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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) matching up with the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET (on July 30). Our computer prediction projects a close 5-4 victory for the Orioles, so it should be a competitive matchup.
The probable starters are Dean Kremer (10-4) for the Orioles and Luis Severino (2-4) for the Yankees.
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Baltimore and its opponents are 4-6-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- The Orioles have entered the game as favorites 47 times this season and won 33, or 70.2%, of those games.
- Baltimore has entered 33 games this season favored by -135 or more and is 24-9 in those contests.
- The implied probability of a win from the Orioles, based on the moneyline, is 57.4%.
- Baltimore has scored 502 runs (4.8 per game) this season, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- In three games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Yankees have a record of 1-2.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- Oddsmakers have not posted a spread in any of the Yankees' past 10 games.
- The Yankees have been underdogs in 31 games this season and have come away with the win 13 times (41.9%) in those contests.
- This season, New York has come away with a win eight times in 16 chances when named as an underdog of at least +115 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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The Biden White House has tried to present itself as being above the fray of day-to-day squabbles, but increasingly, it’s jumping in, bashing the GOP and other critics at every opportunity.
The administration didn’t miss a chance this week to hammer Republicans over Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) floating that the House would move towards an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. They were quick with memos and statements to criticize the GOP attacks as a “clown carousel” and the idea of pursuing impeachment as “baseless.”
And the White House issued a scathing rebuke of Fox New host Greg Gutfeld, who said that Jews captured and tortured during the Holocaust survived by having skills and being useful, calling out his comments as a “dangerous, extreme lie.”
The new levels of punchy rhetoric preview the White House messaging strategy going into 2024, which is to fight back and call out what they consider extreme.
It’s a shift from their previous attitude, which was to let what they considered to be Republican chaos speak for itself.
“The cost is too expensive, both short and long term, to let them operate in a vacuum without showing that one, we know how to fight; two, that we will fight; three, we fight with facts and not with some flaming lies of information,” said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist.
Early in Biden’s presidency, the White House was careful not to weigh in on controversial comments from the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), hoping to avoid elevating her words and giving the far-right congresswoman more of a platform.
When McCarthy was struggling in January to get enough votes to be Speaker of the House, they sat back and watched it unfold.
Biden gently knocked the vote series at the time, saying, “It’s a little embarrassing it’s taking so long,” but also added, “that’s not my problem.” The White House had also insisted that Biden would not “insert himself” into the election, which ended up taking 15 ballots for McCarthy to finally clench enough votes.
But this week, when the Speaker signaled that the House could move forward with an impeachment inquiry, the White House came out with multiple statements and highlighted quotes from fellow Republicans in his conference pushing back on the idea.
It also released a memo about Republicans’ slams against the president overall, reflecting the Biden argument that the GOP is stepping up attacks on Hunter Biden and talk of impeachment because the economy is getting stronger and is now a less effective avenue for attack.
Hunter Biden appeared in a Delaware court Wednesday, where his plea deal was put on hold by a judge who questioned the scope of the agreement.
The White House this week touted “Bidenomics” after gross domestic product (GDP) numbers showed surprisingly strong economic growth. It rebuked GOP lawmakers for not embracing the data, pointing to Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone, who said Thursday, “There goes that recession talk, right?”
“Even Fox Business is welcoming today’s blockbuster economic growth numbers, the latest in a long line of proof points that Bidenomics is delivering for middle class families,” spokesman Andrew Bates said in a memo. “That’s because this strong growth report is objectively good news for the American people, which elected officials should support regardless of their political party.”
In the past, the White House has called out what it deemed antisemitism, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff in particular has spearheaded the effort against hatred towards Jewish Americans. The rebuke of Gutfeld was particularly notable, considering it called the conservative media voice’s comments insulting to the memory of people who suffered the Holocaust.
Over the last week, Vice President Harris has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a presidential candidate, over changes his administration has made regarding the way slavery is taught in his state. She quickly traveled to Jacksonville to deliver remarks over his recent moves.
And press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has turned Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) into an almost-daily punching bag, chastising him for blocking military promotions over his opposition to the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
Democrats argue that it’s significant the White House is getting punchier and not relying on the Biden reelection campaign to do it for them.
“I think the reason why it’s so important that it comes from the White House is because Joe Biden is a president for all people, and that White House works for all people,” Seawright said. “It helps weed out some of the foolishness, because I don’t think we can afford at this moment to let false information go unchecked or go numb to bad or false information for the sake of political gain.”
Another Democratic strategist argued the White House has picked its spots well, seeking to highlight when Republicans are fixated on issues that don’t resonate with most moderate voters. The strategist pointed to the GOP’s fixation on Hunter Biden as an example of something that is unlikely to move many mainstream voters.
Democratic communications strategist Katie Grant Drew noted the window for moving legislation closes early in election cycles so it “makes sense” the White House is preparing for 2024.
“They know they’re going to have to defend against Republicans’ insatiable appetite for investigations and impeachments, and the best defense is a good offense,” said Drew, a principal at Monument Advocacy. “When top Republicans continue to spout controversial rhetoric and spend time on divisive issues that the vast majority of Americans don’t agree with, the White House is going to use those moments to illustrate to the American people how extreme today’s Republican Party has become.”
Jim Kessler, co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way, said Biden and his team are wisely both selling their own victories and highlighting Republican dysfunction.
Ultimately, though, Kessler argued the 2024 election will be decided by broader issues such as the economy, something the White House has leaned into with its recent messaging.
“This election is going to come down to the middle. The middle ideologically, the middle of the country geographically, and the middle class,” Kessler said. “These are places where Biden’s got to win.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ | 2023-07-30T19:22:23 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Infections of brain-eating amoeba are on the rise — and the warming climate may only exacerbate the problem, according to one of the world’s preeminent experts on the subject.
“Yes, we are experiencing warmer temperatures, and these amoeba are thermal-tolerant … so the numbers of amoeba will be higher,” explains Dr. Dennis Kyle, the head of the cellular biology department at the University of Georgia and the scholar chair of antiparasitic drug discovery with the Georgia Research Alliance.
“Warmer climates means, yes, more exposure and more cases,” he added.
Kyle, speaking with Nexstar, confirmed that reported cases of Naegleria fowleri infection — more commonly known as an infection of brain-eating amoeba — have “significantly increased” over the past four to five years. But he warned that increased cases cannot be linked solely to warmer waters, but rather more awareness and fewer misdiagnoses than in previous years.
“There’s more recognition that these amoeba are possibly causing disease, when before, virologists were misclassifying these cases as bacterial meningitis or [other diseases],” he said.
Naegleria fowleri, the microscopic organism responsible for the infection, is primarily found in warm freshwater and soil, but also hot springs, improperly chlorinated pool water, improperly treated tap water, and, in lower concentrations, even cooler freshwaters. Infection of N. fowleri usually occurs after water is forced into the nose, allowing the organism to enter the nasal cavity and cross the epithelial lining into the brain, where it begins destroying the tissue of the frontal lobe.
This brain infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), can lead to symptoms including fever, headaches, stiff neck, seizures and hallucinations within two weeks of exposure. It is almost always fatal, with death occurring within another one to 18 days of the first symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Most infections tend to occur between June and September, but cases outside of these months are not entirely unheard of, Kyle said.
N. fowleri is also found in higher concentrations in warmer, smaller bodies of freshwater, but the organism can be found in pretty much any freshwater lake, including cooler, clearer waters, Kyle said. There was even a case in 2016 in which a teenager contracted a fatal infection of N. fowleri after going whitewater rafting — an activity generally undertaken in less-risky colder waters.
The highest concentrations, though, are generally found in freshwater with surface temperature readings of 75 degrees F or higher, especially for extended periods of time.
And climate change, as scientists have observed, is already having an impact on the temperature of the world’s freshwater lakes. The quality and color of the water can also change due to warming temperatures, recent studies have suggested.
“There’s a constant risk in warmer climates,” Kyle remarked.
The amoeba itself can’t be specifically targeted with current treatments either, leading to a fatality rate of 97%. In fact, Kyle only knows of four known cases in the U.S. where patients survived, and “maybe” seven globally.
“I’m not convinced that were any further along in getting better treatment,” Kyle told Nexstar of the current antifungal and antibiotic cocktails that are currently used. “But If people can get diagnosed earlier, even with the suboptimal treatments that we have, they have a better chance of survival.”
To that end, Kyle, and the families of some of the victims, are hoping to spread awareness of the disease. He and his colleagues have also worked to identify what they believe is a biomarker that can help doctors diagnose infection earlier than previously possible, but their test is not yet FDA-approved.
“Most tests use cerebral spinal fluid, but we don’t have to have that,” he told Nexstar. “We can use blood or even urine. In our analyst studies, we can detect it three or four days before symptoms develop. I’m pretty excited.”
Preventing infection in the first place is currently the best course of action, he added.
“Raising awareness helps. But I think any warm freshwater facility, or hot spring … and at splashpads, you have to look at it carefully,” he said. “It’s incumbent on people running these facilities to minimize risk and minimize exposure.”
People can also take precautions by avoiding bodies of warm freshwater, and especially refraining from jumping or diving into such waters, which increases the risk of having contaminated water forced into the nose. He also recommends using nose plugs, keeping your head above the surface, and properly cleaning and chlorinating wading pools, swimming pools and spas (or opting for salt-water pools or spa facilities).
Parents should also know that children are at the highest risk of infection, but likely for no other reason than that they’re more prone to be more active in the water.
“It’s difficult to define the risk,” Kyle said. “But think of it like a lightning storm. Everybody knows not to walk outside in a lightning storm with a golf club in their hands. But many parents don’t know the risk that their kids might be open to.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ | 2023-07-30T19:22:29 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ |
(The Conversation) – Should smartphones be allowed in classrooms? A new report from UNESCO, the education arm of the United Nations, raises questions about the practice. Though smartphones can be used for educational purposes, the report says the devices also disrupt classroom learning, expose students to cyberbullying and can compromise students’ privacy.
About 1 in 7 countries globally, such as the Netherlands and France, have banned the use of smartphones in school – and academic performance improved as a result, particularly for low-performing students, the report notes.
As school leaders in the U.S. wrestle with whether or not to ban smartphones, The Conversation has invited four scholars to weigh in on the issue.
Daniel G. Krutka: Use smartphones to encourage ‘technoskepticism’
While the issue of smartphone use in schools is complicated, evidence suggests that spending more time on smartphones is associated with young people being less happy and less satisfied with life.
Technology scholars have long argued that the key to living well with technology is in finding limits. However, in banning smartphones, I worry educators might be missing opportunities to use smartphones to encourage what I and other researchers refer to as technoskeptical thinking; that is, questioning our relationship with technology.
For example, students might be encouraged to consider the benefits and drawbacks of using navigational apps to travel from one place to another, as opposed to old-fashioned paper maps. Or, students might explore their social media feeds to critique what algorithms feed them, or how notifications get their attention.
In my research, I have looked at how teachers can encourage students to go on techno-fasts – that is, abstaining from the use of technology for a certain period of time. This, I argue, will give students time to reflect on the time they spend away from their devices.
Policy debates often focus on whether or not to put smartphones out of reach during the school day. But I believe educators might find it more beneficial to make the phones an object of inquiry.
Sarah Rose: Consult parents, teachers and students
While there is evidence that classroom phone usage can be a distraction, it can also promote engagement and learning. While research about the potential positive and negative consequences of classroom phones can be used to inform school phone policies, the views of those who are most directly impacted by the policies should also be taken into account.
The views of parents matter because their views may influence the extent to which their children follow the policy. The views of children matter because they are the ones being expected to follow the policy and to benefit from it. The views of teachers matter because they are often the ones that have to enforce the policies. Research shows that enforcing cellphone policies is not always a straightforward issue.
In my research, I have found that children – aged 10 and 11 years old – in collaboration with their parents, were able to come up with ideas for ideal policies and solutions to help enforce them. For example, one parent-child pair suggested mobile phone use in school could be banned but that a role of “telephone monitor” could be given to an older pupil. This “telephone monitor” would have a class mobile phone that children and parents could use to contact each other during the school day when necessary.
This recommendation reflected how parents and middle and high school students – whether from rural and urban areas – felt cellphones were important to keep in touch with each other during the school day. Beyond safety, children and parents also told us that phones were important for keeping in touch about changing plans and for emotional support during the school day.
I believe policies that simply ban phones in schools may be missing an opportunity to educate children about responsible mobile device use. When parents and children are involved in policy development, it has the potential to increase the extent to which these policies are followed and enforced.
Arnold L. Glass: Cellphone use in college lectures hurts performance in ways that are hard to see
The intrusion of internet-enabled electronic devices, such as laptops, tablets and cellphones, has transformed the modern college lecture. Students now divide their attention between the lecture and their devices. Classroom studies reveal that when college students use an electronic device for a nonacademic purpose during class, it hurts their performance on exams.
When attention is divided between an electronic device and the classroom lecture, it does not reduce comprehension of the lecture – at least, not when measured by within-class quizzes. Instead, divided attention reduces long-term retention of the classroom lecture, which hurts performance on unit exams and final exams.
When some students open electronic devices, it also negatively affects the performance of all the students around them. Research has shown that student performance on final exams was worse when electronic devices were permitted during classes that covered exam material versus when the devices were not.
Many students won’t think their divided attention is affecting their retention of new information. It may not be for the moment, but a couple of weeks later or down the line, research shows, it does.
Louis-Philippe Beland: Bans help low-achieving students the most
Numerous studies indicate that low-achieving students stand to benefit the most from the implementation of mobile phone bans in schools.
In a 2015 study, my co-author, Richard Murphy, and I examined the impact of banning mobile phones on student performance in high schools, using data from England. By comparing schools with phone bans to similar schools without the bans, we isolated the effect of mobile phones on performance. Our study found that banning mobile phones significantly increased test scores among 16-year-old students. The effect is equivalent to adding five days to the school year or an extra hour per week. Low-achieving students benefited more, while high-achieving students remained unaffected.
Similar studies in Spain and Norway using a similar approach demonstrated compelling evidence supporting the benefits of banning mobile phones. In Spain, grades improved and bullying incidents decreased. In Norway, the ban raised middle school students’ grade-point averages and their likelihood of attending academic high schools while reducing bullying. Evidence from Belgium suggests banning mobile phones can be beneficial for college student performance.
Psychological research sheds light on potential mechanisms behind the impact of mobile phones and technology on student performance. Multitasking, common with mobile phone use, has been found to hinder learning and task execution. Taking notes by hand has been shown to better enhance memory retention compared to typing on a computer.
In sum, banning mobile phones in schools can yield positive effects, improve academic performance and narrow the achievement gap between high- and low-achieving students. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that mobile phones and technology can also be valuable educational tools when used appropriately. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ | 2023-07-30T19:22:35 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ |
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — The FBI has issued arrest warrants and released disturbing details in the armed home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly North Carolina couple and the theft of more than $150,000 of their cryptocurrency in April.
The incident took place at gunpoint at the couple’s home the morning of April 12 after thieves allegedly posed as construction workers and forced their way into the home, according to the Durham Police Department and the FBI.
According to an FBI criminal complaint obtained by Nexstar’s WNCN, the incident began when two men, dressed as construction workers, came to the victims’ home around 7:30 a.m. The duo claimed they would be inspecting pipes for damage and told the husband they would be “walking around the house.”
After a few minutes, the pair knocked on the door again and the wife answered the door. The suspects, who allegedly both had guns, then pushed their way inside.
“The men restrained and zip-tied the husband’s hands and the wife’s hands,” the FBI complaint said.
A man armed with a pink gun showed the wife it was loaded by opening the cylinder and then dragged her into a bathroom by her legs, the criminal complaint said.
The husband was taken to his Apple iMac and forced at gunpoint to log in and install a remote desktop application called AnyDesk. A person on the phone with a thief already knew “details about the account without being told,” the FBI complaint said.
The FBI believes the husband’s email account was compromised in the past, allowing the thieves to learn the details ahead of the trip to Durham and the home invasion.
The suspects were able to transfer $156,853 worth of cryptocurrency during the next 45 minutes, the FBI said. Before leaving, the thieves allegedly smashed the couple’s cellphones and the iMac.
The elderly couple managed to get out of their home and ask neighbors to call 911 for help. The pair suffered minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital, Durham police said.
The arrest warrants released Thursday for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping indicate two West Palm Beach, Florida, men are wanted — Jarod Gabriel Seemungal and Remy Ra St. Felix.
According to the FBI criminal complaint filed the same day, the suspects began targeting retirees who had cryptocurrency as early as February. The accused men even had the license plate number for the husband’s car, authorities said. A third man is also named in the criminal complaint, but no arrest warrant was issued for him as of Thursday.
Messages sent between those involved identified actual cryptocurrency amounts and their locations, the criminal complaint said. One suspect had a photo of the husband’s North Carolina driver’s license in his email account, according to the FBI.
The two suspects also discussed in internet messages how potential victims “have so much” money in accounts that it would be “retirement licks” — the FBI explained in the complaint that “licks” is slang for a robbery.
The thieves apparently rented a car in Florida and visited the Millennium Hotel in Durham a couple of days before the actual robbery, according to the complaint. Video from a home near the victims’ showed the thieves’ BMW SUV “conducting surveillance” at the couple’s home each of the three days before the alleged kidnapping, the FBI said.
The FBI also noted that a person driving a similar vehicle purchased costumes — a clipboard, reflective vest, sunglasses and a pair of khaki pants — at a nearby Walmart that allowed the suspected thieves to get into the victims’ home. Both suspects were seen on surveillance video from the store.
Additional details about potential victims wasn’t immediately available. As of Sunday, authorities have not said whether either man is in custody. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ | 2023-07-30T19:22:41 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ |
CLEVELAND (WJW) – Verizon customers with older phone plans could see their bill go up next month.
According to the company, starting Aug. 29, some older plans will be charged an additional $3 or $5 per mobile phone line every month.
Customers with Go Unlimited 2.0, Beyond Unlimited 2.0, Above Unlimited, and 5G Start 1.0 plans will see the $3 monthly increase, while single basic phone plans will see the $5 monthly increase.
The company says unlimited plans that are currently available to new customers won’t get hit with the additional charge.
Verizon says lines with tablets, smartwatches, and other devices also won’t be affected.
This comes after a price hike back in April, which, as reported by USA Today, saw a $2 monthly increase for some wireless plans.
In June 2022, Verizon raised some plan fees in response to “pressure,” the company’s head of business said at the time. It led to a $1.35 increase on its administrative fees, and an “Economic Adjustment Charge” for companies using the business plans. It was the first time the fees had been increased since 2019. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ | 2023-07-30T19:22:47 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man died at a Disney Resort in Orlando on Wednesday.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a call around 5:30 a.m. regarding an unresponsive person at Disney’s Contemporary Resort near Magic Kingdom.
The man, identified as 39-year-old Jeffrey Vanden Boom of Greendale, Wisconsin, was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Orange County Medical Examiner determined Vanden Boom fell from a hotel room balcony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The fall was ruled as accidental.
Walt Disney World did not immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for comment.
The death remains an ongoing investigation.
Last fall, an 83-year-old man died after riding the Tomorrowland Authority PeopleMover at Disney World. Authorities said he experienced a “cardiac event,” and his death was “deemed natural” by medical officials.
Earlier this year, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Disneyland, accusing park employees of laughing at a 66-year-old disabled woman who fell while getting off the Jungle Cruise ride in 2021 and later died. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ | 2023-07-30T19:22:53 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ |
(Stacker) – While college enrollment remained below pre-pandemic levels, fall2022 freshman enrollment rebounded by nearly 100,000 students from the previous year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
As enrollment levels begin to stabilize and more students pursue a college degree, Stacker compiled a list of the best colleges in America using Niche’s 2023 rankings.
Niche ranks colleges using various factors, including academics, admissions, financial, and student life. You can read more about Niche’s methodology here. The list includes schools public and private, from West Coast women’s colleges to elite East Coast liberal arts institutions. There’s also a fair share of sprawling state schools, as well as more-privatized, religion-centric universities.
These schools offer pioneering programs in sciences, entrepreneurship, and even video games. While some members of the list may be best known for athletic achievements, many so-called football schools are making rapid advancements in educational fields, producing a number of Rhodes Scholars and collaborations with tech industry giants. Of course, some schools just have cool perks that few others do, like an on-campus ice cream factory or a nuclear reactor.
Tuition, student-to-faculty ratio, acceptance rate, and graduation rate are factors considered in deciding these rankings. Location is also often a key factor in a school’s appeal, whether it is a beachside location, one full of New England foliage, or proximity to tech hubs and companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
While the Ivy Leagues are normally considered the cream of the crop when it comes to American colleges, that’s not necessarily the case with this list. Keep reading to see which school grabbed the #1 spot.
#100. University of Maryland – College Park
– Location: College Park, MD
– Undergraduate enrollment: 28,160
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 51%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $62,900
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
The University of Maryland – College Park boasts a robust academic program with dozens of undergraduate majors, master’s programs, and doctoral programs. The school ranks highly for its research in health and science, more specifically quantum science, artificial intelligence, and climate change.
#99. Trinity University
– Location: San Antonio, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,471
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 34%
– Graduation rate: 79%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,900
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Trinity University has historically ranked high for its undergraduate research, undergraduate engineering program, and school-wide innovation. It’s widely considered the best small college in Texas and among the best small colleges in the U.S.
#98. Brigham Young University
– Location: Provo, UT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,039
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 21:1
– Acceptance rate: 69%
– Graduation rate: 75%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,700
– Two-year employment rate: 80%
BYU has long been an appealing educational option for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A big component of student life at BYU is mission work. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pay under $3,000 per semester, while non-members pay under $6,000 per semester.
#97. University of South Florida
– Location: Tampa, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,650
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 49%
– Graduation rate: 74%
– Six-year median earnings: $43,500
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Among its many accolades in recent years, the University of South Florida earned the designation of Preeminent State Research University in 2018. USF is one of 16 schools nationwide named a Tillman Partnership University. This distinction notes that USF has a wide, innovative array of veteran-specific support services.
#96. Colorado School of Mines
– Location: Golden, CO
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,201
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 55%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $84,900
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
The Colorado School of Mines boasts strong ties to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Located in the Rocky Mountains, the school provides one of the most intriguing recreational atmospheres for a college, with numerous trails and ski areas nearby. Mining is not the only specialty emphasized here, as the college also has programs in economics, biochemistry, and applied mathematics and statistics.
#95. George Washington University
– Location: Washington D.C.
– Undergraduate enrollment: 10,141
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 43%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $69,600
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
In addition to top-tier academics, George Washington University boasts successful Division I athletics, unique internships, and myriad community service opportunities. GW has more than 475 student organizations to cater to a variety of student interests and experiences.
#94. Bucknell University
– Location: Lewisburg, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 3,686
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 38%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $70,800
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
If you’re looking to see the world, Bucknell could be the school for you—almost half of Bucknell’s students study abroad. The Susquehanna River is a focal point of Bucknell’s campus, offering a unique aesthetic for studies.
#93. Lafayette College
– Location: Easton, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,457
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 36%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $68,600
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Lafayette makes up one-half of the most-played college football rivalry, against Lehigh University. Among the most notable buildings on this scenic campus is the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights. Lafayette also has a stunning collection of images and art from East Asia.
#92. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
– Location: Minneapolis, MN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 28,989
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 70%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $51,900
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The University of Minnesota has a sprawling campus in the Twin Cities, known for the Dinkytown neighborhood where Bob Dylan once resided. Scores of alumni have won Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, and others invented GORE-TEX, World War II K rations, and breakthroughs in stem cell research. The school’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport is a leading institution for studying the impact of females in sports.
#91. Pitzer College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 802
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $48,700
– Two-year employment rate: 86%
Pitzer College offers more than 40 majors and 20 minors. Pitzer is part of the Claremont Colleges, an association of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions, including Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pomona College, and Scripps College.
#90. University of Pittsburgh
– Location: Pittsburgh, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 18,298
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 64%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $53,900
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The University of Pittsburgh is comprised of 16 schools and colleges that offer more than 650 degree and certificate programs. The school boasts a high internship participation rate of nearly 85%.
#89. University of California – Santa Barbara
– Location: Santa Barbara, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 22,480
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 20:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $55,300
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is a centerpiece of UC Santa Barbara’s academic offerings. Much of the student body gets around the scenic campus by bike, attending classes in esteemed buildings like the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.
#88. College of the Holy Cross
– Location: Worcester, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,966
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 38%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $71,000
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Holy Cross has highly recommended study abroad programs (not a bad idea to escape the harsh New England winter). Still, the Worcester campus has plenty of selling points on its own, including being one of the more affordable liberal arts schools in the country. A notable number of graduates go on to work for organizations like Teach for America.
#87. Kenyon College
– Location: Gambier, OH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,610
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $48,700
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Tiny Kenyon College can boast something many schools with 50,000 students or more cannot—they educated a U.S. president. Rutherford B. Hayes graduated from Kenyon in 1842; since then, the school has become known for the Kenyon Review literary journal and its large-scale sustainability projects.
#86. Smith College
– Location: Northampton, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,160
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $46,200
– Two-year employment rate: 88%
Students at this women’s college live in 41 houses, providing a unique boarding experience. Each fall, classes are canceled for one day, and the students flock to nearby parks and engage in outdoor activities on Mountain Day. In 2004, Smith became the first college to graduate an all-female class of engineers.
#85. University of California – Davis
– Location: Davis, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,186
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Acceptance rate: 46%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
University of California – Davis offers more than 100 majors and just as many graduate degree programs. For those interested in pursuing medical studies, UC Davis has a renowned program offering hands-on training in their teaching hospital. Research is a major part of the fabric of UC Davis. The school received just over $1 billion in external research funding in 2021-22.
#84. Macalester College
– Location: Saint Paul, MN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,207
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Acceptance rate: 39%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $47,600
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Although the backdrop of the Twin Cities provides plenty of plush scenery, those Minnesota winters can be harsh. The university says 61% of its students study abroad. The college has a strong commitment to sustainability, with the residential Eco House containing its own live-in laboratory.
#83. North Carolina State University
– Location: Raleigh, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 22,929
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Acceptance rate: 46%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $52,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Located in North Carolina’s research triangle, NC State is a leader in education about textiles, technology, and engineering. The university has helped launch a number of startups and thousands of patents.
#82. Southern Methodist University
– Location: Dallas, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,616
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 53%
– Graduation rate: 81%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,700
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
SMU is another school jumping on the video game bandwagon, offering programs in digital game development. SMU is known for its thriving Greek life and its Tate Lecture Series.
#81. University of Richmond
– Location: University Of Richmond, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 3,028
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 31%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $64,500
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
A cappella groups thrive at the University of Richmond, with some gaining national recognition. Educational highlights at the private liberal arts college include its business and law schools.
#80. The Ohio State University
– Location: Columbus, OH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 42,734
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 68%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $46,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Another college with a rich football history, Ohio State is also notable for its business school and its aerospace engineering program. Ohio State students have been at the forefront of electric car technology, and the school maintains a collegiate campus feel within the big city of Columbus.
#79. Purdue University
– Location: West Lafayette, IN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 33,575
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 16:1
– Acceptance rate: 67%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $55,100
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Twenty-five astronauts attended Purdue, including Neil Armstrong. Purdue also boasts America’s first university-owned airport. Purdue’s Online Writing Lab has set an industry standard in grammar and style.
#78. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 802
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 79%
– Six-year median earnings: $64,900
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Cooper Union is known for its free tuition and location in Manhattan’s East Village. Programs in engineering and design regularly rank high on annual lists. The School of Art is also well-regarded for its studios, labs, and student exhibitions.
#77. Carleton College
– Location: Northfield, MN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,918
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Carleton, located near the Twin Cities, is regularly cited as the best school in America for undergraduate teaching. Students speak 55 different languages, and all students receive 100% of demonstrated financial need. There’s an expansive arboretum on campus, and the Weitz Center for Creativity includes a theater and dance studios.
#76. University of California – San Diego
– Location: La Jolla, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,939
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 37%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,900
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
University of California – San Diego is recognized as one of the top 15 research universities in the world and received more than $1.5 billion in funding last year. UC San Diego boasts a renowned faculty, including 16 Nobel laureates throughout the school’s history.
#75. Texas A&M University
– Location: College Station, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 49,442
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 15:1
– Acceptance rate: 63%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,000
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Texas A&M is one of six senior military colleges in the U.S., and the corps of cadets carry on this school tradition at events throughout campus. Texas A&M is also host to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center and has maintained a long partnership with NASA.
#74. Vassar College
– Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,409
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 25%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,600
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
This former women’s college is one of the better-known liberal arts schools on the East Coast. Vassar boasts its own ecological preserve along with several historic buildings. Also appealing, students receive an average financial aid award of $56,000.
#73. Grinnell College
– Location: Grinnell, IA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,459
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 19%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $49,100
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
The school is high on social justice causes, awarding the Grinnell Prize for individuals “effecting positive social change.” With several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, a bustling downtown, and spaces like the Conard Environmental Research Area, Grinnell is a hidden gem in the middle of Iowa.
#72. University of Rochester
– Location: Rochester, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,100
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 35%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,200
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Rochester is home to the storied Institute of Optics, thanks to contributions from Eastman Kodak and Bausch & Lomb. Rochester’s school of music also has an impressive legacy and was named after George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak.
#71. Wesleyan University
– Location: Middletown, CT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,836
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $54,700
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Wesleyan’s 316-acre campus in the middle of New England educated the likes of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bill Belichick, and Michael Bay. For almost 90 years, Wesleyan has had a thriving theater program, and the school recently developed a Freeman Asian Scholars Program, providing full tuition to students from Asia.
#70. University of Washington
– Location: Seattle, WA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,350
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 56%
– Graduation rate: 82%
– Six-year median earnings: $57,700
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
If the picturesque campus in Seattle isn’t enough to entice you, the University of Washington has strong networks with Amazon, Boeing, and Microsoft. The school is also investing heavily in its health sciences program.
#69. Villanova University
– Location: Villanova, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,793
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 31%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $77,900
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Located a stone’s throw from Philadelphia, Villanova is centered in the Augustinian tradition. Villanova’s business school consistently places near the top of rankings, and their men’s basketball program is accomplished as well, winning national titles in 1985, 2016, and 2018.
