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The University of Arizona announced this week that it will soon waive tuition and fees for undergraduate students enrolled in one of the state's 22 federally recognized tribes.
The program, known as the Arizona Native Scholars Grant, will be open to current and incoming Native American students starting this fall, according to a university news release. More than 400 students enrolled last year are eligible for the initiative, the university said.
"Serving Arizona's Native American tribes and tribal students is a crucial part of the University of Arizona's land-grant mission, and the Arizona Native Scholars Grant program is another important step among many to do that," university President Robert C. Robbins said in a statement. "I am so proud that that this university has found a way to help hundreds of students more easily access and complete a college education, and I look forward to finding ways to take these efforts even further."
University of Arizona is one of several state colleges and universities to announce it would cover tuition and fees for Native American students, with institutions in California, Colorado, Michigan and Oregon among those with similar initiatives.
The university was built on and with Indigenous land
Given the University of Arizona's history, the move might be viewed as a form of reparations for the state's Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona is a land-grant institution, one of dozens of colleges and universities in the US that were funded through the sale of expropriated Indigenous lands. These institutions were born out of the 1862 Morrill Act, which sought to make higher education more accessible for the nation's farm workers and industrial classes. Under the law, states were granted federal lands that could then be sold to help fund agricultural and mechanical colleges.
The federal lands that generated money for higher education, however, were taken from Native people. A 2020 investigation by High Country News found that the US seized nearly 11 million acres of Indigenous lands from nearly 250 tribes, bands and communities to build the land-grant university system. Not only were many of those colleges and universities built on Indigenous lands, but their endowments were partly funded by them -- and some institutions continue to profit off those lands to this day, High Country News reported.
The University of Arizona -- which sits on lands once inhabited by the Pima, Yuman, Tohono O'odham, Navajo and Apache peoples -- received more than 143,000 acres as part of the Morrill Act and raised nearly $450,000 in endowment principal, according to High Country News data.
Tribal leaders called for tuition waivers
As part of its designation as a land-grant institution, the University of Arizona has publicly committed to serving the state's Indigenous communities.
For Levi Esquerra, senior vice president for Native American advancement and tribal engagement at the school, that means building relationships with tribes and working to address their concerns.
Tribal leaders had specifically asked the university to waive tuition for Native students given its history as a land-grant institution, Esquerra said. His office worked with partners in the admissions, provost's and president's offices to make it happen.
"These initiatives and things we're doing ... they're not checkmarks," he told CNN. "They're a long time coming, but they build on our relationships with tribal communities."
About 3% of undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Arizona in fall 2021 identified as American Indian or Alaska Native -- meaning that Indigenous people are slightly underrepresented given that they make up about 5% of Arizona's population.
Nationally, less than 1% of undergraduates are of American Indian or Alaska Native descent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And while college enrollment has declined over the past decade overall, that data indicates that American Indians and Alaska Natives have experienced the steepest declines.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in President Donald Trump's first impeachment investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes.
Parnas, 50, had sought leniency on the grounds that he’d cooperated with the Congressional probe of Trump and his efforts to get the leaders of Ukraine to investigate President Joe Biden’s son.
U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken didn't give Parnas credit for that assistance, which came only after the Soviet-born businessman was facing criminal charges. But the judge still imposed a sentence lighter than the six years sought by prosecutors.
The judge also ordered Parnas pay $2.3 million in restitution.
Addressing the court before the sentence was announced, Parnas sobbed and apologized to people who had lost money investing in his business ventures.
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“A lot that you heard is true your honor. I have not been a good person my whole life. I’ve made mistakes. And I admit it,” Parnas said. “I want to apologize to all the victims that I hurt. These are all people who are my friends, all people who trusted me and I lied to them to further my personal agenda,” Parnas said.
The criminal case against Parnas was not directly related to his work acting as a fixer for Giuliani as the former New York City mayor connected with Ukrainian officials and lobbied them to launch an investigation of Biden’s son, Hunter.
Instead, it zeroed in on donations Parnas had illegally made to a number of U.S. politicians using the riches of a wealthy Russian as part of an effort to jump-start a legal recreational-marijuana business.
In March, Parnas also pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy, admitting that he and a partner had given investors false information about a Florida-based business, Fraud Guarantee, that promised it could protect people against fraud.
That new company hired Giuliani as a consultant at a time when some Ukrainian figures were trying to curry favor with the Trump administration, agreeing to pay him $500,000.
Charles Gucciardo, a Long Island attorney who put up the cash to pay Giuliani, told the judge during the sentencing hearing that he hoped the former mayor would return the money, since Fraud Guarantee turned out to be a fraud.
“My bet is he’s going to give me that money back,” he said, adding that he didn't blame Giuliani, who has not been charged with any crimes in connection with the scheme.
Outside of court, Parnas said that he didn't believe Giuliani would return the money.
“I don’t think he’ll pay him back because, as you can see, he’s gone down the path of no return. He’s just an evil man, unfortunately, and somebody that I’m very, very sad that I had to meet,” he said.
Giuliani, who was working at the time as a personal lawyer for then-President Donald Trump, has said he knew nothing about the crimes of Parnas and others.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Giuliani's interactions with Ukrainian figures violated a federal law that governs lobbying on behalf of foreign countries or entities.
Parnas and a business associate, Igor Fruman, attracted attention from reporters after arranging big donations to Republican politicians, including a $325,000 donation to a political action committee supporting Trump.
An October conviction also supported a finding that he made illegal donations in 2018 to promote a new energy company.
During Parnas' sentencing hearing, the judge also heard from other people who had lost money with him in failed business deals.
Dianne Pues said the businessman “destroyed my life” when he failed to repay money she and her husband had loaned him to produce a movie called “Anatomy of an Assassin.”
Parnas promised he would become a new person.
He made a special apology to Gucciardo, turning to face him as he spoke.
“I’d like to apologize to Mr. Gucciardo. Even though I never spent a dollar of his money. I lied to him and used our friendship. Charles, I am sorry,” he said.
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Questions raised over part-removal of Kayyara Kinhanna Rai’s name in Social Science lesson
Bantara alias Nadavara Mathru Sangha has questioned the removal of the name of writer Kayyara Kinhanna Rai from the initial portion of the lesson on “Karnataka Eekikarna Mattu Gadi Vivaadagalu” (Unification of Karnataka and Border Disputes) in the Social Science Part-2 textbook for Class 7.
Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, sangha president Maladi Ajith Kumar Rai said that the name of Late Rai (in the fourth page of the lesson) has been removed and instead the name of Rastrakavi Govinda Pai has been included.
“Govinda Pai has greatly contributed to the unification of Karnataka and so did Mr. Rai. By removing Mr. Rai’s name, the State government has belittled contribution of Late Rai”, he said. This has hurt the Bunt community, he said.
Meanwhile, Ajith Kumar Rai toook exception to Mangaluru City Corporation’s move in removing the structure at A.B. Shetty Circle in the city built in the memory of the former Minister in the Madras Presidency, philanthropist and founder of the erstwhile Vijaya Bank Attavara Balakrishna Shetty for making Maidan Road one-way. The structure has not been restored yet, he regretted.
The State government has taken members of the community, who believe in peaceful co-existence, for granted. “If the State government fails to retain the name of Mr. Rai in the textbook and restore the structure related to Mr. Shetty, we will launch an agitation in which Bunts from across country will take part,” he said.
The party, which has hurt Bunts, will pay dearly in the forthcoming elections, he added.
In the lesson “Karnataka Eekikarna Mattu Gadi Vivaadagalu” in the Social Science Part 2 textbook, the old textbook had reference to Mr. Rai in the initial part of the lesson. In the revised edition, which is available on Karnataka Text Book Society website, this reference has been removed on page 4 of the lesson and replaced with the work of Rastrakavi Govinda Pai towards making Kasaragod as part of Karnataka. Mr. Rai’s name now figures in the last paragraph of the lesson, which is related to Karnataka-Kerala border dispute.
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The fundraising initiative set up by Dame Deborah James has now reached £7 million, with the incredible milestone achieved shortly after it was announced that she had died.
The podcaster, who had been diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016, passed away yesterday (June 28), aged 40, with her family around her.
In the weeks prior to her death, Deborah - known as 'Bowel Babe' - had promoted the Bowelbabe Fund, which she had established to raise money and awareness for charity.
The initiative - which was set-up in collaboration with Cancer Research UK - had an initial target of £250,000, though the campaign has now raised more than £7 million.
Her family previously said it will fund causes and projects, like clinical trials and research into personalised medicine that could result in new treatments for cancer patients.
Deborah had been a high-profile campaigner around cancer awareness for a number of years, including through her work with the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C.
Last month, the journalist announced on social media that she was receiving end-of-life care, with her telling fans at the time that her body "just [couldn't] continue anymore."
The tragic news of her passing was announced by her family this week, with them issuing a statement which included a final message to the public from Deborah herself.
She said: "Find a life worth enjoying; take risks; love deeply; have no regrets; and always, always have rebellious hope. And finally, check your poo - it could just save your life."
Her family said: "Deborah shared her experience with the world to raise awareness, break down barriers, challenge taboos and change the conversation around cancer."
They also said: "[Deborah] was an inspiration and we are incredibly proud of her and her work and commitment to charitable campaigning, fundraising and her endless efforts to raise awareness of cancer that touched so many lives."
Her family said they were "deeply saddened" to share news of her death, though they look forward to continuing her legacy "long into the future" through the Bowelbabe Fund.
There's since been an outpouring of tributes for the late podcast host - who leaves behind husband Sebastian Bowen as well as children Eloise, 12, and Hugo, 14.
Good Morning Britain host Charlotte Hawkins, 47, wrote: "Heartbreaking news. What an inspiration, a truly special person who saved lives and did so much to help others."
The ITV presenter further commented: [Deborah] showed that even a terminal diagnosis wasn't going to stop her living life to the full. So much love to her family and friends."
Boris Johnson, 58, said in a statement on Twitter last night: "I'm terribly saddened to hear that Dame Deborah James has died. What an inspiration she was to so many."
He added: "The awareness she brought to bowel cancer and the research her campaigning has funded will be her enduring legacy. Because of her, many many lives will be saved."
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German porcelain maker faces fragile future due to Ukraine war
FRANKFURT, June 29 (Reuters) - For family-owned German porcelain maker Kahla the recent cuts in Russian natural gas supply to Germany and high energy prices due to the Ukraine war pose a looming existential threat.
"As a manufacturer dependent on gas for our production... we are very concerned," said Kahla managing director Daniel Jeschonowski.
"We are not faced with a situation where we have to shut down tomorrow but this is not tenable over a longer period of time and you just can't pass [the price rise] along to customers," he added.
His family acquired the 177-year-old business, which makes porcelain dishes for the retail market and hospitality industry, out of insolvency in 2020.
Current bulk prices for gas of around 10 euro cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) were down from 15-20 cents early in the year, but were still not commercially sustainable longer term, he said.
Germany's energy-hungry sectors, including chemicals, metals, paper, ceramics and porcelain, are in turmoil after the country last week triggered the "alarm stage" of its emergency gas plan in response to falling Russian supplies.
Russian gas producer Gazprom said earlier in June capacity through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be cut to just 40% due to the delayed return of equipment under maintenance.
European leaders such as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have questioned whether the cut is a political reaction to Western sanctions on Russia for its attack on Ukraine, which Russia denies.
Kahla said it was satisfied with the way the energy regulator has so far handled supply cuts. Its scheme includes a planned tender bidding system to encourage manufacturers to consume less and a detailed survey of the needs of the industry.
Jeschonowski is confident that a surprise drop in pipeline pressure, dreaded in particular by ceramics and glass makers whose ovens can be wrecked by sudden gas cuts, will be averted.
Nevertheless, it is difficult for the firm to cut gas use.
"I compare it to a bakery, run with a lot of passion. A baker has to keep his oven going. Asking him to save energy doesn't really help, because he wasn't wasting any energy before," he said.
Only a handful of porcelain manufacturers are left in Germany amid low-cost competition from Asia and they have exhausted all energy efficiency measures, he said.
Jeschonowski added that relocating abroad to cut costs was out of the question for the company, which is named after its home town of Kahla in the state of Thuringia.
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DALLAS, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AccentCare, a leading provider of Home Health, Hospice, and Personal Care Services, announced it achieved HITRUST Certified 2-year (r2) status for information security for its Home Health and Hospice instances of Home Care Home Base (HCHB) hosted with Home Care Home Base, VMWare Horizon hosted at Cyxtera Colocation Services, Azure Management Console hosted at Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, and endpoints including laptops and tablets achieving Certified status for information security by HITRUST.
HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) certified status demonstrates that the organization's foundational technology used by its Home Health and Hospice lines of business have met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and are appropriately managing risk. This achievement places AccentCare in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
"We are pleased to demonstrate to our customers the highest standards for data protection and information security by achieving HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification," said Craig Cheney, VP, Chief Information Security Officer at AccentCare.
"In today's ever-changing threat landscape, HITRUST is continually innovating to find new and creative approaches to address challenges," said Jeremy Huval, Chief Innovation Officer, HITRUST. "AccentCare's HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification is evidence that they are at the forefront of industry best practices for information risk management and compliance."
AccentCare is a nationwide leader and trusted guide in post-acute health care covering a broad continuum of services from personal care to home health, palliative care, hospice, telehealth, and care management. Our innovative care models and strategic relationships with major health systems, physician groups, insurers, and value-based providers give us a full understanding of how to deliver the best possible experience for patients and their families. Because of these distinct advantages, we can reimagine and advance the standards of care in our communities.
Headquartered in Dallas, our 30,000 compassionate professionals across the nation deliver care in more than 250 locations, collectively serving more than 200,000 individuals across 31 states and the District of Columbia. Visit us at www.accentcare.com
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New York Mayor Eric Adams stated he felt former mayor Rudy Giuliani should be investigated for falsely reporting a crime concerning the alleged assault in a Staten Island grocery store last week, Politico reports. Adams went on to say he will talk with NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell to see if they feel there is enough evidence for an investigation to take place and called the former mayor’s actions “irresponsible.”
“Someone needs to remind former Mayor Giuliani that falsely reporting a crime is a crime,” Adams said at an unrelated press conference Tuesday. “What he stated, there was a lot of creativity, and I think the district attorney, he has the wrong person he is investigating. ... When you look at the video, the guy basically walked by and patted him on the back.”
ShopRite employee Daniel Gill was charged with assault, menacing, and harassment. All of those charges were downgraded to misdemeanors on Monday. Giuliani claimed, “I feel a shot on my back like somebody shot me. I went forward, but luckily I didn’t fall down.” The surveillance video may paint a different picture from Guiliani’s claims.
The footage shows Gill tapping Giuliani in the back before verbally engaging the former mayor. Gill’s attorneys have maintained their client “merely patted” Giuliani. According to The Guardian, Giuliani said the man accused him of being “a woman killer,” which he took as a reference to the supreme court ruling overturning the right to abortion.
The Legal Aid Society agreed with Mayor Adams stating the action was a simple “pat on the back.” Adams went on to talk about the store footage in question.
“I saw that video,” Adams said. “I’m sure all of you who saw the video, you have to ask yourself, he stated, if he did not feel so heroic, or whatever, he would have fallen to the ground...The guy basically walked by and patted him on the back. I don’t know if he said, ‘congratulations,’ I don’t know what he said to him. But it was clear that he was not punched in the head. It was clear that it didn’t feel like a bullet. It was clear that he wasn’t about to fall to the ground.” | https://www.theroot.com/eric-adams-says-giuliani-should-be-investigated-for-fal-1849123680 | 2022-06-29T19:27:45Z | https://www.theroot.com/eric-adams-says-giuliani-should-be-investigated-for-fal-1849123680 | true |
PITTSBURGH, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an accessory to provide mask wearers with fresh filtered air," said an inventor, from Goodyear, Ariz., "so I invented the AIR BREATHER. My design would also help to kill germs and viruses."
The invention provides an effective way to deliver filtered air while wearing a mask. In doing so, it prevents the user from constantly inhaling exhaled carbon dioxide. It also helps to kill or inactivate any potential contaminants and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a lightweight design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for hospital personnel and the general population.
The original design was submitted to the Phoenix sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-PBT-182, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Five Kia Vehicles Take Second Place in Their Respective Segments
IRVINE, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A wide cross-section of Kia America's world-class SUVs and sedans received high marks in the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Initial Quality Study (IQS), with the Forte topping the Compact Car segment for the fourth consecutive year. Five other Kia models – Carnival, K5, Rio, Sportage, and Telluride – each took the number two spot in their respective categories.
"With so many Kia models ranking first or second in their respective segments, there's no doubt that quality, craftsmanship, and attention to detail are an integral part of every vehicle Kia builds – no matter the segment," said Sean Yoon, president & CEO, Kia North America and Kia America.
The annual report analyzed responses from 84,165 respondents with regards to 189 vehicle models across 26 segments. Vehicles were evaluated on driving experience, engine and transmission performance and a broad range of quality issues reported by vehicle owners.
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Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electrified vehicles sold through a network of 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America.
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Company aspires to be a leader in acting with purpose and social consciousness
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, announced its vision for corporate responsibility and shared the company's continued advancements in environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives across its operations.
"As our ESG vision states, 'We aspire to lead our industry in acting with purpose and social consciousness and to promote sustainable practices, so that our planet and all of us on it can thrive long into the future,'" said Mike Arbour, Sedgwick CEO.
Sedgwick's commitment focuses on initiatives in the areas of environmental (caring for the Earth), social (caring for its colleagues, clients and communities) and governance (organizational conduct).
Heather Lawley, Sedgwick global head of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and ESG, said, "Our ESG strategy reflects a methodical approach to leveraging key areas of importance to Sedgwick's business in order to make a meaningful difference in the world. We are proud to continue the great work Sedgwick has been doing for years and to identify future opportunities for growth — all with a heightened understanding of our role and responsibility as a business leader."
- Operated for more than 50 years as a values-driven company committed to doing the right thing. The company maintains a strong focus on business ethics and strongly enforces its code of conduct.
- Reduced its carbon footprint by implementing virtual inspection tools in place of travel to loss sites where possible, reducing the size of its car fleet, and promoting colleagues' use of electric and hybrid vehicles for business travel.
- Transitioned numerous processes to digital capture and storage, eliminating the need for printing and greatly reducing paper use. Sedgwick has also gone paperless at events and trade shows by leveraging more digital experiences, QR codes and plantable seed paper.
- Committed to reducing e-waste tonnage and the associated release of harmful toxins through technology repair programs, donations and partnerships with reputable recycling companies that can extend systems' usefulness.
- Integrated DEI throughout its business and people practices. It starts at the top, with Arbour signing the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion pledge. In a recent global engagement survey, Sedgwick colleagues ranked DEI the highest index, including the areas of hiring from a variety of backgrounds, meaningful work, diversity commitment, sense of belonging and environment of belonging.
- Established a high-performance culture of caring, learning and recognition. The company offers its colleagues a robust suite of benefits focused on their mental, physical, financial and professional well-being. It also supports colleagues' career journeys by providing ongoing development and engagement opportunities.
- Over the last four years, more than doubled its annual spending with diverse partners (SBE, MBE, WBE, etc.).
"At Sedgwick, taking care of people is at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our colleagues, our clients and the global community," Arbour said. "We strive to maximize our opportunities for collective impact by 2030 and are deeply committed to supporting this important strategy as an extension of our belief that caring counts."
Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. The company provides a broad range of resources tailored to our clients' specific needs in casualty, property, marine, benefits, brand protection and other lines. At Sedgwick, caring counts; through the dedication and expertise of nearly 30,000 colleagues across 80 countries, the company takes care of people and organizations by mitigating and reducing risks and losses, promoting health and productivity, protecting brand reputations, and containing costs that can impact performance. Sedgwick's majority shareholder is The Carlyle Group; Stone Point Capital LLC, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Onex and other management investors are minority shareholders. For more, see sedgwick.com.
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Jury acquits man in fatal Racine biker club shooting
A man accused in a fatal shooting at a Racine biker club in 2020 has been acquitted of criminal charges
(AP)- A man accused in a fatal shooting at a Racine biker club in 2020 has been acquitted of criminal charges.
Jurors found 37-year-old Donley Carey not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of DeMarcus Anderson at the Sin City Biker Club. A jury on Tuesday also found Carey not guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The case presented by the Racine County District Attorney’s Office was plagued by conflicting testimony from witnesses and questions being raised about the Racine Police Department’s investigation of the shooting. Efforts by unknown individuals to clean the crime scene also greatly hindered evidence gathering, The Journal Times reported.
The case presented by the prosecution relied on eyewitness testimony as there was no DNA evidence that linked Carey to the scene of the crime.
Witnesses testified the two men were having a dispute and accusing each other of being a snitch or confidential police informant.
Many of the witnesses at the bar that night were never tracked down. Investigators said possible witnesses initially used their nicknames, making them difficult to find.
One witness who said he was in the room when the shooting occurred had been up for days on ecstasy and other drugs, and had spent the evening partying at the bar where the shooting occurred, according to the defense. | https://www.weau.com/2022/06/29/jury-acquits-man-fatal-racine-biker-club-shooting/ | 2022-06-29T19:38:40Z | https://www.weau.com/2022/06/29/jury-acquits-man-fatal-racine-biker-club-shooting/ | true |
Founded by impact technology veteran and former Goldman Sachs investment banker
AUSTIN, Texas, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clearyst Inc., a sustainability technology and ESG platform company, announced today its mission to help businesses accelerate strategic sustainability initiatives while creating value for employees, customers, and investors. According to experts including McKinsey and BCG, the world needs to invest at least $3-5 trillion per year in order to transition the economy towards net-zero.
Clearyst° was formed to bring together purpose-driven teams and innovation to achieve outsized business growth and impact through specialized sustainability tech solutions. Led by Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO Paul Ghiz, a 25-year impact technology leader, and Co-Founder, President, and COO Chris Robinson, former Goldman Sachs banker and Marine fighter pilot, Clearyst's world-class team brings deep expertise in ESG, sustainability tech, SaaS products, customer experience, people operations, finance, data science, and revenue operations.
Clearyst° is building an AI platform and acquiring businesses to help companies quickly act on ESG and sustainability objectives through performance, intelligence, learning, and integration products. Clearyst's centralized shared services and proven framework will drive economies of scale and accelerate innovation through its operating companies.
"We are experiencing one of the largest and most important societal shifts in history with environmental, social, and governance priorities propelling businesses toward a more sustainable future," said Ghiz. "Today, employees want to support critical ESG imperatives such as clean air and water, employee equity, and mental well-being. Customers and investors are rewarding businesses who are acting on ESG. Our solutions will assist in ramping up the workforce to execute on key sustainability objectives and create more value for all stakeholders."
"Strong investor demand for companies operating more responsibly for the good of people and the world, along with ESG regulations in the works, have shifted the focus in the board room," said Robinson. "Both public and private companies, large and small, are seeking ways to align employees to meet sustainability goals and our solutions are going to greatly assist them in these efforts. We want Clearyst° to serve alongside businesses during this journey and enable them to execute this the right way."
For more information on Clearyst° or to receive updates visit www.clearyst.com.
About Clearyst°: Clearyst° is a technology platform company of modern sustainability tech and SaaS products and services to help businesses rapidly achieve ESG and sustainability needs and objectives. Clearyst° tightly partners with the leadership of the operating subsidiaries to optimize, innovate, and scale. Sustainability and ESG technology companies ready to accomplish the next level of growth and impact should partner with Clearyst°. To learn more about Clearyst°, visit www.clearyst.com.
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CHICAGO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Cloud announced today they have been recognized as the top Microsoft Azure partner credentialed by winning four worldwide and two United States Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards across multiple categories:
- Worldwide Winner Migration to Azure
- Worldwide Winner Solution Assessments
- US Winner Solution Assessments
- US Winner Modernizing Applications
- Worldwide Finalist Analytics
- Worldwide Finalist Healthcare & Life Sciences
3Cloud was selected from over 3,900 worldwide and 1,800 national partner nominations, for demonstrating excellence in digital innovation and modernizing clients' data estates and applications on the Microsoft Azure platform.
Backed by Gryphon Investors since 2020, 3Cloud is the largest Microsoft partner who is focused exclusively on Microsoft Azure. With a dedicated team of over 600 full-time Azure experts, 3Cloud accelerates digital transformation across data and analytics, application innovation and cloud platform. 3Cloud has experienced unprecedented growth organically and through acquisitions and continues to outpace the Azure market growth of 46% year-over-year.
"We are truly honored to be recognized by Microsoft as the top Azure partner," declared Mike Rocco, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of 3Cloud. "We owe our success to our team, a group of top Azure engineers and consultants who have come to 3Cloud to work on innovative Azure projects. Today, we have been acknowledged as the Azure leader and we are positioned in the market for continued accelerated growth."
"Each year, 3Cloud delivers leading edge cloud technology and innovative Azure solutions to the marketplace," said Jim Dietrich, Co-Founder & President of 3Cloud. "With our depth of Azure expertise, we believe this is the principal reason our clients choose to work with 3Cloud and why we have been awarded these 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards."
3Cloud services enterprise organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies, across a variety of industries, including: healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, and higher education. Most notably, 3Cloud excels in the migration and modernization of customer's data estates and applications on the Azure platform.
"3Cloud has distinguished themselves as a top Azure partner, completely dedicated to Microsoft Azure," said David Totten, Microsoft CTO. "We value the significant impact 3Cloud has on driving Azure-based solutions and what that brings to our joint clients. 3Cloud stood out among an exceptional pool of nominees, and I'm continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Azure technologies and the impact their expertise has on our clients."
Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company's global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year. Additional details on the 2022 awards are available on the Microsoft Partner Network blog: https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/congratulations-to-the-2022-microsoft-partner-of-the-year-awards-winners-and-finalists/. The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire/awards.
As a top Microsoft services partner focused 100% on the Azure platform, 3Cloud helps clients build, migrate, modernize and manage their applications, infrastructure, data and analytics in the cloud. Founded by Mike Rocco and Jim Dietrich who served over 15 years together at Microsoft, 3Cloud combines a team of highly experienced cloud architects and technologists with a strong network of Microsoft sales and engineering relationships to deliver the ultimate Azure experience for clients. 3Cloud is headquartered in Chicago and serves clients throughout the U.S. To learn more, visit www.3cloudsolutions.com.
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Woman shot in the face leaving own 18th birthday party
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) – A woman in Tennessee was taken to the hospital Friday night after family members say she was shot in the face leaving her own birthday party.
According to WMC, the Memphis Police Department said the shooting happened just before 9:30 p.m.
Breanna Keys was celebrating her 18th birthday at a family member’s house. She and her boyfriend were leaving the party when they were both shot.
“A car came speeding down the street just letting off shots,” Keys’ cousin Tamertrius Burks said, adding that Keys got caught in the crossfire.
The 18-year-old was taken to the hospital with critical injuries to her jaw and ear.
Her mother, Latrice Kennon, said Keys has been recovering in the intensive care unit but has a long road to recovery and multiple surgeries ahead.
“She was at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Kennon said. “They need to put these guns down.”
Keys’ boyfriend was not critically injured in the shooting and is expected to be OK.
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LA Times Today: L.A. chaplain and doctor share intimate look at the fight against COVID
Watch L.A. Times Today at 7 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.
In the height of the pandemic of 2020, L.A. Times photojournalist Francine Orr was invited inside Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills to document the intensity and sorrow experienced by those suffering from COVID.
She built a trust and bond so significant a doctor and chaplain allowed her to shadow them as they comforted the ill, their families and the medical staff risking their own health, trying to keep patients alive.
Chaplain Kevin Deegan and Dr. Marwa Kilani, joined LA Times Today to share the experiences Orr so poignantly captured through the lens of her camera.
She built a trust and bond so significant a doctor and chaplain allowed her to shadow them as they comforted the ill, their families and the medical staff risking their own health, trying to keep patients alive.
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Company aspires to be a leader in acting with purpose and social consciousness
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, announced its vision for corporate responsibility and shared the company's continued advancements in environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives across its operations.
"As our ESG vision states, 'We aspire to lead our industry in acting with purpose and social consciousness and to promote sustainable practices, so that our planet and all of us on it can thrive long into the future,'" said Mike Arbour, Sedgwick CEO.
Sedgwick's commitment focuses on initiatives in the areas of environmental (caring for the Earth), social (caring for its colleagues, clients and communities) and governance (organizational conduct).
Heather Lawley, Sedgwick global head of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and ESG, said, "Our ESG strategy reflects a methodical approach to leveraging key areas of importance to Sedgwick's business in order to make a meaningful difference in the world. We are proud to continue the great work Sedgwick has been doing for years and to identify future opportunities for growth — all with a heightened understanding of our role and responsibility as a business leader."
