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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Fresh-faced newcomer Sophia Smith teamed with captain Lindsey Horan to give the United States a balanced performance as the Americans breezed to another opening victory at the Women’s World Cup.
Smith scored twice and the two-time defending champions beat tournament first-timers Vietnam 3-0 Saturday for the Americans’ 13th straight victory in a World Cup match. Smith, who turns 23 next month and is playing in her first tournament, is the second-youngest U.S. women’s player to score multiple goals in a World Cup game.
Horan, the team’s co-captain with Alex Morgan, added a goal for the favored Americans, who have won four World Cups overall and are vying for an unprecedented three-peat in this year’s tournament.
“I love playing with Lindsey, she’s such a great player. She has such a good eye for things that a lot of players don’t see,” Smith said. “She understands my game. She understands the runs I’m making before I even make them.”
Vietnam drew comparisons to Thailand, the team the Americans routed 13-0 in in their 2019 World Cup opening game. But Vietnam was surprisingly resilient, kept the game closer than expected, and goalkeeper Tran Thi Kim Thanh stopped Morgan’s first-half penalty attempt.
Morgan was knocked to the field clutching her calf after trying for the rebound off her missed penalty, but she quickly returned. It was just her second penalty miss for the United States.
Smith, one of 14 Americans playing in their first World Cup, showed why she was named both U.S. Soccer’s Player of the Year and the National Women’s Soccer League MVP last year with her two first-half goals.
She scored when Morgan directed a pass from Horan to her in the 14th minute. Smith and Horan celebrated with a choreographed handshake after the goal.
Smith scored again in first-half stoppage time to make it 2-0 going into the break. The United States was at first flagged as offside before a video review confirmed the goal.
The U.S. team was infused with young talent including Smith and Trinity Rodman after settling for a disappointing bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
“They’re confident, they’ve been in pressure situations. Soph Smith, look what she did. She does that every single day in training so it’s no shock to me,” Horan said. “But it’s always great to have the first game to really calm everyone’s nerves and get the three points.”
Among the veterans, 38-year-old Megan Rapinoe made her 200th international appearance against Vietnam.
Rapinoe, who scored in the World Cup final in France and was named that tournament’s best player, did not start. She announced before the team left for New Zealand that this would be her last World Cup and she would retire from her professional team at the end of the season.
Rapinoe and midfielder Rose Lavelle, who were both limited by injuries in the run-up to the tournament, both came in as substitutes in the 63rd minute. Rapinoe sported bright blue hair.
“It feels old to reach that,” Rapinoe joked afterward. “My legs are like ‘You’ve earned it.’ It feels great, obviously, to have it be in a really meaningful game like a World Cup.”
The youngest player on the team, 18-year-old Alyssa Thompson, was also a second-half sub.
Horan scored into a wide-open net off a pass from Smith, who was rushed by the goalkeeper and deftly sent the ball back to her. Horan, who was recently engaged, kissed her ring in celebration.
There was early drama when Rodman, the daughter of former NBA great Dennis Rodman and one of the young newcomers on the team, appeared injured after falling hard on her back when she was tackled by defender Tran Thi Thu. Rapinoe warmed up on the sidelines and a stretcher was brought out on the field, but Rodman stood and returned to the match a few moments later.
Saturday’s game was the first meeting between the United States and Vietnam. The Vietnamese lost two exhibition matches ahead of the tournament and fell 9-0 to Spain in a closed-door tune-up match in Auckland last Friday.
Also in Group E are the Netherlands and Portugal, which meet Sunday in Dunedin. Portugal is also making its first World Cup appearance.
The group plays all of their matches in New Zealand, which is co-hosting the tournament with Australia. The United States plays the Netherlands in a 2019 final rematch on Thursday in Wellington.
Should the United States top the group, the team will head to Sydney for the round of 16.
Back home in the United States, a sign was erected on the North Lawn of the White House that said “Go Team USA! We are all behind you.”
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister said Tuesday the current security crisis on the continent shows that Europe can’t defend itself without the United States, but that NATO members in the region should take more responsibility for their own protection.
“Poland perceives the engagement of the United States in European security as a fundamental condition of peace in Europe,” Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau told a gathering of Polish ambassadors, in comments carried by the state news agency PAP.
He credited U.S. leadership in NATO as being key to a decision for a “rapid and effective adaptation to the Russian threat in 2016.”
It was then that NATO increased its presence on the eastern flank of NATO following Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula in 2014 and its support for pro-Moscow insurgents in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. this year deployed more soldiers to Poland and is using the country as a hub for weapons going to help the Ukrainians.
“The current crisis clearly shows that without the United States, Europe cannot defend itself,” Rau said.
He expressed gratitude to Washington, but said it shouldn’t have to take “all the responsibility,” which also “rests on the shoulders” of European allies. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/polish-official-europe-cant-defend-itself-without-the-us/ | 2022-06-22 11:44:15 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/polish-official-europe-cant-defend-itself-without-the-us/ |
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary who was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans and eventually the president, has died. He was 85.
Watt died in Arizona on May 27, son Eric Watt said in a statement Thursday.
In an administration divided between so-called pragmatists and hard-liners, few stood as far to the right at the time as Watt, who once labeled the environmental movement as “preservation vs. people” and the general public as a clash between “liberals and Americans.”
In that sense, Watt foreshadowed combative Interior secretaries like Ryan Zinke and David Bernhardt, who, like Watt, aggressively pushed to grant oil, gas and coal leases on public land, increase offshore drilling and limit expansion of national parks and monuments.
“While no one’s death should be celebrated, he was the worst of MAGA before it was invented,” tweeted David Donger of the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, referring to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Watt and his supporters saw him as an upholder of President Ronald Reagan’s core conservative values, but opponents were alarmed by his policies and offended by his comments. In 1981, shortly after he was appointed, the Sierra Club collected more than 1 million signatures seeking Watt’s ouster and criticized such actions as clear-cutting federal lands in the Pacific Northwest, weakening environmental regulations for strip mining and hampering efforts to curtail air pollution in California’s Yosemite Valley.
With his bald head and thick glasses, he became the rare interior secretary recognizable to the general public, for reasons beyond the environment. He characterized members of a coal advisory panel using derogatory language and in 1983 tried to ban music from Fourth of July festivities on the National Mall, saying it attracted the “wrong element.”
The Beach Boys had been recent mall headliners, and their fans included President Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan. With Watt’s statement facing widespread mockery, the Reagans invited the Beach Boys for a special White House visit. Watt, meanwhile, was summoned to receive a plaster model of a foot with a hole in it.
In his 1985 book “The Courage of a Conservative,” Watt wrote that the controversy “actually arose because I was a conservative. Members of a liberal press saw an opportunity to create a controversy by censoring the facts and avoiding the real issues.” He said the initial stories about the rock music ban “only mentioned that the Beach Boys had performed in the past. Yet before we knew what was happening, banner headlines proclaimed that I had banned the Beach Boys. I was astonished.”
Cutting regulations was his primary mission. Between the time he was confirmed as Interior secretary in 1981 until he resigned under pressure in 1983, Watt implemented an offshore leasing program that offered virtually the entire U.S. coastline for oil and gas drilling and held the largest coal lease sale in history, auctioning off 1.1 billion tons (1 billion metric tons) of coal in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming.
Watt tripled the amount of onshore land being leased for oil and gas exploration and doubled the acreage leased for geothermal resources.
Watt did spend $1 billion to restore and improve national parks and added 2,800 square miles (7,300 square kilometers) to the nation’s wilderness system. And his efforts to exploit natural resources made America stronger, he wrote to Reagan in October 1983.
“Our excellent record for managing the natural resources of this land is unequaled — because we put people in the environmental equation,” Watt wrote.
But eight days after writing to the president, he rode horseback into a cow pasture down the road from Reagan’s California ranch to announce his resignation. He was succeeded by a longtime Reagan aide, William Clark.
“I had outworn my usefulness,” Watt said of his decision, adding that others “wouldn’t get off my case” about his insulting coal advisory panel comment.
Watt was born Jan. 31, 1938, in Lusk, Wyoming, and his family later moved to Wheatland, Wyoming, where his father practiced law. He attended the University of Wyoming, graduating in 1960 and obtaining a law degree two years later.
In 1962, Watt became a personal assistant to former Gov. Milward L. Simpson, and he went to Washington after Simpson was elected to the U.S. Senate later that year. In 1966-69, he helped develop policies on such issues as pollution, mining, public lands and energy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, then in early 1969 he joined the Nixon administration as an Interior Department undersecretary.
In 1975, President Gerald Ford appointed him to the Federal Power Commission.
While Jimmy Carter was president, Watt worked in the private sector as president and chief legal officer of the pro-development Mountain States Legal Foundation in Denver.
He did consulting work after leaving the Reagan administration, at one point turning heads when he agreed to represent Indian tribes in oil operations and hotel developments after previously labeling Indian reservations “the failure of socialism.” He also accepted six-figure consulting fees to represent developers of a federally subsidized housing project.
He moved back to Wyoming in 1986 and set up a law office in Jackson, taught at his alma mater and served as a legal consultant and speaker.
But his consulting work involving federal housing money came under scrutiny in the late 1980s when an investigation was launched into corruption in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In 1996, he pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor for withholding documents from a grand jury investigating HUD. He was fined $5,000, put on five years’ probation and ordered to perform community service. He said he had “made a serious mistake” and hoped to “get on with a constructive role in society.”
Over the years, Watt expressed fears that unless they were stopped, radical environmental movements like Earth First! would persuade the “cowards of Congress” to ban all hunting, eliminate all logging and livestock grazing on public lands and further jeopardize the minerals industries.
He lived in his later years in Wickenburg, Arizona, with his wife, Leilani.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report. | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/james-watt-sharp-tongued-and-pro-development-interior-secretary-under-reagan-dies-at-85/ | 2023-06-09 12:15:49 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/james-watt-sharp-tongued-and-pro-development-interior-secretary-under-reagan-dies-at-85/ |
LITTLE ROCK -- A former teacher's assistant at a now-defunct Little Rock private school has pleaded guilty to three federal counts of production of child pornography, described by authorities as "abominable crimes" and "unthinkable abuse" committed at Miss Selma's School.
Sentencing is pending for Augustus David "Gus" Shenker after his Tuesday guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky. The 22-year-old defendant faces at least 15 years in prison. He and the school's operators, one of whom is his grandmother, are also the subject of three civil lawsuits in Pulaski County Circuit Court brought by the families of his child victims, the youngest of whom to be abused by Shenker was 3.
Under the conditions of his plea agreement, negotiated by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristin Bryant and defense attorney Jeff Rosenzweig, 20 other charges related to the production, possession and transportation of child pornography were dropped.
"This defendant violated the trust parents placed in him each day by placing their children in his care," acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan Ross said in a news release announcing Shenker's plea. "Using his position to exploit preschoolers is an unthinkable abuse, especially in their own school -- the very place we expect children to be protected."
Ross also commended the efforts of the FBI for tracking Shenker down, saying that he hoped the case would serve as a warning to others who would harm children.
Special Agent James A. Dawson, who leads the FBI in Little Rock, said that Shenker's conviction "demonstrates the unwavering dedication and adamant determination of the investigators who serve on our Violent Crime squad."
"FBI agents, professional support staff, and local law enforcement partners worked tirelessly to uncover Mr. Shenker's abominable crimes while ensuring his victims and their families received assistance," Dawson said in the news release.
Court filings show the investigation into Shenker began on his 21st birthday in May 2021 when Little Rock detective Amber Kalmer, a task force officer for the FBI, received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children based on a report from Dropbox, an internet file-hosting service, about seven video files apparently uploaded to the service a month earlier.
Kalmer recognized the videos as child pornography, describing two of them in court files. One was about seven minutes long and showed a prepubescent girlin a bed with pink and yellow zebra stripes engaging in a sex act.
The second recording is about 6½ minutes and depicts another prepubescent girl wearing a one-piece gymnastics leotard and engaging in a sex act.
Kalmer further discovered that the missing children center had received earlier reports that appeared related, one in February 2015 from Google and the second in May 2016 from software maker Adobe, which produces the Photoshop photo-manipulation program.
In the Google report, the detective found seven pornographic photos of girls between the ages of 6 and 9, while the Adobe report involved the distribution of 27 illegal images showing photographs of girls 8 to 10 years old playing and smiling that had been altered by Photoshop so that they appeared to be sexually interacting with a man.
Investigators were able to trace the images to the internet account of Shenker's mother, Shannon Shenker, at the family's Pinnacle Pointe home. Police had suspected Augustus Shenker worked at a school based on findings from Facebook, but after putting him under surveillance confirmed he was working at Miss Selma's School, 7814 T St. The school, one of the city's oldest private schools, shut down after Shenker's arrest.
About 12 days after receiving the initial information about Shenker, investigators raided the family home, then arrested him at the school.
Questioned by FBI agents, Shenker said he had a problem with child pornography between 2014 and 2016, but had overcome it. Asked about his Dropbox account, Shenker said he had not used it in a long time and that it had been hacked. He denied having inappropriate contact with the students, telling the agents that he loved working at the school for the past four years.
The search of his home turned up a box of letters from students at the school, a photograph of a girl 8 to 10 years old wearing a T-shirt pulled down over her pelvis and a notebook that contained writing about two specific girls.
Investigators seized Shenker's iPhone, which had a 3½-minute video recorded at the school on April 22, 2021, showing a sleeping girl being groped by a man. All that can be seen of the man is his jeans and white shoes with a colored trim around the bottom. The background of the video shows purple or blue curtains with apples and leaves bordering the room.
A 4½-minute video recorded the next day shows a sleeping girl being fondled by a man.
In the background, a piece of paper on the wall can be seen with the numbers 1, 2 and 7 depicted with apples for learning numbers.
Aside from Shenker, defendants in the civil suits, filed on behalf of three victims, two girls and a boy, are Miss Selma's Schools Inc.; Miss Selma's Property LLC; his grandmother, Alana Reed, the school's former vice principal; and school owner Robin Ratley Smith, whose mother, Selma Ratley, founded the school in 1956. They have all denied wrongdoing. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/02/former-private-school-teaching-assistant-pleads/ | 2023-01-02 14:23:47 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/02/former-private-school-teaching-assistant-pleads/ |
2-year-old child struck by train at NJ amusement park, police say
HOPE, N.J. (AP) - A 2-year-old child was seriously injured after being struck by a train at a New Jersey amusement park over the weekend, authorities said.
Sgt. Phillip Curry of New Jersey state police said the accident happened just after 1 p.m. Saturday at the Land of Make Believe in Hope Township.
Police said the child was airlifted to a hospital and listed in critical condition. Curry told New Jersey 101.5 at noon Sunday that he had no update on the child’s condition or any new information about the circumstances of the accident, which remains under investigation.
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Land of Make Believe, a 30-acre water and amusement park with rides, games and other activities, was created in 1954 on a former dairy farm in Warren County. The park’s website calls the train a "family favorite." A message seeking comment was sent to a park representative. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/2-year-old-child-struck-by-train-at-nj-amusement-park-police-say | 2022-08-21 22:51:13 | 1 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/2-year-old-child-struck-by-train-at-nj-amusement-park-police-say |
Which inflatable costume is best?
If you’re looking for a costume that will stand out without requiring a ton of fuss or shopping, you might want to try an inflatable costume. It’s a big, bold option that’s often good for a laugh.
It’s warmer than you might think, making it surprisingly convenient on a chilly Halloween night. The best part is you can usually wear your plain clothes underneath. Take a look at the Spooktacular Creations Riding a Raptor Costume for a costume that looks amazing and is easy to wear.
What to know before you buy an inflatable costume
How it works
An inflatable costume is constructed using polyester or nylon fabric and a zipper or drawstring closure. After you’re secured inside, there’s a battery-operated fan included so you can blow the costume up and keeps it inflated as you wear it.
As polyester can get warm, this fan also serves to keep your body from overheating if you are in the costume for long periods. Keep in mind that even with the fan, an inflatable costume can get sweaty so don’t dress too warmly underneath. The costume is hand-wash only.
Full cover vs. partial cover
Full coverage costumes provide coverage for the entire body with hidden eyeholes for visibility or a clear cutout panel for your face. There’s a zipper closure and your hands might be visible or they might be hidden beneath the costume hands or paws.
Partial coverage fits over your legs or your torso and leaves the second half of your body free to move around. There’s a drawstring closures and since you’re half-exposed you’ll need to wear a matching shirt, hat or costume wig. It’s significantly cooler than a full-coverage costume and easier to maneuver with a better range of mobility.
Sizing
Inflatable costumes are typically one size fits all for adults or children. They accommodate a wide range of heights and weights. Fully inflated, some costumes can stand up to 7 feet tall.
Some people under 5.5 feet tall have reported difficulty wearing certain inflatable costumes. If you’re worried about being too short for a costume, consider a partial costume as height is a less pressing factor.
What to look for in a quality inflatable costume
Optical illusion
Some of the most creative inflatable costumes trick the eye into believing in the impossible. They have faux legs to make it look like you’re riding a mythical creature or hands where your feet go to make it look like you’re walking around upside down. The illusion adds some levity and in some cases might have onlookers scratching their heads.
Eye-catching details
Bonus features to bring the spectacle up a notch. A costume might have glowing LED eyes or textured fabric to make something like dinosaur or dragon skin look and feel more realistic. Other costumes come with matching hats, masks or accessories.
Adjustable straps
Inflatable costumes include shoulder straps to help keep the costume in place. The best straps are adjustable. This provides you with a comfortable fit so that the straps won’t dig into your shoulders or slide loose, causing the costume to sag.
How much you can expect to spend on an inflatable costume
Inflatable costumes usually cost $25-$100, but a few can cost over $150.
Inflatable costume FAQ
How long does it stay inflated?
A. The battery and fan should continue to work for well over six hours.
Where does the battery pack go?
A. The costume comes with a built-in pocket for storing the battery pack, usually located in the costume’s leg. Do not put the pack in your own pocket as this can lead to overheating.
Are batteries included?
A. Most inflatable costumes require four AA batteries that are not included with the fan.
What’s the best inflatable costume to buy?
Top inflatable costume
Spooktacular Creations Riding a Raptor Costume
What you need to know: This partial body costume for adults makes it look like you are riding on the back of a velociraptor dinosaur.
What you’ll love: It comes in blue or red with red light-up LED eyes. There are faux human legs draped over the side so it looks like you’re sitting. The velociraptor’s mouth is open, exposing teeth and a detached tongue. The fabric is textured to look like scales and there are reins for you to hold onto as you ride.
What you should consider: It leaks some air with movement over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top inflatable costume for the money
Spooktacular Creations Full-Body Unicorn Costume
What you need to know: This full-body adult costume turns you into a colorful unicorn standing on its back legs.
What you’ll love: It comes in five colors including a skeleton design. It has a colorful rainbow mane and tail. It features matching gloves so you can use your hands and fingers with ease.
What you should consider: The face panel is clear and easily visible beneath the unicorn’s closed mouth. It gets warm inside.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This partial-body polyester costume for adults makes it look like a standing green alien is carrying you away.
What you’ll love: Inflatable legs give the illusion that you are being lifted by the alien. It includes an inflatable shirt section so even though it’s a partial costume you don’t have to worry about matching your clothes to it. Your hands remain free, no gloves or paws requires.
What you should consider: The alien does not glow in the dark.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The war in Ukraine and its global fallout transfixed the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year. When it wasn’t out front, it lurked in the background of virtually every speech.
There were near-unanimous calls for an end to the seven-month war, with rich and poor countries decrying the fallout from the conflict — widespread shortages and rising prices not only for food but for energy, inflation hitting the cost of living everywhere, and growing global inequality.
The speeches and side meetings produced no breakthroughs toward peace, but they did put the top diplomats from Russia and Ukraine in the same room for the first time in many months, however briefly. And U.N. food chief David Beasley sounded an alarm that the war, on top of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, has left 50 million people in 45 countries “knocking on famine’s door.” He warned of starvation, destabilization of nations, riots, and mass migration if help doesn’t arrive quickly.
In his strongest, gloomiest speech since taking the helm of the United Nations in 2017, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the six-day gathering telling leaders that the survival of humanity and the planet are at stake, and nations aren’t tackling the challenges to reverse course. “We are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction,” he said. “Our world is in peril — and paralyzed.”
General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said he heard, from leaders, a resounding message: that the war in Ukraine, whose effect is being felt around the world, must end. “Yet be it the largest and the most acute, the war in Ukraine is one of nearly 30 armed conflicts worldwide,” Kőrösi said. “And none of them is improving.”
The Hungarian diplomat cited other takeaways from the high-level meeting: Climate change is destroying us, human rights must be improved and the United Nations must be modernized — particularly its 15-member security council, which must, he said, reflect “the realities of this century.”
The 77th General Assembly meeting returned to an in-person gathering for the first time in three years. It was entirely virtual in 2020 and hybrid in 2021. According to Kőrösi, 190 of the 193 U.N. member nations delivered addresses including 126 world leaders, a significant number but fewer than the nearly 150 on the last speakers list issued earlier this month.
The assembly made one exception to the in-person requirement. Over objections from Russia and a few allies, members voted overwhelmingly to allow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to deliver a pre-recorded speech because of the “ongoing foreign invasion.”
The six-day meeting was held under the shadow of Europe’s first major war since World War II, which began with Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of its smaller neighbor. The conflict has unleashed a global food crisis and opened fissures among major powers in a way not seen since the Cold War.
In the midst of the speeches, the U.N. Security Council held an open meeting on Thursday called by France, the current council president, on ensuring accountability for Russian actions. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov left a lower-ranking official in Russia’s seat, arriving just before his speaking slot and leaving immediately afterward — much to the dismay of other ministers including Ukraine’s, whose speeches Lavrov missed.
