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(The Hill) – President Biden on Friday made his first public remarks about his 4-year-old grandchild Navy, the daughter of his son Hunter Biden, after silence from the White House over the young girl amid legal disputes between her parents.
Biden said, in a statement exclusively provided to People, that his son and Lunden Roberts, the mother, are working to provide a life for her.
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward,” the president said. “This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter. Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
The New York Times earlier this month published a piece about the child, writing that she’s never met Hunter Biden or her grandfather. After that was published, the White House dealt with questions in the briefing room from reporters asking whether Biden accepted Hunter Biden’s daughter in Arkansas as his granddaughter.
Roberts, who is in Arkansas, filed a paternity suit against Hunter Biden in May 2019, and the younger Biden appeared in court this May. In June, he reached a settlement in his child support case after he was ordered to sit for a deposition under oath to answer questions about his finances.
An anonymous source told People that the president and first lady Jill Biden have been “giving Hunter and Lunden the space and time to figure things out” and have been “following Hunter’s lead” throughout the legal proceedings involving the young girl.
Hunter Biden’s personal and legal troubles have been increasingly in the spotlight lately. He appeared in a Delaware court Wednesday, where his plea deal on federal tax and gun charges was put on hold by a judge who questioned the scope of the agreement. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/biden-offers-first-statement-on-hunters-4-year-old-daughter/ | 2023-07-28T23:02:50 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/biden-offers-first-statement-on-hunters-4-year-old-daughter/ |
3 people fatally shot, 2 wounded in a town in southern Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Police say three people were shot and killed at a residential building in southern Germany on Friday and another two wounded in a nearby house. A suspect has been arrested. The shooting took place Friday evening in Langweid, just outside the Bavarian city of Augsburg. Police said the suspect, a 64-year-old man, was then arrested. Authorities said the motive was still under investigation. Police said the suspect fatally shot two women, ages 49 and 72, and a 52-year-old man, before continuing to another house in a nearby street. There, he allegedly shot a 32-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man. Both were being treated in a hospital. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/3-people-fatally-shot-2-wounded-in-a-town-in-southern-germany/ | 2023-07-28T23:02:54 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/3-people-fatally-shot-2-wounded-in-a-town-in-southern-germany/ |
BOISE, Idaho — NAMPA – Nampa’s largest dog festival is back! The 15th annual Pooch Party Stroll & Splash will take place at Lakeview Park on August 26. Registration and check-in begins at 9:00 AM with the walk starting at 10:00 AM. Bring your dog(s) and family members to participate in a scenic one mile walk around Lakeview Park. After the walk, Lakeview Water Park will open and the dogs will have the opportunity to splash around in the swimming pool. There will be contests, entertainment, pet-friendly vendor booths, and a raffle.
Become part of the entertainment by signing your dog up for any or all the contests. Contests include Costume, Look-a-Like, Super Dog Tricks, & Canine Cake Walks.
Early registration, now through August 22, is just $25 and includes an adult t-shirt, doggie gift, walk swim admission for one dog. For each additional dog, the fee is $10. Register early—fee increases to $30 August 23.
All proceeds from this event support Dog Parks in Nampa. Nampa’s Amity Dog Park is a six acre park with great amenities including a fully-fenced park with expansive grassy areas, walking trails, drinking water for dogs and humans, shade shelters, trees, benches, a swimming pond for dogs, and ample parking. Construction is underway for the second dog park in Nampa located near Smith Avenue and Middleton Rd. The anticipated opening of this park is slated for 2023.
If you would like to donate to dog parks in Nampa, you can make a donation of any amount online or in-person at the Nampa Recreation Center Program Desk.
Learn how Pooch Party Stroll & Splash benefits Nampa's Dog Parks - Idaho Today interview from 2022 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/community/pooch-party-stroll-splash-will-raise-money-to-support-dog-parks-in-nampa/277-2f07ccd3-6e9b-421f-a55c-c95562683aac | 2023-07-28T23:02:54 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/community/pooch-party-stroll-splash-will-raise-money-to-support-dog-parks-in-nampa/277-2f07ccd3-6e9b-421f-a55c-c95562683aac |
DELMAR, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Many across social media feel confused about Twitter rebranding its iconic bird logo to a simple “X” symbol. At his Albany, New York-area studio on Thursday, the artist behind the original logo talked about its creation and leaving the brand behind.
Phil Pascuzzo is hard at work in his quiet suburban home in Delmar, mainly designing the inviting covers that tempt you to pick up a good book. You’d never guess he’s the designer of the world-famous Twitter bird icon.
“It’s so interesting. Most people have no idea,” laughed Pascuzzo. “It’s kind of like how Milton Glaser created the ‘I love New York’ logo, but when you see the I ‘heart’ NY, it doesn’t feel like anybody did it. It’s just there.”
Pascuzzo has run Pepco Studio, his independent freelance design studio, for the last 20 years, but he said that his first graphic design job out of college was where he met Biz Stone, one of the three Twitter co-founders. “We were both junior designers, so we were lowest on the rank, but he would just after every subway ride have all these wild ideas and we would just talk about them,” Pascuzzo recollected with NEWS10’s Mikhaela Singleton. “I would do these little doodles on Post-it notes, and he just liked my drawings.”
He said that Stone approached him around 2005 looking for a unique bird-themed design. The iStock image by Simon Oxley that was used when Twitter first launched couldn’t be its official logo, as that would violate iStock’s terms of service.
“I started sketching different birds. We knew we were going with blue, which — it’s great for like, feeling optimistic, feels like the future, blue skies,” Pascuzzo explained. “[Stone] had a rough idea, but he really left it to me to get creative with. He’s got a great sense of humor so he had all these ideas for little things he wanted the bird to be doing.”
Pascuzzo said that first bird design took about 30 minutes and a chat between friends, landing him $500 for the work. “I was in an apartment in Arbor Hill at the time and thought, $500 will make rent so yeah let’s do it,” he said. “Twitter wasn’t some huge thing like it is now that everybody is on.”
For years, he continued creating many marketing items that helped Twitter take flight. Shifting the bird’s design to a silhouette, Pascuzzo then sold the design to the studio outright in 2010, when it took shape in the most recent version used from 2012 to 2023. He added that he did reapproach his friend and the company to renegotiate pay for the logo design when Twitter truly took off.
“When I realized the weight of what this icon had become, I went back with an intellectual property lawyer, and it was extremely cordial,” Pascuzzo said. “It didn’t give me anything close to Elon Musk money, but it was a down payment on a house.”
On the topic of Musk and the many changes since his takeover of the social media giant in October, Pascuzzo said the news to clip the bird’s wings for a simple “X” symbol came as a surprise. “I was like, ‘What?’ What is this white — because it’s just a Unicode symbol,” he said. “It’s not even a logo. Nobody even designed it.”
After 20 years in the business, he said that he’s learned not to get too attached to any creation, so he’s not sad to see the bird go. But he worries that Musk’s future for Twitter leaves behind much of what made the platform unique.
“He seems obsessed with the ‘X.’ I mean you look at his child with Grimes — X Æ A-Xii — he loves X. It’s everywhere. So in his world, it may make sense, but I think, in the Twitter world, it doesn’t really make much sense,” Pascuzzo concluded. “I feel he threw away a lot of brand equity. The name, the color, the language — it’s so ubiquitous. It’s part of our lexicon.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/original-designer-behind-twitter-bird-icon-talks-the-x-rebrand/ | 2023-07-28T23:02:56 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/original-designer-behind-twitter-bird-icon-talks-the-x-rebrand/ |
Count of ballots from Spaniards abroad gives edge to right-wing block and deepens the stalemate
By DAVID BRUNAT
Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Ballots from Spaniards living abroad gave a new twist to the inconclusive results from the general election. The conservative Popular Party gained an additional seat from Madrid’s constituency late Friday at the expense of the Socialist Workers’ Party. That seat bends majority towards the right-wing coalition, now adding up 172 seats between Populars and far-right Vox. Left-wing forces now fall down to 171 seats. This new scenario places an even bigger stone in acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s path to being invested, as he now needs Catalan radical secessionists Junts’ approval vote, instead of a more feasible abstention, which had been the case until now. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/count-of-ballots-from-spaniards-abroad-gives-edge-to-right-wing-block-and-deepens-the-stalemate/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:00 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/count-of-ballots-from-spaniards-abroad-gives-edge-to-right-wing-block-and-deepens-the-stalemate/ |
MCCALL, Idaho — The 32-year run of the Centennial Triple Chair at Brundage Mountain Resort can have some people reminiscing.
And for $800, you can take a piece of it home.
Brundage on Friday announced they will be selling 169 of their old three-seat Centennial ski lift chairs for only one day on Saturday, Aug. 5, in the Centennial Parking Lot of the resort. The sale begins at 10 a.m.
Each carrier weighs 250 pounds, are over 8 feet tall and over 6 feet wide. The carriers are 2 feet 5 inches deep. Brundage staff members can assist with loading the carriers, but people are responsible for securing the chair when they leave.
The Centennial lift was built in 1990 on the 100-year anniversary of Idaho's statehood. Brundage Mountain is set to replace the "leisurely," 16-minute ride with a brand-new, Doppelmayr high-speed detachable quad for the upcoming winter season. The new ride will take just six minutes.
During the one-day sale, the historic carriers will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The $800 purchase can be made with cash, or a check to Brundage Mountain Resort. Friday's announcement said the chairs must be paid for and picked up at the Centennial Parking Lot on Aug. 5. No "holds" will be allowed.
"Upgrading the Centennial lift to a high-speed quad does more than just cut down the ride time," Brundage Mountain General Manager Ken Rider said. "The loading experience will be so much smoother – especially for families – which will make some of our best terrain much easier to access."
Brundage will now have two high-speed quads in its base area during the 2023-2024 winter season. The upgraded Doppelmayr lift will allow an uphill capacity of 1,800 people per hour, up from 1,300 skiers per hour with the Centennial Triple Chair.
For more information on Brundage Mountain Resort, click here.
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(The Hill) – Carlos De Oliveira was indicted on three criminal charges alongside former President Trump and his longtime aide Walt Nauda in a superseding indictment Thursday, part of the classified document investigation at Trump’s Florida club.
De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago Club’s property manager, allegedly assisted Trump and Nauta in attempting to delete security footage that showed the men moving boxes of classified documents around the property to hide them from federal authorities.
He was charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, destroying evidence and lying to the FBI.
De Oliveira, 56, was hired as the Mar-a-Lago manager in January 2022, previously working there as a valet, according to the indictment.
Federal investigators claim De Oliveira helped Nauta move about 30 boxes of classified documents around Mar-a-Lago, and at one point told the club’s head of IT that “the boss” wants security camera footage deleted.
In October of last year, after federal investigators searched the club and found additional classified documents, De Oliveira allegedly drained one of the club’s pools causing flooding in the server room that contained the security camera footage. This happened not long after Trump told De Oliveira he would get him an attorney, the indictment says.
According to investigators, Nauta attempted to judge De Oliveira’s loyalty before that promise came, with De Oliveira telling him that nothing would get in the way of his relationship with Trump.
Trump now faces a total of 40 charges related to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, with three of those added this week in the superseding indictment. Nauta faces eight charges.
Special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the classified documents probe, is also investigating Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the Capitol.
Smith met with Trump’s defense on Thursday and sent him a target letter earlier this month, raising speculation that he could be indicted again for that separate investigation soon. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/who-is-carlos-de-oliveira-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort-manager/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:02 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/who-is-carlos-de-oliveira-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort-manager/ |
Defense presses case that mental illness spurred Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal trial for a man who fatally shot 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue is approaching its conclusion as the defense makes its case that mental illness spurred the United States’ deadliest antisemitic attack. Lawyers for Robert Bowers are trying to persuade a federal jury to spare his life. A defense psychiatrist who met with Bowers testified Friday that Bowers has schizophrenia and acted out of a delusion that Jews were trying to cause a genocide of white people. Bowers’ relatives also testified, with his aunt saying he had a difficult childhood. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/defense-presses-case-that-mental-illness-spurred-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:06 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/defense-presses-case-that-mental-illness-spurred-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre/ |
BOISE, Idaho — Grammy Award winning country superstar Tim McGraw just announced his 2024 Standing Room Only tour, including more than 30 North American destinations.
Boise has one date on the tour date lineup, on April 6 at the ExtraMile Arena on Boise State University's campus.
The tour promises high energy shows featuring McGraw’s well known hit songs, as well as new songs from his new album titled, “Standing Room Only.” McGraw’s 17th studio album will be released Aug. 25.
All tickets and VIP packages go on sale Friday, Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. local time. VIP packages include a meet and greet with McGraw and much more. The 2024 tour includes special guest Carly Pearce.
"I always want to deliver the best possible concert I can for the fans," McGraw said. "We've got some really special plans to make this the biggest and the best tour we've ever done."
For more information on ticket prices and concert experience, visit McGraw’s website and become a part of MCGRAWONE to access exclusive information on the upcoming tour.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Legacy admissions, in which universities give students related to alumni preference, could be on the chopping block after the U.S. Department of Education agreed to investigate the practice at Harvard University.
The Lawyers for Civil Rights advocacy group filed the complaint that prompted the investigation.
“It’s harmful to applicants of color,” Michael Kippins of the organization said of legacy admissions. “Donor and legacy preference overwhelmingly favor white applicants and many of them are not as qualified as applicants of color.”
Lawyers for Civil Rights’ complaint alleges applicants related to wealthy Harvard donors are seven times more likely to be admitted.
“This complaint targets Harvard specifically; however, the Department of Education has very broad power to ensure … programs and organizations that receive federal funding not discriminate,” Kippins said.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the practice is among many being examined to ensure equal access to higher education.
“Historically, universities have separated the haves and have-nots,” Cardona said. “We have to do better.”
Harvard said that following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision limiting affirmative action, it is working to ensure all its policies fall in line with the law.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., and the Congressional Black Caucus are pushing a bill that would end all legacy admissions.
“Now without affirmative action, these discriminatory actions cannot be tolerated,” Scott said.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., agreed legacy admissions don’t make sense, calling it a “silly policy.” But he said Congress should be focused on the biggest obstacle for all applicants: the high cost of tuition. | https://www.cbs42.com/washington/washington-dc/dept-of-education-looks-into-legacy-admissions/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:08 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/washington/washington-dc/dept-of-education-looks-into-legacy-admissions/ |
Democrats claim the GOP is withholding evidence contradicting claims in Hunter Biden probe
By FARNOUSH AMIRI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are demanding the release of a transcript from a new FBI witness, saying it contradicts Republicans’ claims in the vast congressional inquiry into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on House Oversight Committee, sent a letter Friday to committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., asking him to produce the transcribed interview that took place this month with an FBI agent who worked on the federal investigation into the younger Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings. Republicans responded that the transcript was going through the “normal review process” and would be released after the fact. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/democrats-claim-the-gop-is-withholding-evidence-contradicting-claims-in-hunter-biden-probe/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:12 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/democrats-claim-the-gop-is-withholding-evidence-contradicting-claims-in-hunter-biden-probe/ |
ST ANTHONY, Idaho — Lori Vallow Daybell, or Lori Vallow -- the eastern Idaho woman found guilty of murdering her two children and conspiring to murder her husband’s former wife -- is scheduled to be sentenced at 9 a.m. on July 31 at the Fremont County Courthouse.
What can be expected?
Vallow will not face the death penalty, but she could face up to life in prison for murdering her two children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and taking their security benefits. The two were found buried in shallow graves on Vallow’s husband’s property in Salem in June of 2020. 16-year-old Tylee Ryan's remains were found in charred, burnt pieces. 7-year-old JJ Vallow was found suffocated and bound in duct tape.
During Vallow’s sentencing, four people are expected to give victim impact statements, or statements about how the crimes affected their family and their lives. Those who wanted to give impact statements at the sentencing had to submit a request – under Idaho law, the only people allowed to give victim impact statements during a sentencing have to be immediate family members of the murder victim(s).
Vallow’s only surviving child, 27-year-old Colby Ryan, is expected to speak along with Summer Shiflet, who is Vallow’s sister.
Kay Woodcock, the grandmother of JJ Vallow, is also expected to give a statement in court.
Vallow was also convicted of conspiring to murder her husband Chad Daybell’s wife at the time, Tammy Daybell. Her aunt, Vicki Hoban, will likely give a victim impact statement at the time of sentencing.
The defense – Jim Archibald and John Thomas – will have an opportunity to speak on behalf of Vallow. It is likely that the prosecutors or defense will bring up contents from the presentence investigation (PSI) report, which is put together in order to recommend incarceration, type of treatment or programs she should complete while in prison. These are conducted by the Idaho Department of Correction’s Probation and Parole.
A presentence investigation must be ordered by the judge. Fremont County District Judge Steven Boyce signed off ordering a full report on May 24, 12 days after Vallow was convicted.
Former Ada County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Jean Fisher told KTVB the presentence investigation is a very important part of this case considering how heinous the crimes were.
"Just the psychological evaluation itself takes a period of time. The presentence investigator is going to look into her entire background, her history, they will have contacted prior family members, other family members, prior employers, and they are trying to get as big of a picture as they can about who Lori Vallow is in order to try and determine what the sentencing should be in this case. It's a very, very lengthy extensive report," Fisher said.
Under Idaho Criminal Rules, a full PSI must include:
- Prior criminal record
- Social history, family relationships, marital status, age, interests, activities
- Educational background
- Employment background, present employment
- Residence history
- Financial status
- Health status
- Sense of values and “outlook on life”
- Results of any substance abuse evaluation, mental health evaluation, domestic assault evaluation and or psychosexual evaluation
- The presentence investigator’s analysis of the defendant’s condition, which would be a complete summary of the psychological factors surrounding the commission of the crime. The analysis would also include a recommendation about any type of rehabilitation
The defense is able to use information from the presentence analysis to show a judge that Vallow deserves a lesser sentence. Because she was found mentally incompetent to stand trial in May of 2021, it's possible the defense could bring up Vallow's mental health as a reason she should not receive maximum prison time.
Fisher said that she believes a judge will absolutely take Vallow's mental health into consideration when sentenced.
"They're always looking for sentencing guidelines and criteria that include some punishments and retribution, and mental health is a very important part of that. We know that Lori Vallow had been declared incompetent for a period of time during the pretrial in this case, but then she was able to withstand and make it through the trial. That is important to the court," Fisher said. "At this point, her competency has been determined and she will go forward in this."
Vallow also can't be sentenced to a state hospital, even if the judge decides she could have mental health issues.
According to an Idaho Department of Correction spokesperson, that has never happened, and the agency typically does not transfer prison residents to state hospitals because IDOC has in-house treatment plans.
But, according to Idaho Code 66-335, it is possible that mentally ill prison residents can be admitted into state institutions if they meet the regulations provided by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
When the victim impact statements and arguments have concluded, Judge Boyce will ask Vallow if she would like to make a statement. Once she finishes her statement or declines to speak, the judge can then issue his own statement and sentence Vallow to her term in prison.
Ultimately, the decision on the punishment is up to Judge Boyce, but Fisher says it's unlikely Vallow will get anything less than a fixed life sentence.
"People who who have a mental illness, if that's indeed what she has... It continues to make her a greater threat if she were to be out in the in the community because she can't control her behavior, or is so fixated on what it is that she believes religiously, that she cannot be trusted... And I think that the judge is going to think about that very seriously," Fisher said.
She also stated that the judge can take into consideration what the family members want, the impact of the murders on those family members and the nature of the case itself.
"Because of the ages of the children, but then the nature in which they were murdered in particularly heinous ways and the way that they were buried..." Fisher said. "It will be a big part of what he considers."
Reporter and anchor Shirah Matsuzawa and crime and investigative reporter Alexandra Duggan will be reporting from the courtroom on the day of the sentencing. Follow Shirah on Twitter at @ShirahKTVB, Alex on Twitter @dugganreports, and stay tuned on KTVB for updates.
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Central Alabama will become partly cloudy with spotty showers and storms during the late afternoon and evening. Watch out for downpours and gusty winds.
⚠️CODE ORANGE AIR QUALITY ALERT TODAY for Jefferson and Shelby Counties. If you have respiratory issues limit your time outdoors today. The rest of us should conserve energy by carpooling, refueling your car after 6 PM & cutting the grass after 6 PM.
Tonight, it will be mostly clear and very mild. Lows will be in the lower 70s to middle 70s.
Weekend Outlook: Very hot and humid air will be back this weekend as Alabama sits between an area of high pressure over New Mexico/Texas and another high pressure over Bermuda. These areas of high pressure will be merging and that will bring the heat to the Deep South. Saturday will be partly cloudy with spotty showers and storms. High temperatures will be in the upper 90s and the heat index 105-110°.
Sunday will be partly cloudy with a few storms possible. SPC has placed parts of Central Alabama in a Level 1/5 Marginal Risk for severe weather. The threat is low, but we could see gusty winds with any storm. High temperatures will be in the upper 90s, and the heat index will be 105-110°. Find ways to stay cool and hydrated all weekend!
Next Week’s Outlook: A weak cold front will move across Alabama on Monday with a slight chance for a shower/storm. It will still be very hot with highs in the upper 90s. There could be a little break from the heat and humidity Tuesday through Friday as the cold front stalls along the coast. Tuesday and Wednesday will be mostly sunny, hot and less humid with highs in the middle 90s. The heat index will be around 100-105°. Look for a little chance for a few pop-up storms Thursday and Friday as it becomes more humid. High temperatures will stay in the middle 90s and the heat index will be 100-105°.
Tracking the Tropics: There is a tropical wave located between the Lesser Antilles and Cabo Verde Islands. It is disorganized as it battles wind shear and dry air. Conditions are expected to be favorable for development by this weekend, and a tropical depression could form as it moves to the WNW. It has a medium chance to develop over the next 7 days.
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Human rights group identifies 133rd baby snatched from mother during Argentina’s dictatorship
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — DNA tests have confirmed the identity of a man who was taken from his mother as a baby during Argentina’s last military dictatorship, increasing the number of this type of case to 133. The president of the human rights group Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo said at a news conference Friday that the man was abducted during the 1976-1983 dictatorship and is the child of political dissidents. The man’s name was not released. The man is the biological son of Cristina Navajas and Julio Santucho and the grandchild of Nélida Navajas, who was a member of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and searched for him until her death in 2012. The group says the man approached the organizationp of his own accord, with doubts about his identity. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/human-rights-group-identifies-133rd-baby-snatched-from-mother-during-argentinas-dictatorship/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:18 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/human-rights-group-identifies-133rd-baby-snatched-from-mother-during-argentinas-dictatorship/ |
When you get a stomachache, you may reach for a glass of ginger ale to help feel better. It is a common home remedy for nausea or other gastrointestinal issues. However, some people online are wondering if their mom’s go-to cure actually works.
THE QUESTION
Does ginger ale help with stomachaches?
THE SOURCES
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- A study published in Nutrients in 2020
- Emma Slattery, RDN, in a post on Johns Hopkins Medicine
- A blog post by Matthew Goldman, M.D., on Cleveland Clinic
- Seagram’s
- Schweppes
- Canada Dry
THE ANSWER
While ginger root can help stomachaches, many popular brands of ginger ale do not contain any real ginger. The sugar and high carbonation may also worsen digestive problems.
WHAT WE FOUND
Ginger ale could help relieve stomachaches for some people, but only if it contains real ginger. A scientific review of more than 100 studies on the effects of ginger show moderate effectiveness in relieving nausea.
Emma Slattery, a registered dietician at Johns Hopkins Medicine, explains in a blog post that “eating ginger encourages efficient digestion, so food doesn’t linger as long in the gut.” This can help you cut down on bloating and constipation as ginger improves “the rate at which food exits the stomach and continues along the digestive process.”
But while “ginger” may be in the name of the fizzy drinks you find in stores, many brands of ginger ale do not actually contain any real ginger.
VERIFY looked at the ingredients list of Seagram’s ginger ale and found that the soda contains “ginger extract with other natural flavors.” Schweppes, Canada Dry and Great Value ginger ale do not include ginger in their ingredient list and instead only say “natural flavors.” According to the FDA, “natural flavors” can refer to a wide variety of ingredients whose “significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.”
Ginger ale often contains large amounts of sugar, which may create further issues for your stomachache. In a blog post for the Cleveland Clinic, Matthew Goldman, M.D., says, “If a person has bloating, gas or indigestion, the carbonation and sugar may make it worse. Even diet ginger ale can be harmful because our bodies may not digest artificial sugars as well.”
Another aspect of ginger ale believed to assist with stomachaches is carbonation. But that might not be helpful for everyone.
Baptist Health explains, “Some people find that the bubbles in carbonated drinks help soothe an upset stomach, in part, by making it easier for them to burp and release stomach pressure. For others, gas and acidity can make matters worse.” Baptist Health recommends that you drink heavily carbonated drinks with caution if you are not sure how they affect you.
So how can you best take advantage of ginger’s soothing effects when you’re feeling sick? Cleveland Clinic recommends getting ginger root from the grocery store and mixing it with decaf tea or warm water.
Some ginger sodas do have real ginger in the ingredient list. Reed’s sells a ginger ale with 2 grams of ginger in a 12 oz bottle and ginger beer that contains 17 grams of ginger per bottle. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/ginger-ale-no-help-stomachache-because-no-ginger/536-b21c22d9-743a-4f5a-a9d6-a570ef090627 | 2023-07-28T23:03:19 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/ginger-ale-no-help-stomachache-because-no-ginger/536-b21c22d9-743a-4f5a-a9d6-a570ef090627 |
Judge blasts prosecutors’ handling of Venezuela case against ex-Miami congressman
By JOSHUA GOODMAN
Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami blasted prosecutors for an attempt to undercut a court order and try to take control of an oceanside condo belonging to a former Republican Congressman ahead of a high-profile trial connected to a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s government. David Rivera was charged last November with money laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for President Nicolás Maduro’s government. A judge this month said that the government had no right to freeze the Florida condo owned by Rivera because it had no direct ties to the alleged offense. A few days later the government said it found evidence linking the property to the allegedly ill-gotten gains. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/judge-blasts-prosecutors-handling-of-venezuela-case-against-ex-miami-congressman/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:24 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/judge-blasts-prosecutors-handling-of-venezuela-case-against-ex-miami-congressman/ |
(Green Car Reports) — Tesla allegedly equipped its electric cars with misleading range displays and then suppressed owner complaints, according to a Reuters report published Thursday.
Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the report alleges that, about a decade ago, Tesla began equipping cars with range-estimating algorithms that showed “rosy” projections of driving range on dashboard displays when a car was fully charged, and more realistic range estimates when charge dropped below 50%.
The order to exaggerate range estimates allegedly came from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Reuters reported. The anonymous source cited in the report said Musk “wanted to show good range numbers when fully charged” because it would make customers feel better when driving away in a newly purchased Tesla.
Reuters said it “could not determine” whether Tesla still uses algorithms that exaggerate indicated range estimates, but reported that the automaker last year became “inundated” with customer complaints about range.
Tesla’s solution, according to the report, was to create a special team to cancel customer appointments at service centers if they were related to range complaints.
Alexandre Ponsin, a 2021 Tesla Model 3 owner cited in the report, told Reuters he “was sometimes getting less than half” his car’s estimated range, particularly in cold weather, and booked a service appointment believing there was something wrong with the car. EV range can decrease in cold weather, something Tesla has tried to address recently with heat pumps.
Ponsin reportedly received two text messages saying “remote diagnostics” had determined the car’s battery was fine, and asking to cancel the appointment. Reuters reports that this was the work of a “Diversion Team” based in Las Vegas and tasked with cancelling range-related appointments. Managers reportedly told employees that each cancelled appointment saved Tesla $1,000 and reduced wait times at service centers.
In late 2022, managers allegedly told employees not to run remote diagnostics on vehicles of owners reporting range issues, speeding up the process of cancelling appointments. Reuters reports that “thousands” of customers were told there was nothing wrong with their cars after this policy change, and were instead offered tips on increasing range by changing driving habits.
Tesla maintains more control over the hardware and software aspects of any repair or diagnosis than other automakers, which has led to at least one customer lawsuit alleging unlawful monopolization of repair services.
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This isn’t the first time Tesla has been accused of being dishonest with range estimates. South Korea earlier this year fined Tesla for minimizing the impact of cold weather on range. It remains to be seen whether these reported claims will lead to any similar actions in the U.S. | https://www.cenlanow.com/automotive/report-tesla-has-allegedly-been-suppressing-ev-range-complaints/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:25 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/automotive/report-tesla-has-allegedly-been-suppressing-ev-range-complaints/ |
On July 26, the House Oversight subcommittee held a hearing titled: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency.” An “unidentified anomalous phenomena” – or UAPS – is known more casually as UFOs.
According to some of the testimony, the U.S. is allegedly concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers UFOs. A former military major testified that at least one UFO has crashed, U.S. government officials retrieved it and found other non-human objects along with it, but then concealed that information from the American public.
Clips from the testimony went viral on social media, with people wondering if this means aliens exist and if the government knows about them.
Even singer Lizzo got in on the action, writing, “Aye.. I know there’s a lot of pop culture news and memes going on rn but… THE GOVERNMENT JUST STATED *UNDER OATH* THAT THEY ARE IN POSSESSION OF UFOs AND NON-HUMAN ALIEN BODIES YALL”
Other people on social media made similar claims. We looked into those viral posts to clear up some confusion, and several VERIFY viewers asked us what was revealed at the hearing.
QUESTION #1
Did the U.S. government say under oath they are in possession of UFOs?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, the U.S. government didn’t say under oath they are in possession of UFOs.
WHAT WE FOUND
U.S. government officials did not testify before the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on July 26. The testimony referenced in the viral posts came from retired Maj. David Grusch, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, who referred to himself during the hearing as a whistleblower.
Grusch said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force’s mission. At the time, Grusch was detailed to the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that operates U.S. spy satellites.
Grusch said he felt the need to come forward as a whistleblower to expose what he calls a government cover-up regarding the existence of UFOs.
“I became a whistleblower … following concerning reports from multiple esteemed and credentialed current and former military and Intelligence Community individuals that the U.S. Government is operating with secrecy - above Congressional oversight - with regards to UAPs,” Grusch told the committee.
“My testimony is based on information I have been given by individuals with a longstanding track record of legitimacy and service to this country – many of whom also shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation, and classified oral testimony,” Grusch said.
Later in the hearing, Grusch was asked if he believed the U.S. was in possession of UAPs. He responded, “Absolutely,” adding that he knew the locations based on information he retrieved after conducting interviews with more than 40 people with firsthand knowledge of where the spacecrafts are held.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Defense Department spokeswoman Sue Gough said investigators have not discovered “any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
QUESTION #2
Did someone testify that the U.S. was in possession of alien bodies?
THE SOURCES
- Original testimony from the hearing
- Food & Drug Administration
- Labroots, a scientific website that connects scientists across the world
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence annual report on unidentified aerial phenomena
THE ANSWER
No, no one said during the hearing that the U.S. was in possession of alien bodies. Retired Maj. David Grusch said there was evidence of “non-human biologics” under evaluation, and that’s not the same thing.
