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Warner Bros. Discovery is sticking with safe bet franchises that will likely lure viewers, including a “Harry Potter” series and a “Game of Thrones” prequel for its rebranded Max streaming service.
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Executives touted Max and made original Warner Bros. Discovery programming announcements on Wednesday during a presentation for journalists and investors. The $16-per-month service will be released May 23 in the U.S. and automatically replace the company’s existing HBO Max.
The “Harry Potter” series is described as a “faithful retelling” of the books about the boy wizard by J. K Rowling, featuring a new cast.
Each season is intended to focus on one of the seven books, though Max anticipates stretching the series to a decade-long run.
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Max also announced it is has also ordered a “Game of Thrones” prequel called “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight,” set in Westeros 100 years prior to the events of “Game of Thrones." It's based on fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, which follow the adventures of a knight named Ser Duncan the Tall (known as Dunk) and Aegon V Targaryen (called Egg). Martin will serve as an executive producer and writer on the series alongside Ira Parker.
“House of Dragons,” also a “Game of Thrones” prequel, has begun production on its second season for HBO.
Other announcements included a series based on the Penguin character in "The Batman", which is now in production with Colin Farrell resuming his role and another comedy set in the “Big Bang Theory” universe from Chuck Lorrie, both for Max. | 2023-04-12T21:12:50+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/game-of-thrones-prequel-and-harry-potter-17893682.php |
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill that bans “sexually oriented performances” in the presence of minors passed during Texas’ 88th legislative session. Now, transgender Texans worry the bill might target them for non-explicit performances — or for merely existing in public spaces.
The initial version of Texas Senate Bill 12 (SB 12) originally included a penalty for performers who wear clothing that doesn’t conform to traditional gender presentation, and was called a “drag ban bill” by conservative politicians.
But that language was removed and replaced with a prohibition on “the exhibition of sexual gesticulations using accessories or prosthetics that exaggerate male or female sexual characteristics.” This line, along with “the actual or simulated exhibition or representation” of sex acts and visible “sexual stimulation” devices, make up the totality of “sexual conduct” in the bill.
For a performance to violate the law, the performer would have to commit any of the above or be nude in a way that “appeals to the prurient interest in sex,” a phrase referring to obscenity. A violation is a Class A misdemeanor charge.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick celebrated the bill when it passed on May 28.
“I named SB 12 to be one of my top priorities this session because someone must push back against the radical left’s disgusting drag performances which harm Texas children,” said Patrick in a press release. “It is shocking to me that any parent would allow their young child to be sexualized by drag shows. Children, who cannot make decisions on their own, must be protected from this scourge facing our state.”
KXAN reached out to SB 12 author Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Tyler, with questions and for comment about the bill’s passage and potential enforcement, but have not heard back. After the bill’s passage, Hughes tweeted that drag shows are “indisputably inappropriate for minors.”
No part of Hughes’ bill directly bans drag performances; however, Lambda Legal South Central Regional Director Shelly Skeen said that it will likely be enforced selectively against the art form. The intersection of drag queens and children has been a hot topic nationwide for years, in particular, “Drag Queen Story Hour,” which are typically library-set reading times hosted by a drag queen.
Questions about drag have arisen in conversations around transgender identities, as the two are often conflated, despite having two different meanings. In its most basic sense, “drag” typically refers to an art form of men (either heterosexual or queer) dressing as women for theater – a tradition that dates back to Shakespearean days, BBC reports.
Trans people have been integral to the development of drag, particularly American performers like activist and Gay Liberation Front co-founder Marsha P. Johnson, who were at the forefront of LGBTQ+ civil rights in 1970s New York City.
Often, drag queens use their drag for more serious activism and even light-hearted comedy. It’s important to note that the art form of drag is not inherently sexual or tied to any one sexual orientation or identity.
Importantly, Skeen said that SB 12 does not apply to transgender people going about their lives.
“I don’t want people to feel like they can’t walk around and do their daily lives if they’re trans, if they’re non-binary or they don’t conform with old-school gender roles,” Skeen said. “I want people to feel like they can still do what they would normally do. I don’t want people to be scared by this bill.”
Skeen said there’s still the possibility that law enforcement could overreach or use the law to selectively target marginalized people.
“People who are trans are targeted, people who are Black and trans are even more targeted,” Skeen said. “This law — just by its passage — gives authorities a little bit more reason to say, ‘Well, I can come after somebody who’s trans.'”
A key part to understanding the bill is that it covers performances (not solely drag), and now covers cisgender and transgender artists equally, Skeen says.
Madonna’s 1990 “cone bra” look is one example of what will be prohibited under Texas law, according to Skeen.
During House hearings about SB 12, Elvis’ pelvic thrusts were also mentioned as potential violations as “sexual gestures,” a term Skeen said is not well defined in U.S. law.
“Any type of bill that would impose criminal liability, you have to know what the conduct is that would violate it,” Skeen said. “When you have bills like this one — it’s very ambiguous — that makes it more likely subject to a legal challenge, because you could be arrested for something and not know that the thing that you’re doing could be a violation.” | 2023-06-03T23:15:21+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/does-texas-drag-ban-bill-target-transgender-texans/ |
HELENA — The Montana State Library Commission has voted to reject a proposed new logo for the library, after disagreements about the direction they wanted to go.
During a special meeting Tuesday, library staff said they were supportive of the new image the proposed design could create for their organization. However, some of the library’s commissioners said the logo got too far away from traditional symbols.
“I do not see ‘library’ in the design,” said Commissioner Tammy Hall. “I’ve shared this with, I’d say, probably close to 100 people, and the number-one comment is ‘It doesn’t say library.’”
Commissioners voted 4-3 against adopting the new logo, which was designed by the firm Hoffman York and unveiled earlier this year.
Unlike the State Library’s current logo, which features a pair of books forming an S, the new design was based on the idea of a prism. It showed rays of color – red, yellow, green and blue – as a symbol of taking information and distributing it in a new way.
In a memo, state librarian Jennie Stapp and her staff said they began a rebranding process in December 2020, because of “a lack of familiarity and understanding about the work of the State Library among the public and key stakeholders.” The library has a wide variety of functions, including assisting local libraries around Montana, providing state geographic and natural resource information, preserving state agency publications and running the Montana Talking Book Library. It operates the Montana Cadastral service for land ownership data, as well as the state COVID-19 dashboard.
Hoffman York gathered information on the library and its work, then began putting together proposed design ideas. The final logo proposal was presented to staff in May, then to the full commission in June.
As reported by the Montana Free Press last month, some commissioners raised questions about the design when it was released, saying it resembled the LGBTQ Pride flag and could lead to political controversy.
On Tuesday, those opposed to the logo expressed other concerns, including that the symbolism wasn’t clear enough to the public, that more people should have been involved with the process and that it might not fit in with a broader plan for rebranding state agencies.
“My vote today is not at all about the staff,” said Hall. “It has nothing to do with colors, it has nothing to do with the prism; I’d like to make that clear. I’m sorry that became such a big issue.”
Stapp said they didn’t want a logo that was focused on books, because their work now goes far beyond that. In fact, she said they looked at the possibility of changing their name, but Hoffman York told them “Montana State Library” remained the best option.
“Ultimately, we felt excited by the idea of retaining the name ‘Library” – even though it doesn’t truly reflect the nature of our work – because the nature of libraries’ work is changing, and we’re excited to sort of be on the leading edge of what people can and should expect from 21st-century library services,” said Stapp.
But Commissioner Robyn Scribner said, while she appreciated the symbolism that went into the logo proposal, she didn’t think it was going to be understandable for most people.
“Even though we are not providing books, we are still the State Library – and ‘library’ historically is a book,” she said.
Commission chair Kenning Arlitsch said he understood the concerns about symbolism, but he supported moving forward with the logo.
“We are not books anymore, but yet we have such a hard time defining and symbolizing what we are, and that’s why this is so hard,” he said. “That’s why I think we have to trust the professionals to design this. We’re never going to come up with an acceptable logo on our own as a commission.”
Before their vote, the commission took public comment. All of those who spoke Tuesday were State Library staff members in support of the logo proposal.
“I can’t think of a better representation of what the State Library is than a prism: a single point where information enters and exits as a full spectrum of services and resources that truly create a greater state of knowledge,” said Sharon Hardwick.
The majority of written public comment was also supportive of the design.
Arlitsch said the commission will now work with library staff to determine how to move forward after this decision.
So far, the library has spent about $130,000 on the rebranding project. They have about $160,000 remaining in their allotted budget, which was also meant to include spending for rolling out and publicizing the new logo.
The money for the rebranding came from private donations to the Montana State Library Trust. | 2022-07-06T01:18:18+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-state-library-commissioners-reject-proposed-new-logo |
The 95th Academy Awards ceremony is set to begin Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.
Follow along with NPR's digital live coverage as we unpack the surprise nominees, big winners, best looks and wildest moments.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-13T00:17:36+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-03-12/live-updates-2023-oscar-nominations-winners-red-carpet-looks-and-more |
Several animal rescue organizations across the U.S. are racing against the clock to rehome approximately 4,000 beagles from a research facility in Virginia.
The Humane Society of the United States is working with the U.S. Justice Department in spearheading the effort to transfer these dogs from their current home to shelters in a matter of weeks.
The Envigo facility, which bred these beagles for pharmaceutical research and testing, was found to be in violation of several federal regulations. The beagles were found this year in horrendous condition, according to U.S. Agriculture Department reports.
At least two inspection reports revealed that the facility "performed unnecessarily painful medical procedures on dogs and puppies — including euthanasia without a sedative." That's according to Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia, who publicized these reports this year. Other reports revealed that dogs were held in sweltering shelters for hours and that research at the facility "caused distress" to nursing dogs and their puppies, the senators said in a March news release.
Authorities intervened, and last week a federal judge ordered thousands of these remaining dogs to be released. Federal authorities now have just 60 days to rehome these animals.
Saving thousands of dogs is a "daunting" task
Rescue organizations from California, Wyoming, Virginia and elsewhere are preparing to take the first batch of dogs next week. Each organization is taking on a monumental level of work and expenses to help.
"It's one of the most daunting rescues that I've ever heard of or have had the privilege of being involved in," said John Ramer, the executive director of the Kindness Ranch Animal Sanctuary in Wyoming. Ramer's organization rescues all types of animals that were previously used in scientific research and testing.
"When I carry one dog out of a facility, I can tap it on the head and give it a hug and tell him that everything's gonna be OK," he said. "But pulling 4,000 out ... it's an inconceivable number of dogs."
Ramer's group purchased a $65,000 van in order to fit in 32 dogs for one trip from Virginia to Wyoming. He said Kindness Ranch will likely have to take five or six trips to bring back as many beagles as it can.
The group is also looking into leasing property in Texas to give more beagles space to rehabilitate, he said.
Homeward Trails Animal Rescue in Virginia has been working with other beagles rescued earlier this year from the Envigo facility.
Homeward Trails signed an agreement with Envigo earlier this year to take in 500 "surplus" beagles that the company could not properly care for because of COVID-19, according to Sue Bell, the executive director of Homeward Trails.
The group was able to take those dogs in and find foster or adoptive homes for them by May.
But this current collection of 4,000 more dogs from the same facility is a whole new ballgame.
"It's taking a lot of phone calls right now. And a lot of emails," Bell said of the effort to prepare. "I went to bed last night with 100 emails and woke up to 800."
Because the Virginia base for Homeward Trails is not far from Envigo, Bell's group is planning to take a good number of pregnant dogs and puppies that are still nursing and are unable to travel far.
"Adult dogs will be spread out a bit further just because it's safer," Bell said.
Finding permanent homes will take awhile
Bell says a number of people heartbroken by these dogs' story and interested in taking them in have contacted her.
But it will take some time before these dogs are ready for their new forever homes, Bell and Ramer said. Each animal will likely have to undergo some sort of medical treatment, including getting spayed and neutered.
Others may also have bigger, as well as more expensive, health problems to deal with, she said.
"It will cost somewhere between $275 and $700 for us to get each beagle ready for adoption," Bell estimated.
Aside from the younger pups that will likely be ready to be adopted sooner, older dogs from the facility will be more undersocialized. This means everything in their environment could be new and really overwhelming to them, Ramer said. Even the sound of a vacuum cleaner or TV is something these dogs have to get used to.
"It takes a little bit of time to condition them to get used to home life environment," Ramer said.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-14T10:11:10+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2022-07-14/animal-rescue-groups-across-the-u-s-band-together-to-rescue-4-000-beagles |
Demand for time-saving automation from business teams has increased in more than 90% of companies
New easy-to-use solution combines MuleSoft RPA and MuleSoft Composer to automate complex business tasks across legacy and modern systems
ADT, AT&T, Bayer Crop Science, and Western Union are using MuleSoft to drive business growth and increase operational efficiency, productivity, and agility
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MuleSoft CONNECT 2022 – Salesforce, [NYSE: CRM], the global leader in CRM, today introduced the next generation of MuleSoft, a unified solution for automation, integration, and APIs to easily automate any workflow so any technical or non-technical team can adapt to constant change and business complexity.
The solution now includes no-code capabilities to automate repetitive manual tasks using bots with MuleSoft RPA (robotic process automation) and to quickly connect data from any system, such as Slack, Stripe, and Workday, with MuleSoft Composer. The new capabilities are fully integrated into Salesforce Flow1, a complete suite of automation technologies across the Customer 360 to help save time, increase productivity, and deliver better experiences. Business teams like sales can close deals more efficiently and service agents can quickly sync customer records to improve customer service interactions.
"As an integral part of Salesforce Customer 360, MuleSoft helps companies integrate complex systems and data, while expanding the universe of people who can use automation across any system or workflow," said Shaun Clowes, Chief Product Officer, MuleSoft. "The result is empowered business and IT users, from sales and customer service to HR and finance, who can do more with less – quickly creating workflows and integrations that drive efficient growth and faster time-to-value."
Modern, easy automation and integration bring the future of work to every team
With macroeconomic uncertainty across markets, hiring, prices, and more, businesses are focused on efficient growth, cost savings, and productivity. More than 90% have seen a rise in demand for time-saving automation from business teams over the past two years, according to new Salesforce research. However, the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world has increased the number of systems and amount of data companies must manage and connect, creating integration roadblocks to automation progress. And when new systems are needed or business requirements change, 96% of companies find it difficult to modify existing automations.
MuleSoft Automation addresses those concerns with capabilities that allow customers to:
- Deliver intelligent automation anywhere: MuleSoft RPA enables any team to replace repetitive and manual tasks with bots that can intelligently process data from any system, document, photo, or legacy user interface. These bots can also be securely shared and reused across teams.
- Drive faster innovation with clicks, not code: Purpose-built for business teams, both MuleSoft Composer and MuleSoft RPA seamlessly connect applications with pre-built enterprise connectors and bots.
- Automate and integrate anything: MuleSoft RPA and MuleSoft Composer work seamlessly with Anypoint Platform, MuleSoft's industry-leading integration and API management platform. Automations can benefit from hundreds of connectors to important systems and even directly invoke APIs created by technical teams.
- Achieve end-to-end automation at scale: Teams can use MuleSoft RPA to automate workflows across multiple systems and apps by integrating RPA bots seamlessly with Salesforce Customer 360, Anypoint Platform, and MuleSoft Composer.
- Maintain security and governance: With Anypoint Platform, IT teams can govern, monitor, and secure any automation and integration built with APIs or bots.
Salesforce customers drive value for their employees, customers, and business with automation
Salesforce customers are running 4.8 billion MuleSoft transactions daily and decreasing operational costs by 74%, while saving over 100 billion hours of work every month with Salesforce Flow.2
Across industries, customers are using Customer 360 with MuleSoft to automate workflows at scale and enable business growth:
- ADT is dedicated to creating personalized customer service. "ADT's strong growth, through acquisitions and purposeful change, provided an opportunity to assess and improve employee and customer experiences by streamlining our technology stack. With MuleSoft, we've been able to integrate systems and automate processes more seamlessly to deliver unified and premium customer experiences from anywhere and across all our business divisions," said Sam Jaddi, CIO, ADT.
- AT&T is using Salesforce to deliver new types of connected experiences and improved customer service for its millions of customers. "MuleSoft has streamlined and fortified customer support across all channels at AT&T. With its automation and integration capabilities, we've reduced the time our teams are taking to complete administrative tasks. MuleSoft and Salesforce save our sales and services teams more than 1 million work hours a year to focus on what they do best — helping our customers," said Brad Ringer, Principal Solution Engineer, AT&T.
- Bayer Crop Science is using Salesforce to become more customer-centric, helping farmers and communities sustainably feed the planet with innovative agricultural solutions. "By integrating Salesforce and legacy systems with MuleSoft, we're able to provide better customer service experiences with a single view of the customer for teams across our business. And with a modernized integration and automation framework, it's incredible to see our teams developing a product 200% faster and increasing speed to market by 5x so that our customers can use the latest technologies," said Geoff Hickman, Technical Architect, Bayer Crop Science.
- Western Union, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, is using Salesforce Customer 360 to transform the customer journey with a digital banking platform. "Our continued focus on customer experience requires that we increase our efficiency and productivity to deliver new experiences wherever our customers are. MuleSoft allows us to quickly access the information we need and automate workflows to drive omnichannel messaging capabilities, so our business teams can focus on providing great service and real-time conversations with our customers," said Tom Mazzaferro, Chief Data and Innovation Officer, Western Union.
Additional Information
- Tune into MuleSoft CONNECT to learn how Salesforce Customer 360 with MuleSoft, Slack, and Tableau is helping customers transform.
- Learn about MuleSoft Automation: MuleSoft RPA, MuleSoft Composer, and Anypoint Platform.
- Learn more about Salesforce's complete suite of automation technologies, Salesforce Flow.
- Read the latest Salesforce research on automation trends.
Pricing and Availability
- MuleSoft RPA is expected to be generally available in early August 2022.
- MuleSoft Composer is generally available.
1Flow Integration and Flow RPA are built into Salesforce Flow. Flow Integration is powered by MuleSoft Composer, and Flow RPA is powered by MuleSoft RPA.
2Multiply the assumed human capital needed to execute a typical process by the total number of processes automated in March 2022. The calculation assumes $20/hr, and 5 minutes of time saved. Money saved = # processes * (assumed money saved/process = $20/hr*5min/process or $1.67/process) = 1,311,913,101,975 processes*$1.67/process = $2.1908949e+12. Time and hours-saved calculations are based on the number of processes automated in March 2022, multiplying the assumed time (5 minutes) and cost ($20/hr) to complete a typical business process. Hours saved = # processes * (estimated avg time saved/process = 5 min) = 1,311,913,101,975 *5 min = 109,326,091,831 hours.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A lack of drinking water and healthy sanitation infrastructure is dire around the world and getting worse, United Nations experts warned in a report issued Thursday.
The report finds that many millions of the world’s 7.78 billion people don’t have enough clean water or sanitation infrastructure that helps keep humans healthy by taking waste away from their homes.
On the second day of a U.N. conference on water, the report calls on the world “to talk about water and take water seriously,” in order to achieve global development goals, said Kaveh Madani, who trained as an engineer with a focus on water resources in Iran and directs the United Nations University, a global think tank.
The report “has some alarming statistics and results but it is better to disclose that early on, while we still have time,” Madani told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York.
Report authors pointed out that the lack of access to basic water-related services kills more people globally than floods, droughts and other disasters, even in the age of global warming.
“Far more people die from lack of access to water, then die from from lesser climate disasters … I’m not saying that people aren’t dying,” said Dr. Charlotte McAlister, a British-trained hydrologist and senior researcher at the U.N. University Institute. “But far more people are dying from lack of safe water, safely managed water and safely managed sanitation.”
One of several reports issued by U.N. agencies on water this week, it contains no overarching solution. But Thursday’s report tries to go beyond despair, saying that “important progress can be achieved in the remaining years.” Progress can occur even in countries without the infrastructure or the resources to match wealthier nations’ ability to provide their people with clean water and sanitation, the report says.
Nearly three-quarters of the world’s people fall into the category of water-insecure, meaning they score below 65 out of 100 on an indicator that combines 10 water-related factors. The report says that over 0.61 billion people (8%) are critically water-insecure.
Of water-insecure people, 4.31 billion people live in the Asia-Pacific region, 1.34 billion in Africa, 415 million in the Americas, and almost 66 million in Europe. | 2023-03-23T21:17:06+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/health/ap-health/many-millions-die-without-clean-water-or-sanitation-un-says/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democrats have accelerated their plan to make the nation’s most populous state a sanctuary for women seeking abortions, propelled by the release this week of an early draft of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has ignited a surge of activism among the state’s vast network of providers and advocacy groups.
The draft — which could change when a final ruling is issued, likely next month — would end nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections. Just hours after a leaked copy was published, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s top legislative leaders said they would seek voter approval to make abortions a constitutional right in California, a move designed to shield the state from future court rulings and a potential federal abortion ban should Republicans win control of Congress.
On Thursday, Democrats in the state Legislature fast-tracked a bill that would block other states’ laws from imposing civil or criminal penalties on people who provide or aid abortions in California, setting up another likely prolonged legal fight over state sovereignty.
The California Legislative Women’s Caucus has asked Newsom for $20 million to help pay for women from other states where abortion would be outlawed to come to California for the procedure — a sum the governor could announce in his revised budget proposal next week.
In just 48 hours after the draft ruling became public, California’s only statewide nonprofit that helps women travel to and within the state to get abortions raised $25,000 — a quarter of its normal annual spending — while fielding a flood of calls from people volunteering to give free rides or a place to stay to women looking to end their pregnancies.
For Madilynne Hoffman, California’s preparations are comforting. The 22-year-old mother of two ended her pregnancy in December at an abortion clinic in the state’s Central Valley.
When she returned to a different clinic later for birth control, she said a protester followed her to her car. That experience, coupled with the draft court ruling, prompted her to look for volunteer opportunities at clinics.
“That’s really saddening to think that women have to fight for their bodies,” she said. “It should just be an automatic right.”
California’s legislative efforts represent the opening salvos in the next phase of the abortion rights battle, which will play out among state governments that are left to make and enforce their own rules if the federal protections are abolished. Already, Republican-led states like Oklahoma and Idaho have passed more restrictive abortion laws in anticipation of the court’s ruling.
Democratic-led states like California, meanwhile, are passing laws to expand abortion access.
The Democrats who control all levers of power in state government have written 13 bills that would authorize more medical providers to perform abortions, create scholarships for reproductive care doctors, block other states from accessing some California medical records, and create a fund for taxpayer money to help pay for women in states where abortion is illegal to come to California to get the procedure. A measure that makes abortions cheaper by banning co-pays and deductibles has already been signed into law.
Meanwhile, abortion providers are busy hiring more doctors and adding space to receive a predicted surge in patients. Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the nation’s largest Planned Parenthood affiliate, is renovating and building new facilities in Oakland, San Jose, Fresno, Visalia and Reno, Nevada. When they’re finished, it will boost their capacity from 200 to 500 patients per week.
“We’ve been preparing for it for over a year — and honestly since November 2016,” when Republican Donald Trump was elected president, said Andrew Adams, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s chief of staff and head of strategic communications.
Anti-abortion advocates are getting ready, too, by bolstering staffing and support at crisis pregnancy centers. These centers, which often locate near abortion clinics and are religiously affiliated, seek to convince women to forego abortion for adoption or other options.
Some of these centers in conservative states receive tens of millions of dollars in public money. California has been hostile to these centers, passing a law requiring them to tell clients about abortion services. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down that law in 2018.
“We believe that is the way people of faith and the pro-life community can really help to put our money where our mouth is,” said Jonathan Keller, president and CEO of the California Family Council, which opposes abortion. “No woman should ever feel like abortion is the best option for them.”
While abortion has been legal in every state, it’s not easily accessible everywhere, especially for people who live in poor or rural areas. Across the country, nearly 100 “abortion funds” exist to help these women pay for things like travel, lodging and child care they need to make their appointments.
Since Monday, a national digital fundraising platform for these groups has raised about $1 million, according to Sierra Harris, deputy director of network strategy for the National Network of Abortion Funds.
California has one statewide abortion fund, known as Access Reproductive Justice. The group helps roughly 500 women each year, about a third whom come from other states, according to Executive Director Jessica Pinckney. Each woman gets an average of $300 to $400 in assistance.
That doesn’t pay for everything. To fill the gaps, the group relies on a set of 50 core volunteers who stand ready to give rides, places to stay and extra cash. Those volunteers include Harris, who lives in Oakland.
Since the pandemic, most of the assistance Harris gives is cash. The mother of two small children, Harris recalled a time when she pitched in to buy another woman a plane ticket so she could travel to get an abortion. The woman was also a mother, and later sent Harris a card calling her an “angel.”
The woman said her help made it possible for her “to parent the child I have,’” Harris said. “I think about that all the time.” | 2022-05-06T19:59:41+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/roe-under-threat-california-leans-in-as-abortion-refuge/ |
Study: These US airports were ranked the best this year
(WCCO) - Getting to your destination is said to be half the fun, but some U.S. airport travelers don’t feel that way.
The J.D. Power 2022 North America Airport Satisfaction Study reveals overall satisfaction has fallen 25 points on a thousand-point scale compared to data from the year before.
This comes as air travel has nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Among the best-ranked major airports are Minneapolis-Saint Paul International, San Francisco International and John F. Kennedy International.
The worst airport, according to the survey, is Newark Liberty International.
Others on the bottom of the list include Chicago O’Hare International and Boston Logan International.
The findings were based on information from August 2021 through July of this year.
Among the factors taken into consideration were terminal facilities, baggage claim, and arrivals and departures.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-23T14:39:50+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/09/23/study-these-us-airports-were-ranked-best-this-year/ |
Cloud-Based Application for Rehabilitation, Athletic Training & Enhancing Human Performance Tracks and Measures Movement and Cognitive Function
CLEVELAND, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TRAZER INC., a leader in movement technology, is pleased to announce the release of TRAZER XP. TRAZER is a multi-patented technology designed for rehabilitation, athletic training, and enhancing human performance. The TRAZER system is unique in its ability to strengthen the connection between the brain + body™ regardless of age or level of physical capability. With applications across healthcare, senior care, rehabilitation, sports medicine, and sports performance, TRAZER empowers professionals with actionable data.
The system, which includes specialized hardware with a high-powered depth sensing camera, a cloud-based software application with proprietary algorithms, and a HIPAA-compliant portal for secure data storage and analytics, features reaction-based activities and injury-specific protocols. The current version, TRAZER+, has been proven to reduce falls in seniors and was used in the widely publicized recovery of University of Alabama football star, Tua Tagovailoa, post "TightRope" surgery in 2018. And an independent 2020 study found that TRAZER reduced falls in seniors by 36% while improving physical and cognitive functions key to maintaining independence. Its proven injury-specific protocols have made TRAZER invaluable in collegiate training rooms, for elite military training as well as rehab for mTBI/blast concussions and orthopedic injuries, and for enhancing human performance.
The system immerses users into reaction-based activities that track physical and cognitive reactions to generate data related to: Dynamic Movement, Kinematics, Balance, and Neuromechanics. The camera tracks 32 key movement points on the body, processing millions of data points in real-time to provide immediate post-activity, on-screen feedback. From the online portal, customers manage information, and use advanced analytics to produce comprehensive and easily understood graphs and reports.
Dr. Randall P. Cohen, TRAZER VP of Elite Performance & Clinical Education and retired Associate AD of CATS Medical at the University of Arizona, explains the unique features. "TRAZER provides a controlled environment with random stimuli and is the only technology that measures awareness of an individual's 'place in space', as well as their reaction time, speed, acceleration, and deceleration. TRAZER measures both physical and cognitive function, whether an individual can only reach from a seated position or can only take one step safely. At the other end of the spectrum, an athlete can be integrated into full speed functional activity post-injury or work on enhancing performance or preventing injury. Care providers or trainers get objective and actionable reporting - TRAZER highlights deficits or asymmetries that can put an individual at risk of injury or poor performance." Dr. Cohen adds, "Because TRAZER is free of sensors or wearables, we can put them safely into real-world situations and track progress and improvement over time more accurately."