#68. Virginia Tech
– Location: Blacksburg, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,112
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 66%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $62,500
– Two-year employment rate: 96%
Virginia Tech has its own power plant and is also a leading center for automotive research, thanks to its Transportation Institute. The school announced plans for its Innovation Campus in November 2018, a 250,000-square-foot space dedicated to startups and corporate facilities. It is scheduled to open in 2024.
#67. Colby College
– Location: Waterville, ME
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,155
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 10%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,100
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Colby offers a Jan Plan term, allowing students to use the month to explore different experiences like penguin rehabilitation or West African music. Since 2013, Colby has been a carbon-neutral campus, and nearly 100% of students live on the smoke-free campus.
#66. University of California – Irvine
– Location: Irvine, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 28,990
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 30%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,400
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
The University of California-Irvine is consistently one of the top-ranked public universities in the country. Cal-Irvine has been at the forefront of COVID-19 research. In 2020, the school launched an initiative to promote success and well-being among Black students.
#65. Case Western Reserve University
– Location: Cleveland, OH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,286
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 30%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $74,600
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Case Western is known for its excellent social work and nursing schools. Located in the heart of Cleveland, Case Western has affiliations with many city businesses, and students can register for courses at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cleveland Institute of Music.
#64. Penn State
– Location: University Park, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 39,321
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 56%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: $50,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Penn State has renowned schools for business, education, and science. On Saturdays in the fall, 100,000 fans pack Beaver Stadium for football games, but students can always mingle and socialize at the famous Berkey Creamery.
#63. William & Mary
– Location: Williamsburg, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,475
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 42%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
William & Mary’s law school is the oldest in the U.S. William & Mary also has several improv comedy groups—and Jon Stewart happens to be an alum of the school. The Christmas season is widely celebrated on campus, with the school president dressing up as Santa Claus at the annual Yule Log Ceremony.
#62. Lehigh University
– Location: Bethlehem, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,374
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 50%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $81,900
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science is a centerpiece of academic study at Lehigh, which is nestled in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, not too far from Philadelphia and New York. Students at the engineering school went on to invent the escalator and make notable advancements in the automobile industry. While the football rivalry with Lafayette grabs most of the athletic headlines, Lehigh also has a storied wrestling program.
#61. Florida State University
– Location: Tallahassee, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,072
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 17:1
– Acceptance rate: 32%
– Graduation rate: 84%
– Six-year median earnings: $46,400
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Long-recognized as a college football powerhouse, Florida State University’s accolades extend beyond the pigskin exploits of Deion Sanders and Bobby Bowden; the public school has taught a number of Rhodes Scholars. Bonus: FSU has its own circus.
#60. Tulane University
– Location: New Orleans, LA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 8,231
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,700
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Tulane has a strong bond with the city of New Orleans, particularly after Hurricane Katrina. Tulane’s medical and law schools are some of the oldest in the country. According to the Princeton Review, Tulane’s students are ranked among the top 10 happiest in the country.
#59. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
– Location: Urbana, IL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 32,107
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 63%
– Graduation rate: 86%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,500
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign counts 29 Pulitzer Prize winners among its alumni and faculty. The school offers one of the largest public university libraries in the world with more than 24 million items. It is highly regarded for its leading research in technology, agricultural practices, and government policy.
#58. Hamilton College
– Location: Clinton, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,043
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
According to the school, 100% of Hamilton students live in residence halls. On campus, they can take a skate on Sage Rink, one of the oldest hockey rinks in the country, or party at the May Day music festival. Tina Fey, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Hillary Clinton are some of the recent speakers on campus.
#57. University of Miami
– Location: Coral Gables, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 12,089
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 33%
– Graduation rate: 83%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,100
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Don’t let the proximity to South Beach and the stories of partying football teams fool you; the University of Miami is a leading center of academic study. Miami has top-flight programs focusing on oceanography, medicine, and climate change. And yes, the main campus in Coral Gables is located near the beach.
#56. Bates College
– Location: Lewiston, ME
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,876
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,200
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Known for its 19th-century buildings on its historic quad, Bates could be the physical prototype of a small New England college. Students can study in conjunction with schools like Columbia, Dartmouth, and RPI. Those who are inspired by movement can see professional performances at the annual Bates Dance Festival.
#55. Babson College
– Location: Wellesley, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,457
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Acceptance rate: 27%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $96,100
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Babson is big on entrepreneurship. The school offers programs specializing in women’s entrepreneurial leadership, family entrepreneurship, and retail supply chain. Babson has expanded to campuses in Miami and San Francisco.
#54. Colgate University
– Location: Hamilton, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 3,023
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 27%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $63,600
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Located in the quaint village of Hamilton in upstate New York, Colgate is an oasis away from the bustle of the big city. Highlights on campus include the Longyear Museum of Anthropology and Picker Art Gallery, with its focus on 20th-century paintings. Despite its small enrollment size, Colgate has over 200 clubs and organizations.
#53. University of Wisconsin
– Location: Madison, WI
– Undergraduate enrollment: 30,063
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 57%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $56,200
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Wisconsin is a hub of innovation where vitamins A and B were discovered. Wisconsin is also known for its embryonic stem cell research. Few college events are as unified as “Jump Around” at Wisconsin football games.
#52. University of Georgia
– Location: Athens, GA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 27,888
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 48%
– Graduation rate: 87%
– Six-year median earnings: $50,500
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Georgia’s business school was the first of its kind in the South, and it remains a top institution in the field. Over the past several years, the College of Environment and Design’s landscape architecture program has consistently ranked in the top 10. In athletics, Georgia is all about football, the Bulldogs won national titles in 2021 and 2022, and Sanford Stadium is one of the largest college football stadiums in the country, seating over 92,000 spectators.
#51. Haverford College
– Location: Haverford, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,419
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,700
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Haverford emphasizes learning outside of the classroom, whether that’s in the Alaskan wilderness or exploring tropical ecosystems in Honduras. Music students collaborate with orchestras around the Philadelphia area, while all students can enjoy the sights of the college’s expansive arboretum.
#50. New York University
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 25,854
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,900
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
NYU draws creatives, future tycoons, and filmmakers to their chic campus centered in historic Greenwich Village. During the coronavirus pandemic, the NYU community immersed itself in research and response. The school offers a range of unique courses, from Disability Studies to classes based on Instagram.
#49. Wake Forest University
– Location: Winston-Salem, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,391
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 32%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $63,800
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Studying abroad is a focus at Wake Forest, where 61% of the class of 2018 participated in semesters overseas. The campus has its own charms, too, with it being known for beautiful fall foliage. The Wake Forest Innovation Quarter is becoming a center of student life and collaboration with local and national businesses.
#48. University of California – Berkeley
– Location: Berkeley, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,300
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 14:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $64,700
– Two-year employment rate: 88%
Considered by some metrics the top public university in the country, Berkeley has eight Nobel Prize winners on faculty and is #1 all-time in Peace Corps volunteers. Twenty-one percent of students are transfers, making Berkeley a popular choice among two-year college graduates and undergraduates looking to start anew. With many important discoveries emanating from the space sciences laboratory, and a history of entrepreneurship, Berkeley students often become leaders in their field.
#47. Boston University
– Location: Boston, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 16,026
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,300
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Located in one of America’s busiest college cities, Boston University offers a mix of big city towers and intimate brownstones for residents. Hockey games at Agganis Arena draw fervent crowds in the winter, while many students take time to relax in the sun on BU Beach in the spring. BU is also home to the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and is easily accessible from most parts of the city by public transportation.
#46. University of Texas – Austin
– Location: Austin, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 37,404
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
– Acceptance rate: 32%
– Graduation rate: 88%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,200
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas, and students can view them at the McDonald Observatory, one of many prestigious facilities at this state school. The campus has tons of museums, from the LBJ Presidential Library to the Blanton Museum of Art, and you might even catch Matthew McConaughey at a Texas Longhorns game. Outside of campus, students can attend Austin cultural institutions like South by Southwest and Franklin Barbecue.
#45. Northeastern University
– Location: Boston, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 15,131
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $67,400
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Northeastern is regularly considered one of the best colleges for internship experience. The N.U. internship program encourages study abroad, even for new students. Research in robotics and chemical imaging are among the budding fields studied at Northeastern.
#44. Middlebury College
– Location: Middlebury, VT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,835
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 22%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,200
– Two-year employment rate: 87%
Middlebury is recognized for its environmental studies program. The school committed to tackling climate change over the next decade with its Energy2028 initiative. Middlebury also owns its own ski area, the Middlebury Snow Bowl.
#43. Williams College
– Location: Williamstown, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,917
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 15%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $59,000
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Although fraternities no longer exist at Williams, more than one-third of the students participate in intercollegiate sports. Nearly all students engage in extracurricular clubs or activities, and the school has an exclusive program with Oxford. The month of January is dedicated to winter study, where students pursue one single subject on a pass/fail basis.
#42. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
– Location: Chapel Hill, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 18,505
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 25%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $55,600
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
UNC’s medical programs, particularly dentistry, and pharmacy, receive high praise from industry watchers. Men’s and women’s basketball and women’s soccer bring in a bevy of national titles and draw big crowds. Student journalists at the Daily Tar Heel regularly keep alive the spirit of a free press; during the pandemic, they called out campus leaders for lax COVID-19 protocols.
#41. University of Florida
– Location: Gainesville, FL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 31,476
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1
– Acceptance rate: 31%
– Graduation rate: 89%
– Six-year median earnings: $56,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Parents, look away now: Florida is regularly anointed as one of the country’s top party schools. But there are more than just beer-pong-filled weekends in Gainesville—Sid Martin Biotech is a rapidly growing bio-business incubator affiliated with the school, and Florida has an institute dedicated to lightning research.
#40. Amherst College
– Location: Amherst, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,745
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 12%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,000
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Amherst is repeatedly recognized as the top liberal arts college in the country. Students at Amherst can take advantage of an open curriculum with no core requirements. Amherst is home to the Beneski Museum of Natural History and a wildlife sanctuary.
#39. Boston College
– Location: Chestnut Hill, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 9,532
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 26%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $72,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Continuing our run of Boston schools, Boston College hosts a plethora of arts festivals and dance competitions. Hockey, basketball, and football are all major sports on campus, while the Carroll School of Management is considered a top business school in the U.S. Boston College also has a number of student publications, picking up scoops in the same city as the famed Spotlight team.
#38. Tufts University
– Location: Medford, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,938
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 16%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $75,800
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Tufts students have a variety of activities at their disposal, like a geological society and popular a cappella groups. Tufts art collections feature work from Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, and the university has partnerships with Harvard, MIT, and a campus in France.
#37. Washington and Lee University
– Location: Lexington, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,853
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 25%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $76,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
One of Washington and Lee University’s hallmarks is its small class size, and therefore, access to faculty. Almost no classes at the university have more than 25 students. It offers 36 majors and 41 minors in disciplines that are typically found at larger institutions. Additionally, it is the only ranked liberal arts college in the country to offer a nationally accredited undergraduate business program.
#36. Wellesley College
– Location: Wellesley, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,375
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,800
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Wellesley emphasizes student engagement, and students are involved in major committees of the Board of Trustees. The Albright Institute, the Davis Museum, and Wellesley Centers for Women offer educational and exclusive programming to the Wellesley community. Students can also cross-register for classes at nearby MIT.
#35. United States Military Academy at West Point
– Location: West Point, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,536
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 16:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 85%
– Six-year median earnings: No data available
– Two-year employment rate: No data available
West Point has research partnerships with organizations like the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Research and Analysis Center and the Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Center. All students live together in company areas, with set schedules for chores, meals, and study time. Extracurriculars include a grilling club, a parachute club, and a combat weapons team.
#34. Emory University
– Location: Atlanta, GA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,814
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 19%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $66,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
The Goizueta Business School is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best business schools. The Carter Center, a nonprofit created by Jimmy Carter, offers internships and lectures throughout the year.
#33. Davidson College
– Location: Davidson, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,983
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 20%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,900
– Two-year employment rate: 88%
Davidson, just north of Charlotte, is known for its tight-knit campus that comes together at basketball games, creating sports like flickerball, or rallying to denounce hate speech. The school has a Commission on Race and Slavery to continually tackle diversity, and The Farm teaches students about sustainable growth. In 2007, The Davidson Trust replaced loans with grants in all financial aid packages.
#32. Barnard College
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 2,651
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 90%
– Six-year median earnings: $57,900
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Located across the street from Columbia University’s main campus, Barnard students enjoy mostly all the same privileges as Columbia students. The Barnard Center for Research on Women and Athena Film Festival are two celebrated resources on campus. A center for teaching and learning has given the school its own distinctive hub on the Barnard and Columbia grounds.
#31. Swarthmore College
– Location: Swarthmore, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,437
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 97%
– Six-year median earnings: $56,700
– Two-year employment rate: 85%
Swarthmore has several sustainability initiatives, aiming to become a zero-waste campus. The Scott Arboretum is a highlight of the 425-acre campus. The Peaslee Debate Society and a slew of literary magazines are among the more popular activities on campus.
#30. Bowdoin College
– Location: Brunswick, ME
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,948
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,500
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
Bowdoin is another school that has replaced loans with grants in student aid packages. Bowdoin graduates are frequently employed by Google, Deloitte, Facebook, and the U.S. government. Another perk: SAT scores are optional for admission to Bowdoin.
#29. Claremont McKenna College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,240
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 13%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $72,900
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Located about 30 miles from Los Angeles, Claremont McKenna, despite encompassing only one square mile, has plenty on campus to keep students busy, like The Athenaeum, which hosts a variety of social and cultural speakers four nights a week. This small school has close faculty-student bonds, as about 75% of students engage in research with faculty.
#28. University of Southern California
– Location: Los Angeles, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 18,560
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 16%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $74,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Located in downtown Los Angeles, USC has a network of over 450,000 living alumni (as of 2023) for making connections in Hollywood or elsewhere. George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis are just some of the directors to attend the cinematic arts school at USC. On Saturdays in the fall, the Spirit of Troy marching band enlivens crowds at USC football games.
#27. University of Virginia
– Location: Charlottesville, VA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 16,319
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 23%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $61,200
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The University of Virginia is considered to be a highly valuable public school, earning high marks for its business school and hospital. The school counted $1.94 billion in annual research proposal activity, with the Data Science Institute and Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative anchors of the school’s research. Virginia also boasts powerhouse men’s basketball and lacrosse teams.
#26. Georgia Institute of Technology
– Location: Atlanta, GA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 14,485
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 12:1
– Acceptance rate: 21%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $79,100
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Centered in Atlanta, Georgia Tech has a top-ranked undergraduate engineering program. The new Marcus Nanotechnology Building is one of several facilities cultivating startups on campus. The Georgia Institute of Technology Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines breaks ground in medical robotics, human augmentation, autonomy, and collaborative robotics.
#25. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
– Location: Ann Arbor, MI
– Undergraduate enrollment: 29,851
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 26%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $63,400
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
In 2022, Michigan produced 433 new inventions and 16 new business startups. Michigan regularly tops research volume among public universities. In athletics, Michigan Stadium seats over 100,000 for football games, making it one of the world’s largest stadiums.
#24. University of California – Los Angeles
– Location: Los Angeles, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 31,068
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 14%
– Graduation rate: 91%
– Six-year median earnings: $60,700
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
UCLA offers more than 125 majors, and over the past decade, has been awarded $1 billion annually in competitive research awards and grants. UCLA has won 11 men’s basketball national titles, but their softball, gymnastics, volleyball, and swimming teams also own several national championships. Located in the heart of Los Angeles, the campus is regularly used as a filming location and holds several large gatherings throughout the year, including the annual JazzReggae Festival.
#23. Cornell University
– Location: Ithaca, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 15,735
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $77,200
– Two-year employment rate: 93%
For decades, Cornell has been vital to space exploration to Mars and advancements in agriculture and farming. Though centered in Ithaca, Cornell has several facilities for study in New York City. Gathering at ice hockey games is a tradition, which can be followed by a trip to the Cornell ice cream dairy.
#22. Carnegie Mellon University
– Location: Pittsburgh, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,341
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $83,600
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Brain science and driverless cars are just some of the topics being studied and tested at Carnegie Mellon. Carnegie Mellon is commonly recognized for its premier computer science and engineering programs and boasts a highly respected drama program. It is one of the only schools to offer a degree in bagpipe performance.
#21. Johns Hopkins University
– Location: Baltimore, MD
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,766
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $73,200
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Johns Hopkins is recognized as one of the preeminent schools for studying medicine in the country. Johns Hopkins leads U.S. academic institutions in total research and development spending and counts 29 Nobel Prize winners among its associates. The school also has programs run in conjunction with NASA, and the Spring Fair is one of the largest college gatherings in the nation.
#20. Pomona College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 1,756
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $58,100
– Two-year employment rate: 90%
Despite its small size, Pomona College has more than 250 clubs and organizations, and 98% of students live on campus, creating a tight-knit atmosphere at the school. Near Los Angeles and next to a bucolic mountain setting, students enjoy skiing and beaches. The school also has an art museum, eight music ensembles, and collaborative partnerships with other colleges in the Claremont area.
#19. University of Notre Dame
– Location: Notre Dame, IN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 8,833
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 19%
– Graduation rate: 97%
– Six-year median earnings: $78,400
– Two-year employment rate: 95%
Notre Dame Stadium is one of the hallowed landmarks in all of sports and home to a legendary football team. For students not enamored with football, the Snite Museum of Art and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center provide plenty of insightful programming. The campus also has over 50 chapels.
#18. Harvey Mudd College
– Location: Claremont, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 821
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 8:1
– Acceptance rate: 18%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $88,800
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
Harvey Mudd focuses on engineering, sciences, and math, offering real-world experience through its clinic program. Harvey Mudd students regularly engage in a friendly prank rivalry with Caltech. When students have the ability to take a break from studying, ski slopes are less than 30 minutes away, while the scenery of the desert is a 90-minute drive.
#17. Georgetown University
– Location: Washington, DC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,610
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 17%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $93,500
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Georgetown, the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university, is home to one of the country’s largest student-run businesses and the oldest continuously running student theatre group. Georgetown’s business school launched a Venture Lab for students to incubate new ideas and startups. Located in Washington D.C., students are connected to a bevy of internship opportunities with private businesses and local, state, and federal governments.
#16. University of Chicago
– Location: Chicago, IL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 7,020
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $68,100
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
The University of Chicago has been instrumental in pioneering hormonal cancer treatment, discovering new dinosaur species, and proposing the existence of black holes. The school hosts the Robie House, a national landmark and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The University of Chicago also has a long tradition of nurturing successful improv comedy troupes.
#15. Washington University in St. Louis
– Location: Saint Louis, MO
– Undergraduate enrollment: 7,348
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 16%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $70,100
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Almost 90% of Washington University students are from out of state, making this college a melting pot. Washington received almost $950 million in research funds for medicine, energy, plant science, and other fields in 2022. The university, based in St. Louis, also has several libraries and its own art museum.
#14. Northwestern University
– Location: Evanston, IL
– Undergraduate enrollment: 8,095
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $69,000
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Northwestern’s journalism program has a long tradition of producing quality reporters. The business and material engineering programs are also highly regarded, while research remains Northwestern’s backbone—the school accounts for “$2.6 billion in revenue from patents and intellectual property licensing revenue.” Located just outside of Chicago, Northwestern combines suburban tranquility with a big-city feel.
#13. Vanderbilt University
– Location: Nashville, TN
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,983
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 12%
– Graduation rate: 93%
– Six-year median earnings: $69,000
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Vanderbilt is recognized as one of the world’s most innovative universities. From 2011-2016, Vanderbilt filed 231 patents, and the school continues to expand its Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization. The Princeton Review ranked Vanderbilt as having the best quality of life for students in 2019.
#12. Columbia University
– Location: New York, NY
– Undergraduate enrollment: 7,509
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $83,300
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
Students from more than 80 countries come to study at Columbia, which is located in northern Manhattan, near a variety of parks and landmarks. Campus media outlets like the Columbia Daily Spectator, WKCR, and Bwog captivate readers and listeners throughout the city. For decades, students have started protests that have made national headlines for their effectiveness.
#11. University of Pennsylvania
– Location: Philadelphia, PA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 9,960
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $85,900
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Researchers at Penn are involved in topical work, like studying police killings and Black mental health, or COVID-19’s impact on people of color. Each year, innovation prizes award $100,000 to graduates working on projects to impact the world positively. Despite its high tuition cost, Penn has instituted an all-grant financial aid program.
#10. Dartmouth College
– Location: Hanover, NH
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,169
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 5:1
– Acceptance rate: 9%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $75,500
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
The Dartmouth Plan allows students to customize their academic schedules. This Ivy League institution has an abundance of theaters and centers for arts, as well as various technology institutes. Each year, the college hosts a winter carnival and a powwow celebrating Native American history.
#9. Brown University
– Location: Providence, RI
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,605
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 7:1
– Acceptance rate: 8%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $67,500
– Two-year employment rate: 91%
Brown is well known for its open curriculum, allowing students flexibility and input in choosing their courses, with less of a requirement on core classes. The Carney Institute for Brain Science and Institute for Environment and Society provide unique perspectives to important fields of study. The university is working to strengthen its relationship with the city of Providence, with more than 420 students volunteering every year in public schools.
#8. Duke University
– Location: Durham, NC
– Undergraduate enrollment: 6,838
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 8%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $84,400
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Duke’s law and medical schools regularly rank near the top of lists, and their men’s basketball team frequently tops national polls. A game at Cameron Indoor Stadium is considered one of the world’s premier sporting environments, but the Levine Science Research Center is pretty impressive too; the center is one of the country’s largest single-site interdisciplinary research facilities. Duke Chapel is a center for campus events and religious services.
#7. California Institute of Technology
– Location: Pasadena, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 901
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 92%
– Six-year median earnings: $85,900
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
Caltech is the home of a jet propulsion laboratory, the Einstein Papers Project, and an energy innovation hub that develops methods to generate fuel from sunlight. Every Halloween, students combine their interest in sciences with recreation, smashing pumpkins from the top of a library. The student body is notorious for its good-natured pranks.
#6. Rice University
– Location: Houston, TX
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,150
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 6:1
– Acceptance rate: 11%
– Graduation rate: 94%
– Six-year median earnings: $65,400
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
A tree-lined sanctuary in the middle of bustling Houston, Rice is consistently ranked near the top of lists gauging college quality of life. Rice has been a leader in artificial heart research and other sciences and maintains a close partnership with NASA.
#5. Princeton University
– Location: Princeton, NJ
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,689
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 4:1
– Acceptance rate: 6%
– Graduation rate: 98%
– Six-year median earnings: $74,700
– Two-year employment rate: 87%
Ninety-eight percent of students live on campus, right near downtown Princeton and a short train ride to New York and Philadelphia. Noted for its engineering and finance departments, Princeton also thrives in modern sciences like plasma physics, and in 2020, Princeton announced a new $115 million quantum science center. Eating clubs are at an intersection of social life and tradition.
#4. Yale University
– Location: New Haven, CT
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,696
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $83,200
– Two-year employment rate: 92%
Twenty-two percent of Yale’s student body hails from abroad, creating a diverse landscape on the Gothic campus nestled in downtown New Haven. Yale has work to do, though, in scrubbing discrimination from admissions practices, according to the Department of Justice. One of the school’s most storied traditions is hosting “The Game” against Harvard every two years at the Yale Bowl.
#3. Harvard University
– Location: Cambridge, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,699
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 5%
– Graduation rate: 98%
– Six-year median earnings: $89,700
– Two-year employment rate: 89%
The oldest college in America remains a bastion of success as it faces questions about its admissions process. The school counts 49 Nobel Laureates and 48 Pulitzer Prize winners among its alumni, as well as eight U.S. presidents. The Harvard Lampoon humor magazine has been entertaining (and infuriating) students for almost 150 years.
#2. Stanford University
– Location: Stanford, CA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 5,752
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 2:1
– Acceptance rate: 5%
– Graduation rate: 95%
– Six-year median earnings: $94,000
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Located in Silicon Valley, Stanford has strong bonds with tech giants like Google, which was founded by Stanford students. New technological innovations implemented by Stanford are allowing incoming students to connect in different ways as they study from home. Stanford also has a storied athletic program, as its athletes have won hundreds of Olympic medals.
#1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
– Location: Cambridge, MA
– Undergraduate enrollment: 4,234
– Student-to-faculty ratio: 3:1
– Acceptance rate: 7%
– Graduation rate: 96%
– Six-year median earnings: $104,700
– Two-year employment rate: 94%
Students and researchers at MIT are always on the cutting edge of modern technology—the school created a contact-free robot that might be able to detect patient vital signs related to COVID-19. Among the highlights of this school are the Haystack Observatory, the MIT Media Lab (designed by I.M. Pei), and MIT.nano, which specializes in nanoscale imaging. MIT has acres of stunning scenery, from quiet Cambridge streets to the futuristic layout of Simmons Hall.
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Owners of a decades-long popular restaurant and bar closed their doors for the last time Saturday, bringing an end to generations of a familiar place to relive old memories and build new ones.
The Service Station, 502 S. Webster Ave, has served up American cuisine since 1978. It was themed after the building’s original use as a service station.
Kenton Johnson, co-owner, and wife Betty purchased the restaurant in 2001 and decided to retire from the business. They hope to sell it to a new owner who will operate it as a restaurant, Kenton said.
“I wouldn’t hate for it to be turned into an office or something, but I would hate for it to be bulldozed,” he said.
Johnson described the Station as a business that has been a second home to his family and an extended family with staff and customers.
The Johnsons have attended several weddings and celebrated the births of countless children over the years, Kenton said.
He joked that he’d told prospective parents they could name one after him.
“They could have a Kenton or a Kentonia,” he said and laughed. “Nobody’s done that yet.”
The Station often became a place where lasting friendships blossomed, especially among staff.
“They all started when they were freshmen or sophomores and they didn’t know each other,” Johnson said. “I’ve had a bunch of young ones, work together three or four years and they stay friends forever.”
A former kitchen manager who worked for the Johnsons for 10 years and moved out of state agreed to to help them close down for the last time.
“She moved to Chicago a couple of years ago, but she’s come back these last two days to do a cameo, to be part of closing down,” he said.
Some customers were closer to the Johnsons than others. The late attorney, Joe Barr, once had a table at the Station with a plaque that read, “The Joe Barr Table: “What a beautiful day,” his son Jonathan recalled.
Seated at his father’s former table with his father-in-law Ronny Strode on Friday night, the two sipped on beverages and savored memories as they celebrated the birth of a new Barr, Jonathan’s second daughter born Thursday.
“I’ve celebrated everything from the death of my dad to the birth of my first daughter,” Barr said. “We had my dad’s celebration of life here after the funeral.”
The plaque captured a saying his dad was known for. Despite a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, he never failed to rise every morning and declare each day was beautiful, he recalled.
“We’d come here after chemo treatments and people would always say they loved him,” Jonathan said. “It would brighten up his spirits, even as bad as he felt.”
During the last few weeks, word of its closing spread and filled with patrons who wanted to have a meal in their old favorite burger joint one last time, Johnson said.
Ray and Lezley Gentry, of Oklahoma City, were among the crowd Friday night.
“What you see in here was here, 20 or 30 years ago,” Ray said, as he took a long look around the place.
Wife Lezley said the service was more than excellent, but personable.
“I love Sydney, one of the waitstaff here. She’s always laughing and she is so good to us,” she said. “I love the pub atmosphere. It makes me think of my past travels to UK. I get that feeling of being out of the country.”
Ray recalled the days when the building was “an operating gas station” and there were brothers who converted it to a restaurant.
According to the Station’s website, it opened Bedlam weekend on Nov. 18, 1978 by Phil and Jerry Crewson. The pair owned Crosby’s across the street but had been storing antiques in the old Conoco gas station.
Joe Crabtree and partners, the Johnsons, purchased it in 2001. Crabtree retired in 2019.
Johnson said in the past several months the labor shortage played a role in the decision to retire.
“In this last year, everybody asked me ‘where’s the workforce?’” he said. “I don’t know.”
The bittersweet arrival of retirement wasn’t lost on Johnson as he thought about what words of farewell he would say to his customers.
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Ears, ears, and more ears! Robin, Brent, and Molly have returned from their visit to the Mouse Nest. They have plenty of mouse ears, but thus far they have not grown any tails. I have never known anyone who enjoyed Disney World like they do. Robin calls the place her second home. I guess it is sort of like me on a cruise ship where I am in my ‘happy place’. Anna has been doing the thing that makes her happy, too. Last week she completed Color Guard Academy and this week she is attending the local band camp. It looks like for the next few months the football field will be her Friday night home away from home. Can you believe we are only a month away from football season? Since my grandchild will be there, I guess I’ll need to record Blue Bloods on Friday nights and get comfortable on the bleachers. Mercy me, I hope we get an early fall with some pleasant evenings under those Friday night lights and for swing sitting and whatever else comes along. With our grands, Dale and I never know when nor where our presence may be requested, but we are thankful for every opportunity we have to make memories with the girls.
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Little Rock Central standout and Arkansas 5-star basketball target Annor Boateng’s official visit to Fayetteville that ended Friday afternoon gave him a much more in-depth look at the program.
Boateng, 6-5, 205 pounds, recently narrowed his list of schools to Arkansas, LSU, Georgia Tech, Missouri, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Auburn and Indiana.
He left Fayetteville more informed about Arkansas coach Eric Musselman’s program after previously making several unofficial visits.
“The visit to Arkansas was actually pretty nice,” said Boateng, who was able to watch the team’s practice Friday morning. “Actually being there for an official visit made a huge difference because...when I went on the couple of unofficials I was able to like barely get the full experience of the whole staff and everybody.
“It wasn’t necessarily a rush, but there wasn’t enough time for us to get into depth with everything. Going on this official visit, it was actually pretty good.”
The 2022-23 Gatorade Arkansas Boys Basketball Player of the Year, Boateng averaged 15.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.9 steals and 1.4 blocks per game as a junior.
Boateng, who arrived in Fayetteville around 9 p.m. Thursday, was able to talk to Musselman and gain valuable information about what it would take to reach his goal of playing in the NBA.