Lavrov repeated his country’s claims that Kyiv has long oppressed Russian speakers in Ukraine’s east — one of the explanations Moscow has offered for the invasion — and that Western support for Ukraine is a menace to Russia. He never mentioned President Vladimir Putin’s new troop mobilization.
In his speech to the assembly on Saturday, Lavrov accused the West of aiming to “destroy and fracture Russia.” And there were a lot of comments on the opposing side.
French President Emmanuel Macron accused countries remaining silent on the war of “serving the cause of a new imperialism, a contemporary cynicism that is destroying the world order,” and said it was time for all countries to “act to force Russia to give up the choice of war so that it realizes the cost on itself and us and ends its aggression.”
U.S. President Joe Biden called on democracies and autocracies alike to speak out against Russia’s “brutal, needless war” and bolster’s Ukraine effort to defend itself. “We will stand in solidarity against Russia’s aggression, period,” he said, accusing Russia of “shamelessly” violating the core tenets of the U.N. Charter.
Beyond Ukraine, other topics percolated — from climate change to inequity to security. Senegalese President Macky Sall, chairman of the 55-nation African Union, urged greater global and U.N. focus on terrorism, which “is not just an African matter.”
Nigerian President Muhhammadu Buhari warned of new kinds of war — “conflicts increasingly being driven by non-state actors, proliferation of small arms and light weapons, terrorism, violent extremism, malignant use of technology, climate change, irregular migration, and disparities in opportunities for improved standards of living.”
An end to the Ukraine war appears distant, and the nation is keeping up the pressure at the U.N., calling for a Security Council meeting Tuesday on the referenda that Russia has called in a prelude to the likely annexation of more of its territory.
And so it continues after the General Assembly just as before, with the United Nations trying to help stop war but — particularly in the Security Council — having a limited kit of tools to do so. Still, there are ways forward that remain.
“Fairness and togetherness are needed to bring about peace, love and prosperity in this world,” said Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados. “And this is not romanticism. These are hard realities that simply require decisions.”
Kőrösi closed the annual global gathering Monday afternoon by saying he sensed, in leaders’ speeches, a “growing awareness that humanity has entered a new era” of complex challenges, multilayered crises, and changing priorities. What’s happening, he said, represents not “just modifications, but “significant transformations in the making.”
There isn’t a name yet “for the new epoch,” Kőrösi said, “but we feel that it has arrived.”
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HOUSTON, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Select Water Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: WTTR) today announced that it will release second quarter 2023 financial results on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 after the market closes. In conjunction with the release, the Company has scheduled a conference call, which will also be broadcast live over the Internet, on Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Central Time).
For those who cannot listen to the live call, a replay will be available through August 17, 2023 and may be accessed by dialing 201-612-7415 and using passcode 13740154#. Also, an archive of the webcast will be available shortly after the call at https://investors.selectwater.com/events-presentations/current for 90 days.
About Select Water Solutions, Inc.
Select is a leading provider of sustainable water and chemical solutions to the energy industry. These solutions are supported by the Company's critical water infrastructure assets, chemical manufacturing and water treatment and recycling capabilities. As a leader in sustainable water and chemical solutions, Select places the utmost importance on safe, environmentally responsible management of water throughout the lifecycle of a well. Additionally, Select believes that responsibly managing water resources throughout its operations to help conserve and protect the environment is paramount to the Company's continued success. For more information, please visit Select's website, https://www.selectwater.com.
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Keynote speech will focus on "Radical Collaboration, Innovation and the Fallacy of Impossible"
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Overcoming the impossible through collaboration and innovation will be the subject of a keynote speech by author, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist Mick Ebeling at CompTIA ChannelCon 2023.
CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, announced today that Ebeling, founder of Not Impossible Labs, will deliver keynote remarks during the technology industry's premier annual conference, scheduled for Aug. 1-3 at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.
"We're incredibly pleased to bring Mick Ebeling's knowledge and experience to the ChannelCon audience this year," said MJ Shoer, chief community officer at CompTIA. "His work centers on the premise that we can do anything, and that's what this year's conference is about. Mick's presentation will show how innovative technologies are breaking boundaries and opening new doors for humanity. It is an opportunity to get truly inspired."
In his keynote speech Ebeling will offer insight into how he has learned to overcome the impossible so true innovation can take place. He'll share how Not Impossible Labs has collaborated with unlikely characters to tackle challenges and found innovative ways to overcome them. Ebeling will also discuss the tools necessary to become a stellar collaborator, and to recognize the traits of collaboration-worthy individuals for your next big idea.
In addition to the keynote, ChannelCon will feature a mix of collaborative sessions from leading technology experts offering insight into the latest business challenges and growth opportunities in today's market. Sessions include education in four main areas including cybersecurity planning, workforce tactics to help build your business, tools for tech vendors, and sales and marketing strategies. Complete conference details and registration options are available CompTIA ChannelCon 2023.
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The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is a leading voice and advocate for the $5 trillion global information technology ecosystem; and the estimated 75 million industry and tech professionals who design, implement, manage, and safeguard the technology that powers the world's economy. Through community, education, training, certifications, advocacy, philanthropy, and market research, CompTIA is the hub for unlocking the potential of the tech industry and its workforce. http://Connect.CompTIA.org
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SOCi launches integration to deliver accurate, up-to-date business information to Apple Maps at scale
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SOCi Inc., the marketing platform for multi-location brands, today announced an integration with Apple Business Connect to provide up-to-date, local business information and special offers and promotions to consumers across Apple Maps and other Apple apps.
Mapping and navigation applications are essential tools for consumers seeking information and even discovering new local businesses throughout their purchase journey. With nearly 7 of 10 consumers accessing these tools monthly, it is imperative that multi-location businesses maintain accurate and up-to-date information for all of their locations across these platforms.
Through this integration, SOCi customers will be able to take advantage of:
- A direct API connection between SOCi and Business Connect. This will provide multi-location businesses with a conduit to update location information in the Apple Maps place card.
- The new Showcases feature in Business Connect to enable enterprise brands to share localized content, including offers, events, and other updates, across location profiles at scale. This feature expands the type of information brands can share in Apple Maps to promotional content that they are likely already creating for other search and social channels.
- Access to data and insights to help enterprise brands make informed decisions on how to maximize their local digital presence in Apple Maps.
"We created Business Connect to provide Apple users around the world with the most accurate information for places to eat, shop, travel, and more," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Services. "Apple Business Connect gives every business owner the tools they need to connect with customers more directly, and take more control over the way billions of people see and engage with their products and services every day."
Now, brands managing their digital presence across hundreds or thousands of locations will be able to create, schedule, and share Showcases and manage location information in the Apple Maps place card all from within the SOCi platform using the SOCi Social and Listings toolsets.
"People around the world rely on Apple Maps, and our clients will now be able to provide up-to-date information to those consumers," said SOCi CEO Afif Khoury. "Over the past few months, SOCi has worked with a number of its largest brand partners to pilot Business Connect API and the Showcases feature. As of today, every SOCi customer can access the Business Connect integration."
To learn more about how SOCi's all-in-one platform helps multi-location businesses connect with customers across the Apple ecosystem, visit www.meetsoci.com/apple-maps-business-connect-showcases-soci/.
SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Sport Clips and Anytime Fitness to scale marketing efforts across all digital channels in a way that's brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. As one central place to scale marketing, SOCi makes the impossible possible by enabling top brands and their locations to strengthen and scale their digital presence across limitless local search and social pages while protecting what matters most, their reputation. For more information on how SOCi can help fuel your localized marketing success, visit us at www.meetsoci.com or message us at hello@meetsoci.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 10 million people saw the premiere of “House of the Dragon” on Sunday night, making the “Game of Thrones” spinoff HBO’s most-watched series premiere in the network’s history.
HBO aired the episode four times on premiere night and it was also streamed on HBO Max. The viewership number is only going to increase in the coming weeks.
For instance, the “Game of Throne” series finale in May 2019 was seen on its first night by 19.8 million, more than any other series episode on HBO, the Nielsen company said. HBO estimates that some 46 million people in total have seen it, when delayed viewing is taken into account.
Anticipation for “House of the Dragon” was evident in how many people were streaming old “Game of Thrones” episodes on HBO Max, which the network fed by offering crisper picture quality. The weekly average of streams in August is nearly 90% above June, the network said.
“The ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel recaptured the fire of HBO’s original masterpiece in a big way,” said Ashwin Navin, co-founder and CEO of the research firm Samba TV. That company estimated that the HBO series more than doubled the first-day viewership for Netflix’s new season of “Stranger Things” this summer.
The challenge — and opportunity — for HBO lies in trying to expand “House of the Dragon” beyond the built-in fan base, Navin said.
CBS was the most popular broadcast network in prime time last week, averaging 2.8 million viewers. NBC had 2.7 million, ABC had 2.4 million, Fox had 1.9 million, Ion Television had 1.04 million, Univision had 1.01 million and Telemundo had 810,000.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks with a prime-time average of 2.31 million. MSNBC had 1.32 million, ESPN had 896,000, Hallmark had 870,000 and HGTV had 866,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, averaging 7.2 million viewers last week. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.1 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.2 million.
For the week of Aug. 15-22, the 20 most popular prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.44 million.
2. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 5.64 million.
3. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 5.44 million.
4. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 4.54 million.
5. “Password” (Wednesday), NBC, 4.36 million.
6. “The $100,000 Pyramid,” ABC, 4.1 million.
7. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 4.06 million.
8. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 3.98 million.
9. “Password” (Tuesday), NBC, 3.97 million.
10. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 3.95 million.
11. “FBI,” CBS, 3.57 million.
12. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News, 3.432 million.
13. “Press Your Luck,” ABC, 3.425 million.
14. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 3.42 million.
15. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.38 million.
16. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 3.294 million.
17. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.294 million.
18. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 3.258 million.
19. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” ABC, 3.258 million.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Believe it or not, your nightmares can benefit your healing, your health and your overall wellness.
In her vulnerable new memoir, dream expert Kelly Sullivan Walden – AKA Dr. Dream – explores how each of the unexpected mishaps in our waking lives can take us on a journey to self-exploration to turn the tragic into magic.
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Jacey Vaughn, left, gives the welcome to CREo Christian School's inaugural graduation ceremony as her classmates, Lane McMullin, Adin Lavender, Abby Gilmore, Matt Dowdy and Gabe Brown listen.
WREN – Six students made CREo Christian School history May 13 in being its first-ever graduating class. The school opened in 2011 through a trial year with strictly members of Common Ground Church, including Abby Gilmore and Adin Lavender. The two of them were joined by Gabe Brown, Matthew Dowdy, Lane McMullin and Jacey Vaughn as the first graduates.
“Family and friends, although CREo’s first graduating class is a small one, each member plays a unique role in our group. Tonight, we get an insight of each of our personalities and the story of how the Lord has placed us in our school,” Gilmore said after reading the class history with Dowdy.
Gilmore is the school’s first valedictorian, and Dowdy is the first salutatorian. The first Archer Award went to McMullin, and Gilmore earned the first Timothy Award.
In addition to Vaughn’s commitment to the Marines, graduates received scholarships to Ole Miss, Blue Mountain, Itawamba Community College and Northeast Mississippi Community College.
The school’s name is an acronym for Creative Rural Education Opportunities, and its aim is to help students grow to be better citizens through success in academics, ethics and spirituality.
“CREo is a Latin word meaning to create, to bring into being and to cause to grow. It means to invest in and bring forth fruit. This is what CREo is all about – authentic Christian disciples who will bear much fruit,” said Tommy Gann during the awards presentation.
Guest speaker David Pannell urged graduates to be wise in chasing the joys in life, saying everyone needs discernment on how to love well.
“The six of you will all likely take very different paths in life, but the one thing you all probably have in common is the search for love. After all, adulthood can be defined as the search for love and as you leave this chapter of life and into the next, it will be about the search for work that you love, for a place to live that you love, a group of people to love and most of all, for that one special person to love,” he said. | https://www.djournal.com/monroe/news/creo-christian-school-achieves-milestone-with-first-graduating-class/article_f161bb71-0cfa-53ae-82ed-b07a2a03b157.html | 2022-05-18 12:50:18 | 0 | https://www.djournal.com/monroe/news/creo-christian-school-achieves-milestone-with-first-graduating-class/article_f161bb71-0cfa-53ae-82ed-b07a2a03b157.html |
Brand Partners with Dr. Tanya Altmann, FAAP to Share Tips with Parents to Address New Play Needs from Children
RACINE, Wis., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring is here, and summer is just around the corner, which means more free time for kids to play. To ensure families can say YES to play, SC Johnson is introducing the new FamilyGuard™ Brand, a lineup of disinfectant formulas created to help protect families against germs by disinfecting the hard, non-porous surfaces that loved ones touch most.*
New Initiative from FamilyGuard™ Brand Helps Families Say YES to Play
Experts agree, play is an integral component to a child's development, as it builds important social and emotional skills. According to a recent study1, due to COVID, kids are redefining the way they want to play, including seeking a safe space to play and the permission to say YES to play more. Yet where kids see fun and an opportunity to explore, parents can look at the same thing and see dirty surfaces, which may lead them to limiting kids' freedom to play.
This has uncovered a play gap between the way kids want to play and how parents are helping to facilitate it. To help close this gap, the FamilyGuard™ Brand is introducing YES, PLAY!, a new initiative that highlights the importance of having a dedicated, clean play space in the home, while giving parents the tools they need to be successful in today's state of family play.
To kick off the initiative, the FamilyGuard™ Brand has partnered with Dr. Tanya Altmann, FAAP, a UCLA-trained pediatrician, working mom of three children, American Academy of Pediatrics parenting book author of "Baby and Toddler Basics," and editor in chief of the American Academy of Pediatrics best-selling parenting book, "Caring for your Baby and Young Child."
"As a mom and pediatrician with more than 20 years of experience caring for children, I know the importance of playtime for a child's development and how touch plays a large role in exploration and learning for a child. I also know that germs lurk on surfaces that kids gravitate to, so it is sometimes tough for parents to let their kids play," said Dr. Altmann, FAAP. "FamilyGuard™ Brand comes at a perfect time, as we're seeing families express an increased desire for a dedicated and clean place for little ones to explore inside the home."
According to Dr. Altmann, FAAP, here are a few simple ways parents can get started in meeting the play needs of their kids:
- Make sure your child has a safe space to play. It doesn't have to be big or fancy, any dedicated, safe and clean play zone will work. Be sure to baby/childproof the area so there aren't any potential hazards. If your child is playing freely, check on them frequently to make sure they are playing safely. For infants and toddlers, a play yard or gated area can also ensure safety when you need to step away.
- Encourage your kids to explore. Kids explore by touching things all day long. You can't follow your child around all day to stop them from touching things, nor should you. However, surfaces like plastic toys and other items that a child may put in his or her mouth require the additional step of rinsing with potable water after disinfecting with FamilyGuard™ Brand disinfectant products. The FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Spray is designed for use on 100+ surfaces₺, including where kids and pets play, and the FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Cleaner is expertly formulated for use in homes with children and pets.
- Make sure to disinfect. Sanitizing kills bacteria on surfaces, while disinfecting also kills viruses. When determining when you should clean or disinfect, or the frequency, consider the type of surface and how often the surface is touched. If the space is a high traffic area, you may choose to clean more frequently or disinfect in addition to cleaning. The FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Spray and Disinfectant Cleaner were both formulated to kill 99.9% of germs, including the virus that may cause COVID-19 and the H1N1 virus,* when used as directed on hard, non-porous surfaces, by allowing both to sit on clean surfaces for at least five minutes.
To see more of Dr. Altmann, FAAP's helpful tips to encourage children to play, visit FamilyGuardUSA.com.
In addition to the partnership, stay tuned for more resources and giveaways to come this year as part of the FamilyGuard™ Brand YES, PLAY! initiative.
More About the FamilyGuard™ Brand Products
The FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Spray (EPA Registration # 4822-548) is designed for use on 100+ surfaces₺, including where kids and pets play, and the FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Cleaner (EPA Registration # 4822-613) is expertly formulated for use in homes with children and pets. These new FamilyGuard™ Brand products kill 99.9% of germs, including the virus that may cause COVID-19 and the H1N1 virus.* The FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Cleaner cuts through dirt, dust, grease and grime while the Disinfectant Spray fights tough odors and disinfects with a pleasant scent.
Voted #1 by 40,000 American shoppers, FamilyGuard™ Brand has been named an official 2023 Product of the Year winner in the Home Cleaning category for outstanding innovation. Results were conducted in a national survey by Kantar, a global leader in consumer research. The FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Spray has also been recognized as a winner of the 2023 Better Homes & Gardens Clean House Award.
FamilyGuard™ Brand products are available to purchase in-store and online at major retailers, including Amazon, Target and select Walmart locations. For the closest retail availability and for more information, visit FamilyGuardUSA.com.
₺ See www.FamilyGuardUSA.com for full list of approved and prohibited surfaces.
* Use as directed on hard, non-porous surfaces. See label for details.
About FamilyGuard™ Brand
Say YES to the moments that matter without the worry of germs with the FamilyGuard™ Brand. These formulas help protect families against germs by disinfecting the hard, non-porous surfaces that loved ones touch most. See FamilyGuardUSA.com for a full list of approved and prohibited surfaces. FamilyGuard™ Brand Disinfectant Sprays and Cleaners comes in two pleasant scents—Citrus and Fresh. These new FamilyGuard™ Brand products kill 99.9% of germs, including the virus that may cause COVID-19 and the H1N1 virus, when used as directed. See label for details.
About SC Johnson
Founded in 1886 and headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin USA, SC Johnson believes that a more sustainable, healthier and transparent world that inspires people and creates opportunities isn't just possible – it's our responsibility. A heritage of innovation and bold, transparent decisions is why our high-quality products and iconic brands – including OFF!®, Raid®, Glade®, Windex®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Ziploc®, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day®, method®, Autan®, Baygon®, Mr Muscle®, Duck®, Lysoform®, FamilyGuard™ Brand and more – are in homes, schools and businesses in virtually every country worldwide.
As a global, purpose-led company, we are committed to making the world a better place today and for future generations. That means relentlessly bringing our expertise in science, innovation and partnerships to bear on some of the world's most pressing environmental and health issues like reducing plastic waste and eradicating malaria. Around the world, we use our resources to unlock greater economic and educational opportunities for people and communities where access may be limited, but curiosity and potential are limitless.
See how SC Johnson is a Family Company At Work For a Better World by visiting scjohnson.com or joining us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
About Product of the Year
Product of the Year is the largest consumer-voted award for product innovation. Established over 30 years ago, POY currently operates in over 40 countries with the same purpose: Guide consumers to the best products in their market and reward manufacturers for quality and innovation. Product of the Year winners are backed by the votes of 40,000 consumers in a national representative study conducted by research partner Kantar, a global leader in consumer research. The award is a powerful merchandising program for marketers proven to increase product sales, distribution and awareness. Winning products are announced in February each year and receive the right to use the Product of the Year logo in marketing communications for two years. For more information, visit productoftheyearusa.com.
About Kantar
Kantar is the world's leading marketing data, insight and consultancy company. We know more about how people live, feel, shop, vote, watch and post worldwide than any other company. Working across the entire sales and marketing lifecycle, we help brands uncover growth in an extraordinary world. Kantar is part of WPP Company, and its services are employed by over half of the Fortune 500 companies in 100 countries.
1 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, December 25, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
156 PM PST Sun Dec 25 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Freezing rain expected. Ice accumulations up to 0.10 to
0.20 inches.
* WHERE...Tonasket, Othello, Nespelem, Cashmere, Entiat, Odessa,
Ritzville, Coulee City, Disautel Pass, Harrington, Pangborn
Airport, Number 1 Canyon, Okanogan, Brewster, Moses Lake, Grand
Coulee, Creston, Number 2 Canyon, Oroville, Chelan, Bridgeport,
Ephrata, Wilbur, Quincy, Badger Mountain Road, Mansfield, Omak,
Wenatchee, and Waterville.
* WHEN...Until 4 PM PST this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road
conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by
calling 5 1 1.
Be prepared for slippery roads. Slow down and use caution while
driving. If you are going outside, watch your first few steps taken
on stairs, sidewalks, and driveways. These surfaces could be icy and
slippery, increasing your risk of a fall and injury.
* WHAT...Freezing rain and snow expected. Snow accumulations up two
inches in the valleys and locally heavier near the crest. Ice
accumulations up to 0.10 to 0.20 inches.
* WHERE...Twisp, Plain, Loup Loup Pass, Stevens Pass, Holden
Village, Stehekin, Conconully, Methow, Mazama, Leavenworth, and
Winthrop.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation. Additional snow accumulations up to
one inch north of a line from Chewelah to Republic and ice
accumulations. Ice accumulations up to 0.10 to 0.20 inches.
* WHERE...Chesaw Road, Northport, Rockford, Tiger, Colville, Highway
20 Wauconda Summit, Downtown Spokane, Newport, Ione,
Springdale-Hunters Road, Republic, Fruitland, Cheney, Chewelah,
Sherman Pass, Airway Heights, Fairfield, Metaline Falls,
Davenport, Boulder Creek Road, Wauconda, Metaline, Deer Park,
Kettle Falls, Flowery Trail Road, Inchelium, Spokane Valley, and
Orin-Rice Road.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM PST this evening.
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ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s decision to resign Thursday, barely 12 hours after his “unity” coalition broke apart dramatically in Parliament, was the latest step in a political limbo that will likely last for months before a new government is solidly in place to lead the European Union’s third-largest economy.
