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FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) — A number of people have spotted singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey in Alabama, where she’s reportedly recording, visiting friends and … working at Waffle House?
The singer, originally from New York, was first sighted in Birmingham on Monday at a nail salon. In an interview with Nexstar’s WIAT, 21-year-old Jordan Suttles described his experience with the “Summertime Sadness” singer.
“I saw her sitting [in one of the chairs] and I basically did a double take and I thought, ‘Oh, this must be like a look-alike’ because I knew she just did a concert in Canada,” he said. “But I immediately put my hand over my mouth in utter shock and she just smiled at me, waved and laughed a little.”
That night, Del Rey made it up to downtown Florence where fans got the chance to take a photo with the six-time Grammy-nominated artist.
But it was few days later, when Del Rey was spotted at Waffle House, that really raised eyebrows: She wasn’t just stopping in for an all-star special, but wearing a uniform and a name tag. Del Rey was also spotted pouring coffee for customers, Billboard.com reported.
“She said she knows many people want Oscars, but she wants to be in a Waffle House serving coffee,” Macy Ladner, another fan who got the chance to meet Lana at Waffle House, said.
She added that Del Rey told her she was recording in the area and visiting with friends.
Later that evening, Del Rey went shopping in the Seven Points neighborhood, still wearing the Waffle House uniform.
Del Rey has yet to publicly comment on her shift at Waffle House, so it’s not entirely clear why — or how — she got the gig. Her connection to Alabama, though, has at least been documented in song, specifically the track “Paris, Texas” off her most recent album.
“I took a trip to Spain, just a notebook in my hand” she sings. “Then I went to see some friends of mine, down in Florence, Alabama.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/smothered-covered-starstruck-lana-del-rey-spotted-working-at-waffle-house-in-alabama/ | 2023-07-22 21:14:25 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/smothered-covered-starstruck-lana-del-rey-spotted-working-at-waffle-house-in-alabama/ |
A vandalism suspect was arrested following an early-morning incident at a Santa Barbara gas station.
Santa Barbara police say officers responded to reports of a vandalism in progress at the gas station located on the 100 block of South La Cumbre Road at around 3:45 a.m. Thursday.
Police say the suspect, identified as Buck Roberts, 44, of Santa Barbara, is believed to have taken off a gasoline pump nozzle and broken a large glass window at the convenience store.
He was booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail and faces felony vandalism charges.
There were no reports of injuries associated with the incident. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/santa-barbara-gas-station-vandalism-suspect-facing-felony-charges | 2023-02-09 19:51:17 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/santa-barbara-gas-station-vandalism-suspect-facing-felony-charges |
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Russia's war in Ukraine and anti-regime protests in Iran limited both Moscow and Tehran's ability to try to influence or interfere in the recent U.S. midterm elections, a senior American military official said Monday.
U.S. agencies were on high alert before November's vote for potential cyberattacks or foreign influence operations, particularly after adversaries were judged by intelligence agencies to have meddled in the last two presidential elections. But there was little sign of disruption in the midterms.
"I was surprised by the lack of activity we saw from the Russians, the Iranians, or the Chinese," said Army Maj. Gen. William Hartman, who leads the U.S. Cyber National Mission Force, which partners with the National Security Agency in detecting and stopping election intrusions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been mired in a prolonged war with tens of thousands of casualties since he ordered an invasion of Ukraine in February. And Iran's leaders are waging a bloody crackdown against street protests sparked by the September death of a 22-year-old woman, in one of the largest sustained challenges to their power since the 1979 revolution.
Hartman noted that Russia's domestic, military, and foreign intelligence services are expending more resources than previously expected on Ukraine, which has put up greater resistance than many in Moscow or Washington expected.
Though on an apparently lesser scale than in recent elections, all three countries have been linked by the U.S. to alleged influence efforts this year.
The FBI in October warned that an Iran-linked cyber group was considering so-called "hack-and-leak" operations to publish and amplify stolen data. The Justice Department in March charged five men with surveilling and harassing Chinese dissidents, including a little-known congressional candidate.
And Russia, which was accused by U.S. intelligence of trying to support Donald Trump's presidential bids in 2016 and 2020, was alleged to be seeking to amplify doubts about the integrity of the election.
Hartman met with reporters after a ceremony establishing the Cyber National Mission Force as a sub-unified command. The designation establishes the mission force, created in 2012 under U.S. Cyber Command, as a permanent entity that can set higher standards for hiring and development for technological expertise in the military, he said.
The model he and other proponents of growing military programs on cyber have suggested is akin to U.S. Joint Special Operations Command, which oversees special forces responsible for high-profile U.S. successes like the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
"We really want to build the JSOC of Cyber Command," Hartman said.
The mission force is tasked with several signature priorities of the head of U.S. Cyber Command, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, who also leads the National Security Agency and is expected to leave both roles next year.
Among the force's work is its "hunt forward" missions in which military cyber experts go to ally and partner countries to check their networks for intrusions or vulnerabilities. Several dozen U.S. personnel were in Ukraine for months before the larger war began, leaving just before Putin's invasion.
The force also takes on an election defense role working with the NSA, which spies on electronic communications and is believed to be the nation's largest intelligence agency.
Hartman declined to say whether members of his force took down or deterred any foreign influence activities this year. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/official-russia-iran-turmoil-limited-meddling-in-us-vote | 2022-12-20 06:10:28 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/official-russia-iran-turmoil-limited-meddling-in-us-vote |
The Final Four is headed for the first time to Las Vegas, where wagering on the NCAA Tournament has long been a staple of March Madness revelry, after the NCAA awarded the men’s national semifinals and championship game to Allegiant Stadium for the 2027-28 season.
The NCAA also announced Tuesday that Ford Field in Detroit would host the Final Four in 2027, while Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis would get the 2029 event and AT&T Stadium in Dallas would get the 2030 event.
“We are excited to bring the NCAA’s premier championship to Las Vegas, a city that for a number of years has hosted numerous championships from several member conferences,” said Bradley athletic director Chris Reynolds, who chairs the NCAA selection committee. “The feedback from leagues, the fans of their teams and the media covering the events staged there has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are confident we’ll get the same reviews.”
The national championship this season will be decided at NRG Stadium in Houston, while State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, the Alamodome in San Antonio and Lucas Oil Stadium already had been chosen for the following three Final Fours.
The NCAA long shied away from taking marquee events to Las Vegas because of its reputation as a gambling mecca. But the stance softened over the years, particularly as sports wagering became legal in states across the country, and many leagues have made its glitzy arenas the homes of their postseason basketball tournaments.
The Mountain West will play its championship game this season at the Thomas & Mack Center, the Pac-12 at T-Mobile Arena, the West Coast Conference at Orleans Arena and the WAC split between Michelob ULTRA Arena and Orleans Arena.
Las Vegas already was scheduled to host nine other NCAA championships over the next four years, and the men’s NCAA Tournament will head there for the first time next March when a regional round is played at T-Mobile Arena.
“We’re thrilled. It’s pretty exciting to have such a marquee event come to town,” said Steve Hill, CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “Vegas has been a basketball town for decades. We’ve had an interesting road with the NCAA along that time. It is really gratifying to be able to work with the NCAA to bring their marquee event here and really celebrate what basketball is all about in this town.”
Once a pariah for sports, Las Vegas has suddenly become a destination. The Raiders and Golden Knights of the NHL play in sparkling new facilities, the NFL had such success with its Pro Bowl last season that it’s bringing back a reinvented version of it in February, and Formula 1 is returning to the Las Vegas Strip for the first time since 1982 next summer.
The other Final Four sites chosen Tuesday have a history of hosting the men’s basketball championship.
Ford Field was the site of the 2009 tournament, when 72,922 fans packed the home of the Detroit Lions to watch North Carolina beat Michigan State. AT&T Stadium will also get its second Final Four after hosting it in 2014, when Connecticut beat Kentucky before a crowd of 79,238 at the home of the Dallas Cowboys.
Lucas Oil Stadium has hosted the Final Four six times in the past 25 years, including the 2021 event, when the entire NCAA Tournament was conducted in front of a limited number of fans at venues scattered across Indiana. When it hosts the Final Four in 2029, Indianapolis will tie Kansas City for the most times conducting the title game with 10 apiece.
“It’s been said many times about how coaches, players, fans and media love coming to the Final Four in Indianapolis, but I don’t think you can overstate just how much everyone enjoys their experience when they go,” Reynolds said. “The people not only embrace major events, but they don’t take a single thing for granted.”
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AP Sports Writer Mark Anderson in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — In 2006, as Nancy Pelosi was poised to become the first female speaker of the House, Republicans made a film spoof that portrayed an evil Democratic empire led by “Darth Nancy.”
In 2009, the Republican National Committee ran an advertisement featuring Pelosi’s face framed by the barrel of a gun — complete with the sound of a bullet firing as red bled down the screen — a takeoff on the James Bond film “Goldfinger” in which the woman second in line to the presidency was cast as Pussy Galore.
This year, a Republican running in the primary for Senate in Arizona aired an ad showing him in a spaghetti western-style duel with Democrats, in which he shoots at a knife-wielding, mask-wearing, bug-eyed woman labeled “Crazyface Pelosi.”
The name echoed former President Donald Trump’s many derisive monikers for Pelosi, including “Crazy Nancy.”
The attack on Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, on Friday, which left him with a fractured skull and appeared to be part of a planned attack on the speaker herself, came after a yearslong campaign by Republicans to demonize and dehumanize Nancy Pelosi in increasingly ugly ways.
For the better part of two decades, Republicans have targeted Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American politics, as the most sinister Democratic villain of all, making her the evil star of their advertisements and fundraising appeals in hopes of animating their core supporters. The language and images have helped to fuel the flames of anger at Pelosi on the right, fanned increasingly in recent years by a toxic stew of conspiracy theories and misinformation that has thrived on the internet and social media, with little pushback from elected Republicans.
Pelosi is now one of the most threatened members of Congress in the country.
After the grisly assault on Paul Pelosi, 82, many Republican lawmakers and leaders denounced the violence, but hardly any spoke out against the brutal political discourse that has given rise to an unprecedented wave of threats against elected officials. Most instead tried to link the incident to rising crime rates across the country that the party has made a centerpiece of its campaign message before the midterm elections that are just days away.
“You can’t say people saying, ‘Let’s fire Pelosi’ or ‘Let’s take back the House’ is saying, ‘Go do violence.’ It’s just unfair,” Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “And I think we all need to recognize violence is up across the board.”
Yet it is clear that the targeting of Nancy Pelosi, who was not at home during the attack, was not random violence. The suspect, David DePape, 42, who is accused of yelling “Where is Nancy?” after entering the couple’s home, had zip ties with him when he entered the home, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. He appears to have been obsessed with right-wing conspiracy theories, including false claims about the 2020 election being stolen and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, as well as concerns about pedophilia, anti-white racism and “elite” control of the internet. Pelosi in recent years has been a leading character in such viral falsehoods about Democratic misdeeds, including QAnon, and Republican leaders have blamed her groundlessly for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
“How did he get to that point?” said Mona Lena Krook, a professor of political science at Rutgers University who began studying violence against women in politics in 2014, referring to the suspect. “This has to do with things that he sees in the media, things he sees on social media, the people he socializes with that he felt like it was necessary and justified to attack her.”
As a wealthy woman from the progressive bastion of San Francisco, and her party’s leader in the House for 20 years, Pelosi has long represented a singular target for her political opponents.
“It is gender. It is class. The whole idea of a wealthy San Francisco liberal woman. The whole package is there,” said David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist and former top adviser to President Barack Obama. “The difference is what began as a way to raise money and gin up turnout has now become a much more deadly game.”
Even in 2012, when Pelosi served as minority leader, wielding less power than Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader at the time, Republican television ads were six times more likely to mention Pelosi than to mention Reid, according to the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising.
As she has risen in prominence, Pelosi has become a more frequent target. Since 2018, Republicans have spent more than $227 million on advertisements featuring her, according to data provided by AdImpact, an organization that tracks political advertisements. They aired nearly 530,000 times. This year alone, Republicans poured more than $61 million into advertisements featuring Pelosi that aired about 143,000 times.
The efforts to vilify Pelosi have yielded mixed political results; Democrats managed to win the House majority twice as attacks against her surged over the past 16 years.
But they have persisted, even as Pelosi has become a reviled figure in the far-right reaches of the internet and social media platforms. Before taking office, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who at the time openly embraced QAnon, claimed that Pelosi was “guilty of treason,” adding, “it’s a crime punishable by death, is what treason is.” She liked a Facebook post that advocated “a bullet to the head” for Pelosi, according to posts unearthed by CNN.Such statements have brought no consequences from Republican leaders. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the minority leader, rebuked Greene for the comments but declined to punish her, instead elevating her within his conference.
When asked to address it in an interview on Breitbart radio on Friday, McCarthy called it “wrong” and condemned political violence, noting that he had reached out to Pelosi with a text message. The two have a toxic relationship, and McCarthy once mused publicly about wanting to hit Pelosi with the oversized wooden speaker’s gavel, a remark his aides said was a joke.
A spokesperson for the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with McCarthy, said it would not be pulling its attack ads against Pelosi in light of the assault.
For those close to Pelosi, the attack at her home was something they have long dreaded. Few lawmakers have been targeted and threatened as routinely as Pelosi, according to a review by The New York Times of people charged with threatening lawmakers since 2016, which found the speaker was the target of more than 1 in 10. Threats that were serious enough to result in criminal charges appeared to spike after the 2020 presidential election and through January 2021, around the time of the attack on the Capitol and President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
But Republicans have been taking aim at Pelosi for far longer. In 2010, John Dennis, who challenged Pelosi in her reelection race, circulated a campaign advertisement in which an actor playing Pelosi was presiding over an animal sacrifice, and another that depicted her as a wicked witch from “The Wizard of Oz.” In the ad, Dennis threw a bucket of water labeled “freedom” to melt her away. “It has grown ever more virulent,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., a Pelosi ally who served as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in both the 2008 and 2010 election cycles. He said the Republican efforts to demonize Pelosi intensified after passage of the Affordable Care Act, which she helped push through Congress.
“The attacks on her have been especially personal — not only attacking her politically, but also personally,” Van Hollen added. “It has been unrelenting.”
The vilification of Pelosi increased in recent years, when she emerged as the Democrats’ most potent foil to Trump. Where the left turned her into a sunglasses-wearing icon, Trump branded her “crazy as a bedbug,” and circulated a photograph of her telling him off at the White House, branding her “Nervous Nancy” and accusing her of having an “unhinged meltdown.”
Pelosi for years has shrugged off the attacks, characterizing them as a badge of honor.
“If I weren’t effective, I wouldn’t be a target,” Pelosi told Time magazine in 2018.
“She would flick at her shoulder and say, ‘It is just dust on my jacket,’” said Brendan Daly, a former spokesperson. “I think she would always take it as a point of pride.”
But in a letter to her colleagues Saturday, the speaker said she and her family were “heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack” on her husband. The assault has underscored the dangers all members of Congress have faced, but none more than Pelosi. She was a particular fixation of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, who hunted for her and menacingly called her name. “Bring her out here,” one woman yelled at the Capitol Police. “We’re coming in if you don’t bring her out.”
And she has been the object of many other threats that garnered far less attention. In Ohio, a 53-year-old man called police departments across the country a week after the 2020 presidential election and described online his plans to kill Pelosi “because she is committing treason against the United States of America.”
A heavily armed Georgia man who traveled from Colorado to Washington on Jan. 6 but arrived too late to participate in the rally sent a text message saying he would put “a bullet in her noggin on Live TV.”
And a 27-year-old Maryland man who was charged with threatening to blow up the IRS building made additional threats on Twitter against the speaker, federal prosecutors said, writing that he was “laser focused on thinking about ways to kill Nancy Pelosi.”
Pelosi has usually taken the vitriol aimed at her in stride. She understood when Democratic candidates had to distance themselves from her to win elections and has internalized the attacks as part of her political identity, people close to her said.
When Biden addressed House Democrats in March at their retreat in Philadelphia, he lamented the abuse he receives across the country, including signs that address him with an expletive. “Little kids giving me the finger,” Biden said. “You guys probably don’t get that kind of response when you go out some places.”
Pelosi interjected, “I do.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author renowned for her portrayal of the lives of pioneer settlers in the U.S. Heartland, was honored Wednesday with the unveiling of a bronze statue in her likeness in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall.
The statue’s creator, Littleton Alston, a professor of sculpture at Creighton University, is the first Black artist to have work represented in the national collection.
Cather, whose works include “My Ántonia” and “O Pioneers,” spent her young years in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895. She won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “One of Ours.”
U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, a Republican from Nebraska, noted that Cather was a trailblazer in the literary world who has earned a lasting place among the great American writers.
And U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska said Cather’s fiction “truly feels like it grew from the soil of Nebraska.”
“For decades until her death in 1947, Cather was unable to shake her creative spirit away from its home on the open plains of the Heartland,” Fischer said.
Officials also recognized Alston.
“You’re work inspires us, and hopefully this experience can inspire all of us in this room to go home and to do a little bit more than we ever thought we could,” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said.
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told the crowd that Cather’s prose is still celebrated because it gave a voice to pioneers who chose to take a chance for a better life.
“Nebraskans are lucky to call Willa Cather one of their own,” McCarthy said. “But ultimately, her work belongs here because it is American to the core. Her authenticity, emotion, artistry spoke of Americans’ fundamental values. Ultimately, it reminds us that this is a land of opportunity.”
Each state has two statues at the U.S. Capitol, with many in the Statuary Hall. Nebraska’s other statue, of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, was unveiled in 2019.
U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic minority leader of the House, said Cather was the first Pulitzer Prize winner and 12th woman recognized in the collection. He said she and Standing Bear captured “the heart and soul of the great state of Nebraska.”
“Her stories are the stories of people who risked everything,” Jeffries said. “She captured in such a powerful way the story of America and our country’s exceptionalism.”
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This story has been edited to correct the spelling of U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ first name. | https://wgntv.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/bronze-statue-of-noted-american-author-willa-cather-unveiled-in-us-capitol/ | 2023-06-08 00:33:22 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/bronze-statue-of-noted-american-author-willa-cather-unveiled-in-us-capitol/ |
The Rev. James Cone is the founder of black liberation theology. In an interview with Terry Gross, Cone explains the movement, which has roots in 1960s civil-rights activism and draws inspiration from both the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, as "mainly a theology that sees God as concerned with the poor and the weak."
Cone also comments on controversial remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former minister and a black liberation theology proponent.
In a now-famous 2003 sermon, Wright charged that an ingrained, abiding racism in American society is at fault for many of the troubles African-Americans face, and he thundered, "No, no, no, not God bless America! God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people."
Cone explains that at the core of black liberation theology is an effort — in a white-dominated society, in which black has been defined as evil — to make the gospel relevant to the life and struggles of American blacks, and to help black people learn to love themselves. It's an attempt, he says "to teach people how to be both unapologetically black and Christian at the same time."
Cone's books include Black Theology and Black Power, God of the Oppressed, and Risks of Faith. He teaches at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary.
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PINE BLUFF, Ark., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bank announced today its automatic savings program, Round-Up, allowed customers to save over $5.2 million during the first eleven months of 2022. More than 26,500 customers utilized the program during this period. Compared to the same timeframe in 2021, the program has grown in customer usage by approximately 5 percent and dollars saved are up 7 percent.
According to a Bankrate survey released earlier this year, only four out of 10 Americans have enough savings to cover the cost of a $1,000 car repair, emergency visit or unplanned expense. While just 44 percent of the 1,004 U.S. adults surveyed have enough money saved, the percentage is up from 39 percent a year ago, and is the highest percentage capable of covering an emergency expense since the survey began in 2014.
"Simmons Bank Round-Up Savings programs provides a convenient way for customers to put their savings plan on 'auto-pilot' by adding to their savings or checking account with each debit card transaction they make," said Joshua Jensen, chief deposit officer at Simmons Bank. "When customers enroll in this program, the "change" remaining from a transaction is placed into a savings or checking account, providing customers the ability to conveniently save money to reach their savings goals."
Established in 2014, the Simmons Bank Round-Up program is designed to eliminate the effort needed to save by automating the process when customers use their debit card to conduct a purchase. With each debit card purchase made by a customer who is enrolled in the program, Simmons Bank rounds the transaction up to the nearest whole dollar and deposits the "change" into a Simmons Bank savings or checking account of the customer's choice.
Simmons Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Simmons First National Corporation (NASDAQ: SFNC), a Mid-South based financial holding company that has paid cash dividends for 113 consecutive years. Simmons Bank operates more than 230 branches in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Founded in 1903, Simmons Bank offers comprehensive financial solutions delivered with a client-centric approach. In 2022, Simmons Bank was named to Forbes list of "America's Best Banks" for the second consecutive year and to Forbes list of "World's Best Banks" for the third consecutive year. Additional information about Simmons Bank can be found on our website at simmonsbank.com, by following @Simmons_Bank on Twitter or by visiting our newsroom.
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Biden administration to ask high court to take up student debt plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing warning that Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in court when loan payments are scheduled to restart in January.
The Justice Department is fighting to keep Biden’s plan alive after it was halted by two federal courts in recent weeks. On Thursday it asked a federal appeals court in New Orleans to suspend a decision striking down Biden’s plan, and in the same filing it announced plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn a St. Louis appeals court that halted the plan.
Biden’s plan promises $10,000 in federal student debt forgiveness to those with incomes of less than $125,000, or households earning less than $250,000. Pell Grant recipients, who typically demonstrate more financial need, are eligible for an additional $10,000 in relief.
Keeping the debt relief on hold would leave the government with an “unnecessarily perilous choice,” the administration argued in its filing Thursday. If it restarts student loan payments as planned on Jan. 1, millions of Americans will get billed for debt that was promised to be canceled. But if the government extends the payment pause, it will cost billions of dollars in lost revenue.
It builds on arguments the administration made in other filings this week, warning that many Americans won’t be able to pay their student debt bills in January if the cancellation plan remains halted.
For typical borrowers, monthly payments would be $200 to $300 higher than they would be if Biden’s plan goes through, the Education Department said. The strain could lead to soaring default rates, which have increased by an average of twentyfold in the wake of other natural disasters.
“We anticipate there could be an historically large increase in the amount of federal student loan delinquency and defaults as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Education Undersecretary James Kvaal said in a Tuesday filing. “This could result in one of the harms that the one-time student loan debt relief program was intended to avoid.”
Biden’s plan has drawn a flurry of legal challenges, which have seen mixed results. Opponents of debt forgiveness have asked the Supreme Court to intervene at least twice after their cases failed in lower courts. The Supreme Court rejected both requests.
In its new filing, the Justice Department asks an appeals court to lift a decision from U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman striking down Biden’s plan. Pittman, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump and is based in Fort Worth, Texas, ruled last week that Biden’s plan oversteps his presidential authority and usurps Congress’ powers to make laws.
It stemmed from a lawsuit brought by two borrowers who are not eligible for relief under the parameters of Biden’s plan. The program was separately halted by a St. Louis court after six Republican-led states said it would harm financial institutions.
Almost 26 million people already have applied for the relief, with 16 million approved, but the Education Department stopped accepting and processing applications last week after the plan was ruled illegal.
The White House says it will prevail in court, but the barrage of lawsuits has thrown Biden’s plan into jeopardy. It’s now uncertain whether 40 million borrowers who were promised debt relief will have to start making payments on that debt in January.
The biggest risk is for 18 million borrowers who were told their entire loan balance would be canceled. Even if payments restart, those borrowers might think they’re in the clear and ignore the bills, the Education Department has warned.
Borrowers who fall behind on payments can face heavy consequences, including damage to their credit scores and the withholding of wages and tax refunds.
Advocates and some Democrats in Congress are pressuring Biden to extend the payment pause until all legal challenges are resolved, despite his previous assurance that the freeze would end after Dec. 31.
In a Tuesday filing, the Education Department said it’s “examining all available options.” But it warned that extending the pause could cost the federal government “several billion dollars a month in unrecovered loan revenue.”
The freeze already has cost the federal government more than $100 billion in revenue, according to a July report by the Government Accountability Office. Critics caution that another extension could worsen inflation and increase the risk of economic recession.
In a separate action targeting student debt, the Education and Justice departments announced a new policy aiming to make it easier for borrowers to get student loans canceled in bankruptcy court.
When borrowers in bankruptcy try to get their federal student loans canceled, lawyers for the government have typically moved to block it.
Advocates have long complained that only a tiny fraction of borrowers in bankruptcy succeed in getting their student loans erased, and many lawyers won’t even take those cases on. As a presidential candidate, Biden promised to fix the problem.
The Justice Department on Thursday sent new guidance to its attorneys clarifying when they can support a borrower’s request for student debt forgiveness. Judges still have the final say, but the department said its guidance will lead to “fairer, more consistent results.”
Separately, a federal judge on Wednesday approved an Education Department settlement that will cancel $6 billion in student debt for borrowers who say they were defrauded by for-profit colleges. The deal was proposed in June but was delayed amid a challenge by several schools.
A federal judge in San Francisco concluded that the settlement is fair. Advocates and the Biden administration applauded the approval, while a for-profit college industry group promised to appeal the decision.
Under the settlement, the Education Department agreed to cancel loans for about 200,000 borrowers who went to one of more than 150 for-profit colleges and later applied for cancellation because of misconduct by their schools.
It stems from a 2019 lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of intentionally stalling the loan relief program while it rewrote the rules.
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One Person Killed in Fiery Crash in Middle Twp., NJ, Late Sunday Night
One person was killed in a fiery single-vehicle accident late Sunday night in Cape May County.
According to the Middle Township Police Department, their officers were called to the area of Shunpike and Oyster Roads in Burleigh around 11:40 PM Sunday for the report of an accident.
At the scene, cops found a vehicle had struck multiple trees, overturned, and was on fire.
Police say the driver, 31-year-old Jordan Lee of Burleigh, was trapped in the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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TAMPA — Oswald Peraza looked and sounded like a politician who just lost an election, and it a sense that’s what happened in Yankees camp.
Peraza probably was the favorite going into spring training to beat out incumbent Isiah Kiner-Falefa for the starting shortstop job, but third-party contender Anthony Volpe stormed in to win this competition in a landslide. | https://www.nj.com/yankees/2023/03/yankees-cut-oswald-peraza-who-tips-hat-to-anthony-volpe-whos-gone-whos-left.html | 2023-03-27 00:31:59 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/yankees/2023/03/yankees-cut-oswald-peraza-who-tips-hat-to-anthony-volpe-whos-gone-whos-left.html |
Dating to the era of formal duels and extending forward to shootouts in the old West and the rules of modern combat, it has been a shared human value that attacking unarmed people is a particularly egregious form of cowardice. Attacking elderly unarmed people, whether they be Asian men and women or the spouse of a prominent politician — or that politician herself — is a particularly heinous form of cowardice. As is opening fire on people as they listen to music, share drinks with friends, dance at a nightclub or shop for groceries. Attacking worshipers at prayer — elderly Jews or pious and generous Black Americans — is even more repellent. The men (and they’re all men) who massacre children in school rank with the lowest of the low.