WHAT WE FOUND
Several hours into the hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) questioned Grusch about allegations the government is in possession of “non-human spacecraft.”
Here is a transcript:
Mace: You’ve stated that the government is in possession of potentially non-human spacecraft. Based on your experience and extensive conversations with experts, do you believe our government has made contact with intelligent extraterrestrials?
Grusch: Something I can’t discuss in public setting.
Mace: OK, and I can’t ask when you think this occurred. If you believe we have crashed craft stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft?
Grusch: As I’ve stated publicly already in my NewsNation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries, yeah.
Mace: Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics?
Grusch: Non-human. And that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to, that are currently on the program
The Food & Drug Administration defines a biologic – which are found on Earth – as a wide range of products, including blood and blood components, allergenics, cells, tissues, proteins, sugars and acids. A biologic could be a complex combination of those and can even be living entities as cells and tissues.
Biologics can be produced from living organisms or contain components of living organisms, according to Labroots, a scientific website that connects scientists across the world.
The term ‘non-human’ is defined by Merriam-Webster as a “being other than a human being” or “not belonging to, appropriate to, or produced by human beings.” For example, any material from animals, plants, fungi or other organisms would be considered non-human. Non-human does not mean “not from Earth.”
In January 2023, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified an annual report on unidentified aerial phenomena.
The report said as of Aug. 30, 2022, there were a total of 510 UAP reports since they started tracking the phenomena in 2005. Nowhere in the report does it say extraterrestrials or aliens were seen or recovered. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/verify/national-verify/the-us-government-didnt-say-found-aliens-bodies-ufo-testimony-fact-check/536-a4fd2326-7596-4cbc-8dc3-ffb152e19a3a | 2023-07-28T23:03:25 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/verify/national-verify/the-us-government-didnt-say-found-aliens-bodies-ufo-testimony-fact-check/536-a4fd2326-7596-4cbc-8dc3-ffb152e19a3a |
Judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit against Disney’s efforts to neutralize governing district takeover
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge in Florida on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Gov. Ron DeSantis appointees against Disney’s efforts to neutralize the governor’s takeover of Disney World’s governing district.
The judge in state court in Orlando denied Disney’s motion in the lawsuit that says the company wrongly stripped appointees of powers over design and construction at Disney World when it made agreements with predecessors, who were supporters.
The case is one of two lawsuits stemming from the takeover, which was retaliation for the company’s public opposition to the so-called Don’t Say Gay legislation championed by DeSantis and Republican lawmakers. In the other lawsuit, in federal court in Tallahassee, Disney says DeSantis violated the company’s free speech rights.
The governor has touted his yearlong feud with Disney in his run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, often accusing the entertainment giant of being too “woke.” Disney has accused the governor of violating its First Amendment rights.
Attorneys for Disney had argued that any decision in state court would be moot since the Republican-controlled Legislature already has passed a law voiding agreements that the company made with a prior governing board made up of Disney supporters that gave design and construction powers to the company.
The entertainment giant had asked that the state court case be put on hold if it’s not dismissed until the federal lawsuit in Tallahassee was resolved since they covered the same ground and that lawsuit was filed first.
In that case, Disney sued DeSantis and his appointees to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District in an effort to stop the takeover, saying the governor was violating the company’s free speech and “weaponizing the power of government to punish private business.”
DeSantis wasn’t a party in the state court lawsuit.
The fight between DeSantis and Disney began last year after the company, facing significant pressure internally and externally, publicly opposed a state law banning classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades, a policy critics call “Don’t Say Gay.”
As punishment, DeSantis took over the district through legislation passed by Florida lawmakers and appointed a new board of supervisors to oversee municipal services for the sprawling theme parks and hotels. But before the new board came in, the company made agreements with previous oversight board members who were Disney supporters that stripped the new supervisors of their authority over design and construction.
In response, DeSantis and Florida lawmakers passed the legislation that repealed those agreements.
Disney announced in May that it was scrapping plans to build a new campus in central Florida and relocate 2,000 employees from Southern California to work in digital technology, finance and product development. Disney had planned to build the campus about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the giant Walt Disney World theme park resort.
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SAN DIEGO — Slow border crossings at ports of entry between the U.S. and Mexico are costing businesses in San Diego and other border communities.
The slow border crossings are translating into $3.4 billion in losses each year for businesses just north of the border, according to Kenia Zamarripa of the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce.
Zamarripa stated in San Diego border communities alone, the losses total more than $2 billion per year.
“It’s the main inhibitor, that’s why we have to make it easier for people to cross the border with creative ideas that will give the community alternative options to cross, such as the trolley or ferry,” said Zamarripa.
She went on to say that both countries have to collaborate to find solutions.
“If we consider San Diego and Tijuana to be one region, we have to face the challenges and opportunities together to do it better.”
Zamarripa also said that in spite of the violence on the Mexico side of the border, there are still strong bonds and important economic exchanges between the U.S. and Mexico.
“The violence is one of the biggest challenges, but up until now, we’ve been able to implement resources to prevent it from hurting economic development or supply chains.”
Zamarripa did admit that larger shopping centers and malls in Tijuana are generating greater competition for similar business in San Diego.
“There has been a reconditioning among Tijuana residents as they now realize they can find many things here while considering time, gas and money spent,” Zamarripa said. “Many items are now more accessible for purchase here in Tijuana.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/border-report-tour/slow-border-crossings-costing-u-s-border-economies-3-4-billion-per-year-says-san-diego-chamber-of-commerce/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:31 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/border-report-tour/slow-border-crossings-costing-u-s-border-economies-3-4-billion-per-year-says-san-diego-chamber-of-commerce/ |
EUGENE, Ore. — After 14 months of waiting for a new media rights deal from the Pac-12 conference, the Colorado Buffaloes decided to pull the plug and rejoin the Big 12 - leaving the Oregon Ducks and eight other schools in a very tenuous position ahead of the upcoming college football season.
The Pac-12 will need to add at least one program to get to 10, but the big issue for commissioner George Kliavkoff is how to keep the nine remaining schools from following Colorado's lead and looking for greener pastures in other conferences.
Locked on Ducks host Spencer McLaughlin addressed Colorado's departure from the Pac-12 on a recent episode, discussing if Oregon could be next on Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark's wish list.
"If I am Brett Yormark, there is no reason to not stay on the hunt," McLaughlin said. "It is a dog eat dog world right now. Hunt or be hunted, and the Big 12 is hunting and the Pac-12 feels like the prey."
The Big 12's addition of Colorado puts them at 13 schools in 2024, and the conference would love to make that an even 14 (or 16) by adding 1-3 more programs.
Ideally for Yormark those additions all come from current Pac-12 schools, a combination that could include Arizona, Arizona State and Utah - called the four corner schools when lumped in with Colorado - or a go for broke and make a pitch to land Oregon, Washington, and Utah and build a 16-team powerhouse.
Oregon is the most appealing brand still remaining in the Pac-12, and the Big 12 is not the only conference expected to show interest with the Big Ten having already 'vetted and approved' both Oregon and Washington as future members - although they aren't planning on extending an invite right away.
Still, it would behoove Yormark and the Big 12 to get working on Oregon right away as another addition to the conference, and it would be hard for AD Rob Mullens and the rest of the Ducks administration to say no considering the uncertainty plaguing the Pac-12 at this time. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/sports/ncaa/colorado-buffs-go-big-12-could-oregon-ducks-be-next-conference-realignment-pac-12/535-33750fa4-1927-4c50-bf65-1cc9e0f0afdf | 2023-07-28T23:03:31 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/sports/ncaa/colorado-buffs-go-big-12-could-oregon-ducks-be-next-conference-realignment-pac-12/535-33750fa4-1927-4c50-bf65-1cc9e0f0afdf |
Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Samuel Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court, making him the first member of the court to take a public stand against proposals in Congress to toughen ethics rules for justices in response to increased scrutiny of their activities beyond the bench.
“I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period,” Alito said in an interview he gave to the Wall Street Journal opinion pages. An account of the interview, which the paper said took place in New York in early July, was published Friday.
Democrats last week pushed Supreme Court ethics legislation through a Senate committee, though the bill’s prospects in the full Senate are dim.
All federal judges other than the justices already adhere to an ethics code that was developed by the federal judiciary. But the Supreme Court’s unique status — it’s the only federal court created by the Constitution — puts it outside the reach of those standards that apply to other federal jurists.
Democrats first sought to address that after ProPublica reported earlier this year that Justice Clarence Thomas participated in lavish vacations and a real estate deal with a top Republican donor — and after Chief Justice John Roberts declined to testify before the committee about the ethics of the court.
Since then, ProPublica also revealed that Alito had taken a luxury vacation in Alaska with a Republican donor who had business interests before the court. The Associated Press reported in early July that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, aided by her staff, has advanced sales of her books through college visits over the past decade.
The 73-year-old Alito, who joined the court in 2006, has rejected the idea that he should have disclosed the Alaska trip or stepped away from cases involving the donor, hedge fund owner Paul Singer. Alito penned his own Wall Street Journal op-ed, which was published hours before ProPublica posted its story.
Alito said that he is unwilling to leave allegations unanswered, though he acknowledged judges and justices typically don’t respond to their critics.
“And so at a certain point I’ve said to myself, nobody else is going to do this, so I have to defend myself,” he said in the newest column.
While no other justice has spoken so definitively about ethics legislation, Roberts has raised questions about Congress’ authority to oversee the high court.
In his year-end report in 2011, Roberts wrote that the justices comply with legislation that requires annual financial disclosures and limits their outside earned income. “The Court has never addressed whether Congress may impose those requirements on the Supreme Court. The Justices nevertheless comply with those provisions,” Roberts wrote.
The justices have so far resisted adopting an ethics code on their own, although Roberts said in May that there is more the court can do to “adhere to the highest standards” of ethical conduct, without providing specifics.
The column is co-written by James Taranto, the paper’s editorial features editor, and David Rivkin, a Washington lawyer. Rivkin represents Leonard Leo, the onetime leader of the conservative legal group The Federalist Society, in his dealings with Senate Democrats who want details of Leo’s dealings with the justices. Leo helped arrange Alito’s trip to Alaska.
Rivkin, in a letter Tuesday to leading Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the request was politically motivated and violates Leo’s constitutional rights. Rivkin also wrote that a congressionally imposed ethics code for the Supreme Court would falter on constitutional grounds. Separately, Rivkin represents a couple whose tax case will be argued before the court in the fall.
Alito talked with the Taranto and Rivkin for four hours in interviews in April and July, they wrote. They published an account of the earlier interview in April. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/justice-alito-says-congress-lacks-the-power-to-impose-an-ethics-code-on-the-supreme-court/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:36 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/justice-alito-says-congress-lacks-the-power-to-impose-an-ethics-code-on-the-supreme-court/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Louisiana State Police are searching for 18 people wanted in a statewide car theft ring. Sixteen suspects have been arrested.
An investigation into “disparities” in Public Tag Agencies and Auto Title Companies transactions in the state was launched in January 2022, according to an LSP news release. Troopers said the total value of cars involved in this case is estimated at over $9.8 million and the estimated tax fraud is more than $300,000.
This ring of suspects is accused of using fake documents to undervalue cars’ actual costs to avoid taxes. According to investigators, some of the cars were previously reported stolen and later found with identifiers changed or hidden.
LSP said thirty-four suspects are accused of using altered or fraudulent documents in transactions with 180 cars.
The 16 arrested and charged with forgery, filing false public records and felony theft were identified as:
- Errean Centeno, 35, of Covington, Louisiana
- Tashia Hubbard, 35, of Willis, Texas
- Willie Tolbert, 30, of Cleveland, Texas
- Kenneth Redding, 46, of Houston, Texas
- Leigha Garner, 33, of Conroe, Texas
- Alaric Cowart, 31, of Houston, Texas
- Raynaldo Hernandez III, 56, of Houston, Texas
- Samuel Thompson, 34, of Conroe, Texas
- Angel Gamino, 20, of Houston, Texas
- Maria Cantu, 40, of Houston Texas
- Shawn Carden, 26, of Humble, Texas
- Amber Archer, 31, of Belleview, Florida
- Tabatha McMullan, 39, of Houston, Texas
- Joshua Gipson, 27, of Humble, Texas
- Jacquez Evans, 34, of Corpus Christi, Texas
- Jacob Hurtado, 25, of Humble Texas
Investigators obtained extradition arrest warrants for 18 suspects wanted in the case.
LSP provided flyers with pictures and information about those still wanted in the case.
An investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact LSP at 337-332-8080 or email LSP.Insurance.Fraud.Unit@la.gov. | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/16-arrested-18-wanted-in-louisiana-car-theft-fraud-case/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:37 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/16-arrested-18-wanted-in-louisiana-car-theft-fraud-case/ |
Renowned Minnesota artist Anne Labovitz joins us on Midwest Access
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 5:53 PM CDT|Updated: 7 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – ‘The Nexus of Well-Being and Art’ is a new exhibit by international artist Anne Labovitz. The Minnesota born artist created an interactive, multi-faceted body of work inspired by the premise that physical, mental and emotional health are essential to true well-being. The exhibit is currently at the Rochester Art Center now until July 30th.
If you would like more information about the exhibit, contact them here.
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Bay Area man fatally stabbed woman and posted video of it on Facebook, police say
SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — A man allegedly stabbed a woman to death in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday and then posted a video of the slaying to Facebook, authorities said.
The footage helped police track down the suspect, who was later identified as 39-year old Mark Mechikoff. He was arrested about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of where the victim was found dead in a San Mateo apartment complex.
“While the motive for stabbing the victim is still under investigation, we do know Mechikoff mercilessly filmed the last moments of the victim’s life and posted the video to Facebook, then fled the area,” San Mateo police said in a statement.
Prosecutors identified the victim as Claribel Estrella. The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office on Friday charged Mechikoff with a single count of murder with enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury and the use of a knife.
He appeared in court but did not enter a plea. His arraignment was postponed for a week while his court-appointed attorney is chosen, District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said in an email.
Mechikoff knew the victim but the extent of their relationship was unclear and the motive was under investigation, the district attorney said.
The stabbing was first reported to the Nye County Sheriff’s Office in Nevada when a caller said she saw video of it on Facebook. The sheriff’s office “pinged” the phone number associated with the Facebook page and traced it to a large San Mateo apartment complex.
It was Mechikoff’s cellphone and his Facebook page and the video apparently has been taken down, the district attorney said.
Officers went door-to-door at the San Mateo apartment complex and found Estrella nearly three hours later inside a unit, authorities said.
Mechikoff was arrested two hours later in San Jose.
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Montana train derailment report renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems
By JOSH FUNK and SAM METZ
Associated Press
The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana. But it would be a big undertaking to install those devices on the more than 23,000 locomotives that the major freight railroads own. Safety expert David Clarke at the University of Tennessee said it’s not clear is these sensors would have caught the flaws investigators believe caused the Montana derailment. But attorney Jeff Goodman is convinced his clients who died in the derailment would have lived if the trains that passed through this area beforehand had been equipped with these sensors. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/montana-train-derailment-report-renews-calls-for-automated-systems-to-detect-track-problems/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:43 | 0 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/montana-train-derailment-report-renews-calls-for-automated-systems-to-detect-track-problems/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — In a press conference held Friday afternoon, the Hoover Police Department announced that Carlee Russell had been charged with filing a false police report and filing a false statement to law enforcement authorities, a Class A misdemeanor.
The Hoover Police Department (HPD) revealed that Carlee had turned herself in Friday to the Hoover City Police and was released on a $2,000 bond – $1,000 per charge.
“Judging from the amount of phone calls and emails that we have received from all over the country, I know that many are shocked and appalled that Miss Russell is only being charged with two misdemeanors, despite all the panic and disruption her actions caused,” Derzis said. “Let me assure you, I, too, share the same frustration, but existing laws only allow the charges that were filed to be filed.”
Derzis said he will be contacting Alabama legislatures and asking them to look at this law and “urge them to add enhancement to current legislation” for when an individual falsely reports kidnapping or a violent crime.
During the press conference, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said HPD have not uncovered anything about her whereabouts during the 49 hours she was missing, and they have not been able to confirm that she acted alone.
“This story opened wounds for families whose loved ones really were victims of kidnappings, some of which even helped organize searches in hopes that they could find Carlee alive so that her family would not experience the pain and suffering that they felt when their loved ones never returned home,” Derzis said.
This press conference comes days after Russell, 25, admitted to lying about being kidnapped earlier this month. Between July 13 and July 15, the Hoover native was missing.
On Monday, July 24, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis addressed the public in what was HPD’s second press conference since Carlee’s disappearance. There, he read a statement from Russell that had been prepared by her attorney, Emory Anthony, where she admitted that she was not adducted the night of July 13 and that she had not seen a child on I-459.
At 9:30 p.m. July 13, Russell called 911 to report that she saw a toddler on the side of I-459 near Exit 10. When police arrived, she was nowhere to be found. This launched a 49-hour search for Carlee that gained nationwide attention. On July 15, Russell was reported by the Hoover police as having safely returned home.
Four days after her return, parents Talitha Robinson-Russell and Carlos Russell went on the “Today” show where they said they believed their daughter had been kidnapped. That same day, HPD had held a press conference where Derzis recounted what Russell had told police happened to her.
During his recounting, Derzis said Russell reported being kidnapped while she was checking on the child; being made to climb a fence; being kept in a tractor-trailer; being recaptured after an attempted escape; being forced to strip naked; and being fed cheese crackers.
Russell’s search history was also combed through, which a search for the movie “Taken,” a question about Amber alerts and how to take money from a register.
Prior to any charges being brought against her, speculations had circulated on how much money it would cost to cover the efforts that were put into the search for Carlee.
Watch the full press conference at 1 p.m. | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/carlee-russell-charged-with-filing-a-false-police-report-following-kidnapping-hoax/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:43 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/carlee-russell-charged-with-filing-a-false-police-report-following-kidnapping-hoax/ |
Boyd County HS hosts Kentucky football media day
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - The summer seasons are winding down, but football season is winding up and a few mountain football teams kicked off the season with media day Friday afternoon.
Boyd County High School hosted the event where teams like the Paintsville Tigers, the Lawrence County Bulldogs, the Martin County Cardinals and other programs took team photos, individual headshots and they enjoyed a media day lunch as well.
One theme from the day was how some teams are sticking to their program’s tradition of running the ball in an era of football that is largely moving away from that style of play.
“The heart of our team is running the ball,” Tate Crum, Martin County senior center, said. “That is really where we excel. I think just a couple of seasons ago, we were top ten in the nation with rushing. We are going to keep that. We are going to keep rushing the ball.”
Other teams, however, are shifting their focus to a more modern style of football by placing a larger emphasis on passing the ball.
“It is just a new wave of football,” Luis Chicko, a senior offensive tackle from Lawrence County, said. “You can only run the ball so much. We have a lot of guys who are athletic enough to go out there and catch it, so this year we are going to spread it out a little bit more and pass the ball.”
The high school football season will kick off on August 15.
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Niger adds to growing list of countries in the Sahel run by the military
By CHINEDU ASADU
Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Mutinuous soldiers in Niger have overthrown the nation’s democratically elected government, adding it to a growing list of countries in West Africa’s Sahel region where military regimes rule. The coup by soldiers from the presidential guards follows the same pattern in other countries in the region where the coup leaders have accused the governments of failing the citizens, from Mali to Burkina Faso and Sudan. Analysts now fear that the trend of military takeovers further threatens the stability of a region that faces growing violence from Islamic extremists, which in turn has caused people to turn against elected governments. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/niger-adds-to-growing-list-of-countries-in-the-sahel-run-by-the-military/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:49 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/niger-adds-to-growing-list-of-countries-in-the-sahel-run-by-the-military/ |
DENVER (KDVR) — A Colorado woman accused of violating a custody order and taking her four children out of foster care was arrested in Houston, but the children remain missing and may be with their father.
Investigators say Clarissa Gardette and Howard Myles picked up their four children from court-ordered fostered care on June 30. They were supposed to return them on July 2, but they never showed up. Gardette was allowed supervised visits only.
Gardette was tracked down on July 21 and taken into custody at a Houston hotel, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. She is being held at the Harris County Jail on multiple warrants, including:
- Contempt of court
- Violation of child custody
- Failure to appear
She awaits extradition back to Colorado.
4 missing children believed to be out of state
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered missing alert for the four children. Law enforcement believes the children are in imminent danger because of prior situations the parents have put them in, including neglect, abuse, drugs, domestic violence, weapons and other unstable environments.
The sheriff’s office believes Myles and the children may be in Houston or Baton Rouge, as that is where both Myles and Gardette have family.
The four children are all under the age of 10 and are described as Black with black or brown hair:
- 9-year-old Jyron Gardette: 4 feet, 1 inch tall – weighs 60 pounds
- 7-year-old Heaven Myles: 3 feet, 10 inches tall – weighs 52 pounds
- 6-year-old Jehoward Gardette: 3 feet, 5 inches tall – weighs 45 pounds
- 4-year-old Israel Gardette: 3 feet, 2 inches tall – weighs 45 pounds
Myles, 47, is described as a 5-foot-10-inch Black man who weighs 170 pounds, with black or brown dreadlocks.
The sheriff’s office believes Myles may be driving Gardette’s gold 2005 Honda Pilot or could be in a 2004-2008 gold Pontiac Grand Prix with a sunroof and black wheels.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Myles or the children is asked to call the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Tip Line at 720-874-8477. Tipsters can remain anonymous and call the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867 and be eligible for a cash reward. | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/woman-accused-of-kidnapping-arrested-in-texas-children-still-missing/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:49 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/woman-accused-of-kidnapping-arrested-in-texas-children-still-missing/ |
Chris Stapleton surprises girl with a rare backstage meet and greet
(Circle) - Chris Stapleton made a little girl’s dream come true over the weekend.
Stapleton’s 2023 All-American Road Show has kept him on the go, performing night after night, but amongst all the shows, one truly stood out.
At his July 14 concert at the Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a heartwarming moment unfolded when a young fan named Lily held up a sign that read, “Will you take a picture with me?”
The simple question seemed to really catch Stapleton’s attention because the girl and her family were escorted backstage after the concert, where they patiently waited for Stapleton and his wife, Morgane, to join them.
In the TikTok video, Morgane asks the young fan if she created the sign. She nods and replies, “Yes,” proudly holding out a guitar pick she had received during the concert before the meet-and-greet.
“Well. We saw your sign, and we said, We’ve gotta do that,” Morgane added.
The fan’s successful meet and greet with Stapleton came as a surprise to many, given his reputation as a private person. He is well-known for his low-key status, rarely participating in interviews, let alone participating in meet and greets.
Stapleton also surprised some fans recently by announcing to the world that he will be releasing his 5th studio album, titled “Higher.”
The upcoming album will mark his first studio release since 2020 when he dropped his fourth studio album, “Starting Over,” which won him a Grammy for Best Country Album.
Originally appeared on Circle All Access. https://www.circleallaccess.com/
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Paperwork problems drive surge in people losing Medicaid health coverage
By DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press
JEFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The nation’s top health official implored states to do more to keep lower-income residents enrolled in Medicaid, as the Biden administration released figures Friday confirming that many who had health coverage during the coronavirus pandemic are now losing it.
Though a decline in Medicaid coverage was expected, health officials are raising concerns about the large numbers of people being dropped from the rolls for failing to return forms or follow procedures.
In 18 states that began a post-pandemic review of their Medicaid rolls in April, health coverage was continued for about 1 million recipients and terminated for 715,000. Of those dropped, 4 in 5 were for procedural reasons, according to newly released data from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra sent a letter Friday to all governors encouraging them to bolster efforts to retain people on Medicaid. He particularly encouraged them to use electronic information from other federal programs, such as food stamps, to automatically confirm people’s eligibility for Medicaid. That would avert the need to mail and return documents.
“I am deeply concerned about high rates of procedural terminations due to ‘red tape’ and other paperwork issues,” Becerra told governors.
During the pandemic, states were prohibited from ending people’s Medicaid coverage. As a result, Medicaid enrollment swelled by nearly one-third, from 71 million people in February 2020 to 93 million in February 2023. The prohibition on trimming rolls ended in April, and states now have resumed annual eligibility redeterminations that had been required before the pandemic.
The new federal data captures only the first month of state Medicaid reviews from states that acted the most expeditiously. Since then, additional states also have submitted reports on those renewed and dropped from Medicaid in May and June.
Though the federal government hasn’t released data from the most recent reports, information gathered by The Associated Press and health care advocacy groups show that about 3.7 million people already have lost Medicaid coverage. That includes about 500,000 in Texas, around 400,000 in Florida and 225,000 in California. Of those who lost coverage, 89% were for procedural reasons in California, 81% in Texas and 59% in Florida, according to the AP’s data.
Many of those people may have still been eligible for Medicaid, “but they’re caught in a bureaucratic nightmare of confusing forms, notices sent to wrong addresses and other errors,” said Michelle Levander, founding director of the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California,
Top CMS officials said they have worked with several states to pause Medicaid removals and improve procedures for determining eligibility.
South Carolina, for example, reported renewing Medicaid coverage for about 27,000 people in May while removing 118,000. Of those dropped, 95% were for procedural reasons. In a recent report to the federal government, South Carolina said it removed no one from Medicaid in June because it extended the eligibility renewal deadline from 60 days to 90 days.
Michigan reported renewing more than 103,000 Medicaid recipients in June and removing just 12,000. It told the federal government that the state opted to delay terminations for those who failed to respond to renewal requests while instead making additional outreach attempts. As a result, the state reported more than 100,000 people whose June eligibility cases remained incomplete.
People who are dropped from Medicaid can regain coverage retroactively if they submit information within 90 days proving their eligibility. But some advocacy groups say that still poses a challenge.
“State government is not necessarily nimble,” said Keesa Smith, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. “When individuals are being disenrolled, the biggest concern … is that there is not a fast track to get those individuals back on the rolls.”
Arkansas officials have been at the forefront of defending Medicaid cuts. They contend that many people likely don’t return forms because they no longer need Medicaid.
People are “transitioning off of Medicaid” because “they are working, making more money, and have access to health care through their employers or the federal marketplace,” Arkansas Medicaid Director Janet Mann said earlier this month. “This should be celebrated, not criticized.”
Insurance companies that run Medicaid programs for states said they are trying to reduce procedural terminations and enroll people in new plans.
The Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer Elevance Health lost 130,000 Medicaid customers during the recently completed second quarter, as Medicaid eligibility redeterminations began. Chief Financial Officer John Gallina said earlier this month that many people lost Medicaid coverage for administrative reasons but are likely to reenroll in the near future.
Leaders of the insurer Molina Healthcare told analysts Thursday that the company lost about 93,000 Medicaid customers in the recently completed second quarter, mostly due to eligibility redeterminations. Molina officials said they are trying to switch people who no longer qualify for Medicaid to one of the individual insurance plans they sell through state-based marketplaces.
Federal data for April indicates that some states did a better job than others at handling a crush of questions from people about their Medicaid coverage.
In 19 states and the District of Columbia, the average Medicaid call center wait time was 1 minute or less in April. But in Idaho, the average caller to the state’s Medicaid help line waited 51 minutes. In Missouri, the average wait was 44 minutes, and in Florida 40 minutes.
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Associated Press writer Tom Murphy in Indianapolis contributed to this report. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/paperwork-problems-drive-surge-in-people-losing-medicaid-health-coverage-2/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:55 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/paperwork-problems-drive-surge-in-people-losing-medicaid-health-coverage-2/ |
President Biden will host the leaders of South Korea and Japan at Camp David next month, in a summit aimed at showing solidarity among Indo-Pacific countries in the face of threats from North Korea, the People’s Republic of China and fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at Camp David on August 18, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday.
The summit will focus on expanding cooperation in the region, including to counter threats from North Korea related to its ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons program, the statement read, and to strengthen ties with Southeast Asian Nations and the Pacific islands.
“The summit will advance a shared trilateral vision for addressing global and regional security challenges, promoting a rules-based international order, and bolstering economic prosperity,” Jean-Pierre said.
Biden has placed a priority on deepening ties with Japan and South Korea, in particular, as key defense partners guarding against North Korea’s nuclear threats, China’s ambitions in the region, and as part of a democratic coalition supporting Ukraine.
The Camp David summit follows North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un hosting Chinese and Russian delegations in Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the armistice with South Korea that froze the Korean War.
Yet Japan and South Korea are not easy partners for each other. The two Pacific countries have worked to ease tensions, with support by the U.S., and to overcome historic grievances stemming from Japan’s occupation of the peninsula in the early 20th century.
In March, Kishida and Yoon held the first bilateral summit between the two nations in over a decade. But experts have cautioned against calling it a breakthrough, warning that Korean public opinion views the Japanese as not going far enough in addressing crimes committed during the occupation.
Still, the Biden administration has put intense efforts in increasing and encouraging cooperation between Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.
Biden hosted Yoon for a State visit in April and the two countries signed the “Washington Declaration,” that brought South Korea under the protection of America’s nuclear-weapons umbrella, aimed at deterring North Korea from ever using a nuclear weapon.
Biden met with Kishida in Washington in January and as members of the Group of 7 nations, have worked closely together to support Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia.
During the G7 leaders summit hosted in Hiroshima in May, the joint communique also included a reference to maintaining “peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” a reference to concerns that China is building up its military to carry out an invasion or enact a blockade around the island.
The U.S. has welcomed Japan’s commitment to increase its defense spending over the next five years for an estimated total $318 billion. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/biden-seeks-to-deepen-ties-with-south-korea-and-japan-with-camp-david-summit/ | 2023-07-28T23:03:55 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/biden-seeks-to-deepen-ties-with-south-korea-and-japan-with-camp-david-summit/ |
Donald Trump appeals judge’s decision to keep hush-money case in New York state court
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court Friday to reverse a federal judge’s decision to keep his hush-money criminal case in a New York state court that the former president claims is “very unfair” to him.
Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan after U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein last week rejected his bid to move the case to federal court, where his lawyers were primed to argue he was immune from prosecution.
U.S. law allows criminal prosecutions to be moved from state to federal court if they involve actions taken by federal government officials as part of their official duties, but Hellerstein ruled that the hush-money case involved a personal matter, not presidential duties.
Trump’s appeal notice came at the end of another busy week of legal action for the twice-indicted Republican as he seeks a return to the White House in next year’s election. On Thursday, he was indicted on new criminal charges in a separate case in federal court in Florida involving allegations that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the hush-money case and fought to keep it in state court, declined to comment on Trump’s appeal.
Trump pleaded not guilty April 4 in state court to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide reimbursements made to his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen for his role in paying $130,000 to the porn actor Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.
Cohen also arranged for the National Enquirer to pay Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her story about an alleged affair, which the supermarket tabloid then squelched in a dubious journalism practice known as “catch-and-kill.”
Trump denied having sexual encounters with either woman. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses and not part of any cover-up.
He is scheduled to stand trial in state court on March 25, 2024. In the meantime, his lawyers have asked the state court judge presiding over the case, Juan Manuel Merchan, to step aside, arguing that he’s biased in part because his daughter does political consulting work for some of Trump’s Democratic rivals. Trump has referred to Merchan as “a Trump-hating judge” with a family full of “Trump haters.” The judge has yet to rule on the request.