- Operated for more than 50 years as a values-driven company committed to doing the right thing. The company maintains a strong focus on business ethics and strongly enforces its code of conduct.
- Reduced its carbon footprint by implementing virtual inspection tools in place of travel to loss sites where possible, reducing the size of its car fleet, and promoting colleagues' use of electric and hybrid vehicles for business travel.
- Transitioned numerous processes to digital capture and storage, eliminating the need for printing and greatly reducing paper use. Sedgwick has also gone paperless at events and trade shows by leveraging more digital experiences, QR codes and plantable seed paper.
- Committed to reducing e-waste tonnage and the associated release of harmful toxins through technology repair programs, donations and partnerships with reputable recycling companies that can extend systems' usefulness.
- Integrated DEI throughout its business and people practices. It starts at the top, with Arbour signing the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion pledge. In a recent global engagement survey, Sedgwick colleagues ranked DEI the highest index, including the areas of hiring from a variety of backgrounds, meaningful work, diversity commitment, sense of belonging and environment of belonging.
- Established a high-performance culture of caring, learning and recognition. The company offers its colleagues a robust suite of benefits focused on their mental, physical, financial and professional well-being. It also supports colleagues' career journeys by providing ongoing development and engagement opportunities.
- Over the last four years, more than doubled its annual spending with diverse partners (SBE, MBE, WBE, etc.).
"At Sedgwick, taking care of people is at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our colleagues, our clients and the global community," Arbour said. "We strive to maximize our opportunities for collective impact by 2030 and are deeply committed to supporting this important strategy as an extension of our belief that caring counts."
Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. The company provides a broad range of resources tailored to our clients' specific needs in casualty, property, marine, benefits, brand protection and other lines. At Sedgwick, caring counts; through the dedication and expertise of nearly 30,000 colleagues across 80 countries, the company takes care of people and organizations by mitigating and reducing risks and losses, promoting health and productivity, protecting brand reputations, and containing costs that can impact performance. Sedgwick's majority shareholder is The Carlyle Group; Stone Point Capital LLC, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Onex and other management investors are minority shareholders. For more, see sedgwick.com.
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InBody keeps cardiac health close to the heart of its goal to simplify health and wellness data. With the BPBIO 220 and BPBIO 250, the company hopes to bring increased accuracy and precision to blood pressure readings taken at medical facilities.
CERRITOS, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, InBody is pleased to announce the release of two new professional-grade blood pressure monitors, the BPBIO 220 and the BPBIO 250.
With its finger consistently on the pulse, InBody is now giving medical professionals the opportunity to add these advanced devices to their practice to accurately assess patient risks for chronic conditions.
The BPBIO 220 and BPBIO 250 are part of a new generation of blood pressure devices that meet updated mercury-free standards for use within the medical field. While the use of mercury in blood pressure monitors has been an industry gold standard for years, a number of independent research studies have raised concerns regarding the safety of mercury, its use in the workplace, and human error that could be associated with manually measuring this data.
To alleviate these concerns, the BPBIO 220 was designed to help the clinician accurately measure individual blood pressure manually using the auscultatory method. With our patented controller, it helps eliminate errors by allowing clinicians to conveniently mark blood pressure and control exhaust speed using one hand.
Its automatic counterpart, the BPBIO 250, uses the oscillometric method to quantify patient health and is equipped with a patented one-touch cuff to improve user comfort and five different test modes, including auscultatory mode, which allow clinicians to optimize measurements according to test environment and individual patient condition. In addition, the BPBIO 250 also comes with additional accessories, such as a rechargeable lithium ion battery, cuff rack and curl cable for easy storage, and Bluetooth capabilities.
"This new blood pressure technology will help us ensure accurate measurements are consistently recorded regardless of external factors, such as environment or patient condition," says Harry Yun, CEO of InBody USA. "We're excited to offer medical professionals devices that provide personalized data on patient heart health, which can be used to create and sustain healthy lifestyle changes."
To learn more about InBody's advanced line of blood pressure monitors and discover which model is right for your facility, visit the InBody website.
About InBody
InBody is an innovation-focused company with a goal of creating a better world for today and future generations to come. Their mission is to provide biomedical technologies that simplify the understanding of health and wellness. People trust InBody to provide accurate, actionable insights. InBody's award-winning, medical-grade devices are used by professionals and consumers in medical, fitness, research, and corporate wellness verticals. The company delivers biomedical technologies and services in over 110 countries with six international branch offices and a global network of distributors. To learn more about InBody and their mission visit www.inbody.com.
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jing.zhu@inbody.com
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It's been awhile since we've seen them on screen together, but George Clooney and Julia Roberts have still got it.
The "Ocean's Eleven" co-stars are back in a romantic comedy, the first either has done in years.
"Ticket to Paradise" features the pair as ex spouses who team up to try and stop their daughter (played by Kaitlyn Dever) from getting married in Bali to a man she's just met.
"Worst 19 years of my life," Clooney says in character in the trailer as Roberts' character shows up to sit near him on a flight.
"We were only married for five," she quips.
"I'm counting the recovery," he responds.
"People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time that's gone by that I haven't done a romantic comedy as my not wanting to do one," Roberts recently told New York Times Magazine.
"If I had read something that I thought was that 'Notting Hill' level of writing or 'My Best Friend's Wedding' level of madcap fun, I would do it. They didn't exist until this movie that I just did that Ol Parker wrote and directed,'" she said of "Ticket to Paradise."
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - LQwD Fintech Corp. (TSXV: LQWD) (OTC: LQWDF), the company focused on building infrastructure on the Bitcoin Lightning Network global micropayment system, announced today that it has now launched 17 international routing nodes on Lightning Network, positioning LQwD to secure future routing fees in a rapidly expanding global payments network.
LQwD's international routing nodes now include Japan, England, Canada, US-West, France, Italy, Indonesia, Bahrain, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Singapore, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, and Hong Kong. You can follow LQwD's node transaction volume in real-time here.
"Since launching our first Lightning Network node in November 2021, LQwD's nodes have already routed over 72 BTC and over 36,000 transactions, which is extremely encouraging in these early stages," remarked Shone Anstey, LQwD Fintech Corp. CEO. "We are making excellent progress establishing LQwD as a serious network participant, and in coming months, we will launch the LQwD business-to-business platform (now in beta), which also allows retail customers to take advantage of the economics and efficiencies of the network."
According to Bitcoin Visuals, Lightning Network continues to experience upward trends with total network capacity increasing 138% since this time last year. The Company expects this trend to continue, as larger enterprises and exchanges such as Kraken, Robinhood, Twitter, and Block (Cash App) all have integrated Lightning Network capabilities. Some research firms, such as Arcane Research, predict that there could be as many as 700 million Lightning Network users by 2030.
Corporate & Financial
LQwD currently has sufficient working capital to continue to maintain operations for the foreseeable future. As of June 29, 2022, LQwD has working capital of approximately C$1.275 million in cash and cash equivalents with general and administrative expenses, including current development expenses, running approximately C$100,000 per month. LQwD also holds 121 Bitcoin on the balance sheet of which, a portion is used to secure routing nodes and establish node liquidity.
About LQwD Fintech Corp.
LQwD is a Lightning Network Service Provider (LSP) focused on developing payment infrastructure and solutions accelerating the global mega trend of Bitcoin adoption through the Lightning Network. The Company's mission is to develop institutional grade services that support the Lightning Network and drive improved functionality, transaction capability, user adoption, utility and scaling Bitcoin. LQwD also holds Bitcoin that is used as an operating asset establishing nodes and payment channels on the Lightning Network.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws relating to the Company's business plans and the outlook of the Company's industry. Although the Company believes, considering the experience of its officers and directors, current conditions and expected future developments and other factors that have been considered appropriate, that the expectations reflected in this forward-looking information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on them because the Company can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. The statements in this press release are made as of the date of this release and the Company assumes no responsibility to update them or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances other than as required by applicable securities laws.
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If you work with CSS often, you may have experienced layouts placed side-by-side that break or become misaligned when one side’s size changes. Almost every web designer has faced this, and it can be frustrating to resolve. Luckily, CSS has features allowing you to create web layouts that maintain alignment when their content changes; these are called the subgrid and container queries.
CSS subgrid and container queries are two features that can vastly improve web layout design and responsive web development. This article will dive deeply into CSS subgrids by providing a tutorial on seamlessly using them with container queries.
Contents
- What are CSS subgrids?
- What are container queries?
- How do container queries work?
- Use cases for container queries
- Using CSS subgrids with container queries
What are CSS subgrids?
CSS subgrids are a relatively new feature in the CSS ecosystem, proving to be a significant addition to the level two CSS grid web design and layout specifications.
The elements (child components) you construct and adjust inside a traditional grid container do not directly inherit rows and columns from their parent component. This causes difficulty in consistently aligning them with the parent grid, as each element tends to act independently.
You then have to manage two separate grids, which can get redundant. You can quickly solve this problem by adding subgrid
as a value for the grid-template-rows
and grid-template-columns
properties, because grid child components can now perfectly sync with their parent component.
CSS subgrids allow the child components to inherit their parent row and column settings without maintaining their grid settings.
Consider the three cards in a nested grid system below:
Look what happens when you increase the card’s content at the center:
You can immediately see that the title and footer positions get compromised as the content increases.
There are several ways of dealing with this problem. Still, they all end up with you manually managing individual grids in nested grid systems, which can be problematic when working on a larger codebase.
Subgrids now provide an alternative fix that allows rows and columns to maintain their initial position in the grid system despite changing their content.
From my example above, adding subgrid
as the value for my card’s grid-template-row
s will produce a different output:
.card { grid-template-rows: subgrid; }
Here’s the result:
Despite the second card’s content increase, the title and footer elements are still perfectly positioned and in sync with the parent grid.
Subgrid is a significant addition to CSS grid layout specifications because of the ability of child components to inherit the properties of their parent and grandparent components. It comes in handy when building nested grid systems, perfectly aligned form layouts, and other editorial web alignments.
Currently, only Firefox browser supports CSS subgrid, but other popular browsers are not far behind. You can reference this guide to look deeper into CSS subgrids and their functions.
What are container queries?
Since the introduction of media queries to browsers, responsive web design has taken a giant step into the future, as you can now design specific layouts for browser viewports.
This is great, but media queries have also exposed a redundancy issue when creating more complex web structures. For instance, components wrapped in a containing section that need to adjust their primary layout properties (like width or height) to line up with a change in the web page’s viewport can affect and break the design.
To solve this problem, keep the component’s media queries in sync with the containing section to ensure that your component looks good on all viewport sizes. You can easily solve this with container queries because instead of viewport sizes, you now design elements based on their actual properties. Container queries allow any component to respond per a specified container.
In a grid system, for instance, child components can align with their container and determine their behavior and responsiveness. You can modify their styles depending on their position in the container (not the viewport). While you can still structure web pages with a responsive grid layout, using container queries is a more straightforward approach to responsive web design.
How do container queries work?
The first thing to understand about CSS container queries is that while “containers” are the elements being queried, the rules within container queries only affect the container descendants. For instance, if you query a main
, section
, or perhaps a div
as your target container, container queries will allow you to define rules for how elements within them change as the container size changes.
You can create a container query with @container
. It looks for the closest containment context:
.card { display: flex; flex-direction: column; } .container { background: #fff; container-type: layout inline-size container-name: something; } @container something (min-width: 450px) { .card { display: flex; flex-direction: row } }
The code above is an illustration of working with container queries. It simply instructs the browser to change the value of the card’s flex-direction
column to row
if the container’s width is at least 450px.
Container queries were specified to be included in CSS containment
. Three properties accompany them:
1. container-type
This property assigns a query container to an element so that its child components can query several aspects of its layout features.
size
creates a query container for block and inline axis dimensional queries. Layout, style, and size containment are applied to the elementinline-size
creates a query container for dimensional queries on the container’s inline axis. The element’s layout, style, and inline-size containment are appliedblock-size
creates a query container for dimensional queries on the container’s block axis. Layout, style, and block-size containment are applied to the elementstyle
is for style queries, and creates a query containerstate
creates a query container for state queries
2. container-name
An optional property that further specifies the container’s name. This attribute acts as an escape hatch when we don’t want to target the nearest parent container.
Consider the code below:
.sidebar { container-type: inline-size; container-name: sidebar; }
The CSS above generates a container with a specified name (sidebar
) that only contains content on the inline axis, meaning that the content can grow as much as it needs to on the block axis. You can then query that specific container with its container-name
like so:
@container sidebar (min-width: 450px){ .card { display: flex; flex-direction: row } }
3. container
This property is often used as a shorthand property you can use to set both container-type
and container-name
in one statement.
Use cases for container queries
Container queries are appropriate for highly reusable components with a layout dependent on the available container space. They can be used in various situations or added to multiple containers on the page.
Other container query use cases include:
- Adaptable layouts
- Cards, form elements, banners, and other modular components
- CSS resize experiments
- Mobile and desktop pagination with distinct functionalities
Most browsers still do not support container queries, but you can readily test their features on Google Chrome Canary. Head to chrome://flags
and enable CSS Container
Queries
:
You can also experiment with container queries on Mozilla Firefox by heading to about:config
and enabling layout.css.container-queries
:
Container queries are currently in their first public working draft, but it is a feature that has proven helpful and is likely to be incorporated in all browser versions.
Using CSS subgrids with container queries
CSS subgrids and container queries are two fascinating CSS features that I think will change your approach to webpage layout design and responsive styling, but how can we combine them?
Say we have a section containing three articles in the following format:
<section class="container"> <article class="article1">...</article> <article class="article2">...</article> <article class="article3">...</article> </section>
Now let’s place these articles in a nested grid system where subgrids and container queries can play their roles:
/* this creates a container with containment on the inline axis only and gives it an optional name "main" */ html, section { container-type: inline-size; container-name: main; } /* targetting the section's minimum width at "60ch" */ @container main (min-width: 60ch) { section { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; } } /* targetting the section's minimum width at "100ch" */ @container main (min-width: 100ch) { article { padding: 1rem; font-size: 1rem; border: 1px solid #000; margin: 10px 20px; display: grid; grid-template-rows: auto 1fr auto; } /* enabling a more responsive grid layout so elements don't break */ .article1, .article2 { grid-template-columns: subgrid; } .article3 { display: grid; grid-column: span 2; } } /* targetting the section's containment context at a maximum width of "100ch" */ @container main (max-width: 100ch) { main { display: flex; flex-direction: column; } }
From the above CSS code, we made the first two columns take as much space in a two-column grid system as the third one, which is just below. We then created a subgrid inside the article to ensure the elements inside are in sync and can’t break, even when the article’s content is increased.
To make this system more responsive, we had to target the section and set some container query rules that apply to the articles as their descendants. You may notice that we queried the inline-size
property of the section because we want the article (child) components to grow or shrink inline with the section’s (container) width.
In this case, we made the articles flex in the column direction when the section’s width is at a maximum of 80ch
. This enables our articles to respond not to the viewport size but their container’s width.
Here’s the result:
Conclusion
This article covered CSS subgrids and container queries, their workings, and use cases. We were also able to experiment with both concepts and combine them to bring about a responsive layout. Container queries and CSS subgrids are currently in their first public working draft, but they are features that have proven helpful and are likely to be incorporated in most new browser versions.
I hope this article was valuable to you. Happy coding!
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WESTBOROUGH, Mass., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- My-Take LLC, a greater Boston based insight technology and analysis company, has just launched its latest version of Video Chat, an insight community activity type used for conducting online focus groups and IDIs.
"This activity type upgrade and launch comes with many new enhancements. We believe this launch will add a lot of value for our clients by integrating the ability to conduct online focus groups in addition to in-depth interviews, all from within the community platform. Deep qualitative feedback gained through video chat can add color to a study and bring insights to life." – Todd Hoskins, My-Take Co-founder
Updates in the 3.0 launch include:
- Layout/UI Updates - New grid format with an enhanced user control panel, in addition to a new Tech Helper Chat panel.
- Co-moderators - Video Chat Sessions can now have up to 2 moderators.
- Mobile Friendly - Now available for use on Mobile devices.
- Quick Create - Allows admins to create Video Chat Sessions on the fly.
- Hover Contextual User Information - Enables permission approved moderators and observers to hover and view a user's key contextual information.
- Smart Tagging - Allows admins to highlight specific moments and add a note, live, during a Video Chat Session. A highlight reel is auto created for these moments in Reporting.
- Technical Updates - Participants must now complete a tech check to participate in a Video Chat Session. Reminders and communications for Video Chat Sessions have also been revamped.
"Unlike video conferencing tools, our Video Chat activity is specifically built with market research in mind. With advanced moderator tools and features, the ability to have observers, and our clip editor used for creating highlight reels, a tool like this really lends itself to researchers." - Rich Armstrong, My-Take Co-founder
My-Take's cutting-edge platform offers video chat sessions to clients at every service level. Contact us to learn more and demo the platform.
About My-Take: My-Take is a greater Boston based consumer insight technology and analytics company that offers an advanced market research online community (MROC) platform and a team of professional researchers to deliver actionable insights for clients.
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Tennessee law enforcement officials say the search for a man suspected of shooting a Henderson police officer earlier this week is over after he died during an officer-involved shooting in Kentucky.
The search for Samuel Edwards began Monday after he was suspected of shooting and injuring the Henderson officer during a police pursuit, Metro Nashville Police said on Twitter.
BREAKING: This man is wanted for shooting a Hendersonville police officer tonight (non-critical) during a pursuit. Suspect abandoned his van on Gibson Dr in Madison and fled on foot. He is armed with 2 guns. Officers have blanketed the area. See him? Call 911 immediately. pic.twitter.com/7jwr1N6aFK
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) June 28, 2022
According to The Tennessean, the Henderson officer attempted to pull over a black minivan driven by Edwards when Edwards began firing shots before speeding away.
The Henderson officer was non-critically wounded, the police department said.
Police said Edwards then abandoned his vehicle and fled on foot.
On Tuesday, the police department issued an attempted murder warrant for Edwards.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also issued a blue alert for Edwards, who they said was wanted for attempted criminal homicide and evading arrest.
🚨A #TNBlueAlert has been issued for Samuel Q Edwards, wanted by Metro Nashville PD and TBI for Attempted Criminal Homicide and Evading Arrest.
He should be considered armed and very dangerous.
Please call 1-800-TBI-FIND if you know where he is. pic.twitter.com/kPtc50ICiY
— Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (@TBInvestigation) June 28, 2022
Just after 8 p.m., officials said Edwards died following a shootout with Kentucky State Police.
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What is a tropical disturbance?
A Gulf of Mexico disturbance is being monitored
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is currently monitoring a disturbance in the northern Gulf of Mexico that is forecast to approach Texas.
The agency reports that some slow development is possible and that it could become a "short-lived tropical depression" near the coast before moving inland on Wednesday night or early on Thursday.
"Regardless of development, heavy rain will be possible along portions of the Texas coast for the next few days," the NHC said.
An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter plane was scheduled to investigate the disturbance.
RAIN EXPECTED IN GULF AS PLAINS TEMPERATURES CRANK UP
It has about a 40% chance of forming through 48 hours and in the next five days.
FOX News' Janice Dean reported that the slow-moving system would bring the risk of heavy rain, and that scattered showers and thunderstorms will also move through the Southwest.
So, what is a tropical disturbance?
COAST GUARD RESCUES 7 AFTER LIGHTNING STRIKES BOAT 100 MILES OFF FLORIDA
According to the National Weather Service (NWS), a tropical disturbance is a tropical weather system of organized convection that is generally 100-300 miles in diameter, originating in the tropics or subtropics.
The term "Potential Tropical Cyclone" (PTC) is used to describe a disturbance that is not yet a tropical cyclone, but poses the threat of bringing tropical storm or hurricane conditions to land areas within 48 hours.
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Truckers, startups, utilities already benefiting from mobile-first form factor
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zing Data raised $2.4 MM, led by Kindred Ventures (Uber, Coinbase, Postmates), Correlation Ventures (Optimizely, Personal Capital) and early backers of Amplitude and Robinhood.
"Without data scientists, companies lack the toolkit to process and understand their data in context: until Zing. The mobile form factor, simple collaboration, and easy-to-understand tools are best in class. And this technical team has experience as builders and users of business intelligence software, so understand the customer need deeply," said Kanyi Maqubela, Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures.
Founders Zack Hendlin and Sabin Thomas met ten years in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and even back then were thinking about building data tools.
"We both realized that engineering, product, and operations teams struggle to use data because they lack the ease of use and collaboration. We knew we could do better by reimagining what an interface for querying data could look like in a mobile first way – just like Robinhood did for stock trading on mobile," said Hendlin.
Both founders bring extensive experience shipping industry defining products, Thomas founded two companies with successful exits in the security space, and Hendlin shipped Facebook's first work in speech recognition, Facebook's first mobile ads format, and built out product and data teams at OneSignal.
"As an engineering leader, I wanted tools that allowed everybody at a company to make data-driven decisions, and that's what we've built. We built a query intelligence platform and smart query construction layer to deliver an experience that 'just works', empowering the enterprise data influencer," said Thomas.
Used by fast growing startups and Fortune 1000 companies, Zing delivers faster time-to-insight than any other platform. Underlying this is support for all common databases including Snowflake, Postgres, mySQL, Google BigQuery, Google Sheets, Amazon Redshift, and Trino. Zing has already forged partnerships with Google and Starburst to deliver well-tested integrations.
"Zing finally allows me to get the key metrics I care about, on the go, and with just one tap on my phone," said Pete Martin, co-founder at WePlayed Sports, a Zing customer. "They are lowering the barrier to entry for data exploration and querying to make it accessible for everyone at a company," said Peter Cho, VP of Product at Mezmo.
The company found enthusiasm from an unexpected source, "Companies in logistics, event management, and real estate signed up – and we realized the scope of the opportunity not just to make data easier to use for people on the go, but for this much bigger group unserved by expensive, single-player, desktop-based business intelligence. People who are in fields, factories, stores, construction sites. If you think about it, everybody is a 'deskless worker' at some point, even if that's just getting pinged while at your kid's soccer game," said Hendlin.
Using Zing Data, a user can:
- Query databases and see generate informative charts in <10 seconds
- Run terabyte-scale queries with just a few taps
- Easily collaborate on action items from an analysis or insight, using @mentions and shared questions
- Reduce the 40% of the business intelligence team's time spent on simple 'ad hoc' questions
Zing is free to use on iOS, Android, and the web for the first ten users at a company at getzingdata.com.
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French court convicts 19 men in 2015 Paris attacks trial
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and BARBARA SURK
PARIS (AP) — A French court has found 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges for the Islamic State terrorist attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and France’s national stadium in 2015.
The deadliest peacetime attacks in French history killed 130 people.
Presiding judge Jean-Louis Peries was rendering the verdict Wednesday in a courthouse surrounded by unprecedented security, wrapping up an exceptional, nine-month trial.
The chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was found guilty of murder and attempted murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise, among other charges.
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As prices skyrocket, July 4th fireworks sales still go 'boom' in Volusia, Flagler
DAYTONA BEACH — Like everything from gasoline to groceries, the colorful boxes of fireworks for Micah Pollitz’s homegrown July 4th celebration are more expensive this year, but that hasn’t stopped the Ormond Beach resident from stocking up for his family’s holiday party.
“This is my second time back here this week,” said Pollitz, 27, as he strolled aisles stacked floor to ceiling with shells, sparklers and Roman candles at Sky King Fireworks on International Speedway Boulevard. “I had to come back without my wife, because she cut me off.”
Pollitz had plenty of company this week, as shoppers flocked to fireworks stores in Daytona Beach to equip themselves to contribute to the rockets’ red glare of the upcoming holiday weekend. The rush reflects a surge in interest nationally in retail fireworks sales that continues to be strong following a significant jump in the wake of COVID-related cancellations of large gatherings two years ago.
Community events are back:July 4 fireworks: Here's where to find celebrations in Volusia and Flagler counties
At the height of the pandemic, revenues generated by fireworks sales exploded from $1 billion in 2019 to $1.9 billion in 2020, according to the American Pyrotechnics Association. Even as public fireworks displays returned a year later, individual fireworks sales increased to $2.2 billion in 2021.
This year, the association anticipates another uptick to $2.3 billion.
As he shopped the selection at Sky King in Daytona Beach, Pollitz reflected the attitude of many customers that inflation wasn’t going to dampen the holiday. He expected to spend about $300 on fireworks this year, taking home roughly the same amount of merchandise as always to entertain his wife, and 3-year-old son, he said.
Inflation's impact:Volusia tourism: Will $5 a gallon of gas and recession talk dampen summer expectations?
The cost of one of Pollitz’s go-to items, “Culture Shock,” increased from $90 a year ago to $115 for the assortment of 25 color shots, he said, but Pollitz still made the purchase.
“I had to get that,” said Pollitz, who works as a roofer. “It was my favorite last year. Yes, it’s gone up, but it’s just like everything else. This is only one day a year.”
For retailers, shipping costs skyrocket
The July 4th customer influx started a bit later this year but has continued to build toward an expected rush over this coming weekend, said Joe VanOudenhove, managing partner of Sky King Fireworks, a company that owns and operates 20 stores in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
“We’re definitely seeing a strong demand for fireworks again this year,” he said. “We’re expecting it to increase over the next few days. With the Fourth on a Monday, it should be a very busy weekend.”
Although Sky King has solved supply chain issues to keep shelves fully stocked, shipping and logistics costs have skyrocketed, causing the price increases that have been noticed by customers, VanOudenhove said.
“The stuff inside the containers is now cheaper than the cost to ship the container,” he said. “Our cost of logistics, of ocean shipping from China, has increased by 300%. We can’t absorb that cost.”
The same factors also have resulted in higher prices at beachside Phantom Fireworks on South Atlantic Avenue, but that store also has been busy, said manager Connie Smith.
There, customers on a recent afternoon filled shopping carts with items bearing such colorfully over-the-top branding as “Untamed Retribution” ($149.99), “Thermal Explosion” ($69.99) and “Mineshell Mayhem” ($89.99).
Inflation didn’t stop customer Ron Davey from stacking dozens of boxes of fireworks high on two industrial-sized rolling carts for an Independence Day family reunion of his six children and three grandchildren in Ormond Beach.
His $2,267 purchase earned him a spot on a tally board near the store’s cash registers that tracks the day’s biggest spenders. However, it only ranked as the third-highest total, behind an earlier customer’s whopping $3,359.
“I’ve never ever bought this many fireworks, but I’m glad to be able to do it for the kids,” said Davey, 57, owner of a corporate events company. “We’ve been blessed. The good Lord has smiled on us. We couldn’t do this if He wasn’t watching over us all the way.”
Chitwood: fireworks safety is a concern
Not everyone is as excited about the prospect of an array of homegrown fireworks shows over the holiday weekend.
In his years in law enforcement, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood can recall numerous instances where amateurs working with fireworks have been injured or worse.
“I have seen many situations where people mishandled fireworks and lost their hands,” Chitwood said. “We had an incident recently where someone lost their life setting off fireworks. There was an explosion of a mortar that peppered this guy with shrapnel.”
His advice?
“Use common sense, follow the directions,” Chitwood said. “Be very careful when firing around trees and rooftops, because you can easily set your house on fire or set your neighbor’s house on fire.”
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It would be even better, he said, if residents leave the pyrotechnics to the pros at one of the many public celebrations countywide.
“Let the professionals set them off,” he said. “Bring a beach chair, hang out with the family, have some snacks, have a great time.”
Fireworks prohibited on Volusia beaches
In Florida, the added interest in home fireworks has been kindled by a state law passed two years ago that makes it legal for the public to use fireworks on the July 4th holiday, one of three occasions permitted annually that also include New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
From 2020: New Florida law makes fireworks legal on the 4th of July, New Year’s
Despite the state law, use and possession of fireworks remains prohibited on Volusia County beaches according to county ordinance, said Andrew Etheridge, the county’s director of Beach Safety.
“They are still illegal to even possess on the beach,” Etheridge said. “People think it’s a good place to set off fireworks because of the sand and the water, but we have massive crowds on these holidays. Beyond the legal aspect of it, it’s dangerous to do that with large crowds around.”
Those caught with fireworks on the beach can have them confiscated or face arrest for violation of a county ordinance, Etheridge said. At the same time, he acknowledged that Beach Safety Ocean Rescue officers are vastly outnumbered, making the ordinance hard to enforce.