“I got to talk with Muss about my potential as well and he gave me feedback on what I could do better, and he knows my goal is the league, so he gave me good tips and people around my size, like for example I would say like Nick Smith or Jordan Walsh or Anthony Black,” Boateng said. “Those type players are in the 6-5 to 6-8 range and have been able to flourish in his program and make it to the NBA.
“And he gave me some steps and walkthrough things I could improve on and what I should be aware on in even getting to the league and those really stood out to me.”
He averaged 23.2 points and 8.2 rebounds while shooting 55% from the field and 39% beyond the three-point line this spring and summer for the 17-under Arkansas Hawks.
On3.com rates Boateng a 5-star recruit, the No. 3 small forward and No. 9 overall prospect in the nation in the 2024 class.
Boateng excelled at the Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso, Italy, in June and was named a first-team Adidas Eurocamp selection after averaging 11.3 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 2 steals per game. He shot 46.2% behind the three-point line.
He is expected to attend the prestigious 3SSB Circuit All-American Camp in Southern California this week.
Musselman and Arkansas' staff went over an assortment of topics the program focuses on from summer to summer, including nutrition, a step-by-step breakdown on how the Razorbacks prepare for games, NCAA Tournament and other things.
“Overall, the visit was actually great overall and I really have high respect for them after this,” said Boateng, who has a 3.67 grade point average. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/arkansas-official-visit-makes-huge-difference-for-5-star-boateng/ | 2023-07-30T19:24:40 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/arkansas-official-visit-makes-huge-difference-for-5-star-boateng/ |
The three school-aged children of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and First Gentleman Bryan Sanders are not eligible for the state’s Educational Freedom Accounts despite living in a neighborhood that is served by two F-graded schools.
The Governor’s Mansion that became home to the Sanders family earlier this year is in the attendance zone for the Little Rock School District’s Washington Elementary and Dunbar Magnet Middle schools, both of which received “F” grades from the state in 2022-23.
Alexa Henning, a spokesperson for the governor, said Friday that the Sanders children do not qualify for the accounts and are not participating.
To be eligible for state-funded tuition aid of as much as $6,672 in the new school year, students had to previously attend an F-graded public school, have special education needs, received an earlier Succeed Scholarship or be entering kindergarten.
Those categories don’t apply to the Sanders family, Henning said.
The Educational Freedom Accounts are a component of the Arkansas LEARNS Act of 2023 that was initiated and championed by the governor.
“The Governor is excited that starting this school year, eligible kids in Arkansas will be able to apply for Education Freedom Accounts that will help students have access to the quality education that fits their needs,” Henning said. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/the-governors-children-are-not-eligible-and-are-not-participating-in-the-states-expanded-voucher-program/ | 2023-07-30T19:24:46 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/the-governors-children-are-not-eligible-and-are-not-participating-in-the-states-expanded-voucher-program/ |
The debate over equal pay in pro sports has continued for decades.
"Everyone thinks women should be thrilled when we get crumbs. I want women to be able to have the cake, the icing, and the cherry on top too," said Billie Jean King at the 2016 Miami Open.
In late 2022, Congress passed the Equal Pay for Team USA law, ensuring that women playing for international teams must make the same as men.
For national teams and athletes, tennis leagues have made significant moves toward equal pay here in the U.S.
Earlier this year, the Women's Tennis Association announced there would be equal prize money offered to both male and female athletes at more competitions, including the grand slam tournaments.
But a fair solution for the pay gap across the rest of the sports world seems elusive.
A recent CNN analysis found that internationally, women playing in the 2023 World Cup earn 25 cents to the dollar of men, a quadruple jump from the last cup but still far below their peers.
Other pro sports have seen low wages for women.
In hockey, about half of Team USA holds second and third jobs to pay the bills despite training and playing year-round.
The average salary for WNBA athletes was just over $102,000 in 2022, and many athletes sought work overseas for higher pay. Countries like China and Russia can offer contracts for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The average NBA salary is $8.2 million per year.
Of the top 50 highest-paid athletes, according to Forbes, there is just one woman: Serena Williams, at number 49.
But some prominent athletes and sports officials have voiced skepticism over a blanket equal pay policy in a number of sports. Critics saythe pay gap is an unfortunate but fair distribution based on revenue generated and viewership. Major men's sports in the U.S. still bring in bigger revenues and audiences than women's sports.
But it's difficult to make a direct comparison between revenues and viewership without examining sports media coverage itself and the lucrative broadcast rights.
SEE MORE: Fewer Coaching Jobs In Women's Sports Are Going To Women
"It takes time now for women to catch up after 50 years of lack of investment. It takes time for them to catch up, and now develop the audience in the same way. And how do you develop an audience? You get on television," said Donna Lopiano.
Broadcast rights make up the biggest share of revenue for major sports teams in the U.S.
Skeptics for equal pay argue women’s sports have less interest and thus aren't worth the bigger deals.
But is it a matter of less interest or less exposure? Would more people be interested in seeing women play if the hype levels and ability to tune in were the same?
A University of Southern California and Purdue University study found 95% of total television sports coverage in 2019 focused on men’s sports.
The imbalance was similar in social media posts and sports newsletters.
"This has nothing to do with whether or not there are great, you know, women athletes. This has everything to do with who is controlling mass communications," said Lopiano.
There are signs that the existing TV deals for women aren't as rich as they could be.
A 2021 NCAA analysis of March Madness tournaments found the broadcast rights for the women’s teams were undervalued by millions.
Even though fewer people watched the final for women's college basketball between 2015 and 2021, total viewers for the women’s final increased by 32%. While for men it has declined by 40%.
The women’s game was only available on cable, while the men's had a wider reach with free network TV.
A 2021 white paper for YouGov surveyed reasons why viewers around the world don't engage with women’s sports as much.
The top reasons given were: "less media coverage," "lack of knowledge of teams and athletes," and "limited marketing."
When women athletes share a broadcast and marketing promotion with men, we see the gap in interest disappear.
For example, U.S. audiences tend to be equally interested in male and female athletes when it comes to the Olympics, compared to pro sports and college sports.
Pro tennis players also receive equal media coverage and are broadcast together.
Female tennis matches and players draw similar viewership numbers as the men's.
As American interest in women’s sports grows and major sports leagues prepare for new TV rights deals, we may see slow progress toward more equal media coverage.
And as the playing field slowly evens out, the rise of media coverage may bring higher revenues, viewership, interest, and pay for women athletes.
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The search continues for four missing crew members after an Australian Army helicopter went down during joint military exercises with the United States.
The helicopter went down around 11 p.m. Friday off of Queensland near Lindeman Island, which is a Great Barrier Reef tourist spot. Some debris believed to be from the aircraft has been recovered.
In a meeting with their Australian counterparts, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute to the missing crew members, who are all men, the Associated Press said.
"It’s always tough when you have accidents in training, but... the reason that we train to such high standards is so that we can be successful and we can protect lives when we are called to answer any kind of crisis," Austin said.
Blinken said, "We’re so grateful to them for their dedication, for their service, for everything they’ve been doing to stand up for the freedom that we share, and that is what unites us more than anything else."
In January, Australia announced it would discontinue the use of those MRH-90 Taipan helicopters by December 2024 because they have been plagued with issues and proven unreliable.
SEE MORE: US Army grounds aviators after 12 soldiers die in recent crashes
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | https://www.kgun9.com/search-continues-for-4-missing-in-australian-army-helicopter-crash | 2023-07-30T19:26:09 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/search-continues-for-4-missing-in-australian-army-helicopter-crash |
1. Building/Zoning Department
Reminder: the public sidewalk in front of your home or business is your responsibility to maintain and to keep clear of all debris, including ice and snow.
Deteriorating or “sinking” sidewalks causing an elevation change of one-half inch need to be repaired to eliminate any trip hazard. You may grind the offending “lip” or replace the section(s) in violation with new sections. Questions? Call the Building Dept. at 208-398-2095.
2. Fire Department
The internet is full of ideas. One that we recently found was refilling disposable 1# propane tanks from a larger non-disposable tank. These disposable 1# tanks are NOT meant to be refilled. The valves inside are inadequate for refilling and have a high degree failing when filled a second time.
This operation possesses a significant fire and explosion hazard. Being on the internet does not mean its correct or safe.
3. Library
From our State Librarian Stephanie Bailey-White, to Alyce Kelley: “I received this lovely note from a good friend of mine and wanted to share it with you …
“We visited my parents yesterday. My dad has been losing his vision the past couple years… it’s become really difficult for him to read lately (and he loves to read). The folks at the Emmett Public Library hooked him up with the Idaho Talking Book Service. What a game changer. He was so excited to show me the player and how the program works with the sending/receiving of cartridges— like a kid with a new toy. -Thanks to you and your team for all you do to provide services like this - definitely a quality-of-life impact.”
Service is how we became Idaho’s Public Library of the Year. We are here to serve you.
4. Police Department
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The Emmett Police Department provides a Ride-Along Program for those who are interested in finding out first-hand what it is like to be an Emmett Police Officer. If you’re interested, please pick up a ride waiver at the Emmett Police Department Monday – Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
5. Public Works Department
Public works is excavating for a new pavilion in the city park. This is being paid for through the Lion’s Club and built by an Eagle Scout.
The Splash Pad is underway and should be ready for concrete on Aug 8th.
6. Systems Administration (IT)
Preconstruction plans for joint trench are under way for the Dagger Falls subdivision.
Working with other utilities to install our fiber optics in a coordinated effort ensures that our Dig Once policy is being utilized for efficiency and cost savings.
7. City Clerk
The new on-line payment system is off to a great start.
But here’s a reminder: there is another no-cost option for you. We will set your account for a DIRECT PAYMENT right here in our office for FREE! Contact us for details. | https://www.idahopress.com/emmett/community/city-news-to-use/article_4feffd1c-2d93-11ee-a006-ff40cbf78665.html | 2023-07-30T19:26:11 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/emmett/community/city-news-to-use/article_4feffd1c-2d93-11ee-a006-ff40cbf78665.html |
Jason Aldean hasn’t backed off from defending his new hit song “Try That in a Small Town,” which has faced tremendous backlash for its charged lyrics and controversial music video.
He said the “Boston Strong” mentality — a phrase used to describe the unity around the Massachusetts capital city after the bombings — aligns with the message of “Try That in a Small Town.”
“You guys get this better than anybody, right?” he asked the crowd, in video footage shared on Twitter. “What happened was a whole — not a small town — a big a-- town coming together, no matter your color, no matter nothing.”
“This is not about race,” he added. “It’s about people getting their s--- together and acting right.”
One night earlier at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pa., Aldean defended “Try That in a Small Town” by saying that critics wanted to turn the song into “something that it wasn’t,” according to PennLive. He said the edited version of the music video — which cut out six seconds of footage, including scenes from a Black Lives Matter protests — were removed for legal reasons. Indeed, Aldean’s record label, BBR Music Group, said in a statement to The Post that “the video footage was edited due to third party copyright clearance issues,” but did not elaborate.
“Everybody can look at it from a different angle,” Aldean told the Pennsylvania crowd on Friday. “But just because six seconds were taken out, doesn’t change what I was trying to say in the video.”
“I don’t give a damn what color you are, or who you are,” he added.
“Try That in a Small Town” has attracted widespread criticism for overlaying images and video footage of violent protests and riots with charged lyrics, such as “Try that in a small town/See how far ya make it down the road/Around here, we take care of our own.”
But the song has continued to be popular, earning the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 last week. The video, which has been removed from rotation on CMT, has recorded more than 22 million views on YouTube as of Sunday.
Amid the success, Aldean has defended the song as a celebration of small towns and communities.
“I feel like everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think, you can think something all you want to, it doesn’t mean it’s true, right?,” Aldean told fans during a concert on July 21 in Cincinnati.
“Somebody asked me, ‘Hey man, do you think you’re going to play this song tonight?’” he said to the crowd. “The answer was simple. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/07/30/jason-aldean-song-video-tour/ | 2023-07-30T19:26:14 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/07/30/jason-aldean-song-video-tour/ |
22-year-old dies after drowning off the coast in Conneaut, Coast Guard says
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 3:07 PM EDT|Updated: 18 minutes ago
CONNEAUT, Ohio (WOIO) - A 22-year-old man died Saturday afternoon after drowning in Conneaut, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
USCG Petty Officer Christopher Yaw said the Coast Guard was called to the Conneaut Township Park at approximately 5 p.m.
Yaw said the 22-year-old was struggling in the water and a friend jumped in to try to save him.
USGC confirmed the Conneaut Fire Department and local samaritans rescued the duo from the water.
The 22-year-old was unresponsive and transported to a local hospital, Petty Officer Yaw said.
The man, who has not been identified, died at the hospital.
This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for updates.
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Originally published July 27 onKTVB.COM.Two years have passed since 5-year-old Michael Vaughan went missing from his neighborhood in Fruitland.
His mother, Brandi Neal, has to work on the mark of his disappearance. But that doesn’t mean she has lost focus of her blonde-haired, blue-eyed son, who is nicknamed “Monkey.” Vaughan was last seen near Southwest Ninth Street on July 27, 2021, wearing a blue Minecraft t-shirt, dark blue briefs and blue flip-flops. Neal has worn her feet to the bone scouring every inch of the rural town looking for her son, she said.
Even though it’s been two years, Neal still has faith this case will come to fruition.
“It will all come to light,” she told KTVB reporter Alexandra Duggan in a phone call. “It’s coming.”
The Fruitland Police Department said on Thursday via Facebook its has submitted a case to the Payette County Prosecutor, along with a probable cause affidavit. In this case, a prosecutor would review the probable cause affidavit and decide whether or not to take the case before a judge. If there is enough evidence, a judge can issue an arrest warrant.
“On the second anniversary of Michael’s abduction the case remains very active. Our work has not stopped. Our ground searches have continued as recent as this month and we continue the arduous task of filtering through new tips and leads,” Fruitland police said. “The community support has been remarkable along with the unwavering patience with our team. We are committed and our tenacity steadfast.”
Sarah Wondra, 35, was arrested on Nov. 11 of last year and charged with the failure to report a death in connection to Vaughan’s disappearance. Those charges were later dropped. Following the arrest, police searched the 1102 Redwing St. home she and her husband Stacey Wondra were renting, which is in a neighborhood near where Vaughan was last seen.
Human remains dogs were brought onto the property, large equipment excavated the backyard, but Vaughan wasn’t there. Fruitland police said they had reason to believe Vaughan’s body was buried in the yard at some point, but was later moved elsewhere. However, police did say they recovered several pieces of evidence at the Wondras’ home and those were sent to a private lab for further analysis.
On Dec. 1, 2022, police unexpectedly announced the identities of two more people thought to have firsthand knowledge of Vaughan’s abduction — Brandon Shurtliff, 30, believed to be somewhere in North Dakota; and Adrien Lucienne, 32, believed to be somewhere in Toledo, Ohio; or California. Police have made contact with them, they said in a press conference.
Shurtliff’s mother, Tina Morreale, told KTVB in a message that police came knocking at her door and their cadaver dog alluded to something on her property. She said the dog “smelled poop outside” near her crawlspace from her leaking toilet. According to Idaho Mountain Search and Rescue, cadaver dogs do not alert on human feces, and are not trained to find it.
Morreale said Shurtliff is residing in North Dakota. She claims he has been cooperative and “has nothing to hide.” KTVB also reached out to Lucienne, but never received a response.
Fruitland Police Chief J.D Huff told KTVB in a message that he still wants to keep the community updated and informed, but he also must maintain the integrity of the investigation, as it is still ongoing.
“Justice for Michael and his family is my top priority,” Huff said.
Even as the investigation continues and Neal believes there will be accountability in the future, things have been especially tough for the Vaughan family in the last month, she said.
“Everything feels like the day Monkey went missing all over again. It’s so hard every day, but for days like these — birthdays, Halloween, Christmas, everything without Michael here is heartache,” Neal said. “We stand strong with law enforcement, the community and family.”
Vaughan is now 7 years old. His birthday was June 24. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/2-years-after-michael-vaughans-disappearance-fruitland-police-submit-case-to-prosecutor/article_e5f76e38-2d90-11ee-97e5-e39423882ca5.html | 2023-07-30T19:26:17 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/2-years-after-michael-vaughans-disappearance-fruitland-police-submit-case-to-prosecutor/article_e5f76e38-2d90-11ee-97e5-e39423882ca5.html |
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday, killing two people in the city that is home to Florida’s flagship university, authorities said.
The post didn’t disclose how many people were shot but said two of the shooting victims later died from their injuries. Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/30/gunshots-two-dead-university-florida/708f3154-2f01-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html | 2023-07-30T19:26:22 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/30/gunshots-two-dead-university-florida/708f3154-2f01-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html |
Originally published July 24 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.Let’s make one thing clear: Idaho is the undisputed OG spud state.
And public officials say Idaho’s reputation as the potato state won’t fade — even if in June, the Oregon Legislature adopted a resolution to make the potato its state vegetable.
After the resolution passed, some Idahoans took to social media to share their response, including Idaho Gov. Brad Little, who said on Twitter that he would deploy the Big Idaho Potato Truck to “defend the honor” of Idaho potatoes.
Over the weekend, I recruited some buddies to help me defend Idaho’s title as the NUMBER ONE spud state against Oregon. pic.twitter.com/M5AbmbtZP6
— Brad Little (@GovernorLittle) July 3, 2023
Sam Eaton, the vice president of legal affairs at the Idaho Potato Commission, told the Idaho Capital Sun that the commission is determined to maintain Idaho’s world famous reputation for its quality potatoes.
“We’ve been tasked by Governor Little to defend our Famous Idaho Potatoes, and we take our responsibility seriously,” he said in an email. “In response to Oregon’s actions, we recently deployed our Big Idaho Potato Truck internationally into Canada to ensure Idaho remains world famous for its potatoes.”
Eaton said that “in all seriousness,” the Idaho Potato Commission partners with fellow potato-producing states, including Oregon, to advocate for the U.S. potato industry.
“We work very closely with our neighbors in Oregon and Washington to develop new, improved varieties of potatoes, including potatoes that are more resistant to drought, heat and disease,” he said.
While Idaho is no longer the only state with the potato emblem, Idaho potatoes played an important role in the state’s early economic development, and the state vegetable — designated as such in Idaho in 2002 — continues to play an important role in the world economy.
Even if Oregon is the fourth top grower of potatoes in the U.S., its potato sector does not match with Idaho’s potato power.
THE POTATO PAST: A LOOK INTO WHAT BECAME IDAHO’S PRIDE, IDENTITY
While today they are the No. 1 most consumed vegetable by U.S. consumers, potatoes did not originate from North America.
Potatoes are native to the South American Andes. Researchers believe they were transported to Europe in the 1500s, eventually making their way to the colonies in the 1600s.
Now a staple in the American diet, early U.S. potatoes weren’t immediately accepted into society until receiving an aristocratic seal of approval from former President Thomas Jefferson, who served them to guests at the White House. Only then did potatoes gain popularity.
Idaho’s reputation with potatoes began in the early 1900s, when russet potatoes began appearing throughout the state, according to the Idaho Potato Commission website. In 1937, the potato commission was founded as a state agency responsible for promoting and protecting the “Grown in Idaho” brand.
By the early years of World War II, Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company became an important force in shipping millions of pounds of fresh potatoes across the country while also selling dehydrated onions and potatoes to the military.
Because wartime shortages made it difficult to access fertilizer, the company built a manufacturing plant in Pocatello to produce its own. And in the late 1940s, the Simplot Company was the first in the world to produce the first commercially viable frozen french fry.
Today, most of the state’s potatoes are grown in the Snake River Plain, or what NASA refers to as the “potato belt.” This region is a belt of low-lying land that extends across southern Idaho.
Since its early presence, state legislators have adopted measures for Idaho residents to promote their potato pride through “Famous Potatoes” license plates.
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IDAHO POTATOES
Idaho potatoes play an important role in the national and global economy.
Today, the U.S. is the fifth largest global producer of potatoes, and Idaho is the top potato producing state, producing nearly a third of U.S. potatoes, according to the Idaho Department of Agriculture.
According to the Idaho Potato Commission, about one in five potatoes grown in Idaho is exported, and top destinations for fresh Idaho potatoes include Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and Singapore.
Officials with the commission are also taking steps to add Japan to the list of top destinations for Idaho potatoes. A ban currently prevents farmers from exporting fresh potatoes to Japan. But after a trade mission to the country in June, state officials are optimistic that Idaho potatoes will make their way to the island country.
The U.S. potato sector is responsible for creating an estimated 714,000 jobs, contributing more than $100.9 billion to the country’s economy in 2021, according to the National Potato Council.
Top 10 potato producing states (Source: Crop Production 2022 Summary, USDA)
1. Idaho: 12 billion pounds
2. Washington: 9 billion pounds
3. Wisconsin: 2.8 billion pounds
4. Oregon: 2.5 billion pounds
5. North Dakota: 2.3 billion pounds
6. Colorado: 2.1 billion pounds
7. Minnesota: 2 billion pounds
8. Maine: 1.8 billion pounds
9. Michigan: 1.6 billion pounds
10. California: 772 million pounds
According to the Idaho Potato Commission, Idaho is an ideal spot to grow potatoes because of the state’s volcanic soil, irrigation system and warm days and cool nights. Unlike some states, Idaho potatoes are usually available year-round.
While the Russet potato is Idaho’s most well-known product, it also grows more than 30 varieties of the crop such as Yukon golds, reds and fingerlings.
WHERE DOES OREGON STAND IN COMPARISON TO IDAHO?
Ranked the fourth top producer of potatoes in the country, Oregon has its fair share of the vegetable. Just not as much as Idaho.
In 2021, Idaho potato crops totaled $1 billion in sales while Oregon’s potato crop was valued at $218 million, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Data from the Department of Agriculture also shows that Idaho potatoes planted in 2022 totaled 295,000 acres, while 43,000 acres of potatoes were planted in Oregon.
There are about 500 farms in Idaho, and Bingham County alone planted over 61,000 acres of potatoes this year, Eaton told the Sun.
On the other hand, there are about 370 potato farms in Oregon, making potatoes the state’s eighth-most valuable crop, according to Agriculture in the Classroom, an Oregon-based educational nonprofit.
Most of Oregon’s potatoes are also sold for processing purposes. Nearly 80% of Oregon potatoes are used to process frozen or dehydrated products, while only 60% of the potatoes from Idaho are processed with the remaining sold as fresh potatoes.
While Oregon does not produce as many potatoes as Idaho, the Beaver State does have one claim to fame.
Tater tots, the deep-fried, cylinder-shaped snack, were invented in Oregon by F. Nephi Grigg — an Idaho native. In 1951, the entrepreneur acquired a bankrupt company in Ontario that is now known as Ore-Ida and began selling frozen potatoes, Deseret News reported.
Oregon Republican Sen. Bill Hansell, a sponsor of the resolution, said that no other state can claim the tater tot as their own, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
In a letter to the Legislature in support of making the potato Oregon’s state vegetable, Hansell said designating it as a state emblem recognizes the contributions of farmers.
“Oregon potato farmers are also valuable and committed members of their communities, and farmers annually donate one million pounds of potatoes to the Oregon Food Bank,” he said in the letter. “It goes without saying that potatoes are important to Oregon’s economy, our communities, and our food production.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/famous-oregon-potatoes-nah-idaho-stats-show-which-state-reigns-spud-supreme/article_f30e211c-2d8a-11ee-a76c-4b391ee46340.html | 2023-07-30T19:26:23 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/famous-oregon-potatoes-nah-idaho-stats-show-which-state-reigns-spud-supreme/article_f30e211c-2d8a-11ee-a76c-4b391ee46340.html |
The July 22 editorial welcoming new acting D.C. police chief Pamela A. Smith, “The new D.C. police chief has her work cut out for her,” quoted her as saying something that is rarely if ever voiced publicly and that has a potentially significant impact on juvenile violent crime in D.C. and the region.
Addressing the issue of young offenders, Ms. Smith said, “There has to be some accountability for the parents. … That’s the part that we’re missing.” Bravo! It sure is.
Expanding on that, we need to know much more about how the kids who commit crimes are being raised and to hold their parents accountable, at least in part, for their children’s behavior. Ms. Smith, as a Black woman living in Southeast D.C., has the knowledge, street cred and courage to raise this idea. I hope she follows up on it.
We need to know what is different, if anything, about the kids raised in the same physical and economic environment as others but who are not shooting at their peers. Should neighborhood outrage be directed at the families, and not just police, mental health, gun control and intervention programs that have had little impact to date on juvenile violent crime? What might be done to help parents raise law-abiding children? Can early-education programs assist in moral development?
I hope Ms. Smith will be the catalyst to get some answers that address the root of the problem.
Philip Schaenman, Potomac
The writer is a public safety researcher and consultant. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/good-start-dc-new-police-chief/ | 2023-07-30T19:26:23 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/good-start-dc-new-police-chief/ |
Bucks County celebrates 50th annual Puerto Rican Day Festival with food, music, dancing
Festival goers lined up for empanadas, chicharrón, and bacalaitos. They were also treated to live bomba and salsa music and traditional dance performances.
Listen 1:12Bomba and salsa resonated through Mill Street on Saturday for Bucks County’s 50th annual Puerto Rican Day Festival.
Revelers from the Philadelphia region and New Jersey converged to celebrate Boricua pride through food, music, and dancing.
“The significance is to educate the people and preserve the values and all the gifts that we receive from our ancestors, like faith, hospitality, sharing,” said Maria Berrocal, Vice President of the Puerto Rican Cultural Association of Bucks County, the group that organizes the event every year.
Nereida McCulley-Breustedt, president of the Puerto Rican Cultural Association of Bucks County, said the festival is about instilling pride in the younger generations.
“What brings us here is unity, peace, being with each other, being with each other…dancing,” McCulley-Breustedt said. “Being Puerto Rican you have to know how to dance.”
Crowds lined up for empanadas, chicharrón, bacalaitos, fried plantains, grilled chicken skewers, and more. People were sporting t-shirts, dresses and hats adorned with the island’s flag and signature colors of red, blue and white.
Bristol Township resident Paul Rivera waved a large Puerto Rican flag above his head.
“Cause I’m Puerto Rican!” he shouted.
Philadelphia-resident Madeline Burgos, who grew up in Bristol, said she and her husband, Giovanni, attend the festival every year
“I just love that it’s a peaceful, friendly event, you see everybody from our heritage here,” she said. “You see other people, too, that appreciate our culture and want to learn about where we came from.”
Manuel Rosario from Allentown, Pennsylvania, was selling from his family’s food stall. Chefs Javier Fuentes and Hector Monclova were behind him roasting a pig and working the busy fryers.
“We try to push our culture for the young ones, show them how we used to do it back in the days… cooking outside,” Rosario said.
Trio Renacer, the Cintron Salsa Band, and Swing de Guille played traditional Latin music. Dancers entertained the crowd in the wharf’s center, while onlookers moved their hips in sync.
The Bucks County Genealogical Society had a booth for people wanting to trace their indigenous Boricuan roots.
Festival organizers awarded two scholarships to Bucks County high school seniors.
“We hope that they will continue teaching others about [our] legacy,” McCulley-Breustedt said.
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I wasn’t all that troubled about the five-hour delay in the train I took to Philadelphia this month. It meant missing seeing my great-nephew in a play, but I took it in stride. These things happen, after all. Then I read the July 26 Food article about the gourmet meals and high-end wines that first-class Acela riders can indulge in to make their trips more palatable [“Amtrak’s first-class riders get a first-class menu”]. Maybe Amtrak should get its priorities straight.
How were the meals on the train I took? Glad you asked. The cafe car was closed for the duration of the trip.
Siobhan Dugan, Washington | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/not-all-amtrak-meals-are-built-same/ | 2023-07-30T19:26:24 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/not-all-amtrak-meals-are-built-same/ |
One very important issue of Supreme Court diversity was not included in the July 25 front-page article “A defense of diversity fell to an office that lacks it.”
That is the issue of diversity among the justices themselves.
All but one current justice went to law school at Harvard or Yale, and many previous justices also went to those two schools. There is no reason for this. There are many excellent law schools around the United States, and there is no reason the justices should overwhelmingly come from just those two law schools.
Such lack of diversity might also reflect the opinions of the justices. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/one-area-where-supreme-court-lacks-diversity/ | 2023-07-30T19:26:25 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/30/one-area-where-supreme-court-lacks-diversity/ |
2 firefighters injured battling fire in West Philadelphia
Heavy smoke was showing from the middle of a row of storefront buildings, firefighters say.
This story originally appeared on 6abc.
Two firefighters were injured while battling a fire in Philadelphia on Saturday night.
The fire led to the partial collapse of a building on the 6000 block of Lansdowne Avenue in West Philadelphia.
Firefighters say they got there two minutes after the 10:15 p.m. dispatch, and encountered heavy smoke coming from the middle of a row of storefront buildings.
All three floors of one of the buildings were on fire.
When crews went in to attack the flames, part of the building collapsed.
We’re told two firefighters had to be hospitalized for smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion.
They are stable and expected to be okay.
Fire crews also took another person to the hospital, but say that person’s injuries are not related to this fire.
The search goes on for clues to what sparked the fire.
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The July 24 front-page article “Green energy hopes hit a red wall” focused on the difficulty to generate support in conservative, rural Ohio to implement President Biden’s clean-energy efforts as well as to overcome ideological opposition for solar development.
The Energy Department estimates the United States will need more than 10 million acres to scale up solar energy by 2050, and American Farmland Trust projects more than 80 percent could be sited on agricultural lands.
We need both renewable energy and productive farms and ranches. Smart solar can be the solution. It guides solar development to where it has the least negative impact on land well-suited for farming, ensures that land where projects are sited can be farmed in the future and promotes “agrivoltaic” solar projects to create opportunities for farming and solar energy on the same land.
Although ideological and other objections exist, the benefits of smart solar outweigh the risks. A smart solar approach can help find common ground to continue solar development while protecting our best farmland and support our rural communities long-term.
John Piotti, Washington
The writer is president and chief executive of American Farmland Trust.
It is understandable that folks would take a NIMBY attitude toward large-scale renewable energy projects. Concentrated wind and solar energy projects are driven by an economy of scale and a centralized energy distribution point. They also profit large development companies, which can influence policy decisions.