In seeking to try the hush-money case tried in federal court, Trump’s lawyers have argued that some of his alleged conduct amounted to official presidential duties because it occurred in 2017 while he was president, including checks he purportedly wrote while sitting in the Oval Office.
Moving the case from state court to federal court would have significant legal and practical consequences for Trump. In federal court, for example, his lawyers could then try to get the charges dismissed on the grounds that federal officials have immunity from prosecution over actions taken as part of their official job duties.
A shift to federal court would also mean a more politically diverse jury pool — drawing not only from heavily Democratic Manhattan, where Trump is wildly unpopular, but also from suburban counties north of the city where he has more political support.
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Roller coaster with big crack has a second structural issue, inspectors say
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Another structural issue has been located with a large roller coaster that’s been closed for weeks since a large crack in a support column was discovered, a North Carolina agency confirmed on Friday.
A Swiss-based engineering company that designed and built the Fury 325 roller coaster at Carowinds, which sits along the North Carolina-South Carolina border, replaced that steel support column earlier this month, news outlets reported.
But the North Carolina Department of Labor, which inspects the ride and decides whether it can operate, said in an email that the agency has now been notified of a separate “weld indication,” which “could be either a break or a crack.”
“No certificate of operation has been issued nor do we have a timeline of when the certificate of operation will be issued for the Fury 325,” department spokesperson Meredith Watson said, referring other questions to Carowinds.
In a statement released Friday, Carowinds said it was conducting a full maintenance review of the ride while test runs are performed.
“During such reviews, it is not uncommon to discover slight weld indications in various locations of a steel superstructure. It is important to note that these indications do not compromise the structural integrity or safety of the ride,” the statement reads. “Once a repair is completed, it undergoes inspection and approval before the ride is deemed operational.”
Park staff closed Fury 325 on June 30 after a visitor pointed out the sizable crack. State Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson said earlier this month that the crack had been visible for at least a week before it was shut down.
Video of the coaster, which reaches 325 feet (99 meters) in height, had showed a key support beam bending with the top visibly detached as cars with passengers barreled by. The roller coaster runs at speeds of up to 95 mph (150 kph).
The department’s Elevator and Amusement Device Bureau said it had conducted its annual inspection of Fury 325 in February and only found a few signage issues, which the park quickly corrected.
Inspections by the park, the engineering company, a third-party testing firm and the Department of Labor have been ongoing. Carowinds has said it’s changing how it inspects rides daily, including the use of drone cameras to examine areas.
While the park straddles the border between the two states, North Carolina regulators inspect Fury 325 because its nearby entrance is in North Carolina. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/roller-coaster-with-big-crack-has-a-second-structural-issue-inspectors-say/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:01 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/roller-coaster-with-big-crack-has-a-second-structural-issue-inspectors-say/ |
The Department of Labor is cracking down on child labor violations even as multiple states have taken steps to loosen regulations around teenagers in the workplace.
At least 11 states have recently sought to make it easier to get minors in the workforce, including this year both Arkansas and Iowa, the latter of which moved to allow teenagers to work in meat packing facilities and for those as young as 16 to bartend.
Proponents say the changes will help young workers acquire valuable life skills and that parents should be the ones to decide when their kids are ready for a particular job.
But child advocates fear putting teenagers into increasingly dangerous work environments that are difficult to regulate and vulnerable to exploitation.
And on Thursday, the Department of Labor and its Interagency Task Force to Combat Child Labor Exploitation announced new actions it will take after it found that child labor violations have risen 69 percent between 2018 and last year.
“Child labor is an issue that gets to the heart of who we are as a country and who we want to be. Like the President, we believe that any child working in a dangerous or hazardous environment is one child too many,” acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su said.
State efforts to change child labor laws come amid a tight labor market and a workers shortage.
“A lot of the legislators are citing that as a reason for weakening protections against child labor,” said Reid Maki, director of child labor advocacy for the National Consumers League and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition. “We don’t think that’s a valid reason. We really don’t understand why you would want to balance the labor shortage against the backs of our vulnerable teen workers.”
In May, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a bill to expand the number of hours and places a teenager can work, allowing 14- and 15-year-olds to work in industrial areas such as meat coolers.
“With this legislation, Iowa joins 20 other states in providing tailored, common sense labor provisions that allow young adults to develop their skills in the workforce,” Reynolds said after signing the law.
“In Iowa, we understand there is dignity in work and we pride ourselves on our strong work ethic. Instilling those values in the next generation and providing opportunities for young adults to earn and save to build a better life should be available,” she added.
In Arkansas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) in March signed the Youth Hiring Act of 2023, doing away with the requirement that children under the of age 16 must get permission from the state government to work.
Nick Stehle, vice president of communications for the Foundation for Government Accountability, a group that led the push for reform in Arkansas, stressed the importance working young can make on a person’s life.
“Keeping a schedule and having to collaborate with other people, having to work with other people and discovering your skills and shortcomings while you’re still you’re still very young, those are just all lessons that not only complement what you’re learning in the classroom, they add some real world context to it,” Stehle said.
Stehle emphasized all the reforms his group supported were in line with federal child labor laws.
“There’s been allegations that this is about making it so that teenagers can work in dangerous jobs or that they can work really late at night, stuff like that. And none of that is true,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Labor Department says it concluded 765 child labor cases between Oct. 1 and July 20. finding 4,474 children were employed in violation of federal standards.
Federal investigators found one instance in which the owner of six Nevada Sonic locations had committed more than 170 child labor violations, including employing 14- and 15-year-olds to operate deep fryers, work more hours than allowed and work at hours not allowed under federal guidelines.
In one tragic case that made national headlines earlier this month, a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala was killed in an on-the-job accident at a Mississippi poultry plant. Workers under the age of 18 are not allowed in such facilities for safety reasons, and the Labor Department said at the time that it is investigating.
The department plans to partner with other government offices such as the Office of Refugee Resettlement to give training on how to identify and report instances of child labor violations and update their guidelines.
It is also teaming up with the Department of Agriculture to demand that the country’s 18 largest meat and poultry processors take steps to find out if illegal child labor is used anywhere in their supply chain in order to combat exploitive practices.
One of the causes experts say is behind the increase in child labor violations is the uptick in unaccompanied minors coming into the U.S.
“These are very vulnerable young people that need money and they may — they may be sending money back to family and Central America and Mexico. So they have a desperate need for money,” said Maki of the Child Labor Coalition.
A New York Times investigation earlier this year showed migrant children, some as young as 13, at the brunt of work that violates federal standards.
In response, the U.S. will be working with the embassies of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico to take steps to combat child labor and educate migrants on the problem.
The increase in child labor violations combined with the changes to state laws have concerned advocates who are afraid the problem will only get worse.
“Our child labor laws are very common sense laws that really serve two purposes. They make sure children are not working in highly dangerous and hazardous jobs and that the work they do does not interfere with their development and their schooling,” said Laura Padin, director of work structures at the National Employment Law Project.
“These laws serve a really important purpose. It’s really disturbing to see this happening now,” Padin added.
Experts contend the new laws will harm poor children, children of color and undocumented children who would take these jobs out of necessity to survive.
“They’re seeking to expand employment to workers that can be paid less in order to keep wages low and still maintain the same levels of employment,” said Nina Mast, a state economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute. “At the same time, you also have our broken immigration system that has resulted in many unaccompanied migrant youth in this country without work authorization and sort of compelled by their economic circumstances to work. And that’s really a recipe for exploitation because they lack sort of the legal rights and support to demand safe and age-appropriate work.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/dol-cracks-down-on-child-labor-while-states-loosen-laws/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:03 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/dol-cracks-down-on-child-labor-while-states-loosen-laws/ |
‘Horrible conditions’: Nearly 30 dogs found dead in freezers; dog rescue owner charged
HAMILTON, Ohio (Gray News) - The owner of a dog rescue in Ohio is facing multiple charges after deputies found animals in unlivable conditions.
Authorities said deputy dog wardens were called to two properties in Butler County regarding a complaint this week.
The team found at least 30 deceased dogs on the properties along with about 90 living animals in “the most horrible conditions they have ever seen.”
According to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office, Rhonda Murphy, the owner of the properties, was operating a rescue under the name Helping Hands for Furry Paws.
When deputies and investigators searched the structures, multiple dogs’ bodies were found in refrigerators and freezers, with some of the coolers not working.
Other deceased canines were also found on the property, including puppies.
According to investigators, a garage housed about 25 living dogs, but they were kept in cages, some together, with no air conditioning or ventilation in the room. Temperatures were measured to be about 89 degrees inside.
Numerous animals were found without access to food or water, including a mother dog and her eight puppies.
Deputies said the odor was so strong that it burned their eyes and took away their breath as they checked the property.
Additionally, 11 more dogs were found in the main house living in the same deplorable conditions as others found on the property.
“Conditions were so horrendous that dog wardens had to leave the structure numerous times to catch their breath,” the sheriff’s office said.
All dogs were seized from the properties.
Authorities said Murphy is facing dozens of misdemeanor and felony charges that include neglect and cruelty to animals.
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Trucking company Yellow Corp. is reportedly preparing for bankruptcy. Here’s what you need to know
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The fate of U.S. trucking company Yellow Corp. isn’t looking good.
After years of financial struggles, Yellow is reportedly preparing for bankruptcy and seeing customers leave in large numbers — heightening risk for future liquidation. While no official decision has been announced by the company, the prospect of bankruptcy has renewed attention around Yellow’s ongoing negotiations with unionized workers, a $700 million pandemic-era loan from the government and other bills the trucker has racked up over time.
Yellow, formerly known as YRC Worldwide Inc., is one of the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers. The Nashville, Tennessee-based company has some 30,000 employees across the country.
Here’s what you need to know.
IS YELLOW FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY?
Not yet. But industry experts suspect that a bankruptcy filing could come any day now.
People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the company could seek bankruptcy protection as soon as this week — with some noting that a significant amount of customers have already started to leave the carrier.
Meanwhile, according to FreightWaves, employees were told to expect the filing Monday. Yellow laid off an unknown number of employees Friday, the outlet later reported, citing a memo that stated the company was “shutting down its regular operations.”
According to Satish Jindel, president of transportation and logistics firm SJ Consulting, Yellow handled an average of 49,000 shipments per day in 2022. As of this week, he estimates that number is down to between 10,000 and 15,000 daily shipments.
With customers leaving — as well reports of Yellow stopping freight pickups earlier this week — bankruptcy would “be the end of Yellow,” Jindel told The Associated Press, noting increased risk for liquidation.
“The likelihood of them surviving and remaining solvent diminishes really by the day,” added Bruce Chan, a research director at investment banking firm Stifel.
Yellow media contacts did not immediately respond to the Associated Press’ requests for comment on Friday. In a Wednesday statement to The Journal, the company said it was continuing “to prepare for a range of contingencies.” On Thursday, Yellow said it was in talks with multiple parties about selling its third-party logistics organization.
Even if Yellow was able to sell its logistics firm, it would “not generate a sufficient amount of cash to keep them operational on any sort of permanent basis,” Chan said. “Without a major equity injection, it would be very difficult for them to survive.”
HOW MUCH DEBT DOES YELLOW HAVE?
As of late March, Yellow had an outstanding debt of about $1.5 billion. Of that, $729.2 million was owed to the federal government.
In 2020, under the Trump administration, the Treasury Department granted the company a $700 million pandemic-era loan on national security grounds. Last month, a congressional probe concluded that the Treasury and Defense Departments “made missteps” in this decision — and noted that Yellow’s “precarious financial position at the time of the loan, and continued struggles, expose taxpayers to a significant risk of loss.”
The government loan is due in September 2024. As of March, Yellow had made $54.8 million in interest payments and repaid just $230 million of the principal owed, according to government documents.
Yellow’s current finances and prospect of bankruptcy “is probably two decades in the making,” Chan said, pointing to poor management and strategic decisions dating back to the early 2000s. “At this point, after each party has bailed them out so many times, there is a limited appetite to do that anymore.”
In May, Yellow reported a loss of $54.6 million, a decline of $1.06 per share, for its first quarter of 2023. Operating revenue was about $1.16 billion in the period.
A Wednesday investors note from financial service firm Stephens estimated that Yellow could be burning between $9 million and $10 million each day. Using a liquidity disclosure from earlier this month, Yellow had roughly $100 million in cash at the end of June, the note added — estimating that the company has been burning through increasing amounts of money through July.
“It is reasonable to believe that the Company could breach its $35 mil. liquidity requirement at any moment,” Stephens analyst Jack Atkins and associate Grant Smith wrote.
DID THE COMPANY JUST AVERT A STRIKE?
The reports of bankruptcy preparations arrive just days after a strike from the Teamsters, which represents Yellow’s 22,000 unionized workers, was averted.
A series of heated exchanges have built up between the Teamsters and Yellow, who sued the union in June after alleging it was “unjustifiably blocking” restructuring plans needed for the company’s survival. The Teamsters called the litigation “baseless” — with general president Sean O’Brien pointing to Yellow’s “decades of gross mismanagement,” which included exhausting the $700 million federal loan.
On Sunday, a pension fund agreed to extend health benefits for workers at two Yellow Corp. operating companies, averting a strike — and giving Yellow “30 days to pay its bills,” notably $50 million that Yellow failed to pay the Central States Health and Welfare Fund on July 15, the union said. While the strike didn’t occur, talks of a walkout may have caused some Yellow customers to pull back, Chan said.
Talks between Yellow and the Teamsters, which also represents UPS’s unionized workers, are ongoing. The current contract expires in March 2024.
“The financial struggles of Yellow are not related to the union and the contracts,” Jindel said, pointing to management’s responsibility around its services and prices. He added the union wages from Yellow are “lower than any competitor.”
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YELLOW WENT UNDER?
If Yellow files for bankruptcy and customers continue to take their shipments to other carriers, like FedEx or ABF Freight, prices will go up.
Yellow’s prices have historically been the cheapest compared to other carriers, Jindel said. “That’s why they obviously were not making money,” he added. “And while there is capacity with the other LTL carriers to handle the diversions from Yellow, it will come at a high price for (current shippers and customers) of Yellow.”
Chan adds that we’re in an interesting time for the LTL marketplace — noting that, if Yellow declares bankruptcy and liquidates, “the freight would find a home” with other carriers, which may not have been true in recent years.
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High home prices are straining the budgets of first-time homebuyers as the ongoing housing shortage pushed the cost of starter homes to a record high, according to a report.
The sale price of a typical starter home reached $243,000 in June, up 2.1 percent from a year ago and 45 percent above pre-pandemic levels, the report from real estate brokerage Redfin showed.
A first-time buyer needs to earn $64,500 annually to afford a home at this price point, a 13 percent increase from last year. San Francisco, Austin and Phoenix are the only metros analyzed by Redfin where buyers can earn less than last year and afford a starter home.
But buyers in Miami need 25 percent more income than last year to afford starter homes priced at $300,000.
“Buyers searching for starter homes in today’s market are on a wild goose chase because in many parts of the country, there’s no such thing as a starter home anymore,” Redfin senior economist Sheharyar Bokhari said in a statement, adding that high housing costs and stubbornly high mortgage rates continue to push potential buyers to the sidelines.
“People who are already homeowners are sitting pretty, comparatively, because most of them have benefited from home values soaring over the last few years,” Bokhari continued. “That could lead to the wealth gap in this country becoming even more drastic.”
Home prices are up again in parts of the country following a cooling period brought on by the Federal Reserve’s effort to slow the pace of inflation by raising interest rates.
Low inventory continues to drive prices and the lack of options moved up the median cost of a home to more than $400,000 for only the third time on record, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
And Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the housing market has “a ways to go” before it reaches a balance and prices cool.
Separate market data shows demand is still rising as pending home sales — a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings — increased for the first time since February.
“The recovery has not taken place, but the housing recession is over,” NAR’s Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. “The presence of multiple offers implies that housing demand is not being satisfied due to lack of supply. Homebuilders are ramping up production and hiring workers.”
And Yun added that inflation data showing further signs of cooling bode well for mortgage rates that have constrained affordability for more than a year.
“With consumer price inflation calming close to the Federal Reserve’s desired conditions, mortgage rates look to have topped out,” Yun said. “Given the ongoing job additions, any meaningful decline in mortgage rates could lead to a rush of buyers later in the year and into the next.”
NAR is projecting that the 30-year fixed rate mortgage will dip to 6.4 percent this year and decline to 6 percent in 2024. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/first-time-buyers-need-13-more-in-earnings-to-afford-todays-high-priced-starter-homes/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:10 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/first-time-buyers-need-13-more-in-earnings-to-afford-todays-high-priced-starter-homes/ |
Reed Sheppard and UK Men’s Basketball start weekend autograph tour in Somerset for flood charity
SOMERSET, Ky. (WYMT) - Former North Laurel star Reed Sheppard and other members of the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team started their La Familia autograph tour in Somerset.
London’s very own Reed Sheppard returned to the mountains along with a few teammates to kick off the first stop of the La Familia autograph tour at the Kroger Marketplace in Somerset on Friday.
Tickets for autographs are selling for $60 at each location, with a portion of the proceeds and all sponsor money going to the Mayfield Flood Relief Mission.
The tour will continue throughout the weekend with players at Kroger locations in Louisville and Shelbyville on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. Then, the tour will finish with Lexington and Versailles on Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Variety revises article on former CNN chief Jeff Zucker that was sharply criticized
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The entertainment publication Variety, under fire this week for an article it published about former CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s interest in his old employer, revised the piece on Friday to reflect some of the complaints about it.
None of its changes affected what was written about Zucker, however. He has called for the story to be retracted.
The article by Tatiana Siegel, which initially ran online Tuesday, depicted Zucker as badmouthing his successor at CNN, Chris Licht, while simultaneously trying to buy the news organization that fired him in early 2021. Licht’s unsuccessful run atop the struggling news network ended with his firing in May.
The dispute also points to the dangers inherent in the use of confidential sources by journalists. There are at least a dozen claims made in the story that Variety did not attribute to a named source that were denied on the record, either in the story or after publication, leaving it up to readers to decide who to believe.
“There used to be a time when Variety held its content and its reporters to a high standard of truth and facts in journalism, but those days are clearly over,” said Risa Heller, a spokeswoman for Zucker. “It is stunning to read a piece that is so patently and aggressively false. On numerous occasions, we made it clear to the reporter and her editors that they were planning to publish countless anecdotes and alleged incidents that never happened. They did so anyway. The piece is a total joke.”
Variety’s co-editor-in-chiefs, Cynthia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh, said in a statement Friday that they have been carefully following the conversation about the story.
“The story was heavily vetted and deeply sourced,” they said. “Everyone included in the story was asked to comment and given the chance to respond. We stand by our reporting and our award-winning reporter.”
The piece is also critical of two reporters who have covered CNN, Tim Alberta of The Atlantic and Dylan Byers of Puck. Both of those news organizations complained of inaccuracies and, in the changes made on Friday, Variety added their specific denials.
Zucker’s team hasn’t sought to hide ill feelings toward Licht, but strongly denied he has tried to buy CNN.
The story begins with an anecdote about Zucker, “with tears in his eyes,” approaching David Zaslav in Miami Beach in March. Zaslav is CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, current owners of CNN, and Variety said Zucker complained that Licht was unfairly maligning him in the press. Zaslav wanted to know if Zucker was trying to assemble investors to buy CNN.
Byers, writing for Puck, said “multiple sources” said no such run-in at the Faena Hotel ever took place and Zucker’s spokeswoman said that anecdote wasn’t checked with them.
The story outlines several specific efforts made by Zucker, or on his behalf, to convince investors to join him in buying CNN. The story includes his denials: “Any allegation or insinuation that Jeff has made any effort to purchase CNN is unequivocally false,” Heller said. Zucker is now head of a private equity firm, RedBird IMI.
At one point, Variety also floated the theory that a secret group of investors was using Zucker’s name without his knowledge to approach Warner Bros. Discovery about buying CNN.
In a June 4 article, The New York Times reported that Zucker was not in talks to buy CNN, although “he has told some associates he would be interested in acquiring the network” if it came up for sale one day, the newspaper said.
The Variety article “struck me as utterly implausible and sophomoric,” Byers wrote for Puck this week.
Variety’s piece called Byers “a former Zucker disciple at CNN who, by his own admission, wrote about Licht incessantly and even took a victory lap after his exit.” The piece described Byers as a writer of “Zucker fan fiction” and criticized him for a conflict of interest in not disclosing in any of his articles that Zucker once had discussions about funding Puck, an online subscription news service.
In its revision on Friday, Variety quoted Puck’s co-founder, Jon Kelly, saying the discussions with RedBird were not disclosed by Byers because “Dylan was intentionally unaware of them.”
For The Atlantic, Alberta wrote a widely-read story that seen by many as being instrumental in Licht’s dismissal by Zaslav. Variety was critical of Alberta, and accused the reporter of using material in his story that he had agreed to keep off the record — a serious charge of malfeasance against a journalist.
As with Byers, Variety didn’t change what it had written about Alberta. But it added a paragraph to its story using some of what Alberta had written on social media, including a denial that he had used off-the-record material, and disputing Variety’s claim of how many times he had met with Licht while reporting the story.
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A trove of economic data released Friday provides the latest evidence that price pressures are easing across the U.S. economy.
The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index rose 3 percent from June 2022 to June 2023, down from a 3.8 percent annual increase in May, the Commerce Department announced.
Core PCE, which excludes more volatile food and energy costs, cooled from 4.6 percent year-over-year in May to 4.1 percent in June.
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“Today’s PCE, the [Federal Reserve] preferred measure of inflation, came in softer than expected to top off a full week chock full of economic data that all points to a higher probability of a soft landing,” said Gina Bolvin, president of Bolvin Wealth Management Group.
U.S. labor costs also rose 1 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2023, slightly down from a 1.2 percent increase the previous quarter, according to new employment cost index (ECI) data released by the Department of Labor Friday.
Total compensation for civilian and private industry workers was up 4.5 percent over the past year, a step down from 4.8 percent annual rate reported at the end of the first quarter. State and local government workers’ compensation stayed steady at 4.9 percent annually at the end of the first and second quarters.
Fed officials were privately divided despite unanimous vote to pause rate hikes
As the Fed weighs whether to raise interest rates again at its September meeting, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday it would be watching a number of indicators, including PCE and employment cost data.
“People are getting hired, many people are going back to work, getting wages, spending money, and that’s really what’s driving the economy, but that is gradually slowing,” Powell said Wednesday. “That’s a good prescription for getting where we want to get.”
The Fed raised interest rates again Wednesday to their highest level in 22 years — its 11th increase since March 2022 — as it aims to bring inflation down to the target rate of 2 percent.
Inflation, which peaked at 9.1 percent year-over-year last June, cooled to 3 percent according to the June 2023 consumer price index (CPI) released by the Labor Department earlier this month.
Powell told reporters Wednesday that while the June CPI data was a welcome sign, it was just one report for one month and indicated he’s not ready to change course just yet.
“Inflation has moderated somewhat since the middle of last year. Nonetheless, the process of getting inflation back down to 2 percent has a long way to go,” Powell said. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/inflation-is-ebbing-and-compensation-is-rising-new-economic-data-shows/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:16 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/inflation-is-ebbing-and-compensation-is-rising-new-economic-data-shows/ |
Healthy snacking company That's it. aims to simplify back-to-school nutrition with curated shopping lists
LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The new school year is approaching, and with it, parents are preparing for the accompanying stress of the back-to-school season. Amongst the biggest stressors for parents of school-aged children? Managing after school activities (24%), followed by finding healthy snack options (23%) and packing lunches / food prep (20%)1.
With 43% of parents' top stressors coming in as nutrition-related, That's it. has partnered with childhood nutrition expert Rachel Rothman, MS, RD, CLEC to take the guesswork out of shopping for healthy back-to-school snacks by creating two curated snack shopping lists for Target and Walmart. (Seventy percent of parents indicated that they will do the majority of their back-to-school shopping at one of these two retail giants2.)
"The best part about these snacks is the variety of ingredients and nutrients," said Rothman. "They all contain key nutrients, and are made from whole foods, without the use of flavors or additives. These snacks are all shelf-stable and can be eaten as a quick, nutritious snack, or as part of a more diverse meal to keep your kids fed as the weather cools off and fall schedules heat back up."
Keep reading for Rothman's hand-selected healthy picks:
Target:
- That's it. Mango & Blueberry Mini Fruit Bars
- Whisps Cheese Crisps
- Chomps Snack Sticks
- Simple Mills Crackers
- Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame
Walmart:
- That's it. Apple + Strawberry Mini Fruit Bars
- Terra Sweet Potato Chips
- Kars Nuts Second Nature Wholesome Medley Trail Mix
- BOOMCHICKAPOP Sea Salt Popcorn
- Wild Planet Wild Albacore Tuna pouches
That's it. Mini Fruit Bars are made from two ingredients: Fruit + fruit. These shelf-stable Mini Fruit Bars contain no juices, purees, concentrates or added sugars, and are all-natural, gluten-free, non-GMO, and free from all top food allergens – making them the perfect back-to-school snack for the whole family.
About That's it.
That's it. makes delicious, convenient, plant-based super snacks from only the purest ingredients, and completely free from the top 12 allergens. Since 2012, it has been innovating the natural foods category in the United States with its portfolio of simple and nutritious snacks made from real, whole foods. All That's it. products transparently contain six real ingredients or less, and absolutely no natural or artificial flavors, sugar alcohols, or artificial colors. Its flagship Fruit Bars, now the #1 fruit bar in America, contain only two ingredients: fruit + fruit. You can find That's it. nationwide at your local Starbucks, at major retailers such as: Target, Whole Foods, Costco, Sam's Club, 7-Eleven, Walmart, VONS, CVS and Kroger, and online at Amazon and www.thatsitfruit.com. Learn more on Instagram and TikTok.
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1 About Suzy Survey:
The "Parents' Plates" study surveyed 1,000 parents of school-aged children in the U.S. in July 2023. Survey was conducted via real-time consumer insights platform Suzy.
2 About Suzy Survey:
The "Back-to-School" study surveyed 2,706 parents of school-aged children in the U.S. in June 2023. Survey was conducted via real-time consumer insights platform Suzy.
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Residents without power prepare for extreme heat, try to keep food from spoiling
By Alex Bozarjian and David Kalman
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SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (WXYZ) — Some people in metro Detroit are estimated to be in the dark until Sunday as many are bracing for extreme heat Friday.
The timing of the storm was not ideal and could be potentially dangerous for people who lost power after storms Wednesday.
Cleophus Henley, who lives on Magnolia Avenue in Southfield, spent his morning cleaning up tree limbs.
Henley says he does have a bigger concern. His electricity is out, which means the refrigerator isn’t running.
“I did a lot of fishing this year. I caught all that fish, cleaned it up and got it in the freezer, and don’t want it to get ruined. So, I got to make a decision between today and tomorrow,” Henley said.
Henley’s wife Linda has been trying to keep electronics charged. For now, she’s using her car.
“Got to charge it up to stay in contact with relatives,” Linda Henley said.
Linda Henley says she watched the storm closely. It was fast and the winds were intense.
Her faith in the power grid wasn’t as strong as her husband’s.
“As soon as I turn around, it went out just like that. Well, here goes the power, and I am not expecting it to come on anytime soon,” Linda Henley said.
Redford resident Michelle Beauchamp says DTE Energy always tends to show up too late in this neighborhood. She doesn’t have a generator or anywhere else to go.
“This is just not right. It’s not fair. It’s 90 degrees outside. It’s not fair,” Beauchamp said.
She says by Friday, all her food will likely spoil.
“What am I going to do?” Beauchamp said.
Bob Burr was hoping to save his food, but his generator is just not the little engine that could.
“I ordered another one that will start the refrigerator,” Burr said.
As Cleophus Henley mentioned, there are decisions to make and sometimes, you have to get creative.
“Right now, I just got a cooler with ice and water,” Cleophus Henley said.
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Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips (D) is toying with a potential 2024 primary challenge against President Biden, a development likely to bring additional scrutiny to the incumbent’s reelection campaign.
A well-placed Democrat in the state confirmed to The Hill that Phillips is talking to various people about possibly mounting a White House challenge to Biden.
“True in that he is talking to folks,” said the Minnesota Democrat on Friday, who hedged that Phillips hasn’t “definitively” decided to run.
He would be the first Democratic lawmaker in either chamber of Congress to run against Biden this cycle.
The news of his early thinking was initially reported by Politico. Phillips confirmed independently to CNN that he will meet with donors in New York City.
The idea Biden may have to face a Democratic competitor from Capitol Hill is notable. For one, Phillips is a moderate, bucking Democrats’ more common concern that a progressive could primary him from the left.
He’s also not a household name, like fellow centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), whose contemplation of a presidential run has been viewed with frustration by the party’s establishment.
But a potential primary campaign from Phillips wouldn’t entirely be a surprise. He’s at times been critical of Biden, even going as far as to say he shouldn’t run for a second term due in part to his age. At 54, Phillips is 26 years younger than the 80-year-old president.
A campaign spokesperson for Phillips did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biden already has a handful of marginal primary challengers, including political heir Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and author Marianne Williamson. Neither has gotten enough traction to cause more than just headaches, though Democrats have recently gone after Kennedy more harshly for his inflammatory rhetoric.
Democrats are also grappling with the unknowns that could come from philosopher Cornel West’s third-party presidential bid, which has frustrated those who see him as a potential spoiler candidate in the general election.
A congressional challenger would add another layer of uncertainty to the race.
“Not sure what the upside is,” the Minnesota Democrat said of a possible Phillips bid. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/rep-dean-phillips-mulls-2024-primary-challenge-against-biden/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:22 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/rep-dean-phillips-mulls-2024-primary-challenge-against-biden/ |
From heat czars to tree planting, relief for urban heat islands
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| Bakersfield, Calif.
For 12 nights in a row, The Mission at Kern County shelter has been filled to capacity. That’s unusual for summer months in Bakersfield, California, where many of the city’s unhoused residents tend to sleep outdoors during the warm nights. But Bakersfield’s warm nights have become unbearably hot.
“People can sleep outside if it’s a summer night, 80 degrees, 78 degrees,” says Carlos Baldovinos, The Mission’s executive director. “But if it gets [as] hot as we’re seeing ... over 100 degrees, people don’t want to be out there because at night it’s hot, too.”
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A story focused onJuly is shaping up to be the hottest month ever recorded for the planet. In the U.S., cities are showing a greater awareness, ramping up to deal with heat, especially in marginalized communities.
July is shaping up to be the hottest month ever recorded on the planet. The extreme heat is especially challenging in dense urban areas, where temperatures are exacerbated by concrete pavement, tall heat-retentive buildings, and a lack of shady greenery.
These urban heat islands are testing resources put in place over the last few years – Phoenix, Miami, and Los Angeles are leading the way with city heat officers – but across the country, state and local governments are also bolstering programs and services. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his own plan to help people deal with heat.
“There’s been a shift in awareness of heat at the decision-maker level,” says Ladd Keith, an expert in urban planning and climate change at the University of Arizona who co-wrote a report on how cities can adapt to rising temperatures.