Because we have seen in the past decade the power of words to influence behavior, why can’t the media blare the word “coward” in every headline and broadcast teaser about these terrible events? How about “Another coward slaughters innocents!” Or “Cowardly young white man massacres children.” Call them what they are. They are not soldiers for a righteous cause. They are not patriots. They are evil and cowardly. Name them, shame them, trumpet to the world what they are: cowards.
Sara Laschever, Concord, Mass.
As we tumble into the long holiday season, we hear what seems to be the daily chorus of thoughts and prayers. What exactly are these thoughts? Pray tell, who are these prayers for?
Our great country, the shining beacon of light and freedom around the world, has become a killing field. All we can continue to offer are thoughts and prayers. How have we let an amendment written more than 200 years ago become more important than the lives of our citizens, the education of our children and the functioning of our representative government?
Guns have become such a partisan flash point where there has been no solution with elected leaders on either side. We just let the carnage continue unabated. Thoughts and prayers.
My thoughts are for the future my college-age son and the children in my neighborhood will have if we continue on the path we’re on.
My prayers are that as citizens and elected officials, we take time to comprehend the devastation we continue to live with.
John S. Krafsur, Alexandria | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/25/call-them-what-they-are-cowards/ | 2022-11-25 20:59:50 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/25/call-them-what-they-are-cowards/ |
Gordon Ramsay is back in town.
Ramsay, who is working on a revival of his “Kitchen Nightmares” TV show, has been filming at Da Mimmo, a Dumont restaurant that serves brick oven pizza and Italian food, local architectural photographer Daniel Gorrin tells NJ Advance Media. | https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2023/06/see-gordon-ramsay-filming-new-kitchen-nightmares-at-nj-restaurant-owned-by-tiktok-stars.html | 2023-06-06 00:18:29 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2023/06/see-gordon-ramsay-filming-new-kitchen-nightmares-at-nj-restaurant-owned-by-tiktok-stars.html |
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — A Wichita Falls mother police said tried to blame numerous injuries and bruises over her son’s face on a falling tree branch pleaded guilty to injury to a child.
Laura Moran agreed to a plea deal on Thursday, September 29, in 89th District Court for a three-year sentence suspended to probation.
Staff at the boy’s elementary school reported possible abuse in November of 2021.
A teacher said she had asked the boy what happened, and he told her he fell from a tree. The teacher did not believe all the injuries could have resulted from a fall and asked him again and said he finally admitted his mother got mad at him for back-talking his dad and punched him several times.
Police said the boy had bruises and injuries all over his face and a swollen nose and lip.
They said the boy told them his mother hit him about 10 times in the nose, and, while hitting him, she called him a “tonto nino feo” (stupid ugly boy) and other rude names.
When his nose began bleeding, he said she told him to go in the bathroom and clean up, and when he dripped blood on the floor, he said she got mad and hit him in the face again.
He said he didn’t tell the truth at first because his mother warned him not to say what really happened because if he did, he would be sent far away.
Detectives met with the mother, and she agreed to answer questions.
They said at first she said her husband had been cutting limbs from a tree, and a branch hit the boy in the face. Then she kept changing her explanations.
She said the boy fell after climbing a ladder by the tree, and, when asked if it was a branch or fall that caused the injuries, she said she meant a branch. Then she said she wasn’t sure because she wasn’t even outside when it happened.
When asked how a branch injured the inside of his lip, they said she admitted to causing that injury by slapping him, but she still denied causing the other injuries.
The judge also assessed a $750 fine in the sentencing. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/crime/crime-crime/mother-sentenced-for-sons-abuse-injuries/ | 2022-09-29 21:18:00 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/crime/crime-crime/mother-sentenced-for-sons-abuse-injuries/ |
First apples are arriving in stores now as SnapDragon expands its reach
LOCKPORT, N.Y., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The long wait is over as growers across New York State are now handpicking SnapDragon™ apples, a Crunch Time Apple Growers apple. As growers prepare to ship more fruit this season, the first boxes are now arriving in stores. After months of nurturing the crop, growers are excited to get SnapDragon apples, the official apple of the Buffalo Bills, into the hands of consumers.
"Perfectly timed rain and cool evenings are making for a beautiful crop, with great color, perfect size and phenomenal flavor! We're very excited about this year's crop," said Jessica Wells, Crunch Time Apple Growers executive director.
Crunch Time Apple Growers, a group of more than 150 New York State-based growers, announced this year's crop increased by 25 percent, thanks to trees planted a few years ago that are now producing apples. And that trend should continue for Crunch Time as some growers are in their final year of the most recent SnapDragon acreage increase, which will allow production to continue to increase steadily over the next few years.
Last season, SnapDragon had a monster year, as sales were up more than 30% overall and 40% among Crunch Time's top retailers. As SnapDragon kicks off this year's harvest with a larger crop and a new partnership with the Buffalo Bills, sales are expected to outpace last season's.
Consumers can expect SnapDragon apples at Wegmans, Aldi (NY, CT, PA, FL), Publix, HEB, Food Lion, Trader Joe's (select stores), The Fresh Market, Tops, Costco (select clubs), ShopRite, Stop & Shop, Sprouts and Safeway (east coast) and many other great retailers in the coming days and weeks.
SnapDragon apples were developed by Dr. Susan Brown of Cornell University in Geneva, NY. Commercially, all of the apples are grown in New York, which gives the variety a competitive advantage over West Coast premium apples in terms of more cost-effective transportation to primary selling regions, thus creating better quality apples and lower shelf prices.
For more information on where to buy SnapDragon apples, visit snapdragonapple.com.
When you bite into a Crunch Time apple, you're not just tasting an incredible apple but the incredible love and labor of 152 family farmers across New York State. Every Crunch Time apple is non-GMO — super crunchy, delightfully juicy, beautifully colored and carefully grown. When you purchase a Crunch Time apple, you're biting into history while also helping to sustain the future of family farming for generations to come. For more information, please visit CrunchTimeAppleGrowers.com, SnapDragonApple.com or RubyFrostApple.com.
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LODI, Calif. — One man was killed and another man was hurt after gunshots rang out early Sunday morning at a downtown Lodi nightclub, police officials say.
Officers rushed to the El Dorado Club on Sacramento Street around 1:15 a.m. Sunday after reports came in stating that people had been shot.
At the scene, officers said they found two men in their 20s who were shot. One of the men was shot multiple times and taken to a hospital in stable but critical condition.
The second man died at the scene. Officials have not released information on a shooter or motive.
Investigators are asking witnesses and people with information to call them at 209-269-4798 or Lodi Area Crime Stoppers at 209-369-2746.
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Surging mortgage rates make home affordability even tougher
Another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve this week is aimed at slowing inflation, but it's also hurting consumers and cooling off the housing market.
On Lake Avenue in Lake Worth Beach on Thursday, Rick Curtis greeted would-be home buyers in front of this Coldwell Banker office.
The rising mortgage rates are a big topic of discussion.
"Unfortunately what the fed is doing with the interest rates is hurting the middle-class people," Curtis said.
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In an effort to fight inflation, the fed is raising rates to draw down prices for consumers, but it also can cost us all money.
"It's more difficult now to find a property because what they could afford last year with income and everything is not the same this year," Nancy Uhlman, Broker Owner of the Lake Worth Beach office of Coldwell Banker Hometown Real Estate, said.
Mortgage rates now stand at about 6.2%. Last September, it was around 3.4%.
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This means that a new home buyer today is paying the same mortgage payment as one who bought a much bigger home last year. They are also paying a lot more interest, which is frightening to buyers.
"[Interest rates] were at an all-time low, historically, and I try to put them in perspective," Curtis said. “When I first bought a house many years ago, 9.5%, that was considered to be very low," Curtis said.
"The consumer is so strained," Greg McBride, Bankrate.com chief financial analyst, said. "The Fed still has more to do, not just this year but into 2023, as well."
The rising rates mean borrowing money costs more, and it's especially true for mortgages.
"The run-up in mortgage rates we've seen has cut buying power by a third, and that’s on top of the strong price appreciation we’ve seen in the last couple of years," McBride said.
Buyers now are forced to try to expand their search requirements for a home to try and keep monthly mortgage payments down.
"We're kind of in a tough pickle right now, but we try to work together to make it happen," Uhlman said
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NEW YORK (AP) — Digital media company BuzzFeed is cutting 12% of its workforce, citing worsening economic conditions.
The New York company, which made the announcement in a regulatory filing on Tuesday, did not disclose how many workers it was letting go. According to the data firm FactSet, BuzzFeed has 1,522 employees, which would mean roughly 180 of them would be laid off.
Advertisers, on which BuzzFeed relies, have broadly pulled back spending to address rising costs. Spending on advertising is typically among the most elastic items in a company’s budget and is often the first place to see cuts.
“In order for BuzzFeed to weather an economic downturn that I believe will extend well into 2023, we must adapt, invest in our strategy to serve our audience best, and readjust our cost structure,” Jonah Peretti, co-founder and CEO, wrote in a letter to staff.
Social media and other companies who rely on digital advertising have also recently announced layoffs, including Facebook parent Meta, Twitter,Snap and Gannett.
In addition to economic conditions BuzzFeed on Tuesday cited redundancies in its workforce related to the integration of Complex Networks, a youth entertainment company, which it acquired last year from Verizon and Hearst for $300 million.
The job cuts are expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023, BuzzFeed said, and expects charges related to the job cuts of between $8 million and $12 million. Those would be booked in the fourth quarter of this year.
Shares of BuzzFeed fell more than 4% in midday trading, to $1.09 each. They traded close to $10 less than two years ago, when the company went public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
BuzzFeed, founded by Peretti in 2006 and initially known for listicles and online quizzes, has established itself as a serious contender in the news business, winning a Pulitzer last year for international reporting. Its other brands include Tasty, the world’s largest social food network.
It has been buying up competitors, including HuffPost, the media outlet founded in 2005 as The Huffington Post, from Verizon Media in 2020. | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/ap-buzzfeed-cuts-12-of-staff-citing-worsening-econ-conditions/ | 2022-12-07 16:49:58 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/ap-buzzfeed-cuts-12-of-staff-citing-worsening-econ-conditions/ |
A key inflation gauge tracked by Fed remained high in March
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key index of underlying inflation that is closely followed by the Federal Reserve remained elevated last month, keeping the Fed on track to raise interest rates next week for the 10th time since March of last year.
The index, which excludes volatile food and energy costs to capture “core” prices, rose 0.3% from February to March and 4.6% from a year earlier — still far above the Fed’s 2% target rate. Some Fed officials are concerned that core inflation hasn’t declined much since reaching 4.7% in July.
Overall prices ticked up just 0.1% from February to March, the smallest monthly rise since last July and down from a 0.3% increase from January to February, Friday’s Commerce Department report showed. Compared with a year ago, inflation slowed to just 4.2% from 5% in February, though much of that decline reflected lower gas prices. That is the lowest year-over-year overall inflation figure in nearly two years.
A separate government report Friday showed that companies continued to provide solid pay raises to their employees last quarter. The report, called the employment cost index, which measures wages, salaries and benefits, rose 1.2% in the first three months of the year. That was up from 1.1% in the final quarter of last year.
The increase suggested that many businesses are still feeling pressure to raise pay to find and retain workers. While good for employees, that trend could help accelerate inflation if companies raise their prices to cover their higher labor costs.
The government also reported Friday that consumer spending was unchanged from February to March after a tiny gain of 0.1% the previous month, a sign consumers are getting more cautious amid high inflation and interest rates.
The Fed is thought to monitor the inflation gauge that was issued Friday, called the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, even more closely than it does the government’s better-known consumer price index. Typically, the PCE index shows a lower inflation level than CPI. In part, that’s because rents, which have been among the biggest drivers of inflation, carry twice the weight in the CPI that they do in the PCE.
The PCE price index also seeks to account for changes in how people shop when inflation jumps. As a result, it can capture emerging trends — when, for example, consumers shift away from pricey national brands in favor of less expensive store brands.
The PCE index showed that food prices dropped 0.2% from February to March. Gas costs plummeted 3.7%, which partly reflected seasonal changes. Prices at the pump have since increased in many states.
The latest inflation figures point to the dilemma confronting officials at the Federal Reserve: Across the economy, price increases for many goods have slowed significantly. And some previous drivers of inflation, notably clogged supply chains, have eased. Yet prices for many services, including restaurants, auto insurance and hotel rooms, are still surging, fueled by robust demand from consumers who in many cases have enjoyed rising wages.
As a result, the Fed is poised to announce another interest rate hike after its policy meeting next week. The likely quarter-point rise in its benchmark rate would raise it to about 5.1%, the highest level in 17 years.
The Fed’s rate increases are intended to slow borrowing and spending, cool the economy and conquer high inflation. But in the process, the rate hikes typically lead to higher costs for many loans, from mortgages and auto purchases to credit cards and corporate borrowing, and heighten the risk of a recession. Most economists foresee a recession this year as a consequence.
There is growing evidence that the Fed’s efforts to slow consumer spending and economic growth are succeeding. The government’s figures Friday on consumer spending suggested that consumers have grown more cautious since the start of the year, when spending had jumped 2% just in January. The spending surge that month was fueled by a nearly 9% jump in Social Security and other benefit payments that are intended to keep pace with inflation.
And on Thursday, the government reported that the economy expanded at just a 1.1% annual rate in the January-March quarter, much less than the 2.6% growth in the previous quarter.
Even as the economy slows, Fed officials have indicated that they intend to keep borrowing rates high through the end of the year.
Analysts have expressed concern that last month’s collapse of two large banks is causing the banking industry as a whole to pull back on lending to shore up the industry’s financial health. Tighter credit standards could make it harder for businesses to borrow and expand, slowing the economy even further.
At the Fed’s meeting in March, its economic staff forecast that the U.S. economy would fall into a “mild recession” this year, in part because of the economic impact of the banking industry’s turmoil.
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Which Easton baseball bat is best?
Whether you’re a budding baseball star or a casual weekend-league player, a good baseball bat is necessary. A sturdy bat can make the difference between getting a base hit and earning an easy out.
Easton is a top manufacturer of baseball gear, offering a variety of elite-performance bats. The Easton ADV Hype BBCOR Bat 2022 (-3) is an excellent option for those who want a durable bat with a light swing weight, a big sweet spot and a stiffer feel on contact for more power.
What to know before you buy an Easton baseball bat
Length
The right length baseball bat is crucial to determining your swing speed and mechanics. A bat that’s too long can make your swing awkward and significantly decrease your speed and power. If it’s too short, it can limit your reach and reduce your chances of making solid contact with the ball. Size charts can help you determine your size, but a good rule of thumb is that it’s a suitable length if the knob reaches your palm when it’s inverted and standing upright.
Drop weight
The right bat weight for you depends on a few key factors — primarily, skill level, physical stature and preference. A too-heavy bat might be more difficult to swing, so you won’t be able to generate the same speed you could with a more lightweight bat. However, if you feel that your bat is too light, you won’t generate the same power you could with a heavier one.
Drop weight is determined by subtracting a bat’s weight from its length. For example, a 34-inch bat weighing 28 ounces has a drop weight of -6. The greater the drop weight, the more lightweight the bat.
Material
Most Easton bats are made with alloy or composite materials. Alloy bats are more affordable and durable, and they don’t have to be broken in. Composite bats are more expensive and require several thousand hits before they’re broken in, but they have a more prominent sweet spot and deliver reduced vibration on contact.
What to look for in a quality baseball bat
Standards
The Batter Ball Coefficient of Restitution standard is the most common requirement for adult baseball leagues. BBCOR-certified baseball bats meet the standards of wood-like performance in aluminum bats. Easton manufactures several baseball bats, but to ensure that it’s usable in your league, it’s best to look for one that’s BBCOR-approved.
Construction
Aluminum and composite bats have either a one-piece or two-piece construction. A one-piece bat is one long piece of metal and is ideal for stronger players with powerful swings. Two-piece bats have a fused handle and barrel and are suitable for players looking for increased swing speed. Two-piece bats don’t provide the same power as one-piece bats, but they offer more flex and efficient energy transfer.
Barrel
Unless you have otherworldly hand-eye coordination, you’re going to want the biggest sweet spot possible that allows for a greater margin of error. Naturally, the longer a bat’s barrel, the larger its sweet spot, but don’t sacrifice barrel size for comfort. If your bat is too long, your swing might not be as effective.
How much you can expect to spend on an Easton baseball bat
You can find a solid Easton baseball bat for $100-$200, but if you want something more durable with an advanced-engineered build and feel, expect to pay up to $400.
Easton baseball bat FAQ
Do baseball bats wear out?
A. Yes. Over time and with repeated use, a baseball bat’s materials break down. Although you’ll still be able to make contact, it won’t perform at an optimal level, and quality hits will occur less frequently.
Can I use my bat in all kinds of temperatures?
A. Aluminum bats are suitable for cold and warm weather, but composite bats do not perform well in colder temperatures.
What’s the best Easton baseball bat to buy?
Top Easton baseball bat
Easton ADV Hype BBCOR Bat 2022 (-3)
What you need to know: This high-end bat has a light swing weight, a large barrel and a prominent sweet spot for optimal power at the plate.
What you’ll love: This bat uses Thermo Composite Technology to help you generate more power on your swing and Connexion Max for a stiffer feel on contact and more efficient energy transfer. It has injected Nitrocell foam to reduce vibration and a Pro Stiff Carbon Handle for a more solid grip.
What you should consider: Although it delivers plenty of pop, its auditory reaction is less pronounced than other top-tier bats.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Easton baseball bat for the money
Easton Quantum BBCOR Bat 2022 (-3)
What you need to know: This lightweight bat has a one-piece construction and hits far, making it perfect for beginners.
What you’ll love: It has a sturdy alloy barrel and a forged end cap for a longer sweet spot. It provides a durable feel and features a 2.2-millimeter cushioned flex grip for superior comfort.
What you should consider: It doesn’t feel as comfortable as other bats, so it’s better suited for novice players looking to transition to BBCOR bats rather for than experienced players.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Easton B5 Pro BBCOR Bat 2021 (-3)
What you need to know: This premium alloy bat has an advanced-engineered ringless barrel design that delivers a solid combination of power and speed.
What you’ll love: It has thin alloy walls for elite barrel performance and an extra-stiff handle for optimal energy transfer. It features a handle insert and a premium grip for a comfortable feel and less vibration.
What you should consider: It’s more expensive than other bats with similar construction and specs.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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(NEXSTAR) – Actor and WWE wrestler Kevin Nash has opened up about the death of his son Tristen, who passed away last week at the age of 26.
Tristen, who had been working on his father’s podcast in recent months, died of cardiac arrest after suffering a seizure brought on by alcohol withdrawal, according to Nash.
“The seizure caused a cardiac arrest,” Nash said on the latest episode of his “Kliq THIS” podcast. “He was basically dead in his room on the floor with EMT working on him. And, they got him back, and got him in the ambulance, and tried to save his life. And, so, to the people at Halifax Hospital — doctors and nurses — I thank you.”
Nash said he and his son had recently decided to quit drinking cold turkey after “a couple of incidents,” including one in which Tristen was drinking beers during the podcast a few weeks back.
“I got pissed at him … because he had had this situation, at the beginning of the year, where he was hospitalized for almost 60 days,” Nash said.
Nash said both he and Tristen agreed to cut out alcohol and soon found themselves feeling “not great” during withdrawal. Nash also noted that alcohol withdrawal can increase the chance of seizures, a severe symptom called “the most dramatic and dangerous component of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome” in a study published with the National Institutes of Health.
Nash added that he had already lost two friends to alcoholism, “and now it’s taken my son.”
“He is the sweetest, kindest, gentlest human being on Earth,” Nash said of Tristen at one point, speaking of him in the present tense.
Tristen, who died Wednesday, had been working as a podcast technician on “Kliq THIS.” He also played in a grunge band called The Builders, according to his Instagram account.
Upon his passing, the Nash family issued a statement confirming his death and asking for privacy. Sean Oliver, the co-host of the “Kliq THIS” podcast, said at the time that Nash would address his son’s passing in an upcoming episode. | https://www.ksn.com/sports/wwe-star-kevin-nash-reveals-26-year-old-sons-cause-of-death/ | 2022-10-25 20:17:23 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/sports/wwe-star-kevin-nash-reveals-26-year-old-sons-cause-of-death/ |
BEIJING, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Three years into the COVID pandemic, the world economy, while facing mounting uncertainties and challenges, has undergone profound changes, with the digital evolution accelerated and the digital economy emerging as a new engine for economic recovery and growth.
The digital economy refers to a broad range of economic activities that include using digitized information and knowledge as the key factor of production, modern information networks as an important activity space, and the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT) as an important driver of productivity growth and economic structural optimization, according to the G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative agreed at 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit.
In 2021, the added value of the digital economy of 47 major countries around the world reached $38.1 trillion, up 15.6 percent from a year earlier, accounting for 45 percent of their combined GDP, according to a white paper released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) in July 2022.
Among them, the G20 members, which represent more than 85 percent of the global GDP, 75 percent of the international trade and 60 percent of the world's population, lead the world in the development of digital economy.
The U.S., with a digital economy worth $15.3 trillion, ranked first in the world. China came second with its digital economy reaching $7.1 trillion. The European Union took the third place with a value of $6.3 trillion.
In terms of the digital economy's share in GDP, Germany, Britain and the U.S. ranked among the top three, all exceeding 65 percent.
G20 consensus on digital economy
At the 2016 G20 Summit held in Hangzhou, China, as the rotating presidency, included digital economy as an important topic in the summit for the first time. The country also led the formulation and release of the G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative, which was the first digital economy policy document endorsed by the G20 leaders.
The document proposed seven guiding principles for the development of digital economy, namely innovation, partnership, synergy, flexibility, inclusion, open and enabling business environment, flow of information for economic growth, trust and security.
It also identified six key areas for cooperation in digital economy, including expanding broadband access and improving quality; promoting investment in the ICT sector; supporting entrepreneurship and promoting digital transformation; encouraging e-commerce cooperation; enhancing digital inclusion and promoting development of small and medium-sized enterprises.
China's booming digital economy
China's digital economy reached $7.1 trillion in 2021, accounting for 39.8 percent of the country's GDP, according to a white paper released by the CAICT.
From 2012 to 2021, the average growth rate of China's digital economy was 15.9 percent, and the digital economy's share in its GDP increased from 21.6 percent to 39.8 percent, the white paper showed.
The digital economy's role as a stabilizer and an accelerator of China's overall economy has become more prominent, said the white paper.
As of June 2022, China had 1.05 billion internet users, forming the world's largest and most dynamic digital society.
The country has also built the world's largest 5G networks, with 1.97 million 5G base stations by the end of July.
While China's digital economy is booming and becoming an increasingly important growth engine for its economic development, the country is also offering more opportunities for international companies to grow in the Chinese market and witnessing active cooperation with G20 members in the field.
In June, German company Siemens set up its first Smart Infrastructure Digitalization Enablement Center in China, exploring collaboration with domestic firms in smart infrastructure.
U.S. tech giant IBM, with its cloud-based services, has been actively cooperating with Chinese companies in their digital transformation.
China is also working with Brazil in protecting the Amazon rainforest ecosystem with digital technologies.
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav faced boos and jeers from audience members during his Boston University commencement speech on Sunday during the ongoing Hollywood writers strike.
Picketers and audience members broke out in chants, including, “pay your writers!” as Zaslav spoke about his career experience and how he rose up to become WBD’s president. Crowds yelled, “we don’t want you here!” and “shut up Zaslav!” as he spoke.
During his speech, Zaslav advised students that “some people will be looking for a fight, but don’t be the one they find it with,” which caused an eruption of boos and cheers from the crowd. He then told students to “focus on people’s good qualities,” which was a tip he said he received from the late General Electric CEO Jack Welch.
As he wrapped up his address — advising students to “figure out what you’re good at” and “show up for your friends” — audience members shouted expletives at him.
Zaslav, who wore sunglasses during the duration of speech, did not directly address the strike. But he may have been speaking to the picketers and protesters when he wrapped up, saying, “I hope to see all of you — and I mean all of you — along the way. The journey of life. There’s nothing better.”
The Writers Guild of America, which first announced its strike on May 2, said it would picket the BU ceremony after the university confirmed the WBD chief executive would be giving a commencement speech. Movie and TV screenwriters began striking after talks with producers broke down.
The WGA is seeking better pay and new contracts amid the streaming era of content, as well as protection against AI-generated content. The work stoppage has already impacted the entertainment industry with television and film productions going dark.
“Writers Guild members are on strike because companies, including Warner Bros. Discovery, refused to guarantee any level of weekly employment in episodic television, attempted to pivot late night writers to a day rate, stonewalled on free work on script revisions for screenwriters, and refused to even discuss our proposal on the existential threat AI poses to all writers,” the guild said in a statement, per the Hollywood Reporter.
The WGA and Boston University did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A transgender Mississippi girl declined to participate in high school graduation on Saturday after a U.S. District Judge said the school district could bar her unless she dressed in clothes required for boys, a lawyer for the girl said.
MOSCOW -- Russia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday dismissed the G7 summit in Japan's Hiroshima as a "politicized" event that it said had pumped out anti-Russian and anti-Chinese statements and accused the forum of undermining global stability.
HIROSHIMA, Japan -- President Joe Biden on Sunday said he had received a "flat assurance" from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he would not use Western-provided F-16 fighter jets to go into Russian territory.
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden and House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet to discuss the debt limit on Monday after a "productive" phone call as the president headed back to Washington, the two sides said on Sunday.
A spate of encounters between orcas and boats off the Iberian coast has puzzled scientists and sailors recently, as seemingly coordinated ambushes by the killer whales led to the sinking of three vessels. The reason for the attacks, according to one scientist who has studied the phenomenon, …
DANIEL WEBSTER moved to Portsmouth in September 1807 after practicing law in Boscawen for nearly two and a half years. He boarded in a private home, and rented two rooms over a dry goods store where he set up his law office.
ROME -- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged to support the recovery of flood-hit areas of northern Italy on Sunday after returning early from the G7 summit in Japan to see the damage first hand. | https://www.unionleader.com/warner-bros-discovery-ceo-booed-at-boston-university-commencement-speech-over-writers-strike/article_f16fcd92-a0ce-517d-9c28-a2486cd41d87.html | 2023-05-21 23:28:18 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/warner-bros-discovery-ceo-booed-at-boston-university-commencement-speech-over-writers-strike/article_f16fcd92-a0ce-517d-9c28-a2486cd41d87.html |
MUSCAT, Oman, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing to unearth new discoveries in perfumery, Amouage has released its latest olfactive tale. One of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco is a fragrant journey along the Tropic of Cancer from Oman to Cuba, connecting Royal Frankincense to Regal Tobacco. The perfume references the tradition of 'El Lector', whose role was to read to cigarmakers in Cuban factories, captivating them with riveting novels like Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and works by Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Edgar Allan Poe or Herman Melville until it became an honored ritual as synonymous with the rolling floor as the scent of tobacco. Interpreted by renowned perfumer Cécile Zarokian, a unique accord of Frankincense and Tobacco bursts alive in a novel and rich sensory experience.
