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Voting Rights Act Fast Facts
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(CNN) — Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was enacted in response to voter suppression in the 1960s by state governments, local governments and law enforcement.
Important sections
Original jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia. Also, subdivisions, mostly counties, in Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho and North Carolina.
Jurisdictions are made based on a formula containing two elements: If less than 50% of the voting age population is registered to vote by November 1, 1964, or if less than 50% voted in the 1964 presidential election. It also guarantees the right to register and vote to citizens with “limited English proficiency.”
Section 2: States the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of race or color.
Section 3: Upholds the ability to enforce the 15th Amendment.
Section 4: Says citizen cannot be denied the right to vote for failed compliance with devices such as literacy tests. It also designates the formulated jurisdictions outlined in Section 5. The requirement for preclearance of voting changes was ruled unconstitutional in a 2013 US Supreme Court decision. “The effect of the Shelby County decision is that the jurisdictions identified by the coverage formula in Section 4(b) no longer need to seek preclearance for the new voting changes, unless they are covered by a separate court order entered under Section 3(c) of the Voting Rights Act.”
Section 5: This section freezes “changes in election practices or procedures in covered jurisdictions” until the new procedures have been subjected to review. Review can only be done by the US Attorney General or by filing a lawsuit before the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Yet Section 5 is basically unenforceable as there is no longer a preclearance requirement in Section 4.
Read More: America has a long history of resisting multiracial democracy.
Timeline
March 7, 1965 – Bloody Sunday – About 600 non-violent voting rights marchers heading to Montgomery, Alabama’s state capital, are attacked by state troopers in Selma.
March 15, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson, in a speech before a joint session of Congress says: “There is no constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong, deadly wrong, to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country.”
August 6, 1965 – Is signed into law by President Johnson to protect and enforce the 15th Amendment.
1970 – Congress extends provisions for five years, changing the formula in Section 4 to reflect 1968 (instead of 1964). Coverage is added in jurisdictions within 10 more states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Wyoming. Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Wyoming win “bailout” lawsuits.
1975 – Congress extends provisions for seven years, changes the formula to 1972 and broadens the discrimination description as also encompassing American Indians, Asian Americans, Alaskan Natives or people of Spanish heritage. This addition to the formula essentially covers Alaska, Arizona and Texas, and includes parts of California, Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota.
1982 – Congress extends the special provisions in Section 4 for 25 years, but makes no changes.
2006 – Congress renews special provisions and extends the act until 2031.
June 25, 2013 – The US Supreme Court decides (5-4) that formulated jurisdictions under Section 5 no longer have to have new voting laws pre-cleared by the attorney general or the federal district court in the District of Columbia. Chief Justice John Roberts explains that “our country has changed” and the formula “no longer characterize(s) voting in the covered jurisdictions.”
February 11, 2015 – An amendment to the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1964 is introduced to the House of Representatives. The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015 is focused on updating a portion of the law after the US Supreme Court struck down an “outdated” portion of VRA that protected racial discrimination in voting.
March 7, 2015 – President Barack Obama signs legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal “to the Foot Soldiers who participated in the Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act.”
September 12, 2018 – The report, “An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States,” is released by the US Commission on Civil Rights. The bipartisan agency concludes that new state laws are making it more difficult for minorities to vote. It also notes that the Justice Department has done less to challenge those discriminatory laws since the Supreme Court struck down a core element of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in 2013.
December 6, 2019 – The House of Representatives votes to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 (introduced February 26). The bill “establishes new criteria for determining which states and political subdivisions must obtain preclearance before changes to voting practices in these areas may take effect.”
July 22, 2020 – The Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 is introduced in the Senate. It is renamed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act after the July 17 death of the congressman and civil rights leader.
July 1, 2021 – The US Supreme Court decides (6-3) that two provisions of an Arizona voting law that restrict how ballots can be cast do not violate the Voting Rights Act that bars regulations that result in racial discrimination. The ruling by the conservative-majority court will limit the ability of minorities to challenge state laws in the future that they say are discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.
February 7, 2022 – In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court allows a congressional map drawn by Alabama Republicans to remain in place, freezing a lower court ruling that said the map likely violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of African American voters.
June 8, 2023 – In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court upholds a key section of the Voting Rights Act, ordering Alabama officials to redraw the state’s congressional map to allow an additional Black majority district.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — A Vancouver, Washington, police officer is facing fourth-degree assault charges after an incident in a Walmart parking lot during which the officer was recorded threatening to use a Taser against a suspect’s genitals, authorities announced Thursday.
Vancouver police say officer Andrea Mendoza, who has been with the department for seven years, was placed on administrative leave three days after the May incident.
The incident was captured on the officers’ body cameras as well as security footage from Wal-Mart’s camera. The video is graphic in nature and viewer discretion is advised.
“The actions of the officer who deployed the Taser in the video are disturbing,” said Vancouver Police Chief Jeff Mori. “I want to emphasize to the community that my expectation is that at all times, our personnel serve the public with professionalism, compassion and respect. Our department process includes supervisor review of all use-of-force incidents. Upon review of this incident, the involved officer was placed on administrative leave, an internal investigation was opened, and the case was referred to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office for independent investigation.”
According to authorities, officers responded to a call from a Walmart loss prevention employee who said that they saw two individuals, a man named Elijah Jaden Guffey-Prejean and an unidentified woman, steal merchandise and leave the store.
The two suspects were contacted by a pair of officers, who told them they were not free to leave, police said. One of the officers grabbed Guffey-Prejean’s arm after he took multiple steps away, while the woman ran away and wasn’t found, police said.
“The two VPD officers were able to get the male to the ground. However, before he could be handcuffed, he jumped up, punched one of the officers in the face and kicked the other officer in the chest. Both officers began struggling with him to gain control. One of the officers deployed a Taser to the subject’s back to gain compliance, which was not effective enough to get him handcuffed. During the struggle, one of the officers exposed the subject’s genital area and threatened to activate the Taser if he did not stop resisting,” Vancouver police said in a press release.
In the body cam video, Guffey-Prejean can be heard saying, “Did you just punch me in the b—-?” Mendoza can also be heard in the video threatening to use a Taser on his genitals.
Police said Guffey-Prejean eventually complied and was handcuffed. As more responders arrived, he can be heard asking the officers to cover up his genitals, which investigators say were revealed by Mendoza and left exposed for nearly a minute during his arrest. He was then taken to the hospital.
Court documents show Guffey-Prejean was found with $103 worth of stolen merchandise during the arrest and was later booked in the Clark County Jail on allegations of third-degree theft as well as two counts of third-degree assault over the officers’ injuries.
The incident reports and body cam footage was later filed by the responding officers, according to authorities.
According to authorities, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office investigation was completed on July 20 and then forwarded to the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for review. Mendoza was officially charged with fourth-degree assault five days later.
A statement from the Vancouver Police Officer’s Guild issued Thursday night said, in part:
“Officer Andrea Mendoza is a decorated member of the Vancouver Police Department and a veteran of our Armed Forces. She has spent years selflessly protecting our country and our city.
Officer Mendoza is also a mother of two young children and a member of our diverse Hispanic community. Her dedication to our city is overshadowed only by her love for her family and community…
… We ask much of our police officers. And our officers respond with utmost professionalism in often violent interactions with criminals. No officer should fear being charged with a crime for faithfully doing their job. Yet that is the new norm that the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has now announced with this tortured, baseless criminal charge against Officer Mendoza.
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Mayor Jerry Demings and County Commissioner Emily Bonilla, who represents Winter Park and Bithlo in District 5, were the only two to vote against the idea.
The county’s other five commissioners were in favor.
“Orange County, in terms of population, is the fifth largest county [in Florida],” Lisa Snead, Assistant County Administrator, said in a presentation to the county commission Tuesday. “However, if you look at the wages of the commissioners, we are at the bottom of that.”
Orange County commissioners are currently paid about $91,000 annually. Mayor Demings is paid $182,860.
The new formula they’re eyeing — a state formula used by several other big counties — would boost pay to $113,608 for commissioners and $227,812 for the mayor.
Of the county’s public officials, only Orange County Sheriff John Mina, with a salary of roughly $229,000, would make more than Demings.
Part of the rationale for the boost is that commissioners in smaller, neighboring counties like Osceola and Seminole are paid more: $98,623 and $102,132 respectively. Other high-population counties in Florida — like Broward and Hillsborough — also offer higher pay.
“There’s a lot of expectations of us in the community,” said Emily Bonilla, who first proposed a change to the salary calculation last year, prompting staff to come up with a market analysis.
A mother of two sons, Bonilla told Orlando Weekly she often works 60 or more hours per week. Her family, she said, would readily tell anyone that she needs a better work-life balance.
During 2022 budget talks, Bonilla got flack from fellow commissioners and others for proposing a 21% salary increase for commissioners. Landlord apologists called her “hypocritical” for wanting higher pay as she pursued a cap on rent hikes.
“I just think… the optics and the timing is all wrong,” Demings said at the time, the Orlando Sentinel reported. He wasn’t keen on Bonilla’s rent control idea either.
This year, Bonilla has sparred with Demings not over salary talks but over her district office’s budget.
The board of county commissioners (which includes all six commissioners and the mayor) previously agreed to allocate funds for all six districts to hire a third aide.
But Bonilla said, based on a review of funds allocated for her office this year, that a portion of the funding (allocated specifically for that reason) was missing from her district’s slice of the pie.
Each district was given an extra $95,000 in the next year’s budget to hire another staffer — about $60,000 for salary, plus about $30,000 in benefits.
“I was denied $33,000 for my office budget,” Bonilla told colleagues. “And now we’re looking at raising our salaries, which doesn’t benefit our residents. It benefits ourselves."
The actual numbers reveal a complicated picture. Budget documents show that Bonilla’s District 5 is set to receive the second-highest amount of funding next year out of all districts, behind District 6.
Each district has different community needs, Bonilla told Orlando Weekly. Hers — and District 6, covering Pine Hills and Tangelo Park — generally get the most allocated.
Actual percentage increases for each district, however, vary.
This year, a breakdown of District 5’s operating budget versus the amount that’s allocated for “personal services” — the cost of district staffers’ wages and benefits — demonstrates a lack of funds for an additional aide, Bonilla said.
She presented this issue to her colleagues during a July 13 budget work session.
“I wasn’t asking for anything more than anybody else was getting,” Bonilla told Orlando Weekly.
But her presentation wasn’t received warmly by all.
"The way I take what you’re saying, Commissioner Bonilla, is that you should have more in your budget than any of the other commissioners," Demings said. "That's the way I hear what you're saying — is that your office should have more."
Several of her colleagues also questioned her request for more funds. The general message was: accept what you’ve been given, and work within your means.
“We’re not like the federal government,” Demings said. “We cannot spend money that you do not have budgeted.”
Commissioner Mayra Uribe, representing District 3 (whose office is set to receive more than $30,000 less than Bonilla’s), questioned Bonilla’s operating budget.
“If you don’t have the employees, what are you spending your funds on?” Uribe asked. “Because I’m not saying that you don’t need to have your employee, but you’re significantly higher than all of us.”
Bonilla told Orlando Weekly her office is stretched thin with the work she wants to accomplish. She keeps a mass email list, hosts a talk show on YouTube, "Emily Tells All," spotlighting the work of local nonprofits and county programs, and tries to spread word about community events and town halls of interest to the general public.
“I'm trying to do some job fairs right now and different things like that to be able to help people with economic development, financial stability, some financial education,” she said.
“There’s so much that we as commissioners could do, but we’re limited on what we can do by how much staff we have.”
She also tries to help spread the word about all of the programs and services the county offers.
“We have all of these services that are available to our residents and they don't know about it,” Bonilla said. “I was getting a lot of comments from our divisions and agencies about how they need help to get the word out there to the public, on what services they have to provide.”
County administrator Byron Brooks and Mayor Demings told Bonilla on July 13 that next year’s budget had already been prepared.
“What we brought to you was a balanced budget,” Demings told her. “So any increases to that balanced budget means we’re going into the reserves, quite frankly.”
A county’s reserves essentially serve as a “rainy day” fund — sometimes literally, for emergency assistance following a hurricane or other natural disaster. But Orange County’s reserves are exactly where the proposed 24.58% salary boosts for commissioners would come from — and would cost the county $179,000 in total.
“It was very hypocritical and selfish,” Bonilla told Orlando Weekly of the proposal. “What I asked for, for my office, it wasn’t OK to take money out of the reserves.”
She doesn’t disagree with the salary boost, per se. “It’s just that I feel it’s selfish that when it comes to the pockets of the commissioners, it’s not a problem.”
Salary talks
The Board of County Commissioners was presented with four different proposals Tuesday, offering pay increase options for commissioners ranging from 7% to 24.58 %.
After Bonilla’s pitch for higher commissioner salaries last year, county staff this year put together an analysis of salaries in Florida’s 15 most populous counties, based on 2020 U.S. Census data.
Orange County was the fifth-most populous county in 2020, home to 1.37 million residents. Today, it’s closer to 1.43 million.
Staff found a pay gap between commissioners in Orange County compared to other populous Florida counties. So, they came up with options to close it.
The first option was to keep the county’s current formula, which adjusts commissioners’ pay based on either a percentage increase or decrease of the Consumer Price Index, or the percentage increase given to other non-bargaining (i.e. nonunion) county employees — whichever is lower.
That formula, baked into the county’s charter, was first established 27 years ago. It hasn’t been updated since (while the cost of living in Orange County has).
That option would have raised the mayor and commissioners’ pay by 7%.
Other pitches from county staff included:
- Adjusting the salaries to those at the same level of the non bargaining employees, which would have offered a 7% raise.
- Adjusting the salaries based on a state formula, which is population-based (and because Orange County would be playing catch up) would offer a 24.58% raise.
3. Adjusting the salaries based on the average median market data, which would offer a 12.88% raise (i.e. the happy medium).
There was little discussion or debate Tuesday over which option was more prudent.
District 6 Commissioner Michael Scott, who also serves as coordinator for Orlando's My Brother's Keeper mentoring initiative, motioned to shift to the state formula. It would deliver the highest pay raise for them ($22,450) and the largest cost impact to the county ($179,000) out of all options presented.
The pay raise would represent just a sliver of the county’s tentative budget of $6.8 billion for the next fiscal year, running Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, 2024, which is meant to lay out a spending plan for county programs and services.
Commissioners Christine Moore (District 2) and Nicole Wilson (District 1) seconded Scott’s motion, prompting laughs from those on the dais.
In a 5–2 vote, the majority opted for the state formula option, with Demings and Bonilla voting against.
A subsequent motion from Scott, passed without discussion also by a 5–2 vote (with Bonilla and Demings again voting ‘no’), would revise the county charter to adjust their salary increases in the future to align with that of other non-bargaining employees.
Despite the optics, the move doesn’t place them in any unique position compared to other Florida counties.
Broward County, for instance, home to 1.94 million residents in 2020, pays its nine commissioners $113,608 annually. So do Hillsborough and Palm Beach counties, based on that state formula — which dates back to 1885, and has been altered a couple of times since.
Controversy surrounding salary boosts for public officials isn’t uncommon.
Last year in Brevard County for instance, commissioners approved a modest 3.3% pay raise for themselves over public objection from critics.
That bump affected their budget by just $16,300 according to Florida Today.
