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Tens of thousands of North Koreans marched in anti-U.S. rallies in the nation’s capital over the weekend, pledging “merciless” revenge against “U.S. imperialists,” as the country marked the 73rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War, state media said Monday.
More than 120,000 people participated in Sunday’s mass rallies in Pyongyang, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said.
While the 1950-53 conflict was triggered by a North Korean surprise attack, the demonstrators mobilized in Pyongyang promoted their government’s version of events and accused the United States of provoking the war and leaving Koreans with “wounds ... that can never be healed.”
They also expressed pride in North Korea’s expanding nuclear weapons and missile programs, insisting their country now has the “strongest absolute weapon to punish the U.S. imperialists and the war deterrence for self-defense which no enemy dare provoke.”
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Photos published by the North’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a Pyongyang stadium packed with likely tens of thousands of people in COVID-19 masks, raising their fists in the air and holding signs that read: “Let’s eradicate U.S. imperialist invaders” and “The entire U.S. mainland is within our striking range.”
The weekend rallies came amid heightened tensions in the region, as the pace of North Korean weapons demonstrations and the United States’ joint military exercises with South Korea have both intensified in a cycle of tit-for-tat.
Since the start of 2022, North Korea has test-fired around 100 missiles of various ranges as leader Kim Jong Un attempts to display a dual ability to conduct nuclear strikes on both the U.S. mainland and South Korea. The North is also speeding up efforts to launch its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit, following a failed first attempt in May.
There are signs that Kim is preparing to further flaunt his military might by staging a huge military parade in Pyongyang next month that will likely feature his most powerful missiles.
Recent commercial satellite images have spotted troop and vehicle movements and the building of structures that suggest North Korea is preparing a parade, likely for the July 27 anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement, which the North marks as the “great war victory day.”
Kim and his daughter took center stage during a military parade in February, when his military rolled out what appeared to be a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, which was likely the same system the country flight-tested for the first time in April. If perfected, the weapon would give Kim a more mobile and harder-to-detect weapon to target the continental United States.
Meanwhile, a North Korean defector-turned-activist said he flew balloons carrying some 200,000 anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets and COVID-19 medical supplies across the border from the South on Sunday night, continuing his yearslong campaigns that have often triggered angry responses from the North.
Photos sent by Park Sang-hak showed a placard with a picture of Kim and a message that highlighted how his state-founding grandfather, Kim Il Sung, was responsible for starting the Korean War. The North as of Monday afternoon had not commented on Park’s latest ballooning stint.
North Korea is extremely sensitive about any outside attempt to undermine Kim’s leadership and weaken his absolute control over the country’s 26 million people, most of whom have little access to foreign news.
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2023-06-26T07:22:59+00:00
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nbcchicago.com
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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/thousands-of-north-koreans-march-in-anti-us-rallies-as-country-marks-korean-war-anniversary/3170650/
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BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — Jody Miller, whose “Queen of the House” won the 1966 Grammy Award for best country performance by a woman, died Thursday at age 80.
Miller died in her hometown of Blanchard, Oklahoma, of complications from Parkinson’s disease, according to Universal Music Group, owner of Capitol Records, which released most of her hits.
“Queen of the House” was released in 1965 as an answer to Roger Miller’s hit “King of the Road.” The hit opened up a crossover career for Jody Miller, who wasn’t related to the “King of the Road” composer and singer.
Her 1965 teen protest song “Home of the Brave” was her biggest-selling single, despite being banned from some radio stations’ playlists. Another hit was “Long Black Limousine,” a song about a man’s funeral procession.
In the 1970s, Miller moved to Epic Records, where she had hits with “Baby I’m Yours,” There’s a Party Goin’ On,” “Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home,” and the Grammy-nominated crossover hit cover of “He’s So Fine.”
She retired in the 1980s to spend more time with her husband and children. After her husband’s death, she recorded a 2018 single, “Where My Picture Hangs on the Wall,” with daughter Robin Brooks Sullivan and Miller’s two grandchildren.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2022-10-07T11:49:02+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/entertainment/2022/10/06/queen-of-the-house-singer-jody-miller-dies-at-age-80-2/
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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the federal right to abortion, things are more than a little confused.
As lower courts grapple with rapidly changing state laws, patients wonder from day to day if abortion is still legal, and even if legal, whether it is still available in their states. Health professionals in states with abortion bans fear prosecution by state authorities for performing abortions or by federal authorities for not performing them in life- or health-threatening situations.
Even employers are caught between conflicting state and federal rules about what can, cannot, and must be covered by insurance.
But amid all the confusion, there are some things that are simply not true. Here are three myths going around about the abortion debate:
MYTH 1: Only people seeking abortions are affected by the Supreme Court's action.
The huge changes and uncertainties wrought by the Supreme Court's erasure of 49 years of largely settled federal policy most directly affect pregnant women. But they are far from the only people whose medical care is being disrupted.
As abortion providers pack up and leave states with bans, they may take with them expertise in managing high-risk pregnancies as well as routine deliveries, particularly in less-populated areas, plus access to long-acting birth control and screening and treatment for cancer and sexually transmitted diseases.
Similarly, medical students and medical residents may not want to train in states where they can't learn abortion techniques, which are often the same as care for miscarriages. That could lead to shortages of people trained to help patients give birth safely just as more people are being forced to carry pregnancies to term.
Also affected, at this point as much by accident as intent, is birth control. In Missouri, a hospital system temporarily stopped distributing the "morning after" birth control pill, which is a contraceptive that does not cause abortion, before reversing the decision.
That is its own sub-myth — that the Plan B morning-after pill is the same as the abortion pill mifepristone. Plan B is a high dose of regular birth control that prevents ovulation but does not interrupt an existing pregnancy. Mifepristone ends a pregnancy if used in approximately the first 10 weeks.
And it's not just pregnant women who are affected by the uncertainty. People with severe psoriasis, lupus and other autoimmune disorders are already reporting difficulty obtaining methotrexate, a first-line medication for those ailments that can also be used as an abortion medication.
MYTH 2: The Democratic Congress could have codified abortion protections long before now, but chose not to.
The House on July 15 voted — for the second time by this Congress — for a bill that would effectively codify the federal abortion protections of the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Ever since the court overturned that decision last month, Democrats on social media and elsewhere have complained that this is a bill Congress should have passed years ago, when the Democrats had firmer control of the House, the Senate and the White House.
But even though Democrats had bigger majorities in Congress under Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, large numbers of anti-abortion Democrats in both chambers effectively meant there was not a majority for such legislation, much less the 60-vote supermajority that would have been required in the Senate.
It was not, contrary to some revisionist historians' views, for lack of trying. In 1992, Democratic leaders promised to bring the "Freedom of Choice" act to the floor, a bill that would have written the right to abortion into federal law, if only to embarrass then-President George H.W. Bush right before the GOP convention. (Here is a very old clip of me explaining the situation on C-SPAN.) In the end the bill did not make it to the floor of either the House or the Senate, as Democratic leaders could not muster the votes.
In fact, since the Roe ruling, the House has been more anti-abortion than the Senate, in part because so many Democrats from Southern and/or conservative districts opposed abortion (most have now been replaced by Republicans), and because the Senate has long had at least a handful of Republicans who support abortion rights. Today that is limited to Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The House got its first abortion-rights majority only in 2019, when Donald Trump was president.
MYTH 3: Congress could simply eliminate statutory abortion restrictions now.
With Democrats in charge of both Congress and the White House, they can just change the existing laws limiting abortion, advocates claim. Indeed, President Joe Biden's budgets in 2021 and 2022 proposed eliminating the so-called Hyde Amendment, named for its sponsor, the anti-abortion crusading Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), which has barred most federal abortion funding since the late 1970s. But while the House voted in 2021 for the funding bill for the Department of Health and Human Services without the abortion rider for the first time in decades, Senate Republicans forced the restrictions back into the final measure. The same is expected later this year. Democrats hold only 50 seats in the Senate and need at least 10 Republicans on any bill that is threatened with a filibuster.
The Hyde Amendment could also keep the federal government from allowing abortion clinics to operate on federal land, as many progressives have been calling for. But other, more complicated federal-state issues would more likely doom that scenario.
Complicating things still more, the Hyde language in the HHS spending bill is far from the only abortion restriction embedded in federal law. While abortion-rights backers have successfully fought off most efforts to make such restrictions permanent, various other spending bills annually include limits on abortion in the military, in federal prisons, by the Indian Health Service, and as an insurance benefit for federal workers. Congress has also limited the ability of the District of Columbia to spend local tax dollars on abortion.
It is possible the reversal of Roe could lead to the reversal of some of these restrictions. But with Democrats' paper-thin majority in the Senate, it's not likely, at least not in 2022.
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. It is an editorially independent operating program of KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation).
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-07-22T16:18:33+00:00
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mainepublic.org
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https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-07-22/3-common-myths-about-the-abortion-debate-that-many-people-get-wrong
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Ice 2, Rebels 1
First Period
1. Winnipeg, Ostapchuk 21 (Pederson, Friesen) 12:03.
Penalties — Sward Wpg (slashing) 5:16; Fabrizi Rd (checking to the head) 9:00; Cumby Wpg (delay of game) 15:36; McClennon Wpg (hooking) 17:41.
Second Period
2. Red Deer, Isley 25 (Larson, Grubbe) 0:11.
Penalties — McClennon Wpg, Formanek Rd (roughing) 3:07; Formanek Rd (checking from behind) 3:07; Formanek Rd (slashing) 9:44; Geekie Wpg (high sticking) 17:55.
Third Period
3. Winnipeg, Savoie 29 (Benson, Geekie) 4:38.
Penalties — Sward Wpg (roughing) 0:07; Formanek Rd (tripping) 1:52; Lambos Wpg, Uchacz Rd (roughing) 19:13.
Shots on goal by
Goal — Winnipeg: Hauser (W, ). Red Deer: Kelsey (L, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-4; Red Deer: 0-5.
Referees — Jeff Ingram, Kevin Webinger. Linesmen — Chad Huseby, Logan Parsons.
Attendance — 3,743 at Red Deer.
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2023-02-25T05:08:07+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/hko-whl-sums-winnipeg-red-deer-17805142.php
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McDonald’s is getting rid of these sweet menu items
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business
New York (CNN) — McDonald’s is discontinuing its selection of baked goods less than three years after their debut.
The chain confirmed that its McCafé bakery lineup, consisting of an apple fritter, blueberry muffin and cinnamon roll, is being phased out beginning this month.
In a statement to CNN, McDonald’s said it’s “always listening to our fans and adjusting our menu based on what they crave,” signaling that perhaps the items weren’t selling as strongly as they once were. The chain pointed to its other remaining sweet treat options, like chocolate chip cookies and apple pies, as alternatives.
McDonald’s (MCD) rolled out the bakery lineup in October 2020, marking the first time in roughly a decade that it sold new bakery items. It was aimed at igniting orders during the mornings, where the restaurant chain found itself struggling against new competitors (like Wendy’s) and changing habits due to people working from home during the height of the pandemic.
However, breakfast sales at McDonald’s rebounded in recent quarters as people return to the office and people resume their pre-Covid routines.
Discontinuing the bakery lineup comes as McDonald’s recently expanded a partnership with Krispy Kreme to sell donuts at nearly 200 locations in Kentucky. It was seen as an unusual move since McDonald’s had sold its own baked goods.
For McDonald’s, the partnership looked to attract new customers in the morning when business has remained steady. Meanwhile, lunch and dinner sales have declined in the midst of rising menu prices, according to research firm NDP Group.
The upside for Krispy Kreme is potentially bigger since it has fewer locations and wants to expand in the US. The chain uses a hub-and-spoke model, meaning it makes doughnuts at its stores and bakeries and sells them at third-party locations, such as convenience stores, to help bolster its business.
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2023-07-11T18:57:49+00:00
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krdo.com
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https://krdo.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2023/07/11/mcdonalds-is-getting-rid-of-these-sweet-menu-items/
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Justin Bieber is the latest musician to sell the rights to his entire catalog of music. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Billboard music publishing reporter Kristin Robinson to explain the deal.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Justin Bieber is the latest musician to sell the rights to his entire catalog of music. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Billboard music publishing reporter Kristin Robinson to explain the deal.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-01-25T23:55:13+00:00
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mainepublic.org
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https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-01-25/justin-bieber-sells-the-rights-to-his-entire-catalog-for-over-200-million
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BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Nate Calmese had 21 points and his basket with eight seconds left carried Lamar to a 68-66 victory over Texas A&M-CC on Thursday night.
Calmese shot 5 for 10 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 9 of 12 from the free throw line for the Cardinals (6-13, 2-5 Southland Conference). Yuto Yamanouchi-Williams added 10 points while going 3 of 7 and 3 of 4 from the free throw line, and they also had 11 rebounds. Janko Buljic was 3 of 5 shooting and 3 of 6 from the free throw line to finish with nine points.
Isaac Mushila led the way for the Islanders (11-8, 4-2) with 20 points, nine rebounds and two steals. Trey Tennyson added 13 points for Texas A&M-CC. In addition, Terrion Murdix had 10 points, nine assists and four steals.
NEXT UP
These two teams both play Saturday. Lamar hosts Incarnate Word while Texas A&M-CC visits Houston Baptist.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2023-01-20T06:43:36+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Lamar-secures-68-66-victory-against-Texas-A-M-CC-17729917.php
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MITO, Japan >> Ibaraki prefecture is Japan’s largest source of caught mackerel, and the Ibaraki government wants to make fish farming a sustainable industry that future generations can inherit. The prefecture has been conducting an experiment in which technology, including artificial intelligence, is used for farming mackerel. Students at a local high school are working with the government on management of fish farming pens.
The project aims to build a system utilizing underwater cameras and other devices to monitor the condition of fish and water temperature, while an AI system controls feeding. If all goes well, Ibaraki will ship out the farmed fish to markets in the fall.
Cutting costs
Ibaraki seashores curve along the Pacific Ocean and are easily affected by waves, making them a challenging area for fish farming.
But one evening in mid-January, at the Nakaminato fishing port in Hitachinaka, three members of the Ibaraki Prefectural Kaiyo High School fisheries club prepared to feed fish. The students stood at a 16-by-16-foot farming pen, maneuvered a 44-pound bag of feed and inserted the fish food into a feeding machine.
Their work was part of Ibaraki’s effort to raise 10,000 baby mackerel that last fall were about 6 inches long and weighed about 1.7 ounces.
“This is a (valuable) experience for me as I can get involved in an activity that is (technologically) advanced,” said Ryoma Orikasa, 17, a third-year student of the high school. “I feel rewarded when I see the fish growing … little by little.”
Ibaraki hopes to demonstrate the feasibility of an AI-operated feeding system, which would figure out the proper amount of feed to disperse and the proper intervals between feedings.
Reducing leftover feed will both cut costs and contribute to sustaining sea environments.
Six members of the high school club work on the project four times weekly, ensuring the amount of feed is correct in areas where the camera has blind spots and providing data about the mackerel to the government.
“I want to (gain) experiences and utilize them in the future,” said third-year student Reon Uchikoshi, who planned to join a fish farming company this spring.
Served raw
According to 2021 national statistics, Ibaraki caught 73,800 tons of mackerel, the largest amount nationwide.
But in recent years, with the catch of mackerel and salmon down nationwide, the prefecture was motivated to gain proficiency in fish farming to enable stable supplies into the future.
Much of the wild mackerel caught in Ibaraki has been shipped as frozen or canned food to avoid the risk of parasites. But the prefectural government has its sights set on raw mackerel dishes made with its farmed mackerel raised on feed.
By late February the farmed mackerel had grown to about 8 inches long, and are now expected to grow to about 12 inches, a size suitable for harvesting, within a year.
Ibaraki will ship the fish on a trial basis in the fall, through a company in Yokohama that has a nationwide sales network, to determine the farm’s profitability.
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2023-06-08T10:50:03+00:00
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staradvertiser.com
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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/06/08/news/mackerel-farming-supports-sustainability/
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CANNON BEACH, Ore. (AP) — A cougar that climbed onto a towering rock off the coast of northwest Oregon over the weekend — probably in search of feathered prey — has abandoned the craggy formation, allowing for the popular Cannon Beach to reopen to visitors Monday.
Multiple agencies and organizations, from local and state police to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Parks and Recreation Department, responded to Sunday morning's sighting of the big cat on the iconic Haystack Rock. The beach was closed to protect people and let it return to its usual habitat.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said officials later confirmed that the animal had moved on. A game camera captured an image of it leaving the rock Sunday night, and tracks were also found heading away, federal officials said.
State biologists believe the cougar ventured to Haystack Rock at low tide Saturday night to hunt birds, a behavior they have not previously witnessed at that site.
"While the forested areas along the coast are prime habitat for cougars, it is unusual that a cougar made its way on to Haystack Rock,” Paul Atwood, a biologist with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said in a statement. “Their primary food source is deer, but they will also consume elk, other mammals and birds.”
However, cougars have been documented traveling to other similar small offshore islands in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson Megan Nagel said via email.
Haystack Rock, protected as part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is abundant with seabirds and sea life in the summer.
From March through September, tufted puffins, common murres, pigeon guillemot and black oystercatcher raise their young on the formation.
Part of the rock is closed year-round to all public use to protect nesting and roosting birds.
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2023-07-18T19:09:19+00:00
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knkx.org
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https://www.knkx.org/environment/2023-07-18/oregons-cannon-beach-reopens-after-cougar-sighting-on-iconic-coastal-rock-led-to-closure
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Source: Christopher Polk / GettyRihanna honored fallen fashion icon André Leon Talley during her half-time performance at Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, Sunday evening.
The Fenty founder (and her unborn guest star) stood in the center of a floating stage rocking a floor-length puffer coat designed by Alaïa. She slipped the outerwear over her fire-engine red Lowe outfit styled by Jahleel Weaver while performing her 2012 hit Diamonds.
Leon Talley, who passed away in January of 2022, was known for his love of comfortable luxury. He often wore caftans and robes, and his red Norma Kamali sleeping bag coat was a wardrobe staple of the former editor and creative director.
Rihanna proved her commitment to the influence person and not the platform by placing Leon Talley’s legacies on one of the world’s biggest stages.
The superstar has not released a statement confirming that her choice was intentional, but whether she meant to or not, she showcased Leon Talley’s stylish influence to the world.
Vogue may have made Leon Talley a household name, but his talent put him in that position. His Southern twang, comprehensive design knowledge, and fearless persona are all infused into today’s fashion media landscape. His mentorship and criticism helped craft the aesthetic of our closets.
The visual nod from the superstar showed the respect many on social media felt Vogue did not show Leon Talley. Talley served the mainstream fashion publication for many years in different capacities, including as an Editor-at-Large. He embodied and elevated the brand in public spaces whenever he could.
But despite his role as a recurring host on the red carpet for the Met gala, where he interviewed Rihanna multiple times, he was not selected as the theme for this year’s upcoming May 1 event.
Some, including fashion historian Cora Harrington, saw the decision not to center him the year after his death as disrespectful.
His death also did not earn him a solo cover, though it did merit an obituary and post featuring his colorful life in pictures. Leon Talley faced more challenges as the industry elite turned away from him.
The icon was surrounded by opulent possessions, Christie’s is holding an estate sale of coveted selections from his impressive collection of art and fashion on February 16. But reports began circulating that his personal finances were not secure later in his life. The New York Times reported that the idol had been unceremoniously dispossessed as the gilded handshake agreements gave way to the limitations of an income influx.
Leon Talley wrote that he felt underappreciated and discarded by the fashion industry in his 2020 memoir “The Chiffon Trenches.”
At a time when every industry is slashing staff and those with cool job titles are becoming victims to the backlash of the great resignation seeing Leon Talley’s impact instantly recognized is refreshing.
Rihanna and her stylist’s choice proved that no matter his account balance or job title when he transitioned, his undeniable contributions will never go out of style.
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2023-02-15T00:42:18+00:00
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hot1009.com
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https://hot1009.com/3561205/rihanna-tributes-andre-leon-talley-with-her-halftime-show-fit/
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CHICAGO, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to make recycling easier and convenient for parents, VTech® announced today that consumers can drop off well-loved or broken VTech or LeapFrog® electronic toys at local public drop-off locations that actively recycle with TerraCycle. For consumers who prefer to ship in their toys for recycling, a Ship + Win promotion is running through January 31st, giving them a chance to win prizes. Whether utilizing the public drop-off locations or shipping option, VTech and TerraCycle offer consumers an easy way to recycle their well-loved electronics responsibly.
"The new year is a great time to remind everyone that old and unusable toys can easily be recycled," said Andy Keimach, President, VTech Electronics North America. "We hope this initiative will encourage our consumers and everyone that finds joy from the world of toys to join VTech in our sustainability efforts by participating in our toy recycling program."
Through the public drop-off location program, VTech and LeapFrog are leaning into education by allowing parents to show their children how to be sustainably responsible when donating isn't an option. By becoming a public drop-off, schools and organizations can provide their local communities with an opportunity to divert a prominent waste stream from landfills across the country while recycling material into new products.
The VTech® & LeapFrog® Toys Free Recycling Program offers consumers two free and simple ways to recycle VTech and LeapFrog electronic toys that are broken or can no longer be donated. Consumers can use the map on the TerraCycle program page at https://www.terracycle.com/vtech-leapfrog to locate a public drop-off point and bring their toys there to be collected for recycling. If there aren't any public drop-off locations nearby, consumers may sign up for the recycling program on the TerraCycle program page, download a prepaid shipping label and mail in the electronic toys. For every shipment of VTech and LeapFrog electronic toys sent to TerraCycle, consumers earn points that can be donated to a non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice. To encourage increased collections, everyone who ships through January 31st will earn 500 bonus points and a chance to win a $50 VTech and LeapFrog prize pack.
VTech's partnership with TerraCycle is part of its commitment to its Sustainability Plan 2025, which includes efforts to develop eco-friendly products and packaging and continuous engagement in various post-consumer recycling programs. To learn more about VTech's sustainability efforts and achievements, please visit www.vtech.com/en/sustainability/.
For additional details about the TerraCycle initiatives and how to recycle VTech and LeapFrog toys, please visit www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/vtech-leapfrog.
About VTech®
VTech is a world leader in age-appropriate and developmental stage-based electronic learning products for children. As a pioneer in the learning toy category, VTech develops high-quality, innovative educational products that enrich children's development and make learning fun. With a rich 46-year history, VTech has not only established itself as a learning authority but also consistently remains at the forefront of innovation with multiple award-winning products, including prestigious Toy of the Year (TOTY) Award winners. The company also has a broad range of award-winning infant, toddler and preschool products available in 28 different languages worldwide, with more than 100 new products introduced every year. In order to further strengthen its position as a learning authority, VTech develops new products with critical insights from a dedicated team of in-house learning experts.
VTech Electronics North America, L.L.C., is based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. VTech Electronics Limited is headquartered in Hong Kong with distribution globally.
For more information about VTech electronic learning products, visit www.VTechKids.com, www.facebook.com/VTechtoys on Facebook or follow @VTechToys on Twitter.
About LeapFrog®
LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. is the leader in innovative learning toys for children that encourage a child's curiosity and love of learning throughout their early developmental journey. For more than 25 years, LeapFrog has helped children expand their knowledge and imagination through award-winning products that combine state-of-the-art educational expertise led by the LeapFrog Learning Team, innovative technology, and engaging play – turning playtime into quality time that helps children leap ahead. LeapFrog's proprietary learning tablets and ground-breaking developmental games, learn to read and write systems, interactive learning toys and more are designed to create personalized experiences that encourage, excite and build confidence in children. LeapFrog is a subsidiary of VTech Holdings Limited, which is based in Hong Kong. LeapFrog was founded in 1995 by a father who revolutionized technology-based learning solutions to help his child learn how to read. Learn more at www.leapfrog.com.
About TerraCycle
TerraCycle is an international leader in innovative sustainability solutions, creating and operating first-of-their-kind platforms in recycling, recycled materials, and reuse. Across 21 countries, TerraCycle is on a mission to rethink waste and develop practical solutions for today's complex waste challenges. The company engages an expansive multi-stakeholder community across a wide range of accessible programs, from Fortune 500 companies to schools and individuals, and has raised over $44 million for schools and nonprofits since its founding more than 15 years ago. To learn more about TerraCycle and join them on their journey to move the world from a linear economy to a circular one, please visit www.terracycle.com.
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2023-01-25T18:20:56+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/01/25/vtech-terracycle-encourage-sustainability-through-expanded-recycling-program-post-holiday-promotion/
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ZIONSVILLE — "Please pay. We need our money," said Abdual Fyzalon.
Owner of City Wide Paving Inc. Abdual Fyzalon says his company hasn't been paid for their completed work at a Zionsville golf path.
"We started the job in November of 2021. Here we are in July of 2022. The job was completed on June 6 of 2022," Fyzalon said. "The total contract price was almost $570,000. There is a reason why we are not getting paid and it's always a clerical issue. It's never an issue with the work. The work has been accepted. The golf course is open."
District 5 Town Councilor Josh Garrett says the town uses an out-of-state payment system called OpenGov.
Garrett said right now, town officials aren't able to access accurate account funds.
"In the day to day, we don't know where are we on the budget. Are we over? Are we under budget? That is the piece that is missing," Garrett said. "Now the town isn't gonna run out of money. We are able to pay bills, but does certainly hurt for strategic planning."
He said it's impacting payments for vendors and contractors because those claims have to be approved by the council.
"There are many, many vendors that are unfortunately impacted by this and some are small businesses," Garrett said. "Some are local to Zionsville. We have the cash. We want to pay them. We just don't have the system that allows us to get them paid."
Garrett said several vendors including City Way Paving won't be paid until at least August.
"So the last two meetings we have not had claims provided to us had not had the opportunity to review them or vote on them. So, they will not be provided until August, so we have vendors that should be paid and will be paid and cannot get paid until claims are reviewed and errors are fixed," Garrett said.
He says this isn't the first time this has happened due to software issues.
"I feel bad for them and all of those vendors waiting on those checks," Garrett said. "They shouldn't be made to suffer due to a poorly designed system that the town of Zionsville finds themselves having."
The situation is unacceptable for Fyzalon.
"I have deep concerns about what's going on in Zionsville," Fyzalon said. "We do a lot of work in getting paid from a public-funded project. These are taxpayers' money. Please pay your bills. I am speaking on behalf of us contractors. We can not afford to carry a city such as Zionsville on our backs while you guys are reaping the benefits of our labor."
"Claims were presented to Town Council at the June 21 meeting. Those claims were approved and have been paid. Due to a software issue, claims were not presented to Council at the July 5 meeting. Finance staff alerted the vendor of the issue and subsequently, the software was updated, the issue was resolved and claims were presented to the Parks Board on July 13. These have been approved and been paid. Unfortunately, Town Council cancelled their July 18 meeting. Had council not cancelled their July 18 meeting, claims would have been presented for their consideration and vendors would have been paid on July 19. We are prepared to present claims at the Council’s next meeting.
WRTV received a copy of the claim report.
There are nearly one thousand people paid out, including employees.
WRTV has reached out to "OpenGov" for comment.
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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit sued the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday over population estimates from last year that show it lost an additional 7,100 residents, opening another front against the agency in a battle over how the city’s people have been counted in the past two years.
Mayor Mike Duggan told reporters that the city wants the Census Bureau to reveal how it produced its population loss estimates for Detroit. Duggan claimed the bureau was going against its own policy by refusing to divulge to Detroit the way the estimates for the city were calculated and not allowing challenges this year.
The lawsuit appears to be the first litigation to challenge population results since the release of 2020 census data, which traditionally has formed the foundation of the annual population estimates.
The Census Bureau’s refusal this year to consider evidence that the 2021 population estimates were wrong perpetuates racial inequality and threatens the city’s reputation, Detroit said in its lawsuit.
“The Bureau’s failure to consider evidence of its inaccurate 2021 estimate costs the City and its residents millions of dollars of funding to which they are entitled while threatening the City’s historic turnaround by advancing the narrative that Detroit is losing population,” the lawsuit said.
The Census Bureau said in an emailed statement that it doesn’t comment on litigation.
The bureau two years ago temporarily suspended its program allowing local governments to challenge their population estimates so more resources could be devoted to the execution of the once-a-decade census. The program isn’t expected to resume until next year.
Detroit’s lawsuit follows the city’s appeal of the 2020 census data that showed Detroit with 639,111 residents, while estimates from 2019 put the city’s population at 670,052 residents.
Undercounts from the census and population estimates could cost Detroit tens of millions of dollars in federal funding over the next decade. Over the past decade or so, the city has received around $3.5 billion in annual federal funding tied to census figures.
“We have absolutely no idea what formula they could have possibly used,” Duggan said Tuesday. “We don’t know what formula they used because they won’t tell us.”
Duggan said 14 new apartment buildings opened in Detroit last year. DTE Energy has said 7,544 new utility accounts have been added, while the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department said new service has been added to 6,964 housing units, he added.
The U.S. Postal Service also has said it is delivering mail to 4,475 more residences in the city, according to Duggan.
“It’s now clear the data coming out of the U.S. Census Bureau is completely divorced from reality,” he said. “We’re drawing a line in the sand, and we’re going to try to force accuracy out of these guys one way or the other. ”
“I think what the formula would show — it would show the error in their calculations, but if we get a formula that turns out they’re right, we’ll admit they’re right,” Duggan added.