To learn more about TRAZER Contact TRAZER to schedule a product demonstration or visit trazer.com to watch TRAZER in Action.
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Apopka residents say construction site is causing flooding in their neighborhood
APOPKA, Fla. - Some Apopka residents say dirt from a construction site that filled a retention pond is causing flooding in their neighborhood when it rains.
According to the City of Apopka, there were six inches of rain on Wednesday and that resulted in a deluge near Kenny Pettrey's home. In a video recorded by Pettrey, you can see what looks like a gushing river next to his house in the Vistas at Waters Edge. While his home avoided damage, his pool became a muddy mess.
"I was concerned. If it didn’t stop raining, I was concerned my house was going to get flooded over," he said. "We have a massive engineering failure."
Pettrey blames the construction of a 262-unit apartment complex behind his home. He said it filled an 8-foot deep retention pond with dirt, blocking stormwater from draining properly.
"It looks like the Grand Canyon, complete collapse."
Apopka Mayor Bryan Nelson came out to the site and is concerned.
"This isn’t supposed to happen. So they’re not only going to clean up the mess they made, but they have got to get the pond, so it’s no longer holding water like that." He said the developer needs to fix this immediately. "It’s not ‘can they,’ they will," the mayor said, or "they will get fined from the city."
Pettrey hopes the fix will come sooner than later. "With the weather coming in the next few days, if this isn’t taken care of, that standing water’s full. Where’s all this going to go?"
The developer, Eden Site Development Inc., said it is aware of the problem and is working on a solution. | 2022-08-26T01:50:42+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/apopka-residents-say-construction-site-is-causing-flooding-in-their-neighborhood |
Detroit Tigers dig deeper into hole with every loss. Here's how things went south so quickly
Evan Petzold
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Tigers celebrated Miguel Cabrera's 3,00th hit in a team win.
The offense scored 13 runs and tallied 20 hits in a 13-0 victory over the Colorado Rockies at Comerica Park. Left-hander Tarik Skubal pitched six scoreless innings. The bullpen did the same for the final three frames. The defense posted a zero in the error column. | 2022-05-13T12:45:14+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/05/13/detroit-tigers-offense-struggling-2022-season-aj-hinch/9742053002/?gnt-cfr=1 |
NEW YORK — Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. The actor had insisted through lawyers that his encounter with the woman was consensual after the two met at a nearby restaurant.
The trial was to start with jury selection in New York federal court as the Oscar-winning "Jerry Maguire" star faced allegations that he met the woman in Manhattan, persuaded her to join him at a hotel, and convinced her to stop at his room so he could change clothing.
Minutes after jurors were to begin assembling in a courtroom, a calendar entry in the official court record said: "TRIAL OFF." It added: "Reason for cancellation (on consent): the parties have resolved the matter."
The woman had proceeded anonymously until last week, when Judge Paul A. Crotty ruled that she would have to reveal her name at trial. She said in her lawsuit that Gooding raped her in his room. His lawyers, though, insisted that it was consensual sex and that she bragged afterward to others that she had sex with a celebrity.
The lawsuit sought $6 million in damages. Attorney Gloria Allred, one of several representing the woman, declined comment. Other lawyers, including those representing Gooding, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The lawsuit was filed against a man who authorities say has been accused of committing sexual misconduct against more than 30 other women, including groping, unwanted kissing and other inappropriate behavior.
Late last week, the judge seemed to strengthen the woman's hand at trial and in settlement negotiations by ruling that he would let three women testify that they also were subjected to sudden sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults after meeting Gooding in social settings such as festivals, bars, nightclubs and restaurants.
One of the women who had planned to testify at the trial was Kelsey Harbert, who told police Gooding fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square in 2019.
Harbert said last year after Gooding pleaded guilty in New York state court to a charge that spared him from jail or a criminal history that never getting her day in court was "more disappointing than words can say."
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they grant permission, as Harbert has done.
Gooding, a star in films including "Boyz n the Hood" and "Radio," was permitted to plead guilty in April 2022 to a misdemeanor, admitting that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018.
By staying out of trouble and completing six months of alcohol and behavioral counseling, Gooding was permitted to withdraw his guilty plea and plead guilty to a non-criminal harassment violation, eliminating his criminal record and preventing further penalties.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-06T16:42:35+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/2023-06-06/cuba-gooding-jr-settles-a-civil-sex-abuse-case-just-as-trial-was-set-to-begin |
LONDRES (AP) — Arzobispo de Canterbury en funeral de Isabel II: "Pocos líderes reciben el aluvión de amor que hemos visto" por la reina.
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- Employee of Rep. Mayra Flores resigns amid sex harassment claims | 2022-09-19T11:20:14+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Arzobispo-de-Canterbury-en-funeral-de-Isabel-II-17451157.php |
Milos Raonic vs. Dennis Novak: Live Stream, TV Channel, How to Watch | Wimbledon
Published: Jul. 3, 2023 at 11:32 AM EDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
Milos Raonic and Dennis Novak are set to meet in the Round of 128 of Wimbledon at AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground on July 4.
The Raonic-Novak matchup can be watched on ESPN, so tune in to catch the action.
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Milos Raonic vs. Dennis Novak Date and TV Info
- Round: Round of 128
- Date: Tuesday, July 4
- TV Channel: ESPN (Watch on Fubo)
- Court Surface: Grass
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Raonic vs. Novak Matchup Info
- Raonic most recently hit the court on June 15, 2023 in the Round of 16 of Libema Open, and the matchup finished in a 6-7, 1-6 loss to No. 103-ranked Jordan Thompson .
- Novak beat Yosuke Watanuki 6-7, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in the qualifying round on Thursday.
- In French Open, Novak's last tournament, he went head to head with No. 134-ranked Jurij Rodionov in the qualification round 2 on May 24 and was defeated 6-2, 3-6, 4-6.
- This is the first time that Raonic and Novak have competed against each other in the last five years.
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TODAY:
Cold and windy with a few stray lake effect snow showers in the Twin Tiers. Wind speeds reach near 20 mph with gusts over 30 mph. Temperatures stay below average for the last day of the winter season. Highs reach the mid 30’s.
TONIGHT:
Drying out as high pressure moves into the region. Staying mostly clear and a bit breezy overnight. Low temperatures are in the mid 20’s.
TOMORROW:
Lots of sunshine on Monday. Staying dry as high pressure remains in control of the region. Temperatures are above-average with highs in the low 50’s. Staying clear overnight, but cloud cover may increase in some areas. Lows in the upper 20’s. | 2023-03-19T16:20:49+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/regional-forecast-southern-tier/regional-forecast-southern-tier-3-19-23/ |
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HONG KONG (AP) — Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 90-year-old Catholic cleric arrested by Hong Kong police on national security charges, has long been a fiery critic of Beijing’s control of religion and political monopoly, along with efforts by the Vatican to reach a working arrangement with the ruling Communist Party.
Zen left a police station on bail Wednesday night following his arrest alongside other former trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Support Fund, which provides assistance to people arrested during 2019 anti-government protests. The former Hong Kong archbishop has not yet commented on his arrest.
A police statementsaid the former trustees were suspected of endangering national security by making requests of foreign countries or overseas agencies and calling for the imposition of sanctions on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Widely condemned abroad, the arrests further a campaign to quash all forms of dissent in the city under the sweeping national security law passed in 2020, a year after authorities subdued pro-democracy protests that challenged China’s rule over Hong Kong.
The crackdown is increasingly penetrating into the city’s long-respected economic, religious and educational institutions, along with non-governmental organizations, many of which have closed down their Hong Kong operations. The city was promised to keep freedom of speech, assembly and judicial independence when it was handed over from Britain to China in 1997, but critics say Beijing has reneged on its guarantees.
Zen had once sought to build bridges with China’s party-controlled Catholic church by visiting Beijing-approved seminaries in mainland China. But he also said those experiences showed him the lack of religious freedom in China and fed a deep distrust of the officially atheist ruling party.
China broke off relations with the Holy See in 1951, after the party took power and established its own church. Foreign priests were expelled and many of their Chinese colleagues spent decades in prison or labor camps.
In recent years, the Vatican, particularly under Pope Francis, has been eager to reach a deal with the Chinese government and unite the churches.
Zen was especially scathing of attempts by some in the Vatican to reach an arrangement with the party on the appointment of bishops on the mainland, a power traditionally wielded by the Holy See which Beijing claims for itself.
In 2018, he warned that a deal between the Vatican and China that cedes too much authority to Beijing would place the country’s Catholic followersin a big “birdcage.”
“The Communist government just wants the church to surrender, because they want complete control, not only of the Catholic church but all the religions,” Zen said at the time.
A tacit agreement was reportedly reached in 2018 whereby China submitted names to the Vatican for approval, but that has had little perceptible impact on relations between the sides. Zen accused the Holy See of selling out underground Catholics who have remained loyal to the Vatican.
Zen, a frequent blogger, posted about making a desperate journey to Rome in a personal effort to prevent an underground bishop from being replaced by an excommunicated one favored by Beijing.
The Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, said Wednesday the Holy See “learned with concern the news of the arrest of Cardinal Zen and is following the evolution of the situation with extreme attention.”
The Hong Kong Catholic Diocese also issued a statement Thursday saying it was “extremely concerned about the condition and safety of Cardinal Joseph Zen and we are offering our special prayers for him.”
“We have always upheld the rule of law. We trust that in the future we will continue enjoying religious freedom in Hong Kong under the Basic Law,” it said, referring to the city’s mini-constitution.
Zen has outsized political clout in a city where Christians are a minority but many hold elite positions, particularly in government and education.
Born into a Catholic family in Shanghai in 1932, Zen left for Hong Kong, then a British colony, in 1948, a year before the Communist takeover of the mainland.
In 1989, when Zen and others in Hong Kong watched student-led pro-democracy protests unfold in China before a brutal military crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square left many dead.
He adopted an activist role after he was appointed Hong Kong’s junior bishop in 1996, the year before Britain handed control of the city to Beijing. He frequently drew the wrath of China’s communist leaders, who called him a “Vatican agent.”
Zen backed the city’s pro-democracy movement and was an outspoken critic of proposed anti-subversion legislation that officials were forced to shelve. He went on a three-day hunger strike to protest a government plan to curtail the influence of churches in publicly funded schools.
The junior bishop took over the Hong Kong diocese in 2002 and Pope Benedict XVI named him a cardinal in 2006, which he said signaled the pope’s focus on China. Zen retired from the Hong Kong post in 2009.
Also arrested Wednesday was singer-actress Denise Ho, who has become outspoken on a range of issues from the pro-democracy movement to LGBTQ rights.
Ho had earlier been banned in mainland China and lost her commercial endorsements after publicly supporting a 2014 push for expanded democratic rights known as the Umbrella Movement.
Ho was earlier arrested in December after police raided an independent online news site whose board she had formerly sat on, and charged her with conspiracy to publish a seditious publication.
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Associated Press writer Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report. | 2022-05-12T16:37:51+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/arrested-hong-kong-cardinal-a-fiery-critic-of-beijing/ |
Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at age 92.
Stewart died peacefully and surrounded by his family on Monday, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music said in a news release. A cause of death was not disclosed and funeral plans were pending.
Stewart was co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, where, during an era of racial strife, white musicians and producers worked alongside Black singers, songwriters and instrumentalists to create the “Memphis sound” embodied by Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and the MGs, Carla and Rufus Thomas, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave and many others.
Stax and its affiliated record labels released 300 albums and 800 singles between 1959 and 1975, according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Stax fostered a raw sound born from Black church music, the blues and rock ‘n’ roll. It featured strong rhythm sections, powerful horn players, and singers who could be sexy and soulful in one tune, and loud and forceful in another.
Before Stax went bankrupt in 1975, the recording studio in Memphis’ “Soulsville” neighborhood produced lasting hits such as Otis Redding’s “Dock of the Bay,” Eddie Floyd’s “Knock on Wood,” Sam & Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Comin’” and “Soul Man,” and “Green Onions” by Booker T. and the M.G.s.
“There was so much talent here, under circumstances that were almost considered impossible in Memphis, Tennessee in 1960, with the racial situation here,” Stewart told The Associated Press during an interview in May 2013 — his first interview in at least 15 years. “It was a sanctuary for all of us to get away from the outside world.”
Stewart grew up on a farm in Middleton, Tennessee, before moving to Memphis to attend Memphis State University and joining a group called the Canyon Cowboys as a country music fiddler. He was recording country music in his wife’s uncle’s garage and working at a bank when he and his sister, Estelle Axton, founded the Satellite record label in 1957.
In 1961, after learning of a California label with the Satellite name, Stewart and Axton decided to combine the first two letters of their last names to create a new name, Stax. The pair moved the studio into an old movie theater on the corner of McLemore and College streets in Memphis.
Soon, young musicians from the neighborhood started hanging around, helping Stax build a house band that included organist Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and drummer Al Jackson Jr. — also known as Booker T. and the M.G.s.
Stewart said he turned Stax into a soul and R&B label after hearing Ray Charles sing “What’d I Say.”
“I was converted, immediately,” Stewart said. “I had never heard anything like that before. It allowed me to expand from country into R&B, into jazz, into gospel, wrapped all in one. That’s what Stax is.”
Booker T. and the M.G.s were racially mixed, as were the Memphis Horns, which backed many of Stax’s hits.
Stax signed a distribution deal with Atlantic Records and brought in the songwriting team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Stewart also hired Al Bell as Stax’s national sales director, and the label continued growing and producing more hits, such as “Who’s Making Love” by Johnny Taylor.
The first tragedy to hit the label was the death of Otis Redding and four members of his backup band, the Bar-Kays, in a plane crash in 1967. Then the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968 in Memphis led to riots in the city.
In 1968, Stewart, Axton and Bell sold Stax to Gulf & Western in exchange for stock. Stewart and Bell repurchased the label in 1970.
Stax saw a few more successes in the early 1970s, including the release of The Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There” and the Wattstax concert in Los Angeles in 1972. But cash flow started to slow down, bills stopped being paid and lawsuits were filed.
Stewart sold his share of Stax to Al Bell in 1972. Three creditors forced Stax into involuntary bankruptcy in 1975, marking the death of Stewart’s brainchild.
“He was hurt,” Axton told The Commercial Appeal for an Aug. 20, 1989, article on the history of Stax.
The studio was torn down in 1989. Since then, Stax has been rebuilt and reborn in the form of a museum, a music academy and a charter school.
Stewart, who mostly stayed out of the public eye after Stax stopped making music, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
In 2013, Stewart made a rare appearance at Stax, touring the museum before visiting with the teenage musicians who attend the Stax Music Academy. Stewart made a few other appearances at Stax after that, including in 2019 for a news conference to announce plans for the academy’s 20th anniversary.
“The music is still alive and that’s what great about it,” Stewart said during the 2013 tour. “I’m very proud of what they have done. It’s amazing to me.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-06T16:30:37+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/12/06/jim-stewart-co-founder-stax-records-memphis-dies/ |
Olympic skaters still missing medals 500 days later
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — U.S. ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock remember the empty feeling as they trod back to their rooms in Beijing, not long after being told that the ceremony to present their Olympic medals had been called off.
Before going to sleep, one final blow: On their beds sat empty black-and-gold boxes, with notes inside signed from IOC President Thomas Bach. “An Olympic medal is forever,” the note began. The boxes were supposed to be the perfect spot for the skaters to place the medals they never received.
Five-hundred days later, the medals remain somewhere in storage because of yet another sordid and as-yet-unresolved doping case to come out of Russia. The nine empty boxes, one belonging to each U.S. skater who finished second in the Olympic team event, are now sitting under glass as part of an exhibit at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum that opened Thursday to commemorate the 500 days since the medals ceremony in Beijing was abruptly canceled.
“As the time has gone by, it almost feels like it didn’t happen at times,” Chock said. “And when we think about it, it’s hard not to get emotional and just feel kind of sad about the whole situation, and how it’s turned out and how long it’s taking to be handled.”
In an unprecedented move, Olympic officials decided not to award medals at the games after news that 15-year-old Kamila Valieva, who had led Russia to a first-place finish, had tested positive for a performance enhancer months earlier.
That case has been subject to anti-doping and legal hearings in Beijing, Russia and Switzerland. In an ironic twist, news came Thursday — Day 500 — that the Court of Arbitration for Sport had finally set dates to hear the Valieva case and potentially settle it, once and for all. The dates, Sept. 26-29, means it could be pushing two years before the Americans receive their medals, whether they be silver or gold.
“You want to cross the finish line and be awarded for that race, or for what you have accomplished in that moment,” Bates said. “The exclamation point on the sentence is not supposed to come, like, 10 sentences later, or in the next paragraph.”
For the most part, the residuals that often stem from an athlete’s Olympic moment have not come their way either. For most of the skaters, the prospect of media tours, post-Olympic shows, sponsorships and the like have been waylaid. Most are well aware that many moments that were supposed to feel celebratory would eventually lead back to the same query: “Where’s your medal?”
“At this stage, you can’t possibly salvage what they would’ve earned if they had stood on the podium when the world was watching,” said Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
The Americans aren’t the only people wronged in this affair. The Japanese team that finished third never received medals and the Canadian team that finished fourth could be due for them, as well, if Russia is disqualified. There’s also the case of Valieva, who was 15 at the time of the Olympics and is widely seen as an unwitting victim whose health and fitness, to say nothing of her medical needs and prescriptions, were in the hands of coaches and handlers in her circle.
When Tracy Marek began as CEO of U.S. Figure Skating in January, the still-unresolved medals case was at the top of her in-box.
“In my opinion, the common American out there would be shocked right now,” Marek said. “In retrospect, they might say, ‘Oh, yeah, I remember that.’ But they would probably be shocked to know that these athletes have achieved one of sports’ greatest accomplishments and they’ve received an empty box.”
When the case is resolved, the skaters won’t be unlike the dozens of Olympians over decades who have received their medals in “alternate” ceremonies — at malls, or at subsequent Olympics or world and national championships.
Bates and Chock recalled the emotional meeting they had with Bach, the leader of the International Olympic Committee, the day after their ceremony had been canceled. They still have the Olympic torches he offered them as a goodwill gesture while the medals were sorted out.
“He assured us that when this was resolved, they would do everything to create a medals ceremony that suited our expectations,” Bates said. “To which we said, ‘Well, we would like it yesterday.’”
Five-hundred days later, they wait. Some of their teammates have decided to call it a career, knowing their best days are behind them, and that their best day of all has yet to be commemorated.
“If I could change anything about the antidoping movement, it would be, just improve the transparency and improve the time frame,” Bates said. “The shelf life for an Olympic athlete is short. We think in four-year cycles and it’s almost been two years. It’s such a shame this moment hasn’t taken place and there’s still no closure or resolution to this so many months later.”
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-23T11:43:29+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/06/23/olympic-skaters-still-missing-medals-500-days-later/ |
Do you ever hurt your own feelings?
For me, it's a common occurrence. A curt reply to that thoughtful work email, zero responses to that happy hour invitation – little slights like these get my inner critic going. What a dumb thing to say! Of course they don't like you. Who do you think you are?
This kind of negative self-talk can get in the way of creating strong relationships with ourselves and others. But there are ways to stop this spiral of thinking, says psychologist Ethan Kross. In moments of hurt or confusion, pause to consider other possibilities.
In our episode on how to take things less personally, Kross, author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters and How to Harness It, says assessing the situation from different angles can help you avoid the unproductive thought loop that can prevent our ability to move on.
Maybe that coworker gave a short response to your email because they were on deadline. Maybe your friend simply forgot to push "send" on her response.
Maybe, just maybe, it's not all about you – and that's a freeing and wonderful thing, says Kross. Zooming out and changing your viewpoint is a great way to change that destructive internal narrative, he says.
Here are five more tips on how to crush self-doubt and make nice with the voice in your head.
Talk to yourself the way you would talk to a friend
In our episode on how to curb negative self-talk, psychologist Joy Harden Bradford says to be aware of the harmful things we might say to ourselves.
So the next time you're tempted to disparage your looks or criticize your decision-making, ask yourself: would I talk this way to my best friend? If not, practice "using the same kind and gentle language that we use with the people we love" on yourself, says Bradford. "Because we're also people who we hopefully love, right?" Listen to the episode here.
'SIFT' through what people say about you
The acronym SIFT (source, impact, frequency and trends), developed by research scientist Mike Caulfield, can help you figure out whether you should listen to feedback from others or just ignore it.
Say someone calls you out for poor email communication. Did that criticism come from someone you trust and value? Is it demanding a big change or a minor tweak to your behavior? Is this something you've heard from other people? And have you heard this from different communities in your life, or just at work? Consider these points before deciding to act. Listen to the episode here.
Don't forget that our brains have a tendency to focus on the negative
The mind is a tricky thing. It can lead us to fixate, for example, on one bad aspect of a year-end review from a manager instead of their positive feedback. This is called "negativity bias," says Yale psychology professor Woo-kyoung Ahn, and it illustrates our propensity to weigh negative events a lot more heavily than an equal amount of positive events. This "thinking error," she says, is dangerous because it can lead us to make the wrong choices. Find out how to counteract this bias here.
Don't dwell on something that bothers you — talk about it
If someone you love is causing you distress, don't be afraid to communicate with them about it, says psychologist Adia Gooden. It may help clear up any assumptions you may have and offer new perspectives about the incident.
For example, instead of jumping to conclusions if your partner is always on their phone at dinnertime, you might say to them: "Because you're always on your phone, I feel like you don't think I'm worthy of your attention," says Gooden. "And they might say, 'Oh, shoot, I didn't mean to be on my phone. Or, you know, I've been kind of frustrated with you and I didn't know how to bring it up. So I've been looking at my phone instead of making eye contact. Let's talk." Listen to the episode here.
Adapt a 'growth mindset'
Instead of defining yourself by your failures or limitations, consider every loss as part of your learning process. This idea, developed by psychologist Carol Dweck, is called a "growth mindset," and it can help bolster that internal dialogue when you've taken an L and can't stop kicking yourself about it.
Let's say you lose a round of pool. Those with a fixed mindset, she says, think that talent and intelligence are static: I give up, I'll never get good at this! Growth-minded people believe that effort can lead to mastery: Hey! I'm getting a lot better at putting some power behind the ball! It's all about finding the right perspective. Listen to the episode here.
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Sinéad O’Connor, Irish singer known for ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ dies at 56
Irish singer and songwriter, Sinéad O’Connor, has died.
She was 56 years old.
"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time," according to a statement shared with the BBC.
NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 01: Photo of Sinead O'CONNOR (Photo by Michel Linssen/Redferns)
The cause of her death was not shared immediately.
O’Connor is best known for her single, "Nothing Compares 2 U," which debuted in 1990 and became a worldwide hit.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 1 -- Pictured: Musical guest Sinead O'Connor performs on September 29, 1990 -- Photo by: Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank
"Nothing Compares 2 U" received three Grammy nominations and was the featured track off her acclaimed album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got," which helped lead Rolling Stone to name her Artist of the Year in 1991.
"She proved that a recording artist could refuse to compromise and still connect with millions of listeners hungry for music of substance," the magazine declared.
She was a lifelong non-conformist — she would say that she shaved her head in response to record executives pressuring her to be conventionally glamorous — but her political and cultural stances and troubled private life often overshadowed her music. She feuded with Frank Sinatra over her refusal to allow the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at one of her shows and accused Prince of physically threatening her. In 1989 she declared her support for the Irish Republican Army, a statement she retracted a year later. Around the same time, she skipped the Grammy ceremony, saying it was too commercialized.
O’Connor’s other musical credits included the albums "Universal Mother" and "Faith and Courage," a cover of Cole Porter’s "You Do Something to Me" from the AIDS fundraising album "Red Hot + Blue" and backing vocals on Peter Gabriel’s "Blood of Eden." She received eight Grammy nominations overall and in 1991 won for best alternative musical performance.
DUBLIN, IRELAND - MARCH 09: Sinead O'Connor recieves the Classic Irish Album award for "I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got" at the RTÉ Choice Music Prize at Vicar Street on March 09, 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Kieran Frost/Redferns)
O’Connor announced she was retiring from music in 2003, but she continued to record new material. Her most recent album was " I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss," released in 2014.
The singer married four times; her union to drug counsellor Barry Herridge, in 2011, lasted just 16 days. She was open about her private life, from her sexuality to her mental illness. She said she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and on social media wrote openly about taking her own life. When her teenage son Shane died by suicide in 2022, O’Connor tweeted there was "no point living without him" and was soon hospitalized.
O’Connor had four children: Jake, with her first husband John Reynolds; Roisin, with John Waters; Shane, with Donal Lunny; and Yeshua Bonadio, with Frank Bonadio.
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September 23-25 at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Repertory Ballet (ARB) launches its 2022-2023 season with Kaleidoscope for four performances at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, September 23-25.
An innovative program featuring never-before-seen work, Kaleidoscope includes a unique collaboration between choreographer Da' Von Doane, formerly of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New Jersey-based visual artist Grace Lynne Haynes, whose creations have graced the cover of The New Yorker magazine. A recent graduate of the Rutgers Art & Design MFA program, Haynes will be designing scenic elements and costumes for Doane's new ballet, a partnership amplifying both artists' creative talents. About the piece, Doane says, "This work excavates the interplay between states of mind and processing the nature of change."
"Collaborations are a great way to learn about a different art practice, and mend together two distinct voices. I have grown so much as a visual artist through this project. I've been able to see how visual art can intertwine with dance and take on a new form," explains Haynes. "Working with ARB has allowed me to push my perception of how painting can function and enhance the space it inhabits"
Also commissioned for the program will be a new work by ARB's Ryoko Tanaka and pianist-composer Ian Howells, inspired by Salvador Dali's painting titled Swans Reflecting Elephants. Tanaka, a beloved ARB Company dancer, made her choreographic debut with ARB last season, and Howells is a graduate of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and Mercer County Community College, where he received degrees in Jazz Studies. He also accompanies classes at Princeton Ballet School, as well as Princeton, Rutgers and Rider University.
"When I saw the Dali painting for the first time, it was fascinating to see how two completely different animals were reflecting each other in perfect symmetry. I found it incredibly unique and mysterious," says Tanaka. "It inspired me to create a piece about two different types of reflections: self-reflection and literal reflection."
The program also features Claire Davison's enchanting Bewitched set to Ella Fitzgerald's iconic vocals. A dancer with American Ballet Theatre, Davison's piece premiered at the Boulder Arts Outdoors Festival in 2021 and ARB performed the piece earlier this year as part of its Mask-erade Gala. Rounding out the performance will be a dazzling classical pas de deux, choreographed by Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel, set to music by Léo Delibes and showcasing the balletic bravura of ARB's artists.
Audiences can expect a multifaceted and engaging experience during ARB's Kaleidoscope performances at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center for one weekend only: September 23-25.
For tickets and more information, please visit arballet.org.
Season tickets are now available! Buy tickets to all three American Repertory Ballet performances at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (Kaleidoscope, Giselle, and PREMIERE3) and receive 30% off. This offer only applies when purchasing all three programs in the same transaction. Subscribers also receive additional discounts and benefits. For season tickets, visit arballet.org/seasontickets
photo credit: Harald Schrader Photography | Featuring Aldeir Monteiro
Led by Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel, American Repertory Ballet (ARB) is New Jersey's preeminent ballet company, presenting classical repertory alongside new and existing contemporary work. ARB is a founding resident company of the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center while also performing in major venues across New Jersey and beyond. Founded in 1954 as the Princeton Ballet Society, ARB has been designated a "Major Arts Institution" by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts consistently for the past two decades and has repeatedly been awarded a Citation of Excellence by the Council. The company has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and other major foundations and leaders in the field as a prominent force in the field of dance. Princeton Ballet School, ARB's official school, attracts talent from around the world while providing opportunities for local students of all ages, such as through its award-winning DANCE POWER program. arballet.org
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BARCELONA, Spain, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eDreams ODIGEO (www.edreamsodigeo.com), Europe's largest online travel company, the largest globally in terms of flights outside of China and one of the largest European e-commerce businesses, today reports its results for Q4 and the year ended 31 March 2022.
With 247 websites and apps in 44 countries, 21 languages and 37 different currencies on one central platform, eDreams ODIGEO (eDO) now covers 80% of the global travel market.