As the 23rd parallel north unites the sundrenched shores of Cuba and Oman, Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco weaves as one their iconic treasures, Royal Frankincense and Tobacco Absolute, hence bearing the name of Royal Tobacco. Both fumigated since the earliest days of recorded history, their vertical signature imprints the entire evolution of the perfume, each enriched with supporting notes that reveal and sublime their complex personality. Aromatic flashes of Cardamom and Elemi light up a voluptuous heart shining with many facets of flowers and balsams casting their reflections upon the Frankincense and Tobacco duo. Emboldened by Benzoin, Labdanum and Myrrh, ambery notes of Vanilla Absolute and Tonka Bean echo the coumarinic depth of Fenugreek while graceful volutes of Prunol, Bulgarian Rose and Osmanthus Absolute evoke the fruitiness and floralcy of high-end cigars. Supported by Anise and Basil, the typically treacly burnt molasses notes of Liquorice act as a link with the choral finale of smoky Birch Tar, Vetiver and Guaiacwood amped up by the glaring animality of Oud. Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco is a daring, lavish, deep and modern creation fit for men and women alike.
"Royal Tobacco is a heady tour de force, inspired by the evocative accord of Tobacco and Frankincense and the cultural innovation that led to new paths of knowledge. Staying true to the Library Collection's original ethos, it chronicles the one instance in the modern era when tobacco (smoke - fūmus) and reading (knowledge) were linked in a collective setting" – noted Renaud Salmon, Creative Director and Chief Experience Officer at Amouage.
Joining the reshaped Library Collection as a true testament to how the search for knowledge transforms our existence, Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco reawakens the legends and cultures surrounding Cuban tobacco – its factories roasting in the summer, its hand rolled cigars, the Lectors' thundering voice quieting the production lines, the heat of embers and the cold ashes – seeking balance through contradiction, to not only strengthen its qualities with warm, deep, and resinous ingredients, but also create a bright floral heart with a sense of aromatic relief. A Tobacco indeed, but a contemporary one and respectful of the nobility of the raw material itself; of the dried, rolled, veined, smoked and leathery leaf.
True to the roots of Amouage, Omani heritage and excellence, Opus XIV – Royal Tobacco is housed in Amouage's iconic "Khanjar"-inspired bottle with an organic ceramic finish in earthy Truffle and Cashmere colours; a true reflection of the craft and authenticity of Oman. Original artworks created by Louise Mertens adorn the packaging and are an integral part of a series of analog art visuals shot by Valentin Abad, and movies shot by Thomas Savary.
Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco and the other fragrances of the Library Collection are available for purchase on Amouage.com and selected Amouage boutiques.
CONTACT: Tariq Al Haremi, tariq.alharemi@traccs.net, +968 24649099
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Racial justice advocates and the family of an unarmed man fatally shot by a Newark police officer two years ago called on New Jersey’s top-ranking federal law enforcement official Monday to investigate the case after a state grand jury declined to indict the officer last week.
Carl Dorsey, 39, of South Orange, was fatally shot minutes after Midnight on New Year’s Day, 2021, just after a dozen plainclothes Newark officers arrived on 11th Street and hurried out of two unmarked cars in what police said was a report of a shooting.
Surveillance footage captured Dorsey trying to run across the street and around the lead car, which Detective Rod Simpkins had just exited. The two have a glancing collision, then fall away from each other in opposite directions. As Simpkins fell, he spun back toward the other man, aimed and fired, hitting Dorsey, who collapsed between two parked cars. Officers tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead a short time later.
A lawyer for Dorsey’s family, Robert Tarver, said during a press conference in Newark that he had submitted a letter to U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger and his office that day, “and asking them, no, no, no, no, demanding, that they initiate an investigation into this matter.”
Sellinger’s office did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
Tarver, who represents Dorsey’s family in a state lawsuit against the police department, had previously criticized state Attorney General Matthew Platkin for failing to meet with or brief the family since the shooting, leaving members to learn of the grand jury’s decision through his office’s press release. Tarver said grand jury presentations are notoriously one-sided in favor of the prosecution and that the failure to win an indictment last week indicated Platkin’s office did not aggressively pursue the case.
“We’re here because New Jersey Attorney General’s office, after two years of inaction with regard to this family, after two years of hearing nothing from these individuals, decided that they would present the matter to a grand jury,” said Tarver.
“And the decision of the grand jury was that there was no wrongdoing. No wrongdoing when an unarmed man is shot as he’s moving away.”
Platkins office did not respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon.
The latest developments in the Dorsey case coincide with the release of footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols earlier this month by five Memphis police officers. The two cases are similar in several respects: Dorsey and Nichols were Black men; both were unarmed; and the officers in both cases are also Black.
The Newark-based People’s Organization for Progress, the city’s NAACP chapter, and other racial justice advocates have asserted that in both cases the killing of Black civilians by Black officers is a symptom of the institutional racism that operates in police departments in the form of over-policing of Black neighborhoods and aggressive enforcement against black individuals among officers of any race. Tarver said there was “a long, straight line between this incident and the incident in Memphis, which is the dehumanization of Black people.”
Dorsey’s sister, Madinah Person, said hearing that there would be no indictment in her brother’s death was “like killing him all over again.” Referring to the grand jury presentation, Person said, “this is just the first step of justice being served for his killing, and we weren’t even awarded that.”
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KIM MCKNIGHT
Published: Apr. 4, 2023 at 2:20 PM CDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -
I would like to nominate Kim McKnight for the Sunshine Award. She is the administrative assistant for our department. She goes above and beyond every day. She is caring and an overall great person. She is truly the heart and soul of our department.
Sara Modl
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Gregory Allen Howard, screenwriter who wrote 'Remember the Titans,' dies
Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard, who skillfully adapted stories of historical Black figures in "Remember the Titans" starring Denzel Washington, "Ali" with Will Smith and "Harriet" with Cynthia Erivo, has died. He was 70.
Howard died Friday at a hospital in Miami of heart failure, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson.
Howard was the first Black screenwriter to write a drama that made $100 million at the box office when "Titans" crossed that milestone in 2000. It was about a real-life Black coach coming into a newly integrated Virginia school and helping lead their football team to victory. It had the iconic line: "I don’t care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other."
Howard said he shopped the story around Hollywood with no success. So he took a chance and wrote the screenplay himself. ″They didn’t expect it to make much money, but it became a monster, making $100 million," he said. "It made my career," he told the Times-Herald of Vallejo, California, in 2009. The film made the Associated Press' list of the best 25 sports movies ever made.
Howard followed up "Remember the Titans" with "Ali," the 2002 Michael Mann-directed biopic of Muhammad Ali. Smith famously bulked up to play Ali and was nominated for a best actor Oscar.
Howard also produced and co-wrote 2019′s "Harriet," about abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Erivo lead a cast, that included Leslie Odom Jr., Clarke Peters and Joe Alwyn.
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"I got into this business to write about the complexity of the Black man. I wanted to write about Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Marcus Garvey. I think it takes a Black man to write about Black men," he told the Times-Herald.
Born in Virginia, his family moved often due to his stepfather's career in the Navy. After attending Princeton University, graduating with a degree in American history, Howard briefly worked at Merrill Lynch on Wall Street before moving to Los Angeles in his mid-20s to pursue a writing career.
He wrote for TV and penned the play "Tinseltown Trilogy," which focused on three men in Los Angeles over Christmastime as their stories interconnect and inform each other.
Howard also wrote "The Harlem Renaissance," a limited series for HBO, "Misty," the story of prima ballerina Misty Copeland and "This Little Light," the Fannie Lou Hamer story. Most recently, he wrote the civil rights project "Power to the People" for producer Ben Affleck and Paramount Pictures.
He is survived by a sister, Lynette Henley; a brother, Michael Henley; two nieces and a nephew. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/gregory-allen-howard-dies-screenwriter-wrote-remember-the-titans | 2023-01-29 21:43:03 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/gregory-allen-howard-dies-screenwriter-wrote-remember-the-titans |
PHILADELPHIA -- If you have been thinking of renovating your home or buying a new car in the New Year, you might want to go green to save some green.
Updating to more eco-friendly options could earn you some cash back.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes rebates and tax credits for energy-efficient purchases, like appliances, electric vehicles and solar panels.
And those aren't the only ways to take advantage of the government's offers.
During a home renovation, Consumer Reports' Paul Hope tried to make environmentally conscious choices. Switching from a gas stove to an electric range was an easy one.
"I've always preferred cooking on a gas range, but I knew electric and induction ranges had gotten a lot better over the years and that they're way better for the environment," Hope said.
With funding from Congress, the Inflation Reduction Act means homeowners can take advantage of up to $14,000 in rebates and tax credits for making energy-efficiency upgrades.
How much you'll be able to get will depend on how much you earn, where you live and what improvements you make.
Want to upgrade to a more eco-friendlier stove, like Paul's? A rebate of up to $840 could make it within your budget. Plus, you can receive another $500 to help cover the costs of converting from natural gas or propane to electric.
The largest credits and rebates are available for heat pumps, a high-efficiency system that heats and cools your home in place of a furnace (or boiler) and an air conditioner - as much as $8,000.
"While the upfront cost for a heat pump may be higher, these incentives will definitely help. And over the long term, you might actually save money depending upon where you live and what fuel and electricity cost in your area," Hope said.
And with rebates for upgrading to more efficient exterior doors, windows and skylights, you'll be adding value and warmth to your home.
If an electric heat pump doesn't make sense for your home, you can also qualify for a $300 tax credit with certain Energy Star-certified gas water heaters. | https://6abc.com/home-appliances-new-car-purchase-environmentally-friendly-purchases-consumer-reports-green-products/12620130/ | 2022-12-28 00:06:25 | 1 | https://6abc.com/home-appliances-new-car-purchase-environmentally-friendly-purchases-consumer-reports-green-products/12620130/ |
FAA head defends safety of US air travel despite close calls
(AP) - The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday he has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the technology failure last month that briefly halted all flights nationwide from taking off.
Acting FAA administrator Billy Nolen said he has formed a team to review efforts to keep air travel safe, and FAA has made technical changes to avoid another breakdown in a federal system that provides safety alerts to pilots.
The comments came as lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee quizzed Nolen about FAA’s slow pace of modernizing the alert system and about recent close calls involving planes at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, in Austin, Texas, and off the coast of Hawaii.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, showed a video re-enactment of the Austin incident in which a FedEx cargo plane flew over the top of a departing Southwest Airlines flight. Both planes had been cleared to use the same runway. The FedEx pilots aborted their landing just in time to avoid a collision.
“How can this happen?” Cruz asked. “How did air traffic control direct one plane on to the runway to take off and another plane to land, and have them both within 100 feet of each other?”
Nolen said the incident is still under review by his agency and the National Transportation Safety Board, but he suggested that the fact the planes did not collide shows that the nation’s airspace is safe.
“It is not what we would expect to have happened, but when we think about how we train both our controllers and our pilots, the system works as it is designed to avert what you say could have been a horrific outcome,” Nolen said.
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This man found love and welcomed a baby during six-year, 8,700-mile hike
Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN
(CNN) — After struggling with anxiety and depression for years, Christian Lewis, a former paratrooper from Wales, had hit an incredibly low point and realized he needed to make some drastic changes in his life.
On the verge of becoming homeless for the second time, the single father made a “split-second decision” to leave everything behind.
A few days later, with the equivalent of just $12 in his pocket, Lewis bid farewell to his daughter Caitlin, who had recently left home, and set off from Llangennith beach in Swansea, Wales, in August 2017 with the aim of walking the entire UK coastline.
He launched a fundraising page for armed forces charity Ssafa, which he’d sought help from when he left the army in 2004, shortly before he set off.
Nearly six years later, Lewis, now 42, is just a few months shy of completing the 14,000-kilometer (around 8,700-mile) hike and has raised over £320,000 (around $400,000). But he’s no longer walking solo. In fact, he now has three companions.
Over the course of the journey, Lewis met and fell in love with former teacher Kate Barron, 36, who has joined him, and dog Jet, who he’d picked up in Northern Ireland about nine months in. The couple have since had a son, Magnus.
“We’re now walking as a little family,” Lewis tells CNN Travel. “We’re a tight knit little group.”
Life-changing journey
As he approaches the final section of the walk with Barron, Magnus and Jet beside him, Lewis, who has been documenting his journey via his Facebook page, Chris Walks The UK, can’t help but reflect on what has been a truly life-changing adventure with absolute wonder.
And to say there have been many twists and turns throughout his journey is something of an understatement.
After making his way up the west coast towards Scotland from Swansea, Lewis took a brief detour to Northern Ireland, where he returned a message in a bottle thrown into the Irish Sea more than two decades ago that he’d found washed up along the Scottish coast.
He then decided to walk the coast of Northern Ireland, before returning to Scotland to walk the Shetland Islands, located around 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of the mainland.
Lewis was close to completing the Shetland archipelago, which has 300 islands and skerries, of which only 16 are inhabited, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit and the UK went into lockdown in March 2020.
He quickly found himself stranded on the remote island Hildasay, located off the coast of the Shetland Islands, which measures less than half a square mile.
“I was far more than halfway through my journey,” he says. “At the time, I estimated that I had about a year left, but obviously, things changed.”
After spending three months on Hildasay, Covid-19 restrictions were relaxed and Lewis was able to continue on, spending around three and a half weeks walking the rest of the Shetland Islands. He then got a boat back to the mainland, and started heading south.
While he mainly foraged and fished to survive, Lewis also relied on donations of food, water and equipment from well wishers.
Lewis was camping near the Whaligoe Steps, a stairway of 365 steps that descend down a cliffside to a natural harbor, when he met Barron, who had been wild camping around North Coast 50, an 830-kilometer (516-mile) route along Scotland’s northern coast, after leaving her job as a teacher at a London school.
“I was hiking and wild camping and just happened to go down to the bottom of a cliff on my last day of the trip,” Barron says. “And then I met Chris.”
Barron found herself instantly intrigued by Lewis, who was fixing his tent while chatting to a group of well wishers, and decided to approach him.
Cliff encounter
“So this lady just kind of wanders down all bubbly and chirpy,” he recalls. “And we had a very, very brief encounter.”
Lewis was stunned when Barron returned alone about 40 minutes later with some fish and chips and two cans of Tennent’s Lager.
“She said, ‘I’ve been looking for somewhere to camp. Do you mind if I come and camp next to you?’ he says. “And that was it. The rest was history.”
The pair spent around four days in the wilderness together foraging for food, making fires, distilling seawater and talking until the early hours of the morning, and quickly realized that there was a strong connection between them.
“We spent these magical four days together in the wilderness,” says Barron. “We just had so much in common.”
Barron then left to take a trip to Afghanistan, but the pair kept in touch constantly while she was away.
When she returned to the UK about six weeks later, Barron rejoined Lewis, having wrapped up her work commitments, and asked if she could “enjoy the rest of the adventure” with him.
“As soon as I got back to the airport in London, I just took a flight straight up to Inverness [a city in the Scottish Highlands],” Barron says. “And that was it. I never went home.”
The couple, along with Jet, continued on, walking down the east coast of Scotland together, and then into England.
“It was quite surreal to have somebody with me,” admits Lewis. “But Kate loves doing all the things that I love. It just seems to knit so perfectly together.”
Around nine months later, while bedding down in horse stables in Yorkshire, northern England, they learned that they were expecting a child together.
With many miles of the journey still left ahead of them, the pair say they never once discussed the prospect of returning home and simply kept on going.
“We wild camped the whole way through the pregnancy,” says Barron. “I walked every day, up until I was 37 weeks [pregnant].
“I was lucky in the sense that in the first trimester, I had no morning sickness. I just felt tired. Sometimes I would take a nap under a tree as we were walking.”
Although Barron found camping more tricky during her third trimester she managed to carry on regardless.
“It was uncomfortable, but I did it,” she adds.
When one of Lewis’ supporters offered up a yurt in Dorset, a county in southwest England, as a potential location for the birth, they quickly accepted, with Barron making arrangements with local midwives en route. They welcomed their son Magnus in May 2022.
New arrival
The couple then took a break from the walk, and spent time with friends and family, who traveled over to Dorset to visit them.
“We had a couple of months basically to let Kate recover, and then we decided to just carry on,” says Lewis.
“We had to make a few changes to adapt, obviously, for safety reasons for Magnus.”
With a newborn now along with them for the duration, the pair found themselves with a slightly heavier load of essentials to carry, and decided to get a van as a “contingency back up.”
They’ve since had to adapt their routine even further, as Jet has been finding the constant walking more difficult.
“Jet’s getting older,” says Lewis. “She’s done a lot of miles. And I can really start to see her slowing down.
“So I just make every single effort to make sure that she lays off as much of the walk as she can.”
Although they are still completing the route on foot, Lewis and Barron walk separately at times so that one of them can stay with Jet.
According to Barron, Lewis tends to walk ahead on these occasions. She’ll then go to pick him up in the van further along the route, drive to where he started, and walk the same route with Magnus, while Lewis stays behind with Jet, before driving back to rejoin them.
“We sort of pepper pot down the coast like that,” she explains.
Their son Magnus, who has spent much of his young life outdoors, is “absolutely thriving,”
“He lives outside. So he actually gets to visually see everything and he’s so happy,” says Lewis. “You can tell he’s going to be a little adventurer already.”
They say they tend to walk somewhere between eight to 12 kilometers (or five to eight miles) a day.
Unsurprisingly, walking and camping with a baby has been a totally different experience for both of them.
Lewis explains that they’ve particularly struggled since entering England, where there are stricter rules around wild camping.
“In Scotland, you have what’s called the ‘right to roam,’ which means basically, you’re legally allowed to camp anywhere you want,” he says. “Those rules don’t apply in England.
“So the hardest part for us has been being able to find places where we can camp, where we’re not going to get kicked off, which has happened to us many times.
“Making fires is illegal and we need fire during winter.”
Challenging times
He admits that the combination of the typical concerns of new parents and the added worry of having to keep warm outdoors was incredibly difficult during some of the colder winter nights.
“Magnus slept better than any of us,” he says. “He was always wrapped up nice and warm.”
The couple say that it’s been much harder to forage on this section of the trip, so they tend to carry food with them and use camping stoves to cook outdoors.
Lewis released a book, “Finding Hildasay,” about the first few years of his walk, earlier this year, and they’ve been living off the advance payment, along with donations of food, equipment and clothing received from companies and members of the public.
The father of two is about to begin a follow up book, which will cover the significant developments in his life since he left the island and met Barron.
Despite their challenges, the family are happily persevering and very much looking forward to reaching Llangennith beach, on the western edge of the Gower Peninsula, the final point of their journey, and the same spot that Lewis set off from.
“I think it’s probably going to be a bit overwhelming,” he admits, recalling how he stood at the beach before he began his walk and wondered what life would be like when he finally “crossed that line.”
“To see that spot again, I think there’s gonna be a lot of tears and a lot of pride,” he adds.
Lewis is hoping some of the many well wishers who’ve followed him over the years will be there to greet them, and says he’s looking forward to enjoying “a few beers and a few whiskies.”
As for Barron, she’s incredibly thankful that she took a “leap of faith” and chose to join him just a few weeks after they met in Scotland.
“I had to give everything up,” she says. “But I knew that it was what I wanted to do. I just felt that it was worth it. This adventure. This undertaking. This endeavor.”
She describes the experience as “real blood, sweat and tears,” but incredibly rewarding in many different ways.
“Becoming a mother on this journey. That’s just an incredibly powerful thing,” she adds.
Adventurer family
Once they’ve covered the North Devon coast, they will start heading back up towards Swansea, where their journey ends. They estimate that it will take them another three months to complete this final section.
“Magnus will be one by the time we finish,” adds Barron. “So his first year on this Earth will have been spent on this journey.”
Lewis has kept in touch with his daughter Caitlin throughout and says she’s extremely proud of how far he’s come.
“She was the catalyst for me really with starting this [walk],” he says. “I don’t think you can give a child a greater life lesson than to go out and think big.
“Dream big and go out and pursue it rather than just plodding on through life.”
He’s incredibly thrilled to have been able to raise money for the charity Ssafa, which helped him get back on his feet when he was living on the streets after leaving the British Army’s Parachute Regiment and experiencing tough times while “returning to civilian life.”
“I’d had a lot of help from Ssafa, so it was a no-brainer to go and do something to help them out,” Lewis tells CNN Travel.
He and Barron are often asked whether they plan to “go home and settle down” once they’ve completed the hike, but they say they have no intention of doing so anytime soon.
“Why fix what’s not broken?” says Lewis. “Kate and I love what we’re doing. We love the fact that we’re able to help other people, and that’s what we want to continue [doing].
“We’re going to be an adventure family and bring Magnus up in a way where he gets to experience different countries and different cultures.”
So what will their next big family adventure be? According to Lewis, things are very much up in the air at the moment.
“It’s a really strange position to be in,” he says. “Kate and I don’t have any money or anything like that. But we know that we can make things work if we put our mind to it.
“So whatever it is that we dream up for the next adventure, it could be absolutely anything we feel like. Because we don’t have houses and we don’t have commitments. We’re not tied to anything.”
“We almost have a blank sheet of paper. So not having anything is actually the greatest gift for us.”
When he thinks back to the person he was when he left Llangennith beach, Lewis says the difference is quite staggering.
“I’ve got a serious purpose [now],” he says. “I realized doing this walk that it’s not the material things in life that make me happy.
“And there are people out there, like Kate, for example, that feel the same way.
“To have that sort of connection, where we both have exactly the same dreams and exactly the same goals, is a very rare thing.
“I don’t need to have big houses or expensive cars. I just need these cool little people around me, and we can go wherever we want.
“As long as I’ve got that, I’m a happy man.”
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Robert E. Isbitski Jan 26, 2023 Jan 26, 2023 Updated 33 min ago 💬 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Robert E. Isbitski, 88, of Moosic, passed away Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in Geisinger Community Medical Center, Scranton.Arrangements are pending for a Sunday viewing and Monday funeral from Wroblewski Funeral Home Inc., Forty Fort. Start a dialogue, stay on topic and be civil. If you don't follow the rules, your comment may be deleted. User Legend: ModeratorTrusted User Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Religion Recent Obituaries Brown, Ellen Brudzinski, Mrs. Ann Butler, Charles T. Catalfamo, Anthony Ceccoli, Geraldine Chapman Sr., George Malcolm Clark, Joseph Czarnecki, Martin Daniel Evans, Thomas S. Hoyt, Raymond C. Isbitski, Robert E. Long, Patricia A. McColligan, Clara J. Muroski, Rosalie Demko "Lee" Newberry, Betty Sutton Gosart Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Local Obituaries Each day's obituaries, delivered to your inbox. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists Parade Parade | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/robert-e-isbitski/article_c72b622e-f3e0-589c-9088-913830529c1f.html | 2023-01-27 03:12:52 | 1 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/zz-dnp/robert-e-isbitski/article_c72b622e-f3e0-589c-9088-913830529c1f.html |
BEIJING (AP) _ Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd. (HOLI) on Friday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $15.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Beijing-based company said it had profit of 26 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 30 cents per share.
The maker of industrial, rail and subway automation systems posted revenue of $155.7 million in the period.
Hollysys Automation expects full-year revenue in the range of $625 million to $700 million.
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Ten years ago, Diana Pliego was heading home from a church youth group event when her parents shared some surprising news.
Earlier that day, the Obama administration had announced a new program that would protect her and tens of thousands of other immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally.
It was the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, meant to help undocumented youth like Pliego who had been brought into the United States as children, often called Dreamers.
"I just remember having a lot of questions, like it sounded too good to be true," Pliego said this week. "But my parents were like, 'No, we have to talk to an attorney, we have to get your application in'."
So they did, and eventually, DACA felt like an answer to their prayers.
Now, on the 10-year anniversary of the policy being announced, some recipients reflect on the opportunities it has given them, but also on its limitations.
DACA was only supposed to be temporary
Pliego arrived in the country with her family from Mexico when she was 3 years old. When DACA was announced, she was getting ready to start college in South Carolina — a state that, at the time, prohibited undocumented people from attending public institutions.
Because of that, Pliego had chosen to attend Columbia College, a private college that accepted her despite her status. She got a full tuition scholarship, but it wasn't enough.
"My family of six was still barely making ends meet, and so just to pay [for] room and board was going to be a challenge," she said.
DACA allowed Pliego and her siblings to work, supporting the family and covering the costs of her education.
"Without it, I wouldn't have even made it to my second year of college, much less graduate," Pliego said.
She did graduate, and now works as a policy associate at the National Immigration Law Center.
But DACA was supposed to be a temporary solution — an executive order announced after Congress failed to pass a similar measure in the form of legislation.
This means many recipients remain without a path to a permanent stay in the U.S. And after former president Donald Trump tried to rescind the program in 2017, their status is even more uncertain.
What's more, DACA recipients are required to renew their status every two years, paying around $500 to retain their work permits and protection from deportation.
"The past 10 years I've kind of had to live my life in two year increments, not knowing if one day someone is going to take this away from me and I won't have any control over that decision," Pliego said.
This is why, for her, the 10-year anniversary is conflicting.
"It is actually in a way a big celebration of the movement that got us DACA and this really big victory that changed our lives for the better in so many ways," Pliego said. "But at the same time, it's conflicted feelings ... because it was never meant to be a permanent solution. It was temporary and it continues to be temporary."
Esder Chong, another DACA recipient who arrived in the U.S. with her family from South Korea, said the anniversary felt more frustrating than celebratory. It's a reminder that millions of people – DACA recipients and others – remain without a legal path to citizenship.
"I think about how it's already been 10 years with no federal legislative action to address the 10.5 million undocumented immigrants in the country and the fact that it was never intended to be a permanent fix to address our undocumented population," Chong said.
Chong does credit DACA with opening the educational and professional doors that got her to where she is now: the holder of two master's degrees, including one from Harvard, and an advocate for immigration rights.
Holding onto hope amid uncertainty
After the Trump administration tried to kill the program, the Supreme Court stepped in to revive it, prompting tens of thousands of Dreamers to rush to file their applications.
Then, last July, a federal judge in Texas ruled that DACA was illegal and blocked the Biden administration from granting any new applications, leaving the program effectively frozen in place.
More than 600,000 recipients like Pliego and Chong can renew their status while the administration appeals that ruling, but there are roughly another 80,000 Dreamers whose applications are on hold indefinitely.
There are also hundreds of thousands more who will never get a chance to apply for DACA because they don't fit into the narrow eligibility requirements laid out when the policy was created.