Because of delays in releasing the 2020 census numbers, the Census Bureau broke with tradition and didn’t rely only on census figures for creating the foundation of its 2021 estimates of the U.S. population. Instead, statisticians “blended” the 2020 census numbers with other data sets to form the base of the annual population estimates used to help distribute $1.5 trillion in federal funding each year and measure annual population change through 2030.
Detroit is among several large cities to file a challenge of their figures from the 2020 census, following a national head count in which the Census Bureau acknowledged that a higher percentage of African Americans and Hispanics were undercounted than the previous decade. About 77% of Detroit’s residents are African American, and Hispanics make up almost 8% of the population.
Leaders of Michigan’s largest city had questioned the results of the 2020 census since December 2021, when they released a report suggesting that more than 8% of the occupied homes in 10 Detroit neighborhoods may have been undercounted.
Duggan has said in a letter to the Census Bureau that insufficient resources and not enough census takers were devoted to the count in Detroit, resulting in an undercount of unoccupied homes that could amount to tens of thousands of residents being overlooked.
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Schneider reported from Orlando, Florida.
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2022-09-21T07:17:09+00:00
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-detroit-sues-census-over-estimates-in-2nd-fight-over-counts/
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Trump CFO’s plea deal could make him a prosecution witness
NEW YORK (AP) — Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty on Thursday to tax violations in a deal that would require him to testify about business practices at the former president’s company. That's according to two people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Weisselberg is charged with accepting more than $1.7 million in untaxed compensation. The people told the AP that Weisselberg will have to speak in court about the company’s role in the arrangement and possibly serve as a witness when the Trump Organization goes on trial in October. Messages seeking comment were left with prosecutors and lawyers for Weisselberg and Trump's company.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy hosts talks with UN chief, Turkey leader
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to meet the U.N. chief and Turkey’s leader in Lviv near Ukraine’s border with Poland. Thursday's talks will focus on the recent deal to resume Ukraine’s grain exports, the volatile situation at a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant and efforts to help end the war. Turkey and the United Nations helped broker an agreement last month clearing the way for Ukraine to export 22 million tons of grain stuck in its ports since Moscow invaded on Feb. 24. The U.N. chief will focus on containing the volatile situation at a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant, while Turkey's leader will try to expand grain exports from Ukraine.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to be the strongest segment of the U.S. economy. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending August 13 fell by 2,000 to 250,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Last week’s number, which raised some eyebrows, was revised down by 10,000. The four-week average for claims, which evens out some of the week-to-week volatility, fell by 2,750 to 246,750. Unemployment applications generally reflect layoffs and are often seen as an early indicator of where the job market is headed.
Saudi doctoral student gets 34 years in prison for tweets
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T-Mobile settles to pay $350M to customers in data breach
NEW YORK (AP) — T- Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to customers affected by a class action lawsuit filed after the company disclosed last August that personal data like social security numbers had been stolen in a cyberattack.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday, the mobile phone company said the funds would pay for claims by class members, the legal fees of plaintiffs’ counsel and the costs of administering the settlement. It also said it would spend $150 million through 2023 to fortify its data security and other technologies.
T-Mobile said the settlement contains no admission of liability, wrongdoing or responsibility by any of the defendants.
The company said that it expects court approval of the terms of the settlement as early as December 2022.
Nearly 80 million U.S. residents were affected by the breach. In addition to Social Security numbers, other information breached included names and information from driver’s licenses or other identification.
T-Mobile, based in Bellevue, Washington, became one of the country’s largest cellphone service carriers, along with AT&T and Verizon, after acquiring rival Sprint in 2020. It reported having a total of 102.1 million U.S. customers after the merger.
T-Mobile said it expects to record a total pre-tax charge of roughly $400 million in the second quarter of this year.
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2022-07-23T15:32:29+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — America’s top television networks on Thursday turned prime time over to a gripping account of former President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — with one prominent exception.
The top-rated news network, Fox News Channel, stuck with its own lineup of commentators. Sean Hannity denounced the “show trial” elsewhere on TV just as he was featured in it, with the House’s Jan. 6 committee examining his tweets to Trump administration figures.
Hannity aired a soundless snippet of committee members entering the hearing room as part of a lengthy monologue condemning the proceedings.
That was all Fox News Channel viewers saw of the hearing.
“It’s really just a cheap, selectively edited political ad,” Hannity told his viewers.
Meanwhile, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN and MSNBC aired the second prime-time hearing, focusing on Trump’s real-time response to the riot. The committee said it was the last hearing until September.
“This very much sounded like a closing argument, certainly of this chapter of their investigation, and it was profound,” ABC News anchor David Muir said.
About 20 million people watched the first prime-time hearing on June 9, the Nielsen Company said. Generally, reaching that big an audience in mid-July would be a long shot, as it is the least-watched television month of the year.
Yet the seven daytime hearings have proven something of an oddity. Buoyed by strong word-of-mouth, the hearings grew in audience as they went along. CNN, for example, reached 1.5 million people for the second daytime hearing on June 16, and 2.6 million for the last one on July 12, Nielsen said.
Fox’s broadcast station in New York, which did not air last month’s prime-time hearing, showed the Thursday night session. The 17 other Fox-owned stations elsewhere in the country aired both hearings.
There’s little interest at Fox News Channel, which televised the daytime hearings, although only up until the demarcation line of the network’s popular show “The Five.” Ratings show that roughly half the network’s audience flees when the hearings start, and return when they’re over.
That would be a much more serious problem in prime time, where Fox’s audience is more than double what it is during the day. Fox News Channel’s decision not to air the prime-time hearings is almost certainly a function of the demands of their audience and prime-time hosts, said Nicole Hemmer, an expert on conservative media and author of the upcoming book “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.”
“It creates an awkward situation when a host like Tucker Carlson tells his audience that the hearings are a debacle not worth their time, and then the network preempts his show to air them,” Hemmer said.
Carlson found plenty of things to talk about besides the hearing Thursday, including President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 diagnosis, a “meltdown” by liberals over the U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion decision, the failure of drug legalization, “climate crazies” and “trans-affirming” lessons in Los Angeles schools.
Hannity’s lead story was the “grand finale” of the Jan. 6 committee, although he didn’t show it — at least with the sound on.
He brought on guests like GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, who said that if the hearings have done anything, “they’ve exonerated President Trump and the people supporting him.”
Talk show host Mark Levin told Hannity the U.S. Justice Department is corrupt because “the Colbert 9 are roaming free.” That’s a reference to federal prosecutors’ decision not to bring charges against nine people associated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” who were arrested in a U.S. Capitol complex building last month.
While Hannity was on the air, the Jan. 6 committee showed tweets that Hannity and other Fox News personalities had sent to Trump administration officials, warning that the Capitol riot was making the president look bad.
In a closing statement, Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee’s vice chair, noted that most of its case against Trump has been made by Republicans. She ridiculed the notion that the committee’s findings would be much different if Republicans other than she and Rep. Adam Kinzinger were members.
“Do you really think that Bill Barr is such a delicate flower that he would wilt under cross-examination?” she said.
The Republicans watching Fox News Channel on Thursday night didn’t hear her.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege.
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2022-07-22T21:42:56+00:00
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(NewsNation) — Utah is seeing a surge in child support payments over the past year, a change that state officials credit in part to a new state law that withholds hunting and fishing licenses to people who fall significantly behind on payments.
“I came up with the idea for the bill, actually, in talking with some of my constituents who had noncustodial partners that were overdue on child support and going out and spending lots and lots of money hunting and fishing,” said state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, who authored and passed the bill enacting the new law two years ago. It went into effect in 2021.
The law blocks anyone from obtaining a hunting or fishing license if they are past due more than $2,500 in child support for a year.
“A lot of people talk about sending people to jail or prison instantly when they hear non-collection of child support, non-payment of child support. But in reality, if they’re going to prison or jail, they’re not working, so that’s not helping solve the problem,” said Utah Office of Recovery Services (ORS) director Liesa Stockdale, whose agency manages child support in the state. “And when they get out they have marks on their record, they have legal marks on their record that could prevent them from getting future employment. So that’s not helping. And then there’s a stigma for the children involved that their parent has had to go to jail or prison. And that’s not helping anything.”
In their conversations, Stockdale encouraged Lisonbee to think about “creative incentives” that are important to the people who owe child support but that wouldn’t impact their ability to support their children.
“I think that hunting and fishing are fairly popular in almost every state,” Lisonbee said.
Some states have embraced the policy, including Pennsylvania. Failure to make child support for three months allows the state to suspend a driver’s or professional license.
In Utah, data provided by Stockdale suggests child support payments have gone up since the law was put into place. On July 1, 2021, they blocked the hunting and fishing licenses of 2,959 individuals.
“Out of those people, when we looked at it again, this year, during the first week of July, 494 of those people had come into compliance with the law at some point during that first year,” she said.
Stockdale acknowledged that the law may not be the only reason the people caught up on child support.
“There’s really no way to 100% say that’s why these people were paying their support, I want to be honest and upfront about that,” she said.
With that context in mind, Stockdale reports an increase in payments by nearly $2 million a year after the new law took effect, specifically coming from the individuals whose licenses were withheld.
Lisonbee also worked with lawmakers to update the law this year to add flexibility to its enforcement. One change she made was to allow individuals to still obtain licenses if they missed one month’s payment because of a transition to a new job.
Ultimately, Stockdale believes that Utah’s experience provides a lesson about how creative solutions can be used to change people’s behavior.
“It’s a matter of finding that right incentive for your community, even for different parents within your community,” she said. “Two-thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine individuals, that’s only a small portion of our parents who owe child support. And we need to continue to be creative to find those little incentive niches that will speak to different parents and will mean something to them.”
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2022-08-14T21:09:28+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/in-utah-no-child-support-no-hunting-or-fishing/
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A new generation of the Ford Mustang will soon arrive for the 2024 model year, and the folks at Saleen are ready to turn it into a 302.
The Southern California engineering and motorsport company this week released a teaser sketch of its new 302 Mustang based on the seventh generation of Ford’s iconic pony car.
The teaser points to extensive modifications to the body, with new designs for the fascias, fenders, hood, rear spoiler, and rear three-quarter windows. It’s a wild design that makes even Ford’s new Mustang Dark Horse appear conservative in comparison.
Saleen will also have the performance to back up the new looks. Like the current 302 based on the sixth-generation Mustang, the new one will offer a trio of performance stages. These will include a White Label with at least 500 hp, a Yellow Label with at least 750 hp, and a Black Label with more than 800 hp. In each case, the upgrade will be based on the Mustang’s 5.0-liter V-8, and the Yellow and Black Label upgrades will likely use a supercharger.
Other performance upgrades will include a tuned suspension featuring Saleen’s Racecraft-branded components, improved aero, and uprated brakes. The cars will also get custom interiors.
Buyers should also have the choice of manual or automatic transmissions, and possibly a convertible body style.
Saleen hasn’t mentioned when its 2024 302 will be ready, but the company is still accepting orders for the current 302. The company in March also unveiled the ultimate version to celebrate 40 years of business. Called the SA-40, the car features a speedster-style body and packs 800 hp. It’s limited to just 10 units and is priced from $142,000.
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2023-04-21T21:18:58+00:00
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pix11.com
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In Los Angeles County, three protests against LGBTQ inclusivity devolved into physical fights. The violence has parents and extremism experts concerned. (Story aired on ATC on June 27, 2023.)
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In Los Angeles County, three protests against LGBTQ inclusivity devolved into physical fights. The violence has parents and extremism experts concerned. (Story aired on ATC on June 27, 2023.)
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2023-06-28T09:58:48+00:00
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GERMANTOWN, Tenn., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., or MAA (NYSE: MAA), today announced a full quarterly dividend of $1.0625 per outstanding share of its 8.50% Series I Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on June 30, 2022, to shareholders of record on June 15, 2022.
About MAA
MAA is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) and member of the S&P 500. MAA owns or has ownership interest in apartment communities primarily throughout the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. focused on delivering strong, full-cycle investment performance. For further details, please refer to the "For Investors" page at www.maac.com or contact Investor Relations at investor.relations@maac.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain matters in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended with respect to our expectations for future periods. Such statements include statements made about the payment of preferred dividends. The ability to meet the payment of preferred dividends in or contemplated by the forward-looking statements could differ materially from the projection due to a number of factors, including a downturn in general economic conditions or the capital markets, changes in interest rates and other items that are difficult to control such as increases in real estate taxes in many of our markets, as well as the other general risks inherent in the apartment and real estate businesses. Reference is hereby made to the filings of Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, reports on Form 8-K, and its annual report on Form 10-K, particularly including the risk factors contained in the latter filing.
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2022-06-01T22:07:54+00:00
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- Genesis Design Studio will engage students from TGR Foundation in opportunities to learn about the design process
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesis Gives, the corporate social responsibility initiative of Genesis Motor North America, and the Genesis Inspiration Foundation announced their commitment of $1 million to TGR Foundation to advance science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education for youth over the next five years at the TGR Learning Lab. Part of this partnership will include learning opportunities for students from TGR Foundation at the Genesis Design Studio. Ceremonial checks were presented to the organization during The Genesis Invitational at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California.
(left to right) Mike McKee, chairman of the TGR Foundation Board of Governors, José Muñoz, president and ceo, Genesis Motor North America, John Guastaferro, executive director, Genesis Inspiration Foundation in Pacific Palisades, Calif. on February 15, 2023 (Photo/Genesis).
"At Genesis, we are committed to delivering the highest standards of safety and performance, with a design identity built around athletic elegance," said José Muñoz, president and chief executive officer of Genesis Motor North America. "We are thrilled to deepen our support of TGR Foundation and STEAM education through youth programs at the Genesis Design Studio. At Genesis, we don't just build world-class vehicles—we strive to create a better future for all."
Genesis takes pride in its design elements, focusing on creating products built with elegance and boldness. At the Genesis Design Studio, TGR Foundation students will have the opportunity to learn about the design process, creative thinking, and the wide variety of career paths at Genesis Design.
"TGR Foundation is committed to empowering students to discover their passions and build skills for their career interests," said Mike McKee, chairman of the TGR Foundation board of governors. "With the generous investment by Genesis and the Genesis Inspiration Foundation, we will continue providing opportunities for students to gain valuable experiences through our joint programs."
Founded in 1996 by Tiger Woods, TGR Foundation empowers students to pursue their passions through education. TGR Foundation programs provide opportunities for students from under-resourced communities to connect their passions with their purpose as they learn, grow and thrive.
The investment from Genesis and the Genesis Inspiration Foundation will help prepare students for STEAM based careers through multimedia classes offered at the TGR Learning Lab. In these classes students learn real-world skills like photography, design, music production, podcasting and more while building tangible portfolio samples to prepare them for personal and professional success.
Genesis Gives
Genesis Gives is a corporate social responsibility initiative from Genesis Motor North America. Expanding on the brand's commitment to the highest standards of performance and its athletic elegance design identity, Genesis Gives supports nonprofit organizations with the goal of improving access to, and performance in, youth sports and STEAM education in under resourced communities. For more information, visit www.GenesisGives.com.
Genesis Inspiration Foundation
Genesis Inspiration Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to connecting youth to the transformative power of the arts. Our mission is to improve educational outcomes by providing access to arts programs that engage and inspire children in under-resourced communities. Since its inception in 2018, the Genesis Inspiration Foundation has donated nearly $5 million to fund youth arts programming at museums, schools, and nonprofit art and cultural organizations nationwide. With the support of Genesis retailers and charitable donations, we are introducing children to a new world of the possible. To learn more about the Genesis Inspiration Foundation, visit genesisinspirationfoundation.org.
Genesis Motor North America
At Genesis, we put the customer at the center of every decision we make. Genesis is a global automotive brand that delivers the highest standards of performance, design, safety, and innovation while looking towards a more sustainable future. Genesis designs customer experiences that go beyond products, embodying audacious, forward-thinking, and distinctly Korean characteristics within its unique Athletic Elegance design identity. With a growing range of award-winning models — including the 2023 MotorTrend Car of the Year G90 along with G70, G80, GV60, GV70, and GV80 — Genesis aims to lead the age of electrification with battery EVs, starting with its Electrified G80, GV60, and Electrified GV70 models. Genesis has stated its commitment to becoming an all-electric vehicle brand by 2030 and to pursuing carbon neutrality by 2035.
Please visit our media site for the latest news at www.genesisnewsusa.com (United States) and www.genesisnews.ca (Canada).
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2023-02-15T20:29:38+00:00
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond Police are working to prevent deaths and crashes that stem from drunk or drugged drivers, and saw some success in their efforts during a scheduled sobriety checkpoint last week.
Richmond Police partnered with Virginia State Police to conduct a DUI checkpoint at 2400 Richmond Highway between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 16.
The main goal of DUI checkpoints like this are to lower deaths and injuries due to impaired driving. Just having police on scene may deter drivers from getting into a car after drinking or doing drugs.
The checkpoint also appropriately came the day before St. Patrick’s Day, when impaired and unsafe driving can be more common. According to Richmond Police, there were 138 alcohol-related crashes, 72 injuries, and five deaths across Virginia on St. Patrick’s Day 2022.
Police across the state have been working to improve their response to drunk driving after a 2022 report from Virginia State Crime Commission found a need to improve the enforcement of the commonwealth’s impaired driving laws. According to the report, over the last two decades arrests for DUIs had gone down but deaths on Virginia roads had gone up.
At the time, state lawmakers pointed to concerns that drugged driving, or DUIDs, were becoming more common and also harder to test.
The March 16 checkpoint resulted in police checking 613 vehicles and issuing 89 citations. During the checkpoint hours, police also made one arrest for a DUID, recovered a stolen vehicle and took one wanted person into custody.
Police also discovered multiple other non-DUI infractions, including 68 citations for failure to wear seatbelts and unlicensed drivers.
While police only arrested one driver for impaired driving on March 16, Richmond Police Sergeant Jonathan Nathanson says that is still one too many impaired drivers on the road.
“Our collective goal is zero traffic deaths in the city and one driver under the influence is one too many when it comes to jeopardizing lives” Nathanson said.
The checkpoint was funded by a grant from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.
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2023-03-25T22:37:59+00:00
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https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/police-check-over-600-cars-during-dui-checkpoint-on-richmond-highway/
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North Lenoir rallies from seven runs down to edge East Duplin baseball, Panthers softball stays undefeated in conference
East Duplin softball holds conference lead
Published: Apr. 20, 2023 at 11:05 PM EDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
LAGRANGE, N.C. (WITN) - The North Lenoir baseball team trailed 7-0 in the fifth inning but managed to fight back to take the game 8-7. A great chance to see two of the area’s top pitchers as the Hawks Luke Cannon and the Panthers Jackson Gause both hung 0′s with solid hurling.
On the softball field East Duplin dealt North Lenoir its second tough loss in as many nights as they picked up an 11-1 win. Hannah Perry closed out the victory in the circle for the Panthers who improve to 9-0 in the conference.
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2023-04-21T03:41:54+00:00
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https://www.witn.com/2023/04/21/north-lenoir-rallies-seven-runs-down-edge-east-duplin-baseball-panthers-softball-stays-undefeated-conference/
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The horrific video of Memphis police fatally beating Tyre Nichols has dominated the media this weekend. But another video is circulating, showing Nichols happily skateboarding in his teen years.
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The horrific video of Memphis police fatally beating Tyre Nichols has dominated the media this weekend. But another video is circulating, showing Nichols happily skateboarding in his teen years.
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2023-01-31T00:12:44+00:00
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https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2023-01-30/tyre-nichols-childhood-friend-remembers-him-for-his-positivity
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Coyotes beat Flames 4-3 in OT to extend points streak to 6
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Travis Boyd scored at 3:10 of overtime and the Arizona Coyotes extended their points streak to six with a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.
Clayton Keller scored twice, including a go-ahead, short-handed tally at 2:01 of the third period for his 31st goal of the season. Matias Maccelli also scored for Arizona and assisted on Boyd’s winner.
Keller became the first Coyotes player with 30 goals in a season in 11 years when he scored 9:22 into the first period off a pass from Barrett Hayton. The last was Radim Vrbata, who had 35 goals in 2011-12.
"I’m just sticking with what’s working for me, when I do that I’ve been successful and that’s what I want to continue to do," Keller said. "It was definitely nice to get that one (30th) out of the way early. My linemates (Hayton and Brett Ritchie) are doing a great job."
Hayton assisted on both of Keller’s goals. Juuso Valimaki, who was in the penalty box for high-sticking during Keller’s second goal, assisted on the first one.
It was Keller’s second two-goal game in a row. On Sunday in a 5-4 overtime win over Minnesota, he scored the winner.
Boyd’s 12th of the season was the winner this time.
"The boys are playing hard right now," Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. "We know we’re missing big pieces. You can enjoy the fact that you have excuses, or you can show character and double down and that’s what our guys are doing."
Mikael Backlund, Jonathan Huberdeau and Walker Duehr scored for Calgary, five points out of the final Western Conference playoff spot.
Huberdeau deflected a shot by former Coyote Troy Stecher past Connor Ingram to tie it at 3 for Calgary with 5:01 left in the third period. Dillon Dube also assisted on the tying goal.
Ingram stopped 42 shots for Arizona, while Jacob Markstrom had 21 saves for Calgary.
Backlund opened the scoring at 8:14 when he beat Ingram from in close. Keller’s 30th tied it just over a minute later.
Maccelli gave the Coyotes their first lead 55 seconds into the second period, scoring his sixth goal of the season with Jack McBain and Lawson Crouse assisting. That advantage lasted just 1:08 as Duehr’s shot from the right side got past Ingram. Milan Lucic and Noah Hanifin were credited with the assists on Duehr’s fourth goal of the season.
Arizona appeared to take the lead at 7:12 of the second, but the goal was disallowed due to goaltender interference.
While the Coyotes have struggled on the road, they have taken advantage of the intimate atmosphere of the Mullett Center, winning four in a row, nine of their last 13 and overall are 18-11-3 in their first season in the 4,500-seat arena on Arizona State University’s campus. Tuesday’s victory equaled the Coyotes’ longest home winning streak of the season (Jan. 26-Feb. 19).
NO ON-ICE REUNION
Tuesday was the first game between the teams since they swapped brothers Nick and Brett Ritchie at the trade deadline earlier this month.
But Nick was scratched from Calgary’s lineup for the second straight game. Brett Ritchie had a great scoring chance in the first period, but Markstrom was able to make the skate save.
ICE CHIPS
Flames: When D Rasmus Andersson scores a goal, Calgary wins — the last 14 times he has scored, the Flames have won, dating to the 2020-21 season. The most recent was Sunday against Ottawa, when the Flames won 5-1.
Coyotes: Keller has scored in six straight games (6-6-12) and Hayton in five in a row (3-7-10). ... Nick Schmaltz missed his second game in a row with an upper-body injury. Ritchie filled in on the line with Keller and Hayton.
NEXT
Flames: At Vegas on Thursday night.
Coyotes: Host Vancouver on Thursday night.
More Coyotes coverage
- Keller’s 2nd of game in OT gives Coyotes 5-4 win over Wild
- Boyd scores twice in 3rd period, Coyotes beat Blues 6-2
- Hischier scores in OT as Devils beat Coyotes 5-4
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2023-03-15T15:42:45+00:00
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fox10phoenix.com
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https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/coyotes-beat-flames-4-3-in-ot-to-extend-points-streak-to-6
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CAIRO (AP) — A Hong Kong-flagged ship briefly blocked Egypt’s vital Suez Canal on Thursday morning, authorities said, the latest such incident in the busy waterway.
According to Leth Agencies, a canal services company that oversees the waterway, the Xin Hai Tong 23 ran aground before dawn at the southern entrance to the canal, blocking four vessels. The ship was refloated by the Suez Canal Authority a few hours later, the company said, and normal traffic was restored.
However, Egypt’s state-run Suez Canal Authority said the vessel had broken down during its transit through the canal due to engine failure. It said the ship was towed away from the area by three tug boats.
The two conflicting accounts as to how the incident unfolded could not be reconciled.
The bulk carrier, measuring about 190 meters (625 feet) by 32 meters (105 feet), had set off for Suez from the Saudi Red Sea port of Duba. Later in the day Thursday, it was at sea about 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) south of the canal, according to Marine Traffic, a vessel tracking firm.
Thursday’s incident is the latest in a flurry of ships running aground in the Suez Canal or getting stuck in the crucial waterway over the past few years.
In January, a vessel owned by Greek firm Primera Shipping Inc. broke down at the 38 kilometer (24-mile) mark of the canal, near the Egyptian city of Qantara. In March a Liberia-flagged ship ran aground in the two-lane part of the waterway. Both vessels were refloated hours later.
The most prominent case was that of the skyscraper-sized container ship, the Panama-flagged Ever Given, which ran aground in a single-lane stretch of the canal in March 2021, blocking the waterway. A massive salvage effort by a flotilla of tugboats, helped by the tides, freed it six days later, ending the crisis and allowing hundreds of waiting ships to pass through the canal.
Opened in 1869, the Suez Canal provides a vital link for oil, natural gas and cargo of Egypt’s top foreign currency earners. In 2015, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi ’s government completed a major expansion of the canal, allowing it to accommodate the world’s largest vessels.
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2023-05-25T22:10:56+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-hong-kong-flagged-vessel-briefly-blocks-egypts-vital-suez-canal/
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm an engineer and I wanted to create a wide area direction finding system that would be configured to locate both stationary and moving targets," said an inventor, from Redmond, Wash., "so I invented the DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEM. My scalable and user-customizable design would allow the system to accurately operate at multiple frequencies, while still operating semi autonomously."
The invention provides an improved design for a wide area direction finding system. In doing so, it offers an effective way to locate radio signals emitted for a given duration. It also can be used with a plurality of network conditions. Spectrum fingerprinting and history are but some of the available features. The invention features a flexible and portable design that is easy to operate with minimal bandwidth connectivity. Additionally, it is ideal for governmental and commercial service applications.
The original design was submitted to the Seattle sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-FED-2414, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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2022-11-01T14:54:39+00:00
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/11/01/inventhelp-inventor-develops-wide-area-direction-finding-system-fed-2414/
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Woman testifies Harvey Weinstein rape filled her with guilt
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her in 2013 testified Tuesday that she had feelings of guilt and disgust that began soon after she let him into her hotel room and lasted for years.
The woman, a model and actor living and working in Rome who was in Los Angeles at the time for a film festival, said that starting the following day she began drinking heavily.
“I was destroying myself,” she said. “I was feeling very guilty. Most of all because I opened that door.”
The woman was the first of eight Weinstein accusers set to testify in a courtroom in Los Angeles where the 70-year-old movie mogul is on trial on multiple counts of rape and sexual assault. Weinstein, who is already serving a 23-year sentence for a conviction in New York, has pleaded not guilty.
Most of the women said that their assaults began with what were supposed to be business meetings with Weinstein at hotels. However, the woman testifying Tuesday said she was stunned to find him knocking at her door late on a night in February 2013 after she had met him only briefly earlier in the evening at the Los Angeles Italia film festival.
Staying in the hotel under a pseudonym, she said she had no idea how Weinstein even knew her room number and that she let him through her door initially without thinking there was any harm in it. That shifted quickly when Weinstein became sexually aggressive, she said.
The woman, whose first language is Russian, said that her English was very poor at the time though it has improved considerably since, and she thought she might have miscommunicated.
“I was feeling guilty that I did something or said something that made him think something could happen between us,” she said.
She said Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on her hotel bed.
“I was kind of hysterical through tears,” she said. “I kept saying ‘no, no no.’”
She said she physically feared Weinstein, who outweighed her by 100 pounds or more.
She said she considered running, or hitting or biting him.
Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson asked why she didn’t.
“I don’t know,” she answered. “I regret this a lot.”
She said by the time Weinstein took her into the bathroom to rape her, she stopped physically resisting, though still objected verbally.
“I would just freeze, like my body wouldn’t listen,” she said.
She said she struggled to face her children after the incident, and felt the need to confess it to her Russian Orthodox priest. Prosecutors sought for the priest to testify, but he declined, citing religious privilege. The woman’s daughter, now 21, is set to testify later.
In his opening statement, Weinstein attorney Mark Werksman said many of the counts his client is charged with were actually consensual sex that his accusers reframed after he became a lightning rod for the #MeToo movement in 2017.
But in the case of the woman testifying Tuesday, Weinstein’s attorneys deny that the events in her hotel room happened at all. No records, surveillance video or other evidence places Weinstein at the woman’s hotel, Mr. C Beverly Hills, on the night she says she was raped.
Weinstein attorney Alan Jackson pressed her on this during cross-examination, asking how Weinstein could have learned her room number and been allowed to her door, and why she made no complaints to hotel staff over “this terrible breach of protocol.”
She answered, “Because of what happened to me. Because I didn’t want anybody to know.”
Jackson then asked why she stayed in the same hotel for weeks afterward, and did not even change rooms.
“You stayed in the very room that you claim you were attacked and victimized by a sexual predator?” Jackson asked.
The woman conceded that she had.
She cried occasionally during her testimony, but remained mostly composed, looking down when she grew emotional to gather herself.
A day earlier she was sobbing so much in her account of the assault, court adjourned a few minutes early.
