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‘True hero’: Retired firefighter dies while saving swimmers caught in rip current
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WANF/Gray News) - Family and friends are mourning the loss of a former Georgia firefighter who lost his life while helping others.
The Banks County Fire and EMS report that retired Captain Richie Alford died Thursday afternoon while rescuing two distressed swimmers who were caught in a rip current at Panama City Beach.
According to the Panama City Beach Police Department, Richie Alford’s body was recovered just after 1 p.m. A witness said Alford went into the water to help the swimmers. They made it back to shore, but Alford did not.
Richie Alford was pronounced dead just after 2 p.m.
“He did what he was taught to do, save lives. And that’s what he did,” the man’s father, Robert Alford, said.
There was a reported double red flag warning that day, meaning the water was closed to the public.
“They were sitting on the beach in lounge chairs until he [Richie Alford] heard a man screaming,” Robert Alford said. “He went to save him but got caught in a riptide and couldn’t get out.”
Richie Alford’s family said they are heartbroken about his death but the way he died is no surprise. They said the 52-year-old had the biggest heart and devoted his life to helping others.
“That’s what he lived for. That was his personality, to help people,” Robert Alford said.
Richie Alford was a firefighter in Banks County for several years before leaving the service about two years ago.
“Richie died doing what he loved, which was helping others in their time of need,” the department shared. “He is a true hero.”
Banks County Fire Battalion Chief Scottie Mathis said he and Richie Alford were like brothers. The two worked together for 18 years.
“He was just a true friend. He was always there when you needed him. You couldn’t ask for a better person,” Mathis said.
After retiring from the fire department, Richie Alford started his own glass business. He also enjoyed hunting, fishing and coaching softball.
Mathis said Richie Alford was loved by so many and that’s how he’ll be remembered.
“Just remember him for the person he was. He would give the shirt off his back to a stranger,” Mathis said.
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The Company's segment will be aired on public television networks across the U.S. starting in July, with interviews featuring CEO Tim Moore and the team leading HAVN Life's Research and Development
VANCOUVER, BC, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - HAVN Life Sciences Inc. (CSE: HAVN) (OTC: HAVLF) (FSE: 5NP) (the "Company" or "HAVN Life") a biotechnology company pursuing standardized extraction of psychoactive compounds and the development of natural health products, is pleased to announce it will be featured in an upcoming Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid episode, airing in July. The episode of Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid will be distributed to more than 170 public television stations throughout the United States, reaching 60 million households throughout the year.
The segment includes an in-depth interview with HAVN Life CEO, Tim Moore, as well as clips from Chief Psychedelic Officer, Dr. Ivan Casselman, and Chief Research Officer, Alexzander Samuelsson, where they discuss the Company's end-to-end research, extraction, formulation, and delivery of naturally derived psilocybin, and some of the strategic, research and supply partnerships HAVN Life has secured. They also touch on HAVN Life's commitment to advancing psychedelic medicine through clinical research and therapeutic use as a ground-breaking medicine with the potential to provide better mental and cognitive health solutions at a global scale.
"We're absolutely thrilled to be a part of the Viewpoint Project and in the illustrious company of previous guests including former U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, Governor of Iowa Kim Reynolds and the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, among others," says HAVN Life CEO, Tim Moore. "The format of the program provides a unique educational platform for the most talked about issues of the day, and we truly feel that psychedelics deserve such a platform. We are proud to be a part of the movement that is helping to redefine and rehabilitate psychedelics in the popular imagination," he adds.
"From the very start, our mission has been to bring medicine to the people," says HAVN Life Chief Psychedelic Officer, Dr. Ivan Casselman. "I am excited to see all the global momentum in psychedelic medicine – the future is bright," he adds.
"As part of the evolving psychedelic industry, I'm proud of the way HAVN Life has been able to take a leading role in sharing information and perspectives on the history of psychedelics, its usage, and the huge potential that psilocybin-based therapies have to offer," says Alexzander Samuelsson, Chief Research Officer at HAVN Life. "Through our work and partnerships, we are building a pathway to healing and relief for those suffering from mental health issues, which many people have been dealing with during the past two years of pandemic lockdowns, isolation, opportunity and personal losses," he adds.
The HAVN Life segment on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid will make its debut on public television in July. Additionally, a recently produced network-quality commercial featuring HAVN Life's natural health products will debut twice during prime time on Fox Business in July. The commercials will continue to air up to 400 times during the year, reaching 84 million homes on networks such as CNBC, CNN Headline News, The Learning Channel, Discovery and Discovery Life, among others.
The Company also announces that on May 26, 2022, it granted 3,000,000 stock options to Tim Moore and 1,000,000 stock options to Gordon Clissold. The stock options are exercisable for a period of five (5) years at a price of $0.06 per common share.
On Behalf of The Board of Directors
Tim Moore
Chief Executive Officer
HAVN Life Sciences is a biotechnology company pursuing standardized extraction of psychedelic compounds for the creation of APIs, the development of natural health products, and innovative therapies to support brain health and enhance the capabilities of the mind.
Through its research division, HAVN Labs, the company has developed an end-to-end supply chain of GMP naturally derived psychedelic compounds for research that will define the future of modern medicine. With its new line of natural health products, HAVN Life offers a full range of high-quality mushroom and plant extracts that help boost immune function, reduce inflammation and support a healthy lifestyle.
Purchase our products and find out more at yourhavnlife.com, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.
The goal of the Viewpoint Project is to enlighten the audience by delivering diverse informational and educational documentaries by covering a variety of issues and topics. Viewpoint Project is on the cutting edge of the television documentary industry, producing top quality programming for Public Television. Viewpoint Project is dedicated to the mission of developing and distributing social and educational programming about our neighbors, our community, and world. Each story has one thing in common – changing our lives for the better.
Forward-Looking Information: This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws relating to statements regarding the Company's feature on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid, the Company's work to build a pathway to healing and relief for those suffering from mental health issues, the Company's business, products and future of the Company's business. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, performance and developments to differ materially from those contemplated by these statements depending on, among other things, the risk that the Company's feature on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid will not be completed as contemplated, or at all, risks that the Company's work to build a pathway to healing and relief for those suffering from mental health issues will not be completed as contemplated, or at all, risks that the Company's products and plan will vary from those stated in this news release and the Company may not be able to carry out its business plans as expected. Except as required by law, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation and does not intend to update any forward-looking statements or forward-looking information in this news release. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The statements in this news release are made as of the date of this release.
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LONDON (AP) — When Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather, King George V, died 86 years ago, many homes in Britain had little or no electricity and large parts of the population still lived in slums.
Life in 1936 is unrecognizable to Britons today. But despite almost a century of change, the images from the queen’s lying in state this week are almost exact copies of those from when George V lay in state.
Both used the same vast, medieval Westminster Hall with the coffin resting on a royal purple platform in the middle. A brass cross is at one end of the coffin, the royal standard is draped on top, and tall candlesticks and scarlet and gold-clad ceremonial guards are carefully placed around it.
Historians say maintaining such traditions consistently through time is crucial to preserving reverence for the monarchy.
“When you look at the photographs, it’s like spot the difference isn’t it?” said historian Tracy Borman, author of “Crown and Sceptre: 1000 years of Kings and Queens.”
“People want to see a crown and scepter, they like to see these ceremonies played out the same way,” she added. “People derive some sort of comfort and security from that unchanging nature. It seems to be what people value about the monarchy: nothing changing.”
The queen, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch who ruled for 70 years, was the constant rock of stability in British life before she died on Sept. 8 in Scotland. Even in death, the pomp and pageantry to mark her passing evokes elaborate mourning rituals that seem to be frozen in time.
Before the queen, five British kings and queens have lain in state at Westminster Hall, a 900-year-old building at the center of British politics and power for centuries. The hall hosted numerous medieval coronation banquets, as well as the trials of Guy Fawkes and Charles I in the 17th century.
The tradition of lying in state stretches back to the time of the Stuarts — who reigned from 1603 to 1714 — when sovereigns lay in state for a number of days. But Edward VII was the monarch who set the modern tradition of lying in state in Westminster Hall in 1910. Archival footage showed that just like today, crowds formed huge lines snaking through central London for a chance to file past their sovereign’s coffin.
Historian Ed Owens believes it was a canny move by Edward VII to strengthen the bond between the crown and its subjects.
“He saw the lying in state as a key moment that would bring him as monarch into close contact with his subjects, a final opportunity for them to bid farewell,” said Owens, author of “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-1953.”
“This was a moment that would be captured by the new technologies of photography and film,” Owens added. “And it was a way of saying to the wider country and the wider world, that monarch and people were in a kind of spiritual communion.”
Other royals who lay in state at Westminster Hall were King George VI, Elizabeth’s father, in 1952, and Queen Mary, Elizabeth’s grandmother, in 1953. George VI’s wife Queen Elizabeth, known in later years as the Queen Mother after her daughter became monarch, was the last person to lie in state in Britain. Each time, the occasions drew tens of thousands of people.
Two former prime ministers — William Gladstone in 1898 and Winston Churchill in 1965 — also lay in state at Westminster Hall. Churchill also had a state funeral — the last one staged in Britain until Monday, when the state funeral for the queen takes place.
Such pageantry continues to fascinate because it seems to play into an enduring craving for ritual, Borman said.
The monarchy holds “a kind of magnetism” because “you’re staring history in the face, they represent that ancient line stretching back,” she said.
That appeal suits the royals just fine — and indeed, she pointed out that the royal household has been “absolutely dedicated” to upholding the unchanging nature of such ceremonies.
“That is very deliberate, I think,” Borman said. “I guess the heart of that is to stop people getting rid of the monarchy.”
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Follow AP’s coverage of Queen Elizabeth II at https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii | 2022-09-18T07:51:23+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/entertainment/article/Royal-lying-in-state-rituals-endure-despite-17449612.php |
LONDON (AP) — Fans of Liz Truss think she is the new Iron Lady.
Britain’s foreign secretary is one of the two final contenders to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister. Some 180,000 party members will be asked to choose either Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, with the winner set to be announced Sept. 5.
If Truss wins, she would become Britain’s third female prime minister. She has forged her image in homage to the first, Margaret Thatcher.
Truss has posed in a British Army tank in Eastern Europe, evoking an image of Thatcher during the Cold War. In a televised leadership debate this week, Britain’s top diplomat sported a pussy-bow blouse eerily similar to one the late prime minister used to wear.
Truss, 46, is a favorite among many Conservatives, who revere Thatcher above all other leaders. Critics say it’s an empty homage and believe Truss lacks the gravitas to lead the country amid economic turbulence and a European war.
As foreign secretary, Truss has been front and center in Britain’s support for Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia over the invasion of its neighbor. She also has figured prominently in the U.K.’s feud with the European Union over post-Brexit trade arrangements.
Her pugnacious approach — along with her promises to slash taxes and boost defense spending — have made her the favorite of the party’s strongly euroskeptic right wing.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Truss said she was “the only person who can deliver the change we need on the economy — in line with true Conservative principles — and the only person capable of stepping up and leading the response to Ukraine and the increased security threat that the free world faces.”
But opponents criticize her as a dogmatist and a wooden public speaker, and note that she has not always been a true-blue Tory.
Born in Oxford in 1975, Truss is the daughter of a math professor and a nurse who took her on anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child, where she recalled shouting: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie — out, out out!”
Truss attended a public high school in Leeds, northern England, and then studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University, where she briefly belonged to the centrist Liberal Democrats and called for the abolition of the monarchy.
She worked as an economist for energy giant Shell and telecommunications firm Cable and Wireless, and for a right-of-center think tank while becoming involved in Conservative politics and espousing free-market Thatcherite views. She ran unsuccessfully for Parliament twice before being elected to represent the eastern England seat of Southwest Norfolk in 2010.
Truss is married to Hugh O’Leary, with whom she has two teenage daughters.
In Britain’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing “remain” side. But she has served in Johnson’s staunchly pro-Brexit government as trade secretary and then foreign secretary, and has won the support of the Conservative Party’s most fervent Brexiteers.
Her record as foreign secretary has drawn mixed reviews. Many praise her firm response to the invasion of Ukraine, and she secured the release of two British nationals jailed in Iran where her predecessors had failed. But EU leaders and officials hoping she would bring a softer tone to the U.K.’s relations with the bloc have been disappointed.
Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, says the fact that euroskeptics adore Truss, while suspecting Sunak of pro-EU views — despite that fact that he backed “leave” in the referendum — shows the importance of image over substance in politics.
“His image doesn’t fit that of a Brexiteer whereas hers does,” Bale said. “There’s a kind of presumption that if you’re a bit of a smoothiechops who moves easily in international circles you must be a remainer, and if you’re someone who tells it like it is to Johnny Foreigner then you’re obviously a (true) Brexiteer.”
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Follow all of AP’s coverage of British politics at https://apnews.com/hub/boris-johnson | 2022-07-21T06:39:06+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/liz-truss-a-margaret-thatcher-fan-at-uks-diplomatic-helm/ |
As a heat wave grips parts of the world, Associated Press photographer Fatima Shbair captured Palestinians enjoying a day at the beach on the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City. A boy is tossed in the air as a camel is walked on the beach.
Additional evacuations were needed as fires raged Monday on the Greek island of Rhodes and tore past defenses, fueled by strong winds and successive heat waves.
Over the weekend, several people were missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia, causing flash flooding, road washouts and power outages.
Here’s what’s happening related to extreme weather and the climate right now:
— The death of an older Arizona woman when her electricity was cut during a heat spell five years ago spurred changes in shutoff rules. But advocates say more could be done to help prevent more deaths like that of Stephanie Pullman, who who owed $51 on her electricity bill, Associated Press writer Anita Snow reports.
— Greta Thunberg, who inspired a global youth movement demanding stronger efforts to fight climate change, appeared in court Monday on a charge of disobeying police at a protest in southern Sweden last month.
—Officials say landslides triggered by torrential rains have blocked several key roads in northern Pakistan, stranding tourists and disrupting traffic. Authorities say the death toll from weather-related incidents since June 24 has risen to 133 across the country.
—Some activists are sounding an alarm over the environmental impacts of the wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande causing changes to the landscape.
—Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area Sunday as they try to find a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood.
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“Nobody should be dying because of a job they have,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said while talking about premature deaths of thousands from pneumoconiosis, or “ black lung.”
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Canada's official opposition, the Conservative Party, will announce the results of elections for a new party leader on Saturday.The favored candidate has been compared to former President Trump.
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Canada's official opposition, the Conservative Party, will announce the results of elections for a new party leader on Saturday.The favored candidate has been compared to former President Trump.
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until October 31, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Azure Power Global Limited ("Azure" or the "Company") (NYSE: AZRE), if they purchased the Company's securities between June 15, 2021 and August 26, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Azure and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On August 29, 2022, the Company disclosed that its Chief Executive Officer had resigned, less than two months after his appointment and that it had "received a whistleblower complaint in May 2022 alleging potential procedural irregularities and misconduct by certain employees at a plant belonging to one of its subsidiaries." During the Company's review of these allegations, Azure "discovered deviations from safety and quality norms" and "also identified evidence of manipulation of project data and information by certain employees."
On this news, shares of Azure declined by $4.61 per share, or approximately 44.07%, from $10.46 per share to close at $5.85 on August 29, 2022.
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Marcus Mariota’s tenure with the Atlanta Falcons lasted just one season, but there were cameras rolling for every minute of it.
The former Saint Louis School star and Heisman Trophy winner at Oregon is one of three quarterbacks who will be featured in a Netflix documentary series “Quarterback” that will debut on Wednesday.
The eight-episode series will follow Mariota, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins through the 2022 season, which ended with the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl.
Mariota, who began his career playing five seasons with the Tennessee Titans before signing a two-year deal with the Las Vegas Raiders, signed to play for the Falcons in March 2022.
The documentary series, which is the first of its kind in a partnership between Netflix and the NFL, documents the entire season in which Mariota won an open competition with rookie Desmond Ridder and started the first 14 weeks of the season before he was benched in favor of the rookie.
The series will also delve into Mariota’s upbringing and life in Hawaii, which is what appealed the most to him and his family, which now includes his 6-month-old daughter, Makaia, who was born in December.
“I think it will be a great perspective for people who don’t understand Hawaii that don’t understand kind of how the Polynesian culture is and the island life,” Mariota said in a radio interview with KKEA 1420-AM last week. “To be able to share that with the world was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. All of the interviews, all of the mic’d up scenes, it is what it is, but I think for me just to be able to share my story was pretty cool.”
Mariota said he was mic’d up for every game and for one full day of practice each week. Every so often, the crew would then come to his house and document his family life. | 2023-07-07T10:34:31+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/07/07/sports/mariota-featured-in-upcoming-netflix-documentary/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Ford has learned to travel light — and quickly.
Since the start of the season, the 29-year-old first baseman has played for Tacoma, San Francisco and Sacramento. Traded from Seattle to the Giants on April 30, he was dealt back to the Mariners on Thursday.
On Friday night, he found his way to Citi Field, batting seventh for the Mariners as the designated hitter in a series opener at the New York Mets.
“Down to one bag I'm traveling with, and that's just about it,” the 29-year-old first baseman said. "Five dress shirts, two pairs of pants and some shorts and T-shirts. So very simple packing at this point. Makes it a little easier. Plus, you don’t have to pay $150 for the third bag every time."
Ford was a rare left-handed bat on the New York Yankees from 2019-21, hitting 17 homers with 41 RBIs in 101 games.
His travels began last June 17, when he was traded to Tampa Bay and optioned to Triple-A Durham. Washington claimed him off waivers on Aug. 23 and assigned him to Triple-A Rochester.
Ford elected free agency in November and signed six days after the lockout with the Mariners, a team he spent spring training with in 2018 after he was taken in the winter meeting draft of unprotected players — only to be returned to the Yankees.
He hit .317 in 10 games at Tacoma, then was dealt to the Giants and had a two-run single off Washington’s Steve Cishek in his lone big league game, going 1 for 4 on May 1. Assigned to Sacramento, he was 0 for 7 when he was dealt back to Seattle.
Ford was with the River Cats in El Paso when he learned of the trade. He flew Wednesday to his home in Tampa, Florida, then on to New York a day later.
“I was pretty shocked when it happened,” he said. "I think it's a good fit. That’s why I’m here."
By Friday, he had a locker just inside the entrance to the visitors' clubhouse and was assigned No. 70.
“I've known Mike since he was in college,” said Seattle manager Scott Servais, whose son Tyler was a catcher/first baseman at Princeton alongside Ford. “If anybody can handle it, it’s Mike Ford, for sure. So he’ll give good at-bats. He's not afraid. He just has to get hot at the right time, and hopefully he can stick.”
Ford said some of his belongings remain in transit from Sacramento. On the plus side, he's accumulating frequent flier miles.
“I'm going to have a few free vacations, I think, at the end of the year,” he said.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-05-13T23:23:12+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Traded-back-and-forth-Ford-learns-to-live-out-of-17172135.php |
The federal government created the Do Not Call Registry nearly 20 years ago to give consumers protection from telemarketing calls, and later, robocalls. But despite the goals of the registry, American consumers frequently report unwanted spam calls and text messages.
VERIFY reader Ginia reached out to the VERIFY team to get some answers about a recent telemarketing call they received. Despite being on the Do Not Call Registry, Ginia said, “ADT called and told me that just by answering my phone I reinstate myself on their database list. Is that true?”
THE QUESTION
Does answering a phone call from a telemarketer take you off the Do Not Call Registry?
THE SOURCES
ADT
THE ANSWER
No, a company cannot legally remove a person from the Do Not Call Registry because the person answered the phone.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) operates the Do Not Call Registry, a database of consumers who have requested that telemarketers — both live callers and automatic robocalling systems — not contact them. There were over 244 million active DNC registrations in fiscal year 2021. The FTC says it takes up to 31 days after registering for sales calls to stop, but calls that are purely informational or surveys are okay.
The major exception to this rule is if a company has an “established business relationship” with the consumer. The FTC says a company can call a customer with whom they have an established business relationship for up to 18 months after a consumer’s last purchase, delivery or payment, and up to three months after a consumer makes an inquiry or submits an application to a company.
“Simply picking up the phone does not qualify as an ‘established business relationship’ under the DNC rules,” an FTC spokesperson told VERIFY in an email.
Additionally, if a person asks a company not to call them again for sales, the company must honor that request. This is true even if the company has an established business relationship with the consumer or the person isn’t on the Do Not Call Registry.
These rules apply to both in-state and out-of-state calls, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says.
So a person on the Do Not Call Registry shouldn’t get a sales call from a legitimate business. And even if they do get such a call, answering doesn’t establish a business relationship with the company that would allow the company to make future calls.
A company can’t feign ignorance of the Do Not Call list, either. The FTC states that a company must pay for access to the Do Not Call Registry for each area code it operates in as a telemarketer, and it’s against the law for a seller to call a number, even a number that hasn’t registered for Do Not Call, that’s in an area code in which the company hasn’t purchased the list.
VERIFY also reached out to ADT, the company Ginia said called them. In a statement, ADT said its policy is to “fully comply with all U.S. federal and state laws and regulations governing telephone sales, marketing, and telemarketing activities.”
“ADT maintains an internal Do Not Call list and purchases all required U.S. federal and state lists. ADT also uses sophisticated proprietary technology to help ensure that consumers who have placed their telephone numbers on such lists are not contacted by ADT or by any of its authorized dealers or authorized marketers,” the statement read.
The FTC admits the Do Not Call Registry can’t stop calls from scammers. “If someone is already breaking the law calling you, there’s a good chance it’s a scam,” the FTC says of telemarketers who ignore the registry. “At the very least, it’s a company you don’t want to do business with.”
Scammers can and do pose as legitimate companies over the phone. The FTC says scammers can do something called “spoofing” to make any name or number show up on caller ID. They can then pretend to be that legitimate company once you’ve picked up the phone — a tactic called an “imposter scam.” The FTC said its number one Do Not Call Registry complaint in fiscal year 2021 was about imposter scams.
The FTC encourages consumers to report unwanted robocalls or violations of the Do Not Call Registry to the donotcall.gov website.
More from VERIFY: Have you received a text from a wrong number? It could be a scam | 2022-05-27T20:06:20+00:00 | 5newsonline.com | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/verify/technology-verify/answering-phone-call-from-telemarketer-does-not-remove-you-from-do-not-call-list/536-8e2f6b67-dc9f-4280-881d-3377ea48e24c |
The inside story of the battle over soccer's Super League Published January 15, 2023 02:16 PM Facebook Twitter Listen • 8:57 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Jeff Zimbalist and series consultant and contributor Roger Bennett about their Apple TV+ series Super League: The War for Football. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-01-15T23:14:09+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/2023-01-15/the-inside-story-of-the-battle-over-soccers-super-league |
SUNRISE, Fla. – Sam Reinhart scored two of Florida’s four third-period goals and the Panthers rallied to beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Saturday night.
Aleksander Barkov had a goal and an assist to tie former teammate Jonathan Huberdeau for the franchise career points lead with 613.
Matthew Tkachuk also scored and Sergei Bobrovsky made 33 saves. The Panthers kept pace in the Eastern Conference wild-card race, extending their points streak to six at 5-0-1.
“I liked our bounce-back in the third,” Reinhart said. “We started moving our feet a little, started creating some chances and we capitalized. It was a back-and-forth night and they hung on. … This is the most fun time to play. You could sense the atmosphere from the start. Fans know the position we are in. We’re enjoying the battle.”
Nico Hischier and Jesper Boqvist scored in the second period for New Jersey and rookie goalie Akira Schmid made 37 saves. The Devils have lost three straight.
“Just a couple of big breakdowns. I’m embarrassed what we did to our goaltender,’’ New Jersey coach Lindy Ruff said. “After recovering from a tough first period and playing such a good second period to do that to ourselves, that’s more than the punch in the gut.”
Hischier opened the scoring while killing a penalty, intercepting an errant pass at the top of the offensive zone and charging in on Bobrovsky at 2:16.
A little over five minutes later, Boqvist scored, with Bobrovsky and a couple of his teammates down on the ice after the goalie’s previous save.
“The second period wasn’t what we wanted, but we had one hell of a first and we wanted to get back to that,’’ Tkachuk said. “I thought we played a really strong 50 minutes — some of the second we would like back. But that third period is how we want to play.”
Florida got on the board at 6:14 of the third on an odd play when Brandon Montour’s shot from the point hit Marc Staal as he was going toward the net. The puck dropped right onto the stick of Barkov, who scored.
The Panthers then scored twice within a span of a minute as Reinhart deflected a Brandon Montour shot past Schmid at 7:54. Tkachuk beat Schmid off a backhander following a pass from Carter Verhaeghe.
Reinhart added an empty-net goal, with Barkov assisting to tie Huberdeau.
UP NEXT
Devils: At Tampa Bay on Sunday night.
Panthers: At Detroit on Monday night.
___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-19T14:24:57+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/sports/2023/03/19/panthers-have-4-goal-3rd-in-4-2-comeback-win-over-devils/ |
CLEVELAND — The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections rejected a challenge to the residency of East Cleveland's mayor, unanimously voting there was not enough evidence to prove Mayor Brandon King lied about where he lives.
Former East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer challenged King's residency, questioning if the mayor and other family members actually live in a home on Elsinore Street.
During a hearing Tuesday, King's wife admitted to living in Euclid, but said the mayor does not live with her, and a longtime neighbor testified he hasn't seen King come or go from the house in years, poking holes in what the challengers called King's maneuvers intended to convince the Board he lived somewhere he doesn't.
"That's what this is all about," said Ken Myers, the attorney representing Brewer in his challenge. "You have to live in the city of East Cleveland to be the Mayor of East Cleveland."
But King repeatedly insisted he lives in the home and presented a stack of legal documents and bank statements, all listing the East Cleveland address as his residence.
King's lawyer claimed the challenge was another effort to remove the mayor from office after a failed recall attempt last fall.
"The Board of Election is not for political theater," said attorney Charles Tyler. "It's not to help people win political challenges they lost in the community."
After the board rejected the challenge, King expressed relief but predicted he'll face more of what he believes are politically-motivated vendettas.
"We'll be back," said King. They'll come up with something else to then try to get me thrown out of office or recalled or something other than doing their job. They'll do anything to get me out of office."
King called on everyone to come together to move East Cleveland forward.
It comes as the FBI and Cuyahoga County Proseuctor's Office continue investigations into corruption in that city. | 2023-05-24T00:19:48+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/board-rejects-challenge-to-east-cleveland-mayors-residency |
PARIS (AP) — A French citizen working in wildlife conservation has been released after being abducted two days earlier in northeastern Chad, France announced Sunday.
“France thanks Chadian authorities who worked towards the release,” the Foreign Ministry said, adding that French diplomats remain “mobilized” to help Jerome Hugonnot and his family.
Hugonnot was working for the Sahara Conservation Fund in Chad’s Wadi Fara province that borders Sudan at the time of his abduction Friday by unknown kidnappers, according to the Chadian government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh. A number of armed groups operate along the Chad-Sudan border.
The Sahara Conservation Fund and its partners have spent years in Chad working to reintroduce a species of desert antelope known as the scimitar-horned oryx. | 2022-10-31T16:09:30+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/ap-kidnapped-french-conservationist-released-in-eastern-chad/ |
Updated September 15, 2022 at 2:30 PM ET
Yeshiva University in New York City will have to continue to recognize an LGBTQ student organization while the school argues its case against the group in state court, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The opinion Wednesday left in place a New York state court ruling requiring the university to recognize the YU Pride Alliance.
It also forces the university to exhaust at least two other legal avenues in New York before returning to the Supreme Court to make its case.
The opinion said Yeshiva University could come back to the nation's highest court sooner if lower courts in New York failed to provide a quick resolution to the case or interim relief.
But four justices in the Supreme Court's conservative bloc dissented with the majority opinion, claiming that New York was ignoring the religious rights of the Jewish school.
Yeshiva University, founded in 1886, describes itself as a "multifaceted institution that integrates the knowledge of Western civilization and the rich treasures of Jewish culture."
Justice Samuel Alito wrote, "The First Amendment guarantees the right to the free exercise of religion, and if that provision means anything, it prohibits a State from enforcing its own preferred interpretation of Holy Scripture. Yet that is exactly what New York has done in this case, and it is disappointing that a majority of this Court refuses to provide relief."
According to the court record, the YU Pride Alliance sued the university last year after the school refused to officially recognize the student group on the grounds that it conflicted with the school's interpretation of the Torah.
A New York state trial court sided with the student group, ruling that Yeshiva University violated the New York City Human Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender in public accommodations. A state appeals court later left that ruling in place.
Katie Rosenfeld, an attorney for the YU Pride Alliance, said the ruling was a victory for Yeshiva University students and praised the Supreme Court for sending the case back to state court.
"We are confident that we will continue to overcome the administration's aggressive litigation strategies against its own LGBTQ+ students, who choose to attend Yeshiva University because they are committed to the school's mission," Rosenfeld said in a statement.
"At the end of the day, Yeshiva University students will have a club for peer support this year, and the sky is not going to fall down. No longer will students be denied a safe and supportive space on campus to be together," she added.
Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, said in a statement that the university would follow the Supreme Court's instruction to return to state court.
"Every faith-based university in the country has the right to work with its students, including its LGBTQ students, to establish the clubs, places and spaces that fit within its faith tradition. Yeshiva University simply seeks that same right of self-determination," Berman said.
