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LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein es declarado culpable de un cargo de violación en juicio en Los Ángeles.
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- Zendaya and Tom Holland dined at this East Bay restaurant | 2022-12-20T01:24:33+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Harvey-Weinstein-es-declarado-culpable-de-un-17665340.php |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest has made huge gains under Dave Clawson, including tying a program record for wins and claiming an Atlantic Coast Conference division title last season.
The 21st-ranked Demon Deacons now have another shot at something they haven't done: beating No. 5 Clemson. The teams meet Saturday, and the Demon Deacons are looking to end a 13-year losing streak in the series.
"The bottom line is we haven't played well against them," Clawson said. "So I just want to go out Saturday and I want our team to play at the level that we're capable of."
Wake Forest (3-0, 0-0 ACC) is the reigning Atlantic Division champion after replacing Clemson (3-0, 1-0), which had won six straight league titles before last year.
"They're the Atlantic Division champs," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. "And they know what that looks like it and they're confident in that."
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But even last season, with Wake Forest winning 11 games and cracking the top 10 of the AP Top 25 poll, the Tigers beat the Demon Deacons 48-27 at home in November. In fact, the Demon Deacons have lost by at least 14 points in all but one matchup, with the Tigers since last winning in 2008.
And this starts a critical two-game division stretch for the Tigers, who host No. 12 North Carolina State next week.
Here are things to know about Saturday's Clemson-Wake Forest game:
Bresee's status
Defensive tackle Bryan Bresee is expected to return to face No. 21 Wake Forest after missing last week's win while being home with his family following the death of his 15-year-old sister, Ella, to brain cancer.
He returned to campus this on Monday, then flew back up Tuesday with coach Dabo Swinney and about 40 teammates and staffers for Ella's funeral. Clemson has celebrated Ella's life the past two weeks, including a moment of silence for her at Memorial Stadium last week and Swinney coaching in an "Ella Strong" T-shirt.
Bouncing back?
The Demon Deacons needed to go to the final minute to hold off Liberty 37-36 last weekend at home. Afterward, Clawson sensed his team was so down by the close call that it needed a pick-me-up.
"I told these guys Sunday: We won the game," Clawson said, adding: "We're not going to walk around here with our head down all depressed after we win. Let's fix the mistakes, know what we didn't do well — but we won."
Henry's Deacon past
Clemson starting defensive end K.J. Henry spent his youth rooting for Wake Forest, where his father, Keith, was a longtime assistant under Jim Grobe.
And the Winston-Salem-born Henry doesn't let Swinney forget that it was a loss to Wake Forest in 2008 that led to the ouster of Tommy Bowden and Swinney getting the interim job.
"If my dad doesn't beat him, he doesn't get this job," Henry joked.
QB play
The quarterback matchup pairs Wake Forest's Sam Hartman and Clemson's D.J. Uiagalelei.
Hartman, who missed the opener while being treated for a blood clot, helped the Demon Deacons boast one of the nation's top-scoring and most efficient offenses last season. He has thrown for seven touchdowns and two interceptions in his two appearances this year.
"They're an RPO team and he knows how to read it and he's very patient with his reads," Clemson defensive co-coordinator Mickey Conn said. "So we've got to be patient with him."
After a bumpy first season as the starter last year, Uiagalelei has thrown for five touchdowns with one interception.
"He looks better from last year, he looks more comfortable," Wake Forest defensive lineman Rondell Bothroyd said.
Slimming down
Clemson sophomore Payton Page made his first career start with starting defensive tackles Tyler Davis and Bryan Bresee out for the Louisiana Tech. It wouldn't have happened without Page dropping some 80 pounds from his weight when he arrived on campus in 2021.
Page said he was up to 395 pounds after doing little else other than playing video games and ordering McDonald's with his North Carolina high school's season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has a listed weight of 315 after sticking to the salad options.
"I feel like I'm moving much better," he said. | 2022-09-23T20:13:53+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/sports/clemson-football-no-21-wake-forest-gets-shot-at-no-5-tigers/article_3a19af03-dc64-577c-b814-95a0405fbeee.html |
One year after its return to market, Sorel celebrates a spree of industry awards and explosive cross-country distribution, solidifying the trend prediction that 2022 is the year of hibiscus
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorel, the hibiscus liqueur inspired by sorrel, the ancestral Afro-Caribbean beverage, is the most-awarded liqueur of 2022. Sorel returned to shelves in October 2021 with the support of Fawn Weaver and the Uncle Nearest Venture Fund, which invests in BIPOC/minority-founded spirits businesses. The spirit swept every major beverage award this year with Gold honors or higher, and as Sorel approaches the first anniversary of its relaunch, founder Jackie Summers–acclaimed author, activist, entrepreneur, and self-taught distiller–reflects back on the last year to acknowledge the forces that brought this reincarnation to life.
"With Sorel's second iteration, I've learned the importance of finding the right partners–whether financial backers, business consultants, or bartenders–and letting them do what they do best," says Jackie Summers, Founder of Sorel. "The key to our success has been about putting values over valuations, which is an atypical approach, but it works every time. Our relationship with Uncle Nearest has been fruitful because it's not just a transactional investor relationship–we share the vision of honoring heritage and history through spirits."
Sorel earned a collection of coveted accolades during the 2022 spirits awards season, including top-ranking honors and distinctions from the industry's most important spirits awards:
- ADI International Spirits Competition - Best of Class (Bottled & Blended Spirit - Liqueur), Best of Category (Bottled & Blended Spirit - Herbal/Botanical/Spice Liqueur), Double Gold (Spirit Excellence)
- American Craft Spirits Association - Innovation Award
- Chilled Magazine - Chilled 100 Spirits Awards - Breakout Brand, 97 Points
- Craft Distillers Spirits Competition - Best of Class; 93 Points
- Distiller Magazine - 5/5 Star Rating
- Distillery Awards - Diamond Certification
- Finger Lakes International Wine & Spirits Competition - Gold Medal
- Great American International Spirits Competition - Best in Show; Platinum Medal
- John Barleycorn Awards - Double Gold (Bottle Design), Gold (Packaging Design)
- Micro Liquor Spirit Award Competition - Triple Gold (Spirit), Triple Gold (Packaging Design), 97 Points
- New Orleans Spirits Competition - Best in Category, Gold Medal
- New York International Spirits Competition - Double Gold, 96 points
- San Francisco World Spirits Competition - Gold Medal
- Singapore World Spirits Competition - Gold Medal
- Sip Awards - Platinum Medal
- Ultimate Spirits Challenge - Chairman's Trophy, 96 points, Top 100 Spirits, Extraordinary Ultra Recommendation
- Wine Enthusiast - Spirit Brand of the Year finalist (2021), 94 Points (2022)
- World Liqueur Awards - Best American Herbal Liqueur
- Craft Competition International Awards - Gold Medal
Sorel is currently sold in retail shops, hotels, bars, and restaurants across the country, with distribution in 20 states planned by the end of 2022, and nationwide availability in 2023.
In March 2022, Summers was honored among the inaugural class of Food & Wine magazine's "Drinks Innovators of the Year," and was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Bar World for the fourth year, ranking at #29. Earlier this year, Summers was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Media Award for his personal essay All the Food You Can Eat and Only The Family You Can Stand (Epicurious). Most recently, he was included among Wine Enthusiast's Future 40 class of people shaping the way we drink.
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Jackie Summers is an acclaimed author, seasoned public speaker, and serial entrepreneur. Summers is the founder of JackFromBrooklyn Inc. and the creator of the award-winning Sorel Liqueur. Most recently, Summers was nominated for the 2022 James Beard Media Award for Personal Essay, Long Form, and was also honored among Food & Wine magazine's inaugural class of Drinks Innovators of the Year. He has been included among the world's 100 Most Influential Bar Industry Figures by Drinks International Magazine (2019, 2020, 2021), The 50 Most Influential People In Brooklyn Food (Brooklyn Magazine, 2015), named to the Imbibe 75 (2021), and named the 2019 Award winner for "Best Food Essay" by the Association of Food Journalists. Summers has contributed to publications including the James Beard Foundation, Plate, Wine Enthusiast, VinePair, Epicurious, Delish, and Edible Brooklyn. He currently serves as a co-chair of the Education Committee for the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation, and as a member of the Education Committee for Bar Convent Brooklyn. Summers' mission is to tell stories of marginalized peoples in their own voices.
Sorel Liqueur is an alcoholic rendition of sorrel, the 500+ year-old traditional hibiscus-based beverage brought to the Caribbean from West Africa. After being diagnosed with a spinal tumor and given a small chance to live, Jackie Summers not only beat those odds, but left his decades-long corporate career to create Sorel as a way to honor his Barbadian heritage. Following 623 failed attempts, Summers perfected the first and only shelf-stable sorrel liqueur. After an impressive debut in 2013, Sorel ceased production for several years, and was brought back to market in October 2021 with the support of Fawn Weaver and the Uncle Nearest Venture Fund. Sorel will be available in 20 states by the end of 2022, and continues to expand its presence in bars, restaurants, and retailers throughout the United States, as well as impending availability at Disney properties. Visit SorelOfficial.com for more information and follow @SorelOfficial on Instagram and Facebook.
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SOURCE Sorel Liqueur | 2022-09-14T14:29:37+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/09/14/sorel-is-most-awarded-liqueur-2022/ |
MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Sunday apologized to the victims of a government-sponsored sexual freedom law passed last October that was aimed at increasing protection for women, but inadvertently allowed hundreds of convicted sex offenders to have their sentences reduced.
The legislation, known as the “only yes means yes” law, is set to undergo reform this coming week to address the legal loophole, following months of debate in the country and tension between the two left-wing coalition partners in the government — the majority Socialist party and Unidas Podemos, the junior party that sponsored the law.
“No lawmaker, even those who voted against this law, is in favor of reducing sentences. Therefore, I apologize to the victims and we will find a solution to these unintended effects, because it is the best way to defend the law itself,” Sánchez said in an interview with local media on the sidelines of a campaign event for the upcoming regional elections in Spain on May 28.
According to the latest official data, courts have reduced the sentences of 978 sexual offenders under the sexual freedom law and at least 104 convicts have been granted early release.
The law made verbal consent, or the lack thereof, the key factor in cases of alleged sexual assault. However, it also revised the minimum and maximum prison terms for sexual assault convictions, resulting in judges being able to reduce sentences for rapists and abusers on appeal, by shaving off months or even years from their convictions. | 2023-04-17T07:40:23+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/spains-leader-apologizes-to-victims-of-sexual-consent-law/ |
MIAMI, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fundviews Capital LLC today announced they will be joining The Female Advisor Network (FAN)'s Partner Marketplace.
Fundviews Capital, a fund management platform, provides wealth and asset managers with a solution to outsource the legal structure, back office, marketing and compliance aspects of fund management. By offering these services at FAN, Fundviews Capital is hoping to open doors for more female advisors in the alternative investment landscape.
Greg Poapst, Managing Partner at Fundviews Capital, says, "There has been an incredible push by many in the efforts of DE&I to bring new folks with new perspectives to the table across all industries. In financial advisement, we've made some progress but there is still much work to do. This starts with access to investments and providers, as well as sending the right message to young professionals and students—particularly women— that there is space for them in our industry.
Fundviews Capital is honored to be included in the Female Advisor Network's Partner Marketplace and is happy to support grass root networks that create safe and welcome spaces for all."
Nina O'Neal, Founder of The Female Advisor Network, says, "We are appreciative of the partnership and support of our mission and look forward to what can be accomplished through our collaboration with Fundviews Capital."
Founded in 2021, Miami-based Fundviews Capital LLC is a platform that provides a complete end-to-end fund management solution. For more information, visit fundviewscapital.com
The Female Advisor Network is a national membership organization for female financial advisors. The FAN mission is to empower all female financial advisors by providing a community of support, education, mentorship, and collaboration that is for female advisors by female advisors. For more information, visit femaleadvisornetwork.org
Contact: Greg Poapst, 786-386-0251, bd@fundviewscapital.com
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SOURCE Fundviews Capital LLC | 2022-07-21T20:52:29+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/21/fundviews-capital-llc-announces-new-partnership-with-female-advisor-network/ |
Chauvin appeals murder conviction for killing George Floyd
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murder in the killing of George Floyd has appealed his conviction, saying among other things that the jury was intimidated by ongoing sometimes violent protests and prejudiced by excessive pre-trial publicity.
Derek Chauvin asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals in a court filing Monday to reverse his conviction, reverse and remand for a new trial in a new venue, or order a resentencing.
Last June, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to 22 1/2 years in prison after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin pinned the Black man to the ground with his knee on his neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds.
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For more news across the U.S., click here. | 2022-04-28T19:22:52+00:00 | wbbjtv.com | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/04/28/chauvin-appeals-murder-conviction-for-killing-george-floyd/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to an increasingly challenging environment in downtown San Francisco, the iconic luxury Australian furniture brand, Coco Republic, is following other established retailers in closing its Union Square store and will immediately commence a sale of all of its on-site inventory.
Downtown San Francisco has been struggling with well-documented issues, which have significantly exacerbated challenges that started with the coronavirus pandemic. Due to a significant decrease in foot traffic and customers, retailers have been finding it difficult to operate in the area. Despite taking numerous precautions in and around their San Francisco store to protect customers and employees, Coco Republic has concluded that it is impossible to continue to keep the location open.
"We invested extraordinary time and capital in our initial US flagship store in Union Square," said Anthony Spon-Smith, Coco Republic's Creative Director and Founder based in Sydney. "Less than six months from opening, we could not be more disappointed to be shuttering this flagship location in our sister city, but ultimately, the safety and well-being of our customers and employees is our highest priority."
Coco Republic will continue delivering exceptional products and experiences to retail customers and trade designers around the world. In California, Coco Republic's flagship store remains the cornerstone of the 100,000-square-foot HD Buttercup Design Center in Culver City. A newly remodeled Coco Republic store in Orange County will be opening later this month, and the worldwide brand's online presence in the U.S. will expand in May with the launch of a new e-commerce platform at www.cocorepublic.com.
"In the immediate term, we will continue to service San Francisco residents online and provide full-service commercial sales support," said Skye Westcott, US President of Coco Republic. "We love the Bay Area and hope to be back if conditions improve in the years ahead."
Please send any inquiries to press@cocorepublic.com.
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SOURCE Coco Republic | 2023-05-11T02:15:30+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/05/11/coco-republic-close-downtown-san-francisco-location-commence-immediate-on-site-inventory-liquidation/ |
Uber driver who survived being shot in head says she is ‘protected and blessed’
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - An Uber driver shot in the head while on the job in Mississippi Friday night is recovering, but said she’ll never drive for a rideshare service again.
Linda Buford had a second surgery Tuesday and posted to Facebook about her ordeal. She said she was blessed by where the bullet went in at the back of her head and where it came out through her cheek.
“Nose, tongue, eyes, and most of my mouth are already healing,” she wrote in the Facebook post. “I have fractures along my entire face across the cheekbones down, but they are healing! Just a waiting game now. And all future surgeries, I believe, are all cosmetic! They can’t believe that I can already talk.”
WLOX reports Buford was shot after giving an Uber ride to Trinyell Coats Jr., who said he rented the ride under his older brother’s name.
Investigators said Coats pulled out a gun and shot Buford in the head near the intersection of Tennessee Street and Chicago Avenue in Gulfport.
Right after the shooting, Buford drove more than two miles despite her injury to get help. She ended up at the front door of a Rouses grocery story.
“I’m still in shock that something like this can happen here,” Buford wrote Tuesday. “I’d say it’s a reminder to keep our guard up, but dang, I think it’s past that. We need to be sure that our police and first responders/fire and such are given every tool they need and ALL of our support, and continue the fight to be soooo tough on crime. I can’t believe how bad it’s gotten. I was meant to be killed - shot point blank in the back of the head. I was soooo protected and blessed!”
Police arrested her alleged assailant and charged him with aggravated assault. Coats is now being held at the Harrison County Adult Detention Center on a $250,000 bond.
Before she was shot, Buford was well-known on the coast in fitness circles for operating Cycology Fitness & Nutrition, a group fitness business in Ocean Springs.
Buford also worked side jobs before doing delivery work and driving for Uber and Lyft. She said those days are over for her.
“I won’t go back to being an Uber or Lyft driver. Just too dangerous the way the market/territory is laid out. I’m just too scared! Please keep me in mind if y’all see any work that I might could do,” she wrote. “There are not thanks enough to thank you for the prayers, especially for holding my sweet mommy up. We’d be lost without each other! I’m truly overwhelmed and thankful for all the love and blessings!”
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help Buford with her medical bills and the long recovery ahead of her.
Copyright 2023 WLOX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-26T20:14:56+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/01/26/uber-driver-who-survived-being-shot-head-says-she-is-protected-blessed/ |
EZ Texting has joined the influential global trade organization with an eye toward collaboration and building a sustainable mobile future.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EZ Texting, the premier text marketing platform for small businesses, is proud to announce its membership in the Mobile Ecosystem Forum. The Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) is a global trade organization that fosters cross-sector collaboration critical to the responsible stewardship of our mobile future.
This membership allows EZ Texting to give voice to our small business customers on a game-changing stage. We're honored to have a seat at the table and proud to bring our product expertise and deep experience within the telecommunications industry to shape the future of SMS Marketing.
"We're thrilled to become a member of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum!" said EZ Texting CEO, Vijesh Mehta. "EZ Texting shares the MEF's mission to provide trusted services for consumers and to act inclusively toward a sustainable future for our shared mobile ecosystem."
EZ Texting has served over 210K+ customers and is a recognized SMS solutions leader for small and medium-sized business users, setting the standard for professional texting.
Our messaging solutions allow businesses to easily and effectively reach and engage their mobile audiences. EZ Texting is also continuously recognized as a Best Place to Work — including 2022 wins in Los Angeles — with employees located across the globe.
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SOURCE EZ Texting | 2023-01-18T12:36:08+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2023/01/18/sms-marketing-leader-ez-texting-joins-mobile-ecosystem-forum/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Yet another mother searching for her disappeared son has been killed in northern Mexico, becoming the third volunteer search activist killed in Mexico since 2021.
Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa identified the dead woman Wednesday as Rosario Rodríguez Barraza.
“I deeply regret the killing of Rosario Rodríguez Barraza, a tireless fighter, like many other women in Sinaloa who are looking for their loved ones,” Rocha Moya wrote in his social media accounts.
The motive in the killings remain unclear, because most searchers say publicly they aren’t looking for evidence to convict killers.
The volunteer search teams, usually made up of mothers of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people, say they only want to find the bodies of their loved ones, to mourn and properly bury them.
The announcement of her death came one day after the Aug. 30 International Day of the Disappeared, which was marked in Mexico by marches and protests.
In a video posted by “Hasta Encontrarles,” another search group, Rodríguez Barraza is heard saying the classic phrase, “I’m looking for my son, I’m not looking for the culprits.”
Her son, Fernando Ramírez Rodríguez, hasn’t been seen since he was abducted in the town of La Cruz, Sinaloa, in October 2019. La Cruz is located on the Pacific coast between the port of Mazatlan and the state capital Culiacan.
Sinaloa is home to the drug cartel of the same name.
Rodríguez Barraza said armed men in a white car snatched her son, then 20. Since then — despite conducting her own investigation and offering prosecutors the evidence — she has not heard anything.
“I took them videos, I brought them witnesses, and up to now, they have not done anything for me,” she said of prosecutors.
That is a common tale in Mexico. Faced with official inaction or incompetence, many mothers are forced to do their own investigations, or join search teams which, often acting on tips, cross gullies and fields, sinking iron rods into the ground to detect the tell-tale stench of decomposing bodies.
Most of the victims are thought to have been killed by drug cartels, their bodies dumped into shallow graves, dissolved or burned. Drug and kidnapping gangs often use the same locations over and over again, creating grisly killing fields.
The searchers, and the police who sometimes accompany them, focus on finding graves and identifying remains — not collecting evidence of how they died or who killed them. Search groups sometimes even get anonymous tips about where bodies are buried, knowledge probably available only to the killers or their accomplices.
But the mainly female volunteers often recount getting threats and being watched — presumably by the same people who murdered their sons, brothers and husbands.
In 2021, in the neighboring state of Sonora, searcher Aranza Ramos was found dead a day after her search group found a still-smoking body disposal pit. Earlier that year, volunteer search activist Javier Barajas Piña was gunned down in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico’s most violent.
The cartels may be angered simply by the inconvenience: after searchers turn up bodies, they are forced to find new body disposal sites.
Among the search groups, known as “collectives” in Mexico, human remains aren’t referred to as corpses or bodies. The searchers call them “treasures,” because to grieving families they are precious.
Searchers usually call law enforcement when they think they’ve found a burial, mostly because authorities often refuse to conduct the slow but critical DNA testing unless the remains are professionally exhumed.
A group of search collectives issued a statement Wednesday demanding protection for searching mothers.
“No mother should be killed for searching for her children,” the coalition wrote. “On the contrary, the government is obligated to ensure their safety in continuing their searches, as long as thousands of cases of disappeared people continue to pile up.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-09-01T04:59:59+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/08/31/3rd-volunteer-grave-search-activist-killed-in-mexico/ |
NEW YORK — Amid the bright lights and electronic billboards of New York's Times Square, city authorities are posting signs proclaiming the bustling crossroads a "Gun Free Zone."
The sprawling Manhattan tourist attraction is one of scores of "sensitive" places — including parks, churches and theaters — that will be off-limits for guns under a sweeping new state law going into effect Thursday. The measure, passed after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June expanded gun rights, also sets stringent standards for issuing concealed carry permits.
New York is among a half-dozen states that had key provisions of its gun laws invalidated by the high court because of a requirement for applicants to prove they had "proper cause" for a permit. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that she and her fellow Democrats in the state Legislature took action the next week because the ruling "destroyed the ability for a governor to be able to protect her citizens from people who carry concealed weapons anywhere they choose."
However, the law has led to confusion and court challenges from gun owners who say it improperly limits their constitutional rights.
"They seem to be designed less towards addressing gun violence and more towards simply preventing people from getting guns — even if those people are law-abiding, upstanding citizens, who according to the Supreme Court have the rights to have them," said Jonathan Corbett, a Brooklyn attorney and permit applicant who is one of several people challenging the law in court.
A federal judge let the new rules go forward Wednesday evening, hours before they were to take effect. Despite writing that the arguments for granting a preliminary injunction to stop the rules were persuasive, Judge Glenn Suddaby said the plaintiffs — an upstate New York resident and three gun rights organizations — didn't have standing to bring the legal action. Suddaby said he came to that decision partly because the man, a legal gun owner, couldn't demonstrate he was at risk of a credible threat of prosecution under the new guidelines, among other factors.
In a tweet, New York Attorney General Letitia James called the ruling a major victory "against baseless attacks by the gun lobby." In an emailed statement, Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America, one of groups that filed the challenge, said Suddaby's opinion "contains a silver lining for New Yorkers and the nation," and said his group would continue to fight "against clear violations of the Second Amendment."
Under the law, applicants for a concealed carry permit will have to complete 16 hours of classroom training and two hours of live-fire exercises. Ordinary citizens would be prohibited from bringing guns to schools, churches, subways, theaters and amusement parks — among other places deemed "sensitive" by authorities.
Applicants also will have to provide a list of social media accounts for the past three years as part of a "character and conduct" review. The requirement was added because shooters have sometimes dropped hints of violence online before they opened fire on people.
Sheriffs in some upstate counties said the additional work for their investigators could add to existing backlogs in processing applications.
In Rochester, Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter said it currently takes two to four hours to perform a pistol permit background check on a "clean" candidate. He estimate the new law will add another one to three hours for each permit. The county has about 600 pending pistol permits.
"It's going to slow everything down just a bit more," he said.
In the Mohawk Valley, Fulton County Sheriff Richard C. Giardino had questions on how the digital sleuthing would proceed.
"It says three years' worth of your social media. We're not going to print out three years of social media posts by everybody. If you look at my Facebook, I send out six or 10 things a day," said the sheriff, a former district attorney and judge.
The list of prohibited spaces for carrying guns has drawn criticism from advocates who say it's so extensive it will make it difficult for people with permits to move about in public. People carrying a gun could go into private business only with permission, such as a sign posted on the window.
Giardino has already started giving out signs to local businesses saying people can carry legal firearms on the premises. Jennifer Elson, who owns the Let's Twist Again Diner in Amsterdam, said she put up the sheriff's sign, along with one of her own reading in part "per our governor, we have to post this nonsense. If you are a law abiding citizen who obtained a legal permit to carry, you are welcome here."
But in Times Square — visited by about 50 million tourists annually — and many less-crowded places, carrying a gun will be illegal starting Thursday.
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said Tuesday she looked forward to seeing authorities move to "protect New Yorkers and visitors who frequent Times Square."
The Supreme Court ruling also led to a flurry of legislation in California to tighten rules on gun ownership, including a new law that could hold gun dealers and manufacturers responsible for any harm caused by anyone they have "reasonable cause to believe is at substantial risk" of using a gun illegally.
Earlier this month, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a measure requiring gun permit applicants to undergo personal interviews with a licensing authority.
New Jersey required people to get training before receiving a permit, and would make new residents register guns they bring from out of state.
Hawaii, which has the nation's lowest number of gun deaths, is still weighing its options. Since the Supreme Court's ruling, the state has only granted one new gun permit.
While New York doesn't keep statewide data on pistol permit applications, there are reports of long lines at county clerks' office and other evidence of a surge in applications before the law takes effect.
In the Mohawk Valley, Pine Tree Rifle Club President Paul Catucci said interest in the club's volunteer-run safety courses "blew right up" late this summer.
"I had to turn hundreds of them away," he said.
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TOKYO — Japan's hawkish former leader Shinzo Abe was honored by a rare and divisive state funeral Tuesday that was full of militaristic presentation like soldiers carrying his ashes in a box brought by his widow and praise of his nine-year premiership.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said the publicly financed ceremony was a deserved honor for Japan's longest-serving modern political leader, but it has deeply split public opinion and was met with angry protests.
The event attended by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Japan's Crown Prince Akishino and other foreign and Japanese dignitaries began with Akie Abe, in a black formal kimono, walking slowly behind Kishida into the funeral venue, carrying the urn in a wooden box wrapped in a purple cloth with gold stripes. Soldiers in white uniforms took Abe's ashes and placed them on a pedestal filled with white and yellow chrysanthemum flowers and decorations.
Attendants stood while a military band played the Kimigayo national anthem, then observed a moment of silence before a video praising Abe's tenure. Footage included his 2006 parliamentary speech vowing to build a "beautiful Japan" and his "Toward the Alliance of Hope" speech at the U.S. Congress in 2015. It also included his visits to disaster-hit northern Japan after the March 2011 tsunami, and his 2016 Super Mario impersonation in Rio de Janeiro to promote the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Kishida, in his 12-minute eulogy, praised Abe as an aspiring politician with a clear vision for postwar economic growth and development of Japan and the world, and promoting the concept of a "free and open Indo-Pacific" as a counter to China's rise.
Kishida, as he looked up a large photo of smiling Abe, said as a fellow lawmaker elected in the same year in 1993, Abe's loss came too soon. "You were a person who should have lived much longer," Kishida said. "I had a firm belief that you were to contribute as a compass to show the future direction of Japan and the rest of the world for 10 or 20 more years."
Harris sat in the third row next to Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, during the ceremony, and they later joined others by placing a branch of chrysanthemum flowers on a table set before the pedestal.
Abe was cremated in July after a private funeral at a Tokyo temple days after he was assassinated while giving a campaign speech on a street in Nara, a city in western Japan.
