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In the handful of countries bordering Africa’s Lake Chad, climate change and hunger are driving a refugee crisis.
Willem Marx reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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In the handful of countries bordering Africa’s Lake Chad, climate change and hunger are driving a refugee crisis.
Willem Marx reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-06T20:16:21+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/2022-12-06/hunger-and-climate-change-drive-refugee-crisis-near-lake-chad-in-africa |
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No. 18 LSU beats Central Arkansas to sweep Tiger Classic
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - No. 18 LSU beat Central Arkansas in its final game of the Tiger Classic on Sunday, Feb. 19, to sweep the tournament.
The Tigers (10-0) got the 3-1 win over the Bears (7-2). LSU has now started the season 10-0 for the first time since 2018.
Sydney Berzon (3-0) started in the circle and earned the win. She allowed four hits and one run but struck out six in 4.1 innings of work. Ali Kilponen earned her first save of the season by striking out two batters and only giving up one hit in 2.2 innings.
After the Bears broke the scoreless tie by getting a run home in the top of the fourth, the Tigers responded in the bottom of the inning. With the bases loaded, Danieca Coffey walked to score McKenzie Redoutey, and then, Ciara Briggs hit a single to shortstop to get Raeleen Gutierrez home to put LSU up 2-1.
The Tigers added another run when Briggs scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth inning.
LSU will travel to Louisiana Tech on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
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(The Conversation) – When people talk about how college athletes can now get paid from their name, image and likeness – more commonly referred to as “NIL” – the focus is often on players at schools with big-time sports programs.
This makes sense given the sheer size of some of the NIL deals that have been scored as of late by players who attend the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I schools, which tend to have larger student bodies and big budgets to support their athletic programs.
For instance, Paige Bueckers, star guard on the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team, stands to earn more than $1 million through deals with Gatorade and other companies.
University of Alabama quarterback Bryce Young is reportedly worth $3.2 million thanks to deals with Nissan, Dr. Pepper and the Dollar Shave Club, to name a few.
Even college cheerleaders are getting in on the action. After Cassidy Cerny, a cheerleader for Indiana University, was hoisted to retrieve a basketball that had gotten stuck behind the backboard during a March Madness game, a viral video of the episode led to a deal with Breaking T, a T-shirt company that produces shirts that capture moments in sports. The company immortalized the moment on a T-shirt. Cerny says she got about 15% – or $4.50 – per shirt.
With all the hype surrounding lucrative endorsement deals for athletes at Division I schools, it’s easy for people to get the impression that players at smaller schools – and community colleges in particular – could be left behind in what is now known as the “NIL era.”
But a study I did recently with Anita Moorman, a fellow professor of sport administration, suggests that’s not necessarily the case.
In an article we published in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, we concluded that community college athletes can earn an estimated $48 per sponsored post on Instagram. Of course, that amount pales in comparison to the multimillion-dollar deals secured by some Division I athletes. But when you consider the fact that community college students often struggle to meet their basic needs, enabling those who are athletes to earn $48 by posting on Instagram seems a worthy endeavor to pursue.
The math behind the money
In order to arrive at our $48 figure, we had to come up with a way to calculate how much each player should get paid for each sponsored Instagram post.
To make our estimate, we didn’t look only at how many Instagram followers each player had. We also looked at how many “likes” and comments their posts generated.
We used a formula that basically takes into account how many followers an athlete has, as well as how many likes and comments the posts generate, and how much a company was willing to pay for those things. To figure out the part about how much a company is willing to pay, we took a look at the going rates.
Of the 23,248 athletes competing in the California Community College Athletic Association during the 2019-2020 athletic season, we found 1,168 athletes – or about 5% – who had public Instagram profiles with at least 1,000 followers. We treated these athletes as potential social media influencers and applied standard influencer marketing rates to figure out how much money they could make for each sponsored post on Instagram.
We figured that companies would be willing to pay $10 to reach 1,000 people.
Economic struggles
Based on our calculations, we found 11 community college athletes with an earnings estimate over $200 per sponsored post. An average male community college athlete could earn about $47 per post. And our calculations show that the average female athlete could earn $51 per sponsored Instagram post – $4 more than the men. This difference is driven by the ability of female athletes to generate more engagement on their Instagram posts.
Overall, almost 93% of the athletes in our sample had an NIL value estimate between $20 and $100 per sponsored post.
This is just a fraction of the average NIL value of a sponsored Instagram post for a Division I athlete, which is over $500. Still, every dollar counts, especially when you’re a community college student.
For the most part, community college athletes don’t get athletic scholarships.
Community college students commonly experience financial hardships that lead to a range of issues, including food and housing insecurities.
For those reasons, enabling community college athletes to profit from endorsements would put some in a better position to meet their basic needs while in school.
In order for community college students to reap the potential benefits of NIL deals, at least a couple of things need to happen.
Education is needed
First, community college athletes would benefit from greater access to education resources that can help them learn the ins and outs of NIL deals. This includes education on financial literacy, time management, personal brand development, contract negotiation and a host of other topics.
Since community colleges typically have less money than four-year colleges, we think it would be helpful if the athletic associations that govern sports at community colleges would provide these educational resources to the schools and their athletes, rather than leaving it to the schools to secure these resources on their own.
Some steps have already been taken in this regard. For instance, the California Community College Athletic Association announced a partnership with two companies – Spry and Accelerate – to provide all member institutions with NIL education. Spry is a company that provides a technology platform to help schools track and monitor NIL deals. Schools have an interest in tracking NIL deals to make sure they comply with athletic association policy, institutional policy and state law. Accelerate is a company that offers educational resources focused around NIL topics.
The National Junior College Athletic Association announced a similar partnership with Opendorse on August 17, 2022.
A bigger voice
Community college athletes are not typically included in the national NIL discussion. Congressional witness lists show that community college students are seldom, if ever, invited to congressional hearings on NIL issues.
Inviting community college students to the table would help broaden the scope of the discussion.
Although California amended its NIL legislation to grant community college athletes the same NIL rights afforded to their peers at four-year institutions, active NIL legislation in five other states – Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas – still contains language that expressly or implicitly excludes community college institutions. This shows that not all states are on the same page when it comes to granting community college athletes access to endorsement deals.
With all the Division I students who are capitalizing off endorsement deals, this is one of the most exciting times to be a college athlete. One estimate projected college athletes would earn almost $579 million during the 2021-2022 school year.
Another estimate suggests NIL earnings will increase to over $1.14 billion during the 2022-2023 school year.
It’s clear that Division I students will profit tremendously from NIL deals. The question for community college athletes is whether they’ll be able to profit, too, or whether they will be relegated to the sidelines. | 2022-09-10T17:53:00+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/community-college-athletes-could-earn-48-per-instagram-post-under-the-right-conditions/ |
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Big Ten fines MSU $100K, reprimands Michigan for tunnel melee
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The Big Ten has disciplined Michigan State and Michigan for their roles in stadium tunnel altercations that led to seven Spartans being charged with crimes.
The conference announced Monday that it is fining Michigan State $100,000 for its football players “hitting, kicking or using of their helmet” to hit Michigan players and suspending cornerback Khary Crump, who is facing a felony charge, for the first eight games of next season.
The Big Ten is also reprimanding Michigan for failing to “provide adequate protection for personnel of both home and visiting teams when entering and leaving playing arenas,” per conference policy.
“The Big Ten Conference has a standard of excellence both academically and athletically that has been built over 127 years,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, who attended the game a month ago and has a son, Powers Warren, who is a walk-on tight end for the Spartans. “Our standards require that our student-athletes, coaches and staff members represent the conference, and their member institutions, with the highest level of decorum and sportsmanship.
“We are taking disciplinary action and will continue to work with our member institutions to strengthen their game day procedures and ensure our honored traditions.”
The Big Ten said the suspensions that ended the season for seven other Michigan State players were sufficient. The conference also said the schools properly addressed a football staff member who violated the Big Ten’s sportsmanship policy in an incident unrelated to the tunnel altercations.
Last Wednesday, the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office charged seven Michigan State football players for their actions Oct. 29 following the game at Michigan Stadium.
The most serious charge is against Crump, who faces one count of felonious assault, and the other six players are charged with misdemeanors. Crump in one video appears to swing his helmet at a Michigan player. That could account for the more serious charge, which carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison. State law describes felonious assault as an attack “using knife, iron bar, club, brass knuckles or other dangerous weapon without intending to commit murder or to inflict great bodily harm.”
Linebacker Itayvion “Tank” Brown, safety Angelo Grose, cornerback Justin White, defensive end Brandon Wright and defensive end Zion Young are each charged with one count of aggravated assault while linebacker Jacoby Windmon faces one count of assault and battery.
Those six players were reinstated to the football program, athletic director Alan Haller and coach Mel Tucker announced.
“We accept the findings from the Big Ten conference and we are ready to move forward as a football program,” the joint statement read. “We are committed to supporting our student-athletes and will continue to do so throughout this process.”
A conviction for a misdemeanor count of assault carries a prison term of up to one year, while misdemeanor assault and battery carries a maximum sentence of 93 days behind bars.
“Our institution does not excuse the concerning actions by some of our student-athletes,” Michigan State Interim President Teresa K. Woodruff said in a statement. “At the same time, we challenge ourselves collectively to be thoughtful in how we approach this situation so that further harm isn’t needlessly done.
“What seems to be missing from the disciplinary outcomes are the learning opportunities that can and should coexist with findings of fault. We must ask ourselves: Are we doing enough, as leaders, to help further safety within our competitions through meaningful actions and education? Or are we risking the opportunities and livelihoods of young people without creating change for success in the future?”
Spartans cornerback Malcolm Jones, one of the suspended players, is not facing charges, nor are any players from Michigan.
Following the Wolverines’ 29-7 win over their in-state rivals, social media posts showed Michigan State players roughing up Michigan’s Ja’Den McBurrows in and near a hallway that doesn’t lead to either locker room. Brown, Grose and Young are clearly seen on video getting physical with McBurrows.
McBurrows skipped into the tunnel after the game and defensive back Gemon Green walked up it alongside Spartans while much of Michigan’s team was waving the Spartans off the field.
Green, in another post, is seen surrounded by police while shouting across the tunnel at Michigan State players.
The prosecutor’s office did not provide detail on the allegations, including who is accused of hitting whom. It was not clear when the charged players will make initial appearances in court.
No. 2 Michigan secured the Big Ten East Division title by beating rival Ohio State, and is preparing to face unranked Purdue in the conference championship game. A win would give the Wolverines a spot in the College Football Playoff.
Michigan State won five games under Tucker, who helped them go 11-2 last season with a second straight win over the Wolverines.
Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said the Big Ten’s reprimand was related to a fan touching Tucker as he walked into the tunnel, actions he said were “wholly unacceptable.”
“The offender was quickly identified and swiftly ejected,” Manuel said.
The conference did not immediately respond to confirm whether Michigan’s reprimand was unrelated to the altercations in the tunnel involving players.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KFOR) – Damaging winds from across the metro caused downed trees at the intersection of Northwest 12th Avenue and Highway 9 in Norman.
KFOR’s crew was on the scene and report damage in the northwest part of the county and downed power lines on the south side of Norman.
Officials tell KFOR’s news team that HWY 9 is closed from 12th avenue through Cleveland county at this time.
At this time, there are no major injuries or fatalities reported to the police department.
Oklahoma residents can report any damage to their homes or businesses to the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security’s website. | 2023-02-27T05:09:28+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/weather/severe-storm-damage-reported-in-norman/ |
SPRING HILL, Fla — A 22-year-old man was arrested Thursday after the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said he falsely claimed to have a bomb strapped to his body at a Publix in Spring Hill.
Deputies say they responded to a call about a bomb threat around noon after a Publix representative called 911 explaining Andres Miguel Alonso told an associate he had a bomb that would detonate in ten minutes.
It's reported that Publix associates weren't able to see anything suspicious because Alonso had himself wrapped in a large blanket.
Deputies say Alonso remained in the store for a short time, talking with multiple managers before leaving.
"Managers quickly began evacuating the store, in the event the suspect left an explosive device inside," the agency wrote in a news release. "In an abundance of caution, surrounding stores were contacted so they too could evacuate the premises."
When deputies arrived at the scene, Alonso was found outside the store and was immediately taken into custody.
The store was searched twice in addition to a drone search of the roof. Soon after, the parking area was opened, and shoppers and Publix associates were allowed back inside.
Alonso was charged with false report of a bomb. | 2022-10-06T22:00:38+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hernandocounty/andres-miguel-alonso-bomb-publix/67-5eab0319-3da1-4d09-a816-285ce1847a02 |
EAST TROY, Wis. — It's that time of the year again! Christmas trains from East Troy to Santa's Workshop at the Elegant Farmer are now available for this year's run.
The trains at the East Troy Railroad Museum begin running on Saturdays and Sundays starting Nov. 25. They run through Sunday, Dec. 18.
The family-friendly rides take passengers from the East Troy Depot to Santa's Workshop at the Elegant Farmer and back. The rides are under two hours per round-trip. It includes a visit with Santa including photo opportunities.
“Santa’s Workshop will be better than ever and all children will receive a small gift that is fitting for the occasion,” according to East Troy Railroad President Ryan Jonas. “Our historic railroad cars are heated and rest rooms and free parking are available at the East Troy depot.”
Trains will depart at 9 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 1:30 p.m., and 3 p.m. on the following Saturdays and Sundays: Nov. 26 & 27, Dec. 3 & 4, Dec. 10 & 11, and Dec. 17 & 18.
The Friday and Saturday evening trains have already sold out. There is no 3 p.m. train on Dec. 3.
Tickets for adults are $23, $20 for children (ages 3-14), and infants and toddlers are $8.50. Advanced reservations are required.
Tickets are selling fast! The best way to make your reservation is online on the railroad's website.
The East Troy Depot is located at 2022 Church Street in East Troy, Wisconsin. | 2022-10-21T02:23:17+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/tickets-for-christmas-trains-from-east-troy-to-santas-workshop-now-available |
Just hours after the 2022 trade deadline passed, Mets’ general manager Billy Eppler logged on to Zoom and told reporters that the team’s moves were made with the desire to “grow that run differential a little bit.”
If that was truly the primary goal, Eppler has succeeded. The Mets had a plus-98 run differential on Aug. 2, the day of their GM’s tepid trade deadline and subsequent quote. As of Friday morning, the Mets have a plus-129 run differential. That is both the sign of an elite team and one that you could argue, technically, has gotten better.
But it certainly doesn’t feel like the Mets are the same unbeatable dynamo that they were in the early summer months. It’s a peculiar phenomenon, as the aforementioned run differential has improved, they’re still in first place and their .631 winning percentage at the trade deadline has remained essentially the same. The Mets are 87-51 (.630) and just a few weeks away from playing their first postseason game since 2016.
The problem, of course, is that the Atlanta Braves have been a wholly better team during the season’s second half. With an infusion of rookies (Michael Harris II and Spencer Strider will finish in the top two spots of NL Rookie of the Year voting) and some deadline deals of their own (Jake Odorizzi was never going to set the world on fire, though reliever Raisel Iglesias has been a revelation), Atlanta has turned the pressure up to 11.
While they got out of the gate slowly, the Braves were only 2.5 games behind the Mets at the trade deadline. Eppler knew that they’d be a problem as both teams rounded the final turn and he still played things disappointingly safe. We’ll never know how close he got to swinging a league-shifting move for someone like Willson Contreras or J.D. Martinez — unless, perhaps, the Mets win it all and inspire a tell-all book — but it’s very clear in hindsight that the Mets needed more than Daniel Vogelbach, Darin Ruf, Tyler Naquin and Mychal Givens.
The three hitters in that group are platoon guys. They were never painted to be anything more than that, but it’s still odd that a team on the brink of greatness didn’t try to add more greatness, instead trying to create it out of three pieces of mediocrity and favorable matchups. Sharing the designated hitter duties since arriving in Queens, Vogelbach and Ruf have combined to go 31-for-147 (.211) with Ruf supplying just seven of those hits, none of which have gone over the fence. With neither player providing much in the way of baserunning and Vogelbach adding literally nothing on defense, the Mets became more one-dimensional than when they had J.D. Davis on the roster. Vogelbach and Ruf’s offensive production hasn’t been much greater than Davis’ was either.
Then there’s Naquin. Brought in to spell Mark Canha in the outfield and ensure that Jeff McNeil would be out there as little as possible, Naquin’s extreme streakiness has made him hard to figure out. After starting his Mets career with seven extra-base hits in his first ten games, Naquin then went 0-for-18 over his next 11. That span included the infamous eight strikeouts in a row. But since then, he’s back up to a .304 average in his last nine games, which includes two big ones in the Pittsburgh doubleheader. Bursts of productivity make his overall numbers with the Mets look pretty good, but Naquin is still a fourth outfielder and should be used as such in the playoff push.
In a perfect world, a true impact bat would have waltzed in the Mets’ clubhouse on Aug. 2 rather than three fringe ones. Having different options to pencil in the lineup affords Buck Showalter the luxury of giving certain players rest days and the Vogelbach-Ruf-Naquin trio also sets him up for late-inning substitutions based on the opponents’ bullpen strategy. But someone good enough to just play DH every day — regardless of the matchup — would make this team a lot scarier and more stable than the current version which is cycling people through the position. Again, we might never know how close Eppler was to attaining that person, but the fact that he didn’t looms large.
As for Givens, the results are better as of late, but the Mets are learning that they got exactly what they paid for. Givens is, at best, someone who can come in and induce a ground ball for an inning-ending double play. His awkward arm angle and strong ground ball rate came with him from Chicago, but so too did his propensity for allowing hitters to reach base. The Mets only parted with a Single-A pitcher to get him, so the cost of doing business wasn’t too steep, but paying more to get a more reliable lockdown reliever probably needed to happen.
With other teams knowing exactly what the Mets desired at the deadline and with them obviously having no reason to help them freely achieve those desires, it’s not like Eppler could have just snapped his fingers and obtained four All-Stars. He surely tried and what he came away with isn’t terrible. But the idea of Ruf getting a big postseason at-bat with runners on base or Givens coming in from the bullpen to put out an NLDS fire isn’t exactly encouraging.
The lesson from this, no matter how things play out for the Mets, should be to go for it when you have a team this good. Playing it conservatively allowed them to keep all the top prospects and pretty much all of their major-league talent, but the improvements they made look like they’ll wind up being marginal at best.
We’ll see if those marginal improvements can be enough to fend off the Braves and Dodgers, who are rarely, if ever, described as marginal.
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RENO, Nev., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Itronics Inc. (OTC: ITRO) announced today that its on-going testing of gold recovery from gold mine cyanide leach tailings is successfully recovering gold during the Rock Kleen leaching process. This is a significant new discovery.
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Process adjustments made during on-going testing are demonstrating that most of the recoverable gold is being recovered by the Rock Kleen chemistry and that the cyanide leaching step recovers much of the remaining gold, thereby improving the overall gold recovery. Measurable gold recovery has now been demonstrated for gold/silver cyanide mill tailings, gold/silver cyanide heap leach tailings, and for very low gold content waste rock.
The discovery that both silver and gold are recoverable by the Rock Kleen chemistry establishes the potential for the Rock Kleen Technology to optimize both silver and gold recovery during processing of silver/gold ore. Gold is much more valuable than silver, so improvement in total gold recovery, while also improving silver recovery, could significantly benefit mines that adopt the technology. The ability to clean up the mine tailings, making them a salable industrial mineral, is a major added benefit, helping the environment.
The Rock Kleen chemistry was developed by Itronics to recover silver, base metals, nutrient materials, nitrogen, and residual cyanide from mine waste. A Rock Kleen chemical process step is being introduced to do a final leach to remove residual cyanide and to recover minor amounts of residual metals including silver and gold. This final leaching step ensures that water soluble elements in the washed rock are reduced to minimal levels thereby improving the environmental safety for the rock products that can then be recovered for commercial sale.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Democrat who will almost certainly become Philadelphia’s next mayor wants to hire hundreds of additional police officers to walk their beats and get to know residents. She wants to devote resources to recruiting more police and says officers should be able to stop and search pedestrians if they have a legitimate reason to do so.
Those positions, particularly the search policies that have been criticized for wrongly targeting people of color, would seem out of step in a progressive bastion like Philadelphia. But Cherelle Parker trounced her rivals in this week’s mayoral primary with a message that centered on tougher law enforcement to combat rising crime and violence.
While local politics don’t always align with the ideological divides that guide the national debate, Parker’s victory offers a fresh case study for Democrats as they wrestle with how to approach the issue of violent crime, which increased in many U.S. cities during the pandemic and continues to be top of mind for voters across the country. The issue has divided Democrats from city halls to the White House, particularly over how much to rely on policing and incarceration to solve what many see as social problems, such as drug abuse and homelessness.
Parker, a former state legislator and city council member, argued that it’s a false choice to decide between investing in policing and addressing broader societal problems.
“It is not either/or,” the 50-year-old Parker said during the campaign.
That approach helped her defeat progressive rival Helen Gym by more than 25,000 votes. Gym, who advocated for measures including stronger police training and faster 911 response times, was backed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and appeared with the lawmakers at a rally on the eve of the election. Gym and her supporters blamed her loss, in part, on late attacks funded by wealthy donors who opposed her progressive policies.
The debate over policing intensified in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police prompted worldwide protests about policing and calls to defund police — a push that the GOP used against Democrats in 2020 elections. While Democrat Joe Biden won that year, some moderate Democrats said the party wasn’t quick enough to denounce it.
In major U.S. cities that are Democratic strongholds, voters also have been divided in recent years.
New York elected Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain who vowed to invest more in public safety, and San Francisco voters recalled a progressive prosecutor amid frustration about public safety. In Chicago, progressive Brandon Johnson — who favored investing in areas like housing and youth jobs — topped a more moderate rival who had support from the police union. And progressive prosecutor Kim Foxx, who prioritized violent crimes over lower-level offenses and faced blowback for dropping charges against actor Jussie Smollett, said she will not seek reelection.
In Philadelphia, Parker was the only Black candidate among the top tier of hopefuls on Tuesday and she was backed by majority Black precincts across the city in both early and Election Day ballots. In addition to 300 more officers, her public safety plan also called for fixing broken streetlights, removing graffiti and investing in programs for at-risk youth.
Parker also defended her support for “Terry stops,” or for officers to use “just and reasonable suspicion” to stop pedestrians. She and other candidates faced criticism including a protest at City Hall last month from those opposed to “stop and frisk.”
The policy has riled the city in the past, with critics saying it was used disproportionately against Black and Brown pedestrians. According to ACLU Pennsylvania, Philadelphia police nearly doubled the number of pedestrian stops during Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration in the 2000s. Civil rights lawyers said at least half of the more than 250,000 such stops in 2009 didn’t meet the legal standard, and almost none resulted in arrest. The ACLU sued to stop the practice, and monitors police use of stop and frisk under a settlement with the city.
“We want to build that relationship and we also want folks to know that there will be zero tolerance for any misuse and or abuse of authority,” Parker said in response to questions about her position. “But a proactive law enforcement presence is a key part of that plan, and I am unapologetic about it.”
Tuesday’s result suggests the salience of police reform may be subsiding from the days when people were protesting in overwhelming numbers, said Michael Sances, a political science professor at Temple University.
”(Crime) has crowded out concerns about overpolicing,” he said. “It doesn’t mean that people have become anti-reform, that can easily be surfaced. It’s just a sign of where the public’s attention is, and where political leaders have moved, and that’s really toward the center.”
Philadelphia saw a record number of homicides in 2021, most of them gun-related. That number fell from 562 to 516 in 2022, but was still significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels. On Wednesday, an 18-year-old was rearrested in Philadelphia after he escaped from a prison in the city along with another inmate. The man was being held on charges in four slayings.
But in a reminder that there’s no easy trend line on the political dynamics related to crime, voters in Pittsburgh made a turn to the left in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for county prosecutor. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala, in office for nearly a quarter century, is trailing challenger Matt Dugan by double digits in unofficial returns, although Republicans launched a write-in campaign for him so the two could face off again in November.
Dugan, the county’s chief public defender, ran on a range of progressive policies, including eliminating cash bail, diverting low-level and nonviolent crimes, and emphasizing mental health and substance abuse treatment.
What happens in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh could have national implications as Pennsylvania will again be a prime battleground in 2024.
Biden has walked a difficult line on crime, policing and the communities that have been disproportionately impacted by both. The president has said it’s possible to bring down crime and also reform criminal justice and policing at the same time, though Republicans claim crime is up because of those reforms.
Biden often says he believes police need better tools and training, calling them heroes who do a difficult job. He’s also been vocal about the need to reform how policing has worked in Black and other nonwhite communities in the wake of the deaths of Floyd and other Black people killed by police.
This week, the Senate voted to overturn a local Washington, D.C. law enacted to improve police accountability that was backed by the district’s Democratic mayor. It was the second time this year that Democrats joined with Republicans to reject a D.C. measure amid high rates of crime. Earlier, Biden agreed with the GOP that some of the measures — such as lowering penalties for carjackings — went too far.
