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BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities in several European Union member states raided fashion houses Tuesday in an initial move linked to an EU antitrust probe, officials said.
The EU Commission said in a statement it was looking into whether some fashion industry players were involved in cartels and other restrictive business practices.
The Commission had already instigated inspections last year and in 2021 but said that Tuesday's action was unrelated.
The Commission did not name the companies or EU member states involved. | 2023-04-18T18:27:35+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/authorities-raid-fashion-houses-in-eu-antitrust-17904179.php |
WA Portland OR Zone Forecast for Friday, June 17, 2022
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588 FPUS56 KPQR 181105
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Zone Forecasts for Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington
National Weather Service Portland OR
405 AM PDT Sat Jun 18 2022
Spot Temperatures are for Today, Tonight, Juneteenth, Sunday
Night, and Monday.
WAZ021-182315-
South Washington Coast-
Including the cities of Raymond, Long Beach, Ocean Park, Naselle,
Cathlamet, and Cape Disappointment
405 AM PDT Sat Jun 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs
around 60. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers overnight. Lows around 50.
Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 60. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. West wind 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 60 to 65. Light wind becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy.
Lows 50 to 55.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 65.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy. Lows 50 to 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 60 to 65.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 60 to 65.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 65.
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WAZ020-182315-
Willapa Hills-
Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,
and Ryderwood
405 AM PDT Sat Jun 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Slight chance of showers in the morning.
Chance of showers early in the afternoon, then a slight chance of
showers late in the afternoon. Highs 55 to 60. West wind 5 to
10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows 45 to 50.
Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Chance
of precipitation 40 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers in the morning,
then a slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs 55 to 60.
Light wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of
an inch.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 45. West wind 5 to
10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 55 to 65. Light wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 45 to 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 60 to 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 55 to 65.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 45.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 60 to 65.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 45.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 60 to 70.
$$
WAZ040-182315-
South Washington Cascade Foothills-
Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,
and Cougar
405 AM PDT Sat Jun 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers. Highs
55 to 60. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts around a tenth of an inch.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy.
Chance of showers in the evening, then a slight chance of showers
until midnight. Chance of showers after midnight. Lows 45 to 50.
West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts around a tenth of an
inch.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers until afternoon,
then a slight chance of showers late in the afternoon. Highs
55 to 60. Light wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts
less than a tenth of an inch.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers in
the evening. Lows around 45. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light
after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 60 to 65. Light wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 65 to 75.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 50 to 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 65 to 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 45 to 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 60 to 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 45.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny. Highs
65 to 70.
$$
WAZ019-182315-
South Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center,
Mount St. Helens, and Wind River Valley
405 AM PDT Sat Jun 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Snow level 5500 feet
increasing to 6000 feet in the afternoon. West wind 5 to 10 mph
becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent. Rainfall amounts around a tenth of an
inch.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers in the evening, then
a slight chance of showers after midnight. Chance of showers
late. Snow level 6000 feet. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west
5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Snow level 6000 feet increasing to 7000 feet in the afternoon.
West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers in
the evening. Snow level 7500 feet in the evening. West wind 5 to
10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Not as cool. Free air freezing level
10000 feet rising to 11000 feet in the afternoon. Northwest wind
5 to 10 mph. Gusts to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
11000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 12000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
13000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 13000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
12000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 11000 feet
lowering to 10000 feet in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
11000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 10000 feet rising
to 11000 feet in the afternoon.
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weather.gov/portland
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-06-18T12:26:03+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/WA-Portland-OR-Zone-Forecast-17250644.php |
Bobcat rescued after driver finds it stuck under hood
GILA BEND, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - An Arizona man picked up an extra passenger on his way to work recently, KPHO reports.
The man was driving to work in Gila Bend, Arizona, when he unknowingly hit a bobcat.
When he parked his car, he heard a strange noise from under his hood. When he opened the hood, he was shocked to see two eyes staring right at him.
He quickly discovered that the additional passenger was a bobcat stuck in his engine compartment.
Deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and Arizona Game and Fish officials showed up to help rescue the bobcat and remove it from the engine compartment.
The bobcat was sedated and eventually rescued from the engine with no injuries. Wildlife officials released the animal back into the wild.
Copyright 2023 KPHO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-08T15:01:38+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2023/07/08/bobcat-rescued-after-driver-finds-it-stuck-under-hood/ |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Suspended Atlanta receiver Calvin Ridley is getting a fresh start in Jacksonville, although it’s unclear when he will be allowed to play again.
The Jaguars made a complex deal to land Ridley — and potentially give quarterback Trevor Lawrence a true No. 1 receiver in 2023 — just before the NFL trading deadline Tuesday.
“This is an opportunity to add a proven playmaker to our already talented wide receiver room as we continue to build our roster for 2023 and beyond,” Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. “We are looking forward to finishing strong this season and integrating Calvin into our program at the appropriate time.”
A person with knowledge of the trade said compensation to the Falcons ranges between a second-round pick in 2024 and a sixth-rounder. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details had not been made public.
The draft pick is contingent on when Ridley gets reinstated, how much he plays in 2023 and whether he signs a long-term deal with the Jaguars, the person said.
Ridley tweeted “Duuuval” with two emojis of faces with steam coming from both nostrils, relaying the team’s rallying cry.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Ridley in March for at least the 2022 season after a league investigation determined Ridley bet on NFL games in 2021 while away from the team addressing mental health concerns. The league said the suspension will carry “through at least the conclusion of the 2022 season.”
The NFL said the betting took place during a five-day period in late November 2021. Ridley was placed on the non-football illness list following Week 8 last season, which ended Nov. 1.
Ridley responded on his Twitter account that day, saying “I bet 1500 total I don’t have a gambling problem.”
A league investigation uncovered no evidence inside information was used or that any game was compromised by Ridley’s betting. Nor was there evidence suggesting Falcons coaches, players or staff were aware of Ridley’s betting activity.
“As our team continues its growth, we continue our daily focus on improving our roster and believe this move is the best decision to make at this time,” Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot said.
“We appreciate Calvin’s contributions to the organization and wish him well on his next steps.”
Ridley may petition for reinstatement after Feb. 23, 2023.
The suspension wasn’t the first time Ridley was unavailable to the Falcons. He sat out the final two months of the 2021 season and explained his absence in a Twitter post that read, “I need to step away from football at this time and focus on my mental well being.”
Ridley was Atlanta’s 2018 first-round draft pick from Alabama. He had 90 catches for 1,374 yards and nine touchdowns in 2020. He had only 31 receptions for 281 yards and two touchdowns before sitting out the final two months of the season.
He is scheduled to count $11.1 million against Jacksonville’s salary cap in 2023, which is the final year of his rookie deal.
The Jaguars have Christian Kirk, Zay Jones and Jamal Agnew under contract next season, but the three are considered complementary receivers.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-11-02T19:46:40+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-falcons-trade-suspended-wr-ridley-to-jaguars-in-complex-deal/ |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A man was convicted Thursday of dumping straw on a Dutch road last month and sentenced to perform 80 hours of unpaid work, in one of the first cases stemming from widespread protests by farmers against government plans to slash nitrogen emissions.
The 42-year-old man, whose identity wasn’t released by the court in the eastern city of Arnhem, was also ordered to pay 3,600 euros (about $3,700) in damages to cover the costs of the cleanup operation.
The court ruled that he and about 30 other demonstrators partially blocked a highway on July 28 by dumping garbage, including manure, plastic straw and sawdust, on the road.
“By taking part in this action, the man caused a dangerous situation for road users,” the court said in a statement.
It added that the defendant, who was arrested at the scene and spent four days in jail, said during the hearing that he regretted his actions.
“He had not carefully considered the consequences for others and indicated that he deserves punishment for this,” the court said.
Dutch farmers have launched a series of disruptive protests over the summer, including dumping trash on roads and blockading supermarket distribution centers, over the government’s announcement earlier this year that it wants to slash emissions of nitrogen, including ammonia produced by livestock, by 50% by 2030.
The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group said that a first round of talks on Aug. 5 with a delegation led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte about the emissions reduction goals delivered “too little” for thousands of farmers living in uncertainty. | 2022-08-11T15:11:39+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/dutchman-convicted-of-role-in-farmers-road-block-protest/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Redrawn maps shuffling U.S. House districts in New York are threatening the political career of a first-term progressive and will ensure the ouster of one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.
The scramble has led to contentious races between Democrats in the second-largest blue state in the country, with both challengers and incumbents sensing a rare window to win or lose power in Tuesday’s primary elections.
There’s an added degree of uncertainty to how New York’s congressional primary contests will shake out as voter turnout is expected to be low. It’s the second primary election day in New York this summer after statewide and state assembly primaries were held two months ago. New York voters are not accustomed to casting primary ballots this late in the summer — and certainly not used to casting them twice — and many are finding their longtime district lines have shifted, adding to confusion.
Primary elections for House seats in Florida will feature a test for a conservative firebrand with the specter of a federal investigation looming over him and a rematch between two Democrats after a razor-thin loss last year.
Some of the top elections:
END OF AN ERA
For three decades, Democrat Jerry Nadler has represented Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and Democrat Carolyn Maloney has represented the Upper East Side.
But under new redistricting maps, much of their longtime congressional districts were merged, spanning Central Park and linking two iconic New York City neighborhoods whose residents claim very distinct identities.
Maloney, 76, and Nadler, 75, are likewise each trying to claim distinction Tuesday as they face off in a race for New York’s 12th District.
Nadler, who was endorsed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, has talked up his role overseeing Donald Trump’s impeachments while serving as chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Maloney has touted her own check on the former president while serving as chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee.
Challenging them both is 38-year-old lawyer Suraj Patel, who argues it’s time for a new face in Congress.
A CROWDED FIELD FOR AN OPEN SEAT
With Nadler and Maloney running in the district immediately north, a congressional seat covering southern Manhattan, including Wall Street, and Brooklyn is a rare open contest in one of the most liberal and influential areas of the country.
New York’s 10th District has attracted a bevy of progressive candidates, including an incumbent congressman from the New York City suburbs, Mondaire Jones, who moved to the area to run. Jones, one of the first openly gay Black members of Congress, said it’s important to have an LGBTQ representative in the district that includes the West Village and the Stonewall Inn, the site of riots that gave birth to the gay rights movement.
Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to House Democrats in the first impeachment inquiry against Trump, is among his leading challengers.
Other candidates include Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou, New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who last served in Congress in 1981.
TOUGH FIGHT FOR HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ CAMPAIGN CHIEF
New York’s new 17th District, home to idyllic towns along the historic Hudson River Valley, has turned into a tough political fight for Sean Patrick Maloney, the chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Maloney, a Democrat who became New York’s first openly gay congressman when he was elected a decade ago, is facing a primary challenge from state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi.
Biaggi, a 36-year-old progressive endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is a granddaughter of former Bronx congressman Mario Biaggi. She has sought to portray Maloney as out of touch and part of the establishment.
Maloney, who has the backing of former President Bill Clinton, has campaigned on Democrats’ recent legislative wins in Congress and warns the seat could fall to Republicans in November if the Democratic nominee is too liberal.
REPUBLICANS VIE TO REPLACE CONGRESSMAN AFTER BACKLASH
A Republican race in western New York has become a heated contest to replace GOP Rep. Chris Jacobs.
Jacobs decided not to seek reelection after facing backlash from his own party for voicing support for an assault weapons ban following a racist mass shooting in his hometown of Buffalo in May.
Tuesday’s race in New York’s redrawn 23rd District features New York’s Republican Party chair, Nick Langworthy, and Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.
Paladino, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2010, has a long history of inflammatory and offensive remarks, including recent comments that praised Adolf Hitler and circulated conspiracy theories around mass shootings.
SPECIAL ELECTIONS
New Yorkers are not only casting votes in primary races Tuesday but are also electing two new House members to fill vacancies for the rest of the year.
One of the special elections will be a battleground race in southern and central New York to replace Democrat Antonio Delgado, who became New York’s lieutenant governor. Republican Marc Molinaro and Democrat Pat Ryan are vying for the seat in what is currently New York’s 19th Congressional District.
In western New York, Democrat Max Della Pia and Republican Joe Sempolinski are running to serve out the rest of the year in what is currently New York’s 23rd District. They are competing in a GOP-favored seat to replace Republican Rep. Tom Reed, who resigned in May, a year after he was accused of sexual misconduct.
GAETZ TESTED AFTER SCANDAL
The primary in Florida will be a test of whether Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Trump protégé who is under federal investigation in a sex trafficking case, is losing support among moderate Republicans.
Gaetz has not been charged and denies wrongdoing. He is facing a challenge from Mark Lombardo, a former Marine and executive at FedEx who has blanketed the western Panhandle with attack ads centering around the investigation as he tries to take him on in Florida’s 1st Congressional District.
Competing in the Democratic primary for the seat in the heavily Republican district is Rebekah Jones, a former Department of Health employee who questioned the state’s COVID-19 data, though a state inspector general’s report concluded her allegations were unfounded. She has tapped into national support for fundraising, bringing in more than $500,000, and is facing Peggy Schiller, a local Democratic Party activist who has only raised about $34,000 for the race.
TIGHT CONTEST FOR NEW CONGRESSWOMAN
Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who has only been in office since January, easily defeated a rival for the second time.
Cherfilus-McCormick, who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties in the state’s 20th Congressional District, was being challenged by former Broward County Mayor Dale Holness. Holness last year narrowly lost their special primary election by five votes to serve the remaining months of the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings’ term.
Since then, the rivalry between Cherfilus-McCormick and Holness had only grown more bitter. Last month, Cherfilus-McCormick sued Holness, alleging defamation and seeking more than $1 million in damages. The lawsuit alleges that a Holness aide accused her in a text message of embezzling millions to help her buy the congressional seat.
Holness told NBC6 in South Florida that he wasn’t consulted about the text message before his campaign sent it out. But he says he still has questions about Cherfilus-McCormick’s campaign finances. Cherfilus-McCormick maintains that she used money from her business for her campaign.
Cherfilus-McCormick is expected to cruise to victory in November in the heavily Democratic district.
CROWDED PACK FOR POSSIBLE GOP PICKUP
Republicans have another pickup opportunity in the seat held by Democrat Stephanie Murphy, who isn’t seeking reelection.
The new configuration of her district, Florida’s 7th, shifts it from competitive to comfortably Republican.
State Rep. Anthony Sabatini, one of the Florida Legislature’s most conservative members, is part of an eight-candidate primary. Sabatini is known for bucking his own party in the Legislature because it was not conservative enough for him. He has also called for defunding the FBI after the search of Mar-a-Lago and promoted false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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Farrington reported from Tallahassee, Fla.
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Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter, https://twitter.com/ap_politics. | 2022-08-24T00:10:24+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/politics/ap-politics/redrawn-maps-shuffle-us-house-primaries-in-new-york-florida/ |
3 killed after small plane crashes into home
DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now/Gray News) – Three people in their 30s were killed when a small plane crashed into a house in Minnesota Saturday night.
According to authorities, the pilot and two passengers died when the plane hit the second floor of the home and landed in the backyard.
Jason Hoffman and his wife were sleeping in their bed when the plane crashed. They said it sounded like a bomb going off.
“First thing I saw was that the roof was gone,” Hoffman told KBRJ. “So, once I turned the flashlight down around us, we started to see some airplane parts. There was a wheel next to the bed.”
Hoffman said the dust from the insulation was so thick that he couldn’t see his wife in the bed next to him.
He said it was traumatizing and feels terrible for the three people in the plane, but also feels extremely lucky to be alive, seeing as the plane came right over the top of their bodies.
“If you’re on the bed and you look straight up at the impact, the lowest spot of the impact was 18 inches above our heads,” Hoffman said.
According to a Hermantown city spokesperson, Hermantown Police were notified by Duluth International Airport that a Cessna 172 had left radar and possibly crashed late Saturday night.
The last location it was seen on radar was 1.5 miles south of the airport.
Copyright 2022 Norther News Now via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-03T15:26:39+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/10/03/3-killed-after-small-plane-crashes-into-home/ |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president, who had announced he would resign Wednesday, has fled the country after months of turmoil culminated in protesters converging on the presidential palace. Here’s what’s happening in Sri Lanka:
— The country is hurtling toward bankruptcy
— Daily essentials including food and medicine are scarce
— Political corruption has deepened mistrust in the government
— The double whammy of government and economic instability is further complicating recovery
Sri Lanka’s prime minister, who said he’ll step down after a new government is installed, says the island nation’s debt-laden economy has “collapsed” as it runs out of money to pay for food, fuel and medicine. It’s been relying on help from neighboring India, China and from the International Monetary Fund.
Outgoing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office in May, was emphasizing the monumental task he faces in turning around an economy he said is heading for “rock bottom.”
Sri Lankans are skipping meals as they endure shortages, lining up for hours to try to buy scarce fuel and cooking gas. It’s a harsh reality for a country whose economy had been growing quickly, with a growing and comfortable middle class, until the latest crisis deepened.
Here’s the situation in Sri Lanka:
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HOW SERIOUS IS THIS CRISIS?
The government owes $51 billion and is unable to make interest payments on its loans, let alone put a dent in the amount borrowed. Tourism, an important engine of economic growth, has sputtered because of the pandemic and concerns about safety after terror attacks in 2019. And its currency has collapsed by 80%, making imports more expensive and worsening inflation that is already out of control, with food costs rising 57%, according to official data.
The Finance Ministry says Sri Lanka has only $25 million in usable foreign reserves. It needs $6 billion to stay afloat over the next six months.
The result is a country on the edge of bankruptcy, with hardly any money to import gasoline, milk, cooking gas, medicine and even toilet paper.
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WHAT ROLE DID POLITICS PLAY?
Economists say the crisis stems from domestic factors such as years of mismanagement and corruption.
Much of the public’s ire has focused on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The latter resigned after weeks of anti-government protests that eventually turned violent.
In April 2021, Rajapaksa suddenly banned imports of chemical fertilizers. The push for organic farming caught farmers by surprise and decimated staple rice crops, driving prices higher.
The government needed to boost its revenues as foreign debt for big — and questionable — infrastructure projects soared, but instead Rajapaksa pushed through the largest tax cuts in Sri Lankan history. Creditors downgraded Sri Lanka’s ratings, blocking it from borrowing more money as its foreign reserves sank.
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HOW IS IT AFFECTING REAL PEOPLE?
Tropical Sri Lanka normally is not lacking for food but people are going hungry. The U.N. World Food Program says nearly nine of 10 families are skipping meals or otherwise skimping to stretch out their food, while 3 million are receiving emergency humanitarian aid.
The Ukraine war has pushed prices of food and oil higher. Inflation was near 40% and food prices were up nearly 60% in May.
Doctors have resorted to social media to try to get critical supplies of equipment and medicine. They also warned people to do anything to avoid falling ill or getting into accidents. Growing numbers of Sri Lankans are seeking passports to go overseas in search of work. Government workers have been given an extra day off for three months to allow them time to grow their own food. In short, people are suffering and desperate for things to improve.
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WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING ABOUT IT?
This latest is Wickremesinghe’s sixth term as prime minister. His appointment was one of many moves to instill confidence in the government and get the economy back on track as protesters demanded the end of the Rajapaksa dynasty.
So far, Sri Lanka has been muddling through, mainly supported by $4 billion in credit lines from neighboring India. An Indian delegation was in the capital Colombo on June 23 for talks on more assistance, but Wickremesinghe warned against expecting India to keep Sri Lanka afloat for long.
Earlier in June, the United Nations began a worldwide public appeal for assistance. So far, projected funding barely scratches the surface of the $6 billion the country needs to stay afloat over the next six months.
Wickremesinghe told The Associated Press in a June 12 interview that he would consider buying more steeply discounted oil from Russia to help tide the country through its crisis.
Some of the policies that contributed to economic damage have since been reversed, including the 2019 tax cuts and last year’s chemical fertilizer import ban, but it will take time before any effects are evident.
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WHAT’S NEXT FOR SRI LANKA?
“Sri Lanka pins last hopes on IMF,” said a recent headline in the Colombo Times newspaper. The government is in negotiations with the IMF on a bailout plan and Wickremesinghe said June 22 that he expected to have a preliminary agreement with the IMF by late July. But that also hinges on his replacement and a new government being installed.
Political corruption is also a problem; not only did it play a role in the country squandering its wealth, but it also complicates any financial rescue for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s leaders agreed that lawmakers will elect a new president July 20 but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government.
Anit Mukherjee, a policy fellow and economist at the Center for Global Development in Washington, said any assistance from the IMF or World Bank should come with strict conditions to make sure the aid isn’t mismanaged.
Still, Mukherjee noted that Sri Lanka sits in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, so letting a country of such strategic significance collapse is not an option. | 2022-07-13T15:42:46+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/explainer-whats-happened-and-whats-next-in-sri-lanka/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday night signed into law a bill that would ban abortions in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy.
DeSantis quietly signed the bill (SB-300) — called Florida’s “Heartbeat Protection Act” — at his office at around 11 p.m., according to a Twitter post from the governor’s office.
“Signed the Heartbeat Protection Act, which expands pro-life protections and devotes resources to help young mothers and families,” the post read.
The bill will ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for life-threatening medical complications. Pregnancies involving rape or incest can be terminated at up to 15 weeks, but documentation, such as a restraining order or police report, would be required.
Reproductive health advocates have called the parameters for exemptions restrictive, and have pointed out that many people do not find out they are pregnant until it is too late.
“This ban will compound the harms already done in Florida, denying people access to essential care and forcing some to carry pregnancies against their will. This is unconscionable and unsustainable,” said Stephanie Fraim, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. “Florida’s Planned Parenthood affiliates will do everything in our power to mitigate the harm of this ban and ensure that people can still get abortion care, whether in Florida or elsewhere.”
On Thursday, Republicans and Democrats duked it out on the House floor for nearly eight hours as they argued their opposing positions.
Rep. David Borrero (R-Miami) referred to abortion as “dismemberment of an innocent human child.” Rep. Robin Bartleman (D-Broward) disagreed, saying, “No one belongs in that room but me, my husband, my God and my doctor.”
Things got heated in the House gallery, too. Abortion rights protesters threw wads of paper at lawmakers on the chamber floor, prompting security to clear the gallery and close the chamber to spectators.
House Democrats fiercely opposed the legislation, but in the end, they were outnumbered by Republican supermajorities in both chambers. Still, voters in Tampa Bay appeared divided on either side of the issue.
“Every human being has been created in God’s image,” said Phyllis Esposito, with the Tampa Bay Pro-Life Alliance. “And to take somebody else’s life is never OK.”
May Thach, with the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, disagreed, saying the legislation is “just an arbitrary number that again just further restricts people and their access to healthcare.”
Although the bill was signed, it faces a major roadblock before it can go into effect. One of the following events would first need to take place, at which point the bill would go into effect 30 days later:
- A decision by the Florida Supreme Court holds that the right to privacy enshrined in the Florida Constitution does not include a right to abortion
- A decision by the Florida Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. State, which allows the prohibition on abortions after 15 weeks in Florida statutes, to remain in effect, including a decision approving, in whole or in part, the first district court of appeal’s decision under review or a decision discharging jurisdiction
- An amendment to the Florida constitution clarifying that S. 23, Article I of the state constitution does not include a right to abortion
- A decision from the Florida Supreme Court, receding, in whole or in part, from in re T.W., 551 So. 2d 1186 (Fla. 1989), 312 North Fla. Women’s Health v. State, 866 So. 2d 612 (Fla. 2003), 313 or Gainesville Woman Care, LLC v. State, 210 So. 3d 1243 (Fla. 314 2017)
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, September 5, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
832 PM CDT Mon Sep 5 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Tarrant
County through 900 PM CDT...
At 831 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Saginaw. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel 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.
This includes Interstate 35W between mile markers 54 and 64.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3294 9743 3294 9722 3278 9723 3279 9744
TIME...MOT...LOC 0131Z 021DEG 4KT 3288 9737
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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TOKYO, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The music video "ARGENT GLASS ft. CHAR" produced by C-chord Ltd. and directed by Katsuyuki NAKANISHI won the Best Music Video award in the competition section at the 23rd Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival (HRIFF 2023) and was among music videos chosen in the Silver Screening Selection of the 11th Berlin Music Video Awards (BMVA 2023) organized by Aviel Silook.
Photos: "ARGENT GLASS ft. CHAR"
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(C) KATSUYUKI NAKANISHI / C-chord Ltd.
BMVA, Europe's largest networking event for the video and music industry, has been held since 2013. The selection process is based on the quality, originality, and diversity of each work, regardless of language, genre, or recognition. The contest is highly recognized internationally as a competition in the music video industry. This year's nominees in each category again include a wide range of works from well-known international artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pharrell Williams, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, DJ Snake, and Oliver Tree. The Silver Screening Selection is a project to select the best films from all entries regardless of category, and the selected films will be screened in June at an awards ceremony to be held at Gretchen-club, one of Berlin's main event venues.
Katsuyuki NAKANISHI is the first Japanese filmmaker to win the Best Music Video Award in the Music Video Competition at HRIFF 2023 for his film, and this BMVA 2023 selection is also a rare accomplishment.
HRIFF is an independent film festival held annually since 2001 in Los Angeles, the center of the U.S. film industry, and is dedicated to discovering the works of up-and-coming filmmakers and actors. California's most iconic movie theaters, L.A. LIVE / Staples Center, host premieres, parties, and celebrity events dedicated to its mission of honoring the best new filmmakers and discovering important films from around the world. Receiving the Best Music Video award is often a big step up for independent filmmakers, and this award
is of great significance to NAKANISHI.
About "ARGENT GLASS ft. CHAR" (2022)
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*Music Video was released in April 2023.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL, USA -- On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are talking about the football futures of the ACC and Pac-12.
The last two weeks, they looked at what the 16-team leagues of the SEC and Big Ten will look like in 2024. With some recent news, things are more uncertain for the ACC and Pac-12.
First, what does it mean that the Florida State athletic director made a presentation outlining how Florida State brings in more to the ACC that it actually gets paid for? Are the Seminoles looking for a way out?
