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Phoenix police arrest man in connection to fatal shooting near 42nd Street, Southern Avenue
A suspect was arrested in connection to the shooting that left one man dead early Saturday morning in south Phoenix.
Lamarjay Freeman, 27, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of shooting and killing 42-year-old Efren Cayeros, Phoenix police said.
According to Phoenix police, officers were called to a home near 42nd Street and Southern Avenue around 4 a.m. where they found Cayeros shot dead in the front yard of his home.
Court documents obtained by The Arizona Republic state that Freeman had been drinking before he shot "unprovoked" at three people sitting in the front yard of a home near 42nd Street and Southern Avenue.
Some of those being shot at returned fire and then fled the area. They have not been contacted by police, according to court documents.
Phoenix police said witnesses told them the suspect fled before police arrived.
After reviewing surveillance footage, police determined Freeman to be the suspect in the shooting and tracked his cell phone to his girlfriend's apartment, court records state.
Police arrested Freeman at the girlfriend's home, where he had stayed for almost three days following the shooting. Court documents state the weapon that was used to kill Cayeros was found inside the home.
Freeman told police that he only remembered drinking and waking up in an unknown yard. His girlfriend told police he called her and asked her to pick him up. When she did, he entered the car and said he shot someone, court records indicate.
He was booked into Maricopa County Jail and faces one count of second-degree murder and one count of discharging a weapon within city limits, court documents state.
His bond was set at $1 million, and his first hearing is set for July 14. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/07/06/police-arrest-man-suspected-shooting-killing-man-south-phoenix/7826494001/ | 2022-07-07T01:40:57Z | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/07/06/police-arrest-man-suspected-shooting-killing-man-south-phoenix/7826494001/ | false |
This week the Central Coast has seen a lot of night and morning cloud cover along with pockets of mist and drizzle with a strong afternoon breeze, occasionally prompting some advisories in Santa Barbara county. There is no wind advisory in place today.
7:40a compared to 3p ... we went from deep, thick low clouds and fog to mostly sunny. pic.twitter.com/sVQpZqmSvs
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 6, 2022
High temps so far (as of 3:28p), current conditions and winds. pic.twitter.com/dNXTuwVQ8d
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 6, 2022
That will change a bit in my forecast. Inland temps will start to warm. Subtle changes Thursday. We will see low clouds rush inland again this evening and overnight, again even reaching interior valleys.
Marine clouds rush back into coastal and even interior valleys later this evening and overnight but a much better retreat Thursday and Friday as high pressure builds the extent of marine influence will be limited. pic.twitter.com/1xIXAS4nFP
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 6, 2022
Here is a look at some hourly forecasts for key climate types for Thursday. Not how inland temps return to 90+, we go up from there. City-specific outlooks are available for anywhere (local, national, international) with the KSBY Microclimate Weather App. pic.twitter.com/Elk9MTw9kC
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 6, 2022
This deep marine layer has all been thanks to a trough of low pressure just off the coast.
Towns and temps for Thursday.. cool at beaches, mild in coastal valleys, and warming a little inland. More significant warming inland takes place Friday. pic.twitter.com/jaTQBKQoDB
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 6, 2022
However, this trough is lifting out slowly. By Friday only some weaker SW flow aloft is left, and heights in the upper atmosphere increase. This means the marine cooled air will be more limited and not reach inland areas by the weekend. This will produce temps in the upper 90s and topping 100 for the weekend in some valley locations.
Inland folks need to brace for some heat, temps back near 100 Friday and even though they could dip into the mid-90s Tuesday I actually think later next week could get VERY hot. Coast will be mitigated by marine influence. pic.twitter.com/6nmfbrgNRr
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 6, 2022
Fixing an error... Santa Barbara next Wednesday was shown as 99 on air.. this was a computer data error. pic.twitter.com/EJROmwJT3s
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 7, 2022
At the coast and beaches, there will still be plenty of marine influence but even those locations will see less of it by degree. Temps will rise but only into the 80s in the coastal valleys and beaches will see 60s and 70s rather than 50s and 60s. Skies will clear a bit faster as well.
The trough is slowly lifting out leaving some upper-level SW flow over the Central Coast. This will warm the interior but coastal locations and beaches will still see "some" marine moderation. pic.twitter.com/ck7yz8WAT1
— Dave Hovde (@tvdave) July 6, 2022
That covers the trend into the weekend. Now early next week temps could dip a few degrees but not a lot. Later next week could get VERY hot inland with some models suggesting temps higher than 105 inland near the end of next week but far too early to place big bets on that, a lot can happen between now and then. I would say however we've avoided long excessive heat runs thus far, this outlook could change that. I don't think I have to say that a long run of really extreme weather inland is not good for fire or drought. Something to watch carefully. | https://www.ksby.com/weather/the-interior-valleys-look-to-warm-significantly-to-close-the-week-and-the-heat-looks-to-linger | 2022-07-07T01:45:32Z | https://www.ksby.com/weather/the-interior-valleys-look-to-warm-significantly-to-close-the-week-and-the-heat-looks-to-linger | false |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were:
15-21-31-32-36-37-41-43-46-48-54-55-56-58-61-66-71-76-77-79
(fifteen, twenty-one, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-six, thirty-seven, forty-one, forty-three, forty-six, forty-eight, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-eight, sixty-one, sixty-six, seventy-one, seventy-six, seventy-seven, seventy-nine) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-10-game-17288990.php | 2022-07-07T01:53:59Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-10-game-17288990.php | false |
PHOENIX — There was a new but familiar face in the Giants clubhouse here on Tuesday: Joey Bart. When manager Gabe Kapler ran in to the rookie catcher for the first time, he gave him a firm handshake and clapped him on the back with his left hand.
“Welcome back,” Kapler told him.
Even though Bart rejoined the big-league club Tuesday after a shorter-than-anticipated month away, it took another day for him to be activated on to the roster. But on Wednesday, the player the Giants still see as their backstop of the future returned to their lineup for the first time since June 4 — and brought a new swing with him.
Bart, Kapler and just about every other stakeholder is hopeful that simplifying his swing — and getting a mental reset — can help Bart move past the struggles at the plate that made his first stint here to open the season unsustainable.
Bart struck out in a major-league worst 45% of his 108 plate appearances to start this season. Studious observers will notice him setting up lower in the box — mimicking a catcher’s squat — and less auxiliary motion with his hands, after the work he put in with MLB hitting coach Justin Viele and others, including Will Clark.
“Just trying to be as clean as I can toward the ball,” Bart explained. “I’ve always been a guy that hits with rhythm. Basically trying to simplify without taking my rhythm out. It’s kind of like a fine line of grasping that feeling. … Things are starting to feel better.”
Those changes were put on display ahead of schedule out of necessity.
When the Giants demoted Bart last month, they brought in Austin Wynns to take his place and split catching duties with Curt Casali. But Casali landed on the injured list this week with a strained oblique.
“In a perfect world, you don’t make that decision based on injury,” Kapler said. “You make it based on performance. But we don’t live in that world, so here we are.”
With Casali estimated to miss a month or more, Bart should get another extended look alongside Wynns.
Although Bart spent almost three weeks on the River Cats’ roster, he only appeared in seven games. The majority of his work came in the batting cage and the video room. But in 31 plate appearances, Bart hit .286/.355/.393 with six strikeouts — that’s a 19.3% rate — and two walks.
“His schedule, his program was much different for the last few weeks than it was when he was here,” Kapler said. “I think that alone gives him a good chance to come out on the other side feeling better.”
He was on the field in Salt Lake City, where the River Cats were preparing to begin a series, when he heard the news that Casali had been injured. Word made its way to Bart, who was scratched from the lineup. But he stayed with the team until the end of the game — there was nobody else to catch in the bullpen.
Bart was also in Salt Lake City on the two occasions he was called up last season.
“Every time I go to Salt Lake I get pulled out of the game right before it starts,” Bart cracked. “The clubbie even made some funny remarks to me, like I’m not unpacking your bags anytime you come to Salt Lake.”
When Bart left the Giants in the first week of June, they were 28-24 and 6.5 games back in the NL West. They went on to climb as many as 10 games over .500 and come as close as 3.0 games of first place in the division, but Bart comes back to a team that has lost six in a row and 12 of its past 15, falling a season-high 10.5 games back of the Dodgers after their latest loss Tuesday night.
No player wants to be demoted, but did Bart feel the move was ultimately beneficial for his development?
“Right or wrong, I don’t know,” he said. “I know that I got to work on some good things and it has put myself in a better position. … I’m excited, man. I’m ready to compete.
“I know things haven’t been going as well here as people would like, so with (David) Villar being here, with me coming back, with things going on, maybe we can get this ship rolling and get back to winning.”
Notable
- The Giants placed third baseman Evan Longoria on the 10-day injured list to clear a roster spot for Bart. Longoria was listed with a strained left oblique, but the club provided no further information.
- Infielder Thairo Estrada (illness) will meet the Giants in San Diego on Thursday. The plan is for Estrada, who on Wednesday missed his sixth game with flu-like symptoms, to make his return to the lineup Friday, but Kapler didn’t rule out his return coming a day early if his workout goes well Thursday. Estrada has dealt with a fever, sore throat and headache and tested negative multiple times for COVID-19.
- Outfielder Luis González (low back strain) began a rehab assignment Wednesday night with Triple-A Sacramento. González, who has missed the past 12 games, batted lead off and played left field. He should be ready to rejoin the club sometime on the upcoming home stand. | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/07/06/ahead-of-schedule-joey-bart-ready-to-show-off-revamped-swing-with-sf-giants/ | 2022-07-07T01:54:32Z | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/07/06/ahead-of-schedule-joey-bart-ready-to-show-off-revamped-swing-with-sf-giants/ | true |
Oct. 12 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Oct. 15 Arizona, 7 p.m.
Oct. 17 Florida, 7 p.m.
Oct. 18 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Oct. 20 Anaheim, 7 p.m.
Oct. 22 Minnesota, 1 p.m.
Oct. 25 Dallas, 7 p.m.
Oct. 27 Detroit, 7 p.m.
Oct. 28 at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Nov. 1 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Nov. 3 at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Nov. 5 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Nov. 7 St. Louis, 7 p.m.
Nov. 10 Calgary, 7 p.m.
Nov. 12 at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Nov. 13 Vancouver, 6 p.m.
Nov. 17 Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Nov. 19 Chicago, 7 p.m.
Nov. 21 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Nov. 23 at Florida, 7 p.m.
Nov. 25 Carolina, 1 p.m.
Nov. 29 Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Dec. 3 Colorado, 7 p.m.
Dec. 5 Vegas, 7 p.m.
Dec. 7 at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Dec. 9 at Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
Dec. 11 at Vegas, 8 p.m.
Dec. 13 N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Dec. 15 Los Angeles, 7 p.m.
Dec. 17 Columbus, 1 p.m.
Dec. 19 Florida, 7 p.m.
Dec. 22 Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Dec. 23 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Dec. 27 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Dec. 28 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Dec. 31 Buffalo, 1 p.m.
Jan. 2 Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.
Jan. 5 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Jan. 7 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Jan. 8 at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.
Jan. 12 Seattle, 7 p.m.
Jan. 14 Toronto, 7 p.m.
Jan. 16 Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
Jan. 18 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 19 at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Jan. 22 San Jose, 7 p.m.
Jan. 24 at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Jan. 26 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Jan. 28 at Florida, 6 p.m.
Jan. 29 at Carolina, 5 p.m.
Feb. 1 at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 11 Washington, 3 p.m.
Feb. 14 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Feb. 16 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Feb. 18 N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.
Feb. 20 Ottawa, 1 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Feb. 25 at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Feb. 27 at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.
Feb. 28 at Calgary, 9 p.m.
March 2 Buffalo, 7 p.m.
March 4 N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m.
March 9 Edmonton, 7 p.m.
March 11 Detroit, 1 p.m.
March 12 at Detroit, 1 p.m.
March 14 at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
March 16 at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
March 18 at Minnesota, 2 p.m.
March 19 at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
March 21 Ottawa, 7 p.m.
March 23 Montreal, 7 p.m.
March 25 Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
March 26 at Carolina, 5 p.m.
March 28 Nashville, 7 p.m.
March 30 Columbus, 7 p.m.
April 1 at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m.
April 2 at St. Louis, 3:30 p.m.
April 6 Toronto, 7 p.m.
April 8 New Jersey, 7 p.m.
April 9 at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.
April 11 Washington, 7 p.m.
April 13 at Montreal, 7 p.m. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/2022-23-Boston-Bruins-Schedule-17288926.php | 2022-07-07T01:55:25Z | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/2022-23-Boston-Bruins-Schedule-17288926.php | false |
Oct. 12 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Oct. 13 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Oct. 15 Vegas, 10 p.m.
Oct. 17 Carolina, 10 p.m.
Oct. 19 St. Louis, 10 p.m.
Oct. 21 at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Oct. 23 at Chicago, 2 p.m.
Oct. 25 Buffalo, 10 p.m.
Oct. 27 Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Oct. 29 Pittsburgh, 10 p.m.
Nov. 1 at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Nov. 3 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Nov. 5 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Nov. 8 Nashville, 10 p.m.
Nov. 11 Minnesota, 10 p.m.
Nov. 13 Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Nov. 17 N.Y. Rangers, 10 p.m.
Nov. 19 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
Nov. 23 San Jose, 10 p.m.
Nov. 25 at Vegas, 8 p.m.
Nov. 27 at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
Nov. 29 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Dec. 1 Washington, 10 p.m.
Dec. 3 Florida, 10 p.m.
Dec. 6 Montreal, 10 p.m.
Dec. 9 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Dec. 11 at Florida, 6 p.m.
Dec. 13 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Dec. 15 at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Dec. 18 Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Dec. 20 St. Louis, 10 p.m.
Dec. 22 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Dec. 28 Calgary, 10 p.m.
Dec. 30 Edmonton, 10 p.m.
Jan. 1 N.Y. Islanders, 8 p.m.
Jan. 3 at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Jan. 5 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Jan. 7 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Jan. 9 at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 10 at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Jan. 12 at Boston, 7 p.m.
Jan. 14 at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Jan. 16 Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.
Jan. 17 at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Jan. 19 New Jersey, 10 p.m.
Jan. 21 Colorado, 10 p.m.
Jan. 25 Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Jan. 27 Calgary, 10 p.m.
Jan. 28 Columbus, 10 p.m.
Feb. 7 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 9 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Feb. 10 at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Feb. 12 at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
Feb. 14 at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Feb. 16 Philadelphia, 10 p.m.
Feb. 18 Detroit, 10:30 p.m.
Feb. 20 at San Jose, 4 p.m.
Feb. 23 Boston, 10 p.m.
Feb. 26 Toronto, 7 p.m.
Feb. 28 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
March 2 at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
March 3 at Columbus, 7 p.m.
March 5 at Colorado, 9 p.m.
March 7 Anaheim, 10 p.m.
March 9 Ottawa, 10 p.m.
March 11 Dallas, 10 p.m.
March 13 Dallas, 10 p.m.
March 16 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
March 18 Edmonton, 4 p.m.
March 21 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
March 23 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
March 25 at Nashville, 2 p.m.
March 27 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
March 30 Anaheim, 10 p.m.
April 1 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
April 3 Arizona, 10 p.m.
April 4 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
April 6 Arizona, 10 p.m.
April 8 Chicago, 10 p.m.
April 10 at Arizona, 10 p.m.
April 11 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
April 13 Vegas, 10 p.m. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/2022-23-Seattle-Kraken-Schedule-17288927.php | 2022-07-07T01:57:40Z | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/2022-23-Seattle-Kraken-Schedule-17288927.php | false |
WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 6, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED
National Weather Service Norman OK
816 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT
THURSDAY...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Heat indices 105 to 110.
* WHERE...Portions of central, northern, and southern Oklahoma
and northern Texas.
* WHEN...1 PM to 8 PM Thursday and Friday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
* WHAT...Heat index values 105 to 110.
* WHERE...In Oklahoma, Tillman County. In Texas, Wilbarger and
Baylor Counties.
* WHEN...1 PM to 8 PM Friday.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-NORMAN-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17289006.php | 2022-07-07T01:59:26Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-NORMAN-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17289006.php | false |
Boda Boda operators struggle to make ends meet
The soaring fuel prices in the country have affected several motorists, including Boda Boda operators, most of whom are finding it hard to survive in the prevailing economic situation. Some Boda Boda riders we spoke to say they hardly make any profits at the end of the day and that the high costs of fuel swallow every little penny they secure after long hustles. As NTV's Daniel Kibet reports, even Boda Boda riders, who acquired their motorcycles on loans are finding it hard to repay those loans while a number of them have defaulted. | https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/video/boda-boda-operators-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-3869570 | 2022-07-07T02:05:50Z | https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/video/boda-boda-operators-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-3869570 | true |
MULBERRY, Fla. (WFLA) — A man died after Polk County deputies said a canoe capsized in a lake near Mulberry Wednesday afternoon.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to the lake around 4:37 p.m.
There were two men in the canoe according to a release. One man was able to swim to shore.
After a search, deputies found the other man dead around 8:52 p.m.
PCSO said they will release more information on the incident on Thursday. | https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/1-dead-after-canoe-capsizes-in-mulberry-lake-deputies-say/ | 2022-07-07T02:08:39Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/1-dead-after-canoe-capsizes-in-mulberry-lake-deputies-say/ | true |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 32-year-old man who grew up on the same streets in the same gang as Nipsey Hussle was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the 2019 shooting of the Grammy-winning rapper, who rose above his circumstances to become an inspiration to the neighborhood where he was eventually gunned down.
The Los Angeles County jury also found Eric R. Holder Jr. guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter for gunfire that hit other men at the scene. Prosecutors had sought two counts of attempted murder. Holder also was found guilty of two counts of assault with a firearm on the same men.
Holder, wearing a blue suit and face mask, stood up in the small court room next to his lawyer as the verdict was read. He had no visible reaction. His lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Aaron Jansen, conceded during the trial that Holder shot Hussle, 33, whose legal name is Ermias Asghedom, but had sought a lesser verdict of voluntary manslaughter.
Jansen said in an email that he was deeply disappointed in the first-degree murder verdict.
“It was always going to be tough given the high profile circumstances surrounding the case," Jansen said.
He added that he and Holder were grateful that the jury agreed that the attempted murder counts were overcharged. They plan to appeal the murder conviction, he said.
A jury of nine women and three men deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching the verdict. Most of their deliberations took place Friday, and they promptly came to their unanimous decision Wednesday, briefly reconvening after a four-day break. A pair of typos on the verdict form discovered as the results were read forced jurors to briefly return to deliberations before the outcome could be made official, but they had no bearing on the outcome.
“We are both proud and I am a little relieved that the verdict came in a complete, absolute agreement with the charges that Eric Holder murdered Ermias Asghedom in cold blood,” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said outside the courtroom. “We hope that today is a day in which the Asghedom family and the friends and fans of Nipsey Hussle around the world will find some measure of closure.”
No relatives of Hussle were in the room when the verdict was read, nor did any attend the trial.
The judge has a wide range of options when he sentences Holder on Sept. 15. The first-degree murder charge alone carries a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
“Obviously nothing that happened here today can heal the wound, nothing that happened here today can restore Mr. Asghedom to this world, but we hope that there is some resounding peace in the fact that his killer will be in prison likely for the rest of his life,” McKinney said.
The verdict brings an end to a legal saga that has lasted more than three years and a trial that was often delayed because of the pandemic.
Hussle and Holder had known each other for years growing up as members of the Rollin' 60s in South Los Angeles when a chance meeting outside the clothing store the rapper opened in his neighborhood led to the shooting, and his death.
The evidence against Holder was overwhelming, from eyewitnesses to surveillance cameras from local businesses that captured his arrival, the shooting and his departure.
The shooting followed a conversation the two men had about rumors that Holder had been acting as an informant for authorities. Jansen argued that being publicly accused of being a “snitch” by a person as prominent as Hussle brought on a “heat of passion” in Holder that made him not guilty of first-degree murder.
Hussle's close friend Herman “Cowboy” Douglas, who was standing next to him when he was shot and testified at the trial, said the conversation he heard does not explain the killing for him.
“It feels good to get some closure, but I still need to know why,” Douglas said after the verdict.
After years of grinding that won him underground acclaim — his nickname was both a play on the name of comedian Nipsey Russell and a nod to the hustle the future hip-hop star showed in making music and selling CDs — Hussle had just released his major-label debut album and earned his first Grammy nomination when he was killed.
He was a widely beloved figure in Los Angeles, especially in the South LA area where he grew up and remained after gaining fame, buying property and opening businesses.
A year after his death, Hussle was mourned at a memorial at the arena then known as Staples Center, and celebrated in a performance at the Grammy Awards that included DJ Khaled and John Legend.
It was more than two years after that when the man who shot him would go on trial.
“Today was really about Nipsey Hussle and the legacy that he leaves behind,” McKinney said Wednesday. “This verdict and the story of his life will be talked about for sure at Crenshaw and Slauson, but the meaning of it will carry far beyond those streets.”
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Follow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andyjamesdalton | https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/Jury-finds-man-guilty-of-murder-of-rapper-Nipsey-17287938.php | 2022-07-07T02:10:31Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/Jury-finds-man-guilty-of-murder-of-rapper-Nipsey-17287938.php | false |
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South Korea Posts $3.86 Billion Current Account Surplus In May
(RTTNews) - South Korea had a current account surplus of $3.86 billion in May, the Bank of Korea said on Thursday - following the $0.08 billion shortfall in April.
The goods account surplus decreased to $2.74 billion, compared to $6.65 billion in May 2021.
The services account recorded a $0.02 billion deficit, up from the $0.73 billion deficit seen one year earlier, owing to a large surplus in the transport account.
The primary income account surplus decreased from $5.03 billion the year previously to $1.45 billion in May 2022.
The secondary income account recorded a $0.32 billion deficit.
Looking at the financial account, net assets increased by $3.03 billion during May 2022.
Direct investment assets increased by $5.47 billion, and direct investment liabilities increased by $1.37 billion.
There was a $7.13 billion increase in portfolio investment assets during the month, and a $2.46 billion increase in portfolio investment liabilities.
Financial derivatives posted a net increase of $0.22 billion.
In terms of other investments, there was an increase of $1.37 billion in assets and an increase of $5.03 billion in liabilities.
Reserve assets decreased by $2.31 billion. | https://www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/zinsen/south-korea-posts-$3-86-billion-current-account-surplus-in-may-1031571690 | 2022-07-07T02:15:21Z | https://www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/zinsen/south-korea-posts-$3-86-billion-current-account-surplus-in-may-1031571690 | false |
The Arizona Diamondbacks seemingly have reversed their problems with the Giants and will look to complete a three-game sweep of visiting San Francisco on Wednesday night in Phoenix.
The Diamondbacks were just 2-17 against San Francisco in 2021 and had lost 25 of the last 29 meetings before winning each of the first two games in this set.
Arizona recorded a convincing 8-3 victory on Monday and erupted for five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning in Tuesday’s 6-2 victory.
Daulton Varsho capped the uprising with a three-run homer but left-handed-hitting Josh Rojas sparked the inning by dropping down a stunning two-strike bunt single toward third base. Rojas later scored on a wild pitch and Buddy Kennedy hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly prior to Varsho’s blast.
“It was fun to watch them get engaged, stay engaged and believe something good was going to happen,” Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said afterward. “This team is committed, committed to each other, committed to their process. This team is committed to the coaching they’re receiving. And when it comes together in one inning, it’s a lot of fun for me to watch.”
While the Diamondbacks were thrilled about their comeback win, San Francisco was hanging its collective heads. The Giants have dropped a season-worst six straight games and 12 of their past 15.
San Francisco is also just one game above .500 with a 40-39 record. Last season, the Giants were a franchise-best 107-55 in the regular season.
San Francisco reliever Dominic Leone, who was charged with four runs in the eighth on Tuesday while taking the loss, said last season’s success no longer matters.
“Nobody is going to lay down because we won 107 games (in 2021),” Leone said. “We’ve got to find it within ourselves to get back on the horse and keep battling.”
Three-time All-Star shortstop Brandon Crawford was in San Francisco’s lineup for the first time since June 24 on Tuesday and went 1-for-4 with a double.
The 35-year-old Crawford (left knee injury) was activated from the 10-day injured list prior to Tuesday’s game. He sustained the injury when he awkwardly slid into home plate against the Atlanta Braves on June 21.
Arizona right-hander Merrill Kelly (7-5, 3.46 ERA) draws the start and has won four of his past six outings.
The 33-year-old defeated the Colorado Rockies in his most recent turn when he gave up two runs (one earned) and five hits over seven innings last Friday.
Kelly is 3-3 with a 3.21 ERA in 10 career starts against the Giants. Crawford is 8-for-24 against Kelly.
Right-hander Alex Cobb (3-3, 4.59) will start for San Francisco. He is 0-2 in five starts since last winning on May 17 against the Colorado Rockies.
Cobb received a no-decision against the Chicago White Sox in his most recent turn on Friday when he allowed three hits over five scoreless innings. He has tossed fewer than six innings in nine of his 11 starts.
The 34-year-old has made just one career start against Arizona, allowing five runs and seven hits over three innings last season as a member of the Los Angeles Angels. He received a no-decision.
Meanwhile, Arizona will hope Varsho and Rojas can continue their recent hot streaks.
Varsho, who has 12 homers, is 8-for-16 with two blasts and nine RBIs in five games this month.
Rojas is batting .414 (12-for-29) while scoring 10 times over his past eight appearances. He laid down the key bunt Tuesday night on his own.
“I think I can get down half the bunts in fair territory,” Rojas said. “The scariest part is when you bunt it foul.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Popular seafood brand Bumble Bee is recalling cans of smoked clams that have been found to contain so-called “forever chemicals.”
The San Diego-based company voluntarily recalled 3.75-ounce cans from a Chinese manufacturer after Food and Drug Administration tests detected chemicals known as PFAS, an abbreviation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
The cans, which all have the UPC label 8660075234, were distributed to retailers nationwide.
PFAS earned the nickname because they don’t break down in the environment and can build up in fish, wildlife, soil and water sources, according to the CDC. The chemicals are used in wire insulation, non-stick cooking surfaces, food packaging, clothing and furniture, among other products.
Studies suggest associations between PFAS exposure and health problems that include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, developmental effects, decreased immune response, changes in liver function and increases in some types of cancer, according to the FDA.
An FDA news release points out that no other Bumble Bee products are affected, and officials are working with the third-party Chinese manufacturer to investigate the contamination.
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(NEXSTAR) — Favorite Day’s Lavender Shortbread Cookies, which are sold at Target stores nationwide, are being recalled by owner J&M Foods because some product may contain the wrong cookies — and undisclosed allergens.
J&M Foods is recalling Favorite Day 7 ounce Lavender Shortbread packages with UPC code 0-85239-28609-8 and lot code BB 18-Apr-2023. The company says about 1,464 units may contain chocolate chip cookies instead of shortbread cookies. Because of this, potential allergens like soy and eggs are not listed on the packaging.
Target is aware of the issue and has removed the product from stock both in-store and online, J&M Foods says. This particular product is the only Favorite Day item affected.
The company says there haven’t been any allergic reactions reported. If you have any questions, you can call J&M Foods at (800) 264-2278 for a refund.
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Traffic stop leads to narcotics arrest, investigators say
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The City of Columbia Police Department reports they were conducting a traffic stop when the driver, described as an older gentlemen of a Nissan Ultima drove off.
Officers say the driver began throwing a large number of narcotics out the window of the car.