Making ends meet as a county leader
Orange County Mayor Demings — a former sheriff and Orlando police chief who'd get a $45,000 pay raise from the state formula proposal — reported a net worth of $2.1 million for last year, according to public filings with the Florida Commission on Ethics, required by public officials under state law.
Scott, who motioned for the nearly 25% pay boost, reported a net worth of $0 (the value of your assets minus total liabilities), and $172,372 in total income, attributable to the Orange County government ($91,000) and the city of Orlando ($81,372).
Wilson, a lawyer representing District 1, reported a net worth of $423,000 (and over $562,000 in income from Orlando Health in 2022, in addition to her commissioner pay).
Moore, of District 2, didn’t file her mandatory financial disclosure report at all. They’re due July 1, although a grace period is in effect through Sept. 1.
Commissioner Mayra Uribe reported a net worth of $427,000, only listing income attributable to her role as county commissioner. Bonilla and Cordero did the same, reporting net worths of $362,691 and $999, respectively.
But it’s not just the Orange County commission that’s seeking a raise this year.
Many county offices and agencies are seeking more funding, including the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, which could see a $23 million boost to its operating budget under a tentative proposal approved by the county commission earlier this month.
This isn’t all set in stone, however.
The county’s budget for the next fiscal year is still subject to public hearings, which are scheduled for Sept. 7 and Sept. 21 at 5 p.m.
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Jimmie Johnson is his breaking silence over the horrific tragedy that struck his family.
A month after his wife Chandra's 69-year-old parents Jack and Terry Lynn Janway and 11-year-old nephew Dalton were killed in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide, the NASCAR driver shared a heartbreaking statement mourning their deaths.
"Our family is devastated by the profound loss of Lynn, Jack and Dalton Janway," he wrote on Instagram July 28. "We have been humbled by the outpouring of love and support during this unthinkably sad time and remain grateful for all of your compassion."
On June 26, officers from the Muskogee Police Department in Oklahoma were called to a residence after receiving a call from a woman who said "there was a disturbance and someone had a gun" before hanging up, chief of police Johnny Teehee said in a news release last month. Upon their arrival, authorities found "a subject laying in the hallway inside the front door" and "heard another gunshot from further inside the house."
The officers tried to rescue the victim found by the door, though they soon determined that the person had died, according to Teehee. They found two more bodies inside the home.
Terry Lynn was suspected to be the primary suspect in the killings, police previously confirmed to E! News.
In the wake of the news, Jimmie withdrew from the NASCAR Cup Series event in Chicago that took place on July 1 and 2.
Though the Jimmie did not release a personal statement at the time, many from the racing community spoke out to show support for the 47-year-old and share their condolences.
"We are saddened by the tragic deaths of members of Chandra Johnson's family," NASCAR said in a statement to E! News. "The entire NASCAR family extends its deepest support and condolences during this difficult time to Chandra, Jimmie and the entire Johnson & Janway families."
Meanwhile, Kelley Earnhardt—the sister of racing icon Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the co-owner of JR Motorsports—tweeted, "So tragic. Many hugs and prayers for all." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1381653/nascar-s-jimmie-johnson-speaks-out-after-nephew-and-in-laws-killed-in-apparent-murder-suicide?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-07-28T23:06:14 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1381653/nascar-s-jimmie-johnson-speaks-out-after-nephew-and-in-laws-killed-in-apparent-murder-suicide?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
Mexican military obstructed probe into disappeared students, says UN
By Karol Suarez, CNN
Mexico City (CNN) — The United Nation’s human rights commissioner on Thursday accused Mexico’s military of obstructing an expert investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in a bloody incident that shook that country nearly nine years ago.
Last August, a Mexican truth commission report concluded that the students, who disappeared en route to a demonstration in Mexico City, had been victims of “state-sponsored crime.”
The students, from a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, were intercepted by local police and federal military forces while traveling through the southwestern city of Iguala in September 2014.
Survivors from the original group of 100 students said police officers and soldiers suddenly opened fire. But dozens of students on the buses disappeared that night, and their fate remains unknown.
An expert panel (GIEI) investigating the incident said earlier this week that it had not received adequate access to information and that the experts had no choice but to withdraw from the investigation and leave Mexico.
Its report was followed by Thursday’s statement from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico, which said Mexico’s Armed Forces did not provide all the information requested by an independent panel investigating the disappearance.
“Since its creation, the GIEI has established the need to receive exhaustive and truthful information from all the authorities to clarify the facts of the forced disappearance of the students and other serious violations of human rights. Within this framework, the OHCHR deeply regrets that, despite the political will expressed by the federal government at the highest level, the Armed Forces have not provided all the information requested,” the OHCHR statement reads.
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The priority is to keep searching for the missing students, he said, adding that 115 people have already been detained, including two generals and a former prosecutor.
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A SEPTA trolley malfunction caused the vehicle to veer off the tracks and crash into a historic philadelphia building.
The crash happened on the corner of Island Avenue and the Cobbs Creek Parkway around 10:30 p.m.
Surveillance video below shows the out-of-control trolley crashing into a car, creating a ricochet effect, then steamrolling right into the historic Blue Bell Inn.
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According to the Darby Creek Valley Association, the inn was the site of 1777 battle when the British occupied Philadelphia.
Delia King, a caretaker of the inn, was in complete astonishment. “I said ‘oh my goodness, there’s a trolley in my living room!'” King told NBC10 news. “The whole ceiling is on the floor, no wall or anything, just a big trolley. How did a trolley get in my living room?” King questioned hysterically.
One of the most important pieces of the story is that King could have been hit by the trolley as it catapulted into her home. King is an artist, and she tends to her passions in her downstairs living room where her easel is set up. She wanted to tend to her passions but had a long day and was not up for painting, and thankfully decided to stay in bed.
“If I had not been lazy, I’d probably be dead under a trolley,” King said. “I’m really glad my son was at his dad’s house and not here,” King added.
The trolley was removed from the Inn early Friday morning. SEPTA says they are assessing the damage and will make repairs.
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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.
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Bidens publicly acknowledge their seventh grandchild for the first time
By Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz, CNN
(CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday publicly acknowledged a daughter of his son Hunter for the first time, breaking a long-held silence on the matter by describing the situation as a “family matter.”
“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,” Biden said in a statement that was first reported by People.
The statement went on to read: “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,” read the statement.
The statement amounts to the Bidens’ first acknowledgment of their seventh grandchild, a matter that had grown politically sensitive in recent months as Hunter Biden’s legal predicament entered the spotlight.
Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman, gave birth to a girl and claimed Hunter Biden was the father in 2019. He denied paternity, but after a DNA test confirmed that he was the father, he eventually agreed in 2020 to pay $20,000 a month in child support.
Hunter Biden sought to reduce the monthly payments, and last month settled a child support case. As part of the deal, Hunter Biden will give some of his paintings to his daughter, who can either keep some of her choosing or keep the money from any sales of those paintings.
Roberts is also dropping her bid to change the girl’s last name to “Biden,” according to the court filing.
In court filings in April, Roberts said Hunter Biden “has never seen or contacted” his 4-year-old daughter and that President Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden “remain estranged” from their grandchild.
A source familiar with the situation pointed to the contentious legal proceedings for reasoning as to why the Bidens are now acknowledging their seventh grandchild.
“You have to remember there were some fairly contentious legal proceedings between Navy’s parents happening until just a few weeks ago. As grandparents, the Bidens are following Hunter’s lead. They are – and have been – giving Hunter and Lunden the space and time to figure things out,” the source said.
Now that much of the legal matter has been sorted, “Navy’s parents are working on a way forward that’s best for her,” the source said.
“Thousands of families have faced similar circumstances, working it out in private, versus the spotlight. At the center is a 4-year-old girl and everyone wants what is best for her, including all of her grandparents,” said the source familiar.
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There has been much speculation around the Sixers and who will be returning to the team next year. Embiid has joked that he wants to win regardless of where he is, but he later put those ‘trolls’ to rest.
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James Harden on the other hand, was adamant on not returning to the Sixers next year, opting-in on his player option but requesting a trade from the team. Harden even gave a couple landing destinations, intensifying his determination to find a new home. Harden listed the Houston Rockets, and the Los Angeles Clippers are ideal destinations in a trade scenario.
In a recent sit down with USA Today’s Mackenzie Salmon, Harden expresses his ideals on a situation that was very similar to his. Damian Lillard, Portland Trailblazer’s superstar point guard, is requesting a trade from the Blazers and has given the front office and ideal destination for his new home. Actions that are very similar to what Harden has done. Sixers personnel should be taking notes, as Harden was asked about Damian Lillard’s situation and whether it’s a good or bad thing that player get to ‘dictate’ where they play in the league.
“I see both sides because I went through it. The organization wanna do what’s best for them. They don’t want to just give a player that basically is one of the best players that they’ve ever had in their organization away for nothing. So I get the organization’s side.” Harden told Salmon. “Then I get the player’s side as far as wanting to play and wanting to be somewhere. Whether it’s because it’s the right situation for you, for your family, or yourself, or whatever that person is going through — So if they can meet in the middle and kind of come to an agreement and figure it out, then that’s like the best scenario.”
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IOWA, La. (KLFY) — A church in Calcasieu Parish has been awarded $1.9 million in a dispute with its insurance company over damages sustained in Hurricane Laura.
According to a news release from the church’s lawyers, U.S. District Judge James D. Cain Jr. recently ruled in favor of First Baptist Church of Iowa in a case involving damage from Hurricane Laura and their insurance company, Church Mutual Insurance Company (CMI).
The ruling, totaling $1.9 million, finds the insurance company grossly mishandled First Baptist Church of Iowa’s claim, which involved the church, fellowship hall, classrooms and parsonage.
The congregation was unable to meet in their church property for two years after the storm, according to the release. Due to the generosity of other churches, the members and skilled professionals working for reduced or no cost, the sanctuary has been rebuilt, allowing members to return to that part of the church property, said Brandon Oliver, pastor of First Baptist Church of Iowa.
“These last few years have been a trial for us,” Oliver said. “Yet, God has been faithful to us. He has provided for our needs apart from any insurance company. We are thankful for the verdict. We knew that God was sovereign over the entire process. He could be trusted. He is always working for good for His people. And sometimes that good is teaching us patience and waiting for His timing.”
Rudie Soileau, attorney with Lundy Law, LLP in Lake Charles, said he was pleased with the outcome.
“This case was about standing true to commitments that were made,” Soileau said. “According to CMI, their mission is to ‘protect those who serve and inspire others.’ They did not live up to that. When you take on the obligation to protect a church in the community, it is important to follow through. So many people in this area were affected by Hurricane Laura. When people lose their church property, it compounds the emotional and spiritual injury because it is yet another disruption of fellowship and support that is needed during difficult times.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/iowa-louisiana-church-wins-1-9-million-judgment-from-insurance-company/ | 2023-07-28T23:06:24 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/iowa-louisiana-church-wins-1-9-million-judgment-from-insurance-company/ |
Federal ghost gun regulations temporarily revived by Justice Alito
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
(CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito agreed on Friday to temporarily freeze a lower court order that bars the government from regulating so-called ghost guns – untraceable homemade weapons – as firearms under federal law.
Alito acted alone because he has jurisdiction over the lower court involved in the dispute. In the brief order Alito asked for a response from challengers to the regulation by August 2 and suggested the full Supreme Court will rule by August 4.
At issue is a request from the Biden administration to allow the regulations to remain in effect while legal challenges play out.
“Ghost guns” are kits that a user can buy online to assemble a fully functional firearm. They have no serial numbers, do not require background checks, and provide no transfer records for easy traceability. Critics say they are attractive to people who are legally prohibited from buying firearms.
In 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives updated its regulations to define the kits as firearms under the law so that the government could more carefully track them. The rule does not prohibit the sale or possession of any firearm nor does it block an individual from purchasing such a kit. Instead, it requires compliance with federal laws that impose conditions on the commercial sale of firearms. Those conditions include requirements that commercial manufacturers and sellers mark products with serial numbers and keep records to allow law enforcement to trace firearms used in crimes.
In late June, Judge Reed O’Connor of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas held that the agency had exceeded its authority in promulgating the rule and blocked it nationwide. A federal appeals court declined to put on hold two key challenged provisions of the regulation.
In the emergency filing with the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar warned the justices that over the last several years “police departments around the Nation have confronted an explosion of crimes involving ghost guns.”
“Congress recognized that limiting the federal firearms laws to functional firearms would invite evasion, and it thus broadly defined ‘firearm’ to include any weapon ‘that will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive,’” Prelogar wrote.
The challenge to the ATF regulations was brought by Texas residents who own components that they intend to manufacture into ghost guns for their personal use. The rule blocks them from being able to directly purchase additional parts. A gun rights groups also challenged the rule.
O’Connor noted in his order that Congress’ definition of a firearm does not cover “parts, or aggregations of weapons parts” regardless of whether the parts can be “readily assembled into something that may fire a projectile.”
“Even if it is true that such an interpretation creates loopholes that as a policy matter should be avoided, it not the role of the judiciary to correct them,” O’Connor wrote.
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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.
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MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami on Friday blasted prosecutors for an apparent attempt to disavow a court order and take control of a oceanside condo belonging to a former Republican Congressman ahead of a high-profile trial connected to a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government.
Prosecutors also blocked eight more properties belonging to Rivera and his associate in Florida and Georgia that, while unrelated to criminal activity, would likely be seized if the two are found guilty.
This month, in a harshly worded ruling, Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres said that the government had no right to take the “innocent” Florida assets without a conviction. Rather than lift the restraining order, the government then asked the court to reconsider and said that it had since determined that three of the properties — including a condo that Rivera and his wife purchased in 2019 for $301,000 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida — could also be traced to the defendants’ alleged lobbying on behalf of Maduro’s government.
Judge Darrin Gayles on Friday expressed frustration with the government’s change in strategy.
“This reeks of gamesmanship,” said Gayles, who reversed his own sealed order of a week ago granting prosecutors’ request that the real estate properties once again be frozen. “It seems like the government simply filed this because it lost.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nalina Sombuntham said prosecutors first learned from investigators that the property could be directly “tainted” by Rivera’s consulting work with Venezuela in May or June but didn’t alert the court until July 14 — a week after Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres issued his 23-page order freeing up the properties.
Gayles, who is overseeing the criminal case, was unimpressed. “It seems like you’re wasting the court’s time,” he said.
Rivera has been marred by scandals stretching back to his days in Congress from 2011 to 2013. He was arrested late last year on an eight-count criminal indictment alleging that at the start of the Trump administration he was part of a conspiracy to lobby on behalf of Venezuela to lower tensions with the U.S., resolve a legal dispute with a U.S. oil company and end U.S. sanctions against the South American nation — all without registering as a foreign agent.
As part of that effort, he arranged meetings in Washington, New York and Dallas for allies of Maduro with U.S. lawmakers and a top aide to former President Donald Trump, according to the indictment. To hide the sensitive nature of his work, prosecutors allege Rivera referred to Maduro in chat messages as the “bus driver,” a congressman as “Sombrero” and millions of dollars as “melons.”
Court records show Rivera’s consulting work was closely coordinated with Raúl Gorrín, a Venezuelan insider and media tycoon who has himself been sanctioned and indicted in the U.S. on money laundering charges. Part of the more than $20 million that Rivera was alleged to have received from Venezuela was used to pay maintenance on one of Gorrin’s yachts, according to prosecutors.