Then, how are the slow-moving media rights negotiations for the Pac-12 affecting the futures of teams there? Could programs like Oregon or Washington really want new conference homes?
Once again, Doug and Shehan disagree here, which is nothing new.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A man who appeared to be shot dead by Russian-speakers in a short video was tentatively identified Tuesday as a missing Ukrainian soldier while the footage circulated widely on Ukrainian social media and caused an uproar.
The country’s chief prosecutor announced a criminal investigation into the killing, and human rights chief Dmytro Lubinets argued that it was a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Senior Ukrainian officials alleged, without providing further evidence, that the man was an unarmed prisoner of war killed by Russian soldiers. In the video, the man did not appear to be armed.
The 30th Mechanized Brigade on its Facebook page named the man as Tymofii Shadura. The identification is based on preliminary information and is not final, it said.
Shadura has been missing for just over a month, since disappearing during bitter fighting in the Bakhmut area of eastern Ukraine, the post said. The city has been a combat hot spot as the war extends into its second year.
His identity is to be confirmed once the body is returned from a Russian-occupied area, the post added, though it did not say when that might happen.
The Ukrainian military’s general staff gave the same name for the dead soldier, saying it was “according to preliminary information.”
In the 12-second video, the man in combat fatigues is seen in a wooded area smoking a cigarette.
Someone off-camera is heard speaking in Russian. The man then says “Glory to Ukraine” and is hit by a volley of gunshots, falling into a hole in the ground, with an off-camera voice saying “Die,” followed by an expletive.
The Associated Press could not verify the video’s authenticity, any details about when it was recorded or anything about the people involved.
Questions sent by the AP to the Russian military about the clip did not immediately receive a reply.
The video circulated widely on social media in Ukraine and unleashed an outcry.
In his nightly video address Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “I want us all together, in unity, to respond to (the soldier’s) words: “Glory to the hero! Glory to heroes! Glory to Ukraine!” And we will find the killers.”
Moscow also has expressed suspicion about the treatment of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces.
Last November, Ukraine said it would open an investigation into video footage that circulated on Russian social media, which Moscow alleged shows Ukrainian soldiers killing Russian troops who may have been trying to surrender after one of the men seemingly refused to lay down his weapon and opened fire.
In other developments:
— Ukraine and Russia completed another exchange of captives. Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak reported that 130 Ukrainian soldiers returned from Russian captivity, most of them with severe injuries. Russia’s Defense Ministry said 90 Russian servicemen were returned from territory controlled by Kyiv. Since the beginning of the war, 1,993 people have been returned from captivity, according to Lubinets.
— U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was on his way to Ukraine for a meeting Wednesday in Kyiv with Zelenskyy. The two are due to discuss the extension of an agreement that allows Ukraine to export grain from its Black Sea ports and permits Russia to export food and fertilizers.
— Ukraine’s presidential office reported Tuesday that at least one civilian was killed and 11 more were wounded in Ukraine over the previous 24 hours. Fierce battles continued in the region for the key city of Bakhmut, where fewer than 4,000 civilians remain from a prewar population of 70,000, according to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
— A parliamentary delegation from Hungary said Tuesday during a visit to Denmark that it supports Sweden’s NATO membership. Some Hungarian lawmakers had balked at supporting the NATO membership applications by Sweden and Finland, due to what they called “blatant lies” from Stockholm and Helsinki on the state of Hungary’s democracy.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-03-07T22:02:16+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/ukraine-military-identifies-soldier-seen-in-grisly-war-video/ |
WOW! Beautiful Alcova Property Has a Fantastic Lake View and a Guest House
There aren't a lot of places in Wyoming that give off those "by the water, celebrity crib" vibes, but this is definitely one of them.
This beautiful home was listed by Michael Lockard, Real Estate Leaders for asking price of $699,500. The listing states:
Fantastic Lake Views! This home has it all! 5000 sq ft. of living space, featuring 5 bedrooms , 4 bath Custom built home with a guest house that will sleep 4 and has a full kitchen and bath. Wonderful deck that has great views of the Lake. Garage is over 1800 sq ft and is fully finished.
Having grown up the MTV Cribs era, this is one property that really felt like it could be a celebrity-esque home. Even though it's located in the heart of the Cowboy State, it still gives off those California or Hampton's, mini-mansion type energy... but in a good way.
This property is dream for sure. Whether you're looking for a new primary home or maybe an awesome summer vacation spot, this is definitely a good choice. For just under $700K, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal for the quality.
Check out the photos of the entire property, both inside and out below. | 2022-05-18T02:22:51+00:00 | k2radio.com | https://k2radio.com/wow-beautiful-alcova-property-has-a-fantastic-lake-view-and-a-guest-house/ |
Ousted Fox News personality Tucker Carlson talked publicly on Wednesday for the first time since being booted from the network, but he had nothing to say about parting ways with Fox News.
The network announced earlier this week Carlson would no longer fill the coveted 8 p.m. time slot, which has perennially been among the most viewed windows on cable TV. Carlson’s comments came in the form of a two-minute video posted to Twitter.
The video was posted at 8:01 p.m. ET, which was about the same time his old program aired.
"You notice when you take a little time off how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. They're completely irrelevant,” Carlson said. “They mean nothing in five years.”
In the video, Carlson complained that legitimate debates are not permitted in American media and that both political parties “reached consensus on what benefits them.” The comments echoed a theme Carlson used on air when he would delegitimize American institutions, like the U.S. voting process.
He ended the video by saying, “See you soon.”
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During and following the Trump administration, he became an advocate for Donald Trump. He often echoed many of Trump’s unfounded claims that the election was stolen, despite dozens of court rulings to the contrary.
In a court filing from Dominion Voting Systems, Dominion noted that Carlson called Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election “the single greatest crime in American history," as he echoed false claims made by Trump attorney Sidney Powell.
But off the air, Carlson apparently sang a different tune.Text messages that surfaced during the Dominion case showed Carlson texting, “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights” and that “I truly can't wait.”
Carlson was given exclusive access to video of the Jan. 6 insurrection by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Other news outlets, including Scripps News, have asked for access to the video.
Carlson then used the video to downplay the insurrection, claiming the riot was not an insurrection and that some of those charged for being on Capitol had their civil liberties “annihilated.”
Fox News’ announcement came on the same day CNN and Don Lemon also parted ways.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-04-27T12:22:31+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/tucker-carlson-speaks-out-for-first-time-since-fox-news-dismissal |
Gag order issued ahead of Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial after ‘inflammatory’ remarks
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A top Texas Republican who will oversee Attorney General Ken Paxton ‘s impeachment trial issued a sweeping gag order Monday that scolded “inflammatory” public comments made by lawyers on both sides ahead of the historic September proceedings.
The order by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the powerful leader of the state Senate, underscored how Paxton’s fight for his political survival over accusations of abuse of office has drawn some of Texas’ brashest and highest-profile legal figures.
The impact was swift: Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, Paxton’s lead attorney, canceled a news conference scheduled for Tuesday after the order was issued. The news conference had been announced in a statement that accused a “kangaroo court” in the Texas House of driving the impeachment.
“The court finds that individuals involved in the trial of impeachment will likely continue to make public prejudicial and inflammatory statements unless this order is issued,” Patrick wrote.
State senators who will serve as Paxton’s jury once his trial begins Sept. 5 were already barred from speaking publicly about the case under rules issued earlier this summer. But Patrick, a former Houston broadcaster and conservative talk radio host who will serve as the trial’s presiding officer, is now reining in attorneys on both sides.
The trial has no shortage of Texas legal star power. On one side is Buzbee, whose past clients include former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and women who accused NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual harassment and assault. On the other side is Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin, who will present the case to impeach Paxton and combined have represented a long roster of celebrities and famous figures.
Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations by members of his own staff that he used his office to help a donor. He was separately indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, though he has yet to stand trial.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Bourbon Street Extravaganza, a free concert held in New Orleans amid Southern Decadence — one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ events — has been canceled over monkeypox concerns, organizers said Wednesday.
The concert was scheduled to return Sept. 3 for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut down Decadence in 2020. It normally attracts up to 20,000 people to the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets in New Orleans’ French Quarter outside the bar Napoleon’s Itch.
The concert’s producer, Chuck Robinson, called off the concert in light of the rapidly spreading monkeypox virus, news outlets reported. The virus, which seems to disproportionately affect gay and bisexual men, is spread by prolonged skin-to-skin contact.
“I regret that we can’t do the show, but monkeypox just came out of the blue, and quickly,” Robinson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “My concerns have to be the safety of the artists and the production team.”
He added there were plans to bring in stars from Australia and England and yet the virus has “stats that frighten me.”
“It’s spread by touch and closeness, not by droplets like COVID and I did not feel, in all good conscious, that I could be responsible for an event that could become a mass spreader,” he said.
The Washington Post first reported on the Bourbon Street Extravaganza’s cancelation as part of a story about the growing threat of monkeypox. There have been concerns about the lack of availability of the monkeypox vaccine in Louisiana, which has 120 confirmed cases, state health officials said.
Earlier this month, the Louisiana Department of Health said it was in contact with Southern Decadence organizers to get people vaccinated before the event scheduled to run Sept. 1-5 over the extended Labor Day holiday weekend.
Since 1972, Southern Decadence has grown from an informal gathering to an annual blowout that draws thousands of revelers to New Orleans over the long holiday weekend. In 2019, an estimated 225,000 people attended various events and the wide-ranging street party. An even larger crowd was expected this year.
The Bourbon Street Extravaganza has been part of Southern Decadence since 2004, the year Robinson and co-founder Ron Julian opened Napoleon’s Itch at 734 Bourbon. Robinson and Julian launched the concert on an outdoor stage in part as a way to promote their new bar, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. Over the years, Jeanie Tracy became a frequent, and favorite, performer at the concert.
“It has grown into the largest event of Southern Decadence,” Robinson said. “It’s our gift to the city.”
Robinson said the concert will return in 2023.
“I pray for everyone’s safety, but this is what I had to do,” he said of the decision to cancel.
Other Southern Decadence events and promotions are still on as scheduled. | 2022-08-19T00:00:14+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/monkeypox-cancels-free-concert-held-at-southern-decadence/ |
CHICAGO, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ludex is a Chicago-based technology company in the trading card industry that uses artificial intelligence to allow collectors to scan, value, and digitally organize their trading card collections. Ludex has built the most accurate and fastest trading card scanner and price guide app. Investors include Chicago Bears linebacker Cassius Marsh, a mega-influencer for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Cassius has also signed on as an official brand ambassador for Ludex. Cassius is the owner of the popular trading card shop Cash Cards Unlimited in Thousand Oaks in Southern California and stated that "Ludex is a game-changer that's going to save card collectors a lot of time. It provides organization, efficiency, and the ability to price out your collection." Serial entrepreneur Brian Ludden founded Ludex in 2021 and stated, "It's an honor for Ludex to partner with Cassius and the team at Cash Cards Unlimited. Their reach in the MTG community and in the Hobby is a huge asset for Ludex."
Ludex has raised over $8 Million in seed funding to date after seeing a need in the $26 Billion trading card industry. Ludex developed technology using AI that helps both experienced collectors and those new to card collecting figure out what cards they have and what their cards are worth. Ludex has built a community of over 200,000 users and continues to experience exponential growth.
Scan, value, and build your trading card collection at no cost with the Ludex app available for free in the Apple and Google app stores. Currently supported sports cards include graded and ungraded cards of baseball, basketball, football, and hockey with soccer, wrestling, MMA, and racing coming soon. Currently supported non sports categories include Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon with comic books, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Star Wars, and Marvel coming soon.
About Ludex: Using Ludex's advanced AI-scanning technology, there's never been a faster, easier way to value and identify every card in your collection. Take a picture of the card you want to identify and the app will tell you what card you have and its worth. Available free on iOS and Android. www.ludex.com
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Jonathan Anderson and Amina Muaddi to be honored with awards alongside Brunello Cucinelli, recipient of the 2023 Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion.
DALLAS, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) announces an extension of its newly launched Neiman Marcus Awards platform that exemplifies the power visionary leaders have on the fashion industry. The addition of these two accolades signify the program's intent to look to the future of the industry while nodding to the luxury retailer's 85-year legacy of celebrating global fashion luminaries.
Jonathan Anderson, Creative Director of LOEWE, will receive the Neiman Marcus Award for Creative Impact in the Field of Fashion, and accessories designer Amina Muaddi will receive the Neiman Marcus Award for Innovation in the Field of Fashion. A nod to the iconic recognitions of Stanley Marcus, who believed in celebrating multiple individuals in a year and often selected tastemakers at the forefront of their careers, these two honorees each prove to be dynamic forces in their own right. As part of the Awards platform, they will gain access to the full strength of the Neiman Marcus merchandising and brand marketing magic. In turn, these recipients will collaborate with the retailer on a unique expression of their brand that comes to life through exclusive activations for Neiman Marcus customers.
"These two new awards celebrate the pacesetters of creativity and innovation in luxury today. We are committed to Revolutionize Luxury Experiences, and our Creative Impact and Innovation honorees do just that through their unique brand expressions," said Geoffroy van Raemdonck, Chief Executive Officer of NMG. "Our investment in propelling their work forward through the Neiman Marcus Awards platform reflects our commitment to furthering our relationships with brand partners and cultivating deep relationships with high value customers."
Jonathan Anderson was selected to receive the Neiman Marcus Award for Creative Impact in the Field of Fashion for being a prolific voice and force of measurable influence for a storied house. A decade into his tenure at LOEWE, Anderson has revitalized the luxury fashion house. His modern take on the brand's rich history, coupled with a renewed commitment to craftsmanship has earned the house commercial success and solidified Anderson as a leading voice for his generation.
"Jonathan Anderson's passion for his craft is extraordinary. His ability to drive industry trends and forge his own creative path makes him an unparalleled visionary, and very deserving of this award," said Lana Todorovich, Chief Merchandising Officer, Neiman Marcus. "His connection to the arts and subject of surrealism offers a daring and refreshing design perspective. His thought-provoking fashion is a force that transcends across both men's and women's categories with a courageous ability to deliver the unexpected and keep customers on their toes."
Through this awards platform, Neiman Marcus will further strengthen its ongoing partnership with LOEWE by executing unique activations and immersive experiences to amplify the fashion house and engage the true American luxury customer.
"It's such an honor to receive the first Creative Impact Award," said Anderson. "Thank you to Neiman Marcus for acknowledging the incredible journey we've had at LOEWE over the past decade, and of course, I thank my team. Together we've been able to renew a house that's over 175 years old, powered by a shared sense of curiosity and passion for modern craft."
As recipient of the first Neiman Marcus Award for Innovation in the Field of Fashion, Amina Muaddi represents the power of creativity and has successfully achieved an expedited rise in the luxury industry. Her innovative footwear designs are instantly recognizable, combining unique shapes with volume and unexpected materials. After launching her first official collection in 2018, Neiman Marcus quickly recognized her talent and launched her line in Fall 2019 to great acclaim. Since then, Muaddi's footprint with the luxury retailer has more than tripled and her sales trajectory continues to climb, proof that she has grasped the attention and loyalty of the Neiman Marcus customer. Muaddi translates her own energy into immaculate designs, providing luxury customers with a transformative experience when they wear her pieces.
"It is rare in our industry for a young brand to find such immediate success as Amina Muaddi," said Todorovich. "Amina has not only mastered a distinctive aesthetic and cosmopolitan sensibility crafted for the modern-day woman; she is also an accomplished business leader that has proven strength in balancing impressive sales with the importance of innovation, authenticity and brand longevity. Through our partnership, we are committed to our role as a brand maker, providing unfettered access to our platform to accelerate her extraordinary impact and support scaling her business." "I was so thrilled to start working with Neiman Marcus soon after I launched my first collection," said Muaddi. "Their commitment to begin our partnership very early in the brand's life helped us expand in the U.S. and connect with their significant clientele and wonderful community. Ever since we started our collaboration, they have been incredibly supportive, always offered valuable insight and encouraged our growth in their universe. I am delighted to be part of this family and we're looking forward to creating many special projects and experiences together!"
NMG previously announced that Brunello Cucinelli will receive the 2023 Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion, recognizing his profound influence on luxury lifestyle fashion and his commitment to humanistic capitalism. As part of the program, Brunello Cucinelli designed the Icon Collection for Neiman Marcus comprised of women's and men's ready-to-wear, shoes, and bags, and will be exclusively available in 10 Neiman Marcus stores and online in April 2023.
The Neiman Marcus Awards will recognize its three 2023 honorees on March 5 during Paris Fashion Week, bringing together global business leaders and creative forces from the retailer's top brand partners, past NM Award recipients, and fashion notables for a unique industry celebration.
For more information on the NM Awards, visit the NM Awards website and watch the NM Awards Creative Impact and Innovation Awards Video.
ABOUT NM AWARDS
NM Awards is a new platform to recognize and amplify breakthrough luminaries in fashion globally. The platform includes the return of the prestigious Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion, a legacy established by Carrie Marcus Neiman and Stanley Marcus 85 years ago, as well as two expanded categories: the Neiman Marcus Award for Creative Impact in the Field of Fashion and the Neiman Marcus Award for Innovation in the Field of Fashion.
The Distinguished Service Award has been given to over 150 luxury fashion luminaries in the industry, including Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Grace Kelly, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Salvatore Ferragamo, Carolina Herrera, Estée Lauder and Baccarat, among others.
The reimagined awards are an extension of the company's growth strategy to Revolutionize Luxury Experiences. It celebrates brand partners who share an interest in NMG's innovative approach to retail and purpose-driven commitment to creating impact. As a relationship business, the awards platform embodies the company's differentiated business model, connecting brand partners to luxury customers in entirely new ways.
ABOUT NEIMAN MARCUS GROUP (NMG)
Neiman Marcus Group is a relationship business that leads with love in everything we do for our customers, associates, brand partners, and communities. Our legacy of innovating and our culture of Belonging guide our roadmap for Revolutionizing Luxury Experiences. As one of the largest multi-brand luxury retailers in the U.S., with the world's most desirable brand partners, we are delivering exceptional products and intelligent services, enabled by our investments in data and technology. Through the expertise of our 10,000+ associates, we deliver and scale a personalized luxury experience across our three facets of integrated retail: in-store, online, and remote selling. Our NMG|Way culture, powered by our people, combines individual talents into a collective strength to make life extraordinary. Our flagship brands include Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. For more information, visit neimanmarcusgroup.com.
ABOUT LOEWE
Created in Spain in 1846, LOEWE has been one of the world's major luxury houses for over 176 years. Under the creative direction of Jonathan Anderson since 2013, the brand is now in a new chapter, presenting itself to the world as a house focused on craft and culture; evidenced through an intellectual yet playful approach to fashion, bold and vibrant Spanish lifestyle, and unmatched expertise with leather.
ABOUT AMINA MUADDI
Amina Muaddi is a self-titled international luxury accessories brand founded in 2018 by the eponymous Jordanian and Romanian designer. Conceptualized in Paris and made in Italy, Muaddi's collections combine centuries of shoe-making expertise with a modern global fashion perspective, timeless quality meeting cutting- edge designs. Amina Muaddi has expanded the contemporary woman's footwear closet, offering original and recognizable silhouettes in her heels. From the brand's loyal consumer following to its influence on pop culture with collaborations from Wolford, to AWGE, to film and tv fashion with stand out moments in HBO's Euphoria and Insecure, the brand also expanded into handbags in 2020 and custom jewelry in 2021. Amina Muaddi shoes and accessories can be seen on many of the world's most elusive celebrities and figures such as Rihanna, Serena Williams, Dua Lipa, Julianne Moore or Beyoncé amongst others.
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The company now operates in Austin, Dallas and Houston
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. , May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- West Shore Home®, one of the fastest growing home remodeling companies in the nation, is now operating in Houston, TX. With this new branch, West Shore Home brings the convenience of its one-day installations to the largest city in Texas.
West Shore Home specializes in window, door, and bath remodeling and replacement. Its technology enabled platform allows it to serve its customers quickly and efficiently, from the first phone call to the project design phase, and through the day of installation.
"We are committed to providing the fastest, most convenient home remodeling services in the market," said B.J. Werzyn, President and CEO, West Shore Home. "With this new branch, we have the ability to reach millions of homeowners in the Houston region with our professional one-day installations."
Founded in 2006, West Shore Home has grown to a national brand with 31 operational locations in 15 states. They include Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia. It has continued national expansion plans with a goal of becoming America's Most Admired Home Remodeling Brand™.
With a mission of Bringing Happiness to Every Home™, the company strives for convenient and hassle-free home improvement. With its iPad design app, homeowners can customize their project from dozens of product combinations. Its one-day installation ensures customers won't be burdened by time consuming remodeling projects.
The Houston branch at 10551 Ella Blvd, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77038 provides office space, sales facilities and a warehouse for custom bath, window and door products. It will add dozens of jobs to the region. Those interested in employment opportunities should visit the company careers link.
About West Shore Home®
West Shore Home®, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, PA., is a leading technology-enabled home remodeling services provider with an expanding national footprint. Founded in 2006, West Shore Home's national brand promise is Bringing Happiness to Every Home™ by delivering a fast, easy and convenient home remodeling experience. From the first phone call to the final installation, customers have a streamlined experience and associate the West Shore Home brand with consistent high quality, transparency, and trust. For additional information visit westshorehome.com.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
1037 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following river in Texas...
Sabine River Near Mineola affecting Wood and Smith Counties.
For the Sabine River...including Mineola...Minor flooding is
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
For more hydrologic information, copy and paste the following website
address into your favorite web browser URL bar:
water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=shv
The next statement will be issued Friday afternoon at 1215 PM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW EVENING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Sabine River Near Mineola.
* WHEN...Until late Friday evening.
* IMPACTS...At 14 feet, Expect flooding of secondary roadways with
picnic and recreational areas flooded as well. Also expect
flooded boat ramps as well.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 10:15 AM CDT Thursday the stage was 14.5 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 10:15 AM CDT Thursday was 14.5 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage by
late this Thursday evening and continue falling to 3.4 feet
Tuesday morning.
- Flood stage is 14 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — For at least one night, the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t miss Giannis Antetokounmpo at all.
Brook Lopez scored 25 points, Jrue Holiday added 24 and the hot-shooting Bucks withstood Antetokounmpo’s absence while trouncing the Miami Heat 138-122 on Wednesday, tying their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series at a game apiece.
Milwaukee shot 25 of 49 from 3-point range to match an NBA record for 3-pointers in a game as the Bucks showcased their depth by thriving without their two-time MVP. Pat Connaughton, who hadn’t even played in Game 1, scored a playoff career-high 22 points and shot 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.
“Everyone’s ready,” Lopez said. “Everyone has the right mentality coming into the game — the mentality it takes to be a Milwaukee Buck. There’s no one above anyone else. We’re just out there trying to win.”
Antetokounmpo remained out for Milwaukee after leaving the Bucks’ 130-117 Game 1 loss early in the second quarter with a bruised lower back. He suffered the injury on a hard fall after getting fouled late in the first period during a drive to the basket.
“We’ll continue to monitor him and expect for him to improve and still continue to be optimistic that soon he’ll be ready to play,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said before the game.
The Bucks’ ability to succeed without their superstar assured this series would be tied as it heads to Miami for Game 3 on Saturday.
“I would like to be up 2-0, but that’s in the past now,” said Jimmy Butler, who led the Heat with 25 points. “So we’re taking it to the crib, and we’ve got to handle business on our home floor.”
Milwaukee now shares the NBA record for 3-pointers in a playoff game with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who made 25 in a 123-98 victory over the Atlanta Hawks in Game 2 of the 2016 East semifinals.
It was a remarkable turnaround for a team that shot 11 of 45 from beyond the arc in its Game 1 loss.
“There was a stretch there where it seemed like everything was going in,” said Grayson Allen, who was 4 of 8 from beyond the arc and scored 16 points.
Allen was one of six Bucks with at least 16 points as Milwaukee relied on a team effort to make up for Antetokounmpo’s absence. Joe Ingles had 17 points while shooting 5 of 6 from beyond the arc. Khris Middleton had 16.
“It takes the whole team,” Middleton said. “I think you saw that tonight. It wasn’t just one guy that carried us. A lot of people expect me or Jrue to take on all the load that Giannis does, but what he does, we can’t match. So we have to do it by committee.”
The Bucks also were missing guard Wesley Matthews, who had strained his right calf in Game 1. The Heat didn’t have Tyler Herro, who broke his right hand in Game 1 and likely won’t return this season unless Miami reaches the NBA Finals.
The Bucks initially thrived by relying on the same formula they used the last time they played a home postseason game without Antetokounmpo. They gave the ball to Lopez early and often.
Lopez, who scored just 10 points in Game 1, had 14 by the end of the first quarter Wednesday. During Milwaukee’s 2021 title run, Lopez had scored a playoff career-high 34 points to help the Bucks beat the Hawks 123-112 in Game 5 of the East finals while Antetokounmpo was out with a hyperextended left knee.
The success of Lopez inside opened things up for everyone on the perimeter.
Connaughton sank a 3-pointer that capped an 11-0 run to put Milwaukee ahead 62-41 with 5:29 left in the second quarter. Butler ended that spurt by making two free throws, but the Bucks scored the next 13 points – including seven from Ingles – to grab a 32-point lead.
“They had some good, clean, easy looks in the beginning,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said., “And then once they got on a roll, they were hitting some tough step-backs, stuff at the end of the shot clock. Any time there was kind of a momentum shift, they seemed to knock down a big one.”
The Bucks led by as many as 36 in the third quarter. The Heat outscored the Bucks 37-20 in the fourth quarter to make the final score somewhat respectable. TIP-INS
Heat: Duncan Robinson replaced Herro in the starting lineup and had 14 points. … After not playing at all in Game 1, Victor Oladipo had seven points by halftime Wednesday. He finished with 15.
Bucks: Milwaukee had gone 11-8 in regular-season games that Antetokounmpo missed. … Lopez received the NBA Cares Community Assist award for the month of March because of his support of youth literacy. The NBA will donate $10,000 to the Milwaukee Public Library Foundation.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-20T14:56:15+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/bucks-make-25-3s-beat-heat-138-122-without-antetokounmpo/ |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Senate Democrats killed another effort to pass a top priority for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) that would have allowed dealers to be charged with second-degree murder if a drug user dies of an overdose.
The Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee defeated House Bill 1642 sponsored by Del. Terry G. Kilgore (R-Scott) on a party-line vote Monday nearly a month after the panel rejected a similar bill from state Sen. Ryan McDougle (R-Hanover).
The legislation would have allowed prosecutors to charge a drug dealer with second-degree murder, which carries a sentence of five to 40 years, if a user accidentally overdoses and dies.
“The governor is disappointed that Senate Democrats are preventing votes on these common sense bills,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said in a statement. “These bills have passed on a bipartisan basis and they should receive full consideration in the senate.”
Representatives from the governor’s administration and Virginia Attorney General’s Office spoke in favor of Del. Kilgore’s bill Monday, saying the legislation doesn’t seek to criminalize addicts but hold dealers accountable.
The committee’s debate Monday touched on similar points brought up last month. Opponents raised concerns over the bill’s impact on the “good Samaritan law,” claiming the measure would discourage people from calling 911 to report overdoses.
Supporters said the “good Samaritan law” only shields people against possession charges, but not felony homicide charges if they share drugs with someone who dies of an overdose. They noted the proposal would have capped the penalty for such an offense to a Class 5 felony.
Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw (D-Fairfax) voted with Democrats to reject Kilgore’s bill, flipping his vote on Sen. McDougle’s proposal. | 2023-02-13T23:58:40+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/virginia-senate-panel-again-rejects-youngkin-backed-bill-to-treat-overdose-deaths-as-homicides/ |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia has canceled Saturday’s home football game against No. 23 Coastal Carolina in the wake of a weekend shooting on campus that left three players dead and another wounded.
The school said Wednesday it has not determined if the Cavaliers will play their traditional final regular-season game at Virginia Tech on Nov. 26.
A former player, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., is accused of opening fire Sunday night on a bus that was returning from a field trip, killing starting wide receiver Lavel Davis Jr., reserve wide receiver Devin Chandler and linebacker D’Sean Perry. Jones, facing three counts of second-degree murder, two counts of malicious wounding and additional gun-related charges, is being held without bond.
Athletic director Carla Williams said the NCAA’s rules are “permissive” as far as allowing the school to facilitate travel for the team to the players’ funerals, should they choose to do so. Davis was from Dorchester, South Carolina, Chandler was from Huntersville, North Carolina, and Perry was from Miami.
“We’ll do whatever it takes that helps our players heal and support the families of our three players,” Williams said Tuesday.
First-year coach Tony Elliott, who said his goal since the shooting has been to bring the team together as much as possible, said he would take his cues from his players.
“My initial thoughts are to be sensitive of whatever the young men desire to do as it relates to their teammates,” he said. If the team decides it wants to attend the funerals, “I won’t stand in the way of that because this is way bigger than football. This is a life situation here.”
The Cavaliers have not practiced this week and Elliott said he hadn’t thought about games since Sunday, focusing instead on his team and affected families.
“At this point, with the sequence of events and the timing, I just have been focusing on loving these players, consoling the families, trying to make sure that there’s no ripple effect with the guys on the team,” he said. “Because, again, this is something that nobody is prepared to deal with until you’re inside of it. For me the focus is not past today.”
The university made several counselors available to the team and other student-athletes, Williams said, and Elliott became emotional as he described team meetings since Sunday.
“The first meeting was really, really tough. Really, really, really tough,” he said Tuesday, pausing to collect himself. “Today was much better. We were able to transition from the pain to finding a little bit of joy and celebrating the lives of Lavel, D’Sean and Devin.”
Elliott attended the news conference after visiting the hospital where running back Mike Hollins, who was wounded in the attack, underwent a second surgery on Tuesday.
Hollins was removed from a ventilator Tuesday and was able to receive visits from family and friends, said Joe Gipson, a family spokesman.
“He’s aware, active — all the positive things,” Gipson said.
A fifth student who was not a member of the football team also was wounded in the shooting.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is offering support for the creation of an international court to prosecute alleged crimes of aggression by Russia against Ukraine.
In comments this week, senior U.S. officials said the administration believes that would be the best way to hold Russia accountable for its year-old invasion. However, they also acknowledge that the prospects for a court to actually take custody of any Russian official for trial are slim.
“The United States supports the development of a special tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine in the form of an internationalized court that is rooted in Ukraine’s judicial system, with international elements,” the State Department said in comments emailed to reporters.
The officials said they envision a hybrid tribunal based on the Ukrainian justice system but with international components — similar to previous ad hoc war crimes courts set up for Cambodia, Chad, the Central African Republic and Bosnia — and likely based in The Hague, Netherlands.
“This kind of model — an internationalized national court — will facilitate broader international support and demonstrate Ukraine’s leadership in ensuring accountability for the crime of aggression,” the State Department said. “It also builds upon the example of other successful justice mechanisms.”
The Hague will be home to the International Center for Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression, a Ukraine-focused investigations unit that is expected to be fully operational this summer. The center’s offices and staff could be incorporated into whatever tribunal is eventually created, the U.S. officials said.
The Hague also hosts the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. The ICC prosecutor issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and an aide earlier this month for the abductions of Ukrainian children.
But the U.S. is not a member of the ICC, which complicates its ability to support the court with evidence or other information that could be used in its prosecutions. | 2023-03-30T15:27:48+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/politics/ap-politics/us-backs-international-court-for-russias-war-in-ukraine/ |
ST. LOUIS (AP)St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Jack Flaherty was scheduled to make his first start of the season in the series finale against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday.
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol made the surprise announcement before the first game of a day-night doubleheader against the Pirates on Tuesday. Flaherty had been scheduled to make his third minor league injury rehabiliation start on Wednesday. Marmol said he will be held to around 60 pitches.
Flaherty had a platelet-rich-plasma injection in his shoulder in early March to combat inflammation. He has been impressive in two minor league starts at Double-A Springfield and Triple-A Memphis, allowing just one run in seven total innings.
Flaherty, 26, is considered the ace of the Cardinals staff and has a career record of 32-24 with a 3.34 ERA. He went 9-2 last season with a 3.22 ERA before the shoulder injury cut his season short.
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More AP MLB coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | 2022-06-15T13:34:27+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/cardinals-pitcher-flaherty-to-make-season-debut-vs-pirates/ |
DALLAS — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has taken issue with how her team’s style is characterized, apparently taking aim at Iowa coach Lisa Bluder for suggesting rebounding against the Gamecocks was like “going to a bar fight.”
“There was absolutely no ill intent,” Bluder said in the news conference setting up the Hawkeyes’ meeting Sunday with LSU in the national championship game.
“I know coaches will take things and spin it to try to motivate their team,” the Iowa coach said. “I’ve done that, I’m sure. So be it with that. I really meant it as a compliment, like you are going to have to fight harder than you’ve ever fought in your life to get a defensive rebound against this team because they are so good. That’s what my intent was.”
Bluder was responding to a question about South Carolina’s size and offensive rebounding in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday, after the Final Four matchups were set.
“I mean, they’re an amazing offensive rebounding team,” Bluder said. “Somebody kind of just described it to me as you’re going to a bar fight when you try to go rebound against them, they’re just so good.”
After the loss to the Hawkeyes, Staley made a direct reference to “bar fighters” but said her concerns were prompted by what she said were derogatory remarks from unspecified national reporters about her team at an event the night before the semifinals.
The two-time NCAA championship coach said she intended to address her concerns regardless of the outcome at the Final Four. Staley had been asked what was the truth about her team when others had suggested her players were bullies.
“The truth about our team?” Staley said Friday. “That’s a good question. We’re not bar fighters. We’re not thugs. We’re not monkeys. We’re not street fighters.”
Staley said comments relayed to her after the event Thursday night were hurtful to her players.
“If you really knew them, if you really knew them, like you really want to know other players that represent this game, you would think differently,” Staley said Friday. “So don’t judge us by the color of our skin. Judge us by how we approach the game.”
The Gamecocks were ranked No. 1 all season with a dominant frontcourt led by 6-foot-5 star Aliyah Boston. Their No. 2 rebounder and third-leading scorer was 6-7 center Kamilla Cardoso.
“You may not like how we play the game, you may not like it, that’s the way we play,” Staley said. “That’s the way I coach. I’m not changing. We found success in it, and maybe some days like today, we end up on the losing side of the stick. But guess what? We live to see another day.”
It’s not the first time this season comments from an opposing coach bothered Staley.
After the Gamecocks beat Connecticut in February, Huskies coach Geno Auriemma was referring to bruises on Lou Lopez Senechal when he said, “It’s just appalling what teams do to her now.”
“It’s not basketball anymore. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not basketball,” Auriemma added.
Staley responded on her radio show two days later, saying “We’ve been called so many things and I’m sick of it. I’m sick of it because I coach some of the best human beings the game has ever had.”
Auriemma said he was criticizing the officials, not South Carolina’s style of play.
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Philadelphia Mayor Kenney admits he hasn't met with single family of 300 homicide victims
PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Jim Kenney made a shocking admission during a gun violence press conference Tuesday as Philadelphia homicides reach 300 so far this year.
When asked by FOX 29's Kelly Rule if he had met with any families of those 300 homicide victims, the mayor said he had not.
"I have not spoken specifically to families," Kenney said. "I have spoken to the officers involved in the shootings, but have not spoken individually to people."
The mayor went on to say to it is difficult to interact with people during investigations.
"I don't know that its productive that I intercede while the investigation is going on," he said.
Kenney confirmed his admission when pressed with a follow-up question regarding the families of those killed in the city.
"I may have had conversations with them, but there has been no specific meetings set up," he said.
However, it was also revealed this isn't the first year Kenney hasn't sat down with victims' families during his time as mayor.
"I've never met with any families in almost seven year," he said.
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Kenney's comment come just weeks after the mayor said he will be "happy" to leave office following a shooting at Philadelphia's Fourth of July fireworks display.
The mayor's office later issued a statement to "clarify" Kenney's admission:
"To be clear, the Mayor has met with several mothers of children who were killed in the city, mainly through CJPS's GVI program." | 2022-07-19T20:41:39+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/philadelphia-mayor-admits-he-hasnt-met-with-a-single-family-of-300-homicide-victims-this-year |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.( KNWA/KFTA)– The Fayetteville Public Library is in need of donations as they’re attempting to move on to phase two of their expansion process.
As Northwest Arkansas keeps on growing, the library wants to make sure it is keeping up as well.
They completed phase one of its expansion plan back in 2021, as they set a goal of $23 million for the expansion process.
To move on to phase two they will need to pay off the remaining balance of phase one to provide those new renovations for the public.
Phase two will include a genealogy program and a coding lab to provide real-world experience with an important skill.
“It will have a climate-controlled genealogy room where we have rare and single copy family heirloom texts; where you can come in and know that it will be safe there and your family’s history will be preserved,” said Lauren Husband of the FPL.
According to Husband, the Fayetteville Public Library is accepting donations at any time.
She says the library enjoys being a resource for the community to enjoy. | 2022-08-09T19:57:06+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/local-news/fayetteville-public-library-in-need-of-donations/ |
$6M in fentanyl pills seized in the Bronx
NEW YORK - Two men face charges after approximately 300,000 "rainbow fentanyl" pills and 20 pounds of powdered fentanyl were seized in the Bronx.
Prosecutors say they were found in an apartment adjacent to the Bronx River Parkway, near the border of Westchester County.
Authorities say they also found a Tec-9 semi-automatic assault weapon, a hydraulic door opener and 11 GPS devices in the search.
Some of the fentanyl pills resembled pharmaceutical drugs, including oxycodone and Xanax. The size of this major cache of candy-colored fentanyl eclipses that of another "rainbow fentanyl" seizure announced in New York last week.
Approximately 300,000 "rainbow fentanyl" pills and 20 pounds of powdered fentanyl were seized in the Bronx. (NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor)
Erickson Lorenzo, 30, and Jefry Rodriguez-Pichardo, 32, were arrested last Friday as investigators carried out a search warrant at 4030 Bronx Boulevard.
They face drug and weapons charges. They were arraigned on Saturday and bail for each man was set at $500,000 cash/$1 million bond/$1 million partially secured bond. They were required to surrender their passports.
Information about lawyers for the two men was unavailable.
The bust topped another one a few days earlier of 15,000 fentanyl pills in Manhattan.
Approximately 300,000 "rainbow fentanyl" pills and 20 pounds of powdered fentanyl were seized in the Bronx. (NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor) | 2022-10-13T13:20:34+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/6m-in-fentanyl-pills-seized-in-the-bronx |
Senior girls step in to save high school football game from forfeiting
WEWOKA, Okla. (Gray News) – A high school football team in a small town in Oklahoma nearly had to forfeit their game due to the lack of players.
The Wewoka High School football team already had to forfeit a game earlier in the season, also due to a lack of players.
To help the school avoid another automatic loss, two fellow high school seniors stepped up to play.
Softball players Natalie Davis and Callie Ramsey traded in their bats for pads and suited up to play under the Friday night lights.
A video shared by the Wewoka Tigers shows Davis punting the ball nearly 50 yards. In another clip, Davis kicks off and then makes the tackle on the play.
The Tigers ended up losing the home game 47–14 but were happy to get out and play.
Wewoka is located about 70 miles from Oklahoma City.
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The news that French law enforcement officials are looking into possible corruption in awarding contracts for the Paris Olympics threatens to place those Games on the ever-growing list of Olympics that have been tarnished by scandals. A look at notable bidding scandals of the 21st century:
SALT LAKE CITY, 2002 — Possibly the most wide-ranging bidding scandal of all time resulted in the removal of 10 members of the International Olympic Committee and a complete overhaul of the bidding process. The first whiff of scandal came in 1998 when a letter emerged suggesting the Salt Lake City bid committee was paying college tuition for the child of an IOC member. Payments totaling more than $1 million in cash, gifts, trips and scholarships were later discovered. The U.S. Department of Justice opened a case alleging 15 counts of bribery and fraud, though it was later thrown out. One major change is that IOC members were no longer allowed to visit bid cities.
RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016 — The investigation started in 2017, the year after the Olympics were over, when French newspaper Le Monde reported that IOC members had been bribed three days before the vote in 2009. The head of Brazil’s Olympic Committee, IOC member Carlos Nuzman, received a sentence of nearly 31 years in jail for the vote-buying scheme. Nuzman and others were found to have bribed the then-president of the global track federation, Lamine Diack, and his son, Papa Massata Diack, for their votes. The Diacks have been sentenced to jail for corruption in his role at the track federation.
TOKYO, 2020 — Several Japanese companies have been charged with rigging bids for lucrative contracts for the Tokyo Olympics. One of Japan’s largest advertisers, Dentsu, which played a big role in helping Tokyo land the Games, was their chief marketing arm. The company raised a record $3.3 billion in local sponsorships. These cases are still winding through the Japanese courts. A Japanese consulting firm also made payments to Papa Massata Diack at around the time the Games were awarded, though Diack has denied the payments were related to the bid.
BEST OF THE REST — Most other 21st-century Olympics have been tarnished by scandals that haven’t grabbed as many headlines. Among them were payments from Australia’s Olympic chief to African Olympic committees. … There was a dust-up over a purchase of security system s at the Athens Games in 2004. … Though there was no overt bidding scandal for the 2014 Sochi Games, Russia spent more than $50 billion to stage them and many believe that played into the IOC’s treatment of the country after a wide-ranging doping scandal emerged from those Games. … The IOC has been criticized for turning a blind eye to human rights issues in China while holding two Olympics there, in 2008 and 2022.
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MIAMI (AP) — The naming rights deal between FTX and Miami-Dade County was terminated Wednesday by a federal bankruptcy court, a move that allows the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange's brand to be stripped from the arena where the NBA’s Miami Heat play.
The order means that before long — and probably starting very soon — all FTX signage and advertising at the arena will be removed. There was no immediate word from the Heat or the county on when the process will begin.
That will be a massive undertaking. There is FTX branding on the arena's roof, on the basketball court, over many of the entrances, on the polo shirts worn by security personnel and even on many of the electronic cards employees use to gain access to the facility.
Terminating the rights deal “shall be effective immediately upon entry of this order," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John T. Dorsey wrote.
The county asked for the naming rights deal to be terminated in November, saying at the time that continuing to refer to the building as FTX Arena will only add to the “enduring hardships” brought on by the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.
The county owns the arena and negotiated what was to be a 19-year, $135 million naming rights deal with FTX. The Heat were to receive $2 million annually as part of that deal, which went into effect in June 2021.
FTX’s next payment due to the county was to have been $5.5 million on Jan. 1.
FTX was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, though it ended up with billions of dollars' worth of losses — estimates range from $8 billion to $10 billion — before seeking bankruptcy protection after a spectacular crash that took only a few days.
Its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, 30, was arrested last month in the Bahamas and extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges in what U.S. Attorney Damian Williams has called “one of the biggest frauds in American history.” Bankman-Fried has been released on bail and is scheduled to go on trial in October.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-11T18:46:01+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/Miami-Dade-wins-right-to-strip-FTX-name-off-Heat-17710932.php |
Baylor vs. Oklahoma State Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - February 11
Published: Feb. 9, 2023 at 3:47 PM CST|Updated: 4 hours ago
Saturday's game that pits the Baylor Bears (16-7) against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls (17-7) at Gallagher-Iba Arena has a good chance to be a lopsided matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 72-56 in favor of Baylor, who is a heavy favorite according to our model. Game time is at 3:00 PM ET on February 11.
The Bears enter this matchup after a 98-92 loss to Oklahoma on Tuesday.
Baylor vs. Oklahoma State Game Info
- When: Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET
- Where: Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Baylor vs. Oklahoma State Score Prediction
- Prediction: Baylor 72, Oklahoma State 56
Baylor Schedule Analysis
- Against the Iowa State Cyclones, a top 50 team in our computer rankings, the Bears registered their signature win of the season on February 4, a 76-70 road victory.
- Against Quadrant 1 teams, the Bears are 3-6 (.333%) -- tied for the 34th-most wins, but also tied for the 26th-most losses.
- Against Quadrant 2 teams, Baylor is 4-0 (1.000%) -- tied for the 23rd-most wins.
Baylor 2022-23 Best Wins
- 81-70 on the road over Oklahoma (No. 30) on January 3
- 77-73 at home over Kansas (No. 36) on February 1
- 75-62 on the road over Kansas (No. 36) on January 7
- 69-48 at home over Kansas State (No. 42) on January 18
- 75-70 over Villanova (No. 51) on November 26
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Baylor Performance Insights
- The Bears put up 74.6 points per game (42nd in college basketball) while allowing 60.5 per outing (79th in college basketball). They have a +324 scoring differential and outscore opponents by 14.1 points per game.
- In conference play, Baylor is averaging fewer points (72.5 per game) than it is overall (74.6) in 2022-23.
- In 2022-23 the Bears are scoring 0.7 fewer points per game at home (74.5) than away (75.2).
- At home Baylor is allowing 54.9 points per game, 12.1 fewer points than it is away (67.0).
- While the Bears are posting 74.6 points per game in 2022-23, they have fallen short of that over their past 10 games, producing 73.4 points per contest.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-10T01:48:13+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/sports/betting/2023/02/11/baylor-oklahoma-state-womens-college-basketball-picks-predictions/ |
Lee Wright was hard at work, constructing a nail salon near the abandoned hospital in Cairo, Ill., when Jody Johnson stopped by to introduce himself on a recent afternoon.
Johnson, who works for the University of Illinois Extension program, chatted with Wright casually in the summertime heat. For Johnson, it was the first step to building trust in this town of fewer than 2,200 people as extension programs across the U.S. — long valued in rural communities for helping farmers and supporting 4-H clubs — expand their service to include educating the public about COVID-19 vaccines.
Wright, 68, was unvaccinated and planned to remain so, even though he'd followed other public health guidelines during the pandemic. But when it came to getting the shots, he'd decided to leave his fate to his faith.
"Doctors are good. Don't get me wrong," Wright said. "But we got to have something that we can really depend on."
Johnson didn't talk to Wright about the vaccines that day. He just listened. "No one wants to feel ashamed or belittled because they're not doing something," Johnson said later.
Only 16% of residents here in Alexander County are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. That's the lowest rate in Illinois, according to the state health department, and case counts of coronavirus infections are rising. So the Cooperative Extension System, which is tied to a network of land-grant universities, plans to spend the next two years talking about vaccines in this community and elsewhere across the United States. It may take that long or more to convince enough people to get vaccinated.
The extension system has a long tradition of bringing research-based information to communities on a wide variety of topics, including water quality, food safety and disaster preparedness. With its roots sunk deep in rural America, where vaccines have been slow to catch on, the system is now using state and federal funding to pay for immunization education efforts tailored to specific communities.
Already 4-H clubs have been making masks and face shields. In Illinois, the agency has a COVID-19 resource guide for families, business owners and farmers. The office covering the southern portion of the state is looking to hire someone in the community to help get out the word on why vaccinations matter. Johnson also wants to team up with local churches, civic groups and business owners to get the job done.
Why only a nuanced vaccine strategy will be persuasive
"This is not our first global pandemic," said Carissa Nelson, a spokesperson for 4-H programs in Illinois. The organization's agents and club members nursed patients during the 1918 flu pandemic that devastated the world.
This time around, the extension service's strategy could also help in these rural communities and the urban areas it serves. But local leaders say there's no quick solution for improving vaccination rates in Cairo or across the country; getting people vaccinated is a nuanced challenge in every community. In Cairo, a long history of racial tension dating to the Civil War still stings. Like many rural towns across the U.S., the community also feels underappreciated and misunderstood.
Vaccine apathy is common here, where infection rates remained low until recently.
"We haven't had great turnouts," said Tyrone Coleman, president and co-founder of the Alexander and Pulaski NAACP chapter, which has helped organize vaccine clinics in Cairo.
In June, he invited the health department to the city's Juneteenth celebration at St. Mary's Park. More than 300 people attended. But the event's pop-up clinic hosted by the state didn't have many seeking vaccinations during its six hours of operation.
"We only had two," Coleman said.
"Cairo is not a ghost town"
More than 15,000 people lived in Cairo in the early 20th century, helping it earn the nicknames "Little Chicago" and "the Gateway to the South." Old factories, antebellum homes, an ornate library and a vacant hospital remain as reminders of the city's majestic past. The library prominently displays the work of Samuel Clemens, the American writer best known as Mark Twain. After traveling through Cairo, Twain wrote about the city in his 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In the novel, Cairo represents freedom and the chance for a better life.
But the hospital shut down in 1987. The only grocery store in town closed years ago; public housing was torn down in recent years, and the only nursing home closed during the pandemic, forcing residents to find a new place to live without much notice. On top of all that, flooding has threatened to wipe the city out more than once.
Today, fewer than 2,200 people, the majority of them Black, live here. And locals say the population has continued to drop with all the closures. The city is often mislabeled by the press and travel guides as abandoned.
"Cairo is not a ghost town," said Ronnie Woods, a local pastor and retired schoolteacher. "It's not dead at all."
Tourists still stop by to see the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. But they don't typically see the rocky riverbank where residents fish for their dinner. Beverly Davis, 60, heads there often with rod in hand and gives much of her catch away to other members of the community. The scenic waterfront, though, is carpeted with driftwood and dead fish that washed ashore.
"I guess it's meant to be like this," Davis said, standing on the riverbanks among the fish carcasses. " 'Cause if not, it would be better."
But many residents continue to believe their city will return to its past glory. "The world hears that this is a negative part of the country, and it's not," Johnson said. "We've got too many good things and people here."
On this day, the only outdoor basketball court in the city, anchored by a single hoop, was busy in a rural community fighting to stay alive long before the pandemic hit. The men on the court didn't seem worried about catching COVID-19.
"I haven't had COVID, so I feel like I don't need to get vaccinated right now," Jeffery DeWitt, 24, said. "I'll just take it as it goes."
Wright's son, Roman Wright, 36, said much the same thing while helping his dad build the nail salon across town. He works for the prison system. One of its facilities nearby reported COVID-19 cases, but Wright hadn't contracted the disease. Like his father, he said he didn't plan on getting the shots.
"I'm like my dad," Roman Wright said. "I was born and raised in church all my life. So I say we believe in God. I know my parents pray for me. We pray for each other, and we just believe in God."
Woods, the pastor, has a different point of view. He keeps his vaccination card in a plastic sheath and carries it with him wherever he goes.
"God placed science there to help us"
"I have strong faith," Woods, 66, said. "And at my age, my risk factors, I just felt that God placed science there to help us."
But Woods said it's going to take work to persuade others in Cairo to get vaccinated, even if they know someone who died of COVID-19. A prominent doctor was among the dead in the community. "It's going to take more than explaining," he said. "It is going to take a cultural shift because people are just not trusting."
That's one reason Johnson is searching for a local voice to lead the extension service's vaccine education program over the next year. As a 51-year-old white man who grew up in a predominantly white community 45 miles outside of Cairo, he recognizes that local residents would be more likely to share their thoughts with someone who lives here. Plus, he spends most of his time talking with community leaders and public officials. He is searching for someone who will spend time with locals who don't hold titles and positions.
"Everybody doesn't think like me," Johnson said. "So we need to take that into consideration."
Kaiser Health News is a national, editorially independent newsroom and program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, and is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
Copyright 2023 Kaiser Health News. To see more, visit Kaiser Health News. | 2023-05-23T05:38:32+00:00 | lakeshorepublicmedia.org | https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/npr-news/2021-08-15/why-a-hard-sell-pitch-for-covid-vaccines-wont-work-in-this-rural-illinois-town |
(KTLA) – After more than three months, a winner has finally claimed the record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, won by a single ticket sold in California.
On Monday, California Lottery officials teased a “big announcement” set for Tuesday.
“We will show #CaliforniaEducation a whole lot of LOVE on #ValentinesDay when we unveil the sole winner of the record-breaking $2.04 billion #Powerball #jackpot from November,” California Lottery tweeted.
The lottery’s message indicates the winner is an individual rather than a group of individuals who pooled their funds. In accordance with California law, the name of the winner will be announced Tuesday.