Despite the limits that DACA has garnered over the years, Pliego remains hopeful for legislative action that can lay out a path for a permanent stay.
"Even though it's an uphill battle, I do believe that if we continue to organize as a people, if we continue to be as resilient as we've been and organize and speak up, that eventually we will get ... the permanent solution that we have been calling for," she said.
Chong, for her part, is also conflicted about hope. She wants people to remember the undocumented population that is not even protected with DACA, a policy that she argues was exclusive to those "most marketable" in the undocumented population.
"I think when we talk about a permanent pathway to security and safety and belonging, I really want to turn our attention to those who are not in the conversation this week, which is like 90-something per cent of the undocumented population without DACA," she said.
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Samuel Mariño is a young Venezuelan singer who chose to leave his unusually high voice intact so he could embrace a career in opera and sing soprano arias.
Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson talks to Mariño about his gender-defying and groundbreaking new recording.
Find Australian tour dates here.
Music from the segment
“Che Farò Senza Euridice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck, from “Orfeo ed Euridice”
“Voi Che Sapete” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from “The Marriage of Figaro”
“Son amour, sa constance extrême” by Joseph Bologne de Saint Georges, from “L’Amant Anonyme”
“Cara parte de Mio Cor” Domenico Cimarosa, from “Oreste”
“L’amerò sarò costante” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from “Il Re Pastore”
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Everything you need to make delicious Cheetos Duster dishes
Late last year, Cheetos released an official “Cheetos Duster” that grinds the iconic snack into a fine dust called “Cheetle.” Unfortunately, the limited run was sold out before the year was over. If you’re tired of waiting for the official Cheetos Duster to be available, it’s worth considering these Chester-Cheetah-approved products.
In this article: KitchenAid Food Chopper, Befano French Rolling Pin and Hamilton Beach Electric Food Processor
Everything you need to know about the Cheetos Duster
What is a Cheetos Duster?
The Cheetos Duster is a small food processor used to grind Cheetos into a powder called Cheetle. This device has a fun Cheetos-themed design with an orange color, orange thumbprints on the glass jug and a Cheetos logo on the front. Unlike most food processors, the Cheetos Duster is cordless, meaning it’s unlikely to pack the same power as a traditional model.
How do you make Cheetle without a Cheetos Duster?
You can grind Cheetos into a fine powder using any food processor. Many are likely to do a better job than the official Cheetos Duster since they pack more power. Alternatively, you can lay a bag of Cheetos on a cutting board and roll a rolling pin over the bag until the snack is ground into a powder.
What can you make with Cheetle?
- Flamin’ Hot hot dogs: You can add a spicy kick to this simple dish by sprinkling Flamin’ Hot Cheetle on top of your hot dogs. Cheetos recommends topping the dish with mayonnaise, cotija cheese and cilantro.
- Cheetos cheese pizza: If you’re keen on making homemade pizzas, you can add Cheetle to your recipe to enhance the flavor. According to the Cheetos recipe guide, it’s best to brush your crust with olive oil and sprinkle Cheetle along the border. Then, you can add your remaining Cheetle to the rest of your pizza.
- Cheetos Flamin’ Hot fried shrimp: You can use Cheetle instead of traditional breading when making fried shrimp. To make this dish, you’ll simply coat your shrimp in mayonnaise and hot sauce, add it to a bag filled with Flamin’ Hot Cheetle, shake the bag, add olive oil to a skillet, and cook the shrimp for two to three minutes on medium-high heat.
- Nearly anything else: The sky is the limit with this fun topping. You can add it to mozzarella sticks, french fries, ramen, fried chicken, burritos and any other food that could use a cheesy kick. The Cheetos recipe guide even has several cheesy desserts for those with an adventurous palette.
Best Cheetos Duster alternatives
This has a 3.5-cup capacity and two speed settings. Most of its components are dishwasher-safe, meaning cleanup is a breeze. The compact design won’t take up much counter space. It’s available in 15 colors.
Sold by Amazon, Target and Best Buy
Cuisinart Mini-Prep Plus Food Processor
This has a 3-cup capacity and an intuitive two-button design. It includes an 18-month limited warranty. Many were surprised by how much power this tiny appliance had.
Sold by Amazon
This rolling pin is so stylish you won’t believe you bought it just to crush Cheetos. Many said it was easy to use and clean. It’s made with smooth acacia wood.
Sold by Amazon
Hamilton Beach Electric Food Processor
You activate this straightforward device by pressing down on it. It has a 3-cup capacity and dishwasher-safe components. Most said it was perfect for small jobs.
Sold by Amazon, Target and Kohl’s
Folksy Super Kitchen Adjustable Rolling Pin
This stainless steel rolling pin has several silicone rings that let you adjust the thickness of your dough (or Cheetos). It works great and is easy to clean.
Sold by Amazon
Ninja Professional Plus Food Processor
This is an excellent choice for those who plan to use their processor for more than just Cheetos. It has a 9-cup capacity, three speed settings and four chopping functions. It comes with a recipe book and dishwasher-safe components.
Sold by Amazon, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot and Kohl’s
The silicone material keeps ingredients from sticking to this rolling pin. It’s available in blue, green and orange.
Sold by Amazon
Black and Decker Food Processor
This has a large 8-cup work bowl and a convenient food chute. All removable parts are dishwasher-safe. It’s compact, durable and powerful.
Sold by Amazon
Cuisinart 14-Cup Food Processor
This has an enormous capacity, making it an excellent choice for those who regularly use food processors. It comes with an instruction manual and recipe book. Most of the components are dishwasher-safe.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Best Buy
Fox Run Polished Marble Rolling Pin
This stylish option includes a cradle to keep it in place. The white marble material keeps ingredients from sticking to the pin. Many were impressed with how easy it is to clean.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot, Wayfair and Target
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Detention deputy remotely unlocked cell doors to allow assault of inmate, officials say
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - A former detention deputy is facing a charge of misconduct after officials said she remotely unlocked cell doors to enable inmates to assault another inmate in a different cell.
Shannon Burden was fired Thursday by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office and arrested by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, WCSC reported. The 38-year-old was charged with misconduct in office.
The sheriff’s office said an inmate reported to staff Tuesday at the Al Cannon Detention Center in Charleston that he had been assaulted by other inmates the previous day.
Burden remotely unlocked cell doors and allowed four inmates to enter his cell and assault him, according to the arrest warrant. The victim was then punched and kicked by the other inmates; when he tried to leave, he was forced back inside, the warrant states.
Investigators with SLED said Burden admitted to intentionally unlocking the cell doors and standing by as the inmates entered the cell. They also say she closed the victim’s cell so that he could not leave and escape the assault.
Burden told agents the victim had upset her earlier in the shift and she wanted the inmates to get him to behave.
She was booked in the Al Cannon Detention Center and posted bond for $10,000.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A 19-year-old was arrested and charged after a child was shot in Forestdale Thursday afternoon.
According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to Tower Drive around 4:09 p.m. on reports of a 3-year-old shot. Deputies arrived to find the 3-year-old girl shot in her abdomen. She was then taken to a local hospital where she remains in stable condition.
A preliminary investigation revealed the child was left in the care of 19-year-old Leon Walker Jr. Deputies said after a review of initial evidence Walker was charged with aggravated child abuse and is being held at the Jefferson County Jail on $30,000 bond.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Legend Bobbito Garcia, who is known for collaborating with Nike, his iconic radio show, and humanitarian efforts, is publishing a new children’s book.
Garcia joined New Yorking Living on Thursday to talk about his new book “Aim High Little Giant, Aim High.”
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Wright State Raiders (5-5, 0-2 Horizon) at Akron Zips (5-4)
The Raiders are 1-1 on the road. Wright State leads the Horizon with 15.0 assists. Trey Calvin leads the Raiders with 5.2.
TOP PERFORMERS: Castaneda is shooting 38.9% and averaging 18.4 points for the Zips. Trendon Hankerson is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers for Akron.
Calvin is shooting 45.8% and averaging 17.0 points for the Raiders. Amari Davis is averaging 12.9 points for Wright State.
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 4, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
344 AM PDT Thu Nov 3 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 5 AM PDT
FRIDAY...
* WHAT...South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 to 50 mph
expected.
* WHERE...North Coast and Central Coast.
* WHEN...From 2 PM this afternoon to 5 AM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 AM PDT
* WHAT...South to southeast winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to
50 mph expected.
* WHERE...San Juan County, Western Whatcom County, Western
Skagit County and Admiralty Inlet Area.
* WHEN...From 5 PM this afternoon to 8 AM PDT Friday.
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Louisiana officers charged in Black motorist’s deadly arrest
FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged with state crimes ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance Thursday in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. They are the first charges to emerge from a death authorities initially blamed on a car crash before long suppressed body-camera video showed white officers beating, stunning and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!”
Greene’s bloody death on a roadside in rural northeast Louisiana got little attention until an Associated Press investigation exposed a cover-up and prompted scrutiny of top Louisiana State Police brass, a sweeping U.S. Justice Department review of the agency and a legislative inquiry now looking at what Gov. John Bel Edwards knew and when he knew it.
Facing the most serious charges from a state grand jury was Master Trooper Kory York, who was seen on the body-camera footage dragging Greene by his ankle shackles and leaving the heavyset man face down in the dirt for more than nine minutes. York was charged with negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance in office.
Others, including a Union Parish sheriff’s deputy and three other troopers, were charged with malfeasance and obstruction of justice.
“We’re all excited for the indictments, but are they actually going to pay for it?” said Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, who for more than three years has kept the pressure on state and federal investigators and vowed not to bury the cremated remains of her “Ronnie” until she gets justice. “As happy as we are, we want something to stick.”
Union Parish District Attorney John Belton submitted arrest warrants for all five of the indicted officers.
Belton had long held off on pursuing state charges at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, which is conducting a separate criminal investigation. But as years passed and federal prosecutors grew increasingly skeptical they could prove the officers acted “willfully” — a key component of the civil rights charges they’ve been considering — they gave Belton the go-ahead this spring to convene a state grand jury.
That panel has has since last month considered detailed evidence and testimony related to the troopers’ use of force and their decision to leave the handcuffed Greene prone for several minutes before rendering aid. And for the first time in the case, a medical expert deemed Greene’s death a homicide.
The federal grand jury investigation, which expanded last year to examine whether state police brass obstructed justice to protect the troopers, remains open, and prosecutors have been tight-lipped about when the panel could make a decision on charges.
Greene’s May 10, 2019, death was shrouded in secrecy from the beginning, when authorities told grieving relatives that the 49-year-old died in a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase near Monroe — an account questioned by both his family and even an emergency room doctor who noted Greene’s battered body. Still, a coroner’s report listed Greene’s cause of death as a motor vehicle accident, a state police crash report omitted any mention of troopers using force and 462 days would pass before state police began an internal probe.
All the while, the body-camera video remained so secret it was withheld from Greene’s initial autopsy and officials from Edwards on down declined repeated requests to release it, citing ongoing investigations.
But then last year, the AP obtained and published the footage, which showed what really happened: Troopers swarming Greene’s car, stunning him repeatedly, punching him in the head, dragging him by the shackles and leaving him prone on the ground for more than nine minutes. At times, Greene could be heard pleading for mercy and wailing, “I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!”
At one point, a trooper orders Greene to “lay on your f------ belly like I told you to!” — a tactic use-of-force experts criticized as dangerous and likely to have restricted his breathing. A sheriff’s deputy can also be heard taunting, “Yeah, yeah, that s--- hurts, doesn’t it?”
Fallout brought federal scrutiny not just to the troopers but to whether top brass obstructed justice to protect them.
Investigators have focused on a meeting in which detectives say that state police commanders pressured them to hold off on arresting a trooper seen on body-camera video striking Greene in the head and later boasting, “I beat the ever-living f--- out of him.” That trooper, Chris Hollingsworth, was widely seen as the most culpable of the half-dozen officers involved, but he died in a high-speed, single-vehicle crash in 2020 just hours after he was informed he would be fired over his role in Greene’s arrest.
The AP later found that Greene’s arrest was among at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings of mostly Black men, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers said the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotism and, in some cases, racism.
Such reports were cited by the U.S. Justice Department this year in launching a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police, the first “pattern or practice” probe of a statewide law enforcement agency in more than two decades.
Scrutiny has also turned to the actions of the Democratic governor, who oversees the state police.
A legislative panel launched an “all-levels” investigation into the state’s handling of the Greene case this year after AP reported that Edwards had been informed within hours that the troopers arresting Greene engaged in a “violent, lengthy struggle,” yet stayed mostly silent for two years as police continued to press the car crash theory.
Another AP report found Edwards privately watched a key body-camera video of Greene’s deadly arrest six months before state prosecutors say they knew it even existed, and neither the governor, his staff nor the state police acted urgently to get the footage into the hands of those with the power to bring charges.
Edwards has repeatedly said he did nothing to influence or hinder the Greene investigation and has described the troopers’ actions as both criminal and racist. But he has yet to testify before the legislative panel, saying he was unable to appear at a hearing last month, instead attending a groundbreaking ceremony for an infrastructure project.
“The governor has been consistent in his public statements that he intends to cooperate,” a spokesman told the AP. “That has not changed.”
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA), the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP), the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) are joining together to strongly support the Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act. We applaud the introduction of this legislation by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), which marks an important step in further recognizing the vital role advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) have in our nation's health care system.
This critically important legislation will improve access to health care for millions of patients. The ICAN Act will remove administrative, practice and other barriers currently faced by APRNs and their patients. This legislation is consistent with the recommendations from numerous health care stakeholders, including the National Academy of Medicine in their The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report. This report recommends that "all relevant state, federal and private organizations enable nurses to practice to the full extent of their education and training by removing practice barriers that prevent them from more fully addressing social needs and social determinants of health and improve health care access, quality, and value."
Today, more than 200,000 APRNs are treating Medicare patients, and approximately 40% of Medicare beneficiaries are receiving care from APRNs. It is essential Congress removes barriers to care for the hundreds of thousands of APRNs and their millions of patients in order to maximize the ability of our health care workforce to meet the needs of patients and communities. The ICAN Act will improve access to health care by updating the Medicare and Medicaid programs, enabling APRNs to practice to the top of their education and clinical training.
"It is time for Congress to eliminate burdensome laws and regulations," said AANA President Angela Mund, DNP, CRNA. "Allowing certified registered nurse anesthetists and other APRNs to practice to the full scope of their training and licensure will ensure that patients are put first, that competition drives down costs through the removal of artificial and unnecessary barriers, and that providers of all types are able to better serve their patients."
"The ICAN Act will improve our health care system, retire barriers to practice, and enable patients to receive timely access to health care from their chosen health care provider," said AANP President April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN. "NPs practice in nearly every health care setting and provide care to patients across the life span. The millions of patients who choose NPs as their health care providers should have equitable access to the health care they deserve. The changes made by this legislation are vitally important to patients and providers alike."
"It is critical that laws and regulations facilitate the most efficient relationships between health care professionals and create systems in which midwives and other APRNs can communicate openly, practice collaboratively, and provide quality care that falls within everyone's professional scope of practice," stated ACNM CEO Katrina Holland. "Decades of research demonstrates that midwifery care can improve maternal health outcomes, the ICAN Act ensures that certified nurse-midwives can bring their evidenced-based skillset and knowledge to fully meet the needs of their patients."
"Nurses play a critical role in our health care delivery system, often by serving as the primary source of care in many communities. This is especially true of APRNs who were able to practice at the top of their license during the height of the pandemic, due to waivers granted by Federal and state governments, and in doing so provided access to high-quality care for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients alike," said ANA President Dr. Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN. "Modern health care requires flexibility. We cannot not be hindered by antiquated barriers to practice or petty turf wars over perceived hierarchies. The health of our patients and communities must come first. The ICAN Act means that APRNs, including nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, nurse-midwives, and clinical nurse specialists will be able to care for their patients at the fullest extent of their abilities while experiencing fewer disruptions and less interference."
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Tense international relations with Israel are being highlighted as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy visits the country.
On Monday, McCarthy addressed Israel’s governing body during his first trip abroad as Speaker.
“There’s no place I’d rather be than right here, right now,” McCarthy said.
His speech was full of praise for the alliance between the U.S. and Israel.
“America is grateful for our friendship with Israel. We are a better nation because of it. And we must never shy away from defending it,” McCarthy said.
The visit was bipartisan, with lawmakers from both parties there to express commitment to Israel. Congressman Steny Hoyer noted how both parties stand together on this topic.
“Yes, we’re Democrats, and yes, we’re Republicans, but on this issue, we are your friend, your ally,” Hoyer said.
But there are tensions too. President Joe Biden has publicly criticized the Israeli government for their plans to overhaul its judicial system. Unlike past presidents, he hasn’t yet invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House.
“I expect the White House to invite the prime minister over for a meeting,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy says he plans to invite Netanyahu to speak to Congress if the president doesn’t. The White House sidestepped McCarthy’s challenge and didn’t commit to extending an invitation.
“That’ll happen in due course. What we’re focused on is making sure that we continue to deepen and grow that terrific, bilateral relationship that we have with Israel,” White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby said.
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Material used in fiberglass boats has a limited lifespan. Some owners ditch their boats in public waters, causing an environmental hazard. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Jan. 1, 2023.)
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Tesla has confirmed a $3.6 billion expansion of its Nevada battery “Gigafactory” that the company claims will supply over one million EVs annually.
The investment will add 3,000 new jobs and two new factories at the Sparks, Nevada, site, Tesla said in what reads as a press release—with a few more details confirmed as part of Tesla’s quarterly financial call Wednesday.
One factory will be the first high-volume plant dedicated to producing batteries for the Tesla Semi, while the other will produce 4680-format battery cells, enough to supply 1.5 million light-duty vehicles annually.
If Tesla can achieve that manufacturing capacity for its $3.6 billion investment, will almost certainly be the most efficient battery plant project ever, in terms of money spent compared to factory output.
“If you look at the size of Giga Nevada that is allocated to make 100 gigawatt hours, it’s a small fraction of the size that currently makes 35,” said Musk, who remarked that the company is now applying its advanced manufacturing toolbox to battery cell making.
“The goals we outlaid at Battery Day on reducing the investment required to deploy cell manufacturing, that’s been a key focus of ours and the team has done a good job of hitting the marks on that focus,” added CFO Zachary Kirkhorn.
Tesla announced the Gigafactory in 2014, with plans to produce 50 gigawatt-hours (gwh) annually by 2020, enough for 500,000 vehicles. The company said it’s invested $6.2 billion to build the current 5.4-million square foot factory. A huge initial investment from Panasonic helped get the project started, and the Japanese battery supplier has remained involved as a technical partner.
To date, Tesla says the Nevada Gigafactory has produced 7.3 billion battery cells (equivalent to 37 gwh annually), 1.5 million battery packs, 3.6 million drive units, and one million energy-storage modules for a total capacity of 14 gwh. Tesla also launched onsite battery recycling at the Gigafactory in 2019.
Meanwhile, Panasonic selected Kansas City last summer for what it has claimed will be the largest battery plant in the world—if you consider each piece of the breathtakingly large Nevada Gigafactory separately, perhaps. Panasonic later clarified that the “world’s largest” claim for this factory—it’s first battery plant in the U.S. outside of its Tesla partnership—referred to expected monetary investment.
With additional reporting from Bengt Halvorson
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LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) -- A woman accidentally ran over a man suspected of trying to steal her truck's catalytic converter in Palmdale, California Tuesday.
The man later died.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrived at a retail parking lot on the 39000 block 10th Street West in Palmdale at 5:56 p.m. Tuesday.
A "lifted" 4x4 Ford Excursion truck was partially backed out of a parking space. An unidentified man was underneath the vehicle.
Deputies said a woman had fallen asleep in her parked vehicle when she heard sawing underneath her truck. She turned on the vehicle, backed out of the space, and felt a bump.
The woman stopped and called 911 for medical assistance for the man.
The man who was run over was taken to Antelope Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"The victim turned her vehicle on, put it in reverse, heard a thump and stopped the vehicle, and then saw that there was a suspect underneath the car that had been run over by her car," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Hugo Reynaga.
Deputies said three other suspects -- a man and two women -- in a car parked next to the truck were taken into custody.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. offered tips for owners of trucks or SUVs -- "especially lifted ones need to be more cautious because it's easier for criminals to get underneath them."
This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can email newstips@wtvr.com to send a tip.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California could become the first state to fine big oil companies for making too much money, a reaction to the industry’s supersized profits following a summer of record-high gas prices in the nation’s most populous state.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies in the state Legislature introduced the proposal Monday as lawmakers returned to the state Capitol in Sacramento for the start of a special legislative session focused solely on the oil industry.
But the proposal was missing key details, including how much profit is too much for oil companies and what fine they would have to pay for exceeding it. Newsom’s office said those details would be sorted out later after negotiations with lawmakers. Any money from the fines would be returned to the public.
Gas prices are always higher in California because of taxes, fees and environmental regulations that other states don’t have. But in October, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in California was more than $2.60 higher than the national average — the biggest gap ever.
Newsom said there was no good way to justify that.
Speaking to reporters, Newsom compared the actions of oil companies to price gougers charging more for hand sanitizer during the pandemic. He said the goal of the penalty is to prevent gas prices from shooting up similarly in the future, calling it “a proactive effort in order to change behavior.”
“We’re burning up. We’re choking up. We’re heating up because of these folks,” Newsom said, referring to the oil industry and its impact on the environment. “And people are barely able to pay their bills because of these folks.”
It could be a popular proposal with voters, who have been paying more than $6 per gallon of gasoline on average for much of the year. But that doesn’t mean it will be easy to get it through the state Legislature, where the oil industry is one of the top spenders on both lobbyists and campaign contributions.
Crucially, the proposal classifies the fine as a “civil penalty” and not a tax. That means only a simple majority would be needed for passage, instead of the two-thirds majority that is required to raise taxes.
“Whatever Gov. Newsom wants to call it, this is a tax and it’s going to have the same impact that all taxes do on consumers, and that is to raises costs, not bring them down,” said Kevin Slagle, spokesperson for the Western States Petroleum Association. “We think the governor should be honest about what this is and let the legislators vote on a tax and sell it to the California public as a tax and see how people feel about it.”
The California Legislature is in session most of the year, typically considering hundreds of bills. The governor can call lawmakers into a special session limited to discussing issues he specifies. Newsom said he called the special session on gas prices because it would help lawmakers focus on the issue.
But legislative leaders don’t appear in any hurry to pass the bill. Lawmakers convened in a special session for mere minutes Monday, long enough to adopt rules and appoint leaders. They won’t reconvene again until January.
Many lawmakers said they had no idea what Newsom was proposing. A few senators joined reporters at Newsom’s news conference outside Senate chambers just to hear what he had to say.
“I don’t think anybody objects to (oil companies) having a business model that makes a profit, but the extent to which they’re taking advantage of people really does appear to be unfair,” said state Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Santa Monica, expressing general support for Newsom’s concept.
Republicans, who don’t have enough votes to influence legislation, denounced the proposal.
“The last thing that we need to do is increase the cost on Californians who are already paying far too much,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher said.
Adding to the uncertainty is an unusually high number of newly elected lawmakers about to take seats for the first time. Roughly a quarter of the Legislature’s 120 members are new, with two close races still unresolved.
Among the new state senators is Angelique Ashby, a Democrat who narrowly won election after an intense campaign. The oil industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on radio and TV ads supporting Ashby’s campaign, a trend noticed by critics who tried to use it against her.
Ashby said she hasn’t been approached by lobbyists or others from the oil industry asking how she would vote on a potential penalty. She noted the oil industry spent the money as “independent expenditures,” meaning she had no control over that spending during the campaign.
“Campaign slogans and strategies of my opponent are a thing of the past,” said Ashby, whose district includes Sacramento. “I’m fixated on the people of Senate District 8 and I will make my decision based on what is in their best interest.”
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Michael Jordan was moments away from hoisting his third of what would become five NBA Most Valuable Player awards, and then-Commissioner David Stern greeted him at the midcourt ceremony with words that were both simple and profound.
“You are simply the standard,” Stern said that night in 1992, “by which basketball excellence is measured.”
That’s never been more true.
The NBA MVP award has been renamed The Michael Jordan Trophy, the league announced Tuesday. Jordan is a five-time MVP so he has five trophies named for Maurice Podoloff — the league’s first commissioner. But after six decades of the award bearing Podoloff’s name, the NBA decided the time was right to rebrand.
The Jordan trophy will stand 23.6 inches tall and weigh 23.6 pounds — nods to his jersey number and six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls — but is not a depiction of him. The chairman of the Charlotte Hornets approved the design, one that symbolizes someone reaching for excellence, but did not want the statue to be of himself. He also declined a request for comment through the NBA.
“Anybody should be able to see this and see themselves in it,” said Mark Smith, a longtime designer at Jordan Brand and the person who oversaw the trophy’s design. “They should feel the excellence of Michael Jordan and his pursuit. It’s got his name on it, but it isn’t him. It’s everybody. It could be a shipbuilder or it could be a teacher or a lawyer or a writer who looks at it and says, ‘That’s what I’m trying to do.’”
The league has rebranded almost all its trophies in the last two seasons, even adding some new ones. As part of Tuesday’s announcement, the league revealed that The Jerry West Award is being introduced and will be given to the NBA Clutch Player of the Year — which, like almost all other league awards, will be voted on by a media panel. NBA coaches will nominate players for the clutch award.
Also, the Defensive Player of the Year will now receive The Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy; the Rookie of the Year will receive The Wilt Chamberlain Trophy; the Sixth Man of the Year will now receive The John Havlicek Trophy; and the NBA’s Most Improved Player will receive The George Mikan Trophy.
“Our new collection of trophies celebrates some of the greatest and most impactful players in the history of the NBA,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “As we recognize the league’s top performers each season, we also pay tribute to the legends who embody these prestigious awards.”
It became evident last week that something was changing about the MVP trophy when the NBA said Podoloff’s name was going onto a new prize — a trophy that will go to the team with the best regular season record.
The MVP trophy has many levels of numerical significance related to Jordan, besides its height and weight. It has a five-sided base, a tribute to his five MVP awards. The name badge is six-sided, one for each of his championships. The base is shaped at a 15-degree angle; he played 15 NBA seasons.
“I’m always going to numbers and symbiology as key root DNA to make something specific and authentic for that person,” Smith said. “When you start putting all these things together, there’s only one person and it becomes very unique. Not different, but very unique.”
Jordan was involved at every step of the design process, Smith said. The final product was a bronze trophy depicting a player “breaking out of a rock to reach for the ultimate rock — a crystal basketball,” the league said. The trophy becomes more refined closer to the top, meant to show how hard work leads to something more polished and finally something great.
Smith said he fully expects to be emotional when he sees the new trophy awarded for the first time this spring.
“This is actually the highest achievement for a single player … and it’s mind-blowing,” Smith said. “It’ll be a mind-blower.”