Throughout FY22 we have seen the travel market improve and recover significantly, eDO outperformed the market (and its competitors) by a significant margin, and we positioned ourselves for future success with our innovative approach including the first and leading subscription programme in travel – Prime – which today[1] has 2.9 million members, triple that of a year ago.
- Strong financial and operational improvement, significantly outperforming the market
- Revolutionising travel, continued highly successful transition to subscription model
- Significant achievements in FY22
- Good progress towards self-set 2025 targets
Dana Dunne, CEO of eDreams ODIGEO said: "Throughout FY22, we have continued to make strong progress in revolutionising travel and reinventing the travel experience through the ongoing success of our global, leading subscription model, Prime and pre-eminent worldwide position in flight bookings. We have gained market share, further enhanced our proposition and continue to thrive as a global business.
We see immense potential, for example 225 million households alone in Europe that we have targeted to become Prime customers. We know we will reach our targets for 2025 and this will represent a significant milestone while bringing substantial value to all our stakeholders.
FY23 has started very well indeed with travel markets opening as the pandemic subsides. eDreams ODIGEO is optimally placed and in pole position to take advantage of the undoubted desire to travel and the continued digitalisation of our markets. With FY23 volumes continually at record levels, significantly above 2019, and Prime membership continuing to rapidly grow, we are confident of future success."
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About eDreams ODIGEO
eDreams ODIGEO is one of the world's largest online travel companies and one of the largest e-commerce businesses in Europe. The business is the second largest flight retailer globally and the largest in Europe. Under its four leading online travel agency brands – eDreams, GO Voyages, Opodo, Travellink, and the metasearch engine Liligo – it serves more than 17 million customers per year across 44 markets. Listed on the Spanish Stock Market, eDreams ODIGEO works with over 690 airlines and +2.1 million hotels. The business conceptualised Prime, the first subscription product in the travel sector which has attracted 2.9 million members since launching in 2017. The brand offers the best quality products and the widest choice of regular flights, low-cost airlines, hotels, dynamic packages, cruises, car rental services and travel insurance products to make travel easier, more accessible, and better value for consumers across the globe.
[1] eDO Prime members as of 17th May 2022
[2] Last twelve months up to 31 January 2020
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KOKOMO, Ind. (WXIN) – An Indiana woman left four young children home alone while she went on a shopping trip about an hour away, according to an incident report by Kokomo police.
Courtny Prater, 25, has been charged with neglect. The report states the children were ages 1, 4, 5 and 8.
Police were called to a trailer home in Kokomo on Aug. 2 for a child welfare check. When they arrived, they met another woman who told them she was the mother of two of the children.
The woman said her father, who lived nearby, went to check on the children earlier and was greeted at the door by the 8-year-old. The 8-year-old told the man that his mother and father were in Indianapolis and that the kids were home alone, according to court documents.
The distance between Indianapolis and Kokomo is about one hour.
Police say when they knocked on the door, they could hear “two large dogs barking and hitting the door.” When they went to check the windows, the dogs were reportedly so aggressive that one of them hit the window and caused the window frame to move.
The woman who had greeted police contacted the suspect — later identified as Prater, who is also the mother of the other children — and told her that police wanted her at the home right away, documents said.
When Prater arrived, she reportedly admitted she had been shopping in Indianapolis and pointed to two other people in the car and said they were supposed to be watching the kids, documents said.
After the dogs were secured, police went inside the home, which they say had trash on the floor and smelled of dog urine.
The incident report says the mother of the other two children asked for her children back at this point, and police say they granted her request immediately.
Prater told police that another man who lived at the trailer “off and on” was supposed to check on the kids throughout the day while she was in Indianapolis.
After determining the 8-year-old did not “appear qualified” to care for the other children, Kokomo police requested an arrest warrant be issued for Prater on four counts of neglect, but she was only charged with two counts.
Police also contacted the Department of Child Services. | 2022-08-24T22:08:28+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/indiana-woman-accused-of-leaving-4-children-home-alone-to-go-shopping/ |
OXFORD – Two men accused in a fatal hit and run in Oxford Sunday morning that killed a man and left a woman in critical condition are now in custody.
The alleged driver, Seth Garron Rokitka, 24, of Collierville, Tennessee, was taken into custody around 8:30 a.m. Monday. His truck was found wrecked in Marshall County. It has since been recovered and impounded. Rokitka is expected to appear before a judge Monday.
His alleged passenger, Tristan Holland, 18, of Collierville, was taken into custody in Shelby County, Tennessee, Sunday around 9 p.m., about 8 hours after Oxford police released surveillance camera images of two persons of interest and the truck involved in the incident. Holland remains incarcerated in the Shelby County Jail, pending extradition to Mississippi.
Oxford police responded Sunday, Oct. 16 around 1:15 a.m. to the parking lot behind Oxford City Hall. Passersby reported through 911 calls that two people had been injured. First responders from the Oxford police and fire departments responded almost immediately and began tending to the two victims.
The victims were carried to Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi. The male, later identified as Walker Fielder, died from his injuries. The female victim, an Ole Miss student, suffered critical injuries and was eventually transferred to Regional One Medical Center in Memphis.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Oxford police at 662-232-2400 or Crime Stoppers at 662-234-8799.
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Actor Don Cheadle once took part in a conversation that could be seen as a commentary on today's news.
It was in the movie Hotel Rwanda, in which he portrayed Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who sheltered more than 1,200 people during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
In the movie, Cheadle thanks a Western TV cameraman for sending footage of the killing to the West, saying it would prompt the international community to intervene.
The cameraman replies, "I think if people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's horrible,' and then go on eating their dinners."
Now Cheadle is trying to prevent a similar reaction to what's been labeled genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
In 2005 he traveled to Sudan with John Prendergast, a former Clinton administration official who is now a senior adviser to the International Crisis Group. They visited a refugee camp for people who had fled the violence in Darfur, and heard first-hand accounts of killings, rape, torture and forced evacuations.
Cheadle and Prendergast are urging ordinary citizens to speak out to end the suffering in Darfur.
They are co-authors of a new book, Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, which maintains that people can influence their governments to act.
"If U.S. citizens can make enough noise to press their government to do what's right, then we will have saved literally tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives in Darfur," Prendergast says.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three Jewish congregations, resolute in their defiance of the hatred that tried to destroy them, are still waiting for justice.
But united in their horror and grief, they haven’t been standing still as the criminal case for the massacre that changed everything has crawled through the federal court system.
Four and a half years ago, a gunman invaded the Tree of Life synagogue on a Sabbath morning and killed 11 worshippers from the three congregations that shared the building — Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life. The shooting, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood at the heart of Jewish Pittsburgh, was the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
On Monday, jury selection is scheduled to begin in the long-delayed trial of the suspect, accused of dozens of charges including hate crimes resulting in death.
The three congregations are wary of what’s to come. Some members may be called to testify, and they’re bracing for graphic evidence and testimony that could revive the traumas of the Oct. 27, 2018, attack — often referred to around here as simply 10/27.
The tension can be felt in private conversations and encounters — the griefs, the anxieties, the feelings of being in a media fishbowl.
But each in their own ways, members are finding renewed purpose in honoring those lost in the attack, in the bold practice of their faith, in activism on issues like gun violence and immigration, in taking a stand against antisemitism and other forms of bigotry.
“We don’t want to be silenced as Jews,” said Rich Weinberg, chair of the social action committee for Dor Hadash. “We want to be active as Jews with an understanding of Jewish values. … We are going to still be here. We will not be intimidated.”
That was evident even in subtle details of a Passover service held earlier this month in New Light’s chapel, joined by some members of Dor Hadash.
Some offering Yizkor, or remembrance, prayers were doing so in honor of slain loved ones. One prayer was read in memory of the “Kedoshim of Pittsburgh, murdered al kiddush Hashem” — holy martyrs, killed while sanctifying God’s name. The prayer, modeled on prayers for Jewish martyrs of medieval Europe, has been woven into the ritual fabric of Jewish Pittsburgh.
One of those leading Passover prayers was Carol Black, who survived the attack that claimed the life of her brother, Richard Gottfried, and two other New Light members, Melvin Wax and Daniel Stein. They had led much of New Light’s ritual worship.
“Rich and Dan and Mel were our religious heart,” said Stephen Cohen, co-president of New Light. “And we had some very big shoes to fill.”
Members such as Black and Bruce Hyde have stepped into them. Hyde said when he once read a passage that had been read by Stein, he felt his presence: “He was up there with me.”
Cohen said the congregation had three priorities after the attack: to memorialize those lost, to continue their ritual life and to further religious education. New Light, like Tree of Life, is part of the moderate Conservative denomination of Judaism.
The congregation dedicated a monument honoring its three martyrs — shaped with images of Torah scrolls and prayer shawls — at its cemetery, where it also created a chapel adorned with stained glass windows and other mementos honoring the victims.
New Light Co-President Barbara Caplan said her dream for the congregation is “that we have many more years of Friday night services, Saturday morning services, holidays together, where we just go on being the family that we are.”
Cohen said the congregation has been overwhelmed by support from Christian, Sikh and other communities and wanted to build on those relationships. It has held Bible studies with local Black churches, and members visited the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, drawing solace from a congregation that lost nine members to a racist gunman in 2015. “I’ve never been part of a group hug of a hundred people,” Cohen recalled.
All three of the modest-sized congregations have been meeting in nearby synagogues since the attack closed the Tree of Life building.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers had been leading Tree of Life Congregation for just over a year when he survived 10/27. He carries the scarred memories of the gunshots that killed seven members: Joyce Fienberg, Rose Mallinger, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon and Irving Younger. Andrea Wedner, Mallinger’s daughter, was wounded in the attack.
Myers continues to speak forcefully against the bigotry behind it.
His mission is “primarily to help my congregation community heal,” Myers said. “But beyond it is to speak up, to be a voice, to say, ‘No, this isn’t okay. It’s not acceptable. It never was. And it can never be.’”
He’d like to think the trial will expose the dangers of rising bigotry, but “it takes a concerted effort to be able to … walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” he said. But it affects more than Jews. ”Someone who is an antisemite is most likely also the possessor of a long laundry list of personal grievances and other groups that that person does not like.”
Members are each recovering in their own ways, congregation president Alan Hausman said.
Each week when he makes announcements, Hausman said he includes this one: “It’s OK not to be OK, and we will get through this together.”
On Sunday, the day before jury selection, the Tree of Life Congregation is having a closure ceremony for its historic building. The congregation and a partner organization plan a major overhaul of the site, which will combine worship space with a memorial and antisemitism education, including about the Holocaust.
“We’re not really leaving, we will be back,” said Hausman.
“Hopefully we’ll be once again a happy, grounded, 160-year-old congregation,” added member Audrey Glickman, a survivor. “Back to being a solid group of people who come together regularly and do our thing.”
Dor Hadash, founded 60 years ago, is Pittsburgh’s only congregation in the progressive Reconstructionist movement of Judaism. Many members are drawn to its interlocking focuses on worship, study and social activism.
It was that activism that appears to have drawn the shooting suspect — who fulminated online against HIAS, a Jewish refugee resettlement agency — to the address where Dor Hadash met. The congregation was listed on HIAS’ website as a participant in a National Refugee Shabbat, which wove concern for migrants into Sabbath worship.
On 10/27, members Jerry Rabinowitz and Dan Leger were gathering for a Torah study when they heard the gunshots and ran to help. Rabinowitz was killed, and Leger seriously wounded.
But the attack has only emboldened Dor Hadash members.
They were soon organizing what became a separate group, Squirrel Hill Stands Against Gun Violence, advocating for gun safety legislation. And they redoubled their support for immigrants, refugees and their helpers such as HIAS. The congregation has sponsored a refugee family originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And they have taken a strong stand against rising antisemitism and white supremacy.
“I think advocacy has been a huge part of our healing,” said Dana Kellerman, communications chair for Dor Hadash. Advocacy “isn’t just about making myself feel better,” she added. “It is about trying to move the needle so that this doesn’t happen to somebody else.”
The congregation has been growing since the attack, said its president, Jo Recht. The historically lay-led congregation has hired its first staff rabbi, Amy Bardack. Her formal installation is this Sunday — a date that wasn’t specifically chosen in advance of the trial but that provides a welcome occasion of celebration.
“There are a lot of people who are seeking some way to help so that the world is a more compassionate place,” Recht said.
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BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets sank Monday after strong U.S. jobs data fanned fears of more interest rate hikes to cool inflation.
Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul retreated. Tokyo gained. Oil prices rose.
Wall Street wilted Friday after official data showed U.S. employers hired twice as many people in January as the previous month. That was good news for workers but dampened hopes the Federal Reserve might decide no more rate increases are needed to slow economic activity.
The numbers “look set to inevitably burst the bubble on Fed pivot bets" because they “suggest a re-acceleration in wage pressures," said Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank in a report.
The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.8% to 3,237.36 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo advanced 0.6% to 27,671.02. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong sank 2% to 21,230.81.
The Kospi in Seoul declined 1.1% to 2,452.55 and Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 retreated 0.3% to 7,539.00.
India's Sensex opened down 0.6% at 60,472.35. Southeast Asian markets declined. New Zealand markets were closed for a holiday.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 fell 1% on Friday to 4,136.48 after the government reported the economy added 517,000 jobs in January. That was double December's 260,000 and more than double the 185,000 expected by economists.
Despite that, the S&P 500 turned in its fourth weekly gain in the past five. It is 15.6% above its low point in October.
Average hourly wages were 4.4% higher in January than a year earlier. That was lower than December's 4.8% raise but above expectations. Central bankers worry wage growth can push up consumer prices.
The data dampened investor hopes that lower inflation might persuade the Fed and other central banks to ease off plans for more rate increases. They worry central bankers might be willing to tip the global economy into recession to stop inflation that is near multi-decade highs.
Some traders expect the Fed to cut rates late this year, despite warnings by officials that more increases are planned. Officials of the European Central Bank have issued similar warnings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.4%to 33,926.01. The Nasdaq composite sank 1.6% to 12,006.96.
Also Friday, a separate report showed U.S. service industries returned to growth in January. It was a stronger reading than expected but suggested pricing pressures may be easing.
In energy markets, U.S. benchmark crude gained 23 cents to $73.62 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract tumbled $2.49 on Friday to $73.39. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, advanced 34 cents to $80.28 per barrel in London. It lost $2.23 the previous session to $79.94.
The dollar rose to 131.70 yen from Friday's 131.07 yen. The euro fell to $1.0796 from $1.0805. | 2023-02-06T07:13:08+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/asian-stocks-sink-after-us-jobs-data-fan-rate-17765890.php |
WEEKLY
Family Story Time: Children and their caregivers can participate in family story times at the Naperville Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Tuesday and Friday, Dec. 26, 27 and 29, at Nichols Library, 200 W. Jefferson Ave.; 10:30 a.m. Monday and Wednesday, Dec. 26 and 28, and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, at 95th Street Library, 3015 Cedar Glade Drive; and 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Dec. 27 and 29, at Naper Boulevard Library, 2035 S. Naper Blvd. For more information, go to www.naperville-lib.org.
TUESDAY
Scavenger hunts: Santa’s magic elves and Chanukah menorahs will be hiding in downtown Naperville businesses through Tuesday, Dec. 27. Children can print a list where the elves and menorahs can be found and earn a chance to win prizes if they find them all. For more information, go to www.downtownnaperville.com.
FRIDAY
Feeding Time at Hidden Oaks: Naturalists will talk about and feed the nature center’s animals during a free program at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 30, at Hidden Oaks Nature Center, 419 Trout Farm Road, Bolingbrook, near Whalon Lake. Register by Dec. 29 at www.reconnectwithnature.org.
SATURDAY
Noon Year’s Eve Party: Children and their families can join in a new year countdown at Noon Year’s Eve parties being held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, at Nichols Library, 200 W. Jefferson Ave.; 95th Street Library, 3015 Cedar Glade Drive; and Naper Boulevard Library, 2035 S. Naper Blvd. No registration is required, and families can pick up an entry ticket the day of the event at the children’s services desk. Tickets will be on a first-come, first-served basis with attendance limited to 140 at Nichols, 170 at 95th Street and 50 at Naper Boulevard. For more information, go to www.naperville-lib.org. | 2022-12-22T23:23:53+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-this-week-naperville-st-1225-20221222-h2n5hlyrvvbxjk4alikikmlxza-story.html |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A group of students from two Tampa-area high schools were surprised by Grammy Award winner and singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran on Friday.
Sheeran, who is set to perform at the city’s Raymond James Stadium on Saturday, gave tickets to the students and played what he called a “tiny concert” for them.
Sheeran also donated some guitars to the schools he visited.
“Times forever frozen still for a group of Middleton and Blake High School students,” the school district posted on Facebook. “Thank you Ed Sheeran for stopping by and supporting our students!”
In a video shared by the school district, Sheeran can be seen carrying a guitar into band practice while students finished rehearsal. Most appeared to be concentrating on their performance, and didn’t notice he was there until their song was over.
“Thanks so much, guys,” Sheeran said, before announcing he had “tickets for all of you guys to come” to his Saturday show.
During his visit, he performed his song “Perfect,” and stayed to hear a rendition of his hit “Photograph” performed by a group of the school’s students, the video showed.
Sheeran is currently on the third leg of his Mathematics (+–=÷×) tour, which wraps up at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles in September. | 2023-05-20T21:18:56+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ed-sheeran-surprises-students-at-florida-high-school-with-tiny-concert/ |
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran lawmakers will begin choosing the 15 members of a new Supreme Court this week in a process with implications for the administration of President Xiomara Castro, who promised a sharp break with her predecessor’s “dictatorship.”
If lawmakers from Castro’s Liberty and Refoundation party, LIBRE, give her control of the high court, she will have the same lock on all three branches of government that President Juan Orlando Hernández enjoyed before her.
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It was that control that allowed Hernández to seek re-election to a second term despite Honduras’ constitutional ban. He now awaits trial in the United States on drug trafficking charges.
“It’s never healthy for the ruling parties to control all state powers,” said constitutional lawyer and analyst Juan Carlos Barrientos. LIBRE "used to talk about a dictatorship, because in the previous administration he had all of the powers, but now that they are governing they want to be dictators too.”
Castro’s party holds a majority in the congress, but will need to pact with others to select members for the court. Its goal will be to win at least eight seats, a majority on the country’s highest court, said Juan Carlos Aguilar of the nongovernmental organization Association for a More Just Society.
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There has even been talk of trying to keep Hernández’s National Party off the court entirely, though that seems unlikely because a super-majority -- 86 votes in the 128-seat chamber -- are required to confirm a new justice to the court and LIBRE only has 48 of its own, while the National maintains 43.
“If the National Party is left out, it would be dangerous because it would replicate the model the National Party implemented during its time (in power), to have control of all three state powers,” Aguilar said.
“We know that the rule of law has suffered a regression,” he said. At times the court has been used to consolidate political plans rather than reach legal decisions, he said, noting the court’s decision that allowed Hernández to seek re-election in 2017.
With LIBRE’s relatively slim congressional majority, firm control of the court would also give Castro’s administration the option of trying to legislate through decree and legal rulings if they couldn’t pass legislation, Aguilar said.
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Control of the court could also potentially give Castro’s administration and members of her husband Manuel Zelaya’s earlier administration some degree of protection from a United Nations anti-corruption mission that is in the works. An impartial judiciary supportive of Castro’s stated anti-corruption mission would also be a key ally for the U.N. backed effort.
Lawmakers will begin the process of gathering votes and selecting court justices Wednesday when a new legislative session begins.
On Monday, a selection commission announced a list of 45 candidates that it had winnowed from a pool of about 170 applicants through a series of tests, background checks and public hearings.
Members of Congress will now choose from those 45.
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“We have finalized a transparent labor,” said Julissa Aguilar, a member of the nominating commission. “Now we await Congress to make a selection according to the interests of the people and the country, to choose the most ideal people for the position and move nearer to the international standards for the practice of the judiciary, leaving aside partisan political interests.” | 2023-01-24T16:25:11+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Honduran-congress-to-begin-selecting-new-Supreme-17738067.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new government data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had already said the overall number of such deaths rose in 2020 and 2021. Two reports from the CDC this week provided further details on which groups have the highest death rates and which states are seeing the largest numbers.
“Alcohol is often overlooked” as a public health problem, said Marissa Esser, who leads the CDC's alcohol program. “But it is a leading preventable cause of death.”
A report released Friday focused on more than a dozen kinds of "alcohol-induced" deaths that were wholly blamed on drinking. Examples include alcohol-caused liver or pancreas failure, alcohol poisoning, withdrawal and certain other diseases. There were more than 52,000 such deaths last year, up from 39,000 in 2019.
The rate of such deaths had been increasing in the two decades before the pandemic, by 7% or less each year.
In 2020, they rose 26%, to about 13 deaths per 100,000 Americans. That's the highest rate recorded in at least 40 years, said the study’s lead author, Merianne Spencer.
Such deaths are 2 1/2 times more common in men than in women, but rose for both in 2020, the study found. The rate continued to be highest for people ages 55 to 64, but rose dramatically for certain other groups, including jumping 42% among women ages 35 to 44.
The second report, published earlier this week in JAMA Network Open, looked at a wider range of deaths that could be linked to drinking, such as motor vehicle accidents, suicides, falls and cancers.
More than 140,000 of that broader category of alcohol-related deaths occur annually, based on data from 2015 to 2019, the researchers said. CDC researchers say about 82,000 of those deaths are from drinking too much over a long period of time and 58,000 from causes tied to acute intoxication.
The study found that as many as 1 in 8 deaths among U.S. adults ages 20 to 64 were alcohol-related deaths. New Mexico was the state with the highest percentage of alcohol-related deaths, 22%. Mississippi had the lowest, 9%
Excessive drinking is associated with chronic dangers such as liver cancer, high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease. Drinking by pregnant women can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects. And health officials say alcohol is a factor in as many as one-third of serious falls among the elderly.
It’s also a risk to others through drunken driving or alcohol-fueled violence. Surveys suggest that more than half the alcohol sold in the U.S. is consumed during binge drinking episodes.
Even before the pandemic, U.S. alcohol consumption was trending up, and Americans were drinking more than when Prohibition was enacted. But deaths may have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began for several reasons, including people with alcohol-related illnesses may have had more trouble getting medical care, Esser said.
She added that the research points to a need to look at steps to reduce alcohol consumption, including increasing alcohol taxes and enacting measures that limit where people can buy beer, wine and liquor. | 2022-11-04T15:27:54+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/alcohol-death-toll-is-growing-us-government-reports-say |
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday’s two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise in the country’s deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, at the site of the explosions in Mogadishu, told journalists that nearly 300 other people were wounded. “We ask our international partners and Muslims around the world to send their medical doctors here since we can’t send all the victims outside the country for treatment,” he said.
The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which often targets the capital and controls large parts of the country, claimed responsibility, saying it targeted the education ministry. It claimed the ministry was an “enemy base” that receives support from non-Muslim countries and “is committed to removing Somali children from the Islamic faith.”
Al-Shabab usually doesn’t make claims of responsibility when large numbers of civilians are killed, as in the 2017 blast, but it has been angered by a high-profile new offensive by the government that also aims to shut down its financial network. The group said it is committed to fighting until the country is ruled by Islamic law, and it asked civilians to stay away from government areas.
Somalia’s president, elected this year, said the country remained at war with al-Shabab “and we are winning.”
The attack in Mogadishu occurred on a day when the president, prime minister and other senior officials were meeting to discuss expanded efforts to combat violent extremism and especially al-Shabab. The extremists, who seek an Islamic state, have responded to the offensive by killing prominent clan leaders in an apparent effort to dissuade grassroots support.
The attack has overwhelmed first responders in Somalia, which has one of the world’s weakest health systems after decades of conflict. At hospitals and elsewhere, frantic relatives peeked under plastic sheeting and into body bags, looking for loved ones.
Halima Duwane was searching for her uncle, Abdullahi Jama. “We don’t know whether he is dead or alive but the last time we communicated he was around here,” she said, crying.
Witnesses to the attack were stunned. “I couldn’t count the bodies on the ground due to the (number of) fatalities,” witness Abdirazak Hassan said. He said the first blast hit the perimeter wall of the education ministry, where street vendors and money changers were located.
An Associated Press journalist at the scene said the second blast occurred in front of a busy restaurant during lunchtime. The blasts demolished tuk-tuks and other vehicles in an area of many restaurants and hotels.
The Somali Journalists Syndicate, citing colleagues and police, said one journalist was killed and two others wounded by the second blast while rushing to the scene of the first. The Aamin ambulance service said the second blast destroyed one of its responding vehicles.
It was not immediately clear how vehicles loaded with explosives again made it to the high-profile location in Mogadishu, a city thick with checkpoints and constantly on alert for attacks.
The United States has described al-Shabab as one of al-Qaida’s deadliest organizations and targeted it with scores of airstrikes in recent years. Hundreds of U.S. military personnel have returned to the country after former President Donald Trump withdrew them. | 2022-10-30T19:54:31+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-somalias-leader-says-at-least-100-killed-in-saturday-attack/ |
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kristaps Porzingis had 30 points and 13 rebounds and the Washington Wizards routed the short-handed Orlando Magic 119-100 on Friday night for their fourth straight victory.
Kyle Kuzma added 23 points and Rui Hachimura had 16 points and seven rebounds. The Wizards played without star guard Bradley Beal for the second straight game because of a strained hamstring.
Franz Wagner had 28 points and eight assists for Orlando, and Paolo Banchero added 21 points. The Magic had only eight players available after suspensions by the NBA in the wake of an incident in Detroit on Wednesday night.
The Wizards overcame 26 turnovers with 56% shooting and a 53-35 rebounding advantage. The Magic have lost three straight after winning eight of nine.
Wagner scored eight points on a 16-0 run that put the Magic up 32-27 early in the second quarter. Prorzingis scored 15 points in the final 8:39 of the period, leaving Washington with a 56-47 lead at the break.
Two 3-pointers by Corey Kispert and three-point plays by Porzingis and Daniel Gafford helped the Wizards expand their lead to 25 in the first six minutes of the second half.
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Wizards: F Taj Gibson sat out the game with a groin injury. ... The Wizards have won six straight against Orlando.
Magic: The Magic played without C Mo Wagner, G Cole Anthony, C Mo Bamba, C Wendell Carter Jr., G R.J. Hampton and G Gary Harris, all of whom were suspended for their participation in an altercation at Detroit. Wagner also will miss Orlando's next game along with three other players.
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Wizards: At Milwaukee on Sunday night.
Magic: Host Oklahoma City on Wednesday night.
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Janet Harke, 81, of rural Augusta, passed away following a lengthy illness at her home early Wednesday morning, July 13, 2022. She was in the loving care of her daughters, grand daughter Chelsie, special niece Melinda and St. Joseph’s Hospice. Janet was comforted by her strong faith and the knowledge that she would be reunited with her husband and cherished family members.
Janet Lisetta Harke, daughter of Jerry and Lisetta (Knuth) Randall was born Sept.11, 1940, in Augusta, Wisconsin. Janet was raised in Augusta with her sister and two brothers, and it was here that she attended school and graduated from Augusta High School in 1958 . Janet was confirmed on June 27, 1954, at Grace Lutheran Church in Augusta, and since then her involvement with her church was always an important part of her life.
Janet was united in marriage to her high school sweetheart Ronald Harke on June 6, 1959, at Grace Lutheran Church. The couple lived all their married life in Bridge Creek Township, where they farmed and raised their daughters.
In addition to her role as wife and mother, she had also worked at Randall Livestock in Augusta, briefly at Country Treasures in Eau Claire before working for her brother Tom at the Woodshed in Augusta. This position allowed her to not only tap into her decorating ability, but also gave her the opportunity to visit with friends as well as new acquaintance. Janet was a warm and caring individual that looked for the good in everyone. Her family and faith were the center of her life and she went on to enrich the lives of so many around her.