The winning ticket was purchased at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, just east of Los Angeles. The owner, Joe Chahayed, has already received a $1 million prize for selling the ticket, lottery officials said.
The $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot – with a cash value of $997.6 million – reached the world record-setting size in November after 41 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner (and a suspenseful drawing-night delay prompted by technical issues). Since drawings happen on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, it may also stand as the only Powerball jackpot to be hit on Election Day after the hourslong technical snafu pushed results into the early hours of Tuesday.
Though it’s unclear why exactly the winner didn’t claim their prize until now, part of the wait may have been due to the thorough vetting process winners undergo in California.
“We have a very thorough process internally, at least here in California, to vet big winners,” Carolyn Becker, deputy director of public affairs for the California Lottery, told Nexstar last month. “We don’t even call them winners until they’re cleared by that security review.”
Becker explains the process can take weeks or even months as lottery staff, which includes security and law enforcement officials, work to determine whether the claimant is, in fact, a winner and not a scammer before announcing the victory and granting the prize.
The $2.04 billion Powerball ticket holder not only faces an intense vetting process but some tough, life-altering questions before they can pocket the funds. The biggest was likely be whether to take the lump sum payment of $997.6 million or the annuity option of 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year. Their decision is expected to be announced Tuesday.
Proceeds from California Lottery ticket sales support public schools and colleges. Since the California Lottery began in 1985, California schools have received more than $39 billion in funding. In fiscal year 2020-21, the Lottery contributed $1.8 billion to public schools.
If you’re interested in seeing where lottery money is being put to use in your area, the California Lottery has an interactive map and a searchable database for local school districts on its website.
The website also includes detailed reports of the most recent contributions and additional resources for those who want to play the lottery responsibly.
KTLA’s Travis Schlepp contributed to this report. | 2023-02-14T02:00:09+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/winner-of-record-2-04-billion-powerball-jackpot-finally-comes-forward/ |
Quiet weather and cold conditions roll on into Wednesday
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - After a busy week last week, we received a break from the snow to start the workweek, but just as one part of the forecast slowed down, another picked right back up!
Bitterly cold temperatures returned to the TV5 viewing area this morning, with many falling below zero as we started our Tuesday. Considering where we started the day, we made a good jump under the sun, but you can only go so far with it being that cold, and many of us landed in the teens this afternoon.
As we head into Wednesday it won’t be quite as cold as today, but improvement will be limited. Could we see the 40s again soon? Find out when in your TV5 First Alert 7-Day Forecast.
This Evening & Overnight
After seeing sun most of the day, clouds are on the increase this evening, so some areas, especially those farther west, may see mostly cloudy skies to end the daylight hours. Lake-effect snow has released from the Lake Michigan shoreline also, and may send a few flurries in our direction before the night is over.
We don’t expect any significant accumulation, but keep an eye out on the roads as even flurries with temperatures this cold may be sneaky with icy conditions.
Speaking of cold, temperatures in the teens will make their daily drop through the evening, but shouldn’t fall as far as last night and should settle mostly in the single digits above zero. With a west southwesterly wind around 5 to 15 miles per hour, we should still see wind chills near and below zero tomorrow morning.
Wednesday
Skies will be a bit variable on Wednesday, with periods of clouds and sunshine, though it’s worth noting that our counties to the north may stay on the cloudy side most of the day.
Despite the clouds, a southwesterly wind around 10 to 20 miles per hour will allow us to warm up a bit more, relatively speaking from Tuesday, with highs expected to climb back into the middle 20s for Wednesday afternoon. Wind chills will be stuck in the teens, but it’ll beat wind chills below 0.
Dry weather continues into Wednesday night, with lows in the teens and low 20s.
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NEW YORK, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact (NYSE: G) today announced its upcoming participation at the following investor conferences:
R.W. Baird's 2022 Global Consumer, Technology & Services Conference
Date: Monday, June 6, 2022
Location: New York, NY
Presentation: 9:40 AM (EDT) - Mike Weiner, chief financial officer
William Blair's 42nd Annual Growth Conference
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Location: Chicago, IL
Mike Weiner, chief financial officer, and Roger Sachs, head of investor relations, hosting
1 on 1 and group meetings
About Genpact
Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services firm that makes business transformation real. Led by our purpose -- the relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people -- we drive digital-led innovation and digitally enabled intelligent operations for our clients. Guided by our experience reinventing and running thousands of processes for hundreds of clients, many of them Global Fortune 500 companies, we drive real-world transformation at scale. We think with design, dream in digital, and solve problems with data and analytics. Combining our expertise in end-to-end operations and our AI-based platform, Genpact Cora, we focus on the details – all 100,000+ of us. From New York to New Delhi, and more than 30 countries in between, we connect every dot, reimagine every process, and reinvent the ways companies work. We know that reimagining each step from start to finish creates better business outcomes. Whatever it is, we'll be there with you – accelerating digital transformation to create bold, lasting results – because transformation happens here.
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CHICAGO >> When it comes to baseball and LGBTQ+ inclusivity, Billy Bean often flashes back to his playing days.
Ending his career without telling his parents about his life as a closeted gay ballplayer. Shielding his secret from teammates like Brad Ausmus and Torey Lovullo. The regret of not sharing his “full self,” he says.
It’s a message Bean has delivered in clubhouses, and it resonates with today’s ballplayers — hyper-focused on staying in the majors, and being a good teammate. It’s also the lens through which Bean views baseball’s ongoing LGBTQ+ issues.
“There’s some parts of my job where I feel like some days I just, you know, I’m floating,” said Bean, a senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion with Major League Baseball. “Then there’s other days when I see some pushback, I’m reminded that we have 8,000 human beings connected to the sport as an athlete in one way or another, and you’re not going to always have 100% of those people agree on the same thing.”
That friction has been on display in recent seasons as MLB teams court the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month, simultaneously showing how much has changed and how much remains the same within the National Pastime — a sport with a strong connection to segments of the U.S. and Latin America where many view homosexuality as a sin.
Almost 80 years after Jackie Robinson broke the majors’ color barrier in a landmark moment for the American Civil Rights Movement, the dueling expressions of LGBTQ+ support and pop-up opposition recalled the question of when MLB might welcome its first active openly gay player — a barrier already cleared by the NBA and NFL.
“If somebody in here called a meeting and came out as gay, I think everybody would embrace that, have their back and literally just move on and focus on winning the games, which is really the important thing and what matters,” Milwaukee Brewers outfielder and 2018 NL MVP Christian Yelich said. “It doesn’t matter what somebody’s sexuality is.”
Seattle slugger Julio Rodríguez, Chicago Cubs pitcher Marcus Stroman and Toronto pitcher Kevin Gausman are among a group of players who have publicly celebrated Pride Month.
“Love wins,” Rodríguez told The Associated Press. “Definitely you can see that there’s not just me but there was definitely more people across the league that they support this. I feel like you can see the change in that, the support in that.”
Yet signs of dissension remain. The Los Angeles Dodgers have faced criticism for including the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in the team’s upcoming 10th annual Pride Night on Friday. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw disagreed with the decision but said his objection was based on the Sisters’ satirical portrayal of religious figures and had nothing to do with LGBTQ+ support. Washington pitcher Trevor Williams said he was deeply troubled by the team’s move, decrying what he felt was the group’s mockery of his Catholic religion.
The objection to the Sisters, a group of mainly men who dress as nuns, comes a year after some Tampa Bay players cited their Christian faith in refusing to wear Pride-themed jerseys. Several hockey players also opted out of wearing rainbow-colored jerseys on Pride nights during the most recent NHL season.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday that MLB has advised teams against adding rainbow accents or patches on uniforms to avoid putting players “in a position of doing something that may make them uncomfortable because of their personal views.”
Last month, veteran reliever Anthony Bass expressed support on social media for anti-LGBTQ+ boycotts of Target and Bud Light, and then apologized for sharing the post on his Instagram stories.
Asked if MLB’s inclusivity efforts with the LGBTQ+ community had stalled, Bass referenced baseball’s “many different beliefs” and “many different walks of life.”
“I wouldn’t say it’s causing a barrier,” Bass said before he was cut by the Blue Jays last week. “Everyone should be able to express their feelings and views, so I think that’s what we’re seeing and I don’t think it’s causing a barrier to the acceptance of the Pride community.”
Bass was booed loudly by Toronto fans after his social media post, and others seem wary of how far their favorite teams are willing to go in terms of LGBTQ+ support. Texas is the only big league team that isn’t holding a Pride Night this month.
For Mason Dunn, who grew up in a diehard Dodgers family in Southern California, it has been an emotional couple of weeks. Dunn wrote an anguished post on Facebook after the Dodgers rescinded their invitation to the Sisters, and then expressed relief when the team changed its mind.
“I really truly hope the Dodgers are using this experience to learn more about allyship,” said Dunn, who identifies as nonbinary and works for the Massachusetts LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce. “It isn’t just about rainbow logos. It’s about showing up when things are difficult and scary.”
Asked about not holding a Pride Night, the Rangers said they are committed to making everyone feel welcome and included.
“That means in our ballpark, at every game, and in all we do — for both our fans and our employees,” the team said in a statement.
For Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Ben Cherington, access to the best possible employees — on the field, in the front office, everywhere in the organization — is a major reason why LGBTQ+ inclusivity is important.
“It is our belief that to win at the level we want to win at, at the major league level, means that we simply can’t discriminate,” Cherington said. “If you’re around really good teams, World Series teams, teams in other sports that achieve at the highest possible level, you will see that the only way to build a team like that is to have zero bias as it relates to where people are coming from, what they look like, what their beliefs are, how they choose to spend their time away from the field.”
Dale Scott became the first out major league umpire in 2014, and there have been a handful of out players in the minor leagues. Anderson Comás, a minor league pitcher in the White Sox organization, announced that he was gay in an Instagram post in February. Phillies pitcher Taijuan Walker, Mets outfielder Mark Canha and Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino responded with supportive messages on Twitter.
Speaking to reporters on June 2, the 23-year-old Comás cited the help he received from the organization as a key element of his decision to come out. He declined an interview request made this week by the AP.
Bean came out after his playing career. Glenn Burke’s sexual orientation was known within baseball, but the former big league outfielder did not come out publicly until 1982.
Burke, who died in 1995 at age 42, felt he was blackballed by the sport. “A gay man in baseball? Uh, uh. No way,″ he told the AP.
Bean, 59, said he doesn’t think the absence of an openly gay player is the right way to evaluate inclusivity in the major leagues, just like he doesn’t think the sport should be evaluated by a comment that might not be supportive.
When it comes to the timing for the majors’ first active openly gay competitor, Bean said he understands why a player would want to focus on his career instead of dealing with the challenges that go along with breaking that barrier.
“It’s really hard to play in the big leagues and you don’t get into the big leagues in 2023 unless you are front and center a baseball player first,” Bean told the AP. “And that is how an athlete would be defined.”
“Baseball is a really hard game,” he continued. “And I think that it’s more about a business decision than a cultural one at the moment. And I have respect for their personal choice there.” | 2023-06-16T06:28:38+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/06/15/sports/sports-breaking/mlb-teams-welcome-lgbtq-fans-with-pride-nights/ |
Philadelphia School District returns to masking Monday as COVID cases rise across Delaware Valley
PHILADELPHIA - Students and staff at schools in Philadelphia will once again be required to wear masks.
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According to a letter posted on the Philadelphia School District's website, the district says it is following the health department's recommendation.
"To help protect everyone's health and well-being as COVID-19 case counts continue to rise in the Philadelphia area, the Philadelphia Department of Public Heath (PDPH) has recommended that we resume universal mask-wearing. Therefore, starting this Monday, May 23, 2022, and until further notice, all School District students and staff will be required to wear their masks during the school and work day and while riding on school buses and vans."
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The return to masking comes less than one month before Philadelphia schools are set to close their doors for the 2021- 2022 school year.
According to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, the city is averaging about 364 new COVID-19 cases each day as of May 16.
The department is strongly recommending masks be worn in indoor public settings, but no mandate has been issued.
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First Alert Forecast: unsettled weather pattern to arrive over the weekend
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Sunny skies and hot conditions will last for the next couple of hours before a slow cool down occurs overnight. Expect low temperatures to bottom out right around 70 degrees by the early morning hours under mostly to partly clear skies.
Friday will basically be a repeat of the past couple of days. Highs are forecast to climb to the lower 90s under mostly sunny skies. Although the past few days have been dry and rain-free, that will be changing over the weekend as we enter more of an unsettled weather pattern.
It will be warm Saturday in the lower 90s, but the stretch of dry weather will come to an end by the afternoon/evening hours. A disturbance will help fire up PM showers and storms across the area. By Sunday, rain/storm chances look to become more widespread and numerous across the area as a cold front drops in from the northwest. In addition to heavy downpours, a gusty storm could also be possible. Daily rain chances will carry into next week as the front hangs nearby. Fortunately, we’ll get relief from the steamy weather during this time with highs only reaching the lower and middle 80s.
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VERNON, Calif. (AP) — Meat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only California plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state.
The Farmer John meat-packing plant in Vernon, an industrial suburb south of Los Angeles, will shut down in February, with its 1,800 employees receiving severance and job placement support along with bonuses for those who choose to stay on the job until the closure, said Jim Monroe, vice president of corporate affairs.
Some workers, who on average earn about $21 per hour, also will have opportunities to relocate to other facilities owned by the Virginia-based Smithfield Foods Inc.
The Vernon plant slaughters pigs and packages products such as ham and bacon. Some operations will be moved to other facilities in the Midwest, but the overall reduction in processing capacity is prompting Smithfield to reduce its sow herd in Utah. The company also said it is exploring ways to exit its farms in California and Arizona.
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Monroe said operating costs in California are much higher than in other areas of the country, including taxes and the price of water, electricity and natural gas.
“Our utility costs in California are 3 1/2 times higher per head than our other locations where they do the same type of work,” he said.
The shutdown is not expected to reduce supply or increase costs on products, and Farmer John Products will still be sold in California, Monroe said.
“There won’t be any impact on our customers,” he said.
The Vernon plant has been the target of repeated protests by animal rights activists over its treatment of hogs. It also was hard-hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some 300 employees exposed to infections in 2020. Several were hospitalized.
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Smithfield Foods about $60,000 for safety violations that exposed workers to infection.
Smithfield Foods was founded in Smithfield, Virginia, in 1936 and according to its website provides more than 40,000 jobs in the United States. It was acquired in 2013 by Hong Kong-based WH Group.
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HARRISBURG – PA property owners are being encouraged to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season by considering flood insurance to protect homes, businesses, and possessions. 50 years ago, our region was hit by flooding from Hurricane Agnes with more than 3,000 PA businesses and 68,000 homes destroyed. At the time, it was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States, causing an estimated $2.1 billion in damages. PA Deputy Insurance Commissioner David Buono says all 67 PA counties have seen flooding. He says all homeowners and renters should consider getting flood coverage. Flood insurance policies are not active immediately. In most scenarios, there is a 30-day waiting period before policies are active which prevents individuals from purchasing flood insurance solely when a storm is headed in the direction of their property. You can get more information regarding flood insurance by clicking on the picture below. | 2022-07-07T00:39:48+00:00 | wdac.com | https://wdac.com/pennsylvanians-urged-to-prepare-for-hurricane-season-with-flood-insurance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pennsylvanians-urged-to-prepare-for-hurricane-season-with-flood-insurance |
State Board of Education extends K-12 funding rule until end of fiscal year
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) - The Idaho State Board of Education on Wednesday extended its temporary rule to continue calculating public school funding on enrollment rather than average daily attendance (ADA) for the remainder state fiscal year, which covers the current school year.
Early in the pandemic, the board used its rule making authority to use enrollment, rather than ADA as the basis for funding in response to large decreases in daily attendance caused by COVID-19. Three years later, approximately 80% to 85% of enrolled K-12 students are attending school on any given day compared to approximately 95% prior to the pandemic.
The change back to ADA rather than enrollment is expected to decrease public school funding statewide by more than $100 million during the 2023/24 academic year.
The Board directed staff to plan a special Board meeting later this spring to discuss the issue further.
Other actions during the second day of the Board’s regular April meeting at the University of Idaho campus in Moscow include:
- Approved Boise State University’s request to construct a new six story student residence hall to house 450 freshman students. Boise State will come back to the Board later this year to seek approval of its financing plan. The project is expected to cost $70 million. Boise State’s financing plan includes issuance of general revenue bonds and institutional reserve funds.
- Approved Idaho State University’s master plan for expansion of its 22-acre health sciences campus in Meridian. The master plan envisions future development of more than 1 million square feet of classroom, laboratory and student residence space.
Election of New Officers
The Board concluded its meeting by electing new executive officers. Dr. Linda Clark replaces Kurt Liebich as Board President; Bill Gilbert replaces Dr. Clark as Board Vice President; and Debbie Critchfield, Idaho’s Superintendent of Public Instruction will serve as Board Secretary. The new executive team will serve for one year. Mr. Liebich and Dr. Hill both continue to serve as Board members. | 2023-04-26T23:12:19+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/education/2023/04/26/state-board-of-education-extends-k-12-funding-rule-until-end-of-fiscal-year/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — A visitor center dedicated to telling the story of LGBTQ rights movement will open next door to the Stonewall Inn, according to an announcement Tuesday by the nonprofit that will manage the center in partnership with the National Park Service.
The groundbreaking for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood will take place Friday, with the center expected to open in summer 2024, said Ann Marie Gothard, board president of Pride Live, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.
“The opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center is a remarkable moment in the history of Stonewall,” Gothard said. “We honor all those who came before us, most especially the queer people fighting for equality at the Stonewall riots.”
The Stonewall National Monument became the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ history when it was dedicated in 2016 across the street from the Stonewall Inn, where patrons fought back against a police raid on June 28, 1969, and helped spark the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement.
The Stonewall rebellion is commemorated every year with Pride marches in cities across the U.S. and the world.
This year’s Pride Month in New York kicked off June 1 with the dedication of a rainbow flag at the Stonewall monument, the first rainbow flag to fly daily on federal land. The ceremony followed a yearslong battle by activists to ensure that a rainbow flag would fly on federal land at the Stonewall monument.
The 7.7-acre monument includes the park known Christopher Park, across from the Stonewall, but does not include the Stonewall itself, which is still a bar. The visitor center will be housed in the storefront adjoining the Stonewall, which was part of the bar in 1969.
Gothard said that when the national monument was created in 2016 “it became clear that a visitor center was needed.”
The Stonewall visitor center will offer in-person and virtual tours, lectures and visual arts displays dedicated to the history of the LGBTQ rights movement, Gothard said.
Although it will be managed by Pride Live, the center will also serve as home base for National Park Service staff members.
“As President Biden declared in Title VII, ‘every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear,’ and the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center will serve as a place where the LGBTQ community can safely gather to celebrate and commemorate its hard-fought history,” U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose department includes the park service, said in a statement.
Corporations including Google and JPMorgan Chase are providing funding for the center.
“It’s vital to create safe and inclusive spaces for the LGBTQ community, and we are proud to support the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, a space that will memorialize the legacy of Stonewall,” said William Floyd, Google’s senior director of public policy. | 2022-06-21T15:22:46+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/stonewall-visitor-center-will-be-dedicated-to-lgbtq-history/ |
LUBBOCK, Texas, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Political candidates throughout Texas won races in 2022's midterm elections with the help of ActionDATA, the firm's founder, Mike Stevens, said today.
"From city council races and bond elections to the courts and the state legislature, our clients all around Texas worked hard and won," Stevens said. "Whether we're looking locally, statewide or nationally, 2022 has been extraordinary election cycle. We're proud to be on the ground where we're needed."
Stevens said highlights of campaigns of the firm's clients this election cycle included:
- In newly created Texas House District 57, Richard Hayes prevailed.
- In Texas House and Texas Senate races, endorsed candidates of our client, the Texas State Association of Fire Fighters, won 113 of 116 races.
- In the Eighth Court of Appeals of Texas, Lisa Soto defeated an incumbent in the El Paso-based court that covers 17 counties.
- In El Paso, City Council Member Isabel Salcido was re-elected in District 5.
- In Lubbock, we led a citywide municipal road improvement bond campaign and won – a year after a previous campaign failed.
- Brandon Patschke won election to the High Plains Water District board.
- Lubbock County Precinct 2 Commissioner Jason Corley won re-election.
- In Potter County, Amarillo firefighter Blair Schaffer was elected as Precinct 2 county commissioner.
- In Kaufman County, District Attorney Erleigh Norville Wiley won re-election and County Judge Jakie Allen was elected to his first term.
- In Wichita County, Jim Johnson won election as the new county judge.
- In Ellis County, State District Judge Bob Carroll and Justice of the Peace Louis Ponder of Precinct 2 were elected.
- Citywide ordinances were passed in Athens, Plainview, Abilene, and San Angelo.
ActionDATA offers clients insight, strategy, and proven experience which are customized to the individual needs of the client. Be it public policy research, or steering a successful political campaign, ActionDATA is relied on to help make informed decisions by leaders throughout Texas. We never subcontract your account to a distant third party. Instead we leverage our diverse team to produce a strategy unique for you. With access to leading-edge resources in perception surveys, graphics, technology, and print, we produce collateral fully integrated and supportive of your campaign strategy. More information is available at www.action-data.net.
CONTACT: Mike Stevens, (806) 790-0709, mikes@action-printing.com.
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Rev. Lawson is one of the Civil Rights Movement's leading activists, theoreticians, and tacticians of nonviolence within the movement. He worked directly with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to train students and volunteers in nonviolent direct action and helped coordinate the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins in 1960.
LOS ANGELES, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL) is proud to honor legendary civil rights leader James Lawson with its Centennial Award at the highly anticipated Whitney M. Young, Jr. Gala. The theme of this year's dinner is "A Century of Service" The 47th Awards Dinner will be held on Thursday, June 30, 2022, Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Chris Schauble, KTLA 5 Anchor, is slated to serve as the Master of Ceremony and the Inner City Youth Orchestra will be providing the music for the Fundraising Gala. There will be a red carpet and cocktail reception which begins at 5:30 p.m. and the dinner will commence at 6:30 p.m.
"I'm very proud to play an active role as a board member with the Los Angeles Urban League. This organization has been a strong voice and a true beacon here in Los Angeles for over 100 years. Being a vocal advocate of the African-American and other minority groups to increase economic empowerment isn't an easy task," said Mark Cromwell, LAUL Centennial Committee Co-chair and Fund Development Committee Chair. "I think Whitney M. Young, Jr., who our Awards Gala is named after, said it best when he remarked 'support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.' This is what the LA Urban League has been about for the last 100 years and moving into the future."
"There is no one more deserving of the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Award than Rev. Lawson. He is the legendary civil rights leader whose leadership resulted in majority legislation with global reach. He led multiple historic protests and continues to serve as a role model and inspiration for Civil Rights advocacy globally," said Michael A. Lawson, President and CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League. "We thank him for his continued service and commitment to the Los Angeles Urban League's mission,"
The 2022 Los Angeles Urban League Whitney M. Young, Jr., Awards Dinner has been "re-imagined" and will take place in a beautiful outdoor setting, due to LAUL Centennial Gala Committee being mindful of COVID safety and guidelines. However, attendees can look forward to enjoying an epic and memorable event honoring legendary civil rights leader Reverend James Lawson.
The Whitney M. Young, Jr., Awards Dinner, which raises funds for the Los Angeles Urban League and its community outreach programs, is one of the 'must attend' yearly events in Los Angeles. The black-tie gala's past honorees include a list of "Who's Who in Los Angeles." Sports legends such as the late John Wooden and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, as well as entertainers such as Denzel Washington, the late Natalie Cole, Sidney Poitier, and Stevie Wonder were past honorees. The list of past honorees also included businessman and media mogul Byron Allen; political commentator and author Van Jones; educator, historian and the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute Lonnie G. Bunch 111 and community leaders from organizations such as Toyota, Disney, NBC Universal, and West Angeles Church of God in Christ, Los Angeles Police Department, and Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
For Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Dinner ticket information, please visit www.laul.org.
About Los Angeles Urban League
Los Angeles Urban League serves, educates and empowers African Americans and other minorities to secure economic self-reliance and civil rights by providing targeted social programs and advocating for issues that benefit our communities. Visit and follow Los Angeles Urban League Website, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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Your chance of beating a city of Atlanta parking ticket? Less than 4%
Atlanta News First Investigation reveals more than 9K appeals over two years
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Gerard Cartwright said the $75 parking ticket he recently got from the city of Atlanta amounts to extortion.
About an hour after he got the ticket, he filed an online appeal took a screenshot of his written argument and submitted the online form to ATL Plus, the company the city of Atlanta uses to issue citations.
Cartwright was planning to contest the ticket, arguing, “the area I parked in is a legal space
But Cartwright’s appeal never made it on the court docket. The online appeal disappeared, as did the case number. Now, instead of a $75 fine, Cartwright owes ATL Plus $150.
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“I filled out the appeal, waited for a court date, never got it, looked up the appeal and it wasn’t there,” Cartwright said.
When Atlanta Municipal Court was asked about Cartwright’s case, the court responded, “It appears that the citation number you provided in your request … is incorrect. We were unable to locate any information under that citation number.”
Atlanta Municipal Court’s records department confirmed ATL Plus forwards all appeals that are not administratively dismissed.
When asked for clarification, a court representative replied, “That would be a question for ATL Plus.” But an ATL Plus spokesperson previously told Atlanta News First the company does not speak to the media.
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Atlanta News First obtained records for the appeals ATL Plus forwarded to Atlanta Municipal Court for a hearing. An investigation reveals more than 9,000 appeals over a two-year period and thousands of default judgements for people who missed their appeal hearings or didn’t know about the hearings in the first place.
Between 2021 and mid-December 2022, ATL Plus forwarded 9,177 appeals to the court. A total of 5,264 people were found to be liable for their citations.
Over the same period, 3,670 cases received a default judgment resulting from a non-appearance. Only 355 cases - less than 4% - were dismissed.
Cartwright feels defeated. “At this point, I’m paying the ticket,” he said. “I’m over this. It makes no sense.”