Other trophies renamed or reimagined in the last year or so include ones named for Joe Dumars (sportsmanship), Red Auerbach (coach of the year), the Kobe Bryant All-Star MVP award — along with the Larry O’Brien Trophy for the NBA champions and the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP trophy.
New Eastern Conference and Western Conference championship trophies named for Bob Cousy and Oscar Robertson respectively were added, along with the Larry Bird Trophy for East finals MVP and the Magic Johnson Trophy for West finals MVP. The league also began issuing divisional championship trophies, naming them for Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton (Atlantic Division), Wayne Embry (Central), Earl Lloyd (Southeast), Willis Reed (Southwest), Sam Jones (Northwest) and Chuck Cooper (Pacific).
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Teacher retires on 95th birthday after 75 years of teaching: ‘Every child is a winner’
CAMILLA, Ga. (WALB/Gray News) - After 75 years of teaching, Grace Adkins is calling it a career.
WALB reports Adkins, a Westwood Schools educator, decided to retire on Thursday, a day when she also turned 95.
“Well, it’s been a great life with people that are learning,” Adkins said.
Adkins received love and support from former and current students along with her co-workers. She celebrated her birthday and teaching career together on Thursday.
“My motto is every child is a winner. And they don’t mind getting help,” she said.
Adkins was born on May 18, 1928, in Doerun, Georgia. She grew up inspired by her mom, who was also a teacher.
The Colquitt County native started teaching at a young age while she was still in the 11th grade.
After graduating valedictorian, she went off to college for a year but came back home after learning there was a teacher shortage where she quickly learned how to cater to each of her students.
“I never say a child can’t learn. I find out how they learn. I don’t give up,” Adkins said.
And not giving up has helped her touch so many students’ lives.
“She really truly wants to change students’ lives and she did. She changed my life,” Meghan Singleton, a former student, said.
Throughout her 75 years of teaching, she’s taught thousands of students at all grade levels and at different schools.
“It’s rewarding to be able to help children grow and become confident in what they can do,” Adkins said.
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IGBO-ORA, Nigeria (AP) — Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria’s southwestern city of Igbo-Ora.
Nearly every family here has twins or other multiple births, says local chief Jimoh Titiloye.
For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins. This year’s event, held earlier this month, included more than 1,000 pairs of twins and drew participants from as far away as France, organizers said.
There is no proven scientific explanation for the high rate of twins in Igbo-Ora, a city of at least 200,000 people 135 kilometers (83 miles) south of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. But many in Igbo-Ora believe it can be traced to women’s diets. Alake Olawunmi, a mother of twins, attributes it to a local delicacy called amala which is made from yam flour.
John Ofem, a gynecologist based in the capital, Abuja, says it very well could be “that there are things they eat there that have a high level of certain hormones that now result in what we call multiple ovulation.”
While that could explain the higher-than-normal rate of fraternal twins in Igbo-Ora, the city also has a significant number of identical twins. Those result instead from a single fertilized egg that divides into two — not because of hyperovulation.
Taiwo Ojeniyi, a Nigerian student, said he attended the festival with his twin brother “to celebrate the uniqueness” of multiple births.
“We cherish twins while in some parts of the world, they condemn twins,” he said. “It is a blessing from God.”
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MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. — As rent continues to climb in the Valley, so do evictions.
On Thursday, Maricopa County released new numbers showing a 12-year high in the number of eviction filings.
"It's noticeably higher now," said Anna Huberman, the presiding Justice of the Peace for Country Meadows Justice Court. "You can feel the difference."
On any given day, her court hears more than 100 cases regarding evictions.
"Not only have we gone up to pre-pandemic levels, we are actually higher than that now," she said.
The data shows that close to 6,700 people received eviction notices on their doors in September. That is an increase of over 2,000 from 2021 and even higher than was reported in 2019.
That's not the only increase the data shows.
Landlords who take their renters to court for not paying are receiving the highest judgments ever, averaging $3,300 this year. That's close to double what it was ten years ago.
Maricopa County officials say some of those cases are from landlords catching up on past amounts due, but a lot of them are people missing just one month's rent.
"On the cases with just one month of rent, just the one month of rent is higher than it's ever been," Huberman said.
Rent is also another daily cost also continues to skyrocket.
12News spoke with Renee of Mesa who says for the past six years she's lived here, rent has gone up about five to ten percent.
This year though, "My rent is actually going to increase about 30 percent with my new lease. I just didn't expect it to go up so dramatically," she said.
Now, she and her family are trying to figure out how to come up with the money. Given all these evictions now happening in the county, Renee hopes it doesn't happen to them.
There is one positive trend the courts mentioned.
A new law in effect since September is allowing some renters to seal evictions if the case is in their favor or they work out a deal with their landlord. So far, the courts report they've sealed nearly 250 cases in just two weeks.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon’s latest legal trouble: a lawsuit alleging he stiffed his former lawyers out of more than $480,000.
Bannon, a conservative strategist and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was sued for breach of contract last week by a Manhattan law firm that defended him in several recent high-profile legal battles.
The firm, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, represented Bannon from 2020 to 2022 in matters including criminal cases stemming from his refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena and from allegations that he duped donors who gave money to build a wall on the southern U.S. border.
The firm said it also aided Bannon in obtaining a presidential pardon just before Trump left office in 2021.
Davidoff Hutcher & Citron said in its lawsuit that Bannon racked up a bill totaling more than $855,000 but that he has only paid $375,000, in violation of his retainer agreement.
The firm is seeking payment of $480,487, plus interest and legal costs for its lawsuit against Bannon.
Messages seeking comment were left for Bannon.
Trump’s pardon, in January 2021, forced federal prosecutors to drop Bannon from a criminal case involving the “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign. Manhattan prosecutors revived the matter in September with state-level charges, which aren’t covered by presidential pardons.
Bannon, 69, has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges.
The New York case is pending with yet more legal drama: Bannon has until next week to find new lawyers after his current attorneys, who are not affiliated with Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, said they have “irreconcilable” differences about how to proceed.
Bannon is accused of falsely promising donors that all money given to “We Build the Wall” would go to building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, instead using the funds to enrich people involved in the project. Prosecutors say Bannon was involved in transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars to third-party entities and using them to funnel payments to two other people involved in the scheme.
The Manhattan indictment didn’t identify those people by name, but the details match those of Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in April. A third defendant, Timothy Shea, was convicted in October.
Bannon was convicted last July of contempt for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He was sentenced in October to four months in jail. But he remains free while he appeals.
Bannon, a former U.S. Navy officer and Harvard MBA, worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and as a Hollywood producer before turning to politics. One of his most notable deals left him with a share of “Seinfeld” royalties.
He took over the conservative news site Breitbart News in 2012, had a leading role in the late stages of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and worked in the White House for about seven months as Trump’s chief strategist. He now hosts a pro-Trump podcast called “Bannon’s War Room.”
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JEROME, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a old Arizona mining town that gets 1 million tourists annually are warning residents to stop yelling at visitors or they could face harassment charges.
Jerome, population about 450, was once home to one of Arizona’s largest copper mines and is now an hub for artists. Tourists take in its scenic views and visit stores and bars along the winding mountain road that passes through it.
But Jerome police said on Facebook this week that it “has come to our attention that some people visiting our town on short visits and using lawful short term parking passes are being yelled at or having notes left on their cars by local residents.”
And it warned: “Yelling at, or leaving notes could, in some cases, constitute harassment under Arizona Revised Statutes.”
Jerome is about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Phoenix and was designated a National Historic District in 1967.
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TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AACSB International (AACSB) announces today that Tim Mescon, executive vice president and chief officer of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, is retiring on December 31, 2022. Mescon has been part of AACSB since January 2015, when he helped establish and open the AACSB EMEA office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
"It has been an honor to support AACSB's mission and vision in EMEA—and globally—and to serve the members of our business education community," said Mescon. "I truly believe that business education will create a positive impact in society. I look forward to AACSB's continued growth and impact around the world."
Over the past eight years, Mescon expanded AACSB's visibility and impact in EMEA as he passionately promoted the value of business education and AACSB accreditation through thought leadership, spokesperson interviews, and advisory roles. Under his leadership in the region, the number of AACSB-accredited schools doubled to 189; membership grew by nearly 60 percent, to 542; and learning and development offerings grew from six to nearly 40 events annually.
In 2016, Mescon launched the Global Improvement Network to support and guide business schools in Africa as they worked to cultivate local leaders for emerging countries. Mescon, with his EMEA colleagues, served as a liaison with governments to establish cooperative agreements with the Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders, the United Arab Emirates Commission for Academic Accreditation, the Council of Higher Education in Turkey, and the Association of Arab Universities, among others. During his tenure, Mescon released his fifth book, a co-edited work titled Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning Post-COVID-19: The Crucial Role of International Accreditation. Mescon was named a fellow of the Chartered Association of Business Schools in the U.K.
"I've had the pleasure of knowing and working with Tim for many years, before either of us worked together at AACSB," said Caryn Beck-Dudley, president and CEO of AACSB. "Throughout that time, I've seen him dedicate his life to making business education a force for good, not only through his academic and advisory roles, but through his leadership and commitment to AACSB. His outreach efforts to schools, businesses, and governments have helped shape the future of business education in EMEA."
Ron Tuninga was recently named AACSB's vice president and managing director of EMEA and began his role on November 15. An innovative leader with global experience in the public and private higher education sectors, Tuninga will build on the foundational work Mescon has achieved in the region.
Established in 1916, AACSB International (AACSB) is the world's largest business education alliance, connecting educators, learners, and business to create the next generation of great leaders. With a presence in more than 100 countries and territories, AACSB fosters engagement, accelerates innovation, and amplifies impact in business education. Learn how AACSB is transforming business education for a better society at aacsb.edu.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A leading Belarusian political activist has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for opposing President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.
Mikalay Autukhovich was convicted and sentenced by a Belarusian court Monday on charges of plotting a terror attack, high treason and a conspiracy to seize power.
Autukhovich is a 59-year old former military officer and a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. He has helped the opposition raise funds for their efforts to oppose Lukashenko, who has ruled the ex-Soviet nation with an iron hand for more than 28 years.
Lukashenko has brutally suppressed protests that were fueled by his being awarded a sixth term in office in a 2020 presidential vote that was widely seen as rigged.
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Physicians with a focus and passion for public health and preventive medicine honored during Preventive Medicine 2023 in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the final day of Preventive Medicine 2023 (PM2023), the American College of Preventive Medicine's (ACPM) annual conference, the College announced the winners of the ACPM Board of Regents Scientific Excellence Award for physician, member-led, evidence-based research to advance the field of preventive medicine. Additionally, the College honored ACPM award recipients for their service to the College and profession. ACPM President M. "Tonette" Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, FACPM, presented the awards during a ceremony at the annual conference, which assembled the brightest minds in public health and preventive medicine.
The inaugural Scientific Excellence Award for accomplished preventive medicine physicians who exemplify scientific excellence in advancing the field of preventive medicine to improve health, was presented at the opening plenary session to Matthew Allision MD, MPH, RPVI and Timothy Holtz MD, MPH, FACPM.
In addition, more than 150 ACPM members showcased their research poster presentations at PM2023. With a panel consisting of members of the ACPM Board of Regents, three awardees were selected. The 2023 ACPM Scientific Excellence Poster Award winners are:
- First Place: Lynn Van Airsdale, DO, LAc
- Second Place: Kaitlyn Long, MPH
- Third Place: Christine Yeh, MD
A further five members and three organizations were honored for their role and efforts in advancing the field of preventive medicine and paving the way in health for current and aspiring preventive medicine physicians. The 2023 ACPM Award winners are:
- Distinguished Service Award: Robert W. Carr, MD, MPH, FACPM
- Ronald Davis Special Recognition Award: Dorothy S. Lane, MD, MPH, FACPM
- William Kane Rising Star Award: Prasad Acharya, MD, MPH, MBA
- Donald Gemson Resident Award: Grace Price, MD
- Distinguished Federal Preventive Medicine Medical Officer Award: Curi Kim, MD, MPH
- ACPM President's Award recognized the key role of federal funding agencies in supporting equitable and inclusive participation driving scientific excellence in discovery, implementation, and policy focused on improving health of our nation and beyond:
"Our 2023 Scientific Excellence Award winners and ACPM Award winners at this year's conference exemplify the strong commitment preventive medicine physicians have for improving the evidence base supporting healthcare systems and practice, {and in} community-engagement in research and prioritizing care to be inclusive of all," said Dr. Krousel-Wood. "Congratulations to all of our winners and to all who participated in the poster presentations and the invaluable contributions made by conference attendees. The research presented by preventive medicine physicians over the past three days signal significant advancements that will lay the foundation for better health and well-being of all populations."
PM2023 featured dozens of sessions and presentations focusing on challenging healthcare topics – from preparing for future pandemics, reducing the burden of chronic disease, preventing injuries and addressing rural health disparities, discussing the opioid crisis and vaccine preventable diseases. For more information about sessions and topics presented at PM2023, visit ACPM online, here, and follow the conversation on social media using #PM2023.
About ACPM
The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is a professional medical society of approximately 2,000 physicians dedicated to improving the health and quality of life of individuals, families, communities and populations through disease prevention and health promotion.
For more information, visit www.acpm.org
Contact: Alicia Stanford, astanford@brgcommunications.com, 407-575-7514
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(KTLA) – A fire broke out at Disneyland Saturday night as packed crowds were enjoying the theme park.
The fire ignited on Tom Sawyer Island during the Fantasmic! nighttime water and fireworks show held on the Rivers of America.
Videos taken by parkgoers show flames fully engulfing Maleficent’s dragon prop on stage. The flames first took over the dragon’s face before spreading to the rest of its body.
Heavy plumes of dark smoke could be seen billowing from the stage and were visible throughout the park.
Video showed cast members evacuating crowds out of the waterfront viewing area and nearby attractions as firefighters worked to extinguish the flames.
Bystanders outside of the Disneyland resort captured pictures and video of a line of firetrucks rushing to the Anaheim, California, theme park.
“During the final showing of Fantasmic at Disneyland park on Saturday evening, the dragon caught fire,” a Disneyland explained in a statement. “Anaheim Fire & Rescue quickly responded and the fire was extinguished. All cast members were evacuated from Tom Sawyer Island. Due to smoke and wind, attractions near the island were safely cleared of any guests, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation at this time.”
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‘Wordle’ is Google’s top search of 2022
Published: Dec. 7, 2022 at 8:59 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - Google has published its Year-In-Search list for 2022 which is a look back at the top trending searches of the year.
The number one trending search globally was “Wordle,” the wildly popular web-based word-guessing game owned by the New York Times.
Other top searches included “Johnny Depp” in the people category and the actors’ category, “Novak Djokovic” in the athletes’ category and “Ukraine” in the news category.
“Ukraine” was also the third highest trending search overall, just behind “India versus England” in the number two spot and “Wordle” at number one.
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What is the best Graco car seat?
Keeping their children safe is one of the highest priorities of any parent or caregiver. Car safety is front and center with all states having laws requiring safety seats for infants and children. Finding the right car seat for your child and budget is an important consideration with many options to choose from.
Minneapolis-based Graco is one of the leading manufacturers of car seats for children. They have many styles and price ranges for all types of families. For its comprehensive offerings of infant seat, harness seat and booster seat all in one, the best Graco car seat is the Graco 4Ever DLX 4-in-1 Car Seat.
What to know before you buy a Graco car seat
What type of car seat is best for your child?
There are four types of Graco car seats.
- Infant car seats face the back of the car and are used with infants until they reach the weight or height limit for a forward-facing seat. Many come with handles that allow you to carry the seat from the base if you need to go inside with your child. They are often the least expensive seats.
- Travel systems are infant seats that fit onto a stroller frame. This makes for easy and quick transition from car to stroller. It is often more cost effective from buying the stroller separately. Travel systems accommodate older children that have outgrown the infant seat.
- Convertible car seats begin as rear-facing seats but eventually change over to forward-facing when your child is big enough. Children up to 120 pounds can use a convertible car seat. They are expensive to purchase upfront but may save money over the long run if you never have to buy another car seat.
- Booster seats are designed for older children to be able to use the belt restraint system. It provides extra height to make sure the seat belt is covering the correct part of the torso in the event of an accident. There are backless and full-backed booster seat options.
When was your car made?
All cars made from 2002 on have LATCH anchors installed. LATCH is the acronym for Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children. It is a way of attaching a car seat without using a seat belt. Graco car seats are designed to be used with LATCH anchors.
What is the warranty for my car seat?
Graco offers a limited one-year warranty on workmanship. The warranty does not apply to any damage caused by the consumer or by misusing or installing it incorrectly. You need to register your car seat with proof of purchase since the warranty is based on the date of sale.
What to look for in a quality Graco car seat
Harness
The harness is the biggest safety component for older children. The straps should be at or below the shoulders when facing the rear and at or above the shoulders when the seat faces forward. Make sure the harness is easy to adjust.
Padding
Graco car seats have padding positioned to protect your child in the event of a collision. The padding can also help hold younger children snugly in a convertible seat. The padding can be removed over time as your child grows.
Weight
Some car seats can be heavy to carry. You may want to test your car seat ahead of time to make sure you don’t become fatigued when carrying your child in the seat.
How much you can expect to spend on a Graco car seat
Graco car seats vary in price depending on the seat type, size, weight threshold and overall style. Depending on your need, you can spend as little as $25 or up to $450.
Graco car seat FAQ
Are car seats covered by insurance?
A. Some car seats are covered by health insurance. Check your policy’s provisions. Local charities and some state welfare programs also provide free car seats to first-time mothers.
What if you car seat is in a collision?
A. Car seats are designed to protect your child during a car accident. If you have an accident, you should replace the car seat even if it looks unmarred. There could be unseen structural damage.
What is the best Graco car seat to buy?
Top Graco car seat
Graco 4Ever DLX 4-in-1 Car Seat
What you need to know: This combination seat has everything you need from infant to older child.
What you’ll love: This seat has an infant seat, front-facing harness seat, and a booster seat that can be backed or backless. It has two cup holders and a six-position reclining feature. The seat is easy to adjust.
What you should consider: This is one of the most expensive Graco models.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Graco car seat for the money
What you need to know: This affordable car seat can serve many purposes with a lot of positional versatility.
What you’ll love: The head rest has 10 adjustable positions to accommodate children from 22 to 100 pounds when converting from front-facing harness to booster seat. It includes Graco’s standard safety features.
What you should consider: It is not intended for infants.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This seat works with a harness for both rear and forward facing situations depending on the child’s size.
What you’ll love: It is designed for children from 4 to 65 pounds depending on the stage of life. You are able to provide five extra inches of leg room as the child grows. It has removable plush inserts for head and torso.
What you should consider: It is expensive with limited versatility.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Industry's most privacy-forward, customizable and accurate audiences optimized with predictive targeting to drive superior performance
NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AdTheorent Health, a division of AdTheorent Holding Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADTH) that delivers privacy-first machine learning-based advertising solutions to drive measurable outcomes for healthcare marketers, today announced the launch of AdTheorent Health Predictive Audiences. AdTheorent Health Predictive Audiences allow programmatic advertisers to target "audiences" in a more precise, data-driven and less opaque manner than was previously possible. AdTheorent Health Predictive Audiences are fully customized based on advertiser requirements and use primary-sourced healthcare data and statistics to identify the most qualified audiences for targeting consideration -- without relying on personalized information or user IDs.
How it works:
AdTheorent aggregates health data from hospital and healthcare provider claims, electronic health records, as well pharmacy and contextual data representing 300+ million patients and Health Care Professionals, which equates to more than 90% of the US population. This aggregated health data is mined to create statistical representations of desired target audiences (i.e., condition sufferers, caregivers, HCP or prescription users) based on non-sensitive data such as age, location, gender HHI and education level. This data foundation is not ID-based and does not include personal health information (PHI), making AdTheorent Health Predictive Audiences HIPAA and privacy compliant by design. Also, because AdTheorent audiences are not ID-dependent, their efficacy and accuracy are not undermined by poor ID match rates during audience activation, and privacy compliance is not dependent on implementing standard measures to "dilute" ID-based condition sufferer data with other non-value added data. Significantly, AdTheorent only delivers an impression when AdTheorent's predictive models indicate a higher probability that an ad opportunity will both be served within the customized target audience and lead to completion of an advertiser-specified campaign action (i.e., prescription fill, digital action, Audience Quality, etc.). Each AdTheorent Health Predictive Audience model evaluates 900 impression-specific signals and millions of potential impressions per second to drive performance, and to continuously optimize throughout the campaign, allowing AdTheorent to drive performance for healthcare advertisers.
"AdTheorent Health Predictive Audiences are powered by AdTheorent's industry leading machine learning technology, which allows it to identify superior audiences for healthcare advertising campaigns by using statistics and aggregated data as opposed to relying on traditional 'off the shelf' audience targeting strategies," said Vikrant Gandhi, VP of Research at Frost & Sullivan. "AdTheorent Health Predictive Audiences are fully compliant with healthcare industry privacy requirements and are future-proofed since they are not reliant on cookies or IDs of any kind, which is a significant benefit for AdTheorent Health's customers and the industry generally," noted Gandhi.
Key benefits of AdTheorent Health Audiences:
- Highly customizable
- Patients diagnosed with high cholesterol in the last 24 months, who were given a prescription for a specific pharmaceutical brand product in the last 12 months, which was filled at a specific pharmacy within the last two months.
- Accuracy & Scale
- Privacy-Forward and Built for Froward-Addressability
- Performance Focused
"AdTheorent Health Predictive Audiences combine the best of ML-powered predictive advertising with the industry's most innovative method of audience creation, and we are very excited to bring this new, data-driven approach to market for our healthcare partners," said James Lawson, CEO of AdTheorent. "Our team has created a programmatic targeting solution for healthcare advertisers that will drive unprecedented ROI, while leading the industry into a more privacy-forward future."
To learn more about AdTheorent Health, please visit AdTheorentHealth.com
About AdTheorent
AdTheorent (Nasdaq: ADTH) uses advanced machine learning technology and privacy-forward solutions to deliver impactful advertising campaigns for marketers. AdTheorent's machine learning-powered Platform A\T powers its predictive targeting, geo-intelligence, audience extension solutions and in-house creative capability, Studio A\T. Leveraging only non-sensitive data and focused on the predictive value of machine learning models, AdTheorent's product suite and flexible transaction models allow advertisers to identify the most qualified potential consumers coupled with the optimal creative experience to deliver superior results, measured by each advertiser's real-world business goals.
AdTheorent is consistently recognized with numerous technology, product, growth and workplace awards. AdTheorent was named an AdExchanger 2022 Top 50 Programmatic Power Player and was honored with an AI Breakthrough Award and "Most Innovative Product" (B.I.G. Innovation Awards) for five consecutive years. Additionally, AdTheorent is the only six-time recipient of Frost & Sullivan's "Digital Advertising Leadership Award." AdTheorent is headquartered in New York, with fourteen offices across the United States and Canada. For more information, visit adtheorent.com.
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TCU’s Garrett Riley is Broyles Award winner as top assistant
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — TCU offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Garrett Riley has been named winner of the Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in the nation. Riley coached Heisman Trophy finalist Max Duggan and coordinated the top offense in the Big 12. The Horned Frogs lead the nation with 19 plays of 50 yards or longer. They are in the College Football Playoff for the first time. The younger brother of Southern California coach Lincoln Riley was offensive coordinator at SMU for two seasons before moving with Sonny Dykes to TCU this year. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/06/tcus-garrett-riley-is-broyles-award-winner-as-top-assistant/ | 2022-12-06 23:51:30 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/06/tcus-garrett-riley-is-broyles-award-winner-as-top-assistant/ |
LOS ANGELES, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Essentia Health's newest hospital, St. Mary's Medical Center, features interactive patient technology from SONIFI Health designed to educate, comfort and empower patients and their families.
Located in Duluth, Minnesota, the 346-bed hospital will open to patients later this year. In addition to stunning views overlooking Lake Superior, art-filled areas, and welcoming design aesthetics, the new St. Mary's Medical Center features innovative technology to modernize many operations and experiences throughout the state-of-the-art facility.
With SONIFI Health's engagement platform that integrates with the hospital's Epic EHR system, patients and their families can use interactive TVs in patient rooms to watch education that's specific to their condition, learn about their care team, order meals from their TV, and access helpful information about the new hospital.
"When patients have a simple, engaging way to learn about their care and what they need to do to heal, it can improve their health outcomes and overall satisfaction," said SONIFI Health Nursing Executive Julie Westrick, who has been part of implementing the education and infotainment system at St. Mary's. "With integrations that automate manual tasks, like assigning and charting education, the system also gives nurses more time to focus on what they do best: Caring for patients."
Knowing the positive impact entertainment can have in calming patients and their families, Essentia leaders also worked with SONIFI Health to offer the best variety of options on the interactive TVs, including free movies, live channels, and the ability for patients to watch streaming content from their phone on the television.
"Healthcare organizations are being very thoughtful about using technology to elevate what care looks like for their patients, clinicians and communities," said Kelly Boyd, SONIFI Health's General Manager. "SONIFI Health is proud to support the great work being done by these forward-thinking leaders to provide better clinical care and enhance the patient experience throughout their healing journey."
About SONIFI Health
SONIFI Health provides market-leading interactive patient engagement technology proven to improve patient outcomes and staff productivity. The EHR-integrated platform is delivered across mobile devices, televisions, computers and digital displays to enhance patient and family experiences while increasing organizations' operational efficiencies. As part of SONIFI Solutions Inc., the company annually supports more than 500 million end user experiences. Learn more at sonifihealth.com.
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Bringing revolutionary off-road technology from snow to water marks milestone year with second vehicle category sales
MONTREAL, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Taiga Motors Corporation (TSX: TAIG) ("Taiga" or the "Company"), a leading electric off-road vehicle manufacturer, today announced it initiated deliveries of its Orca™ personal watercraft. Taiga's 2022 Orca marks its world's first electric personal watercraft sale, as the Company continues to ramp up production, furthering its legacy of being a pioneer in the electric powersports industry.
"This is a significant moment for the Taiga team because not only are we kicking off summer with Orca deliveries, but we are proudly marking the milestone of the first-ever mass-produced electric watercraft available to consumers," said Samuel Bruneau, Taiga CEO. "Years of engineering and testing of our revolutionary electric powertrain platform in snow and water has now come full circle, truly changing how people connect with the outdoors."
Taiga developed the world's first performance-focused, commercial electric off-road powertrain pioneering cutting-edge technology to electricity the off-road segment. First installed into its snowmobiles, then adapted and fine-tuned for the Orca personal watercraft. Orca quietly powers through water with up to 120kW and peak torque from zero RPM. Orca delivers reliable, linear power for precise performance, and ultimate thrills of gliding through the water.
Orca redefines the personal watercraft experience with silent operation, powerful efficiency, no engine maintenance and intelligent connectivity. The Orca Carbon model features a unique carbon fiber composite hull hydrodynamically engineered for dynamic handling with leading power-to-weight ratio and stunning customizable color/finish combinations.
