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When Edwin Musafiri moved to the U.S. from Zambia, he said people had a lot of questions for him: "You came from Africa Africa?" "Were you around real giraffes?" "How do you like the food here?" "What do you think of city living?"
In fact, Musafiri had come from Lusaka — the capital of Zambia, a city of more than 3 million people. A city, he says, that was "70%" like Memphis, Tenn., his new home: People ate pizza and fast food. The streets looked fairly similar. Giraffes, for the most part, did not factor into everyday life.
There was a profound difference, though, that complicated Musafiri's first months in Memphis last year, one he hadn't anticipated. The sprawling city stretches about 320 square miles. There are no subways, and bus and trolley service is limited. And like many others in his immigrant community, Musafiri didn't know how to drive.
In many parts of the U.S., the ability to drive and access to a car determine a whole host of lifestyle factors — where you work, how long your commute takes, what time you can leave your house, what time you can no longer get back home. Even where you buy groceries and how much you buy at one time.
The hurdles can be exacerbated in some immigrant and refugee communities. Getting a driver's license sometimes has more to do with English fluency than the ability to operate a car. Further, navigating the dynamics of even a routine traffic stop has long been a delicate dance, particularly for African American men. For Black immigrants, especially those not fluent in English, these factors can combine to create a unique set of challenges.
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"I'm someone who likes to support myself," Musafiri says. "I don't always like to depend on other people." But for a while, he and his roommates had no other choice. When groceries ran out, they searched around for a ride to the store. If no one was available, they waited — sometimes until the next day — to get food. It was stifling. And there were limits to where he could work, too.
Today, 21% of Black people in the U.S. are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. And since 2000, migration from Africa has fueled the bulk of growth in the foreign-born Black population, according to the Pew Research Center. Regionally, the greatest share of those immigrants now live in the South — and Tennessee, where Musafiri resides, has seen the fastest growth in its Black immigrant population of any state in the region.
But even though the presence of immigrant communities in Tennessee has become more commonplace, there are still some recurring — and sometimes unexpected — challenges that members of these groups face. Things like finding decent housing in a school district with resources for international students. Access to language classes and job training. Help signing up for health care. And in many places, access to consistent transportation.
Public transportation woes drove a community leader to act
Population-wise, Memphis is a midsize city, home to about 630,000 people. But geographically, it's huge. Here's one way to think about it: Memphis has slightly fewer people than Boston, but a land mass greater than Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cleveland combined, says Charlie Santo, chair of the Department of City & Regional Planning at the University of Memphis.
That layout makes the city extremely difficult to navigate without a car because public transportation options are so limited. The Memphis Area Transportation Authority receives only a small portion of the city's annual budget, according to Andrew Guthrie, a University of Memphis assistant professor who studies transportation justice. In 2019, the last normal budget year before COVID-19, MATA was allotted $59 million, Guthrie says, "which is tiny in the grand scheme of U.S. metro areas. And when you have that little money, it's very, very hard to get service on the street."
The public transit service that does exist is largely concentrated around Poplar Avenue, a thoroughfare lined with estate-style homes with huge yards and hundred-year-old oak trees. Poplar is fairly centrally located and runs all the way downtown, where tourists can go to bars and restaurants, or stroll along the Mississippi River. The neighborhoods abutting Poplar tend to be whiter and wealthier than the city as a whole. But getting to other parts of the city via public transportation is much more difficult. Guthrie's research has shown that the Blackest, poorest neighborhoods tend to be the least likely to be served by public transportation.
And in Memphis, even centrally located communities can come with challenges. Binghampton is a neighborhood that's seen a lot of change in recent years. It's long been predominantly Black and has become a place where many new Black immigrant families have settled. But it's located near the center of the city, far from a lot of the biggest employers — such as FedEx — that have large warehouses on the outskirts of the city.
So people find other ways to get around the city. They walk, although large stretches of the city have no sidewalks. They bike, though bike lines come and go. They develop elaborate carpool systems. In emergencies, they use rideshare services like Uber and Lyft, though those can quickly become prohibitively expensive. Ultimately, in Guthrie's estimation, "It's just not possible to say that carless Memphians have a functional right to the city. They're denied it."
Musafiri understood that reality almost immediately. He was living it. So when he wasn't working, he studied hard for his learner's permit test. And he passed — on his first try, to the shock of many of his companions. He'd heard countless stories, he says, of people who had taken the test four or five times before they passed. "So I just prepared," he says. "It was that bad that I was prepared in all ways." It helped, too, that Musafiri's English is good since Tennessee offers the test in only a handful of languages — none of them among the most widely spoken in Africa.
But there were other hurdles. Musafiri needed access to a car to practice for the skills test. He needed time behind the wheel. And he needed someone to teach him.
That's where Isaac James came in.
James has been teaching immigrants and refugees to drive since 2014. It's one of the many unofficial side roles that he's taken on as DEI director at Memphis' Refugee Empowerment Program, or REP.
It all started when a group of new refugee families got connected with REP. A few people found jobs at the same warehouse, but they weren't able to drive. So, James says, they made arrangements to carpool with a co-worker in exchange for gas money.
But their colleague wouldn't always show up when it came time to leave work. With no explanation, the group would be left stranded and waiting. To make matters more difficult, they all worked the night shift. So some days, around 4 or 5 in the morning, they were stuck with no way of getting home. They would wind up calling REP. James or his mother, Ruth Lomo, who founded REP in 2003, would pick them up.
"And that hurt," James says. "Not the fact that I had to wake up. But you had a transaction which only half of it was done, right? So that individual exploited you into taking money from you, and not holding up his end of the bargain. And refugees and immigrants are continuously exploited because they have a need, which is transportation."
Getting a driver's license can depend on what language you speak
James came to the U.S. as a refugee himself when he was 5 years old. He and his family moved from what's now South Sudan in 2001. He has seen the immense hurdles that refugees have to overcome just to do things like getting to and from work. To watch as someone tried to make a quick buck off of people infuriated him. So he decided to teach them how to drive themselves.
But as the lessons started, it became clear to James that learning how to operate a motor vehicle was the least of his students' obstacles.
In fact, James says, many of the people he interacts with come to the U.S. already knowing how to drive, because they've driven in their country of origin. But getting a license often winds up being more of a language test than a driving skills or knowledge assessment. The Tennessee learner's permit test is offered in five languages: English, Spanish, German, Korean and Japanese. In neighboring Mississippi, you can take the permit test in 10 languages. In Kentucky, to the north, it's 21, including Arabic, Somali, Thai and Albanian.
The languages that Tennessee offers the test in don't always line up with the greatest need. Consider, the state has about 30,000 Arabic speakers, compared with about 5,000 Korean speakers. Tennessee Lookout reporter Dulce Torres Guzman has written about the fight to offer the test in Arabic. But Guzman spoke to leaders from local activist organizations who assert that efforts to get that test added have been slow-walked, because of Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment.
Other languages are spoken in smaller numbers, which means that organizing to add any particular language can be a challenge. As of 2021, there were about 8,000 Swahili speakers in Tennessee, for instance, according to a report from the Migration Policy Institute. Another 6,500 spoke Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages. Another 6,000 spoke Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa.
There have been efforts to expand access. In 2022, Tennessee state Sen. Jeff Yarbro, a Democrat, sponsored a bill to allow interpreters to "assist an applicant in translating the required examination for a driver license when the applicant does not read or understand English or when the required examination is not available in the language principally spoken by the applicant." That bill failed in the state House.
Yarbro has said that he hopes to reintroduce the bill this year, but he's also said he'd prefer to see the issue resolved outside of the state House. "It could become just another political issue that's red meat in the sort of divisive debate that we're having in the country over immigration," he told WKNO in 2019.
The Tennessee Department of Motor Vehicles also has the option to add other testing languages without a legislative mandate, an option that an official at the Tennessee Department of Safety estimated would cost between $3,000 and $5,000 per language.
These hurdles can leave a lot of people in a bind. Some make their way to neighboring states to take the test — though that's only a temporary solution, since residents of Tennessee eventually need a Tennessee license. Others try over and over again in Tennessee.
But for some, not having a license is not always reason enough not to drive. For one thing, the financial cost of not having a car can be astronomical. In a 2016 paper about transportation and justice in Memphis, Santo wrote:
"National trends show only slight differences in median income for workers who commute via public transportation versus those who drive to work. (The national median income for driving commuters is about $35,000 compared to $31,000 for transit users.) But in Memphis, a low density, sprawling city, with a heavy reliance on logistics jobs, the earnings gap between transit riders and drivers is vast. Census data from 2012 shows that in the Memphis metro area, the median income of those who relied on public transportation was $16,450 — less than half the $34,200 median income of those who drove to work."
For reference, in 2012, the federal poverty line for a family of four was $23,050.
More recently, Guthrie examined job access for Memphians by neighborhood, based on their ability to access transportation. He says that in many neighborhoods, if you don't have access to a car, you don't have access to "hundreds of jobs" or even "thousands of jobs." You might have access to only a handful. "So yeah, the degree of transit inaccessibility in Memphis really is exceptional," he says.
For Musafiri, those constraints were obvious. He was restricted to working at places where he could either walk or get a ride. So while his dream was to work with computers, his first few months in the U.S. last year were spent working warehouse jobs, at Amazon and DHL.
And a lot of immigrants and refugees wind up "between a rock and a hard place," James says. Their options are often, "If I don't drive, then I rely on a system that isn't equipped to assist me in the needs that I have. If I do drive, I have the possibility to retain work. I can take myself to work. I could take myself to doctor appointments. I could take my kids to school."
But, James says, driving also opens up a whole other universe of concerns for immigrants and refugees.
Black immigrants learn to drive while navigating potentially tricky obstacles
Driving without a license in Tennessee is a class C misdemeanor, an offense that can lead to a fine and up to 30 days of jail time. But for someone who is not a citizen — even if they have legal immigration status in the U.S. — a misdemeanor conviction can be used as evidence in removal proceedings. Black immigrants have an added layer of systemic bias to contend with. Nationally, Black drivers are 20% more likely to be pulled over in traffic stops than white drivers. (Latino drivers were pulled over at the same or lower rates as white drivers.)
And Black immigrants are disproportionately deported on criminal grounds. As of 2013, "more than 75% of Black immigrants were removed from the United States based on criminal grounds, compared to less than 50% of immigrants overall," according to a report from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. In the immigrant rights community, it's become referred to as the "prison-to-deportation pipeline."
There's another type of fear that may be animating folks as they make the decision to drive — longstanding concerns about police brutality. Earlier this year, in January, Tyre Nichols, a young Black man, died after being beaten by Memphis police officers after he was pulled over for what police said was reckless driving. But even before Nichols' death became national news, immigrant rights activists around Tennessee expressed concern that with Black immigrants, traffic stops can be especially high stakes if there is a language barrier. If someone can't understand the instructions that an officer is giving, or convey information that they're asked for, the fear is that situations have the potential to escalate in upsetting and potentially dangerous ways.
James has these realities swimming through his head whenever he gets behind the wheel with a student. He essentially has a version of "the talk" with them — a conversation that involves conveying nuanced, high stakes information about navigating a social and racial landscape that immigrants may not be familiar with, all while showing them how to use their turn signals.
"So in those sessions, it's being honest and vulnerable," James says. "My goal is to equip people with the knowledge and the skillset to be able to handle the road, to be able to feel confident in doing [that] to empower themselves and their family.
"But I also need to prepare them right for what the law might do in case of, you know, lack of insurance, lack of permit, lack of license and things like that," James says.
Musafiri, so far, has been fortunate. After working with James, he was able to get his driver's license. It meant that he regained much of his independence. He can go grocery shopping whenever he wants, for one. And he switched jobs to one he really wanted — working with computers.
But another important benefit for Musafiri was knowing that his family wouldn't have to go through what he experienced when he arrived in the U.S. He wanted to be able to show up for his parents and siblings, to ease their transition when they joined him in Memphis last September.
And he's done just that. Now, he's pulling an Isaac James, if you will — teaching his family how to drive. He says his dad is pretty good (he drove back in Zambia), and his sister — well, she needs to get better about checking her mirrors.
Until then, he'll drive them all to work — and pick them up. It takes about five minutes to drop off his sister, and 15 for his parents.
"Walking, I think it might take a couple of hours," Musafiri says. "On public transportation — there's no transportation that goes there."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, an Indian army officer’s son with decades of corporate experience, was confirmed Wednesday to lead the World Bank for a five-year term that starts next month.
The U.S.-nominated business veteran succeeds David Malpass, a Donald Trump pick who is ending his tenure early at the 189-nation global poverty-fighting institution after coming under pressure for declining to say whether he agreed with the scientific consensus on climate change.
The bank’s executive directors said in a statement after Banga’s confirmation as president that they looked forward to working with him and on all the bank’s “ambitions and efforts aimed at tackling the toughest development challenges facing developing countries.”
President Joe Biden chose Banga in February, after Malpass announced he would leave by June 30, and praised the nominee for his “critical experience” in tackling “the most urgent challenges of our time,” such as climate change.
Biden said Wednesday that Banga “will help steer the institution as it evolves and expands to address global challenges that directly affect its core mission of poverty reduction — including climate change.”
The United States is the bank’s largest shareholder and traditionally has nominated the organization’s president. American leaders have said that taking on climate change will be a major factor in the bank’s lending decisions.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in February that Banga will be responsible for meeting “ambitious goals for climate adaptation and emissions reduction.” On Wednesday, she said “our ambitious goals will not be met overnight, and we remain committed to a staged adoption of reforms over the course of the year to build on the vision we have laid out.”
Malpass, whose term was to expire in April 2024, ran into criticism last year for comments at a conference that appeared to cast doubt on the science that says the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming. He later apologized and said he had misspoken, noting that the bank routinely relies on climate science.
Leaders and activists from poorer nations, especially those vulnerable to the extreme weather made worse by climate change, have called for massive changes in the entire multinational development bank system.
A plan known as the Bridgetown Initiative, put forward by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and embraced by French President Emmanuel Macron, would make it easier and faster for developing countries affected by weather disasters to get money with lower interest rates for both recovery and for building to become more resilient.
Banga, who was most recently vice chairman at the private equity firm General Atlantic, has more than 30 years of business experience and has served on the boards of the American Red Cross, Kraft Foods and Dow Inc.
He was born in 1959 and educated in some of India’s premier institutions. When India’s economy liberalized in the early 1990s, Banga was able to work and rise through the ranks of multinational corporations breaking into India.
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Associated Press reporter Sibi Arasu in Bengaluru, India, contributed to this report. | 2023-05-03T17:41:04+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ex-mastercard-ceo-ajay-banga-confirmed-as-world-bank-leader/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke by phone with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday amid signs that the Saudis and Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen are making “remarkable progress” toward finding a permanent end to their nine-year conflict, according to the Biden administration.
The crown prince, often referred to by his initials MBS, has had a strained relationship with President Joe Biden over human rights and oil production concerns. But the de facto Saudi leader and the president’s top national security adviser decided to talk amid encouraging signs on winding down the long and bloody war, a top priority for Biden.
The call came after Saudi diplomat Mohammed bin Saeed al-Jaber met with Houthi officials in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Sunday for talks that were aimed at accelerating negotiations on ending the war.
The White House said in statement that Sullivan “welcomed Saudi Arabia’s extraordinary efforts” to pursue a more comprehensive roadmap for ending the war and offered full U.S. support for those efforts. A nongovernmental official familiar with the ongoing negotiations said a deal is close at hand and could be reached within the next seven to 10 days. The official was not authorized to comment and requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive private talks.
The White House remains cautiously optimistic about the way ahead. But the two sides still have work to do and the negotiations remain complex, according to a senior Biden administration official familiar with the negotiations. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly, added that a final agreement has not been reached and cautioned that the situation remains complex.
Biden’s special envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, is being dispatched to the Saudi capital Riyadh this week for follow-up talks with Saudi officials, according to the White House. CIA Director William Burns traveled to Saudi Arabia last week to meet with intelligence officials.
Al-Jaber’s visit to the Houthi-held Yemeni capital came after the Saudis reached a deal with Iran last month — in China — to restore diplomatic ties that were cut off in 2016. Iran is the Houthis’ main foreign backer in Yemen’s conflict.
It was a flashy moment of diplomacy for China — the United States’ top global competitor — that Beijing touted as evidence of its ability to be a diplomatic player in the Middle East. White House officials note significant progress was made during several rounds of earlier talks hosted by Iraq and Oman, well before the deal was announced in China during last month’s ceremonial National People’s Congress.
Since last month’s announcement, China has not taken a major role on resolving the Yemen conflict, according to the Biden administration official.
Sullivan and the crown prince largely focused on Yemen but also discussed Saudi Arabia and Iran’s reestablishment of diplomatic ties, Iran’s nuclear program, and other issues.
Iran-allied Houthis seized Sanaa in 2014 and forced the internationally recognized government into exile in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-led coalition armed with U.S. weaponry and intelligence entered the war on the side of Yemen’s exiled government in 2015.
Years of inconclusive fighting created a humanitarian disaster and pushed the Arab world’s poorest nation to the brink of famine. Overall, the war has killed more than 150,000 people, including over 14,500 civilians, according to The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
A six-month cease-fire, the longest of the Yemen conflict, expired in October. Biden has made finding a permanent peace among his highest priorities in the Middle East.
The call also comes amid fresh concerns that the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance plans to cut oil production could stymie efforts to curb global inflation.
OPEC+ announced last week it would c ut oil production by 1.1 million barrels per da y, or roughly 1 percent of global production, beginning next month. The Saudis have said the production cuts were “precautionary,” helping to keep up prices as the world economy appears to be slowing and demand for oil is dropping.
But along with cuts announced in October, world oil supplies are down by 3%. April’s announcement could have a ripple effect on the U.S. economy in the form of higher gasoline prices, possibly forcing the Federal Reserve to be more aggressive in rate hikes to lower inflation.
The official said Sullivan and the crown prince discussed macroeconomic issues but did not dwell on the OPEC move.
As a candidate for the White House, Biden vowed that Saudi rulers would “pay the price” under his watch for their human rights record. But in July, amid rising prices at the pump around the globe, Biden decided to pay a visit to Saudi Arabia. During the visit, he greeted the crown prince, whom he once shunned, with a fist bump.
Relations hit another rocky patch last fall.
In October, the president said there would be “consequences” for Saudi Arabia as OPEC+ alliance moved to cut oil production. At the time, the administration said it was reevaluating its relationship with the kingdom in light of the oil production cut that White House officials said was helping another OPEC+ member, Russia, soften the financial blow caused by U.S. and Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its ongoing war in Ukraine.
The administration’s reaction to last week’s production cut was far more subdued, with Biden saying, “It’s not going to be as bad as you think.”
Separately, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., met Tuesday with the crown prince in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Graham said they discussed ongoing reforms in the kingdom as well as trade between the countries. The Saudis announced last month that the two national airlines would order up to 121 jetliners from American aircraft manufacturer Boeing, a deal worth up to $37 billion.
“I look forward to working with the administration and congressional Republicans and Democrats to see if we can take the U.S.-Saudi relationship to the next level, which would be a tremendous economic benefit to both countries and bring much-needed stability to a troubled region,” Graham said.
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Associated Press writer Josh Boak and Nomaan Merchant contributed reporting. | 2023-04-12T02:47:13+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/politics/ap-politics/us-official-top-biden-aide-holds-call-with-mbs-on-yemen-war/ |
Lightning strikes Iowa home causing fire in the attic
Lightning strikes Iowa home causing fire in the attic
TISIA: THIS MORNING, A FAMILY IN WEST DES MOINES SAYS, THEY WERE WOKEN UP BY A LOUD BOOM, FOLLOWED BY THE SMELL OF SMOKE. TURNS OUT, LIGHTNING STRUCK THEIR HOME ON PONDEROSA DRIVE. IT LED TO A FIRE IN THE ATTIC JUST AFTER 7:30. WEST DES MOINES FIREFIGHTERS SPENT EXTRA TIME INSPECTING THE HOME TO MAKE SURE ENERGY FROM THE LIGHTNING DIDN’T TRAVEL TO OTHER SPOTS OF THE HOUSE. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. SO FAR DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED TO
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Lightning strikes Iowa home causing fire in the attic
A family in West Des Moines says they were woken up this morning by a loud boom, followed by the smell of smoke.It turns out lightning struck their home on Ponderosa Drive that led to a fire in the attic just after 7:30 a.m. West Des Moines firefighters spent extra time inspecting the home to make sure energy from the lightning didn’t travel to other spots of the house.No injuries were reported.So far, damage is estimated to be around $100,000.More news:
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa —
A family in West Des Moines says they were woken up this morning by a loud boom, followed by the smell of smoke.
It turns out lightning struck their home on Ponderosa Drive that led to a fire in the attic just after 7:30 a.m.
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West Des Moines firefighters spent extra time inspecting the home to make sure energy from the lightning didn’t travel to other spots of the house.
No injuries were reported.
So far, damage is estimated to be around $100,000.
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OTAmatic Software Management Platform Recognized as a Leading Industrial IoT Solution
SEATTLE, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Airbiquity®, a global leader in connected vehicle services, today announced its OTAmatic® Software Management Platform has received a 2023 IoT Evolution Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award honoring the best, most innovative products and solutions powering the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). Presented by IoT Evolution World, winners represent prominent players in the market who consistently demonstrate the advancement of technologies and are deemed verifiable leaders in the marketplace.
OTAmatic enables automakers and automotive suppliers to securely orchestrate and automate OTA connected vehicle software updates. These capabilities help mitigate automaker recall expenses, enable post-production feature enhancements, and address cybersecurity threats.
"At Airbiquity, we believe innovation is the key to unlocking the potential of connected vehicle services and ownership experiences," said Kamyar Moinzadeh, President and Chief Executive Officer at Airbiquity. "Our OTAmatic Software Management Platform is a prime example of this, combining cutting-edge technology with user-friendly design to provide a comprehensive solution for automotive over-the-air software updates. As the automotive industry continues to evolve, we remain committed to delivering solutions that meet the needs of our customers."
"The solutions selected for the Industrial IoT Product of Year Awards represent the diverse range of innovation driving the multibillion-dollar IoT market today. It is my honor to congratulate Airbiquity for their innovative work and superior contribution to the rapidly evolving IoT industry," said Moe Nagle, Senior Editor for IoT Evolution World.
"It is my pleasure to recognize the OTAmatic Software Management Platform, an innovative solution that earned Airbiquity the 2023 Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMCnet. "I look forward to seeing more innovation from Airbiquity in the future."
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East Peoria surfed the tension to ride to a 64-61 win over Williamsville at East Peoria High on December 29 in Illinois boys high school basketball action.
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Officials: 89 cats rescued from home in ‘one of the worst hoarding cases we’ve seen’
GIRARD, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - Ohio officials said they rescued 89 cats from a hazardous environment after they executed a search warrant on a home in Girard on Friday.
Agents with the Animal Welfare League removed 13 additional cats from the home after 76 cats were removed from the same home earlier.
In a Facebook post, the league said this incident was “one of the worst hoarding cases” they’d ever seen. They also said the 13 additional cats that were removed had been taken into the home by the three owners after the removal of the previous cats.
Officers who responded to the home were reported to be “physically ill, dizzy and coughing from the overwhelming smell of cat urine and feces” while the owners continued to live in the home without heat or electricity.
The Animal Welfare League said the Trumbull County Health Department was notified.
Children Protective Services were also contacted because there was a minor living in the home.
Officials said healthy, unaltered cats that come to league, which is funded by private donations, cost an average of $244 for basic care, vaccinations and additional care.
Based on that average, the Animal Welfare League said this one case costs them over $21,000.
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Crowell played Praire Valley in the Electra ‘Grand’ Invitational.
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MIAMI (AP) — The director of the Miami-Dade Police Department was in stable condition after surgery in a Tampa area hospital, the Miami-Dade mayor said Monday.
“Following a critical injury in Tampa yesterday, Chief Ramirez is hospitalized and in critical but stable condition,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez, 52, was in Tampa for a law enforcement conference, officials said.
Amid speculation over what caused Ramirez’s injury, the mayor said that “All that matters right now is Chief Ramirez’s wellbeing,” and state Florida law enforcement officials said they were investigating an ‘incident.’
“We have been advised by local law enforcement agencies that our Director, Alfredo ‘Freddy’ Ramirez, has suffered a critical injury in the Tampa area. We understand he is currently undergoing surgery,” a statement from the Miami-Dade Police Department. “We ask you to please keep him in your prayers.”
The statement said the incident, which happened along Interstate 75 south of Tampa, is being investigated by the Florida Highway Patrol and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Details regarding the injury or how it happened were not immediately released.
“We will provide information as it becomes available,” the statement said.
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STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) (the "Company" or "Charter") will host a virtual investor meeting on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 4:05 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Following formal remarks, the Company will host a Q&A session.
The virtual meeting can be accessed live via the Company's investor relations website at ir.charter.com. The webcast will be archived at ir.charter.com after completion of the event.
Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR) is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 32 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. Over an advanced communications network, the Company offers a full range of state-of-the-art residential and business services including Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice.
For small and medium-sized companies, Spectrum Business® delivers the same suite of broadband products and services coupled with special features and applications to enhance productivity, while for larger businesses and government entities, Spectrum Enterprise provides highly customized, fiber-based solutions. Spectrum Reach® delivers tailored advertising and production for the modern media landscape. The Company also distributes award-winning news coverage and sports programming to its customers through Spectrum Networks. More information about Charter can be found at corporate.charter.com.
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- Revised platinum deficit forecast for 2023, up 77% to 983 koz, as demand grows 28% and supply decreases 1% year-on-year
- Stronger-than-expected positive investment demand in quarter one sees full-year forecast raised to 433 koz
- Industrial demand on track to be the strongest on record, increasing 17% driven by glass capacity expansions in China
- Strong platinum automotive demand growth continues in 2023, up 12% on higher loadings and increased substitution
LONDON, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Platinum Investment Council – WPIC® – today publishes its Platinum Quarterly for the first quarter of 2023 and a revised forecast for 2023.
Global platinum demand in the first quarter of 2023 jumped 28% (+441 koz) as an upswing in investment demand added to strong demand growth momentum in the automotive and industrial sectors. Combined with lower supply of refined platinum production in the quarter (-8% year-on-year, -96 koz), as well as reduced autocatalyst recycling (-15%, -52 koz) and jewellery recycling (-3%, -3 koz), this led to a market deficit of 392 koz – the first quarterly deficit since Q2'21.
These events have led to a meaningful upward revision of the deficit forecast for full-year 2023 to 983 koz, which is up by 77% versus the figure predicted three months ago. This reflects total supply which is now expected to fall 1% below the weak 2022 level to 7,193 koz (-63 koz), and stronger year-on-year demand growth than originally anticipated of 28% to reach 8,176 koz (+1,775 koz).
Jump in investment demand to over 400 koz
Q1'23 saw a surge in investor interest, driven by heightened global uncertainty, platinum's strong demand growth and concerns about risks to mine supply. Bar and coin investment jumped by 71% year-on-year in Q1'23 to 102 koz (+42 koz), its highest total since Q3'21, propelled by a marked recovery in Japan. This trend is set to continue for the full year, with an increase of 79% (+178 koz) forecast. Meanwhile, net platinum ETF holdings grew by 43 koz in Q1'23, reversing the previous six quarters' of net disinvestment, with significant renewed interest from South African funds for holding platinum ETFs in preference to PGM mining equities. Again, this trend is expected to continue in 2023. The result will mean net investment demand of 433 koz in 2023 – a swing of 1,073 koz on 2022.
Industrial demand in 2023 will be the strongest on record
Industrial platinum demand grew 8% (+43 koz) in Q1'23, driven by growth in chemical demand of 108% (+123 koz) due to paraxylene capacity additions in China. Similarly, on a full-year basis, LCD glass capacity additions in China are expected to offset closures in Japan and result in glass demand for platinum growing by 76% year-on-year (+316 koz) to 730 koz. Together with increases from the medical sector (+3%, +9 koz) and other industrial segment (+4%, +23 koz), 2023 is on track to be a record year for industrial demand, growing by 17% year-on-year (+382 koz) to 2,628 koz.
Platinum automotive demand up strongly despite weak macro outlook
Automotive demand rose 9% (+69 koz) to 806 koz in Q1'23, partly aided by higher vehicle production, but mainly on increased platinum use per vehicle. On a full year basis, global automotive demand is expected to rise by 12% in 2023 to 3,255 koz (+357 koz year-on-year), driven by a number of factors. Firstly, heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) production is forecast to grow by 6% in 2023, with output in China jumping by as much as 26%. Secondly, tighter emissions legislation, particularly in China, will result in higher loadings, especially for HDVs and non-road vehicles. Lastly, growing platinum for palladium substitution in gasoline after-treatment systems will further boost platinum consumption. Significantly, this has meant a further upward revision to the substitution estimate for 2023 to 615 koz.
Total supply continues to struggle in 2023
Refined mine production declined 8% (-96 koz) in Q1'23 year-on-year and fell 11% (-151 koz) against Q4'22, as gains from Russia failed to offset reduced output from South Africa. Output in South Africa declined 14% (-119 koz) year-on-year as smelter maintenance and the impact of the country's ongoing electricity shortages hampered output. While mined platinum supply is forecast to fall by a modest 1% (to 5,511 koz) in 2023, as reductions in South Africa are partially offset by gains in Zimbabwe and North America, significant uncertainties still exist for South African platinum supply.
Global recycling of platinum remained sluggish in the first quarter of 2023, falling 12% (-56 koz) year-on-year to 413 koz, due to reduced volumes of end-of-life vehicles as a result of fewer new vehicles being sold. Meanwhile, the regulatory environment in North America aimed at curbing autocatalyst theft also hindered recycling volumes. With both issues likely to prevail throughout 2023, full year platinum recycling supply is forecast to fall by 1% (-9 koz) to 1,682 koz.
Trevor Raymond, CEO of the World Platinum Investment Council, commented: "From a macro perspective, 2023 presents a raft of both existing and new challenges, with an uncertain economic and interest rate environment, turmoil in the banking sector, inflationary headwinds, and a global energy crisis. Against these challenges, platinum is, counterintuitively, forecast to see a meaningful and sustained period of deficit. Importantly, the core drivers of platinum's expected 28% demand growth in 2023 are areas where the downside risks are well protected. These include the ongoing platinum for palladium substitution in automotive applications, and already committed glass and chemical capacity additions in China, both supported by increasing investment demand.