“I want to apologize for my breakdown yesterday,” she said when she returned to the stand Tuesday. “Unfortunately I cannot control that.”
She is expected to return to the stand Wednesday.
The woman’s name is not being revealed in court. She is being referred to as “Jane Doe 1.”
The AP does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly.
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2022-10-26T00:10:53+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/2022/10/25/woman-testifies-harvey-weinstein-rape-filled-her-with-guilt/
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RESTON, Va., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, was recently selected by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to design and build a medium-size unmanned undersea vehicle. The single award, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract holds an approximate value of $358 million if all options are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Lynnwood, Washington.
"Our decades of experience fielding unmanned technology coupled with our familiarity with the ever-changing needs of the fleet, enables us to provide this critical capability to our warfighters at speed and scale," said Mike Rickels, Leidos Senior Vice President of C4ISR Solutions. "We look forward to building upon our long-standing relationship with the Navy and supporting their critical national security mission."
The medium unmanned undersea vehicle will support intelligence preparation of the operational environment by providing submarine-based autonomous oceanographic sensing and data collection for the Navy. The MUUV will also provide surface-launched and recovered mine countermeasures.
Leidos will work with several partners to deliver this critical technology, including L3Harris Technologies.
"This partnership with the Leidos team provides the Navy with an advanced, agile unmanned undersea vehicle system that leverages our proven Iver technology," said Rosemary Chapdelaine, President, Maritime, L3Harris. "The Leidos and L3Harris team successfully recovered AUVs through a submarine torpedo tube and we're excited to bring this dynamic launch and recovery capability to real-world missions.
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil and health markets. Leidos' 44,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.leidos.com.
Certain statements in this announcement constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These statements are based on management's current beliefs and expectations and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future results or occurrences. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the "Risk Factors" set forth in Leidos' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Leidos does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.
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2022-08-22T21:11:23+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/08/22/leidos-design-future-medium-unmanned-undersea-vehicle/
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TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) — The email went out to legal cannabis growers around Washington state, alerting them that another of their colleagues had gone under.
“Liquidation sale,” it said. Attached was a spreadsheet of items up for grabs: LED grow lights for $500 apiece. Rotary evaporators for hash oil, $10,000.
Across the Columbia River in Oregon, where the state’s top marijuana regulator recently warned of an “existential crisis” in the industry, it’s an open secret some licensed growers have funneled product to the out-of-state black market just to stay afloat.
California’s “Apple store of weed,” MedMen, is teetering with millions in unpaid bills, while the Canadian cannabis company Curaleaf has shuttered most of its cultivation operations in California, Oregon and Colorado.
Along the West Coast, which dominated U.S. marijuana production long before states began to legalize it, producers face what many call the failed economics of legal pot.
There is vast supply, thanks to great growing conditions and a wealth of expertise, but any surplus remains officially trapped within each state’s borders due to the federal ban on marijuana. Prices have plunged and producers have struggled.
“I’m at rock bottom,” said Jeremy Moberg, who owns CannaSol Farms in north-central Washington and, like many licensed growers, complains that the state’s 37% cannabis tax leaves virtually no profit margin for producers. “I’m tired of running a failing business.”
No one in the industry expects a fractured Congress to help out anytime soon by legalizing the drug, allowing pot businesses to deduct expenses or even just easing banking restrictions that frequently cut them off from loans or credit.
Instead, some are pinning their hopes, however faint, on President Joe Biden’s administration clearing the way for marijuana trade among states that have legalized the drug. That would allow the West Coast — with its favorable climate and cheap, clean hydropower for indoor growing — to help supply the rest of the country, they argue.
In Senate testimony last month, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department will soon announce a new marijuana policy — one that would hew close to the “Cole Memorandum” of 2013, which made clear the feds would not interfere with state efforts to regulate marijuana as long as certain law enforcement priorities were met.
Drug policy experts say they do not expect the new policy to go as far as permitting interstate commerce.
Nevertheless, lawmakers in Washington state last week approved a “trigger bill” — modeled after ones already passed in Oregon and California — authorizing the governor to enter into interstate cannabis trade agreements should the feds allow it.
Twenty-one states have now legalized the recreational use of cannabis by adults. Sales just began in Missouri, are expected to begin in July in Maryland and totaled $300 million in the first year of New Mexico’s program.
How states have set up their markets has implications for how their industries are doing now — and how they might fare should businesses be allowed to sell out of state.
Washington and Colorado were the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012. Many of the early regulations Washington adopted to keep the Justice Department at bay — including restricting the size of growing facilities and banning out-of-state investment — remain in place.
That has helped some smaller growers thrive. But it could hamstring those hoping to compete in an interstate marketplace alongside larger, more efficient producers from Oregon or California, who operate under fewer limits.
In Oregon, where sales began in 2015, large growers have achieved some economy of scale that could give them a leg up in a broader market. But in the meantime, the state’s oversupply is considered the nation’s worst.
In February, the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission reported marijuana businesses were sitting on about 3 million pounds (1.36 million kilograms) of unused cannabis, as well as 75,000 pounds (34,000 kilograms) of concentrates and extracts.
Steve Marks, then the commission’s executive director, said Oregonians already buy as much weed as they can use. Federal inaction poses “an existential crisis” for Oregon’s industry, he warned.
“Cannabis in Oregon is like corn in Iowa,” said TJ Sheehy, an analyst for the commission. “If you put a box around Iowa and said you can only grow corn in Iowa to sell to Iowans, you’d have exactly the same dynamic.”
Contributing to the glut in Oregon and to a lesser degree in Washington is that the states licensed so many growers. The initial idea was to ensure enough supply for the legal market, bringing down prices to compete with the black market. Oregon, with a little over half of Washington’s population, has hundreds more licensed growers.
The oversupply has been terrific for cannabis consumers.
When legal sales began in Oregon, a pound of cannabis might have gone for $3,000 wholesale; today, that same pound might be $100 to $150, said Isaac Foster, co-founder of Portland Cannabis Market, a wholesale distributor.
In Washington, which has some of the highest cannabis taxes in the country, the prices consumers pay in pot shops are still cheaper than illicit weed. The state is raking in half a billion dollars a year in taxes, money it devotes to health care and government operations.
Three-quarters or more of cannabis users in Washington, Oregon and Colorado — all among the earliest legalization states — reported they bought marijuana products from legal retail outlets in 2021, according to the International Cannabis Policy Study, based at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
With such cheap prices, keeping the industry sustainable is a challenge.
Moberg, of CannaSol Farms, is down to seven employees — a drop from more than 30 in 2014 and 2015 as Washington’s pioneering industry launched amid tight supply and high prices.
With the spring planting season arriving, he already has three shipping containers full of weed, he says, including 75% of what he produced last season, and 1,000 pounds (453.6 kilograms) still unsold from the year before that. His revenue last year was down by about half.
East Fork Cultivars, one of Oregon’s first licensed growers, has thousands of pounds (kilograms) of marijuana stashed, said co-founder Nathan Howard.
“We hope we can sell most of it to keep the lights on,” Howard said. “It’s a miracle that we’re still in existence.”
Oregon regulators know growers are suffering, but say they’ll be in a good position should the feds allow interstate commerce.
In one meeting with producers in southern Oregon, Paul Rosenbaum, then chair of the state’s cannabis commission, told them to hang on.
“You’re all staying in this game for one reason: that the federal government, whether it’s this term or next term, they are going to recognize marijuana on a 50-state basis,” he recalled telling them. “And southern Oregon is to marijuana what Bordeaux is to France.”
Industry insiders say legal growers generally want to supply the legal market, rather than risk their businesses and freedom should they get caught selling out the back door. But some have only hung on by getting product to the black market.
“They were either going to die or get creative,” said Tanner Mariani, head of sales for Portland Cannabis Market. “And a lot of people chose to get creative and … found a way to get it from this market into the other side and then out of the state.”
Authorities have also contended with illegal farms operating under the guise of legality — notably in Oregon, where many have been financed by foreign cartels.
The arrival of legal, adult-use sales in 2018 in California — the nation’s largest pot producer and the world’s fourth-largest economy — was seen as a breakthrough that would help open the way for federal legalization.
But about two-thirds of California communities don’t allow legal marijuana activity, which helps the tax-free illegal market flourish.
A post-pandemic economy ushered in layoffs in a sector that already was strained. Hefty taxes, inflation and regulatory costs weigh on bottom lines, and a glut pushed wholesale prices to fire-sale levels. As in Oregon, it’s no secret some California growers have pushed legal product into illicit sales.
An analysis by cannabis investor Aaron Edelheit determined California’s legal market lost nearly one-quarter of its total growing area after the start of 2022 — “a wipeout,” he called it. With so many producers going under, wholesale prices have started to recover in California.
One of the state’s first licensees was Erik Hultstrom, who envisioned thriving in a green rush economy and began nurturing boutique buds in a steel-gated warehouse on the fringes of Los Angeles.
Five years later, he’s sold his license and hopes to contract with a large grower to sell bud under Hultstrom’s brand.
“I don’t know any companies that are really making money,” he said.
L.A. dispensary owner Gregory Meguerian said he folded a cultivation project: “You’ve got to know when you cut your losses.”
There have been predictions of an industry-wide collapse, but not everyone is concerned. Rob Sechrist, of the cannabis-only lender Pelorus Equity Group, described the market tumult as normal for an emerging industry.
“Every time somebody fails, market share goes to somebody else,” Sechrist said. “We have borrowers throughout the country and California that are doing extremely well.”
Indeed, cannabis distributor Nabis is opening a massive warehouse southeast of Fresno this month.
Some growers have found a happy medium.
Indoor grower Doc & Yeti Urban Farms, in Tumwater, Washington, produces about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms) of flower every year, which it sells to regular retail-store customers, said co-founder Joseph DuPuis. Brand loyalty has helped his team of 13 survive and profit, but he’d like to see Washington better prepare itself for a national market.
“If you can withstand the storm, you have a chance to come out to calmer seas and survive in this market,” DuPuis said.
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Selsky reported from Salem, Oregon. Blood reported from Los Angeles. Thomas Peipert in Denver and Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, contributed.
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2023-04-20T05:39:38+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/uneasy-marijuana-industry-seeks-broader-trade-amid-vast-glut/
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Amber Alert in effect for missing North Carolina boy believed to be abducted
WENDELL, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - An Amber Alert remains in effect Wednesday for a 9-year-old boy in Wendell, North Carolina, believed to have been abducted.
The Wake County Sheriff’s Office is searching for Bentley Gunner Stancil, according to WBTV.
He is described to be about 4 feet and 7 inches tall, weighs about 75 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes.
Bentley was last seen Tuesday, wearing a long sleeve black hoodie, black school backpack, blue jeans, and black and white sneakers. He was traveling east on Wendell Boulevard on foot from the Hardee’s Restaurant in Wendell.
Bentley’s abductor remains unknown.
Anyone with information about Bentley’s disappearance is asked to call 911 or the Wake County Sheriff’s Office at (919) 796-3317.
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2022-11-16T14:56:42+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/2022/11/16/amber-alert-effect-missing-north-carolina-boy-believed-be-abducted/
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Games for kids to play outside
One of the best things about playing outside is almost anything goes. Kids can run, jump, throw things, laugh and be as loud as they want. Playing outside can also help develop both fine and motor skills while letting children burn off energy.
In this article, we’ve listed 15 outdoor lawn games that are appropriate for kids. To make it easier to find one that matches your child’s interests, we’ve categorized them into tossing games, active games, golf games, classic games and water games.
Shop this article: GoSports Premium Metal Ladder Toss Game Set, GoSports Bullseye Bounce Cornhole Game and Hey! Play! Rubber Horseshoes Set
Tossing games for kids
The games in this category require a little bit of skill. If your child is getting frustrated, you can allow them to stand closer to the target to make the games more fun.
GoSports Premium Metal Ladder Toss Game Set
This high-quality ladder toss set is manufactured with easy-to-assemble steel targets, but the bolos are made of soft rubber using thicker strings to prevent tangles. The tossing game is simple to learn, easy to play and enjoyed by kids of all ages.
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GoSports Bullseye Bounce Cornhole Game
This reinvented cornhole offering has one flexible board with five holes, so there are more ways to score. Additionally, there are three ways to play, and kids can improve their math skills by practicing as they count up points to see who wins.
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Hey! Play! Rubber Horseshoes Set
This versatile horseshoe set is designed to be played anywhere: lawn, beach, driveway and even indoors. The lightweight, plastic horseshoes are weatherproof and safe for kids 5 and up.
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Active games for kids
If you want an activity that gets your kids moving, then these active games should fit the bill as they get heart rates up and help burn kids’ ample energy.
The classic game you remember playing as a kid only supersized for outdoor play. The Twister Ultimate mat is twice as large as an ordinary Twister mat, making it ideal for playing on the lawn. If you have an Alexa device, you can use the Twister Spinner Alexa skill to play with Alexa calling the moves.
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Liberty Imports Snap-Together Hula Rings
Whether they are creating an obstacle course, playing follow the leader or just swirling it around their hips, kids can have endless fun with this six-pack of 32-inch snap-together hula rings. Each ring comes in eight easy-to-store durable ABS plastic pieces that can hold sand if you want to add some weight.
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Slackers NinjaLine 36-Inch Intro Kit
With this versatile course that features seven obstacles (two rings, two bars and three knots), your kids can train to be ninja warriors in your backyard. The slackline webbing is capable of supporting 250 pounds, and the kit includes a storage bag.
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Golfing games for kids
Kids will enjoy competing against their friends and family while playing these multi-player lawn games.
This fun golf-like game is a centuries-old classic. The object of croquet is to hit balls through a course made of wire hoops and a peg. It can be played on any lawn and requires a little skill, but the whole family can still play. This wooden set includes everything you need.
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GoSports BattleChip Versus Golf Game
This clever game is a hybrid of golf and cornhole. Two players or teams square off in a chipping competition to see who can get the most points after nine rounds of play. While the set comes with two boards, a hitting mat, a scorecard, 16 foam balls and a tote bag, you will need to supply your own clubs.
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Franklin Sports Disc Golf Target
You get everything you need with this disc golf set: three discs, a target and a travel bag. The fold-out and fold-up design of the target makes it easy to transport, so you can play at home or bring it with you on a family excursion. Unlike other models, this one features plastic chains instead of a net to catch the disc.
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Board games for kids
These games are enlarged outdoor versions of familiar board games you’re used to playing on your coffee table. They can teach strategy and critical thinking while allowing your child to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine.
ECR4Kids Jumbo 4-to-Score Game Set
This game aims to drop giant rings into a grid to out-strategize your opponent and be the first to connect four in a row. It’s made of heavy-duty plastic, which is easy to clean, and it features rounded edges, so it is safe for children ages 3 and up.
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Imagine a classic checkers set, except the chips are three inches wide, and the board is a rug that you can place anywhere. The OleOletOy’s Giant Checkers Set can be rolled up and taken with you wherever you go. Plus, the back features two versions of Tic-Tac-Toe.
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Triumph Sports 28-Piece Lawn Domino Set
This large set of wooden dominos is designed to be played outside. It comes with 28 pieces that are 4 inches by 7 inches and have color-coded pips for added fun. Each piece is coated with varnish to increase durability.
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Water games for kids
When it gets hot out, a game that involves water can let your child have fun without getting overheated.
ArmoGear Water Guns & Water-Activated Vests
This water gun variation of laser tag is perfect for warmer, sunny days. It comes with two water guns and two water-activated vests that have five targets. When the targets are hit with water, they change color and reveal a point value. The vests are adjustable to fit kids who are ages 8 and up.
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Melissa & Doug Pretty Petals Sprinkler
If your kids are hot, chances are your lawn is thirsty. This fun flower sprinkler from Melissa & Doug can solve both problems. The 12 flowers squirt water in a multitude of directions that make it fun for kids (and adults) to play while your lawn gets an afternoon drink.
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Costzon Giant 7-in-1 Crocodile Water Park
Why stop at a lawn game when you can turn your backyard into a water park? This seven-in-one adventure features two slides, a climbing wall, a tunnel, a basketball rim, a splash pool and more. It is suitable for kids up to 99 pounds and can support a total weight of up to 298 pounds (six kids under 50 pounds). It comes with everything you need and can be fully inflated in about a minute.
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2023-07-01T04:05:10+00:00
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BENI, Congo (AP) — At least five people, including two policemen, were killed in an attack on a prison in which about 750 inmates escaped in Congo’s eastern Butembo town, local officials said Wednesday.
Rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces attacked the Kakwangura prison early Wednesday during a transfer of prisoners, said Capt. Anthony Mwalushay, spokesman for the Congolese army in Beni. Three ADF attackers burned to death in the assault, he said.
The rebels launched the attack based on information that women prisoners associated with their group would be transferred from Beni to Butembo, he said.
“We call on the population to remain calm,” he said.
Butembo mayor Mowa Baeki-Telly told The Associated Press that the prison held more than 800 prisoners and that only about 50 remain.
“We are tracking the ADF rebels and detaining them in town,” he said, adding that they will have a more official count by the end of the day.
In October 2020, another rebel attack on the Kangbayi prison, caused about 1,300 detainees to escape in Beni in the North Kivu province.
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AP writer Jean-Yves Kamale in Kinshasa, Congo contributed.
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2022-08-10T20:41:21+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/5-dead-750-escape-in-rebel-attack-on-eastern-congo-prison/
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HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lynk Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Lynk Pharmaceuticals'), an innovative clinical stage company, announced that it has dosed the first patient in a Phase II clinical trial of its innovative drug LNK01003 in Ulcerative Colitis (UC). This Phase II clinical study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of LNK01003 in patients with active ulcerative colitis.
Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease, mainly manifested as recurrent or persistent chronic inflammatory lesions of the intestinal mucosa and the etiology is not yet fully known. LNK01003 is an oral small molecule JAK inhibitor with intestine-restricted properties. It is a potential first-in-class treatment for ulcerative colitis and other related diseases.
Professor Minhu Chen, the principal investigator of this study, director of the Chinese Medical Association's Society of Gastroenterology, and chief physician of The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat Sen University, said, "Ulcerative colitis is a recurrent chronic intestinal inflammatory disease, which is mainly manifested as abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding that greatly reduces the quality of life of patients. Current treatments cannot fully meet the clinical needs, and new treatment methods are urgently needed. LNK01003 has demonstrated a good safety profile in healthy subjects, and we expect that it will also have excellent efficacy and safety in clinical trials with patients."
Dr. Henry Wu, Chief Development Officer of Lynk Pharmaceuticals, said, "We are pleased to have completed the first patient dosing of LNK01003. As an innovative intestine-restricted JAK inhibitor with a first-in-class potential, it is exactly what we expected when we designed the drug, which demonstrated extremely low systemic exposure and good safety profile in clinical phase I trials. We will continue to accelerate the clinical studies of LNK01003 and look forward to bringing a safe and more effective treatment to patients as soon as possible."
About Lynk Pharmaceuticals:
Lynk Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage company, was founded in 2018 by senior drug R&D experts and executives from Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson. Lynk Pharmaceuticals is dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative drugs for the treatment of cancer, as well as immune and inflammatory diseases. Driven by a higher goal, Lynk Pharmaceuticals aims to be a market leader to address unmet medical demands by the development of innovative therapies. To date, Lynk Pharmaceuticals has independently developed a number of innovative new drugs, and independently as well as jointly with its US partner launched a number of clinical studies globally. For more information about Lynk Pharmaceuticals, please visit: https://www.lynkpharma.com.
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2022-12-05T13:57:07+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/12/05/lynk-pharmaceuticals-announces-first-patient-dosed-phase-clinical-study-lnk01003-patients-with-ulcerative-colitis/
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HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong election committee is voting Sunday for the city’s only leadership candidate, John Lee, who is expected to win and become Hong Kong’s next chief executive.
The committee, comprised of nearly 1,500 largely pro-Beijing members, is voting in a secret ballot that will last 2 1/2 hours. Lee needs more than 750 votes to win the election.
As the only candidate in the polls, Lee is expected to win easily, especially since he has Beijing’s endorsement and last month obtained 786 nominations from members of the Election Committee in support of his candidacy.
The election on Sunday follows major changes to Hong Kong’s electoral laws last year to ensure that only “patriots” loyal to Beijing can hold office. The legislature was also reorganized to all but eliminate opposition voices.
The elaborate arrangements surrounding the pre-determined outcome speak to Beijing’s desire for a veneer of democracy. Though they will vote in a secret ballot, Hong Kong’s electors have all been carefully vetted.
On Sunday morning, three members of the League of Social Democrats, a local activist group, protested the election by attempting to march toward the election venue while displaying a banner demanding universal suffrage that would allow Hong Kongers to vote both for the legislature and the chief executive.
“Human rights over power, the people are greater than the country,” the banner read. “One person, one vote for the chief executive. Immediately implement dual universal suffrage.”
One protester was handing out flyers before police arrived and cordoned off the protesters and the banner. Police also searched protesters’ belongings and took down their personal details, though no arrests were immediately made.
The pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong has long demanded universal suffrage, which they say is promised to the city in its mini-constitution, the Basic Law. It was also a key demand in the 2014 Umbrella Revolution protests and 2019 anti-government demonstrations.
Lee as Hong Kong’s future leader has sparked concern that Beijing could further tighten its grip on Hong Kong. He spent most of his civil service career in the police and security bureau, and is an outspoken and staunch supporter of a national security law imposed on Hong Kong in 2020 aimed at stamping out dissent.
His rise grew out of massive anti-government protests in 2019 that spiraled into violent clashes. As security secretary, he oversaw the police campaign to confront protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets, then rounded many of them up for arrest later.
More than 150 people have been arrested under the security law, which outlaws secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces to intervene in the city’s affairs. Almost all prominent pro-democracy activists have been jailed, with others fleeing abroad or being intimidated into silence.
Thousands of residents have left the city of 7.4 million people amid the 2019 protests and subsequent harsh pandemic restrictions, including many professionals and expatriates.
In his election campaign in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s polls, Lee pledged to enact long-shelved local legislation to protect against security threats and vowed to increase housing supply in the world’s most expensive real estate market.
He also said he would improve the city’s competitiveness and set a firm foundation for Hong Kong’s development.
If elected, Lee will replace current leader Carrie Lam on July 1.
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2022-05-08T02:58:15+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/world/hong-kong-kicks-off-leadership-polls-with-sole-candidate/
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LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 360 VUZ, the immersive video mobile app, wins Founders Games Award by Webit as a Finalist, after being selected as a finalist from over 3000 scale-up startup applicants from around the world, which competed in competition rounds for 3 consecutive months, in front of global investors.
360 VUZ was awarded as a finalist and gained a great global exposure to investors. During the competition, 360 VUZ showcased the strong capability of the immersive app, capturing and delivering live and on-demand 360° video content, VR, AR and immersive experiences to the world building on the Metaverse.
Khaled Zaatarah, 360 VUZ Founder and Chief Executive Officer said: "We are truly honored to win the Global Founders Games award by Webit, one of the world's biggest challenges for innovation and scaleups. We trust that this award will bring us new and great opportunities for growth."
He adds: "Our mission is to build the ecosystem for VR and the Metaverse to become a mainstream premium platform for sporting events, influencer appearances, concerts, and much more. And, we are happy to be recognized by the jury of Founders Games and the legendary Tim Draper, and I'd like to thank everyone who has been supporting our global journey."
Tim Draper, a leading VC from Silicon Valley that made hundreds of VC investments in some of the top companies of the world and a member of the finals jury at the Founders Games Award by Webit said: "At first, I thought that 360 VUZ is just like any other app but then I realized it's going to be the next powerful immersive library. The immersive video app has an interesting opportunity, and the fact that it has a lead over competition is strong and the fact that it went with smartphones first and then VR headsets is a good idea."
Over 200 investors - VC, business angels, family offices and tens of corporate partners from major companies around the world joined the jury and the collective intelligence selection process which identified the global winner.
360 VUZ is having very strong momentum in the Series B investment round with the 1st close of the round already completed by very strong global VCs and investors that built decacorns internationally. 360 VUZ is now discussing with some top strategic investors their 2nd close for their Series B investment round.
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2022-06-30T20:07:40+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/06/30/360-vuz-immersive-video-app-wins-webit-founders-games-finalist/
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2 Orlando men arrested for allegedly robbing two banks
ORLANDO, Fla. - Two Orlando men are facing armed robbery charges after they allegedly robbed two Fifth Third Banks three days apart in late August and early September.
36-year-old Robert Sweet and 20-year-old Markel Key were both linked to two robberies; one that occurred at a Fifth Third Bank in Orlando on August 30 and another robbery that occurred on September 2 in Apopka, according to police.
On August 30, a masked suspect brandished a firearm at the bank and made off with a large sum of money while assisted by a getaway driver, police said.
Police said while they were working the case with the FBI, both men were linked to another armed robbery on September 2 in Apopka.
Detectives executed multiple search warrants, obtained confessions, and recovered evidence directly linking the duo to both incidents.
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2022-09-09T23:45:34+00:00
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fox35orlando.com
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https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/2-orlando-men-arrested-for-allegedly-robbing-two-banks
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EnerDel's Lithium-ion Vigor+ 'Buy America' compliant battery pack continues as Allison approved OEM battery pack replacement
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerDel and Allison Transmission (NYSE: ALSN) have renewed their strategic relationship naming the EnerDel's Vigor+ battery pack as an Allison approved OEM battery pack replacement. EnerDel is a leading supplier of advanced lithium-ion batteries and ESS for heavy-duty transportation and electric hybrid power applications. The drop-in ready Vigor+ pack is approved for use with the Allison Hybrid H 40/H 50 EP™ system installed in electric hybrid buses globally. Buy America compliance makes it an easy choice for transit companies.
"EnerDel is excited to have our Vigor+ pack receive approval from Allison Transmission. Renewing our relationship with Allison for another five years further solidifies our position as the Lithium-ion ESS solutions provider of choice in the electric hybrid bus market. We look forward to continued traction in this market as transit authorities look to upgrade their aging fleets," said Kev Adjemian, Chief Strategy Officer for EnerDel.
The drop-in ready Vigor+ pack is available now. Long-term service agreements and extended warranties are available as options from EnerDel on most EnerDel power solutions. To request a quote, or download a spec sheet, visit www.enerdel.com.
Founded in 2004, EnerDel is headquartered in Anderson, IN. EnerDel was the first in the U.S. for commercial-scale production of large-format, prismatic, lithium-ion battery packs. Over the last decade, EnerDel has worked to perfect the cell modular stacking architecture and battery management system, providing customers with production-ready solutions to address a variety of power and energy storage needs. This includes leveraging EnerDel's standard, off-the-shelf DC solutions, plus customized and bespoke designs to customer requirements.
EnerDel's Vigor+ packs offer versatility across applications, including transportation in EV/Hybrid buses and trucks; industrial equipment, trams, construction, agricultural machines, and military and civilian stationary and mobile hybrid power systems. They are designed and built in the United States in compliance with the various requirements of the Buy America Act. EnerDel's lithium-ion Energy Storage System (ESS) products offer, long life, and outstanding warranty. And EnerDel's next generation of pack, the iEGO brand pack is the answer for flexible configurations and state of the art battery management system controls! It has many configurations, used in applications like transportation, mining, agriculture, construction, industrial lift, micro-grid, and marine. For additional information, visit www.enerdel.com
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2023-02-02T19:01:03+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/02/02/enerdel-energy-solutions-allison-transmission-renew-strategic-relationship-five-more-years/
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MIAMI (AP) — For more than two years, almost since the time of his arrest on U.S. warrant, Alex Saab has insisted he is a Venezuelan diplomat targeted for his work helping the South American country circumvent American economic sanctions.
Starting Monday, the Colombian-born businessman will get a chance to prove that claim to a federal judge in Miami tasked with weighing evidence that purportedly backs his diplomatic status.
A handful of protesters carrying the Venezuelan flag and signs reading “Free Alex Saab” Monday stood outside as a large contingent of prosecutors and defense attorneys carrying stacks of binders filed into the Wilke Ferguson federal courthouse in downtown Miami.
Saab, 50, was pulled off a private jet in the summer of 2020 during a fuel stop in Cape Verde en route to Iran, where he was sent to negotiate oil deals on behalf of President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government. The charges: conspiracy to commit money laundering tied to a bribery scheme that allegedly siphoned off $350 million through state contracts to build affordable housing for Venezuela’s government.
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Saab was initially held up as a trophy by the Trump administration, which made no secret of its efforts to oust Maduro, who is himself facing U.S. drug trafficking charges.
But the criminal case has become a major sticking point as the Biden administration seeks to improve relations with the OPEC nation and tap new oil supplies to make up for a loss of exports from Russia following sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
At issue are the limits of diplomatic immunity from prosecution, and whether Saab even has a basis under U.S. law to assert that he was a “special envoy” sent on a secret, humanitarian mission by Maduro to negotiate with Iran’s Islamic government.
Saab’s attorney’s presented as evidence what they claim are diplomatic notes exchanged between Iran and Venezuela discussing what was to be Saab’s third trip to Iran in a matter of weeks. At the time of his arrest, Saab was also allegedly carrying a sealed letter from Maduro to Iran’s Supreme Leader seeking his full support for a planned deal to import fuel at a time of long gas lines in Venezuela.