Tokyo was under maximum security for the state funeral, especially near the Budokan hall venue.
At a peaceful protest march downtown, hundreds of people marched toward the hall, some banging drums and many shouting or holding banners and signs stating their opposition.
"Shinzo Abe has not done a single thing for regular people," participant Kaoru Mano said.
The government maintains that the ceremony is not meant to force anyone to honor Abe. But the undemocratic decision to give him the rare honor with imperial ties, the cost, and controversies about his and the ruling party's ties to the ultra-conservative Unification Church have fueled controversy about the event.
"One big problem is that there was no proper approval process," retiree Shin Watanabe said during the demonstration. "I'm sure there are various views. But I don't think it's forgivable that they will force a state funeral on us when so many of us are opposed."
Hours before the ceremony, hundreds of people carrying bouquets queued for several blocks to lay flowers in a nearby park.
"I'm emotionally attached to him and I've been supporting the LDP, too," Masayuki Aoki, a 70-year-old business owner, said, recalling that he had shared a fist bump with Abe at a campaign stop in Yokohama days before his assassination. "I had to come to offer him flowers."
Japan's main political opposition parties boycotted the funeral, which critics say is a reminder of how prewar imperialist governments used state funerals to fan nationalism.
In what some see as an attempt to further justify the honor for Abe, Kishida this week has held meetings with visiting foreign leaders in what he calls "funeral diplomacy." The talks are meant to strengthen ties as Japan faces regional and global challenges, including threats from China, Russia and North Korea.
He was to meet about 40 foreign leaders through Wednesday, but no Group of Seven leaders are attending.
Kishida has been criticized for forcing through the costly event and over the widening controversy about Abe's and the governing party's decades of close ties with the ultra-conservative Unification Church, accused of raking in huge donations by brainwashing adherents. Abe's alleged assassin reportedly told police he killed the politician because of his links to the church; he said his mother ruined his life by giving away the family's money to the church.
"The fact that the close ties between the LDP and the Unification Church may have interfered with policymaking processes is seen by the Japanese people as a greater threat to democracy than Abe's assassination," wrote Hosei University political science professor Jiro Yamaguchi in a recent article.
Abe's grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, helped the church take root in Japan and is now seen as a key figure in the scandal. Opponents say holding a state funeral for Abe is equivalent to an endorsement of ruling party ties to the Unification Church.
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Rep. Dan Lipinski, a moderate eight-term Democratic congressman from Illinois, lost his primary on Tuesday to progressive challenger Marie Newman.
Newman, a business consultant and founder of an anti-bullying nonprofit, narrowly lost to Lipinski in a 2018 primary in a suburban Chicago district by about 2 points.
One of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress, Lipinski often bucked the mainstream of his party. He declined to endorse President Barack Obama in 2012, voted against the Affordable Care Act and opposed same-sex marriage until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to make it legal in 2015.
"I am bursting with pride and gratitude for the amazing coalition that helped bring about much needed change in our district," Newman wrote on Twitter. "We are going to work together to lower health care costs, to fight climate change, and to build an economy that works for everyone."
I am bursting with pride and gratitude for the amazing coalition that helped bring about much needed change in our district. We are going to work together to lower health care costs, to fight climate change, and to build an economy that works for everyone. #NewDayInIL03 #IL03
— Marie Newman (@Marie4Congress) March 18, 2020
Justice Democrats, the group that helped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat a long-serving Democratic incumbent in the 2018 primary, backed Newman's bid.
"This sends a message to every Democratic incumbent that if you don't vote like a Democrat, you will be held accountable," Alexandra Rojas, the group's executive director, wrote on Twitter.
Congratulations to @Marie4Congress in #IL03
— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) March 18, 2020
This isn’t just a loss for one incumbent.
It’s a defeat for machine politics and big corporate donors who want to stop our movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and reproductive rights. pic.twitter.com/yP30ZeZwl4
Lipinski has represented Illinois' 3rd Congressional District since 2005, when he took over from his father, Bill Lipinski, who first won the seat in 1982.
"I'm still a guy fighting for the little guy and gal in taking care of things in the communities," he told NPR's Kelsey Snell in 2018. "And I think that's what people still care about."
Lipinski's positions on major issues has increasingly raised questions among Democrats in recent years over what the party stands for. In 2018, Newman won endorsements from two members of the Illinois congressional delegation, including retiring Rep. Luis Gutierrez.
"He's just a dinosaur, shouldn't be there, should be a relic in some museum," he told NPR in 2018. "This was the Democratic Party, you know, 1980."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long insisted there should not be a litmus test on topics like abortion for Democratic candidates. In this cycle, while Pelosi visited the campaign offices of another centrist Democrat in a primary fight, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, she did not lend the same assistance to Lipinski.
Last year, Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, scrapped a fundraiser planned for Lipinski.
"I get some heat for saying that not everybody has to be [pro-abortion rights]," Pelosi said during a Georgetown University forum in 2018. "When the day comes when we can say we don't want any of our voters to be anti-choice, then I think we'd have a right to say that we don't want any of our candidates to be anti-choice."
Newman was also endorsed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez and Justice Democrats plan to back more progressive challengers working to defeat centrist incumbents. So far this primary season, Lipinski is the only sitting member they have managed to oust.
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TORONTO and LONDON, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Overbond, the leading API-based credit trading automation and execution service in the global capital markets, and Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services (MD+S), have entered into an agreement relating to the recently launched Clearstream Bond Liquidity Data offering. The agreement will provide Overbond customers with market insights on instrument liquidity and trading activity through a fixed-income post-trade data set on Eurobonds settled by Clearstream.
In the fixed-income trading space, data gaps remain a challenge for efficient, profitable fixed income trading and automation. This is especially true in Europe, where transparency in fixed-income instruments hardly exists. Amidst this broad data gap, bond desks may use and aggregate any existing but incomplete data sources available in the market.
However, aggregating the available data into executable prices and liquidity measures requires sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based processing. Most bond trading desks lack the resources and expertise to do this in-house. Overbond partners with the world's largest exchanges and capital markets data providers to bring cloud-based AI aggregated data and automated trading solutions to fixed-income trading desks around the globe.
Through the partnership with Deutsche Börse and Clearstream, Overbond will gain access to settlement-level fixed-income transaction data derived from the 170 million transactions that Clearstream processes annually across 100 currencies and 60 domestic markets. As the bond market is an over-the-counter market and most bonds are still traded over the phone, the addition of settlement-layer records significantly supplements the data sourced from electronic platforms.
Overbond utilises six months of historical data to train its AI model, in order to generate pre-trade pricing and liquidity analytics. Combining Clearstream transaction data for European instruments with data from Overbond partners that provide binding quote data from all-to-all trading platforms will create the most robust European AI training data set available for the benefit of a better informed fixed-income trading in the EU.
"Complete and accurate data is a foundational tool for achieving consistent profitability in the bond markets. Incorporating Clearstream data into the training set for Overbond AI is a game-changer. It allows us to create a great tool for traders of European debt and enables them to automate up to 40% of their trades using Overbond," said Vuk Magdelinic, CEO of Overbond.
"This partnership is a great milestone for the fixed-income industry as it combines our bond settlement data with Overbond's AI and cloud-based technology," said Alireza Dorfard, Head of Market Data + Services at Deutsche Börse. "It is in line with our ongoing efforts to collaborate with partners on providing state-of-the-art solutions in financial markets."
"Being at the heart of the Eurobond market, Europe's largest securities market, it is Clearstream's mission to increase transparency and therefore efficiency for all participants. This partnership is a great step on this journey, providing the market with comprehensive, up-to-date and high-quality bond settlement data," added Guido Wille, Head of Eurobonds Business at Clearstream.
Overbond AI will use this data set to generate a robust European fixed-income trading data set and enhance the precision of Overbond liquidity scoring, risk tiering and margin modeling―all of which will be available to Clearstream clients.
Overbond is a developer of process-redefining, AI-driven data and analytics and trade automation solutions for the global fixed income markets. Overbond performs market surveillance, data aggregation and normalization, and deep AI quantitative observation on more than 100,000 corporate bonds and fixed income ETFs. Applying proprietary artificial intelligence to pricing, curve visualization, market liquidity, issuance propensity, new issuance spreads, default risk and automated reporting, Overbond enables trade automation and enhances trade performance and portfolio returns. Clients of Toronto-based Overbond include global investment banks, broker-dealers, institutional investors, corporations and governments across the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.overbond.com.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police are now saying an Albuquerque homicide was the result of a road rage shooting. Salvador Cervantes is charged with second degree murder in the January death of Christopher Hernandez.
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The 25-year-old Cervantes told police he noticed another car driving aggressively along Tramway and would not let them into his lane. He claims he was then followed to the parking lot of the Albuquerque School of Excellence. Cervantes told police one of the men on the other car had a gun and as he tried to drive away fired his own gun, hitting Hernandez. He was dropped off at the hospital, where he later died. | 2023-02-17T21:11:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/albuquerque-man-charged-in-fatal-road-rage-shooting/ |
How to Watch Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic on TV or Live Stream - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 17, 2023 at 9:17 AM CDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
The No. 9 Florida Atlantic Owls (31-3) are aiming to move on to the second round of the NCAA Tournament when they take on the No. 8 Memphis Tigers (26-8) on Friday. This 8-9 matchup in the East Region bracket is scheduled for 9:20 PM.
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Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 9:20 PM ET
- Where: Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio
- TV: TNT
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Memphis Stats Insights
- The Tigers make 48.0% of their shots from the field this season, which is 7.8 percentage points higher than the Owls have allowed to their opponents (40.2%).
- Memphis is 20-6 when it shoots better than 40.2% from the field.
- The Tigers are the 150th-ranked rebounding team in the nation, the Owls sit at 21st.
- The Tigers score 14.8 more points per game (79.8) than the Owls allow (65.0).
- When Memphis scores more than 65.0 points, it is 19-6.
Florida Atlantic Stats Insights
- The Owls have shot at a 47.2% clip from the field this season, 7.0 percentage points greater than the 40.2% shooting opponents of the Tigers have averaged.
- Florida Atlantic is 25-2 when it shoots higher than 40.2% from the field.
- The Tigers are the rebounding team in the nation, the Owls rank 109th.
- The Owls score 6.9 more points per game (78.8) than the Tigers allow their opponents to score (71.9).
- Florida Atlantic has a 25-1 record when giving up fewer than 79.8 points.
Memphis Home & Away Comparison
- Offensively Memphis has played worse when playing at home this season, scoring 79.9 points per game, compared to 82 per game on the road.
- The Tigers are surrendering 70.7 points per game this year at home, which is 7.6 fewer points than they're allowing away from home (78.3).
- Memphis is averaging 5.5 treys per game, which is 0.8 fewer than it is averaging on the road (6.3). When it comes to three-point percentage, it is shooting 34.6% in home games and 33.9% when playing on the road.
Florida Atlantic Home & Away Comparison
- At home Florida Atlantic is putting up 82.1 points per game, 6.2 more than it is averaging away (75.9).
- At home the Owls are conceding 64.2 points per game, 3.3 fewer points than they are on the road (67.5).
- Florida Atlantic drains more 3-pointers at home (10.4 per game) than on the road (9.9). But it has a lower 3-point percentage at home (37.7%) than away (38%).
Memphis Schedule
Florida Atlantic Schedule
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
220 PM EDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Wayne,
Cayuga and northeastern Ontario Counties through 245 PM EDT...
At 220 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Phelps, or 9 miles north of Geneva, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Newark, Lyons, Clyde, Phelps, Rose, Conquest, Savannah, Port Byron,
South Butler and West Junius.
This includes Interstate 90 near exit 42.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 4307 7710 4323 7675 4312 7662 4303 7663
4301 7696 4293 7697 4292 7706
TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 255DEG 14KT 4301 7701
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
0-2-7-9
(zero, two, seven, nine)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
0-2-7-9
(zero, two, seven, nine) | 2022-09-12T20:52:35+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Day-game-17436424.php |
Don Lemon to return to CNN, undergo ‘formal training’
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN anchor Don Lemon will return to work Wednesday and will receive “formal training” in the aftermath of his on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, network CEO Chris Licht said in an email to employees Monday night.
The memo, obtained by The Associated Press, did not specify the training. Licht added that it was important to him that the network “balances accountability with … fostering a culture in which people can own, learn and grow from their mistakes.”
Lemon has not been on the air since Thursday, when he said the 51-year-old Haley was not “in her prime” during the broadcast of “CNN This Morning.” Lemon and fellow hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins had been discussing Haley’s suggestion that politicians over 75 should be subject to mandatory mental competency tests.
“Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry,” Lemon said, explaining why he was “uncomfortable” with the age discussion. He said a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, 30s and maybe her 40s. Haley is 51.
He was challenged by Harlow, who tried to clarify what Lemon was referencing: “I think we need to qualify. Are you talking about prime for childbearing or are you talking about prime for being president?”
“Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just saying what the facts are,” Lemon responded. He brought up the subject again an hour later, and was rebutted by commentator Audie Cornish.
“She’s in her prime for running for office,” Cornish said of Haley. “Political prime is what we’re talking about.”
Lemon issued a statement that same day saying he regretted his “inartful and irrelevant” comments, which were widely condemned. Haley herself called the comments sexist and used the episode to fundraise.
According to The New York Times, Licht chastised Lemon during an editorial call Friday, saying his remarks were “upsetting, unacceptable and unfair” and a “huge distraction.” Lemon appeared at the meeting and apologized to staffers, CNN reported.
“I sat down with Don and had a frank and meaningful conversation,” Licht wrote in the Monday night memo. “He has agreed to participate in formal training, as well as continuing to listen and learn. We take this situation very seriously.”
Harlow said at the top of Tuesday morning’s show that Lemon would be back the next day.
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AP Media Writer David Bauder contributed to this report.
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PONTE VEDRA, Fla. (AP) — PONTE VEDRA, Fla. (AP) — Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (TMCI) on Tuesday reported a loss of $4.4 million in its fourth quarter.
The Ponte Vedra, Florida-based company said it had a loss of 8 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 13 cents per share.
The orthopedic medical device maker posted revenue of $49.8 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $42.8 million, or 77 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $141.8 million.
Treace Medical Concepts expects full-year revenue in the range of $187 million to $193 million.
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Buffalo Bills trainer Denny Kellington saved Damar Hamlin’s life on the field, head coach says
By Jacob Lev and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN
Just seconds after Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field from cardiac arrest on Monday, medical personnel swarmed onto the field in an immediate response that has been widely credited for the player’s steps toward recovery.
But one Bills team member in particular — assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington — has been praised by head coach Sean McDermott for “saving Damar’s life.”
Bills offensive lineman Dion Dawkins said in a tweet Thursday that it was Kellington who administered critical CPR to Hamlin, who doctors say lost his pulse on the field had to be immediately revived through resuscitation and defibrillation.
“For an assistant to find himself at that position and needing to take the action that he did and step up and take charge like he did — and there were others on the field as well — is nothing short of amazing,” McDermott said of Kellington during a news conference Thursday.
“And the courage that took – you talk about a real leader, a real hero in saving Damar’s life and just admire his strength.”
Hamlin was transported to the hospital, where he was sedated. On Thursday, his doctors announced Hamlin had started to awaken. Though he remains critically ill and on a ventilator, his medical team said the player is showing signs of “good neurologic recovery” and is making significant improvement.
The immediate response of Kellington and other medical personnel was vital to “not just saving his life, but his neurological function,” Dr. Timothy Pritts, one of Hamlin’s doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, said Thursday.
In cardiac arrest, the heart is no longer pumping blood, which means no oxygen is traveling to the brain or other organs. Seconds matter: The longer a person goes without oxygen, the chances of organ damage increase, and the chances of survival decrease. CPR mimics a pumping heart, which keeps blood flowing, and a defibrillator shocks the heart, which can cause it to start beating again.
Kellington has been a member of the Bills’ training staff since 2017. Prior to joining the team, he was an athletic trainer at Syracuse University for 11 years, six of which were spent as the head athletic trainer for the football team, according to the university and Kellington’s LinkedIn. He also previously served as a graduate student athletic trainer at Ohio State University, the school confirmed to CNN.
‘We’re going to need everybody’
In audio obtained by CNN of medical personnel who responded from the sidelines, medical teams can be heard urgently requesting everyone to respond the minute Hamlin collapsed at 8:55 p.m. ET.
At 8:55 p.m. ET, when Hamlin hit the ground, someone can be heard saying, “Go over to the cot. I don’t like how he went down.”
A few seconds later, another voice says, “We’re going to need everybody. All call, all call.” Within the minute, several other cries go out for all personnel to rush to the field.
Between 9:12 and 9:20 p.m., personnel can be heard requesting another medic and emergency equipment for the ambulance.
The rapid response of medical teams that night has been repeatedly praised by NFL officials, Bills team members and physicians.
“It’s certainly not an exaggeration to say that the skilled and the immediate response by all of these talented caregivers prevented a very tragic outcome at that moment,” NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills said Wednesday.
Sills said that the league holds drills before the season to prepare for medical emergencies and also holds briefing meetings among medical teams before every game.
McDermott also opened the Bills’ news conference Thursday with a word of thanks for “the first responders on the field this past Monday evening and the medical teams of the Bills, the Bengals and the staff, doctors and nurses at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for their work and their care.”
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Man jumps along rooftops of New York high-rise
NEW YORK (WABC) - Some New Yorkers recently got a unique sight of a man, clad in a suit, jumping along roofs on a high-rise.
It turns out the well-dressed acrobat was just doing his job.
“I was like, ‘Yo, you guys got to check this out,’” Erick Ljung said. “You know, it’s just some more weird New York (expletive) going on.”
Ljung naturally took a double take when he saw a man in a suit gracefully leaping across the rooftops, all the way up on a high-rise in lower Manhattan.
At the time, Ljung, an award-winning cinematographer and director, was working on a project across the street in a building Monday.
He went to check the lighting when he caught sight of the man and began to record.
“He was wearing dress shoes, which don’t have great grip and it was raining all morning, so for us, it was like, ‘Yo what is going on here?’” Ljung said.
Phil, who did not provide his last name, lives on the 22nd floor of the luxury building the man was seen jumping on.
“That’s my apartment that he just ran over,” Phil said.
At one point in the video, the man stops, takes a call, and snaps some pictures.
“To me, it didn’t look like he was in distress at any time or anything like that, he looked fairly comfortable out there,” Ljung said.
Otherwise, Ljung said he absolutely would have stopped filming and called for help.
But that didn’t seem to be the case and the man appeared to know exactly what he was doing.
Questions remained about who the man in the video was and what he was doing.
A comment posted on Ljung’s page, led WABC to a woman who said she knew exactly who he was and a short time later the mystery was solved.
“My name is Joe Smizaski and I’m Director of Operations and I go out of roofs like this all the time,” Smizaski said.
He explained that he is in the waterproofing business and was checking things out before meeting an inspector about removing a sidewalk shed on the high-rise.
Smizaski said that he’s traversed rooftops dozens of times, with and without safety gear, and that he was not harnessed at the time of the video.
“If I had on safety gear while jumping like that, the act would have been more dangerous and would have pulled me down,” he said.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-06T17:15:50+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/10/06/caught-camera-man-jumps-along-rooftops-new-york-high-rise/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A day before killing four people in a mass shooting in Philadelphia last week, authorities say the gunman went to his first victim’s door wearing a dark mask, shot through it and yelled that he was law enforcement before entering the home and continuing to shoot, police officials said at a news conference Monday.
The details were revealed a day after police announced that it was likely Joseph Wamah Jr., 31, had been killed in the early hours of July 2, and not during the larger July 3 attack, as police had initially thought, and that a 911 call reporting the gunshots had been misrouted to the wrong neighborhood.
Officials said they have not found a connection between Wamah and the suspected shooter, Kimbrady Carriker. Authorities believe Carriker, 40, fatally shot Wamah in the early hours of July 2 and then, about 44 hours later, opened fire randomly with an AR-15-style rifle, killing four others and wounding four more in a southwest Philadelphia neighborhood.
Wamah was killed in a row house on South 56th Street, but Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said Monday that officers were dispatched several miles away to North 56th Street instead. Upon not finding any evidence of a shooting there, Outlaw said the officers asked dispatch to call back the 911 caller. She declined to discuss details of that follow-up call.
“I will abstain from providing the details of that interaction as they are currently under internal investigation,” Outlaw said.
Outlaw said the call came in to dispatch about 2 a.m., nearly 90 minutes after the shooting was believed to have happened early July 2. When asked how she would respond to people in the neighborhood suggesting that if officers had gone to the correct address, it might have prevented the shooting Monday, Outlaw pushed back against the line of thinking.
“I caution individuals to go down that rabbit hole. We can coulda, shoulda, woulda all day … That doesn’t make anyone feel better,” Outlaw said. “It’s tragic, it’s unfortunate. We don’t like the fact that we are adding to the atrocities that occurred,” she added.
Outlaw said because the injuries Wamah sustained were so extensive, she did not believe officers could have saved Wamah’s life if they had been correctly routed.
Calls and emails to Wamah’s family members seeking comment were not immediately returned Monday.
Meanwhile, while the dispatch response is being investigated, Outlaw said the department has instituted another failsafe to try to prevent calls from being wrongly marked as unfounded. She said a higher level of supervisor will have to review and OK it before a call is dismissed.
Deputy Commissioner Krista Dahl-Campbell said when 911 calls are received, the system identifies a location for the caller. Dispatchers have the option of automatically transferring that location to dispatchers, but in this case and in most cases, the operator inputs the location by hand.
“Oftentimes you are not calling about yourself … so they end up inputting the reported information instead,” she said.
Outlaw and others said several times that the caller did not specify north or south during the report. Once officers checked the location they were routed to, asked for the callback, and checked again, the call was reported to be unfounded in the system.
Deputy Commissioner of Investigations Frank Vanore said police are still investigating a motive in both shootings. Carriker has been charged with five counts of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons charges.
Vanore said it appeared the same weapon was used in the attacks. He had previously said both the AR-15-style weapon and a handgun found on Carriker after the shootings were self-manufactured weapons also known as ghost guns.
Vanore also said if he had not been familiar with Carriker since he was taken into custody, he would not have been able to identify him from the surveillance video gathered in Wamah’s shooting because he was wearing dark clothing and a mask covering his face.
A representative of the Defender Association of Philadelphia, which is representing Carriker, said Monday they did not have a comment on the timeline changes or allegations from police.
Police called to the Kingsessing neighborhood on July 3 around 8:30 p.m. found gunshot victims and started to help them before hearing more shots. Some officers rushed victims to hospitals while others ran toward the gunfire.
Officers said witnesses and video of the attack indicated the suspect went to several locations while wearing a ski mask and body armor, carrying the AR-15-style rifle and shooting people and moving cars at random.
Cornered in an alley, Carriker surrendered and was found to have two guns, extra magazines, a police scanner and a bulletproof vest, police said.
Lashyd Merritt, 21; Dymire Stanton, 29; Ralph Moralis, 59; and DaJuan Brown, 15, were all killed in the July 3 attack. A 13-year-old and 2-year-old also suffered gunshot wounds and two others, including a 2-year-old, suffered wounds from shattered glass, police said.
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Associated Press reporter Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report. | 2023-07-11T04:13:05+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national/ap-philadelphia-shooter-fired-through-1st-victims-door-claimed-to-be-law-enforcement-police-say/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed more than a dozen new abortion laws Tuesday, including some that deliberately clash with restrictions in other states — a sign of the coming conflicts that must be sorted out as lawmakers rush to set their own rules now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
Most abortions are now illegal in 13 states, and others — including Texas, Oklahoma and Idaho — allow people to sue anyone who performs or aids in an abortion. Meanwhile, Democratic-led states like California, New York and Connecticut have been writing and passing laws to make it easier to get an abortion, with California promoting its abortion services on a state-funded website designed in part to reach women who live in other states.
Conflicts seem inevitable as more people travel for abortions in the coming years, especially with California and Oregon prepared to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to help pay for things like travel, lodging and child care. On Tuesday, Newsom signed a number of laws meant to thwart investigations from other states seeking to prosecute or penalize abortion providers and volunteers in California.
The laws block out-of-state subpoenas, empowering the state insurance commissioner to punish health insurance companies that divulge information about abortions to out-of-state entities. They ban police departments and corporations from cooperating with out-of-state investigations regarding abortions that are legally obtained in California. And they shield prison inmates from other states’ anti-abortion laws.
“An alarming number of states continue to outlaw abortion and criminalize women, and it’s more important than ever to fight like hell for those who need these essential services,” Newsom said in a news release announcing the signings.
If another state tries to apply its laws against someone in California, and California officials say they can’t do that, there is “a lot of gray area as to who is right in that situation,” said Mary Ziegler, the Martin Luther King Jr. professor of law at the University of California, Davis.
“If you are talking about a state applying its criminal laws outside its borders, there’s just not a lot of guidance about how that plays out,” Ziegler said.
It’s not just California. Democratic governors in Colorado, North Carolina, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington, Rhode Island and Maine have all signed executive orders aiming to protect abortion providers and volunteers. Connecticut was the first state to pass a law protecting abortion providers and others, signed in May even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Newsom this year signed a law that would block the enforcement of some out-of-state court judgments against doctors and volunteers for legally obtained abortions in California — a law anti-abortion activists argue is illegal because of a clause in the U.S. Constitution that requires each state to give “full faith and credit” to the laws of every other state.
California Democrats say the law is legal because federal courts have recognized some exceptions to that clause, including when laws in one state violate the public policy of another state.
Still, the legal uncertainty could end up hindering people who work in the field of abortion, Ziegler said.
“What that would mean is the person from California would have a hard time traveling to a lot of places, especially if the judgment is out against them,” she said.
Public opinion polls have shown a majority of California voters, including Republicans, support abortion protections, making it difficult for opponents to stop such bills from becoming law. Still, California Family Council President Jonathan Keller said the group is “investigating which of these laws are ripe for a court challenge.”
One early candidate: a law that requires religious employers to tell their workers about publicly available abortion services. Keller noted a previous California law that instructed crisis pregnancy centers to tell patients about abortion services was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018.
Newsom is expected this week to sign a law that would authorize as much as $20 million in public spending to help pay for women in other states to come to California for an abortion, something Keller said he and his group are the most concerned about.
“He’s not inviting (women) to get a state-paid trip for labor and delivery if they live in a county or state with poor maternal mortality, instead (he’s) saying you can come here on the taxpayers’ dime, but only if it is to end your pregnancy,” Keller said.
Democratic Assemblymember Cristina Garcia said California’s new laws would save lives, arguing that abortion bans don’t stop abortions but instead lead to “unsafe and deadly abortions for communities of color, low-income communities, trans and other marginalized communities,” adding: “We promise to be a refuge state for anyone seeking an abortion.”
Most of the laws Newsom signed Tuesday were inspired by the California Future of Abortion Council, a group of 46 public officials and abortion rights groups that began planning last year on what to do if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Newsom approved several of the group’s ideas Tuesday, including new laws to let some nurse practitioners perform abortions without a doctor’s permission, establish scholarships for students studying to provide abortions, stop officials from prosecuting women for pregnancy loss and make vasectomies cheaper for men with private insurance.
“California is showing what is possible when leaders listen to experts, facts, science, and from the people who are directly impacted,” said Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California.
But Newsom did not sign every abortion bill into law. Last week, Newsom vetoed a bill that would have paid to train staff at abortion clinics to improve care for marginalized patients. Newsom said he vetoed it because it “creates tens of millions of dollars in General Fund cost pressures not accounted for in the budget.”