Biden was expected to veto this week’s vote, which would mean upholding the D.C. law, saying that while he doesn’t back all provisions in the D.C. law he does support “commonsense police reforms” that are part of it, such as banning chokeholds, limiting the use of deadly force and improving access to body cameras and requiring additional training.
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Burnett reported from Chicago. Associated Press writers Colleen Long in Washington and Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man who jumped onto train tracks to rescue someone who had fallen onto an electrified rail during a fight at an L station earned more than praise for his heroic act: He's also been gifted with a car.
Anthony Perry, 20, was surprised Wednesday with a 2009 Audi A8 from Early Walker, founder of the anti-violence organization I'm Telling Don't Shoot.
"We wanted to literally show our appreciation because we need more people like you. We need more Anthonys in the world," Walker said after also giving Perry a $25 gasoline card.
Perry said the car will make his life "way easier." He's been taking two buses and a train to get from his home in the South Side neighborhood of Park Manor to his job with Amazon Fresh in suburban Oak Lawn.
On Monday, he got off at a stop on the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line when he noticed a nearly unconscious man on the electrified third rail of the tracks. He jumped down onto the tracks and pulled the man to safety.
"I was hoping I could just grab him and not feel nothing, but I felt a little shock," Perry said. "I felt it all though my body actually. I didn't let that stop me."
With the help of another commuter, Perry administered CPR on the man, who had been electrocuted. The man was taken to a hospital and was expected to survive.
Police are still investigating the incident that led to the man falling onto the tracks, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Perry's car was delivered to him blocks from his home as residents and police officers looked on in support.
"So many times people think these young men are out here doing the wrong thing, but this is just a prime example of how a young man took it upon himself to jump in and do the right thing," said Chicago police Lt. Yolanda Irving.
Photos: Chicago man who saved stranger on train tracks gets free car
Gunfire broke out as more than 200 graduates and their families left the U.S. Steel Yard stadium in Gary, Indiana, followed a graduation ceremony for West Side Leadership Academy, a city official said.
Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy said during a press conference that 14 people were hit by gunfire early Sunday and three were hit by vehicles while trying to flee the scene.
Authorities say gunfire killed three people and wounded at least 11 others in one of downtown Philadelphia's most popular entertainment districts late Saturday night.
Members of a group who gathered at the hospital afterward told journalists that the shooting occurred during the burial of Da’Shontay “Day Day” King, who died May 20 after he fled a Racine Police officer and was shot.
Anthony Perry, 20, sits in a car presented to him by Early Walker, founder of the organization I'm Telling Don't Shoot, Wednesday morning in Chicago. Walker surprised Perry with the car after video of him saving a man from being electrocuted after falling onto the 59th Street red line train tracks went viral earlier in the week. | 2022-06-09T21:31:15+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/chicago-man-who-saved-man-on-train-tracks-gets-free-car/article_91ebbabf-8fed-5889-a423-dbf07a573937.html |
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OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Two men who were facing felony charges alleging they abused boys at a private Christian boarding school in southwest Missouri have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, and the case against a third was dropped.
Scott Dumar, 46, the medical coordinator at the Agape Boarding School near Stockton, pleaded guilty Thursday to two misdemeanors and was placed on two years probation. Everett Graves, 40, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor.
The case against Chris McElroy was dropped after the alleged victim did not appear at a preliminary hearing Thursday, The Kansas City Star reported.
They were among five staff members charged in September 2021 with low-level felonies after an investigation into accusations by former and current students of widespread abuse at the school
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The Missouri Attorney General’s Office had recommended prosecuting 22 staff members with a total of 65 counts on behalf of 36 students. But Cedar County Prosecutor Ty Gaither charged only the five employees.
Last year Agape’s longtime doctor, David Smock, was charged with several child sex crimes involving students. He has pleaded not guilty.
After hearing testimony from the former students Thursday, Cedar County Associate Circuit Court Judge Thomas Pyle determined Dumar’s actions did not warrant felony charges and suggested Dumar plead to the two misdemeanors. If he violates his probation, Dumar could be sent to jail for a year.
Pyle made the same determination in allowing Graves, who like Dumar has no prior convictions, to plead guilty to a misdemeanor.
A fourth defendant, Trent Hartman, has been bound over for trial on two felony counts of third-degree assault. The preliminary hearing for the fifth staffer, Seth Duncan, is scheduled for next week.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office filed a motion in early September to close Agape, calling it “an immediate health and safety concern" for children living there. Later that month, the Republican speaker of the Missouri House, Rob Vescovo, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore in Kansas City also urging closure of Agape.
In October, Pyle canceled hearings that had been scheduled to consider Schmitt's motion. No new hearings have been scheduled, and the school continues to operate.
Abuse allegations at Agape and a nearby Christian boarding school for girls, Circle of Hope, resulted in a new Missouri law last year that among other things established minimum health and safety requirements for boarding schools, required background checks for employees and required adequate food, clothing and medical care for students.
Circle of Hope, in Humansville, closed during an investigation in 2020 and its husband-and-wife co-founders face 99 charges, including child abuse and neglect and sex crimes. | 2022-12-09T22:22:03+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/2-plead-to-misdemeanors-in-missouri-boarding-school-case/article_762432ae-3488-565c-a70c-f9b276421815.html |
SEOUL — North Korea has announced an “explosive” coronavirus outbreak, with six dead and 350,000 infected across the country since April, a day after the country admitted that covid-19 had finally reached it.
North Korea’s Central News Agency (KCNA) said Friday that nearly 190,000 people remain in quarantine, while 162,000 of the more than 350,000 who were infected have recovered. The agency said one of the six people who died had tested positive for the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who ordered a nationwide lockdown following the announcement of the country’s first official coronavirus infection Thursday, was quoted by KCNA as admitting that the spreading infections were a “grave sign of lapses in our anti-epidemic system.” The authoritarian leader appeared in public wearing a face mask for the first time on Thursday.
For more than two years, as the pandemic raged around the world, North Korea had maintained that it was free from infections. But experts say the virus was likely spreading in the country well before Pyongyang’s official announcement this week.
North Korea’s “zero covid” policy saw it maintain stringent quarantine measures and a closed border over the past two years, which resulted in secondary health and food crises, according to a report by a panel of experts convened by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“Most North Koreans are chronically malnourished and unvaccinated, there are barely any medicines left in the country, and the health infrastructure is incapable of dealing with this pandemic,” said Lina Yoon, senior Korean researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Pyongyang also has repeatedly rebuffed Seoul’s offers of vaccines and other medical aid. Kwon Young-se, South Korea’s unification minister nominee, said Thursday that the ministry is willing to “actively pursue” aid to North Korea as the omicron variant can worsen the humanitarian crisis there.
Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea analyst at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, said the omicron variant will cause “chaos” in North Korea for up to a year. “For the time being, however, North Korea is not expected to accept coronavirus aid from the outside, especially the Western world,” he said.
Despite the virus outbreak, North Korea is unlikely to give up its plans to test missiles and nuclear weapons, which can be used to boost public morale amid a health crisis, Cheong said.
On Thursday, hours after declaring its first coronavirus outbreak, North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, according to the South Korean military.
Seoul’s National Security Office slammed the tests in a Thursday statement, saying North Korea had “turned a blind eye to the lives and safety of its people and continued ballistic missile provocations” despite the rapid spread of the virus. | 2022-05-13T04:01:03+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/north-korea-coronavirus-positive-outbreak-omicron/ |
What you need to stay safe in an emergency
Last weekend, tornadoes touched down across a wide range of states. This week, there is a chance for more dangerous weather. Areas that used to be relatively free from severe storms are being hit by extreme weather with increasing frequency. No matter where you live, there is a chance you could experience a damaging storm. To be safe, you need to be prepared. Here are some essential items that can help keep you safe in an emergency.
In this article: Emergency Hand Crank Radio, Rechargeable LED Camping Lantern and Sawyer Products Mini Water Filtration System.
Why is the weather so severe in the US?
There are two primary reasons why experts say the U.S. is leading the world in weather catastrophes: geography and climate change.
Most severe weather requires warm, moist air as a catalyst. Since the U.S. is bordered by two oceans and a gulf, there are ample opportunities for the creation of warm, saturated air. Also, atmospheric rivers enter the country from the west carrying an incredible amount of moisture, which cools and results in an abundance of precipitation.
Another factor that influences storms is the jet stream. This fast-moving current of air travels in upper levels of the atmosphere, causing changes in wind and pressure that can either transport storms or keep weather conditions, such as a heatwave, stagnant. As a result, the jet stream is responsible for shaping the weather over the U.S.
Climate change warms the world, and the hotter the air is, the more moisture it can hold. This fuels the atmosphere with exactly what it needs to create violent storms. As climate change continues, the frequency of severe weather (hurricanes, tornadoes, heatwaves, drought, wildfires, floods, heavy snowstorms and more) will increase.
What you need to prepare for severe weather
As the likelihood of increasingly intense weather systems continues to rise, there are a few emergency staples you’ll want to keep on hand, no matter where you live.
Esky Emergency Hand Crank Radio
Even if your power goes out, this rechargeable emergency radio has you covered. You can listen to emergency broadcasts or use it to charge your phone. It even has a built-in LED light. To charge it without electricity, use the solar panel or hand crank.
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LE Rechargeable LED Camping Lantern
This lantern flashlight has a hook on the bottom so you can hang it upside down to better illuminate the room. The 360-degree beam shines light in all directions, and the battery lasts up to 12 hours.
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Sawyer Products Mini Water Filtration System
As a rule of thumb, you can only survive about three days without water. This water filter straw can help you get safe drinking water in an emergency. It removes 99.9% of bacteria and protozoa, while also filtering out 100% of microplastics.
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M2 Basics Premium 300-Piece First Aid Kit
This emergency kit has essential items such as adhesive bandages, gauze, splints, medical masks and tweezers so you can deliver first aid, if needed. The comprehensive kit comes with a durable zippered bag for convenient storage and transport.
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Sustain Supply Co. Emergency Survival Kit and Backpack
A natural disaster kit is a little more specific than a first-aid kit. It gives you products you need to survive in an emergency, not just tools you can use to patch up injuries. This one includes non-perishable food, tools for heating, lighting and other items.
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Safelumin Rechargeable Light Bulbs (2-Pack)
If you have a rechargeable emergency light bulb, you can have lighting from your fixtures, even when there’s no power. Simply screw one of these rechargeable lights into a socket and you can light the room.
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Cyalume Military-Grade Green Glow Sticks
Sometimes, for safety, you need emergency light sticks. The 6-inch glow sticks in this 10-pack stay lit for up to eight hours.
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Other items worth having
- Millennium Assorted Energy Bars are meal replacement bars that can help sustain you in an emergency.
- To be prepared, it’s crucial to have a NOAA Emergency Weather Alert Radio on hand so you can be aware of changing conditions.
- This emergency kit is filled with items you might require for survival in a natural disaster.
- If you get trapped in your vehicle, this car safety tool is a handheld gadget that can save your life.
- A LifeStraw is a personal water filter that allows you to drink straight from nature in emergency situations.
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Suspected police impersonator with ‘stash of knives’ arrested near US Capitol, officials say
Published: Jan. 31, 2023 at 4:41 PM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) – A suspected police impersonator was caught carrying weapons on Capitol grounds Monday, according to U.S. Capitol Police.
Capitol Police said Secret Service agents tipped them off after spotting 37-year-old Max Eli Viner near the White House.
The department said Viner had a “stash of knives” and a “chainsaw blade” on him, and officers found “fake police equipment,” shell casings, a smoke grenade and a gas mask in Viner’s vehicle.
The Secret Service arrested Viner. Charges against him include impersonating a law enforcement officer and possession of a prohibited weapon, police said.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
2-6-6-9, SB: 9
(two, six, six, nine; SB: nine)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
2-6-6-9, SB: 9
(two, six, six, nine; SB: nine) | 2022-08-27T04:07:34+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Evening-game-17401763.php |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
07-16-17-26-28
(seven, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-six, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $84,000
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
07-16-17-26-28
(seven, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-six, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $84,000 | 2022-07-13T05:31:13+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Show-Me-Cash-game-17301231.php |
Teddy practiced his balance before stretching his body in a downward-dog pose during a yoga session last week. Afterward, he rewarded himself with a tasty treat.
Kristin Windle, the zoo’s elephants supervisor, said the exercises are just as effective as they were nearly a century ago, when employees started them. She evaluates her 12 Asian elephants’ flexibility, energy and skin condition during their regimens.
“It’s something that we’ve done from Day One of having all these elephants,” Windle told The Washington Post. “They learn these behaviors so that we can monitor their overall health.”
The elephants’ workout routine, first reported by the Houston Chronicle, is similar to those at zoos across the country and abroad. Some experts say a lack of exercise has caused zoo elephants to live shorter lives than those in the wild. Yoga can increase longevity in older adults, and Windle believes it can assist elephants, too.
Windle learned about the Houston Zoo’s exercise program when she started as a volunteer in 2012. On her first day, she developed a bond with Thailand, who is now 57 years old, and admired his calm demeanor interacting with other elephants.
Zoo staff start teaching elephants introductory exercises when the pachyderms turn 4 months old. First, they attach a tennis ball to a broom handle and let the elephants play with it. Later, Windle and other trainers encourage elephants to move the body parts they touch with the stick.
After the elephants perform the moves, such as stretching to one side while raising their leg, trainers hand them a treat. The bananas, whole wheat bread, raisins, sweet potatoes and cantaloupe are a break from their normal diet of hay and bark.
“As soon as they make the connection that, ‘Oh, I touch this and I get food’ … they react pretty well to it,” said Windle, 33.
Over the next few months, the elephants progress to more advanced movements, such as laying down and moving into a downward-dog-like pose with their four feet on the ground and their backs arched. The elephants eventually become accustomed to voice cues and pointing, so trainers stop using the stick.
One 39-year-old elephant, Tess, can even do a handstand.
Windle said the yoga sessions last anywhere from 30 seconds to five minutes, and they are done at least three times per day. Methai, a 54-year-old elephant with arthritis, gets extra exercises to improve her walking and sleeping. On the rare occasions that elephants don’t want to exercise, they are allowed to walk away.
“You and I couldn’t ask them to do these things,” said Jackie Wallace, the zoo’s communications director. “It’s because the [trainers and elephants] have such an amazing relationship.”
The elephants’ regimes are especially notable given the weight they carry. Thailand and Methai weigh about 11,000 pounds and 7,000 pounds, respectively. The zoo’s youngest elephant, Teddy, surpassed 2,000 pounds this week.
While elephants perform exercises, Windle watches their movements and checks for troubling spots or rashes on their bodies. Asian elephants live about 47 years, Windle said, and she wants to keep them with their families for as long as possible.
“They’re pretty amazing,” she added. “ … It’s pretty awesome to be able to build trust and build relationships with these guys.” | 2023-06-07T22:28:57+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/07/zoo-elephants-yoga-houston/ |
A new study has found the states whose residents need to lawyer up the most.
Pennsylvania ranked among the top 10.
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As conducted and published by injury lawyers, The Patel Firm, this study tapped into Google search data to see the average monthly volume of each state for terms related to different layers and generic lawyer-related terms. The study’s press release explains how researchers calculated these searches before per 100,000 people for final rankings.
Pennsylvania ended up getting a seat in the number 10 overall ranking.
“The study found that Colorado had the most searches per 100,000 people (534.1) over the last 12 months for various types of lawyers and related terms, making them the state seemingly most interested in hiring a lawyer,” the study reads. “The research also showed that the people were predominantly interested in finding family lawyers, immigration lawyers and employment lawyers.
“Colorado was followed by North Carolina, who with just over 462 searches per 100,000 people, ranked in second. The data showed they searched for bankruptcy lawyers the most.”
Georgia was the state that ranked in third, rounding out the top three. | 2023-05-19T18:36:17+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2023/05/pa-among-top-10-states-where-people-need-lawyers-the-most-study-says.html |
LONDON, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NetMind.ai, a leading AI solutions provider, has launched NetMind Power, an advanced distributed computing platform built for deep learning. NetMind Power expands the computational limits available to users worldwide, offering cost-effective solutions for accurate and scalable model training and inference.
NetMind Power allows users to contribute unused computing resources in exchange for access to a vast platform where they can collaborate, train, develop deep learning models and build AI-powered applications. NetMind Power's cutting-edge technology distributes relevant tasks intelligently to each resource module and rewards contributors with digital credits or currency.
One of the fundamental advantages of employing NetMind Power for deep learning and other computationally intensive tasks is its cost-effectiveness. By leveraging the collective processing power, the platform can provide a more affordable alternative to traditional cloud services, which often come with expensive fees and complex pricing structures. This cost reduction is particularly valuable for researchers, startups, and small businesses, as it allows them to access advanced computational resources without incurring prohibitive expenses.
Based on NetMind Power, the research idea of developing an open-source, umbrella-structured model called Gaia is an innovative and ambitious approach. By leveraging the volunteer computing structure of NetMind Power, Gaia can benefit from the distributed resources contributed by users, enabling auto-growth and potentially resulting in a powerful and versatile AI system.
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DALLAS (AP) — Include the extra rebound, or don’t.
It doesn’t really matter with Luka Doncic’s logic-defying stat line that had current and former NBA stars, along with current and former teammates, buzzing on Twitter.
Doncic had 60 points, a Dallas franchise record, a career-best 21 rebounds and 10 assists in a wild 126-121 overtime victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday night.
Set up by his improbable tying jumper in the final second of regulation off his intentionally missed free throw, Doncic had the first 60-20-10 triple-double in NBA history.
Plenty of peers noticed, including former European sidekick Kristaps Porzingis, traded to Washington last season to break up the pairing that never really clicked as planned.
Porzingis referenced their shared playing roots in Spain, with a tweet in Spanish that translated to “This guy is not normal.”
And the 7-foot-3 Latvian skipped that extraneous rebound on a night when he could celebrate a double-double of his own with 24 points and 10 rebounds as the Wizards beat Philadelphia.
Doncic broke Dirk Nowitzki’s franchise record of 53 points from 2004 two days after the Mavericks unveiled a statue of the retired German star outside the arena.
Nowitzki is the highest-scoring foreign-born player in NBA history (sixth overall). The 23-year-old All-Star could hold that title some day.
“It’ll be another statue in Dallas,” Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett wrote on Twitter.
Kyle Kuzma included the extra rebound while calling Doncic’s numbers “INSANE!!!!!!!”
Brooklyn star Kevin Durant felt the need for an expletive in comparing Doncic’s night to video-game numbers.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he’ll never see another night like it, and teammate Christian Wood, whose 3-pointer sparked the rally from nine points down in the final 30 seconds of regulation, said he was sending a “GOAT” to Doncic’s farm in his native Slovenia.
“Everybody is still in shock,” coach Jason Kidd said after the game. “ The history of the game is written by the players and it was written again tonight for a player — Luka — doing something that’s never been done before.”
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Goofy by day, glowing by night: Why you really should see the Super Bowl Experience cactus
The Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee unveiled what it called “an iconic Arizona interactive art element” at Margaret T. Hance Park in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday evening as part of the Super Bowl Experience presented by Lowe's that will be held there Feb. 9-12.
It was a cactus. Of course it was. The only thing more iconically Arizona would be a For Sale sign in a front yard.
It’s a big cactus, granted — 44 feet tall. But a cactus indeed, kind of goofy looking, almost a cartoon rendering, except in real life.
It will be “the ultimate” Super Bowl photo opportunity, Jay Parry, the president and CEO of the host committee, told the gathered media.
I don’t know, if the Cincinnati Bengals make it to the Super Bowl, a selfie with Joe Burrow might be a little more sought after. But certainly, if you want your picture taken in front of a giant Lycra saguaro, Hance Park will be the place to be.
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When the sun goes down the cactus comes alive
And then a funny thing happened. It started to get dark. And the 20,000 LED bulbs started to shine more brightly, and the geometric patterns that had been programmed into the thing started to reveal themselves, and all of a sudden it was pretty cool.
Really cool, actually, maybe even giving a selfie with Burrow a run for its money. This is, literally, by design.
“I consider myself a light artist, so it is about the lights at night,” said Mike Murray, the artist who created what — for now — Parry dubbed “Super Saguaro.”
“At night is when it really becomes its own thing.”
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From the artist who created 'Dumpster Fire,' a cactus with a DJ booth
Murray is an interesting choice for the job. He gained renown in 2020 for his piece “Dumpster Fire,” which was an actual dumpster with the lighted numerals “2020” affixed to the front that he set ablaze. It was part of the “Now It’s Political: Roadside Attraction” installation.
“It’s a little nicer than ‘Dumpster Fire,’” Murray said of the cactus. “It’s a little better occasion to celebrate.”
Don’t worry, making the cactus doesn’t signal a change in Murray’s artistic direction.
“I’ll definitely still make political pieces,” he said. “It just depends on the season.”
And for the record, “I never made ‘Dumpster Fire’ to be a political statement,” Murray said. “I wanted it as something to bring the community together.”
Which is part of the reason he wanted to create the cactus. Murray said he was impressed with how much emphasis the Super Bowl committee is placing on local artists. (Of course, he got paid, too — “handsomely” is all he would say about that.)
When bands play at the Super Bowl Experience, they can synchronize their shows with the cactus lights. And when there are no bands, there is spot atop the cactus for DJs to mix music. At 44 feet up top, that's something that DJ Jethro, of Phoenix, did not sound especially thrilled about.
“I’m a little worried,” he said. I’m not going to lie. I’m afraid of heights. But if I’ve got to do it, I’ve got to do it.”
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An official Super Bowl watch party will take place at Hance Park
Parry said there will be a Super Bowl watch party at Hance Park on Feb. 12, the first one ever sanctioned by the NFL. There will also be a U.S. Navy flyover above the park, and Fox will occasionally cut to the park during the game, Parry said.
The committee is seeking a name for the saguaro; if you submit one through its social media accounts you have a chance to win VIP tickets to the Super Bowl Experience, among other prizes.
As for the cactus, Murray said its ultimate fate after the Super Bowl is “to be determined. I definitely think it needs a life after this.”
He might place it in front of his business, Spectacle, on Roosevelt Street, he said. But another plan sounds more fitting.
“I might take it to Burning Man.”
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with author Barbara Kingsolver about her new book “Demon Copperhead,” which takes Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” and sets it in modern-day southern Appalachia.
Book excerpt: ‘Demon Copperhead’
By Barbara Kingsolver
First, I got myself born. A decent crowd was on hand to watch, and they’ve always given me that much: the worst of the job was up to me, my mother being let’s just say out of it.
The cover of “Demon Copperhead.” (Courtesy)
On any other day they’d have seen her outside on the deck of her trailer home, good neighbors taking notice, pestering the tit of trou- ble as they will. All through the dog-breath air of late summer and fall, cast an eye up the mountain and there she’d be, little bleach-blonde smoking her Pall Malls, hanging on that railing like she’s captain of her ship up there and now might be the hour it’s going down. This is an eighteen-year-old girl we’re discussing, all on her own and as pregnant as it gets. The day she failed to show, it fell to Nance Peggot to go bang on the door, barge inside, and find her passed out on the bathroom floor with her junk all over the place and me already coming out. A slick fish-colored hostage picking up grit from the vinyl tile, worming and shoving around because I’m still inside the sack that babies float in, pre-real-life.
Mr. Peggot was outside idling his truck, headed for evening service, probably thinking about how much of his life he’d spent waiting on women. His wife would have told him the Jesusing could hold on a minute, first she needed to go see if the little pregnant gal had got her- self liquored up again. Mrs. Peggot being a lady that doesn’t beat around the bushes and if need be, will tell Christ Jesus to sit tight and keep his pretty hair on. She came back out yelling for him to call 911 because a poor child is in the bathroom trying to punch himself out of a bag. Like a little blue prizefighter. Those are the words she’d use later on, being not at all shy to discuss the worst day of my mom’s life. And if that’s how I came across to the first people that laid eyes on me, I’ll take it. To me that says I had a fighting chance. Long odds, yes I know. If a mother is lying in her own piss and pill bottles while they’re slapping the kid she’s shunted out, telling him to look alive: likely the bastard is doomed. Kid born to the junkie is a junkie. He’ll grow up to be every- thing you don’t want to know, the rotten teeth and dead-zone eyes, the nuisance of locking up your tools in the garage so they don’t walk off, the rent-by-the-week motel squatting well back from the scenic high- way. This kid, if he wanted a shot at the finer things, should have got himself delivered to some rich or smart or Christian, nonusing type of mother. Anybody will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.
Me though, I was a born sucker for the superhero rescue. Did that line of work even exist, in our trailer-home universe? Had they all quit Smallville and gone looking for bigger action? Save or be saved, these are questions. You want to think it’s not over till the last page.
From the book: “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver. Copyright © 2022 by Barbara Kingsolver. Reprinted courtesy of Harper Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors and public health officials about a handful of locally acquired cases of malaria. There hasn't been a case of malaria caught locally in the U.S. in 20 years.
Typically, if Americans get sick with malaria they've caught it while traveling overseas in areas where malaria is more common. Malaria is a disease spread when the female anopheline mosquito feeds on a person with malaria and then feeds on another.
The mosquito can be found in certain regions in the U.S., but malaria is still rare in the U.S. Worldwide there are 240 million cases each year, 95% in Africa.