“This really is one of those cases if it looks like duck, acts like a duck, quacks like a duck then it is a duck,” Jonathan New, one of Saab’s attorneys, said in an opening statement before a packed courtroom. “Mr. Saab was and is a special envoy.”
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Kramer argued that some of the documents underlying that claim were falsified “to provide some sort of credibility to this argument that he was some sort of special envoy.”
Those include a diplomatic passport, which Saab wasn't carrying at the time of his arrest and which contains a picture and signature matching another, non-diplomatic passport issued two years earlier.
They also question the authenticity of the Venezuelan government’s Official Gazette from April 26, 2018 where he was purportedly appointed special envoy by presidential decree. A printed copy of that same edition – No. 6,373 – held at the U.S. Library of Congress and a digital version on the Venezuelan Supreme Court’s website contain no mention of his purported appointment.
The tug of war has been further complicated by the revelation that Saab, prior to his arrest, had been signed up as an informant by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and had been providing it with information about corruption in Maduro’s inner circle.
The hearing is expected to last about a week.
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2022-12-12T17:23:01+00:00
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https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/maduro-ally-seeks-recognition-as-venezuela-diplomat-in-court/article_09f4d8b7-ba6f-526b-a334-de9dd668a9f3.html
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Keep ignoring the Tennessee Titans. Coach Mike Vrabel and his team seem to thrive on adversity, and now they've found the one piece of the puzzle that's eluded them much of this NFL season.
The passing game.
The Titans (7-3) improved to 10-2 in games played on short rest since Vrabel took over as head coach in 2018, this time beating the Green Bay Packers 27-17 on Thursday night in a game Tennessee never trailed. They did it with the best passing performance this season to go along with Derrick Henry and a physical defense.
“We played the game the way we wanted to play," Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill said.
The Titans played without starting center Ben Jones and put a 15th player on injured reserve hours before kickoff. Yet they still dictated the tempo from the opening possession, blocked an extra point attempt to preserve a 7-6 lead after the first quarter and never let the desperate Packers get closer than a field goal.
The two-time AFC South champs have won seven of eight with the one loss in overtime at Kansas City with rookie Malik Willis filling in for Tannehill. Of those three losses, two came by a combined four points.
WHAT’S WORKING
The offense turned in its best performance this season with Tannehill throwing for a season-high 333 yards and two touchdowns. In his second game back from a sprained right ankle, Tannehill completed passes to eight different receivers. The Titans had five plays of 31 yards or longer.
Treylon Burkscaught seven of eight passes for 111 yards for his best performance as a rookie in his second game back from injured reserve. Henry even threw the third TD pass of his career, including the playoffs.
“I call myself a young Peyton Manning,” Henry said, with a smile.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Kicker. Randy Bullock hurt his right calf in warmups just before the Titans' win over Denver. That forced the Titans to sign veteran Josh Lambo to the practice squad Tuesday before promoting him to the active roster Wednesday. Lambo connected on three of four extra points with one hitting the right upright. He only put one of four kickoffs into the end zone.
STOCK UP
Henry. The two-time NFL rushing champ is the first NFL running back to reach the 1,000-yard rushing mark this season. He joined Walter Payton (1983 against the Saints) as only the second player in the Super Bowl era to post a game with at least 20 rushing attempts, two pass completions and both a rushing and passing TD.
Henry also became the fifth player in NFL history with at least 10 TDs rushing in at least five straight seasons. He joined LaDainian Tomlinson, Adrian Peterson, Shaun Alexander and Michael Turner. Tomlinson, Peterson and Alexander all won the AP NFL MVP once.
STOCK DOWN
Offensive coordinator Todd Downing. He has been an easy target for fans unhappy at an offense ranked last in the NFL, averaging just 281.7 yards per game. Hours after the big win, Downing was arrested early Friday morning for speeding and driving under the influence before being released on a $2,500 bond.
“It’s something that we are going to take very seriously," Vrabel said. “We are going to gather all the information that we can, figure out what the next step is and do our best to move forward.”
INJURED
Jones needs to clear the concussion protocol. OLB Bud Dupree missed his fourth game with an injured hip. CB Kristian Fulton, who missed the Denver win, couldn't finish this game with a nagging hamstring injury.
Sack leader Denico Autry, who blocked an extra point in Green Bay, had tests Friday on an injured knee that knocked him out of the game. Vrabel said he had seen Autry already on Friday. The lineman will miss some time, but Vrabel said, "Denico usually finds a way to get back sooner rather than later.”
KEY NUMBER
7 — The Titans are the only NFL franchise to win at least seven of their first 10 games in each of the past three seasons. They started 7-3 in 2020 in reaching the AFC championship game and 8-2 last season en route to earning the AFC's No. 1 seed.
NEXT STEPS
A long weekend off. A team that had a bye Oct. 16 during the NFL's first bye weeks needs to heal up before a rematch of their divisional loss in January with Cincinnati visiting on Nov. 27.
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2022-11-18T21:54:21+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Titans-Tannehill-add-pass-threat-to-Henry-17595772.php
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We always start every year with the best intentions, but then things get in the way. You wind up feeling overscheduled as you chauffeur the kids from one activity to the next or feel overwhelmed at work and stop at that reliable takeout joint for lunch. Whatever the hurdle, life often leaves us little time — or energy — to create healthy, homemade meals.
One of the best tricks to have up your sleeve is to not only have a kitchen stocked with healthy food options but to have the tools accessible to get healthy meals done quickly and easily. Because if you can whip up boiled eggs to keep stocked in the fridge or have sliced veggies on hand for a quick pick-me-up, the simplicity is going to make life less stressful — and your doctor happier.
That’s why we’ve rounded up six of our favorite time-saving tools that can help you achieve your healthy food goals with less effort.
Dash Rapid Egg Cooker ($20.31)
With the capacity to hold six eggs for poaching, scrambling, or hard- or soft-boiling, this handy device lets you create a healthy breakfast or lunch in minutes while doing almost all the work for you. This countertop tool lets you make eggs just the way you want them while saving time and water. Hard and soft-boiled eggs come out of their shells easily.
With more than 83,000 five-star ratings, it’s no wonder why this is Amazon’s No. 1 bestseller among all egg cookers. The Dash Rapid Egg Cooker would be great to take along on RV trips or could make a nice gift for a college student living in a dorm. It’s available for $20.31 on Amazon.
Brieftons 10-Blade Vegetable Spiralizer ($32)
Increase your vegetable intake without added prep. Swap pasta for spiralized noodles or make vegetable noodle salad with a few quick turns of the handle. The $31.99 Brieftons 10-Blade Vegetable Spiralizer comes equipped with 10 Japanese stainless steel blades and a caddy for safekeeping. It’ll stay in place during use thanks to its suction-cupped pads. Use it for vegetable crinkle chips, lasagne, curly fries, spaghetti and more. If you have a little one that likes helping in the kitchen, the brand says the handle is even easy enough for kids to turn.
Amazon reviewer Lori found it easy to handle all the blades and said, “Making spiralized zucchini was so much easier than slicing with my mandolin and then cutting narrow strips!”
Yonanas 902 Classic Vegan Nondairy Frozen Fruit Soft-Serve Maker ($48.75)
Feed your sweet tooth in the most healthy and delicious way with this hand-operated soft-serve machine that uses frozen bananas as the key ingredient. No sugar, dairy or preservatives are needed for making your own scoopable frozen treats. It comes with a recipe book that includes 36 types of homemade desserts you can make including pies, parfaits and sorbets.
All removable parts are approved for the top rack of the dishwasher. The Yonanas Soft-Serve Maker is available for just under $50.
5-Pack Glass Meal-Prep Containers, 3 Compartments with Lids ($40)
This five-pack of 36-ounce glass meal-prep containers, for $39.99, will set your week off right. Simply fill each food-grade safe and BPA-free container with healthy snacks like sliced or bite-sized veggies to transform your fridge into a grab-and-go station. Each one has three separate compartments, an airtight smart-locking lid and holds 4 1/2 cups of food for complete portion control.
These containers come highly rated from Amazon buyers with more than 5,700 global ratings and an average of 4.7 out of 5 stars.
Cuisinart 5-in-1 Griddler ($100)
The stainless Cuisinart GR-4NP1 Griddler offers the opportunity to cook five different ways with one handy countertop device. Use it as a contact grill, panini press, full grill, full griddle or half grill/half griddle. Cook up a nutritious breakfast in a snap by making eggs and hash browns and then make a vegetable panini for lunch. For dinner, you could grill chicken or kabobs or use the griddle to make fajitas. Amazon reviewers have found it easy to use and clean.
User JJ K. said he “learned to love the kitchen and cooking with this awesome gadget.” While another person called it “the best easy-to-clean nonsmoking grill.” Find it for $99.95.
Luxear Fresh Produce Vegetable Fruit Storage Containers ($40)
It’s frustrating when you stock up on fresh fruits and vegetables from the grocery store only to have them go bad in the fridge before you’ve gotten to use them. Keep produce, meat and fish fresh for longer with this BPA-free vented compartment set for $40. Designed to help prevent spoilage, this three-piece set allows you to prolong food, store, and transport for picnics and holidays. With more than 4,000 global ratings with an overall score of 4.6 stars out of 5, this fruit storage set comes highly rated by Amazon users.
Reviewer Nicole said, “I’ve noticed the produce I put in these lasts longer (berries, grapes, leaf lettuce). I keep them up n the shelf in my fridge which helps me to see my produce and not forget about it. That’s why I liked the clear design.”
What kitchen gadgets have made your life easier? We’d love to know!
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2022-08-22T17:57:59+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/kitchen-gadgets-make-eating-healthy-easier
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The season is going by in a flash.
There are only a couple of weeks left before the 2022-23 girls basketball state tournament is seeded, and we continue to see eye-opening performances across the state.
The season is going by in a flash.
There are only a couple of weeks left before the 2022-23 girls basketball state tournament is seeded, and we continue to see eye-opening performances across the state.
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2023-02-03T20:32:17+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/02/girls-basketball-players-of-the-week-in-the-colonial-conference-jan-27-feb-2.html
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Amber Heard attorneys say juror served improperly, seek mistrial
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — One of the jurors in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial served improperly, an attorney for Heard alleged in a recent filing that asked the court to declare a mistrial and order a new trial.
“Newly discovered facts” show Juror No. 15 in the six-week trial was not the individual summoned in April to serve in the case, Heard’s attorney wrote in a five-page memo filed Friday in Virginia’s Fairfax Circuit Court.
Instead, the filing suggests Juror No. 15 was a younger individual with the same last name who “apparently” lives at the same address.
“As the Court no doubt agrees, it is deeply troubling for an individual not summoned for jury duty nonetheless to appear for jury duty and serve on a jury, especially in a case such as this,” the filing said.
Depp sued his ex-wife over a December 2018 op-ed Heard wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Much of the testimony focused on whether Heard had been physically and sexually abused, as she claimed. Depp said he never hit Heard and that she was the abuser.
After a televised trial that turned into a spectacle, the jury found in Depp’s favor on all three of his claims relating to specific statements in the 2018 piece.
The jury decided Depp should receive $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, but the judge reduced the punitive damages award to $350,000 under a state cap.
Heard has previously said she plans to appeal the verdict.
News of Friday’s filing was first reported by Deadline, which posted the document online.
The memo expanded upon earlier post-trial motions filed by Heard’s legal team that asked the judge to throw out the verdict against her. Those motions had raised the possibility that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court.
The latest filing said a “jury panel list” in the case included a person who would have been 77 at the time of the trial. Voter registration information lists two individuals with the same last name “apparently” residing at the same address, said the filing, in which the names were redacted.
“The individual who appeared for jury duty with this name was obviously the younger one. Thus, the 52-year-old ... sitting on the jury for six weeks was never summoned for jury duty on April 11,” violating Heard’s due process rights, the filing said.
The Associated Press sent emails seeking comment Sunday to a representative for Depp and two of his attorneys.
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2022-07-10T23:30:03+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/2022/07/10/heard-attorneys-say-juror-served-improperly-seek-mistrial/
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According to water level data from the Santa Clara Valley Water District, Lexington Reservoir rose to over 100% during this winter’s storms.
“Lexington Reservoir began spilling, marking the first time it’s been full since Feb. 2019,” SCVWD wrote in a press release.
Lexington Reservoir and its James J. Lenihan Dam are located on Los Gatos Creek about three miles south of Los Gatos. The dam was constructed in 1952. In 1947, water district directors decided to name the dam and reservoir for Lexington, a small nearby community that was located at the site and permanently evacuated when the reservoir was built.
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2023-02-20T00:35:49+00:00
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santacruzsentinel.com
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https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/02/19/photo-lexington-reservoir-fills-up/
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cribl, the leader in enabling open observability, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Cribl to its 2022 Emerging Vendors list in the Big Data category. This annual list recognizes fast-rising technology vendors that have exhibited a commitment to driving positive change and continuous growth in the IT and security channels by delivering innovative, cutting-edge solutions.
The technology vendors featured on CRN's 2022 Emerging Vendors are bringing a fresh approach to solving the IT and security challenges facing customers today, enabling their partners to deliver unique solutions that will ensure both channels' continued success.
Cribl's suite of products focuses on the fast-growing field of observability, providing operations and security teams unprecedented visibility into increasingly complex infrastructure and cybersecurity environments. Cribl Stream, the company's flagship product, is a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline that gives customers the flexibility to collect, reduce, enrich, normalize, and route data from any source to any destination within their existing data infrastructure. Cribl Edge is an observability agent that allows teams to automatically detect, collect, and process observability events in real time and deliver the data to any destination, directly or through Cribl Stream. Cribl Search, the company's newest product offering currently in preview, is the first open and vendor-agnostic analytics tool to perform "search-in-place" queries on any data, in any format, at any location.
"As part of our 2022 Emerging Vendors list, CRN recognizes technology vendors that are transforming the IT channel by providing revolutionary and innovative products that help customers manage ever-evolving IT demands," said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. "As a trusted industry resource, CRN's Emerging Vendors list gives solution providers insight into the latest groundbreaking IT channel technologies.
"Cribl is honored to have been named to CRN's 2022 Emerging Vendors list," says Zac Kilpatrick, VP of Global Channels at Cribl, who was recently recognized as a Channel Chief by CRN. "At Cribl, we pride ourselves on the value and innovation we bring to our customers and partners. Our suite of products, combined with the expertise of our great channel partners, give customers across industries the ability to have the choice and control to do what they want with their IT and security data in order to drive business outcomes."
Cribl has also been recognized by CRN in 2022 as a Cloud 100 Company and was named to the Big Data 100 List. The CRN 2022 Emerging Vendors list will be featured in the August 2022 issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/EmergingVendors.
Cribl makes open observability a reality for today's tech professionals. The Cribl product suite defies data gravity with radical levels of choice and control. Wherever the data comes from, wherever it needs to go, Cribl delivers the freedom and flexibility to make choices, not compromises. It's enterprise software that doesn't suck, enables tech professionals to do what they need to do, and gives them the ability to say "Yes." With Cribl, companies have the power to control their data, get more out of existing investments, and shape the observability future. Founded in 2017, Cribl is a remote-first company with an office in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.cribl.io or our LinkedIn, Twitter, or Slack community.
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2022-07-18T14:48:26+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/18/cribl-recognized-crn-2022-emerging-vendors-list/
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhombus Systems, a leader in enterprise cloud-managed security cameras and sensors, has released the A100 Audio Gateway to deliver real-time audio with video, two-way audio communication, alerts based on specific audio triggers, and alarm broadcasting during emergencies.
"The issue with today's security systems that offer audio recordings is that the audio is low quality and does little to improve safety. It's purely used for contextual information," said Omar Khan, co-founder and CTO of Rhombus Systems. "The A100 is a truly ground-breaking audio device that captures clearer audio, provides two-way audio support, and layers AI-based audio analytics, so users can be notified when a gunshot is detected, or a fight breaks out. When you're dealing with safety, seconds matter and the A100 provides proactive data and features to help defuse security issues in real-time."
With the A100's smart audio recognition capabilities, organizations can continuously monitor their facilities and receive automatic notifications for abnormal audio based on keywords, noise levels, and specific sounds. The sensor detects unusual audio levels, aggressive voices and phrases, gunshots, calls for help, breaking glass, and other unique sounds in real-time. Based on these alerts, users can set up pre-recorded messages and broadcast them out via the A100 sensor or external loudspeakers.
For example, if the A100 detects someone breaking in after-hours, a pre-recorded message can be broadcasted, notifying the trespasser that authorities have been contacted and are on their way.
"The A100 allows us to securely monitor our facilities while delivering a higher level of insight than we thought was possible," said Brad Minsley, Managing Director at 10 Federal. "Many of our facilities are managed entirely remotely, and obtaining high-quality audio recordings alongside video footage gives us unprecedented context into what's happening onsite. Meanwhile, the sensor's two-way communication lets us provide live support to our customers from anywhere in the world. The A100 has been transformative from a security and operations perspective."
The A100 serves as a gateway for all Rhombus Sensors, allowing organizations to get actionable environmental data across their physical spaces. Additionally, two-way audio support enables organizations to connect external microphones and loudspeakers to talk, broadcast, and amplify messages or alarms at scale.
The A100 Audio Gateway is now available for $349 and requires a Rhombus license starting at $149 per device. For sales inquiries or additional information, contact sales@rhombussystems.com.
Rhombus Systems is a cloud physical security platform designed to bring greater intelligence, security, and productivity to enterprise organizations. Rhombus delivers NDAA-compliant smart cameras, connected sensors, and seamless integrations to simplify infrastructure and security management at scale.
Backed by Cota Capital, MSD Partners, and Lemnos Labs, Rhombus Systems is on a mission to make the world safer with simple, smart, and powerful physical security solutions. To learn more, visit www.rhombussystems.com or connect with us via Linkedin, Twitter, or Facebook.
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2022-06-15T12:17:24+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/06/15/detect-gunshots-fights-keywords-with-smart-audio-capabilities-rhombus-systems-releases-intelligent-audio-gateway-with-two-way-communication/
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HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when a police officer opened fire on her and her boyfriend as they sat in a car unarmed has settled a lawsuit over the shooting for about $1.1 million.
Stephanie Washington was struck four times when Hamden officer Devin Eaton fired 13 bullets at the stopped car in New Haven on April 16, 2019, according to her lawsuit and a prosecutor’s investigation that found the shooting unjustified. She suffered multiple injuries, including spine and hip area fractures, a graze wound to her forehead and enduring trauma, the lawsuit said.
The shooting sparked several protests. Eaton, who resigned from the force last year, was charged with felony assault, pleaded no contest and was sentenced to probation and community service — punishment that also drew criticism from Washington and her supporters for being too lenient.
Eaton and the town of Hamden, two of several defendants in the federal court lawsuit, did not admit liability in the settlement, which was first reported Wednesday by the New Haven Register after it obtained a copy through a public records request.
“I’m glad that it’s been resolved,” Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett told the Register.
Phone and email messages seeking comment were left for Washington, her lawyer and Eaton’s attorney Wednesday.
Eaton stopped the couple’s car in New Haven because it matched the description of a car linked to a reported attempted robbery in Hamden, police said. Washington’s boyfriend, Paul Witherspoon III, was driving and Washington was in the passenger seat.
Eaton’s body-camera video showed Witherspoon starting to exit the car and appearing to raise his hands when Eaton begins shooting. Witherspoon then quickly got back into the vehicle. He was not injured. Eaton believed Witherspoon had a gun, officials said.
A Yale University officer, Terrance Pollock, fired his gun three times at the car. A prosecutor found his shooting to be justified because he believed Eaton and Witherspoon were exchanging gunfire. Pollock suffered a graze wound from a bullet fired by Eaton, officials said.
Advocates including the state NAACP and local clergy protested the shooting. Washington, Witherspoon, Eaton and Pollock are Black.
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2023-04-05T21:34:34+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/connecticut-woman-shot-by-officer-gets-1-1m-settlement/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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2023-01-14T20:51:44+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/sports/2023/01/13/ap-top-sports-news-at-541-p-m-est-7/
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BERLIN — Germany’s vice chancellor is proposing new powers for the country’s antitrust agency to clamp down on oil companies amid disappointment over the limited effect of a cut in fuel taxes.
Industry representatives insist that the tax reduction is being passed on to consumers but that they face pressure from rising prices. Many politicians, facing charges that the plan is an expensive flop, accuse oil companies of using the tax cut to line their pockets.
Leading politicians in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats and the Greens have called for a tax on what they call “excessive profits” earned by oil companies since the war pushed up prices. But the third partner in the coalition government, the pro-business Free Democrats of Finance Minister Christian Lindner, have vehemently rejected that idea.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the economy minister and responsible for energy, responded with a proposal to beef up the powers of the Federal Cartel Office.
“Taxing excessive profits doesn’t seem to be capable of winning a majority in the coalition,” he told Deutschlandfunk radio on Monday. “My proposal now is that we change cartel law, we draw up a cartel law with claws and teeth.”
The idea is to give the antitrust authority powers to look into companies’ books and lower the threshold for possible punishment. Habeck also proposes enabling the “unbundling,” essentially a break-up, of companies.
Setting out the plan on Sunday, Habeck acknowledged that the plan won’t help in the current situation but said it would help in the future.
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2022-06-13T08:19:49+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/germany-eyes-new-cartel-law-as-fuel-tax-cut-falls-short/2022/06/13/35807668-eae7-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html
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A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized and promised more training for its employees after a video showing a costumed character waving off two 6-year-old Black girls during a parade went viral online.
The nine-second video, posted to Instagram on Saturday by Jodi Brown, the mother of one of the girls, showed the character Rosita high-fiving a white child and woman, then gesturing “no” and walking away from the two girls who had their arms stretched out for a hug and high-five during the parade at Sesame Place in Langhorne, outside Philadelphia.
“I will never step foot in @sesameplace ever again,” Brown said online.
The family’s lawyer, B’Ivory LaMarr, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the family is appalled and disturbed by the incident and “the injuries propagated to their children.”
In an initial statement Sunday, Sesame Place said the park and its employees stand for “inclusivity and equality in all forms.” The statement also noted that performers sometimes miss requests for hugs because the costumes they wear make it difficult to see at lower levels.
“The Rosita performer did not intentionally ignore the girls and is devastated by the misunderstanding,” the statement said.
However, many people expressed outrage online and some called for a boycott of the amusement park.
The park issued a second statement Monday, apologizing again and promising that it was “taking action to do better.” Among those efforts would be inclusivity training for employees.
Both statements and the video triggered a stark response on social media, which LaMarr said helped shed a light on “the existence of these issues.”
“A lot of African Americans tend to become very passive because we unfortunately are accustomed to dealing with this type of racism in various spaces,” he said.
Sesame Place has been the official “Sesame Street” theme park for more than four decades. It opened in 1980.
“You would expect a reputable organization the one as well revered as Sesame Street and Sesame Place to stand on those principles and values in which they portray,” LaMarr said. “Instead, what this family saw was a company that comes out and they’re very dismissive of the harms that were caused.”
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This story has been corrected to show that Sesame Place is in Langhorne, which is outside Philadelphia, not a neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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2022-07-20T23:43:08+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/news/national/2022/07/19/sesame-place-apologizes-after-black-girls-snubbed-at-parade/
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Russian prosecutors on Tuesday brought criminal charges against another opposition figure who has criticized Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, his lawyer said.
Ilya Yashin was due to be released after spending 15 days in jail on charges of failing to obey police. Instead, Yashin was charged under a new law making it a crime to spread false information about the military, said his lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov. It carries a potential sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
Prosecutors searched Yashin’s Moscow apartment on Tuesday evening, and video taken at the scene shows that Yashin was present during the search.
Russia has cracked down on those who criticize what it calls the “special military operation” in Ukraine. Vladimir Kara-Muza, a well-known opposition figure, was arrested in April and charged under the same law.
Yashin, a member of a Moscow municipal council, was detained in late June in a city park, and police said he grabbed one officer by the uniform and insulted them. Yashin said the police approached him while he was sitting on a bench with a friend and demanded he go with them without explanation.
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2022-07-13T12:12:05+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/kremlin-critic-charged-over-criticizing-fighting-in-ukraine/
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Russia’s war in Ukraine
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2022-11-03T07:32:13+00:00
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kyma.com
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https://kyma.com/news/2022/11/03/russias-war-in-ukraine-210/
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LA CROSSE, Wis., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Persistent refinement put Bryan Schmitt on track to sacking up a four-day total of 63 pounds, 4 ounces and claiming his second blue trophy at the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Mississippi River.
Hailing from Deale, Md., Schmitt took the Day 1 lead with 17-0 — the event's second heaviest bag — and followed that with bags of 14-3 and 14-12.
Schmitt, who won his first Elite on Lake Champlain in 2021, started Championship Monday in third place, trailing Canadian pro Chris Johnston by 2-1. Adding 16-11 in the final round, Schmitt edged Johnston by just 4 ounces and won the $100,000 prize. He also earned an automatic berth into the 2023 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic scheduled for March 24-26 in Knoxville, Tenn.
"I'd rather have a blow-out win because this is too stressful," Schmitt said of the dramatic finish. "When Chris brought his bag up, it looked big — I thought he had it!
"I can't believe it. I'm 2-for-2 here. (Schmitt also won a 2017 FLW Tour event on the Mississippi River)."
Throughout the event, Schmitt focused his efforts on a 200-yard stretch of eelgrass in Pool 8. With multiple wins on grassy tidal fisheries from the Potomac River to the James River, he leveraged his vast knowledge of how bass relate to moving water and vegetation to progressively whittle down his spot.
"When you have a fishery with a lot of grass, it's always about finding something different," Schmitt said. "The first day, it was about depressions and edges. Then, it got so flat calm that I realized the fish would pick a place on that grass edge or depression and that was the only place you could get bit."
Seeing the bass were not randomly strolling through the eelgrass, Schmitt dissected his area until he identified the money spot. Amid the grass flat's consistent 6-foot depths, he identified an 8-foot trench measuring about 20 feet wide by 100 yards long.
"There was about a 50-foot section where, whenever I would get a bait on the bottom, I could feel rock," Schmitt said. "So, there was rock meeting grass in a depression."
The key to the spot's attraction was the very detail that derailed many anglers' game plans. Heavy rains from a storm that delayed the Day 2 launch by one hour muddied much of Pool 8. However, Schmitt's area was shielded from the mud plume, while the eelgrass filtration left only beneficial water flow.
"It's a challenge, but I enjoy fishing in current because I feel current makes fish predictable," Schmitt said. "When I won here in 2017, it flooded. It was just like this — my spot got better and better."
Schmitt caught most of his keepers on a Carolina-rigged Missile Baits Baby D Stroyer in green pumpkin flash. He added one of his limit fish on a bone-colored Spro Fat Papa Walker.
"I used a 3 1/2- to 4-foot leader and I think that's why they would bite that bait," Schmitt said. "There was so much eelgrass, the weight would get down and the bait would float above the grass for a minute and that's when you would get bit."
Schmitt said his win was perfectly timed, as he'll head home and celebrate his son Dylan's 9th birthday Thursday.
Johnston, who makes his home in Otonabee, Ontario, turned in limits of 16-4, 15-10, 16-12 and 14-6 for a second-place total of 63-0. Spending his tournament in Pool 8, he did most of his work by throwing a chartreuse/white Spro Bronzeye Frog around shallow eelgrass mats.
"I had to adjust in one area today; the fish moved on me a little bit," Johnston said. "I just went frog fishing and today I lost the most fish of any day in this event. It was one of those days and it wasn't meant to be.
"I fished clean the first three days, but today I just had (several) come unbuttoned."
Mats with current exposure proved most productive for Johnston. In addition to the largemouth he caught on the frog, Johnston also caught keeper smallmouth on a bone-colored Zara Spook.
Keith Combs of Huntington, Texas, finished third with 61-15. His daily weights were 14-5, 17-7, 15-1 and 15-2.
Combs fished Pools 8 and 9 each day, but only the former produced Monday. His main pattern involved sandbars and other current breaks where fish would position to feed.
"I had several different areas, but everything was current-related; it had to have a little current trickling through," Combs said. "Today, I caught my fish on a current seam and I caught a ton of fish. This morning, I caught them on every cast for 45 minutes. It was insanity.
"I never could dial into the big fish this week. I caught a ton of fish in the 3- to 3 1/2-pound range, but I never could figure out how to catch those 4-pounders."
Combs caught his bass on a black/blue Strike King swim jig with a black Strike King Caffeine Shad trailer. He also caught keepers on a Texas-rigged junebug Strike King Cut-R Worm.
Brock Mosley of Collinsville, Miss., won the overall $1,000 Phoenix Boats Big Bass honors with his 5-8 and also claimed the $1,000 daily big-fish prize for Day 1. Tennessee's Brandon Lester claimed Monday's daily big-fish prize with a 4-11.
Lester also won the $2,000 VMC Monster Bag prize for his final-day catch of 18-7.
Combs took home an additional $3,000 for being the highest-placing entrant in the Toyota Bonus Bucks program, and Drew Benton of Blakely, Ga., earned $2,000 for being the second-highest placing entrant.
As part of the Yamaha Power Pay program, Combs also earned an additional $2,500 as the highest-placing entrant and Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., claimed an additional $1,500 for being the second-highest placing entrant.