By Thursday afternoon, about the only certainty was Italians are going to the ballot box on Sept. 25, some six months early.
Even before the date was set, Italy’s perennially bickering parties were already off and running, some of them losing longtime stalwarts in their leadership over the decision by three key coalition partners — populist, right-wing and conservative — to desert Draghi. In 17 months at the helm of government, Draghi was viewed as a pillar of stability on a continent wracked by high inflation and fearful of energy shortages as the war in Ukraine drags on.
Rallies, petitions and pleas by citizens, mayors and lobbyists to save his imperiled government ultimately went unheeded. Political partisan priorities triumphed over solidarity in a nation that, like most of Europe, faces an approaching cold winter as it deals with the consequences of its dependency on gas from Russia.
How the failure to heed citizens’ pleas might shape voters’ decisions won’t be known until the votes are counted and parties in backroom talks forge a new government.
IF DRAGHI HAD SO MANY FANS, WHAT WENT WRONG?
Much finger-pointing was aimed at the 5-Star Movement, which became Parliament’s largest political force in the 2018 election. Its leader, Giuseppe Conte, drafted by the 5-Stars to be premier in back-to-back governments, had joined his successor’s “national unity coalition.” But he always seemed to be chafing at losing his post to Draghi, who was tapped by President Sergio Mattarella to guide Italy’s economic revival in the pandemic. Last week, 5-Star senators boycotted a confidence vote on an energy costs relief bill.
But Draghi suffered no shortages of run-ins with other coalition partners. To cite only one: right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini railed against a government decree requiring vaccination against COVID-19, a negative test or recent recovery from infection to access venues including restaurants, gyms and workplaces.
Both Conte and Salvini, known for pro-Russia stances, eventually reluctantly approved Italy’s shipments of arms to Ukraine. Former premier Silvio Berlusconi, whose conservative Forza Italia party also deserted the coalition, lavished attention on Russian leader Vladimir Putin, treating him like a close friend at his Sardinian seaside villa.
A small, centrist party leader, Carlo Calenda tweeted with irony: “It will be a coincidence, but the most serious and pro-Atlantic government of recent history gets sent packing by those who have supported pro-Putin positions.”
WHAT COMES NEXT?
Mattarella, the Italian president, told the nation Thursday evening that while early elections are always a “last choice,” he saw no chance for a fourth government in the five-year term of Parliament. So he signed a decree dissolving Parliament.
The fatal blow for Draghi’s government struck when senators from Conte’s, Salvini’s and Berlusconi’s parties refused to renew their backing for Draghi in a confidence vote the premier sought in a 11th-hour bid to revive his coalition.
Italy’s constitution mandates that elections must be held within 70 days of the decree ending Parliament, whose five-year term would have expired in March 2023.
WHO WINS?
Opinion polls in last months indicated that the far-right Brothers of Italy party, the only sizeable force in Parliament to refuse to join Draghi’s coalition could garner just over 20% if an election. That’s roughly the same percentage the polls give the center-left Democratic Party. But former Premier Enrico Letta, whose Democratic Party gave Draghi its confidence votes, had been banking on an eventual electoral alliance with the 5-Star Movement — a prospect decidedly dicey after the populists deserted Draghi. Giorgia Meloni, the Brothers of Italy leader, has been allied for years with Salvini’s and Berlusconi’s parties, but while her popularity rose, their parties have seen slumping fortunes in local elections. But with Salvini itching for years to become premier, Meloni might face a Salvini-Berlusconi deal to make the League leader the next premier.
WHO LOSES?
The dramatic and rapid unraveling of Draghi’s ‘’unity” coalition is likely to leave its mark on Italy’s political landscape. As former Premier Matteo Renzi, a master of political maneuvering, who helped bring down Conte’s second premiership, put it even before the votes were counted Wednesday night: “Nothing will be the same as political parties go.”
By Thursday evening, two prominent stalwarts n Berlusconi’s Forza Italia who are ministers in Draghi’s Cabinet announced they were leaving the party. They accused the media mogul of betraying the party’s staunch pro-Europe, pro-NATO leanings by siding with Euro-skeptic Salvini and abandoning Draghi. As for the populists, the 5-Star Movement has been bleeding lawmakers for months. The most prominent to defect is Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who recently formed a pro-NATO party.
HOW LONG WILL DRAGHI STAY IN OFFICE
Draghi stays until a new government is formed and sworn in. After the 2018 elections, which saw the 5-Stars confound pundits and opinion polls with a stunningly big win, it took 90 days to get a new government in place, anchored by Conte’s and Salvini’s forces. So conceivably, Draghi in his caretaker role, might occupy the premier’s office through most of this year.
The caretaker designation will make it impossible for the lame-duck government to take on new initiatives. But Draghi, in thanking his Cabinet Thursday evening, made clear he intended to still be useful.
“Italy has everything (needed) to be strong, authoritative, credible,” in the world. Draghi said. He reminded his ministers that the government must still grapple with the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, inflation and energy costs as well as economic reforms.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way to decorate the exterior of a home by changing the look and color of exterior shutters," said an inventor, from Cincinnati, Ohio, "so I invented the SHUTTERALITY. My design would offer a personal touch and it can be changed from season to season."
The invention provides an effective way to personalize exterior shutters on a home or business. In doing so, it can be easily changed for various seasons, holidays or occasions. As a result, it could enhance the appearance of the shutters. It also offers an alternative to replacing shutters due to age. The invention features a weather-resistant and custom design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for households and businesses. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
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Two-thirds of employees feel their organization does not provide optimal support for learning new skills and expanding professional capabilities
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The shift to remote and hybrid work has resulted in "the great disconnect," in which workers are feeling less connected to their colleagues, and employees lower on the food chain are falling behind, according to new NovoEd research released today. The survey of 500 senior management, middle management and individual contributors found that more than half (54%) reported feeling less connected than before the pandemic.
Senior managers fared well with their interpersonal connections, with 80% feeling connected to middle managers and 74% feeling connected to individual contributors. However, the great disconnect has impacted lower level employees on the front lines of executing the organization's strategy the most. Less than half (43%) of individual contributors and only 50% of middle managers feel connected to their senior managers.
"Leadership's top priority is to keep their people connected and motivate people to move in the same direction toward a shared set of objectives," said Christina Yu, Learning Technology Executive, NovoEd. "But in today's disconnected workplace, achieving that strategic imperative is even more difficult when we're not always in the same room."
Eroding connections are also impacting goal alignment, the survey found. Six in ten (65%) of senior managers feel connected to their company and aligned with common goals, yet just 42% of middle managers and individual contributors feel the same.
Compounding these connection and alignment problems is the fact that two-thirds (66%) of business leaders and team members work in an organization that now requires them to collaborate with coworkers differently today than they did in 2019. This poses difficulties for organizations because they are challenged to develop, upskill and reskill their employees to not only keep up but, ideally, to surge ahead.
Learning and development (L&D) has paid the price in today's disconnected workplace. Less than a third (31%) of all respondents feel their organization provides a great deal of support for learning new skills and expanding their professional capabilities and goals. In addition, four in ten (42%) feel their organization has not enhanced L&D over the past two-plus years.
"Teams struggling to achieve connectedness require different ways of collaboration and learning or they will become dysfunctional," said Yu. "The workforce needs a reboot on learning and development with a focus on deep capabilities. Remote and hybrid work itself is not the problem. The right technology can provide powerful opportunities for learners to link up and learn new skills and capabilities – both synchronously and asynchronously and at their own pace."
NovoEd surveyed 500 U.S. full-time employees across three different functions: senior management, middle management and individual contributors between May and June of 2022. The survey report can be found here.
Founded at Stanford's Social Algorithms Lab in 2012, NovoEd is a capability-building platform that uses social and collaborative learning to drive performance readiness at scale. Through cohort-based experiences, NovoEd taps into collective wisdom, placing each learner at the center of perspective, application, and expertise. Large enterprises such as 3M, GE, and Nestlé partner with NovoEd to accelerate their critical initiatives, reconnect teams, and achieve rapid alignment through learning that is deeply felt and experienced and swiftly transformed into impact. Visit novoed.com to learn more.
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Get ready, Grown-ish fans. Not only is the series returning for the second half of its fifth season on Jan. 18, but the show has officially been renewed for season 6!
The news was announced on Wednesday during the 2023 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour.
The Emmy-nominated Black-ish spinoff was given a cast shakeup after the season 4 finale saw Zoey (Yara Shahidi) and her friends graduate from the California University of Liberal Arts, marking the start of their lives in the real world. It also marked the exit of the show's six original cast members, including Francia Raisa (Ana), Emily Arlook (Nomi), Chloe Bailey (Jazz), Luka Sabbat (Luca), Halle Bailey (Sky) and Jordan Buhat (Vivek).
Season 5 saw franchise star Marcus Scribner officially join his TV sister on the spinoff, reprising his role as Andre Johnson Jr. (aka Junior) as he embarks on his own journey to being "grown." Shahidi, Diggy Simmons (Doug) and Trevor Jackson (Aaron) remain as their characters explore their post-grad adventures, including Aaron's new role as a professor at the university.
The second half of the current season follows Junior as he finishes his first year at Cal U, transitioning from Zoey’s little brother to a big man on campus.
Since a new beginning means a new gang, the series welcomes a roster of new faces as Junior's squad of friends, including new series regular Daniella Perkins, whose Kiela returns as a sophomore looking to make a mark on campus away from the shadow of her superstar big brother, Luca (Sabbat).
Tara Raani, Justine Skye, Amelie Zilber, Ceyair Wright, Matthew Sato and Slick Woods also star in the new season.
The second half of Grown-ish season 5 will premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 10:30 p.m.
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The East vs. West beef is long over and now that it’s been all love between the two coasts. Dr. Dre and Sean “Diddy” Combs have at last linked up in the studio together and we have the pics to prove it.
Recently the two Hip-Hop icons linked up for a studio session as Dr. Dre works with Snoop Dogg on their new album. Reportedly, Dre helped walk Diddy through his vocals for the upcoming project. Taking to Instagram to reveal that he was indeed working with The Chronic icon, P. Diddy expressed his love and gratitude for having the opportunity to work with Dr. Dre and wrote as much in the caption.
“Yesterday, one of my biggest dreams finally came true. I remember the first time I heard @DrDre’s production. It gave me clear direction on the level of Producer that I wanted to be. Last night, I got the chance to work with this man and to see his genius as he coached me through vocals. He reminded me of myself, but with a different style and way more focused. I gotta step my focus up! lol But it was a great experience and I thank God for it. I hope one day ya’ll get to have the same experience with someone that you always looked up to as a hero.”
Too bad this didn’t happen in ’95 or ’96. Just sayin.’
Still, it’s dope to see two legends like this getting together for another icon’s project. Gotta love how they’re officially on their grown man ish. Who knows, maybe they’ll come to an agreement on a Verzuz battle in the future. You never know.
Check out more photo from the epic recording session in the gallery.
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GENEVA, July 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Association of Conference Interpreters celebrates the transformative power of multilingualism featuring high-level speakers from various sectors
Speak Your Truth: Empowering Through Interpreting is a global campaign featuring Amélie de Montchalin Permanent Representative of France to the OECD, Sim Ann Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Singapore, Gianrico Carofiglio Italian novelist and former magistrate, Craig Spence Chief Brand and Communications Officer at IPC and further people of influence, unveiling the remarkable value of multilingualism and interpreting services for businesses and societies at large.
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Brett Favre: Texts show former NFL QB wanted welfare funds for football facility
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - After Mississippi spent millions of dollars in welfare money on Brett Favre’s pet project, a university volleyball arena, the retired NFL quarterback tried two years later to get additional cash from the state’s welfare agency for another sports facility, new court documents show.
The governor at the time, Republican Phil Bryant, texted in 2019 with Favre, who wanted to build an indoor practice facility for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football team. Bryant told him federal money for children and low-income adults is "tightly controlled" and "improper use could result in violation of Federal Law."
Text messages between Bryant and Favre are in court documents filed Friday by Bryant’s lawyers, which seek to show the governor was willing to help Favre raise private money for the volleyball facility starting in 2017 and was unaware for more than two years that welfare money was going to the project.
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Mississippi’s largest-ever public corruption case has ensnared several people, including a pro wrestler whose drug rehab was funded with welfare money.
The state has filed a civil lawsuit against Favre and others to recover more than $20 million in misspent welfare money intended to help needy people in one of the country's poorest states. Bryant and Favre are not facing criminal charges, and Bryant is not among those named in the state’s civil lawsuit.
A former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, John Davis, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal and state felony charges in a conspiracy to misspend welfare money. Davis was appointed by Bryant in February 2016 and fired by him in July 2019. Davis has agreed to testify against others.
Attorneys for a nonprofit organization being sued, Mississippi Community Education Center, sent a subpoena to Bryant in late July, seeking communication between the former governor and any other person about the volleyball arena.
The nonprofit was run by Nancy New and her son, Zachary New, who in April pleaded guilty to state charges of misusing welfare money. They also agreed to testify against others.
In the court filing Friday, Bryant objected to producing documents unless it was under a protective order to prevent public release of the contents.
"This motion was brought in bad faith and solely to annoy, embarrass, and oppress Governor Bryant because he refused to turn a blind eye to the crimes perpetrated by New and Davis," Bryant's attorneys wrote.
Favre's request for money from the Mississippi Department of Humans Services to fund the football facility went nowhere. Favre made the request July 28, 2019, as he was unsuccessfully trying to recruit the son of another retired NFL player, Deion Sanders, to the university in Hattiesburg.
Favre played football at the University of Southern Mississippi before going to the NFL in 1991. Bryant and New are also alumni, and Favre wrote to Bryant that having an indoor practice facility would give the football program "instant credibility."
Favre’s daughter started playing volleyball at the university in 2017. The new court papers said Bryant first learned Favre was trying to raise money for a volleyball arena on April 20, 2017, when Favre texted the governor to say he and his wife, Deanna, were building the facility.
"I need your influence somehow to get donations and or sponsorships," Favre texted Bryant. "Obviously Southern has no money so I’m hustling to get it raised."
The documents said Bryant replied a few hours later, "Of course I am all in on the Volleyball facility. ... One thing I know how to do is raise money.'"
In July 2017, Favre texted Bryant about the volleyball facility again, asking "if we can find a contractor that would say hey rather than give you money I’ll build for free!! Maybe you know of someone."
Bryant replied he was "all over it."
"It is important to note that, in these early text messages, Favre never mentioned the use of public funds, much less the use of TANF funds for the construction of the facility," Bryant's attorneys wrote Friday. "At this time, the discussions between Favre and Governor Bryant were focused on private donations and corporate sponsorships."
In July 2017, court records show Davis and Nancy New met about using welfare money to fund the volleyball arena, with Davis committing $4 million. New's nonprofit later paid Favre $1.1 million for speaking engagements to help him pay for the arena. Favre never made the speeches and later repaid the money, although he has not repaid $228,000 in interest.
Bryant's attorneys wrote that the governor first learned Human Services was involved with funding the volleyball arena in a text message he received from Favre on July 16, 2019. "I want you to know how much I love Nancy New and John Davis," Favre wrote. "What they have done for me and Southern Miss is amazing."
Favre wrote there were plans to do workshops and youth clinics in the volleyball facility with a program run by Nancy New.
"And also I paid for 3/4 of Vball facility and the rest was a joint project with her and John which was saving me 1.8 million," Favre texted Bryant. "I was informed today that she may not be able to fund her part. I and we need your help very badly Governor and sorry to even bring this up."
Bryant’s attorneys wrote that "Favre began a campaign to aggressively lobby the governor to help him cover the debt on the USM Volleyball Center." They also wrote Favre had not paid for three-quarters of the construction costs, and Human Services committed more than $1.8 million to the project.
According to Friday's court documents, Bryant and Favre met Sept. 4, 2019, with the new Department of Human Services director, retired FBI agent Christopher Freeze. Favre texted Bryant after the meeting: "We obviously need your help big time and time is working against us." Favre also mentioned the volleyball facility could be named for Bryant, who was in his final months as governor.
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Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Secret Service for erased texts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack subpoenaed the Secret Service on Friday night for text messages agents reportedly deleted around Jan. 6, 2021.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement that the committee is seeking “the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021.”
The subpoenas come hours after the nine-member panel received a closed briefing from the watchdog for Department of Homeland Security. The committee had originally sought the electronic records in mid-January and made an official request in March for all communications received or sent from DHS employees between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security on Friday briefed all nine members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack about his finding that the Secret Service deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
While lawmakers were tight-lipped about what they heard, the closed-door briefing with the inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, came two days after his office sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees stating that Secret Service agents erased messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 “as part of a device-replacement program.” The deletion came after the watchdog office requested records from the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack, the letter said.
For the Jan. 6 panel, the watchdog’s finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Donald Trump’s actions during the insurrection.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the House Jan. 6 panel, told the Associated Press on Friday that the committee is taking a deeper look at whether records may have been lost. “There have been some conflicting positions on the matter,” the Mississippi lawmaker said.
The private briefing was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss it.
The Secret Service insists proper procedures were followed. Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, “The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. In fact, the Secret Service has been fully cooperating with the OIG in every respect — whether it be interviews, documents, emails, or texts.”
He said the Secret Service had started to reset its mobile devices to factory settings in January 2021 “as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration.” In that process, some data was lost.
The inspector general has first requested the electronic communications on Feb. 26, “after the migration was well under way,” Guglielmi said.
The Secret Service said it has provided a substantial number of emails and chat messages that included conversations and details related to Jan. 6 to the inspector general. It also said text messages from the Capitol Police requesting assistance on Jan. 6 were preserved and provided to the inspector general’s office.
The Senate Homeland committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, is also expecting a briefing from the inspector general about the letter, according to a person familiar with the committee’s discussions who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.
The Jan. 6 committee has taken a renewed interest in the Secret Service following the dramatic testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who recalled what she heard about former President Donald Trump’s actions the day of the insurrection.
Hutchinson recalled being told about a confrontation between Trump and his Secret Service detail as he angrily demanded to be driven to the Capitol, where his supporters would later breach the building. She also recalled overhearing Trump telling security officials to remove magnetometers for his rally on the Ellipse even though some of his supporters were armed.
Some details of that account were quickly disputed by those agents. Robert Engel, the agent who was driving the presidential SUV, and Trump security official Tony Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
With evidence still emerging, the House Jan. 6 committee on Friday officials scheduled its next hearing to take place Thursday in primetime. The 8 p.m. hearing, which is the eighth in a series that began in early June, will take a deeper look into the three-hour-plus stretch when Trump failed to act as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
It will be the first hearing in prime time since June 9, the first on the committee’s findings. It was viewed by 20 million people.
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Associated Press writer Gary Fields contributed.
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Russell Banks, the prolific author of more than a dozen novels including “Cloudsplitter” and “Affliction,” died at age 82, his editor said.
His death in upstate New York on Saturday followed a battle with cancer, according to editor Dan Halpern.
Known for penning stories about regular people and those attempting to overcome hardship, Banks was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1986 for “Continental Drift,” a novel about two brothers whose seemingly opposite lives aren’t so different.
Born in Newton, Mass., he was raised in Barnstead, N.H.
Banks was a Pulitzer finalist again in 1999 for “Cloudsplitter” about abolitionist John Brown’s fight against slavery.
“Very sad news that a great American writer, Russell Banks, beloved friend of so many, passed away peacefully last night in his home in upstate NY,” fellow author Joyce Carol Oates tweeted Sunday. “I loved Russell & loved his tremendous talent & magnanimous heart. ‘Cloudsplitter’ — his masterpiece. but all his work is exceptional.”
Banks’ 1989 novel “Affliction” centering on a New Hampshire cop was adapted into a 1997 movie, for which James Coburn won an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Another Banks novel, 1991’s “The Sweet Hereafter” about a deadly school-bus accident rocking a small town, was also turned into a 1997 film. That movie received two Oscar nominations and won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first weeks of 2023 will be crucial for Southwest U.S. states and water entities to agree how to use less water from the drought-stricken and fast-shrinking Colorado River, a top federal water manager said Friday.
“The coming three months are absolutely critical,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau told the Colorado River Users Association conferees ending three-day annual meetings in Las Vegas.
“To be clear, the challenge is extraordinary,” Beaudreau said of a withering two-decade Western drought that scientists now attribute to long-term, human-caused climate change. “The science tells us it’s our new reality.”
Beaudreau closed the conference with a call for water managers, administrators and individuals throughout the West “to develop solutions to help us all address the crisis.”
The first deadline is next Tuesday, when the federal Bureau of Reclamation finishes taking public comment on an effort expected to yield a plan by summer about how to use at least 15% less river water split among recipients in seven Western U.S. states, 30 Native American tribes and Mexico.
States have until the end of January to come to an agreement. A preliminary report is expected in the spring.
At stake is drinking water for 40 million people; hydroelectric power for regional markets; and irrigation for farmers tilling millions of acres of former desert, producing most of the nation’s winter vegetables.
Options range from voluntary agreements among competing interests to use less, to draconian top-down federal cuts in water deliveries — perhaps affecting cities including Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego.
The problem was demonstrated again and again since Wednesday in new data and charts at workshops and panels: Less water flows into the river in the so-called Upper Basin states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming than is drawn from it by the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada.
The states share water under an interstate agreement reached 100 years ago that overestimated the amount of water the basin receives annually, mostly through snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains.
In recent years, as drought has progressed, interim agreements for Lower Basin states to share cutbacks have been enacted. Arizona farmers have been the most affected.