That could change with the climate crisis. Scientists have been warning people that malaria could become more common in the U.S. as temperatures warm.
Malaria can also spread through blood transfusions, organ transplants, unsafe needle-sharing practices, and from mother to fetus. In the U.S., before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were about 2,000 cases of mostly travel-related malaria, according to the CDC.
In this case, four people in Florida and one person in Texas seem to have gotten exposed to the disease locally. The cases in the two states don't seem to be related to each other, the CDC said.
The four cases in Florida are all in the same area, so there is active surveillance in the region to see if anyone else gets sick. Public health authorities are also monitoring and trying to control the local mosquito population.
In Texas, while only one case has been identified, public health officials are on the look out for others and they also trying to monitor the region's mosquito population for the disease.
The CDC says that all the patients with malaria are in treatment and all of them are improving. The last time the US saw locally acquired cases was when eight people got sick in 2003 in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Even with these new cases, the CDC says the risk of catching malaria in the U.S. remains "extremely low." With the busy summer travel season, the CDC said, more people could bring the disease back to the U.S.
The CDC encourages people to use bug spray while traveling and when at home, especially in the warmer summer months.
The CDC also suggests that doctors should be on the look out for the disease, particularly doctors practicing in the regions where the new cases occurred in Florida and Texas.
Symptoms of malaria include fever, chills, headache, and fatigue. People can also get sick to their stomach. Symptoms typically start about 10 days to 4 weeks after infection, but people can get sick as late as a year after their initial infection.
"Malaria is a medical emergency and should be treated accordingly," the CDC said. Prompt treatment can prevent malaria symptoms from getting worse or even causing death.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — After three Americans were found dead in an Airbnb in Mexico last month, their families are hoping for answers.
Jordan Marshall and Kandace Florence, who attended high school together in Virginia Beach, had been vacationing in Mexico City with Marshall’s friend from New Orleans, Courtez Hall. The trio was there for the celebrations surrounding “Dia de Muertos,” or Day of the Dead.
Kandace Florence’s boyfriend was on the phone with her on the night of Oct. 30 when Florence started getting sick, the family told Nexstar’s WAVY. She told him something wasn’t right. The two eventually were disconnected and he couldn’t get Florence back on the line. He then called the Airbnb host to do a welfare check, and authorities found Florence, Marshall, and Hall dead.
“To lose your child is one thing, but in a whole other country and having to maneuver language barriers and travel and trying to get his body home, it’s been a lot,” Marshall’s mom, Jennifer Marshall, told WAVY.
Marshall, a teacher in New Orleans, and Florence, who started a candle business — Glo Through It — in 2020, were both 28 years old. Florence would have turned 29 on Nov. 10. Hall was also a teacher in New Orleans.
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The families of Marshall and Florence say they have been in contact with the U.S. embassy, working to get their loved ones’ bodies home and find out exactly what happened to them.
Jennifer Marshall says they spent hours in a Mexico City police station waiting for a translator to show up. The U.S. embassy was also closed when they arrived and they were unable to get into the Airbnb to get Jordan’s things.
“His wallet, his laptop, he took all those things with him and we just want them back.”
Airbnb told Marshall’s mom that their belongings had been passed on to the authorities while the incident is under investigation.
Florence’s oldest brother, Chad, and her sister-in-law, Amy Green, say they had a similar experience.
“We thought that going to the embassy first would aid us in that regard, but they didn’t have translators that could accompany us to the various places like the forensics office or police station,” Green said.
WAVY reached out to the U.S. embassy for comment on the investigation but did not receive a response before publication. The embassy did provide New Orleans outlet WDSU with this statement:
“We can confirm the death of three U.S. citizens in Mexico. We are closely monitoring local authorities’ investigation into the cause of death. We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance. Out of respect for the privacy of the families, we have nothing further to add at this time.”
Both families now say they hope no one else ever has to go through this.
“We should’ve never had to go through that type of leg work to realize that our baby passed away in a foreign country,” said Kelvin Florence, Kandace’s father. “Nobody even took the effort to notify us — a letter, a phone call, nothing.”
“Now it’s just a waiting game and hoping that they reach out to us,” Green said.
They’re seeing the challenge as an opportunity, as Kandace Florence says in one of the affirmations featured in her candle, to fight so others won’t have to go through what they’ve experienced.
“She said don’t go through it, glow through it,” her mother Freida says. “We are just glowing through her candles through it, just knowing that our healing is coming.”
Marshall and Florence’s bodies are expected to be flown to the U.S. in the next few days. The cause of death for all three Americans remains under investigation.
Marshall’s funeral is set for Friday, his family says. | 2022-11-08T14:26:33+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/3-americans-found-dead-in-mexico-city-airbnb-families-seek-answers/ |
As Floridians continue to survey the damage and figure out what’s next after Hurricane Ian, there are ways you can help.
“As of Tuesday night we had over 2,000 people staying in Red Cross and partner shelters here in the area,” Lori Arnold, a Red Cross spokesperson currently helping at the Hertz Arena shelter near Fort Myers, Florida, said. “The need is just going to continue.”
She said the Red Cross is focused on shelter, supplying meals, and overall support including mental and spiritual support at the moment.
“As time goes by we’re going to be seeing what else is needed. We do have around 80 response vehicles driving around delivering food to neighborhoods for people who are still at home but maybe don't have power or maybe have some damage but decided to stay home and not come into a shelter.”
Damage will be assessed and Red Cross will help with the next steps in recovery for Floridians as efforts progress. Just how much damage Hurricane Ian caused won't be known for a while.
For now, Arnold said the best way to help is by donating money or your time.
“Financial donations allow us to purchase the items we need exactly when we need them and where we need them,” she explained. “We can also always use volunteers.”
You can text “REDCROSS” to 90999 to give $10 to American Red Cross Disaster Relief.
If you decide to give to other organizations, make sure you know they are legitimate and not a scam.
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Community Baby Shower helps parents, guardians
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - The Comanche County Health Department helped parents and guardians with the 8th annual Community Baby Shower Saturday.
Several organizations across southwest Oklahoma partnered to make it possible. The purpose is to promote maternal health, educate, and provide resources to first time care givers.
Health Educator Kole Trent said Oklahoma has a high infant mortality rate.
“We don’t have the best infant mortality rate. It’s quite high but within 2007 to 2020 it has actually decreased 20% so I think events like this contribute directly to that positive trend in that statistic,” Trent said.
It was free and open to the public with children under the age of two.
Participants watched educational videos to be entered into a raffle drawing.
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County grants approval for Amazon’s helix-shaped HQ tower
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The Arlington County Board has given unanimous approval to Amazon’s plans to build a unique, helix-shaped tower as the centerpiece of its emerging second headquarters in northern Virginia.
Amazon announced plans last year for the 350-foot tower. It will support a second headquarters for Amazon that is expected to welcome more than 25,000 workers when it’s complete.
The helix stands out among several office towers granted approval in the redevelopment plans.
The spiral design features a walkable ramp wrapping around the building with trees and greenery planted to resemble a mountain hike.
The County Board approved the project at its Saturday meeting.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The New York Yankees have been a sub-.500 team since Aaron Judge injured his toe in early June. Now they hope his return can help them rally for a postseason spot.
The Yankees reinstated Judge from the injured list Friday before the opener of their weekend road series against the Baltimore Orioles. Judge admits he isn’t fully recovered but says he’s healthy enough to play.
“It’s feeling all right, feeling good. It’s not 100%. I don’t think it’ll be 100% until the end of the year,” he said. “I think our biggest goal is just getting to a point where I could play, I could tolerate it.”
The Yankees lost 1-0 to the Orioles on Anthony Santander’s ninth-inning homer. Judge lined out to right field on the first pitch he saw in the top of the first. Then he walked his next three times up.
Judge had been out since tearing a ligament in his right big toe June 3 when he crashed into the right-field fence while making a catch at Dodger Stadium. In the eighth inning Friday, he appeared to foul a pitch off his foot, but it was his left one.
Judge played a simulated game Wednesday at the team’s complex in Tampa, Florida, and returned to New York after that. The 2022 American League MVP faced live pitching Sunday at Yankee Stadium for the first time since the injury. Manager Aaron Boone said Judge homered during a simulated game Tuesday in Florida. He also played the field and ran the bases.
Judge was penciled into the lineup as the designated hitter, batting second Friday night. Boone said he could have potentially played in the field, but that will be a day-by-day decision.
“Obviously, as much as there’s urgency for us, we’ve got to be smart about that and make sure that in talking to Aaron, making sure he’s honest with his feedback about how he’s recovering, how he’s bouncing back,” Boone said. “Obviously, how the toe’s doing, but how everything else is doing.”
New York was 19-23 since Judge got hurt in Los Angeles. After Friday’s loss, the Yankees are 30-20 with the star outfielder, who also missed 10 games earlier this season with a right hip strain.
Judge set an AL record with 62 home runs last year. He is batting .290 with 19 homers and 40 RBIs in the first season of a $360 million, nine-year contract he signed last offseason.
“I guess he’s back and he’s ready,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said before the game. “So we’ll have to pitch to him well.”
Baltimore has a 1 1/2-game lead in the AL East over Tampa Bay. The Yankees are five games over .500 but at the bottom of the ultracompetitive division. New York is nine games behind the Orioles and 3 1/2 behind the Toronto Blue Jays and Houston Astros for the American League’s final two wild cards.
Judge was asked if the team’s offensive struggles without him made him even more anxious to come back.
“No, I just wanted to get back,” Judge said after a noticeable pause. “Any time you’re sitting out, even if we were winning and we had an eight-game lead in the division, or we were 10 games out of it, I want to be back out there battling with the guys.”
Boone said Judge had an MRI in the last few days, and Judge indicated that was a factor in his return.
“I didn’t want to come back and make it worse, and this is something that leads into the next year and the following year,” he said. “Ligament’s stable. Last couple MRIs didn’t really show much healing, but this one did.”
To make room for Judge, the Yankees optioned infielder Oswald Peraza to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Daniil Medvedev hasn’t won a title in the U.S. since capturing the 2021 U.S. Open, when he turned away Novak Djokovic’s bid for a Grand Slam.
Now the Miami Open’s No. 4 seed is one victory from a fresh American title, beating fellow Russian Karen Khachanov 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 in the semifinals Friday, the same day Wimbledon announced Russians will be allowed back — with conditions.
The other men’s semifinal is Friday night between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannick Sinner. If Alcaraz wins, it’ll set up a rematch of the Indian Wells final; Alcaraz beat Medvedev 6-3, 6-2 on March 19.
Medvedev has won 23 of his last 24 matches — the lone loss to now-world No. 1 Alcaraz — and is in his fifth straight final.
Medvedev has been friends with the 14th-seeded Khachanov since childhood, and they’re each fierce baseliners, with one rally lasting 31 shots.
Medvedev needed a tiebreaker to win the first set, serving it out with the first of 13 aces in the match. Proving a little more consistent in the second set, Khachanov forced a third by breaking Medvedev’s serve early to go up 2-0.
But Medvedev owned the third, surviving an early breakpoint when Khachanov hit a loose backhand into the doubles alley for a rare unforced error.
Medvedev broke Khachanov in the next game to go up 3-1 and a won a wondrous 26-shot rally on match point. Khachanov picked up a drop shot, then retrieved a shot from the baseline between the legs before his friend put away the winner.
Also Friday, No. 15-seed Petra Kvitova and unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea were playing to decide who’ll take on Elena Rybakina in Saturday’s women singles final. Rybakina, who has won 13 straight matches, including the Indian Wells title, beat Jessica Pegula in straight sets in a rain-delayed match that ended close to midnight.
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Giuliani meets with January 6 committee for more than 9 hours
Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's onetime personal attorney, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, two sources told CNN.
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Giuliani's original deposition with the committee had been postponed after the former New York City mayor asked to record the interview, with both audio and video. At the time, Giuliani's attorney Robert Costello said the committee rejected that request.
Despite Giuliani backing out of the original deposition, the two sides continued to negotiate an appearance, which led to a virtual appearance Friday that lasted for more than nine hours, sources said.
Costello declined to comment Friday. A spokesperson for the select committee also declined to comment on Giuliani's deposition.
A central figure in Trump's failed bid to overturn the 2020 election, Giuliani was subpoenaed by the committee in January and has been engaging with lawmakers, through his lawyer, about the scope of the subpoena and whether he may be able to comply with some requests.
In its subpoena, the committee alleges that Giuliani "actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of the former President and sought to convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results." The subpoena also states that Giuliani was in contact with Trump and members of Congress "regarding strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election."
Several high-profile individuals from Trump's inner orbit have voluntarily spoken with the committee in recent weeks and months. In early May, Donald Trump Jr. met with the committee. And Trump's daughter and former senior White House adviser, Ivanka Trump, was interviewed for nearly eight hours last month; her husband and former White House senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has met with the panel as well. | 2022-05-21T02:29:20+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/giuliani-meets-with-january-6-committee-for-more-than-9-hours/40064093 |
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. (KGUN) — More than 1,200 soldiers from Fort Huachuca are on their way home for the holidays. The installation's annual exodus began early Saturday morning and concludes Sunday morning.
The highly coordinated effort is completed with one goal in mind — to get the soldiers home as safely and efficiently as possible.
“We want to make sure we make their holiday block leave as seamless as possible so we don’t put any additional stressors on them as they’re trying to get home," Commanding General of the United States Army Intelligence Center of Excellence and Fort Huachuca Maj. Gen. Anthony Hale said. "They’re excited to go home and see mom and dad."
Charter buses were reserved to bring groups of soldiers to the Tucson International Airport for their respective flights. Before they left they were given snacks and other goodies for them to have on their trip. The local USO was also set up at the airport with more drinks and snacks for the soldiers to grab before their flight.
Most of the soldiers participating in the exodus are on Fort Huachuca for their Advanced Individual Training and have not been home since they left for Basic Training. Spc. Mark Maroz said he hasn't seen his family in five months and is surprising his parents with his arrival.
“Today is exactly five months since I left for basic training," Maroz said. "So it’s actually a surprise, my mom doesn’t know I’m coming home. My whole family is going to be coming down for Christmas as well. I’m looking forward to surprising her.”
Arrangements have been made with local shuttles to ensure the soldiers have a safe and reliable way for them to return to the installation after the holiday block is over.
Hale said they have soldiers traveling to almost all 50 states and overseas.
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Alexis Ramanjulu is a reporter in Cochise County for KGUN 9. She began her journalism career reporting for the Herald/Review in Sierra Vista, which she also calls home. Share your story ideas with Alexis by emailing alexis.ramanjulu@kgun9.com or by connecting on Facebook, or Twitter. | 2022-12-18T18:50:19+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/fort-huachuca-sends-more-than-1-200-soldiers-home-from-the-holidays |
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Rapper Fetty Wap pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy drug charge that carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence, admitting that he participated in a massive drug trafficking racket that moved drugs from the West Coast to Long Island.
The plea in Central Islip came before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, who had revoked his bond and sent him to jail two weeks ago. After the plea, he was returned to jail to await sentencing, though a date was not immediately set.
Locke revoked the rapper’s $500,000 bail, secured by property he owns in Georgia, after prosecutors said that Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in his drug case.
The “Trap Queen” rapper was initially arrested last October on charges alleging he participated in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City area.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances, the top charge in an indictment against him, though the plea pertained only to cocaine. It carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison while federal sentencing guidelines are likely to recommend about two additional years in prison. The plea spared him from a potential life sentence if he had been convicted on all the charges he faced.
His lawyers did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
Maxwell and five co-defendants were accused of conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine between June 2019 and June 2020. Two codefendants also have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
The scheme allegedly involved using the U.S. Postal Service and cars with hidden compartments to move drugs from the West Coast to Long Island, where they were stored for distribution to dealers on Long Island and in New Jersey, prosecutors said.
Maxwell rose to prominence after “Trap Queen,” his debut single, reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2015.
The Long Island arrest was not his first. In 2019, he was arrested in Las Vegas for allegedly assaulting three employees at a hotel-casino. He was also arrested in November 2017 on a DUI charge after police said he was drag racing on a New York City highway. | 2022-08-23T14:05:02+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/rapper-fetty-wap-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-drug-charge/ |
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS), a leading national homebuilder, today announced that the Company will release its fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 . A conference call will be held that same day at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, 3:00 p.m. Mountain time, to review the Company's fourth quarter and full year results, discuss recent events and conduct a question-and-answer session.
Webcast:
The conference call will be available in the Investors section of the Company's website at www.centurycommunities.com. To listen to a live broadcast, go to the site at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time in order to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
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The playback can be accessed through February 8, 2023.
About Century Communities:
Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS) is a top 10 national homebuilder, offering new homes under the Century Communities and Century Complete brands. Century is engaged in all aspects of homebuilding — including the acquisition, entitlement and development of land, along with the construction, innovative marketing and sale of quality homes designed to appeal to a wide range of homebuyers. The Colorado-based company operates in 18 states and over 45 markets across the U.S., and also offers title, insurance and lending services in select markets through its Parkway Title, IHL Home Insurance Agency, and Inspire Home Loans subsidiaries. To learn more about Century Communities, please visit www.centurycommunities.com.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welcome to MWverse, McCann Worldgroup's Web3 experience unveiled to coincide with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The experience was created with Journee, Meta and the agency's production agency, Craft Worldwide, and is open to the general public, accessible via desktop, phone or tablet.
There are countless important events and experiences that people across the world would like to participate in, but only a lucky few are afforded that IRL experience. The MWverse experience is designed to change that lack of accessibility and experience, with the first application being this year's Cannes Lions festival, where a selection of the agency's top campaigns are explored in virtual, branded rooms and experienced through the eyes of the agency teams that created them and the clients that supported them. While only a select few people will enjoy the privilege of being on the ground in Cannes, the general public is invited to access a multi-dimensional virtual world that immerses them in the full experience of the work screened at Cannes.
Elav Horwitz, SVP, Global Innovation and Creative Partnerships, McCann Worldgroup, said, "Creativity from around the world is abundant and deserves to be shared, to inspire and to be celebrated at scale. Democratizing the experience, bringing the work to the masses and creating a space where everyone can join the judging panels is a valuable realization of Web3's potential. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn from the best of the best and each other."
Users will be taken through the entire campaign journey from inception to execution and will also be provided with an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how the very best work at the agency comes together. Visitors can also join fireside chats with clients and Web3 creators to hear what the future of the metaverse and Web3 might look like for their brands. As part of the shared experience, visitors would be able to meet for happy hour and interact with creative people from around the world. Among the many compelling content features of the MWVerse, acclaimed actress, director, producer, philanthropist and activist Eva Longoria will participate as an avatar, sharing her point of view on the L'Oreal Paris "Lessons of Worth" campaign in which she was featured.
"Creativity is about overcoming hurdles, testing new things, applying the mindset of 'what if' and 'let's try' to every business, culture and human problem out there. It's time for our industry tentpole moments to reflect this spirit," said Alex Lopez, President & Global Chief Creative Officer, McCann Worldgroup. "We're all in the business of creativity – designers, writers, finance experts, business leaders, operations people, producers, editors, talent management, HR, strategists. And this year for the first time, from the most junior to the most senior, everyone is invited to the Cannes experience."
While the metaverse and Web3 are still evolving and the technologies being created to leverage the virtual world are constantly improving, the core elements of Web3 are collaboration and interoperability. To ensure McCann Worldgroup created a robust, advanced and meaningful experience, the network partnered with Journee and Meta, who brought a symbiotic mix of best-in-class technologies to bear on MWverse.
Thomas Johann Lorenz, Founder & CEO, Journee - The Metaverse CompanyÔ, said, "We were excited to partner with McCann Worldgroup and Meta and bring ideas to life in this immersive metaverse. It can be accessed in the highest possible quality to everyone through the Journee metaverse technology. Cannes Lions is a celebration of creativity and, thanks to the metaverse, more people can be part of this celebration, explore and connect."
"We're incredibly excited by the opportunities that the metaverse will ultimately unlock for people, businesses, and communities," said Amy Peloquin, Meta's Director of Global Agency Team. "Cannes has long been recognized as the most prestigious industry awards event in the world, and this new experience by McCann provides an innovative glimpse into what the metaverse will bring to creativity."
The MWverse can be accessed here.
About McCann Worldgroup
McCann Worldgroup, part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), is the irrefutable leader in the business of a creativity. The company is united across 100+ countries by a single mission: To help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives. McCann Worldgroup was named the world's most creatively-effective marketing services company by The Effie Awards for three consecutive years. The network comprises McCann (advertising), MRM (science/technology/relationship marketing), Momentum Worldwide (total brand experience), McCann Health (professional/dtc communications), CRAFT (production), Weber Shandwick (public relations) and FutureBrand (consulting/design).
About Journee
JOURNEE - The Metaverse Company™ is a premium platform that enables brands and creators to build hyper-realistic metaverses directly accessible to the world. Using the JOURNEE leading technology that allows for a seamless experience on any browser and device, a team of 50 experts design and build stunning, customised virtual experiences tailored to fulfil client goals. JOURNEE has delivered resoundingly successful campaigns, events, and platforms for numerous enterprise-level companies and leading brands across industries around the world. https://journee.live
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D.A. Points rebounds from poor front in second round of the John Deere Classic
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D.A. Points sticks tee shot to set up birdie at John Deere
In the second round of the 2022 John Deere Classic, D.A. Points makes birdie on the par-3 16th hole.
In his second round at the John Deere Classic, D.A. Points hit 7 of 14 fairways and 8 of 18 greens in regulation, and had a great back half recovery from a poor front nine. Points finished his day tied for 114th at 2 over; J.T. Poston is in 1st at 15 under; Denny McCarthy is in 2nd at 11 under; and Chris Naegel, Emiliano Grillo, Christopher Gotterup, and Matthias Schwab are tied for 3rd at 10 under.
At the 416-yard par-4 first, D.A. Points got on in 2 and missed his par putt from 6 feet, finishing with a 3-putt bogey. This moved D.A. Points to 1 over for the round.
On the 186-yard par-3 third, Points's tee shot went 140 yards to the right rough and his chip went 9 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to 1 over for the round.
Points got a bogey on the 454-yard par-4 fourth, getting on the green in 4 and one putting, moving Points to 2 over for the round.
After a drive to the right rough on the 433-yard par-4 fifth hole, Points chipped in his third, carding a birdie for the hole. This moved Points to 1 over for the round.
On the 226-yard par-3 seventh, Points's tee shot went 219 yards to the left rough and his chip went 14 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to 2 over for the round.
On the 432-yard par-4 11th, Points had a bogey after hitting the green in 4 and one putting, moving Points to 3 over for the round.
At the 215-yard par-3 12th, Points hit a tee shot 224 yards at the green, setting himself up for the 6-foot putt for birdie. This moved Points to 2 over for the round.
On the 361-yard par-4 14th hole, Points reached the green in 2 and sunk a 13-foot putt for birdie. This moved Points to 1 over for the round.
After a drive to the right side of the fairway on the 484-yard par-4 15th hole, Points chipped in his third, carding a birdie for the hole. This moved Points to even-par for the round.
On the par-4 18th, Points's 149 yard approach to 6 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Points to 2 under for the round.
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CAIRO (AP) — Three British nationals who went missing after a scuba diving boat they were cruising in caught fire in the Red Sea off the Egyptian coast have died, a U.K.-based tour operator said Monday,
Egyptian authorities said the three went missing when a medium-sized scuba vessel named “Hurricane” went up in flames off the southern Red Sea resort town of Marsa Alam on Sunday. The blaze was caused by an electrical short circuit in the boat’s engine room, they said.
We “must accept that three of our much-valued dive guests, who had not participated in the dive briefing early on the morning of June 11, perished in the tragic incident,” the U.K.-based Scuba Travel said in a short statement.
The company did not say how it determined the three are dead and Egyptian authorities have said only that they are missing. Scuba Travel has not identified the three.
Twelve other British divers and 14 Egyptian crew members were evacuated Sunday morning from the vessel in a rescue operation near the Elphinstone Reef, Scuba Travel said in a short statement. All 15 tourists were qualified divers on a weeklong cruise, it said.
“At the time the fire broke out 12 divers were participating in a briefing on board, while those missing had apparently decided not to dive that morning,” the statement said.
Scuba Travel spokesperson Pat Adamson told The Associated Press that the tour operator was unable to provide any details about where the three guests were when the fire broke out at 8:30 a.m. local time Sunday or the location of the bodies. However, he said it was normal for guests to opt out of early morning dives during week-long trips.
Adamson said the tour company has not received any confirmation from Egyptian authorities that an investigation team has boarded the boat. The company is waiting for a full investigation.
Egypt’s Red Sea coastline has some of the country’s most renowned beach destinations and are popular with European holiday goers. It has cemented its reputation as a dive destination with easy access to coral reefs from shores and dive sites offering diverse marine life.
In recent years, Egypt has gone to great lengths to bolster its tourism industry, hurt by years of political instability, COVID-19 and the negative economic effect of the war in Ukraine. | 2023-06-13T12:16:49+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/three-british-tourists-perish-after-boat-catches-fire-off-egypts-red-sea-coast-tour-company-says/ |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans temporarily put on hold Monday a federal judge’s ruling striking down a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires most insurers to cover preventative care including vaccines and screenings for cancer, diabetes and HIV.