If you filed an appeal on the ATL Plus website and didn’t receive a hearing notice from Atlanta Municipal Court, email Bettercallharry@wanf.com.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
9-6-1-9
(nine, six, one, nine)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
9-6-1-9
(nine, six, one, nine)
¶ Maximum prize: $500 | 2022-06-08T12:25:02+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-4-game-17226541.php |
PHOENIX, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply and infrastructure solutions, and Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) have executed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on and evaluate the co-development of large-scale U.S. green hydrogen production facilities.
Supply of green hydrogen for any potential projects will be underpinned by Nikola as a potential offtaker, which has a large demand for green hydrogen in order to decarbonize the transportation sector and other industries.
FFI's significant experience and capabilities in hydrogen project development make it an ideal partner for Nikola in the potential development of this project. It is a global green energy company pursuing opportunities in more than 25 countries and a subsidiary of top ten ASX company Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (ASX: FMG). FFI is leading the green industrial revolution by acquiring and developing technology solutions for hard-to-decarbonize industries, while building a global portfolio of renewable energy, green hydrogen and green ammonia projects.
Under the terms of the MOU, Nikola will evaluate green hydrogen offtake opportunities from any other green hydrogen projects being pursued by FFI. The parties will also evaluate the potential co-development of new green hydrogen production and associated infrastructure projects.
"FFI has an ambitious decarbonization strategy and associated investment allocated to lead the decarbonization efforts for one of the biggest resources companies in the world," said Nikola Corporation President and CEO, Michael Lohscheller. "This MOU will establish the framework for future collaborations as strategic partners for the potential co-development of meaningful energy transition solutions, with a focus on the Phoenix Hydrogen Hub project being led by Nikola today."
FFI CEO Mark Hutchinson said: "North America has the potential to become the world's leading green energy heartland. This new partnership demonstrates FFI's commitment to help decarbonize the transportation sector and enable the world to work towards achieving zero emissions. The incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act also make the US one of the best places in the world to invest in green energy and create a pipeline of new jobs."
ABOUT NIKOLA CORPORATION:
Nikola Corporation is globally transforming the transportation industry. As a designer and manufacturer of zero-emission battery-electric and hydrogen-electric vehicles, electric vehicle drivetrains, vehicle components, energy storage systems, and hydrogen station infrastructure, Nikola is driven to revolutionize the economic and environmental impact of commerce as we know it today. Founded in 2015, Nikola Corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.nikolamotor.com or Twitter @nikolamotor.
ABOUT FORTESCUE METALS GROUP AND FFI:
Established in 2003, Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) is a global leader in the iron ore industry. As one of the world's lowest cost iron ore producers, Fortescue is now shipping at an annual rate of over 180 million tonnes with more than 1.7 billion tonnes of iron ore delivered to its customers since 2008. Through our green energy and technology company, Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), we are rapidly diversifying our business to become an integrated, global green energy and resources company. Key to this transition are our industry leading targets to achieve carbon neutrality for Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030 and net zero Scope 3 emissions by 2040. FFI is leading the global effort to help decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors and is developing and acquiring the technology and energy supply to help decarbonise Fortescue's business, while building a global portfolio of renewable green hydrogen and green ammonia projects. fortescue.com
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
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PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) —
Defense lawyers for a British man on trial for causing the death of his wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort town of Paphos said Monday they’re hopeful the court will suspend any sentence it hands down to their client after he pleads guilty to manslaughter next week.
Briton David Hunter faced a charge of premeditated murder in last year’s death of his wife, Janice, although his defense lawyers had asked Cyprus’ attorney-general to charge the 75 year-old only with assisted suicide in order to keep him from serving time in prison — a request they said was denied.
State Prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou said the court on Monday granted an adjournment until Dec. 13, when Hunter’s defense will also argue for mitigation. The court is expected to pass sentence a few days later, with defense lawyers hoping that will happen before Christmas.
Although manslaughter carries a maximum life sentence, it’s unlikely Hunter will receive a long prison term, Hadjikyrou said, adding that the prosecution won’t object to the Briton serving out any prison sentence in the U.K.
Michael, Polak, a spokesman for Justice Abroad, a group that defends Britons embroiled in legal difficulties in foreign countries, said there’s no precedent for such “euthanasia, manslaughter-type cases” in Cyprus and the court would have to to look to similar cases in other common law countries like Canada and India.
“And if the court follows their treatment of euthanasia-type cases, a suspended sentence is a distinct possibility and that’s what we’ll be asking the court to do,” Polak said after Monday’s hearing.
In Cyprus, any sentence of up to three years imprisonment can be suspended, according to Polak.
Hunter’s wife Janice, 74, died in December 2021 at the couple’s retirement home in Paphos, where many of the island’s up to 60,000 British expatriates live. The details of how she died have not yet been made public. Polak had said that Janice was on heavy medication for a type of terminal blood cancer.
Hunter’s daughter, Lesley, was quoted in British media as saying that her mother had “begged him for a long time (to assist her death) and was very clear about what she wanted.”
Hadjikyrou, the state prosecutor, had said defense attorneys turned down an earlier deal for Hunter to plead guilty to manslaughter and that there was no tangible evidence — like a written note — to suggest that Hunter’s wife had ever asked him specifically to help her die.
Hunter had been so distraught after his wife’s death that he attempted suicide, according to Polak. | 2022-12-05T21:46:30+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-uk-man-to-plead-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-wifes-death/ |
Columbus Crew (1-1-0) vs. Toronto FC (0-1-1)
Toronto; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Toronto FC +106, Columbus +235, Draw +257; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Lucas Zelarrayan leads the Columbus Crew into a matchup with Toronto following a two-goal performance against D.C. United.
Toronto was 9-18-7 overall during the 2022 season while going 7-7-3 at home. Toronto averaged 1.4 goals on 4.1 shots on goal per game a season ago.
The Crew went 10-8-16 overall a season ago while going 3-4-10 on the road. The Crew scored 46 goals last season, averaging 1.4 per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Toronto: Lorenzo Insigne (injured), Victor Vazquez (injured), Themi Antonoglou (injured).
Crew: Will Sands (injured), Christian Ramirez (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-04-08T14:22:51+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/zelarrayan-leads-the-columbus-crew-against-toronto/3UMD2CADKRB43M2I63FUH4CVOY/ |
Mich. health insurers seek 2023 rate hikes as temporary subsidies expire
Most health insurers in Michigan are seeking more rate hikes next year for their individual and small groups plans, and the scheduled end of temporary "Obamacare" subsidies could raise the pain level higher.
State regulators announced Tuesday that insurance companies are seeking an average 5.8% rate increase for their 2023 small group policies — those for organizations with fewer than 51 employees.
For individual policies, such as those sold on the Healthcare.gov website, also known as Obamacare, insurers are seeking an average 6.2% increase.
Those proposed rate hikes are slightly below what insurers were approved for last year for small groups — 7.1% — although higher than the 4.7% increase for individual policies.
Yet for many of those who buy individual policies, the biggest change in 2023 will be the scheduled expiration at the end of this year of more generous premium and deductible subsidies.
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Those tax credit subsidies were part of the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed in March 2021, and they led to a nationwide surge in Obamacare sign-ups sold on Healthcare.gov.
Congress so far hasn't acted to extend the subsidies, and it is unclear whether lawmakers will.
“It still is very much up in the air about what’s going to happen," said Cynthia Cox, a vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a heath care-focused nonprofit.
The projected annual cost to the government of the extra subsidies is about $22 billion, Cox said.
The subsidies have made a significant difference in the premiums and out-of-pocket costs for individual policies.
The American Rescue Plan made the subsidies available for higher-income people who previously didn't qualify, and lowered premiums and deductibles for many individuals who were previously eligible for some subsidy.
In the 33 states including Michigan that use Healthcare.gov, premium payments in 2022 would have been on average 53% higher without the temporary subsidies, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
An estimated 260,000 Michiganders are receiving the extra subsidies, saving an average of nearly $400 per month, according to the Department of Insurance and Financial Services.
A total 359,777 Michiganders are enrolled in an individual health insurance policy, according to the department. There are 446,389 Michiganders enrolled in a small group policy.
The state's largest health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, anticipates lower enrollment in its individual plans for 2023 if the Obamacare subsidies expire as scheduled at year's end, said Rick Notter, The Blues' vice president of individual business.
The Blues also anticipates a larger share of its individual market enrollees picking "Bronze" plans for 2023 rather than "Silver" because the subsidies made Silver plans, which offer more benefits than Bronze plans, more affordable.
Blue Cross is seeking an 8.6% rate increase for its individual market Blue Care Network HMO, which enrolls 117,869 people.
The insurance giant's PPO plan, which is the only PPO plan in Michigan available on Healthcare.gov and enrolls 52,636, is looking to decrease rates by 2.8%.
Notter said Blue Cross has seen higher utilization and medical losses for its HMO plan than PPO. A new federal actuarial rule also is affecting HMOs more than PPOs, he said, leading to bigger HMO rate increases.
Following a surge in demand for medical services last year, utilization of services by those enrolled in individual health plans is now normalizing, Notter said.
The pent-up demand had been a result of people putting off medical procedures and services during the early months of COVID-19 starting in March 2020.
The Department of Insurance and Financial Services is accepting public comments on the proposed rate changes until July 18 at DIFS-healthratecomments@michigan.gov.
ContactJC Reindl: 313-378-5460 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @jcreindl. Read more on business and sign up for our business newsletter. | 2022-07-05T22:46:03+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/money/2022/07/05/health-insurers-2023-rate-hikes-subsidies-expire/7812075001/ |
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Federal prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty against Matthew Taylor Coleman, who is accused of killing his two young children with a spearfishing gun because he believed their blood was tainted with lizard DNA.
Coleman was a surf instructor in Santa Barbara.
Federal prosecutors say he murdered his children, a 2-year-old boy and a 10-month-old girl while in Rosarito, Baja California back in August 2021.
They say he shot the children with a spearfishing gun.
Coleman was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry while trying to return to the United States.
His wife had notified police about how she worried the children might be in danger after Coleman took them to Mexico.
The toddlers were found dead under some bushes by a laborer at an isolated ranch near Rosarito, located about 30 miles south of the border.
Prosecutors say Coleman believed in QAnon conspiracy theories and confessed to killing the children because he suspected his wife carried serpent DNA and had passed it on to their kids, who would grow up to be “monster lizard people.”
Coleman is charged with the foreign murder of U.S. nationals according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
But on January 30, prosecutors filed a motion stating they would not seek the death penalty.
Coleman had been going through a six-month mental evaluation to gauge his competency to understand the charges against him.
Specific reasons as to why prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty against Coleman won’t be released.
In a statement to Border Report, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego said: “The decision-making process preliminary to the department’s final decision is confidential. Information concerning the deliberative process may only be disclosed within the department and its investigative agencies as necessary to assist the review and decision-making process.”
Baja California investigators reported each child had also been stabbed more than a dozen times with a wooden stake.
Coleman owned Lovewater Surf Company in Santa Barbara. | 2023-02-02T23:51:22+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/border-report-tour/feds-wont-pursue-death-penalty-against-surf-instructor-accused-using-speargun-to-kill-his-children-in-mexico/ |
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Speak Out allows readers to comment on the issues of the day. Email Speak Out at speakout@southtownstar.com or call 312-222-2427. Please limit comments to 30 seconds or about 120 words and give your first name and your hometown.
I have a simple question. Why do we not celebrate Independence Day but instead call it the Fourth of July? What other holiday is identified by its calendar date? We are doing an extreme disservice to our forefathers and also to our democracy that has existed since 1776.
Joe, Oak Lawn
Imagine how different the current state of America would be if Donald Trump was actually more interested in the welfare of our country and not the bottom line for the Trump Organization. While you are using your imagination, think how it would be if the apathetic in our country formed an opinion and voted. If that happened, I imagine Trump would be remembered best for “The Apprentice” instead of the divisive nature of his character.
MJ, Worth
Donald Trump has not been president for over a year and a half, but his name is mentioned in Speak Out almost every day. It’s usually by people who dislike him. They repeat the mostly false talking points of the far-left Democrats. They are afraid he will run again and win.
Bill, Plainfield
Hold on to your seat belt because what I am about to say may rock your boat. If you believe in the Bible, then you have heard or read when God sent Satan from heaven to Earth, he left him with all of his powers. We are having one crisis after another. COVID-19 took millions of lives throughout the world. Now we’re dealing with the war and Ukraine, leaving us with high prices of paying for groceries, gas and other needs. It leaves me with one thought, the devil is among us and we may have looked him in the eyes.
BJ, Hazel Crest
Don’t you love religious conservatives who decry the woke culture? I mean think about it. The very definition means an awakening, which means you now realize something you didn’t know before such as history. If I were a religious conservative, I wouldn’t look back kindly on history either. It doesn’t bode well for them. It’s no wonder they want to deny its very existence or at the very least attempt to change it.
Marv, Bridgeview | 2022-07-03T15:33:44+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-speak-out-st-0704-20220703-wayoff2xjzgavosbrfps66vmwy-story.html |
The Volvo EX30 electric crossover set to debut on June 7 won’t skimp on safety technology despite being the smallest model in the lineup, Volvo said on Wednesday.
The EX30 will come with both active and passive safety systems similar to what’s found on Volvo’s bigger vehicles, including a new feature designed to provide visual and audible warnings when a door is about to be opened and there’s a cyclist approaching from behind.
The feature is part of Volvo’s Safe Space Technology safety suite that will come in the EX30 and also include automatic emergency braking for intersections, where the vehicle at low speeds will automatically stop should another vehicle traveling in an adjacent path in front fails to stop.
Another feature will be a driver monitor that detects eye and face movements and placement of the hands on the steering wheel and provides a warning if it determines the driver is distracted or falling asleep.
When it comes to passive safety, Volvo said the EX30 will feature high-strength steel to strengthen the safety cage, with particular attention placed on the roof and supporting pillars. High-strength steel will also be used to protect the battery.
Volvo said there will also be leading restraint technology to protect passengers in the event of the crash, though no details were provided.
Prototypes of the EX30 have been spotted testing on public roads. They suggest a design similar to the EX90 mid-size electric SUV revealed last fall, but on a smaller scale. The EX30 is expected to sit in the subcompact segment.
Volvo has confirmed the EX30 will make it to the U.S., though timing is uncertain. Given Volvo’s current product cadence, the EX30 should arrive at dealerships in 2024 as a 2025 model.
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- Lamborghini built an Urus inspired by a V-12 track car | 2023-05-17T21:34:21+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/automotive/internet-brands/volvo-ex30-will-be-small-but-big-on-safety/ |
The threat of showers and thunderstorms will stick around Lancaster County for most of this week.
Sunny skies should stick around for cookouts and other July 4 celebrations today, according to National Weather Service in State College. The chance of rain and storms will linger from Tuesday through Friday.
☀️Nice weather to celebrate Independence Day. Mostly sunny and rain-free with temperatures very close to long-term climatology for the 4th of July. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vEwNWAtxNI
— NWS State College (@NWSStateCollege) July 3, 2022
The highs this week will linger in the mid to upper 80s, while the lows at night will stay in the upper 60s.
Here's a look at the forecast for Lancaster, according to NWS in State college:
Monday: Sunny skies. High: 87
Monday night: Partly cloudy skies. Low: 67
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy skies, a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. Some storms could be severe and produce gusty wings. High; 87
Tuesday night: Mostly cloudy a skies, a a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some storms could be severe. Low: 71
Wednesday: Mostly sunny skies, a 30% chance of showers after 2 p.m. High: 87
Wednesday night: Partly cloudy skies, a 30% chance of showers before 8 p.m. Low: 66
Thursday: Partly sunny skies, a 30% chance of showers after 2 p.m. High: 85
Thursday night: Mostly cloudy skies, a 40% chance of showers. Low: 68
Friday: Mostly cloudy skies, a 50% chance of showers. High: 83
Friday night: Mostly cloudy skies, a 50% chance of showers. Low: 67 | 2022-07-04T10:16:56+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/threat-of-rain-to-persist-through-the-week-heres-this-weeks-forecast-for-lancaster-county/article_48e258b8-fafd-11ec-a9a5-7b59977a3dc6.html |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
6-8-5-7, SB: 6
(six, eight, five, seven; SB: six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
6-8-5-7, SB: 6
(six, eight, five, seven; SB: six) | 2023-02-01T05:16:00+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/winning-numbers-drawn-in-daily-four-evening-game-17755651.php |
Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death.
URBANA — Rena Lenz, 76, of Urbana died Thursday (July 21, 2022) at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Morgan Memorial Home, 1304 Regency Drive West, Savoy. | 2022-07-22T05:21:40+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/rena-lenz/article_4e490fb2-094a-11ed-99e1-4bcaaab18a09.html |
AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin, Texas, school is dealing with some unwanted visitors who just won’t go away.
“This is not the first time me and Noah have reported on raccoons in the school,” said Morgan Eye who is a journalism student at McCallum High School.
Noah Braun, who wrote a recent article about the raccoons said he has found articles from the past that show similar incidents.
“There are articles you can find from the 90s, from the early 2000’s — and even the 2010s —talking about this,” said Braun.
While there have been issues with raccoons in the past, recently the number of incidents has increased, according to journalism students at the school.
“Six catches and releases all in the span of three days is the most we have ever seen here at school,” Eye said.
Braun says this week he heard a commotion outside his classroom and when he went out there was a raccoon.
“There was a raccoon that was getting sort of pinned up against that door by the officer and eventually he was able to get it out of the building,” Braun said.
Max Davis, who is a student at the school, said there are a number of videos and pictures of the raccoons being shared around the school.
“There was a raccoon that ran out of a bathroom and when it saw people it ran the other way,” said Davis.
Braun said they even found a dead raccoon in the walls recently.
“It was rotting,” Braun said. “Its corpse was rotting and it was spreading its smell everywhere”
KXAN reached out to Austin ISD who tells us they are addressing the issues.
“We understand that having raccoons on school grounds can be worrying for parents, and we take this matter seriously. I want to assure you that we are taking steps to address the issue in a humane and effective manner. We have contacted our Pest Management Department, a professional wildlife removal specialist, and they have already started working to prevent them from coming into the building with exclusion work, as well as setting humane traps for any others that we may not know about. The team will safely remove the raccoons from the school grounds and will continue to monitor the situation to ensure that the problem is fully resolved.”
– Statement from Austin ISD
Some students tell KXAN it can be funny to see the raccoons running around, but it is also is concerning.
Eye says one raccoon fell through the ceiling and landed near a student in class.
“It was scared, it was running around and everything,” said Eye. “What if it bit her? What if it had rabies?”
KXAN reported on a raccoon found in the school last year.
McCallum High School was a school listed to get upgrades as a result of a 2022 bond that passed. In the past, the district said the upgrades would help fix the issues in the older school. | 2023-04-29T03:20:02+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/what-if-it-had-rabies-raccoons-running-through-texas-high-school/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — There was a time Jeff Probst could not imagine doing what he will on Wednesday, being on hand as host for the start of a 44th season of “Survivor.”
That’s not simply because of the transitory nature of television, where a 44th season of anything is a rarity, even a program that created a sensation when it first aired on CBS in the summer of 2000.
In those early days, there was a restlessness about Probst. He’d studied screenwriting, acted and wrote and directed a well-received indie film in 2001. He tried a short-lived talk show. He admits “I had a chip on my shoulder about being called a ‘host.'”
Yet as series creator Mark Burnett began stepping away, Probst added “producer” to his title and has since ascended to the level of “showrunner” — industry lingo that means he’s in charge of everything.
At age 61, he’s all in, an evangelist for “Survivor.”
“I have never been so excited to be part of the show,” he told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “I hope it’s apparent. I hope it’s clear that I’m really into ‘Survivor.’”
It remains a marvelously-designed game, one that tests survival skills in a forbidding — if lovely — environment along with the social and scheming skills to remain standing at the end to collect the $1 million prize. Even if one cast is a drag, “one of the show’s greatest strengths is that every season hits a reset button,” said Dalton Ross, executive editor at large at Entertainment Weekly and a veteran chronicler of the show.
So it can, um, survive a scandal like a player being kicked off in 2019 after being accused of inappropriately touching young women or tweaks that don’t work, like the “fire tokens” that were introduced and abandoned after one season.
Other new ideas, like a hidden immunity idol or the “David vs Goliath” season that Probst really loved, freshen the show as it adheres to a basic structure.
Producers were also ordered by CBS to increase diversity, which Probst said has added to the show’s richness. The 18 castaways for the new season include five Black contestants, three Latinos and an Asian American.
“People that don’t watch ‘Survivor,’ I think they may mistake it for some sort of survivalist’s show or they label it with this idea that it’s just a reality show,” Probst said. “When, really, ‘Survivor’ is one of the biggest adventures you can ever go on, either as a player or a viewer.”
As Probst became more involved in how the show was put together, there was a clear difference in how he did his job onscreen, Ross said.
“Jeff started to put more opinion and personality into his hosting,” he said. “Up to that point, it was more of a master of ceremonies role. You realized he could be the eyes and ears of the audience and can speak for the audience. It was one of the most important changes he made as a host. It made him an element in the game that the players had to contend with.”
“Survivor” has settled on Fiji as a permanent set after bouncing around for several years to different locations. The jungle is a character in itself. High-definition photography and drones makes things more visually appealing than ever, Ross said.
Probst demurs when asked his opinion of the best player ever, and admits some of the seasons start to run together. He’d lose a “Survivor” trivia contest, he said.
“I will see an early cut of an episode, and I can’t remember who was voted out, even though I was the one at Tribal Council who snuffed out their torch,” he said.
And, yes, he’s excited about the new season, calling it one of the most entertaining groups of players the show has put together in a while.
“It’s intoxicating,” he said. “I honestly believe one of the reasons we’re still on the air is that it’s compelling. If people watch the first episode of ‘Survivor’ 44,’ I don’t know how you’re not going to watch the second episode. You’re going to be hooked.”
Starting Wednesday, Probst will host a podcast with show producer Brittany Crapper and fan Jay Wolff that will air after the conclusion of each episode. “On Fire with Jeff Probst” will an insider’s look at how the show is put together, he said.
CBS doesn’t want to spoil the magic, but deepen the relationship with fans, he said.
With broadcast television struggling for viewers, “Survivor” is a dependable performer for CBS and is one of those rare family shows that people of all ages can enjoy. The show seems destined to be around for awhile and hard to imagine without the man who’s “not just the face of ‘Survivor’ but the pulse of ‘Survivor’ as well,” Ross said.
Asked if he would want to stay with the show as long as it’s on the air, Probst at first calls the question impossible.
Then he quickly answers.
“At this point, yes,” he said. “Really, yes. Because I’ve built my life around ‘Survivor’ and I’ve fashioned all of my creative ideas through ‘Survivor.’ Every single conversation, book I read, podcast I listen to, every single thing … will get filtered through my ‘Survivor’ filter.” | 2023-02-27T19:13:21+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-jeff-probst-a-constant-for-survivor-as-it-nears-44th-game/ |
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Libertarians lined up with Democrats on Friday against a proposal that would effectively block third party candidates from next year’s Montana U.S. Senate election, as Republicans try to consolidate opposition to incumbent Jon Tester in a race pivotal for control of the Senate.
Republicans want to alter the 2024 Senate primary in Montana so that only the top two candidates, no matter their party, advance to the November election. Past races for Tester’s seat were close enough that many Republicans blamed third party candidates for draining away potential GOP votes and giving the Democrat the victory.
Critics blasted the proposal during a Montana House committee meeting as a blatant attempt to rig the election.
“It will completely block us out,” said Montana Libertarian Party Chairman Sid Daoud. “It’s going to eliminate any third party or independent candidate from moving to the general election.”
Democrats hold a narrow 51-49 U.S. Senate majority heading into the election. They will be defending 23 seats including in some states — Montana, West Virginia and Ohio – that have grown increasingly Republican. The GOP will be defending 10 seats and also trying to flip seats in swing states such as Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Republicans are eager to deny Tester a fourth term after GOP candidates have dominated recent elections in Montana. Tester is the only Democrat now holding a statewide political office in Montana.
The primary measure currently applies only to the 2024 election, but lawmakers are considering an amendment to the bill that would make it apply to future Senate races in Montana. Primary races for other seats would be unchanged, with voters in each qualifying political party continuing to select their own candidates for the general election.
The Montana House State Administration Committee planned to vote on the measure, and the amendment, on Monday.
The state Senate approved the 2024 primary change by a 27-23 vote last week. Seven Republicans joined all of the chamber’s Democrats in voting against the measure.
Republican state Sen. Greg Hertz, who sponsored the bill, said he wanted to stop the GOP and Democrats alike from trying to manipulate elections by stealthily promoting third party candidates.
Both major parties sought to use third parties to their advantage in past elections.
During one of last year’s U.S. House elections, a Democratic-linked group in Washington, D.C., sent mailers promoting Libertarian candidate John Lamb as the race’s “true conservative” in an effort to peel away conservative votes.
Liberal-backed groups used similar tactics during Montana’s 2012 and 2018 U.S. Senate races.
In the 2020 race, the Republican Party bankrolled a $100,000 signature-gathering effort to put the Montana Green Party on the ballot. The state Supreme Court removed the Green Party after hundreds of people sought to withdraw their signatures upon learning the GOP was behind the effort.
No one has claimed responsibility for a 2018 signature-gathering effort to get the Green Party on the ballot. That effort was overturned when a judge invalidated enough signatures so the party didn’t qualify.
“Some major parties probably want to continue doing this, including my own,” Hertz said Friday. “Let’s get away from this, what the two major parties are doing in Montana.” | 2023-04-14T20:25:37+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/montana-gop-seeks-to-bar-3rd-parties-from-key-us-senate-race/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior and Manchester City’s Erling Haaland were relaxed and laughing as they embraced after the final whistle at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
They both seemed satisfied following an even first leg that ended in a 1-1 draw and left the Champions League semifinal wide open going into next week’s return match in Manchester.
Vinícius and Kevin de Bruyne scored with long-range strikes in a match in which Madrid’s defense successfully kept Haaland — the Champions League’s leading scorer — from being decisive.