"In Q1'23 we saw evidence of these core drivers increasing demand, with the deficit exacerbated by a worsening of electricity supply shortages in major producer South Africa. Mine supply concerns, together with strong automotive and industrial demand for platinum, were met by a surge in physical investment demand, all of which have contributed to a widening gap between the supply of, and demand for, platinum. The revised forecast deficit for 2023 of almost 1 million ounces, informed by these Q1'23 developments, is likely to attract further investor interest in bars and coins and physically backed ETFs.
"The link between platinum and the hydrogen economy is of increasing interest and is becoming more widely recognised by investors around the world. Platinum's use in electrolysers producing green hydrogen for Europe's future energy security is bolstering green hydrogen production and enhancing its role in global decarbonisation. Hydrogen-related platinum demand is expected to grow substantially in the medium term; as hydrogen demand becomes meaningful, platinum could become a proxy for investors looking for exposure to the global decarbonisation journey."
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — President Gabriel Boric of Chile is attempting to relaunch an administration that has plunged in popularity less than two months since he made headlines around the world for becoming the country’s youngest president and a possible symbol for a resurgent left wing in South America.
As opinion polls show Boric with a marked erosion of support since taking office, the 36-year-old president has declared the transition period has ended and called on his ministers act with “a sense of urgency” to deal with the demands of Chileans.
“There has been a sort of relaunching of his narrative,” said Eugenio Tironi, a Chilean sociologist. “There has been a change in tone, a change in role and the government is suddenly much more active.”
Boric said this week he was analyzing the possibility of allowing the military to assist in law enforcement duties in the violence-ridden south of the country. Dozens of truckers are blocking key roads demanding action to assure their safety in La Araucanía and Biobío regions, some 600 kilometers (360 miles) south of Chile’s capital.
Boric’s apparent willingness to appeal to the military for assistance in domestic security issues, which he has resisted in the past, follows his acknowledgement that his almost two months in office have not exactly gone as he hoped after he swept into the presidency with 56 percent support in a December runoff election.
“There have been difficulties and there have been mistakes,” Boric told local newspaper La Tercera in an interview published May 1. “It’s important to acknowledge our own responsibility.”
Opinion polls show Boric’s shine appears to be quickly wearing off among Chileans.
His approval rating dropped to about 24 percent in the second half of April, a plunge of almost 23 points since he took office, according to a poll by Pulso Ciudadano released on May 1. It was based on 1,043 online questionnaires and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. Another pollster, Cadem, reported Boric’s approval rating stood at 36 percent, a 14-point plunge since he was sworn in. That poll was based on 703 phone interviews with a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points.
With his recent moves, Boric is “taking note that the honeymoon was a bit more abrupt than expected and he can’t appeal to youth nor inexperience to justify his political mistakes,” said Cristóbal Bellolio, a political science professor at the Adolfo Ibáñez University in Santiago.
Although shorter honeymoons for recently sworn-in leaders have become a global trend amid broader skepticism of those in power, Boric seems to have particularly tested the patience of Chileans by taking too long to detail his plans for office, Bellolio said.
“In the beginning, he abused this idea that they were going to take time to first issue a diagnosis of the situation before taking action,” he added. “But you have to act even if the diagnosis isn’t complete.”
As a student leader, Boric often led protests against inequality that rocked the country that was once seen as a bedrock of political stability in the region. As a candidate, he vowed to bring a seismic shift in the political landscape. Now some of his voters are disappointed that change appears slow.
“There could be an effect that expectations were too high, along with the expectations of the speed at which things would occur,” said Cristián Cáceres, a 54-year-old telecommunications engineer. “People definitely had unreal expectations.”
For now at least, Boric’s talk of shaking up the status quo has yet to come to fruition.
“He hasn’t implemented anything new,” said Cristóbal Huneeus, director of Data Science at Unholster, a local pollster. “He has spoken of transformative reforms, but we don’t see any reforms.”
For Raúl Ulloa, a 69-year-old optician in Santiago, Boric’s drop in approval is not a mystery. He said the new president “doesn’t have a plan” and now should “go toward the middle and not be so extremist” if he hopes to regain support.
Analysts largely agree that Boric’s administration is suffering from some self-inflicted wounds by a cabinet filled with new faces. Several of these missteps involve the interior minister, Izkia Siches. In March, she was forced to abruptly end a visit to La Araucanía region, a focus of conflict with indigenous groups demanding restitution of land, after gunshots were fired near her motorcade. In April, Siches apologized after she mistakenly told lawmakers that a plane carrying expelled Venezuelan immigrants during the previous administration had returned to Chile with all the passengers aboard.
“It’s a team that does not have a lot of political experience in the executive. They got there precisely because they had never been there before,” Claudia Heiss, the head of political science at the University of Chile, said. “They’re learning how to manage a government and that has led them to make some mistakes.”
That has weighed heavily on some Chileans, including Patricio Soto, 40, who says Boric's administration "may have had the best intentions but the lack of experience for important posts” has led to problems in the government.
At the same time though, Boric is dealing with some issues that would have presented challenges to anyone in his position.
“The economic situation is super relevant and anyone who would have been in power right now would be in trouble,” Heiss said. “We have an inflation rate that has not been seen in Chile since at least the return of democracy and we’re still mired in an economic crisis as a result of the pandemic.”
Chile’s annual inflation rate reached 9.4 percent in March, showing an increase from the 7.2 percent registered in 2021.
Amid continuing economic difficulties, the Chilean government this week decreased its growth expectations for the year to 1.5 percent from 3.5 percent and increased its inflation estimate for 2022 to 8.9 percent.
Chileans are not just souring on Boric though; they have grown increasingly skeptical of the institution that is rewriting the country’s constitution.
Almost eight in 10 Chileans voted in favor of rewriting the constitution in 2020, an overwhelming majority that showed the fervor for change in the country following the student-led protests. But now that the constitutional convention has gotten to work, many are having doubts and polls show a growing number are leaning toward voting against the still-unfinished document in a September plebiscite.
Even some who support the reform are expressing some skepticism.
“I think that, as a society, we need to change the constitution,” Daniela Arévalo, a 25-year-old architecture student, said. “But now I don’t trust how the constitutional process is moving forward.”
Boric has been a strong proponent of amending the constitution and the future of his government is seen as inexorably tied to what happens with that vote since they are both part of a historic process that involves Chileans demanding change.
“If the government wins it can breathe easy,” Bellolio said. “If it loses, it will amount to a political earthquake.”
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Daniel Politi reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina. | 2022-05-09T14:39:20+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Chile-s-Boric-attempts-relaunch-as-honeymoon-ends-17159052.php |
Jamal Murray scored seven of his 14 points over the final two minutes, Nikola Jokic had his eighth triple-double of the season and the Denver Nuggets rallied to beat the Miami Heat 124-119 on Friday night.
Jokic finished with 19 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists. The two-time reigning NBA MVP was 8 of 15 from the floor, marking his team-record 26th straight game shooting 50% or better. He has 84th career triple-doubles.
With Denver down 117-115, Murray took over as the point guard and hit a 3-pointer, two free throws and a floating jumper to help the Nuggets remain tied with New Orleans for the top spot in the Western Conference.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope led the Nuggets with 20 points on 7-of-7 shooting from the floor. The Nuggets had eight players score in double figures to offset 20 turnovers.
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Tyler Herro had 26 points and 10 rebounds for Miami. Bam Adebayo added 22 for the Heat, who began a five-game trip through the West.
Duncan Robinson connected on three long-range shots to become the franchise’s leader in 3-pointers with 807, one more than Tim Hardaway.
Miami rebounded from a horrific shooting start — 4 of 22 — to keep things close until making a move to start the third quarter. The Heat took the lead early in the third quarter on Herro's 3-pointer, but couldn't hold on.
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Heat: Herro hit all four of his free throws to run his streak to 24. It's the fourth-longest streak of his career. ... Coach Erik Spoelstra drew a technical foul in the third quarter for arguing. ... Forward Caleb Martin was scratched because of a quad injury.
Nuggets: Bones Hyland had five 3-pointers and 16 points.
POP QUIZ
Nuggets coach Michael Malone was asked if this was an important test, given Miami’s physical brand of basketball.
“Every night is a test. I mean that sincerely,” Malone said. “There are 29 other teams that present problems. One might be a great running team, one might be a great low-post team. Iso (isolation) team, catch-and-shoot, whatever. ... We know that they (the Heat) are capable of doing really big things in that Eastern Conference.”
UP NEXT
Heat: At Utah on Saturday night.
Nuggets: Host Boston on Sunday night.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Bowlero Corp. (NYSE: BOWL) resulting from allegations that Bowlero may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
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Amber Wooding scored 11 points to lead all scorers, and her Lawrence squad to a 33-19 victory over Nottingham in Lawrence on Monday.
Asia Wooding chipped in eight points for the Cardinals, who are now 4-19 on the season.
Gabriella Nobile and Maddox Casiano each scored seven to pace Nottingham, which fell to 1-19.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest on Saturday to tow away a fleet of luxury cars and other assets worth an estimated $3.9 million in the case investigating Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality who is detained in the country on charges of human trafficking.
Romania’s National Agency for the Administration of Unavailable Assets said in a statement that it removed a total of 15 luxury cars, 14 designer watches and cash in several currencies. The total value of the goods, the agency said, is estimated at 3.6 million euros ($3.9 million).
About a half-dozen masked law enforcement officers and other officials descended on the compound Saturday to take away the goods. The fleet of automobiles included a blue Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, a Porsche, a BMW, an Aston Martin and a Mercedes-Benz.
Tate, 36, a British-U.S. citizen who has 4.5 million followers on Twitter, was arrested on Dec. 29 in Bucharest along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking and rape.
On Tuesday, all four lost an appeal after a court upheld a judge’s Dec. 30 move to extend their arrest from 24 hours to 30 days. A day later, Tate lost another appeal that challenged assets seized by prosecutors in the case so far.
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said it had seized 15 luxury vehicles in the case, and identified more than 10 properties and land owned by companies registered to the Tate brothers.
If prosecutors can prove they gained money through illicit activities including human trafficking, the assets could be used to cover the expenses of the investigation and compensation for victims, said Ramona Bolla, a DIICOT spokesperson.
DIICOT said it has identified six victims in the human trafficking case who were subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and were sexually exploited by the members of the alleged crime group.
The agency said victims were lured by pretenses of love, and later intimidated, kept under surveillance and subjected to other control tactics while being coerced into performing in pornography.
Tate, a former professional kickboxer who has reportedly lived in Romania since 2017, was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.
After the assets were moved Saturday, a post appeared on Tate’s Twitter account, which read: “Anyone who believes I’m a human trafficker is genuinely a moron,” and that “anyone smart enough to understand the American System is unfair would be mind blown by the injustice of the Romanian System.”
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Stephen McGrath reported from Sighisoara. | 2023-01-15T18:05:55+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-andrew-tate-case-romania-tows-luxury-cars-other-assets/ |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s central bank raised a key interest rate by half a percentage point Thursday to combat rapidly rising inflation and price increases that are spreading through the economy.
Riksbanken said that it decided to raise the policy rate to 0.75% to try to prevent high inflation from becoming entrenched.
“The imbalances arising when demand increased faster than supply have been reinforced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and new pandemic-related restrictions in China,” the bank said, and had pushed up prices for energy, food and other goods.
“The high rate of inflation in Sweden and abroad is affecting households and is undermining purchasing power," it said. “Central banks around the world are now tightening monetary policy to cool down economic activity and bring inflation down.”
The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised interest rates three times this year. The Bank of England has hiked rates five times since December, while the European Central Bank plans its first increases in 11 years next month, followed by another hike in September.
Sweden's central bank said the rate will be raised gradually going forward and that it will be somewhat below 2% at the start of next year.
Inflation in Sweden, which is part of the European Union but does not use the euro, is 7.2%, according to official figures. Consumer prices jumped 8.1% in the 19 countries sharing the euro last month from a year earlier and 8.6% in the U.S. | 2022-06-30T10:51:11+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sweden-s-central-bank-raises-interest-rate-to-17276085.php |
New platform unlocks the full potential of Independence's information
PHILADELPHIA, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Independence Health Group, Inc. (Independence) today announced that it successfully completed migrating its Data Warehouse to Google Cloud BigQuery, marking a major milestone in the company's digital transformation as a leading health care company.
"Data is the heartbeat of our organization. Migrating to Google Cloud lets us unlock the true potential of our information," said Michael R. Vennera, executive vice president and chief strategy, corporate development, and information officer at Independence. "This transformation is not just about technology; it's about harnessing data-driven insights for the benefit of our customers and members, making informed decisions, and moving us ahead in a rapidly changing health care landscape."
The technical and business benefits from this migration include:
- Accelerated insights for better decision making: Near-real-time analytics that will enable faster and more informed, data-driven decisions to benefit customers and members.
- Cost optimization for business efficiency: The migration facilitates a more flexible and cost-efficient infrastructure model. The pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing eliminates the need for expensive hardware investments and maintenance.
- Agility and scalability for future growth: The cloud-based architecture offers scalability, allowing the company to handle massive amounts of information effortlessly, embrace emerging technologies, support innovation, and capitalize on new market opportunities swiftly.
- Enhanced security and compliance: With Google Cloud's robust security framework, Independence has strengthened its data protection measures, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive health care data.
"Moving to Google Cloud will help deliver a more personalized experience for customers and members and improve care coordination by providing clinical insights in a much faster, real-time manner," said Sushma Akunuru, senior vice president, Business Technology Services for Independence Blue Cross.
About Independence Health Group
Independence Health Group and its subsidiaries serve consumers and employer groups ranging from small businesses to national corporations. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Independence Health Group is a diversified company offering a wide range of services including commercial, Medicare and Medicaid medical coverage, and third-party benefits administration. Independence Health Group and Independence Blue Cross are independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes faces sentencing for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack
May 24, 2023, 9:16 PM
(Dana Verkouteren via AP, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes will be sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power, culminating in far-right extremists attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prosecutors are seeking 25 years behind bars for Rhodes, who will be sentenced in the federal court in Washington that sits less than a mile from the Capitol. He will be the first Jan. 6 defendant convicted of seditious conspiracy to receive his punishment, which will set the standard for a slew of extremists group members’ sentencings to come.
Prosecutors say Rhodes remains a threat to American democracy more than two years after he led a plot to forcibly block the transfer of power from Trump to President Joe Biden after Trump lost the 2020 election.
During a court hearing on Wednesday, police officers and congressional staffers at the Capitol on Jan. 6 recounted the physical and emotional trauma they are still suffering after they engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters for hours or fled as the mob roamed the halls in search of lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence.
Rhodes, of Granbury, Texas, was found guilty in November of seditious conspiracy alongside Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs, and four other Oath Keepers were convicted of the rarely used charge during a second trial in January. Three of Rhodes’ co-defendants were acquitted of seditious conspiracy but convicted of other crimes.
It was one of the most consequential cases brought by the Justice Department as it has sought to prove that the riot for right-wing extremists like the Oath Keepers was not a spur-of-the-moment protest but the culmination of weeks of plotting to overturn Biden’s election victory.
Rhodes’ sentencing comes just weeks after former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy alongside other leaders of his far-right group this month for what prosecutors said was a separate plot to block the transfer of presidential power. The Proud Boys will be sentenced in August and September.
Rhodes’ lawyers say he should be sentenced to the 16 months he has already served behind bars since his January 2022 arrest. In seeking leniency for Rhodes, his lawyers cited his military service and told the judge that Rhodes’ writings and statements were all “protected political speech.” Rhodes’ attorneys plan to appeal his conviction.
Rhodes and Meggs were the first people in nearly three decades to be found guilty at trial of seditious conspiracy. Meggs is expected to be sentenced after Rhodes later Thursday and two other Oath Keepers will be sentenced Friday. Four other defendants convicted of seditious conspiracy will be sentenced next week.
The judge canceled the sentencing hearing scheduled this week for another defendant — Thomas Caldwell of Berryville, Virginia — as the judge weighs whether to overturn the jury’s guilty verdict against Caldwell for obstruction and a documents tampering charge.
The convictions were a major blow for the Oath Keepers, which Rhodes founded in 2009 and grew into one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups. Recruiting past and present members of the military and police officers, the group promotes the belief that the federal government is out to strip citizens of their civil liberties and paints its followers as defenders against tyranny.
Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers said there was never any plan to attack the Capitol or stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.
The defense tried to seize on the fact that none of the Oath Keepers’ messages laid out an explicit plan to storm the Capitol. But prosecutors said the Oath Keepers saw an an opportunity to further their goal to stop the transfer of power and sprang into action when the mob began storming the building.
Messages, recordings and other evidence presented at trial show Rhodes and his followers growing increasingly enraged after the 2020 election at the prospect of a Biden presidency, which they viewed as a threat to the country and their way of life. In an encrypted chat two days after the election, Rhodes told his followers to prepare their “mind, body, spirit” for “civil war.”
In a conference call days later, Rhodes urged his followers to let Trump know they were “willing to die” for the country. One Oath Keeper who was listening was so alarmed that he began recording the call and contacted the FBI, telling jurors “it sounded like we were going to war against the United States government.”
Another man testified that after the riot, Rhodes tried to persuade him to pass along a message to Trump that urged the president not to give up his fight to hold onto power. The intermediary — who told jurors he had an indirect way to reach the president — recorded his meeting with Rhodes and went to the FBI instead of giving the message to Trump. Rhodes told the man during that meeting that the Oath Keepers “should have brought rifles” on Jan. 6.
The longest sentence handed down so far in the more than 1,000 Capitol riot cases came earlier this month for a man with a long criminal record who attacked police officers with pepper spray and a chair as he stormed the Capitol. Just over 500 of the defendants have been sentenced, with more than half receiving prison time and the remainder getting sentences such as probation or home detention.
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Richer reported from Boston. | 2023-05-25T06:13:03+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3892988/oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes-faces-sentencing-for-seditious-conspiracy-in-jan-6-attack/ |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Biden Administration’s decision last month to cancel student loan debt is leaving many borrowers with tight timelines. The systems and procedures to help ensure the process run smoothly are still being put together.
The application process begins in October. However, there will be a tight three-month window to fill out the applications. To ensure a smooth transition to repayment and prevent unnecessary defaults, the administration has extended the pause a final time through December 31 of 2022, with payments resuming in January of 2023. However, the Department of Education will continue to process applications as they are received, even after the pause expires.
The president of the East Tennessee BBB, Tony Binkley, has recently had conversations with process servers about how the forgiveness will work.
“I talked to one loan servicer and their phone calls after the Biden administration came out with this announcement went up like 15,000%, the number of phone calls they get per day. It is overwhelming and it’s taken a while to respond to this. They’re trying to change their software and staff to handle all of this,” said Binkley.
An estimated 40 million borrowers are eligible for student loan relief. Most of those who qualify for cancellation are students or former students who made less than 125,0000-thousand dollars in the 2020 or 2021 tax year.
“That’s about one in seven people in the United States who have a student loan, that’s a lot of people trying to contact their servicers. There are only about 6 major services nationwide. That’s a lot of people contacting them in a short amount of time. You know, I just say to anyone looking to get their loan forgiven or tying to find out (information), just be patient with your servicer,” said Binkley.
Amid the complexity for borrowers, there are scammers out there chomping at the bit to take advantage of this process.
“One thing to be wary of is if you see a government look-alike site. Those are hard to determine because scammers are good at that too. So go to student aid.gov. That is the absolute best site to go to get the information that you need,” said Binkley.
Another thing to remember, a real government program will not ask for an advanced processing fee.
“There is always a fee involved when scammers. It’s not always about getting your fee, necessarily, it’s about getting your payment information banking and credit card information. You won’t have to pay any fees if this goes through and you shouldn’t give this information to anybody,” said Binkley.
The U.S. Education Department has indicated that around eight million federal student loan borrowers may receive student loan forgiveness automatically, without needing to submit a formal application. This includes borrowers who have already sent recent income data to the Education Department.
The Biden Administration says that a formal application for the new student loan forgiveness initiative should be available on studentaid.gov in early October. While few details have been released so far, the application is expected to be a fairly simple document and, the education department says they expect a four-to-six-week turnaround on applications, which is fairly fast when it comes to federal student loan paperwork. | 2022-09-14T23:30:37+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/investigations/better-business-bureau-breaks-down-student-loan-forgiveness/ |
San Antonio – Friday is National Doughnut Day and to celebrate the occasion, H-E-B stores throughout San Antonio are offering a 2% cash donation on doughnut sales from the bakery section, now through June 6.
Customers are also being offered free doughnuts with a purchase.
“It will make an impact on the many services we provide,” Salvation Army’s Emergency Family Shelter Manager, Roxanne Ponce said.
The Salvation Army started National Doughnut Day in Chicago in 1938 to help raise needed funds during the Great Depression and commemorate the work of the “doughnut lassies” who fed doughnuts to American soldiers on the front lines during World War I.
“Years later during the Great Depression the Salvation Army in Chicago started the National Doughnut Day as a fundraiser to raise funds,” Salvation Army Public Relations Director Brad Mayhar said.
The doughnuts became synonymous with The Salvation Army, as well as the American soldiers who were returning home with the nickname, “doughboys.”
Today, The Salvation Army continues to provide meals and numerous other services to clients who visit Salvation Army programs daily.
The organization also provides meals to victims and first responders during times of disaster. | 2023-06-02T18:25:35+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/06/02/h-e-b-giving-away-free-donuts-with-salvation-army-donation/ |
Police: Man arrested for stabbing 86-year-old woman with ink pen during attempted robbery
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – Police in Oklahoma arrested a man they say stabbed and tried to rob an 86-year-old woman.
Officers responded to a gas station in Tulsa for a report of a stabbing, where they learned the suspect, Donald Shibley, approached an old woman at the pump and demanded her keys.
Police said in a Facebook post that the woman refused and Shibley began hitting her before stabbing her in the neck with an ink pen.
Shibley then ran off into the neighborhood, according to police.
The officers searched the nearby neighborhoods and eventually found and took Shibley into custody.
Police said the 86-year-old woman was able to give officers a statement on the scene and was taken to the hospital later for treatment.
The Tulsa Police Department said Shibley was also the suspect in a carjacking involving a 72-year-old man a few days ago.
Authorities said the stabbing case will be turned over to federal prosecutors to determine the charges due to Shibley’s Native American status.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-23T00:20:02+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/06/22/police-man-arrested-stabbing-86-year-old-woman-with-ink-pen-during-attempted-robbery/ |
We’ve all had it happen to us — you’re having a conversation about something and then while you’re scrolling through social media, you see an ad about the thing you were just talking about.
It begs the question: is my phone listening to me?
Ken Colburn with Data Doctors says your phone can listen to you. Meaning it knows words like “Hey Siri” or “Hey Alexa” so you can give it a command. But in terms of listening to your hours-long conversations and then giving you ads based on what you were talking about, he says that is a myth.
He says your phone doesn’t need to listen to you in order to target you with ads, because it already knows so much about you.
Since most apps are tracking your location, he says your phone knows if you’re sitting next to a friend in your "network."
“They have the ability to track you and your friends and your network at a granule level. That location data that all those apps are collecting from you allows an advertiser to know that you are sitting in a coffee shop with a friend that’s a huge advocate and loves Disneyland and you guys are talking about Disneyland. Suddenly you go home and you see a Disneyland ad,” Colburn said. “Because you just sat for a long time with someone that’s a huge Disney fan, they just go ahead and send that ad to all of the people in that person’s network.”
He says you’re also getting 6,000 to 10,000 ads a day, so it’s possible you were already receiving those ads, you just didn’t notice until it was brought up in conversation. | 2023-01-10T13:14:38+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/is-your-phone-listening-to-you-data-expert-explains-targeted-ads |
JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island town has created a scholarship fund and will fly the Juneteenth flag to recognize and begin atoning for its role in the slave trade.
The Jamestown Town Council approved a resolution this week in memory of the family of Betty Martin and “all who suffered the brutalities and injustice of slavery in our community."
The resolution calls for the town to fly the Juneteenth flag from June 19 to July 5. Juneteenth is a federal holiday on June 19 that marks the effective end of slavery in the U.S.
It also creates the town-endowed Betty Martin Family Scholarship, which will be awarded to graduating high school seniors who can show they’ll be “good citizens,” based on their study of civics or history, community service or the “content of their character.”
According to the resolution, members of the Martin family had been the slaves of Jamestown resident Rebecca Carr Martin in the 18th century.
When the widow ran into debt with the town and couldn't repay, her property, including more than a half dozen slaves, were seized and sold off piecemeal.
Betty Martin was sold for the equivalent of $43 while her 9-year-old son, Newport, was sold for the equivalent of $30 in 1791. | 2022-06-16T19:09:47+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Town-creates-scholarship-in-memory-of-slave-17246547.php |
Lemonade Day 2023: 10-year-old entrepreneur plans to buy new suitcase with proceeds from lemonade stand
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - The saying goes, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
A group of more than 50 kids in Bismarck and Mandan made a little extra cash too.
That’s thanks to an annual, summer staple that’s breeding young entrepreneurs.
They’ve got lofty goals.
“I want to own a gymnastics academy,” said Founder and CEO of Liv’s Lemonade Alivia Ell.
And they’re already taking the steps to make it in the business world — one lemon at a time.
“I’m 10,” said Ell.
She’s 10, and she’s already the founder and CEO of this lemonade stand.
Alivia Elle is learning what it takes to run her own business thanks to Lemonade Day.
“Kids get to learn about how to be a young entrepreneur, so they literally learn life skills through this program,” said Event Coordinator Maggie Byrd.
Alivia opened Liv’s Lemonade at the entrance of Runnings in Bismarck.
But there are 54 other stands between the two cities and lots of lemonade to go around.
Each kid with a different goal.
“I’m actually raising money for Furry Friends. And then, I’m also raising money because I want to buy a new suitcase,” said Ell.
The hope is that slicing, squeezing and serving, will turn into saving, spending and sharing.
Lemonade Day kicked off today, but kids can keep their stands open as long as they want.
Registration for this year has closed, but it opens in February every year.
If you are interested in registering next year, click here.
Copyright 2023 KFYR. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-23T04:16:06+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/07/23/lemonade-day-2023-10-year-old-entrepreneur-plans-buy-new-suitcase-with-proceeds-lemonade-stand/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Veru Inc. ("Veru" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VERU) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Veru investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Veru Inc. common stock between May 11, 2022 and November 9, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
VERU investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: 1) the Company had withheld material adverse facts about the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial and the Company's interactions with the United States Food and Drug Administration; 2) defendants misled Veru's shareholders to believe that the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial was sufficient to support Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA") and even the submission of a New Drug Application without any further studies; and 3) the Company's filings concealed the true risks faced by Veru in gaining approval for its EUA request.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Veru during the relevant time frame, you have until February 6, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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El Dorado Hills woman killed in head-on crash in Yuba County, CHP says
An El Dorado Hills woman was killed in a head-on crash in Yuba County Friday night, authorities said.
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The crash happened around 6:45 p.m. on New York Flat Road, just north of Idlewood Circle, the California Highway Patrol said.
The 27-year-old woman from El Dorado Hills was driving southbound on New York Flat Road when the truck collided head-on with another truck headed north, CHP said.
The collision caused the woman's truck to roll, according to authorities.
She died at the scene of the crash. The driver of the second truck wasn't injured in the crash.
CHP is still investigating but they do believe alcohol and/or drugs are a factor in the crash.
Anyone with information regarding this collision is encouraged to contact the California Highway Patrol Yuba Sutter Area Office at (530)-674-5141. | 2022-09-24T20:20:02+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/el-dorado-hills-woman-killed-crash-yuba-county/41369213 |
The gas station chain Buc-ees is filing suit over a knockoff that’s popped up south of the border. It uses a similar-looking cartoon beaver in their logo but spells the name differently.
Photos of the grocery store in Matamoros, about ten miles south of the Texas border, have gone viral on social media with comments laughing about the rip off. In a statement, Buc-ees officials say they “will not stand idle” as their intellectual property is stolen. | 2023-07-28T21:55:11+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/mexican-grocery-steals-iconic-logo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mexican-grocery-steals-iconic-logo |
Which calcium supplement is best?
Taking calcium for strong bones may be a no-brainer but not all calcium supplements are of equal value. Plus, your age is a factor in how much calcium you should take. Some supplements may also include added vitamins, such as vitamin D or magnesium, to improve absorption.
Calcium supplements not only help strengthen bones but also support your heart, muscles and nerves. For vegans and vegetarians, or for those who prefer organic supplements, Garden of Life MyKind Organics Plant Calcium is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a calcium supplement
Types of calcium
There are a few different types of calcium available in supplement form. All are in compound form. This means that the calcium is attached to other atoms. You’ll want to pay attention to what percentage of the compound contains actual calcium (called elemental calcium).
- Calcium carbonate contains 40% elemental calcium. This is the cheapest and one of the most common calcium compounds used in supplements. While it has a high concentration of calcium, it can cause stomach upset. The stomach has to produce more acid to absorb this type, which may cause gas, bloating and constipation.
- Calcium citrate contains 21% elemental calcium. It is another common and inexpensive calcium compound. While its percentage of pure calcium is lower than calcium carbonate, it is easier on the stomach.
- Calcium gluconate contains 9% elemental calcium. It is mostly used by physicians intravenously to treat conditions such as hypocalcemia and too much magnesium. It’s not as popular in supplement form because it contains such a low amount of elemental calcium.
- Calcium lactate contains 13% elemental calcium. It has good bioavailability but you’ll have to take more of it to match the amount of calcium in the other types. One of the benefits of calcium lactate is that you can take it on an empty stomach.
Form
The majority of calcium supplements come in pill form, either capsules, softgels or tablets. If you have trouble swallowing pills, you can also find calcium in liquid, chew or powder form.
Dosage
The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of calcium is 1,000 milligrams per day for adults ages 19-50. For women aged 51-70, 1,200 mg is the RDA while only 1,000 is the RDA for men in that age group. For all adults over 70, 1,200 mg a day is recommended. Pay attention to the serving size, which is the number of pills or scoops required to get the full dose of calcium.