Rivera maintains that Gorrín was his attorney in Venezuela and that all of his work was conducted on behalf of PDV USA — a Delaware-based affiliate of Venezuelan-owned Citgo — and didn’t require he register as a foreign agent.
The dispute over Rivera’s assets has slowed the government’s prosecution of the high-profile case. Eight months after being charged, Rivera has yet to be formally arraigned — normally a routine procedural step — because he said he needs access to the disputed assets to pay his attorneys.
Rivera’s attorneys in filings have accused prosecutors of waging a “scorched earth attack” against the south Florida GOP stalwart who once shared an apartment in Tallahassee with now Sen. Marco Rubio when both were state lawmakers.
“They lost, they got caught and they came to this court and it is wrong,” David Oscar Markus, an attorney for Rivera’s co-defendant Esther Nuhfer said.
Rivera was triumphant following Friday’s hearing, accusing the prosecutors of “misconduct.” Judge Gayles was more restrained, making no such finding of wrongdoing even as he questioned prosecutors’ actions.
“Today’s decision shows that there are still honorable judges in America who will not tolerate misconduct from dishonest government prosecutors,” Rivera wrote The Associated Press in a text message. “Another victory for truth and justice.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida didn’t immediately comment.
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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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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.
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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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Samuel Alito tells Congress to stay out of Supreme Court ethics controversy
By Dan Berman, CNN
(CNN) — Congress should stay out of the Supreme Court’s business and stop trying to impose ethics rules on justices and clerks, Justice Samuel Alito said in an interview published by The Wall Street Journal editorial page Friday.
“Congress did not create the Supreme Court,” Alito said. “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.”
Spurred by a string of stories calling out questionable ethical decisions and a lack of transparency and disclosure, Senate Democrats have advanced legislation meant to create a code of ethics for the Supreme Court.
One of the authors of the Journal interview, attorney David B. Rivkin Jr., represents the plaintiffs in a major tax case the court will hear next term.
In an unusual move, Alito last month sought to preempt a ProPublica report on him by publishing a Wall Street Journal op-ed rather than responding to ProPublica’s request for comment directly.
Alito, a conservative appointed by George W. Bush, said he’s realized that nobody’s going to defend him if he doesn’t do so himself.
“I marvel at all the nonsense that has been written about me in the last year,” Alito told the Journal, adding that “the traditional idea about how judges and justices should behave is they should be mute.”
“But that’s just not happening,” he said. “And so at a certain point I’ve said to myself, nobody else is going to do this, so I have to defend myself.”
As for criticism of the court’s recent decisions, such as Alito’s majority opinion striking down Roe v. Wade last year, the justice compared any effort to defy the court on a vast scale to objections in the South after major civil rights cases in the 1950s, including Brown v. Board of Education, which declared “separate but equal” was unconstitutional.
“If we’re viewed as illegitimate, then disregard of our decisions becomes more acceptable and more popular,” Alito said. “So you can have a revival of the massive resistance that occurred in the South after Brown.”
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Trump attempts to reverse losses in hush money case and RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
By Kara Scannell and Tierney Sneed, CNN
(CNN) — Donald Trump is attempting to reverse court rulings in two of the many politically charged cases involving the former president.
Friday, Trump filed a notice that he’s appealing a ruling that prevented him from moving the New York criminal case against him involving hush money payments to federal court.
Earlier this month, US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein denied Trump’s request to move the state case to federal court after finding the alleged criminal conduct was not related to his role as president. Trump asked for the transfer arguing the allegations involved questions of federal law.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal the reimbursement of hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. He is set to go to trial in Manhattan in March 2024.
In the ruling, the judge wrote, “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.”
“Whatever the standard, and whether it is high or low, Trump fails to satisfy it,” the judge wrote.
RICO lawsuit Hail Mary
Thursday, Trump launched a Hail Mary bid – relying on the recent report from special counsel John Durham that criticized the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe – to revive the sprawling RICO lawsuit he filed against Hillary Clinton, Democratic National Committee, several ex-FBI officials and more than two dozen other people and entities.
The move by US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks to dismiss the Trump lawsuit and to order sanctions against Trump lawyers involved in it was already on appeal at the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
But the Trump team is now attempting a maneuver known as a motion for an indicative ruling, which allows for a trial court to take back jurisdiction of a case that’s already on appeal in order to consider new evidence or other issues that hadn’t been appropriately resolved.
In a filing with the trial court on Thursday, Trump’s lawyers argued that the Durham report “corroborates facts that are key to the plausibility and probability” of the claims the former president was making it in the case.
“Therefore, the introduction of this evidence is likely to change the outcome of this case at every level of the proceedings,” the filing said.
Durham’s report, released in May, had scathing criticism for how the FBI handled its investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s Russia campaign, claiming that the agency lacked the evidence to launch a full investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
Yet, the Durham probe – which inched along over four years, twice as long as the underlying Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller – fell well short of the hopes of Trump and his allies. Durham secured only one conviction, a guilty plea from a low level FBI agent who admitted to doctoring an email related to the surveillance of an ex-Trump campaign aide, while the other two prosecutions Durham brought in his investigation ended in embarrassing acquittals. Durham’s final report also did not recommend any “wholesale changes” to FBI policies for handling politically charged investigations.
In his RICO lawsuit, Trump claimed there was a conspiracy among the Democrats and government officials to fabricate information tying him to Russia in order to undermine his 2016 campaign.
Middlebrooks, in dismissing the case last year, wrote that what the lawsuit “lacks in substance and legal support it seeks to substitute with length, hyperbole, and the settling of scores and grievances.” Middlebrooks later ordered sanctions against the Trump attorneys who signed on to the case, concluding that the pleadings “contained factual allegations that were either knowingly false or made in reckless disregard for the truth.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — 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.
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.
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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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Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in northern Montana.
The NTSB report laid blame in part on BNSF railroad, which owns the tracks, and “a shortcoming in its safety culture.” But it noted that even if track inspections had been more frequent, the severity of the problems may not have been noticed the day of the crash without devices and technology designed to enhance the inspections.
“It is unlikely that the track deviations would have been detected through the current track inspection process,” the board concluded in the report released Thursday. But “autonomous monitoring systems ... have the ability to monitor track conditions and provide real-time condition monitoring that could be used for early identification and mitigation of unsafe track conditions.”
BNSF defends its safety record and said it already employs a number of the sensors that the NTSB is recommending. Spokeswoman Lena Kent said BNSF inspections meet all federal requirements, and the Fort Worth, Texas-based railroad is committed to timely maintenance, repair and replacement whenever issues or potential issues are detected.
But track problems have long been a safety concern for the NTSB, which can recommend but not mandate changes. In a 2021 report on the Joplin derailment, it attributed 592 U.S. derailments over a decade-long timespan to “track geometry,” which includes the distance between the rails and their horizontal and vertical alignment. Those issues were the second-leading cause of derailment in 2021.
Railroad safety expert Dave Clarke, the former director of University of Tennesse’s Center for Transportation Research, said it is important to remember that the NTSB doesn’t do any kind of cost-benefit analysis on its recommendations.
“If they think something is a good idea for safety they put it out there. In the real world there may be no way to economically or practically do everything NTSB recommends,” Clarke said.
Clarke said it’s also not clear that these sensors would have definitely caught the problems that caused the Montana derailment because none of the individual factors was severe enough to be considered a defect under Federal Railroad Administration rules. The NTSB said it was the combination of all those factors that caused the derailment.
The major freight railroads have more than 23,000 locomotives in their fleets, including thousands that have been put into storage in recent years as the railroads have overhauled their operations to rely more on longer trains that don’t need as many locomotives.
It would require a major investment to add detectors to every locomotive, although the Association of American Railroads trade group couldn’t immediately provide an estimate of how much each sensor costs. BNSF and the five other major U.S. freight railroads already spend roughly $23 billion every year on improving and maintaining their networks and investing in new equipment.
But attorney Jeff Goodman, who represented family members of the three passengers who died in the derailment, said he believes his clients would have lived if trains that had passed through the area before the Amtrak train had been equipped with these sensors.
Tracks will always bend or get out of sync because they’re exposed to the elements, but monitoring allows trains to know when to slow down and prevent accidents, he said.
“If the recommendations that the NTSB issued today were implemented prior to this tragedy, Zach Scheider and Don and Marjorie Varnadoe would all be alive today,” he said, naming the deceased family members of his clients.
Railroads have long resisted new regulations, Although there aren’t any rules requiring these automated inspection sensors or the thousands of trackside detectors they employ, railroads have spent millions developing the technology and installed them voluntarily to improve safety. But regulators are considering drafting rules for them in the wake of recent derailments.
An AAR trade group spokeswoman said that the type of sensors the NTSB singled out measure the force a locomotive exerts on the track and hasn’t proven as useful as other kinds of sensors railroads have developed.
“This technology has been difficult to maintain in real-world operations and lacks a strong correlation to track geometry defects,” Jessica Kahanek said.
Railroads are experimenting with a variety of technologies to find the best way to spot problems.
Another kind of autonomous sensor that can be installed on locomotives as well as the trucks inspectors use to ride along the rails can spot problems like misaligned track and wear on the rails by testing the track continuously.
Vehicle track interaction systems, like the ones the NTSB singled out, must be mounted on locomotives because they measure the force a train puts on the tracks.
Both kinds of sensors can help identify areas of concern for a human inspector to follow up on after computers analyze the data they generate. But the VTI sensors tend to be so sensitive that they flag areas where there aren’t true defects.
In the past, BNSF and other railroads have even petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration to get a waiver releasing them from some inspection requirements because they believe the track geometry sensors provide enough information that the frequency of human inspections can be safely reduced.
Federal officials approved a waiver allowing BNSF to reduce inspections on a couple of areas of its more than 30,000-mile (48,000-kilometer) network after the railroad successfully tested the devices for several years, but later declined to let the railroad expand that practice, including its tracks that cross Montana. BNSF took the FRA to court over that decision and the dispute is still pending.
Rail unions have opposed the waivers. They argue that while the new technology is helpful, it shouldn’t replace human inspections. Even with an interest in preserving jobs, they say safety is their primary concern.
Already, the unions say the widespread job cuts the major railroads have made — eliminating nearly one-third of all rail jobs over the past six years — have made it difficult for employees to keep up with inspection demands and meet all FRA requirements. The NTSB pointed out that the inspector responsible for the territory where the Montana derailment happened had worked an average of 13 hours a day in the four weeks prior to the crash.
Former NTSB director Bob Chipkevich, who spent years investigating rail crashes, said it often takes multiple derailments to force railroads to implement new safety technology.
One of the biggest recent advances in rail safety came after a commuter train collided head-on with a freight train near Los Angeles in 2008, killing 25 people and injuring more than 100. Congress mandated a $15 billion automatic braking system that stops trains when they’re in danger of colliding, derailing and other situations — but it took 12 years to complete.
“When there are safety issues that have been raised after multiple accidents that occurred again and again, the question is to the industry,” Chipkevich said. “Why haven’t you done it after all these years?”
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NEW YORK — 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.
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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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
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Black farmers make up a small, aging part of the farming population. Some worry traditions may die with them. So there's an effort in Mississippi to cultivate the next generation of Black farmers.
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ATLANTA — Atlanta police renewed calls Friday 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, a killing that stoked fear across the city.
Police still do not have a suspect.
“You may not have even been in the park that night, but if you’ve heard or saw anything that seems suspicious or just off, please notify us,” Lt. Germain Dearlove said at a news conference. “We will check and confirm every tip. Nothing is too small.”
Police have cast a wide net in the investigation, including looking at the victim’s background, he said. They have conducted numerous interviews but can’t say whether the killer knew Janness.
“It seems senseless to me,” Dearlove said of the slaying.
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DOVER, Del. — A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that a Delaware hospital system performed an autopsy on a 16-week-old fetus despite the parents refusing to give their consent.
The couple had adequately stated a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress, Winston said. The offense is defined as “extreme and outrageous conduct” that intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another.
Attorneys for the hospital system argued that performing a fetal autopsy without consent and against the express wishes of the parents does not rise to the level of being “beyond all possible bounds of decency.”
“Plaintiffs do not allege that the autopsy was performed in an indecent manner or that CCHS intentionally abused the fetus by dissecting and examining the fetus’ internal organs,” hospital lawyers wrote.
Meredith Boas began to experience fluid leakage in May 2021 when she was 16 weeks pregnant, according to the complaint. After being admitted to Christiana Care and diagnosed with preterm premature rupture of the membranes, she chose to have labor induced.
“She explicitly stated that she wanted her baby to remain whole and intact; that was why she chose to vaginally deliver him,” the lawsuit states. “She delivered her baby boy, Ronan, approximately three hours later. Meredith and Brandon held Ronan and took pictures with him and said hello and goodbye for many hours.”
Meredith specifically declined an autopsy when a nurse handed her autopsy consent paperwork, and the couple wanted private cremation and funeral services, the lawsuit states. The couple wanted placental pathology but “no fetal autopsy unless there are visual abnormalities,” a doctor’s note states. Discharge notes also indicated that the mother specifically declined an autopsy, according to the lawsuit.
“Meredith and Brandon left the hospital on May 6, 2021 believing their baby would be taken to the morgue and then the funeral home,” the lawsuit states. “Instead — behind her back he was taken to pathology and was disemboweled.”
The couple didn’t learn what happened until more than a month later, when Meredith found the pathology report in her medical records.
“She, a grieving mother, read the words ‘the fetus is eviscerated’ and read how they took him apart after she had seen her son for the last time as whole and intact,” according to the lawsuit.
The couple was later told that the hospital had a policy of performing autopsies on any babies who died under 20 weeks, “regardless of explicit parental directives to the contrary,” the complaint states.
It is unclear whether such a policy is still in effect and whether Christiana Care officials acted contrary to staff rule documents that are publicly available online. According to those documents, which date back several years, an autopsy may be performed “only with proper consent in accordance with state law and hospital policy.” The documents also state that consent for an autopsy is effective only if it is noted on a hospital form “signed by the appropriate legal representative of the patient.”
An informational page on Christiana’s website for parents who have experienced a miscarriage or pregnancy loss indicates that parents can “choose” to have an autopsy and that they have up to 24 hours to make that decision.
Hiran Ratnayake, a Christiana Care spokesperson, refused to say whether the policies were in effect in May 2021. He also declined to address the court ruling, saying Christiana Care does not comment on pending legal matters.
While allowing the lawsuit to proceed, the judge did dismiss a claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress. She said that claim could not remain because the parents themselves were not in a “zone of danger” in which negligent conduct causes a person to fear for his or her own safety.
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Trump claimed classified document discussed on tape isn’t real. But he still returned it to the National Archives
By Jamie Gangel, CNN
(CNN) — The top-secret document that former President Donald Trump discussed at a 2021 meeting at his New Jersey golf club was included in the 15 boxes returned to the National Archives in January of last year, according to a source familiar with the matter. But Trump has denied it was real.
Trump was charged Thursday with retaining the classified document, described as a “presentation concerning military activity in a foreign country,” which CNN has reported is Iran, as part of the superseding indictment. He had previously been charged with retaining 31 other documents. The Iran war plan document, however, stands out as the only one from the 15 boxes Trump initially returned – before any subpoena was issued or search was conducted – that has led to any criminal charge.