Taiga's deliveries of the Orca personal watercraft are another achievement in its ongoing mission to electrify the off-road segment, the most challenging and demanding vehicle category. Taiga initiated North American deliveries of its Nomad snowmobile in March, made its European debut in April, and supplied units to Québec's Parks and Wildlife Reserve Agency, Sépaq in May. Taiga was also recently named Fast Company's 2022 Best World Changing Idea Overall in North America.
The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Canada congratulates Taiga for this achievement: "Our government has always been a champion for a greener economy. This's why, last year, we recognized the leading role Taiga is playing in the electrified powersports industry, and stepped up to support the manufacturing of their electric vehicles. I'm very pleased to see this Canadian company beginning deliveries of their first-ever electric personal watercraft. We will continue to support Canadian businesses that are on the cutting-edge of green innovation – it's good for the economy, the environment, and Canadians."
Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy and Innovation for Quebec says: "Taiga is focusing on innovation by allowing users to practice their favourite activity without polluting with this new electric watercraft. For 100 years now, we have been innovating in Quebec by creating off-road vehicles. I am proud that we continue in this direction today with their electrification."
Taiga (TSX: TAIG) is a Canadian company reinventing the powersports landscape with breakthrough electric off-road vehicles. Through a clean-sheet engineering approach, Taiga has pushed the frontiers of electric technology to achieve extreme power-to-weight ratios and thermal specifications required to outperform comparable high-performance combustion powersports vehicles. The first models released include a lineup of electric snowmobiles and personal watercraft to deliver on a rapidly growing demand from recreational and commercial customers who are seeking better ways to explore the great outdoors without compromise. For more information, visit https://www.taigamotors.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Such forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, information with regards to the anticipated performance of customer deliveries, the expected production times, the anticipated perormance of customer experiences and customer demand for Taiga's products, as well as information with respect to our beliefs, plans, expectations, anticipations, estimates and intentions.
This forward-looking information is identified by the use of terms and phrases such as "may", "would", "should", "could", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "plan", "foresee", "believe", and "continue", as well as the negative of these terms and similar terminology, including references to assumptions, although not all forward-looking information contains these terms and phrases. Forward-looking information is provided for the purposes of assisting the reader in understanding the Company and its business, operations, prospects and risks at a point in time in the context of historical and possible future developments and therefore the reader is cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes.
Forward-looking information is based on a number of assumptions and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the three month periods ended March 31, 2022, and 2021, and under the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's annual information form filed on March 28, 2022 on the Company's SEDAR profile at sedar.com.
Forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs, expectations and assumptions and are based on information currently available to management. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the future circumstances, outcomes or results anticipated or implied by such forward-looking statements will occur or that plans, intentions or expectations upon which the forward-looking statements are based will occur. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by such statements.
All of the forward-looking information contained in this press release is qualified by the foregoing cautionary statements, and there can be no guarantee that the results or developments that we anticipate will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences or effects on our business, financial condition or results of operation. Unless otherwise noted or the context otherwise indicates, the forward-looking information contained herein is provided as of the date hereof, and we do not undertake to update or amend such forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ParaSpace launched a first-of-its-kind cross-margin lending platform today. With the recent rise in NFT lending and borrowing, users have seen an increased liquidation downtrend spiral, ParaSpace serves as a solution for users in the space.
ParaSpace is founded by Yubo Ruan and backed by Sequoia Capital, CoinBase Ventures, Founders Fund and others. The platform leverages a cross-margin framework that enables a peer-to-pool lending system that enhances liquidity and capital efficiency. For the first time ever, users and NFT holders can collateralize multiple assets into one portfolio to lend and borrow against while being able to hedge their risk.
"We believe in a future where NFT assets proliferate with different kinds of utility, applications, and especially the connection to real-world assets. Our vision is to create a decentralized cross-margin lending protocol with support for a wide variety of both fungible and non-fungible assets extending into the real world," said Ruan, founder and CEO of ParaSpace. "For NFT finance to be usable, users need to be able to hedge their risk and have flexibility on what assets they can borrow against and on what terms."
ParaSpace is a fully decentralized and permissionless protocol built on Ethereum. Currently, the platform supports a wide range of fungible tokens including BTC, ETH, DAI, USDC, and APE in addition to existing blue chip NFT collections. To build capital efficiency across crypto space, ParaSpace plans to support cross-chain lending and borrowing for EVM-compatible or equivalent blockchains in the future.
To celebrate the launch of the platform, ParaSpace is hosting an APE Coin Staking Fest, to empower Bored Ape NFT and APE holders to hit the maximum returns for staking APE. ParaSpace's APE Coin Staking Fest will allow users to borrow APE at reduced rates, participate in referral programs, and qualify for their APE airdrop, which will be giving away up to $250,000 worth of APE.
Ultimately, ParaSpace acts as a permissionless and highly customizable infrastructure to solve many unmet needs in efficient use of on-chain capital. ParaSpace seeks to redefine NFT finance to bring web3 and decentralized lending to 1 billion people.
For additional information on ParaSpace, please visit para.space.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
9-9-6-1-1
(nine, nine, six, one, one)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
9-9-6-1-1
(nine, nine, six, one, one) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17505753.php | 2022-10-13 05:11:00 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17505753.php |
Ten_R.Woods 7 pass from Tannehill (Bullock kick), 8:00. Drive: 5 plays, 32 yards, 2:47. Key Plays: Tannehill 9 run on 3rd-and-6; Henry 12 run.
Ten_Henry 19 run (Bullock kick), 3:46. Drive: 6 plays, 75 yards, 3:19. Key Plays: Tannehill 4 pass to Hooper on 3rd-and-3; Tannehill 22 pass to Henry; Tannehill 23 pass to Okonkwo.
Ind_FG McLaughlin 27, 13:25. Drive: 12 plays, 66 yards, 5:21. Key Plays: Ryan 19 pass to Granson; Ryan 10 pass to Pittman; Ryan 20 pass to P.Campbell; Ryan 18 pass to Alie-Cox.
Ten_FG Bullock 44, 9:39. Drive: 10 plays, 41 yards, 3:46. Key Plays: Haskins kick return to Tennessee 32; Tannehill 10 pass to R.Woods; Burks 4 run on 3rd-and-1.
Ten_Okonkwo 8 pass from Tannehill (Bullock kick), 7:40. Drive: 5 plays, 28 yards, 1:54. Key Play: Tart 0 interception return to Indianapolis 27.
Ind_Alie-Cox 14 pass from Ryan (McLaughlin kick), 2:13. Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards, 5:27. Key Plays: Ryan 18 pass to P.Campbell on 3rd-and-2; Ryan 14 pass to Pittman; Taylor 3 run on 3rd-and-2; Ryan 33 pass to J.Woods.
Ind_Alie-Cox 7 pass from Ryan (McLaughlin kick), 7:26. Drive: 8 plays, 67 yards, 5:09. Key Plays: Ryan 25 pass to Pierce on 3rd-and-3; Taylor 11 run.
A_65,781.
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RUSHING_Tennessee, Henry 22-114, Tannehill 5-9, Burks 1-4. Indianapolis, Taylor 20-42, Hines 1-0, Ryan 2-(minus 4).
PASSING_Tennessee, Tannehill 17-21-0-137. Indianapolis, Ryan 27-37-1-356.
RECEIVING_Tennessee, Woods 4-30, Hilliard 4-18, Okonkwo 3-38, Henry 3-33, Burks 2-14, Hooper 1-4. Indianapolis, Alie-Cox 6-85, Pierce 4-80, Granson 4-62, Campbell 4-43, Pittman 3-31, Dulin 2-18, Hines 2-3, Woods 1-33, Taylor 1-1.
PUNT RETURNS_Tennessee, None. Indianapolis, Hines 2-20.
KICKOFF RETURNS_Tennessee, Haskins 4-105. Indianapolis, None.
TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS_Tennessee, Cole 5-3-0, McCreary 5-2-0, Long 4-3-0, Schobert 4-2-0, Farley 4-0-0, Byard 3-3-0, Adams 3-2-0, Fulton 2-1-0, Autry 2-0-2, Weaver 2-0-1, Simmons 1-3-0, Kalu 1-2-0, Tart 1-2-0, Edwards 1-1-0, Mitchell 1-1-0, Strong 1-1-0, Dupree 0-1-0. Indianapolis, Franklin 8-7-0, Okereke 5-3-0, McLeod 4-0-0, Moore 3-2-0, Stewart 2-1-1, Rodgers 2-1-0, Thomas 2-0-0, Paye 1-2-1, Lewis 1-2-0, Speed 1-2-0, Odeyingbo 1-1-1, Leonard 1-1-0, Facyson 1-0-0, Gilmore 1-0-0, Ngakoue 0-1-0.
INTERCEPTIONS_Tennessee, Tart 1-0. Indianapolis, None.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_Indianapolis, McLaughlin 51.
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OFFICIALS_Referee Scott Novak, Ump Ramon George, HL Derick Bowers, LJ Walt Coleman IV, FJ Tra Boger, SJ David Meslow, BJ Terrence Miles, Replay Matt Sumstine. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Tennessee-24-Indianapolis-17-17481861.php | 2022-10-02 21:36:13 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Tennessee-24-Indianapolis-17-17481861.php |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans, including a former Israeli chief of staff, on Monday urged the country’s top legal officials to stand tough against the incoming government.
In a letter to the chief of Israel's Supreme Court and other top officials, they said the alliance of religious and ultranationalist parties threatens Israel’s future. The letter was delivered days before the new government is to take office.
“We come from all strata of society and from across the political spectrum,” the letter said. “What we have in common today is the fear that the democratic state of Israel is in danger.”
It called the legal officials “the final line of defense” and implored them to “do everything in your reach to stop the disaster that is affecting the country.”
Among the nearly 1,200 signatories were Dan Halutz, who served as military chief from 2005-2007; Avihu Ben-Nun, a former commander of the air force and Amos Yadlin, a former head of military intelligence. All three are former fighter pilots.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-Orthodox and far-right partners captured a parliamentary majority in Nov. 1 elections.
While they have not yet completed coalition negotiations, Netanyahu has reached a series of deals that would grant his far-right partners authority over the national police force and settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
They are promoting legislation to allow a politician who spent time in prison in a bribery case to serve as a Cabinet minister while on probation for a separate conviction on tax offenses. They also are expected to promote a series of changes in the legal system that critics say will weaken the judiciary and potentially dismiss criminal charges against Netanyahu.
On Sunday, Netanyahu rebuked an ally over anti-LGBTQ comments.
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A judge recused himself Thursday from a lawsuit filed by victims of a former physician who pleaded guilty last year in Clark and Pike counties to sexually assaulting 31 children.
Clark County Circuit Judge Blake Batson, who gave no reason for his recusal, was the prosecuting attorney for Clark County in 2014, when Barry Alan Walker's niece, then a deputy prosecutor in Pike County, wrote to him disputing allegations made against her uncle by a 4-year-old girl.
The niece, Jana Bradford, in May 2022 was elected as prosecuting attorney for the Ninth West Judicial District, encompassing Pike, Howard, Little River and Sevier counties, and is among the defendants the lawsuit accuses of enabling Walker to continue his criminal behavior.
Walker was investigated, but not charged in 2014.
In June 2022, however, he was arrested on a litany of rape and child pornography charges.
In October 2022, he pleaded guilty to more than 100 charges, including various counts of rape and computer exploitation of a child, and was sentenced in Pike and Clark counties to a total of 39 life sentences for raping prepubescent girls for more than two decades.
Walker, now 59, had previously been convicted for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl in 2000 and served nine months in prison. His medical license was revoked when his first criminal charges came to light.
Bradford, 54, knew of at least five criminal investigations of her uncle following his first stint in prison and yet she still tried to have her uncle removed from Arkansas' sex offender registry, according to the lawsuit.
An employee at Bradford's office did not forward a call from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to Bradford's desk phone on Thursday and told the reporter that Bradford was not commenting on the matter.
The 15 plaintiffs in the lawsuit say Walker, also a defendant in the suit, drugged and raped them on one or both of his properties in Amity in Clark County and Glenwood in Pike County.
The lawsuit says the defendants knew Barry Walker had been alone with underage girls on his property.
It says Bradford and other members of her family failed to report him to law enforcement while he was drugging, raping and taking photographic and video images of girls for years because of the legal ramifications it would have had on Bradford's political career.
An amendment this week to the civil complaint -- originally filed in October 2022 -- added the 15th plaintiff, a woman who has alleged that she was drugged and raped nine years ago by Walker while she was a child.
The criminal investigation is not closed. Three other people -- Bryce Walker, Brandy Cox and Lori Cogburn -- also have been charged. Bryce Walker is Barry Walker's brother, Cox is his niece, and Cogburn is his long-time girlfriend. The latter two have been charged with felony counts of permitting child abuse.
Bryce Walker, director of technology for the Hot Springs School District, is charged with a misdemeanor count of failure to notify by a mandated reporter.
All three are still awaiting trial.
Bryce Walker, Cox and Cogburn are also defendants in the Clark County lawsuit, along with Joyce Perser, who is Barry Walker's sister and Bradford's mother. Bradford and Perser have not been charged criminally.
Dan Turner, the prosecuting attorney in Clark County, said Thursday that the investigation remains open.
According to latest amendment to the lawsuit, Bradford and Bryce Walker were granted power of attorney over Barry Walker at the time of his 2000 conviction, at which time they obtained control over his financial assets, business transactions and health care decisions.
Following his nine-month prison stint, Barry Walker was recommended to undergo therapy and counseling and abstain from alcohol. He lapsed on all three, and as powers of attorney, Bryce Walker and Bradford realized this and did nothing, according to the lawsuit.
"They had the power to make his decisions for him and they didn't do anything to stop him from doing what he did," Texarkana attorney David Carter, who is representing the plaintiffs, said during a phone interview this week.
Erin Cassinelli, a Little Rock attorney representing Bradford in the case, said she plans to file a motion to dismiss in the next few days.
"Even a simple Google search makes clear that a power of attorney does not give a person control over another person's decisions," Cassinelli wrote in an email to the Democrat-Gazette.
As for the allegations that Bradford knew that her uncle was alone with underage girls on his property, Cassinelli called them "conclusions without factual support."
Authorities said Barry Walker started raping girls as early as 1997 and also sexually assaulted another girl while awaiting trial for his 1999 charge. Following his release from prison and while on probation, he continued to sexually abuse victims, detectives said.
The lawsuit refers to Bryce Walker, Perser, Cox, Cogburn and Bradford as the "Inner Circle Defendants" who got together on a regular basis to discuss family business and often met to discuss Barry Walker's behavior and sex offender status.
The complaint states that between 2001 and 2022, there were several reports made to law enforcement about Walker's "alleged maltreatment of prepubescent females."
The lawsuit lists five specific alleged incidents of child sexual abuse that it says the Inner Circle knew about. They occurred February 2004, May 2006, March 2010, May 2014 and July 2014 and the girls ranged in ages 3 to 9, according to court documents. Investigations were opened on all of them, Carter wrote in his complaint.
"In fact, [they] worked collectively to develop a strategy to protect and defend Barry Walker with respect to each of these investigations, especially the 2014 investigations because they knew a negative finding could harm the family's reputations as well as the family's business and political interests," the lawsuit states.
Walker was arrested following one of the 2014 allegations, but was not formally charged. It was while he was in jail that Bryce Walker, Perser and Bradford distributed payroll checks to the employees of Barry Walker's company, All Pro Contracting, to make sure the business kept running, according to court documents.
"While delivering the payroll checks, they learned that Barry Walker had in fact been alone with the [4-year-old] making the 2014 allegations against Barry Walker. However, [they] failed to inform investigators of this important fact."
This was also around the time that Bradford wrote a letter to Batson refuting the girl's allegations, according to court documents.
The lawsuit went on to state that Perser and Bradford, along with Bryce Walker, "collectively decided to launch a counter-attack upon a 4-year-old girl and her custodial parents simply because they had the courage to tell the truth about Barry Walker."
The Inner Circle Defendants worked to fight the accusations "with all their might" and as a result, no criminal charges were filed in 2014, Carter wrote in his complaint.
The lawsuit stated that Bradford's "audacious" behavior continued a few years later when she petitioned to have Walker removed from the registry of sex offenders.
In 2018, Walker was listed as a Level 1, or a low-risk, sex offender. Bradford noted that in her petition, pointing out that her uncle had never risen above a Level 1 at any point since his 2000 sentencing.
Instead of removing him from the registry, a reassessment was ordered and his status was changed to a moderate risk, or Level 2, according to court documents.
The lawsuit notes that in August 2004, Bradford submitted a request to then-Gov. Mike Huckabee to pardon Walker, but Huckabee denied the request. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/26/judge-recuses-from-lawsuit-filed-by-rapists/ | 2023-05-26 09:17:33 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/26/judge-recuses-from-lawsuit-filed-by-rapists/ |
The 2023 Genesis Scottish Open Odds & Preview: Aaron Rai
Aaron Rai will be in the 2023 Genesis Scottish Open in North Berwick, United Kingdom at The Renaissance Club from July 13-16.
Looking to bet on Rai at the Genesis Scottish Open this week? Read on for the betting trends you need to know before you make your picks.
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Aaron Rai Insights
- Over his last 18 rounds, Rai has scored better than par 14 times, while also carding 13 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has recorded the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five four times and with a top-10 score in six of his last 18 rounds played.
- Over his last 18 rounds, Rai has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round five times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 11 occasions.
- Rai has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes in his past five events.
- He has made the cut in four of his past five tournaments.
- Rai has finished within three shots of the leader in one of his past five tournaments. In that span, he finished within five shots of the winner two times and with a better-than-average score four times.
- Rai will try to extend his streak of made cuts to four by qualifying for the weekend again.
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Genesis Scottish Open Insights and Stats
- This event will take place on a par 70 that registers at 7,237 yards, 223 yards longer than the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- The average course on the Tour in the past year has played to 69.5 strokes per round and a score of -5. At The Renaissance Club, the scoring average is higher at +2 per tournament.
- The Renaissance Club is 7,237 yards, 32 yards shorter than the average course Rai has played in the past year (7,269).
- Events he has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -6. That's lower than this course, which has a scoring average of +2.
Rai's Last Time Out
- Rai was in the 42nd percentile on par 3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with an average of par on the 16 par-3 holes.
- He averaged 3.85 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 40) at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, which was strong enough to land him in the 87th percentile among all competitors on par 4s (the tournament average was 3.93).
- On the 16 par-5 holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Rai shot better than 93% of the competitors (averaging 4.25 strokes).
- Rai recorded a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, better than the field average of 1.9.
- On the 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Rai had more bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (1.9).
- Rai recorded more birdies or better (eight) than the field average of 5.9 on the 40 par-4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
- At that last outing, Rai's showing on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse two times (the field's average was worse, at 4.4).
- Rai ended the Rocket Mortgage Classic bettering the tournament average of birdies or better on par-5s (6.2) with 10 on the 16 par-5 holes.
- The field at the Rocket Mortgage Classic averaged 0.8 bogeys or worse on the 16 par-5s, but Rai finished without one.
Genesis Scottish Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: The Renaissance Club
- Location: North Berwick, United Kingdom
- Par: 70 / 7,237 yards
- Rai Odds to Win: +6600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Bucks vs. Heat Injury Report Today - April 26
The Milwaukee Bucks (58-24) are keeping their eye on just one player on the injury report as they prepare for Game 5 of the first round of the NBA playoffs against the Miami Heat (44-38) at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday, April 26 at 9:30 PM ET.
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The Heat beat the Bucks 119-114 on Monday when they last played. Jimmy Butler led the Heat to the victory with a team-high 56 points. Brook Lopez scored 36 points in the Bucks' loss.
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Bucks vs. Heat Game Info
- When: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- Where: Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- TV: NBA TV, BSWI, and BSSUN
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Bucks Season Insights
- The 116.9 points per game the Bucks average are 7.1 more points than the Heat allow (109.8).
- Milwaukee has a 47-8 record when scoring more than 109.8 points.
- The Bucks have seen a decrease in scoring lately, putting up 114.8 points per game in their last 10 contests, 2.1 points fewer than the 116.9 they've scored this year.
- Milwaukee makes 14.8 three-pointers per game (fourth-most in the league) at a 36.8% rate (10th in the NBA), compared to the 12.1 per game its opponents make at a 35.4% rate.
- The Bucks' 114.1 points per 100 possessions on offense rank ninth in the NBA, and the 109.4 points they allow per 100 possessions rank fourth in the league.
Heat Season Insights
- The Heat's 109.5 points per game are just 3.8 fewer points than the 113.3 the Bucks give up.
- When it scores more than 113.3 points, Miami is 19-6.
- While the Heat are scoring 109.5 points per game in 2022-23, they have improved that mark in their previous 10 games, amassing 119.1 a contest.
- Miami hits 12 three-pointers per game (16th in the league) while shooting 34.4% from beyond the arc (27th in NBA). It is making 1.1 fewer threes than its opponents, who drain 13.1 per game at 36.7%.
- The Heat's 110.4 points per 100 possessions on offense rank 25th in the NBA, and the 110.6 points they allow per 100 possessions rank ninth in the league.
Bucks vs. Heat Betting Info
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ELOY, AZ — Hannah Hartman is Eloy Fire District’s newest firefighter.
Her father, Eloy Battalion Chief Travis Hartman, presented her with her first career fire helmet, but it wasn’t just a special moment they shared.
Eloy Fire District says the father and daughter coincidentally share the same firefighter number, 606. Battalion Chief Hartman was issued his number more than two decades ago.
“While it seemed like it had been arranged, Support Service Captain Leary was just as stunned and reassured us that this was not intentional,” fire officials said in a message online. “Some things are just meant to be.”
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Bus driver fired for drinking beer during elementary school field trip, company says
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) - A bus driver who admitted to drinking beer while elementary students were on a field trip has been fired.
On Monday, fourth and fifth grade students boarded a bus with Lamers Bus Lines at Lincoln Elementary in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to go on a field trip to Madison, Wisconsin. On the way back, a student noticed an open can of beer under the driver’s seat.
Once the bus arrived at the school, the district requested Green Bay police investigate, WBAY reports.
Upon investigating, the district says the driver admitted to police that he drank beer earlier in the day while students were involved in activities on the field trip.
The driver’s name was not released by the bus company.
In a statement, Lamers’ said its office staff and supervisor interacted with the driver before the trip, as they say they typically do, and did not observe any impairment before the driver left.
While at the school, Green Bay police processed the driver. Lamers said in a statement they have a “zero-tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol” and fired the driver “effective immediately.”
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Elevation Gold Mining Corp. (TSXV: ELVT) (OTCQX: EVGDF) (the "Company" or "Elevation Gold") announces that Michael G. Allen has stepped down as President of the Company, effective immediately. Elevation Gold would like to thank Mr. Allen for his contributions and wishes him well in his future endeavors.
The Company's current Chief Operating Officer, Tim Swendseid, has been appointed President of Elevation Gold Mining Corp. effective immediately.
Douglas J. Hurst, Chairman and Director of Elevation Gold, stated, "The Board of Directors is very pleased to welcome Mr. Swendseid to his new role of President of the Company. Tim is an experienced mining professional with proven accomplishments in complex operations. He is a strong mentor, a champion of safe operations and is the ideal candidate to advance the Company's growth and strategic objectives. Under Tim's leadership as COO, the Moss Mine has witnessed improved fragmentation, increased crusher throughput and the successful construction of Leach Pad 2C."
Mr. Swendseid has over 35 years of worldwide experience in operating, technical and financial aspects of mining projects. Prior to joining the Company at the end of 2021, Tim held senior industry management positions including Chief Operating Officer of Boroo Mining Company, SVP Operations and Technical at CMOC International, President of Consulting Services, Americas at RPM Global, General Manager for the Mulatos Mine at Alamos Gold, VP Engineering at Frontera Copper and various management and technical roles at Phelps Dodge Corp. Tim holds a B. S. in Mining Engineering from Montana Tech, an MBA from the University of Arizona and is a CFA Charterholder.
Tim Swendseid, President of Elevation Gold, stated "I am excited to continue working with the Elevation Gold team to realize a strong future due to improved ore grade from East Pit, the completion of 2022's major capital projects and improved understanding of the Moss Mine orebody. The mature staff at the Moss Mine, including the new General Manager, the management team and the entire workforce are highly experienced and continue to perform exceptionally."
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Douglas J. Hurst"
Douglas J. Hurst, Chairman and Director
Elevation Gold is a publicly listed gold and silver producer, engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of mineral properties located in the United States. Elevation Gold's common shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") in Canada under the ticker symbol ELVT and on the NASDAQ OTC in the United States under the ticker symbol EVGDF. The Company's principal operation is the 100% owned Moss Mine in the Mohave County of Arizona. Elevation also holds the title to the Hercules exploration property, located in Lyon County, Nevada.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Certain of the statements made and information contained herein is "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this document constitute forward-looking information, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company's plans with respect to appointing a new President. Words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "contemplate", "target", "plan", "goal", "aim", "intend", "continue", "budget", "estimate", "may", "will", "can", "could", "should", "schedule" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. All of the forward-looking statements made in this document are qualified by these cautionary statements. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, forecast or intended and readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive of all factors and assumptions which may have been used. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in forward-looking information. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be accurate and forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance. Readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information contained herein speaks only as of the date of this document. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise forward–looking information or to explain any material difference between such and subsequent actual events, except as required by applicable law.
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Unilever United States is voluntarily recalling numerous dry shampoo products that were sold under various brand names.
The recall includes dry shampoos from Dove, Suave, Nexxus, Tresemme, and Bed Head.
The products may have elevated levels of benzene, according to a statement posted on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) website.
"Benzene is classified as a human carcinogen. Exposure to benzene can occur by inhalation, orally, and through the skin and it can result in cancers including leukemia and blood cancer of the bone marrow and blood disorders which can be life threatening," the statement says.
The FDA states that an independent evaluation shows that the products would likely not cause adverse health consequences. However, they are being recalled "out of an abundance of caution."
"Unilever has received no reports of adverse events to date relating to this recall," the FDA stated.
The products were sold at stores nationwide prior to Oct. 2021.
Consumers are asked to stop using the dry shampoo products. They can visit UnileverRecall.com to receive information about being reimbursed. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/various-dry-shampoos-recalled-due-to-potentially-high-levels-of-human-carcinogen | 2022-10-24 20:39:48 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/various-dry-shampoos-recalled-due-to-potentially-high-levels-of-human-carcinogen |
VESTAL, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – Members of the community are looking to unmask the hunger that exists among college students while hosting a masquerade ball.
Details of the Unmask Hunger event were discussed at a news conference at the SUNY Broome Culinary and Events Center in downtown Binghamton today.
The ball will raise money for the Binghamton University Food Pantry which is located in the College in the Woods dining hall.
The pantry served over 500 unique students last semester and had more than 2,000 orders.