Once officers were able to get the driver to stop, he ran out of the vehicle and was chased down and taken into custody.
According to officials the driver will face charges.
Traffic stop-Devine & Kilbourne ends w/arrest of a male driver accused of throwing drugs out of a car. Initially, the man almost hit another car. #ColumbiaPDSC officers tried to pull over the car/driver but he refused. Patrol techniques helped stop the car but the suspect ran….. pic.twitter.com/J8CKcqGqcK
— Columbia Police Dept (@ColumbiaPDSC) July 7, 2022
… moments later, officers caught up w/the suspect during a foot chase. Several charges pending including trafficking heroine, possession of marijuana w/intent to distribute & reckless driving. A K-9 team helped collect the discarded drugs from the roadway. No injuries reported.
— Columbia Police Dept (@ColumbiaPDSC) July 7, 2022
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The best gear for summertime outdoor activities
Long days, powerful sunshine and dry weather make summer the most popular season for a wide range of outdoor activities. Hiking, camping and backpacking are especially fun when the weather’s great, since you can go longer distances with less gear — plus, the scenery usually looks better in full sunlight.
Although you don’t need bulky sleeping bags or thermal clothing during the summer, there are some types of gear that are essential for staying comfortable and safe when the temperatures go up. Lightweight, breathable clothing and footwear that doesn’t suffocate your feet will make a huge difference during long trips in hot weather.
Best clothes for summer hiking and camping
Gildan Men’s Softstyle Cotton T-Shirts
Since they’re relatively thin and made entirely from cotton, these basic t-shirts offer the best evaporation properties and give your body the best chance of fighting the heat. There are several sizes and a wide variety of colors to choose from. Sold by Amazon
Gildan Women’s Softstyle Cotton T-Shirts
These have the same effective, minimalist design and low price as the men’s version. Be aware, though, that they run nearly two sizes small, so order accordingly. Sold by Amazon
Columbia Men’s Bonehead Long-Sleeve Shirt
Plenty of ventilation, a baggy fit, multiple front pockets and adjustable sleeves make this one of the most versatile hiking shirts available. It’s 100% cotton, too, so it helps make the most of sweat and other moisture on hot days. Sold by Amazon
ExOfficio Nomad Women’s Shorts
Not only are they great at keeping you from overheating, but they’re also moderately water-resistant in case you get caught in a downpour. They sport convenient zippered pockets and come in light gray, dark gray and tan. Sold by Amazon
Free Soldier Men’s Cargo Shorts
They come in either 10 or 12 inches long and a selection of muted colors, but the most important parts of these versatile shorts are their lightweight, rugged construction and low cost. They also include a belt made from ultralight nylon webbing. Sold by Amazon
ExOfficio Give-N-Go Men’s Boxer Briefs
Men’s underwear doesn’t get much lighter or better at wicking away moisture while also offering this much support. While they’re not cheap, these are some of the best boxer briefs around. Sold by Amazon
Ruby River Women’s Long Sleeve Shirt
This stylish long sleeve shirt comes in two plaid patterns and is made from a cotton and polyester blend that’s great for keeping you cool and comfortable. There are two pockets on the front, and it uses convenient snaps instead of traditional buttons, making it easy to put on in a hurry. Sold by Backcountry
This simple, modest and cute top delivers comfort and durability at a low price. It’s perfect for staying cool in direct sun while also preventing your upper back from chafing due to your backpack. Sold by Backcountry
Outdoor Research Echo Women’s Tank Top
This full-length tank top is about as lightweight as a shirt can get. It’s great at minimizing heat buildup because although it’s so thin, it’s made of a breathable polyester fabric that’s more durable than cotton. Sold by Backcountry
Outdoor Research Echo Men’s T-Shirt
While cotton does an excellent job at maximizing the effectiveness of sweat, an ultra-thin polyester shirt offers better airflow and lets you feel the wind directly on your skin. This synthetic men’s t-shirt fits that bill and comes in several colors and sizes. Sold by Backcountry
At dawn and dusk, they’re effective polyester pants that regulate temperature and protect you from mosquitoes and thorns. When the sun is overhead, zip off the legs, and you’ve got a pair of super-cool shorts. We’ve highlighted the relatively form-fitting women’s version, but they also come in a men’s cut. Sold by Backcountry
ExOfficio Men’s Sol Cool Shorts
These are some of the lightest hiking shorts you can buy. While they’re made of polyester, which isn’t always very comfortable against the skin, they’re actually quite soft. Sold by Amazon
The mid-angle design and impressive ventilation make these some of the sturdiest boots for navigating rough terrain in the hotter months. They’re also available in a men’s model. Sold by Backcountry
ExOfficio Give-N-Go Bikini Brief
Comfortable and dependable with just the right amount of stretch, this two-piece set minimizes chafing and keeps everything in the right place during long hikes. Sold by Amazon
They’re relatively lightweight for cargo shorts, plus they’re made of tough cotton that can stand up to the great outdoors. There are six pockets altogether, in addition to 5 muted color options. Sold by Amazon
Little Donkey Andy Women’s Convertible Pants
The stretch fabric these are made of feels significantly more high-quality than their price suggests. These have the women’s cut, and the men’s version is every bit as worthwhile. Sold by Amazon
This wide-brimmed hat is perfect for keeping your face in the shade. It’s generously ventilated and designed to pull uncomfortable sweat away from your forehead. Sold by Amazon
It comes in a wide selection of colors and is made from waterproof material that’s perfect for staying comfortable in sudden summer storms. Sold by Amazon
Nothing else offers the same combination of ventilation, comfort and durability as these premium sandals. We’ve highlighted the men’s version, but the Arroyo II Women’s are just as great. Sold by Amazon
These low-top hiking shoes come from one of the most respected names in outdoor footwear. Whether you need men’s or women’s sizes, it’s hard to go wrong with these well-ventilated kicks. Sold by Amazon and Backcountry
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Oshkosh Christian music festival increases security ahead of kick off
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - The deadly shooting in Highland Park at the Fourth of July parade has sparked events, including Lifest in Oshkosh, to increase their security measures.
Organizers for the Christian music festival say security is their top priority.
Lifest is spread out over four days and is expected to attract people from 38 states to watch 100 Christian artists perform at the Sunnyview Expo Center.
“The whole stadium here holds 30,000 people,” Lifest Festival Director John Dougherty said looking at the main stage and bleachers.
Besides a few seats reserved for people with special tickets, attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs.
The large gathering of people, however, keeps safety at the forefront of planning.
“It is something that keeps me up at night unfortunately,” Dougherty said. “We always have a good plan. We’ve got spotters to keep an eye on things. We got different patrols that go around. People who are just aware more now of what to look for, and who to tell in the event that something is not right.”
Monday’s deadly shooting that claimed the lives of seven people in the Chicago area suburb of Highland Park, and the Waukesha Christmas Parade attack that killed six, forced Dougherty to add more security.
“We’ve completely shutdown all of our large population areas to vehicle traffic. We’ve used giant concrete barriers,” Dougherty said. “We actually have professional security at the gates and we’ve actually upped the number of people on security.”
Dougherty says no place is 100 percent safe but his team tries its best to host a secure, family-friendly event for all those who attend.
One traveling carnival vendor ranks Lifest as one of the safest festivals.
“You don’t feel like, ‘oh I have to watch my back all the time,’” Amanda Bast of Charlie’s said. “[You can] just be able to enjoy yourself and actually mingle with customers outside the stands.”
Bast is the sixth-generation of a family that sells fair food. Her grandparents met at a fair as kids.
“They grew up doing fairs. My grandma with a cotton candy stand who used to sell snow cones to my grandfather,” she said.
From Independence Day to Labor Day it’s non-stop work, yet Bast looks forward to Lifest due to its safety.
Lifest goes on until Sunday morning. For more information, here’s a link to the festival’s website: https://lifest.com/oshkosh/
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Large Texas abortion provider will relocate to New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE — One of the largest abortion providers in Texas is planning to move its operations to New Mexico and another provider that offers tele-health services related to abortion and reproductive health care is expanding its footprint in the state.
Austin-based Whole Woman’s Health began winding down its Texas operations after a ruling Friday by the Texas Supreme Court forced an end to abortions in that state. Now, the provider wants to establish a new clinic in a New Mexico city near the state line to provide first and second trimester abortions.
Home to a Democratic-led legislature and governor, New Mexico recently took an extra step to protect providers and patients from out-of-state prosecutions. It’s likely to continue to experience a steady influx of people seeking abortions from neighboring states with more restrictive abortion laws.
Whole Woman’s Health has started a fundraising effort to help with the costs of moving equipment and supplies from Texas to New Mexico and for the purchase of a building to serve as its new home.
“With the shuttering of our four Texas clinics, we do not have the financial reserves to open in New Mexico without community support,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, said in a statement.
Officials with Mississippi’s only abortion clinic also have plans to relocate to southern New Mexico and the tele-health provider Choix, based in San Francisco, announced Wednesday that it is now licensed to operate in New Mexico and plans to serve all states where abortion care remains legal by the end of 2023.
New Mexico lawmakers last year repealed a dormant 1969 statute that outlawed most abortion procedures as felonies, thus ensuring access to abortion even after the federal court rolled back guarantees.
The state’s largest city, Albuquerque, is home to one of only a few independent clinics in the country that perform abortions in the third trimester without conditions.
An abortion clinic in Santa Teresa is just a mile from the state line with Texas near El Paso.
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Half of Marketing Leaders Say MarTech Investment Could Significantly Increase Revenues Over Next Five Years, Per New Pega Research
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marketing leaders say that investment in new marketing technologies (MarTech) will drive significantly increased revenues – but also admit that current levels of investment are insufficient to enable effective digital transformation, according to new research by Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company that crushes business complexity. The global study, conducted by research firm iResearch, surveyed marketing leaders from 11 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific for their thoughts on the evolution of the marketing function over the next five years.
The study found that more than half (51%) of marketing leaders felt that investment in MarTech could increase revenues by 10% to 40% over the next five years. However, 59% also admit that they haven't been allocated enough budget to deliver truly effective digital transformation.
Marketing leaders believe the next five years will bring a period of major transformation for their function, with technology expected to play an important role for those making the proper investments. Some of the expected changes to occur include:
- An increased shift to AI-powered personalization: Sixty-seven percent of respondents said that personalized marketing will be either a high priority or a top priority for them in the next five years. To be truly effective at this, and stay ahead of the competition, they will increasingly need to turn to AI- (artificial intelligence) powered technologies that can understand, empathize, and even anticipate customer needs in a way that is both perfectly timed and contextually relevant.
- A remapped buyer's journey: While only one quarter of respondents named customer lifetime value (CLV) as a current key performance indicator (KPI), 60% said it will become one in the next five years. To impact CLV, organizations need to shift away from assuming all buyers follow a single journey to recognizing that that there are a proliferation of them, and that every buyer has a unique journey to address each customer's needs. Organizations already appear to be allocating their resources with this in mind: 70% say the majority of their MarTech budget will go towards intelligent automation, while 66% also citing AI and 60% citing Web 3.0 as future investment priorities.
- A skills shift: One quarter of respondents said digital and computational skills, as well as proficiencies in data management and analysis, will be key over the next five years as businesses embrace technology and focus on delivering better customer experiences and maximizing CLV. These skills will be key to using AI-powered marketing tools that can engage customers across their lifecycle and deliver value, meaning it will be just as vital for organizations to invest in training for staff in how to effectively use this technology as the technology itself.
Quotes & Commentary:
"The marketing function has undergone radical changes over the last five years," said Tara DeZao, director of product marketing, MarTech & AdTech, Pega. "As technologies continue to evolve and customers continue to demand more personalized experiences, it's a trend we can expect to continue in the next five years and beyond. The successful businesses of tomorrow will be those that not only harness the power of these technologies to understand their customers but also leverage technology to build connections and create greater value throughout those relationships."
"Marketers are driving growth like never before," noted Liz Miller, vice president & principal analyst at Constellation Research. "To do this, marketing needs to rely and trust in the tools and technologies at their disposal. They need to connect with peers across the entire customer experience ecosystem to orchestrate a singularly contextual engagement strategy. This strategy cannot be based on how the brand wants to communicate to buyers, but instead needs to take that rich and relevant voice of the customer and translate it into business. Data, intelligence, and automation - the cornerstones of the marketing technology stack - are critical to empower marketers to lead this growth charge without compromising our capacity to tell the story of our brands with our customers."
Supporting Resources:
- The Future of Marketing report - 7 trends changing the status quo: www.pega.com/future-of-marketing
Notes to Editors
To understand how marketing is changing, we surveyed 750 marketing senior vice presidents, vice presidents, senior directors, directors, senior managers, and managers across key sectors, including Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Retail Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecoms, and the Public Sector.
Respondents answered 17 multiple-choice questions, which delved into how marketing is expected to change in the next three to five years. The report also included qualitative interviews with marketing executives from the worlds of manufacturing, life sciences, and financial services.
About Pega
Pega delivers innovative software that crushes business complexity so our clients can make better decisions and get work done. We help the world's leading brands solve their biggest business challenges: maximizing customer lifetime value, streamlining customer service, and boosting operational efficiency. Pega technology is powered by real-time AI and intelligent automation, while our scalable architecture and low-code platform help enterprises adapt to rapid change and transform for tomorrow. For more information on Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA), visit www.pega.com.
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Members of the Tavares City Council went back and forth Wednesday in a debate about limiting the number of special events held in the downtown entertainment district each year.
What You Need To Know
- The Tavares City Council voted Wednesday not to cap the number of downtown events eash year
- So far, 26 events are scheduled in downtown Tavares in 2022
- Officials say Tavares sees an economic impact of hundreds of thousands of dollars from events held in downtown
This comes just days after an LGBTQ+ event put in an application for a Pride Celebration in November.
While the Lake County Pride Celebration was never directly addressed as part of the discussion about limiting the number of events allowed downtown, both city and county residents came to speak in favor the event.
Owners of local businesses that benefit from special events say when they are in town, it means more business for them.
On any given night on the heart of Main Street in downtown Tavares, Desperado’s Saloon owner Allen Morgan is likely shooting pool.
Morgan bought his bar in December and said that when events do come to Tavares, like the most recent Fourth of July celebration, he does double the business he would on a normal day.
“Business was amazing, I love all the people that come down here and support the community,” he said. “It helps us all grow and brings in more money.”
Danielle Olivani is trying to organize a Lake County Pride celebration near the end of the year that she said would lead to more business for Desperado’s and everyone else.
“This event has a chance to bring in a lot of profit to Lake County,” she said. “ Not just for the city of Tavares, but also to Lake County.”
But just days after submitting her application for the event, Tavares officials wanted to discuss if the city should cap how many events they host a year. So far, 26 events are on the schedule for 2022.
“We have gotten some complaints from some residents (about) not being able to use the park and come in to the downtown area because of events,” Tavares mayor Lori Pfister said at Wednesday’s City Council meeting.
Council member Sandy Gamble, however, disagreed with the idea of capping events.
“That hurts what we are trying to build downtown,” she said. “I thought we were trying to get people to come to downtown.”
Gamble said that bringing more people downtown helps the restaurants, bars, hotels, and shops, which were all promised that Tavares would do its part to support local businesses.
Morgan put it simply: More people downtown means more money in the till.
“The more busy the whole community, we are all going to prosper together,” he said. “So why would you limit people that creates more jobs? It’s more money, why would you limit the opportunity?”
Pfister proposed capping the events in downtown Tavares at 20 per year, but her motion failed 3 to 2.
Right before this topic was on the agenda Wednesday, the city approved an expansion to their beach volleyball area which they hope will bring in more tourists and possibly a tournament.
Residents in attendance questioned why the city would consider limiting events right after discussions about adding a tournament to town.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 7, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
923 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 108.
* WHERE...Portions of north central and northwest Louisiana,
southeast Oklahoma, south central and southwest Arkansas and
east and northeast Texas.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE/KSEE) – A new report by the California Institute for Rural Studies finds alleged violations of COVID safety protocols by food production employers.
The report shows food production employers were cited by Cal-OSHA with four times more citations for violating COVID-19 guidelines than any other industry combined.
“Things have gotten better, but we can do better,” said Pete Maturino, the Agricultural Division Director for UFCW Local 5.
A panel of representatives for unions, employees, and organizers spoke on their findings in a new report by CIRS.
They say within a 16-month span from April 2020 to August 2021, there were 367 total violations recorded by Cal-OSHA that were committed by food production employers.
More than the health care and hospitality industry, combined.
Yet, CIRS findings found that these employers paid less in fines than the majority of other industries.
“In 2020, 59,000 meatpacking workers were exposed to COVID. 259 Of these workers died,” said Maturino.
The changes employers made included plexiglass between employees in the factories, giving proper spacing between employees during work and break hours, and giving proper protective equipment when coming into work.
Although for some, the improvements did not come fast enough.
“In July 2020, 8% of all coronavirus cases in the US were tied to packing plant outbreaks. It’s our understanding that even these numbers are probably under reported,” said Suzanne Adely with the Food Chain Workers Alliance.
Advocates for food production workers want the employers held accountable to the full extent of the law.
“The biggest problem in all laws is the lack of enforcement. That if you break the law, you could be subject to losing your business license, that’s what I would put, but instead, they get a slap on the wrist,” said Maturino. “If these are not being enforced, how good are they?”
We reached out to some of the businesses named, two rejected our request for an interview a third did not reply. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/non-profit-report-shows-covid-misconduct-by-food-production-companies/ | 2022-07-07T02:43:30Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/non-profit-report-shows-covid-misconduct-by-food-production-companies/ | false |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
08-17-21-22-32
(eight, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-two)
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Orioles second. Austin Hays strikes out swinging. Adley Rutschman walks. Ramon Urias walks. Adley Rutschman to second. Rougned Odor pops out to shallow infield to Nathaniel Lowe. Ryan McKenna singles to shortstop, advances to 2nd. Ramon Urias scores. Adley Rutschman scores. Throwing error by Corey Seager. Jorge Mateo called out on strikes.
2 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on. Orioles 2, Rangers 0.
Rangers fifth. Kole Calhoun doubles to right field. Brad Miller grounds out to first base to Trey Mancini. Kole Calhoun to third. Leody Taveras doubles to right field. Kole Calhoun scores. Charlie Culberson pops out to Trey Mancini. Marcus Semien flies out to center field to Ryan McKenna.
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MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani allowed one unearned run in seven dominant innings and had the go-ahead hit in the Los Angeles Angels' 5-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night.
The reigning AL MVP won his fifth consecutive start, limiting the Marlins to two hits. Ohtani (8-4) walked three and struck out 10 before 18,741, the fourth largest crowd at loanDepot Park this season.
Three-time AL MVP Mike Trout was hitless in four at-bats and had an RBI. Trout is 1 for 21 with 13 strikeouts through the first five games of Los Angeles’ nine-game trip.
Max Stassi doubled and reached base three times to help the Angels snap a four-game skid.
Ohtani’s two-RBI single with the bases loaded chased Miami starter Trevor Rogers (4-7) and capped a three-run fifth that put Los Angeles ahead 3-1. Trout was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, tying it at 1.
The 96 mph fastball from Rogers struck Trout on his left knee. Trout limped to first base, where Angels training staff tended to him.
Run-scoring singles from Taylor Ward and Luis Rengifo in the seventh padded the Angels’ lead.
The loss snapped the Marlins’ six-game winning streak.
Rogers allowed three runs, four hits, walked two, struck out five and hit two batters in 4 2/3 innings.
The Marlins struck first on Garrett Cooper’s sacrifice fly in the first that ended Ohtani’s scoreless string at 21 2/3 innings. Leadoff hitter Jon Berti reached on shortstop Luis Rengifo’s throwing error and advanced on Joey Wendle’s double.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: RHP Austin Warren (right triceps strain) was scheduled to appear in a rehab assignment at Triple-A Salt Lake Wednesday. The next step is to pitch on consecutive days.
Marlins: RHP Edward Cabrera (right elbow tendinitis) threw a 25-pitch bullpen session Tuesday with another scheduled for Thursday. ... RHP Cody Poteet (right elbow muscle injury) threw two innings in his rehab assignment with Class-A Jupiter Monday. His next appearance will be determined.
UP NEXT
Angels: RHP Chase Chiselth (1-2, 5.23) will start Thursday as the club begins the final leg of a three-city road set at Baltimore.
Marlins: LHP Daniel Castano (1-1, 2.47) will start the opener of a four-game series at NL East-leading New York Mets Thursday. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Ohtani-dominant-on-mound-hits-go-ahead-single-17289062.php | 2022-07-07T02:52:06Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Ohtani-dominant-on-mound-hits-go-ahead-single-17289062.php | true |
NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Animal Pregnancy Test Kit Market size is expected to grow by USD 98.33 million from 2021 to 2026, at a CAGR of 4.76% during the forecast period. The report extensively covers animal pregnancy test kit market segmentation by product (cassettes, strips, and enzyme-linked immunoassay) and geography (North America, Europe, Asia, and the Rest of the World (ROW)).
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Key Market Dynamics
One of the main factors fueling the expansion of the market for animal pregnancy test kits is the rising cost of veterinary treatment. The rising demand from livestock farmers is another market trend for animal pregnancy test kits. However, one of the things preventing the market for animal pregnancy test kits from expanding is a dearth of veterinary specialists who are sufficiently trained.
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Major Five Animal Pregnancy Test Kit Companies:
The growing competition in the market is compelling vendors to adopt various growth strategies such as promotional activities and spending on advertisements to improve the visibility of their services. Some vendors are also adopting inorganic growth strategies such as M&As to remain competitive in the market.
The report analyzes the market's competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors, including:
- Bellylabs Oy
- Bio Tracking
- BioNote Inc.
- EMLAB GENETICS LLC.
- Fassisi, Society for Veterinary Diagnostics and Environmental Analysis GmbH
- Genex Cooperative
- Hangzhou Testsea Biotechnology Co. Ltd.
- IDEXX Laboratories Inc.
- J and G Biotech Ltd.
- MicroTUS International Biotechnology Co. Ltd.
- Randox Laboratories Ltd.
- Ring Biotechnology Co. Ltd.
- Secure Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd.
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Animal Pregnancy Test Kit Market Product Outlook
The cassettes market segment will significantly increase its market share for animal pregnancy test kits. Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) can be found in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) whole blood, EDTA plasma, or the serum of cows and heifers and are used as a pregnancy indicator thanks to the cassettes.
Animal pregnancy detection utilizing cassettes is accurate and affordable, and it may be done without a veterinarian's intervention on companion animals at home as well as on farm animals. In the upcoming years, these elements will propel market expansion through this category.
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Animal Pregnancy Test Kit Market Geography Outlook
North America will account for 40% of market growth. The two biggest markets in North America for animal pregnancy test kits are the US and Canada. The market in this area will expand more quickly than the market in ROW. Over the projected period, the animal pregnancy test kit market will increase in North America due to rising awareness about animal healthcare.
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Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary
- 1.1 Market overview
- Exhibit 01: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Overview
- Exhibit 02: Executive Summary – Data Table on Market Overview
- Exhibit 03: Executive Summary – Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Exhibit 04: Executive Summary – Chart on Market by Geography
- Exhibit 05: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Product
- Exhibit 06: Executive Summary – Chart on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 07: Executive Summary – Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 08: Executive Summary – Chart on Vendor Market Positioning
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 09: Parent market
- Exhibit 10: Market Characteristics
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 11: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 12: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2021
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2021-2026
- Exhibit 13: Chart on Global - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 14: Data Table on Global - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 15: Chart on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 16: Data Table on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
4 Five Forces Analysis
- 4.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 17: Five forces analysis - Comparison between 2021 and 2026
- 4.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 18: Bargaining power of buyers – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 19: Bargaining power of suppliers – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 20: Threat of new entrants – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 21: Threat of substitutes – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 22: Threat of rivalry – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 23: Chart on Market condition - Five forces 2021 and 2026
5 Market Segmentation by Product
- 5.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 24: Chart on Product - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 25: Data Table on Product - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.2 Comparison by Product
- Exhibit 26: Chart on Comparison by Product
- Exhibit 27: Data Table on Comparison by Product
- 5.3 Cassettes - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 28: Chart on Cassettes - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 29: Data Table on Cassettes - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 30: Chart on Cassettes - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 31: Data Table on Cassettes - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.4 Strips - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 32: Chart on Strips - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 33: Data Table on Strips - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 34: Chart on Strips - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 35: Data Table on Strips - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.5 Enzyme-linked immunoassay - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 36: Chart on Enzyme-linked immunoassay - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 37: Data Table on Enzyme-linked immunoassay - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 38: Chart on Enzyme-linked immunoassay - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 39: Data Table on Enzyme-linked immunoassay - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.6 Market opportunity by Product
- Exhibit 40: Market opportunity by Product ($ million)
6 Customer Landscape
- 6.1 Customer landscape overview
- Exhibit 41: Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
7 Geographic Landscape
- 7.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 42: Chart on Market share by geography 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 43: Data Table on Market share by geography 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 44: Chart on Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 45: Data Table on Geographic comparison
- 7.3 North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 46: Chart on North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 47: Data Table on North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 48: Chart on North America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 49: Data Table on North America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.4 Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 50: Chart on Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 51: Data Table on Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 52: Chart on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 53: Data Table on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.5 Asia - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 54: Chart on Asia - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 55: Data Table on Asia - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 56: Chart on Asia - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 57: Data Table on Asia - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.6 Rest of World (ROW) - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 58: Chart on Rest of World (ROW) - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 59: Data Table on Rest of World (ROW) - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 60: Chart on Rest of World (ROW) - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 61: Data Table on Rest of World (ROW) - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.7 US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 62: Chart on US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 63: Data Table on US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 64: Chart on US - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 65: Data Table on US - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.8 Canada - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 66: Chart on Canada - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 67: Data Table on Canada - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 68: Chart on Canada - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 69: Data Table on Canada - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.9 Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 70: Chart on Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 71: Data Table on Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 72: Chart on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 73: Data Table on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.10 Australia - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 74: Chart on Australia - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 75: Data Table on Australia - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 76: Chart on Australia - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 77: Data Table on Australia - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.11 Japan - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 78: Chart on Japan - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 79: Data Table on Japan - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 80: Chart on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 81: Data Table on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 7.12 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 82: Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
8 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 8.1 Market drivers
- 8.2 Market challenges
- 8.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Exhibit 83: Impact of drivers and challenges in 2021 and 2026
- 8.4 Market trends
9 Vendor Landscape
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 84: Overview on Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
- 9.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 85: Overview on factors of disruption
- 9.4 Industry risks
- Exhibit 86: Impact of key risks on business
10 Vendor Analysis
- 10.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 87: Vendors covered
- 10.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 88: Matrix on vendor position and classification
- 10.3 Bio Tracking
- Exhibit 89: Bio Tracking - Overview
- Exhibit 90: Bio Tracking - Product / Service
- Exhibit 91: Bio Tracking - Key offerings
- 10.4 BioNote Inc.
- Exhibit 92: BioNote Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 93: BioNote Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 94: BioNote Inc. - Key offerings
- 10.5 Fassisi
- Exhibit 95: Fassisi - Overview
- Exhibit 96: Fassisi - Product / Service
- Exhibit 97: Fassisi - Key offerings
- 10.6 IDEXX Laboratories Inc.
- Exhibit 98: IDEXX Laboratories Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 99: IDEXX Laboratories Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 100: IDEXX Laboratories Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 101: IDEXX Laboratories Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 102: IDEXX Laboratories Inc. - Segment focus
- 10.7 MicroTUS International Biotechnology Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 103: MicroTUS International Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 104: MicroTUS International Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 105: MicroTUS International Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- 10.8 Randox Laboratories Ltd.