In the new court filing, the document is described as having been in Trump’s possession from the day he left the White House in 2021 until January 17, 2022, the same date Trump is said to have returned boxes to the National Archives after many months of requests to do so.
While the July 2021 Bedminster meeting was described in the original indictment, prosecutors did not say at the time whether they had located the document Trump was allegedly showing. The new charge makes clear they have the document and believe the former president had it in his possession at the time of the meeting at which he discussed it with people not cleared to view classified material. An audio recording of the meeting first aired by CNN captures a moment when Trump seems to indicate that he is holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran.
“These are the papers,” Trump says in the recording.
Trump has denied that the papers he showed at the meeting included a classified government document, claiming he had referred only to news articles.
“There was no document,” Trump told Fox News on June 19. “That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn’t have a document, per se. There was nothing to declassify. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.”
Trump’s attorneys previously said they were unable to find the document. They also told CNN that Trump and his staff did not review in advance materials in the boxes the former president returned to the Archives and have not been told what documents were recovered from Mar-a-Lago.
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Berlin's conservative mayor ran on a pledge to stand up for car drivers against encroachment from bicyclists. But bike-riders have pushed back, forcing the government to backpedal.
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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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PERTH AMBOY, New Jersey (WABC) -- Two sisters and their cousin all delivered babies within 24 hours of each other at the same New Jersey hospital this week.
All three babies were delivered by the same doctor at Hackensack Meridian Raritan Bay Medical Center.
Keydy's sister, Pagliery Cabrera Nin, had a baby boy, Liam, who was delivered on July 26 at 10:32 a.m.
Cousin Jankelly Abreu and mom Anais Garcia Perez had a baby boy, Jedidiah, born on July 26 at 1:47 p.m.
Then Cabrera Nin's sister, Keydy Cepeda, had a baby girl, Brielle, who was born on July 27 at 6:37 a.m.
"They all gave birth, and then hours later after I heard that they were giving birth, the pain started," Cepeda said.
They had no idea they would all end up delivering so closely. Many months ago, they all had a secret.
"In November, she called me to tell me, oh I have news for you, I'm pregnant and don't tell anyone," Pagliery Cabrera said. "And I said I'm pregnant too, so it was in December that all the families were together, and then she said I'm pregnant too."
With these three infants, there's going to be a very busy grandma in Perth Amboy. In fact, her other grown children welcomed babies recently too.
"His sister had a baby, his brother had a baby, we had a baby, she had a baby, and then his cousin had a baby, so there are six new grandkids for their grandma," Jedidiah's mom Anais Garcia said.
If all stays well, all moms and babies will be home by Saturday.
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With the WGA strike entering it's third month and SAG-AFTRA strike heading into its third week, L.A. workers reflect on what the Hollywood stoppage means for the local economy.
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‘Washington has to thread a very difficult needle’ on Niger response, experts say
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(CNN) — The United States and its Western allies are faced with a difficult conundrum as they navigate potential responses to the military takeover in Niger if democratic rule is not restored.
Under US law, if the US State Department formally classifies that takeover as a coup, it would require the US to cut foreign and military assistance to the Nigerien government, which could have serious consequences for the fight against terrorism and stability in the region.
The Biden administration has not yet made such a determination, with State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel saying Thursday that “this continues to be an evolving situation and it is quite too soon to characterize the nature of these ongoing developments.”
US officials stress that they are focused on diplomatic efforts to restore democratic rule, but on Friday, John Kirby of the National Security Council warned that a military takeover would imperil US assistance to Niger.
Experts told CNN that punitive measures could push Niger toward Russian mercenary groups like Wagner and away from its partners in the West. It is also likely that the Wagner group, which has a significant presence in Africa, and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, may seek to exploit the situation for their own benefit. US officials have said there are no indications that the organization was involved in the military takeover.
“Washington has to thread a very difficult needle right now, because we have real hard security interests in Niger,” said Cameron Hudson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
‘The last domino’ in the region
Niger has become a point of stability in the Sahel region of Africa, which faces a significant fight against terrorists and Islamist extremists, and is a key partner to the US, serving as a base for hundreds of US troops to assist with counterterrorism missions. Niger’s neighbors including Mali and Burkina Faso have experienced coups of their own in recent years.
Niger, unlike other African nations such as Mali and the Central African Republic, has not received assistance from the infamous Russian mercenary organization – something US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commended it for on a recent trip to Niamey.
“It’s the last domino, the last bastion and so, it will be very, very costly for the West to lose it,” said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at Brookings.
The Biden administration is already under congressional pressure to respond to the situation on the ground in Niger from the top lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“The United States must take swift action to hold anti-democratic forces accountable and send a clear signal that attacks on constitutional democracy will not be met with impunity,” Democratic Chairman Bob Menendez and Republican Ranking Member Jim Risch said in a statement Friday.
In a briefing Friday, Kirby again condemned the situation, which for now the administration sees as a feud between President Mohamed Bazoum and the putschists, apparently led by Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, the commander of Niger’s presidential guard.
“We remind those attempting this power grab by force that an overthrow of democratically-elected President Bazoum would place US substantial cooperation with the government of Niger at risk,” he said. “Specifically, a military takeover may cause the United States to cease security and other cooperation with the government of Niger, jeopardizing existing security and non-security partnerships.”
A difficult geostrategic environment
Hudson, a former US government official, told CNN that Niger “is an essential part of our security posture in the region, and we cannot walk away from that.”
“But the flip side of that is we have a playbook that we tend to follow when these coups happen: We impose sanctions, we restrict military assistance, we take away development assistance,” he explained.
“We’re in a geostrategic environment now where doing those things that we would normally do that would reflect our values in support of democracy could actually create the opening that the terrorists are looking for, that Russia is looking for,” Hudson said.
Felbab-Brown of Brookings told CNN that she does not know if a restriction of US military and economic aid would be enough to push the Nigerien putschists, who have not expressed explicit anti-Western sentiments, into the arms of the Wagner or other mercenary groups.
“But it will certainly push them much more towards that line,” she said.
However, Kamissa Camara, a senior adviser for Africa at the US Institute of Peace, argued that “anybody could take advantage of the situation” in Niger.
“Any international power or Western power could take advantage,” said Camara, who served as Malian foreign minister under former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
“We’re reshuffling the cards basically. We don’t really know who this new general is” who has seized power, she told CNN. “We don’t know who he is, what his motives are, what his interests are. So, anybody who finds that out could take advantage of it.”
Prigozhin trying to take advantage
This week, as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted 17 African leaders at a summit in St. Petersburg, the Russian Foreign Ministry called for the release of detained Nigerien President Bazoum.
However, Priogzhin, the Wagner head who led a recent unsuccessful revolt against Moscow, has already sought to propagandize the situation in Niger.
In a message on Telegram, he blamed “former colonizers” for “filling these countries with terrorists and various bandit formations” and suggested that Wagner is ready to assist.
A number of CNN investigations, and others by human rights groups, have established Wagner’s involvement in and complicity with atrocities against civilian populations in Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic, where they have been employed to assist local defense forces against rebellions and insurgencies, and suppress opposition.
Felbab-Brown told CNN that Prigozhin is trying to “personally” take advantage, given his “precarious” place following his failed revolt.
“He sees this as an opportunity to demonstrate to Moscow, to Putin, that he can still be of use, that he shouldn’t be liquidated,” she said.
‘Still space for diplomacy here’
For now, diplomatic efforts across the administration and partners like the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore democratic rule in Niger continue.
“We believe that there is still space for diplomacy here,” Kirby said Friday.
Blinken spoke by phone Wednesday with Bazoum, who has been detained in his residence, “and made clear that we strongly support him as the democratically elected president of the country,” the top US diplomat said at a news conference in New Zealand. US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke with Bazoum on Thursday.
US Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Thursday with President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria, who is the head of ECOWAS, about the situation.
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee spoke with Nigerien Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou and former President Mahamadou Issoufou “to condemn the efforts to seize power as well as encouraged their roles in facilitating negotiations between President Bazoum and the instigators of this takeover,” State Department deputy spokesperson Patel said.
“The US continues to remain deeply engaged and on this, we’re monitoring and paying attention very closely in touch with officials from the constitutionally elected government of Niger as well as our colleagues at the embassy,” he said.
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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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Trader Joe's issued a recall on Friday for its Fully Cooked Falafel, which may contain rocks.
The product has been removed from sale and destroyed, Trader Joe's officials wrote on its website.
It is sold in over 30 states including Illinois, North Carolina, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Officials went on to write that if anyone has purchased or received its Full Cooked Falafel they should not eat it.
Customers can discard the product or return it to any Trader Joe's for a full refund.
Customers with questions can contact Trader Joe's Customer Relations at 626-599-3817.
This is the third recall issued by Trader Joe's for some of its products in the last week.
On Tuesday, the store recalled two types of cookies that may also contain rocks.
Those cookies are Trader Joe's Almond Windmill Cookies and Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies.
Then on Thursday, the store issued another voluntary recall for roughly 10,000 cases of Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Soup, which suppliers said "may contain insects" in the broccoli florets. | https://abc7ny.com/trader-joes-fully-cooked-falafel-recall-product-contains-rocks/13564963/ | 2023-07-28T23:07:06 | 0 | https://abc7ny.com/trader-joes-fully-cooked-falafel-recall-product-contains-rocks/13564963/ |
This month, members of the mid-Columbia River tribes set off from Oregon on an annual intertribal canoe journey to Seattle. It's especially poignant this year after a three-year hiatus due to COVID.
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PITTSBURGH — A federal trial for the man who fatally shot 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue approached its conclusion Friday as the defense, trying to persuade a jury to spare his life, pressed its case that mental illness spurred the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack.
Prosecutors have presented evidence that Bowers was motivated by his hatred of Jewish people when he opened fire at the synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, killing members of three congregations gathered for Sabbath worship and study. The defense argues Bowers has schizophrenia and acted out of a delusional belief that Jews were participating in a genocide of white people.
On Friday, a defense psychiatrist who met with Bowers 10 times for nearly 40 hours said Bowers saw himself as a soldier of God in a war in which Satan was trying to use Jewish people to bring about the end of the world. Dr. George Corvin, of Raleigh, N.C., said it was a delusion brought on by psychosis.
Corvin said Bowers continues to express delusional beliefs about Jews — “disgustingly so” — and that he is incapable of remorse. He said Bowers should be on anti-psychotic medication.
Bowers “has a belief that we’re at the end of a war that’s been going on for thousands of years,” Corvin testified. “He still envisions what he did as an unfortunate act of violence at the direction of God — that it will save lives. He believes he’s a tool for God. I know it sounds absurd. It’s psychotic.”
Corvin continued: “This is the result of a mental illness.”
Corvin was one of several defense experts who diagnosed Bowers with schizophrenia, a serious brain disorder whose symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. A neurologist testifying for the prosecution disputed that Bowers has schizophrenia, saying Bowers has a personality disorder but is not delusional, and that mental illness did not appear to play a role in the attack. Prosecutors have noted Bowers spent six months planning the shooting.
Also testifying Friday were Bowers’ aunt and uncle.
The uncle, Clyde Munger, said he visited with Bowers in prison because “he is my nephew and I love him.” He said he prays for Bowers every morning.
The aunt, Patricia Fine, was expected to the final defense witness. She said Bowers had a difficult childhood from infancy, describing the house where he lived as unsafe. She said he was a sad child and that she “was convinced” he would take his own life. A defense expert previously described Bowers' early life as deeply unstable and said he attempted suicide several times in his teens.
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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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Marine scientists say record ocean temperatures have sparked widespread coral bleaching in the Florida Keys. The extreme heat and bleaching have been deadly — killing all coral on one popular reef.
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Marine scientists say record ocean temperatures have sparked widespread coral bleaching in the Florida Keys. The extreme heat and bleaching have been deadly — killing all coral on one popular reef.
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Bo Goldman, who toiled in obscurity for more than a decade while trying to make it as a playwright, then turned to movies in a screenwriting career highlighted by his Oscar-winning work on “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard,” died July 25 in Helendale, Calif. He was 90.
His daughter Mia Goldman said he had been in declining health but did not cite a specific cause. Mr. Goldman had lived in Rockport, Maine, before moving to Helendale earlier this year to be with his son Justin Ashforth, who served as his caretaker.
Mr. Goldman was one of the most acclaimed screenwriters of the 1970s and ’80s, known for crafting original, humanistic stories that explored characters’ messy inner lives, including their hopes, dreams and disappointments. His credits included the show business saga “The Rose” (1979), the divorce drama “Shoot the Moon” (1982) and the romantic fantasy “Meet Joe Black” (1998), which starred Brad Pitt as the golden-haired embodiment of Death itself, informing an aging Anthony Hopkins that the end is near.
“It’s hard to let go, isn’t it?” says Hopkins’s character, a media mogul with a bad heart. “Well, that’s life,” he adds. “What can I tell you.”
In 2017, New York magazine polled more than 40 screenwriters to compile a list of the 100 greatest in the history of their craft. Mr. Goldman came in at No. 28, a few places above John Hughes and Mel Brooks, and drew praise from “Forrest Gump” screenwriter Eric Roth, who noted “his understanding of social mores, his ironic sense of humor, and his outright anger at being human.”
“His words were silk, never wasted or misplaced,” Roth told the magazine, “and he would throw away what others would consider glorious and did it all without a moment’s fanfare.”
Growing up, Mr. Goldman was more interested in theater than film, with dreams of becoming “the next Oscar Hammerstein.” His father produced Broadway plays, and on Saturday afternoons the family would pile into a Checker Cab outside their Park Avenue apartment, making their way to matinees where a young Mr. Goldman would sit perched on his mother’s lap, feet from the stage.
At 26, he appeared on the verge of a breakthrough when his musical “First Impressions” (1959), a “Pride and Prejudice” adaptation that he co-wrote with George Weiss and Glenn Paxton, ran on Broadway for two months. But that was followed by 16 years in the wilderness, as Mr. Goldman tried and failed to mount another musical, this one set during the Civil War.
“He was absolutely miserable,” his daughter recalled in a phone interview. “He went into analysis, and that saved him for a bit. It grounded him, but he was going insane. He had insomnia, and would wake up at 2 in the morning and would write for four or five hours, starting with stream-of-consciousness, writing whatever words came into his head.”
At a friend’s suggestion, he began writing for the movies, developing a screenplay about a tumultuous marriage — the basis for “Shoot the Moon” — that attracted the attention of Hollywood directors. One, Milos Forman, passed on the project but hired Mr. Goldman to work on “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975), a countercultural touchstone of the New Hollywood era.
Based on a best-selling 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, the film starred Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a rebellious convict who avoids hard labor by pretending to be insane, and winds up at a mental institution led by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). The movie grossed more than $160 million at the box office (about $940 million in today’s money) and won five Academy Awards, including best picture, director, actor and actress.
Mr. Goldman shared the Oscar for best adapted screenplay with Lawrence Hauben, an actor and screenwriter who had been previously hired to work on the film. Their screenplay shifted the novel’s point of view from “Chief” Bromden, a Native American patient played by Will Sampson, to McMurphy, whom Mr. Goldman described as his on-screen alter ego.
“I am McMurphy: an outsider, tolerated perhaps but not really equipped to cope with life as it presents itself,” he told Double Exposure, a film journal.