Typically, a massive amount of fireworks litter and debris needs to be removed from the beach the day after the holiday, he said.
The aftermath:The morning after fireworks, Volusia citizens clean beaches of July 4th trash
“It’s one of our No. 1 producers of trash and litter on beach as far as the day after holidays — the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve,” he said. “It’s quite a problem with litter and that does impact animals when the litter makes it into the ocean. The beach is not a good place for that type of activity.”
Fireworks safety
Here are guidelines for fireworks safety from the office of Jimmy Petronis, Florida’s chief financial officer and state fire marshal:
• Light one firework/sparkler at a time and never relight a dud.
• Beware of allowing young children to play with sparklers.
• Keep pets indoors.
• Keep a fire extinguisher nearby.
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SV Health Investors leads round for rapidly expanding telehealth provider
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ria Health, a leading telehealth provider specializing in alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment, today announced the closing of $18 million in Series A funding led by SV Health Investors, LLC ("SV"). SV limited partner, BPEA Private Equity, and current Ria Health investor, SOSV, participated in the financing. The announcement comes on the heels of commercial partnerships with regional and national health plans, including Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealth Group Optum, Beacon Health Options, Highmark Health, and Magellan Health, among others.
Ria Health will utilize funds to expand care delivery to meet demand for AUD treatment from health plans, multi-state employers, Taft-Hartley plans, and healthcare providers. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, misuse of alcohol has increased sharply, with recent studies indicating that excessive drinking among U.S. adults is up more than 35 percent.
"More than 1 in 10 adults struggle with alcohol use disorder, and for the past 40 years the one-size-fits-all approach to multi-addiction treatment has yielded poor results," said Tom Nix, CEO of Ria Health. "Ria Health's mission is to increase access to our clinically effective, evidenced-based treatment that meets the preferences of people who have AUD and removes the barriers of stigma, cost, and inconvenience."
Ria Health has been providing a comprehensive telehealth alcohol treatment program since 2016. The Company was the first AUD provider to receive The Joint Commission accreditation based on providing evidence-based treatment protocols and clinical quality measured by patient outcomes. Ria Health's expert providers empower their patients to set personalized goals, which may focus on clinically-measured reduction of alcohol misuse rather than abstinence. Patients utilize a combination of one-on-one coaching, medical support, digitally connected breathalyzers, and physician prescribed medications to systematically reduce the adverse impacts of AUD and treat co-occurring mental illness.
Ria Health patient outcomes show that within 30 days, 70% of patients reduce their World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking level, and over 12 months, more than 80% of patients reduce their WHO risk drinking level. In addition, studies show that patients who subsequently reduce their WHO risk drinking level report clinically significant improvements in how they feel and function. These improvements include a lower risk for alcohol dependence, less severe alcohol-related consequences, reduced health care costs, improved mental health, improved quality of life, improved liver function, and lower systolic blood pressure.
"As drinking rose dramatically during the pandemic, Ria Health's talented founders and management team led the way with innovative treatment of alcohol use disorder by combining pharmacological and behavioral support," said Michael Balmuth, Managing Partner at SV, who has joined the Ria Health board. "Ria Health's clinical approach and high-quality outcomes will continue to transform the substance use treatment industry."
Over their lifetime, 1 in 10 adults will struggle with alcohol use disorder, the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. At Ria Health, we envision a world with accessible, effective, and compassionate treatment for people who suffer from alcohol misuse. Ria Health is the first evidence-based telehealth treatment program for people who want to drink less and live better by changing their relationship with alcohol. We combine medical science, technology, and human compassion to help people rapidly improve their lives with a simple, online alcohol treatment program that works. For more information, visit riahealth.com.
SV Health Investors is a growth equity and venture capital firm dedicated to investments in the healthcare and life sciences sector. Founded in 1993 with offices in Boston and London, SV has approximately $2.7B in assets under management across multiple investment strategies. SV's dedicated healthcare growth fund – SV7 Growth Fund – seeks to partner with experienced management teams to accelerate the success of innovative healthcare companies across tech-enabled healthcare services, medical products, and digital health. SV combines decades of healthcare transaction and operating experience to drive long-term value creation and realize the triple aim of healthcare – higher quality care, accessible to more patients, at a lower cost. For more information, please visit www.svhealthinvestors.com.
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analysis: Matildas' draw with Portugal paints picture Australian football needs to see
By Samantha LewisWhen Tony Gustavsson began his tenure as the Matildas' head coach in January 2021, one of his first stated objectives was to get his players to "see the same picture".
"I'm one of those people that wants to control the controllables," he said in his first media conference.
"Not simplifying in terms of neglecting important details, [but] simplifying in terms of creating a picture that everyone sees."
He was referring to a few different things: the new philosophies and systems he wanted to introduce, attempts to connect with players virtually amid lockdowns and border restrictions, and ultimately how to prepare the team for the Tokyo Olympics that, at that point, was only six months away.
A lot has happened since that media conference, now close to a year and a half ago. A different and more complicated picture has emerged.
Stripped back to its numbers, the picture is stark: The Matildas have played 24 games since Gustavsson took over, winning eight, drawing five and losing 11.
Of those losses, three came against opponents lower than Australia in the global rankings (Japan, the Republic of Ireland, and Korea) — three games which were decided by a single goal.
The Matildas finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics, though won just two of five games (and one in regular time) to get there.
They've scored 53 goals across this period and conceded 49.
Their longest winning streak – and the time frame in which they scored the most goals – came in the group stage of February's AFC Asian Cup, where they blew past three emerging nations — Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand — with an aggregate score of 24-1 before losing 1-0 to South Korea in the quarter-finals.
Aside from the 4-3 win against Great Britain in Tokyo, Australia under Gustavsson has not won a single game against European opposition — nations that have made up 10 of the 24 games the squad has played.
In that context – the 15 months since January 2021 – this picture of the Matildas is not a pretty one. Their recent 7-0 loss to Spain and Wednesday's 1-1 draw with Portugal have only added darker paint to the portrait.
With the Women's World Cup around the corner, it's understandable that fans and the media are becoming restless. There appears, on the surface, to have been no improvement in the side that many expect to make a deep run in the tournament they're co-hosting next year. Faith and patience in Gustavsson are beginning to fade.
However, just as there was following the Matildas' unexpected Asian Cup exit, there is another, bigger picture that must be brought into focus here: Australia's struggles against higher-ranked sides – particularly those from Europe – are nothing new.
Between 2011 and 2020, under the tenure of five different head coaches, the Matildas faced top 10 teams 42 times (accounting for roughly one-third of their overall opponents) with a win ratio of just 38 per cent.
And of the 21 games played against nations ranked in the top five in that period, Australia won just twice.
Comparatively, in the 15 months since Gustavsson took over, the Matildas have played higher-ranked opponents more often (13 of 24 games, or over half) and with a win ratio of 33 per cent.
Australia's recent games against Spain and Portugal fit into this longer trend. They are two parts of a larger picture that extends back over a decade.
Within that, too, there is the narrower picture of this particular June window:
- Both Spain and Portugal were fine-tuning their squads to participate in next week's European Championships, while the Matildas had nothing immediate to prepare for
- Australia's team was primarily made up of young, uncapped, and fringe players in the absence of senior stars
- There remains an almost-insurmountable gap in the length and quality of the leagues from which most available players – in all three teams – were plucked
As Gustavsson said plainly following Australia's loss to Spain: "This is where we're at." And when understood in the context of their history, it is where they have always been.
This is the picture that Gustavsson sees. It is the picture that the players see. And after this recent friendly series, it is the picture that everyone else in Australian football now needs to see.
A game of perspectives
Indeed, these past two games have offered a microcosm of where the Matildas now sit internationally.
Seventh-ranked Spain, which hasn't lost a competitive match since 2019, showed the gulf that exists between Australia's second-string side and a fully professional, international outfit; a team filled with players from clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid, players who've won Champions Leagues, players who've won World Cups at youth level.
Spain represents the growing dominance of Europe in the women's game, the pinnacle of the sport for both club and country. As Gustavsson said following the loss: It was never a question that Spain would win, but simply by how much.
Portugal, meanwhile, has provided a different perspective on where Australia currently sits in the international pecking order. Wednesday's 1-1 draw against the 30th-ranked side showed the Matildas' second-string team can be competitive against an emerging European nation.
While Portugal dominated the game's opening half and missed a handful of major chances, Australia was able to adjust to the tempo, reconfigure its formation, and muscle its way back into the contest in the second.
On the balance of play, a draw – thanks to a debut goal from Princess Ibini-Isei and an 87th-minute equaliser by substitute Telma Encarnacao — seemed fair.
It also fit into the longer trend: The Matildas' only other two meetings against Portugal ended in a 2-1 loss and a 0-0 draw back in 2018 — two games where Australia had arguably stronger players to choose from including Sam Kerr, Lisa De Vanna, Alanna Kennedy, Chloe Logarzo, and Elise Kellond-Knight.
And so, here we are.
Despite the many caveats and contextualisations of this international window — the unavailability of the Matildas' strongest players, the underestimated power of a Euros-favoured Spain, the gulf that exists between Australia's domestic pathways and those of emerging European nations, the chasm between the Matildas' first and second-string players — the expectations of fans and the media continues to grow.
They have been magnified by the pressure of Australia co-hosting the biggest football tournament in the world with a team containing a handful of world-class individuals playing regularly at some of the game's best clubs.
But that, as we have seen, is only part of the picture. Because while Australia has players of the calibre of Kerr, Ellie Carpenter, Steph Catley, Hayley Raso, and Kyah Simon, so too do most other nations that Australia has faced in the past 16 months, nations that they should also expect to face in a year's time.
The Matildas are, after all, just one star in a much larger galaxy of stars. The brightest of them have already accelerated away, emitting a light that began many years ago but which we are only now just starting to see.
This does not, of course, absolve Gustavsson of – in his own words – controlling what he can control. Valid questions have been asked of his player selections, his tactics, and his management of opportunities afforded by international windows.
But they must be balanced alongside the things he cannot control: the decades of underinvestment in Australia's youth national teams, the lagging behind of the A-League Women in providing full-time opportunities for emerging players, an uncoordinated domestic pyramid, and an increasingly unaffordable development pipeline, all of which have coalesced into where the Matildas now find themselves.
"This is an answer telling us where we are right now with [these] players and that pathway," Gustavsson said.
"That's an insight that tells us where we're at, and we need to keep investing to be fair to these players, to have a fair chance to jump from club land to international football, which is, right now, too big of a step for them.
"The Matildas is not a development platform. A senior national team should not work on developing players at the same time as trying to win games. The senior Matildas should be the tip of the iceberg.
"Short-term, it hurts for all of us, including us in and around the Matildas, fans, media, stakeholders, the federation.
But in the long run, maybe that's exactly what we need to realise exactly where we're at and what we need to do.
"There's a difference between expectations and belief.
"I will never, ever stop believing in this team. But we also need to be fair on what we can expect and what time we can expect it."
What, then, do we make of all this?
Are the Matildas any better? Based on their past 16 months of results, no.
Are they any worse? In the context of their own history, not really. They are about where they have always been.
So where should they be, exactly? That will likely be the question that determines Gustavsson's fate, but it all depends on the picture you choose to see. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-30/matildas-vs-portugal-reveals-state-of-australian-women-football/101194206 | 2022-06-29T19:54:41Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-30/matildas-vs-portugal-reveals-state-of-australian-women-football/101194206 | false |
- Driver Alex Bowman will race in the paint scheme featuring Milestone Super Hero Static on July 10 at Atlanta Motor Speedway
- Unique design and Ally's "Heroically" theme also integrated into fire suit and helmet
DETROIT and BURBANK, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ally Financial, Milestone Media, DC, and Warner Bros. Discovery today unveiled a new paint scheme for the Ally-sponsored No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE of Hendrick Motorsports, in support of their joint program, The Milestone Initiative. Driver Alex Bowman will race in the electrifying paint scheme for the Quaker State 400 on July 10 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. In addition, Bowman will wear a custom fire suit and hand painted Milestone helmet.
Announced in 2021, The Milestone Initiative is collaborative program between Ally, DC, Milestone Media and Warner Bros. Discovery to mentor and train the next generation of comic book storytellers from Black and diverse backgrounds, both professionally and financially. Founded in 1991, Milestone Media is the first Black owned comic book and media company, famous for creating Super Heroes Static, Icon & Rocket, Hardware, and Blood Syndicate. DC is the publishing partner for Milestone comic books; the company initially published titles under the Milestone imprint from 1993 to 1997, then renewing the relationship in recent years and publishing new, updated versions of their core Milestone Super Heroes.
Designed in collaboration with DC's creative services team, the car features Milestone Super Hero Static to drive awareness and interest for The Milestone Initiative among NASCAR fans. As Milestone's electricity-wielding Super Hero, the designers leaned into incorporating Static's electrical effects into the overall design, with the electricity emanating from the character's hands on the hood integrated into not only the paint scheme, but the fire suit and helmet as well. The Milestone Initiative, sponsored by Ally, is a continuation of the mission of Milestone's founders, ensuring a talent pool of diverse creators who can impact our culture in incredible ways through storytelling.
"Ally believes representation matters which is why we teamed up with Milestone Media, DC and Warner Bros. Discovery to share the stories and history of Milestone Comics with a new generation," said Andrea Brimmer, chief marketing and public relations officer for Ally. "We're committed to being a catalyst for change and celebrating diversity in everything we do. Our hope is that this incredible paint scheme, featuring an iconic Black Super Hero, will help make the sport we love a more inclusive space for all."
"From its earliest days, Milestone has always been about mentorship, storytelling and shifting the paradigm when it comes to comic books and entertainment through our characters," said Milestone Media partner and award-winning producer Reggie Hudlin. "To have both The Milestone Initiative and our most popular Super Hero represented on the NASCAR stage is an incredible opportunity to share our vision and expose our mission to a new and evolving audience."
"Working with Ally and Milestone Media on The Milestone Initiative has been an incredible experience," said Anne De Pies, DC SVP and General Manager. "DC and Milestone are passionate about inclusive storytelling that speaks to everyone and being able to share that message on the #48 car with NASCAR fans in addition to our core comic book fans is a great opportunity."
"Ally does a really good job of bringing the NASCAR community together and having Static on the car is another way Ally is doing it right," said Bowman, driver of the No. 48 Ally Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. "I think it is really neat to have a superhero on the No. 48 Ally Chevy at Atlanta and to be able to help with Ally's goal of making NASCAR more inclusive is a unique opportunity that I am proud to be a part of."
For further images and news on Ally, please visit http://media.ally.com. For more information on The Milestone Initiative, visit the website at www.dcuniverse.com/milestone. For the latest news on all of DC's Super Heroes, visit the main site at www.dccomics.com, and follow @DCComics and @thedcnation on social media. The DC UNIVERSE INFINITE digital subscription service offers a combination of classic Milestone titles from the early 90's, as well as some of the current comics available in comic book stores. DC UNIVERSE INFINITE is not intended for children and is not available in all countries. For more information and a free trial (where applicable), check out www.dcuniverseinfinite.com.
About Ally Financial
Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) is a digital financial services company committed to its promise to "Do It Right" for its consumer, commercial and corporate customers. Ally is composed of an industry-leading independent auto finance and insurance operation, an award-winning digital direct bank (Ally Bank, Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender, which offers mortgage lending, point-of-sale personal lending, and a variety of deposit and other banking products), a consumer credit card business, a corporate finance business for equity sponsors and middle-market companies, and securities brokerage and investment advisory services. Our brand conviction is that we are all better off with an ally, and our focus is on helping our customers achieve their strongest financial well-being, a notion personalized to what is important to them. For more information, please visit www.ally.com and follow @allyfinancial.
For more information and disclosures about Ally, visit https://www.ally.com/#disclosures.
About Milestone Media
Milestone Media produces film, television, publishing, and other forms of entertainment spotlighting diverse storytelling by creative voices. Fan-favorite characters from the Milestone universe include Static and the Static Shock animated series, Icon, Rocket, Hardware, Blood Syndicate and more. Milestone Media was co-founded in 1993 by celebrated writer Dwayne McDuffie and award-winning artist Denys Cowan, along with Black Enterprise magazine SVP and Editor-In-Chief Derek Dingle, and artist/educator Michael Davis. In 2015, award-winning writer, director and producer Reginald Hudlin joined Milestone co-founders Denys Cowan and Derek Dingle as a partner, helping to drive forward the company's multimedia initiatives spotlighting Milestone characters.
About DC
DC is one of the largest English-language publishers of comics and graphic novels in the world and home to some of the most iconic and recognizable characters ever created. As a creative division, DC is charged with strategically integrating its stories and characters across film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, interactive games, and the DC UNIVERSE INFINITE digital subscription service and community engagement portal. For more information visit dccomics.com and dcuniverseinfinite.com.
About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming. Available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery Channel, discovery+, CNN, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HBO Max, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.
Contacts:
Cristi Vazquez for Ally:
cristianna.vazquez@ally.com
Michael Shelling for DC:
michael.shelling@dcentertainment.com
Kirsten McKenna for Warner Bros. Discovery:
kirsten.mckenna@warnermedia.com
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Spine, Inc., a medical device company developing total joint replacement for the lumbar spine, today announced completion of the first series of US surgeries in the BalancedBack Total Joint Replacement Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) pivotal clinical trial. All patients enrolled in the IDE will receive the MOTUS device and will be propensity matched against patients prospectively enrolled in 3Spine's real-world evidence (RWE) fusion study, using an adaptive statistical design. 3Spine's RWE study has been enrolling in the US since May 2021.
Benjamin Geddes, MD performed the surgeries at the Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics Surgery Center in Chattanooga, TN, assisted by Alex Sielatycki, MD of Steamboat Orthopaedic and Spine Institute and UC Health Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs, CO. "Alex and I are humbled to have the honor of performing the first lumbar total joint replacements in the US," said Dr. Geddes. "The procedures went very well. Each patient was up and walking within 2 hours after surgery, using the early mobilization protocols for hip and knee arthroplasty patients. This is an encouraging start and we look forward to continuing enrollment."
Jeff Goldstein, MD, national principal investigator (PI) for the IDE said, "On behalf of our study PIs around the country, I'd like to congratulate Dr. Geddes on being the first site to complete enrollment of the RWE study, making him eligible to begin enrollment of the IDE. This is historic work." Dom Coric, MD, national PI for the RWE study continued, "Our strategy to first collect real-world evidence on a variety of posterior lumbar fusions is working well, providing an important baseline at each site and allowing for a staged start to the IDE across centers. I echo Jeff in congratulating Alex and Ben on their achievement."
3Spine's MOTUS device, the implant used in the BalancedBack Total Joint Replacement procedure, is a 'first of kind' technology replacing the function of the disc and facet joints through a posterior approach. The procedure is intended to broadly address leg pain, back pain, and spinal instability, while correcting posture and restoring freedom of movement through reconstruction of the functional spinal unit. 3Spine is seeking single-level indications from L1-S1 in patients suffering from lumbar degeneration with or without foraminal or recess spinal stenosis with no more than a grade 1 spondylolisthesis at the involved level. Additional details are available at ClinicalTrials.gov.
3Spine is a new kind of healthcare company founded to integrate the development, clinical research, and delivery of low back total joint replacement. 3Spine is headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with research and development facilities in the Greater Boston area and clinical operations in the Cayman Islands. www.3spine.com
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NEW YORK and CANNES, France, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, today announced a combined 18 wins at the Cannes Lions Awards 2022 (Cannes Lions), the global benchmark for creative excellence, as part of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the largest gathering in the creative marketing community.
Allison+Partners, Anomaly, Forsman & Bodenfors, and Observatory were among the winning agencies, in categories spanning Creative Strategy, Corporate Purpose & Social Responsibility, Digital Craft, Brand Experience & Activation, Sustainable Development Goals, Pharma, Film and Film Craft, Creative Business Transformation, Design, Public Relations (PR), and Outdoor.
Cannes Lions Winners
Gold Lions
- Creative Strategy – Breakthrough on a Budget: Forsman & Bodenfors + Visit Sweden "Discover the Originals"
Silver Lions
- Creative Strategy – Travel /Leisure: Forsman & Bodenfors + Visit Sweden "Discover the Originals"
- Pharma – Regulated: Direct to Consumer: Anomaly + Abbott "Now You Know"
- Film Craft – Animation: Observatory + Chipotle "A Future Begins"
- Film – Online Film – Retail: Observatory + Chipotle "A Future Begins"
- Design – Special Editions & Bespoke Items: Forsman & Bodenfors + TRETORN "Sea Level Re-Boot"
Bronze Lions
- Digital Craft – Motion Graphics Design & Animation: Observatory + Chipotle "A Future Begins"
- Pharma – Regulated: Direct to Consumer: Anomaly + Abbott "Now You Know"
- Film – Culture & Context – Corporate Purpose and Social Responsibility: Observatory + Chipotle "A Future Begins"
- Film Craft – Achievement in Production: Observatory + Chipotle "A Future Begins"
- Film – Travel/Leisure - Forsman & Bodenfors + Visit Sweden – Discover the Originals
Stagwell Agencies Credited on Integrated Work With Non-Stagwell Agencies
In addition to the above, Stagwell global communications firm Allison+Partners supported PR efforts for several Budweiser and AB/In Bev Lions-winning campaigns in partnership with We The Believers, including:
Gold Lions
- Outdoor – Corporate Purpose & Social Responsibility: Allison+Partners and Corona "Plastic Fishing Tournament"
- Brand Experience & Activation: Allison+Partners and Corona "Plastic Fishing Tournament"
- Sustainable Development Goals – Life Below Water: Allison+Partners and Corona "Plastic Fishing Tournament"
Silver Lions
- Creative Business Transformation – Venture Creation & Design – Venture Models & Corporate Innovation: Allison+Partners and Budweiser Global "The Budweiser Energy Collective"
- PR – Food & Drink: Allison+Partners and Corona "Sunbrew"
- Outdoor – Live Advertising & Events: Allison+Partners and Corona "Plastic Fishing Tournament"
Bronze Lions
- Direct – Corporate Purpose + Responsibility: Allison+Partners and Corona "Plastic Fishing Tournament"
"At Cannes Lions, Stagwell punched above its weight to take top accolades in creativity, digital expertise, and business transformation, proving once again our harmony of art and science drives results," said Stagwell Chairman and CEO Mark Penn.
"From the Speakers' Lounge to the panels and other marketing activations around the Croisette, Stagwell showed up big at our first-ever Cannes Lions as a company, and we're proud to come home with these esteemed awards that recognize the excellence of our teams," added Stagwell Chief Brand and Communications Officer Beth Sidhu.
Stagwell's agencies have won a total of 430 Cannes Lions Awards to date.
About Stagwell
Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 12,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
Contact:
Beth Sidhu
202-423-4414
pr@stagwellglobal.com
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Stacker: About 1 in 3 child care workers are going hungry
(Dakota News Now) - Of the nearly 1 million childcare workers in the United States, 31.2%—basically one out of every three—experienced food insecurity in 2020, according to an article by Stacker.
This article was written by Colin Page McGinnis, The Ohio State University, and The Conversation.
About 1 in 3 child care workers are going hungry
Of the nearly 1 million child care workers in the United States, my colleagues and I found in a recent white paper that 31.2%—basically one out of every three—experienced food insecurity in 2020, the latest year for which we analyzed data. Food insecurity means there is a lack of consistent access to enough food. This rate of food insecurity is anywhere from eight to 20 percentage points higher than the national average.
In Washington and Texas, one study found 42% of child care workers experienced food insecurity, with 20% of child care workers experiencing very high food insecurity. High food insecurity is when a person reports reduced quality and variety of diet. Very high food insecurity occurs when a person reports disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.
Another study in Arkansas found that 40% of child care workers experienced food insecurity.
Effects of food insecurity
People who are food insecure are at increased chances of being in poor health, with conditions like hypertension, diabetes, asthma, arthritis, and depression, among other chronic diseases and health conditions.
Low wages and food insecurity may contribute to child care workers’ high stress levels. When child care workers experience stress, they tend to reduce the amount of positive attention to children and increase their punitive responses to children’s challenging behavior.
Causes of food insecurity
Overall, child care workers’ wages are low, with the median hourly wage being $12.24 per hour. This means child care workers make little more than fast-food workers, whose median pay is $11.64 per hour. What child care workers make is not considered a living wage.
Low wages meant more than 53% of child care workers from 2014 to 2016 received public assistance, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This compares with the 21% of elementary and middle school teachers who received public assistance in that period. When so many child care workers rely on public assistance, it reveals how many of them don’t make enough money to get by.
Nearly all U.S. child care workers are women, and half are people of color. This workforce is central to providing high-quality early childhood education to children up to 5 years old.
Early childhood researchers and policymakers have focused on increasing the education and training of the child care workforce to bolster quality. The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment recommends that lead teachers, the primary teachers in early childhood classrooms who are responsible for the day-to-day management of a classroom, at least have a bachelor’s degree and that assistant teachers at least have a child development associate certificate or equivalent. Despite the fact that the more education child care workers have the higher-quality care they deliver, many states require only a high school diploma or equivalent, and some states do not have any education requirements for entry-level positions.
On average, child care workers who have a bachelor’s degree do make more than those who don’t. However, going to college doesn’t pay off as much for child care workers as it does for those in other fields. Child care workers with a bachelor’s degree average $14.70 per hour, which is just under half the average earnings overall of those with a bachelor’s degree—$27 per hour.
It’s one thing to expect child care workers to get more education to become better at what they do. But it is also important to ensure that additional education pays off.
Policymakers have recently focused on child care workers’ wages. For example, the Build Back Better legislation would raise payment rates to meet the cost of care for children from birth to 5 years old. The cost of care would include wages.
Copyright 2022 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved. | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2022/06/29/stacker-about-1-3-child-care-workers-are-going-hungry/ | 2022-06-29T19:59:01Z | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2022/06/29/stacker-about-1-3-child-care-workers-are-going-hungry/ | false |
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A journalist was shot to death Wednesday in northeastern Mexico as he was leaving his house with his 23-year-old daughter, who was seriously injured, according to state prosecutors and the newspaper that employed him.
Antonio de la Cruz, 47, was a reporter for the local newspaper Expreso for almost three decades. His death brings to 12 the number of journalists killed this year in the country, the deadliest for the Mexican press.
De la Cruz was shot at the door of his house in Ciudad Victoria, capital of the state of Tamaulipas on the U.S. border. The region is mired in violence linked to organized crime.
Expreso covers all kinds of news in the city, including security issues. De la Cruz reported on rural and social topics such as water shortages.
He also covered the Movimiento Ciudadano political party and its local deputy, Gustavo Cardenas Gutiérrez, who condemned the killing.
De la Cruz was “very aware of the reality of Tamaulipas, very brave,” Miguel Domínguez, director of the newspaper, said in an interview with Milenio Televisión.
“He never expressed any concern to us,” Domínguez said.
Expreso has been targeted over the years. In 2012, one of the worst years of drug cartel violence, a car bomb exploded in front of the newspaper’s building. In 2018, a cooler with a human head inside was left at the newspaper, with a warning not to report on violence in the city.
The governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, promised an investigation of the killing Wednesday so that “this cowardly crime does not go unpunished.”
The state prosecutor’s office said that the specialized unit for investigating crimes against freedom of expression had been informed. The federal prosecutor’s office said it was opening an investigation. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Mexican-journalist-is-shot-to-death-12th-so-far-17274607.php | 2022-06-29T19:59:50Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Mexican-journalist-is-shot-to-death-12th-so-far-17274607.php | true |
Ami Shelton is the owner of The Keep Store. The store is a refillery for those wanting to reduce their use of plastics. Shelton spoke to Community Voices about how her interests in the environment influenced her decision to open the store in downtown Springfield. | https://www.nprillinois.org/community-voices/2022-06-29/the-keep-store-provides-an-option-to-reduce-plastic-consumption-community-voices | 2022-06-29T20:01:47Z | https://www.nprillinois.org/community-voices/2022-06-29/the-keep-store-provides-an-option-to-reduce-plastic-consumption-community-voices | false |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
4-8-2
(four, eight, two)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
4-8-2
(four, eight, two) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17274669.php | 2022-06-29T20:03:03Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17274669.php | true |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Roller skating is back in style this summer, and it looks like it’s here to stay.
Many New Yorkers have started to break out their skates. For anyone wanting to follow suit, there are some great spots in the city to check out.