North Carolina's Brandon Card won the $1,000 BassTrakk Contingency award for the most accurate weight reporting.
The tournament was hosted by Explore La Crosse.
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2022-08-30T03:48:49+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/08/30/schmitt-claims-close-win-bassmaster-elite-series-event-mississippi-river/
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Products we’ve tried that can make your life better
There are so many products available to make your life better that you can’t possibly be aware of them all. For instance, did you know that Heinz has a pocket-sized roller that ensures you get the most ketchup out of every condiment packet? This tiny gadget clips to a key chain and helps you reduce waste (because you will use fewer packets).
Since we are constantly testing and reviewing products, we discover many innovative gadgets that are truly life-changing devices. However, just as often, we find a regular household item, such as an air purifier, that does not get the fanfare it deserves. With that in mind, here are 14 products we think you’ll love.
14 products we love
Vibe 12-Inch Gel Memory Foam Mattress
This memory foam mattress has 7 inches of high-density foam for support topped with 3 inches of gel-infused foam that draws heat away from your body. It is suitable for any sleeping position, as it evenly distributes pressure points to provide a supportive and comfortable night’s sleep. We have been using it since early 2020 and are still extremely happy with our purchase. Sold by Amazon
There are certain products you see on a platform like TikTok and you wonder if they really perform as others would have you believe. This car-cleaning goo really does pick everything up. Simply push this eco-friendly blob into any dust-filled crack or crevice you want to clean and remove. That’s all it takes. You won’t believe the results. Sold by Amazon
O-Cedar EasyWring Microfiber Spin Mop
Mopping is gross. In the beginning, it’s fine, but as that water turns gray, you don’t want any of it getting on your hands or clothing. With the O-Cedar Mop, you never have to touch dirty water ever again. The hands-free wringing and machine-washable microfiber mop head almost make the task enjoyable. Plus, the functional design lets you remove over 99% of bacteria with just water. Sold by Amazon
Some of the best products are stalwart items that are well made so they last for generations. A Lodge cast-iron skillet fits nicely into this category. This 10.25-inch offering is pre-seasoned with 100% natural vegetable oil and can be used on the stove, in the oven, on the grill or over a campfire. It has two pouring spouts and a second handle for added stability when carrying. Sold by Amazon
When you find something that works, stick with it. That’s exactly how we feel about the Magic Bullet blender. Squeezing a nutritious meal in can be tough when your schedule is packed. The Magic Bullet is an easy way to get some quick fruits and protein. It has a powerful motor that chops, grinds, mixes, blends and more. Plus, it comes with a 10-second recipe guide for inspiration. Sold by Amazon
Puma Kids’ Evercat Transformation Duffel
We love this because it fills a very particular need. It is a simple gym bag that is specifically made for kids. It is rugged, and has a zipper closure with a crossbody strap and a padded handle. When it gets dirty, you can just toss it into the washing machine for a thorough cleaning. Not only is it the perfect size for kids’ gear, but it is a conversation starter at the gym. Everybody wants one as soon as they see it. Sold by Amazon
You don’t have to be a tea lover to have a use for an electric kettle. This model quickly boils water for pasta and other dishes, too. However, full transparency, we do love it because it is ideal for making tea. The hold button lets you keep the temperature between 140 and 208 degrees for 60 minutes, and the gooseneck spout gives you complete control over pouring. Sold by Amazon
There comes a point when you realize you deserve a grown-up chair. This isn’t because you’re spoiled and want the best, it’s because you have a work-from-home position and you can’t perform at your peak if you are constantly shifting around, trying to relieve the aches in your back, shoulders and arms. For those of us who must sit for long periods of time while focusing, this chair is a solid choice. Sold by Amazon
Sitting still is bad. Your blood doesn’t flow as it should, which leads to nutrients and oxygen not getting to areas where they are needed the most. Sitting still also makes you cold. We love the Snailax Shiatsu Foot Massager because it solves both of these problems. This massager helps keep your blood circulating, even when you are sitting still, and the heating element keeps you cozy the whole time you are at your desk. But this miraculous tool isn’t relegated to the office. You can use it anytime you want to pamper yourself. Sold by Amazon
Cremo Barber Grade Cooling Shave Cream
Even tough guys can have sensitive skin. We discovered this life-changing product about a year ago. Don’t be fooled by expensive shave cream that promises unsurpassed comfort. We’ve found this affordable offering outperforms even the high-end options. It has a clean, crisp scent and comes in a tube that lasts for up to 90 days. Sold by Amazon
Vivo Electric Stand Up Desk Frame Workstation
For far too long, we’ve been limited by this notion that tables are one-height-fits-all. That is not true (or healthy). Your size determines the height of your chair. The height of your chair determines the height of your table. If more than one person sits at that table or you prefer to have times when you stand, you need a desk that raises and lowers without struggle. We love the flexibility this motorized desk frame offers and highly recommend it to anyone who uses a desk. Sold by Amazon
Bissell Air Ram Cordless Vacuum
After trying this lightweight, cordless powerhouse, our editor shouted, “It’s the best!” The compact, multi-surface cleaning tool offers 40 minutes of fade-free battery life, along with a lay-flat handle and swivel steering that ensures you can get under or around every obstacle. The built-in LED light illuminates the floor so you know when it is clean. Sold by Kohl’s
If you or other family members suffer from seasonal allergies, it can make even the most gorgeous days miserable. This model removes up to 99.99% of pollen, allergens and pollutants, so any sensitive individuals in your home can literally breathe easier. This powerful air purifier is suitable for rooms up to 1,862 square feet and it is strong enough to remove smoke and smog that results from wildfires. As a bonus, it can serve as a white noise machine to help you sleep. Sold by Amazon
Viking Revolution Tattoo Care Balm
If you have tattoos, you need a reliable balm. Viking Revolution’s offering soothes and moisturizes to help speed up the healing process. We found it not only works great on fresh tattoos, but it is something we use every day to help maintain the vibrancy of older ones as well. The mild tropical scent is a plus. Sold by Amazon
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2022-07-23T18:09:41+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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Spruce up your cat and dog at home with these 12 grooming products
Regular grooming is not only helpful in keeping your pet looking dapper, but it’s actually necessary for maintaining your furry friend’s health, including ear care and oral care. With their de-shedding treatments and professional training, nothing can completely replace a visit to an experienced groomer. However, with the right tools and practice, anyone can keep their pet clean and healthy without leaving the house.
Plus, your pets are sure to love the bonding time, even if your feline friend doesn’t quite show their appreciation. So, check out these 12 grooming products to spruce up your cat or dog at home.
The importance of grooming your pet
While people often get their hair or nails done to improve their appearance or feel better, grooming a pet is actually akin to a doctor’s appointment. The ASPCA says, “Grooming is as important as bringing your pet to the vet for regular checkups” for a variety of reasons. Grooming is essential for cats and dogs prone to matting hair, as matts could cause skin irritation. If matted hair traps feces or fleas, it could also lead to infection.
Regular nail trims are also crucial in grooming to keep your pet healthy. Uncut nails can break off, bleed and cause an infection. Nails that aren’t adequately trimmed may also cause joint pain if pets are forced to walk with misaligned pads. In addition, grooming is essential for detecting early problems that may be obscured by hair, such as bumps or open wounds.
Steps for grooming your pet like a pro
- Organizing your tools and workspace: No one wants a wet dog to run and shake around the house while searching for a towel. Before grooming, ensure you have a workspace prepped with all the necessary tools, such as a grooming rake or pet shampoo.
- Brushing and trimming: It’s more difficult to brush out matts when wet, and the shampoo may not clean as deeply if your cat or dog’s fur isn’t properly brushed. You can also take this step to trim or shave any matted areas.
- Bathing: For cats that don’t tolerate being wet, opt for a waterless shampoo. For cats and dogs that enjoy the water, covering their ears may help them feel more comfortable and keep the inside of their ears from getting wet.
- Nail trimming: Nail trimmers are available in guillotine style, scissors or electric file. Start with a small amount and slowly cut more if needed. Don’t get too close to the quick or the soft part of the nail, which is where the blood vessels are located.
- Oral care: Both cats and dogs are susceptible to a host of oral issues, including tooth loss, gingivitis and tartar. Use a pet toothbrush and pet toothpaste. Never use human toothpaste.
12 best grooming products for cats at dogs
GoPets Dematting Comb With 2-Sided Professional Grooming Rake
Effortlessly clear matts and tangles with this two-sided grooming rake. The lower density side is ideal for stubborn matts, while the higher density side is an undercoat rake and detangler to control shedding. Don’t worry about hurting your furry friend since the teeth have dull, rounded edges. Sold by Amazon
Go Pet Club Pet Dog Grooming Table With Arm
Consider a grooming table for a professional experience that keeps your pet from running around the house. The rubber-capped feet keep the table from slipping, and the goal-post-style legs allow for convenient storage. Plus, the grooming arm is adjustable to fit all pet sizes. Sold by Amazon
For dogs, cats, horses and more pets, ditch the traditional grooming brush and opt for this grooming glove. It’s perfect for de-shedding, scrubbing during a bath or gently massaging pets with gentle nodules. Sold by Amazon
Nature’s Miracle Deodorizing Bath Wipes
These bath wipes are ideal for tough dirt patches or pets who don’t like water. They’re alcohol-free and safe to use every day. Sold by Amazon
Tropiclean Papaya and Coconut Luxury 2-in-1 Pet Shampoo And Conditioner
This two-in-one shampoo removes dirt and debris from hair, while also conditioning the coat to remove tangles. Since it’s soap-free, it’s gentle enough for most pets and won’t wash away topical treatments. Sold by Amazon
Flying Pig High-Velocity Dog Pet Grooming Dryer With Heater
Don’t worry about your living room smelling like a damp dog, thanks to this pet dryer. Choose between low or high settings that run from 81 to 160 degrees. It also comes with a 10-foot flexible hose and two types of nozzles to reach all the nooks and crannies. Sold by Amazon
Andis 22340 ProClip 2-Speed Pet Clippers
Trim even the thickest animal hair with these pet clippers. Since it doesn’t make a lot of noise while operating, pets won’t get spooked by the sound. The detachable blade also changes out quickly. Sold by Amazon
Aquapaw Pet Bath Sprayer and Scrubber Tool In One
This two-in-one grooming tool allows you to scrub and rinse your pet simultaneously, eliminating awkwardly pouring water with one hand while scrubbing with the other. With the on-off button located in your palm, it’s effortless to control. Sold by Amazon
Casfuy Dog and Cat Nail Grinder
The advanced diamond drum bit grinder offers a safe and comfortable option for trimming pet nails. It features three ports and two speeds to suit small, medium and large animals with unique nail hardness. Sold by Amazon
GoPets Pet Nail Clipper for Large Dogs and Cats
These professional quality nail clippers are ideal for cats or dogs and are designed to stay sharp for years. The quick sensor safety guard also prevents overcutting to reduce the risk of injury to your pets. Sold by Amazon
Pets & Pupps Toothbrush for Dogs And Cats
Remove plaque from your pet’s teeth and promote healthy gums with this dual-sided toothbrush that accommodates pets of all sizes. The non-slip, easy-grip handle makes it simple to brush hard-to-reach areas. Sold by Amazon
Keep your furry friends’ paws clean with this no-rinse waterless foam cleaner. It features a detachable silicone brush that’s gentle on paws while removing dirt and odor. Sold by Amazon
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2023-02-08T15:02:58+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/reviews/br/pets-br/grooming-br/what-are-the-best-grooming-products-for-cats-and-dogs/
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Wyoming High School Sports Pics of the Week: Mar. 23-25
With the less-than-pleasant weather Wyoming has endured in the spring, it's been tough to get outside and compete. Slowly but surely, the spring sports have been out there (when they can) and the effort has been amazing to kick things off.
We have some pics to share with you from the Fort Collins track meet, Worland vs. Powell soccer, Riverton vs. Kelly Walsh soccer, Laramie vs. Campbell County girls soccer, and some images of the Cheyenne East soccer teams.
We also threw in a few pics from the State Cheer and Dance competition in Casper. If you have some photos you would like to submit, use the WyoPreps mobile app or email them to frank.gambino@townsquaremedia.com. Enjoy!
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2023-03-31T17:44:43+00:00
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k2radio.com
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https://k2radio.com/wyoming-high-school-sports-pics-of-the-week-mar-23-25/
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DALLAS, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust ("NXDT") (NYSE: NXDT) announced today the final income allocations of the Company's 2022 dividend distributions on its common stock and preferred stock. The final income allocations as they will be reported on Form 1099-DIV are set forth in the following table:
Common Shares (CUSIP # 65340G205, NYSE Ticker: NXDT)
Preferred Shares (CUSIP # 65340G304), NYSE Ticker: NXDT PRA)1
1Pursuant to Section 857(b)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the "IRC"), cash distributions made on January 3, 2023, with a record date of December 23, 2022, are treated as received by stockholders on December 31, 2022, to the extent of 2022 earnings and profits. As NXDT's 2022 cash distributions exceeded its 2022 earnings and profits, the January 2023 cash distribution declared in the fourth quarter of 2022 will be treated as a 2023 distribution for federal income tax purposes and not included on the 2022 Form 1099. If you were a stockholder of record as of December 23, 2022, the $0.34375 dividend payable on January 3, 2023, will be reported on your 2023 Form 1099.
Components may not sum to the totals due to rounding differences. The information above presents final income allocations.
The Company encourages shareholders to consult with their own tax advisors with respect to the federal, state, and local income tax effects of these dividends.
About NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust
NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust is an externally advised, publicly traded, diversified real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the acquisition, development, and management of opportunistic and value-add investments throughout the United States across multiple sectors where NexPoint and its affiliates have operational expertise. NXDT is externally advised by NexPoint Real Estate Advisors X, L.P. For more information, please visit nxdt.nexpoint.com.
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2023-02-24T00:09:04+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/02/23/nexpoint-diversified-real-estate-trust-announces-2022-dividend-income-tax-treatment/
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Steve Bannon gets 4 months behind bars for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday to serve four months behind bars after defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The judge allowed Bannon to stay free pending appeal and also imposed a fine of $6,500 as part of the sentence. Bannon was convicted in July of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols handed down the sentence after saying the law was clear that contempt of Congress is subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of at least one month behind bars. Bannon’s lawyers had argued the judge could’ve sentenced him to probation instead. Prosecutors had asked for Bannon to be sent to jail for six months.
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The House panel had sought Bannon’s testimony over his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Bannon has yet to testify or provide any documents to the committee, prosecutors wrote.
Prosecutors argued Bannon, 68, deserved the longer sentence because he had pursued a “bad faith strategy” and his public statements disparaging the committee itself made it clear he wanted to undermine their effort to get to the bottom of the violent attack and keep anything like it from happening again.
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2022-10-21T18:10:03+00:00
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yorkdispatch.com
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https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2022/10/21/steve-bannon-gets-4-months-behind-bars-for-defying-jan-6-subpoena/69580393007/
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HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for a former Houston police officer charged with murder in connection with a deadly drug raid decried the publicity the case has generated and suggested Wednesday that newly discovered evidence could undermine prosecutors' claims that the couple who lived at the home were unfairly targeted.
But during a court hearing, prosecutors reiterated that the pair were not drug dealers. They said former Officer Gerald Goines’ actions during the raid were part of a long history of misconduct and lies that resulted in multiple convictions and cases tied to him being overturned or dismissed.
Goines faces two murder charge s as well as other counts in state and federal court stemming from the raid he led in January 2019, in which Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58, were killed. The families of Tuttle and Nicholas have filed federal civil rights lawsuits against the city and 13 officers.
Prosecutors say Goines lied to obtain a search warrant by claiming a confidential informant had bought heroin at the home. Goines later said there was no informant and he bought the drugs himself, they allege. Prosecutors have said police found small amounts of marijuana and cocaine in the house, but no heroin, and Goines wrongly portrayed the couple as dangerous dealers.
Nicole DeBorde, one of Goines’ attorneys, said during the hearing that new evidence she was recently made aware of shows police believed the couple “were dealing drugs of a serious nature” and had large amounts of narcotics and lots of guns.
Prosecutors denied that, saying the evidence does not show Tuttle and Nicholas were dangerous. They also said the evidence was not new and had previously been provided to the defense.
“We have no information that they are drug dealers,” said Tanisha Manning, a prosecutor with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
Family and friends of Tuttle and Nicholas have maintained that the married couple of 20 years were not criminals but animal lovers who lived quiet, simple lives when they were killed.
A dozen officers tied to the narcotics squad that carried out the raid have been indicted following a corruption probe. Most face charges related to an alleged overtime scheme, allegations of falsifying documentation about drug payments to confidential informants or for allegedly lying on police reports.
Wednesday’s hearing also focused on a defense request to dismiss the murder charges because of purported prosecutorial misconduct.
Goines' lawyers alleged that District Attorney Kim Ogg has generated excess publicity in the case that has made it impossible to pick an impartial jury. They alleged that improper actions included comments critical of Goines and the raid posted on the Houston Chronicle's website by Ogg’s former spokesman Dane Schiller, using the pseudonym “Dude Goggles.”
Schiller testified last week that he posted on the paper’s website in a personal capacity and few of his comments were about the raid, the Chronicle reported.
“The right has been damaged irreparably to have a fair trial in this community,” DeBorde said Wednesday.
State district Judge Frank Aguilar said that while some of the comments from the district attorney’s office violated rules of professional conduct, he was rejecting the motion to dismiss the murder charges. Aguilar held off on ruling on a defense motion to move the trial out of Houston.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned five convictions linked to Goines, while prosecutors have dismissed at least 150 cases tied to him.
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2023-02-02T03:28:14+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/defense-decries-publicity-in-trial-over-deadly-17758211.php
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Community Edition, the first of multiple Tidal offerings, enables security analysts to gain advanced knowledge of adversary behaviors
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tidal Cyber, a leader in threat-informed defense, has today announced the general availability of the Community Edition of their SaaS threat-informed defense platform. It is freely available at: www.tidalcyber.com/communityedition
The Tidal Platform enables businesses to assess, organize and optimize their cyber defenses based on a deep understanding of the threats and adversaries that are most relevant to them. Tidal's Community Edition is available free of charge and enables security analysts to more easily and efficiently apply the advanced knowledge of adversary behaviors, as defined by the MITRE ATT&CK® knowledge base and additional open-source threat intelligence sources, to their unique environment. Beyond this, the platform also enables analysts to make this threat information actionable by showing how specific security products address adversary behaviors to better defend against those threats.
"Threat-informed cyber defense is based on understanding how adversaries are likely to attack your organization and using that knowledge to ensure you have the optimal security solutions in place," said Richard Struse, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Tidal Cyber. "Our goal is to enable security teams to maintain a 'single source of truth' for all data regarding relevant threats and countermeasures. With the availability of Community Edition, organizations can now not only explore the extensive knowledge base of adversarial behaviors more efficiently, but also quickly research solutions available to defend against those threats."
Specific features and highlights of Tidal's Community Edition include:
- Advanced Adversary Behavior Search that enables security analysts to rapidly investigate relevant ATT&CK objects (e.g., tactics, techniques, sub-techniques, groups, software, data sources, references), as well as information on how to defend against those behaviors.
- Tidal's Product Registry, a curated repository of vendor-provided security product capabilities mapped to specific adversary behaviors. The registry describes how each product protects, detects, responds or tests ATT&CK techniques, as well as the data each product generates to map to ATT&CK Data Components. This allows defenders to see how their current security stack stands up to the adversary behaviors they care about and evaluate options to fill any gaps.
- Knowledge Base Labels which enable users to explore the relationships between the threat objects that are most relevant to their organization.
- Custom Technique Sets that allow defenders to group specific techniques and sub-techniques with custom labels, making it easy to track and communicate emulation plans and new threat research.
Solution providers whose product capabilities are available in Tidal's Community Edition at launch include Atomic Red Team, AttackIQ, BreachBits, BluVector, Picus, Remediant, SCYTHE, Sysmon Modular, and Trinity Cyber. A number of other solution providers, including Check Point, Cybereason, and SentinelOne, have also committed to joining the Product Registry, and their data will be integrated into the Community Edition shortly. Tidal will also be releasing frequent updates to the platform in which additional solution providers and new product features will be added.
"With the Tidal platform, my team will be much better equipped to understand the threats we face and answer questions such as: 'which threats are most relevant to our business?', 'where are our gaps and redundancies?' and 'is a particular security solution going to improve our protection against those relevant threats?'," said Patricia Titus, Chief Information Security Officer at Markel Corporation.
"Vulnerability management is important in cyber security. However, a defensive strategy driven primarily by vulnerability management doesn't do enough to prioritize threats relative to the severity of risk posed to a specific organization, its unique threat surface, and its unique security stack," said Patrick Donegan, Principal Analyst at HardenStance. "By enabling a threat-informed defense, Tidal Cyber makes it a lot easier for users to assess their specific cyber risk relative to the latest threat intel flagged up by the ATT&CK framework, identify capabilities and gaps in their own security controls for defending against the highest risk threats, and then configure those controls optimally for the most effective defense."
The Community Edition is the first of multiple offerings of the Tidal Platform. Subsequent platform editions will be announced later this year and will feature expanded functionality such as the ability to overlay threat models against the security solutions in your environment to identify areas of coverage, gaps, and redundancy.
To stay up to date on all of the latest news surrounding Tidal Cyber, please visit: www.tidalcyber.com.
Founded in January 2022 by a team of threat intelligence veterans with experience at MITRE, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and a wide range of innovative security providers, Tidal Cyber enables businesses to implement a threat-informed defense more easily and efficiently. The Tidal Platform helps our customers map the security capabilities of their unique environment against the industry's most complete knowledgebase of adversary tactics and techniques including the MITRE ATT&CK® knowledge base, additional open-source threat intelligence sources, and a Tidal-curated registry of security product capabilities mapped to specific adversary techniques. The result is actionable insight to track and improve their defensive coverage, gaps, and overlaps. For more information, please visit: www.tidalcyber.com.
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2022-08-10T13:28:22+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/tidal-cyber-launches-threat-informed-defense-platform/
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Ford returns to the most prestigious motorsport globally: Formula 1
Ford Motor Co., which was financed and founded in 1903 on the racetrack, announced Friday that it's making another strategic bet on its future by returning to Formula 1.
The global competition, which has been spotlighted by the popular Netflix series, "Drive to Survive," is seeing a rise in popularity here in the U.S. And Ford is partnering with Oracle Red Bull Racing to form Red Bull Ford Powertrains starting in 2026.
Ford, which is currently led by CEO Jim Farley, a race car driver, is returning to Formula 1 after a 22-year absence.
This coveted deal with the championship Formula 1 team, is a "long-term strategic technical partnership for the development of hybrid powertrains for the 2026 Formula 1 Championship," the automaker said.
Starting immediately, Red Bull Racing and Ford will develop together the powertrain that will be part of new technical regulations, including fully sustainable fuels, through at least 2030, Ford said.
Red Bull Ford Powertrains will provide the power units for both the Oracle Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri teams from 2026 to 2030. Ford will provide technical expertise including battery cell and electric motor technology, power unit control software and analytics.
Ford remains the third most successful engine manufacturer in F1 history with a total of 174 wins, the automaker said.
Ferrari and Mercedes are the only automakers with a better record.
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Contact Phoebe Wall Howard: 313-618-1034 or phoward@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @phoebesaid.
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2023-02-03T16:26:10+00:00
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freep.com
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https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2023/02/03/ford-formula-1-oracle-red-bull-racing-partnership/69869473007/
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers on Tuesday gave the green light for citizens from Kosovo to travel freely in Europe without visas from next year.
The move means that Kosovo’s citizens will be able to travel in the 27-nation Schengen passport free area, which includes most EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, for periods of up to 90 days every six months.
Citizens in the Schengen countries will be able to visit Kosovo without visas too. The former Serbian territory was the last country in the Western Balkans region not to have such travel arrangements with the EU.
Dutch Socialist lawmaker Thijs Reuten, who chaperoned the process through the European Parliament, said the move “finally enables the people of Kosovo to easily travel, visit relatives and do business in the EU.”
“But it is more than that,” he added in a statement, as the assembly met in Strasbourg France. “This milestone is also an important foundation for the future and ever-closer cooperation between the EU and Kosovo.”
Kosovo wants to join the EU and is slowly bringing its laws into line with the bloc’s standards.
The visa exemption will enter force as soon as the EU’s new electronic travel system is in place and in any case in 2024.
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2023-04-18T16:37:32+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/eu-lawmakers-green-light-visa-free-travel-for-kosovo/
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
5-7-9-4, WB: 9
(five, seven, nine, four; WB: nine)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
5-7-9-4, WB: 9
(five, seven, nine, four; WB: nine)
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2022-10-10T19:12:05+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17499582.php
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Driver of SUV slams into storefront in Newington
Published: Aug. 22, 2022 at 6:19 AM EDT|Updated: moments ago
NEWINGTON, CT (WFSB) - The driver of an SUV barreled into a business in Newington overnight.
The vehicle was seen lodged in the storefront of “FloorsNow!” On the Berlin Turnpike Monday morning.
The location was right where the turnpike meets Kitts Lane.
As of 6 a.m. on Monday, police had not released any details about the driver, reports of injuries, or what led up to this crash.
However, Channel 3 learned that of the road was closed to traffic, specifically a short portion of the northbound side of the Berlin Turnpike by Kitts Lane. There was a very quick detour that got drivers back on track. The road reopened around 4 a.m.
Refresh this page and watch Eyewitness News for updates.
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2022-08-22T11:11:08+00:00
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wfsb.com
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https://www.wfsb.com/2022/08/22/driver-suv-slams-into-storefront-newington/
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Buffalo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Jefferson County in central New York...
Lewis County in central New York...
Northeastern Oswego County in central New York...
* Until 300 AM EDT.
* At 200 AM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Rutland Center to near Pulaski, moving east at
55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
* Locations impacted include...
Watertown, Fort Drum, Carthage, Lowville, Pulaski, West Carthage,
Adams, Herrings, Adams Center and Barnes Corners.
This includes Interstate 81 between exits 35 and 47.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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2022-07-25T06:22:06+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BUFFALO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17326403.php
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Despite 33% surge in risk of general anxiety and 12% rise in stress February – May 2022; June saw general anxiety risk tumble 39% and stress fall 15%
SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For many, sun, sand, and sea breezes are the antidote to stress and anxiety. Recent findings from the Q2 2022 Mental Health Index: U.S. Worker Edition support the notion that summertime fun is good for your mental health. From February – May 2022, stress levels went up 12%, risk of general anxiety rose 33%, and risk of PTSD jumped 57% amid growing inflation, a declining stock market, a seemingly unending war in Ukraine and the emergence of the stealth BA.2 omicron variant. Yet, despite ongoing health, economic and social chaos, June data shows a markedly different story. In June, stress levels dropped 15%; risk of general anxiety plummeted 39%; and risk of PTSD plunged 31%. Further, February – May 2022 saw a 42% swell in risk of social anxiety with a subsequent 22% drop in June.
"Total Brain has been monitoring U.S. workers' mental health for more than three years," noted Matthew Mund, CEO, Total Brain. "There is an interesting pattern of mental health improvements each June likely induced by a vacation state of mind. Subsequently, we see a decline in mental health assessment scores in September – the dreaded "back-to-school" season. So, while we are cautiously optimistic based on the data in June; history tells us that people need to be prepared for emotional and cognitive declines come fall. Their ability to assess and monitor their mental health is more important than ever."
The Mental Health Index: U.S. Worker Edition, powered by Total Brain, a mental health monitoring and support platform, is distributed in partnership with the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, One Mind at Work, and the HR Policy Association and its American Health Policy Institute.
Margaret Faso, director, Health Care Research and Policy of HR Policy Association said, "Despite improvements in the index results employers recognize improving mental health is not a linear process. Maintaining flexible work policies that help reduce both stress and anxiety and improve employee satisfaction will remain key priorities for HR executives."
"The data reinforces how critical the benefits of collective periods of recovery are to the emotional wellbeing of our workforce," said Michael Thompson, National Alliance president and CEO. "This downtime pays huge dividends in improved effectiveness and engagement of the people who we rely on to drive results in our organizations."
Christina McCarthy, executive director of One Mind at Work said, "We are seeing employers move to a longer-term response to COVID, and at an employee level the summer offers more opportunities to take breaks or maybe even go on vacation. However, we anticipate that the impacts of COVID in terms of stress and anxiety will remain for many and urge employers to continue to take this moment in time to review and adjust their mental health strategies to provide even better support for mental health."
The full Q2 2022 Mental Health Index results can be found here. For additional insights, there will be a complimentary 30-minute webinar on Friday, July 22 at noon Eastern. Register here.
Methodology: The Mental Health Index: U.S. Worker Edition contains data drawn from a weekly randomized sample of 500 working Americans taken from a larger universe of Total Brain users. The Index is NOT a survey or a poll. Data is culled from neuroscientific brain assessments using standardized digital tasks and questions from the Total Brain platform. Participants include workers from all walks of life and regions, job levels, occupations, industries, and types of organizations (public vs. private). The brain assessments used to compile the Mental Health Index were taken weekly from the first week of February 2020 until the week starting June 20, 2022, inclusive. The two weeks from March 21 to April 3 (inclusive) were compared to the last two weeks of June 13-16 (inclusive).