Mr. Goldman also identified strongly with Melvin Dummar, the Utah gas station owner who claimed to have encountered billionaire Howard Hughes one night in the desert, and who later alleged to have found a will granting him a fraction of the billionaire’s estate. The will was ruled inauthentic, but the story inspired Mr. Goldman’s screenplay for “Melvin and Howard” (1980), directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Paul Le Mat and Jason Robards.
“Melvin was a loser, and that’s how I felt after those years of trying to get the second musical on Broadway,” said Mr. Goldman, who researched the screenplay in part by spending three weeks with Dummar, retracing the steps of his alleged journey with Hughes.
The film brought Mr. Goldman his second Oscar — Mary Steenburgen also won for playing Dummar’s first wife — and was named the best movie of the year by the National Society of Film Critics.
Mr. Goldman received one more Oscar nomination for “Scent of a Woman” (1992), about a blind, rage-filled former Army officer (Al Pacino) and his teenage assistant (Chris O’Donnell).
The film was based on an Italian movie, “Profumo di donna” (1974), but once again Mr. Goldman brought a personal touch to the story, creating the Pacino character while drawing on memories of three people: his father, one of his brothers and a sergeant he met while serving in the Army after college.
“If there is a train of thought which runs through my work,” he told The Washington Post in 1982, “it is a yearning, a longing to make the people real and capture their lives on the screen.” That wasn’t to say it was easy. Capturing life in art, he added, was “like trying to catch starlight.”
The fourth of five children, Robert Spencer Goldman was born in Manhattan on Sept. 10, 1932. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
His father, Julian, rose from poverty on the Lower East Side to build a chain of more than 70 clothing stores. He owned a stable of horses in Chantilly, France, and for a time he was a legal client of future president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose wife, Eleanor, made baby booties for Mr. Goldman and his siblings, according to the family. His mother, the former Lillian Levy, was a hat model who developed Parkinson’s disease when Mr. Goldman was 12.
By then, the family’s fortune had been virtually wiped out by the Depression, although Mr. Goldman was still able to study at the Dalton School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1953 and wrote shows for the Triangle Club theater troupe.
When a typo in a school newspaper article rendered his first name as Bo instead of Bob, Mr. Goldman decided the name suited him. And when his roommate Thomas Hoving, the future director of the Museum of Modern Art, began dating a young woman named Mab Ashforth, Mr. Goldman decided he had found his soul mate.
He and Ashforth began dating, to the surprise of Hoving (who remained a friend) and to the dismay of Ashforth’s patrician family (who traced their lineage to the Mayflower). When he and Ashforth married in 1954, they “became bohemians,” his daughter said, “completely off on their own. Struggling with money, living life to the hilt, borrowing from rich friends from Princeton.”
They lived in New York City and on the East End of Long Island, housesitting for friends such as author Peter Matthiessen, while Mr. Goldman worked on his plays. Occasionally he found work on television, writing for shows including “Playhouse 90,” where he found a mentor in producer Fred Coe.
His later credits included the films “Swing Shift” (1984), “The Flamingo Kid” (1984), “Little Nikita” (1988) and “City Hall” (1996), which reunited him with Pacino. He also did uncredited script work on “Dick Tracy” (1990) and “The Perfect Storm” (2000).
Mr. Goldman was supported for many years by his wife, who sold homemade toys, ran a nursery school out of their living room and opened a specialty food store called Loaves and Fishes in Sagaponack, N.Y. They later moved to Napa Valley and then to Maine, where they lived with their daughter Serena Rathbun, a costume and production designer, and her husband, Todd Field, the director of “Tár.”
Several of their six children followed Mr. Goldman into show business, although the family connection was not always clear: During the lean years, his wife grew angry at Mr. Goldman, according to his daughter Mia, and decided to give some of their children her parents’ last names, instead of his own.
Mab Ashforth died in 2017. In addition to Mia, Serena and Justin, survivors include two other children, Amy Goldman and Diana Rathbun; a brother; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A son, Jesse Ashforth, died in 1981.
Family “really is the most important expression of art,” Mr. Goldman once said. “Many men and women go to their graves without any of the kind of sweet recognition that some artists get, but having lived very artistic lives by raising children and being good husbands and wives. To me,” he added, “that’s the most artful and inventive thing you can do with your life.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/07/28/bo-goldman-screenwriter-dead/ | 2023-07-28T23:07:18 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/07/28/bo-goldman-screenwriter-dead/ |
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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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a four-year-old girl fathered by his son Hunter with an Arkansas woman, Lunden Roberts, in 2018.
“This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter,” he said. “Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
Hunter Biden’s paternity was established by DNA testing after Roberts sued for child support, and the two parties recently resolved outstanding child support issues. The president’s son wrote about his encounter with Roberts in his 2021 memoir, saying it came while he was deep in addiction to alcohol and drugs, including crack cocaine.
“I had no recollection of our encounter,” he wrote. “That’s how little connection I had with anyone. I was a mess, but a mess I’ve taken responsibility for.”
The president, who has made a commitment to family central to his public persona, has faced increasing criticism from political rivals and pundits for failing to acknowledge the granddaughter. According to a person familiar with the matter, he was taking the cue from his son while the legal proceedings played out. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private matters.
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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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WASHINGTON — ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H.; Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.; actor Matthew McConaughey.
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CNN’s “State of the Union” — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican presidential candidates; Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
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Fake curb painting service scamming people, says Santa Cruz city officials
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION-TV)- The City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Police said people going around the city demanding money for curb panting are scamming people.
Police say the scam goes as follows: people show up and paint your house number on the curb and demand payment. Some will say or suggest they are city employees, with official-looking notices.
Police asked not to pay or donate to anyone people did not hire or approve to paint your curb.
The City of Santa Cruz Public Works explains the City does not require residents to have home address numbers painted on the curb. "The only City requirement for addresses is that they are visible from the home near the front door or other entry," said police.
The fliers have no affiliation with the city.
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With more than 200 careers under her pink belt, Barbie has always been a hard worker. What can the types of professions Barbie's done tell us about women in the U.S. labor force? A lot, actually.
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NEW YORK — 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.
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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Former President Donald Trump faces three new charges in the case accusing him of hoarding classified documents as a grand jury continues to investigate his role in trying to overturn 2020's election.
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ARCADIA, Calif. — 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.
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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Attacks against postal carriers are up, and so are mail thefts. The U.S. Postal Service has a new safety plan, but is it strong enough? This is occurring as the USPS tries to recruit more workers.
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BRIDGEND, Wales — Steven Alker moved to the top of the Senior British Open leaderboard on Friday with a 3-under 68 after Miguel Angel Jimenez followed up a round to remember with one to forget.
Alker is chasing his second major victory in the over-50 ranks. He won the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship last year.
Scotland’s Greig Hutcheon (68) is a further stroke back in third.
Overnight leader Jimenez had an opening-round 5-under 66 but dropped down to an eight-way tie for eighth after a 5-over 76, including four bogeys between Nos. 13-17. Jimenez was the first Spaniard to win the tournament, in 2018. Bernhard Langer, who won the last time the Senior British Open was held at Royal Porthcawl in 2017, carded a 69 to also share eighth. He is a four-time winner of this major and has been runner-up three times.
Defending champion Darren Clarke (74) is 5 over
The tournament is the last of five majors on the senior schedule. The winner gets into the British Open next year at Royal Troon.
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Afternoon Newscast for July 28, 2023 By Janet Saidi Published July 28, 2023 at 5:28 PM CDT Listen • 2:25 Ways To Subscribe Apple Spotify Amazon Alexa Google Stitcher Here's a roundup of headlines from across the mid-Missouri region, including:U.S. farmers are facing a tough economy: Lower crop prices and higher interest ratesParson mum on 2024 election cycle endorsements for governor, presidentDuring Springfield visit, Parson pushes back on critics who say Interstate 70 is funded at the expense of Interstate 44 | https://www.kbia.org/podcast/kbia-newscast/2023-07-28/afternoon-newscast-for-july-28-2023 | 2023-07-28T23:07:54 | 1 | https://www.kbia.org/podcast/kbia-newscast/2023-07-28/afternoon-newscast-for-july-28-2023 |
MIAMI —
“It is very emotional because this is where it all started,” Cabrera, a native of Venezuela, said before Friday’s series opener. “To be back here is awesome.”
The Marlins brought up the then-20-year-old Cabrera two months into the 2003 season. Cabrera made an immediate impact, hitting a walk-off home run to help the Marlins beat Tampa Bay in his major league debut.
“I remember it well because in all the stadiums I’ve visited, that is the first video presented,” Cabrera said. “My teammates kid me because I was so skinny back then.”
It was a sign of things to come. Cabrera played a key role in the Marlins’ postseason run in 2003 that culminated with a World Series championship.
Cabrera was a four-time All-Star during his time with the Marlins. But the club, fearing it would lose Cabrera to free agency once he became eligible, dealt him to Detroit following the 2007 season.
“When I received that call, I had many questions on why I was being traded,” Cabrera said. “The club had a good young group and was growing tremendously. Had the group stayed together, we had a chance to contend for the division. They told me to be calm, that you’re going to a good club with a chance to win.”
Cabrera flourished in Detroit, becoming one of the game’s top hitters and a two-time AL MVP. In 2012, Cabrera won the AL Triple Crown, the first to accomplish the feat since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967.
But the offensive production, which included four AL batting titles, declined as Cabrera reached his late 30s. Nonetheless, Cabrera reached the career 3,000-hit and 500-homer milestones over the last two seasons.
Now limited to a parttime role, Cabrera will play the three games against Miami. The second game on Saturday also will be promoted as Venezuelan Heritage Day.
“It is going to be great for me and my family,” Cabrera said of the ceremony,” Cabrera said. “You have to enjoy this moment, every second, every minute. After that, you prepare for the game and do your best to help our team win.”
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NEW YORK — St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Miles Mikolas was suspended for five games and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball on Friday for intentionally throwing at Ian Happ of the Chicago Cubs.
In the first inning in the Cardinals’ 10-3 loss, Happ bloodied St. Louis catcher Willson Contreras when he hit him in the head with a long follow-through on a swing, then was soon hit himself by a pitch from Mikolas.
Andrew Knizner took over behind the plate for Contreras, and Mikolas brushed back Happ with the first pitch when play resumed to run the count to 3-1. With the next pitch, Mikolas hit Happ in the rear end.
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President Joe Biden often drops Scranton references into speeches when he can and his latest opportunity presented itself this week.
Biden spoke at the National Archives to commemorate July 26, 1948, the day President Harry S. Truman issued executive orders ending racial segregation in the nation's military.
The president remembered seeing Truman in person in Scranton on St. Patrick's Day in 1956.
Truman visited Scranton that day to address the annual dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County, an organization co-founded by Biden's maternal great-grandfather, Edward F. Blewitt.
No longer president by then, Truman arrived by train from Hoboken, New Jersey, and jumped in a convertible for a city tour. Accompanying him were Scranton Mayor James Hanlon and Joseph Lawler, the state secretary of highways and brother of longtime Lackawanna County Commissioner Michael Lawler. The Lawlers, Democratic powers statewide who grew up in Jessup, were close friends of Truman's.
By St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1956, Biden and his family lived in Delaware, but they returned regularly to visit his grandparents, Ambrose and Geraldine Finnegan, who lived at 2446 N. Washington Ave. in the city's Green Ridge neighborhood.
Biden told the archives audience the family "still called Scranton home" and visited St. Patrick's Day in 1956, according to a speech transcript on the White House website. That was a Saturday. Biden said he was standing on a Green Ridge corner "with my buddies" as Truman's car "was coming around the corner, coming off Dimmick Avenue." Dimmick is near the former Finnegan home.
"And the — sort of the David Broder of the Scranton Times — it was a guy named Tommy Phillips, who was an elderly man — younger than me, but elderly man — who was the chief political reporter," Biden said. "And they got a picture ... of me at 14 years old standing on the corner."
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Biden said it was "a warm day for February," but it was March 17. St. Patrick's Day 1956 saw a high temperature of 25 degrees, National Weather Service records show, and the photo shows Lawler, Hanlon and Truman bundled up. The late David Broder was a legendary Washington Post politics reporter, but Phillips worked for The Scranton Tribune, The Times' competitor then.
"And purely by accident — I assume it was an accident — the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman," Biden said. "I’m sure a lot of people made eye contact with him — but I was looking and you can see in the, the photograph we’re looking at one another eye to eye. And that’s when this Tommy Phillips, the David Broder of the day in Scranton, wrote, 'That’s when Joe Biden knew he was going to be president.'"
The president then disputed that.
"I knew I was going to be president when Jim Clyburn went ahead and endorsed me," Biden said, referring to the veteran congressman from South Carolina whose 2020 endorsement helped revived his presidential campaign.
Biden also slipped up on other facts. Besides calling Phillips a Scranton Times reporter, the president was 13 when Truman visited. Phillips died in 1985 and no story with his byline about a Biden-Truman connection could be found. In 1987, as Biden announced his first campaign for president, The Tribune published a photo showing Biden near the convertible carrying Truman. They do not make eye contact in the photo, whose caption says Biden later told friends "the glimpse of a former president later sparked his own presidential ambitions."
In his 2007 autobiography, "Promises to Keep," Biden wrote about his family's fondness for Truman without mentioning the St. Patrick's Day visit.
Phillips definitely held a special place in the Bidens' hearts. With Biden's father, Joseph R. Biden Sr., out of town, Phillips drove Biden's mother, Jean Finnegan Biden, to St. Mary's Hospital in South Scranton when she gave birth to the future president. A December 1981 Tribune photo shows Biden and his sons, Beau and Hunter, visiting Phillips at the newspaper. The president's father considered Phillips "a very close friend," according to a June 1987 Tribune story. | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/biden-honors-truman-remembers-seeing-him-in-scranton/article_795c57af-ab54-50a3-993e-b5a5c74eb773.html | 2023-07-28T23:08:02 | 0 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/biden-honors-truman-remembers-seeing-him-in-scranton/article_795c57af-ab54-50a3-993e-b5a5c74eb773.html |
HENDERSON, Nev. — 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.
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 retractable-roof stadium 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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METAIRIE, La. — Saints defensive end Payton Turner accepts the notion that his first two NFL seasons were a disappointment and that the stakes are high for him in Year 3.
“The past two years haven’t been what I expected them to be or what the front office expected,” added Turner, who now finds himself in pole position to fill the void left by former starter Marcus Davenport’s departure in free agency.
The 6-foot-6, 270-pound Turner has been lining up with the first team defense during 11-on-11 drills, on the opposite edge from 13th-year pro and defensive captain Cameron Jordan.
“We’re looking to see who’s going to be that guy that’s going to line up on the other side,” coach Dennis Allen said. “And somebody’s got to — not be given that role — somebody’s got to take that role. He’s earned the right to get those reps. Now, it’s what he does with them.”
Turner wasn’t exactly pleased to see Davenport go. They had become friends and Turner had attended Davenport’s wedding.
“That was my boy,” Turner said. “But it’s also an opportunity for me. ... So, when I see that, I’m just looking at myself and being like, ‘What can I do to put myself in position to be successful now that I have an even greater opportunity.’”
Turner also will have competition for that spot from fifth-year pro Carl Granderson and from Isaiah Foskey, a second-round draft choice out of Notre Dame last spring.
Turner has yet to play as much as half of a season since his final year of college at Houston, when he had five sacks and 10 1/2 tackles for loss in just five games during the Cougars’ pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign.
