services (DHS) Acting Secretary, Meg Snead, advised residents of the commonwealth on Thursday of a potential scam targeting recipients of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP.)
In a statement released on Thursday by the DHS, Snead warns Pennsylvania residents that there are individuals going door-to-door, asking LIHEAP recipients to see their bills to ensure they are actually receiving the correct LIHEAP funds.
However, LIHEAP is given directly to a household’s utility company or the home heating fuel provider, as a grant, and neither DHS nor the utility companies would solicit information from LIHEAP recipients in that way, the statement reads.
“If you have received unsolicited visits asking you about your LIHEAP benefits and for your personal information, it is a scam. Do not respond so you do not fall victim to identity theft, and please inform the DHS fraud tip-line immediately,” Snead stated.
Also according to the statement, LIHEAP is provided annually to administer assistance to homeowners and renters for their heating bills so low-income Pennsylvanians can stay warm during the winter season.
Pre-season applications are being mailed to previous recipients of LIHEAP and can be submitted by a paper application or online via COMPASS.
The DHS says that the regular season will begin on November 1 and run through April 28, and DHS will release information to the public on the benefit amounts closer to the opening of the 2022-2023 LIHEAP season.
Applications for other public assistance programs can be submitted online via COMPASS or if clients can’t access the internet, services are available on-site at the County Assistance Office.
Clients are asked to report any text or other interaction about DHS benefits that seem suspicious by calling the fraud tip line, at 1-844-DHS-TIPS (1-844-347-8477). | 2022-09-23T02:38:17+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/liheap-recipients-warned-of-potential-scams/ |
Volvo has provided the first glimpse at a new electric crossover due in 2023.
During Wednesday’s presentation of its new 2024 EX90 mid-size electric SUV, Volvo briefly showed a shadowy image of a much smaller offering with similar styling cues to the EX90. The image appears in the video below at the 105:40 mark, and depicts the new crossover sitting to the left of an EX90.
The mystery model is thought to be a subcompact electric crossover to slot in below the C40 Recharge and XC40 Recharge compact electric crossovers, possibly labeled EX30, a name Volvo has trademarked.
The head of Volvo’s Australian division, Stephen Connor, earlier this year told a local publication that Volvo’s next EVs would include a crossover and sedan to be launched in quick succession after the EX90. The crossover was described as being smaller than the XC40.
The crossover is expected to be based on the SEA modular EV platform from Volvo parent company Geely. The platform made its debut last year in the 001 hot hatch from fellow Geely brand Zeekr and features an 800-volt electrical system for high-speed charging.
Production will likely be handled in China to keep costs down. Geely has a state-of-the-art plant in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo for production of SEA-based vehicles.
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Multiple busloads of migrants were dropped off at Vice President Harris’s residence in Washington, D.C. on Saturday — Christmas Eve — leaving migrants on the streets in below-freezing temperatures, according to multiple reports.
Three busloads of migrants were driven to D.C., ABC 7 reported, and arrived outside the Naval Observatory, which is the vice president’s residence. The migrants were later taken to a church by the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, a local aid group.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was responsible for Saturday’s incident, according to ABC 7 and Fox News, marking the latest episode in a months-long effort by the governor to send migrants to Democratic-run cities as a way to encourage the Biden administration to take steps to control immigration in the U.S.
In September, Abbott sent two buses full of migrants to Harris’s residence in D.C., sparking criticism among Democrats. Other Republican governors, including Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Arizona’s Doug Ducey, have transported migrants to Democratic-run cities across the country in recent months.
“Tonight, on Christmas Eve, Gov Abbott’s buses dropped off migrants at the VP’s house in the freezing cold,” the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network wrote on Twitter early Sunday. “This is not new, it has been happening for 8 months.”
Abbott penned a letter to President Biden last Tuesday demanding that the administration send federal assets to address the situation at the border, especially as temperatures drop and a winter storm approached Texas.