Wind turbines make sense on open lands where the resource is greatest and where they generally don’t disturb the existing ecosystem. On the other hand, solar-panel placement should be prioritized on every rooftop or paved parking lot where we already have taken over the land.
I do take issue with folks in our beautiful farm country calling for cities to generate their own power. They are more than happy to accept farm subsidies, Medicare and Social Security checks, mostly funded by our city/rural economic mismatch.
Our political and social structure is premised on growth rather than sustainability. Dealing with our climate crisis and many other social ills is like the doctor who prescribes pills to treat symptoms, rather than determining the cause of your illness.
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Reading Gary Abernathy’s July 27 op-ed, “Why are Republicans so afraid of U.S. history?,” one might be forgiven for seeing in it evidence of the very problem he wishes to address. That is, the United States’ past is racist, not merely racial, and it is anything but past (as evidenced by Florida’s efforts to rethink evil as good). And to speak of years of abuse and discrimination at the hands of the White majority as “the tribulations suffered by Black Americans” is to avoid naming that suffering and those responsible for it.
The fact is that some people who saw profit in slavery ripped children from their mothers’ arms, permanently separated husbands from their wives and robbed people of home, family, culture and tradition. In other words, enslavers stole from them everything that gave them meaning as human beings. The blind pursuit of profit provided the motivation — and the fiction of racial categories provided the rationale — for treating fellow humans worse than animals.
Until we’re completely honest about these all-too-human and all-too-current behaviors, not much is likely to change in the way we relate to one another.
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Last week, Denver Broncos Coach Sean Payton took dead aim at his predecessor’s brief but dismal run, with pointed comments about Nathaniel Hackett that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers just couldn’t let pass.
“I think he needs to keep my coaches’ names out of his mouth,” Rodgers added of Payton.
Payton, the former New Orleans Saints coach who returned to the profession after working for Fox Sports last season, later said he regretted saying Hackett’s performance “might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That’s how bad it was.”
By Friday, Payton was in cleanup mode. “Listen, I had one of those moments where I still had my Fox hat on and not my coaching hat on,” he said by way of apology.
It hardly needed to be said by Payton that Hackett’s head-coaching run was a mess. Quarterback Russell Wilson, signed to a massive contract, struggled and the offense sputtered last season, and Payton took a potshot at the Jets for hiring Hackett while criticizing Broncos General Manager George Paton and team president Damani Leech for letting Hackett and his staff give Wilson free rein. That freedom included permitting the presence of Wilson’s personal coach at team headquarters.
The day after a 51-14 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Christmas, Hackett was fired. He landed with the Jets on Jan. 28 and by spring, the offensive coordinator with whom Rodgers had forged a personal and professional relationship in Green Bay from 2019 to 2021 was also on board.
“My love for Hack goes deep, you know, we had some great years together in Green Bay,” Rodgers said. “[We] kept in touch, love him and his family, he’s an incredible family man and an incredible dad. And on the field, he’s arguably my favorite coach I’ve ever had in the NFL. Just his approach to it — he makes it fun, how he cares about the guys, just how he goes about his business with respect, with leadership, with honesty, with integrity.”
The Jets and Broncos face off in Denver in Week 5 and Rodgers fired a dart of his own at Payton, who won a Super Bowl with New Orleans.
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PAU, France — Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the women’s Tour de France for the first time on Sunday while her teammate Marlen Reusser of Switzerland clinched the final-stage time trial.
Team SD Worx completed a stage treble with Lotte Kopecky of Belgium finishing in third place. Kopecky was 38 seconds behind Reusser, who covered the 22.6 kilometers (14 miles) in 29 minutes, 15 seconds.
Kopecky’s performance also moved her up two spots to second place overall in the general classification, a total of 3 minutes, 3 seconds behind Vollering, with Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland dropping to third overall.
Niewiadoma was also 3:03 behind Vollering but Kopecky edged her out in the standings because of time splits recorded in the time trial, organizers said.
The 40-year-old Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten, last year's Tour winner, was fourth this year, finishing 3:59 behind Vollering.
Niewiadoma won the best climber’s polka-dot jersey while Kopecky collected the green jersey for best sprinter.
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HOUSTON — Tommy McClelland was named the athletic director at Rice on Sunday.
“We’re thrilled to be able to attract someone with Tommy’s breadth of experience and success,” Rice President Reginald DesRoches said. “He brings the values of academic excellence and deep integrity that define Rice, coupled with a passionate desire to compete successfully at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics. These attributes will be critical for Rice’s first season in the American Athletic Conference and the years to follow.”
McClelland replaces Joe Karlgaard, who left Rice this month for a position in the private sector.
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BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles sent right-hander Tyler Wells to Double-A Bowie on Sunday after three straight shaky starts following the All-Star break.
Wells is among the major league leaders with a 1.02 WHIP, and he’s posted a 7-6 record with a 3.80 ERA, but he’s lasted only nine innings total in three starts since the break. He did not make it out of the third in Saturday night's loss to the New York Yankees.
The Orioles designated right-hander Eduard Bazardo for assignment.
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ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals infielder Nolan Gorman was scratched from Sunday’s game with lower back tightness.
Gorman is hitting .241. He is tied for the team lead with 22 homers entering Sunday.
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Gorman is hitting .241. He is tied for the team lead with 22 homers entering Sunday.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Firefighters in San Juan Capistrano, California rescued a horse on Friday after it slipped on a trail.
According to the Orange County Fire Authority, the crew received a large animal rescue call around 10:31 a.m. when a 25-year-old horse named Sobe was found on the ground.
Crews worked with local veterinarians to get the horse up themselves but then decided to call in a helicopter for additional help.
Footage released by fire authorities shows them preparing the horse to be airlifted and strapping the horse in the harness.
Sobe was airlifted to a non-profit riding center to be further evaluated for his injuries and is now back on his feet. | https://www.wfla.com/news/animals/horse-airlifted-to-safety-after-slipping-on-california-trail/ | 2023-07-30T19:27:29 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/animals/horse-airlifted-to-safety-after-slipping-on-california-trail/ |
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Frank Clark has reunited with Russell Wilson in Denver and now the outside linebacker has former teammate Patrick Mahomes in his sights instead.
Still in the AFC West, Clark gets two opportunities at beating his former team this season, something the Broncos haven’t done since 2015. Their 15-game skid against the Chiefs is the fourth longest by one team to a single opponent in NFL history.
Unlike his reunion with Wilson, revenge and rivalry aren’t top of mind for Clark as he embraces his fresh start in the Rocky Mountains.
“I wouldn’t call it a rivalry. A rivalry is competitive,” Clark interjected in his first public comments since signing a one-year, $5.5 million deal with Denver last month. “I’m (with) the Broncos now. I’ve been on the other side. We didn’t call it a rivalry then.”
And before anyone around Denver can call it that the Broncos will have to beat Mahomes, something they have a better shot at doing with Clark on their side.
The Chiefs parted ways with Clark just a year after signing him to a two-year, $30 million extension. The Broncos haven’t had a fearsome pass rush since trading Von Miller two years ago. And with Baron Browning sidelined by a knee injury and Randy Gregory coming off an injury-filled debut season in Denver, first-year head coach Sean Payton eagerly welcomed the veteran with 58 1/2 sacks.
Clark had 23 1/2 sacks in four seasons in Kansas City and another 10 1/2 in the playoffs, helping the Chiefs go 10-2 in the postseason and make three trips to the Super Bowl.
“What we did in Kansas City was special,” Clark said. “Four-year run, two Super Bowl (rings), three AFC titles. It was fun, but at the end of the day all good things come to an end.”
Bad things, too, he hopes. Such as Denver’s 15-game skid to the Chiefs.
One thing Clark insists isn’t nearing the finish line in his proclivity for getting after the passer even though his five sacks in 2022 and two-game suspension for gun possession incidents a year earlier meant an end to his three-year run as a Pro Bowler.
“I wouldn’t say it was the end” in Kansas City last season, Clark said. “It’s never the end when you get the job finished.”
Now he aims to help the Broncos and Wilson bounce back in 2023.
“He’s still dangerous. Don’t get it twisted,” Clark said of Wilson, whom he played with in Seattle from 2015-18. “Russ is a veteran. He’s a guy that’s won on multiple levels. ... I was a part of Seahawks teams that were successful; I was a part of teams where we didn’t make the playoffs. But it was the same Russ.
“So don’t think a bad season’s going to shake a guy like Russ,” Clark added. “Naw, bro, we start fresh every year. Every summer’s a fresh start.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Facebook users still have a few weeks to claim their piece of a $725 million settlement Meta agreed to pay to resolve a lawsuit. Ex-Facebook users can get in on the action too, as long as they meet a few criteria.
The main requirement is that you had a Facebook account for any time between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. You also need to have been a United States resident during that period of time.
Even people who deleted their Facebook account qualify – they’re just likely to see a smaller payout. How big your check ends up being depends in part on how long your account was active.
People have until Aug. 25, 2023 to file a claim, either online or by mail.
After the deadline passes, a judge will need to give the settlement final approval. That hearing is set for Sept. 7.
If the settlement gets the final OK, it’s not yet clear when the payments will be sent out – but you might not need to wait for a check in the mail. When submitting your claim, you can fill out your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or direct deposit info to get your payment sent straight to your account.
It’s also not clear how much each eligible recipient will get. Legal fees and administrative costs need to be deducted first. The remaining amount will be divvied up among eligible Facebook users, but we don’t know how many people have submitted a claim.
We asked Scott Dodson, a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco and the director of the Center for Litigation and Courts, to help us estimate a figure. He broke down all the factors that go into calculating the size of a class action lawsuit payment, and said that based on similar cases he estimated the higher end of payments might be in the “triple digits.” Many more people will likely receive less than $100, he estimated.
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to settle the lawsuit claiming Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ | 2023-07-30T19:27:35 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ |
PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills co-owner Kim Pegula watched training camp practice from the front seat of the family’s SUV on Sunday in making an encouraging and surprising first public appearance in 14 months since experiencing a debilitating cardiac arrest.
Remaining in the SUV through the end of practice, she was kept company mostly by her son, Matthew, with her husband Terry Pegula regularly stopping by to chat.
Pegula was most recently described as still dealing with significant language and memory issues after going into cardiac arrest in June 2022 shortly after celebrating her 53rd birthday. She spent extensive time being treated in the hospital before being released to begin what is regarded as a lengthy rehab process.
Though coach Sean McDermott stopped by to great Kim Pegula, several players were unaware of her presence.
“I did not see her, but that’s awesome,” safety Jordan Poyer said.
It’s unclear how many fans were aware of her presence either, as the Bills were unable to make any public address announcements because of a power failure that affected the entire St. John Fisher University campus and much of the surrounding area of Pittsford, New York.
Arriving in Buffalo earlier this week, her appearance at the Bills training camp facility in suburban Rochester, New York, also represented a homecoming of sorts for Pegula, who grew up in nearby Fairport.
From South Korea, Pegula was left orphaned as a child before being adopted at age 5 by Ralph and Marilyn Kerr, who brought her to the U.S.
She is Pegula’s second wife, after the two met in a town south of Buffalo and were married in 1993. The Pegulas made their fortune in the natural gas industry and returned to western New York by purchasing the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres in 2011 followed by buying the Bills three years later following the death of franchise founder Ralph Wilson.
Before falling ill, Pegula was actively involved in player matters as well as serving on various NFL committees. She held the title of Bills president before her husband took over the role as part of an executive management shakeup two weeks ago.
Terry Pegula grew emotional last month in referencing his wife during a ground-breaking ceremony for the Bills new $1.54 billion stadium, which is being constructed across the street from the team’s current facility and scheduled to open in time for the 2026 season.
While she was not present, Terry said he cheers for her every day, and then cited the Bellamy Brothers’ song “You’re My Favorite Star,” by saying, “And Kim, you are my favorite star.”
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A police officer who was critically wounded while responding to a mass shooting at a Louisville bank has been discharged from a rehabilitation center.
Louisville Metro Police Officer Nickolas Wilt was shot in the head during the deadly April 10 shooting at Old National Bank.
He underwent multiple surgeries and intensive therapy in the months since.
Wilt will continue his therapy through outpatient care at the rehabilitation center. Louisville’s mayor and police chief joined Wilt’s family and health care workers who gathered Friday to celebrate Wilt’s discharge, coming more than 3 1/2 months since the shooting. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/police-officer-reaches-milestone-in-recovery-from-critical-wounds-in-louisville-bank-shooting/ | 2023-07-30T19:27:41 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/police-officer-reaches-milestone-in-recovery-from-critical-wounds-in-louisville-bank-shooting/ |
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Dalvin Cook got an up-close view of Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets while watching practice from the sideline Sunday.
The Jets are the first team Cook has officially visited as a free agent, with his hometown Miami Dolphins also among possible suitors. New York also must consider whether to make him an offer before he leaves the team’s practice facility.
Cook, who turns 28 on Aug. 10, was greeted by chants of “Dal-vin Cooook! Sign that contract!” from fans in the stands as he walked onto the field. He later responded to the post on X, formerly known as Twitter, with a green heart emoji.
Several Jets players, including Rodgers, greeted Cook and he spent a few moments chatting with owner Woody Johnson.
“He’s a good young man, a very good young man,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said. “We didn’t interact too much. There’s a lot of stuff going on, especially when it’s open to the public. But it was good to say hello.”
Cook has talked up the Jets in TV interviews in recent days, telling NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football” on Friday they “are right at the top of the list” and the odds of him signing with them were “pretty high.”
“It’s a unique situation because I think they’re building something special over there,” Cook told “Good Morning Football” during the interview. “When you look at it, you always want to be around a great QB, you always want to be around somebody you can pick his brain and just learn from. A-Rod is a four-time MVP. So, just being around a guy like that you can learn a lot more and just develop as a player.
“That’s what I’m looking to do.”
He reiterated those comments Saturday during an interview with ESPN, saying he thinks “the coaching staff, I think everything about what they got going on, just says winning.”
But Cook, a former Florida State star, also said in the interview he was interested in the Dolphins and it would be “a Cinderella story” to play for his hometown team.
He was the guest of the Jets on Sunday, though. And now they have to wait to see if they offer Cook a deal and he accepts — or explores his options.
Both sides have expressed interest, and the Jets wanted Cook to take a physical to be sure his surgically repaired shoulder is healthy.
“That’s pretty much it,” Saleh said. “Call it a meet and greet.”
Cook, who has run for at least 1,000 yards in each of the past four seasons, was scheduled to count more than $14.1 million against the Vikings’ salary cap before he was released. He’s third on Minnesota’s career rushing list with 5,993 yards in six seasons.
With the Jets, Cook could give New York some insurance in the backfield with Breece Hall working his way back from a knee injury that cut short a promising rookie season. New York also has Michael Carter, Zonovan Knight, Damarea Crockett, fifth-round draft pick Israel Abanikanda and undrafted free agent Travis Dye at the position.
NOTES: Saleh said WR Garrett Wilson has a lower right ankle injury and the Jets are being cautious by holding him out of practice. Wilson appeared to have a slight limp and his right ankle was wrapped. ... WR Corey Davis remains out with an illness, but Saleh said he could return to practice Monday. ... WR Randall Cobb was activated from the physically unable to perform list and participated in practice. ... Saleh said the starters aren’t expected to play Thursday night in the Hall of Fame game against Cleveland in Canton, Ohio. Among those players who will play include QB Zach Wilson and OT Mekhi Becton.
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AP Pro Football Writers Dave Campbell and Rob Maaddi contributed.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s one of the most anticipated times of the year: training camp.
Sunday was the first opportunity for fans to interact with the players.
“I’m just here to watch the players, get some autographs,” Alex Mercado said. “I really love Ryan Jensen, he’s probably one of my favorite players too because I’m a center too on my own team.”
Fans like Mercado were able to yell out to their favorite players and see them in action.
“It’s been amazing, I’ve got a lot of their attention: Godwin, Evans, Jensen, all of them,” he said.
It was the first of nine practices at the AdventHealth training center that will be open for viewing to Krewe members, stadium club members, luxury suite owners, and a few other special guests.
“It’s my husband’s birthday and my son’s,” Haley Cooper said. “We just wanted them to come out and enjoy something.”
“They’re huge Bucs fans, so we wanted to come out and have some fun today,” she continued.
With players feeding off the energy of fans, many say Sunday’s practice set the stage for a rowdy season ahead.
“Tampa Bay strong, I’m telling you,” said Bucified Bert, also known as Albert Owens, “We’re about to get it on.”
Open practices will conclude Monday, Aug. 14 with a day open to the general public.
The team will then leave Tampa for joint practices with the New York Jets. | https://www.wfla.com/sports/buccaneers/fans-first-interaction-with-bucs-players/ | 2023-07-30T19:27:47 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/sports/buccaneers/fans-first-interaction-with-bucs-players/ |
NEWCASTLE, England — Allan Saint-Maximin became the latest player Sunday to swap the Premier League for the Saudi Pro League after leaving Newcastle to join Al-Ahli on a four-year deal.
The 26-year-old Saint-Maximin scored 13 goals across 124 appearances for the Magpies, but the winger has struggled with injuries in recent seasons.
The deal to sell Saint-Maximin has drawn criticism with the Saudi Public Investment Fund having the majority ownership in both Newcastle and Al-Ahli.
“Everyone at Newcastle United thanks Allan for his contribution to the club and community and extends best wishes for the next chapter in his career,” Newcastle said in a statement confirming his departure.
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 2:22 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wcjb.com/2023/07/30/honduran-child-travels-alone-us-reunite-with-mother-unaware-her-passing/ | 2023-07-30T19:27:49 | 0 | https://www.wcjb.com/2023/07/30/honduran-child-travels-alone-us-reunite-with-mother-unaware-her-passing/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The National Hurricane Center is now tracking two areas of disturbance, with one of them having a higher chance for further development.
According to the NHC’s 2 p.m. update, Invest AL96 was located about 700 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands.
The forecast predicted that environmental conditions were favorable for the storm system to develop further over the next few days, with a tropical depression being possible in the early part of the week.
As of this report, the formation chance for the next two days is 50%, and 70% for the next seven days.
There is also another area of disturbance, Invest AL97, which had a minor chance of development.
“A trough of low pressure moved off the Carolina coast earlier [Sunday] and has a 20% chance of development over the next several days as the system moves east to the northeast away from the United States,” Max Defender 8 meteorologist Eric Stone said. | https://www.wfla.com/weather/tracking-the-tropics/nhc-now-tracking-2-disturbances-1-with-50-chance-of-development/ | 2023-07-30T19:27:53 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/weather/tracking-the-tropics/nhc-now-tracking-2-disturbances-1-with-50-chance-of-development/ |
Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) matching up with the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET (on July 30). Our computer prediction projects a close 5-4 victory for the Orioles, so it should be a competitive matchup.
The probable starters are Dean Kremer (10-4) for the Orioles and Luis Severino (2-4) for the Yankees.
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Baltimore and its opponents are 4-6-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- The Orioles have entered the game as favorites 47 times this season and won 33, or 70.2%, of those games.
- Baltimore has entered 33 games this season favored by -135 or more and is 24-9 in those contests.
- The implied probability of a win from the Orioles, based on the moneyline, is 57.4%.
- Baltimore has scored 502 runs (4.8 per game) this season, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- In three games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Yankees have a record of 1-2.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- Oddsmakers have not posted a spread in any of the Yankees' past 10 games.
- The Yankees have been underdogs in 31 games this season and have come away with the win 13 times (41.9%) in those contests.
- This season, New York has come away with a win eight times in 16 chances when named as an underdog of at least +115 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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NEW YORK — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Oppenheimer” stayed in second with a robust $46.2 million. Sales for the two movies dipped 43% and 44%, respectably — well shy of the usual week-two drops.
“Barbenheimer” has proven to be not a one-weekend phenomenon but an ongoing box-office bonanza. The two movies combined have already surpassed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, call it “a touchstone moment for movies, moviegoers and movie theaters.”
“Having two movies from rival studios linked in this way and both boosting each other's fortunes — both box-office wise and it terms of their profile — I don't know if there's a comp for this in the annals of box-office history," said Dergarabedian. “There's really no comparison for this.”
Following its year-best $162 million opening, the pink-infused pop sensation of “Barbie” saw remarkably sustained business through the week and into the weekend. The film outpaced Nolan's “The Dark Knight" to have the best first 11 days in theaters of any Warner Bros. release ever.
“Barbie” has rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box-office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie" has made at least $20 million.
And the “Barbie” effect isn't just in North America. The film made $122.2 million internationally over the weekend. Its global tally has reached $775 million. It's the kind of business that astounds even veteran studio executives.
“That's a crazy number,” said Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. “There's just a built-in audience that wants to be part of the zeitgeist of the moment. Wherever you go, people are wearing pink. Pink is taking over the world."
Amid the frenzy, “Barbie” is already attracting a lot of repeat moviegoers. Goldstein estimates that 12% of sales are people going back with friends or family to see it again.
For a movie industry that has be trying to regain its pre-pandemic footing — and that now finds itself largely shuttered due to actors and screenwriters strikes — the sensations of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have showed what's possible when everything lines up just right.
“Post-pandemic, there's no ceiling and there's no floor," said Goldstein. "The movies that miss, really miss big time and the movies that work really work big time."
Universal Pictures' “Oppenheimer,” meanwhile, is performing more like a superhero movie than a three-hour film about scientists talking.
Nolan’s drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million domestically thus far. With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
Showings in IMAX have typically been sold out. “Oppenheimer” has made $80 million worldwide on IMAX. The large-format exhibitor said Sunday that it will extend the film's run through Aug. 13.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to the film industry, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” which debuted the week before the arrival of “Barbenheimer,” grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. The film starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, has grossed $139.2 million domestically and $309.3 million overseas.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Barbie,” $93 million.
2. “Oppenheimer,” $46.2 million.
3. “Haunted Mansion,” $24.2 million.
4. “Sound of Freedom,” $12.4 million.
5. “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” $10.7 million.
6. “Talk to Me,” $10 million.
7. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” $4 million.
8. “Elemental,” $3.4 million.
9. “Insidious: The Red Door,” $3.2 million.
10. “Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani,” $1.6 million. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-haunted-mansion-talk-to-me/507-d4801fe6-1fb5-4869-b859-274995702f22 | 2023-07-30T19:28:40 | 1 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-haunted-mansion-talk-to-me/507-d4801fe6-1fb5-4869-b859-274995702f22 |
INDIANAPOLIS — A massive deli chain in the U.S. is giving someone the chance to earn free sandwiches for life, at the cost of their name.
Subway announced its nationwide search for the biggest fan, "with the ultimate prize, eating (and being) Subway for life."
Those who want a chance at a lifetime of free food can visit SubwayNameChange.com from Aug. 1-4, to commit to legally change their name.
The lucky winner will be reimbursed for legal and processing costs for the name change.
The contest is Subway's latest efforts to promote its new Subway Deli Heroes menu items and cold cuts.
This isn't the chain's only outlandish contest though. In 2022, one fan camped out for two days to get a footlong tattoo of the Subway Series logo in exchange for free subs for life. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/entertainment-news/subway-offers-free-sandwiches-for-life-with-name-change-subs-food/531-a042e778-5c76-4513-b71e-232a55da5e97 | 2023-07-30T19:29:01 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/entertainment-news/subway-offers-free-sandwiches-for-life-with-name-change-subs-food/531-a042e778-5c76-4513-b71e-232a55da5e97 |
AUSTIN, Texas — As the heat advisories continue to pop up all across Central Texas, extreme heat can have especially severe consequences for seniors, who are more susceptible to heat-related illnesses.
Senior care expert Jennifer Prescott, RN, MSN, CDP, founder of Blue Water Homecare and Hospice, said as people age, they have the inability to maintain their own body temperature. Seniors have a decreased sweat response and sweating is important as it cools down the body.
"So as we age, that is one of those things that, you know, doesn't seem to work as well," said Prescott.
Many seniors have chronic health conditions, like diabetes, heart disease and respiratory disease. With those conditions, it makes it more difficult on the heart and lungs if heart rates are higher than normal.
Limited mobility can also play a factor.
"Seniors don't have the ability to actually get out of shade, and they're standing there or maybe they're at a soccer game or a baseball game and they're so excited to see their grandchildren play, and they don't realize that they're really becoming hot and so they just kind of they forget to come out of the sun," said Prescott.
Prescott said with heat exhaustion, it can show signs and symptoms that associate with someone having a heart attack.
"So having sweating, maybe they're having weakness and fatigue. We have dizziness or lightheadedness. Also, headaches is one of those things. They have pale or clammy skin, muscle aches and fatigue. Those are all signs and symptoms that they might actually [have] heat exhaustion. What ends up happening is that heat exhaustion can actually turn into a heat stroke, and that's when the body temperature can elevate greater than 104 degrees," said Prescott.
Once heat exhaustion becomes heat stroke, it becomes an emergency. Anyone experiencing symptoms must get to a cool area with air conditioning immediately.
"Also, use some cool compresses on them, if you have to give them something cold to drink and if their body temperature and they're seeming very lethargic and they're not coming around, you want to take them to the emergency room or call 9-1-1 immediately because it absolutely can be a medical emergency," explained Prescott.
For those who are taking care of elderly people that have dementia or Alzheimer's, Prescott said they don't actually recognize that they're hungry or thirsty a lot of the times. If you have a loved one that lives by themselves and has mild cognitive impairment, it's really important to check on them often to ensure they're eating and drinking.
"When there are family events, family vacations and reunions, being mindful that they may not recognize when it's time to tell you that they need a break. So scheduling breaks as if you would, with your children. The other thing is you want to make sure that you are avoiding overexertion," said Prescott.
With seniors, make sure they're wearing sunscreen frequently, taking breaks and having time for snacks and drinks. Also, go for walks early in the morning, preferably before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/health/seniors-safe-in-extreme-heat/269-97735304-e53d-42b3-80c5-cb94c66c5c3b | 2023-07-30T19:29:07 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/health/seniors-safe-in-extreme-heat/269-97735304-e53d-42b3-80c5-cb94c66c5c3b |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS) reports that four people were killed in a crash that happened in South Austin early Sunday morning.
The incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m. in the 5300 block of the Interstate 35 Service Road, near Battle Bend Boulevard. According to ATCEMS, the collision resulted in a rollover and a vehicle fire.
Two additional patients were also taken to the hospital, dealing with non-life threatening inuries.
It is currently unclear what caused the crash.
This is a developing story, and it will be updated with the latest information available. Stick with KVUE for the latest news. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/4-dead-after-crash-in-south-austin/269-919d90e8-148e-45f0-ba99-3b6dced7eaea | 2023-07-30T19:29:13 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/4-dead-after-crash-in-south-austin/269-919d90e8-148e-45f0-ba99-3b6dced7eaea |
BURBANK, Calif. — With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip.
Even for a bear.
Police in the city of Burbank responded to a report of a bear sighting in a residential neighborhood and found the animal sitting in a Jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
After a short dip, the bear climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the home, police said in a statement Friday.
Police released a video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is about 10 miles north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
The Burbank police have issued warnings for residents to avoid bears and to keep all garbage and food locked up to discourage bears from coming to their residences. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/bear-spotted-in-california-jacuzzi/507-5f9278de-6918-4d7a-ac90-bff00c664569 | 2023-07-30T19:29:19 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/bear-spotted-in-california-jacuzzi/507-5f9278de-6918-4d7a-ac90-bff00c664569 |
NEW YORK — A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.
Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Oppenheimer” stayed in second with a robust $46.2 million. Sales for the two movies dipped 43% and 44%, respectably — well shy of the usual week-two drops.
“Barbenheimer” has proven to be not a one-weekend phenomenon but an ongoing box-office bonanza. The two movies combined have already surpassed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, call it “a touchstone moment for movies, moviegoers and movie theaters.”
“Having two movies from rival studios linked in this way and both boosting each other's fortunes — both box-office wise and it terms of their profile — I don't know if there's a comp for this in the annals of box-office history," said Dergarabedian. “There's really no comparison for this.”
Following its year-best $162 million opening, the pink-infused pop sensation of “Barbie” saw remarkably sustained business through the week and into the weekend. The film outpaced Nolan's “The Dark Knight" to have the best first 11 days in theaters of any Warner Bros. release ever.
“Barbie” has rapidly accumulated $351.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, a rate that will soon make it the biggest box-office hit of the summer. Every day it’s played, “Barbie" has made at least $20 million.
And the “Barbie” effect isn't just in North America. The film made $122.2 million internationally over the weekend. Its global tally has reached $775 million. It's the kind of business that astounds even veteran studio executives.
“That's a crazy number,” said Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros. “There's just a built-in audience that wants to be part of the zeitgeist of the moment. Wherever you go, people are wearing pink. Pink is taking over the world."
Amid the frenzy, “Barbie” is already attracting a lot of repeat moviegoers. Goldstein estimates that 12% of sales are people going back with friends or family to see it again.
For a movie industry that has be trying to regain its pre-pandemic footing — and that now finds itself largely shuttered due to actors and screenwriters strikes — the sensations of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have showed what's possible when everything lines up just right.
“Post-pandemic, there's no ceiling and there's no floor," said Goldstein. "The movies that miss, really miss big time and the movies that work really work big time."
Universal Pictures' “Oppenheimer,” meanwhile, is performing more like a superhero movie than a three-hour film about scientists talking.
Nolan’s drama starring Cillian Murphy as atomic bomb physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has accrued $174.1 million domestically thus far. With an additional $72.4 million in international cinemas, “Oppenheimer” has already surpassed $400 million globally.
Showings in IMAX have typically been sold out. “Oppenheimer” has made $80 million worldwide on IMAX. The large-format exhibitor said Sunday that it will extend the film's run through Aug. 13.
The week’s top new release, Walt Disney Co.’s “Haunted Mansion,” an adaptation of the Disney theme park attraction, was easily overshadowed by the “Barbenheimer” blitz. The film, which cost about $150 million, debuted with $24 million domestically and $9 million in overseas sales. “Haunted Mansion,” directed by Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) and starring an ensemble of LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito and Rosario Dawson, struggled to overcome mediocre reviews.