For 12 nights in a row, The Mission at Kern County shelter has been filled to capacity. That’s unusual for summer months in Bakersfield, California, where many of the city’s unhoused residents tend to sleep outdoors during the warm nights. But Bakersfield’s warm nights have become unbearably hot.
“People can sleep outside if it’s a summer night, 80 degrees, 78 degrees,” says Carlos Baldovinos, The Mission’s executive director. “But if it gets [as] hot as we’re seeing ... over 100 degrees, people don’t want to be out there because at night it’s hot, too.”
Hot, arid Bakersfield sits in the western margin of a record-breaking heat wave that spreads across the United States. Phoenix is making headlines for its record duration of days over 110 degrees – 29 as of Friday. Las Vegas has been running 4 degrees above seasonal averages lately. Though many cities may see some relief in coming days, the heat wave currently stretches from Texas, in the low 100s, into the rest of the South; heat advisories run throughout the Midwest and along the East Coast, from Virginia through New Hampshire.
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A story focused onJuly is shaping up to be the hottest month ever recorded for the planet. In the U.S., cities are showing a greater awareness, ramping up to deal with heat, especially in marginalized communities.
Sweltering, unrelenting heat has come to define this summer, with July shaping up to be the hottest month ever recorded for the planet. It’s especially challenging in dense urban areas, where temperatures are exacerbated by concrete pavement, auto emissions, tall heat-retentive buildings, and a lack of greenery offering shade.
These urban heat islands are testing resources put in place over the past few years – Phoenix, Miami, and Los Angeles are leading the way with city heat officers – but across the country, state, regional, and local governments are also bolstering programs and services. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his own plan to help people deal with heat. In these efforts, leaders have their eye on permanently higher temperatures and the dangers they bring, especially for the country’s most vulnerable people.
“There’s been a shift in awareness of heat at the decision-maker level,” says Ladd Keith, an expert in urban planning and climate change at the University of Arizona who co-wrote a report on how cities can adapt to rising temperatures.
In addition to Phoenix’s heat officer, for instance, government agencies in surrounding Maricopa County coordinate with services on the ground to administer help – and listen. “We have a sustained network now of nonprofit, social service providers, and faith-based organizations that are in touch with many of the most vulnerable in our community and can ensure that we’re providing support to the right people, but also give us feedback on what we should be doing to make sure that we’re providing the right support in the future,” says Dr. Keith.
Chillin’ by the AC vent
Back in Bakersfield, it’s 102 degrees at 6 p.m. when the public water park closes and Sirena Salazar packs up the birthday picnic she’s been enjoying with her children and best friend. “The water park cools us off for a minute,” says Ms. Salazar, who stays in a shelter at night with her three kids, and works full time during the day driving people to medical appointments.
The heat is a constant concern. “I’m coping with the summer,” she says, with a focus on her children’s daily needs.
Coping means visiting pools or tree-shaded parks whenever they can. At night, 12-year-old Karalynn Salazar tries to keep her older siblings from taking her spot on the top bunk, closest to the air-conditioning vent. “So all of them are hot and I’m just over there chillin’ in the AC,” says Karalynn.
Bakersfield is like other cities that have intense heat concentrated at its urban core. Eighty percent of Americans live in urban areas – 41 million of whom live in urban heat islands, where low-income and vulnerable communities also tend to be overrepresented.
Those vulnerable residents have no choice but to endure the heat, says Guangqing Chi, a professor of sociology, demography, and public health at Pennsylvania State University who studied the effects of city planning on urban heat islands. Wealthier residents “may have a seasonal house or may be able to go someplace cooler,” says Dr. Chi. “But these people ... they are kind of stuck where they are.”
A visit to the interactive heat map by the University of California, Los Angeles shows that Bakersfield’s Kern County has an average 126 additional heat-related emergency-room visits on days with extreme heat, which experts point out is responsible for more deaths than any other extreme weather event.
A city responds
The heat map is one of the tools informing Los Angeles’ Climate Emergency Mobilization Office, launched last year to implement equitable solutions to climate-related needs. “Heat has been the silent killer or the silent contributor to excess hospitalizations and excess mortality, and we feel [that’s] preventable,” says Marta Segura, LA’s inaugural chief heat officer and director of the emergency center. Ms. Segura is tasked with coordinating resources across government offices, organizations, and community groups to streamline messages to the public and harness and implement ideas.
As temperatures rise, the emergency center deploys resources where they’re most needed, and connects with residents through websites and apps like Cool Spots LA. The strategy seems to be working: LA added more cooling centers to low-income neighborhoods and saw more than a tenfold increase over 2020 in people using them.
“We have seen more people using our resources,” says Ms. Segura, who adds these resources are diverting health problems. “It’s not easy to leave your home and make the trek to a city facility to stay cool. So we feel those people who come really, really need this.”
Other efforts underscore the city’s comprehensive approach to extreme heat: tree planting programs, subsidies for energy efficiency and air conditioners, and links to funding for grassroots projects that combat or adapt to climate change; plus interactive tools that allow residents to track heat-related issues like air pollution and to see which communities are benefiting from public investment.
These efforts are consistent with a growth in heat resources across the country, which parallel a growing recognition of a climate emergency. But experts agree it’s not enough. “Every city in the world should be planning for heat,” says Dr. Keith, who adds that strategies will look different depending on local risks. “If they’re historically a hot location, they’re going to have to plan for chronic heat. .... If they’re a cooler, temperate location, they may have to focus more on what they do during an extreme heat event that may come suddenly.”
Cities like Boston, New York, and Baltimore don’t have designated heat officers, but manage extreme heat through related offices like emergency services or health departments. Thousands of other municipalities across the country lack plans or resources to address extreme heat events. But the participation of every community is essential if strategies to combat extreme heat are going to be successful, says Dr. Chi from Penn State. “The solution is there,” he says. “We really need the entire society, individuals, communities, all levels of government, different sectors of the economy, and even globally. ... Nobody can say, this has nothing to do with me. Everybody is affected.”
United efforts
California has long been unified on a need to address climate policy. The state Office of Planning and Research was established to develop climate policies and regulations in 1970 – under Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan.
Decades later, this wave of extreme heat should make clear the need for more action to correct long-term climate change and find immediate relief from extreme heat, says the office’s director, Sam Assefa. If people don’t believe the science, they should believe their eyes, he says. “It’s happening right in front of you.”
Today, California agencies have access to unprecedented funding to address extreme heat and other climate issues. The state is in its second year of a $54 billion climate initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and extreme heat, fires, and floods. Add to that billions in federal funding through the bipartisan infrastructure act, and general bipartisan support in the state for prioritizing climate action.
The funding, science, and known solutions combine for a historic moment, says Mr. Assefa, who notes the considerable state and federal resources flowing toward climate and infrastructure. “The challenge is, how do we deploy those resources in the most effective ways to significantly minimize the impact in some cases and in certain areas reverse the trend” of global warming, he says.
Under Mr. Assefa’s purview, a new Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program supports on-the-ground initiatives through targeted grants. Unincorporated communities in the Eastern Coachella Valley, for instance, received more than $644,000 to develop a plan for adding shade to low-income, Spanish-speaking neighborhoods where temperatures can exceed 120 degrees. Other cities like Stockton, San Fernando, and Lake Elsinore received hundreds of thousands of dollars each to create or update local climate adaptation plans.
Dealing with extreme heat is going to require city planners to channel their efforts in new directions, and especially in places that need them most, says Dr. Keith. “It will require new ways of planning our cities, new ways of operating our government, new ways of living our lives.” | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2023/0728/From-heat-czars-to-tree-planting-relief-for-urban-heat-islands?icid=rss | 2023-07-28T23:04:23 | 0 | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2023/0728/From-heat-czars-to-tree-planting-relief-for-urban-heat-islands?icid=rss |
4 New England States Rank ‘Most Energy Expensive States’ in the Country
Who else feels like they are being kicked while they're down when it comes to their electric bill?
Oh, pick me!
But I am sure you are feeling the same. Electricity pieces have seemingly gone up higher and higher year after year.
We dread the end of the month when that bill comes with more numbers than we expect.
Energy prices range from state to state. Sometimes that is hard to wrap your head around, but energy prices in New England run at different rates than in the Midwest, for example.
WalletHub conducted a study where they compared the total monthly energy bills in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The analysis used a special formula that accounts for the following residential energy types: electricity, natural gas, motor fuel, and home heating oil.
All of these factors were used to determine which states had the most expensive energy consumption.
Using the map below, we can see that New England does not fare well in this study. The darker the blue, the more expensive the state. New England is pretty dark.
Connecticut: 4th most energy-expensive state.
Massachusetts: 5th most energy-expensive state. Second highest electric rates, only behind Hawaii.
Vermont: 7th most energy-expensive state.
New Hampshire: 9th most energy-expensive state. The breakdown of New Hampshire's ranking is below:
Energy Consumption & Costs in New Hampshire (1=Most Expensive; 25=Avg.):
- Avg. Monthly Energy Bill: $551
- 7th – Price of Electricity
- 40th – Electricity Consumption per Consumer
- 5th – Price of Natural Gas
- 42nd – Natural-Gas Consumption per Consumer
- 33rd – Price of Motor Fuel
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Provides military services, DOD agencies with access to zero-trust technology
FORT MEADE, Md., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a follow-on production other transaction authority (OTA) agreement for Thunderdome, DISA's zero trust network access and application security architecture.
Thunderdome will harden the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) networks and help warfighters defend against adversarial activity by employing network and resource access tools along with segmentation technologies. DISA's Thunderdome capabilities work in concert with identity and endpoint cybersecurity capabilities, and align to the president's Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity and the DoD's Zero Trust Strategy.
"Awarding this Thunderdome production agreement is an important step on our zero-trust journey and furthers DISA's mission to provide warfighters with a more secure operating environment," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, DISA director and Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network Commander. "While DISA leverages these capabilities on our cyber terrain, this full-scale production agreement can be used to assist the military services and other DoD components in implementing key zero-trust activities."
This follow-on agreement to Booz Allen Hamilton is to broadly implement and operate Thunderdome's zero trust network access and application security architecture and comes after successful completion of an 18-month prototype. The period of performance for this follow-on OTA is for a one-year base period, with four one-year option periods for a total agreement lifecycle of five years (August 2023 through August 2028).
"The experience gained in partnership with industry as we implemented the prototype solution over the last 18 months has been invaluable, and we believe this award positions the department to meet critical zero trust adoption timelines in support of our warfighters" said Christopher Barnhurst, DISA deputy director. "We look forward to accelerating implementation activities and partnering across the department to expand access to the zero-trust capabilities Thunderdome provides."
For more information and pricing details, please contact DISA's Mission Partner Engagement Office.
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Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale
By Benjamin Sutton
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style.
(CNN) — Jeffrey Gibson, the Colorado-born, New York-based artist who is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale, becoming the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the US Pavilion.
Gibson’s work mixes many traditions, combining techniques from Indigenous beading, weaving, metalwork and more with the formal language of hard-edged abstract painting, Pop Art sculpture. It spans media such as sculpture, painting, installation and performance. He is perhaps best known for suspended punching-bag sculptures that incorporate elaborate threads, fringes and beaded text, as well as large-scale paintings that feature stylized text rendered in boldly colorful patterns.
For his exhibition in Venice, Gibson will create installations inside the US Pavilion, on its exterior and in its courtyard, incorporating elements of performance and multimedia in addition to static works. Through partnerships with the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Bard College in upstate New York, the pavilion will also incorporate educational programming.
“The last 15 years of my career have been about turning inward and trying to make something I really wanted to see in the world,” Gibson, reflecting on his selection for the Biennale, told The New York Times. “Now I want to expand the way people think about Indigeneity.”
Gibson’s presentation in Venice is being co-commissioned by Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo Nation), curator of Native American art at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon; Louis Grachos, executive director of the contemporary art museum SITE Santa Fe; and independent curator Abigail Winograd.
“Throughout his career, Jeffrey has challenged us to look at the world differently through his innovative and vibrant work,” Ash-Milby — who is also the first Native American co-curator in the 129-year history of the US Pavilion in Venice — said in a statement. “His inclusive and collaborative approach is a powerful commentary on the influence and persistence of Native American cultures within the United States and globally, making him the ideal representative for the United States at this moment.”
“I have long believed in the ability of Jeffrey’s work to be a force for positive change and to create the possibility of a radically inclusive future,” Winograd added in a statement. “It is my hope that as a global audience experiences his work through the Biennale, they will also find it to be a source of joy and healing, something sorely needed in a world driven by conflict and crisis.”
As is customary, in addition to the Portland Museum of Art in Oregon and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, the US Pavilion is being organized in cooperation with the US State Department.
Gibson’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the US over the past decade, including in major solo exhibitions at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 2013 and the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 2018. His work figured prominently in the 2017 Desert X Biennial and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Last May, the National Gallery of Art acquired a major piece from Gibson’s “Garment” series, a work that incorporates elements of Native American regalia as well as references to the late performance artist Leigh Bowery; he is also represented in the collections of many major US museums including the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, the Seattle Art Museum and SFMoMa, among others.
The US was most recently represented in Venice by Simone Leigh. Her 2022 presentation, “Sovereignty,” featured large-scale sculptures which “(interrogated) the extraction of images and objects from across the African diaspora and their circulation as souvenirs in service of colonial narratives,” the exhibition brochure explained.
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denied his request for Secret Service protection.
“Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me,” Kennedy said on X, the platform previously known as Twitter.
“Our campaign’s request included a 67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats,” he added.
The Secret Service is authorized to protect major presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election. The Homeland Security secretary, in consultation with an advisory committee of House and Senate leadership, determines which candidates are in that “major” category.
The 2024 election, in which Kennedy is a candidate, is more than 460 days away.
Reached for confirmation, the Secret Service referred The Hill to DHS, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Kennedy, a long-shot candidate who has faced forceful Democratic pushback, said in his post that his request for protection went 88 days without response before Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he determined “that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time.”
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Official Committee of Talc Claimants (the "Committee"), which has been tirelessly pursuing justice for its constituency of talc victims' injury by Johnson & Johnson's ("J&J's") talc products, is pleased with the court's decision to dismiss the second bankruptcy attempt. We believe the decision of the Honorable Chief Judge Kaplan was thoughtful, well-reasoned, and well-supported by the facts and law. This outcome now frees tens of thousands of victims to seek their justice through the tort system either before juries of their peers or by settlement on terms acceptable to them. The Committee has consistently contended the tort system is the rightful place for these claims to be resolved. Today's ruling validates the Committee's belief that J&J manipulated the bankruptcy system by using the "Texas Two-Step" legal maneuver and wrongfully sought to manufacture financial distress in its "Legacy Talc Liabilities" (LTL) Management subsidiary, solely to carry out a bad faith bankruptcy case. The company will now face the full weight of its conduct in the appropriate judicial forums.
"This ruling sends a clear message: multibillion-dollar, wholly solvent companies like J&J should not be allowed to use and in fact abuse bankruptcy laws to avoid accountability," said Brown Rudnick's David Molton, one of the co-counsels representing the Committee. "We are reassured by the Bankruptcy Court's reaffirmation that it will not allow solvent corporations to abuse the system and impose coercive, low-value and cram-down solutions on nonconsenting claimants. Justice should and now will triumph over corporate greed and legal chicanery."
"The claimants have waited long enough. Untold numbers of cancer victims have died while Johnson & Johnson attempted to manipulate the bankruptcy system to limit its liabilities," added Molton. "Now victims and their families can seek justice through the tort system – by presenting their case before a jury of their peers in courts of their own choosing."
The TCC filed its motion to dismiss on April 24, 2023, alongside several other movants, including the Office of the United States Trustee, numerous State Attorneys General, and other plaintiff groups, who shared a vision for this outcome. Chief Judge Kaplan's Opinion can be viewed on the case docket, available at: https://document.epiq11.com/document/getdocumentbycode?docId=4202926&projectCode=LCN&source=DM
About The Official Committee of Talc Claimants
The Official Committee of Talc Claimants (TCC), appointed by the Office of the United States Trustee (UST), an arm of the US Department of Justice, represents and acts as a fiduciary for all mesothelioma and ovarian cancer victims, as well as all subrogation claimants who have claims based on or derivative to the victims' talcum powder claims. For more information about the TCC, please view our website at https://www.ltltalccommittee.org/
The TCC is advised by counsel, an investment banker, a financial advisor, and claims estimation experts well-versed in mass tort, asbestos, talc, bankruptcy, and victim advocacy. These entities include Genova Burns L.L.C., Brown Rudnick L.L.P., Otterbourg PC, Massey & Gail L.L.P., Miller Thomson L.L.P., MoloLamken L.L.P., Compass Lexecon, FTI Consulting, and Houlihan Lokey.
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DOT proposes new car standards that would modestly raise fuel economy and push the sale of EVs
By Gregory Wallace, CNN
(CNN) — The Biden administration on Friday proposed modest increases to fuel efficiency standards for the vehicles most Americans drive. The proposal fits alongside the administration’s push for increasing the share of electric vehicles on the roads.
The US Department of Transportation is taking public feedback this summer and fall on several possible new standards that would apply as soon as model year 2027 for passenger cars, pickups and work vans.
A nearly 700-page document outlined the potential options, including the administration’s proposal for increasing car fuel efficiency standards annually by 2% for cars and 4% for light trucks. A 10% annual increase would apply to some work vehicles.
The DOT estimates the proposal would increase so-called Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE standards, for car and light duty fuel economy to 58 mpg on average by 2032, though that’s not what consumers will see when driving or when shopping for cars. The Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates the fuel economy estimates shown on vehicle window stickers, uses different tests that result in more realistic estimates. Chris Harto, a senior policy analyst for Consumer Reports, told CNN that this standard would increase the real-world fuel economy to around 43 mpg on average.
It follows an EPA proposal this spring that aims to cut down on tailpipe pollution and dramatically increase the number of electric vehicles sold. The EPA is taking comments on that proposal this summer.
A group representing major automakers noted the EPA and DOT proposals would set similar, rather than divergent, standards. In response to the DOT’s new proposal, John Bozzella, the president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade association for vehicle manufacturers, pointed to its criticism of the EPA draft: It pushes a significant increase in the number of fully electric vehicles sold.
The proposal was met with mixed reaction from environmental advocates.
The proposal “doesn’t knock our socks off,” said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Transport Campaign at the Center for Biological Diversity, but would serve as a backstop in the case that electric vehicles do not become more prevalent.
Harto said the rule left “a lot of room for improvement” and that Consumer Reports hopes to work with the DOT to strengthen it.
Pete Huffman of the Natural Resources Defense Council called the proposal “a winner all around” for drivers and reducing the reliance on planet-warming fossil fuel.
CAFE standards are a tension point between Democratic and Republican administrations. Soon after taking office, the Trump administration re-wrote the more stringent Obama administration’s proposal. The Biden administration already put in place its own version last year.
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Former President Trump on Friday appealed a judge’s ruling that mandated his hush money criminal case be tried in state court in New York.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, a President Clinton appointee, ruled last week that the 34-count indictment was not connected to Trump’s role as president, rejecting his request to move the case to federal court in favor of prosecutors’ objections.
Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles filed a notice of appeal Friday afternoon, the first step in taking the dispute to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Trump sought to remove the state case to federal court, arguing it must be transferred because it involves important federal questions, including whether he should face charges for alleged crimes that occurred while he was in office. Doing so would increase the potential jury pool, which is currently limited to the heavily-Democratic population of Manhattan.
“This case is unprecedented in our nation’s history,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in the nine-page filing when first seeking to remove the case in May. “Never before has a local elected prosecutor criminally prosecuted a defendant either for conduct that occurred entirely while the defendant was the sitting President of the United States or for conduct that related to federal campaign contribution laws.”
Hellerstein dismissed that argument when ruling on the case in July.
“The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely a personal item of the President — a cover-up of an embarrassing event. Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a President’s official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the President’s official duties,” he wrote.
Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over his alleged role in a hush money scheme ahead of the 2016 presidential election. He pleaded not guilty.
Hush money by itself is legal; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) is prosecuting Trump over the manner in which he reimbursed his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, for making the $130,000 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Bragg is connecting the allegedly falsified records to purported violations of campaign finance laws.
When reached out to, Bragg’s office declined to comment.
A trial in the case is currently set for March 2024. Trump’s lawyers have a deadline late next month to file any motions in state court to dismiss the charges ahead of trial.
Earlier Friday, Bragg suggested during a radio interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show,” however, that the trial timeline could be delayed as a result of the other criminal investigations the former president faces.
“If our trial judge is reached out to by another judge, we will obviously consider everything in its totality,” Bragg said.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s office charged Trump with three additional counts in the classified records federal case Thursday, and prosecutors have signaled an indictment could be close in their probe over the transfer of power following the 2020 election.
In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) has signaled any charges against Trump would likely come in early August.
“In matters like this, judges will confer,” Bragg told WNYC.
“And I take a very broad lens on justice,” he continued. “We’ll obviously follow the directives of our court but won’t sit on ceremony in terms of what was charged first or things like that, if and when that’s presented.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/trump-appeals-decision-keeping-hush-money-case-in-state-court/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:34 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/trump-appeals-decision-keeping-hush-money-case-in-state-court/ |
Mission Accomplished: Astronaut Bucket List Item Checked
And I checked off the item without having to leave the state of Maine.
Ever since the space exploration from years back, the thought of visiting Mission Control was intriguing.
Got to do a replica visit that is a ‘spitting image’ today at Challenger Learning Center of Maine.
Before we get serious about the visit, because it was part of a very popular and serious camp week at the Challenger campus in Bangor, there is this
The purpose of the visit was to do a “pre-launch press conference” with the campers who attended camp this week, and trained like astronauts all week. And just like real astronauts this was a chance for them to share what they’ve been doing all week to prepare for their mission which was scheduled for Friday afternoon.
Before I met the 16 campers, and then interviewed them in a group session in the pre-mission press conference, I toured the facility.
Wow.
Just wow
Stepping into Mission Control and I said “Hello Houston.” It is a replica. And the thought came to mind about how much it must mean to the 10 to 13 year olds, 5th to 8th graders who attended camp this week.
This was there room to execute the mission. And there’s no “Hey Teacher, what do we do now?” The answer is “figure it out as a team”
The 16 astronauts each bring their passion and desire to assist in the team work that a project like this is, and Challenger as a learning center, offers a diversity of programs to educate students in space and earth science. It’s STEM learning. With a goal to have STEM students move on in their education and eventually gain jobs where STEM is an important skill. Jobs right here in Maine.
Not to get too far into the future, but congrats to the student astronauts. These are the leaders of tomorrow.
Thanks for sharing your camp week with me
We are counting on you. And proud of what you have already accomplished.
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EAST HARTFORD, Conn., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, continues to receive positive support for various F135-related program items on the path toward finalizing the 2024 appropriations bill. On July 27, the Senate Appropriations Committee, led by Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME), passed a bipartisan bill that included:
- $497 million for the development of the F135 engine core upgrade (ECU), the DoD's chosen F-35 engine modernization effort.
- $264 million above the President's budget request for F135 engine spares and repair parts.
- A prohibition against integrating any alternate engine on any F-35 variant.
- $280 million for the development of future engine technology that could be used on 6th generation tactical aircraft.
"I want to personally thank Senators Tester and Collins for their leadership on this effort, because it's essential to ensuring our limited DoD funds go to the most urgent, high-priority needs," said Jeff Shockey, senior vice president of RTX Global Government Relations. "I also want to express my gratitude to the Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and the entire Connecticut and Maine delegations for their support and advocacy."
The F135 supports nearly 55,000 jobs across 41 states and more than 260 domestic suppliers. In March 2023, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Navy chose to upgrade the F135 versus replace it with an entirely new engine. The decision was announced as part of the administration's 2024 budget proposal.
"The Senate Appropriations Committee's full funding of the Engine Core Upgrade program, its addition of $280 million for future-generation propulsion technologies, and language prohibiting integration of an alternate engine on any F-35 variant are critically important," said Jill Albertelli, president of Military Engines at Pratt & Whitney. "Our collective focus should be on maximizing the performance of all three variants of the F-35, while prioritizing the advancement of sixth-generation solutions that serve our highest, most urgent national defense priorities."
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Newly unveiled banking regulation wouldn’t have prevented this year’s US bank failures
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN
New York (CNN) — US bank regulators advanced proposals on Thursday aimed at safeguarding the nation’s largest banks in the wake of three regional bank failures earlier this year.
The new rules proposed by the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation would increase the level of capital that banks with at least $1a00 billion in assets would be required to hold. The rules, collectively known as the Basel III endgame, wouldn’t go into effect until 2028 if finalized after going through the standard notice-and-comment rulemaking process, which would end November 30.
US banks deemed systemically important globally — or, colloquially, “too big to fail” — would have to set aside an additional 19% of capital on average, according to the proposal. Banks with more than $250 billion in assets that aren’t considered systemically important would see a 10% increase in the capital they’re required to hold. Banks with asset levels between $100 billion and $250 billion, which included some mid-sized regional banks such as KeyCorp and Huntington Bank, would see a 5% increase.
Generally, this would mean banks would have to hold an additional two percentage points of capital, or an additional $2 of capital for every $100 of risk-weighted assets.
But smaller regional banks like PacWest, which is set to merge with Banc of California after reporting a $290 million decline in deposits last quarter, would be spared. In other words, these new rules would not have prevented the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank or First Republic earlier this year, said Steven Kelly, associate director of research at Yale’s program on financial stability.
Banks will no longer be able to act as their own risk managers
Under the new rules, banks with $100 billion or more in assets won’t be able to use their own models to determine the risk they’ve undertaken on loans and other activities. Their risk-level assessments have been the basis for informing how much capital they need to hold on top of baseline requirements.
The new rules would force banks to use a standardized model that is more conservative than their own in terms of assessing risk.
Accounting for unrealized gains and losses
Banks would be required to factor in unrealized losses and gains on securities in their portfolios in the capital ratios.
Silicon Valley Bank accumulated a lot of paper losses, or unrealized losses, from holding bonds while the Fed hiked interest rates. (Generally, interest rates on bonds go up as the Fed hikes, which leads to lower bond prices.) Eventually, SVB had to sell the bonds, which meant it had to realize the loss. But it did not need to hold capital to protect depositors from those losses.
How will this affect the average consumer?
Some officials who voted against the new regulations within the FDIC and Fed cited concerns that it could significantly constrain banks’ ability to lend to businesses and individuals. Some also expressed concerns that banks would pass on their higher capital costs to consumers in the form of higher fees to maintain their profit levels.
“The increased capital requirements could lead to an increase in interest rates for low- and moderate-income and other historically underserved borrowers who cannot always afford a 20% down payment, making it that much harder for these families to achieve homeownership,” FDIC board member Jonathan McKernan said on Thursday at the agency’s board meeting held to vote on the new plan.
“Those who rely on these products and services will bear the cost of capital increases,” Fed Governor Michelle Bowman, who voted against the new rules, said on Thursday. “For example, when a local government issues municipal bonds to finance local infrastructure, they may find that financing is more expensive, or in some cases unavailable. Manufacturers may find it harder to get loans to invest in equipment or facilities,” she added.
Kelly, who is ambivalent about the new regulations, said the average consumer will likely be “minimally” impacted.
Non-bank financial institutions like venture capital and private equity firms will likely fill the void for any lending that traditional banks will have to cut back on, he said.
“This is a marginal inconvenience at best,” Kelly added. Some consumers might be forced to “shop around a little more” to get a better interest rate on a loan. On the flip side, the regulations could give smaller banks a chance to offer more competitive rates compared to mega banks like JPMorgan Chase.
Separately, on Thursday the Fed also released new capital requirements that go into effect on October 1 for large banks, based on their stress test results last month. The minimum capital requirements that banks are subject to did not change from last year.
Some of the nation’s largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, won’t have to hold as much capital based on their performances. However, UBS, Citizens Bank and Capital One will have to hold more capital.
Banks encouraged to revisit bank-run contingency plans
In addition to the changes around capital that are intended to prevent future bank failures, the FDIC, OCC and Fed released new recommendations for how banks can prepare for heightened periods of stress.
Among the recommendations, the agencies encouraged banks to review if they are eligible to borrow from the Fed’s discount window, a program established to be the lender of last resort to banks when they are unable to quickly get funds from other sources. In order to use the discount window, banks have to make certain arrangements ahead of time.
SVB wasn’t able to access the discount window as depositors quickly withdrew their funds because it did not make many of those advanced arrangements, such as establishing a sufficient collateral base to borrow from the window, according to the Fed’s post-mortem report examining why the bank failed.
The report found that having access to the window “would likely not have prevented SVB’s failure,” however, “it could have facilitated a more orderly resolution.”
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PARIS (WAVY) – When it comes to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, organizers are focusing on sustainability. With that in mind, they say that all but two venues either already exist, or will be temporary.
Symbols of the Olympics and Paralympics are already popping up across the city. The Hôtel de Ville, which is the current city hall in Paris, is one of many historic buildings across the city that will be used for venues, come next summer.
The historic Hôtel de Ville will be the start of the most legendary Olympic long distance race, the marathon.
The Stade de France and the Roland-Garros Stadium, which already host competitions on the world stage, will once again welcome fans into the stands next summer.
But historical sites, like the Grand Palais, the Eiffel Tower and the Seine River, will also be transformed into competition areas.
Places like the iconic Place de la Concorde, once the site of revolutionary protests and the guillotine, will now host some of the Olympics’ newer sports, including breaking, skateboarding and sport climbing.
So, a lot of changes coming to this historic city in the next year to prepare for the Summer Olympics. Another big change will be fans for the first time in two Olympics games.
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2 years after a woman and her dog were slain in an Atlanta park, police renew calls for public help
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police have renewed calls for the public’s help to try to solve the gruesome stabbing death of a woman who was walking her dog at a popular park two years ago. Forty-year-old Katherine Janness was found just inside an entrance to Piedmont Park around 1 a.m. on July 28, 2021. She had been stabbed multiple times. Her dog, Bowie, was also found fatally stabbed nearby. Police Lt. Germain Dearlove issued an entreaty to the public Friday at a news conference. He urged anyone who may have seen or heard something suspicious related to the killing to report it to police. Police still do not have have a suspect despite having cast a wide net in the investigation. | https://kion546.com/news/2023/07/28/2-years-after-a-woman-and-her-dog-were-slain-in-an-atlanta-park-police-renew-calls-for-public-help/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:45 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/2023/07/28/2-years-after-a-woman-and-her-dog-were-slain-in-an-atlanta-park-police-renew-calls-for-public-help/ |
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In an unprecedented collaborative endeavor, Slovenia's Ministry of Environment, Climate and Energy, in partnership with Global Footprint Network, announces a critical date for the planet: this year's Earth Overshoot Day lands on August 2nd.
The date, calculated by Global Footprint Network each year using National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts, marks when humanity's demand for biological resources exceeds the Earth's capacity to regenerate them within that year. To spotlight this issue, the Ministry and Global Footprint Network are organizing a high-level event on August 1st, held in Ljubljana and online, to discuss the implications of overshoot. The high-level event enjoys support from key figures including President of the Republic of Slovenia Nataša Pirc Musar, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28 and IUCN President Razan Al Mubarak, and Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel at UNEP Dr. Janez Potočnik.