He had one sack in five games as a Saints rookie in 2021, when he was hampered by a shoulder injury. Last season, he appeared in eight games and had two sacks — both coming in one strong game against the Las Vegas Raiders before seeing his progress derailed by an ankle injury.
“We need to see him, number one, be available,” Allen said. “And number two, just continue to improve every day. ... I’m looking for more development out of him this year.”
While Turner describes his first two seasons as “real frustrating,” he tries to turn those unpleasant memories into useful lessons and doesn’t shy away from discussing them.
“You can’t just forget about the injuries. That’s part of my career. That’s part of my past,” Turner said. “So, taking that and being like, ’How can I make sure that my ankle’s going to be good this year, even if it’s not my fault, how can I strengthen it, how can I work on the mobility.”
Turner said he spent more time this offseason performing ”prehab” on his left ankle.
“Some stuff’s not in your control, but everything that is in your control, you got to be able to put that in your back pocket and say you did everything to put yourself in the best position,” he said.
“I feel great,” Turner added. “I haven’t felt this good playing football in a long time.”
Turner said his primary goal is “being on the field.”
“Second is gong out there and being productive,” he added.
And by productive, Turner means “sacks, TFLs (tackles for loss), batted passes, pressures,” he said.
He didn’t want to discuss specific statistical goals, but said he envisions himself ultimately being named to a Pro Bowl.
Jordan said Turner appears to have the talent to go far if the flashes of potential he has already shown become his “standard.”
“His hunger to want to be great is totally in range of where he sees himself,” Jordan said. “Now he’s just got to go work for it. He’s done a phenomenal job this offseason transforming his body and being where he wants to be.”
Notes: The Saints announced that they have signed long snapper Zach Wood to a four-year extension. Wood, 30, has played for New Orleans for all six of his previous NFL seasons.
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METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Saints guard Trai Turner, who was signed earlier this week, left practice Friday with a season-ending torn quadriceps, two people with knowledge of the injury told The Associated Press.
The 6-foot-3, 315-pound Turner, a former LSU standout and a starter for most of his career, was a Carolina Panthers third-round draft choice in 2014. He spent his first six NFL seasons with Carolina before hopping from the Los Angeles Chargers in 2020 to Pittsburgh in 2021 and to Washington last season.
After his first practice Wednesday, Turner expressed gratitude for the opportunity to continue his career in the city where he grew up and played in high school, and in the state where he played in college.
“It’s cool to be home. I played high school football right up the road. My house is right up the road. So there’s a little comfort in that. My parents are right there so I get to see them often,” Turner said. “I definitely was a Saints fan. I got a couple of days off from school to celebrate a Super Bowl (after the Saints won it in February 2010), so I’ve got to be happy for that.”
While Turner was expected to push either of the Saints’ incumbent starting guards for snaps, he began practice this week working with the second team.
Allen also had stopped short of suggesting that starting guards Andrus Peat or 2020 first-round draft choice Cesar Ruiz were in danger of losing their jobs.
“We felt like (Turner is) a veteran player we could bring in, put into the mix and let’s see how the competition plays out,” Allen said earlier this week.
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Scranton residents have three opportunities next month to provide input on a potential future Nay Aug Park pool project.
Officials from the city and Philadelphia-based BKP Architects P.C. will solicit public feedback Tuesday at Nay Aug's community room. Subsequent sessions will take place Aug. 8 at United Neighborhood Centers' community room, 509 Cedar Ave., and Aug. 15 at Weston Field House, 982 Providence Road.
All three events begin at 5:30 p.m.
Scranton recently contracted with BKP with a goal of eventually restoring a pool complex to the city's most prominent park. Both pools at the park's defunct former pool complex were demolished and filled last year.
The public input will inform BKP's work, which includes updating a 2021 Nay Aug pool complex feasibility study and issuing a new report crafted to meet state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant requirements. Such a report should improve Scranton's odds of securing grant funding for pool complex construction, officials said.
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"What these three public meetings are for is to solicit input on what a new aquatics complex can be, what it should be, what amenities should be considered ... (and) what programs the facility should have," city Business Administrator Eileen Cipriani said. "We just want to learn what the residents really would like to see in this complex."
The city's initial vision for a new complex includes a 5,000-square-foot splash pad and a roughly 12,375-square-foot pool with a zero-entry recreational swimming area and an area for lap swimmers.
"I just think that it's important that we get the actual community's feedback (from) people that will be utilizing the pool on a daily basis during the season," Scranton Parks and Recreation Director Scott Gassenmeyer said. "It's just important to hear their perspectives on what they want and need as opposed to someone else who's just making the decisions for them."
Scranton's up to $356,741 grant-funded contract with BKP also includes project design work. It would serve as the engineering firm of record for eventual pool complex construction, Cipriani said.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — DNA tests have confirmed the identity of a man who was taken from his mother as a baby during Argentina’s last military dictatorship, a human rights group said Friday, increasing the number of this type of case to 133.
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 organization said the man had approached the group of his own accord, expressing doubts about his identity.
He was registered as the child of a member of the security forces and a nurse on March 24, 1977. A woman who was raised as his older sister told him that he was not the child of those who claimed to be his parents, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo said in a statement.
“He’s Santucho. It’s clear we have similar traits, smiles, features,” said Miguel Santucho, who is one of two biological brothers of the man and who was present at the news conference.
During the bloody dictatorship, military officials carried out the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners who were often executed and disposed of without a trace.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo estimates around 500 children were snatched from their parents during the dictatorship and use DNA tests to locate them.
Cristina Navajas, a member of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party and the Revolutionary Army of the People, was seized by security forces on July 13, 1976, when she was two months pregnant.
Through the testimony of survivors, it is known that she was held in numerous detention centers in Buenos Aires and nearby towns, and that in one of them she gave birth to her son, who was taken from her. She is among the estimated 30,000 individuals who were disappeared during the dictatorship, according to human rights organizations.
Navajas and Santucho had their first son, Camilo, in 1973, and Miguel two years later.
Miguel Santucho said his newly recovered brother expressed a desire to meet his entire biological family.
“He’s happy, surprised by the magnitude of what he found,” Santucho said. “I have no doubt that we will be together for the rest of our lives.”
Their father, who survived the dictatorship, took pains to emphasize the “ordeal” his partner had to go through.
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Taulia Tagovailoa's loyalty to Maryland is apparently worth more than $1.5 million.
The Terrapins quarterback said an SEC program offered him $1.5 million to join them via the transfer portal for his 2023 redshirt senior season. He did not specify which school made the offer.
But after seeking the advice of older brother and Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Taulia decided to turn down what he termed the "crazy money."
“[The money] can be eye-opening, but I think for my situation — if I was in a different situation where maybe I didn’t have a brother in the NFL or maybe my parents, it’d be a different situation,” Tagovailoa said at Big Ten media day on Thursday, via The Athletic's Audrey Snyder.
“It would be hard for me to go to another place and not be happy but have all the money in the world. (I’d rather) be at a place where maybe I don’t have as much, but I’m happy and I’m here to work.”
Taulia started his college career in the SEC at Tua's alma mater, Alabama, before transferring to Maryland in 2020. He's led the Terrapins to their first back-to-back winning seasons since joining the Big Ten, as they went 7-6 in 2021 and 8-5 in 2022. They've also won consecutive bowl games for the first time since 2002-03.
Over the last two seasons, Tagovailoa has posted a combined 6,868 passing yards with 44 touchdowns, 19 interceptions and a 68.2 completion percentage. He finished tied for fifth in the 2023 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year preseason media poll. | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/ncaa/ncaaf/maryland-qb-taulia-tagovailoa-says-he-rejected-1-5-million-transfer-offer-from-sec-school/530273/ | 2023-07-28T23:08:27 | 1 | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/ncaa/ncaaf/maryland-qb-taulia-tagovailoa-says-he-rejected-1-5-million-transfer-offer-from-sec-school/530273/ |
Owner Mariam Shahsavarani said they decided to do a tasting experience rather than a more traditional menu because the neighborhood already had many great options for Persian food and they wanted to do something different.
“What you’re ultimately eating isn’t up to you,” Shahsavarani said. “You can force people to try things they wouldn’t otherwise and get out of their comfort zone.”
A tasting menu also gives them the chance to serve dishes that you wouldn’t find on a regular menu, according to Shahsavarani. She said the most traditional dish on the menu is fesenjan, which is a pomegranate and molasses stew.
Other dishes on the tasting lineup include watermelon salad layered with feta cheese, yogurt soup with cucumbers and herbs and egg-based kuku. The tasting menus will be adjusted seasonally to match which ingredients are available.
The restaurant is currently reservation-only, which Shahsavarani said helps them cut down on food waste and keep prices accessible.
“For a multicourse tasting, to be able to stay under $100 is a challenge,” Shahsavarani said. “And the reservation only is one way we can kinda keep our prices where we want them.” | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/persian-restaurant-maman-zari-open-albany-park | 2023-07-28T23:08:27 | 1 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/persian-restaurant-maman-zari-open-albany-park |
BARCELONA, Spain — Ballots from Spaniards living abroad were counted Friday, and they gave a new twist to the inconclusive results from the general election.
Forming a stable governing coalition will require one of the blocks to have the support of 176 lawmakers in the 350-seat body, and it’s not clear that either side will be able to obtain enough backing from smaller parties.
The country’s main political parties had been waiting for the count in the hope they might win seats from opponents and recompose the final picture. Results coming in from different constituencies during the day showed no changes across Spain — until Madrid added the last-gasp surprise.
The switch likely will make it even tougher to cobble together a government.
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is considered the only leader with a chance to form a coalition, since the Popular Party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo is being shunned by other parties for allying with Vox.
But Sánchez does not have it easy. He needs help from secessionist parties in the Basque Country and Catalonia, and it could be politically risky to bid for support from the Catalan party Junts, which is headed by Carles Puigdemont, a leader of 2017’s failed secession bid in Catalonia.
His party has seven seats, but its goal of forcing Spain to allow a secession referendum is Catalonia is highly unpopular, including in Sánchez’s party.
The new parliament is to convene Aug. 17 and it will have three months to vote in a new prime minister. Otherwise, new elections would be called. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/28/vote-ballot-abroad-spain-election-result/d0f6dd88-2d96-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html | 2023-07-28T23:08:32 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/28/vote-ballot-abroad-spain-election-result/d0f6dd88-2d96-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html |
SCOTT TWP. — A proposed cell tower is generating bad reception from some township residents.
Northeast Pennsylvania SMSA Wireless Limited Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, wants to build a 158-foot tower on property at 71 Govan Road. The property is owned by John and Cindy McKenney, according to legal notices published in the Times-Tribune.
The tower would be built just over 110 feet from the road, enclosed by a 8-foot fence. Verizon is seeking variances from the township's zoning hearing board to build the tower in a neighborhood business district, near a the road and close to power lines.
Neighbors are unhappy about the proposal, concerned about health effects, proximity to homes and businesses, and its impact on their rural lifestyles.
"It's an eyesore," said Mary Claire Boylan, who lives on Hermel Street. "It doesn't belong in a residential neighborhood."
Boylan is particularly worried about the project because her son, Joseph Boylan has multiple health issues. She said cell towers are connected to conditions like cancer, infertility and headaches.
"The health effects are terrible," she said.
The American Cancer Society says there is no strong evidence that radio frequency waves from cell towers cause any health effects. They point to a statement from the Federal Communications Commission saying exposure to RF transmissions is thousands of times below safety limits.
Karen Ryczak, vice president of programs and surveillance for Northeast Regional Cancer Institute, said experts agree more studies are needed to look into a potential association between radio frequency radiation and cancer.
Neighbors also are concerned about the tower being built on wetlands.
"For the ecosystem that's horrible," Boylan said.
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Others worry that the tower is so close to buildings and power lines that they wouldn't be spared if the tower fell down.
"There's not enough clearance," said Hermel Street resident Mark Hamby.
Hamby's neighor, Jeff Kovack said the township has enough open space for the tower to be built elsewhere. Audrey Roman, who lives on Doris Road, worries allowing it could bring other large developments to the township.
"Zoning laws are in place for a reason and all residents must abide by them. Allowing a big business like Verizon multiple variances to these laws defeats the purpose of having them," she said. "If this is approved, it sets a precedent for future projects of this nature to go through."
The McKenneys, who have owned the property since 2005, declined to comment on the project when contacted by a Times-Tribune reporter on Thursday .
The board was supposed to hear the plans last Monday but were adjourned because a stenographer didn't show up, township Supervisors Vice Chair Mike Giannettasaid. About 50 people attended the meeting, he said.
Those who oppose the project will have a chance to voice their concerns at the continued meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in the township municipal building.
The tower is the third one proposed in the township in the last three years. Tillman Infrastructure and John R. Sarnoski Living Trust wanted to put up a 235-foot tower at 319 Manning Road that provided AT&T service in 2020, but their request was denied by the zoning hearing board. It would have been built about 900 feet from an existing tower on Manning Road, one of three in the township.
Last year, Verizon proposed putting a 180-foot tower on the outskirts of Hillside Park in South Abington Twp. but suspended the plans. Members of the Abington Area Joint Recreation Board, which runs the park, said Verizon needed special approval from the state to build it due to a deed on the park property requiring it to be used for recreational purposes.
Board Co-Chairman Mark Spatz said the company hasn't contacted the board since the plans were scrapped. | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/proposed-scott-twp-cell-tower-faces-opposition-from-residents/article_e81ee8f3-6529-5583-ac70-dc3038714d29.html | 2023-07-28T23:08:32 | 0 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/proposed-scott-twp-cell-tower-faces-opposition-from-residents/article_e81ee8f3-6529-5583-ac70-dc3038714d29.html |
NFL players compete all offseason and through training camp to make the active roster of their current team — or perhaps even elsewhere.
But staying there isn't easy. Especially with injuries a constant factor in such a physical sport.
When the regular season begins, each team can have up to 53 players on its active roster. That comes after one cutdown date during the summer from the 90-player rosters with which teams open training camp.
Players could end up having other roster designations as teams try to upgrade positions or compensate for injuries at certain spots.
But what do they mean — to the players and teams?
Injured reserve
Officially, it's called the reserve/injured list but is commonly referred to simply as IR. Teams place players on this list when they have a football-related injury and will need to miss at least a few weeks. Players on IR don't count against the active roster.
If a player is placed on this list before the regular season begins, he's forced to miss the entire year.
The same used to be the case if a player went on IR during the regular season, but the rules have been tweaked and amended a few times in recent years. Starting last year, players need to miss a minimum of four games. NFL teams can designate up to eight players to return from IR during the season, and an individual player can be so designated twice.
When a player is cleared to practice, it activates a 21-day window during which the player must be activated to the 53-man roster or be placed on season-ending injured reserve at the conclusion of that three-week period. They could also be released or traded.
Physically unable to perform
Players put on the active/physically unable to perform list — or PUP — at the start of training camp have football-related injuries, like those on IR, but count against the active roster.
These players can participate in all team activities other than practice and can be activated at any point during camp when they are medically cleared.
A player can't be placed on the PUP list after he has practiced once or played in a preseason game.
Players on the active/PUP list could be moved to the reserve/PUP list during roster cutdowns. If placed on the reserve/PUP list, a player wouldn't count against the active roster and must sit out the first four games.
Non-football injury
Players who are injured outside of football — perhaps working out on their own in the offseason or doing a recreational activity — or have a long-term illness not associated with playing, are placed on this list.