But unrelenting drought has dropped the river’s largest reservoirs to unprecedented low levels. Combined, Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona state line and Lake Powell formed by Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah line were at 92% capacity in 1999. Today, they are at 26%.
River water managers at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation warn that the surface level of Lake Powell could drop so low in the next few months that intakes to hydropower turbines at Glen Canyon Dam could go dry.
The words “dead pool” surfaced this week as officials described the possibility that lake levels could shrink so much that neither dam would be able to release water downstream.
Questions surfaced while ideas were floated including lining and covering canals — along with a call from the Las Vegas-area's top water manager for at least an accounting of how much water is lost to seepage and evaporation.
Most discussions, however, focused on conservation to keep water levels up at the two reservoirs.
Last month, 30 agencies that supply water to homes and businesses throughout the region joined the Las Vegas area in restricting decorative lawns that no one walks on.
This week, Upper Basin states announced a program to pay farmers to fallow fields so they would need less water.
“I can feel the anxiety and the uncertainty in this room, and in the basin, as we look at the river and the hydrology that we face,” said Camille Touton, the Bureau of Reclamation commissioner with the power to act if water users don't.
“If a solution is not developed by the basin, Commissioner Touton will figure it out for us,” said U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona and a former astronaut who spoke fondly Friday of his view from space of the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon.
Delegates from Mexico and the International Boundary and Water Commission also were among speakers at the conference-closing at the Caesars Palace resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
“There are a lot of questions; the what, the how,” Touton said, before ending — using Spanish and then English — with encouragement to, “let’s get this done together.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Conferees-told-Colorado-River-action-absolutely-17660165.php | 2022-12-17 02:35:56 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Conferees-told-Colorado-River-action-absolutely-17660165.php |
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Stillman College's first female president, Cynthia Warrick, has announced plans to retire after leading the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based historically Black college for five years.
Stillman’s Board of Trustees has launched a national search for Warrick’s replacement. The college plans to find her successor by the June 30, 2023, end of Warrick’s contract.
Warrick, 68, said she is choosing to retire because she wants to relax and spend more time with family, especially her grandchildren. She plans to return to her hometown of San Antonio.
Warrick was named Stillman's seventh president in April 2017. She was originally appointed as an interim president but said the role began to feel like a mission she was called to fulfill, The Tuscaloosa News reported.
“I ... didn’t expect to be here this long," Warrick said during a news conference to announce her plans. “But you know, the job called me, God called me and we were able to accomplish miracles. Believe me, we were able to accomplish a lot in a short period of time ... I’m ready to pass the torch on to the next person to take up the race.”
When she arrived, Stillman was at a critical point financially and academically, Warrick said.
“I was tasked with a real challenge, and my husband’s a finance guy and he said, ‘You’ll be home in three months.’ It was just that bad,” Warrick said. “But I figured God didn’t send me here to close the college down. And we were going to do what we had to do, to make sure that the college was going to be strong again and flourish. And now, after five and a half years, we’re there.”
According to a news release, Warrick is leaving Stillman debt-free after $40 million in debt has been either paid off or forgiven.
“The college has gone through some very rocky times and she has been the anchor that has kept us on track. She has raised the brand of the institution and enhanced the college’s reputation,” said Donald Comer, chair of the school's board.
The school was founded in 1876 and is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA. Warrick, who previously served as interim president at South Carolina State University and Grambling State University, said she will continue to play a role at Stillman after her departure.
“I will cherish the outpouring of support from the local community, the state and the alumni that has contributed to the success that we have achieved during my tenure,” Warrick said. “Stillman is now a place where a new president can build on the teaching, research and the community service that we established in the past five years.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/1st-female-president-at-Alabama-s-Stillman-17448637.php | 2022-09-17 18:21:45 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/1st-female-president-at-Alabama-s-Stillman-17448637.php |
Twins place Kepler on IL with left hamstring strain, recall Larnach
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins announced Saturday that outfielder Max Kepler was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain. Outfielder Trevor Larnach was recalled from Triple-A St. Paul to take Kepler’s place on the roster.
Kepler left Thursday’s game with what was called a cramp. He pinch hit in Friday’s series opener against the Cubs.
“We were hoping Kep obviously wouldn’t need to go on the IL,” said Twins manager Rocco Baldelli. “He got an MRI and the MRI seems OK. But he’s still pretty tight, and we don’t think he’s going to be able to play for a handful of days.”
Kepler is batting .212 with six home runs and 14 RBIs in 28 games this season.
In 31 games with Minnesota this year, Larnach hit .221 with three homers and 19 RBIs. He was optioned to St. Paul back on May 5. He was in the lineup Saturday for the Twins, batting fifth.
Larnach said he was on his way to the Saints stadium in St. Paul when he got a call that he was heading back to the majors, so he instead drove to Target Field in Minneapolis.
“(You) roll with the punches, whether you break with the team or you don’t, you get called up, you get called down,” Larnach said before Saturday’s game. “You can’t take it too personally. It’s baseball.”
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MONDAY: Expect plenty of sunshine and no rain into Monday. Afternoon highs reach 92. Wind: NW at 8-12 mph.
MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Few showers in southwest Arkansas. Lows in the upper 60s to near 70. Wind: N at 4-8 mph.
Be alerted as soon as severe weather coverage begins by downloading the Arkansas Storm Team app from the App Store or on Google Play. | https://www.fox16.com/weather/weather-forecasts/arkansas-storm-team-weather-forecast-hot-sunny-and-rain-free-for-juneteenth/ | 2023-06-19 15:23:46 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/weather/weather-forecasts/arkansas-storm-team-weather-forecast-hot-sunny-and-rain-free-for-juneteenth/ |
Nearly 30,000 pounds of sanitary pads, tampons, food boxes and hygiene supplies will be distributed in Selma tomorrow to help people impacted by the tornado that hit last month.
Women in Training, a non-profit organization founded by Brooke and Breanna Bennett - high school students in Montgomery who work to end period poverty in Alabama, -- will distribute items at Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1431 Broad St. in Selma.
All of the supplies, which include non-perishable food boxes, diapers, pads and tampons, soap, shampoo, toilet paper, toothpaste and deodorant, were donated to Women in Training by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
People can pick up food and supplies at Tabernacle Baptist starting at noon Thursday, Feb. 2.
Organizers of the event estimate that there will be enough supplies to serve 672 households.
22 Alabamians who made a difference in 2022: Brooke and Breanna Bennett fight to end period poverty.
The Bennetts say they were inspired to do recovery outreach because of their own experience with a tornado that tore the roof off of their apartment complex, forcing them to seek help from community members.
“When we heard about this tornado that really hit Alabama, we felt this very, very personal connection, and we kind of related firsthand to what the people who were affected by this tornado were going through so that kind of like motivated us to help with disaster relief,” said Breanna.
The Bennetts hope to continue outreach efforts and focus on all the communities affected, including Coosa and Autauga counties and Flatwood.
They held an outreach event along with Selma, Education Literacy Math & Arts (S.E.L.M.A.) last week to distribute WITKITS, which include hygiene supplies, at Selma High School.
“We hope that we can reach these people and give them the products that they need and the food items that they need because disasters don’t stop periods,” said Brooke. | https://www.al.com/educationlab/2023/02/alabama-students-organize-supply-drive-for-selma-how-to-get-food-hygiene-items.html | 2023-02-01 18:34:08 | 1 | https://www.al.com/educationlab/2023/02/alabama-students-organize-supply-drive-for-selma-how-to-get-food-hygiene-items.html |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-1-9
(two, one, nine)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-1-9
(two, one, nine) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17708417.php | 2023-01-10 20:43:26 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17708417.php |
LOS ANGELES — Several A-list celebrities have teamed up to help children from under-served communities in Los Angeles break into the business.
George Clooney and Don Cheadle were among those that came out to celebrate the opening of the Edward R. Roybal Film And Television Magnet School, ABC affiliate KABC-TV reported.
The school will train Los Angeles Unified School District students for behind-the-line jobs in the entertainment industry, Deadline reported.
The school opened in August, the media outlets reported.
"You could study acting for 40 years and spend a fortune and never get a job, right? It's luck when you get a job. Below the line, learning about editing, learning about cinematography, learning about visual effects, you learn that lesson, you can get that job," Clooney said to CBS affiliate KCBS-TV.
Clooney, Cheadle, and Mindy Kaling are among the star-studded school advisory board, which also includes Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria, KCBS-TV reported. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/clooney-cheadle-among-a-list-celebs-opening-film-school-in-los-angeles | 2022-09-15 16:03:06 | 0 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/clooney-cheadle-among-a-list-celebs-opening-film-school-in-los-angeles |
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — The Walt Disney Company announced late Sunday that former CEO Bob Iger would return to head the company for two years in a move that surprised the entertainment industry.
Disney said Bob Chapek, who succeeded Iger in 2020, had stepped down from the position.
“The Board has concluded that as Disney embarks on an increasingly complex period of industry transformation, Bob Iger is uniquely situated to lead the Company through this pivotal period,” board Chair Susan Arnold said in a statement from Disney.
Arnold thanked Chapek for his service, including his time during “the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic.”
Iger steered Disney through its absorption of Lucasfilm, Pixar, Marvel and Fox’s entertainment businesses and the launch of Disney Plus.
Earlier this month, Disney posted lower than expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter.
Iger led Disney for 15 years before stepping down in 2020. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/disney-announces-ex-ceo-bob-iger-to-return-for-2-years/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-11-21 04:36:01 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/disney-announces-ex-ceo-bob-iger-to-return-for-2-years/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
NEW YORK (AP) — With thunderstorms blanketing the Northeast again, the Seattle Storm had to alter their travel plans to get from New York to Washington for their game against the Mystics on Tuesday.
Seattle was originally planning to fly to Washington on Sunday, but when their operations staff got to the airport ahead of the rest of the team they heard their flight was canceled because of incoming storms in the area.
The next direct flight out they could get that would be able to accommodate their 24-person travel party was Wednesday — a day after the game. There were also limited seats available on Amtrak trains to Washington with it being the end of a holiday week.
After checking with the bus company that the driver would be allowed to take the team to Washington, the Storm picked up their staff at LaGuardia Airport and headed south for the drive to D.C. A flight to Washington usually takes about an hour.
The Storm got into D.C. shortly before 6 p.m., after a brief stop for lunch at a rest area in Delaware.
It already had been a busy travel week for the Storm. They flew into Boston from Seattle on Tuesday and drove the two hours to Mohegan Sun. Seattle practiced Wednesday and then played Connecticut on Thursday.
After losing by 20 points to the Sun, the team made the three-plus hour drive on Friday to New York to get ready for their game against the Liberty. The Storm were more competitive in that game, falling to New York 80-76 Saturday afternoon.
Seattle plays in Washington and then has a charter flight to Atlanta on Wednesday for the team’s only back-to-back games this season. The WNBA has added charter flights for teams this year for the second half of back-to-back trips. Teams fly commercially. for other games. The league has said it would cost about $2 million per team to charter for the entire season.
Washington lost at Connecticut on Sunday and its flight home according to a team official was still listed as being on time.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Kristi Noem is expanding the state National Guard's mission to assist both the Oglala Sioux and the Rosebud Sioux Tribes with firewood and snow removal amid the relentless wind and life-threatening cold that have crippled their reservations in the southwestern corner of South Dakota.
Noem announced the deployment to haul firewood from the Black Hills Forest Service to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe late Thursday, and on Friday she said the Guard would assist the Oglala Sioux Tribe as well.
The Republican governor has had an often uneasy relationship with the tribes, and the cooperation to deploy the National Guard underscored the desperate situation in western South Dakota. Tribal officials say snow drifts have formed as high as 10 feet (3 meters), blocking roads and stranding families with dwindling supplies for heating and food.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe was using snowmobiles and other tracked vehicles to reach people, but said they are facing breakdowns and limited resources. Officials were considering using horses to deliver essentials to some homes on Friday.
“A lot of our membership lives in rural areas — getting to them has been a challenge,” tribal President Frank Star Comes Out said. “They run out of fuel, propane, they run out of wood, we even had power outages.”
Wayne Boyd, chief of staff to the Rosebud Sioux president, said that tribe was looking into reports of deaths. During the storm last week, a 12-year-old with a medical condition died after medical responders couldn’t reach the home, Boyd said.
“We have families that are way out there that we haven’t heard from in two weeks,” Boyd said, adding that the tribe was hoping to get a helicopter on Saturday to check on stranded families.
“People are running out of food, houses are freezing up,” he said. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/South-Dakota-governor-expands-National-Guard-help-17674767.php | 2022-12-23 22:54:30 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/South-Dakota-governor-expands-National-Guard-help-17674767.php |
Georgia Democrat Mesha Mainor, at odds with her party, switches to Republicans
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state legislator from Atlanta switched to the Republican Party on Tuesday, after being at odds with Democrats for reasons including her support for school vouchers and disciplining prosecutors.
Rep. Mesha Mainor becomes the only Black member of the GOP among Georgia’s 236 state lawmakers, and the first Black Republican woman to ever serve in the Georgia General Assembly. Mainor’s defection gives Republicans a 102-78 edge in the House.
Mainor said legislative Democrats drove her out of the party for breaking party orthodoxy, claiming at a Tuesday news conference outside the Georgia Capitol that they had “relentlessly tried to sabotage every single thing that I have done for District 56” and “publicly slandered me in every way imaginable.”
“I thought it was OK to not agree with those things as a Democrat. But they told me, ‘You know what, those are values we just don’t have,’” Mainor said, flanked by state Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon.
But she had long been on the outs as part of a minority faction of Atlanta-area Democrats and for deeply personal reasons revolving around a stalking incident where Mainor felt her stalker got off too easy.
The tension between Mainor and other Democrats burst into the open earlier this year after Mainor became the only Democrat to vote for a school voucher bill that failed after a number of House Republicans broke ranks to oppose it. School choice has always had some support among urban Black Democrats, but Mainor’s fellow party members reacted with scorn even as Republicans rallied to Mainor’s support. State Sen. Josh McLaurin, an Atlanta Democrat, posted a picture of a $1,000 check online for a primary challenger, writing “All I need is a name.”
Mainor, first elected in 2020, represents House District 56, an ultra-Democratic swath of Atlanta including its Midtown neighborhood and close-in parts of the city’s west side. She had said earlier that she wouldn’t switch parties. Tuesday, though, she urged other lifelong Democrats to reexamine the party’s values.
“I am encouraging more Black Americans and Black Democrats in particular – you might have this coat on, but I suggest you look at the lining. See what’s on the inside,” she said.
McKoon welcomed Mainor, saying her move shows that the Republican Party is “where diversity of opinion is welcome, where different ideas, talking about different policy ideas and solutions together is a strength, not a weakness.”
“We can disagree but still come together on things that matter the most to us,” McKoon said, pledging to support Mainor’s reelection bid.
U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, lambasted Mainor’s switch as a “stinging betrayal” of her Democratic constituents.
“House District 56 deserves a representative who will do the job they were elected to do, including fight for high-quality public education,” Williams said in a statement.
House Speaker Jon Burns, a Republican from Newington, said in a statement that Mainor is “joining the party of opportunity.”
Mainor’s decision and some of her legislative actions are also driven by a much more personal dispute. She sued Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr., Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county in federal court in 2022, alleging that they had violated her civil rights in a case where a former campaign worker had stalked her.
Willis claimed Arrington, who was the man’s defense attorney, improperly used his position as a commissioner to get a favorable plea deal for the stalker. Mainor also alleged Willis didn’t adequately investigate the crime before offering the plea deal. U.S. District Judge Sarah Geraghty dismissed the case in March, ruling that the alleged actions couldn’t constitute a civil rights violation even if she accepted all of Mainor’s claims.
The last legislative Democrat in Georgia to switch to the Republican Party was DeKalb County’s Vernon Jones, who plunged into the GOP in January 2021 as a supporter of then-President Donald Trump, at the end of Jones’ last term in the state House. Jones abandoned a Republican primary challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp at Trump’s behest and then lost a Republican congressional primary runoff in Georgia’s 10th District to current U.S. Rep. Mike Collins despite Trump’s backing.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was found guilty Thursday of five counts of sexually abusing female patients, in a criminal case that came after the university system made nearly $700 million in lawsuit payouts.
The Los Angeles jury found Dr. James Heaps, a longtime UCLA campus gynecologist, not guilty of seven of the 21 counts and were deadlocked on the remaining charges.
In the wake of the scandal that erupted in 2019 following the doctor’s arrest, UCLA agreed to pay nearly $700 million in lawsuit settlements to hundreds of Heaps’ patients — a record amount by a public university amid a wave of sexual misconduct scandals by campus doctors in recent years.
Heaps, 65, had pleaded not guilty to 21 felony counts in the sexual assaults of seven women between 2009 and 2018. He has denied wrongdoing.
Heaps was indicted last year on multiple counts each of sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation of a patient and sexual penetration of an unconscious person by fraudulent representation.
The jury delivered a guilty verdict on three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person. He was found not guilty of seven other counts of sexual battery and penetration, as well as one count of sexual exploitation. The jury was hung on the nine remaining counts, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial for those charges.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 17.
The district attorney’s office said it has not decided whether prosecutors will retry the hung counts.
“The trauma Dr. Heaps inflicted on the very people he had sworn to care for is immeasurable.” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. “While we respect the jurors’ decisions on the acquitted counts, we are obviously disappointed.”
Heaps’ attorney did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.
“The horrible abuse he perpetrated on cancer patients and others who trusted him as their doctor has been exposed and justice was done,” attorney John Manly, who represented more than 200 women in civil cases against Heaps and UCLA, said in a statement after the verdict.
Sex abuse by doctors on college campuses has led to massive settlements at Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.
UCLA’s payouts exceed a $500 million settlement by Michigan State University in 2018 that was considered the largest by a public university. The University of Southern California, a private institution, has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle thousands of cases against the school’s longtime gynecologist, who still faces a criminal trial in Los Angeles.
UCLA patients said Heaps groped them, made suggestive comments or conducted unnecessarily invasive exams during his 35-year career. Women who brought the lawsuits said the university ignored their complaints and deliberately concealed abuse that happened for decades during examinations at the UCLA student health center, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center or in Heaps’ campus office.
UCLA acknowledged it received a sex abuse complaint against Heaps from a patient in December 2017 and it launched an investigation the following month that concluded she was sexually assaulted and harassed, attorneys said.
Heaps, however, continued to practice until his retirement in June 2018. The university did not release its finding in the investigation until November 2019 — months after Heaps was arrested.
“UCLA Health is grateful for the patients who came forward,” the university said in a statement after the verdict. “Sexual misconduct of any kind is reprehensible and intolerable. Our overriding priority is providing the highest quality care while ensuring that patients feel safe, protected and respected.” | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/ap-ex-ucla-gynecologist-found-guilty-in-la-sex-abuse-case/ | 2022-10-21 17:54:59 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/ap-ex-ucla-gynecologist-found-guilty-in-la-sex-abuse-case/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies was convicted Wednesday after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was accused of funneling money from a now-fugitive Malaysian financer through straw donors to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, then trying to squelch a Justice Department investigation and influence an extradition case on behalf of China under the Trump administration.
A jury in Washington, D.C., federal court found him guilty of all 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
The defense argued the Grammy-winning rapper from the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees simply wanted to make money and got bad legal advice as he reinvented himself in the world of politics.
Michel declined to comment after the verdict, but his attorney said he’s “extremely disappointed” in the outcome of the case and plans to appeal.
“This is not over,” attorney David Kenner said. “I remain very, very confident we will ultimately prevail.”
Michel first met Malaysian financer Low Taek Jho in 2006, when the businessman usually known as Jho Low was dropping huge sums of money and hobnobbing with the likes of Paris Hilton. Low helped finance Hollywood films, including “The Wolf of Wall Street.” DiCaprio testified Low had appeared to him as a legitimate businessman and had mentioned wanting to donate to Obama’s campaign.
Michel also testified in his own defense. He said Low wanted a picture with Obama in 2012 and was willing to pay millions of dollars to get it. Michel agreed to help and used some of the money he got to pay for friends to attend fundraising events. No one had ever told him that was illegal, he said.
Prosecutors said Michel was donating the money on Low’s behalf, and later tried to lean on the straw donors with texts from burner phones to keep them from talking to investigators.
After the election of Donald Trump, prosecutors say Michel again took millions to halt an investigation into allegations Low masterminded a money laundering and bribery scheme that pilfered billions from the Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB. Low is now an international fugitive and has maintained his innocence.
Michel also got paid to try and persuade the U.S. to extradite back to China a government critic suspected of crimes there without registering as a foreign agent, prosecutors said.
On that charge, the defense pointed to testimony from Sessions, who was Trump’s top law enforcement officer until he resigned in 2018. Sessions said he’d been aware the Chinese government wanted the extradition but didn’t know Michel. The rapper’s ultimately futile efforts to arrange a meeting on the topic didn’t seem improper, the former attorney general said. | https://wgntv.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/fugees-rapper-pras-found-guilty-in-political-conspiracy/ | 2023-04-27 05:32:30 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/fugees-rapper-pras-found-guilty-in-political-conspiracy/ |
Toyota is recalling certain 2021 RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrids to address an issue that could cause vehicles to stall in cold weather.
The affected vehicles have hybrid-system software that could trigger a shutdown of the powertrain while driving in EV mode in cold temperatures “if the accelerator is rapidly pressed to further accelerate the vehicle,” according to a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). However, that’s dependent on “the battery parameters and the vehicle operating mode at the time,” the report said.
The recall encompasses 16,679 vehicles, but not all were sold in the U.S., the NHTSA noted. The recall population is based on a production period range during which the software in question was installed.