"Slovenia, as the first EU country, joins the ranks of countries such as Ecuador, Japan, the Philippines, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates, leveraging Ecological Footprint data and officially endorsing the metric as a useful tool to steer environmental policy," affirms Bojan Kumer, Slovenia's Minister of the Environment, Climate and Energy. He further elucidates that efforts to reduce Slovenia's Ecological Footprint by 20% by 2030 will spur greater opportunities for the country amid a future marked by climate change and resource constraints.
Razan Al Mubarak notes the Ecological Footprint's utility, "With this metric in hand, any country, region, city, or company can assess its current standing and determine how it can contribute to postponing this date (Earth Overshoot Day)." It provides valuable insights for forward-thinking strategies that address resource security and enable the transition towards a sustainable economy.
Earth Overshoot Day coincides with the European Parliament's recent vote on the Nature Restoration Law. The persistence of overshoot has led to land and soil degradation, fish stock depletion, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas accumulation. These symptoms are becoming more prominent every day across the planet, with unusual heat waves, wildfires, droughts, and floods, exacerbating the competition for food and energy.
"The biggest risk, apart from ecological overshoot itself, lies in complacency towards this crisis. Entities that act now are not just safeguarding the environment but future-proofing their economy and the wellbeing of their residents," underlines Steven Tebbe, CEO of Global Footprint Network.
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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A new cat has taken over the internet and he is “bad to da bonkers.”
Tater Tot, a rescue cat on an incredible journey to recovery, has captured hearts nationwide after going viral in a Facebook group called “THIS CAT IS G R O M P Y.” His ferocious looks, messy hair, and mismatched colored casts – usually referred to as ‘bonkers,’ but called ‘badonkabonks’ by his rescuers – tugged at everyone’s heartstrings.
“We saw that all four of his legs were malformed,” said Houghton. “His front legs were stuck at a 90-degree bend and his back legs were totally curly.”
On top of the little spud’s disabilities with his leg, Tater Tot was also born with a cleft palate.
As part of his care, Tater Tot was outfitted with his badonkabonks. A pink cast and splint were put on his right leg and teal blue on his left. The oversized casts along with his fiesty appearance inspired fan art, doodles, animations, gifs, glass art, and more among his fans. Once including a spin on a photoshoot of Tater Tot on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle where he is “Bad to da bonkers”
Now he is viral on TikTok and Facebook and helping inspire other special needs animals on their journeys through recovery. Tater currently has his own Facebook group, Tater Tot and the Spudbuds, which has over 33,000 members as of this morning.
“Special needs kitties or special needs animals in general have a much harder time finding humans who are willing to put in the time and sometimes the financial expense of caring for them but they’re everywhere,” said Houghton.
Tater Tot still has a long way to go to adoption. He still has plenty of medical procedures to go through including the cleft palate procedure which won’t be for another nine months to a year.
In the meantime, Tater Tot will continue to be a viral internet sensation and raise awareness for the special needs animals around the world looking for their ‘fur-ever’ homes. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/bad-to-da-bonkers-viral-utah-cat-takes-the-internet-by-storm/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:46 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/bad-to-da-bonkers-viral-utah-cat-takes-the-internet-by-storm/ |
California forbids plans to unmask In-N-Out workers — and most other workplaces
By Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters
SAN JOSE, Calif. - For at least another year and a half, California employers won't be able to follow In-N-Out's lead in banning workers from wearing masks on the job.
The state's COVID-19 workplace rules protecting workers' rights to decide for themselves whether to wear face coverings are locked in at least until February 2025 and could be extended.
Those regulations prevented the iconic Irvine-based burger chain from applying its new policy prohibiting workers from wearing face masks in its home state, where it operates about 70% of its restaurants.
Instead, In-N-Out's mask ban will apply to workers at its restaurants in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Utah. It has a total of 116 locations in those states.
In a memo, the company said it wants to "emphasize the importance of customer service. And the ability to show our Associates' smiles and other facial features."
It is allowing employees to wear masks if they present a medical note that "clearly states the reason for the exemption."
In-N-Out released a different masking policy for employees in California and in Oregon that leaves the choice to mask up to each individual worker. That approach complies with California and Oregon standards that provide continuous protections to employees.
In a way, the split is a reminder of California's more cautious response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Democratic state was the first to order its residents to shelter in place and shut down non-essential activity. Throughout the pandemic, state health officials have updated guidelines and rules to adapt to evolving transmission patterns.
In-N-Out went along with those rules during the pandemic, although the company contested local indoor vaccine mandates in the fall of 2021. Its refusal to check customers' vaccination records led to temporary shutdowns of restaurants in San Francisco and in Pleasant Hill of Contra Costa County, according to press reports.
Cal/OSHA, the agency charged with ensuring occupational safety in California, earlier this year updated its COVID-19 requirements. Among them: "Employers must allow employees to wear face coverings if they voluntarily choose to do so, unless it would create a safety hazard." | https://kion546.com/news/2023/07/28/california-forbids-plans-to-unmask-in-n-out-workers-and-most-other-workplaces/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:51 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/2023/07/28/california-forbids-plans-to-unmask-in-n-out-workers-and-most-other-workplaces/ |
Tampa General is recognized nationally in the top 100 of the Best Employers for Women list and ranks #1 among Best Employers for Women in Florida in the Healthcare and Social category.
TAMPA, Fla., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tampa General Hospital has been named one of America's Best Employers for Women by Forbes for 2023, ranking in the top 100 of organizations nationally and as the Best Employer for Women in Florida in the Healthcare and Social category. The academic health system is also ranked #3 overall in the state. Tampa General has been included on Forbes America's Best Employers for Women list every year since 2020.
"The health and well-being of our team at Tampa General is our top priority and critical to our success as an organization as well as our ability to provide the highest level of care to our community and beyond. We continue to nurture a human-centered culture that both empowers everyone to be their whole, authentic selves at work and ensures every individual feels seen, heard and valued," said John Couris, president and CEO of Tampa General Hospital. "As an academic health system, we are committed to prioritizing not only the personal and professional development of all team members through education opportunities, but we also work to ensure that they have all the support they need."
Forbes partnered with the market research company Statista to identify organizations committed to the advancement of women in and out of the workplace. More than 60,000 American employees were surveyed, including 40,000 women working for companies employing at least 1,000 people within the United States. Survey responses were evaluated against various criteria, including atmosphere and development, image, working conditions, workplace, diversity, family support, flexibility, representation and pay equity.
Tampa General routinely gauges the needs of team members through annual evaluations conducted by a third-party professional survey company.
"When we talk about providing world-class care at Tampa General, that includes taking care of our team members as well as our community," said Qualenta Kivett, executive vice president and chief people and talent officer at Tampa General Hospital. "To make this a reality, our academic health system embodies a culture of belonging and fairness. Our steadfast commitment to our team members' growth and well-being is essential to recruiting and retaining high-quality and diverse talent, which results in better experiences and outcomes for the patients we serve."
Aligning with Tampa General's culture focused on helping all team members thrive personally and professionally, the academic health system has developed and continues to introduce new programs and initiatives that provide support to women team members such as:
- Flexibility: Tampa General offers a competitive time-off policy as well as remote working options and flexibility for part-time positions. Over the past two years, the academic health system's team members have increasingly expressed a desire for part-time work schedules and those have been accommodated through offering seasonal contracts and part-time opportunities, where possible.
- Growth and Development: In addition to competitive tuition reimbursement, skills reimbursement and scholarships, Tampa General also offers free access to career, leadership and personal development through courses in Organizational Development, such as Crucial Conversations. Through clinical and non-clinical ladders, the academic health system also offers structured systems to advance career development while the team member remains in a current position.
- Health, Wellness and Benefits: Along with competitive medical benefits, team members receive access to wellness activities and fitness tracking through a free app, an on-site gym and online classes through the TGH Fitness Center. The academic health system also provides free access to virtual behavioral health support that provides access to a trained mental health counselor within 72 hours. It is also available to dependents with TGH insurance. Additionally, there is a team member lounge in the hospital that includes massage chairs to allow team members to decompress.
- Family Support: An on-site daycare center provides families with an education and development curriculum for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Understanding that family support looks different for every team member, through the TGH Foundation, the academic health system offers an annual school supply giveaway, which includes computers and an emergency fund to support team members in crisis. Other support includes gas cards to team members when gas prices skyrocketed, as well as grants to help team members rebuild their homes after sustaining hurricane damage. Tampa General offers a generous maternity leave package. All team members who give birth are guaranteed 12 weeks of job-protected leave post-delivery, regardless of whether they qualify for Family Medical Leave (FMLA) or have exhausted their FMLA entitlement for the year. In addition, Tampa General provides several options to team members needing financial assistance, including ATO leave sharing and short-term disability. TGH also provides a supportive environment to enable breastfeeding team members to express milk during work hours. Private lactation rooms or designated nursing space is available throughout the hospital and every TGH location.
- People Development Institute: Tampa General has invested heavily in the continued education and professional development of all team members with programs such as its People Development Institute (PDI), which offers classes through a partnership with the University of South Florida (USF) Muma College of Business at no charge. Among the program's most impactful success stories are those of women who have leveraged PDI offerings to broaden their career horizons. One example is Stephanie Jackson, who started as a parking attendant at Tampa General and pursued advanced degrees and PDI courses to become a director for the academic health system.
- AKTiVe Leadership Initiative: Through the PDI program, the AKTiVe Leadership Initiative involves all TGH leaders in their leadership development. The AKTiVe Leadership Model embodies four qualities of leaders: Authenticity, Kindness, Transparency and Vulnerability. When enacted through the behaviors of leaders, these qualities create a positive environment for leaders, team members and patients.
- LEAD TGH: LEAD (Leadership, Enrichment and Development) TGH provides a platform for emerging leaders to share ideas, overcome challenges and foster personal and professional development. The free program spans 12 months and creates career pathways while identifying future leaders.
- Modern Advances in Leadership: Facilitated through the University of Tampa's Sykes College of Business, the series provides transformative and interactive learning experiences to advance the skills of current and future leaders.
Inclusion on the Forbes America's Best Employers for Women list is the latest among several high-profile recognitions for Tampa General for its supportive work environment:
- Forbes' Best Employers for New Graduates (Top 20) – May 2023
- Becker's Hospital Review's 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – April 2023
- Glassdoor's Employee's Choice Award – January 2023
- Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity – January 2023
- Forbes' America's Best Employers by State (Top 10 Employer in Florida) – August 2022
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ABOUT TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
Tampa General Hospital, a 1,040-bed, not-for-profit, academic health system, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 Best Hospitals, and is tied as the third highest-ranked hospital in Florida, with seven specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic health system's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious Forbes magazine rankings – in the top 100 nationally in the 2023 America's Best Employers for Women and sixth out of 100 Florida companies in the 2022 America's Best Employers by State. Tampa General is the safety net hospital in the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2021, provided a net community benefit worth more than $224.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health, and 21 TGH Imaging powered by Tower outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics. To see a medical care professional live anytime, anywhere on a smartphone, tablet or computer, visit Virtual Health | Tampa General Hospital (tgh.org). As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that provides real-time situational awareness to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
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(The Hill) – President Biden on Friday made his first public remarks about his 4-year-old grandchild Navy, the daughter of his son Hunter Biden, after silence from the White House over the young girl amid legal disputes between her parents.
Biden said, in a statement exclusively provided to People, that his son and Lunden Roberts, the mother, are working to provide a life for her.
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward,” the president said. “This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter. Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
The New York Times earlier this month published a piece about the child, writing that she’s never met Hunter Biden or her grandfather. After that was published, the White House dealt with questions in the briefing room from reporters asking whether Biden accepted Hunter Biden’s daughter in Arkansas as his granddaughter.
Roberts, who is in Arkansas, filed a paternity suit against Hunter Biden in May 2019, and the younger Biden appeared in court this May. In June, he reached a settlement in his child support case after he was ordered to sit for a deposition under oath to answer questions about his finances.
An anonymous source told People that the president and first lady Jill Biden have been “giving Hunter and Lunden the space and time to figure things out” and have been “following Hunter’s lead” throughout the legal proceedings involving the young girl.
Hunter Biden’s personal and legal troubles have been increasingly in the spotlight lately. He appeared in a Delaware court Wednesday, where his plea deal on federal tax and gun charges was put on hold by a judge who questioned the scope of the agreement. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/biden-offers-first-statement-on-hunters-4-year-old-daughter/ | 2023-07-28T23:04:52 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/biden-offers-first-statement-on-hunters-4-year-old-daughter/ |
Donald Trump appeals judge’s decision to keep hush-money case in New York state court
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court Friday to reverse a federal judge’s decision to keep his hush-money criminal case in a New York state court that the former president claims is “very unfair” to him.
Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan after U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein last week rejected his bid to move the case to federal court, where his lawyers were primed to argue he was immune from prosecution.
U.S. law allows criminal prosecutions to be moved from state to federal court if they involve actions taken by federal government officials as part of their official duties, but Hellerstein ruled that the hush-money case involved a personal matter, not presidential duties.
Trump’s appeal notice came at the end of another busy week of legal action for the twice-indicted Republican as he seeks a return to the White House in next year’s election. On Thursday, he was indicted on new criminal charges in a separate case in federal court in Florida involving allegations that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the hush-money case and fought to keep it in state court, declined to comment on Trump’s appeal.
Trump pleaded not guilty April 4 in state court to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide reimbursements made to his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen for his role in paying $130,000 to the porn actor Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.
Cohen also arranged for the National Enquirer to pay Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her story about an alleged affair, which the supermarket tabloid then squelched in a dubious journalism practice known as “catch-and-kill.”
Trump denied having sexual encounters with either woman. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses and not part of any cover-up.
He is scheduled to stand trial in state court on March 25, 2024. In the meantime, his lawyers have asked the state court judge presiding over the case, Juan Manuel Merchan, to step aside, arguing that he’s biased in part because his daughter does political consulting work for some of Trump’s Democratic rivals. Trump has referred to Merchan as “a Trump-hating judge” with a family full of “Trump haters.” The judge has yet to rule on the request.
In seeking to try the hush-money case tried in federal court, Trump’s lawyers have argued that some of his alleged conduct amounted to official presidential duties because it occurred in 2017 while he was president, including checks he purportedly wrote while sitting in the Oval Office.
Moving the case from state court to federal court would have significant legal and practical consequences for Trump. In federal court, for example, his lawyers could then try to get the charges dismissed on the grounds that federal officials have immunity from prosecution over actions taken as part of their official job duties.
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
The company says in documents posted by government safety regulators Friday that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the rear axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake without action from the driver, increasing the risk of a crash.
Drivers may see a parking brake warning light and a warning message on the dashboard.
Ford says in documents that it has 918 warranty claims and three field reports of wire chafing in North America. Of these, 299 indicated unexpected parking brake activation, and 19 of these happened while the trucks were being driven.
The company says it doesn’t know of any crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
Dealers will inspect the rear wiring harness. If protective tape is worn through, the harness will be replaced. If the tape isn’t worn, dealers will install a protective tie strap and tape wrap.
Owners will be notified by letter starting Sept. 11.
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More Than 1,175 Higher Education Workers Gain Teamster Representation
OAKLAND, Calif., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Workers at the University of California (UC) have joined Teamsters Local 2010. The 1,175 newest members of Local 2010 in Oakland will now bargain for higher pay, reduced benefit costs, overtime pay, job security, and respect in the workplace.
"It's great to be represented again! I feel secure knowing someone is fighting for us to receive better pay and protect our rights," said Azalia Maldonado, a facilities management specialist at UC Berkeley.
"I'm so happy to be a Teamster again!" said Michelle Belden, a research administrator at UC Davis who was Teamster Shop Steward in her previous job of Blank Assistant 4 in the CX Unit. "There is power in our solidarity."
"I am excited to be a part of a strong union that advocates for members' rights and interests," said Patricia Passalacqua, an ambulatory care administration coordinator at UC San Diego. "All of the Teamsters' hard work and tenacity is evident. Knowing we have the support of Teamsters from all industries to help us protect our rights has lifted a weight off our shoulders. I look forward to connecting with other members in the future."
Workers in the titles of Ambulatory Care Administration Coordinator, Facilities Management Specialist, Health Professional Education Specialist, and Research Administrator had been misclassified by the UC in an effort to deny union-negotiated wages and benefits, including the right to strike. The Public Employment Relations Board issued unit modification orders on June 22, 2023.
The newly organized workers will join more than 16,000 administrative, paraprofessional, and skilled trades workers who provide critical public services at every University of California and California State University campus, medical center, and laboratory throughout the state, as well as 1.2 million Teamster members in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, with Public Services being one of the largest Teamster divisions.
"Teamsters Local 2010 welcomes our new sisters and brothers," said Jason Rabinowitz, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 2010. "We are especially pleased that they will immediately see the benefits of being Teamsters — guaranteed raises that are higher than those for non-union workers, this year and every year of our contract — plus all the rights at work and benefits of Teamster representation."
The group will soon assemble a bargaining team to begin the bargaining process for salary ranges, step placement, on-call and shift differential pay, as well as other bonus eligibility and pay.
Teamsters Local 2010 is a union of 15,000 hardworking employees in California higher education. We are affiliated with the 1.2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, representing members throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. We stand together to win better wages, benefits, and working conditions. We strive to protect workers' rights through direct action and determined labor representation.
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Mega Millions jackpot at $940 million for Friday night’s drawing
Originally Published: 28 JUL 23 07:55 ET
Updated: 28 JUL 23 16:54 ET
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN
(CNN) — The Mega Millions jackpot stands at $940 million for Friday night’s drawing, which would be the fifth-largest jackpot in the game’s history if one person matches all six numbers.
The prize would be $472.5 million if the winner chooses the lump-sum payout option.
No tickets matched all six numbers in the last drawing on Tuesday, according to the Mega Millions website.
Friday’s drawing, scheduled for 11 p.m. ET, will be the 29th since the jackpot was last won in New York on April 18.
If there’s a grand prize winner Friday, it would be the fifth largest jackpot in Mega Millions history, behind a ticket sold in Michigan that won $1.05 billion in 2021, according to Mega Millions.
The top Mega Millions jackpot to date was a record $1.537 billion prize won in South Carolina in 2018. It’s followed by a $1.348 billion ticket that was sold in Maine in January, and a $1.337 billion prize a year ago this month.
The Mega Millions drawing for the massive prize comes about a week after a Powerball ticket sold at a convenience store in Los Angeles matched all numbers to win a $1.08 billion prize – the third-largest Powerball jackpot.
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Junior's Rolls Out a Dessert Fit for The King: Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana is Winner of National Cheesecake Day Flavor Contest
BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Elvis Presley is the original rock 'n' roll legend, and Junior's is the original cheesecake legend. So, it is more than appropriate that peanut butter chocolate and banana – inspired by Elvis' favorite sandwich -- is now the newest limited edition Junior's cheesecake flavor, the result of a national flavor contest held in the lead-up to National Cheesecake Day, this coming Sunday, July 30.
Out of more than 5,000 entries across the country, Thomas Zahorec, from Greenville, South Carolina, channeled his inner King when submitting the winning flavor.
"Elvis had his numerous number one hits, and we have ours," said Alan Rosen, owner of Junior's. "So, I can't think of a better way to celebrate National Cheesecake Day than by creating this new flavor to honor the King, himself. Because just as you 'can't help falling in love' with Elvis, I know you won't be able to resist this peanut butter chocolate banana cheesecake. My deepest congratulations goes to Mr. Zahorec for inspiring our 25th flavor."
Rosen said that in addition to a $2500 cash prize, Zahorec will win a cheesecake a month for a year, including one of the new flavor, of course. And Junior's lovers around the country are also winners because the peanut butter chocolate banana cheesecake will be available for a limited time in Junior's restaurants and by mail order. This limited edition flavor will be available in various sizes through Labor Day.
About Junior's
Since the 1950s, Junior's Restaurant and Bakery in Brooklyn, New York has been famous for great food, great fun, great service, and, of course, the World's Most Famous Cheesecake. Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, Junior's Restaurant and Bakery's menu features New York and Brooklyn comfort food dishes ranging from classic New York deli sandwiches piled high, famous 10 oz. steak burgers, salads, jumbo half pound hot dogs, fresh seafood and a full-service bar. For more information, visit juniorscheesecake.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – When pounding rain and lightning force you to take cover inside, a warm shower might be an inviting thought, but experts warn it could be more dangerous than you think.
Lightning can travel through plumbing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
It’s not just showers that should be avoided, but all activities that use water from the home’s pipes, including bathing, washing dishes and washing hands.
“The risk of lightning traveling through plumbing might be less with plastic pipes than with metal pipes,” the CDC says. “However, it is best to avoid any contact with plumbing and running water during a lightning storm to reduce your risk of being struck.”
Just to illustrate how powerful lightning can be inside your home, in May 2022, lightning traveled through the exhaust vent of an Oklahoma apartment building and shattered a toilet in one of the units, leaving the walls and ceiling above it covered in soot.
Here are some other precautions to take when a thunderstorm approaches:
- You want to take shelter in a fully enclosed building and stay away from windows.
- Do not use a corded phone, you can use a cordless phone or a cell phone.
- Do not touch other electronic equipment including computers, hair dryers, game systems and more as lightning can travel through electrical systems.
- If you’re outside, do not take shelter under a tree. If the tree gets struck by lightning it can go through the tree and into you.
- Stay out of the water, you don’t want to be in a pool or lake.
- “Do NOT lie on the ground,” the CDC says. “Lightning causes electric currents along the top of the ground that can be deadly more than 100 feet away. Get inside a safe location; no place outside is safe.” If you can’t get inside or somewhere safe, stay away from tall trees and, as a last resort, crouch down in a ball-like position, tucking your head and covering your ears.
According to the CDC, about 10% of people die after lightning strikes them, usually from a heart attack.
The U.S. averaged 43 reported lightning fatalities every year from 1989 to 2018, according to the National Weather Service. The odds of getting struck by lightning are 1 in 15,300, but that probability could be higher depending on the state – strikes are more common in Texas and Florida, for instance – and the amount of work or recreational outdoor activity the person does. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/is-it-safe-to-shower-during-a-thunderstorm/ | 2023-07-28T23:05:04 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/is-it-safe-to-shower-during-a-thunderstorm/ |
What can I do with the Mega Millions jackpot in Massachusetts?
The chances of taking home tonight’s Mega Millions’ $910 million jackpot are about one in 302 million, but it isn’t impossible. And if there’s a chance, albeit a small one, thousands of Massachusetts’ lottery hopefuls will continue to dream of the day their ticket gets called and they become overnight millionaires.
It wouldn't be the first time someone from Massachusetts has struck it big. Historically, there have been three jackpot winners from Massachusetts, with one winner receiving a whopping $294 million in 2004. Friday's jackpot will be more than three times that amount.
If a Massachusetts player wins this jackpot, they'll have the option to take the $910 million in 30 payments over 29 years, or the one-time cash option of a lower amount — in this case around $464 million — which is what most winners choose.
And even after a 5% state income tax of around $23 million and a 24% federal tax of around $111 million, that leaves $330 million to use however you’d like.
So, that begs the question: what would you do with $330 million in Massachusetts?
Bring Tom Brady back to Massachusetts
In a devastating blow to Patriots’ fans, Tom Brady left his longtime Massachusetts fans behind in 2020, but there may be a chance to get him out of retirement and bring him back onto the Gillette field with $330 million. The jackpot easily tops Brady’s latest Tampa Bay Buccaneers contract of $75 million, leaving plenty of room to spare. More of a Celtics fan? Bring four-time NBA champion LeBron James to TD Garden by topping his current two-year Los Angeles Lakers contract of $97 million.
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Move to Boston, Cape Cod, or the Berkshires – or all three
Those painfully expensive properties you like to fantasize about? They're now in your price range. Take a bath in one of six full marble clad baths in your $38 million luxury Boston penthouse. Choose a bottle from your 5,000-bottle wine cellar and have a glass (or two) on a private sandy beach at your $30 million Cape Cod oasis. Escape to a $7 million 119-acre Berkshires retreat with a heated saltwater lap pool and hot tub. Wherever you decide to relocate, you can finally use the search filter “high to low”.
Send a thousand students to Harvard on four-year scholarships
Massachusetts is known for its many prestigious universities – from MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Brandeis, and many more. According to U.S. News, Harvard University’s tuition for one year is just over $57,000. That’s $228,000 for four years. Those looking to use their money for good can send more than 1,000 students to Harvard, or a similarly priced university, with a full, four-year scholarship.
Make your “Wildest Dreams” come true
Missed Taylor's sold-out Eras tour at Gillette? You must have good “Karma” because with $330 million, you can afford to buy out her entire stadium show 25 times over.
A lifetime’s supply of Sam Adams beer
Sam Adam’s most expensive product is their Utopias beer, a rare brew with an almost 30 percent alcohol content, making it illegal in 15 states. The beer retails for $200, meaning you can buy more than 1.6 million bottles with your jackpot winning. That’s enough to last a lifetime.
But seriously, what should I do?
According to reporting by Medora Lee for USA Today, if you win the lottery, you should stay quiet, get organized, and make a plan. Get a tax attorney, a tax accountant, and a financial advisor right away. Try to stay anonymous if you can.
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Prosecutors urge judge to jail Sam Bankman-Fried, saying there are no conditions to stop him from witness tampering
By Kara Scannell, CNN
(CNN) — Federal prosecutors urged a judge to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail to stop him from tampering with witnesses before his criminal fraud trial, saying there are likely no conditions that the cryptocurrency entrepreneur will abide by to satisfy their concerns.
“The defendant’s attempts to tamper with witnesses and interfere with the Government’s and public’s right to a fair trial and the due administration of justice, and his pattern of circumventing his bail conditions in that pursuit, demonstrate that no set of pretrial release conditions can adequately assure the safety of the community and that the defendant is unlikely to fully abide by any conditions of release,” prosecutors wrote.
The additional arguments were made in a court filing Friday — following a hearing on Wednesday when prosecutors first asked the judge to detain the co-founder of FTX. Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to multiple conspiracy and fraud charges. He is set to go to trial in October.
Prosecutors point to a series of actions taken by Bankman-Fried, including contacting potential witnesses against him, using a virtual private network to subvert monitoring, and speaking with a reporter about former FTX executive Caroline Ellison, who has pleaded guilty and will testify against him.
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys argued that he has a right to defend himself and to speak with reporters.
“The defendant’s argument that the defendant did nothing other than exercise his First Amendment rights is a red herring. Witness tampering is not constitutionally protected speech,” prosecutors wrote.
Bankman-Fried’s attorneys have until next week to file their response.
The charges against Bankman-Fried stem from what prosecutors have characterized as one of the biggest financial frauds in US history. They say that Bankman-Fried orchestrated a massive scheme, stealing deposits from his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, to finance risky bets at his hedge fund, funnel contributions to American politicians and underwrite a luxury lifestyle for himself and his employees in the Bahamas.
– CNN’s Allison Morrow contributed to this report
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Spencer Steer Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 28
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 6:25 PM EDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
On Friday, Spencer Steer (.289 slugging percentage in past 10 games, with zero home runs) and the Cincinnati Reds play the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose starting pitcher will be Bobby Miller. First pitch is at 10:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his most recent game (0-for-3) against the Brewers.
Spencer Steer Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Friday, July 28, 2023
- Game Time: 10:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Bobby Miller
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +250)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +170)
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Spencer Steer At The Plate
- Steer leads Cincinnati with 100 hits and an OBP of .360, plus a team-best slugging percentage of .455.
- Among qualified hitters in baseball, his batting average ranks 36th, his on-base percentage ranks 26th, and he is 52nd in the league in slugging.
- Steer has reached base via a hit in 63 games this year (of 99 played), and had multiple hits in 28 of those games.
- He has homered in 14.1% of his games in 2023 (14 of 99), and 3.3% of his trips to the plate.
- Steer has an RBI in 37 of 99 games this season, with multiple RBI in 15 of them. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- In 43.4% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had six games with multiple runs (6.1%).
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Spencer Steer Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Dodgers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers have the 20th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.50).
- The Dodgers allow the seventh-fewest home runs in baseball (112 total, 1.1 per game).
- The Dodgers are sending Miller (6-1) to make his 11th start of the season. He is 6-1 with a 4.28 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 54 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Saturday, the right-hander tossed six innings against the Texas Rangers, allowing three earned runs while surrendering seven hits.
- The 24-year-old has an ERA of 4.28, with 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings, in 10 games this season. Opponents are hitting .236 against him.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — After being handed a significant NCAA penalty for his role in football recruiting violations at the University of Tennessee, former Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt has returned to his high school alma mater as a teacher.
Dekalb County Schools Superintendent Wayne Lyles confirmed that Pruitt has been hired as a physical education teacher at Plainview High School in Rainsville, Alabama. He will also work as a junior high boys’ basketball coach.
His father, Dale, currently serves as Plainview High School’s head football coach.
He was an all-state defensive back at the high school in the 1990s. After working as a graduate assistant at the University of Alabama, Pruitt joined his father’s coaching staff at Plainview as a defensive backs coach in 1998 and as defensive coordinator in 2000.
Pruitt was issued a six-year show-cause penalty by the NCAA earlier this month for ‘hundreds’ of football recruiting violations that occurred during his three-year tenure as Tennessee’s head football coach.
The show-cause penalty means the NCAA would have to approve his hiring by a member school for the next six years. Three other unnamed football personnel received show-cause penalties ranging from two to 10 years.
Tennessee was also forced to officially vacate all 11 wins from the 2019 and 2020 seasons under Pruitt as part of the sanctions. His official final record at Tennessee is now 5-19, and the school’s all-time record is 856-410-53. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/jeremy-pruitt-returns-to-his-high-school-alma-mater-as-pe-teacher/ | 2023-07-28T23:05:11 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/jeremy-pruitt-returns-to-his-high-school-alma-mater-as-pe-teacher/ |
Residents without power prepare for extreme heat, try to keep food from spoiling
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SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (WXYZ) — Some people in metro Detroit are estimated to be in the dark until Sunday as many are bracing for extreme heat Friday.
The timing of the storm was not ideal and could be potentially dangerous for people who lost power after storms Wednesday.
Cleophus Henley, who lives on Magnolia Avenue in Southfield, spent his morning cleaning up tree limbs.
Henley says he does have a bigger concern. His electricity is out, which means the refrigerator isn’t running.
“I did a lot of fishing this year. I caught all that fish, cleaned it up and got it in the freezer, and don’t want it to get ruined. So, I got to make a decision between today and tomorrow,” Henley said.
Henley’s wife Linda has been trying to keep electronics charged. For now, she’s using her car.
“Got to charge it up to stay in contact with relatives,” Linda Henley said.
Linda Henley says she watched the storm closely. It was fast and the winds were intense.
Her faith in the power grid wasn’t as strong as her husband’s.
“As soon as I turn around, it went out just like that. Well, here goes the power, and I am not expecting it to come on anytime soon,” Linda Henley said.