Without comment, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an “administrative stay” of the March 30 ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of Texas.
The Biden administration had asked for a stay as it appealed the March 30 decision. Administration lawyers said in court filings that O’Connor’s decision would affect preventive care for 150 million people.
O’Connor, a nominee of former President George W. Bush, is the same judge who ruled more than four years ago that the entire health care law, a signature achievement of former President Barack Obama, was unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned that ruling.
In his March ruling, O’Conner blocked only the requirement that most insurers cover a range of preventive care. The ruling was a win for plaintiffs who include a conservative activist in Texas and a Christian dentist who opposed mandatory coverage for both contraception and an HIV prevention treatment on religious grounds.
The appeal is in the early stages and the appeals court has not yet set a date for arguments.
The requirements for coverage are driven by recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which is made up of volunteers. O’Connor ruled that enforcing the recommendations violated constitutional language on how government officials can be appointed. | 2023-05-16T15:47:18+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/appeals-court-puts-brakes-on-order-that-could-end-us-health-laws-preventative-care-mandate/ |
Long Beach, Calif., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pools of Hope will relaunch its in-person Respiratory Health Improvement Program (RHIP) in North Long Beach on June 27th, from 11am to 1pm, Pacific Time (U.S. and Canada).
This free event will include asthma screenings, respiratory education, food, recreational swimming, and giveaways for children in the community. Made possible in part by the Port of Long Beach Community Grants Program, RHIP is an excellent opportunity for children in the local Long Beach community to receive vital respiratory assessments and care.
In 2019, the American Fitness Index ranked Long Beach with the worst air quality in the nation among the 100 largest cities. According to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the North Long Beach community surrounding Pools of Hope has the highest level of burden and vulnerability to multiple sources of pollution (above 90%), with rates of asthma measuring between 87-92% higher than the rest of the state's census tracts. The Pools of Hope RHIP proactively addresses the repercussions of poor air quality in the community while equipping parents and guardians with the tools they need to mediate long-term respiratory health implications.
"We are so excited to partner with the Port of Long Beach to provide our Respiratory Health Improvement Program for children," said Pools of Hope Executive Director Patricia Dixon. "By providing asthma screening and education, we will help to improve the lives of youth in our community for years to come."
The event is free to the public, who can RSVP for the event here.
Each year, Pools of Hope provides therapeutic aquatic and wellness programs to over 1500 children with developmental disabilities, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. Our warm-water pools are credited with helping people to improve their physical and mental well-being.
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Certified B Corp Best for the World™ company offers 10% off sitewide, plus additional discounts, and will donate 1% of all revenue to Protect Our Winters.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avocado Green Mattress is going all in this holiday. The makers of certified organic and eco-luxury products launched an epic Black Friday Sale with 10 percent off sitewide, with an additional 5% to 10% off eligible products. That means huge savings on certified organic mattresses, sheets, and pillows, sustainable wood bed frames, adjustable bases, luxurious robes and pajamas, and clean skin + body products.
This holiday, customers can give gifts with purpose. As part of Avocado's partnership with 1% For the Planet, they'll donate 1% of revenues during the Holiday Sale and beyond to Protect Our Winters, a nonprofit dedicated to safeguarding the outdoors from climate change.
And the savings are unprecedented. Customers can save up to $880 on Avocado's top-rated certified organic mattresses. Using code SAVE10 at AvocadoMattress.com, shoppers will get 10% off the Organic Green Mattress, Organic Luxury Mattress, crib mattresses, and the radically affordable Eco Organic Mattress. And with limited time Black Friday savings, customers will get an additional 5% off Green and Vegan mattresses.
Shoppers will save 10% on bedding, pillows, blankets, bases, and everything else on the site. For Black Friday only, customers will save an additional 10% on certified organic cotton, hemp, and linen sheets, certified organic pillows, certified organic bath towels, alpaca blankets, sustainable robes and PJs, adjustable bases, clean skin + body products, and more.
Every order also comes with free carbon negative shipping. As a Climate Neutral certified brand — and one of B Corp's Best for the World™ brands — Avocado reduces its footprint, offsets all of its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and advocates for legislation that will help mitigate the climate crisis.
From the beginning, Avocado just wanted a new kind of mattress. One that was greener — better for people and the planet — affordable, and comfortable. It was a simple idea rooted in a much bigger vision. Five years later, Avocado continues to expand — from bedding, to furniture, to their skin + bath collection, and their line of responsible loungewear. As the company grows, Avocado continues to redefine what it means to be a sustainable, ethical brand. The company is a Certified B Corporation, a Climate Neutral® Certified business, and a member of 1% For the Planet, remaining true to its original purpose: to be one of the most sustainable companies on Earth. Learn more at AvocadoGreen.com.
If you would like more information, please contact Jessica Hann at jessica@avocadomattress.com.
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MADRID (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro began a state visit to Spain on Wednesday to seek support for his peace plan for the South American country while urging for greater action against climate change from Europe.
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia greeted Petro and his wife in Madrid, where they will later attend a state dinner hosted by the Spanish royals.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist leader, is a backer of Petro, an ex-rebel who became Colombia’s first leftist president last year.
One of the main topics on his agenda is his peace process with the National Liberation Army (ELN), a communist-inspired guerrilla organization still active after the dissolution of FARC, a group which spent decades pursuing rebellion.
Colombia’s government and the ELN started talks in November, shortly after Petro was elected president. Petro has called the talks a cornerstone of his effort to resolve a conflict that dates back to the 1960s.
Last week, ELN militants killed nine Colombian soldiers in an attack, complicating efforts by Petro to negotiate a lasting peace.
The Colombian leader seeks Spain’s full support for his plan, which he will likely explicitly obtain from Sánchez, according to reports from high-ranked officials in the European country.
Starting in July, Spain is set to hold the European Union’s rotating presidency, a six-month period in which Madrid aims to revitalize Europe’s relations with Latin America. That includes plans by Spain to hold a summit between Latin America and the EU in the early days of its presidency.
Petro, 63, started his speech before the joint session of parliament by recalling the importance of his early reading of Don Quijote and the role of Spain in Colombia’s cultural imagination, but he quickly moved on to warning of what he called the existential threat to humanity posed by global climate change.
The environmental message was timely for Spain’s lawmakers, who are managing a prolonged drought after a record-hot 2022.
“We are on the brink of extinction or change,” Petro said. “There is no time to waste. This is no longer just a political debate — it’s an order given to us by science. You can believe or not believe as if this were a religious question, but this is still science.”
Lawmakers from Spain’s far-right Vox party left the chamber before his speech in protest against the leftist leader. Vox supporters held a small protest outside the parliament.
The visit to Europe comes two weeks after Petro traveled to Washington to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden amid deep differences on drug policy and Venezuela. But they did find some common ground on their concern for the adverse effects of climate change.
Spain recently announced a collaboration with the United States and Canada on establishing migrant centers in Latin America to facilitate orderly and safe migration.
“It is a step forward for Spain, which is taking the initiative regarding a certain lack of action by Europe in this matter,” Anna Ayuso, senior researcher for Latin America at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), told The Associated Press.
Spain is the leading European recipient of Latin American migration — some 500,000 Colombians live in Spain — and in recent months it has sponsored specific initiatives to accept migrants from American countries in humanitarian situations. One of these initiatives was offering nationality to 100 Nicaraguan opponents exiled by Daniel Ortega in February 2023.
“There is a shift of strategy from emphasizing containment, as promoted by (former U.S. President Trump), to facilitating orderly migration and preventing irregular migration, which, in the end, encourages international crime,” Ayuso said.
Petro’s is the only state visit that Spain is set to host this year. Felipe and Letizia welcomed Petro and his wife, Verónica Alcocer, whose car arrived at the Royal Palace accompanied by soldiers on horseback. A military band played and cannons were fired in their honor.
The Colombian leader will sit down with Sánchez on Thursday, when he will attend a meeting with the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations.
The confederation is the country’s leading business group, representing 2 million companies and self-employed entrepreneurs. Petro is expected to push his economic agenda, particularly in green energy and digitization.
“Petro wants to present Colombia before Europe not only as a country committed to peace but also a stable one that deserves the trust of investors,” Ayuso said.
On Friday, Petro will visit Salamanca University, where he studied.
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Joseph Wilson contributed to this report from Barcelona. | 2023-05-04T02:30:12+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/colombias-petro-urges-spain-to-lead-eu-on-climate-change/ |
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford hired Sacramento State coach Troy Taylor on Saturday to replace David Shaw and lead a Pac-12 program that has fallen off dramatically recently, with three losing seasons in the last four years.
Taylor, 54, has spent the last four seasons as head coach at Sacramento State, leading the Hornets to the FCS playoffs three times. Sacramento State did not field a team during 2020 because of the pandemic.
Sacramento State went 30-8 with a 23-1 record in a tough Big Sky Conference under Taylor. The Hornets lost a wild quarterfinal playoff game Friday night, 66-63 against Incarnate Word.
“The opportunity to lead the finest student-athletes in the country is truly a dream come true, and I would like to thank President (Marc) Tessier-Lavigne, Provost (Persis) Drell and (athletic director) Bernard Muir,” Taylor said in a statement. “I believe that Stanford football is perfectly positioned to become champions on the football field while maintaining our world-class reputation for academic excellence.”
Shaw stepped down last month after 12 seasons following the final game of a 3-9 season. The winningest coach in school history was struggling to change the trajectory of a program that was the predominant team in the Pac-12 during the first half of his tenure.
Stanford’s downfall coincides the loosening of transfer rules across major college football. The elite academic school is not able to add to its roster through transfers as easily as most of its competition in the Pac-12 and nationally.
Taylor, a native Californian, played quarterback for Stanford’s rival, Cal, and had a short NFL career in the early 1990s before getting into coaching at the high school and college levels.
“Troy is a proven winner who has experienced success at many levels of football,” Muir said in a statement. “Throughout our visits together he demonstrated an understanding of what makes Stanford special, and a deep desire to capitalize on our unique strengths. He possesses an incredible football mind and has a long history of caring deeply for the student-athletes he leads.”
Taylor was offensive coordinator at Utah in 2017-18 before landing his first head coaching job at Sacramento State in 2019.
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Ohio State gets approval to trademark ‘The’ for merchandise
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State University has won its fight to trademark the word “The.”
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the university’s request Tuesday. The school says it allows Ohio State to control the use of “The” on branded products associated with and sold through athletics and collegiate channels, such as T-shirts, baseball caps and hats.
“THE has been a rallying cry in the Ohio State community for many years, and Buckeye fans who purchase official Ohio State gear support student scholarships, libraries and other university initiatives,” said Ben Johnson, the university’s senior director of media and public relations.
Johnson noted the university’s licensing and trademark program generates over $12.5 million a year in revenue, which helps fund student scholarships and university programs.
Ohio State started pursuing a trademark in August 2019 after fashion retailer Marc Jacobs had filed an application for the word a few months earlier. The company and the university reached a deal in August 2021 that allows both parties to use the branding.
The patent office rejected Ohio State’s initial application, finding the trademark appeared to be used for “merely decorative manner” and as an “ornamental feature” that didn’t appear to function as a trademark that would differentiate the items from others.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-23T02:39:52+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/06/23/ohio-state-gets-approval-trademark-merchandise/ |
Mindfulness is mainstream. There are mindfulness retreats that will set you back thousands of dollars. Entire sections of libraries and bookstores are devoted to the subject.
My kids learn mindfulness and meditation techniques in their public elementary school. Before my weekly yoga class starts, the teacher says a bunch of stuff about mindfulness, and setting intentions for our downward dogs and plank poses.
On the whole, I think mindfulness showing up in our culture in new ways is a good thing.
However, I do think there's something off-putting about the "mindfulness industrial complex" - the expensive getaways and self-proclaimed gurus, who make promises about personal transformation they can't necessarily keep.
And I've been looking for something different. I wanted to understand the theology that birthed the modern mindfulness movement. I wanted to understand how, by training your mind, you could actually create some kind of divine connection to yourself, to other people in your life, or even to a higher power.
In all this spiritual seeking I'm doing these days, it was time to go deep on Buddhism.
My mom was a lifelong Presbyterian who served as a church deacon, and hung artisan-made crosses around her house. But I also have clear memories of her sitting on her black meditation pillow in front of the window in her bedroom, eyes shut, breathing deep and audibly.
She had books by the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh on her bedside table. Like a lot of Americans, she didn't see Buddhism and Christianity as contrary to one another — they could be complements.
I wanted to understand what that could look like. My mom died 14 years ago and I can't ask her, so I have to figure it out for myself. That means doing my own research and having my own experience with Buddhism. And what better way to do that than spending time at an actual monastery?
Now, I do not want to suggest that showing up at a Buddhist monastery for three days taught me everything I need to know about Buddhism or mindfulness. Obviously not.
But it did help me understand why more and more Americans are converting to Buddhism, or even, if they don't go all in that way, they are finding elements of that tradition that they can incorporate into their own spiritual life and identity.
So where do you go to learn about the ancient wisdom and revelation of the Buddha? New Jersey of course. And a monastery called Empty Cloud, which seemed perfectly on brand.
Yes, I, too, want to be like an empty cloud! So my producer Lee Hale and I drove five or so hours from Washington, D.C. to West Orange, N.J.
Two Buddhist monks run Empty Cloud. Their names are Ayyā Somā and Bhante Suddhāso. Ayyā Somā is Italian, and before she shaved her head and put on the robes, she was a fashion journalist.
Bhante is a soft-spoken guy from Colorado with small, round glasses. He grew up in a conservative evangelical family and found Buddhism after college.
They welcome us with tea and give us the basic instructions for staying there: No makeup or any other physical adornments. No fancy clothes. Monks always eat before the lay people like us who stay there, and, even when it's not an official silent meditation time, everyone needs to walk around sort of quietly and keep conversation at a moderate volume.
I spent most of my time with the Empty Cloud monks inside the monastery for meals, meditation, and dharma talks — which are like sermons or spiritual lessons.
But we did take one field trip — just a few miles away — to the campus of Rutgers University, where five of the monks walked into a frat house. Yes, it sounds like the beginning of a problematic joke. Even the monks recognized how surreal the scene was.
They went to campus to do something called "almsgiving." Meaning they hold a bowl and wait for people walking by to offer them some food, since monks of this Buddhist tradition can't make or buy themselves meals.
They've all got shaved heads and they're wearing traditional orange robes with sandals. Tevas seem to be the preferred brand in this group.
They situated themselves in a line in front of a shopping mall full of retail shops and casual dining options. They definitely stood out, and at one point the mall manager came out to see if they were staging some kind of protest.
She let them be, but the monks weren't having a lot of luck. People walked by and smiled, but they didn't really get what was happening.
So a young woman who's staying at the monastery called up a friend of hers who is a student at Rutgers. He rallied his frat brothers, and they showed up a couple minutes later to escort the monks a couple blocks away to their frat house, for takeout tacos.
A handful of college guys, mostly wearing pajama pants and hoodies, show the monks into the main living room — and yes, it is a SCENE. Red solo cups lying in one corner. A box of Franzia wine and random hot sauce on one table. A bong on another. The whole place smells like weed. Ayyā Somā makes small talk with the young men, and asks what a fraternity is really about. Just to be clear — she doesn't understand what a fraternity is because she's Italian, not because she's a monk.
One of the guys responds. His name is Michael Porucznik. "It's like a social group, mostly, I would say."
To be honest, all this feels sort of awkward. I'm a little worried these guys might be messing with the monks. But, they're respectful and they're asking legitimate, thoughtful questions. The mom in me is sort of proud of them – even though it's clear that some of them are ditching class.
Ayyā Somā asks the students what inspired them to make offerings.
Michael sits up on a worn-out red couch and sort of stutters into his answer. "I very much admire people who discipline themselves to like a specific aspect of life. And I feel like it's also good karma." Everyone laughs. "We also think it's good karma," Ayyā Somā replies.
Chatting with a bunch of monks for a half an hour isn't likely to turn these guys into Buddhists. But who knows what seeds the conversation has planted in their 20-year-old brains?
And that's sort of the deal with Buddhism. There's no proselytizing. In the car on the way back to the monastery, Bhante Suddhāso tells me it's just the opposite. "Buddhists play hard to get," he says.
Which is maybe why it's appealing to a lot of people: Buddhist monks might end up at your frat house for tacos, but they're not going to knock on the door to try and convert you.
In fact, most of the time, they're at their monastery doing their own individual spiritual work.
Just before the pandemic, they moved their home base from Queens to this center in West Orange.
They got a great deal on the place from the Augustinian monks who had lived there before. The Catholics were downsizing and moving west, and Ayyā Somā and Bhante Suddhāso, the co-founders of Empty Cloud Monastery, needed more space.
"They were just really overjoyed that another group of monks wanted to take over the monastery," Bhante Suddhāso told me.
The building itself has a medieval castle vibe. There's a stained glass window in the meditation room with an image of Noah's Ark on it, and there's a cross on the roof.
For now, the monks jokingly say the cross stands for the four noble truths — which Ayyā Somā says can be distilled to this from the Buddha's teachings:
"All he ever taught was suffering, the cause of suffering, the end of suffering, and the way out of suffering. So that's all we are practicing is that, um, for the cessation of suffering."
Which sounds great, right? No one wants to suffer. I don't want to suffer. But I needed to understand why pulling away from modern life, the way monks do, alleviates suffering.
Because it's no joke what they have to give up. They pledge to live in celibacy. No meals after midday. No intoxicants of any kind. No pop culture. No money.
"The word renunciation for some people has a negative connotation," Bhante says. "But for us, renunciation means recognizing that we don't need something in order to be happy."
For example, he explains, "When I was a lay person, which was a very long time ago now — 15 plus years ago – I needed to always have music playing."
If it wasn't music in the car, he was listening to headphones. "Like, it was just constant. And so, then getting into this life, it's like, well, one of our rules is that we don't listen to music. So, clearly, I thought I needed that, but I don't need it."
"Do you miss music, though?" I ask. "No," he replies with a laugh.
Ayyā Somā chimes in: "Essentially, from the fear of missing out from FOMO, we go to JOMO, the joy of missing out."
They point out that this level of renunciation only represents about 1 percent of Buddhists worldwide.
I still don't understand exactly what these two get out of this really restrictive life. What is Buddhism freeing them from personally?
And I really want to know what they make of the fact that when I Googled "Buddhist retreat," a whole slew of places popped up where I could probably also get a hot stone massage and a facial peel.
As I was about to ask this question, we hear a bell ring and Bhante Suddhāso tells me we can take up the matter in the dharma hall.
Turns out, monks are highly scheduled people. It's time to move to a different room, where we join the other residents — the lay people who stay at the monastery for days or weeks at a time. We're all situated on individual meditation pillows, with the monks facing the rest of us at the front of the room. Everyone sips tea and eats small pieces of cheese and dark chocolate ... the only approved evening snacks.
There's a big golden statue of the Buddha on the mantle above the fireplace. Bhante Suddhāso pets Teddy, the black monastery cat, and I get another swing at my question.
I ask him what he makes of how mindfulness has made its way into the mainstream of American culture. Like, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
"I think it's mixed," he tells me.
"The Buddha does identify mindfulness as being a wholesome characteristic of mind, so wholesome in the sense that it's, it's beneficial that it brings happiness, it leads towards awakening," he explains. "But it's still only one factor of the eightfold path. So, if one is only practicing mindfulness, then at best you're practicing, uh, 12.5% of Buddhism. Which is not a complete path to awakening. So it's kind of like if you're making a cake and a cake calls for eight ingredients, and you're like, well, I'm just going to leave out seven of those ingredients. Well, that's not a cake, that's a bowl of raw eggs."
Here at the monastery they're interested in the whole cake. Which involves rising before sunrise, chores in the house and the yard, and finishing your meals before noon. Being on this path also means letting go of the big things you can't change, and focusing on what's happening in your own consciousness.
I've dabbled in meditation over the years. I started as a way to deal with my own grief after my mom died from kidney cancer.
But the longest I'd ever sat and tried to meditate was, maybe, 15 minutes. So, when it was time to go down to the meditation hall for an hour of silent sitting, I was a bit freaked out.
I situated myself on my meditation pillow, my eyes closed, and took in some deep breaths, like everyone else was doing.
This wasn't a guided meditation for beginners. There were a few monks in the room with about six other residents, and it was clear they knew what they were doing.
Me, not so much. Bhante Suddhāso had told me to come up with a mantra and just say that over and over. He suggested the words "loving kindness," so I went with that.
Breathe in, breathe out. Loving kindness. "Yes," I thought, "I am killing this meditation."
Then it started to unravel: "Are they seriously not going to feed us dinner? Did my kids get a ride to baseball tonight? How am I going to sleep here? Wait, no ... Loving kindness. Loving kindness. Kindness. Do the monks get to pick out their own robes? Does Ayyā Somā miss make-up? It's really hard to do a smokey eye."
Needless to say, I didn't reach any higher level of consciousness. But there were people who seemed to have.
When I snuck a peek during the meditation, I caught a glimpse of this young woman named Katie McKenna. She's not a monk, but she was sitting perfectly still, no fidgeting. And she was always smiling. She had definitely figured something out.
I caught up with her later and we chatted for a bit. She said she's been a Buddhist for about 10 years. She was laid off from her tech job earlier this year, and after that happened, she hightailed it to her happy place - the monastery.
She tries to visit monasteries whenever she can. She used to suffer from a lot of anxiety, but she says Buddhism has changed that: "I hardly ever have anxiety anymore. I just feel a lot of joy."
"I grew up in Indiana," she continued. "So, there's a lot of Christianity around around me. And I feel like people would just proselytize and tell me, like, this is the way. So I feel like I've just had this innate trust with Buddhism because there was this teaching – to come and see for yourself."
I asked if there was any part of her that wanted to go all in and become a monk?
"Yeah. That does come up for me from time to time. It's come up for my boyfriend, too, actually. We broke up for a little bit in September, briefly, 'cuz we were both struggling with, like fully giving ourselves to the relationship because we both had this inclination in our mind towards monasticism."
They stopped watching TV and movies. No music. No dinner. They meditate for long periods of time every day.
"The cool thing about this path," she says, "is, it just starts happening to you."
It definitely wasn't just happening to me. I mean, I'd only been at this for a few days, but I was more interested in a form of Buddhism that let me live in my actual life. I needed to talk to someone who wasn't about to shave her head and move into the monastery.
I found Sudha Ram.
Sudha wasn't staying at the monastery like the others, but she lives in the neighborhood and comes over a lot.
Within a few minutes of talking with her, it becomes clear that she has endured a lot of disappointments in life. And right now, she is working through problems in her marriage. She tells me that Buddhism has taught her things that her Hindu faith never did.
"If you don't love yourself and put yourself in front of others, who're not gonna give you love, you're not gonna be successful. So I give loving kindness to myself. I give loving kindness to the other people who need to be given loving kindness. That helps a lot because the anger, the rejection, and, you know, the ill feeling, come often."
I think she's about to share more about her relationship with her husband, or her kids, or something about work. But she starts telling me about her dog. A golden retriever named Simba who died not long ago. The dog came to her in her dreams.
"He came to me and he said, 'mom, what did you learn from me?' I had to think, what did I learn from him? I know he was very loving. He was a golden retriever. He loves people, he loves pets, he loves everybody."
"So I said, 'yeah, you are very loving.' And he said, 'Mom, you are very loving, too. But you still have judgment. You still judge. I'm not. I love everybody. So that's the difference.' "
I know how bizarre this sounds. I'm sitting in the basement of this Buddhist monastery, talking with this woman I barely know, about her dead dog who talks to her in her dreams. And tears are welling up in her eyes and then in mine.
And I get that her grief and loneliness are bigger than this story. And we hold hands briefly across a table. And I share my own losses with her. And none of it is healed, but there is a comfort in that shared intimacy between strangers.
Letting go may be the Buddhist precept for ending suffering. But I think, just as important as the letting go is the letting in. Letting monks into the frat house. Letting a journalist into your monastery. Letting a stranger into your grief.
Yes, the ultimate enlightenment happens internally — when you free your mind from attachment and longing. But awakening also happens when you are willing to step into the breach with someone else. To be present in their pain and have them witness yours.
Pali is the ancient language of Buddhism, and Ayyā Somā told me that her favorite Pali word is "kampa".
"Which literally means 'trembling together.' Sometimes we focus a lot on our trembling, or the trembling of the other person. But we don't realize that it's actually the same trembling, and we're all trembling together."
Buddhism may teach that the individual has the power to ease their own suffering, but true contentment requires us all to care about each other. It's not just about being alone in our mind on the mat. Buddhist monks still have to engage with the rest of the world. And the world has to engage back. We share our stories with strangers and absorb one another's grief.
We tremble, together.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-9-8
(zero, nine, eight)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-9-8
(zero, nine, eight) | 2022-06-23T18:31:59+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17261185.php |
BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — Day two of the Nickel City Comic Con brought out all kinds of characters to the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center Saturday.