“I think both teams have the feeling that it was a good result,” said Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who took charge of his 190th Champions League match as coach. “Maybe we played a bit better to deserve a victory, but it’s a series that will be even until the last minute.”
Madrid beat City in last year’s semifinals and went on to win a record-extending 14th Champions League title while the English club again fell short of European success.
“It was an even match,” City coach Pep Guardiola said. “They scored when we were better and we equalized when they were better. It will all be decided in Manchester.”
The first leg of the other semifinal between Italian rivals Inter Milan and AC Milan is on Wednesday.
“Both teams played well. It’s a good draw,” Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said. “There’s everything to play for next week.”
City controlled possession but couldn’t translate it into significant scoring opportunities. Haaland wasted a few chances early but wasn’t much of a threat throughout the game at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
The Norwegian came into the match having scored 12 of City’s 26 goals in the Champions League this season and was five short of Cristiano Ronaldo’s single-season record of 17 for Madrid in 2013-14.
Vinícius created problems for the City defense and opened the scoring in with a shot into the top corner in the 36th minute for his seventh Champions League goal this season. The Brazil forward picked up a pass by Eduardo Camavinga and used one touch to set up his right-footed shot from outside the area.
City struggled to come close to Madrid’s goal but De Bruyne found the net in the 67th with a powerful one-timer from outside the area after Madrid lost possession because of a poor pass across the field by Camavinga.
Madrid complained that it was not awarded a corner in the buildup of City’s goal.
“It was a shame that we conceded that goal,” Madrid midfielder Luka Modric said. “I think we deserved more. They had more possession but didn’t create a lot of chances. It’s still 50-50 and we will go into the second match with confidence.”
Haaland had not yet joined City when it lost 6-5 on aggregate to Madrid in last year’s semifinals. Vinícius, Rodrygo and Karim Benzema combined for all of Madrid’s goals that time.
Madrid is making its 11th semifinal appearance in 13 seasons and is trying to win its sixth title in 10 years. City played in its first Champions League final two seasons ago, losing to Chelsea.
Madrid, which won the Copa del Rey title this past weekend, is virtually out of contention in the Spanish league and can fully focus on the semifinal against City. The English side remains in the middle of a tight title race in the Premier League.
“Manchester will be like a final in front of our own fans,” Guardiola said.
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Antonio Brown uses lewd incident to push for NFL job
Antonio Brown is back under the microscope after an incident in Dubai, and he used the moment to signal an effort to get back into the NFL.
The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver, who left the team in the middle of a game during the end of the 2021 season, was seen in a video fully nude at a hotel pool. The New York Post, which obtained video of the incident, reported that the incident had taken place on May 14 and that the free-agent NFL player had been kicked out of the hotel.
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Brown wrote a crude tweet in response to the controversy on Sunday.
"I’m telling every team that needs some offense to pick up AB bc he’s shown that he still has the ability to expose a D," he wrote.
On Saturday, he seemingly called the report "disinformation."
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"It’s crazy to me that even after I retire there is disinformation coming out about me. Ironically, during a time when the NFL is getting heat for allowing players to play when they’re clearly concussed. They’ve been using black men as guinea pigs," Brown wrote.
"Every chance they get to sway the heat off themselves they use me. In the video you can clearly see she runs off with my swim trunks. If roles were reversed the headlines would read ‘AB having a wild night with nude female’. Yet when it’s me it automatically becomes a hate crime," he added.
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Brown was cut by the Buccaneers following his outburst in January. He claimed he was injured at the time and was being coaxed to play. The Buccaneers denied Brown’s allegations.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Falcon Rappaport & Berkman PLLC (FRB) is pleased to announce that Penny B. Kassel, Esq. has joined the firm to form FRB's Elder Law Practice Group. The Elder Law Practice Group allows the firm to better serve the needs of an aging population and advocate for their rights.
FRB considers the sensitive nature of each elder law matter, issue, and concern and uses asset protection planning and long-term care planning strategies to help clients plan effectively for the future. The Elder Law Practice Group takes a holistic approach to maximize the quality of life for seniors and those with disabilities and create peace of mind for their families and caregivers.
FRB's elder law practice provides representation for senior clients on matters related to:
- Medicaid Planning and Applications
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For more than 35 years Ms. Kassel has devoted the majority of her time to elder law matters, estate planning, and estate administration matters. Her elder law practice provides clients with comprehensive representation for their legal needs during some of life's biggest challenges.
"I'm extraordinarily proud to bring Penny into the firm to lead our new Elder Law practice group," FRB Managing Partner Kenneth Falcon said. "Penny's reputation, knowledge, and ability are second to none, and we are thrilled to have her as a part of our team."
Ms. Kassel served as chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Long Island Alzheimer's Foundation and was chosen as an honoree of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. She is also a past director of the Nassau County Bar Association and former chair of its Elder Law Committee.
FRB is a full-service business law firm that combines the deep knowledge and understanding of attorneys who proudly advise clients seeking solutions to their most complex matters.
FRB differentiates itself by approaching matters with a level of depth and variety of skills unmatched by typical advisors, following through on a firm-wide commitment to excellent service, offering access to thought leaders in numerous areas of professional practice, and engaging in a partnership with clients to develop and achieve their goals.
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government has requested that the spokesman for the United Nations mission in Congo leave the country, saying he has made inappropriate statements amid demonstrations against the presence of the U.N. peacekeepers.
Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula wrote to the U.N. mission, known as MONUSCO, saying he considers that the current tensions between the U.N. and the population are due to the indelicate and inopportune statements by U.N. Congo spokesman Mathias Gillman.
“The Congolese government considers that the presence of this official on the national territory is not likely to promote a climate of mutual trust and serenity so essential between the Congolese institutions and MONUSCO,” the statement said.
“The Congolese government would greatly appreciate if arrangements are made for Mr. Gillman to leave the territory as soon as possible.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric expressed regret at the government’s decision requesting Gillman to leave the country,
“In line with the status of the U.N. under the Charter of the organization, any concerns that the government may have regarding the actions of a member of MONUSCO should be raised directly with the mission leadership,” Dujarric said. “The mission and U.N. headquarters are accordingly engaging with the government to address this matter."
The U.N. Security Council was briefed behind closed doors Thursday by U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre, who just returned from Congo, on the latest developments there.
The government did not point to specific statements made by Gillman, but in July during a press conference, he mentioned that MONUSCO and the Congolese army have limited means to deal with several fronts of attacks, in particular those by the M23 rebel group which has gained more weapons and is staging heavy attacks on civilians.
Dujarric said Gillman is currently not in Congo.
Congo’s government held a crisis meeting earlier this week to reassess the presence of United Nations peacekeepers after protests against the force in the country’s east killed at least 36 people and injured more than 170 others.
The government will also meet with the U.N. mission to discuss the possibilities for its withdrawal.
The U.N. force has already withdrawn from two provinces of Congo, Kasai and Tanganyika.
The statement from the foreign minister mentioned 2024 as the goal, saying that they wanted the spokesman removed to help “complete the transition plan for the end of its final withdrawal from Congo, by the horizon 2024, as agreed.”
The U.N. force in Congo, known as MONUSCO, has about 16,000 uniformed personnel but has not succeeded in stabilizing the country’s volatile east.
Congo’s mineral-rich east is home to myriad rebel groups. Security has worsened there despite a year of emergency operations by the armies of Congo and Uganda. Civilians in the east have also faced violence from jihadi rebels linked to the Islamic State group. Fighting has also escalated between Congolese troops and the M23 rebels, forcing nearly 200,000 people to flee their homes. | 2022-08-05T12:12:00+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Congo-asks-UN-mission-spokesman-to-leave-amid-17347926.php |
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dolls Kill, the San Francisco born fashion brand known for fearless self-expression & party culture opens its doors this week in the city that never sleeps. On Thursday, August 18th, the NYC Flagship store will open at 33 Howard Street in SoHo (Between Broadway & Crosby) featuring 10,000 square feet of retail space spanning 3 full floors. This is the brand's first permanent expansion on the East Coast, and it marks the beginning of a broader international retail expansion strategy.
For Dolls Kill, immersive IRL experiences – including casting calls, multi-city retail pop ups, festival activations & more - have always been a central tenet of how the brand connects with its community. Before the pandemic it was standard to see insta-and-tiktok worthy lines five blocks long at any of their events. Now, after spending the last few years focused on its e-commerce business, Dolls Kill is setting its sights on brick-and-mortar as a part of its post-pandemic revival.
"After navigating a pandemic alongside us, our customers are ready to return to 'real life'," says Bobby Farahi, founder and CEO of Dolls Kill, "We believe there's significant pent-up demand for in-person touchpoints with the brand, and we're excited and ready to deliver."
For Dolls Kill, the iconic neighborhood of SoHo was the perfect home for its New York presence as the shopping destination & hangout for fashion-forward, creative, alternative thinkers, trendsetters and tastemakers. Its fall opening is well-timed for some big seasonal fashion moments including Burning Man, Back to School and Halloween.
Like their LA store, the New York store will evoke the brand's signature look and styles. The exterior will feature an interactive art installation that pays homage to the city. Inside, the store will feature a well curated mix of cutting-edge styles that appeal to the many subcultures Dolls Kill serves. The assortment will focus on brands that are exclusive to Dolls Kill and several cult favorites it also carries. The selection will constantly rotate as the season goes on, keeping things fresh for even the most loyal customer.
As a special treat, Dolls Kill is also bringing its 'Quickie Pickup' offering, the brand's convenient in-store pickup service to New York. Customers will be able to order anything online & pick up at the SoHo store next business day at no charge.
Dolls Kill (www.dollskill.com) is a generation defining brand that naturally goes against the grain. It's a movement away from conformity towards radical, unapologetic self-expression. Through product and content that is unlike any other, Dolls Kill is disrupting the way a generation views fashion, expression, freedom and culture. Dolls Kill doesn't conform to one look, one logo, one hero product, seasonality or customer. Dolls Kill is a place for all, THE place to go and be inspired.
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7th grader uses allowance to buy new Nikes for classmate who was being bullied about his shoes
BUFFALO, N.Y. (Gray News) – A seventh-grade boy in New York went viral for spending his allowance on new shoes for a classmate who was being bullied.
The kind gesture happened this week at Buffalo Creek Academy Charter School.
Bryant Brown Jr., the school’s dean of culture, posted a photo of the two students on Facebook to share their story.
Romello “Mello” Early noticed some classmates were bullying his friend, Melvin Anderson, for the shoes he wore. Mello was so upset that he asked his mom if he could use his allowance money or forgo a Christmas gift to buy Melvin a new pair of Nikes.
“My student Melo [sic] told me he was tired of other students picking on Melvin about his shoes. Melo used his allowance and bought Melvin some shoes,” Brown wrote alongside the photo. “This is what I live for. Be that helping hand.”
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DORAL, Florida (AP) — Several of Florida’s conservative faith leaders have the ear of two early frontrunners for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination – former President Donald Trump, who lives in Palm Beach, and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The clergy’s top political priorities are thus likely to resonate in the national campaign for the religious vote, even as both men’s agendas are still being weighed from the pulpit.
The faith leaders’ key issues include education, especially about gender and sexuality, and immigration, a particularly relevant matter in Florida, which is a destination for hundreds of thousands of newcomers and home to politically powerful Latino diasporas.
Trump made reducing illegal immigration a strong focus of his previous campaigns, often with strident rhetoric, and has discussed building on his legacy in a second term. DeSantis, who isn’t yet a candidate but is widely expected to run, has taken a more careful approach with immigration developments in Florida, while spotlighting issues related to schools and family.
Several pastors, particularly in heavily Latino South Florida, argue for reforming immigration policy. They want a more orderly process at a time of historically high illegal border crossings, but also more help to regularize and integrate undocumented migrants who are contributing economically and socially in United States communities.
The faith leaders’ top priority, however, is defending their congregations, and youth in general, from what they see as efforts to impose — through public education – concepts of marriage, family and identity that run against their values.
Some LGBTQ advocates, teachers unions, and others argue that the issue of “parental rights” is being used to inject conservative politics into public schools.
But for pastors like Frank López of Jesus Worship Center in Doral, a Miami suburb, exposing children to certain types of sexually explicit materials in schools without their parents’ knowledge is a form of political indoctrination that “brings conflict to a family.”
“We don’t want any government ever to go above a father and mother,” said López, whose church has grown to more than 3,000 members from over 40 different nationalities since it was founded two decades ago with barely three dozen worshippers.
He cited as a counterweight a bill DeSantis signed last year to give parents a say in what books are available in school libraries, targeting the presence of sexually explicit volumes.
“I think that the government should not get involved in any religion, but yes I believe that religion should get involved in governing,” said López, whose church has hosted visits by Trump, DeSantis and other conservative politicians.
Tom Ascol, the senior pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral who offered a prayer at DeSantis’ inauguration earlier this year, said he wants political leaders fighting “woke mobs” to restore “common-sense sanity” on issues like sexually explicit materials in public spaces with children.
“What Governor DeSantis did here in Florida, I’m grateful for,” Ascol said.
For Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, executive director of Chabad Jewish Center of Doral, the top concern is similarly “the breakdown in morals and ethics,” which he believes leads to societal ills including antisemitism, a growing worry nationwide.
He attributes that breakdown to failures in education to imbue youth with the values of tolerance, kindness and a belief in a higher existence.
“Life doesn’t begin and end with your cheeseburger, you and your pleasures,” Brashevitzky said, praising DeSantis and the Florida legislature for passing a “moment of silence” in schools before the day’s start, where children can pray or reflect.
“We as a society, Christian or not, have a responsibility to protect the young ones,” echoed Abraham Rivera, senior pastor at La Puerta Life Center, a Brethren in Christ church with about 200 members in Miami.
The focus on freedom for conservative faith-based moral values, particularly for youth, is proving a winning argument among religious voters nationwide, experts say.
“I certainly see a lot of energy around what conservatives would call ‘parental rights’ … I don’t see that ending,” said Marie Griffith, the director of religion and politics studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
In Florida, conservative family values might have turned younger Latino voters toward DeSantis, helping to account for his nearly 20 percentage point reelection victory last year — “unheard of” according to Susan MacManus, a professor emerita of political science at the University of South Florida.
The state is almost evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, she said. Trump won the prized battleground state by single digit percentage points in the last two presidential elections.
“The evangelical vote in Florida is too diverse to be a big force in politics,” she added, but many faithful across denominations like seeing DeSantis take charge of issues like sexually explicit materials available to children. “That resonates.”
The ability to stand up for more conservative values is also inextricably linked to the free exercise of religion for faith leaders like Rivera and his wife, Marilyn, who’s also a pastor and met with Trump when she led South Florida’s Association of Hispanic Ministers, which represents about 800 pastors from different Christian denominations.
“We never come at it from a hate perspective. As a pastor, I happen to believe what the Bible teaches about sexuality and marriage,” he said.
But he and other pastors fear holding on to those beliefs could put their churches at risk of being sued, for example when refusing to celebrate same-sex marriages, or that they might be forced to go against their conscience.
“The effort of some on the ‘progressive side’ to define religious freedom as freedom to worship but not necessarily the freedom to serve or the freedom to advocate” is also a top concern for Thomas Wenski, the Catholic Archbishop of Miami.
Wenski noted that “neither party will necessarily embrace the whole gamut of Catholic social thought,” which includes opposing abortion and capital punishment. Last year, Wenski’s strong advocacy for migrants and refugees put him publicly at odds with DeSantis, who’s Catholic.
Ultimately, faith leaders said that a candidate’s integrity and ability to address their concerns through policies outweighs a candidate’s likeability and other personal traits.
“The Christian church is not about looking for a perfect person or a charismatic person,” López said. “It wants a person who does what he says and a person who’s aligned with God’s values.”
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Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stark warning Sunday instructing Jewish settlers not to “grab land illegally” in the occupied West Bank, after humanitarian bodies raised the alarm over a series of deadly attacks on Palestinian villagers.
At the same time, Netanyahu repeatedly endorsed the construction of settlements approved by the government, which are considered illegal under international law.
“Calls to grab land illegally and actions of grabbing land illegally, are unacceptable to me. They undermine law and order in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] and must stop immediately,” he said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
“Not only will we not back such actions, our government will take strong action against them.
“These calls and actions do not strengthen settlement – on the contrary, they hurt it. I say this as someone who doubled settlement in Judea and Samaria despite great and unprecedented international pressure to carry out withdrawals that I have not carried out and will not carry out. These calls hurt the vital interests of the State of Israel and they must stop immediately.”
Israeli authorities describe the West Bank as Judea and Samaria.
Netanyahu stressed a twin approach to security. “We have been targeting a record number of terrorists and also building in our country on a broad scale according to approved construction plans. I emphasize – approved.”
The recent uptick in violence peaked on Wednesday, when Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Turmusayya in the occupied West Bank, the day after the killing of four Jewish settlers nearby, according to the mayor of the village.
Those killings had been in retaliation to an Israeli military operation in the Jenin area on Monday, which left seven Palestinians dead and 91 injured, according to the UN. Seven Israeli soldiers were injured.
Israeli security forces have recently ramped up armed hostilities against Palestinian militants, amid Netanyahu’s campaign for illegal settlers’ outposts to be expanded and turned into full settlements.
‘Nationalist terrorism’
Senior Israeli security officials condemned what they called “nationalist terrorism” by some settlers, after the latest attacks took place on Saturday around the Palestinian village of Umm Safr, north of Ramallah.
“In recent days, violent attacks have been carried out by Israelis in Judea and Samaria against innocent Palestinians,” the Chief of the Israeli General Staff, Gen. Herzi Halevi, the Director of the Israel Security Agency [ISA], Ronen Bar and Israel’s Police Commissioner, Yaakov Shabtai, said in a statement.
“These attacks contradict every moral and Jewish value; they constitute, in every way, nationalist terrorism, and we are obliged to fight them.
“Israel’s security forces are operating against those rioters, risking the lives of IDF soldiers, Israel Police officers and ISA personnel,” the statement said, adding that arrests would be made as the violence “diverts the security forces from their main mission of operating against Palestinian terrorism.”
Israeli police were met with resistance when trying to seize vehicles belonging to settlers said to have set fire to two houses, a truck and two vehicles as part of the attacks in Umm Safr, according to a spokesperson for the force.
“The rioters proceeded to throw stones and other projectiles at both police officers and their vehicles, resulting in significant damage,” the police spokesperson said.
It took several hours to reopen the settlement gate, which the individuals had “deliberately damaged” to prevent “entry or exit.”
Additionally, a search of vehicles elsewhere had revealed “a gasoline-like substance, gloves, batons, and a knife,” which were confiscated, and two suspects were apprehended.
Separately, the IDF said on Saturday that rocks had been thrown in Umm Safr while Israeli citizens reportedly set fire to Palestinian property. It said an Israeli citizen had been arrested, adding: “The IDF condemns such acts of nationalist crime that lead to escalation.”
Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian official who monitors settler violence, said that 10 houses in Umm Safr were set on fire Saturday and seven vehicles destroyed. He accused settlers of firing live rounds at the village and two bullets had hit the camera of a Palestine TV crew. Videos obtained by CNN showed properties and an electrical generator on fire, as well as a group of settlers opening fire from a road.
Palestine TV cameraman Mohammad Radee told CNN on Sunday that he and a reporter had tried to hide behind a house in the village. “We were surprised that a handful of settlers managed to track us and started firing towards us directly from a distance of 20 meters.”
A family of eight was rescued from one burning house, according to Palestinian civil defense teams.
The Palestinian authorities said on Sunday that the Israeli authorities had been forced to make a “clear and public recognition of the existence of national terrorism committed by thousands of settlers carrying weapons, who enjoy public protection from the occupation army and political cover from ministers in the Israeli government.”
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said that the Israeli statement was issued to address international opinion, but “not intended to arrest settler elements and their terrorist leaders or start collecting their weapons.”
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Tucson is a long way from the sandy shores of the California coast, but a new exhibit at Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium is offering a look at what lies beneath the ocean waves, right here in the middle of the desert.
Situated in the recently renovated basement of Flandrau on the University of Arizona campus, “Undersea Discovery” is an interactive feast for the senses. A life-size octopus figure greets visitors upon entry. It’s accompanied by a 25-foot squid, reminiscent of the monster squid that haunted the Nautilus in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
There’s a touch tank and saltwater aquariums with 30 fish species of every color. Hands-on activities for kids include, a microscope projection station, an ocean rescue game and a “midnight zone,” meant to simulate the darkest depths of the open seas.
“Part of it is just trying to meet the different learning styles that there are,” said Nick Letson, a spokesman with Flandrau. “Some people are happy to read content on graphics and learn that way. Other people like to learn through touch. It is another way of engaging kids in science.”
Letson said the idea for “Undersea Discovery” emerged from Flandrau’s regular Marine Discovery program, a collaboration between Flandrau and the aquatic and marine biology departments on campus.
“They were bringing cool things to the table in terms of specimens to show kids,” Letson said. “We thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to have an exhibit to enhance that program?’”
Letson said they thought such an exhibit would fill a need.
“It would reach kids that were interested in the ocean, but didn’t have the means to make it out to California,” Letson said.
“Undersea Discovery” is the latest permanent exhibit to be constructed at Flandrau, following the launch of its “Wild World of Bugs” exhibit in 2021.
Like “Undersea,” “Wild World of Bugs” is packed with interactive activities and large-scale models. Letson said these types of exhibits are part of Flandrau’s evolution.
“We have been putting more funds and attention into the look, feel and the lighting,” Letson said. “People like to take pictures with the things in these exhibits. We are more than happy to provide that and an educational experience at the same time.”
Flandrau is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays at 1601 E. University Blvd. Visit https://flandrau.org/ for more information. | 2023-06-07T19:22:30+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/new-flandrau-exhibit-brings-the-ocean-experience-to-tucson |
Tennis, everyone? Why the game is booming at high schools across the Peoria area
PEORIA — Jade Fulk switched from one athletic court to another in her junior year at Limestone High School.
The varsity basketball player picked up a tennis racket for the first time last year, and now, down the stretch in her senior season, she has only one regret.
"I'm kicking myself that I didn't try this in my freshman year," she said Saturday at the Mid-Illini Conference girls tennis tournament. "I wish I had played tennis all along. I just love it."
And she's not alone, as girls tennis rosters have swelled at Limestone, Richwoods, Notre Dame, Dunlap and other programs around central Illinois.
More:Here are Peoria area's high school girls tennis players to know ahead of the 2022 season
A tennis growth spurt
Dunlap has a tennis lineup larger than some schools' football rosters. The Eagles had 70 boys out for tennis in the spring season. This fall, there were more than 45 girls out for the racket sport.
"And more on the way in the pipeline," tennis coach Pat Gornik said. "It's continuing to grow."
So much so that, for the first time ever, Gornik had to make cuts to his girls roster this season, and will likely have to do the same for the boys in the spring.
The Eagles' girls tennis program has 37 girls at all levels, from which 12 are drawn for the varsity.
In the past, Gornik had so many players he split his varsity squad and scheduled multiple opponents on the same day, sending one group against one foe and the other group against another opponent. But practices and developing players has become unwieldy with such big roster numbers.
"We have four coaches and nine courts to try to work with everyone," Gornik said. "I never thought we'd have to make cuts, but we're there now. Other teams are going to probably have to do likewise."
Richwoods boys and girls tennis coach Terry Cole has 36 girls in his program, of which 30 have competed in varsity matches this season.
"Sometimes our top players don't get as many matches as other teams, but we spread the competition around," Cole said. "We had a day where we had an eight-person lineup playing in Troy against Triad and O'Fallon, and 22 different players playing at two different locations in Peoria.
"Our junior varsity practices are true beginners, with 13 kids coached by me and assistant Jillian Kempan."
And a big surprise in the numbers game is Limestone, where coach Jen Kelly has presided over a tennis boom.
"We had 10 or 11 girls, just enough to have a team, when I started six years ago," Kelly said Saturday, while watching her players compete in the Mid-Illini championships at Pekin. "We had 19 last year, and this year we added 17 girls who never played tennis before. Ever.
"I wish I knew why it was happening because it's exciting. I think it's a lot of reasons."
Behind the prep tennis boom?
Richwoods' Cole says he's had just three players enter the program with strong tennis backgrounds.
"About 80% of our kids come in without any skills or equipment," Cole said.
So Richwoods tennis struck a deal with equipment provider Diadem, which saw the influx of inexperienced players on the roster and wanted to assist.
"They provide beginning players with quality equipment to help them grow faster as players," Cole said. "It works. This year we had a senior who worked about 10 hours a week over the summer, never had paid lessons as a junior player and finished second in the No. 4 singles slot in the Big 12 Conference.
"It's about offering kids a pathway to grow and compete."
COVID impacted the Richwoods tennis program, too. With sports shuffled and rescheduled by the IHSA in response to the pandemic, four volleyball and basketball players came over to try Richwoods tennis and made the team.
"My guess is, with us and over at Limestone, the rising numbers have something to do with the freedom tennis provides, too," Cole said. "Even in a controlled, hard practice there is a feeling of independence and a strong social bond that kids make with each other."
Cole said programs like Dunlap and Notre Dame are the gold standard, but "we're rising. Tennis is a life-long sport where you can go hit with your friends, socialize. And I can say in Limestone's case, the coaches run a program that appeals to kids. They are really growing.
"All these places, the programs they have are a reflection of the kids in them. At Richwoods, they are respectful and kind. Are among the top GPAs in the school. Kids want to be part of it."
These programs are a reflection of coaches who are passionate about tennis, too. It's no accident that Pat Lowder's Notre Dame tennis program shines. Or Cole's effort at Richwoods, Gornik's powerhouse program at Dunlap, quality programs like Metamora, under Brad Boeker, Morton with Molly Thompson, and others who are building.
"We started from scratch," Limestone's Kelly said. "We make the program fun, concentrate on team-building. We have a camp experience. We have a parents vs. kids challenge where they get to play each other, all designed to help them get to know the game and let them know we're there."