- Exhibit 106: Randox Laboratories Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 107: Randox Laboratories Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 108: Randox Laboratories Ltd. - Key offerings
- 10.9 Ring Biotechnology Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 109: Ring Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 110: Ring Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 111: Ring Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- 10.10 Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 112: Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 113: Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 114: Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- 10.11 Zhengzhou Zhimuren Machinery Equipment Co.
- Exhibit 115: Zhengzhou Zhimuren Machinery Equipment Co. - Overview
- Exhibit 116: Zhengzhou Zhimuren Machinery Equipment Co. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 117: Zhengzhou Zhimuren Machinery Equipment Co. - Key offerings
- 10.12 Zoetis Inc.
- Exhibit 118: Zoetis Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 119: Zoetis Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 120: Zoetis Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 121: Zoetis Inc. - Segment focus
11 Appendix
- 11.1 Scope of the report
- 11.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Exhibit 122: Inclusions checklist
- Exhibit 123: Exclusions checklist
- 11.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 124: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 11.4 Research methodology
- Exhibit 125: Research methodology
- Exhibit 126: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 127: Information sources
- 11.5 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 128: List of abbreviations
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 7, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
923 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 108.
* WHERE...Portions of north central and northwest Louisiana,
southeast Oklahoma, south central and southwest Arkansas and
east and northeast Texas.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Ripper Hatch joins his dad in the SD Tennis Hall of Fame
Hatch and Hamburg will join HOF on July 17th
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -Liz Hamburg of Rapid City and Brookings native Ripper Hatch will be inducted into the SD Tennis Hall of Fame on Sunday, July 17th during the SD Adult Open at McKennan Park.
Hamburg served two terms as president of the Northern Section of the USTA and was a leader for 14 years. She was honored in 2011 with the Northern Section Wolfenson-Ratner Community Service Award.
And Ripper was one of the best players I’ve covered in my 44 years in South Dakota. He was a 3-time High School state champ at #1 singles for the Bobcats and joins his dad Sherwood in the Hall of Fame. Hatch now lives in Kansas City and has been involved in sports administration or management throughout his career after attending Princeton.
The Bill and Nancy Flynn family of Brookings will also receive the SD Tennis Achievement Award. The entire family, led by Bill as league organizer and tournament director, has greatly impacted the tennis scene at the Hillcrest Park courts for many years.
The induction ceremony will take place at 11am on Sunday, July 17th at the McKennan Park picnic shelter, near the tennis courts. 1991 was the initial year of the SD Tennis Hall of Fame and there is a marker recognizing all inductees near the courts.
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Storm still in playoff picture despite being so inexperienced
Storm have overcome inexperience to stay in playoff picture
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -The Storm had been playing much better football down the stretch. But 2 straight losses have hurt their playoff chances.
And it’s amazing when you consider they made a drastic change at quarterback part way through the season and they are still a very young and in-experienced team. ”It’s just that we’re really young. We’re a really young team and at times we look really young on the field. We have one veteran play, that’s it. And then there’s times when you see the energy and the youth and the excitement behind that,” says Head Coach and GM Kurtiss Riggs.
The Storm also lost a last-second game at Massachusetts before losing at home to the Pirates. They have 2 tough games left so making the post season will be a challenge. They host Green Bay Saturday and then travel to top-seeded Frisco to finish the regular season.
Dalton Sneed has been huge since taking over the reigns at quarterback.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Flag football will be played at an international, multi-sport event for the first time next week during the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.
The NFL may be the sport’s biggest cheerleader.
“When we talk about the future of the game of football, it is, no question, flag,” NFL executive Troy Vincent told The Associated Press. “When I’ve been asked over the last 24 months, in particular, what does the next 100 years look like when you look at football, not professional football, it’s flag. It’s the inclusion and the true motto of ‘football for all.’ There is a place in flag football for all.”
Vincent points to the growing number of men and women playing flag football globally. He’s encouraged that six states — Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and New York — have sanctioned flag football as a varsity sport in high school with 20 more states interested or in the process of piloting to get it sanctioned.
Multiple NFL clubs support high schools in their respective states with helping fund the initiative. The Atlanta Falcons unveiled a girls flag wall in their stadium in May. The league says 450 schools, and more than 10,000 girls participate in flag football across the country.
It was an important step when the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics declared women’s flag football as an emerging sport in 2020. The National Junior College Athletic Association did the same.
“It’s a cost-effective sport feasible for all to play,” Vincent said.
The NFL partnered with the International Federation of American Football to bring flag football to The World Games with an eye on the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
“That’s the ultimate goal to make flag football an Olympic sport,” Vincent said.
Sixteen of the world’s best flag football teams will compete for gold for the first time at The World Games kicking off Sunday at Birmingham’s historic Legion Field. Flag football is one of 33 sports in the program at the Olympic-style, multi-sport event, following its inclusion by the International World Games Association in 2020.
“We are thrilled to have flag football join the official sports program at The World Games for the first time,” IFAF President Pierre Trochet said in a statement. “This is a milestone in the sport’s development and a fantastic opportunity to showcase flag as a truly world-class, international sport.
The World Games are back in the United States for the first time since 1981. The United States men’s and women’s teams both pre-qualified for the tournament by winning gold at the 2021 IFAF Flag World Championships held in Jerusalem last December. A record 39 national teams across four continents competed. The remaining 14 teams earned their place through IFAF’s international qualifying process.
Austria, France, Italy, Mexico and Panama also qualified men’s and women’s teams. Denmark and Germany have the remaining men’s teams. Brazil and Japan have the other two women’s teams.
“This is not something that we dominate because it’s football, the national pastime in America,” Vincent said. “You watch these young ladies and men play in other countries. They come to play. It’s a transitional sport. It’s a cross-functional sport. The best flag players come from soccer, lacrosse, cricket because these are men and women who have tremendous agility. It’s a fast-paced game played in space. You don’t have to play it for years and years. You can develop. You can transfer those skills that you learned in soccer, lacrosse, cricket to flag football.” | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/could-flag-football-be-an-olympic-sport-nfl-wants-it-2028/507-ec8f9f3f-9def-4614-a893-dc7743ecf9e6 | 2022-07-07T03:06:55Z | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/could-flag-football-be-an-olympic-sport-nfl-wants-it-2028/507-ec8f9f3f-9def-4614-a893-dc7743ecf9e6 | true |
4-year-old on life support to have organs donated after falling in pool, family says
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - The parents of a Texas child currently on life support are asking for prayers during a difficult time.
The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office reports it found 4-year-old Crosby Pruitt unconscious in a swimming pool on July 2.
KCBD reports the 4-year-old was taken to the Covenant Medical Center by emergency services, but his mother shared on social media that the family has “chosen to support the life his body has left and salvage as many organs to donate them.”
The family said a memorial account had been set up at Plains Capital Bank to help with funeral expenses. They are also asking for all superheroes to attend their superhero child’s final mission with a Friday gathering at Maxey Park.
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Jackson headlines New York-bound Opals
Four-time Olympian Lauren Jackson will headline an Australian squad heading to New York later this month to ramp up preparations for the Women's Basketball World Cup.
The Opals will play multiple matches against Canada - the world's fourth-ranked side - backing up from a training camp in Canberra last week.
There are five WNBA players in the squad but it's 41-year-old Jackson that catches the eye, the Basketball Hall of Famer having impressed in camp after ending an international retirement that began before the 2016 Olympics.
"Lauren has medalled at every Olympics and three of her World Cup appearances, she knows how to win," Opals coach Sandy Brondello said.
"Her experience is unprecedented, she has the same hunger for success and will bring an edge to our squad."
WNBA talents Ezi Magbegor, Sami Whitcomb, Bec Allen and Steph Talbot will take the floor while Atlanta's Kristy Wallace is named in the squad but won't play.
The Sydney-hosted World Cup kicks off on September 22, with Brondello hoping the fixtures would help continue to develop team cohesion.
"The games against Japan in Sydney in May were invaluable for us to test ourselves against a world-class team, having more practice matches will help us to sharpen our preparation against quality opposition," she said.
"Nothing compares to playing international games so heading overseas is imperative for us to prepare for Sydney."
Squad: Bec Allen, Sara Blicavs, Darcee Garbin, Cayla George, Lauren Jackson, Tess Madgen, Ezi Magbegor, Anneli Maley, Jade Melbourne, Maddy Rocci, Alanna Smith, Steph Talbot, Marianna Tolo, Kristy Wallace, Sami Whitcomb. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10989895/Jackson-headlines-New-York-bound-Opals.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-07T03:11:44Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10989895/Jackson-headlines-New-York-bound-Opals.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Tunisian street vendor serves success despite bureaucracy
Habib Hlila quickly became a star of Tunisian street food, gaining a social media following with his banter and theatrics
Tunisian street vendors often complain of official harassment, but one sandwich maker-turned-social-media-star hopes his struggles against bureaucracy will motivate young entrepreneurs.
Habib Hlila, 27, first set up a food van in the working-class Bab El Khadra district of Tunis in early April, selling sandwiches at the end of each day's fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
He quickly became a star of Tunisian street food, gaining a social media following as he used banter and theatrics to prepare his signature "El-Bey" sandwiches and grills, accompanied by his own special sauce.
As videos on social media helped his name spread, Hlila started drawing ever bigger crowds. But in late April, police detained Hlila and seized his truck on the basis that he had no licence to operate.
The operation was caught on camera and widely shared online, sparking anger among Tunisians who often complain of the obstacles authorities place in front of small businesses and everyday life.
Hlila rode a wave of public sympathy and started appearing on television to talk about his experience.
The story drew comparisons to Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire following police harassment in 2010, triggering a nationwide revolt that toppled dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.
Handcarts and vans selling fast food are common in the Tunisian capital
Hlila rejects the comparison, despite his own experience coming at a time that Tunisia faces crippling economic conditions and a political crisis that some have warned could return the country to dictatorship.
- Inspire unemployed youth -
"I'm not Bouazizi and I would never resort to acts of desperation in response to crises," he told AFP. "I've decided to succeed and to be a source of motivation for the young."
He says he wants to turn his experience into a positive story to inspire young Tunisians who often find it impossible to create a successful business in the face of suffocating bureaucracy.
After a long struggle, he finally managed to procure a licence to organise cooking shows across Tunisia -- then retrieved his van and started up his sandwich business again.
Last Saturday, at an entrance to the Old City of Tunis, he held a show in a brand-new food truck worth more than $20,000, which he is paying off in instalments.
Wearing a black outfit dotted with small Tunisian flags, he held court for more than five hours in his first meeting with customers since his arrest.
- 'Success story' -
"Bravo to this young man who kept going despite the obstacles," Naziha Bahloul, 51, told AFP as she queued to buy a sandwich. "He's a good example to young people who only think of leaving the country. It's a beautiful success story."
Hlila set up his food van in April in Bab el-Khadra, a working class district of Tunis, to serve sandwiches to passers-by on Ramadan evenings
But not everyone is inspired.
Bilel, an unemployed 31-year-old who, like many young Tunisians, wants to leave in search of a better life in Europe, said that Hlila "was able to go back to work because his case got media attention -- it's not the case for other young people."
But Hlila said he wants "to prove to the young that you can reach your goals if you are determined. I want to tell them that you should never give up, despite the difficulties."
Hlila's interest in street food began in 2021 after helping a friend make sandwiches and he has succeeded despite not completing high school.
Handcarts and vans selling fast food are common in the Tunisian capital, but Hlila says the sector needs to be brought into the regular economy -- something that could both create jobs and contribute to tourism.
"I have a lot of ideas to develop a project that could inspire unemployed youth," he said. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10989871/Tunisian-street-vendor-serves-success-despite-bureaucracy.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-07T03:13:07Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10989871/Tunisian-street-vendor-serves-success-despite-bureaucracy.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
04-15-21-30-33
(four, fifteen, twenty-one, thirty, thirty-three)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
04-15-21-30-33
(four, fifteen, twenty-one, thirty, thirty-three) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17289145.php | 2022-07-07T03:25:12Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17289145.php | false |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
11-14-16-23-30
(eleven, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-three, thirty)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
11-14-16-23-30
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Here are the latest Leeds United transfer rumours on Thursday, 7 July 2022.
Leeds set Barca deadline
Leeds United have set Barcelona a deadline of today to present their latest offer for Raphinha. That is according to journalist Ben Jacobs, who claims that Barcelona are no closer to a full agreement and Leeds want the Brazilian’s future sorted quickly.
Raphinha is currently the only Leeds player not yet back for pre-season with speculation ongoing over a departure. Chelsea are the only club to have had a bid accepted, but Raphinha is holding out for Barcelona, who are still struggling to meet Leeds’ asking price.
Newcastle target Harrison alternative
Newcastle United have contacted Everton over a potential £35 million deal for Anthony Gordon, according to Mike McGrath of the Telegraph. The Magpies are determined to bring in a new wide man this summer and are also keen on Leeds United's Jack Harrison, though a move for Gordon could ensure the 25-year-old remains at Elland Road.
READ MORE: Leeds United confirm live stream details for Australia tour and other pre-season friendlies
Newcastle were reportedly ready to trigger Harrison’s relegation release clause had Leeds gone down, but the two clubs are now apart in valuation after the Whites stayed up. There has not been any indication as to whether Everton will accept Newcastle’s bid for Gordon, with talks at an early stage.
Leeds eye Tymon
Leeds United have reportedly joined the race for Stoke City left back Josh Tymon, according to Football Insider. The Whites are said to be battling Rangers and Norwich City for the signature of Tymon, who could cost in the region of £6 million.
Leeds have so far had no links to any other left back so far this summer, though with Leif Davis linked with a move to Ipswich Town, that could force their hand. Tymon made 43 appearances for Stoke last season, scoring one goal and registering four assists.
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MUNSTER — Residents can meet Munster's police dog Vader in the upcoming "Coffee with a Cop" event.
Coffee with a Cop will be held from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the Munster Donut, at 8314 Calumet Ave.
The Munster Police Department invited all residents to participate in the monthly meeting. Participants can meet Vader, an officer and check out a police car. There will also be a chance to enter to win gift baskets.
For more information, residents can call 219-836-6639.
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Amazon Prime Day patio deals
Not just a day, but a 48-hour event, Amazon Prime Day 2022 falls on July 12 and 13. It’s the perfect time to find patio deals to make the most of the rest of the summer, as you’ll find some of the deepest discounts this side of Black Friday.
While it’s not yet clear which products will be on offer during the event, you can prepare ahead of time. Plus, if you find any deals you’d regret passing up between now and then, it’s worth jumping on them.
Types of Prime Day patio deals
Anything that you might want for your patio, you’ll find reduced on Prime Day. If you have an exact item in mind, right down to the brand and model, you may end up disappointed. However, if you’re adaptable and willing to buy any outdoor sectional, for example, rather than a specific one, you won’t have a problem finding great deals.
These are just some of the products you’ll find discounted on Prime Day.
- Outdoor couches and sectionals: Couches and sectionals are ideal for creating a relaxed patio area.
- Patio dining sets: Do you love al fresco dining or throwing outdoor dinner parties for guests? Then a patio dining set is what you need.
- Outdoor loungers and daybeds: If you love sprawling out while you relax, an outdoor daybed or lounge chair is ideal.
- Other patio furniture: You’ll find offers on any other patio furniture you can think of, including benches, bistro sets, chairs and outdoor bean bag loungers.
- Patio planters: Planters help liven up a patio, bringing flowers and greenery to your outdoor space.
How to prepare for Prime Day
Save the date
Prime Day 2022 starts July 12 at midnight PDT and runs until the end of July 13. Mark it in your calendar or consider setting an alert on your phone so you don’t forget.
Get an Amazon Prime membership
You must be an Amazon Prime member if you want to shop its Prime Day deals. If you aren’t already a member, you can sign up for $14.99 a month or $139 for the full year. This gives you access to free shipping and Prime Video year-round. Alternatively, if you haven’t had a Prime membership in the past 12 months, you’re eligible for a 30-day free trial.
Update your details
You could have the perfect flash deal in your basket, only to find yourself missing out because your credit card or shipping details aren’t up to date. Check ahead of Prime Day and update them, if necessary.
Add items to your basket
You can save time during the event by adding things you want to buy to your shopping basket ahead of time. There’s no guarantee they’ll be part of a Prime Day deal, but if their price is dropped, you’ll see right away.
Outdoor sectional and couch deals
This outdoor couch set can be arranged as a U-shaped sectional or a three-seater couch and two chairs. It also comes with a coffee table. The body is made from weather-proof faux rattan and the cushions are water-repellent.
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Suitable for all-weather outdoor use, the cushions are made from water-resistant material and the base is made from a plastic faux-rattan. It can be arranged as an L-shaped sectional or a standard couch with a foot rest.
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Walker Edison Sorrento Modern Acacia Wood Outdoor Love Seat
Classic and stylish, this outdoor love seat is made from acacia wood with a gorgeous natural finish. The cushions are durable and UV-resistant, but they aren’t waterproof, so you’ll need to bring them inside in wet weather.
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Outdoor lounge chair and daybed deals
Outsunny Patio Wicker Cushioned Chaise Lounge Chair
With five levels of recline adjustment and a comfortable cushion, this lounger is perfect for reading, sunbathing or outdoor naps on a warm day. The integrated wheels make it easier to move around.
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Best Choice Products Patio Chaise Lounge Chairs
This set of two chairs is a great choice if you want to be able to lounge on your patio with a friend or loved-one. The mesh fabric is comfortable to sit on and breathable so you won’t overheat.
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Safavieh Outdoor Collection Cadeo Daybed
With its plush cushions, this comfy daybed is perfect for anyone looking to create a relaxed patio. It looks great and there’s plenty of room for two.
Sold by Amazon
Patio dining set deals
Walker Edison Maui Modern Solid Acacia Wood Outdoor Dining Set
Made from solid acacia wood, it’s an ideal outdoor dining set for people who don’t mind splashing out on quality furniture. It comfortably seats six, with four chairs and a bench.
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This simple dining set comes with a square glass-topped table and four folding chairs. It’s great for small patios or people who want to create separate dining and relaxing zones.
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Hanover Palm Bay Outdoor Patio Dining Set
With six cushioned chairs and a table, this is a perfect set for comfortable outdoor dining. The UV-resistant cushions aren’t waterproof but they dry quickly if you accidentally leave them out in the rain.
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Patio planter deals
VegTrug Eight-Pocket Herb Garden
Designed for growing herbs in, this raised wooden planter has eight pockets to keep plants separate. It’s an ideal choice if you want to turn part of your patio into a kitchen garden.
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You can grow whatever you want in this attractive white planter. It easily snaps together with no tools required and provides ample drainage.
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Best Choice Products Wood Planter Box and Diamond Lattice Trellis
Thanks to their attached trellises, these planters are ideal for growing climbing plants. You can use them to create privacy from neighbors or create separate zones on your patio.
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LaToya Moore, a writer and life coach, thought she had lost her son to Chicago’s streets.
“My worst fear? The cops knocking on my door and telling me he was gone,” Moore revealed.
In this WGN-TV Cover Story, Reporter Gaynor Hall and Photojournalist Vincent Tagle share the family’s journey as they fought to get his life back on track.
“I believe a lot of people need to be heard. A lot of people are screaming out for help but you don’t know it,” said DaQuan Dukes, 24.
Earlier this year, a group of youth researchers called Ujima released a report on the mental health challenges facing young men of color in Chicago. Among the findings, they say, trauma is often normalized and young men of color see a deep connection between systemic inequities and mental health, often internalizing the blame.
Community psychologist Dr. Obari Cartman is working to expand what therapy looks like and change the conversation on mental health.
“If you’re just trying to treat depression, anxiety and addiction and don’t understand that from a systems and historical context, then you just blame the individual for not being able to deal with, cope with, and manage a sick system,” said Cartman. “I think the way we exchange funds, the way we make decisions, the whole thing is broken and our young people are just showing us that.”
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SALT LAKE CITY — Josh Giddey had 14 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, No. 2 selection Chet Holmgren added 11 points and 12 rebounds and Oklahoma City beat Memphis 87-71 on Wednesday night for the Thunder’s second straight victory in the Salt Lake City Summer League.
Oklahoma City opened the second half on a 10-3 run for a 58-46 lead and later scored 10 straight to make it 68-52. Memphis missed 14 straight shots in the second half.
Jalen Williams, the No. 12 selection out of Santa Clara, made three 3-pointers and scored 16 points for Oklahoma City. Holmgren, who set a Salt Lake City Summer League record with six blocks on Tuesday, blocked his first shot with 4:12 remaining in the third quarter.
Kenny Lofton Jr. scored seven of Memphis’ opening 10 points and finished with 19.
Memphis star Ja Morant sat courtside for the second straight game.
76ERS 86, JAZZ 82
Charles Bassey had 17 points, Trevelin Queen added 15 points — including an acrobatic alley-oop layup in the closing seconds — and Philadelphia beat Utah.
Bassey, a second-round pick out of Western Kentucky in 2021, was 7 of 12 from the field, grabbed nine rebounds and had four of Philadelphia’s 17 steals.
Myles Powell added 13 points, Charlie Brown Jr. had 12 and Cassius Winston 11. Julian Champagnie scored just five points on 2-of-11 shooting, including 0 for 6 from 3-point range, but grabbed 10 rebounds.
Bruno Caboclo converted a three-point play and then a putback off a missed layup by James Palmer Jr. to spark a 15-4 run that gave the Jazz an 80-78 lead when Justin Robinson hit a pull-up jumper with 2:54 to play. Queen made two free throws and Winston made 3 of 4 from the foul line before Winston whipped a pass from near midcourt to a cutting Queen for a layup that hung on the front of the rim before dropping in to make it 85-80 with 34.2 seconds to go.
Robinson led the Jazz with 17 points, Caboclo scored 16 and Palmer added 14.
Utah, which went 0 for 9 from 3-point range in the fourth quarter, missed its last five field-goal attempts and committed two of its 22 turnovers in the last 2-plus minutes.
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COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Elena Delle Donne scored nine of her season-high 26 points in the fourth quarter and the Washington Mystics beat the Atlanta Dream 85-66 on Wednesday night.
Delle Donne was 10 of 17 from the field and had eight rebounds. Myisha Hines-Allen added 14 points, Natasha Cloud had 13, Shatori Walker-Kimbrough a season-high 12 and Ariel Atkins 10 for Washington (14-10).
Delle Donne scored 13 points in the first half, including a fadeaway from the right block and then stepped into a deep fast-break 3-pointer — which gave the Mystics the lead for good — to spark a 9-0 run that made it 41-36 at halftime.
Washington scored nine consecutive points to make it 67-56 with six minutes to play after Delle Donne hit a short turn-around jumper. The Dream trailed by at least seven the rest of the way.
Monique Billings, Cheyenne Parker, Tiffany Hayes and Rhyne Howard scored 10 points apiece for Atlanta (10-12).
Howard played just 8 1/2 first-half minutes after picking up her second personal foul late in the first quarter and never found offensive rhythm. The No. 1 overall selection in April’s draft, Howard went 0 for 6 from 3-point range and goes into her first WNBA All-Star game having four of her last 29 3-point shots over the past five games.
The Dream, which has lost six in a row against Washington, went 0 for 13 from 3-point range.
Grammy Award winning rapper 2 Chainz, a native of College Park, watched the game courtside.
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More AP women’s basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Delle-Donne-has-season-high-26-points-Mystics-17289120.php | 2022-07-07T03:49:58Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Delle-Donne-has-season-high-26-points-Mystics-17289120.php | true |
CLEVELAND — Baker Mayfield's wild four-year ride in Cleveland is over.
The No. 1 overall pick in 2018, Mayfield was traded Wednesday by the Browns, who moved on from the divisive quarterback months ago and finally sent him to the Carolina Panthers for a future draft pick.
Mayfield, who was pushed out of his starting job amid the Browns’ pursuit of Deshaun Watson, is going to Carolina for a conditional draft pick in 2024 or 2025.
The Browns are paying $10.5 million of Mayfield’s $18.8 million contract for next season, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The Panthers will pay $4.8 million and Mayfield will take a $3.5 million pay cut, said the people, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the trade can't be finalized until Mayfield passes a physical.
Mayfield can earn back some of the money through incentives. Also, if he plays 70% of Carolina's snaps next season, the pick the Browns are receiving will be a fourth-rounder in 2024.
The trade was announced by both the Browns and Panthers, who coincidentally will meet in next season's opener in Charlotte, a matchup spiced up by Mayfield switching teams.
Mayfield’s time with the Browns effectively ended in March when the team traded three first-round selections and six overall to the Houston Texans for Watson, who is facing a possible NFL suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy.
Watson has been accused of sexual misconduct by two dozen massage therapists in Texas. The league's disciplinary officer is expected to rule on Watson before the Browns open training camp later this month.
Mayfield, who played most of last season with a left shoulder injury, felt betrayed by Cleveland’s move for Watson, demanded a trade and then had to wait until the Browns found a team both interested in him and willing to take on his salary.
Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam thanked Mayfield for his contributions.
“From the moment he was drafted, he gave his all for this organization and this city,” they said. “With his fierce competitive spirit, he excited the fanbase and accomplished things that no player at his position had done in Cleveland for a very long time. He also made a difference in the community, whether it was hosting events at the Boys and Girls Club, honoring our troops, supporting the Special Olympics as well as countless other charitable endeavors.”
The 27-year-old will compete for Carolina's starting QB job with Sam Darnold, who was taken two picks after Mayfield in 2018.
The Panthers, who have not made the playoffs since 2017, have been searching for stability at the quarterback position ever since head coach Matt Rhule was hired in 2020. They also took a run at Watson before he chose Cleveland.
Mayfield’s four years with the Browns included fewer memorable moments than distracting ones as he couldn’t end the team's long search for a franchise QB.
The stint was full of highs and lows, coaching changes, too much drama and not nearly enough wins.
Former Browns general manager John Dorsey was enamored with Mayfield’s talent and swayed by his swagger, choosing the Heisman Trophy winner from Oklahoma first despite other options, including Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson.
Mayfield began his rookie season as Tyrod Taylor's backup before coming off the bench in Week 3 and rallying the Browns to their first win in 635 days, a 21-17 victory over the New York Jets on national TV.
Mayfield wound up passing for 3,725 yards and throwing 27 touchdown passes as a rookie, breaking the NFL record for a first-year quarterback. For the first time in years, there was genuine hope for a floundering franchise that has had 32 starting QBs since 1999.
However, Mayfield’s second season was a major setback. He threw nearly as many interceptions (21) as touchdowns (22) and seemed to be on a different page of the playbook than star receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Cleveland went 6-10 and fired coach Freddie Kitchens.
Mayfield also regularly squared off with commentators criticizing his play and sparred with local reporters. His immaturity showed particularly on social media, where he often posted rebukes to detractors.
The 2020 season signaled a turnaround as Mayfield led the Browns back to relevance with their first postseason appearance since 2003. He thrived in first-year coach Kevin Stefanski’s offense, throwing 20 TD passes and just three interceptions in his last 12 games.
Mayfield directed a playoff win — the Browns’ first since 1994 — over the rival Pittsburgh Steelers on Jan. 10, 2021, and came within minutes of getting Cleveland to the AFC Championship a week later before losing at Kansas City.
The resurgence triggered Super Bowl predictions for the Browns in the 2021-22 season and speculation they would sign Mayfield to a long-term contract.
Neither came close to happening.
After dropping the hyped season opener to the Chiefs, the game’s outcome decided when Mayfield threw a late interception, he suffered a torn left shoulder labrum the following week while trying to make a tackle.