Janet will be deeply missed, especially by her daughters, Renae Harke and Cynthia Barka both of Augusta; grandson Brady Barka (Kaaren Christensen) of Augusta, 2 granddaughters, Chelsie Barka (Kyle Jacobson) of Eau Claire and Shantae Harke (Preston McNamar)of Colorado; 4 great grandchildren, Braxton and Brexlee, Mason and Chandler; brother, Tom and Peggy Randall of Augusta; other family members and many special friends. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Ron on Nov. 26, 2012; father Jerry on Nov. 4, 1971; mother Lisetta on Nov. 1, 1973; siblings, Dale Randall, Nancy (Roger) Guse; father and mother-in-law, Ray and Alfrieda Harke.
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church in Augusta. Burial will be later in the West Lawn Cemetery in Augusta. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Anderson Funeral Home in Augusta, and one hour prior to services Wednesday at the church.
Online condolences can be left at www.andersonfhaugusta.com . | 2022-07-15T08:30:10+00:00 | leadertelegram.com | https://www.leadertelegram.com/obituaries/janet-harke/article_0287e841-4d3f-5cde-ad5f-b88169afc658.html |
(KTXL) — Multiple helicopters were broken into and one was operated before crashing on Wednesday morning at the Sacramento Executive Airport, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Police said they received several reports of multiple helicopters being broken into early Wednesday morning.
Officers that responded found a helicopter with major damage that “appeared to have been operated,” police said in a statement.
There are currently no reported injuries from the crash and no one is in custody.
“This investigation is in its early stages and this information is preliminary as detectives work to learn exactly what occurred,” the statement continued. | 2023-03-15T20:17:55+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/helicopter-crashes-at-california-airport-multiple-others-broken-into/ |
4 killed, hundreds injured in stadium collapse at bullfight
Published: Jun. 27, 2022 at 11:59 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
COLOMBIA (CNN) – Hundreds of people were injured and least four died when a stadium stand collapsed in a bullfight arena in Colombia Sunday.
According to Governor Ricardo Orozco, one child, two women and an adult man lost their lives.
More than 300 people were treated at hospitals, according to health officials in the area.
The stadium collapse happened as the town was marking the celebrations for the upcoming Feast of Saint Peter.
The incident has already had some political repercussions with Colombian president-elect Gustavo Petro calling on mayors to suspend bullfights to avoid similar tragedies.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-27T17:02:02+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/06/27/4-killed-hundreds-injured-stadium-collapse-bullfight/ |
McCAMEY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – The Texas University Interscholastic League is investigating an incident at a high-school softball game in which a catcher is seen hitting a batter in the head with a throw — twice.
Cisco High School was facing off against McCamey High School in the Area Championship series over the weekend when the incidents occurred. On both occasions, a Cisco batter was at the plate when the McCamey catcher looked as if she was throwing toward third base, but instead hit the Cisco batters in their heads with the ball.
No one was ejected after either instance.
Video from the game was originally posted by the father of one of the batters that was struck. The clips have since sparked debate over whether or not the throws were intentionally targeted at the Cisco batters.
“This is surely uncalled for. Catcher should have been ejected,” one viewer wrote after seeing a video on Facebook which has been shared nearly 4,000 times. Another called her a “dirty player.”
A few also defended the catcher, claiming she may have believed a baserunner was stealing third. Another suggested the coach was at fault.
In a statement shared with Nexstar’s KMID, the University Interscholastic League (UIL) said it’s “aware of an incident that occurred during the McCamey vs. Cisco Softball Playoff Series and is in contact with the school administrations to gather additional information.”
As the viral video has circled social media, similar accounts have surfaced of other teams experiencing the same thing against McCamey this season. Local news outlet Coleman Today described two instances in which the McCamey catcher hit the same batter twice in the head with a throw during Coleman’s bi-district playoff game.
KMID reached out to two additional schools that were reported to have experienced the same types of incidents. One declined to comment on the situation, while the other did not respond to the request.
McCamey’s Athletic Director and McCamey High School’s principal also did not respond to a request for comment.
McCamey’s season ended in the Area Championship series to Cisco. | 2023-05-11T17:34:54+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/should-have-been-ejected-viral-softball-incident-prompts-investigation-by-texas-interscholastic-league/ |
ARLINGTON, Va., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) will host a conference call on Friday, August 5, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) to review its second quarter 2022 financial results.
The call will include prepared remarks and a question and answer session. It will be open to the media and the public in a listen-only mode by telephone and webcast. Interested parties may listen to the teleconference by dialing 1-844-200-6205 at least ten minutes before the start of the call. International callers should dial +1-929-526-1599. The Participant Access Code for this call is 780498. Internet access to the conference call and presentation materials will be available on the AES website at www.aes.com by selecting "Investors" and then "Presentations and Webcasts."
A webcast replay, as well as a replay in downloadable MP3 format, will be accessible at www.aes.com beginning shortly after the completion of the call.
The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) is a Fortune 500 global energy company accelerating the future of energy. Together with our many stakeholders, we're improving lives by delivering the greener, smarter energy solutions the world needs. Our diverse workforce is committed to continuous innovation and operational excellence, while partnering with our customers on their strategic energy transitions and continuing to meet their energy needs today. For more information, visit www.aes.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those related to future earnings, growth and financial and operating performance. Forward-looking statements are not intended to be a guarantee of future results, but instead constitute AES' current expectations based on reasonable assumptions. Forecasted financial information is based on certain material assumptions. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, our expectations regarding accurate projections of future interest rates, commodity price and foreign currency pricing, continued normal levels of operating performance and electricity volume at our distribution companies and operational performance at our generation businesses consistent with historical levels, as well as the execution of PPAs, conversion of our backlog and growth investments at normalized investment levels, rates of return consistent with prior experience and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Actual results could differ materially from those projected in our forward-looking statements due to risks, uncertainties and other factors. Important factors that could affect actual results are discussed in AES' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including, but not limited to, the risks discussed under Item 1A: "Risk Factors" and Item 7: "Management's Discussion & Analysis" in AES' Annual Report on Form 10-K and in subsequent reports filed with the SEC. Readers are encouraged to read AES' filings to learn more about the risk factors associated with AES' business. AES undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except where required by law.
Any Stockholder who desires a copy of the Company's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed February 28, 2022 with the SEC may obtain a copy (excluding the exhibits thereto) without charge by addressing a request to the Office of the Corporate Secretary, The AES Corporation, 4300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203. Exhibits also may be requested, but a charge equal to the reproduction cost thereof will be made. A copy of the Annual Report on Form 10-K may be obtained by visiting the Company's website at www.aes.com.
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SmartKargo, a leader in providing technology and logistics solutions to airlines globally, announced today a partnership with Shipium, the preferred shipping platform for e-commerce, to make 2-day delivery of small packages more accessible to retailers.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartKargo, a leader in providing technology and logistics solutions to airlines globally announced a partnership with Shipium, the preferred shipping platform for e-commerce retailers.
SmartKargo partners with airlines to enable an alternate delivery network to established carriers like FedEx. The solution provides a reliable 2-day small package transportation option for e-commerce companies and small package shippers. SmartKargo's unique partnership with a major US domestic airline enables shippers to offer great service with transparent pricing. Providing over 800 flights daily shippers across the US can move packages coast-to-coast in 2-days with no need to utilize multiple distribution centers in many instances. SmartKargo's SaaS solution is now seamlessly integrated with Shipium, enabling retailers to provide fast air delivery of small packages to their customers by utilizing air transportation for the middle mile—increasing margins and meeting consumer expectations for 2-day delivery times.
Shipium solves the retailer's challenge of quickly adding new carriers for e-commerce delivery. It's an afternoon activity for retailers to add a new carrier, such as SmartKargo, to their fulfillment network once Shipium is integrated to all warehouses. High-volume retailers typically turn to Shipium when fast-moving business objectives make existing parcel shipping software solution an anchor to change. Shipium's pre-integrated carrier network, which now includes SmartKargo, is available to all customers for free.
When partnered, progressive carriers like SmartKargo and modern technology solutions like Shipium help reduce shipping costs around 12% on average, and can be as high as 25% when retailers previously relied on a single carrier.
Chris Grey, VP of Business Development at SmartKargo said: "Shipium is a perfect fit for our innovative solution combining fast delivery with transparent pricing. Both companies know that technology is the backbone for providing the fastest and most cost-effective e-commerce delivery options for forward-thinking retailers today."
Jason Murray, CEO at Shipium, said: "SmartKargo is a fellow innovator, with a unique value proposition in the e-commerce delivery market, and we are pleased to partner with them to provide our retailers a highly value alternative delivery network. We can't deliver the differentiated outcomes we offer without partners like SmartKargo."
About Shipium
Shipium is a multi-carrier parcel shipping suite seeking to solve "the Prime problem" for companies facing heightened customer expectations. The company aims to help e-commerce companies ship their orders fast, free, and on time better than anyone else. By improving supply chain decisions, retailers can reduce shipping costs by more than 12% and speed up estimated delivery by several days. Shipium provides the missing piece of technology that retailers need to meet changing consumer preferences while profitably scaling e-commerce operations.
About SmartKargo
SmartKargo empowers airlines and small package shippers with the technology platform to leverage the speed only an airline can provide. Whether a customer is a cargo company shipping from Miami to Bogota or a retailer is looking to combat "the Amazon effect" to deliver a package from New York to Los Angeles – SmartKargo is the innovative solution that enables both shippers to battle the status quo. With deep expertise in air cargo, technology, and e-commerce, SmartKargo helps airlines to open new revenue streams through e-commerce package shipping and delivery. The company headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with key offices in India, the Philippines, Brazil, and Canada.
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Pregnant 17-year-old found dead in neighborhood home, family says
CARYVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - Authorities in Tennessee are investigating the death of a 17-year-old girl.
According to the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, the girl was found dead on Tuesday morning in a neighborhood home.
WVLT reports the girl’s family identified her as Kimber Marie Wilson. The 17-year-old’s mother, Carol Ann Wilson, said her daughter was five months pregnant.
According to the family, Kimber Marie Wilson was found dead in her great-grandfather’s home. The girl’s uncle said he saw her just after midnight and she seemed OK. They said she was a good kid and a smart girl.
Tennessee Highway Patrol officials said the Caryville Police Department sent a lookout order for a suspect before canceling it after a few hours.
Caryville police did not immediately confirm if a person was in custody, but highway patrol officials said that that is usually the case when a lookout order is canceled.
Copyright 2022 WVLT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-30T23:07:52+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/08/30/pregnant-17-year-old-found-dead-neighborhood-home-family-says/ |
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The man charged with killing his mother at sea during a 2016 fishing trip off the coast of New England has died awaiting trial, federal authorities said Thursday.
Nathan Carman, 29, of Vernon, Vermont, was scheduled to face trial in October in what prosecutors said was a scheme to inherit millions of dollars. He had pleaded not guilty last year to fraud and first-degree murder in the death of his mother, Linda Carman of Middletown, Connecticut.
The cause of Nathan Carman’s death was not immediately clear. One of his lawyers, Martin Minnella, said he was told about Carman’s death Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service.
“We had spoken to him yesterday. He was in good spirits,” Minnella said. “We were meeting with some experts today over Zoom at 12 o’çlock. We were prepared to start picking a jury on Oct. 10 and we were confident we were going to win. It’s just a tragedy, a tragedy.”
The eight-count indictment also says Carman shot and killed his wealthy grandfather John Chakalos at the man’s home in Windsor, Connecticut, in 2013 as part of a scheme to obtain money and property from his grandfather’s estate. But the indictment does not charge him with murder in his death.
“Mr. Carman was in the custody of the U.S. Marshal, as is the case for all pretrial defendants who are detained. The U.S. Marshal confirmed Mr. Carman’s death this morning. We have no further comment beyond our public filing,” said Fabienne Boisvert-DeFazio, public affairs officer for the Vermont U.S. attorney’s office.
The filing said prosecutors received information from the U.S. Marshal that Carman died “on or about” Thursday.
Minnella and fellow attorney David Sullivan, both from Connecticut, where Carman grew up, had criticized the indictment, including allegations Carman killed his grandfather, saying Carman was never charged with that crime.
“The whole situation would have come out in court,” Minnella said Thursday. “It would have come out in court and I’m positive … that this young man would have been vindicated.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Van de Graaf said in court in February that Chakalos’ “murder” was part of the fraud charge.
In September 2016, Carman arranged a fishing trip with his mother, during which prosecutors say he planned to kill her and report that his boat sank and his mother disappeared in the accident.
He was found floating in an inflatable raft eight days after leaving a Rhode Island marina with his mother, who was never found. Prosecutors allege he altered the boat to make it more likely to sink. Carman denied that allegation. | 2023-06-15T16:52:45+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/nathan-carman-dies-awaiting-trial-for-his-mothers-death-in-2016-fishing-trip-off-new-england/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne's endorsement of an artificial intelligence essay-writing product is raising questions about whether college athletic programs should provide clearer ethical guidelines for athletes earning money from name, image and likeness contracts.
“It does seem problematic to have people sort of promoting plagiarism," said John Basl, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University in Boston who specializes in AI and data ethics, and who also is a faculty affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.
"It does seem like something colleges should teach students not to do,” Basl added.
Dunne's endorsement of a Caktus.AI product appeared recently in the form of a 10-second video post on social media sites including TikTok and YouTube.
Dunne does not speak in the video, but a written quotation representing her thinking states: “Need to get my creativity flowing for an essay due at midnight.”
The video then shows Dunne on her laptop as a program takes a few key words about why gymnastics is "the hardest sport” and almost instantaneously produces numerous paragraphs of text on the subject.
It closes with Dunne delivering an emphatic “thumbs up” gesture.
LSU declined to comment on Dunne's post, but did provide a written statement urging that students use caution with such technologies — and warning that they can be sanctioned for misusing it.
“Technology, including AI, can foster learning and creativity. At LSU, our professors and students are empowered to use technology for learning and pursuing the highest standards of academic integrity,” the LSU statement read. “However, using AI to produce work that a student then represents as one’s own could result in a charge of academic misconduct.”
While Basl agreed with LSU's statement, he also said he could foresee colleges increasingly frowning on athletes promoting new technologies in ways which neglect to emphasize the importance of using such products responsibly.
In the case of Dunne's post, Basl said, “The implicature of the 10 seconds is: Here’s an easy-peasy way to write an essay.”
“It's almost like if a student said, ‘I get drunk and get home using my Tesla’s autopilot,’ or something like that," Basl continued. "So, it would be appropriate for LSU to say it would not approve of its athletes endorsing the unethical use of these tools.”
Jake Kasper, assistant director for Michigan State’s office of student support and accountability, said it’s a mistake for educators or schools to look at AI and say, “This is horrific.’ I think there’s things that we need to consider when it comes to artificial intelligence, is how can it be a tool for learning.”
“I would question whether or not artificial intelligence is the best product to endorse, because there is a concern — from institutions of higher education, there’s a concern that artificial intelligence will hinder the ability to learn, to grow, to develop as human beings,” Kasper added. “I’m not saying that student-athletes endorsing it is saying, ‘Don’t learn.’ So there’s obviously a lot more to discuss and uncover there.”
Dunne's social media following numbers around 7 million on TikTok and more than 3 million on Instagram. The 20-year-old from Hillsdale, New Jersey, is believed to have the largest social media audience of any NCAA athlete. Her NIL endorsement contracts, while not public, are estimated by multiple analysts who track such deals to be worth more than $3 million.
While Dunne was a 2021 WCGA All-American on uneven bars and has highlighted her gymnastics performances on social media, her success and fame as an influencer has begun to eclipse that of her athletic career.
During a meet at Utah earlier this season, a loud, charged-up throng of mostly young men showed up and called constantly for Dunne, who was not competing at the time because of an injury. Video from the scene, which some fellow competitors and other witnesses found unseemly, was widely viewed online. Dunne responded by posting a request on her social media accounts that fans be respectful of the other gymnasts at her meets.
LSU, meanwhile, arranged for additional security for Dunne at subsequent events.
LSU deferred interview requests for Dunne to her marketing agent, Ginger Chan of William Morris-Endeavor (WME). Through Chan, Dunne declined to speak with The Associated Press.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Torticity LLC ("Torticity"), a technology-driven, full-service company that provides an end-to-end solution in case management for Mass Tort and Personal Injury law firms, announced today their equity investment in ZipLiens, an industry expert in lien resolution.
In addition to the investment, Torticity and ZipLiens have entered into a strategic partnership to provide clients with a seamless integration from intake to case management, to lien resolution in both the mass tort and personal injury segments.
"We are very excited about our investment in ZipLiens. This partnership will enable us to integrate the industry's two best technology solutions, saving our clients both time and money, while meaningfully enhancing data integrity. The integration of our technology platforms provides a seamless data transfer from a fully proven case through the lien resolution process, providing a faster, cleaner product for settlement services," said Shane Blain, CEO of Torticity.
"We are thrilled to add Torticity as a strategic investor in ZipLiens. This signifies a strong endorsement of our mission to utilize cutting edge technology and elite customer service to transform the legal industry. The combined strength of our companies allows us to provide unparalleled value to our customers. This move accelerates our growth and propels us towards a future that will redefine the legal landscape. We are extremely excited about the journey ahead," said Nathan Parkey, CEO of ZipLiens.
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‘This is where Phil belongs’: Statue of Philip Seymour Hoffman donated to George Eastman Museum in Rochester
By Zoe Sottile, CNN
A statue of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman will now permanently stand outside the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.
The life-size bronze statue was crafted by David A. Annand and commissioned by philanthropist and film producer James Declan Tobin, according to a news release from the museum, which is dedicated to photography and film.
The statue originally came to the museum as part of a temporary exhibit and was meant to eventually end up in New York City. But the statue fit the space so well, the decision was made to donate the statue to the facility permanently. There are also plans for a second Hoffman statue in New York City, according to the museum.
“Our board of trustees, staff, and members are thrilled that this wonderful sculpture of Philip Seymour Hoffman has been placed at our Dryden Theatre,” said Bruce Barnes, the museum’s director, in the release. “Since the museum was founded, one of our key missions has been to preserve and exhibit motion pictures, and this statue enables us to recognize Hoffman’s extraordinary contribution to the art of cinema.”
The sculpture depicts Hoffman walking toward the steps of the museum’s Dryden Theatre.
Hoffman, who died in 2014 at age 46, grew up in nearby Fairport, New York. In the news release, his mother Marilyn O’Connor called the sculpture “a loving memorial” to her son. The Dryden Theatre was also the venue of Hoffman’s local memorial service.
“The Eastman Museum’s decision to retain the sculpture makes me very happy,” said O’Connor. “There was an enthusiastic response to having this beautiful statue of Phil at the museum. This is what the Rochester community wanted.”
The George Eastman Museum is currently hosting a yearlong film series in honor of the Oscar-winning actor. A total of 24 films featuring Hoffman will screen over the course of the year.
In the news release, Tobin, who commissioned the statue, said the venue was a fitting location for the statue.
“The greatest actor of my generation has come home to the community that loves him,” Tobin said in the release. “This is where Phil belongs. I wanted a home that is worthy of Phil, and we have it at the Dryden Theatre, which is a classic temple of film. He is on the move, a script in his bag, walking toward the theater he so loved.”
“There was a lot of silence after Phil died,” Tobin went on. “He was with us, so brilliant, so powerfully present, and then he slipped away. I wanted to keep the light going. I wanted Phil’s family to know the impact he had on me and the world.”
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LONDON (AP) — Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers, part of government efforts to control online activity.
A Moscow court on Thursday imposed an 18 million ruble ($300,000) fine on chat service WhatsApp and a 1 million ruble penalty on disappearing message platform Snapchat. The fines followed a complaint by Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor.
The Russian government has been trying for years to establish greater control over the internet and social media, an effort that has intensified in recent months as it tries to limit the flow of information about Ukraine.
Neither Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., which owns WhatsApp, nor Snap Inc., which runs the Snapchat app, responded to a request for comment.
The court said it was fining WhatsApp for repeatedly refusing to localize data of Russian users. WhatsApp received its first Russian fine, for 4 million rubles, in August 2021.
A Moscow court also fined Apple 2 million rubles (about $34,000) earlier this month over the data storage issue. Airbnb, Pinterest and the video streaming service Twitch were fined the same amount last month. | 2022-07-29T06:25:15+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/russia-fines-whatsapp-snapchat-over-data-storage/ |
SAINT GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Jermiah Dobbins ran for 135 yards and three touchdowns and Abilene Christian beat Utah Tech 26-10 on Saturday night in the Western Athletic Conference opener for both teams.
Dobbins’ scored from 5 and 12 yards in the third and fourth quarters, respectively, and each capped 64-yard drives. He then added a 10-yard touchdown run with 2:48 remaining.
Utah Tech (1-4, 0-1) missed a field goal and couldn’t convert on fourth-and-14 from the 50 on its two previous series before Dobbins scored his third touchdown.
Maverick McIvor threw for 148 yards for Abilene Christian (4-1, 1-0).
Quali Conley had a 15-yard touchdown run that gave the Trailblazers a 10-3 lead with about six minutes left in the second quarter. Conley finished with 141 yards rushing on 20 carries. Victor Gabalis was 12-of-34 passing for 112 yards.
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Minneapolis police officers murdered George Floyd three years ago this week.
Video captured how Derek Chauvin, who is white, used his knee to pin Floyd, a Black man, to the ground for more than nine minutes while Floyd pleaded for his life. Within hours, protests erupted in Minneapolis and then around the world.
When the local community lost faith in the county prosecutor, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz urged state Attorney General Keith Ellison to build the case against the former officers who killed Floyd.
Ellison kept a diary of that process. And he's releasing it to the public in the form of a book called Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence, out Tuesday.
In it, Ellison recounts how he cried when watching the video of Floyd's murder for the first time.
"For me, it was a gut check moment, one of those moments where you ask yourself, 'What am I about and what am I in this for?'" Ellison tells NPR's Leila Fadel. "And my answer had to be, we're going to do anything we can to try to make sure that the outcome is fair, just and right."
In an interview with Morning Edition, Ellison talks about lessons learned from the convictions of Chauvin for killing Floyd and three other former officers for aiding and abetting. And he recalls his hopes that outrage over Floyd's killing offered a possibility of ending state-sponsored violence against Black Americans.
"We have not gotten to the point where we've arrested this problem," Ellison says. "But I still believe that the George Floyd prosecution still offers a possibility if we muster the political will to bring it to a stop."
There have been other high-profile police killings of Black people since then, from the shooting of Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio, last June to the beating death of Tyre Nichols at a traffic stop in Memphis, Tenn., earlier this year.
And the officers involved aren't always held accountable: Just last month, for example, a grand jury declined to indict the eight officers who shot Walker — while Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March 2020, was hired onto the force in a neighboring county.
Ellison says this is why federal police reform, specifically the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, is so needed. (That legislation passed the Democrat-controlled House in 2021, but stalled in the Senate.)
"Sadly, these kind of things are likely to happen again before we bring this phenomenon to an end," Ellison says. "And we need other folks to help to know what happened so that they can make good policy choices."
For his part, he sees creating a historical record as key to eventually bringing an end to the pattern of police brutality.
"I hope somebody reads this book and says, 'This could happen to my town. Here's some things they did here that worked. Here's some things they did that maybe didn't work,'" Ellison says. "And we can use them to prevent and to stop this problem, to break the wheel."
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On the importance of federal police reform
Congress needs to pass that legislation for the signal that the highest body of legislators in our country have said that this is a very serious problem that needs to be fixed. We need to prosecute criminal conduct whether the person has a badge or not. People need to be fired when they break the rules consistently. I don't think we're going to go from a bad situation to a perfectly good one overnight. And there are times when this is action that officers must take to preserve their own lives and others. But there are still far too many cases where, like the Tyre Nichols case and others, that just seem unnecessary and brutal and they tear the fabric of our society.
On the need for accountability across police departments
We need to have a national registry so that if you have an officer who has violated somebody's human rights, violated department rules, [they] cannot just go to another department and just start up there. And one prominent example is with the Tamir Rice case, where one officer was found to be unfit to serve in one Ohio police department and then goes to Cleveland and gets hired.
... I think that the recruiting challenge that policing as an industry is facing might have something to do with the fact that people like Derek Chauvin and Myles Cosgrove diminished the reputation of the profession. I think we'd have more success recruiting if people felt that their colleagues were going to be held to a high standard of professionalism.
On fixing the culture of police departments
There is this idea, this notion that I think is incorrect, that you have white officers killing Black people, and that is the model. In fact, we know that isn't the way it is. If you are a female officer or officer of color and you join that department, and if that department has a toxic culture, you are going to be pressed into it.
And so it's not the case that even a young Black man who joins a police department who might go in with the best of intentions is just going to change that institution if his [field training officer] is demonstrating the worst conduct — as [former Minneapolis police officer] J. Alexander Kueng's FTO was Derek Chauvin. Merely diversifying departments without real changes at the top, including cultural changes, you're just going to replicate the same results. And those changes have to do with accountability, with ridding the system of impunity. And just getting more officers of color or female officers is not a panacea.
On his narrow reelection win following Chauvin's prosecution
Folks who are connected to law enforcement unions spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to defeat me. They did it because they wanted to send a message that if you prosecute a member of law enforcement, you might be risking your job. And if I would have lost my election, that would have been too bad, but I would have had no regrets. But I don't want any prosecutor in the United States to ever have to say, I'm going to pursue justice ... or I'm going to look out for my own political interest, which would mean that I might back off.
I wanted prosecutors to know you can do the right thing, you're just going to have to survive some of these tough elections after some of these tough cases that you have to take. We want to break the wheel, but ... the reality is we're going to have to chip away at it.
The broadcast interview was produced by Ziad Buchh and Ana Perez, and edited by Jan Johnson and Reena Advani.
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As labor tensions mount across America, we look back at the 1997 UPS strike, a major victory in the labor movement.
Lane Windham, associate director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative For Labor and The Working Poor at Georgetown University, joins us.
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DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors said they’ll seek a life sentence with no chance for parole for a 16-year-old boy who killed four fellow students at a Michigan school and pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism.
They disclosed their plans in a court filing Monday, three weeks after Ethan Crumbley, 16, withdrew a possible insanity defense and acknowledged the shooting at Oxford High School in November 2021.
A first-degree murder conviction typically brings an automatic no-parole sentence in Michigan. But teenagers are entitled to a hearing where their lawyer can raise immaturity, mental condition, family life and other issues while arguing for a shorter term.
Crumbley pleaded guilty to all 24 charges. The sentencing process is scheduled to start in February.
“A sentence of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole is appropriate in this case,” Oakland County assistant prosecutor Marc Keast wrote.
Separately, the prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that Crumbley was “offered and promised nothing” for his guilty plea.
Judge Kwame Rowe will have flexibility. Under state law, possible prison terms for teens include parole eligibility after a minimum sentence of 25 years.
Defense attorney Paulette Michel Loftin said she’s disappointed but not surprised by the request for a life term. She believes Crumbley could be rehabilitated in prison.
The hearing “will give the court, as well as the public, a good inside look into the difficult home life of Mr. Crumbley and what challenges he was facing,” Loftin told The Associated Press.
The boy was 15 at the time of the shooting at Oxford High, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Detroit. Four students were killed, and six more students and a teacher were injured.
His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, are jailed on charges of involuntary manslaughter. They’re accused of making the gun accessible to their son and ignoring his need for mental health treatment.
When he pleaded guilty, Ethan Crumbley said his father bought the gun for him with the teen’s own money just a few days before the shooting. The boy said the gun was not locked in a container or safe at home.
Ethan Crumbley had brought the 9mm Sig Sauer handgun and 50 rounds of ammunition to school in his backpack. Earlier that day, a teacher had discovered a drawing with a gun pointing at the words: “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.” There was an image of a bullet with the message: “Blood everywhere.”
The Crumbleys declined to take their son home but were told to get him into counseling within 48 hours, according to investigators. Ethan Crumbley later went into a school bathroom, pulled out the weapon and began shooting.
In their criminal case, the parents are asking a judge to give them access to experts’ reports about their son’s mental state. They believe the information could be favorable to their defense.
“The Crumbleys maintain that they did not have any reason to believe that the shooter had mental health concerns” that would require treatment, defense attorneys said in a court filing Monday. “They admit that their son was experiencing sadness over the loss of his dog, his grandmother and a friend who had recently moved away.” | 2022-11-16T02:51:23+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-life-sentence-sought-for-teen-in-michigan-school-shooting/ |
Which Barbie camper is best?