The following roller skating pop-ups are ready for skaters:
- Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace
- Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
- Open until October 16
- United Skates at Atlas Park
- 8000 Cooper Avenue, Queens, NY 11385
- Open until October 16
- JFK Access Road
- Jamaica, Queens, NY 11430
- Open until November 1
- 848 Washington Street
- West 13th Street, New York, NY 10014
- Open until August 31
- Pier 2 Roller Rink at Brooklyn Bridge Park
- 150 Furman Street, Pier 2, Brooklyn, NY 11201
- Open until October | https://pix11.com/new-york-living/where-to-roller-skate-in-new-york-city/ | 2022-06-29T20:03:10Z | https://pix11.com/new-york-living/where-to-roller-skate-in-new-york-city/ | false |
It's not hard to see why this renovated home with amazing views has won awards. It is luxurious throughout, with lavish outdoor entertaining and spa facilities.
These include a bespoke bar area with designer wallpaper and bi-folding door to the garden.
A rear patio dining space with a private courtyard garden leads to the spa and gym. Within the spa with underfloor heating is a sunken six person jacuzzi with a bespoke sauna, shower and w.c., an integrated tv and ceiling speaker system, and a wine cooler.
There are two lawned areas, one of which is above the gym and spa with walk-on skylight feature, and the other to the side of the property with a porcelain tile seating area.
Entering the main house, a bright entrance hall showcases a bespoke powder coated blue staircase and exposed steel work.
Spacious, open plan living on the first floor includes a fitted kitchen and diner area with picture window views.
Within the high spec kitchen are a Caple recessed induction hob, Fisher and Paykel and Miele appliances, with a Quooker instant boiling water tap.
Sliding pocket doors in the living area open to a balcony that catches the sun, and has glorious countryside views, that can be seen through glass balustrades when seated.
Both air conditioning and under floor heating feature in some of the four bedrooms, as do super-stylish en suite facilities.
The main bedroom also has a bespoke walk-in wardrobe
Another double room has an electric opening rooflight and a vaulted ceiling.
A ground floor snug or sitting room has a bespoke media wall, exposed feature brickwork and a hanging bubble chair, with access to the rear garden.
The impressive house bathroom has polished concrete walls, with a freestanding bath, Porcelanosa vanity units, wash basin and mirror.
With many other outstanding features, this detached home, Vantage, Judy Haigh Lane, Thornhill Edge,is priced at £975,000 with Fine and Country, Wakefield.
Call 01924 234888 for more information. | https://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/this-stunning-contemporary-home-near-dewsbury-is-for-sale-for-the-first-time-3750640 | 2022-06-29T20:05:37Z | https://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/this-stunning-contemporary-home-near-dewsbury-is-for-sale-for-the-first-time-3750640 | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump learned his attorney general had publicly rejected his election fraud claims, he heaved his lunch at the wall with such force that the porcelain plate shattered and ketchup streamed down.
On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, consumed by crowd size concerns, he directed staff in profane terms to remove metal detectors he thought would slow down supporters who’d amassed in Washington for a speech. Never mind that some were armed — they weren’t there to hurt him, he said.
And later that day, irate at being driven back to the White House instead of the Capitol, Trump uttered words to the effect of, “I am the f’ing president. Take me up to the Capitol now” and grabbed at the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle.
Trump’s volcanic temper has been the stuff of lore throughout his career in business, but during his presidency it has rarely been described with such evocative detail as in the testimony Tuesday of Cassidy Hutchinson, a junior White House staffer whose proximity to the-then president and top aides that day gave her a remarkably close view.
Hutchinson offered previously unknown details about the extent of Trump’s rage in his final weeks of office, his awareness that some supporters had brought weapons with them and his ambivalence as rioters later laid siege to the Capitol.
The testimony came as the Justice Department expands its investigation into the insurrection and deepened, but did not resolve, questions about whether Trump himself could face criminal charges for his conduct. Though Attorney General Merrick Garland has given no hint about whether his department will bring a criminal case against Trump, some legal experts said Hutchinson’s testimony could give prosecutors additional facts to pursue.
Potentially problematic for Trump could be his urging on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021 to take down metal-detecting magnetometers that he thought were slow down supporters who’d gathered for a rally near the White House.
Upset that some in the crowd might not get to see him, Trump, according to Hutchinson, said words to the effect of, “I don’t care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the f’ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.” “Mags” refers to magnetometers.
“A congressional hearing is not a court of law, but if this isn’t powerful evidence that he wasn’t just aware of the possibility of violence on the 6th but that he actively wanted to encourage it, I’m not sure what is,” said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor.
Whatever any outcome related to a criminal proceeding, the disclosures come as Trump is laying the groundwork for another presidential run in 2024. Aides have been debating the merits of when he should announce his intentions.
Looking to blunt negative publicity surrounding her testimony, Trump issued statements Tuesday on his social media platform calling her accounts of his behavior “fake” and denying that he had requested “that we make rooms for people with guns to watch my speech.”
Trump is well-practiced at marginalizing his critics and accusers, but Hutchinson’s well-calibrated testimony will test that power anew.
Tuesday’s hearing, the sixth by the House committee investigating the insurrection, was accompanied by suspense even before it began. It was hastily announced on Monday, but the committee did not reveal the identity of the witness until Hutchinson entered the room.
Where prior hearings have involved clusters of witnesses who have recounted pressure campaigns on the Justice Department, or on local election officials, to overturn the election results, Tuesday’s hearing involved a singular narrator with an easy-to-follow tale sprinkled with had-to-be-there color. Some anecdotes she witnessed herself. Others she heard second-hand.
She recalled, for instance, being in the White House on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 2020 when she heard noise coming from down the hallway. Trump, it turned out, had just learned of an interview Attorney General William Barr had given to The Associated Press in which Barr said the Justice Department had not found widespread fraud sufficient to alter the outcome of the election.
Inside the dining room was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor, apparently thrown in anger by the president. Ketchup streamed down the wall. Hutchinson says she grabbed a towel to wipe it off.
She says she later heard about a separate episode on the afternoon of Jan. 6 when Trump tried to grab at the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle so that it would take him to the Capitol and not to the White House. He was, he said, “the f’ing president.” Trump was directed to take his hand off the wheel. The story drew pushback after the hearing, with a person familiar with the matter saying the agent who was driving the vehicle and another official were prepared to testify under oath that Trump never lunged for the wheel.
In that instance and others, according to the testimony, the president’s will did not always prevail and Hutchinson detailed aides’ best efforts to rein in Trump’s worst impulses. The morning of Jan. 6, for instance, White House counsel Pat Cipollone cautioned Hutchinson that if Trump did go to the Capitol to intervene in the certification of the election, “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen.”
Whether the Justice Department thinks it has a case against the president, especially one that could further divide an already polarized nation, remains an open question. But there’s also no doubt that the investigation is expanding far beyond the rioters themselves, with law enforcement officials last week serving a wave of subpoenas across the country to state elections officials.
“When you have witnesses who are in these conversations, who are in these rooms, who are actively participating in the high-level discussions of Jan. 6, it seems to me that one of two things has to be true: either they’re lying, or President Trump and a lot of people close to him are in serious jeopardy,” Vladeck said.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/trump-painted-in-testimony-as-volatile-angry-president/ | 2022-06-29T20:06:16Z | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/trump-painted-in-testimony-as-volatile-angry-president/ | true |
NEW YORK — Editor's Note: The video above is from earlier in June.
Fallen R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his fame to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse.
Through tears and anger, several of Kelly's accusers told a court, and him, that he had preyed on them and misled his fans.
“You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel,” said one unnamed survivor, directly addressing a Kelly who kept his hands folded and his eyes downcast.
“Do you remember that?” she added.
Kelly, 55, didn't speak at his sentencing, where he also was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer and songwriter was convicted last year of racketeering and sex trafficking at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had previously wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women.
“Although sex was certainly a weapon that you used, this is not a case about sex. It’s a case about violence, cruelty and control,” U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly told him.
The sentence caps a slow-motion fall for Kelly, who was adored by legions of fans and sold millions of albums even after allegations about his abuse of young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s.
Widespread outrage over Kelly’s sexual misconduct didn’t come until the #MeToo reckoning, reaching a crescendo after the release of the docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly’s lawyers had argued he should get no more than 10 years in prison because he had a traumatic childhood “involving severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence.”
As an adult with “literacy deficiencies,” the star was "repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him,” his lawyers said.
The hitmaker is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multi-part tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue.
Allegations that Kelly abused young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s. He was sued in 1997 by a woman who alleged sexual battery and sexual harassment while she was a minor, and he later faced criminal child pornography charges related to a different girl in Chicago. A jury there acquitted him in 2008, and he settled the lawsuit.
All the while, Kelly continued to sell millions of albums.
The Brooklyn federal court jury convicted him after hearing that he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation that prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, used his “fame, money and popularity” to systematically “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month.
Several accusers testified that Kelly subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage.
The accusers alleged they were ordered to sign nondisclosure forms and were subjected to threats and punishments such as violent spankings if they broke what one referred to as “Rob’s rules.”
Some said they believed the videotapes he shot of them having sex would be used against them if they exposed what was happening.
According to testimony, Kelly gave several accusers herpes without disclosing he had an STD, coerced a teenage boy to join him for sex with a naked girl who emerged from underneath a boxing ring in his garage, and shot a shaming video that showed one victim smearing feces on her face as punishment for breaking his rules.
Kelly has denied any wrongdoing. He didn't testify at his trial, but his then-lawyers portrayed his accusers as girlfriends and groupies who weren't forced to do anything against their will and stayed with him because they enjoyed the perks of his lifestyle.
Evidence also was presented about a fraudulent marriage scheme hatched to protect Kelly after he feared he had impregnated R&B phenom Aaliyah in 1994 when she was just 15. Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time.
Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.
An earlier defense memo suggested prosecutors’ arguments for a higher sentence overreached by falsely claiming Kelly participated in the paying of a bribe to a government official in order to facilitate the illegal marriage.
The Associated Press does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted or abused, unless they come forward publicly. The women who spoke at Kelly's sentencing were identified only by first names or pseudonyms.
Kelly has been jailed without bail since in 2019. He's still facing child pornography and obstruction of justice charges in Chicago, where a trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 15.
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NEW YORK — We're about halfway through the 2022 baseball season as we creep closer and closer to the All-Star Break, so it's a good time to see how the awards races are going.
Our partners at Locked On, which has podcasts dedicated to all 30 MLB teams, got together to vote on the MVP race for the American League and National League.
They came up with a top five for each league, if the award was given out today. There's some obvious names and some snubs.
Check out all the MVP power rankings below:
American League
Honorable mentions: Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Byron Buxton, Luis Robert, Alejandro Kirk
5. Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels
Batting: .268 AVG, 17 HR, 49 RBI, 8 Stolen Bases
4. Jose Ramirez, Cleveland Guardians
Batting: .299 AVG, 16 HR, 63 RBI (1st in AL), 12 Stolen Bases
3. Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros
Batting: .321 AVG, 23 HR (t-2nd in AL), 56 RBI (3rd in AL), .667 SLG (1st in MLB)
2. Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
Batting: .285 AVG, 23 HR (t-2nd in AL), 46 RBI, 4.2 WAR (1st in AL)
1. Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
Batting: .289 AVG, 28 HR (1st in MLB), 57 RBI (2nd in AL), 3.7 WAR (3rd in AL)
National League
Honorable mentions: Nolan Arenado, Dansby Swanson, Ronald Acuna Jr., Freddie Freeman, CJ Cron, Juan Soto
5. Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
Batting: .273 AVG, 17 HR, 40 RBI, 53 runs (third in NL)
4. Pete Alonso, New York Mets
Batting: .282 AVG, 22 HR (t-1st in NL), 69 RBI (1st in MLB)
3. Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
Batting: .318 AVG (4th in NL), 15 HR, 48 RBI. 49 runs (5th in NL)
2. Manny Machado, San Diego Padres
Batting: .328 AVG (2nd in NL), 12 HR, 46 RBI, 4.0 WAR (3rd in NL)
1.Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals
Batting: .347 AVG (1st in NL), 19 HR (3rd in NL), 65 RBI (2nd in NL), 4.3 WAR (1st in NL) | https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/locked-on-mlb/mlb-mvp-power-rankings-judge-goldschmidt-lead-way-st-louis-cardinals-new-york-yankees-mookie-betts-mike-trout-shohei-ohtani-angels-red-sox/535-a45977e0-1523-4be2-9d89-0a9374101ef1 | 2022-06-29T20:06:43Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/locked-on-mlb/mlb-mvp-power-rankings-judge-goldschmidt-lead-way-st-louis-cardinals-new-york-yankees-mookie-betts-mike-trout-shohei-ohtani-angels-red-sox/535-a45977e0-1523-4be2-9d89-0a9374101ef1 | true |
NEW YORK — We're about halfway through the 2022 baseball season as we creep closer and closer to the All-Star Break, so it's a good time to see how the awards races are going.
Our partners at Locked On, which has podcasts dedicated to all 30 MLB teams, got together to vote on the MVP race for the American League and National League.
They came up with a top five for each league, if the award was given out today. There's some obvious names and some snubs.
Check out all the MVP power rankings below:
American League
Honorable mentions: Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Byron Buxton, Luis Robert, Alejandro Kirk
5. Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels
Batting: .268 AVG, 17 HR, 49 RBI, 8 Stolen Bases
4. Jose Ramirez, Cleveland Guardians
Batting: .299 AVG, 16 HR, 63 RBI (1st in AL), 12 Stolen Bases
3. Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros
Batting: .321 AVG, 23 HR (t-2nd in AL), 56 RBI (3rd in AL), .667 SLG (1st in MLB)
2. Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
Batting: .285 AVG, 23 HR (t-2nd in AL), 46 RBI, 4.2 WAR (1st in AL)
1. Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
Batting: .289 AVG, 28 HR (1st in MLB), 57 RBI (2nd in AL), 3.7 WAR (3rd in AL)
National League
Honorable mentions: Nolan Arenado, Dansby Swanson, Ronald Acuna Jr., Freddie Freeman, CJ Cron, Juan Soto
5. Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
Batting: .273 AVG, 17 HR, 40 RBI, 53 runs (third in NL)
4. Pete Alonso, New York Mets
Batting: .282 AVG, 22 HR (t-1st in NL), 69 RBI (1st in MLB)
3. Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
Batting: .318 AVG (4th in NL), 15 HR, 48 RBI. 49 runs (5th in NL)
2. Manny Machado, San Diego Padres
Batting: .328 AVG (2nd in NL), 12 HR, 46 RBI, 4.0 WAR (3rd in NL)
1.Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals
Batting: .347 AVG (1st in NL), 19 HR (3rd in NL), 65 RBI (2nd in NL), 4.3 WAR (1st in NL) | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/locked-on-mlb/mlb-mvp-power-rankings-judge-goldschmidt-lead-way-st-louis-cardinals-new-york-yankees-mookie-betts-mike-trout-shohei-ohtani-angels-red-sox/535-a45977e0-1523-4be2-9d89-0a9374101ef1 | 2022-06-29T20:08:00Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/locked-on-mlb/mlb-mvp-power-rankings-judge-goldschmidt-lead-way-st-louis-cardinals-new-york-yankees-mookie-betts-mike-trout-shohei-ohtani-angels-red-sox/535-a45977e0-1523-4be2-9d89-0a9374101ef1 | false |
What is the best jersey frame?
Around the world, nearly $200 billion is spent annually on sports apparel. Sports fans love their teams, and many show their support by buying their favorite player’s jersey. While some fans wear the jerseys in public, others prefer to preserve the jersey with a frame that not only protects it but can showcase it for others to see.
Jersey frames also are great for your own jersey when you competed athletically or perhaps an autographed piece of apparel that you want to save as an investment and discussion piece. There are different sizes and styles of jersey frames. The best jersey frame is the DisplayGifts XL Jersey Display Frame due to its capacity to hold extra-large jerseys.
What to know before you buy a jersey frame
Jersey size
Jersey frames come in different sizes, just as jerseys do. Football and hockey jerseys are the biggest jerseys. Fold your jersey and measure it squarely to see which dimensions work best for your frame. Make sure to calculate any matting that may run the perimeter of the cover. Shadow boxes are typically better for smaller jerseys, although a few are big enough for larger jerseys.
Types of jersey frames
The two main types of frames are flat box and shadow box frames. Shadow boxes have three-dimensional depth and are typically combined with other memorabilia to display alongside the jersey. Look for high-quality wood frames that look stylish and will last a long time. Plastic frames may be less expensive but often are less sturdy and not as durable.
Display options
Will you hang your jersey frame on a wall or keep it freestanding on a table or display rack? If hanging on a wall, make sure the frame comes with mounting hardware. Shadow boxes are sometimes displayed on a counter or table due to the challenge of hanging the extra depth on a wall.
What to look for in a quality jersey frame
Locking door
If your jersey is extra valuable, consider a frame with a locking door. This will keep curious hands from getting a hold of it.
Acrylic cover
Most frames have an acrylic cover for protection from dust and fingerprints. Acrylic covers with ultraviolet protection are the best option since they will keep harmful sun rays from fading the colors on your favorite jersey. Faded jerseys lose their value in addition to their overall appeal. Acrylic covers also keep heat and humidity from affecting the jersey.
Layout
The mounting material should be acid-free to protect the jersey over time. If you plan to showcase other memorabilia like a ticket stub or souvenir, look for frames with an additional side panel or designated place for these items to be attached.
How much you can expect to spend on a jersey frame
Smaller jersey frames and shadow boxes with plastic or lower quality wood cost $30-$60. Most jersey frames with high-quality wood panels and acrylic fronts cost between $60-$100, depending on the size of the frame and type of wood. Extra-large frames with matting and side spaces for other memorabilia cost $100-$175.
Jersey frame FAQ
What is a shadow box?
A. A shadow box is a framed box with a glass or acrylic front. It showcases jerseys or other valuable collectibles with a slight depth perception for artistic display.
What’s the best way to display a jersey?
A. The jersey should be folded so that the name, number and arm decals are showing. Iron the jersey on the folds to give it a smooth appearance. To hold the jersey in place, use stainless steel framing pins to pin it against the frame backing. Stainless steel pins will not rust or damage the jersey material.
Should a jersey be washed before framing it?
A. If the jersey has been autographed, you should frame the jersey as is. Washing an autographed jersey risks bleeding the ink or possibly removing it completely. You should only wash unsigned jerseys if the appearance is stained by grass or dirt. Some collectors want the grass or dirt on the jersey, though, to show that it was used in an actual game setting.
What is the best jersey frame to buy?
Top jersey frame
DisplayGifts XL Jersey Display Frame
What you need to know: This jersey frame holds an extra-large jersey and includes an acrylic cover with ultraviolet protection.
What you’ll love: The frame is made from solid wood with a felt background made from acid-free material. There is no assembly required. It hangs easily with metal brackets and includes a hanger. It is ideal for large football and hockey jerseys.
What you should consider: This frame is more expensive than smaller frames of similar quality.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top jersey frame for the money
Snap Sports Jersey Wall Display Case
What you need to know: This shadow box is made from strong plastic that will last a long time.
What you’ll love: The perimeter is 21 by 31 inches with a smooth black finish and has a lightweight acrylic cover. The foamboard is removable for pinning memorabilia to the display. It can be hung on a wall or used as a tabletop display.
What you should consider: This is not the highest quality shadow box, but it should fulfill most purposes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This frame is shaped in the form of an actual jersey for a unique display on any wall.
What you’ll love: This jersey-shaped frame comes in three different sizes. The t-frame design is award-winning and comes with a satisfaction guarantee. It holds jerseys for football, baseball, soccer and hockey.
What you should consider: You will need to make sure that your jersey meets the frame specifications since there is no room for improvising.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Baton Rouge General responds to cyber attack
Published: Jun. 29, 2022 at 2:16 PM CDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
Baton Rouge General issued the following statement in response to a recent hack:
BATON ROUGE, La. - BRG is working through the effects of a cyber attack that began Tuesday.
First, and most importantly, the attack has not changed our ability to care for patients. We are continuing to provide patient care at all locations.
The only thing that’s a little different today (Wednesday, June 29) is that we’re temporarily charting the old-fashioned way – on paper – until we can safely bring our electronic medical record and other patient systems back online.
We are working closely with federal and state officials as well as our security vendors to ensure our patient data remains secure.
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GLENSIDE, Pa., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadia University has elected three new members to its Board of Trustees: Nancy Glass, CEO and executive producer for Glass Entertainment Group, an award-winning television production company; Peri Wallace Higgins, president and founder of Evolve Advisors; and Aliyah Abraham, management and program analyst for the U.S. Department of Commerce and a 2017 graduate of Arcadia.
Glass is a six-time Emmy Award-winning producer and writer. She started Glass Entertainment Group in 2003, and since then the company has produced more than 3,000 hours of cable television shows, documentaries, digital programming, and podcasts. Glass has anchored and reported for several national television shows, including Inside Edition, American Journal, Sneak Previews, This Evening, and Attitudes on Lifetime. For the past five years, Glass Entertainment Group has been listed as one of the top 100 production companies in the world by RealScreen Magazine, and Glass is included on the 2022 Variety list of Titans of Unscripted Television.
Glass is a member and past chair of the Board of Advisors for Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences as well as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. She previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for Women's Campaign International, an organization that supports women in their efforts to participate in market and political processes in emerging democracies.
Glass earned a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University. Some of her distinctions as an industry pioneer include being the first woman to be the solo host of a nationally syndicated news show, the first person in syndication to be nominated for a national news Emmy, and the first person in cable to be nominated for an Emmy for Best Daytime Talk Show Host.
Higgins is President and Founder of Evolve Advisors, a minority-owned and woman-owned management consulting firm that assists clients in developing innovative strategies for growth and efficiencies. Prior to founding Evolve, Higgins was a founder and managing partner of two real estate investment funds and managed the private equity portfolio of a diversified holding company. Her early career was spent in investment banking.
Higgins is a founding member and former vice chair of the Board of Horizons at The Episcopal Academy and serves as an Executive Board member of Horizons Greater Philadelphia. These organizations provide summer learning programs for children from underserved communities in the Philadelphia area. She previously served on the boards of the Vetri Foundation for Children, The Franklin Institute Benefactors Society, The West Hill School, Turner Funds, and The Episcopal Academy, where she was a member of the Executive Board.
Higgins earned a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Harvard University.
Elected as a Recent Graduate Trustee, Abraham works in the U.S. Department of Commerce as a Management & Program Analyst/Human Capital Business Partner, where she conducts analyses related to the effectiveness of programs and the efficiency of management operations for Human Capital matters, specializing in Human Capital data analytics. Her contributions in this role include the development of several data visualization personnel reporting systems that assist agency leadership with strategic planning and personnel oversight, the creation of new organizational tools for tracking of congressionally funded positions, and most recently spearheading transformational recruitment efforts to obtain potential candidates from diverse backgrounds. She previously served as Equal Employment Opportunity specialist at the Department of the Navy, NAVSEA Philadelphia Division.
Abraham earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Arcadia University in 2017. At Arcadia, Abraham was active in several activities, demonstrating leadership and initiative as the founding president of Melanin in Action, the organizer of the Knights for Nutrition Food Pantry Task Force, and the organizer of the Day of Silence Part 1 & 2. Abraham was a finalist for the 2018 Arcadia University Senior Golden Disc award. In 2018, Abraham received the Arcadia University Alumni Association Student Impact Award.
In 2018, Abraham founded the Black Alumni Association of Arcadia University (BAAAU), serving as its president through 2021. In this capacity, she launched the Preview Travel Fund to increase the participation rates of Black students in Arcadia's flagship Preview Program field study courses. Abraham was awarded the 2021 Arcadia University Black Alumni Association's Sankofa Award. In addition, she serves as a representative-at-large on Arcadia's alumni council and as an advisory board member for Arcadia's Gateway to Success/Act 101 Program.
Arcadia University is a top-ranked private University in Greater Philadelphia that provides an educational experience that is values-based; rooted in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI); and places students at the center. The Institute of International Education has ranked Arcadia first nationally in study abroad for 10 of the last 12 years, and the Princeton Review has ranked Arcadia among the "Best in the Northeast" for seven consecutive years. The University's Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs are nationally ranked in their respective categories by U.S. News & World Report, which also ranks Arcadia among the top 25 percent in its category and cites Arcadia for being among the "most innovative" and "best value" colleges. Approximately 3,700 students study at Arcadia, with 2,300 undergraduate students choosing from more than 65 fields of study. Arcadia promises a distinctively global, integrative, and personal learning experience that prepares students to contribute and lead in a diverse and dynamic world. Through its community of practice, Arcadia has made facilitating a safe and welcoming environment a priority by developing and implementing anti-Black Racism Initiatives (ABRI) on campus and in its surrounding communities. Visit www.arcadia.edu.
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HOUSTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® (NYSE: PB) Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Announcement, scheduled before the market opens on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, you are invited to listen to its conference call at 11:30 AM, Eastern Time (10:30 AM, Central Time) on that day. Participants will include members of Prosperity's executive management team.
If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived on the website at https://www.prosperitybankusa.com/Investor-Relations. To access the replay, visit https://www.prosperitybankusa.com/Presentation-Webcasts-and-Calls and follow the instructions.
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.®
As of March 31, 2022, Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® is a $38.271 billion Houston, Texas-based regional financial holding company providing personal banking services and investments to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses throughout Texas and Oklahoma.
Founded in 1983, Prosperity believes in a community banking philosophy, taking care of customers, businesses, and communities in the areas it serves by providing financial solutions to simplify everyday financial needs. In addition to offering traditional deposit and loan products, Prosperity offers digital banking solutions, credit and debit cards, mortgage services, treasury management solutions, and wealth management services, including trust and retail brokerage.
Prosperity currently operates 272 full-service banking locations: 65 in the Houston area, including The Woodlands; 30 in the South Texas area including Corpus Christi and Victoria; 62 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; 22 in the East Texas area; 29 in the Central Texas area including Austin and San Antonio; 34 in the West Texas area including Lubbock, Midland-Odessa and Abilene; 16 in the Bryan/College Station area, 6 in the Central Oklahoma area; 8 in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains, and the remarks by Prosperity's management on the conference call may contain, forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are typically, but not exclusively, identified by the use in the statements of words or phrases such as "aim," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "guidance," "intend," "is anticipated," "is expected," "is intended," "objective," "plan," "projected," "projection," "will affect," "will be," "will continue," "will decrease," "will grow," "will impact," "will increase," "will incur," "will reduce," "will remain," "will result," "would be," variations of such words or phrases (including where the word "could," "may," or "would" is used rather than the word "will" in a phrase) and similar words and phrases indicating that the statement addresses some future result, occurrence, plan or objective. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact, including forecasts or trends, and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about Prosperity Bancshares and its subsidiaries. These forward-looking statements may include information about Prosperity's possible or assumed future economic performance or future results of operations, including future revenues, income, expenses, provision for loan losses, provision for taxes, effective tax rate, earnings per share and cash flows and Prosperity's future capital expenditures and dividends, future financial condition and changes therein, including changes in Prosperity's loan portfolio and allowance for loan losses, future capital structure or changes therein, as well as the plans and objectives of management for Prosperity's future operations, future or proposed acquisitions, the future or expected effect of acquisitions on Prosperity's operations, results of operations, financial condition, and future economic performance, statements about the anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction, and statements about the assumptions underlying any such statement, as well as expectations regarding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Bank's operating income, financial condition and cash flows. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of Prosperity's control, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to whether Prosperity can: successfully identify acquisition targets and integrate the businesses of acquired companies and banks; continue to sustain its current internal growth rate or total growth rate; provide products and services that appeal to its customers; continue to have access to debt and equity capital markets; and achieve its sales objectives. Other risks include, but are not limited to: the possibility that credit quality could deteriorate; actions of competitors; changes in laws and regulations (including changes in governmental interpretations of regulations and changes in accounting standards); the possibility that the anticipated benefits of an acquisition transaction are not realized when expected or at all, including as a result of the impact of, or problems arising from, the integration of two companies or as a result of the strength of the economy and competitive factors generally; a deterioration or downgrade in the credit quality and credit agency ratings of the securities in Prosperity's securities portfolio; customer and consumer demand, including customer and consumer response to marketing; effectiveness of spending, investments or programs; fluctuations in the cost and availability of supply chain resources; economic conditions, including currency rate, interest rate and commodity price fluctuations; the effect, impact potential duration or other implications of the COVID-19 pandemic; and weather. These and various other factors are discussed in Prosperity Bancshares' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other reports and statements Prosperity Bancshares has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Copies of the SEC filings for Prosperity Bancshares may be downloaded from the Internet at no charge from http://www.prosperitybankusa.com.