The injury worsened when he was sacked by Arizona's J.J. Watt a few weeks later, and Mayfield never found his rhythm the rest of the season. Beckham forced his way off the roster and the Browns stumbled to a 8-9 finish and missed the playoffs.
Mayfield also raised eyebrows by publicly questioning Stefanski's play-calling.
Mayfield sat out the finale and had surgery soon after. Browns general manager Andrew Berry said he expected Mayfield to bounce back as the team’s starter in 2022, but everything changed with the pursuit of Watson.
In recent weeks, as Watson's legal entanglement dragged on, there had been speculation the Browns could turn to Mayfield. But the quarterback recently said he didn't think a reconciliation was possible.
They were done with him long ago. | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/browns-finally-trade-mayfield-send-quarterback-to-panthers/article_e079767a-fd9b-11ec-81f5-274c13a2be3a.html | 2022-07-07T03:50:40Z | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/browns-finally-trade-mayfield-send-quarterback-to-panthers/article_e079767a-fd9b-11ec-81f5-274c13a2be3a.html | false |
MONTREAL, QC — Rather than tip his hand on who the Montreal Canadiens plan to select with the first pick in the NHL draft, general manager Kent Hughes joked they’ll end up with all three of Shane Wright, Juraj Slafkovsky and Logan Cooley.
If the Canadiens want to make a splash, they could end up with two of them.
There’s uncertainty surrounding who’s going No. 1 for the first time in nearly a decade when the Colorado Avalanche chose Nathan MacKinnon in 2013. In the aftermath of MacKinnon leading the Avalanche to the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens are confronted with a potentially franchise-changing decision in their first time picking first in 42 years and as the hosts of the draft that begins Thursday in Montreal.
“If there was any one player with a perfect track record, it would be a pretty simple decision and we probably would have already declared what we were going to do,” Hughes said Wednesday. “Everything we can know, whether it’s Shane or Logan or Juraj, we want to know to what extent they will be able to live with the pressure of playing in Montreal.”
Wright for years has been playing with pressure, in the microscope in the Ontario Hockey League as the long-projected top pick in this draft. He put up 94 points in 63 games of junior hockey this past season.
The Canadian center believes he’s NHL-ready and wants the pressure of getting picked first overall by the Canadiens at Bell Centre 51 years after they selected Guy LaFleur in the same slot.
“I’m competitive,” Wright said. “I always want to be first, I always want to be the best. I think no matter what position you’re in, no matter where you’re ranked, it’s always your goal and you always want to be first. You want to be that first guy chosen and that’s always been my mindset.”
Dan Marr, head of NHL Central Scouting, has said Wright and Slafkosky, a big forward from Slovakia, are the most likely prospects to play in the league next season. Slafkovsky has drawn comparisons to late Hall of Famer Clark Gillies and was named the most outstanding player at the Olympics after scoring seven goals in seven games.
Slafkovsky repeated Wednesday he would be a good fit on the left wing with Montreal centers Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield. Asked if the Canadiens were going to take him, the charismatic 18-year-old responded: “I don’t know. You need to ask them.”
Because Hughes isn’t telling, the teams with the next few picks have to get ready for multiple scenarios. The New Jersey Devils took a significant amount of calls about trading the second pick, but they’re prepared to make it depending on what Montreal does before them.
“We’ve got it mapped out,” GM Tom Fitzgerald said. “At the end of the day, Montreal’s going to pick a player and then we’re going to have a decision to make.”
The Arizona Coyotes pick third, the Seattle Kraken fourth and Philadelphia Flyers fifth. Arizona may have a tough choice between Cooley, an American center from Pittsburgh, and Cutter Gauthier, who grew up in the Phoenix area.
The dominos beginning with the top pick could take the draft in many different directions.
“Obviously we’ll cross four names off before we call a name, assuming we stay at 5,” Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher said. “I can see scenarios when nearly every player there could be available at 5.”
There’s also a scenario in which the Devils could do something surprising, given Czech defenseman David Jiricek and Slafkovsky Olympic teammate Simon Nemec are also in the top tier of available prospects. Much like nine years ago when long-projected top pick Seth Jones fell to four, that could happen to Wright.
Or Wright could go first, like most in hockey have been expecting for some time.
“There’s no clear-cut No. 1,” Fitzgerald said. “The majority of years you’ve had someone, so that’s why it’s unique. They’re all really good players, with a lot of different positions. But they all may end up being the same at the end of the day with all having similar ceilings in our opinion.”
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The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday’s lottery drawing has increased to estimated $35 million, with a cash option valued at $20.3 million.
The winning numbers were: 32, 36, 49, 62 and 69. The Powerball drawn was 13 with a Power Play of 2X.
No one across the country hit Monday’s $26.4 million jackpot but a second-prize, $1 million ticket was sold in New Mexico. It matched five numbers but not the Powerball.
In New Jersey, no won more than $200 with a single ticket.
Monday’s winning numbers were: 15, 16, 24, 31 and 56. The Powerball drawn was 4 with a Power Play of 2X.
In addition, no one won the secondary, $10 million Double Play jackpot that followed the main drawing.
The winning Double Play numbers were: 9, 41, 55, 57 and 60. The Double Play number drawn was 5.
The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,388 to 1. A player who buys a $2 ticket has about a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to match five numbers and win at least $1 million, while the odds are 913,129 to 1 of winning the third prize of at least $50,000.
Powerball is played on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
New Jersey Lottery offices in Lawrence are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. if players prefer to drop off claims and validate winning tickets in person. Claims can be left in a secure drop box at lottery headquarters. That option applies to prizes worth more than $599.50.
If player wins a prize of $25,000 or more (or otherwise feels more comfortable submitting claims in person) appointments can be made to meet with lottery representatives in person by calling 1-800-222-0996.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Melissa Martinez applied to have her student loan debt forgiven more than a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education told her she was ineligible.
Martinez, a professor, tried again this past year and managed to erase the last $6,000 she owed for her doctorate. She wasn’t alone — according to new federal figures, more than 145,000 borrowers have had the remainder of their federal student loan debt canceled through a program for people who work for schools, governments or nonprofits.
Hundreds of thousands more have completed the paperwork for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and officials say many more likely qualify. An Oct. 31 deadline to apply under the less stringent rules is fast approaching.
There’s a broader conversation underway in America about how to handle student loan debt. An estimated 43 million Americans carry student loans worth $1.6 trillion, according to federal figures. Federal student loan payments were paused during the coronavirus pandemic and will remain so until at least Aug. 31. President Joe Biden is expected to make some sort of announcement about student loan relief before then.
Nearly all of the cancellations through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program have come since last October, when the government temporarily relaxed the complex requirements. Before that, the program had rejected more than 90% of applicants, the Department of Education said in 2019.
A spokesperson for the Education Department said Wednesday that most borrowers who were denied then were deemed ineligible because they didn’t meet employer eligibility requirements, their employment dates didn’t align with the dates of their student loans, or they didn’t have the required direct loans.
“I thought maybe it would work now,” said Martinez, who graduated from the University of Texas, Austin in 2010 with a doctorate in educational administration.
Martinez said the money will go towards lowering credit card debt and building savings to have on hand for emergencies and unexpected expenses.
“Knowing that it’s forgiven lifts some of the worry or stress off my shoulders,” she said.
Even though the deadline is in October, Martinez advises people who may qualify for the loan forgiveness to apply as soon as possible. She found the process difficult to navigate, even with the relaxed rules. It took her five months to complete the paperwork and another three months to hear back from the program.
“I remember calling and staying on the line for an hour waiting,” she said. Martinez also initially had her proof of employment denied, though it was approved when she re-sent the documents.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, launched in 2007 to steer more graduates to public service, cancels federal student loan debt after 10 years of public interest work, or 120 payments. Teachers, librarians, nurses, public interest lawyers, military members and other public workers all qualify, along with people who work for non-profits.
So far, the forgiveness totals almost $8.1 billion in federal loans, but that amount is just a fraction of the debt that could qualify. The average amount of debt forgiven through the program is $64,968.
“The program seems really simple — people commit ten years to serving their country and communities and the government promises to end their student debt,” said Kat Welbeck, Civil Rights Counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center. “We’ve seen, throughout the 14 years, so many people set back by administrative hurdles and burdens, not knowing they had access to this program or being told they couldn’t get access even though they worked in qualified employment.”
Under the reformed rules, loan servicers count payments that had previously been deemed unacceptable, such as when borrowers mistakenly or unwittingly signed up for non-qualifying plans.
“I think it’s a great incentive, especially for teachers. So many are overworked and underpaid, and they’ve got those loans that they’re still working on,” Martinez said.
The waiver period has been life-changing for loan holders who’ve been able to receive credit toward forgiveness for years they’ve worked in public service after previously being rejected, Welbeck said, describing joyful tears as loan balances drop to zero.
“There are so many more people to reach,” Welbeck added. “And it’s only a year, so we’re operating with a sense of urgency.”
Martinez encourages others to apply during the waiver period, despite the frustration. She says it was worth the time and effort to get the balance of her student loan forgiven.
Borrowers who are currently jobless or not working in public service may still qualify for forgiveness, according to the Department of Education. And the months during the pandemic since March 2020 in which payments on federal loans have been paused count as credits towards the total number of payments required for the program.
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new rules for the program that are expected to take effect by July 2023. They would give borrowers more leeway if they’re late on payments or don’t pay in full.
Under the original rules, borrowers must make payments in full within 15 days of the due date to get credit toward their 120 monthly payments. The proposal would relax that, allowing borrowers to make progress even if they’re late or make the payment in multiple installments.
The waiver that expires Oct. 31 was mostly meant to make up for widespread confusion about which types of loans and payment plans are eligible under the program. Some borrowers had made years of payments only to find out they weren’t in an eligible plan or loan program.
The new proposed rules won’t change which loans are eligible, but they aim to provide more flexibility so borrowers don’t lose progress toward forgiveness because of late payments or paperwork problems.
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Associated Press Writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to include natural gas and nuclear in the bloc’s list of sustainable activities, backing a proposal from the EU’s executive arm that has been drawing fierce criticism from environment groups and now looks set to trigger legal challenges.
As the EU wants to set the best global standards in the fight against climate change, the decision could tarnish the bloc’s image and question the region’s commitment to reaching climate neutrality by 2050.
The European Commission earlier this year made the proposal as part of its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists over what they criticize as “greenwashing.”
EU legislators from the environment and economy committees objected last month to the plan, setting up Wednesday’s decisive vote in Strasbourg, France. But MEPs rejected their resolution in a 328-278 vote, with 33 lawmakers abstaining. The result was announced to a salvo of applause.
An absolute majority of 353 was needed to veto the proposal. If the European Parliament and member countries don’t object to it by July 11, the so-called Taxonomy delegated act will enter into force and apply as of next year.
Greenpeace immediately said it will submit a formal request for internal review to the European Commission, and then take legal action at the European Court of Justice if the result isn’t conclusive.
“It’s dirty politics and it’s an outrageous outcome to label gas and nuclear as green and keep more money flowing to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s war chest, but now we will fight this in the courts,” said Ariadna Rodrigo, Greenpeace’s EU sustainable finance campaigner.
European Parliament rapporteur Bas Eickhout rued “a dark day for the climate and the energy transition.”
The green labeling system from the European Commission defines what qualifies as an investment in sustainable energy. Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy will now be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both.
With the EU aiming to reach climate neutrality by 2050 and to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, the commission says the classification system is crucial to direct investments into sustainable energy. It estimates that about 350 billion euros of investment per year will be needed to meet the 2030 targets.
The question of nuclear power has divided environmentalists, energy experts and governments for years, with some arguing it’s an important source of energy because it’s produced with no emissions and thus “clean,” while others say the risks of nuclear reactions are too great and infrastructure is slow and costly to build. Liquid natural gas, clearly a fossil fuel, is roundly criticized in environmental circles.
Germany’s industrial lobby group BDI welcomed the vote, saying it cleared the way for financing the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
“Gas is our bridge technology to the renewable age,” said its deputy head, Holger Loesch.
The BDI called for more investments in gas infrastructure, including LNG terminals, to ensure sufficient supply amid the current energy crisis, but added that new gas power plants need to be capable of handling hydrogen eventually.
Introducing gas and nuclear into the equation has divided the 27 member countries amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, and even the parliament’s political groups.
Luxembourg’s energy minister, Claude Turmes, said he deeply regretted the European Parliament’s failure to bloc the commission’s plan, adding that his country — together with Austria — would move ahead with legal efforts to block the labeling of nuclear and gas as sustainable.
Steffen Hebestreit, a spokesman for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said that “the German government stands by its position and considers nuclear energy as unsustainable.”
“Nevertheless, the German government believes that the taxonomy is an important instrument for achieving climate protection targets, because it is clear that natural gas is an important bridging technology for us on the way to CO2 neutrality and the inclusion of the use of natural gas in the delegated act takes this into account,” Hebestreit added.
Protests that had started on Tuesday continued Wednesday outside the EU legislature as lawmakers debated the issue.
Environmentalists warned the vote could set a precedent for lawmakers elsewhere to label polluting forms of energy as sustainable.
“We have now officially validated greenwashing by law,” said Tsvetelina Kuzmanova of the climate think tank E3G.
“The process and the decision have been entirely political, not scientific, to only benefit a small number of member states,” she said. “This would not stand a chance in court and will only create more uncertainty for financial markets and jeopardize (the) EU’s climate ambition.”
The youth activist group Fridays for Future said billions of euros could be pumped into gas infrastructure and nuclear power plants as a result of the decision, diverting much-needed funds from renewable alternatives.
One argument for rejecting the proposal is that it will boost Russian gas sales at a time when it is invading neighboring Ukraine, but the European Commission said it had received a letter from the Ukrainian government backing its stance.
European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness quoted from the letter from Ukraine’s energy minister Tuesday: “I strongly believe that the inclusion of gas and nuclear in the taxonomy is an important element of the energy security in Europe, especially with a view to replacing Russian gas.”
“I don’t think we should second-guess this letter,” McGuinness said.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has prompted the 27-nation bloc to sever ties with some Russian fossil fuels. Member countries have agreed to ban 90% of Russian oil by year-end in addition to a ban on imports of Russian coal that will start in August.
But the EU hasn’t included gas — a fuel used to power factories and generate electricity — in its own sanctions for fear of seriously harming the European economy. Before the war in Ukraine, it relied on Russia for 25% of its oil and 40% of its natural gas.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Sri Lanka is desperate for help with weathering its worst crisis in recent memory. Its schools are closed for lack of fuel to get kids and teachers to classrooms. Its effort to arrange a bailout from the International Monetary Fund has been hindered by the severity of its financial crisis, its prime minister says.
But it’s not the only economy that’s in serious trouble as prices of food, fuel and other staples have soared with the war in Ukraine. Alarm bells are ringing for many economies around the world, from Laos and Pakistan to Venezuela and Guinea.
Some 1.6 billion people in 94 countries face at least one dimension of the crisis in food, energy and financial systems, and about 1.2 billion of them live in “perfect-storm” countries, severely vulnerable to a cost-of-living crisis plus other longer-term strains, according to a report last month by the Global Crisis Response Group of the United Nations Secretary-General.
The exact causes for their woes vary, but all share rising risks from surging costs for food and fuel, driven higher by Russia’s war on Ukraine, which hit just as disruptions to tourism and other business activity from the coronavirus pandemic were fading. As a result, the World Bank estimates that per capita incomes in developing economies will be 5% below pre-pandemic levels this year.
The economic strains are fueling protests in many countries, as meanwhile, short-term, higher interest borrowing to help finance pandemic relief packages has heaped more debt on countries already struggling to meet repayment obligations. More than half of the world’s poorest countries are in debt distress or at high risk of it, according to the U.N.
Some of the worst crises are in countries already devastated by corruption, civil war, coups or other calamities. They muddle along, but with an undue burden of suffering.
Here’s a look at a few of the economies that are in dire straits or at greatest risk.
AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan has been reeling from a dire economic crisis since the Taliban took control as the U.S. and its NATO allies withdrew their forces last year. Foreign aid — long a mainstay — stopped practically overnight and governments piled on sanctions, halted bank transfers and paralyzed trade, refusing to recognize the Taliban government. The Biden administration froze $7 billion in Afghanistan’s foreign currency reserves held in the United States. About half the country’s 39 million people face life-threatening levels of food insecurity and most civil servants, including doctors, nurses and teachers, have been unpaid for months. A recent earthquake killed more than 1,000 people, adding to those miseries.
ARGENTINA
About four of every 10 Argentines are poor and its central bank is running perilously low on foreign reserves as its currency weakens. Inflation is forecast to exceed 70% this year. Millions of Argentines survive largely thanks to soup kitchens and state welfare programs, many of which are funneled through politically powerful social movements linked to the ruling party. A recent deal with the IMF to restructure $44 billion in debt faces questions over concessions that critics say will hinder a recovery.
EGYPT
Egypt’s inflation rate surged to almost 15% in April, causing privation especially for the nearly one-third of its 103 million people living in poverty. They were already suffering from an ambitious reform program that includes painful austerity measures like floating the national currency and slashing subsidies for fuel, water and electricity. The central bank raised interest rates to curb inflation and devalued the currency, adding to difficulties in repaying Egypt’s sizable foreign debt. Egypt’s net foreign reserves have fallen. Its neighbors Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have pledged $22 billion in deposits and direct investments as assistance.
LAOS
Tiny, landlocked Laos was one of the fastest growing economies until the pandemic hit. Its debt levels have surged and like Sri Lanka, it is in talks with creditors on how to repay billions of dollars worth of loans. That’s an urgent issue given the country’s weak government finances. Its foreign reserves are equal to less than two months of imports, the World Bank says. A 30% depreciation in the Lao currency, the kip, has worsened those woes. Rising prices and job losses due to the pandemic threaten to worsen poverty.
LEBANON
Lebanon shares with Sri Lanka a toxic combination of currency collapse, shortages, punishing levels of inflation and growing hunger, snaking queues for gas and a decimated middle class. It, too, endured a long civil war, its recovery hampered by government dysfunction and terror attacks.
Proposed taxes in late 2019 ignited longstanding anger against the ruling class and months of protests. The currency began to sink and Lebanon defaulted on paying back worth about $90 billion at the time, or 170% of GDP — one of the highest in the world. In June 2021, with the currency having lost nearly 90% of its value, the World Bank said the crisis ranked as one of the worst the world has seen in more than 150 years.
MYANMAR
The pandemic and political instability have buffeted Myanmar’s economy, especially after the army seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. That brought Western sanctions targeting commercial holdings controlled by the army, which dominate the economy. The economy contracted by 18% last year and is forecast to barely grow in 2022. More than 700,000 people have fled or been forced from their homes by armed conflicts and political violence. The situation is so uncertain, a recent global economic update from the World Bank excluded forecasts for Myanmar for 2022-2024.
PAKISTAN
Like Sri Lanka, Pakistan has been in urgent talks with the IMF, hoping to revive a $6 billion bailout package that was put on hold after Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government was ousted in April. Soaring crude oil prices pushed up fuel prices which in turn raised other costs, pushing inflation to over 21%. A government minister’s appeal to cut back on tea drinking to reduce the $600 million bill for imported tea angered many Pakistanis. Pakistan’s currency, the rupee, has fallen about 30% against the U.S. dollar in the past year. To gain the IMF’s support, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has raised fuel prices, abolished fuel subsidies and imposed a new, 10% “super tax” on major industries to help repair the country’s tattered finances. As of late March, Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves had fallen to $13.5 billion, equivalent to just two months of imports. “Macroeconomic risks are strongly tilted to the downside,” the World Bank warned in its latest assessment.
TURKEY
Worsening government finances and a growing trade and capital account deficit have compounded Turkey’s troubles with high and rising debt, inflation — at over 60% —and high unemployment. The Central Bank resorted to using foreign reserves to fend off a currency crisis, after the beleaguered lira fell to all-time lows against the U.S. dollar euro in late 2021. Tax cuts and fuel subsidies to cushion the blow from inflation have weakened government finances. Families are struggling to buy food and other goods, while Turkey’s foreign debt is about 54% of its GDP, an unsustainable level given the high level of government debt.
ZIMBABWE
Inflation in Zimbabwe has surged to more than 130%, raising fears the country could return to the hyperinflation of 2008 that reached 500 billion percent and heaping problems on its already fragile economy. Zimbabwe struggles to generate an adequate inflow of greenbacks needed for its largely dollarized local economy, which has been battered by years of de-industrialization, corruption, low investment, low exports and high debt. Inflation has left Zimbabweans distrustful of the currency, adding to demand for U.S. dollars. And many skip meals as they struggle to make ends meet.
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Woman fakes cancer, forges notes to avoid prison
SAN DIEGO (AP) - One note submitted to the federal judge sentencing a 38-year-old California woman for embezzlement claimed that a biopsy had revealed “cancerous cells” in her uterus. Another indicated that she was undergoing a surgical procedure, and her cancer had spread to the cervix. Yet another letter warned she “cannot be exposed to COVID-19″ because of her fragile state.
But federal officials say the notes and cancer were all fake, and now Ashleigh Lynn Chavez is headed to prison for three times as long. The court this week added an additional two years to her initial, one-year prison sentence.
The fake claim of having cancer kept Chavez out on bond from the time of her guilty plea in 2019 to embezzling more than $160,000 from her former employer through her sentencing hearing on March 31, 2021. The notes then bought her an additional three months of freedom by the judge who believed she was getting medical treatment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of California.
All told, Chavez was able to avoid being locked up for six months, federal officials said.
Chavez’s attorney, Benjamin Kington, said in a sentencing memorandum that Chavez was “terrified” about being separated from her newborn son, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The notes also claimed she was too ill to work and could not make restitution payments to her former employer.
Two different attorneys hired by Chavez believed the notes were authentic and submitted them to the court, according to federal officials.
By August 2021, the notes forged by Chavez were asking the court to permit her to serve time in home confinement. In one forged note, attributed to a San Diego-area oncologist, Chavez wrote that “(a) year in prison could be a death sentence for my patient.”
Federal authorities contacted the doctors named in the letters who denied writing them, though Chavez had been a patient of one of the physicians, according to federal officials.
“This defendant went to appalling lengths to avoid her initial prison sentence by falsifying medical documents to claim she had cancer. This offensive conduct is an affront to every person fighting that battle,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Stacey Moy said in a statement.
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WASHINGTON — President Biden spoke Wednesday with the wife of detained WNBA center Brittney Griner, who is on trial in Russia, to reassure her that he is working to win Griner’s freedom as soon as possible, the White House said.
Biden’s conversation with Cherelle Griner followed Brittney Griner’s personal appeal to the president in a handwritten letter from the player the White House received Monday. In the letter, Griner said she feared she would spend forever in detention in Russia and asked Biden to not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.”
Griner has been detained in Russia for four months and is currently on trial, accused of possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
The call was placed as Griner’s family has become more aggressive in pressuring the Biden administration by speaking about her case, including through Brittney Griner’s letter to the president and several television interviews by Cherelle Griner, who said she did not think the government was doing enough to bring her wife home.
“The President called Cherelle to reassure her that he is working to secure Brittney’s release as soon as possible, as well as the release of Paul Whelan and other U.S. nationals who are wrongfully detained or held hostage in Russia and around the world,” the White House said in a statement. “He also read her a draft of the letter the President is sending to Brittney Griner today.”
Biden offered the family his support and committed to making sure the family receives “all possible assistance” during the administration’s pursuit of Brittney Griner’s release, the White House said.
Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke with Cherelle Griner.
Griner, 31, is in the midst of a trial in Russia that began Friday after she was arrested Feb. 17 on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for her Russian team. She could face 10 years in prison if convicted of large-scale transportation of drugs.
The trial was scheduled to resume Thursday. Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted and, unlike in U.S. courts, acquittals can be overturned.
Cherelle Griner told “CBS Mornings” in an interview Tuesday that it was “disheartening” to her that she had yet to hear from Biden during her wife’s detention.
A representative for Cherelle Griner did not immediately respond to a text message from the Associated Press. Cherelle Griner was scheduled to speak publicly Wednesday night at a rally in Phoenix organized by Brittney Griner’s WNBA team.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday that Biden “has been clear about the need to see every American who is wrongfully detained or held hostage abroad released, including Brittney Griner.”
“This has been top of mind for the president,” she said. Jean-Pierre added that Biden is updated daily on the status of efforts to win freedom for Brittney Griner and other Americans the U.S. government believes are being wrongfully detained in Russia and elsewhere.
Darlene Superville is an Associated Press writer. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/President-Biden-tells-Brittney-Griner-s-wife-17289129.php | 2022-07-07T04:17:52Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/President-Biden-tells-Brittney-Griner-s-wife-17289129.php | false |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
09-11-24-25-34-40
(nine, eleven, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-four, forty)
Estimated jackpot: $2,650,000
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
09-11-24-25-34-40
(nine, eleven, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-four, forty)
Estimated jackpot: $2,650,000 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17289198.php | 2022-07-07T04:22:59Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17289198.php | true |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
0-7-8
(zero, seven, eight)
¶ Top Prize $500
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
0-7-8
(zero, seven, eight)
¶ Top Prize $500 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17289209.php | 2022-07-07T04:23:55Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17289209.php | false |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Derek Chauvin will learn his sentence Thursday for violating George Floyd's civil rights, with a deal in place that would extend the former Minneapolis police officer's time behind bars while shifting him to possibly more favorable conditions in a federal prison.
Chauvin agreed to a sentence of 20 to 25 years in his December plea to a federal charge in Floyd's killing. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson will make the final decision, with prosecutors seeking the full 25 on the grounds that Chauvin's actions were cold-blooded and needless.
The defense has asked for 20 years, saying Chauvin accepts responsibility for what he did, and has already gotten a 22 1/2-year prison sentence from a state court for murdering Floyd. Attorney Eric Nelson wrote that Chauvin's “remorse will be made apparent to this Court,” suggesting Chauvin is likely to speak at Thursday's hearing.
Former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said a judge could take such a statement into consideration during sentencing.
“This is his opportunity to say, ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, I didn’t think, or whatever,’” Heffelfinger said. “In federal court it’s very much to the inmate’s advantage to be remorseful, and to demonstrate remorse, even more than at a state sentencing.”
Chauvin briefly addressed Floyd's family at his state sentencing hearing in May 2021, offering condolences. Relatives of Floyd gave victim impact statements then, and have the right to do so Thursday. The family's attorneys did not respond to messages seeking comment on their plans.
In entering his federal plea, Chauvin for the first time admitted that he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck — even as the Black man's pleaded, “I can't breathe," and then became unresponsive — resulting in Floyd’s death. Chauvin, who is white, admitted he willfully deprived Floyd of his right to be free from unreasonable seizure, including unreasonable force by a police officer, during the May 2020 arrest.
Floyd’s killing sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the world in a reckoning over police brutality and racism.
For his own protection, Chauvin has been held in isolation in a 10-by-10-foot room at the state's maximum security prison that he's allowed to leave for an average of one hour per day for exercise.
Defense attorney Eric Nelson said in a court filing last month that Chauvin might never be placed in a prison's general population because of the risks of him becoming a target.
Chauvin's plea deal calls for him to serve the federal sentence at the same time as the state one, and to serve it in federal prison. He's expected to serve more time behind bars than he would have faced on the state sentence alone.
However, experts say Chauvin might be safer, and live under fewer restrictions, in a federal prison. His security level and final destination will be up to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, which could send him anywhere in the country.