“Talk to Me,” the A24 supernatural horror film, fared better. It debuted with $10 million. The film, directed by Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, was a midnight premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and received terrific reviews from critics (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). It was made for a modest $4.5 million.
While theaters being flush with moviegoers has been a huge boon to the film industry, it’s been tougher sledding for Tom Cruise, the so-called savior of the movies last summer with “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I,” which debuted the week before the arrival of “Barbenheimer,” grossed $10.7 million in its third weekend. The film starring Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, has grossed $139.2 million domestically and $309.3 million overseas.
Instead, the sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom” has been the best performing non-“Barbenheimer” release in theaters. The Angel Studios’ release, which is counting crowdfunding pay-it-forward sales in its box office totals, made $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its haul thus far to nearly $150 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Barbie,” $93 million.
2. “Oppenheimer,” $46.2 million.
3. “Haunted Mansion,” $24.2 million.
4. “Sound of Freedom,” $12.4 million.
5. “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” $10.7 million.
6. “Talk to Me,” $10 million.
7. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” $4 million.
8. “Elemental,” $3.4 million.
9. “Insidious: The Red Door,” $3.2 million.
10. “Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani,” $1.6 million. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-haunted-mansion-talk-to-me/507-d4801fe6-1fb5-4869-b859-274995702f22 | 2023-07-30T19:29:26 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-haunted-mansion-talk-to-me/507-d4801fe6-1fb5-4869-b859-274995702f22 |
Bronny James plays piano in a video posted by his father, LeBron James, on Saturday, four days after the teenager went into cardiac arrest during a basketball workout at the University of Southern California.
The 18-year-old plays a brief melody in front of his family, smiles and gets up without speaking in the video posted on his father's Instagram account. The video doesn't indicate where or when it was shot.
“A man of many talents,” the Los Angeles Lakers superstar can be heard saying in the background as Bronny finishes playing with his two younger siblings looking on.
TMZ posted photos of Bronny out to dinner with his family, which it says were taken Friday night. They show the teenager with his father outside celebrity hot spot Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica.
Wearing black pants and a zip-up hoodie, Bronny carried his phone while standing outside the Italian restaurant.
Bronny was released from the hospital on Thursday. He will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
"We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love," LeBron wrote on social media Thursday. "Will have more to say when we’re ready but I wanted to tell everyone how much your support has meant to all of us!"
Bronny, whose full name is LeBron James Jr., committed to USC in May after the 6-foot-3 guard became one of the nation’s top prospects out of Sierra Canyon School in nearby Chatsworth.
TEGNA's Val Lick contributed to this report. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/bronny-james-update-after-cardiac-arrest/507-3280e25d-0548-45c6-b647-40568b3c99ea | 2023-07-30T19:29:32 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/bronny-james-update-after-cardiac-arrest/507-3280e25d-0548-45c6-b647-40568b3c99ea |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T19:29:38 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program's director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday is it “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti," adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti's worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alex chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.” | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/us-mother-daughter-reported-kidnapped-in-haiti/507-dffeb51f-530c-4af0-9846-d782c40b2a43 | 2023-07-30T19:29:45 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/nation-world/us-mother-daughter-reported-kidnapped-in-haiti/507-dffeb51f-530c-4af0-9846-d782c40b2a43 |
DALLAS COUNTY, Texas — Now that Republican leaders in the state of Texas have formally started the process to leave a multistate effort designed to catch duplicate voter registrations, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said he’s not very confident that voter rolls will be clean before the 2024 primary next March.
“We should be focused on winning over the hearts and minds of new voters, not what the Republicans are doing, which is artificially keeping the voter rolls low so they can win with the same group that they’ve had and not allow the younger, the new transplants, renters who move, to easily register,” Judge Jenkins said on Inside Texas Politics.
The partnership is known as ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center.
As many as 27 states had been using the system, which is designed to check for voters who’ve registered in two different states and may try to vote twice in the same election. ERIC also helps to keep voter rolls clean, alerting elections officials when someone moves, for instance.
At least three Republican-led states have already exited ERIC.
And the Secretary of State says Texas will leave the program in three months.
According to state law passed during the last legislative session, Texas must now either create its own system or find a provider from the private sector, but it can’t cost more than $100,000.
Jenkins says ERIC was extremely effective at keeping rolls clean and he doubts the new program created by Texas Republicans will do the same, instead harming some voters.
“It’s a big deal. We’ll have to see what happens with the state’s new system, but it will, in all likelihood, disenfranchise people and knock people off the voter rolls,” Jenkins said. “And the ones to watch for are young people, minorities and renters who move around.” | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/dallas-county-judge-not-confident-voter-rolls-clean-after-texas-exits-multistate-voter-program/287-cf0b857d-eab0-42d9-88dd-8dadd622d67b | 2023-07-30T19:29:51 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/dallas-county-judge-not-confident-voter-rolls-clean-after-texas-exits-multistate-voter-program/287-cf0b857d-eab0-42d9-88dd-8dadd622d67b |
TEXAS, USA — State Rep. Eddie Morales was the only democratic joint author of the bill that started Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border security plan.
That was back in 2021.
And Morales says at the time, it’s exactly what his constituents needed and were asking for: funding, resources and equipment to address a surge of migrants crossing into Texas.
But now, two years later, Morales says it’s difficult to find any positives in the border operation.
“We did not sign up for what is now taking place. And I think that now there is overreach on the part of the Governor’s office,” the Democrat told us on Inside Texas Politics. “We didn’t sign up for the inhumane treatment that we’re seeing that’s coming out of the DPS.”
The state is investigating allegations of abuse against migrants lodged by a state trooper.
In an email to a supervisor, that DPS medic claimed that troopers working along the border were ordered to push some migrants trying to cross the Rio Grande back into the water, even reportedly ordered to deny them water.
Those allegations originated in HD 74, Morales’ district, and the largest district in Texas that includes more than 750 miles of shared border with Mexico.
Rep. Morales says local landowners are lodging complaints as well.
The Democrat says the owner of a local pecan orchard had his property taken over by state troopers without permission.
And Morales says a specific amendment passed to the original bill stated Operation Lone Star funds could not be used to condemn or take private property.
“I have sent repeated letters to the Governor’s office. I have not spoken directly to the Governor, but I have to some of his leadership. They’re saying they’re going to take a look at it,” Morales said.
Morales also says he has no issue with Texas leaders taking the lead on immigration reform, even encouraging them to do it, though he knows it’s a federal responsibility.
But he says the feds have done nothing to solve any problems for three decades, so Texas should take the lead.
The Democrat has proposed a plan to build a migrant processing center in Eagle Pass, Texas.
And he would charge an initial $2,000 processing fee that would allow someone to work in Texas for three years.
Morales says that would raise more than $3 Million per day for the state and more than $1 Billion annually at this one processing center alone.
The plan didn’t gain any traction during the last legislative session.
But so long as the feds don’t act, Morales says he’ll keep advocating for it.
“I think that Congress should really be leading the efforts on passing effective immigration reform policies that have been needed for over 30 years,” he said. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-representative-operation-lone-star-not-same-program-lawmakers-approved-2021/287-6c89e717-a700-4277-8aa9-ef28792c5841 | 2023-07-30T19:29:57 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-representative-operation-lone-star-not-same-program-lawmakers-approved-2021/287-6c89e717-a700-4277-8aa9-ef28792c5841 |
TEXAS, USA — In 2025, the state of Texas is scheduled to review all the history courses taught in public schools.
And at least one member of the Texas Board of Education fears that what started in Florida could find its way to Texas.
In recent weeks, the Florida Board of Education approved new standards for how Black history should be taught in public schools, including teaching how slaves developed some skills they could use for “personal benefit.”
Aicha Davis, a Texas Board member from Dallas, says she’s ready for similar language to try to seep into Texas standards a couple of years from now.
“Very disappointed that history is becoming so distorted, to say something as egregious as that,” Davis told us on Inside Texas Politics. “We do have our standards review for history in 2025, and so I will be anticipating some of that language may be offered up in Texas. But very disappointed and will definitely be on the watch to make sure that doesn’t come to Texas.”
Davis is hoping the Board can instead focus on more productive efforts in the coming years.
And she pointed to the social studies curriculum for African Americans passed unanimously by the board in 2020 as a major success story.
“We have districts everywhere across Texas who are adopting it, thousands of students that are enrolled in the course. And it’s growing every year,” she said.
And she says that program has opened the door for other innovative courses that examine different cultures, helping students see themselves when they learn.
That includes a new Native American social studies program being piloted in Grand Prairie ISD.
As for the upcoming school year scheduled to start in just a couple of weeks in some areas, Davis expects the library book battle to continue.
“Unfortunately books still are under attack,” Davis said. “But you have more people who are coming to defense.” | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-school-board-member-expects-book-battles-continue-new-school-year/287-4824d0dd-258e-40db-8d7f-7771f183f0b9 | 2023-07-30T19:30:03 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/state-school-board-member-expects-book-battles-continue-new-school-year/287-4824d0dd-258e-40db-8d7f-7771f183f0b9 |
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Megan Rapinoe is adjusting to her new role at the Women's World Cup, even if it means she's not on the field as much as she'd like to be.
The outspoken 38-year-old known for her eclectic hair colors and the iconic victory pose she struck at the 2019 World Cup is the oldest player on the team. She already announced that her fourth World Cup would be her last.
"Ultimately, we're at the World Cup. This is where everybody wants to be, whether you're playing 90 minutes, whether you're a game changer, whatever," she said Sunday. "I think it's a lot similar to what I thought it would be — bringing all the experience that I can, all the experience that I have, and ultimately being ready whenever my number is called up."
Rapinoe has played limited minutes so far, coming in as a substitute in the 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the tournament opener, which was her 200th career appearance for the team.
She was available but didn't play in the disappointing 1-1 draw with the Netherlands on Thursday in Wellington. U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski made just one substitution in the match, bringing in midfielder Rose Lavelle after the first half.
"I think all of us on the bench, it's like we think we should be on the field as much as the players on the field believe that they should be on the field," Rapinoe said. "Every player on the field that starts the game thinks that they should play 90 minutes, and every player who doesn't, who is a sub, thinks that they should be on at some point."
The United States has won the last two World Cups, but the players find themselves in a more precarious position as they chase an unprecedented third consecutive title. The Americans need at least a draw going into the final group match against Portugal on Tuesday at Eden Park in Auckland.
The Americans top Group E, even on points with the Netherlands, but hold the edge because of goal difference. Portugal, which beat Vietnam, could send the United States home early with a win over the Americans.
"We're unsatisfied with the way we played, but we know there are areas that we can be better and I think there's some really simple fixes we can do to put ourselves in a better position to have more joy on the ball, especially in the final third," Rapinoe said. "I think everybody's looking at this like `Let's go.'"
At the 2019 World Cup in France, Rapinoe scored six goals over the course of the tournament, including a penalty in a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands in the final. She also finished with three assists and claimed both the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball for the best overall player.
Rapinoe, who is engaged to former WNBA star Sue Bird, has been a leader on and off the field.
She made headlines during the 2019 tournament when she said she wouldn't visit the White House if the United States won. Her decision was based on her disdain for then-President Donald Trump, and the team did not go to the White House after winning its second World Cup.
And in the midst of a dispute with U.S. Soccer over equal pay with the men's national team, Rapinoe helped the women hold firm on their position.
"I just think back to 2019 in particular. We didn't really talk about it a lot as a group but we were like, `Well, we have to win. This is kind of like a must-win World Cup for us.' And I think it did give us confidence," she said. "It pressured us, but I think we also knew that we could handle it and it was almost a mandatory upping of our level to be able to match everything that we were saying off the field. I think in so many ways we were betting on ourselves."
Rapinoe has won two Women's World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal with the United States. She also took home the Ballon d'Or and the Best FIFA Women's Player awards — the game's top individual honors — for her play in 2019.
As a fierce advocate for social justice issues, including gender equity and LGBTQ rights, she was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Joe Biden last year.
The team also won a new contract that pays the players the same as their male counterparts.
"I've always tried to use whatever platform we have, and this platform was built long before I got here. We just continue to add to to it, to grow the game, to make the world a better place, to use our voices, to advocate for more," she said.
At this World Cup, she's passing that legacy on to younger generation. Fourteen of the U.S. players are playing in their first World Cup. In 2019, Carli Lloyd was in a similar role of a player who was also something of a coach who led by example.
Rapinoe is doing that now.
"Still every day in training I'm like, `I'm gonna try to bust your ass,' and that makes them better, that makes me better," she said. "That makes the whole team better. So I think it's been really rewarding. And I think ultimately, and I think that this gets lost, but I get to play in another World Cup."
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Updated July 27, 2023 at 3:40 PM ET
When The Sims came out back in the year 2000, it changed the gaming landscape. Here was a game made for everybody, a game that looked and played like real life, if only real life was a lot more fun.
It was such a big deal that even mainstream news outlets like us were talking about it. Dan Morris, former executive editor of PC Gamer Magazine, told NPR that part of its appeal was its familiarity and relatability. "It's sort of the part of us that always liked, you know, playing with dollhouses," he said. In a medium where players were usually confronted with science fiction and fantasy, it was the mundanity of The Sims' world that proved refreshing.
But while The Sims spawned many sequels, you can't officially buy the original, and even if you have it, it's not designed to run on modern systems. That fate, sadly, isn't an anomaly — most classic video games can't be played on today's hardware. A new study from The Video Game History Foundation finds that only 13% of titles produced before 2010 are available on modern platforms.
Games made before 1985 fare even worse, with only 3% still being sold. Salvador calls that period the "silent film" era of video games, when designers established the medium's basic grammar. "There's a very real danger," says study author Phil Salvador, "that in a few decades these games will be unavailable and unplayable to a wide audience." That concern took on new urgency this year, when Nintendo shuttered its 3DS and Wii eShops, taking whole generations of games off the market.
But why does it matter that we can't, for example, play the original Sims when its commercially successful sequels are easily purchasable? "That's like saying, well, you know, why do we need the original Psycho if we can get Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho?" argues Salvador. "Video games are cultural history in the same way that film is cultural history or books or movies."
That history can tell you a lot about a video game, and the time and place it was born into.
In the early 1990's, Sega was a video game giant. But when they released their Sega Saturn video game console in America in 1995, it flopped. Many of the games on that system are now out of print. But fans are keeping its memory alive.
David Lee writes about the system and its games on the blog SegaSaturnShiro, which he co-founded. "I just really love the mystique of it," he explains. "I love how it kind of has this troubled and complex story." Games like Clockwork Knight, he says, have a colorful and chaotic visual style that felt uniquely 90's Sega. "It's just got a look to it, a visual charm to it, that's just very much of the time," he explains.
Fan communities have played a major role preserving video games, but official institutions are lagging behind. Phil Salvador argues that libraries also need the power to make these games and their histories more accessible to researchers. "I worry about the long-term future of video games [is] going to be if we have to sort of rely entirely on the fan community for this kind of documentation."
Kendra Albert at the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic says that current copyright law makes that difficult, and video game companies want to keep it that way. "The rationale that the lobbying groups often come forward with is that this will harm the market for existing games," Albert says.
But Albert feels that this perspective is out of step with both the reality of consumer demand and the goals of preservationists. Preservationists want libraries to have more flexibility when it comes to making games available to researchers. For example, current copyright law makes it legally questionable to share video games remotely through software emulation. Games historians want access to the original titles, because companies change old games when they re-enter the market as remasters and remakes.
Professor Adrienne Shaw of Temple University, who founded the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, points to the game Baldur's Gate as an example. The 2012 remaster of the original game added same-sex relationship options for some of its characters. While the game became accessible to more players, it became a fundamentally different object to a researcher studying queer relationships in video games.
Albert and other advocacy organizations will ask the U.S. Copyright Office to exempt video games from some of these copyright laws when the appeals process begins this fall. Similar appeals have been denied in the past, leaving official preservation of the young medium in doubt.
James Perkins Mastromarino contributed to this story. contributed to this story
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Authorities are investigating a shooting involving police in northeast Fresno.
It happened on E. Magill Ave. and N. Effie St. Sunday morning.
Authorities have not said what led up to the incident but confirmed someone was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound.
Police confirmed that no officers were injured.
More information is expected to be provided later.
This is a developing story. Stay with Action News for updates. | https://abc30.com/northeast-fresno-shooting-investigation-police-involved-one-person-hospitalized/13573721/ | 2023-07-30T19:30:36 | 0 | https://abc30.com/northeast-fresno-shooting-investigation-police-involved-one-person-hospitalized/13573721/ |
Updated July 29, 2023 at 11:35 AM ET
Two Supreme Court decisions are changing the way students, educators and even the Biden administration are approaching higher education.
The first ruling ended affirmative action for public and private colleges. It declared that race conscious admissions programs at both Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The second put a halt to President Biden's student loan cancellation plan. Now the Biden administration is trying to find new ways to make college more accessible. The administration recently unveiled a new student loan repayment plan that will save borrowers thousands of dollars by keeping monthly payments low and preventing interest from accumulating.
This week, the administration's focus is on affirmative action: The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into the practice of legacy admissions at Harvard University, and on Friday, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Wesleyan University, which recently got rid of legacy admissions.
Legacy admissions are on the chopping block
The federal inquiry comes after to three Boston-based groups — the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network — filed a complaint with the Education Department against Harvard. It accuses the university of discriminating against Black, Hispanic, Asian and other non-white undergraduate applicants by showing preference for those who have family relationships with donors or alumni.
In a statement to NPR, Harvard spokesperson Nicole Rura said the university is reviewing its admissions policy to ensure it is "complying with the law and to carry forward Harvard's longstanding commitment to welcoming students from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences."
Ivory Toldson, the national director of Education Innovation and Research at the NAACP, said that legacy admissions compromise a university's ability to create a diverse student body. He said if colleges are committed to diversity, they should not be favoring applicants from wealthier backgrounds.
"Now that race conscious admissions has been outlawed by the Supreme Court, you have to look at other ways to achieve diversity," Toldson said during an interview for Morning Edition.
Toldson said legacy admissions should be abolished.
The impact of legacy admissions policies on a student body
A study released this week by the Harvard School of Economics showed that richer applicants are getting a leg up in the college admissions process. Students from affluent backgrounds are twice as likely to get into top colleges than students from more middle class backgrounds, even if the students have similar GPAs and SAT scores.
Admissions data cited in documents that were part of the affirmative action case revealed that nearly 70% of the university's legacy applicants were white — including applicants who have relationships with donors, those who are children of faculty or staff, and athletes applicants. And while legacy applicants make up less than 5% of applicants to Harvard, the data showed they constitute around 30% of the applicants admitted each year, the ruling cited.
Some schools have gotten rid of legacy admissions altogether.
Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts college in Connecticut that has a 16% acceptance rate, recently eliminated its legacy admissions policy. Wesleyan President Michael Roth told NPR's Leila Fadel, during an interview for Morning Edition, the decision to end the policy was a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended affirmative action as part of college admissions.
"It became clear to me that any advantage you give to incumbents, to people who already have advantages, is a glaring sign of unfairness," Roth said.
Other schools have done the same. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities also ended legacy admissions this month, and Colorado passed a state law banning the practice at all public colleges and universities.
"Not getting in" is just one concern for students
Whitney Gouche is vice president of a nonprofit called EMERGE that serves high-achieving students from low-income areas in Texas. She said her students feel discouraged by the recent Supreme Court decision.
"We've explained to our students, that regardless of the decision, you still belong here, she said. "You have the merits to be a successful student at this campus."
Convincing students to apply isn't the easiest task — concerns about high cost are also on students' minds. Even if they get in, it could cost about $70,000 in tuition for an elite college like Wesleyan.
Roth said that while admitted students who qualify for financial aid will receive it at Wesleyan, the university has to do more to convince students to apply in the first place.
"We have to be very aggressive in recruiting students from places that haven't typically looked at schools like Wesleyan," Roth said.
Roth said that ending legacy admissions won't solve the more widespread problem of education disparities in the United States.
"Legacy admissions is attractive to talk about, but the real issues are elsewhere," Roth said.
This story was edited by Nicole Cohen and Erika Aguilar.
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A U.S. District Court in Mississippi on Tuesday temporarily blocked a voting law in the state that was supposed to go into effect July 1. The law, known as Senate Bill 2358, creates new restrictions for who can assist someone while voting by mail.
Voting rights and disability rights advocates, who filed the lawsuit, argue Mississippi's law violates a federal protection that allows a voter to choose who helps them cast a ballot.
In his order striking down the law, U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate wrote, "voting polls are expected to extend outstretched hands of welcome and provide unfettered access to conscientious citizens anxious to enjoy 'participatory democracy'- whether those citizens be among the vulnerable and the disabled."
SB 2358, which was signed into law earlier this year, set new limits on who can collect and transmit a ballot that was mailed to someone else. In Mississippi, the state's absentee-by-mail voting program is for limited groups of voters — people out of town on Election Day, people 65 or older and people with a temporary or permanent physical disability.
Under the new law, though, only election officials, postal workers, a family member or household member or a caregiver would be able to assist these voters in mailing back their ballot. The law also set new criminal penalties. Under SB 2358, not following these restrictions is punishable by imprisonment of up to one year in county jail and/or a fine of up to $3,000.
Opponents of Mississippi's law say voters should be able to choose who helps them vote — including a friend or someone from a community organization.
Ahmed Soussi, a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in a written statement that "Mississippians may now continue to assist voters without the fear of prosecution."
"We are glad that the Court recognized the federal guarantee to voters with a disability or language barrier to select a person of their choice to provide them assistance," he said. "What is important now is to make sure everyone who is eligible to vote does vote in the upcoming elections."
Supporters of the Mississippi law argued it was necessary to prevent ballot harvesting, which is when someone collects and returns other people's ballots.
Many Republicans have argued this practice leads to vote stealing and fraud, which studies have found to be extremely rare in United States elections.
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said in a video address earlier this year that across the country "bad actors have used ballot harvesting to take advantage of elderly and vulnerable voters." He said the practice is an effort to undermine the democratic process.
"Senate Bill 2358 is now law and Mississippi's elections are safer because of it," Reeves said.
However, Judge Wingate wrote that state and local election officials were "unable to provide any data illustrating whether Mississippi has a widespread ballot harvesting problem" when asked in court.
"Seemingly, no fact-findings or committee-finding investigations or legislative committee inquiries have focused upon this perceived threat," he wrote. "This may explain why the definitional approach of the statute is so barren."
The court's injunction blocking SB 2358 applies to Mississippi's upcoming general election in November — as well as the state's August primary, which is currently underway.
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The new social media site Threads is less than a month old and it has already amassed tens of millions of users. Facebook parent Meta launched the Twitter-rival earlier this month and it's quickly become a place where people can follow celebrities, news organizations and politicians.
This has some voting rights groups worried. That's because Threads is yet to outline a plan to curb election disinformation on the site.
Vote.org, one of the largest get-out-the-vote organizations in the country, sent a letter to Meta asking that it "release a robust plan to ensure the platform has strong election policies in place from the start." The letter was co-signed by 11 other voting rights groups, including End Citizens United, RepresentUs and Public Citizen.
"If you have that many people, you have a great responsibility to the people that are on the platform," said Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org. "What we're asking for here is a real plan, knowing that we're only a few months out from presidential primaries, and that very soon the presidential election will be on our doorstep."
The voting rights groups say they have cause for concern. During the past few elections, disinformation involving voter registration, polling places and political candidates was rampant on social media. In 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how that company used Facebook to target and manipulate swing voters. And in 2020, mentions of "stolen election" and "voter fraud" skyrocketed after Joe Biden won the presidency.
"Misinformation, like social media itself, has gotten considerably more sophisticated," said Bond Benton, communications associate professor who studies misinformation at Montclair State University. "There are ways that you can manipulate and game the system to get misinformation seen by a lot of people very rapidly. And if you're not investing to prevent and curtail that, it's going to find its way through."
Meta has election disinformation policies for Facebook and Instagram, but it hasn't published any specifically for Threads. A company spokesman told NPR that Facebook's rules apply to Threads. So, for example, people can't post false claims about voter registration. He also said Meta is looking at additional ways to address misinformation in future updates to the Threads app.
The voting rights groups say Threads needs a stand-alone policy. Otherwise, it's unclear how the rules will be implemented and enforced. They say this is especially urgent given reports that Meta has made staff cuts to its teams that work on election disinformation.
Meta has been explicit that it doesn't want Threads to be like Twitter, where people's feeds have been dominated with news and politics. Days after the Threads launch, Meta executive Adam Mosseri posted on the site saying the company wasn't going to do anything to encourage politics and news.
But with the 2024 election cycle already ramping up and the first Republican primary debate just weeks away, Vote.org's Hailey said Threads won't be able to escape politics.
"As we see large growth week over week, they're likely to be in a position to have an effect on elections," Hailey said. "So, you just want to make sure that information up there is accurate."
Vote.org and the other voting rights groups say they want Meta to provide information on how it plans to allocate resources, create rules and policies, and ensure people receive accurate information about elections on Threads.
Hailey said the group has yet to get a response from the company.
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(NerdWallet) – Inflation has rattled nearly every aspect of Americans’ finances, including vacation budgets. But one major travel cost isn’t just lower than it was last year — it’s even lower than pre-pandemic.
June 2023 airfares are 18.9% lower than what they were in June 2022, according to July 2023 consumer price index data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Considering that booming demand — alongside other factors like high jet fuel costs — led to record-high airfares last summer, it’s not surprising to see prices normalize. Not only have air travel costs come back down to earth from 2022’s highs, they’re even lower than pre-pandemic prices.
According to BLS data, June 2023 airfares are down 1.33% from what they were in 2019, when airfares were already trending lower. Relative to what prices were a decade ago, they’re even cheaper.
Pandemic aside, airfares have been trending cheaper
Before the pandemic, airfares had steadily been trending downward since 2014, save for a small bump in 2019. In 2020, prices dropped sharply with the onset of the pandemic, with June 2020 airfares averaging 27% lower than June 2019 airfares.
But as travel returned, so did higher prices. June 2021 airfares spiked 25% over the prior year, and airfares rose 34% more between June 2021 and June 2022.
If you take a long-term view, those increases aren’t necessarily as big as they seem. In fact, in June 2022, airfares averaged just 0.4% more than in 2014.
Here’s a look at how airfares have changed relative to prices in 2014, using June prices from BLS inflation data:
In 2023, airfares are 19% lower than a decade ago.
Compare that with something like the cost of milk, which is up 9% over that same period, according to BLS data. Hotel prices are up 28%. Admission to movies, theaters and concerts is up 33%.
If airfares are lower, why do they feel so high?
Over the past decade, prices for most items have increased. But if airfares are down 19%, why do they feel so expensive?
For starters, not every route is necessarily cheaper. Data from travel booking app Hopper indicates airfares to Europe this summer are averaging nearly $1,200 per ticket, the highest prices in the past six years. That’s perhaps a response to people who might usually book a low-cost domestic flight finally taking extravagant bucket list trips.
And given recent major flight cancellations on airlines including United and Southwest, more travelers might opt for more expensive direct flights to reduce risk of flight disruptions.
Hayley Berg, Hopper’s lead economist, has her own theories as to why people feel like airfares are higher, including recency bias, shorter booking windows and unbundling.
Recency bias
Berg pointed to how many people traveled for this summer’s major holidays.
For example, Fourth of July weekend set records for U.S. air travel, with more than 2.884 million people passing through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints on the Friday before July 4, according to TSA checkpoint data. That topped the previous record of 2.882 million people flying on the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2019.
“A lot of times, we anchor the cost of travel to our most recent trips,” Berg says. “For many, that meant July Fourth and Memorial Day. It’s always expensive to travel on those weekends.”
Shorter booking windows
Airfares typically get more expensive the closer they’re booked to departure, and Berg says people are booking trips later than usual — perhaps a holdover from those pandemic times when people intentionally booked last minute given the extreme uncertainty.
Berg recommends typically booking one to two months in advance for domestic travel and three to four months ahead for most international travel.
“Now, people are searching for travel three weeks later than they did pre-pandemic, and they’re subsequently booking later,” she says. “If I’m booking a trip today that I intend to take two weeks from now, it’s going to be expensive because it’s always more expensive to book at the last minute.”
Unbundling
Then there’s unbundling, where airlines advertise lower fares, often in the form of basic economy seats that offer few frills. But low base fares typically entail upcharges in the form of ancillary fees to check bags or to guarantee a window seat or early boarding.
“On the whole, unbundling is a good thing because you’re not paying a premium for things you may not necessarily want,” Berg says. “I don’t care if I’m in the middle seat if it means I save $100.”
Berg acknowledges that it can be painful when you search for a flight that has a low advertised price but doesn’t turn out to be that cheap.
“It feels like death by a thousand cuts when you add in all those fees,” she says. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/airfares-are-back-to-normal-so-why-do-they-feel-so-high/ | 2023-07-30T19:31:07 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/airfares-are-back-to-normal-so-why-do-they-feel-so-high/ |
Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:22 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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(The Conversation) – Should smartphones be allowed in classrooms? A new report from UNESCO, the education arm of the United Nations, raises questions about the practice. Though smartphones can be used for educational purposes, the report says the devices also disrupt classroom learning, expose students to cyberbullying and can compromise students’ privacy.
About 1 in 7 countries globally, such as the Netherlands and France, have banned the use of smartphones in school – and academic performance improved as a result, particularly for low-performing students, the report notes.
As school leaders in the U.S. wrestle with whether or not to ban smartphones, The Conversation has invited four scholars to weigh in on the issue.
Daniel G. Krutka: Use smartphones to encourage ‘technoskepticism’
While the issue of smartphone use in schools is complicated, evidence suggests that spending more time on smartphones is associated with young people being less happy and less satisfied with life.
Technology scholars have long argued that the key to living well with technology is in finding limits. However, in banning smartphones, I worry educators might be missing opportunities to use smartphones to encourage what I and other researchers refer to as technoskeptical thinking; that is, questioning our relationship with technology.
For example, students might be encouraged to consider the benefits and drawbacks of using navigational apps to travel from one place to another, as opposed to old-fashioned paper maps. Or, students might explore their social media feeds to critique what algorithms feed them, or how notifications get their attention.