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GLENSIDE, Pa., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadia University has elected three new members to its Board of Trustees: Nancy Glass, CEO and executive producer for Glass Entertainment Group, an award-winning television production company; Peri Wallace Higgins, president and founder of Evolve Advisors; and Aliyah Abraham, management and program analyst for the U.S. Department of Commerce and a 2017 graduate of Arcadia.
Glass is a six-time Emmy Award-winning producer and writer. She started Glass Entertainment Group in 2003, and since then the company has produced more than 3,000 hours of cable television shows, documentaries, digital programming, and podcasts. Glass has anchored and reported for several national television shows, including Inside Edition, American Journal, Sneak Previews, This Evening, and Attitudes on Lifetime. For the past five years, Glass Entertainment Group has been listed as one of the top 100 production companies in the world by RealScreen Magazine, and Glass is included on the 2022 Variety list of Titans of Unscripted Television.
Glass is a member and past chair of the Board of Advisors for Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences as well as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. She previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for Women's Campaign International, an organization that supports women in their efforts to participate in market and political processes in emerging democracies.
Glass earned a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University. Some of her distinctions as an industry pioneer include being the first woman to be the solo host of a nationally syndicated news show, the first person in syndication to be nominated for a national news Emmy, and the first person in cable to be nominated for an Emmy for Best Daytime Talk Show Host.
Higgins is President and Founder of Evolve Advisors, a minority-owned and woman-owned management consulting firm that assists clients in developing innovative strategies for growth and efficiencies. Prior to founding Evolve, Higgins was a founder and managing partner of two real estate investment funds and managed the private equity portfolio of a diversified holding company. Her early career was spent in investment banking.
Higgins is a founding member and former vice chair of the Board of Horizons at The Episcopal Academy and serves as an Executive Board member of Horizons Greater Philadelphia. These organizations provide summer learning programs for children from underserved communities in the Philadelphia area. She previously served on the boards of the Vetri Foundation for Children, The Franklin Institute Benefactors Society, The West Hill School, Turner Funds, and The Episcopal Academy, where she was a member of the Executive Board.
Higgins earned a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Harvard University.
Elected as a Recent Graduate Trustee, Abraham works in the U.S. Department of Commerce as a Management & Program Analyst/Human Capital Business Partner, where she conducts analyses related to the effectiveness of programs and the efficiency of management operations for Human Capital matters, specializing in Human Capital data analytics. Her contributions in this role include the development of several data visualization personnel reporting systems that assist agency leadership with strategic planning and personnel oversight, the creation of new organizational tools for tracking of congressionally funded positions, and most recently spearheading transformational recruitment efforts to obtain potential candidates from diverse backgrounds. She previously served as Equal Employment Opportunity specialist at the Department of the Navy, NAVSEA Philadelphia Division.
Abraham earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Arcadia University in 2017. At Arcadia, Abraham was active in several activities, demonstrating leadership and initiative as the founding president of Melanin in Action, the organizer of the Knights for Nutrition Food Pantry Task Force, and the organizer of the Day of Silence Part 1 & 2. Abraham was a finalist for the 2018 Arcadia University Senior Golden Disc award. In 2018, Abraham received the Arcadia University Alumni Association Student Impact Award.
In 2018, Abraham founded the Black Alumni Association of Arcadia University (BAAAU), serving as its president through 2021. In this capacity, she launched the Preview Travel Fund to increase the participation rates of Black students in Arcadia's flagship Preview Program field study courses. Abraham was awarded the 2021 Arcadia University Black Alumni Association's Sankofa Award. In addition, she serves as a representative-at-large on Arcadia's alumni council and as an advisory board member for Arcadia's Gateway to Success/Act 101 Program.
Arcadia University is a top-ranked private University in Greater Philadelphia that provides an educational experience that is values-based; rooted in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI); and places students at the center. The Institute of International Education has ranked Arcadia first nationally in study abroad for 10 of the last 12 years, and the Princeton Review has ranked Arcadia among the "Best in the Northeast" for seven consecutive years. The University's Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs are nationally ranked in their respective categories by U.S. News & World Report, which also ranks Arcadia among the top 25 percent in its category and cites Arcadia for being among the "most innovative" and "best value" colleges. Approximately 3,700 students study at Arcadia, with 2,300 undergraduate students choosing from more than 65 fields of study. Arcadia promises a distinctively global, integrative, and personal learning experience that prepares students to contribute and lead in a diverse and dynamic world. Through its community of practice, Arcadia has made facilitating a safe and welcoming environment a priority by developing and implementing anti-Black Racism Initiatives (ABRI) on campus and in its surrounding communities. Visit www.arcadia.edu.
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Just recently, on vacation, I was interrupted several times by people wanting my attention for things that seemed trivial. It’s not even possible to “get away” on a vacation like it used to be. It’s harder to focus on what’s really important.
One way I know to regroup and restore is to go to a natural environment which is away from people. There, in the presence of something greater than me, I can see myself in perspective again and regain my footing.
The Santa Rita Mountains are such a place that we are fortunate to have near us. Not only do they create oxygen, and a home for plants and animals but they also provide psychological and spiritual support when we visit.
We need to maintain the integrity of this land to maintain the integrity of ourselves. If we want to survive, we have to protect that which nurtures us.
Susan Calhoun
Southwest side
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1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been.
“They narrowed it down between the ‘50s and ‘60s and got lucky,” said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.
The search was started by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and included two members of Till’s family: Cousin Deborah Watts, head of the Foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. They want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s home, killed and dumped into a river.
“Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an interview.
Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, which flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” the woman since she had two young children to care for.
Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina, Donham has not comment publicly on calls for her prosecution. But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.
“This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she said.
District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a December report about the Till case from the Justice Department, which said no prosecution was possible.
Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said: “This is the first time I’ve known about a warrant.”
Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said “nothing was said about a warrant” when a former district attorney investigated the case five or six years ago.
“I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said. If the warrant can still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides.
Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly would not pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi.
But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward establishing probable cause to initiate a new prosecution, he said.
“If you went in front of a judge you could say, ‘Once upon a time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more information is available today,’” Rychlak said.
Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there at the time, Wheeler Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd comment.
Two nights later, Donham’s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore County home of Till’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the youth. Till’s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother’s decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights movement of the time.
Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities did not pursue the case following their acquittal.
Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a voice “lighter” than a man’s identified Till from inside a pickup truck and the abductors took him away from the family home. Other evidence in FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told her husband that at least two other Black men were not the right person.
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Reeves reported from Newnan, Georgia.
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Karnataka textbooks revision and the caste boomerang
The textbook controversy is unexpectedly hindering the BJP’s efforts to garner Vokkaliga votes
A year ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, the exercise to revise school textbooks appears to have pushed the ruling BJP into an uncomfortable spot, after complaints were raised that cultural and religious icons of specific castes were being “insulted” in revised lessons. The party is feeling the heat particularly in the Old Mysore region, where the land-owning Vokkaligas dominate the political narrative, after the opposition Congress and JD(S) upped the ante on this issue. The BJP’s perceived gain after its efforts at polarisation through the hijab, halal and azaan issues seems to have been overtaken by the controversy over the “insults” to Vokkaliga icon Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, the founder of Bengaluru, and Jnanpith award-winning writer Kuvempu.
The timing of the controversy has put the BJP on the back foot as it has been attempting to make inroads into the Vokkaliga heartland in recent times. The party, which relies on Lingayat support in north Karnataka and is confident in polarised coastal Karnataka, realises that it is hard to secure a majority in the 224-member House without considerable gains in the Old Mysore region. The Vokkaligas constitute about 12% of the State population, as per the leaked caste Census. They are said to be electorally significant in87 Assembly constituencies across 11 districts in Old Mysore region.
The BJP won the bypoll at K.R. Pet in Mandya district in 2019 and hoped to replicate this success in at least a few more Vokkaliga-dominated constituencies in the next Assembly elections. While the urban-based Vokkaliga leaders of the BJP have made no dent in the hinterland so far, the party is also said to be toying with the idea of having a Vokkaliga as the State president though there are other caste interests to contend with. Party insiders believe that the “unwanted controversy” over textbooks has hindered the party’s plans in the region.
Triggering angry reactions were allegedly truncated lessons related to Kempegowda and Kuvempu, and an insult to the State anthem penned by Kuvempu by the committee chairman Rohith Chakrathirtha in 2017. Though Kuvempu commands State-wide respect, political and religious leaders of the Vokkaliga community see this also as an insult to the caste. The Congress and JD(S), traditional rivals in Old Mysore region, have kept the issue centre stage.
While the textbook controversy began in the academic circles, with questions being raised over saffronisation of textbook content at the behest of the RSS, it took a different hue after KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar, a Vokkaliga leader, and JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy, both of whom are jockeying for the Vokkaliga votes, also foregrounded the caste angle. JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda also threw his weight behind the protests.
Stung by the community reaction, the BJP went into damage control mode. It asked Education Minister B.C. Nagesh to meet the powerful Adichunchanagiri mutt seer, Nirmalananda Swamy, to convince him that the community had not been insulted. It chose Kannada actor Jaggesh, a Vokkaliga, for the Rajya Sabha seat, ignoring claims of many seniors. The government even fielded Revenue Minister R. Ashok, a Bengaluru-based Vokkaliga leader, to counter the Opposition. It also instituted the Kempegowda International Award and announced that a statue of Kempegowda would be installed in front of Vidhan Soudha in Bengaluru.
Part of the reason for a vocal Vokkaliga assertion is said to be that the community believes that it was “targeted” during Congress rule and is now again being targeted by the Lingayat-dominated BJP government. With Congress and JD(S) helmed by Vokkaligas, the turn taken by the textbook controversy is a tough battle at the moment for the BJP.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Indirect negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers will end Wednesday in Qatar, authorities in Tehran said. A semiofficial news agency reported the talks wouldn’t break a diplomatic deadlock over the accord.
The U.S. State Department and the European Union, which is mediating the talks in Qatar, did not immediately acknowledge an end of the negotiations in Doha.
However, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to Iran’s hard-line Revolutionary Guard, described the negotiations as finished and having “no effect on breaking the deadlock in the talks.”
Tasnim claimed that the American position did not include “a guarantee for Iran benefiting economically from the deal,” quoting what it described as unnamed “informed sources.”
“Washington is seeking to revive the (deal) in order to limit Iran without economic achievement for our country,” the Tasnim report claimed.
U.S. Special Representative Rob Malley spoke to the Iranians through EU official Enrique Mora during the talks. Mora then took messages to Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani.
After the Tasnim report, Foreign Minister spokesman Nasser Kanaani issued a statement describing the two-day talks as “not over” as Bagheri Kani and Mora planned to meet Wednesday night.
“The two-day Doha talks are being held in a professional and serious atmosphere,” Kanaani said.
The State Department said the talks “continue” but did not elaborate.
“As we and our European allies have made clear, we are prepared to immediately conclude and implement the deal we negotiated in Vienna for mutual return to full implementation of the” nuclear deal, the State Department said. “But for that, Iran needs to decide to drop their additional demands that go beyond the” deal.
Iran and world powers agreed in 2015 to the nuclear deal, which saw Tehran drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. In 2018, then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord, raising tensions across the wider Middle East and sparking a series of attacks and incidents.
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Keep your kitchen cool in a heat wave with these small or outdoor appliances
When temperatures rise in summer, keeping your home cool is a serious challenge. The last thing you want to do if you’re trying to keep your cooling bills down is turn on your oven and heat up your kitchen.
Fortunately, you don’t need to use your oven to get a tasty meal on the table this summer. With countertop or outdoor cooking appliances, you can prepare your favorite recipes without generating too much heat and driving up your energy costs.
If you want to keep your kitchen cool when it gets warm, here are the best oven-free cooking appliances that can make delicious meals all summer.
How to keep your kitchen cool in summer
Use countertop appliances
A full-size oven generates enough heat to make your kitchen uncomfortable in hot summer weather. On the other hand, small countertop appliances like a toaster oven or slow cooker produce much less heat — and cost less money to operate. These appliances are highly versatile, too, so you can prepare plenty of summer-friendly recipes with them.
Cook outside
Another way to keep your kitchen from getting too hot in summer is to take your cooking outdoors. If you have a charcoal or gas grill, you can prepare barbecue favorites like burgers, hot dogs, steaks, chicken, corn on the cob and grilled veggies. An electric grill works well for outdoor cooking on a patio or balcony if your apartment or condo doesn’t allow full-size gas or charcoal grills.
Cook at the right times
If you start cooking when it’s already hot outside, your kitchen will only get hotter and more uncomfortable. That’s why timing your cooking right is so important. Try to prepare your meals early in the day when it’s cooler, so you can reheat the food in the microwave when it’s time for dinner. You can also cook in the evening after the sun’s gone down if you don’t mind eating later in the day.
Make large batches of food
Whether you use your oven or a countertop appliance, it’s a good idea to prepare large batches of food, so you have leftovers for later. You can refrigerate or freeze the extra food, and then use your toaster oven or microwave to heat it up when it’s time to eat.
Oven-free cooking appliances for summer
For under $50
Hamilton Beach Breakfast Sandwich Maker
This compact appliance makes drive-thru quality sandwiches with eggs, cheese and meat for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The cooking surfaces have a durable, nonstick coating, so the sandwiches are easy to remove. All parts are removable and dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning, too.
Elite Gourmet Electric Quesadilla Maker
Enjoy delicious quesadillas in fewer than five minutes with this convenient countertop appliance. It has a large eight-inch cooking surface with a nonstick coating that easily wipes clean. You can also stand it up vertically for more convenient storage.
Sold by Amazon
Aroma Housewares 20-cup Digital Rice Cooker
This extra-large capacity rice cooker can make up to 20 cups of rice at a time. It also offers a slow cooker function and programmable settings, so you can turn it on and leave it to cook. It has a user-friendly digital control panel, too.
Sold by Amazon
Hamilton Beach Four-slice Nonstick Belgian Waffle Maker
Make thick, fluffy Belgian waffles for breakfast, lunch or even dinner with this compact waffle maker. It makes four waffles at a time and has nonstick plates that wipe clean easily. The indicator lights also make operation easy because they illuminate when it’s time to add the batter.
Sold by Amazon, Macy’s and Wayfair
Betty Crocker Countertop Pizza Maker
This countertop pizza maker lets you make delicious 12-inch pizzas without turning on your oven. It has an easy-to-clean nonstick cooking surface and works well for both homemade and frozen pizzas. It’s also ideal for making quesadillas, pancakes, quiches and more.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Wayfair
For $50-$100
Black and Decker Six-slice Convection Countertop Toaster Oven
This toaster oven offers convection cooking technology, so your food cooks more quickly and evenly without preheating. It can bake, broil, toast and warm and is large enough to fit six slices of bread or a 9-inch pizza.
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker
One of the most versatile countertop appliances you can find, this electric pressure cooker also works as a slow cooker, ricer cooker, saute pan, steamer, food warmer and more. It has 13 customizable cooking programs for standard recipes and is easy to clean.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Macy’s
Crockpot Portable Six-quart Slow Cooker
With this well-sized slow cooker, you can prepare meals for up to seven people. It can be set to cook for as little as 20 minutes and as much as 20 hours before shifting to the warming setting automatically. It also has a locking lid that prevents spills when traveling.
Sold by Amazon
Hamilton Beach Electric Indoor Searing Grill
If you can’t get outdoors to grill this summer, this countertop grill allows you to grill burgers, steaks, chicken, fish and more in your kitchen. It reaches 450 degrees and has a large enough cooking surface to make food for up to six people.
Sold by Amazon
Make perfect bacon, eggs, pancakes and other breakfast favorites on this countertop griddle. Its plates are reversible, so you can also use it as a grill or panini press. Because the plates are removable and dishwasher-safe, they’re easy to clean, too.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Wayfair
Kingsford Charcoal Kettle Grill
If you want to cook outside this summer, this classic charcoal grill is an ideal option. It offers over 350 square inches of cooking space and a grate with a durable porcelain coating. The wheeled bottom also makes it easy to move around your yard or patio.
Sold by Amazon
Make fried favorites like french fries and chicken nuggets with 75 percent less fat in this compact air fryer. It can hold up to two pounds of food at a time and heat up to 400 degrees. It preheats in just three minutes, too.
Sold by Amazon
For $100+
Farberware 1.1 cubic-foot 1000-watt Countertop Microwave
If you want to prepare meals quickly and without generating much heat, this 1000-watt microwave makes it as easy as possible. It offers 10 power levels and six one-touch programs for foods like popcorn, pizza and baked potatoes. The child safety lock also allows for safe operation.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Toshiba Six-slice Toaster Oven
This well-sized toaster oven can fit up to six pieces of toast, a 12-inch pizza, four pounds of chicken or most casserole dishes. It has a temperature range of 150 to 400 degrees and a bright, easy-to-read digital display. It also has a cool-touch handle, so you never have to worry about burning your hand.
Sold by Amazon
All-Clad Programmable Oval-Shaped Slow Cooker
This slow cooker is large enough to cook for a crowd and can be set for four to 20 hours of cooking time. Its digital display is large and easy to read, while the large push buttons allow for user-friendly operation.
Ooni Fyra 12 Wood Pellet Pizza Oven
Cook delicious pizzas in your backyard this summer with this outdoor pizza oven. It can reach 950 degrees in just 15 minutes, so it can cook a pizza in just 60 seconds once it’s preheated. It weighs only 22 pounds, so it’s easy to move, too.
Sold by Ooni
Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro Countertop Convection Oven
This highly versatile countertop oven can roast, bake, air fry, dehydrate and more. The super convection setting can reduce cooking time by 30 percent, and the user-friendly display makes operation a breeze. It can fit a 14-pound turkey, too.
Sold by Amazon and Sur La Table
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OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - A parade and ceremony will be held on Wednesday, June 29 to celebrate Ole Miss baseball’s national championship.
The parade begins at 5:15 p.m. See the route above. WTVA will not stream the parade in its entirety. Part of the parade will be shown in the 5 p.m. newscast. Watch the newscast in the video player above or open this link.
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‘It’s very emotional’: 2 arrested after child dies in car, sheriff says
WEST POINT, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) - Alabama authorities are investigating a baby’s death with two people arrested in the incident.
The Cullman County Sheriff’s Office reports deputies were called on Monday about an unresponsive juvenile.
Sheriff Matt Gentry said deputies found evidence of neglect and a baby who was not breathing in a car.
WBRC reports Vinton Rockwell, 34, and Lauren Whittle, 29, have been arrested in the case, with the child dying despite efforts from first responders.
“It’s very emotional anytime law enforcement and first responders work cases involving children. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and those affected,” Gentry said.
Rockwell and Whittle are facing manslaughter charges, and the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office said its investigation remains ongoing.
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Protect your credit score before buying a home
New accounts could have a negative impact
InvestigateTV - Buying a home is the biggest investment many people will make in their lifetime. Getting the best interest rate on a home mortgage will save thousands of dollars over the term of the loan.
There have been three increases in interest rates this year, raising the costs for buyers paying with a mortgage. A high credit scores makes it easier to access low interest rates.
One way to maintain your credit score is to refrain from opening new lines of credit.
Cherry Dale, a financial coach with the Virginia Credit Union, said every time you apply for credit there’s a hit to your credit score, especially if you’re looking to buy a big ticket item, like a car.
“In 2022, if you’re getting ready to get a mortgage this year you do not want to open up any new credit for at least six months before that,” Dale said. “You apply for that mortgage you want to keep it clean.”
Dale said if you open new accounts in the six months prior to your home purchase, the number of inquiries or applications you make factors into your score. If the number drops, it could make your mortgage interest rate higher.
Rocket Mortgage shows that a 1% increase in your mortgage rate could cost you hundreds of extra dollars a month.
Dale suggested you also pay your bills on time in those six months prior to purchase. Every action you take can improve your credit standing and save you money.
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R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his R&B superstardom to subject young fans to systematic sexual abuse.
The singer and songwriter was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were ignored because they were Black women. U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly imposed the sentence at a courthouse in Brooklyn.
The sentence caps a slow-motion fall for Kelly, who is 55. He remained adored by legions of fans even after allegations about his abuse of young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s.
“You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel,” said one unnamed survivor, directly addressing a Kelly who kept his hands folded and his eyes downcast. “Do you remember that?”
Kelly’s lawyers had argued he should get no more than 10 years in prison because he had a traumatic childhood “involving severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence,” the Associated Press reported.
The hit maker is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multi-part tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-sex-trafficking-case | 2022-06-29T20:25:17Z | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-sex-trafficking-case | true |
NEW YORK — Houston left fielder Yordan Álvarez and shortstop Jeremy Peña were hurt when they collided in the eighth inning of Wednesday’s game against the New York Mets while running down a popup.
Both fell to the field and needed assistance. Álvarez was removed on a cart, sitting up, and Peña walked back to the dugout.
Chas McCormick replaced Álvarez, and Mauricio Dubón took over for Peña, who initially wanted to remain in the game.
Play resumed after a delay of about eight minutes.
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WIMBLEDON, England — Jessica Pegula heard the jokes from other players at Wimbledon: “They’re like, ‘Did you play yet? You still haven’t played?!’ And they’re already on their second-round matches.”
Now Pegula will be scheduled to be back out there Thursday, trying to get to the third round at Wimbledon for the first time.
Pegula almost did not enter the grass-court Grand Slam event at all. Her mother, Kim, was hospitalized in Florida about two weeks ago for what her family described then as “some unexpected health issues.” That was shortly after Jessica returned from the French Open, where she reached the quarterfinals in singles plus the final in doubles, alongside Coco Gauff.
Pegula’s parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
“She’s doing a lot better now. That’s why I’m here. If she wasn’t doing well, I probably wouldn’t have come. I flew out Wednesday last week, and within that time she was in a really good condition, where I felt like everything was fine, and I felt like my family had everything under control. She’s progressing and she’s been doing rehab,” said Pegula, who faces Harriet Dart of Britain next. “I felt comfortable coming here. But that’s why I didn’t play any warmup tournaments.”
Pegula said her husband and other members of the family are with Mom and have been passing along regular updates.
“I hope,” Pegula said, “she got to watch me play today.”
While Pegula has a game that suits hard courts well — and she’s made the quarterfinals at the Australian Open the past two years on that surface — she is displaying more and more ability to adapt and find success elsewhere.
After her breakthrough on the red clay of Roland Garros earlier this month, she looked right at home on Court 17 on Wednesday against Vekic. Pegula finished with one more winner and far fewer unforced errors, 34-20.
The contest originally was scheduled for the day prior but got pushed back after rain delays slowed the progress of earlier matches Tuesday.
“I was kind of happy that it got postponed, because I think it would have been hard to start the match and then stop it and then have to come back,” said Pegula, who works with David Witt, the former longtime coach of five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams. “That’s a lot more nerve-wracking, so I was OK with it.”
And as for the grass? She lost in the first round at the All England Club in 2019 and the second round in 2021.
“A lot of people tell me my game would be really good for grass, because I hit really flat and hit through the court. When I first played on grass, I really liked it, because it was quicker and suited my game. But the courts have slowed down a lot and so I didn’t enjoy it as much the last few years,” Pegula said. “I feel a lot better on it this year than last year, even though I played more on grass last year. Maybe I’m wrapping my head around moving on it. That’s a big part of it. Sometimes you can just feel really, really awkward. I’ve been feeling better gradually. And today it felt real good.”
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Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. When customers want to get their morning coffee fix, they can choose between several hot cup sizes: tall, grande and venti. (That’s small, medium and large for those who prefer Dunkin’.)
VERIFY viewer Joan recently sent our team a video from Facebook that claims that paying more for a bigger cup of coffee at Starbucks is a scam because the chain’s tall, grande, and venti cup sizes all hold the same amount of liquid. There are also several other videos online making the same claim, including this viral TikTok with over 20 million views posted in early June by rapper and singer Sueco.
THE QUESTION
Do all Starbucks hot cup sizes hold the same amount of liquid?
THE SOURCES
- Starbucks
- Starbucks spokesperson
- TikTok video posted by Starbucks baristas
- VERIFY’s own check of Starbucks hot cup sizes
THE ANSWER
No, all Starbucks hot cup sizes do not hold the same amount of liquid.
WHAT WE FOUND
On Starbucks’ website, the coffee chain lists the volumes of its cups, which differ for each size. The smaller sizes hold less liquid and the larger sizes hold more liquid, according to the website measurements:
- Short (for hot and cold): 8 fl. oz.
- Tall (for hot and cold): 12 fl. oz.
- Grande (for hot and cold): 16 fl. oz.
- Venti Hot: 20 fl. oz.
- Venti Cold: 24 fl. oz.
- Trenta Cold: 31 fl. oz.
A Starbucks spokesperson also debunked the social media claims.
“A Tall holds 12 ounces, a Grande holds 16 ounces, and a Venti holds 20 ounces,” the spokesperson said in an email.
The spokesperson also told VERIFY that the company’s “hot cup sizes have not changed.”
To test the theory for ourselves, VERIFY went to a local Starbucks and ordered three drinks in the tall, grande, and venti sizes. We then measured how much liquid was in each cup.
The tall came to a cup and half, which is 12 fluid ounces; the grande contained 2 cups, which is 16 fluid ounces; and the venti held about 2 and a half cups, which is 20 fluid ounces.
In a side-by-side video shared on TikTok a few days after Sueco’s original video, a pair of Starbucks baristas conducted a similar test and also got the same results as VERIFY.
Sueco claimed in a follow-up video that Starbucks sent him a cease-and-desist letter in reference to the claims he made in his original video. The letter features several typos and an incorrect Starbucks logo.
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The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has set off a frenzy of activity in courthouses around the country, with judges asked to decide when or if state-imposed bans or other far-reaching restrictions on abortion can go into effect.
Some of the disputes involve bans that have been on the books, unenforced, for generations. Some involve “trigger laws” that were specifically designed to take effect if Roe were to fall. Some entail prohibitions on abortion that were held up while the ruling on Roe's fate was awaited and are now moving forward.
To complicate matters, some states have multiple abortion bans in play, and the measures conflict, overlap or are set to take effect at different times.
Here's a look at some of the key legal issues.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The Supreme Court last week struck down the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, ruling that the decision to terminate a pregnancy is no longer protected under the U.S. Constitution. The high court left it up to the states to decide whether abortion is now legal within their boundaries.
In anticipation of a ruling like this, several Republican-controlled states passed strict abortion bans in recent years. Some of these “trigger laws” are now going into effect, while some are being blocked, at least temporarily. In some states, older laws that became null and void because of Roe are now resurfacing.
WHAT THIS MEANS ON THE GROUND
The upshot is that many conservative states now have bans or deep restrictions on abortions, while the most liberal states are seeking to add more protections.
Ultimately, roughly half the states are expected to outlaw or severely limit abortion.
But the situation has been highly fluid in recent days, as courts weighed in on disputes between abortion foes and abortion rights advocates.
As of Wednesday afternoon, because of bans, tight restrictions or fear of prosecution at some clinics, abortions were available in only the rarest circumstances, if at all, in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Patients could get abortions in Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas only up to the point where cardiac activity in the fetus can be detected. That is normally around six weeks, before many women realize they are pregnant.
Near-total bans are also expected to go into effect in the coming weeks in Idaho, Mississippi, North Dakota and Tennessee as their trigger laws kick in.
In Louisiana and Utah, virtually complete bans are on hold because of court rulings.
COMPETING BANS
In some states, multiple bans are on the books, creating confusion that has left clinics and patients scrambling.
Texas is one example of that. The state already bans most abortions after cardiac activity is detected. That law took effect in September and makes no exception in cases of rape or incest.
On Tuesday, however, a judge in Houston temporarily blocked enforcement of an even stricter state law that would ban virtually all abortions. That law has been on the books for decades but was nullified while Roe was in place.
But even with that older law on hold, Texas is still set to ban virtually all abortions before long: The state has a separate trigger law that will take effect in the coming months.
Amid the whirlwind of rulings, all of the state’s clinics initially stopped providing abortions last week. But the four Texas clinics run by Whole Woman’s Health began offering them again this week, though only in the first six weeks or so of pregnancy.
In a statement, Planned Parenthood, which has not resumed abortions in Texas, said the organization’s affiliates in states that are “extremely hostile” to abortion access “are being forced to make difficult operational decisions.”
THE LEGAL ARGUMENTS
Because the Supreme Court said abortion is not protected by the U.S. Constitution, abortion rights advocates are challenging many of these bans by arguing that they violate their state's constitution — say, the rights to privacy, liberty or equal protection.
Such an argument is the heart of a challenge in Florida. Opponents say a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, which is to take effect Friday, would violate the Florida Constitution’s guarantee of the right to privacy.
Some of the legal challenges, however, are more about process: They will address whether the bans were enacted properly or conflict with other laws.