Recipients place their orders ahead of time and the pantry staff, consisting of graduate student organizers and undergraduate interns, packs their bag for pickup.
Graduate Supervisor Derek Tepe says they cater to a diverse population of students and staff and are also open to the community.
“We kind of pride ourselves in not passing any judgment on the users of this pantry space. We don’t know what students are going back to, what their living situation is, what their financial situation is. For example, we serve a lot of international students who might be on fixed budgets and a limited income. That really is part of the college experience for many people.”
The idea for the masquerade ball came from Noel Smith who is the leasing manager at 20 Hawley Street, a student housing complex owned and operated by Campus Life and Style.
Smith says he has met several students who struggle to find enough food to eat.
He says Campus Life and Style has a practice of trying to meet needs proactively.
“The university is part of the community. I think there’s always that stigma that it’s two separate entities. Knowing that, yes they are here for a season, but they do have the ability to help us flourish. So, them seeing more interaction from those who are here day to day, they are our future generation that we have the pleasure of bringing here and teaching.”
Tepe says 40% of college students in America are food insecure.
He says it’s especially gratifying to receive support from the broader community.
In addition to CS and L, IBM is a major sponsor.
The Unmask Hunger Masquerade Ball takes place Saturday March 11th at the Culinary Center from 6 to 9:30.
Formal or semi-formal attire is encouraged as are masks.
There will be hors d’oeuvres and specialty cocktails from PS Restaurant and music by Binghamton Philharmonic musicians.
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With Bolsonaro tamed in defeat, Brazil steps back from brink
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In the run-up to Brazil’s presidential election, many feared a narrow result would be contested and spell the death knell for Latin America’s largest democracy.
So far, however, the worst fears have been averted, despite a nail-biting victory for former leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and ongoing protests by some of Bolsonaro’s supporters across the country.
The conservative leader’s allies quickly recognized da Silva’s victory, the military stayed in the barracks and vigilant world leaders swooped in to offer support for da Silva and nip in the bud even the thought of anything resembling the Jan. 6 insurrection that overtook the U.S. Capitol.
“All of Bolsonaro’s escape valves were shut off,” said Brian Winter, a longtime Brazil expert and vice president of the New York-based Council of the Americas. “He was prevailed upon from all sides not to contest the results and burn down the house on his way out.”
Although Bolsonaro has refused to congratulate da Silva, Brazil’s institutions generally seem to have held up.
Bolsonaro gave a video statement Wednesday calling for an end to the protests by his supporters. “I know you’re upset. I’m just as sad and upset as you are. But we have to keep our heads straight,” he said. “Closing roads in Brazil jeopardizes people’s right to come and go.”
That leaves a more vexing challenge: how the 77-year-old da Silva, universally known as Lula, unites a deeply divided country, rights a wobbly economy and delivers on the outsize expectations spurred by his return to power.
One thing is clear, if anyone can do it, it’s the charismatic da Silva — whose political skills are admired even by his detractors.
“That’s what we need, someone not only who can address inequality but also inspire our emotions and ideas,” said Marcelo Neri, director of the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s social policy center and a former Strategic Affairs Minister for da Silva’s handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff.
In many ways, the conservative movement Bolsonaro helped ignite — if not the politician himself — has emerged stronger from the vote, Winter said. His allies were elected as governors in several key states and his Liberal Party has become the largest in Congress, curtailing da Silva’s ability to advance his own agenda after a decadelong malaise that has left millions of Brazilians hungrier than when da Silva last held office in 2010.
What’s more, Brazil’s demographics seem to favor Bolsonaro’s aggressive brand of identity politics — including an anti-LGBTQ agenda and hostility to environmentalists — that have earned him the moniker the “Trump of the Tropics.”
The country’s own statistics institute forecasts that the number of Brazilians identifying as evangelical Christians — who preelection polls show overwhelmingly favored Bolsonaro and skew right — will overtake Roman Catholics within a decade.
Thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters thronged a regional army headquarters in Rio on Wednesday, demanding that the military step in and keep him in power. Others showed up at military installations in Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina and the capital of Brasilia. Meanwhile, truckers maintained about 150 roadblocks across the country to protest Bolsonaro’s loss, despite the Supreme Court’s orders to law enforcement to dismantle them.
At one of the road blockades held by truck drivers in the interior of Sao Paulo state, a car drove into the crowd and injured several, including children and members of the police.
Since the return of democracy in the 1980s, all Brazilian leaders have been guided to varying degrees by a common belief in strong state-led enterprises, high taxes and aggressive wealth redistribution policies.
Bolsonaro initially attempted to run a more austere, business-friendly government, that is, until the social devastation wreaked by COVID-19 and his own sinking electoral prospects ultimately led him to loosen spending controls and emulate the policies he once attacked.
How da Silva will govern is less clear. He squeaked out a narrow victory of barely 2 million votes after building a broad coalition united by little more than a desire to defeat Bolsonaro. And with promises to maintain a generous welfare program in place through 2023, he will have limited fiscal space to spend on other priorities.
His running mate from another party, former Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckim, was a nod to centrist, fiscally conservative policies that made da Silva the darling of Wall Street during his early years in power. This week, da Silva tapped Alckim to lead his transition team.
Also standing alongside him on the victory stage Sunday night, however, were several stalwarts of the left who have been implicated in numerous corruption scandals that have plagued his Workers’ Party and paved the way for Bolsonaro’s rise.
Although da Silva’s supporters have downplayed the concerns about corruption — the Supreme Court annulled the convictions that kept him imprisoned for nearly two years — for many Brazilians he is a symbol of the culture of graft that has long permeated politics. As a result, he’s likely to be held to a higher ethical standard in a country where almost every government has been accused of vote buying in Congress.
“This wasn’t just a fever dream by his opponents,” Winter said of the corruption allegations that have long dogged da Silva’s party.
Da Silva’s victory coincides with a string of recent victories by the left in South America, including in Chile and Colombia, whose leaders revere the former union boss. During his first stint in power, da Silva led a so-called pink wave that promoted regional integration, rivaled U.S. dominance and put the rights of overlooked minorities and Indigenous groups at the center of the political agenda.
Under Bolsonaro, Brazil largely retreated from that leadership role, even if the sheer size of its economy alone means a return to leadership is never far off.
Scott Hamilton, a former U.S. diplomat, said that da Silva will have to make a tough choice on whether to use Brazil’s considerable leverage to pursue an ambitious foreign policy to tackle entrenched problems or simply use his star power on the world stage to shore up support at home.
“Basking in not being Bolsonaro will get him lots of positive attention in itself,” said Hamilton, whose last post, until April, was as consul general in Rio. “The more ambitious path would involve trying to help resolve some of the toughest political issues where democratic governments in the region are in trouble or extinguished.”
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Goodman reported from Miami.
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Donald Trump's indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate has brought renewed attention to one of the most notable cases in Justice Department history.
The federal charges represent the biggest legal jeopardy so far for Trump, coming less than three months after he was charged in New York with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Here's a look at the charges, the special counsel's investigation and how Trump's case differs from those of other politicians known to be in possession of classified documents:
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES, AND HOW IS TRUMP REACTING?
Trump has been charged with seven counts related to the mishandling of classified documents, according to two people familiar with the indictment but not authorized to speak publicly about it.
Trump's lawyer James Trusty said Thursday on CNN that the indictment includes charges of willful retention of national defense information, obstruction of justice, false statements and conspiracy.
Trump, on his Truth Social app, called it "a DARK DAY for the United States of America." In a video post, he said, "I'm innocent and we will prove that very, very soundly and hopefully very quickly." Within 20 minutes of breaking the news, his 2024 presidential campaign sent out a fundraising missive telling his followers he'd been indicted and asking for financial support.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
The Justice Department did not immediately publicly confirm the indictment, and any charges were not publicly filed.
Trump said he'd been summoned to appear in court Tuesday afternoon in Miami. It wasn't immediately clear if Trump planned to make the appearance and what the procedure would look like.
When he was charged by the Manhattan district attorney in the New York case, Trump surrendered to authorities, where he was booked behind closed doors and appeared in the courtroom, sitting with his lawyers at the defense table.
HOW DID THIS CASE COME ABOUT?
Officials with the National Archives and Records Administration reached out to representatives for Trump in spring 2021 when they realized that important material from his time in office was missing from their collection.
According to the Presidential Records Act, White House documents are considered property of the U.S. government and must be preserved.
A Trump representative told the National Archives in December 2021 that presidential records had been found at Mar-a-Lago. In January 2022, the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of documents from Trump's Florida home, later telling Justice Department officials that they contained "a lot" of classified material.
That May, the FBI and Justice Department issued a subpoena for remaining classified documents in Trump's possession. Investigators who went to visit the property weeks later to collect the records were given roughly three dozen documents and a sworn statement from Trump's lawyers attesting that the requested information had been returned.
But that assertion turned out to be false. With a search warrant, federal officials returned to Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and seized more than 33 boxes and containers totaling 11,000 documents from a storage room and an office, including 100 classified documents.
In all, roughly 300 documents with classification markings — including some at the top-secret level — have been recovered from Trump since he left office in January 2021.
HOW DID A SPECIAL COUNSEL GET INVOLVED?
Last year, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland picked Jack Smith, a veteran war crimes prosecutor with a background in public corruption probes, to lead investigations into the presence of classified documents at Trump's Florida estate, as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.
Smith's appointment was a recognition by Garland of the politics involved in an investigation into a former president and current White House candidate. Garland himself was selected by Democratic President Joe Biden, whom Trump is seeking to challenge for the White House in 2024.
Special counsels are appointed in cases in which the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it's deemed to be in the public interest to have someone outside the government come in and take responsibility for a matter.
According to the Code of Federal Regulations, a special counsel must have "a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking," as well as "an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies."
DIDN'T BIDEN AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE HAVE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, TOO?
Yes, but the circumstances of their cases are vastly different from the situation involving Trump.
After classified documents were found at Biden's think tank and Pence's Indiana home, their lawyers notified authorities and quickly arranged for them to be handed over. They also authorized other searches by federal authorities to search for additional documents.
There is no indication either was aware of the existence of the records before they were found, and no evidence has so far emerged that Biden or Pence sought to conceal the discoveries. That's important because the Justice Department historically looks for willfulness in deciding whether to bring criminal charges.
A special counsel was appointed earlier this year to probe how classified materials ended up at Biden's Delaware home and former office. But even if the Justice Department were to find Biden's case prosecutable on the evidence, its Office of Legal Counsel has concluded that a president is immune from prosecution during his time in office.
As for Pence, the Justice Department informed his legal team earlier this month that it would not be pursuing criminal charges against him over his handling of the documents.
DOES A FEDERAL INDICTMENT PREVENT TRUMP FROM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?
No. Neither the indictment itself nor a conviction would prevent Trump from running for or winning the presidency in 2024.
And as the New York case showed, criminal charges have historically been a boon to his fundraising. The campaign announced that it had raised over $4 million in the 24 hours after that indictment became public, far smashing its previous record after the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.
HOW ARE TRUMP'S REPUBLICAN RIVALS REACTING TO THE NEWS?
Many of Trump's challengers for the GOP nomination jumped to his defense Thursday night after news of the indictment broke.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump's top rival for the 2024 nomination, accused the Justice Department of political bias in charging the former president.
"The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society," DeSantis tweeted. "We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation."
He questioned why the Justice Department had been "so zealous" in bringing charges against Trump and "so passive" about going after former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton or Biden's son Hunter.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said he felt the justice system's "scales are weighted" based on politics. "In America, every single person is presume innocent, not guilty," Scott said on Fox News, decrying "the weaponization of the Department of Justice against the former president."
Biotech entrepreneur and "anti-woke" activist Vivek Ramaswamy said the federal case was part of "an affront to every citizen." Reiterating his comments that he would pardon Trump, Ramaswamy called it "hypocritical for the DOJ to selectively prosecute Trump but not" Biden over his own classified documents case.
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who called for Trump to drop out of the race after the New York charges were filed, said the federal indictment marked "a sad day for our country" and "reaffirms the need for Donald Trump to respect the office and end his campaign."
Former Vice President Mike Pence said earlier Thursday that if Trump were to be indicted, he would hope the Justice Department had strong evidence — a shift in tone from the night before, when he said he hoped Trump wouldn't be charged even if evidence is clear he committed a crime.
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Associated Press writers Michelle L. Price in Washington, Jill Colvin in Des Moines, Iowa, and Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix contributed to this report. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/trump-indicted-what-to-know-about-the-documents-case-and-whats-next | 2023-06-09 10:31:48 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/trump-indicted-what-to-know-about-the-documents-case-and-whats-next |
Biden to enforce ban on oil, gas drilling to protect tribal sites around New Mexico’s Chaco
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.
The action taken by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in the nation’s No. 2 oil-producing state was announced Friday. It is intended to protect cultural and historic resources that tribal communities consider sacred.
The order will apply to public lands and federal mineral within a 10-mile (16-kilometer) radius.
President Joe Biden initially proposed this ban in November 2021 at the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
The withdrawal applies only to federal public lands, not to entities that are privately, state or tribal-owned. Existing leases won’t be impacted either.
This is a victory for members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation who have been pushing to make such a stop on oil and gas development permanent.
Democrats reintroduced legislation last month that would formalize the same buffer around the park. It would span more than 490 square miles (1,269 square kilometers) of federal land.
The Navajo Nation also completed its own study last year and has been advocating for a smaller area to be set aside given the economic impacts a withdrawal would have on the tribe and individual Navajo landowners whose allotments would be landlocked as a result.
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VIENNA, Oct. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eating a Mediterranean diet, rich in fibre, mono-unsaturated fatty acids and polyphenols, has been associated with improved immunotherapy response rates and progression-free survival in advanced melanoma patients, a new study presented today at UEG Week 2022 has found.
Experts anticipate that the diet will play an important role in the success of immunotherapy and trials are being expanded to investigate outcomes for different tumour types, including digestive cancers.
A Mediterranean diet, containing mono-and polyunsaturated fats from olive oil, nuts and fish, polyphenols and fibre from vegetables, fruit, and wholegrains, was significantly associated with an improved response to immunotherapy drugs called Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs). ICIs, which have been highly successful in treating melanoma, work by blocking immune system checkpoints, which then force the body's own T-cells to attack cancers.
The new multi-centre study by researchers from the UK and the Netherlands, recorded the dietary intake of 91 patients with advanced melanoma, who were treated with ICI drugs and monitored their progress with regular radiographic response check-ups.
As well as having a significant association with overall response rate, a Mediterranean diet was significantly associated with progression-free survival at 12 months.
Laura Bolte, author of the study and PhD candidate under supervision of Prof. Rinse Weersma from the University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands, commented, "ICI has helped to revolutionise the treatment of different types of advanced cancers. Our study underlines the importance of dietary assessment in cancer patients starting ICI treatment and supports a role for dietary strategies to improve patient outcomes and survival."
The study also found that eating wholegrains and legumes reduced the likelihood of developing drug induced immune-related side effects, such as colitis. In contrast, red and processed meat was associated with a higher probability of immune-related side effects.
"The relationship of ICI response with diet and the gut microbiome opens a promising and exciting future to enhance treatment responses. Clinical trials investigating the effect of a high fibre diet, ketogenic diet and supplementation of omega-3 are underway. Since ICI therapy is being expanded to various tumour types, including digestive cancers, these studies could unlock treatment benefits for a large group of cancer patients in the future," added Laura Bolte.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A brushfire threatened dozens of homes in northern Scottsdale and prompted evacuations as about 250 firefighters aided by air tankers battled the blaze, fire officials said.
Carlos Aguirre lives in a new community in north Scottsdale and said his wife called saying that their community was being evacuated.
“She got out and didn’t take the dog so we’re a little nervous,” he said.
Brendan Birdoes said he is building a home in the area that was being evacuated.
“Our friend told us this was happening,” Birdoes said. “He was out here mountain biking and so we came out to see what was going on.”
No homes had burned and no injuries were reported. There was no immediate word on what sparked the fire.
Scottsdale Fire Capt. David Folio said at a news conference that the fire began in Scottsdale but has since moved into county and state lands to the east and the command post has been turned over to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.
Officials have not been able to assess damage, forestry department spokesperson Tiffany Davila said.
“The fire was just too active,” she said. “It was producing erratic fire behavior.”
The fire has been fueled by grass and brush that dry out quickly once things start to warm up, Davila said.
“We’re about a month behind,” she said. “This is the activity that we usually see in May. But because we had all of that winter and spring moisture, we’re delayed for our start. So now is really the time we could start seeing an uptick in our fire activity.”
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Knicks vs. Heat Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 2
Published: May. 2, 2023 at 12:54 PM CDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
The Miami Heat are 6-point underdogs heading into Game 2 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, starting at 7:30 PM ET on TNT. The Heat lead the series 1-0.
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Knicks vs. Heat Game Info & Odds
- Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: New York City, New York
- Venue: Madison Square Garden
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- Prediction: Knicks 115 - Heat 109
Knicks vs Heat Additional Info
Spread & Total Prediction for Knicks vs. Heat
- Pick ATS: Heat (+ 6)
- Pick OU:
Over (208)
- The Knicks have covered more often than the Heat this season, sporting an ATS record of 45-35-2, compared to the 30-48-4 mark of the Heat.
- New York covers the spread when it is a 6-point favorite or more 42.9% of the time. That's more often than Miami covers as an underdog of 6 or more (37.5%).
- New York and its opponents have gone over the total 53.7% of the time this season (44 out of 82). That's more often than Miami and its opponents have (40 out of 82).
- The Knicks have a .659 winning percentage as a moneyline favorite (27-14) this season, better than the .333 winning percentage for the Heat as a moneyline underdog (8-16).
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Knicks Performance Insights
- With 116 points per game on offense, New York ranks 11th in the NBA. At the other end, it gives up 113.1 points per contest, which ranks 12th in the league.
- The Knicks are averaging just 22.9 dimes per contest, which ranks third-worst in the league.
- So far this year, the Knicks are draining 12.6 treys per game (11th-ranked in NBA) and are shooting 35.4% (19th-ranked) from beyond the arc.
- Of the shots attempted by New York in 2022-23, 60% of them have been two-pointers (69.9% of the team's made baskets) and 40% have been three-pointers (30.1%).
Heat Performance Insights
- On offense Miami is the worst squad in the league (109.5 points per game). But on defense it is second-best (109.8 points conceded per game).
- With 23.8 assists per game, the Heat are 25th in the league.
- Beyond the arc, the Heat are 16th in the league in 3-pointers made per game (12). They are fourth-worst in 3-point percentage at 34.4%.
- In 2022-23, Miami has taken 40.8% percent of its shots from beyond the arc, and 59.2% percent from inside it. In terms of makes, 30.5% of Miami's baskets have been 3-pointers, and 69.5% have been 2-pointers.
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Accolade recognizes organizations offering inclusive, fair and supportive workplaces
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global consulting firm Protiviti has been named by Great Place to Work® to its 'Best Workplaces for ParentsTM' list for the third consecutive year. The list is based on the analysis of confidential survey responses from more than 568,000 U.S. employees and compares the experiences of parents and non-parents within their organizations as well as the benefits and support programs provided by their employers. Protiviti is one of 70 large companies recognized as offering an inclusive, fair and supportive workplace for working parents.
To determine the list, Great Place to Work measured the difference in parents' survey responses to those of their peers, weighting statements according to their relevance in describing the most important aspects of an equitable workplace to parents. Great Place to Work also considered an organization's paid parental leave and adoption benefits, its approach to flexible working schedules and its childcare and dependent healthcare benefits.
"As part of our hybrid workforce approach, we continue to offer our working parents increased work schedule flexibility, childcare and education support, and programs centered around mental and physical well-being, in addition to paid parental leave and adoption benefits," said Susan Haseley, Protiviti executive vice president, global diversity, equity and inclusion.
Companies are only eligible for the Best Workplaces list if they are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization. "Congratulations to Great Place to Work's Best Workplaces for Parents," said Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work. "As employees juggled work, eldercare and parenting demands, these companies listened to the needs of working parents and developed innovative ways to support them. They took action to provide relief so their workforce didn't have to choose between their jobs and their families."
Protiviti was ranked #15 on the 2022 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, its eighth consecutive year on this list. The company was also named to the 2022 Fortune lists of Best Workplaces for WomenTM, Best Workplaces for Consulting and Professional Services, Best Workplaces for MillennialsTM, Best Workplaces in the Bay Area® and to the 2022 PEOPLE Companies that Care® list, all of which are derived from data provided to Great Place to Work and an annual employee survey. Protiviti was also named one of Seramount's 2022 Best Companies for Dads and an Adoption-Friendly Workplace by the Dave Thomas Foundation.
Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti and its independent and locally owned Member Firms provide clients with consulting and managed solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, digital, legal, governance, risk and internal audit through its network of more than 85 offices in over 25 countries.
Named to the 2022 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Protiviti has served more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 and nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The firm also works with smaller, growing companies, including those looking to go public, as well as with government agencies. Protiviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half (NYSE: RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half is a member of the S&P 500 index.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ampio" or the "Company") (NYSE: AMPE) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Ampio investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Ampio common stock between December 29, 2020 and August 3, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AMPE investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) defendants had inflated the Company's true ability to successfully file a Biologics License Application ("BLA") for Ampion; (ii) defendants had inflated the results of the AP-013 study and the timing of unblinding the data from the AP-013 study; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Ampio during the relevant time frame, you have until October 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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DALLAS, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Title Resources Group (TRG), one of the nation's leading title insurance underwriters, announced today that HomeServices of America, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and one of the nation's largest residential real estate companies based on closed transactions, has increased its ownership stake in TRG.
"We are excited to deepen our relationship with Title Resources Group and other partners at Centerbridge, Anywhere and Opendoor," said Gino Blefari, CEO, HomeServices. "Our partnership has already created value for our operations. We look forward to continuing our collaboration and the positive impact we will have on the industry over the years to come."
"The team and I are thrilled about HomeServices of America's decision to increase its ownership stake in our company. Our expanded relationship with HomeServices of America speaks volumes to the value we create for our customers and our best-in-class solutions. As the underwriter built for the real estate industry, we are excited to expand our relationship with HomeServices of America and their family of market-leading real estate companies," said Scott McCall, President and CEO, Title Resources Group.
In addition to HomeServices of America, TRG's other major shareholders include Centerbridge Partners, L.P., Anywhere Real Estate, Inc., and Opendoor Technologies, Inc.
About Title Resources Group (TRG)
Title Resources Group – the underwriter built for the real estate industry – is one of the nation's largest title insurance underwriters, according to the American Land Title Association's 2022 market share data. A partnership with Centerbridge Partners, L.P., Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS), HomeServices of America (a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate), and Opendoor Technologies Inc., TRG serves title insurance agents in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Since its inception, in 1984 the company has consistently operated profitably without a net operating loss in any fiscal year. With a mission to provide knowledgeable and responsive underwriting solutions, TRG is dedicated to growing lifelong relationships and maintaining quality through integrity and financial stability. For more information, please visit www.titleresources.com.
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
VectivBio Holding AG (NASDAQ: VECT)'s sale to Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for $17.00 per share. If you are a VectivBio shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
National Instruments Corporation (NASDAQ: NATI)'s sale to Emerson Electric Co. for $60.00 per share in cash. If you are a National Instruments shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
CTI BioPharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CTIC)'s sale to Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB for $9.10 per share. If you are a CTI BioPharma shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: USX)'s sale to Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. for $6.15 per share in cash. If you are a U.S. Xpress shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Halper Sadeh LLC may seek increased consideration for shareholders, additional disclosures and information concerning the proposed transaction, or other relief and benefits on behalf of shareholders.
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TAIPEI, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TAICCA is calling for projects that place creative content at their cores and deliver immersive content narratives with technology and with a co-funding or co-production between Taiwanese and international teams. Each selected project will receive up to USD120,000 (NTD 3.5 million).
The Metaverse will radically change how we live,work, travel, and communicate. People will be living in a new era of digital experience. Creative content, undoubtedly, will also play a huge role in the Metaverse. To encourage the relevant stakeholders to discover the creativity and energy of technology innovation in Taiwan and explore new mediums and new forms of storytelling for immersive content, TAICCA Immersive Content Grant is supporting the co-funding or co-production of future content projects-the immersive experiences.
Taiwan takes pride in innovative professionals, nationwide broadband internet infrastructure, and prosperous industries in close contact with the globe. Creating the metaverse ecosystem will require synergy among several key industries, but the most important part is content. In the past few years, Taiwanese XR and immersive content have been delivering outstanding performances on the global stage, recognized by international juries and festivals. Many splendid Taiwanese XR works have been selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, New Images Festival, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Raindance Immersive Award, Cannes XR Award, SXSW and Ars Electronica. In 2021, seven works presented by Taiwan were nominated for the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Taiwan is the place in the world where you can find all the players needed to develop this ecosystem.
TAICCA promotes the 2022 International Immersive Content Co-Funding and Co-Productions Program and welcomes creators to prompt the immersive content to constitute creative responses and explore innovative narratives. The proposed immersive content projects can be interactive, multiplayer, AR, VR, MR, haptic, sound, or location-based. Each selected project will receive up to USD120,000 (NTD 3.5 million) and the open call will close on 15th June 2022.
Visit TAICCA official website for more information: https://en.taicca.tw/article/5f18b19f
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Suspect injured after shooting involving officers in Phoenix
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Police say a suspect is injured after a shooting involving Phoenix officers on Wednesday afternoon. The shooting happened near 37th Avenue and McDowell Road just before 5 p.m.
Police say the suspect is receiving medical treatment at the scene and officers aren’t searching for anyone else involved. No officers were hurt. Detectives are still investigating what led up to the shooting. Drivers are asked to avoid the area and take alternate routes.
Arizona’s Family news chopper was over the scene and saw a large police presence near a liquor shop. The parking lot was taped off as a dozen patrol cars surrounded the area. Residents in an apartment complex across the street were also gathering near the scene.
This is the 54th officer-involved shooting in Maricopa County and the 85th in the state in 2022.
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(THE CONVERSATION) – Those Transportation Security Administration requirements are drilled into every frequent flyer’s head: You can carry on liquids that are only less than 3.4 ounces (100 milliliters) in volume each.
But when the TSA recently confiscated a jar of Jif under this rule, peanut butter lovers were up in arms. Some skeptics of security may suspect hungry officers just wanted to make their own PB&Js. TSA, however, contends that peanut butter is a liquid – and a full-size jar of Jif is over the 3.4-ounce limit.
Just like Americans’ favorite legume-based sandwich ingredient, the story – and the outrage it inspired – began to spread. However, I’m a mechanical engineer who studies fluid flows, and the TSA action made sense to me. By the scientific definition, peanut butter is indeed a liquid.
First consider fluids
To define a liquid, we must first define a fluid. Any material that flows continuously when a shearing force is applied is a fluid. Think of a shearing force as a cutting action through a substance that causes it to flow continuously. For example, moving your arm causes the surrounding air to change shape – or deform, to use the physics term – and flow out of the way. The same thing happens to water when your arm takes a swim stroke.