Newsom also signed several laws Tuesday that were endorsed by the California Women’s Caucus, including one that stops retailers from charting different prices on goods based on what gender they are marketed to and a law requiring employers to make pay scale information available to employees and included in job postings. | 2022-09-28T17:12:35+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/ap-new-california-abortion-laws-set-up-clash-with-other-states/ |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — “It was a tragedy, but unfortunately was preventable,” Trey Brooks told lawmakers in Raleigh on Wednesday.
Brooks is the father of Hailey Brooks, an 11-year-old girl killed when a truck struck her at the Raleigh Christmas Parade when she and her dance company were participating. He and his wife, April Brooks, were at a Transportation Committee hearing on Wednesday to testify on the bill named after their daughter.
House Bill 633, or the Shine Like Hailey Parade Safety Act, seeks to bring a new set of safety requirements to cities in the state with populations over 35,000.
“I think we all take for granted when we show up for the parade that there’s basic safety guidance that’s being followed that’s ensuring the safety of the parade and its participants and the spectators,” Trey Brooks said.
Under the bill, any vehicle being used in a parade much be inspected for safety and verification of registration and insurance no more than seven days before the date of the parade.
It also requires the operator of that vehicle be over the age of 25 with a valid drivers license.
Landen Glass, 20, is the truck driver accused of killing Hailey and has been charged with involuntary manslaughter among other things.
In 2021 in Virginia, Glass was cited for improper equipment, speeding and not having a vehicle inspection, according to records. In May 2021, he was “assigned to driver improvement,” a warrant said. Glass, who has no criminal record, also had six previous vehicle inspection violations.
“The driver knew that the parking brake or emergency brake was not connected on the vehicle. It was visible to the common eye or the trained eye of a mechanic. If they would have walked by, they would have seen the parking brake dangling from underneath the driver’s door. If that would have been intact, my daughter probably would still be here today,” Trey told lawmakers.
While HB 633 moves through the House, Trey and April Brooks have filed a lawsuit against Glass, CC and Co. Dance Complex (their daughter’s dance company), D and L Floats (who supplied the float), and Greater Raleigh Merchants Association who organized the parade.
In a statement to CBS 17, Christy Curtis, owner of CC & Co. said:
“We’ve only just recently learned of the lawsuit and our legal team will be reviewing the filing. As a longstanding dance institution, we have always prioritized the safety and well-being of our students and we take these allegations very seriously. Our staff remains dedicated to providing a nurturing environment that fosters learning, growth, and a passion for dance.“
In the suit, attorneys for the Brooks said, “CC & Co. was so disorganized and unprepared from a safety perspective that its staff could not even determine Hailey’s identity after she was struck and killed.”
The suit claimed the dance company did little to prepare staff for an emergency and relied on crowd onlookers to step in to help the student dancers.
The Brooks family is seeking at least $25,000 in damages from each of the defendants. There are a total of 10 claims against the four defendants. They include negligence and gross negligence, wrongful death, vicarious liability, and vicarious liability and agency. | 2023-04-27T05:51:12+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/bill-named-for-girl-killed-in-raleigh-christmas-parade-gets-closer-to-becoming-law/ |
Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital needs volunteer baby cuddlers
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at Ascension St. Vincent is looking for some special volunteers to cuddle some very special patients.
The hospital is expanding its neonatal intensive care unit and needs more “baby cuddlers.”
Cuddlers help with a number of tasks in the NICU, but their most special role is holding ill and premature babies as they’re growing and healing.
The hospital is adding two new shifts of cuddlers and is accepting applications online.
“They like attention, some of the babies,” Bill Behan, a volunteer baby cuddler since 2019, said in a release. “They get hungry and cranky, or they’re tired and can’t sleep. They’re in pain from a procedure they’ve had or some are having a procedure so they can’t get fed. It’s all those things combined, I think, but ultimately, it’s just to make the babies more comfortable and a little more restful.”
Behan began volunteering after he became a grandfather and says he thinks of the babies as his own adopted grandchildren.
“It just feels great. It’s the best feeling in the world to come in and spend time with the little ones. In my way of thinking, they’re the purest form of spirit, of that spirit that we’re all born with and as we go through life junk accumulates to it, but they’re the purest form of that spirit that we’re born with.”
Behan says he forms a connection with the babies he cuddles.
“Sometimes they just, they just look at you. And they look, these little 2-3 day old people, they just look you directly in the eyes and connect with you while you’re holding them. It’s that kind of thing that’s just so special.”
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The Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital NICU will move into the new Women and Children’s Tower next year. The expanded NICO will have 109 private rooms and will also be physically attached to the children’s hospital and Ascension St. Vincent, allowing all family members to receive treatment under one roof. | 2023-06-01T14:42:46+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/peyton-manning-childrens-hospital-needs-volunteer-baby-cuddlers/ |
LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — A protester ran onto the field Monday carrying a rainbow flag and wearing a blue Superman T-shirt that said “SAVE UKRAINE” on the front and “RESPECT FOR IRANIAN WOMAN” on the back during a World Cup match between Portugal and Uruguay.
Security officials chased the protester down and the flag was dropped on the field before the person was escorted away. The referee then picked up the flag and left it on the sideline, where it stayed for a few moments before a worker came and collected it.
The protester was ushered away through a tunnel. It wasn’t immediately clear if the person faced any charges or had been detained by police.
Thierry De Backer, FIFA’s media officer at the game, told The Associated Press he had “no idea” what happened to the protester. Local Qatari organizers would not comment.
In the first week of the tournament in Qatar, seven European teams lost the battle to wear multi-colored “One Love” armbands during World Cup matches. Fans also complained they weren’t allowed to bring items with rainbow colors, a symbol of LGBTQ rights, into the stadiums of the conservative Islamic emirate.
Qatar’s laws against gay sex and treatment of LGBTQ people were flashpoints in the run-up to the first World Cup to be held in the Middle East. Qatar has said everyone was welcome, including LGBTQ fans, but that visitors should respect the nation’s culture.
The incident occurred during the second half of the game at Lusail Stadium.
Portugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes, who scored both goals in his team’s 2-0 win, said he was so focused on the game that he didn’t really notice what the protester’s intent was, and that he thought the protester might have wanted to take a picture with Cristiano Ronaldo, his star teammate.
“To be honest I didn’t really see what was the message that was trying to be conveyed,” Fernandes said through a translator. “But we’ve already spoken about that many times. … We respect all human rights but those are political issues where we unfortunately don’t really have much strength, where we can’t really change anything.”
Before the World Cup started, Fernandes said soccer should be “for everyone,” adding that he wasn’t happy about workers who died building stadiums in Qatar.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo police say a can of pepper spray was discharged inside a local school classroom on Thursday.
Police, fire and medical personnel responded to Pfc. William J. Grabiarz School of Excellence (PS 79) just before Noon. There, they say a 13-year-old boy had discharged the can in a classroom full of students.
No one appears to have been directly sprayed, but a teacher and a number of students had to be treated at the scene after being affected by the mist of the fog. The pepper spray only impacted students in that classroom.
For about an hour, the school entered a shelter-in-place procedure. It was lifted around 1 p.m.
Buffalo police are investigating this incident.
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USPS, Hoover police investigating mail drop box theft
HOOVER, Ala. (WBRC) - The United States Postal Service is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in mail stolen from a USPS drop box in Hoover.
A large hole was cut into the side of the box located at 1809 Riverchase Dr. in Hoover.
“I can emphasize people put their mail in yesterday evening and last night and it is gone,” said USPS Postal Inspector Tony Robinson. “They need to treat it as identity theft if there was any info that can lead to such in the envelope.”
In November, Robinson told WBRC that it’s a bad idea to let any mail sit in any mailbox overnight. He said “that if people would pay attention to the posted dispatch times, there would be nothing for thieves to steal.”
“If you see someone at a blue collection box in the wee hours of the night, notify local law enforcement for them to investigate,” he said.
The US Postal Inspection Service and Hoover police are investigating Thursday night’s theft.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead.
For years, many have boisterously proclaimed that we have finally killed the cinema experience, and that today's blockbusters are thinly-veiled cash grabs from dying studios sticking to a formula that long ago went bad. But when we emerged from our theater on a rainy January evening after watching “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and stepped into the fluorescent lights of an AMC lobby, all we could muster was “Me-WOW.”
Nicole Kidman was right. Heartbreak does feel good in a place like this.
The film, released late last year, comes as another partial installment in the Shrek Cinematic Universe. “Shrek,” as a franchise, now spans six movies and 22 years, with the original 2001 film serving as a longstanding pillar of popular culture. The newest installment does that legacy justice, pushing the boundaries of animation and storytelling in an engaging and surprisingly mature way.
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” follows the story of the beloved Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas, as he battles with his own mortality, reaching the last of his nine lives. While still being a story that all ages can enjoy, there is something deeply complex and adult about the characterization of the swashbuckling cat, whose fear of death feels so intrinsically human.
Following Puss’ journey is a cathartic acceptance of what it means to live a life. While Puss inevitably fails in his never-ending attempts to outrun his fate, other beloved fairytale characters, like Florence Pugh’s Goldilocks and her three bears, are a ragtag criminal bunch who, somewhere along the way, learn exactly what it means to be a family. Even the movie’s romantic subplot, featuring Salma Hayek’s vivacious Kitty Softpaws, is a far cry from a typical children's movie love affair. Instead, it portrays a realistic partnership in which the characters learn to forgive and, most importantly, trust one another.
While Dreamworks could have just cashed in on the IP and tell a bland story, they chose to reach even further and create a storyline that moves even the oldest of viewers. Through the ever-lingering presence of the character, Death, depicted as the Big Bad Wolf with glowing red eyes, Puss learns what it means to live a fulfilling life — not despite, but in spite of its inevitable ending.
Accompanied by a simple, yet chilling, whistled tune that perfectly juxtaposes the otherwise-heroic soundtrack, this incredibly powerful theme leads our hero into a final, climactic battle against Death himself — not for the promise of future lives, but for the one he has now.
While such storylines are far from new, the novelty lies in their effective portrayal; an appeal that would not have been possible without Dreamworks’ daring deviation away from the typical animation styles seen today. The film’s stark pivot from pure 3D rendering to a mix of traditional art, 2D animation, and computer graphics gave rise to a visual story nothing short of magical.
“The design is much more graphic, and [the producers] wanted it to feel much more ‘storybook,’” second-year character animation student at the California Institute of the Arts Kiran Patel said. “With that, they tried to make everything very painter-ly, so if you look in some of the sets, the closer you get to the edge, the more blurry it gets. It’s not the newest thing, but it works really well in this movie.”
A bold decision on Dreamworks’ end, this change in animation style is key in establishing characters, setting, plot, and even theme from scene to scene.
“This technique is not new,” Patel said. “It’s been in traditional animation for decades and decades. Drawing frames more spread apart makes things look like they’re happening faster, and they’ve used that technique in [computer graphics (CG)] to express more of the high-action sequences, which was really smart. Any viewer can see that shift, and you can say it's jarring, but it’s intentional. It shifts the mood of what you’re watching, it sets up a distinct tone in every scene.”
Aside from world-building, Dreamworks also used this fusion of styles to make everyone’s favorite fearless hero come to life like never before.
“In the action sequences, the frame rate is significantly lower,” Patel said. “It’s just not a thing that studios, when approaching CG film and media, think to do, since we typically think of CG as a ‘smooth’ medium. But in ‘Puss in Boots,’ the frame rate itself was shifted, and it just works really well.”
From building tension during every narrow escape the cats (and their dog sidekick) pull off, to sending shivers down the audience’s spines every time the bone-chilling whistle starts to play, each scene’s distinct pacing makes the film not only more memorable, but much more meaningful.
Above all else, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” raises the bar for both the future of storytelling and animation.
The film finds a way to reach both younger audiences, captivated by cute characters and fun adventures, and older viewers, who grew up with the characters and now face the same fears and challenges their childhood heroes do.
Through what seems to be a simple animated film, Dreamworks proves that heavy themes don’t have to be limited to complex indie movies, and that anyone, at any age, from any background, can revel in the glorious adventure that is life.
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” can still be seen in select theaters and is also available to purchase and rent digitally.
Reach writers Alexandra Yakimova and Laura Schladetzky at arts@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @alex_theyak @LSchladetzky
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter but still was among the slowest in decades as the country wrestled with repeated closures of cities to fight virus outbreaks.
The world’s second-largest economy grew by 3.9% over a year earlier in the three months ending in September, up from the previous quarter’s 0.4%, official data showed Monday. For the first nine months of the year, growth was 3% over a year earlier.
A news conference to announce the figures last week during a meeting of the ruling Communist Party was postponed without explanation. The National Statistics Bureau released the figures on its website without advance notice of the timing.
No data were immediately released for growth compared with the previous quarter, the way data for other major economies are measured. The economy shrank by 2.6% in the quarter ending in June compared with the previous three-month period.
The ruling party is trying to revive economic growth while enforcing its “Zero COVID” strategy that has temporarily shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers while other countries are lifting travel curbs and reviving trade.
The slump hurts China’s trading partners by depressing demand for imported oil, food and consumer goods.
Repeated shutdowns and uncertainty about business conditions have devastated entrepreneurs who generate China’s new wealth and jobs. Small retailers and restaurants have closed. Others say they are struggling to stay afloat.
Other major economies report growth compared with the previous quarter, which makes their levels look lower than China’s. Beijing for decades reported only growth compared with the previous year, which hid short-term fluctuations, but it has started to release quarter-on-quarter figures.
Forecasters say Beijing is using cautious, targeted stimulus instead of across-the-board spending, a strategy that will take longer to show results. Chinese leaders worry too much spending might push up politically sensitive housing costs or corporate debt they worry is dangerously high.
Growth for the first half of the year was 2.5% over a year earlier, one of the weakest levels in the past three decades. | 2022-10-24T03:19:38+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/chinas-quarterly-economic-growth-accelerates-to-3-9/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Updated February 26, 2023 at 12:55 PM ET
ROME — A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn Sunday off the Italian coast, authorities said. Rescuers recovered nearly 60 bodies, and dozens more people were missing in the rough waters.
Officials feared the death toll could top 100 since some survivors indicated the boat had as many as 200 passengers when it set out from Turkey, United Nations refugee and migration agencies said.
At least 80 people were found alive, including some who reached the shore after the shipwreck just off Calabria's coastline along the Ionian Sea, the Italian Coast Guard said. One of the agency's motorboats rescued two men suffering from hypothermia and recovered the body of a boy.
As sundown approached, firefighters said 59 bodies had been found.
One man was taken into custody for questioning after fellow survivors indicated he was a trafficker, state TV said.
The boat collided with the reefs in rough, wind-whipped seas. Three big chunks of the vessel ended up on the beach near the town of Steccato di Cutro, where splintered pieces of bright blue wood littered the sand like matchsticks.
"All of the survivors are adults,″ Red Cross volunteer Ignazio Mangione said. "Unfortunately, all the children are among the missing or were found dead on the beach." A baby was reported among the dead.
Motorboats were expected to continue searching through the night, despite worsening weather conditions. Rescue divers struggled with tall waves.
Italian state TV quoted survivors as saying the boat had set out five days earlier from Turkey.
Standing next to the wreckage on the beach, a reporter for Italian RAI state TV noted a life preserver bearing the word "Smyrna," a Turkish port also known as Izmir.
More than 170 migrants were estimated to have been aboard the ship, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration said in a joint statement.
Among them were "children and entire families,'' according to the U.N. statement, with most of the passengers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia.
Earlier, in an indication of the difficulty in establishing how many passengers had set out on the voyage, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said some 200 people had been crowded into a 20-meter (66-foot) boat.
The rescue operation involved a helicopter and police aircraft, as well as vessels from state firefighter squads, the Coast Guard and border police. Local fishermen also joined in the search.
The bodies were brought to the sports stadium in the nearest city, Crotone. A local priest said he blessed many of them while they were still lying on the beach.
Many of the survivors, wrapped in blankets and quilts, were taken by bus to a temporary shelter. State TV said 22 survivors were taken to a hospital.
Pope Francis told the faithful in St. Peter's Square that he was praying for the dead, the missing and the survivors. He added he also was praying for the rescuers "and for those who give welcome" to the migrants.
"It's an enormous tragedy," Crotone Mayor Vincenzo Voce told RAI. "In solidarity, the city will find places in the cemetery" for the dead.
In 2022, some 105,000 migrants arrived on Italian shores, some 38,000 more than in 2021, according to Interior Ministry figures.
According to U.N. figures, arrivals from the Turkish route accounted for 15% of the total number, with nearly half of those fleeing from Afghanistan.
In a statement released by the premier's office Sunday, Meloni expressed "her deep sorrow for the many human lives torn away by human traffickers."
"It's inhumane to exchange the lives of men, women and children for the 'price' of a ticket paid by them in the false prospect for a safe voyage," said Meloni, a far-right leader whose governing allies include the anti-migrant League party.
She vowed to crack down on departures arranged by human smugglers and to press fellow European Union leaders to help.
Opposition parties pointed to Sunday's tragedy as proof of the flaws in Italy's migration policy.
"Condemning only the smugglers, as the center-right is doing now, is hypocrisy,″ said Laura Ferrara, a European Parliament lawmaker from the populist 5-Star Movement.
"The truth is that the EU today doesn't offer effective alternatives for those who are forced to abandon their country of origin,″ Ferrara said in a statement.
Another route employed by traffickers crosses the central Mediterranean Sea from Libya's coast, where migrants often endure brutal detention conditions for months before they are allowed to board rubber dinghies or aging wooden fishing boats for Italian shores. The route is considered one of the deadliest.
Meloni's government has concentrated on complicating efforts by humanitarian boats to make multiple rescues in the central Mediterranean by assigning them ports of disembarkation along Italy's northern coasts, meaning the vessels need more time to return to the sea after bringing those rescued aboard, often hundreds of migrants, safely to shore.
Humanitarian organizations have lamented that the crackdown also includes an order to the charity boats not to remain at sea after the first rescue operation in hopes of performing other rescues, but to head immediately to their assigned port of safety. Violators face stiff fines and confiscation of the rescue vessel.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella called on the European Union to "finally concretely assume the responsibility of managing the migratory phenomenon to remove it from the traffickers of human beings.'' He said the EU should support development in countries where young people who see no future decide to risk dangerous sea journeys.
Italy has complained bitterly for years that fellow EU countries have balked at taking in some of the arrivals, many of whom are aiming to find family or work in northern Europe.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russian tennis player Vera Zvonareva has been banned from entering Poland, the country’s Interior Ministry said. She was to participate in a WTA 250 tournament in Warsaw starting Monday.
A communique on the ministry website said the Polish Border Guard on Friday prevented entry by the former world No.2, who flew in from Belgrade on a French visa. She remained in the transit zone of the Warsaw airport and on Saturday flew to Podgorica, Montenegro.
Zvonareva, currently ranked 60th, was to take part in the PNB Paribas Warsaw Open tournament that begins Monday.
The 38-year-old player was still on the event’s participants’ list Sunday. The WTA said in a statement it was evaluating the situation.
Poland, which supports Ukraine in its war against Russia’s aggression, said that Zvonareva was on a banned list and not allowed into the country for reasons of state and public security.
The communique stressed that Poland is consistent in opposing the “regime of (Russian and Belarusian Presidents Vladimir) Putin and (Alexander) Lukashenko” and is not allowing “people who support Russian and Belarusian actions to enter our country.”
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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-24T18:50:03+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/ap-russias-zvonareva-banned-from-entering-poland-for-wta-250-tournament/ |
(The Hill) – Director James Cameron said in an interview that he cut ten minutes of scenes including the use of firearms in the latest installment of the wildly popular “Avatar” film series, adding that he regrets past use of firearms in his films.
In an interview with Esquire Middle East, Cameron, who three Academy Awards for his 1997 film “Titanic,” told the publication about the regret he has with the use of firearms in his films, adding that he cut out ten minutes from his new film, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” to shift toward his new approach.
“Avatar: The Way of Water,” the sequel to the popular 2009 “Avatar” film, released on December 16.
“I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action. I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. You have to have conflict, of course,” Cameron told Esquire Middle East.
“Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker,” he added.
Cameron also said that he wouldn’t direct some of his previous films due to the nature of the violence and use of firearms in them, adding that the current use of firearms in today’s society turns his stomach.
“I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now,” Cameron said in the interview. “I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of ‘Terminator’ movies 30-plus years ago, in our current world.”
“What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach,” Cameron concluded.
Cameron’s remarks come as the U.S. has seen a recent wave of mass shootings in this past year, with many incidents happening in Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, N.Y.; Highland Park, Ill. and Colorado Springs, Colo.
In the aftermath of the Robb Elementary school massacre, lawmakers wrote and passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major type of legislation to address gun violence in nearly 30 years. President Biden signed the act into law earlier this year. | 2022-12-28T14:02:05+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/james-cameron-says-he-cut-footage-including-firearms-from-new-avatar-regrets-past-use/ |
AUSTIN, Texas, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vyopta, the leader in digital collaboration and experience optimization, today announced the U.S. Department of Labor as the latest government agency to adopt Vyopta's technology.
Vyopta supports a wide range of U.S. government departments, agencies and bureaus. This includes the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Federal Reserve Bank, General Services Administration (GSA), Social Security Administration, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Courts, U.S. Senate, and more.
With over 16,000 employees, the mission of the U.S. Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.
In October 2021, Vyopta achieved certification under the U.S. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) in collaboration with the GSA and is the only digital user experience management for multi-vendor UC/collaboration technologies available in the FedRAMP Marketplace.
"It's an honor to provide the U.S. Department of Labor with a holistic view of their collaboration estate," said Alfredo Ramirez, CEO of Vyopta. "With many government employees working remotely as well as in different geographies, assuring best-in-class user experience by managing and optimizing collaboration technology performance is essential to workforce engagement, well-being and productivity."
Related:
- U.S. Government Designates $100 Million to Improve User Experience
- Vyopta Becomes First Digital Employee Experience Management Solution in FedRAMP Marketplace
Vyopta, a leader in digital user experience management for collaboration, has helped 40 million people collaborate better. Its Technology Insights and Space Insights applications have helped identify and address over 9 million issues. Vyopta helps organizations deliver the best UC user experience and optimize their UC and real estate investments. Hundreds of organizations worldwide spanning 20+ industries use Vyopta.
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CBS 13 SPORTS: Kofa boys soccer with a hotly contested game at Irv Pallack Field, AWC basketball looking to defend The House
Kofa boys soccer looking to take one of their last games this season, and Arizona Western basketball takes on Cochise at home, all in Wednesday's sportscast
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Kofa boys soccer tries to survive what ends up being a close one at home, and AWC basketball also tries to defend homecourt, as they take on Cochise, all in Wednesday's sportscast. | 2023-01-26T06:11:32+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/sports/2023/01/25/cbs-13-sports-kofa-boys-soccer-with-a-hotly-contested-game-at-irv-pallack-field-awc-basketball-looking-to-defend-the-house/ |
COMING UP. LUANA: WELL IT IS A STORY YOU’LL ONLY SEE HERE ON WESH 2. WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FUN WEEKEND GETAWAY IN DAYTONA BEACH SHORES QUICKLY TURNED TO SHOCK AFTER TARA SUMMERS WAS HIT OR BIT RATHER BY A SHARK. SHE SHARES HER EXPERIENCE DURING THAT FRIGHTENING ENCOUNTER. >> DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING IN THE WATER BEFORE THAT UNTIL IT BIT ME. THEN OUTSIDE OF THAT, THE NATURAL RESPONSE, I JUST SCREAMED AND STARTED RUNNING. LUANA: TASA SUMMERS AND HER BOYFRIEND WERE ENJOYING A NICE SATURDAY IN DAYTONA BEACH SHORES WHEN A SMALL SHARK BIT HER ON HER LEG. >> MY FIRST INSTINCT WAS JUST TO SCREAM. THEN I REALLY TRIED TO MAKE SURE I DIDN’T FALL BACK INTO THE WATER BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW IF I FELL BACK IF IT WOULD GO AFTER MY ARM OR ANOTHER PART OF MY BODY. LUANA: THANKFULLY, HER BOYFRIEND WAS NEARBY AND SWATTED IT AWAY. >> EVERYONE AROUND WAS VERY HELPFUL. TOOK OFF MY BOYFRIEND’S SHIRT TO BE ABLE TO WRAP IT. THANKFULLY THERE WAS A NURSE THERE. SHE USED ONE OF THE HOTEL EMPLOYEE’S BELT TO MAKE A TOURNIQUET. LUANA: THE SHARK BIT HER LOWER LEFT SHIN DOWN TO HER ANKLE, TAKING 8 STITCHES TO FIX HER UP. STILL, SHE SAYS IT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE. >> THERE WERE FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AROUND WITH US IN THE WATER. WHILE I DON’T LOVE THE FACT THAT IT BIT ME, I’M THANKFUL IT WASN’T ONE OF THE SMALL CHILDREN
40-year-old woman bitten by shark in Florida recounts attack
Updated: 12:45 PM EDT Jul 18, 2022
A woman who was bitten by a shark in Florida on Saturday afternoon is speaking out about the attack.On Saturday afternoon, Tasa Summers, 40, was bitten by a shark in Volusia County, according to Volusia County Beach Safety.Summers spoke about the attack exclusively with sister station WESH. She is currently in recovery. The incident happened at 1:12 p.m.Summers, who is from Ohio, was in waist-deep water located at the 3300 block of Daytona Beach Shores, beach officials say."I didn't see it until it bit me, um, and then we were able to see that and my boyfriend was out with me and kind of saw the fin of the shark afterwards and started to swat at its face," Summers told WESH. She was bitten on the lower left leg and foot by the shark.Her injuries were non-life-threatening and she was transported to the hospital. Summers told WESH that she was glad the shark didn't attack any children near her. There have been five recorded shark bites in Volusia County this year.
A woman who was bitten by a shark in Florida on Saturday afternoon is speaking out about the attack.
On Saturday afternoon, Tasa Summers, 40, was bitten by a shark in Volusia County, according to Volusia County Beach Safety.
Summers spoke about the attack exclusively with sister station WESH.
She is currently in recovery.
The incident happened at 1:12 p.m.
Summers, who is from Ohio, was in waist-deep water located at the 3300 block of Daytona Beach Shores, beach officials say.
"I didn't see it until it bit me, um, and then we were able to see that and my boyfriend was out with me and kind of saw the fin of the shark afterwards and started to swat at its face," Summers told WESH.
She was bitten on the lower left leg and foot by the shark.
Her injuries were non-life-threatening and she was transported to the hospital.
Summers told WESH that she was glad the shark didn't attack any children near her.
There have been five recorded shark bites in Volusia County this year. | 2022-07-18T17:01:36+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/shark-attack-florida-ohio-woman-recounts-attack/40635146 |
Suspect dies after crash Tuesday in stolen Colorado State Patrol vehicle
OTERO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) -- A suspect died Tuesday after a fatal crash in a stolen Colorado State Patrol vehicle.
According to Colorado State Patrol (CSP), troopers responded to assist Otero County Deputies with a fleeing suspect Tuesday morning along Highway 50, in Otero County. The vehicle was reportedly related to a "shots fired" call. It was also reported the suspect had caused multiple crashes and attempted to cause head-on crashes with other vehicles.
Troopers were able to stop the vehicle and take the suspect into custody.
CSP said that during the arrest, "the suspect gained access to the front of a fully marked Colorado State Patrol vehicle and fled." He then led a pursuit down Highway 50 until he hit stop sticks deployed by waiting troopers.