From Mario Brothers to Ninja Turtles, fans came dressed to impress, celebrating all things pop culture.
Saturday's events included an incredible Hulk Q & A with Lou Ferrigno.
Also beers with George Wendt who played the role of Norm on Cheers. | 2023-07-02T02:50:45+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/nickel-city-comic-con-draws-out-some-colorful-characters |
MENOMONIE, Wis. (WFRV) – Early Friday morning, a driver in western Wisconsin was arrested on OWI and fleeing charges after allegedly hitting a squad car, leading to an officer having to be treated at a hospital.
According to the Menomonie Police Department, the incident began when an officer attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle around 1:25 a.m. on June 23.
Officers say the vehicle eventually stopped but then fled the scene, several blocks later the suspect vehicle allegedly hit a Menomonie PD squad car that was responding to the scene.
The driver then attempted to flee on foot but was apprehended by officers.
Both the suspect and the officer whose squad car got hit were sent to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries. Both were later released.
The suspect was transported to the Dunn County Jail for suspected OWI 1st – Causing Injury, and Felony Fleeing.
No additional details were provided. | 2023-06-25T19:35:32+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/wisconsin-driver-hits-squad-car-attempting-to-flee-officers-arrested-for-owi/ |
Windon, Joseph Paul "JP"
Joseph Paul "J.P" Windon, 38, of Springfield passed away on April 5, 2023. J.P was born on December 12, 1984, to his parents Paul and Robin R. (Poole) Windon in Springfield, Ohio, and he graduated from Springfield North in 2003. J.P was a beloved friend and baseball coach who, despite anything, made sure he went out of his way to love others and serve them well. J.P coached the Northridge Baseball League for many years, along with coaching other various teams throughout his life. J.P was also a devoted and kind person off the baseball field. He never knew a stranger, and he would always look for ways to help others. Some even say that "it must be nice to have a J.P in your pocket". When he wasn't coaching or spending time with his family, you could find him cheering on his favorite football team, the Bengals, or staying busy with house and car projects. J.P was loved by all who were lucky enough to know him, and he will be greatly missed by all the people he impacted. J.P is survived by his wife Amanda Puckett, father Paul (Jo) Windon, mother-in-law Bonnie Puckett, siblings Tami Pelfrey, Amber (Brandon) Strayer, and his nieces and nephews Bradley, Ally, C.J, Robin, Jake, Storm, Eddie, Freddy, Alayna, Lori, Jesslyn, and Kaylee. J.P was preceded in death by his mother Robin Windon, brother Bradley Windon, and niece Cassie. Visitation for J.P will be held on Wednesday April 12, 2023, from 5-8pm in the LITTLETON & RUE FUNERAL HOME. A celebration of life will take place the following day on April 13, 2023, at 5pm at the Moorefield Family Park Shelter House 1616 Moorefield Rd. Springfield, Ohio 45503 where people may gather and say a few words about the way J.P touched their lives. A meal will follow at the shelter house as well. J.P never enjoyed dressing up, so in honor of him, the family has asked that you wear your favorite baseball jersey or NFL gear to honor the life of J.P. Memorial contributions may be made to the Northridge Baseball League. To view his memorial video or leave online expressions of sympathy, please visit www.littletonandrue.com
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KRGV pays tribute to former sports director Dave Brown
A sports icon in the Rio Grande Valley passed away Monday, leaving behind a lasting legacy.
Former KRGV Sports Director Dave Brown was remembered by several employees here as a good colleague, and an even better friend.
Watch the video above as current and former employees share their favorite memories with Dave Brown. | 2023-06-07T06:50:25+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/krgv-pays-tribute-to-former-sports-director-dave-brown |
Former President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, former Trump administration Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, for “unnecessary turmoil” within the GOP in the wake of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (Calif.) failure to win the lower chamber’s Speakership.
“There is so much unnecessary turmoil in the Republican Party,” Trump said, adding that the disorder is due in large part to McConnell, Chao and their “RINO” allies, using an acronym for “Republicans in name only.”
The statement is the latest example of Trump attacking not only McConnell but also his wife, who last month denounced the former president’s frequent use of a racist nickname for her. Trump repeated the nickname in his latest statement.
The former president’s comments came just after the House on Tuesday sat through three votes for Speaker, only to adjourn without a winner.
Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) came out ahead of McCarthy in all three rounds of voting, but neither candidate secured the necessary 218 votes to take the top leadership spot — despite Republicans holding 222 seats after this year’s midterms.
Nineteen Republicans voted against McCarthy in the first two votes, and the number of dissenters rose to 20 in the third round.
Trump had initially tried to help McCarthy get the votes he needed, but declined on Tuesday to say whether he’d continue supporting the lawmaker after he lost the three consecutive rounds of voting.
The House will head into a fourth vote when it reconvenes on Wednesday at noon, and the process will continue until a nominee gets a majority of lawmakers’ ballots.
Trump has long expressed his contempt for McConnell and for his former Transportation secretary. McConnell’s pullback from the former president has continued to rile Trump — and Chao resigned after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. | 2023-01-04T03:02:23+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/hill-politics/trump-attacks-mcconnell-wife-over-gop-turmoil-after-mccarthy-fails-to-win-speakership/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. inflation report for December being released Thursday morning could provide another welcome sign that the worst bout of spiking prices in four decades is slowly weakening.
Or it could suggest that inflation remains persistent enough to require tougher action by the Federal Reserve.
Most economists foresee the more optimistic scenario: They think December marked another month in which inflation, though still uncomfortably high, continued to cool. According to a survey by the data provider FactSet, analysts have predicted that consumer prices rose 6.5% in December compared with a year earlier. That would be down from 7.1% in November and well below a 40-year high of 9.1% in June.
On a month-to-month basis, the economists think prices were flat in December. Even more significant, a closely watched gauge of “core” prices — which excludes volatile energy and food costs — is expected to have risen just 0.3% from November to December and 5.7% from a year earlier. The Fed closely tracks core prices, which it sees as a more accurate indicator of future inflation, in setting its interest rate policies.
Another modest rise in core prices would increase the likelihood that the Fed would raise its benchmark rate by just a quarter-point, rather than a half-point, when its next meeting ends Feb. 1.
For now, inflation is falling, with the national average price of a gallon of gas declining from a $5 a gallon peak in June to $3.27 a gallon as of Wednesday, according to AAA.
Supply chain snarls that previously inflated the cost of goods have largely unraveled. Consumers have also shifted much of their spending away from physical goods and instead toward services, such as travel and entertainment. As a result, the cost of goods, including used cars, furniture and clothing, has dropped for two straight months.
Economists will pay particular attention Thursday to the prices of services, which are seen as a stickier component of inflation. They reflect rising wages among labor-intensive businesses such as restaurants, hotels and health care companies.
If the data show only a small increase in services costs, that would likely strengthen hopes that the economy can avoid recession and instead experience a “soft landing." Such a scenario would mean slow growth and likely a small rise in unemployment but much less economic pain than a full-fledged recession.
Indeed, last week's jobs report bolstered the possibility that recession could be avoided. Even after the Fed's seven rate hikes last year and with inflation still high, employers added a solid 223,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching the lowest level in 53 years.
At the same time, average hourly pay growth slowed, which should lessen pressure on companies to raise prices to cover their higher labor costs.
“The soft landing narrative has gained some credibility this year, and that has also led to a stock market rally," said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors.
Another positive sign for the Fed's efforts to quell inflation is that Americans overall expect price increases to decline over the next few years. That is important because so-called “inflation expectations” can be self-fulfilling: If people expect prices to keep rising sharply, they will typically take steps, like demanding higher pay, that can perpetuate high inflation.
On Monday, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said that consumers now anticipate inflation of 5% over the next year. That's the lowest such expectation in nearly 18 months. Over the next five years, consumers expect inflation to average 2.4%, only barely above the Fed's 2% target.
Still, in their remarks in recent weeks, Fed officials have underscored their intent to raise their benchmark short-term rate by an additional three-quarters of a point in the coming months to just above 5%. Such increases would come on top of seven hikes last year, which caused mortgage rates to nearly double and made auto loans and business borrowing more expensive.
Futures prices show that investors expect the central bank to be less aggressive, and implement just two quarter-point hikes by March, leaving the Fed's rate just below 5%. Investors also project the Fed will cut rates in November and December, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has sought to push back against that expectation of fewer hikes this spring and cuts by the end of the year, which can make the Fed's job harder if investors bid up stock prices and lower bond yields. Both trends can support faster economic growth just when the Fed is trying to cool it down.
The minutes from the Fed's December meeting noted that none of the 19 policymakers foresee rate cuts this year.
Still, last week James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, expressed some optimism that this year, “actual inflation will likely follow inflation expectations to a lower level," suggesting 2023 could be a “year of disinflation.” | 2023-01-12T05:52:28+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Inflation-report-could-show-another-month-of-17712484.php |
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, has appointed Rebecca (Becky) House, Senior Vice President, Chief People and Legal Officer and Secretary of Rockwell Automation, Inc., to its board of directors.
"Becky has an extensive background in talent management, ethics and compliance, public affairs, security and sustainability, and is a proven leader in building and maintaining exceptional company cultures within large, multinational companies," said Matt Murphy, President and CEO of Marvell. "Her insights and counsel will be very valuable as we continue to scale and grow Marvell's business globally."
Ms. House is also on the board of directors for FMI Funds, Inc., MIND Research Institute and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). She is a director and former Board President of Sojourner Family Peace Center, the largest provider of domestic violence services in the state of Wisconsin. Ms. House previously served as Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at Harley-Davidson, Inc. Prior to that, she was a partner at Foley & Lardner, LLP, a prominent law firm headquartered in Milwaukee, where she spent 12 years.
Ms. House earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the Lufthansa Group today celebrated the delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner, a 787-9, to Europe's largest airline group at Paine Field, Everett, Wash.
The Lufthansa Group has 32 firm orders for the 787 and joins nearly 50 customers worldwide in operating the industry's most fuel efficient and capable airplane. Boeing designed the 787 family with superior efficiency, which allows airlines to profitably open new routes and fly people directly where they want to go in exceptional comfort.
Using 25% less fuel and creating 25% fewer emissions than the airplanes they replace, the 787 family has avoided more than 125 billion pounds of carbon emissions since entering service in 2011.
"With the Boeing 787, we are introducing another modern aircraft type that is one of the most fuel-efficient long-haul aircraft in our fleet," said Jens Ritter, CEO Lufthansa Airlines. "This will allow us to significantly further improve the average CO2 balance. This aircraft is sustainable and offers customers a premium flying experience."
Since revenue service began in 2011, the 787 family has launched more than 325 new nonstop routes around the world, including approximately 50 routes opened since 2020. The 787-9 can fly 296 passengers up to 7,565 nautical miles (14,010 km) in a typical two-class configuration.
"Today's delivery to the Lufthansa Group is a significant milestone for both companies as we resume European 787 deliveries and Lufthansa receives its first 787. I am delighted to see Lufthansa join a growing set of airlines worldwide operating the industry's most capable twin-engine airplane," said Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "With unmatched fuel efficiency and huge passenger appeal, the 787 will play an integral role in the Lufthansa Group's long-haul network."
In addition to 32 787 Dreamliners on order, the Lufthansa Group has firm orders for 20 777-9 passenger airplanes and recently placed a firm order for seven of the new 777-8 Freighter.
As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing's diverse team is committed to innovating for the future and living the company's core values of safety, quality and integrity. Learn more at www.boeing.com.
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APOPKA, Fla. – A man was shot in Apopka Thursday afternoon and managed to get to the hospital, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they responded to the 1800 block of Grimke Avenue at 1:53 p.m.
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Shortly afterward, deputies were told a man in his 20s had been shot and taken himself to the hospital, according to a release. Deputies said the man is in stable condition.
Investigators have not released the victim’s name or said what led up to the shooting.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | 2022-12-01T23:10:37+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/12/01/man-shot-in-apopka-takes-himself-to-hospital-deputies-say/ |
An Arizona man at the center of a conspiracy theory about what sparked the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has sued Fox News over what he alleges is the outlet’s broadcasting of falsehoods about him.
Ray Epps, a former U.S. Marine, is suing the network in Delaware Superior Court, alleging the conservative media giant and former host Tucker Carlson knowingly promoted what his complaint calls “destructive conspiracy theories” about his involvement in the riot, specifically that he was a federal agent who spurred on the violence to tarnish those involved.
News of Epps’s lawsuit, which seeks an unspecified amount of money in damages, was first reported Wednesday by The New York Times.
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Epps’s suit outlines how he and his wife came to believe the 2020 election falsehoods being promoted by former President Trump and broadcast on Fox News in the wake of the vote, saying they were “persuaded by the lies broadcast by Fox asserting that the election had been stolen to exercise their perceived responsibilities as patriotic citizens to gather in the nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021 to ‘stop the steal.'”
Epps traveled to Washington days before the Capitol attack and “vocally supported and encouraged peaceful protests” Jan. 6, according to his lawsuit.
The complaint cites a number of segments that aired on Carlson’s now-canceled prime-time Fox program focusing on Epps, some of which suggested he could have been a federal agent.
In a statement to the Times, Epps attorney said, “Ray is taking the next steps to vindicate his rights by seeking accountability for Fox’s lies that have caused him and Robyn so much harm.”
A representative for Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment.
The suit comes just months after the network agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle out of court claims of defamation over further 2020-related falsehoods. Fox took Carlson off the air days later.
Carlson had come under intense criticism for his portrayal about the Capitol riot, which he at one point described as “mostly peaceful chaos.”
Fox earlier this month agreed to pay a reported $12 million to settle a separate lawsuit brought by an ex-producer on Carlson’s show who alleged a toxic workplace and rampant culture of sexism at the network.
Fox also faces an ongoing $2.7 billion legal challenge from Smartmatic, another voting systems company, over similar claims made on its air about that company’s software. | 2023-07-12T21:24:37+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/hill-politics/arizona-man-at-center-of-jan-6-conspiracy-theory-sues-fox-news/ |
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former confidant to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched a rebellion over the weekend and began marching toward Moscow. Within hours, he called it off and agreed to leave Russia. Still, some analysts say the incident will weaken Putin's authority.
NPR's Greg Myre reports Putin has been quiet since Saturday morning, and no one has heard from Prigozhin after he announced he would leave Russia and go to Belarus. On Up First this morning, Myre says the rebellion came at an opportune time for Ukrainians, and President Volodomyr Zelenskyy stated it proved Russia is weak.
The incident has left the fate of the Wagner group unclear. Here's what could happen next.
Activists in Atlanta are gathering for a week of action against a proposed police and fire training facility. Police abolitionists and racial justice advocates oppose the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, derisively called "Cop City." Environmental activists say it will destroy a forest some call one of Atlanta's "four lungs."
Law enforcement began arresting dozens of activists in December and alleged they belonged to a domestic violent extremism group, according to NPR's Odette Yousef. She says these actions have caused confusion because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security doesn't keep a list of domestic violent extremism groups. It's led to disagreements among local officials: Dekalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston recently announced her office wouldn't prosecute 42 defendants.
The Governor's Highway Safety Association estimates that more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed by drivers last year — the highest number in decades. It could take years to implement policies to protect pedestrians. But experts say small changes like implementing sharp corners instead of rounded curves at turns, lowering speed limits and installing speeding and red light cameras could make a big difference now.
The FDA is poised to approve the first drug shown to slow down Alzheimer's disease by July 6. The approval means Medicare will begin to cover lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, making it available for more than a million patients. Still, many hurdles remain.
Even with insurance, the drug's price could be an obstacle, and brain scans and related services related to the treatment may not be covered, reports NPR's Jon Hamilton. On Morning Edition, he says that Medicare will require doctors to join a registry tracking the drug's safety, and the extra paperwork could discourage them from prescribing the drug.
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Nearly a decade of civil war has destroyed millions of Yemeni lives, but perhaps nowhere has it been felt more than in Taiz neighborhoods closest to the fighting. Violence has slowed in the past year, and most streets are now calm as Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia negotiate. But so far, talks have not led to a deal to end the siege. Photos from the area tell the stories of residents desperate for change.
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Salsa music has been at the heart of New York for decades. Now, the city is home to the first museum dedicated to the fast-tempo, horn-heavy and hip-swinging dance.
The Haudenosaunee Nationals are reclaiming their Indigenous identity at the World Lacrosse Championships. Current team members say their former name, the Iroquois Nationals, was derogatory. | 2023-06-26T11:57:44+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2023-06-26/up-first-briefing-russian-rebellion-cop-city-protests-alzheimers-drug-approval |
Southern entrance of Yosemite National Park to reopen as containment of Washburn Fire increases
Posted/updated on: July 22, 2022 at 6:17 am(NEW YORK) -- The southern entrance of Yosemite National Park is scheduled to reopen now that firefighters have made headway with containing the wildfire that was threatening the park's iconic sequoia trees.
The Washburn Fire, a wildfire that has burned through nearly 5,000 acres along the southern border of Yosemite since July 7, had reached 58% containment as of Thursday, according to the Yosemite Fire and Aviation Management.
The containment of the fire, which at one point was inching dangerously close to the Mariposa Grove, will allow the southern entrance of Yosemite National Park to open on Saturday at 6 a.m., a spokesperson for the National Park Service told ABC News.
The Mariposa Grove is one of the most popular destinations at Yosemite and is home to more than 500 mature giant sequoia trees. This summer was the second time in less than a year that an approaching wildfire neared an iconic plot of sequoia trees, some of which have been there for thousands of years.
No reports of damage to any of the named trees in the grove have been released, and some tree trunks have been wrapped in fire-resistant foil as protection.
Sprinklers have also been set up around several trees, including the Grizzly Giant, the most famous giant sequoia at Yosemite, which stands at 209 feet tall. Fire officials hope the steady stream of water, combined with prescribed burns, will be enough to protect the trees from a fatal encounter with the wildfire.
Since 2020, three fires are estimated to have killed up to 19% of the large giant sequoias in the entire Sierra Nevada population, and 85% of sequoia groves have been affected by wildfire in the past six years, according to the National Park Service.
A portion of Highway 41, which leads into the southern entrance of Yosemite, was shut down earlier this month as a result of the Washburn Fire.
The wildfire also sparked air quality alerts hundreds of miles away in California's Bay Area, specifically the North Bay and East Bay regions.
The cause of the fire is still unclear.
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Meaker wrote Spring Fire in 1952, and was surprised when it sold 1.5 million copies. She went on to write other lesbian-themed books under pen names. She died Nov. 21. Originally broadcast 2003.
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DALLAS (AP) — Brittney Griner and her Phoenix Mercury teammates were confronted by a “provocateur” at a Dallas airport on Saturday.
The WNBA said in a statement it was looking into the team’s run-in with a “social media figure” whose “actions were inappropriate and unfortunate.”
“The safety of Brittney Griner and all WNBA players is our top priority,” the league said, without specifying what exactly happened.
Before the season started, the league had discussed with Griner’s representatives and the Mercury security concerns when the All-Star center traveled for road games after she returned from detainment in Russia. The thought was that the highly publicized case compromised her and others’ safety. The league granted Griner permission to book her own charter flights.
The WNBA added charter flights for the playoffs this season, but only a handful of back-to-back regular-season games were scheduled for such flights.
WNBA teams have flown commercially during the regular season since the league’s inception in 1997. The league typically doesn’t allow teams to charter because it could create a competitive advantage for teams who can afford to pay for them.
“Prior to the season, the WNBA worked together with the Phoenix Mercury and BG’s team to ensure her safety during her travel, which included charter flights for WNBA games and assigned security personnel with her at all times,” the league’s statement reads. “We remain steadfastly committed to the highest standards of security for players.”
Mercury player Brianna Turner said in a tweet people at the airport followed the team with cameras “saying wild remarks.”
“Excessive harassment,” Turner tweeted. “Our team nervously huddled in a corner unsure how to move about. We demand better.”
A Twitter user posted a video that appears to show a part of the confrontation where the individual asks questions of Griner about “why she hates America?”
The Bring Our Families Home Campaign, an advocacy group that works to bring home Americans who are held hostage or detained in foreign countries, issued a statement condemning the incident.
“Accosting a recently returned hostage like this is unacceptable, and we urge social media companies to prohibit the monetization of any resulting content. Our Campaign stands with Brittney, her teammates, and the Phoenix Mercury,” the organization said.
Griner has been warmly received by crowds at home in Phoenix and on the road. This past week, she played two games in her home state of Texas and the team was headed to Indianapolis to face the Fever on Sunday.
Still, Saturday’s incident left many calling for change in flights for the Mercury and teams around the league.
Griner’s agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, said on social media, after the incident, that she feels that all teams need to charter flights.
“Brittney Griner and the WNBA players are leaders who inspire hope for a better, more inclusive and less divided America,” Kagawa Colas said. “They are celebrated for the ways their activism inspires positive change. In doing that, they also become targets for hate, threats and violence. And today’s incident is a clear reminder of that. We cannot celebrate these women and their leadership without also protecting them. It’s past time for charters and enhanced security measures for all players.”
The WNBA players’ union issued a statement Saturday, saying the situation at the airport makes it “quite clear that the matter of charter travel is NOT a ‘competitive advantage’ issue.”
“What BG and all of her PHX teammates experienced today was a calculated confrontation that left them feeling very unsafe,” the WNBPA statement reads. “Everyone who was paying attention knew this would happen.”
The Mercury released a statement saying the team will be working with the league on next steps.
“We are committed to our support of BG and advocating for all American hostages abroad,” the team statement reads. “We will continue our support of marginalized communities and fighting the kind of hate that targeted us today. No one, regardless of identity, should ever fear for their safety.”
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AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-11T10:09:34+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/brittney-griner-mercury-teammates-confronted-at-airport-by-provocateur-wnba-says/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — The education of robot umpires has been complicated by an open secret in baseball for the past 150 years: The strike zone called on the field doesn’t match the one mapped out in the rule book.
Before the Automated Ball-Strike System is ready for the major leagues, there has to be agreement on what a strike is.
“You go in a rabbit hole where it might not be fair for some hitters,” Minnesota Twins star Carlos Correa said. “A pitcher has big curveballs that cross the zone and end up a ball, but the zone has it as a strike. I prefer the human element of things, but who knows, maybe they can perfect it at some point.”
MLB started experimenting with robots calling balls and strikes in the independent Atlantic League in 2019 and used the computer at Low-A in 2021. A challenge system was tried last season at some minor league ballparks, in which a pitcher, batter or catcher had the right to appeal a human umpire’s decision to the computer. This year, ABS is being used at all Triple-A parks, the robot alone for the first three games of each series and a human with a challenge system in the final three.
The Official Baseball Rules define the strike zone as “that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap.”
In practice, big league umpires usually don’t call strikes on pitches that clip the bottom of the three-dimensional zone’s front or the top of the back, making the actual strike zone more of an oval than a cube.
“If you looked good at the average zone that’s called in the major leagues and has been called forever, it’s not a rectangle the way that the system calls it,” MLB executive vice president of operations Morgan Sword said.
At first, the robots were programmed to call a two-dimensional zone at the front of the plate, and MLB also experimented with a three-dimensional zone. This year, the ABS calls strikes solely based on where the ball crosses the midpoint of the plate, 8.5 inches from the front and the back.
MLB reduced the top of the zone to 51% of a batter’s height from 56%.
“The two-dimensional zone has minimized the number of pitches that feel wrong to people, particularly when it’s at the middle of the plate because you’re not catching quite as many of those breaking balls down and also those balls that clip the back of the plate,” Sword said. “We like the two-dimensional nature of it.
“It also allows whatever zone we use on the field to match the representations of the zone that we provide to fans and players and coaches and everybody else. But the specifics of what two-dimensional shape you use and what the dimensions of that shape are, I think are still in flux.”
MLB reduced the width of the computer strike zone from 19 inches to 17 this year, matching the width of the plate. Any part of the ball crossing that zone results in a strike.
“Last year in the Florida State League, the 19 inches, I was getting some calls I wasn’t even getting in the (Atlantic Coast Conference). It gets a little funky,” said Mike Vasil, a 23-year-old New York Mets pitching prospect who played at the University of Virginia.
According to MLB data, strikeouts at Triple-A dropped from 23.3% of batters with human umpires last year to 22.2% this year with automated umpires and 22% when humans were used with the challenge system. Walks climbed from 10.2% last year to 12.7% with robots and 11.5% with the challenge system.
Batting average rose from .252 last season to .266 in full ABS games and .273 in challenge games. Home runs runs increased from 2.9% to 3.2% in full ABS and 3.3% in challenge.
Each team gets three challenges, which can be made by a pitcher, batter or catcher. A team retains a successful challenge.
“I enjoyed it because it was consistent,” said Yankees center fielder Harrison Bader, who played five games at Triple-A this year. “ You want to know what the zone is at all times, even if it’s a little funkier, a little different.”
Texas manager Bruce Bochy, a veteran of nearly a half-century of pro ball, favors a three-dimensional zone.
“It has to cover all four quadrants,” he said. “You want that strike called if you’re hitting the inside lower box or quadrant or the top quadrant,” he said.