Tolerability and precautions
Calcium supplements can cause constipation, especially calcium carbonate. You may need to try a few types to see what you can tolerate. Calcium citrate can be taken on an empty stomach and is recommended for people with low stomach acid, such as individuals aged over 50 or who are taking acid blockers.
Calcium supplements can interact with many different prescription medications (such as blood pressure medications and antibiotics) as well as supplements, so ask your health care provider before starting supplementation.
What to look for in a quality calcium supplement
Added minerals
Calcium can reduce the absorption of magnesium, zinc and iron. Select supplements contain added magnesium and/or zinc. If you take an iron supplement, take your calcium one at least two hours before or after the calcium supplement.
Added vitamins
To absorb calcium, your body needs vitamin D. If you’re not getting enough vitamin D through the sun or food, choose a calcium supplement with added D, or even better, D3. Select calcium supplements also contain added vitamin K2, which directs the calcium to its proper place.
Vegan/vegetarian
If you’re on a plant-based diet, be sure your supplement is labeled vegan. Algae calcium is a newer plant-based supplement that’s popular. The majority of supplements with added vitamin D are not vegan. Capsules that contain gelatin are not vegetarian.
How much you can expect to spend on a calcium supplement
Expect to pay between 5-25 cents per pill. Algae and plant-based forms of calcium cost between 16-68 cents per pill.
Calcium supplement FAQ
Should I take a calcium supplement derived from oyster shells or bone meal?
A. While these forms of calcium are advertised as being natural, we don’t recommend taking them due to their high concentrations of heavy metals, such as lead, which can be toxic.
What does bioavailability mean?
A. A supplement’s bioavailability means how much of the calcium (or other nutrients) are absorbed by the body. It’s measured by the proportion of the element that enters the bloodstream.
What’s the best calcium supplement to buy?
Top calcium supplement
Garden of Life MyKind Organics Plant Calcium
What you need to know: A top-of-the-line organic supplement, this plant-based calcium is sourced from real foods and doesn’t contain animal products.
What you’ll love: The tablets contain vegan vitamin D3, vitamin K and magnesium. It’s sourced from algae, fruits and vegetables — not from crushed stones like most calcium supplements. It’s certified organic and vegan.
What you should consider: To get the full dosage, you have to take this three times a day and the vegan tablets are pricey.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb and Amazon
Top calcium supplement for the money
What you need to know: This low-cost calcium softgel is easy to swallow and contains vitamin D3.
What you’ll love: People report a decrease in muscle cramps after taking these regularly. The gelcaps are easy to swallow for most. They provide the right amount of calcium for older adults concerned with osteoporosis, and many report improvement in their bone density conditions.
What you should consider: Some reviewers complain that the serving size is two softgels a day for 1200 mg of calcium, instead of just one pill.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Worth checking out
New Chapter Calcium Supplement
What you need to know: This vegetarian calcium tablet is slim and offers slow release for better absorption.
What you’ll love: The tablets are small but include vitamin D3 and vitamin K2. Derived from Red Marine Algae, the calcium source naturally includes magnesium. People report improvement in bone density, if not a reversal of osteoporosis conditions, from taking this.
What you should consider: These plant-based tablets may cause nausea upon first taking them. They are also pricey.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb and Amazon
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP:
To: All Persons or Entities who purchased Pzena Investment Management, Inc. ("Pzena" or the "Company") (NYSE: PZN) stock prior to July 26, 2022.
You are hereby notified that Levi & Korsinsky, LLP has commenced an investigation into the fairness of the merger of Pzena with and into a newly formed subsidiary of its operating company, Pzena Investment Management, LLC ("PIM"). Under the terms of the deal, holders of Penza Class A common stock will receive just $9.60 per share in cash.
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The Pzena merger investigation concerns whether the Board of Pzena has harmed stockholders by agreeing to enter into this transaction and whether all material facts have been properly disclosed to stockholders.
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(WPHL) – A Pennsylvania man was charged Monday with drugging and killing his own mother.
Sean Rivera, 28, of Falls Township in suburban Philadelphia, was arrested on allegations that he killed his 72-year-old mother, Carol J. Clark, by putting fentanyl in her iced tea, shooting her, and then leaving her body in a shed.
According to Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub’s office, police on Sunday afternoon received a report of a verbal domestic dispute between two brothers over the whereabouts of their mother.
According to Weintraub, Rivera called his brother, Adam Clark-Valle, Sunday morning to let him know their mother had died after an illness. Clark-Valle, who lived in New York at the time, drove to Rivera’s home to mourn. When Clark-Valle arrived, he asked Rivera where their mother was, but Rivera did not give an answer.
Then, at one point, Rivera told his brother that their mother had had a heart attack and was in a local hospital, which Clark-Valle checked but found no record of her being there.
Clark-Valle called the police, and the Falls Township Police Department put out an alert, asking the public to help them find Clark.
During a search of Rivera’s home and vehicle, detectives found two guns, a Home Depot receipt, a padlock, an empty padlock package, and a set of bolt cutters.
According to police, on Saturday night, Rivera put “diluted fentanyl” in his mother’s iced tea. Between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., while his mother was “in a conscious but lethargic state,” he put her in her own car and drove her to a shed in Philadelphia, police said.
Then he used bolt cutters to cut off the padlocks on the shed, took his mother inside, and shot her “approximately five times,” police said. He then closed the doors to the shed, locked them with the padlocks he had bought, and left, they said.
After Rivera was apprehended, police opened the shed with a key he still had on him.
Rivera was charged with criminal homicide, kidnapping to facilitate a felony, kidnaping to inflict terror or injury, aggravated assault, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of an instrument of crime, possession of a weapon, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, and recklessly endangering another person.
No potential motive was given.
Rivera was being held without bail at the Bucks County Correctional Facility. | 2023-04-12T18:46:37+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/pennsylvania-man-charged-with-drugging-killing-his-72-year-old-mother/ |
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Bleach was sprayed into a person’s eyes during an attack at a Maryland mall, and police said Monday they are searching for two teenage suspects.
Montgomery County police officers responded to the Westfield Wheaton mall in Silver Spring around 8 p.m. on April 15 for a report of an assault, police said in a news release on Monday.
Detectives learned that two people approached the victim inside the mall, pushed her to the ground and began kicking her in the face, police said. Before they fled, police said one sprayed bleach in the victim’s eyes.
Police released surveillance video of the suspects described as females in their late teens and they are asking for help identifying them. | 2022-05-02T17:14:33+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Police-Bleach-sprayed-in-victim-s-eyes-in-mall-17141911.php |
EU proposes to suspend billions in funds to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding
Brussels — The European Union’s executive branch recommended Sunday that the bloc suspend around 7.5 billion euros (dollars) in funding to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money.
The European Commission, which proposes the bloc’s laws and ensures that they are respected, said it was acting “to ensure the protection of the EU budget and the financial interests of the EU against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary.”
EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said that despite measures Hungary has proposed to address the deficiencies, the commission is recommending the suspension of funds “amounting to an estimated amount of 7.5 billion euros.”
The money would come from “cohesion funds” granted to Hungary. This envelope of money, one of the biggest slices of the bloc’s budget, helps countries to bring their economies and infrastructure up to EU standards.
EU countries pay around 1% of their gross national income into the budget. Hungary is slated to receive at least 50 billion euros in all from the 2021-27 budget, according to commission estimates.
Any action to suspend the funds must be approved by the EU member countries, and this requires a “qualified majority,” which amounts to 55% of the 27 members representing at least 65% of the total EU population.
They have one month to decide whether to freeze Hungary’s funds, but can in exceptional circumstances extend that period to two months. The commission is recommending that the member countries take until Nov. 19 to allow Hungary more time to address the concerns.
The commission has for nearly a decade accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of dismantling democratic institutions, taking control of the media and infringing on minority rights. Orban, who has been in office since 2010, denies the accusations.
Speaking after a meeting of EU commissioners in Brussels, which unanimously endorsed the move, Hahn welcomed Hungary’s offer to fix the problem, saying that its proposed remedial action goes “in the right direction.”
He said the measures could address some of the commission’s concerns if they are followed up, and properly acted upon. But he said that “a risk for the budget at this stage remains, therefore we cannot conclude that the EU budget is sufficiently protected.”
The commission’s fears focus on public procurement – purchases by the state of goods and services or for the execution of projects using EU funds. Critics say the awarding of such contracts have allowed Orban’s government to channel large sums of EU money into the businesses of politically connected insiders.
A senior EU official pointed to “systematic and systemic irregularities, deficiencies and weaknesses in public procurement related to very high rates of single bidding.” Officials estimate that around half of Hungary’s public tenders are granted after single bidder processes.
The commission also has “serious concerns regarding the detection, prevention and correction of conflicts of interest,” as well as about a number of public interest trusts which manage significant funds, and notably in the area of education.
Hungarian media has reported that Orban’s nationalist government is set to announce new legislation as soon as Monday. EU lawmakers expressed concern last week that this may just be a ploy to gain time.
In a resolution on Thursday, the lawmakers said that Hungary’s nationalist government is deliberately trying to undermine the bloc’s democratic values.
They said that the government in Budapest – which Orban characterizes as an “illiberal democracy” – has become “a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy.” In part, they blame EU member countries for this, for turning a blind eye to possible abuses.
The French Greens parliamentarian who chaperoned the resolution through the assembly, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, said that “for the first time, an EU institution is stating the sad truth, that Hungary is no longer a democracy.”
The case, launched by the commission against Hungary in April, is a fresh step in the use of a new mechanism allowing the EU to take action to protect its budget. It does not target member countries for general breaches of EU law.
The mechanism is seen as the EU’s most potent weapon to prevent a worsening anti-democratic drift in some countries. Commission officials have said that Hungary has consistently failed to implement EU recommendations for more than 10 years. | 2022-09-18T14:40:48+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/09/18/hungary-democracy-rule-law-suspend-billions-europe-eu/10419280002/ |
A new episode of Bravo’s “Dancing Queens” will premiere Tuesday, June 20 at 9 p.m. EST on the network.
The show can be streamed on platforms like FuboTV and DirecTV, if you can’t watch the new episode with cable. Both platforms offer a free trial for new users interested in signing up for an account.
The show will also be available for next day streaming on Peacock.
According to Bravo, “passion and glamour meet the rigorous demands of the ballroom dance competition world as a group of dancer friends juggle the realities of their personal lives with their dedication to dance. In the end, ‘all is fair in war and ballroom.’”
See a sneak peek of the new episode below.
How can I watch the new episode of “Dancing Queens”?
Viewers looking to stream can do so by using FuboTV or DirecTV Stream. Both FuboTV and DirecTV offer free trials when you sign up.
What is FuboTV?
FuboTV is an over-the-top internet live TV streaming service that offers more than 100 channels, such as sports, news, entertainment and local channels.
What is DirecTV?
The streaming platform offers a plethora of content including streaming the best of live and On Demand, starting with more than 75 live TV channels. DirecTV also offers a free trial for any package you sign up. | 2023-06-20T23:18:14+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/tv/2023/06/how-to-watch-the-new-episode-of-bravos-dancing-queens-for-free.html |
Pittsburgh schools looking for input on potential changes to spring break
Pittsburgh schools looking for input on potential changes to spring break
5:00. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SCHOOL FAMILIES, STUDENTS AND STAFF CAN NOW WEIGH IN ON SPRING BREAK FOR 2024. SO ONE OPTION HERE KEEPS THE CURRENT WEEK LONG SPRING BREAK. A SECOND SHORTENS THE SPRING BREAK, BUT IT’S THE SCHOOL YEAR EARLIER. OTHER UPDATES FOR THE PROPOSED 2324 CALENDAR INCLUDE A ONE HOUR DELAYED START EVERY WEDNESDAY AT ALL SCHOOLS. THIS WOULD ALLOW TEACHERS AND STAFF TO PARTICIPATE IN WEEKLY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING. VOTING IS TAKING PLACE ON THE DISTRICT’
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Pittsburgh schools looking for input on potential changes to spring break
Pittsburgh Public School families, students and staff can now weigh in on spring break for 2024.One option is to keep the current weeklong spring break. A second shortens the spring break but ends the school year earlier.Other updates for the proposed 2023-24 calendar include a one-hour delayed start every Wednesday at all schools. This would allow teachers and staff to participate in weekly professional learning.Voting is taking place on the district's website. Click here for more information. The board will vote on a final school calendar later this month.
Pittsburgh Public School families, students and staff can now weigh in on spring break for 2024.
One option is to keep the current weeklong spring break. A second shortens the spring break but ends the school year earlier.
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Other updates for the proposed 2023-24 calendar include a one-hour delayed start every Wednesday at all schools. This would allow teachers and staff to participate in weekly professional learning.
Voting is taking place on the district's website. Click here for more information.
The board will vote on a final school calendar later this month. | 2023-03-13T18:15:44+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-schools-looking-for-input-on-potential-changes-to-spring-break/43296558 |
Pueblo County Sheriff Kirk Taylor nominated for US marshal
President Joe Biden has nominated Pueblo County Sheriff Kirk Taylor to serve as U.S. marshal for the district of Colorado, one of the top law enforcement positions in the country.
Taylor, who has served as sheriff since 2007, would oversee all U.S. marshal operations in Colorado if confirmed by the Senate.
The White House said Taylor and six other nominees for U.S. marshal and U.S. attorney were chosen for their devotion to enforcing the law, their professionalism, experience and credentials, dedication to pursuing equal justice for all, and commitment to the independence of the Department of Justice.
Colorado Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet backed Biden's pick, saying in a statement that "Taylor has served Pueblo County with integrity and a commitment to justice" and helped "keep our communities safe.”
“I’m confident that he will continue to pursue justice as a U.S. Marshal for the District of Colorado," Bennet said. "I look forward to supporting his nomination throughout the confirmation process.”
More:Pueblo County Sheriff's Office donates ballistic vests to Ukraine
Taylor said he was honored to have been selected and expected to leave the Pueblo area in August or September, "if all goes well."
"I've been going through the vetting process since last November, so every aspect of my life has been under a microscope," he told The Chieftain in a phone conversation.
"But I'm very honored to be from southern Colorado and representing somewhere other than the (Denver) Metro area."
More:Colorado's U.S. senators give Biden recommendations for top position in judicial system
Taylor, a Democrat, grew up in Rye, in Pueblo County, and started his law enforcement career in 1987 with the Alamosa police.
He was an investigator for the 10th Judicial District Attorney’s office in Pueblo from 1994 to 2007, when he was elected county sheriff.
A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Taylor announced in December that he would not be running for re-election in November this year, saying he was a "finalist in another law enforcement venture."
Serving as sheriff for Pueblo County has been the highlight of his personal and professional life so far, he said.
"I will miss it," Taylor said. "I'll miss the people in particular and my staff. I'm not worried about leaving it in the hands of the staff that's there — they're very capable and I think they'll do a great job."
Taylor backs Lucero as interim sheriff
When Taylor's position is vacated, the Pueblo County Board of Commissioners will determine who will be interim sheriff until a new sheriff is elected in November.
Taylor has recommended 22-year law enforcement veteran David Lucero for the interim position.
Lucero is currently chief of the law enforcement bureau at the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office and will become undersheriff on July 1. He is running for Pueblo County sheriff in November.
"I'm excited for it — it's a new aspect of the office I get to learn," Lucero said. "It's going to help me in the future."
More:Here's who is on the ballots for the primary and general elections in Pueblo
The U.S. Marshal Service is a federal bureau within the Department of Justice that serves as the enforcement arm of the United States federal courts. U.S. marshals protect the judicial process by ensuring the safe and secure conduct of judicial proceedings, and protecting federal judges, jurors and other members of the federal judiciary.
The White House on Monday also announced one other nominee for U.S. marshal — Chrissie Latimore for the district of South Carolina — and five nominees for U.S. attorney: Adair Ford Boroughs, for South Carolina; E. Martin Estrada for the central district of California; Gregory Haanstad for the eastern district of Wisconsin; Sopen Shah for the western district of Wisconsin; and Natalie Wight for Oregon.
Justin Reutter can be contacted by email at jreutterma@gannett.com. | 2022-06-08T02:30:41+00:00 | chieftain.com | https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2022/06/07/white-house-nominates-pueblo-sheriff-kirk-taylor-us-marshal/7542793001/ |
SCOTT, La., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gordon Technologies LLC ("Gordon") is pleased to announce it has deployed its 150th patented, high performance Measurement-While-Drilling ("MWD") system in the United States. Gordon introduced the GT-MWD standard temperature system in 2017 and its first GT-Heat-Miser™ high temperature MWD system, which is now capable of operating at temperatures up to 190°C, in 2018. Since October 2018, Gordon has tripled the size of its MWD rental fleet.
Gordon was founded in 2014 by CEO Terry Frith, a veteran of the MWD sector with almost forty years of experience at the forefront of MWD technology, with the vision to create a faster, more robust and more reliable MWD system than anything available on the market. Mr. Frith said, "2022 has been a record setting year for Gordon. Our fleet's exemplary performance in high temperature and high shock environments as well as with rotary steerable systems allows operators to drill better wells with less drilling days at a lower total cost of operations. Gordon's relentless customer focus and commitment to investing in new technology is continuing to drive the company's growth in the United States, specifically the Haynesville, Eagle Ford and Permian Basins. Since the beginning of 2021, Gordon has continued to introduce new complementary technologies, including the GT-Tracker real-time RSS communication technology, the GT-AGR azimuthal gamma and the GT-PWD (Pressure While Drilling).
Gordon Technologies
Headquartered in Scott, LA with additional facilities in Midland, TX, Minot, ND, Yukon, OK and Rapid City, SD, Gordon is a leading independent provider of MWD technology to the directional drilling sector of the US oil and gas industry. The GT-MWD standard temperature system and GT-Heat Miser™ high temperature MWD system, including the patented GT-Shock Miser™ shock and vibration mitigation technology and patented GT-Pulser, were specifically designed to address the most pressing needs in today's challenging drilling environments, namely MWD failures due to high shock and vibration and high temperature environments. The company's proprietary technology creates a faster, more robust and more reliable MWD system that is achieving best-in-class performance and reliability, as evidenced by the company's significant growth in the US unconventional market.
For more information about Gordon Technologies, please visit www.gordontechnologiesllc.com.
Terry Frith
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Email: tfrith@gordontechnologiesllc.com
Phone: 1-337-233-1804
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SOURCE Gordon Technologies LLC | 2022-10-24T11:49:01+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/10/24/gordon-technologies-announces-deployment-its-150th-mwd-system/ |
Body found in Athens-Clarke County woods identified as that of missing woman
Published: Mar. 23, 2023 at 5:14 PM EDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A body found in the woods of Athens-Clarke County has been identified.
The body has been identified as 38-year-old Adriana Castenada. Her body was found just before 10:45 a.m. March 21 near Maple Forge Drive and Lavender Road.
Castenada was first reported missing March 7. A cause of death has yet to be determined.
Anyone with information should contact Detective Harrison at 762-400-7361 or david.harrison@accgov.com.
Copyright 2023 WANF. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-23T21:24:15+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/03/23/body-found-athens-clarke-county-woods-identified-that-missing-woman/ |
A bill that would ban the sale, manufacture, importation and transfer of assault weapons — and define what those firearms are — will soon enter the gun regulation debate at the Colorado Capitol.
The proposal, sponsored by Democratic state Reps. Andrew Boesenecker and Elisabeth Epps, drops earlier draft language that would have outright banned possession of those types of firearms. Conservative groups published the earlier version, which Boesenecker called a “snapshot in time” as they worked through the proposal. Advocates dropped that provision out of concerns of enforceability.
Instead, sponsors focused on the sale and transfer of weapons capable of shooting a lot of bullets quickly — or capable of being modified to do that, Boesenecker, who represents Fort Collins, said. The goal is to blunt access to the types of firearms used in the mass shootings at the Boulder King Soopers in March 2021 and Club Q in November. He said he began working on the proposal before the Club Q massacre.
“If you are the legal owner of an assault weapon today, nothing changes for you in our state,” Boesenecker said of the proposal. “We’re really focused on creating a moment between a motive to do something harmful to yourself or your community, and the moment where you can readily acquire the firearm to do it.”
The bill hasn’t been formally introduced yet, but should be soon, he said. Boesenecker had previously declined to comment on the leaked draft that included the possession ban.
Some of the features that would classify a gun as an assault weapon under the bill include semi-automatic rifles with a detachable ammunition magazine plus one of the following: A pistol grip; a protruding grip for the non-trigger hand; a folding, telescoping or detachable stock that can enhance the ability to conceal the weapon; a barrel shroud; or flash suppressor, among others.
It would include semi-automatic pistols in the assault weapon definitions if they can have a second pistol grip, the ability to accept a magazine or ammunition feeding device in a place other than the pistol grip, weighs more than 50 ounces unloaded or includes an arm brace or similar accessory that extends horizontally behind the grip, among other provisions.
Because firearms vary so much and can be modified in so many ways, defining what constitutes an assault weapon has been a point of contention. He said these features and others included in the definitions are those that allow people “to fire a large amount of ammunition very quickly.”
Boesenecker said the bill’s language doesn’t affect the sale or transfer of “firearms that we would typically think of in a concealed carry or self-defense situation,” such as a semi-automatic handgun with a magazine that loads in the grip.
“We know that these are very close models of weapons of war,” Boesenecker said. “… At the very least, that is their intended purpose, first and foremost. We know that regulations and prohibitions in this space save lives.”
He cited a 2018 study by the Rand Corporation, which was updated this month, that found even state-level weapon bans reduce mass shooting deaths to 55% of what’s expected without the bans.
Boesnecker said he grew up shooting pistols for target practice and remembers schools clearing out during deer season. He still owns firearms and enjoys target shooting, he said — but also believes steps can be taken to prevent gun violence that doesn’t impede Coloradans’ Second Amendment rights.
He acknowledged that neighboring states don’t have — and have little to no likelihood of enacting — these types of restrictions and that it would take federal action to close that avenue. Regardless of other states, Boesenecker said Colorado can take its own steps.
The bill will likely be one of several proposed gun regulations introduced this session. Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, has specifically called for lawmakers to look at expanding the extreme risk protection order, or red flag, law and to address so-called ghost guns.
The pro-gun rights advocacy group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners has already pledged to sue over any firearm law it sees as overstepping Second Amendment rights. Boesenecker said they crafted the bill with recent pro-gun rights U.S. Supreme Court rulings in mind.
He noted that Illinois passed a similar bill — with some of the same definitions — though it is also facing its own legal challenges. Nine states, plus Washington, D.C., have some version of an assault weapons ban.
Colorado’s Republican lawmakers have also staked their support for gun owners’ rights, though they hold a superminority in the state House of Representatives and a near-superminority in the Senate.
“What we’ve seen and heard should worry every law-abiding gun owner in Colorado,” House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, a Wellington Republican, said.
He noted that no gun legislation has been formally introduced, but “some rumored legislation appears so radical even the governor won’t agree to these concepts publically.” Polis has kept his remarks around firearms — including when specifically asked about assault weapon bans — to his support for the red flag law, background checks, and laws around ghost guns.
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TOKYO, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The online comprehensive real estate service platform, RENOSY provided by GA technologies Co.,Ltd (Headquarters: Minato-Ku, Tokyo; CEO: Ryo Higuchi, securities code: 3491; hereinafter referred to as the Company) recently released a research result about the level of interest on financial investment plans for retirement, along with the start of the new "Nippon Individual Savings Account" project launched by Financial Services Agency of Japanese Government. The research is conducted among the following three groups of people.
- Generation Z (Age 20 ~ 22); about 500 target audiences
- Millennial generation (Age 27~ 35); about 500 target audiences
- RENOSY service users (Age 27~ 35); about 100 target audiences
The age definition of each generation is based on the situation of Japan which might be slightly different from the Western society.
Key Highlights:
1. About 50% of targets from the two generations are anxious about their financial plans for retirement. On the other hand, about 30% of RENOSY users (real estate investors) are somewhat optimistic about the same question for those who started their financial plans at an earlier stage.
2. There is indeed a difference involved between the ones with investment experience and the ones who don't for the methods they know or use for getting information about investment among the millennial generation group itself.
3. About 70% of Generation Z youngsters are either interested about investment or have actual experience about it.
4. Both generations prefer video streaming such as YouTube or TV as the main source for information gathering.
Result Summary:
- Research time:
(1) Targets of Generation Z: December 31, 2022 ~ January 3, 2023
(2) Targets of Millennial Generation: December 31, 2022 ~ January 7, 2023
(3)Targets of RENOSY users: February 17, 2023~ February 27, 2023
- Research method:
（1）Both targets of Generation Z & Millennials: Conducted by GA technologies through an online survey platform called "FASTASK" provided by Just Systems Corporation.
（2）RENOSY service users: Among those who actually purchased a real estate property and fit the requirements for this research.
- Age definition:
（1) Generation Z: Age 20 ~ 22（By the time the research was conducted）
（2) Millennial Generation & RENOSY users: Age 27 ~ 35（By the time the research was conducted）
- Target audiences:
（1）Generation Z: Mainly students and fresh graduates (Work experiences for less than 3 years)
（2）Other two groups: Targets with work experiences for more than 4 years
- Number of responses collected:
（1）Generation Z: 487
（2）Millennial Generation: 514
（3）RENOSY users: 110
* Figure after the first decimal point is rounded off.
(1)Almost 50% of both Generation Z & Millennials showed their anxieties towards financial plans for retirement
Both generations researched in this time answered that they are unsure about their own financial plans about retirement (44.4% of Generation Z, 48.1% of Millennials), while 29.1% of RENOSY users are somewhat optimistic about it.
When it comes to the question about personal investment experience of when did you start with your first investment? For RENOSY users (real estate investors), 37.3% of them began their investment during the first 3 years when they just came out of college. Other millennial targets started their first investment not until the 4th year to the 8th year after they came out of college. We can see that there is an obvious difference even within the same generation of people. As a result, how early a person starts a financial plan, in other words, doing investment as they get older does affect their viewpoints towards whether they are prepared for their retirements.
(2) There is a difference showed about methods of information gathering among Millennials
Not only for the above question, for the methods they know about gathering information about investment, there is also a difference between the ones have the experience about investment and the ones who don't among the Millennials. For those who do not commit to any form of investment before or now, the ways they know are as follows: Nippon Individual Savings Account (58.9%), National Stocks (54.3%), Foreign stocks (42.0%). For RENOSY users (experienced investors) the answers are as follows: Real estate (91.8%), National stocks (89.1%), investment mutual funds (85.5%).
(3) 70% of Japanese Generation Z young people are interested or have experience about investment
From the pie chart below we can see the level of interest in investment among Japanese young people. 21.1% of them replied that they are doing some kind of investment for now while 9.4% replied that they did before but not at this point for some reasons. 37.4% showed they are interested in it regardless of having no experience about it. Overall, almost 70% of the Japanese young people (Generation Z) said that they are indeed interested in investment regardless of actual experience. Only 32% responded with no experience nor interest in it.
(4)Contents streaming platforms are the primary tools for both generations to get information
Finally, for the primary media tool the person uses for getting such information, the answers are as follows: YouTube (26.7％), Instagram (19.3％), TV（13.3％）among Generation Z. TV（23.9％）YouTube (20.4％), Twitter（14.4％）answered by Millennials. On the other hand, Millennials who have actual experience about investment gave a slightly different answers as follows: YouTube (30.9%),Twitter (14.5%), TV (12.7％). As we could see, tools such as YouTube and TV in which you have images or short video contents to watch with are popular among all ages regardless of experience.
When we extend the question further to ask about the actual contents they referred to as information or guidelines on investment. Youtubers talking about such topics are the most popular. However, both generations replied that they also watch News contents, contents about the newest trends and Youtubers talking about a specific genre / field / logic other than investment. Whereas those who have the experience about investment prefer to gather more information on how to diversify the risks and tend to search for concrete examples of building up their investment.
* The product names and the service names mentioned in this release are officially registered trademarks
* Please specify the name of "RENOSY" in the article, release if you want to quote or repost either parts or the whole release.
RENOSY: Online comprehensive real estate service platform
RENOSY is a platform that provides a range of real estate services to our customers. The service incorporates AI and other technology to make real estate transactions and investment easier and faster. Starting from property information research to the management of your property, we offer a one-step online service to our customers. According to the research conducted by Tokyo Shoko Research, RENOSY has the No.1 sales performance in the used real estate property sector in Japan starting from 2020 for three years.
(*1) Please refer to the News from the link here: https://www.ga-tech.co.jp/news/12103/ on "RENOSY has the No.1 sales performance in the pre-owned real estate property sector in Japan starting from 2020 for three consecutive years."
About GA technologies Co., Ltd.
GA technologies group is a tech company driven by the business vision of "Bringing impressment to people & creating a world-leading company by the power of technology and innovation", in the aim of making changes to a variety of businesses. The group was founded in 2013 and made its debut in the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market (Originally known as the Mothers Market) in 2018. We have been committed to M&A actively and completed 9 M&A projects since 2018. We also achieved a gross sales exceeding 110 billion yen as a fast-growing enterprise. Finally, we have been recognized with the "digital transformation recognition corporation" for three consecutive years, which is the only corporation that has such an honor in the Growth Market.
Company name: GA technologies Co., Ltd.
Representative: Ryo Higuchi
Website link: https://www.ga-tech.co.jp/
Headquarter: 40F of Sumitomo real estate Roppongi Grand Tower, Roppongi 3-2-1, Minato-Ku, Tokyo
Year of founding: March 2013
Capital fund: 7,243,894,458 yen(By January 2023)
Services provided:
- Internet real estate marketplace business: RENOSY
- BtoB PropTech SaaS development
Group partners: GA technologies group: ITANDI, RENOSY PLUS, Shenjumiausuan and 12 other group companies
Award History:
- 2020 ~ 2022: Selected as one of the fast-growing enterprise in "FT 1000: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific" award ; Launch by Financial Times and Statista
- 2022: Ranked in as No. 23 in the "FT 1000: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific" award; Launch by Financial Times and Statista
- 2020 ~ 2022: Selected for 3 years consecutively for "Asia Digital Transformation" recognition; Launch by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange (Japan Exchange Group)
- 2020~2022: "No.1 Sales performance in the national pre-owned real estate properties sector" researched conducted by Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd
- 2020 ~ 2021: Selected as best workplaces (middle size corporations) in the Japanese version of "Great Place To Work" Certification; launch by Great Place To Work ® Institute Japan
Please contact us with any questions or concerns by the following information
GA technologies public relations team: Ms. Hayata, Judy（81-80-8899-1699）
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SOURCE GA technologies Co., Ltd. | 2023-05-02T18:26:45+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/05/02/japan-insights-generation-z-youngsters-japan-show-their-anxieties-towards-financial-plans-retirement-an-online-research/ |
FRYEBURG, Maine — When fried dough and foliage come into view at the same time, it can only mean one thing: the Fryeburg Fair has returned.