“What the litigation is designed to do is to preserve in as many places as we can, as much abortion access as we can, for as long as we can,” said Jennifer Dalven, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project.
But she said that ultimately, the courts will not be the solution, and politicians will need to take action.
James Bopp Jr., a lawyer for the National Right to Life Committee, said lawmakers took steps to make sure the trigger laws withstand legal scrutiny, including by having provisions that say the state attorney general or another official will declare the conditions have been met for the law to take effect.
He said those measures will ensure due process has been followed in implementing the laws.
“It’s hard to imagine any valid claims against those laws,” he said.
When it comes to laws that have been on the books for generations, there has been some mixed activity. Top Democratic officials in Michigan and Wisconsin are asking state courts to rule that the older bans there can't take effect.
In Arizona, the governor said a new law that takes effect later this year — which outlaws abortion after 15 weeks — takes precedence over a total ban adopted before Arizona became a state more than a century ago. Still, providers stopped performing abortions there last week, fearing prosecution under the old law.
LOOMING LEGAL BATTLES
Some states that are seeking to outlaw abortion may essentially try to reach across state lines to enforce their bans.
In Missouri, a measure that was proposed but failed to pass last year would have made it illegal to abort a fetus conceived in the state — even if the procedure is done in a state where abortion is legal.
Abortion rights advocates warn that similar proposals could be brought forth again there or elsewhere, along with other attempts to restrict travel out of state for abortions.
On the other side, Connecticut has a law going into effect Friday to protect its abortion providers from being sued in other states. Several governors have made or planned similar moves through laws or executive action.
The permissibility of such measures could become the next legal frontier in the abortion debate.
But even within states, prosecutions are being challenged. The city councils in New Orleans and Austin, Texas — both liberal cities in conservative states — are considering measures that would require law enforcement officials to make abortion investigations their lowest priority.
And whenever policies change on abortion, lawsuits follow.
“It will move to different frontiers,” Dalven said. “The current wave of litigation will go forward. It will morph over time.”
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Addressing the current and ongoing national crisis on U.S. roads, the report's executive summary offers 10 key conclusions for the next 20 years
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Safety Council released Wednesday the executive summary of its new research report, Mobility, Technology and Safety: The Next 20 Years. The full report, funded by Allstate (NYSE: ALL) and to be released July 26 via a webinar, explores the evolution of mobility and the implications of past actions on the future of safe mobility.
The United States is facing a national crisis. Roadway fatalities are at a 16-year high, with preliminary NSC data showing more than 46,000 people died on U.S. roads in 2021. NSC estimates 462 more may die in preventable crashes over the upcoming Independence Day Weekend alone. Vulnerable road users, those who are walking, biking or are otherwise outside a vehicle, are dying at faster rates. Communities of color and low-income communities also experience higher rates of fatalities and are over-represented in these data. To reverse these deadly trends, NSC seeks to leverage research, knowledge and passion for this topic to find new solutions and turn the tide on traffic violence.
Recognizing these needs, and with funding from Allstate, NSC commissioned this new report in 2021 from lead author David Zipper, a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School with a background in both technology and local government, and the author of more than 75 articles about cities, transportation and technology. This report examines the history of mobility safety and how it can help identify trends that will define mobility over the next two decades.
There will be dramatic changes on city streets and sidewalks in the coming decades. The executive summary of this report offers 10 key conclusions for the next 20 years:
- Motor vehicles will remain the top source of street deaths
- Widespread Advanced Driver Assistance Systems should be expected – but not autonomous vehicles
- Climate change will fundamentally alter urban transportation
- Denser neighborhoods will experience faster change in urban transportation technology
- Parcel delivery is poised for disruption
- Urban vehicles should be regulated by size and speed (rather than form factor) to encourage safety as well as innovation
- Street rules should not be made to promote or enable a particular technology
- Cities should be able to manage their streets and sidewalks
- Revisions to infrastructure and policy will be essential to enhance safety even in the best case of technological improvement
- Protection of Vulnerable Road Users will support equity goals
"Recent history indicates the potential value of such forward-looking analysis. Over the previous 20 years, waves of new technologies have disrupted urban transportation, from car share and ride hail to e-scooters and bike share," said Mark Chung, executive vice president of roadway practice at NSC. "Public officials, and many advocacy groups, were caught off guard by this unprecedented rate of technological change, and they were often unsure how to respond to the safety concerns that emerged. Preparing in advance for the next generation of transformative technology and taking time to reflect on our current environment can save lives."
"Allstate has been committed to making U.S. roadways safer for years, going all the way back to advocating for seat belt legislation in the 1960s. As personal transportation evolves, so do our products, services and advocacy," said Eric Brandt, executive vice president and chief claims officer at Allstate. "By sponsoring this report, we're once again imagining the future of mobility and assessing its safety implications so that we can best advocate for a safer transportation system."
The executive summary was unveiled at an event at the National Press Club this morning. Featured speakers included Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, representatives from NSC, David Zipper, author of the report, and partners including Director Kristina Swallow of the Nevada Department of Transportation and Michael Kelley of BikeWalkKC. View a recording of the event here.
As we prepare for what the future of technology might bring, we must address mobility's surge in roadway deaths. Congress took a crucial step toward reducing roadway deaths with the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law, which boosted safety-oriented, community-focused spending through novel initiatives like Safe Streets and Roads for All. The Department of Transportation has also made critical progress, including issuing the groundbreaking National Roadway Safety Strategy, which for the first time committed the federal government to a goal of zero roadway deaths. The National Safety Council executive summary creates a fuller picture of safe mobility to augment these policies, and calls on Congress and DOT to do more to realize the report recommendations.
The report, Mobility, Technology and Safety: The Next 20 Years, is intended to supplement and add momentum to these ongoing federal efforts, providing much needed solutions for communities grappling with real safety problems.
Read the executive summary and learn more about NSC efforts to reduce traffic fatalities at nsc.org/futuremobility.
The National Safety Council is America's leading nonprofit safety advocate–and has been for more than 100 years. As a mission-based organization, we work to eliminate the leading causes of preventable death and injury, focusing our efforts on the workplace, roadway and impairment. We create a culture of safety to not only keep people safer at work, but also beyond the workplace so they can live their fullest lives.
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The Boise Airpot is partnering with a local company to provide curbside valet parking to its passengers.
Starting Friday, July 1st valet parking will be available daily from 4 a.m. to 1 a.m. the next morning.
The valet parking drop-off will be located at the east end of the upper-level departure curb. Passengers will pull their vehicle up to the designated valet stand and provide their name, phone number and flight information before handing their keys to the attendant. passengers can then text the attendant when they next arrive in Boise to request their car.
Reservation service for the valet is expected to launch in mid-July and will be available on the Boise Airport's website.
Related: Two new parking garages coming to Boise Airport
This Boise Airport is currently undergoing a multiyear expansion project, so parking capacity at the terminal is temporarily limited due to construction. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/boise-airport-to-offer-curbside-valet-parking | 2022-06-29T20:33:46Z | https://www.kivitv.com/news/boise-airport-to-offer-curbside-valet-parking | false |
HOUSTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® (NYSE: PB) Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Announcement, scheduled before the market opens on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, you are invited to listen to its conference call at 11:30 AM, Eastern Time (10:30 AM, Central Time) on that day. Participants will include members of Prosperity's executive management team.
If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived on the website at https://www.prosperitybankusa.com/Investor-Relations. To access the replay, visit https://www.prosperitybankusa.com/Presentation-Webcasts-and-Calls and follow the instructions.
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.®
As of March 31, 2022, Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® is a $38.271 billion Houston, Texas-based regional financial holding company providing personal banking services and investments to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses throughout Texas and Oklahoma.
Founded in 1983, Prosperity believes in a community banking philosophy, taking care of customers, businesses, and communities in the areas it serves by providing financial solutions to simplify everyday financial needs. In addition to offering traditional deposit and loan products, Prosperity offers digital banking solutions, credit and debit cards, mortgage services, treasury management solutions, and wealth management services, including trust and retail brokerage.
Prosperity currently operates 272 full-service banking locations: 65 in the Houston area, including The Woodlands; 30 in the South Texas area including Corpus Christi and Victoria; 62 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; 22 in the East Texas area; 29 in the Central Texas area including Austin and San Antonio; 34 in the West Texas area including Lubbock, Midland-Odessa and Abilene; 16 in the Bryan/College Station area, 6 in the Central Oklahoma area; 8 in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains, and the remarks by Prosperity's management on the conference call may contain, forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are typically, but not exclusively, identified by the use in the statements of words or phrases such as "aim," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "guidance," "intend," "is anticipated," "is expected," "is intended," "objective," "plan," "projected," "projection," "will affect," "will be," "will continue," "will decrease," "will grow," "will impact," "will increase," "will incur," "will reduce," "will remain," "will result," "would be," variations of such words or phrases (including where the word "could," "may," or "would" is used rather than the word "will" in a phrase) and similar words and phrases indicating that the statement addresses some future result, occurrence, plan or objective. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact, including forecasts or trends, and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about Prosperity Bancshares and its subsidiaries. These forward-looking statements may include information about Prosperity's possible or assumed future economic performance or future results of operations, including future revenues, income, expenses, provision for loan losses, provision for taxes, effective tax rate, earnings per share and cash flows and Prosperity's future capital expenditures and dividends, future financial condition and changes therein, including changes in Prosperity's loan portfolio and allowance for loan losses, future capital structure or changes therein, as well as the plans and objectives of management for Prosperity's future operations, future or proposed acquisitions, the future or expected effect of acquisitions on Prosperity's operations, results of operations, financial condition, and future economic performance, statements about the anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction, and statements about the assumptions underlying any such statement, as well as expectations regarding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Bank's operating income, financial condition and cash flows. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of Prosperity's control, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to whether Prosperity can: successfully identify acquisition targets and integrate the businesses of acquired companies and banks; continue to sustain its current internal growth rate or total growth rate; provide products and services that appeal to its customers; continue to have access to debt and equity capital markets; and achieve its sales objectives. Other risks include, but are not limited to: the possibility that credit quality could deteriorate; actions of competitors; changes in laws and regulations (including changes in governmental interpretations of regulations and changes in accounting standards); the possibility that the anticipated benefits of an acquisition transaction are not realized when expected or at all, including as a result of the impact of, or problems arising from, the integration of two companies or as a result of the strength of the economy and competitive factors generally; a deterioration or downgrade in the credit quality and credit agency ratings of the securities in Prosperity's securities portfolio; customer and consumer demand, including customer and consumer response to marketing; effectiveness of spending, investments or programs; fluctuations in the cost and availability of supply chain resources; economic conditions, including currency rate, interest rate and commodity price fluctuations; the effect, impact potential duration or other implications of the COVID-19 pandemic; and weather. These and various other factors are discussed in Prosperity Bancshares' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other reports and statements Prosperity Bancshares has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Copies of the SEC filings for Prosperity Bancshares may be downloaded from the Internet at no charge from http://www.prosperitybankusa.com.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Soon after Patrick Lyoya was killed by a Grand Rapids police officer, his father asked state police investigators why the officer had to kill his son.
The father’s pastor said it was because he was Black.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Soon after Patrick Lyoya was killed by a Grand Rapids police officer, his father asked state police investigators why the officer had to kill his son.
The father’s pastor said it was because he was Black.
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Emoni Bates is transferring from Memphis but his new destination is a bit of a surprise.
The 6-foot-9 native of Ypsilanti, Michigan is headed home to play for Eastern Michigan after considering Louisville and other schools.
“I’m committing to Eastern Michigan,” Bates told On3.com. “I’m coming home.”
“People probably look at me crazy because I’m considering Eastern,” Bates previously told the site. “But if I went there, I would be like the neighborhood hero. I used to play at Eastern during my high school games when I was at Lincoln, and we used to pack it out every time. That would be crazy for me to be able to bring love to the city.”
Stan Heath, a 57-year-old Michigan native, is the Eastern Michigan coach. He went 10-21 a year ago in the Mid-American Conference.
Once ranked the No. 1 prospect in his class and compared to a young Kevin Durant, Bates is currently projected as the No. 33 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft by ESPN.com.
Many players have leap-frogged over him for next year’s draft, including projected No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama, No. 2 pick Scoot Henderson and the Thompson twins, Ausar and Amen of Overtime Elite. Villanova freshman Cam Whitmore is now the projected No. 6 pick.
NBA scouts will now have to scout Eastern Michigan next season to see how Bates is performing.
“Yes, sure, we will go anywhere,” one Director of Scouting said.
At Memphis, Penny Hardaway, one of the greatest point guards of all time, initially tried to shoehorn Bates in as the team’s point guard to start the season. That may well have been part of Hardaway’s recruiting pitch to Bates when he reclassified to the 2021 class from 2022: “Come here, we’re going to put the ball in your hands.”
Well, that experiment failed miserably and Bates ended up missing a large chunk of the season from late January until mid-March with a back issue. The Tigers ended up playing much better without Bates, and, to Hardaway’s credit, he went with a smaller rotation and the team thrived, reaching the American Athletic Conference championship game and the second round of the NCAA Tournament where they lost to Gonzaga.
At his new spot, Bates is best suited to playing on the wing and and as a shooter — not at point guard.
“Potentially, his best position is as a scoring wing when he physically and mentally matures as a young player,” Fraschilla said. “Playing him at point guard right now would be malpractice.” | https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2022/06/29/emoni-bates-transfers-to-eastern-michigan-from-memphis/ | 2022-06-29T20:36:35Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2022/06/29/emoni-bates-transfers-to-eastern-michigan-from-memphis/ | true |
Top Nevada-based cannabis cultivator and producer Flower One has made a key hire to its C-suite team. The company has named Tim Shoemake as chief operating officer. His appointment began June 28, 2022.
On Shoemake joining Flower One, Kellen O'Keefe, president and CEO of Flower One, expressed unbounded enthusiasm.
“We are very excited to have Tim on board, as he brings a unique combination of experience both inside and outside of cannabis to the table,” said O’Keefe, in a statement. “Tim’s expertise in large-scale, highly competitive perishable goods manufacturing makes him a valuable asset, and we look forward to working closely with him to assure we deliver the quality and consistency needed to be successful.”
Shoemake echoed O'Keefe's enthusiasm.
“I am thrilled to be part of such a fantastic organization, with a clear vision and deep commitment to doing things right," he said, also in a statement. "The leadership team is one of the best in the industry, and I am looking forward to helping Flower One achieve its goals.
Shoemake has amassed over 25 years of experience in global agriculture and food and beverage manufacturing for various brands and retailers. His agriculture experience includes complex supply chain and large-scale juice production for brands such as Naked Juice (which was sold by PepsiCo last year to private equity firm PAI Partners) and Evolution Fresh (recently sold by Starbucks to Bolthouse Farms).
After entering cannabis, Shoemake worked in the industry for both multistate and publicly-traded companies in California, Colorado and Nevada. According to his Linkedin profile, Shoemake worked as a chief operating officer at 3 Bros Companies, a California-based cannabis lifestyle and wellness dispensary, from September 2021 to June 2022. And prior to that, he did a brief stint as COO at Verde Natural, a Denver-based multistate operator that has operations in Southern California.
He is a graduate of Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management, and has served on multiple boards, including Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Agribusiness Advisory Council and the Orange County Fair’s Centennial Farm Foundation. Also, he is a certified connoisseur, having completed the ganjier certification courses, as a certified ganjier candidate.
Flower One currently produces a wide range of products from flower, full-spectrum oils, and distillates to finished consumer packaged goods, including a variety of pre-rolls, concentrates, edibles, topicals, and more for various cannabis brands.
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DEAR ABBY: Many years ago, I was the victim of a violent assault that my then-11-year-old daughter witnessed. It traumatized both of us, but me, the worst. I completely dove off the deep end. I started drinking and smoking pot, and quit going to church. My whole personality changed. I dumped every moment with my children I could onto my husband so I could go out with my "friends" to clubs, bars, concerts or parties. I then started having affairs with many different people, including women. My husband knew about all of it, and despite the torture and pain I put him through, he stayed with me.
Years later, I have managed to slowly heal from that devastating assault. I have found true joy in my children and being a mom again. I don't party, drink or smoke anymore. But one thing has become clear: I'm no longer sexually attracted to my husband. I love him very much, but the thought of being intimate with him grosses me out. It makes me so uncomfortable. I don't even like it when he tries to caress me. It has been like this for a year. But I do love holding hands with him and cuddling with him.
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I feel bad because I know he has needs, but I just can't bring myself to get physical with him. I've actually thought that leaving him might be necessary because he has never fully healed from what I've done, and I'm still struggling with finding other men attractive. Abby, what do I do? -- PUTTING THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER
DEAR PUTTING: Please accept my sympathy for what happened to you. I am struck by the fact that nowhere in your letter did you mention receiving counseling after the assault. If you didn't, please seek a referral to a licensed mental health professional now so you can understand the connection between what you experienced in your assault and your lack of feelings for your husband. You owe it to both of you.
Go online and search on "services for victims of crime" in your state. Help is available through these resources. Alternatively, your physician or health insurance provider can give you a referral. Explain to your husband that the problem isn't him -- it's you -- and you will be getting help for it. Please don't wait to reach out because help is available.
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Kimberly Kamara had already pulled herself away from the relentless parade of meetings, hearings, news conferences, and protests about gun violence that have become as much a regular occurrence in Philadelphia as the sound of shots ringing out in our streets.
As best she could, Kamara, 53, also stayed away from local news and its running ticker tape of trauma: Four shot. Two dead. At least 29 shots fired.
It was all too painful.
Call it self-care or a survival instinct — Kamara told me recently that she just couldn’t bear hearing about yet another shooting, yet another death that would inevitably be followed by the kind of pain she’s known all-too-well since her youngest child, 23-year-old Niam Kairi Johnson-Tate, was gunned down on July 4, 2017.
She needed a break, a breath.
But then her husband, Kesselle, mentioned the shooting death of John Albert Laylo on June 19. Laylo, a 35-year-old lawyer from the Philippines, was vacationing in Philadelphia with his mother when he was shot and killed as they were heading to the airport. Someone in a nearby car fired several rounds into their Uber at a red light near the University of Pennsylvania.
His mother, Leah Bustamante Laylo, suffered minor shrapnel wounds. She took to Facebook while still in the hospital to express her despair.
“We travelled together and we are supposed to go home together!” she wrote. “I will bring him home soon in a box!”
Kamara wasn’t sure why this shooting — out of countless others — moved her so. Maybe it was the close relationship between mother and son, much like Kamara’s own with Niam. Maybe it was because John Albert Laylo, like Kamara’s only son, was an organ donor. Two senseless deaths that had the potential to spare other lives.
It wasn’t lost on Kamara that the killing of a tourist near an Ivy League campus was getting more attention than many shootings that occur with deadly frequency in neighborhoods around Philadelphia; Laylo was one of nine people who were fatally shot over the same horrific weekend. There was time to talk about that later. For now, this was just one mother focused on another mother’s pain.
For a while, Laylo’s death was all Kamara could think of. What must the trip back home be like for this mother, she wondered? What must the shooting, which police believe was a case of mistaken identity, say about the sad state of our city — not just to this mother, but to those outside of Philadelphia?
After the shooting, Filipino diplomats met with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and police officials. They said Kenney apologized and assured them that everything was being done to solve the case. But so far, Laylo’s death remains unsolved, much like the killing of Kamara’s son all these years later.
With another country’s eyes focused on Philadelphia, someone else might have been tempted to say that whatever drove Laylo’s killers didn’t represent the true heart of the city. But Kamara wasn’t about to say that, not in a city with more than 1,100 shootings and 254 homicides as of Wednesday.
And yet, Kamara wanted to say something to another mother joining the ranks of the grieving.
“I felt like I needed to.”
With no other way to reach Laylo’s mother, Kamara sent Leah Bustamante Laylo a message on Facebook.
She didn’t know if she’d ever see it; she never expected a response from a mother now tasked with getting her son’s body back home. But she hoped that knowing she wasn’t alone might bring her some comfort.
“I will not tell you everything is going to be alright, I will not tell you that you will get over this…to be strong,” Kamara wrote.
“It’s alright to cry, scream and holler. It’s alright to question and wonder why…I am here, if you need to talk or if you need me to listen.”
Kamara later received a gracious and simple expression of gratitude from Bustamante. But whether she responded to Kamara or not, Bustamante and her son had already become a catalyst that allowed one mother to begin sharing her strength with other mothers again.
The sense of obligation that compels some grieving mothers to connect with one another is the kind of duty no parent should ever have to endure. Yet, again and again, so many of these mothers persist — sometimes pausing briefly for a break, a breath — locking arms despite and because of their shared pain.
There is a reason why I dedicate so much space to telling the stories of mothers who’ve lost children to gun violence, why I amplify their often unheeded calls for justice.
Individually, these women and their stories are powerful.
Collectively, I’ve always believed, they can be a force for change.
I’ve seen it when mothers protested outside police headquarters for three consecutive nights in 2019 to call attention to unsolved murders, and police finally took notice of some of their loved ones’ cases that had been languishing for years.
And I’m hoping public officials will take more notice, and action, with the recent formation of the Mother’s Movement, an anti-violence group made up of women who have buried far too many children and loved ones.
I wondered if Kamara would skip the group’s recent gathering at City Hall. But, when the time came, there she was, standing again in solidarity with other women demanding public officials do more to address the crisis — bolstered, perhaps, by the connection she had recently made with another mother thousands of miles away.
“We are tired, but we are determined,” Kamara said hopefully. “Somebody’s got to hear us.” | https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/john-albert-laylo-philippines-philadephia-gun-violence-kimberly-kamara-20220629.html | 2022-06-29T20:41:52Z | https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/john-albert-laylo-philippines-philadephia-gun-violence-kimberly-kamara-20220629.html | false |
SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Formula One champion Nelson Piquet apologized to Lewis Hamilton on Wednesday, saying the racial term he used about the Mercedes driver was “ill thought out” but was not meant to be offensive.
The 69-year-old Brazilian has faced heavy criticism this week over comments he made in Portuguese last November on a podcast where he referred to Hamilton as “neguinho,” which means “little Black guy.”
“What I said was ill thought out, and I make no defense for it, but I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend,” Piquet, who won three F1 titles in the 1980s, said in the statement. “I would never use the word I have been accused of in some translations. I strongly condemn any suggestion that the word was used by me with the aim of belittling a driver because of his skin color.”
Piquet used the term three times during the interview as he discussed a crash between Hamilton — a seven-time F1 champion and the only Black driver in the sport — and Max Verstappen during last year’s British Grand Prix. His daughter Kelly Piquet is Verstappen’s girlfriend.
“I apologize wholeheartedly to anyone that was affected, including Lewis, who is an incredible driver,” Piquet added. “But the translation in some media that is now circulating on social media is not correct. Discrimination has no place in F1 or society and I am happy to clarify my thoughts in that respect.”
After Piquet’s comments resurfaced this week, Hamilton called for “archaic mindsets” to change, while F1 and governing body FIA both condemned the use of racist language.
“It’s more than language. These archaic mindsets need to change and have no place in our sport. I’ve been surrounded by these attitudes and targeted my whole life,” Hamilton tweeted on Tuesday. “There has been plenty of time to learn. Time has come for action.”
The British GP is this weekend.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — A day after eliminating Serena Williams from Wimbledon in her debut at the grass-court Grand Slam, Harmony Tan surprised and angered her doubles partner by withdrawing from that tournament on Wednesday with a thigh injury.
Tan, a Frenchwoman ranked 115th who beat the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) on Centre Court on Tuesday, was scheduled to team with Tamara Korpatsch for their opening doubles match on Wednesday.
“She just texted this morning. Let me wait here 1 hour before the match start,” Korpatsch wrote in an Instagram post. “I’m very sad, disappointed and also very angry that I can’t play my 1st Doubles Grand Slam.
“And it’s really not fair for me … I didn’t deserve that.”
Tan is scheduled to play No. 32 Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain in the second round of the singles tournament on Thursday. Sorribes Tormo advanced by defeating American qualifier Christina McHale 6-2, 6-1.
The 24-year-old Tan is ranked 611th in doubles and has never played in that event at Wimbledon. Korpatsch, a 27-year-old German who is ranked 298th in doubles, lost in the first round of the singles tournament but has never played a doubles match at any Grand Slam tournament.
Tan was two points from losing to Williams, a seven-time Wimbledon champion who hadn’t played a singles match since injuring herself in the first round a year ago at the All England Club.
The match lasted 3 hours, 11 minutes.
“If you’re broken after a 3 (hour) match the day before, you can’t play professional (tennis). That’s my opinion,” Korpatsch wrote.
Tan and Korpatsch were scheduled to play 15th-seeded Nadiia Kichenok and Raluca Olaru on Wednesday in the first round of the doubles tournament. They were replaced in the draw by Valentini Grammatikopoulou and Peangtarn Plipuech.
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The New York Yankees may stand in the way of Aaron Judge breaking the home run record.
This is according to Chris “Mad Dog” Russo. The SiriusXM host discussed how the nature of the sport has changed on ESPN’s First Take:
“There is no chance. The Yankees won’t let him get near it. No chance he’s making it to 61 home runs. None...I think they’re worried. They’re paying him so much money. They’re worried about wearing a player out. They’re worried about somebody getting hurt. They’re worried about pitch counts, and overload as far as 162 games, but it’s a major problem with the sport. It’s in all sports - the NBA player doesn’t play 70 games, 80 games either. How many players in baseball do you see pitching a no-hitter or a perfect game and they take him out of the game because he’s got a pitch count? I mean, do you think Sandy Koufax would take himself out of a game? Or Bob Gibson? Or Juan Marichal? Or Tom Seaver? It’s a joke. And then, of course, the home runs is a disaster. You would think the Yankees would love the idea that they can make the single-season home run mark, get it away from the steroid guy [Barry] Bonds and put it back in the Bronx. Yet you know and I know there is no way. Middle of September, they’re going to rest him. In their eyes, the bigger picture is postseason, so they’re not going to pressure him. That’s why they will not allow him to do it. I think it’s a major problem.”
Russo is a weekly guest on First Take. Formerly he worked with Mike Francesa at WFAN. The two ruled the New York airwaves for almost two decades as “Mike and the Mad Dog.” But the duo split in 2008 when Russo bolted for SiriusXM.
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Judge is looking to join this list of Yankees single-season home run leaders:
61: Roger Maris, 1961
60: Babe Ruth, 1927
59: Babe Ruth, 1921
54: Babe Ruth, 1920
54: Babe Ruth, 1928
54: Mickey Mantle, 1961
54: Alex Rodriguez, 2007
Here are the latest projections for Judge’s 2022 stats, per ESPN:
60 homers
173 hits
75 walks
83 extra-base hits
128 runs
122 RBI
As of Wednesday, Judge has recorded 29 home runs.
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Maharashtra political crisis | Floor test will prevent horse-trading: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court refused to stay the floor test in Maharashtra Assembly and agreed with the Maharashtra Governor and the dissident MLAs that delaying floor test would further damage democracy
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dashed the hopes of Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government to retain power in Maharashtra by refusing to stay a floor test called for by Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on June 30 on a request made by Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis.
This second consecutive body blow the Supreme Court dealt the beleaguered Thackeray government in as many days proved too much for the ruling coalition. Chief Minister Thackeray announced his resignation within minutes of the Supreme Court order, negating the need for a trust vote which was otherwise scheduled for 11 a.m. on Thursday.
On June 27, a Vacation Bench of Justices Surya Kant and J.B. Pardiwala virtually froze Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal’s power to proceed with the disqualification of Shiv Sena dissident MLAs led by Eknath Shinde for defection. The dissidents were given extra time till July 12 to respond to the charges.
Wednesday saw the court agree with Governor Koshyari and the dissident MLAs that delaying the floor test would further damage democracy. Holding a floor test in Maharashtra was the sure remedy against horse-trading. Delay of trust vote was the very antithesis of democracy.
“We are not staying the floor test,” Justice Kant briefly conveyed the Bench’s final order to the warring Shiv Sena factions at 9 p.m. after a four-hour marathon hearing.
During the hearing, Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta, appearing for Governor Koshyari, said the “who is the majority in the House is not determined in Raj Bhavan but on the floor of the Assembly where everybody can see”.
The court session began with senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, for the Thackeray camp, urging the court to either stay the floor test or unshackle the Deputy Speaker so that he could go ahead with the disqualification proceedings against 16 of a total 39 dissident MLAs.
Mr. Singhvi then said Governor Koshyari showed “undue haste” by calling a floor test when the question of disqualification was pending in the court.