Redford resident Michelle Beauchamp says DTE Energy always tends to show up too late in this neighborhood. She doesn’t have a generator or anywhere else to go.
“This is just not right. It’s not fair. It’s 90 degrees outside. It’s not fair,” Beauchamp said.
She says by Friday, all her food will likely spoil.
“What am I going to do?” Beauchamp said.
Bob Burr was hoping to save his food, but his generator is just not the little engine that could.
“I ordered another one that will start the refrigerator,” Burr said.
As Cleophus Henley mentioned, there are decisions to make and sometimes, you have to get creative.
“Right now, I just got a cooler with ice and water,” Cleophus Henley said.
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Arthur Rinderknech vs. Jurij Rodionov: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
Arthur Rinderknech will meet Jurij Rodionov in the ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023 semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
Compared to the underdog Rodionov (+110), Rinderknech is the favorite (-155) to advance to the final.
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Arthur Rinderknech vs. Jurij Rodionov Match Information
- Tournament: The ATP Challenger Zug, Switzerland Men Singles 2023
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennisclub Zug
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Arthur Rinderknech vs. Jurij Rodionov Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Arthur Rinderknech has a 60.8% chance to win.
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Arthur Rinderknech vs. Jurij Rodionov Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Rinderknech took down Adrian Andreev 6-2, 6-2.
- Rodionov will look to stay on track after a 6-3, 7-5 victory over No. 158-ranked Zizou Bergs in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Rinderknech has played 25.1 games per match (23.6 in best-of-three matches) in his 46 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces).
- Rinderknech has played seven matches on clay over the past year, and 26.6 games per match (22.0 in best-of-three matches).
- Rodionov has played 24 matches in the past year across all court surfaces, averaging 23.0 games per match (22.9 in best-of-three matches) and winning 48.8% of those games.
- Rodionov has averaged 23.8 games per match (23.6 in best-of-three matches) and 9.5 games per set in 16 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- In two head-to-head meetings, Rinderknech and Rodionov have split 1-1. Rodionov came out on top in their most recent clash on February 11, 2023, winning 7-6, 6-1.
- In terms of sets, Rodionov has taken three versus Rinderknech (60.0%), while Rinderknech has captured two.
- Rodionov has bettered Rinderknech in 24 of 44 total games between them, good for a 54.5% winning percentage.
- In their two matches against each other, Rinderknech and Rodionov are averaging 22.0 games and 2.5 sets.
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Watch for fireballs from two meteor showers in the coming days
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
(CNN) — Two meteor showers, the Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids, are both expected to peak during the evenings of July 30 and 31.
They will have to compete with a bright moon that’s 95% full, but the Alpha Capricornids may still produce some scintillating fireballs that could outshine the moon.
The Delta Aquariids, also called the Southern Delta Aquariids, will favor skywatchers in the Southern Hemisphere, although they will still be visible in the Northern Hemisphere (especially across the southern US) but lower on the horizon, according to EarthSky.
The best time to see the Delta Aquariids is around 2 a.m. in the regions where the shower is visible, but the full moon may make these faint meteors more difficult to see. Expect to see the Delta Aquariids mixed in with the brighter Perseid meteor shower, which has already begun but won’t peak until mid-August, according to the American Meteor Society.
If you’re unable to see the Delta Aquariids during their peak, there will be other chances because the shower lasts until August 21. Some of the meteors leave glowing gas trails that linger for a few seconds after they burn up in Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Delta Aquariids appear to come from the constellation Aquarius, visible in the southern part of the sky, while the Perseids will show up in the northern part of the sky. The Aquariids take their name from the third-brightest star in the Aquarius constellation, called Delta.
The Delta Aquariid meteor shower is created by comet 96P/Machholz. The comet, which completes an orbit around the sun every five years, was discovered by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz in 1986.
Meanwhile, the much weaker and smaller Alpha Capricornids meteor shower typically produces about five visible meteors per hour during its peak, compared with 20 Delta Aquariids meteors per hour.
However, the Alpha Capricornids make up for this small showing by creating especially bright fireballs, and they’re observable in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, according to the American Meteor Society.
Earlier this week, the shower unexpectedly produced multiple fireballs well before the peak, according to EarthSky. And fortunately, the full moon won’t obscure their light because they’re more luminous than Venus, one of the brightest objects in our night sky.
Patience is key for viewing the meteors. It can take up to 45 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark for optimal viewing. The meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, but they look the brightest against the darkest sky, which is straight up.
The best way to view meteor showers is by sitting in a reclining lawn chair or lying on your back and looking up at the sky with a wide view. No special equipment is needed, but it helps to be as far from artificial light as possible. If you live in an urban area, you might want to take a drive to avoid city lights, which can make the meteor shower seem faint.
Here are some of the other celestial events to anticipate for the rest of the year.
Meteor showers
Each of the remaining meteor showers expected to peak this year will be most visible from late evening until dawn in areas without light pollution. Here are the events’ peak dates:
● Perseids: August 12-13
● Orionids: October 20-21
● Southern Taurids: November 4-5
● Northern Taurids: November 11-12
● Leonids: November 17-18
● Geminids: December 13-14
● Ursids: December 21-22
Full moons and supermoons
While most years have 12 full moons, 2023 will have 13 of these lunar events. There will be two supermoons in August, including a blue moon, which will be the closest moon to Earth this year, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The fourth and final supermoon in 2023 will rise on September 29.
Here are the full moons remaining in 2023, according to the Farmers’ Almanac:
● August 1: Sturgeon moon
● August 30: Blue moon
● September 29: Harvest moon
● October 28: Hunter’s moon
● November 27: Beaver moon
● December 26: Cold moon
Lunar and solar eclipses
People across North, Central and South America will be able to see an annular solar eclipse on October 14. During the solar eclipse, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth at or near its farthest point from Earth. The moon will appear smaller than the sun and encircled by a glowing halo.
To avoid damage to the eyes, viewers should wear eclipse glasses.
A partial lunar eclipse will also take place on October 28. Only part of the moon will pass into shadow as the sun, Earth and moon will not completely align. This partial eclipse will be viewable in Europe, Asia, Australia, parts of North America and much of South Africa.
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(KTLA) — Come on Barbie, let’s go to the theme park!
Mattel is launching its first-ever theme park in Glendale, Arizona. Mattel Adventure Park will highlight all of its brands such as Barbie, Masters of the Universe, Hot Wheels and Thomas & Friends.
The city first made the announcement last year in a press release. However, there’s no exact date as to when the park will open, but according to Travel and Leisure, it will open sometime in 2024.
“From rides and attractions that appeal to the tiniest of tots, to a double-looping launch coaster designed for speed, to a flying theater adventure that shoots for the stars – Mattel Adventure Park is built to delight guests of all ages,” the park’s website read.
Barbie fans will be able to live in their own Barbie world by hanging out in the Barbie Beach House. The exhibit will feature the Barbie flying theater, which will take “riders on a journey from deep underwater to outer space.”
“Our unique indoor/outdoor design keeps your family cool and comfortable on even the hottest Arizona day with acres of air-conditioned space for your enjoyment,” the park website read.
The space is to be about nine acres large.
Visitors can even dress like Barbie through the Dream Closet Experience.
The “state-of-the-art hologram technology” will “help curate the ultimate wardrobe.”
Guests can rest their feet and try a signature pink cocktail at the Barbie Rooftop while also enjoying “panoramic views of the property.”
“Mattel Adventure Park will be even more engaging and entertaining at launch, with the addition of these iconic Mattel brand experiences,” said Julie Freeland, Senior Director, Global Location Based Entertainment, Mattel. “The expansion of this flagship attraction brings together the largest representation of Mattel’s beloved brands in a live space as never before.”
The park currently has a Facebook page and recently posted a graphic featuring an animation of some of the experiences expected.
The park will feature a nine-hole mini golf attraction that will also be an immersive experience with some Mattel Games.
Imagine playing golf while also dealing with some Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots.
For fans of Master of the Universe, the iconic Castle Grayskull will be transformed into an over 4,500 square-foot laser tag arena. Fans will “have the power to fight for Eternia.”
“We are extremely excited to add Barbie, Masters of the Universe and Mattel Games-themed attractions and rides to an already outstanding offering in development at the first-ever Mattel Adventure Park. We have spared no expense to bring these iconic brands to life in ways that will delight visitors of all ages for years to come,” said Mark Cornell, President, Epic Resort Destinations.
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Diane Parry vs. Clara Burel: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Ladies Open Lausanne
Diane Parry will meet Clara Burel in the Ladies Open Lausanne semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
In this Semifinal matchup, Burel is favored (-125) against Parry (+100) .
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Diane Parry vs. Clara Burel Match Information
- Tournament: The Ladies Open Lausanne
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: Tennis Club du Stade-Lausanne
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Diane Parry vs. Clara Burel Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Clara Burel has a 55.6% chance to win.
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Diane Parry vs. Clara Burel Trends and Insights
- Parry is coming off a 6-3, 6-2 win over No. 70-ranked Alize Cornet in Friday's quarterfinals.
- In her most recent scheduled match, Burel was handed a walkover win over Ana Bogdan at the Ladies Open Lausanne.
- Parry has played 28 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces), and 21.9 games per match.
- On clay, Parry has played five matches over the past 12 months, totaling 22.8 games per match while winning 49.1% of games.
- Burel is averaging 23.2 games per match in her 28 matches played in the past year across all court types, winning 50.9% of those games.
- Burel has averaged 22.7 games per match and 10.0 games per set in 11 matches on clay courts in the past year.
- Parry and Burel have matched up once dating back to 2015, in the Mutua Madrid Open qualifying round. Burel was victorious in that matchup 6-4, 6-7, 6-4.
- Burel and Parry have faced off in three sets against each other, with Burel taking two of them.
- Burel and Parry have matched up in 33 total games, with Burel taking 18 and Parry claiming 15.
- Burel and Parry have squared off one time, and they have averaged 33.0 games and 3.0 sets per match.
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Warm, Sunny Weekend!
No major changes expected for the overall weather pattern in the western U.S. However, subtle movements may have bigger changes for us in the coming week. The ridge to our southeast nudges back into the weekend with a warmer, sunnier trend. We’ll swing back the other way next week with a much cooler pattern while the longer term models are showing heat over California by the end of the first week of August. Looks like we’re in for a bit of a ride!
AIR QUALITY: Good
Friday: Mostly sunny on the coast with clouds favoring the south side of the bay during the afternoon. Expect mostly sunny skies elsewhere with a few high clouds moving through from the south. Coastal highs will top out in the mid 60s to upper 70s—warmest on the north side of the bay—with 80s to around 106ºF inland. Northwesterly onshore winds at the coast becoming windy for the valleys and gaps during the late afternoon and early evening.
***GALE WARNING***
In effect Sunday 9 PM to Sunday 3AM for Coastal Waters from Point Pinos to Point Piedras Blancas California out to 10 nm.
* Northwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 40 kt expected.
* Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for severe conditions.
Overnight: Low clouds will take a while to show back up around the coast, but by morning you can expect gray coastal skies. Some of the low clouds will push a bit inland to Salinas and the northern portion of the Salinas Valley. Patchy fog, dense in spots especially near the water, is possible. Lows will be a touch warmer, with widespread 50s. Hills in the 60s.
Saturday: Mostly sunny on the coast with clouds (partly cloudy) favoring the south side of the bay during the afternoon. Expect mostly sunny skies elsewhere with a few high clouds moving through from the south. Coastal highs will top out in the low 60s to mid 70s—warmest on the north side of the bay—with upper 70s to around 105ºF inland. Northwesterly onshore winds at the coast becoming windy for the valleys and gaps during the late afternoon and early evening.
Extended: Nice weather will continue on Sunday, with similar temps to Saturday on the coast. Inland areas may be a couple of degrees warmer! Low clouds are likely to return late Sunday for coastal areas, the start of a cooler, cloudier trend into the work week. Most of next week is looking cooler than normal, though there are some indications we’ll start warming back up quickly next weekend. ADVERTISING
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for August 4th – 10th calls for the likelihood of ABOVE normal temperatures and ABOVE normal precipitation. Note: Little to no precipitation typically falls this time of year.
- ENSO (El Niño/La Niña) STATUS: El Niño Advisory
- Forecast: Moderate to strong El Niño expected this winter.
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Laslo Djere vs. Zhizhen Zhang: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg European Open
Laslo Djere will take on Zhizhen Zhang in the Hamburg European Open semifinals on Saturday, July 29.
Djere is getting -175 odds to earn a spot in the final over Zhang (+135).
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Laslo Djere vs. Zhizhen Zhang Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg European Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Laslo Djere vs. Zhizhen Zhang Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Laslo Djere has a 63.6% chance to win.
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Laslo Djere vs. Zhizhen Zhang Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Djere advanced past No. 18-ranked Lorenzo Musetti, 7-5, 6-3.
- Zhang will look to stay on track after a 6-4, 6-4 win over No. 61-ranked Daniel Altmaier in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 57 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Djere has played 25.4 games per match (23.6 in best-of-three matches) and won 50.1% of them.
- Djere has played 21 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 22.3 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches).
- In the past 12 months, Zhang has played 46 total matches (across all court surfaces), winning 50.0% of the games. He averages 25.7 games per match (23.7 in best-of-three matches) and 10.1 games per set.
- In 14 matches on clay courts in the past year, Zhang has averaged 26.7 games per match (26.6 in best-of-three matches) and 10.7 games per set, winning 50.0% of the games.
- Dating back to 2015, Djere and Zhang have not competed against each other.
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DELMAR, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Many across social media feel confused about Twitter rebranding its iconic bird logo to a simple “X” symbol. At his Albany, New York-area studio on Thursday, the artist behind the original logo talked about its creation and leaving the brand behind.
Phil Pascuzzo is hard at work in his quiet suburban home in Delmar, mainly designing the inviting covers that tempt you to pick up a good book. You’d never guess he’s the designer of the world-famous Twitter bird icon.
“It’s so interesting. Most people have no idea,” laughed Pascuzzo. “It’s kind of like how Milton Glaser created the ‘I love New York’ logo, but when you see the I ‘heart’ NY, it doesn’t feel like anybody did it. It’s just there.”
Pascuzzo has run Pepco Studio, his independent freelance design studio, for the last 20 years, but he said that his first graphic design job out of college was where he met Biz Stone, one of the three Twitter co-founders. “We were both junior designers, so we were lowest on the rank, but he would just after every subway ride have all these wild ideas and we would just talk about them,” Pascuzzo recollected with NEWS10’s Mikhaela Singleton. “I would do these little doodles on Post-it notes, and he just liked my drawings.”
He said that Stone approached him around 2005 looking for a unique bird-themed design. The iStock image by Simon Oxley that was used when Twitter first launched couldn’t be its official logo, as that would violate iStock’s terms of service.
“I started sketching different birds. We knew we were going with blue, which — it’s great for like, feeling optimistic, feels like the future, blue skies,” Pascuzzo explained. “[Stone] had a rough idea, but he really left it to me to get creative with. He’s got a great sense of humor so he had all these ideas for little things he wanted the bird to be doing.”
Pascuzzo said that first bird design took about 30 minutes and a chat between friends, landing him $500 for the work. “I was in an apartment in Arbor Hill at the time and thought, $500 will make rent so yeah let’s do it,” he said. “Twitter wasn’t some huge thing like it is now that everybody is on.”
For years, he continued creating many marketing items that helped Twitter take flight. Shifting the bird’s design to a silhouette, Pascuzzo then sold the design to the studio outright in 2010, when it took shape in the most recent version used from 2012 to 2023. He added that he did reapproach his friend and the company to renegotiate pay for the logo design when Twitter truly took off.
“When I realized the weight of what this icon had become, I went back with an intellectual property lawyer, and it was extremely cordial,” Pascuzzo said. “It didn’t give me anything close to Elon Musk money, but it was a down payment on a house.”
On the topic of Musk and the many changes since his takeover of the social media giant in October, Pascuzzo said the news to clip the bird’s wings for a simple “X” symbol came as a surprise. “I was like, ‘What?’ What is this white — because it’s just a Unicode symbol,” he said. “It’s not even a logo. Nobody even designed it.”
After 20 years in the business, he said that he’s learned not to get too attached to any creation, so he’s not sad to see the bird go. But he worries that Musk’s future for Twitter leaves behind much of what made the platform unique.
“He seems obsessed with the ‘X.’ I mean you look at his child with Grimes — X Æ A-Xii — he loves X. It’s everywhere. So in his world, it may make sense, but I think, in the Twitter world, it doesn’t really make much sense,” Pascuzzo concluded. “I feel he threw away a lot of brand equity. The name, the color, the language — it’s so ubiquitous. It’s part of our lexicon.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/original-designer-behind-twitter-bird-icon-talks-the-x-rebrand/ | 2023-07-28T23:05:25 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/original-designer-behind-twitter-bird-icon-talks-the-x-rebrand/ |
Watch for fireballs from two meteor showers in the coming days
Originally Published: 28 JUL 23 17:29 ET
Updated: 28 JUL 23 18:28 ETBy Ashley Strickland, CNN
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(CNN) — Two meteor showers, the Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids, are both expected to peak during the evenings of July 30 and 31.
They will have to compete with a bright moon that’s 95% full, but the Alpha Capricornids may still produce some scintillating fireballs that could outshine the moon.
The Delta Aquariids, also called the Southern Delta Aquariids, will favor skywatchers in the Southern Hemisphere, although they will still be visible in the Northern Hemisphere (especially across the southern US) but lower on the horizon, according to EarthSky.
The best time to see the Delta Aquariids is around 2 a.m. in the regions where the shower is visible, but the full moon may make these faint meteors more difficult to see. Expect to see the Delta Aquariids mixed in with the brighter Perseid meteor shower, which has already begun but won’t peak until mid-August, according to the American Meteor Society.
If you’re unable to see the Delta Aquariids during their peak, there will be other chances because the shower lasts until August 21. Some of the meteors leave glowing gas trails that linger for a few seconds after they burn up in Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Delta Aquariids appear to come from the constellation Aquarius, visible in the southern part of the sky, while the Perseids will show up in the northern part of the sky. The Aquariids take their name from the third-brightest star in the Aquarius constellation, called Delta.
The Delta Aquariid meteor shower is created by comet 96P/Machholz. The comet, which completes an orbit around the sun every five years, was discovered by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz in 1986.
Meanwhile, the much weaker and smaller Alpha Capricornids meteor shower typically produces about five visible meteors per hour during its peak, compared with 20 Delta Aquariids meteors per hour.
However, the Alpha Capricornids make up for this small showing by creating especially bright fireballs, and they’re observable in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, according to the American Meteor Society.
Earlier this week, the shower unexpectedly produced multiple fireballs well before the peak, according to EarthSky. And fortunately, the full moon won’t obscure their light because they’re more luminous than Venus, one of the brightest objects in our night sky.
Patience is key for viewing the meteors. It can take up to 45 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark for optimal viewing. The meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, but they look the brightest against the darkest sky, which is straight up.
The best way to view meteor showers is by sitting in a reclining lawn chair or lying on your back and looking up at the sky with a wide view. No special equipment is needed, but it helps to be as far from artificial light as possible. If you live in an urban area, you might want to take a drive to avoid city lights, which can make the meteor shower seem faint.
Here are some of the other celestial events to anticipate for the rest of the year.
Meteor showers
Each of the remaining meteor showers expected to peak this year will be most visible from late evening until dawn in areas without light pollution. Here are the events’ peak dates:
● Perseids: August 12-13
● Orionids: October 20-21
● Southern Taurids: November 4-5
● Northern Taurids: November 11-12
● Leonids: November 17-18
● Geminids: December 13-14
● Ursids: December 21-22
Full moons and supermoons
While most years have 12 full moons, 2023 will have 13 of these lunar events. There will be two supermoons in August, including a blue moon, which will be the closest moon to Earth this year, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The fourth and final supermoon in 2023 will rise on September 29.
Here are the full moons remaining in 2023, according to the Farmers’ Almanac:
● August 1: Sturgeon moon
● August 30: Blue moon
● September 29: Harvest moon
● October 28: Hunter’s moon
● November 27: Beaver moon
● December 26: Cold moon
Lunar and solar eclipses
People across North, Central and South America will be able to see an annular solar eclipse on October 14. During the solar eclipse, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth at or near its farthest point from Earth. The moon will appear smaller than the sun and encircled by a glowing halo.
To avoid damage to the eyes, viewers should wear eclipse glasses.
A partial lunar eclipse will also take place on October 28. Only part of the moon will pass into shadow as the sun, Earth and moon will not completely align. This partial eclipse will be viewable in Europe, Asia, Australia, parts of North America and much of South Africa.
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Arantxa Rus: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Hamburg
In the final of the Hamburg on Saturday, Noma Noha Akugue (ranked No. 207) takes on Arantxa Rus (No. 60).
Rus is the favorite (-300) to win the title against Noha Akugue (+240).
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Arantxa Rus Match Information
- Tournament: The Hamburg
- Round: Finals
- Date: Saturday, July 29
- Venue: MatchMaker Sports Gmbh
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Court Surface: Clay
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Arantxa Rus Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Arantxa Rus has a 75.0% chance to win.
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Noma Noha Akugue vs. Arantxa Rus Trends and Insights
- By taking down No. 101-ranked Diana Shnaider 6-3, 6-3 on Friday, Noha Akugue reached the finals.
- In the semifinals on Friday, Rus clinched a victory against No. 225-ranked Daria Saville, winning 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.
- Noha Akugue has played 12 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), and 22.5 games per match.
- On clay, Noha Akugue has played seven matches over the past 12 months, totaling 25.3 games per match while winning 50.8% of games.
- Rus has played 21 matches in the past 12 months across all court types, averaging 21.6 games per match and winning 53.2% of those games.
- Rus has averaged 20.6 games per match and 9.5 games per set through 12 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months.
- Dating back to 2015, Noha Akugue and Rus have not competed against each other.
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV) – Guests at a seaside restaurant in South Carolina had quite the sight on Sunday as several sharks swam around the dock at Hudson’s Seafood on Hilton Head Island.
A video shows at least five sharks circling in the shallow waters of Skull Creek.
The video was taken after a fishing charter returned to the dock and threw out scraps into the water, according to Nexstar’s WSAV.
Only days before, the Town of Hilton Head also reported a possible shark bite about 10 miles down the shore. A man said he was bitten on the foot by a shark while swimming in waist-deep water.
A portion of the beach was closed after the bite.
Shark attacks actually hit a 10-year-low in 2022, with some spikes in regional hot spots, according to the International Shark Attack File, which maintains a database of shark attacks.
They recommend swimmers swim with a buddy, stay close to shore, not swim at dawn or dusk and not swim around schools of fish or where people are fishing, among other tips.
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Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly are heading to the NL West-leading Dodgers in a trade with the White Sox
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers, who have made pitching a priority in advance of the trade deadline, announced Friday that they’ve acquired Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly in a trade with the Chicago White Sox.
The NL West-leading Dodgers will send outfielder Trayce Thompson, pitcher Nick Nastrini and reliever Jordan Leasure to the White Sox.
Lynn has been mostly underwhelming this season. The 36-year-old right-hander is 6-9 with a 6.18 ERA and leads the American League in earned runs (79) and home runs allowed (28).
But Lynn has 139 strikeouts in 115 innings and 10.9 per nine innings. In June, Lynn struck out 16 in a game against Seattle, setting a major-league mark for most strikeouts in a game by a pitcher with an ERA above 6.00.
He was an All-Star for the White Sox in 2021 and shortly after signed a $38 million, two-year contract extension that included a club option.
Lynn began the 2022 season on the injured list with a meniscus tear suffered in spring training. He returned in mid-June and finished the season with an 8-7 record in 21 starts and a 3.99 ERA. He recorded 121 strikeouts in 121 2/3 innings.
Lynn has spent most of his career in the AL. Besides the White Sox, he has pitched for Minnesota, the New York Yankees and Texas. He began his career with St. Louis, and missed the 2016 season with them after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
He won a World Series with the Cardinals in 2011, his debut season in the majors. The following year he earned his first All-Star berth.
Kelly returns to Los Angeles for his second stint with the Dodgers. The hard-throwing right-handed reliever recently returned from the injured list for elbow inflammation.
Kelly pitched for the Dodgers from 2019-21, winning the World Series during the pandemic-delayed 2020 season. He had a 3.59 ERA in 105 1/3 innings during that span.
Kelly isn’t the only former Dodger to land back in Los Angeles.
Earlier this week, the team acquired utilityman Kiké Hernández from the Boston Red Sox three years after he departed Los Angeles for the East Coast.
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(Stacker) – American life expectancy dropped in 2021 for the second year in a row and represents the largest two-year decline since 1921-1923. The average life span across the entire population is 76.1 years—the lowest since 1996. Life expectancy can be affected by numerous factors, from genetics to air quality to economic opportunities.
Stacker used data from the 2023 County Health Rankings to determine the 25 states where people live the longest. The 2023 County Health Rankings values were calculated using mortality counts from the 2018-2020 National Center for Health Statistics. The U.S. Census 2021 American Community Survey and America’s Health Rankings Senior Report 2023 data were also used to provide demographics on the senior population of each state and the state’s rank on senior health care, respectively. Please note that in the data below, the demographics for Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders were left out due to being less than 0.5% of the senior population. The two exceptions on this list are Utah (0.5%) and Hawaii (7.0%).
Keep reading to see if your home state made the list of areas where people live the longest.
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#25. Maine
– Average life expectancy: 78.6
– Total seniors in the state: 297,101 (21.7% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #12
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.0
— Breakdown by sex: 46.2% male, 53.8% female
— Breakdown by race: 95.4% White, 0.4% Black or African American, 0.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% Asian, 0.2% Native American or Alaska Native
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#24. Maryland
– Average life expectancy: 78.6
– Total seniors in the state: 1,003,383 (16.3% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #13
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.1
— Breakdown by sex: 43.7% male, 56.3% female
— Breakdown by race: 63.2% White, 25.0% Black or African American, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 5.8% Asian, 0.2% Native American or Alaska Native
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#23. Illinois
– Average life expectancy: 78.6
– Total seniors in the state: 2,103,309 (16.6% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #27
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.0
— Breakdown by sex: 44.5% male, 55.5% female
— Breakdown by race: 74.9% White, 11.4% Black or African American, 7.9% Hispanic or Latino, 4.8% Asian, 0.3% Native American or Alaska Native
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#22. Iowa
– Average life expectancy: 78.7
– Total seniors in the state: 567,581 (17.8% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #23
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.1
— Breakdown by sex: 45.8% male, 54.2% female
— Breakdown by race: 94.8% White, 1.3% Black or African American, 1.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% Asian, 0.2% Native American or Alaska Native
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#21. North Dakota
– Average life expectancy: 78.8
– Total seniors in the state: 123,840 (16.0% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #20
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.0
— Breakdown by sex: 46.8% male, 53.2% female
— Breakdown by race: 95.4% White, 0.3% Black or African American, 0.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% Asian, 1.9% Native American or Alaska Native
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#20. Wisconsin
– Average life expectancy: 78.9
– Total seniors in the state: 1,054,247 (17.9% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #10
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.8
— Breakdown by sex: 46.3% male, 53.7% female
— Breakdown by race: 92.4% White, 3.1% Black or African American, 2.0% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% Asian, 0.4% Native American or Alaska Native
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#19. Nebraska
– Average life expectancy: 79.0
– Total seniors in the state: 322,833 (16.4% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #21
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.9
— Breakdown by sex: 45.8% male, 54.2% female
— Breakdown by race: 91.5% White, 2.3% Black or African American, 3.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% Asian, 0.4% Native American or Alaska Native
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#18. Arizona
– Average life expectancy: 79.1
– Total seniors in the state: 1,333,985 (18.3% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #32
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.4
— Breakdown by sex: 46.4% male, 53.6% female
— Breakdown by race: 79.7% White, 2.5% Black or African American, 13.6% Hispanic or Latino, 2.3% Asian, 2.1% Native American or Alaska Native
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#17. Virginia
– Average life expectancy: 79.1
– Total seniors in the state: 1,406,480 (16.3% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #31
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.0
— Breakdown by sex: 44.8% male, 55.2% female
— Breakdown by race: 73.7% White, 16.2% Black or African American, 3.4% Hispanic or Latino, 5.1% Asian, 0.2% Native American or Alaska Native
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#16. Idaho
– Average life expectancy: 79.2
– Total seniors in the state: 314,010 (16.5% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #34
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.8
— Breakdown by sex: 47.6% male, 52.4% female
— Breakdown by race: 91.6% White, 0.2% Black or African American, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% Asian, 0.6% Native American or Alaska Native
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#15. Rhode Island
– Average life expectancy: 79.4
– Total seniors in the state: 200,201 (18.3% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #4
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.4
— Breakdown by sex: 44.3% male, 55.7% female
— Breakdown by race: 86.4% White, 3.2% Black or African American, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.5% Asian, 0.2% Native American or Alaska Native
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#14. New Jersey
– Average life expectancy: 79.5
– Total seniors in the state: 1,563,621 (16.9% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #25
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.2
— Breakdown by sex: 44.0% male, 56.0% female
— Breakdown by race: 70.6% White, 10.0% Black or African American, 11.2% Hispanic or Latino, 7.6% Asian, 0.1% Native American or Alaska Native
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#13. New Hampshire
– Average life expectancy: 79.6
– Total seniors in the state: 267,741 (19.3% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #10
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.7
— Breakdown by sex: 46.5% male, 53.5% female
— Breakdown by race: 95.0% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 1.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.3% Asian, 0.0% Native American or Alaska Native
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#12. Vermont
– Average life expectancy: 79.7
– Total seniors in the state: 133,173 (20.6% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #18
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.6
— Breakdown by sex: 46.9% male, 53.1% female
— Breakdown by race: 95.9% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 0.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% Native American or Alaska Native
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#11. Utah
– Average life expectancy: 79.7
– Total seniors in the state: 388,120 (11.6% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #33
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.7
— Breakdown by sex: 47.2% male, 52.8% female
— Breakdown by race: 89.9% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 6.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.1% Asian, 0.6% Native American or Alaska Native
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#10. Oregon
– Average life expectancy: 79.7
– Total seniors in the state: 789,896 (18.6% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #29
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.8
— Breakdown by sex: 46.1% male, 53.9% female
— Breakdown by race: 88.2% White, 1.0% Black or African American, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 3.0% Asian, 0.6% Native American or Alaska Native
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#9. Florida
– Average life expectancy: 79.7
– Total seniors in the state: 4,598,996 (21.1% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #38
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.9
— Breakdown by sex: 45.5% male, 54.5% female
— Breakdown by race: 73.7% White, 8.9% Black or African American, 16.1% Hispanic or Latino, 2.1% Asian, 0.1% Native American or Alaska Native
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#8. Colorado
– Average life expectancy: 80.0
– Total seniors in the state: 880,167 (15.1% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #9
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.5
— Breakdown by sex: 46.5% male, 53.5% female
— Breakdown by race: 83.6% White, 2.7% Black or African American, 10.9% Hispanic or Latino, 2.3% Asian, 0.7% Native American or Alaska Native
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#7. Connecticut
– Average life expectancy: 80.1
– Total seniors in the state: 649,172 (18.0% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #3
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.4
— Breakdown by sex: 44.5% male, 55.5% female
— Breakdown by race: 82.5% White, 6.7% Black or African American, 7.1% Hispanic or Latino, 2.6% Asian, 0.1% Native American or Alaska Native
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#6. Massachusetts
– Average life expectancy: 80.2
– Total seniors in the state: 1,216,447 (17.4% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #2
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.2
— Breakdown by sex: 44.2% male, 55.8% female
— Breakdown by race: 84.5% White, 4.3% Black or African American, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 4.2% Asian, 0.2% Native American or Alaska Native
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#5. Washington
– Average life expectancy: 80.2
– Total seniors in the state: 1,251,640 (16.2% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #15
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.7
— Breakdown by sex: 46.1% male, 53.9% female
— Breakdown by race: 83.2% White, 2.1% Black or African American, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 7.3% Asian, 0.8% Native American or Alaska Native
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#4. New York
– Average life expectancy: 80.3
– Total seniors in the state: 3,477,337 (17.5% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #6
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.3
— Breakdown by sex: 43.9% male, 56.1% female
— Breakdown by race: 68.0% White, 11.8% Black or African American, 12.0% Hispanic or Latino, 7.3% Asian, 0.3% Native American or Alaska Native
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#3. Minnesota
– Average life expectancy: 80.4
– Total seniors in the state: 959,272 (16.8% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #1
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 72.9
— Breakdown by sex: 46.2% male, 53.8% female
— Breakdown by race: 91.9% White, 2.4% Black or African American, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino, 2.2% Asian, 0.4% Native American or Alaska Native
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#2. California
– Average life expectancy: 81.1
– Total seniors in the state: 5,964,526 (15.2% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #8
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.1
— Breakdown by sex: 45.1% male, 54.9% female
— Breakdown by race: 55.8% White, 5.1% Black or African American, 21.8% Hispanic or Latino, 16.6% Asian, 0.8% Native American or Alaska Native
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#1. Hawaii
– Average life expectancy: 82.3
– Total seniors in the state: 282,567 (19.6% of state population)
– Health care for seniors rank: #22
– Senior demographics:
— Median age: 73.5
— Breakdown by sex: 45.9% male, 54.1% female
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NFL teams are adapting to unrelenting heat as training camps ramp up
By MARK ANDERSON
AP Sports Writer
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The sight of wide receivers Keith Kirkwood and Shaq Davis leaving practice early this week because of heat-related symptoms was nothing new for the New Orleans Saints, with the hot and humid Louisiana weather a test for even the best-conditioned athletes.