About Total Brain Limited (ASX: TTB): Total Brain Limited is an applied, integrative neuroscience company, based in San Francisco and Sydney, that has developed and offers Total Brain, a mental health monitoring and support platform powered by the world's largest standardized brain database. Its SaaS platform has helped more than one million registered users to-date scientifically measure and optimize their brain capacities while managing the risk of common mental conditions. Benefits for providers include improved patient outcomes, tracking of evidence-based outcomes across the continuum of care, and a reduction in clinician fatigue. Benefits for populations and payers include better mental healthcare access, lower costs, and higher productivity. For more information, please visit www.totalbrain.com and follow on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About the National Alliance: The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (National Alliance) is the only nonprofit, purchaser-led organization with a national and regional structure dedicated to driving health and healthcare value across the country. Its members represent private and public sector, nonprofit, and Taft-Hartley organizations, and more than 45 million Americans spending over $300 billion annually on healthcare. nationalalliancehealth.org
About One Mind at Work: Launched in 2017, One Mind at Work is a global coalition of leaders from diverse sectors who have joined together with the goal of transforming approaches to mental health and addiction. One Mind at Work now includes more than 90 global employers and 18 research and content partners. The coalition covers more than 8 million people under its charter. onemindatwork.org
About HR Policy Association: HR Policy Association is the lead organization representing Chief Human Resource Officers at major employers. The Association consists of over 390 of the largest corporations doing business in the United States and globally, and these employers are represented in the organization by their most senior human resource executive. Collectively, their companies employ more than 10 million employees in the United States, over nine percent of the private sector workforce, and 20 million employees worldwide. These senior corporate officers participate in the Association because of their commitment to improving the direction of human resource policy. hrpolicy.org.
About American Health Policy Institute: American Health Policy Institute is a non-partisan non-profit think tank, started by the HR Policy Foundation, which examines the practical implications of health policy changes through the lens of large employers. The Institute examines the challenges employers face in providing health care to their employees and recommends policy solutions to promote the provision of affordable, high-quality, employer-based health care. The Institute serves to provide thought leadership grounded in the practical experience of America's largest employers. Their mission is to develop impactful strategies to ensure that those purchasing health care can not only bend the cost curve, but break it, by keeping health care cost inflation in line with general inflation. americanhealthpolicy.org.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexcess, the premium provider of managed hosting and cloud solutions optimized for managed WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento, announced today a new partnership with Object Cache Pro, the leading enterprise plugin for Redis object caching.
Valued at $95 a month, the premium plugin will be included free of charge on Managed WordPress, Managed WooCommerce, dedicated WordPress clusters, and flexible cloud plans. The partnership brings together Nexcess' highly performant managed hosting solutions with the reliability of Object Cache Pro, giving every customer a premium, enterprise-grade caching experience – not just the higher tier accounts.
Object Cache Pro will be installed on all new Nexcess sites with a valid plan and available for existing customers to activate.
"Every site and store owner is looking to improve speed and performance, especially when their livelihood depends on their site performing well,'' says Carrie Wheeler, EVP and Chief Operating Officer. "Object Cache Pro is a premium caching plugin that eases the load on customer databases and server hardware to deliver queries faster and thus, speed up application performance. And because we know it is so important to help our WordPress customers run faster, more performant sites, we're building it into our plans — for free," says Wheeler.
Caching content is one way site owners can reduce latency and increase page speed. Dynamic content, such as carts and forms, cannot be cached in the same manner that static content like blogs can. High-traffic websites with many products need a reliable and fast solution that those standard solutions simply do not cover. Object Cache Pro provides users with improved performance using lossless compression technologies — delivering queries faster without bogging down the database.
"We're all about reliability and performance, so partnering with the like-minded team at Nexcess was a natural fit," says Till Krüss, the developer of Object Cache Pro. "We love seeing them push Object Cache Pro to its edge."
"We're thrilled to partner with high-quality solutions like Object Cache Pro to enable better performance and profitability for our customers. Our mission is to make WordPress easier for SMBs and their creators and part of that is taking performance concerns off the table. It's a great example of how we're using our expertise to drive continuous innovation for WordPress and WooCommerce so that Nexcess is the best place for SMBs and creators to build, manage, and grow their sites and stores online," says Wheeler.
Object Cache Pro is the latest offering to an already robust lineup of new and free features added to Nexcess Managed WordPress and WooCommerce plans, including these Nexcess exclusives:
- Plugin Performance Monitor which provides actionable and prescriptive insights to improve site performance.
- WooCommerce Automated Testing which runs nightly tests and displays the status of critical tests at a glance.
- Sales Performance Monitor provides critical insights into online store revenue and sales trends, and its intelligence engine alerts store owners if sales slow down.
To learn more about the Object Cache Pro plugin, visit their site. For more information about Nexcess, visit nexcess.net.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
- Pricing for all-new 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale starts at $42,995
- Alfa Romeo Tonale build, pricing and pre-order information available at alfaromeousa.com
- Pre-ordering includes the 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale Ti and Tonale Veloce trims
- Customers choosing to lease the Alfa Romeo Tonale can take advantage of a $7,500 Federal EV tax credit
- Alfa Romeo's first heavily electrified offering includes an innovative PHEV all-wheel-drive system
- 15.5-kWh lithium-ion battery with 90-kW electric motor delivers an electric range of more than 30 miles (48 kilometers). The additional 1.3-liter turbocharged engine contributes to a best-in-class 285 horsepower
- Alfa Romeo paradigm: Electrification serves the brand with the mission of reinventing sportiness for the 21st century
Alfa Romeo today announced pricing for the all-new 2024 Tonale with a starting U.S. manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $42,995 (excluding $1,595 destination charge).
The premium automotive brand also opened pre-ordering. Customers can now build and price their Alfa Romeo Tonale through alfaromeousa.com and align with their preferred dealer to finalize the purchase.
"We look forward to launching the all-new Alfa Romeo Tonale and competing in the premium compact sport-utility vehicle segment with the brand's first plug-in hybrid offering," said Larry Dominique, senior vice president and head of Alfa Romeo North America. "The Tonale drops right into one of the largest volume segments with best-in-class 285 horsepower and more than 30 miles of electric range as the next generation of electrified Alfa Romeo vehicles make their way into the market."
Initial pre-orders open with the all-new 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale Ti and Tonale Veloce trim levels with Sprint availability later in Q1 of 2023. Customers can build their Ti or Veloce Tonale through alfaromeousa.com and choose from the available options. After selecting a preferred dealer, a representative from the chosen dealer will contact the customer to finalize the order.
Customers who choose to lease their all-new Alfa Romeo Tonale can take advantage of a $7,500 Federal EV tax credit.
Pricing for the all-new 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale. Prices do not include a $1,595 destination charge:
The all-new 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale spearheads a new era of luxury, electrification and connectivity while remaining true to the race-inspired DNA Alfa Romeo is known for. As the first compact sport-utility vehicle from Alfa Romeo, North American consumers will experience more than 110 years of heritage built into every car.
The evolution of performance is led by a plug-in hybrid powertrain with a 15.5-kWh lithium-ion battery and 90-kW electric motor that delivers an electric range of more than 30 miles (48 kilometers). The additional 1.3-liter turbocharged engine contributes to a best-in-class 285 horsepower and every Alfa Romeo Tonale includes all-wheel drive.
Exhilarating driving dynamics are assisted by a rapid-response Frequency Damping Suspension (FDS) system, engineered to create a comfortable ride and automatically adjust the suspension for spirited driving.
The Alfa Romeo Tonale also features a variety of driver assistance systems, Uconnect 5, an all-new connectivity platform with Alfa Connect and modern Italian styling.
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Born in 1910 in Milan, Italy, Alfa Romeo has designed and crafted some of the most stylish and sporty cars in automotive history. That tradition lives on today as Alfa Romeo continues to take a unique and innovative approach to automobiles. The Alfa Romeo Stelvio sets a benchmark in performance, style and technology in an SUV. The award-winning Alfa Romeo Giulia delivers race-inspired performance, advanced technologies and an exhilarating driving experience to the premium midsize sedan segment. In early 2023, Alfa Romeo will offer its first compact SUV with the all-new Tonale. The globally available Tonale is part of a radical evolution taking place at Alfa Romeo, which looks ahead to a new era of electrification and connectivity. Alfa Romeo is part of the portfolio of brands offered by leading global automaker and mobility provider Stellantis. For more information regarding Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), please visit www.stellantis.com.
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The Indiana Republican Party is winning elections and then undercutting both political traditions and personal responsibility. State officials take on surprising roles. There are repeated efforts to turn Indianapolis into a plaything for criticism.
Our state, and maybe even the Republican Party itself, will soon pay for feeding the Republican base with revenge rather than results. It has enjoyed the freedom given by the U.S. Supreme Court to benefit from dark money. After two rounds of unrestrained creation of lopsided maps as now permitted by the Supreme Court, what has been lost? Is this like a snake about to eat its own tail?
◗ The first loss: responsibility for education
Since our 1851 state constitution was adopted, there have been two sources of responsibility for education: The taxpayers both paid for and provided control of public education, while individual families and their supporters paid for and controlled private and religious education.
The first crack in this fundamental division of responsibilities came with the charter school movement. It justified both less public financial support and less public control by claiming to help minorities and generate innovation in education.
Within a decade or so, the Republican legislative leaders decided to double down by starting to fund private and religious schools for families with income at or near poverty levels. Initially, there were real limits on who could claim state dollars. Those are nearly gone, but that is not enough for some.
Our current lieutenant governor has now turned “educational choice” into welfare for the rich. She is campaigning for higher office by insisting that even those families with the highest incomes get a voucher. No longer is this a program to provide alternatives for poor families in failing schools. It will provide state money to well-off families who are already paying their own way in thriving schools. All this with little public control or accountability.
The lieutenant governor has taken the fig leaf off the justification for educational choice. The cost of these vouchers for the well-to-do will come at the expense of the 90% of students in traditional public schools.
◗ The second loss: respect for roles
The Indiana Republican Party has lost all respect for the proper role of state officials. Our attorney general has confused himself with a crusader king. He visits the border in Texas and asserts a role in immigration policy. He takes on TikTok, acting as if he were conducting foreign policy. As to what he has done in the abortion debate—I will leave that to other members of my family. Happily, the judicial system shows signs of restraining him.
Meanwhile, in the state Senate, a former Indianapolis councilor tried to rewrite local traffic laws affecting right turns on red. His reasoned defense of this overreach is that the City-County Council is being “stupid.”
◗ Sweet revenge
Happily, there might be a price to be paid for all this deviation from normal ways of governing. It is what I call the “Diego Morales Effect.” Morales snuck up on the Republican establishment to win the nomination for secretary of state. Now a cleric named Micah Beckwith is openly campaigning to foist himself on the Republican ticket next year as the candidate to succeed Suzanne Crouch. The traditional role of the governor in picking a running mate is to be undercut. Let the fun begin.•
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DeLaney, an Indianapolis attorney, is a Democrat representing the 86th District in the Indiana House of Representatives. Send comments to ibjedit@ibj.com.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken started high-stakes meetings in Beijing on Sunday amid tensions between China and the United States.
Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and will attend a working dinner with the foreign minister. Blinken spoke on the phone with Qin last week ahead of his trip to discuss “the importance of maintaining open lines of communication,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement.
The Associated Press reported that neither Qin or Blinken made substantial comments to reporters ahead of their first meeting on Sunday. The news service also noted that Blinken will meet with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, and potentially Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday.
Tensions between the U.S. and China have been growing as the two countries compete for global influence. Their relationship has also been strained by numerous crises, including close military confrontations in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, the spy balloon incident last February and recent reporting that China has been spying on the U.S. from Cuba for years.
Blinken’s trip to Beijing comes after he canceled his initial trip in February over the Chinese surveillance balloon that crossed the United States before being shot down. With this trip, he has become the first secretary of State in five years to travel to China.
On Saturday, President Biden said the spy balloon incident was more “embarrassing” for China “than it was intentional.”
“And so, I’m hoping that, over the next several months, I’ll be meeting with [Chinese leader] Xi [Jinping] again and talking about legitimate differences we have but also how there’s areas we can get along,” Biden added.
Ahead of his trip, Blinken spoke with Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa and Foreign Minister Park Jin. In comments made to Park, Blinken emphasized the need for China to use its power to “encourage Pyongyang to engage in serious and sustained diplomacy.”
Blinken will be in China Sunday and Monday before leaving to travel to London.
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RAPID CITY - Nicholas Penland, 71, died Saturday, November 26, 2022 at the Monument Health Lead-Deadwood Hospital in Deadwood. More information will be at www.osheimschmidt.com when it becomes available. Arrangements are with Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap.
The ambivalence raises questions about whether Trump, though a leading Republican contender in the 2024 presidential race who retains a devoted following, still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also suggests that the hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest.
Still, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told The Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said.
The New York Young Republicans Club has announced plans for a protest at an undisclosed location in Manhattan on Monday, and incendiary but isolated posts surfaced on fringe social media platforms from supporters calling for an armed confrontation with law enforcement at Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
But nearly two days after Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and exhorted followers to protest, there were few signs his appeal had inspired his supporters to organize and rally around an event like the Jan. 6 gathering. In fact, a prominent organizer of rallies that preceded the Capitol riot posted on Twitter that he intended to remain on the sidelines.
Ali Alexander, who as an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement staged rallies to promote Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, warned Trump's supporters that they would be "jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City.
“You have no liberty or rights there,” he tweeted.
One of Alexander’s allies in the “Stop the Steal” campaign was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show. Alexander posted that he had spoken to Jones and said that neither of them would be protesting this time around.
“We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.”
That stands in contrast to the days before the Capitol riot when Trump stoked up supporters when he invited them to Washington for a “big protest” on a Jan. 6, tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!” Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, busting through windows and violently clashing with officers in an ultimately failed effort to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory.
Since then, about 1,000 participants in the melee have been arrested, many racking up steep legal bills and expressing regret and contrition in court for their actions. Some have complained of feeling abandoned by Trump. And conspiracy theories that the riot was fueled or even set up by undercover law enforcement informants in the crowd have continued to flourish online, with Trump supporters in the last two days citing that angst as a basis for steering clear of a new large-scale protest.
“How many Feds/Fed assets are in place to turn protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?” tweeted Rep. Marjorie-Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican also invoked a conspiracy theory that an FBI informant had instigated the Jan. 6 riot.
“Has Ray Epps booked his flight to NY yet?” she tweeted on Sunday.
Epps, an Arizona man, was filmed encouraging others to enter the Capitol. Conspiracy theorists believe Epps was an FBI informant because he was removed from a Jan. 6 “wanted” list without being charged. In January, the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack said the claims about Epps were “unsupported.”
John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences.”
“It seems to reduce a lot of people's willingness to make big statements about being wiling to go out” and engage in violence, he said.
A grand jury is investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come.
The conflicted feelings over how far to support Trump in his fight against prosecution extends into the political realm as well. His own vice president, Mike Pence, who is expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination, castigated Trump in an ABC News interview this weekend as “reckless” for his actions on Jan. 6 and said history would hold him accountable — even as he echoed the former president's rhetoric that an indictment would be a “politically charged prosecution.”
“I have no doubt that President Trump knows how to take care of himself. And he will. But that doesn’t make it right to have a politically charged prosecution of a former president of the United States of America,” Pence said.
The opening day of the House Republican conference in Orlando, Florida, was quickly overshadowed with the news of a potential indictment. Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other House Republicans called the possibility outrageous and criticized District Attorney Alvin Bragg for what they called “reckless crime” in New York City.
McCarthy said he has assembled congressional investigators to probe if Bragg used Justice Department grants to pursue the Trump case. But despite the heated rhetoric toward Bragg, Republican leaders stopped short of Trump’s calls for protesters to “take our nation back.”
“I don’t think people should protest this. I think President Trump, when you talk to him, he doesn’t think that either,” McCarthy said.
Kunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Maryland. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington and Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Florida, contributed to this report.
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Democrats on Capitol Hill are defending their vote for a 2018 banking deregulation bill that President Biden and other members of the party are blaming for last week’s stunning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
Forty-nine Democrats — 33 in the House and 16 in the Senate — plus Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, joined Republicans in 2018 to pass the deregulation bill.
Nineteen of them are still in the House, all of whom will have to face voters next year, and 12 are in the Senate, five of whom are up for reelection in 2024. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who was in the House as a Democrat in 2018 and voted for the deregulation bill, is also up for reelection next year.
Proponents of the legislation, which former President Trump signed into law, saw it as a way to provide relief to small and midsize banks that were struggling with rigorous regulations put in place under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was enacted after the 2008 financial crisis.
But a number of Democrats are now blaming that rollback for the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — which were exempted from the regulations in 2018 — putting the measure’s Democratic supporters on the defensive as the banking blame game heats up on Capitol Hill.
Asked if she regretted her vote for the bill, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), a member of Democratic leadership who is retiring next year, told The Hill, “Not at all.”
“It was very important to me to make sure that our small banks, community banks and credit unions, who did not cause the financial crisis in 2008, were given some flexibility,” she said.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) also said he does not regret his vote for the rollback, calling the Dodd-Frank regulations “impossible” for small, medium-sized and regional banks.
“You had a set of rules that literally applied to the largest few institutions in the country and also to our small and medium-size and regional banks. It was impossible, and they were all actually merging and selling to the larger banks and you had no community banks left in this country,” he said during an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
The 2018 bill — formally known as the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act — exempted some banks from stricter Federal Reserve oversight and stress tests mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act by raising the asset threshold for those regulations from $50 billion to $250 billion.
Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank both fell within that range.
“Let’s be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote in a statement.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who voted against the 2018 bill and is now leading an effort to undo the legislation, said Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank “would have been subject to stronger liquidity and capital requirements to withstand financial shocks” if Congress and the Federal Reserve had not rolled back stricter oversight.
“They would have been required to conduct regular stress tests to expose their vulnerabilities and shore up their businesses,” she wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “But because those requirements were repealed, when an old-fashioned bank run hit S.V.B., the bank couldn’t withstand the pressure — and Signature’s collapse was close behind.
Silicon Valley Bank, a California-based institution that mainly catered to startups, was taken over by federal regulators last Friday after a massive run on the bank amid liquidity issues. Days later, state regulations seized Signature Bank, a New York-based establishment that largely did business with real estate companies and law firms, following another rush by customers to withdraw deposits.
The Signature Valley Bank collapse is now the second-largest bank failure in American history, and the Signature Bank break down is the third-largest.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who stood by his vote for the 2018 deregulation bill, told The Hill that the Old Dominion lost a chunk of its banks between 2010 and 2018 because small banks, faced with having to hire compliance departments, decided to sell to larger institutions, which led to branches closing and employees being laid off.
“My community banks, as you get a few years into implementation, kind of laid this issue down. They said, hey look, a law that was designed to stop too big to fail is also accelerating too small to succeed,” Kaine, who is up for reelection in 2024, said.
“Community banks, when the [2018] banking bill was put together, they’re like, we strongly support this. They were strongly supportive and they still are, and they’ve done well in Virginia in the last few years,” he added.
Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) also said he does not regret his 2018 vote in support of the deregulation bill, and cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the cause of the collapses.
“I don’t know all the facts,” Peters said. “Right now we got an investigation going on; the feds are gonna look at exactly what happened. I don’t think we should jump to any conclusions, so we actually investigate and look at the facts.”
The Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are both investigating Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, and the Federal Reserve has launched its own probe. The central bank said a review of the probe, which is being led by Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr, will be released publicly on May 1.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who voted for the 2018 bill, said it is “premature” to connect the five-year-old bill to last week’s collapse.
“I think it’s premature to say we know that this action by regulators under the previous administration — or this action legislatively under the previous administration — made the difference,” he told The Hill. “We don’t know that.”
The senator cited other factors that may have led to the bank’s crumbling, including management failure, a failure to plan for inflation risk and regulatory oversight failure.
Warren and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), however, are drawing a direct line between the faltering banks and the 2018 bill. The progressive pair, along with dozens of other Democrats, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would repeal the 2018 Dodd-Frank rollback by restoring the regulation threshold to $50 billion.
The legislation comes after Biden this week called on Congress and banking regulators “to strengthen the rules for banks to make it less likely that this kind of bank failure will happen again and to protect American jobs and small businesses.”
Stabenow said she has concerns with the threshold under the Warren-Porter bill.
“My reason to support the bill originally was because I felt the $50 billion threshold was too low. And so she moves it all the way back down to that. And so that’s the question of mine,” she said.
“And I think we need to look at, you know, what really happened here? I mean, there’s total incompetence of this bank, certainly. And the question is what would make a difference? That’s what I’m interested in,” she added, later saying “I think it’s just looking at, you know, what can we do to address this situation without going back to hurting small banks.”
Coons said it was “premature” to consider “specific solutions” when the cause of the bank failure remains unknown, and Kaine said he first wants to review Barr’s analysis before making a decision on Warren’s bill.
But if Barr says the repeal of the rollback would be a good thing to do, Kaine said he would “be favorably inclined.”
One proponent of Warren’s bill could be Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), who supported the 2018 rollback. Asked about his vote, the congressman told The Hill in a statement that, in light of the bank closures, it is time to move standards back in the direction of Dodd-Frank.
“In light of recent events, I believe it’s time to review and update those changes to bring the requirements closer in line to our original Dodd-Frank standards, which I was proud to vote to establish,” he told The Hill. “This will help strengthen our financial system to keep it resilient and reliable as economic tides ebb and flow.”
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2023-03-18T22:49:21+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/hill-politics/democrats-defend-deregulation-vote-amid-banking-blame-game/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. George Santos’ lawyer said Monday the indicted New York Republican would risk going to jail to protect the identities of the people who cosigned the $500,000 bond enabling his pretrial release.
The lawyer, Joseph Murray, urged a judge to deny a request by news outlets to unseal the names of Santos’ bond suretors, suggesting they could “suffer great distress,” including possible job losses and physical harm, if they’re identified publicly.
“My client would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject these suretors to what will inevitably come,” Murray wrote in a letter to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields.
Murray asked that she give them time to withdraw as cosignors if she decides to unseal the suretors’ names, which Shields kept off the public court docket at the lawyer’s request.
Murray said he, Santos and Santos’ staff have been receiving threatening and harassing calls and messages, including death threats. The lawyer said he received a call Friday from someone shouting, “Who paid Santos’ bond?” and said he worries Santos’ critics “are just waiting to pounce” on the people backing his release.
“We truly fear for their health, safety and well being,” Murray wrote.
Santos pleaded not guilty on May 10 to a 13-count indictment charging that he duped donors, stole from his campaign, lied to Congress about being a millionaire and cheated to collect unemployment benefits he didn’t deserve. He is due back in court on June 30.
The 34-year-old, who represents parts of Queens and Long Island, has defied calls to resign and has said he won’t drop his bid for a second term.
Prosecutors have not taken a position on the unsealing request.
In a letter last week, a lawyer for news outlets urged the judge to the release the names of Santos’ bond suretors, citing a “compelling public interest in maintaining the greatest transparency possible in these proceedings.”
The New York Times first wrote to Shields on May 23 asking to unseal the names. Other news outlets, including The Associated Press, joined the fight a few days later.
Separately, the House Ethics Committee wrote to Santos on May 16 asking him to identify the people who cosigned his bond.
Murray said Santos originally lined up three financially responsible cosignors as suretors, but one backed out and the other two didn’t show up to his arraignment. That forced them to make “other confidential arrangements” to ensure Santos’ release, Murray said.
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2023-06-06T00:27:04+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/lawyer-says-rep-george-santos-would-go-to-jail-to-keep-identities-of-bond-cosigners-secret/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world
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Madison Keys vs. Daria Kasatkina: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Viking International Eastbourne
In the Viking International Eastbourne final on Saturday, Madison Keys meets Daria Kasatkina.
With -120 odds, Kasatkina is the favorite against Keys for this tournament final versus the underdog, who is -110.
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Madison Keys vs. Daria Kasatkina Match Information
- Tournament: The Viking International Eastbourne
- Round: Finals
- Date: Saturday, July 1
- Venue: Devonshire Park International Tennis Centre
- Location: Eastbourne, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Madison Keys vs. Daria Kasatkina Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Daria Kasatkina has a 54.5% chance to win.
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Madison Keys vs. Daria Kasatkina Trends and Insights
- Keys took down Cori Gauff 6-3, 6-3 in the semifinals on Friday.
- Kasatkina will look to stay on track after a 6-2, 7-5 win over No. 67-ranked Camila Giorgi in the semifinals on Friday.
- In her 43 matches over the past 12 months across all court types, Keys has played an average of 20.8 games.
- On grass, Keys has played four matches over the past 12 months, totaling 19.8 games per match while winning 63.3% of games.
- In the past 12 months, Kasatkina has competed in 48 total matches (across all court surfaces), winning 54.4% of the games. She averages 20.7 games per match and 9.2 games per set.
- Keys owns a 3-2 record versus Kasatkina. Their last match was a 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 victory for Kasatkina in the Credit One Charleston Open quarterfinals on April 7, 2023.
- Keys and Kasatkina have matched up in 12 sets against each other, with Keys taking eight of them.
- Keys and Kasatkina have faced off in 117 total games, with Keys winning 64 and Kasatkina capturing 53.
- Keys and Kasatkina have matched up five times, averaging 23.4 games and 2.4 sets per match.
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2023-06-30T23:01:53+00:00
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kwtx.com
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CHARLESTON, Ill. (WAND)- Fire crews respond to an early morning structure fire.
According to the Charleston Fire Department, crews were dispatched around around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, to 530 Reynolds Lot 107 in Charleston for a report of a structure fire.
Upon arrival crews found fire coming out of the front bedroom window, and was able to extinguish the fire quickly.
Officials say residents were home at the time of the fire and were able to escape.
Crews were on scene until around 5:00 a.m.
Firefighters believe the fire started in the front bedroom where most of the fire damage was and report the rest of the home had smoke damage throughout. The residents were displaced due to the extent of the damage.
The determined cause of the fire was due to misuse of smoking materials.
Officials say one resident did suffer minor burns and was evaluated by EMS.
The Charleston Fire Department was assisted by, Charleston Police Dept, Coles-Moultrie County 911, Ameren CIPS and the American Red Cross.
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2022-06-08T13:02:33+00:00
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wandtv.com
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https://www.wandtv.com/news/fire-crews-respond-to-early-morning-structure-fire-in-charleston/article_f74d3514-e71e-11ec-81ac-4f5d7863115b.html
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Orioles first. Cedric Mullins homers to right field. Adley Rutschman lines out to shallow center field to Amed Rosario. Anthony Santander homers to center field. Ramon Urias walks. Gunnar Henderson reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Ramon Urias out at second. Jesus Aguilar strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Orioles 2, Guardians 0.
Orioles fourth. Jesus Aguilar flies out to left field to Steven Kwan. Ryan Mountcastle homers to center field. Rougned Odor strikes out swinging. Terrin Vavra strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Orioles 3, Guardians 0.
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2022-09-02T01:36:42+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Baltimore-Cleveland-Runs-17414121.php
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Pirelli Calendar 2023 unveiled
CNN
Marianna Cerini, CNN
Pirelli unveiled its 2023 calendar Wednesday, an opulent, dream-like edition featuring a star-studded cast.
Titled “Letters to the Muse,” the calendar is an homage to a group of “extraordinary women” — artists, activists, athletes and other trailblazers — said Australian photographer Emma Summerton, who have inspired her.
“I wanted to go back to the etymological root of the word ‘muse’ and portray women who inspire me for their contribution to literature, science and the arts,” Summerton told CNN at the Italian tire company’s Milan headquarters, where the calendar’s press event was held.
“The idea was to represent what they really are, and create worlds that could reflect and tell their bigger stories.”
As such, the cast of 14 models are seen as various “muses” in highly-stylized photographs nodding to their work beyond the runway. Cara Delevingne, for example, who has starred in a number of movie roles in addition to her highly successful modelling career, appears as “The Performer”, dressed in a macrame outfit and striking poses among giant dandelions.
Shot in New York and London over the summer, the models were photographed against elaborate backdrops, imbued with magical realism and surreal elements like the aforementioned dandelions, dark woodlands, owls and optical mirrors, courtesy of set designer Viki Rutsch. To complement them are fantastical costumes by fashion director Amanda Harlech.
“Having an almost all-female team made the whole experience feel extra special,” Summerton said. “It was a great collaboration.”
The hotly-anticipated annual calendar has featured some of the world’s biggest models, from Iman to Kate Moss. A different photographer is chosen each year, with Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon among those previously asked to do the shoot.
Summerton is the fifth woman to shoot the calendar since it was first launched in the 1960s by the Italian tire company. Before her, Pirelli enlisted Sarah Moon in 1972, Joyce Tenneson in 1989, Inez Van Lamsweerde (together with Vinoodh Matadin) in 2007, and Leibovitz in 2000 and 2016.
“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” the photographer said of the project. “And I hope more women will follow after me.”
‘Not your daddy’s pinup’
From the moment she took on the project, Summerton knew muses would be the concept for her version. Her initial mood board featured some of the female creatives that have most influenced her work, from British-born Mexican painter Leonora Carrington and Italian actor Monica Vitti, to American experimental filmmaker Maya Deren and Australian artist Vali Myers.