The state's largest, and final, fair of the year welcomed 25,000 paying guests on its first day Sunday, according to fair spokesperson and lifelong resident Rachel Andrews Damon. That figure doesn't include children younger than 12 or the swaths of farmers and vendors who snake through the grounds.
The fair, along with others in the state, returned to action in 2021. But the green light didn't come until late spring, Missy Jordan, the agricultural promotions coordinator with the Maine Dept. of Agriculture, recalled.
"At the end of May, things started to ease and, all of a sudden, it was like, 'You can have a fair,'" she said. "... A fair like this that would usually book acts eight months out was now looking at a four-month window to figure out what they were gonna do."
Now, after walking among Monday's crowds, Damon was giddy. Farmers who had dealt with COVID and with drought now have one massive public party to send them off into winter.
"When you walk on here, you remember this as a kid," she smiled." You remember coming here with your brothers and sisters and your families, and that kicks back in on some level, and people just feel really good about it."
Just before 3 p.m. Monday, a young girl walked toward the exit with her family, an inflated purple alien under her arm. If standing upright, it would likely be as tall as she is.
It is a party, too, for the families, who made the drive to the small town on the New Hampshire border.
Just as they did when they were young. | 2022-10-04T07:34:27+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/agriculture/fryeburg-closes-out-rebound-year-for-maines-fairs-events-local-agriculture-community/97-b50fd749-4341-4d4a-89fb-e57955f886c2 |
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — A massive Chinese booster rocket is set to crash down on Saturday, analysts say, but is there a chance that it could land in the United States?
A Chinese cargo spacecraft that serviced the country’s permanent orbiting space station has largely burned up on reentering the atmosphere, amid separate concerns over China’s decision to allow a massive booster rocket to fall to Earth uncontrolled.
Only small parts of the Tianzhou-3 ship survived to fall safely Wednesday into a predetermined area of the South Pacific, the China Manned Space Agency said.
Emily Calandrelli, scientist and host of Netflix show “Emily’s Wonder Lab,” has been posting updates on her social media accounts since July 23, the day before the rocket was first launched. Her updates are based on predictions by The Aerospace Corporation.
According to Aerospace, the rocket body was first launched from the Wenchange Space Launch Site in China at 6:22 Coordinated Universal Time (12:22 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time) on July 24.
As the estimated crash time gets closer, scientists have been able to narrow down where the rocket body might land. As of Friday at noon, they had it narrowed down to a crash time window of 12 hours and eight possible routes across the world. Three of those routes passed over the United States.
As of Friday at 6:40 EST, the estimated landing time for the rocket was 8:16 a.m. (EST) Saturday, plus or minus five hours. It’s still too early to predict the potential crash site, according to Aerospace.
The Aerospace Corporation is a nonprofit analysis group that works for “a variety of government, civil and commercial customers,” according to the Aerospace website.
China’s space program is run by the ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, and has largely proceeded with the space station program without other nations’ assistance. The U.S. excluded China from the International Space Station because of its military ties.
China decided not to guide the booster back through the atmosphere and it’s not clear exactly when or where it will come down to Earth. While it will largely burn up on return, there remains a slight risk of fragments causing damage or casualties.
While China is not alone in such practices, the size of the Long March rocket stage has drawn particular scrutiny.
For the latest updates on the rocket’s reentry and landing, check The Aerospace Corporation website, which is being updated regularly.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-07-30T00:02:13+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/rocket-headed-for-unknown-crash-site-on-earth/ |
By DAVID BRANDT
AP Sports Writer
Major League Baseball’s first foray into a best-of-three wild-card round provided its share of memorable moments.
A 15-inning, 432-pitch game. A seven-run comeback win. Joe Musgrove’s ears.
Now it’s on to the division series, which is business as usual with a best-of-five format. The four matchups are Braves-Phillies, Padres-Dodgers, Mariners-Astros and Guardians-Yankees and all of them begin Tuesday.
The Astros, Yankees, Braves and Dodgers got to rest and watch the wild-card drama round from home, thanks to superior regular season records. Now they’ll bring their own storylines to the postseason stage.
Rested Yankees slugger Aaron Judge — who set the AL record with 62 homers this season — gets his chance to swat postseason dingers. Jose Altuve, Justin Verlander and the Astros bring their ample postseason experience to the mix.
The Dodgers and their loaded lineup of Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman take the field. Then there’s the defending World Series champion Braves, who rallied to win the NL East in the final days of the regular season and look formidable once again.
Some of the game’s biggest stars are already headed home after the wild-card round: Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso and the Mets are gone after a 101-win season. The feel-good story of Cardinals veteran stars Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina is over partly because of a leaky bullpen. The Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. were bounced by a stunning Mariners comeback.
After the division series wrap up, the league championship series and World Series will be in a best-of-seven format. The LCS is scheduled to begin on Oct. 18 while the World Series starts Oct. 28.
HOW WAS THE NEW WILD CARD FORMAT?
MLB’s switch to a bulked-up, 12-team bracket and a best-of-three wild-card round — instead of the one-game, sudden death format that had been in place since 2012 — seemed to provide the balance the sport was seeking.
“It’s definitely interesting,” Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber said. “You know, I think it’s good for teams that we can get extra teams in there, and guys are going to be battling throughout the whole year. It’s not just that do-or-die. But still, it’s also a round of urgency, too, because it’s two wins and you’re on to the next round.
“So there’s a sense of urgency in every single game, which I think is really good.”
The Guardians were one of the teams that didn’t need three games in the wild-card round to advance, sweeping the Rays with two wins. But even after winning the first game, Guardians manager Terry Francona seemed pleased with the new format.
“I think it’s good. I think it’s better,” Francona said. “I think it’s a more true outcome. But then again, it might hurt us. I hope it doesn’t. Just think: you play 162 and then you play one and go home. That’s rough. I think this is good for the fans. I think it’s a better measure in competitive balance than a one-game play-in.”
WHY DID THE PLAYOFFS START LATE?
October’s postseason festivities will bleed into November before a champion is crowned.
That’s mostly because of the sport’s labor strife that resulted in a work stoppage over the winter. It delayed the beginning of spring training and pushed the regular season back about a week. Baseball players and owners salvaged the usual 162-game season, but to do that, they had to move opening day from March 31 to April 7.
Some of the games originally scheduled for the first week of the season were moved to the end, meaning a season that was originally scheduled to end on Oct. 2 instead ended on Oct. 5.
WHO ARE THE FAVORITES?
Great question.
The Dodgers have been dominant all season with a lineup that includes Betts, Turner and Freeman. They won 111 games for one of the best seasons in franchise history.
Over in the American League, the Houston Astros topped 100 wins as well. They’ve got a loaded lineup that includes Altuve, Alex Bregman and Yordan Alvarez, along with Verlander, the potential AL Cy Young winner.
The Yankees were cruising for much of the season — led by Judge’s huge year — but haven’t played as well since the All-Star break.
Then there’s the defending World Series champion Braves, who still have a loaded lineup that includes Austin Riley, Dansby Swanson, Michael Harris, Matt Olson and Ronald Acuña Jr.
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AP Sports Writers Dave Skretta in St. Louis and Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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Mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher faces federal charges over marijuana use, gun possession
BY BEN FINLEY
Associated Press
The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia is now facing federal charges that allege she used marijuana while also possessing a gun, which is illegal under U.S. law.
Deja Taylor, 25, is also accused of lying about her marijuana use on a federal background check form when she bought the 9 mm handgun. Her son used it in the shooting that seriously wounded first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner in the city of Newport News.
When Taylor bought the gun last year, federal authorities allege that she denied on the form that she used marijuana when she knew “she was an unlawful user,” court documents stated.
While marijuana use was recently legalized in Virginia, it remains illegal under federal law.
The new charges, filed in federal court Monday, are in addition to the criminal counts Taylor faces on the state level. Those charges allege felony child neglect and reckless storage of a firearm.
A trial for the state case is set for August. Taylor is scheduled to plead guilty to the federal charges on Monday.
She faces up to six years in prison if she is convicted on the state charges. The federal case carries up to 25 years, although her lead attorney said sentencing guidelines call for 18 months to 24 months in prison.
“This is a Shakespearean tragedy,” attorney Gene Rossi of the firm Carlton Fields said in a statement. “A perfect storm that has had horrible consequences.”
The federal case against Taylor comes at a time of growing conflict between the federal government and states where marijuana use is legal. There has also been debate in recent years over the use of limited federal resources to aggressively pursue people who give false information on background check forms.
The race of the people who are prosecuted is another concern, said Karen O’Keefe, director of state policies for the pro-legalization group Marijuana Policy Project.
Federal law generally prohibits people from possessing firearms if they have been convicted of a felony, been committed to a mental institution or are an unlawful user of a controlled substance, among other things.
In fiscal year 2021, 56% of the roughly 7,500 people convicted of breaking that law were Black, O’Keefe said, citing statistics from the United States Sentencing Commission. She did not have a breakdown for convictions related to marijuana or other drug use.
“About 18% of Americans admitted to using cannabis in the last year and about 40% owned guns,” O’Keefe said. “And so there’s an enormous pool of people that are presumably breaking this law every day and face up to 15 years in prison if they were caught.”
Court documents do not detail exactly how federal investigators built their firearms case against Taylor, who is Black. But she came under intense scrutiny after her son used her gun to shoot Zwerner in January.
Zwerner was shot in the hand and chest as she sat at a reading table in her first-grade classroom at Richneck Elementary. She spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, has had four surgeries and later told NBC she sometimes “ can’t get up out of bed.”
Zwerner is suing the school system for $40 million.
The attorney for Taylor in the state case, James Ellenson, has said Taylor believed her gun was secured on a high closet shelf with a trigger lock before the shooting occurred. He said last month that it’s still unclear how the boy got the gun.
“People have talked to him about that, but I don’t know that any adult knows exactly how he got the gun,” Ellenson told ABC’s “Good Morning America” May 10.
Ellenson, who is working with Rossi on the federal case, said in a statement that they intend to present mitigating evidence when Taylor is sentenced later this year. He did not elaborate.
Ellenson said the shooting “was a tragedy for all parties, most especially teacher Abby Zwerner for whom we wish a complete recovery.” | 2023-06-06T22:53:25+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/06/mother-of-6-year-old-who-shot-teacher-faces-federal-charges-over-marijuana-use-gun-possession/ |
BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston police officer was arrested Thursday on charges that he assaulted a police officer after storming the U.S. Capitol with the mob of President Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Joseph Robert Fisher is accused of pushing a chair into a Capitol police officer inside the building as the officer was running after another rioter who deployed pepper spray, according to court documents. Moments later, Fisher also “engaged in a physical assault” against the officer, which ended with Fisher on the ground, an FBI agent wrote in the court papers.
A current Boston police officer helped investigators identify Fisher in photographs, the agent wrote.
The 52-year-old was arrested at his home in Plymouth, Massachusetts and released on conditions after an initial court appearance Thursday. Fisher retired in 2016 after serving more than 20 years in the police force, including as part of the K-9 unit, a department spokesperson said.
He’s charged with assaulting an officer, obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and other crimes. The Associated Press sent an email to an attorney who represented Fisher for his initial appearance in Boston.
Fisher is among several people charged in the riot who were working or previously worked in law enforcement on Jan. 6. The rioter who received the longest sentence so far — 10 years in prison — was a retired New York City police officer who used a metal flagpole to assault an officer.
Also on Thursday, authorities arrested a Colorado man who prosecutors say was part of a group of rioters who violently pushed against officers desperately trying to defend the Capitol from the angry mob in a tunnel.
Jonathan Grace, of Colorado Springs, faces charges including felony civil disorder. The 49-year-old is also supposed to appear in court on Thursday in Denver. No attorney was immediately listed for him in court records.
Surveillance video shows Grace entering a tunnel where officers were lined up as they tried to beat back the mob. Grace can be seen putting his head down and using his body to push in unison with other rioters against the police line, authorities say. As the rioters pushed, one of officers screamed in pain while being crushed between a shield and a door frame in one of the most harrowing scenes from the riot, according to court documents.
After officers at one point managed to clear rioters out of the tunnel, Grace watched as other rioters dragged a D.C. police officer out of the tunnel and brutally attacked him, authorities say. He then re-joined the rioters pushing against the police line and retreated only after officers sprayed a chemical irritant at the crowd, according to court documents.
They join roughly 1,000 people who have charged with federal crimes in the riot that halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory and left dozens of police officers injured. All of the cases are being prosecuted in Washington D.C.’s federal court and authorities continue to make new arrests practically every week.
More than 540 defendants have pleaded guilty. Dozens more have been convicted by judges or juries after trials. More than 440 have been sentenced, with over half getting terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years.
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Associated Press writer Michael Kunzelman contributed to this report.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the Capitol riot at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege. | 2023-03-31T07:12:26+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/political-news/ap-politics/ex-boston-officer-charged-with-assaulting-cop-in-jan-6-riot/ |
Policy reflects College's leadership in accessibility, affordability for all, and global diversity on campus
BRUNSWICK, Maine, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bowdoin College today announced that it has expanded its need-blind admissions policy to include international citizens. This step is one of many that the College has taken over the past decade to remove barriers for students, and it makes Bowdoin one of just seven institutions nationally with comprehensive need-blind aid policies for all students, regardless of citizenship.
"Ensuring access to a Bowdoin education is central to our mission. This commitment to need-blind admission for our international applicants is another important part of a remarkable program of access and affordability that only a few other colleges and universities are able to provide," said Bowdoin College President Clayton Rose.
Bowdoin has long been a leader in eliminating barriers for students, including adopting the country's first test-optional admissions policy in 1969. As it seeks to be accessible to all students, regardless of their financial circumstances, the College currently provides students with financial aid awards that meet their full calculated need and has done so without loans since 2008. Now Bowdoin joins Harvard University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Dartmouth College, and Amherst College in including all students, regardless of citizenship, under its need-blind admissions policy.
"It is critical that a great liberal arts education like Bowdoin's be accessible to students from all economic backgrounds and all citizenships," said Claudia Marroquin, senior vice president and dean of admissions and student aid. "This latest policy makes Bowdoin's message clear—we welcome the world's most talented students, regardless of background, and we are doing all we can to support students from admission to graduation," Marroquin said. "From traditional financial aid support to innovative programs aimed at ensuring all students can thrive, the College is committed to making Bowdoin accessible and transformational."
For decades Bowdoin has embraced student-centered policies and implemented innovative changes to ensure the world's most promising students could enroll and thrive at its campus in Brunswick, Maine. In addition to providing students with student aid that supports their financial need, in 2021 the College replaced summer work obligations with additional scholarships for students from lower-income (under $75,000) families. Earlier this year Bowdoin announced it would provide all students, regardless of financial need, with equitable technology (MacBook Pro, an iPad, and an Apple Pencil).
In addition to financial aid support, Bowdoin offers a number of programs designed to ensure all students, regardless of financial circumstance, can fully experience student life. These programs include financial support for study abroad, internships, research grants, and emergencies, as well as funding for graduating seniors applying for graduate and medical school. Bowdoin's THRIVE program has also provided start-up grants, peer mentoring, success coaching, internship funding, and several transition supports.
The policy will be implemented in the 2022–2023 application cycle, beginning with Early Decision applicants in November. International citizens currently represent seven percent of Bowdoin's enrollment.
Our highest priority is making a Bowdoin education affordable for everyone.
- The application fee is automatically waived if you are applying for aid, or if you are the first in your family to go to college.
- Roughly half of all Bowdoin students receive aid.
- Bowdoin's student aid is need-based. This means our scholarship and grant support is determined based on your individual family situation.
- Bowdoin is need-blind, which means that your ability to pay is never a factor or barrier to admission.
- Bowdoin meets your full calculated need using scholarships, not loans, which never have to be paid back.
- 22 percent of all Bowdoin students receive full aid ($0 student and $0 parent contribution).
- The average scholarship awarded to all-aided Bowdoin students is $56,397.
- 1969: Bowdoin becomes the first college in the country to make standardized tests optional for admission.
- 2008: Bowdoin eliminates loans in its financial aid packages, replacing them with scholarships.
- 2016: Bowdoin drops application fees for aided and first-generation students.
- 2021: Bowdoin replaces summer work obligations with additional scholarships for students whose annual family income is lower than $75,000.
- 2022: Bowdoin announces that it will provide all current and future students with a suite of technology tools (13-inch MacBook Pro, iPad mini, Apple Pencil, and access to a full range of course-specific software) so that every student has up-to-date tools and the opportunity to learn and lead in a digital world.
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CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati Bengals rookie cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt said he had some jitters before making his NFL debut, but they went away as soon as the ball was snapped.
“This is football,” he said. “I’ve been doing this my whole life.”
He had been waiting for his opportunity his whole life, fulfilling a childhood dream when he entered Sunday’s win over the Falcons in a rotation with Eli Apple before eventually replacing him in the second half.
Taylor-Britt, a second-round draft pick in April, had been expected to compete with Apple for a starting job this summer, but he suffered a core muscle injury in training camp and missed the entire preseason. He was cleared Oct. 5 and worked his way back first in the role of scout team quarterback ahead of the Week 5 game at Baltimore.
Last week, Taylor-Britt started getting reps with the first-team defense, and he said he was told well in advance he would get some snaps Sunday. His family showed up in full force to support him, and he ended up playing 28 snaps, compared to Apple’s 16.
“I don’t even know, I can’t explain it,” Taylor-Britt said. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I’m glad that my first game was home and we got the dub for sure. … It feels great. The guys that I used to watch on TV last year coming up to you, congratulating you and saying great job, that they knew that I would be something. But I can’t let it get to my head, just keep a level head because it’s a simple fact we’ve got 10 more games.”
Bengals coach Zac Taylor said Monday there had been no decisions made yet if Taylor-Britt would be starting over Apple in this week’s game at Cleveland, but defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo remains adamant it’s not an open competition – both will play.
Taylor-Britt entered the game Sunday with the Bengals leading 21-0, but after the Falcons made it to the redzone, Apple came back in and then started the next drive, only to get beaten by Damiere Byrd on a 75-yard touchdown catch.
Anarumo said Vonn Bell and Apple just didn’t execute the pickup in that coverage, but Taylor-Britt’s playing time was planned and not a reaction to Apple’s performance.
“We had planned on playing Cam and getting his feet wet,” Anarumo said. “Injuries, things are going to come up during the season so we had that plan going in and then I just felt like the game was in hand. He didn’t do anything in preseason, so as many reps as he can get will help him and us as we go down the stretch.”
Anarumo said he wants to keep getting Taylor-Britt reps and that will be the plan next week, but the Bengals will see how it goes from there.
The rotation concept is unusual for Anarumo, who insisted a few weeks ago that he never rotates cornerbacks. However, it’s too early to expect the rookie to completely take over, after missing the preseason and really only getting back into the defense two weeks ago.
Taylor-Britt said he wasn’t quite expecting to play as much as he did; however, he was ready for whenever his time came and said now it’s important to “stay ready.” He felt a little rusty in his technique early on but felt he was “pretty solid” for his first NFL game.
The Falcons didn’t test him much. They relied on their running game and only attempted 13 passes, but Taylor-Britt made three tackles. Both Anarumo and Taylor said it still was a good first game for the rookie. Anarumo noted his aggressiveness and ability to make stops in the running game when he wasn’t getting challenged through the air.
“I think he did a nice job,” coach Taylor said. “There wasn’t a lot of action that came to him, so to give a full evaluation of coverage and all that, there wasn’t a lot of opportunity there. The things we ask him to do and he was presented with, I think he managed it really well.”
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It was just more than two months before the 2018 Florida gubernatorial primary, and Ron DeSantis was in trouble.
Polls showed him running well behind then-Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam for the GOP nomination, and a long list of influential Florida Republicans had lined up against him, choosing to back an establishment favorite over a relatively unknown yet staunchly conservative congressman.
Then lightning struck. President Donald Trump doubled down on his endorsement of DeSantis, the polls swung wildly in his favor and Florida Republican voters handed him a staggering 20-point victory in the primary.
“I’d never even heard of him honestly until he started running,” former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) said. “And I, like so many others, was supporting Adam Putnam. And then Donald Trump waved the magic wand. He went from 20 percent down to 20 percent up, and won the primary.”
A meteoric rise
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Since then, DeSantis has experienced a remarkable political rise that has transformed him into one of the most powerful Florida governors in decades and propelled him to the top rungs of Republican politics nationally.
His ascent is the result of and a driving force for a rightward march that has been underway in Florida for years but has accelerated under DeSantis’s leadership.
“Ron DeSantis understands a counterintuitive principle in politics, which is that it’s more important to be decisive in your decision-making than to have the decision be popular,” said Justin Sayfie, a veteran Florida Republican consultant who served as a spokesperson and top adviser for former Gov. Jeb Bush.
“People will respect a governor who is decisive more so than a governor who puts his or her finger in the wind to figure out where they’re going next.”
For those who knew DeSantis during his tenure in Congress, that approach isn’t surprising. Multiple Republican House members recalled DeSantis as a firm executive with a keen sense for policy making.
Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.) said that he got to know DeSantis because he was on his whip card throughout his tenure as a congressman.
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“The guy is incredibly disciplined. He reads, he studies,” Díaz-Balart said. “So usually when you go whip somebody and it’s like, ‘Hey, this is this issue,’ and they go, ‘Yeah, you know I’m not sure. What does that do there?’”
“With Ron, I would literally go to him and he wouldn’t interrupt me but it was basically well ‘Yeah I’m okay with this.’ Or he would say ‘I kind of have an issue with this paragraph because it deals with that,’ and I’m like: ‘OK I have no idea about that but let me find out,’ because he really is a machine in that sense.”
Diaz-Balart acknowledged DeSantis isn’t “a guy who’s out there back-slapping, socializing,” but described him “as a legislator, incredibly competent, obviously is exceedingly smart and disciplined.” As governor, Diaz-Balart said, DeSantis has shown his strengths.
“He’s kind of made for that, right?” Diaz-Balart said. “He’s an executive. He makes decisions, he prepares, he studies, he’s principled and he’s courageous. And I think literally, this is what he was made for.”
‘A good governor’
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), one of three House Republicans who have endorsed DeSantis’s 2024 presidential ambitions, said he became friends with DeSantis during the roughly six years they spent together in the House and have stayed in touch throughout DeSantis’s time in the governor’s mansion.
Massie said that despite fierce pushback to DeSantis’s laissez-faire — and often combative — handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the governor stood his ground, believing that he would eventually come out of the battle on top.
“The summer of COVID…he let me know that he was going to lean into this even though the media and public opinion were against him because he thought in a couple years, people would acknowledge that he was right,” Massie recalled.
Despite his reputation as a hard-right firebrand, DeSantis’s first year in the governor’s mansion was seen by many in Florida — including some Democrats — as at least somewhat consensus-driven.
He pushed to raise the minimum starting teachers’ salary, signed an executive order to bolster spending on Everglades restoration and cleaning up Florida’s waterways, and helped ease the path for a voter-approved medical marijuana program to be implemented.
“In his first six months in office, I was rather impressed because I thought he had really developed a pretty … certainly a consensus view that he was a good governor, he was doing a good job,” Martinez said. “I think there was a general sense of competence and doing well and that kind of thing, which I think he rode for the first months.”
The national spotlight
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It wasn’t until 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, that DeSantis appeared on the radar of Republicans nationally. While he ordered a lockdown relatively early on, he was quick to lift those restrictions, openly — and aggressively — defying the advice and warnings of public health experts, like Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whom DeSantis regularly used as a political foil.
That, in turn, fueled Florida’s rightward lurch and allowed DeSantis to flex his political muscles in a way that few governors have been able to.
“Whether you like the governor or you don’t, on COVID, the majority of Floridians like what he did,” said Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), who served as the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management under DeSantis, in an interview.
“They agreed with reopening businesses. They agreed with reopening schools. They talked to their friends whose kids didn’t go back to school for eight more months and their kids went back. I think that was a dramatic factor.”
DeSantis’s grip on Florida and its politics is difficult to ignore. After winning his first term in the governor’s mansion by less than half a percentage point in 2018, DeSantis notched a 19-point reelection victory in 2022 that underscored the extent to which his COVID-19 policies had reshaped the state’s political landscape.
“Sometimes you bet the right number and you win,” Moskowitz said. “On COVID, the majority of Floridians think the governor got it right. But let me say this: Does the governor win his reelection by 19 points if he got COVID wrong?”
Even DeSantis’s detractors acknowledge just how much his COVID-19 response bolstered his political standing. Nikki Fried, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party and former state Agriculture Commissioner, said DeSantis’s 19-point win in 2022 is owed to both the popularity of his pandemic-era policies and a failure by state Democrats to effectively counter him.
“COVID definitely helped him,” she told The Hill. “I don’t ever attribute his 19 points to him. The 19 points was a 19-point loss for Democrats. We failed. We did not organize. We did not show up. You can’t win a statewide election when Republicans are outvoting Democrats in Broward County by 17 percent.”
Burnishing his conservative credentials
Regardless, DeSantis has used that landslide victory — and the supermajorities Republicans gained in the state Legislature in 2022 — as a mandate to push through a long list of conservative policy priorities.
In the span of the state legislature’s 60-day annual session, the governor notched wins on everything from a bill allowing Floridians to carry firearms without a permit to a six-week abortion ban.
He’s also charged forward with a months-long battle against Disney, one of Florida’s largest private employers, stripping the company of its long-held special tax district after its former CEO criticized a state measure, the Parental Rights in Education Act, that prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten to the third grade.
The state Board of Education recently moved to expand that law at DeSantis’s request to include all grades.
But DeSantis’s standing in Florida stems from far more than his policy battles. Multiple Republicans cited the party-building efforts that have taken place under DeSantis’s tenure in the governor’s mansion as critical to the GOP’s long list of recent successes in the longtime battleground state.
In addition to luring a vast number of prominent Republicans and GOP-leaning voters to Florida in the years since the COVID-19 outbreak began, DeSantis’s political operation has poured millions of dollars into voter registration efforts. In 2021, for the first time in modern history, the number of registered Republican voters surpassed registered Democrats — an advantage that has only continued to grow since then.
“A lot of work was put in when DeSantis came into office,” Nelson Diaz, a Republican lobbyist and former Miami-Dade County GOP chair, said. “He energized the party to get moving on voter registration efforts and, quite frankly, efforts to get people to switch parties. You’re seeing the rewards of that today.”
Yet for all of DeSantis’s political wins, there are still questions about his staying power. As he moves toward a likely 2024 presidential bid, he’s facing nonstop attacks from Trump and his allies, as well as concerns that he may be pushing his power and influence too far.
“He’s starting to unravel,” Fried said. “He’s looking desperate. He’s looking unhinged. And his policies … he’s taking that 19 points and he’s thinking that is a mandate on all of his policies. And so he is shoving that down the legislators’ throats and the people. All of his policies are more extreme than the people of Florida want.”
This is the third in a five-part series called “How Florida got so conservative.” | 2023-05-17T11:39:23+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/how-desantis-benefited-from-floridas-changing-politics/ |
NPR's A Martinez talks to Doug Parker, head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, about climate-related hazards — such as workers facing smoke-filled air from wildfires.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to Doug Parker, head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, about climate-related hazards — such as workers facing smoke-filled air from wildfires.
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Sarasota County receives $14.5 million grant for Alligator Creek restoration
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Sarasota County is receiving a $14.5 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the Alligator Creek Stream Restoration Project.
The grant money will go to improve water quality as the County Commissioners will work to allocate the funds.
Alligator Creek is an essential 11-square-mile tidal creek that serves as an urbanized drainage basin, flowing into Lemon Bay and is responsible for more than 20% of the water drainage. Historical nutrient loading and hydrologic changes in the 1940s, such as deep excavation and channelization, disrupted the natural water flow and reduced the creek’s connection to the floodplain and nearby wetlands. This, in combination with the creek’s steep-sided banks causing erosion and sedimentation, has degraded crucial benthic and fish habitats. Additionally, invasive vegetation and bank erosion have impacted the vitality of marine life, birds, and native animals that rely on the ecology and salinity of Alligator Creek. It’s also the home of some endangered species.
The project will also focus on removing stream barriers to increase access to low-salinity habitats, which is important for fish nurseries. It also provides a safe environment for fish species when high levels of red tide are present.
The County Commission is working with Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium. Mote is monitoring and sampling key fish species such as snook, tarpon, and red drum.
Mote has also implemented technology to track fish movements, growth, and survival, by implanting a passive integrated transponder tag prior to releasing them back to where they were collected. Further downstream, a solar-powered detection station picks up a signal from the PIT tags when a fish swims over it, allowing Mote scientists to collect data to learn more about fish habitat use, directional migration patterns, and survival rates for different species, sizes, and life stages.
“We’re proud to continue working with our partners at Sarasota County on restoring Alligator Creek,” said Ryan Schloesser, program manager of the Fisheries Ecology and Enhancement Program at Mote. “Mote’s main goal in this project is to monitor the health of the creek’s fish population before and after the restoration efforts, which will help us understand how well the creek can support fish in its current state, and we expect the data we collect to show that the restoration provided a more productive habitat for the long-term health of these fish populations.”
Copyright 2023 WWSB. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-22T16:54:58+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/05/22/sarasota-county-receives-145-million-grant-alligator-creek-restoration/ |
SAN ANTONIO – Three San Antonio police officers are charged with murder after they shot and killed a woman inside her Southwest Side apartment early Friday morning, according to SAPD.
Sgt. Alfred Flores, Officer Eleazar Alejandro and Officer Nathaniel Villalobos are charged in 46-year-old Melissa Perez’s death.
All three were arrested Friday night and released on bond Saturday.
SAPD Chief William McManus said Friday night the officers didn’t follow department training or policy and “used deadly force, which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them.”
Perez was experiencing a mental health crisis and had a hammer in her hand when police shot her through a patio window and door, McManus said.
The department released a portion of edited and blurred body-worn camera video from officers on the scene Friday night. KSAT has requested all footage from the incident.