The unrelenting, record-breaking heat across the nation this year has made the opening of training camps even more challenging than usual, however, not only for the Saints but teams throughout the NFL.
Scientists have already calculated this will be the hottest July on record, with the Southwest and parts of the South especially hit hard. Most of the Midwest and East also have been affected. That means NFL teams have to be even more mindful than usual about keeping players safe while also getting as much work done as possible before the season begins in September.
Safety has been a centerpiece of the preseason since Minnesota offensive tackle Korey Stringer died on Aug. 1, 2001, after slipping and falling the previous day after a Vikings training camp practice. NFL teams at the time didn’t have medical training for exertional heat stroke.
Some teams are taking extra precautions this year, including more water breaks and early practice times.
“I don’t know all the science and all that stuff, but I do my best to understand it,” Saints quarterback Derek Carr said. “I’ve seen growth … from when I first came in the league to what we talk about now. It’s definitely a difference on the things we talk about, the way we practice, how long we do something … how much time you’re actually accumulating outside during the week.”
Carr is in his first season in New Orleans, so he’s acclimating to the wet, muggy conditions. He spent the previous three seasons with the Raiders in Las Vegas, where the air is dry but temperatures are considerably higher.
“It just feels like your skin is going to fall off,” Carr said of playing in Las Vegas. “It feels like it’s boiling.”
For their part, the Raiders have begun practicing at 8:30 a.m. to avoid the hottest parts of the day but still must contend with temperatures in the triple digits by the time they walk off the field.
The Raiders have an indoor facility but usually practice outside because it’s more spacious and the fields are grass rather than turf. Cool boxes are set up just off the 50-yard line near one of the three practice fields that players use, and coach Josh McDaniels said the team met before camp opened to discuss coping with the conditions.
McDaniels said the key was listening to medical professionals.
“They have a very scientific way to measure (weather and safety conditions) that I’m not really qualified to speak intelligently about,” McDaniels said. “But I understand when they tell me that we’ve entered into a zone where it’s dangerous to be out there with helmets, pads, etc., then we’ll do the right thing.”
Two warm weather teams avoid practicing in the heat altogether. The Arizona Cardinals use their indoor facility and the Dallas Cowboys hold camp in moderate Southern California.
Other teams, particularly those in the hottest parts of the country, have to adapt to the weather.
“The health and safety of the players is the most important thing for our team and our organization,” Houston Texans general manager Nick Caserio said. “Whatever we can do to help the players in that respect, that’s the most important thing. It’s going to be hot wherever you go, but you want to be smart.”
Caserio said some players wear hoodies and sweatpants so they can sweat “and let that heat leave your body. If you don’t, you can potentially be putting yourself at risk.”
For a second consecutive camp, coach Ron Rivera scheduled Washington Commanders practices for 9 a.m. as one way to try to beat the heat. A stretch of record temperatures last year contributed to several soft-tissue injuries, so the staff is taking further steps this time around, from more water breaks to a cooling tent that players are sent to if they begin to feel the effects.
“We’re constantly trying to get them to hydrate and get them focusing on hydrating prior to practice and post-practice,” Rivera said.
Other coaches take a different approach, knowing many early season games are played when temperatures are at their highest.
“You look at our first game against Pittsburgh last year here at home,” Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor said. “On offense, there were over 100 snaps and you played an overtime game. … We want our guys to be ready for that, and we feel like we will.”
Few players go as hard as Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby, who spent part of the offseason sparring with a UFC fighter. He said part of his preparation for the heat is building up the body before camp begins.
“You can’t just train in the air conditioning and then go out and feel like you’re going to be fine in the heat,” Crosby said. “So we’ve done back and forth. I’ve trained inside, I’ve trained outside this offseason, just doing a bunch of different things to get ready for training camp.”
Much is at stake in camp, so players want to be on the field far more than in the cooling box or on the trainer’s table. They’re fighting for starting jobs and roster spots, and those players know that coaches and general managers are watching to see who best battles through adversity.
“The job’s got to get done,” Miami Dolphins offensive tackle Kendall Lamm said, “with or without the heat.”
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AP Sports Writers Brett Martel in Metairie, Louisiana; Kristie Rieken in Houston; Mitch Stacy in Cincinnati; Alanis Thames in Miami Gardens, Florida; and Stephen Whyno in Ashburn, Virginia, contributed to this report.
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(Stacker) – While college enrollment remained below pre-pandemic levels, fall2022 freshman enrollment rebounded by nearly 100,000 students from the previous year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
As enrollment levels begin to stabilize and more students pursue a college degree, Stacker compiled a list of the best colleges in America using Niche’s 2023 rankings.
Niche ranks colleges using various factors, including academics, admissions, financial, and student life. You can read more about Niche’s methodology here. The list includes schools public and private, from West Coast women’s colleges to elite East Coast liberal arts institutions. There’s also a fair share of sprawling state schools, as well as more-privatized, religion-centric universities.
These schools offer pioneering programs in sciences, entrepreneurship, and even video games. While some members of the list may be best known for athletic achievements, many so-called football schools are making rapid advancements in educational fields, producing a number of Rhodes Scholars and collaborations with tech industry giants. Of course, some schools just have cool perks that few others do, like an on-campus ice cream factory or a nuclear reactor.
Tuition, student-to-faculty ratio, acceptance rate, and graduation rate are factors considered in deciding these rankings. Location is also often a key factor in a school’s appeal, whether it is a beachside location, one full of New England foliage, or proximity to tech hubs and companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
While the Ivy Leagues are normally considered the cream of the crop when it comes to American colleges, that’s not necessarily the case with this list. Keep reading to see which school grabbed the #1 spot.
#100. University of Maryland – College Park
– Location: College Park, MD
– Undergraduate enrollment: 28,160
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 51%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $62,900
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
The University of Maryland – College Park boasts a robust academic program with dozens of undergraduate majors, master’s programs, and doctoral programs. The school ranks highly for its research in health and science, more specifically quantum science, artificial intelligence, and climate change.
#99. Trinity University
– Location: San Antonio, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,471
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 34%
– Graduation rate: 79%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,900
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Trinity University has historically ranked high for its undergraduate research, undergraduate engineering program, and school-wide innovation. It’s widely considered the best small college in Texas and among the best small colleges in the U.S.
#98. Brigham Young University
– Location: Provo, UT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,039
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 21:1
– Acceptance rate: 69%
– Graduation rate: 75%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,700
– Two-year employment rate: 80%
BYU has long been an appealing educational option for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A big component of student life at BYU is mission work. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pay under $3,000 per semester, while non-members pay under $6,000 per semester.
#97. University of South Florida
– Location: Tampa, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,650
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 49%
– Graduation rate: 74%
– Six-year median earnings: $43,500
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Among its many accolades in recent years, the University of South Florida earned the designation of Preeminent State Research University in 2018. USF is one of 16 schools nationwide named a Tillman Partnership University. This distinction notes that USF has a wide, innovative array of veteran-specific support services.
#96. Colorado School of Mines
– Location: Golden, CO
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,201
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 55%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $84,900
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
The Colorado School of Mines boasts strong ties to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Located in the Rocky Mountains, the school provides one of the most intriguing recreational atmospheres for a college, with numerous trails and ski areas nearby. Mining is not the only specialty emphasized here, as the college also has programs in economics, biochemistry, and applied mathematics and statistics.
#95. George Washington University
– Location: Washington D.C.
– Undergraduate enrollment: 10,141
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 43%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $69,600
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
In addition to top-tier academics, George Washington University boasts successful Division I athletics, unique internships, and myriad community service opportunities. GW has more than 475 student organizations to cater to a variety of student interests and experiences.
#94. Bucknell University
– Location: Lewisburg, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 3,686
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 38%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $70,800
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
If you’re looking to see the world, Bucknell could be the school for you—almost half of Bucknell’s students study abroad. The Susquehanna River is a focal point of Bucknell’s campus, offering a unique aesthetic for studies.
#93. Lafayette College
– Location: Easton, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,457
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 36%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $68,600
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Lafayette makes up one-half of the most-played college football rivalry, against Lehigh University. Among the most notable buildings on this scenic campus is the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights. Lafayette also has a stunning collection of images and art from East Asia.
#92. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
– Location: Minneapolis, MN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 28,989
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 70%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $51,900
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The University of Minnesota has a sprawling campus in the Twin Cities, known for the Dinkytown neighborhood where Bob Dylan once resided. Scores of alumni have won Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, and others invented GORE-TEX, World War II K rations, and breakthroughs in stem cell research. The school’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport is a leading institution for studying the impact of females in sports.
#91. Pitzer College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 802
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $48,700
– Two-year employment rate: 86%
Pitzer College offers more than 40 majors and 20 minors. Pitzer is part of the Claremont Colleges, an association of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions, including Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pomona College, and Scripps College.
#90. University of Pittsburgh
– Location: Pittsburgh, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 18,298
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 64%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $53,900
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The University of Pittsburgh is comprised of 16 schools and colleges that offer more than 650 degree and certificate programs. The school boasts a high internship participation rate of nearly 85%.
#89. University of California – Santa Barbara
– Location: Santa Barbara, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 22,480
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 20:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $55,300
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is a centerpiece of UC Santa Barbara’s academic offerings. Much of the student body gets around the scenic campus by bike, attending classes in esteemed buildings like the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.
#88. College of the Holy Cross
– Location: Worcester, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,966
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 38%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $71,000
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Holy Cross has highly recommended study abroad programs (not a bad idea to escape the harsh New England winter). Still, the Worcester campus has plenty of selling points on its own, including being one of the more affordable liberal arts schools in the country. A notable number of graduates go on to work for organizations like Teach for America.
#87. Kenyon College
– Location: Gambier, OH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,610
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $48,700
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Tiny Kenyon College can boast something many schools with 50,000 students or more cannot—they educated a U.S. president. Rutherford B. Hayes graduated from Kenyon in 1842; since then, the school has become known for the Kenyon Review literary journal and its large-scale sustainability projects.
#86. Smith College
– Location: Northampton, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,160
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $46,200
– Two-year employment rate: 88%
Students at this women’s college live in 41 houses, providing a unique boarding experience. Each fall, classes are canceled for one day, and the students flock to nearby parks and engage in outdoor activities on Mountain Day. In 2004, Smith became the first college to graduate an all-female class of engineers.
#85. University of California – Davis
– Location: Davis, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,186
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Acceptance rate: 46%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
University of California – Davis offers more than 100 majors and just as many graduate degree programs. For those interested in pursuing medical studies, UC Davis has a renowned program offering hands-on training in their teaching hospital. Research is a major part of the fabric of UC Davis. The school received just over $1 billion in external research funding in 2021-22.
#84. Macalester College
– Location: Saint Paul, MN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,207
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Acceptance rate: 39%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $47,600
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Although the backdrop of the Twin Cities provides plenty of plush scenery, those Minnesota winters can be harsh. The university says 61% of its students study abroad. The college has a strong commitment to sustainability, with the residential Eco House containing its own live-in laboratory.
#83. North Carolina State University
– Location: Raleigh, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 22,929
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Acceptance rate: 46%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $52,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Located in North Carolina’s research triangle, NC State is a leader in education about textiles, technology, and engineering. The university has helped launch a number of startups and thousands of patents.
#82. Southern Methodist University
– Location: Dallas, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,616
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 53%
– Graduation rate: 81%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,700
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
SMU is another school jumping on the video game bandwagon, offering programs in digital game development. SMU is known for its thriving Greek life and its Tate Lecture Series.
#81. University of Richmond
– Location: University Of Richmond, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 3,028
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 31%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $64,500
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
A cappella groups thrive at the University of Richmond, with some gaining national recognition. Educational highlights at the private liberal arts college include its business and law schools.
#80. The Ohio State University
– Location: Columbus, OH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 42,734
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 68%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $46,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Another college with a rich football history, Ohio State is also notable for its business school and its aerospace engineering program. Ohio State students have been at the forefront of electric car technology, and the school maintains a collegiate campus feel within the big city of Columbus.
#79. Purdue University
– Location: West Lafayette, IN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 33,575
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 16:1
– Acceptance rate: 67%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $55,100
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Twenty-five astronauts attended Purdue, including Neil Armstrong. Purdue also boasts America’s first university-owned airport. Purdue’s Online Writing Lab has set an industry standard in grammar and style.
#78. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 802
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 79%
– Six-year median earnings: $64,900
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Cooper Union is known for its free tuition and location in Manhattan’s East Village. Programs in engineering and design regularly rank high on annual lists. The School of Art is also well-regarded for its studios, labs, and student exhibitions.
#77. Carleton College
– Location: Northfield, MN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,918
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Carleton, located near the Twin Cities, is regularly cited as the best school in America for undergraduate teaching. Students speak 55 different languages, and all students receive 100% of demonstrated financial need. There’s an expansive arboretum on campus, and the Weitz Center for Creativity includes a theater and dance studios.
#76. University of California – San Diego
– Location: La Jolla, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,939
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,900
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
University of California – San Diego is recognized as one of the top 15 research universities in the world and received more than $1.5 billion in funding last year. UC San Diego boasts a renowned faculty, including 16 Nobel laureates throughout the school’s history.
#75. Texas A&M University
– Location: College Station, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 49,442
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 15:1
– Acceptance rate: 63%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,000
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Texas A&M is one of six senior military colleges in the U.S., and the corps of cadets carry on this school tradition at events throughout campus. Texas A&M is also host to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center and has maintained a long partnership with NASA.
#74. Vassar College
– Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,409
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 25%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,600
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
This former women’s college is one of the better-known liberal arts schools on the East Coast. Vassar boasts its own ecological preserve along with several historic buildings. Also appealing, students receive an average financial aid award of $56,000.
#73. Grinnell College
– Location: Grinnell, IA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,459
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 19%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $49,100
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
The school is high on social justice causes, awarding the Grinnell Prize for individuals “effecting positive social change.” With several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, a bustling downtown, and spaces like the Conard Environmental Research Area, Grinnell is a hidden gem in the middle of Iowa.
#72. University of Rochester
– Location: Rochester, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,100
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 35%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,200
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Rochester is home to the storied Institute of Optics, thanks to contributions from Eastman Kodak and Bausch & Lomb. Rochester’s school of music also has an impressive legacy and was named after George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak.
#71. Wesleyan University
– Location: Middletown, CT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,836
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,700
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Wesleyan’s 316-acre campus in the middle of New England educated the likes of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bill Belichick, and Michael Bay. For almost 90 years, Wesleyan has had a thriving theater program, and the school recently developed a Freeman Asian Scholars Program, providing full tuition to students from Asia.
#70. University of Washington
– Location: Seattle, WA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,350
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 56%
– Graduation rate: 82%
– Six-year median earnings: $57,700
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
If the picturesque campus in Seattle isn’t enough to entice you, the University of Washington has strong networks with Amazon, Boeing, and Microsoft. The school is also investing heavily in its health sciences program.
#69. Villanova University
– Location: Villanova, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,793
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 31%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $77,900
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Located a stone’s throw from Philadelphia, Villanova is centered in the Augustinian tradition. Villanova’s business school consistently places near the top of rankings, and their men’s basketball program is accomplished as well, winning national titles in 1985, 2016, and 2018.
#68. Virginia Tech
– Location: Blacksburg, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,112
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 66%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $62,500
– Two-year employment rate: 96%
Virginia Tech has its own power plant and is also a leading center for automotive research, thanks to its Transportation Institute. The school announced plans for its Innovation Campus in November 2018, a 250,000-square-foot space dedicated to startups and corporate facilities. It is scheduled to open in 2024.
#67. Colby College
– Location: Waterville, ME
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,155
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 10%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,100
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Colby offers a Jan Plan term, allowing students to use the month to explore different experiences like penguin rehabilitation or West African music. Since 2013, Colby has been a carbon-neutral campus, and nearly 100% of students live on the smoke-free campus.
#66. University of California – Irvine
– Location: Irvine, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 28,990
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 30%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,400
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
The University of California-Irvine is consistently one of the top-ranked public universities in the country. Cal-Irvine has been at the forefront of COVID-19 research. In 2020, the school launched an initiative to promote success and well-being among Black students.
#65. Case Western Reserve University
– Location: Cleveland, OH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,286
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 30%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $74,600
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Case Western is known for its excellent social work and nursing schools. Located in the heart of Cleveland, Case Western has affiliations with many city businesses, and students can register for courses at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cleveland Institute of Music.
#64. Penn State
– Location: University Park, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 39,321
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 56%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $50,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Penn State has renowned schools for business, education, and science. On Saturdays in the fall, 100,000 fans pack Beaver Stadium for football games, but students can always mingle and socialize at the famous Berkey Creamery.
#63. William & Mary
– Location: Williamsburg, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,475
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 42%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
William & Mary’s law school is the oldest in the U.S. William & Mary also has several improv comedy groups—and Jon Stewart happens to be an alum of the school. The Christmas season is widely celebrated on campus, with the school president dressing up as Santa Claus at the annual Yule Log Ceremony.
#62. Lehigh University
– Location: Bethlehem, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,374
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 50%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $81,900
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science is a centerpiece of academic study at Lehigh, which is nestled in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, not too far from Philadelphia and New York. Students at the engineering school went on to invent the escalator and make notable advancements in the automobile industry. While the football rivalry with Lafayette grabs most of the athletic headlines, Lehigh also has a storied wrestling program.
#61. Florida State University
– Location: Tallahassee, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,072
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 17:1
– Acceptance rate: 32%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $46,400
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Long-recognized as a college football powerhouse, Florida State University’s accolades extend beyond the pigskin exploits of Deion Sanders and Bobby Bowden; the public school has taught a number of Rhodes Scholars. Bonus: FSU has its own circus.
#60. Tulane University
– Location: New Orleans, LA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 8,231
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,700
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Tulane has a strong bond with the city of New Orleans, particularly after Hurricane Katrina. Tulane’s medical and law schools are some of the oldest in the country. According to the Princeton Review, Tulane’s students are ranked among the top 10 happiest in the country.
#59. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
– Location: Urbana, IL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 32,107
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 63%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,500
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign counts 29 Pulitzer Prize winners among its alumni and faculty. The school offers one of the largest public university libraries in the world with more than 24 million items. It is highly regarded for its leading research in technology, agricultural practices, and government policy.
#58. Hamilton College
– Location: Clinton, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,043
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
According to the school, 100% of Hamilton students live in residence halls. On campus, they can take a skate on Sage Rink, one of the oldest hockey rinks in the country, or party at the May Day music festival. Tina Fey, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Hillary Clinton are some of the recent speakers on campus.
#57. University of Miami
– Location: Coral Gables, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 12,089
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 33%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,100
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Don’t let the proximity to South Beach and the stories of partying football teams fool you; the University of Miami is a leading center of academic study. Miami has top-flight programs focusing on oceanography, medicine, and climate change. And yes, the main campus in Coral Gables is located near the beach.
#56. Bates College
– Location: Lewiston, ME
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,876
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,200
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Known for its 19th-century buildings on its historic quad, Bates could be the physical prototype of a small New England college. Students can study in conjunction with schools like Columbia, Dartmouth, and RPI. Those who are inspired by movement can see professional performances at the annual Bates Dance Festival.
#55. Babson College
– Location: Wellesley, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,457
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Acceptance rate: 27%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $96,100
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Babson is big on entrepreneurship. The school offers programs specializing in women’s entrepreneurial leadership, family entrepreneurship, and retail supply chain. Babson has expanded to campuses in Miami and San Francisco.
#54. Colgate University
– Location: Hamilton, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 3,023
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 27%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $63,600
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Located in the quaint village of Hamilton in upstate New York, Colgate is an oasis away from the bustle of the big city. Highlights on campus include the Longyear Museum of Anthropology and Picker Art Gallery, with its focus on 20th-century paintings. Despite its small enrollment size, Colgate has over 200 clubs and organizations.
#53. University of Wisconsin
– Location: Madison, WI
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,063
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 57%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $56,200
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Wisconsin is a hub of innovation where vitamins A and B were discovered. Wisconsin is also known for its embryonic stem cell research. Few college events are as unified as “Jump Around” at Wisconsin football games.
#52. University of Georgia
– Location: Athens, GA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 27,888
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 48%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $50,500
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Georgia’s business school was the first of its kind in the South, and it remains a top institution in the field. Over the past several years, the College of Environment and Design’s landscape architecture program has consistently ranked in the top 10. In athletics, Georgia is all about football, the Bulldogs won national titles in 2021 and 2022, and Sanford Stadium is one of the largest college football stadiums in the country, seating over 92,000 spectators.
#51. Haverford College
– Location: Haverford, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,419
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,700
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Haverford emphasizes learning outside of the classroom, whether that’s in the Alaskan wilderness or exploring tropical ecosystems in Honduras. Music students collaborate with orchestras around the Philadelphia area, while all students can enjoy the sights of the college’s expansive arboretum.
#50. New York University
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 25,854
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,900
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
NYU draws creatives, future tycoons, and filmmakers to their chic campus centered in historic Greenwich Village. During the coronavirus pandemic, the NYU community immersed itself in research and response. The school offers a range of unique courses, from Disability Studies to classes based on Instagram.
#49. Wake Forest University
– Location: Winston-Salem, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,391
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 32%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $63,800
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Studying abroad is a focus at Wake Forest, where 61% of the class of 2018 participated in semesters overseas. The campus has its own charms, too, with it being known for beautiful fall foliage. The Wake Forest Innovation Quarter is becoming a center of student life and collaboration with local and national businesses.
#48. University of California – Berkeley
– Location: Berkeley, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,300
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $64,700
– Two-year employment rate: 88%
Considered by some metrics the top public university in the country, Berkeley has eight Nobel Prize winners on faculty and is #1 all-time in Peace Corps volunteers. Twenty-one percent of students are transfers, making Berkeley a popular choice among two-year college graduates and undergraduates looking to start anew. With many important discoveries emanating from the space sciences laboratory, and a history of entrepreneurship, Berkeley students often become leaders in their field.
#47. Boston University
– Location: Boston, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 16,026
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,300
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Located in one of America’s busiest college cities, Boston University offers a mix of big city towers and intimate brownstones for residents. Hockey games at Agganis Arena draw fervent crowds in the winter, while many students take time to relax in the sun on BU Beach in the spring. BU is also home to the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and is easily accessible from most parts of the city by public transportation.
#46. University of Texas – Austin
– Location: Austin, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 37,404
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 32%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,200
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas, and students can view them at the McDonald Observatory, one of many prestigious facilities at this state school. The campus has tons of museums, from the LBJ Presidential Library to the Blanton Museum of Art, and you might even catch Matthew McConaughey at a Texas Longhorns game. Outside of campus, students can attend Austin cultural institutions like South by Southwest and Franklin Barbecue.
#45. Northeastern University
– Location: Boston, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 15,131
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $67,400
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Northeastern is regularly considered one of the best colleges for internship experience. The N.U. internship program encourages study abroad, even for new students. Research in robotics and chemical imaging are among the budding fields studied at Northeastern.
#44. Middlebury College
– Location: Middlebury, VT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,835
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 22%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,200
– Two-year employment rate: 87%
Middlebury is recognized for its environmental studies program. The school committed to tackling climate change over the next decade with its Energy2028 initiative. Middlebury also owns its own ski area, the Middlebury Snow Bowl.
#43. Williams College
– Location: Williamstown, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,917
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 15%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,000
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Although fraternities no longer exist at Williams, more than one-third of the students participate in intercollegiate sports. Nearly all students engage in extracurricular clubs or activities, and the school has an exclusive program with Oxford. The month of January is dedicated to winter study, where students pursue one single subject on a pass/fail basis.
#42. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
– Location: Chapel Hill, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 18,505
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 25%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $55,600
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
UNC’s medical programs, particularly dentistry, and pharmacy, receive high praise from industry watchers. Men’s and women’s basketball and women’s soccer bring in a bevy of national titles and draw big crowds. Student journalists at the Daily Tar Heel regularly keep alive the spirit of a free press; during the pandemic, they called out campus leaders for lax COVID-19 protocols.
#41. University of Florida
– Location: Gainesville, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 31,476
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Acceptance rate: 31%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $56,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Parents, look away now: Florida is regularly anointed as one of the country’s top party schools. But there are more than just beer-pong-filled weekends in Gainesville—Sid Martin Biotech is a rapidly growing bio-business incubator affiliated with the school, and Florida has an institute dedicated to lightning research.
#40. Amherst College
– Location: Amherst, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,745
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 12%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,000
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Amherst is repeatedly recognized as the top liberal arts college in the country. Students at Amherst can take advantage of an open curriculum with no core requirements. Amherst is home to the Beneski Museum of Natural History and a wildlife sanctuary.
#39. Boston College
– Location: Chestnut Hill, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 9,532
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 26%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $72,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Continuing our run of Boston schools, Boston College hosts a plethora of arts festivals and dance competitions. Hockey, basketball, and football are all major sports on campus, while the Carroll School of Management is considered a top business school in the U.S. Boston College also has a number of student publications, picking up scoops in the same city as the famed Spotlight team.
#38. Tufts University
– Location: Medford, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,938
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 16%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $75,800
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Tufts students have a variety of activities at their disposal, like a geological society and popular a cappella groups. Tufts art collections feature work from Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, and the university has partnerships with Harvard, MIT, and a campus in France.
#37. Washington and Lee University
– Location: Lexington, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,853
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 25%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $76,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
One of Washington and Lee University’s hallmarks is its small class size, and therefore, access to faculty. Almost no classes at the university have more than 25 students. It offers 36 majors and 41 minors in disciplines that are typically found at larger institutions. Additionally, it is the only ranked liberal arts college in the country to offer a nationally accredited undergraduate business program.
#36. Wellesley College
– Location: Wellesley, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,375
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,800
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Wellesley emphasizes student engagement, and students are involved in major committees of the Board of Trustees. The Albright Institute, the Davis Museum, and Wellesley Centers for Women offer educational and exclusive programming to the Wellesley community. Students can also cross-register for classes at nearby MIT.
#35. United States Military Academy at West Point
– Location: West Point, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,536
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 16:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: No data available
– Two-year employment rate: No data available
West Point has research partnerships with organizations like the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Research and Analysis Center and the Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Center. All students live together in company areas, with set schedules for chores, meals, and study time. Extracurriculars include a grilling club, a parachute club, and a combat weapons team.
#34. Emory University
– Location: Atlanta, GA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,814
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 19%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $66,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
The Goizueta Business School is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best business schools. The Carter Center, a nonprofit created by Jimmy Carter, offers internships and lectures throughout the year.
#33. Davidson College
– Location: Davidson, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,983
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,900
– Two-year employment rate: 88%
Davidson, just north of Charlotte, is known for its tight-knit campus that comes together at basketball games, creating sports like flickerball, or rallying to denounce hate speech. The school has a Commission on Race and Slavery to continually tackle diversity, and The Farm teaches students about sustainable growth. In 2007, The Davidson Trust replaced loans with grants in all financial aid packages.
#32. Barnard College
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,651
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $57,900
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Located across the street from Columbia University’s main campus, Barnard students enjoy mostly all the same privileges as Columbia students. The Barnard Center for Research on Women and Athena Film Festival are two celebrated resources on campus. A center for teaching and learning has given the school its own distinctive hub on the Barnard and Columbia grounds.
#31. Swarthmore College
– Location: Swarthmore, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,437
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 97%
– Six-year median earnings: $56,700
– Two-year employment rate: 85%
Swarthmore has several sustainability initiatives, aiming to become a zero-waste campus. The Scott Arboretum is a highlight of the 425-acre campus. The Peaslee Debate Society and a slew of literary magazines are among the more popular activities on campus.
#30. Bowdoin College
– Location: Brunswick, ME
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,948
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,500
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Bowdoin is another school that has replaced loans with grants in student aid packages. Bowdoin graduates are frequently employed by Google, Deloitte, Facebook, and the U.S. government. Another perk: SAT scores are optional for admission to Bowdoin.
#29. Claremont McKenna College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,240
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 13%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $72,900
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Located about 30 miles from Los Angeles, Claremont McKenna, despite encompassing only one square mile, has plenty on campus to keep students busy, like The Athenaeum, which hosts a variety of social and cultural speakers four nights a week. This small school has close faculty-student bonds, as about 75% of students engage in research with faculty.
#28. University of Southern California
– Location: Los Angeles, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 18,560
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 16%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $74,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Located in downtown Los Angeles, USC has a network of over 450,000 living alumni (as of 2023) for making connections in Hollywood or elsewhere. George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis are just some of the directors to attend the cinematic arts school at USC. On Saturdays in the fall, the Spirit of Troy marching band enlivens crowds at USC football games.