With a Barbie camper, your little one can send Barbie and friends off on an adventure from the comfort of your own home. With more camper styles than ever before, there are plenty of ways for Barbie to sit back, relax and enjoy the great outdoors — even if it’s all from your child’s bedroom floor. The Barbie Dream Camper Playset is worth checking out, as it comes with over 60 accessories and two cute pet figurines.
What to know before you buy a Barbie camper
Choosing a size
Barbie campers come in three general sizes. The largest is designed to fit all Barbie dolls, including 6- to 12-inch dolls and pet figurines. These campers are 11 to 20 inches tall and 20 to 50 inches long. Campers for 6-inch Chelsea dolls or pet figurines are about 7 to 10 inches long and 10 to 12 inches tall.
Rooms
Even the most compact camper has a well-defined area that uses every inch of space. Most Barbie campers come with two to six designated areas for specific activities. There’s usually a driving space up front that seats two dolls, a dining space in the middle and a kitchen or bathroom area at the rear. Some campers offer bunk bed sleeping arrangements, a fold-out shower or a pull-out splash pool.
Stickers
Your child can customize their Barbie camper with sticker decals. These stickers are heavily detailed with things like food, accessories, window scenes or shelving to make the camper seem cozy and more lived-in without getting too cluttered. The stickers are meant for outlined spaces and go on smoothly.
What to look for in a quality Barbie camper
Themed accessories
The accessories help bring realism to the camper and prompt engaging play. The camper should come with camping accessories like a tent, telescope, games, a campfire and marshmallows on sticks for roasting. It also needs practical accessories like chairs, tables, food and utensils. The more accessories it has, the more ways there are to play.
Bonus doll
A few of the 12-inch doll campers come with two pet figurines, but none of them come with dolls. The campers for 6-inch dolls or pets are more likely to come with extra dolls or pets. The Barbie Club Chelsea Camper Playset comes with one 6-inch doll and one pet figurine. The Just Play Barbie Pet Camper includes two 1.5-inch pet figurines.
Rooftop access
The roof offers extra space, which can go a long way. In addition to serving as the camper’s ceiling, it acts as an access point for rooftop parties or activities. Some campers feature a seating or sleeping area on the roof. Others take a more playful route with a slide that goes all the way to the ground.
How much you can expect to spend on Barbie camper
The camper costs $17 to $100, depending on its size and additional features. Ones that accommodate 12-inch dolls tend to be more expensive.
Barbie camper FAQ
Do you need to use a car to pull the Barbie camper?
A. Only the Barbie Club Chelsea Camper Playset needs to be pulled by a toy car, and that car comes with it. The rest of the campers have a driver’s spot up front. There’s usually seating for two 12-inch dolls to sit here.
Do the wheels work?
A. Yes, the wheels roll so the camper can move across flat surfaces. They’ll probably work better on hardwood, laminate or other smooth surfaces than something more textured like carpet.
Can you buy replacement stickers?
A. Unfortunately, sticker replacements are not sold separately. If a sticker decal gets damaged, you cannot replace it without replacing the entire camper.
How do you clean the camper?
A. You can spot-clean the plastic as needed with warm water on a paper towel or dish cloth. Do not submerge the camper in water, as this can ruin the stickers or damage accessories.
What’s the best Barbie camper to buy?
Top Barbie camper
What you need to know: This pink camper for 12-inch dolls is 31 inches tall, including a slide. It is 47 inches long and comes with over 60 accessories.
What you’ll love: There’s a sleeping area, kitchen, dining space, bathroom, pool and an extra-long slide. It comes with a fire pit and lots of accessories, including binoculars, a flashlight, food, blankets, furniture and two pet figurines with pet supplies.
What you should consider: Some of the accessories might get lost because they are so small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Barbie camper for the money
Barbie Club Chelsea Camper Playset
What you need to know: This pink camper for 6-inch dolls is 7.25 inches tall and 12 inches long, and it comes with a blue car that pulls it along.
What you’ll love: The camper has a kitchen and a bunk bed area. The car has a trunk that opens, and it easily hooks up to the camper. It comes with one 6-inch Chelsea doll and 10 accessories, including furniture, a fire pit, snacks and a pet dog figurine. There’s even a little dog door built into the camper door.
What you should consider: A 12-inch Barbie doll won’t fit inside. The wheels aren’t the best.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This light pink camper for 12-inch dolls is 16 inches tall and 32 inches long, and it comes with over 30 accessories.
What you’ll love: The back expands and the side pops out for extra space. There’s a kitchen, bathroom, closet, two hammocks, a fire pit and a pool that comes with a small slide. Appliances, furniture, food and utensils are also included.
What you should consider: It’s not the most durable camper, and the hammocks don’t always stay up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Now in its eighth year and impacting 144 schools in 37 states, the Care Counts™ laundry program continues to grow and boost attendance rates across the U.S.
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While students have been back to in-person learning for about a year, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to impact attendance rates nationwide. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 72% U.S. of public schools reported an increase in chronic absenteeism among their students compared to the 2020-2021 school year1. To continue its effort to lower absenteeism rates among elementary school students, the Care Counts™ laundry program by Whirlpool brand continues to provide washers and dryers to selected schools across the country with high percentages of absenteeism rates. As a result, 84% of participating high-risk elementary school students2 enrolled in the program were reported by teachers to feel connected to their school during the 2021-2022 academic year.
With the support of long-time collaborator, Teach For America, the Care Counts™ laundry program works with participating schools to find ways to ensure children have access to clean clothes throughout the school year. Over the years, the program has contributed to decreases in chronic absenteeism, and increases in attendance rates, grades and engagement levels among participating at-risk students. In analyzing the most recent data from the 2021-2022 school year, Whirlpool brand found that:
- Nearly 70% of participating high-risk elementary school students3 saw an increase in attendance.
- Participating high-risk elementary school students4 saw an average increase in attendance by 12 more days than the previous academic year.
- Nearly 60% of participating high-risk elementary school students5 decreased their level of chronic absenteeism while in the Care Counts™ laundry program, and 30% of participating high-risk students6 were no longer at risk for chronic absenteeism at the end of the 2021-2022 academic year.
"We're proud to continue growing the Care Counts™ laundry program, particularly at a time when we're seeing the detrimental impact the pandemic continues to have on the ability of our young students to attend school," said Nelly Martinez, senior brand manager for Whirlpool brand. "We're incredibly thankful for the school leaders and volunteers across the nation who are integral in keeping this program running, staying connected with students and their families, and providing more vulnerable people with access to clean clothes."
Now entering its eighth year, the Care Counts™ laundry program by Whirlpool brand has expanded its presence to five new states in the 2022-2023 school year: Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Virginia, Delaware and Hawaii. It will continue to work with schools that are participating in a second year of the program in five regions: Idaho, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
"The impact of the washer and dryer is truly incredible," said Krishna Barroso, principal at AVON Avenue School in Newark, NJ. "These two simple machines that most people take for granted provide essential access to clean clothes, which builds pride, confidence, and improves attendance for our students."
The Care Counts™ laundry program by Whirlpool brand is designed to remove one small but important barrier to attendance - access to clean clothes - by installing washers and dryers in select schools nationwide. To learn more about the Care Counts™ Laundry Program by Whirlpool brand, visit https://www.whirlpool.com/care-counts.
About Whirlpool Brand
For more than one hundred years, Whirlpool brand has been inspired by how people care for their families. Whirlpool brand is designing home appliances that are focused on improving how families give and get the care they need with the latest technologies and innovations – whether that means flexible refrigerator storage for all types of family needs, induction technology for efficient cooking and easier cleaning, or laundry pairs that sense and adapt to clothes with the latest in connected technologies. Whirlpool brand created and continues outpacing goals of its Care Counts™ Laundry Program, through which the brand is committed to helping create educational equality by installing washers and dryers in schools to help remove one small but important barrier to attendance – access to clean clothes. Whirlpool brand is part of Whirlpool Corporation, a leading appliance manufacturer committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. For more information on Whirlpool, please visit whirlpool.com or find us on Facebook at facebook.com/whirlpoolusa, Instagram at @whirlpoolusa, or TikTok at @whirlpoolusa. Additional information about the company can be found at whirlpoolcorp.com.
1 Source: https://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/press_releases/07_06_2022.asp
2 High-risk elementary school students are defined as elementary students at risk of missing 10% or more days of school during a reporting period
3 High-risk elementary school students are defined as elementary students at risk of missing 10% or more days of school during a reporting period
4 High-risk elementary school students are defined as elementary students at risk of missing 10% or more days of school during a reporting period
5 High-risk elementary school students are defined as elementary students at risk of missing 10% or more days of school during a reporting period
6 High-risk elementary school students are defined as elementary students at risk of missing 10% or more days of school during a reporting period
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GOWANDA, N.Y. — In honor of Mother's Day, the Erie County Sheriff's Office is holding a free car seat safety check this weekend for any parents or guardians who need a little assistance.
Deputies will be at Little Love Bugs Daycare at 68 Allen Street in Gowanda on Saturday, May 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to answer any questions, and to help with car seat installations. Deputies will also be offering seat inspections and will provide instructions for proper installations
If you can't get to the event, but are still interested in having your child's car seat inspected, you can make an appointment with a local fitting station. You can also find more information on upcoming car seat check events near you by checking the office website for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. | 2022-05-02T17:24:14+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/erie-county-sheriffs-office-holding-free-car-seat-safety-check-this-weekend-in-gowanda/71-9c2bcf31-ad38-4269-a335-e2f2c5f53e90 |
House to consider seating Cherokee Nation delegate
(CNN) - There’s a renewed push for a Cherokee Nation representation in Congress.
The House Rules Committee is set to hold a hearing this month about seating a Cherokee Nation delegate.
The Cherokee Nation is calling on lawmakers to honor a treaty the U.S. made nearly 200 years ago.
The 1835 Treaty of New Echota, which led to the deadly forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to their current territory in Oklahoma, stipulated that one of their delegates would sit in the House of Representatives, the Cherokee Nation said.
The Cherokee nominated Kimberly Teehee in 2019 to be their first delegate in Congress.
If seated, she would be a non-voting member that could serve on committees, introduce bills and offer amendments.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-04T13:21:41+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/11/04/house-consider-seating-cherokee-nation-delegate/ |
Iowa teen charged in connection to girl shot at party in Webster County
An Iowa teenager has been charged in connection to a shooting at a party that injured a girl over the weekend.
According to the Webster Sheriff's Office, 17-year-old River McNealy is charged with intimidation with a dangerous weapon, a class C felony; possession of a firearm by a prohibited person - felon, a class D felony; and possession of a firearm by an ineligible person, a serious misdemeanor.
The shooting took place at a large party along 225th Street in rural Webster County.
The girl who was shot was transported to a local hospital in a private vehicle. Police intercepted that vehicle before escorting it the rest of the way to the hospital so the girl could receive treatment, according to the sheriff's office. Authorities described her injuries as non-life-threatening.
McNealy has since been removed from Fort Dodge Senior High. He made his initial appearance in magistrate court on Wednesday. He was ordered held on a $16,000 cash-only bond.
McNealy is being held in the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information can call the Webster County Sheriff’s Office at 515-573-1410 or Crime Stoppers at 515-573-1444. | 2022-09-21T21:14:30+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-teen-charged-in-connection-to-girl-shot-at-party-in-webster-county-fort-dodge/41318166 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantis Investors®, a $12.5 billion* investment offering from global asset manager American Century Investments®, announces the further expansion of its investment capabilities with the launch of Avantis U.S. Large Cap Value Fund. The fund, which will be available in multiple share classes, relies on a proprietary systematic investment approach that combines the latest in financial science with common sense investment principles.
The fund has a similar investment strategy and pricing as its ETF counterpart, Avantis U.S. Large Cap Value ETF (AVLV), which launched in Sept. 2021.
"From day one, our goal was offering a choice of vehicles for clients. While we have seen many more investors embrace ETFs, mutual funds are still widely used in retirement plans. It's always a privilege to have clients ask you to create a product, so we are happy to launch this mutual fund," said Philip McInnis, Chief Investment Strategist at Avantis.
The fund will be co-managed by Chief Investment Officer Eduardo Repetto and Senior Portfolio Managers Ted Randall, Mitchell Firestein and Daniel Ong, CFA.
Following is information on the new fund:
Avantis U.S. Large Cap Value fund joins Avantis Investors' lineup of eight other ETFs with corresponding mutual funds: Avantis Core Fixed Income; Avantis Core Municipal Fixed Income; Avantis Emerging Markets Equity; Avantis International Equity; Avantis International Small Cap Value; Avantis Short-Term Fixed Income; Avantis U.S. Equity and Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value.
Avantis Investors, established to help clients achieve their investment goals through a persistent focus on providing well-diversified investment solutions that fit seamlessly into asset allocations and combine the potential for added value with the reliability of indexing, is led by Repetto and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Keating, CFA, CPA.
American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting breakthrough medical research. Founded in 1958, American Century Investments' 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors from offices in New York; London; Frankfurt; Hong Kong; Sydney; Mountain View, Calif.; and Kansas City, Mo. Jonathan S. Thomas is president and chief executive officer, and Victor Zhang serves as chief investment officer. Delivering investment results to clients enables American Century Investments to distribute over 40 percent of its dividends to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization. The Institute owns more than 40 percent of American Century Investments and has received dividend payments of $1.8 billion since 2000. For more information about American Century Investments, visit www.americancentury.com.
*Assets under supervision as of 6/7/22.
You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before you invest. The fund's prospectus or summary prospectus, which can be obtained by visiting www.AvantisInvestors.com or calling 1-833-9AVANTIS, contains this and other information about the fund, and should be read carefully before investing. Investments are subject to market risk.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) are bought and sold through exchange trading at market price (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the fund. Shares may trade at a premium or discount to their NAV in the secondary market. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.
These funds are actively managed ETFs that do not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index. To determine whether to buy or sell a security, the portfolio managers consider, among other things, various fund requirements and standards, along with economic conditions, alternative investments, interest rates and various credit metrics. If the portfolio manager considerations are inaccurate or misapplied, the fund's performance may suffer.
Investment return and principal value of security investments will fluctuate. The value at the time of redemption may be more or less than the original cost. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended as tax advice. Please consult your tax advisor for more detailed information or for advice regarding your individual situation.
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LOWER MANHATTAN (WPIX) – The 9/11 Tribute Museum in Manhattan is shuttering on Wednesday, officials for the museum announced this week.
The museum, not to be confused with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum located at the site of the World Trade Center, will maintain an online presence, but financial difficulties mean the doors of the NYC location will close permanently.
Most of the museum’s collection will be moved to the New York State Museum in Albany. The museum is working to make sure everything is respectfully handled.
The 9/11 Tribute Museum had been experiencing hardships because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which took a toll on tourism and further exacerbated financial difficulties. Just last week, officials had even attempted to garner support for a Change.org petition to save the space, aimed at Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
“We’ve really been hanging on by a thread,” co-founder and CEO Jennifer Adams-Webb said, per the Associated Press.
The museum traces its roots to 2004, when a group — founded by victims’ relatives — decided to turn a former deli near ground zero into a focal point for the commemoration of the 2001 terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The site of the World Trade Center was still a massive pit and construction site in 2004, but visitors were already coming in droves.
The tribute museum was eventually dwarfed by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, a $700 million taxpayer-subsidized project that opened its memorial plaza in 2011 and a vast underground museum in 2014. The museum alone has drawn more than 18 million visitors and the open-air, un-ticketed plaza an estimated 55 million.
The 9/11 Tribute Museum, meanwhile, has been visited by over 5 million people since opening in 2005, by its own account. Its focus was to remember and honor those lost in the attacks through the personal stories of those who experienced, survived or lost family and friends on 9/11.
Through guided tours and exhibits, visitors to the 9/11 Tribute Museum were given “person-to-person” accounts demonstrating “the tremendous spirit of resilience and service that arose after the attacks, and are encouraged to honor the legacy of that spirit through volunteerism and acts of kindness in their own communities,” according to the museum.
It’s unclear when the museum’s collection will be placed on display at the New York State Museum in Albany.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-08-17T17:21:53+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/smaller-9-11-tribute-museum-in-nyc-closing-its-doors/ |
Dear Annie: I’ve had the same woman, “Veronica,” doing my hair for several years now. She also does my pedicures and massages. I love her shop and all of her co-workers, but I’ve never been very happy with how she cuts and colors my hair.
It usually takes a week or more to get my hair back to how I like it after each appointment. I’ve talked with her about it, but nothing has changed. When Veronica was out having surgery, “Kirsten,” one of her employees, did my hair, and I liked it a lot better. I want to start having Kirsten do my hair, but Veronica is very sensitive and tends to get defensive. Any suggestions? -- Hairy Situation
Dear Hairy Situation: I know that it’s the easiest advice to give and the hardest advice to follow, but I’ll say it anyway. Be honest. Stay positive yet truthful. Make the focus how much you liked how Kirsten did your hair, rather than the fact that you don’t like how Veronica does it. Tell her how much you love her pedicures and massages and would like to keep seeing her for those.
If you feel too bad to speak up, try this useful thought experiment: If you were in her shoes and a customer expressed all that to you, would you be angry? It’s your hair. Anyone less than the best won’t cut it.
Dear Annie: I recently saw a letter to you about workplace body odor. Years ago, we had a similar situation. We had to work in very close quarters, and one person who worked the very early morning shift had a real problem. Everyone talked about how awful it was; however, nobody did anything but jabber about it. Feeling bad for that person, I went into the small room, asked the person whether they knew that we were friends and all, and got a “Yes, of course, why?” I politely said, “Your day has lasted longer than your deodorant,” and presented that person a salt crystal deodorant to try. There was never a problem after that! -- Compassionate Sniffer
Dear Compassionate Sniffer: Kudos for resolving an awkward situation using empathy and generosity.
Dear Annie: I would like to add some advice for the 95-year-old man, “Lonely,” who has been lonely since his wife died. As someone who has lost a loved one, I can understand how he feels. A support group is helpful and a possible place to meet people, but not people who are ready for a relationship. I wasn’t ready for a while and had turned down dates for a long time. I had a friend who encouraged me to join a running/walking club after my loss, and it was the best thing I have ever done. I was not a fast runner, so at first I was hesitant. But after I joined, I realized that no one cared how fast I was. Everyone was friendly, supportive and encouraging. To this day my friends are people from the Manasota Track Club. In fact, that is how I met my current husband. We met on a New Year’s Day morning run on the beach.
I recommend he join a club that interests him. In our club, there are people in their 80s and 90s who walk, and even some who run. Walking with people not only improves your cardiovascular health but also benefits your emotional health. You feel better after walking or running with good friends. And it gets you out of the house! -- Betsie
Dear Betsie: That last point alone is reason enough to get involved with an organization of some kind. Thank you for sharing how picking up a simple hobby can be invigorating, even life-changing.
Dear readers: Annie is on vacation this week. Today’s column originally ran in 2020.
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COPYRIGHT 2023 CREATORS.COM | 2023-04-15T10:24:11+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/04/dear-annie-i-want-to-switch-hair-stylists-but-im-concerned-about-the-drama-it-might-cause.html |
What happened: Points were hard to come by in the second half of both team's regular season opener Tuesday in Perez-Shelly Gymnasium. St. Michael's overcame a 22-14 deficit in the second quarter to pull within 25-24 at the half, then held the Lady Hilltoppers to just eight points the rest of the way. St. Michael's only scored 10, but the most important score was the free throw Lauryn Pecos hit with 1:04 left in the game to break a 33-all tie. "We did a good job mixing up our defenses a little bit," Lady Horsemen head coach Sonya Ruiz said.
Top players: Pecos led all scorers with 12 points, while Maddy Mossman had 10 rebounds. Los Alamos had Sophia Trujillo and GG Romero each score eight.
What's next: St. Michael's heads to Academy for Technology and the Classics on Nov. 29. Los Alamos has its home opener on the same day against Escalante.
Pojoaque Valley 38, Abq. Del Norte 36
What happened: The Elkettes got off to a slow start in the second half, as the Lady Knights outscored them 13-7 to take a 31-25 lead into the fourth quarter of both teams' season opener in Albuquerque. However, Pojoaque head coach Jonathan Salazar said the team found its groove, especially on the defensive end, which is a product of having a full offseason to work on the second-year coach's system. "You can just tell they are more comfortable with the system," Salazar said."They're moving the ball better on offense and communicating better on defense. It just comes with time."
Top players: Kaylee Salazar led Pojoaque with 12 points, while Amaya Gonzales added nine. Bleona Agushi led the Lady Knights with 14 points.
What's next: Pojoaque entertains Santa Fe Indian School on Nov. 29. | 2022-11-23T07:54:19+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/sports/st-michaels-outlast-lady-hilltoppers-in-defensive-battle/article_f09d839e-6ae1-11ed-91b5-5fc87901a0ae.html |
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POMONA, Calif., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Western University of Health Sciences Board of Trustees and President Robin Farias-Eisner, MD, PhD, MBA, are pleased to announce Paula M. Crone, DO '92, will serve as the University's next Provost following a rigorous national search process. Dr. Crone served as Interim Provost since April 2022 and became Provost on Feb. 6, 2023.
"WesternU is so deeply fortunate to have Dr. Crone assuming the role of permanent Provost," Dr. Farias-Eisner said. "Dr. Crone has an unmatched level of insight into the WesternU community that will serve us well as we continue to grow and transform. She is deeply committed to the values that make WesternU such a special place, and her dynamic nature will continue to support our work in new and exciting ways."
Prior to her appointment, Dr. Crone served as Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP) in Pomona, California and COMP-Northwest in Lebanon, Oregon, from September 2013 until April 2022. Dr. Crone served as Interim Dean of COMP and COMP-Northwest from July 2012 to September 2013 and as Executive Associate Dean of COMP-Northwest from July 2010 until December 2012.
Prior to joining WesternU, Dr. Crone was a respected family practitioner in Oregon, serving as partner in private practice and as the Program Director of the Family Practice Residency Program at Eastmoreland Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Crone also served as a consultant for graduate medical education development at Samaritan Health Services (2005-09) and on the Oregon Healthcare Workforce Task Group.
Dr. Crone has served on many professional boards during her career, including Mid Valley Healthcare, Inc., Samaritan Health Center, Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Crone helped launch WesternU's COMP-Northwest, the first new medical school in Oregon in over a century. Dr. Crone's leadership of WesternU's Oregon campus has been guided by her goal to develop the highest quality osteopathic medical academic program in Oregon and supporting health care professionals of the future. Dr. Crone led the COMP-Northwest project from its earliest inception to a now-thriving osteopathic physician training and education program. The WesternU Oregon Advisory Board, a team that Dr. Crone helped put together more than 13 years ago, has had a tremendous impact on COMP-Northwest's growth and continues to be instrumental in helping to support WesternU Oregon endeavors
Dr. Crone is experienced in fundraising, having helped WesternU's Oregon and California campuses raise more than $30 million for new scholarships, simulation equipment and space, communication and learning platforms, expanded research opportunities, and increased faculty and student development opportunities; legislative management; enterprise development, with intimate knowledge of every piece required to build and accredit a new medical school; and recruitment and enrollment.
"We've watched closely the profound impact that Dr. Crone has had on shaping the WesternU Oregon campus," said WesternU Board of Trustees Chair Elizabeth Zamora, MBA, LHD (Hon.). "As interim provost, Dr. Crone has been a thoughtful leader and collaborator with President Farias-Eisner and the leadership team. We have the utmost confidence in her taking on the role permanently."
Dr. Crone is a WesternU alumna, earning her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from COMP in 1992. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at Eastmoreland Hospital in Portland, Oregon. She earned her Bachelor of Science in biology at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon.
"I'm humbled and honored to have been selected to serve as WesternU's permanent provost," Dr. Crone said. "For the past decade, I've been amazed by the groundbreaking research, commitment to humanistic practices and deep authenticity of the WesternU community. I'm beyond excited to work with President Farias-Eisner and the leadership team as we move WesternU into the next stage of its evolution."
About Western University of Health Sciences
Western University of Health Sciences (www.westernu.edu), located in Pomona, Calif. and Lebanon, Ore., is an independent nonprofit health professions university, conferring degrees in dental medicine, health sciences, medical sciences, nursing, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, podiatric medicine and veterinary medicine. WesternU is home to WesternU Health, where the best in collaborative health care services is offered.
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Retired senior U.S. military officials are flocking overseas to work as contractors or consultants. NPR's A Martinez talks to Craig Whitlock, who investigated the story for The Washington Post.
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Retired senior U.S. military officials are flocking overseas to work as contractors or consultants. NPR's A Martinez talks to Craig Whitlock, who investigated the story for The Washington Post.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-10-20T10:24:28+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-10-20/hundreds-of-retired-u-s-military-personnel-have-taken-foreign-jobs-report-says |
The Company Is Recognized as an Industry Leader in Education, Creativity, and Innovation
LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Herbalife Nutrition was presented with the Excellence in Business Award for its HN Grow mobile learning application by the U.S. Direct Selling Association (DSA) at the DSA Engage Annual Meeting in Boca Raton, FL. Randall Popelka, vice president for Government and Industry Affairs at Herbalife Nutrition, North America, accepted the award during the association's recognition presentation.
"We congratulate the teams and our distributors involved who contributed to the development of this interactive educational business tool for their hard work and commitment to creating an engaging and effective application to help grow our independent distributors' business," said Ibi Montesino, senior vice president, and managing director at Herbalife Nutrition, North America.
The creation of HN Grow was a cross-collaboration with the Global Member Education team leading the effort and support from Global Technology Services, the regions, and the Global Education Committee consisting of distributors. The Company also worked with Intuition, a global knowledge solutions company, to support the back-end Learning Management System and deliver a customized learning interface accessible to distributors on iOS and Android devices and desktop computers.
The Company created HN Grow to streamline the orientation process and provide continuous education for distributors through eLearning modules, videos, podcasts, and presentations about the Company's products, nutrition, business, compliance, coaching, and personal development topics. In addition, the platform enables the Company to measure the assurance of learning among distributors who use HN Grow through an increase in knowledge and confidence, as well as engagement and performance in the business.
"We are pleased to celebrate Herbalife Nutrition for their innovation and dedication to enhancing communities with entrepreneurial opportunities and providing renowned products and services throughout the world," shared Joseph N. Mariano, president of the U.S. Direct Selling Association.
The HN Grow mobile application launched in 2019 and, as of December 2021, is available in 44 countries and 13 languages and hosts more than 1600 localized learning items worldwide. The Company continues to launch HN Grow in more countries while adding training content and features to enhance the learning experience.
To learn more about Herbalife Nutrition, visit IamHerbalifeNutrition.com.
For more than a century, the U.S. Direct Selling Association (DSA) has served as the national trade association for companies that offer entrepreneurial opportunities to independent sellers to market and sell products and services, typically outside a fixed retail establishment. In 2021, direct selling took place across the United States, generating $42.7 billion in retail sales, and 7.3 million entrepreneurs in the U.S. sold products or services through the direct selling channel, providing a personalized buying experience for 44.6 million preferred customers and discount buyers.
Herbalife Nutrition is a global nutrition company that has been changing people's lives with great nutrition products and a business opportunity for its independent distributors since 1980. The Company offers science-backed products to consumers in 95 markets by entrepreneurial distributors who provide one-on-one coaching and a supportive community that inspires their customers to embrace a healthier, more active lifestyle. Through the Company's commitment to nourish people, communities and our planet, Herbalife Nutrition pledges to achieve 50 million positive impacts – tangible acts of good – by 2030, its 50th anniversary.
For more information, please visit IAmHerbalifeNutrition.com.
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — If your child is planning on playing sports in school next year, they’ll need a physical this summer.
The Community Healthcare Center is hoping to make it easier for parents by holding a free sports physical clinic.
It’s for all high school and middle school athletes and extracurricular students such as marching band students.
The students must bring the required sports physical form signed by their parent or guardian.
It’s Thursday, May 12, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Community Healthcare Center on Martin Luther Kings Jr. Boulevard.
Facemasks will be required for all attendees and guests.