There are many kinds of fluids. Some act very predictably and move smoothly, as air or water do. These are called Newtonian fluids, named after Sir Isaac Newton. Scientifically, a Newtonian fluid is one in which the shear force varies in direct proportion with the stress it puts on the material, known as the shearing strain. For a Newtonian fluid, the resistance to fluid flow – that is, its viscosity – is constant at a given temperature.
Other types of fluids do not move quite as smoothly and easily. For some, like peanut butter, a minimum shearing or cutting force may be needed to get it flowing, and it may vary nonlinearly with shearing strain. Imagine you’re stirring a jar of peanut butter. If you stir really fast, with more shearing force, the PB gets runnier, while if you stir slowly the PB remains stiff. These types of fluids are called non-Newtonian fluids. Peanut butter may stick more than flow – maybe you could consider this movement more chunky-style.
Peanut butter is actually a great example of a non-Newtonian fluid because it doesn’t flow as easily as air or water but will flow if sufficient force is applied, such as when a knife spreads it on bread. How easily it flows will also depend on temperature – you may have experienced peanut butter drips after slathering it on warm toast.
Strange fluids are all around us
Our everyday lives – but not our airplane carry-ons – are filled with substances that are unexpected fluids. In general, if it can flow, it’s a fluid. And it will eventually take the shape of its container.
Some surprising fluids are peanut butter’s kitchen neighbors, like whipped cream, mayonnaise and cookie batter. You’ll find others in the bathroom, like toothpaste. The natural world is home to other strange fluids, like lava, mudslides, avalanches and quicksand.
Gravel can be considered fluidlike. The individual particles are solids, but a collection of gravel particles can be poured and fill a container – its what’s called a granular fluid, because it has fluidlike properties. The same can be said for cereal poured out of a box or sugar into a bowl.
Traffic flows on a busy highway, and people flow out of a crowded sporting venue.
You could even consider a cat lying in the sun to be a fluid when it has flattened out and fills its containerlike skin. Sleepy, relaxed dogs, squirrels and even zonked-out babies can meet the definition of a fluid.
Liquids are one type of fluid
Now, you might be objecting: But, the TSA didn’t call peanut butter a fluid, they said it’s a liquid!
Fluids are divided into two general categories: gases and liquids. Both gases and liquids can be deformed and poured into containers and will take the shape of their container. But gases can be compressed, while liquids cannot, at least not easily.
Peanut butter can be poured into its container and then it deforms, or takes the shape of that container. And every 5-year-old knows that peanut butter does not compress. When they squish their PB&J or peanut butter crackers together, the peanut butter does not smoosh into a smaller volume. No – it squirts out the sides and onto their hands.
So, the verdict on peanut butter: delicious liquid.
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25 WEATHER — It's been an active weather day in Florida with Ian making landfall, but it's about as boring as it can get around here. Highs will be in the upper 80s to near 90° through the weekend with mostly sunny skies each day. The nights will feel like fall as we make our way down into the 50s.
Next week looks to bring more of the same. Highs will be around 90° with lows coming up into the 60s. Right now it looks dry for us. There could be a weak system close by, but I want to see more consistency in the models before introducing any rain chances. | https://www.kxxv.com/weather/more-of-the-same-around-here | 2022-09-28 21:25:30 | 0 | https://www.kxxv.com/weather/more-of-the-same-around-here |
KALAMAZOO, MI – Hutch Ward doesn’t recoil away from his own creed. The 6-foot-8 wing knows the power behind credence and a strong networking system.
But as his senior regular season reaches its tail end, that belief has spiderwebbed beyond just the Kalamazoo Central community. It’s now at a point where even rival schools are paying homage. | https://www.mlive.com/sports/kalamazoo/2023/02/the-hutch-a-ward-k-centrals-ward-driven-with-best-player-in-the-state-mentality-wins-poll-again.html | 2023-02-17 20:05:39 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/sports/kalamazoo/2023/02/the-hutch-a-ward-k-centrals-ward-driven-with-best-player-in-the-state-mentality-wins-poll-again.html |
It's press-shy Lachlan Murdoch's turn in the spotlight.
On Monday, at the offices of a powerhouse Los Angeles law firm, the head of Fox News' parent company — and son of its founder — is scheduled to be deposed under oath. He will face questions about his knowledge of the wild and false allegations the network presented about a voting tech company's role in then President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 elections.
The deposition represents the apex — to date — of the witnesses assembled by Dominion Voting System's legal team as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed in Delaware Superior Court. Despite supporting Trump throughout his presidency, Lachlan and his father Rupert Murdoch refused to force Fox News to retract its projection that Joe Biden would win the key state of Arizona on Election Night 2020 in the face of intense pressure from the Trump camp.
A slew of Fox News guests and hosts - among them Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, and Maria Bartiromo - slammed Dominion Voting Systems for weeks afterward, breathlessly suggesting and even baselessly asserting it committed election fraud. Dominion says Fox was trying to win back the Trump loyalists who abandoned Fox after the election. And the voting tech's attorneys have worked its way up the ranks, deposing Fox News staffers from junior producers to those star hosts to network executives.
"It's an orchestrated effort," Dominion attorney Justin Nelson argued at a court hearing back in October. "It's not just on the part of each host individually, but it's across Fox News as a company." And, he said, that applied to Fox Corporation as well. Dominion's suit notes that countless local, state and federal officials and dozens of court rulings have validated the election as clean and fair.
Now attention swings upward to Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corp's executive chairman. Such legal proceedings can prove fraught, legal authorities say.
"Reputations can be made and broken in moments like this," says Charles Elson, an attorney who is the founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. "If you prove not to be credible, that's a problem. If you prove to have acted in a sloppy manner, that's an issue too."
An unwelcome challenge to Lachlan Murdoch at a charged moment
The lawsuit represents an unexpected and unwelcome challenge to Murdoch - legally, potentially financially, and, as Elson suggests, professionally.
He and Rupert, the 91-year-old patriarch of the family's media empire, are intent on reuniting their broadcast and print empires despite some signs of mounting shareholder opposition. And Lachlan's three eldest siblings — Prudence, Elizabeth and James — are said by associates to be skeptical of Lachlan as the appropriate heir to lead their family's holdings after their father's death.
The move to once more combine the print and television holdings — News Corp and Fox Corp — are in large part a means for Lachlan to consolidate power before his father is no longer on the scene. The four older Murdoch children will then together control the family trust, which holds about 40 percent of voting stock. James, who left his position on the board of News Corp in July 2020 over the editorial direction of the Murdoch empire, was deposed in October.
Rupert Murdoch led Fox News for nearly two years after the Murdochs ousted then-Fox News chairman Roger Ailes over a sexual harassment scandal.
The elder Murdoch also struck a political alliance with Trump, though he has cooled on the former president, signaling in private and through his media outlets that he wants to see another generation of Republicans to rise.
Meanwhile, Lachlan Murdoch's free speech credentials have been somewhat muddied in his father's native country of Australia, where Lachlan moved his family during the pandemic; he is suing the political news site Crikey there for an opinion column calling the Murdochs "unindicted co-conspirators" in the January 6, 2021, siege of the U.S. Capitol for the vitriolic rhetoric of many of Fox's stars and guests.
According to court filings, the Dominion attorneys' deposition of Lachlan Murdoch "will continue from day to day (Sundays and holidays excluded) until complete, unless otherwise agreed."
Fox News's defense embraces the mantle of freedom of the press
The only major figure Dominion has not yet questioned is Rupert Murdoch. That is expected to happen before the end of the year.
Fox News has embraced the mantle of freedom of the press, calling this a nuisance suit and saying it expects to prevail. "There is nothing more newsworthy than covering the President of the United States and his lawyers making allegations of voter fraud," Fox News Media said in a statement for this story.
And it has invoked the journalistic standing of Hannity, in seeking to shield him from another round of questioning under oath. Under prior federal and Delaware court rulings, journalists have some protections against revealing sources and information in court. Hannity was one of Trump's most prominent champions on the air and one of the former president's closest advisers off the air.
During his Aug. 31st deposition, which lasted more than seven hours, Hannity was grilled about the episode of his program that ran on November 30, 2020. It featured Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, who was condemned, among others, by a federal judge in Michigan for abusing the court system in her challenges to the 2020 election results. Dominion is also seeking the court to force Powell — in a separate case in Washington, D.C. — to produce documents involving her communications with Fox News.
Attorneys for Fox assert that an absolute journalistic privilege protects Hannity's conversations and communications with confidential sources as Dominion tries to force additional testimony from Hannity. Hannity is not himself a defendant in the case. Fox's legal filings note he has not waived his own claims of journalistic privilege.
Hannity has declared "I'm not a journalist"
Over the years, Hannity has publicly characterized himself in a series of contradictory ways. He has not only a strong conservative point of view but also a partisan bent; he has been chided several times by the network for campaigning on behalf of Republican candidates and conservative causes. "I'm not a journalist," Hannity said in fall 2016, in defending himself for giving Trump gentle treatment in the dozens interviews he conducted that election season. "I'm a talk show host."
Similarly, earlier this year, Hannity sought to knock down criticism of his repeated private exchanges with top Trump White House aides, including Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, after they surfaced in the House Select Committee's investigations into the January 6 siege of Congress.
"Yes, I'm a member of the press," Hannity told viewers of his program in April, "I'm on the Fox News Channel, which is a news channel, but I don't claim to be a journalist. I claim to be a talk show host."
He said he is capable of doing investigative reports and continued, "I am a registered conservative. Yes, I voted for Donald Trump. I make no apologies, I give my opinions straight-forward. We even do culture, we do sports – I'm like the whole newspaper."
Lachlan Murdoch typically characterizes Fox News as a "center-right" news organization. Fox draws a sharp distinction between its reporting and news shows with its point-of-view programming. Yet in recent years the network has jettisoned hours of news shows or relegated them to less-prominent time slots. And many outside observers — including former Fox News journalists — argue argue that Fox's hard-right tilt greatly influences its news shows as well.
Of late, Fox News and Dominion have sparred over whether Fox host Jeanine Pirro should have to give testimony anew after Dominion objected to her refusal to answer some questions about her texts. Dominion won the right for its lawyers to question her under oath further on Nov. 23rd. As NPR first disclosed, Dominion, in the discovery process for its lawsuit, acquired an email from a producer begging colleagues not to allow Pirro on the air after the 2020 election, saying she was spreading unfounded conspiracy theories plucked from unreliable websites. Pirro has recently been promoted to become a co-host of the popular weekday show, The Five.
Arguments over allegations that evidence was destroyed
Fox and Dominion are wrangling over other grounds as well. Fox News is arguing for sanctions against Dominion, alleging the company destroyed evidence: electronic messages of CEO John Poulos and senior executives Waldeep Singh and Kay Stinson. Such destruction is called "spoliation." Fox is asking for dismissal of the case, monetary punishments and other legal measures.
In a statement for this story, Fox News wrote: "Dominion's potential spoliation is not central to Fox's ability to make our case, but it should be noted that courts have found that intentional, bad-faith spoliation of evidence is an abuse of the judicial process and warrants a sanction. It is our intention to provide all relevant and material evidence in this matter."
A spokeswoman for Dominion replied, "This meritless claim is a distraction and will not impede Dominion from moving the case forward based on its merits. We intend to hold Fox accountable for its reckless disregard for the truth and are confident the truth will ultimately prevail."
Maddy Lauria contributed to this report.
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The school board approved the hiring of two Bluffton basketball coaches on Monday night: Adam Gray, who has coached at Heritage for the last five years, takes over the boys program while Doug Curtis, who most recently coached at Adams Central, will head the girls team.
Gray went 49-67 with the Patriots, including 13-12 last season. He replaces Karl Grau, who led the Tigers for three seasons and went 2-20 in 2022-23.
On Twitter Monday night, Gray wrote "Grateful for the past, and excited for the future."
"The words thank you do not begin to express the gratitude that I have. Thank you to Heritage High School for trusting me to lead the boys basketball program," he added. "Thank you to our parents and community for their unwavering support of our program. Thank you to all of the High School assistant coaches, Junior High coaches and HBA coaches for their time and efforts with all our players. Most importantly thank you to the players who sacrificed and put the needs of the team above their own personal accolades.
"We are excited for our new adventure at Bluffton, but Heritage will always hold a place in our hearts."
Grateful for the past, and excited for the future. pic.twitter.com/oEYocbaSkd
— Adam Gray (@Adam__Gray) April 18, 2023
Curtis has previously coached at Angola, DeKalb, Northrop and Adams Central, compiling a career record of 220-114. He led the Jets from 2018 to 2022, and went 9-13 in 2021-22. He replaces Eric Mounsey, who coached the Tigers girls for three years and went 11-11 this winter.
Curtis has coached five teams to sectional titles.
"Thought I was done with coaching, but excited about getting back on the sidelines. Thank you to the Bluffton Administration for the opportunity. Ready to get started!" Curtis posted on Twitter on Monday.
Thought I was done with coaching, but excited about getting back on the sidelines. Thank you to the Bluffton Administration for the opportunity. Ready to get started! #goTigers @blufftontigers
— Coach Curtis (@CoachCurtis8) April 18, 2023 | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/high-schools/preps-plus/bluffton-hires-new-boys-girls-basketball-coaches/article_f26fc2d4-dd84-11ed-b54b-cba8cbd943f9.html | 2023-04-18 03:45:41 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/high-schools/preps-plus/bluffton-hires-new-boys-girls-basketball-coaches/article_f26fc2d4-dd84-11ed-b54b-cba8cbd943f9.html |
MLB Games Tonight: How to Watch on TV, Streaming & Odds - Saturday, May 27
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How to Watch Today's MLB Games
The New York Yankees (30-23) face the San Diego Padres (24-27)
The Padres will take to the field at Yankee Stadium against the Yankees on Saturday at 1:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 1:05 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- NYY Key Player: Gleyber Torres (.263 AVG, 9 HR, 25 RBI)
- SD Key Player: Juan Soto (.266 AVG, 10 HR, 24 RBI)
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The Detroit Tigers (23-26) take on the Chicago White Sox (22-31)
The White Sox will take to the field at Comerica Park versus the Tigers on Saturday at 1:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 1:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- DET Key Player: Riley Greene (.295 AVG, 5 HR, 18 RBI)
- CHW Key Player: Luis Robert (.263 AVG, 13 HR, 29 RBI)
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The Minnesota Twins (26-25) play the Toronto Blue Jays (27-25)
The Blue Jays will take to the field at Target Field versus the Twins on Saturday at 2:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- MIN Key Player: Byron Buxton (.231 AVG, 10 HR, 23 RBI)
- TOR Key Player: Bo Bichette (.329 AVG, 10 HR, 33 RBI)
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The Baltimore Orioles (33-18) take on the Texas Rangers (32-18)
The Rangers will hit the field at Oriole Park at Camden Yards against the Orioles on Saturday at 4:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- BAL Key Player: Cedric Mullins (.269 AVG, 8 HR, 39 RBI)
- TEX Key Player: Marcus Semien (.296 AVG, 8 HR, 40 RBI)
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The Oakland Athletics (10-43) face the Houston Astros (29-21)
The Astros will look to pick up a road win at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum against the Athletics on Saturday at 4:07 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- OAK Key Player: Esteury Ruiz (.275 AVG, 1 HR, 22 RBI)
- HOU Key Player: Yordan Alvarez (.293 AVG, 12 HR, 46 RBI)
The Seattle Mariners (26-25) play the Pittsburgh Pirates (26-24)
The Pirates will take to the field at T-Mobile Park versus the Mariners on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: ROOT Sports NW
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- SEA Key Player: Ty France (.260 AVG, 5 HR, 23 RBI)
- PIT Key Player: Bryan Reynolds (.292 AVG, 7 HR, 32 RBI)
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The Tampa Bay Rays (38-15) play the Los Angeles Dodgers (31-21)
The Dodgers hope to get a road victory at Tropicana Field versus the Rays on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- TB Key Player: Wander Franco (.292 AVG, 7 HR, 27 RBI)
- LAD Key Player: Freddie Freeman (.333 AVG, 9 HR, 31 RBI)
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The Kansas City Royals (15-37) face the Washington Nationals (22-29)
The Nationals will look to pick up a road win at Kauffman Stadium against the Royals on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- KC Key Player: Vinnie Pasquantino (.260 AVG, 9 HR, 24 RBI)
- WSH Key Player: Lane Thomas (.290 AVG, 8 HR, 26 RBI)
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The Milwaukee Brewers (27-24) take on the San Francisco Giants (26-25)
The Giants hope to get a road victory at American Family Field against the Brewers on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- MIL Key Player: Christian Yelich (.257 AVG, 7 HR, 24 RBI)
- SF Key Player: Thairo Estrada (.301 AVG, 6 HR, 17 RBI)
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The Atlanta Braves (31-20) take on the Philadelphia Phillies (24-27)
The Phillies will take to the field at Truist Park versus the Braves on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- ATL Key Player: Ronald Acuña Jr. (.323 AVG, 11 HR, 27 RBI)
- PHI Key Player: Alec Bohm (.270 AVG, 6 HR, 37 RBI)
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The Chicago Cubs (22-28) play host to the Cincinnati Reds (22-29)
The Reds hope to get a road victory at Wrigley Field versus the Cubs on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- CHC Key Player: Nico Hoerner (.289 AVG, 3 HR, 24 RBI)
- CIN Key Player: Jonathan India (.283 AVG, 3 HR, 19 RBI)
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The Arizona Diamondbacks (29-22) host the Boston Red Sox (27-24)
The Red Sox will take to the field at Chase Field against the Diamondbacks on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- ARI Key Player: Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (.316 AVG, 8 HR, 28 RBI)
- BOS Key Player: Alex Verdugo (.292 AVG, 5 HR, 20 RBI)
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The Cleveland Guardians (22-28) face the St. Louis Cardinals (23-30)
The Cardinals will take to the field at Progressive Field versus the Guardians on Saturday at 7:15 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- CLE Key Player: José Ramírez (.266 AVG, 6 HR, 25 RBI)
- STL Key Player: Paul Goldschmidt (.296 AVG, 9 HR, 25 RBI)
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The Colorado Rockies (22-30) host the New York Mets (27-25)
The Mets hope to get a road victory at Coors Field versus the Rockies on Saturday at 9:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 9:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- COL Key Player: Charlie Blackmon (.286 AVG, 4 HR, 19 RBI)
- NYM Key Player: Pete Alonso (.234 AVG, 19 HR, 45 RBI)
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The Los Angeles Angels (28-24) face the Miami Marlins (26-26)
The Marlins will take to the field at Angel Stadium of Anaheim against the Angels on Saturday at 10:07 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 10:07 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- LAA Key Player: Shohei Ohtani (.275 AVG, 12 HR, 33 RBI)
- MIA Key Player: Jorge Soler (.259 AVG, 16 HR, 33 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
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(NEXSTAR) – The price of sending a piece of mail is about to go up. The United States Postal Service is set to increase the cost of postage to cope with the rising cost of operations.
Starting Sunday, Jan. 22, the USPS plans to increase prices of some postage by 4.2%, which generally amounts to a few cents per stamp.
The cost of a Forever stamp would go up 3 cents, from 60 cents to 63 cents – the third price hike in about a year.
Forever stamps, regardless of when they are purchased, will be accepted in perpetuity – hence the name. That means if you have some already, even if you bought them at a lower price, they will still be accepted to mail letters next year and the year after that. It also means you can buy stamps in bulk now to avoid paying more after Jan. 22.
See more details on the 2023 price changes below:
The USPS is also increasing the cost of sending Priority Mail by about 5.5%. Priority Mail Express will get 6.6% more expensive, and First-Class Package Service prices are set to increase by 7.8%. Priority Mail commercial rates will bump up about 3.6%.
At the same time, the cost of some Priority Mail shipping materials, including flat-rate envelopes and boxes, will go down. Using a flat-rate box or envelope lets you send a package of up to 70 pounds to any U.S. state for a flat fee.
The USPS points out that most its price hikes are “well below the rate of inflation.”
The price for two other shipping services, Parcel Select Ground and USPS Connect Local, will remain unchanged, the Postal Service says. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/2023-stamp-price-increases-are-about-to-kick-in/ | 2023-01-15 18:46:36 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/2023-stamp-price-increases-are-about-to-kick-in/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Agatha, the season’s first, headed for a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast Monday amid warnings of dangerous storm surge and flooding from heavy rains.
After forming on Sunday, Agatha quickly gained power, and it was predicted to make landfall as a strong Category 2 hurricane Monday afternoon or evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
It was moving toward the area near Puerto Escondido and Puerto Angel in the southern state of Oaxaca — a region that includes the laid-back tourist resorts of Huatulco, Mazunte and Zipolite.
The hurricane center said Agatha could “bring an extremely dangerous storm surge and life-threatening winds.”
Early Monday, Agatha had maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph) — just 1 mph under the threshold for a Category 3, the hurricane center said. The storm’s center was about 65 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Puerto Angel and heading to the northeast at 6 mph (9 kph).
Little change in strength was expected before the storm makes landfall, according to the hurricane center. A hurricane warning was in effect between the port of Salina Cruz and the Lagunas de Chacahua.
The civil defense office in Oaxaca published photos Sunday of fishermen hauling their boats up on beaches to protect them from the storm as the initial bands moved over land.
Municipal authorities in Huatulco ordered “the absolute closure” of all the resort’s beaches and its famous seven bays, many of which are reachable only by boat. They also closed local schools and began setting up emergency storm shelters.
To the west in Zipolite, long known for its clothing-optional beach and bohemian vibe, personnel at the small Casa Kalmar hotel gathered up outdoor furniture and put up wooden storm shutters to prevent strong winds from blowing out glass windows and doors.
“The biggest worry here is the wind,” hotel manager Silvia Ranfagni said.
With only one guest — and plenty of cancellations due to the hurricane — Ranfagni planned to ride out Agatha at the property, which is three or four blocks from the beach.
“I’m going to shut myself in here with my animals,” she said, referring to her dog and cats.
The government’s Mexican Turtle Center — a former slaughterhouse turned conservation center in Mazunte — announced it was closed to visitors until further notice because of the hurricane.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm was expected to drop 10 to 16 inches (250 to 400 millimeters) of rain on parts of Oaxaca, with isolated maximums of 20 inches (500 millimeters), posing the threat of flash floods and mudslides. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/seasons-1st-hurricane-aims-heavy-hit-at-mexico-tourist-zone/ | 2022-05-30 12:55:43 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/seasons-1st-hurricane-aims-heavy-hit-at-mexico-tourist-zone/ |
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tommy Paul went into his first career Grand Slam semifinal with a specific game plan to confront Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open. Makes sense, right? Have to approach that sort of match with a way you think will help you win.
And then, Paul explained, it all fell apart rather quickly in what became a 7-5, 6-1, 6-2 loss to Djokovic, who has won nine of his 21 Grand Slam titles at Melbourne Park.
“I mean, he didn’t let me do all those things,” said the 25-year-old American, who was born in New Jersey, grew up in North Carolina and is now based in Florida, “because of things that he did so well.”
They played under the lights in front of a packed house at Rod Laver Arena. Djokovic knows these settings and circumstances so well, especially at a tournament where he’s won 27 matches in a row and is 19-0 in semifinals and finals for his career. He will face Stefanos Tsitsipas on Sunday for the title.
“I mean, walking on the court was cool,” said Paul, the first U.S. man in the semifinals at Melbourne Park since Andy Roddick in 2009. “Playing the match and getting beaten like that kind of sucked. But, I mean, it’s great I got to see the level of where I want to be and know how good I have to play if I want to beat people like that. It was I think a good experience.”
Let’s let the unseeded Paul explain what his strategy was and what happened:
— “I wanted to serve and volley some. I didn’t serve and volley once. … When I did make my first serve, I felt like he was returning it to the baseline. I was automatically on defense. Like, you get down love-30 in your service games, it’s hard to be like, ‘All right, I’m going to serve and volley now.’”
— “Wanted to throw in drop shots. Didn’t get an opportunity to do any of that because he was hitting so deep.”
— “Wanted to change up pace with my slice. Missed my first three slices of the match. I was like, ‘All right, I’m going to start hitting my backhand; I’m not slicing well today.’”
— “Attack on the second serve. He definitely surprised me. On big points, he was going big seconds. Pretty much every point, the average second-serve speed was a little higher than I thought it was going to be.”
All of that said, Paul did make some inroads against Djokovic.
He did, after all, win more of the 23 points that lasted at least nine strokes, 14-9.
There were the two break points in the match’s opening game — although Djokovic ended up holding there.
“It felt like things were getting away from me really fast,” Paul said. “Felt like points were moving really fast. In-between-points time was going really quick.”
There was the four-game run that turned Paul’s 5-1 deficit into 5-all in the opening set — although Djokovic then proceeded to collect seven games in a row and 14 of the remaining 17.
“I was really fortunate to kind of hold my nerves toward the end of the first set. That was a key,” Djokovic said. “After that, I started swinging through the ball more.”
The 35th-ranked Paul had never been past the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament before.
His first trip to the semifinals of a major will lift his ranking into the top 20 for the first time.
“I want to keep moving up the rankings, you know? It would be nice to end the year top-10. I feel like the way I started the year is the right path to do it,” he said. “Obviously I have a lot of matches to win this year. Hopefully get some titles, too. I don’t want to just lose in semifinals. I want to have my name on some trophies.”
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ALABAMA (WHNT) — It’s not a COVID surge, but lately, another respiratory infection going around is leaving many people coughing and checking their temperatures.
Excessive chest congestion, horrible coughs, fever and shortness of breath make up the symptoms of the Human metapneumovirus (HMPV), which has similar symptoms to COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Despite the number of COVID and RSV cases falling this spring, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that nearly 19.6% of antigen tests and 11% of PCR tests were positive for HMPV, which was first discovered in 2001. That’s a 36% increase from pre-pandemic numbers when the positivity rate was around 7%.
While the warm summer months help cases of cold, flu and other respiratory viruses decline, the number of people suffering from HMPV is still higher than normal.
According to the CDC, the virus can cause upper and lower respiratory disease in all ages, especially young kids, older adults, and those with weakened immune systems. Severe cases could progress to bronchitis or pneumonia.
The estimated incubation period ranges from three to six days, and the course of HMPV can differ depending upon severity. However, the illness’ duration is similar to other respiratory infections, such as the common cold and RSV.
While medical experts say there is no specific treatment, vaccine or antiviral therapy for HMPV, thorough handwashing, covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze, not sharing food or drink, refraining from kissing, and staying home when sick are all encouraged. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/which-virus-is-causing-congestion-coughing-in-so-many-heres-a-hint-its-not-covid/ | 2023-05-30 20:15:18 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/which-virus-is-causing-congestion-coughing-in-so-many-heres-a-hint-its-not-covid/ |
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