In my research, I have looked at how teachers can encourage students to go on techno-fasts – that is, abstaining from the use of technology for a certain period of time. This, I argue, will give students time to reflect on the time they spend away from their devices.
Policy debates often focus on whether or not to put smartphones out of reach during the school day. But I believe educators might find it more beneficial to make the phones an object of inquiry.
Sarah Rose: Consult parents, teachers and students
While there is evidence that classroom phone usage can be a distraction, it can also promote engagement and learning. While research about the potential positive and negative consequences of classroom phones can be used to inform school phone policies, the views of those who are most directly impacted by the policies should also be taken into account.
The views of parents matter because their views may influence the extent to which their children follow the policy. The views of children matter because they are the ones being expected to follow the policy and to benefit from it. The views of teachers matter because they are often the ones that have to enforce the policies. Research shows that enforcing cellphone policies is not always a straightforward issue.
In my research, I have found that children – aged 10 and 11 years old – in collaboration with their parents, were able to come up with ideas for ideal policies and solutions to help enforce them. For example, one parent-child pair suggested mobile phone use in school could be banned but that a role of “telephone monitor” could be given to an older pupil. This “telephone monitor” would have a class mobile phone that children and parents could use to contact each other during the school day when necessary.
This recommendation reflected how parents and middle and high school students – whether from rural and urban areas – felt cellphones were important to keep in touch with each other during the school day. Beyond safety, children and parents also told us that phones were important for keeping in touch about changing plans and for emotional support during the school day.
I believe policies that simply ban phones in schools may be missing an opportunity to educate children about responsible mobile device use. When parents and children are involved in policy development, it has the potential to increase the extent to which these policies are followed and enforced.
Arnold L. Glass: Cellphone use in college lectures hurts performance in ways that are hard to see
The intrusion of internet-enabled electronic devices, such as laptops, tablets and cellphones, has transformed the modern college lecture. Students now divide their attention between the lecture and their devices. Classroom studies reveal that when college students use an electronic device for a nonacademic purpose during class, it hurts their performance on exams.
When attention is divided between an electronic device and the classroom lecture, it does not reduce comprehension of the lecture – at least, not when measured by within-class quizzes. Instead, divided attention reduces long-term retention of the classroom lecture, which hurts performance on unit exams and final exams.
When some students open electronic devices, it also negatively affects the performance of all the students around them. Research has shown that student performance on final exams was worse when electronic devices were permitted during classes that covered exam material versus when the devices were not.
Many students won’t think their divided attention is affecting their retention of new information. It may not be for the moment, but a couple of weeks later or down the line, research shows, it does.
Louis-Philippe Beland: Bans help low-achieving students the most
Numerous studies indicate that low-achieving students stand to benefit the most from the implementation of mobile phone bans in schools.
In a 2015 study, my co-author, Richard Murphy, and I examined the impact of banning mobile phones on student performance in high schools, using data from England. By comparing schools with phone bans to similar schools without the bans, we isolated the effect of mobile phones on performance. Our study found that banning mobile phones significantly increased test scores among 16-year-old students. The effect is equivalent to adding five days to the school year or an extra hour per week. Low-achieving students benefited more, while high-achieving students remained unaffected.
Similar studies in Spain and Norway using a similar approach demonstrated compelling evidence supporting the benefits of banning mobile phones. In Spain, grades improved and bullying incidents decreased. In Norway, the ban raised middle school students’ grade-point averages and their likelihood of attending academic high schools while reducing bullying. Evidence from Belgium suggests banning mobile phones can be beneficial for college student performance.
Psychological research sheds light on potential mechanisms behind the impact of mobile phones and technology on student performance. Multitasking, common with mobile phone use, has been found to hinder learning and task execution. Taking notes by hand has been shown to better enhance memory retention compared to typing on a computer.
In sum, banning mobile phones in schools can yield positive effects, improve academic performance and narrow the achievement gap between high- and low-achieving students. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that mobile phones and technology can also be valuable educational tools when used appropriately. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ | 2023-07-30T19:31:13 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ |
CLEVELAND (WJW) – Verizon customers with older phone plans could see their bill go up next month.
According to the company, starting Aug. 29, some older plans will be charged an additional $3 or $5 per mobile phone line every month.
Customers with Go Unlimited 2.0, Beyond Unlimited 2.0, Above Unlimited, and 5G Start 1.0 plans will see the $3 monthly increase, while single basic phone plans will see the $5 monthly increase.
The company says unlimited plans that are currently available to new customers won’t get hit with the additional charge.
Verizon says lines with tablets, smartwatches, and other devices also won’t be affected.
This comes after a price hike back in April, which, as reported by USA Today, saw a $2 monthly increase for some wireless plans.
In June 2022, Verizon raised some plan fees in response to “pressure,” the company’s head of business said at the time. It led to a $1.35 increase on its administrative fees, and an “Economic Adjustment Charge” for companies using the business plans. It was the first time the fees had been increased since 2019. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ | 2023-07-30T19:31:20 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ |
(NEXSTAR) — For five days this year, all national parks will be offering free admission to all visitors. One of those special days is nearly upon us.
The National Park Service announced the 2023 free days late last year. There are more than 400 parks, monuments, seashores and other NPS lands, the majority of which do not require an entrance fee. For the roughly 100 that do, these free admission days open the gates to everyone.
We’ve already had two free days this year: Jan. 16, which is Martin Luther King Day, and April 22, which was the first day of National Park Week.
Now, on Friday, Aug. 4, we’ll have another, which marks the anniversary of the Great Americans Outdoors Act.
The act, GAOA, was signed in 2020 and brought bipartisan investments to “improve visitor experiences, bolster climate resilience, and invest in the economy by creating good-paying jobs” at the parks, the Department of the Interior explains.
In honor of the bill signing anniversary, you won’t need to pay entrance fees at parks that usually require them. Fees will, however, still be necessary for overnight camping, cabin rentals, transportation, group day use and use of special areas.
The next two free admission days are Sept. 23, National Public Lands Day, and Nov. 11, Veterans Day.
Last year, there were roughly 312 million recreational visits to 395 national parks that track attendance, a 15 million increase over 2021. The most visited park was Blue Ridge Parkway, which received 15.7 million visits last year, edging out the Golden Gate National Recreation Area by slightly more than 72,000 visits. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/you-can-get-into-the-national-parks-for-free-this-week-heres-when/ | 2023-07-30T19:31:20 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/you-can-get-into-the-national-parks-for-free-this-week-heres-when/ |
(Green Car Reports) — GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt EV this week—as a future affordable EV product peg for the company’s product plan.
While the timeline is yet to be disclosed for the revamped Bolt EV, the timeline for the current Bolt EV disappearing from dealerships remains confirmed.
In April, GM disclosed that it would discontinue the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV at the end of 2023, as production winds down at the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan. GM had already committed that plant to produce the Chevrolet Silverado EV and other large electric trucks on its Ultium platform.
“Drawing on various Ultium and Ultifi technological advancements will help GM bring this popular model back to market on an accelerated timeline,” GM said Tuesday, confirming that the future Bolt EV won’t carry over its existing propulsion tech.
Future Bolt EV won’t be all-new
The automaker also suggested that not everything on the Bolt EV will be new. GM noted that it “will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
Ultium is the broad trade term applying to GM battery and electric propulsion families, and Ultifi is the term applying to its EV software, so this simply means that the future Bolt EV won’t carry forward with its present-generation LG Chem cells. Those cells had been the focus of a very costly, large-scale recall that appears to have been worth the effort, leaving customers satisfied and loyal to the brand and nameplate.
GM had no incentive to carry the current Bolt EV’s battery tech forward anyhow.
“We’re already on the road to delivering a 60% cost reduction compared to the Bolt EV with the next generation of Ultium,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021, of tech set to arrive mid-decade, as part of a statement touting the automaker as one of the few to have an EV that’s as affordable as the Bolt family.
Did GM ever actually kill the Chevy Bolt EV?
GM executives had already hinted to Green Car Reports and other outlets that while future electric small cars might be in the works, those vehicles wouldn’t use the same large-format Ultium pouch cells that GM planned to deploy on everything from the Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV on up to big trucks such as the GMC Hummer EV and Chevy Silverado EV.
Likewise, GM and Honda announced in April 2022 that they were working together on a joint architecture for affordable EVs—one that would use “next-generation Ultium battery technology,” according to GM.
At that time, those compact EVs were set to arrive for 2026. It’s hard to imagine GM working on multiple compact EV platforms outside China, so this week’s announcement likely signals that the project has been pulled ahead—perhaps like how the automaker managed to accelerate development of the Cadillac Lyriq.
GM may have provided some of the answer to what comes next. Earlier this year the company clarified that it might include the flexibility of cylindrical cells in future EVs, as part of its Ultium tech but not as part of the Ultium Cells LLC joint venture. That was made clearer this April with the announcement of a joint venture between GM and Samsung SDI that will mass-produce cylindrical cells for GM products starting in 2026.
The lower-profile cells would help answer the dimensional challenges that make those large-format cells harder to package within a small car or beneath the floor of a low-profile vehicle.
Bolt EV’s manufacturing dilemma
While the Bolt EV’s Michigan plant shifts to electric truck production later in the year, the automaker doesn’t have other immediate options for U.S. manufacturing. GM vacated its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that used to assemble compact cars and is located near the Ultium LLC cells facility. It’s now under the ownership of Foxconn, which will likely assemble the $29,900 Fisker Pear urban EV there.
Meanwhile, demand for the Bolt EV surges, and GM will face a gap in its lineup after the end of the year. Of the 36,024 EVs GM delivered in the first half of 2023, just 2,365 were of its new-generation Ultium EVs. The remaining 33,659 were Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
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In its update for investors earlier this week, CEO Barra pointed to the Bolt as one of its most in-demand vehicles, at or under a 10-day supply in dealer inventory.
“Actually, we can’t build enough Bolts right now,” Barra said to Wolfe Research analyst Rod Lache. | https://www.kron4.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ | 2023-07-30T19:32:55 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/automotive/whether-gm-killed-the-chevy-bolt-ev-or-not-its-returning-soon/ |
The Biden White House has tried to present itself as being above the fray of day-to-day squabbles, but increasingly, it’s jumping in, bashing the GOP and other critics at every opportunity.
The administration didn’t miss a chance this week to hammer Republicans over Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) floating that the House would move towards an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. They were quick with memos and statements to criticize the GOP attacks as a “clown carousel” and the idea of pursuing impeachment as “baseless.”
And the White House issued a scathing rebuke of Fox New host Greg Gutfeld, who said that Jews captured and tortured during the Holocaust survived by having skills and being useful, calling out his comments as a “dangerous, extreme lie.”
The new levels of punchy rhetoric preview the White House messaging strategy going into 2024, which is to fight back and call out what they consider extreme.
It’s a shift from their previous attitude, which was to let what they considered to be Republican chaos speak for itself.
“The cost is too expensive, both short and long term, to let them operate in a vacuum without showing that one, we know how to fight; two, that we will fight; three, we fight with facts and not with some flaming lies of information,” said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist.
Early in Biden’s presidency, the White House was careful not to weigh in on controversial comments from the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), hoping to avoid elevating her words and giving the far-right congresswoman more of a platform.
When McCarthy was struggling in January to get enough votes to be Speaker of the House, they sat back and watched it unfold.
Biden gently knocked the vote series at the time, saying, “It’s a little embarrassing it’s taking so long,” but also added, “that’s not my problem.” The White House had also insisted that Biden would not “insert himself” into the election, which ended up taking 15 ballots for McCarthy to finally clench enough votes.
But this week, when the Speaker signaled that the House could move forward with an impeachment inquiry, the White House came out with multiple statements and highlighted quotes from fellow Republicans in his conference pushing back on the idea.
It also released a memo about Republicans’ slams against the president overall, reflecting the Biden argument that the GOP is stepping up attacks on Hunter Biden and talk of impeachment because the economy is getting stronger and is now a less effective avenue for attack.
Hunter Biden appeared in a Delaware court Wednesday, where his plea deal was put on hold by a judge who questioned the scope of the agreement.
The White House this week touted “Bidenomics” after gross domestic product (GDP) numbers showed surprisingly strong economic growth. It rebuked GOP lawmakers for not embracing the data, pointing to Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone, who said Thursday, “There goes that recession talk, right?”
“Even Fox Business is welcoming today’s blockbuster economic growth numbers, the latest in a long line of proof points that Bidenomics is delivering for middle class families,” spokesman Andrew Bates said in a memo. “That’s because this strong growth report is objectively good news for the American people, which elected officials should support regardless of their political party.”
In the past, the White House has called out what it deemed antisemitism, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff in particular has spearheaded the effort against hatred towards Jewish Americans. The rebuke of Gutfeld was particularly notable, considering it called the conservative media voice’s comments insulting to the memory of people who suffered the Holocaust.
Over the last week, Vice President Harris has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a presidential candidate, over changes his administration has made regarding the way slavery is taught in his state. She quickly traveled to Jacksonville to deliver remarks over his recent moves.
And press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has turned Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) into an almost-daily punching bag, chastising him for blocking military promotions over his opposition to the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
Democrats argue that it’s significant the White House is getting punchier and not relying on the Biden reelection campaign to do it for them.
“I think the reason why it’s so important that it comes from the White House is because Joe Biden is a president for all people, and that White House works for all people,” Seawright said. “It helps weed out some of the foolishness, because I don’t think we can afford at this moment to let false information go unchecked or go numb to bad or false information for the sake of political gain.”
Another Democratic strategist argued the White House has picked its spots well, seeking to highlight when Republicans are fixated on issues that don’t resonate with most moderate voters. The strategist pointed to the GOP’s fixation on Hunter Biden as an example of something that is unlikely to move many mainstream voters.
Democratic communications strategist Katie Grant Drew noted the window for moving legislation closes early in election cycles so it “makes sense” the White House is preparing for 2024.
“They know they’re going to have to defend against Republicans’ insatiable appetite for investigations and impeachments, and the best defense is a good offense,” said Drew, a principal at Monument Advocacy. “When top Republicans continue to spout controversial rhetoric and spend time on divisive issues that the vast majority of Americans don’t agree with, the White House is going to use those moments to illustrate to the American people how extreme today’s Republican Party has become.”
Jim Kessler, co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way, said Biden and his team are wisely both selling their own victories and highlighting Republican dysfunction.
Ultimately, though, Kessler argued the 2024 election will be decided by broader issues such as the economy, something the White House has leaned into with its recent messaging.
“This election is going to come down to the middle. The middle ideologically, the middle of the country geographically, and the middle class,” Kessler said. “These are places where Biden’s got to win.” | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:01 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/white-house-takes-the-gloves-off-ahead-of-2024/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Infections of brain-eating amoeba are on the rise — and the warming climate may only exacerbate the problem, according to one of the world’s preeminent experts on the subject.
“Yes, we are experiencing warmer temperatures, and these amoeba are thermal-tolerant … so the numbers of amoeba will be higher,” explains Dr. Dennis Kyle, the head of the cellular biology department at the University of Georgia and the scholar chair of antiparasitic drug discovery with the Georgia Research Alliance.
“Warmer climates means, yes, more exposure and more cases,” he added.
Kyle, speaking with Nexstar, confirmed that reported cases of Naegleria fowleri infection — more commonly known as an infection of brain-eating amoeba — have “significantly increased” over the past four to five years. But he warned that increased cases cannot be linked solely to warmer waters, but rather more awareness and fewer misdiagnoses than in previous years.
“There’s more recognition that these amoeba are possibly causing disease, when before, virologists were misclassifying these cases as bacterial meningitis or [other diseases],” he said.
Naegleria fowleri, the microscopic organism responsible for the infection, is primarily found in warm freshwater and soil, but also hot springs, improperly chlorinated pool water, improperly treated tap water, and, in lower concentrations, even cooler freshwaters. Infection of N. fowleri usually occurs after water is forced into the nose, allowing the organism to enter the nasal cavity and cross the epithelial lining into the brain, where it begins destroying the tissue of the frontal lobe.
This brain infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), can lead to symptoms including fever, headaches, stiff neck, seizures and hallucinations within two weeks of exposure. It is almost always fatal, with death occurring within another one to 18 days of the first symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Most infections tend to occur between June and September, but cases outside of these months are not entirely unheard of, Kyle said.
N. fowleri is also found in higher concentrations in warmer, smaller bodies of freshwater, but the organism can be found in pretty much any freshwater lake, including cooler, clearer waters, Kyle said. There was even a case in 2016 in which a teenager contracted a fatal infection of N. fowleri after going whitewater rafting — an activity generally undertaken in less-risky colder waters.
The highest concentrations, though, are generally found in freshwater with surface temperature readings of 75 degrees F or higher, especially for extended periods of time.
And climate change, as scientists have observed, is already having an impact on the temperature of the world’s freshwater lakes. The quality and color of the water can also change due to warming temperatures, recent studies have suggested.
“There’s a constant risk in warmer climates,” Kyle remarked.
The amoeba itself can’t be specifically targeted with current treatments either, leading to a fatality rate of 97%. In fact, Kyle only knows of four known cases in the U.S. where patients survived, and “maybe” seven globally.
“I’m not convinced that were any further along in getting better treatment,” Kyle told Nexstar of the current antifungal and antibiotic cocktails that are currently used. “But If people can get diagnosed earlier, even with the suboptimal treatments that we have, they have a better chance of survival.”
To that end, Kyle, and the families of some of the victims, are hoping to spread awareness of the disease. He and his colleagues have also worked to identify what they believe is a biomarker that can help doctors diagnose infection earlier than previously possible, but their test is not yet FDA-approved.
“Most tests use cerebral spinal fluid, but we don’t have to have that,” he told Nexstar. “We can use blood or even urine. In our analyst studies, we can detect it three or four days before symptoms develop. I’m pretty excited.”
Preventing infection in the first place is currently the best course of action, he added.
“Raising awareness helps. But I think any warm freshwater facility, or hot spring … and at splashpads, you have to look at it carefully,” he said. “It’s incumbent on people running these facilities to minimize risk and minimize exposure.”
People can also take precautions by avoiding bodies of warm freshwater, and especially refraining from jumping or diving into such waters, which increases the risk of having contaminated water forced into the nose. He also recommends using nose plugs, keeping your head above the surface, and properly cleaning and chlorinating wading pools, swimming pools and spas (or opting for salt-water pools or spa facilities).
Parents should also know that children are at the highest risk of infection, but likely for no other reason than that they’re more prone to be more active in the water.
“It’s difficult to define the risk,” Kyle said. “But think of it like a lightning storm. Everybody knows not to walk outside in a lightning storm with a golf club in their hands. But many parents don’t know the risk that their kids might be open to.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:07 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/brain-eating-amoeba-will-the-warming-climate-bring-more-cases/ |
(The Conversation) – Should smartphones be allowed in classrooms? A new report from UNESCO, the education arm of the United Nations, raises questions about the practice. Though smartphones can be used for educational purposes, the report says the devices also disrupt classroom learning, expose students to cyberbullying and can compromise students’ privacy.
About 1 in 7 countries globally, such as the Netherlands and France, have banned the use of smartphones in school – and academic performance improved as a result, particularly for low-performing students, the report notes.
As school leaders in the U.S. wrestle with whether or not to ban smartphones, The Conversation has invited four scholars to weigh in on the issue.
Daniel G. Krutka: Use smartphones to encourage ‘technoskepticism’
While the issue of smartphone use in schools is complicated, evidence suggests that spending more time on smartphones is associated with young people being less happy and less satisfied with life.
Technology scholars have long argued that the key to living well with technology is in finding limits. However, in banning smartphones, I worry educators might be missing opportunities to use smartphones to encourage what I and other researchers refer to as technoskeptical thinking; that is, questioning our relationship with technology.
For example, students might be encouraged to consider the benefits and drawbacks of using navigational apps to travel from one place to another, as opposed to old-fashioned paper maps. Or, students might explore their social media feeds to critique what algorithms feed them, or how notifications get their attention.
In my research, I have looked at how teachers can encourage students to go on techno-fasts – that is, abstaining from the use of technology for a certain period of time. This, I argue, will give students time to reflect on the time they spend away from their devices.
Policy debates often focus on whether or not to put smartphones out of reach during the school day. But I believe educators might find it more beneficial to make the phones an object of inquiry.
Sarah Rose: Consult parents, teachers and students
While there is evidence that classroom phone usage can be a distraction, it can also promote engagement and learning. While research about the potential positive and negative consequences of classroom phones can be used to inform school phone policies, the views of those who are most directly impacted by the policies should also be taken into account.
The views of parents matter because their views may influence the extent to which their children follow the policy. The views of children matter because they are the ones being expected to follow the policy and to benefit from it. The views of teachers matter because they are often the ones that have to enforce the policies. Research shows that enforcing cellphone policies is not always a straightforward issue.
In my research, I have found that children – aged 10 and 11 years old – in collaboration with their parents, were able to come up with ideas for ideal policies and solutions to help enforce them. For example, one parent-child pair suggested mobile phone use in school could be banned but that a role of “telephone monitor” could be given to an older pupil. This “telephone monitor” would have a class mobile phone that children and parents could use to contact each other during the school day when necessary.
This recommendation reflected how parents and middle and high school students – whether from rural and urban areas – felt cellphones were important to keep in touch with each other during the school day. Beyond safety, children and parents also told us that phones were important for keeping in touch about changing plans and for emotional support during the school day.
I believe policies that simply ban phones in schools may be missing an opportunity to educate children about responsible mobile device use. When parents and children are involved in policy development, it has the potential to increase the extent to which these policies are followed and enforced.
Arnold L. Glass: Cellphone use in college lectures hurts performance in ways that are hard to see
The intrusion of internet-enabled electronic devices, such as laptops, tablets and cellphones, has transformed the modern college lecture. Students now divide their attention between the lecture and their devices. Classroom studies reveal that when college students use an electronic device for a nonacademic purpose during class, it hurts their performance on exams.
When attention is divided between an electronic device and the classroom lecture, it does not reduce comprehension of the lecture – at least, not when measured by within-class quizzes. Instead, divided attention reduces long-term retention of the classroom lecture, which hurts performance on unit exams and final exams.
When some students open electronic devices, it also negatively affects the performance of all the students around them. Research has shown that student performance on final exams was worse when electronic devices were permitted during classes that covered exam material versus when the devices were not.
Many students won’t think their divided attention is affecting their retention of new information. It may not be for the moment, but a couple of weeks later or down the line, research shows, it does.
Louis-Philippe Beland: Bans help low-achieving students the most
Numerous studies indicate that low-achieving students stand to benefit the most from the implementation of mobile phone bans in schools.
In a 2015 study, my co-author, Richard Murphy, and I examined the impact of banning mobile phones on student performance in high schools, using data from England. By comparing schools with phone bans to similar schools without the bans, we isolated the effect of mobile phones on performance. Our study found that banning mobile phones significantly increased test scores among 16-year-old students. The effect is equivalent to adding five days to the school year or an extra hour per week. Low-achieving students benefited more, while high-achieving students remained unaffected.
Similar studies in Spain and Norway using a similar approach demonstrated compelling evidence supporting the benefits of banning mobile phones. In Spain, grades improved and bullying incidents decreased. In Norway, the ban raised middle school students’ grade-point averages and their likelihood of attending academic high schools while reducing bullying. Evidence from Belgium suggests banning mobile phones can be beneficial for college student performance.
Psychological research sheds light on potential mechanisms behind the impact of mobile phones and technology on student performance. Multitasking, common with mobile phone use, has been found to hinder learning and task execution. Taking notes by hand has been shown to better enhance memory retention compared to typing on a computer.
In sum, banning mobile phones in schools can yield positive effects, improve academic performance and narrow the achievement gap between high- and low-achieving students. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that mobile phones and technology can also be valuable educational tools when used appropriately. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:13 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/do-smartphones-belong-in-classrooms-four-scholars-weigh-in/ |
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — The FBI has issued arrest warrants and released disturbing details in the armed home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly North Carolina couple and the theft of more than $150,000 of their cryptocurrency in April.
The incident took place at gunpoint at the couple’s home the morning of April 12 after thieves allegedly posed as construction workers and forced their way into the home, according to the Durham Police Department and the FBI.
According to an FBI criminal complaint obtained by Nexstar’s WNCN, the incident began when two men, dressed as construction workers, came to the victims’ home around 7:30 a.m. The duo claimed they would be inspecting pipes for damage and told the husband they would be “walking around the house.”
After a few minutes, the pair knocked on the door again and the wife answered the door. The suspects, who allegedly both had guns, then pushed their way inside.
“The men restrained and zip-tied the husband’s hands and the wife’s hands,” the FBI complaint said.
A man armed with a pink gun showed the wife it was loaded by opening the cylinder and then dragged her into a bathroom by her legs, the criminal complaint said.
The husband was taken to his Apple iMac and forced at gunpoint to log in and install a remote desktop application called AnyDesk. A person on the phone with a thief already knew “details about the account without being told,” the FBI complaint said.
The FBI believes the husband’s email account was compromised in the past, allowing the thieves to learn the details ahead of the trip to Durham and the home invasion.
The suspects were able to transfer $156,853 worth of cryptocurrency during the next 45 minutes, the FBI said. Before leaving, the thieves allegedly smashed the couple’s cellphones and the iMac.
The elderly couple managed to get out of their home and ask neighbors to call 911 for help. The pair suffered minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital, Durham police said.
The arrest warrants released Thursday for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping indicate two West Palm Beach, Florida, men are wanted — Jarod Gabriel Seemungal and Remy Ra St. Felix.
According to the FBI criminal complaint filed the same day, the suspects began targeting retirees who had cryptocurrency as early as February. The accused men even had the license plate number for the husband’s car, authorities said. A third man is also named in the criminal complaint, but no arrest warrant was issued for him as of Thursday.
Messages sent between those involved identified actual cryptocurrency amounts and their locations, the criminal complaint said. One suspect had a photo of the husband’s North Carolina driver’s license in his email account, according to the FBI.
The two suspects also discussed in internet messages how potential victims “have so much” money in accounts that it would be “retirement licks” — the FBI explained in the complaint that “licks” is slang for a robbery.
The thieves apparently rented a car in Florida and visited the Millennium Hotel in Durham a couple of days before the actual robbery, according to the complaint. Video from a home near the victims’ showed the thieves’ BMW SUV “conducting surveillance” at the couple’s home each of the three days before the alleged kidnapping, the FBI said.
The FBI also noted that a person driving a similar vehicle purchased costumes — a clipboard, reflective vest, sunglasses and a pair of khaki pants — at a nearby Walmart that allowed the suspected thieves to get into the victims’ home. Both suspects were seen on surveillance video from the store.
Additional details about potential victims wasn’t immediately available. As of Sunday, authorities have not said whether either man is in custody. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:19 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Facebook users still have a few weeks to claim their piece of a $725 million settlement Meta agreed to pay to resolve a lawsuit. Ex-Facebook users can get in on the action too, as long as they meet a few criteria.
The main requirement is that you had a Facebook account for any time between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. You also need to have been a United States resident during that period of time.
Even people who deleted their Facebook account qualify – they’re just likely to see a smaller payout. How big your check ends up being depends in part on how long your account was active.
People have until Aug. 25, 2023 to file a claim, either online or by mail.
After the deadline passes, a judge will need to give the settlement final approval. That hearing is set for Sept. 7.
If the settlement gets the final OK, it’s not yet clear when the payments will be sent out – but you might not need to wait for a check in the mail. When submitting your claim, you can fill out your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or direct deposit info to get your payment sent straight to your account.
It’s also not clear how much each eligible recipient will get. Legal fees and administrative costs need to be deducted first. The remaining amount will be divvied up among eligible Facebook users, but we don’t know how many people have submitted a claim.
We asked Scott Dodson, a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco and the director of the Center for Litigation and Courts, to help us estimate a figure. He broke down all the factors that go into calculating the size of a class action lawsuit payment, and said that based on similar cases he estimated the higher end of payments might be in the “triple digits.” Many more people will likely receive less than $100, he estimated.
Earlier this year, Meta agreed to settle the lawsuit claiming Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:25 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/facebook-settlement-checks-can-you-still-get-a-payment-if-you-deleted-your-account/ |
CLEVELAND (WJW) – Verizon customers with older phone plans could see their bill go up next month.
According to the company, starting Aug. 29, some older plans will be charged an additional $3 or $5 per mobile phone line every month.
Customers with Go Unlimited 2.0, Beyond Unlimited 2.0, Above Unlimited, and 5G Start 1.0 plans will see the $3 monthly increase, while single basic phone plans will see the $5 monthly increase.
The company says unlimited plans that are currently available to new customers won’t get hit with the additional charge.
Verizon says lines with tablets, smartwatches, and other devices also won’t be affected.
This comes after a price hike back in April, which, as reported by USA Today, saw a $2 monthly increase for some wireless plans.
In June 2022, Verizon raised some plan fees in response to “pressure,” the company’s head of business said at the time. It led to a $1.35 increase on its administrative fees, and an “Economic Adjustment Charge” for companies using the business plans. It was the first time the fees had been increased since 2019. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:31 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/have-an-older-verizon-phone-plan-your-bill-could-increase-soon/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man died at a Disney Resort in Orlando on Wednesday.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a call around 5:30 a.m. regarding an unresponsive person at Disney’s Contemporary Resort near Magic Kingdom.
The man, identified as 39-year-old Jeffrey Vanden Boom of Greendale, Wisconsin, was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Orange County Medical Examiner determined Vanden Boom fell from a hotel room balcony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The fall was ruled as accidental.
Walt Disney World did not immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for comment.
The death remains an ongoing investigation.
Last fall, an 83-year-old man died after riding the Tomorrowland Authority PeopleMover at Disney World. Authorities said he experienced a “cardiac event,” and his death was “deemed natural” by medical officials.
Earlier this year, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Disneyland, accusing park employees of laughing at a 66-year-old disabled woman who fell while getting off the Jungle Cruise ride in 2021 and later died. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:35 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-dies-at-disney-resort-deputies-investigating/ |
(NEXSTAR) — For five days this year, all national parks will be offering free admission to all visitors. One of those special days is nearly upon us.
The National Park Service announced the 2023 free days late last year. There are more than 400 parks, monuments, seashores and other NPS lands, the majority of which do not require an entrance fee. For the roughly 100 that do, these free admission days open the gates to everyone.