SAPD initially said the officers’ employment was “terminated.” In another instance, the department said they were suspended without pay. KSAT has asked for further clarification.
There are three separate investigations underway since the murder charges were filed — by SAPD’s Internal Affairs and Homicide units and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Civil Rights Division.
This article explains what we know so far about Perez, the officers, the shooting and the body camera footage.
Who is Melissa Perez?
Alexis Tovar, Perez’s daughter, released a statement through her attorney Dan Packard on Saturday afternoon to ABC News.
“We have always been a pro-police family. This breaks my heart. I always trusted the police to protect me and now I don’t know who to trust. We can’t express how hurt we are,” Tovar’s statement said.
Packard Law Firm also released an image of Perez.
KSAT spoke to neighbors at the scene of the shooting Friday morning.
Ruben Veloz, who lives next door to Perez, said he didn’t really know anything was wrong until he left for work hours later.
“I was asleep,” he told KSAT. “I looked over, I saw windows broken and I was just, like, ‘Ok, what’s going on?’”
Both Veloz and another neighbor said they were shocked to hear that Perez was dead, and wondered what could have led to the shooting.
“I don’t know, like, the whole story of what happened, but to me she was always nice. I don’t know about everybody else,” Veloz said.
What San Antonio police have said about the shooting
The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Friday at the Rosemont at Miller’s Pond apartments, located in the 6200 block of Old Pearsall Road.
Police were called for a report of a woman, later identified as Perez, destroying property at the complex. According to Chief McManus, Perez was having a mental health crisis and cutting wires through a fire alarm system to the complex.
When officers arrived, Perez was speaking with San Antonio Fire Department crews in the parking lot. As they approached her, she ran back to her apartment and locked the door, McManus said.
Police tried to speak with Perez through a window, but she threw a glass candle at an officer, striking him in the arm, McManus said.
Officers Flores, Alejandro and Villalobos moved toward the back patio of Perez’s apartment and unsuccessfully attempted to coax Perez outside.
Two of the three officers jumped the railing onto the patio, and spoke to Perez through a window and door.
McManus said the window was open but officers removed the screen. He said they were investigating the incident as felony criminal mischief.
One of the officers said Perez picked up a hammer and was “approaching them from inside,” McManus said.
She swung the hammer toward the officers and broke the window separating her apartment from the patio, McManus said.
One of the officers shot at Perez, but McManus said it didn’t appear she was struck.
Perez went toward the window again, still carrying the hammer, and that’s when all three officers opened fire, according to McManus. Perez was hit at least two times.
Police forced their way inside the apartment and provided medical assistance until EMS arrived, McManus said.
Perez died from her injuries at the scene.
“Our condolences to Melissa Perez’s entire family, I want to ensure her daughter that this incident will continue to be thoroughly investigated,” McManus said.
There is not currently a timeline for the conclusion of the investigation, he said.
Who are the officers charged with murder?
The three SAPD officers who were charged in Perez’s murder were identified as Sgt. Alfred Flores, Officer Eleazar Alejandro and Officer Nathaniel Villalobos.
Flores has served with the police department for 14 years, Alejandro for five years and Villalobos for two years, according to McManus.
Bexar County court records show that each of the officers is charged with murder. Their bonds were set at $100,000 each.
As of Saturday morning, all three officers made their bond and were released from the Bexar County Jail pending trial.
“The shooting officers’ actions were not consistent with SAPD’s policy and training. They placed themselves in a situation where they used deadly force, which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them,” McManus said.
What the portion of released body camera footage shows
WARNING: The video may contain images that are disturbing to some individuals. Viewer discretion is advised.
San Antonio police released a portion of edited and blurred body-worn camera footage from the shooting around 9 p.m. Friday night.
McManus said the department expedited the release of the video.
The footage begins with an officer approaching Perez in the apartment complex’s parking lot while she is with her dog.
“Hey, lady, get over here,” the officer says.
Perez beings walking away, and the officer pursues her. “Get over here.”
“Nope,” Perez replies as she continues to walk toward her apartment and the officer runs after her.
Then, an officer is seen jumping onto Perez’s balcony.
Her balcony window is open, and the officer removes the screen.
Perez tries to close the window and tells him to stop.
The officer then raises his pistol and points it at Perez, telling her “You’re going to get shot.”
“Shoot me,” she replies.
Glass is then heard shattering, and the woman yells something at the officers.
The video then cuts to multiple officers standing at the balcony and then one officer again jumping over it.
“Hold on,” the officer says.
The woman replies, “You ain’t got no warrant.”
Another officer then says, “Let’s go. Move it.”
Two officers were then seen standing in the patio area.
One officer then turned around to reveal several officers who then all started yelling, “Watch out! Watch out!” before gunshots erupted from the officers toward the woman.
From a different perspective, one of the officers could be seen trying to open the door again.
The woman appeared to be still standing.
The officers start yelling to her, “Hey! Hey!” and more gunshots go off.
From another perspective, multiple officers could be seen firing shots at the woman’s apartment.
A hammer can not be seen clearly in the footage. | 2023-06-25T01:31:52+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/06/25/what-we-know-about-3-san-antonio-police-officers-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-melissa-perez/ |
A rural Florida postal worker died after being attacked by 5 dogs when her vehicle broke down, officials say
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By Amanda Watts and Amy Simonson, CNN
A 61-year old postal carrier died after being attacked by five dogs in rural northern Florida over the weekend, sheriff’s officials said.
The postal worker, identified as Pamela Jane Rock of Melrose, was in the Interlachen Lake Estates area Sunday after her vehicle broke down, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
Residents heard a woman scream for help and went outside to find Rock on the ground with five dogs attacking her, witnesses told the Sheriff’s Office. The dogs’ owners and several neighbors rushed to pull the dogs off Rock.
“One of the neighbors even brought his firearm along and fired several shots into the air and to the ground in an attempt to disrupt the attack,” Putnam County Sheriff Chief Deputy Colonel Joseph Wells said at a news conference Tuesday.
The attempt was unsuccessful, and the neighbors and the owners had to physically remove the dogs from Rock, according to Wells. By the time deputies arrived, the dogs were back at their owner’s property. The postal carrier was on the ground, bleeding severely, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies applied tourniquets and provided first aid until rescue units arrived. Rock was transported to a nearby hospital and then flown to a trauma center in Gainesville in critical condition. She succumbed to her injuries Monday evening, the sheriff’s office said.
More than 5,400 postal employees were attacked by dogs in the United States in 2021, according to data released by the US Postal Service in June. Florida was one of the top 10 states for dog bites, with 201 incidents reported last year, according to USPS.
Wells said the investigation into the incident is “very active.”
“We are in frequent communications with the state attorney’s office as we explore options as far as possible criminal cases as this case continues,” he said.
An initial investigation revealed the dogs escaped from a fenced yard after they were able to move rocks lining the fence, according to Wells.
After the attack, animal control workers were called to the scene and took custody of the five dogs that witnesses identified as being involved in the attack. The owner relinquished custody of the dogs, who will be euthanized humanely, according to the sheriff’s office.
Wells said the sheriff’s office and animal control have responded to the neighborhood several times previously for animal calls though it’s unclear if the calls involved the same dogs.
“We have talked to those witnesses and we are working to confirm that these dogs are one and the same,” Wells said. “We believe that there have been other calls for service regarding these dogs and we are reviewing these calls right now.”
Neighbors told CNN affiliate News4JAX that the dogs have been a nuisance for a while, saying the animals are known to hop the fence or come out from underneath it.
“Our hearts are with the victim and her family as they navigate through this tragic event,” Putnam County Sheriff H.D. DeLoach said. “It is imperative that dog owners take responsibility in keeping their animals in a secured location for their safety and those around.”
The USPS recommends keeping dogs inside the house, behind a fence, away from the door or on a leash when postal workers drop off mail. The postal service also recommends that children do not take mail directly from the postal carrier as dogs could view the carrier as a threat.
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s troubled presidential election was thrown into even greater turmoil Wednesday when the country’s top electoral tribunal confirmed the results of the June 25 vote while the Attorney General’s Office announced that the second place party had been suspended.
The seemingly contradictory moves fed more than two weeks of rising tensions and suspicions after the first round of voting, which had seemingly sent conservative Sandra Torres and progressive Bernardo Arévalo into a Aug. 20 presidential runoff.
There were immediate calls Wednesday for Guatemalans to take to the streets in protest and demonstrators gathered outside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal until heavy rain drove them away.
It was not immediately clear how the situation would play out now that yet another court had intervened in Guatemala’s electoral process, but electoral authorities said Torres and Arévalo would face each other on Aug. 20.
But Rafael Curruchiche, the special prosecutor against impunity, said in a video statement that in May 2022 a citizen reported having his signature falsely added to the signature gathering effort of Arévalo’s Seed Movement party and that the Attorney General Office’s investigation also found 12 deceased people were included on its list of signatures.
The special prosecutor said there were indications that more than 5,000 signatures were illegally gathered for the party.
Curruchiche’s statement was released while the country waited for a scheduled news conference by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in which it was expected to certify the result of the June 25 election. The tribunal confirmed the result minutes after the prosecutor announced that the Seed Movement’s legal status had been suspended.
Guatemala’s electoral law prohibits the suspension of political parties between when an election is called and when it is held. With a second round of voting required because no candidate exceeded 50% of the vote, it appeared that the Seed Movement could not be suspended.
After the first round, losing parties had challenged the results and courts intervened to block certification of the results. Concerns grew that efforts were afoot to keep Arévalo out of contention.
This week, it appeared the demands imposed by the courts had finally been satisfied and electoral authorities said they were working toward certification of the results. But talk began to circulate on social platforms that another hurdle could be coming from the Attorney General’s Office.
The relatively new Seed Movement party had needed at least 25,000 signatures to form itself legally. Curruchiche suggested that not knowing where the party got the funds to pay signature gatherers left open the possibility of money laundering.
The details of the case were made known to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in May, Curruchiche said.
In 2021, the U.S. government said that it had lost confidence in Guatemala’s commitment to battling corruption after Attorney General Consuelo Porras fired Curruchiche’s predecessor. Last year, the U.S. State Department added Curruchiche to its list of corrupt and undemocratic actors, alleging that he obstructed corruption investigations.
Roberto Arzu, a conservative presidential hopeful who was barred from competing for allegedly starting his campaign prematurely, called on Guatemalans to take to the streets in protest following Curruchiche’s announcement.
“This is a corrupt system’s coup,” said Arzu, son of former President Álvaro Arzú. | 2023-07-13T12:43:28+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/world-news/ap-top-tribunal-certifies-guatemalas-election-result-minutes-after-another-court-suspends-one-party/ |
PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly distanced himself from President Joe Biden on Thursday, calling the U.S.-Mexico border “a mess” and saying his party doesn’t understand border issues during his first and only debate against his Republican challenger Blake Masters.
Masters, trying to back away from some of the hard-line positions he took during the bruising GOP primary, said there should be some limits on abortion but not a national ban, conceded after a few prompts that Biden was the legitimately elected president and acknowledged that he hadn’t seen evidence the 2020 vote count was rigged.
For Masters, the debate was a chance for a reset in his first political campaign, with polls showing he’s trailing Kelly in a race that could help determine party control of the Senate. Kelly, seeking his first full term in office and cognizant of Biden’s faltering approval ratings, sought to portray himself as an effective senator who was working for solutions on the country’s immigration problem and Americans’ economic worries.
On defense over an issue that Republicans have made a central plank of their bid to retake the Senate majority, Kelly said he’s stood up to his party when necessary to stem the flow of illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
“When I got to Washington, D.C., one of the first things I realized was the Democrats don’t understand this issue,” Kelly said. “And Republicans just want to talk about it, complain about it but actually not do anything about it. They just want to politicize that.”
He pointed to his opposition to Biden’s plans to end a pandemic-era program that allows for the speedy removal of immigrants in the name of public health.
“When the president decided he’s going to do something dumb on this and change the rules, that would create a bigger crisis, I told him he was wrong,” Kelly said.
The Arizona race is one of a handful of contests that Republicans targeted in their bid to take control of what is now a 50-50 Senate. Kelly, a retired astronaut and Navy pilot, first captured the seat in 2020, winning a special election to fill the remainder of the late Sen. John McCain’s term.
Masters, a protégé of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who cited the candidate’s strident support of his lies about a stolen 2020 election. On Thursday night, Masters tried to pivot away from claims of a rigged election and instead blamed Trump’s loss on a conspiracy among powerful institutions.
“I suspect President Trump would be in the White House today if big tech and big media and the FBI didn’t work together to put the thumb on the scale to get Joe Biden in there,” Masters said, claiming institutions conspired to bury news stories about material on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
Under repeated questioning, he acknowledged that he hasn’t seen evidence that the vote count or election results were manipulated, as Trump has claimed. Numerous federal and local officials, a long list of courts, top former campaign staffers and even Trump’s own attorney general have all said there is no evidence of the fraud he alleges.
Masters endeared himself to many GOP primary voters with his penchant for provocation and contrarian thinking. But since then, he has struggled to redefine his image for the more moderate swing voters he will need to win in November.
Kelly drew from a pile of controversial statements Masters made during the primary to portray him as an extremist. He repeatedly hammered Masters’ earlier call to “cut the knot” and “privatize Social Security,” a plan that Kelly said would “send your savings to Wall Street.”
Masters later scrubbed some controversial positions from his website. He now says he wants to protect Social Security for older and middle-aged workers while creating a private investment option for younger workers.
On abortion, Masters said Thursday that he’s “pro-life as a matter of conscience” and believes states should be able to set their own laws on terminating pregnancies, but said he’d support federal legislation banning it after 15 weeks gestation.
During the GOP primary, Masters said abortion was “demonic” and called for a federal personhood law that would give fetuses the rights of people.
Kelly said abortion should be a personal decision and said he supports limits from Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturned last summer that guaranteed a right to an abortion.
“I think we all know guys like this, guys that think they know better than everyone about everything,” Kelly said, turning to Masters. “You think you know better than women and doctors about abortion.”
Masters tried to pierce Kelly’s image as an independent moderate willing to work across the aisle. He said Kelly has failed to use his leverage to secure the border and is responsible for rising prices that are forcing families to make tough decisions. The Phoenix metro area has been the hardest hit nationally by inflation, according to an analysis by the personal finance website WalletHub.
“Two years ago Mark Kelly stood right there and he promised to be independent,” Masters said in his opening statement, calling Kelly a reliable vote for Biden’s agenda. “But he broke that promise.”
For Masters, the debate was a chance to go on the offensive against Kelly, whose popularity with independents helped him win two years ago in a state long dominated by Republicans.
Thiel, who employed Masters for most of his adult life and bankrolled the candidate’s primary campaign, has not opened his wallet for the general election, though he has held fundraisers. A super political action committee controlled by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has pared back its own spending commitments.
That has left Democrats an opening to define Masters on their terms.
Masters met Thiel when Masters took a class that the billionaire taught at Stanford University. They wrote a book together, Thiel hired him and Masters eventually rose to senior positions in Thiel’s foundation and his investment firm.
The debate came less than a week before early and mail voting begins in the state, the methods chosen by at least 80% of voters in Arizona in recent elections.
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Associated Press writer Bob Christie in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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Americans think fraud has reached crisis level, report finds
Often, fraudsters will use the psychological trick of inciting fear, panic, or joy to lower victims’ guards
(InvestigateTV) — Two in three U.S. adults think scams and fraud have hit a crisis level, according to a recent report by AARP.
Kathy Stokes, director of fraud prevention programs at AARP said they’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of reports about fraud.
“We also know that the number of reports is just the tip of the iceberg because of so much under reporting,” Stokes said.
The report, Consumer Fraud Awareness Gets “D” Grade, found many misconceptions among consumers about fraud. The findings include:
Three in five adults are not aware that peer-to-peer payment applications such as Zelle or Vemno don’t have the same consumer protections as credit cards. Frequently, funds sent using these apps cannot be recovered.
About 25% of adults are unaware that being asked to make a payment or send money by gift card is a scam. This is a red flag for most business transactions.
One-third of adults do not know it is a scam when someone directs you to use a cryptocurrency ATM for payments. Fraudsters often pose as government agencies when making this request.
Stokes said that we have to start collectively thinking about fraud and cybercrime differently, especially when it comes to who is impacted and how victims are viewed.
They study reported a big disconnect in the typical age of victims, with those aged 20-29 as a group losing more to fraud than older generations.
The report also found 53% think victims are partially to blame for their own loss.
Stokes said understanding who is impacted and taking shame away from victims is key to combating fraud and cybercrimes.
She encouraged everyone to educate themselves on common scams and to report all instances of fraud.
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(KTLA) – One avid Disney fan has completed the ultimate Disney parks challenge by visiting all 12 Disney theme parks worldwide in just 12 days.
Nathan Firesheets started his journey, known as The Disney Global Ride Challenge, on March 8. He documented it on Twitter as he stopped at all of Disney’s locations worldwide:
- Disneyland Paris
- Walt Disney Studios
- Shanghai Disneyland
- Hong Kong Disneyland
- Tokyo Disneyland
- Tokyo DisneySea
- Disneyland
- Disney California Adventure
- Epcot
- Animal Kingdom
- Hollywood Studios
- Magic Kingdom
Firesheets started the challenge at Disneyland Paris and finished his two-week adventure at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World on Sunday. Firesheets says he rode more than 200 rides at the 12 theme parks during his global tour.
In each location, he would post a photo of himself in front of notable attractions and landmarks.
“It was pretty awesome and kind of surreal,” Firesheets told KTLA. “I still can’t quite believe I did it.”
Firesheets, who didn’t disclose how much this expedition cost him, told KTLA that traveling to the Disney parks worldwide costs a “fraction” of what the company plans to charge customers for its luxury private jet tour of Disney theme parks worldwide.
According to Adventures by Disney, that tour “spans 24 days and covers 6 countries that includes all 12 uniquely magical Disney theme parks worldwide, as well as 3 iconic landmarks: the Taj Mahal, Pyramids of Giza and Eiffel Tower.” It also costs $109,995.
Firesheets isn’t the only Disney fan to recently make headlines for visiting theme parks.
In February, Jeff Reitz was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for visiting Disneyland for a record 2,995 days in a row. The Huntington Beach, California, resident visited the parks daily from 2012 until 2020 when the Disneyland Resort shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | 2023-03-21T17:27:28+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/disney-fan-visits-all-12-disney-theme-parks-in-12-days-rides-over-200-attractions/ |
Hopper, the 2021 Mid-Athletic CrossFit Challenge Champion, has used Compex products in his performance recovery, and now will team with Compex to promote its products
CARLSBAD, Calif., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compex, a global leader in muscle stimulator technology and producer of innovative products that enable athletes to increase strength, relieve pain and recover faster, has announced that 24-year-old Professional CrossFit athlete Jayson Hopper has signed a multi-year agreement with the company. Hopper will partner with Compex in promoting its products and making special appearances.
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From Greenville, SC, Hopper traded his #88 football jersey at Clemson, where he was a wide receiver, to become a full-time CrossFit athlete. So far, he has already made a name for himself. At 6'1" and weighing 220 pounds, Hopper quickly made his mark in 2021 by winning the Mid-Athletic CrossFit Challenge and posting a 19th-place finish in the 2021 CrossFit Open.
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Climate change is making major league sluggers into even hotter hitters, sending an extra 50 or so home runs a year over the fences, a new study found.
Hotter, thinner air that allows balls to fly farther contributed a tiny bit to a surge in home runs since 2010, according to a statistical analysis by Dartmouth College scientists published in Friday’s Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. They analyzed 100,000 major league games and more than 200,000 balls put into play in the last few years along with weather conditions, stadiums and other factors.
“Global warming is juicing home runs in Major League Baseball,” said study co-author Justin Mankin, a Dartmouth climate scientist.
It’s basic physics.
When air heats up, molecules move faster and away from each other, making the air less dense. Baseballs launched off a bat go farther through thinner air because there’s less resistance to slow the ball. Just a little bit farther can mean the difference between a homer and a flyout, said Alan Nathan, a University of Illinois physicist who wasn’t part of the Dartmouth study.
Nathan, one of a group of scientists who has consulted with Major League Baseball on the increase in homers, did his own simple calculation, based purely on known physics of ballistics and air density as it changes with temperature, and said he got the same result as the Dartmouth researchers.
Both Nathan and the Dartmouth team found a 1% increase in home run likelihood with every degree the air warms (1.8% with each degree Celsius). Total yearly average of warming-aided homers is only 1% of all home runs hit, the Dartmouth researchers calculated.
Non-climate factors contribute even more to the barrage of balls flying out of the park, scientists and baseball veterans said. The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season. Others include batters’ recent attention to launch angle; stronger hitters; and faster pitches. The study started after the end of baseball’s infamous steroids era saw a spike in home runs.
Veteran baseball players and executives said the research fits with what they’ve seen on the field.
“We always felt that way for years,” Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said. “When it’s warmer, the ball travels more and they have scientific evidence to back that up.”
Homers have always varied by ballpark due to simple factors like dimensions that are friendlier to pitchers than hitters, or vice versa, as well as wind conditions.
The Dartmouth team found the climate homer effect varied by field, too. Chicago’s Wrigley Field, which still hosts a lot of day games, has the most warming-homer friendly confines. The statistical analysis found no significant heat-aided homers at Tampa’s Tropicana Field, the only full-time domed stadium in Major League Baseball.
“It’s interesting to think about,” said five-time All-Star pitcher David Cone, who once threw a perfect game and is now a television baseball analyst. “I’d probably more likely look at the makeup of the baseball itself, the variances and the specs. Of course, weather matters, definitely I wouldn’t shoo it away.”
After a 1-0 victory in Coors Field, Colorado Rockies reliever Brent Suter said the study, which mentions more than 500 home runs since 2010, rings true to him.
“Obviously I’m not a fan in any way as a pitcher,” Suter said with a laugh. “500 seems a lot, but I could believe it.”
The heat is also hard on players and fans, Suter said: “I remember pitching some games I was just, like ‘This does not feel like normal heat. It’s crazy hot.’”
Mankin called what’s happening “a fingerprint of climate change on our recreation.” Callahan said what’s been seen so far is nothing compared to projections of hundreds of extra homers in the future.
How many extra homers depends on how hot it gets, which depends on how much greenhouse gas the world spews from the burning of coal, oil and gas. Callahan ran different scenarios of carbon pollution through computer simulations.
In the worst-case warming trajectory – which some scientists say the world is no longer on based on recent emissions – there would be about 192 warming-aided homers a year by 2050 and around 467 hot home runs by the year 2100. In more moderate carbon pollution scenarios, closer to where Earth is now tracking, there would be about 155 warming-aided homers a year by 2050 and around 255 extra dingers at the end of the century, Callahan said.
Because baseball has so many statistics and analytics, such as the tracking system Statcast, trends can be seen more easily than other effects of climate change, Mankin said. Still, the scientists can’t point to a single homer and say that’s a warming-aided home run. It’s a detail that can be only seen in the more than 63,000 homers hit since 2010.
Several climate scientists told The Associated Press that the study makes perfect sense and the statistics are analyzed properly, though they also point out factors other than climate change are in play and likely have bigger effects.
Both Texas A&M’s Andrew Dessler and University of Illinois’ Don Wuebbles said while the rise in home runs is interesting, it pales next to the issues of extreme weather and rising seas.
But Callahan said it actually brings home the threat of climate change in a unique way. Besides resulting in more home runs, a warming climate will likely require more domed stadiums because it will simply be too hot outside for humans in some places.
“Global warming is going to reshape so many of the things that we care about in so many pernicious and subtle ways,” Callahan said. “And the fact that we’ll get to go to fewer baseball games played in open air is not a civilization-ending crisis, but it is another sign of the way that we have reshaped our lives due to our greenhouse gas emissions.”
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Tarrant County’s two latest homestead exemptions approved by the Commissioners Court earlier in June will automatically apply to property owners who qualify, the Tarrant Appraisal District announced in a statement.
The two new optional exemptions — one from the county, and another from the Tarrant County Hospital District, also known as JPS Health Network — will each exclude 10% of a home’s appraised value from taxation. The appraisal district has processed these new exemptions, and homeowners will not be required to take any additional actions to claim them.
Tarrant County homeowners who currently live in and pay taxes to the county and the hospital district are automatically eligible for the exemptions. Additional exemptions, like the senior tax exemption, are applied depending on a resident’s age (65 and over).
This latest tax relief comes amid skyrocketing appraisals. Earlier this year, the appraisal district extended its deadline for homeowners to protest their home’s taxable value. State law requires all appraisals to be certified by July 25.
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WATERLOO — The United States Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade has locals in the pro-life camp celebrating and feeling like they're prepared to support pregnant mothers and future families.
“It’s a step in the right direction for all the future mothers, fathers and babies,” said Megan Yturriaga, executive director of Alternatives Pregnancy Center. “But there is still much to do, and it’s why our organization is here to support those who have an unplanned pregnancy.”
“I think approving and adopting today could put the city on the hook for things that we are not ready to tackle just yet.”
The organization doesn’t support abortion. Instead, she noted, it offers resources like the newly rolled-out "All Pro Dads" support group that prepares male clients to be good parents as they struggle with the daunting reality of the role.
The Rev. Scott Bullock, pastor at St. Edward Catholic Church, views the ruling as a call to continue supporting new mothers and fathers.
“That’s our biggest concern,” he said. “When we’re not protecting our weakest, that’s bad for society.”
Before the ruling, his parish had organized a committee in hopes of launching a “Walking with Moms in Need” program. Churches learn “how to help moms in difficult circumstances” and, in turn, support local pregnancy centers, develop their own programs and share other community resources.
Bullock emphasized he never tried to force his opinion on anyone. If someone came to him and said they were getting an abortion, he’d “remind them they are beloved children of God, and that God still loves them, and wants them to heal."
But having a child, he said, “brings joy and the opportunity for love and devotion.”
“That’s why we were created, after all,” Bullock said.
John Wood, one of Bullock’s parishioners and a family law attorney, was born after his mother decided to give birth to him despite facing health complications.
“I’m very glad she didn’t follow through with the medical advice she was given and instead followed her heart,” he said.
“What’s missed a lot,” he said about the news of the court's ruling, “is this returns the decision of abortion to the states.”
Wood feels those who reference this as the “decision of an extremely radical court" are misguided.
“The justices could have gone further than this," he said. They could have guaranteed the unborn the constitutional rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Cedar Valley residents demonstrated in downtown Cedar Falls in reaction to a United States Supreme Court ruling Friday that overturned Roe v. Wade.
But Wood says Democrats' calls in recent years for “safe, legal and rare abortions” has gone a step too far, and “disingenuous” organizations like Planned Parenthood don't present all available solutions to a crisis pregnancy and have become “profit centers."
“I think the Vatican's response got it just right,” said Dave Cushing, associate adult faith formation/team leader with Waterloo Catholic Faith Formation, in a statement. “The challenge now is to see if anti-abortion advocates will be just as passionate about other pro-life issues, including the rights of women, the welfare of families, and the safety of children outside the womb. The ideological constraints of partisan politics have narrowed the focus to just one issue; the time has come to broaden the perspective to all of human life.”
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After being hired for renovation work at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, 633 Walnut St., he instead stripped copper molding and fixtures from the 111-year-old building.
After a little more than 37 years in business, owner Jim Gilgen, 66, of Cedar Falls, said: “It’s just time. I’m getting older, and it’s the right thing to do.”
A Cedar Falls man accused of allowing hundreds of pigs to starve to death in December has pleaded to one count of bank fraud in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids.
CFU has agreed to lease unused land to two local companies, Simple Mining, LLC and Energy Conversion Group, LLC, for the 'placement of structures used for crypto-mining.'
Joe Frenna, a veteran stage actor and director familiar to Cedar Valley theatergoers, expects filming to start Saturday on his first-ever movie, based on his original script.
Anti-abortion protesters cheer outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Friday after the Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years. | 2022-06-28T14:18:19+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/pro-life-advocates-in-cedar-valley-excited-for-the-future/article_8154c3bc-1bf9-54b6-8e31-6565ab3ee072.html |
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RONIVAL is proud to announce their latest offering - Mantarraya Residences will collaborate with REALM Global to offer their newest residences for sale through the REALM™ network. The Mantarraya Residences join a prestigious REALM membership of exceptional new developments including Bentley Residences, Florida, Towers of the Waldorf Astoria, New York and Ritz-Carlton Portland, Oregon.
Mantarraya Residences are part of the 4,500-acre luxury master-planned Danzante Bay community adjacent to Baja California Sur's coastline inland marine sanctuary. Flanked by the rugged Sierra de La Giganta Mountains and the Sea of Cortez, the Mantarraya Residences offer owners a unique combination of luxury, wellness, unbeatable ocean views, superb natural beauty, and are just a short drive from the Loreto International Airport. Golf, hiking, snorkeling, diving, historic places, and fishing are some of the activities that fortunate residents will experience.
"The buzz and excitement around The Mantarraya Residences is evident by sales that have been made even before the official property launch," says Nick Fong, broker/owner of Ronival. "This virgin land and region have been one of Baja's best kept secrets until now as we unveil it to the REALM luxury network. Loreto's first full ownership beachfront condominium project is similar to buying in Cabo San Lucas thirty years ago."
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. (KDVR) — Family members who lost a mother and her daughter in a Lakewood apartment fire last year are speaking out.
Monday afternoon, a 14-year-old boy pleaded guilty in juvenile court in a deadly arson case in Lakewood that took the life of 31-year-old Kathleen (Katie) Payton and her 10-year-old daughter Jazmine.
The other 12-year-old suspect did not enter a plea on Monday.
Janelle Camacho, Payton’s aunt, said it’s been very emotional the past couple of months.
“I think about them every single day,” Camacho said. “I think about the day we got the phone call of them passing away in a fire and you don’t want it to be real and then when you realize it’s true and they’re gone — I’ve never experienced anything like this.”
Camacho was listening in virtually in Monday afternoon’s court hearing.
“To see the young men in court and everything, you can’t help but to think this is still somebody’s child and that’s sad, but at the same time it’s so unfair because my nieces had to pay the ultimate price with their lives,” Camacho said. “These boys are getting charged as juveniles for doing big boy things.”
The 14-year-old faces five to seven years in the Division of Youth Services, but his formal sentencing will take place in September.