Rich Garcia, a major league umpire from 1975-99 and ump supervisor from 2002-09, faults the ABS system for not being as accurate at matching human calls as the strike zone usually is applied. And critically to umpires’ reputations, he says television graphics overlaying the strike zone frequently mislead fans.
“Could be one of the dumbest things baseball could do,” he said. “Why don’t they tell the fans that the box on the screen is not the same box that the umpires get graded on and that the box on the screen is supposed to be used for entertainment only?”
Using a two-dimensional zone rather than a rectangle could hurt sinkerball pitchers, such as the Yankees’ Clay Holmes.
“You’re shrinking the zone a little bit, the depth of it,” he said. “Maybe they need to redefine the strike zone.”
Mike Tauchman, a Chicago Cubs outfielder who played 24 games at Triple-A Iowa, said the robot umpires could cause unintended consequences. He recalled when ABS measured strikes at the front of the plate.
“I struck out on two pitches at my ankle, so I think it’s a good idea that they moved it back,” he said. “I don’t like the idea of the game becoming something where people are trying to outsmart a computer. I still like there is a human element of the umpire because there are nuances of the game that I don’t think a computer can fully understand.”
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-11T13:06:33+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-what-is-a-strike-in-baseball-robots-rule-book-and-umpires-view-it-differently/ |
LARGO, Md., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Employ Prince George's (EPG) has partnered with Prince George's Community College for the fourth of their COVID-19 Economic Recovery Quarterly Job and Resource Fairs on December 14, 2022, held in the Dr. Charlene M. Dukes Student Center. Beginning at 10 am, over 100 businesses and resource partners throughout the D.C. metropolitan came together to interview, share employment opportunities, and provide access to resources such as GED attainment, legal clinics, housing assistance, and more. This event saw more than 260 jobseekers attend, taking advantage of the businesses and resources available to them.
Jobseekers had the opportunity to quickly and efficiently interact with local businesses that are currently hiring for various positions, while participating businesses are given time to address the future employees, allowing everyone to find the perfect fit. Each of these quarterly job & resource fairs has a space designated for same-day job interviews.
Rhonda Cosme, Amtrak's Senior Recruiter, during the job fair stated, "It was a very positive experience, I was able to interact with a pool of diverse candidates with different backgrounds and experiences. I spoke with at least 50 candidates, people with no experience to a gentleman with two master's degrees", when asked about her experience.
James McPherson, Adventure Dental Care's Regional Dental Clinical Leader and Prince George's County resident, mentioned when asked about his experience, "Being a Prince George's resident, I was very familiar with the services that [Employ Prince George's] offers to the community. Today's job fair was great, it was a large turnout. We have thirty-one resumes I need to follow-up with, and we did three interviews on the spot for positions. He continued to state that other Employers should, "Come out. You will get a great turnout as far as candidates. It's also a great networking opportunity with other vendors".
The COVID-19 Economic Recovery Quarterly Job Fairs 2023 dates are to be announced soon. Any jobseekers or businesses who could not attend this event can still reach out to Employ Prince George's. Jobseekers looking for employment or training to prepare for a specialized career field can contact us by emailing WSD@co.pg.md.us or call the American Job Center Largo at (301) 618-8445. Businesses who still have immediate openings can contact our Office of Business Services at (301) 618-8437 or email BusinessServices@co.pg.md.us.
Employ Prince George's (EPG) provides workforce intelligence and solutions for the job seeker and business. EPG's mission is to contribute to the economic vitality of Prince George's County by providing a demand driven system that delivers qualified workers to business and provides job seekers with opportunities for careers in high demand/high growth industries.
For more information, please visit www.Employpg.org.
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(KTLA) – Ty Pennington, the former host of Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, was hospitalized in Denver after a “sore throat” he had for a month was found to be something else.
The HGTV star took to social media on Friday to shed light on the “interesting” week he was having and what exactly sent him to the ICU.
“Turns out, that sore throat I’ve had for the last month was actually an abscess which had grown so large it was closing off my airway,” Pennington said on Instagram. “Next thing I know, I was intubated and flown down to the ICU in Denver.”
Pennington had attended the premiere of the new Barbie movie in Los Angeles last Sunday and was filming in Breckenridge, Colorado when he woke up on Tuesday morning barely able to breathe.
He was rushed to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado where he had successful surgery on Wednesday afternoon and was released from the ICU on Thursday.
In his post, Pennington thanked hospital staff and reminded his fans to always listen to your body. | 2023-07-17T14:52:27+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/hgtv-star-ty-pennington-goes-from-the-red-carpet-to-the-icu-in-medical-scare/ |
PLANO, Texas, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxury around every corner. The all-new Lexus GX will be revealed on June 8 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. #LexusGX
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PITTSBURGH (AP)It has been a busy offseason so far, at least by the small-market standards of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and general manager Ben Cherington would like to continue to bolster the roster of a team that has gone 142-242 over the past three seasons.
”Don’t feel like it’s a `have to,’ but certainly (we) want to do more,” Cherington said Wednesday during a video conference with reporters.
The Pirates added some help at first base and designated hitter by signing Carlos Santana as a free agent and trading with the Tampa Bay Rays for Ji-Man Choi. They signed defensive specialist Austin Hedges as the starting catcher. Free agent acquisition and right-handed pitcher Vince Velasquez is expected to begin next season in the starting rotation.
Plus, first baseman/outfielder Connor Joe was acquired from the Colorado Rockies to provide depth, and the Pirates also have an agreement with lefty reliever Jarlin Garcia, pending the completion of a successful physical examination.
Cherington said his top priority now is acquiring another starting pitcher to add to a staff whose 4.66 ERA was 26th in the major leagues last season when the Pirates finished 62-100.
”That market’s been strong, but we continue to stay engaged with some free agents and trade opportunities,” Cherington said. ”Both of those can be hard to speculate, in terms of how likely it is to line up. We’d also like to add another position player if we can. Another potential option for the lineup.”
The Pirates think Hedges will help their pitchers – and be a good mentor to catching prospects Endy Rodriguez and Henry Davis, who are likely to make their major league debuts sometime during the 2023 season.
”The defensive skill, the way that’s measured nowadays has been pretty well reported,” Cherington said. ”We certainly believe that’s a legitimate skill that he has, to impact the game defensively with receiving, throwing, blocking … Beyond that, there are some aspects of the defensive game that we still just aren’t very good at measuring yet.
”Game-calling. Relationship-building. Influence. And, certainly, that would extend to impact potentially on pitchers, but also other catchers.”
Hedges’ one-year, $5-million contract was finalized Tuesday. The 30-year-old hit just .163 last season in helping Cleveland win the AL Central and hasn’t had a batting average above .178 in the last four seasons.
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AZ woman arrested for setting man on fire, causing apartment blaze, police say
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5/Gray News) - A woman is now facing felony charges after police say she killed a man by pouring gasoline and lighting him on fire, which led to a blaze at an apartment last month.
Officers say 40-year-old Stephanie Williams was arrested on Tuesday evening.
Arizona’s Family reports, on June 8, firefighters were called out to a fire and explosion at an apartment at Arizona Golf Resort, near Broadway and Power roads.
When firefighters arrived, they found Wallace Robinson covered in third-degree burns that covered over 60% of his body.
Investigators said he was placed in a medically-induced coma, but died on June 25, more than two weeks after the fire.
Williams was also taken to the hospital with burns on her hands, arms, face and legs and was also put into a medically-induced coma.
Court documents say while Williams was being transported to the hospital, she kept saying, “I had to do it. He was going to kill me.”
Firefighters began investigating the cause of the fire. According to court paperwork, firefighters found it started on the bed where Robinson was lying naked.
Detectives say Williams doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire. The smell of gas was found in the apartment, Williams’ car, gloves, mattress pad and burned fabric.
A gas can also was found hidden behind a bush near another apartment, which is where Williams ran to get help, investigators said.
Firefighters say since both were the only ones in the room where the fire started, they determined Williams lit Robinson on fire due to his injuries.
The investigation also found there were several domestic violence calls over two years, with several leading up to the fire.
Court documents say in one incident, Robinson told police Williams lit a rug on fire in the room.
However, investigators said Williams told officers Robinson squirted lighter fluid on her and lit her on fire, even though she had no injuries.
As Williams woke up from a medical coma, police were able to talk to her on Tuesday.
Court documents say Williams told police she remembered being on fire and breaking a window to escape. She also recalled a woman pouring water on her and riding in the ambulance to the hospital.
However, she told officers she didn’t remember when gas was poured on Robinson and lit him on fire.
After police interviewed her, she attempted to leave the hospital in the middle of the night, but was arrested.
Williams was booked on one count of first-degree murder and one count of arson.
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LAS VEGAS, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) ("MGM Resorts" or the "company") today announced the closing of its transaction with Blackstone to acquire the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (the "property" or "The Cosmopolitan") for cash consideration of $1.625 billion. With the closing of the transaction, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas officially joins MGM Resorts' roster of iconic brands along the Las Vegas Strip.
"This is a big moment for our company and for the Las Vegas Strip. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has already established itself as one of the Strip's premier resorts with an iconic brand, well-curated experiences and a loyal customer base. We couldn't be more excited to bring them into our portfolio of world-class operations," said MGM Resorts CEO and President Bill Hornbuckle. "We're also thrilled to have the talented group of CoStars from The Cosmopolitan joining the MGM Resorts family. We look forward to improving upon The Cosmopolitan's already strong results by offering their customers access to the extensive and exclusive amenities and other benefits only MGM Resorts can provide."
In the trailing 12 months ended March 31, 2022, The Cosmopolitan generated $1.1 billion of net revenue and $416 million of adjusted EBITDAR.1
The Cosmopolitan, a leading contemporary luxury resort and casino, opened in December 2010 and underwent significant capital improvements following Blackstone's acquisition of the property in 2014. The property features:
- 3,033 rooms and suites that were renovated in December of 2018, most of which feature terraces overlooking the famed Las Vegas Strip,
- a 110,000 square-foot casino, with high-end gaming areas for VIP guests,
- 26 on-trend food and beverage offerings, with 19 new concepts introduced in the last four years,
- a 3,200-seat theater (The Chelsea),
- Marquee nightclub and dayclub that hosts top DJs from around the world,
- 243,000 square feet of centrally located meeting space, featuring state-of-the-art technology to accommodate both large and small groups,
- 36,000 square feet of leased retail space, and
- a 43,000 square foot spa and fitness facility.
MGM Resorts entered into a 30-year lease agreement, with three 10-year renewal options, with a partnership among Stonepeak, Cherng Family Trust and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. ("BREIT"), which acquired The Cosmopolitan's real estate assets. MGM Resorts will pay an initial annual rent of $200 million, escalating annually at 2% for the first 15 years and the greater of 2% or the CPI increase (capped at 3%) thereafter.
About MGM Resorts International
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is an S&P 500® global entertainment company with national and international locations featuring best-in-class hotels and casinos, state-of-the-art meetings and conference spaces, incredible live and theatrical entertainment experiences, and an extensive array of restaurant, nightlife and retail offerings. MGM Resorts creates immersive, iconic experiences through its suite of Las Vegas-inspired brands. The MGM Resorts portfolio encompasses 33 unique hotel and gaming destinations globally, including some of the most recognizable resort brands in the industry. The Company's 50/50 venture, BetMGM, LLC, offers U.S. sports betting and online gaming through market-leading brands, including BetMGM and partypoker. The Company is currently pursuing targeted expansion in Asia through the integrated resort opportunity in Japan. Through its "Focused on What Matters: Embracing Humanity and Protecting the Planet" philosophy, MGM Resorts commits to creating a more sustainable future, while striving to make a bigger difference in the lives of its employees, guests, and in the communities where it operates. The global employees of MGM Resorts are proud of their company for being recognized as one of FORTUNE® Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies®. For more information, please visit us at www.mgmresorts.com. Please also connect with us @MGMResortsIntl on Twitter as well as Facebook and Instagram.
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Expansion of solar investment and innovative renewable electricity solutions in collaboration with Shell Energy to set industry record for electricity generated through on-site solar
NAPA, Calif., May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Treasury Americas, a division of Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (TWE), is expanding its on-site solar electricity generation through a substantial investment in renewable electricity, which will power each of its wineries. According to independent research conducted by globally recognized assurance and risk management provider DNV, Treasury Americas is estimated to be the leader of on-site solar electricity generation in the U.S. wine industry following the completion of the project. Over 60% of Treasury Americas' electricity will be generated by on-site solar upon completion of the project, setting a record for a U.S. wine company of its size and scale.
Every Treasury Americas winery will receive over half of its electricity needs from on-site solar generation. The project will involve the installation of approximately 13,000 solar panels across Treasury Americas' properties, and when complete, the company's total on-site solar generation will be approximately 14.3 million kWh annually. The project is pivotal in the company fulfilling its goals to transition to 100% renewable electricity by 2024 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.
Expanding on a Pioneering Role in Renewable Electricity
Treasury Americas' longstanding commitment to renewable electricity began in 2008 with solar installations at Beringer Vineyards. As part of this new investment, solar panels will be installed across iconic properties including Beaulieu Vineyard, Beringer Vineyards, Etude Winery, and Frank Family Vineyards in Napa Valley, as well as TWE's properties in Paso Robles and the Central Coast. Sterling Vineyards—closed since 2020 due to damage from the devastating Glass Fire—is expected to reopen in the fall of 2023 fully powered by solar electricity.
"We have a responsibility to be stewards of the environment and to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis on our wines and communities. The rapid transition to 100% renewable electricity will eliminate the majority of our production emissions in only a few short years," says Will Drayton, Director of Sustainability and Science for Treasury Americas. "Furthermore, additionality is key. By maximizing our on-site solar generation, we are greening the California grid and opening the door to future developments such as on-site storage."
Going Beyond Solar
Treasury Americas has contracted Shell Energy Solutions to complete the project. To further support TWE's global net-zero commitments, Shell Energy will provide additional solutions including management of the on-site solar generation as well as additional efficiency activities such as the retrofit of LED lighting and compressed air improvements.
"Collaboration is key to achieving decarbonization," says Glenn Wright, Vice President of Renewables and Energy Solutions Americas for Shell Energy. "The work we're doing with Treasury Americas is a perfect example of working together to figure out the right mix of solutions, which leads to achieving carbon footprint objectives. I'm proud of the strong relationship that the Shell Energy and TWE teams have established, and I am looking forward to continuing that into the future."
Links to full press release and visuals here.
About Treasury Americas
Treasury Americas is a division of Treasury Wine Estates (ASX: TWE), one of the world's leading premium wine companies. Based in Napa, CA, Treasury Americas is one of the largest Napa Valley growers, producing luxury grapes in 10 Napa American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) and supplying the strongest luxury portfolio of iconic American brands, such as Beaulieu Vineyard, Beringer Vineyards, Etude Winery, Frank Family Vineyards, Stags' Leap Winery, and Sterling Vineyards, that have been awarded more than 2,000 90+ scores from respected wine critics globally. With beloved wineries in California's most celebrated wine regions, Treasury Americas takes a comprehensive approach to sustainability.
Recognized as the California Green Medal Leader, #1 Healthiest Employer in the Bay Area and a top Healthiest Employer nationally, Treasury Americas' commitment to supporting a prosperous future for winegrowing is clear. As part of TWE's sustainability agenda, which focuses on building a resilient business, supporting healthy communities, and building sustainable wines, the company joined the renewable power initiative RE100 in 2021 with a public commitment to reach 100% renewable electricity by 2024. In reaching this goal, TWE will install more than 29,000 solar modules at its wineries and vineyards across the globe.
About Treasury Wine Estates
Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is one of the world's leading premium wine companies, employing 2,600 talented people across the world, with wine sold in more than 70 countries around the world. TWE owns world-class wine production and packaging facilities in Australia (primarily in South Australia and Victoria), Marlborough in New Zealand, the North and Central Coast regions of California as well as in France and Italy. With a portfolio of outstanding wine brands, prized viticultural assets and world-class production facilities, TWE's commitment to delivering shareholder value is underpinned by its passion for crafting, marketing and selling quality wine through building sustainable partnerships with customers and other industry partners, globally.
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Susan Whitman - susan.whitman@tweglobal.com
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LUBBOCK, Texas — A Lubbock woman went all out to decorate her house for Halloween for the last 16 years but is now selling all her decorations.
Dee Paone has created her own “Nightmare before Christmas” since 2006.
“This is a creation that has happened over the last 16 years,” Paone said. She said this started off with making her own props and costumes.
“…Over the years, you buy things you store them, and you keep adding and adding until till you get this,” Paone said.
She said this was her last year of decorating and hosting her annual “Paone Boo Bash.”
“I think I’m done. I think I’m ready to retire. It’s been great. But sometimes it’s time to close one door, ” Paone said.
Paone said it takes her about a month to decorate all on her own and she always plans ahead the following year.
“The summer before [the] Halloween party. I’ve already planned a theme. I’m already getting ideas for costumes.” Paone said. “So that after a Halloween party, we wait till November 1 where everything goes on sale,”
As the 2022 Halloween season ends, she said she feels bittersweet.
“There’s about six props that I will not get rid of the two skeletons in the back outside the huge ones. This lady right here. This one right here. And then there’s a few in the doll room and the vampire in the den. You can’t find those anymore,” Paone said.
Paone told Everythinglubbock.com that she has created some of the spookiest memories of a lifetime and they will live on forever.
“Now my kids have already said please don’t sell this, or that. I mean, they’ve said I would like to have that. And I asked why,” Paone said. “And they say well, maybe one day, we’ll do this with our families. So definitely memories were made here. Not haunted memories, but just fun.”
Paone said she will put all of her decorations on sale after Halloween. | 2022-10-14T23:26:45+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/lubbock-woman-ends-16-years-of-being-another-nightmare-on-19th-street/ |
In the Dayton area, it’s clear. Both the number of domestic violence cases and the severity and lethality of incidents are on the rise. When survivors seek help, we are seeing more intensity of violence, with hostage- taking, strangulation, sexual violence, more severe injuries.
To help, domestic violence centers across Ohio need more resources. And we are excited that Gov. Mike DeWine and Attorney General Dave Yost are recommending that an additional, much-needed $20 million in line-item funding for domestic violence services be included in the Ohio budget for 2024-2025.
I urge the Ohio legislators and residents of the Dayton community to support the proposed $20 million funding increase – which would be a crucial step towards bringing our state closer to spending parity for domestic violence services with surrounding states. Currently, Ohio spends 32 cents per capita on domestic violence services, compared with 92 cents for Indiana, $1.41 for West Virginia, $1.56 for Pennsylvania and $2.54 for Kentucky.
The additional funding the governor and attorney general propose would bring Ohio’s per capita rate up to 85 cents.
In 2021, advocates at the Artemis Center answered 6,665 calls on our crisis hotline – and the number of those emergency calls is on the rise. We provided services to 4,127 survivors in 2021. National statistics show that a quarter of women – one in four – have been the victim of severe physical abused by an intimate partner, as have one in seven men.
For the Artemis Center, that additional funding could make a real difference to survivors of intimate partner violence and their children. It would allow us to send more staff members to accompany survivors when they go to criminal or civil court hearings – to help them navigate the complex and often confusing court system, to help them know what to expect, to sit with them in support if they have to be in a hearing with their abuser present.
The federal CARES money for COVID relief that our center has been using to support that work is ending, and without additional funding we’ll have to cut back. We also need funding for client assistance – everything from providing gas cards so clients can access services to supplying survivors with safety equipment such as door locks and window alarms, or TRAC phones if their abuser has destroyed or taken their cell phone.
Calls to our emergency hotline are increasing, as a lack of affordable housing and high rent costs in the Dayton area mean that some survivors have trouble accessing alternate housing and sometimes are having to stay put in vulnerable settings.
In the fiscal year ending in June 2022, Ohio reported 81 victims killed in domestic violence cases – from a day-old baby to a 90-year-old woman. It’s clear: increasing the line-item funding for domestic violence services, as the governor and attorney general are proposing, is cost-efficient. It will save taxpayers money in emergency response, court costs, medical expenses and so much more.
Most importantly, it may well save lives.
Jane Keiffer is the executive director of Artemis Center.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO’s chief said Wednesday that the military alliance has seen “some signs” that China may be planning to support Russia in its war in Ukraine, and strongly urged Beijing to desist from what would be a violation of international law.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also told The Associated Press in an interview that the alliance, while not a party to the war, will support Ukraine “for as long as it takes.”
Asked whether NATO has any indication that China might be ready to provide arms or other support to Russia’s war, Stoltenberg said:
“We have seen some signs that they may be planning for that and of course NATO allies, the United States, have been warning against it because this is something that should not happen. China should not support Russia’s illegal war.”
Stoltenberg said potential Chinese assistance would amount to providing “(direct) support to a blatant violation of international law, and of course (as) a member of the U.N. security council China should not in any way support violation of the U.N. charter, or international law.”
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official — Wang Yi — raising concern in the West that Beijing might be ready to offer Moscow stronger support in the almost year-old war.
China has pointedly refused to criticize the invasion of Ukraine while echoing Moscow’s claim that the U.S. and NATO were to blame for provoking the Kremlin. China, Russia and South Africa are holding naval drills in the Indian Ocean this week.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said any Chinese involvement in the Kremlin’s war effort would be a “serious problem.” Ties between China and the U.S. are under severe strain over Taiwan and other issues.
Stoltenberg spoke to The Associated Press in Warsaw, following a meeting of NATO’s nine eastern flank members with U.S. President Joe Biden on the region’s security.
He stressed that while NATO “is no party” to the Ukraine conflict its tasks are to “ensure that Ukraine prevails” and to “prevent this war from escalating beyond Ukraine and becoming a full-fledged war between Russia and NATO.”
He said the main message from the meeting in Warsaw was that “we will provide support to Ukraine for as long as it takes.”
It would be a “tragedy for the Ukrainians if President Putin wins in Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said, and also “dangerous for all of us” because it would “send the message to all authoritarian leaders that when they use military force, they get what they want.”
The Russian attack on Ukraine has prompted Sweden and neighboring Finland to abandon decades of nonalignment and apply to join the 30-nation alliance. But their bids — particularly Sweden’s — are being delayed by Turkey, which wants the two countries to crack down on mostly Kurdish groups Ankara regards as terrorists.
Stoltenberg told the AP that following talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week he could see Turkey “is moving closer to being ready to ratify and (to) welcome Finland into the alliance. But (Ankara continues) to have some challenges with Sweden.”
He said he welcomed the fact that he and Erdogan agreed to a meeting soon “of experts and officials in Brussels” from the three countries involved “to look into how we can make progress also on the ratification of Sweden as a full NATO ally.“
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Damion Lowe’s own-goal two minutes into second-half stoppage time game Orlando City SC a 1-0 victory over Inter Miami CF after a lengthy weather delay on Saturday.
Lowe had the ball carom off his leg past goalkeeper Drake Callender, who had one save for Inter Miami (6-8-4).
Pedro Gallese had one save for Orlando City (8-7-4).
Inter Miami had a 10-8 advantage in shots. Both teams had just one shot on goal.
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(CNN) — People who prefer to go to bed and get up later — a sleep chronotype known as being a night owl — may die early from bad habits they develop when they stay up late, according to a new study.
“The increased risk of mortality associated with being a clearly ‘evening’ person appears to be mainly accounted for by a larger consumption of tobacco and alcohol. This is compared to those who are clearly ‘morning’ persons,” said study first author Christer Hublin, a researcher from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, in a statement.
The study, published Friday in the journal Chronobiology International, was a follow-up to the 2002 Finnish Twin Cohort study. The new study followed nearly 24,000 twins from 1981 to 2018 in an effort to tease out the causes of health-related behaviors and disease.
When the study originally began, each twin was asked to pick one answer from the following questions: I am clearly a morning person; I am to some extent a morning person; I am clearly an evening person; or I am to some extent an evening person.
Only about 10% of the twins described themselves as definite evening people, while 33% said they somewhat preferred staying up late. Over 29% were clearly morning people, while another 27.7% described themselves as somewhat inclined to prefer mornings.
For the new study, researchers looked at death records of a subset (8,728 participants) of the original study. After adjusting the data to account for educational level, use of alcohol, smoking, the level of body mass, and sleep duration, the study found that being a night owl increased the risk of an early death by about 9% compared with morning types, who are often called early birds.
“We have known for a long time that those who have an evening type preference are more likely to be heavier drinkers, have alcohol use disorder and are also more likely to use other substances including tobacco,” said Dr. Bhanu Prakash Kolla, a sleep medicine specialist in the Center for Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who was not involved in the study.
However, a 9% increased risk of early death is significant, he added, leaving room for other ways being an evening type could increase the risk of mortality.
“Other possible causes that come to mind include those who are evening types will likely need to wake up early for work/school therefore end up getting less sleep and the sleep deprivation can increase risk,” Kolla said in an email.
Your sleep chronotype
Everyone has an internal 24-hour body clock, or circadian rhythm, that regulates the release of the hormone melatonin to promote sleep.
Your personal sleep chronotype, which is thought to be inherited, may determine when that process occurs. If you’re an innate early bird, your circadian rhythm releases melatonin much earlier than the norm, energizing you to become most active in the morning.