We’ve already had two free days this year: Jan. 16, which is Martin Luther King Day, and April 22, which was the first day of National Park Week.
Now, on Friday, Aug. 4, we’ll have another, which marks the anniversary of the Great Americans Outdoors Act.
The act, GAOA, was signed in 2020 and brought bipartisan investments to “improve visitor experiences, bolster climate resilience, and invest in the economy by creating good-paying jobs” at the parks, the Department of the Interior explains.
In honor of the bill signing anniversary, you won’t need to pay entrance fees at parks that usually require them. Fees will, however, still be necessary for overnight camping, cabin rentals, transportation, group day use and use of special areas.
The next two free admission days are Sept. 23, National Public Lands Day, and Nov. 11, Veterans Day.
Last year, there were roughly 312 million recreational visits to 395 national parks that track attendance, a 15 million increase over 2021. The most visited park was Blue Ridge Parkway, which received 15.7 million visits last year, edging out the Golden Gate National Recreation Area by slightly more than 72,000 visits. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/you-can-get-into-the-national-parks-for-free-this-week-heres-when/ | 2023-07-30T19:33:41 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/you-can-get-into-the-national-parks-for-free-this-week-heres-when/ |
The debate over equal pay in pro sports has continued for decades.
"Everyone thinks women should be thrilled when we get crumbs. I want women to be able to have the cake, the icing, and the cherry on top too," said Billie Jean King at the 2016 Miami Open.
In late 2022, Congress passed the Equal Pay for Team USA law, ensuring that women playing for international teams must make the same as men.
For national teams and athletes, tennis leagues have made significant moves toward equal pay here in the U.S.
Earlier this year, the Women's Tennis Association announced there would be equal prize money offered to both male and female athletes at more competitions, including the grand slam tournaments.
But a fair solution for the pay gap across the rest of the sports world seems elusive.
A recent CNN analysis found that internationally, women playing in the 2023 World Cup earn 25 cents to the dollar of men, a quadruple jump from the last cup but still far below their peers.
Other pro sports have seen low wages for women.
In hockey, about half of Team USA holds second and third jobs to pay the bills despite training and playing year-round.
The average salary for WNBA athletes was just over $102,000 in 2022, and many athletes sought work overseas for higher pay. Countries like China and Russia can offer contracts for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The average NBA salary is $8.2 million per year.
Of the top 50 highest-paid athletes, according to Forbes, there is just one woman: Serena Williams, at number 49.
But some prominent athletes and sports officials have voiced skepticism over a blanket equal pay policy in a number of sports. Critics saythe pay gap is an unfortunate but fair distribution based on revenue generated and viewership. Major men's sports in the U.S. still bring in bigger revenues and audiences than women's sports.
But it's difficult to make a direct comparison between revenues and viewership without examining sports media coverage itself and the lucrative broadcast rights.
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"It takes time now for women to catch up after 50 years of lack of investment. It takes time for them to catch up, and now develop the audience in the same way. And how do you develop an audience? You get on television," said Donna Lopiano.
Broadcast rights make up the biggest share of revenue for major sports teams in the U.S.
Skeptics for equal pay argue women’s sports have less interest and thus aren't worth the bigger deals.
But is it a matter of less interest or less exposure? Would more people be interested in seeing women play if the hype levels and ability to tune in were the same?
A University of Southern California and Purdue University study found 95% of total television sports coverage in 2019 focused on men’s sports.
The imbalance was similar in social media posts and sports newsletters.
"This has nothing to do with whether or not there are great, you know, women athletes. This has everything to do with who is controlling mass communications," said Lopiano.
There are signs that the existing TV deals for women aren't as rich as they could be.
A 2021 NCAA analysis of March Madness tournaments found the broadcast rights for the women’s teams were undervalued by millions.
Even though fewer people watched the final for women's college basketball between 2015 and 2021, total viewers for the women’s final increased by 32%. While for men it has declined by 40%.
The women’s game was only available on cable, while the men's had a wider reach with free network TV.
A 2021 white paper for YouGov surveyed reasons why viewers around the world don't engage with women’s sports as much.
The top reasons given were: "less media coverage," "lack of knowledge of teams and athletes," and "limited marketing."
When women athletes share a broadcast and marketing promotion with men, we see the gap in interest disappear.
For example, U.S. audiences tend to be equally interested in male and female athletes when it comes to the Olympics, compared to pro sports and college sports.
Pro tennis players also receive equal media coverage and are broadcast together.
Female tennis matches and players draw similar viewership numbers as the men's.
As American interest in women’s sports grows and major sports leagues prepare for new TV rights deals, we may see slow progress toward more equal media coverage.
And as the playing field slowly evens out, the rise of media coverage may bring higher revenues, viewership, interest, and pay for women athletes.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | https://www.wtvr.com/equal-pay-in-women-s-sports-the-challenge-for-female-athletes | 2023-07-30T19:33:50 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/equal-pay-in-women-s-sports-the-challenge-for-female-athletes |
ASBURN, Va. — When Jason Wright was hired as Commanders team president three years ago, he made NFL history as the first African American to hold that position with any team. That kind of change is what he has been hoping to make throughout the organization, and now with new owner Josh Harris, Wright has that opportunity.
"The energy here is intense and it's positive," Wright said from training camp recently. "We haven't had that since I've been here."
Wright and Harris have been fixtures at practices during the first few days of camp, something previous owner Daniel Snyder rarely did. The reaction from fans was also something new.
"I've never seen where the owner gets bigger cheers than the players," Wright said with a laugh. "But I will absolutely take it. There is a sense of relief that is immediately filled with excitement and energy to get to work."
Wright noted that season ticket sale requests jumped 3,500 right after the sale was announced and he expects that to continue to rise as the team takes the field and has some success. Overall, Wright says the team has sold more tickets for the 2023 season than they sold in all of 2022.
Even though Harris and his group haven't owned the team for a month yet, Wright reports the new support from the corner office is allowing his staff to engage with fans in ways they weren't able to previously.
"There are so many things that we wanted to do with this fanbase, but didn't have a counterpart on the other side [the ownership] that was willing to jump in with us," Wright explained. "But now, they're [the owners] here. They're here, they're willing and they're excited and it's the family coming back together."
That feeling extends further than just the players and fans as well. The turnover rate for staff inside Commanders headquarters has been high for years. Wright estimates that upwards of 80% of the current staff has arrived just in the three years he has been with the team. They now have a new and improved work environment which translates directly to their morale and productivity.
"The people who have been here working hard, those who believed we would get to this moment are now living in that moment," Wright said. "It does my heart so much good that we were able to create a culture to insulate them through that process where they can now excel and do their best work."
That goes for the players and coaches as well. Gone are the days when most of the questions aimed at them concerned off-the-field incidents and accusations. They can down get down to just concentrating on football, a change that will hopefully translate into more success on the field.
"NFL athletes, especially our guys, are extreme, consummate professionals." Wright said. "They are able to focus in moments where most of us would be distracted. That takes energy."
"Even though they would never say it, they would never use it as an excuse, the fact that they don't have to have other conversations about the team and the workplace, that's going to make a big difference," he said.
Wright and his team are working on the gameday experience at FedEx Field this year, improving the sound system, the concession options for fans, and hinted at other improvements that will be announced before the home opener against Arizona on Sept. 10. | https://www.wtvr.com/sports/washington-commanders-team-president-jason-wright-on-new-owners-july-30-2023 | 2023-07-30T19:33:55 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/sports/washington-commanders-team-president-jason-wright-on-new-owners-july-30-2023 |
FedEx driver recalls harrowing moment he pulled injured man from burning car on CA highway: 'Perfect timing'
Jonathan Rohrbach is being praised as a hero for his actions
FedEx driver Jonathan Rohrbach stepped in at the right time to save an injured man from his burning vehicle on a California highway last Wednesday, pulling him to safety mere moments before the flames grew out of hand.
Video footage captured by local news outlet KGTV-TV in San Diego shows Rohrbach dragging the man across the pavement after pulling him from his car. In the backdrop, the badly-damaged car is engulfed in flames.
"It was just, I guess, a natural reaction," he told "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday. "I went around the corner and in a bend in the highway and saw the car on fire. There wasn't anybody up there yet. I was the first one to come up on it. So I pulled over and it was already on fire. So I pulled over and grabbed my fire extinguisher from the truck and ran back there."
"He was yelling about his leg, so I didn't know if he was pinned in the car or what was going on. So I figured I would be able to at least try to knock the fire down a little bit. That way that would give me more time if I could get it all out, at least check him out and see what I could do to get him out, you know?"
Rohrbach said the driver had "obvious injuries" on his left leg. As soon as he tried to help him to his feet to get away from the car, he screamed in pain, so they had to shift strategies.
"He couldn't stand up at all. I couldn't pick him up, so the best option that we could come up with is to help him down to the ground and then and pull them away from the car, get him at least away from the fire."
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The incident took place in Otay Mesa, California on I-15 in San Diego County Wednesday, and Rohrbach has since made news for his split-second heroism.
The KGTV cameraman who recorded the incident happened to be only an exit or two north of the scene, so he raced there where he captured the footage.
"He was there… I think right after I got the guy on the ground or helped him to the ground is when the cameraman came running up on us… you know, there's not much he could do at that point to help, so he was able to film it."
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California Highway Patrol later confirmed the 28-year-old driver was transported to the hospital and is expected to recover, according to KGTV. They also said drugs and alcohol were not factors in the incident.
Praised as a hero, Rohrbach told the outlet, "If it looks like there’s a way to help somebody, you gotta stop and help them."
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Jason Aldean hasn’t backed off from defending his new hit song “Try That in a Small Town,” which has faced tremendous backlash for its charged lyrics and controversial music video.
On Saturday night, Aldean told concertgoers at the Mansfield Xfinity Center - roughly an hour outside of Boston - that Beantown can identify with the song because of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, which resulted in three deaths and hundreds of injuries.
He said the "Boston Strong" mentality - a phrase used to describe the unity around the Massachusetts capital city after the bombings - aligns with the message of "Try That in a Small Town."
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"You guys get this better than anybody, right?" he asked the crowd, in video footage shared on Twitter. "What happened was a whole - not a small town - a big a-- town coming together, no matter your color, no matter nothing."
"This is not about race," he added. "It's about people getting their s--- together and acting right."
One night earlier at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pa., Aldean defended "Try That in a Small Town" by saying that critics wanted to turn the song into "something that it wasn't," according to PennLive. He said the edited version of the music video - which cut out six seconds of footage, including scenes from a Black Lives Matter protests - were removed for legal reasons. Indeed, Aldean's record label, BBR Music Group, said in a statement to The Post that "the video footage was edited due to third party copyright clearance issues," but did not elaborate.
"Everybody can look at it from a different angle," Aldean told the Pennsylvania crowd on Friday. "But just because six seconds were taken out, doesn't change what I was trying to say in the video."
"I don't give a damn what color you are, or who you are," he added.
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"Try That in a Small Town" has attracted widespread criticism for overlaying images and video footage of violent protests and riots with charged lyrics, such as "Try that in a small town/See how far ya make it down the road/Around here, we take care of our own."
But the song has continued to be popular, earning the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 last week. The video, which has been removed from rotation on CMT, has recorded more than 22 million views on YouTube as of Sunday.
Amid the success, Aldean has defended the song as a celebration of small towns and communities.
"I feel like everybody's entitled to their opinion. You can think, you can think something all you want to, it doesn't mean it's true, right?," Aldean told fans during a concert on July 21 in Cincinnati.
“Somebody asked me, ‘Hey man, do you think you’re going to play this song tonight?’” he said to the crowd. “The answer was simple. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/30/arts/jason-aldean-says-boston-can-connect-with-try-that-small-town-after-2013-marathon-bombings/ | 2023-07-30T19:34:46 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/30/arts/jason-aldean-says-boston-can-connect-with-try-that-small-town-after-2013-marathon-bombings/ |
NXT's Wes Lee talks historic championship as he faces tough battle at Great American Bash to recapture title
Lee's 269-day run as champion ended recently but he has an opportunity to regain it at The Great American Bash
Wes Lee’s historic NXT North American Championship reign ended in the blink of an eye.
In a match against Dominik Mysterio on NXT earlier this month, Lee was in control in his title defense. He was trying to put his opponent away when Mysterio’s Judgment Day stablemates played the numbers game to distract the referee. Rhea Ripley came out of nowhere and hit Lee in the head with her RAW Women’s Championship. Lee was knocked out cold and Mysterio pinned him for the title.
Lee held the title for a record 269 days.
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"It means something to me more outside of a selfish aspect," he told Fox News Digital when asked about the title. "I never saw myself as a champion and being able to capture the championship really allowed for me to see myself in an entire different light.
"And when I got to become champion and I had to decide on how I was going to carry myself as a champion, I quickly discovered that I wanted to represent myself to the best of my abilities so that any other individual that may be struggling with identifying who they are, they can use me as a barometer, as someone that is still trying to figure things out as they’re going along just like everybody else.
"The things that I like, I like, and the things that I dislike, I dislike, and I stand by them and I don’t necessarily bend or break for anyone. I’m willing to compromise but at the same time, I stand for something and I wanted to represent that and be a motivation for people to be more of themselves and still try to capture the goals that they want to do in life."
At The Great American Bash on Sunday, instead of going 1-on-1 against Mysterio in a rematch for the NXT North American Championship, Lee will have to square off against Mustafa Ali as well. Mysterio’s stablemates – Ripley, Damian Priest and Finn Balor – make things a little more difficult too.
"I welcome it because now I’m having to prepare for everything. Before, I would go into a match, not even factoring in those kinds of things in," he said. "But now, I’m expecting someone that’s not a part of a match to become part of this match. And I’ve been training and going over film to see how they prefer to attack people and the group mentality that they have.
"But then going over Mustafa Ali’s moves to find holes within his so that I can build a solid game plan to not get caught off guard the way that I was before. But having all of these obstacles is something, again, something that I look forward to. I don’t want an easy route to the top. I don’t want an easy route to my goal. I don’t need and I don’t want an easy path to my happiness. If I get there too easily, then I won’t really appreciate it. I need to have those dark times in order for me to really appreciate that light.
"So, this is a dark time, but I will make my way back to the light and be able to appreciate light again."
Lee will be looking to regain the championship at NXT’s The Great American Bash on Sunday. The show starts at 8 p.m. ET and can be seen on Peacock.
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Here’s the rest of the card:
- Carmelo Hayes (c) vs. Ilja Dragunov in a singles match for the NXT Championship.
- Roxanne Perez vs. Blair Davenport in a Weapons Wild match
- Gable Steveson vs. Baron Corbin in a singles match
- Gallus vs. The Family in a tag-team match for the NXT Tag Team Championship
- Tiffany Stratton (c) vs. Thea Hail in a submission match for the NXT Women’s Championship
- Dragon Lee, Nathan Frazer, Yulisa Leon and Valentina Feroz vs. The Meta-Four in an eight-person mixed tag-team match. | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nxts-wes-lee-talks-historic-championship-faces-tough-battle-great-american-bash-recapture-title | 2023-07-30T19:34:48 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nxts-wes-lee-talks-historic-championship-faces-tough-battle-great-american-bash-recapture-title |
These 5 Local Markets Are Some Of The Best In New Jersey
Grocery Shopping is always a pain, whether you're just running in for creamer in the morning, or doing a full grocery run.
You have to find parking, fight the crowds, hope what you need is in stock, and then fight your way up to the checkout.
Is there any way to make grocery shopping any more enjoyable?
I think there is, and it's a pretty simple solution; shop at local markets and local grocery stores.
You still have to deal with crowds, however, I always find it more fun to grocery shop at a little mom-and-pop-owned shop.
One I really enjoy swinging by is Lasolas Market near Normandy Beach.
They have a great selection of produce and also make really good sandwiches to go, which is a plus.
Of course, Joe Leone's may be one of the most popular local Italian markets by the Jersey Shore, especially if you're looking for fresh pasta.
But there are so many other places worth checking out, some of them you may have never even heard of.
These Are The 5 Best Local Markets In New Jersey
According to the pros at Only In Your State, these little specialty markets are among the absolute best in New Jersey.
Mitsuwa is the largest Japanese market on the East Coast that offers a great selection of Japanese specialties as well as a food court.
Kolos in Lakewood has an amazing selection of deli meats, cookies, and European Style Sausages.
Aisle One in Passaic is not only the biggest Kosher market in the Garden State but is also home to a few restaurants too.
Fattal's in Patterson is home to a lot of great baked goods and even has a Shawarma section.
And lastly, you'll want to check out Jersey's largest Asian marketplace in Cherry Hill called Hung Vuong Food Market
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Honduran child travels alone to U.S. to reunite with mother, unaware of her passing
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:22 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Gray News) – A child from Honduras made the dangerous trek to the United States up through Mexico on her own, according to authorities.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced on Facebook that their brush team encountered the Honduran child Thursday.
The department said the girl was found in Mexico by three undocumented women who crossed her illegally through the river.
Officials said the girl was traveling to the U.S. to find her mother. After an investigation, however, authorities determined the girl’s mother had sadly died three days before.
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SANDY HOOK, N.J. (AP) — Four people found clinging to the hull of an overturned boat off New Jersey were rescued and taken to a hospital, authorities said.
Coast Guard officials in New York say Coast Guard crews and New York police and fire units were deployed to the area off Sandy Hook after receiving a distress call over VHF Channel 16.
Petty Officer Logan Kaczmarek told the Asbury Park Press that rescue crews found a floating debris field of items from the boat. They then found the four people at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday holding onto the floating hull near the Romer Shoal Light Station about 2½ nautical miles (4.6 kilometers) from the tip of Sandy Hook.
Crews from Station Sandy Hook pulled two people from the water while the other two were rescued by New York fire crews. All four were taken to Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch; there was no immediate word on their condition. Coast Guard officials didn’t immediately release information about the type of vessel or the reason it capsized. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/4-found-clinging-to-hull-of-overturned-boat-off-new-jersey-rescued-taken-to-nj-hospital/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-30T19:34:53 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/4-found-clinging-to-hull-of-overturned-boat-off-new-jersey-rescued-taken-to-nj-hospital/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
How to transfer photos, videos from your external hard drive, Apple devices
Find out various ways you can easily move photos, videos
We recently received a great question from "Frank" of Fresh Meadows, New York, about transferring photos and videos.
"First, I must tell you I love your newsletter. Need some help, I am trying to transfer photos and videos from my external hard drive to my iPad or my cloud. Is this possible?
Thank You – Frank"
The short answer is yes, it is possible to transfer photos and videos from your external hard drive to your iPad or your iCloud, but the methods may vary depending on the type and format of your external hard drive and the size and number of your files. Let's summarize some of the options and then get into how to use them.
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Transferring files between Apple devices using Airdrop, iCloud or external hard drive
Using an external hard drive: You can transfer photos and videos from an external hard drive to an iPhone, iPad or iCloud by using a camera adapter.
Using Airdrop: If you want to transfer files quickly between Apple devices, you can use Airdrop.
Using iCloud: If you want to share files between devices, the most efficient way is to turn on your iCloud and sync your album.
Syncing Photo Album: Once the photo album is synced with your iCloud, your phone and iPad should also display those photos if you are syncing all your devices with the iCloud and have opted to share those photos between devices.
Storage Considerations: Not all people want to share photos via iCloud between devices because it can occupy more space on their devices, but it is a good option to keep everything accessible. You may want to make sure you have the option for storing files on your devices at a lower size and keep the original-sized images in the cloud: Settings > select your name in the first row > iCloud > Photos > Optimize iPhone Storage.
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How to transfer photos and videos from external hard drive to iPad or cloud
If your external hard drive has a Lightning or USB-C connector
- Connect your external drive (see below for recommendation) to your iPhone, iPad or iPod – Note: You need an external power source for your drive
- Open the Files app
- Tap the Browse button
- Tap open your external drive under the list of Locations
- For photos and videos in folders, tap open the folder
- Select the photo(s) you want to move to your iDevice
- Tap the Share Button
- Select Save Image from the share sheet
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If your external hard drive is wireless or has a WiFi feature
- If your external hard drive is wireless or has a WiFi feature, you can connect it to your iPad via WiFi and use its companion app or a web browser to access and download the files you want. You may need to check the manual of your external hard drive for specific instructions on how to do this.
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Transferring photos and videos from an external hard drive to your iCloud
- If you want to transfer photos and videos from your external hard drive to your iCloud, you can use a Windows PC or a Mac to upload them.
- You need to have iCloud for Windows or iCloud for Mac installed on your computer and sign in with the same Apple ID as your iPad.
- You can then open the iCloud Photos folder on your computer and drag and drop the files from your external hard drive into the Uploads folder.
- The files will then be uploaded to iCloud and synced with your iPad.
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Transferring files between Apple devices by using AirDrop
The above is not the only way for you to transfer files between Apple devices. There are multiple other ways that you can move your photos and videos around. The quickest way to transfer files between Apple devices is by using AirDrop.
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Moving photos and videos from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad
First, make sure AirDrop is turned on for your Mac and iPhone/iPad.
Second, make sure that both your Mac and your iPhone support AirDrop and have WiFi and Bluetooth turned on.
Make sure that your Mac and your iPhone are within 30 feet of each other and that there are no physical obstructions or interferences between them.
How to move photos and videos from a Mac to an iPhone or iPad:
- Open the Finder app on your Mac
- Click AirDrop on the left-hand side
- Where it says Allow me to be discovered by, click Everyone
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- Now, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad
- Scroll down and select General
- Then tap AirDrop
- Check off Everyone for 10 Minutes
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Then, you can follow these steps to start transferring:
How to transfer photos and videos from Mac to iPhone or iPad using AirDrop
- In your Finder app on your Mac, go to where you have the pictures and videos you wish to transfer saved (Desktop, Downloads, iCloud Drive, etc.)
- Select the photos or videos you want to transfer; once selected, right-click, and in the menu that opens up, select Share
- Click Airdrop
- The name of your iPhone or iPad should appear, and you can click the image next to your name
- Wait a few seconds and your photos/videos should appear in your device's photo library
Note that the process above may vary slightly depending on the version of macOS or iOS being used.
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Transferring photos, videos from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac using AirDrop
Look at the steps above to make sure that AirDrop is turned on for your iPhone/iPad and your Mac. Then follow these steps:
- Open your Photos app on your iPhone or iPad
- Select the photos/videos you wish to transfer to your Mac by clicking Select at the top and checking off each one (it will turn blue with a white check mark)
- Once you have everything selected, click the upward arrow in the bottom left-hand corner
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- Click AirDrop
- Tap the name of your Mac
- The photos/videos should automatically appear in your Downloads folder on your Mac
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Pro Tip: Always double-check device settings and AirDrop preferences to ensure a smooth transfer.
How to sync your photo album with iCloud on a Mac
- Click Photos in the menu bar and select Settings
- Click the iCloud tab and check iCloud Photos
- Be sure to click Optimize Mac Storage to save space on your device. If your Mac is low on space, full-resolution photos and videos are automatically replaced with smaller, device-sized versions. Full-resolution versions can be downloaded from iCloud anytime.
- Enter your Apple ID password if prompted
- Wait for your photos to upload to iCloud
Once the photo album is synced with your iCloud, your phone and iPad should also display those photos if you are syncing all your devices with your iCloud and have opted to share those photos between devices.
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Kurt's key takeaways
Transferring photos and videos from an external hard drive to an iPad or iCloud is indeed possible, with various methods depending on the type of external hard drive.
Options include using the Files or Photos app, connecting via adapters, utilizing wireless or WiFi features, or using AirDrop for seamless transfer between Apple devices. It's important to double-check device settings and preferences to ensure a smooth transfer process.
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Indiana 'mass shooting' leaves 1 person dead, at least 19 others injured: police
Police said the shooting happened during a 'large party' in Muncie
A "mass shooting" at a block party in Muncie, Indiana early Sunday left one person dead and at least 19 others injured.
Dispatchers received a call for multiple people shot in the area of S. Hackley St. and E. Willard St. around 1:14 a.m. Initial information was that there was a "large party" at this location.
Police said in a news release that there was no active threat to the community and that "multiple" victims were injured, including some critically.
"Due to the number of victims and nature of the incident, multiple agencies were contacted to assist," the City of Muncie said in a press release.
Police officers from neighboring Eaton were among those who provided assistance. Eaton Police Chief Jay Turner called the incident a "mass shooting."
Police did not say how many people were injured, but officials at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie told The Associated Press that 19 victims were treated in their emergency department for injuries related to the shooting, and more than a dozen remained at the hospital in stabilized condition Sunday morning.
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Criswell said some victims sustained critical injuries and were transferred by medical helicopter to other facilities.
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Delaware County Coroner Gavin Greene identified the man who died as 30-year-old Joseph E. Bonner III, The Star Press reported.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday, killing two people in the city that is home to Florida’s flagship university, authorities said.
Police officers had been conducting crowd control in downtown Gainesville, Florida, in a commercial corridor several blocks from the University of Florida campus when they heard gunshots, the police department said in a post.
The post didn’t disclose how many people were shot but said two of the shooting victims later died from their injuries. Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shootings. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/two-people-killed-after-shots-fired-blocks-from-university-of-florida-campus/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-30T19:34:54 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/two-people-killed-after-shots-fired-blocks-from-university-of-florida-campus/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Pittsburgh police arrest suspect in brutal attack on newlywed found in 'puddle of blood' during honeymoon
41-year-old Larry Gilmore, a father of three, was transported to a hospital in critical condition
Pittsburgh police have arrested a man for the alleged brutal assault of a newlywed on his honeymoon earlier this week.
Heiko-Lamar Calhoun, 26, of Wilkinsburg, was arrested on charges of criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, and recklessly endangering another person.
Pittsburgh police were called to the Even Hotel at Forbes Avenue after 7 p.m. Monday for reports of a male assaulted in the lobby.
The victim, 41-year-old Larry Gilmore, was found unresponsive and bleeding profusely from severe trauma to his head, police said. Medics transported him to UPMC Mercy hospital in critical condition.
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Gilmore’s wife Shalawrae, to whom he had just gotten married, told Channel 11 she had found her husband "in a puddle of blood."
Court documents cited by TribLive.com say the attacker walked up to Gilmore from behind and put him in a chokehold before slamming his head into the ground. The suspect allegedly kicked and stomped Gilmore and took several items – including his pants.
Calhoun, who is homeless, was arraigned Tuesday morning and remains in custody at the Allegheny County Jail. District Judge Nicholas C. Martini denied him bail, TribLive.com reported.
Gilmore’s family, meanwhile, has set up a GoFundMe account to help him cover medical expenses. As of Thursday, the campaign has raised nearly $4,000 of its $10,000 goal.
Gilmore’s family described him as a "loving father of three" with a fourth expected in December 2023.
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Calhoun’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 7.
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NEW YORK — In March 2022, Mark Herman, a dog walker and recreational drug enthusiast in upper Manhattan, New York, came into possession of a dog, a painting and a story.
The dog was Phillipe, a 17-year-old toy poodle that belonged to Herman’s only client, an 87-year-old retired law professor named Isidore Silver.
The painting, which belonged to Silver, may be a lost work by artist Chuck Close, whose canvases once sold for as much as $4.8 million. Or it may not.
Therein lies the story. On a recent afternoon in his cluttered apartment, Herman offered a broken chair and began a circuitous account of friendship, loss and a commercial art market not meant for people like him.
In 1967, Close was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, “desperately unhappy” (as he recalled in a 1987 interview) and eager for the New York art world, when the school offered him his first solo exhibition, in the student union. Close, best known for his monumental photorealist portraits, had not yet found his style and was painting in an expressionist mode heavily influenced by Willem de Kooning.
For his exhibition, he chose 31 works, several of which featured male and female nudity. One semiabstract painting depicted Bob Dylan wearing only a T-shirt. Others had titles like “I’m Only 12 and Already My Mother’s Lover Wants Me” and “I Am the Only Virgin in My School.”
Needless to say, there were complaints. One drawing was stolen.
The university removed the paintings. Close sued on free speech grounds. His lawyer, in what became a well-known First Amendment case, argued that “art is as fully protected by the Constitution as political or social speech.”
The lawyer was Silver, future poodle owner.
Silver prevailed in court, then lost on appeal. Close, who later dismissed the exhibition as “sort of transitional work,” lost his job.
The paintings, which were returned to Close, disappeared from the record.
Both men moved to New York. Close became one of America’s preeminent artists, even after paralyzing spinal trauma, until several women accused him of sexual harassment in 2017. Silver, who never liked practicing law, joined the faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In his bedroom closet in upper Manhattan, he kept a large rolled-up painting that for a half-century he never showed to anyone. The painter, he claimed, was Close.
Enter the dog walker.
Herman, who was almost two decades younger than Silver, had studied the Buchla synthesizer and television production at New York University, worked in a photo lab, ran a recording studio and sold high-end stereo equipment online. By the time the two men met six years ago, he was walking dogs to support himself.
The older man was, to put it gently, a volatile character. “He had his moods,” Herman, 67, said, adding, “I know how to deal with people like that. You say yes.”
He and Silver hit it off, Herman said. Both liked movies and Lenny Bruce, and both loved Phillipe, whom Herman called Philly-bones. Herman started lingering in Silver’s apartment after his morning walks, staying for coffee and cake. Herman made his own cannabis oils, and he gave some to Silver for his back pain.
When the pandemic hit, and Herman stopped walking dogs, the two men talked for hours on the telephone daily, Herman said. Silver had alienated most of the people close to him, but he formed a bond with Herman.
“He had a temper,” Herman said. “If he wanted to say something, you stand back and take it. That’s the way I dealt with him, because he was very explosive.”
Asked what would set his friend off, Herman replied, “Everything.”
Still, Herman said, “He was like a second father to me. I loved that guy.”
One day, Silver mentioned having represented Close in the 1960s. Herman was intrigued. He had seen an exhibition of Close’s portraits at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1981 and had loved it. “I was blown away to see that in person,” he said.
In September 2021, Silver wrote about the case in The Daily News, asking, “What happened to the paintings at the exhibition?” before answering, teasingly, “Memory almost totally fails.” (Close died in August 2021.)