“Honestly, I just felt like he probably got a good plea deal and he knows that he’ll be out soon. It just makes me angry and upset,” Camacho said. “I just think they’re getting off too easy.”
Camacho said the family is focusing on the good and the times they shared together as a family.
“Just cherish all the memories, all the text messages, voice messages, pictures, things like that,” Camacho said. “That’s really all we can do and just share. Share our memories. Keeping their memories alive in a way.”
The media is not allowed to attend the 14-year-old’s formal sentencing hearing in September because there is expected to be a discussion of his mental health history.
Due to the age of the suspects, their names cannot be released under Colorado Law. | 2023-07-25T06:31:41+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/victims-family-speaks-out-after-plea-in-deadly-lakewood-apartment-fire/ |
Former President Donald Trump and Former Vice President Mike Pence will be in Arizona campaigning this week — but for different candidates in the Republican primary race for governor.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Arizona Public Media reporter Andrew Oxford about both races.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-19T20:36:02+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2022-07-19/arizona-primary-preview-from-governor-to-senate-race-in-arizona-two-high-profile-visitors-expected |
Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland’s major glaciers in the last couple years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a new study found.
And scientists worry that the phenomenon isn’t limited to this one glacier, raising questions about previous projections of melting rates on the world’s vulnerable ice sheets.
The rapid melt seen in this study was in the far northwest of Greenland on Petermann Glacier. If it is happening in the rest of Greenland and the even bigger Antarctic ice sheet, then global ice loss and the sea level rise could jump as much as twice as fast as previously thought, according to the study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“It’s bad news,” said study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at University of California Irvine. “We know the current projections are too conservative. We know that they have a really hard time matching the current record” of melt.
He said this newly found consequence of tidal activity “could potentially double the projections” of global melt.
The study looks at the all-important grounding line area of glaciers on ice sheets. That’s the point where glaciers go from being on land to floating on water. Previous studies show it’s also a key spot for rapid ice loss.
At remote Petermann, where few people have been and there are no base camps, that grounding line zone is more than six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) wide and could be as much as 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) wide, the study said.
Scientists used to think the daily tides weren’t a big deal on melt. The snow added on top of the glacier compensated for the tides moving further in, said Rignot, the day before he left for an expedition to Petermann.
But with an ocean that’s warmer because of climate change the tides became “a very powerful mechanism,” Rignot said.
“The sea water actually goes much farther beneath the grounded ice (than previously thought), kilometers, not hundreds of meters,” Rignot said. “And that water is full of heat and able to melt the glaciers vigorously. And it’s kind of the most sensitive part of the glacier.”
Using satellite altitude measurements, Rignot’s team found a 669-foot tall (204 meters) cavity at the grounding line where the melt rate is 50% higher in the last three years than it was from 2016 to 2019. Previous models forecast zero melt there.
The melting in Petermann has accelerated in the last few years, later than the rest of Greenland, probably because it is so far north that the water melting it from underneath is from the North Atlantic and it takes longer for the warmer water to reach there, Rignot theorized.
Rignot this month is exploring Petermann to get more ground-based measurements using ultrasound. He hasn’t been there since 2006, a decade before the changes were seen via satellite. Visiting Petermann, even before the glacier’s retreat accelerated, Rignot said he noticed movements that make it seem like a living thing.
“When you are standing on that shelf or sleeping on the shelf you hear noise all the time, loud noises from deep inside cracks forming,” Rignot said. “That’s where the concept of a glacier being alive starts getting to you.”
Greenland ice researcher Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, who wasn’t part of the research, called Rignot’s technique clever and said the study makes sense, showing “that ocean heat delivery to tidewater glacier grounding lines represents a potent destabilizing effect.”
Box, who uses a different technique to calculate how much ice is no longer being fed by glaciers and is doomed to melt, something called “zombie ice,” figures 434 billion metric tons of ice on Petermann is already committed to melting.
The study provides strong evidence that models need to include these tidal effects deep inland and if they don’t, then they are underestimating future sea level rise, said Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn’t part of the Rignot study.
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Rangers know not to make too much out of their victory Friday night over the Houston Astros.
But after being dominated in this ballpark for the last few seasons, they were happy to start the series this season on a good note.
Adolis García hit a two-run homer and Nathaniel Lowe had three RBIs in the Rangers' 6-2 victory.
The win comes after Houston went 29-5 at home against Texas since 2019.
“It's big,” Texas starter Martín Pérez said. “Especially from last year to this year we have a better team, we're pitching better, we make plays. And if we do that every night we're going to win a lot of games.”
García homered to make it 3-0 in the third and Lowe drove in two runs with a single in the fifth to extend the lead to 5-1.
Yordan Alvarez and Martín Maldonado hit solo home runs for the Astros, but they struggled to do much else offensively, going 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
It was the first game between the Rangers and Astros this season, renewing an old National League rivalry between Bruce Bochy, who is in his first season as the Texas manager, and Houston skipper Dusty Baker.
Friday was the 192nd regular-season meeting between Baker and Bochy. The pair, who both managed the Giants, are the two winningest active managers in MLB history with Baker ranking ninth with 2,099 wins and Bochy at No. 11 with 2,011.
Bochy collected the win Friday but needs plenty more to close the gap in their head-to-head series. Baker leads the regular season matchup between the two at 110-82, and the 110 losses are Bochy’s most to an opposing manager.
“It's always good to get the first win on the road, especially against such a good team like this," Bochy said. “We've had our battles and he had his way with us quite a few years... but we'll be facing each other quite a few times now.”
But Bochy got the best of Baker in their biggest postseason meeting. Baker’s Reds were up 2-0 in the 2012 National League Division Series before Bochy’s Giants won three straight on the road to advance and go on to win the World Series.
“You always know you've got to do your homework and be ready because you know that Bruce's teams are going to be ready,” Baker said. “He's been a formidable foe for a long time.”
Despite their long history of competition, the pair developed a close friendship off the field where they share everything from wine recommendations to the best fishing holes.
On Friday, Pérez (2-1) helped Bochy to the win with a solid start, allowing five hits and two runs in five-plus innings.
Houston’s Luis García (0-2) had his third tough start to open the season, yielding six hits and five runs with seven strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings to raise his ERA to 7.71.
“He's certainly much better than this,” Baker said. “So hopefully he'll be better next time.”
Marcus Semien drew a leadoff walk before Lowe put the Rangers up 1-0 with an RBI double with one out in the inning.
There were two outs in the third when Lowe walked. García then knocked his third homer of the season to left-center field to make it 3-0. It was initially ruled a double, but the play was reviewed and overturned.
Alvarez connected off Pérez with two outs in the third for his fourth home run this season to cut the lead to 3-1. It gave him 300 career RBIs, making him the 36th player in franchise history to reach the mark.
There were runners on second and third with one out in the fifth when Lowe singled on a line drive to left field to score them both and push the advantage to 5-1.
Maldonado launched his first homer this season to left-center with one out in the fifth to get the Astros within 3. Jake Meyers walked before a single by Alex Bregman. But Alvarez struck out before José Abreu lined out to end the threat.
Abreu went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts to end a streak of 13 straight games where he reached safely to open the season.
Josh Jung had a run-scoring single with two outs in the ninth to make it 6-2.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Astros: CF Chas McCormick left the game in the third inning with what the team called vision issues. Baker said he was having trouble seeing and was undergoing tests after the game. He was replaced by Meyers. ... 2B Jose Altuve, who has been out all season after fracturing his right thumb in the World Baseball Classic, had the large cast that covered his thumb and most of his forearm removed this week. He now has only a splint around his thumb and part of his hand as he continues his recovery. General manager Dana Brown said that Altuve could resume baseball activities in two months when he had surgery March 22.
DELAYED
The game was briefly delayed with two outs in the top of the ninth when a man ran onto the field and across most of the outfield before being tackled by a security guard and escorted away.
UP NEXT
Houston RHP Hunter Brown (1-0, 3.09 ERA) opposes RHP Jon Gray (1-1, 3.00) when the series continues Saturday night.
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"Fred Hammond is a phenomenon," says Danyel Smith, former editor of Billboard magazine, to NPR's Renee Montagne. The singer and bassist's "I Feel Good" has stuck around on Billboard's Gospel Songs chart for more than 30 weeks. Over the summer, Morning Edition will feature songs that are popular among different audiences and genres.
"He makes modern, urban-contemporary gospel music, and he has hit a nail on the head," Smith says. "In the gospel industry right now, there is a concerted effort to not lose young people — to create music that speaks to them and enables them to maybe nod their head to the beat as much as they're clapping their hands and raising their hands to the Lord."
She says that the secret to Hammond's success is his music's immediacy.
"It's very invitational, this record — it sounds familiar to me," says Smith. "It sounds like, 'Hey, just because we're talking about faith, it doesn't mean we all have to start speaking in some other language that we don't speak in every day to each other.' "
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-31T15:07:42+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2012-06-21/fred-hammond-a-phenomenon-on-the-gospel-chart |
SEATTLE MARINERS
France hits 2 homers, Gilbert goes 8 innings as Mariners edge A’s 3-2
May 25, 2023, 9:31 PM | Updated: May 26, 2023, 12:53 am
SEATTLE (AP) — Ty France homered twice in his return to the lineup, Logan Gilbert pitched eight outstanding innings and the Seattle Mariners finished a four-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with a 3-2 victory Thursday night.
Seattle Mariners 3, Oakland A’s 2: Box Score
Eugenio Suárez drew a bases-loaded walk from reliever Garrett Acton in the eighth to push across the go-ahead run.
Oakland lost its eighth consecutive game and completed an 0-7 trip that began in Houston. The team’s 10-42 record matches the 1932 Boston Red Sox for the worst 52-game start since 1901, and its .192 win percentage projects to a 31-131 mark that would easily be the worst for a major league team since 1900.
The reeling A’s have been swept in seven series this season.
Gilbert (3-2) allowed just three hits, including Seth Brown’s two-run homer in the first. He retired 15 straight batters during one stretch, and 22 of his last 23.
“I feel really confident out there,” Gilbert said. “Stuff like that happens, and sometimes it locks you in, too. You get hit in the mouth, and you’re ready to go back out there.”
Walter being Walter. pic.twitter.com/QWBBVHlMbl
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 26, 2023
The right-hander struck out six and walked none, becoming the second Seattle pitcher to go eight innings this season following George Kirby in a 1-0 loss April 27 at Philadelphia.
“Awesome job,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “Logan, he’s rolling right now. He’s got all four pitches working, and he’s got a ton of confidence. It’s fun to watch.”
Paul Sewald fanned two in a perfect ninth, improving to 11 for 11 in save chances.
France was back in the lineup after taking a fastball from A’s reliever Trevor May off his left hand Tuesday. His first home run came in the bottom of the first off starter JP Sears to make it 2-1.
Yeah, he's fine 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/2bituhWTHH
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 26, 2023
France tied it in the sixth with a drive to left field off May.
“In my pregame work, I’ve been kind of getting on time for inside stuff,” France said. “They’ve been kind of hammering me in. My strength is when I’m going the opposite way, but they’re going to attack me and I’ve got to prepare for it. So the last few days I’ve been really trying to work on that in batting practice, and it paid off.”
[insert ty france tie game pun here] pic.twitter.com/rC1rmUDtdJ
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 26, 2023
France reached in the eighth on a fielder’s choice, when Oakland shortstop Nick Allen purposely let a popup drop in shallow left field in order to force out José Caballero at second base. France went to third on Julio Rodríguez’s two-out double off Acton and, after an intentional walk to Jarred Kelenic loaded the bases, Suárez walked to force in the decisive run.
a bases loaded walk for the lead? yeah, we're posting that. pic.twitter.com/XaHIJCgPEr
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 26, 2023
Richard Lovelady (0-3) took the loss after issuing a leadoff walk to Caballero in the eighth.
The four-game sweep was the first of the season for the Mariners, who are 7-0 against Oakland.
“Four-game sweep, hard to do,” Servais said. “I know Oakland has got a young team and things have been hard for them, but our guys find a way to win, driven by our starting pitching.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Athletics: RHP Paul Blackburn (finger) was back with the A’s after starting at Tacoma for Triple-A Las Vegas on Wednesday. Oakland manager Mark Kotsay said Blackburn will fly back to Oakland and there’s a good chance he’ll be back in the rotation soon.
Mariners: OF AJ Pollock did not start after leaving Wednesday night’s game with a leg cramp. … Suárez was back in the starting lineup. He was removed late in Wednesday’s game after taking a foul ball off his foot.
UP NEXT
Athletics: RHP James Kaprielian will start Friday against the visiting Astros. Kaprielian is 0-4 with an 8.64 ERA this season, with 30 strikeouts and 19 walks over 28 innings.
Mariners: Kirby (5-3, 2.62 ERA) pitches Friday against Pittsburgh. He has 47 strikeouts against just five walks in nine starts this season.
How did Seattle Mariners’ 2 rookie standouts seemingly come out of nowhere? | 2023-05-26T12:33:40+00:00 | sports.mynorthwest.com | https://sports.mynorthwest.com/1757602/france-hits-2-homers-gilbert-goes-8-innings-seattle-mariners-edge-as-3-2/ |
On a small Alaskan island just two miles from the Russian border, members of Alaska’s Air National Guard rescued a critically ill pregnant woman using a medical helicopter.
While it’s not uncommon these days for helicopters to be used for medical evacuations, the terrain, weather, and overall conditions made this one more difficult.
The island of Little Diomede does not have an airfield capable of accommodating a fixed-wing aircraft, the Air National Guard said. Officials also said that sea fog made it impossible for a civilian medical helicopter to land on the island.
With options limited, military officials said they used a HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopter to perform the airlift.
Officials said the helicopter traveled a straight-line distance of nearly 600 nautical miles and longer when flying through mountain passes. Because of the distance, a separate aircraft was required to refuel the helicopter multiple times in the air.
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“We were actively working with the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson flight surgeons as well as coordinating with doctors in Nome to help the pararescuemen make a quick medical assessment of the patient,” Alaska Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Jacob Inman said.
The Guard said both aircraft had “Guardian Angel teams comprising combat rescue officers and pararescuemen.
“Guardian Angels are highly trained paramedics skilled in air-to-ground rescue operations,” the Guard said.
Officials said they transported the woman to a Nome, Alaska, hospital, located 130 miles from Little Diomede Island. Her condition is unknown.
The town of Diomede, which is on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, has a listed population of 82 by the U.S. Census. The town sits just 2.5 miles from Big Diomede Island, which is controlled by Russia. The International Date Line sits in between the two islands.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-04-07T19:04:48+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/military-operation-needed-to-rescue-woman-on-remote-island-near-russia |
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela met on their border Thursday to sign an agreement designed to improve trade between the two countries and lift import duties on dozens of manufactured goods.
The deal comes as relations between the two countries improve following the election of Colombia’s first leftist president. Recently Colombia and Venezuela opened their border bridges to commercial cargo trucks for the first time in seven years.
“This is not only about making trade easier, but also about making it easier for people to move between both countries,” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said. “There has to be legality here, so that the rights of people are protected.”
Trade between Colombia and Venezuela fell drastically after 2015 amid political disputes that led to frequent border closures.
In 2019, Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, shut the border for months, had shipping containers put on bridges connecting the countries and cut off diplomatic ties.
Maduro acted after Colombia’s then conservative government and the United States recognized Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate leader and tried to help him to bring truckloads of humanitarian aid into the cash-strapped country.
Last year, Colombia and Venezuela renewed diplomatic relations following the election of Petro as Colombia's president.
Petro has recognized Maduro as Venezuela’s legitimate leader and moved away from U.S. led efforts to isolate Venezuela’s authoritarian government.
Colombia's new president has said that he would like to convince Venezuela to rejoin the interamerican system of human rights, and has also asked Venezuela to assist Colombia’s efforts to broker a peace deal with the National Liberation Army, a rebel group that is present on both sides of the border. | 2023-02-17T01:21:23+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/presidents-of-colombia-venezuela-sign-trade-deal-17789617.php |
North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus develops in each week of pregnancy under a bill Senate lawmakers approved during a vote Wednesday.
The 37-9 vote comes on the heels of the North Dakota Supreme Court’s ruling this month that a state abortion ban will remain blocked while a lawsuit over its constitutionality proceeds.
“If young people see the beauty of these beginnings, then hopefully they’ll think twice before running to the abortion clinic,” Sen. Janne Myrdal, a Republican of Edinburg who helped introduce the bill, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The bill would mandate schools to show middle and high school students a high-definition ultrasound video, at least three minutes long, on the development of the brain, heart and other vital organs in early fetal development — along with a high-quality animation of the fertilization and human development process inside the uterus, “noting significant markers in cell growth and organ development for every week of pregnancy.”
Lawmakers did not explicitly mention abortion when debating the bill on the Senate floor.
Opponents of the bill said they did not want to overstep by telling local schools how to teach, whereas supporters said lawmakers have the right to mandate curriculum in taxpayer-funded institutions.
“Although the video was great, well-intended, I just think we’re opening the door to something that in the future might widen the scope of how we dictate local schools,” Republican Sen. Michelle Axtman, of Bismarck, said in opposition to the bill.
Myrdal countered that state lawmakers already mandate many aspects of school curriculum including sex and abstinence education, Native American history and anti-bullying programs.
Republican Sen. Michael Wobbema, of Valley City, said the bill would not cost schools any money because the content the lawmakers have in mind is already online and free.
The bill was amended in the Senate, so it still needs to gain final approval in the House and a signature from the governor to become law.
Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound around six weeks into a pregnancy in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart.
In Georgia, which has one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion measures, the law prohibits most abortions once there is a “detectable human heartbeat” and effectively bans most abortions at a point before many people know they are pregnant.
Similar so-called heartbeat measures have been considered this year in states including Ohio, South Carolina and Nebraska.
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Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow her on Twitter: @TrishaAhmed15 | 2023-03-30T00:33:14+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/north-dakota-aims-at-school-curriculum-to-deter-abortions/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
MONDAY
RED STICK FLY FISHERS FLY TYING: 7 p.m., Room 204, Adult Education Building, Broadmoor Methodist, 10230 Mollylea, Baton Rouge. Website: rsff.org.
TUESDAY
LA. CRAB TASK FORCE MEETING: 1 p.m., Terrebonne Port Commission, 1116 Bayou Lacarpe Road, Houma.
TUESDAY-THURSDAY
COMMERCIAL FISHING LICENSE SALES: 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., LDWF Office, 468 Texas Gulf Road. Call (225) 765-2898.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY
BASSMASTER CENTRAL OPEN: 2 p.m. daily weigh-in, Madison Landing, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Ridgeland, Mississippi. Website: bassmaster.com
FRIDAY
FRIDAY NIGHT COOKIE JAR BASS SERIES: 7 p.m.-midnight, LA Express landing, Jarreau. Fee $40/boat, max 2 anglers. Weekly event through Sept. 9. Call Storm Randall (225) 937-0489.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY
LA. HIGH SCHOOL/JUNIOR BASSMASTER STATE TOURNAMENT: Forsythe Park, Ouachita River, Monroe. Call Tommy Abbott (504) 722-6638. Website: louisianahighschoolbassnation.com
HUNTING SEASONS
TURKEY: Area A: Through May 1. Area B: Through April 24. Area C closed.
SQUIRRELS: May 7-29, statewide, private lands & selected wildlife management area.
AROUND THE CORNER
MAY 2-3—COMMERCIAL FISHING LICENSE SALES: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., LDWF Office, 1213 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Charles. Call (225) 765-2898.
MAY 2-6—GULF COUNCIL RED SNAPPER DATA WORKSHOP: 1 p.m. daily, Courtyard Marriott, Gulfport, Mississippi. In-person only meeting. Call Julie Neer (843) 571– 4366. Email: Julie.neer@safmc.net.
MAY 4-5—COMMERCIAL FISHING LICENSE SALES: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., LDWF Office, 200 Dulles Drive, Lafayette. Call (225) 765-2898.
MAY 5—WILDLIFE & FISHERIES COMMISSION MEETING: 9:30 a.m., Joe Herring Room, state Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters, Quail Drive, Baton Rouge.
MAY 8—MOTHER’S DAY
LDWF UPDATES
-Tunica Hills closed to the public April 24 for turkey season.
-Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge & Woodworth Shooting Range (Rapides Parish) are open.
-Closed: Roads & trails (Richard Yancey WMA), Wax Lake Outlet campground (Atchafalaya Delta WMA); fishing piers & boat launch next to Island Road water control structure & at northeast corner Wonder Lake (Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA; three other Island Road piers & boat launch remain open); the Hope Canal Road/boat launch (Maurepas Swamp WMA); a section of East Road over Bayou Wauksha (Thistlethwaite WMA); Deer Park oxbow launch (Concordia Parish); and, the Woodworth Shooting Range (Rapides Parish).
-Hunter Education classes. Website: wlf.louisiana.gov/page/hunter-education.
FISHING/SHRIMPING
SHRIMP: Outside waters/Calliou Boca west to Marsh Island opens. All state inshore waters closed except waters open at double-rig in Breton/Chandeleur sounds.
OPEN RECREATIONAL SEASONS: Gray triggerfish, Lane, blackfin, queen and silk snappers & wenchmen among other snapper species & all groupers, including red grouper, except closed for goliath & Nassau groupers in state/federal waters.
CLOSED SEASONS: Recreational red snapper, gag grouper & greater amberjack (opens May 1). Commercial king mackerel (hook & line; gill-netting) in Gulf of Mexico Southern Zone. Commercial take of large coastal sharks (large coastal and hammerhead groups) closed.
Email: jmacaluso@theadvocate.com | 2022-04-23T23:41:10+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/sports/article_2ed2438c-bb53-11ec-9758-c3d5608da24a.html |
NanoMosaic Nanoneedle Technology Identifies Serum Biomarker of Delirium After Cardiac Surgery
BOSTON, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With NanoMosaic's nanoneedle technology, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School detected Tau and phosphor-Tau proteins in serum samples from patients under major cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Elevation of Tau and phosphor-Tau proteins were observed before and after the surgery, and Tau protein is identified as a potential serum biomarker of delirium after cardiac surgery. The study has been published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Postoperative delirium can have both short-term and long-term effects on cognitive function and attribute to $32.9 billion healthcare costs in the United Sates every year. Evaluation of delirium is based solely on a cognitive test today: no serum or plasma biomarkers have been identified and validated for clinical applications. In an earlier study on plasma published in Annals of Surgery this year, pre-operative phospho-Tau217 in plasma were detected using nanoneedle technology and identified as a potential predictive biomarker for postoperative delirium with high sensitivity and specificity. The two studies, both using nanoneedle technology on the Tessie™ platform, paved the way for clinical applications of Tau and phosphor-Tau biomarkers for post-operative delirium in plasma and serum.
Blood-based tests have clear advantage in clinical settings over positron emission tomography (PET) scan or cerebral spinal fluid analysis, often used as highly specific and accurate detection for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Assay sensitivity and precision are among the major hurdles in the development and validation of plasma and serum biomarkers.
"The Tessie™ platform improves the sensitivity and precision of immunoassay by detecting and counting single molecules using arrays of nanoneedles fabricated on a chip", said Dr. Qimin Quan, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of NanoMosaic. "The ability to integrate and read high density nanoneedles at an ultra-small footprint both minimizes the sample volume and increases the detection precision, enabling researchers to see low-abundance proteins in the precious samples," Quan concluded.
"The wide dynamic range of the Tessie™ with its streamlined workflow, allows the clinician to work directly from diluted plasma or serum, with no further sample preparation. This simplicity of this workflow and rapid turn around time will usher in the wave of advanced protein diagnostics", stated John Boyce, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of NanoMosaic, as well as Co-Founder of Tiger Gene, L.L.C. "NanoMosaic has implemented the tools and infrastructure to transition from the research bench to the clinic," Boyce concluded.
NanoMosaic, a Boston-based biotechnology company, is the only commercial entity to develop and leverage the power of nanoneedles, MosaicNeedles™, for protein detection and quantification to develop best-in-class assays for biomarker discovery and validation. The NanoMosaic platform, Tessie™, alleviates the bottlenecks in proteomics analysis and provides an end-to-end solution that enables first of its kind protein interrogation and multi-omics analysis within a single chip on one run. The proprietary technology enables rapid, end user customization for assay development for proteomic and/or nucleic acid content. The NanoMosaic platform allows researchers to push the frontiers in biomarker discovery and diagnostics.
Contact:
Audrey Warner,
audrey.warner@tigergenellc.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — David Jones honored his late father with a fresh tattoo and a determined performance that helped St. John’s take down No. 20 Providence.
A grieving Jones scored 16 points, AJ Storr added 15 and the Red Storm beat the Friars 73-68 on Saturday, handing them a costly defeat in their pursuit of a second consecutive regular-season Big East title.
Jones came off the bench after missing two games to travel home to the Dominican Republic following his father’s death on Feb. 3. The forward, who also grabbed seven rebounds, said his dad taught him the game of basketball.
“He never played professional,” Jones said. “He was good, though. He had bounce.”
Jones spoke quietly about his recent ordeal and displayed a pair of tattoos on his forearm dedicated to his dad — including a new one with the dates of his birth and death.
“When he’s in pain, we feel it. We felt the loss,” center Joel Soriano said of his teammate.
Soriano had 10 points and 13 rebounds for the Red Storm (15-11, 5-10 Big East), who had lost three straight and five of six. It was his 20th double-double this season — he began the day second in the nation in that category.
Posh Alexander added 10 points and a season-high nine assists. Dylan Addae-Wusu scored 13 for St. John’s, which built a big early lead before a split crowd at Madison Square Garden and stayed in front nearly the entire way.
Providence tied the score early in the second half but was never able to surge back ahead. A poor free-throw shooting team all season, St. John’s attempted only one foul shot in the first half but finished 15 for 18 at the line (83%).
Bryce Hopkins matched a career best with 29 points for the Friars (18-7, 10-4), who had won four of five. The only loss during that stretch was in overtime at then-No. 16 Xavier.
“I thought we faced a very desperate team today. You could feel the energy that was in the building coming in,” Providence coach Ed Cooley said. “This is the first time I’ve felt all year that my team just didn’t have it.”
Hopkins also grabbed nine rebounds, but Providence shot just 33% from the field. Devin Carter had 12 points and seven boards for the Friars, who are in a crowded race with three other teams atop the Big East standings.
“I’m very encouraged still where we’re at,” Cooley said. “I thought we competed today physically. I didn’t think we competed today emotionally and/or mentally. So I’m very disappointed in our group on that.”
St. John’s jumped out to a 25-9 lead after 9 1/2 minutes behind Alexander and Jones, but the Friars closed the first half with a strong push and trailed 37-35 at the break.
They tied it 39-all early in the second half before consecutive baskets from Soriano, a 3-point play from Storr and three buckets by Jones put the Red Storm in front by six.
BIG PICTURE
Providence: Coming off a trip to the Sweet 16 last year, the revamped Friars are 13-0 on their own court but 5-7 away from home. They have dropped four of their past five road games.
St. John’s: It was the second-best win of a disappointing Big East season for the Red Storm, behind an 11-point victory on Jan. 15 at then-No. 6 UConn.
UNAVAILABLE
Red Storm junior guard Andre Curbelo was on the bench but not in uniform. Before the game, St. John’s said Curbelo wouldn’t play and that it was a coach’s decision. Coach Mike Anderson would not elaborate postgame or say whether Curbelo will play Tuesday against DePaul. Curbelo, an Illinois transfer, is averaging 9.6 points and a team-best 4.5 assists per game.
COACH’S CORNER
Johnnies Day festivities included a recorded message shown on the large video board from Hall of Fame coach Lou Carnesecca, who celebrated his 98th birthday last month. … Longtime Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was in the stands and got booed when he was shown on the video board. Krzyzewski’s grandson plays at Division III New York University. Anderson said he appreciated Coach K visiting the Red Storm in their locker room before the game. St. John’s athletic director Mike Cragg worked with Krzyzewski at Duke.
UP NEXT
Providence: Will host No. 23 Creighton on Tuesday night in a pivotal Big East matchup. Senior point guard Jared Bynum was out injured when the Friars lost 73-67 at Creighton on Jan. 14, ending their nine-game winning streak. Hopkins had 20 points and 10 rebounds in that one.
St. John’s: Plays at DePaul (9-16, 3-11) on Tuesday night. The Red Storm won the first meeting this season 86-67 at Carnesecca Arena on campus. The skidding Blue Demons have dropped six straight.
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(WSVN) - To help Southwest Florida residents that were impacted by Hurricane Ian, local Florida McDonald’s restaurant owners/operators and McDonald’s USA will serve thousands of free hot meals.
The fast food eatery will distribute freshly prepared grab-and-go meals, which include cheeseburgers, McNuggets, French fries, apple slices and bottled water that will be prepared by their McRig, a full-sized trailer that has a near-complete McDonald’s kitchen.
The food distribution will take place on Wednesday and run until Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 13418 S. McCall Road in Port Charlotte.
“We are devastated by the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Ian to so many of our local communitiesacross Florida,” said Amy Rodriguez, local McDonald’s Owner/Operator. “As soon as we saw the extent of the devastation to Southwest Florida, we began efforts to bring the McDonald’s McRig down to Florida. We take pride in supporting the communities we serve and look forward to doing our part by offering hot meals to the Port Charlotte and Englewood communities as we begin to recover from this heartbreaking disaster.”
There will be a makeshift drive-thru that will be set up in the restaurant parking lot where employees will be handing out meals. There will also be a walk-up area for patrons who arrive by foot to order their meals.
Traffic will be directed to the parking lot by restaurant employees to help keep the lines moving as quickly as possible.
“We hope this small act of kindness provides a bit of relief and comfort during such a difficult time,” Rodriguez said. “We also want to thank our many suppliers who are ensuring we have food and supplies at the McRig, as well as regional employees who are taking time to serve the Port Charlotte and Englewood communities.”
Copyright 2022 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | 2022-10-04T16:29:38+00:00 | wsvn.com | https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/local-mcdonalds-restaurant-owners-to-distribute-free-meals-to-residents-impacted-by-hurricane-ian/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida rapper YNW Melly was back in court on Monday during his trial for the murders of two of his fellow YNW Collective rappers over four years ago.
The prosecution accused Jamell “Melly” Demons of fatally shooting Christopher “Juvy” Thomas Jr. and Anthony “Sakchaser” Williams on Oct. 26, 2018, in Broward County.