According to CSP, the driver lost control after hitting the stop sticks and crashed into a commercial vehicle that was parked on the side of the road, and then caught fire.
The suspect was pulled from the vehicle and taken to an area hospital but succumbed to the injuries sustained in the crash. The suspect's identity is not being released at this time.
CSP said this is an ongoing investigation and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation is the lead agency. | 2023-06-21T04:20:03+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/20/suspect-dies-after-crash-tuesday-in-stolen-colorado-state-patrol-vehicle/ |
Man killed his Fulton deputy wife, her brother to hide secret children, prosecutors sayMissing 19-year-old’s mom, investigators reveal new clues 7 years after her disappearanceWSB-TV’s Stuff the Bus collects nearly 6,000 backpacks in landmark 20th yearChick-fil-A to open futuristic two-story restaurant concept in metro Atlanta2 men convicted on 73 charges after 11-, 14-year-old murdered in their beds in Clayton County | 2023-07-29T22:25:08+00:00 | wsbtv.com | https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/video-shows-atlanta-police-officers-arresting-accused-bmw-thief-chevron/BQBWYOGQPBAUTIO6Y5BI5IR5UE/ |
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Nakashima took advantage of two double-faults by John Isner in an error-filled game to collect the match's only service break and went on to reach the second round at the BNP Paribas Open with a 7-6 (7), 6-3 victory in the all-American contest Wednesday.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was in the stands as play got started at the year's first Masters 1000 event, a combined tournament for women and men.
Nakashima, a 21-year-old from San Diego, saved one set point for 2018 Wimbledon semifinalist Isner, who is 37, en route to grabbing the opening tiebreaker. And Nakashima, who won the ATP Next Gen Finals last year, broke to lead 4-2 in the second set after nearly 1 1/2 hours of play, taking his four points in that game via that pair of double-faults, one forehand by Isner that found the net tape and didn't make it over, and another that sailed long.
In all, Isner, the 2012 runner-up at Indian Wells, double-faulted seven times, part of his total of 25 unforced errors — 18 more than Nakashima. Next up for the 48th-ranked Nakashima is the tough task of facing 2022 U.S. Open champion and former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev, who is on a 14-match winning streak and won the past three tournaments he entered.
That run of success includes a win over Novak Djokovic, the 22-time Grand Slam champion not in the field at Indian Wells because he can't travel to the United States as a foreign citizen not vaccinated against COVID-19. The player Djokovic shares the record with for most majors won by a man, Rafael Nadal, also isn't in the desert; he has been sidelined since injuring his left hip flexor at the Australian Open.
Medvedev, like other seeded players, received a first-round bye.
On Wednesday night, Gael Monfils — a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist who is 36 — was scheduled to compete for the first time since August, facing Jordan Thompson. Monfils hasn't played since a foot injury last August.
In other Day 1 action, Evgeniya Rodina, a 34-year-old who is ranked 427th and had played just one tour-level match in 2023, ousted 68th-ranked Alizé Cornet 6-2, 7-5; 67th-ranked Wang Xinyu beat 37th-ranked Elise Mertens 6-3, 6-1; wild-card entry Dayana Yastremska defeated Anna Bondar 6-3, 6-4; Aliaksandra Sasnovich got past Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 7-6 (5); Anna Blinkova beat Ann Li 6-1, 6-2; and Linda Noskova defeated Irina-Camelia Begu 7-6 (7), 6-1.
In men's matches, Marcos Giron, who won an NCAA singles title for UCLA, eliminated Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-3, 7-5; Ugo Humbert beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-2, 7-6 (6); Jason Kubler edged Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 7-6 (4); and Oscar Otte defeated Laslo Djere 6-3, 7-5.
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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-09T00:43:16+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/nakashima-tops-isner-at-indian-wells-minus-17828022.php |
Brad William Henke, ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actor, dead at 56
(CNN) -- Brad William Henke, a veteran character actor known for his work on “Orange Is the New Black” and other series, has died, according to his agent and manager.
He was 56.
“Brad Henke was an incredibly kind man of joyous energy. A very talented actor, he loved being a part of this community....and we loved him back,” his manager, Matt DelPiano, wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. “Our thoughts are with his wife and family.”
Henke “died peacefully in his sleep” on November 29, his agent, Sheree Cohen, told CNN in a statement.
Born in Columbus, Nebraska, and raised in Littleton, Colorado, he earned a football scholarship to the University of Arizona.
A standout defensive lineman, team captain, and All-Academic student journalist, Henke was drafted into the National Football League by the New York Giants in 1989, and eventually made it to the roster for the Denver Broncos and played in Super Bowl XXIV against the San Francisco 49ers.
Repeated injuries led to his retirement from the NFL in 1994.
Henke moved to Los Angeles hoping to break into coaching and instead found himself in front of the camera after he attended an open call for a commercial looking for “big guys.”
He was as swift to find work in Hollywood as he was on the field and he soon racked up dozens of appearances on television series, including “ER,” “Silk Stalkings,” “Arli$$” and more.
He also landed supporting roles in films like “Space Jam” and “Mr. Wrong.”
But it was his breakout role in 2017 playing Desi Piscatella, a gay corrections officer at Litchfield Federal Penitentiary on the hit Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” which earned him a SAG Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.
He appeared in more than 40 films like “Bright, Fury,” “Me and You and Everyone We Know” and “Choke,” the latter of which won a Special Jury Prize for work by an ensemble cast at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Henke opened an acting studio in Los Angeles in 2000 where he helped to guide the careers of other actors.
His outreach to those in his profession also included producing showcases, helping his students land agents and lending his acting abilities to up-and-coming filmmakers, including “Short Term 12″ and “Willy’s Wonderland.”
An avid NFL and UFC fan, he was also a devoted family man who “visited his mother frequently, loved taking his stepson to soccer games and gymnastics and adored his dog, Ruby” according to his agent.
Henke is survived by his mother Tammy, his sister Annette, his wife Sonja, his stepson Aaden, his stepdaughter Leasa and his grandchild Amirah.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-2-6-0
(nine, two, six, zero)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | 2022-09-13T03:10:24+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17437271.php |
WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Prince Albert 2 Red Deer 1
Calgary 2 Moose Jaw 1 (SO)
Brandon 3 Portland 2
Swift Current 5 Saskatoon 4 (SO)
Seattle 6 Regina 0
Medicine Hat 3 Edmonton 2
Everett 4 Prince George 2
Kelowna 3 Kamloops 2
Vancouver 3 Tri-City 2 (OT)
Victoria 6 Spokane 3
Saturday's results
Saskatoon 6 Red Deer 2
Prince Albert 6 Brandon 2
Moose Jaw 6 Seattle 2
Prince George 3 Everett 1
Swift Current 6 Medicine Hat 4
Edmonton 3 Lethbridge 2 (SO)
Tri-City 6 Victoria 4
Kamloops 5 Kelowna 1
Vancouver 2 Spokane 1
Sunday's results
Regina 6 Calgary 2
Winnipeg 6 Portland 3
Tuesday's games
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Portland at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Portland at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Portland at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m. | 2023-01-09T04:27:50+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17703925.php |
OAN Prepares for 2024 Presidential Race Coverage with Placement of Veteran Political Reporter Neil W. McCabe in Florida
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One America News Network ("OAN"), a 24/7 source of credible national and international news announced today that journalist Neil W. McCabe has joined the network and will be leading Florida coverage from OAN's Tallahassee bureau.
"Neil is recognized as one of the top national political reporters. We're thrilled he's leading our coverage in Florida as Florida news is becoming national news, especially as we head into the 2024 Presidential race," said Charles Herring, president of OAN.
"We are very familiar with Neil's work, both broadcast and print, and his real-world experience as an Army combat veteran and on Wall Street," Herring said.
"In addition to his Florida coverage, Neil will also be taking on other assignments around the country, including contributing to OAN's 2022 midterm coverage," stated Herring.
"Florida is ground-zero for battles over parents' rights, COVID-19, education reform and gun rights," stated McCabe. "These battles are fought at the state house, the city halls and school boards—wherever they are, we will be there."
In addition to his previous tenure at the network, where he covered Capitol Hill and the White House, McCabe has worked as a national political reporter in Washington for Human Events, Breitbart and The Star News Network. Before coming to Washington, McCabe was a staff reporter for The Pilot, Boston's Catholic paper, and he was a reporter and editor for two Boston-area community papers: The (North Cambridge) Alewife and The Somerville News.
McCabe is a Bronze Star veteran of the Iraq War, where he deployed for 15 months as a combat historian from 2009-2010. He continues to serve in the Army Reserve as a senior public affairs noncommissioned officer.
Follow Neil W. McCabe on Twitter/GETTR/Truth Social: @ReporterMcCabe
About One America News Network, ("OAN"):
One America News Network, ("OAN"), which launched on July 4, 2013, provides an independent source of credible national and international news around the clock. The network operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., California, New York, and Florida. In addition, the network utilizes numerous external newsgathering sources, including US Pool feeds. OAN produces eighteen hours of live news every weekday. In addition, the network features three weekday primetime political talk shows, namely REAL AMERICA with Dan Ball, IN FOCUS with Addison Smith, and TIPPING POINT with Kara McKinney. OAN is featured on over a hundred cable and video providers worldwide. In addition, the OAN LIVE app is available on your favorite connected devices. For more information, please visit www.oann.com.
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TULSA, Okla. — Laura Chaney is a hiker who recently came back to Tulsa with photos of snow-covered mountains.
Chaney spent 11 days hiking the Mount Everest base camp.
“It was definitely very challenging," Chaney said. "It was the most beautiful views I’ve ever seen."
The last few days of the trek were chilly, since she was hiking through a blizzard.
“It had been snowing for a long time, we had been climbing over the icy boulders for a lot of hours but we made it,” Chaney said.
Chaney trained for the base camp trek with a group of women called the "Hiker Babes."
“We actually met on Turkey Mountain, I started here,” Chaney said.
Now, Chaney is addicted to the trails.
“Next climb is Kilimanjaro," she said. "I want to summit that"
Chaney is now training to hike Kilimanjaro with other hiker babes by utilizing trails in Tulsa and Arkansas.
“I’ll probably do the 7-day trek and that one you do carry all of your stuff and stay in tents,” Chaney said.
Chaney recommends hiking for anyone and says Turkey Mountain is a great place to start. | 2023-05-29T22:02:23+00:00 | fox23.com | https://www.fox23.com/news/local/tulsa-native-speaks-to-fox23-about-her-mt-everest-hike/article_401e310a-fe55-11ed-8734-4b5619452d54.html |
DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- The Decatur Blaze are nearing the end of their regular season and are on a mission to raise money for Matthew Long.
He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in May of 2022 and has had multiple surgeries and treatments.
The Blaze are auctioning off specialty jerseys to help out.
For more information on how you can get involved, click here.
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NDSU drops Dakota Marker thriller
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - In the 113th ever meeting between North Dakota State and South Dakota State, it’s the Jackrabbits that are hopping home happy with a 23-21 win.
At the half, it looked like North Dakota State was going to rumble home with the Dakota Marker trophy for only the second time in seven years. Cam Miller didn’t have one incompletion after 30 minutes, as the Bison led 21-7.
In the second half, South Dakota State controlled possession, and took a 23-21 lead with less than four minutes left in the game. NDSU had one final possession, but SDSU forced a turnover on downs before running the clock out.
The Dakota Marker game is now tipped in favor NDSU by only one game, 10-9 in the annual trophy contest. It’s the third straight win in the series for SDSU.
NDSU heads into their bye week before hosting Illinois State on October 29th.
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The hardline stances of many conservative Catholic bishops in the U.S. are not shared by a majority of lay Catholics. Most of them say abortion should be legal, favor greater inclusion of LGBT people, and oppose the denial of Communion for politicians who support abortion rights, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The poll, conducted in mid-May, shows a clear gap between the prevalent views of American Catholics, and some recent high-profile actions taken by the church’s leaders.
For example, leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently called on Catholics nationwide to pray for the U.S. Supreme Court to end the constitutional right to abortion by reversing its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. According to the new poll, 63% of Catholic adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 68% say Roe should be left as is.
On May 20, the archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, announced that he will no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights.
According to the poll, only 31% of lay Catholics agree that politicians supporting abortion rights should be denied Communion, while 66% say they should be allowed access to the sacrament.
An even larger majority – 77% — said that Catholics who identify as LGBT should be allowed to receive Communion. That contrasts sharply with a policy issued by the Diocese of Marquette, which encompasses Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, saying pastors should deny Communion to transgender, gay and nonbinary Catholics “unless the person has repented.”
Natalia Imperatori-Lee, a professor of religious studies at Manhattan College, said the rift between rank-and-file Catholics and the bishops “reveals a breakdown in communication and trust — shepherds who are far removed from the sheep.”
“This is a precarious time for the U.S. Catholic church,” she added in an email. “U.S. Catholics are, on the whole, accustomed to living and working in a pluralistic society and this poll reinforces the notion that they want the public square to remain pluralistic, free from coercion, and oriented toward care for the vulnerable populations among us.”
The Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said the poll results didn’t surprise him, and underscored a need for anti-abortion clergy and activists to redouble efforts to change people’s positions.
“For us working on pro-life issues, these kinds of polls are like a summons,” he said. “You’ve got to be doing your work — maybe you’ve got to do it better.”
As for conservative bishops, “their awareness of the gaps that the polling reveals is precisely one of the reasons they feel the need to speak up,″ Pavone said. “They are striving to exercise the role outlined for them in Scripture, namely, to patiently and persistently teach the faith, whether convenient or inconvenient, to clear up confusion.”
Beyond the bishops/laity rift, the poll highlighted other challenges facing the church, which is the largest denomination in the U.S.
For example, 68% of Catholics reported attending religious services once a month or less. Compared to five years ago, 37% said they were now attending less often; 14% said they were attending more often.
Over that five-year span, 26% percent of Catholics said their opinion of the Catholic church had worsened, while 17% said their opinion had improved. Most said their opinion hadn’t changed.
More than two-thirds of U.S. Catholics disagree with church policies that bar women from becoming priests. And 65% say the church should allow openly gay men to be ordained.
The poll was conducted just after the leak of a draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade. The views of U.S. Catholics, as expressed in the poll, were in line with the overall American public, both in regard to supporting abortion’s legality and preserving Roe.
However, there were sharp differences among major religious groupings. While 63% of Catholics said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, that stance was held by 74% of mainline Protestants and only 25% of evangelical Protestants.
Sharon Barnes of Dallas, who converted to Catholicism as a young adult, appreciates the centuries-old consistency of Catholic doctrine. Yet she differs from the church on some major social issues, including abortion.
“It’s a woman’s right to decide,” said Barnes, 65. “It’s something that you have to kind of reconcile yourself, and it’s between you and God.”
Pedro Gomez, a 55-year-old border patrol agent in Rio Rico, Arizona, is a lifelong Catholic who prays every night and attends church regularly. He understands the need for abortion in cases of rape, incest or saving the life of a mother, but he said he considers the procedure to be the killing of a child.
Gomez was surprised that most U.S. Catholics support some degree of abortion rights.
“There’s a lot of gray area now that was never there in my upbringing,” he said. “Maybe they’re watering down Catholicism … Now people are being able to make up their own rules.”
Ed Keeley, a 62-year-old public school teacher in Houston, also was raised Catholic. He described abortion as “a hard subject,” saying he believes in the sanctity of life but that abortion should be allowed in specific cases, including rape or incest.
He finds it “ridiculous” that a priest would deny Communion to someone because of their views on abortion or politics generally.
Last year, some conservative bishops, including Cordileone, argued publicly that President Joe Biden — a lifelong Catholic — should not receive Communion because of his support for abortion rights. However, Pope Francis conveyed his opposition to such a stance, saying Communion “is not a prize for the perfect.”
Cordileone’s recent denial of Communion for Pelosi was supported by several of his clerical colleagues, including the archbishops of Denver, Oklahoma City, Portland, Oregon, and Kansas City, Kansas. However, Archbishop Michael Jackels of Dubuque, Iowa, issued a statement describing the action as “misguided.”
“As Jesus said, it’s the sick people who need a doctor, not the healthy, and he gave us the Eucharist as a healing remedy,” Jackels said. “Don’t deny the people who need the medicine.”
He also contended that abortion was not the only critical “life issue” facing the church.
“Protecting the earth, our common home, or making food, water, shelter, education and health care accessible, or defense against gun violence… these are life issues too,” he said. “To be consistent, to repair the scandal of Catholics being indifferent or opposed to all those other life issues, they would have to be denied Holy Communion as well.”
John Gehring, Catholic program director at the Washington-based clergy network Faith in Public Life, said some conservative bishops engage in the culture wars “in ways that damage their already diminished relevance and credibility.”
“Most Catholics are fed up with bishops who want to weaponize Communion in a hypocritical, single-issue campaign against pro-choice politicians, especially when we see Pope Francis offering a better road map,” said Gehring
The AP-NORC poll of 1,172 adults, including 358 Catholics, was conducted May 12-16 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points, and for Catholics is plus or minus 7.4 percentage points.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jen Kates from the Kaiser Family Foundation about what it means that President Biden has declared the COVID public health emergency over for the United States in May.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion.
Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a “culture of waste” that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.
“Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today’s culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,” he said.
The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world,” called for them not to cling to selfish desires.
“You have been asked to not have other priorities, not to ‘look back’ to miss your former life, your former freedom, with its deceptive illusions,” he said.
Francis has strongly upheld church teaching opposing abortion, equating it to “hiring a hitman to solve a problem.” At the same time, he has expressed sympathy for women who had abortions and made it easier for them to be absolved of the sin of undergoing the procedure.
The Catholic Church holds that life begins at conception and must be protected and defended until natural death.
Francis delivered his homily in a packed St. Peter’s Square at the end of the World Meeting of Families, a four-day conference held every few years aimed at helping church workers provide better pastoral care for families, especially those in difficulty.
The head of the Vatican’s laity office, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, celebrated the closing Mass before tens of thousands of people given Francis has a bad knee that makes it difficult for him to stand for long periods of time.
The pope instead sat to the side of the altar and delivered the homily seated, though he was able to stand up easily for the reading of the Gospel and other moments with the help of a cane.
The Vatican welcomed Friday’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that provided constitutional protections for abortion in the U.S. The move opens the doors for individual states to ban or restrict abortion access, with bans now expected in about half the U.S. states.
The Holy See’s main bioethics body, the Pontifical Academy for Life, said it “challenges the whole world” to reopen debate about the need to protect life. Abortion is legal in Italy and most of Europe.
In an editorial Saturday entitled “For Life, Always,” the Vatican’s editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, called for that debate to move away from polarized ideology to a dialogue that takes into account concerns about maternal mortality rates and helping women, especially poor ones, with paid parental leave and other assistance when they bring children into the world .
“Being for life, always, also means defending it against the threat of firearms, which unfortunately have become a leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the U.S.,” Tornielli wrote.
Farrell, in his closing remarks at the end of the Mass, thanked Francis for his many initiatives in favor of families, citing in particular his teaching on the value of grandparents and his “many pronouncements in defense of life.” | 2022-06-25T23:35:11+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/pope-hails-families-blasts-culture-of-waste-after-roe/ |
Top Player Prop Bets for Padres vs. Yankees on May 26, 2023
Gleyber Torres and Juan Soto are among the players with prop bets available when the New York Yankees and the San Diego Padres square off at Yankee Stadium on Friday (beginning at 7:05 PM ET).
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Padres vs. Yankees Game Info
- When: Friday, May 26, 2023 at 7:05 PM ET
- Where: Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York
- How to Watch on TV: Apple TV+
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: San Diego Padres
Joe Musgrove Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: -125)
Musgrove Stats
- The Padres' Joe Musgrove (1-2) will make his sixth start of the season.
- None of Musgrove's five starts this season have met the criteria for a quality start.
- Musgrove has three starts in a row of five innings or more.
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Juan Soto Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -179)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +380)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +155)
Soto Stats
- Soto has 45 hits with 13 doubles, nine home runs and 48 walks. He has driven in 22 runs with four stolen bases.
- He's slashed .262/.423/.494 so far this season.
Soto Recent Games
Xander Bogaerts Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -222)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +750)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +850)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +180)
Bogaerts Stats
- Xander Bogaerts has seven doubles, seven home runs, 24 walks and 19 RBI (47 total hits). He's also stolen five bases.
- He has a slash line of .254/.347/.405 on the year.
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Gleyber Torres Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -278)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +600)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +230)
Torres Stats
- Torres has eight doubles, a triple, nine home runs, 25 walks and 25 RBI (49 total hits). He has swiped five bases.
- He has a .263/.349/.462 slash line so far this season.
- Torres hopes to build on a five-game hitting streak in this matchup. In his last five games he is batting .381 with three home runs, a walk and four RBI.
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Aaron Judge Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -222)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -125)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +270)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +160)
Judge Stats
- Aaron Judge has collected 42 hits with eight doubles, 14 home runs and 30 walks. He has driven in 33 runs with three stolen bases.
- He's slashed .288/.402/.630 on the season.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SportsGrid Inc., today announces its third quarter viewership results, which delivered record audience analytics, as the overall streaming video category captured its largest-ever share of total TV usage.
- Same-platform average daily impressions of 310,831 versus 172,219 for the comparable prior-year period.
- Same-platform average unique viewers of 109,044 versus 95,765 for the comparable prior-year period.
- Entered into a content alliance with Sportradar delivering video and editorial solutions to media publishers.
- Announced expanded multi-year, multi-platform agreement with BetMGM.
- SportsGrid Network launched on FuboTV and VIDAA.
Charles Theiss, Chief Media Officer of SportsGrid, commented, "Viewers are watching more and engaging with SportsGrid's live and exclusive programming providing real-time data and actionable insights critical to the fantasy and sports betting audiences. SportsGrid's live sports wagering coverage of the start of the College and NFL regular seasons in September marks the largest one-month increase in viewership for the network."
Viewership numbers are based on Amagi's Thunderstorm dataset of performance metrics.
SportsGrid, Inc. is the multimedia technology platform providing innovative digital solutions for the convergence of sports content, gaming, and mobile technology. The SportsGrid multimedia destinations include SportsGrid Streaming Video Network, SportsGrid Radio, SportsGrid.com, DailyRoto, and SportsGrid Studios. With the seismic shift towards multiscreen IP, cloud, and data-driven distribution of sports content, SportsGrid launched an innovative video content management and distribution initiative in 2020. The video distribution platform syndicates the exclusive SportsGrid short-form programming to premium publishers to grow and engage their digital sports gaming audiences. SportsGrid, Inc. is the content source and destination to serve the massive sports gaming audience with unrivaled best-of-breed programming, technology, data, and gaming analysis.
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GREAT EXUMA, Bahamas, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- – Approximately 3 million radio listeners, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter users across key markets in North America were reached when The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation (BMOTIA) recently partnered with Sandals Emerald Bay in hosting the second live radio remote of 2023 at the resort in The Exumas. The live radio remotes aimed to reach a wider group of travellers and drive vacationers to The Bahamas.
From April 2-April 3, 2023 radio personalities from 15 radio stations in the U.S. and two from Canada broadcasted live on their popular programs and social media sites about The Islands of The Bahamas and Sandals' luxury amenities as the ultimate vacation spot.
Hosting media partners provided a grand opportunity for BMOTIA to connect with listeners in various key markets while showcasing The Bahamas as a prime destination for visitors and inspiring travel.
The Exumas, home to the breathtaking Sandals Emerald Bay Golf, Tennis & Spa Resort, is one of The Bahamas' 16 unique island destinations.
The live radio broadcasts aired in New York; Philadelphia; Charlotte; Jacksonville; Orlando; Miami; Washington, DC; Dallas; Atlanta and Toronto.
Following the two-day live remotes, the stations ran a minimum of two weeks of on-air and digital promotions.
Sandals also partnered with American Airlines and listeners were given a chance to win one of several luxury 4-day/3-night vacations for two at Sandals complete with American Airlines round trip airfare for two. 45 prize packages were offered to a number of radio stations.
Jeremy Mutton, General Manager of the resort, said, "It is unbelievable the audience that this broadcast reaches. Mutton said the 17 radio stations "garnered total visitors of 3 million, which is huge". "We are bringing The Bahamas to the listeners' favorite radio show," he added.
About The Bahamas
The Bahamas has over 700 islands and cays, as well as 16 unique island destinations. Located only 50 miles off the coast of Florida, it offers a quick and easy way for travellers to escape their everyday. The island nation also boasts world-class fishing, diving, boating and thousands of miles of the Earth's most spectacular beaches for families, couples and adventurers to explore. See why It's Better in The Bahamas at www.bahamas.com or on Facebook, YouTube or Instagram.
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.
Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said Sunday that the wounded were taken to hospitals and their conditions range from stable to critical. He said the 10 people died at the scene in the city of Monterey Park.
Meyer said people were “pouring out of the location screaming” when officers arrived at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. He said officers then went into the ballroom and found victims as firefighters treated the wounded.
Meyer gave no description of the male suspect or the weapon he used, or why police gave no information on the shooting for hours while the shooter remained on the run. He also said police were investigating another incident in the nearby city of Alhambra to see whether it was connected.
Meyer said it’s too early in the investigation to know if the gunman knew anyone at the ballroom or if it was a hate crime or not. He gave no other details.
The Lunar New Year celebration had attracted thousands.
Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people that sits at the eastern edge of Los Angeles. The majority of its residents are Asian immigrants or their descendants, most of them Chinese. The dance studio in downtown Monterey Park is just a few blocks from city hall on its main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls that are full of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. Cantonese and Mandarin are both widely spoken, Chinese holidays are celebrated, and Chinese films are screened in the city.
The tragedy marked not just the fifth mass killing in the U.S. since the start of the year but also is the deadliest since May 24, 2022 – when 21 people were killed in a school in Uvalde, Texas, according to The Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S. The latest violence comes two months after five people were killed at a Colorado Springs nightclub.
Seung Won Choi, who owns the Clam House seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from where the shooting happened, told The Los Angeles Times that three people rushed into his business and told him to lock the door.
The people said to Choi that there was a shooter with a gun who had multiple rounds of ammunition on him.
Wong Wei, who lives nearby, told The Los Angeles Times that his friend was in a bathroom at the dance club that night when the shooting started. When she came out, he said, she saw a gunman and three bodies.
The friend then fled to Wei’s home at around 11 p.m., he said, adding that his friends told him that the shooter appeared to fire indiscriminately with a long gun.
The celebration in Monterey Park is one of the largest Lunar New Year events in Southern California. Two days of festivities were planned but officials canceled Sunday’s events following the shooting. | 2023-01-22T15:12:17+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/10-killed-in-los-angeles-mass-shooting-near-lunar-new-year-fest/ |
(KTLA) – The famous home of Mike, Carol, Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter, Bobby, Alice the housekeeper, and Tiger the dog is headed to market. Yes, the original home from the “Brady Bunch” can be yours, and it will look just like you remember it.
The home, which is located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio City, was originally just used for exterior shots in the original 1970s classic television series. But in 2019, HGTV, the popular real estate and home improvement reality channel, began renovating the property to revamp the interior to be series-accurate.
The project was chronicled in HGTV’s “A Very Brady Renovation,” hosted by Drew and Jonathan Scott, aka the Property Brothers, who worked on the renovations alongside the actors who portrayed the six Brady kids in the original series.
HGTV purchased the home back in 2018 to the tune of $3.5 million, beating out offers from other Hollywood heavy hitters, including singer Lance Bass. The network then invested $1.9 million into the property, including adding a full second story and increasing its size by 2,000 square feet.