Summerton used them as reference to build each character, “and create a sort of energy around each muse” that could help create a deeper, broader conversation between the subject and viewer around beauty, empowerment and vulnerability.
Guinevere Van Seenus — “The Photographer” — was the first model she shot (“starting with the photographer felt natural,” Summerton said). In the photo, Van Seenus is pictured holding a camera in front of a full-length mirror, from which an owl is perched.
“Emma put together a dream, and watching her do that was an education for me to say the least,” the American model and photographer said at the Pirelli event. “I think she was really looking for the depth of women in every picture.”
Model Lauren Wasser, who also attended the launch, agreed.
“These pictures leave you captivated and wanting for more,” she said. “That’s so hard to do with images nowadays, because we’re so, so saturated with them. But Emma’s photos resonate differently. She really captured me and my essence of resilience and strength.” At 24, the model, Toxic Shock Syndrome activist (TSS) and once basketball player, suffered from TSS which led to the amputation of both of her legs. Continuing her career by storming the runway wearing prosthetic legs, she’s been hailed as game-changer in the industry.
For the calendar, she was cast as “The Athlete” and shot as Joan of Arc on top of a golden crescent moon against an ocean backdrop, clasping a large silver sword in the stance of a warrior.
“I felt really strong and powerful,” Wasser said, who wore golden prosthetics for the shoot. “Emma knew how to depict our angles and our strengths. I think that’s something that we don’t really get to see in the fashion world.”
Nor, for much of its history, in the Pirelli calendar itself. But in 2016, Leibovitz broke with its tradition of mostly artistic nudes and sex appeal, photographing a cast of high-achieving women in almost entirely clothed portraits. In recent years, it has continued to show more nuanced, diverse expressions of beauty.
“It’s not your daddy’s pinup calendar anymore,” said Ashley Graham, who featured as “The Activist.”
“The calendar for 2023 is probably the coolest they’ve done because it actually lends a voice to everybody that’s involved. And it bridges fantasy and reality, the model and body positivity activist said. For me, it really allowed me to be myself.”
The photographer noted that the accompanying film showing the making of the calendar helps drive home the shift away from the objectification of women.
“I wanted to hear what these women had to say and see them talk about who they are and what they do,” Summerton said. “It just went hand in hand with the photos, because when you look at them you want to know who they are.”
Top image: Bella Hadid as “The Sprite”
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2022-11-16T16:44:39+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/cnn-style-video/2022/11/16/pirelli-calendar-2023-unveiled/
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In a matchup of potent offenses, the question ahead of the series was which team could keep the puck on its sticks and spend more time in the offensive zone. Calgary dominated that department early. The Flames scored twice in a 25-second span in the first minute and led 3-0 by 6:05 when Smith was replaced by Koskinen.
Calgary’s two goals in the opening 51 seconds was the fastest two goals to start an NHL playoff game, and electrified a sea of red dotted with Oilers orange and blue at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
The Oilers would not go quietly, however.
The Flames had survived a goaltender-dominated, grinding series with the Dallas Stars in the first round.
Game 1 of this series was, by contrast, an open-ice track meet of mediocre goaltending. The Flames held a 40-18 edge in shots after two periods, but led 6-5 heading to the third.
Yamamoto briefly tied the game at 1:28 of the final period, putting McDavid’s rebound over Markstrom’s outstretched pad.
Andersson regained the lead for Calgary at 2:57. Mangiapane from behind the net fed the all-alone defenseman whose wrist shot beat Koskinen’s glove.
Tkachuk gave the Flames a two-goal lead at 8:55 with his second of the night. He snared Draisaitl's turnover at the blue line and beat Koskinen five-hole on a breakaway.
Tkachuk scored into an empty net to complete his hat trick. Hats rained down onto the Saddledome ice and chants of “we want 10” goals soon followed.
Coleman struck 45 seconds into the second period and again at 6:10 to push the Flames' lead to 5-1. He put a rebound over a prone Koskinen during a scramble around the crease for his first, and redirected Noah Hanifin's shot for his second.
Bouchard converted McDavid’s pass at 7:10, and Tkachuk batted in a rebound for a power-play goal at 8:24 after Edmonton’s Zack Kassian was sent off for roughing.
Hyman scored at 9:38 and 14:06 to pull the Oilers within two. He fired a shot between defenseman Michael Stone’s legs that deflected off Markstrom and into the top corner for his first and circled out from behind the net and whipped the puck by Markstrom’s glove for his second.
Draisaitl made it 6-5 with 39 seconds left in the second when he beat Markstrom far side on an odd-man rush with McDavid.
Lindholm converted Calgary’s first shot of the game into a goal 26 seconds in as he settled a bouncing puck off a cross-ice pass from Rasmus Andersson and swept it far side over Smith’s glove.
From behind the net, Backlund fed an undefended Mangiapane in the slot to beat Smith from close range at 51 seconds.
Ritchie scored his first career playoff goal at 6:05 to make it 3-0. He knocked Edmonton’s Evander Kane off the puck at the Oilers’ blue line, reached to collect the loose puck and got a shot away under Smith’s arm.
McDavid glided in front of the net and patiently waited for Markstrom to commit before tucking the puck between the goalie’s pads at 7:41 of the first to get Edmonton on the scoreboard.
INJURY
The Flames were missing top shutdown defenseman Chris Tanev a second straight playoff game. He was injured in Game 6 of Calgary’s first-round series against Dallas. Tanev skated in both Tuesday’s practice and in Wednesday’s morning skate, but did not dress for Game 1.
NOTES: With his 94th career playoff win as a coach, Darryl Sutter joined Pat Quinn ranked No. 6 all-time. ... With three assists in Game 1, Johnny Gaudreau joined Jarome Iginla and Martin Gelinas (2004) among Flames players to have a six-game point streak in the playoffs. ... McDavid was the first Oilers player to score a goal in four straight postseason games since Michael Peca and Shawn Horcoff in 2006. ... Game 1 was the highest scoring playoff game involving Calgary and Edmonton, surpassing the previous high of 12 goals scored in Game 3 of the 1983 Smythe Division final.
Caption Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, right, celebrates his goal against the Edmonton Oilers with forward Johnny Gaudreau during the third period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, right, celebrates his goal against the Edmonton Oilers with forward Johnny Gaudreau during the third period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers players watch as Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, left, celebrates his goal with defenseman Rasmus Andersson during the third period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers players watch as Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, left, celebrates his goal with defenseman Rasmus Andersson during the third period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, right, celebrates his goal against the Edmonton Oilers with forward Johnny Gaudreau during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, right, celebrates his goal against the Edmonton Oilers with forward Johnny Gaudreau during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman, front left, scores on Calgary Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman, front left, scores on Calgary Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers right wing Kailer Yamamoto, left, scores on Calgary Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom during the third period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers right wing Kailer Yamamoto, left, scores on Calgary Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom during the third period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft watches play during the third period of Game 1 of the team's NHL hockey second-round playoff series against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft watches play during the third period of Game 1 of the team's NHL hockey second-round playoff series against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Calgary Flames forward Blake Colema (20) celebrates his goal against the Edmonton Oilers with Milan Lucic (17) and Rasmus Andersson (4) during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Calgary Flames forward Blake Colema (20) celebrates his goal against the Edmonton Oilers with Milan Lucic (17) and Rasmus Andersson (4) during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers defenseman Tyson Barrie, left, clears the puck away from in front of Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers defenseman Tyson Barrie, left, clears the puck away from in front of Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen, center, reacts as Calgary Flames forward Blake Coleman celebrates his goal during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen, center, reacts as Calgary Flames forward Blake Coleman celebrates his goal during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen, right, looks back at the puck on a goal by Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen, right, looks back at the puck on a goal by Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers left wing Evander Kane, right, defends as Calgary Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson turns with the puck during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Edmonton Oilers left wing Evander Kane, right, defends as Calgary Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson turns with the puck during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Calgary Flames coach Darryl Sutter watches play during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Caption Calgary Flames coach Darryl Sutter watches play during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Calgary, Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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2022-05-19T05:38:08+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/tkachuk-scores-3-flames-beat-oilers-9-6-in-game-1/OCYUH6O2VNAMDOPECMYEUPOTQE/
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The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.
Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.
Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.
Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.
In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till. Donham was 21 at the time.
The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP.
Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded last year. He said he decided to make it public now following the recent discovery of an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for Donham in 1955 but never served.
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2023-04-27T17:30:19+00:00
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koaa.com
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https://www.koaa.com/news/national/carolyn-bryant-donham-at-center-of-emmett-till-death-dies
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will headline the White House’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Sunday, a bitter historical milestone for the Biden administration after the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back the national right to abortion.
Administration officials said she’ll speak in Florida, where Democrats have been on guard for new efforts to restrict abortion from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 presidential candidate. The speech is a continuation of Harris’ focus on reproductive rights in recent months, which has included meetings with activists, healthcare providers and state lawmakers from around the country.
It’s also intended to be a signal that the administration isn’t giving up on abortion now that the midterm election is over. Democrats performed better than expected, but the prospects for codifying Roe v. Wade into law haven’t improved, and the administration has struggled to find ways to safeguard abortion access.
“The Vice President will make very clear: the fight to secure women’s fundamental right to reproductive health care is far from over,” said a statement from Kirsten Allen, a Harris spokesperson. “She will lay out the consequences of extremist attacks on reproductive freedom in states across our country and underscore the need for Congress to codify Roe.”
Allen added that Harris and President Joe Biden believe “that a women’s right to choose is non-negotiable.”
Biden will likely commemorate the anniversary as well, although his plans have not yet been disclosed.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra plans to visit Minnesota this week as the state legislature works on a new law to solidify abortion rights.
While in Minnesota, administration officials said, Becerra expects to appear with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, stop at a Planned Parenthood facility and meet with organizers who want to use a mobile van to provide abortions to people who cross into the state from Wisconsin, which has strict abortion limits.
Becerra then plans to visit a Wisconsin clinic that’s no longer allowed to provide abortions and hold an event with Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore, both Democrats, to talk with medical students.
It’s likely that the battle over reproductive rights will focus more on state legislatures than Washington, where the two parties appear deadlocked on the issue.
Democrats have 51 seats in the Senate, which means they can block any Republican attempts to ban abortion nationwide, but there’s not enough support within their caucus to sidestep filibuster rules to restore the national right to abortion.
In addition, the administration has limited tools to take executive action, although it’s worked to make abortion pills more widely available.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, told reporters on Wednesday that her organization will be focusing on state legislation and asking “what is the most ambitious we can be?”
Dannenfelser recently met with DeSantis and said she was “extremely satisfied” with the conversation, although she said DeSantis doesn’t know what his next steps on abortion will be. Florida currently bans abortion after 15 weeks.
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2023-01-18T21:58:11+00:00
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IRS agent seeks whistleblower protections to share allegations of mishandling in Hunter Biden probe
By Sara Murray and Evan Perez, CNN
An IRS supervisory special agent who claims to have information about alleged mishandling and political interference in the ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden is seeking whistleblower protections to share the information with Congress, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
“Despite serious risks of retaliation, my client is offering to provide you with information necessary to exercise your constitutional oversight function and wishes to make the disclosures in a non-partisan manner to the leadership of the relevant committees on both sides of the political aisle,” Mark Lytle, an attorney for the IRS whistleblower, said in a letter to a handful of Democrats and Republicans leading committees in the House and Senate.
The letter, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, describes the IRS agent as “overseeing the ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile, controversial subject,” which a source familiar with the matter confirmed was Hunter Biden.
A spokeswoman for Hunter Biden’s legal team declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for the IRS.
Federal prosecutors have been investigating President Joe Biden’s son since at least 2018 and have weighed bringing charges against him for tax crimes and a false statement. So far no charges have been filed. GOP lawmakers in the House, meantime, have launched probes into the Biden family finances as well as the so-called “weaponization” of federal government agencies.
According to the letter, the IRS agent can provide information that contradicts sworn testimony before Congress from a high-ranking political appointee, information about “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case” and “examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected.”
Some of the disclosures would contain taxpayer and tax return information, according to the letter.
The handling of the case has been the subject of internal wrangling, CNN has reported.
Some IRS and FBI investigators and Justice Department prosecutors have been at odds about the strength of the case during internal meetings last year. Some Justice officials have raised qualms about whether the evidence is strong enough, while some agents have expressed their belief they have enough evidence to bring charges.
A final decision rests with US attorney for Delaware David Weiss, a Trump appointee who was kept on to oversee the case. Investigators widely anticipated a decision on charges to come in December after last year’s midterm election. But the investigation remains ongoing. A spokeswoman for Weiss declined to comment.
The president has said he won’t interfere in the Justice Department’s independence.
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2023-04-20T01:26:52+00:00
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10 plant-based, kid-friendly snacks for back-to-school season
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10 plant-based, kid-friendly snacks for back-to-school season
A woman feeds a snack to her young daughter
You may have set a goal this school year to provide your kids with healthier snacks in their lunchboxes, or already stocked up for your children’s after-school snacks at home. While this goal is honorable and wise, being a parent typically means being pressed for time, and finding quick and healthy snacks can be a challenge. An easy solution is batch prepping tasty plant-based snacks with minimal ingredients that can last the entire week ahead.
Thistle selected 10 vegan, nut-free, and kid-friendly snacks that are easy to pack as a new academic year is starting. Some don’t even require you to cook.
Providing your child with plant-based options can help improve health. According to one study on children’s eating habits, plant-based diets showed a reduced risk of obesity and cardiovascular disease, though children who are fully on vegan diets require well-planned meals so they are not deficient in vitamin B12 and iron, among other nutrients.
Here are 10 plant-based snacks to whip up for your kids right at home.
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Easy chia pudding
Bowls of chia pudding with mint leaves and blueberries on top.
Instead of fruit-flavored yogurt loaded with added sugars, these easy chia puddings can be made in all kinds of flavors such as chocolate, vanilla, berry, and peanut butter. Chia seed puddings work with any plant-based milk and can be made sweet with natural sugars like maple syrup, honey, coconut sugar, and agave nectar.
Chia seeds are a powerful source of omega-3 fatty acids, which is important for brain development and function, immunity, heart health, and weight management.
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All-fruit bars
Fruit bars wrapped in brown paper with red ties.
If you prefer to skip the packaged fruit bars full of added sugars and preservatives, you can easily make a batch with this homemade fruit bars recipe. These bars can be made in three variations—cranberry walnut, tropical with dried pineapple and mango, or chocolate mocha.
Each of these bars is naturally sweetened using dates, which have brain-boosting properties thanks to the various antioxidants in the fruit that reduce inflammation.
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Thumbprint cookies
Little cookies with red filling in the center on a baking rack.
These soft thumbprint cookies are so tasty, that you won’t believe they’re also gluten-free, refined sugar-free, vegan, and oil-free.
This recipe calls for aquafaba, the liquid typically drained from a can of chickpeas or a bowl of soaked chickpeas. Whip the aquafaba like a meringue, and fold it into the base cookie mixture, which includes oats for fiber and almond flour for vitamin E. When the cookies are finished, fill them with the flavor your children enjoy best—strawberry, hazelnut chocolate, or salted caramel.
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Berry pop tart
Homemade pop-tarts with fruit filling and glaze on top.
Your child’s go-to after-school toaster pastry just got much healthier thanks to this Vegan Berry Pop Tart recipe. The recipe calls for seven ingredients and makes up to six tarts, making it an easy snack to batch prep for the busy week ahead.
While a typical Pop Tart contains around 15 grams of sugar—30 grams per serving, which is two pastries per package—each homemade tart only has 3.5 grams of sugar, naturally sweetened with frozen berries and a touch of raw sugar. The pastries are topped with a vanilla glaze, but you could skip it and just do an egg wash on top of each pastry with a light sugar dusting. Or leave it as is.
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Crispy treats
A stack of rice krispie treats on a wooden cutting board.
These Vegan Rice Krispie Treats are a plant-based twist on a classic favorite. This recipe simply swaps out butter and marshmallows for plant-based versions, with a touch of vanilla extract for flavor, giving it that extra something special.
Keep in mind that Rice Krispies are not vegan, so to truly make this a vegan dish, the recipe recommends using a vegan version of the cereal.
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Nut-free, no-bake energy balls
A plate stacked with oat balls.
These nut-free, no-bake energy balls are perfect for busy parents. They require no actual cooking and call for minimal ingredients, yet make a large enough batch to last the rest of the week. These energy balls are made with oats and flax meal, giving this snack a fiber boost which helps maintain a healthy gut microbiome.
Most children are not allowed to bring nut-based products to school, so these balls are bound together with sunflower butter, which is a great source of iron, vitamin E, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, and folate.
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Crispy roasted chickpeas
Crispy roasted chickpeas.
These crispy roasted chickpeas are the perfect crunchy, salty snack to replace potato chips, which don’t provide any nutritional benefit. Chickpeas are a great source of protein, providing over 5 grams of satiating protein and almost 9 grams of fiber with a quarter cup. Roast these chickpeas with any flavor of your choice.
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Vegan protein mango bread
Slices of mango bread next to mangos.
This vegan protein mango bread sneaks in an extra boost of protein thanks to the vegan vanilla protein powder in the recipe. Children need a sufficient amount of protein in their diet to help build and repair various parts of the body from muscles to nails.
This bread only calls for five ingredients and is bursting with flavor thanks to the mango puree. It works well as a school snack, but can also serve as an easy breakfast in the morning before running off to school.
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Broccoli-cauliflower veggie tots
A white plate full of veggie tots with salsa on the side and gold silverware.
These baked broccoli-cauliflower veggie tots are bound together with potato, giving this snack a boost of potassium, fiber, and vitamin C, which helps with building your child’s immune system and maintaining healthy bones and teeth. Pair these tots with a plant-based chive dip, which is blended up with cashews to make it creamy and thick.
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Sweet and spicy tortilla chips
Homemade tortilla chips and a bowl of guacamole with garlic and avocado in the background.
If your kids really have a hankering for some chips, then these sweet and spicy tortilla chips should do the trick—plus, they pair well with vegetables and fruits. These chips have a sprinkling of brown sugar, but also call for a touch of cayenne for something spicy. If your child doesn’t like spicy food, you can always reduce or cut out this ingredient.
These chips goes well with fruit salsa or even smashed avocado, which provides monounsaturated fats that benefit your child’s growth and development, while decreasing the risk of heart disease.
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2022-08-27T07:51:25+00:00
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Blueline Donuts is a job-training initiative of Carriage Town Ministries, a homeless shelter founded 73 years ago as the Flint Rescue Mission.
It's now the largest nonprofit of its kind teaching job skills and transitional work in the Flint region.
Carriage Town Ministries is first - a homeless shelter but its true calling is to help residents get back on track.
Social interaction and job training at Blueline Donuts are giving those in need a hand-up for a fresh start at life.
Residents like Sean Reynolds say this opportunity has been a sweet blessing in disguise.
"It just made life a lot easier for me you know, calm me down and make me feel like I am worth something and I have something to look forward to out there, once I get out of Carriage Town," Reynolds.
Sean - a resident of Carriage Town ministries and transitional employee over at Carriage Town's bakery Blueline Donuts understands firsthand the meaning of unforeseen circumstances and the sudden miracles that follow behind.
"I was working at the time and everything was going great and then - I ended up getting an injury at work, which changed everything," Reynolds said. I ended up losing my home and ended up homeless. I felt out of place, I felt alone."
In the midst of Reynold's darkest moments he pays homage to Carriage Town for showing him a glimpse of light as he begins his day at 3am every morning to prepare for another day at Blueline Donuts - a social enterprise of Carriage Town Ministries, designed to offer low-barrier transitional employment opportunities to those experiencing homelessness.
"Who really gets up at 3am to cook donuts?" he said. "But I find it rewarding because being in that atmosphere early in the morning and working - we have a lot of fun."
John Rigg, Food manager at Carriage Town Ministries and Manger for the Carriage Town Bakery says their mission is much sweeter than what meets the eye - making a difference in the lives of others is what matters most.
"One of the things we tell our transitional employees is that we hope that you're not here long," said Rigg. "And I can see that in Sean, I think it's not going to be long that he succeeds."
And as Reynold's continues his journey, he has a few goals that he'd like to tackle before his farewell.
"Learn about God for one, get my spirituality back in order, and get some of the things that I neglected for so long - like getting into the workforce, which is awesome," he said.
Open 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at 604 Garland St., the bakery sells about 70 dozen doughnuts each day — more than triple its sales prior to the new bakery’s opening.
Blueline Donuts official ribbon cutting is set for Groundhog day -- on February 2, 2023 at noon.
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2023-01-24T23:25:55+00:00
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Ukraine's military has initiated its highly anticipated counteroffensive in response to the invasion of the country by Russian forces that has been ongoing for over a year.
According to multiple reports including from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the counteroffensive has officially started after months of Ukrainian officials training for the attack in a bid to reclaim occupied territory.
"The counteroffensive won’t likely unfold as a single grand operation. It will likely consist of many undertakings at numerous locations of varying size and intensity over many weeks,"said the ISW.
A significant conflict has erupted in the southeastern region of Ukraine, situated south of the prominent Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, while in specific sectors of the Kharkiv-Luhansk Oblast regions, Russian forces are attacking and Ukrainian forces are mounting counterattacks in response, the ISW reports.
Earlier this week, Moscow officials claimed that Ukrainian forces were conducting a significant operation to breach Russian defensive lines, but authorities in Kyiv did not confirm those attacks. In fact, Ukrainian authorities even suggested that the claim made by Moscow was a deliberate misinformation tactic employed by the Russians.
Last month, Oleksiy Danilov, the national security adviser for Ukraine, said parts of the besieged city of Bakhmut were still under Ukrainian control, and Kyiv planned to hold on to the city for as long as possible. On Thursday, the ISW reported that Ukrainian military officials announced that Ukrainian troops advanced about 200 miles into unspecified sectors of the Bakhmut area "with official declarations of Ukrainian offensive intent."
The head of a Russian private army, the Wagner Group, said that Ukrainian forces had become stronger in the 16-month war thanks to Western weapons and training.
The offensive comes a day after floodwaters froma collapsed dam kept rising in southern Ukraine, causing large evacuations and claiming at least 14 lives, leaving many homeless and tens of thousands without drinking water. Both Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the destruction of the dam.
According to the Associated Press, following President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to assess the damage from the dam collapse, Ukrainian officials reported on Thursday that Russian forces shelled a flooded Ukrainian city. This incident resulted in the temporary suspension of rescue operations.
SEE MORE: Ukrainian powerlifter rushes in to save pets from flooding
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2023-06-08T20:25:54+00:00
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The creator of the hit HBO series “Succession” says the upcoming fourth season will be its last.
Jesse Armstrong told The New Yorker in a piece posted online Thursday that he wanted the show’s many fans to know the end was approaching.
“I quite like that idea, creatively, because then the audience is just able to enjoy everything as it comes, without trying to figure things out, or perceiving things in a certain way once they know it’s the final season,” Armstrong said.
“Succession” follows a wealthy family that owns a major media conglomerate and struggles to maintain its power. It stars Brian Cox as the Roy family patriarch and Jeremy Strong as one of his children, who connive to succeed their father as the company’s leader.
HBO confirmed that the fourth season set to premiere next month will be its last.
The show has won 13 Emmy Awards so far, including several for Armstrong for writing and drama series honors in 2020 and 2022.
“I’ve never thought this could go on forever. The end has always been kind of present in my mind,” Armstrong told the New Yorker. “From Season 2, I’ve been trying to think: Is it the next one, or the one after that, or is it the one after that?”
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2023-02-24T02:59:09+00:00
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso's military junta has expelled two journalists working for French media without reason, said the outlets.
Sophie Douce, a French correspondent for Le Monde, and Agnes Faivre, correspondent for Liberation, were given 24 hours to leave the West African country with no explanation, said articles by both newspapers on Sunday.
The correspondents were each questioned separately about their work by state security on Friday. Faivre was ordered to leave that evening and Douce the following day, they both arrived in Paris Sunday.
“Le Monde condemns in the strongest terms this arbitrary decision which forced the two journalists to leave Ouagadougou in less than 24 hours," said Jerome Fenoglio, director of Le Monde.
“These two expulsions mark another major setback for the freedom to inform about the situation in Burkina Faso,” he said.
Jihadi fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have been waging a violent insurgency in Burkina Faso for seven years, that’s killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people. The violence has destabilized and divided the once peaceful country in the Sahel region leading to two coups last year. Since the second coup when Capt. Ibrahim Traore seized power in September, civic freedoms have shrunk, say rights groups and residents.
The expulsions come less than a week after the junta suspended French broadcaster, France 24, for interviewing a top jihadi rebel and months after the government suspended French broadcaster Radio France Internationale for having relayed an “intimidation message” attributed to a “terrorist,” according to a statement from the junta.
In March, Mathieu Pellerin, the Sahel consultant for the International Crisis Group, was arrested and detained for two days by authorities and questioned about his work, said Murithi Mutiga, the group’s Africa program director. In December the government expelled the top U.N. official in the country and weeks later ordered France to recall its ambassador.
The government did not respond to questions about why the journalists were expelled. However, the decision came days after Liberation published an investigation into the circumstances showing children executed in a military barracks in the country's north. After the article was published, the government alleged the French publication was manipulating the situation for political purposes and the reporters didn't have knowledge of the reality on the ground, said a statement by Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo, the government spokesman.
On Monday, The AP published its own findings into the video of the killings, which corroborate those of Liberation.
A seasoned journalist previously covering foreign affairs in Africa, Faivre had been in Burkina Faso since 2021 reporting on the humanitarian crisis and the growing security threat.
“Agnes is a journalist of the highest integrity who has been covering Africa for many years. She is a formidable writer who knows Burkina Faso very well and her expulsion is completely unjustified and deeply regrettable,” said Sonia Delesalle-Stolper, Liberation's chief foreign editor.
Douce had been based in the country since 2018, covering it with “rigor, impartiality and independence,” said Le Monde. Her work on people displaced by jihadi violence earned her a Varenne award last year.
The expulsion of the two journalists from Burkina Faso illustrates the junta’s desire to control the activities of independent media and promote media in favor of the pro-junta narrative, say rights groups.
Not only are reporters being expelled, but simple administrative formalities have been replaced by complex accreditation processes, which hamper journalistic work and do not respect the principle of journalists being able to protect the identity of their sources, said Sadibou Marong, head of the sub-Saharan Africa office for Reporters Without Borders.
“This will develop censorship and put local journalists at risk of being arbitrarily arrested,” he said.
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2023-04-03T11:33:08+00:00
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The pre-listing home improvement solution helps Kansas City real estate agents and their clients sell homes quickly and for top dollar amid competitive housing market
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Curbio, Inc., the leading pay-at-closing home improvement solution for the real estate industry, today announces its expansion into the Kansas City market.
Curbio focuses on improvements that generate the highest ROI for home sellers and completes projects 50% faster than the average general contractor, transforming the way homeowners get their homes ready to sell. Homeowners can work with their realtor to use Curbio for any pre-listing home improvement project, so that they can sell their homes for top dollar without spending weeks doing DIY projects or hours on the phone lining up contractors.
How it works
Realtors work with Curbio to determine what projects need to be done in the home to sell for top dollar. From there, Curbio gives a same day estimate and creates a virtual home walk-through to finalize project details. Homeowners then sign a contract with zero payment due until closing, and zero interest, fees or premiums. Curbio takes care of all sourcing, project management and communication, and serves as the licensed, insured general contractor on all projects.
Curbio will complete any work that is needed to get a home move-in ready, no matter the size or cost, including:
- Flooring installation
- Electrical work
- Plumbing work
- Interior and exterior painting
- Landscaping
- Roofing
- Fencing
- Pool maintenance
- Pest control
- Fireplace refresh
- Junk removal
- Drywall repair
- Staging
- Deep cleaning and decluttering
- Mold remediation
The increasingly competitive real estate market
According to the Kansas City Regional Association of REALTORS, December data showed inventory was up nearly 32% compared to the previous year, meaning sellers are facing more competition when they put their homes on the market. Additionally, home sales decreased by 35% in December compared to the previous year, as the real estate buying frenzy continues to fade.
"Homeowners in Kansas City are no longer putting sale signs in their yards and having multiple offers on their homes," said Olivia Mariani, Chief Marketing Officer at Curbio. "We want to help real estate agents determine which projects will help their sellers get the most value out of their home sale. By making pre-listing home improvements, people can expect to sell their homes quickly with maximum profit and minimum headaches."
Curbio now serves 33 major markets across the United States.
Realtors who want to get an estimate can visit Curbio here.
To learn more about Curbio, visit www.curbio.com.
Curbio is on a mission to help real estate agents fix and update homes before they go on the market, so they sell quickly and for the best price, with zero payment due until closing. Founded in 2017, Curbio has quickly become the largest national home improvement company dedicated to pre-listing repairs, updates, and renovations. Curbio has modernized home improvement with an easy-to-use app that accelerates project timelines by 50%, while removing the delays, uncertainties and other frustrations that have plagued home improvement for decades. Their rapid time to listing, coupled with a turn-key approach and project ROI expertise, has made Curbio the most trusted fix first, pay-at-closing home improvement partner to thousands of realtors and brokerages nationwide, including eXp realty, RE/MAX, HomeServices of America, Long & Foster, @properties and many more.