Silver’s health declined. Herman on three occasions arrived to get Phillipe and found Silver on the floor. Twice he had to call 911.
Silver told Herman about the painting rolled up in the closet. The plastic around the canvas was almost black from Silver’s pipe smoke. “He basically said, ‘Take the painting,’” Herman said. Herman did.
“Not only did I get the painting, but I got Phillipe,” he added. “I just took him.”
Silver died last March. Phillipe died in September. Silver did not include Herman in his will, but the family gave him $5,000. And he had the painting.
Herman, who had stopped walking dogs and was living on Social Security, checked out the auction prices for Close’s work: $3.2 million for a portrait of Philip Glass; $4.8 million for a portrait of painter John Roy. Even a very early abstract painting, “The Ballerina,” from 1962, sold for $40,000 at Sotheby’s, more than double the auction house’s estimate.
Under the influence of magic mushrooms, Herman received some numbers: first $1.4 million, and later $10 million. “But they’re pranksters,” he said of the mushrooms. “I would not jump out of an airplane and say, ‘Oh, the shrooms packed my chute.’ I wouldn’t trust them that far. They don’t know everything.”
Still, maybe Herman’s ship had come in.
“If I lived in a mansion, I’d keep it,” he said. “I wanted to sell it.”
He called an old prep school friend who had become part of the art squat movement in France, who warned him against hanging onto it. “He said the art world is the most cutthroat of any, even worse than Hollywood,” Herman said. “He was saying there might even be people coming in the middle of the night to steal it from you. I said, ‘What?!’”
Herman said he was afraid to unroll the painting, lest he damage it.
Through an internet search, Herman found Pace Gallery, Close’s longtime dealer. “Pace wanted $5,000 for stretching and evaluation,” he said. He did not have that kind of money.
He went to Sotheby’s auction house, which offered to put it up for sale in December 2022, with an estimate of $15,000 to $20,000 — low because it was an early work and because Close’s market had softened since the accusations of sexual harassment. The cost of stretching would come out of the sale price.
When the auction house unrolled the painting, it was the first time Herman had ever seen it, along with the signature: “Close 1965-6.” The colors were vibrant; the textures densely layered. “Almost like de Kooning,” Herman said.
But here things take a turn.
The auction house had contacted Pace Gallery, which had contacted Close’s studio. Neither had any record of the painting. “While this doesn’t necessarily mean that the work is not by Chuck Close, it is certainly a red flag for both us and Pace,” an associate specialist at Sotheby’s wrote to Herman. There would be no sale. In subsequent messages, she advised Herman that he would receive an invoice for $1,742 for stretching the canvas and that he should remove it soon or face storage fees.
Sotheby’s declined interview requests for this article; Pace Gallery responded only with a terse statement: “We’ve looked into this further and Pace does not have any information on the below work, or the 1967 exhibition.”
Herman’s big windfall had not materialized. Maybe he had a painting by one of America’s great artists. But he was in the wrong art market at the wrong time.
In recent decades, as prices for paintings have skyrocketed, so has litigation around their authenticity. In response, artists’ studios and estates have moved away from authenticating stray works that pop up, in order to avoid being sued. The estates of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, all closed their authentication services. At least one authenticator had his life threatened for not approving a painting.
Authentication is especially difficult with early work, said Tom Eccles, who runs the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
“It’s almost impossible to authenticate an early work. They didn’t document the work. They didn’t photograph the work. It’s probably not in a database,” Eccles said. “So it’s not to say these works aren’t real, but it’s very hard to authenticate them.”
Often, as with Herman’s canvas, early efforts do not reflect the artist’s mature style, Eccles said, so they cannot be authenticated by analyzing the technique or materials. “And even if one does authenticate them, are they worth a lot of money? Probably not.”
Herman tried other auction houses and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney. No interest. He contacted the nonprofit International Foundation for Art Research, which authenticates work, but it wanted $3,000 and information regarding the painting’s provenance and expert opinions about the work — all things that Herman did not have.
He wrote to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to see if it had records of Close’s 1967 exhibition. Another dead end.
On July 13, Herman and a friend rented a van to retrieve the painting from Sotheby’s. It was his second trip to the auction house, this time without the great expectations of the first. And now he was out $125 for the van and worried that Sotheby’s would not let him take his painting unless he wrote a hefty check for the stretching. “I was excited the first time, but now it’s like getting a colonoscopy,” he said on the sidewalk outside.
The painting, stretched on a frame, was even more radiant than it had looked when the auction house first unrolled it. It bothered Herman that Pace had not looked at the actual painting, just dismissed it based on a photograph. The stretched canvas was almost 6 feet tall. It just barely fit into the van.
Back at Herman’s apartment in Washington Heights, it dominated the living room. Herman looked exhausted. He had been living with disappointments since December, to say nothing of his life before then. He missed his talks with Silver. “It’s documented that he was the lawyer at Chuck Close’s trial,” he said, frustrated. “And there’s the unbroken chain of custody in his closet.”
He looked at the painting. You couldn’t not look at it.
“I’m enjoying it right now,” he said, “but you don’t want to have ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Besides, his apartment, which he shared with his daughter-in-law and his grandson, was no place for a painting like that. “It wants to bust out and be alive,” he said. “It wants to be out in the world. It’s crying out for a home in the Hamptons.”
At last, Herman caught a break. On July 17, four days after Herman’s van run to Sotheby’s, an archivist at the University of Massachusetts uncovered a file on Close’s 1967 exhibition, including an issue of the school newspaper dedicated to the controversy. There on Page 3 was a photograph of Herman’s painting.
“Proof indeed,” said Eccles, the curatorial authority from Bard. “What a story!”
A Sotheby’s spokesperson, shown an image of the newspaper, said the auction house did not authenticate works and declined to comment. Pace reiterated that it had no details on the painting or the exhibition.
Herman was already making plans. With the sale of the painting, he could move out of his apartment and get a place for himself and his girlfriend.
“I’m on the moon,” he said. “I’ve enjoyed living with it. But I want to get it out of here, because a knife could fall on it. A can of paint could spill on it.”
What was it worth? He truly did not know. But after so many disappointments with the painting, what did he have to lose?
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Common New Jersey Household Item Will Become Illegal August 1
Life moves so fast sometimes that we miss important information.
Even new laws.
In the past, we've talked about the really out there and foolish laws that are actually on the books in Jersey.
Unlike those, this law is a bit more meaningful and it goes into effect on August 1, 2023.
Interestingly, the legislation had a bit of a "soft launch" at the beginning of the year, but very few except those in the business knew about it.
While I've switched over to LED light bulbs in my house, I'm sure there are many that still have old bulbs stashed away. For others, some may even be in use.
Hold onto your lampshades. There's about to be a light bulb ban.
According to Lighting Services Inc., A federal law took place at the beginning of the year
prohibiting the sale of bulbs with a luminous efficacy of fewer than 45 lumens per watt.
No, the light bulb police will not be knocking down doors and searching your garage.
It just means that incandescent bulbs and halogen lamps will have to be off of shelves here in New Jersey and nationwide.
The savings that you will see by switching to LED lights may not be immediate, but you will see it over time.
For example, Lighting Services Inc. says that LED bulbs use 75 percent less energy than traditional light bulbs and last 25 times longer. Win, win, right?
Sure, LED light bulbs cost a bit more, but in the long run, you will be saving money on energy and longevity, and helping the environment, too.
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Two people killed in shooting near University of Florida campus
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM CDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Two people were killed after gunshots rang out in a crowd early Sunday near the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, WCJB reports.
Gainesville Police were near the Checkers and Bodytech on West University Avenue around 2:40 a.m. when they heard gunshots. There were three victims, two of which died from their injuries.
Police were seeking the public’s help for any information on the shooting.
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Can You Legally Let Your Car Run to Cool Down in New Jersey?
We all know that New Jersey has some tough laws in place that prevent you from warming up your car when it's cold out, but what about just the opposite?
In the Garden State, can you legally let your car run with its air conditioner on so it cools down?
You know the drill -- in the middle of August, it'll be 97 degrees outside and since your car windows have been up all day, the inside is like an Easy-Bake Oven, reaching 130 or 140 degrees.
So, can you start your car and let it idle for a few minutes with the A/C on?
First, let's look at the overall picture since that's the basis of what you can get away with around here.
The official definition of idling in New Jersey is when your "vehicle engine is in operation while the vehicle is stationary at any location."
That's easy.
How much idling is allowed?
From our friends in Trenton...
No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the engine of a diesel or gas powered motor vehicle to idle for more than 3 consecutive minutes if the vehicle is not in motion.
To that law, there are several exceptions. For example, you don't have to turn your vehicle's engine off if it's being worked on, if you are stuck in traffic, or if you are waiting in a horrifically long drive-thru line at a fast food place or bank.
Here's the wintertime exception: you can idle for up to 15 consecutive minutes when your vehicle has been stopped for three or more hours and only if the temperature is 25°F or lower.
And then they say this: "no exception in New Jersey for high heat."
If there are no exceptions for hot weather, you are breaking the law by running your car for more than three minutes in an attempt to cool it down.
New Jersey Sierra Club Director Jeff Tittel told NJ.com back in 2019 the law merits additional education and enforcement.
It’s violated all the time, even in the summer. As you’re idling, you’re polluting the neighborhood for no reason.
Can you be fined?
You betcha! After all, this is New Jersey.
The first slap on the wrist is a $250 fine, followed by $500, and then $1,000.
And New Jersey's idling laws can be enforced on both public and private property by the DEP and/or law enforcement agencies.
Rats!
In true Jersey fashion, the state has a way to report people that are violating the idling laws. You can call the NJDEP at (877) 927-6337 anytime, any day.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has the Baltimore Orioles (63-41) matching up with the New York Yankees (55-49) at 7:10 PM ET (on July 30). Our computer prediction projects a close 5-4 victory for the Orioles, so it should be a competitive matchup.
The probable starters are Dean Kremer (10-4) for the Orioles and Luis Severino (2-4) for the Yankees.
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Baltimore and its opponents are 4-6-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- The Orioles have entered the game as favorites 47 times this season and won 33, or 70.2%, of those games.
- Baltimore has entered 33 games this season favored by -135 or more and is 24-9 in those contests.
- The implied probability of a win from the Orioles, based on the moneyline, is 57.4%.
- Baltimore has scored 502 runs (4.8 per game) this season, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- The Orioles have a 4.19 team ERA that ranks 15th among all league pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- In three games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Yankees have a record of 1-2.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, New York and its foes are 5-5-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- Oddsmakers have not posted a spread in any of the Yankees' past 10 games.
- The Yankees have been underdogs in 31 games this season and have come away with the win 13 times (41.9%) in those contests.
- This season, New York has come away with a win eight times in 16 chances when named as an underdog of at least +115 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 46.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- New York scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (454 total, 4.4 per game).
- The Yankees have pitched to a 3.86 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A former British rap artist who allegedly became a jihadist in Syria where he was accused of posting a photo of a victim’s severed head has died in custody while awaiting a trial verdict in Spain, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was found dead in a Spanish prison Wednesday, the ministry said. The cause of death is yet to be confirmed. The former rap artist was detained at Puerto III prison in the southern Spanish city of El Puerto de Santamaría, The Associated Press has learned.
Abdel Bary was arrested in 2020 when he was accused of heading a jihadist terror cell and charged with illegal financing of terrorism. He faced up to 9 years in prison in a trial that concluded on July 14, and was awaiting a verdict.
A prison officer who maintained daily contact with Abdel Bary said that his body showed no signs of violence.
Abdel Bary had been under strict rules that included 20 hours a day of solitary confinement. He had not been a problem inmate and was not on any psychiatric treatment, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Abdel Bary, 32, left London in 2013 to join an Al Qaeda faction and later ISIS militias in Syria. He made a name for himself on social media sites by showing himself clutching the severed head of one of his alleged victims.
Before joining Islamic militants in Syria, Abdel Bary performed as a rapper under the name Jinn.
He was the son of an Egyptian operative of al-Qaeda who was convicted for events related to the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people. Abdel Bary stopped making music not long after his father’s extradition to the U.S. on terror charges.
Spanish police arrested Abdel Bary and two other men in April 2020, shortly after they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on a skiff from Algeria.
He was accused of leading a jihadist terror cell formed by him and the two other men, dedicated to committing internet banking scams and trafficking in cryptocurrencies to “finance their terrorist activities."
Abdel Bary denied being a cell leader during the trial.
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Monmouth County, NJ, Man Gets 20 Years For Producing Child Porn
A Monmouth County man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for child porn.
27-year-old Christian Importuna of Englishtown previously pleaded guilty to a charge of production of child pornography. On Thursday, he was sentenced in Trenton federal court to 240 months behind bars.
Federal authorities say in March 2020, Importuna produced at least two videos that showed him sexually assaulting a pre-pubescent child.
The videos came to the attention of law enforcement on March 24th, 2020, when he attempted to trade child porn pictures with an undercover law enforcement official on the internet.
Law enforcement officials initially linked the videos to Importuna through business records indicating that they were sent from his Englishtown residence. The investigation linked Importuna to the production of the images through physical identifiers that were visible in the subject videos.
In addition to the prison term, Importuna was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and he was ordered to pay $28,000 in restitution.
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RHODES, Greece (AP) — A wildfire whipped on by strong winds triggered a series of massive explosions Thursday at an air force ammunition depot in central Greece, while firefighters worked to tame multiple blazes in the country.
There were no injuries at the depot, which had been evacuated before the explosions, and by late Thursday the fire was no longer active. The Greek air force said that F-16 fighter jets at a nearby base were moved to another facility as a precaution, but that the base had not been under any immediate threat.
Fires have raged across parts of Greece during three successive Mediterranean heat waves in the past two weeks, leaving five people dead, including two firefighting pilots, and triggering a huge weekend evacuation of tourists on the island of Rhodes.
The fire in the Volos area of central Greece's Magnissia region reached the ammunition storage facility about 6 kilometers (4 miles) north of the major military air base in Nea Anchialos. Local media reported that bombs and ammunition for Greek F-16 fighters were stored at the site.
The large explosions shattered windows on houses in a surrounding area, but the Greek fire service said no severe injuries were reported in nearby villages, which also were evacuated as a precaution.
Fire Service spokesman Ioannis Artopios said 12 villages were ordered evacuated in the Volos-Nea Anchialos area.
“Despite their superhuman efforts, our forces were unable to stop the blaze,” he said.
Artopios said the Volos area blaze was the most dangerous of the 124 wildfires the fire service had to deal with Thursday.
The wildfire burned on three fronts and forced a section of Greece’s busiest highway to close for several hours, while national rail services passing through the area were delayed.
State ERT television showed residents and visitors in the coastal village of Anchialos, some 4 kilometers (2 1/2 miles) from the blast site, being evacuated by sea, while others were leaving in cars and buses. The coast guard said more than a hundred residents were taken in small private boats to the city of Volos.
The Nea Anchialos air base is some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the city, where loud blasts could be heard.
Water-dropping helicopters and a ground crew scrambled early Thursday to a separate wildfire in Kifissia, just north of Athens, which was quickly put out.
Greek firefighters also battled flames for a 10 successive day on Rhodes, where officials said the blazes were largely contained. Flare-ups were reported on the island of Evia.
The World Meteorological Organization, a U.N. body, and a European Union climate change service reported Thursday that temperatures during the first three weeks of July set a new global heat record.
As Southern Europe fights extreme heat and wildfires, parts of central Europe have been hit with winter conditions. Subfreezing temperatures, frost and snow have been reported in the Tatra Mountains, which run through Poland and Slovakia.
In Italy, firefighters battled brush fires in the southern mainland regions of Calabria and Puglia, as well as the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, helped by temperatures dropping some 13 degrees Celsius (55 degrees Fahrenheit) into the low- and mid-30s C (high 80s F).
Flames forced the evacuation of bathers on a popular stretch of the southern Adriatic coast near the town of Ugento in Puglia, Italian media said.
Since Sunday, firefighters have fought more than 3,200 wildfires in southern Italy, nearly half of them in Sicily and almost 900 of them in Puglia, Italy’s national firefighters corps said on Thursday evening.
“Without doubt, we can see that all across the Mediterranean the climate crisis is here, and it’s affecting us all more strongly than perhaps even scientists had warned us about,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday during a meeting with Greece's president, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Wildfire carbon emissions for July in Greece were the highest by a huge margin — totaling over 1 metric megatons and doubling the previous record — since record-keeping started 20 years ago, according to the EU agency that analyzes satellite data, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
“Unfortunately, it is not all that surprising, given the extreme conditions in the region,” said Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at the agency. “The observed intensity and estimated emissions show how unusual the scale of the fires has been for July relative to the last 20 years of data.”
In Athens, senior members of the armed forces paid tribute to the two pilots killed when a firefighting plane crashed this week, at a ceremony held at the Defense Ministry.
Capt. Christos Moulas and Lt. Pericles Stephanidis died during a low-altitude water drop on the island of Evia. Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said they had shown “self-denial in the line of duty.”
“Greece today is in mourning. Their memories will live on,” Dendias said.
Mitsotakis attended the funeral service for Stephanidis in northern Greece Thursday, while President Sakellaropoulou was expected at the service for Moulas on the island of Crete on Friday. ___
Gatopoulos reported from Athens. Associated Press writers Colleen Barry in Milan, Italy, and Venessa Gera in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.
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Serial killings breakthrough shines light on unsolved murders of NJ sex workers
ATLANTIC CITY — The discovery of four dead women in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City was shocking news in 2006.
International media flocked to the seaside gambling resort. More than 100 detectives and prosecutors were assigned to investigate. Casino guests worried about safety, and the victims’ fellow sex workers began carrying hidden knives.
But as the years passed, the public’s attention and fear faded, and the case of the “Eastbound Strangler” – so named for the direction the victims’ heads were facing – remained unsolved.
The arrest earlier this month of a man charged with killing three women whose remains were found on a Long Island beach in 2010 has breathed fresh life into another long-dormant case with obvious parallels; the Gilgo Beach serial killings involve a total of 11 victims, most of whom were young, female sex workers. Yet the recent breakthrough, and the rekindling of public interest, only highlights a painful truth: Many similar cases – like the one in Atlantic City -- remain open.
The FBI would not say how many killings of sex workers in the U.S. remain unsolved. Media accounts and statements from local authorities show a long trail of open cases, from nine women whose bodies were found along highways in Massachusetts, to 11 found dead in New Mexico, and eight more found amid the crawfish farms and swamps of southern Louisiana. The killings of other sex workers in Chicago, New Haven, Connecticut and Ohio, among other places, also remain mysteries.
From the days of London’s Jack The Ripper in the 1880s, serial killers, particularly those preying on sex workers, have often gotten away with it, in part because their victims were easy targets living on the margins of society.
Gary Ridgway, the so-called Green River killer convicted of 49 killings in Washington state, said during a 2003 court hearing in which he pleaded guilty that he chose sex workers as victims because he knew they would not be missed quickly, if at all.
“I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught,” he said.
Two women were out for an afternoon walk near Atlantic City in November 2006 when they found a body in a ditch. They called police, who quickly found three others nearby.
The $15-a-night motel in Egg Harbor Township behind which the four bodies were found is long gone. It was torn down in an attempt to clear a seedy area known for crime, drugs and disturbances – and the murders of Barbara Breidor, 42, Molly Jean Dilts, 20, Kim Raffo, 35, and Tracy Ann Roberts, 23.
Because it is near the ocean, like Gilgo Beach, the location has prompted much speculation by amateur detectives about a single killer, but some other online sleuths have pointed out that oceanside areas are often the remotest locations after hours on the densely packed East Coast. Gilgo Beach is about 3.5 hours drive from Atlantic City.
Gone in New Jersey are the four small wooden crosses someone erected on the site, along with the folded-up paper note bearing a Biblical quote promising justice that someone left there on one of the anniversaries of the discovery of the bodies.
For families left behind, each new day without word in the case of their loved one brings fresh pain.
“I kind of lost hope that anyone was even searching for the killer anymore,” said Joyce Roberts, whose daughter Tracy Ann was one of the four Atlantic City-area victims. “The first six months, the prosecutor did get on the phone with me and told me they were working on it.
“Then it just fell off the radar,” she said. “It was like nobody cared anymore.”
That is a sentiment echoed by Phoenix Calida, a former sex worker from Chicago who now advocates for them through the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
“Police departments often refer to it as an ‘NHI’ case: No humans involved,” she said. ”You feel like the only way you’ll be remembered is when they catch the serial killer who killed you, and then they’ll make five movies about him and no one will remember your name.”
Massachusetts State Police are investigating “nine unsolved homicides possibly committed by the same person,” said David Procopio, a spokesperson for the agency. He said two additional missing persons cases may be homicides related to the other nine.
Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the New Mexico cases remain actively investigated, with “multiple detectives” working them. The 11 victims were all involved in drugs and prostitution, police said.
A reward of $100,000 has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case, which involved two victims who were just 15 years old.
Despite the decade-long efforts of a local, state and federal task force, Louisiana has at least eight unsolved apparent homicide cases involving sex workers between the ages of 17 and 30. Their bodies were found in marshy areas in Jennings, a small town in the area known as Cajun Country, between 2005 and 2009.
Prosecutors in New York's Suffolk County investigating the Gilgo Beach cases have been in touch with multiple law enforcement agencies, but District Attorney Ray Tierney would not say which ones.
“Everything is being examined and looked at, and this is an active investigation,” said Anthony Carter, Suffolk County's deputy police commissioner. He would not say if his agency was investigating any connection between Heuermann and the Atlantic City murders.
Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds said the four cases from the drainage ditch outside Atlantic City remain active, with detectives assigned to them, but would not say how many. He declined comment on the Long Island case “as we are not involved.”
Joyce Roberts, the victim’s mother, said no one from law enforcement has called her since the arrest was made in the Long Island cases.
Police in Las Vegas, where Heuermann owns a time share, said they are investigating whether Heuermann may be involved in cases involving the killings of sex workers there.
In the months immediately after the bodies’ discovery near Atlantic City, the local prosecutor’s office and a dozen other law enforcement agencies had 140 people assigned to the cases, Ted Housel, who was prosecutor at the time, said in 2008. By the first anniversary, the total had fallen to 85, and those investigators were also working other cases.
Calida, the former sex worker from Chicago, said women involved in the sex trade are frequently robbed by people who know they’re carrying cash, and are sometimes coerced into sexual activity by police in return for not being arrested.
She said an attacker “knows you can’t or won’t report it. You’re an easy target and they know it.”
Three of her friends who were also sex workers in Chicago also turned up dead.
“You see someone, you become friends with them and then one day they’re suddenly just not there,” she said. “We’d all go out asking around and looking for them, and then a few days later a body would be found. There’s always this specific fear that it’s a serial killer. Sometimes we never even get a body back to bury. And we wonder: Will law enforcement take it seriously because it’s ‘just another sex worker?’”
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Facing legal peril, Trump calls on GOP to rally around him and focus on investigating Biden
NEW YORK (AP) — At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to go after Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden.
Trump also urged a halt to Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with congressional investigations into Biden and his family.
“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night.
The former president and GOP front-runner said it was time for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.
The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Trump as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and refusing to turn them over to investigators. The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Trump and two staffers sought to delete surveillance at the club in an effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation.
The case is just one of Trump’s mounting legal challenges. His team is currently bracing for additional possible indictments, which could happen as soon as this coming week, related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election brought by prosecutors in both Washington and Georgia. Trump already faces criminal charges in New York over hush money payments made to women who accused him of sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant early figure for the Republican nomination and has only seen his lead grow as the charges have mounted and as his rivals have struggled to respond. Their challenge was on display at a GOP gathering in Iowa Friday night, where they largely declined to go after Trump directly. The only one who did — accusing Trump of “running to stay out of prison” — was booed as he left the stage.
In the meantime, Trump has embraced his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Biden of using the Justice Department to maim his chief political rival. The White House has said repeatedly that the president has had no involvement in the cases.
At rallies, Trump has tried to frame the charges, which come with serious threats of jail time, as an attack not just on him, but those who support him.
“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” he said in Erie, adding, “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor…. Because I’m being indicted for you.”
But the investigations are also sucking up enormous resources that are being diverted from the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The Washington Post first reported Saturday that Trump’s political action committee, Save America, will report Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of 2023 defending Trump and all of the current and former aides whose lawyers it is paying. The total is more than the campaign raised during the second quarter of the year.
“In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment,” said Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung.
At the rally, in a former Democratic stronghold that Trump flipped in 2016, but Biden won narrowly in 2020, Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said this past week that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry into the president over unproven claims of financial misconduct.
Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, said Saturday that, “The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it.”
“Any Republican that doesn’t act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaries and get out — out!” he told the crowd to loud applause. “They have to play tough and … if they’re not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around … and they’re going to get my endorsement every singe time.”
Trump, during the 2022 midterm elections, made it his mission to punish those who had voted in favor of his second impeachment. He succeeded in unseating most who had by backing primary challengers.
At the rally, Trump also called on Republican members of Congress to halt the authorization of additional military support to Ukraine, which has been mired in a war fighting Russia’s invasion, until the Biden administration cooperates with Republican investigations into Biden and his family’s business dealings — words that echoed the call that lead to his first impeachment.
“He’s dragging into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars,” Trump alleged. “In light of this information,” Congress, he said, “should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles … the weapons stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DOJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings.”
House Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s finances, particularly payments Hunter, the president’s son, received from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that became tangled in the first impeachment of Trump.
An unnamed confidential FBI informant claimed that Burisma company officials in 2015 and 2016 sought to pay the Bidens $5 million each in return for their help ousting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was purportedly investigating the company. But a Justice Department review in 2020, while Trump was president, was closed eight months later with insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump’s first impeachment by the House resulted in charges that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens while threatening to withhold military aid. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate.
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Worker dies in Woodbridge, NJ food plant accident, reports say
🔴 A worker reportedly died in a workplace accident Friday
🔴 The victim had a daughter, officials said
🔴 OSHA is investigating the death
WOODBRIDGE — A worker at a food processing plant in Middlesex County is dead after an accident Friday afternoon, according to multiple reports.
The victim, who was a woman, was killed in a job-related incident at the United Premium Foods plant in Woodbridge around 12:30 p.m., a township official reportedly said to mycentraljersey.com.
Company CEO Ken Mayer confirmed the death in a statement to the media.
“We are devastated by the loss of our longtime employee, who was a beloved member of our company. Our deepest condolences go out to her daughter at this difficult time. We are fully cooperating with the official investigation,” Mayer said.
The 110,000-square-foot facility is located between Route 35 and Amboy Avenue. It has heavy machinery for food production, pet food production, and cold storage, according to its website.
OSHA is reportedly investigating the death. New Jersey 101.5 has reached out to the administration for comment and the victim's identity, which has not yet been released. Other details surrounding the accident remain unclear.
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A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 44 people and wounds nearly 200
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An explosion at a political rally on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 in a Sunday attack that a senior leader said wanted to weaken Pakistani Islamists.
The Bajur district near the Afghan border was a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban — a close ally of Afghanistan’s Taliban government — before the Pakistani army drove the militants out of the area. Supporters of hardline Pakistani cleric and political party leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam generally supports regional Islamists, were meeting in Bajur Sunday in a hall close to a market outside the district capital. Party officials said Rehman was not at the rally but organizers added tents because so many supporters showed up, and party volunteers with batons were helping control the crowd.
Officials were announcing the arrival of Abdul Rasheed, a leader of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party, when the bomb went off in one of Pakistan’s bloodiest attacks in recent years.
“There was dust and smoke around, and I was under some injured people from where I could hardly stand up, only to see chaos and some scattered limbs,” said Adam Khan, 45, who was knocked to the ground by the blast around 4 p.m. and hit by splinters in his leg and both hands.
The Pakistan Taliban, or TTP, said in a statement sent to The Associated Press that the bombing was aimed at setting Islamists against each other. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, said on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that “such crimes cannot be justified in any way.”
The Afghan Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021 emboldened the TTP. They unilaterally ended a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government in November, and have stepped up attacks across the country.
The bombing came hours before the arrival of Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Islamabad, where he was to participate in an event to mark a decade of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, a sprawling package under which Beijing has invested billions of dollars in Pakistan.
In recent months, China has helped Pakistan avoid a default on sovereign payments. However, some Chinese nationals have also been targeted by militants in northwestern Pakistan and elsewhere.
Feroz Jamal, the provincial information minister, told The Associated Press that so far 44 people had been “martyred” and nearly 200 wounded in the bombing.
The bombing was one of the four worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people, mostly schoolchildren, were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar. In January, 74 people were killed in a bombing at a mosque in Peshawar. n February, more than 100 people, mostly policemen, died in a bombing at a mosque inside a high-security compound housing Peshawar police headquarters.
Prime Minister Sharif and President Arif Alvi condemned the attack and asked officials to provide all possible assistance to the wounded and the bereaved families.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman’s party, was among the dead. JUI leaders Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin were also on the stage but escaped unhurt.
Rasheed, the regional chief of the party, said the attack was an attempt to remove JUI from the field before parliamentary elections in November, but he said such tactics would not work. The bombing drew nationwide condemnation, with the ruling and opposition parties extending condolences to the families of those who died in the attack.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the upcoming elections.
“Many of our fellows lost their lives and many more wounded in this incident. I will ask the federal and provincial administrations to fully investigate this incident and provide due compensation and medical facilities to the affected ones,” Rasheed said.
Mohammad Wali, another attendant at the rally, said he was listening to a speaker address the crowd when the huge explosion temporarily deafened him.
“I was near the water dispenser to fetch a glass of water when the bomb exploded, throwing me to the ground,” he said. “We came to the meeting with enthusiasm but ended up at the hospital seeing crying, wounded people and sobbing relatives taking the bodies of their loved ones.”
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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar. Associated Press writer Munir Ahmad contributed from Islamabad.
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Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning
DENVER (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, doesn’t have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that,” he said. “If it’s hard to breath, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered its 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn’t have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours.”
It’s the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences … between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. … But there’s also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She’s taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. … They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation’s eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don’t offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America’s low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos’ Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit’s white households don’t have air conditioning; it’s 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family.”
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don’t have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn’t pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver’s Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it’s not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can’t afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price,” she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it’s hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Bedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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