“Standout features in the completed home include the iconic floating staircase, the burnt orange-and-avocado green kitchen, the kids’ Jack-n-Jill bathroom and a backyard with a swing set, teeter totter and Tiger’s dog house,” HGTV said in a release.
The home, which is located at 11222 Dilling St., is listed at $5.5 million. A portion of proceeds from the sale will go toward No Kid Hungry’s Turn Up! Fight Hunger initiative, which aims to feed kids across the country living with hunger. HGTV plans to provide up to 250,000 meals using proceeds from the home’s sale.
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The home and much of its contents were officially added to the market on Wednesday. It’s listed by Danny Brown of Compass Real Estate.
HGTV says a similar project is already in the works. The network is renovating another Southern California property as part of a series that is set to air this summer, “Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge,” which will see a home renovated into a real-life ‘dreamhouse’ inspired by Mattel’s Barbie line of toys.
That show will be hosted by model Ashley Graham and will release around the same time as “Barbie,” a live-action film directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, which premieres on July 21. | 2023-05-25T12:31:29+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/iconic-brady-bunch-house-heads-to-market-after-major-renovations/ |
DENVER, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alerian Energy Infrastructure ETF (NYSE Arca: ENFR) declared its third quarter 2022 distribution of $0.27624 on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. The dividend is payable on August 18, 2022 to shareholders of record on August 12, 2022.
ENFR Distributions:
- Ex-Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
- Record Date: Friday, August 12, 2022
- Payable Date: Thursday, August 18, 2022
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The Fund employs a "passive management" - or indexing - investment approach and seeks investment results that correspond (before fees and expenses) generally to the performance of its underlying index. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund is not "actively" managed. Therefore, it would not necessarily sell or buy a security unless that security is removed from or added to the underlying index, respectively.
ALPS Advisors, Inc. and ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc., affiliated entities, are unaffiliated with VettaFi and the Alerian Index Series.
ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc. is the distributor for the Fund.
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About SS&C Technologies
SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology. Additional information about SS&C (Nasdaq: SSNC) is available at www.ssctech.com.
About SS&C ALPS Advisors
SS&C ALPS Advisors, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies, is a leading provider of investment products for advisors and institutions. With over $18.4 billion under management as of June 30, 2022, SS&C ALPS Advisors is an open architecture boutique investment manager offering portfolio building blocks, active insight and an unwavering drive to guide clients to investment outcomes across sustainable income, thematic and alternative growth strategies. For more information, visit www.alpsfunds.com.
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TODAY’S SPORTS ON TV
Saturday, November 19
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)
6 a.m.
ESPNU — Cent. Arkansas vs. Rider, Dublin
1 p.m.
ESPNEWS — Hall of Fame Tip-Off: Saint Louis vs. Maryland, Semifinal, Uncasville, Conn.
4 p.m.
ESPNEWS — Hall of Fame Tip-Off: Miami vs. Providence, Semifinal, Uncasville, Conn.
7 p.m.
FS2 — The Citadel at Butler
COLLEGE CROSS-COUNTRY
10 a.m.
ESPNU — NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Championships: From Stillwater, Okla.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
11 a.m.
ESPN2 — Navy at UCF
12 p.m.
ABC — Illinois at Michigan
ACCN — Duke at Pittsburgh
BTN — Indiana at Michigan St.
CBSSN — UConn at Army
ESPN — Wisconsin at Nebraska
ESPNU — Yale at Harvard
FOX — TCU at Baylor
FS1 — Northwestern at Purdue
SECN — Florida at Vanderbilt
2 p.m.
PAC-12N — Washington St. at Arizona
2:15 p.m.
ESPN2 — Oregon St. at Arizona
2:30 p.m.
NBC — Boston College at Notre Dame
PEACOCK — Boston College at Notre Dame
3:30 p.m.
ABC — Ohio St. at Maryland
ACCN — NC State at Louisville
CBS — Georgia at Kentucky
CBSSN — Akron at Buffalo
ESPN — Miami at Clemson
FS1 — Texas at Kansas
NFLN — S. Alabama at Southern Miss.
4 p.m.
ESPNU — Cincinnati at Temple
FOX — Iowa at Minnesota
SECN — W. Kentucky at Auburn
5:30 p.m.
ESPN2 — Georgia Tech at North Carolina
PAC-12N — Stanford at California
7 p.m.
CBSSN — Boise St. at Wyoming
ESPN — Tennessee at South Carolina
FS1 — Texas Tech at Iowa St.
7:30 p.m.
ABC — Oklahoma St. at Oklahoma
ESPNU — New Mexico St. at Missouri
SECN — Mississippi at Arkansas
8 p.m.
ACCN — Syracuse at Wake Forest
FOX — Southern Cal at UCLA
9 p.m.
ESPN2 — UAB at LSU
FS2 — Colorado St. at Air Force
PAC-12N — Colorado at Washington
9:45 p.m.
FS1 — San Jose St. at Utah St.
10:30 p.m.
CBSSN — Fresno St. at Nevada
ESPN — Utah at Oregon
11 p.m.
ESPNU — Bethune-Cookman vs. Florida A&M, Orlando (Taped)
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)
8 p.m.
BTN — Wisconsin at Penn St.
GOLF
1 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour: The RSM Classic, Third Round, Sea Island Golf Club, Saint Simons Island, Ga.
4 p.m.
GOLF — LPGA Tour: The CME Group Tour Championship, Third Round, Tiburon Golf Club — Gold Course, Naples, Fla.
1:30 a.m. (Sunday)
GOLF — DP World Tour: The DP World Tour Championship, Final Round, Jumeirah Golf Estates — Earth Course, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
NBA BASKETBALL
7:30 p.m.
NBATV — Minnesota at Philadelphia
10 p.m.
NBATV — Utah at Portland
NHL HOCKEY
1 p.m.
NHLN — New Jersey at Ottawa
4 p.m.
NHLN — Calgary at Florida
7 p.m.
BSD — Detroit at Columbus
NHLN — Chicago at Boston
SOCCER (WOMEN’S)
9:55 a.m.
CBSSN — FASL: Manchester City at Everton
TENNIS
5:30 a.m.
TENNIS — ATP Finals Doubles Semifinal
6 a.m.
TENNIS — ATP Finals Doubles Semifinal
8 a.m.
TENNIS — ATP Finals Singles Semifinal
12:30 p.m.
TENNIS — ATP Finals Doubles Semifinal
3 p.m.
TENNIS — ATP Finals Singles Semifinal
RADIO
Noon — NCAA football, Illinois at Michigan, FM-101.1/AM-1210
Noon — NCAA football, Indiana at Michigan State, FM-92.9
1 p.m. — Prep football state semifinals, Traverse City St. Francis v. New Lothrop, FM-89.9
7 p.m. — NHL, Detroit at Columbus, FM-106.3
LOCAL SPORTS
FOOTBALL STATE SEMIFINALS — Traverse City St. Francis v. New Lothrop at Clare, 1 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS — Division 1, noon; Division 2, 4:30 p.m.; Division 3, 2:30 p.m.; Division 4, 10 a.m. | 2022-11-19T06:47:10+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/today-in-sports-11-19-22/article_c733cef0-678f-11ed-9702-1f310243b259.html |
(The Hill) — The White House on Monday marked the rollout of hearing aids sold at retailers like Walgreens, CVS and Walmart following steps from the Biden administration to allow them to be sold over the counter.
On Monday, Walgreens started selling hearing aids in stores and online for $799 a pair, CVS started selling them online at different price points and Walmart started selling them at more than 1,000 Vision Centers in the retailer’s stores and 474 Sam’s Club locations, ranging from $199 to $999 per pair.
Also this week, Best Buy will offer nearly 20 different hearing devices online and will offer hearing aids at nearly 300 stores by the end of the month for as low as $200. Additionally, Hy-Vee will sell them online and in 34 locations with plans to sell them at 100 locations by the end of the year.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August finalized a rule allowing hearing aids to be sold over the counter and said that they could be available as early as mid-October in retail and drug stores. The rule is part of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, which he issued in July, 2021.
Congress passed legislation on over-the-counter hearing aids in 2017, but it was not fully implemented until the FDA rule. The rule allows people with mild to moderate hearing loss to purchase hearing aids over the counter without the need for a medical exam, prescription or a fitting adjustment.
The FDA estimates that the rule could lower average costs by as much as $3,000 per pair of hearing aids, which could impact nearly 30 million Americans with hearing loss, including nearly 10 million adults under age 60. | 2022-10-17T15:37:00+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/white-house-marks-rollout-of-over-the-counter-hearing-aids-at-retailers-nationwide/ |
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fox Corporation (Nasdaq: FOXA, FOX; "FOX" or the "Company") today made the following statement in response to the arbitration ruling issued by the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS) deciding the claims a FOX subsidiary filed against Flutter Entertainment plc ("Flutter") last year.
"FOX is pleased with the fair and favorable outcome of the Flutter arbitration. Flutter cannot pursue an IPO for FanDuel without FOX's consent or approval from the arbitrator. FOX has a 10-year call option that expires in December 2030 to acquire 18.6% of FanDuel for $3.72 billion, with a 5% annual escalator. FOX has no obligation to commit capital towards this opportunity unless and until it exercises the option. This optionality over a meaningful equity stake in the market leading U.S. online sports betting operation confirms the tremendous value FOX has created as a first mover media partner in the U.S. sports betting landscape."
Fox Corporation produces and distributes compelling news, sports, and entertainment content through its primary iconic domestic brands, including FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment and FOX Television Stations, and leading AVOD service Tubi. These brands hold cultural significance with consumers and commercial importance for distributors and advertisers. The breadth and depth of our footprint allows us to deliver content that engages and informs audiences, develop deeper consumer relationships, and create more compelling product offerings. FOX maintains an impressive track record of news, sports, and entertainment industry success that shapes our strategy to capitalize on existing strengths and invest in new initiatives. For more information about Fox Corporation, please visit www.FoxCorporation.com.
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Virginia-based leader in home warranty products complements PCF Insurance's growing real estate and construction sector.
LEHI, Utah, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PCF Insurance Services (PCF), a top 20 U.S. insurance brokerage firm, announced today its acquisition of Professional Warranty Service Corporation (PWSC), a specialty insurance and home warranty company based in Chantilly, Virginia.
Founded in 1995, PWSC is a nationally recognized provider of risk management solutions specializing in the new home construction and property management industries. As a managing general agent (MGA), PWSC provides expertise, products and services to builders, insurance carriers, brokers, agents, property management firms, homeowners, and renters. PWSC offers a complete line of structural and appliance warranty products and solutions for property managers and residential builders.
"We are excited about the addition of PWSC to the PCF family," said Peter C. Foy, Chairman, Founder, and CEO of PCF Insurance. "PWSC has an impressive record of building unique and meaningful warranty-based risk management solutions for home builders, institutional investors, and property managers. Their innovation and commitment to mitigating risk aligns with a holistic solutions approach that is core to PCF's value proposition and will be beneficial to other Agency Partners and clients within the PCF network."
The partnership enhances PCF's portfolio of offerings, deepens its presence in the real estate and construction industry and adds to the company's capacity to deliver specialty risk management solutions. The landmark deal with PWSC is emblematic of PCF's strategy to partner with exceptional business leaders who possess a proven track record of growth and success, are highly entrepreneurial, and have ambitions to pursue an aggressive expansion strategy.
"Joining the PCF family allows PWSC to continue its long tradition of combining insurance and warranty services to bring complete risk management solutions to high-risk industries," said Tyler Gordy, President and CEO of PWSC. "We are confident this partnership will yield new opportunities to bring innovative solutions to our clients and accelerate our growth."
PCF Insurance did not disclose the terms of the deal.
To date in 2022, PCF Insurance has completed or has under letter of intent 66 acquisitions, continuing its industry-leading M&A pace.
About Professional Warranty Service Corporation (PWSC)
For nearly 30 years, PWSC has protected home builders and home buyers with groundbreaking solutions. As the housing market has changed and industry needs have evolved, so has PWSC. What began in 1995 as a small company primarily offering builder warranty administrative services has led to a complete line of programs for new homes and rental properties. PWSC has protected over two million since inception. Learn more at pwsc.com.
About PCF Insurance Services
Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, PCF Insurance Services is a leading full-service consultant and insurance brokerage firm offering a broad array of commercial, life and health, employee benefits, and workers' compensation solutions. A top 20 U.S. broker, PCF Insurance's agency-centric operating model and entrepreneurial environment support its tremendous growth profile, offering partners alignment through equity ownership, significant leadership incentives, and resources to over 2,500 employees throughout the U.S. Learn more at pcfins.com.
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With the coronavirus continuing to spread widely throughout the country, Americans are getting new advice from federal health officials on how to live with the virus.
The revised guidance – released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday – lifts the requirement to quarantine if exposed to the virus, deemphasizes screening people with no symptoms and updates COVID-19 protocols in schools, eliminating a recommendation for test-to-stay after potential exposure.
"This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives," the CDC's Greta Massetti said in a statement. "We know that COVID 19 is here to stay," she added in comments during a briefing with reporters.
The update isn't necessarily a huge overhaul of the existing guidance, but it does represent an increasing focus on individuals making their own decisions about their level of risk and how they want to mitigate that risk, said Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
"That is consistent with where we are in the pandemic right now," he said. "I don't really think there are many state or local jurisdictions that are feeling they're going to need to start making mandates."
It also brings the recommendations for unvaccinated people in line with people who are fully vaccinated – an acknowledgment of the high levels of population immunity in the U.S., due to vaccination, past COVID-19 infections or both. "Based on the latest ... data, it's around 95% of the population," Massetti said, "And so it really makes the most sense to not differentiate," since many people have some protection against severe disease.
The changes could have some of the biggest impact in K-12 schools. The guidance eliminates the strategy known as "test-to-stay" – a schedule of testing for people that were exposed to the coronavirus but not up to date with their vaccinations – that allowed them to continue in-person learning, so long as they continued to test negative and showed no symptoms.
The test-to-stay protocol has been an alternative to quarantine for school, so now "the practice of handling exposures would involve masking rather than a quarantine," Massetti said.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Today was a special day for three-year-old Mason Burnette. He got to see his favorite restaurant, Raising Canes, for some chicken and family fun. When he got there, however, there was a great surprise waiting for him.
Thanks to the nonprofit Make-A-Wish, Mason and his family will be heading to San Diego at the end of this month to see the ocean for the very first time.
Adrianna Pollard, Mason's mom, says, “He loves water, so that’s a big thing. He keeps wanting to put his life jacket on, we’re trying to let him know that’s what the little boards are for."
Life hasn’t been easy for Mason or his family. When he was born in 2019, his parents found out he was born with a single ventricle, a heart condition where only one part of his heart can pump out enough blood for his body.
Thankfully, he had a life-saving transplant at just five and a half months old. Now, he’s going to Legoland, a safari park, and meeting some family for the first time. While he might not fully understand his wish, he’s still excited about the trip.
“He knows that he gets to fly soon, to the ocean! But what that is to him, he’s totally unsure. He doesn’t even know, it’s gonna be so exciting for him, to watch him go through it really and experience it for himself," says Pollard.
Debbie Gross, a volunteer wish granter from Make-A-Wish, says that gifts like these can take a long time, especially since COVID-19. But on days like today, all the hard work pays off.
"It’s wonderful, to play with the kids and see the excitement on their faces, and just the parents. They’re so wonderful and so appreciative and stuff. And knowing they’re gonna share this time with their child, it’s so much excitement," says Gross.
Pollard says he still goes in every month for extensive treatments, testing, rehab, and therapy. But that doesn't stop Mason from being feisty like any other toddler his age.
"He’s got something in him, he’s got a drive like I’ve never seen somebody have, he’s definitely a multi-talented person, I hope he grows up to be lots of things, lots of different things, in his life.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-7-3, FIREBALL: 7
(eight, seven, three; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
8-7-3, FIREBALL: 7
(eight, seven, three; FIREBALL: seven) | 2022-08-20T16:50:57+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Morning-game-17386704.php |
DENVER — Law enforcement and Downtown Denver Partnership leaders say they feel optimistic for long-term safety improvements downtown following initial results from the latest Together We Will initiative, which launched in November 2022.
Data from the Denver Police Department shows large spikes in crime reports in key categories, which officials say indicates increased vigilance from residents and enforcement from officers and outreach coordinators.
Together We Will, a joint effort between the DDP and the city of Denver, brings together 40 organizations, including law enforcement and mental health outreach, to create a multifaceted response to crime and security downtown.
RELATED: Downtown Denver Partnership reports early successes of new public safety initiatives
In a town hall with business owners and community members, agency officials shared data and stories from their first months under the new framework, and said they have seen more traction than with previous attempts because of the partnership between law enforcement and mental health resources.
Still, members of the panel discussion — which included representatives from DDP, the Regional Transportation District (RTD), Denver PD, and Denver City Attorney Kerry Tipper — said assisting those suffering from mental health and substance misuse disorders has been challenging.
Since the launch in November, police have issued 182 arrests and summons, and outreach coordinators have given 88 referrals to treatment and resources, but only 8 individuals have accepted a direct connection to support.
Mandy Fiegel, an outreach case coordinator supervisor with the Denver Police Department, says that has been a big challenge and illustrates the need for long-term commitment. Fiegel’s team of coordinators is on the ground day to day, working to get those with mental health and addiction struggles into long-term care.
“What’s going on downtown, it’s not a simple fix,” Fiegel said. “I think anyone in this field would agree that it is tough, but it just takes that one time. However, a lot of times, it is building rapport with someone. So with the outreach case coordinators, they’re continuing to go down there.”
RELATED: New Downtown Action Team aims to improve public health, safety in downtown Denver
Jerry and Jamie Orten, residents of lower downtown Denver, attended the town hall, and say they have witnessed the decline of the area during the pandemic, as well as the recent marked improvement. They have especially noticed the improvements at Union Station, which they live near.
“I think we’re on the way up again, as far as the safety issues,” Jamie said. “There’s still a lot of people living on the streets and having problems and being resistant to help — because there’s a lot of help out there, and we just wish people would use it.”
“I think the Union Station, lower downtown area has gotten a lot of attention from the city, from RTD, from various agencies and so forth, and so things have really changed in lower downtown” Jerry added. “I think what we’re interested in is seeing that sort of change occur throughout the city, so that it’s not just pushing the problem somewhere else but actually solving these problems.”
The Ortens say they use the Clean & Safe Downtown Denver app daily to report issues they come across, and have been impressed by timely responses from city, police and RTD responders. The Downtown Denver Partnership encourages all who frequent downtown to download the app, which is available for free in the App Store and Google Play. | 2023-02-09T03:59:19+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/officials-say-spike-in-crime-reports-in-downtown-denver-indicates-increased-vigilance-enforcement |
Apple's foray into live sports took a big step forward Tuesday.
Apple and Major League Soccer have announced a 10-year partnership on a streaming service that will allow fans to watch every game without local blackouts or restrictions. The service will be available exclusively through the Apple TV app beginning next year.
The deal is Apple’s second venture into streaming professional sports. In April, it began airing “Friday Night Baseball,” an exclusive weekly doubleheader of Major League Baseball games.
“The opportunity to partner with a sports league, and truly build the product together with them is very, very unique,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services. “We can bring the things that we do really well with the things that they do really well and really make the product, which I think will be significantly better for the fans. We want to create a great experience for fans to be able to watch and experience MLS like they’ve never had before."
MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Apple is not paying a rights fee but rather a minimum guarantee against revenues that will be generated with both selling subscriptions.
“It’s part of what we both wanted. We’re in business together,” Garber said.
People with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press that the minimum guarantee is worth $250 million per year. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t at liberty to publicly discuss financial matters.
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Sports Business Journal was the first to report about the minimum guarantee.
The details of the streaming service will be announced in the coming months. The package will be included for fans who have full-season ticket packages for their club.
Some MLS and Leagues Cup matches will be available at no additional cost to Apple TV+ subscribers, with a limited number of matches also available for free.
“We really couldn’t have found a better partner to embark on this new journey together to capitalize on the momentum that exists in MLS today,” Garber said. “We can use this deal as rocket fuel as we build towards the World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico in 2026 and thinking about what the sport of soccer, what Major League Soccer could look like, in the years beyond."
Currently, most MLS out-of-market games are streamed on ESPN+, but there are blackout restrictions due to some local rights agreements. The league’s deals with Fox Sports and ESPN expire at the end of the year. ESPN has carried games since the league began in 1996 and Fox since 2014. Garber is hoping the league can reach a deal with a broadcast partner.
Even with the Apple deal, MLS does have the opportunity to simulcast some games nationally.
Streaming is already built into soccer fans' DNA. The league said it has found in various studies that 83% of MLS fans watch sports on streaming devices or recorded TV in a typical week, much higher than the general average of 52% for all TV viewers.
What also makes the deal intriguing for Apple is that MLS has the youngest and most diverse audience compared to the other four major professional North American sports leagues.
Besides all regular-season and postseason matches, the package includes all Leagues Cup matches — the competition between MLS and Mexico’s Liga MX — as well as select MLS NEXT Pro and MLS NEXT matches.
Apple will also partner with MLS on presentation of the matches as the league takes over production. This is another step forward for the league, but is similar to the way European soccer leagues do business. All matches will be called in English and Spanish while those involving Canadian clubs will also be available in French.
All matches will also be available in Full HD (1080p) for the first time. Previously, matches were broadcast in 1080i or 720p.
Garber said the league will have a more streamlined schedule beginning next season, with most matches being played on Saturdays at 7 p.m. local time and some on Wednesdays. The only time that might change is for a national broadcast or stadium conflict. The league will expand to 29 teams in 2023 with the debut of St. Louis CITY SC.
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As Paris Hilton made the surprising announcement Tuesday that she had secretly welcomed a baby boy with her husband Carter Reum, via a surrogate, it turns out that Reum has long kept silent about having another child, a daughter he’s “only seen once” and who reportedly feels “rejected” by him and his socialite wife.
The Daily Mail shared the news about Reum’s “secret love child” in the wake of Hilton’s happy announcement. The Hilton heiress, 41, revealed the arrival of her first child in an Instagram post, which showed a photo of the new mom’s hand, with perfectly manicured fingernails, holding a baby’s tiny hand.
You are already loved beyond words 💙 pic.twitter.com/JlpR6zULdx
— ParisHilton (@ParisHilton) January 25, 2023
“It’s always been my dream to be a mother and I’m so happy that Carter and I found each other,” Hilton told People. “We are so excited to start our family together and our hearts are exploding with love for our baby boy.”
It doesn’t look like Hilton’s family will include Reum’s daughter, a girl around 10 years old, whom he fathered with reality star Laura Bellizzi in 2012.
Bellizzi, who now lives in California with the girl, was known for appearing on the short-lived VH-1 show “Secrets of Aspen,” Page Six reported in 2011. Perhaps Reum, 40, never felt attached to the child because, at the time Bellizzi was pregnant, there were reports that Mel Gibson could be the father because of rumors that she and the controversial actor had briefly dated, Page Six said.
“Mel Gibson is not the father of my child,” a visibly pregnant Bellizzi told TMZ in 2011. Her representatives also refused to comment on speculation that she and Gibson had dated in the summer of 2011.
It turns out that venture capitalist Reum was the father of Bellizzi’s baby, the Daily Mail said, citing a source who said he’s “only seen her once.” Reum’s representatives acknowledged the child’s existence in a statement to The Daily Mail and said their relationship wasn’t “traditional.”
“The people who this story matters to have known about it for 10 years,” the representative said. “Carter supports this child. While he does not have a traditional father-daughter relationship with her, he has provided for her since she was born, and will continue to do so.”
Sadly, a source “close to the situation” told the Daily Mail that Reum’s daughter was “triggered” by seeing his lavish three-day wedding to Hilton in 2021, with the girl feeling “left out” of her father’s life.
Paris Hilton & Carter Reum had their fairytale wedding and several notable stars were in attendance. ❤️ See photos of the guest arrivals: https://t.co/ED6SfwWVms (📷: Jose Villa/Shutterstock) pic.twitter.com/y7DEN1vLAe
— E! News (@enews) November 13, 2021
The source told the Daily Mail that the girl also saw articles about Reum and Hilton wanting to start a family and Hilton talking openly about her use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive. “She felt tremendous rejection and felt left out,” the the source said.
The girl just wants to “know her daddy” and is at an age where self-identity is important, the source said.
“She just wants to really complete the missing pieces of her puzzle,” the source said, insisting that Reum should get past whatever difficulties he’s had with Bellizzi.
“It’s not about (Reum) or the mother,” the source said. “It’s about making the child whole. She is absolutely an amazing little girl. She has so much love to give. And she wants to give it to him, his family and whoever he chooses to love.”
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At last year's Cannes Film Festival, the Belgian movie Close so reduced audiences to tears that many of us were convinced we had the next winner of the Palme d'Or — the festival's top prize — on our hands. And it did come close, so to speak: It wound up winning the Grand Prix, or second place. That's a testament to the movie's real emotional power, and while it left me misty-eyed rather than full-on sobbing, it will resonate with anyone who remembers the special intensity of their childhood friendships, the ones that felt like they would last forever.
The friendship in Close is between two inseparable 13-year-old boys, Léo and Rémi, who've grown up in neighboring families in the Belgian countryside. Léo's parents run a flower farm, and the two boys spend a lot of their time playing outdoors, running and riding their bikes joyously past bright blooming fields, which the director Lukas Dhont films as if they were the Garden of Eden.
The boys have an intensely physical bond, whether taking naps together in the grass or sharing a bed during their many sleepovers. Again and again, Dhont presents us with casual images of boyhood tenderness. He leaves open the question of whether Léo and Rémi are going through an especially close phase of their friendship, or if they might be experiencing some early stirrings of sexual desire. Either way, Dhont seems to be saying, they deserve the time and space to figure it out.
Happily, they don't get any judgment from their families, who have always been supportive of their friendship — especially Rémi's mother, played by the luminous Émilie Dequenne. But when they return to school after a long, glorious summer together, Léo and Rémi are teased and even bullied about their friendship.
After seeing Léo rest his head on Rémi's shoulder, a girl asks them if they're "together," like a couple. A boy attacks Léo with a homophobic slur. While Rémi doesn't seem too affected by any of this, Léo suddenly turns self-conscious and embarrassed. And gradually he begins to pull away from Rémi, avoiding his hugs, ignoring him and hanging out with other kids. Léo also joins an ice hockey team — partly to make new friends, but also partly, you suspect, to conform to an acceptable masculine ideal.
Léo is played by Eden Dambrine, and Rémi by Gustav De Waele. They give two of the best, least affected child performances I've seen in some time, especially from Dambrine as Léo, who's the movie's main character. He registers every beat of Léo's emotional progression — the initial shame, followed by guilt and regret — almost entirely through facial expressions and body language, rather than dialogue. Close gets how hard it can be for children, especially boys, to understand their emotions, let alone talk about them. As Léo and Rémi are pulled apart, they don't have the words to express their loss and confusion.
Dhont has a real feel for the dynamics of loving families and a deep understanding of how cruel children can be — themes that were also evident in Girl, his controversial debut feature about a transgender teenager. He's clearly interested in and sympathetic to the complicated inner lives of his young characters.
But something about Close kept me at a distance. That's mainly due to a fateful narrative development about halfway through the movie that I won't give away. It's a plausible enough twist that Dhont tries to handle as delicately as possible, but it also feels like an easy way out. The admirable restraint of Dhont's filmmaking begins to feel fussy and coy, as if he were torn between trying to tell an emotionally honest story and going straight for the jugular. After a while, even the gorgeous pastoral scenery — the umpteenth reminder of the boys' lost innocence — begins to ring hollow. There's no denying that Close is a beautiful movie. But its beauty can feel like an evasion, an escape from the uglier, messier aspects of love and loss.