Rookies still recovering from injuries suffered in college often are placed on the NFI list to start their careers.
If a player remains on NFI after the final roster cutdowns, he'll have to sit out the first four games.
Reserve/suspended
Players who are suspended by the NFL for violating league rules are placed on this list and don't count against the roster limit.
What's the difference between waived and released?
Players with less than four seasons of NFL time accrued are waived — meaning they are subject to waivers and can be claimed by other teams. If they go unclaimed after the 24-hour waiver period, they become a free agent.
A player can accrue a season if they are on a team’s 53-man roster for at least six games.
Players with four or more seasons accrued are considered vested veterans and are not subject to waivers, so they become free agents immediately when they are released. This is the case until the NFL trade deadline in October. After that period, all players regardless of their veteran status are subject to waivers.
Players can also be waived/injured, which means the player can be claimed by another team or revert to his original team's IR list after the claiming period. The team can then decide whether it wants to move forward with the player or release him with an injury settlement. | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nfl/ir-pup-nfi-what-do-all-of-those-nfl-roster-designations-mean/530271/ | 2023-07-28T23:08:33 | 0 | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nfl/ir-pup-nfi-what-do-all-of-those-nfl-roster-designations-mean/530271/ |
The plaintiff at the center of the John Doe complaint made his first official visit to Northwestern in 2015. During that visit and throughout his recruitment process, Doe was a minor, according to the suit. When rumors swirled among the freshmen about hazing on the team, Doe made it clear that he would not participate, but because he spoke out, the upperclassmen made Doe their No. 1 target of hazing and warned the freshmen against fraternizing with him, which further ostracized Doe from his teammates, the complaint says.
Some of the worst hazing occurred at the Wildcats’ training camp in Kenosha, Wis., where upperclassmen established the “Shrek Squad.” The group hunted down freshmen in their dorms at the camp and initiated a hazing practice called “running,” in which they would forcibly hold down the player and sexually abuse them. While at Camp Kenosha, Doe was targeted by the Shrek Squad and around five teammates dragged him out into a common area where he was sexually abused in front of 50 football players, the suit states.
In addition to the sexual abuse that Doe claims he suffered, the suit details a culture on the team stemming from the coaches that belittled injured players and forced them to play through their injuries. Those allegations mirror similar claims in Short’s lawsuit, which said Short was harassed by teammates because of a neck injury. Doe’s is the first claim that alleges coaches forced a player to continue playing after suffering a concussion.
“Specifically in 2018, John Doe was hit very hard in a game and stumbled off the field,” the suit states. “When John Doe 1 was approached by a coach asking if he was ok to go back in, John Doe 1 responded, ‘Do I have a choice?’ to which the coach simply laughed and signaled to go back on the field.”
In another incident on New Year’s Day during the Holiday Bowl, Doe took a hit that left him feeling “like a shell of himself.” He was taken off the field for examination and was sure he wouldn’t return to the game, but was called back shortly after and forced to play, the suit states. This incident exacerbated his deteriorating mental health, but like Short, he alleges there were few mental health resources available to players.
“This was childhood sexual abuse, and it led to serious mental health issues for the player during his time at Northwestern which coaches chose to ignore for the most part,” said Margaret Battersby Black, managing partner at Levin & Perconti. “As a 17-year-old freshman, he was targeted for numerous acts of sexually abusive hazing.”
"The university is working to ensure we have in place appropriate accountability for our athletic department," a Northwestern spokesman said. "We will engage an outside firm to evaluate the sufficiency of our accountability mechanism, and to detect threats to the welfare of our student-athletes. We also will examine the culture of Northwestern athletics and its relationship to the academic mission. Both of these reviews will be conducted with feedback and engagement of faculty, staff and students, and both will be made publicly available." | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/sports/northwestern-football-players-hazed-minor-lawsuit-says | 2023-07-28T23:08:37 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/sports/northwestern-football-players-hazed-minor-lawsuit-says |
It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time for Jake Lenahan.
The baseball pitcher who just completed his junior year at Abington Heights announced on Twitter that he has committed to continue his academic and athletic career at Division I College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Lenahan was at a tournament in Boston in early July with his travel team, the Northeast Pride. Holy Cross head coach Ed Kahovec came to see him pitch.
“I had a pretty good outing that day and he offered me,” Lenahan said. “It was a pretty quick process. I went to visit the campus and had some great conversations with the head coach. I felt really connected from step one. I love the campus, I love the area. I actually have some family in the Boston area, so I feel that made it even better of a fit.”
So much so that Lenahan was ready to give his commitment before leaving. But his Northeast Pride coaches advised him to wait until after a tournament in Georgia at the end of this month before making his decision.
“They wanted me to pitch down there, hopefully get a good number and maybe get an opportunity to be seen by a school I might like more,” Lenahan said.
“But my feelings never really changed. When it came down to it, I absolutely felt like Holy Cross was the right decision. I’m super happy and super pumped I’ll get the chance to be up there and play at that level.”
Among the other schools to show interest in Lenahan were Yale, Fordham, Lafayette, UMass and Haverford.
“The whole summer, I’ve just been going out, playing the best I can, enjoying each and every moment,” Lenahan said. “I was lucky enough to get called by a lot of coaches who liked what they saw.”
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Holy Cross competes in the Patriot League. The Crusaders have a rich baseball tradition dating back to 1876. They have made the NCAA tournament 11 times, the last coming in 2017. They have been to the College World Series four times, winning the title in 1952.
This season at Abington Heights, Lenahan was a Lackawanna League Division I Coaches honorable mention. He made nine appearances with eight starts and was 3-2 with a 2.09 earned-run average and just 10 walks and 54 strikeouts in 47 innings.
He tossed a three-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts against Scranton Prep on April 10. One week later, he fanned a season-high 12 in a victory over Wallenpaupack.
However, in the District 2-4 Class 5A Subregional quarterfinals, Wallenpaupack ended Abington Heights’ season with an 11-3 win.
“It was tough how early we lost because I think we have a ton of talent and a lot of potential,” Lenahan said.
“But I thought I had kind of a breakout year. I thought I had a chance to really show people I can pitch. I was happy to be able to help my team out as best I could throughout the whole season. Through the regular season we had lots of success and I think next year we’ll be able to do it again.”
By making his college decision now, Lenahan said it is a big relief and he can just focus on playing the game and having fun.
“Everything had been about trying to get recruited and trying to do well in front of coaches all the time,” said Lenahan, who plans to major in computer science at Holy Cross. “I can get back to that level of baseball where it is all about helping my team and try to be the best player I can be. Being a senior, hopefully I can set an example for some of the younger guys and we can have a lot of success my final year.” | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/sports/high-school/hs-baseball-abington-heights-lenahan-commits-to-holy-cross/article_191d297c-fbfb-5fcc-b5a1-0229926f5a15.html | 2023-07-28T23:08:38 | 0 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/sports/high-school/hs-baseball-abington-heights-lenahan-commits-to-holy-cross/article_191d297c-fbfb-5fcc-b5a1-0229926f5a15.html |
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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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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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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More than 1,000 without power in Wilkes-Barre, Ashley STAFF REPORT Jul 28, 2023 Jul 28, 2023 Updated 51 min ago 💬 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 1,000 PPL customers are without power between Wilkes-Barre and Ashley Borough.The outage was caused by weather and 1,303 customers are impacted.Check back later for more on this developing story. Start a dialogue, stay on topic and be civil. If you don't follow the rules, your comment may be deleted. User Legend: ModeratorTrusted User Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recent Obituaries Alexander, Scott Irving Calpin Jr., Walter L. "Wally" Castrignano, Frank Joseph Cotter, Michael Delia, Ethel "Etsie" Doty, W. John Franks, Sandra L. Gabriele McHale, Maureen B. Kenny Nayavich, James Paul Nenni, Irene R. Rosick, Paul Leo Tejeda, Raphael A. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Local Obituaries Each day's obituaries, delivered to your inbox. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists | https://www.citizensvoice.com/more-than-1-000-without-power-in-wilkes-barre-ashley/article_30b51d9f-5c82-57f9-bf76-095862b5e296.html | 2023-07-28T23:09:02 | 0 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/more-than-1-000-without-power-in-wilkes-barre-ashley/article_30b51d9f-5c82-57f9-bf76-095862b5e296.html |
Lynn Marie Pietrowski
Lynn Marie Pietrowski, 69, of Murrysville, passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at Montefiore Hospital Pittsburgh. She was born July 22, 1954, in Virginia, Minnesota, daughter of Laurie and Betty Ann (Crane) Laakso. Lynn had several birds in her “aviary” over the years, as well as her “lap” dogs Grady and Jagr. Lynn was a 5-year member of AA and had many friends there. She always enjoyed time at Lake Vermilion, Minnesota, many ski trips and motorcycle trips. In addition to her parents, Lynn is survived by her husband of 26 years, Harold A. “Harry” Pietrowski; her daughter, Courtnie “Cori” Johnson; three stepchildren, Todd (Tina) Pietrowski, Jodie Pietrowski, Julie Pietrowski; seven step grandchildren, Lucas, Andrew, Sarah, Summer, Kearsha, Anthony, Kevin; and one great step grandchild. She is also survived by a sister, Lani Laakso; a brother, Lee (Lisa) Laakso; a brother-in-law, Walt (Geri) Pietrowski; sister-in-law, Marlene Diver; and six nieces and nephews, Cody, Abby, Eric, Rob, Darryl, and Arica, and many other nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to ASPCA by visiting www.aspca.org. Visitation is from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, August 10, 2023, at Hart Funeral Home, Inc., Murrysville. For online condolences, please visit www.hartfuneralhomeinc.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/obituaries/obits/lynn-marie-pietrowski-5d0135ff67a60618cb3bf3a9-64c4277127a7554220132c4f | 2023-07-28T23:09:02 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/obituaries/obits/lynn-marie-pietrowski-5d0135ff67a60618cb3bf3a9-64c4277127a7554220132c4f |
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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GPD officer suspended after criticizing colleague's conduct in Terrell Bradley case
During an internal investigation Holcomb defended her post
A Gainesville Police Department internal investigation released this week shows that an officer was suspended without pay in April after making a Facebook post criticizing other officers’ conduct regarding the Terrell Bradley case.
She called her fellow officers' actions “disgusting" in a post, which resulted in the same punishment as those reprimanded for their roles in Bradley's arrest, records show.
The one who filed the complaint? Bradley's arresting officer.
“I'm kind of outraged about this,” said police advisory council member Sheila Payne, while discussing the suspension. “Milman received a five-day suspension for the disgusting texts on a work computer that he did. For her to get five days, I think is really unfair.”
On July 10, 2022, Bradley was pulled over by GPD officer Andrew Milman who claimed Bradley ran a stop sign. Milman asked Bradley to exit the vehicle and immediately went to handcuff him. Within moments, Bradley bolted from the scene and hid in the bushes of a nearby apartment complex for nearly an hour. GPD dispatched its K-9 unit, which found and attacked the suspect. The attack, however, resulted in Bradley losing one of his eyes, breaking two fingers and having spinal leakage.
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GPD waited nearly two weeks before publicly addressing the arrest − and only did so after photos of Bradley's injuries surfaced on social media. The arrest sparked protests, reconsideration of GPD's K-9 services, multiple investigations and suspension of officers.
An investigation revealed three officers took photos of Bradley’s injuries, two of which used department-issued cell phones, and joked about the incident.
Milman, the arresting officer, was one of the two suspended without pay for five days after internal affairs investigators discovered “an inappropriate and insensitive conversation” on an instant messaging system used by the agency.
GPD Chief Lonnie Scott initially told the public that all officers were cleared of any wrongdoing when five had been reprimanded.
Moreover, Bradley claimed that GPD officers were laughing at him on the scene and in the hospital, though GPD officials denied the claim. Body-camera footage, however, showed officers joking with each other about their performance during the search and chase while a winded Bradley sat in the background with his eye outside its socket.
The Gainesville Sun also found inconsistencies with GPD's initial account of the arrest, which included no stop sign being in the area of the supposed traffic infraction. He also claimed Bradley hit him, but video evidence didn't support the claim. He said he found ammunition in the backseat within Bradley's reach, but it was actually another officer who found the ammo in the trunk of the vehicle, documents show. The K-9 handler also appeared to struggle with the dog during the attack and admitted it was the most aggressive dog on the force, footage shows.
Calling out fellow officers
The latest investigation, released publicly this week, details a November complaint Milman filed against GPD Officer Becki Holcomb where she criticized Milman for his conduct.
“Some of the stuff that was done and said is absolutely inexcusable,” she wrote in a private post. “Matt and [Milman] should have been fired. They are disgusting and I hope I never have to work with them. We *the good police* need to stand up against this crap and support the ridding of bad cops. This is absolutely the reason people don’t trust us or like us or respect us. [Milman] thinks much more of himself than anyone else here does. He’s not the super cop he tells everyone he is.”
Milman said that because of staff shortages he had been assigned to some similar shifts as Holcomb. Because of the post, he claimed, he felt unsafe continuing to work these shifts.
“He would not feel comfortable or safe if she responded as an additional officer to a call for service he was assigned to,” the report read.
During the investigation Holcomb defended her post, reiterating her beliefs that Milman should not have acted the way he did regarding the Bradley case.
“We are in such a time that police officers are not liked," she told the investigator. "And people on the outside believe the thin blue line is that we all stand up for each other, no matter what we do. I would never want anybody to feel like I would stand up for somebody, even if they were a cop, if they had done something that’s not OK.”
Ultimately, the complaint that her post has negatively impacted her relationship with her job and other coworkers was sustained, resulting in a suspension of five days without pay.
Bradley's case is ongoing. | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/07/28/gainesville-officer-suspended-for-criticizing-gpds-handling-of-terrell-bradley-case/70478820007/ | 2023-07-28T23:10:31 | 1 | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/07/28/gainesville-officer-suspended-for-criticizing-gpds-handling-of-terrell-bradley-case/70478820007/ |
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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Michael Davis denied youthful offender status in shooting death of Jamea Harris
Michael Davis, who was arrested on a capital murder charge along with former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles in the January shooting death of Jamea Harris, was denied youthful offender status at a closed court hearing Friday morning, his attorney confirmed to The Tuscaloosa News.
Davis was 20 years old at the time of the shooting, in which Harris, 23, was killed by gunfire near The Strip on Jan. 15. Had youthful offender status been granted, it would have potentially limited prison time for Davis and, among other provisions, allowed him to be tried by a judge rather than a jury. Instead, he will face trial as an adult.
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Davis was also denied bond in the hearing, was formally arraigned, and pled not guilty, according to his attorney, John Robbins. At a hearing last week, motions related to discovery and pre-trial immunity were heard in Miles' case.
Both Davis and Miles have been jailed without bond since the shooting. Per court documents, police investigators believe Davis, now 21, shot Harris as she sat in a vehicle on Grace Street, adjacent to The Strip near the University of Alabama campus, and that the firearm belonged to and was provided by Miles. The two were indicted by a grand jury in March. Miles also has entered a not-guilty plea.
Robbins has argued self-defense on behalf of Davis, while Miles' attorney, Mary Turner of Turner Law Group, has said Miles made the firearm available to Davis for protection.
According to police reports, the shooting stemmed from an argument between Davis, Harris and her boyfriend, Cedric Johnson, who was issued a subpoena in May.