For more information or questions regarding the clinic, please call (940)766-6306 or click here for more information. | 2022-05-10T01:50:50+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/events/community-healthcare-to-hold-free-sports-physicals-clinic/ |
You've got to wake up early on a weekend to catch Soledad O'Brien.
Say 4:30 a.m. Saturday in Chicago. Or 5 a.m. on Sunday in New York and Houston. It's 6:30 a.m. Saturday in Washington, D.C. — almost sleep-in territory.
Those are some of the time slots for “Matter of Fact,” the news show she anchors that has overcome those hours over seven years to establish itself over in the syndicated market. Produced by Hearst Television, “Matter of Fact” is available in 181 markets covering 95 percent of the country.
“People will find you if you're doing a good job,” O'Brien said, “and they will skip you if you're not doing a good job.”
“Matter of Fact” averages about 1.08 million viewers each weekend, roughly half the audience for broadcast network panel shows like “Meet the Press” or “This Week,” according to Nielsen company, which measures ratings. That's down from a pandemic- and election-aided peak of 1.2 million in 2020, but double what it was at the show's start in 2015.
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That's notable given that the program has no consistent time slot all over the country and, in some places, literally airs in the middle of the night.
O'Brien, formerly of CNN, also contributes to HBO's “Real Sports,” but most of her time now is spent running her own production company. Her HBO docuseries “Black and Missing” won a Film Independent Spirit Award, and a doc about Rosa Parks recently premiered at the Tribeca film festival.
O'Brien wanted to keep a hand in onscreen television work and, when approached for “Matter of Fact,” met with executive producer Rita Aleman and found that they had similar ideas.
“The mission of the show was always to share voices as diverse as America, slices of life that people should see in order to understand how issues play out across the country,” Aleman said.
Hearst was looking to design a show that included voices not normally heard on network panel shows, where occasionally the same government official will appear on two or three on the same weekend, said Emerson Coleman, Hearst's senior vice president of programming, who developed the show.
There was also a desire to turn down the volume. The inherent conflict of political shows “makes for good TV, but we have a different approach,” Coleman said.
$5,000 REWARD: Federal authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information about the man who allegedly shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker last year in Hollywood and stole two of the pop star’s French bulldogs. Nineteen-year-old James Howard Jackson was mistakenly released from custody in April and remains missing. Detectives do not believe the thieves initially knew the dogs belonged to the pop star. The motive was supposedly the value of the French bulldogs — which can run into the thousands of dollars. U.S. Marshals, in a statement Monday, say Jackson should be considered armed and dangerous. The reward is for information that leads to his arrest. Representatives for Lady Gaga did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday. | 2022-07-21T00:36:35+00:00 | billingsgazette.com | https://billingsgazette.com/people/article_bf592d9e-087e-11ed-a258-5b78868ea1ad.html |
WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, November 5, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Seattle WA
449 AM PDT Sat Nov 5 2022
...The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in
Washington...
Carbon River Near Fairfax affecting Pierce County.
.Heavy rain over the area came to an end late Friday. No
hydrologically significant rain is forecast for the weekend.
...FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Warning is cancelled for
the Carbon River Near Fairfax.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 4:00 AM PDT Saturday the stage was 12.9 feet.
- The river crested around 14.5 feet at 1030 PM PDT Friday.
Flood stage is 13.5 feet.
- Forecast...The river will continue to recede today.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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G-SHOCK Named "The Official Watch of the NOBULL CrossFit Games®"
DOVER, N.J., July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Casio America, Inc. announced a new collaborative partnership between G-SHOCK and CrossFit®, the world's leading platform for improving health, happiness, and performance, to bring fans of both brands' elevated fitness content and experiences. This exciting partnership will see G-SHOCK become "The Official Watch of the NOBULL CrossFit Games," one of the world's most prestigious and challenging fitness competitions.
The partnership between G-SHOCK and CrossFit comes as a natural fit, as both brands share a commitment to pushing boundaries, challenging the limits, and embodying the spirit of endurance, resilience, and absolute toughness. CrossFit athletes, trainers, and gym-goers will get a firsthand look at how G-Shock watches, specifically the new MOVE series, can aid them in both their everyday lives and fitness journeys.
"We are thrilled to join forces with G-SHOCK at our upcoming NOBULL CrossFit Games and throughout the rest of the year," said Rob Vartan, Vice President of Global Partnerships for CrossFit. "G-SHOCK's unwavering commitment to durability and toughness aligns perfectly with the values and ethos of CrossFit. It's important to our athletes, trainers, and affiliate members to track their workouts and personal records, and doing so with the help of G-SHOCK will make it all the easier."
Throughout the partnership, the brands will be demonstrating, both at CrossFit affiliates across the country and online, how the power of dedication and hard work can help you achieve extraordinary results, no matter where you are on your fitness journey.
"For G-SHOCK, it is of the utmost importance to design watches that can endure the toughest challenges," said Tadashi Shibuya, Vice President of the Timepiece Division at Casio America. "Whether going to your daily workout or competing in the NOBULL CrossFit Games, athletes embody determination and strength, and our MOVE series was created to support and empower them on their path to greatness. We can't wait to see how CrossFit athletes everywhere can benefit from a watch that does it all."
As "The Official Watch of the NOBULL CrossFit Games," G-SHOCK will be on-site at the upcoming Games happening in early August, equipping the individual men's and women's field of competitors with the perfect watch to complement the gauntlet of tests they will be put through. G-SHOCK representatives will also be interacting and engaging with attendees through an on-site activation. For fans watching the action from home, G-SHOCK will be providing a sweepstakes opportunity to win a GBD-H2000 Watch, a CrossFit Level 1 Seminar, and more than $400 in CrossFit merchandise. Visit gshock.com/crossfit to learn more.
For more information on the G-SHOCK and CrossFit partnership, and G-SHOCK's title as "The Official Watch of the NOBULL CrossFit Games", please visit gshock.casio.com/us, crossfit.com, and games.crossfit.com.
About G-SHOCK
CASIO's shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch is synonymous with toughness, born from the developer Mr. Ibe's dream of 'creating a watch that never breaks'. Over 200 handmade samples were created and tested to destruction until finally in 1983 the first, now iconic G-SHOCK hit the streets of Japan and began to establish itself as 'the toughest watch of all time'. Each watch encompasses the 7 elements; electric shock resistance, gravity resistance, low temperature resistance, vibration resistance, water resistance, shock resistance and toughness. The watch is packed with Casio innovations and technologies to prevent it from suffering direct shock; this includes internal components protected with urethane and suspended timekeeping modules inside the watch structure. Since its launch, G-SHOCK has continued to evolve, continuing to support on Mr. Ibe's mantra "never, never give up." www.gshock.casio.com/us/
About Casio America, Inc.
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casio.com/us/.
About CrossFit
In the 20 years since its founding, CrossFit has grown from a garage gym in Santa Cruz, California, into the world's most effective program for improving health and performance through nutrition and exercise. CrossFit is the world's leading provider of accredited, performance-based training courses and certifications and has more than 125,000 credentialed coaches across the world. The program can be scaled to welcome people of all ages and abilities, and millions of people have already experienced CrossFit's transformational benefits in more than 13,000 affiliated gyms across 158 countries. CrossFit also directs the CrossFit Games season, beginning with the annual CrossFit Open, through which athletes at every level compete worldwide, and culminating in the CrossFit Games, where top athletes compete for the title of Fittest on Earth®.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The intense firefight over Ukraine has the Pentagon rethinking its weapons stockpiles. If another major war broke out today, would the United States have enough ammunition to fight?
It’s a question confronting Pentagon planners, not only as they aim to supply Ukraine for a war with Russia that could stretch years longer, but also as they look ahead to a potential conflict with China.
Russia is firing as many as 20,000 rounds a day, ranging from bullets for automatic rifles to truck-sized cruise missiles. Ukraine is answering with as many as 7,000 rounds a day, firing 155 mm howitzer rounds, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and now NASAMS air defense munitions, and thousands of rounds of small arms fire.
Much of Ukraine’s firepower is being supplied through U.S. government-funded weapons that are pushed almost weekly to the front lines. On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced an additional round of aid that will provide 20 million more rounds of small arms ammunition to Kyiv.
“We’ve not been in a position where we’ve got only a few days of some critical munition left,” Pentagon comptroller Michael McCord told reporters this month. “But we are now supporting a partner who is.”
U.S. defense production lines are not scaled to supply a major land war, and some, like for the Stinger, were previously shut down.
That’s putting pressure on U.S. reserves and has officials asking whether U.S. weapons stockpiles are big enough. Would the U.S. be ready to respond to a major conflict today, for example if China invaded Taiwan?
“What would happen if something blew up in Indo-Pacom? Not five years from now, not 10 years from now, what if it happened next week?” Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, said, referring to the military’s Indo-Pacific Command. He spoke at a defense acquisitions conference this month at George Mason University in Virginia.
“What do we have in any degree of quantity? That will actually be effective? Those are the questions we’re asking right this minute,” he said.
The Army uses many of the same munitions that have proven most critical in Ukraine, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, Stinger missiles and 155 mm howitzer rounds, and is now reviewing its stockpile requirements, Doug Bush, the Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, told reporters Monday.
“They’re seeing what Ukraine is using, what we can produce and how fast we can ramp up, all of which are factors you would work into, ‘OK, how (big) does your pre-war stockpile need to be?” Bush said. “The slower you ramp up, the bigger the pile needs to be at the start.”
The military aid packages the U.S. sends either pull inventory from stockpiles or fund contracts with industry to step up production. At least $19 billion in military aid has been committed to date, including 924,000 artillery rounds for 155mm howitzers, more than 8,500 Javelin anti-tank systems, 1,600 Stinger anti-aircraft systems and hundreds of vehicles and drones. It’s also provided advanced air defense systems and 38 HIMARS, although the Pentagon does not disclose how many rounds of ammunition it sends with the rocket systems.
The infusion of weapons is raising questions on Capitol Hill.
This month, the administration asked Congress to provide $37 billion more in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the post-election legislative session, and to approve it before Republicans take control of the House in January. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California, who is seeking to become speaker, has warned that Republicans would not support writing a “blank check” for Ukraine.
Even with fresh money, stockpiles cannot be quickly replenished. Several of the systems proving most vital in Ukraine had their production lines shut down years ago. Keeping a production line open is expensive, and the Army had other spending priorities.
The Pentagon awarded Raytheon a $624 million contract for 1,300 new Stinger missiles in May, but the company said it will not be able to increase production until next year due to parts shortages.
“The Stinger line was shut down in 2008,” LaPlante said. “Really, who did that? We all did it. You did it. We did it,” he said, referring to Congress and the Pentagon’s decision not to fund continued production of the Army’s anti-aircraft munition, which can be launched by a soldier or mounted to a platform or truck.
Based on an analysis of past Army budget documents, Center for Strategic and International Studies senior adviser Mark Cancian estimates that the 1,600 Stinger systems the U.S. has provided to Ukraine represent about one-quarter of its total arsenal.
The HIMARS system, which Ukraine has used so effectively in its counteroffensive, faces some of the same challenges, LaPlante said.
“The thing now that is saving Ukraine, and that everybody around the world wants, we stopped production of it,” he said.
HIMARS production was shut down by the Army from about 2014 to 2018, LaPlante said. The Army is now trying to ramp up production to build up to eight a month, or 96 a year, Bush said.
HIMARS effectiveness in Ukraine has increased interest elsewhere, too. Poland, Lithuania and Taiwan have put in orders, even as the U.S. works to rush more to Ukraine. If the conflict drags on and more HIMARS ammunition is prioritized for Ukraine, that could potentially limit U.S. troops’ access to the rounds for live-fire training.
The Pentagon this month announced a $14.4 million contract to speed production of new HIMARS to replenish its stocks.
“This conflict has revealed that munitions production in the United States and with our allies is likely insufficient for major land wars,” said Ryan Brobst, an analyst at the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
The U.S. also recently announced it would be supplying Ukraine with four Avenger air defense systems, portable launchers that can be mounted on tracked or wheeled vehicles, to provide another shorter-range option against the Iranian drones being used by Russia’s forces. But the Avenger systems rely on Stinger missiles, too.
Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said stockpile concerns were taken into account.
“We wouldn’t have provided these Stinger missiles if we didn’t feel that we could,” Singh said at a recent Pentagon briefing.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to launch a Republican presidential campaign next week in New Hampshire.
Christie, who also ran in 2016, is planning to make the announcement at a town hall Tuesday evening at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics, according to a person familiar with his thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm Christie’s plans.
The timing, which was first reported by Axios, comes after several longtime Christie advisers started a super political action committee to support his expected candidacy.
The Associated Press had previously reported that Christie was expected to enter the race “imminently.”
Christie has cast himself as the only potential candidate willing to aggressively take on former President Donald Trump, the current front-runner for the nomination. Christie, a former federal prosecutor, was a longtime friend and adviser to Trump, but broke with Trump over his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. Christie has since emerged as a leading and vocal critic of the former president.
Christie, who is currently polling at the bottom of the pack, dropped out of the 2016 presidential race a day after finishing sixth in New Hampshire’s primary.
In addition to Trump, Christie would be joining a GOP field that includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and biotech entrepreneur and “anti-woke” activist Vivek Ramaswamy.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is expected to announce his candidacy on June 7, according to two GOP operatives. And former Vice President Mike Pence is also expected to launch a campaign soon.
Allies believe that Christie, who has been working as an ABC News analyst, has a unique ability to communicate. They say his candidacy could help prevent a repeat of 2016, when Trump’s rivals largely refrained from directly attacking the New York businessman, wrongly assuming he would implode on his own.
Christie has also said repeatedly that he will not run if he does not see a path to victory. “I’m not a paid assassin,” he recently told Politico.
While Christie is expected to spend much of his time in early-voting New Hampshire, as he did in 2016, advisers believe the path to the nomination runs through Trump and they envision an unconventional, national campaign for Christie with a focus on garnering media attention and directly engaging with Trump. | 2023-05-31T14:55:51+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-ex-new-jersey-gov-chris-christie-planning-to-launch-gop-presidential-campaign-next-week/ |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany and India signed a series of bilateral agreements Monday focused on sustainable development that will see the South Asian nation receive 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in aid by 2030 to boost the use of clean energy.
The accords were signed during a visit to Berlin by India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seeking to elicit India’s support for the tough stance taken by Europe and the United States toward Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Modi reiterated his call to both Russia and Ukraine to end the fighting, saying: “We believe that no party can emerge victorious in this war.”
But unlike Scholz — who accused Russia of undermining “fundamental principles of international law — Modi refrained from any overt criticism of Moscow. Russia, a major supplier of arms to India, has previously praised Modi’s government for its “neutral” stance on the conflict.
Reporters were not permitted to ask questions after the two leaders spoke — an unusual arrangement at the German chancellery where at least four questions are routinely permitted during high-level visits. The decision was taken at the insistence of the Indian delegation, said a German official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The agreements covered issues ranging from technical assistance to increase the use of renewable energy and hydrogen, to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting biodiversity and improving agricultural land use.
The environmental group Germanwatch welcomed the accords, describing India as “swing state” for global efforts to tackle climate change.
“Accelerating the energy transition there is a vital contribution to staying within the 1.5-degree limit,” said its policy director Christoph Bals, referring to the warming threshold set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. He urged other members of the Group of Seven major industrialized economies to reach similar agreements with India.
Scholz has invited India, Indonesia, Senegal and South Africa to attend the next G-7 summit in Germany at the end of June.
Other areas of cooperation agreed between the two countries Monday center on migration, nuclear research and the establishment of secure communications channels between the two governments. | 2022-05-03T14:34:05+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/germany-india-sign-10-5b-green-development-deal/ |
Pennsylvania police responding to active shooting near Walmart, manhunt underway for suspect, reports say
PITTSTON TWP, Pa. - Police in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania are responding to an active shooter situation near a Walmart Supercenter, according to local reports.
At least one person was shot outside the store, which is off State Route 315.
The suspect remains at large, FOX 56 reported. Officials described the suspect as a Black man with dreadlocks, wearing a blue shirt with white lettering.
Traffic in the area was shut down while authorities responded to the scene. Motorists were told to avoid the area, The Times Leader reported. A witness told the paper that they saw an injured person being taken from a nail salon.
No further details were released.
Social media posted online showed a heavy police presence at the plaza, with helicopters flying overhead.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School students celebrated their 2023 prom at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the theme “Night in the City” on Saturday, May 20.
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Kentucky baseballs season comes to an end in Baton Rouge
Published: Jun. 11, 2023 at 9:52 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BATON ROUGE, La. (WYMT) - Kentucky fell to LSU 8-3 in game two of their super regional match on Sunday.
The Cats got on the board early off of a Jackson Grey home run to go up 1-0 in the 1st inning.
The Tigers amped up the offense in the second and third innings, putting up five runs.
UK chipped away in the third and fourth innings putting up two combined runs, cutting the lead to 5-3.
LSU shutout out Kentucky from there, however, winning 8-3 and punching their ticket to the college world series.
Kentucky finished the season 40-21 and were region champions for the first time since 2017.
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Updated April 25, 2023 at 7:57 AM ET
Two brothers who drive for Uber recently conducted an experiment. They opened their Uber apps while sitting in the same room, and tested which brother could earn more money to do the same work.
In a video published on The Rideshare Guy YouTube channel, the brothers recorded themselves looking for rides on the app. They found that Uber showed them nearly identical jobs, but offered to pay one of them a little better. The siblings could only guess why. Had Uber's algorithm somehow calculated their worth differently?
University of California College of the Law professor Veena Dubal says that's exactly what's going on. In a recent paper, she says rideshare apps promote "algorithmic wage discrimination" by personalizing wages for each driver based on data they gather from them. The algorithms are proprietary, so workers have no way of knowing how their data is being used, Dubal says.
"The app is their boss," Dubal told Morning Edition's A Martinez. "But unlike a human boss who you can negotiate with or withhold information from, the algorithms know so much about these workers."
Uber says workers who drive electric vehicles get a $1 bonus per ride, but the company does not use drivers' personal data to set their pay rates. "Uber does not personalize fares to individual drivers, and a driver's race, ethnicity, acceptance rate, total earnings, or prior trip history are not considered when calculating fares," a spokesperson writes in a statement. A representative for Lyft calls Dubal's paper "biased", saying it relies on cherry-picked data and debunked anecdotal information.
Personalized digitized pay is already the new normal in some workplaces, according to Dubal, and it's begun to attract attention from regulators.
This conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length.
Interview highlights
On how algorithmic wage discrimination works
Rideshare drivers say the app is their boss. And unlike a human boss who you can negotiate with or withhold information from, the algorithms know so much about these workers. They know how much a worker is willing to accept for a particular ride. They know how much workers try to earn on any given day. They can really personalize how much that worker makes in order to influence their behavior in particular ways.
I look specifically at ride-hailing firms to discuss the phenomenon of digitalized variable pay, but it's happening across the on-demand economy and even maybe beyond it. Basically, these firms, because they treat their workers as independent contractors, cannot tell them what to do and where to go. Instead, they use these pay mechanisms to influence their behavior. They learn everything that they can about particular workers and use that knowledge to shape how workers get paid.
On how this differs from other forms of unequal pay
In a more familiar employment setting where workers make different amounts of money [to do similar jobs], we still have a legal norm: equal pay for equal work. In those contexts, there is often some logic to why people are earning more, whether it's seniority or experience or skill, and that is often transparent. There are also laws that ensure that companies check their own practices to make sure people are earning roughly the same amounts. What's complicated about algorithmic pay is that there is no logic. Instead, it might be that the person who works for a really long time, works really hard, and has the most experience is earning the least, and we just can't know. The logic is all hidden behind black box algorithms.
On how algorithms can reproduce discrimination
Some of these firms have, in their own research, found that these practices can lead to women earning less than men. They ascribe these differences to the algorithms. But if these algorithms are recreating traditional wage differences that are illegal under employment laws, then something is deeply wrong.
On whether workers can access how algorithms calculate their pay
In Europe, under GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation], some workers have, after litigation, won the right to have some access to what data companies are extracting from their work to determine particular prices. None of that has been revealed yet. In the U.S. there are similar privacy laws, but none of this has been litigated yet, and attempts to get at it from regulators has largely been met with resistance. Companies maintain that this is, oddly, about privacy, that they don't want to unveil their practices because it might lead to information about workers being leaked. They also maintain that these systems they've developed are their intellectual property.
On whether variable digitized pay is illegal
It might be illegal under antitrust laws. There is the potential to say that some of this is price fixing, if all of these workers are independent contractors. That is being litigated in California courts right now. But absent a finding on an antitrust violation, this isn't necessarily illegal. It's a brave new world.
On whether regulators could intervene
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into this. They're very interested in whether or not this violates antitrust laws. And I think that any number of lawmakers who are generally interested in economic equality – from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Sen. Bernie Sanders – are likely very interested in what amounts to a dystopic system of work.
Ziad Buchh produced the audio version of this story. contributed to this story
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The campaign for Greece’s May 21 national election officially opened Saturday with the dissolution of the parliament that was elected in July 2019.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou to propose the dissolution and she accepted it, as obliged by the Constitution of Greece. Mitsotakis said that with less than three months before lawmakers’ four-year terms were due to end, next month’s voting does not count as an early election.
Shortly after his meeting with the president, Mitsotakis gave a televised address in which he defended his government’s record. He listed its achievements as well as the challenges ahead, and sought to make the case for a stable government going forward.
However, the prime minister’s center-right New Democracy will be hard-pressed to continue leading Greece in another single-party government. Next month’s legislative election will be the country’s first under a proportional representation system, and polls show that none of the leading parties is expected to receive a majority of votes.
The prospects of New Democracy, the center-left Syriza party or the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, teaming up in some combination to form a coalition government also is considered extremely unlikely by politicians and pundits.
In that event, another election would be held in early July. Another revision to election laws would give the winner of that vote a 30-seat bonus. Yet even the second election may not produce a majority in the 300-member Greek parliament.
Already, talk of a third election has surfaced, although officials and pundits agree that a prolonged period of uncertainty could be harmful for the economy and the overall governance of the country.
Election campaigning has been underway unofficially, only pausing for a few days as Greece marked a week of religious celebrations culminating with Orthodox Easter on April 16.
Political parties have gone hard at each other and, as expected, especially on Mitsotakis’ government. The main opposition Syriza party has promised to form a “progressive” coalition government if it wins, but its relationship with PASOK has recently taken a turn for the worse.
PASOK, which is widely expected to remain the third largest party, would be a necessary coalition partner for both New Democracy and Syriza since Greece’s other parties are either too small or in the case of those on the extreme right, too toxic.
New Democracy’s relationship with PASOK was negatively impacted by a wiretapping scandal that seemed to have targeted party leader Nikos Androulakis, among others.
The Communist Party, the fourth-largest party in parliament, has flatly refused to join any coalition.
When he visited Sakellaropoulou on Saturday, Mitsotakis said the campaign should “stay away from toxicity and extreme attitudes.” The president also wished for a “calm and fruitful campaign for the country.”
But the rhetoric so far — Syriza has referred to the current government as a “regime” — , for one – points to a fraught brutal campaign that could extend to several months, if more than one election is required. | 2023-04-22T21:28:57+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/campaign-for-greek-election-begins-with-dissolved-parliament/ |
SEATTLE and CHENNAI, India, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Botminds Inc., the global leader in Intelligent Automation (IA), today launched the Botminds Developers Certification Program for its community members. All members of the Botminds AI invite-only community can enrol for the certification program. The program comprises of Level 1-Foundation, Level 2-Advanced and Level 3- Architect certifications.
A report by McKinsey suggests that 80% of data within an enterprise is in unstructured formats, making enterprises unaware of what data they own. Automation is often related to RPA, which uses bots to extract data from structured documents. The use of AI to complement RPA and BPM opens a plethora of opportunities to Intelligently Automate complex unstructured documents and web data.
Most enterprises talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) without knowing how to upskill employees in using AI to normalize data for better decision-making. The Botminds Developers Certification Program gives our community members a magic wand in the form of the Botminds AI platform to apply AI and ML in real-time across various business verticals.
"We are building a dedicated team to help our community members unleash their creativity in Intelligent Automation using the Botminds AI Platform," said Ansari Ismail, Co-founder at Botminds Inc.
The Botminds Developers Certification Program will be a game changer for partners to bridge the gap in applying AI to RPA with a no-code approach.
"We look to contribute to the global IA community by setting a long-term goal of upskilling 90+% of automation developers across the globe with skill sets in Intelligent Automation and Intelligent Document Processing," said Gokul Ganapathi CEO at Botminds Inc.
Each level of the Botminds Developers Certification Program is crafted with an application-oriented pedagogy where applicants are assessed using a combination of online course material coupled with project work.
"AI-based data capture and automation is the future, resulting in an exponential growth in demand for these skills. We look to bridge this gap by up-skilling all our community members for a rewarding career in Intelligent Automation," said Anizudeen Imamudeen, Head of Community Development and Evangelist at Botminds Inc.
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Thomas D. Stucky, IUPUI
(THE CONVERSATION) Indianapolis is no stranger to gun violence. The city is also trying many promising approaches to reducing violence that – if proven successful – could benefit other urban areas across the U.S.
The city’s homicide rate in 2020, at 24.4 per 100,000 residents, was approximately triple the national average, and the city’s highest on record. Approximately 80% of those homicides were perpetrated using firearms.
Gun homicides ended about 240 lives there in a recent two-year period, according to a study regarding this city of 900,000 people. The number of people who were shot but survived was far higher, and firearms account for a significant number of suicide deaths.
I’m a former police officer who has studied policies and programs that seek to prevent gun violence since the late 1990s. I have periodically partnered with Indianapolis officials and community agencies on anti-violence initiatives coordinated by the local government with many private- and nonprofit-sector partners since 2004.
Though some approaches developed in other places have worked here, and Indianapolis has implemented many programs that have been shown to make a difference elsewhere, there’s still not enough data to pinpoint which specific programs are the most effective.
But given the urgency of the problem, I believe it’s important to keep test-driving promising methods based on the information available so far. And because Indianapolis experiences many of the same gun violence issues that other medium and large cities face, what’s learned here can apply in many other places.
Stepping up efforts to reduce gun violence
Indianapolis intensified its efforts to reduce gun violence in 2006, when 144 people died by homicide – up 27% from a year earlier.
That year Bart Peterson, then serving as the city’s mayor, created the Community Crime Prevention Task Force, in which I played a role. Its mission was to seek evidence-based recommendations to reduce violence.
After reviewing the relevant academic research, I identified best practices and the most promising violence-prevention strategies. The task force, in turn, made recommendations to the Indianapolis City-County Council.
The city subsequently began to increase funding for efforts to reduce gun violence in coordination with the Indianapolis Foundation, a local charity.
This private-public partnership has been supporting nonprofits engaged in several approaches to reducing gun violence ever since.
The overarching purpose of all these programs is to help the people who are the most likely to be wounded or killed by a gun to obtain services, such as job training and health care, in their communities and change norms away from gun violence to reduce that risk.
Because people killed by guns in Indianapolis are most likely to be male, young and Black, young Black men are a major focus for all the programs. Researchers have also determined that 3 in 4 gun homicide victims and suspects in the city were known to law enforcement through prior investigation, arrests or convictions. So that is another factor in terms of determining who gets these services.
Employing formerly incarcerated people
Other grants from the private-public partnership in Indianapolis have funded cognitive behavioral therapy for people at risk of engaging in or being victims of gun violence. This is a method in which people get help identifying and pushing back on their negative thoughts and behaviors, making it easier to resolve disputes without resorting to violence.
The city has also partnered with several community organizations to prevent gun violence.
One such group is Recycleforce, which hires formerly incarcerated people to recycle old electronic goods. It’s among several enhanced transitional job programs that provide services and training to the recently incarcerated.
One study showed that Recycleforce participants were 5.8% less likely to be arrested and 4.8% less likely to be convicted of a crime in the first six months of the period reviewed. However, in the second six months, the benefits were no longer statistically significant.
A second study used in-depth interviews to assess the program. It suggested that the peer-mentor model Recycleforce follows works well.