"At the same time, as our commitment to and love for our LGBTQ students are unshakeable, we continue to extend our hand in invitation to work together to create a more inclusive campus life consistent with our Torah values," he added.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-16T16:15:35+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/education/2022-09-16/the-supreme-court-rules-yeshiva-university-must-recognize-student-lgbtq-group-for-now |
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Let the talking begin. The trading, too, and eventually the signing.
Free agency officially opens Thursday in the NBA, with teams able to begin negotiating at 6 p.m. Eastern with players who are not under contract — although, in reality, free agency and the slew of offseason movement is already off and running.
James Harden declined his $47 million option for next season with Philadelphia on Wednesday and became a free agent — but told the team he intends to stay on a new deal that will allow the 76ers the flexibility they need to sign other players this summer, according to a person with direct knowledge of that situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither Harden nor the 76ers confirmed those plans publicly.
And Harden’s decision came almost simultaneously Wednesday with another massive move — the San Antonio Spurs are trading All-Star guard Dejounte Murray to the Atlanta Hawks for Danilo Gallinari and three first-round picks, according to another person with direct knowledge of the terms of that deal who spoke to AP with anonymity because the trade had not been announced by either side. ESPN first reported the completion of that deal, which pairs Murray with another All-Star in Trae Young in the Hawks’ backcourt.
Kyrie Irving and Russell Westbrook have already made their decisions; both could have been free agents this summer and found a combined 84 million reasons not to hit the open market — $47 million for Westbrook to opt-in for the last year of his deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, and nearly $37 million for Irving to do the same with the Brooklyn Nets.
Jalen Brunson will be in demand early, with the expectation that he’ll quickly agree to leave Dallas and become the new point guard in New York. And there will be players who might decide to look elsewhere, or accept huge $200-million-plus deals with their current teams — opportunities that are presenting themselves to Zach LaVine with Chicago and Bradley Beal with Washington.
The largest deal, in terms of actual dollars, coming in the next few days almost certainly won’t have anything to do with a free agent: All signs point to two-time reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokic being offered a supermax extension in the $260 million range by the Denver Nuggets. The only question there will be how quickly he finds a pen to put to that paper.
Minnesota can give Karl-Anthony Towns a supermax of about $210 million this summer, as can Phoenix with Devin Booker.
Other players are restricted free agents, meaning their current teams will have the right to match offers from other clubs. The most notable name on that list is Deandre Ayton, the Phoenix center who was the No. 1 pick in the 2018 draft but watched others in his draft class get their first extensions last summer.
Some players will be free agents in name only. John Wall, for example, will get $41 million in a buyout from the Houston Rockets, and has already decided that he wants to play for the Los Angeles Clippers next season. The Clippers are expected to use a $6.4 million exception to sign Wall, and that figure matches the money that Wall gave back to make the buyout of what would have been the final year of his contract happen.
“We’ll see what happens as free agency opens up and everything else,” Clippers owner Steve Ballmer said. “I think the sky’s the limit for our team. The sky is the limit. … And of course, you’ve got to have a little bit of luck to win the Larry O’Brien Trophy, which is what we’d really like.”
That will be everyone’s goal come 6 p.m. Thursday, to find ways to get closer to the Larry O’Brien, whether that’s in 2023 or beyond.
Such thinking even applies to the champion Golden State Warriors, who have a slew of rotation players — Kevon Looney, Otto Porter, Gary Payton II among them — who just last week were enjoying a parade through San Francisco and are now free to go elsewhere if the opportunities and dollars are right.
“We still do need to surround the team with vets and that’s the plan in free agency,” Warriors general manager Bob Myers said. “It’s easier to get some of the older players, we think, in free agency than young players. Young players are probably the most in-demand in free agency.”
True, and that’s another element of this time of year: Young players, and not grabbing them in free agency this year, but keeping them out of free agency in future years.
Ja Morant will surely be offered a max rookie extension by Memphis, one that will kick in with the 2023-24 season. The Zion Williamson situation in New Orleans will be interesting, as the Pelicans decide how much to offer to — or safely structure a deal for — a No. 1 pick who has missed the majority of his first three NBA seasons because of injury issues. Miami is planning to offer sixth man of the year Tyler Herro an extension, though the Heat will have to determine what number makes the most sense for them going forward.
And, of course, there is a LeBron James angle: The Los Angeles Lakers were a disaster last season and will aim to revamp their roster, plus can give James a two-year extension in August worth nearly $100 million. But before he signs, they have far more pressing concerns.
Officially, it all starts Thursday. A new season is already here.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-29T22:02:16+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/nba-free-agency-opens-thursday-starting-deal-making-season/ |
We were at my wife’s high school reunion last month when Kelly, her fellow alum, discovered that his smartphone was missing. “I’m not worried,” he told us with a shrug. “I know it’s around here somewhere.”
In a roomful of fellow schoolmates, Kelly seemed to be having too good a time to fret over the latest tweet, text message, email or news update. Looking around the room, I noted that no one else was on a smartphone, either.
This gives me hope, at the close of a year in which much has been said about our collective addiction to online culture, that we’re not as dependent on pointing and clicking as the headlines might suggest.
A similar thought had come to mind over the summer, when I attended my own class reunion and found the physical presence of old friends no real substitute for a Facebook post.
As I had noted in a column on the experience last June, the choice between seeing friends online or in person is often a false one. When properly embraced, both forms of connection can mutually sustain each other.
My high school reunion, as well as my wife’s event, had been largely planned online, which made it easier for willing hands to handle all the details. And thanks to all those great reunion pictures snapped on our phones, friends could share and savor the evening long after it had passed. Even better, ex-classmates who couldn’t attend were still able to enjoy reminiscing through all the subsequent social media.
Does online life these days make class reunions beside the point? Pamela Paul, a New York Times columnist I’ve mentioned before, thinks so. Since we’re pretty up to date on each other’s lives through Facebook, Paul argues, class reunions leave us with little to say.
But I haven’t found that to be the case after attending two class reunions this year. Even in an online universe widely lamented for its tell-all sensibility, there are still things, it seems, that people feel more comfortable sharing in person.
At my wife’s reunion, a classmate’s spouse told me how she and her family are navigating a big decision about whether to move from their longtime home. Another attendee spoke of her pride in a grown son who’s gone through a rough patch and emerged better for it. I was moved to hear someone else reveal the emotional challenges of caring for a mother with dementia.
There were nuances in our chats that didn’t incline themselves to the happy-talk tenor of Facebook. But whether we were discussing somber topics or sunny ones, I came away struck by how real these conversations were — and how grounded they made me feel.
Now, deep in a Yuletide season that celebrates family and fellowship, I’m grateful that the easing of COVID-19 restrictions means we’re able to gather again. That might be the best holiday gift of all.
Email Danny Heitman at danny@dannyheitman.com. | 2022-12-18T12:41:08+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/at-an-autumn-class-reunion-i-found-being-together-was-better-than-facebook/article_e68b3dd0-7656-11ed-9d10-6756cb98353c.html |
7 shot near Virginia theater holding graduation celebration, officials say
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - Police in Richmond are on the scene of a reported shooting incident outside a theater holding a high school graduation celebration.
According to WWBT, Richmond Public Schools confirmed a shooting happened outside the Altria Theater after Huguenot High School’s graduation ceremony in Monroe Park.
In an alert to students Tuesday afternoon, Richmond Police and the VCU Police Department responded to the reported shooting and advised students to stay indoors.
Richmond Police said in a press conference around 5:15 p.m., officers were inside Altria Theater running security when they reported hearing gunshots outside. Officers on traffic detail found “multiple victims.”
Acting Police Chief Rick Edwards says a total of seven people were shot, with three people suffering from life-threatening injuries and four with non-life-threatening injuries.
Six other people sustained injuries unrelated to the gunfire: three people reported needing to be transported to the hospital for anxiety, two people were injured from falls, and one person was hit by a car as they were running away from the area.
Police also say they have two people in custody and there is currently no active threat to the community.
The district says they have canceled Thomas Jefferson High School’s ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight and plan to reschedule their graduation soon.
The district also says all Richmond Public Schools will be closed Wednesday out of “an abundance of caution,” according to a message sent to families.
Sources told WWBT that at least five people may have been shot, although police haven’t confirmed that yet.
Traffic in the area will be impacted and several roads in the area will be closed while police continue to investigate.
Copyright 2023 WWBT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-07T00:10:10+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/06/06/multiple-people-shot-near-virginia-theater-holding-graduation-celebration-officials-say/ |
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2022 Tulsa Natalie Medical Building shooting
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For years before the Saint Francis shooting, health workers have experienced on-the-job violence at alarming rates
Catherine Sweeney
And they say the pandemic has made it worse. One nationwide survey of nurses found 44 percent of theme experienced physical abuse on the job in early 2020.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 29, 2023
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HIGH WIND WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
155 AM CDT Fri Apr 28 2023
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/
THIS MORNING TO 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast winds 35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 65 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains in Texas.
* WHEN...From 9 AM CDT /8 AM MDT/ this morning to 1 AM CDT
/midnight MDT/ Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile
vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around
trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of
your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if
you must drive.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON CDT /11 AM MDT/ TODAY TO
8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
* WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and southwest and
western Texas.
* WHEN...From noon CDT /11 AM MDT/ today to 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/
this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Blowing dust will lower visibility locally creating difficult
travel conditions.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM CDT
SATURDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
expected. Locally stronger winds in the higher terrain.
* WHERE...Terrell, Central Brewster and Lower Brewster Counties,
Chinati and Davis Mountains, and Marfa Plateau and Chisos
Basin.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon to 1 AM CDT Saturday.
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-04-28T08:05:40+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-midland-odessa-warnings-watches-and-17924352.php |
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in the Philippines on Wednesday for talks about deploying U.S. forces and weapons in more Philippine military camps to ramp up deterrence against China’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea.
Austin flew Tuesday night to Manila from South Korea, where he met his counterpart and said the U.S. would increase its deployment of advanced weapons such as fighter jets and bombers to the Korean Peninsula to bolster joint training with South Korean forces in response to North Korea’s growing nuclear threat.
The Philippines, Washington's oldest treaty ally in Asia, has been a key front in the U.S. battle against terrorism, especially after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Austin was scheduled to meet a small contingent of U.S. counterterrorism forces on Wednesday in the south, where they have provided intelligence and combat advice for years to Filipino troops battling a decadeslong Muslim insurgency, which has considerably eased but remains a key threat.
More recently, U.S. forces have intensified and broadened joint training for combat readiness and disaster response with Filipino troops in the Southeast Asian nation’s western coast, which faces the South China Sea, and in its northern Luzon region across the sea from the Taiwan Strait.
American forces have been granted access to five Philippine military camps, where they could stay indefinitely in rotating batches under a 2014 defense pact called the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.
In October, the U.S. sought access to a larger number of its forces and weapons to an additional five Philippine military camps, mostly in the main northern Luzon region, under the 2014 EDCA. That request would be high on the agenda for Austin’s meetings in the Philippines, according to Philippine officials.
“The visit of Secretary Austin definitely, obviously will have to do with many of the ongoing discussions on the EDCA sites,” Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Romualdez said at a news briefing Tuesday in the capital Manila.
Austin would hold talks Thursday with his Philippine defense counterpart, Carlito Galvez Jr., and National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano, Romualdez said. Austin would separately call on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who took office in June and has since taken steps to boost relations with Washington.
The U.S. defense chief is the latest American leader to visit the Philippines after Vice President Kamala Harris, who flew to the country in November in a sign of warming ties after a strained period under Marcos’s predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte.
During his time at the country’s helm from 2016, Duterte nurtured cozy ties with China and Russia while he threatened to sever ties with Washington, kick visiting American forces out and abrogate a major defense pact that allows thousands of U.S. forces to visit each year for large-scale combat training.
Romualdez said the Philippines needed to cooperate with Washington militarily to deter any escalation of tensions between China and Taiwan — not only because of the treaty alliance but to help prevent a major conflict.
“We’re in a Catch-22 situation. If China makes a move on Taiwan militarily, we’ll be affected — and all ASEAN region, but mostly us, Japan and South Korea,” Romualdez told The Associated Press, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the 10-nation regional bloc that includes the Philippines.
The Philippines and ASEAN state members Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam, along with Taiwan, have long been locked in increasingly tense territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea. The U.S. has been regarded as a crucial counterweight to China in the region and has pledged to come to the defense of the Philippines if Filipino forces, ships or aircraft come under attack in the contested waters.
The Philippines used to host two of the largest U.S. Navy and Air Force bases outside the American mainland. The bases were shut down in the early 1990s after the Philippine Senate rejected an extension, but American forces returned for large-scale combat exercises with Filipino troops under a 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement.
In 2014, the allies signed the EDCA, which allows larger numbers of American forces to stay in rotating batches within Philippine military camps, where they can build warehouses, living quarters, joint training facilities and store combat equipment, except nuclear arms. The Philippine Constitution prohibits the permanent basing of foreign troops and their involvement in local combat. | 2023-02-01T06:47:08+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/austin-in-philippines-to-discuss-larger-us-17755724.php |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique surrendered to U.S. federal agents Friday to be extradited to Peru, where he faces charges of accepting millions of dollars in bribes as part of a mammoth corruption scandal in which four of Peru’s ex-presidents have been implicated.
Toledo’s surrender ends a yearslong legal battle against his extradition, which started in 2019 when he was arrested at his home in Menlo Park, California. Federal prosecutors have said Peruvian officials will travel to Northern California to pick up Toledo and fly him back to Peru. It’s not immediately known when that will happen.
Toledo, who was Peru’s president from 2001 to 2006, is accused of taking at least $20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a giant Brazilian construction company that has admitted to U.S. authorities that it bribed officials to win contracts throughout Latin America for decades. He has denied the charges.
He had sought a stay on his extradition, pending a legal challenge to the U.S. State Department’s decision to send him back to Peru, but a court of appeals denied his latest motion this week and a federal judge ordered him to surrender.
After his arrest, Toledo was initially held in solitary confinement at the Santa Rita Jail about 40 miles (60 kilometers) east of San Francisco, but was released in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and his deteriorating mental health. He was held under house arrest after that.
Toledo has been living in California since 2016 when he returned to Stanford University, his alma mater, as a visiting scholar to study education in Latin America. His ties to the San Francisco Bay Area go back to the 1970s when he was an undergraduate student at the University of San Francisco and then a graduate student at Stanford University.
Toledo, 77, is one of four ex-presidents linked to the Odebrecht corruption scandal that has shaken Peru’s politics, with nearly every living former president now on trial or under investigation.
Former President Ollanta Humala is standing trial on charges that he and his wife received over $3 million from Odebrecht for his presidential campaigns in 2006 and 2011. Both have denied any wrongdoing.
Ex-leader Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who left office in 2018, is under house arrest for similar charges.
Former leader Alan García, in office from 2006-2011, fatally shot himself in the head in 2019 as police arrived at his home to arrest him. | 2023-04-22T11:36:34+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/peru-ex-leader-toledo-surrenders-to-be-extradited-from-us/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Three children, three adults, and the female suspect were killed in a shooting at a school in the Nashville neighborhood of Green Hills on Monday morning.
The Nashville Fire Department said the shooting happened at The Covenant School, a private Christian school with an enrollment of about 200 students from preschool to sixth grade. It was initially reported as an “active shooter” incident at 10:13 a.m., Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said.
When police entered the school’s first story, they heard gunshots coming from the second floor, Aaron said. They immediately “went to the gunfire,” he said, where they found a woman armed with two assault rifles and a handgun who was firing.
Three children and three adults were shot and killed, police confirmed in a press conference. The three adult victims were staff members.
The children’s names and ages have not been released, but their families have been informed, Chief John Drake said Monday afternoon.
Nashville police reported that officers shot and killed the suspect. Aaron initially said the shooter appeared to be “in her teens,” but police later confirmed she was a 28-year-old white woman from Nashville.
Drake said police believe she was once a student at the school, but didn’t offer further details.
One police officer sustained a hand injury from broken glass. There were no additional injuries.
Police stopped the shooter by 10:27 a.m., Aaron said.
A reunification area was established at the nearby Woodmont Baptist Church for parents to meet their children who attend The Covenant School, the fire department said. Some students could be seen walking to safety Monday, holding hands as they left their school surrounded by police cars.
The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. The school is located in the affluent Green Hill neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville, situated close to the city’s top universities and home to the famed Bluebird Café – a beloved spot for musicians and songwriters.
The grade school has 33 teachers, the website said. The school’s website features the motto “Shepherding Hearts, Empowering Minds, Celebrating Childhood.”
The killings come as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence, including the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year; a first grader who shot his teacher in Virginia; and a shooting last week in Denver that wounded two administrators.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-03-27T19:07:36+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/multiple-injured-in-active-shooter-incident-in-nashville-shooter-dead/ |
Cold weather likely isn't going to deter people from traveling as airports nationwide are preparing for the influx of passengers set to travel for Christmas.
According to the National Weather Service, more than 50 million people ranging from Washington state to Maryland are under winter weather warnings and advisories thanks to a powerful winter storm that is set to bring various hazards, including bitterly-cold temperatures and snowfall.
But that isn't stopping Americans from traveling for the upcoming holiday season.
Transportation Security Administration officials said they expect travel near pre-pandemic numbers over the next few days.
In a news release Tuesday, officials said they expect their busiest days to be Thursday and Friday.
TSA Administrator David Pekoske said they saw its highest passenger volume during Thanksgiving, which they hadn't seen since 2019, so they expect the trend to repeat itself.
But the upcoming winter storm could put a damper on travel plans, which has put some airlines on alert.
Delta Airlines has issued a travel advisory for airports in the Atlantic, northeast, northwest mountain, and Pacific northwest regions.
United announced on its website that it waives change fees and any difference in fares on qualifying flights departing on or before Dec. 28 at many U.S. airports.
American Airlines also announced they're waiving change fees on qualifying tickets to and from the 29 listed airports in the northeast that could be affected by the winter storm.
Southwest has also issued a travel advisory for airports in the midwest. They announced on its website that those with qualifying tickets traveling Wednesday through Monday could rebook their flights "without paying any additional charge." | 2022-12-21T21:14:39+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/tsa-expecting-travel-over-holidays-to-hit-pre-pandemic-levels |
Woman turns stop at grocery store into $1M lottery check
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (Gray News) - A Florida woman could check a lot more off her grocery list thanks to purchasing a lucky lottery ticket.
According to the Florida Lottery, Karen Dowling, 62, won a $1 million jackpot while playing the 500X THE CASH scratch-off game earlier this month.
Lottery officials said she purchased her ticket from a Publix grocery store on Peachland Boulevard in the Port Charlotte area.
Officials said that Dowling claimed her million-dollar prize at lottery headquarters and chose to receive her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $820,000.
According to the Florida lottery, the $50 scratch-off game features a top prize of $25 million with the overall odds of winning a prize at 1-in-4.5.
The retailer where Dowling purchased her winning ticket will also receive a $2,000 bonus commission, according to officials.
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US generals warn China is aggressively expanding its influence in South America and the Caribbean
By Haley Britzky, CNN
Senior US generals issued stark warnings to lawmakers about what they described as an “aggressive” expansion of Chinese influence in South America and the Caribbean encroaching on American interests in the region.
“The [People’s Republic of China] has the capability and intent to eschew international norms, advance its brand of authoritarianism, and amass power and influence at the expense of these democracies,” Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of US Southern Command, said on Wednesday. “The PRC has expanded its ability to extract resources, establish port, manipulate governments through predatory investment practices, and build potential dual-use space facilities — the most space facilities in any combatant command region.”
Indeed, Richardson and Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command, told the House Armed Services Committee that China’s expansion has included increased work on the Belt and Road Initiative, a massive international infrastructure project that seeks to expand Chinese influence around the world, as well as “economic coercion” in the Bahamas and “investment” on South American projects.
“We’ve got to pay more attention to this region,” Richardson said. “The proximity matters. They are on the 20-yard line of our homeland. We are in a neighborhood, these are our neighbors, and we have got to pay attention to them.”
American officials have voiced similar concerns about Chinese activities in other regions of the world including Africa as Beijing looks to compete with Washington not just militarily but also economically and in terms of soft power.
In the Caribbean, China is “very aggressive” in the Bahamas, VanHerck said, where they have built the largest embassy in the world complete with an ambassador who “uses the information space to undermine us each and every day.”
He added that the US has not had a permanent ambassador to the Bahamas since 2011, and appointing one would “vastly help.”
VanHerck also noted that there is “significant” investment from China in Mexico, and that 80% of Mexico’s telecommunications is provided by Chinese companies.
Richardson added that while the US also has a “lot of investment” in South America, the US does not advertise it enough. And while many of those countries will seek contracts for big projects, she said, they only see “PRC and Chinese bidders,” which makes them feel they’ve “got no choice” but to work with China.
At the same time, however, Richardson said China’s investments do not actually benefit countries in the region and claimed Beijing is “taking advantage” of South American nations by pushing them into a “debt trap associated with the multiple loans” they provide.
“They don’t invest in the country, the extract … they bring their own workers, Chinese laborers, to the country and build these high-rise apartments. So the investing, you don’t see the investment in the country,” she said.
The hearing comes amid heightened tensions between the US and China, following the shootdown of a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina last month, and reports that China is considering assisting Russia in its war against Ukraine.
Chinese officials have denied claims that they are considering providing lethal military aid to Russia, but US officials have maintained that China would face “real costs” if they went forward with the support.
China has also denied that the balloon shot down off the US coast into the Atlantic Ocean was a surveillance balloon. But on Wednesday, VanHerck said the event displayed “one of the ways our competitors target us each and every day.”
“Candidly, the internal discord of this event just showed one of the ways our competitors target us each and every day in the information space,” VanHerck said, “and they’re becoming increasingly adept at driving wedges between the American people.”
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Antoni Ribas, an immuno-oncology pioneer, has joined Vial's Oncology Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Ribas, along with other members of the board, will advise Vial on the launch of their upcoming Oncology CRO.
The Vial CRO's mission is to reimagine clinical trials by delivering faster and higher quality trials through a powerful technology platform and operational excellence. Vial aims to be a true partner to biotech sponsors. To ensure recruitment timelines are met, Vial has built an enrollment playbook that offers a seamless web-based site start-up, a dedicated recruitment team, and EMR filtering capabilities to deliver potential subjects to a centralized pre-screen team. In addition, Vial's experienced CRAs have the power of real-time data using eSource to drive defect-free processes and deliver high-quality data.
"I have devoted my career to the development of innovative Oncology therapies and I joined the Vial CRO advisory board to support the development of clinical trial infrastructure that enables scientists in advancing the field. I look forward to working with fellow Oncology investigators on the Vial SAB board to help Vial implement innovative approaches to Oncology clinical trials." said Dr. Ribas on joining the board.
Antoni Ribas, MD, Ph.D. serves as Professor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), and the Chair of the Melanoma Committee at SWOG. Dr. Ribas is a physician-scientist who conducts laboratory and clinical research in malignant melanoma, focusing on gene-engineered adoptive cell transfer (ACT) therapies, anti-CTLA4 antibodies, anti-PD-1 antibodies, BRAF and MEK inhibitors, and nanoparticle-siRNA. Dr. Ribas started his academic career at the University of Barcelona before pursuing postdoctoral research and fellowships at UCLA.
See the full release here.
About Vial: Vial's mission is to empower scientists to cure all human diseases. Vial has executed that vision by launching a next-generation CRO (with slated launches in Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, Gastroenterology CRO, and a Neurology CRO), a site network (Dermatology Clinical Trials, Ophthalmology Clinical Trials, Gastroenterology Clinical Trials, Women's Health Clinical Trials, Neurology Clinical Trials), and technology platform (VialConnect CTMS) to accelerate research. Vial has 125+ employees and is based in San Francisco, California, and has contributed to 750+ trials from Phase I-Phase IV.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium ion batteries.
The fire, reported shortly after midnight, happened at a shop that was cited last summer for safety violations related to the storage and charging of batteries, officials said. Investigators determined that it was an accident caused by a lithium ion battery, which can overheat while being charged and explode in an intensely hot flare of flame, fire officials said.
A pile of burned bikes, scooters and other debris lay on the sidewalk outside the shop, HQ E-Bike Repair, which was on the ground floor of a six-story building in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood.
So far this year, there have been more than 100 fires and 13 deaths linked to battery explosions in the city, said Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh.
“There was a very large number of both batteries and e-bikes,” Kavanagh said at a morning news conference. “This location is known to the fire department. We have written violations at this location before and we have conducted enforcement at this location before.”
Two men and two women died in Tuesday’s fire. Two other women were hospitalized in critical condition, officials said. A firefighter suffered minor injuries.
Chief Fire Marshal Daniel Flynn said the shop was inspected last August and later cited for safety violations related to battery charging, the number of batteries at the site and the electrical system. The shop was fined $1,600. Authorities recently surveilled the store and found there were many batteries there, but none of them were being charged at the time, he said.
A man who said he was the owner of the bike shop told The Associated Press that he made his usual checks of the store before he left Monday night. He denied that any e-bike batteries were being charged.
“The shop has been there for six years. I check before I leave every night,” said the man, who spoke in Mandarin in a phone interview and only gave his last name, Liu. “I checked last night, turned off the power besides the ones for the monitor and automatic door.”
He added: “I got a call from a neighbor … and told me about the fire. I went to my shop but couldn’t get close when they were working on the fire. I saw a lot of smoke. My shop is gone. I’ve been working for nothing for years.”
Liu said he was at the police station waiting to talk with officers Tuesday morning.
The blaze startled the neighborhood in the middle of the night.
“A friend of mine came in and yelled ’there’s a fire next door,’” neighborhood resident Belal Alayah told WABC-TV. “I step out. I see the flames so hot it’s going through the metal gate. I knew it was the bike store, so I called the fire department. But the fire kept getting bigger and bigger and it took them a while to stop the fire.”
Electric bikes have become popular, non-gasoline-powered ways to make deliveries, commute and zip around a city that has promoted cycling in recent decades. Many run on lithium ion batteries, which have been blamed for numerous fires.
Last month, an e-bike battery caused a blaze at an apartment building in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, killing four people including a 94-year-old woman, officials said. In April in the Queens section, two children were killed in a fire blamed on an e-bike battery. Another Manhattan fire in November that injured more than three dozen people was caused by a malfunctioning e-bike battery, officials said.
Last year in the city, nearly 200 fires and six deaths were tied to such batteries, with an 8-year-old girl and a 5-year-old girl among those who died in blazes linked to scooter batteries. Fire officials have repeatedly issued warnings and safety tips, and the city passed new regulations this year aimed at preventing battery fires.
“So we would like to really emphasize today something that we have been saying over and over … it is also very, very important to get the word out how incredibly dangerous this is,” Kavanagh said. “This exact scenario where there’s an e-bike store on the first floor and residences above and the volume of fire created by these lithium ion batteries is incredibly deadly.”
Lithium ion batteries can catch fire because they contain a flammable electrolyte solution that allows electrical current to flow, experts say. Many fires have been linked to such batteries in laptops, cellphones and other items. | 2023-06-21T13:15:00+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/4-dead-after-fire-in-e-bike-shop-spreads-to-apartments-in-new-york-city/ |
BEIJING, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In his report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "opening up" 29 times. He stresses that China adheres to the right course of economic globalization. It strives to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation; advance bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation; and boost international macroeconomic policy coordination. It is committed to working with other countries to foster an international environment conducive to development and create new drivers for global growth.
Wang Huiyao, the Director of the Center for China and Globalization, said that for those who have lived through the past half century, globalization is the physical reality that keeps changing the people's lifestyle, a momentum for individuals to change the trajectory of their lives.
From his personal experience, he believes that had there not been China's integration of globalization with reform and opening up, he would have missed all the opportunities towards self-realization, and China have also remained in limbo, without achieving all the progress. He says that overseas studies contributed lifelong values both to his global knowledge and career, given him skills and professional knowledge on how to work internationally, while seeking to collaborate with people of diverse cultural backgrounds.
China's integration into the global system has created great benefits. China's opening-up laid the foundation for poverty alleviation. Since 1978, 770 million rural residents living below the poverty line have been lifted out of poverty. The country realized its poverty reduction goal from the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a decade ahead of the schedule. It has become the second largest economy in the world and, over the past decade, contributed over 30 percent of global GDP growth.
Today, globalization faces many challenges. Social inequalities, climate change, the pandemics — all of the intricate problems embedded in the process of globalization have transformed into a mighty force to stand against it. Some have blamed China as the saboteur of international order.
But data shows a different story. China is one of the largest contributors to the UN Peace-keeping mission among P5 countries. Since joining the World Trade Organization, China has significantly relaxed market access and reduced the overall level of import tariffs from 15.3 percent to 7.4 percent, fulfilling the "TWO accession" commitments. China has been active in multilateral institutions like the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The 20th CPC National Congress report has emphasized again and again that China's door will be opened wider and wider, and China will keep on promoting economic globalization. Wang strongly believe that China will continue to open up and to champion globalization.
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — A Pennsylvania school has canceled its 2022 football season due to widespread hazing among its football team.
According to a letter from Middletown Area School District Superintendent Chelton Hunter, the school district recently obtained video from a hazing incident involving students in a heat acclimation room. That video came on the heels of an investigation already underway due to a separate hazing incident.