So while this issue appears to apply to a very specific set of conditions and vehicles, Toyota is being cautious. Dealers will install updated software free of charge. Starting February 27, Toyota expects to begin mailing letters detailing when to set up appointments.
While this remedy does require a dealership visit, over-the-air updates have the potential of updating such software-based issues without a trip to the dealership, as demonstrated by other brands like Polestar and Volvo, which used them to resolve a 2021 propulsion system recall. The RAV4 Prime isn’t capable of over-the-air updates, though.
The 2021 model year was the first for the RAV4 Prime, which boasts an impressive EPA-rated 42 miles of electric range and 38 mpg in hybrid mode, plus a charge mode that can actually help boost mpg. Strong demand and limited production mean it’s been flying off dealer lots since it arrived.
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The line that will be remembered long after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union came in the Republican response, when Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: “The dividing line in America is no longer between right and left — it’s between normal and crazy.”
Trouble is, as with so much in our divided nation, what is normal and what is crazy is entirely subjective.
For millions of Americans watching the annual State of the Union speech in the halls of Congress, observing some Republicans heckle the president was far from normal.
Delivering a report on the state of the nation is called for in the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 3, which states: “He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
The “time to time” has become an annual speech — George Washington and John Adams personally addressed Congress, but Thomas Jefferson sent a written report, which subsequent presidents continued doing. Since the 1930s, though, the State of the Union address generally has been in person, evolving into the modern spectacle of a prime time address.
For a sitting president, especially one likely to run for reelection, it’s a singular opportunity to address a big audience and stump for his policies and platform.
But until recent years, if the members of an opposing party didn’t offer a president standing ovations, they at least didn’t boo or heckle. No more. In Joe Biden’s speech Tuesday, members of the GOP booed, shouted “liar” and otherwise behaved more like the British Parliament during a question period or the University of Georgia student section in a college football game against LSU.
The heckling was hardly “normal,” but Biden took on the combative crowd and emerged a winner. A CNN flash poll showed 72% of people who saw the speech had a positive reaction — good news for a president whose sluggish approval ratings are around 41%.
The most important exchange in the speech came in a passage about Medicare and Social Security, when the president said some Republicans wanted to cut or end these essential programs, perhaps holding them hostage in the standoff over raising the country’s debt ceiling.
“Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage — I get it — unless I agree to their economic plans,” Biden said. “All of you at home should know what those plans are. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans — some Republicans — want Medicare and Social Security to sunset.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Medicare and Social Security are off the table in debt ceiling talks, so he immediately shook his head, mouthing “no.” Other Republicans in the chamber voiced their disagreement with Biden’s remarks as well.
This is where the GOP’s rude response turned into a trap. The president left behind prepared remarks to say he referred only to some, not all, Republicans. The buzz in the room continued, with inexplicable GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia standing to yell “liar” at the president. By the end of the exchange, Biden had almost the entire room — including McCarthy — standing in support of senior citizens and the programs that make their golden years safe and stable.
“So, folks, as we all apparently agree: Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right?” Biden said. As more Republicans began standing and clapping, the president quipped:
“All right,” Biden said. “We’ve got unanimity!”
That unanimity was momentary, of course, and the nation remains divided — normal versus crazy, in the words of Huckabee Sanders. And the biggest division? Just what constitutes normal. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/the-presidents-win-gop-stands-up-for-social-security/article_f0e998ee-a7e8-11ed-bf00-c3f2fa51f730.html | 2023-02-09 06:33:08 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/the-presidents-win-gop-stands-up-for-social-security/article_f0e998ee-a7e8-11ed-bf00-c3f2fa51f730.html |
People reported trapped after building collapses in Kano, Nigeria
Two-story building is reportedly a Beirut Road mobile phone market
An unknown amount of people are reportedly trapped in the rubble of a building that collapsed in Kano, Nigeria.
The two-story building is reportedly a Beirut Road mobile phone market.
"Rescue operations have begun by officials of the Kano State Fire Service, Federal Road Safety Corps, and the police," TVC News reports.
Witnesses on scene say people trapped inside cannot be rescued because there is no available equipment to do so.
ETHIOPIAN AIRSTRIKE HITS KINDERGARTEN IN TIGRAY REGION LEAVING SEVERAL DEAD, INCLUDING CHILDREN
An excavator is reportedly headed to the scene. So far three people have been pulled from the rubble and taken to the hospital, Daily Trust reports.
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Women and children are believed to be inside the building still.
One of the volunteers involved in the rescue operation told the Daily Trust that concerns about cracks in the building were previously brought up to the builders. | https://www.foxnews.com/world/people-reported-trapped-building-collapses-kano-nigeria | 2022-08-30 19:41:56 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/world/people-reported-trapped-building-collapses-kano-nigeria |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat who suffered a stroke during his campaign last year, was hospitalized Wednesday night after feeling lightheaded while attending a Senate Democratic retreat, his office said.
Initial tests at George Washington University Hospital did not show evidence of a new stroke, Fetterman's communications director, Joe Calvello, said in a statement issued Wednesday night. Doctors were running more tests and the senator remained at the hospital for observation, according to the statement.
“He is in good spirits and talking with his staff and family. We will provide more information when we have it,” Calvello said.
Fetterman, 53, succeeded Republican Sen. Pat Toomey after a hard-fought contest against Republican nominee Mehmet Oz. He defeated the celebrity heart surgeon by 5 percentage points and flipped a seat that was key to Democrats holding the Senate majority. More than $300 million was spent during the campaign, the most expensive for the Senate in 2022.
His campaign was derailed on May 13 when he suffered what he later called a near-fatal stroke. He refused to drop out and spent much of the remaining months of the campaign in recovery, refusing to release his medical records or allow his doctors to answer reporters' questions.
Oz made an issue of whether his opponent was honest about the effects of the stroke and whether Fetterman was fit to serve, but the Democrat insisted his doctors said he could have a full recovery.
In an Associated Press profile just weeks after his victory, Fetterman was described as still suffering from auditory processing disorder, a stroke’s common aftereffect. The disorder can leave a person unable to speak fluidly and quickly process spoken conversation into meaning.
The effects of the stroke were apparent in Fetterman's uneven performance during the fall campaign's only debate. He struggled to complete sentences and jumbled words, causing concern among Democrats that his election was doomed.
On election night, he told cheering supporters he ran for “anyone that ever got knocked down that got back up.”
Fetterman, a presence at 6-foot-8 with a clean-shave head and a goatee and known for wearing hoodies and shorts, was the state’s lieutenant governor from 2019-2023. He served as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, from 2006-2019. | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/sen-john-fetterman-hospitalized-after-feeling-17773238.php | 2023-02-09 06:45:27 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/politics/article/sen-john-fetterman-hospitalized-after-feeling-17773238.php |
A 2021 state law that banned class-action lawsuits against colleges and universities related to COVID-19 could be struck down by the Indiana Supreme Court.
The court heard a case Tuesday that stems from a student’s class-action against Ball State University, seeking a partial refund after in-person classes were canceled during the pandemic.
After the student’s lawsuit was filed, the legislature passed a law, HEA 1002-2021, banning class-action suits against higher education institutions related to COVID-19.
The trial court considering the student's case directed him to refile as an individual. The student then appealed, challenging the new law.
The argument boils down to this: is the 2021 statute banning class-action lawsuits predominantly substantive – that is, having to do with public policy – or is it predominantly procedural?
Attorney Colin Flora, representing the student, said the law fundamentally deals with court procedures – which is not the power of the legislature.
“The statute now is trying to say, ‘You students, who otherwise under contract law would be entitled to these refunds, we’re not going to give you a viable mechanism to recover your money," Flora said.
The Indiana Court of Appeals sided with the student, ruling the ban improperly interfered with court procedures.
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But attorney Brian Paul, representing Ball State, said the legislature was making a policy statement to provide schools with relief as they faced unprecedented challenges.
“The schools should not have to defend those claims while also facing the costs and pressures to settle that class-action litigation brings,” Paul said.
There is no timetable for the Indiana Supreme Court’s ruling.
The original issue in the case asks whether Ball State should reimburse students for on-campus essentials – like technology, health services, activities and transportation.
Justices asked Flora why the case needed to be a class action when the student could sue individually.
“The defense of Ball State is vigorous," Flora said. "If the amount at issue is at most a few thousand dollars, the court and the legislature have had to create small claims courts to even allow such cases to go forward at all, because it’s not viable for counsel to be retained, not viable for most litigants to put it forward.”
Paul, representing Ball State, said the university was trying to be nimble in an uncertain time.
“These schools had to do something in an instant they had never done before. That is to go completely online. They soldiered on, they provided the education that these students had paid for, and still they are being sued,” Paul said.
Indiana Public Radio's Stephanie Wiechmann contributed to this story.
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WEST CHESTER, Pa., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Venerable is pleased to welcome Ron Tanner to the role of Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, reporting to Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Tim Brown.
In his role, Tanner will support registered insurance product securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and the corporate secretary function. Additionally, Tanner will provide advice to the firm's corporate functions and compliance staff, and assist with post-acquisition business integrations and strategic initiatives.
Prior to joining Venerable, Tanner served as Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel for FS Investments where he led securities regulation, financial reporting, and corporate governance efforts in addition to orchestrating fund mergers, product development efforts, and preparation of securities documentation and corporate governance. Tanner spent the early part of his career as an associate with Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP, as well as Proskauer Rose LLP, performing a variety of assignments related to securities matters, agreement writing, negotiations, and other corporate related matters.
Tanner is admitted to the bar in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a certificate in business and public policy from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
"Ron is a fantastic addition to the Venerable legal team", said Brown. "His talent and expertise will directly impact Venerable's ability to execute on our growth objectives and the leadership team and I value the perspective and experience he brings to our organization."
Venerable is a privately held company with business operations based in West Chester, Pennsylvania and Des Moines, Iowa. Venerable owns and manages legacy variable annuity business acquired from other entities. Created by an investor group led by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Crestview Partners, Reverence Capital Partners, and Athene Holdings, Ltd., Venerable is a business with well-established, strategic investors, experienced in successfully building and growing insurance businesses with patient, long-term capital. For more information, please visit www.venerable.com.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – You wouldn’t think that a retail store manager would have to make a decision between recovering store property and keeping her job but that’s exactly what happened to a Big Lots manager in Oildale.
It was the afternoon of April 5, at the Big Lots store on Olive Drive, just east of the 99 freeway: A customer had loaded his shopping cart with 15 big orange jugs of Tide laundry detergent and headed straight out the door.
Two Big Lots managers followed him out – but not to try and detain him or even confront him.
They just wanted to get their shopping cart back after he was finished with it. A week later, they were both out of jobs.
Lily Oxford was the manager of the Big Lots furniture section.
“For Christmas, we had just got 40 brand new carts,” she said. “It’s March, we’re down to five carts. So, we are instructed, no carts are to leave that store whatsoever. No matter … customers are not allowed to take it. Nobody’s allowed to take them outside, so we follow them outside, we get the carts. So that was my goal to go outside. I didn’t think it was going to get anything back from them.”
Except the cart’s wheel locking mechanism kicked in just outside the front doors and the alleged thief had to drag the cart. Oxford and the other manager, who had been trailing far behind, unintentionally caught up as he was loading the stolen bottles into what was apparently a getaway car.
Oxford and the other manager took out their phones, and, from a distance of several feet, started recording the scene. That spooked the thief, who climbed out of the car and ran away.
The getaway driver was apologetic.
“The other guy got out of his car and said, ‘Here, ma’am, take it all, take it all,’” Oxford said. “I’m thinking, ‘Oh great, I’m getting all my stuff back.’”
By this time the store employees had an appreciative audience.
“I had people, at least three different people out here, applauding me, because it happens so much,” Oxford said. “So many customers see it happen on a daily basis. At least four to five times a day this happens whether they go out the front door or whether they go out the back door. … At least. Bare minimum.”
Not everyone cheers on these small triumphs of justice. A week later, both managers were unemployed.
Risk management consultant Mike Jelletich, who is not associated with either party in this case, said he sees both sides.
“Some of these employees,” Jelletich said, “they know what’s right and what’s wrong, and they feel, ‘Hey, this is wrong.’ And they think it’s almost their duty to step up and not let this kind of crap happen. However, from the employers’ standpoint, flat out they do not want this employee injured, god forbid killed. … The financial aspect of a person, a guard, a cashier, being injured can really, really get into the high dollar.”
According to Beatriz Trejo, a worker’s comp attorney with Chain Cohn Clark, under California law when an employee is injured on the job, the employer’s insurance carrier can be liable for workers’ compensation benefits such as medical treatment, temporary disability, permanent disability, and vocational retraining. The insurance carrier may be liable for benefits even if the injury arises out of the intentional act of a third party.
KGET reached out to Big Lots’ corporate office five times in eight days for comment on Big Lots’ general policy regarding these matters but received no response.
Meanwhile, the terminated Big Lots manager, a single mom with two teens, has established a GoFundMe account. Click here to visit the GoFundMe account.
While customers applaud some small semblance of justice, corporate America has other ideas about its priorities. | https://www.wfla.com/business/big-lots-manager-says-she-was-fired-for-following-shoplifter-out-of-store-to-get-cart-back/ | 2023-05-03 18:00:20 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/business/big-lots-manager-says-she-was-fired-for-following-shoplifter-out-of-store-to-get-cart-back/ |
In a year that reads like a textbook lesson on how the central bank does its thing — raising interest rates to put the brakes on inflation — a chart of home sales in 2022 would be Exhibit A.
“Interest rates went up and volume came down immediately,” says Thad Wong, co-CEO of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, by far the region's largest residential brokerage. "Everybody got hit." | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicagos-biggest-residential-brokerage-hit-home-sales-drop | 2023-03-30 18:27:53 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicagos-biggest-residential-brokerage-hit-home-sales-drop |
NEW YORK and LONDON, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eventus, a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, today received the award for Best Trade Surveillance Solution at the RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2022. The award is the second this month for the firm's Validus platform and recognizes the company's continued growth and expansion within the European region.
Presented at a luncheon ceremony in London, the award was determined by votes from throughout the capital markets community. RegTech Insight, an A-Team Group publication, said this year's awards had more entries and votes than ever before, following selection of the shortlist in each category by the editorial staff and advisory board.
Angela Wilbraham, CEO at A-Team Group, said: "Congratulations to Eventus for winning the 2022 RegTech Insight Award Europe for Best Trade Surveillance Solution. This year's RegTech Insight Europe awards have been extremely popular and competitive, highlighting established solution providers and innovative newcomers that help capital markets participants respond effectively and efficiently to evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements across the global financial services industry."
Eventus CEO Travis Schwab said: "We've been putting substantial resources into our expansion in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. It's a great honor to receive this recognition based on votes from capital markets participants who appreciate our high level of service, the expertise of our growing team and our proven ability to deliver for our clients."
Last fall, Eventus won the award for Best Trade Surveillance Solution in the RegTech Insight Awards APAC 2021, one of four awards the firm received in 2021 for its efforts in the Asia-Pacific region. Eventus has previously won two RegTech Insight awards for trade surveillance addressing U.S. regulations. Earlier this month, the company won the Markets Media Markets Choice Award for Best in RegTech for the third consecutive year.
The annual RegTech Insight Awards Europe recognize both established solution providers and innovative newcomers, seeking to herald and highlight regulatory technology solutions that throughout the year have successfully improved firms' ability to effectively respond to the evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements across the global financial services industry.
About Eventus
Eventus is a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions. Its powerful, award-winning Validus platform is easy to deploy, customize and operate across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income and digital asset markets. Validus is proven in the most complex, high-volume and real-time environments of tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading groups, market centers, buy-side institutions, energy and commodity trading firms, and regulators. The company's rapidly growing client base relies on Validus and Eventus' responsive support and product development teams to overcome its most pressing regulatory challenges. For more, visit www.eventus.com.
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio, Feb. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alan H. Shaw, president and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) visited the Village of East Palestine, Ohio today. Shaw met with community members, local leaders, and Norfolk Southern railroaders who call the area home. He also spent time with the crews working around-the-clock at the incident site. Shaw released the following statement after completing his second visit to the village in as many weeks:
"I returned to East Palestine today to meet with local leaders, first responders, and a group of Norfolk Southern employees who live in the area. I started the morning walking the derailment site to see our clean-up progress first-hand. We are working closely with Ohio environmental and health agencies on the long-term plan to protect the environment and the community. We are going to do the work thoroughly, completely, and safely.
"I also went to the home of one of our Norfolk Southern railroaders who lives in East Palestine, where I talked with a group of his friends and neighbors. I appreciated the chance to hear their concerns and I asked them how Norfolk Southern could help. They want to know we are going to do the right thing for their community, and I am determined to earn their trust.
"I had a series of meetings with Mayor Conaway and several community leaders, Congressman Bill Johnson, and Fire Chief Drabick, along with several of his first responders. They are frustrated by the amount of misinformation circulating about their community and are eager to show that the air and water are safe.
"In every conversation today, I shared how deeply sorry I am this happened to their home. We are going to do the right things to help East Palestine recover and thrive again."
About Norfolk Southern
Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.
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PORTACOMARO, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis made a rare personal getaway Saturday, returning to his father’s birthplace in northern Italy for the first time since ascending the papacy to celebrate the 90th birthday of a second cousin who long knew him as simply “Giorgio.”
Francis’ two-day visit to his ancestral homeland underscored some of the keystones of his papacy, including the importance of honoring the elderly and the human toll of migration. The private visit Saturday will be followed by public one Sunday to celebrate Mass for the local faithful, where Francis could well reflect on his family’s experience migrating to Argentina.
The pope’s father, Mario Jose Francisco Bergoglio, and his paternal grandparents arrived in Buenos Aires on Jan. 25, 1929 to reach other relatives who had joined the tail end of a mass decades-long emigration from Italy that the pope has honored with two recent saints: St. Giovanni Batista Scalabrini and St. Artedime Zatti.
The future pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was born nearly eight years later in Buenos Aires, after the elder Bergoglio met and married Regina Maria Sivori, whose family was also of Italian immigrant stock. Francis grew up speaking the Piedmont dialect of his paternal grandmother Rosa, who cared for him most days.
The elder Bergoglio was born in the town of Portacomaro, 10 kilometers (6 miles) east of Asti, an agricultural town that lost population not only to emigration abroad but also to nearby Turin as it became an industrial center.
Today, the town has 2,000 residents, but it numbered more than 2,700 a century ago, and dropped as low as 1,680 in the 1980s.
The pope’s family emigrated after the peak, which saw 14 million Italians leave from 1876 to 1915 — a movement that made Italy the biggest voluntary diaspora in the world, according to Lauren Braun-Strumfels, an associate professor of history at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Often citing his own family story, Francis, now 85, has made the welcoming and integration of migrants a hallmark of his papacy, often facing criticism as Europe in general, and Italy in particular, are consumed with the debate over how to manage 21st century mass migration.
The pope has recognized the historic significance of the emigrant experience with the recent canonizations of St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, an Italian bishop who founded an order to help Italian emigrants at the end of the 19th century, and Artemide Zatti, an Italian who emigrated to Argentina in the same period and dedicated his work to helping the sick.
He used the occasion to again denounce Europe’s indifference toward migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea and what they hope will be better futures.
Francis began his visit to Portacomaro on Saturday with lunch at the home of a cousin, Carla Rabezzana. Photographs released by the Vatican showed Francis clearly enjoying himself, hugging Rabezzana and sitting at the head of the table. He later visited another cousin nearby, stopping at a nursing home along the way to greet and bless the guests.
“We have known each other forever,’’ Rabezzana told the Corriere della Sera newspaper in the runup to the visit. “When I lived in Turin, Giorgio — I always called him that — came to stay because I had an extra room. That is how we maintained our relationship.
“We always would joke. When he told me he would come to celebrate my 90th birthday, I said it made my heart race. And in response I was told: ‘Try not to die.’ We burst out laughing.’’
The pope has many more third and fourth cousins still in the area.
“It was a large family, and in the area there are still many distant cousins,’’ said Carlo Cerrato a former mayor of Portacomaro. He said it was a “big surprise” for everyone in the town when Francis was elected pope nearly a decade ago.
“Everyone knew there was a prelate who had become the cardinal of Buenos Aires, but it was something that the relatives knew, not everyone in town,’’ Cerrato said.
After nearly 10 years as pope, Francis has yet to return to his own birthplace in Argentina . He hasn’t really explained his reasons for staying away. He recently confirmed that if he were to resign as pope, he wouldn’t go back to Buenos Aires to live but would remain in Rome.
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Barry reported from Milan. Nicole Winfield contributed from Rome. | https://www.wivb.com/news/ap-pope-heads-to-immigrant-fathers-hometown-for-birthday-party/ | 2022-11-19 19:12:37 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/ap-pope-heads-to-immigrant-fathers-hometown-for-birthday-party/ |
Serena Williams says she is ‘evolving away from tennis’
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests.
“I’m turning 41 this month, and something’s got to give,” Williams wrote in an essay released Tuesday by Vogue magazine.
Williams, one of the greatest and most accomplished athletes in the history of her — or any other — sport, said she does not like the word retirement and prefers to think of this stage of her life as “evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.”
Williams is playing this week in Toronto, at a hard-court tournament that leads into the U.S. Open, the year’s last Grand Slam event, which begins in New York on Aug. 29.
The American has won more Grand Slam singles titles in the professional era than any other woman or man. Only one player, Margaret Court, collected more, 24, although she won a portion of hers in the amateur era.