Detective Mark Moretti, of the Miramar Police Department, was on the stand after the jury’s lunch break to testify about the evidence in the case, which included Snapchat messages.
“Dis [racial slur for Black] saved my life he koming everywhere wit me kuz if dem [racial slur for white] come grab him it’s my fault ... I keep Bortlen wit kuz at the end of the day he did some of the realest [expletive] in my life,” Demons wrote in separate messages on Nov. 9, 2018, to his then-girlfriend Mariah Hamilton, according to prosecutors.
The message was part of a tense exchange between Hamilton and Demons, who were both referring to Cortlen “Bortlen” Henry, a YNW Collective rapper who is a co-defendant in the case, according to prosecutors.
Before the detective, Treveon Miliak Glass testified that he knew Thomas, 19, for over a decade, and Williams, 21, for a couple of years. He said they were together at the New Era Recording Studio in Fort Lauderdale before the murders.
“We were supposed to have a 12-hour session,” Glass said adding that he and others were sleepy so they left earlier than planned.
Glass, of Vero Beach, said he was in the studio with them smoking marijuana and left the studio in a red Mitsubishi with three others to Demons’s home where he fell asleep in a bedroom on the second floor.
Glass said several phone calls woke him up, and when he learned of the shooting, he rushed to the hospital. After getting the news that his friends were dead, Glass said they left for the home of Louisiana rapper Fredrick “Fredo Bang” Givens where he saw Demons.
“He wasn’t wearing the same clothes,” Glass said adding Demons was wearing shorts.
Surveillance video shows Demons, Thomas, and Williams left the recording studio at the same time with Henry, who was driving a Jeep Compass, according to prosecutors.
Instead of going to Demons’s home in Miramar, prosecutors said Henry drove to a desolated area to stage a drive-by shooting after Demons had shot the rappers in the head while in the Jeep.
Henry reported there was a drive-by shooting on Miramar Parkway.
“We didn’t find any shell casings,” Moretti said in court. “We didn’t find any shards of glass.”
Moretti said cell phone records later pointed him to a desolated area near the intersection of U.S. 27 and Pembroke Road.
During Glass’s testimony, the prosecution displayed messages from Glass’s Facebook messenger account to Demons on the day of the murders. Glass said he was trying to get information about the shooting.
Demons first released “Murder on My Mind” on SoundCloud in 2017, and 300 Entertainment released it as a single on June 2018. The golden single later peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 and his albums “Melly vs. Melvin” and “Just a Matter of Slime” followed.
A grand jury indicted Demons on Feb. 7, 2019, and he surrendered to Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies on Feb. 13, 2019. He pleaded not guilty to two counts of premeditated first-degree murder. Deputies have held him without bond for over four years.
The opening statements were on June 12. Forensic experts testified about the evidence of the shooting and Henry’s allegations. The court was in recess from June 30 to July 10.
If convicted, Demons faces the possibility of life in prison without parole or the death penalty under the new state law that no longer requires unanimous agreement.
Henry is facing two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of accessory after the fact. He appeared in court on June 30 and his trial is set to start in October.
Broward County Circuit Judge John Murphy is presiding over both cases.
INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC
TRIAL TIMELINE
The first week of trial: Opening statements were on June 12
The second week of trial: Prosecution’s witnesses continue to testify
The third week of trial: Testimony continues
The court is in recess
- July 5: Defense incriminates YNW Bortlen | 2023-07-10T20:08:14+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/2023/07/10/watch-live-ynw-melly-friend-testifies-about-day-of-murders/ |
Pockets of shelling across Ukraine as wintry warfare looms
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling by Russian forces struck several areas in eastern and southern Ukraine overnight as utility crews continued a scramble to restore power, water and heating following widespread strikes in recent weeks, officials said Sunday.
With persistent snowfall blanketing the capital, Kyiv, Sunday, analysts predicted that wintry weather — bringing with it frozen terrain and grueling fighting conditions — could have an increasing impact on the direction of the conflict that has raged since Russian forces invaded Ukraine more than nine months ago.
But for the moment, both sides were bogged down by heavy rain and muddy battlefield conditions in some areas, experts said.
After a blistering barrage of Russian artillery strikes on at least two occasions over the past two weeks, infrastructure teams in Ukraine were fanning out in around-the-clock deployments to restore key basic services as many Ukrainians dealt with only a few hours of electricity per day — if any.
Ukrenergo, the state power grid operator, said Sunday that electricity producers are now supplying about 80% of demand. That’s an improvement from Saturday’s 75%, the company says.
The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank that has been closely monitoring developments in Ukraine, said reporting from both sides indicated that heavy rain and mud have had an impact — but wider freezing expected along the front lines in coming days could play a role.
“It is unclear if either side is actively planning or preparing to resume major offensive or counter-offensive operations at that time, but the meteorological factors that have been hindering such operations will begin lifting,” it said in a note published Saturday.
ISW said Russian forces were digging in further east of the city of Kherson, from which they were expelled by Ukrainian forces more than two weeks ago, and continued “routine artillery fire” across the Dnipro River.
In the eastern Donetsk region, five people were killed in shelling over the past day, according to governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. Overnight shelling was reported by regional leaders in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk areas to the west.
Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov said one person was killed and three wounded in the northeastern region.
A day earlier, a long column of cars, vans and trucks caravanned away from the recently liberated city of Kherson after intense shelling in recent days and amid concerns more pummeling from the Russian forces nearby could loom again in coming days.
Galina Lugova, head of the city’s military administration, said in an interview Sunday that evacuation trains had been lined up and bomb shelters set up in all city districts with stoves, beds, first aid kits and fire extinguishers.
“Everything you need,” she said.
“We are preparing for a winter in difficult conditions, but we will do everything to make people safe,” Lugova said. Her biggest worry, she said, was “shelling that intensifies every day. Shelling, shelling and shelling again.”
On the roads out of the city, some residents felt they had no choice but to leave.
“The day before yesterday, artillery hit our house. Four flats burned down. Windows shattered,” said Vitaliy Nadochiy, driving out with a terrier on his lap and a Ukrainian flag dangling from a sun visor. “We can’t be there. There is no electricity, no water, heating. So we are leaving to go to my brother.”
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Keaten reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-27T13:30:51+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/11/27/pockets-shelling-across-ukraine-wintry-warfare-looms/ |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s centrist government wants to spend 38 billion kroner ($5.6 billion) over the next decade to modernize military facilities, renovate shabby and dilapidated buildings, increase the number of soldiers and upgrade outdated computer systems.
Acting Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen called it “a very serious situation” and said Thursday that previous governments and senior defense officials haven't prioritized spending money on such facilities.
“Are all responsible for the fact that we have ended up in this situation,” he said.
“For many years, the security policy situation has worn down the armed forces,” Lund Poulsen said. “We are now faced with a major task of restoring the foundation of the armed forces before we build on top of it.”
“We lack soldiers and many buildings are not up to date, or are dilapidated. The same applies for part of our equipment and the computer systems,” Gen. Flemming Lentner, head of NATO-member Denmark’s armed forces, told the news conference.
An army base north of Copenhagen has problems with mold and a lack of maintenance. Heating in the offices doesn’t work and sometimes there is no hot water for showers, or very low water pressure, broadcaster TV2 reported. Oliver Hansen, a spokesman for conscripted soldiers, told TV2 that soldiers must be able to withstand difficult conditions in the field but “not in the barracks.”
Denmark’s Work Environment Agency, which carries out inspections as to whether health and safety rules at workplaces are being observed, has issued several warnings to the armed forces.
The military also has been suffering from lack of soldiers to replace those stationed abroad.
Of the 38 billion kroner, 11 billion kroner ($1.6 billion) should be used on new investments, the government said. It gave no details as to what the money should be spent on.
Denmark's three-party majority coalition government is made up of the center-left Social Democrats, the center-right Liberal Party and the centrist Moderate party.
The coalition is aiming to reach a NATO target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on military budgets by 2030, in part as a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the 38 billion kroner will count toward that, public broadcaster DR said. | 2023-05-04T12:42:56+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/denmark-to-boost-military-spending-to-upgrade-facilities/TFHXWM77JFCMHLZNGEVC5VQN64/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
0-7-2-7, Fireball:
(zero, seven, two, seven; Fireball: zero)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
0-7-2-7, Fireball:
(zero, seven, two, seven; Fireball: zero) | 2022-06-14T18:33:57+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17241078.php |
Which tire racks are best?
There are plenty of reasons to keep spare tires in your home or garage. You could regularly drive vehicles in rough conditions and need to change tires frequently. You could live in an area that demands different tires for different seasons. Or you could just simply like having backups.
Regardless of your reason, the best way to store your spare tires is with a tire rack. They keep your tires organized and out of the way, plus prevent them from accidentally rolling away.
What to know before you buy a tire rack
Tire rack types
There are four types of tire racks.
- Fixed tire racks are the largest category, coming in sizes small enough to hold a single set or large enough to hold dozens of tires for commercial settings. The thing they all have in common? They don’t move.
- Mobile tire racks, meanwhile, do move because they’re chiefly used to transport a large clutch of tires from one location to another. These are most commonly used in commercial settings rather than personal ones.
- Folding tire racks are perfect for people with limited space and who don’t need their tire racks all the time. The trade-off is that they aren’t as durable or have as high of a weight limit.
- Dolly tire racks come in two forms. Some look and act like any other dolly, only they’re a little larger to accommodate tires of most sizes. Others are just disks on wheels. Like mobile racks, these are usually used in commercial settings rather than private ones.
Weight limit
Once you decided what type of tire rack is best for you, you should next consider its weight limit. It’s crucial that you get a rack that can handily hold the tires you plan on putting on it — if your rack breaks, your tires will roll and bounce everywhere which can badly damage a whole host of things.
Folding tire racks have the lowest weight limits, though they usually go no lower than 200 pounds. Other non-commercial tire racks usually have weight limits of 300-400 pounds, though better — and more expensive — racks can hold more. Commercial tire racks can hold thousands of pounds.
The weight limit isn’t always plainly listed and sometimes isn’t listed at all, so tread with caution.
Wall mount
Many fixed and folding tire mounts for home use come in wall-mounted forms. These greatly help with space issues as is, but factor in that they commonly have adjustable widths and they’re even better.
However, before getting one, you should ask yourself if you have the right knowledge, experience and tools to properly mount them. The racks are usually less than 20 pounds, but add some tires and the weight rapidly increases. If you don’t secure them perfectly, they can collapse and pull chunks of your wall with them.
Warranty
An easy method for double-checking a tire rack’s quality is to see what kind of warranty is offered. Most include at least a year’s worth, but the best offer lifetime warranties.
How much you can expect to spend on a tire rack
Small tire racks typically cost $50-$100 with better racks usually costing in the $100-$150 range. The best non-commercial racks can cost $500-plus. Commercial tire racks can cost $1,000-plus.
What are the best fixed tire racks to buy?
This rack is 36 inches deep and can be set to widths of 36 to 48 inches. It can hold up to 375 pounds and with the proper equipment can be mounted to a wall.
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This rack is 28.5 inches deep on the bottom and 20 inches deep on the top. It can be set to widths of 34 to 58 inches. It can hold up to 400 pounds.
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MaxxHaul 50256 Fixed Tire Rack
This rack has an adjustable width of 36 to 48 inches and a height and depth of 28 inches. It can hold up to 375 pounds and has a powder paint finish to fight off the rust.
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What are the mobile best tire racks to buy?
This rack measures 58 inches high, 36 inches wide and 18 inches deep, and can hold up to six tires with rims. The rollers can swivel 360 degrees for easy transport.
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This rack can be used as a mobile rack or as a fixed one thanks to the included four non-rolling legs. Two of the wheels have side brakes to keep the rack locked in place.
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What are the best folding tire racks to buy?
MaxxHaul 70489 Fixed Tire Rack
This rack has an adjustable width of 32 to 48 inches and is meant to be mounted to a wall. It uses a heavy-duty steel construction but weighs only 17 pounds.
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Proslat 10026 Folding Tire Rack
This rack has a depth of 28 inches and a width of 48 inches. It can hold up to four tires and has a weight limit of 350 pounds.
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This rack has an adjustable width of 31.9 to 48 inches and a depth and height of 21.6 inches. It can hold up to 300 pounds and its own weight is just 18 pounds.
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What are the best dolly tire racks to buy?
This dolly can hold tires with diameters of 6.5 to 24.5 inches thanks to be being able to be situated in three different forms.
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This dolly can hold up to five tires and wheel assemblies, or eight tires without assemblies. It has a weight limit of 300 pounds and is 25 inches wide and 4.25 inches high.
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This beast of burden rolls on five commercial-grade casters and can hold up to 1,000 pounds. It comes with a 12-inch lash strap to secure the tires. It has a handle to easily carry it.
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Starlink satellites are muddling UFO sighting statistics, researchers say
At the start of the pandemic, as many people found themselves spending a lot more time at home or outside than usual, a handful of researchers were curious about the effects of public health measures on a niche area of science: UFO sightings.
Would more people report seeing UFOs during their increased time at home? The answer, according to a new research article published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration last month, is yes — and no.
UFO reports did increase in 2020, but according to researchers, the cause didn't seem to be the pandemic.
Instead, the culprit — or at least a compounding factor — could be a company owned by Elon Musk.
Video above: Starlink satellites could be seen in a string across the sky in New England communities in February
The article outlines how researchers believed that because of lockdowns and physical distancing measures, along with an increase in anxiety among populations, there may have been an uptick in UFO sightings.
To test their hypothesis, they looked at data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which gather UFO reports from across the U.S., and looked at data from 2018 to 2020 in order to compare data from before and during the pandemic.
They also looked at Google Community Mobility Reports to see the general level of mobility of populations during these time periods, as well as the levels of COVID-19 cases and deaths in order to create a picture of when anxiety and stress may have been higher among communities.
In 2020, there was a clear uptick: around 600 more reports were logged in each database compared to pre-pandemic levels.
But where and when these reports came from didn't seem to correlate with mobility records or with levels of COVID-19.
Without any clear links for the increase in reports, researchers looked for any compounding factors.
What they found was Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Starting in late 2019, SpaceX started regular launches of Starlink satellites, which provide satellite internet coverage to 50 countries.
These launches include up to 60 satellites at once, adding significantly to the number of small, flying objects in the sky.
Video below: Starlink satellites were seen in early March in the sky over Saint Laurent, Canada
Researchers saw that there was a correlation between the timing of Starlink launches and increases in UFO sightings, meaning that many 2020 UFO sightings may have been of terrestrial origin, rather than extraterrestrial.
When researchers removed the sightings that seemed to be connected to Starlink launches, they actually observed a drop in overall sightings reported to NUFORC in 2020 compared to pre-pandemic years.
Although the result was different from what researchers had hypothesized, it's still clear that UFO sightings often have human explanations.
"This study sheds light on the potential impact of social factors on UFO reporting," Mark Rodeghier, Scientific Director of the Center for UFO Studies, said in a press release.
Starlink has launched more than 3,000 satellites so far, something which astronomers have been raising concerns about for years.
Being mistaken for UFOs isn't the only way they're impacting our view of the night sky. The satellites are increasingly showing up as thin streaks in photos of deep space, cutting across telescope views as our atmosphere becomes more and more cluttered.
A 2022 study reported that Starlink satellites, which currently make up the largest low-Earth orbit constellation, had created 5,301 streaks across archival images scientists had taken of the night sky. The satellites interfere the most heavily with twilight observations, which is the best time for identifying asteroids appearing close to the sun. According to the study, just 0.5% of space images taken at twilight were affected by satellite distortion in 2019, but 20% were affected at the end of the study period.
Starlink is aiming to hit 10,000 satellites by 2027. Whether or not that will correlate to 10,000 extra UFO sightings along the way remains to be seen. | 2023-03-21T01:43:11+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/starlink-space-x-satellites-are-muddling-ufo-sighting-statistics/43364545 |
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body found near an Oklahoma lake 14 years ago has been identified, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
The remains are those of Angela Mason, 25, and were identified after a DNA sample from the body was used to find a possible relative. The DNA from the body was compared to DNA from the relative and confirmed Mason's identity, the OSBI said.
Mason’s body was found Aug. 31, 2008, in a shallow grave near Lake Thunderbird by fishermen.
“It is a great day when we can give a victim their name back,” said Aungela Spurlock, OSBI Director.
A suspected cause of death was not released, but the agency said the case is being investigated as a homicide.
An OSBI spokesperson did not immediately return a phone call Thursday for additional details.
Mason had been last seen several months earlier in nearby Moore on the southern outskirts of Oklahoma City, according to an OSBI news release.
The body was estimated to have been in the grave for at least three months, according to the state medical examiner's office, the OSBI said, | 2022-09-01T17:39:58+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Body-found-near-Oklahoma-lake-in-2008-is-17412972.php |
Roundup highlights B2B partners that support startups across all business functions and empower growth
PLANTATION, Fla., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. Business Media today announced the inaugural Power Partner Awards, honoring B2B organizations across the globe that have proven track records supporting entrepreneurs and helping startups grow. Everise, one of the fastest growing outsourced customer experience companies in the world, was recognized among the 252 firms in marketing and advertising, health and human resources, financial planning, engineering, logistics, and security, as well as other areas of business.
All 252 companies received top marks from clients for being instrumental in helping leadership navigate the dynamic world of startups. These B2B partners support entrepreneurs across various facets of the business, including hiring, compliance, infrastructure development, cloud migration, fundraising, etc., allowing founders to focus on their core missions.
"Trusted B2B partners provide guidance and expertise that founders rely on at various steps of their organization's journey. Partners that possess a demonstrated ability to deliver quality support are at the core of entrepreneurship and help bring big ideas to life," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. Business media.
"That Everise is honoured as a Power Partner to some of the world's leading businesses is truly a recognition of our brand as one that stands shoulder to shoulder with the top global B2B companies. We are proud to continue challenging traditional perceptions of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), transforming them into valued and trusted customer experiences that drive retention and loyalty," said Sudhir Agarwal, CEO & Founder, Everise.
Everise, headquartered in Florida, USA, was founded in 2016 with the vision to disrupt the BPO industry through tailored customer experiences, enabled by blending highly-skilled talent with innovative technology solutions. The company today employs over 15,000 people across seven strategic markets – US, Bogota, Guatemala, Ireland, Malaysia, The Philippines and Singapore. Some of the world's leading healthcare brands entrust Everise with designing and perfecting their customer support experiences, which are seamlessly omnichannel, offer support in 32 languages, and are highly secure.
Everise has previously won multiple awards for its industry-leading culture and relentless customer focus. These include being named one of Newsweek's 100 Most Loved Workplaces in America for two consecutive years in 2021 and 2022, and bagging the Gold Stevie Award for Employer of the Year — Consumer Services in 2022. The company also enjoys the highest Glassdoor and Indeed ratings in the outsourcing industry.
Inc. partnered with leading global social and media intelligence platform Meltwater to develop a proprietary methodology that uses sentiment from online conversations about organizations and translates it into numerical scores. Companies were evaluated on commitment, reliability, trust, creativity, supportiveness, and other virtues that offer value to clients. Inc. also conducted surveys to gather client testimonials as part of the process.
To view the complete list, go to: https://www.inc.com/power-partner-awards/2022
The November 2022 Issue of Inc. magazine is available online now at https://www.inc.com/magazine and will be on newsstands beginning November 8, 2022.
About Inc. Business Media
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community they need to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
About Everise
Everise is a technology-enabled outsourcing firm with expertise in transforming healthcare and technology customer experiences globally. The Company's unique approach combines customer and technical support services with AI, robotic process automation, analytics, and secure cloud-based technology. Some of the world's most loved brands have products and services that are perfected, protected, supported, and sold by Everise.
Our innovative digital outsourcing services are high performing, scalable, secure, agile, and have fluent proficiency in 32 languages, which helps brands to create seamless customer, product, digital, and home experiences. We strategically operate in seven markets to enable our partners to economically reach their customers across the globe. Learn more at www.weareeverise.com.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Authorities in Hong Kong say 29 out of 47 pro-democracy activists charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” under a tough National Security Law entered guilty pleas on Thursday, as the Beijing government seeks to further silence opposition voices in the regional financial hub.
Thursday’s court proceedings came amid a sweeping campaign against those speaking out against demands for absolute loyalty to China’s ruling Communist Party.
The 47 democracy activists, aged 23 to 64, were charged with conspiracy to commit subversion under the Beijing-imposed National Security Law and detained last year over their involvement in an unofficial primary election in 2020 that authorities said was a plot to paralyze Hong Kong’s government. The primary showed strong support for candidates willing to challenge the Beijing-backed local government.
Among those making guilty pleas were well-known political activists including Joshua Wong and Benny Tai, Hong Kong media said.
Media reporting restrictions were lifted for the cases, which will start next month at Hong Kong’s high court.
Hong Kong was handed over from British to Chinese rule in 1997 with a pledge that it would retain its own legal, economic and social systems for 50 years.
Despite the steady deterioration of those special rights promised to the territory under a “one country, two systems” framework, it retains the system of British common law, independent from Communist Party dictates that determine legal outcomes on the mainland.
During Thursday’s hearing, Wong, who remains in detention, said the primary election allowed Hong Kongers to express their political will.
“Our vote is our voice, being heard in the global community,” Wong said.
About 2,000 Hong Kong residents have been detained and the main opposition Apple Daily newspaper shut down since 2019 pro-democracy protests. More have been arrested over ensuing actions, including 90-year-old Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen, while political speech and public gatherings have been frozen by uncertainty about where the authorities’ red lines are set.
China responded to the protests by imposing the sweeping National Security Law, rounding up opposition figures in the media and civil society, and reorganizing the local legislative council to ensure only pro-Beijing figures can hold office. | 2022-08-19T02:29:09+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/ap-top-headlines/hong-kong-political-activists-plead-guilty-amid-crackdown/ |
Edenred employees participated in an annual global volunteering initiaitive to alleviate food insecurity and help residents in need
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edenred, the world leader in specific-purpose payments, partnered with the Newton Food Pantry, a local independent nonprofit located in Newton, Massachusetts, to alleviate food insecurity and help Newton residents in need.
Idealday is an annual global volunteering intiaitve that occurs across all 45 countries in which Edenred operates in. Edenred employees engage in a voluntary approach of social, societal, and environmental responsibility, formalized in a policy called 'Ideal'. This falls under the three pillars of the Edenred Group's CSR policy : Idealpeople, which aims to improve the quality of life ; Idealplanet, which works to preserve the environment ; and Idealprogress, which seeks to create value responsibly.
This year, Edenred USA employees assisted the Newton Food Pantry with restocking supplemental food and personal care products, while providing customer service to shoppers in their free grocery store made available to Newton residents, located at 1000 Commonwealth Avenue in Newton. Employees also helped shoppers with putting their groceries into their cars.
"We had a great day volunteering at the Newton Food Pantry," says Ed Fleischmann, CEO of Edenred USA. "We are very proud to be actively giving back to the community, reinforcing our commitment to social responsibility and supporting those in need."
Edenred encourages its employees to give back to the community beyond Idealday. Activities can be counted as paid working hours and go towards the yearly ESG goal. It's just another way to help out the local community while working alongside other Edenred employees.
About Edenred
Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments and the everyday companion for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via 950,000 corporate clients.
Edenred offers specific-purpose payment solutions for food (such as meal benefits), incentives (such as gift cards, employee engagement platforms), mobility (such as multi-energy, maintenance, toll, parking, and commuter solutions) and corporate payments (such as virtual cards).
True to the Group's purpose, "Enrich connections. For good.", these solutions enhance users' well-being and purchasing power. They improve companies' attractiveness and efficiency and vitalize the employment market and the local economy. They also foster access to healthier food, more environmentally friendly products, and softer mobility.
Edenred's 10,000 employees are committed to making the world of work a connected ecosystem that is safer, more efficient, and more responsible every day.
In 2022, thanks to its global technology assets, the Group managed some €38 billion in business volume, primarily carried out via mobile applications, online platforms, and cards.
Edenred is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and included in the following indices: CAC 40 ESG, CAC Next 20, CAC Large 60, Euronext 100, FTSE4Good and MSCI Europe.
The logos and other trademarks mentioned and featured in this press release are registered trademarks of Edenred S.E., its subsidiaries or third parties. They may not be used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from their owners.
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About The Newton Food Pantry
The Newton Food Pantry is the oldest and largest pantry serving the Newton community. An independent, non-profit organization, founded in 1983, the Newton Food Pantry aims to alleviate food insecurity in Newton by providing supplemental food and personal care products to community members in need, serving our clients with dignity, compassion, and respect.
We serve more than 1,800 Newton residents through bi-monthly choice shopping and deliveries. In addition, countless others are served through off-site initiatives including the Newton Community freedge and the Lasell University Dry Pantry. A robust corps of volunteers and donors enable us to serve our neighbors. One Bag at a Time.
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Newton Food Pantry: http://www.newtonfoodpantry.org/
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Arizona police write cheeky post after driver illegally buys wild owl after using meth
An Arizona police department posted a cheeky reminder that maybe it’s not such a great idea to illegally purchase wildlife while also high on narcotics.
The Payson Police Department shared a post on Facebook on Nov. 9 which detailed how early that morning, officers conducted a traffic stop and as they approached the vehicle, they could see a tiny owl next to the driver.
Upon further investigation, officers found that the owl was not domesticated and had been purchased by the driver for $100 at a local gas station.
A Payson police officer holding a wild owl that was purchased from a gas station for $100. (Payson Police Department Facebook)
The person who sold the owl had found the critter along the roadway, police said.
The department not only posted a reminder that it is illegal to possess, transport, buy or sell wildlife unless circumstances permit otherwise, but they also noted that maybe it’s not such a great idea to use methamphetamine "or you too may find yourself illegally purchasing a wild owl."
"The Payson Police Department would also like to take this opportunity to encourage the public not to use methamphetamine or you too may find yourself illegally purchasing a wild owl, for $100 dollars, in the middle of the night, from strangers, at a local gas station," the post read.
FILE - Picture of a small wild owl that was illegally purchased for $100 at a gas station. (Payson Police Department Facebook)
The driver ended up being arrested on charges of aggravated DUI, possession of methamphetamine, and the possession, transport, and purchase of wildlife.
The owl did suffer some minor injuries and is now in the care of Arizona Game and Fish.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2022-11-12T02:28:50+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-police-write-cheeky-post-after-driver-illegally-buys-wild-owl-after-using-meth |
Kamar Goodhall scored 15 points but it was not enough as Mastery Camden beat Camden Academy Charter 63-54 in Camden.
Julius Dominguez had 13 points, Michael Morton added 11 and Daniel Casasola 10 for Camden Academy.
Kamar Goodhall scored 15 points but it was not enough as Mastery Camden beat Camden Academy Charter 63-54 in Camden.
Julius Dominguez had 13 points, Michael Morton added 11 and Daniel Casasola 10 for Camden Academy.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Major freight railroads are facing pressure to add sick days for their workers from a new front: An influential investment group says some of its members are now pushing the measure that Congress declined to as part of the contracts they imposed last week to avert a potentially devastating nationwide rail strike.
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility said Monday that two investment managers it works with to help promote social change at companies had filed proposals at Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads to give shareholders a vote on whether rail workers should get paid sick leave. Similar proposals are likely to be filed at CSX and at BNSF’s parent company of Berkshire Hathaway, but they haven’t been submitted yet. The ICCR represents 300 members with over $4 trillion in assets.
The lack of paid sick time in the industry became a major sticking point this fall in contract talks between the railroads and their 12 unions. Four of those unions rejected five-year deals that included 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses because of their concerns about sick leave, demanding schedules and other quality-of-life concerns.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Friday that forces railroad workers to accept those deals that were negotiated back in September and prohibits them from going on strike. A separate bill that would have required sick time failed in the Senate.
Labor groups said after Congress acted they will keep fighting for sick time and better working conditions even though this round of negotiations that began three years ago is now over because their concerns linger.
Marvin Owens with nonprofit investment manager Impact Shares filed the shareholder proposal at Norfolk Southern. Impact Shares works with groups like the YWCA and NAACP to establish criteria for funds. Owens said companies should consider sick time as an investment in its workforce, not an expense.
“In this day and age, this really boggles the mind why a company would not provide that given the need to retain workers and really provide workers with the kind of support needed to keep them in place and to keep them healthy. Paid sick leave is key to that,” Owens said.
The railroads refused to add sick time during these negotiations because they said the unions had agreed over the decades to forgo paid sick leave in favor of higher wages and strong short-term disability benefits that start to kick in after four or seven days and replace part of a worker’s wages for up to a year.
The railroads also say employees can take personal leave days or vacation days for illnesses, although workers say those have to be approved far ahead of time so they aren’t very useful for illnesses. Workers are also allowed to take unpaid time off for illnesses but they may be penalized under a railroad’s attendance policy if they miss too many days.
The Association of American Railroads trade group also said the special board of arbitrators that intervened in the contract dispute this summer opted not to recommend paid sick time.
A spokesman for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union that rejected its deal with the railroads praised the investors’ action.
“The railroads never engaged on this issue in good faith. Their arrogance led us to this juncture and it has rightfully left their public reputation bruised. That’s their fault,” said Clark Ballew with the BMWED. ”There’s no excuse other than their insatiable greed and that is a flimsy, pathetic excuse at that.”
Union Pacific said in a statement that it “knows quality of life concerns are real and we are working with employees to make changes.”
Norfolk Southern declined to comment on the investor proposal. | 2022-12-06T05:30:57+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/ap-investors-press-railroads-to-add-sick-time-for-workers/ |
‘I’m terrified’: Woman said black bears keep coming to her home
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A woman in South Carolina is expressing her concerns for black bears who keep showing up on her property.
Linda Chambers, who lives in Berea, told WHNS the bear sightings for her started this last summer around this time.
Chambers has lived in her home for almost 20 years and said she had never been afraid of going outside until now.
“It’s terrifying, I’m 75 years old or will be, where in the world would I go? I can’t run from one,” she said. “I used to walk up and check our mail ‘cause it’s up on the road, and I would walk up there and check it and come back. But now I’m too scared to even walk up the driveway during the day.”
In a security video from Chambers’ property, a young bear can be seen coming up to her door, down her porch and leaving behind a big mess.
She said the bears come out at various times of the day, making her scared to go outside, even just to walk her dog.