“Unfortunately, this video demonstrates that this hazing was much more widespread, and involved many more students than we had previously known,” Hunter said in the statement.
The original video from August 11th showed students pinning down two players and poking them in the buttocks with two different objects on school property during a team practice.
The school has shared the video of the additional incident with law enforcement officials and will continue its own investigation as well. The students who have participated in the incident will be disciplined in accordance with the student code of conduct and hazing policy, according to the school district.
Hunter’s statement also explains that any staff member who was found to have ignored the hazing will also face discipline.
“The kind of hazing that occurred in our facilities with this team is reprehensible. It simply cannot and will not be tolerated,” Hunter said. “We know we must work to address the culture of this team, educate our student body about hazing, and put programs in place to help us ensure that this kind of atmosphere is never allowed to exist in our school facilities.”
Middletown Area School District says it will work to find other opportunities this fall for the cheerleading team and marching band, who are both impacted by this season’s cancellation.
“I know this decision will be met with many different opinions and emotions and will impact many students and families,” Hunter said.
In response to the Middletown news, a nearby school has already offered opportunities for the band and cheerleading teams to perform.
Middletown was set to kick off the 2022 football season on the road against Lower Dauphin School District. That team was unable to find an alternate opponent. | 2022-09-21T02:43:13+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/school-district-cancels-football-season-due-to-widespread-hazing/ |
Think back to the opening of the 2021 film version of the musical West Side Story. The very first thing we see is acres of rubble, and a sign: "This property purchased by the New York Housing Authority for slum clearance."
That's an allusion to a real neighborhood that was destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center. In the 1950s, San Juan Hill was mostly a community of Black and Puerto Rican residents. Their story — and even the name of their neighborhood — has been mostly scrubbed from history. Now, a new piece of music being premiered by the New York Philharmonic aims to acknowledge that past.
Long before Lincoln Center existed, San Juan Hill was a nexus for African American and Caribbean culture. It nurtured many jazz greats, who lived and played there — including alto saxophonist Benny Carter, who grew up in the neighborhood, and pianist Herbie Nichols, who was born there to parents from St. Kitts and Trinidad. Duke Ellington and cornet player Rex Stewart even co-wrote a tune named in tribute to this community, where dance halls and jazz clubs thrived.
But in the 1950s, the powerful urban planner Robert Moses led the effort to have San Juan Hill razed, with the intention of establishing a midtown campus for Fordham University and creating Lincoln Center. He displaced more than 7,000 families as well as some 800 businesses. In a 1977 interview with New York's public television station, WNET, Moses defended destroying San Juan Hill.
When the interviewer asked about San Juan Hill, Moses retorted: "Now I ask you, what was that neighborhood? It was a Puerto Rican slum. You remember it?" No, the host admitted.
"Yeah, well, I lived on one of those streets there for a number of years, and I know exactly what it was like," Moses responded. (There is no record of Moses residing in this neighborhood, according to Robert Caro's magisterial biography of Moses, The Power Broker.)
"It was the worst slum in New York," Moses insisted in the television interview. "You want to leave it there? Why? Out of account of neighborhood business? Christ, you never could have been there. That was the worst slum in New York," he bellowed, clapping his hands for emphasis. "And we cleared it out."
Professor Yarimar Bonilla is the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She says Robert Moses intentionally used highly charged language about San Juan Hill.
"Robert Moses in particular," Bonilla says, "He used a lot of kind of medical language talking about the slums as these cancers that had to be eradicated and cleaned up, almost as if it was a disease that could spread."
60 years after Lincoln Center's opening and a $550 million renovation later, the New York Philharmonic's home at Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, is reopening this weekend. Lincoln Center is taking this opportunity to readdress the narrative of its founding.
It invited Etienne Charles — a composer, trumpet player, percussionist and Guggenheim fellow — to think deeply about that complicated past, and create a piece of music that would acknowledge that hidden history. So Etienne Charles created a new work for the Philharmonic and his band, Creole Soul called San Juan Hill: A New York Story.
Charles is originally from Trinidad. He had never heard of San Juan Hill until he moved to New York to study for a master's degree at Juilliard, which is part of the Lincoln Center campus.
Charles eventually realized, however, that the razed neighborhood had significant Caribbean connections — and to jazz. Initially, Charles learned that pianist Herbie Nichols (whose roots were also in Trinidad) was from San Juan Hill. Not long after, the Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander told Charles that composer and pianist Thelonious Monk had also grown up in San Juan Hill.
"Monty Alexander came to my house," Charles recounts, "And we were working on some music for his concert. He started playing Monk's music and he's like, 'You realize Monk's music has a Caribbean bounce, right?' And I said, 'I never thought about it.' He started playing Green Chimneys — 'Boom, boom, boom, boom, ba-doo-boo, boom, boom, boom, boom, ba doo,'" Charles says, enunciating the Monk tune's rhythm. "Monk heard Caribbean music in San Jan Hill all around him."
Charles notes that once Lincoln Center opened in 1962, even its physical campus felt literally exclusive to some. The institution's general shape, he says, is of the letter C, with a large plaza and impressive fountain facing Broadway. "And the C has its back to the neighborhood," he adds — an area that includes the Amsterdam Houses, a public housing project immediately behind Lincoln Center. "You can make huge statements with architecture," the musician observes. "It's body language with bricks."
Charles recalls an interview that he and one of his San Juan Hill collaborators, photographer Hollis King, did for this project. "Hollis asked somebody who still lives in the neighborhood, 'What was your most memorable musical event in the neighborhood?'"
"And he said," Charles continues, "My most memorable musical event was when Tito Puente played.' And then he added, 'But it wasn't in the neighborhood. It was at Lincoln Center.'" Charles pauses to let that exchange sink in. "There's sometimes that moment when somebody tells you what you see."
Charles' meditation on San Juan Hill will be the very first piece of music to be heard in the newly renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. It's also the first time that Lincoln Center has ever commissioned music for the New York Philharmonic. Charles worked with a number of creative multi-discipline collaborators to make San Juan Hill come alive.
Shanta Thake is the chief artistic officer at Lincoln Center. She says commissioning Charles to write such a piece was a crucial moment of reckoning for the institution.
"What an example, what a moment that would be, to open David Geffen Hall with this commission, with this story, and really confront our past head-on as we move into the future," Thake says. "Not kind of blank slate everything, but really make things more complicated for ourselves — and I think in a way actually allow us to make space for what's next."
Thake continues, "I think the cultural sector has even more of a responsibility to hold our histories and not to plaster over them. It matters whose stories we have historically told. It certainly matters that we tell our own story fully, and with all the complexity and the mistakes that we made. That's okay."
In his musical portrait of San Juan Hill, Etienne Charles wanted to move through many dimensions — chronological, stylistic, and demographic, from Gullah Geechee shipyard workers to recently arrived European communities, as well as historical moments and figures in the neighborhood.
"This piece is about showing the magic of the culture that was created when these people came together here," Charles says. "Gullah dance here, paseo rhythm there, Antillean waltz here, Sicilian folk chant there, Irish drunk song there — all of these different pieces together mixed up, the blues from the South. It created a vibe that fed not just American culture, but influenced everything that would happen and come out of New York for the next 50 years."
Charles' piece references lots of music made and heard in the neighborhood — including the Charleston dance. Although it's named after the South Carolina city, it was actually born right in San Juan Hill, thanks to composer and pianist James P. Johnson, who had grown up partly in the neighborhood and later frequently played at one of its clubs.
"Then from the Charleston, we get to the serious part," Charles explains, "Which is urban removal, with the 10 years from 1949 to 1959 when it went from the Housing Act to the groundbreaking of Lincoln Center. And then the last part is a piece called House Rent Party, where was you know, we could all come together."
Tickets for this world premiere are priced as pay-what-you-want, starting at $5 per seat, with some free tickets available the day of the performance — another way of making Lincoln Center a truly welcoming space for all New Yorkers.
San Juan Hill: A New York Story has its world premiere this Saturday.
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ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s decision to resign Thursday, barely 12 hours after his “unity” coalition broke apart dramatically in Parliament, was the latest step in a political limbo that will likely last for months before a new government is solidly in place to lead the European Union’s third-largest economy.
By Thursday afternoon, about the only certainty was Italians are going to the ballot box on Sept. 25, some six months early.
Even before the date was set, Italy’s perennially bickering parties were already off and running, some of them losing longtime stalwarts in their leadership over the decision by three key coalition partners — populist, right-wing and conservative — to desert Draghi. In 17 months at the helm of government, Draghi was viewed as a pillar of stability on a continent wracked by high inflation and fearful of energy shortages as the war in Ukraine drags on.
Rallies, petitions and pleas by citizens, mayors and lobbyists to save his imperiled government ultimately went unheeded. Political partisan priorities triumphed over solidarity in a nation that, like most of Europe, faces an approaching cold winter as it deals with the consequences of its dependency on gas from Russia.
How the failure to heed citizens’ pleas might shape voters’ decisions won’t be known until the votes are counted and parties in backroom talks forge a new government.
IF DRAGHI HAD SO MANY FANS, WHAT WENT WRONG?
Much finger-pointing was aimed at the 5-Star Movement, which became Parliament’s largest political force in the 2018 election. Its leader, Giuseppe Conte, drafted by the 5-Stars to be premier in back-to-back governments, had joined his successor’s “national unity coalition.” But he always seemed to be chafing at losing his post to Draghi, who was tapped by President Sergio Mattarella to guide Italy’s economic revival in the pandemic. Last week, 5-Star senators boycotted a confidence vote on an energy costs relief bill.
But Draghi suffered no shortages of run-ins with other coalition partners. To cite only one: right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini railed against a government decree requiring vaccination against COVID-19, a negative test or recent recovery from infection to access venues including restaurants, gyms and workplaces.
Both Conte and Salvini, known for pro-Russia stances, eventually reluctantly approved Italy’s shipments of arms to Ukraine. Former premier Silvio Berlusconi, whose conservative Forza Italia party also deserted the coalition, lavished attention on Russian leader Vladimir Putin, treating him like a close friend at his Sardinian seaside villa.
A small, centrist party leader, Carlo Calenda tweeted with irony: “It will be a coincidence, but the most serious and pro-Atlantic government of recent history gets sent packing by those who have supported pro-Putin positions.”
WHAT COMES NEXT?
Mattarella, the Italian president, told the nation Thursday evening that while early elections are always a “last choice,” he saw no chance for a fourth government in the five-year term of Parliament. So he signed a decree dissolving Parliament.
The fatal blow for Draghi’s government struck when senators from Conte’s, Salvini’s and Berlusconi’s parties refused to renew their backing for Draghi in a confidence vote the premier sought in a 11th-hour bid to revive his coalition.
Italy’s constitution mandates that elections must be held within 70 days of the decree ending Parliament, whose five-year term would have expired in March 2023.
WHO WINS?
Opinion polls in last months indicated that the far-right Brothers of Italy party, the only sizeable force in Parliament to refuse to join Draghi’s coalition could garner just over 20% if an election. That’s roughly the same percentage the polls give the center-left Democratic Party. But former Premier Enrico Letta, whose Democratic Party gave Draghi its confidence votes, had been banking on an eventual electoral alliance with the 5-Star Movement — a prospect decidedly dicey after the populists deserted Draghi. Giorgia Meloni, the Brothers of Italy leader, has been allied for years with Salvini’s and Berlusconi’s parties, but while her popularity rose, their parties have seen slumping fortunes in local elections. But with Salvini itching for years to become premier, Meloni might face a Salvini-Berlusconi deal to make the League leader the next premier.
WHO LOSES?
The dramatic and rapid unraveling of Draghi’s ‘’unity” coalition is likely to leave its mark on Italy’s political landscape. As former Premier Matteo Renzi, a master of political maneuvering, who helped bring down Conte’s second premiership, put it even before the votes were counted Wednesday night: “Nothing will be the same as political parties go.”
By Thursday evening, two prominent stalwarts n Berlusconi’s Forza Italia who are ministers in Draghi’s Cabinet announced they were leaving the party. They accused the media mogul of betraying the party’s staunch pro-Europe, pro-NATO leanings by siding with Euro-skeptic Salvini and abandoning Draghi. As for the populists, the 5-Star Movement has been bleeding lawmakers for months. The most prominent to defect is Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who recently formed a pro-NATO party.
HOW LONG WILL DRAGHI STAY IN OFFICE
Draghi stays until a new government is formed and sworn in. After the 2018 elections, which saw the 5-Stars confound pundits and opinion polls with a stunningly big win, it took 90 days to get a new government in place, anchored by Conte’s and Salvini’s forces. So conceivably, Draghi in his caretaker role, might occupy the premier’s office through most of this year.
The caretaker designation will make it impossible for the lame-duck government to take on new initiatives. But Draghi, in thanking his Cabinet Thursday evening, made clear he intended to still be useful.
“Italy has everything (needed) to be strong, authoritative, credible,” in the world. Draghi said. He reminded his ministers that the government must still grapple with the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, inflation and energy costs as well as economic reforms.
So for now, “let’s get back to work,” he said. | 2022-07-22T18:30:18+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/explainer-who-gains-or-loses-whats-next-in-italy-crisis/ |
Updated September 13, 2022 at 7:45 PM ET
CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Tuesday at R. Kelly's federal trial in Chicago, sorting through a month of evidence and arguments on charges accusing the singer of producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child porn trial.
Standing at a podium a few feet in front of jurors, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean told jurors in her closing earlier Tuesday that key government witnesses were admitted liars who testified with immunity to ensure they couldn't be charged.
At times sounding indignant and raising her voice, Bonjean likened their testimony and other evidence to a cockroach and the government's case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, "you don't just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup," said told jurors. She said of the prosecution's case: "There are just too many cockroaches."
As Bonjean spoke, Kelly, wearing a gray suit and black mask, looked calm at a nearby defense table. As a prosecutor spoke later and repeatedly looked toward Kelly, he often averted his eyes. Later, when the prosecutor described him abusing minors, he shook his head.
Jurors withdrew to start deliberating early Tuesday afternoon, heading home without reaching a verdict several hours later. They were set to pick up where they left off Wednesday morning.
Kelly, 55, was sentenced in June to 30 years in prison during a separate federal trial in New York where he was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. Convictions on just a few of the 13 counts Kelly faces at his current trial could add years to his imprisonment.
Delivering the government's rebuttal after Bonjean's closing, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng told jurors to remember the girls and women Kelly allegedly abused.
"When you are in the quiet of the jury room, consider the evidence in light of who is at the center of this case. Kelly's victims: Jane, Nia, Pauline, Tracy and Brittany," Appenteng said, referring to five Kelly accusers named in charging documents by their pseudonyms or first names.
Four of them testified. Brittany did not.
The prosecutor also pointed to testimony that as Kelly's fame boomed in the mid-1990s, his staff and associates increasingly geared everything they did to what Kelly wanted.
"And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls," she said.
Earlier, Bonjean implored jurors not to withdraw to the jury room with an impression of Kelly informed by media coverage of him in recent years or by prosecutors at the trial.
"They throw around labels like sex predator," she said about prosecutors. "Labels and sweeping generalizations are distractions meant for you to lose your humanity for this man."
She described Kelly as a flawed genius who has had only "functional illiteracy" since childhood and was ill-equipped to navigate his celebrity and fortune. She said having been abused as a child also deeply affected him.
Bonjean said some witnesses who testified with immunity hadn't come to the courthouse in Chicago, Kelly's hometown, to tell the unvarnished truth.
"They came in here to tell the government's version of the truth," she said.
Among others, Bonjean cited Kelly ex-girlfriend Lisa Van Allen, who testified about how she stole a sex tape from a Kelly gym bag in the early 2000s. She also pointed to former Kelly merchandizing agent Charles Freeman, who testified that he asked Kelly for $1 million in exchange for returning another, potentially incriminating, video. Both testified with immunity.
During her closing Monday, prosecutor Elizabeth Pozolo told jurors that weeks of evidence proved the singer parlayed his fame to sexually abuse minors and record the abuse on video. She described Kelly as a secret sexual predator.
"Robert Kelly abused many girls over many years," Pozolo said, referring to Kelly's full name. "He committed horrible crimes against children. ... All these years later, the hidden side of Robert Kelly has come out."
Bonjean twice called for a mistrial Monday, complaining that closing arguments by attorneys for Kelly co-defendants Derrell McDavid and Milton Brown were grounded in the presumption that "the world now knows Mr. Kelly is a sex predator."
"The presumption of innocence has been abolished for him," she said. Judge Harry Leinenweber denied the requests.
Known for his smash hit "I Believe I Can Fly" and for sex-infused songs such as "Bump n' Grind," Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct began circulating in the 1990s. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 Lifetime docuseries "Surviving R. Kelly."
Kelly and McDavid, the singer's former business manager, are accused of fixing Kelly's 2008 trial on state child porn charges by intimidating and paying off witnesses.
Kelly faces 13 counts, including four counts of producing child porn, one count of conspiring to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, one count of conspiring to receive child porn, two counts of actually receiving it and five counts of enticing minors for sex.
McDavid is charged with four counts, including two counts of receiving child porn, one of conspiring to do so and one count of conspiring to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial.
Brown faces a single count of conspiring to receive child porn.
Pozolo focused much of her closing argument on the government's star witness, an accuser who went by "Jane" and who said Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times starting when she was 14.
"He performed degrading acts upon her for his own sick pleasure," Pozolo said.
She reminded jurors of graphic video footage they had watched, which Jane testified depicted Kelly, at around age 30, abusing her when she was 14. The videos shown included one at the heart Kelly's 2008 trial. Jurors said later they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because Jane didn't testify.
"Who uses a 14-year-old child to film a video like this?" she said. "This man. Robert Kelly."
Before the 2008 trial, Pozolo said, Kelly and his associates scrambled to recover multiple sex videos that had gone missing from a collection he often carried around in a large gym bag.
By doing so, she said, Kelly associates sought "to cover up the fact that ... R. Kelly, the R&B superstar, is actually a sexual predator."
In his closing, an attorney for McDavid said prosecutors had to show that his client actually knew about any abuse of Jane by Kelly in the 2000s — not just that it was likely he knew.
"Did they prove he knew ... behind a reasonable doubt?" Beau Brindley asked. "They did not."
Pozolo balked at the idea that McDavid had no inkling in the 2000s that the abuse allegations might be credible after helping to recover missing recordings and handing bags of cash to people who returned videos McDavid knew could destroy Kelly.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Beatriz weakened to a tropical storm as it began to move away from Mexico’s central Pacific coast Saturday, dumping heavy rain across coastal areas.
The storm was centered about 15 miles (20 kilometers) west of Cabo Corrientes and had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kmh), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Beatriz was moving northwest at 13 mph (20 kmh) and forecast to generally keep to that course and slow down through Sunday morning.
Beatriz’s center was expected to pass just to the southwest of the Islas Marias overnight and begin to weaken while heading back over open waters Sunday and Monday.
The storm could dump 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) to 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) of rain, with up to eight inches in some locations, from Guerrero state north to Sinaloa state, forecasters said.
Meanwhile, Adrian weakened to a tropical storm as it moved deeper into the Pacific. The storm’s maximum sustained winds had weakened to 65 mph (100 kph) Saturday and its center was about 430 miles (690 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. It was moving west-northwest at 7 mph (11 kph) and did not pose a threat to land. | 2023-07-01T20:25:33+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/ap-beatriz-and-adrian-weaken-to-tropical-storms-in-pacific-after-brush-with-mexico/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte's new Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) takes effect Thursday, June 1. The UDO, which was approved by Charlotte City Council last summer, impacts just about everything from building heights to the tree canopy, but the section that has everyone talking has to do with zoning laws and how it will affect neighborhoods in the Queen City.
The UDO will lift certain restrictions on single-family home zoning laws, meaning developers could buy up homes and build multi-use duplexes, triplexes or quadruplexes. Some residents spoke out against the UDO, saying they're worried about gentrification, as well as higher housing costs and increased property taxes.
Some leaders argued that adding multi-unit buildings doesn't necessarily mean more affordable housing, while others in favor of the UDO said they believe it could help curb Charlotte's housing shortage and lower housing costs by meeting the increased demand. Those opposed to the UDO also fear it could displace at-risk families as developers flip houses into modern duplexes to make more money.
Charlotte city planner Alyson Craig said developers will see changes in infrastructure requirements for traffic and stormwater, as well as structure height and the width of driveways.
"We just want to make sure that we're saving room for trees, wanting to have tree-lined sidewalks and tree-lined streets," she said. "I think that helps to ensure compatibility with the existing neighborhoods."
The UDO was developed in line with Charlotte's 2040 plan, which was passed by the council in 2021. The plan makes note of the exponential growth the city is set to see over the next two decades.
Craig said, "While the Charlotte 2040 comprehensive plan is our vision for what we want our city to be in the future, it's guiding and visionary, the UDO is a regulatory document that puts those requirements in place."
It's important to remember the UDO is a living document that can be changed by city council. In fact, a committee is expected to discuss potential changes about where duplexes and triplexes should be allowed to go in June.
Here are some frequently asked questions about the UDO
What is the Alignment Rezoning project?
The Alignment Rezoning project, or ARZ, establishes new zoning districts based on the place types in the Charlotte 2040 plan. Additional zoning changes may be recommended where the translated zoning districts do not currently align with and meet the 2040 policy map. The ultimate goal of this project is to put development standards in place to achieve the vision of the 2040 plan.
Will my zoning change?
Probably. Most zoning districts will change on June 1, according to the city of Charlotte. There are three changes that will happen once the UDO takes effect.
The names of zoning districts will change: If you know your zoning name now, it will change. The new names are entirely different from the old ordinance. Click here to view the city's UDO zoning map to see if a new zoning district applies to your address.
Some districts will have more changes than others: Depending on your current zoning rules, the new ordinance may make more changes than other districts. Click here to read more about the UDO's new zoning districts.
Neighborhood 1 zoning allows duplexes and triplexes: This change allows more types of housing but new duplexes and triplexes in existing neighborhoods must respect neighboring houses. The new rules limit duplex and triplex sidewalls to 20 feet or the average sidewall height of their neighbors' sidewalls if they're more than 20 feet.
Neighborhood 1 zoning districts include: N1-A, N1-B, N1-C, N1-D, N1-E and N1-F.
What kind of zoning districts are in the UDO?
Neighborhood 1, Neighborhood 2, General Commercial, Institutional Campus, Manufacturing & Logistics, Innovation Mixed Use, Neighborhood Center, Community Activity Center, Regional Activity Center, and Transit Oriented Development.
What do those zoning districts mean?
Neighborhood 1: These districts respect the character and development patterns of Charlotte's established residential neighborhoods and promote new residential development. Duplexes and triplexes may be built on N1 lots, provided they meet all of the development standards and rules.
Neighborhood 2: These districts are intended to accommodate a mixture of moderate to high-intensity residential development types. Neighborhood 2 districts may have single-family, duplex, triplex, and quadruplex housing. They can also include apartments that are considered affordable housing.
General Commercial: Commercial districts allow office, retail, restaurant, and vehicle-related uses. Think of gas stations, fast food restaurants, strip malls, and retailers like Target and Walmart. These districts require a minimum number of parking spaces but also have a maximum number of spaces for new development. Commercial zoning districts are among the few that allow drive-thrus and gas stations but only with prescribed conditions.
Campus: These districts are intended for large-scale schools, offices, government use, medical, social services, religious and research campuses. Depending on the type of building, supportive uses including dorms, hotels, and restaurants may be allowed.
Innovation Mixed Use: These districts are meant for a mix of light industrial, commercial, and moderate-to-high-density residential uses with a more walkable environment. All sites must have 10% set aside for open space.
Neighborhood Center: This zoning is meant to support pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use neighborhood environments. They'll allow access to daily shopping and services within walking distance of residential neighborhoods.
Regional Activity Center: These districts will have attractions like Bank of America Stadium, Spectrum Center, and city parks. They also have multi-family housing, commercial, retail, restaurants, schools, and churches. None of the districts under the RAC umbrella have minimum parking requirements but they all have marking maximums for new developments.
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Which green flannel is best?
With a vintage-inspired look and a festive color, green flannels have quickly become a staple wardrobe item. Whether you are looking for a thick flannel jacket for outdoor wear or a more lightweight shirt for casual wear, there is a green flannel that fits your needs. If you are looking for a classic green flannel shirt, our top choice is the Goodthreads Standard-Fit Long-Sleeve Shirt.
What to know before you buy a green flannel
Green flannel materials
Most green flannel shirts are constructed using either cotton, wool or a cotton-wool blend. While all these materials are great for outdoor wear, one may be better suited than the other depending on your lifestyle and intended wear.
- Cotton: A natural fabric, cotton is lightweight, breathable and soft. Cotton is a great option for staying warm during cool autumn days. Cotton is the ideal material for people with sensitive skin. However, cotton is not as durable as some other materials and tends to break down over time.
- Wool: A more heavyweight option, wool will keep you warm on even the coldest night. With a more rugged look and significantly more durable makeup, wool is a great option for outdoor wear. Due to its fibrous makeup, some people may find wool to be irritating or uncomfortable on their skin.
- Cotton-wool blend: If you want a flannel that is both durable and comfortable, a cotton-wool blend may be the best option. With the softness of cotton and durability of wool, a cotton-wool blend is sure to last a while and keep you comfortable.
Styling
- Professional: If you are planning on wearing a green flannel shirt in a professional setting, it is important you choose an option that fits your body type and has a lightweight construction. A cotton, patterned flannel that buttons up is a great option for more professional styling.
- Casual: Some typical casual-wear options for green flannel shirts are open-style layering or as a stand-alone button-up. If you plan on mainly wearing your flannel in a layering style, then opt for a slightly oversized flannel. If you would prefer to wear your flannel as a stand-alone button-up, choose one that is appropriately sized.
- Outdoors: If you plan on wearing your flannel outdoors, consider the climate where you live. If you live in an area with a cooler climate, invest in a heavyweight or lined green flannel. If you live in an environment that doesn’t get too cold, a lightweight flannel may be a good investment for you.
Another great option for outdoor wear are flannel jackets, these jackets have a more durable construction and extra insulation, making them great for any kind of outdoor wear.
What to look for in a quality green flannel
Pockets
Most green flannels come with at least one chest pocket. However, some options may come with added side pockets or pockets along the inside.
Color
From sage green to dark green, any wardrobe can benefit from the addition of a green flannel. Consider which shade of green is going to be the most versatile and flattering with your wardrobe.
If you mainly wear dark-blue or black pants, an army-green flannel would look nice. If you mainly wear light-blue or khaki pants, pair them with a dark-green flannel.
Patterns
The traditional square flannel pattern continues to be incredibly popular. If you would prefer a green flannel that is a little more unique, choose a crosshatch or faded pattern.
How much you can expect to spend on a green flannel
Expect to spend $25-$60 dollars on a green flannel shirt. More lightweight, cotton green flannel shirts tend to be cheaper, while heavyweight wool or lined options tend to be more on the expensive side. Green flannel jackets tend to fall in a higher price bracket than shirts.
Green flannel FAQ
What color pants can you wear with a dark-green flannel?
A. For a classic look, pair dark-green flannel with light-wash denim or khaki pants.
Are wool green flannel shirts machines washable?
A. Yes, wool green flannel shirts are machine washable. It is recommended they be washed on a delicate cycle and air-dried.
What’s the best green flannel to buy?
Top green flannel
Goodthreads Standard-Fit Long-Sleeve Shirt
What you need to know: This dark-green flannel shirt is a fan favorite and is perfect for any winter wardrobe.
What you’ll love: This green flannel is 100% cotton, making it great for comfortable wear on cool days. It is a dark-green color and has a unique herringbone pattern.
What you should consider: Some consumers noted issues with sizing in the arms, so it is recommended that people with broad shoulders size up when purchasing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top green flannel for the money
Wrangler Authentics Men’s Long-Sleeve Flannel Shirt
What you need to know: This affordable green flannel has a lightweight construction, making it ideal for casual winter wear.
What you’ll love: Made with 100% cotton, this flannel is breathable and soft. It has a relaxed fit and unique crosshatch pattern.
What you should consider: This flannel is lightweight, so it does not offer a ton of warmth.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Legendary Whitetails Men’s Heavyweight Jacket
What you need to know: This heavyweight flannel has an insulated lining.
What you’ll love: The insulated lining of this jacket provides incredible warmth, while the heavyweight flannel is sure to withstand any type of outdoor environment. The two chest pockets and added side pockets are great for on-the-go storage.
What you should consider: Some consumers noted issues with sizing in the shoulders. It is recommended that people who would prefer a little extra room in the shoulders size up when purchasing this jacket.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — This is Katherine Conway-Turner‘s last year as President of SUNY Buffalo State.
The school announced Thursday morning that Conway-Turner, the school’s ninth president, will be retiring at the end of the 2022-23 school year. This comes after eight years as president of Buff State and a total of 43 years in higher education leadership, the school said.
Conway-Turner says she did not make the decision to retire “quickly or lightly.”
“After careful consideration, I have decided that it’s time for me to concentrate on my next chapter and to commit more time and energy to my family, traveling, and writing the memoir I have mentioned from time to time,” she said.
Conway-Turner’s career has taken her everywhere from Delaware to California, both in teaching roles and administrative leadership. She earned her Ph.D and master of arts in social psychology, as well as a bachelor’s degree in microbiology, from the University of Kansas.