“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want that record. Obviously I do. But day to day, I’m really not thinking about her. If I’m in a Grand Slam final, then yes, I am thinking about that record,” Williams said. “Maybe I thought about it too much, and that didn’t help. The way I see it, I should have had 30-plus Grand Slams.”
But, Williams went on to write, “These days, if I have to choose between building my tennis resume and building my family, I choose the latter.”
She and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, have a daughter, Olympia, who turns 5 on Sept. 1.
“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair,” said Williams, who was pregnant when she won the 2017 Australian Open for her last Grand Slam trophy. “If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.”
Williams was off the tour for about a year after getting injured during her first-round match at Wimbledon in 2021. She returned to singles competition at the All England Club this June and lost in the first round.
After that defeat, Williams was asked whether she would compete again.
“That’s a question I can’t answer,” she said at the time. “I don’t know. ... Who knows? Who knows where I’ll pop up?”
Williams hints in the essay that the U.S. Open will be her last tournament but does not say so explicitly.
“I’m not looking for some ceremonial, final on-court moment,” Williams wrote. “I’m terrible at goodbyes, the world’s worst.”
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The Expansive Language Capabilities Advance Digital Equity for ID.me Users By Providing Self-Serve Verification in Nine Languages and Video Chat Verification in up to 16 Languages
MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ID.me, the secure digital identity network, empowers Americans to verify their identities through its offering of the most diverse language options in the digital identity marketplace. The language support that ID.me provides helps make digital identity verification equitable for all Americans.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 67 million Americans speak a language other than English at home, but more often than not are expected to speak it when accessing critical government benefits. These populations have often been left behind simply because of the language barrier. ID.me breaks down those barriers with its inclusive options. The ID.me network allows the user to set the language preference for self-verification to one of nine different languages and offers video chat agents who can communicate in up to 16 different languages.
"Language accessibility is a critically important component of digital equity for individuals who do not speak English. To increase access to vital services for these communities, ID.me spent significant time and effort as part of our broader efforts to make digital identity more equitable," said Blake Hall, co-founder and CEO of ID.me. "The language options ID.me offers substantially increase access to government programs for millions of Americans by providing them with the necessary tools to verify their identities safely and efficiently."
Over the past five years, ID.me has offered 16 languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Nepali, Arabic, French, Turkish, American Sign Language, Korean, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Russian, and Creole. If an urgent need is identified by one of ID.me's customers, the company will work quickly to add additional languages or provide services to assist users.
ID.me is committed to expanding the company's language options until this barrier is no longer a reason for people to be locked out of government services.
To learn more, visit https://insights.id.me/article/leading-in-digital-equity-with-multiple-languages/.
About ID.me
The ID.me secure digital identity network includes partnerships in 30 states, 10 federal agencies, and over 500 name-brand retailers. The company provides identity proofing, authentication and group affiliation verification for organizations across sectors. The company's technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 conformant credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me's Identity Gateway also maintains a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate Authority to Operate (ATO). ID.me strives towards its mission of "No Identity Left Behind" to enable all people to have secure access to services. To learn more, visit https://www.ID.me
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The Revolution gave up the lead twice in the contest and settled for a disheartening 2-2 draw with FC Cincinnati before 20,193 on Sunday night at Gillette Stadium.
Despite the missed opportunity, they still extended their unbeaten streak to 10 games (4-0-6). The Revs have given up the lead in five of the six draws on the unbeaten streak,
“Of course, we could have gotten three points,” said Revolution head coach Bruce Arena. “But we haven’t lost a game in 10 games which is not the worst thing that could happen.
“Could we get more three points? Yeah, but we have 16 more games remaining to be get a little bit better. We are not in the worst shape and we’ve been forced to redesign our team with roster moves.”
The Revolution, now 6-5-7, will play the first of three straight road games against reigning MLS Cup champion New York City FC on Saturday afternoon (1). The match will be the first meeting between the two teams since NYCFC’s stunning upset victory on penalty kicks in the MLS Cup Eastern Conference semifinals on Dec. 2 at Gillette Stadium.
“We are working hard, we are working well and we are going to try and work on these moments and fix these things,” said midfielder Wilfrid Kaptoum. “It is clear we could have won the game and unfortunately, we had some shortcomings and it cost us three points. But we did get a point and we go from there.”
The Revolution went up 1-0 in the 30th minute when Sebastian Lletget set up dynamic rookie forward Dylan Borrero for his second of the season. Lletget controlled a long clearance by Petrovic and spied Borrero streaking the left flank. Borrero found an open seam to the box and fired a liner that beat FCC keeper Roman Celentano to the far post.
Cincy tied the game 1-1 on a corner kick from the left side in the 41st minute. Luciano Acosta lofted a rainbow into the penalty area that Kessler inadvertently headed past Petrovic for an own goal. Borrero suffered a right leg injury in stoppage time at the end of the half and was helped off the field. He was replaced by Emmanuel Boateng to begin the second half.
The Revolution went up 2-1 on a magnificent collaboration set in motion by Bye in the 55th minute. Bye advanced down the middle of the field and fed Boateng in the left side of the box. Boateng fired a cross that Bou headed under the crossbar for his fourth goal in six appearances.
“He (Bou) scored a goal and that is what strikers are supposed to do,” said Arena. “He did a good job and he’s not a perfect nine but he does a solid job.”
Petrovic preserved the lead when he stoned FCC sniper Brandon Vazquez from close range in the 69th minute. FCC tied the game 2-2 in the 73rd minute when Brenner converted a sloppy turnover into his fifth of the season. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/03/the-revolution-extend-unbeaten-streak-with-2-2-draw-with-cincinnati/ | 2022-07-04 03:27:34 | 1 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/03/the-revolution-extend-unbeaten-streak-with-2-2-draw-with-cincinnati/ |
DENVER, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Revelstoke Capital Partners ("Revelstoke"), a Denver-based private equity firm focused on investing in healthcare services companies, today announced it has acquired Monte Nido & Affiliates ("Monte Nido" or the "Company"), an eating disorder treatment provider serving patients across the full continuum of care.
Monte Nido is a leading eating disorder treatment provider with five brands and over 45 facilities across 15 states. The Company's vertically integrated treatment model, with care delivered in inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient settings, provides its patients with comprehensive services across the full continuum of care. Since its founding in 1996, Monte Nido has a reputation for delivering high-quality clinical outcomes, a testament to its staff and individualized approach to eating disorder treatment.
"We are excited to partner with Monte Nido, a high-impact organization that treats individuals suffering from eating disorders. The increase in demand for eating disorder services continues to accelerate along with our nation's overall mental healthcare needs. By providing the necessary capital, resources, and expertise, Revelstoke will help accelerate the Company's mission of providing high-quality eating disorder treatments to communities across the nation," said Andrew Welch, Partner at Revelstoke.
Incidence and prevalence of eating disorders have grown significantly alongside other mental health issues due to the disruptions, isolation and stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Monte Nido primarily treats adolescent females, who are disproportionately impacted by eating disorders that often coincide with other mental health, physical and social issues. Although there have been great strides to increase awareness and de-stigmatize eating disorders, access to quality care remains a challenge. Demand for eating disorder treatment exceeds supply, leaving patients and their families scrambling to get help when they need it most.
"We look forward to partnering with the Revelstoke team, who has significant experience in behavioral health, as we enter the next phase of growth at Monte Nido. The financial and operational resources from this new partnership will be used to further support our rapid growth by facilitating acquisitions and the development of new facilities. We look forward to working together to deliver high quality eating disorder services to even more patients," said Candy Henderson, MS, CEO of Monte Nido.
Michael Constantinides, Principal at Revelstoke, said, "Our investment in Monte Nido reflects Revelstoke's continued focus on partnering with industry-leading behavioral healthcare businesses to increase access and improve patient outcomes. Monte Nido's commitment to providing high-quality care has made it a partner of choice for referral sources and payors, and we see strong opportunities to expand their successful treatment model to new regions."
Raymond James acted as financial advisor and McDermott Will & Emery LLP acted as legal counsel to Revelstoke. Harris Williams served as financial advisor to Monte Nido. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About Revelstoke
Revelstoke is a private equity firm formed by experienced investors who focus on building industry-leading companies in the healthcare services and healthcare technology sectors. Revelstoke partners with entrepreneurs and management teams to execute on a disciplined organic and acquisition growth strategy as it strives to build exceptional companies. Revelstoke is based in Denver, Colorado and has approximately $4.8 billion of assets under management. Since the firm's inception in 2013, Revelstoke has completed 165 acquisitions, which includes 25 platform companies and 140 add-on acquisitions. For more information, visit www.revelstokecapital.com.
About Monte Nido & Affiliates
Founded in 1996, Monte Nido is a pure-play eating disorder treatment provider with five brands and over 45 facilities across 15 states. The Company's vertically integrated treatment model and comprehensive suite of service offerings address the full continuum of care, from inpatient to outpatient, primarily treating females between the ages of 14 and 28. Since its founding, Monte Nido has grown into one of the largest eating disorder platforms nationwide. To learn more about Monte Nido & Affiliates, please visit the Company's website at www.montenido.com.
Revelstoke Capital Partners
Lambert & Co.
Jennifer Hurson
845-507-0571
jhurson@lambert.com
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The police blotter is a public record of incidents as reported by law-enforcement agencies. All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are innocent until proven guilty. The information printed is preliminary and subject to change.
Monday 07/10:
North Bend
• 7:32 am, injured animal, 1700 block of Lincoln Street.
• 11:37 am, neighbor dispute, 1700 block of Hayes Street.
• 2:14 pm, fraud/email scam, 1300 block of Buckingham Street.
• 3:46 pm, animal complaint, 2100 block of Garfield.
• 8:05 pm, vehicle fire, Oak and State.
Coos Bay
• 12:13 am, animal complaint, 200 block of Park Avenue.
• 1:40 am, graffiti calls, N 10th Street and W Commercial Avenue.
• 2:04 am, located wanted subject, Woolridge and Newmark.
• 2:27 am, 42 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrants, 800 block of S Broadway Street.
• 3:46 am, 46 year old male transported to Coos County jail on two warrants, 1000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 4:43 am, theft, 300 block of S Cammann Street.
• 5:30 am, located wanted subject, 300 block of LaClair Street.
• 6:23 am, 32 year old male lodged at Coos County jail on domestic harassment, 200 block of S Wall Street.
• 7:08 am, theft from vehicle, Thomas Avenue.
• 9:28 am, fraud, 700 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 11:20 am, threats, 700 block of F Street.
• 12:00 pm, criminal mischief, Newmark and S Morrison.
• 12:22 pm, 34 year old male transported to Coos County jail, 900 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 12:55 pm, animal neglect, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 1:30 pm, disorderly conduct, Newmark and Norman.
• 2:59 pm, fraud, 800 block of Madison Street.
• 4:45 pm, disorderly conduct, Johnson Avenue and S 1st Street.
• 4:58 pm, disorderly conduct, 100 block of S Wall Street.
• 6:48 pm, burglary, 100 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 7:52 pm, fraud, 500 block of 10th Avenue.
• 8:34 pm, 24 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, 1200 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 9:46 pm, disorderly conduct, N Ackerman off Newmark.
• 9:55 pm, dispute, Ackerman and Newmark.
• 10:54 pm, disorderly conduct, 4th and Curtis.
Coquille
• 12:27 pm, family dispute, 900 block of N Collier Street.
• 4:33 pm, threats, 1500 block of N Hemlock Street.
Reedsport
• 10:11 am, domestic disturbance, 2400 block of Gardens Avenue.
• 10:15 am, trespassing, 300 block of S 22nd Street.
• 2:39 pm, animal problem, Birch Avenue and 21st Street.
• 2:59 pm, animal problem, 2600 block of Greenbriar Street.
Tuesday 07/11:
North Bend
• 7:31 am, disorderly conduct, Tremont Avenue and chip pile.
• 8:11 am, ID theft, 3200 block of Tremont Avenue.
• 8:25 am, disorderly conduct, Newmark and Chester.
• 10:03 am, 26 year old male transported to Coos County jail on violation of restraining order, 2200 block of Broadway Avenue.
• 10:05 am, phone harassment, 3200 block of Pine Street,
• 10:23 am, juvenile problem, 2100 block of Hamilton Avenue.
• 12:55 pm, 35 year old male transported to Coos County jail on menacing, attempted assault II and probation violation, 1900 block of Meade Avenue.
• 1:55 pm, runaway juvenile, 3700 block of Spruce Street.
• 2:49 pm, fraud, 2300 block of Everett Street.
• 4:46 pm, vehicle fire, McCullough Bridge.
• 5:14 pm, disorderly conduct, 1300 block of Virginia Avenue.
• 5:39 pm, located wanted subject, 800 block of California Avenue.
• 5:52 pm, 42 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, 800 block of California Avenue.
• 6:41 pm, misuse of 911, 1100 block of Lewis Street.
• 6:42 pm, juvenile problem, 1600 block of Virginia Avenue.
Coos Bay
• 3:16 am, criminal mischief/unlawful entry into motor vehicle, Kruse and 5th.
• 6:39 am, theft, 1800 block of N 28th Court.
• 6:53 am, 48 year old male booked at Coos County jail on warrant and felon in possession of restricted weapon, 1400 block of Southwest Boulevard.
• 9:38 am, fraud, 1900 block of 28th Street.
• 9:54 am, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 1500 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 11:00 am, dog complaint, 1300 block of N Bayshore Drive.
• 11:07 am, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 1900 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 11:08 am, criminal mischief, 200 block of Holland Street.
• 12:52 pm, hit and run, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 1:12 pm, fraud, 1900 block of Shorepines Drive.
• 2:15 pm, theft, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 3:06 pm, 25 year old male lodged at Coos County jail on warrant and false information, 300 block of S Wasson Street.
• 3:34 pm, assault, Mingus Park.
• 3:46 pm, theft from vehicle, 500 block of S Wall Street.
• 4:35 pm, dispute, 200 block of Empire Boulevard.
• 4:57 pm, 38 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, resisting arrest and probation violation, N Central Boulevard and W 6th Street.
• 5:09 pm, located runaway, 500 block of S 4th Street.
• 5:14 pm, disorderly conduct, 900 block of S Broadway Street.
• 6:04 pm, hit and run, 400 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 7:50 pm, unauthorized use of motor vehicle, S Wasson Street and Pacific Avenue.
• 8:28 pm, dispute, 100 block of N 14th Street.
• 8:43 pm, recovered stolen vehicle, 200 block of N Baxter Street.
• 8:54 pm, 36 year old male transported to Coos County jail on criminal trespass II, 700 block of S Broadway Street.
• 9:26 pm, barking dog, 1800 block of Cottonwood Avenue.
• 10:21 pm, fraud, 1100 block of California Avenue.
Coquille
• 2:24 pm, 36 year old male transported to Coos County jail on criminal trespass, 400 block of N Central Boulevard.
• 3:04 pm, 39 year old male transported to Coos County jail on criminal trespass II, 900 block of E 5th Street.
• 4:57 pm, 38 year old male transported to Coos County jail on warrant, resisting arrest and probation violation, N Central Boulevard and W 6th Street.
Wednesday 07/12:
North Bend
• 8:08 am, theft, 1100 block of Newmark Street.
• 11:27 am, juvenile problem, 700 block of Maryland Avenue.
• 2:29 pm, unauthorized use of motor vehicle, 3600 block of Inland Court.
• 5:36 pm, intoxicated subject, 1900 block of Virginia Avenue.
• 6:44 pm, juvenile problem, 1900 block of 19th.
Coos Bay
• 7:19 am, 37 year old female cited for driving while suspended, Ocean and LaClair.
• 9:50 am, theft, 800 block of S Empire Boulevard.
• 11:07 am, located stolen firearm, 100 block of N Wasson Street.
• 2:15 pm, 58 year old male cited on warrant, 400 block of Fulton Avenue.
• 2:44 pm, animal complaint, 800 block of S Broadway Street.
• 2:47 pm, unlawful entry into motor vehicle, 700 block of S 4th Street.
• 3:12 pm, criminal mischief, 1300 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 3:27 pm, dispute, Empire Lakes/John Topits Park.
• 4:24 pm, theft, 2000 block of Newmark Avenue.
• 7:06 pm, dispute, Fed Ex and woods.
• 9:37 pm, 58 year old female transported to Coos County jail on two warrants, 100 block of S 3rd Street.
• 10:24 pm, 38 year old male transported to Coos County jail on failure to report as a sex offender and resisting, 100 block of E Johnson Avenue.
Coquille
• 10:23 am, criminal mischief, 90 block of E 1st Street.
• 10:23 am, disorderly conduct, 200 block of N Central Boulevard.
• 1:11 pm, disorderly conduct, 70 block of W Highway 42.
• 1:11 pm, harassment, 96900 block of Highway 42S.
• 1:11 pm, disorderly conduct, 96900 Highway 42S.
• 4:52 pm, dispute, 1200 block of W Central.
• 5:20 pm, threats, 800 block of E 10th Place.
• 7:58 pm, 47 year old male cited on warrant and drinking unlicensed premises, 300 block of W Highway 42.
• 8:40 pm, neighbor dispute, 700 block of N Birch Street. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/police-blotter/article_2eb1d082-2abc-11ee-9bd9-33392b99c1b4.html | 2023-07-26 05:53:27 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/police-blotter/article_2eb1d082-2abc-11ee-9bd9-33392b99c1b4.html |
MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SpaceLink, a company that provides secure data from any orbit, any time, announced it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a contract award. SpaceLink will participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program designed to connect the proliferated space domain.
SpaceLink is building a constellation of relay satellites in MEO that use optical intersatellite links to speed communications between spacecraft on orbit and users on the ground. Along with other contributors, SpaceLink will assist DARPA in studying and developing protocols for how commercial communications constellations will interact with Department of Defense (DoD) systems in a Space-to-Space interconnected future.
"DARPA's Space-BACN program is well-aligned with our mission to provide continuous high capacity, real-time links to deliver data from space to the warfighter," said David Nemeth, Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering at SpaceLink. "DARPA's vision of interoperability will unlock the value of the proliferating commercial remote sensing constellations for U.S. government agencies. We are gratified to share our technical insights with regard to command and control and API development."
SpaceLink will contribute its technical insights in the development of the application program interface (API) and algorithms included in Space-BACN Technical Area 3 (TA3). SpaceLink will also have the opportunity to support the simulation and testing that informs the deployment and utilization of Space-BACN reconfigurable optical communications terminals.
SpaceLink is partnering with Parsons Corporation (NYSE: PSN) on a technical approach to support the Space-BACN program by combining Parsons' existing enterprise scheduling and tasking software with the SpaceLink optical relay network. Together they will enable space-to-space optical communications terminals that can be dynamically modified on-orbit to adapt and talk across various optical standards used by different satellite systems.
The Space-BACN contract award marks an important milestone in the SpaceLink roadmap. The company also recently announced it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC) in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
In March 2022 SpaceLink was the recipient of the Chairman's Award for Outstanding Innovation from the MSUA.
About SpaceLink
SpaceLink will help advance humanity to a new age of space commerce, exploration, environmental awareness, and security. The Always in Sight™ data relay system provides global coverage to empower space system operators to maximize use of their assets. SpaceLink Corporation is headquartered in Northern Virginia and has offices in Silicon Valley, California. It is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited, a public company traded on the Australian stock exchange.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youths.
The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.
Critics have expressed fear that the legal reasoning behind the high court ruling could lead to a rollback of decisions involving such matters as gay marriage, birth control and parental rights.
The state is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction and let it enforce an Alabama law that would make it a felony to give puberty blockers or hormones to transgender minors to help affirm their gender identity.
In its historic ruling last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said terminating a pregnancy is not a fundamental constitutional right because abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution and is not “deeply rooted in this nation’s history and tradition.”
In a brief filed Monday, the Alabama attorney general’s office argued similarly that gender transition treatments are not “deeply rooted in our history or traditions,” and thus the state has the authority to ban them. Alabama contends such treatments are dangerous and experimental, a view disputed by medical organizations.
Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said this is the first case he is aware of in which a state cited the abortion ruling on another issue, but added, “It won’t be the last.”
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said in the majority opinion that the abortion ruling should not cast “doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” But Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the same legal reasoning should be used to reconsider high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and contraceptives.
“It is no surprise that Alabama and other extremely conservative states are going to take up that invitation as forcefully as they can,” Minter said. “Justice Thomas’ concurrence was a declaration of war on groups already under attack, and we expect the hostility to be escalated.”
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s so-called Dobbs decision, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in an interview with NewsNation, did not rule out defending a state law against gay sex if the GOP-controlled Legislature were to approve a new one. The previous one was struck down by the high court in 2003.
On the opposite side of the political spectrum, Massachusetts lawmakers are looking to increase state protections for gender-affirming care, in addition to abortion, in reaction to the Supreme Court ruling.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was unavailable for comment Thursday, a spokesman said.
Jeff Walker, who has a 15-year-old transgender daughter, said this spring that it felt as if Alabama were attacking families like his with legislation targeting transgender kids’ medication and dictating their choice of school bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams. He said the state’s argument in this case is worrisome for everyone.
“I think everyone should be concerned by the wording of this appeal. By this logic, any health care the state feels isn’t in line with its morals or beliefs should be banned,” Walker said.
The Alabama case could become an early test of where judges stand on the scope of the abortion ruling. The appeals court granted the state’s request for an expedited schedule for submitting briefs, and a decision could come as early as this fall.
While Alabama was already appealing the injunction in the transgender medication case, the state quickly incorporated the abortion decision into its filing.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey this spring signed the law making it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to dispense certain medication to minors to help with their gender transition.