“You and your administration must stop the lie that the border is secure and, instead, immediately deploy federal assets to address the dire problems you have caused,” Abbott wrote. “You must execute the duties that the U.S. Constitution mandates you perform and secure the southern border before more innocent lives are lost.”
In a statement Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it “continues to fully enforce our immigration and public health laws at the border.”
“Individuals and families attempting to enter without authorization are being expelled, as required by court order under the Title 42 public health authority, or placed into removal proceedings. As temperatures remain dangerously low all along the border, no one should put their lives in the hands of smugglers, or risk life and limb attempting to cross only to be returned,” DHS added.
The agency said 23,000 agents and officers are “working to secure the Southwest border and the United States Government continues to work closely with our partners in Mexico to reinforce coordinated enforcement operations to target human smuggling organizations and bring them to justice.”
The Supreme Court last Monday temporarily stopped the expiration of Title 42, the Trump-era policy that allows border officials to turn away asylum seekers because of public health concerns. If it does eventually expire, Abbott said the number of individuals entering Texas illegally “will only increase.”
The Hill reached out to the White House and Abbott for comment. | 2022-12-25T17:18:18+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/hill-politics/busloads-of-migrants-dropped-off-at-vice-presidents-dc-home-on-christmas-eve/ |
DALLAS (AP) — Jalen Brunson missed his first Dallas reunion after the New York Knicks point guard was ruled out of a meeting with the Mavericks with a sore right hip.
The club announced the decision not long before the start of Tuesday night's game. Brunson played when the Knicks lost to the Mavericks 121-100 in New York in early December. The rematch was his first missed game of the season.
Brunson was drafted in the second round by Dallas in 2018, the same year Mavs superstar Luka Doncic went third overall.
A two-time NCAA champion at Villanova, Brunson grew into quite the sidekick for Doncic before signing with the Knicks as a free agent this past summer.
Brunson played a pivotal role in the Mavericks winning a first-round series against Utah last season when Doncic missed the first three games in the six-game series due to a calf strain.
The Mavericks reached the Western Conference finals, losing to Golden State, which won the title.
Brunson blossomed as a starter alongside Doncic in coach Jason Kidd's Dallas debut last season, but was interested in being the lead point guard somewhere else.
Brunson had strong ties to the Knicks. His dad, Rick Brunson, is an assistant coach and former player for New York. His dad's agent, Leon Rose, is president of the Knicks.
New York played in Dallas six days after the NBA docked the club a second-round pick in the 2025 draft for engaging in talks with Brunson before free agency opened June 30.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-12-28T02:39:39+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Knicks-Jalen-Brunson-sits-for-Dallas-reunion-17680329.php |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The federal control board that oversees the finances of Puerto Rico’s government approved a $12.4 billion budget Thursday for the U.S. territory after legislators failed to approve one amid intense bickering.
The board’s version of the budget was rejected last month by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi because it reduced government spending by $100 million. He said at the time that legislators would submit their own version, but the presidents of the island’s Senate and House of Representatives clashed and failed to approve anything before the July 1 deadline.
“It’s unfortunate that the legislative process tied to the central government's budget was very controversial and took too long,” Pierluisi said in a statement.
He said lawmakers wasted an opportunity to include things that would be beneficial for Puerto Ricans, noting noted that while the board included some public policies he had insisted on, “certainly other important ones are missing.”
The island's House of Representatives was scheduled to meet Thursday evening to try and approve another version of the budget, but the board already certified its version.
The board said the $12.4 billion general fund budget includes $5.5 billion for public health, $4.6 billion for education and $1.3 billion “to protect future government pensions from economic uncertainty.”
The budget comes as Puerto Rico’s government emerges from the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy in history after declaring in 2015 that it could not pay its more than $70 billion public debt, which accumulated through decades of mismanagement, corruption and excessive borrowing. It also had more than $50 billion in public pension liabilities.
Puerto Rico’s government filed for bankruptcy in 2017, a year after Congress created the financial oversight and management board for the territory.