“As a girl who was born in a tiny town in the Midwest and raised in a family that struggled to put food on the table, I could not have imagined how education would transform my life and the lives of my family,” she said. “In just one generation, our family moved from one in which no one had earned a high school diploma to one that could claim college-educated family members. I have always felt a kinship to our first-generation students and those who have personally faced discrimination because of race, gender, or economic status.”
Buff State expects to name its next president by next summer.
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White House defends its delayed, limited document disclosure
Video above: President Biden's remarks on classified documents
The White House brushed aside criticism Tuesday of its fragmented disclosures about the discovery of classified documents and official records at President Joe Biden's home and former office, saying it may withhold information to protect the Justice Department's investigation.
Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel's office, told reporters that the White House was releasing information as it deemed it "appropriate." Responding to criticism of the piecemeal disclosures, Sams said the White House was trying to be mindful of the "risk" in sharing information "that's not complete."
"We're endeavoring to be as transparent and informative to you all in the media, to the public as we can consistent with respecting the integrity of an ongoing Justice Department investigation," he said.
Video below: On The Record: Political roundtable on Biden, classified documents discovered
The discovery of the documents in Biden's possession complicates a federal probe into former President Donald Trump, who the Justice Department says took hundreds of records marked classified with him upon leaving the White House in early 2021 and resisted months of requests to return them to the government.
While the two cases are different — Biden for example, willingly turned over the documents once found — it still has become a political headache for a president who promised a clean break from the operations of the Trump administration.
On Saturday, the White House disclosed that Biden attorneys found classified documents and official records on four separate occasions — on Nov. 2 at the offices of the Penn Biden Center in Washington, on Dec. 20 in the garage of the president's Wilmington, Delaware home, and on Nov. 11 and 12 in the president's home library.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had said before the additional discovery that Americans could assume the investigation had completed. On Tuesday, she referred questions to the Justice Department or White House counsel's office on whether more documents existed and whether they would be disclosed if discovered.
"The president and his team rightfully took action," she said of the turning over the documents after they were discovered.
After the initial disclosure, the president said he was "briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office."
He said that he takes the handling of classified documents very seriously. Biden has not commented publicly on the further existence of documents. Jean-Pierre said that president was focused on his job.
"He wants to make sure that he's continuing to deliver for the American people," she said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland last week appointed Robert Hur, a former Maryland U.S. attorney, to serve as special counsel to oversee the Justice Department's inquiry into the documents.
Separately, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was managing director of the Penn Biden Center for two years, echoed Biden by saying he was surprised government records were located at the institute's office.
Video below: Biden addresses government records found in former office
"I had no knowledge of it at the time," he told reporters on Tuesday. "The White House, of course, has indicated that the administration is cooperating fully with the review that the Justice Department has undertaken, and I, of course, would cooperate fully with that review myself."
Among the questions still unanswered by the White House or Biden's private attorneys: Exactly how many documents were found; whether there may be other documents out there, what was contained in them and why the public wasn't notified until months after they were discovered.
Sams referred those questions to the Justice Department, insisting that neither the White House nor Biden's personal attorneys are aware of the contents.
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AP writer Matthew Lee contributed. | 2023-01-18T00:01:25+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/white-house-defends-delayed-limited-document-disclosure/42543233 |
YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy put in place in the contentious weeks following the 2020 vote.
The Google-owned video platform said in a blog post that it has taken down "tens of thousands" of videos questioning the integrity of past U.S. presidential elections since it created the policy in December 2020.
But two and a half years later, the company said it "will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past U.S. Presidential elections" because things have changed. It said the decision was "carefully deliberated."
"In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm," YouTube said.
The platform will continue to ban videos misleading voters about when, where, and how to vote, claims that discourage voting, and "content that encourages others to interfere with democratic processes."
It also prohibits some false claims about election fraud or errors in other countries, including the 2021 German federal election and the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Brazilian presidential elections.
YouTube's reversal of its prohibition on false claims about U.S. elections comes as the 2024 campaign is already underway, and former president and current Republican candidate Donald Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 because of widespread fraud.
"YouTube was one of the last major social media platforms to keep in place a policy attempting to curb 2020 election misinformation. Now, it's decided to take the easy way out by giving people like Donald Trump and his enablers free rein to continue to lie without consequence about the 2020 elections," said Julie Millican, vice president of liberal watchdog Media Matters for America. "YouTube and the other platforms that preceded it in weakening their election misinformation policies, like Facebook, have made it clear that one attempted insurrection wasn't enough. They're setting the stage for an encore."
YouTube's policy went further than Facebook and Twitter, which said they would label but not take down false election claims.
Twitter stopped labeling false claims about the 2020 election early last year, saying it had been more than a year since the election was certified and Biden took office.
Facebook has pulled back on its use of labeling, according to a 2022 Washington Post analysis of unfounded election fraud claims on the platform.
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Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Ons Jabeur: Live Stream, TV Channel, How to Watch | French Open
Published: Jun. 6, 2023 at 10:26 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Beatriz Haddad Maia and Ons Jabeur are two rounds away from the championship match as they match up in the quarterfinals of the French Open at Stade Roland Garros on June 7.
You can see Haddad Maia look to knock out Jabeur on Tennis Channel.
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Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Ons Jabeur Date and TV Info
- Round: Quarterfinal
- Date: Wednesday, June 7
- TV Channel: Tennis Channel (Watch on Fubo)
- Court Surface: Clay
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Haddad Maia vs. Jabeur Matchup Info
- By taking down No. 132-ranked Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-7, 6-3, 7-5 on Monday, Haddad Maia advanced to the quarterfinals.
- Haddad Maia was eliminated by Anhelina Kalinina short of the final (7-6, 6-7, 3-6) on May 16 in the quarterfinals of her most recent tournament, the Internazionali BNL d'Italia.
- In the Round of 16 on Monday, Jabeur took down No. 36-ranked Bernarda Pera, winning 6-3, 6-1.
- Jabeur was eliminated in the round of 64 of her last tournament (the Internazionali BNL d'Italia) on May 12, when she went down 1-6, 4-6 to Paula Badosa.
- In the one matchup between Haddad Maia and Jabeur in the last five years, which took place in the quarterfinals at Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Jabeur came out on top, securing the 6-3, 6-0 win.
- In two total sets, Jabeur has the upper hand, taking the win in two of them, while Haddad Maia has won zero.
- Jabeur and Haddad Maia have matched up for 15 games, and it's been Jabeur who has emerged with the upper hand, claiming 12 of them. Haddad Maia has won three games.
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A team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will arrive in Missouri early Tuesday to learn more about the derailment of an Amtrak train that left at least three people dead, according to the agency's chair.
Speed data on the route, data recorder information and camera footage from Amtrak will be requested by a "Go Team" of 16 investigators, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Monday.
The derailment occurred as the train, traveling eastbound to Chicago, collided with a dump truck at a crossing near the town of Mendon in north-central Missouri at about 12:42 p.m. Monday, according to Amtrak. Eight of the train's cars and two locomotives left the track, the company said.
Preliminary reports indicate the crossing was "uncontrolled," meaning there were no lights or mechanized arms.
Two of the people who were killed were aboard the train while the third was in a dump truck that the train struck, said Cpl. Justin Dunn, a spokesperson for Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop B.
At least 50 people were injured in the derailment, Chariton County Ambulance Service Director Eric McKenzie told CNN. Approximately 275 passengers and 12 crew members were on board, Amtrak said in its statement.
The NTSB team will include "specialists from mechanical, from signal systems, from operations and survival factors. We'll have a highway person, a drone operator, and some team members from NTSB's Office of Transportation Disaster Assistance to work with survivors and families of those who were involved in the derailment," Homendy said.
Amtrak officials said in a statement Monday night they were "deeply saddened" over the loss of life and injures.
"Amtrak is working with local authorities to make sure those who are injured get medical care and everyone else receives services and transportation. We are grateful for the support from the local authorities who provided assistance and resources for our customers and employees," the statement said.
The collision was the second in two days involving an Amtrak train. On Sunday, 85 passengers were on board a train in rural California that hit a vehicle. Three people were killed and two people suffered major injuries, all of whom were in the vehicle, according to officials.
Passengers describe escaping from overturned train cars
Jason Drinkard, a high school teacher on board and traveling with students en route to a conference in Chicago, told CNN affiliate KMBC passengers began fleeing as soon as the train skidded to a halt. Their car was one of many that tipped over on its side, he said.
"People were already out of the train, popping the windows off," said Drinkard, who was uninjured. He, his wife and others "started evacuating people out of the cars as quick as possible."
His students were shaken up but largely okay, he told KMBC, yet he found passengers in another car were slow to exit and required further first aid.
"I looked at my wife and I said, 'There is no way we got out of this without God,'" he said. "I'm very thankful that everyone in my group, they're going home tonight."
Robert Nightingale, a passenger with a sleeper car, told CNN he was taking a nap when he heard something.
"It all happened like slow motion. It started to rock and, and rock, and then flicker, and then it just all of a sudden -- all this dust was through my window," Nightingale said.
He said the train fell over on the side that his compartment was on.
Nightingale, who was not injured, said he couldn't get through the window, which was blocked by dirt, so he grabbed his backpack and climbed into the hallway. Then he moved into a neighboring room where he found a way to climb out and onto the side of the train.
He said some people helped others reach the ground where he and others walked to the front of the train. He said the truck looked like it had big boulders in it.
"It hit something major to cause ... every car to go off," he said.
Scouts on board helped those in need
Two Boy Scout troops from Appleton, Wisconsin, were on the Amtrak train and assisted people who were hurt, Scott Armstrong, director of national media for Boy Scouts of America, told CNN Monday.
The Scouts on the train are believed to be between 14 and 17 years old, Armstrong said, adding none of them were hurt. Eight adults were with the troops.
Passenger Larry Brown told CNN affiliate KCTV that the Scouts and their adults "were really the first responders" in the initial moments after the crash.
"When I opened up one of the windows to open up the roof area, they were already up there trying to help people come out," he told KCTV.
"They did a real good job. Very mature for their age. Whatever they're teaching them in the Scouts, it paid off today."
The two troops were on their way back from a stay at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Armstrong said, and the organization is working with them on completing their trip home to Wisconsin.
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Something clicked for Marlena Bhame when she first stepped into Liquid Church about four years ago. She'd been searching for something more spiritually dynamic and meaningful than the faith tradition she'd grown up in, or the various others she had tried out over the years.
When Bhame, who was raised in the evangelical Christian and Missionary Alliance tradition, arrived at the church in Parsippany, N.J., she was immediately struck by a feeling of belonging. The congregation mostly looked like her — a lot of millennials and Gen Z — and everyone seemed enthusiastic about being there.
"I was blown away by the amount of young people," she says.
Liquid Church has helped Bhame, 28, and others like her find meaning even as many in her generation have turned away from organized religion. It is one of about 1,800 "megachurches" in the United States — defined as having 2,000 or more members. At a time when empty pews are forcing churches across the country to shutter, these mostly nondenominational houses of worship are largely bucking that trend — attracting younger, more vibrant and more diverse congregations.
The average Christian congregation in the U.S. is in precipitous decline, with just 65 members, about a third of whom are age 65 or older, according to a 2020 pre-pandemic survey. By contrast, a separate 2020 study found that three-quarters of megachurches were growing, many at a rapid clip.
Experts say these trends have continued since the start of the pandemic. Liquid Church claims 6,000 members, 84% of whom are under the age of 55, with most younger than 35. About a quarter of members are Hispanic/Latino, 13% Asian and 8% Black.
Like Bhame, David and Katherine Ramirez bounced around different churches before landing at Liquid. The couple both grew up in the Pentecostal tradition, but when they decided to marry, they went looking for a new church.
"I can say that for me, the deciding factor was just the fact that there were people in my age group," David says.
The Liquid Church's core beliefs, "Grace wins" and "Truth is relevant," are capped by a less theological component: "Church is fun."
"It's one of the pillars," says Katherine. "That's just the culture in the church. So everyone's kind of onboard with that."
Church barbecues, pizza and movie nights are all part of the mix. On Sundays, "it's loud. ... it's casual. People can wear flip-flops and drink coffee," says Pastor Tim Lucas, who founded Liquid Church in 2007.
"We're at the gates of Manhattan," he says. "People can go in and see Hamilton or Billy Joel at [Madison Square] Garden. We're not competing with the world. What we are trying to do is ... put the timeless message of Jesus into new wineskins."
Liquid Church also steers clear of politics, he says. That's common in most megachurches because they are more diverse, according to Scott Thumma, a professor of sociology of religion at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research. "The vast majority of them have nothing to do with politics," he says.
"You need a building, we need a pastor"
For the last several years, Liquid Church has been one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation, and a big part of its success has come through assimilating smaller, more traditional congregations. Four of its seven campuses — all in New Jersey — have come through these mergers.
This "multisite" model has been adopted by about 70% of megachurches across the country, according to Lifeway Research, a church consultancy. In it, the main church beams its Sunday sermon to branch campuses, where it is projected onto huge LED screens. Each of the satellite churches has its own pastor, live music and worship services.
"It's like a marriage," explains Lucas. "An older congregation with a rich history but a declining population joins forces with a younger church like Liquid, with fresh energy and vision and volunteers. You basically bring them together and rebirth the church."
Typically, the mergers are between a church in decline or a pastor ready to retire, according to Jim Tomberlin, a member of The Unstuck Group, a consulting organization that offers a service to support church mergers. It's a case of "you need a building, we need a pastor," he says.
Tomberlin sees it as a win-win. The larger church grows its membership. The smaller congregation gets "a great communicator," in the form of a dynamic pastor, but also a local pastor "who's not consumed or distracted by preparing sermons 10 or 20 hours a week, every week," he says. "That gives them time to serve that congregation."
While megachurches currently represent only a tiny portion of all U.S. churches, the size of their congregations puts them in an "elite class," Thumma says.
He compares megachurches to more traditional churches in the same way that Walmart posed a challenge to mom and pop shops.
"Many small churches either have disappeared around the megachurch ... or they've created their own mission ... and have figured out a way to offer alternatives to what the megachurch offers. [They've] made sort of their peace with the big kid on the block," says Thumma.
At the same time, megachurches that have adopted the multisite model "are essentially diversifying, fracturing into smaller pieces so that they can cover a whole city rather than make all of the people drive to one location," he says.
Thumma isn't the only one to use a corporate metaphor. "The kind of person that starts a church that ends up being a megachurch is probably ... more of an entrepreneur," says Dave Ferguson, lead pastor at Community Christian, a multisite megachurch based in Chicago. "They probably look around the landscape of what's happening in a lot of denominational churches [and] are like, 'You know, I love these people. I love what they're doing. But you know what? I think I got a better idea.'"
For Bhame, who started out attending in Parsippany but switched to a new campus in Princeton when it opened about 18 months ago, the biggest adjustment was seeing Lucas, or Pastor Tim as he's known, on a big screen instead of live onstage. But it didn't take long.
"Our Sunday services open up just like any other church," she says. "We have a meet and greet section. We have our live band ... and then we have a campus pastor assigned to the Princeton location and she opens up and welcomes the service."
Megachurches face negative stereotypes
To be sure, megachurches aren't for everyone, Lucas acknowledges. He points to a recent merger with a church in Preakness, N.J. It was down to fewer than 70 members and only managed around 35 on most Sundays. "Almost 100% were over the age of 65," he says. The congregation understood that rebirthing the church wasn't for them, but it was really for their children and grandchildren, he says.
But oftentimes such a merger involves a church affiliated with a particular denomination being absorbed by a megachurch that is less rigid about its theology, says Thumma. For many, that can prove a bridge too far. "They're so wedded to their old expression of a church in this building that they just can't stomach any change," he says.
Some make the transition pretty easily, he says, but in other cases, the megachurches "chase away all of the old people and kind of refresh with a whole new group of folks."
Often, too, megachurches are forced to battle a negative stereotype among a slice of the public that views them as giant moneymaking operations tainted by scandals, such as the one at Hillsong Church, where pastor Carl Lentz admitted to marital infidelity and was fired in 2020 for "moral failures."
Because the churches are outsized, their scandals "are broadcast on a larger stage," Thumma says.
"People tend to think of the Joel Osteens," he says, referring to the controversial televangelist who founded Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, one of the largest congregations in the country, claiming some 45,000 members. "But really, that's a very small fraction of the number of 1,800 congregations" classified as megachurches, he says. "The average size is 3,500."
"Digital discipleship" is key
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Liquid, like many other churches, took a hit on attendance. But it was already better prepared than many to continue serving its congregation, having long crafted a digital presence designed to reach its members wherever they are. "A big piece of our strategy is really digital discipleship, realizing people watch, listen at home, in the car, on the Peloton," Lucas says.
Smartphones, too, are "absolutely vital," he says. There's an app that allows congregants to watch services online or just keep up with church happenings. "Everything we do is optimized for mobile. It's the new front door of the church," Lucas says.
David Ramirez says one of the things that attracted him to Liquid Church was that it is nondenominational. "Anybody can show up. Anybody's welcome. And, you know, it's a journey. We're going to figure this out together. We're going to walk through this together," he says.
But that ease of entry means megachurches such as Liquid are typically in a constant state of flux, Thumma says.
"You can just sort of wander in and be anonymous and worship there and be a spectator for as long as you want," he says. "But there's an almost equal number of people who are going out the back door because they didn't find their place."
Despite that flux, however, many have found reasons to stay. Among other things, Bhame is in demand for her skills as a singer. David is active in the worship and social media teams, while Katherine Ramirez has helped organize a women's conference and helps with Liquid Family, the church's equivalent of Sunday school.
"These churches became large for a reason," observes Ferguson. "The reason in many cases is because they've helped people find a connection with one another."
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HIDALGO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Over $900,000 in suspected methamphetamine disguised as Mexican candy and hominy was seized at the Hidalgo International Bridge.
On Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say they stopped a white Mercedes van that was arriving from Mexico.
The van was sent for a secondary inspection where officers say they discovered 110 packages of Mexican candy that were filling with crystal meth instead of sugary treats. The candy weighed 13 pounds.
Officers also found 12 large cans of hominy, which is used to make menudo and pozole, filled instead with liquid meth inside. The cans weighed 89 pounds, according to the release.
The drugs had a total street value of $919,000. The narcotics and van were seized at the scene. CBP gave no details about the driver. | 2023-04-21T19:49:56+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/cbp-900k-of-meth-hidden-in-cans-of-hominy-and-mexican-candy/ |
Man convicted in death of Texas agency’s 1st Sikh deputy
HOUSTON (AP) - A man has been convicted of capital murder in the 2019 shooting death of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his Texas agency.
A jury took less than 30 minutes on Monday before finding Robert Solis, 50, guilty in the killing of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal during a September 2019 traffic stop northwest of Houston.
Authorities say the 42-year-old Dhaliwal was shot multiple times from behind after he had stopped Solis in a residential neighborhood and was walking back to his patrol car.
The same jury in Houston that convicted Solis had begun hearing evidence Monday in the trial’s punishment phase.
Prosecutors are seeking a death sentence.
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SAN ANTONIO – A man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the shooting death of his common-law wife during a police standoff.
Angel Sanchez, 30, pleaded guilty to charges of felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated assault of a public servant following the police standoff in July 2021. He was sentenced by 379th District Court Judge Ron Rangel. Sanchez was also on probation on a third-degree felony drug case. His probation was revoked and he was sentenced to the maximum of 10 years.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Sanchez was blamed for the death of Neida Tijerina, 29, after he pointed a shotgun at San Antonio police officers, who then opened fire on the suspect. One of the bullets fired by the officers fatally wounded Tijerina, who was found inside her apartment in the 3100 block of Roosevelt Avenue. She was unknowingly standing on the other side of the closed apartment door, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office said.
Tijerina’s three children, ages 11 and 5 years and 3 months old, were also inside the apartment but were not hurt.
“Were it not for the defendant’s actions, the police officers would not have fired their weapons,” the affidavit said. | 2023-05-25T20:51:17+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/05/25/man-pleads-guilty-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-in-fatal-sapd-standoff-case/ |
Consumers restores power to over 30,000 customers overnight after strong storms hit Michigan
JACKSON, Mich. (WNEM) - Thousands of Michigan residents woke up without power Sunday morning, after strong storms hit the state overnight.
Consumers Energy reported over 81,000 homes and businesses lost power after winds that topped 60 miles per hour swept across Michigan overnight on Saturday and into Sunday, July 23.
The energy provider hopes to restore power to all those affected by 6 p.m. Monday. Consumers says nearly 200 crews are currently working to asses damage and restore power in 48 Michigan counties.
At 11:30 a.m., more than 50,000 people were without power. The majority of the outages are in Kent, Ottawa, and Muskegon counties.
Consumers Energy crews are working even as more winds and rain continue to hit the state. Restoration times can vary depending on changing weather conditions.
Customers can report an outage and check the status of outage by visiting www.ConsumersEnergy.com/OutageCenter. They can also sign up to get outage alerts and restoration times sent to a phone, email or text message, Text ‘REG’ to 232273 or visit www.ConsumersEnergy.com/alerts.
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Fire Marshal called after abandoned duplex fire
Published: Jun. 13, 2022 at 8:30 AM CDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - The Lawton Fire Marshal is investigating an overnight fire. It started around three Monday morning at a duplex right off Gore Blvd. on 24th street.
Fire officials told 7NEWS it was abandoned and boarded up when they arrived. Firefighters quickly removed those boards and got the fire under control.
Officials said no one was inside, and the utilities were off. Both units in the duplex were damaged by the fire.
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100-year-old veteran lays wreath at World War II memorial
Billie Engel served as an instructor, teaching servicemen about the B-25 bomber.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - World War II veteran Billy Engel had a rockstar moment during a very special trip to the American capital.
“It feels great,” said Engel. “It shakes me up a bit.” Engel, who turns 101 next month, marked her time during the war by laying a patriotic wreath at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.
It was near the fountain with the words inscribed, “here we mark the price of freedom.”
“I never dreamed in my wildest dreams that this could happen to me,” said Engel. “The attention. The pictures.”
Engel lives in Cincinnati. At the age of 22, she worked as an instructor during the war, teaching servicemen the hydraulic system of the B-25 bomber.
“I had been a first grade teacher before that and I decided I wanted to do something else, and they were looking for people who knew how to teach and they would teach you what to teach,” said Engel.
Engel says her time during World War II is one she’s proud of, and her experience at the World War II Memorial is one she will always cherish.
Engel, along with 87 other veterans from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, visited the Lincoln, Korean, and Vietnam War memorials and Arlington National Cemetery during their visit.
This is the fourth and final honor flight for the tri-state area for this year before flights start again next year in April.
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DALLAS (AP) — Vlatko Cancar hit a buzzer-beater from near midcourt when the final 2 seconds of the first half were replayed after the break, and the outmanned Denver Nuggets went on to beat the Dallas Mavericks 98-97 on Sunday night.
The Nuggets went to the locker room thinking they were down seven on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Dallas star Luka Doncic after getting blown out two nights earlier without two-time MVP Nikola Jokic and fellow starters Jamal Murray and Aaron Gordon.
Instead, Doncic’s Slovenian countryman brought the Nuggets within a point, and the six-point swing paid off when Michael Porter Jr. hit the deciding 3-pointer with 55 seconds remaining in the game.
A video review showed Doncic stepped out bounds before the second-quarter shot, and since the teams were already off the court, the game had to be picked up from that point after the break.
Denver coach Michael Malone put Cancar in the game, and he hit the running heave from near the right sideline after taking the inbound pass. Denver trailed 56-55 at halftime instead of 59-52.
Bones Hyland scored a career-high 29 points, and Porter Jr. had 12 with his only made 3-pointer in five attempts providing the final scoring.
Josh Green had a career-high 23 points for Dallas, but his only miss on an 8-of-9 night, including 6 of 7 from 3, was from long range with the Mavericks leading by two in the final 70 seconds.
Doncic scored 22 with a miss on a long 3-pointer at the buzzer, securing an improbable split of the two games in Dallas for the Nuggets.
Denver had lost its first two games without Jokic and Gordon. Murray missed both in Dallas after joining Jokic in the health and safety protocols. Gordon has been out with a non-COVID-19 illness.
TIP-INS
Nuggets: F Jeff Green left with a knee injury in the first quarter and didn’t return. … Cancar had another buzzer-beating 3 in the first quarter of the first meeting. … DeAndre Jordan had a season-high 17 rebounds.
Mavericks: F Maxi Kleber missed a third consecutive game with a lower back injury after he was upended onto his back in the previous game. … Davis Bertans scored 12 of his 15 points in the second quarter, when he was 3 of 4 from 3-point range.
UP NEXT
Nuggets: Detroit at home Tuesday before another two-game trip that starts in Oklahoma City on the second night of a back-to-back. Denver has won five in a row against the Pistons.
Mavericks: A three-game trip starts Wednesday at Eastern Conference-leading Boston. Dallas has swept the two-game series each of the past two seasons.
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- Walmart Black Friday: The $188 smart TV sold out in minutes | 2022-11-09T16:03:37+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Buffalo-Bills-17571108.php |
56 pounds of fentanyl seized during traffic stop north of Ely
Published: Sep. 6, 2022 at 6:58 PM PDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Nevada State Police have arrested a man after finding 56 pounds of suspected fentanyl in his car.
On Monday around 9:00 a.m., troopers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for an equipment violation about 20 miles north Ely, Nevada.
The trooper observed signs of possible criminal activity and requested consent to search the vehicle.
Upon searching the vehicle, they found the suspected Fentanyl, worth an estimated street value of $3.6 million.
The suspect was arrested and charged with several drug-related offenses.
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Police instructor shoots self in leg at New Orleans training academy firing range
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - A veteran New Orleans police officer was wounded Wednesday when he accidentally shot himself in the leg at the police department’s training academy firing range, the department said.
New Orleans police have not disclosed the injured officer’s name but said he was hospitalized in stable condition with an injury “not believed to be life-threatening.”
A spokesman said the officer is retired with more than 30 years of service to the department and a reserve sergeant currently assigned to the training academy as an instructor.
Police did not say what type of weapon was involved or how the accidental discharge occurred.
The officer was taken from the firing range by New Orleans EMS ambulance for hospital treatment.
The incident is under investigation by the Force Investigation Team, the department said.
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136, DK Metcalf, SEA at SF 1/14 (10 rec., 2 TD)
133, Deebo Samuel, SF vs. SEA 1/14 (6 rec., 1 TD)
129, T.J. Hockenson, MIN vs. NYG 1/15 (10 rec., 0 TD)
114, Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. MIA 1/15 (7 rec., 0 TD)
113, Gabe Davis, BUF vs. MIA 1/15 (6 rec., 1 TD)
109, Gerald Everett, LAC at JAC 1/14 (6 rec., 1 TD)
105, Isaiah Hodgins, NYG at MIN 1/15 (8 rec., 1 TD) | 2023-01-16T15:52:59+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/NFL-Top-Performers-Receiving-17720777.php |
BRYAN, Texas (FOX 44) – Two people are in the hospital after a Sunday night shooting in Bryan.
Police say officers were dispatched to the 2300 block of Russell Drive. Two victims were found and transported to a local hospital.
No arrests have been made. This investigation is ongoing.
This is a developing story. FOX 44 News will have more information as it becomes available. | 2023-06-13T13:36:20+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/brazos/two-injured-in-bryan-shooting/ |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new foreign minister visited the Solomon Islands on Friday to assure the South Pacific island nation it does not need a security pact with China.
The Solomons is the fifth Pacific nation that Foreign Minister Penny Wong has visited since her center-left Labor Party came to power in May 21 elections.
She is the first Australian minister to visit the Solomons since its government signed a secretive security pact with China that many fear could lead to a Chinese naval base being established within 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia’s northeast coast.
Wong described her talks with Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare as “constructive” and “wide ranging.”
“Australia’s view does remain that the Pacific family should be responsible for our security and the Pacific family’s more than capable of providing that security,” Wong told reporters in the capital, Honiara.
“I welcomed Prime Minister Sogavare’s reassurances that there will not be a military base nor persistent military presence here in Solomon Islands, and I welcome his assurance that Australia remains Solomon Islands first security partner of choice and first development partner of choice,” she added.
Sogavare’s office did not immediately respond to the AP’s request for comment.
Australia is the Solomons’ most generous donor of foreign aid and, like China, has a bilateral security pact with the restive nation of 700,000.
Australian police have been maintaining peace in Honiara since riots in November last year.
When the Sino-Solomons pact was signed during the recent Australian election campaign, Wong described it as Australia’s worst foreign policy failure in the Pacific since World War II.
The new Australian government is promising more action on climate change and greater engagement with Australia’s island neighbors.
Wong announced in Honiara that Australia will donate up to 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for children aged 5 to 11. Australia has already provided the Solomons with more than 500,000 doses.
Australia’s former minister for international development and the Pacific, Zed Seselja, flew to Honiara in April to unsuccessfully urge Sogavare to abandon plans to sign the Chinese pact.
Seselja arrived on the same day that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman spoke with the Solomons’ government about Washington’s plan to reopen an embassy in Honiara.
A U.S. delegation to Honiara led by Kurt Campbell, the National Security Council Indo-Pacific coordinator, and Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, warned after the pact was signed that the United States would take unspecified action against the Solomons should the agreement with China pose a threat to U.S. or allied interests.