Chauvin would run the risk in the general population of a Minnesota state prison of encountering inmates he had arrested or investigated. While he can't totally escape his notoriety in a federal prison elsewhere, he's unlikely to encounter inmates with whom he has a direct connection. If the bureau decides he's safe enough in the general population, he'd have more opportunities to move about the facility, to work and to participate in programming.
With credit for good time in the federal system, he could serve anywhere from 17 years to 21 1/4 years behind bars, assuming the judge sticks to the range in the plea agreement. In the state system alone, Chauvin could have become entitled to parole after about 15 years.
Three other former Minneapolis police officers — Tou Thao, J. Alexander Keung and Thomas Lane — were convicted in February of federal civil rights charges in Floyd's killing. Magnuson has not set sentencing dates for them.
Lane is also due to be sentenced Sept. 21 after pleading guilty in state court to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Thao and Kueng turned down plea deals and are due to be tried in state court Oct. 24 on aiding and abetting charges. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Ex-cop-Chauvin-to-get-federal-sentence-for-17289113.php | 2022-07-07T04:24:36Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Ex-cop-Chauvin-to-get-federal-sentence-for-17289113.php | true |
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
04-15-22-25-39
(four, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty-nine)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
04-15-22-25-39
(four, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty-nine) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Take-5-Evening-game-17289142.php | 2022-07-07T04:25:46Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Take-5-Evening-game-17289142.php | false |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
03-12-14-24-37-39, Doubler: N
(three, twelve, fourteen, twenty-four, thirty-seven, thirty-nine; Doubler: N)
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Royals first. Whit Merrifield homers to left field. Andrew Benintendi walks. MJ Melendez strikes out swinging. Andrew Benintendi steals second. Vinnie Pasquantino called out on strikes. Hunter Dozier homers to left field. Andrew Benintendi scores. Edward Olivares strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 3, Astros 0.
Royals second. Michael A. Taylor strikes out swinging. Emmanuel Rivera homers to center field. Nicky Lopez grounds out to first base to Aledmys Diaz. Whit Merrifield flies out to center field to Jake Meyers.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 4, Astros 0.
Astros second. Alex Bregman walks. Kyle Tucker singles to shallow left field. Alex Bregman to second. Aledmys Diaz grounds out to shallow infield. Kyle Tucker out at second. Alex Bregman to third. Jake Meyers doubles to left field. Alex Bregman scores. Chas McCormick strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 4, Astros 1.
Royals third. Andrew Benintendi walks. MJ Melendez flies out to shallow left field to Chas McCormick. Vinnie Pasquantino flies out to left field to Chas McCormick. Hunter Dozier doubles to deep left field. Andrew Benintendi scores. Edward Olivares flies out to deep right field to Kyle Tucker.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 5, Astros 1.
Astros fourth. Yordan Alvarez doubles. Alex Bregman walks. Kyle Tucker singles to shallow center field. Alex Bregman to third. Yordan Alvarez scores. Aledmys Diaz reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield, advances to 2nd. Kyle Tucker to third. Alex Bregman out at home. Jake Meyers grounds out to shortstop, Nicky Lopez to Hunter Dozier. Kyle Tucker scores. Chas McCormick walks. Martin Maldonado flies out to right field to Edward Olivares.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Royals 5, Astros 3.
Astros sixth. Alex Bregman grounds out to third base, Emmanuel Rivera to Hunter Dozier. Kyle Tucker grounds out to shallow right field, Whit Merrifield to Hunter Dozier. Aledmys Diaz homers to left field. Jake Meyers singles to shallow right field. Chas McCormick walks. Jake Meyers to second. Martin Maldonado walks. Chas McCormick to second. Jake Meyers to third. Mauricio Dubon reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Martin Maldonado out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 4 left on. Royals 5, Astros 4.
Royals ninth. Emmanuel Rivera grounds out to second base, Mauricio Dubon to Aledmys Diaz. Nicky Lopez doubles to deep right field. Whit Merrifield flies out to right field to Kyle Tucker. Nicky Lopez to third. Andrew Benintendi doubles to deep center field. Nicky Lopez scores. MJ Melendez singles to shallow center field. Andrew Benintendi scores. Vinnie Pasquantino flies out to deep right field to Kyle Tucker.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 7, Astros 4. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Kansas-City-Houston-Runs-17289194.php | 2022-07-07T04:28:17Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Kansas-City-Houston-Runs-17289194.php | false |
Gather to Reject War Plans to Clobbergare Sykes - Marching and Meet UP\nWe have planned, gathered forces, assembled all our good thinking - let us be a voice we need and stop further wars by showing support in solidarly when US President Tronmp has a military dinner party today\n112 58 Syrian Arab United Reporter Wed-18 March in DC or Wash Park or\nThe event starts 5pm ▶ Watch Video: On 10-year anniversary of DACA’s inception, future of program in jeopardy The Biden administration and pro-immigrant advocates on Wednesday urged a panel of federal appellate judges to preserve an Obama-era policy that provides work authorization and deportation protection to hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children. Brian Boynton, a Justice Department lawyer representing the administration, implored the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to reject arguments by a coalition of Republican-controlled states led by Texas that has argued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unlawful. During oral arguments before the court, Boynton said Texas lacked standing to sue the federal government and argued that immigration officials have broad discretion to shield unauthorized immigrants who don’t pose a threat to public safety from deportation and allow them to work legally. “The 2012 DACA memorandum challenged in this case is lawful in its entirety and should be upheld,” Boynton told the three-judge panel. But Judd Stone, Texas’ solicitor general, said the state did have standing, citing costs related to health care for DACA beneficiaries. He said the court should uphold a July 2021 ruling from a federal district judge who closed DACA to new applicants after finding the Obama administration did not have the authority to enact the policy in 2012. In his ruling last summer, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen also said DACA had been improperly enacted. But he left the program intact for current enrollees, allowing them to continue renewing their two-year work permits and deportation deferrals until the 5th Circuit or the Supreme Court ruled on the case. Stone urged the 5th Circuit to reject the Biden administration’s appeal of Hanen’s order, citing the court’s decision in 2015 to block a DACA-like policy the Obama administration attempted to implement to prevent the deportation of certain unauthorized immigrants with children who were U.S. citizens or residents. “Here we are seven years later. Congress has rejected the Dream Act in every Congress since it’s been proposed,” Stone said, referring to bills that would place DACA recipients on a pathway to U.S. citizenship. Wednesday’s oral arguments were heard by 5th Circuit Chief Judge Priscilla Richman, an appointee of President George W. Bush; and judges James Ho and Kurt Engelhardt, who were appointed by President Donald Trump. Most of the questions were raised by Ho, who expressed skepticism about the Biden administration’s argument that Texas does not have legal standing to challenge DACA. Ho also noted that DACA not only protects beneficiaries from deportation, but also gives them access to some benefits, including work permits and driver’s licenses. “It was described by the Supreme Court as not just a forbearance policy, but an affirmative immigration rewrite, essentially,” Ho said, citing a June 2020 Supreme Court ruling that stopped the Trump administration from ending DACA. The 5th Circuit’s decision, which is expected to be issued later this year, could dictate the fate of more than 600,000 immigrants currently enrolled in the DACA program. The conservative-leaning appellate court has already ruled against several immigration and border policies instituted by the Obama and Biden administrations. While it could be appealed to the full 5th Circuit or directly to the Supreme Court, a ruling that sides with Texas and shuts down DACA would place 616,000 beneficiaries in legal limbo and inject a sense of urgency into the immigration debate in Congress, which has remained deadlocked on the issue amid intense divisions over U.S. border policy. Jeremy Feigenbaum, who represented New Jersey, which intervened in the case, questioned Texas’ decision to wait several years to challenge DACA. Given its 10-year existence, he told the three-judge panel on Wednesday, DACA’s demise would have negative implications on the country, beyond immigrants enrolled in the program. “Now that we are a full decade later, eliminating DACA would cause extraordinary disruption for recipients, employers, their citizen children and states,” said Feigenbaum, who serves as New Jersey’s solicitor general. Stone, the lawyer representing Texas, said the state is not asking the court to order the government to deport or take “offensive immigration action against a particular individual.” But he said Texas is challenging the government’s ability to grant DACA recipients lawful presence in the U.S. The Trump administration attempted to terminate DACA as part of its efforts to crack down on illegal and legal immigration, but that termination was blocked by federal court rulings, including the Supreme Court decision that found officials did not take the correct procedural steps to end the policy. Following that ruling, the Trump administration scaled back the program, reducing the validity of work permits and deportation protections from two years to one year and barring first-time applications. But a federal court in New York in December 2020 found that acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf lacked the authority to change DACA because he had been improperly appointed. That ruling reopened DACA to new applicants for several months, until Hanen’s July 2021 order closed the program once again. As part of a directive by President Biden to “fortify” DACA, the Department of Homeland Security in the coming months is expected to finalize a rule that will codify the program into a federal regulation, and separate the policy’s deportation protections from the grant of work authorization. The regulations are designed to address the legal concerns Republican-led states have raised, but it’s unclear if they will ultimately save DACA. If the 5th Circuit concludes that some parts of DACA are unlawful, it should only strike down those components, Boynton, the Justice Department attorney, told the panel on Wednesday. But Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which also argued in favor of DACA’s legality on Wednesday, said the government should not remove the work authorization provision from the program. “You can’t allow people deferred action, inviting and permitting them to stay in the United States, without giving them the means to support themselves and their families,” Saenz told reporters. “Failing to do so will create just the harms that the right wing always predicts, which is that people end up needing to depend on others.” | https://www.wsgw.com/biden-administration-urges-appeals-court-to-uphold-daca-program/ | 2022-07-07T04:36:46Z | https://www.wsgw.com/biden-administration-urges-appeals-court-to-uphold-daca-program/ | false |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has agreed to continue humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria for six months — not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and more than 30 nongovernmental groups want.
Russia proposed amendments to a draft resolution by Ireland and Norway reducing their year-long time frame for deliveries. Council diplomats said consultations were continuing late Wednesday to see if a compromise could be reached.
The Security Council scheduled a vote for Thursday morning. If no compromise appeared, the draft resolution by Ireland and Norway to extend cross-border deliveries for 12 months would be voted on first. If it failed to get nine votes, or was vetoed by Russia, the Russian resolution with a six-month extension would then be put to a vote.
In early July 2020, China and Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have maintained two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Idlib. Days later, the council authorized the delivery of aid through just one of those crossings, Bab al-Hawa. That one-year mandate was extended for a year on July 9, 2021, and expires this Sunday.
The Russian proposal called for increased efforts to ensure “full, safe and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian assistance across conflict lines within Syria, according to the Russian draft obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
It also would authorize the establishment of “a special working group” comprising concerned council members, major donors, interested regional parties and representatives of international humanitarian agencies “in order to regularly review and follow-up on the implementation of this resolution.”
Neither of those proposals were in the Ireland-Norway draft resolution.
Northwest Idlib is the last rebel-held bastion in Syria and al Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is the strongest insurgent group in the region. The U.N. said last week that the first 10 years of the Syrian conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians — the highest official estimate of civilian casualties.
In a letter to Security Council ambassadors obtained Wednesday by the AP, former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo warned that by approving cross-border deliveries to northwest Syria, council members “could find themselves materially supporting a U.N.-designated terrorist organization.”
He said northwest Syria “is controlled by Al Nusra, a U.N. designated terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaida and currently called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.”
Any support to a “terrorist organization, including humanitarian assistance,” is prohibited by previous U.N. Security Council resolutions, Ocampo said.
To avoid a “flagrant violation” of its resolutions, he said the Security Council should have the operation monitoring cross-border deliveries confirm that the al Qaida-linked groups “are not involved in implementing humanitarian aid” or remove Al Nusra-Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from the “terrorist” list. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/russia-proposes-6-month-cross-border-aid-renewal-for-syria/ | 2022-07-07T04:42:32Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/russia-proposes-6-month-cross-border-aid-renewal-for-syria/ | true |
Moments after law enforcement authorities disclosed the name of a "person of interest" in the deadly shooting at a July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, extremism researchers, journalists and some members of the public rushed online. They discovered an extensive trail of digital activity believed to be linked to Robert "Bobby" Crimo III, now the named suspect in the mass shooting. But sifting through the trove of memes, photos, music, rap videos and more, extremism experts agree: There is no clear political or ideological motivation.
Instead, many experts on extremism and technology say this suspect's activity fits with a still-emerging profile of mass shooter. Rather than falling neatly into categories familiar to law enforcement and the public, such as white supremacists, radical Islamists or antigovernment militants, it requires an understanding of dark, online subcultures that overlap and feed into each other in ways that glorify violence and foster nihilism. Alarmingly, these experts say these online milieus have been tied to an increasing number of mass shootings over time.
"I've described this as sort of like a mass shooter creation machine," said Alex Newhouse, deputy director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. "A lot of these communities are designed to spin out mass shooters over time, over and over and over."
A mass shooter "culture"
Researchers who've combed through Crimo's digital footprint say the content is strikingly unoriginal.
"It's just like a zoomer spin on zoomer trends and mass murders that have already been done before," said Sarah Hightower, using a term that refers to members of Generation Z. Hightower is an independent researcher focused on the extreme far right and online cultic movements.
For example, Hightower noted one video that shows a cartoonized version of the suspect with a long gun in a bloody confrontation with law enforcement officers.
"He's not the first mass shooter to animate himself into a Columbine massacre-type animated music video," she said. Hightower said a man who committed a mass-murder/suicide at a grocery store in Pennsylvania in 2017 did the same.
Extremism researchers said the suspect's online content offers to the public a carefully curated persona that fits with an image of mass shooters, styled on the killers in the 1999 Columbine school massacre. They said this image has come to hold a portion of young people in certain online communities in thrall.
"It's actually very comparable to Hillary Clinton referring to Trump supporters as 'deplorables,' and the thing that happened was that they then chose to embody that label and wore it on hats and T-shirts and it became a proud in-group label," said Emmi Conley, an independent researcher of far-right extremist movements, digital propaganda and online subcultures. "Similarly, the way that we have previously talked about lone actor violence — in that they are 'mentally ill,' they're confused, they aren't part of anything, they are 'schizophrenic young men' off doing their own thing, distinct from any other groups or actors — they started to embody that."
Conley said this purposeful embodiment of an almost cartoonized version of a mass shooter is intended to play to a "known aesthetic" of what such an individual looks like in the popular imagination, and also to claim the brand of being a mass shooter.
"[Crimo] doesn't fit into an individual ideology, because ideology is irrelevant in this case," said Conley. "The thing that starts to tie this type of violent actor to other types of violent actors is not ideological, it is aesthetic. "
An emphasis on aesthetics over ideology
The visual language that Crimo used in his curated online presence included elements that researchers say is common with a particular young, online subculture. It includes neon or strobe lights and quick cuts between video scenes, accompanied by techno lo-fi music. Newhouse also noted that Crimo's seemingly chaotic and random selection of memes and images echoed what he's seen with suspects in other mass shootings, such as the ones in Uvalde, Texas and Oxford, Michigan.
"It is all designed to be, one, shared; two, completely incomprehensible to anyone like us who are looking onto it; and three, to be a way of breaking down a person's natural reluctance to commit violence," said Newhouse. "It is designed to break a person's brain."
Conley added that the fixation on aesthetics also extends to how would-be shooters in these online milieus consider the optics of their attacks.
"Every mass shooting that's been committed with an AR 15, somewhere it was a little bit about doing a mass shooting with the AR 15 because that is the 'mass shooter weapon' — not just because it is the most effective weapon," she said. "There have been so many mass shootings now that it is a performance art. There is a particular way you do it. There's a particular way you look."
Toxic online spaces
The aesthetic has tied together a web of different digital subcultures which are deeply nihilistic, which use dehumanizing language, and which glorify violence. Often originating on the website 4chan, they include fan communities devoted to mass shooters and serial killers, and online forums devoted to sharing gory content. While experts noted that most people who participate in these fringe communities do not go on to commit mass shootings, they said these are spaces that produce conditions for violence.
"Understanding these things as loosely knit ecosystems [and as] more nebulous culture movers, rather than a groups of memberships, is going to be the first step to getting better at visualizing this threat," said Conley.
Bad actors seeking to nudge others toward real-life violence have been known to participate in these spaces, said Conley and Newhouse. Additionally, horror and dark alternate reality game and immersive fan fiction communities are also part of this complex web of subcultures.
"The idea is that everyone within these communities sort of lose track of what is real and what is fake," said Newhouse, "and they start fantasizing about and fetishizing violence as sort of this end all be all of the essence of existing."
The cartoonized video of an armed Crimo in a bloody standoff with police is one example that researchers point to when explaining how some violent, fringe online communities come to influence users' behavior.
"There's this kind of tendency to 'gore-post,' which is essentially to post shocking, graphic, violent imagery in an attempt to draw some kind of camaraderie between the users in these spaces," said Melanie Smith, head of research at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue US. Crimo appears to have been active in at least one large so-called "gore forum."
Experts agree that it's impossible to determine Crimo's mental health condition from his online content. Newhouse said that the darker alternate reality communities and gore forums are designed to plant the seeds of hopelessness, nihilism and lower one's natural reluctance to commit violence. He said he noted an inflection point on Crimo's timeline that may indicate he had fallen farther away from real-world interaction and further into these online subcultures.
"From what we can tell, he became extraordinarily alienated from both his music audience and his in-person social networks, but clearly began exhibiting the signs of being immersed in these much much deeper Internet communities," he said.
Crimo was a rap artist who released music online. Newhouse said the style of Crimo's latest album was also markedly different from earlier ones.
"Something was going on in that period of time," he said.
But Hightower noted that a key element of these communities is also performance.
"It's like he was going out of his way to sound like he had been detached from reality," she said. "I don't know whether or not this is an affectation that he was putting on or he actually does have a genuine psychotic disorder."
Regardless, Conley said once individuals are exposed to this particular genre of online communities, it can be difficult to return to healthier online habits.
"If you are kind of going down that spiral deeper and deeper into really, really fringe, really violent spaces, there is some point on that spiral where you can't just go back to being normal now," she said. "You've invested too much in this. Too much mental health, too much time, energy. You can't just be like, 'Well, this has crossed the line for me, I'm going to go back now.' It traps you there."
The challenge of intervening
Experts worry that gaps in understanding the conditions that contribute to this kind of mass shooting, as well as legal limitations, could hinder efforts to prevent future, similar attacks.
"It's not hard to to figure out where different violent spaces are," said Conley. "What's hard is what do you do once you find one, if the red flag still falls within free speech territory. Because currently we have no intervention abilities, we only have law enforcement."
The complexity and nuance of these subcultures, and how they interact with each, other also presents a challenge for parents who are eager to keep their kids from falling into these online activities. The age group at particular risk, said Newhouse, are 13- to 24-year-olds, primarily male.
"If someone doesn't even understand the subculture, how are they going to effectively intervene?" Hightower asked.
Still, Newhouse said he believes technology companies, working with journalists, experts and the public, can mitigate the problem through content moderation. He and other experts agreed that Crimo should not be viewed as an outlier, and that need for common understanding of this mass shooter profile will only be more urgent.
"He's not going to be the only one, I can tell you that right now," Hightower said. "You'll see more and more of young boys [and men] like [Crimo] popping off. It's not just going to be neo-Nazis and terrorists."
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After being announced back in June, the Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury fight scheduled for Aug. 6 has been canceled.
Thanks to a US visa issue with boxer Fury, is unable to compete against Paul at Madison Square Garden as originally planned. He had been given a deadline of Wednesday to figure out his issues but couldn't make that deadline.
Fury released a statement on Instagram, addressing the bout's cancellation.
"I'm gutted and disappointed in regards to the issues I have faced with entry into the USA," he said. "This is something that myself or my team could have never anticipated happening. This situation has been left with my lawyers as being denied entry to a country is obviously a very serious issue and it needs to subsequently be resolved.
"I am confident this fight will happen when this issue gets resolved and we come to a solution. I want to clarify that I will fight in a neutral country that both parties can enter. This can be anytime, any place, anywhere."
Earlier in July, Fury went into detail regarding the original problems with travel to the US. He arrived at London's Heathrow Airport to travel for a press conference but was told his Electronic System for Travel Authorization had been denied.
"I got pulled to one side and I was told by the homeland security that my ESTA had been denied and I wasn't able to travel to the USA for a reason that I apparently know." Fury said on Instagram. "I can stand here and say I've done absolutely nothing wrong and I have no clue why I'm not allowed to travel to the USA."
Back then, in response, Paul claimed Fury was trying to "weasel" his way out of the fight. "My team and my partners have made it clear the steps you need to take to solve your latest excuse," Paul tweeted. "Take them or admit you're a scared little bitch."
More recently, Paul has said he and his team were moving on from the fight and potentially looking at other opponents.
"Tommy Fury is in hiding," he tweeted. "Instructed my team to do a Hova and move On To The Next One."
Recent reports said Hasim Rahman Jr., the son of former boxing champ Hasim Rahman, is a possible opponent.
Both Paul and Fury had officially announced news of the upcoming fight over social media on July 23.
Fury was supposed to be Paul's opponent in his last fight, which was set to take place in December. After suffering a broken rib, Fury was forced to pull out and was replaced by former UFC champion Tyron Woodley.
That fight was a rematch of an earlier contest between the two. Paul put an exclamation mark on their second meeting, knocking Woodley out in spectacular fashion in the sixth round.
But since then -- and before then -- people have been begging Paul to fight a "real" boxer. Up to this point, Paul has faced a mix of YouTubers and ex-MMA fighters. As an 8-0 up-and-coming fighter, Fury was expected to be that "real" boxer and would have most likely represented Paul's toughest test in the ring to date.
Who is Tommy Fury?
Fury is a young pro boxer with a famous last name. He's the half brother of the current heavyweight champ Tyson Fury. He's also famous in the UK for starring in Love Island, a reality TV show where contestants have to couple up in order to avoid elimination. The show is huge in the UK.
Who is Jake Paul?
You're probably aware of Paul, the social media personality who first made it big on Vine before moving across to every platform in existence. He's moved into boxing in recent years after fighting on the undercard of brother Logan Paul's viral boxing match with UK YouTuber KSI. He showed a talent for boxing and has been fighting ever since.
Paul has also moved into promotion, co-promoting a huge fight between Ireland's Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, which was one of the biggest female boxing matches of all time.
Paul seems to get the public's perception of his boxing career, and posted a pretty self aware (and funny) TikTok about his upcoming fight with Fury.
@jakepaul you guys bullied me into this… not cool.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
2-0-9-7, FIREBALL: 4
(two, zero, nine, seven; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
2-0-9-7, FIREBALL: 4
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA) – Arkansas junior Ayden-Owens Delerme, one of three finalists for the Bowerman Award, is currently preparing for the World Athletics Championships which is coming to the USA for the very first time.
“It’s been a long time coming but like you said I’m 22 years old and I’d love to have a long career in this sport and I think this is the beginning,” Owens-Delerme said.
This will be the first time he will be competing in an adult international competition. However, that isn’t something that phases Owens-Delerme since the decathlon is still the decathlon.
“They say it’s a grown man’s event, I’m now a grown man so I’m ready to go out there and get in the ring with some of these guys and honestly I say it’s a competition between me and myself. I’m really not worried about any other person in this whole world and whoever lines up at the line, it’s me, my lane, the track is still 400 meters,” Owens-Delerme said.
Owens-Delerme won’t just be representing the Razorbacks at Worlds since he’s also competing for a place that’s near to his heart.
“My mom’s side of the family is all from Puerto Rico, I’ve been visiting every summer as often as I could since I was a little boy so I’ve always had a strong connection , my grandparents were straight out of Puerto Rico, wore the flag, wore the culture and heritage with pride. They instilled that in me and wanted me to carry that along and they’ve passed so I wanted to dedicate my career to them,” Owens-Delerme said.
After all he’s been able to accomplish at Arkansas after just a year, it’s likely he will make both his family and Hog nation proud at Worlds.
The World Athletics Championships will be held in Eugene, Oregon from July 15- July 24. Owens-Delerme will be competing alongside 15 other former Razorbacks, current Razorbacks, and Razorback volunteer assistants. | https://www.kark.com/news/razorback-ayden-owens-delerme-prepares-for-world-athletics-championships/ | 2022-07-07T04:54:21Z | https://www.kark.com/news/razorback-ayden-owens-delerme-prepares-for-world-athletics-championships/ | true |
Say Ciao, to the newest breed coming to the American Kennel Club: The bracco Italiano
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. dog lovers, say "benvenuto" to the bracco Italiano.
The ancient Italian bird-hunting dog is the 200th member of the American Kennel Club's roster of recognized breeds, the organization announced Wednesday. That means the handsome, powerful but amiable pointers can now go for best in show at many U.S. dog shows, including the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club event next year.
The bracco (pronounced BRAH'-koh) goes back more than two millennia in Europe but wasn't brought to the U.S. until the mid-1990s, according to the AKC. It's sometimes called the Italian pointer or Italian pointing dog.
The ideal bracco should be "tough and adapted to all types of hunting, reliable, docile and intelligent," while also friendly and neither shy nor aggressive, according to the AKC's standard for the medium-to-large breed.
"They’re very easy to live with and be around, and yet it’s like a light switch — when it’s time to jump in the back of the truck and go hunting, and they’ve got a job, they just light up like a Christmas tree," said owner and breeder Lisa Moller of Portage, Wisconsin.
She and husband Dale relied on Labrador retrievers as pheasant-hunting helpers before a friend introduced them to a bracco about five years ago. The couple was quickly struck by the dog's methodical hunting style in the field and affectionate nature at home: "They're very Velcro," Lisa Moller said.
Bracco Italiano dogs on day four at Crufts Dog Show at National Exhibition Centre on March 13, 2022 in Birmingham, England.
The dogs — the proper plural is "bracchi Italiani" — have a deep bark and readily deploy it on spotting backyard wildlife, so "they may not be the right dog for everybody," she noted.
AKC Executive Secretary Gina DiNardo called the bracco a great companion for active families who can provide "the love and attention it needs."
The AKC opened the nation's oldest dog registry with a mere nine breeds in 1878. In the last decade alone, the club has added over 20 breeds, ranging from the teeny Russian toy to the powerful dogo Argentino. Criteria involve the total number and generations of registered dogs nationwide, their geographical distribution and other factors.
There remain many breeds that are registered elsewhere but not by the AKC, or aren't formally recognized at all. Some aficionados eschew, or are torn about, the exposure that AKC recognition brings to a breed.
Animal rights activists denounce dog breeding, and they say that adding more breeds just exacerbates faddish demand for purebred pets and fuels puppy mills that feed it.
The AKC says it promotes responsible breeding aimed at preserving characteristics that equip dogs for various tasks and ease owners' search for a pup they can live with and commit to. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/say-ciao-to-the-newest-breed-coming-to-the-american-kennel-club-the-bracco-italiano | 2022-07-07T04:57:25Z | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/say-ciao-to-the-newest-breed-coming-to-the-american-kennel-club-the-bracco-italiano | false |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A year has passed since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his private home where an elite security team was supposed to protect him. Not only have authorities failed to identify and arrest all those who masterminded and financed the killing, but Haiti has gone into a freefall as violence soars and the economy tumbles.
Many have fled Haiti in the past year, making potentially deadly voyages aboard rickety boats filled with hundreds of Haitians that have repeatedly turned up on the shores of nearby nations. They chose to face that risk rather than go hungry and fear for their lives, as do many people who have stayed behind.
“Every day is a fight. It’s a fight to stay alive. It’s a fight to eat. It’s a fight to survive,” said Hector Duval, a plumber who now drives a motorcycle taxi to make more money since Haitians are afraid to board slow-moving buses and chance being killed by warring gangs.