A federal judge in May issued a preliminary injunction blocking the measure, siding with parents who said the law violates their children’s rights and their own rights to direct their youngsters’ medical care.
“What’s interesting about Supreme Court decisions is they tend to have a life of their own,” said Alison Gash, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon.
Courts have generally supported the right of parents to make medical decisions for their children, including in cases where families don’t want to get cancer treatments recommended by doctors, Gash said. She said she is expecting to see more arguments like Alabama’s arising out of the Dobbs decision, and they could have a major effect on the right to make medical decisions.
“A lot of us feel like the guardrails have completely fallen off, because there is no real predictability about how relevant Dobbs will be to a whole wide range of issues that affect so many different vulnerable communities,” Gash said.
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Associated Press writers Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City, Utah; Steve LeBlanc in Boston; and Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report. | https://www.wfla.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/alabama-cites-abortion-ruling-in-transgender-medication-case/ | 2022-07-01 03:17:09 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/alabama-cites-abortion-ruling-in-transgender-medication-case/ |
MCSW donates Designmaster fencing system to increase safety and security of Uvalde CISD schools
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mid-Continent Steel and Wire, Inc. (MCSW), a division of Deacero Group, today announced it will donate Designmaster fencing system brand materials to increase the safety and security of Uvalde schools. The company adds its name to a growing group of organizations and individuals mobilizing to help the community move forward after the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24.
MCSW is one of the biggest wire manufacturers in North America. The company's main locations are in Houston, TX; Laredo, TX; and Poplar Bluff, MO and with its MAGNUM brand, it is the nation's largest nail manufacturer.
"Our hearts go out to our neighbors in the Uvalde community in the wake of great loss. We are here to help," said Fernando Villanueva, Mid-Continent's CEO. "We will do whatever we can to assist the community in moving forward and making the children in these schools safer."
As a result of the tragedy, Uvalde CISD recently announced that Robb Elementary will be demolished and rebuilt. Additionally, the district says it is working on safety and security changes at its seven other campuses. The Designmaster fencing system brand materials donated by MCSW will directly aid this effort.
"Our schools should be a safe place where all kids can learn and thrive," said George Skarich, VP of Sales for Mid-Continent. "We are proud to be a part of this effort by providing high-quality products to increase safety and security of Uvalde CISD schools."
Designmaster is a best-in-class fence system with a broad range of applications that comply with strict international standards and is the only fencing system that uses 100% non-toxic powder-coated finish, 100% free of volatile organic compounds, 100% free of Triglycidly Isocyanurate, LEED Certified. The products are currently used in schools and universities in Texas and throughout the country.
Some of the other companies recently announcing donations to Uvalde CISD schools include the Butt family and H-E-B, donating $10 million in cash; Las Vegas Raiders donating $1 million in cash; Laredo Lemonade Co donating proceeds from the sale of all flautas; McDonalds donating $250k in cash; the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans together donating $800k; and many more.
About Mid-Continent Steel and Wire, Inc. (MCSW)
Mid-Continent Steel and Wire, Inc. is one of the biggest wire manufacturers in North America. It's main locations are in Houston, TX; Laredo, TX; and Poplar Bluff, MO; and with its MAGNUM brand, it is the nation's largest nail manufacturer. The company serves a wide variety of sectors through its Mid-Continent Steel and Wire (MCSW) family of brands.
MCSW is owned by Deacero, a family-owned company that was started nearly 70 years ago in a small warehouse in Monterrey. Deacero is a fully integrated company with an infrastructure for recycling, processing waste, steel mills, finished product plants and distribution centers. Earlier this year, Deacero opened a global trade and corporate affairs office in Washington, DC.
For more information, visit www.mcswusa.com and www.deacero.com.
Contact Elizabeth Heaton, elizabeth@EAHstrategiesLLC.com, 202-445-9858
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Tonight: Thunderstorms possible late. Mild and mostly cloudy. Low 66.
Morning: Early morning storms. Otherwise, mostly cloudy. Upper 60s.
Afternoon: Warm and turning very humid. High 82.
Evening: Widespread thunderstorms, strong storms possible. Upper 70s.
Tonight: Clearing out. Low 64.
Today is a Stormtracker 2 Alert Day for the potential of strong storms in the late afternoon and evening.
Storms this morning produced locally heavy rain and frequent lightning. These storms are expected to end by 5 AM. The weather is expected to dry out mid-day with a chance to see some sunshine. In the evening, a very strong front will be arriving from the west. Currently, our latest forecast shows lots of ingredients such as moisture and rotation present for severe weather. Storms require "fuel" in order to remain strong. In meteorology we call this "CAPE". There is a huge drop-off in "fuel" directly over our area, so the biggest uncertainty in tomorrow's forecast is how long these storms will last before weakening. Current timing is consistent between 4-8PM. Be sure to stay weather aware in any case for tomorrow.
Storms come to an end tonight, with a few lingering showers into tomorrow morning. Cooler, less humid, and breezy, with highs in the upper 70s. Much cooler weather to follow for the weekend, with mostly cloudy skies on Saturday, a few showers in the afternoon, and highs only in the low to mid 60s. Sunshine on Father's Day, with highs near 70. Warmer and more humid weather looks to return for the middle of next week. | https://www.wktv.com/news/top-stories/stormtracker-2-alert-day-today/article_f3fba5d0-ed4a-11ec-9f46-e76df3b38e2b.html | 2022-06-16 09:45:37 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/top-stories/stormtracker-2-alert-day-today/article_f3fba5d0-ed4a-11ec-9f46-e76df3b38e2b.html |
LONDON (AP) — Premier League clubs have agreed to ban sponsorship from gambling companies on the front of their shirts, the organization said Thursday.
The league’s 20 clubs collectively announced the decision to voluntarily “reduce gambling advertising.”
It is the first sports league in the UK to take such a stand, although the decision does not ban gambling companies from being used as sponsors on shirt sleeves.
The move was welcomed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport at a time when the British government is reviewing gambling legislation.
“The vast majority of adults gamble safely but we have to recognise that footballers are role models who have enormous influence on young people,” culture secretary Lucy Frazer said Thursday. “We want to work with institutions like the Premier League to do the right thing for young fans.”
Eight Premier League clubs currently have gambling sponsorship on the front of their shirts: Bournemouth, Everton, Leeds, Southampton, West Ham, Fulham, Newcastle and Brentford.
In order to help clubs during a period of transition, the agreement will enter into force until the end of the 2025-26 season, the league said.
“The Premier League is also working with other sports on the development of a new code for responsible gambling sponsorship,” the league added.
Campaign group The Big Step has pushed to end gambling sponsorship in soccer, with support from former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton.
The group said it wants sideline advertisments and other forms of gambling sponsorship to be ended as well.
“Today’s announcement is a significant acceptance of the harm caused by gambling sponsorship,” the group said in a statement. “No gambling ads are seen more than those on Premier League shirts, worn by billions around the world.
“Although this outcome isn’t perfect, it’s a huge step.”
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
05-14-19-39-43-50, Extra Shot: 10
(five, fourteen, nineteen, thirty-nine, forty-three, fifty; Extra Shot: ten)
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Chargie will deploy stations at multi-family communities through $436M program
CULVER CITY, Calif., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chargie, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, has been selected as a turn-key vendor for Southern California Edison's Charge Ready Program. As the largest utility-led electric vehicle charging program in the nation, Charge Ready provides EV infrastructure solutions for multi-family, public sector, and commercial properties.
The Turn-Key Installation option of Charge Ready offers full-service solutions to eligible residential multi-family properties located in top quartile disadvantaged communities (DAC) within the SCE service area. For properties that qualify, this includes the design, purchase, installation, and operation of EV charging equipment. Chargie will perform select services to deploy and manage EV infrastructure at these properties, helping the utility achieve its goal of adding more than 30,000 new chargers throughout the service area.
"Chargie was founded in Southern California, and we are proud to be serving the region we call home," said Chargie CEO Zach Jennings. "We're committed to making EVs accessible for all and this represents an incredible step toward achieving that. Together with SCE, we will power a reliable charging experience drivers can trust and infrastructure so crucial to meeting California's electrification goals."
In addition to being selected as a turn-key vendor, Chargie continues to be an Approved Network Provider for the Charge Ready Program. Under this designation, Chargie is available to assist properties with other SCE Charge Ready options including its Charging Infrastructure and Rebate Program and New Construction Rebate Program. To learn more, visit chargie.com and sce.com/evbusiness/chargeready.
Chargie is a leading provider of intelligent, intuitive and reliable electric vehicle charging solutions for modern commercial buildings, multifamily communities and the growing number of EV drivers. We design, install, manage and operate leading-edge charging infrastructure around the country for residential properties, office buildings, retail locations, healthcare facilities, transportation hubs and more. Learn more at chargie.com.
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DENVER (AP) — Udonis Haslem has been through almost everything in his 20 seasons with the Miami Heat. On that list: Game 1 losses in the NBA Finals.
He’s seen lots of those — six of them, actually, in seven tries during his Heat career. Being down 1-0 in the finals against the Denver Nuggets is not optimal, but Haslem knows it doesn’t doom Miami’s chances, either. All three of his championship rings came in series where the Heat lost a finals opener.
And that will be the message for three days, all the way until tip-off of Game 2 on Sunday night.
“It can be done,” Haslem said.
He’s right. And by now, the Heat have just come to expect that nothing they want will come easily.
Virtually the entire season has been topsy-turvy for the Heat, and evidently, the jagged path is the one they’re going to take all the way to the end. A 104-93 loss in Game 1 on Thursday night came when Miami shot poorly, struggled big-time from 3-point range until a late flurry and shot only two free throws — the fewest, the NBA said, by any team in any of the 4,359 games in league postseason history.
“That’s how we’ve been all year,” said Heat guard Max Strus, who went 0 for 10 from the field — 0 for 9 from 3-point range — in Game 1. “We’re battle-tested. We’ve been through a lot of down moments this year. So, we know how to deal with it and we’ll be ready.”
The list of adverse moments the Heat have endured this season is lengthy, to say the least.
They didn’t get over the .500 mark for the first time until about a week before Christmas. They sputtered for much of the year, never able to put a long string of wins together. There have been 45 different winning streaks of at least five games in the NBA this season, by 21 different teams — and the Heat weren’t one of them. They lost a play-in game to Atlanta, trailed in the elimination play-in game late against Chicago, nearly blew a 3-0 lead against Boston in the East final … and keep finding ways to make it right.
“That’s just how our path has been,” said Caleb Martin, who was 1 for 7 in Game 1. “That’s everybody’s comfort zone. We’re never worried in situations like this. People might be saying it’s going to be tough or whatever the case may be, but we don’t think like that. We’re going to be ready.”
There will also be a history lesson before Sunday night. Haslem will certainly be among the professors.
In the 2006 finals, Miami lost the first two games in Dallas, woke up after Game 2 to learn that city was already planning the parade and won the next four games. In 2012, Miami lost Game 1 in Oklahoma City by 11 points — just like Thursday’s margin — and won the next four games. And in 2013, Miami rallied after a Game 1 loss to beat San Antonio in a seven-game classic, the series that was highlighted by Ray Allen’s game-tying and season-saving 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left in Game 6.
Like Haslem was saying, it can be done.
“I feel like we’ll bounce back,” said center Bam Adebayo, who led the Heat with 26 points and 13 rebounds in Game 1.
It’s unlikely that Miami only gets to the line two times in Game 2. It’s unlikely that Strus will go 0 for 10 again Sunday. It’s unlikely that Jimmy Butler will score only 13 points again in Game 2; that’s what he had in Game 1, or 15 points below his average for the playoffs coming into the finals.
“I think whenever we watch this film, it’s going to look way worse than it really is,” Butler said. “But that’s the only way you’re going to learn from it.”
Even if all those offensive numbers rise, it still doesn’t guarantee anything. Denver will make adjustments as well, just like Miami.
But if this adverse season has taught Miami anything, it’s that they’re comfortable while in trouble.
“That’s what you expect,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “You don’t expect it to be easy when you get to this final round. This is a great challenge. It’s going to require more. We will get to work and see what we can do better, what we can do harder, what we can do with more effort, what we can do with more focus, etc.”
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Providing Even More Reliable Measurements for Users of Trimble CenterPoint RTX Fast Networks in North America and Europe
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today data integrity monitoring for its precise point positioning (PPP) correction service, CenterPoint® RTX Fast. The Trimble RTX Integrity™ monitoring system is an innovative, patented solution, built in direct response to client requirements for production-ready applications. It continuously validates the reliability of correction data processed by the network, which is broadcast to users in the agriculture, geospatial, construction and automotive industries, ensuring positioning data is right the first time.
Through a unique two-step process, the Trimble RTX Integrity system verifies the integrity of GNSS data received from satellites and filters faulty information in the network server before the data is broadcast. A secondary post-broadcast check is conducted on the entire data transmission process where additional errors may be detected and removed. The integrity monitoring system is fully automated and reacts in seconds to detect, isolate and block faulty data to provide even more highly accurate and reliable positioning.
Trimble RTX Integrity is comprised of independent monitoring stations strategically positioned across RTX Fast networks in the United States, southern Canada and across Europe. These stations continuously monitor data output during multiple stages of the Trimble RTX positioning process. Any suspicious satellite data is removed during the integrity protection process and positioning is calculated using only validated data.
Trimble Alloy™ GNSS reference receivers power the independent monitoring stations using redundant internet connectivity for added reliability. To date, no other positioning network offers the same level of data integrity validation across such expansive, contiguous geographies.
Trimble RTX Integrity monitoring system was developed in accordance with Automotive Software Performance Improvement and Capability dEtermination (ASPICE) and ISO 26262 automotive safety standards, making it easy to integrate into major automotive manufacturers' autonomous driving systems. Trimble RTX Integrity can also be used by Trimble's customers in the agriculture, geospatial and construction industries to ensure correction stream integrity and reliability for applications such as machine control and high-accuracy surveying applications.
"Trimble remains committed to exceeding expectations by providing accurate corrections to our customers to support safety-critical and other day-to-day applications," said Patricia Boothe, SVP of autonomy, Trimble. "Implementing additional checks and balances to ensure our data is authenticated, trustworthy and accurate is of paramount importance to maintaining the integrity of our RTX network and instilling confidence with our users that the data is correct."
About Trimble Autonomy
Trimble Autonomy delivers leading positioning and orientation technology to major industrial markets worldwide. This approach to autonomy is built on decades of engineering expertise, system intelligence and field-proven solutions, covering billions of acres and millions of miles. Trimble's autonomous technology enables advanced action in any environment, designed to meet the unique needs of our customers no matter where they are on their autonomy journey. For more information, visit: autonomy.trimble.com.
About Trimble
Trimble is an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works by delivering solutions that enable our customers to thrive. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble is transforming industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.
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For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person’s full set of DNA they study to a template that relies mostly on genetic material from one man affectionately known as “the guy from Buffalo.”
But they’ve long known that this template for comparison, or “reference genome,” has serious limits because it doesn’t reflect the spectrum of human diversity.
“We need a really good understanding of the variations, the differences between human beings,” said genomics expert Benedict Paten of the University of California, Santa Cruz. “We’re missing out.”
Now, scientists are building a much more diverse reference that they call a “pangenome,” which so far includes the genetic material of 47 people from various places around the world. It’s the subject of four studies published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Biotechnology. Scientists say it’s already teaching them new things about health and disease and should help patients down the road.
Paten said the new reference should help scientists understand more about what’s normal and what’s not. “It is only by understanding what common variation looks like that we’ll be able to say, ‘Oh, this big structural variation that affects this gene? Don’t worry about it,’” he said.
A human genome is the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being, and experts define a pangenome as a collection of whole genome sequences from many people that is designed to represent the genetic diversity of the human species. The pangenome is not a composite but a collection; scientists depict it as a rainbow of stacked genomes, compared with one line representing the older, single reference genome.
The Human Pangenome Project builds upon the first sequencing of a complete human genome, which was nearly completed more than two decades ago and finally finished last year. Paten, a pangenome study author and project leader, said 70% of that first reference genome came from an African American man with mixed African and European ancestry who answered an ad for volunteers in a Buffalo newspaper in 1997. About 30% came from a mix of around 20 people.
The pangenome contains material from 24 people of African ancestry, 16 from the Americas and the Caribbean, six from Asia and one from Europe.
Although any two people’s genomes are more than 99% identical, Paten said “it’s those differences that are the things that genetics and genomics is concerned with studying and understanding.”
It may take a while for patients to see concrete benefits from the research. But scientists said new insights should eventually make genetic testing more accurate, improve drug discovery and bolster personalized medicine, which uses someone’s unique genetic profile to guide decisions for preventing, diagnosing and treating disease.
“The Pangenome Project gives a more accurate representation of the genome of people from around the world,” and should help doctors better diagnose genetic conditions, said clinical genetics expert Dr. Wendy Chung at Columbia University, who was not involved in the research.
If someone has a variation in a certain gene, it could be compared to the rainbow of references.
Study author Evan Eichler of the University of Washington said researchers will also learn more about genes already linked to problems, such as one tied to cardiovascular disease in African Americans.
“Now that we can actually sequence that gene in its entirety and we can understand the variation in that gene, we can start to go back to unexplained cases of patients with coronary heart disease” and look at them in light of the new knowledge, he said. Eichler is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press’s health and science department.
University of Minnesota plant genetics expert Candice Hirsch, who wasn’t involved in the research but has closely followed the effort, said she expects many discoveries to flow from it. Until now, “we really have only been able to scratch the surface of understanding the genetics that underlies disease,” she said.
The consortium leading the research is part of the Human Genome Reference Program, which is funded by an arm of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The team is in the process of adding to the collection of reference genomes, with the goal of having sequences from 350 people by the middle of next year. Scientists are also hoping to work more with international partners, including those focusing on Indigenous populations.
“We’re in it for the long game,” Paten said.
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SHAPING UP FOR THE WEEKEND. COMING UP. CAHABA MEDICAL CARE HAS THE FIRST AND ONLY NURSE PRACTITIONER OR RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN ALABAMA. TONIGHT, SIX STUDENTS GRADUATED WVTM AND 13. ERIN LLEWELLYN JOINS US ONCE AGAIN. HE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THEIR NEXT STEP IN PROVIDING CARE DURING A CHANGING HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY. FOR SOME GRADUATES, IT’S A DREAM FULFILLED. INITIALLY, I DID NOT WANT TO BE A NURSE. I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO WRITING AND. AND THAT STARTED ABOUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. WATCHING TLC, THE BIRTHING STORIES. BUT THE JOURNEY HASN’T BEEN EASY. I THINK THE ONLY THING THAT KIND OF KEEPS ME GOING IS JUST THE LOVE FOR THE PATIENTS. THE LOVE FOR THE MISSION THAT CAHABA HAS. AND ULTIMATELY, JUST JESUS LIKES SPREADING THE WORD OF HIS LOVE TO EVERYONE. HEALTH CARE CONSULTING GROUP. DEFINITIVE HEALTH CARE FOUND MORE THAN 53,000 NURSE PRACTITIONER OWNERS LEFT THE FIELD BETWEEN OCTOBER AND DECEMBER 20, 21 ALONE. TO HAVE A MEDICAL NURSE PRACTITIONER PROGRAM DIRECTOR JOSH ELDRIDGE SAYS THIS INTENSE 15 WEEK PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT THE GRADUATES THROUGH THEIR FIRST YEAR. EVEN THROUGH BURNOUT, WE HAVE A SYSTEM AND A STRUCTURE IN PLACE FOR SUPPORT. THAT’S SOMETHING THAT’S ONE OF OUR VALUES, IS SUPPORT, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, SPIRITUAL SUPPORT, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR THEM AS THEY’RE LEARNING. THAT’S REALLY WHERE THE BREAD AND BUTTER IS. GRADUATES RUSHING TO MURPHY AND KATIE MILLER SAY THIS PROGRAM IS HELPING THEM LIVE THEIR PURPOSE, EVEN AS THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY CHANGES. ANYTHING THAT I CAN LEARN TO KEEP MYSELF SAFE AND ALSO TEACH MY PATIENTS TO BE SAFE IN THE PANDEMIC. I DO IT ALL OVER THE PLACE. I KNOW IN MY COMMUNITY THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OLDER, THEY NEVER REALLY LEARN HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AND BE HEALTHY NO MATTER IF THEY CAN AFFORD CARE OR NOT. I THINK THAT EVERYONE SHOULD JUST BE TREATED WITH THE SAME RESPECT AND BE ABLE TO HAVE THE SAME LIKE RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO TREAT MEDICALLY. AND THAT WAS ERIN LLEWELLYN REPORTING. NOW, ELLEDGE SAYS THAT A LOT OF PATIENTS DON’T HAVE INSURANCE AND CAN’T AFFORD TO SEE A SPECIALIST. SO THAT MEANS THE NURSE PRACTITIONERS HAVE TO FILL THAT GAP. WHICH IS WHY THIS PROGRAM IS NECESS
Nurse practitioner program grads excited for careers despite potential burnout
Updated: 11:13 PM CST Dec 8, 2022
A study from Elsevier Health shows 47 percent of health care professionals plan to leave the field by 2025. Cahaba Medical Care has the first and only nurse practitioner residency program in Alabama. The program graduated six students on Thursday, and these recent graduates are ready to answer the call.“I initially did not want to be a nurse,” Roshundra Murphy, a nurse practitioner program graduate, said. “I wanted to be an OBGYN and that started about elementary school — watching TLC the birthing stories.”The journey for these program graduates hasn't been easy.“I think the thing that keeps me going is the love for the patients, the love for the mission that Cahaba has, and ultimately the love of Jesus and spreading the word to everyone,” Katy Miller, a nurse practitioner program graduate, said.Health care consulting group Definitive Healthcare found more than 53,000 nurse practitioners left the field between October and December 2021 alone. Cahaba Medical Care nurse practitioner program director Josh Ellidge said this intense 15-week program is designed to support the graduates through their first year — even through burnout.“We have a system and a structure in place for support--that's one of our values,” Elledge said. “Emotional support, spiritual support, mental health support for them as they're learning — that's really what the bread and butter is.”Graduates Roshundra Murphy and Katy Miller said this program is helping them live their purpose even as the health industry changes — no matter if their patients can afford care or not.“Anything I can learn to keep myself safe and also keep my patients safe in the pandemic,” Murphy said. “I would do it all over again. I know in my community — and people that are older — they never really learned how to take care of themselves and be healthy.”“I think everyone should be treated with the same respect and be able to have the same resources to be able to treat medically,” Miller said.Ellidge said a lot of Cahaba Medical Care patients don't have insurance and can't afford to see a specialist. That means the nurse practitioners must fill that gap.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A study from Elsevier Health shows 47 percent of health care professionals plan to leave the field by 2025. Cahaba Medical Care has the first and only nurse practitioner residency program in Alabama. The program graduated six students on Thursday, and these recent graduates are ready to answer the call.