Sogavare accused the U.S. and Australia of threatening and disrespectful behavior. | 2022-06-17T18:39:33+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/australian-minister-visits-solomons-to-counter-china/ |
Cracker Barrel’s new meatless sausage patty is creating an online debate between meat lovers and supporters of plant-based options.
The chain announced this week it's adding a plant-based sausage patty called the Impossible Sausage to the restaurant chain's breakfast menu.
Their Facebook page lit up with thousands of comments for and against the new item. | 2022-08-11T08:44:25+00:00 | newson6.com | https://www.newson6.com/story/62efcaa72cdaef7d881110f4/cracker-barrel-adding-plantbased-sausage-patty-to-menu |
Lancaster County Career & Technology Center - Willow Street, awarded certificates May 31 at LCBC Manheim.
The areas of study and the graduates are:
Animal Production Science and Technology
Kassandra Carrion, of School District of Lancaster; Lena Cooney, of Solanco School District; Gabriella Distefano, of Cocalico School District; Bobbie Ditzler, of Penn Manor School District; and Brynne Lehman, of Ephrata Area School District.
Automotive Technology
Joshua Achey, of Manheim Township School District; Aaron-Joseph Allen, of Penn Manor School District; Travis Amsbaugh, of Cocalico School District; Jonathan Arrell, of Warwick School District; Jeremy Bair, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Keyron Bair, of Penn Manor School District; Adyson Barnhardt, of Cocalico School District; Robert Bird, of Solanco School District; Adam Blankenmyer, of Warwick School District; Brady Boyer, of Warwick School District; Justin Breland, of Manheim Central School District; Colten Brubaker, of Cocalico School District; Dylan Bryson, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Ryan Burkholder, of Cocalico School District; Paul Cartwright, of Ephrata Area School District; Cody Clark, of Donegal School District; Andrew Colabove, of Cocalico School District; David Cruz, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Gunnar Dunlap, of Hempfield School District; Caiden Frederick, of Cocalico School District; Ian Glick, of Conestoga Valley School District; Samuel Greenawalt, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Alexis Guzman Santiago, of Penn Manor School District; Devin Hall, of Lampeter-Strasburg School District; Edward Hauk, of Hempfield School District; Troy Hertzog, of Columbia Borough School District; Ty Interrante, of Hempfield School District; Addison Johnson, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Joeffrey Jules, of Conestoga Valley School District; Zackary Kester, of Manheim Township School District; Theo Ketchum, of Hempfield School District; Lenai King, of Penn Manor School District; Nathaniel Kirchner, of Conestoga Valley School District; Vaughn Klausmair, of Hempfield School District; Josue Marente, of Conestoga Valley School District; Corbin Mccollough, of Warwick School District; Chase Mclain, of Ephrata Area School District; Angel Morales Santiago, of School District of Lancaster; Hunter Morrison, of Columbia Borough School District; Kylan Mott, of Donegal School District; Hunter Musser, of Solanco School District; Carlos Ortiz, of School District of Lancaster; Connor Parkhill, of Cocalico School District; Joshua Patrushev, of Ephrata Area School District; Chande Reyes, School District of Lancaster; Yulianna Rivas, of Columbia Borough School District; Devin Ruhl, of Manheim Central School District; Christopher Santos-Ortiz, of Cocalico School District; Mason Sensenig, of Conestoga Valley School District; Dustin Shaffner, of Conestoga Valley School District; Christopher Smith, of Penn Manor School District; Harmony Smyth, of Lampeter-Strasburg School District; James Stauffer, of Cocalico School District; Nicholas Stewart, of Donegal School District; Parker Strohl, of Cocalico School District; Joshua Torres, of Warwick School District; Kameron Weaver, of Cocalico School District; and Jessica Wilson, of Penn Manor School District.
Collision Repair
Matthew Arocha, of Manheim Township School District; Tyler Fahnestock, of Manheim Central School District; Gaige Fahr, of Manheim Central School District; Gavin Friday, of Conestoga Valley School District; Jose Fuentes, of Conestoga Valley School District; Cameron Gerhart, of Manheim Central School District; Jaden Gomez, of Penn Manor School District; Harry Gonzalez, of Donegal School District; Alexa Hooton, of Manheim Township School District; Gerald Huber, of Elizabethtown Area School District; James Kensavath, of Manheim Central School District; Jax Lea-Lingle, of Manheim Central School District; Jessmanuel Melendez-Morales, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Cody Miller, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Sierra Mowrer, of Hempfield School District; Austin O'Donnell, of Solanco School District; Jayden Quigley, of Hempfield School District; Orlando Rodriguez, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Landyn Sawyer-Peters, of Manheim Central School District; Briana Schweitzer, of Ephrata Area School District; Hunter Sheets, of Solanco School District; and Mason Stief, of Manheim Central School District.
Dental Assistant
Camille Blackwell, of Conestoga Valley School District; Anderson Cuz Chub, of Pequea Valley School District; Thomas Daly, of Penn Manor School District; Mckenna Defalcis, of Penn Manor School District; Ajaysia Falcon, of Manheim Township School District; Krystal Fritz, of Hempfield School District; Lauren Gerhart, of Manheim Central School District; Jessa Krchnar, of Manheim Township School District; Elayna Lira, of Donegal School District; Shawna Martin, of Ephrata Area School District; Rozalyn Miller, of Manheim Central School District; Isabelle Schannauer, of Cocalico School District; Jordyn Smith, of Cocalico School District; and Jazmyne Wanger, of Penn Manor School District.
Diesel Equipment Technology
Cameron Barr, of Solanco School District; Brennan Boyce, of Pequea Valley School District; Thomas Boyer, of Cocalico School District; Dayan Brocious, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Angela Coffman, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Justin Emlet, of Columbia Borough School District; Cameron Getz, of Solanco School District; George Gordon, of Solanco School District; Brandon Hamilton, of Warwick School District; Brendan Heisler, of Solanco School District; Benjamin Hicks, of School District of Lancaster; Michael Hoskins, of Penn Manor School District; Benjamin Kelly, of Warwick School District; Jacob Kerdeman, of Manheim Central School District; Shaun Koppenhaver, of Warwick School District; Trey Marin, of Hempfield School District; Hunter Minnich, of Elizabethtown Area School District; John Rinier, of Manheim Central School District; Erik Severein, of Conestoga Valley School District; Dakota Shotts, of Solanco School District; Adam Skelton, of Conestoga Valley School District; Jason Todd, of Solanco School District; and Brady Weaver, of Warwick School District.
Introduction to Construction Careers
Matthew Raeford, of School District of Lancaster
Introduction to Health Careers
Amya Pagan, of School District of Lancaster;
Introduction to Manufacturing Careers
Jeremiah Lugo, of Manheim Township School District
Medical Assistant
Gardinya Al-Khazale, of Penn Manor School District; Roilan Alvarez, of Hempfield School District; Paula Arguello Lopez, of Ephrata Area School District; Jenna Baney, of Hempfield School District; Katie Barats-Moyer, of Cocalico School District; Krystal Brown, of Cocalico School District; Haylee Byers, of Solanco School District; Nazari Candelaria, of Conestoga Valley School District; Leah Gappa, of Hempfield School District; Emma Grego, of Solanco School District; Karlie Hess, of Penn Manor School District; Larissa Hess, of Penn Manor School District; Brooke Johnson, of Penn Manor School District; Deidre Keller, of Solanco School District; Luisa Ana Maciel Sanchez, of Conestoga Valley School District; Solymar Maldonado Rosario, of Conestoga Valley School District; Kirsten Martin, of Solanco School District; Marissa Mayo, of Manheim Township School District; Leah Minnich, of Manheim Central School District; Mayelin Polanco Aponte, School District of Lancaster; Alicia Quinones, of Manheim Township School District; Jah'dez Santos, of Ephrata Area School District; Romi Schmid, of Hempfield School District; Noah Schultze, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Elizabeth Small, of Solanco School District; Page Spayd, of Cocalico School District; Natalie Stegeman, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Lajhai Twyman, of Penn Manor School District; Ruth Valdez-Feliz, of Penn Manor School District; Arieanna Vasquez, of Hempfield School District; Grace Vega, of Warwick School District; Melissa Welch, of Manheim Township School District; and Alexis Wood, of Penn Manor School District.
Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide
Jorrdynne Battillo, of Penn Manor School District; Kaylee Brubaker, of Penn Manor School District; Molly Dannelley, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Destiny Evans, of Penn Manor School District; Ashlyn Flowers, of Hempfield School District; Aubrey Haldeman, of Cocalico School District; Gabriell Kauffman, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Kassidy Martin, of Hempfield School District; Mathilda Mehrenberg, of Penn Manor School District; Dominic Mejia Rosario, of Penn Manor School District; Ashley Mueller, of Donegal School District; Katrina Musser, of Penn Manor School District; Hannah Mylin, of Donegal School District; An Nguyen, of School District of Lancaster; Miranda Ober, of Manheim Central School District; Lillian Parks, of Solanco School District; Caydance Parmer, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Alyssa Perry, of Warwick School District; Haylee Ramcharan, of Manheim Central School District; Brianna Redcay, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Alianis Rentas, of Penn Manor School District; Makenzie Rivera, of Ephrata Area School District; Alizea Rodriguez, School District of Lancaster; Jennie Rosenberg, of Penn Manor School District; Emily Russell, of Conestoga Valley School District; Avalon Seibel, of Ephrata Area School District; Chayla Slusser, of Cocalico School District; Makena Snyder, of Manheim Central School District; Anastazia Stoner, of Manheim Central School District; Amber Sweigart, of Ephrata Area School District; Hernestina Velasco, of Manheim Central School District; Hannah Whitehouse, of Manheim Central School District; and Jayda York, of Cocalico School District;
Patient Care Technician
Hailie Dawson, of Ephrata Area School District; Haileigh Flaud, of Conestoga Valley School District; Mya Gonzalez, of School District of Lancaster; Nivea Green, of Donegal School District; Julie-AnnaJohnson, of Solanco School District; Jillian Lawrence, of Donegal School District; Cheyenne Oberdorf, of Lampeter-Strasburg School District; Lisa Peng, of Manheim Central School District; Katelyn Pilsner, of Manheim Central School District; Evynn Reider, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Tatyanna Roldan, of Penn Manor School District; Kiara Rosario, of Conestoga Valley School District; Kassidy Sedler, of Conestoga Valley School District; Kylee Shopf, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Kellina Toro, of Ephrata Area School District; Noel Watson, of Conestoga Valley School District; Katelyn Watts, of Penn Manor School District; and Sabrina Zamatayeva, of Ephrata Area School District.
Power Sport Technology
Wade Adams, of Solanco School District; Aydan Bracken, of Penn Manor School District; Dakota Janesky, of Penn Manor School District; Jeremiah Miller, of Conestoga Valley School District; Kohen Murphy, of Solanco School District; Autumn O'Brien, of Penn Manor School District; Christian Quick, of Cocalico School District; Matthew Ritchey, of Manheim Central School District; Sarah Roland, of Penn Manor School District; Zachary Roush, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Maeda Sampson, of Cocalico School District; Eric Shaiebly, of Penn Manor School District; Braydon Smith, of Manheim Central School District; Jeffrey Stockton, of Manheim Central School District; Brian Wagner, of Penn Manor School District; and Chase Yeager, of Penn Manor School District.
Veterinary Assistant
Emma Backes, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Kyra Benner, of Lampeter-Strasburg School District; Lolita Bollinger Elizabethtown Area School District; Noraa Brandt, of Hempfield School District; Bryanna Buch, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Greenlee Cochran, of Donegal School District; Josiangelly Cosme Negron, of Conestoga Valley School District; Abigail DeArmitt, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Alina Diaz Morales, of Manheim Township School District; Storm Flowers, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Kaitlyn Foy, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Elizabeth Friedrichs, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Alisha Garber, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Jaden Hagelgans-Billetdeaux, of Hempfield School District; Zachary Hershey, of Manheim Township School District; Ella High, of Cocalico School District; Jonathan Hinkle, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Aidan Hirschmann, of Manheim Township School District; Elissia Huss, of Warwick School District; Maddyson Lasalvia, of Manheim Township School District; Connor Leisey, of Cocalico School District; Elizabeth Lewis, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Kallie Lutz, of Warwick School District; Hope May, of Donegal School District; Jordan McElroy, of Solanco School District; Olivia Menard, of Columbia Borough School District; Michael Moyer, of Pequea Valley School District; Vy Nguyen, of Warwick School District; Jaelyn Olmeda, of Solanco School District; Joel Pagan Gracia, of Conestoga Valley School District; Faith Patrella, of Warwick School District; Hannah Perkins, of Penn Manor School District; Riley Rennix, of Hempfield School District; Gordon Russell, of Cocalico School District; Morgan Sands, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Ariel Seda, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Hailee Shaub, of Pequea Valley School District; Sierra Shoff, of Hempfield School District; Allison Spangler, of Penn Manor School District; Alivia Timinski, of Ephrata Area School District; Adelyn Turner, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Connor Uleary, of Cocalico School District; Patricia Unruh, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; Elise Wagner, of Donegal School District; Jocelyn Wagner, of Penn Manor School District; Emma Walton, of Elizabethtown Area School District; Alicia Yudenko, of Eastern Lancaster County School District; and Chelsea Zaborskiy, of Solanco School District.
Award recipients
Lancaster County Career & Technology Center-Willow Street campus held its awards ceremony May 31. The following are the award recipients:
Animal Production Science & Technology
Student of Merit-Animal Production Science & Technology: Lena Cooney.
Outstanding Student-Animal Production Science & Technology: Gabriella DiStefano.
Student of Merit-Animal Production Science & Technology: Bobbie Ditzler.
Student of Merit- Veterinary Assistant: Elissia Huss.
DeKalb Agricultural Accomplishment Award: Brynne Lehman.
Automotive Technology
Outstanding Student-Automotive Technology: Robert Bird.
Student of Merit-Automotive Technology: Gunnar Dunlap, Ian Glick, Zackary Kester, Nathaniel Kirchner and Christopher Smith.
Collision Repair
Student of Merit Collision Repair: Matthew Arocha.
Outstanding Student-Collision Repair: Sierra Mowrer.
Student of Merit-Collision Repair: Mason Stief.
Dental Assistant
Student of Merit, Secondary-Dental Assistant: Anderson Cuz.
Millersville Women’s Club Achievement-Dental Assistant: Thomas Daily.
Student of Merit, Secondary-Dental Assistant: Krystal Fritz.
LCCTC Faculty Award Recipient: Lauren Gerhart.
Student of Merit, Adult-Dental Assistant: Angelica Jones and Hannah Alex Linkey.
LCCTF LCCTC PN Scholarship: Elayna Lira.
LCCTC Faculty Scholarship Recipient: Elayna Lira.
Outstanding Student, Adult-Dental Assistant: Justine Maust.
Outstanding Student-Secondary Dental Assistant: Jazmyne Wanger.
Diesel Equipment Technology
Outstanding Student-Diesel: Cameron Barr.
Student of Merit-Diesel: Angela Coffman, Cameron Getz, Brendan Heisler, Shaun Koppenhaver, Adam Skelton and Brady Weaver.
LCCTF Workforce Grant: Erik Severein, Brady Weaver.
Medical Assistant
LCCT Foundation Scholarship: Jenna Baney.
Outstanding Student, Secondary-Medical Assistant: Jenna Baney.
Student of Merit-Medical Assistant: Emma Grego and Mayelin Polanco Aponte.
Millersville Women’s Club Achievement-Medical Assistant: Ruth Valdez-Feliz.
Outstanding Student, Post-Secondary-Medical Assistant: Naomi Wenger.
Nursing Assistant
Outstanding Student-Nursing Assistant: Ashlynn Flowers.
Ashland Foundation: Aubrey Haldeman.
Student of Merit-Nursing Assistant: Aubrey Haldeman.
WGAL Outstanding Senior: Hannah Mylin.
Outstanding Student-Nursing Assistant: Hannah Mylin.
Student of Merit-Nursing Assistant: Miranda Ober.
Patient Care Technician
Student of Merit-Patient Care Technician: Nivea Green and Cheyenne Oberdorf.
Outstanding Student-Patient Care Technician: Katie Pilsner.
Power Sports Technology
Student of Merit-Power Sport Technology: Connor Deemer and Dakota Janesky.
LCCTC Faculty Award Recipient: Kohen Murphy.
Outstanding Student-Power Sport Technology: Mason Rabuck.
Student of Merit-Power Sport Technology: Eric Shaiebly.
Veterinary Assistant
Outstanding Student-Veterinary Assistant: Elizabeth Friedrichs.
Student of Merit-Veterinary Assistant: Jaden Hagelgans and Emma Walton. | 2022-06-22T17:16:41+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/lancaster-county-career-technology-center---willow-street-class-of-2022-graduates-and-award/article_eb89d9f8-f0dd-11ec-9a3d-33348ce8b2e5.html |
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TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Chase Elliott raced his way into the next round of the playoffs with a victory Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway in the first clean race yet of this year's postseason.
Elliott was fifth on the final restart with two laps remaining and claimed control of the outside lane to stalk leader Ryan Blaney. The 2020 Cup champion surged ahead with a push from Erik Jones on the final lap, threw a block on Blaney’s attempt to reclaim the win and then beat Blaney to the finish line by .046 seconds.
Elliott is the first driver through five playoff races to automatically advance into the next round with a victory. The first four races were won by drivers not eligible for the championship in a chaotic start to the 10-race postseason.
NASCAR's new Next Gen suddenly developed a rash of problems, from mechanical failures, tire problems and unexplained fires, and the stiffness of the car has led to violent crashes that have injured at least three drivers. Alex Bowman and Kurt Busch are sidelined with concussions, and Cody Shane Ware raced Sunday with a broken foot. Busch has missed 11 consecutive races, while Bowman was injured just last week.
The Bowman concussion pushed the drivers to their breaking point as veterans began to openly criticize NASCAR's slow response to concerns they claim they've been raising from the early stages of the Next Gen's development.
On Saturday, the mild-mannered Elliott at last offered his opinion and chastised NASCAR for taking a step backward in safety. It was unusual offering of opinion by NASCAR's three-time most popular driver, who typically avoids controversial conversations.
But with his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Bowman sidelined, Elliott made clear that the Next Gen needs to be fixed. His comments came amidst unfounded rumors the drivers were considering either some sort of boycott Sunday at Talladega, one of the most unpredictable and chaotic tracks on the calendar.
Yet all 37 drivers turned up at their cars on time Sunday, and while the race was calm and mostly crash-free, it wasn't because the competitors were deliberately playing it safe to send NASCAR a message. There were 18 lead changes and of the six cautions, only one was for a multi-car crash.
The final caution was because Daniel Hemric stalled on pit road with an engine problem with seven laps remaining. Blaney was the leader and NASCAR had to throw the caution because Hemric was stranded inside his car in a dangerous spot.
The restart for a final two laps was Blaney's to control, but Elliott played it perfectly for his fifth win of the season. The victory was a massive rebound after Elliott crashed while leading last week at Texas because of a tire failure, and it dropped him to the edge of playoff elimination.
Blaney was second for Team Penske and Michael McDowell was third for Front Row Motorsports as Fords settled for runner-up. Ross Chastain, winner at Talladega in the spring, was fourth for Trackhouse Racing and then Denny Hamlin was fifth and the highest finishing Toyota driver.
UP NEXT
The elimination playoff race Sunday at The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The field will be trimmed from 12 to eight after the race. Kyle Larson is the defending race winner, while Chase Elliott has two wins on the hybrid course and Ryan Blaney won the inaugural 2018 event.
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-02T22:31:01+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Elliott-advances-in-NASCAR-playoffs-with-17482036.php |
Japan's government has a new plan to halt the country's plunging birthrate. But many Japanese are skeptical, as the government has tried and failed to fix the problem for some three decades.
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Japan's government has a new plan to halt the country's plunging birthrate. But many Japanese are skeptical, as the government has tried and failed to fix the problem for some three decades.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-12T10:25:24+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/2023-06-12/japan-announces-plan-to-address-a-national-crisis-its-low-birthrate |
DALLAS, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) ("SUN") announced that it will release its third quarter 2022 financial and operating results before the market opens on Tuesday, November 1, 2022. Management will hold a conference call that same day at 9:00 a.m. Central Time (10:00 a.m. Eastern Time) to discuss SUN's results.
Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) is a master limited partnership with core operations that include the distribution of motor fuel to approximately 10,000 convenience stores, independent dealers, commercial customers and distributors located in more than 40 U.S. states and territories as well as refined product transportation and terminalling assets. SUN's general partner is owned by Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET).
Contacts
Scott Grischow
Treasurer, Vice President – Investor Relations and Mergers & Acquisitions
(214) 840-5660, scott.grischow@sunoco.com
James Heckler
Director – Investor Relations and Corporate Finance
(214) 840-5415, james.heckler@sunoco.com
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SOURCE Sunoco LP | 2022-10-03T22:56:23+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/03/sunoco-lp-announces-3q-2022-earnings-release-call-timing/ |
NEW YORK — James Harden isn’t surprised Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving wanted out of Brooklyn, having tired quickly of the “dysfunction” he saw in his brief time with the Nets and asking out.
He wouldn’t specify his reasons for souring so quickly, but made clear he felt there were problems within the Nets organization.
“There was just a lot of dysfunction — clearly. There was a lot of internal things that I’m not going to ever just say or put in the media or anything, and that was one of the reasons why I chose to make my decision,” Harden said after scoring 29 points in the 76ers’ 101-98 victory.
“But now, fast forward to today, I don’t look like the crazy one,” he added. “I don’t look like the guy, or the quitter or whatever the media want to call me. Like, I knew what was going on and I just decided to, like, I’m not built for this. I don’t want to deal with that. I want to play basketball and have fun and enjoy doing it.”
Harden was acquired from Houston in January 2021 and the Nets quickly became a championship favorite with their potent lineup. But they lost in the second round of those playoffs after both Irving and Harden were injured against Milwaukee, then struggled to get off the ground in 2021-22 after Irving refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus so he could be eligible to play in all their games.
After Durant sprained his knee in January 2022, the Big Three was often down to just one and Harden’s effort and interest seemed to wane while forced to carry a team that had to play unproven players around him. He told the organization he wanted to leave and the Nets sent him to the 76ers in a package for Ben Simmons.
Harden wouldn’t say if the Nets’ problems — or his frustrations — started with the difficulty in being able to count on Irving.
“I mean, that’s not something that I’m going to answer,” Harden said. “But the reason I made that decision to get out of my comfort zone, which was leave Houston and do everything that I did to get out of there, was to come in and play with KD and Kyrie. And with that being said, that didn’t happen as much as I would like to or probably the organization wanted to.”
It turned out to only be 16 games.
Durant originally asked for a trade last summer and finally got it Thursday when the Nets dealt him to the Phoenix Suns. A few days earlier, the Nets had moved quickly to grant Irving’s request to leave by dealing him to the Dallas Mavericks.
“There’s a lot of possibilities of what could’ve happened, but it’s part of life,” Harden said. “Move on, and I’m sure everybody’s in a better place, a good place.”
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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico , March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- After a multi-million-dollar renovation, Fairmont Mayakoba is thrilled to unveil its extraordinary new facilities. The project included a complete renovation of all guest rooms, casitas, and suites, and an overhaul of all restaurants & bars, the resort's three beach pools, main pool, reception area, and lobby. For the young ones, the existing kids club received a full makeover, and a new second kids club was added. Plus, the resort also unveiled two exciting new dining outlets in the main resort area and an exclusive new beach club featuring five new dining outlets surrounded by three spectacular new pools.
The crown jewel of the renewal project is Maykana, the resort's breathtaking new beach club, which brings guests an elevated oceanfront experience set in a contemporary atmosphere with sweeping ocean views of the Caribbean. "May" (from the Mayan culture) represents the resort's desire to surround guests with Mayan history and culture through the five elements of nature integrated into the beach club: air, water, fire, earth, and aether. "Kana" (basket in the Mayan language) represents the basket that ties these elements together. Through Maykana, Fairmont has created a "welcome basket" representing a home away from home.
Maykana's grand terraces, private luxury cabanas, sunken fire pits, and seaside pools bring a sophisticated flair for relaxation and resort dining. The beach club's new food and beverage outlets include Mediterranean influenced Brisas, which brings the element of air to Maykana on a relaxing terrace overlooking the beauty of the Mexican Caribbean. Surrounded by private poolside cabanas, Aqua brings the element of water and specializes in Latin-influenced cocktails. Fuego brings the element of fire to Maykana and is a Tulum-inspired ancestral grill that captures an energetic yet bohemian feel. Gaia, Maykana's signature restaurant, brings the element of the earth to the beach club featuring a variety of fresh, local seafood from Mexico and all over the world. Finally, Cielo brings the element of aether to Maykana and is the beach club's adults-only, upbeat lounge with the best Mayan sunset views. Each unique new venue at Maykana offers a superb culinary experience.
Meanwhile, the main resort area now presents two exciting culinary offers. La Laguna with a creative concept of Mexican cuisine. Here, talented chefs combine traditional and contemporary techniques, which is also reflected in the design of this restaurant. Stunning art, colorful fabrics, and a magnificent bar, La Cantina – inspired by Mexican culture, will surround guests with an open kitchen concept, an al fresco terrace, a lively lounge, a private pavilion, and over-the-water decks overlooking the Mayakoba water canals where guests enjoy authentic recipes bursting with flavor and craft cocktails. La Laguna will be open for breakfast and dinner and is located in the heart of the resort.
Bassano, a stylish Italian eatery, brings an element of comfort to Mayakoba. This restaurant focuses on the simplest of ingredients - egg, flour, and water - while delivering rich flavor in every dish. The restaurant's standout menu includes homemade pizzas, signature bucatini cacio e pepe, and exquisite wines. Complete with a beautifully designed outdoor pizza bar and oven, Bassano is a true standout on the property, with an ingredient-driven menu that keeps guests coming back for more. Bassano opens for lunch and dinner and is located next to La Laguna restaurant.
The continued renovation will include a transformed Fairmont Spa, beauty salon, fitness center, and revived meeting and convention spaces. The new salon will become the largest one in Mayakoba. The spa will feature all-new furniture, a brand-new front desk, state-of-the-art massage beds, and a botanical garden that will allow guests to choose their own herbs for their treatments while learning about the benefits to their bodies. In addition, the fitness center will feature all new equipment by Technogym, including rowing machines and infinite staircases. At the same time, the Serenity Room will include a juice bar, lounge, and networking areas for guests to destress. Finally, the transformed meeting and convention spaces will provide a brand-new look and feel featuring local woods and sophisticated lighting.
This year marks Fairmont Mayakoba's 17th anniversary, and to celebrate, the resort is offering 30% off for stays from May to December 2023, when booking before March 31, 2023. The Anniversary Offer includes an upgrade at the time of booking based on availability, an on-property bird-watching boat tour, use of bicycles to explore Mayakoba, guided catamaran tours including the use of kayaks, and more. To learn more about Fairmont Mayakoba or to book your Anniversary Offer, visit https://www.fairmont.com/reservations/check-availability/?hc=MYK&pc=PANN
About Fairmont Mayakoba, Riviera Maya
Nestled in the heart of the Riviera Maya, Mexico, the 401-room Fairmont Mayakoba is a AAA Five Diamond resort set on 45 acres, within a private luxury community. Surrounded by a lush mangrove forest intersected by water canals, the property offers over 46,000 sq. ft. of indoor and outdoor meeting space, an energizing Willow Stream Spa featuring 20 treatment rooms, and El Camaleón Golf Course, host to the only official PGA TOUR event in Mexico. A dedication to a green philosophy has earned Fairmont Mayakoba the Preferred by Nature verification among other eco-accolades. For reservations contact your Travel Agent or Meeting Planner, call 1 (800) 540 6088 or email myk.reservations@fairmont.com, or visit fairmont.com/Mayakoba or follow Fairmont Mayakoba on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Instagram.
About Accor
Accor is a world leading hospitality group consisting of 5,300 properties and 10,000 food and beverage venues throughout 110 countries. The Group has one of the industry's most diverse and fully-integrated hospitality ecosystems encompassing more than 40 luxury, premium, midscale and economy hotel brands, entertainment and nightlife venues, restaurants and bars, branded private residences, shared accommodation properties, concierge services, co-working spaces and more. Accor's unmatched position in lifestyle hospitality – one of the fastest growing categories in the industry – is led by Ennismore, a joint venture, which Accor holds a majority shareholding. Ennismore is a creative hospitality company with a global collective of entrepreneurial and founder-built brands with purpose at their heart. Accor boasts an unrivalled portfolio of distinctive brands and more than 230,000 team members worldwide. Members benefit from the company's comprehensive loyalty program – ALL – Accor Live Limitless - a daily lifestyle companion that provides access to a wide variety of rewards, services and experiences. Through its global sustainability commitments (such as achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2050, global elimination of single use plastics in its hotels' guest experience, etc.), Accor Solidarity, RiiSE and ALL Heartist Fund initiatives, the Group is focused on driving positive action through business ethics, responsible tourism, environmental sustainability, community engagement, diversity and inclusivity. Founded in 1967, Accor SA is headquartered in France and publicly listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN code: FR0000120404) and on the OTC Market (Ticker: ACCYY) in the United States. For more information visit group.accor.com, or follow Accor on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok.