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ROCKLIN, Calif. (AP) — His family says it's no surprise that Casey Rivara’s final act was one of compassion. When he spotted a mama duck trying to guide her ducklings across a busy California intersection, Rivara stopped his car at a red light and got out to help them make it to safety.
Rivara made sure traffic in all directions was stopped, witnesses said, then escorted the duck and her babies to the other side of the street around 8:15 p.m. last Thursday in suburban Rocklin, northeast of Sacramento.
“All the ducks made it safely across,” said 11-year-old Jude Peterson, who was watching with a carpool group after track practice. “He did something amazing.”
His good deed done, Rivara was walking back to his car when another vehicle came through the intersection and struck him. He flew through the air and landed in the street. The 41-year-old father of two died at the scene.
“Casey was the kindest, most amazing husband and father. Even his last act in this world was a sign of his compassion,” his aunt, Tracey Rivara, wrote on a verified GoFundMe page raising money for his widow and their 11-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son. Nearly $90,000 was raised by Tuesday afternoon.
“The family is trying to figure out how to recover and keep going after this immense loss,” his aunt wrote.
The driver of the car that hit him, a 17-year-old girl, remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators, said Rocklin police Capt. Scott Horrillo. Detectives are still interviewing witnesses and reviewing video, he said, but it doesn't appear the teen driver will face charges.
“Right now, we don’t have any reason to believe there was any criminal negligence,” Horrillo said Monday. He called it a tragic accident.
Flowers adorned a growing memorial to Rivara at the accident site on Tuesday in Rocklin, a city of about 73,000 people. Somebody also left several toy rubber ducks.
Casey was married to Angel Chow, his high school sweetheart. The inseparable pair met at age 17 when she arrived at his high school as an exchange student from Hong Kong, according to the GoFundMe page.
“His family was Casey’s world, and to remain even closer to them he had recently started working at their children’s school," Tracey Rivara wrote. “He loved working at the school as he was able to positively impact other children.”
His wife said the family has been touched by the outpouring of love and support from family, friends, co-workers and community members.
“It’s truly humbling to hear how Casey has positively impacted your lives, and we’re extremely grateful for that,” Chow wrote Monday on Facebook.
She said she planned to compile the tributes in a book “that our children can turn to whenever they miss him.”
Jude Peterson, the young witness, said he was “in shock and so scared” after witnessing the tragedy. His mother, Summer Peterson, said Jude was in tears when he got home that night.
By Monday, his mother said, Jude had processed his shock and was filled with admiration for Rivara.
“He did the right thing," Jude said. "He wanted to help because there were ducks in the road, and he didn’t want anyone to hit the ducks.”
Weber reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.
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STEUBENVILLE and YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Eastern Gateway Community College, in collaboration with Green Flower, announced the addition of three cannabis certificates designed to provide industry-recognized skills training for those interested in a cannabis career.
Cannabis is the fastest growing industry in America, according to Business Wire and others. Green Flower, the leader in cannabis education, will offer Eastern Gateway learners the opportunity to earn Certificates of Achievement covering advanced dispensary associate skills training, cannabis manufacturing, and cultivation.
"We are excited to offer this new opportunity in an emerging industry that many Ohioans are eager to get involved in," said Eastern Gateway President Michael Geoghegan. "Partnering with Green Flower, a trusted leader in cannabis education, will offer a gateway for our learners to accelerate their career."
"Green Flower is thrilled to partner with EGCC to offer these three cannabis industry training courses to their students. Serving the Ohio River Valley and beyond for more than 50 years, EGCC's commitment to accessible, high quality education through student-focused programs is a perfect fit for our cannabis education goals," said Daniel Kalef, Green Flower's Vice President of Higher Education.
Each certificate program takes 8-weeks to complete and is offered fully online. Students can register and begin courses at any time. Upon certificate completion, graduates will have access to Green Flower's employer network. Courses cost $900 and are now open for enrollment.
These courses will be non-credit and offered through Eastern Gateway's Career Accelerator department. These courses are not Title IV eligible, nor will they be covered as part of Eastern Gateway's Gateway Guarantee or free college benefit programs. Learners will earn a Certificate of Achievement to demonstrate their successful completion of the courses and will have access to job placement services through Green Flower.
For more information on Eastern Gateway's certificate programs, please visit cannabis education.egcc.edu.
Since welcoming its first 320 students in the fall of 1968, as Jefferson County Technical Institute, Eastern Gateway Community College remains steadfast in its principle that a community college must always respond to the educational, economic and social needs of those it serves. For more than 50 years, the institution has evolved from a technical college focused on workforce training to a community college serving two campuses in four counties in the Ohio River Valley, adding a growing national online program of students in all 50 states.
Eastern Gateway Community College is proud to educate Ohio's 21st Century workforce and its commitment ensuring a quality higher education is within reach of anyone willing to invest the time and effort in their future. Its track record of student-centered innovation will continue to break down barriers for working families to earn the degrees they need to be competitive in a fast-changing economy.
Founded in 2014, Green Flower is the industry leader in cannabis education, empowering thousands of consumers, regulators, and professionals with the knowledge they need to succeed in the emerging cannabis industry today. Green Flower's content and technology platform powers the cannabis programs of top universities and colleges across the country, provides customized learning and compliance solutions for cannabis businesses of all sizes, and equips individuals with the skills and credentials necessary to make an impact in the modern cannabis industry.
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The decibel level is climbing as some 20 preschoolers sprawl out on an alphabet-pattern carpet for story hour.
One toddler, who's new to the group, is having a bit of a meltdown, so Otter Bowman, a library associate at the Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, Mo., goes for the surest trick she has and starts talking about "Junior," the library's bookmobile. As usual, it gets the kids' attention and the gaggle settles down so Bowman can begin story hour.
"Hello! I'm Ducky Duckling," she reads. "When I feel happy, I say, 'Quack! Quack!' " The kids cackle and quack back.
But the happy face Bowman puts on for the kids belies a deep anxiety.
As president of the Missouri Library Association, she's currently in a bit of a panic over strict new rules that go into effect May 30 and could deny state funding to libraries over books deemed inappropriate for young readers. Missouri is one of a growing number of places where government funding is being deployed as the newest weapon in the fight over books.
Missouri latest to take aim at library funding
While state lawmakers were considering several bills that would have axed library funding, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped in and decided to enact what's called an "administrative rule" — one that doesn't need legislative approval.
"I said I have to figure out how to do this, because by rule I can get it done much more quickly than if I wait on the legislature," says Ashcroft, a Republican who recently announced he's running for governor.
Under the new rule, public libraries will lose state funding, which ranges from 1% to 20% of their budget, if they violate the rules. Among the new requirements:
Libraries must have strict new policies barring them from giving minors books that their parents don't want them to read. Libraries also must keep any "age-inappropriate" books away from areas meant for young readers, and they must clearly publicize how they select books and how parents can challenge those choices. Also, all events at the library — including story hours — must be labeled with "age-appropriate designations" in all their promotions.
The move comes as books are being banned from libraries at rates not seen in decades; most of them have to do with LGBTQ themes or race and racism. But Ashcroft insists that tying library funding to book selection is not banning books.
"I think this is reasonable strings on dollars," he says. "We see that all the time with government funding. It happens with highways, it happens with schools. That is the way of the world."
It's unclear how exactly the Missouri rules would be enforced, or what happens, for example, if parents challenge a book they see as "age-inappropriate" but the library disagrees and keeps it.
Libraries scramble to comply, with their future on the line
"I really don't know how it would work," Ashcroft says. "I could potentially see maybe a parent sues my office and says, 'Hey, you're not allowed to fund them. They're not doing what they said they're doing.' But that would then be decided in a court of law."
"The uncertainty, and the new reality libraries are suddenly facing has left many librarians, like Bowman, scared about their future."
"I think we're all just in shock," she says. "It's not clear-cut at all how in the world this is going to work, and there's so much that could go wrong."
Bowman has been scrambling with attorneys to figure out what exactly libraries need to do to comply, for example, with the new requirements for parental approval. The state is giving them a grace period of a few months to figure it out.
Attorneys for the libraries advise it's not possible to manage which individual parents are OK with which specific books, or to monitor what every kid is looking at or checking out. (Many libraries now have self-checkouts.) Instead, the attorneys say, libraries should reissue new library cards to all members with the disclaimer that if parents are not OK with their child having full access, they shouldn't allow their child to get a card.
Still, Bowman says, one misstep or one parent upset that their teen wandered into the adult section of the library could prove catastrophic.
"It's terrifying," she says with a sigh. "I could go home thinking, 'Oh my goodness, I just cost my library $160,000,' because that's the amount of state aid we would lose if we violated the rule."
Library critics say funding cuts give citizens the last word
Indeed, what started as skirmishes over individual book titles and escalated into threats of jail or fines now poses an existential threat to some libraries.
"Any proposal to defund the library is the nuclear option," says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. "It's an attack on education, it's an attack on the public good. And the idea is very much alive and gaining steam."
In Texas, a bill would defund public libraries that allow drag show story times for children.
And while Llano County, Texas, just dodged a bullet that would have defunded libraries there — following a flap over books deemed offensive — others were not so lucky.
In Jamestown Township, Mich., the Patmos Library is facing closure after voters shot down local funding. And in Arkansas, The Craighead County Library System saw its local funding cut in half after complaints about books and an LGBTQ exhibit.
"The citizens thought some material was too sexually explicit to be in the children's section — or even in the young adult section-- and the library board disagreed and kept the material where it was," says Arkansas state Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican who represents that area and supported the local cuts.
"That's why we vote," he says. "The citizens have the final say. That's the American way."
Sullivan dismisses some library complaints that funding is being used as a club to bully them into compliance.
"All elections send a message. You know, it's the will of the people," he says. "And if they're upset with how the government is spending their money, that's the recourse of the electorate."
"Where does it end?"
Meantime, the Craighead County libraries are fighting to survive. Jonesboro Library Director Vanessa Adams says she's considering closing branches and slashing book buys and staff as well as programming for kids and the elderly. Library hours also will likely have to be cut, she says, which would limit internet access for many people who don't have it at home.
"It's very frightening and very upsetting," she says. "You have to take drastic measures, and it's nothing I learned in library school."
Adams also worries the funding threats might be just the beginning.
So does Carol Dawe, cooperative director of the Lakeland Library Cooperative in Michigan, who's been working with the recently defunded Patmos library. She says she's already seeing the slippery slope.
"One of the board members said, 'Well, what about this book? It's about underage drinking, and underage drinking is illegal, so why would we have this book in the library?' " Dawe recalls. "And my question would be, 'Where does that end? And what are you doing next? Where does this end?' "
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana, has a thought on that.
Higgins recently tweeted about the future of public libraries, saying libraries have become "grooming centers" and that he wants to change the "whole public library paradigm" and help get funding for "beautiful, church-owned public-access libraries." His office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Over time, American communities will build beautiful, church owned public-access libraries. I’m going to help these churches get funding. We will change the whole public library paradigm.
— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) March 23, 2023
The libraries regular Americans recall are gone. They’ve become liberal grooming centers.
"I will tell you, I'm not supposed to swear on NPR, but that's some of the scariest s*** I ever heard," says Alexi Giannoulias, Democratic secretary of state in Illinois.
Library supporters launch a counteroffensive
After watching the threat of funding cuts being aimed at libraries who refuse to pull books from their shelves, Giannoulias decided to turn that same tactic around — and threaten libraries who do ban books.
Now, legislation headed to governor's desk would make state library grants available only to those who explicitly oppose book bans.
"This is our way of fighting back," he says. "In Chicago, they say, 'If they bring a knife, you bring a gun.' "
Connecticut lawmakers are considering something similar: A bill would award extra money to so-called sanctuary libraries that do not ban books.
Whether by carrot or stick, Illinois state Rep. Anne Stava-Murray, a Democrat who sponsored the bill there, says "taxpayer dollars should not be supporting [those who are] caving to the mob" and banning books.
But others are less sanguine. Caldwell-Stone from the American Library Association says she "deeply appreciates" the sentiment and support but believes it's unwise for anyone to use funding as a lever to control which books do or don't end up on library shelves.
The better strategy, she says, is an electoral one. "We should just be out there defending the freedom to read," Caldwell-Stone says. "We just need to stand up and speak out at board meetings to make sure we know who we're electing to the board seats, and where elected officials stand on supporting civil liberties, the First Amendment, the right to read — and holding them to it."
Adams, the director of the Arkansas library whose funding was sliced in half, learned that lesson the hard way. When funding was on the ballot there, only 20% of voters showed up at the polls and the funding cut passed by just 48 votes.
"If that doesn't tell you how important it is to get out and vote, I don't know what does, because 48 votes cost us $2 million," Adams says.
Now, Adams is spending some of the limited money the library has left on a consultant to help with its public messaging. As she puts it, we need to remind people about the value of their local public library.
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On a recording, the L.A. City Council president made racist comments. There have been calls for her resignation and the episode has exposed the racial tensions that have affected politics in the city.
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WABASH VALLEY (WTHI) - Reading is fundamental for academic success and this group is doing its part to support local kids' reading skills.
Power of the Community is a fundraiser event raising money for the Success by 6 program.
The programs are a part of the United Way of the Wabash Valley's efforts to encourage local kids to read.
The event will have food, raffles, and silent and live auctions.
It's this Thursday starting at 5:30 P.M. but you can bid online right now until 7:00 Thursday.
Tickets are $20.
You can buy them at these locations:
The First Farmers Bank and Trust in Clay City
Riddell National Bank in Brazil
Hometown Savings Bank in Brazil
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Qeros creates a next generation decentralized architecture that enables highly secure data and transaction processing at speeds in excess of 1.5M TPS
Published: Feb. 21, 2023 at 11:30 PM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Built on AI and novel DLT, Qeros is designed to empower AI, big data, IoT, cybersecurity, HealthTech and FinTech — at scale.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Qeros, an AI-driven enterprise layer 1 distributed ledger technology (DLT) company, has developed a patented architecture that focuses on solving the decentralization, speed and security trilemma, potentially propelling many industries into a new era.
Qeros creates a next generation decentralized architecture that enables data processing at speeds in excess of 1.5M TPS.
"As more and more transactions occur every second and AI increasingly fully ingests an expanding sea of data, faster and more secure architectures are needed to handle this unprecedented growth," commented David Granzotti, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Qeros.
During phase 1 of development, Qeros surpassed 1.5 million transactions per second (TPS), which does not represent an upper limit. Given that the Qeros architecture scales horizontally, its throughput can be increased dynamically within minutes by adding nodes to the network. Qeros tested just under 500 nodes at a cost of $26 per node/month or approximately $13,000/month*, which is a fraction of the cost of the heavier nodes required by other DLT architectures.
"These numbers represent a significant new standard in speed and cost efficiency in the DLT market," commented Randall Williams, Chief Marketing Officer of Qeros.
Up until now, DLT has seen few production use cases due to previous technical limitations. Qeros has the potential to drastically expand the use cases of DLT by allowing Qeros to drive the future of AI, big data, IoT, cybersecurity, HealthTech, FinTech and others.
Qeros' next-generation architecture positions it to be the backbone of a new era in data and transaction processing.
*Qeros and On-chain storage costs not included in figure.
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Qeros is operated by a group of serial entrepreneurs, executives and advisors with extensive experience in AI, DLT, cloud, software development, finance, healthcare and marketing. For more info, visit: www.qeros.io.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Monday the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position. But they say it is too badly damaged to reach an absolute determination, and that there is “no reason to believe” she was deliberately targeted.
State Department spokesman Ned Price, announcing the results of the probe, said “independent, third-party examiners” had undertaken an “extremely detailed forensic analysis” of the bullet that killed her after the Palestinian Authority handed it over to them.
Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American correspondent who was well known and respected throughout the Arab world, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli military raid on May 11 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian eyewitnesses, including her crew, say Israeli troops killed her and that there were no militants in the immediate vicinity.
Israel says she was killed during a complex battle with Palestinian militants and that only a forensic analysis of the bullet would confirm whether it was fired by an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian militant. It has strongly denied she was deliberately targeted, but says an Israeli soldier may have hit her by mistake during an exchange of fire with a militant.
An Associated Press reconstruction of her killing lent support to accounts by Palestinian eyewitnesses, including her crew, that she was killed by Israeli forces. Subsequent investigations by CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post reached similar conclusions, as did monitoring by the office of the U.N. human rights chief.
U.S. security officials examined the results of separate Palestinian and Israeli investigations and “concluded that gunfire from IDF positions was likely responsible for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh,” Price said in a statement, referring to the Israeli military by its acronym.
The U.S. “found no reason to believe that this was intentional but rather the result of tragic circumstances during an IDF-led military operation against factions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Price said.
The Israeli military presented the findings as part of its own investigation in a statement that was likely to anger the Palestinian Authority. The PA has adamantly rejected any Israeli role in the probe and refused to share the bullet with Israeli authorities.
The PA handed the bullet over to U.S. officials while insisting it was still opposed to any cooperation with Israel.
The Israeli military said that while the bullet remained in the custody of U.S. officials throughout the process, it was examined by Israeli experts in a forensic laboratory in Israel.
Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, the army chief of staff, ordered the investigation be continued “using all available means,” the military said in a statement. It said any decision on whether to launch criminal investigation would only be made after the operational investigation is completed.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz issued a similar statement, saying “unfortunately, it is not possible to determine the source of the shooting — and as such, the investigation will continue.” His statement did not include any details about who analyzed the bullet.
U.S. officials said a third-party expert, neither Israeli nor Palestinian, examined the fragment as part of the U.S. review, and that it remained in U.S. possession throughout the review.
The Palestinian Authority and Al Jazeera accused Israeli forces of deliberately targeting Abu Akleh within hours of her death.
Nabil Abu Rdeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the PA holds Israel “fully responsible” for Abu Akleh’s killing and will not accept “any manipulation of the results of the Palestinian investigation.”
The PA administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and cooperates with Israel on security matters.
Rights groups say Israeli investigations of the shooting deaths of Palestinians often languish for months or years before being quietly closed and that soldiers are rarely held accountable. The Israeli rights group B’Tselem dismissed the U.S. announcement as a “whitewash.”
“All investigations published so far conclude that Israel is responsible,” it said. “It is not clear on what grounds does the U.S, State Department seek to dismiss her killing as ‘the result of tragic circumstances’ and not as a crime for which those responsible should be held to account.”
Abu Akleh’s family issued a statement saying the U.S. announcement was “insulting to Shireen’s memory.”
“All available evidence suggests that a U.S. citizen was the subject of an extrajudicial killing by a foreign government that receives billions of dollars in American military aid each year to perpetuate a prolonged and entrenched military occupation of millions of Palestinians,” they said.
Abu Akleh, who was 51, was a widely known and respected on-air correspondent who rose to fame two decades ago during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israeli rule. She documented the harsh realities of life under Israeli military rule — now well into its sixth decade with no end in sight — for viewers across the Arab world.
Israeli police drew widespread criticism from around the world when they beat mourners and pallbearers at her funeral in Jerusalem on May 14. An Israeli newspaper last month reported that a police investigation found wrongdoing by some of its officers, but said those who supervised the event will not be seriously punished.
Jenin has long been a bastion of Palestinian militants, and several recent attacks inside Israel have been carried out by young men from in and around the town. Israel frequently carries out military raids in Jenin, which it says are aimed at arresting militants and preventing more attacks.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and has built settlements where nearly 500,000 Israelis live alongside nearly 3 million Palestinians. The Palestinians want the territory to form the main part of a future state.
Peace talks broke down more than a decade ago, and with Israel now in a new election campaign, they are unlikely to resume anytime soon. The caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, supports a two-state solution with the Palestinians, but right-wing parties that oppose Palestinian statehood appear positioned to dominate the election.
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Krauss reported from Ottawa, Ontario. Associated Press reporter Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem contributed to this report. | 2022-07-04T16:41:24+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/us-shot-that-killed-journalist-likely-fired-from-israelis/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tyler Reddick this month already grabbed his first Cup career victory, qualified for NASCAR’s playoffs and signed a big contract with a new team.
Now he’s got a victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Reddick closed the best month of his career with an overtime win Sunday on the road course at Indy to give him two victories in the last five Cup races.
“So, I’m not going to lie, I watched a lot of racing at this venue when I was a kid growing up,” Reddick said. “A lot of incredible drivers have won at this racetrack and it’s really cool to be part of the drivers who have won here and I’m really happy about it.”
Reddick broke through for his first career victory on July 3 at Road America in Wisconsin, then announced nine days later he was leaving Richard Childress Racing in 2024 to drive for 23XI, the team owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan.
Win No. 2 seemed to be easily within reach as Reddick was comfortably out front for 15 late laps when debris from Christopher Bell’s car brought out the fourth caution of the race with only six to go.
It set up a restart with three laps remaining and Reddick lined up alongside road course ace Chase Elliott, who briefly got past Reddick for the lead until he was spun for another caution that sent the race into overtime.
Reddick on the next restart had to hold off defending race winner AJ Allmendinger, who also won Saturday in the Xfinity Series. But Allmendinger was physically exhausted and struggling because his cooling device had not worked the entire race, and he hardly challenged Reddick at all.
Allmendinger collapsed when he climbed from his car. His wife and team personnel were seen draping his head in wet towels and dumping water over him before Allmendinger was taken to the care center.
So it was Ross Chastain who made Reddick claw his way to the Yard of Bricks.
Chastain missed the first turn completely and used the access road to return to the racing course ahead of Reddick and the apparent new leader. Reddick chased him for an entire lap around the 2.439-mile course and finally reclaimed the lead in time to lead the entire final lap.
“I couldn’t believe he got ahead of me,” Reddick said. “I was kind of waiting to see if he was going to have a penalty because I didn’t want to move him out of the way and make his race worse than what it was. But hey, we made it work. Hats off to Ross for trying to do that, but really glad it didn’t end up working out because I’d have been pretty (angry).”
NASCAR after the race penalized Chastain for using the access road, which dropped him to 27th.
“I thought we were four-wide and couldn’t go any farther right,” said Chastain, “and decided to take the NASCAR access lane out there.”
Reddick’s win made him the first RCR driver since Kevin Harvick in 2013 to win multiple races in a season, and multiple victories for RCR in a season for the first time since 2017.
It was RCR’s fourth win at Indianapolis as Reddick joined Dale Earnhardt, Kevin Harvick and Paul Menard as Indy winners for Richard Childress. The previous three wins were on the Brickyard’s oval.
But Childress still seemed chapped by Reddick’s early decision to leave in 18 months, specifically citing his cordial split with Harvick at the end of the 2013 season.
“Well, Kevin and I talked through his whole deal and we made a joint announcement. He won four races that year, and we almost won the championship,” Childress said. “This one didn’t happen like that.”
But the owner said he’d still celebrate with Reddick and his sponsors, and he later was alongside Reddick for the customary celebration of kissing the yard of bricks.
“I’ll congratulate him. I’ll congratulate the whole team,” Childress said. “The whole team did a great job. I’ll congratulate our sponsors.”
Austin Cindric, who drives for track owner Roger Penske, finished second in a Ford and was followed by fellow rookie Harrison Burton, who was a career-best third for Wood Brothers Racing. The No. 21 Ford that Burton drives is an offshoot of Team Penske.
Todd Gilliland was next in fourth for his career-best finish, and the rookie led his first career Cup laps when he was out front for four laps in the final stage.
Bubba Wallace in a Toyota for 23XI was fifth and followed by Joey Logano of Penske and finally Allmendinger, who dropped to seventh on the overtime restart. Michael McDowell was eighth and followed by Cole Custer of Stewart-Haas Racing and Chris Buescher of RFK Racing as Ford drivers took seven of the top-10 spots in a race won by a Chevy.
Chevrolet has now won 10 straight Cup races on road courses win since the manufacturer’s 2021 milestone 800th win at Circuit of The Americas.
BAD BIRTHDAY
Kyle Larson had a lousy 30th birthday with a long Sunday at Indianapolis that ended with a frightening crash in which the brakes on his Chevrolet appeared to fail.
The reigning NASCAR champion was already five laps down because of an early flat tire. His day ended early when Larson seemed to have no ability to slow his car as he sailed into a turn and directly into the side of Ty Dillon’s car at full speed.
The hit destroyed Dillon’s car. Once Larson was out of his own car, he jogged over to Dillon to check on him.
“All I saw was a blue flash,” Dillon said. “That’s the hardest I’ve ever been hit.”
Larson declined comment as he exited the infield care center.
UP NEXT
NASCAR races Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, the opener for the final four-week stretch to finalize the playoff field. Ryan Blaney is the defending race winner.
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-01T01:39:48+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/reddick-wins-at-indy-to-close-best-month-of-nascar-career/ |
Store knives safely
As is the case with many things, the answer to how to store knives correctly depends on various factors, such as whether or not you have kids, if you cook regularly and if you’re on a budget or don’t mind spending a couple hundred dollars.
Take a look at some of these factors and other important considerations that can help you make an informed decision on how to best store your knives.
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Knife block
Easy to use and decorative
A basic knife block consists of a standing block made of wood, plastic or steel with 12 or 24 slots of different sizes to put on the kitchen counter and place your knives in when not in use. This is the go-to solution and perhaps the most used, though this doesn’t mean it’s the best option. Knife blocks look attractive and can work as a decorative piece, but they can be expensive, dangerous and require more cleaning than other options.
If you have kids, knife blocks may not be the best choice. The level of knife accessibility with knife blocks can be a hazard for small and curious children. Regarding the cleaning and maintenance of a knife block, you have to be thorough and careful to avoid rusting or damaging your knives.
If you want a decorative element in your kitchen and you don’t use more than 10-15 knives, the Shenzhen Knives Universal Bamboo Knife Block is an eco-friendly, affordable and convenient choice.
In-drawer wooden knife block
Safe and protective
When talking about knife storage, two of the most important criteria to consider are safety and knife protection. An in-drawer wooden knife block addresses both. This option consists of a wooden drawer insert with an average of 12 slots that fits right into your regular kitchen drawer; the amount of slots depends on the size of the knives’ handles, which you lay down and insert on the wooden block. In-drawer blocks are safer than other options and allow you to keep your knives protected from scratches and any potential damage.
However, this block style lacks space and efficiency. In-drawer knife blocks don’t provide you as much space to store your knives. On average, in-drawer knife blocks can only hold 10-12 knives. Also, if you need to have your knives close at hand, in-drawer knife blocks aren’t the right choice.
Magnetic knife strip
Convenient and efficient
For some, this may seem like an odd option; however, experts and chefs usually recommend a magnetic knife strip because it’s the most convenient choice. Magnetic knife strips are screwed into or attached to the wall, can be of different surface materials and allow you to access your knives in seconds.
This option doesn’t require much maintenance, but it does require some practice to secure your knives safely to the magnet. To avoid scratches when removing your knives from the magnetic strip, twist them so the sharp edge doesn’t touch the strip. The same applies when putting them back.
Aside from the convenience and efficiency of the magnetic knife strip, it’s also a good option if you have a knife collection you want to showcase, giving your kitchen a professional touch. HMmagnets Stainless Steel Magnetic Knife Holder sports an attractive design, strong magnets and high durability.
In-drawer knife cork dock
Low-cost and simple
If you’re looking for something practical, inexpensive and easily customizable, an in-drawer knife cork dock is the way to go. Similar to an in-drawer wooden knife block, the cork dock is a drawer insert but simpler — it’s made of cork dividers that you place at the bottom of the drawer, which function as docks for the blades of each knife.