“I opened the door this morning and my porch, it was torn to pieces,” Chambers said. “My chair was overturned, my bird seed in that can was everywhere, the flowers were knocked over like they were trying to eat them or something, I don’t know. I’m terrified.”
The Department of Natural Resources said bear sightings are common in the area around spring and summer as bears look for food.
To help South Carolina residents coexist with bears, the department said to never feed or approach them, secure food, garbage, and recycling so bears won’t be attracted to it, and remove bird feeders when bears are active.
The department also said pet food should not be left outdoors, to clean and store grills and smokers, and to alert neighbors of any bear activity.
While seeing a bear may be exciting for some, experts want to remind that bears are wild animals and should be respected.
Copyright 2023 WHNS via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-02T23:44:54+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/07/02/im-terrified-75-year-old-woman-said-black-bears-keep-coming-her-home/ |
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Rigel") (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced that it has granted awards pursuant to the Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Inducement Plan, approved by the Compensation Committee of Rigel's Board of Directors and granted as an inducement material to an employee's entering into employment with Rigel, in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). Specifically, Rigel granted 187,500 stock options to Ray Furey vesting over four years with a one-year cliff. Additionally, Mr. Furey was granted 187,500 stock options to vest upon achievement of certain future performance conditions, subject to Mr. Furey's continuous service to the Company on such vesting date.
Rigel is providing this information in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
About Rigel
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering, developing and providing novel small molecule drugs that significantly improve the lives of patients with hematologic disorders, cancer, and rare immune diseases. Founded in 1996, Rigel is based in South San Francisco, California. For more information on Rigel, its marketed products and pipeline of potential products, visit www.rigel.com.
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Murder conviction for man on death row should be overturned, Oklahoma AG says
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The conviction and death sentence for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip should be thrown out and a new trial ordered, the state’s new attorney general said Thursday, as support has grown even among death penalty supporters who say Glossip is innocent.
In a filing with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said that although the state is not suggesting Glossip is innocent, the key witness against Glossip lied to the jury about his psychiatric treatment and reasons for taking the mood-stabilizing drug lithium.
That information was only recently disclosed to Glossip’s defense team after Drummond turned over a box of evidence, consisting largely of prosecutors’ notes in the case, that Drummond’s predecessor, John O’Connor, had previously designated as “work product.”
“After thorough and serious deliberation, I have concluded that I cannot stand behind the murder conviction and death sentence of Richard Glossip,” Drummond said in a statement. “This is not to say I believe he is innocent. However, it is critical that Oklahomans have absolute faith that the death penalty is administered fairly and with certainty. Considering everything I know about this case, I do not believe that justice is served by executing a man based on the testimony of a compromised witness.”
Glossip, now 60, was convicted of the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of his boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, at two separate trials based largely on the testimony of his co-defendant, Justin Sneed. Sneed admitted robbing and killing Van Treese, but claims he only did so after Glossip agreed to pay him $10,000. Sneed received a sentence of life in prison.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals must decide whether to vacate Glossip’s conviction and order a new trial. Glossip is scheduled to be executed on May 18.
Glossip’s attorney Don Knight said in a statement that Drummond’s filing states what he has long maintained, which is that Sneed, the state’s key witness, is not credible.
“It is now clear that it would be unconscionable for the state to move forward with Mr. Glossip’s execution when there is so much doubt surrounding his conviction,” Knight said.
Drummond’s motion comes on the same day he released the findings of an independent counsel’s review of Glossip’s case. That report, conducted by former District Attorney Rex Duncan, raised numerous concerns about his conviction, including uncertainty about whether an actual polygraph exam was administered to Glossip, evidence in the case that was destroyed and a failure by the state to disclose certain information to Glossip’s attorneys.
“The state’s murder case against Glossip was not particularly strong and would have been, in my view, weaker if full discovery had been provided,” Duncan wrote. “Given the passage of 26 years, death of witnesses, destruction and loss of evidence, and 2023 evidentiary disclosures, it is, in my view, less tenable today.”
A message left Thursday with Van Treese’s family seeking comment was not immediately returned. Drummond said he acknowledges the pain the family must be going through.
“My heart truly goes out to the Van Treese family, who have been waiting decades for a final measure of justice,” Drummond said.
Glossip’s case attracted international attention after actress Susan Sarandon — who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean’s fight to save a man on Louisiana’s death row in the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking” — took up his cause in real life. Prejean herself has served as Glossip’s spiritual adviser and frequently visited him in prison. His case also was featured in a 2017 documentary film titled “Killing Richard Glossip.”
Republican state Rep. Kevin McDugle, a self-described death-penalty supporter, called on the Court of Criminal Appeals to grant a new trial last year, after he said an independent report produced by a Houston law firm suggested there were numerous problems with his conviction.
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How Trader Joe’s can offer the best value to its customers
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Rubbermaid Brilliance Storage Leak Proof Food Container
- Glasslock 18-piece Assorted Oven Safe Container Set
- Rubbermaid 42-piece Food Storage Containers
According to Trader Joe’s, to give the customer the best value, it has to manage store space smartly. To make room for something new, they have to take something away. This is a decision that isn’t taken lightly. In fact, each year, Trader Joe’s compiles a list of the top products so it knows what to keep on the shelves to make customers happy. This month, while some items have disappeared, there are a bunch of new and exciting products that are worth mentioning.
Top new picks at Trader Joe’s this month
Trader Joe’s is adding over two dozen products to its shelves this month. Some of the ones that are most worthy of a spotlight include the intriguing Enchanted Jangle. This magical assortment of treats includes all your favorites, such as salted waffle pretzels, lemon-yogurt-coated animal-shaped cookies, chocolate-coated pretzel nuggets, strawberry-yogurt-coated marshmallows and more. However, if salty products are more to your liking, you’ll want to check out Mini (Almost) Everything Bagel Sandwich Crackers. These mini sandwich crackers will curb that craving with poppy seeds, dried garlic and onion, salt and cream cheese. For families headed out on vacation, the Beach Day Gummy Candy is a solid choice. This beach-themed candy features a variety of shapes, including palm trees, starfish, conch shells, crabs and sunglasses. Another top choice is S’mores Clusters. As expected, these classic treats are a tantalizing mix of cracker pieces and mini marshmallows coated with smooth milk chocolate.
Everything else that is new at Trader Joe’s this month
Just so you don’t miss any favorites, here is everything else that is new at Trader Joe’s this month.
- Milk Chocolate Bar with Corn Flakes
- Blueberry Fields Hard Cheese
- Gluten-Free Strawberry Muffins
- Breaded Cheddar Cheese Curds
- Organic Mafalda Corta Pasta
- Mini (Almost) Everything Bagel Sandwich Crackers
- Salted Caramel + Pistachio Scented Candle
- Brazil Nut Body Wash
- Organic Blueberry Preserves
- Madagascar Vanilla Bean Creme Fraiche
- Gluten Free Battered Plant-Based Fish Fillets
- French Heritage Saint Paulin Cheese
- Large Reusable Insulated Bag (Pink/Yellow)
- Enchanted Jangle (Snack Mix)
- Vegan Poke
- Perfectly Pickled Pups
- Flakes & Strawberries Cereal
- Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
- Smoky & Hot Chile Powder
- Organic Buttery Plant-Based Spread
- Tirokafteri Spicy Greek Cheese Spread
- Mee Krob Snackers
- Sfogliatella Pastry
- Cold Brew Iced Tea Black Tea + Lemon
- Italian Tomato & Burrata Ravioloni
Best storage products for your Trader Joe’s goods
There are so many exciting new foods (and other products) at Trader Joe’s this month. You’re going to need more food storage containers. Here are a few options for storing all the delicious treats you buy at Trader Joe’s.
Rubbermaid Brilliance Storage Leakproof Food Container
These Rubbermaid Brilliance containers are completely leakproof and airtight. They make an ideal storage container for food. The clear lid and sides mean you can easily see everything you are storing. The built-in vents make the containers microwave safe, even with the lid on.
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Popit! Food Storage Containers Set
This compact variety set comes with eight different sizes of food storage containers, ranging from 3 ounces to 47 ounces. The silicone seal prevents leakage, while the affordable price makes them a solid buy. These containers are dishwasher-safe and stackable for convenience.
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Rubbermaid 42-piece Food Storage Containers
If you want one of everything at Trader Joe’s, you’re going to need a lot of storage. Fortunately, this 42-piece set from Rubbermaid gives you everything you desire. You get 21 assorted containers with 21 snap-on lids. The containers are microwave- and dishwasher-safe.
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Glasslock 18-piece Assorted Oven Safe Container Set
If you prefer glassware, the containers in this offering will meet your needs. They are oven-safe, microwaveable, airtight and leakproof. This set comes with nine assorted containers and nine lids. Please note that the lids are not oven-safe — only the containers are.
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FineDine Six-piece Superior Glass Food Storage Containers Set
If you just want a few extra food storage containers, this high-quality set comes with three. The glass containers hold 35 ounces and are designed for meal prep — instead of putting one ingredient inside, you can fill it up with your entire meal. These travel-ready options are great for taking your favorite Trader Joe’s food to the office.
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It’s hard to miss the sheer number of booths focused on electric-powered vehicles at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas this year.
From bikes to skates to cars, it’s all here.
“We see this market just starting, so it's just starting to grow and there is so much demand,” said Julia Hansen, the business development director at Holon.
Sales of electric vehicles increased 88 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to AAA. But it’s not just electric cars gaining traction.
“We’re developing out E3, this is the concept vehicle here, it's an all electric auto cycle,” said Duane Hughes, the CEO of GreenStreet EV Inc..
The three-wheel vehicle holds two passengers. The 600-pound battery sits in the back, which creates a well-distributed weight balance across the machine. It has a 250 mile range on a single charge and can go 0 to 60 in six seconds, with a top speed of 80 mph.
“It drives like a car, even though it's considered a motorcycle,” said Hughes.
Just across the hall, mobility company Holon had an autonomous people mover up for display. Yes, that means no driver.
“This vehicle is a fully electric vehicle and it’s driving fully autonomous,” Hansen said. “This mover is designed to fit 15 people in total. So 10 seated and five standing.”
Holon plans on launching first series production at the end of 2025. The first prototypes will be available in 2024. Hansen said their main customers will be municipalities.
“There is a need for such reliable vehicles, and this is why we say we start now and not later,” she said.
Sony and Honda also announced their new electric card brand named Afeela at CES 2023, joining a constantly expanding industry. The Ram truck brand also released an electric truck concept.
According to a study by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Idaho National Laboratory, EV owners can save as much as $24,500 on fuel costs by having an electric vehicle for 15 years.
“Between now and the next 15, 20 years, we’re going to do as a society what we did 100 years ago as we moved from horses and buggies to combustion engine cars. We’re going to repeat the same story as we move into electric cars,” said Nadim Maluf, the CEO of Qnovo.
“We make the software layer that's the intelligence that sits above the battery,” he said of the company. They have partnered with Vanderhall to bring their battery management software to Vanderhall’s electric off-road vehicles this year.
Maluf said Qnovo is doing to electric batteries what phone cameras did to photography. Their battery management software claims to reduce charging time to nearly 20 minutes and improve EV range by up to 10%.
“We recognize that the battery is never ideal. Making batteries is hard, it’s expensive, and scaling that…is really a massive undertaking,” he said.
The EV industry has run into some challenges as the industry expands. Some of these issues include creating a power grid strong enough to power all of these vehicles, the accessibility of plug-ins for charging, and overall cost of battery technology.
Research by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that today’s batteries may last 12 to 15 years in moderate climates, and 8 to 12 years in extreme climates, as cited by the U.S. Department of Energy.
“Everything in the world is going toward electric, not just the automotive space,” Hughes said. | 2023-01-07T02:46:26+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/ces-2023-highlights-huge-possibilities-for-electric-vehicles |
A new relationship is exciting, especially when it comes to celebrating Valentine’s Day together. However, finding the right gift can be challenging. While you want to give something that your partner will love, you don’t want to seem like you’re trying too hard to impress.
From practical items to presents that are geared toward specific interests, our roundup contains numerous gift ideas for that new special person in your life.
A luxury candle
Lulu Candles Luxury Scented 6-Ounce Soy Jar Candle: available at Amazon
Made with eco-friendly soy wax, these vegan and cruelty-free candles are a crowd favorite for their ultra-long burn times. They’re available in more than 20 luxurious scents, such as gardenia and black tea & sage.
A hair care essential
Revlon One-Step Volumizer Hair Dryer: available at Ulta
Touted as one of the best gifts of 2020, this hot air brush remains a must-have styling tool. The textured bristle design pumps up the volume, and the 360-degree heat system delivers smooth, salon-quality blowouts.
For music lovers
Victrola Parker Bluetooth Suitcase Record Player: available at Wayfair
Music lovers dig this modern portable Victrola with a three-speed turntable. It’s the right way to appreciate the rich sound of vinyl, and when you aren’t spinning records, it doubles as a cool Bluetooth speaker.
For photographers
Canon Ivy Mini Photo Printer: available at Amazon
Make (and print) memories with this pocket-size instant photo printer. It prints 2 x 3-inch photos with peel-and-stick backs, making it a fantastic gift for crafters, scrapbookers and budding photographers.
For home chefs
AeroGarden Sprout Garden Kit: available at Amazon
It’s easy to punch up homemade dishes with homegrown herbs. This space-saving hydroponic garden grows up to three herb varieties year-round. The efficient design includes a self-contained water tank and LED grow lights.
A cozy throw
Ugg Duffield Large Spa Throw: available at Amazon
This soft two-sided throw from a much-loved brand is a cozy addition to any couch or bed. At 74 x 94 inches, it’s a big enough size to wrap around yourself or to curl up with someone special.
A grooming set
The Art of Shaving Sandalwood Shaving Set: available at Amazon
It’s hard to beat the barbershop shave this high-end shaving set offers. In addition to a classic shave brush, it includes The Art of Shaving’s signature Pre-Shave Oil, Shaving Cream and After-Shave Balm in sandalwood for a luxurious end-to-end experience.
For coffee drinkers
Keurig K-Classic Coffee Maker: available at Amazon
There’s a lot to love about this Keurig, which takes the hard work out of brewing. Its 48-ounce reservoir brews a whopping six cups on a full tank between refills. The device is also equipped with a removable drip tray that accommodates travel mugs up to 7.1 inches.
For audiophiles
Apple AirPods Pro: available at Amazon
Music has never sounded better: Apple’s latest AirPods are equipped with Adaptive EQ technology to deliver rich, layered sound, while their noise-canceling feature offers an immersive audio experience.
A fashionable tote
Michael Kors Crossbody: available at Amazon
A leather crossbody like this one is sure to turn heads. The compact, structured design with gold hardware and the MK logo gives the bag an uptown feel while remaining versatile enough to be paired with casual, dressed-down styles.
For gamers
The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to XBox: available at Amazon
According to many gamers, learning gaming history boosts their appreciation of current titles. This image-rich guide brings gamers on a guided tour exploring the legendary consoles of yesteryear, including Commodore 64 and Atari 2600.
For fitness enthusiasts
Ninja Nutri Professional Personal Blender: available at Amazon
Health and fitness enthusiasts swear by this personal blender whose powerful motor blends even the toughest ingredients, like frozen fruit, with ease. It comes with two Power Nutri Cups so your true love can take healthy shakes and smoothies on the go.
A kitchen basic
Bruntmor Cast-Iron Tagine: available at Amazon
Enjoy restaurant-quality Moroccan dishes with this stunning cast iron tagine. Its cone-shaped lid seals out moisture while trapping heat inside to create rich, flavor-packed dishes like chicken Marrakesh and vegetable curry.
A Valentine’s fragrance
Marc Jacobs Daisy Love Eau de Toilette: available at Sephora
Delicate yet irresistible, this Marc Jacobs fragrance features vibrant notes of daisy petals, cashmere musk and driftwood. While it lingers lightly on skin, Daisy Love remains a memorable and sentimental scent.
For the outdoorsy
Yeti 20-Ounce Rambler Tumbler: available at Amazon
Whether they enjoy piping hot coffee or ice-cold water, this Yeti tumbler is a sure bet. The tumbler is best-known for its rugged design and earns praise from outdoor adventurists for its unparalleled durability.
A PJ set
Nautica Men's T-Shirt and Flannel Pajama Set: available at Amazon
Kick back and relax with this comfy loungewear set. Made with a breathable cotton-polyester blend, it’s a terrific choice for weekends and lazy days spent at home gaming and binge-watching Netflix or Prime shows.
For wine drinkers
Aervana Essential Wine Aerator: available at Amazon
With easy operation, this wine aerator keeps sediment where it belongs — at the bottom of the bottle. The elegantly crafted device features an innovative tap that helps wine breathe so its finest notes and aromas can be appreciated.
For hikers
Patagonia Ultralight Black Hole 40L Duffel Bag: available at Amazon
Look no further for the perfect day trip companion. While its lightweight design is appreciated by many, this large duffel bag is in no way flimsy. It’s made with durable weather-resistant ripstop fabric that keeps belongings dry in drizzly and humid weather.
For craft beer fans
Craft A Brew Home Brewing Kit: available at Amazon
Enjoy craft beer from the comfort of home with this starter brewing kit. Assembled with high-quality ingredients and sustainable accessories, it's a super introductory set to help budding brewers learn the ins and the outs of their new favorite hobby.
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The 2023 Valero Texas Open Odds & Preview: Lanto Griffin
Lanto Griffin will compete at the 2023 Valero Texas Open in San Antonio, Texas at TPC San Antonio (Oaks), taking place from March 30 - April 2.
Looking to place a bet on Griffin at the Valero Texas Open this week? Keep reading for the betting odds and stats you need before you make your picks.
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Lanto Griffin Insights
- Over his last 13 rounds, Griffin has shot better than par on five occasions, while also shooting one bogey-free round and five rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has registered a top-10 score once in his last 13 rounds.
- Over his last 13 rounds, Griffin has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round once, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on three occasions.
- In his past five appearances, Griffin has had an average finish of 48th.
- He has made the cut in two of his past five events.
- Griffin has not finished within five shots of the winner or recorded a better-than-average score in any of his past five tournaments.
Over the last year
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Valero Texas Open Insights and Stats
- Griffin has had an average finish of 48th with a personal best of 34th at this tournament.
- Griffin made the cut in each of his last three attempts at this event.
- Griffin finished 53rd when he last played this event, which was in 2022.
- Courses on the Tour in the past year have averaged 7,294 yards, shorter than the 7,438-yard length for this event.
- Players have recorded 69.75 strokes per round and an average score of -5 in the past year on the Tour. Events hosted on this course have a higher scoring average of -2.
- The average course Griffin has played i the last year (7,315 yards) is 123 yards shorter than the course he'll be playing this week (7,438).
- Events he has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That's lower than this course, which has a scoring average of -2.
Griffin's Last Time Out
- Griffin was in the 100th percentile on par 3s at The Genesis Invitational, with an average of 2.38 strokes on the eight par-3 holes.
- His 2.95-stroke average on the 22 par-4 holes at The Genesis Invitational was strong, putting him in the 100th percentile of the field.
- Griffin was better than 100% of the golfers at The Genesis Invitational on par-5 holes, averaging 3.67 strokes per hole, in comparison to the field average of 4.57.
- Griffin fared better on par 3s than most players his last time out, carding a birdie or better on three of eight par-3s at The Genesis Invitational (the other competitors averaged 1.6).
- On the eight par-3s at The Genesis Invitational, Griffin recorded less bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (2.4).
- Griffin's eight birdies or better on the 22 par-4s at The Genesis Invitational were more than the tournament average (4.3).
- In that most recent outing, Griffin carded a bogey or worse on four of 22 par-4s (the field averaged 6.8).
- Griffin ended The Genesis Invitational with a birdie or better on four par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 4.3 on the six par-5s.
- The field at The Genesis Invitational averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the six par-5s, but Griffin finished without one.
Valero Texas Open Time and Date Info
- Date: March 30 - April 2, 2023
- Course: TPC San Antonio (Oaks)
- Location: San Antonio, Texas
- Par: 72 / 7,438 yards
- Griffin Odds to Win: +12500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Amber Alert issued for Canadian children who could be in South Dakota
An Amber Alert has been issued in South Dakota on Tuesday night for two children from Canada who authorities say are with a non-custodial mother and a companion and could be in the state.
Luna and Hunter Potts are believed to be travelling with their non-custodial mother Leah Potts and her companion Benjamin Moore, according to the Amber Alert. The vehicle they are in is possibly a dark blue Chevy Equinox with Canadian license plates: CGC 2492.
The safety of the children is believed to be endangered and there is an order in place to return the custody of the children to Canadian authorities.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that a warrant has been issued for Moore's arrested. He has lived with the children and their mother, Leah Potts, in Saskatchewan.
Moore has served a 26-month sentenced for inappropriately touching a young child and possessing child pornography, according to the CBC.
"We do have credible and reliable evidence that they are in South Dakota, and we are engaged with our law enforcement partners," said Chief Supt. Tyler Bates of the Saskatchewan RCMP's south district management team, according to the CBC.
The CBC reported that police were working on an investigations into allegations against Moore, but he had left with the children before he could be questioned, according to police.
Saskatchewan has already issued an Amber Alert for the children.
Authorities release descriptions of children and suspect
According to the Amber Alert:
Luna Potts, 7, is a white female with blonde hair and unknown height, weight, eye color
Hunter Potts, 8, is a white male with blonde hair, unknown height, weight, eye color
Benjamin Martin Moore, 50, is 5-foot-10 tall, 200 pounds, black hair, unknown race & eye color
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CHICAGO (AP) — Javier Assad pitched four scoreless innings in his major league debut and combined with four relievers on a five-hitter as the Chicago Cubs cooled off the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 on Tuesday in the first game of a doubleheader.
Michael Rucker (3-1), Sean Newcomb, Erich Uelmen and Brandon Hughes allowed one hit over the final five innings to halt the NL Central-leading Cardinals' season-high eight-game winning streak. Hughes picked up his third save.
“Phenomenal job by the whole pitching staff, obviously, holding these guys to no runs,” Cubs manager David Ross said.
Nico Hoerner and Seiya Suzuki drove in runs off St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright in the third. Rookie Christopher Morel had two hits for the Cubs, who have won six of eight.
Chicago kept red-hot, 42-year-old Albert Pujols in the ballpark. He went 1-for-4 with a double after batting .548 (17-for-33) with seven homers in his previous 10 games.
“We’ve been coming through with the big hits quite often for the past couple of weeks and guys have been cashing in," St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol said. "But today we got good pitches to hit and were just missing them.”
The 25-year-old Assad was selected from Triple-A Iowa before the game. The right-hander allowed four hits, walked four and struck out three.
“Really nice debut for him,” Ross said. “He looked to be calm out there, pounding the strike zone. The cutter was working really well for him, being able to come right at them right out of the chute.”
Rucker relieved Assad with two on and none out in the fifth and Chicago ahead 2-0. He retired Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado and Nolan Gorman to end the threat, then pitched a 1-2-3 sixth.
“For me, Rucker's performance was really impressive,” Ross said.
Wainwright (9-9) yielded two runs on five hits in six innings.
Lars Nootbaar doubled twice but was thrown out at the plate in the first when he tried to score from third on Goldschmidt’s grounder to first.
The Cardinals loaded the bases with two outs in the third on Brendan Donovan’s single followed by a pair of walks. Assad got Gorman to ground out.
The Cubs scored on Hoerner's RBI groundout and Suzuki's single up the middle that deflected off Wainwright's glove.
LONG ROAD
Assad, a native of Tijuana, Mexico, joined the Cubs organization as an 18-year-old in 2016. His wife and parents were in the stands at Wrigley Field.
“It's something we've been working hard for, seven years in this organization,” Assad said through a translator. “It's definitely something that lived up to what I thought it was going to be like.”
Assad's first strikeout: Getting Pujols looking the second inning.
“I was 3 years old when he debuted," Assad said. “So I never imagined that I would have been facing him, let alone getting that strikeout.”
BLANKED AGAIN
The Cubs shut out the Cardinals for the second time this season, following a 3-0 win at St. Louis on June 24.
BATTERY BUDS
Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina, both 40, started their 321st game as batterymates. That’s second only to Detroit’s Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan, who worked 324 together.
ROSTER MOVES
Chicago optioned RHP Kervin Castro to Triple-A Iowa and selected RHP Nicholas Padilla from the farm club as the 27th man for the doubleheader. ... St. Louis added LHP Matthew Liberatore from Triple-A Memphis as its 27th man. The 22-year-old is rated as the Cardinals' top pitching prospect, but struggled in two previous stints with St. Louis this season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: Manager Oliver Marmol said he hopes RHP Ryan Helsley would return on Wednesday. Helsley was played on the paternity list on Friday, then moved to the restricted list on Monday.
Cubs: INF Patrick Wisdom (finger) remained out of the lineup. ... OF Jason Heyward (right knee inflammation) was transferred to the 60-day injured list. The five-time Gold Glove winner hasn’t played since June 24.
UP NEXT
St. Louis RHP Jake Woodford (2-0, 2.66 ERA) was to face Chicago's Adrian Sampson (1-3, 3.51) in the nightcap.
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What is the best 4K TV for gaming?
With over 33 million pixels, 4K TVs provide incredible detail for immersive home entertainment viewing. Also known as ultra high definition TVs, they are made in all sizes and are typically accompanied by a smart platform to allow access to apps as well as high dynamic range technology to make all those pixels as bright and vibrant as possible.
Most content today is made in 4K, and that includes video games. The best 4K TVs for gaming feature a high refresh rate so that there is no lag during action-heavy sequences or online gaming. They should also have a high-speed HDMI port for connecting a console and faithful color recreation to enjoy the most creative of virtual worlds.
Best 4K gaming TVs
The latest innovation from Samsung is the Neo QLED TV, which takes the color brightness of quantum-dot screens and boosts the contrast and fidelity. This makes imagery sharper when the screen is dark — great for horror and adventure games. Motion rate is enhanced up to 120Hz to prevent lag. Users can also access Game Bar, an on-screen management system that allows for game-specific settings, including aspect ratio, to be altered and saved.
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LG leads the way with OLED TVs, which provide the best contrast among darker colors and deep blacks than other screens. OLED TVs feature pixels that are lit, or unlit, individually, allowing for superior shading and dimming. This quality model is ideal for all kinds of entertainment and includes a Filmmaker Mode for major movies and a Game Optimizer so that every world you explore renders fast and runs seamlessly.
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Vizio 65-Inch P Series QLED TV
This sizable Vizio 4K TV was made for gaming with a variable refresh rate and AMD FreeSync to keep your games running smoothly. The integrated gaming engine welcomes the largest and newest titles, while an enhanced refresh rate of 240Hz can be achieved without losing clarity. As a quantum-dot TV, it also features some dazzling, bright colors.
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This new model from Sony features a fast core, speedy HDMI 2.1 ports and 120Hz refresh rate. Game Mode optimizes settings for your console, reducing lag while the OLED screen enhances contrast so no detail, hint or secret treasure is missed. A bright, broad color spectrum and a wide-angle view also provide immense value to gamers.
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Samsung 85-inch QLED Q80A Series
Though not in the ‘Neo’ class, this massive QLED TV still provides a stunning display for all forms of content. The colors are bright and vivid, and paired with an 75-inch screen, lush virtual worlds will feel immersive and realistic. A lightning-fast processor and 120Hz refresh rate will keep this action rolling without any blips.
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This best budget 4K TV for gaming doesn’t sacrifice power or performance. This mid-size option by TCL provides great value for a QLED TV. Four HDMI slots, including one eARC for fast connection, and Game Mode optimizes playtime. At 50 inches, it makes a worthy entertainment hub whether you’re playing solo or split screen.
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LG 77-inch Gallery Design OLED TV
Another LG OLED TV on the list, this option is a bit more stylish, ideal for gamers looking to add some aesthetics to their setup. It still includes the unmatchable contrast you expect from OLED TVs as well as an intuitive smart platform. What’s more, this model boasts a high frame rate, rapid connection and NVIDIA G-SYNC compatibility for faithful, fast rendering of the virtual world.
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This model from the newest series by TCL still falls at a reasonable price relative to luxury brand TVs of similar sizes. Mini-LED technology provides some of the best contrast and local dimming that QLED can offer while both clarity and brightness are superb. Four HDMI ports and intuitive Game Mode make gameplay smoother, but it’s the enhanced refresh rate of a staggering 480Hz that’s most impressive. It might be so rapid though that you can’t tell the difference from a 240Hz rate.
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Sony is noted for some of the fastest and most powerful TVs, with intuitive interfaces and seamless video. This model is no exception, and it’s packed with an AI cognitive processor to immediately adjust the picture and sound based on the content. It also features a gaming mode to reduce lag and boost refresh rate.
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LG NanoCell 90 Series 65-inch 4K TV
This more reasonably priced LG model lacks the OLED screen, but comes with a Game Optimizer to reduce tearing and lags while enhancing the refresh rate for seamless play. The settings can be saved and easily toggled based on what you’re playing, and the fast processor allows for a bright, smooth display however chaotic the action.
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Hisense ULED Premium 55-Inch Quantum Series TV
This 2021 TV from the bargain brand Hisense features a 120Hz native refresh rate that allows for smooth gameplay, eliminating shadowing or blurring when playing in competitive online battlefields or simply watching live sports. It also boasts a Game Mode Pro to further reduce lag and a potent Wi-Fi signal to stay connected.
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A powerful yet more manageable TV at 43-inches, this Sony model offers detailed graphics for gamers playing in a small space, like a bedroom or dorm. MotionFlow XR reduces blur and lag, while GameMode enhances playing with smoother graphics and a faster response rate. As Sony makes PlayStation, this TV and the previous Sony entries on this list, make for some of the best gaming TVs for PS5 — whenever you can get your hands on one.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, today announced that Fran Soistman, Chief Executive Officer will present at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference on Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. E.T. Interested investors can access the live audio webcast of eHealth's presentation at www.ehealthinsurance.com under Investor Relations. A replay of this event will be available on the company's website shortly after the conclusion of the event.
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) operates a leading health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com with technology that provides consumers with health insurance enrollment solutions. Since 1997, we have connected more than 8 million members with quality, affordable health insurance, Medicare options, and ancillary plans. Our proprietary marketplace offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business and other plans from approximately 200 health insurance carriers across fifty states and the District of Columbia.
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