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School bus, with children onboard, struck by gunfire on Milwaukee's north side
Milwaukee police are investigating a shooting on the north side Friday that left one man injured.
Police said an occupied school bus also was struck during the incident. Nobody on the school bus was injured.
Around 4:49 p.m., on the 4300 block of West Capitol Drive, police said an unknown suspect fired several shots at a vehicle, striking a 25-year-old Milwaukee man.
The man was transported to a hospital for treatment of his injuries, which won't be fatal, police said.
The school bus that was struck was carrying two 13-year-old boys and the driver, a 25-year-old Milwaukee man.
Police do not have anyone in custody. Anyone with any information is asked to contact police at (414) 935-7360 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at (414) 224-Tips or P3 Tips.
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SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) ("TE Connectivity") today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tyco Electronics Group S.A. ("TEGSA"), has priced an offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.500% senior notes due 2026.
The offer is being made pursuant to an effective registration statement filed by TE Connectivity and TEGSA on June 21, 2021, which includes a prospectus, and a prospectus supplement dated January 30, 2023.
The $500 million senior notes due 2026 will be issued at a price of 99.811% and will have a stated interest rate of 4.500% per year, payable semi-annually.
TE Connectivity intends to use the net proceeds of this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of outstanding debt.
BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are joint book-running managers for this offering, which is expected to close on February 13, 2023.
A copy of the base prospectus in the registration statement or the prospectus supplement for the offering can be obtained from the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov, or from BofA Securities, Inc. by calling toll free 1-800-294-1322, or from Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by calling toll free 1-800-831-9146, or by emailing prospectus@citi.com, or from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, Attn: Prospectus Department, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by calling 1-866-803-9204.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of offers to buy any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale of any security in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful.
About TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, enable advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. With more than 85,000 employees, including over 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS.
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Monica Dus, University of Michigan
(THE CONVERSATION) Have you ever wondered why only hummingbirds sip nectar from feeders?
Unlike sparrows, finches and most other birds, hummingbirds can taste sweetness because they carry the genetic instructions necessary to detect sugar molecules.
Like hummingbirds, we humans can sense sugar because our DNA contains gene sequences coding for the molecular detectors that allow us to detect sweetness.
But it is more complex than that. Our ability to sense sweetness, as well as other tastes, involves a delicate dance between our genetic makeup and the foods we encounter from the womb to the dinner table.
Neuroscientists like me are working to decipher how this intricate interplay between genesand diet shapes taste.
In my laboratory at the University of Michigan, we are diving deeply into one specific aspect, which is how consuming too much sugar dulls the sense of sweetness. Taste is so central to our eating habits that understanding how genes and the environment shape it has crucial implications for nutrition, food science and disease prevention.
The role of genes in sensing taste
As with hummingbirds, the human ability to discern what food tastes like depends on the presence of taste receptors. These molecular detectors are found on the sensory cells, which are housed inside the taste buds, the sensory organs on the surface of the tongue.
The interactions between taste receptors and food molecules give rise to the five basic taste qualities: sweetness, savoriness, bitterness, saltiness and sourness, which are transmitted from the mouth to the brain via specific nerves.
For instance, when sugar binds to the sweet receptor, it signals sweetness. Our innate preference for the taste of some foods over others is rooted in how the tongue and the brain became wired during our evolutionary history. Taste qualities signaling the presence of essential nutrients and energy, like salt and sugar, send information to brain areas linked to pleasure. Conversely, tastes that alert us to potentially harmful substances, such as the bitterness of certain toxins, are connected to those that make us feel discomfort or pain.
While the presence of genes encoding for functional taste receptors in our DNA allows us to detect food molecules, how we respond to these also depends on the unique combination of taste genes we carry. Like ice cream, genes, including those for taste receptors, come in different flavors.
Take, for instance, a taste receptor for bitterness called TAS2R38. Scientists found small changes in the genetic code for the TAS2R38 gene among different people. These genetic variants affect how people perceive the bitterness of vegetables, berries and wine.
Follow-up studies have suggested a link between those same variants and food choice, particularly with respect to vegetable and alcohol consumption.
Many more variants exist in our gene repertoire, including those for the sweet taste receptor. However, whether and how these genetic differences affect our taste and eating habits is still being worked out. What is certain is that while genetics lays the groundwork for taste sensations and preferences, experiences with food can profoundly reshape them.
How diet influences taste
Many of our innate sensations and preferences are molded by our early experiences with food, sometimes before we’re even born. Some molecules from the mother’s diet, like garlic or carrots, reach the fetus’s developing taste buds via the amniotic fluid and can affect the appreciation of these foods after birth.
Infant formula can also influence food preferences later on. For example, research shows that infants fed with formulas that are not based on cow’s milk – which are more bitter and sour because of their amino acid content – are more accepting of bitter, sour and savory foods such as vegetables after weaning than those who consume cow milk-based formula. And toddlers who drink sweetened water strongly prefer sweet beverages as early as age 2.
The effect of food on our taste predispositions doesn’t stop in early life: What we eat as adults, especially our sugar and salt intake, can also shape how we perceive and potentially choose food. Cutting down on sodium in our diet decreases our preferred level of saltiness, whereas consuming more makes us like saltier foods.
Something similar occurs with sugar: Reduce sugar in your diet and you may find food sweeter. Conversely, as research in rats and flies suggests, high sugar levels may dull your sensation of sweetness.
Although we researchers are still working out the exact how and why, studies show that high sugar and fat intake in animal models dampens the responsiveness of taste cells and nerves to sugars, modifies the number of taste cells available and even flips genetic switches in the taste cells’ DNA.
In my lab, we’ve shown that these taste alterations in rats return to normal within weeks when the extra sugar is removed from the diet.
Illness can also influence taste
Genetics and food aren’t the only factors that affect taste.
As many of us discovered during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, disease can also play a role. After testing positive for COVID-19, I couldn’t tell the difference between sweet, bitter and sour foods for months.
Researchers have found that about 40% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience impairment in taste and smell. In about 5% of those people, these taste deficits persist for months and years.
Although researchers don’t understand what causes these sensory alterations, the leading hypothesis is that the virus infects the cells that support the taste and smell receptors.
Training taste buds for healthier eating
By shaping our eating habits, the intricate dance between genes, diet, disease and taste can affect the risk for chronic diseases.
Beyond distinguishing food from toxins, the brain uses taste signals as a proxy to estimate the filling power of foods. In nature, the stronger a food tastes – in terms of sweetness or saltiness – is directly connected to its nutrient levels and calorie content. For example, a mango contains five times the amount of sugar than a cup of strawberries, and this is why it tastes sweeter and is more filling. Thus, taste is important not just for food enjoyment and choice, but also for regulating food intake.
When taste is altered by diet or disease, sensory and nutrient information could become “decoupled” and no longer provide accurate information to our brains about portion size. Research shows this may also occur with consumption ofartificial sweeteners.
And indeed, in recent studies in invertebrate animal models, our lab discovered that the changes in taste caused by high dietary sugar intakedrove higher eating by impairing these food predictions. Notably, many of the eating patterns and brain changes we observed in flies have also been discovered in people who ate foods high in sugar or fat or who had high body-mass index. This raises the question of whether these effects also arise from taste and sensory alterations in our brains.
But there is a silver lining to the adaptable nature of taste. Since diet shapes our senses, we can actually train our taste buds – and our brains – to respond and prefer foods with lower quantities of sugar and salt.
Interestingly, many people already say that they find foods overly sweet, which may not be surprising since between 60% to 70% of grocery store foods contain added sugar. Reformulating foods tailored to our genes and the plasticity of our taste buds could be a practical and powerful tool to enhance nutrition, promote health and decrease the burden of chronic disease.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/can-we-train-our-taste-buds-for-health-a-neuroscientist-explains-how-genes-and-diet-shape-taste-205456. | 2023-06-16T14:07:06+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/can-we-train-our-taste-buds-for-health-a-18155879.php |
The Federal Reserve is hitting the brakes on the U.S. economy in an effort to bring inflation under control. The central bank is raising interest rates at the fastest pace since the early 1980s.
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The Federal Reserve is hitting the brakes on the U.S. economy in an effort to bring inflation under control. The central bank is raising interest rates at the fastest pace since the early 1980s.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State coach Mel Tucker hopes he doesn't have this long of an offseason ever again.
The Spartans fell short of being eligible for a bowl last year — a season after winning 11 games — in a fall marred by a melee in Michigan Stadium's tunnel and being humbled.
“Sometimes you have to get beat up and get your face kicked in before you can really lay the true foundation — and that's happened,” Tucker said. “I know our guys are going to compete and fight. We have a chip on our shoulder and we know the areas we need to improve.
"We addressed a lot in recruiting. We have a lot to prove. Going through a season like that can build character.”
Tucker will wrap up spring practice Saturday afternoon at Spartan Stadium, where fans will watch a 15-period practice that will include first-string offensive players scrimmaging against the team's top defense.
Entering his fourth year of leading the program, the 2021 Big Ten Coach of the Year is trying to move past his 2-5 debut, breakout second season and collapsing third year.
“It’s gong to be about what we do next,” Tucker said. “It’s not going to be about 11-2, 5-7 or whatever our record was in the COVID year.”
Even though quarterback Payton Thorne is back, Tucker has said more than once this season that he and every other returning starter — seven on offense and six on defense — has his job in jeopardy.
“Every position is open,” Tucker said.
Even Thorne's after starting the previous two seasons?
“It’s very clear that the quarterback position is open competition,” Tucker said. “He knows that, and all our quarterbacks know that. Competition is good. We’re expecting a pretty fierce competition.”
Thorne threw 27 touchdown passes and 10 interceptions two years ago with Kenneth Walker in the backfield. With Walker emerging as a rookie standout for the Seattle Seahawks, the Spartans struggled and Thorne was no exception. He threw one more interception and eight fewer touchdowns than in 2021, giving Noah Kim and Katin Houser a shot to start this year.
Kim threw one touchdown in three games last season, in his third year of college, and Houser threw two passes in one game as a highly touted freshman from California.
Tucker plans to let the competition linger, perhaps keeping it open during fall camp as the team prepares for its opener Sept. 2 at home against Central Michigan.
“It’s still an open competition and it’s going to be that way for a while,” he said.
Keon Coleman, who had seven touchdown receptions last season, likely will be the go-target regardless of who is the quarterback.
On defense, the Spartans are hoping to pick off more passes after they had just two interceptions last season.
“It’s a huge point of emphasis for us,” Tucker said. “We added some players defensively that we think are going to help us, but we have a ways to go.”
Tucker mined the portal, looking for experienced help on both sides of the ball with 12 transfers.
Tunmise Adeleye, a five-star defensive end when he signed with Texas A&M, will have a chance to help right away.
Jaren Mangham, who played for Tucker at Colorado before transferring to South Florida, and former Connecticut running back Nathan Carter are transfers talented enough to at least share carries with returning starter Jalen Berger.
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ROCHESTER, Mich., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BC Flight, a premier private jet service, providing jet travel to southeastern Michigan, introduces the 10-Hour Jet Card as a low-commitment option in private aviation.
BC Flight is a private jet charter service with access to aircraft – ranging from light jets like the Embraer Phenom 300 suited for quick escapes, to heavy jets like the spacious Bombardier Global 6000, intended for large groups and long distances. Offering service out of regional airports, like Oakland County International Airport (KPTK), their professional and experienced staff provide clients with concierge-level service, including itinerary arrangements, special accommodations, ground transportation, and more. BC Flight will secure the right aircraft to satisfy the customer and complete the client's itinerary request.
CEO and Founder, Thane Namy, is focused on providing a true white glove experience to clients. "Having flown privately over the years, I felt there was quite a bit more that could be added to improve the overall experience," says Namy. "A luxury travel experience goes beyond the jet", he continued. "While many operators and providers are reducing concierge-level services, we're not only providing a high level of service but including special touches individual to each client – all of which are inclusive in our competitive rates."
"Our focus continues to center around attentive and reliable service, while also lowering the cost of entry for customers," says Namy. With locations in Rochester and a nearly-completed office on-site at Oakland Pontiac Airport, this allows the BC Flight client support team to swiftly service local clients, which is another important touch point for the business. A Michigan native himself, Namy continued, "as a CEO of a communications business for 20 years prior to BC Flight, I learned that if you provide great service at a good value, Michiganders will reciprocate and reward you with continued business. I intend to offer that same value proposition to our clients."
There isn't a step along the client's journey that is left untouched by their dedicated staff. Upon arrival, a member of BC Flight's team will escort the client's vehicle directly to the aircraft. From there, the customer will step into their private jet cabin, and unwind within minutes. Complimentary refreshments like chilled champagne and a custom charcuterie board will be served, and a curated wellness care kit will be awaiting them once they board their flight. The company has partnered with one of Metro Detroit's premier specialty gourmet markets, Nino Salvaggio, to enhance the on-board experience. Working closely with their culinary experts and sommelier, BC Flight is putting thoughtful details into every element of their customer's journey.
For corporate travelers, BC Flight's offerings function as an innovative business accelerator. Company owners and CEOS can utilize the company's jet card program to stimulate growth by reinforcing employee retention and increasing time savings. From attracting seasoned executives and other top tier talent to leveraging jet travel for important executive retreats, the BC Flight Jet Card program is a useful tool that benefits both individuals and companies as a whole. "For example," explains Namy, "this jet card allows company heads to fly in and out of most US locations on the same day, and be back home in time for dinner with their families."
This summer, BC Flight will partner with the Rocket Mortgage Classic at the Delta Dental Pairings Party and Pro-Am. As an official sponsor, the private jet charter service is giving away a 3-hour flight on a classic light jet to one lucky amateur player attending the Pairings Party on June 27th. During the Pro Am on June 28th, BC Flight will sponsor the Closest to the Pin Contest, awarding another two winning players with a luxury gift. "As a lifelong local, I'm proud to see Rocket Mortgage and the PGA TOUR bring such wonderful talent to our community," says Namy. "I'm thrilled to support an event that makes a meaningful impact both locally and beyond, and I look forward to what the future has in store for this tournament."
The company's recently released 10-Hour Jet Card is especially attractive for those clients who fly occasionally, yet want to avoid the maintenance associated with private jet ownership. For clients who fly more often, BC Flight has 25-hour, 50-hour, and 100-hour jet cards available, fit for leisure and business travelers alike. It enables growing businesses – small to medium-sized – to leverage the benefits of private aviation without the high cost. With reliable service, competitive pricing, and one of the lowest jet card commitments available, the company is transforming private aviation into a practical, yet truly relaxing travel option.
BC Flight: 419 Golf View Lane, Rochester, MI 48309. www.bcflight.com. 248.805.8500. For press inquiries, contact corporate@bcflight.com.
About BC Flight. Based in Rochester, Michigan, BC Flight is an Air Charter Broker that provides private jet charter services to discerning clientele in Metro-Detroit and beyond. With a network of 1,000+ carriers, they are skilled in delivering the most comfortable and efficient private air experience to each client. Founded on the idea that thoughtful service begets luxury, BC Flight is redefining what it means to fly private. With true white glove service and a love of aviation at the core of their DNA, BC Flight operates under the idea that exceeding customers' expectations is the key to their success.
About the Rocket Mortgage Classic. The Rocket Mortgage Classic made history in 2019 as the first PGA TOUR event ever held in the city of Detroit, and has continued to make a positive and lasting impact on the city and its residents through its multi-year Changing the Course campaign, established in 2020 to end the digital divide in Detroit and ensure digital accessibility for all city residents. The Rocket Mortgage Classic was the most awarded event during the 2018-19 PGA TOUR season, being recognized for "Best Special Event" (then known as the AREA 313 Celebrity Challenge) and "Best Tournament Sales" as well as being honored with the first "Fair Way Award" for its diversity and inclusion initiatives. More information is available at RocketMortgageClassic.com and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@RocketClassic).
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HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Essent Group Ltd. (ESNT) on Friday reported fourth-quarter net income of $147.4 million.
On a per-share basis, the Hamilton, Bermuda-based company said it had profit of $1.37.
The mortgage insurance and reinsurance holding company posted revenue of $230 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $831.4 million, or $7.72 per share. Revenue was reported as $1 billion.
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WCIA — On this week’s edition of the Sunday No Huddle, Andy Olson and IlliniBoard.com’s Robert Rosenthal talk the Illini’s big win over Chattanooga to complete the an undefeated nonconference season. They talk what to take away from this game, where the team stands heading into Big Ten play, and more. | 2022-09-25T23:49:04+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/your-illini-nation/sunday-no-huddle-9-25-22/ |
Police: Man caught flushing stash had nearly 50 pounds of pot
BIBB COUNTY, Ga. (Gray News) – Police in Georgia say a man who was caught flushing his stash down the toilet had nearly 50 pounds worth of marijuana.
In a Facebook post, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said their Special Investigations Unit was called to a home Tuesday morning to serve several arrest warrants on 42-year-old Joseph Benjamin Griffin II.
While serving the warrants, the sheriff’s office said task force members discovered Griffin was attempting to flush a large amount of pot.
The Special Investigations unit arrived and gained permission to search the home and Griffin’s rental car, finding about 47 pounds of marijuana in the home.
They then searched Griffin’s vehicle where they found more bags of prepackaged marijuana, a handgun and $12,600 in cash.
Griffin was then arrested for the warrants that were served and charged with two counts of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, an alcohol offense, possession of a firearm during the commission to commit certain felonies, fleeing or eluding a police officer, three counts of traffic or motor vehicle offenses and aggressive driving. Police say Griffin also violated his probation.
Griffin is currently being held in the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center without bond.
Anyone with information related to this investigation is urged to contact the sheriff’s office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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(KTLA) – Get ready to enter the world of Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach: Universal Studios Hollywood has announced the opening date for Super Nintendo World.
The highly anticipated addition to the California theme park will open to the public on Feb. 17, 2023, according to a news release. Attractions will include video game-themed shops, a restaurant, immersive areas and a “Mario Kart”-inspired ride.
“Put on the special goggles and battle Team Bowser on iconic Mario Kart courses alongside Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach,” reads a description of “Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge.” The ride, which incorporates augmented-reality technology, will allow riders to “collect coins and throw shells,” much like the video-game series.
Guests can also experience interactive gameplay throughout Super Nintendo World with their “Power-Up Bands” bracelet. The bands have multiple uses, including the ability to collect and store digital coins and keys, enjoy unique interactions with characters, and more, the release said.
Bands come in six designs and can be purchased at Super Nintendo World retail shops throughout the park and at CityWalk.
Super Nintendo World’s only dining option, at least as it currently stands, is the Toadstool Café, featuring dishes designed by “Chef Toad,” according to the Universal Studios Hollywood site. Menu items will include Toadstool Cheesy Garlic Knots, Super Mushroom Soup, Piranha Plant Caprese, Mario Bacon Cheeseburger, Luigi Pesto Chicken Burger, “?” Block Tiramisu and Princess Peach Cupcakes, according to the release.
Guests can visit the Universal Studios Hollywood website for more information.
The original Super Nintendo World opened in Feb. 2021 at Universal Studios Japan. Additional versions of Super Nintendo World are also scheduled to open at Universal Studios Singapore and Universal’s Epic Universe (at Universal Orlando Resort in Florida) in 2025. | 2022-12-14T21:36:15+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/super-nintendo-world-universal-studios-hollywood-announces-opening-date/ |
SEMINOLE, Fla. (WFLA) — Dive teams searching for a missing Florida man found two cars submerged in a lake in Seminole that had been there for over 40 years.
Crews found the vehicles in Lake Blossom while searching for Robert David Helphrey, an Army veteran who has not been seen for nearly 17 years. He was last spotted leaving a bar in Palm Harbor at around midnight on May 26, 2006, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
A 1960s Dodge Coronet and 1950s Volkswagen Beetle were removed from the lake Monday by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office dive team, assisted by the Sunshine State Sonar Search Team and Recon Dive Recovery.
“Everyone involved knew this was going to be an extremely challenging task considering the age and condition of the vehicles,” Sunshine State Sonar Search Team wrote on Facebook.
Photos from Monday’s removal showed the mangled frames of the vehicles being lifted from the water. On Facebook, Recon Dive Recovery said the Dodge was more intact before the recovery process began.
“A boom truck was unavailable for an upward pull, and waters were too shallow for effective lift bag operations with the slings available,” Recon Dive Recovery wrote.
Sunshine State Sonar Search Team said the Coronet had a license plate from Ohio in 1974. It is not clear how the vehicles ended up in the lake.
On the night Helphrey disappeared, he had planned to meet with another man, but the man said he never showed up. Helphrey hasn’t been heard from since.
The sheriff’s office said Helphrey was the manager of a successful restaurant in Palm Harbor called the Thirsty Marlin. He left behind a daughter and a dog.
The vehicles located by divers were not related to the missing veteran’s case, Sunshine State Sonar Search Team said. If you have any information about Helphrey’s disappearance, contact the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. | 2023-03-16T15:10:11+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/search-for-missing-florida-veteran-turns-up-cars-submerged-for-over-40-years/ |
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court has dropped the authorities’ lawsuit to restrict the parental rights of a single father convicted of discrediting the army and sentenced to prison following his daughter’s antiwar sketch at school, a prominent rights group involved in the case said Friday.
Child services officials earlier this week had announced they would withdraw the lawsuit to restrict the parental rights of Alexei Moskalyov and Olga Sitchikhina, the separated parents of 13-year-old Maria whose antiwar drawing set in motion a swift and ruthless crackdown against her father.
OVD-Info, a prominent rights group involved in the case, reported Friday that the court in Moskalyov’s hometown of Yefremov has dropped the lawsuit, citing his lawyer, Vladimir Biliyenko. Biliyenko called it an important moral victory, the group said, and thanked “all caring people who worried about this family.”
Moskalyov, 54, was convicted of discrediting the army and sentenced to two years in prison last month over social media comments critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The charges against him were brought under a law adopted shortly after Russian troops rolled into the neighboring country in February 2022.
According to his lawyer Biliyenko and supporters, Moskalyov’s troubles began after his daughter drew an antiwar picture at school in Yefremov that depicted missiles flying over a Russian flag at a woman and child, and said “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine.” The school called police, the girl was questioned and Moskalyov was fined for critical comments on social media, they said.
Months later, his apartment was raided and a criminal case was opened against him. Last month, he was placed under house arrest and his daughter was placed in the orphanage. He escaped from under house arrest before the verdict was announced by a court in Yefremov on March 28, but two days later was detained in neighboring Belarus. Belarusian rights group Viasna said he was extradited to Russia. His whereabouts remain unknown.
In addition to criminal charges against Moskalyov, the authorities filed a lawsuit to restrict him and Maria’s mother Sitchikhina in their parental rights. Moskalyov had raised Maria alone as a single father after Sitchikhina left and started another family in a different part of Russia. Earlier this month, however, Sitchikhina picked Maria up from the orphanage and said she would be taking care of her.
Yefremov child service officials said in an online statement this week that now Maria is with her mother, “they have a good relationship” and she “started studying (in school) again,” the reasons for their lawsuit “have been eliminated.” | 2023-04-21T21:58:08+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/russian-dad-convicted-in-antiwar-case-keeps-parental-rights/ |
Georgia will ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people younger than 18, under a new law signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday.
Legislators gave final approval to the law on Tuesday, despite impassioned pleas from Democrats and LGBTQ advocates against what has become the most fiercely contested bill of Georgia's 2023 legislative session. The Republican governor signed the bill in private, without the ceremony he sometimes uses to celebrate new laws.
Senate Bill 140 is part of a nationwide effort by conservatives to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows. Governors in Mississippi, Utah and South Dakota have signed similar bills.
“I appreciate the many hours of respectful debate and deliberation by members of the General Assembly that resulted in final passage of this bill,” Kemp said in a statement. “As Georgians, parents and elected leaders, it is our highest responsibility to safeguard the bright, promising future of our kids — and SB 140 takes an important step in fulfilling that mission.”
SEE MORE: The effect of transgender athlete bans on youth sports
Opponents say they believe the new law is an unconstitutional infringement on parents' rights. The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia said it would “use every legal means at our disposal” to overturn the law shortly after Kemp signed it. Judges have — at least temporarily — blocked laws limiting gender-affirming treatment of transgender youth in Arkansas and Alabama.
"It’s disturbing how quickly the governor acts to sign bills that take away people’s rights,” ACLU of Georgia Executive Director Andrea Young said in a statement.
Doctors would still be able to prescribe medicines to block puberty under the Georgia law, which takes effect July 1. It also says that minors who are already receiving hormone therapy will be allowed to continue.
Supporters say the law's restrictions prevent children from making decisions they might later regret. Cole Muzio, president of the conservative Christian group Frontline Policy Action, had pushed for even stronger prohibitions. While he applauded Kemp signing the measure, he also called it “one of the weakest in the country," promising more efforts at restrictions.
“Gov. Kemp has never been afraid to protect children and we appreciate his continued commitment to standing against radical and harmful agendas,” Muzio said in a statement.
SEE MORE: Protecting families who travel for gender-affirming care
But opponents say the measure is founded on disinformation and a desire to open a new front in the culture war to please conservative Republican voters, arguing it attacks vulnerable children and intrudes on private medical decisions.
Critics said the measure will require physicians to violate medical standards of care and that Republicans had abandoned their previous support for parents' rights to make choices.
“This legislation is a clear attack on the rights of transgender children, their parents, and the medical community in Georgia as a whole,” Jeff Graham, the executive director of LGBTQ-rights group Equality Georgia, said in a statement. “Parents, working in collaboration with their medical teams and adhering to standards of care, should be able to make decisions regarding their child’s healthcare.”
The bill was amended to remove a clause that specifically shielded physicians from criminal and civil liability. That change was pushed for by conservative groups that want people to be able to sue their doctor if they later regret their treatment, although it’s unclear how large that group might be.
Transgender youth and parents heavily lobbied against the bill in recent weeks, warning lawmakers were further marginalizing a group already prone to taking their own lives at disturbingly high rates.
Republicans denied they wish anyone harm, saying they had children's best interest at heart and wanted people to be able to obtain counseling. | 2023-03-24T21:31:19+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/georgia-law-will-ban-most-transgender-care-for-kids-under-18 |
BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen®, the world's leading breast cancer organization, will hold an in-person Race for the Cure to raise critical funds that support breast cancer patients by breaking down barriers to timely, quality care that create poor breast health outcomes. The Race will be held on October 2 at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
"We look forward to creating a community for anyone impacted by breast cancer as we gather, in person, for this year's Race. Funds raised from the Race for the Cure will further Komen's ability to meet the needs of patients and advance our health equity revolution, so everyone gets the care they need," said Stacie Spitzkoff, State Executive Director of New York at Susan G. Komen.
John Dias, reporter for CBS New York, and Natalie Duddridge, anchor/reporter for CBS New York, will serve as Emcees of the event.
Participants can expect to enjoy the following at the Race:
- Hope Village, a place for survivors and those living with metastatic breast cancer to gather
- We Remember Area where attendees can hang a photo or message about the person they're remembering
- Pillar Tents where attendees can learn more about Komen's four pillars – Research, Care, Community and Action
- Moving program featuring the Pathway of Hope followed by a 5K Race/Walk through Prospect Park
Komen Race for the Cure
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sunday, October 2, 2022
7:30 AM EVENT OPENS
8:45 AM OPENING CEREMONY
9 AM RACE
Register Online
https://www.komen.org/greaternycrace
Susan G. Komen® is the world's leading nonprofit breast cancer organization, working to save lives and end breast cancer forever. Komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting this disease across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the U.S. and in countries worldwide. We advocate for patients, drive research breakthroughs, improve access to high-quality care, offer direct patient support and empower people with trustworthy information. Founded by Nancy G. Brinker, who promised her sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would end the disease that claimed Suzy's life, Komen remains committed to supporting those affected by breast cancer today, while tirelessly searching for tomorrow's cures. Visit komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN. Connect with us on social at www.komen.org/contact-us/follow-us/.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s winning streak barreled into a fourth day Thursday following the latest signal that inflation is easing its chokehold on the economy.
The S&P 500 rose 37.88, or 0.8%, to 4,510.04 and its highest close since April 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 47.71, or 0.1%, to 34,395.14, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 219.61, or 1.6%, to 14,138.57 as Big Tech stocks led the way.
The S&P 500 is on track for its seventh winning week in the last nine after more data raised hopes that inflation is cooling enough to get the Federal Reserve to soon end its blistering run of hikes to interest rates. Inflation at the wholesale level slowed more than expected in June, and prices paid by producers were just 0.1% higher during the month than a year earlier. That’s down from 11.2% inflation last summer.
High inflation has been the main reason investors have been fearing a possible recession, because of how high the Federal Reserve has cranked interest rates to get prices under control. High rates undercut inflation by bluntly slowing the entire economy and hurting prices for investments. They can also cause unanticipated parts of the economy to break.
Traders remain nearly convinced the Fed will raise the federal funds rate at its next meeting in two weeks to its highest level since 2001. But this week’s inflation data has also pushed traders to build bets for that to be the final rate increase of this cycle.
A report on Wednesday showed that prices consumers paid in June were 3% higher than a year earlier, down from inflation of more than 9% last summer. It’s been a “cool summer breeze,” as Deutsche Bank economists describe it.