Killings have soared and thousands of families have been driven from their homes by gangs battling over territory ever since Moïse was shot to death shot last July 7 at his home near the capital, Port-au-Prince.
An overwhelmed government is struggling to crack down on the gangs and reduce a spike in kidnappings linked to them. At the same time, attempts to form a coalition government have faltered in recent weeks and efforts to hold general elections have stalled, leaving many wondering where Haiti is headed.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry has promised to create a new provisional electoral council, which is responsible for organizing general elections, but that hasn't happened. There hasn't been a Parliament because the government failed to organize elections in 2019, and Moïse dismissed most lawmakers in early 2020 and ruled by decree for more than a year before he was killed.
Meanwhile, hopes for a trial for those arrested in the killing of the president have been derailed by the resignation of four judges appointed to oversee the investigation, with some saying they feared for their lives.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry himself has recognized the uncertainty hovering over the case. Last month, he tweeted: “I have the unpleasant feeling that those who conceived and financed this macabre plan are still running the streets and are still escaping our judicial system.”
More than 40 people have been arrested in Haiti, including high-ranking police officers and a group of former Colombian soldiers. At least two of three suspects detained outside Haiti were extradited to the U.S., where they face charges including conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States.
Many of the soldiers’ relatives in Colombia are demanding a proper judicial process and an improvement in dire prison conditions.
“A lot of time there is no food, no potable water,” Nataly Andrade, wife of retired Col. Giovanny Guerrero, told The Associated Press. She visited him in prison in May and was alarmed at how much weight he had lost. In recent weeks, at least eight inmates in southern Haiti, not connected to the Moïse case, have died from heat and malnutrition.
Moïse's widow, Martine, continues to demand justice. She issued a statement this month saying she would not attend any of Thursday’s commemorations organized by the Haitian state, “whose head of government is the subject of serious suspicions of (involvement in) the assassination of the President of the Republic.”
Henry has brushed away those allegations, firing a chief prosecutor last year who asked a judge to charge the prime minister in the killing and bar him from leaving the country. The prosecutor had noted that Henry spoke twice with a key suspect hours after the killing.
Henry’s office has said the prime minister is unable to identify everyone who called him that day or determine the nature of the conversations since he couldn’t take all the calls. The suspect remains at large.
Henry is urging Haitians to focus on turning around their country.
“It is imperative that Haitians work together to reconcile segments of our society that are too divided,” he said. “This is a must if we want to restore security, deal with armed gangs and their sponsors, create a climate conducive to the holding of elections with a high turnout, in order to rebuild our democratic institutions.”
But a growing number of Haitians blame Henry for the growing insecurity.
The United Nations says that almost seven kidnappings are reported a day and that in May alone more than 200 killings and 198 abductions were reported in the country of more than 11 million people. Those kidnappings included two busloads of children and three U.N. employees and their dependents. In addition, one gang recently seized control of part of Haiti’s Court of First Instance, looting and burning case files and evidence.
“Even though we have a prime minister, no one is governing the country right now,” Ralf Jean-Pierre, a businessman from Les Cayes who lives in Port-au-Prince, said as he scanned the street while talking, fearful he might be kidnapped at any moment.
He said life for him and his family has become extremely difficult because he can’t ferry goods such as bananas, yams and tomatoes that grow in southern Haiti to the capital since warring gangs have taken over the main road connecting the two regions.
The lack of access also means that not enough aid is reaching those affected by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the south almost a year ago, killing more than 2,200 people and destroying or damaging hundreds of thousands of homes and other buildings.
Thousand have fled Haiti. The largest single incident came in late May, when 842 Haitians were stranded on the Cuban coast after their captain abandoned the boat. Hundreds of others have landed in Florida, while dozens have died at sea in recent months.
Claudia Julmiste, a nursing student, said she is trying to make ends meet by reselling underwear, bras and wigs that she buys in the neighboring Dominican Republic, although Haiti’s double-digit inflation has hit her and many others hard.
“I’m trying to make the best of it here,” she said. “I don’t want to be one of those kids getting on a boat at sea to die, but Haiti is not offering anything.”
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Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Associated Press writer Astrid Suárez in Bogota, Colombia, contributed to this report. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Haiti-s-struggle-worsened-in-year-since-slaying-17289215.php | 2022-07-07T04:59:34Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Haiti-s-struggle-worsened-in-year-since-slaying-17289215.php | false |
CHICAGO (NewsNation) — It’s Monday morning time in Dallas. P&J Pawn Shop has just opened its doors, and already customers are streaming in.
Patrick Wade has worked here for 34 years and now owns the place. Lending a helping hand has forever been part of pawning, but in the last few months, Wade has watched the industry do a 180.
In the past, for example, pawning was a luxury for many of his customers. “They do it just out of fun to then go gamble, or go on a vacation or do something special for their loved one. And that’s when I love it the best,” he told NewNation’s “Rush Hour.”
But with inflation at a 40-year high, most are now here to make ends meet.
Patrece Ward has been loyal to P&J for 20 years and was bringing in a TV she was hoping to make some fast cash on when she spoke to “Rush Hour.”
“Maybe about $160-$170,” she said of how much she expected back. “I’m hoping to just cover the gas that I need for my vehicle, maybe food, or whatever I need to get through until my payday.”
Times are hard for Ward and her four kids. While pawning used to be a way for her to upgrade personal items, it now feeds her family.
And she’s not alone.
Jeremy Bonsu told “Rush Hour” he just sold his gaming system for $50. “It’s probably gonna go straight to my [gas] tank, let’s be honest,” he said with a laugh. “Times are not easy, not as easy as has been. But yeah, extra cash will definitely help … and I got a lot of other stuff. First thing that came to my mind was, ‘Well, I have an Xbox,’” he said.
And for AJ Johnson, it was a watch he struggled to part with. “The amount of money I had to work with was so sufficient probably two years ago, but since then things have gone topsy-turvy,” Johnson said.
According to the National Pawnbrokers Association, 30 million Americans are unbanked or underbanked, and 20% don’t have a bank account at all.
“Well, if you don’t have cash and you don’t have a credit card, guess what? I’m the next best offer,” Wade said.
In the world of pawning, you have three options: Go in as a customer looking to shop; sell an item for cash; or pawn it, meaning you exchange your item for a loan, the store holds onto it, and you hope to buy it back in time.
“Sales are down this year over last year. Matter of fact, in June I predict we’ll be down about 30% from where we were last year. But loans are much higher,” Wade said.
Not only are they higher, but they’re also almost double, and the merchandise Wade is seeing come through his doors is much grander than what he’s seen in the past — from diamond heirlooms to designer purses.
“We did not use to have them. Five years ago, we did not take purses like this,” Wade said of one designer handbag.
For Wade, the pawn shop keeps his lights on too, but he’s looking forward to the day when business starts to turn.
“We’ll see the good times again when people are just buying for fun!” he said. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/pawn-shop-business-spikes-as-patrons-seek-to-make-ends-meet/ | 2022-07-07T04:59:49Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/pawn-shop-business-spikes-as-patrons-seek-to-make-ends-meet/ | false |
ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — More sunshine means more pool time! But with New York experiencing a lifeguard shortage, how exactly is the state helping New Yorkers stay safe in the water?
For starters, Governor Hochul has taken measures to alleviate the lifeguard shortage at beaches and pools by increasing wages for state lifeguards. At upstate facilities, lifeguards will see a wage increase from $15 to $20 an hour. And downstate facilities, $18.15 an hour to $22 an hour.
Craig Roopchand is founder of Gateway Sports & Pools and lifeguard instructor for the American Red Cross. He hopes the wage increase will help alleviate some of the expenses associated with becoming a lifeguard. “The price range is anywhere from $350 and up just to become a lifeguard in the state of New York and then they have to pay every year to renew their CPR and AED certification, so that’s also costs on the student as well,” he said.
On top of that, there are extensive physical requirements needed to pass certification. According to New York State Parks and Recreation Department, the current certification process includes a 200 yard swim in four minutes or less using crawl or breast stroke, a 20 yard underwater swim, a surface dive and recovery simulating an underwater search and recovery for a victim and CPR.
Roopchand says another issue lifeuards face is unruly people, “They aggressively do attack the lifeguards, that’s one of the things we struggle with to have proper communication and enforce the rules without older adults aggressively attacking the lifeguards for just enforcing the rules.”
Governor Hochul also implemented a digital recruitment campaign to gain lifeguard employment. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/new-york-state-news/lifeguard-wage-increase-to-alleviate-shortage/ | 2022-07-07T05:02:53Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/new-york-state-news/lifeguard-wage-increase-to-alleviate-shortage/ | true |
- Airties to relocate headquarters to Paris to support planned global expansion
- Providence Equity Partners completes acquisition of Airties
LONDON and PARIS, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Airties, a leading provider of cloud-based managed Wi-Fi solutions to operators globally, today announced that Tony Ball, former chairman of Kabel Deutschland and CEO of BSkyB, and current Senior Advisor of Providence Equity Partners, will serve as new Chairman of the Airties board. Philippe Alcaras will continue to serve as CEO of Airties.
Airties also shared today that its corporate headquarters is moving to Paris, France to support its global expansion plans. The announcements come as part of the completion of the acquisition by Providence Equity Partners L.L.C. ("Providence"), a premier private equity firm that specializes in growth-oriented investments in media, communications, education and technology.
"We are excited to embark on this new stage in Airties' growth, working with Providence as we look to expand our market position and further delight our customers, partners, and employees," said Philippe Alcaras, CEO of Airties. "We are also particularly fortunate, and grateful, to have Tony Ball serve as Chairman of the Board. Tony's established record of leadership within the industry will be invaluable as we seek to accelerate growth globally and serve our worldwide customers."
"Airties is renowned for delivering among the best managed Wi-Fi solutions that enable exceptional end-user experiences to many of the most respected broadband service providers around the world," said Tony Ball, Chairman of the Board at Airties. "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work alongside Philippe, and his team, to expand upon that success and explore new business opportunities. Millions of homes rely upon Airties to stay connected, productive, and entertained, and it's exciting to believe we are still in the early stages of market penetration and global adoption."
Airties has been recognized with many prestigious industry awards for its innovative work serving broadband operators, including: "Best Home Wi-Fi Solution Award" from Broadband World Forum; the "Best Wi-Fi Service Provider Solution" and "Best Home Wi-Fi Product" awards from Wi-Fi NOW; "Best-In Home Wi-Fi Network" from Wireless Broadband Alliance; the "Best Broadband Customer Experience" award from Cable & Satellite International; and many others.
Airties is a leading provider of managed Wi-Fi solutions to operators around the globe. The Smart Wi-Fi portfolio from Airties includes Airties Edge, smart Wi-Fi software for gateways; Airties Cloud, a cloud-based management platform and its companion app, Airties Vision; and Wi-Fi mesh extenders. Operators turn to Airties for the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of their customers' broadband experience. Airties' customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Singtel, Sky, Telia, Telstra, Vodafone, and many others. More information is available at www.airties.com.
Providence Equity Partners is a specialist private equity investment firm focused on growth-oriented media, communications, education, and technology companies across North America and Europe. Providence combines its partnership approach to investing with deep industry expertise to help management teams build exceptional businesses and generate attractive returns.
Since its founding in 1989, Providence has invested over $31 billion across more than 170 private equity portfolio companies. With its headquarters in Providence, RI, the firm also has offices in New York, London, Boston and Atlanta.
For more information, please visit www.provequity.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Melissa Martinez applied to have her student loan debt forgiven more than a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education told her she was ineligible.
Martinez, a professor, tried again this past year and managed to erase the last $6,000 she owed for her doctorate. She wasn’t alone — according to new federal figures, more than 145,000 borrowers have had the remainder of their federal student loan debt canceled through a program for people who work for schools, governments or nonprofits.
Hundreds of thousands more have completed the paperwork for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and officials say many more likely qualify. An Oct. 31 deadline to apply under the less stringent rules is fast approaching.
There’s a broader conversation underway in America about how to handle student loan debt. An estimated 43 million Americans carry student loans worth $1.6 trillion, according to federal figures. Federal student loan payments were paused during the coronavirus pandemic and will remain so until at least Aug. 31. President Joe Biden is expected to make some sort of announcement about student loan relief before then.
Nearly all of the cancellations through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program have come since last October, when the government temporarily relaxed the complex requirements. Before that, the program had rejected more than 90% of applicants, the Department of Education said in 2019.
A spokesperson for the Education Department said Wednesday that most borrowers who were denied then were deemed ineligible because they didn’t meet employer eligibility requirements, their employment dates didn’t align with the dates of their student loans, or they didn’t have the required direct loans.
“I thought maybe it would work now,” said Martinez, who graduated from the University of Texas, Austin in 2010 with a doctorate in educational administration.
Martinez said the money will go towards lowering credit card debt and building savings to have on hand for emergencies and unexpected expenses.
“Knowing that it’s forgiven lifts some of the worry or stress off my shoulders,” she said.
Even though the deadline is in October, Martinez advises people who may qualify for the loan forgiveness to apply as soon as possible. She found the process difficult to navigate, even with the relaxed rules. It took her five months to complete the paperwork and another three months to hear back from the program.
“I remember calling and staying on the line for an hour waiting,” she said. Martinez also initially had her proof of employment denied, though it was approved when she re-sent the documents.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, launched in 2007 to steer more graduates to public service, cancels federal student loan debt after 10 years of public interest work, or 120 payments. Teachers, librarians, nurses, public interest lawyers, military members and other public workers all qualify, along with people who work for non-profits.
So far, the forgiveness totals almost $8.1 billion in federal loans, but that amount is just a fraction of the debt that could qualify. The average amount of debt forgiven through the program is $64,968.
“The program seems really simple — people commit ten years to serving their country and communities and the government promises to end their student debt,” said Kat Welbeck, Civil Rights Counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center. “We’ve seen, throughout the 14 years, so many people set back by administrative hurdles and burdens, not knowing they had access to this program or being told they couldn’t get access even though they worked in qualified employment.”
Under the reformed rules, loan servicers count payments that had previously been deemed unacceptable, such as when borrowers mistakenly or unwittingly signed up for non-qualifying plans.
“I think it’s a great incentive, especially for teachers. So many are overworked and underpaid, and they’ve got those loans that they’re still working on,” Martinez said.
The waiver period has been life-changing for loan holders who’ve been able to receive credit toward forgiveness for years they’ve worked in public service after previously being rejected, Welbeck said, describing joyful tears as loan balances drop to zero.
“There are so many more people to reach,” Welbeck added. “And it’s only a year, so we’re operating with a sense of urgency.”
Martinez encourages others to apply during the waiver period, despite the frustration. She says it was worth the time and effort to get the balance of her student loan forgiven.
Borrowers who are currently jobless or not working in public service may still qualify for forgiveness, according to the Department of Education. And the months during the pandemic since March 2020 in which payments on federal loans have been paused count as credits towards the total number of payments required for the program.
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new rules for the program that are expected to take effect by July 2023. They would give borrowers more leeway if they’re late on payments or don’t pay in full.
Under the original rules, borrowers must make payments in full within 15 days of the due date to get credit toward their 120 monthly payments. The proposal would relax that, allowing borrowers to make progress even if they’re late or make the payment in multiple installments.
The waiver that expires Oct. 31 was mostly meant to make up for widespread confusion about which types of loans and payment plans are eligible under the program. Some borrowers had made years of payments only to find out they weren’t in an eligible plan or loan program.
The new proposed rules won’t change which loans are eligible, but they aim to provide more flexibility so borrowers don’t lose progress toward forgiveness because of late payments or paperwork problems.
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Associated Press Writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report.
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SEATTLE (AP) — An inquest jury found Wednesday that two Seattle police officers were justified in fatally shooting a mentally unstable, pregnant, Black mother of four children inside her apartment when she menaced them with knives in 2017.
The six King County coroner’s inquest jurors unanimously determined that officers Jason Anderson and Steven McNew, who are white, had no reasonable alternative to using deadly force. The findings drew an angry outburst from Lyles’ father, who shouted profanities and yelled, “You killed my daughter!”
The officers testified that Lyles, who had threatened other officers with shears two weeks earlier and spoke of morphing into a wolf, had been calmly speaking with them after calling to report a purported burglary when she suddenly lunged at one with a knife.
As the officers drew their weapons, Lyles yelled “Do it!” and cursed at them. The officers repeatedly yelled for her to get back before firing, hitting her seven times. The jury found that even if the officers had a Taser, it would not have been an effective or appropriate option as she advanced on them in the close confines of the apartment, The Seattle Times reported.
Her crying baby crawled over and climbed on top of her as she died, and a boy came out of a bedroom and said, in tears, “You shot my mother,” the officers recalled in emotional testimony.
Lyles was 15 weeks pregnant.
King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg issued a statement saying he would review the evidence presented at the inquest as well as the findings in deciding whether to press charges against the officers.
“Charleena Lyles’ death is a tragedy,” Satterberg said. “Details of the incident shared at the inquest are heartbreaking.”
Her death unleashed a storm of public protest and has been held up by advocates of police reforms as demonstrating unnecessary police violence and institutional racism by law enforcement.
Family members questioned why the officers, who had been trained to deal with people showing signs of mental illness or other behavior crises, didn’t use nonlethal methods to subdue her. Anderson did not have his Taser with him — the battery was dead — and he was later suspended for two days without pay for violating department policy.
Under questioning from the family’s lawyer, Karen Koehler, a Seattle police detective who helped review the shooting acknowledged that the officers had made no plan for dealing with Lyles aside from not allowing her to get behind them.
The family last year settled a civil lawsuit against the officers and the Seattle Police Department for $3.5 million.
The inquest began after a years-long delay prompted by revisions to the coroner’s inquest process. It included six days of testimony. The jurors were asked to consider Lyles’ death in light of the police deadly force law that was in effect in 2017, which requires a finding of “actual malice” by the officer — a standard that was changed in 2018 by voter approval of Initiative 940, after prosecutors and lawmakers concluded it was virtually impossible to meet that standard to charge an officer with murder.
An inquest jury can determine if law enforcement violated any policies and potentially any criminal laws. But any decision to charge a police officer is made by the King County prosecutor. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/inquest-seattle-police-shooting-of-pregnant-woman-justified/ | 2022-07-07T05:11:29Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/inquest-seattle-police-shooting-of-pregnant-woman-justified/ | false |
MOSCOW (AP) — A top Kremlin official warned the U.S. Wednesday that it could face the “wrath of God” if it pursues efforts to help establish an international tribunal to investigate Russia’s action in Ukraine, while the Russian lower house speaker urged Washington to remember that Alaska used to belong to Russia.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, denounced the U.S. for what he described as its efforts to “spread chaos and destruction across the world for the sake of ‘true democracy.'”
“The entire U.S. history since the times of subjugation of the native Indian population represents a series of bloody wars,” Medvedev charged in a long diatribe on his Telegram channel, pointing out the U.S. nuclear bombing of Japan during World War II and the war in Vietnam. “Was anyone held responsible for those crimes? What tribunal condemned the sea of blood spilled by the U.S. there?”
Responding to the U.S.-backed calls for an international tribunal to prosecute the perceived war crimes by Russia in Ukraine, Medvedev rejected it as an attempt by the U.S. “to judge others while staying immune from any trial.”
“It won’t work with Russia, they know it well,” Medvedev concluded. “That’s why the rotten dogs of war are barking in such a disgusting way.”
“The U.S. and its useless stooges should remember the words of the Bible: Do not judge and you will not be judged … so that the great day of His wrath doesn’t come to their home one day,” Medvedev said, referring to the Apocalypse.
He noted that the “idea to punish a country with the largest nuclear potential is absurd and potentially creates the threat to mankind’s existence.”
The warning follows a series of tough statements from Putin and his officials that pointed at the Russian nuclear arsenals to warn the West against interfering with Moscow’s action in Ukraine.
Medvedev, who served as Russia’s president in 2008-2012 when Putin shifted into the prime minister’s post due to term limits, was widely seen by the West as more liberal compared with his mentor. In recent months, however, he has made remarks that have sounded much tougher than those issued by the most hawkish Kremlin officials.
In another blustery warning to the U.S., Vyacheslav Volodin. a longtime Putin aide who serves as the speaker of the lower house of parliament, warned Wednesday that Washington should remember that Alaska was part of Russia when it freezes Russian assets. Russia colonized Alaska and established several settlements there until the U.S. purchased it from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million.
“When they attempt to appropriate our assets abroad, they should be aware that we also have something to claim back,” Volodin said during a meeting with lawmakers. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/putins-aide-warns-us-against-pressing-for-war-crimes-court/ | 2022-07-07T05:12:58Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/putins-aide-warns-us-against-pressing-for-war-crimes-court/ | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating potential civil rights violations in Texas’ multibillion-dollar border security mission that has given the National Guard arrest powers and seen state authorities bus migrants to Washington, D.C., according to public records.
A lawyer for the state police agency acknowledged the federal probe of Gov. Greg Abbott’s initiative to curb people crossing from Mexico in a May email, records obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune show. The state prison system also cited a “formal investigation” in a letter seeking to withhold public records related to Operation Lone Star.
The investigation comes to light as a human smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer highlights the limits of state and federal border controls. Crossings along the entire southern border are at or near their highest point in about two decades.
Last year, Abbott, a Republican seeking reelection, rolled out a massive law enforcement apparatus on the border, alleging inaction by President Joe Biden’s administration. The surge in officers has driven arrests — including for trespassing, low-level amounts of marijuana and other minor crimes that appear to have little to do with border security. Some of those detained have spent weeks in state jails.
The emails from Texas Department of Public Safety officials indicate federal authorities are looking at whether the operation may have broken a law against discrimination based on race, color or national origin by organizations receiving federal funds.
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice’s civil right’s division declined to comment. A Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman did not respond to a request for comment
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice provided information about Operation Lone Star to Department of Justice officials after they requested it in March, according to spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez. She said the state prison system “has and continues to follow all state, and federal laws as the state of Texas responds to the ongoing crisis at the border.”
Since April, Abbott has also offered migrants bus rides to Washington, D.C., saying he was taking the immigration issue to Congress’ doorstep. So far, about 3,000 migrants have taken the trip at a cost of more than $5 million.
The efforts have not stopped a recent increase in crossings at the southern border. Authorities stopped migrants from crossing illegally 523,000 times between January and May, up from 417,000 over the same span a year ago. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/report-justice-department-probing-texas-border-mission/ | 2022-07-07T05:13:05Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/report-justice-department-probing-texas-border-mission/ | false |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Democratic governors in states where abortion will remain legal are looking for ways to protect any patients who travel there for the procedure — along with the providers who help them — from being prosecuted by their home states.
The Democratic governors of Colorado and North Carolina on Wednesday issued executive orders to protect abortion providers and patients from extradition to states that have banned the practice.
Abortions are legal in North Carolina until fetal viability or in certain medical emergencies, making the state an outlier in the Southeast.
“This order will help protect North Carolina doctors and nurses and their patients from cruel right-wing criminal laws passed by other states,” Gov. Roy Cooper said in announcing the order.
The governors of Rhode Island and Maine also signed executive orders late Tuesday, stating that they will not cooperate with other states’ investigations into people who seek abortions or health care providers that perform them.
Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Dan McKee said women should be trusted with their own health care decisions, and Democratic Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos said Rhode Island must do all it can to protect access to reproductive health care as “other states attack the fundamental right to choose.”
Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills said she will “stand in the way of any effort to undermine, rollback, or outright eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Maine.”
Their offices confirmed Wednesday that they are preemptive, protective moves, and that neither state has received a request to investigate, prosecute or extradite a provider or patient.
Their attempts to protect abortion rights come as tighter restrictions and bans are going into effect in conservative states after last month’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned the nearly half-century-old holding from Roe v. Wade that found that the right to abortion was protected by the U.S. Constitution. The issue reverts to the states, many of which have taken steps to curtail or ban abortions.
Several states have put new restrictions already in place since the Supreme Court ruling and more are pressing to do so. In Louisiana on Wednesday, the state Supreme Court rejected the attorney general’s request to allow immediate enforcement of laws against most abortions saying it was declining to get involved “at this preliminary stage.” Enforcement was blocked by another court last week. Attorney General Jeff Landry tweeted that Wednesday’s decision “is delaying the inevitable. Our Legislature fulfilled their constitutional duties, and now the Judiciary must. It is disappointing that time is not immediate.”
The specific fears of Democratic officials are rooted in a Texas law adopted last year to ban abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected. The law lets any person other than a government official or employee sue anyone who performs an abortion or “knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets” obtaining one.
The person filing the claim would be entitled to $10,000 for every abortion the subject was involved with — plus legal costs.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear challenges to the Texas law so far.
Bernadette Meyler, a professor at Stanford Law School, said it’s not clear whether judgments against out-of-state abortion providers would hold up in courts, especially if they are not advertising their services in states with bans.
But she also said it’s not clear that the liberal states are on firm legal ground to protect their residents from any out-of-state litigation.
“Probably, they assume that some of the laws that they’re passing won’t be upheld or may not be upheld, and they’re trying to come up with as much as possible in order to resist the effects of the Dobbs decision,” Meyler said.
The resistance to cooperating with abortion-related investigations could hold up, though, she said. Places that declared themselves “sanctuary cities” and refused to cooperate with federal immigration investigations during former President Donald Trump’s presidency were able to carry out similar policies.
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson said her group and other advocates for abortion access are pushing for the protections. “Everywhere we can push the imagination of what a free and equal world looks like,” she said, “we are working with those governors.”
Connecticut was the first state to pass a law to protect abortion providers, patients and others from legal action taken by other states. Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont signed it in May, before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“In accordance with Connecticut law, we will resist any attempt by another state to criminalize or intrude on a woman’s private and lawful healthcare decisions,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement last week.
The Democratic governors of Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, California and Washington and the moderate Republican governor in liberal Massachusetts all signed executive orders within days of the ruling to prohibit cooperation with other states that might interfere with abortion access.
“Residents seeking access will be protected, providers will be protected, and abortion is and will continue to be legal, safe and accessible, period,” said New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has described the order as a preventative measure.
One of the largest abortion providers in Texas announced Wednesday that it’s planning to move its operations to bordering New Mexico. Whole Woman’s Health announced Wednesday that it is looking to establish a new clinic in a New Mexico city near the state line to provide first- and second-trimester abortions.
The Democratic-controlled Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill that aims to protect abortion providers and people seeking abortions from actions taken by other states. Delaware’s Democratic governor signed legislation expanding abortion access, with various legal protections for abortion providers and patients, including out-of-state residents receiving abortions in Delaware.
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed two bills Friday that moved swiftly in the Democratic-led Legislature following the ruling. The new laws aim to protect the right of those from outside the state to get abortion services within its borders and bar extradition of people involved in reproductive health care services should they face charges in another state.
Murphy said he was “overwhelmingly angry” that he had to sign the bills, but equally as proud to do so.
“These laws will make New Jersey a beacon of freedom for every American woman,” he said during a signing ceremony in Jersey City, not far from the Statue of Liberty.
In Washington state, the governor prohibited the state patrol from cooperating with out-of-state abortion investigations or prosecutions, but he noted that he didn’t have jurisdiction over local law enforcement agencies. The executive in the county surrounding Seattle said Tuesday that its sheriff’s office and other executive branch departments will not cooperate with out-of-state prosecutions of abortion providers or patients.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s office has said the state will refuse non-fugitive extradition for criminal prosecutions around abortion, but said an executive order is not needed.