Board chairman David Skeel said the certified budget sets aside more than $700 million in capital expenditures, including more than $170 million for housing and more than $150 million in public works to help revitalize the island’s economy.
“After years of deficits that resulted in inadequate funding for critical services, Puerto Rico is now able to provide significant investments to improve the quality of life for Puerto Rico residents and businesses,” he said.
The island is still trying to recover from deadly hurricanes and earthquakes in recent years as well as a lengthy economic crisis that deepened amid the pandemic. | 2022-06-30T23:29:11+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Puerto-Rico-board-approves-budget-as-legislators-17277851.php |
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- October 2014 | 2023-04-26T14:24:31+00:00 | mw | https://www.mw/rbm-disburses-36-billion-kwacha-to-36-thousand-smes-radio-islam-malawi/ |
Updated May 17, 2023 at 1:25 PM ET
An agreement allowing Ukrainian grain exports to ship through the Black Sea to help ease global hunger has been extended for two months just a day before its expiration — overcoming Russia's threats to pull out of the deal.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday announced the extension of the United Nations-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative, which is aimed at easing global hunger.
"I have good news," Erdogan said in a statement. "With the efforts of our country, the support of our Russian friends and contribution of our Ukrainian friends, the Black Sea Grain Initiative has been extended by another two months."
"May it be beneficial to the whole world," added Erdogan, who is seeking reelection in a runoff vote on May 28.
Russian and Ukrainian government officials also confirmed the deal's extension.
Russia complains the deal doesn't unsnarl its shipments
Russia had been threatening to exit the deal over complaints that it fails to free up Russian agricultural exports that Moscow says have been blocked by Western sanctions. While Russian food and fertilizers are not under sanctions, Moscow says sanctions-related restrictions on banking, transit and insurance make trade untenable.
"Moscow agreed to the extension of the grain deal, given that it is counting on problems with the Russian portion of the agreement to be resolved," Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Vassily Nebenzia told reporters.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said "distortions" in the deal should be "fixed at maximum speed."
Meanwhile, Oleksandr Kubrakov, who serves as Ukraine's deputy prime minister and minister of development and infrastructure, said on Facebook the deal has been extended until July 18.
"The world will continue to receive Ukrainian goods, thanks to the efforts of our partners, Turkey and the U.N.," he wrote.
But he said Russia must stop using food "as a weapon and for blackmail."
Wheat for poorer countries
The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July last year to help ease a global food crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.
The crisis worsened with Russia's naval blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports — preventing key Ukrainian exports such as wheat and sunflower oil from reaching world markets.
Russia, in turn, complained that Ukraine had heavily mined the waters of the Black Sea, making trade and transit impossible.
Under the agreement, ships from both sides can use a humanitarian sea corridor before facing inspections at a U.N.-run hub in Turkey.
A U.N. data portal says the initiative has enabled more than 950 outbound voyages to ship a combined 30 million metric tons of goods, including 3.5 million tons of wheat to lower-income countries.
Ukraine relies on grain exports to keep its economy on life support during the war.
The agreement has been a rare — and tenuous — diplomatic achievement amid a conflict that has taken tens of thousands of lives, displaced millions and unmoored the global economy.
Russia briefly suspended its participation in the agreement last October following what Moscow claimed was a Ukrainian drone attack on its Black Sea fleet that originated from waters inside the humanitarian zone.
The authorities in Kyiv and their Western allies denied the accusation and accused Moscow of trying to sabotage the deal and "weaponize" food exports.
Ukraine has also accused Russian inspectors in the Bosporus in Turkey of blocking inspections or refusing to carry them out, causing a backup of container ships there. Moscow has denied this.
Charles Maynes reported from Moscow and Joanna Kakissis reported from Dnipro, Ukraine. Peter Kenyon contributed reporting from Istanbul.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-17T19:09:34+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-05-17/the-ukraine-grain-deal-is-extended-2-months-helping-ease-the-global-food-crisis |
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