Treasury yields fell further in the bond market as traders pared bets for Fed rate hikes later this year.
The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 3.76% from 3.86% late Wednesday and from 3.98% late Tuesday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year Treasury yield fell to 4.63% from 4.75% late Wednesday and from 4.89% late Tuesday. It moves more on expectations for action by the Fed.
The drop for yields accelerated after James Bullard said in the afternoon that he’s stepping down as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank to join Purdue University’s business school as its dean next month. He was one of the loudest voices at the Fed pushing for higher rates to control inflation.
Easier interest rates help all kinds of investments. But many investors see big technology and other high-growth stocks among the biggest beneficiaries.
That had Amazon, Alphabet and Nvidia among the strongest forces pushing up the S&P 500. Amazon gained 2.7% after it said the first day of its annual Prime Day event on Tuesday was the biggest sales day in its history.
Alphabet rose 4.7% after Google said it’s rolling out Bard, its chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, to more countries around the world and launching new features for it.
Nvidia, which has been at the center of a frenzy on Wall Street around AI, rose 4.7%.
PepsiCo added 2.4% after it beat analysts’ profit expectations for the spring. It saw lower demand for drinks and snacks, but higher prices helped its earnings. PepsiCo also raised its forecasts for results for the full year.
The earnings reporting season is just getting underway, and JPMorgan Chase will lead a barrage of banks on Friday that will tell investors how much they made during the spring. Expectations overall are dim, and analysts are forecasting the sharpest drop in earnings for S&P 500 companies since the pandemic was walloping the global economy in the spring of 2020.
A resilient job market has nevertheless been keeping the economy out of a recession. A report on Thursday showed fewer workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected. To be sure, too strong of a job market could also push the Federal Reserve to get more aggressive about interest rates and inflation.
While inflation is showing encouraging signals, Wall Street may be piling too quickly into a consensus that it will keep cooling enough for the Federal Reserve to ease up on rates and prevent a recession, warned Chun Wang, senior research analyst and co-portfolio manager at Leuthold.
In a report, Wang said the market may be underestimating the risk that inflation stays stuck at 3% to 4% in the next six to 12 months and that “the path forward for both inflation and the Fed policy is not a no-brainer at all. We get the sneaking suspicion that the current soft landing narrative will be seriously challenged before the first leaf falls from the tree.”
On the losing side of Wall Street Thursday was Exxon Mobil. It fell 1.8% after saying it would buy Denbury, which owns carbon dioxide pipelines, for $4.9 billion in stock. Denbury fell 1.3%.
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AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama, Matt Ott and Zen Soo contributed. | 2023-07-13T21:48:14+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/ap-stock-market-today-asian-shares-jump-on-wall-streets-return-to-its-highest-level-in-over-a-year/ |
Former President Trump on Friday urged Republican lawmakers to dig in on debt ceiling talks just as negotiations with the White House were paused over disagreements.
“Republicans should not make a deal on the debt ceiling unless they get everything they want (Including the ‘kitchen sink’),” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “That’s the way the Democrats have always dealt with us. Do not fold!!!”
Trump’s post came as Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) top negotiator, emerged from a meeting with White House officials in the Capitol Friday voicing frustration that the sides had not made more progress and accusing the Democrats of being the cause.
The former president is still influential in parts of the House Republican conference in particular, and his plea for the GOP to avoid making a deal that is good for both sides could throw a wrench into talks.
Trump in a CNN town hall event last week had suggested Republicans could just let the country default, which experts have warned would bring catastrophic economic consequences.
Negotiators appointed by President Biden and McCarthy have been meeting this week in an attempt to reach an agreement and are expected to continue to talk in the coming days. Biden and McCarthy, along with other congressional leaders, are likely to reconvene next week when the president returns from Japan.
Friday’s development marked a start shift from just a day earlier, when the White House and McCarthy had signaled optimism about the direction of talks.
The Treasury Department has warned the U.S. could default on its debt if lawmakers do not act to raise the debt limit by June 1. | 2023-05-19T19:15:45+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hill-politics/trump-urges-hardline-position-as-debt-ceiling-talks-paused-do-not-fold/ |
CHIBA, Japan, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hurley, the iconic action sports brand, scored gold at the X Games competition with an incredible win by skateboarder Elliot Sloan during the Skateboard Vert Best Trick contest. A huge accomplishment by Hurley's skateboarding veteran who follows his 2022 win in the same category.
The 20-minute jam session with Sloan saw multiple failed attempts before landing the gold-winning Cab heelflip Indy 720 in front of 30,000 spectators at ZOZO Marine Stadium on Tokyo Bay. His win was amongst over 100 athletes from 20 countries, with 33 medals being spread across 11 events in three sports. Check out Elliot's winning run here.
Sloan, a 34-year-old New York City native, says of the win "The roller coaster of emotions! I was so bummed because I thought that was it. And then I realized I had another run. So there was a little bit of hope…I can't believe I made that one!" "It's nice to know that I can still do these 10 years after winning my first one. Super grateful for that," says the X Games gold medal winner Sloan.
Elliot Sloan's favorite Hurley t-shirts he wore to win gold can be bought here.
ABOUT HURLEY: Born from water, Hurley was founded in Huntington Beach in 1999 on the principle of empowering and fueling the voice of the next generation. Through the lens of inclusion, Hurley has partnered with the world's best surfers, snowboarders, skateboarders, musicians and artists, and is an iconic global youth culture brand with roots sunk deep in beach lifestyle. Disruptive innovation is our unique blend of style and performance and has Hurley sitting as the global benchmark for performance both in and out of the water. The world of Hurley can be found on www.hurley.com, and our Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram are where our journeys are logged.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP)Texas basketball coach Chris Beard was arrested and charged with choking his fiancee and fired less than a month later when the university said he was ”unfit” to continue leading the Longhorns program.
Now the third-degree felony charge is dismissed, and so is the threat of up to 10 years in prison. Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza announced Wednesday that based on the case evidence and the fiancee’s wishes not to prosecute, he likely could not get a conviction.
Even when initial police reports documented other evidence such as bite marks and an abrasion on her face, prosecutors had little chance of winning a conviction without a cooperative witness, domestic violence experts say.
Beard issued his first public statement on the matter Thursday, saying he was pleased the charge was dismissed. He also said he was ”sorry and deeply remorseful” to his family, friends, players, staff and Texas fans.
WHY WAS BEARD ARRESTED?
Beard’s fiancee, Randi Trew, called 911 on Dec. 12 after the two had a physical altercation at his house. According to the arrest affidavit, Trew told police that Beard hit her, bit her and threw her around. She also said he choked her from behind to the point she could not breathe for up to five seconds.
Beard was arrested on a charge of felony strangulation/suffocation-family violence and spent more than 12 hours in the Travis County jail before he was released. The university suspended Beard without pay later that day. He was fired on Jan. 5.
WHAT EVIDENCE CHANGED AFTER THE ARREST?
Trew issued a one-paragraph statement on Dec. 23 stating Beard did not strangle her. Trew also said she did not believe Beard intended to harm her that night and that she never wanted him to be arrested and prosecuted.
Trew’s statement did not address why she called 911 and other evidence cited by police, such as the bite marks and bruising. But critically, it specifically refuted the key element of the strangulation/suffocation charge and undercut the prosecution’s case.
”When a survivor is speaking publicly saying it didn’t happen, that makes it tough” for a felony prosecutor to proceed, said Jeana Lungwitz, clinical law professor at the University of Texas and founder and director of the school’s Domestic Violence Clinic. ”What made it a felony (charge) was the strangulation.”
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who are victims of sexual abuse or domestic violence, but Trew went public with her account of the confrontation.
”When a survivor calls law enforcement, they just want whatever is happening to stop,” Lungwitz said. ”They often don’t want bad things to happen to their partners. They don’t want them to lose their job. They don’t want them to go to jail. They are scared and just want them to stop in that moment.”
COULD BEARD RETURN TO TEXAS?
There appears to be no chance of that. Beard still had five years left on a guaranteed contract but was left with nothing when Texas fired him ”for cause.” His contract had a clause that allowed him to be fired if he was charged with a felony or committed other behavior unbecoming of his position or that reflected poorly on the university.
Texas officials left no doubt about how the administration viewed the matter. Vice President for Legal Affairs Jim David wrote Beard’s attorney, telling him the coach engaged in ”unacceptable behavior that makes him unfit to serve as head coach at our university.”
Whether prosecutors dropped the charge or not would not determine whether Beard engaged in conduct unbecoming of the school, Davis wrote in the Jan. 5 letter. Texas officials declined to comment Thursday.
Beard could try to sue the school, but it’s unclear if he will. His attorney, Perry Minton, has said he doesn’t believe Beard violated any portion of his contract.
”I am pleased with the announcement that the charges against me have been dismissed. While I always had faith and confidence in the truth and this outcome, it has been extremely challenging to wait patiently and not publicly respond,” Beard said in his statement.
”I’m sorry and deeply remorseful to my family, friends, all my players and staff both most recent and past, and everyone at my alma mater The University of Texas, including the fans and supporters who were affected by this situation,” Beard said.
Texas has been led by interim coach Rodney Terry since Beard was suspended.
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DALLAS, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Burgher-Ray Ranch Group, led by expert agents David Burgher and Harlan Ray of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty, is thrilled to bring to market the incomparable C7 Ranch in Cleburne, Texas. Just 50 minutes southwest of Dallas and 30 minutes south of Fort Worth, this uniquely luxurious property is ideal as a weekend retreat or full-time residence. Currently used as an equestrian and recreational ranch, the C7 comes with multiple homes, a covered cutting-horse and riding arena, barns, horse stalls, shop areas, swimming pool, soccer field, grass tennis court, skeet-shooting range, private lake, airplane hangar and grass airstrip.
Addressed as 3161 County Road 808, the C7 Ranch is two miles west of Interstate I-35W in the heart of Johnson County and just minutes northeast of Cleburne, population 30,000. Accessed through a stone entry feature with code-access iron gates, the ranch's 67+/- acres offer a diverse combination of level ground, rolling topography and fertile bottomland, with both heavily wooded areas and open pastureland, making it ideal for a combination of cattle and wildlife. Most of the property's soil is a fine, sandy loam.
The centerpiece of the ranch is the stunning main residence. Designed by Cornerstone Architects of Austin, Texas, and built in 2017, it offers nearly 4,600 square feet of space and style. Its contemporary exterior is a combination of stone and 150-year-old reclaimed wood, accented with a standing-seam metal roof and large, custom-made metal front doors. The interior features large open areas and high ceilings, many with beams, and floors that are a combination of stone and wood. The luxuries are many, including grand covered porches, a great room with a stone fireplace, an open-plan gourmet kitchen with a large seating island and four spacious bedrooms, each with a private bath.
The C7 Ranch is exceptional in every way. Well-built and well-maintained, it makes a clear statement that no corners were cut and that attention to detail is everywhere — from its custom lighting at night to its abundant cross fencing that provides a variety of turnouts for horses and livestock. Combined with its resort-like luxury amenities that are unusual for a ranch — the soccer field, tennis court, skeet-shooting range, airplane hangar and airstrip — it is the perfect blend of rural life and refined living. The C7 Ranch, 3161 County Road 808, Cleburne, Texas, is offered for $6,984,000.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An American Airlines flight from Texas to New Mexico was evacuated Sunday after landing at the Albuquerque airport because of a security threat, authorities said.
All 179 people aboard Flight 928 from Dallas-Fort Worth were taken off the jet in the morning at Albuquerque International Sunport and were bused to the terminal, airport officials said. No injuries were reported.
FBI officials in Albuquerque did not disclose the nature of the security threat but said that the matter was being investigated and that no other information was available.
American Airlines passengers flying out of the airport were expected to see flight delays while the episode is investigated, airport officials said. | 2022-10-02T19:32:11+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/FBI-jetliner-evacuated-in-Albuquerque-after-17481773.php |
COVINGTON, Va. – The community now knows the mascot that will represent the newly consolidated Alleghany Highlands Public Schools.
Monday during a ceremony, a cougar was unveiled as the district’s mascot, along with new logos and school colors – light blue and navy.
“I’m a big fan of the cougar on the rock. We think it’s a very striking image,” said Alleghany Highlands Superintendent Kim Halterman.
Before the final decision was made, students got to voice their opinions on what they wanted to see represent their school, and many were pleased with the final product.
“I really love the colors. I picked them when I was voting so I’m excited for new jerseys and stuff,” said Alleghany High School Freshman, Kiera Lowman.
“Honestly I like the colors. I think it’s a really nice pattern and I think it will look really good on a football jersey,” said Covington High School Junior, Rocklynn Phillips.
The central office of the city and county school districts combined last Summer.
This Summer, classes, and athletics will consolidate bringing changes for students like Phillips.
His current school, Covington High, will be renamed to Covington Middle School and be the one middle school for the district.
Next year, Phillips will be attending and hopefully playing sports for Alleghany High School, the one high school for the district.
“I was very nervous about it at first. I didn’t know if I was going to play or not, hopefully, I’ll play, but it shows who wants it the most, because who wants it the most shows who’s competitive and who wants to win,” Phillips said when asked about the consolidation.
While change is on the horizon for these students and the entire community, school leaders are optimistic the transition will continue smoothly.
“It’s a lot of change actually for our entire community and it’s been really important to us to communicate along the way with that. And to continue to hear from our stakeholders about that. So we really want this to be more opportunities for our community and more cooperation and collaboration,” said Halterman. | 2023-01-31T21:57:16+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/01/31/home-of-the-cougars-alleghany-highlands-public-schools-unveils-new-mascot/ |
NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors asked a Texas jury Wednesday to sentence a woman to death for killing a pregnant woman and stealing her unborn daughter from her womb.
The appeal came as the penalty phase of Taylor Parker’s capital murder trial began for the October 2020 murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock and theft of her unborn baby. The Bowie County jury previously found Parker guilty of capital murder.
Prosecutor Kelley Crisp told jurors that the evidence would show Parker, 29, faked a pregnancy and repeatedly lied before killing Simmons-Hancock, 21, at the woman’s New Boston home on Oct. 9, 2020, to get the infant she claimed to have been carrying. The baby also died.
Parker’s attorneys hope to persuade the jury to spare Parker’s life and let her serve life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Defense attorney Jeff Harrelson said they would show that Parker was mentally ill.
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This story has been corrected to show Reagan Simmons-Hancock died Oct. 9, 2020. | 2022-10-14T22:59:18+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-death-penalty-sought-for-killer-of-pregnant-texas-woman/ |
(WXYZ) — Heartbreaking images of students barricading themselves in classrooms, bathrooms, or any space they could find, came in on Monday night as an active shooter was on the loose.
The shooting started around 8:18 p.m. Monday, and three people were killed and five injured across two crime scenes.
The suspected shooter was found early Tuesday morning and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police approached.
RELATED: Live coverage of the mass shooting at Michigan State University
Good Morning America talked to a Michigan State University student who says he heard the gunman shoot inside his classroom at least 4 times. He says two students in the class were injured during the shooting.
One student our Alicia Smith spoke with, a freshman from Windsor, Ontario, was alone in an off-campus apartment.
Jack Tell said he barricaded three separate doors with dressers and chairs, grabbed a hockey stick, and hid in a bathroom closet for three hours.
"Being a part of an active shooter situation. It's not a drill. Was this something that you ever, ever expected to have to go through?" I asked.
"I mean, obviously, when you see stuff like the Oxford shooting and just you think about it sometimes once in a while it crosses your mind, but you never really prepare and think that that's something that's going to happen to you while you're at school. So, it was definitely crazy and unexpected for sure," he said.
Dell said he is still kind of in shock, but he was able to call his parents to let them know he was OK.
Our Keenan Smith is live Tuesday morning from East Lansing. He caught up with a father who drove hours from Illinois to East Lansing on Monday night to see his daughter, after he heard about the mass shooting.
He said he drove 5 1/2 hours from Champaign, Illinois as fast as he could, while checking in with her often. | 2023-02-14T15:03:35+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/michigan-state-students-recount-hiding-wherever-they-can-during-active-shooter |
As shutoffs resume after more than two years, low- and moderate-income customers will continue to have assistance with bills and may be eligible for new protections
UNIONDALE, N.Y., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Utility service shutoffs for nonpayment have begun to resume across New York State, and PSEG Long Island expects to resume shutoffs on July 12. Continuing more than two years of outreach efforts, PSEG Long Island stands ready to work with customers with outstanding balances to avoid interruptions to their service. Service shutoff for nonpayment is always the last resort, and customers who are behind on their bills can still call 1-800-490-0025 to get help and protect their energy service from disconnection.
"We want to reassure our customers that if they're struggling with their energy bills, we are here to help. We are ready and willing to partner with households who have fallen behind on their bills, as we have been throughout the pandemic," said Rick Walden, vice president of Customer Services, PSEG Long Island. "That commitment is not going away. We offer many programs to help people who are behind on their bills, including deferred payment agreements, low-income electric rates, and more."
How customers can avoid a shutoff
- A deferred payment agreement, allowing qualified customers to pay down their outstanding account balance by as little as $10 a month in addition to the current bill, protects customers from shutoffs.
- Low- and moderate-income customers who receive certain externally administered financial assistance benefits and enroll in PSEG Long Island's Household Assistance Program will be protected from shutoffs until Sept. 1.
- New York State Electric and Gas Bill Relief Program - Customers enrolled in PSEG Long Island's Household Assistance Program will automatically receive a credit toward their unpaid balance through May 1, 2022, via this new, state-run program. Currently, more than 14,000 PSEG Long Island customers will receive this credit. Customers who meet the eligibility requirements and have not yet enrolled in the Household Assistance Program have until Dec. 31 to enroll and receive this bill credit.
- Customers who have received a payment on their PSEG Long Island account through the New York State-administered Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) also qualify for the New York State Electric and Gas Bill Relief Program. As ERAP payments continue to be received, the New York State Electric and Gas Bill Relief Program will remain open through Dec. 31.
Customers with unpaid account balances should call PSEG Long Island at 1-800-490-0025 to determine if they are eligible for these or other financial assistance programs, and to develop individualized payment agreements.
"It's not too late. We know how hard it has been to manage household bills when your income has been affected," Walden said. "We want to work with our customers, make sure they know about assistance programs, and help them set up individualized payment agreements that avert a shutoff, letting them pay what they can now to prevent them from getting too far behind."
What to know about shutoffs:
- In March 2020, PSEG Long Island suspended all service shutoffs for nonpayment and continued this protection throughout the New York COVID-19 State of Emergency, which ended last summer.
- After the state of emergency ended, PSEG Long Island extended additional shutoff protections through the end of 2021.
- Following the practices of several electricity and gas providers across the state, PSEG Long Island will soon resume service shutoffs for accounts that do not respond to repeated efforts to establish a payment agreement.
- Shutoff of service for nonpayment is a last resort that only occurs after PSEG Long Island makes multiple efforts to contact and help the customer.
- Customers with unpaid balances who do not already have a deferred payment agreement should call 1-800-490-0025 so PSEG Long Island can assist them.
- If previous outreach efforts are unsuccessful, a PSEG Long Island representative will make a final attempt to contact the customer of record, in person, to accept a payment and avoid a shutoff.
- When service is terminated, a service suspension notice will be left at the location with instructions on how to work with PSEG Long Island to reconnect.
Customers are beginning to take action
PSEG Long Island continues to partner with social service agencies and perform outreach to customers who have fallen behind on their bills, including letters informing them in advance about the resumption of shutoffs for nonpayment.
For the past seven months, PSEG Long Island field representatives have been making customer visits, connecting one-on-one with residential customers who have past-due account balances to discuss payment methods, accept a payment or work out a payment plan to pay down balances over time. In that time, representatives have visited with more than 47,000 residential customers and 10,000 of those customers have entered into deferred payment agreements. PSEG Long Island representatives work with customers to find the best solution for the household.
PSEG Long Island's Consumer Advocacy team also works year-round to provide customers with crucial information, utilizing email and social media, hosting educational webinars, and conducting proactive phone outreach. These outreaches also include energy efficiency tips, referrals for additional assistance for food insecurity and housing concerns, and help applying for the federally funded, statewide Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP).
When a new, state-administered program was established to provide eligible households up to $10,000 in unpaid bill forgiveness in the fall of 2021, PSEG Long Island mobilized to inform as many customers as possible, hosting a series of webinars that connected with more than 1,000 customers. The Consumer Advocacy team made thousands of phone calls to encourage customers to apply.
The combination of PSEG Long Island's efforts and New York State's own outreach resulted in more than 7,000 PSEG Long Island customers benefiting from this unique program – receiving $20 million of the $150 million total utility aid that had been made available statewide.
Where to learn more about available assistance
For more information on PSEG Long Island financial assistance programs, visit https://www.psegliny.com/myaccount/customersupport/financialassistance. Programs available for customers, both internal and externally run, include:
- Emergency HEAP. $90 million in federal funding through Emergency HEAP was made available to help low- and middle-income New Yorkers avoid having their home heating disconnected or exhausting their heating source amid fuel price increases. This benefit has been extended through Aug. 31. If you are experiencing an emergency, you can apply for this benefit by reaching out to your local Department of Social Services location, which you can find here: https://otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/contacts/
- For low-income households facing no-heat situations, the State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance is also accepting applications for its heating equipment repair or replacement benefit. Eligible homeowners can now apply for up to $3,000 for repair or $6,500 for replacement of a furnace, boiler or other direct heating equipment necessary to keep the household's primary heating source working. Additionally, eligible households can receive energy efficiency services, which includes the cleaning of primary heating equipment to allow for its safe and efficient operation. You can apply for this benefit by reaching out to your local Department of Social Services location, which you can find here: https://otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/contacts/
- Household Assistance Program – PSEG Long Island's Household Assistance Program provides a monthly credit on electric bills for customers who receive benefits from specific federal and state assistance programs. Enrollment is open, and if approved, is effective for 18 months. It is also renewable. For more information, contact PSEG Long Island's Consumer Advocacy group at consumeradvocacyLI@pseg.com or visit www.psegliny.com/myaccount/customersupport/financialassistance.
- PSEG Long Island's Residential Energy Affordability Partnership (REAP) program can help income-eligible customers save energy and lower energy bills. It starts with a free In-Home Energy Survey and potentially free efficiency upgrades. For more information, visit https://www.psegliny.com/myaccount/customersupport/financialassistance/reap
PSEG Long Island also has other tools to help customers cut their energy costs:
- Home Energy Analyzer – a do-it-yourself online tool that uses a simulation model to validate how energy is used in the home.
- My Energy Profile – an online suite of easy-to-use tools that can help a customer understand energy usage and how to conserve it. With this tool, customers can track energy efficiency efforts over time and see comparisons to similar homes in the area.
- Energy Efficiency Rebates – PSEG Long Island offers rebates on products including LED light bulbs, advanced power strips and major appliances such as dryers and heat pump water heaters.
For more information on HEAP and federal programs, visit https://otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/.
For more information on energy and money saving programs and tips, visit https://www.psegliny.com/efficiency.
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LAS VEGAS, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of being in Las Vegas for two years, Mohegan Casino Las Vegas inside Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, part of Curio Collection by Hilton, has partnered with Virgin Voyages to give new Momentum Rewards Members the ability to play and earn a Virgin Voyages cruise on their first visit.
"We are always looking at new and unique ways to connect with our casino guests," said Joe Hasson, General Manager at Mohegan Casino Las Vegas. "This partnership with Virgin Voyages is truly a one-of-a-kind experience, and a first to Las Vegas experience."
To kick off this partnership, Mohegan Casino Las Vegas and Virgin Voyages are giving away five free 7-night Mediterranean Cruises via Virgin Voyages cruises. The giveaway is free to enter with a Momentum account, members can claim their drawing ticket through June 16 – 17 at the Cashier's Cage. The giveaway will take place on June 17 at 8:00 p.m. on the casino floor, must be present to win.
Recently named the top recipient of Cruise Critic's 2023 Cruisers' Choice Awards, securing the No. 1 placement across all categories, Virgin Voyages continues to win travelers over with its unrivaled value and unique approach inspired by the modern romance of sailing. For more information on Virgin Voyages, its new itineraries, and its stunning fleet of Lady Ships, visit www.virginvoyages.com.
"We're thrilled to see this partnership come to life and have the opportunity to share the ship experience with casino guests, especially when we know there's so much synergy between our brands", said Jennifer Wengert, Director, Casino Strategy and Partnerships. "From our adults only offering and elevated backdrop, to our commitment to incredible service, we see our beautiful lady ships as a seamless transition from the casino floor to playing on the high seas."
Momentum is Mohegan's exclusive rewards program. The more a guest plays, the faster they will elevate their Status Level, and the higher the status, the more amazing benefits the guest will earn at the casino's nearly 650 slot machines and 50 table games. Momentum Members begin at Core status, then move up to Ignite, Leap, Ascend and finally Soar. As a casino guest moves up, they will enjoy additional access, perks and personalized experiences throughout the entire resort in Las Vegas.
About Mohegan
Mohegan is the owner, developer, and manager of premier entertainment resorts in the United States, Canada, and Northern Asia. Mohegan's U.S. operations include resorts in Connecticut, Washington, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada; Canadian operations are based in Niagara Falls, Ontario; and Mohegan INSPIRE is located in Incheon, South Korea. The brand's iGaming division, Mohegan Digital, provides cutting-edge online gaming solutions to Mohegan's loyal fan base and meets the digital needs of customers on a global scale. Mohegan is owner and operator of Connecticut Sun, a professional basketball team in the WNBA. For more information on Mohegan and its properties, please visit www.mohegangaming.com.
About Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas is a reimagined and re-conceptualized casino resort. The property is part of Curio Collection by Hilton and has been awarded the AAA Four Diamond Award in its first year of operation. The integrated resort intermixes a passion for food and beverage with music and culture and features three hotel towers totaling over 1,500 Chambers and suites; the 60,000 sq. ft. Mohegan Casino Las Vegas operated by Mohegan and the Mohegan Sun Sportsbook powered by Betfred; a five-acre desert pool oasis including Élia Beach and a multi-functional event lawn; live music and entertainment theater with 4,600 capacity operated by AEG Presents; 24 Oxford showroom accommodating 650 guests; and an exclusive portfolio of twelve food and beverage venues including Kris Yenbamroong's Night + Market, the legendary Nobu, Michael Morton and David Morton's ONE Steakhouse, Kassi Beach House from restauranteur Nick Mathers, Casa Calavera by global hospitality company Tao Group, famous Afters Ice Cream, Pizza Forte by the Ferraro Family and signature Virgin Hotels restaurants and bars including The Kitchen at Commons Club, The Bar at Commons Club, The Shag Room and Funny Library Coffee Shop. The property is owned by JC Hospitality, LLC, in partnership with Juniper Capital Partners, Virgin Group, LiUNA, Fengate Asset Management, Dream and Orlando Development. The off-Strip playground is located at 4455 Paradise Road. For more information, visit www.virginhotelslv.com.
About Virgin Hotels
Virgin Hotels is a luxury lifestyle hospitality brand that combines heartfelt service and a personalized hotel experience inspired by the innovation and smart disruption that Sir Richard Branson's global Virgin Group has pioneered for over 50 years. Each property intermixes a passion for food and beverage with music, design, and culture, fusing with the local landscape and providing a vibrant and inclusive environment for travelers and locals alike. The current portfolio includes five hotels—Virgin Hotels Chicago, Virgin Hotels Dallas, Virgin Hotels Nashville, Virgin Hotels New Orleans, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, and newly launched Virgin Hotels Edinburgh. Locations in Glasgow and New York City are scheduled to debut in 2023, followed by Miami and Denver in 2025 as well as the launch of Virgin Residences. In addition, Virgin Hotels continues to explore hotel, conversions, and ground-up development in Boston, Los Angeles, Austin, Philadelphia, Seattle, London, and more.
About Curio Collection by Hilton
Curio Collection by Hilton is a global portfolio of more than 120 one-of-a-kind hotels and resorts handpicked for their distinct character. Curio Collection properties offer guests the ability to experience independent hotels, offering authentic, curated experiences through local offerings and elevated amenities, while providing the benefits of Hilton and its award-winning guest loyalty program Hilton Honors. Experience Curio Collection by Hilton by booking at curiocollection.com or through the industry-leading Hilton Honors app. Hilton Honors members who book directly through preferred Hilton channels have access to instant benefits. Learn more about Curio Collection by Hilton at stories.hilton.com/curio, and follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — At least 11 people were killed in Madagascar when police opened fire on a mob demanding that officials turn over to them four suspects held for allegedly kidnapping a child with albinism and killing the mother.
A crowd of about 300 to 400 angry residents gathered at the police station demanding the release of the four suspects so the crowd could deal with them. Police refused and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. When the mob kept advancing on the station, police opened fire.
“The gendarmes tried everything to avoid a confrontation or violence. They set up a security perimeter around the gendarmerie barracks and they told the crowd that we could talk to prevent bloodshed,” Gen. Andry Rakotondrazaka, commander of the national gendarmerie, said later Monday.
He said many of those in the crowd carried large machetes, other weapons with blades and sticks. When they threw stones at the police, the police opened fire, Rakotondrazaka said.
He said the killings are being investigated.
But the deputy of Ikongo district, Jean Brunelle Razafintsiandraofa, when reached by telephone said that he thought the protesters were not armed.