You can build a knife cork dock or buy one. Either way, you have a decent space to fit a large collection of knives, it doesn’t cost much and it can even help to absorb the moisture of a freshly washed knife. It’s not the most decorative option, but it’s something worth trying.
Recommended products for storing knives
Shenzhen Knives Universal Bamboo Knife Block
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Kitchendao Stainless Steel Universal Knife Block Holder
This is the right choice when you’re looking for an affordable, easy-to-clean and small knife block to put on your kitchen counter. Its stainless steel, detachable design and make this a practical pick for small knife collections. Holds 8-12 knives.
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HMmagnets Premium 17-Inch Stainless Steel Magnetic Knife Holder
A strong and safe magnetic knife bar that will keep your knives neatly organized. If you’re looking for something practical and low-profile for mealtime, this magnetic holder is a viable option.
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Norpro 18-Inch Aluminum Magnetic Knife Bar
At a lower price than your usual magnetic knife bar, this is a low-cost option that checks all the boxes of a great knife accessory.
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Medical Monday: Summer Heat Safety
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - Summertime is often the prime season for BBQ’s, spending time by the water, and enjoying the summer heat, but it’s important to keep safety in mind when spending time outdoors. One way to do that is by avoiding sunburns, which could lead to skin cancer. Joshua Wood, a PA at Northern Light AR Gould says everyone should wear plenty of sunscreen.
Wood says, “It’s important to wear sunscreen because the sun is naturally damaging to all people of all skin types. And all people are susceptible to skin cancer and sunburns”.
Wood recommends using a sunscreen with an SPF greater than 30 and one that has broad spectrum coverage. He adds, it’s important to apply sunscreen even when it seems cloudy outside.
Wood adds, “Both UV-A and UV-B rays can make it through the clouds”.
He says another important thing to remember in the summer heat is heat related illnesses. These illnesses include heat exhaustion and in more severe cases, heat stroke, typically, brought on by hot and humid weather.
“The warning signs at first are muscle cramping, followed by headaches, dizziness, sort of altered mental status. And then it would eventually progress to heat stroke where their temperature rises so high that they actually have an altered mental state in which case you would want to get them to a hospital or someone that can provide care for them.” according to Wood.
One way to prevent a heat related illness from happening is by staying hydrated, which Wood says can be through water or even fruits high in water content. He recommends avoiding energy drinks and drinks high in sugar content.
Wood says, “The average adult needs one to two liters of water per day. If you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated. Fruits anything that stores water. So, apples are good, bananas. Just kind of some of the general tropical fruits”.
Overall, he says following these steps will reduce your risk of developing a heat related illness or skin cancer and allow you to focus just on having fun in the beautiful weather.
Copyright 2023 WAGM. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-05T18:59:44+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/07/05/medical-monday-summer-heat-safety/ |
Federal officials investigating a helicopter crash in Hawaii are urging U.S. and Canadian regulators to require immediate inspections of Bell helicopters that are commonly used by air tour operators, law enforcement and air ambulances.
The National Transportation Safety Board call on Friday stems from the agency's investigation of a June sightseeing crash in which the tail boom separated from the main body of a Bell 407 helicopter during a flight near Kalea, Hawaii.
The tail boom was found more than 700 feet from the main wreckage. The board said one of four hardware fittings used to attach the tail to the fuselage was not found at the accident site, and that there were fractures in the other three fittings.
The pilot and two passengers suffered serious injuries and three other passengers had minor injuries in the Hawaii crash, which occurred in a field of jagged lava rocks.
The NTSB recommended in a report that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Transport Canada require operators of Bell 407s to conduct immediate checks of similar hardware to look for signs of cracked or missing parts, and to require repeat inspections more often than the current requirement, which is every 300 flight hours.
The Hawaii accident occurred 114 hours after the helicopter's last inspection, which did not find any problems, according to the NTSB.
Safety board Chair Jennifer Homendy called the agency's recommendations urgent because hundreds of the helicopters are in use.
“We’re calling on regulators to act immediately — before there’s another accident,” she said. | 2022-12-02T21:21:02+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/After-Hawaii-crash-NTSB-calls-for-inspection-of-17627301.php |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited command posts of his forces fighting in Ukraine for the second time in two months, officials said Tuesday, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his latest trip near the front line.
The visits — on different days and in different provinces — sought to stiffen the resolve of soldiers as the war approaches its 14th month and as Kyiv readies a possible counteroffensive with Western-supplied weapons.
Some of the most significant of those weapons appeared to have recently arrived in Ukraine. Germany’s official federal government website on Tuesday listed a Patriot surface-to-air guided missile system as among the military items delivered within the past week to Ukraine.
Ukraine has been pressing for Patriots and other air defense systems from its allies for months, and Germany’s appeared to be the first to have arrived. Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat declined to confirm Tuesday that a Patriot is in Ukraine, local media outlet RBC-Ukraine reported, while stating that receiving the missiles would be a landmark event, allowing Ukrainians to knock down Russian targets at a greater distance.
Elsewhere, Kremlin video showed Putin arriving by helicopter at the command post of Russian forces in southern Ukraine’s Kherson province, then flying to the headquarters of the Russian National Guard in Luhansk province, in the country’s east. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the visits took place Monday.
Dressed in a dark suit, Putin attended briefings with his military brass on both of his stops. The locations of the military headquarters weren’t disclosed, making it impossible to assess how close they were to the front line. Nor was it possible independently to verify the video’s authenticity.
On Tuesday, Zelenskyy made his latest trip to visit units in Avdiivka, an eastern city in Donetsk province where fierce battles are taking place. He heard first-hand reports about fighting and handed out awards.
Zelenskyy’s visits to areas feeling the brunt of Russia’s full-scale invasion gathered pace last month as he shuttled across the country, often by train. As with Putin, the Ukrainian president’s wartime trips usually aren’t publicized until afterward.
While official coverage of Putin’s trip showed him in mostly formal and ceremonious settings, Zelenskyy’s office issued photos showing the Ukrainian president taking selfies with soldiers, eating cake with them and drinking out of paper cups.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has become largely deadlocked, with heavy fighting in the east, particularly around the Donestk province city of Bakhmut, which for 8½ months has seen the longest and bloodiest battle so far.
Russia illegally annexed Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia provinces in September, following local referendums that Ukraine and the West denounced as shams. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak was scathing in his criticism of Putin’s trip, accusing him of “degradation” and being the author of “mass murders” in the war.
Large parts of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, as well as some areas of Luhansk province, have remained under Ukrainian control. In November, Russian forces ceded territory in Kherson province, including the region’s namesake capital.
In a related development, the Moscow-appointed governor of the occupied part of Donetsk province, Denis Pushilin, went to the Belarus capital of Minsk and won pledges of support from President Alexander Lukashenko, a Putin ally.
“The Kremlin forces Minsk to get involved in the war more actively in order to pressure Ukraine,” Belarusian political analyst Valery Karbalevich said in a telephone interview. “It is clear that Pushilin’s visit to Minsk has been synchronized with Putin’s trip to the occupied Ukrainian regions and aims to show that the Belarusian threat hasn’t gone away.”
During his visits, Putin congratulated the military divisions on Orthodox Easter, which was celebrated Sunday, and presented them with icons. Speaking to senior officers at the Kherson headquarters, Putin handed them a copy of an Orthodox icon he said belonged to a 19th century Russian general.
The senior officers present at the meetings reflected which ones were currently in favor with Putin. Col. Gen. Mikhail Teplinsky, the chief of Russia’s airborne troops, was among the top generals at the Kherson base.
Teplinsky, a career officer who rose from lieutenant to become chief of the elite military branch, is known for being popular with his troops. Last fall, however, he was temporarily relieved of his position amid a spat with the military brass. He was restored to the job this year, and his meeting with Putin indicated he was back in favor.
A senior officer who greeted Putin in the Luhansk region, Col. Gen. Alexander Lapin, also was relieved of his duties as commanding officer in northeastern Ukraine after he was blamed for a hasty Russian pullback from parts of Kharkiv province in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive in September. Lapin was later named as chief of staff of the ground forces, and his meeting with Putin signaled he had the president’s trust.
Putin’s and Pushilin’s trips came as Ukraine is preparing a new counteroffensive to reclaim occupied territories, possibly using the newly arrived Patriot.
In addition to Germany, the United States and Netherlands have pledged to provide Patriots, and a group of 65 Ukrainian soldiers trained in Oklahoma last month on how to use them.
The Patriot is a surface-to-air guided missile system first deployed in the 1980s that can target aircraft, cruise missiles and shorter-range ballistic missiles. A Patriot missile battery typically includes six mobile launchers, a mobile radar, a power generator and an engagement control center. Zelenskyy has said Ukraine needs at least 20 Patriot batteries.
Ukrainian officials have said they’re depleting Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while preparing for a counteroffensive.
Meanwhile, at least three civilians were killed and 11 wounded in Ukraine between Monday and Tuesday, according to Zelenskyy’s office. Most of the casualties occurred in the Donbas, the eastern region made up of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, the office said. Six people were wounded in artillery fire in the city of Kherson.
In another in a series of possible cross-border attacks into Russia, a drone a Russian official said was sent from Ukraine hit a military office in the Bryansk town of Novozybkov. Gov. Alexander Bogomaz said on Telegram that the building was damaged and no one was hurt. Ukrainian officials, in keeping with past practice, didn’t comment on the incident.
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Associated Press Writer Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, and Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv contributed.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-04-19T02:47:29+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/putin-visits-russian-troops-in-occupied-ukraine/ |
CAPITOLA, Calif. (KRON) — California beach town residents woke up Thursday morning to collapsed ocean piers, massive 35-foot waves, tide surges, and widespread flooding.
An atmospheric river-powered rainstorm triggered evacuation orders for residents living closest to some Bay Area and Santa Cruz County beaches Wednesday night. Emergency crews urged the public to stay away from the coast Thursday morning as the storm and high tide continued whipping up a monster swell.
Video footage showed the Capitola Wharf split in half and a section of the wharf collapsing into the sea. Water from the ocean and Soquel Creek surged back and forth carrying massive tree trunks.
Farther south in Santa Cruz County, another beach icon was hit hard by the stormy weather. The S.S. Palo Alto, better known simply as the “cement ship,” broke away from the pier where it’s been lodged at Seacliff State Beach.
Wave forecasters with Surfline said Thursday’s “bombing” west-northwest swell may be the biggest in 15 years for California.
Pacific Operations Forecast Manager Schaler Perry wrote, “When compared against benchmark events, like the solid west swell from February of 2008, this one has a realistic chance to be larger. While we are of high confidence Thursday into Friday will see one of the top five largest west-northwest swells of the last 15 years, there’s potential it could be the largest.”
Santa Cruz County officials said the storm caused “significant damage throughout the county and along the coast.” The sheriff’s office urged residents of beachfront homes to avoid ocean-facing windows amid the tidal surge.
Further north, in San Mateo County, firefighters fanned out across beachside neighborhoods where wind gusts blew trees on top of homes, cars, and roadways. Firefighters said they were inundated with “non-stop” 911 calls from residents reporting damages and emergencies.
Tidal surges flooded Stinson Beach in Marin County. Local residents who ventured to the beach had to run to avoid being swept up in fast-moving water.
Waves from the bay also spilled onto San Francisco’s Embarcadero during high tide and drenched the docks around the Ferry Building. | 2023-01-05T22:37:26+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/california-ocean-piers-collapse-waves-rise-to-35-feet-amid-bomb-cyclone-storms/ |
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — A 25-year-old Alabama woman returned home late Saturday after being the focus of a two-day search by police and family members who reported her missing after she stopped to check on a child who was walking along a highway.
Police said Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell had returned to the home she shares with her parents in Hoover, AL.com reported late Saturday night.
Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said Russell arrived home alone and was brought to a hospital for evaluation, AL.com reported.
Russell’s whereabouts were not immediately clear since around 10:45 p.m. Thursday when she called 911 and a family member to say she saw a young child walking on the side of Interstate 459.
Police found Russell’s car and her cellphone but were unable to find her or a child in the area.
Hoover Police Lt. Daniel Lowe said the family member on the phone with Russell lost contact with her even though the line remained open. A single witness reported possibly seeing a gray vehicle and a man standing outside of Carlee’s vehicle, but they had no additional information.
Police asked people to report any information they might have about her disappearance, while family members organized a search in the area.
Talitha Russell told AL.com her daughter was headed home in the community about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Birmingham after leaving work and stopping to get food. She was on the phone with her brother’s girlfriend when she said she saw a child on the roadside.
“My son’s girlfriend heard her asking the child, ‘Are you Ok?’ She never heard the child say anything but then she heard our daughter scream,’’ Talitha Russell said. “From there, all you hear on her phone is background noise from the interstate.”
During the search there were two separate rewards of $20,000 and $5,000 for information assisting Russell’s safe return, police said. | 2023-07-17T05:18:19+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/ap-alabama-woman-returns-home-following-disappearance-and-search-after-reporting-child-on-interstate/ |
Officer won’t face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting
MORROW, Ga. (AP) — A specially appointed prosecutor said Tuesday that he will not pursue any charges against the Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks more than two years ago.
Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, announced that he won’t pursue charges against Garrett Rolfe, the white officer who shot and killed the 27-year-old Black man in June 2020.
Skandalakis was appointed last year to take over the case after a judge allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to recuse herself and her office. Willis had cited concerns about the actions of her predecessor, Paul Howard, who announced a murder charge against Rolfe less than a week after the shooting.
Police responded on June 12, 2020, to complaints of a man sleeping in a car in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy’s restaurant. Police body camera video shows the two officers having a calm conversation with Brooks for more than 40 minutes. Then, when the officers told Brooks he’d had too much to drink to be driving and tried to arrest him, Brooks resisted in a struggle caught on dash camera video. Brooks grabbed a Taser from one of the officers and fled, firing it at Rolfe as he ran. Rolfe fired his gun, and an autopsy found that Brooks was shot twice in the back.
The two officers’ lawyers have said their actions were justified and both were released on bond.
The shooting happened against the backdrop of heightened tensions and protests nationwide in wake of the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis less than three weeks earlier.
Sometimes-violent protests over Floyd’s death had largely subsided in Atlanta, but Brooks’ killing set off a new round of demonstrations against police brutality. Police Chief Erika Shields resigned less than 24 hours after Brooks died. Protesters set fire to the Wendy’s restaurant, which was later demolished.
Rolfe was fired a day after the shooting, but his dismissal was overturned in May 2021 by the Atlanta Civil Service Board. The board found that the city failed to follow its own procedures for disciplinary actions.
Five days after Brooks was killed, then-Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard held a dramatic news conference to announce charges against Rolfe and Brosnan. Rolfe’s charges included felony murder, aggravated assault and violation of his oath. Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath.
Two months later, Howard lost the Democratic primary in his bid for reelection. Just weeks after taking office in January 2021, his successor, Fani Willis, asked Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to reassign the case.
Willis, who has since gained national attention for her investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia, cited concerns about Howard’s actions.
Howard’s conduct, “including using video evidence in campaign television advertisements,” may have violated Georgia Bar rules, Willis argued in a letter to Carr. She also noted that Carr had asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to look into whether Howard improperly issued grand jury subpoenas in the Rolfe case. Howard has denied wrongdoing.
Noah Pines, an attorney for Rolfe, had also filed a motion to disqualify the Fulton County district attorney’s office from the case.
Carr initially refused to reassign the case, but in July 2021 appointed Skandalakis to take it over after Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher found there was a conflict of interest and granted a request from Willis to recuse her office.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Construction along the Hollywood Walk of Fame will begin next summer to make streetscape improvements for pedestrians and transit riders, officials said Thursday.
The construction is expected to include an expanded pedestrian zone on part of Hollywood Boulevard, as well as sidewalk dining, bicycle racks, bus shelters, benches and landscaping, according to Los Angeles Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, who represents Hollywood.
Money for the improvements comes from LA Metro’s Measure M, which was approved by voters in 2016 as a half-cent sales tax measure to fund traffic, transit and transportation projects. The LA Metro Board voted last year to put $7.2 million in Measure M funding toward the Hollywood Boulevard construction. | 2022-07-29T20:27:40+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/construction-along-hollywood-walk-of-fame-set-for-2023/ |
Lackawanna County’s Office of Youth and Family Services alerted state officials last year about tension between the agency and law enforcement, according to a report the county submitted to the state Department of Human Services.
Law enforcement often expressed “personal value judgments” regarding families that led to disagreements over the degree of risk children faced and the role child welfare workers play in investigations, the agency said in an annual budgeting report submitted to DHS.
“These value judgments often cloud conversations surrounding the facts of a child abuse or neglect investigation and lead to further disagreement on situations that are high risk versus unsafe for the child victim,” the report says.
The concerns are outlined in the county’s Needs Based Plan and Budget for fiscal year 2023-2024 — an annual report that all child protection agencies in the state file that, among other things, details challenges they face.
Lackawanna County’s report was submitted in August 2022. Three months later Scranton police launched a criminal investigation into the OYFS after officers found children living in a home filled with rotting garbage and animal feces. That case and others led to the arrest last month of five current and former OYFS employees who are accused of endangering the welfare of children.
The report clearly showed there was a “significant divide” between the child welfare agency and law enforcement that could potentially compromise child abuse and neglect investigations, said Cathleen Palm, founder of The Center for Children’s Justice, a nonprofit agency based in Berks County that advocates for children and families. She’s concerned the arrests further exacerbated the situation.
“Obviously this has reached a different level,” Palm said. “What's been done to reduce the temperature in the room to make sure that everybody's on the same page as to how to protect children?”
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Lackawanna County officials did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll said he’s confident the arrests have not compromised the department’s ability to work with caseworkers.
“We continue to collaborate on child welfare investigations to ensure the safety of children,” Carroll said. “We are all professionals focused on our mission of protecting children. Period.”
The needs based budget report notes the OYFS hosted a training session last year for law enforcement that focused on the agency’s responsibilities, including evidentiary standards and mandated reporting. Scranton was among 14 police departments that took part in the training.
Palm commended the agency for that effort. She encouraged the county to reach out to DHS and other agencies such as the Pennsylvania District Attorney's Association or the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to act as a "referee" and help resolve issues.
“Someone needs to step in," she said. "We really need to sit down, have a conversation and make sure that there is nothing here that is impacting the safety and the quality of what's happening for children in Lackawanna County.” | 2023-07-28T00:47:05+00:00 | thetimes-tribune.com | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/tension-between-police-lackawanna-child-welfare-agency-reported-to-state-last-year/article_257ff4e6-6983-50fb-a96d-9be1184fd6b2.html |
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan religious scholars Saturday criticized a ban on female education, as a key Taliban minister warned clerics not to rebel against the government on the controversial issue.
Girls cannot go to school beyond sixth grade in Afghanistan, with the education ban extending to universities. Women are barred from public spaces, including parks, and most forms of employment. Last week, Afghan women were barred from working at the U.N., according to the global body, although the Taliban have yet to make a public announcement.
Authorities present the education restrictions as temporary suspensions rather than bans, but universities and schools reopened in March without their female students.
The bans have raised fierce international uproar, increasing the country’s isolation at a time when its economy has collapsed and worsenied a humanitarian crisis.
Two religious scholars who are well-known within Afghanistan said Saturday that authorities should reconsider their decision. Public opposition to Taliban policies is rare, although some Taliban leaders have voiced their disagreement with the decision-making process.
One scholar, Abdul Rahman Abid, said institutions should be permitted to re-admit girls and women through separate classes, hiring female teachers, staggering timetables, and even building new facilities.
Knowledge is obligatory in Islam for men and women, he told The Associated Press, and Islam allows women to study.
“My daughter is absent from school, I am ashamed, I have no answer for my daughter,” he said. “My daughter asks why girls are not allowed to learn in the Islamic system. I have no answer for her.”
He said reform is needed and warned that any delays are at the expense of the global Islamic community and also weakens the government.
Another scholar, who is a member of the Taliban, told the AP there is still time for ministries to solve the problem of girls’ education. Toryali Himat cited ministries comprising the inner circle of the supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, who is based in Kandahar.
It was on his orders that the government banned girls from classrooms. Himat said there are two types of criticism, one that destroys the system and another that makes corrective criticism.
“Islam has allowed both men and women to learn, but hijab and curriculum should be considered,” said Himat. “Corrective criticism should be given and the Islamic emirate should think about this. Where there is no criticism, there is the possibility of corruption. My personal opinion is that girls should get education up to university level.”
Acting Higher Education Minister Nida Mohammad Nadim said Friday that clerics should not speak against government policy.
He made his remarks after another scholar, Abdul Sami Al Ghaznawi, told students at a religious school that there was no conflict over girls’ education. He said Islamic scripture was clear that girls’ education was acceptable. Al Ghaznawi was not immediately available for comment.
Nadim appeared to target Al Ghaznawi by mentioning “an honorable scholar” at the top of a video statement released on social media.
“You encouraged the people to rebel, so what is the result?” Nadim said. “The result is that rebellion against this (ban) is allowed. If people are encouraged to rebel against the system, will it benefit Muslims?”
The minister was not immediately available for comment. But his spokesman, Hafiz Ziaullah Hashimi, confirmed Nadim’s remarks without giving further details about who they were directed at or the reason behind them. | 2023-04-09T15:27:20+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/afghan-religious-scholars-criticize-girls-education-ban/ |
URBANA — A Champaign man who allegedly had cocaine for sale in his home has been arrested.
Assistant State’s Attorney Joel Fletcher said Cortez Wright, 41, who listed an address in the 1200 block of Providence Circle, was arrested Friday morning following a court-authorized search of his home by members of the Champaign County Street Crimes Task Force.
Fletcher said police found a total of about 9 grams of cocaine in the home, along with a scale and a substance used to cut the drug.
He said Wright admitted selling cocaine and is expected to be formally charged Monday with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.
Champaign County court records show Wright has previous convictions for obstructing justice, possession with intent to deliver heroin and aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
Judge Anna Benjamin on Saturday set Wright’s bond at $75,000. | 2022-06-18T21:21:23+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/alleged-cocaine-dealer-jailed/article_c4aea710-6290-5c65-9996-1ad8aaa214b1.html |
Brandon Nakashima 2023 Wimbledon Odds
Brandon Nakashima, off a defeat in the round of 32 of Viking International Eastbourne (to Aleksandar Vukic) in his last tournament, will begin Wimbledon against Jordan Thompson in the round of 128. Nakashima currently has +40000 odds to win this tournament at AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground.
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Nakashima at 2023 Wimbledon
- Next Round: Round of 128
- Tournament Dates: June 25 - July 16
- Venue: AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground
- Court Surface: Grass
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Nakashima will face Thompson in the round of 128 of Wimbledon on Monday, July 3 at 6:00 AM ET.
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Nakashima Stats
- Nakashima most recently played on June 26, 2023, a 7-6, 6-7, 6-7 loss to No. 91-ranked Vukic in the Round of 32 of Viking International Eastbourne.
- Nakashima is 28-21 over the past year, with two tournament titles.
- Nakashima has not won any of his four tournaments on grass over the past 12 months, with a match record of 2-4 on that surface.
- Through 49 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces), Nakashima has played 25.8 games per match. He won 51.3% of them.
- On grass, Nakashima has played six matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 33.3 games per match while winning 50.5% of games.
- Nakashima, over the past year, has won 83.2% of his service games and 19.4% of his return games.
- On grass over the past 12 months, Nakashima has claimed 85.1% of his service games and 15.2% of his return games.
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Harry Higgs lost his full PGA Tour card toward the end of last season and took a step Friday at Sea Island toward getting it back.
Higgs played bogey-free on the more difficult Seaside course for a 7-under 63, giving him a share of the lead with recent Texas grad Cole Hammer and Andrew Putnam going into the week of the RSM Classic.
Even without anyone from the top 20 in the world at Sea Island, plenty is at stake in the final official PGA Tour event before a six-week break to end the year.
Hammer, who had a 66 at Seaside, is playing on a sponsor exemption and has no full status on any tour.
Putnam, whose only PGA Tour title was in 2018, had a 65 on the Plantation course. He is playing for the eighth time in 10 weeks, having missed only the Bermuda Championship in the fall because he’s made every cut — he was a runner-up in Japan — and because the weather isn’t all that great at home near Seattle.
Higgs is an everyman, popular among his peers, and it stung to finish last season the way he did. After he tied for 14th in his Masters debut, Higgs missed the cut in 10 of his last 14 events to finish out of the top 125 in the FedEx Cup. He went to the Korn Ferry Tour Finals and missed the cut in all three of those tournaments.
Now he has conditional status, and this presents a great opportunity. Job security can be stressful on the PGA Tour, especially going into a season in which only 70 will qualify for the lucrative postseason.
“It’s in the back of your mind. It always is for almost everybody except for some of the top players in the world,” Higgs said. “But it can motivate you to work a little bit harder, make better decisions. The goal is to not really have to worry about it come March or as early as possible, right?”
The leaders were at 12-under 130.
Joel Dahmen (64 on Plantation), Beau Hossler (67 on Plantation) and Sahith Theegala, who matched Higgs with a 63 on Seaside, were one shot behind.
Dahmen won in the Dominican Republic last year and his exemption runs out after this season. He often rooms with Higgs, so he can appreciate the feeling of playing with the pressure of trying to keep a job.
“Golf is very hard and it can go sour quickly. To play with freedom for … two-and-a-half years, really, never had that in my career. So yeah, teeing up in Napa was like, ‘OK, we’re back at square one. If you don’t play well, you don’t have a job.’ I was very aware of that.
“I don’t think about it necessarily when I’m out there, but there’s been a couple extra days of practice, for sure.”
The weather wasn’t quite as cold as the opening round, and scoring remained low. The cut was at 4-under 138.
Hammer, who made his first PGA Tour cut as a pro last week in Houston, made bogeys from the fairway on the seventh and eighth holes at Seaside — two of the easier holes for the day — and then turned it around with an approach to 3 feet on No. 9 and then a birdie putt from 18 feet on the next hole.
He was bogey-free the rest of the way and will be in the final group on the weekend.
“I was a little bit depressed after 7 and 8. I put myself in great position to make birdies and I walked out with two bogeys, and that’s almost inexcusable,” Hammer said. “But coming back firing on 9 and then making a birdie on 10 — erasing those bogeys on two of the tougher holes right away — was huge for momentum and for confidence.”
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INDIANAPOLIS – Some Indiana lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to allow partisan school board races. That means school board candidates would be able to run with a political party affiliation.
As some school board meetings and elections have grown more heated in recent years, some argue voters should have a better idea of where school board candidates stand on the issues.
“I think it’s important for parents and taxpaying citizens to know where exactly their candidates align,” said Rhonda Miller, president of Purple for Parents Indiana.
Miller and her organization are calling for the state to allow school board candidates to run under a political party affiliation.
“A lot of times, that’s not made clear and people don’t really know which party affiliation they’re voting for,” Millers said. “So in order for them to understand that, we need it to be declared on the ballot.”
But other parents and organizations argue party affiliation doesn’t belong in school board races.
“People who are serving on a school board should serve there for the children and the taxpayers in the community that they serve,” said Rachel Burke. “They shouldn’t be beholden to someone else or a political party.”
Terry Spradlin, executive director of the Indiana School Boards Association, points out it would also prevent some potential candidates, such as government employees, from running.
“If we change that, then we lose a pool of really talented, motivated Hoosiers,” Spradlin said.