Early birds tend to perform better in school and are more active throughout the day, which may partly explain why studies have found they have less risk of cardiovascular disease, experts say.
In night owls, however, the internal body clock secretes melatonin much later, making early mornings sluggish and pushing peak activity and alertness later into the afternoon and evening.
The jury’s still out on risk
Night owls may be at higher risk for chronic disease, prior research has shown. A 2022 study found night owls were more sedentary, had lower aerobic fitness levels, and burned less fat at rest and while active than early birds.
Night owls were also more likely to be insulin-resistant, meaning their muscles required more insulin to be able to get the energy they need, the study showed.
Studies have revealed night owls may take more risks and are more likely to skip breakfast and eat more later in the day. Night owls also have higher levels of visceral body fat in the abdominal region, a key risk factor for type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who reviewed the 2022 study for CNN, said at the time “there is good evidence that being a late sleeper has been linked to a higher risk for metabolic and cardiovascular disease.
“Several mechanisms have been proposed: sleep loss, circadian misalignment, eating later in the day and being exposed to less morning light and more evening light, which have all been shown to affect insulin sensitivity,” said Zee, who is also a professor of neurology at Northwestern.
Can you alter your chronotype?
If being a night owl worries you, there are things you can do to flip the switch from night to day — at least a bit, Zee told CNN previously: “It’s like if you have a gene for diabetes, right? You can modify that with your lifestyle, but it doesn’t change it.”
First, start with light — lots of it, just as soon as the alarm goes off. Use natural sunlight if possible, or turn on artificial lights, especially those in the blue spectrum, which tells the body to wake up.
“The strongest reset for the circadian system is bright light,” Zee said. “Light in the morning changes the oscillation of your circadian clock genes at both a cellular and molecular level. You are also training all your rhythms, whether it’s sleep, blood pressure, heart rate or your cortisol rhythm to be earlier.”
You want to change things at night as well, Zee said, by removing bright sources of light much earlier to help your body begin to produce melatonin. That means no television, laptop or smart screens unless you use a filter that turns the blue light into the amber or reddish orange range, which doesn’t suppress melatonin.
Another tip: Eat much earlier in the evening than you might prefer, Zee said: “My rule: Stop eating within three hours of bedtime.” Move your exercise routine to the morning or early afternoon, and avoid heavy exercise in the evening, as well.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Eight police officers assigned to a security team protecting South Africa’s deputy president have been arrested and are expected to appear in a courtroom on Monday after they were caught on video kicking and stomping on two off-duty trainee soldiers having pulled their car over on a highway in Johannesburg.
Some of the plainclothes VIP protection officers were carrying assault rifles when they dragged the men out of their car and attacked them earlier this month. One of the men was kicked unconcious in the attack, which was caught on video by another motorist and shared widely on social media.
It’s unclear why the officers pulled the car over as the video only starts as they are dragging one of the men across the road.
But the officers are part of a VIP protection unit known in South Africa as the “blue light brigade” and which has a reputation for driving dangerously fast and reacting with unneccesary force if cars don’t immediately get out of their way. The unit normally operates in unmarked vehicles with blue sirens.
The officers will face charges of assault, malicious damage to property and firearm offenses, according to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, which investigates police misconduct. They were arrested on Sunday and are being held at a Johannesburg police station ahead of their court appearance, the directorate said.
The officers are all part of the security detail assigned to South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile, who was not present during the alleged assault, according to his office. Mashatile has condemned the conduct of the officers, which sparked outrage in a country that has a problem with police brutality.
The officers have also been suspended from work.
The officers are accused of assaulting three men, although the video only captures them kicking and stomping on two men while a third lies next to them. A woman who was also traveling in the car is seen on the video standing with her hands in the air as the officers attack the men.
The officers were traveling in two black SUVs and are seen getting back into their vehicles and driving away, leaving one of the men lying motionless on the side of the busy highway.
A union that represents members of the armed forces said all of the victims of the attack were in the South African army, although they were not on duty at the time.
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BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — As he listened to his father die, the boy lay still on the asphalt. His elbow burned where a bullet had pierced him. His thumb stung from being grazed.
Another killing was in progress on a lonely street in Bucha, the community on the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, where bodies of civilians are still being discovered weeks after Russian soldiers withdrew. Many had been shot in the head.
The 14-year-old Yura Nechyporenko was about to become one of them.
Survivors have described soldiers firing guns near their feet or threatening them with grenades, only to be drawn away by a cooler-headed colleague. But there was no one around to restrain the Russian soldier that day in March when Yura and his father, 47-year-old Ruslan, were biking down a tree-lined street.
They were on their way to visit vulnerable neighbors sheltering in basements and homes without electricity or running water. Their bikes were tied with white fabric, in a sign they traveled in peace.
When the soldier stepped from a dirt path to challenge them, Yura and his father immediately stopped and raised their hands.
“What are you doing?” Yura remembers the soldier asking. The soldier didn’t give Yura’s father time to answer.
The boy heard two gunshots. His father fell, mouth open, already bleeding.
A shot hit Yura’s hand, and he fell, too. Another shot struck his elbow. He closed his eyes.
A final shot was fired.
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This story is part of an ongoing investigation from The Associated Press and Frontline that includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience and an upcoming documentary.
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Yura’s extraordinary account alleging an attempted killing by Russian soldiers stands out as international justice experts descend on Bucha, a center of the horrors and possible war crimes in Ukraine. More than 1,000 bodies have been found so far in Bucha and other communities around Kyiv. In Bucha alone, 31 children under the age of 18 were killed and 19 wounded, according to local authorities.
“All children were killed or injured deliberately, since the Russian soldiers deliberately shot at evacuating cars that had the signs ‘CHILDREN’ and white fabric tied to them, and they deliberately shot at the homes of civilians," the chief prosecutor of the Bucha region, Ruslan Kravchenko, told the AP.
The U.N. human rights office says at least 202 children across Ukraine have been killed in Russia’s invasion, and believes the real number to be considerably higher. The Ukrainian government's count is 217 children killed and over 390 wounded.
The AP and Frontline, drawing from a variety of sources, have independently documented 21 attacks where children were killed that likely meet the definition of a war crime, ranging from the discovery of a child in a shallow grave in Borodyanka to the bombing of a theater in Mariupol. The total number of child victims in the attacks is unknown, and the accounting represents just a fraction of potential war crimes.
Yura is a teenager growing into himself, spindly and spotted, with dark circles pressed under his eyes. Adulthood has been rushed upon him. As he lies on the floor of his family’s home to demonstrate what happened, he shows the healing holes in his elbow.
His mother, Alla, takes deep breaths to calm herself. Yura, sitting up, wraps an arm around her, then puts his head on her shoulder.
On that awful day, Yura survived the attempted killing by the awkward grace of that teenage constant, his gray hoodie. It was shot instead of him, and he felt it move.
Yura lay on the street for minutes afterward, waiting for the soldier to walk away.
Then Yura ran. He reached the kindergarten where his mother worked, and where some residents used the basement as a shelter. They were shocked to see the boy and gave him first aid.
He realized he needed to go home. He returned to the streets, not knowing where the next soldier might be.
When he arrived home, his family called the police. The police said they could do nothing because they didn’t control the area, according to the family. The ambulance service said the same.
The police told the family that officers didn’t know what to do with the case, according to the boy’s uncle, Andriy. A prosecutor’s report describes the killing and attempted killing in a few bare sentences, including the loss of a cellphone belonging to Yura's father. He would have been of help now — he'd been a lawyer.
Kravchenko told the AP that they continue to work on Yura’s case, and expressed confidence that crimes committed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can be successfully investigated. Among other things, footage from dozens of surveillance cameras in Bucha is being analyzed, and an identification album of Russian soldiers’ faces is being assembled.
In March, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that investigations into crimes against children in particular will benefit from a new trust fund. Children account for half or more of those affected by conflict, but are often labeled as too vulnerable to testify or as having inaccurate memories, according to Veronique Aubert, the special adviser on crimes involving children to the prosecutor of the ICC.
Yura’s case is unusual.
“Prosecutors may want to take up this case because the victim is still alive and can potentially testify,” said Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University and former special counsel for the U.S. Defense Department. “It may be difficult if not impossible for a defendant to claim they were somehow justified in trying to kill a child.”
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It was left to Yura’s family to retrieve his father’s body.
They did it the following day. Yura's grandmother, who is in her 70s, pleaded with Russian soldiers to let her approach the body.
With their guns cocked, they let her walk ahead of them. Another soldier in the distance shouted, “Don’t come here or we’ll kill you.” But he didn’t fire.
They brought Yura's father home in a wheelbarrow. He was rolled in a carpet and placed on an old wooden door. Amid the sounds of shelling and gunfire, they buried him in the yard behind the woodshed, in one of many makeshift graves hurriedly dug during the monthlong Russian occupation.
Yura and his family left Bucha the next day along a rare evacuation corridor. The wounded boy walked first through the streets, holding a stick tied with a white towel, with a white sling around his arm. The family had to pass the scene of the shooting.
As they walked closer to the evacuation point, Russian soldiers asked where they were going. They asked what had happened to Yura.
“I was shot by a Russian soldier,” the boy replied.
At that, his mother was terrified. “I felt everything collapse inside me,” she recalled. “I thought they would shoot us all.”
She asked the soldiers to let them pass, saying it was getting late. They did.
The family left town that day.
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The gray hoodie, bloodied at the elbow, is now the centerpiece of the family’s search for justice. The top seam of the loose fabric has been sliced. Yura’s mother insists that it's evidence and can't be thrown away.
The family returned to Bucha in mid-April, after the Russians withdrew. They dug up Yura’s father and buried him again in a local cemetery.
The boy’s family continues to play detective, scouring the area of the shooting for further evidence and theorizing on the trajectory of bullets. They question neighbors and analyze holes in a metal fence.
As the family shows the AP the scene, Yura wanders in the grass beside the street, head down, looking for bullet casings. He is confident he could identify the Russian soldier, even though the soldier wore a balaclava over part of his face.
Yura will finish ninth grade this year, once electricity returns and he can resume online classes. Until then, he is volunteering like his father did, visiting older residents.
His mother is thinking of sending him overseas for the sake of his mental health. She needs some distance, too.
“I’m never alone physically, but it’s possible to be alone mentally,” she said, near tears. “I try to avoid this.”
Her son’s case is still a faint source of hope. There are courts and these courts will work, she believes. No one should go through what her son did.
Yura fears they already have.
“It’s not only me who wants justice,” he said. “People in Ukraine are still possibly being tortured and killed even now.”
Yura turned 15 on April 12. It was a quiet birthday. His father, a good cook, usually grilled to celebrate it.
On April 25, a day after Orthodox Easter, the family again gathered at the grave to mark 40 days after Ruslan’s death, by local custom. Food blessed by a priest in Bucha for Easter — dyed eggs, bread — was laid out along with homemade pickles, chocolate and wine. A plastic bag of food was hung on the wooden cross.
Yura stood apart, quietly lighting a candle and placing it on the grave. Then he pulled a hoodie, a black one, over his head to block the chill.
The boy’s uncle, Andriy, watches him closely these days. Yura has always been a good kid, but he's become edgy and restless, moving from one task to another. Andriy fears the trauma of surviving death will catch up with Yura and mourns his nephew's damaged childhood.
“This tears my soul apart,” said Andriy, in tears. “What we see is suffering after suffering ... (Russian President Vladimir) Putin just decides to make us suffer, and we do.”
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Frontline producer Tom Jennings contributed to this story.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-05-12T07:41:59+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/This-tears-my-soul-apart-A-Ukrainian-boy-and-a-17167168.php |
After a rocky start, MoviePass has returned
It’s no secret that MoviePass has had its problems. The service was introduced to the public in 2017. Unfortunately, MoviePass didn’t even make it to 2020, so it could blame the pandemic for its failure. While it was a perfect storm of intense competition and poor management, ultimately, the ridiculously low price was deemed to be an unsustainable model: subscribers could watch an unlimited amount of movies for $9.95. However, it’s official, MoviePass has returned with an updated subscription paln, and movie-goers can once again pay less to watch movies in the theater.
MoviePass subscription tiers
MoviePass is designed for movie lovers, as it offers credits to see movies in over 4,000 theaters across the country. After downloading the app, you get to choose the plan that best matches your movie-going habits. There are four options: Basic, Standard, Premium and Pro. For most of the country, the plan works as follows:
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- Basic: For $10 a month, you get 34 credits, which are good for up to three 2-D standard screenings per month.
- Standard: For $20 a month, you get 72 credits, which are good for up to seven 2-D standard screenings per month.
- Premium: For $30 a month, you get 113 credits, which are good for up to 11 2-D standard screenings per month.
- Pro: For $40 a month, you get 640 credits, which are good for up to 30 2-D standard screenings per month.
For Los Angeles and New York residents, plan options are as follows:
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- Basic: For $20 a month, you get 68 credits, which are good for up to three 2-D standard screenings per month.
- Standard: For $30 a month, you get 140 credits, which are good for up to seven 2-D standard screenings per month.
- Premium: For $40 a month, you get 200 credits, which are good for up to 11 2-D standard screenings per month.
- Pro: For $60 a month, you get 1,200 credits, which are good for up to 30 2-D standard screenings per month.
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Metro Phoenix home prices climbed in June despite the heat. But expect a drop in July.
Metro Phoenix home prices ticked up in June despite rising temperatures and interest rates. But prices are on track to fall in July.
June’s median home price could be the Valley's peak for the year.
The median price for the Phoenix area climbed to $443,000 last month from $435,000 in May, according to the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service. The increase came as home sales fell 8% and the supply of houses for sale dipped more than 4% in June.
Prices climbed even as 30-year mortgage rates hovered near 7%.
Metro Phoenix’s median home price in June is down about 7% from the record $475,000 it hit in June 2022 and is expected to drop to $430,000 in July based on pending sales.
“Our home buying/selling season starts each year in early February and ends when the thermometer says it’s over,” said housing analyst Tom Ruff with The Information Market, a division of ARMLS. “And the thermometer is shouting, 'It’s over.'”
Mortgage rates ticked down a bit to 6.78% this week, according to Freddie Mac. But that’s still too close to 7% for many potential homebuyers.
“Our median sales price in June may very well be the high-water mark for 2023,” said Ruff.
Reach the reporter at catherine.reagor@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8040. Follow her on Twitter @CatherineReagor. | 2023-07-21T16:05:51+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/2023/07/21/metro-phoenix-home-prices-climbed-in-june-despite-the-heat/70439582007/ |
NEW YORK, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Golub Capital BDC, Inc., a business development company (NASDAQ: GBDC, www.golubcapitalbdc.com), today published a letter summarizing key findings from Golub Capital's work to date to assess GBDC's potential risk exposures related to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") and Signature Bank ("SBNY"). In short, Golub Capital believes GBDC and its investment adviser are in a strong capital and liquidity position, and, based on such work to date, Golub Capital has not identified material problems or risks related to the SVB and SBNY failures. The full letter is available here.
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — A landslide in Southern California has closed a historic cultural center, shut down rail service in the area and forced the evacuation of nearby residences, officials said.
The slope on the western side of Casa Romantica and Cultural Center and Gardens in San Clemente dropped about 20 feet (about 6 meters) on Thursday afternoon after several days of minor earth movement, city officials said in a news release. The building was closed and a geologist is monitoring its stability, officials said. Casa Romantica announced that it was temporarily closed and all events were canceled after the landslide on its ocean terrace.
Four adjacent residential units were red-tagged as unsafe and evacuated, officials said.
Falling debris halted rail service on two Metrolink lines and Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner, officials said.
After torrential rains earlier this month, residents of three clifftop apartment buildings and one nearby building in San Clemente fled their homes when the land began to shift and slide away from their backyards and they were warned they might not be allowed back for a while.
Cracking appeared in the terrace at Casa Romantica on April 16, and the City Council approved spending $75,000 for a local geological firm’s assessment, the Ocean County Register reported. Crews were drilling to install equipment to measure movement Thursday morning when the earth began moving, Councilmember Kevin Knoblock told the newspaper.
More than a dozen atmospheric rivers hit California this past winter, causing widespread damage. The threat of flooding continues as the massive mountain snowpack left by the storms begins to melt. | 2023-04-28T17:04:48+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/national/ap-us-news/california-landslide-halts-rail-service-homes-evacuated/ |
New York (PIX11) Actress, director, and producer Alison Sweeney adds another Hallmark movie to her resume with her latest murder mystery ‘Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery.’ The story follows the towns favorite crime-solving baker ‘Hannah Swensen’ when she finds a dead body in an old building. Hannah is determined to find out what happened to the person.
Alison reunited with Cameron Mathison who she has worked with before. Sweeney shared that Mathison is one of the nicest people and had fun working together.
‘Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery’ airs May, 19th 2023 on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. | 2023-05-23T18:04:20+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/morning/actress-alison-sweeney-takes-a-bite-out-of-crime-in-new-hallmark-movie/ |
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president warned during a chaotic parliamentary session on Thursday that the Balkan nation could become a European “pariah” state if it rejects a Western plan for normalizing relations with Kosovo.
President Aleksandar Vucic faced a hostile reception from the right-wing opposition, which urged parliament to reject the plan and accused him of betraying Serbia.
The plan hasn’t been made public formally, but Vucic said it stipulates that Serbia wouldn’t object to Kosovo’s inclusion in international organizations, including the United Nations, though it wouldn’t have to formally recognize its statehood.
“I haven’t signed anything. I said we will continue with the talks,” Vucic said. “People need to understand … Would we become a European pariah? Yes, we would.”
The session included pushing and shoving, and shouting matches between Vucic’s ruling party and opposition lawmakers. They chanted “Treason, treason” and “We won’t give up Kosovo,” and demanded Vucic’s resignation.
Vucic responded by shouting at the protesting lawmakers that they are “thieves and traitors.”
The sovereignty of Kosovo, a former province of Serbia that declared independence in 2008, isn’t recognized by the Serbian government.
The dispute between Serbia and Kosovo has been a source of tension in the Balkans since the war in 1998-99 that ended when a NATO bombing campaign forced Serbia to pull out of the former Serbian province. The United States and the European Union recently have stepped up efforts to solve the problem, fearing instability as Russia’s war rages in Ukraine.
In Kosovo on Thursday, Prime Minister Albin Kurti set conditions for the formation of an association of Serb-majority municipalities, which is supported by both the U.S. and the EU. Kurti said the association can only be formed as part of an overall agreement on normalization of relations, which Serbia has rejected in the past.
Kosovo authorities fear that a community of Serb-dominated municipalities — first agreed at EU-led talks in 2013 — would eventually undermine the country’s statehood with the help of Belgrade. Kurti instead urged Belgrade to dismantle any Serbia-backed institutions among the Kosovo Serb community, who overwhelmingly reject Kosovo independence.
Vucic said that Western envoys told him last month that Serbia’s accession process into the EU would be halted and economic investment stopped if Belgrade decides to reject the latest Western bid to reach a solution.
As Vucic spoke in parliament, right-wing lawmakers held up banners accusing the Serbian president of treason over Kosovo, which many in Serbia consider the cradle of national identity.
The hard-line pro-Russia opposition lawmakers in parliament described the Western plan for Kosovo as an “ultimatum.” They said it would mean Serbia would have to recognize Kosovo’s independence as a condition of eventually joining the European Union.
“We don’t see a single reason why we should accept this Western ultimatum,” said Bosko Obradovic of the far-right Dveri party, urging the assembly to vote to reject it.
Serbia has relied on support from Russia and China in its rejection of Kosovo’s independence. This is one of the reasons why Belgrade hasn’t imposed any sanctions on Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
Vucic said it is of “vital interest” for Serbia to continue with the accession process into the EU, but reiterated that the country wouldn’t join NATO. Rejection of Western efforts would result in “complete isolation,” he warned. “You cannot function alone.”
Decades-long, simmering tensions between Serbia and Kosovo occasionally explode into violence, particularly in the north of the country that borders Serbia and which is populated mostly by ethnic Serbs.
The war in 1998-99 erupted when separatist ethnic Albanians launched a rebellion against Serbia’s rule, and Belgrade responded with a brutal crackdown. About 13,000 people died, mostly ethnic Albanians.
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Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia, and Llazar Semini in Tirana, Albania contributed to this report . | 2023-02-02T17:37:19+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-serbia-could-become-pariah-over-kosovo-president-warns/ |
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Carlos Akapo scored a goal in the 77th minute to rally the San Jose Earthquakes to a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night.
Cristian Espinoza had an assist on Akapo's match-winner for the Earthquakes (1-1-0). San Jose improved to 7-1-8 against Vancouver at home since the Whitecaps joined the league in 2011. San Jose lost its opener 2-1 to Atlanta United. The Earthquakes had never lost a regular-season match it led entering stoppage time.
Alessandro Schöpf staked the Whitecaps (0-2-0) to an early lead with a goal in the 19th minute. Jeremy Ebobisse scored the equalizer for San Jose in the 68th minute.
The Earthquakes outshot the Whitecaps 20-7 with a 6-2 edge in shots on goal.
Daniel de Sousa Brito made one save for the Earthquakes. Yohei Takaoka had four saves for the Whitecaps.
Both teams are in action again on Saturday. The Earthquakes host the Colorado Rapids and the Whitecaps host Dallas. | 2023-03-05T08:17:16+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/akapo-propels-earthquakes-to-2-1-victory-over-17820730.php |
Stellantis on Wednesday revealed some technical highlights of its STLA Medium platform, one of four dedicated EV platforms in development for future electric models.
The automaker revealed its STLA platform strategy two years ago this month, unveiling STLA Medium alongside the STLA Small, STLA Large, and STLA Frame platforms, but up until now it hasn’t released much more information about the technical layout. It’s now confirming some details for the STLA Medium platform.
STLA Medium is designed for mid-size cars in what is known in the industry as the C- and D-segments, a Stellantis press release said. The automaker noted that it currently has 26 nameplates globally in those segments, and will have manufacturing capacity for up to 2 million STLA-Medium-based vehicles per year spread across several plants, with the first vehicles coming from Europe.
A Standard Pack and Performance Pack will be available, offering up to 310 miles and 435 miles of range, respectively, as measured on the European WLTP testing cycle (corresponding U.S. EPA figures will be lower). Stellantis didn’t break out specific capacity numbers, but said vehicles based on the STLA Medium platform will have a maximum 98 kwh of usable energy and will target energy consumption of less than 14 kwh per 100 km.
Stellantis is sticking with a 400-volt electrical architecture, rather than 800-volt, but is still aiming for a 20% to 80% charge in 27 minutes with DC fast-charging, a rate of 2.4 kwh per minute, according to the company.
The platform can accommodate single-motor front-wheel-drive or dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrains, with targeted outputs between 214 hp and 382 hp.
Planned body styles include “passenger cars, crossovers, and SUVs,” according to Stellantis. The platform can accommodate wheelbase lengths of 106.2 inches to 114.1 inches, overall lengths of 169.2 inches to 192.9 inches, plus ground clearance of more than 8.6 inches for off-road vehicles.
Off-road competence will likely be important, as one of several planned Jeep electric SUVs could be based on the STLA Medium platform. Stellantis plans to launch 25 EVs in the U.S. by 2030, including a Dodge electric muscle car based on the STLA Large Platform and a fully electric and range-extended Ram electric truck. And STLA Medium may form the basis for heart-of-the-market crossovers from Peugeot, Citroën, and Fiat in Europe.
The company has acted to localize production of core systems for these platforms—with drive modules from Indiana and batteries potentially from Indiana and Canada. Last week the automaker also gave a glimpse of how it plans to aggregate EV charging information, but it didn’t yet say whether it might jump to the Tesla NACS standard.
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- Will Tesla Supercharger reliability extend to other brands’ EVs? | 2023-07-07T07:20:27+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/automotive/internet-brands/stellantis-details-platform-for-mid-size-evs-starting-with-europe/ |
(The Hill) — Last month marked the seventh-warmest January on record worldwide, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Tuesday.
The previous month saw an average global land and ocean surface temperature of 1.57 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than average. It was also the 47th consecutive year in which January was warmer than the 20th-century average.
At the continental level, Europe had its single warmest January on record, while North America saw its fifth warmest and Africa saw its sixth. The Northern Hemisphere overall saw its fifth-warmest January on record last month.
The month also saw a new low for January Antarctic sea ice coverage, breaking a record set in 2017 by about 210,000 square miles. The Arctic, meanwhile, saw the third-smallest sea ice coverage on record, about 243,000 square miles fewer than the average from 1991 to 2020.
The hottest global January on record occurred in 2020, according to NOAA, breaking 2016’s previous record. All 48 states within the contiguous United States saw above-average temperatures that month, while worldwide land and ocean surface temperatures were more than 2 degrees above 53.6 percent — the 20th-century average.
The NOAA report comes after a month that was particularly unseasonably warm in the northeastern United States. New York City saw its single warmest January on record, with no average or below-average daily temperatures and an average temperature of 43.5 degrees, 10 degrees higher than average, according to AccuWeather data.
Another seven northeastern states also had their single warmest January on record in 2023: New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maine, according to NOAA. The Hawaiian archipelago, meanwhile, tied its previous record for the warmest January, that of 1941.