Preventing future gunshots
A large Indianapolis hospital, Eskenazi, also runs several important anti-violence programs. One, called Prescription for Hope, assists people treated there for gunshot wounds.
Like similar hospital-based programs around the country, the one based at Eskenazi helps participants develop effective life skills and connects them with community resources to reduce criminal and risky behaviors.
An initial study of the program showed that only about 3% of participants returned to the emergency department with a repeat violent injury within the first year, compared with an 8.7% rate when the program wasn’t underway. This translates to a two-thirds reduction in the likelihood that someone with a violent injury will need similar emergency medical assistance in the future.
‘Violence interruption’
In 2021, Indianapolis began to hire “violence interrupters” to calm contentious situations and reduce the risk of violent retaliation.
The “violence interruption” method connects people with personal ties to those most at risk of becoming involved in gun violence as victims or perpetrators.
Violence interrupters try to mediate disputes and calm things down on the streets, at parties and during funerals before any shooting starts. They have credibility with violence-prone people because of their past experiences.
The interrupters also help at-risk people to obtain services and to change gun violence norms in their communities.
Violence interruption, part of a growing public health approach to reining in violence, originated in Chicago in 2000. Now called the “cure violence model,” it has spread quickly amid generally positiveresearch results.
Indianapolis was employing about 50 violence interrupters as of mid-2022.
More federal funding
Most of the city’s violence-prevention grants funding these efforts have been relatively small until now, ranging from US$5,000 to $325,000.
But U.S. cities, including Indianapolis, now have have until 2024 to tap into a comparatively large stream of federal funding for community-based violence intervention. That money was included in the $1.9 trillion stimulus package enacted in 2021.
Using these federal funds, the city is partnering with the Indianapolis Foundation to award grants totaling $45 million from 2022 through 2024 for local efforts to reduce gun violence.
Fortunately, Indianapolis’ homicides appear to be declining in 2022 compared with a year earlier.
As a local resident, I certainly welcome this news. But as researcher, I consider it to be too soon to tell whether this trend will continue or what the many public and private efforts to reduce gun violence underway will accomplish.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus continues to evolve as there’s a new omicron subvariant called XBB.1.5 sweeping the nation.
“We saw it completely take over from other variants in the east coast, so northern east coast. It really became the dominant player, and now it’s kind of moving its way across the rest of the U.S.,” said Dr. Jill Roberts, associate professor at the USF College of Public Health.
The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows it now makes up 74.7% of new COVID-19 infections.
“This one, it’s moving faster. It’s taking over quicker,” said Roberts. “The minute we let the guard down, there’s something new that comes out with this nasty little bug that we’re back to having this conversation again."
Scientists said it has some concerning mutations that suggest it’s even more contagious than other strains. That’s something experts believe will likely continue as we move forward.
“I think the virus is going to continue to try to avoid our immune systems, try to explore our space. I mean, it’s been doing that since the beginning. It’s gotten progressively better,” said Dr. Michael Teng, virologist and associate professor for USF Health.
While XBB.1.5 is spreading easier, doctors said it doesn’t seem to cause more severe disease.
“Some people kind of say, 'Well, the good news is, it’s mild.' I would caution that we’re still seeing 500-600 deaths a day. There’s nothing mild about that,” said Roberts.
She’s not surprised to see XBB.1.5 take over. With little mitigation efforts, there’s not much to stop the rapid spread.
“I would just remind everybody that as this strain starts to pick up a little bit down here, we can go back to wearing our masks for a little while. Keep in mind I know sometimes people get really upset about 'let’s wear the mask again.' It’s a temporary thing,” said Roberts.
As time goes on, our existing antibodies will wane.
But health experts said the updated COVID-19 boosters are working well, even against this new variant.
“If you haven’t had the bivalent booster though, your antibodies won’t recognize this variant very well. So it’s very important, especially for our high-risk populations, our seniors, to get that bivalent booster,” said Teng.
This article was written by Larissa Scott for WFTS. | 2023-02-16T15:18:21+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/news/national/coronavirus/new-covid-19-omicron-subvariant-xbb-1-5-sweeping-the-nation-making-up-majority-of-cases |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Two men were recently sentenced to prison after a high-profile, high-speed chase and manhunt — with ties to a rapper feud — in Chatham County last summer, officials said.
The July 4 weekend incident involved four “armed and dangerous” suspects with two of them escaping and one of the pair staying on the run for more than a day, according to the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office.
Inside the group’s abandoned car, officers found four firearms including a machine gun,
more than 120 rounds of ammunition, black ski masks and a ballistic vest, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of North Carolina.
The incident began around 8:15 a.m. July 3 when troopers tried to pull over a car for speeding 94 mph in a 65 mph zone on U.S. 64 in Chatham County, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The driver failed to stop, leading to a chase with speeds over 130 mph, the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a news release.
The chase ended when the vehicle spun out in the median of U.S. 64 just east of Siler City. The four men inside the vehicle ran off into the surrounding woods. Two of the suspects were caught within hours, but the other two remained on the run.
Helicopters and K-9 units were in the area and a reverse 911 message was sent to residents.
Caleb Kenyetta Sheffield, 20, who was sentenced to four years in prison this week, was the last of the four to be caught, officials said.
Less than two weeks before the incident, Sheffield posted a YouTube rap video in which he “rapped about putting a switch on a Glock,” the U.S. Attorney’s news release said.
Sheffield was found with a Glock Model 17 9mm pistol which was equipped with a “switch that turns it into a fully automatic weapon,” the news release said.
Sheffield, of Jacksonville, Florida, was associated with the Ace’s Top Killers (ATK) which is named after rapper Yungeen Ace, the news release said.
At the time, ATK of Jacksonville, Florida, was in a public feud with the Kill Them All (KTA) gang, which had rapper Julio Foolio associated with it, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Foolio, also of Jacksonville, Florida, and Yungeen Ace were set to perform in North Carolina over the holiday weekend.
Sheffield was found guilty in an August four-day jury trial of two counts relating to his possession of an unregistered machine gun, officials said.
Adrian Lowery, who was arrested hours after the chase, pleaded guilty to felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced earlier this month to 71 months (5.9 years) in prison. | 2022-12-12T22:48:43+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/2-sentenced-after-machine-gun-found-following-130-mph-chase-in-chatham-county-case-tied-to-rapper-feud/ |
Updated July 8, 2022 at 6:05 PM ET
Elon Musk wants to break off his agreement to buy Twitter.
In a letter to the company, filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk accuses Twitter of making "false and misleading representations" about the prevalence of fake accounts on its platform. He says the company has not complied with its obligations to share data and information that he says he needs to evaluate its business.
"Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk's requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information," Musk's lawyer, Mike Ringler, wrote.
Legal experts say this may not be sufficient grounds to break off the $44 billion deal without Musk being on the hook for a hefty fine. In response to Musk's letter, the chair of Twitter's board said it planned to sue.
"The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery," said Bret Taylor in a tweet, referring to a Delaware court that handles corporate disputes.
The billionaire CEO of Tesla and Space X struck a deal to buy the social media company back in April. But almost immediately, he started hinting – and then saying outright – that he had cold feet. In May he declared the purchase was "on hold" while he looked into Twitter's accounting of how many users are not real people, but automated bots or spam. Soon after, Twitter agreed to give him access to its "firehose" – a real-time stream of more than 500 million tweets posted every day. Since then, the two sides have been sharing information and working to close the transaction.
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported the deal was "in jeopardy" because Musk doubts that Twitter's spam figures are verifiable. His team was "expected to take potentially drastic action," the Post reported.
Bots may not be the only factor in Musk's change of heart. While his offer of $54.20 a share was initially seen as a lowball price for Twitter, given that it was trading above $70 last year, tech stocks and the market as a whole have fallen sharply since he struck the deal.
Twitter shares are now trading around $37, down nearly 30% from the day Musk's purchase was announced. In May, Musk even said he might seek to negotiate a lower price.
On Thursday, Twitter had pointed to a statement the company issued in June saying it "has and will continue to cooperatively share information" with Musk and that "we intend to close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement at the agreed price and terms." The company was expecting to hold a shareholder vote on the deal by mid-August.
Musk signed a merger agreement
The two sides signed a legal agreement that Musk would buy Twitter for $54.20 a share. If either side broke off the deal, they could be on the hook to pay a $1 billion fee to the other party.
In his letter on Friday, Musk cites Twitter's alleged refusal to turn over more information about bots as grounds to abandon the deal. But legal experts say that would be an uphill battle.
For years, Twitter has publicly said it estimates less than 5% of daily users who see ads are spam or bots (but has also cautioned the number could be higher).
Musk disputes this, saying he believes as many as 20% of accounts may be fake. While Twitter gave Musk access to its firehose of public data, it told reporters this week its spam estimates are also based on private data, such as users' IP addresses, phone numbers, locations and behavior – and are therefore difficult for outsiders to verify.
Even if Twitter's 5% figure is incorrect, that still might not be enough to let Musk back out or change the terms of the deal without paying a hefty price.
"Merger agreements are drafted to avoid exactly what Musk is doing, which is try to find some tiny little false thing and then say, 'Whoops, I get to walk away now," said Ann Lipton, a business law professor at Tulane University Law School. "They specifically say things like, you can't back out unless it's not just false, but incredibly false, hugely false, massively damaging to the company."
Twitter has a strong case against Musk, say experts
The merger agreement includes what's known as a "specific performance clause," which says Twitter can take Musk to court to force him to go through with the purchase as long as he still has financing in place.
While that may sound risky – and costly – for Twitter, Lipton says the company's case would be "very strong," and its board has compelling incentives to see the sale through. Investors are expecting to receive $54.20 a piece for their shares. The board's view, according to a person familiar with the deal talks, is that the sale agreement with Musk is the most valuable part of Twitter right now.
"They would much rather have the $54.20 without a court fight, but it's worth fighting over," Lipton said. Given the company's current share price, "$54.20 seems like an unbelievable deal for Twitter. So there is a lot that they could sacrifice that would still make it worth it in the end if they got to force Musk to close."
Musk might try to get Twitter at a discount
Still, some Wall Street analysts say Twitter's board and management should be open to accepting a lower price to avoid a lengthy legal battle.
"There's no chance it's getting done at $54.20," said Angelo Zino, analyst at CFRA Research. "You're either going to see a 15 to 20% drop in the offer price to get Elon Musk engaged again, or he continues to play the bot card."
Taking Musk to court could be even more damaging to Twitter at a time when uncertainty over the deal and what the billionaire's ownership might mean are weighing heavily on the company. Morale is already low and some employees are leaving. CEO Parag Agrawal has shaken up his executive ranks and announced a hiring freeze and spending cuts.
Going to court "doesn't bode well for the business prospects of your company, and it further adds uncertainty to the employee base," Zino said.
That's also a risk for Musk, Lipton said. "What if he has to buy the company and now he's kind of undermined it at the same time?"
Ultimately, she said, the billionaire's antics, however chaotic, appear to have a single goal: "I don't think he's committed to winning. I think he's committing to not spending $44 billion on Twitter."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-08T23:39:59+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-07-08/elon-musk-says-he-wont-buy-twitter |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian state-backed media are reporting that a fire has occurred on the bridge linking mainland Russia with the Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula.
RIA-Novosti and the Tass news agency quoted local Russian official Oleg Kryuchkov as saying an object thought to be a fuel storage tank caught fire and that traffic has been stopped on the bridge.
Images shared on social media purported to show fire and damage to the span.
The authenticity of the reports and images could not be immediately verified.
The crossing is a pair of road and rail bridges that Russia built after it seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in violation of international law in 2014.
The fire occurred hours after explosions rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending towering plumes of smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram that the early-morning explosions were the result of missile strikes in the center of the city. He said that the blasts sparked fires at one of the city’s medical institutions and a nonresidential building. There were no immediate reports of casualties. | 2022-10-08T06:16:39+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Large-fire-reported-on-key-bridge-linking-Russia-17495427.php |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket made almost completely of 3D-printed parts came within a half-second of blasting off Saturday on its debut flight, but remained grounded after back-to-back launch aborts.
The engines ignited, but abruptly shut down, leaving Relativity Space’s rocket, named Terran, standing on its pad.
Launch controllers reset the countdown clocks and aimed for the last possible moment of the three-hour window at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. But once again, on-board flight computers halted the countdown, this time with 45 seconds remaining.
Relativity Space blamed the afternoon’s first problem on automation software and the second on low fuel pressure.
The first launch attempt, on Wednesday, was aborted at the one-minute mark because of a bad valve.
There was no immediate word on when the company might try again.
At 110 feet (33 meters), the rocket is relatively small. Relativity Space said 85% of the rocket, including its engines, came out of its huge 3D printers at company headquarters in Long Beach, California.
Given this is a test flight, all that is aboard the rocket is the company’s first 3D metal print. The company aims to put the souvenir, along with the second stage, into a low, short-lived orbit.
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Norwegian man convicted of killing 5 in bow-and-arrow attack
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder for killing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. Thirty-eight-year-old Espen Andersen Bråthen was sentenced Friday to compulsory mental health care in line with what the prosecution and defense had called for. Court-appointed forensic psychiatric experts had concluded he has chronic paranoid schizophrenia and was insane when he fatally stabbed five victims on Oct. 13, 2021. He also was found guilty of 11 counts of attempted murder for allegedly shooting at people with a bow and arrows in Kongsberg, a former mining town of 26,000 people. | 2022-06-24T12:17:52+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/06/24/norwegian-man-convicted-of-killing-5-in-bow-and-arrow-attack/ |
Santa Cruz surfer Nat Young looks out at the Monterey Bay as a flight of cormorants wings south during one of Young’s heats at this week’s O’Neill Cold Water Classic surf contest. While many of the most dynamic images coming out of the Cold Water are filled with gravity-defying acrobatics and walls of water, there are many moments of calm and stillness during the contest. Surfers wait for waves and find themselves at the mercy of what Mother Nature provides. Young, one of the most accomplished wave riders in the history of Santa Cruz surfing, wasn’t able to score a second wave in his heat in the round of 32 and finished in 25th place. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel) | 2022-11-19T23:30:00+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/11/19/photo-a-quiet-reflection-at-the-cold-water-classic/ |
Pope makes final bid for peace, forgiveness in South Sudan
By NICOLE WINFIELD and DENG MACHOL
Associated Press
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Pope Francis made a final appeal for peace in South Sudan on Sunday as he celebrated Mass before tens of thousands of people to close out an unusual mission by Christian religious leaders to nudge forward the country’s recovery from civil war.
On the last day of his African pilgrimage, Francis begged South Sudanese people to lay down their weapons and forgive one another, presiding over Mass at the country’s monument to independence hero John Garang before an estimated 70,000 people, including the country’s political leadership.
“Even if our hearts bleed for the wrongs we have suffered, let us refuse, once and for all, to repay evil with evil,” Francis said. “Let us accept one another and love one another with sincerity and generosity, as God loves us.”
His message aimed to revive hopes in the world’s youngest country, which gained independence from the majority Muslim Sudan in 2011 but has been beset by civil war and conflict.
President Salva Kiir, his longtime rival Riek Machar and other opposition groups signed a peace agreement in 2018, but the deal’s provisions, including the formation of a national unified army, remain largely unimplemented and fighting has continued to flare.
“We have suffered a lot,” said Natalima Andrea, a 66-year-old mother of seven who wiped a tear from her eye as she waited for Francis’ Mass to begin. “We need a permanent peace now and I hope these prayers would yield to lasting peace.”
In a bid to spur the process along, Francis was joined on the novel ecumenical peace mission by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Iain Greenshields. The aim of the Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian leaders was to push Kiir and Machar to recommit themselves to the 2018 deal.
Welby and Greenshields joined Francis on the altar at Mass on Sunday and were to accompany him on the flight back to Rome.
The three also aimed to put a global spotlight on the plight of the country, oil-rich and yet one of the world’s poorest, where humanitarian needs are soaring for the 2 million people who have been displaced by continued clashes and years of above-average flooding. Watchdogs’ allegations of corruption are also widespread; some South Sudanese upon the pope’s arrival noted that his modest vehicle was overshadowed by local officials’ luxury ones.
During the three-day visit, Francis, Welby and Greenshields sought to draw attention to the plight of South Sudan’s most vulnerable people, the women and children who have borne the brunt of displacement and make up the majority of people living in temporary camps.
They raised in particular the plight of women in a country where sexual violence is rampant, child brides are common and the maternal mortality rate is the highest in the world.
“If we look at South Sudan, I would just use one word: South Sudan is a patriarchal country,” said Elizabeth Nyibol Malou, a lecturer in economics at the Catholic University of South Sudan. Citing cultural norms in which wealth is passed down to male heirs and women are married young for dowries, she said it is a constant struggle to keep girls in school.
Women in South Sudan, she said, “are tired. They are struggling. They are frustrated, and they’re stuck.”
Edmund Yakani, executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, said the visit of the three leaders was an important push to the peace process.
He called it a “critical exposure of our political leaders towards their personal responsibility for making peace and stability prevail in the country.”
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Trisha Thomas contributed.
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'It's to serve other people': Dave Reichert sits down with FOX 13 after announcing his run for WA governor
WENATCHEE, Wash. - After 14 years in Congress, Dave Reichert stepped away in 2019.
Reichert, the politician may have slowed down but not the person.
He’s spending a lot of time with his big family and works out every day.
For the past four years, he’s been out of the spotlight, living in Chelan, working in the private sector which includes time in Central America tackling human trafficking. He also had a stint pushing rapid DNA testing technology.
Now he is back and wants to be the next governor of Washington.
>> RELATED: Dave Reichert announces his run for Washington governor
FOX 13 sat down with Reichert on Friday, and we asked if it gives him any pause considering Washington has not had a Republican governor since the 80s.
Reichert acknowledged the challenge, but he also sees it as an opportunity.
"It’s to serve other people, and it’s not what government is doing anymore," Reichert said.
He says many pleaded with him to run for years, but it was never the right time, the right political landscape.
But now he feels things are more favorable.
"First of all it’s an open seat, the issues that are really of concern today of most Washingtonians matches my resume," Reichert said.
At the top of that resume he says is his three decades in law enforcement. Reichert is calling for a renovation of the criminal justice system that he says is often too lax on violent behavior especially in the city of Seattle.
"The city to me, I now describe it as Gotham City," Reichert said.
According to WASPC, statewide, violent crime has never been this high and Washington still has the fewest officers per capita in the entire country.
"Washington state set a record we should be ashamed, we are dead last when it comes to the number of police officers serving," Reichert said.
He also says 50% of those cases are related or revolve around domestic violence.
For Reichert those crime statistics are personal, growing up in a poor and violent household. On Friday, Reichert fought back tears as he shared very personal details of his childhood.
"I was beaten, my mother was beaten, I had physical fights with my father that’s my personal experience, that’s why I am passionate about domestic violence," Reichert said.
He says it touches upon so many other issues like mental illness, drug abuse to child abuse.
Also as a cop, he faced a life and death situation when he responded to a domestic violence call. Reichert saved a woman's life by helping her escape a violent man.
That perpetrator then attacked Reichert, slashing him multiple times. That assailant was arrested but the incident has left a permanent scar on Reichert's neck.
His experiences both as a child and as a law enforcement officer have molded him into a protector of those who are vulnerable.
That kind of motivation helped him take down the Green River serial killer when he was the King County Sheriff. It gained Reichert some fame.
"From the other side they will say when is he going to stop talking about Green River, I will tell you, you collect scores and scores and scores of dead bodies and tell me you’re not going to remember," Reichert said.
As a centrist in Congress, he proved he could work with democrats. As governor, he says he would collaborate to bring economic opportunities for Washingtonians and triage the homeless crisis.
"The idea is to find a facility that we could start to house a large number of the homeless," Reichert said.
He says the idea of McNeil Island has been floated around and he would consider the possibilities if it could be renovated into a place where people could get housing and treatment.
As soon as Reichert announced his run for, it took no time for his democratic candidates to come after him for his anti-abortion stance.
"I am pro-life I’ve never said anything other than that in my entire political career, with the exception of incest, rape and life of the mother," Reichert said.
But Reichert says he has no plans to change or ever go after Washington state law that protects the right to an abortion.
FOX 13 asked what he would do if that state law were to ever change banning abortions.
Reichert says he would be opposed to lawmakers making that kind of decision.
"I would not sign it," Reichert said.
Instead, he says he would turn to voters if it became necessary.
"I think for me as one person to make the decision, it’s not right," Reichert said.
As far as former president Trump is concerned, in 2016 Reichert did not support him and his sentiment has not changed for 2024.
"I had a very difficult time with the President who was not kind, who had things to say publicly about people, insulting people it’s not the example that I had hoped a president would show," Reichert said.
He doesn’t know who he will support for President, although he knows it is not Mr. Trump.
One thing he knows for sure, he wants to provide a different voice and ideas for voters to hear during the campaign.
"Buckle up, we are going to show the rest of the nation there is another way not a Democrat or Republican, let’s be Washingtonians," Reichert said. | 2023-07-12T14:15:44+00:00 | fox13seattle.com | https://www.fox13seattle.com/election/former-congressman-dave-reichert-now-running-for-governor-gets-emotional-during-sit-down-interview-with-fox13 |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Jim Poole describes the past year almost matter-of-factly, even though the effects of ALS on the former reliever are anything but.
“I’m going to say a downhill spiral, but not in the negative sense. I’m not sad, or ‘woe is me.’ It’s just the way it is,” the 56-year-old said. “When I was diagnosed, I could still walk, my left arm still worked, I could speak well. In a matter of 11 months, (I’m) in a wheelchair and I adapt. That’s the main word that it’s been about, adapting and appreciating whatever I can accomplish in a given day.”
Poole was at Camden Yards on Thursday night for Lou Gehrig Day, when baseball celebrates the life and legacy of the Yankees’ Hall of Famer, who died on June 2, 1941, of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Poole’s son, Hayden, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the Baltimore Orioles faced Seattle.
Around the league, players and umpires wore red 4-ALS bands. New York slugger Aaron Judge had Gehrig’s No. 4 on his cleats, and the Yankees hosted several individuals living with ALS, along with family and friends of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge co-founder Pat Quinn.
New York had Maria Cooper Janis, daughter of actor Gary Cooper, throw out the first pitch. Cooper portrayed Gehrig in “Pride of the Yankees.” A video recounting the disease’s impact was shown on the videoboard in center field, and Angels star Mike Trout stood along the third-base line to watch a snippet of Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech.
“Obviously Lou Gehrig is one of the greatest players of all time, but obviously synonymous with this disease,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “So the fact that our sport has taken this on, and hopefully become a face of it and hopefully just raising awareness to it, that we can make some progress.”
In Toronto, where the Blue Jays faced the Chicago White Sox, the CN Tower was lit up in purple to mark the day. The Tampa Bay Rays, who played at Texas, remembered Paul Kirsch, their former senior scouting supervisor. He was diagnosed with ALS in 2018 and died at age 65 in September from complications following a COVID-19 infection.
Colorado Rockies outfielder Sam Hilliard, whose father Jim died of ALS in September, has started the Team Hilliard Foundation to help fund ALS research.
“I just still think people don’t quite understand a lot of the details of the disease, how horrible it can be and how it affects families. It’s essentially a death sentence when people get diagnosed with it,” Hilliard said. “It’s an underfunded disease, and we’re trying to gain traction to get that funding to get on the right path, the right track to find a cure.”
Hillard didn’t play Thursday because he was in concussion protocol. His mother Tamara spoke on the field before the game. She was on the committee that spent about two years trying to get MLB to have a Lou Gehrig Day.
“We were really just looking to get players and staff and coaches and managers to just say this little pitch that was, ‘I’m all in for Lou Gehrig.’ And we put together this video,” she said. “A bunch of the players that said, ‘Yes, I’m in’ — and it kind of grew. And I’m really proud to say that the Rockies because of Sam and our connection to this family-loving team were the first team to say, ‘We’re on board.’”
Poole was diagnosed about a year ago, shortly after the first annual Lou Gehrig Day in baseball.
“I wasn’t diagnosed until two weeks later, but by that point I was pretty sure where we were heading,” Poole said. “It almost seemed coincidental last year. … Now it’s ingrained in my life, my family’s life. I was glad when MLB did it last year. Obviously I have even more appreciation that MLB and the clubs stepped up and tried to figure out a way to get enough people on board, and maybe something good comes out of it sooner rather than later.”
Poole pitched for eight major league teams from 1990-2000, including the Orioles from 1991-94. The left-hander’s old ballpark looks a bit different than the one he pitched in; the left-field wall has been pushed back and made taller this year.
“I don’t know if it would’ve contained some of the homers I gave up,” Poole joked. “But (Mike) Mussina might have won a few more games.”
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-03T19:42:15+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/baseball-honors-gehrig-while-raising-awareness-of-als/ |
SEOUL, South Korea, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AIRS Medical joined the U.S. business delegation, which has been set up as the largest since the inauguration of Yoon Suk Yeol. They are expected to establish a network with U.S. government officials and entrepreneurs and focus on entering the local market through opportunities to expand their businesses.
The business delegation consists of 122 companies, who were selected after two deliberations by the selection committee. As the mission theme is "high-tech industry," companies in the pharmaceutical bio and digital healthcare sectors accounted for a high proportion. AIRS Medical is one of seven companies selected for the digital healthcare sector.
As part of their itinerary, the business representatives are set to engage in a series of events, including the reception hosted by the White House and the Korea-U.S. Cluster Roundtable arranged by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The said events will offer an opportunity to exchange views on economic and industrial cooperation between the two countries and foster strong connections with the U.S. government officials and business leaders.
Following their participation in the business delegation, companies will visit various multinational corporations in the United States and organize expert meet-ups to create prospects for domestic business opportunities.
"Our objective during the visit is to draw in investors from the United States. We currently have more than three medical institutions in the U.S. that have adopted our solution, and we are presently in talks regarding potential partnerships." said Hyeseong Lee, CEO of AIRS Medical.
AIRS Medical has been making waves in the United States market with its AI-based MRI image enhancement solution called SwiftMR™. The company received FDA 510(k) clearance for SwiftMR™ in 2021, allowing it to enter the U.S. market.
Since then, AIRS Medical has been aggressively pursuing opportunities in the U.S. market, showcasing to RSNA, North America's largest annual meeting of the radiological society for two consecutive years. The company's efforts paid off when it was awarded the 2023 Best Practice Award by Frost & Sullivan, a leading global research and consulting firm that recognizes companies for their outstanding performance in their respective industries.
AIRS Medical also recently participated in HIMSS23, the largest healthcare information and communication and management system society meeting in the U.S., on April 17. The company showcased its cutting-edge technology, designed to help healthcare professionals and patients improve their MRI scanning experiences.
"Following our success in the Korean market and the timely visit by the Business Delegation, AIRS Medical USA will continue to strive for providing value-driven AI-solutions for all stakeholders in the healthcare field." Said Kevin Yang, Head of AIRS Medical USA.
The next major event for AIRS Medical is the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) in Chicago scheduled for April 29, followed by the Health Connect Partners Reverse Expo (HCP Reverse Expo) in Houston scheduled for May 8. The company is expected to demonstrate its AI-based medical imaging technology expertise at both events.
About AIRS Medical
AIRS Medical Inc., founded in Oct 2018, is a medical AI solution provider headquartered in Seoul, Korea, that develops innovative products and services to improve the patient experience. AIRS Medical helps healthcare systems achieve greater institutional efficiency in areas where a lack of productivity limits clinical value.
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SOURCE AIRS Medical Inc. | 2023-04-27T15:45:04+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/04/27/airs-medical-joined-south-korean-president-yoons-us-visit-business-delegation/ |
Honda may no longer be in Formula 1 officially, but it’s still using reigning world champion Max Verstappen to show off the upcoming 2023 Civic Type R.
In an ad first spotted by Carscoops, the Red Bull Racing driver is let loose in the Type R at the Euroring, a 1.7-mile circuit near Budapest. The premise of the ad is that, after the 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix, Verstappen is called into a meeting by Red Bull team principal Christian Horner (who makes a voice cameo), and decides to take a detour. The add is titled “The Ultimate Detour.”
Ending up at the track, Verstappen drives the Type R for a few laps then, realizing he is now late, drives the hot hatch straight to the meeting.