State Rep. J.D. Prescott (R-Union City) said he is bringing back a bill this year to allow school board candidates to run under political parties. His bill would also set up a primary process for candidates who choose to declare their party, he said.
“I’m putting school board candidates in the exact same elections process as every other officeholder,” Prescott said.
Meanwhile, Democrats say they hope to see the legislation stall again this year.
“As a high school math teacher, I’ve never had any parent come up and say we need more politics in our schools,” said State Rep. Tonya Pfaff (D-Terre Haute). “I just don’t think it’s necessary.”
It’s too early to tell how far any bill on this topic could advance this session. Last year, a bill received a committee hearing but didn’t get a vote to advance to the House floor. | 2023-01-14T02:33:03+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/indiana-lawmakers-reintroduce-legislation-to-allow-partisan-school-board-elections/ |
In Memoriam
In loving memory of,
SUSIE BONAPARTE YOUNG
06/07/1934 - 06/09/2017
Mommie, it has been six years since your passing, we will continue to share in your memory. Thank you for being our Angel, watching over each and every one of us. We promise to keep your legacy alive. Happy Birthday Day!
From Robert, Katie, Willie Jr., Donnell, Mark, Taylor Family, your loving grandson, Demetrius and Erica. | 2023-06-07T16:41:17+00:00 | miamitimesonline.com | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/obituaries/in_memoriam/susie-bonaparte-young/article_4b66d476-0545-11ee-a249-077cc0a8d537.html |
Brazil great Ronaldo was a special guest at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday and he was pictured holding up a replica No. 9 jersey with his name on it before the game between Spurs and Wolverhampton.
By fulltime, it was the scoring feats of Tottenham's No. 10 that everyone was talking about.
It was a milestone day for Harry Kane, who netted his 185th Premier League goal — all for Tottenham, making it the most by a player for a single club in the competition's 30-year history — to seal a 1-0 win.
Kane evaded his marker to nod home from close range in the 64th minute and climb above former Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero into fourth place outright in the league's all-time scorers list, just two behind Andrew Cole.
It was also Kane's 250th goal for Tottenham. Jimmy Greaves’ club record of 266 is surely under threat this season.
“It’s been a fantastic nine or 10 years in the Premier League," Kane said. “Hopefully many more years to go.”
And some trophies, too. Because Kane has yet to win one with Tottenham, whose last piece of silverware came in 2008 — a year before he signed his first contract at the club as a 16-year-old hopeful.
“I think every single player is ready to exchange a personal achievement to reach a trophy," Tottenham manager Antonio Conte said. “We’re working on this aspect. The path is difficult, the path is long, but we have to try to do this.”
Making it more difficult this season is the form of Tottenham's fierce rival, Arsenal.
It's three straight wins for the red-and-white half of north London after a polished 3-0 victory at Bournemouth, with playmaker Martin Odegaard scoring two goals in the first 11 minutes and center back William Saliba adding a third from the edge of the penalty area.
Indeed, Arsenal — on nine points — and Tottenham — on seven — are the current top two after three games. Manchester City, which won its first two games, could break up the north London axis at the summit by beating Newcastle on Sunday.
FRUSTRATED FOXES
These are already worrying times for Leicester — and not just because Brendan Rodgers' team has yet to record a win after three games.
For the 2-1 home loss to Southampton, Rodgers left out Wesley Fofana completely from the matchday squad while the French center back is being linked with a move to Chelsea. Belgium midfielder Youri Tielemans, meanwhile, only started on the bench amid uncertainty over his future with less than a year left on his contract.
“If your mind isn’t quite on playing, this is a level you have to be totally concentrated on,” Rodgers said.
“There have been a few offers in for some players nowhere near the valuation the club would want to sell. None of them are for sale but I know how the game works.”
Leicester conceded two second-half goals to draw 2-2 at home to Brentford on the opening weekend and did the same to lose to Southampton, with substitute Che Adams scoring both of them — the second an acrobatic volley. A 4-2 loss at Arsenal came between those two home results for Leicester, which sold captain Kasper Schmeichel in the offseason.
PROMOTED CLUBS
Bournemouth might have been eased aside by Arsenal but, in general, it has been an encouraging start to the season for the promoted clubs.
Especially Fulham, which remains undefeated after beating Brentford 3-2 thanks to a 90th-minute header by Aleksandar Mitrovic. That first win of the season goes alongside draws against Liverpool and Wolves.
The other promoted team, Nottingham Forest, came close to a second straight win only for England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford to pick out Demarai Gray for Everton's 88th-minute equalizer in a 1-1 draw.
Still, Forest will be encouraged by having four points already, one behind Fulham.
ZAHA DOUBLE
Make that three in three for Wilfried Zaha.
The Ivory Coast forward scored twice in Crystal Palace's 3-1 win over Aston Villa to follow up his well-taken goal in the 1-1 draw at Liverpool on Monday.
Mitrovic and Leeds striker Rodrigo are the other players on three goals this campaign.
Villa has lost two of its first three games and manager Steven Gerrard appears to be unsure of his best team, having started with a different forward line in each match.
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Steve Douglas is at https://twitter.com/sdouglas80 | 2022-08-20T19:41:04+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/sports/2022/08/20/kane-scores-milestone-goal-in-front-of-brazil-great-ronaldo/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden was released from a Des Moines hospital on Monday and returned to his Tennessee home, where he will wait for an evaluation to determine if he can race this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Team Penske named Santino Ferrucci as its standby driver in case Newgarden is not medically cleared to compete on the road course at Indianapolis. Newgarden collapsed in the motorhome lot Sunday at Iowa Speedway following a late crash in a race he had dominated.
Although the American was cleared by the IndyCar medical staff after his crash, he later lost consciousness and fell to the ground in the bus lot, striking the back of his head. He was airlifted from the track in Newton to MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center to speed the 45-minute journey and avoid traffic from the postrace Blake Shelton concert.
Team Penske said Sunday night that all tests on Newgarden had been negative but he was hospitalized overnight for further evaluation.
Newgarden was already scheduled for a Thursday evaluation in Indianapolis to determine if he can compete Saturday. Per IndyCar regulations, a driver receives a secondary evaluation when a crash registers more than 80 G-forces.
There was no immediate word from IndyCar or Team Penske on the force of Newgarden’s hit, but the scheduled second medical check would indicate his hit exceeded the threshold.
Newgarden, who won Saturday's race, dominated and led 148 of the 300 laps while trying to sweep the doubleheader weekend. But something on his Team Penske car broke with 64 laps remaining, and the 31-year-old from Tennessee spun hard into the outside wall — creating an opening for Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP to win the race.
Newgarden was visibly rattled after his mandatory check in the infield care center after the crash. He said the crash into the wall “definitely rocked me. I got a little bit shaken from it, but I’m OK.
“Definitely was a bit of a shot. I want to cry, so sad for my team. I don’t know what happened,” Newgarden said. “Everything felt fine to me. Totally unexpected and it caught me by my surprise. Team Penske is the best. I never have this stuff, so maybe we were due.”
Chevrolet’s initial diagnosis was that the suspension broke on Newgarden’s car.
Newgarden was showing as the IndyCar points leader at the time of his crash; he's now tied for third in the standings with Scott Dixon.
Ferrucci was the replacement driver for Jack Harvey at Texas Motor Speedway earlier this year when Harvey suffered a concussion. He also ran the Indianapolis 500 and finished 10th.
Ferrucci is also scheduled to race the Xfinity Series event this shared weekend between NASCAR and IndyCar.
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Cairo (AP) — Egypt’s central bank said Thursday that it raised key interest rates by 2% in a bid to combat the Arab country’s surging inflation.
The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee said in a statement that it had raised the new lending rate to 14.25% and the deposit rate to 13.25%. The discount rate was also raised to 13.75%, it said.
The intervention is primarily designed to offset rising inflation, which passed 15% in September, and lighten the financial pressure on lower- and middle-income households.
The Egyptian economy has been hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, events that have disrupted global markets and hiked oil and food prices worldwide. Egypt is the world’s largest wheat importer, most of which came from Russia and Ukraine. The country’s supply is subject to price changes on the international market.
‘‘The objective of raising policy rates is to anchor inflation expectations and contain demand-side pressures,’’ the bank said.
Yhe bank also said it would begin removing a system for importers, a red tape process introduced in February to control the demand on the currency for imports.
Following the bank's announcement, the Egyptian pound dropped in value against the U.S. dollar from around 19.75 pounds to a dollar to at least 22.25 pounds to a dollar, according to data provided by the National Bank of Egypt.
Late Wednesday, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly also announced a 15% increase in the minimum monthly wage, from 2,700 pounds ($137) to 3,000 pounds ($152). Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly’s announcement marks the fourth hike in the minimum wage since President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi took office in 2014.
The government is engaged in monthslong negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a new loan to support a reform program and to help address the economic challenges caused by the war in Europe.
About a third of Egypt's 104 million people live in poverty, according to government figures. | 2022-10-27T09:48:46+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/egypts-central-bank-hikes-key-interest-rates-by-2/S3LN22AHV5FWFHWL6GLZC6LB2M/ |
State lawmakers around the country introduced thousands of bills to change the way elections are run after former President Donald Trump falsely blamed his 2020 loss on voter fraud. Hundreds became law.
Even with proponents of Trump’s election lies roundly defeated during this year’s midterms, advocates on both sides of the voting debate are bracing for another round of election-related legislation. Republicans are eager to tighten election rules further while Democrats, who took control of two additional statehouses, will seek to make it easier to cast a ballot.
Minnesota’s newly reelected Democratic secretary of state, Steve Simon, said he had spoken to several secretaries of state who are eager to push for changes in voting. Losses by election-denier candidates in top races have emboldened some Democrats to champion expansions of voting rights.
“Voters spoke loudly and clearly about what they wanted and didn’t want, both in regards to this office and all these other issues,” said Simon, who defeated a Republican challenger who parroted some of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
Democrats won majorities in both houses of the Minnesota Legislature in November, giving Simon a good shot at enacting changes. He expects to urge lawmakers to adopt automatic voter registration and allow high school students to pre-register.
States routinely make adjustments in their voting laws — some subtle, some dramatic. But experts have never seen an explosion of legislation like that which followed the 2020 presidential election, when more than 3,600 election bills were introduced, according to the Voting Rights Lab, which tracks the legislation.
Liz Avore, senior adviser to the group, said 22 states in the last couple of years expanded access to the ballot, 10 created new restrictions and five expanded access in some ways while creating new barriers in others. This, she said, has created a divide in the U.S. in which “your ZIP code determines your access to our democracy.”
That divide seems likely to grow next year. Legislatures won’t convene until January at the earliest, so it’s unclear how many bills are being drafted and on which subjects. But Texas, where the Legislature meets only once every two years and lawmakers can “pre-file” drafts of legislation for the upcoming session, offers a preview.
The Associated Press has identified nearly 100 election-related legislative proposals already filed in the state, both to increase access to the ballot box and to further restrict it. This includes one that would allow the state’s top lawyer to assign a prosecutor focused on election crimes, testing the boundaries of a court ruling earlier this year that said the attorney general did not have the authority to prosecute election crimes.
Another would assign a group of peace officers to serve as election marshals who investigate claims of election-related missteps. That would follow the lead of Florida, where officers in a special unit assigned to elections have already made a handful of arrests — including of people who mistakenly thought they were eligible to vote under a 2018 constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to some felons. Critics have labeled the unit a political tool of the governor.
Matt Simpson, a senior attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said current election legislation proposed in the state, such as increasing criminal penalties for election crimes and creating election marshals, is “extreme” and “very intimidating” for voters. He said these approaches are primarily political and don’t solve actual voting-related issues, such as high rejection rates of mail ballots and ballot applications due to widespread confusion on the identification numbers necessary.
“It is certainly the case that Texas elections do not have widespread fraud,” Simpson said. “These bills, these concerns that are raised, are solutions in search of a problem.”
The reliability of Texas’ elections was underscored by the release earlier this month of an audit by the secretary of state’s office. The 359-page audit of the 2020 election in the state’s two largest Democratic counties and two largest Republican ones found some “irregularities,” but they were largely related to holding an election during a pandemic.
“In most cases, the audit found that the counties followed their procedures and clearly documented their activities,” the audit says.
Ohio is another Republican-controlled state where lawmakers continue to push for restrictions.
The state is likely to draw national attention next year after Republicans indicated they might try again to place on the May ballot a measure requiring a 60% majority for any future constitutional amendments to pass. That provision could limit the ability of Ohio voters to rein in GOP gerrymandering or otherwise counter the majority-Republican Legislature, such as by codifying the right to an abortion.
Republicans failed to muster enough votes during December’s lame-duck session to place the higher threshold for passing amendments on the ballot, but they did pass a sweeping election law overhaul. The bill adds a photo ID requirement for voters and provides them for free, codifies a directive requiring one ballot drop box per county and eliminates early voting on the Monday before Election Day — county officials had said it interfered with their final preparations. The legislation also shrinks the window for receiving mail-in ballots after the election from 10 days to four.
Republican state Sen. Theresa Gavarone said taking steps to tighten access to the voting booth and speed vote counting are aimed at improving the “perception, confidence and integrity” in elections.
“Folks, perception matters,” Gavarone said. “Whether you want to believe it or not, the goal should not just be to secure our elections, but it’s imperative that we give people doubting the results of our elections reason to participate in them.”
Voting rights advocates were outraged.
“This legislation will make voting unnecessarily harder for seniors, students, rural Ohioans, active-duty military and other eligible Ohioans,” said Jen Miller, executive director of the League of Women Voters Ohio.
The office of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said he was reviewing the legislation.
Democrats are readying their own pushes, especially in two states where they won control of the legislatures and retained the governorship — Michigan and Minnesota.
Michigan voters not only gave Democrats control of the state Legislature, they also passed Proposal 2, a sweeping ballot initiative that expanded early and mail voting. Democrats already are preparing to strengthen the measure in the legislative session.
“There will need to be quite a bit of implementation legislation next term, and I look forward to working with the Legislature and the governor’s office to enact this,” Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, a Democrat, said in an interview.
Jake Rollow, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of State, said Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson will likely ask lawmakers to allocate $100 million annually for local election offices and propose new measures against circulating election misinformation. A Democratic state lawmaker also proposed imposing penalties for people who pressure election workers, a key cause of Democrats in state legislatures after conspiracy theorists targeted voting officials after the 2020 presidential election.
In Minnesota, Simon said he also wants to increase penalties against threatening or interfering with election workers. He said he’ll push a range of other reforms, including pre-registering high schoolers so they can quickly join the voting rolls upon turning 18. Younger voters lean Democratic, but Simon said he’s not trying to promote his party.
He said he merely wants to make the electorate more reflective of the population, a goal he also pushed when the statehouse was split between Republicans and Democrats.
“These are reforms that will benefit everyone,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan, and Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report. | 2022-12-29T16:48:23+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-new-year-expected-to-bring-more-changes-to-state-voting-laws/ |
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Freddie Freeman homered and drove in two runs and the Los Angeles Dodgers extended their winning streak against Cincinnati this season to six games, beating the Reds 8-4 on Wednesday night.
Freeman, who tied a season high with five RBIs in the series opener on Tuesday, has seven RBI in the series.
Albert Almora Jr. hit his fifth homer of the season for Cincinnati, which has lost eight straight over two seasons to the Dodgers at Great American Ball Park.
The Dodgers’ .619 winning percentage at Great American Ball Park (39-24) is the second-best of any NL team, behind the Mets' 36-21 (.632).
Dodgers left-hander Tyler Anderson, who took a no-hitter into the ninth inning in his last start, allowed three earned runs on five hits in five innings.
Consecutive doubles by Kyle Farmer and Donovan Solano, who made his season and Reds debuts, put Cincinnati ahead 1-0 in the second inning. The Reds scored three runs in the second, one more than Anderson had allowed in 10 of 12 starts this season.
Freeman extended his hitting streak to five games with an RBI single in the fifth. The Dodgers grabbed a 4-3 lead in the inning on Chris Taylor's hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded and Justin Turner's sacrifice fly. It was Turner's 21st RBI in 53 games against Cincinnati.
Reds starter Luis Castillo, who was 3-0 with a 1.90 ERA in four career starts against the Dodgers, allowed four earned runs in five innings and hit two batters.
Taylor threw out Jonathan India at home trying to score the go-ahead run the fifth.
Freeman's seventh homer of the season leading off the seventh put the Dodgers in front, and Trayce Thompson's two-run double in the eighth made the score 7-4.
Alex Vesia (1-0) got the win. Ross Detwiler (0-2) took the loss.
MOVES
The Dodgers selected the contract of OF Stefen Romero and placed INF Hanser Alberto on the paternity list. In order to make room for Romero on the 40-man roster, INF Edwin Ríos was transferred to the 60-day injured list. The 33-year-old Romero returned to the major leagues for the first time since 2016.
TRAINERS ROOM
Reds: Tyler Naquin (left quad strain) ran the bases on Wednesday. ... C Tyler Stephenson (broken right thumb) had his cast removed and has started throwing.
UP NEXT
Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw (4-1, 2.08) owns a 5-2 record and 2.30 ERA against the Reds in 13 career starts. He'll be opposed by 22-year-old rookie right-hander Hunter Greene (3-7, 5.26), who threw 39 pitches at more than 100 mph when he faced the Dodgers in April.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Computer Corporation (NCC), creators of decentralized application program services (dAPIs) that provide web3 infrastructure and utility, announced today a Seed Funding round of $2.5 million dollars led by Borderless Capital. The round also includes investments from Eterna Capital, PEER, Algorand Foundation, Hivemind Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Web Tree Capital, Noise DAO, Valentine Venture, Ten Ventures, Marcus Eng and SongADAO.
The new suite of products provides developers with utility and infrastructure tools to seamlessly build fun, collaborative, and creative experiences on web3. Decentralized application program interfaces (dAPIs) are interoperable, allowing different apps to "speak" to each other, creating endless possibilities for customers building web3-compliant applications and platforms. Using Algorand blockchain technology as the foundation, NCC is committed to helping build a new creator economy that leads with transparency and puts internet fun first.
The global internet promised to democratize publishing and facilitate equitable flow of revenue. Three decades on and it has not been delivered, but the potential is still there. In 2020, the internet economy contributed $2.5 trillion dollars to the total gross domestic product (GDP) of the U.S.. In 2021, the total combined revenue of the ten largest U.S. internet companies was $1.4 trillion.
This vast consolidation of wealth is barely seen by the creators who continue to be inadequately compensated for their contributions. And all while being exploited for their participation through the growth of user data collection and targeted and third-party ad networks to name just a couple of examples. Big business is reliant on creativity and culture at large. The NCC believes that with the right tools, the internet has the capacity to help rebalance the scales of commerce in the favor of creators.
With the mission of enabling economic transparency and equitable revenue to online creators, The NCC is announcing its dAPI tools which will soon be available for use. Like "Switzerland for web3" in its non-partisan neutrality, the familiar modular format and interoperability of the toolkit empowers existing developers to construct and combine a stack of services seamlessly.
NCC plans to use the funds to expand its engineering and product team. The company will continue to build more dAPI services that are easily stackable and provide developers with the tools they need to build services for creators and publishers who want to make a better, fun internet.
Full Press Release: https://ncc.la/media/NCC-Press-Release-Oct22.pdf
Website: ncc.la || Contact: Greg Bresnitz – gb@ncc.la
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A recent survey reveals that nearly 70% of Americans say summer creates the most difficult laundry stains compared to other seasons.
STAMFORD, Conn., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the unofficial start to summer approaches, Americans look forward to fun in the sun, the sizzle of the grill and spending more time outdoors, but Persil® ProClean®, a premium laundry detergent brand that delivers a deep clean, says stains, spills and splotches provide a laundry challenge that's unmatched among the four seasons.
Persil's recent Laundry Care Study* of more than 2,000 participants uncovered that the majority of consumers overwhelmingly blame summer for their most difficult laundry stains, including ketchup/BBQ, grilling grease, ice cream, dirt/mud, grass, and sunscreen. The study, which identified these most common summer dirty laundry culprits, also revealed who is staining their clothes more often and why. Here is the dirt:
- Bibs & BBQ: Thirty percent of respondents said ketchup/BBQ is the most frequently spilled sauce on their summer outfits, followed by grease from grilling (20%) and ice cream (11%).
- People Get Down & Dirty Outside - Literally: The most common outdoor elements reported were dirt/mud (40%) and grass (30%), followed by sunscreen (8%) and flower pollens (6%).
- Women vs. Men: Who Wore it Better?: More women (43%) suffer from dirt/mud stains than men (36%), but men (34%) experience more grass stains than women (27%).
- Increased R&R Leads to More Laundry Time: With increased travel anticipated this summer, expect dirty laundry to pile up in hampers nationwide, as nearly 25% of respondents reported that vacations increase their normal laundry loads.
- Ope! Midwesterners are More Likely to Get Stains: Midwesterners are more summer stain-prone, with 34% reporting they were likely to spill the top summertime food stain (ketchup/BBQ) and 44% reporting they were likely to face the top summertime outdoor stain (dirt/mud) compared to some other regions.
- Fresh & Clean! Doing Laundry is Rewarding: Summertime might bring on more stains, but 88% of respondents said doing laundry provided them with a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
"While we all want summer days to last forever, our stains certainly don't have to," said Matt Bernick, Senior Brand Manager, Persil. "We created cutting-edge laundry detergents so you can spend less time worrying about stains and more time enjoying the season with the powerful, long-lasting results of Persil ProClean. From our product development to our creative campaigns, we aim to transform everyday laundry from ordinary to extraordinary. Bring it on, summer!"
The Persil Laundry Care Study* comes on the heels of the brand's newest campaign – Mission Washable. The campaign leads with a new commercial (The Chase), featuring its iconic brand character: The Professional, who takes viewers on an exciting stain-fighting mission with the secret weapon of Persil ProClean. The Professional goes to extraordinary lengths to fight stains and represents how Persil products work hard to give clothes a deep clean, whenever, and wherever stains occur. With the help of Persil ProClean, laundry turns an everyday ordinary clean into an extraordinary one to protect your clothes and accomplish long-lasting freshness. It is a secret tool to help lighten your laundry load.
Visit PersilProClean.com for stain-fighting tips and to find where products are sold at local retailers. You can also follow along via @PersilProClean on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.com.
*The Persil Laundry Care Survey consisted of 34 questions covering consumer laundry habits, sentiment, and behaviors and garnered responses from 2,051 U.S. adults age 18+ who had done laundry 2+ times in the last 30 days and are decision-makers for household cleaning products.
About Persil
Persil® ProClean® is a premium laundry detergent brand packed with cutting-edge technology that delivers Fiber care, stain removal and long-lasting freshness. Launched in the US in 2015, Persil ProClean detergent goes deep into fabrics and past tough-to-clean stains to achieve an effortlessly deep clean. With a growing portfolio of products (including Liquid Detergent and Discs™) as the hero of laundry day, Persil ProClean detergent helps people everywhere achieve high standards of cleanliness. Visit www.persilproclean.com for more information.
About Henkel in North America
In North America, Henkel operates across its three business units: Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care, and Laundry & Home Care. Its portfolio of well-known consumer and industrial brands includes Schwarzkopf® hair care, Dial® soaps, Persil®, Purex®, and all® laundry detergents, Snuggle® fabric softeners as well as Loctite®, Technomelt® and Bonderite® adhesives. With sales close to 6 billion US dollars (5 billion euros) in 2021, North America accounts for 25 percent of the company's global sales. Henkel employs over 8,000 people across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit www.henkel-northamerica.com, and on Twitter @Henkel_NA.
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Brand Contact: Agency H5 (on behalf of Persil)
Contact: Addie Bazant
Phone: 4017-714-9908
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s nine justices will gather in private Thursday for their first scheduled meeting since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade and sharply curtail abortion rights in roughly half the states.
The meeting in the justices’ private, wood-paneled conference room could be a tense affair in a setting noted for its decorum. No one aside from the justices attends and the most junior among them, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is responsible for taking notes.
Thursday’s conference comes at an especially fraught moment, with the future of abortion rights at stake and an investigation underway to try to find the source of the leak.
Chief Justice John Roberts last week confirmed the authenticity of the opinion, revealed by Politico, in ordering the court’s marshal to undertake an investigation.
Roberts stressed that the draft, written by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated in February, may not be the court’s final word. Supreme Court decisions are not final until they are formally issued and the outcomes in some cases changed between the justices’ initial votes shortly after arguments and the official announcement of the decisions.
That’s true of a major abortion ruling from 1992 that now is threatened, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, when Justice Anthony Kennedy initially indicated he would be part of a majority to reverse Roe but later was among five justices who affirmed the basic right of a woman to choose abortion that the court first laid out in roe in 1973.
Kennedy met privately with Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter to craft a joint opinion, with no hint to the public or even to other justices about what was going on.
“I think it’s tradition and decorum that everyone corresponds in writing about things that are in circulation,” said Megan Wold, a former law clerk to Alito. “But at the same time, there’s nothing to prevent a justice from picking up the phone to call, from visiting someone else in chambers.”
A major shift in the current abortion case seems less likely, at least partly because of the leak, abortion law experts and people on both sides of the issue said.
“I think the broad contours are very unlikely to change. To the extent the leak matters, it will make broad changes unlikely,” said Mary Ziegler, a scholar of the history of abortion at the Florida State University law school.
Sherif Gergis, a University of Notre Dame law professor who once was a law clerk for Alito, agreed. “I’ll be surprised if it changes very much,” Gergis said.
It’s not clear who leaked the opinion, or for what purpose. But Alito’s writing means that there were at least five votes in December to overrule Roe and Casey, just after the court heard arguments over a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Based on their questions at arguments, Justice Clarence Thomas and former President Donald Trump’s three appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Barrett, seemed most likely to join Alito.
Roberts appeared the most inclined among the conservatives to avoid reaching a decision to overrule the landmark abortion rulings, but his questions suggested that he would at the very least vote to uphold the Mississippi law. Even that outcome would dramatically undermine abortion rights and invite states to adopt increasingly stricter limits.
If Roberts, who often prefers incremental steps in an effort to preserve the court’s legitimacy, wanted to prevent the court from overruling Roe and Casey, he’d need to pick up the vote of just one other colleague. That would be enough to deprive Alito of a majority.
The liberal justices, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, are expected to dissent from either outcome. But no dissent, separate opinion from Roberts, or even a revised draft majority opinion has been circulated among the justices, Politico reported.
Majority opinions often change in response to friendly suggestions and barbed criticisms. The justices consider the internal back-and-forth a crucial part of their work.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg remarked that pointed criticism from her friend and ideological opposite, Justice Antonin Scalia, made her opinions better. Scalia died in 2016; Ginsburg, four years later.
The lack of any other opinions surprised some former law clerks to the justices, though Wold said it’s also true that bigger, harder cases traditionally take more time.
Several former clerks also said they expect the leak to be discussed at the weekly meeting on Thursday, at which the justices typically finalize opinions in cases they’ve heard and choose cases to hear in the coming months. The spring normally is a tense time at the court, with major decisions looming that often reveal stark divisions and sometimes produce sharp words.
“I would be shocked if it doesn’t come up,” Wold said, adding that, given what has happened, the court would probably take additional precautions with drafts circulating in the future, including limiting who has access to them.
Kent Greenfield, a Boston University law professor who spent a year as a clerk to Souter, also speculated that the leak would be on the table Thursday. “Roberts is in a complete bind. He has to address it, but it doesn’t strike me that he has many options,” Greenfield said. | 2022-05-11T23:58:29+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/justices-to-meet-for-1st-time-since-leak-of-draft-roe-ruling/ |
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