New Year’s Day of this year was the hottest ever recorded in eight countries — Poland, Belarus, the Netherlands, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic, according to meteorologist Scott Duncan. | 2023-02-14T18:35:18+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/january-was-7th-warmest-on-record-noaa/ |
FAU holds off Nowell and K-State to reach 1st Final Four
NEW YORK (AP) — Alijah Martin, Vlad Goldin and ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic became the first and lowest-seeded team to reach this year’s Final Four as the Owls withstood another huge game by Kansas State’s Markquis Nowell to beat the Wildcats 79-76 on Saturday night.
FAU (35-3), making just its second appearance in the NCAA Tournament, won the East Region at Madison Square Garden and will head to Houston to play the winner of Sunday’s South Region final between Creighton and San Diego State.
The winningest team in Division I this season had never won an NCAA Tournament game before ripping off four straight, all by single digits.
Nowell, the 5-foot-8 native New Yorker, was incredible again at The Garden, with 30 points, 12 assists and five steals, coming off a record-breaking Sweet 16 game. He didn’t get enough help.
Martin scored 17 points, including a huge 3 down the stretch, the 7-foot-1 Goldin had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and Michael Forrest made four clutch free throws in the final 20 seconds for the Owls.
Nae’Qwan Tomlin was the only other player in double figures for Kansas State (26-10) with 14 points.
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-26T01:13:21+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/03/26/fau-holds-off-nowell-k-state-reach-1st-final-four/ |
The visiting Detroit Tigers will attempt to clean up their defense on Friday in the second game of their four-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Detroit made two errors and allowed two unearned runs on Thursday while losing the series opener 5-3.
The Tigers have allowed eight unearned runs in their past three games. They won two of three from the San Diego Padres earlier this week despite their shoddy fielding.
On Thursday, throwing errors by third baseman Jeimer Candelario and shortstop Javier Baez led to unearned runs.
“We’ve got to play clean,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “We’re not going to win games if we don’t play clean. I said that to the players before the game. Especially when you play playoff-caliber teams — like we have with San Diego and Toronto and then Minnesota and Tampa.”
Matt Chapman had two home runs and three RBIs for Toronto on Thursday, while Willi Castro and Jonathan Schoop had solo homers for Detroit.
The Tigers loaded the bases with no outs in the eighth but scored only once, on Eric Haase’s sacrifice fly.
“You would’ve liked to get a little more there, obviously,” Hinch said. “Haase had a great at-bat. Just inches away from making it really interesting. But I look back and I see two errors that led to part of their scoring, and we said before the series that if you give them extra outs, they’re a dangerous offense.”
Blue Jays center fielder George Springer left the game after his at-bat in the bottom of the eighth. He grimaced after a swing. Springer has been playing with what has been described as inflammation in the elbow area.
“He’s feeling good,” Blue Jays interim manager John Schneider said. “He kind of had a high-impact game. Just a little bit of elbow discomfort. It probably looked worse than it is right now. We’ll check him out (on Friday) and see how he is.”
Springer looked uncomfortable after making two long throws from the outfield on Thursday. He did not play in the All-Star Game so he could rest the elbow.
“I’m going to have to fight through stuff all year,” Springer said before the All-Star break after missing a game. “It kind of is what it is. Still trying to fight through some stuff. But I’ll be all right. Between the break and now, we’re just trying to buy an extra day to make sure that it’s right, and when it is, I’ll go back out.”
Toronto will start right-hander Alek Manoah (11-4, 2.24 ERA) on Friday. He made his lone career start against Detroit on Aug. 28, 2021, when he got a no-decision after allowing two runs in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out eight.
Detroit is expected to start right-hander Bryan Garcia in his season debut. Garcia, who never faced the Blue Jays in his three previous seasons with the Tigers, had his contract selected from Triple-A Toledo on Wednesday.
Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doubled in the first inning on Thursday to extend his hitting streak to nine games. He is batting .436 (17-for-39) during that span with five doubles, a homer, and six RBIs.
Detroit put left-hander Andrew Chafin on the restricted list on Thursday because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19 and could not enter Canada. Garcia was called up as a replacement.
Toronto left-hander Yusei Kikuchi allowed one run and two hits in five innings on Thursday to earn the win. He was reinstated from a three-week stay on the injured list prior to the game, having recovered from a neck strain. The Blue Jays cleared a roster spot by optioning right-hander Jeremy Beasley to Triple-A Buffalo.
–Field Level Media | 2022-07-29T18:53:37+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/mlb/sloppy-tigers-hope-for-improved-defense-vs-jays/ |
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Just in time for the New Year, New York lawmakers have become the highest paid state legislators in the nation under a bill signed Saturday.
Members of both houses are getting a pay raise of $32,000, for a base salary of $142,000, under a bill Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a day before her inauguration Sunday. That’s a 29% raise over their previous salary of $110,000.
The law went into effect Sunday.
Before the pay boost, state lawmakers in California were the highest paid with a yearly base salary of $119,000, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
New York lawmakers passed the pay-raise bill during a special session in late December.
The new pay raise comes with restrictions, though.
Starting in 2025, outside income will be capped at $35,000. Pay in excess of that from military service, retirement plans, or investments will still be allowed.
Some Democrats in the legislature supported the pay raise, and said it was necessary in order to keep up with the cost of living.
But some Republican lawmakers spoke out against the bill during the special session, criticizing the ban on the outside income.
“Their attempt to buy political cover by instituting a ban on outside income won’t make Albany better, it will make it worse,” said state Sen. George Borrello in explaining his “no” vote on the bill.
Borrello said the ban would discourage citizen legislators, or “enterprising, accomplished individuals with real-world experience from entering public service.”
The last pay raise state legislators received was in 2018, and that was their first raise in two decades.
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Maysoon Khan is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Maysoon Khan on Twitter at: twitter.com/MaysoonKhan. | 2023-01-02T16:33:49+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/politics/ap-ny-lawmakers-get-pay-raise-making-them-nations-best-paid/ |
SANDY, Utah, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ComplyAuto has created a solution to the pervasive issue of salespeople requesting customers to send non-public information (NPI) over text messages, emails, and other insecure methods back to salespeople at the dealership. Not only that, this information is not in the dealership's control if the salesperson loses his/her phone, backs up their text messages and photos on a personal cloud-based server, or moves to a different dealership.
Dealers no longer have to worry about salespeople storing sensitive customer information on their personal devices. ComplyAuto's free encryption messaging tool for dealers in endorsing states, ComplyCrypt, will revolutionize the information-gathering process at the dealership. The antiquated process of collecting NPI like driver's licenses, bank statements, and proof of income/residence, and its inherited shortcomings, is over. ComplyCrypt creates a unique, secure, and encrypted online portal for the dealership where customers deposit their information. Specified dealership employees will then access this repository to download the documents and process them as required. The portal will then automatically delete the information when there is no longer a need, therefore respecting data minimization processes to keep the dealer safe.
"Addressing the age-old issue of unsecured data transmission in dealerships, we've developed an easy-to-use encrypted messaging tool. It's designed to overcome the cost, usability, and adoption challenges that exist with other tools, and is currently free for dealers in over 30 states," said Chris Cleveland, CEO of ComplyAuto.
ComplyCrypt is for more than just salespeople. Whether the dealer is managing service loaners and rentals, or handling internal communications requesting NPI, ComplyCrypt will secure all of this NPI to easily satisfy the FTC Safeguards Rule (encryption in-transit requirement) and provide a better experience for the customer. The tool also uniquely safeguards dealerships with a real-time detection feature. If staff send sensitive information through insecure channels, such as regular email, the tool immediately alerts an administrator, ensuring compliance with federal and state laws.
"ComplyCrypt stands alone as the only encrypted messaging tool that ensures its usage by staff. Too many dealers waste resources on solutions that can't guarantee actual use. With ComplyCrypt, you invest in certainty," said Chris Cleveland, CEO of ComplyAuto.
The process is simple and efficient and can be used without having to install additional apps, create phone shortcuts or jump through unnecessary hoops. Salespeople simply scan a QR code that takes them to the dealership's custom URL, generate a unique file request link to the encrypted online portal, and send the URL to the customer. Salespeople will automatically be notified when the customer uploads their documents and after downloading them, the NPI deletes itself.
In an effort to prioritize affordability and accessibility, ComplyCrypt is free for our existing clients in endorsing states!
If you would like to learn more about ComplyCrypt or ComplyAuto's full suite of dealer tools, please visit www.complyauto.com, send an email to info@complyauto.com, or call (661) 214-9760.
About ComplyAuto
ComplyAuto is an innovative, cloud-based technology company that provides auto dealerships with cutting-edge compliance software solutions. Serving over 9,000 dealerships across the United States and endorsed by more than 35 state dealer associations, ComplyAuto simplifies and automates the compliance processes, allowing dealerships to focus on their core business of selling and servicing vehicles. As an NADA Affinity Provider, the company offers a suite of tools, including Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Management, Privacy & Cybersecurity, and Human Resources (HR) software solutions, all tailored to the specific needs of motor vehicle, RV, marine, and motorcycle dealerships.
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The Biden administration is announcing its "U.S. Cyber Trust Mark" program to label major internet and bluetooth-connected devices and products. The government wants to put labels informing consumers if various electronics meet certain government requirements for cybersecurity.
The administration's announcement said the goal is to prevent "attackers" from gaining access to Americans' homes via secure devices.
An announcement from the White House said, "The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark will allow Americans to confidently identify" devices, "including baby monitors, home security cameras, fitness trackers, and smart TVs and refrigerators of all price ranges," and determine if they "meet the U.S. Government's cybersecurity requirements and are less vulnerable to cyberattacks."
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It was unclear how manufacturers from various companies would respond, but the Biden administration said, "The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark will offer Americans the peace of mind that the devices they're buying and bringing into their homes, classrooms, or workplaces are safer and less vulnerable to cyberattacks."
Various tech companies were scheduled to participate in the announcement of the cybersecurity label, including Amazon, Best Buy, Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab, Cisco Systems, Connectivity Standards Alliance, Consumer Reports, Consumer Technology Association, Google, Infineon, the Information Technology Industry Council, IoXT, KeySight, LG Electronics U.S.A., Logitech, OpenPolicy, Qorvo, Qualcomm, Samsung, UL Solutions, Yale and August U.S, the White House said.
Other cybersecurity trust mark labels have been implemented outside of the United States.
Before last year, Singapore announced it would be implementing a program in which small and medium companies would have to be certified and apply for a cybersecurity excellence award, working with the country's trade and commerce department.
In the U.K., the National Cyber Security Center announced a government-backed program to protect organizations against cybercrimes and launched a "Cyber Essentials" trademark.
Scott Bovarnick of the U.S. Consumer Technology Association, said, "While walking CES this year," he saw "products that improve healthcare, transportation and energy efficiency." He said while the technology makes "our world better, it also tempts bad actors to exploit consumers' connected devices."
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-07-18T09:35:58+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/white-house-announces-cybersecurity-warning-label-for-devices |
BEIJING, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- JA Solar has once again been ranked in the highest AAA category in PV Tech's PV ModuleTech bankability report for Q1 2023, underlining the company's robust overall strength.
The PV Tech report is based on comprehensive analysis of a manufacturer's performance in metrics including shipments, manufacturing capacity, technology and financial position, with the company scoring highly in each of these areas.
According to its annual report for 2022 JA Solar's total revenue was CNY72.989 billion, up 76.72% year-on-year, with a net profit attributable to the parent company of CNY5.533 billion, up 171.4% from 2021.
As of the end of 2022, the company had been granted 1,260 independently developed patents and is widely recognised as one of the industry's key players, being ranked among the Fortune China 500, China private enterprises Top 500 and global Top 500 new energy enterprises for a number of years. Between 2014 and 2022, JA Solar was rated as a 'Top Performer' by PVEL, one of the world's leading independent third-party PV testing organizations, on no less than seven occasions.
JA Solar maintains a global strategy with multiple production facilities around the world and 13 overseas sales companies. The company's product sales and service network now extends to 135 countries and regions worldwide.
As of the end of 2022, cumulative global shipments of JA Solar had reached 128GW, with overseas shipments accounting for approximately 60% of the total. The company has continued to strengthen its vertically integrated industrial chain and has formulated a long-term plan to build production capacity and improve the supply chain in major PV markets around the world, thereby steadily advancing the company's global strategy and providing enhanced services to customers.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The question for weeks leading into the NBA draft was whether the first pick would be Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren or Jabari Smith Jr.
The answer finally came Thursday night — and even Banchero didn’t know it until moments before the announcement of the Orlando Magic’s selection.
“I had a feeling from the information I was being told is that it was just kind of up in the air,” Banchero said. “Orlando wasn’t really sure yet, and just to be ready for whatever.
“I didn’t find out, though, that I was actually getting picked until about 20 seconds before the commissioner got on the stage. I didn’t even have time to really think about it or anything. It just kind of happened. I can’t believe it, but I’m ready. I’m ready.”
After leading the Blue Devils to the Final Four in coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final season, the 6-foot-10 forward was called first by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to begin the draft, beating out fellow first-year forwards Smith and Holmgren.
The order had been debated throughout the process, with Smith often considered the player who would go No. 1.
Instead, he wasn’t even second, falling behind Holmgren to Houston at No. 3.
“Definitely added a chip, but God makes no mistakes, so I’m happy to be here,” Smith said. “I’m happy to be where I’m wanted. I’m happy to get to Houston and just show them, give them what they picked. Just happy to be here.”
All the players picked looked thrilled, with Banchero among those crying or coming close as they hugged friends and family.
Wearing a purple suit full of bling, he received a loud ovation inside Barclays Center, where Duke lost in the ACC Tournament final. He came the fourth Duke player taken No. 1 since 1966, when the NBA did away with territorial draft rights, and was followed by Blue Devils teammates Mark Williams (No. 15, Charlotte), A.J. Griffin (No. 16, Atlanta) and Wendell Moore Jr. (No. 26, Dallas).
The Magic were picking first for the fourth time and they’ve done well with their previous choices. They took Shaquille O’Neal in 1992, traded the rights to Chris Webber for Penny Hardaway the next year, and went with Dwight Howard in 2004.
All eventually reached the NBA Finals with the Magic.
Holmgren went second to the Oklahoma City Thunder after the 7-footer led the West Coast Conference in blocked shots, rebounding and shooting percentage at Gonzaga. He looked sharp in his black suit but may need it to eventually be a bigger size for success in the NBA, as he’s listed at just 195 pounds.
He’s not worried about that talk.
“I wake up every day with a plan on how to make myself a better person, better basketball player,” Holmgren said. “I put so much effort into executing that, that it doesn’t really leave room to put effort into things that, one, I can’t control, and two, don’t help make me better.”
The Rockets were happy to end up in Smith who has the skills to go higher. The 6-10 forward from Auburn is a natural fit in the current NBA game, able to defend all three frontcourt positions and with a shooting stroke that allowed him to hit 42% behind the arc.
Forward Keegan Murray, after a huge leap in his second season in Iowa, jumped all the way to the No. 4 pick by the Sacramento Kings. The Detroit Pistons, a year after taking Cade Cunningham with the No. 1 pick, took athletic Purdue guard Jaden Ivey fifth.
Before the selections began, Silver congratulated the Golden State Warriors on their recent NBA championship and reminded fans that their core of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green was built through the draft.
All the teams at the top of this draft need help and have recent high picks already on their rosters, so will hope the Warriors way works for them as well.
Bennedict Mathurin, a Canadian who played at Arizona, went to Indiana with the No. 6 pick. The Portland Trail Blazers followed with Kentucky’s Shaedon Sharpe, Dyson Daniels of the G League Ignite was taken eighth by New Orleans, Baylor’s Jeremy Sochan stayed in Texas with San Antonio at No. 9, and Washington rounded out the top 10 with Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis.
Then the trades began, with the New York Knicks moving picks to amass more of them. They dealt the rights to No. 11 pick Ousmane Dieng to Oklahoma City for four first-round selections, then used one of them to acquire the rights to No. 13 pick Jalen Duren from Charlotte and deal him along with Kemba Walker to Detroit for another pick, a person with knowledge of the details told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because that trade would not become official Thursday.
Walker spent one season with the Knicks but wasn’t with the team after the All-Star break after battling knee problems.
The Warriors made Patrick Baldwin Jr. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee their pick at No. 28 and the first round ended with Oklahoma City taking UCLA’s Peyton Watson and agreeing to trade his rights to Denver.
Notable names in the second round included Gonzaga guard Andrew Nembhard (No. 31, Indiana), Ohio State’s EJ Liddell (No. 41, New Orleans) and Southern California’s Isaiah Mobley (No. 49, Cleveland, where brother Evan plays).
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-24T15:34:45+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/news/ap-top-headlines/magic-take-dukes-paolo-banchero-with-1st-pick-in-nba-draft/ |
Country singer Craig Morgan reenlists in military while on Grand Ole Opry stage
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Gray News) – Country singer Craig Morgan reenlisted in the military Saturday night while on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in hopes of encouraging others to enlist.
According to a news release, Morgan was sworn into the U.S. Army Reserve on stage by U.S. Army Forces Command Gen. Andrew Poppas.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn joined them on stage.
After the ceremony, Morgan returned to the microphone to perform his song “Soldier.”
Morgan previously served in the Army for 17 years, with certifications including Airborne, Air Assault and Rappel Master.
“I’m excited to once again serve my country and be all I can be in hopes of encouraging others to be a part of something greater than ourselves,” Morgan said in a news release. “I love being an artist, but I consider it a true privilege and honor to work with what I believe are the greatest of Americans, my fellow soldiers. God Bless America. Go Army.”
Morgan plans to continue touring and releasing new music while serving in the Army Reserve.
The 59-year-old singer is known to frequently perform at military bases both in the U.S. and abroad. In 2006, Morgan was awarded the USO Merit Award for his support.
Morgan began his music career in 2000. He is best known for his No. 1 single “That’s What I Love About Sunday” from 2004.
He was inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2008.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-31T21:19:01+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2023/07/31/country-singer-craig-morgan-reenlists-military-while-grand-ole-opry-stage/ |
(WETM) — Here is a look at some of the events that are happening in the Twin Tiers this weekend.
Eldridge Park Opening Weekend
The Summer Concert Series kicks off this weekend at Eldridge Park, providing both Saturday and Sunday, great music, and fun for everyone.
Happening on Saturday, From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., musical guest the Sam Pallet Band will be the first performer with some classic rock favorites.
Happening Sunday, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., the musical group Crossroads will be rocking the stage with country and classic rock favorites.
The concerts are free and are sponsored by Elm Chevrolet.
Corning GlassFest
Corning’s GlassFest officially started on Thursday, but the weekend is when the real festivities happen.
Spend the day on Saturday and Sunday on Market Street in Corning as food and craft vendors will line the streets to celebrate this amazing event. Centerway Square will hold live glassblowers while live music will be performed throughout the day.
Vendors will be out on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
To make the event even more special, a fireworks show will be held on Saturday night at 9:45 p.m.
To find more information about GlassFest, and a full listing of times for live events, click the link below.
Elmira Garden Club Plant and Bake Sale
For anyone looking to add to their flowerbed, be sure to check out the Elmira Garden Clubhouse on Saturday.
The sale will go from 9 a.m. to noon, and will have plenty of annuals, perennials, hanging plants, vegetable plants, and of course, baked goods.
A special event will be held at this as there will be unique goat milk soaps and locations by Edwards Family Homestead. Not only that but a book signing will be held by local author Judy Janowski with her book Life is a Garden Party.
The Elmira Garden Clubhouse is located at 426 Fulton St. in Elmira, behind St. Mary’s Gym.
Pound the Ground for Ultrasound
For those looking for some early morning exercise, Riverfront Park in Sayre is holding the Pound the Ground for Ultrasound 5k/10k event on Saturday.
Presented by First Look Pregnancy Center, this annual event raises money for the First Look Pregnancy Center of Sayre.
Registration will be available at the event tomorrow with the 10k sign-up scheduled for 7 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., with a race start time of 8 a.m. 5k sign-up is scheduled for 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. with a race start time of 9:30 a.m.
2022 Climate Change Lecture Series at Tanglewood
Join the Tanglewood staff in Elmira on Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon as they present climate change topics and discussions.
This is the first of five lectures scheduled for the summer at Tanglewood. Each lecture will be between 30-40 minutes with questions and answers at the end.
It allows for the public to become more informed about climate change and ways they can make a difference.
The topic of the first lecture is Waste & Recycling with speaker Ryan Donnelly.
All lectures are free to attend, and those that attend all five will receive a special prize. | 2022-05-27T22:28:47+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/local-news/weekend-events-in-the-twin-tiers-may-28-29/ |
The motherhood struggle is real. Just ask Olivia Munn.
The 42-year-old actress took to her Instagram Stories in the wee hours of the morning to document how her and John Mulaney's 1-year-old son woke them up screaming. The problem? The little one's teething! In her Stories, Munn posted video of the comedian entertaining little Malcolm with a late-night story time sesh.
Munn captioned the first video at 12:14 a.m. with, "We were awakened by a screaming Malcolm." That post was also accompanied by a GIF of a sleepy cat. The next video showed Mulaney reading Malcolm another book, and it's in that post where Munn reveals, "He's teething again." She followed that up with a pic captioned, "Looks like we’ll be having a Christmas molar."
The next several videos showed Munn burying her tired face in her hand, and the posts were set to the tune of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence." Another video showed her struggling even the simplest task, like removing her glasses from her head, which got tangled in her hair. She captioned that post, "It’s too f-in late for this nonsense."
But all's well that ends well. The couple woke up in the morning and planned to head outside for a little snow action, but Munn revealed they had to come "right back inside [because] the windshield is [freezing emoji]." Munn's final post included Malcolm lifting his polar bear-shaped hoodie to reveal his cute little face.
It's not the first time the mother of one has been candid about her struggles. Back in February, Munn opened up about her low milk supply as she struggled to breastfeed her then-2-month-old son. She took to Instagram and shared video in which she detailed her breastfeeding journey, noting that she has tried "two lactation consultants, lactation soups, three breastfeeding pillows, liters of coconut water, lactation teas, gummies, vitamins, cookies, nipple ointments, skin to skin contact, heating pads to increase circulation, and three different breast pumps."
Placing a device around her neck, Munn also shared, "I even wore this device filled with formula around my neck with tubes taped to my nipples so I could stimulate milk production while giving my baby the nutrients he needs."
But the happy moments have undoubtedly outweighed those struggles. Just last month, Munn and Mulaney celebrated Malcolm's first birthday. Munn shared sweet photos and videos of the little one wearing a knitted crown with the number "1" on it.
"Just got back from celebrating ONE YEAR of the most joyful baby being in this world and in our lives. My son, my joy. Happiest Birthday Malcolm Hiệp! I love you so so so much," Munn captioned several photos of her little guy wearing all white and covering himself in chocolate cake.
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Orthogen AG announces new study published by veterinary journal Animals
DÜSSELDORF, Germany, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new treatment is significantly more effective in improving symptoms of moderate to severe hip osteoarthritis in dogs than glucocorticoid alone, according a study published this week in "Advances in Diagnostic and Treatment Methods for Joint Diseases in Dogs and Cats," a special issue published by the veterinary journal Animals.
Trial results show that one intra-articular shot of autologous conditioned serum (ACS) improves the overall health of dogs with osteoarthritis and that the combination of ACS with the glucocorticoid triamcinolone led to even faster and longer-lasting improvements in function and pain. Adult dogs with osteoarthritis in their hips suffer severe pain and limited movement, lowering their quality of life.
The study compared treatment with ACS alone, treatment with glucocorticoids alone (in the previously published* first arm of the cross over) and treatment with ORTHOGEN AG's patented therapy of concomitant ACS and glucocorticoids.
ACS contains the entire blood cell secretome (BCS) after extended coagulation in a defined environment. It contains anti-inflammatory and anabolic proteins derived from the dog's own blood and is processed using Orthogen Veterinary's newly-developed proprietary device (Orthogen®Device vet).
"I have studied multiple autologous blood products and other intra-articular treatments, and Orthogen's approach was a very effective treatment, with surprisingly sustainable results," says Dr. Joao Alves, a veterinarian and the study's lead author. Dr. Alves also is a police captain who specialises in intra-articular treatments for osteoarthritis in highly trained police working dogs.
Veterinarian Julien Troillet, Dr. med. vet., managing director of Orthogen Veterinary GmbH, says the company is seeking global partners to make regenerative medicine broadly available to canine patients, allowing veterinarians to treat dogs with a therapy that addresses the roots of the disease.
Animals 2022, 12(23), 3358; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12233358 - 30 Nov 2022
*Alves JC, Santos A, Jorge P, Carreira LM. A first report on the efficacy of a single intra-articular administration of blood cell secretome, triamcinolone acetonide, and the combination of both in dogs with osteoarthritis. BMC Vet Res. Published online 2022:1-10. doi:10.1186/s12917-022-03413-2
Contact:
Orthogen Veterinary GmbH
Dr. med. vet. Julien P. Troillet
Ernst-Schneider-Platz 1
D-40212 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 (0)211-3870018
Mobile: +49 (0)173-7116392
E-mail: julien.troillet@orthogen.com
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