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina in a post on Facebook said he was sad to hear the news of that people were killed. He appealed for calm and confirmed the incident would be investigated.
More than a dozen kidnappings, assaults and murders of people with albinism have been reported in the past two years in various parts of Madagascar, according to figures published by UNICEF in March 2022.
About 40% of people in Madagascar approve of mob justice, according to a survey in 2019 by the Afrobarometer organization. | 2022-08-29T18:51:03+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-madagascar-police-fire-on-mob-attacking-station-11-killed/ |
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — A boy was shot and killed by police after his father stole a car in the southwestern Khuzestan province and drove off with him, Iranian authorities said.
Ruhollah Bigdeli, chief of police in Shushtar County, said — via Iran's official police website — that officers tried to stop the “stolen vehicle by shooting at it,” but the boy was caught in the crossfire and died on the spot.
Police said they issued the man several warnings before they started shooting, adding that he had a criminal record, including car theft and drug smuggling.
The Iranian Jamaran news website identified the boy as 9-year-old Morteza Delf Zaregani. They spoke to the father who accused the police of not issuing any warning before shooting.
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Morteza's photo was shared on social media, with people expressing sorrow for his death.
In November, 9-year-old Kian Pirfalak, was killed in a shooting that his mother blamed on security forces.
Pirfalak was shot and killed while passing with his parents through a street in the southwestern city of Izeh, in Khuzestan province, filled with demonstrators, during nationwide protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the country’s morality police. | 2023-06-10T12:05:59+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/10/world/iran-police-kill-9-year-old-caught-crossfire-after-his-father-stole-car-authorities-say/ |
BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered a Texas prison Tuesday where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.
Holmes, 39, could be seen from outside the prison’s gates walking into the federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, wearing jeans, a brown sweater and smiling as she spoke with two prison employees accompanying her.
The minimum-security facility — where the federal judge who sentenced Holmes in November recommended she be incarcerated — is about 95 miles (150 kilometers) northwest of Houston, where she grew up aspiring to become a technology visionary along the lines of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
As she begins her sentence, Holmes is leaving behind two young children — a son born in July 2021 a few weeks before the start of her trial and a 3-month old daughter who was conceived after a jury convicted her on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022.
She was free on bail up until Tuesday, most recently living in the San Diego area with the children’s father, William “Billy” Evans. The couple met in 2017 around the same time Holmes was under investigation for the collapse of Theranos, a startup she founded after dropping out of Stanford University when she was just 19.
While she was building up Theranos, Holmes grew closer to Ramesh, “Sunny” Balwani, who would become her romantic partner as well as an investor and fellow executive in the Palo Alto, California, company.
Together, Holmes and Balwani promised Theranos would revolutionize health care with a technology that could quickly scan for diseases and other problems with a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick.
The hype surrounding that purported breakthrough helped Theranos raise nearly $1 billion from enthralled investors, assemble an influential board of directors that include former Presidential cabinet members George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and James Mattis and turned Holmes into a Silicon Valley sensation with a fortune valued at $4.5 billion on paper in 2014.
But it all blew up after serious dangerous flaws in Theranos’ technology were exposed in a series of explosive articles in The Wall Street Journal that Holmes and Balwani tried to thwart. Holmes and Balwani, who had been secretly living together while running Theranos, broke up after the Journal’s revelations and the company collapsed. In 2018, the U.S. Justice Department charged both with a litany of white-collar crimes in a case aimed at putting a stop to the Silicon Valley practice of overselling the capabilities of a still-developing technology — a technique that became known as “fake it ’til you make it.”
Holmes admitted making mistakes at Theranos, but steadfastly denied committing crimes during seven often-fascinating days of testimony on the witness stand during her trial. At one point, she told the jury about being sexually and emotionally abused by Balwani while he controlled her in ways that she said clouded her thinking. Balwani’s attorney steadfastly denied Holmes allegations, which was one of the key reasons they were tried separately.
Balwani, 57, was convicted on 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in a trial that began two months after Holmes’ ended. He is currently serving a nearly 13-year sentence in a Southern California prison.
Maintaining she was treated unfairly during the trial, Holmes sought to remain free while she appeals her conviction. But that bid was rejected by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who presided over her trial, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, leaving her no other avenue left to follow but the one that will take her to prison nearly 20 years after she founded Theranos.
Attorneys representing Holmes did not immediately respond when contacted by The Associated Press for statement on Tuesday.
FPC Bryan, a minimum-security prison camp located encompasses about 37 acres (15 hectares) of land and houses about 650 women — including “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah, who was sentenced earlier this year to 6 1/2 years in prison for defrauding thousands of people in a yearslong telemarketing scam.
Most federal prison camps don’t even have fences and house those the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest security risk. The prison camps also often have minimal staffing and many of the people incarcerated there work at prison jobs.
According to a 2016 FPC Bryan inmate handbook, those in the Texas facility who are eligible to work can earn between 12 cents and $1.15 per hour in their job assignments, which include food service roles and factory employment operated by Federal Prison Industries.
Federal prison camps were originally designed with low security to make operations easier and to allow inmates tasked with performing work at the prison, like landscaping and maintenance, to avoid repeatedly checking in and out of a main prison facility. But the lax security opened a gateway for contraband, such as drugs, cellphones and weapons. The limited security has also led to a number of escapes from prison camps.
In November, a man incarcerated at another federal prison camp in Arizona pulled out a smuggled gun in a visitation area and tried to shoot his wife in the head. The gun jammed and no one was injured. But the incident exposed major security flaws at the facility and the agency’s director ordered a review of security at all federal prison camps around the U.S.
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Liedtke reported from San Francisco. AP U.S. Law Enforcement News Editor Mike Balsamo and AP Business Writer Wyatte Grantham-Philips contributed to this report. | 2023-05-31T15:11:10+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-elizabeth-holmes-enters-texas-prison-to-begin-11-year-sentence-for-notorious-blood-testing-hoax/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
08-10-16-32-36-45, Extra Shot: 21
(eight, ten, sixteen, thirty-two, thirty-six, forty-five; Extra Shot: twenty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $8,000,000 | 2022-07-26T04:04:06+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17328635.php |
Thanksgiving is almost here, and that means it’s time to start planning your holiday recipes! Mashed potatoes are a classic when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner, but you don’t have to make the same boring taters this year.
We’ve just discovered the best way to elevate mashed potatoes into a dish that will make your family truly thankful for your culinary skills. But, here’s the best part: This recipe for mashed potatoes with heavy cream is actually super easy to make.
While many people make mashed potatoes with heavy cream, most don’t know this secret. It comes from the French, of course. Chantilly potatoes are a classic French recipe — but don’t let the fancy name fool you. It just means potatoes made with whipping cream (chantilly is French for whipped cream).
If you have ever made your own fresh whipped cream, this recipe from The Kitchn will be a no-brainer for you. And if you haven’t, don’t worry: It’s not as intimidating as it may sound. It involves cooking potatoes, passing them through a food mill, and mixing in milk, butter and cream.
The difference between making your own whipped cream for a dessert and making whipped cream for Chantilly potatoes is that you don’t add sugar. Instead, you just use a stand mixer or hand mixer to whip your heavy cream until it is fluffy and making slightly stiff peaks.
The result: fluffy, rich mashed potatoes that are as light as a cloud. Any mashed potatoes with some cream mixed in is sure to make a delicious dish — but making mashed potatoes with heavy cream that has been whipped is the culinary hack that will launch your spuds to stardom.
The other must-try hack for mashed potatoes with heavy cream? Baking your potatoes in the oven as the last step in your recipe. Once you have made your mashed potatoes and added the whipped cream and salt, scoop it into an oven-safe baking dish. Then take freshly grated Parmesan cheese and sprinkle it on top, covering the surface so that your final product will have a crispy and cheesy top layer.
Find the full recipe for Chantilly mashed potatoes with heavy cream at The Kitchn.
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$1.34 billion lottery prize still unclaimed
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Just around a month ago, a ticket for the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot ever was sold, netting the winner close to $1.34 billion.
There's just one problem: The winner hasn't picked up their gargantuan prize yet.
The ticket was purchased from a Speedway gas station in Des Plaines, around a 20-mile drive northwest of downtown Chicago, on July 29, according to the Illinois Lottery's website. The ticket hit the top prize in the drawing on the same day.
But as of Aug. 30, the jackpot still hasn't been claimed, Meghan Powers, director of communications at the Illinois Lottery, told CNN.
The Mega Millions jackpot winner isn't the only lottery winner who hasn't picked up their prize yet. According to the Illinois Lottery website, a $1 million prize bought in February and several six-figure prizes have also not yet been claimed.
Prizes must be claimed within one year, says the Illinois Lottery.
In a previous news release about the win, lottery officials said it's pretty common for large prize winners to wait to collect their earnings.
"For a prize of this magnitude, it's not unusual for the winner to take a while to claim," said Illinois Lottery Director Harold Mays in the release. "I'm sure they're going through a range of emotions."
The lottery advises winners to sign the back of their ticket and store it safely, consult professional financial and legal advice about their winnings, and then call the lottery hotline to arrange a time to claim their prize.
Even if the prize is claimed, the greater public may still never know who the lucky winner is. Winners of $250,000 or more can stay anonymous in Illinois, says the lottery.
"We will work closely with the winner to respect any wishes for privacy and support them in any way we can to provide a positive winning experience," said Mays in the release. | 2022-08-31T17:36:16+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/mega-millions-billion-lottery-prize-still-unclaimed/41041542 |
CALGARY, AB, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - High Tide Inc. ("High Tide" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: HITI) (TSXV: HITI) (FSE: 2LYA), a leading retail-focused cannabis company with bricks-and-mortar as well as global e-commerce assets, announced today that its Canna Cabana retail cannabis store located at 6231 Bathurst Street in North York, Ontario has begun selling recreational cannabis products and consumption accessories for adult use and that its store located at 1225 St. Mary's Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba is scheduled to open tomorrow. These organic store openings bring the nationwide total of Canna Cabana bricks-and-mortar locations to 147.
Situated near a major Ontario-based grocer and a national pharmacy chain, the North York Canna Cabana is a short drive from York University's Keele Campus, with a student population of approximately 52,000. This location is also located in one of the Greater Toronto Area's most densely populated communities, including multiple high-rise condo buildings.
This Winnipeg store is located within the St. Vitals shopping mall, featuring major international retailers and is a dining and entertainment hub. It is also situated close to a main thoroughfare in Winnipeg, expanding Canna Cabana's reach into thriving shopping centres.
"I am pleased to announce the opening of Canna Cabana stores in North York and Winnipeg. As I have said before, our retail strategy involves finding the best available real estate in high-traffic and high-population density areas, and both of these stores showcase our commitment to this strategy. This selective real estate approach has served us well, as demonstrated by the fact that our average per-store sales in Ontario are more than double the provincial average. We remain on track to announce several additional store openings before the end of this year, which will get us very close to, if not reaching, our goal of 150 stores across Canada by the end of 2022," said Raj Grover, President and Chief Executive Officer of High Tide.
"We applaud Manitoba's recent introduction of legislation that would if passed, eliminate the provincially mandated social responsibility fee. This move will make it easier for Manitoba cannabis retailers to compete with the illicit market, which is important for the continued growth of the legal cannabis sector within the province," added Mr. Grover.
High Tide is a leading retail-focused cannabis company with bricks-and-mortar as well as global e-commerce assets. The Company is the largest non-franchised cannabis retail chain in Canada, with 147 current locations spanning British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The Company is also North America's first cannabis discount club retailer, under the Canna Cabana banner, which is the single-largest cannabis retail brand in Canada, with additional locations under development across the country. High Tide's portfolio also includes retail kiosks and smart locker technology – Fastendr™. High Tide has been serving consumers for over a decade through its established e-commerce platforms, including Grasscity.com, Smokecartel.com, Dailyhighclub.com, and Dankstop.com and more recently in the hemp-derived CBD space through Nuleafnaturals.com, FABCBD.com, BlessedCBD.co.uk, BlessedCBD.de, and Amazon United Kingdom, as well as its wholesale distribution division under Valiant Distribution, including the licensed entertainment product manufacturer Famous Brandz. High Tide was featured in the Report on Business Magazine's ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies in both 2021 and 2022 and was named as one of the top 10 performing diversified industries stocks in the 2022 TSX Venture 50™. High Tide's strategy as a parent company is to extend and strengthen its integrated value chain while providing a complete customer experience and maximizing shareholder value.
For more information about High Tide, please visit www.hightideinc.com and its profile pages on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. These statements relate to future events or future performance. The use of any of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on the Company's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events.
The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained herein include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the Company's business objectives and milestones and the anticipated timing of, and costs in connection with, the execution or achievement of such objectives and milestones (including, without limitation, proposed acquisitions and store openings); the Company's future growth prospects and intentions to pursue one or more viable business opportunities; the development of the Company's business and future activities following the date hereof; expectations relating to market size and anticipated growth in the jurisdictions within which the Company may from time to time operate or contemplate future operations; expectations with respect to economic, business, regulatory and/or competitive factors related to the Company or the cannabis industry generally; the market for the Company's current and proposed product offerings, as well as the Company's ability to capture market share; the Company's strategic investments and capital expenditures, and related benefits; the distribution methods expected to be used by the Company to deliver its product offerings; the competitive landscape within which the Company operates and the Company's market share or reach; the performance of the Company's business and the operations and activities of the Company; the Company adding the number of additional cannabis retail store locations the Company proposes to add to the Company's business upon the timelines indicated herein, and the Company remaining on a positive growth trajectory; the Company completing the development of its cannabis retail stores; the Company's ability to obtain, maintain, and renew or extend, applicable authorizations, including the timing and impact of the receipt thereof; and the Company's ability to successfully integrate the operations of any business acquired within the Company's business.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. A discussion of some of the material risk factors applicable to High Tide can be found in the "Non-Exhaustive List of Risk Factors" section in Schedule A to the Company's current annual information form, as such factors may be further updated from time to time in its periodic filings, available at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and reflect the Company's expectations as of the date hereof and are subject to change thereafter. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise, or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and such forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.
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Seven Industry Luminaries To Receive the Industry's Most Revered Distinction
Unilever to be Corporate Honoree
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Advertising Federation (AAF) announced today the inductees for its 72nd Class of the Advertising Hall of Fame. Seven individuals, along with Unilever, will be honored. These honorees were elected by the Advertising Hall of Fame Council of Judges and is the highest distinction in the industry. The announcement was celebrated during the Closing Bell Ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange.
This year's individual honorees include (in alphabetical order):
- Raúl Alarcón, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Cathie Black, Principal, Madison Park Ventures; former Chairman and President, Hearst Magazines
- Louis Carr, President of Media Sales, Black Entertainment Television (BET)
- Antonio J. Lucio, Principal and Founder, 5S Diversity and former Global CMO at Meta, HP, Visa and PepsiCo
- Renetta E. McCann, Chief Inclusion Experience Officer, Publicis Groupe
- Aaron M. Walton, CEO, Walton Isaacson
- John Wren, Chairman and CEO, Omnicom Group
Renetta McCann will also be presented with the distinguished David Bell Award for Industry Service, which recognizes extraordinary, unique contributions and service to the advertising industry as a whole. The award is named in honor of David Bell (Hall of Fame Class of 2007), a visionary leader and mentor to several generations of advertising professionals.
In addition to these seven industry luminaries, Unilever will be recognized as this year's corporate honoree. Unilever's vision is to deliver winning performance by being the global leader in sustainable business. Unilever is demonstrating how it drives competitive growth while improving the health of the planet, improving people's health, confidence and wellbeing, and contributing to a fairer and more socially inclusive world. Unilever has a long history of being a progressive, responsible business across the 190 countries it operates in.
Carolyn Everson served as the Chair of this year's distinguished Council of Judges, having previously served as VP of Facebook's Global Business Group for more than ten years. Commenting on this year's inductees, Ms. Everson said, "The AAF Advertising Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed by our industry. To date, there have been only 275 individual inductees. Suffice to say, selection is just that – selective. It also reflects the deep appreciation and admiration we have for the selfless service of these illustrious leaders. Our industry would not be where it is today without them." She added, "I very much look forward to honoring the Class of 2023 at our induction ceremonies next year."
Conny Braams, Chief Digital & Commercial Officer, Unilever, said, "It's a great honor to be inducted into the AAF Advertising Hall of Fame. This recognition reflects the commitment of every single marketer at Unilever to deliver unmissable brand experiences powered by superior products, creativity, innovation, and purpose. We are proud that 3.4 billion consumers choose to use our brands daily, allowing us to drive real, meaningful change in the world, whether it's Dove and self-esteem, Lifebuoy and handwashing, Domestos and sanitation, Knorr and sustainable agriculture, or Hellmann's and food waste."
Induction ceremonies will take place on April 27, 2023 at Cipriani Wall Street. To learn more about the Class of 2023, as well partnership and advertising opportunities, click here.
"The Advertising Hall of Fame is the biggest night in advertising," said Steve Pacheco, President and CEO, American Advertising Federation. "It brings together the nation's top leaders in American advertising, marketing and media and is another example of how AAF serves as the 'unifying voice for advertising.'"
The Advertising Hall of Fame, organized by the AAF since 1949, helps the organization to sustain many of its key initiatives throughout the year surrounding education, diversity, grassroots advocacy, industry ethics and professional development. Induction into the Hall of Fame celebrates the most accomplished and legendary figures in advertising. From their significant contributions to the advertising industry, to their personal philanthropic involvement, honorees have set the precedent by which great leaders and accomplishments are measured today.
Established in 1905, the American Advertising Federation (AAF), acts as the "Unifying Voice for Advertising." Its membership is comprised of more than 50 corporate members made up of the nation's leading advertisers, agencies, and media companies; a national network of 150+ local clubs representing 40,000 advertising professionals; and more than 140 college chapters with 4,000 student members. The AAF operates a host of programs and initiatives, including Advertising Day on the Hill, the Advertising Hall of Fame, the Advertising Hall of Achievement, the American Advertising Awards, the National Student Advertising Competition, the Mosaic Awards, the Most Promising Multicultural Students Program and AdCamp for high school students. Follow us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn (https://aaf.org).
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SOURCE American Advertising Federation | 2022-12-02T15:43:19+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/12/02/announcing-inductees-2023-aaf-advertising-hall-fame/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The opening phase of the Republican presidential primary has largely centered on the escalating collision between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
But a new wave of GOP White House hopefuls will begin entering the 2024 race as soon as this coming week after a monthslong lull. They include former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who will formally launch his campaign Wednesday.
Former Vice President Mike Pence has said he will finalize his plans in “weeks, not months.” He has kept a busy schedule of early state visits and policy speeches as aides have discussed details of an announcement including dates as early as May, but more likely in June. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who has formed a presidential exploratory committee, is expected to join the race in a similar time frame.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been meeting with former aides and he returned to New Hampshire this past week, where he said at a town hall in the first-in-the-nation primary state, “Tonight is the beginning of the case against Donald Trump.” Christie has said he will make a decision “in the next couple of weeks.”
The contenders will enter the race at a critical moment as DeSantis, who hasn’t officially announced a campaign, has struggled to live up to sky-high expectations among some early backers. He has been losing support among elected Republicans in his own state to Trump and is prompting concern among some in the party that his positions on abortion and LGBTQ rights, among other issues, could render him unelectable in a general election.
Trump in recent weeks has solidified his status as the early front-runner, even after he was indicted in New York. He remains the subject of intensifying investigations in Atlanta and Washington and persistent concerns about his electability after losing to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.
Would-be rivals hope that dynamic leaves an opening for one of the fresh entrants to emerge as an alternative to the current polling leaders. Some strategists hope Trump and DeSantis will attack one another so viciously that they will turn off voters, who will search for an alternative.
“It’s not uncommon for a third candidate who’s not involved in the kerfuffle to rise,” said Bryan Lanza, a former Trump adviser, who has been informally advising Larry Elder, the conservative talk radio host who announced his campaign Thursday.
Lanza said he expects a robust race to be the “leader of the second tier” of candidates currently polling at under 10%.
Beyond Trump and Elder, the current field of official GOP presidential candidates includes Trump’s U.N. ambassador, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Both announced their bids in February.
Biden is expected to announce his 2024 campaign as soon as this coming week. He faces minimal competition for the Democratic nomination.
Among Republicans, the early debates that are slated to begin this summer could be crucial in determining who builds momentum, particularly given DeSantis’ expectations.
That means candidates may need to cement their planning soon, even if they would prefer to wait longer. The Republican National Committee has scheduled the first debate for August and is expected to set strict benchmarks that candidates must satisfy to participate, including amassing tens of thousands of individual donors.
“That takes a little time to do and so if you’re gong to be serious about this — and I think you have to be on the stage to be serious about it — then you probably have to make the decision by May,” Christie said this past week during an interview with the media outlet Semafor.
Candidates-in-waiting have seen little reason to jump in sooner, particularly given Trump’s propensity to attack. Instead, they have been biding their time, visiting early voting states, delivering speeches and wooing donors as they assess the field. Pence, for instance, was in California this past week meeting with potential backers and will host another donor retreat for his nonprofit group in late May.
“If I was in their shoes, I would wait as long as possible,” said former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who was considered an early favorite for the Republican nomination when he ran against Trump in 2016. He remembers realizing, in those early weeks, how dramatically Trump had upended the race, dominating everything.
“There was no way around it then,” he said. “And right now, anybody who thinks they’re somehow going to go in and change that is missing the reality.”
The rivalry between Trump and DeSantis has been turning uglier by the day, with political groups supporting both men already spending millions on attack ads.
While DeSantis has largely ignored Trump’s jabs questioning his commitment to Social Security, his relationship with young girls as a teacher decades ago and even his sexuality, a pro-DeSantis super political action committee, Never Back Down, began to respond in its first round of paid ads last weekend.
“Trump should fight Democrats, not lie about Gov. DeSantis,” the narrator says in an ad that ran on Fox News. “What happened to Donald Trump?”
The spot ran in conjunction with an online ad, which described Trump as “a coward” and a “gun grabber,” that was aimed at those attending an RNC donor retreat in Indiana.
Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., has been airing its spots on cable news channels highlighting DeSantis’ votes to cut Social Security and Medicare and raise the retirement age.
“The more you learn about DeSantis, the more you see he doesn’t share our values. He’s just not ready to be president,” said the narrator in one. Another, seizing on a report that DeSantis once ate pudding with his fingers, urged the governor “to keep his pudding fingers off our money.”
Trump and his campaign have long seen DeSantis as his only serious challenger and believed the more crowded the field, the better for Trump, as candidates split the anti-Trump vote. But a repeat of 2016’s massive field hasn’t materialized, with potential candidates such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan passing on campaigns.
There are still plenty of unknown dynamics, including whether governors such as Kristi Noem of South Dakota or Chris Sununu of New Hampshire will enter the contest. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin have not explicitly ruled out running.
Mike DuHaime, a Republican strategist and longtime Christie adviser, believes that Trump is the favorite but nonetheless beatable. He cautioned that races are complicated, with unexpected outcomes.
“I do think that DeSantis is right now firmly the alternative to Trump, but I don’t know if it stays that way. There’s still way too long to go,” he said, arguing that a debate moment or news story could change the trajectory.
“Somebody’s just got to get momentum,” he said. “It’s just so wide open even with Trump being the prohibitive favorite.”
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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples in New York and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report. | 2023-04-22T22:01:37+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/new-wave-of-gop-candidates-to-challenge-trump-desantis/ |
YUBA CITY, Calif., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunsweet Growers Inc, one of the nation's leading marketers of prunes, specialty dried fruit products, fruit juices and bottled beverages, announced the promotion of Brad Schuler to Chief Operating Officer (COO), expanding on his previous role as Vice President Global Marketing & Sales.
Brad joined Sunsweet in 1999 as Director of Sales and quickly progressed to the highest ranks of global Sales and Marketing by driving company growth. "The past few years have been the most challenging in Sunsweet's 105-year history," says President and CEO Dane Lance. "During this period Brad demonstrated Chief Operating Officer level leadership and coordination skills as he identified agile processes for business planning, coordination of production priorities, and risk mitigation. These efforts, along with our dedicated team members commitment to success, helped ensure Sunsweet products were readily available to meet the needs of our customers and consumers."
"Sunsweet is well positioned for success and adding to our great history. Brad has been a guiding force in Sunsweet's success for many years. With his officially expanded leadership role, Sunsweet will further expand its game-changing operations, innovation and branding to further enhance Sunsweet's Feel Good Fruit."
Mr. Schuler is eager for the opportunities ahead. "Sunsweet maintains a brand leadership position around the world in key business categories of prune and prune juice products. Additional growth will be driven by innovation that expands into new categories and segments to enhance the Sunsweet experience our products provide to consumers. Sunsweet continues with a strong vision of our future. By expanding on our world class production capabilities in California and Pennsylvania with a new state-of-the-art production facility Santa Cruz, Chile, Sunsweet will enhance our ability to service markets around the globe," states Mr. Schuler.
Sunsweet Growers Inc., established in 1917, has over 105 years of experience and heritage in producing the highest quality dried fruits. The Yuba City, California-based cooperative of 200+ grower/members is a worldwide leader in prunes and related products. Most recently, the product portfolio has been expanded to include a full line of dried fruit snacks and juices, all designed to fit today's need for healthy and convenient food choices. For more on Sunsweet products, visit www.Sunsweet.com.
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SOURCE Sunsweet Growers Inc. | 2022-10-25T15:27:23+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/10/25/sunsweet-growers-names-brad-schuler-chief-operating-officer-coo/ |
Remediation set to begin on 17.47 acre site of new park, community center, museum, housing, and commercial space
LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Commerce City Council fully approved a new 850 unit mixed-use development project at a meeting on Feb. 22, allowing the development phase to begin. The project, named Modelo to reference the Commerce motto of "the Model City," is a robust, new, mixed-use project consisting of 850 residential units, recreational and entertainment retail spaces, a public-private park, community center and museum.
The project will be developed by Comstock Realty Partners, an experienced California-based developer with long history of projects in Commerce and Southeast Los Angeles.
"After 25 years of experience in Commerce and eight years working with the city to create this unique development, we are excited to bring much needed housing and amenities to Southeast LA," said Adrian Comstock, principle and founder of Comstock Realty Partners. "The Modelo Project will honor and reflect the Latin American and Indigenous cultures and history of the site and region, creating a welcoming and open urban village that will complement and enhance the City of Commerce and Southeast LA communities."
The 17.47 acre planned project is located at the intersection of Gage and Slauson Avenues in Commerce. The current land area is on top of a former construction borrow pit from when the I-5 freeway was being constructed.
Working closely with the Regional Water Board, Los Angeles County Public Health and CalRecycle, they created a plan for total removal of all 477,000 cubic yards of soil and debris from underneath the site, said Howard Clarke, VP of Development at Comstock.
"This will benefit not only our property, but also the community and the region as a whole, which will be more environmentally protected," Clarke said.
Commerce, and much of Southeast LA, is classified as a severely disadvantaged region economically, environmentally, and socially.
"The goal of the project is to tip the scale in the direction of the community for once," Comstock said. "As developers, we are inspired to create a safe, clean community for people to work, play, and sleep in, and create hundreds of jobs along the way. With this project, we have the added goal of endowing a cultural and arts museum."
Comstock intentionally set labor agreements with LIUNA, SW Carpenters and CREED LA because Comstock knew that many union members already live in the region and he said it only made sense to utilize the high quality local union labor.
Formerly a project manager with Caruso and The Dorchester Collection, Clarke explained that the mix of residential for-rent and for-sale units—along with the integration of essential and entertainment retail—will imbue a contemporary take on a village-like atmosphere. Construction is scheduled to begin by the end of 2022, with the first phase of housing and community center to be completed 30 months later.
A mix of 850 units ranging from studios to 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments, to more luxurious condos and townhomes will invite both singles and families, creating a village and community feel. To serve all economic levels of prospective residents, the project includes 110 for-sale townhomes and condominiums, plus 740 for-rent apartments at attainable, market, and premium pricing levels. This will help make a dent in the housing crisis that is affecting the City of Commerce and the State of California.
"With numerous family and adult restaurants, a cinema, arcade and entertainment, as well as essential services, the 165,000 square feet of retail space will create opportunities for shopping and entertainment for all of LA County and Southeast LA," said Patrick Tighe, principle of Tighe Architecture, and the projects lead designer. "A menu of fully programmed family friendly outside events and functions that utilize the extensive open space will occur throughout the year to serve visitors from Los Angeles and beyond."
Keeping sustainability at the forefront of the project, the majority of vehicle parking is subterranean to make the site walkable for pedestrians and families. The project is adjacent to and will feature access from the LA River bicycle path that stretches from the San Gabriel Mountains to Marina Del Ray. Cyclists favorably located in Los Angeles County will be able to meet for breakfast or lunch at one of Modelo's many restaurants.
"The project will be certified as a Silver Project by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design," said Stephanie Mork, Comstock's Project Manager for Entitlements and Planning.
Better known as LEED, this is the premiere rating system for sustainable and "green" buildings administered by the U.S. Green Building Council.
"A clean safe place to live, a fun, relaxing place to visit, and an inspiring cultural destination… These are the mantras that helped us design Modelo," said Comstock.
Media contact: Mollie Barnes, mollie@comstockrealtypartners.com, 314-755-6392
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