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After a month of record-breaking heat, are we past calling it a heat "wave?" NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Duke heat expert Ashley Ward.
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New Florida law forces Gainesville to scrap rental unit inspection program
A new Florida bill will force Gainesville to end its rental unit inspection program, resulting in the loss of 11 positions and nearly $900,000 in revenue.
Andrew Persons, who advises the city on sustainable and equitable development, explained at Thursday's General Policy meeting that House Bill 1417, which gives the state power to regulate landlord-tenant relationships, invalidates the city’s existing program that took years to build.
Mayor Harvey Ward said the bill didn’t intentionally target the city’s rental inspection program and ordinance, though it ended up being “collateral damage.” State lawmakers Rep. Chuck Clemons, R-Newberry, and Sen. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, both voted in favor of the bill.
“It's the result, frankly, of sloppy bill writing again. And there’s just circumstance after circumstance where we're finding that to be true, both locally and across the state,” Ward said. “That's remarkably disappointing because the opportunity to write good bills that are specific is available.”
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The rental housing ordinance, adopted in 2020, established annual permits for landlords, inspections, minimum energy efficiency standards, life safety and property maintenance standards for rental units in Gainesville, according to the city’s website.
The program, however, during its short tenure also received pushback from some landlords who argued the city was over-policing their rental units, such as being cited for paint chipping on doors.
But, in most cases, the program served a purpose to help renters with issues involving landlords that may be costly. It also aimed to help lower electric and water bills for issues beyond tenants' control.
Ward explained that he once met a woman who had her windows nailed shut and her landlord refused to repair them. Being able to advocate for that renter was consumer protection the city was able to offer through the ordinance, he said.
Now, that burden is back on the renter.
"The folks most likely to be impacted are those who lived in substandard conditions but feared retaliation from landlords if they complained to Code," Commissioner Reina Saco said in an email. "It’s not as if we were imposing higher standards, but rather the city took on the burden of preemptively inspecting homes."
Losing jobs
The employees who work on the inspections will remain employed through Sept. 30, City Manager Cynthia Curry said. The city is looking to place them in other positions, if possible.
The roughly $900,000 the program makes annually through landlord licenses will be scrapped, though the money was part of an enterprise fund that existed solely to fund the program and pay the employees, Ward said.
The law also makes it so the city cannot create occupancy limits. Previously, no more than three unrelated people could rent one unit, now there will be no limit.
The City Commission has directed staff to work for the next few months to find ways to alter renters’ rights efforts so that it doesn't violate the new law.
“The opportunity to provide those protections and to evolve that set of rights was a good thing that we were able to do,” Ward said. “I would very much hope that we will also get some good, creative thinking on ways we can achieve means that we're trying to achieve that does not violate state law.” | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/07/28/gainesville-to-end-rental-unit-inspection-program-after-new-law/70487359007/ | 2023-07-28T23:10:37 | 0 | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/07/28/gainesville-to-end-rental-unit-inspection-program-after-new-law/70487359007/ |
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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This month, members of the mid-Columbia River tribes set off from Oregon on an annual intertribal canoe journey to Seattle. It's especially poignant this year after a three-year hiatus due to COVID.
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This month, members of the mid-Columbia River tribes set off from Oregon on an annual intertribal canoe journey to Seattle. It's especially poignant this year after a three-year hiatus due to COVID.
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DeSantis appoints 3 Alachua County Republicans to local Early Learning Coalition board
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed three members to the Early Learning Coalition of Alachua County, his office announced late Friday.
The three new members are all local Republicans and will soon join the 14-member board that assists with school readiness and preschool assistance for those living in the county.
Here are the new members:
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Tammy Prince
The first appointee is Tammy Prince, of Newberry. The former chair Alachua County Republican Party is the owner Emerge, LLC. She also serves on the executive board for the PACE Center for Girls Alachua and serves on the board of directors for Rotary International, Inc.
Prince has a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Chamberlain College, her master’s degree in health administration from Jacksonville University and her master’s degree in nursing from Walden University.
Ray Holt Jr.
Raymond Holt Jr., who recently ran for an Alachua County school board seat, previously served as a councilman for the city of Jacksonville. The Alachua resident is the owner of C Bar Ranch Luxury Wedding and Events.
Holt holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and a master’s degree from the University of South Florida.
April Tisher
Gainesville resident April Tisher, also a former school board candidate, is a sale executive and writer for Irving Publications and also works as a substitute teacher for Alachua County. She was the recipient of the Legacy Award for advocacy for women and children from the Junior League of Gainesville.
Tisher earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/07/28/ron-desantis-appoints-3-to-alachua-county-early-learning-coalitionboard/70489050007/ | 2023-07-28T23:10:43 | 0 | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/07/28/ron-desantis-appoints-3-to-alachua-county-early-learning-coalitionboard/70489050007/ |
‘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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With more than 200 careers under her pink belt, Barbie has always been a hard worker. What can the types of professions Barbie's done tell us about women in the U.S. labor force? A lot, actually.
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Osceola native Jariq Scales enjoying success at Southern Arkansas
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (KAIT) - Jariq Scales was making plays on Football Friday Night as Osceola won conference titles and reached state finals.
Four years later, the Seminole is writing his name into the Southern Arkansas record book. Scales smashed the Mulerider freshman rushing record with 1,476 yards and 10 total touchdowns in 2021. He tacked on 1,043 yards and 14 scores last season.
“I had to like wait my time, especially with COVID,” Scales said. “I feel like COVID helped me. It gave me a whole year to get into the offense, get bigger, faster, stronger. And then from there, it just went up. Got better every year.” He’s improved in the finer things on offense. “Pass protection, like picking up blitzes,” Scales added. “Everything else comes from natural instincts. Being at receiver then going to running back, so I see the field better.”
You can add cover athlete to Scales’ resume. He’s front an center on the Hooten’s Arkansas Football Muleriders issue.
Scales is a two-time All-GAC running back. He aims to do the same in 2023 in the toughest conference in NCAA Division II. “I’m already in great shape. I can be game ready today,” he added. “So just making sure everybody else knows what’s going on, young guys, freshmen, and transfers that come in. Everybody in the offense, just being in sync.”
Southern Arkansas opens the season Thursday, August 31st vs. Southeastern Oklahoma State.
Jariq Scales Awards & Honors
2021-22 GAC Freshman of the Year
2021-22 Second Team All-GAC
2021-22 GAC All-Academic Team
2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-Super Region 3 First Team
2022-23 D2CCA Second Team All-Region
2022-23 CSC Academic All-District Football
2022-23 First Team All-GAC
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Attacks against postal carriers are up, and so are mail thefts. The U.S. Postal Service has a new safety plan, but is it strong enough? This is occurring as the USPS tries to recruit more workers.
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With Montgomery slated for possible final start in St. Louis, Cardinals recall Liberatore Friday
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - With just a handful of days before the final bell sounds on the MLB trade deadline, the trade winds are blowing strong across the league.
Given the combination of his expiring contract, his team’s expired stature in the standings, and his strong numbers this season, Cardinals starter Jordan Montgomery finds his name at the center of it all leading into his final scheduled start before the deadline Friday night at Busch Stadium.
Of course, we say final scheduled start because there’s a case to be made that Montgomery shouldn’t face a single Chicago Cubs hitter on Friday—the juice, as they say, isn’t worth the squeeze.
The Cardinals are decidedly out of the playoff race. Montgomery is one of the team’s most surefire trade chips. Is there anything he could do on the Busch Stadium mound Friday night that boosts his trade value enough to counteract the risk of something flukey, like another hamstring scare, tanking his value altogether?
We’ll see how the Cardinals play it, with Montgomery officially listed in the St. Louis starting lineup. Willson Contreras is in the starting nine as the designated hitter after he was walloped in the head by an errant Ian Happ backswing in the first inning on Thursday.
One name that isn’t listed among the Cardinals starters, but could conceivably play a role in Friday’s affair, is Matthew Liberatore. The Cardinals have recalled the lefty from Triple-A Memphis to cover innings in whatever manner is deemed necessary for this weekend and beyond.
With the Cardinals likely to move both Montgomery and Jack Flaherty before August 1, Liberatore may need to slide into a prominent role at a moment’s notice as the fluidity of the trade deadline marches on.
After throwing 45+ pitches of relief in consecutive days, lefty reliever Andrew Suarez was unsurprisingly optioned back to Memphis as the move corresponding to Liberatore’s return.
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Three North Carolina residents died this month from infections from bacteria naturally found in warm seawater and brackish water, state health officials said Friday.
Cases of Vibrio are rare in North Carolina. While healthy people typically develop mild illness, infections can be severe or life-threatening for those with weakened immune systems or chronic liver disease, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
The bacteria are naturally found in warm waters, meaning people can be exposed when open wounds, cuts or scratches make direct contact with seawater or brackish water. Vibrio can also sicken people who eat raw or undercooked oysters and shellfish.
Two of the three deaths this month involved scratches exposed to brackish water in North Carolina and another East Coast state. The third case also involved exposure to brackish water in North Carolina and the person also consumed personally caught seafood that was not shared or commercially distributed.
No links were identified between the cases or the areas where they were likely exposed to Vibrio, and investigations are ongoing, officials said.
About 100 cases of Vibrio are reported in the United States each year, but because people with mild infections aren’t tested, the actual number isn’t known, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. About a third of reported cases are fatal.
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Andrew Knizner Player Prop Bets: Cardinals vs. Cubs - July 28
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 5:24 PM CDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
Andrew Knizner -- with a slugging percentage of .600 in his past 10 games, including three home runs -- will be in action for the St. Louis Cardinals versus the Chicago Cubs, with Hayden Wesneski on the hill, on July 28 at 8:15 PM ET.
He smacked two homers in his most recent appearance (going 2-for-4) in his last appearance against the Cubs.
Andrew Knizner Game Info & Props vs. the Cubs
- Game Day: Friday, July 28, 2023
- Game Time: 8:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Busch Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Cubs Starter: Hayden Wesneski
- TV Channel: BSMW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +165)
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Andrew Knizner At The Plate
- Knizner has six doubles, eight home runs and four walks while hitting .234.
- Knizner has recorded a hit in 23 of 40 games this season (57.5%), including seven multi-hit games (17.5%).
- He has homered in seven games this season (17.5%), leaving the park in 6% of his chances at the plate.
- In 35.0% of his games this year, Knizner has picked up at least one RBI. In five of those games (12.5%) he recorded more than one RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- In 15 of 40 games this season, he has scored, and six of those games included multiple runs.
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Andrew Knizner Home/Away Batting Splits
Cubs Pitching Rankings
- The 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Cubs pitching staff ranks 21st in MLB.
- The Cubs have a 4.13 team ERA that ranks 14th among all league pitching staffs.
- Cubs pitchers combine to give up the sixth-fewest home runs in baseball (109 total, 1.1 per game).
- Wesneski starts for the first time this season for the Cubs.
- It's the first appearance this season for the 25-year-old right-hander, and his first outing in more than a year.
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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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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.
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Hulu's 'This Fool' gives a working class perspective of life in Los Angeles By Gabriel J. Sánchez, Sarah Handel Published July 28, 2023 at 4:48 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:16 Comedian and actor Frankie Quiñones talks about the second season of the show This Fool, now streaming on Hulu. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.kbia.org/2023-07-28/hulus-this-fool-gives-a-working-class-perspective-of-life-in-los-angeles | 2023-07-28T23:11:12 | 0 | https://www.kbia.org/2023-07-28/hulus-this-fool-gives-a-working-class-perspective-of-life-in-los-angeles |
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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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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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Developing and growing economic relationships between U.S. and Mexican businesses and institutions on the South Texas border in the Rio Grande Valley is crucial to securing the financial growth of the region, experts said at an economic conference on Friday.
The first-ever MXLAN International Economic Summit was held Friday as part of MXLAN, an annual bicultural event that typically celebrates Latino entertainment and lifestyle on both sides of the border.
But this year the economic summit was added to kick off the weekend festival to stress the importance of financial growth needed in this border region, McAllen City Manager Roel “Roy” Rodriguez told Border Report on Friday.
“We continue at work at improving the quality of life in McAllen and MXLAN is one of those things. What we really wanted to do this time is to elevate MXLAN — not only make it about entertainment and food — but talk about businesses and the amazing talent that’s along the border on both sides on the United States and Mexico,” Rodriguez said. “We understand that our economy is intertwined with Mexico. We’re them and they’re us.”
The summit was sold out with over 325 participants attending two morning panels, on entrepreneurship and banking, and nearly 1,000 for a luncheon keynote on U.S. and Mexican relationships.
And the buzz word that came up most was “nearshoring.”
Nearshoring is the practice of outsourcing a business operation to a nearby country, like Mexico or the U.S., to expand production.
“When we talk about the maquiladora industry and NAFTA, that was the beginning but what’s happening now in nearshoring. That’s a game-changer. That will attract businesses here to the border,” Adrian Villarreal, president of the International Bank of Commerce, a panelist, told the audience.
Nearshoring can be especially useful for the maquiladora manufacturing industry along the border, as products and services flip flop north and south of the Rio Grande.
“It’s creating an infrastructure from the RGV and South Texas and actually what that is is bringing all the manufacturing and plant equipment in from Mexico into the United States so getting that offshore,” David Deanda Jr., president of Lone Star National Bank told Border report.
A younger workforce in the growing Rio Grande Valley with a population of over 1.4 million is a big selling point to drawing industry, experts touted.
“No one ever considered south of San Antonio before,” Deanda said. “And when they started coming down here just to visit, they’re totally impressed with what they see. They never expected to see the growth, the employment, the young workers.”
The cost of living also is lower here than other Texas cities and the ability to transfer jobs and products across the border makes the region an attractive place for business, experts said.
“Partnerships are developing because they realize the economic vitality here,” Villarreal said. “It’s important here along the border that we market ourselves so people understand the potential here.”
Large industries like SpaceX, LNG and the expansion of the Brownsville Port are some big financial wins that experts say are improving the RGV economy.
But managing changes in regulations and the strength of the dollar vs. the peso are challenges that industries face as they balance business on the border, they added.
Current interest rates in Mexico on the peso are averaging 14%, while in the U.S., interest rates are only about 5%
“We can’t pay obviously 14% interest rates here, but the risk is, will the peso continue to stay stable and strong?” Deandra said. “The safety and security of the U.S. dollar is what attracts Mexican investors to come to the United States.”
Eduardo Caso, a senior vice president at Texas Regional Bank, said his job is to attract Mexican investors.
“Right now rising interest rates in the United States and inflation has given an advantage to the power of the peso,” he said.
Border safety due to rising immigration rates and reports of violence also was brought up. And dispelling the perception that the border is dangerous is necessary to attract investors, they said.
“The area is exploding with opportunity in Mexico and the Valley, and making awareness is a big part of it,” said Larry Gonzalez, president of Plains Capital Bank and a member of the Starr County Industrial Foundation.
“Mexico is the U.S.’s largest trading partner today — more than China. And Texas is the state with the largest exports,” Villarreal said. “So right now we’re seeing with these investments here. We’re seeing everything coming together. It’s really a very, very exciting time.” | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/financial-ties-between-rgv-and-mexico-touted-at-mxlan-economic-summit/ | 2023-07-28T23:11:21 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/financial-ties-between-rgv-and-mexico-touted-at-mxlan-economic-summit/ |
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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‘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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