“Floor test was called on June 28 at supersonic speed… Holding a floor test before determining the question of disqualification of the rebels is like plunging into a pool without determining the size of the pool. It is like putting the cart before the horse. The first thing to do in this whole political crisis is to determine who has committed the constitutional sin of defection… The Governor cannot short-circuit the Supreme Court’s proceedings or the Deputy Speaker’s authority to adjudicate disqualification proceedings… The floor test cannot make these proceedings infructuous,” Mr. Singhvi submitted.
‘Extraordinary situation’
Justice Kant, speaking for the Bench, observed that the court had intervened on June 27 because it was an “extraordinary situation” in which the Speaker himself was facing action for removal from office.
Mr. Singhvi said the rebel MLAs, facing action for defection, “no longer represent the will of the people”. They should not be allowed to vote.
But Justice Kant asked whether a government, knowing it has lost its majority, could be allowed to use the Speaker to issue disqualification notices “ en masse”.
“When the Speaker himself is under a cloud, should we go ahead and presume that the MLAs are already deemed to have been disqualified?” the judge asked.
Senior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, for the Shinde camp, declared “we are the Shiv Sena”. They said they have 39 Sena MLAs out of a total 55. “The Thackeray faction is a hopeless minority within the party itself,” Mr. Kaul submitted.
He said a pending petition in the Supreme Court questioning the disqualification proceedings cannot stay the authority and discretion of the Governor to call for a floor test.
“The reluctance of the Chief Minister to face the floor test prima facie shows he has lost the majority,” Mr. Kaul argued.
Senior advocate Maninder Singh, also for the dissident camp, said the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers was not necessary for the Governor to call for a floor test.
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(NewsNation) — It’s Shark Tank meets Walmart. The retail giant is holding its annual “Open Call” event Wednesday, where business owners can showcase and pitch their products for a chance to get them on Walmart store shelves.
“For entrepreneurs, this is like the Super Bowl,” Skinny Latina founder Ana Quincoces said.
And Quincoces knows. She created Skinny Latina, a line of Latin-inspired cooking sauces. She pitched her brand to Walmart, getting a ‘no’ the first two times.
“I really thought they were just going to — I was going to wow them and they were going to put my products in all 3,000 stores, and it didn’t work out like that,” she said.
But Quincoces didn’t give up.
Instead, she used the feedback she received from the rejection to revamp her product.
“The third time around they gave me the OK, and now, I have 5 SKUs (stock-keeping units) on Walmart shelves alongside brands like Heinz and Hellmann’s,” Quincoces explained. “Working with Walmart has really been a game-changer to my little business.”
It was a golden ticket that changed her world.
The annual contest is Walmart’s largest sourcing event held at its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. It’s an opportunity for the retail giant to connect with smaller, American-owned businesses. More than 4,500 companies applied for the chance to pitch this year.
“It really is an exciting day,” Walmart Senior Manager Payton McCormick told NewsNation. “It sets the stage for entrepreneurs from all across the country to come to Bentonville, both virtually and in person, to pitch their products to Walmart merchants with the hope of potentially getting the product on Walmart shelves, in Walmart.com, in front of our customers and our members.”
500 business owners arrived in person Wednesday to pitch their products, while another 700 entrepreneurs would give it a shot virtually for a chance to work with the world’s largest retailer.
“The opportunity that we create for them here is really unique and special in that it’s our largest sourcing event of the year. This is our ninth event. It’s the largest cohort that we’ve ever had. And we’ve had more than 13,000 products apply to come here,” McCormick explained.
McCormick explained that “Open Call” is built on the foundation of U.S. manufacturing and the creation of American jobs, and Walmart is looking for products that also support that commitment. In 2021, Walmart recommitted an additional $350 billion to products made, grown or assembled in the U.S.
“A lot of suppliers here today are pitching products just like that that will support their communities, that will help us grow American jobs,” he said. “It’s just looking for bringing some of this back to the U.S., and over 85% of our customers agree with that notion that they want their retailers to carry products made here in the U.S.”
CEO of Le’Host Hair and Wigs Haith Johnson told NewsNation this is how they started, “We got the call of our lives, and it changed us forever.”
Johnson first pitched her products in 2020. In just two years, her products have grown from 200 stores to more than 400. This year, she’s attending the event just to mentor and guide other small business owners through the process.
“The energy you feel in the parking lot and through the halls: the bright eyes, the bushy tails,” she said, “This is so amazing. Having the opportunity to take your products from a mom and pop to a national global level is amazing.”
Founder of Cerakote Ceramic Coatings Brian Hall is back again this year to pitch a new product to the company after successfully pitching another one of his products just over a year ago.
“This is real,” Hall said, “We showed up and pitched a little over a year ago. We got an opportunity.”
Hall said his product started out in 400 stores. With hard work and investment in the product, Hall said the product is now in 2,200 stores, soon to be in 3,900 stores.
“We’ll do over $3 million with Walmart this year. So this is real. And it’s such a great opportunity,” he said.
Hall’s company is based in Oregon, and Walmart has allowed his company to catapult into a retail space its never been in before. He said with all the reinvestment and help the company has given him, Hall’s company now has over 150 manufacturing jobs in the state.
“It’s a lot of hard work, and it is fun, but you have to deliver a great product,” he said.
Walmart invited Hall back to pitch two new products this year, and to help mentor small business owners that are new to the event. One of the products he is pitching this year is a shower glass, hard-water spot and ceramic coating to improve shower cleanliness.
The event moves along fast. The retail company will hear 1,200 one-on-one pitches Wednesday and each entrepreneur only has 30 minutes for their pitch. The small business owner will present to a buyer from Walmart, and when their time is up, they receive an instant “yes” or “no.”
In the past, about 15% of people received an offer, but Walmart told NewsNation there is no limit on how many golden tickets they can give away. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/walmart-open-call-is-a-super-bowl-for-entrepreneurs/ | 2022-06-29T20:52:53Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/walmart-open-call-is-a-super-bowl-for-entrepreneurs/ | true |
Springfield, VT — Employees at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield have had to work sixty-hour shifts due to staffing shortages, and as a result, the Vermont Department of Corrections has instituted an “emergency” staffing change.
Steve Howard, who represents corrections staff as Executive Director of the Vermont State Employees’ Association says this decision is cruel, while the Department of Corrections says this will help with consistency of schedules.
Staff will move from five 8-hour shifts a week, sometimes with mandatory overtime, to five 12-hour shifts. “The goal of that is to create more staff resources so we have the resources necessary to sustain that facility during the summer months which are typically our hardest staffing period, due to illnesses, vacation, and other things of that nature,” said Commissioner Nicholas Deml.
Deml adds there’s a 20-25% vacancy rate among security staff across the department.
Justin Nowicki, a correctional officer at the Northeast Correctional Complex, is used to twelve-hour shifts and says that they offer consistency. “Before we were on eight-hour shifts but eight hours was never actually eight hours. We were constantly doing twelve-hour shifts, or twelve with an eight-hour turn around into another 12 or 16.”
Nowicki acknowledges people in other facilities might not feel the same way that he does. “I personally work the first shift so I get out at 6 pm every day, which is great for my lifestyle. I make it home and eat dinner with my family.”
Meanwhile, Steve Howard calls the decision “cruel and inhumane”. “It’s very frustrating for our members. It’s heartbreaking to listen to them, they are exhausted, their families are exhausted, and they are hearing from inmates that the inmates are concerned they won’t be able to be protected from the staff or the exhaustion from the staff, something bad is going to happen.”
Howard says government officials need to take action before it’s too late. “There is no investment in the men and women who are holding his crumbling system together; there is no commitment to that.”
Commissioner Deml says they are seeing an uptick in recruiting. They just had an academy class graduate last Friday with 20 new cadets. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/vermont-doc-implements-new-staffing-changes/ | 2022-06-29T20:53:41Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/vermont-doc-implements-new-staffing-changes/ | true |
BOSTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The automotive market is trending towards greater levels of autonomy with advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) becoming increasingly adopted to improve the safety of drivers and pedestrians or even just to make driving a more convenient experience. ADAS encompasses a huge variety of functions from automatic emergency braking all the way to fully autonomous driving. Something that all ADAS features have in common is the need for high-quality sensors and the associated processing of their data. The quantity of sensors per vehicle also increases rapidly with greater levels of autonomy. These sensors and their evolution provide new markets for thermal management materials within the automotive industry. In fact, IDTechEx's new report, "Thermal Management for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) 2023-2033" finds that the yearly market value for thermal interface materials (TIMs) in ADAS will increase 11-fold over the next 10 years.
What's Changing with ADAS Components?
Cameras and radars are already ubiquitous in vehicles, but greater levels of autonomy will require larger sensor suites with greater capabilities in each sensor. IDTechEx is predicting that there will be more than a 6-fold increase in the yearly demand for automotive sensors including cameras, radars, and LiDARs by 2033. A key factor is integration, to fit more sensors to vehicles in an aesthetically pleasing fashion, the units will require smaller form factors leading to densification of components and hence thermal management challenges.
ADAS sensors are also often used in non-ideal environments for electronics requiring resistance to shock and vibration and, in certain cases, having to withstand heat from a combustion engine. For many sensor locations, active cooling will not be viable and in hot climates the temperatures of sensors could increase significantly whilst the vehicle is stationary.
Another factor to consider is data processing. More sensors and sensors with greater fidelity will generate more data that needs processing by the vehicle. Some parts of this will be done within the sensor units themselves, but a central computer or electronic control unit (ECU) will be required to communicate this information to the relevant vehicle controls. The greater data requirements lead to using more power-dense ICs (integrated circuits) and hence a greater thermal management requirement. We have already seen this with Tesla's adoption of a liquid cooling circuit for their computer highlighting the heat generated.
What are the Material Trends?
Like any modern electronics component, ADAS sensors and computers require thermal interface materials (TIMs) to help spread heat from the heat generating element to a heat sink or unit enclosure. Cameras, radars, LiDARs, and ECUs all have their own TIM requirements and as their designs evolve, so too do their TIM needs. Whilst the average ECU now may use a fairly typical TIM with 3-4 W/m×K thermal conductivity, the increased processing power required for autonomous functions could see this rise significantly.
Many of the sensors spread throughout the vehicle will be relatively small and low power, hence not necessarily needing a high-performance TIM. However, the rapidly growing market for ADAS features means that the volume demands for TIMs will increase significantly. IDTechEx is forecasting an increase in TIM demand of 3 times in just the next 5 years for ADAS sensors.
Concluding Thoughts
The rapid adoption of ADAS features and autonomy in the automotive market presents great opportunities for thermal management material suppliers with sensor design evolving and a growing market for ADAS components. IDTechEx's report, "Thermal Management for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) 2023-2033", uses both primary and secondary research to cover these trends for ADAS sensor and computer evolution with a focus on thermal interface materials and die attach with additional chapters on combined EMI and thermal materials and radar radome materials. Company profiles/interviews are also included along with 10-year market forecasts in terms of material area, tonnage, and market value.
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Massive Anime Fan Experience Includes THE GUNDAM BASE LOS ANGELES POP-UP, Franchise Showcases, Product Premieres, Exclusive Collectibles, Photo Ops, and Giveaways Plus Team Kamen Rider Showcase with Meet-Up, Guest Panel & Special Screening
ANAHEIM, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America ("BNTCA") is set to make U.S. anime industry history this July when it presents the largest-ever location-based entertainment experience at Anime Expo 2022. At this year's convention, BNTCA will offer a massive, immersive experience that not only cuts across the company's product portfolio but also features a collection of its top licensed properties. Fans can look forward to an array of experiences from BNTCA that ranges from special exhibits, displays, statues and life-sized photo ops to dioramas, souvenirs and event exclusives and more. In total BNTCA's location-based entertainment experience at Anime Expo 2022 spans over 10,000 square feet of exhibit space and encompasses five different booths (2602, 2406, 2606, 2211 and E6). BNTCA's showcase will include popular product brands such as Tamashii Nations, MegaHouse, Shokugan and fan-favorite franchises like One Piece, Gundam, Dragon Ball and Digimon. In addition, BNTCA will host a Team Kamen Rider showcase that includes a meet-up and guest panel as well as special screening of the new TV series "Fuuto PI." Attendees are invited to visit any and all of BNTCA's booths daily during regular show hours throughout Anime Expo 2022.
Details of BNTCA's Anime Expo 2022 line-up including promotional offers are as follow:
One Piece U.S.A. Tour | Booth 2602 – Exhibit Hall
- Launch Premiere of One Piece U.S.A. Tour, a multi-city tour celebrating the world of One Piece includes interactive experiences, displays and exhibits including over 60 products from Tamashii Nations, Bandai Hobby, MegaHouse and Banpresto.
- Event Exclusives. Select from this collection of event exclusives available for purchase:
- Online Exclusives. A collection of One Piece exclusives available on the Tamashii Web Shop:
- Products Available. Other products available for purchase include:
- Free Souvenirs. A variety of souvenirs will be offered including fan, badge ribbon, bandana, paper straw hat, Portrait of a Pirate MegaHouse booklet and "One Piece Film Red" bag while supplies last
THE GUNDAM BASE LOS ANGELES POP-UP | Booth 2406 – Exhibit Hall
- Special edition of THE GUNDAM BASE POP-UP Experience that brings THE GUNDAM BASE concept direct to fans and recreates elements from THE GUNDAM BASE Japan or in Japan.
- Event Exclusives. Select from over 100 model kits, including both event exclusives and THE GUNDAM BASE exclusives, available for purchase.
- Promotional Offer. Receive one of three different gifts with purchase while supplies last:
- Free Souvenir. Receive a limited edition THE GUNDAM BASE LOS ANGELES POP-UP sticker for completing a survey while supplies last.
- Ultimate Gundam Giveaway. Multiple winners will receive amazing Gundam prizes from Bandai Hobby, Tamashii Nations, MegaHouse and more! Visit the Contest Page for details.
Digimon & Kamen Rider Booth | Booth 2211 – Exhibit Hall
- From Digimon
- Digimon Devices (Digimon and X)
- Digimon NXEDGE Style
- Digimon Adventure Digicolle Mix
- From Kamen Rider
Tamashii Nations / MegaHouse / Shokugan Booth
- Curated Product Showcase from BNTCA brands Tamashii Nations, MegaHouse and Shokugan featuring such fan-favorite franchises as Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, Naruto, Jujutsu Kaisen, Evangelion, Animal Crossing, Macross, Ultraman and more.
- From Tamashii Nations
- From MegaHouse and Shokugan
- Buy 2 trading figures and get 10% off
- Buy 4 trading figures and get 15% off
- Buy 6 trading figures and get 20% off
- Buy 10 trading figures and get 30% off
Team Kamen Rider Showcase
- Team Kamen Rider Meet-Up. Connect with team members before the panel.
Booth 2211 | Saturday, July 2 at 2:00pm - Panel: Kamen Rider – What's Next in the U.S. Hear about what's happening next with the Kamen Rider franchise in the U.S. with hosts Team Kamen Rider and BNTC and guest panelists: Director Yousuke Kabashima ("Fuuto PI"), Writer Brandon Easton ("Transformers: War for Cybertron"), plus Crunchyroll and Shout! Factory.
Room 403AB | Saturday, July 2 at 7:30pm - Special Screening of "Fuuto PI." Watch a special screening of the new anime series "Fuuto PI." Room 403AB | Saturday, July 2 immediately after the panel.
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JACKSON, Miss., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AARP Mississippi announced four organizations throughout the state will receive 2022 Community Challenge grants – part of the largest group of grantees to date with $3.4 million awarded among 260 organizations nationwide. Grantees will implement quick-action projects that help communities become more livable in the long-term by improving public places; transportation; housing; diversity, equity and inclusion; digital access; and civic engagement, with an emphasis on the needs of adults age 50 and over.
"AARP Mississippi is committed to working with communities to improve residents' quality of life through tangible changes," said AARP Mississippi State Director Kimberly L. Campbell, Esq. "We are proud to collaborate with this year's grantees as they make immediate improvements in their communities to jumpstart long-term change, especially for Mississippians 50 and over."
Here in Mississippi, projects funded include:
The grant will help Hattiesburg Landmark Preservation improve a park/playground at Thames Elementary School, the only public park in midtown Hattiesburg. The project includes updating a basketball court, adding four age-friendly benches at a walking track and creating two murals.
The grant will help the Jackson Heart Foundation continue to develop the Museum Trail, a multi-use trail spanning a total of 4.34 miles connecting the local community to parks, museums, a farmers' market, a food hall, and the Pearl River. The grant will assist in developing two multi-functional trailhead plazas that include a custom design seating area, public art, and lighting.
The grant will assist the Noxubee County Historical Society in completing the renovation of the Macon Welcome Center in the downtown business district. The grant will help with computers, food prep equipment, audio video equipment and more.
The grant will help the Waynesboro-Wayne County Library purchase 11 GrandPads, a tablet designed for older adults. The devices will then be used in computer classes and available to check out, just like books. A special staff member will provide tech support.
AARP Community Challenge grant projects will be funded in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. True to the program's quick-action nature, projects must be completed by November 30, 2022.
This year, AARP is bolstering its investment of affordable and adaptable housing solutions in response to the national housing crisis. With additional funding support from Toyota Motor North America, the program is also increasing its support of projects that improve mobility innovation and transportation options.
The grant program is part of AARP's nationwide Livable Communities initiative, which supports the efforts of cities, towns, neighborhoods and rural areas to become great places to live for people of all ages. Since 2017, AARP Mississippi has awarded 11 grants through the program to nonprofit organizations and government entities across the state.
View the full list of grantees and their project descriptions at aarp.org/communitychallenge and learn more about AARP's livable communities work at aarp.org/livable.
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol and @AARPadvocates, @AliadosAdelante on social media.
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Co-Sponsorship of Global Forums Aims to Harness Power of Hollywood Community for Edutainment Programs
LOS ANGELES, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced an agreement to co-sponsor a series of Global Forums with the Narrating Behavior Change Program of the World Bank to promote the growth of edutainment programming around the world; the use of entertainment media with educational objectives.
"This partnership seeks to connect Hollywood with the global development community by developing new creative programming with the goal of helping to promote important sustainability goals, which improve the lives of millions of people struggling with healthcare, environmental and other challenges," said Helen Hoehne, president of the HFPA. "The power of the Golden Globes® brand internationally over the past 80 years gives us the unique ability to reach audiences and governments interested in harnessing the power of edutainment."
Edutainment promotes and supports programs designed to combat poverty, gender inequality and climate change, among others. These issues are at the core of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) frameworks of investors, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries to address today's global challenges.
The first HFPA-World Bank Global Forum is scheduled for Wednesday July 27, 2022, from 11 AM-1 PM PT (2-4 PM ET) and will be made available on Zoom for a global audience. Panelists will include spokespeople from the HFPA and the World Bank, as well as development and entertainment representatives.
Founded in 1947 and with 189 member countries, the World Bank works in every major area of development with the goals to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way. In partnership with researchers, development practitioners and media firms, the World Bank's edutainment program is rigorously testing edutainment innovations in the main entertainment hubs of developing countries, including India, Mexico and Nigeria.
"High-quality edutainment can positively reshape attitudes and behaviors of millions, from empowering girls to preventing gender-based violence, COVID-19 and HIV. However, its potential remains largely untapped. This series of Forums aims to help catalyze more interest and investment in this sector in the entertainment industry, building on HFPA's strong commitment to the SDGs and global presence," said Victor Orozco, Senior Economist and lead of the World Bank's edutainment research program.
These new HFPA-World Bank forums will tackle issues such as harnessing the power of entertainment and popular culture to support development goals and help educate, empower and motivate communities around the world to action.
While previous World Bank forums had focused on publicly funded productions for audiences in developing countries (see WB forum "Using Entertainment Media to Reach the SDGs"), the new HFPA-World Bank forums will explore the challenges and opportunities for public-private partnerships to systematically scale up investments in edutainment, including with the LA-based industry and its celebrities.
The working group for the global forums includes HFPA, the World Bank, and Michael Carbajal, an LA-based creative advisor.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 – then known as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association – by a group of entertainment journalists based in Los Angeles. During World War II, the non-profit organization established a cultural bridge between Tinseltown and millions around the world seeking an escape and inspiration through entertainment. The HFPA continues to do so today with a membership representing more than 55 countries.
Since 1944, the group has hosted the annual Golden Globe® Awards – the premier ceremony which honors achievements in both television and film. The licensing fees from the Golden Globe® Awards has enabled the organization to donate more than $50 million to more than 70 entertainment-related charities, film restoration, scholarship programs and humanitarian efforts over the last three decades. Its efforts include support for diversity programs in partnership with advocacy groups promoting greater access in Hollywood aimed at underserved communities. For more information, please visit www.GoldenGlobes.com and follow us on Twitter (@GoldenGlobes), Instagram (@GoldenGlobes), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/GoldenGlobes).
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Ex-wrestler says WWE CEO Vince McMahon RAPED a female referee in his limo in 1986 and says he kept it secret for years out of fear of being punished but now wants to speak out after new sexual misconduct claims
- McMahon is accused of forcing himself on Rita Chatterton in 1986 after she approached him for a meeting about her career
- She was WWE's first female referee and says he had promised her $500k-a-year
- After allegedly raping her, McMahon stopped giving her jobs in the ring, she claims
- Chatterton went on TV in 1992 to make her allegation but McMahon denied it and later sued her
- Now, former wrestler Leonard Inzitari, who was friends with Chatterton in the 1980s, has come forward to say that it is true
- He says that he kept quiet for decades in fear of the powerful McMahon family
- McMahon has been replaced as CEO by his daughter while the board investigates whether he paid female employees hush money
A wrestler is corroborating an old allegation that WWE CEO Vince McMahon raped a female referee in his limo in 1986, amid new allegations that he also paid women hush money to keep misconduct claims secret.
McMahon is the embattled titan of the wrestling industry; he has been in charge of WWE for decades, inheriting the company from his father and making it into the multi-billion dollar machine that it is today.
Earlier this month, he stepped down from his role as CEO after being accused of paying female employees hush money. One allegation is that he gave a paralegal $3million after their affair ended.
In the wake of the allegations, an older, more serious claim has resurfaced.
In 1992, Rita Chatterton, now 64, the first female referee in the WWE, came forward to accuse McMahon of raping her in his limo in 1986.
Now, her allegation has been corroborated by former wrestler Leonard Inzitari, who says he saw Chatterton after the alleged attack.
An attorney for McMahon did not respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com on Wednesday.
WWE wrestling is investigating Vince McMahon over claims he paid women hush money after they accused him of misconduct, including a 41-year-old paralegal who says he gave her $3million after they had an affair
Vince McMahon with Rita Chatterton, the first female WWE referee, the year before she claims he raped her, on his TV show
In 1992, Rita Chatterton, now 64, the first female referee in the WWE, came forward to accuse McMahon of raping her in his limo in 1986. She appeared on Gerald Rivera's TV show
'I remember it like it was yesterday. She was a wreck. She was shaking. She was crying,' Inzitari, who went by the wrestling alias Mario Mancini, told Intelligencer.
He said he had kept it a secret for decades in fear of being marginalized by McMahon and his family, who control the industry.
'He’s dug himself such a deep hole that I’m just tired of it. I can’t do it anymore,' he said of his decision to speak out now.
Inzitari said Chatterton told him through sobs how McMahon 'took his penis out', forced her to perform oral sex on him, then forced himself 'inside' of her.
He recalled telling her: 'You just keep your mouth shut, because it’s Vince McMahon. What are you gonna do, stooge on Vince McMahon? You’re gonna be blackballed from the wrestling business!'
Chatterton did not make her claim public for several years.
It wasn't until she appeared on Geraldo Rivera’s TV show in 1992 that she made the allegation. He has not yet addressed it.
McMahon gave her first major refereeing job in 1975, then, she claims, offered her a contract of $500,000 a year to referee on-screen.
'At the time, I knew that’s a huge amount of money, but I didn’t know what the wrestlers were making,' she said.
She told Intelligencer that McMahon told her not to fraternize with any of the wrestlers, warning her: 'Keep it clean. I don’t wanna see you messing around with any of the wrestlers. You keep it professional.'
McMahon is married to Trump aide Linda McMahon, who served as the head of the Small Business Administration during Trump's presidency
Rita Marie Chatterton, First Fulltime Female Referee in the WWE, is shown in the ring
Chatterton made waves as the first female referee in the 1980s but her career tapered off after the alleged rape
In her 1992 interview, she told Rivera how she had asked McMahon if they could discuss her career prospects on the night that she says he raped her.
They had been at a diner with a larger group, then got into his limo to talk privately outside. She said the limo driver left the vehicle.
'He starts talking about a half-a-million-dollar-a-year contract. Next thing I know, Vince McMahon is unzipping his pants.'
'Vince continued to, you know, "If you want a half-a-million-dollar contract, you’re going to have to satisfy me, and this is the way things have to go".
'Vince grabbed my hand, kept trying to put my hand on him. I was scared. At the end, my wrist was all purple, black, and blue. Things just didn’t … He just … God, he just didn’t stop. This man just didn’t stop,' she said through tears.
'I was forced into oral sex with Vince McMahon. When I couldn’t complete his desires, he got really angry, started ripping off my jeans, pulled me on top of him, and told me again that, if I wanted a half-a-million-dollar-a-year contract, that I had to satisfy him.
Now, Chatterton's allegation has been corroborated by former wrestler Leonard Inzitari, who says he saw Chatterton after the alleged attack. At the time, he went by the wrestler alias Mario Mancini
'He could make me or break me, and if I didn’t satisfy him, I was black-balled, that was it, I was done.'
She claimed that afterwards, he told her: 'I told you not to mess with any of the wrestlers. You just did.'
After that, Chatterton said McMahon stopped booking her for jobs. At the time, McMahon denied her claims.
He sued her and Rivera, alleging that they were trying to bring him down and were spurred on by his enemies. The lawsuit was discontinued without either side winning.
His long-serving attorney, Jerry McDevitt, did not respond to inquiries on Wednesday afternoon.
McMahon's wife Linda with President Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago in 2019. She now works at America First Institute
He has not yet addressed the allegations that McMahon paid former employees hush money, either.
The board a WWE - which is largely made up of McMahon's family - is now investigating the allegations.
His wife Linda, who was the head of the Small Business Administration during Trump's presidency, has also not commented. McMahon has served as CEO of the multi-billion dollar company since 2009 and is said to be worth $2billion.
According to the allegations, McMahon first hired the paralegal on a salary of $100,000 then doubled it to $200,000 when they started having sex.
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Verlander dominates, Castro homers, Astros beat Mets 2-0
Justin Verlander pitched two-hit ball for eight innings, light-hitting backup catcher Jason Castro lined a two-run homer in the ninth and the Houston Astros beat the Mets 2-0 Wednesday to send New York to its first three-game losing streak this season.
Astros left fielder Yordan Álvarez and shortstop Jeremy Peña were hurt when they collided in the eighth while running down Dominic Smith’s popup. Both called for the ball and as Peña caught the pop, and they hit each other in the face with their gloves. Álvarez was removed on a cart, sitting up, and Peña walked back to the dugout during the eight-minute delay.
Verlander (10-3) became the major leagues’ first 10-game winner, striking out six and walking one. The 39-year-old right-hander, a three-time Cy Young Award winner, has a 2.03 ERA this year in his return from Tommy John surgery.
Ryan Pressly pitched a perfect ninth for his 16th save in 19 chances, finishing the Astros’ second two-game sweep of the Mets in a nine-day span.
Taijuan Walker allowed four hits in a season-high 7 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and two walks. Walker was removed after 27 batters — he has not faced a hitter four times in a game since 2017 — and Edwin Díaz relieved to face Jose Altuve.
Castro began the day hitting .095 with one RBI in 74 at-bats. Kyle Tucker singled off Drew Smith (1-2) leading off the ninth, and with two outs Castro drove a slider into the right-field seats.
PER CHANCE
Mets third baseman Luis Guillorme had a dozen chances — two putouts and 10 assists. Boston’s Rafael Devers set the record for a nine-inning game with 14 against the Yankees in 2019.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mets: RHP Max Scherzer (strained oblique) was to make his second rehab start for Double-A Binghamton, at Hartford on Wednesday night. ... RHP Jacob deGrom (stress reaction right shoulder) threw 27 pitches to batters at Port St. Lucie, Florida and could be ready to start a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment.
UP NEXT
Astros: RHP Luis Garcia (5-5) starts Thursday’s one-game series at home against the New York Yankees and RHP Luis Severino (4-2), a makeup of a game postponed by the lockout.
Mets: RHP Chris Bassitt (6-5) starts a home series against Texas on Friday night.