Gornick's Dunlap program works out at Clubs at River City, and has a summer camp — hosted by the players — that welcomes anyone who wants to pick up a racket and try the game, regardless of age or skill level.
He says it has helped introduce the game, and the program, to kids who then later opt to play in high school.
It works, too. The Eagles were Mid-Illini Conference champions Saturday, nearly sweeping the singles and doubles events.
Leah Meghrian and Sophie Muir teamed up to win the No. 2 doubles title. Emily Klemens and Alassea Michel dropped a three-set battle to Metamora tandem Carly Edwards and Brianna Bessert in No. 1 doubles. Shikha Agarwal won the No. 1 singles draw. Maya Baman won the No. 2 single bracket.
Washington, Metamora, Pekin all had players move deep into the brackets.
Notre Dame, under Lowder, and Richwoods, under Cole, will soon join the party as area teams move into IHSA playoffs this month.
'Try something new'
Jade Fulk played varsity basketball at Limestone.
"I felt like I wanted to try something new," said Fulk, who finished fifth in No. 2 doubles with partner Katelyn Smith at the M-I Conference championships Saturday. "For the first few weeks, I learned the basics, and I really loved the game.
"It's such a great team comaraderie with these girls. It's been a great experience for me."
Dave Eminian is the Journal Star sports columnist, and covers Bradley men's basketball, the Rivermen and Chiefs. He writes the Cleve In The Eve sports column for pjstar.com. He can be reached at 686-3206 or deminian@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @icetimecleve. | 2022-10-13T10:48:09+00:00 | pjstar.com | https://www.pjstar.com/story/sports/high-school/tennis/2022/10/13/high-school-tennis-boom-why-the-game-is-growing-at-peoria-schools/69548912007/ |
Q. I bought a $10,000 I Bond on May 13, 2022. When I go to my Treasury Direct account, it shows the $10,000 purchase but no interest. My brother-in-law bought one in April and it shows $60.When will interest show up on my account?
— Investor
A. I Bonds have been very attractive in this rising interest rate environment.
They’re paying nearly 10%, better than you’ll find just about anywhere.
The I Bond interest that is viewable online is the actual money you can take out after all the rules have been applied, said Jim McCarthy, a certified financial planner with Directional Wealth Management in Rockaway.
The first important rule is that you cannot redeem an I Bond within a year, he said. The second is that you will be penalized on the last three months’ worth of interest if you redeem within five years. The last rule is that you will not earn interest for the month that you redeem the I Bond, he said.
On your purchase, if you bought your I Bond in May, you have held the bond for 3 months (May-June-July) and the U.S. Treasury will penalize you for the previous three months (May-June-July), McCarthy said. The other rule is that the month that you redeem, the current month, you will not earn interest, he said.
In September, your account will start to show interest earned in April 2022, which would be out of the penalty months. In September, the penalty months would be June-July-August.
Your brother in law is currently seeing interest earned for the month of April.
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(KTLA) – Knott’s Berry Farm in California will be implementing a new chaperone policy Friday, nearly a week after multiple fights broke out at the Buena Park theme park, officials announced.
All guests who are 17 or younger will need to be accompanied by a chaperone who is at least 21 to get into the park, officials detailed in their amended code of conduct.
The new policy will remain in effect on Fridays and Saturdays “until further notice.”
The chaperone will need to show a valid photo ID that includes their date of birth. One chaperone may accompany no more than three 17-or-under guests per day.
“Chaperones must accompany their party during entry, remain with their party at all times during their visit to the park, and be available by phone throughout their stay,” the code of conduct details. “Guests ages 17 years old or younger who are found inside the park unaccompanied by a chaperone will be subject to ejection.”
The new requirement will apply to all Knott’s Berry Farm and Knott’s Soak City Waterpark ticket and season passholders, officials said.
“A safe, family-friendly atmosphere of Knott’s is the type of experience our guests expect and deserve,” park officials explained. “This policy was put in place to ensure that all guests have the best time ever and leave happy and eager to visit again.”
The policy comes just days after a Saturday incident which forced the park to close three hours early, after multiple fights that broke out. Police did not detail those incidents, but indicated no shots were fired.
The theme park’s code of conduct already prohibits fighting or physical aggression of any kind, as well as offensive language or gestures, unruly or disruptive behavior and weapons of any kind. | 2022-07-23T19:30:30+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/california-theme-park-to-require-chaperones-for-guests-17-and-under/ |
MANCHESTER, England, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- UK charity Human Appeal called on the World community to support an urgent integrated humanitarian intervention in Somalia. This comes as part of Human Appeal's ongoing humanitarian work in Somalia where millions are on the verge of famine due to repeated rainy season failures and conflict.
The worst hunger levels in three decades are a culmination of cyclical droughts, conflict, climate shocks, rising food prices, and national debt. No end appears in sight as the nation continues to await rainfall.
An integrated intervention would cover humanitarian needs related to food insecurity, nutrition, water, sanitation, health and hygiene. Somalia also faces a surge in illness due to a population with a weakened immune system which is a result of malnutrition, especially in infants and children.
"One in two Somalis are facing food insecurity according to the UN and Human Appeal has been conducting humanitarian interventions in Somalia since 1991 responding to emergencies and climate shocks. So much more is urgently needed on an integrated level to help the millions of men, women and children in the midst of this dire situation that seems to have been forgotten by the World," commented Owais Khan, Human Appeal's Deputy CEO.
Last year, UK charity Human Appeal helped 287,142 people in Somalia, including supporting over 170,000 through food projects, 98,000 through health projects, and 11,500 with clean water solutions and improved sanitation.
In Somalia, 90% of all districts have been hit by drought, with people forced to flee their homes in search of food, water and pasture for their livestock. The uncertainty of displacement puts vulnerable families at risk of disease, poor hygiene, and violence.
Human Appeal (registered charity 1154288) is a fully independent British charity and humanitarian NGO based in Manchester, UK. It was established in 1991 and runs targeted aid relief programmes in collaboration with recognized global organizations like the United Nations. Its purpose is to save lives through emergency response and sustainable development programmes, in over 25 countries worldwide: www.humanappeal.org.uk
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Insider: 10 thoughts on the Colts' embarrassing shutout loss to the Jaguars
Ten thoughts on the Colts' 24-0 loss to the Jaguars at TIAA Bank Stadium:
1.Another trip to Jacksonville resulted in another listless performance showcasing a complete lack of life from the Colts while making young players on the Jaguars look like All-Pros. This is the inexplicable eighth consecutive road loss for the Colts against the Jaguars, except this time it seemed fairly expected by the fan base. Michael Pittman Jr. was out, the Colts have a problem at left tackle and Jonathan Taylor doesn't run well against these guys. All of those issues reared their ugly head Sunday, and it resulted in a 24-0 loss to a team that is 4-15 since last year began, with two wins against the Colts in Jacksonville.
Can the Colts fix left tackle?
2. Let's start with the left tackle situation. It was odd hearing early in the week from Frank Reich and Marcus Brady about the rotation plan they had with Matt Pryor and Bernhard Raimann. It's just not something you do at left tackle if you believe strongly in a player, because change presents risk. We're seeing now that it's emblematic of not having that guy at left tackle right now. Pryor got beat badly on two early rushes by Josh Allen around the edge and then false started in an effort to get moving out in space against him. With an immobile quarterback and receivers who struggle with separation, this became the biggest reason the Colts weren't a threat on offense. The offense can't be good until it's fixed, and since good left tackles aren't just available at this time of year, all the fixes are going to have to come internally.
More:Insider: Colts fail on every level again in Jacksonville, open questions about future
3. The sloppiness in execution for the passing game was hard to watch. Outside of some designed routes for Nyheim Hines, almost nothing worked for that group today. Receivers were lining up wrong and getting flagged for pass interference. Dezmon Patmon dropped a third-down conversion. Matt Ryan threw ducks for three interceptions in a desperate effort. This was going to be a work in progress with a new quarterback and an extremely young receivers room, but right now, the Colts look like a passing game that cannot function without Michael Pittman Jr. And that's a problem now that he's dealing with a mysterious quad injury.
4. I guess if we're looking for bright sides, the Colts special teams were fine today. Matt Haack had a 51-yard punt they downed inside the 10, and coverage units were solid. It was a weird day where Keke Coutee checked in as the punt returner for Hines, though it was hard to really notice. The Colts did not try a field goal attempt with Chase McLaughlin, which explains how this game went.
5. Jonathan Taylor just does not have much success against the Jaguars anymore. Last year, he had a huge first quarter in the first matchup and struggled to find room to breathe for the remaining seven quarters, and today was much of the same, as he finished with 54 yards on nine carries, fueled almost entirely by a couple strong runs in the second half. The Jaguars mix enough up in the middle of their line to create penetration that he's constantly having to work through. The explosive runs are impressive to watch but only for how much Taylor has to do on them. If there's one positive from the offense, it's that it only put nine carries of tread on Taylor's tires.
It's hard to see the Colts dominating in the run game as they did last year
6. We are seeing the impact of Jack Doyle since his retirement. The Colts were just more creative in the run game a year ago, and though Mo Alie-Cox is a solid blocker overall, he can't pull across the formation and scoop out linebackers the way that Doyle did, and it matters. They have new starters at left tackle and right guard, and Ryan Kelly and Braden Smith have not played at a high level since late last season. The group collectively is going to have to get better, but it's hard to envision them dominating on the ground like they did last year without Doyle and all he brought schematically and physically.
7. We're two games in this season, and it's been hard to notice Yannick Ngakoue. He had one tackle-for-loss last week and then had a good run rep against the Jaguars where he forced a holding call. But the run game was not why he was brought here in an offseason trade. Today was his return to Jacksonville, the franchise that drafted him, and I figured he'd play with extra fire as a result, but he didn't create an impact. And the Colts don't have any established edge rush if he isn't the one making it happen.
8. I really expected today to be a big Parris Campbell day with Pittman Jr. and Alec Pierce out, but he was barely involved in the game plan and rotated out more than he did last week. He finished with zero catches on one target and was called for an offensive pass interference call that was questionable. This is a huge year for Campbell, individually and for the needs of the Colts, and it has not gotten off to a hot start.
Colts need to scrap defensive game plan
9. The defensive game plan was hard to figure out. The Colts rotated defensive linemen lots more than the five-man rotation they employed last week, but it resulted in zero pass rush on Trevor Lawrence. Dayo Odeyingbo lined up offsides on a play, not helping his case for more playing time. We didn't see much blitzing, and the Jaguars consistently got their receivers in unfair matchups in the middle of the field, with Christian Kirk and Zay Jones seeing coverage from Kwity Paye and E.J. Speed for first-down conversions. That kind of game plan will never work in this league, and the Colts better scrap it immediately before Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs come to town next week.
10. Certain trends just don't end with this team. It can't win an opener, it can't play competently in Jacksonville and it can't avoid a slow start to the season. The Colts' culture has felt like one of their strengths under Frank Reich, but this is starting to look like a systemic issue, the kind a contending football team does not have year after year.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Saturday was day two of the NRA Convention in downtown Indianapolis.
More than 70,000 are expected to attend through Sunday.
The event is also the focus of protests. Outside the Indiana Convention Center Saturday, dozens gathered in a designated protest zone showing their concern about gun violence.
The "body count" protest involved people lying down at Hudnut Commons to represent children killed in shootings.
Organizers hope the demonstration leads to more discussion about guns and safety.
"I don't know what the answers are, how we can fix this, but what we're doing isn't working, and we have to do something," said Holly Vonderheit, one of the demonstrators.
"To have a dialog, a real conversation with people who want to have common sense approach to gun control," said Deanna Melatesta. "We don't need assault weapons, no one wants to take away your Second Amendment."
Research shows one in five Americans has a family member who's been killed by a gun. And according to the CDC, guns have surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for children. | 2023-04-16T01:48:14+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/protesters-hope-indianapolis-body-count-demonstration-leads-to-dialogue-about-guns-safety-nra-convention-protest/531-8dc60471-c8ff-4e3a-8a46-82fd5527f5dc |
FOUNTAIN — In our exclusive series Adventures with Alan, we'll travel across Southern Colorado week-by-week to show you thrills and chills, hidden gems and well-known spots.
Thanks to warmer weather, hiking season is back!
But hiking in the spring can be a challenge, because well, it's mud season here in Southern Colorado.
Lucky for us, our latest hike at the Fountain Creek Nature Center comes during a dry stretch of weather.
Fountain Creek Nature Center
About 15 minutes south of Colorado Springs, the Fountain Creek Nature Center and Trail is located off the Mesa Ridge Parkway exit, between I-25 and N. Santa Fe Avenue.
At 460-acres, the regional park that's home to the nature center offers plenty to do and see.
Before our hike, we take a peek inside.
"The nature center is a great place for families, especially young kiddos to come in and get a glimpse into the wetland environment that we have here. We like to call it the 'Oasis on the Plains'," said Victoria Dinkel, Interpretive Director at the Fountain Creek Nature Center.
For first time visitors like myself, the nature center serves as a great introduction to the marshy wetlands found here.
Fountain Creek Nature Trail
"There is a point seven mile loop that goes just around this pond here at the nature center, and it's part of the Cattail Marsh Wildlife Area," said Dinkel.
After tackling some pretty big hikes over the years, the trail nearby the nature center is more of a stroll than a hike.
It's a popular spot for bird-watchers, families, and anyone else looking to spend time outdoors.
But leave your pups at home. Dogs are not allowed on the nature trail. They are allowed however on the regional trail that stretches for around 3 miles from the north end of the park to the south end.
Within the nature loop, Dinkel says to keep an eye out for deer, as well as lots of bird residents, bobcats, turtles, butterflies, even turkeys.
"It's pretty common to see white-tail deer down in the woods. They've kind of gotten used to the people around, and know that we don't bug 'em. They'll usually hang out pretty close to the trail." said Dinkel.
With stunning views of the Front Range and Pikes Peak, we're lucky to hike on a dry day.
You know it's spring because there's green grass beginning to show up alongside the trail.
On top of the creeks, ponds and wildfire, we run across a gorgeous cottonwood tree on our hike.
A sign at the base of the tree says that it's 150 years old, and that it measures 20 feet around its trunk and stands five stories tall.
The wetlands are home to hundreds of different species of plants and animals.
"You never know what you're gonna find. It really depends on the day," said Dinkel.
Whether out on a leisurely stroll or wanting to connect with nature, this is perfect place to do it.
Best of all, they're open year-round.
"We are free to come visit, open Tuesday through Saturday, so come on down and learn about our environment a little bit and explore the trails," said Dinkel.
Fountain Creek Nature Center and Trail adventure rating
When it comes to difficulty, it's flat, it's less than a mile and it's great for families. We'll give this 1 out of 5.
For scenery...wonderful views of the Front Range and Pikes Peaks make this an easy one. 4 out of 5.
For fun level...I had a great time! 4 out of 5.
Now for my final score...let's rate this 4 stars out of 5.
Final Thoughts
This place is wonderful for all ages, and offers a variety of programs throughout the year. They also cater to local schools in the area, something I'm told is a big hit with the elementary school kids.
For more information, you can visit their website here: Fountain Creek Nature Center.
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Gaby Moreno's "home away from home" is a small, West Los Angeles theater called Largo at the Coronet. She's been a guest singer and has performed her own show at this historic nightclub for more than 20 years.
"It just became like this place that I would just go to get inspired," says Moreno. "And my God I was so inspired! I really believe that something changed in me, how I wanted to express myself musically."
Moreno arrived in Los Angeles in 2001 and released her first album in 2008. Seven albums later, Moreno found her voice singing various Latin American music genres and a wide spectrum of American music including R&B, soul, pop, rock, country, old-time and more. Moreno is equally at ease writing and singing songs in Spanish and English.
But before she released her first album, she did not write songs in Spanish. "I think it was because when I was really young, about 13 years old, and I did this trip with my family to New York, I first discovered blues and jazz. And I remember I was obsessed with that music," she says.
During that trip, she bought a lot of CDs and took them home to Guatemala. Moreno says she would lock herself in her room and listen to Muddy Waters, and Big Mama Thornton, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.
"I just remember thinking there's no way I'm going to write in Spanish, I just didn't think it would sound authentic singing this style of music in Spanish, 'cause that's what I wanted to do, I want to do blues I want do jazz."
That all changed when she started playing at Largo.
Her friend, bass player David Piltch, was doing a weekly residency at the club and invited Moreno to join him with any song she wanted to sing. "And I remember him telling me, 'Hey why don't you bring a bolero?' And I was like, 'a bolero?'" she says. "I mean, really, at that point, I knew all of these boleros just from growing up in Guatemala and that my parents would play a lot, but I didn't know how to play, I don't think I'd ever sung a bolero."
Moreno went home and started listening to boleros. Then she came upon one called Quizás, Quizás, Quizás. "And that's when I first started playing that song Quizás, it was here at Largo," she says. "And I remember people coming up to me after the shows, and saying 'that kind of music, songs in Spanish, you should be doing.'"
"Gaby has immersed herself in all this American music," says fan Jackson Browne. "One of the times I saw her at the Largo, she was playing electric guitar and playing this really rock stuff, really punky, very punky kinda, you know. She gets it, she really gets to the essence of lots of different musical styles."
During one of the shows at Largo, she met the renowned composer and arranger Van Dyke Parks, whose work includes writing songs for The Beach Boys and collaborations with Randy Newman, Little Feat and Ry Cooder.
Moreno says they talked for hours. "He said to me, 'this is the music that I grew up listening to, I would play shows with my brother back in the 60s, singing corridos and rancheras and boleros, and I love this music so much, we have to do something together!'" In 2019, Moreno and Parks released the album titled ¡Spangled!. It was nominated for a Latin Grammy the following year.
Moreno says though she's been honing her craft for decades, something keeps pulling her back to her roots. And that has influenced her latest album Alegoría. She says she can hear how much she has evolved, not only as a songwriter but also as a singer.
"I feel much more connected with the songs that I'm writing and with my experience, especially my experience as an immigrant, here in the U.S.," she says. "Even after all these years, 'cause I've been here for a long time, over 20 years, I still feel that my home is Guatemala. My whole family is there."
In the song "Til Waking Light," Moreno sings in English and Spanish from the perspective of an immigrant making the treacherous journey from Central America to the U.S.
"And I personally know people that have made that crazy, crazy journey," she says. "It was really that, I was just kinda trying to think what's going on in their head. Like, how desperate must they be to like just up and leave everything they know and risk their lives just to come to a place where they'll have more opportunities and be in a safer environment."
Over the years, Moreno has shared the stage with a wide array of artists, from Tracy Chapman to Calexico to Punch Brothers. She toured the world with British actor-singer Hugh Laurie as part of The Copper Bottom Band. In 2009, she co-wrote the theme song for the TV show "Parks and Recreation." In 2020, she was named the first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador from Guatemala.
Guitarist, pianist and producer David Garza met Moreno 18 years ago. "For a creator, a songwriter of her stature to be blessed with a voice like that, it's an unbelievable package that is a gift to anybody that comes across it," he says. "You don't usually get that kind of, the voice and the writing talent."
This month, Moreno will embark on a big tour of Europe. She'll be doing 28 shows in six weeks, covering 11 countries, including Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Ireland. One thing is for sure, Gaby Moreno will always come back to her favorite venue, Largo at the Coronet.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — “Horrific” is one of the ways leaders nationwide characterized a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. And, in addition to prayers and comments on the tragedy, Democratic lawmakers also called for changes as details of the massacre began to unfold.
“The moment to stop Uvalde was right after Sandy Hook. After Santa Fe High. After El Paso,” tweeted Beto O’Rourke, who paused a presidential campaign back in 2019 when a shooter opened fire in a Walmart in his hometown.
Each time a mass shooting happens, similar calls ring out. Here’s a look at what has happened after shootings that garnered nationwide attention.
After Sandy Hook
In 2012, a 20-year-old walked into a Connecticut elementary school and opened fire, killing 20 first-graders and six educators.
Congress introduced several gun control measures immediately following the Sandy Hook massacre. All failed. Among the proposals were an assault weapons ban and criminal background checks for guns sold over the internet or at gun shows. The National Rifle Association at the time also advocated for putting armed guards into schools.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who represents Sandy Hook, took to the floor to implore his colleagues to pass legislation to address gun violence.
“I’m here on this floor to beg — to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues — find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely,” he said.
After Las Vegas, Parkland
The year 2018 saw another mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead. The year before, a gunman had also shot and killed 61 people at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
President Donald Trump urged the Justice Department to ban devices like the one the Las Vegas shooter used: bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire without stopping. A ban took effect in 2019.
Texas changes after Santa Fe
After a 17-year-old killed 10 people in Santa Fe, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott called for a series of roundtables and laid out extensive school safety plan recommendations.
Lawmakers also passed bills in response, including one to create a Texas Child Mental Health consortium, and to require school districts to set up “threat assessment teams” of people trained to spot red flags.
Texas 2021 gun laws
In 2021, Abbott signed a number of gun-related bills into law.
As of August, Texans older than 21 were allowed to carry a handgun in public without a permit under House Bill 1927.
There are exceptions for felons and those younger than that, and buyers still need to pass a gun-store background check. Below are other laws that went into effect:
- Senate Bill 19: Creates a prohibition on contracts with companies that discriminate against the firearm and ammunition industry.
- Senate Bill 20: Allows hotel guests to have guns and ammunition in their rooms.
- Senate Bill 550: Permits a person to carry a gun in any type of holster.
- House Bill 957: Exempts suppressors made in Texas from federal regulations.
- House Bill 1500: Makes firearms and ammunition sellers and manufacturers essential businesses.
- House Bill 2622: Creates a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State” in Texas, protecting Texans from new federal gun control regulations. | 2022-05-25T15:47:46+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/whats-happened-with-gun-laws-after-other-mass-shootings/ |
First once-weekly transdermal system offering continuous delivery of donepezil, most-commonly prescribed Alzheimer's dementia drug
Broadens Corium's CNS drug portfolio
BOSTON, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Corium, Inc., a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company leading the development and commercialization of novel central nervous system (CNS) therapies, announced today that ADLARITY (donepezil transdermal system) is now available for prescription in the U.S. for the treatment of patients with mild, moderate, or severe dementia of the Alzheimer's type.
ADLARITY, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March 2022, is the first and only once-weekly patch to continuously deliver consistent doses of donepezil through the skin, enabling a favorable overall gastrointestinal (GI) side effect profile. Donepezil, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and the active ingredient in the oral medication Aricept®, is the most prescribed Alzheimer's dementia medication. Patients may be switched by their prescriber from a daily 5 mg or 10 mg dose of oral donepezil directly to the once-weekly ADLARITY, which is available in daily 5 mg or 10 mg transdermal formulations.
"We are thrilled to be launching ADLARITY and feel fortunate for the opportunity to provide patients living with Alzheimer's dementia, their families, and their caregivers a new, innovative way to deliver donepezil in a consistent and well-tolerated option," said Perry Sternberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Corium. "The launch of ADLARITY demonstrates the value of Corium's innovative CORPLEX™ technology and our commitment to providing treatment options that address unmet needs for CNS conditions. I want to thank our people, whose tireless commitment made the possibility of helping millions of people in the U.S. living with Alzheimer's disease a reality."
"I can see this weekly patch helping patients and caregivers by providing the ease of a once-weekly treatment with continuous donepezil delivery through the skin," said Lori La Bey, founder of Alzheimer's Speaks, a patient advocacy organization, and caregiver of a family member with Alzheimer's.
ADLARITY became available through wholesalers as of September 19, 2022, and has received first-line formulary coverage for patients with some commercial insurances, with more expected as the year progresses. Corium is working with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services toward greater patient accessibility through government-sponsored programs, including Medicare Part D, with coverage expected to begin in 2023. Corium is taking a phased approach to launching ADLARITY. As Medicare becomes available, Corium will broaden launch efforts, with a nationwide launch planned for 2023.
Physicians interested in receiving more information or resources can request field representative support via http://www.adlarityhcp.com/. Corium also is supporting patient access to ADLARITY under CoriumCares™, a patient access and support program offering information about access and reimbursement as well as copay assistance for eligible commercially-insured patients. More information is available at http://www.adlarity.com/savings-and-support or (800) 433-4893.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive and irreversible brain disorder. It involves changes in brain tissue including abnormal buildup of proteins as well as loss of neuron function. The resulting damage leads to the loss of remembering, reasoning, and thinking abilities. Dementia ranges in severity from mild, when it is just beginning to affect a person's functioning, to moderate, to severe, when the person must depend on others for the basic activities of day-to-day life. Patients with Alzheimer's disease also develop changing to their swallowing during early to mid-stage disease that can progress to dysphagia, or swallowing impairment, in later stages. Dysphagia increases their risk of dehydration, dehydration, or aspiration, which frequently leads to aspiration pneumonia, a common cause of death among these patients. The related behavioral changes also include the loss of independence in activities of daily living and self-care.
An estimated 6.5 million Americans older than 65 were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2022, with a possible rise to 14 million by 2060. Globally, more than 55 million people have dementia, and Alzheimer's disease may account for 60 to 70 percent of patients, according to the World Health Organization. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2021 more than 11 million Americans provided an estimated 16 billion hours of unpaid care for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Corium has deep expertise in transdermal technology and an industry-leading track record of developing and manufacturing transdermal products. ADLARITY's approval and launch represent important milestones for Corium's proprietary CORPLEX transdermal technology in the prescription market, which builds on the success of CORPLEX use in leading consumer health products for over a decade. CORPLEX was developed with the goal of optimizing clinical benefits for patients by delivering continuous, controlled, and sustained release of a drug over a defined time. Corium's pipeline portfolio includes a focus on developing other CNS therapies that leverage its CORPLEX technology.
Corium, Inc., is a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company that is leading the development and commercialization of CNS therapies that provide physicians with innovative treatment options for patients, their families, and their caregivers. Corium is commercializing two U.S. FDA approved products, ADLARITY and AZSTARYS. For further information, please visit http://www.corium.com.