#27. University of Virginia
– Location: Charlottesville, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 16,319
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 23%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,200
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The University of Virginia is considered to be a highly valuable public school, earning high marks for its business school and hospital. The school counted $1.94 billion in annual research proposal activity, with the Data Science Institute and Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative anchors of the school’s research. Virginia also boasts powerhouse men’s basketball and lacrosse teams.
#26. Georgia Institute of Technology
– Location: Atlanta, GA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 14,485
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $79,100
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Centered in Atlanta, Georgia Tech has a top-ranked undergraduate engineering program. The new Marcus Nanotechnology Building is one of several facilities cultivating startups on campus. The Georgia Institute of Technology Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines breaks ground in medical robotics, human augmentation, autonomy, and collaborative robotics.
#25. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
– Location: Ann Arbor, MI
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,851
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 26%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $63,400
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
In 2022, Michigan produced 433 new inventions and 16 new business startups. Michigan regularly tops research volume among public universities. In athletics, Michigan Stadium seats over 100,000 for football games, making it one of the world’s largest stadiums.
#24. University of California – Los Angeles
– Location: Los Angeles, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 31,068
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,700
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
UCLA offers more than 125 majors, and over the past decade, has been awarded $1 billion annually in competitive research awards and grants. UCLA has won 11 men’s basketball national titles, but their softball, gymnastics, volleyball, and swimming teams also own several national championships. Located in the heart of Los Angeles, the campus is regularly used as a filming location and holds several large gatherings throughout the year, including the annual JazzReggae Festival.
#23. Cornell University
– Location: Ithaca, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 15,735
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $77,200
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
For decades, Cornell has been vital to space exploration to Mars and advancements in agriculture and farming. Though centered in Ithaca, Cornell has several facilities for study in New York City. Gathering at ice hockey games is a tradition, which can be followed by a trip to the Cornell ice cream dairy.
#22. Carnegie Mellon University
– Location: Pittsburgh, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,341
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $83,600
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Brain science and driverless cars are just some of the topics being studied and tested at Carnegie Mellon. Carnegie Mellon is commonly recognized for its premier computer science and engineering programs and boasts a highly respected drama program. It is one of the only schools to offer a degree in bagpipe performance.
#21. Johns Hopkins University
– Location: Baltimore, MD
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,766
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $73,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Johns Hopkins is recognized as one of the preeminent schools for studying medicine in the country. Johns Hopkins leads U.S. academic institutions in total research and development spending and counts 29 Nobel Prize winners among its associates. The school also has programs run in conjunction with NASA, and the Spring Fair is one of the largest college gatherings in the nation.
#20. Pomona College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,756
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,100
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Despite its small size, Pomona College has more than 250 clubs and organizations, and 98% of students live on campus, creating a tight-knit atmosphere at the school. Near Los Angeles and next to a bucolic mountain setting, students enjoy skiing and beaches. The school also has an art museum, eight music ensembles, and collaborative partnerships with other colleges in the Claremont area.
#19. University of Notre Dame
– Location: Notre Dame, IN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 8,833
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 19%
– Graduation rate: 97%
– Six-year median earnings: $78,400
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Notre Dame Stadium is one of the hallowed landmarks in all of sports and home to a legendary football team. For students not enamored with football, the Snite Museum of Art and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center provide plenty of insightful programming. The campus also has over 50 chapels.
#18. Harvey Mudd College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 821
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $88,800
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
Harvey Mudd focuses on engineering, sciences, and math, offering real-world experience through its clinic program. Harvey Mudd students regularly engage in a friendly prank rivalry with Caltech. When students have the ability to take a break from studying, ski slopes are less than 30 minutes away, while the scenery of the desert is a 90-minute drive.
#17. Georgetown University
– Location: Washington, DC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,610
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $93,500
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Georgetown, the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university, is home to one of the country’s largest student-run businesses and the oldest continuously running student theatre group. Georgetown’s business school launched a Venture Lab for students to incubate new ideas and startups. Located in Washington D.C., students are connected to a bevy of internship opportunities with private businesses and local, state, and federal governments.
#16. University of Chicago
– Location: Chicago, IL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 7,020
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $68,100
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
The University of Chicago has been instrumental in pioneering hormonal cancer treatment, discovering new dinosaur species, and proposing the existence of black holes. The school hosts the Robie House, a national landmark and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The University of Chicago also has a long tradition of nurturing successful improv comedy troupes.
#15. Washington University in St. Louis
– Location: Saint Louis, MO
– Undergraduate enrollment: 7,348
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 16%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $70,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Almost 90% of Washington University students are from out of state, making this college a melting pot. Washington received almost $950 million in research funds for medicine, energy, plant science, and other fields in 2022. The university, based in St. Louis, also has several libraries and its own art museum.
#14. Northwestern University
– Location: Evanston, IL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 8,095
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $69,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Northwestern’s journalism program has a long tradition of producing quality reporters. The business and material engineering programs are also highly regarded, while research remains Northwestern’s backbone—the school accounts for “$2.6 billion in revenue from patents and intellectual property licensing revenue.” Located just outside of Chicago, Northwestern combines suburban tranquility with a big-city feel.
#13. Vanderbilt University
– Location: Nashville, TN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,983
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 12%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $69,000
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Vanderbilt is recognized as one of the world’s most innovative universities. From 2011-2016, Vanderbilt filed 231 patents, and the school continues to expand its Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization. The Princeton Review ranked Vanderbilt as having the best quality of life for students in 2019.
#12. Columbia University
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 7,509
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $83,300
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
Students from more than 80 countries come to study at Columbia, which is located in northern Manhattan, near a variety of parks and landmarks. Campus media outlets like the Columbia Daily Spectator, WKCR, and Bwog captivate readers and listeners throughout the city. For decades, students have started protests that have made national headlines for their effectiveness.
#11. University of Pennsylvania
– Location: Philadelphia, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 9,960
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $85,900
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Researchers at Penn are involved in topical work, like studying police killings and Black mental health, or COVID-19’s impact on people of color. Each year, innovation prizes award $100,000 to graduates working on projects to impact the world positively. Despite its high tuition cost, Penn has instituted an all-grant financial aid program.
#10. Dartmouth College
– Location: Hanover, NH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,169
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $75,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The Dartmouth Plan allows students to customize their academic schedules. This Ivy League institution has an abundance of theaters and centers for arts, as well as various technology institutes. Each year, the college hosts a winter carnival and a powwow celebrating Native American history.
#9. Brown University
– Location: Providence, RI
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,605
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 8%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $67,500
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Brown is well known for its open curriculum, allowing students flexibility and input in choosing their courses, with less of a requirement on core classes. The Carney Institute for Brain Science and Institute for Environment and Society provide unique perspectives to important fields of study. The university is working to strengthen its relationship with the city of Providence, with more than 420 students volunteering every year in public schools.
#8. Duke University
– Location: Durham, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,838
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 8%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $84,400
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Duke’s law and medical schools regularly rank near the top of lists, and their men’s basketball team frequently tops national polls. A game at Cameron Indoor Stadium is considered one of the world’s premier sporting environments, but the Levine Science Research Center is pretty impressive too; the center is one of the country’s largest single-site interdisciplinary research facilities. Duke Chapel is a center for campus events and religious services.
#7. California Institute of Technology
– Location: Pasadena, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 901
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $85,900
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
Caltech is the home of a jet propulsion laboratory, the Einstein Papers Project, and an energy innovation hub that develops methods to generate fuel from sunlight. Every Halloween, students combine their interest in sciences with recreation, smashing pumpkins from the top of a library. The student body is notorious for its good-natured pranks.
#6. Rice University
– Location: Houston, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,150
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,400
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
A tree-lined sanctuary in the middle of bustling Houston, Rice is consistently ranked near the top of lists gauging college quality of life. Rice has been a leader in artificial heart research and other sciences and maintains a close partnership with NASA.
#5. Princeton University
– Location: Princeton, NJ
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,689
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 6%
– Graduation rate: 98%
– Six-year median earnings: $74,700
– Two-year employment rate: 87%
Ninety-eight percent of students live on campus, right near downtown Princeton and a short train ride to New York and Philadelphia. Noted for its engineering and finance departments, Princeton also thrives in modern sciences like plasma physics, and in 2020, Princeton announced a new $115 million quantum science center. Eating clubs are at an intersection of social life and tradition.
#4. Yale University
– Location: New Haven, CT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,696
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $83,200
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Twenty-two percent of Yale’s student body hails from abroad, creating a diverse landscape on the Gothic campus nestled in downtown New Haven. Yale has work to do, though, in scrubbing discrimination from admissions practices, according to the Department of Justice. One of the school’s most storied traditions is hosting “The Game” against Harvard every two years at the Yale Bowl.
#3. Harvard University
– Location: Cambridge, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,699
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 5%
– Graduation rate: 98%
– Six-year median earnings: $89,700
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
The oldest college in America remains a bastion of success as it faces questions about its admissions process. The school counts 49 Nobel Laureates and 48 Pulitzer Prize winners among its alumni, as well as eight U.S. presidents. The Harvard Lampoon humor magazine has been entertaining (and infuriating) students for almost 150 years.
#2. Stanford University
– Location: Stanford, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,752
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 5%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $94,000
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Located in Silicon Valley, Stanford has strong bonds with tech giants like Google, which was founded by Stanford students. New technological innovations implemented by Stanford are allowing incoming students to connect in different ways as they study from home. Stanford also has a storied athletic program, as its athletes have won hundreds of Olympic medals.
#1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
– Location: Cambridge, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,234
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $104,700
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Students and researchers at MIT are always on the cutting edge of modern technology—the school created a contact-free robot that might be able to detect patient vital signs related to COVID-19. Among the highlights of this school are the Haystack Observatory, the MIT Media Lab (designed by I.M. Pei), and MIT.nano, which specializes in nanoscale imaging. MIT has acres of stunning scenery, from quiet Cambridge streets to the futuristic layout of Simmons Hall.
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Paperwork problems drive surge in people losing Medicaid health coverage
By DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press
JEFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The nation’s top health official implored states to do more to keep lower-income residents enrolled in Medicaid, as the Biden administration released figures Friday confirming that many who had health coverage during the coronavirus pandemic are now losing it.
Though a decline in Medicaid coverage was expected, health officials are raising concerns about the large numbers of people being dropped from the rolls for failing to return forms or follow procedures.
In 18 states that began a post-pandemic review of their Medicaid rolls in April, health coverage was continued for about 1 million recipients and terminated for 715,000. Of those dropped, 4 in 5 were for procedural reasons, according to newly released data from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra sent a letter Friday to all governors encouraging them to bolster efforts to retain people on Medicaid. He particularly encouraged them to use electronic information from other federal programs, such as food stamps, to automatically confirm people’s eligibility for Medicaid. That would avert the need to mail and return documents.
“I am deeply concerned about high rates of procedural terminations due to ‘red tape’ and other paperwork issues,” Becerra told governors.
During the pandemic, states were prohibited from ending people’s Medicaid coverage. As a result, Medicaid enrollment swelled by nearly one-third, from 71 million people in February 2020 to 93 million in February 2023. The prohibition on trimming rolls ended in April, and states now have resumed annual eligibility redeterminations that had been required before the pandemic.
The new federal data captures only the first month of state Medicaid reviews from states that acted the most expeditiously. Since then, additional states also have submitted reports on those renewed and dropped from Medicaid in May and June.
Though the federal government hasn’t released data from the most recent reports, information gathered by The Associated Press and health care advocacy groups show that about 3.7 million people already have lost Medicaid coverage. That includes about 500,000 in Texas, around 400,000 in Florida and 225,000 in California. Of those who lost coverage, 89% were for procedural reasons in California, 81% in Texas and 59% in Florida, according to the AP’s data.
Many of those people may have still been eligible for Medicaid, “but they’re caught in a bureaucratic nightmare of confusing forms, notices sent to wrong addresses and other errors,” said Michelle Levander, founding director of the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California,
Top CMS officials said they have worked with several states to pause Medicaid removals and improve procedures for determining eligibility.
South Carolina, for example, reported renewing Medicaid coverage for about 27,000 people in May while removing 118,000. Of those dropped, 95% were for procedural reasons. In a recent report to the federal government, South Carolina said it removed no one from Medicaid in June because it extended the eligibility renewal deadline from 60 days to 90 days.
Michigan reported renewing more than 103,000 Medicaid recipients in June and removing just 12,000. It told the federal government that the state opted to delay terminations for those who failed to respond to renewal requests while instead making additional outreach attempts. As a result, the state reported more than 100,000 people whose June eligibility cases remained incomplete.
People who are dropped from Medicaid can regain coverage retroactively if they submit information within 90 days proving their eligibility. But some advocacy groups say that still poses a challenge.
“State government is not necessarily nimble,” said Keesa Smith, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. “When individuals are being disenrolled, the biggest concern … is that there is not a fast track to get those individuals back on the rolls.”
Arkansas officials have been at the forefront of defending Medicaid cuts. They contend that many people likely don’t return forms because they no longer need Medicaid.
People are “transitioning off of Medicaid” because “they are working, making more money, and have access to health care through their employers or the federal marketplace,” Arkansas Medicaid Director Janet Mann said earlier this month. “This should be celebrated, not criticized.”
Insurance companies that run Medicaid programs for states said they are trying to reduce procedural terminations and enroll people in new plans.
The Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer Elevance Health lost 130,000 Medicaid customers during the recently completed second quarter, as Medicaid eligibility redeterminations began. Chief Financial Officer John Gallina said earlier this month that many people lost Medicaid coverage for administrative reasons but are likely to reenroll in the near future.
Leaders of the insurer Molina Healthcare told analysts Thursday that the company lost about 93,000 Medicaid customers in the recently completed second quarter, mostly due to eligibility redeterminations. Molina officials said they are trying to switch people who no longer qualify for Medicaid to one of the individual insurance plans they sell through state-based marketplaces.
Federal data for April indicates that some states did a better job than others at handling a crush of questions from people about their Medicaid coverage.
In 19 states and the District of Columbia, the average Medicaid call center wait time was 1 minute or less in April. But in Idaho, the average caller to the state’s Medicaid help line waited 51 minutes. In Missouri, the average wait was 44 minutes, and in Florida 40 minutes.
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BOULDER, Colorado (KDVR) — In less than a week, the popular doughnut shop Voodoo Doughnut is opening one of its newest U.S. locations and the fourth in Colorado. But this Boulder store will be missing the brand’s signature pink color.
Voodoo is known for its bright pink branding. Their boxes are even stamped with the slogan, “Good things come in pink boxes.” But Boulder’s location will not feature the bright color — instead, the exterior was painted gray.
On Oct. 13, the Voodoo Doughnut Instagram account posted a sneak peek of the Boulder building.
“You guessed it. The building has been painted pink and we’re coming for you, Boulder!” the post reads.
On June 11, Voodoo posted a new rendering of the building and instead of the eye-catching pink, the building appeared to be gray on the exterior with the pink painted on the inside.
“Hey Boulder. We’re still coming,” Voodoo said in its most recent update.
Cate Stanek, communication program manager for Boulder, told Nexstar’s KDVR that the city required the color change because the pink was a violation of the city’s sign code. The company had to repaint the building as required by its building permit.
The city’s sign code includes the use of branding colors in a signage area, said Stanek.
The violation was not a problem for Voodoo and the bakery will open, just in a different color scheme.
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Santa Anita to install artificial training track as part of $31 million in renovations
By BETH HARRIS
AP Racing Writer
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Santa Anita will replace its dirt training track with a synthetic surface as part of nearly $32 million in improvements planned as the venerable racetrack absorbs an influx of horses, trainers and jockeys from Northern California’s Golden Gate Fields after it closes later this year.
The Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita in Arcadia and Golden Gate Fields in the San Francisco Bay area, said Friday it will spend over $1 million to support the relocation of horses and people from the north, with an additional $500,000 going to bolster the state’s breeding program.
TSG has budgeted $4.5 million for installing a Tapeta training track, the same surface that is used on the main racing track at Golden Gate. The project is expected to begin after Santa Anita hosts the Breeders’ Cup in early November and be finished by the start of the winter-spring meet on Dec. 26.
“We think this will be hugely beneficial not only for horses that will come down from the north, who a lot of them have only ever known training on Tapeta, but it will be hugely beneficial for Southern California and Santa Anita as a whole because of the inclement weather policies that really are tough out in California,” Aidan Butler, chief operating officer of TSG’s 1/ST Racing, said on a teleconference.
Gulfstream Park in Florida, also owned by TSG, and Woodbine in Canada currently race on synthetic surfaces.
Santa Anita had a synthetic racing surface in 2007, as did Del Mar and now-defunct Hollywood Park when it was mandated by California racing officials. But drainage problems cost the track racing days and heavy usage also wore down the synthetic materials quickly.
Butler acknowledged that history when he said, “Just historically in California, there hasn’t been a lot of success with synthetic tracks as a whole.”
He added, “We’re pretty confident that a synthetic track will work in California, but I believe a nice way of going about this is to put it in as a training option and not immediately create such a jarring environment that Santa Anita has more trouble than it currently does.”
Craig Fravel, CEO of 1/ST Racing, said switching from dirt to synthetic on the main track was initially considered, but TSG will instead evaluate how a synthetic training track fares in Southern California’s cool, wet winters and hot summers before making any future decisions.
TSG will spend $2.5 million to build a new turf chute at Santa Anita, which it said will allow new races to be created at varying distances.
Santa Anita will return to a fourth day of weekly racing starting with its winter-spring meet, adding 26 extra racing days.
TSG is budgeting $23.2 million to improve barns in Santa Anita’s stable area, starting with replacing the roofs.
Another $500,000 will be spent over two years on building a state-of-the-art equine pool for hydrotherapy.
TSG said it will fund an unspecified portion of 2024 health care costs for Golden Gate employees.
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Thursday marks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, a significant commemoration dedicated to raising awareness about the persistent gender and racial wage gap experienced by Black women in the United States. On this day, and every other day, we reflect on the many challenges faced by Black women in the workforce and reiterate the urgent need for change and action to achieve fair and equitable wages.
The wage gap statistics speak volumes about the economic inequality that Black women continue to endure. Based on Census data from 2022, Black women earn 67 cents for every dollar earned by non-Hispanic white men in full-time, year-round positions.
On average, Black women were paid 64% of what non-Hispanic white men earned in 2021, according to AAUW.
The roots of this pay gap are deeply intertwined with historic systemic racism and sexism. This has shaped the nation’s economy, laws and policies for centuries. Black women have been subjected to pay discrimination and occupational segregation, leaving them in undervalued and low-paid jobs.
Contrary to the “American dream” narrative of upward mobility through education, Black women experience a wage gap at every education level. Even when they hold professional or graduate degrees, the pay is still lower. This is just one of several factors contributing to gender wage gap.
Factors Contributing to the Wage Gap
Black women face a compounded effect of sexism and racism, often limiting their access to educational opportunities and career advancements. The historic injustices faced by Black families, such as slavery, segregation and discriminatory practices, have also resulted in a significant wealth gap.
The typical Black household has only 12.7% of the wealth of the typical white household.
For Black women, the number of degrees they have is irrelevant. Why? Because education does not shield women of color from the pay gap. Black women are more likely to rely on federal student loans, according to AAWU. That makes it harder to repay their loans due to the combined effects of the gender wage gap and racial wealth gap.
Calls to Action
In light of the data presented, it is important to advocate for change and support policies that promote fair and equitable wages for Black women. Here are some calls to action on this year’s Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.
- Passing the Paycheck Fairness Act: Federal lawmakers are urged to quickly pass this legislation, which aims to modernize and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by combating pay discrimination and closing the wage gap.
- Ensuring Quality Jobs for Black Women: This would engage governors and state officials to ensure that historic infrastructure investments lead to better and higher-paid jobs for Black women, addressing occupational segregation and promoting economic growth.
The persistent gender and racial wage gaps faced by Black women demand immediate attention and policy changes. Paying equally among all genders and races shouldn’t be that difficult.
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(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump says he’s not a fan of sharing news about his multiple criminal indictments with his wife, Melania.
“It’s always unpleasant when you have to go in and tell your wife that, ‘By the way, tomorrow sometime I’m going to be indicted,’” the 45th president said during a Friday interview on “The John Fredericks Show.”
Trump continued the reenactment of a supposed conversation between him and the former first lady about the multiple probes.
“And she says, ‘For what?’ And I say, ‘I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea,’” he said.
On Thursday, the Justice Department accused Trump in a superseding indictment of attempting to delete surveillance footage at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida related to his classified records case, which is scheduled to go to trial in May.
Last week, Trump announced that he had been informed that he is a target in the Justice Department investigation into his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
The ex-commander in chief in April pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in New York, and he also faces another potential looming indictment in Georgia.
Asked by Fredericks on Friday how his family, including his wife and 17-year-old son, Barron, were “holding up” in light of the multiple criminal cases, Trump said he attempts to put barriers between them and the legal drama.
“Well, I try to keep them shielded and out of it,” he said.
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Variety revises article on former CNN chief Jeff Zucker that was sharply criticized
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The entertainment publication Variety, under fire this week for an article it published about former CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s interest in his old employer, revised the piece on Friday to reflect some of the complaints about it.
None of its changes affected what was written about Zucker, however. He has called for the story to be retracted.
The article by Tatiana Siegel, which initially ran online Tuesday, depicted Zucker as badmouthing his successor at CNN, Chris Licht, while simultaneously trying to buy the news organization that fired him in early 2021. Licht’s unsuccessful run atop the struggling news network ended with his firing in May.
The dispute also points to the dangers inherent in the use of confidential sources by journalists. There are at least a dozen claims made in the story that Variety did not attribute to a named source that were denied on the record, either in the story or after publication, leaving it up to readers to decide who to believe.
“There used to be a time when Variety held its content and its reporters to a high standard of truth and facts in journalism, but those days are clearly over,” said Risa Heller, a spokeswoman for Zucker. “It is stunning to read a piece that is so patently and aggressively false. On numerous occasions, we made it clear to the reporter and her editors that they were planning to publish countless anecdotes and alleged incidents that never happened. They did so anyway. The piece is a total joke.”
Variety’s co-editor-in-chiefs, Cynthia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh, said in a statement Friday that they have been carefully following the conversation about the story.
“The story was heavily vetted and deeply sourced,” they said. “Everyone included in the story was asked to comment and given the chance to respond. We stand by our reporting and our award-winning reporter.”
The piece is also critical of two reporters who have covered CNN, Tim Alberta of The Atlantic and Dylan Byers of Puck. Both of those news organizations complained of inaccuracies and, in the changes made on Friday, Variety added their specific denials.
Zucker’s team hasn’t sought to hide ill feelings toward Licht, but strongly denied he has tried to buy CNN.
The story begins with an anecdote about Zucker, “with tears in his eyes,” approaching David Zaslav in Miami Beach in March. Zaslav is CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, current owners of CNN, and Variety said Zucker complained that Licht was unfairly maligning him in the press. Zaslav wanted to know if Zucker was trying to assemble investors to buy CNN.
Byers, writing for Puck, said “multiple sources” said no such run-in at the Faena Hotel ever took place and Zucker’s spokeswoman said that anecdote wasn’t checked with them.
The story outlines several specific efforts made by Zucker, or on his behalf, to convince investors to join him in buying CNN. The story includes his denials: “Any allegation or insinuation that Jeff has made any effort to purchase CNN is unequivocally false,” Heller said. Zucker is now head of a private equity firm, RedBird IMI.
At one point, Variety also floated the theory that a secret group of investors was using Zucker’s name without his knowledge to approach Warner Bros. Discovery about buying CNN.
In a June 4 article, The New York Times reported that Zucker was not in talks to buy CNN, although “he has told some associates he would be interested in acquiring the network” if it came up for sale one day, the newspaper said.
The Variety article “struck me as utterly implausible and sophomoric,” Byers wrote for Puck this week.
Variety’s piece called Byers “a former Zucker disciple at CNN who, by his own admission, wrote about Licht incessantly and even took a victory lap after his exit.” The piece described Byers as a writer of “Zucker fan fiction” and criticized him for a conflict of interest in not disclosing in any of his articles that Zucker once had discussions about funding Puck, an online subscription news service.
In its revision on Friday, Variety quoted Puck’s co-founder, Jon Kelly, saying the discussions with RedBird were not disclosed by Byers because “Dylan was intentionally unaware of them.”
For The Atlantic, Alberta wrote a widely-read story that seen by many as being instrumental in Licht’s dismissal by Zaslav. Variety was critical of Alberta, and accused the reporter of using material in his story that he had agreed to keep off the record — a serious charge of malfeasance against a journalist.
As with Byers, Variety didn’t change what it had written about Alberta. But it added a paragraph to its story using some of what Alberta had written on social media, including a denial that he had used off-the-record material, and disputing Variety’s claim of how many times he had met with Licht while reporting the story.
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Angela Simmons and Yo Gotti’s love story is like a page from a fairy tale. The CMG honcho manifested his relationship with the reality TV star and businesswoman with his lyrics and he’s continuing to gush over his beautiful girlfriend in his music. Angela is his leading lady in real life and in the leading lady for his latest music video No Fake Love. Angela proudly posted a hot shot of her and Gotti on set and her curves booming in a pair of jeans. She looks super swaggy in a NY Yankees fitted hat, red lipstick, and white midriff giving us Beyonce′ Crazy In Love vibes.
The visuals capture the vibe of Gotti’s romantic release. Angela is his ride-or-die chick, holding down his piece in her Chanel bag. “WHATEVA 4 my MAN #NoFakeLove OUT NOW @yogott” Angela captioned a clip on Instagram.
“In a Phantom with a hammer/ And now I’m with Angela/ I ain’t lost a crush since high school/ I’m “Mr. Follow Up,” Gotti raps about his boo.
Gotti and Angela made it Instagram official in January 2023 and have been rocking together like royalty ever since. Gotti famously professed his love for Angela on his track Down In The DM.
“And I just followed Angela (Simmons)/Boy, I got a crush on Angela Simmons/They like, ‘Damn Gotti, you bold,’ ” he rapped. “F— it, I’m gon’ let the world know (goals).”
And in 2017, he rapped about her again,
“Passed my number to Angela/I thought I had her/Her n— cuffed her, married, it made me madder,” he rapped. “I respect it, I’m moving on, but the truth is I want her badder/Maybe me sayin’ her name made him move faster.”
Since announcing their relationship, we’ve seen the couple on private beaches, riding in the most luxurious cars, and walking hand in at the industry’s most elusive events. They are quickly becoming one of our favorite couples in the relationship and style lane!
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Florida woman gets more than four years in prison for swindling Holocaust survivor out of millions
By Fabiana Chaparro, CNN
(CNN) — A New York judge has sentenced a Florida woman to more than four years in prison for swindling a Holocaust survivor out of his life savings after meeting him on a dating website.
Peaches Stergo, 36, was sentenced Thursday, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. She had been charged six months earlier with one count of wire fraud for bilking the 87-year-old victim out of $2.8 million.
Prosecutors said Stergo and the victim met on the website about seven years ago. Over the next four and a half years, Stergo asked the victim to deposit money into her account for a variety of fraudulent reasons, such as paying lawyers to release a fake injury settlement.
According to prosecutors, Stergo used the money to live a life of luxury. She purchased a home in a gated community in Florida, took vacations at hotels such as the Ritz Carlton, and bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer clothing, the release stated.
In a text message to her real-life significant other after the scam was over, Stergo said she was unwilling to earn money through lawful employment, writing, “I don’t want to work … it’s too hard,” the release stated.
The victim only learned of Stergo’s scam after he confided in his son that his life savings had gone to her after she promised she would pay him back, CNN reported this year. The victim then stopped writing checks.
As a result of Stergo’s scams, the victim lost his apartment, CNN previously reported.
Woman was ‘unspeakably cruel,’ judge says
US Attorney Damian Williams, who prosecuted the case, said in the release, “(Stergo) used the millions of dollars in fraud proceeds to live a life of luxury at the victim’s expense. But she did not get away with it.”
US District Judge Edgardo Ramos, who sentenced Stergo, noted her behavior was “unspeakably cruel’ and motivated by ‘greed,”’ the release stated.
Ann Marie Fitz, Stergo’s defense attorney, said in a statement to CNN, “The government sought a 96-month sentence in this case and, considering the circumstances, we think it was fair that the court imposed 51 months, which is the low-end of the applicable Guidelines range. Ms. Stergo has expressed remorse for her actions and will make every effort to repay the restitution in this case.”
In addition to her time in prison, Stergo is ordered to pay $2,830,775 in restitution and will forfeit the same amount, along with her Florida property and over 100 luxury items she purchased.
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Cardi B and husband, Offset, are addressing relationship rumors head-on with a new music video for “Jealousy.” Dropped on social media on July 26, the video snippet has everyone talking.
The video opens with Cardi dialing a friend, played by “Empire” star Taraji P. Henson. Cardi tells Taraji that a woman contacted her, claiming Offset was cheating. Taraji responds, calling the woman “thirsty.”
Cardi follows up, saying, “Since he [cheated] before, whether he did it or not, people are going to believe it. That’s why I want to bag this n—-. Even though it’s in the past, you should have never done it in the first place. That’s why we’re always in this motherf—ing predicament.” The Grammy-winner ends the statement by saying she loves Offset.
New Music From Offset and Cardi
The teaser is part of a series of promos dropped by the couple in anticipation of the new song. On Wednesday, July 26, Cardi B posted the single’s artwork to her Instagram profile.
The artwork depicts the couple together with Cardi pushing her hand in Offset’s face while he leans on an old model car. The shot gives 1990s vibes. Cardi’s swoop bangs and ponytail also nod to the nostalgic era.
Husband Offset similarly dropped a nostalgic promo. On July 24, he posted a spoof clip in which he impersonated James Brown with Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis. The video was a fresh take on an infamous media interview where singer James Brown appeared to ignore questions with quirky mannerisms and verbal sounds.
Offset wore a wig, neck scarf, and oversized yellow lenses in the spoof. Instead of answering questions about his marriage, Offset said he wanted to “talk about some music.”
Outside of Cardi’s songs with the Migos, “Jealousy” is the sixth collaboration between the hip-hop duo. Cardi B and Offset also collaborated on “Lick,” “Who Want the Smoke?” “Um Yea,” and “Clout.” They’ve promoted McDonald’s meal options together and continue to make waves with individual projects.
As we await the drop of “Jealousy,” let’s look at some of the cutest pictures of Cardi B and Offset. The recent video teaser proves that the two remain a force when they’re together.
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(The Hill) – A court in France sentenced a United Airlines pilot to a six-month suspended prison term and one-year suspended license for showing up to work intoxicated Tuesday, local media outlets reported.
The pilot, reportedly a 63-year-old American, referred to only as “Henry W.” in French media, showed up to work at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport with a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit for pilots in Europe. According to an emailed statement by United sent to The Hill, the flight was headed to Washington Dulles International Airport, despite other reports it was going to Dallas.
“The safety of our customers and crew is always our top priority,” the United statement said. “We hold all our employees to the highest standards and have a strict no-tolerance policy for alcohol. This employee was immediately removed from service and we are fully cooperating with local authorities.”
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