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ZEELAND, Mich. (AP) _ MillerKnoll, Inc. (MLKN) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $21.5 million.
The Zeeland, Michigan-based company said it had profit of 28 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for pretax expenses and costs related to mergers and acquisitions, were 58 cents per share.
The furniture maker posted revenue of $1.1 billion in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $27.1 million, or 37 cents per share, swinging to a loss in the period. Revenue was reported as $3.95 billion.
For the current quarter ending in September, MillerKnoll expects its per-share earnings to range from 32 cents to 38 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $1.08 billion to $1.12 billion for the fiscal first quarter.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The mother of a U.S. military veteran who went missing after he traveled to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia has spoken with her son by telephone, the family said Wednesday.
Lois “Bunny” Drueke, of Tuscaloosa, answered a call from what appeared to be a Russian exchange and talked to son Alex Drueke on Tuesday for nearly 10 minutes in their first conversation since he and Andy Huynh, another Alabama veteran who traveled to Ukraine, were captured after a fight earlier this month in Ukraine.
Apparently at the prompting of his captors, Drueke said the people holding him were anxious to begin negotiations and that he had food, water and bedding, Bunny Drueke said in a statement released by her family.
“He sounded tired and stressed, and he was clearly reciting some things he had been made to practice or read, but it was wonderful to hear his voice and know he’s alive and alright,” she said.
Drueke said he hadn't been in contact with Huynh for several days, according to the woman. The United States has said both men should be protected as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
Huyhn's fiance, Joy Black, said his family was thrilled the Drueke was able to speak with his mother.
“We are still hoping to get a similar communication from Andy,” she said.
Druke and Huynh didn't return to a meeting spot after their group came under heavy fire in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border on June 9. The two traveled separately to help Ukraine and became buddies there in part because of their shared Alabama background, relatives have said.
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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teenager wounded during a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan are suing the shop that sold the handgun used to kill four students and injure six other people.
The complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Detroit on behalf of Matthew and Mary Mueller accuses Acme Shooting Goods LLC of negligently or unlawfully supplying the gun through a straw sale.
Authorities have said James Crumbley bought the 9 mm semiautomatic handgun used in the Nov. 30 shooting as an early Christmas gift for his son, Ethan, who was 15 at the time.
The lawsuit says Ethan accompanied his father to Acme Shooting Goods several days before the shooting and “engaged in behavior or made one or more statements while in the store which further indicated that the Acme gun was intended for” Ethan.
Acme Shooting Goods was obligated to train, supervise and monitor employees to identify and prevent so-called “straw purchases,” according to the lawsuit.
A straw purchase is when a person buys a gun to sell or give to someone prohibited from having one.
An employee at the gun shop in Lapeer declined to comment on the lawsuit Wednesday.
The Muellers' son suffered gunshot wounds to a hand and his face. He was one of six students and one teacher wounded in the shooting at the school, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Detroit.
Ethan Crumbley, now 16, has been charged as an adult with murder and terrorism and faces trial in January. James Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer, are accused of providing their son with access to the gun and are awaiting trial for involuntary manslaughter.
“Gun dealers, when they enter the business of selling guns, assume a duty to comply with all standards of reasonable care and all relevant state and/or federal firearms laws in order to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, juveniles and dangerous parties likely to misuse firearms,” the Muellers' lawsuit says.
A gun shop in Connecticut was named in a lawsuit against gunmaker Remington following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 26 people, mostly children. Nancy Lanza bought the assault-style rifle used by her son, Adam Lanza, in the shooting.
The shop later was dropped from the lawsuit when a judge dismissed the complaint against Remington in 2016. The judge cited a federal law that shields gun-makers from liability in most cases. The Connecticut Supreme Court later reinstated the lawsuit against Remington on the issue of whether it should be held liable for how it marketed the Bushmaster rifle. In February, Remington and the Sandy Hook families agreed to a $73 million settlement of the case.
Remington, one of the nation’s oldest gun makers founded in 1816, filed for bankruptcy for a second time in 2020 and its assets were later sold off to several companies. The manufacturer was weighed down by lawsuits and retail sales restrictions following the school shooting.
The Muellers' lawsuit does not include a dollar amount for damages. It also names the Oxford Community School District, its former superintendent and other officials.
Other multimillion-dollar lawsuits filed after the shooting have said the violence was preventable.
The morning of the shooting, school officials met with Ethan Crumbley and his parents at the school after a teacher found a drawing of a gun, a bullet and a person who appeared to have been shot, along with messages stating, “My life is useless” and “The world is dead.”
The Crumbleys declined to take their son home and Ethan was allowed to remain in school. The gun was in his backpack, which was not searched.
“We are bringing this suit so that the failures both in the sale of this gun and at our school which allowed this to happen can never happen again,” Matthew and Mary Mueller said in a statement. "No family or community needs to experience this pain and no child should have to live with it for the rest of their life.” | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Shop-that-sold-gun-in-Oxford-school-shooting-17274867.php | 2022-06-29T21:06:50Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Shop-that-sold-gun-in-Oxford-school-shooting-17274867.php | false |
1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been.
“They narrowed it down between the ‘50s and ‘60s and got lucky,” said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.
The search was started by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and included two members of Till’s family: Cousin Deborah Watts, head of the Foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. They want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s home, killed and dumped into a river.
“Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an interview.
Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, which flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” the woman since she had two young children to care for.
Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina, Donham has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution. But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.
“This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she said.
District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a December report about the Till case from the Justice Department, which said no prosecution was possible.
Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said: “This is the first time I’ve known about a warrant.”
Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said “nothing was said about a warrant” when a former district attorney investigated the case five or six years ago.
“I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said. If the warrant can still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides.
Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly would not pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi.
But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward establishing probable cause to initiate a new prosecution, he said.
“If you went in front of a judge you could say, ‘Once upon a time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more information is available today,’” Rychlak said.
Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there at the time, Wheeler Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd comment.
Two nights later, Donham’s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore County home of Till’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the youth. Till’s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother’s decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights movement of the time.
Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities did not pursue the case following their acquittal.
Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a voice “lighter” than a man’s identified Till from inside a pickup truck and the abductors took him away from the family home. Other evidence in FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told her husband that at least two other Black men were not the right person.
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Reeves reported from Newnan, Georgia.
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Astros ninth. Kyle Tucker singles to right field. Yuli Gurriel reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Kyle Tucker out at second. Aledmys Diaz flies out to left field to Ender Inciarte. Jason Castro homers to right field. Yuli Gurriel scores. Jake Meyers called out on strikes.
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EXPLAINER: Years later, Flint water court fight drags on
Michigan authorities have long promised to hold key officials criminally responsible for lead in Flint’s water back in 2014 and 2015
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan authorities have long promised to hold key officials criminally responsible for lead contamination and health problems arising from a disastrous water switch in Flint in 2014.
There's not much to show more than eight years later.
The latest: an extraordinary rebuke Tuesday from the state Supreme Court, which unanimously dismissed indictments against former Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others.
The attorney general's office is promising to press on, though hurdles remain even if fresh charges are pursued, including the age of any alleged crimes and a dispute over documents that could take years to resolve.
Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud, who has led the investigation since 2019, said she's “committed to seeing this process through.”
A look at where things stand:
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SUPREME COURT?
The court ruled 6-0 that a judge hearing evidence in secret while sitting as a one-person grand jury had no authority to issue indictments, derisively likening it to closed-door justice in the Middle Ages.
The method is so unusual in Michigan that the court said it apparently had never been challenged. Prosecutors typically file charges, then lock horns with defense lawyers in front a judge who decides whether there's enough evidence to go to trial.
Snyder, a Republican, faced indictment for willful neglect of duty. Flint managers appointed by him tapped the Flint River for water in 2014 while a new pipeline to Lake Huron was under construction. Lead from the city's aging pipes infected the system for more than a year because the corrosive water wasn't properly treated.
Snyder's health department director, Nick Lyon, and Michigan’s former chief medical executive, Dr. Eden Wells, were charged with involuntary manslaughter for nine deaths related to Legionnaires’ disease. Experts say Flint’s water might have lacked enough chlorine to combat bacteria.
CAN NEW CHARGES BE FILED?
Yes, in a more traditional way, but defense lawyers will aggressively challenge them again.
There is a six-year deadline to file misdemeanors, such as the two counts against Snyder and two against former Flint public works chief Howard Croft. Nearly seven years have passed since Snyder acknowledged in 2015 that Flint had a dangerous lead problem and switched the city back to a regional water system.
“That's going to be a problem for a number of these prosecutions,” said attorney John Bursch, a member of Lyon's legal team.
Lyon and Wells were accused of failing to alert the public in a timely manner about the Legionnaires' outbreak. They deny wrongdoing. The deaths appear to fall within the 10-year limit to file felonies.
“It is a great injustice to allow politicians — acting in their own interests — to sacrifice government servants who are performing their roles in good faith under difficult circumstances,” Lyon said Tuesday, referring to Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat.
ARE THERE OTHER STICKY ISSUES?:
Millions of documents — and millions of dollars.
When Nessel's staff took over the Flint water investigation, they seized Snyder-era records from state government that apparently included confidential documents and papers protected by attorney-client privilege.
Defense lawyers cried foul, insisting the records should have been screened by an independent team. They've won so far in two courts, though prosecutors claim it could cost more than $30 million and take years to look at the documents, depending on the number.
The cost and time are irrelevant, Lyon's lawyers said in opposition to an appeal pending at the state Supreme Court.
“No amount of time or money allows the prosecution to keep and use privileged materials against a criminal defendant,” attorney Ronald DeWaard wrote.
HAS ANYONE BEEN CONVICTED?
The criminal investigation of the Flint water crisis began in 2016 under then-Attorney General Bill Schuette and special prosecutor Todd Flood. No one has been sentenced to jail.
Seven people pleaded no contest to misdemeanors that were eventually scrubbed from their records. They included Liane Shekter Smith, who was head of the state’s drinking water division, and Stephen Busch, another key water expert.
Flood insisted he was winning cooperation from key witnesses and moving toward bigger names, but he was canned after Nessel took office in 2019.
Shekter Smith was the only state employee to be fired because of what happened in Flint. But an arbitrator said she was wrongly dismissed in the rush to find a “public scapegoat,” and the state agreed to pay her $300,000.
Busch was paid $522,000 while on leave before returning to work last November, according to records.
Charles Williams II, a Detroit pastor and civil rights activist, said accountability is overdue in Flint.
Families in the majority-Black city, he added, deserve “truth and justice."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Verlander pitched two-hit ball for eight innings, light-hitting backup catcher Jason Castro lined a two-run homer in the ninth and the Houston Astros beat the Mets 2-0 Wednesday to send New York to its first three-game losing streak this season.
Astros left fielder Yordan Álvarez and shortstop Jeremy Peña were hurt when they collided in the eighth while running down Dominic Smith’s popup. Both called for the ball and as Peña caught the pop, and they hit each other in the face with their gloves. Álvarez was removed on a cart, sitting up, and Peña walked back to the dugout during the eight-minute delay.
Verlander (10-3) became the major leagues’ first 10-game winner, striking out six and walking one. The 39-year-old right-hander, a three-time Cy Young Award winner, has a 2.03 ERA this year in his return from Tommy John surgery.
Ryan Pressly pitched a perfect ninth for his 16th save in 19 chances, finishing the Astros’ second two-game sweep of the Mets in a nine-day span.
Taijuan Walker allowed four hits in a season-high 7 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and two walks. Walker was removed after 27 batters — he has not faced a hitter four times in a game since 2017 — and Edwin Díaz relieved to face Jose Altuve.
Castro began the day hitting .095 with one RBI in 74 at-bats. Kyle Tucker singled off Drew Smith (1-2) leading off the ninth, and with two outs Castro drove a slider into the right-field seats.
PER CHANCE
Mets third baseman Luis Guillorme had a dozen chances — two putouts and 10 assists. Boston’s Rafael Devers set the record for a nine-inning game with 14 against the Yankees in 2019.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mets: RHP Max Scherzer (strained oblique) was to make his second rehab start for Double-A Binghamton, at Hartford on Wednesday night. ... RHP Jacob deGrom (stress reaction right shoulder) threw 27 pitches to batters at Port St. Lucie, Florida and could be ready to start a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment.
UP NEXT
Astros: RHP Luis Garcia (5-5) starts Thursday’s one-game series at home against the New York Yankees and RHP Luis Severino (4-2), a makeup of a game postponed by the lockout.
Mets: RHP Chris Bassitt (6-5) starts a home series against Texas on Friday night.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) — A professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University says a partnership with Taiwan-based MediaTek could serve as a model for other semiconductor companies to establish operations in Indiana. Purdue and MediaTek on Tuesday detailed plans to establish a new chip design center in the university’s Discovery Park District, which is expected to create up to 30 jobs.
“We are all excited that this is going to be a highly-synergistic relationship going forward that’s going to have a lot of win-win effects,” said Vijay Raghunathan.
In an interview with Inside INdiana Business, Raghunathan said the partnership is important for several reasons.
“This really represents, I think, our first win in terms of a semiconductor company actually setting up a physical office and a design center in Indiana, especially in West Lafayette in such close proximity to Purdue University,” he said. “We also view this as a terrific model going forward for other companies to see how those three pillars – namely research, education and workforce development – can go hand in hand synergistically.”
The chip design center will be located inside the Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration. Raghunathan says the center will focus on research and development, as well as feeding the workforce pipeline for MediaTek.
“One of the big advantages of course is that they’re located so close to Purdue, virtually on the Purdue campus, and so research and development and tight collaboration with the university is going to be an integral part of it,” he said. “We’re still brainstorming and discussing and figuring out exactly what the technical scope is going to be [for] the research relationship between Purdue and the MediaTek folks in this design center.”
Raghunathan says, from a broad perspective, they have identified some areas where there will be a “solid, synergistic relationship.” They include next-generation computer architectures and chips for next-generation communications architectures such as 6G.
While the center will focus on research and design, MediaTek will not be manufacturing any chips in West Lafayette. Raghunathan says MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company, which means another party does the manufacturing of chips as a service.
“I know that Purdue is in discussions with other companies to have that semiconductor manufacturing component follow very soon to Indiana and, hopefully, close to Purdue. But, that is going to be independent of MediaTek.”
The partners are looking to get the center up and running over the next several months. Hiring for electrical engineering and chip design positions in West Lafayette is expected to begin soon.
“MediaTek already hires quite a bit from Purdue, and we’re hoping that essentially some of that pipeline will get redirected almost immediately to this West Lafayette design center,” said Raghunathan.
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HOUSTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) announced today it plans to issue its second quarter 2022 earnings release on Wednesday, August 3, after the close of U.S. financial markets.
The company will conduct a conference call, which will be webcast live, on Thursday, August 4, at 9 a.m. ET. The call will include forward-looking information.
All of the above information, including earnings releases and other investor-related material, can be accessed by visiting Marathon Oil's website at https://www.MarathonOil.com.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been.
“They narrowed it down between the ‘50s and ’60s and got lucky,” said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.
The search was started by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and included two members of Till’s family: Cousin Deborah Watts, head of the Foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. They want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s home, killed and dumped into a river.
“Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an interview.
Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, which flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” the woman since she had two young children to care for.
Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina, Donham has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution. But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.
“This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she said.
District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a December report about the Till case from the Justice Department, which said no prosecution was possible.
Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said: “This is the first time I’ve known about a warrant.”
Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said “nothing was said about a warrant” when a former district attorney investigated the case five or six years ago.
“I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said. If the warrant can still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides.
Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly would not pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi.
But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward establishing probable cause to initiate a new prosecution, he said.
“If you went in front of a judge you could say, ‘Once upon a time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more information is available today,’” Rychlak said.
Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there at the time, Wheeler Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd comment.
Two nights later, Donham’s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore County home of Till’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the youth. Till’s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother’s decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights movement of the time.
Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities did not pursue the case following their acquittal.
Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a voice “lighter” than a man’s identified Till from inside a pickup truck and the abductors took him away from the family home. Other evidence in FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told her husband that at least two other Black men were not the right person. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/1955-warrant-in-emmett-till-case-found-family-seeks-arrest/ | 2022-06-29T21:12:12Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/1955-warrant-in-emmett-till-case-found-family-seeks-arrest/ | true |
Man steals jewelry off car crash victim’s body right after fatal accident in St. Louis, police say
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A man is facing charges after police say he stole jewelry off a dead man’s body Sunday night following a fatal car crash.
According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the victim, identified as 46-year-old Arthur Fulton, died when he pulled out of a driveway and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
Before first responders arrived, 46-year-old Elmer Perry went up to Fulton’s crashed vehicle and stole jewelry off Fulton’s body, police said.
Perry was not involved in the accident.
Perry was later arrested and charged with one count of felony stealing. Police said he confessed to the crime.
Perry is being held in the St. Louis County Jail on a $25,000 cash-only bond. The jewelry was later returned to the victim’s family.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
1-9-1
(one, nine, one)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
1-9-1
(one, nine, one) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17274979.php | 2022-06-29T21:13:44Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17274979.php | true |
Eastern Greene hires Kim Ellett as girls golf coach
Kim Ellett always wanted to be a girls golf coach.
She's held assistant coaching roles at various schools in the Bloomfield area, and she served as a volunteer assistant for the Indiana University women's golf team from 2007 to 2021. At the high school level, she most recently coached Linton Stockton's junior high team from 2019 to 2021.
When she heard Eastern Greene had an opening, she reached out to athletic director Aaron Buskirk to show her interest. Her approach to coaching, and some ideas she had for the program, sold Buskirk during the interview process. He selected Ellett for the job.
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"(Her experience) is huge," Buskirk said. "Just having some ideas of what to do with kids and how to help them, maybe just going out and playing rounds every day and working on some things that each person needs and stuff like that, that's important."
Building a winner
Ellett wants to turn Eastern Greene girls golf into a successful program.
That involves making it out of sectional at some point. But she has other things in mind, as well, and things that will help on the course down the road.
Specifically, she wants to start a junior high golf program at Eastern Greene, which she says is one of the few schools in the Greene County area without one.
"In the beginning of the year, you have kids that want to play, but in any varsity sport, you need to be able to play the sport. Golf's a little different than basketball, don't get me wrong, but you need to have a little bit of knowledge of the game at the varsity level," Ellett said. "So maybe we can get feeder programs in, through our junior high — because most junior high programs are co-ed — and then we can build both (the boys and girls) programs."
The Thunderbirds have a young squad and didn't graduate anyone from last year's team. So Ellett's team will at least have that baseline knowledge she's looking for, if not more, from their high school experiences.
Another idea Ellett had to get the program on track is getting more 18-hole matches in during the regular season before sectional.
The Thunderbirds didn't do that last year, and then had trouble playing the full 18 holes at their sectional. Ellett knows how challenging that can be for kids who are used to playing only nine. So she's looking to add some 18-hole events, whether dual matches or invitationals, to prepare her team for the postseason.
Buskirk was on board with that idea.
"It was grueling when you got to sectionals, playing at Otis Park and having to walk 18 holes in the middle of September when it was still hot (and you hadn't done that all season)," Buskirk said. "She wanted to make sure that we had a match at Otis before the sectional so that they can get acclimated with that course a little bit, too."
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Ellett spends a lot of time around the game, even if she's not with a girls team. Her son, Landon "Happy" Gilmore has been playing since he was very young.
Gilmore now plays a year-round schedule, and just finished a strong sophomore season at Bloomington South.
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Ellett talked to her son before accepting the job at Eastern Greene and he had no problem with it. It's nothing new for him, as she was already coaching at Linton. He's used to her working with a girls team in the fall.
Gilmore has two seasons left at South, and Ellett is viewing this role lasting longer than that.
Ellett travels with Gilmore to his various tournaments throughout the summer and offseason periods, but she doesn't foresee any conflicts. Buskirk posed that question during her interview, and she said it was not a concern at all.
"If there would happen to be a conflict, and I had to be with the girls team, which will be my priority from the day it starts until we finish, then his caddy or his dad would take him to an event," Ellett said. "Right now there's no conflict with the scheduling with him."
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The first step for Ellett is building relationships with her players and setting individual goals with them.
She was approved for the role the week of June 13, and she was then out of town with Gilmore at a tournament. She can't have an official practice with her team until the end of June, and the season doesn't really start until August 1.
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"Being able to adapt to the different levels of play is going to be a huge factor, I believe, with the team," Ellett said. "(I want to) try to build individual goals for each (player). I do believe we're going to have a variety of (experience)."
Those preseason meetings and discussions will allow her to better capitalize on her practice time when August rolls around.
Ellett is making sure she's doing everything correctly starting out. She knows it can be hard on a team when a new coach takes over, and she wants to be clear with them the entire way while implementing processes that will set them up to succeed.
"When we go out the door on on August or for our first practice — it'll probably be a parent meeting too — I just want the girls to be prepared," Ellett said. "I want them to know exactly what I expect of them and what they expect of me. And then just have a great year. That's all I'm looking for."
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA), a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, will hold a conference call to review the company's second quarter 2022 financial results and related matters on August 2, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
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BOSTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The automotive market is trending towards greater levels of autonomy with advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) becoming increasingly adopted to improve the safety of drivers and pedestrians or even just to make driving a more convenient experience. ADAS encompasses a huge variety of functions from automatic emergency braking all the way to fully autonomous driving. Something that all ADAS features have in common is the need for high-quality sensors and the associated processing of their data. The quantity of sensors per vehicle also increases rapidly with greater levels of autonomy. These sensors and their evolution provide new markets for thermal management materials within the automotive industry. In fact, IDTechEx's new report, "Thermal Management for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) 2023-2033" finds that the yearly market value for thermal interface materials (TIMs) in ADAS will increase 11-fold over the next 10 years.
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ADAS sensors are also often used in non-ideal environments for electronics requiring resistance to shock and vibration and, in certain cases, having to withstand heat from a combustion engine. For many sensor locations, active cooling will not be viable and in hot climates the temperatures of sensors could increase significantly whilst the vehicle is stationary.
Another factor to consider is data processing. More sensors and sensors with greater fidelity will generate more data that needs processing by the vehicle. Some parts of this will be done within the sensor units themselves, but a central computer or electronic control unit (ECU) will be required to communicate this information to the relevant vehicle controls. The greater data requirements lead to using more power-dense ICs (integrated circuits) and hence a greater thermal management requirement. We have already seen this with Tesla's adoption of a liquid cooling circuit for their computer highlighting the heat generated.
What are the Material Trends?
Like any modern electronics component, ADAS sensors and computers require thermal interface materials (TIMs) to help spread heat from the heat generating element to a heat sink or unit enclosure. Cameras, radars, LiDARs, and ECUs all have their own TIM requirements and as their designs evolve, so too do their TIM needs. Whilst the average ECU now may use a fairly typical TIM with 3-4 W/m×K thermal conductivity, the increased processing power required for autonomous functions could see this rise significantly.
Many of the sensors spread throughout the vehicle will be relatively small and low power, hence not necessarily needing a high-performance TIM. However, the rapidly growing market for ADAS features means that the volume demands for TIMs will increase significantly. IDTechEx is forecasting an increase in TIM demand of 3 times in just the next 5 years for ADAS sensors.
Concluding Thoughts
The rapid adoption of ADAS features and autonomy in the automotive market presents great opportunities for thermal management material suppliers with sensor design evolving and a growing market for ADAS components. IDTechEx's report, "Thermal Management for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) 2023-2033", uses both primary and secondary research to cover these trends for ADAS sensor and computer evolution with a focus on thermal interface materials and die attach with additional chapters on combined EMI and thermal materials and radar radome materials. Company profiles/interviews are also included along with 10-year market forecasts in terms of material area, tonnage, and market value.
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Central Florida’s United Way announced Wednesday it’s awarding $1 million to Longwood’s The Sharing Center, helping to fuel a major expansion of the homeless charity that’s already serving some 15,000 people a year. It’s the largest grant to a single agency in the United Way’s 83-year history.
“These dollars will go into emergency services. They’ll go into showers and laundry facilities. But they’ll also go into new and innovative programs where there’s a computer lab and [staff] and other sort of services … to help people find employment,” said Jeff Hayward, president and CEO of the Heart of Florida United Way. “This is literally for everything from basic needs all the way up to getting folks on the other side, enjoying prosperity.”
The $1 million comes from a historic $20 million donation to the Heart of Florida United Way by author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos, in December 2020. At the time, Scott gave a collective $4.2 billion in COVID-19 pandemic aid to 384 charities and institutions across the nation and told nonprofit leaders to use it as they saw fit.
Previously, the Heart of Florida United Way had announced a $1 million donation for a mental health awareness campaign in Central Florida.
The Sharing Center donation is likely to have a more easily measured impact.
Nina Yon, the center’s president and CEO, said the money will help underwrite construction and operating costs for a new Live United Village, a center where homeless clients will be able to shower, get food, do laundry, meet with counselors and search for jobs as well as take job-training courses.
“The idea is to take the unemployed and the under-employed and give them emotional intelligence training, give them job training, practice interviewing skills, line them up with interviews, dress them up for success to go on the interviews, and then help them get into stable housing and walk alongside them with case management for the next two years,” Yon said.
Started in 1986 by 17 local churches, The Sharing Center now occupies most of a Longwood shopping plaza. Although it has provided food from the beginning and added showers and laundry in 2011, its capacity has been limited by space.
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yon said, the charity had a 37% increase in demand for services — a spike she had thought would ease as COVID restrictions did. But the numbers have never dropped.
“At the Oasis, our current facility, people were sometimes sitting around for one or two hours because we didn’t have enough showers,” she said. “And the old place just looked prison-like to me. I wanted to make it look more like a home.”
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The new facility, which officially opens next week, features porcelain toilets and sinks and decorator-style fixtures. All shower rooms are wheelchair-accessible. After the opening, the old shower and laundry area will be renovated and turned into additional retail space for the charity, whose thrift shop sales help pay for operations.
Matt Davies, a former client, nodded approvingly Tuesday toward the new space.
“This place has really been able to help me. And with the bigger area, it’s going to be able to help a lot more [people],” he said.
Davies, 43, came to The Sharing Center in February after he lost his job, his car and his home. He found temporary work through a labor pool, but the charity helped him shower, get his clothes clean and eat.
He’s now enrolled in a program at the Orlando Union Rescue Mission, where he stays when he’s not at his full-time warehouse job, he said. He has saved enough to buy a used car.
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It felt like only a matter of time before the Wild traded star winger Kevin Fiala. And that time has officially come.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Wild flipped Fiala’s rights to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for the Kings’ first-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, plus Gophers men’s hockey captain Brock Faber.
Fiala, a 25-year-old from Switzerland, is coming off the best season of his blossoming career in which he had 33 goals and 52 assists for 85 points. In a perfect world for the Wild, general manager Bill Guerin would have been able to keep Fiala around long term, pairing him with the team’s other star winger, Kirill Kaprizov, for the foreseeable future.
But with Fiala in line for a big contract this offseason, and the Wild still dealing with the consequences of buying out the big contracts of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter last offseason, a trade felt likely ahead of next week’s draft. In total, Fiala finished his Wild career with 79 goals, 107 assists and 186 points in 215 games.
For sending Fiala to Los Angeles, the Wild received the No. 19 pick in the draft and Faber, a Minnesota native who figures to develop into a solid player NHL blue liner. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound defenseman was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year this past season, as well as first-team All-Big Ten. From Maple Grove, he also represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Is that a big enough return for someone of Fiala’s stature? That remains to be seen.
Originally acquired by the Wild on February 25, 2019, Fiala took massive strides as a member of the organization. He went from a frustrating player with a tantalizing skill set to a legitimate game-breaker who carried the Wild many times over the past couples of seasons.
That improvement from Fiala is a big reason he’s no longer on the roster. His next contract likely will pay him upwards of $8 million a season, money the Wild simply do not have with roughly $12.7 million in dead cap tied up in the Parise and Suter buyouts for the 2022-23 season. That figure will jump to roughly $14.7 million in dead cap for the 2023-24 season and 2024-25 season. | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/29/wild-trade-kevin-fiala-to-kings-for-first-round-pick-and-gophers-captain-brock-faber/ | 2022-06-29T21:21:41Z | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/29/wild-trade-kevin-fiala-to-kings-for-first-round-pick-and-gophers-captain-brock-faber/ | false |
ARKANSAS, USA — Corn and soybean prices continue to soar upwards, but the lack of rain could eat into row crop farmers’ profits. Grain price hikes are negatively impacting cattle producers.
Less than an inch of rain has fallen in Jonesboro during the month of June, which is 56% less than normal, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures have consistently been in the mid-90s and have topped 100 degrees several days during the month.
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