Honda withdrew from F1 at the end of the 2021 season, but Red Bull still uses its power units. The team is now responsible for building its own power units under license from Honda, and does the same for sibling team AlphaTauri. Talks with Porsche recently ended without a deal, leaving Red Bull without an automaker partner for the time being.
Expected to arrive in the U.S. as a 2023 model, the new Civic Type R gets a more powerful version of the outgoing model’s 2.0-liter turbo-4. The engine now produces 315 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque, compared to the previous Type R’s 306 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque.
Power is sent to the front wheels through a revised 6-speed manual transmission. The 2023 Civic Type R also gets updated suspension and more restrained styling based on the 11th-generation Civic body shell.
Honda hasn’t said how much the 2023 Civic Type R will cost when it goes on sale this fall, but it will be built at the automaker’s Yorii Plant in Japan.
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- Ferrari SF90 Stradale race car spy shots: New customer racer in the works | 2022-09-13T12:12:10+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/internet-brands/watch-max-verstappen-drive-the-2023-honda-civic-type-r-in-new-ad/ |
More than 45 million from Dallas to Milwaukee face severe weather threat of damaging winds and possible tornadoes
By Nouran Salahieh, CNN
More than 45 million people from Dallas to Milwaukee are under risk of severe weather Tuesday as another powerful storm system takes aim, threatening to batter states still reeling from deadly tornadoes.
Severe weather is on the way for southern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma, where the Weather Prediction Center warns “confidence is increasing in the potential for rare and dangerous overnight tornadoes and damaging winds.”
Already, tornado-spawning storms over the weekend left 32 dead and dozens of others injured in the Midwest and South as at least 50 confirmed tornadoes touched down across several states, ripping homes apart as they barreled through.
“Many of the areas that got hammered by the last severe weather outlook could be at risk again, so it’s imperative that everyone in this region closely monitor the latest local forecasts and be prepared to take cover if warnings are issued,” the Weather Prediction Center warned.
The next major tornado event is forecasted Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning, when dangerous nighttime tornadoes are possible.
More than 3 million people are under a moderate risk for severe storms on Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday, in areas including Springfield, Missouri, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Other cities that could see storms include St. Louis, Des Moines and Little Rock, Arkansas — which was ravaged by a violent tornado Friday.
Thunderstorms could bring strong tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind gusts Tuesday across the lower Missouri Valley into parts of the Upper Midwest, and across parts of the southeastern Great Plains into areas of the Mid-South, the National Weather Service forecasted.
“Please remain weather aware, have multiple ways to receive warnings & stay tuned to the forecast for updates,” Missouri State Emergency Management officials warned.
Meanwhile, the Storm Prediction Center issued a slight risk of severe thunderstorms in parts of the Southeast through Tuesday morning, when a few tornadoes are possible.
Extremely critical fire threat in the plains
While some states face the threat of tornadoes and hail, others from Kansas to South Texas will be dealing with an increased fire danger as very dry brush, low humidity levels and gusty winds converge to create prime conditions for wildfires.
There are over a million people under an “extremely critical” risk of fire weather across parts of eastern New Mexico, across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and southwestern Kansas on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, another 5 million are under a “critical” fire risk from the southern New Mexico to southern Nebraska.
More than 50 million people are under high wind alerts from the West Coast to central Missouri, where wind gusts of up to 60 mph are expected. Red flag warnings are in place for more than 15 million people.
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CNN Meteorologist Robert Shackelford contributed to this report. | 2023-04-04T05:42:35+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/04/03/more-than-45-million-from-dallas-to-milwaukee-face-severe-weather-threat-of-damaging-winds-and-possible-tornadoes/ |
Marianne Williamson, a prominent progressive who ran for president in 2020, confirmed in an interview published Thursday that she will run again for the Democratic nomination for president in 2024.
That would put her in a Democratic primary against President Biden, who has not announced his own plans but is widely expected to run for reelection next year.
“I wouldn’t be running for president if I didn’t believe I could contribute to harnessing the collective sensibility that I feel is our greatest hope at this time,” Williamson told the Medill News Service, which is run by Northwestern University, in an exclusive interview.
No other Democrats have officially waded into the race yet, making Williamson the first. Williamson previously teased “an important announcement” that she said she would be making on March 4, which has been speculated as a presidential announcement.
Williamson gained notoriety during the 2020 presidential race, especially during the first several presidential primary debates where some of her spiritual remarks won her fans online. However, her campaign last one year, and she dropped out in January 2020.
During her interview with the Medill News Service, she also criticized the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) decision to change the early presidential primary schedule, which places South Carolina as the first state in the lineup. South Carolina, where Biden placed first in 2020, is widely credited for helping boost his momentum in that Democratic primary.
“How can you claim to be a champion of democracy when your own process is so undemocratic?” Williamson told the student-run news outlet.
The news comes as polling has often shown Democrats less favorable of a Biden reelection bid. One poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research , for example, saw only 37 percent of members of his party polled supportive of a second Biden term.
Biden was expected to make an announcement that he will be running for reelection in the coming weeks, multiple sources told The Hill last month, though it’s unclear when that might happen.
This story was updated at 7:24 p.m. | 2023-02-24T00:31:07+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/marianne-williamson-confirms-she-will-primary-biden-in-2024/ |
Mother accused of taking newborn from hospital, stabbing nurses
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (WPBF) - The mother of a woman accused of taking her own baby from a Florida hospital says her daughter has a mental illness and wrongly believed the newborn was in danger. She hopes her daughter can get the help she needs.
Authorities say Kendra Greene walked into Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee around 10:30 p.m. Thursday and removed her 3-day-old daughter, Princess, from the neonatal intensive care unit. She is accused of stabbing three nurses who tried to stop her.
Kendra Greene’s mother, Deion Greene, says her daughter believed Princess was in danger.
“She said the hospital kidnapped her baby, and she’s going to get her baby one way or another from the hospital,” Deion Greene said.
She says Kendra Greene was diagnosed with schizophrenia three years ago. Medication was very effective, but Deion Greene says her daughter stopped taking it shortly before she got pregnant.
By the time she was 41 weeks pregnant, her mental health had significantly declined, Deion Greene says.
“She was well past her due date, and because she’s past her due date, her hormones are double raging,” Deion Greene said. “That is a bomb exploding right there, and that’s what happened. She exploded.”
Deion Greene says she took her daughter to multiple hospitals and contacted law enforcement, but no one would help. She got Kendra Greene checked into Palms West on July 7, where she says the expectant mother quickly had two mental breakdowns.
“She’s like, ‘I hate you!’” Deion Greene said. “And she starts screaming and crying like a mad person at the top of her voice.”
Kendra Greene gave birth to Princess last Monday, and the baby was placed in the NICU to help her breathe. Deion Greene says that’s when her daughter’s mental health worsened further, leading to her alleged actions on Thursday.
After Kendra Greene allegedly took her baby, deputies found the child with a relative and returned her to the NICU. The nurses who were attacked were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Kendra Greene faces several charges, including aggravated battery and aggravated child abuse. She was granted a $300,000 bond by a judge Friday and ordered to have no contact with the hospital, its staff members or her baby.
Deion Greene hopes people will see her daughter isn’t a criminal; she just needs help.
“When people do stuff like that, you don’t lock them up in prison,” Deion Greene said. “Prison is not the place. She needs to go to a psych hospital.”
While her daughter faces charges, Deion Greene says she will care for Princess once she is discharged from the hospital. She hopes that will happen next week.
Copyright 2023 WPBF via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-18T08:01:01+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2023/07/18/mother-accused-taking-newborn-hospital-stabbing-nurses/ |
April 4, 1938—July 19, 2022
If the sign of a life well lived is the love and adoration of his friends and family, then Jim Stewart was indeed a successful man. In the early morning hours of July 19, 2022, surrounded by his family, Jim left this world and rode out for his next big adventure.
Born to Frank and Betty Eastman Stewart on April 4, 1938, in the Buhl Hospital, Jim joined his older siblings Colleen and Phil. As a child, Jim rode his horse to the one-room school in Buhl, and later graduated from Buhl High School.
He married Sandy Montgomery in Carlin, Nevada on April 1, 1961. Over the next seven years they welcomed Terry, Jamie, Jeff, and Che’rie to their family. Jim and Sandy built their home on Clear Lakes Road in 1964 and he spent the next 58 years there.
Jim worked at the Clear Springs Fish Hatchery, then the Buhl Golf Course as Grounds Manager for 17 years. He went back to Clear Springs Fish Hatchery as the construction foreman, where he learned to scuba dive in order to repair and maintain the ponds and raceways. In his early 40’s Jim left the hatchery to lead the life he always wanted, to raise cattle and cowboy! Jim’s life-long love of horses began early, according to his sister Colleen. It was also said that at the age of three or four if Jim was missing, he could be found in the back pasture standing between the front legs of a horse. Jim’s addiction to horses led him to rodeos by the age of 19, when he began riding bareback broncs and bulls. The kids remember there was always a new horse in the corral, and it was always “a good son of a gun!”
Known as “Papa” to the grandkids, and “Super Papa” to the great-grands, he loved them all and the “rug rats” adored him. Jim had a love and zest for life, especially the cowboy life. He enjoyed spending time with his children and supported them in riding clubs, high school rodeos, rodeo queening contests, hunting trips, and brandings. Jim loved participating in the annual JC’s 4th of July event as a bank robber with the James Gang. He was always happy, had a grin and a wink at the ready, and his baby blue eyes held a hint of mischief. Jim had so many friends, didn’t know a stranger, and if he had something that you needed, it was yours. He could yodel, recite cowboy poetry from memory, was the life of the party and the king of one-liners—“Ain’t it fun out west”, “Beer, how can they make it so good and sell it so cheap”, and “I’m sure glad you got to see me!”
Jim is survived by his sister, Colleen Brooks; children, Terry (Donnie) Thompson, Jamie (Lori) Stewart, Jeff (Stefanie) Stewart, Che’rie Stewart, and honorary son, Butch Shields; 15 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Betty Stewart; brother, Phil Stewart; nephew, Troy Stewart; and grandson, Jeffrey Stewart.
A viewing will be held from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m, Monday, July 25, 2022 with a funeral service to begin at 1:00 p.m., at the First Christian Church, 1005 Poplar St., Buhl. Interment will conclude at West End Cemetery, Buhl.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Jim’s memorial webpage at www.farmerfuneralchapel.com. | 2022-07-22T06:10:15+00:00 | magicvalley.com | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/james-jim-kent-stewart/article_d7486f8c-c75b-561a-8bf2-a6f7ab02d271.html |
DENVER (KDVR) – As severe stormy weather was hitting the Front Range, those people who live west of Denver got to see spectacular views of the storm clouds and took photos.
FOX31 Pinpoint Weather Meteorologist Jessica Lebel said she was impressed when she saw the photos and explained just what they showed.
“It’s cumulonimbus, which is essentially a thunderstorm cloud, so what you’re seeing, that big part that goes outward is what we call an anvil,” Lebel said.
When those clouds rise up to the troposphere layer of the atmosphere, Lebel said that’s where the cloud cannot rise anymore so it spreads out horizontally and forms round edges.
Pinpoint Weather Meteorologist Travis Michels described the formation process like pouring pancake batter upside-down.
“All that hot air rises and hits the top of the troposphere, and that’s why it pancakes out,” Michels said.
Below the anvil, Lebel explains that you may see rounded pouches that are called mammatus clouds, which are caused by surrounding air rising and falling.
The photos show the structure of a mature, fully-developed thunderstorm. Lebel said this view is an outline of the thunderstorm from a distance and shows the definition of an isolated storm.
“Strong thunderstorms like that can reach up to 40 or 50 thousand feet in the sky before spreading out like that,” she said. “Typically the taller a storm is able to travel that means more instability in the atmosphere which typically leads to a stronger storm.”
She added that while Wednesday’s storms will be similar in structure, there will be more low gray clouds and it won’t be as isolated, so the view will likely be different.
Wednesday’s Pinpoint Weather forecast calls for rain and thunderstorms around the Denver metro area, with some areas at risk for severe hail and even tornadoes. | 2023-05-10T21:47:24+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/weather/stunning-photos-of-tuesdays-storm-from-a-distance-explained/ |
CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Saturday, August 27, 2022
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301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle.
Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle in the
morning. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the
60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph in the
evening...becoming light.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
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.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s
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10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the lower 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
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301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
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.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
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.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
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.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. South winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s to lower 80s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 70s to mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 70s to 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s
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301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to upper 80s. Southwest
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 60. West winds 10 to
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.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the 60s. Highs
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301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
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Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
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cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s to lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the lower 60s to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 56 67 57 68 / 20 20
Ocean Beach 55 64 56 64 / 20 20
$$
CAZ509-290100-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle.
Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds
5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid 50s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ508-290100-
San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle.
Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. A
slight chance of drizzle in the morning. Highs in the 70s to
lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming west 10 to
20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming
5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 70s to lower 80s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming 5 to
10 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Highs in the 70s to mid 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 57 72 58 73 / 10 10
Oakland 57 72 58 73 / 20 20
Fremont 57 77 59 78 / 20 20
Redwood City 57 80 58 82 /
Mountain View 57 74 59 74 /
$$
CAZ510-290100-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds
10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 58 85 59 87 /
Livermore 56 86 57 88 /
$$
CAZ513-290100-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower to mid 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming west
in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds
5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the lower 80s to mid 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 57 80 59 81 /
Morgan Hill 54 81 55 86 /
$$
CAZ512-290100-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the 50s to
lower 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s to mid 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph...becoming south after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 50s to upper 60s. Highs in the mid 70s to upper 80s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 70s to upper
80s. Lows in the mid 50s to upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to upper 80s.
$$
CAZ515-290100-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds around 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Southwest winds
around 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs around 90.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
CAZ514-290100-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to upper
60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds around
5 mph...becoming north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to lower 70s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming south after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper
50s to lower 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in
the lower 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ529-290100-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Patchy fog. A slight chance of
drizzle. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. A slight chance of drizzle in
the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in
the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening...
becoming light.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Areas
of fog in the morning. Highs around 70. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Areas of fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Patchy fog. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 54 68 54 71 / 20 20
$$
CAZ530-290100-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle.
Lows in the 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle in the morning. Highs in the
60s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 57 69 57 71 / 20 20
Big Sur 49 66 51 71 / 10 10
$$
CAZ528-290100-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of drizzle.
Lows in the 50s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. A
slight chance of drizzle in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s
to mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to
20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing
to around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 60s to upper 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph increasing
to west 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to
around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the
lower 70s to mid 80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the 70s to
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 54 67 56 69 / 20 20
Carmel Valley 51 75 52 79 /
Hollister 53 73 54 78 /
$$
CAZ516-290100-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 80s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming west 10 to
20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph...
becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 80s to lower 90s. West winds around 5 mph increasing to
southwest 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
10 to 20 mph...becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 80s to mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
to upper 50s. Highs 90 to 104.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 49 80 50 82 /
$$
CAZ517-290100-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid
60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to mid 80s. South winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to mid 80s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s
to lower 70s. Highs in the 80s to 90s.
$$
CAZ518-290100-
Mountains of San Benito and Interior Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Park-
301 AM PDT Sun Aug 28 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s to mid
60s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to mid 60s. West winds
10 to 15 mph...becoming southwest around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs mid 80s to 101.
Lows in the upper 50s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the 60s to
lower 70s. Highs mid 80s to 101.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pinnacles NP 50 88 52 92 /
$$
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DENVER (KDVR) — The latest expansion of Frontier Airlines’ footprint at Denver International Airport is part of a long list of expansion projects for one of the busiest airports in the county.
Data released this spring by Denver International Airport ranked it third in passenger volume during 2021. With 58.8 million passengers throughout the year, only Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport had more passengers.
DIA has been planning and expanding for years to keep up with growing demand. The airport released its Vision 100 Plan last fall, with the goal of expanding infrastructure to handle 100 million passengers annually in the next eight to 10 years.
Under DIA’s current major projects, there are two that have made progress in meeting capacity for today’s demand, although some have faced turbulence on the road to completion.
Gate Expansion Program
DIA has plans to build 39 new concourse gates to increase the airport’s capacity by 30%. This is separate from the expansion that broke ground Monday, with Frontier building five more gates in Concourse A.
The project spans all three concourses at DIA and focuses on expanding the east, west or both wings of a given concourse.
While half of these projects are completed, a spokesperson for DIA said the remaining 19 gates from the A-West project and B-East project are still on track to be operational by the fall of 2022.
The overall project is set to add more amenities, like dining and shopping options and more seating and charging stations for passengers.
Great Hall Project
Despite DIA terminating a contract with the original developers, the Great Hall Project’s first phase came in around $30 million under budget when it wrapped up construction in October of 2021.
As of July 2022, Phase 2 construction is roughly 28% complete.
The project does several things, including adding 31,000 square feet to the Jeppesen Terminal, new ticketing areas for United and Southwest, more restrooms and higher balconies. The second will focus on a new security checkpoint on the airport’s sixth level.
The big impact this will have on travel is reducing the bottleneck that currently happens through the TSA checkpoint. DIA says the new checkpoint and the ability to add more screening lanes will increase capacity by 60%.
The second phase of the Great Hall Project is set to be finished by mid-year 2024. The completion phase of the project won’t be finished until 2028.
Vision 100
DIA CEO Phil Washington revealed the Vision 100 plan with the goal of expanding the airport’s infrastructure and capacity to accommodate 100 million passengers annually over the next eight to 10 years.
“DEN is the state’s primary economic engine and by developing a plan, tracking our progress, measuring our success and investing in the airport, we can ensure this economic engine will continue to thrive by creating more business, job and education opportunities while connecting more people across the globe,” Washington said.
DIA’s plan to expand is based on:
- Making DIA a hot spot for hiring aviation crew
- Building expansion to hold a growing number of passengers coming through Denver
- Maintaining the existing building, making repairs and replacements within the facility
- Promoting more business and tourism opportunities through DIA | 2022-08-08T21:34:52+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/dia-grown-over-the-past-5-years/ |
SYRACUSE, N.Y., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Dairy Association North East (ADANE), representing 9,000 northeast dairy farmers, is pleased to announce John Chrisman is the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the organization. As CEO, Chrisman will lead the organization to fulfill its mission to promote dairy and serve as the Association's key liaison with industry and government leaders.
Prior to being named CEO, Chrisman held senior leadership positions in Retail Marketing, Producer Relations, School Marketing, Processor Relations, and Hunger Relief. His passion for the dairy industry extends beyond the job. He believes the relationships he developed within agriculture and associated industries over the past 21 years shaped him into the person he is today.
"Over the years, I have performed a wide range of functions, which allowed me to work one-on-one with dairy farmers as well as consumers. I believe my experience and insight will be key to elevating our programs in retail, schools, broadcast media, and digital marketing to meet demand of consumers," says Chrisman.
"With more than two decades of experience leading multiple departments in dairy promotion, John is perfectly suited for this new challenge," says ADANE Board President Audrey Donahoe. "We are thrilled to have someone with such knowledge and commitment to dairy farmers lead the organization into the future."
On representing the 9,000 dairy farms in ADANE's region, Chrisman says he is humbled. "There are no better or harder working people than the dairy farmers who I will represent. I am both honored and privileged to have been chosen and trusted to lead the organization on their behalf."
Chrisman joined dairy promotion in 2001 with American Dairy Association Mideast in Ohio and continued his career with Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program based in Philadelphia. These two groups merged with American Dairy Association & Dairy Council in Syracuse, New York, in 2016 to become American Dairy Association North East.
Chrisman holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, Pa. He will start in his new position as Chief Executive Officer of ADANE on June 2, 2022. Chrisman succeeds Rick Naczi who is retiring after 32 years of leading the regional dairy checkoff promotion group.
About American Dairy Association North East
American Dairy Association North East (ADANE) is the local affiliate of the National Dairy Council® and the regional consolidation of three promotion organizations including the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Inc., Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program. Committed to nutrition education and research-based communications, ADANE provides science-based nutrition information to, and in collaboration with, a variety of stakeholders committed to fostering a healthier nation, including health professionals, educators, school nutrition directors, academia, industry, consumers, and media. Funded by dairy checkoff dollars from 9,000 dairy farm families in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and northern Virginia, ADANE works closely with Dairy Management Inc.™ to bring a fully integrated promotion program to the North East region. For more information, visit www.AmericanDairy.com.
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MANAMA, Bahrain, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kingdom of Bahrain has granted the first five Golden Licenses to projects presented by Citi, Eagle Hills Diyar W.L.L, Infracorp, Saudi Telecommunication Company (stc), and Whampoa Group. With a collective investment of upwards of USD 1.4 billion into Bahrain, the greenfield projects and expansions are expected to create more than 1,400 job opportunities within the next three years in support of the Kingdom's Economic Recovery Plan goals.
The licenses were presented at the headquarters of each company to Michel Sawaya, Bahrain CEO for Citi; Dr. Maher Al Shaer, Managing Director of Eagle Hills Diyar W.L.L.; Majed AlKhan, CEO of Infracorp; Nezar Banabeela, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of stc Bahrain; and Shawn Chan, Group CEO of Whampoa Group. and a virtual signing event was organised for Singapore-based Whampoa Group.
The Golden License will enhance Bahrain's competitiveness for investment, and economic growth, and encourage the digital transformation of Bahrain's economy. The Golden License targets local and international companies by providing a set of advantages and facilities for investment projects.
Companies eligible to obtain the Golden License must create more than 500 local jobs or make an investment of over USD 50 million in their first years in the Kingdom while contributing to strengthening the Kingdom's overall development.
In recognition of the Golden licenses' launch, HE Abdulla Adel Fakhro, Minister of Industry and Commerce, said, "The Golden License is a pivotal step towards successfully achieving the objectives of Bahrain's Economic Recovery Plan, which aims to attract $2.5 billion in foreign investment by the end of 2023."
The Minister of Industry and Commerce added, "Bahrain possesses an attractive and flexible investment environment in addition to its advanced legislative system, which contributes to making this country one of the best investment destinations globally.
HE Khalid Humaidan, Chief Executive at the (Bahrain EDB), said, "The Golden License is a successful public-private partnership that has created bespoke solutions for investors and start-up companies. It has provided them with fast-tracked approvals and several features and facilities that have enabled them to secure a global footprint from Bahrain."
The Chief Executive added, "New investment projects are expected to create over 1,400 new job opportunities across Bahrain's financial services, tourism, and ICT sectors, cementing Bahrain's position on an international playing field."
A number of senior officials also attended the ceremonies.
About Bahrain Economic Development Board
The Bahrain Economic Development Board (Bahrain EDB) is an investment promotion agency with overall responsibility for attracting investment into the Kingdom and supporting initiatives that enhance the investment climate.
The Bahrain EDB works with the government and both current and prospective investors, to ensure that Bahrain's investment climate is attractive, to communicate the key strengths, and to identify where opportunities exist for further economic growth through investment.
The Bahrain EDB focuses on several economic sectors that capitalise on Bahrain's competitive advantages and provide significant investment opportunities. These sectors include financial services, manufacturing, logistics, ICT and tourism. For more information on the Bahrain EDB visit www.bahrainedb.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will appeal for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he convenes a second virtual summit on the pandemic and marks 1 million deaths in the United States.
“As a nation, we must not grow numb to such sorrow,” Biden said in a statement. “To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible.”
The president called on Congress to provide more funding for testing, vaccines and treatments, something lawmakers have been unwilling to deliver so far.
The lack of funding — Biden has requested another $22.5 billion of what he calls critically needed money — is a reflection of faltering resolve at home that jeopardizes the global response to the pandemic.
Eight months after he used the first such summit to announce an ambitious pledge to donate 1.2 billion vaccine doses to the world, the urgency of the U.S. and other nations to respond has waned.
Momentum on vaccinations and treatments has faded even as more infectious variants rise and billions of people across the globe remain unprotected.
The White House said Biden will address the opening of the virtual summit Thursday morning with prerecorded remarks and will make the case that addressing COVID-19 “must remain an international priority.” The U.S. is co-hosting the summit along with Germany, Indonesia, Senegal and Belize.
The U.S. has shipped nearly 540 million vaccine doses to more than 110 countries and territories, according to the State Department — by far more than any other donor nation.
After the delivery of more than 1 billion vaccines to the developing world, the problem is no longer that there aren’t enough shots but a lack of logistical support to get doses into arms. According to government data, more than 680 million donated vaccine doses have been left unused in developing countries because they were set to expire soon and couldn’t be administered quickly enough. As of March, 32 poorer countries had used fewer than half of the COVID-19 vaccines they were sent.
U.S. assistance to promote and facilitate vaccinations overseas dried up earlier this year, and Biden has requested about $5 billion for the effort through the rest of the year.
“We have tens of millions of unclaimed doses because countries lack the resources to build out their cold chains, which basically is the refrigeration systems; to fight disinformation; and to hire vaccinators,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said this week. She added that the summit is “going to be an opportunity to elevate the fact that we need additional funding to continue to be a part of this effort around the world.”
“We’re going to continue to fight for more funding here,” Psaki said. “But we will continue to press other countries to do more to help the world make progress as well.”
Congress has balked at the price tag for COVID-19 relief and has thus far refused to take up the package because of political opposition to the impending end of pandemic-era migration restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border. Even after a consensus for virus funding briefly emerged in March, lawmakers decided to strip out the global aid funding and solely focus the assistance on shoring up U.S. supplies of vaccine booster shots and therapeutics.
Biden has warned that without Congress acting, the U.S. could lose out on access to the next generation of vaccines and treatments, and that the nation won’t have enough supply of booster doses or the antiviral drug Paxlovid for later this year. He’s also sounding the alarm that more variants will spring up if the U.S. and the world don’t do more to contain the virus globally.
“To beat the pandemic here, we need to beat it everywhere,” Biden said last September during the first global summit.
The virus has killed more than 995,000 people in the U.S. and at least 6.2 million people globally, according to figures kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.
Demand for COVID-19 vaccines has dropped in some countries as infections and deaths have declined globally in recent months, particularly as the omicron variant has proved to be less severe than earlier versions of the disease. For the first time since it was created, the U.N.-backed COVAX effort has “enough supply to enable countries to meet their national vaccination targets,” according to vaccines alliance Gavi CEO Dr. Seth Berkley, which fronts COVAX.
Still, despite more than 65% of the world’s population receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, fewer than 16% of people in poor countries have been immunized. It is highly unlikely countries will hit the World Health Organization target of vaccinating 70% of all people by June.
In countries including Cameroon, Uganda and the Ivory Coast, officials have struggled to get enough refrigerators to transport vaccines, send enough syringes for mass campaigns and get enough health workers to inject the shots. Experts also point out that more than half of the health workers needed to administer the vaccines in poorer countries are either underpaid or not paid at all.
Donating more vaccines, critics say, would miss the point entirely.
“It’s like donating a bunch of fire trucks to countries that are on fire, but they have no water,” said Ritu Sharma, a vice president at the charity CARE, which has helped immunize people in more than 30 countries, including India, South Sudan and Bangladesh.
“We can’t be giving countries all these vaccines but no way to use them,” she said, adding that the same infrastructure that got the shots administered in the U.S. is now needed elsewhere. “We had to tackle this problem in the U.S., so why are we not now using that knowledge to get vaccines into the people who need them most?”
Sharma said greater investment was needed to counter vaccine hesitancy in developing countries where there are entrenched beliefs about the potential dangers of Western-made medicines.
“Leaders must agree to pursue a coherent strategy to end the pandemic instead of a fragmented approach that will extend the lifespan of this crisis,” said Gayle Smith, CEO of The ONE Campaign.
GAVI’s Berkley also said that countries are increasingly asking for the pricier messenger RNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, which are not as easily available as the AstraZeneca vaccine, which made up the bulk of COVAX’s supply last year.
The emergence of variants like delta and omicron have led many countries to switch to mRNA vaccines, which seem to provide more protection and are in greater demand globally than traditionally made vaccines like AstraZeneca, Novavax or those made by China and Russia. | 2022-05-12T16:03:31+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/health/coronavirus/biden-marks-1-million-us-covid-deaths-will-co-host-2nd-global-summit/ |
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