Some progressive prosecutors around the U.S. have already declared that they won’t enforce some of the most restrictive, punitive anti-abortion laws. Police in Nashville on Wednesday released a statement saying they “are not abortion police” a day after the city council passed a resolution calling on the department to make abortion investigations a low priority.
City council members in two other liberal cities in conservative states — New Orleans and Austin, Texas — have made called for similar resolutions.
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Hannah Schoenbaum is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. AP/Report for America corps member Claire Rush also contributed from Portland, Oregon. Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Schoenbaum reported from Raleigh, North Carolina. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Jim Anderson in Denver; Gary Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina; Morgan Lee in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville; and Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/states-move-to-protect-abortion-from-prosecutions-elsewhere/ | 2022-07-07T05:14:06Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/states-move-to-protect-abortion-from-prosecutions-elsewhere/ | true |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
12-19-24-25-33
(twelve, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
12-19-24-25-33
(twelve, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-three)
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Which iPhone wallet case is best?
Having an iPhone wallet case allows you to carry just one item in your bag or pocket instead of carrying both a phone and wallet separately. These cases can be more convenient than a wallet because you can simply grab your phone and pull out a credit card with ease. With a wallet case, you have fewer items to worry about losing, as compared to having those two items separate. If you’re looking for a durable yet stylish iPhone wallet case, the Dream Fibonacci 2-in-1 Wallet Case is the top choice.
What to know before you buy an iPhone wallet case
Material
Most iPhone wallet cases are made of faux or real leather material. But if you prefer extra protection, there are wallet cases that have a hard plastic and/or rubber material on the inside and/or outside. The hardened material tends to help with shock absorption and is very difficult to crack, keeping your phone safe from small drops. Wallet cases with a hard interior do tend to weigh more than ones without, so it’s best to keep that in mind.
Compatibility
Always check that the case you’re going to purchase is compatible with the exact model of the phone. Some cases claim to fit various iPhone models, and sometimes that’s not entirely true as the case can be too tight or loose on a specific iPhone model. It’s best to get a case that’s specifically built for your model, especially because iPhones tend to gain new software and hardware every year, and you want a case that will be up to date and compatible with those features, such as wireless charging.
Bulk
As with many other phone cases, be aware that adding a case, especially a wallet case, will add bulk to your bag and pockets. If you tend to carry your phone in your pocket, you may have significantly less space in your pocket, and the phone may poke out more, making it more noticeable looking at it from the outside of the pocket. There are iPhone wallet cases that come in various sizes, so you can choose one that’s not too slim or thick if bulk matters to you.
What to look for in a quality iPhone wallet case
Kickstand
Having a built-in kickstand is not only useful for watching videos, but it’s perfect if you have to take a video conference call. The kickstand will help keep your phone stable instead of having to prop it on a random object that may not be reliable.
Camera and screen bump
Unless the case comes with screen and lens protector accessories, there should be a raised bump for the front and back of the phone. This ensures that if you were to drop the phone straight on its back or front, the screen or camera wouldn’t be the first thing to come in contact with the ground.
RFID blocking
Similar to how your wallet should have RFID blocking, your iPhone wallet case should have RFID blocking as well. RFID, which stands for radio frequency identification, is technology that can read and steal data from your ID and bank cards. Having an iPhone wallet case with RFID blocking can prevent your cards from being exposed to the radio signals of the RFID technology.
How much you can expect to spend on an iPhone wallet case
For a simple wallet case that you can quickly attach and has limited pockets, expect to spend $10-$25. Mid-range wallets with more accessibility and pockets cost $25-$50, while high-end models with reinforced protection and great material can cost $50-$100.
iPhone wallet case FAQ
Do wallet phone cases demagnetize cards?
A. No. iPhone wallet cases that have magnets in them are not strong enough to demagnetize or weaken the magnetic strip on your bank cards.
Can I wirelessly charge my phone with the case on?
A. Check that the phone case is wireless charge compatible or not, as the manufacturer will label the case with that feature if capable. Keep in mind that even if you do purchase a case that allows you to wirelessly charge, your phone can get extremely hot when wirelessly charging with a case on.
What’s the best iPhone wallet case to buy?
Top iPhone wallet case
Dreem Fibonacci 2-in-1 Wallet Case
What you need to know: With a detachable wallet case, this phone can be used with its hard plastic case alone or with the wallet covering.
What you’ll love: The detachable wallet accessory can be used as a kickstand but can also hold three to six cards and five to ten cash bills. The case comes with a 1-year warranty and 30-day money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied.
What you should consider: It is not MagSafe compatible.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top iPhone wallet case for the money
What you need to know: This case comes with a clip-on loop and kickstand capability, making your phone highly accessible.
What you’ll love: The case uses high-quality artificial leather that comes in a variety of colors. The RFID blocking technology helps keep your cards secure.
What you should consider: The case tends to peel after frequent use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Built to keep your phone safe from drops, this case has a lightweight construction that won’t be too bulky.
What you’ll love: The case has raised edges to protect the back and front of your camera, and the grippy sides help you have a firm grasp of your phone. It’s also wireless charge compatible.
What you should consider: The case can be very prone to scratching.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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A BCG Survey of More Than 7,000 Deskless Workers from the US, Australia, France, Germany, India, Japan, and the UK Shows That Almost 40% May Quit Their Jobs in the Coming Months
BOSTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Deskless" workers include construction, distribution, factory, health care, retail, and transportation employees, and comprise approximately 75% to 80% of all workers. And unlike the 20% to 25% of desk-bound or office workers, deskless workers don't have the option of working hybrid.
With many organizations already struggling with deskless talent shortages, the latest study from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), titled "Why Deskless Workers Are Leaving—and How to Win Them Back," shows that the problem could worsen significantly in the months ahead if company leaders don't act quickly.
Based on a seven-nation BCG survey conducted this spring, the research showed that employers are at risk of losing as many as 37% of their deskless workers within the next six months (see exhibit). Nearly a third of those workers already are planning to leave. A similar percentage said they haven't yet decided whether they want to stay or go. And a slightly higher percentage said they expect to stay in their jobs for the next six months but aren't ready to make a commitment beyond that.
The study found that Gen Z and hourly paid staff are more likely to leave their jobs than other deskless workers, with 48% of younger employees at risk of leaving within the next six months.
Uptick in Resignations Could Exacerbate Talent Shortages
BCG's latest employment survey results were released against the backdrop of widespread global talent shortages that threaten to further disrupt global labor markets and supply chains.
Persistent talent shortages now rank among the greatest challenges facing many companies. The US has millions more job vacancies than people looking for work. Germany reports record-high shortages of skilled workers. France and the other countries included in the survey face similar challenges.
Globally, Japan's deskless workers indicated the weakest attachment to their current jobs, with 42% either planning to leave (11%), undecided (24%), or unwilling to make a commitment beyond six months (7%). Workers in the UK followed closely behind at 41%, with a higher percentage (15%) already having decided to leave their current jobs in the next six months, another 15% unwilling to commit beyond six months, and 11% undecided. At the other extreme, German and US deskless workers were the least at risk of leaving, the survey showed—but not by much, with 13% and 12%, respectively, already planning their exits. Among the seven countries surveyed, France had the lowest percentage of deskless workers already planning to quit—although they comprised a still-significant 10% of employees.
"The costs of open positions are only going to get worse unless leaders start to materially address the reasons why employees are leaving," said Debbie Lovich, BCG's global leader for the future of work. "The good news is that when leaders take the time to walk in the shoes of and listen to their 'deskless' talent they will find ideas—often low-cost ones—for how they can immediately make their employees lives better. And they will also surface more innovative ideas (e.g., shift marketplaces, upskilling, expanded and differentiated benefits) that will enhance the work and lives of these critical colleagues."
What Workers Want
When asked to identify the main factors driving their decision to leave their current job, more than four in ten respondents (41%) identified a lack of career advancement opportunities. Thirty percent cited pay, 28% said they want more flexibility in where and when they work, 22% said improving work-life balance, and 15% highlighted a lack of enjoyment in their current position.
Among the respondents who said they plan to stay in their current job for at least another year, nearly half (48%) identified satisfaction with pay as one of the top reasons. The next most common reasons included enjoyment of their current role (30%), job security (27%), an easy commute (23%), and career advancement (23%).
Satisfaction and Pain Points
The benefits for employers who understand and act on their deskless workers' needs are clear. Satisfied workers are eight times as likely to stay in their roles for over two years than unsatisfied workers.
Overall, deskless workers identified five challenges when asked about pain points: their work schedules (56%, applicable mostly to shift workers), benefits package (49%), a lack of opportunity for career growth and advancement (48%), a lack of opportunity to learn new skills (46%), and feeling that their contributions go unnoticed (42%).
Avoiding the Next "Great Resignation"
The BCG research points to several bolder steps leaders can pursue to address the concerns of unsatisfied employees and strengthen their bonds with satisfied employees. Compensation clearly needs to be addressed, but other factors are also critical:
- Flexible scheduling. Consider each worker's lifestyle and needs when designing and scheduling shifts, create shift "marketplaces" where and when it's possible, and use technology to creatively design workers' schedules.
- Expanded benefits. Consider expanding benefits to entire households, offering on-site or subsidized daycare, providing financial planning assistance, and other job and life-enhancement perks.
- Career growth and upskilling. Invest in upskilling and/or retraining all workers, including frontline managers, to support career growth, actively identifying career pathways for workers.
- Demonstrated support of and commitment to deskless workers. Build a "frontline-first culture" with leaders committed to spending time listening to and acting on their deskless employees' views.
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MARGATE — This year, the Jewish Family Service Annual Meeting provided an opportunity for staff, board members, volunteers and donors to come together in person for the first time in two years. At the program, hosted June 16, attendees heard about the state of the agency and its continuing evolution and growth as well as installations, donor recognition, volunteer appreciation and staff awards.
“During my tenure over the past 16 years, the agency has made significant strides based on our strengths and desired impact to help the people and communities we serve. At JFS, we work diligently to plan, strategize, build relationships and secure funds to assure that we collectively achieve our mission and vision every day,” said Andrea Steinberg, JFS CEO.
JFS Past President Marc Lowenstein swore in four new board members who will each serve a one-year term: Charles Kramer, Robin Pincus-Shields, Adam R. Steinberg and Aaron R. Sykes. In addition, Lowenstein swore in Mark Sandson for a two-year term and Colin Bell for a three-year term. The agency also extended a heartfelt thank you for their hard work and support to outgoing board members Joel Frankel and Jeffrey Vasser. Then, JFS Chief Impact Officer Laura Rodgers welcomed Alex Marino, chair of JFS’ Community Advisory Board, to recognize the newest members of this entity: Adam Barker, Vernon Lawrence, Susan F. Maven, Victor Moreno, Roslyn Talley and James “Skip” Williams.
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Current JFS Board President Joel Caplan presented Sarah Rosenthal with the President’s Award for her commitment to the betterment of the community and agency. Rosenthal is on several fundraising committees and serves as secretary on the JFS Board of Directors.
JFS Senior Director of Communications and Donor Relations Beth Joseph welcomed and thanked new agency donors the Lynn & Charles Kramer Family Fund, Debbi and Michael Bass, Arlene Groch, Atlantic City Electric, Janet and Kenneth Grossman, J.S. Goldstein Funeral Home & Monuments, and Visiting Angels. In addition, Joseph thanked TD Charitable Fund, Fitzpatrick, Bongiovanni & Kelly, and Mutual of America for increasing their generous funding support. Beth also recognized the agency’s more than 65 Life & Legacy donors who selected to leave a legacy to JFS in their will, trust, retirement account or life insurance policy.
Volunteers are the backbone of the agency, and in 2021, JFS had 104 volunteers who donated 3,575 hours with friendly visits, grocery shopping and delivery, assisting at special events, sorting and stacking products in the food pantry and more. JFS Volunteer Services Supervisor Vanessa Smith announced Paula Koiro as the 2022 Volunteer of the Year.
“During the past two years, when many people were sheltering in place, Paula was out in the community delivering groceries and meals to older adults,” Smith said. “Despite working three jobs, Paula readily volunteered 111 hours to help those in need. She truly has angel wings.”
JFS Chief Operating Officer Ann Thoresen recognized staff members celebrating anniversaries with the agency. Sheila Concepcion, Rita Conti, Brittany French, Patience James, Vanessa King, Lauren Lodato, Michael O’Brien, Christina Swank, Kathryn Turcotte and Lillian Elsohn Whitcraft celebrated five years of service at JFS. In addition, Yesenia Pedroza was recognized for 10 years at JFS. Erin Bowes, Stacy McDonald and Jessica Reinhardt were acknowledged for 15 year of service. Also, Ann Thoresen and Sharon Simon have been employed for 20 years and Marie Reyes-Canales for 25 years at JFS.
Lastly, JFS Senior Director of Human Resources Greg Rosenblit announced the staff Service, Heart & Soul, and Leadership Awards. The winners were:
Outstanding Service Award: Pamela Palmer, Eric Kaplan, Fatimah Archie, Lauren Lodato and Sheila Concepcion
Heart & Soul Award: Vickie Perry, Eileen Boyer Durante, Leonard Smith, Jeff Willson and Paola Luisi
Leadership Award: Lillian Elsohn Whitcraft
For information on JFS programs, services or employment opportunities, visit jfsatlantic.org. For information on volunteer opportunities, contact Vanessa Smith at vsmith@jfsatlantic.org or 609-822-1108, ext. 249. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/community/currents_gazettes/downbeach/jewish-family-service-celebrates-annual-meeting-installations-recognitions-and-awards/article_9580ad00-f71a-11ec-a82d-6796825bd69c.html | 2022-07-07T05:19:21Z | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/community/currents_gazettes/downbeach/jewish-family-service-celebrates-annual-meeting-installations-recognitions-and-awards/article_9580ad00-f71a-11ec-a82d-6796825bd69c.html | true |
SEOUL – A South Korea activist said Thursday he launched more huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief items toward North Korea, days after the North vowed to sternly deal with such activities and made a highly questionable claim they were a source of the virus.
South Korean experts doubt North Korea’s moves to blame South Korean balloons and say the intent might be to incite anti-South Korea sentiments and ease public complaints over its handling of the outbreak. The coronavirus is spread by people in close contact who inhale airborne droplets, and the expert consensus is that the spread of the virus from surfaces is virtually impossible.
Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector-turned-activist, said his group floated 20 balloons carrying 20,000 masks and tens of thousands of vitamin C and fever-reducing tablets from a South Korean border town on Wednesday. He said he sent similar aid items by balloon across the inter-Korean border twice last month.
Park previously flew balloons to distribute anti-North Korea propaganda leaflets, U.S. one-dollar bills and USB sticks containing information about the outside world. But he said he’ll now focus on sending medical relief items because North Koreans urgently need them.
Since North Korea in May admitted to an omicron outbreak of the virus, its state media said about 4.8 million North Koreans have developed fevers but only 74 have died. Experts doubt the figures are accurate and speculate its disclosure of an extremely low death count is tooled to prevent political damage to leader Kim Jong Un.
Last week, state media said the outbreak had been traced to residents who had contact with “alien things” in a town near the border and that authorities have been ordered “to vigilantly deal with alien things coming by wind and other climate phenomena and balloons.”
Some outside experts, however, believe the omicron variant entered North Korea when it briefly reopened its northern border with China for freight traffic in January. Observers say the virus spread further when many North Koreans travelled to Pyongyang for massive public events marking state anniversaries in April and returned home.
“The one who spread COVID-19 is Kim Jong Un. But since public sentiments are really bad, he’s trying to put all the blame on us,” Park said. “How can materials spread COVID-19?”
Park is standing trial for a past leafleting campaign under a contentious South Korean law criminalizing such activities that took effect last year.
Park said he hasn't been contacted by authorities about his recent ballooning activities. Police said Thursday they are investigating Park’s recent balloon launches but refused to provide further details.
North Korea is extremely sensitive to outside attempts to criticize Kim’s rule to people who has little access to information from foreign sources. In 2014, North Korea fired at balloons flying toward its territory, and in 2020 it destroyed an empty South Korean-built liaison office in the North to express its anger over leafleting. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/07/07/s-korean-group-floats-balloons-toward-north-amid-animosities/ | 2022-07-07T05:32:11Z | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/07/07/s-korean-group-floats-balloons-toward-north-amid-animosities/ | false |
Johnson City, Tn — In Johnson City, Otters action tonight, playing host to the Southern Soccer Academy Kings out of Marietta, Georgia.
Over midway through the first half, both teams still scoreless, the kings Jacob Huth commits the illegal tackle on Sebastian Borquez, which gives Edin Hernandez an opportunistic free kick. Hernandez take his time to line up a shot. However, the Kings defense stands firm and he sends it just over the crossbar.
At the 41 minute mark the Otters’ Jan Gruhn attempts a bicycle kick off the corner pass but is unable to convert the trick shot.
Despite the missed opportunities in the first half, the Otters are able to send fans home happy, thanks to a pair of David Panter goals, both coming after the 70 minute mark.
The final: Otters 2, Kings 0. | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/local-sports/johnson-city-otters-defeat-southern-soccer-2-nil-at-home/ | 2022-07-07T05:36:12Z | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/local-sports/johnson-city-otters-defeat-southern-soccer-2-nil-at-home/ | true |
STOCKHOLM, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hygiene and health company Essity acquires the Australian company Modibodi, a leading leakproof apparel company in Australia, New Zealand and UK. The purchase price amounts to AUD 140m (approximately SEK 985m) on a cash and debt free basis. Through the acquisition, Essity will strengthen its position in leakproof apparel, the fastest growing product segment in Intimate Hygiene which includes Feminine Care and Incontinence Products.
Leakproof apparel has an expected annual growth rate of more than 20% for the next five years*. Essity is already active in the leakproof apparel market within Feminine Care with brands such as Libresse, Bodyform, Saba and TOM Organic, and within Incontinence Products with the TENA brand.
"The acquisition of Modibodi strengthens Essity's position in leakproof apparel and enables faster growth within better-for-you, better-for-the-planet solutions. Modibodi has the qualities we are looking for with leading market positions, strong brand and sustainability credentials as well as excellent digital marketing and e-commerce capabilities", says Magnus Groth, President and CEO of Essity.
Modibodi, founded in 2013, provides leakproof apparel for periods and incontinence including underwear, swimwear, activewear and maternity wear. The company operates an online, direct-to-consumer business model, with growing sales in retail and through e-tailers.
In 2021, the company reported net sales of AUD 56.7m (approximately SEK 365m) and a sales growth of 18%. The EBITDA amounted to AUD 5.7m (approximately SEK 36m) and EBITA to AUD 5.6m (approximately SEK 36m). Gross margin was high and EBITA margin amounted to 9.8%. Modibodi has 45 employees and headquarter in Sydney, Australia.
"I am proud of all we have created at Modibodi over the past nine years and pleased that Modibodi is joining Essity. As a global leader in hygiene and health, Essity can provide the expertise and capital to take the brand forward during its next phase of growth, and achieve even greater impact", says Kristy Chong, founder and CEO of Modibodi.
The transaction is expected to be finalized in the second half of 2022.
*Market data has been compiled by Essity based on data taken from external market sources and excludes Asia.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there, authorities said Wednesday.
The suspect turned back to Illinois, where he was later arrested, after deciding he was not prepared to pull off another attack in Wisconsin, Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said at a news conference following a hearing where the 21-year-old man was denied bond.
The parade shooting left another American community reeling — this time affluent Highland Park, home to about 30,000 people near the Lake Michigan shore. More than two dozen people were wounded, some critically, and hundreds of marchers, parents and children fled in a panic.
Covelli said it did not appear that the suspect had planned another attack in Wisconsin, but fled there, saw another Independence Day celebration and “seriously contemplated” firing on it. The assailant had ditched the semi-automatic rifle he used in Illinois, but he had another, similar rifle and about 60 more rounds with him, according to Covelli.
Police later found his phone in Middleton, Wisconsin, which is about 135 miles (217 kilometers) from Highland Park.
For hours before his arrest, police warned that the gunman was still at large and that he should be considered armed and dangerous. Several nearby cities canceled events including parades and fireworks. Most festivities in and around Wisconsin’s capital city went ahead.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news conference Wednesday that the FBI urged the department on Monday evening to prepare its SWAT team because investigators believed the gunman could be in the area. Barnes said he was not warned at the time that the shooter was considering carrying out further attacks.
Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Dillon said in court that the gunman climbed up the fire escape of a building above the Highland Park parade, “looked down his sights, aimed” and fired at people across the street. He left the shells of 83 bullets and three ammunition magazines on the rooftop. He initially evaded capture by disguising himself as a woman and blending into the fleeing crowd, according to police.
Some of the wounded remained hospitalized in critical condition, Covelli said, and the death toll could still rise. Already, the deaths from the shooting have left a 2-year-old boy without parents, families mourning the loss of beloved grandparents and a synagogue grieving the death of a congregant who for decades had also worked on the staff.
Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said he planned to bring attempted murder and aggravated battery charges for each individual who was hurt.
“There will be many, many more charges coming,” he said at a news conference, estimating that those charges would be announced later this month.
If convicted of the first-degree murder charges, the gunman would receive a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The suspect, Robert Crimo III, wore a black long-sleeve shirt as he appeared in court by video. As the prosecutor described the shooting, he said little besides telling the judge that he did not have a lawyer.
On Tuesday, Thomas A. Durkin, a prominent Chicago-based lawyer, said he would represent Crimo and that he intended to enter a not guilty plea to all charges. But Durkin told the court Wednesday that he had a conflict of interest with the case. Crimo has been assigned a public defender.
Rinehart also left open the possibility of charging Crimo’s parents, telling reporters that he “doesn’t want to answer” that question right now as the investigation continues.
Steve Greenberg, the lawyer for Crimo’s parents, told The Associated Press that the parents aren’t concerned about being charged with anything related to their son’s case.
Questions also arose about how the suspect could have skirted Illinois’ relatively strict gun laws to legally purchase five weapons, including the high-powered rifle used in the shooting, despite authorities being called to his home twice in 2019 for threats of violence and suicide.
Police went to the home following a call from a family member who said Crimo was threatening “to kill everyone” there. Covelli said police confiscated 16 knives, a dagger and a sword, but said there was no sign he had any guns at the time, in September 2019. Police in April 2019 also responded to a reported suicide attempt by Crimo, Covelli said.
Illinois state police, who issue gun owners’ licenses, said Crimo applied for a license in December 2019, when he was 19. His father sponsored his application, and he purchased the semi-automatic rifles in 2020, according to Covelli.
In all, police said, he purchased five firearms, which were recovered by officers at his father’s home. He purchased four of the guns while he was under 21 and bought a fifth after his birthday last year.
The revelations about his gun purchases offered just the latest example of young men who were able to obtain guns and carry out massacres in recent months despite glaring warning signs about their mental health and inclination to violence.
The state police have defended how the application was handled, saying that at the time “there was insufficient basis to establish a clear and present danger” and deny the application, state police said in a statement.
Investigators who have interrogated the suspect and reviewed his social media posts have not determined a motive or found any indication that he targeted victims by race, religion or other protected status, Covelli said.
In 2013, Highland Park officials approved a ban on semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines. A local doctor and the Illinois State Rifle Association quickly challenged the liberal suburb’s stance. The legal fight ended at the U.S. Supreme Court’s doorstep in 2015 when justices declined to hear the case and let the suburb’s restrictions remain in place.
Asked whether Crimo’s case demonstrates flaws in state law, Rinehart said that “the gap in the state’s gun laws would be that we don’t ban assault weapons.”
Under Illinois law, gun purchases can be denied to people convicted of felonies, addicted to narcotics or those deemed capable of harming themselves or others. That last provision might have stopped a suicidal Crimo from getting a weapon.
But under the law, who that provision applies to must be decided by “a court, board, commission or other legal authority.”
The state has a so-called red flag law designed to stop dangerous people before they kill, but it requires family members, relatives, roommates or police to ask a judge to order guns seized.
Crimo, who goes by the name Bobby, was an aspiring rapper with the stage name Awake the Rapper, posting on social media dozens videos and songs, some ominous and violent.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee was a big hit with television viewers, easily reaching a larger live audience than any of the four other daytime hearings.
Hutchinson’s riveting testimony about former President Donald Trump’s temper as plans to overturn the 2020 election fell apart was seen by 13.17 million people last week, the Nielsen company said.
That’s a 28% jump from the 10.25 million who watched the committee’s previous daytime hearing, and 23% over the average from the four daytime hearings. The committee’s first hearing, the only one televised in prime-time, was seen by 19.4 million people.
The committee had hurriedly scheduled a public session to hear Hutchinson’s testimony after expecting to be off until mid-July. Its leaders built up anticipation by trying to keep the identity of its witness a secret in advance.
Given that many people later heard parts of Hutchinson’s testimony online or in news reports, the actual number of people who heard what she said was bigger than the live coverage.
CBS was the most popular network in prime time last week, averaging 2.7 million viewers. NBC had 2.4 million, ABC had 2.1 million, Fox had 1.6 million, Univision had 1.2 million, Ion Television had 1 million, and Telemundo averaged 900,000.
Fox News Channel was the top-rated cable network in prime time, averaging 2.05 million viewers. MSNBC had 1.31 million, HGTV had 858,000, Hallmark had 730,000 and History had 685,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening news ratings race with an average of 7.2 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.1 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.3 million.
For the week of June 27-July 3, the 20 most-watched programs in prime time, their networks and viewerships:
1. “America’s Got Talent,” NBC, 5.98 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 4.35 million.
3. “FBI,” CBS, 3.63 million.
4. “60 Minutes” (Sunday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 3.598 million.
5. “The Price is Right” (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 3.586 million.
6. “The Price is Right” (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 3.36 million.
7. “Celebrity Family Feud” (Monday, 9 p.m.), ABC, 3.33 million.
8. “NCIS,” CBS, 3.32 million.
9. “Celebrity Family Feud” (Monday, 8 p.m.), ABC, 3.31 million.
10. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 3.24 million.
11. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 3.22 million.
12. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.18 million.
13. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News, 3.162 million.
14. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 3.161 million.
15. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.13 million.
16. “FBI: International,” CBS, 3.1 million.
17. “NCIS: Hawai’i,” CBS, 3.06 million.
18. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 3.01 million.
19. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 2.95 million.
20. “Hannity” (Wednesday), Fox News, 2.58 million. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/hutchinsons-jan-6-committee-testimony-a-television-hit/ | 2022-07-07T05:43:02Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/hutchinsons-jan-6-committee-testimony-a-television-hit/ | true |
STOCKHOLM, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hygiene and health company Essity acquires the Australian company Modibodi, a leading leakproof apparel company in Australia, New Zealand and UK. The purchase price amounts to AUD 140m (approximately SEK 985m) on a cash and debt free basis. Through the acquisition, Essity will strengthen its position in leakproof apparel, the fastest growing product segment in Intimate Hygiene which includes Feminine Care and Incontinence Products.
Leakproof apparel has an expected annual growth rate of more than 20% for the next five years*. Essity is already active in the leakproof apparel market within Feminine Care with brands such as Libresse, Bodyform, Saba and TOM Organic, and within Incontinence Products with the TENA brand.
"The acquisition of Modibodi strengthens Essity's position in leakproof apparel and enables faster growth within better-for-you, better-for-the-planet solutions. Modibodi has the qualities we are looking for with leading market positions, strong brand and sustainability credentials as well as excellent digital marketing and e-commerce capabilities", says Magnus Groth, President and CEO of Essity.