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2023-01-10T15:59:27+00:00
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Nikenike Vurobaravu presides over a tiny country with a large hand in climate diplomacy.
Rising sea levels threaten the very existence of his Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu and its population of just over 300,000 people. Its best defense, he says, is to raise its voice creatively in international diplomatic talks.
From Vanuatu in 1991 came the idea that industrialized countries should pay for the irreversible climate-induced damage faced by developing countries like his. Last month at the United Nations climate talks in Egypt, an agreement was reached — after 30 years of negotiations — to establish a fund that would help poor countries cope with climate loss and damage.
Earlier this year Vurobaravu used the U.N. General Assembly podium to demand, for the first time, a fossil fuel “nonproliferation treaty.”
Now, he is dangling Vanuatu’s most provocative suggestion yet. He wants the International Court of Justice, the world’s highest judicial body, based in The Hague, to weigh in on whether governments have “legal obligations” to protect people from climate hazards, and more crucially, whether failure to meet those obligations could bring “legal consequences” under existing international laws. In short, it’s asking the court to say whether countries could be sued for climate inaction.
“We think outside the box,” said Vurobaravu, a quiet-spoken man whose gray downturned mustache gives him the appearance of a sad face emoji, though he’s anything but. As a small country that has historically been unimportant, as he put it, Vanuatu has learned to innovate. “If you try to proceed in the way that others do things, I believe we wouldn’t have gotten very far,” he said.
The draft resolution has been co-sponsored by 17 other countries, including at least one industrialized nation with a large share of historic emissions — Germany. Neither the United States nor China have endorsed it.
Diplomacy may well be Vanuatu’s only defense. Vanuatu has no army and no valuable commodity except tuna, which are increasingly moving away from Vanuatu’s territorial waters as the oceans warm.
Vanuatu’s draft resolution requesting a legal opinion from the International Court of Justice was put up for discussion in mid-November at the General Assembly. Negotiations over every word and comma are expected over the next months, with a vote potentially in early 2023. To be adopted, the resolution needs a majority of the 193 member countries at the General Assembly. The votes of superpowers and small nations count equally.
To understand Vanuatu’s uniquely oversized role requires understanding its unique history.
The islands, inhabited by its Indigenous Melanesian people since the sixth century B.C., were jointly ruled by Britain and France for nearly 100 years. Europeans were drawn to Vanuatu’s sandalwood in the early 1800s, and then to its land and labor. Settlers established cotton plantations, then coffee, bananas and coconuts.
Vanuatu gained independence in 1980.
That’s when Vurobaravu, who was trained as a lawyer, became a diplomat. He set up his country’s foreign service.
In 1981, when Vanuatu took up a seat at the General Assembly, his friend, Robert Van Lierop, an American filmmaker-turned-lawyer, became its first envoy to the United Nations. Vanuatu went on to help create the Alliance of Small Island States, or AOSIS, which has since become an influential bloc of 39 countries in global climate negotiations. Van Lierop proposed a “loss and damage” mechanism in 1991, as a U.N. climate convention was being negotiated.
The idea of seeking a legal opinion from the International Court of Justice came from a group of law students four years ago, Vurobaravu said. By then, Vanuatu’s capital had been pummeled by a Category 5 cyclone, Pam. Entire villages were flattened. Crops destroyed. An early warning system was credited with keeping the death toll low: 11 people died.
Vurobaravu is now a grandfather of two. “The impacts are becoming worse and worse of climate change,” he said. “When I look at their faces and I think about what it’s going to be like when they’re 20, when they’re 30?”
Category 4 and 5 cyclones are now common, and cyclone season, which goes from November to March, is also the planting season for Vanuatu’s subsistence farmers. The last major cyclone, in 2020, hit his home island, Malo. For close to a year, Malo’s people relied on aid.
Already, six villages on four islands have been relocated. Drinking water has become saline and they’re no longer livable. Cyclones and warmer ocean waters have destroyed coral reefs and the fish that many people subsisted on. Dengue and malaria are on the rise.
The campaign for a legal opinion is complicated by geopolitics. A similar effort more than a decade ago by two other Pacific island nations, the Marshall Islands and Palau, went nowhere, in large part because of opposition from more powerful countries. (The United States has authority over the defense and security of both countries and the U.S. Army has a missile defense site in the Marshall Islands.)
Vanuatu’s geopolitical relationships are different. China is stepping up its diplomatic influence in the Pacific, including with Vanuatu, which is introducing Chinese language instruction in its schools. Australia is its biggest trading partner, and the nation is defended by Australia, New Zealand and France.
It has its diplomatic eggs in many baskets, and its president said he wasn’t concerned about pressure from rich, industrialized countries to drop the campaign for an international legal opinion. “If they threaten us, we stop? This thing will stop? I doubt it ma’am,” he said.
The draft resolution asks the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, to assess existing laws, such as the covenants on cultural rights and the Law of the Sea, to consider whether they protect current and future generations from climate hazards. Already a handful of national courts have ruled in favor of activists’ lawsuits, relying in part on international law.
“A decision from the ICJ could be the most authoritative statement to date of the obligations that international law imposes on states to control their greenhouse gas emissions,” said Michael Gerrard, a law professor at Columbia Law School, who was involved in the previous effort by Palau and the Marshall Islands.
To hear Vurobaravu tell it, Vanuatu’s diplomatic strategy has been shaped by its history. Britain and France, rival powers, could never agree on most things concerning the governance of Vanuatu.
Vanuatu, he said, had to figure out strategies that bigger, more powerful countries would have no reason to pursue. “We had to learn how to manage our unimportance. And I know it sounds a bit corny and funny, but our people had to do that for 75 years, he said. “We still do.”
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2022-12-09T12:41:47+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden welcomed military families to the White House lawn Saturday for a workout complete with jumping jacks and push-ups to highlight the sacrifices children make when their parents decide to serve.
“Sharing a workout might seem like a small thing,” the first lady, who was joined by Veteran Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, said to the crowd. “But when it comes to honoring our military, and veteran families, caregivers and survivors, it’s often the little things that make a difference.”
The event was the latest in a series hosted by the first lady as part of Joining Forces, her White House initiative to support military and veteran families, caregivers and survivors.
Also this month, she opened a temporary art exhibit at the White House to help educate visitors about the lives of military children.
The display of 10 mini “suitcases” designed by military and veteran children reflects their lives of frequent moves. Some of the cases are adorned with depictions of the flags of the countries they have lived in as a result of their parent’s deployment.
Biden is the daughter and mother of military service members and she often notes that military children also serve even though they aren’t in uniform.
“It’s nice to have somebody who can sympathize with family being away,” Air Force Lt. Colonel Robert Clark, who came to the White House with his wife and kids, said about the first lady. “Then also just doing events like this where we can come out and be around other military families. That’s great for us.”
There are more than 2 million military-connected children of active-duty service members, National Guard or reservists, or veterans, the White House said. They move an average of six to nine times during their K-12 education, and change schools three times more than their civilian peers.
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Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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2023-04-30T02:28:07+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/jill-biden-uses-workout-to-honor-military-kids-sacrifices/
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A truck driver who expressed hatred of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die.
The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers' own lawyers conceded at the trial's outset that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Jurors must now decide whether the 50-year-old should be sent to death row or sentenced to life in prison without parole as the federal trial shifts to a penalty phase expected to last several weeks.
Bowers was convicted of all 63 criminal counts he faced, including hate crimes resulting in death and obstruction of the free exercise of religion resulting in death. His attorneys had offered a guilty plea in return for a life sentence, but prosecutors refused, opting instead to take the case to trial and pursue the death penalty. Most of the victims’ families expressed support for the decision.
The jury deliberated about five hours over two days before reaching a verdict. Bowers, wearing a dark sweater, had little reaction, as has often been the case throughout the trial.
Bowers turned a sacred house of worship into a "hunting ground," targeting his victims because of their religion, a prosecutor told jurors on Thursday. Reading the names of each of the 11 victims he killed, prosecutor Mary Hahn asked the jury to "hold this defendant accountable ... and hold him accountable for those who cannot testify."
Bowers, who was armed with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons, also shot and wounded seven, including five responding police officers.
Prosecutors presented evidence of his deep-seated animosity toward Jews and immigrants. Over 11 days of testimony, jurors learned that Bowers had extensively posted, shared or liked antisemitic and white supremacist content on Gab, a social media platform popular with the far right, and praised Hitler and the Holocaust. Bowers told police that "all these Jews need to die," Hahn said.
Survivors testified about the terror they felt that day, including a woman who recounted how she was shot in the arm and then realized her 97-year-old-mother had been shot and killed right next to her. Andrea Wedner, the trial's last witness, told jurors she touched her mother's lifeless body and cried out, "Mommy," before SWAT officers led her to safety.
With Bowers’ guilt established, survivors and family members of the deceased victims are expected to tell the jury about the devastating impact of his crimes. The penalty phase is scheduled to start one week after the verdict.
Bowers’ attorneys did not mount a defense at the guilt stage of the trial, signaling they will focus their efforts on trying to save his life. They plan to introduce evidence that Bowers has schizophrenia, epilepsy and brain impairments. Defense lawyer Judy Clarke had also sought to raise questions about Bowers’ motive, suggesting to jurors that his rampage was not motivated by religious hatred but his delusional belief that Jews were committing genocide by helping refugees settle in the United States.
The three congregations that shared the synagogue building — Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life — have spoken out against antisemitism and other forms of bigotry since the attack. The Tree of Life congregation also is working on a plan to overhaul the synagogue building — which still stands but has been closed since the shootings — by creating a complex that would house a sanctuary, museum, memorial and center for fighting antisemitism.
The trial took place three years after President Joe Biden said during his 2020 campaign that he would work to end capital punishment at the federal level and in states that still use it. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, has temporarily paused executions to review policies and procedures. But federal prosecutors continue to vigorously work to uphold already-issued death sentences and, in some cases, to pursue the death penalty at trial for crimes that are eligible, as in Bowers’ case.
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Associated Press reporter Michael Rubinkam in northeastern Pennsylvania contributed to this report..
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2023-06-16T16:17:07+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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Northern Michigan battles but falls against Grand Valley State
The game saw 21 lead changes of the 40 minutes of basketball
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - In a game that saw 21 lead changes and over half the game being played within a possession, the Wildcats fell short by a 81-75 score at Grand Valley State on Saturday. The game was tied 71-71 with 3:29 to play, but a 6-0 run from GV took the wind out of the Wildcat sails. Max Bjorklund led NMU with 23 points, while Marius Grazulis was a force down low for the Lakers all game long, scoring 24. With the loss, NMU drops to 18-7 overall and 10-5 in GLIAC play, facing an uphill battle and needing outside help for a GLIAC regular season title. The Lakers moved to 15-9 and 9-5 withing the GLIAC.
The Wildcats defense looked sound early, not giving way for a GV score until over three minutes in. The Wildcats led 8-2 early, but the sides continued to exchange blows from there. The Lakers took their first lead at 17-16 with 11:22 to go in the first half. Sam Schultz provided a lift off the bench for NMU totaling nine points in the first half.
The offenses heated up with the opening 20 minutes winding down, with the lead changing hands 14 times in the first half. NMU would hold a slim 45-41 edge at the break, with D. Kuehl, Schlutz, and Bjorklund combining for 28 points. The Lakers started the second half on a 7-0 run, going ahead 48-41. After their first basket at 19:43 closed it to a one score game, the game didn’t see a two-score advantage again until 5:03 to go, when GV went up four.
The ‘Cats battled, with two threes within a minute of each other closing the gap when it looked like the Lakers may pull away. After Bjorklund’s triple tied it at 71 with 3:29 to go, the Lakers put together the game’s most important run, a 6-0 run over three minutes, to hold a multiple-possession lead with less than a minute left.
The Lakers hit free throws down the stretch to put the game away and secure the 81-75 victory.
The Wildcats will be home for the final time in the regular season, with Parkside and Purdue Northwest visiting the Berry. It will start against Parkside on Thursday, February 16 at 5:30 p.m.
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2023-02-12T01:32:30+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/02/12/northern-michigan-battles-falls-against-grand-valley-state/
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At the direction of Congress, Medicare is easing up on its annual readmissions penalties for hundreds of hospitals serving large populations of low-income patients, records released last week show.
Since 2012, Medicare has punished hospitals for having too many patients end up back in their care within a month. The government estimates the hospital industry will lose $566 million in the latest round of penalties that will stretch over the next 12 months. The penalties are a signature part of the Affordable Care Act's effort to encourage better care.
But starting next month, lawmakers mandated that Medicare take into account a long-standing complaint from safety-net hospitals. They have argued that their patients are more likely to suffer complications after leaving the hospital through no fault of the institutions, but rather because they cannot afford medications or don't have regular doctors to monitor their recoveries. The Medicare sanctions have been especially painful for this class of hospitals, which often struggles to stay afloat because so many of their patients carry low-paying insurance or none at all.
In a major change to its evaluation, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this year ceased judging each hospital's performance against all others. Instead, it assigned hospitals to five peer groups of facilities with similar proportions of low-income patients. Medicare then compared each hospital's readmission rates from July 2014 through June 2017 against the readmission rates of its peer group during those three years to determine if they warranted a penalty and, if so, how much it should be.
The broader issue is whether medical providers that serve the poor can be fairly judged against those that care for the affluent. This has been a contentious topic as the government seeks to accurately measure health care quality. It is particularly a concern in efforts to consider patient outcomes in setting pay rates for doctors, nursing homes, hospitals and other providers.
Overall, Medicare will dock payments to 2,599 hospitals — more than half the hospitals in the nation — in fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1st, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the records. The harshest penalty is 3 percent lower reimbursements for every Medicare patient discharged in fiscal year 2019. The average penalty — 0.7 percent of each payment — is almost the same as last year, as is the number of hospitals penalized.
But the new method shifted the burden of those punishments. Penalties against safety-net hospitals will drop by a fourth on average from last year, the analysis found.
"It's pretty clear they were really penalizing those institutions more than they needed to," says Dr. Atul Grover, executive vice president of the Association of American Medical Colleges. "It's definitely a step in the right direction."
Safety-net hospitals that will see their penalties cut by half or more include many urban institutions, such as Sutter Health's Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif.; Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C.; and Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich. Sixty-five safety-net hospitals — including Franklin Medical Center in Winnsboro, La., Astria Toppenish Hospital in Toppenish, Wash., and Emanuel Medical Center in Swainsboro, Ga.— that had been penalized last year escaped punishment entirely this year.
Conversely, the average penalty for the hospitals with the fewest low-income patients will rise from last year, the analysis found.
Before the program began, roughly 1 in 5 Medicare beneficiaries were readmitted within a month. Hospitals were paid the same amount regardless of how their patients fared after being discharged. In fact, a readmission was financially advantageous as hospitals would be paid for the second hospital stay, even if it might have been avoidable.
When the sanctions began, Medicare started doing an annual evaluation of readmission rates for patients who had originally been treated for heart failure, heart attacks and pneumonia. And it has reduced its payments to more than half of hospitals based on those rates. The evaluations have since expanded to cover chronic lung disease, hip and knee replacements and coronary artery bypass graft surgeries.
Medicare counts patients who returned to a hospital within 30 days, even if it is a different hospital than the one that originally treated them. The penalty is applied to the first hospital.
Medicare exempts hospitals with too few cases, those serving veterans, children and psychiatric patients, and critical-access hospitals, which are the only hospitals within reach of some patients. In addition, Maryland hospitals are excluded because Congress lets that state set its own rules on how it distributes Medicare money.
In its revised evaluation method this year, Medicare has started to distinguish hospitals that serve a high proportion of low-income patients by considering how many of the hospital's Medicare patients were also eligible for Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor.
American Hospital Association officials say that while they consider this an improvement, it isn't a perfect reflection of poverty among patients. For one thing, they say, hospitals in states with more restrictive Medicaid coverage do not appear, through this formula, to have as challenging patient populations as do hospitals in states with higher Medicaid eligibility.
Akin Demehin, the association's director of quality policy, says CMS might consider linking its records to Census records that show income and education level of patients. "It might give you a more precise adjuster," he says.
The hospital industry remains critical of the overall program, saying that stripping hospitals of revenue because of poor performance only makes it harder for them to care for patients.
Congress' Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in June concluded that the penalties from previous years successfully pressured hospitals to reduce the numbers of returning patients — and helped save Medicare about $2 billion a year.
In its analysis of the approach's effectiveness, the commission rejected some of the hospital industries' complaints about Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. The industry had argued that hospitals may have tried to get around the penalties by keeping patients under "observation status" and that discouraging rehospitalization may have led to extra deaths.
The commission found that between 2010 and 2016 readmission rates fell by 3.6 percentage points for heart attacks, 3 percentage points for heart failure and 2.3 percentage points for pneumonia. At the same time, readmissions caused by conditions that do not factor into the penalties fell on average 1.4 percentage points, indicating hospitals were focusing on lowering unnecessary readmissions that could hurt them financially.
The commission wrote: "We conclude that the [penalties] contributed to a significant decline in readmission rates without causing a material increase in ED [emergency department] visits, a material increase in observation stays, or a net adverse effect on mortality rates."
This fall, Medicare will attack readmissions from another angle by issuing penalties on skilled nursing facilities that send recently discharged residents back to the hospital too frequently.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
Copyright 2023 Kaiser Health News. To see more, visit Kaiser Health News.
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2023-05-28T01:05:36+00:00
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wboi.org
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https://www.wboi.org/npr-news/2018-09-26/medicare-eases-up-on-readmissions-penalties-for-hospitals-serving-the-poor
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DENVER (KDVR) — Friday, Dec. 9, was supposed to be a happy day for Hilary van Noort.
That morning, after months of battling leukemia, the Denver woman finally received the stem cell transplant she had been waiting for. Things were looking up.
But Friday night quickly turned tragic when her husband, Logan Rocklin, was killed on his bike. Her best friend, Laura Jo Washle, said van Noort found out what happened from her hospital bed.
“They were both at the hospital celebrating all day,” Washle said. “Now, it’s a day that unfortunately is tainted.”
According to police, Rocklin was crossing Sheridan Boulevard on 38th Avenue when a driver hit him and took off. On Wednesday, his loved ones unveiled a ghost bike memorial at the scene.
“It’s devastating,” Washle said. “She’s my best friend and she’s already been going through so much, and then on top of that, her number one support being taken away from her, it’s just unbelievable, and so unfair.”
A GoFundMe has been set up to assist van Noort with medical and funeral costs. On Wednesday, police released photos of the potential vehicles involved.
Anyone with information could be entitled to a $2,000 reward by calling Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP.
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2022-12-15T16:29:46+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/crime/woman-battling-cancer-loses-husband-in-hit-and-run-crash-on-day-of-transplant/
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon serial rapist is set to be released from prison in mid-December after serving nearly 36 years behind bars, almost all of his maximum sentence.
Richard Gillmore, arrested in 1986 and called the “jogger rapist” because he staked out victims as he ran by their homes, admitted to raping nine girls in the Portland area in the 1970s and 80s but was only convicted in one case because of the statute of limitations. In 1987, a jury found him guilty of raping 13-year-old Tiffany Edens, his last known victim, in December 1986.
The Associated Press generally does not name people who have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly. Edens has spoken out about the assault and recently wrote on social media that she received a voicemail in August from the state’s Victim Information and Notification Service telling her of his impending release.
“I have been slowly processing the reality of it all,” she wrote.
The Oregonian, citing prison officials, reported that Gillmore was transferred in August from Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla to the minimum-security Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland to help him prepare for his re-entry into the community. He will be 63 at the time of his release in December.
KOIN, which first reported his upcoming release, said Gillmore will remain under supervision until 2034 and could be sent back to prison if he violates his parole.
A judge in the Edens case sentenced Gillmore to at least 30 years in prison with a 60-year maximum. But a parole board cut his sentence in half in 1988, the year after he was convicted.
Danielle Tudor, who has said she was a teenager when Gillmore raped her in 1979, has spoken out against his release.
“If he had been able to have been charged for all the rapes he committed, he’d never be getting out,” Tudor told KOIN.
Gillmore has been classified as a sex offender at the lowest risk of reoffending. He will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life due to his rape conviction, but the classification means the state and county aren’t required to notify surrounding residents that he’s living near them.
His victims are angered that Gillmore isn’t considered a high-risk sex offender, which would require notification to the community wherever he lives or moves.
The Oregonian reported that Tudor said she didn’t understand why he was being classified as a low-level sex offender.
“He was designated as a dangerous offender at trial,” Tudor said.
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2022-10-09T18:26:53+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-serial-jogger-rapist-to-be-released-from-oregon-prison/
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CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, the country of Moldova has often been at the center of a struggle between Moscow and the West. It finds itself in that uncomfortable position again.
On Monday, its president alleged that Russia was plotting to overthrow her country's government by force to derail its aspirations of joining the European Union — plans first disclosed last week by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, tensions in Moldova have risen periodically, especially because of a Kremlin-backed breakaway region on its eastern border where Russia has stationed about 1,500 troops.
A look at recent events in Moldova:
WHAT ARE ITS TIES TO MOSCOW AND THE EU?
Once part of the Soviet Union, Moldova declared its independence in 1991. One of Europe’s poorest countries with a population of about 2.6 million people, it has historic ties to Russia but wants to join the 27-nation EU.
The country has lurched from one political crisis to another, often caught in limbo between pro-Russian and pro-Western sentiments. In recent years, Moldova has seen widespread disillusionment with post-Soviet politics, and an exodus of hundreds of thousands of its citizens seeking a better life abroad.
The situation is complicated following a separatist war that broke out in its eastern region of Transnistria in 1990 — a strip of land about 400 kilometers (249 miles) between the eastern bank of the Dniester River in Moldova and the border with Ukraine. As part of a cease-fire in 1992, a contingent of Russian troops remains there as nominal peacekeepers. Since then the region has insisted it is not part of Moldova, and most of its 470,000 people speak Russian, although residents identify themselves as ethnically Moldovan, Ukrainian or Russian.
In 2021, after decades of largely oligarchic power structures and various Russia-friendly leaders, Moldovans elected pro-Western, pro-European leaders to put it on a more distinctly Western path.
HOW HAS THE WAR IN UKRAINE AFFECTED MOLDOVA?
Since the invasion nearly a year ago, Moldova has sought to forge closer ties with the West. Last June, it was granted EU candidate status, the same day as Ukraine, but full membership will be a long road, contingent on tackling corruption and organized crime, and strengthening human rights and the rule of law.
Over the past year, tensions in Moldova have periodically risen as it faced a string of unsettling problems and incidents. These include a severe energy crisis after Moscow dramatically reduced gas supplies to the country. It also has seen skyrocketing inflation and a huge flow of refugees from the war next door.
In April, explosions were reported in Transnistria's de facto capital, Tiraspol, amid fears the war in Ukraine could spill over. In recent months, several missiles have traversed Moldova's skies, and rocket debris has also been found on its territory.
WHAT HAS MOLDOVA'S PRESIDENT ALLEGED?
On Monday, Moldova’s President Maia Sandu said in Moldova's capital of Chisinau that Moscow was plotting to overthrow her government via outside saboteurs "with military training, camouflaged in civilian clothes, who will undertake violent actions, attack some state buildings, and even take hostages.”
Its purpose, Sandu said, would be to install an illegitimate government “which would put our country at the disposal of Russia in order to stop the European integration process.”
She claimed Russia wants to use Moldova in the war against Ukraine, without elaborating, and added that Parliament must adopt laws to equip its Intelligence and Security Service and prosecutors with the tools "to combat more effectively the risks to the country’s security.”
Zelenskyy said last week his country had intercepted plans by Russian security services to destroy Moldova, claims that were later confirmed by Moldovan intelligence officials.
There was no immediate reaction from Moscow, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier this month that the West was considering turning Moldova into “another Ukraine.”
Costin Ciobanu of the Royal Holloway University of London said it’s likely there was pressure on Moldovan officials to follow up to the public on Zelenskyy's statements last week. He said Sandu's remarks could be a preemptive bid to thwart Russian attempts to destabilize Moldova in the same way Western officials called out Moscow's war plans before it invaded Ukraine.
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McGrath reported from Sighisoara, Romania.
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2023-02-13T21:46:35+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/moldova-again-at-center-of-tug-between-moscow-and-17781848.php
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s family is ready to take applications from businesses for grants funded by money from their wrongful death legal settlement with the city of Minneapolis.
Floyd, who was Black, died in May 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. His family won a $27 million settlement from the city in March 2021 and set aside $500,000 for grants to businesses in the neighborhood where Floyd died.
Floyd family attorney Ben Crump says businesses can begin applying Monday and continue to apply until all dollars are distributed. Grants will be awarded in the amounts of $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000, although larger grants may be considered.
Businesses can apply at www.theward8fund.org.
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2023-01-10T11:33:18+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-george-floyd-family-taking-applications-for-business-grants/
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(NewsNation) — As Americans prepare to pack up the books and hit the beaches, many are hearing an increasingly strong warning from the U.S. government: Think twice before traveling to Mexico.
Experts who spoke to NewsNation said some resorts, which have long been considered safe areas, may actually be controlled by Mexican drug cartels.
“There is a cartel presence in these resorts,” said Robert Almonte, a former U.S. marshal in the western district of Texas.
Almonte isn’t just referring to drugs being sold to tourists; he says cartels own some of those popular resorts as a way to launder money.
“They’re not going to have their name on there,” he said. “They’re going to other individuals that have interest in the companies already and I think one of the main reasons is to launder their money.”
The U.S. Treasury Department is currently pursuing such a connection with the case of Sergio Armando Orozco Rodriguez, also known as “Chocho.”
Using the Kingpin Act, federal authorities allege “Chocho” is a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who extorts businesses for protection money in his hometown of Puerto Vallarta and launders drug proceeds through ties to nightclubs and restaurants along the city’s main boardwalk.
Earl Anthony Wayne, a former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, says money laundering through hospitality services, real estate and other foreign trade that appears legitimate all boils down to Mexican cartels supplying drugs and American demand for them.
“One of the things we’ve discovered about these groups is they may be bad and evil, but they’re often pretty smart in finding ways to move their profits around,” said Wayne.
As of today, the U.S. State Department has issued its strongest possible “do not travel” warning for five Mexican states — Colima, Michocan, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas — due to “crime and kidnapping.”
A sixth state, Guerrero, is on the list due to “crime.”
Of the 32 Mexican states, only two have a “normal precautions” designation, the lowest level.
The popular tourist state of Quintana Roo, which includes vacation hotspots such as Tulum, Playa Del Carmen and Cancun, has a Level 2 “exercise increased caution” warning.
Almonte thinks it’s time for Americans to avoid the country as a message to the cartels and the Mexican government.
“We’ve had enough,” he said. “We’re not going to Mexico until you guys get your house in order.”
Tourist data suggests Americans are still heading south by the millions.
Through the first 11 months of 2022, more than 30 million U.S. citizens traveled to Mexico.
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2023-02-09T20:15:27+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/national/spring-break-is-it-safe-to-visit-mexico/
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(NEXSTAR) – Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
In a letter sent to AmazonSmile customers Wednesday, Amazon explained the program “has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped.”
“With so many eligible organizations—more than 1 million globally—our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin,” Amazon wrote.
AmazonSmile was launched in 2013. Through the program, Amazon would donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the shopper’s charitable organization of their choice. According to AmazonSmile’s website, over 1 million charities have benefited from the program.
A spokesperson tells Nexstar those charities have received $500 million with the average annual donation being less than $230.
Amazon now plans to “wind down” AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023.
“We will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where we’ve seen we can make meaningful change—from building affordable housing to providing access to computer science education for students in underserved communities to using our logistics infrastructure and technology to assist broad communities impacted by natural disasters,” the company said.
Those charities that will be impacted by AmazonSmile coming to an end will receive a one-time donation worth three months of what they received in 2022, Amazon explained. Charities will still be able to receive donations until the program officially ends.
After AmazonSmile ends, Amazon said charities can still create wish lists that customers can shop to support the organization.
The announcement comes as Amazon has begun its largest round of layoffs, impacting roughly 18,000 employees.
“Amazon has weathered uncertain and difficult economies in the past, and we will continue to do so,” CEO Andy Jassy said in a message to employees earlier this month. “These changes will help us pursue our long-term opportunities with a stronger cost structure.”
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2023-01-19T03:03:08+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/amazon-to-close-charitable-program-amazonsmile/
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was going to punch Trump out if he went to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
In a video obtained by CNN, Pelosi told her chief of staff, Terri McCullough, that she was willing to go to jail for slapping Trump.
"I'm going to go to jail, and I'm going to be happy," Pelosi said.
McCullough was alerting Pelosi that the Secret Service had "dissuaded" Trump from going to the Capitol when the House Speaker made those comments. However, they weren't sure Trump would change his mind and demand to meet his supporters.
Pelosi was also featured in Thursday's public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks. Newly-released videos showed the House Speaker reaching out to state and federal officials in an effort to help secure the Capitol.
She wanted to reconvene Congress to officially certify that Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential election. On the evening of Jan. 6, Pelosi received a call from the vice president, who said the building was secure and Congress would be able to certify the election.
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2022-10-14T16:14:38+00:00
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ktvh.com
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https://www.ktvh.com/news/national/pelosi-threatened-to-punch-trump-if-he-showed-up-at-the-capitol-on-jan-6
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