Gurnet Point Capital is a unique healthcare investment platform within the B-Flexion group and led by a team with deep expertise in an industry for which they share a passion, both as investors and senior executives. GPC invests long-term capital and supports entrepreneurs in building a new generation of companies that deliver outsized returns through active ownership. Based in Cambridge, MA, its remit encompasses life sciences and health care focused businesses, with a particular emphasis on businesses that have high growth potential in the product development and commercialization stages of their evolution. With its strategy of driving best in class operational transformation for these businesses, to create social impact while generating significant economic value, GPC is able to deliver differentiated results for its investors and partners. For more, go to http://www.gurnetpointcapital.com.
ADLARITY is indicated for the treatment of mild, moderate, and severe dementia of the Alzheimer's type.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION CONTRAINDICATIONS ADLARITY is contraindicated in patients with known hypersensitivity to donepezil or to piperidine derivatives or with a history of allergic contact dermatitis with use of ADLARITY.
- Application site skin reactions: ADLARITY may cause skin application-site reactions. These reactions are not necessarily indicative of sensitization; however, allergic contact dermatitis may occur and should be suspected if application-site reactions spread beyond the size of the transdermal system, there is evidence of a more intense local reaction, and symptoms do not significantly improve within 48 hours of transdermal system removal.
- Anesthesia: ADLARITY is likely to exaggerate succinylcholine-type muscle relaxation during anesthesia.
- Cardiovascular conditions: ADLARITY may have vagotonic effects on the sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes. These effects may manifest as bradycardia or heart block in patients both with and without known underlying cardiac conduction abnormalities. Syncopal episodes have been reported in association with the use of donepezil.
- Nausea and vomiting: ADLARITY may cause diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Although in most cases these effects have been transient, some cases lasted 1 to 3 weeks. Patients should be monitored closely during initiation and titration of ADLARITY.
- Peptic ulcer disease and gastrointestinal bleeding: ADLARITY may increase gastric acid secretion. Patients should be monitored closely for active or occult gastrointestinal bleeding, especially those with a history of ulcer disease or those receiving concurrent nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
- Genitourinary conditions: Although not observed in clinical trials of ADLARITY, bladder outflow obstruction may occur.
- Seizures: ADLARITY is believed to have some potential to cause generalized convulsions; however, seizure activity may also be a manifestation of Alzheimer's disease.
- Pulmonary conditions: ADLARITY should be prescribed with care to patients with a history of asthma or obstructive pulmonary disease.
The most common side effects of ADLARITY (>3%) were headache (15%), application site pruritus (9%), muscle spasms (9%), insomnia (7%), abdominal pain (6%), application site dermatitis (6%), constipation (6%), diarrhea (4%), application site pain (4%), dizziness (4%), abnormal dreams (4%) and skin laceration (4%).
Cholinesterase inhibitors, including donepezil, have the potential to interfere with the activity of anticholinergic medications. A synergistic effect may be expected when cholinesterase inhibitors are given concurrently with succinylcholine, similar neuromuscular blocking agents, or cholinergic agonists such as bethanechol.
For additional safety information, click here for the Prescribing Information and Patient Information.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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NEW YORK (AP) — On Dec. 22, 1985, The Associated Press reported the following from Blue Ridge, Georgia:
“Investigators searching for cocaine dropped by an airborne smuggler have found a ripped-up shipment of the sweet-smelling powder and the remains of a bear that apparently died of a multimillion-dollar high.”
Police found a sad scene. A 175-lb. black bear dead near a duffle bag and some $2 million worth of cocaine that had been opened and scattered over a hillside. The parachutist, a former Kentucky narcotics investigator, had fallen to his death in a backyard in Knoxville, Tennessee. His unmanned airplane crashed into a North Carolina mountain. Back in Georgia, the bear, examiners said, had overdosed.
The story is in many ways too much. Too absurd. Too ’80s. Even the screenwriters of the “Fast & Furious” movies would think it far-fetched. The stranger-than-fiction tale quickly receded from the headlines and, before some began to stoke the myth of “Pablo Escobear,” it mostly stayed buried in news media archives.
That changed when screenwriter Jimmy Warden delivered to producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller a script titled “Cocaine Bear.” They were on board from page one.
“When the movie’s pitched, you hear the word ‘Cocaine,’ you’re like I’m not sure what to think of this,” Lord says. “Then when you hear the word ‘Bear,’ you’re like: I’m all in.”
Yes, “Cocaine Bear” is a real movie. And after it opens in theaters Friday, it might even be a hit. Since the trailer first debuted for Elizabeth Banks’ very, very loosely based-on-a-true-story R-rated comedy has stoked a rabid zeitgeist. At a time when much in Hollywood can feel pre-packaged, the makers of “Cocaine Bear” think it can be an untamed exception.
“Hopefully the film lives up to the title,” Banks says, smiling. “That was the goal.”
Little on the movie calendar has captured the public imagination quite like “Cocaine Bear.” Its trailer, watched more than 25 million times, immediately went viral. The movie, itself, is like a meme sprung to life — a kind of spiritual heir to “Snakes on a Plane” crossed with a Paddington Bear fever dream. Everything about it is propelled by a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and can-you-believe-this-is-a-real-movie wink. “I’m the bear who ate cocaine,” reads one of the film's official tweets. “This is my story.”
While most studio movies are driven by well-known intellectual property and few original comedies manage to attract audiences in theaters, “Cocaine Bear” is here to strike a blow to business-as-usual in Hollywood. “Cocaine Bear” is here to be bold. “Cocaine Bear” is here to party.
“You have to demonstrate theatricality to get the greenlight. It just means you have to swing the bat a little harder,” Lord says. “In this world that’s increasingly mechanized, things that don’t feel mechanized have really special value.”
Miller and Lord have in recent years shepherded some of the most vibrant and irreverent films to the screen, including “The Lego Movie,”“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and “The Mitchells vs the Machines.” They like to take apart old conventions and give them an absurdist, post-modern spin.
“Certainly, this movie was not mandated by a corporation,” Miller says, laughing. “It’s a thing we somehow snuck through the system. That’s how we love to make all our movies, like: ‘I can’t believe they let us get away with this.’”
Warden had been a production assistant on their 2012 action comedy “21 Jump Street." After hearing about the 1985 story, Warden wrote the script on spec and hoped his old bosses would like it. Intrigued at the screenplay's possibility, the producers found an unexpectedly open reception from Universal Pictures chief Donna Langley.
“What’s funny is that we thought it would be difficult because of the subject matter. But surprisingly, they were excited right from the jump and didn’t shy away from the movie, its tone or even its title,” says Miller. “We thought at some point, someone was going to say, ‘Well you can’t call it ‘Cocaine Bear.’ You have to call it ‘A Walk in the Woods.’"
Since her directorial debut in 2015's “Pitch Perfect 2,” Banks has carved out a second career behind the camera. She last helmed 2019's “Charlie's Angels." With Universal's backing and Lord and Miller producing, “Cocaine Bear” struck her as not just a viable, actually-happening project but one where she could marry a gory animal attack movie with comedy.
“Most people are surprised that it is a real thing, and very surprised that I’m the person that made it,” says Banks, laughing. “I just got a text from someone who was like, ‘I’ve been hearing about this movie and I had no idea you made it.’”
Though the title meant “Cocaine Bear” would be limited from some advertising platforms, the filmmakers describe the studio as interested in leaning into what made the film distinct from the all the options viewers are inundated with. Nothing, it turned out, could cut through all the noise like “Cocaine Bear.”
“They love things with strong flavor. That’s the word I hear a lot in my marketing meetings," Banks says. “It’s harder and harder to find things that are theatrically exciting. The hope was that we were making something people needed to leave their house to see.”
The film, itself, takes the basis of the real story and imagines what might have transpired if the bear didn't quickly die but went on a coke-fueled rampage through a national forest, terrorizing park wardens, campers and drug dealers seeking the lost shipment. After an initial taste, the bear goes after more cocaine with all the zeal of Yogi pursuing a picnic basket.
The bear, named Cokie, was a CGI concoction created by Weta FX with Allen Henry, a stunt man and student of Andy Serkis, performing motion capture. He wore all black and walked on all fours with prosthetic arms. The rest of the cast includes Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson and Ray Liotta. It's one of Liotta's final performances before his death last May, and one that connects back to his similarly cocaine-laced performance in “Goodfellas."
“I’ve said that this film felt very risky. The risk was: I was never going to have the lead character of the movie on the set of the movie,” Banks says. “That was truly what scared me the most. If the bear didn’t work, the movie falls apart.”
Lord and Miller hope that there's a rising realization within the film industry that movies that are audaciously original can pack theaters. Lord points to the Academy Awards favorite "Everything Everywhere All at Once” as recent proof.
“It could win best picture and it’s the zaniest idea out there,” Lord says. “For the scale of that movie, it’s a huge hit. What we’re after is demonstrating that these movies can be original and fun and surprising and they can be hits.”
“I can’t think of a movie that came out last year that wouldn’t have been maybe a little bit better if there had a been a cocaine-fueled bear on a rampage as part of it," adds Miller. "Imagine if ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ had a big bear just running through biting that guy’s fingers off.”
If it's successful, “Cocaine Bear” could, of course, become a franchise of its own. A sequel isn't out the question. “LSD Armadillo”? “Quaalude Tortoise”? Banks, for now, is deferring.
“Somebody will put something into the AI chat bot and it will spit out something ridiculous and the internet will write it for us.”
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP | 2023-02-21T22:51:46+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/cocaine-bear-is-here-to-strike-a-blow-to-staid-17797450.php |
(The Hill) — Abortion pills are likely to become the next major front of the fight over reproductive healthcare in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Republican-led states have been moving to limit or even completely ban access to the drugs, and advocates worry the Supreme Court’s decision will embolden even more states to crack down.
Immediately following the ruling, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department will protect the right to an abortion, including medication abortion.
“We stand ready to work with other arms of the federal government that seek to use their lawful authorities to protect and preserve access to reproductive care,” Garland said in a statement.
“In particular, the [Food and Drug Administration] FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone. States may not ban Mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy,” Garland said.
President Biden on Friday also pledged to protect access to abortion pills, though the White House is limited in what it can do.
In brief remarks, Biden said he was directing the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that abortion pills would be available to the “fullest extent possible,” without specifying what measures the department would be taking.
There are two pills needed for a medication abortion, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Mifepristone, a drug that blocks hormones necessary for pregnancy, was approved in 2000. It is then followed by misoprostol, which causes contractions and helps empty the uterus.
Medication abortion has become an increasingly common method for ending pregnancies. According to the Guttmacher Institute, it accounted for 54 percent of all abortions in 2020.
The FDA temporarily lifted a requirement that mifepristone be dispensed in-person at a clinic or hospital because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Biden administration made the change permanent in December, paving the way for doctors to prescribe the drug digitally and then mail the pills to patients.
Likely in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision, state lawmakers introduced a flurry of restrictions on medication abortion this year. There are currently 19 states, mostly in the south and midwest, that ban providers from prescribing abortion pills through telemedicine.
In 32 states, clinicians who administer medication abortion are required to be physicians.
Texas prohibits the use of medication abortion starting at seven weeks of pregnancy, while Indiana bans its use at 10 weeks. This week, Louisiana’s governor signed into law a bill that outlawed out-of-state providers from mailing abortion pills, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $75,000 fine.
Only a few states have tried to ban the pills outright, and those moves are tied up in court.
Still, now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe, there’s a concern more states will try and there’s no clear precedent whether the Justice Department has the power to stop them.
States have the authority to regulate practice of medicine, but Garland is seemingly arguing that federal law — and a federal drug approval — takes precedence over state law.
Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University, said Garland needs to take action against any state that sets up barriers or outright bans access to abortion drugs.
“The FDA is our premier public health regulatory agency. And it should set, and does set, a national uniform standard for safe and effective drugs … states don’t get to pick and choose which FDA approved drugs they will and won’t allow,” Gostin said.
But Gostin also said the Supreme Court doesn’t have a consistent track record ruling about FDA preemption of state law.
“It’s unclear whether a very conservative Supreme Court would allow FDA to preempt state bans, particularly since it’s already ruled that abortion isn’t protected under the Constitution,” Gostin said. “And so I think it could go either way.”
In one of the more recent examples of FDA preemption, Massachusetts in 2014 tried to ban the FDA-approved opioid Zohydro. The manufacturer sued, and a federal district court struck down the state’s restrictions.
But the state didn’t appeal the decision, so it never advanced in the courts, making its impact on future case law unclear. | 2022-06-24T22:18:03+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/next-big-fight-looms-over-abortion-pills/ |
Online marketplace stops sales of Jeffrey Dahmer-themed Halloween costumes
Published: Oct. 22, 2022 at 7:58 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
(CNN) - Online marketplace eBay says it is removing Jeffrey Dahmer-themed Halloween costumes from its online listings.
Netflix hit series titled “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” has sparked intense interest in the cannibal and serial killer.
The shopping site says its policy does not allow “listings that promote or glorify violence or violent acts.” That includes individuals who are notorious for committing violence.
The popular Netflix series has been criticized for being insensitive to Dahmer’s victims.
Currently, other online retailers appear to be still selling outfits labeled as Jeffrey Dahmer costume kits.
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NEW YORK, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of securities of BurgerFi International, Inc. f/k/a Opes Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BFI, OPES) between December 17, 2020 and November 15, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 5, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased BurgerFi securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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TX El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM Zone Forecast for Thursday, January 5, 2023
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Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid
60s. Lows in the lower 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
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Salt Basin-
Including the cities of Cornudas, Dell City, and Salt Flat
345 AM MST Fri Jan 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows around 30.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear and windy. Highs in
the lower 60s. Lows in the lower 30s.
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Southern Hudspeth Highlands-
Including the city of Sierra Blanca
345 AM MST Fri Jan 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming west 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Highs in
the lower 60s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
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TXZ424-070015-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-
Including the city of Indian Hot Springs
345 AM MST Fri Jan 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
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The Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority passed a resolution to sue the city of Sarasota over approval of an apartment community near its main runway.
The Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority has authorized legal action against the city of Sarasota in opposition to an apartment community approved by the Sarasota City Commission.
During a special meeting on Monday, the authority’s board of directors voted 5-0, with one abstention, to pursue litigation to prevent Raleigh, North Carolina-based Aventon Cos. from building a 372-unit complex at the former Sarasota Kennel Club.
Board member Doug Holder abstained, citing prior legislative representation work for the Collins family, which owns the property via the Jack G. Collins Sr. Revocable Trust, during the greyhound racing constitutional amendment matter that eventually shut down the kennel club in 2019.
The airport board charges the commission’s 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch opposed, to amend the future land use plan, rezone the property and approve the site plan violate a 2018 interlocal agreement between the city and the airport. That agreement restricts residential zoning beneath the 65 decibel day-night average sound level. A large portion of the former dog track lies beneath the noise contour, the runway approximately 1,500 feet away across University Parkway from the site.
At its monthly meeting the week prior to the Sept. 6 approval of the Aventon development, the authority board authorized Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport President and CEO Rick Piccolo and SRQ legal representation to pursue a strategy for legal action against the city.
Among the declarations the board approved in its resolution are:
“On May 7, 2018, the city amended its zoning regulations to include … that residential land use is an incompatible and prohibited use within airport noise contour 65-70, but if the city determines that residential uses must be allowed, measures to achieve outdoor to indoor noise level reduction must be incorporated.”
Also, “On May 31, 2018, the city and the authority entered into an interlocal agreement … to acknowledge their respective obligations to adapt, administer and enforce updated airport zoning regulations applicable to airport hazard areas, and restricting use of land adjacent to to or in the immediate vicinity of airport activities and purposes compatible with the continuation of normal airport operations.”
In October 2021, Aventon filed an application to change the future land use map of the 25-acre site to allow multifamily density. Throughout ensuing public hearings on future land use plus the rezoning and site plan before the Planning Board and City Commission, Piccolo testified against approval of the apartment community, citing the interlocal agreement, violation of the city’s own policy and costly previous noise abatement issues in surrounding neighborhoods.
Specific issues of the authority’s case include:
- The plan amendment is internally inconsistent with the future land use because it does not consider the suitability of the land for development particularly because it is beneath the 65 DNL noise contour; because the proposed residential use is not compatible with the adjacent airport land; and because it does not discourage construction of residential dwelling units within the noise contour.
- The plan amendment is not in compliance with Florida statute because uses are not suitable due to a large percentage of the property within the 100-year floodplain, within the 65 DNL sound contour and is in close proximity to glide path of a major runway; and a needs analysis showing the minimum land necessary for the proposed residential use is necessary.
- The rezoning does not meet multiple standards for approval including inconsistency with future land use policy; inconsistency with existing land use pattern, particularly the airport; it will be a deterrent to the future use and improvement of the airport consistent with its land use designation and zoning; and the rezoning constitutes a grant of special privileges to the property owner and applicant.
- The site plan does not meet several standards for approval including the location of residential units within the 65 DNL noise contour may be permitted within the noise contour only when they “must” be located there; it is inconsistent with the Sarasota City Plan’s Future Land Use Plan; incompatibility within the noise contour; and inadequate layout for pedestrian safety because it places unprotected sidewalks and outdoor uses within the noise contour.
Much of the airport’s case hinges on the definition of the word “must” as cited in the interlocal agreement. Piccolo told commissioners the airport defines "must" as a deed restriction requiring land be developed in a specific manner. City commissioners defined "must" as what they consider a land use must be to meet a critical community need, in this case the need for housing.
The resolution authorizes Piccolo and airport legal representation to initiate conflict resolution procedures provided by the Florida Governmental Conflict Resolution Act prior to initiating court proceedings.
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The St. Kitts and Nevis National Emergency Management Association has been closely monitoring Tropical Storm Fiona, and the storm has passed the Federation. As a result, Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport is once again open and operating at full capacity, as of 17 September at 12:00 p.m. AST.
"The Federation's main priority was the safety of our citizens and international guests, and we are watching closely and sending well-wishes to our neighbours as the storm continues to move," said Honourable Marsha Henderson, Minister of Tourism, International Transport, Civil Aviation, Urban Development, Employment, and Labour. "We thank our first responders and our tourism and business partners who together ensured our preparedness plans were put in place efficiently across the island. St. Kitts is open for business."
Stay up to date on revised travel and flights for St. Kitts at www.stkittstourism.kn or on our social media channels Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About St. Kitts
Where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean, you will find the captivating island of St. Kitts, an exciting oasis that beguiles the senses. Once known as the gateway to the Caribbean, St. Kitts invites you to Awake Your Sense of Wander and journey the island of a thousand treasures. Wander the secluded beaches and rainforests that stretch for miles. Hear the pulsating sounds of nature as you explore via ziplines, mini speed boats, and jeep safaris. Take a leisurely ride on the Caribbean's only authentic scenic passenger train, hike to the rim of a dormant volcano, dive into an ancient shipwreck. Embrace the scents of a smoky, sizzling beach barbecue, and taste culinary delights fresh from the sea. Indulge your wanderlust in one-of-a-kind attractions such as the UNESCO recognized Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park. Ignite your sense of style with Caribbean flair and the pure artistry as you feel the fabrics of Caribelle Batik. The serene beauty of the tropical island allows your mind and spirit to wander. Let the sun warm your soul and the island to tempt your thirst for exploration. For more information about St. Kitts, visit www.stkittstourism.kn.
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SOURCE St. Kitts Tourism Authority | 2022-09-17T17:59:57+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/09/17/st-kitts-robert-l-bradshaw-airport-reopens-following-passage-tropical-storm-fiona/ |
Bye Bye Buttitta
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The News Channel 3-12 team is saying goodbye to our iconic morning anchor and "The Morning News" executive producer Joey Buttitta.
Joey is moving on from the glamorous life of 2 a.m. alarms and three consecutive hours of newscasts to become the Public Information Office for the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.
He came to the station in 2012 and quickly climbed the TV Hill ladder, covering everything from the Thomas Fire and Montecito mudslide to Fiesta celebrations and baseball world series runs – and he even had time to win "The Amazing Race" with his wife and News Channel 3-12 Chief Meteorologist, Kelsey Gerckens, in between.
Joey has played a role in every inch of the News Channel 3-12 newsroom, from answering phones to writing scripts, shooting and editing videos to producing, reporting in the field, and posting on social media.
He brought a kind, welcoming, and – at times – sarcastic energy like no other to the newsroom that will be incredibly hard to replace. His wit, wisdom, and humor make him a one-of-a-kind, jack-of-all-trades journalist.
Joey was part of News Channel 3's Emmy-winning Thomas Fire coverage in 2017 and won three Golden Mike Awards.
Joey and Kelsey met, married, and welcomed their first child, Everett Gerckens Buttitta, and second child, Joseph Trey Buttitta, while on the News Channel team.
The News Channel team wishes him the best of luck in his next chapter, and can't wait to watch him succeed. Bye bye Buttitta! | 2022-09-02T23:19:49+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/2022/09/02/bye-bye-buttitta/ |
Idaho kayaker dies in accident in northwestern Montana river
His body was recovered at 3:30 p.m. in the Kootenai River
LIBBY, Mont. (AP) — An experienced kayaker from Victor, Idaho, died in a kayaking accident in the Yaak River in northwestern Montana over the weekend, Lincoln County officials said Monday.
Dispatchers received an SOS message from a GPS device in the river at about 12:20 p.m. Sunday, Sheriff Darren Short said in a statement.
As deputies were traveling to the area west of Troy, one of the men on the kayaking trip was able to call 911.
He reported that a group of four men was navigating through a rough stretch of river about 3 to 4 miles (5 to 8 kilometers) north of the Kootenai River when Steven Koning fell out of his kayak. Members of the group were unable to rescue him, Short said.
His body was recovered at 3:30 p.m. in the Kootenai River near the Montana-Idaho line, Short said.
Koning, 50, was an experienced kayaker who owned a guide business, Coroner Steve Schnackenberg said.
Copyright 2022 Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-09T17:52:59+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/05/09/idaho-kayaker-dies-accident-northwestern-montana-river/ |
WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – State officials from around the country gathered at the White House to discuss solutions for providing affordable childcare to families.
Some say federal funds from the Biden administration and Congress have allowed them to create innovative new programs they hope will spread to other states as childcare expenses force some parents out of the workforce.
“The system we have right now just does not work,” Sen. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI) said.
Democratic New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says an influx of federal funds creates a huge opportunity. According to the governor, infrastructure money and pandemic relief mean states can spend less on previously planned projects and can use those funds to create childcare initiatives.
“We’ve done nearly 40% raises in salaries, particularly for early childhood education,” Lujan Grisham said.
In Colorado, lawmakers made universal pre-K a reality.
“It opens up next month, so we are so excited we already have 30,000 families that have signed up,” Sen. Janet Buckner (D-CO) said.
One idea that several states are already employing is creating a secretary position or a government department that’s dedicated solely to the issue of affordable quality childcare.
Officials say affordable childcare brings parents back into the workforce, helps businesses and the economy – which is what propelled Michigan to create the Tri-Share program.
“Basically, employers, the state and families each pay a third of the childcare costs,” McDonald Rivet explained. “It brings business to the table to solve problems they have, which is a lack of workforce.”
Lujan Grisham recommends that states ensure any improvements to the childcare industry are permanent.
“In New Mexico, it’s a constitutional right to childcare and early childhood care,” Lujan Grisham said. | 2023-07-19T21:49:26+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/washington-dc/states-look-to-boost-economy-workforce-with-affordable-childcare/ |
Company's All-Fiber, Gig-Speed Network to Reach Over 60,000 Potential Customers in Virginia by End of 2023
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brightspeed today announced that it will deliver, by the end of next year, over 60,000 new fiber passings in the first phase of its fiber network build in the state of Virginia. Brightspeed further plans an additional 70,000 fiber passings in subsequent years of its network transformation program, for a total of up to 130,000 fiber-enabled locations in Virginia.
Virginia is among the 20 states that comprise Brightspeed's operating territory, mainly in rural and suburban settings. Brightspeed previously announced plans to invest at least $2 billion in its fiber optics transformation, which is expected to reach up to 3 million homes and businesses over the next five years, including in many locations where fiber and advanced technology have not historically been deployed. The company will initially be comprised of the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) assets and associated operations of Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), which are the subject of a pending acquisition by Apollo-managed funds (NYSE: APO). The parties expect to obtain regulatory approvals in the third quarter of this year, and to close the transaction in early fourth quarter.
"We are looking forward to the start of our ambitious network build in Virginia," said Tom Maguire, Chief Operating Officer of Brightspeed. "Households and businesses have a critical need for reliable, high-quality internet to help them accomplish what is most important, whether it is working from home, remote learning, access to healthcare, streaming entertainment, or simply staying connected with others. We are excited to offer a new choice in internet and the full capabilities of our advanced fiber network to the residents and businesses in our Virginia footprint."
By the end of 2023, Brightspeed will bring faster, more reliable internet and Wi-Fi to over 60,000 residential and commercial locations in portions of the city of Charlottesville, as well as parts of Albemarle, Campbell, Henry, Page, Rockbridge, and Smyth counties.
"Expanding access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet has been a Day One promise for Governor Youngkin," said Secretary of Commerce and Trade Caren Merrick. "Improved broadband infrastructure will play a crucial role in jumpstarting our economy, ensuring opportunity across the Commonwealth, and giving all Virginians the resources they need to thrive."
Brightspeed is leveraging the latest technology innovations as part of its network transformation, including the deployment of XGSPON, a state-of-the-art architecture capable of symmetrical internet speeds exceeding 1Gbps, and the fiber necessary to deliver the ultra-fast connections to homes and businesses. After the close of the transaction between the Apollo funds and Lumen, Brightspeed will begin to sign customers onto its network.
Brightspeed plans to release its other state-specific network build plans in the coming weeks.
For more information about Brightspeed, visit the company's website, www.brightspeed.com.
About Brightspeed
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. and expected to have assets and associated operations in 20 states, Brightspeed will provide broadband and telecommunications services through a network platform capable of serving more than 6 million homes and businesses. The company aims to bridge the digital divide by deploying a state-of-the-art fiber network and a customer experience that makes staying connected simple and seamless. For more information about Brightspeed, visit the company's website, www.brightspeed.com.
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SOURCE Brightspeed | 2022-06-09T14:29:25+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/09/brightspeed-announces-initial-fiber-build-markets-virginia/ |
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