Modibodi, founded in 2013, provides leakproof apparel for periods and incontinence including underwear, swimwear, activewear and maternity wear. The company operates an online, direct-to-consumer business model, with growing sales in retail and through e-tailers.
In 2021, the company reported net sales of AUD 56.7m (approximately SEK 365m) and a sales growth of 18%. The EBITDA amounted to AUD 5.7m (approximately SEK 36m) and EBITA to AUD 5.6m (approximately SEK 36m). Gross margin was high and EBITA margin amounted to 9.8%. Modibodi has 45 employees and headquarter in Sydney, Australia.
"I am proud of all we have created at Modibodi over the past nine years and pleased that Modibodi is joining Essity. As a global leader in hygiene and health, Essity can provide the expertise and capital to take the brand forward during its next phase of growth, and achieve even greater impact", says Kristy Chong, founder and CEO of Modibodi.
The transaction is expected to be finalized in the second half of 2022.
*Market data has been compiled by Essity based on data taken from external market sources and excludes Asia.
For further information, please contact:
Per Lorentz, Vice President Corporate Communications, +46 733 13 30 55, per.lorentz@essity.com
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Which Lenovo desktop computers are best?
Buying a prebuilt desktop computer is an especially convenient way to get your hands on a capable PC. Unlike building your own computer, though, you don’t always know what components are inside a prebuilt PC or if they’re reliable.
The best way to mitigate this unknown risk is to go for a quality prebuilt desktop PC from a reliable manufacturer. Few manufacturers on the market have more extensive reputations than Lenovo. Equipped with a variety of premium components, the Lenovo Legion Tower 7i is their most powerful offering.
What to know before you buy a Lenovo desktop computer
How much processing power you need
Different people use computers for wildly different things. If all you plan to do is check email and browse social media, there’s no need to spend a lot on fancy hardware. In fact, while the field of personal computing is constantly advancing with new and exciting hardware and software developments, anybody who doesn’t play resource-intensive games really doesn’t need the latest hardware at all.
Of course, if you are an avid gamer, you’re probably already aware that top-of-the-line hardware is available only at top dollar. But for everyday use, most people will be satisfied with something affordable, even if the processor and other internal components are a couple of years old.
How much space you have for it
If you don’t have a ton of space but need something for general use, it’s worth considering an all-in-one desktop computer, possibly one with a touch screen. AIO desktop PCs build the components directly into the monitor, which leads to a fully functional computer that takes up remarkably little desk space.
Alternatively, maybe you’re building a custom home theater, in which case a small form factor PC is the order of the day. These tiny devices can be just a couple of inches thick or less while still offering all the storage and processing power needed for common tasks.
In either case, it’s important to keep in mind that the smaller a prebuilt PC is, the more constrained its hardware will be, generally speaking. This is due to both the size of the components themselves as well as the ability (or lack thereof) of a compact PC to exhaust excess heat, which can lead to thermal throttling.
What to look for in a quality Lenovo desktop computer
Central processor performance
Not everybody needs the latest high-end 16-core gaming CPU, but everybody should still pay at least a little attention to the CPU offered by a prebuilt computer. A quad-core CPU from a relatively recent family is recommended for smooth operation, and if you plan on multitasking a lot, six or eight cores can make a difference.
Internal storage space and drive type
Most consumers should avoid desktop PCs that don’t have solid-state drives. Traditional magnetic hard drives have their uses — for example, recording always-on security cameras or providing large amounts of file backup storage — but the performance gap between SSDs and hard drives is huge when it comes to even relatively mundane activities.
With a solid-state drive, your PC will boot significantly faster, programs will load remarkably quicker, files will copy much more rapidly, and the list goes on. If you’re on a budget but have lots of things to store, it’s recommended to use a midsized SSD as your system drive and add a large and relatively affordable hard drive for the bigger stuff that doesn’t need the high performance.
As far as storage capacity goes, don’t fall for Microsoft’s claim that 64GB is sufficient for a Windows 10 system drive. It’s highly recommended that you install Windows to an SSD no smaller than 128GB.
System memory
RAM is an extremely important part of any computer. The more processes a system runs at once, the more system memory you’ll need to prevent major slowdowns. Microsoft says that 2GB is the minimum amount of RAM needed to run Windows 10, but you will not have a pleasant experience trying to do anything in Windows with just 2GB of RAM. Even 4GB is pushing the limits.
For most users, 8GB of RAM should suffice for everyday tasks. If you want to ensure smooth operation despite dozens of open browser tabs or if you like to play video games, 16GB is the way to go. Only dedicated enthusiasts or those working with heavily resource-intensive software will need more than 16GB in the near future.
How much you can expect to spend on a Lenovo desktop computer
The most affordable Lenovo desktop PCs start around $500, while their premium gaming rigs can cost upward of $2,000 if you’re looking for top-of-the-line components.
Lenovo desktop computer FAQ
Do I need a discrete graphics card?
A. Most people will only need a powerful GPU if they’re going to play advanced 3D video games. Finding a premium GPU is easier said than done these days — and it will probably remain a tough prospect for at least several more months — but rest assured that there are graphics cards out there, and Lenovo’s prebuilt PCs are offered with some capable Nvidia RTX cards.
Should I pay extra for the Pro version of Windows?
A. If you have to ask, the answer is almost certainly no. Pro versions of Windows are intended for, well, professional use and the average home user will never need or use any of the features Windows Pro offers over Windows Home. If you do need the Pro version of Windows for your job, your company will surely let you know.
What are the best Lenovo desktop computers to buy?
Top Lenovo desktop computer
What you need to know: This fully equipped gaming PC can run the latest AAA titles at high resolutions and frame rates.
What you’ll love: Outfitted with a high-end Intel Core CPU and Nvidia RTX GPU, this is Lenovo’s flagship gaming PC. The motherboard inside supports high-speed RAM and both memory and CPU overclocking, making the 7i a great choice for enthusiasts. It even comes with an optional RGB liquid cooling setup.
What you should consider: It’s relatively expensive and wholly unnecessary if you’re not playing premium games or doing other highly resource-intensive tasks.
Where to buy: Sold by Lenovo and Amazon
Top Lenovo desktop computer for the money
What you need to know: It’s one of the most streamlined all-in-one computers on the market and great for everyday use.
What you’ll love: This isn’t the absolute least expensive offering from Lenovo, but given the fact that the PC is built into the display, it offers plenty of bang for the buck while taking up very little space. The screen measures 24 inches and has a remarkably thin bezel, while the computer is offered with an optional touch screen as well as either an Intel or AMD CPU. With plenty of RAM and solid-state storage, it’s suitable for a wide range of uses.
What you should consider: As it lacks a discrete graphics card, it won’t be able to run resource-intensive games.
Where to buy: Sold by Lenovo and Amazon
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What you need to know: There aren’t many full-featured Windows PCs as small as this one.
What you’ll love: Less than 2 inches thick and under 4 pounds, it’s as small and light as a desktop PC comes. For this reason, it’s ideal for use as a Windows-based home theater PC or as a work computer, as long as that work doesn’t involve any heavy lifting like video editing. It has reasonably capable hardware inside plus plenty of USB ports for connecting peripherals. To top it all off, it’s not incredibly expensive.
What you should consider: Due to its size and somewhat restricted hardware, you’ll probably experience some slowdowns if you ask it to do too much. Therefore, it’s not great for heavy multitasking or gaming.
Where to buy: Sold by Lenovo
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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Two women are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in southern Arizona for their conviction for illegally collecting four early ballots during the 2020 primary election.
Authorities say Guillermina Fuentes and Alma Juarez participated in “ballot harvesting.” That's a practice once used by both political parties to boost turnout but was made illegal by a 2016 state law that barred anyone but a family member or caregiver from returning early ballots for another person. It’s the only case filed so far by the state attorney general under the law.
Authorities say Fuentes ran a sophisticated operation using her status as a well-known Democratic operative in the Arizona border city of San Luis to persuade voters to let her gather and, in some cases, fill out their ballots. But the crime she admitted in court last month does not involve filling out ballots or any broader efforts.
Fuentes and Juarez each pleaded guilty to a charge of ballot abuse, acknowledging they collected early ballots for people who weren’t family members, didn’t live with them or weren’t receiving care from them.
Fuentes’ conviction was a felony, and she could be sentenced to probation or up to two years in prison, while Juarez’s was a misdemeanor. Under Juarez's plea agreement, if she has cooperated as promised she will be sentenced to probation and prosecutors will not seek jail time.
Three other felony charges against Fuentes were dismissed. Those charges had alleged that Fuentes filled out one voter’s ballot and forged signatures on some of the four ballots she illegally returned for people who weren’t family members.
Republicans who have rallied around the possibility of widespread voting fraud in the 2020 election where former President Donald Trump was defeated have pointed to the charges against Fuentes as part of a broader pattern in battleground states. But there’s no sign her illegal ballot collection went beyond the small-town politics Fuentes was involved in.
Records from an investigation by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office show that fewer than a dozen ballots could be linked to Fuentes, not enough to make a difference in all but the tightest local races.
Investigators have said it appeared Fuentes used her position as a powerful figure in the heavily Mexican American community to get people to give her or others their ballots to return to the polls.
Fuentes and Juarez were seen with several mail-in envelopes outside a cultural center in San Luis on the day of the 2020 primary election, according to reports from investigators. The ballots were taken inside and dropped in a ballot box.
Fuentes was recorded on video by a write-in candidate who called the Yuma County sheriff.
An investigation was launched that day, and about 50 ballots checked for fingerprints, which were inconclusive. The investigation was taken over by the attorney general’s office within days, with investigators collaborating with sheriff’s deputies to interview voters, Fuentes and others.
Although Fuentes was charged only with actions that appear on the videotape and involve just a handful of ballots, investigators believe the effort went much farther.
An investigator for the Attorney General’s Office said there was some evidence suggesting Fuentes actively canvassed San Luis neighborhoods and collected ballots, in some cases paying for them.
Collecting ballots in that manner was a common get-out-the-vote tactic used by both political parties before Arizona passed the 2016 law, though Democrats used the practice more aggressively. Paying for ballots has never been legal.
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PHOENIX — Rejoice, San Francisco, the season-worst skid is over.
To break out of this funk, prevail for the first time in seven games and give a jolt of life back into a season that appeared to be in peril, the Giants reverted to their winning ways from last season. It was done with a bunt and a blast — from two timely pinch-hitters.
Stepping into the batter’s box for the first time all game, with no outs in the eighth, Darin Ruf delivered a game-tying home run that brought home Austin Slater, who also entered as a pinch-hitter and beat out a bunt single to lead off the inning. Slater’s substitution proved crucial an inning later, when he lined a two-RBI double down the right field line that scored the go-ahead runs in the Giants’ 7-5 win over the D-backs.
The Giants scored five runs in the final two innings to snap their losing streak at six games prevent them from falling to .500 for the first time since April 9, after the second game of the season. Sam Long needed to record the final out, after Camilo Doval loaded the bases, allowed a run to score and needed 37 pitches to get two outs in the ninth.
With one game to go until the halfway point of the season, they are 41-39 but still 1.5 games out of the playoff picture and 10.0 back of the first-place Dodgers. Those are the consequences of a two-week stretch of baseball that featured three wins and 12 losses.
Alex Cobb gave the Giants six innings and allowed four runs, all earned, though some discretion was taken by the official scorer. The win will go down in the record books as the Giants’ first game since their last win without committing an error.
Tommy La Stella, in his first start at second base this season, let a ground ball bounce off his glove for an RBI double and one of three runs in the second inning. The next frame, rookie third baseman David Villar pulled Brandon Belt off the bag at first with a high throw that led to an infield single.
The Giants had managed only two hits until the eighth inning, coming up mostly empty against Arizona starter Merrill Kelly, who held them hitless until Brandon Crawford’s double in the fifth.
In his first game back from a month at Triple-A, Joey Bart gave the Giants their only life until the eighth.
Showing off his revamped swing, Bart hit what was initially ruled a three-run home run to left field that would have scored Crawford and La Stella, who reached on a walk. But left fielder David Peralta pointed that a fan had reached over the wall. Upon review, Bart was awarded a ground-rule double and two runs were erased. A second run eventually scored, but only when Bart got caught between second and third on a ground ball from LaMonte Wade Jr.
Slater subbed in for Bart, while Ruf batted for Wade.
As the game turned to the top of the eighth, the Giants looked to be well on their way to a seventh straight loss, which would have matched their longest skid since 2019 (May 22-29). Their win probability, according to Statcast, sank as low as 9.2%.
Even after Slater’s bunt single, the D-backs were 80% favorites.
With one swing, Ruf swung the win probability by 30 points. Slater’s double the following inning gave the Giants a 24-point boost.
The home run was a no-doubter, landing a dozen rows beyond the left-field wall, 429 feet away. After getting an MLB-record 18 pinch-hit homers last season, Ruf’s was their first this year.
San Francisco pinch-hitters had performed 30% below the league average this season, according to OPS+, and Ruf’s struggles had begun to embody those of the Giants. Ruf was 5-for-28 and without a homer since June 23 and stuck in a season-long slump that Kapler recently commented on as the worst of his career since a three-year detour in Korea that predated his tenure in San Francisco.
With the win, the Giants avoided being swept here at Chase Field for the first time since 2017 (Aug. 25-27).
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sabrina Ionescu had 31 points in the highest-scoring triple-double in WNBA history and tied Candace Parker's league record of three triple-doubles in the New York Liberty’s 116-107 victory over Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
Ionescu also had 13 rebounds and 10 assists. She hit a career-high seven 3-pointers in eight tries and was 10 of 13 from the field overall.
The third-year pro has two triple-doubles this season. New York (9-12) set a franchise single-game scoring record and finished with a season-high 35 assists.
Han Xu, a 6-foot-10 center in her second WNBA season, had a career-high 24 points — 14 in the fourth quarter — on 10-of-11 shooting and tied her career best with eight rebounds for New York. Natasha Howard added 18 points.
A'ja Wilson had 29 points and nine rebounds for Las Vegas (15-7). Jackie Young scored 24 points on 8-of-11 shooting.
The Aces have lost back-to-back games and five of their last seven.
The Aces had already secured a berth into the 2022 Commissioner's Cup game against the Chicago on July 26 but missed a chance Wednesday night to playin Las Vegas. The defending WNBA champions Sky can wrap up home court for with a victory over Indiana on Thursday.
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China, Philippines vow to enhance good-neighborly friendship, deepen cooperation
Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets with Philippine Foreign Secretary Luis Enrique Manalo in Manila, the Philippines, on July 6, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Kai)
MANILA, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Philippine Foreign Secretary Luis Enrique Manalo agreed here on Wednesday that their countries will further enhance friendship and mutual trust, adhere to good-neighborliness and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation.
Noting that Wang is the first foreign minister to visit the Southeast Asian country after the new Philippine government was inaugurated on June 30, Manalo said the Philippines and China are good neighbors, who have seen fruitful results in their cooperation in various areas.
In facing the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the regional and international situation, the two countries have stood side by side with mutual understanding and support, bringing benefits to the two peoples, he noted.
The Philippines will continue its adherence to the one-China policy and hopes to increase mutual trust and friendship, so as to elevate bilateral relations to a higher level, Manalo said.
The Philippines believes that the problem involving islands and reefs in the South China Sea should be settled through diplomatic means and peaceful consultations with a view to jointly safeguarding peace and stability there, he said.
Wang, for his part, said that the only right path for the relations between the two countries is to adhere to good-neighborliness and friendship and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation.
Recent years have witnessed bilateral ties enjoying an all-round development and cooperation making strides in various fields under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, bringing tangible benefits to the two peoples, he said.
China highly appreciates the remarks by Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos that China is a strong partner of the Philippines and his administration will continue a friendly policy towards China to further boost bilateral relations, Wang said.
At this new starting point, Wang said, China is willing to work with the Philippines to jointly plan for the future cooperation so as to lift their friendship to a new high.
Wang said the two sides should always properly handle the maritime issues from a strategic and overarching perspective, giving the issues a proper position in bilateral relations.
The two sides should also work to steadily advance the joint development in the South China Sea, accelerate consultations on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, expand maritime cooperation to increase mutual benefit and win-win results, he said.
During the meeting, the two sides agreed to sustain a high-quality construction of the Belt and Road and secure more early results.
They also vowed to strengthen the China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) relations, jointly safeguard the regional architecture with ASEAN at its center, implement the important consensus reached at the China-ASEAN Special summit late last year, and push for a deeper and more solid China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership.
In addition, both sides pledged to strengthen coordination and cooperation in multilateral affairs, jointly defend the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries, and jointly promote regional peace, development and prosperity.
After their meeting, Wang and Manalo officially launched the Davao City-Samal Island connector bridge project and witnessed the signing of cooperation documents.
Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) and Philippine Foreign Secretary Luis Enrique Manalo attend the launching ceremony of the Davao City-Samal Island connector bridge project after their meeting in Manila, the Philippines, on July 6, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Kai)
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Dockers back Darcy to quell Saints big men
Fremantle midfield star Caleb Serong is backing Sean Darcy to get the job done against St Kilda's formidable ruck duo in Saturday night's AFL clash at Marvel Stadium.
Darcy has been in strong form this season, with the 24-year-old now rated as one of the best ruckmen in the competition.
The 203cm, 110kg Darcy tallied 38 hit-outs, 21 disposals, and nine clearances in last week's eight-point win over Port Adelaide.
That performance came against a makeshift Port ruck duo of Charlie Dixon and Jeremy Finlayson, and Darcy will have a much tougher task against Paddy Ryder and Rowan Marshall.
The powerful Saints ruck duo played a key role in helping St Kilda win the midfield battle in last week's upset 15-point win over Carlton.
Serong, who fed off Darcy's silver-spoon service last week to help Fremantle win the clearances 47-30 against Port, is confident the ruckman will produce the goods again.
"You don't have too many teams in the comp that have two elite ruckmen like the Saints do. It's a different challenge but I feel like Sean's up to it," Serong said.
"They've both been in some really good form, especially Ryder at centre bounces. He's a really good ruckman and gives their midfield first look a lot of the time.
"Sean's really excited and he has got some clear plans.
"You see him when he comes up against the best ruckmen in the comp, he never shies away from the challenge and he's always there on the front foot getting ready to go."
Rory Lobb offers excellent ruck back-up to Darcy.
But Lobb's five-goal haul at the Power shows his importance to the forward line, meaning Darcy is set to be relied upon for the bulk of the ruck duties against St Kilda.
Serong will notch his 50-game AFL milestone against the Saints, with the No.8 pick from the 2019 national draft rated as one of the league's brightest young talents.
The 21-year-old has developed a knack for booting outrageous goals, as evidenced by his checkside banana from the pocket off his left boot last week.
It followed on from the checkside banana that won him the goal of the year in 2021.
"I think sometimes there's a bit of naivety to back yourself on the left, sometimes I probably should straighten up on my right," Serong said.
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Sentencing set for 2 in Arizona ballot harvesting case
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - Two women are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in southern Arizona for their conviction for illegally collecting four early ballots during the 2020 primary election.
Authorities say Guillermina Fuentes and Alma Juarez participated in "ballot harvesting." That's a practice once used by both political parties to boost turnout but was made illegal by a 2016 state law that barred anyone but a family member or caregiver from returning early ballots for another person. It´s the only case filed so far by the state attorney general under the law.
Authorities say Fuentes ran a sophisticated operation using her status as a well-known Democratic operative in the Arizona border city of San Luis to persuade voters to let her gather and, in some cases, fill out their ballots. But the crime she admitted in court last month does not involve filling out ballots or any broader efforts.
Fuentes and Juarez each pleaded guilty to a charge of ballot abuse, acknowledging they collected early ballots for people who weren´t family members, didn´t live with them or weren´t receiving care from them.
Fuentes´ conviction was a felony, and she could be sentenced to probation or up to two years in prison, while Juarez´s was a misdemeanor. Under Juarez's plea agreement, if she has cooperated as promised she will be sentenced to probation and prosecutors will not seek jail time.
Three other felony charges against Fuentes were dismissed. Those charges had alleged that Fuentes filled out one voter´s ballot and forged signatures on some of the four ballots she illegally returned for people who weren´t family members.
Republicans who have rallied around the possibility of widespread voting fraud in the 2020 election where former President Donald Trump was defeated have pointed to the charges against Fuentes as part of a broader pattern in battleground states. But there´s no sign her illegal ballot collection went beyond the small-town politics Fuentes was involved in.
Records from an investigation by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich´s office show that fewer than a dozen ballots could be linked to Fuentes, not enough to make a difference in all but the tightest local races.
Investigators have said it appeared Fuentes used her position as a powerful figure in the heavily Mexican American community to get people to give her or others their ballots to return to the polls.
Fuentes and Juarez were seen with several mail-in envelopes outside a cultural center in San Luis on the day of the 2020 primary election, according to reports from investigators. The ballots were taken inside and dropped in a ballot box.
Fuentes was recorded on video by a write-in candidate who called the Yuma County sheriff.
An investigation was launched that day, and about 50 ballots checked for fingerprints, which were inconclusive. The investigation was taken over by the attorney general´s office within days, with investigators collaborating with sheriff´s deputies to interview voters, Fuentes and others.
Although Fuentes was charged only with actions that appear on the videotape and involve just a handful of ballots, investigators believe the effort went much farther.
An investigator for the Attorney General´s Office said there was some evidence suggesting Fuentes actively canvassed San Luis neighborhoods and collected ballots, in some cases paying for them.
Collecting ballots in that manner was a common get-out-the-vote tactic used by both political parties before Arizona passed the 2016 law, though Democrats used the practice more aggressively. Paying for ballots has never been legal.
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Video: Police smash man’s head to ground in parking arrest
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Law enforcement officials in Rhode Island are looking into the conduct of two veteran Providence police officers shown on video smashing a handcuffed man’s face into the pavement over the July 4 weekend.
State Attorney General Peter Neronha and the Providence Police Department’ Office of Professional Responsibility have opened investigations into the arrest of a man at the city’s India Point Park following a July 3 fireworks celebration, the Boston Globe reports.
Captain Stephen Gencarella and Lt. Matthew Jennette arrested Armando Rivas, 21, at around 9:30 p.m. for leaving his vehicle parked unattended in the travel lane, the newspaper reports.
Police say the officers struck Rivas in the head, handcuffed him and brought him to the ground after he resisted arrest.
But the video shows that as Rivas was handcuffed and lying face-down, one of the officers grabbed his head and smashed his face down on the pavement, the Globe reports.
Rivas was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstructing an officer and simple assault.
It couldn’t be immediately determined if Rivas or the two officers have lawyers. The police department and Neronha’s office didn’t respond to emails seeking comment Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A fire burned at Corona Heights Park in San Francisco on Wednesday night, images and videos shared with KRON4 showed. The San Francisco Fire Department said firefighters later put out the fire with one engine.
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The fire was a grass fire only and less than one acre in size, SFFD said. No structures were threatened.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Austin Slater hit a tiebreaking bases-loaded double in the ninth inning and the San Francisco Giants rallied from an early four-run deficit, beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-5 Wednesday night and snapping a six-game skid.
The victory helped the Giants avoid a series sweep. The Diamondbacks, who were 2-17 against San Francisco last season, won the first two games of the series.
“When you get into streaks like we were just in, it just feels like bad things are always going to happen," said Slater, who came off the bench as a pinch-hitter in the eighth and beat out a bunt. "Guys have to come up with big hits in big situations, and I felt like we did it all up and down the lineup tonight.”
Darin Ruf, also pinch-hitting, followed Slater's bunt single with a two-run homer off Joe Mantiply (1-2) to tie the game at 4.
In the ninth, Mantiply hit Mike Yastrzemski with a pitch and Sean Poppen came on for Arizona. Pinch-hitter Wilmer Flores singled and, after a forceout, Tommy La Stella walked to load the bases. Slater then drilled a line drive past first base, scoring the go-ahead runs. Austin Wynns followed with a sacrifice fly to push the lead to three runs.
John Brebbia (4-1) retired Arizona in order in the eighth and picked up the victory. Camilo Doval gave up an RBI single to Ketel Marte in the ninth and left with the bases loaded. Left-hander Sam Long struck out pinch hitter Jordan Luplow on three pitches for his first career save.
Giants manager Gabe Kapler was glad for the win, but not overly excited.
“We played better baseball, we got more big hits, made more plays,” he said. "Not going to get too high or too low. We expect this performance of ourselves.”
The Diamondbacks raced to a 4-0 lead against Giants starter Alex Cobb. David Peralta had an RBI single in the first inning, and Arizona added three more in the second. Jose Herrera singled to left-center, with Geraldo Perdomo advancing to third. Josh Rojas hit a grounder in the hole that went off second baseman Tommy La Stella’s glove for a double, scoring Perdomo. Alek Thomas singled to center to score Herrera and Rojas.
After Thomas’ single, Cobb surrendered only one more hit, Buddy Kennedy’s infield single in the third. Cobb, who had been ill earlier Thursday and said he received an IV before the game, retired the last 10 batters he faced, going six innings and giving up seven hits. He walked one and struck out three.
“He wasn’t feeling his best today. He was incredibly courageous tonight,” Kapler said of Cobb.
Merrill Kelly allowed just two hits and two runs, struck out six and walked three in 6 1/3 innings for Arizona. He continued his mastery of the Giants at Chase Field, and has a 1.99 ERA in 46 1/3 innings against them at home.
Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo took positives away from the series win over a team that won the NL West last year.
“A lot went right for a large portion of this game, it’s just things unwound in the eighth and ninth inning," he said. "They matched up against us and we got clipped. That happens in this game.
“But I gotta look at the three-game series and say that we did a lot of good things.”
CAN’T DO THAT
Joey Bart initially had a three-run homer in the fifth inning, but after a crew chief replay review, it was ruled that a fan had reached over the wall in left-center to catch the ball. The replay officials ruled interference and Bart was credited with an RBI double, and La Stella, the runner on first, was sent back to third. La Stella later scored on LaMonte Wade Jr.‘s fielder’s-choice grounder for the Giants’ second run.
Bart was called up earlier this week from Sacramento when fellow catcher Curt Casali (oblique) was placed on the injured list. Bart, the Giants' catcher of the future, was sent to Triple-A after batting .156 with four homers in San Francisco earlier in the season.
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San Francisco: Logan Webb (7-3, 3.13) opposes fellow right-hander Joe Musgrove (8-2, 2.25) as the Giants open a four-game series in San Diego on Thursday.
Arizona: LHP Dallas Keuchel (2-6, 8.27) begins a four-game home series against Colorado LHP Austin Gomber (4-7, 6.53).
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Video: Police smash man’s head to ground in parking arrest
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Law enforcement officials in Rhode Island are looking into the conduct of two veteran Providence police officers shown on video smashing a handcuffed man’s face into the pavement over the July 4 weekend.
State Attorney General Peter Neronha and the Providence Police Department’ Office of Professional Responsibility have opened investigations into the arrest of a man at the city’s India Point Park following a July 3 fireworks celebration, the Boston Globe reports.
Captain Stephen Gencarella and Lt. Matthew Jennette arrested Armando Rivas, 21, at around 9:30 p.m. for leaving his vehicle parked unattended in the travel lane, the newspaper reports.
Police say the officers struck Rivas in the head, handcuffed him and brought him to the ground after he resisted arrest.
But the video shows that as Rivas was handcuffed and lying face-down, one of the officers grabbed his head and smashed his face down on the pavement, the Globe reports.
Rivas was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstructing an officer and simple assault.
It couldn’t be immediately determined if Rivas or the two officers have lawyers. The police department and Neronha’s office didn’t respond to emails seeking comment Wednesday.
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