“I initially did not want to be a nurse,” Roshundra Murphy, a nurse practitioner program graduate, said. “I wanted to be an OBGYN and that started about elementary school — watching TLC the birthing stories.”
The journey for these program graduates hasn't been easy.
“I think the thing that keeps me going is the love for the patients, the love for the mission that Cahaba has, and ultimately the love of Jesus and spreading the word to everyone,” Katy Miller, a nurse practitioner program graduate, said.
Health care consulting group Definitive Healthcare found more than 53,000 nurse practitioners left the field between October and December 2021 alone.
Cahaba Medical Care nurse practitioner program director Josh Ellidge said this intense 15-week program is designed to support the graduates through their first year — even through burnout.
“We have a system and a structure in place for support--that's one of our values,” Elledge said. “Emotional support, spiritual support, mental health support for them as they're learning — that's really what the bread and butter is.”
Graduates Roshundra Murphy and Katy Miller said this program is helping them live their purpose even as the health industry changes — no matter if their patients can afford care or not.
“Anything I can learn to keep myself safe and also keep my patients safe in the pandemic,” Murphy said. “I would do it all over again. I know in my community — and people that are older — they never really learned how to take care of themselves and be healthy.”
“I think everyone should be treated with the same respect and be able to have the same resources to be able to treat medically,” Miller said.
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FARGO, N.D. — In the final years of their daughter’s life, Tim and Dawn Bowman spent many weekends on Interstate 94, driving four hours each way from St. Paul, Minnesota to Fargo, North Dakota.
That’s what it took to see Rachel.
“For the severe eating disorder portion of it," said Tim Bowman, "there really is nothing out there - I mean, in our region anyway."
When Rachel was nearing her teens, her parents noticed she was eating less and less. To this day, they can’t fully explain why. But within months, she would travel for treatment for anorexia nervosa.
“It really takes a toll and then it doesn’t stop," said her dad. "It takes, and it takes, and it takes."
The latest reports estimate nearly one in 10 Americans will experience an eating disorder. Mortality rates for those with anorexia nervosa are nearly six times higher than for those without. And when disorders become severe, options for treatment often require long drives or flights.
Dr. Stephen Wonderlich is the vice president of research for Sanford Health in Fargo. It holds the only major eating disorder treatment facility for hundreds of miles.
“There’s more and more treatment available, but sometimes they can’t take severe cases, or sometimes they might not take somebody who has public insurance like Medicaid or Medicare,” Wonderlich said.
The Bowmans sought help for Rachel near St. Paul. When she needed higher care, they flew her first to a center in Arizona, then one in Colorado. Only in the final stretch of an 18-year fight did they find Sanford, a four-hour drive down I-94.
“It was just the care that they gave Rachel, and the hope, and the fight," said Dawn. "That’s why Rachel fought too, you know, because they were in her corner."
Research and investment in eating disorders are strikingly low compared to other diseases. Recent years have brought signs of change. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency room visits for eating disorders have doubled. Colorado and Kentucky are among the states whose legislatures have passed measures to address an issue that goes far beyond the disease.
“That’s the whole deal," said Dawn. "You have to call, and unfortunately, maybe be on this waiting list and this waiting list … and, you know, see if insurance covers it. We took a second mortgage out on the house. But I’d take a third and fourth and fifth, whatever it would take for that care.”
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A doctor who police say has spent two decades providing medical assistance to youth hockey teams in Michigan and Minnesota has been charged after patients in the Detroit area accused him of sexual assault.
Zvi Levran was arraigned Friday in 47th District Court on multiple criminal sexual conduct charges involving several patients, according to police in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Levran's attorney entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf.
The patients told police that their examinations were in some way connected to youth hockey organizations. Police have released no information about the ages or genders of Levran's accusers, nor when the alleged assaults took place.
Levran was ordered held on a $1 million bond. He also was ordered to surrender his passports, treat no patients at his home and have no unsupervised contact with patients.
A pre-exam conference has been scheduled for Dec. 7.
His attorney, Joseph Lavigne, told The Associated Press Friday that he has no information yet on what has been alleged, but that Levran intends to defend himself against the charges.
Levran also was charged last month after a 19-year-old man told authorities he was sexually assaulted during an Oct. 18 examination in Levran’s home office, northwest of Detroit.
In that case, Levran was arraigned in October on seven criminal sexual conduct charges, ordered not to leave Michigan and told to have no contact with minors or hockey players.
Investigators say they are concerned there are other victims who have not yet come forward.
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Family finds bear hibernating under deck
PLAINVILLE, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - We know this is the time of year that bears hibernate, but imagine finding one camping out right in your own backyard.
A family in Plainville, Connecticut, discovered a black bear taking refuge under their deck.
The bear has been there for several weeks. The family is following guidance from state environmental officials, and he’s welcome to stay for a while.
It was a walk outside that turned into a crazy encounter about two weeks ago.
“My dog started growling,” Vincent Dashukewich said. “That’s when my girlfriend got scared and ran to the house, and I turned my head and saw the bear, and we were staring right at each other. It’s pretty crazy.”
Dashukewich said the bear hadn’t done much but lounge around so far.
“He’s massive, yeah, but he’s super chill,” he said.
His family contacted the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).
“They said to just leave him alone, let him be as long as he’s not creating a disturbance or bothering anybody,” Dashukewich said.
Jason Hawley, a wildlife biologist with DEEP, said that finding a bear on your property is a common occurrence in Connecticut.
“We get about 15 to 20 calls a year about bears denning under decks and porches,” he said.
Hawley said there are measures you can take in this situation.
“The most important thing is to just leave it alone, so not go over and continuously be looking underneath, stay out of the area, and keep your dogs and kids away from the area,” Hawley said. “We encourage people to call us if they spot a bear underneath their deck. It could be a bear we’re looking for.”
Meanwhile, Dashukewich said it’s barely been an issue, and they’ve named the bear Marty.
“The reach has been crazy,” Dashukewich said. “The first TikTok videos blew up. That’s when I created the socials for Marty.”
The family has made Marty his own account on TikTok and Instagram under the username “marty.the.bear.”
They want to make his stay as comfortable as possible.
“They’re essentially sleeping, so you can think of it as a five-month-long nap,” said Dashukewich. “My parents are a little worried. They don’t want any problems happening, especially with the dog, so we’re just going to let him be and keep to himself.”
DEEP officials said Marty could be there until early March or longer.
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Now listed in AWS Marketplace, Miro makes it easy for AWS customers to access unique collaboration solutions, including mapping and diagramming for cloud architecture and Agile and planning rituals for Engineering, Product and Design ("EPD") teams
SAN FRANCISCO and AMSTERDAM, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Miro®, the visual workspace for innovation, today announced it is joining the AWS ISV Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for members of the AWS Partner Network that gives AWS customers easy access to software solutions that run on, or integrate with, AWS. AWS ISV Accelerate Program members are held to the IT industry's highest standards and must undergo a comprehensive evaluation to gain acceptance into the program.
"Miro is a long-standing AWS customer and partner, and we're pleased to strengthen our relationship through acceptance into the ISV Accelerate Program," said Steve Miller, Head of Enterprise Partnerships at Miro. "We're proud to co-sell with AWS and look forward to bringing our customers market-leading solutions that make it easier to build the next big thing."
''We're hearing from our customers that creating a digital workspace experience is one of their top goals to retain and hire talent globally, as well as to increase the effectiveness of collaboration across teams, regions, and organizations. AWS Partners like Miro are a critical element in allowing AWS to help mutual customers achieve these goals and we're pleased to strengthen our relationship with the recent progress of them becoming a seller on AWS Marketplace, giving AWS customers more choice in selecting their preferred way to buy software. We're delighted to award Miro with an ISV Accelerate Status and we look forward to continuing to drive digital innovation and helping to shape the future for collaborators throughout 2023," said Marta Whiteaker, Director of International Partnerships at AWS.
As an official AWS ISV Accelerate Program member, Miro is featured in the AWS Marketplace, allowing AWS customers to purchase Miro Enterprise through the AWS Marketplace site. Miro will now also offer its startup program directly to AWS Activate members. With Miro, AWS customers can activate new and unique collaboration practices that can help accelerate innovation across their organization. Specifically, Miro can help AWS customers solve some of the most critical challenges EPD teams face on a daily basis. Miro provides a workspace designed to support Agile planning, technical diagramming (with AWS Shape Packs built-in), as well as scrum events, which are just some of the ways that the platfor can help organizations increase innovation velocity.
Cobre is one of the first businesses to take advantage of Miro Enterprise through the AWS Marketplace. "At Cobre, we are leveraging Miro for strategy sessions, design roadmaps, and user journeys. After widespread adoption of Miro's services across our organization, we looked to address security and scalability requirements. We chose Miro Enterprise to capture all of the users on our domain, gain access to unlimited teams, a flexible licensing plan, and centralize the purchase through AWS Marketplace," said Joe Donato, co-founder and CTO at Cobre.
Miro and AWS will continue collaborating closely on additional solutions and integrations set to launch later this year. To learn more about Miro on AWS Marketplace, please visit: https://miro.com/miro-aws/
About Miro
Miro is an online workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 50M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,500 employees in 12 hubs around the world. To learn more, please visit https://miro.com.
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Hospital chain says ‘IT security issue’ disrupts operations
CHICAGO (AP) — A major nonprofit health system with 140 hospitals in 21 states, CommonSpirit Health, is reporting an “IT security issue” that has disrupted operations in multiple states.
A company spokesperson would not explain the nature of the apparent cyberattack, such as whether the organization’s IT network was hit by ransomware.
The Des Moines Register said the incident occurred Monday and forced the diversion of ambulances from the emergency department of the city’s Mercy One Medical Center to other medical facilities. The Chattanoogan reported that CHI Memorial Hospital was among facilities impacted.
In a statement Tuesday, CommonSpirit said it had taken “certain IT systems offline” including electronic health records as a precaution and rescheduled some patient appointments. It would not say whether patient records were accessed. Nor did it say when the apparent breach was detected.
The Chicago company, formed in 2019 from the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health, serves 20 million Americans with more than 1,000 care sites located coast-to-coast.
Health care is classified by the U.S. government as one of 16 critical infrastructure sectors, and health care providers are seen as ripe targets for hackers.
If patient data is accessed, health care providers are required by law to notify the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Wake County leaders on Wednesday announced they've secured a $47 million bank loan that will fund efforts to save existing affordable apartments and homes, which have been lost by the thousands since 2019.
Raleigh is one of the many cities that is losing affordable places to live as landlords raise rents (sometimes by more than 100 percent) or sell to developers, who raze and replace the properties with luxury units. Affordable home buying is also disappearing, as sale prices in some formerly-affordable neighborhoods have skyrocketed alongside new construction. Most new homebuyers are facing unsurmountable financial barriers to getting a loan or paying a mortgage.
Advocates often refer to this kind of housing as "naturally-occurring affordable housing," or NOAH. Since 2019, Raleigh has lost nearly 9,000 NOAH units, and experts estimate the city has a deficit of nearly 20,000 affordable apartments.
In Wake County, about 59 percent of apartments with rents below $750 per month (or $1,000, when adjusted for inflation) have been lost since 2010, along with 40 percent of units with rents below $1,000 per month ($1,360 in today's money).
“Without preserving the existing affordable units within our communities, we’re just treading water when it comes to solving the bigger issue of our housing crisis,” said Wake County Commissioner Vickie Adamson in a news release. Adamson is unopposed in her bid for reelection.
“This is one of the biggest investments the county has ever made into an affordable housing program, and it showcases our commitment to keeping residents in homes they can afford and in communities they love.”
What will this money do?
Wake County worked with major banks Truist, First Horizon, and Wells Fargo to secure the $47.1 million loan. The money will go directly into the Wake County Affordable Housing Preservation Fund, which started last year with $10.5 million from the county and $4 million from Raleigh, and will bring the fund's balance to $61.6 million.
The funding provides loans to cooperative developers and nonprofits so they can buy property that comes on the market and keep it affordable. Raleigh has already approved a loan to CASA, an affordable housing nonprofit, to buy the historic Grosvenor Gardens apartments. Because of the program, these apartments will remain affordable to renters.
“Right now, we’re losing affordable units much faster than we’re adding new ones,” said Baldwin in the news release. “We want to turn that around ... This fund is exactly how we want to be investing our local housing dollars.”
With the addition of $47.1 million to the preservation fund, the county "is immediately able to allow loans to be made fast enough for development partners to take advantage of competitive acquisition opportunities," states the news release. "It’s estimated this fund will be able to preserve 3,170 affordable housing units over the next 15 years."
Developers can qualify for one of two loans:
• Bridge Builder Loan, a short-term revolving loan to help acquire or maintain affordable multifamily rental properties, giving developers time to stabilize the properties and obtain long-term supportive financing, or
• Place Saver Loan, or permanent financing loans to acquire, rehabilitate, or preserve multifamily rental properties, whether naturally occurring affordable housing or expiring legally binding affordable housing.
The loss of affordable housing has become a major campaign issue ahead of this year's elections for Raleigh City Council and the Wake County Board of Commissioners. Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin is facing strong criticism from opponents Terrance Ruth and DaQuanta Copeland on the loss of affordable housing, as well as from other city council candidates who say she's not doing enough to regulate the market.
The announcement of a multimillion-dollar investment in preserving NOAH, just 13 days before the election, could sway voters on Nov. 8.
Potential investors and developers can learn more about the Wake County Affordable Housing Preservation Fund at wakegov.com/preservationfund.
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Beto O'Rourke, who is the Democrat running for governor in Texas, interrupted a press briefing about the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had finished commenting about mental health resources for the community and introduced the lieutenant governor when O'Rourke approached the table and began shouting.
O'Rourke told Abbott that he has done "nothing" to protect Texans following other mass shootings in the state.
A person could be heard saying, "You're out of line," as O'Rourke continued shouting.
Security at the event eventually ushered O'Rourke away from the table and he left the auditorium.
Abbott reflected on O'Rourke, calling for all Texans to come together.
Speaking with reporters outside, O'Rourke said that leaders "owe" the parents of mass shooting victims.
He said the state should require universal background checks and stop selling AR-15s, which the gunman reportedly used in the shooting at Robb Elementary. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-beto-orourke-interrupts-texas-school-shooting-press-conference | 2022-05-25 19:34:50 | 0 | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-beto-orourke-interrupts-texas-school-shooting-press-conference |
Kentucky police search for escaped inmate who briefly kidnapped 2 people
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - Police in Kentucky are actively searching for an inmate who escaped from a transport vehicle heading to a court hearing.
WAVE reports a heavy police presence was spotted near the I-265/I-71 interchange in eastern Jefferson County on Thursday morning.
Around 8:30 a.m., police were informed of an individual seen running along the lanes of traffic wearing orange clothing. Louisville Metro Police Department confirmed the escaped inmate was 31-year-old Norman K. Wolfe.
Police say Wolfe has charges against him for burglary, fleeing, evading police and possession of a handgun as a convicted felon.
Court documents state Wolfe was expected to appear in court in Trimble County on Thursday morning.
Trimble County jailer Bobby Temple confirmed Wolfe was being taken into the county when he escaped out of the transport vehicle. It’s believed Wolfe may have gotten out through a window.
Temple said the jail officer was not hurt and is still within Jefferson County.
LMPD and other agencies began searching the surrounding area to find Wolfe, and the department told nearby businesses and schools to take precautions.
Around 11:30 a.m., officers said Wolfe had kidnapped two victims from the 8500 block of Brownsboro Road and were forced to drive the suspect to the area of River Road and Edith Avenue. The victims were found unharmed and told police the incident happened around 10:20 a.m.
Temple described Wolfe as a “very subdued inmate” and Thursday’s incident was the first trouble report they had on him.
According to court documents, Wolfe was a convicted felon out of Clark County, Indiana, and had been arrested in April in connection with a burglary.
Police said on April 6, Wolfe went to the home of a former partner and started arguing. When a third person approached Wolfe and the victim, Wolfe is said to have pulled a gun from his clothing.
The gun was passed to the third person once Wolfe saw officers at the door, and Wolfe ran towards the back of the home.
Wolfe is said to have gone to a detached garage less than a mile away and barricaded himself inside. Documents state Wolfe made threats to LMPD and SWAT, saying he would “kill himself if anyone approached him.”
He was taken into custody a short time later by police, SWAT and the Hostage Negotiation Team.
Police said new charges for Thursday’s incident are expected once Wolfe is taken into custody.
Jefferson County Public Schools said kids at several nearby schools were being kept inside until they received an all-clear from police.
Police gave the all-clear to schools to return to normal operations around 12:30 p.m. JCPS did confirm the police activity was not connected to any of the district’s schools.
Kentucky Country Day School, a private school in Louisville near the area, also confirmed it was in soft lockdown as requested by police.
LMPD said the investigation is ongoing. ATF Louisville said it is also assisting police in locating the inmate.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has begun mass layoffs in its corporate ranks, becoming the latest tech company to trim its workforce amid rising fears about the wider economic environment.
On Tuesday, the company notified regional authorities in California that it would lay off about 260 workers at various facilities that employ data scientists, software engineers and other corporate workers. Those job cuts would be effective beginning on Jan. 17.
Amazon would not specify how many more layoffs may be in the works beyond the ones confirmed through California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN, which requires companies to provide 60 days’ notice if they have 75 or more full-time or part-time workers. Amazon employs more than 1.5 million workers globally, primarily made up of hourly workers.
The online retail giant, like other tech and social media giants, saw sizable profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, as homebound shoppers purchased more items online. But revenue growth slowed as the worst of the pandemic eased and consumers relied less on ecommerce.
The Seattle-based company reported two consecutive losses this year, driven mainly by write-downs of the value of its stock investment in electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive. The company returned to profitability during the third quarter, but investors were gloomy about its weaker-than-expected revenue and lackluster projections for the current quarter, which is typically good for retailers due to the holiday shopping season.
In an effort to cut back on costs, Amazon has already been axing some of its projects — including subsidiary fabric.com, Amazon Care, and the cooler-size home delivery robot Scout. Its also been scaling back its physical footprint by delaying — or canceling — plans to occupy some new warehouses across the country. And Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky has said the company was preparing for what could be a slower growth period and would be careful about hiring in the near future.
Mass layoffs are rare at Amazon, but the company has had rounds of job cuts in 2018 and in 2001 during the dot-com crash. On the warehouse side, the ecommerce giant typically trims its workforce through attrition.
Faced with high costs, the company announced earlier this month it would pause hiring among its corporate workforce, adding to the freeze it put a few weeks earlier on its retail division. But the layoffs weren’t far off. Employees who work in different units, including voice assistant Alexa and cloud gaming platform Amazon Luna, said they were let go on Tuesday, according to LinkedIn posts. Some of them were based in Seattle, where the company has its headquarters.
“As part of our annual operating planning review process, we always look at each of our businesses and what we believe we should change,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement. “As we’ve gone through this, given the current macro-economic environment (as well as several years of rapid hiring), some teams are making adjustments, which in some cases means certain roles are no longer necessary.”
In a note to the devices & services team that Amazon shared on its website, the team’s senior vice president David Limp said the company was consolidating some teams and programs. He said those laid off in the process were notified on Tuesday and the company will work with them to “provide support,” including assistance in finding new roles. If an employee cannot find a new role within the company, Limp said Amazon will provide a severance payment, external job placement support and what he called transitional benefits.
The retail behemoth follows other tech giants that have cut jobs in the past few weeks — a reversal from earlier this year, when tech workers were in high demand. Facebook parent Meta said last week it would lay off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce. And Elon Musk, the new Twitter CEO, slashed the company’s workforce in half this month.
Going forward, Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives said he believes Amazon will likely sustain its workforce and investments in profitable areas such as the cloud computing unit AWS, while trimming costs in non-strategic areas like Alexa and other moonshot projects.
“The clock has struck midnight in terms of hyper-growth for Big Tech,” Ives said. “These companies hired at such an eye popping rate, it was not sustainable. Now there’s some painful steps ahead.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-amazon-begins-mass-layoffs-among-its-corporate-workforce/ | 2022-11-17 04:43:39 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-amazon-begins-mass-layoffs-among-its-corporate-workforce/ |
An 18-year-old man died Sunday after his car sped off an Oakton area road and crashed into a tree, Fairfax County police said.
A juvenile passenger, who police did not identify by age or gender, suffered injuries not considered to be life threatening and remained hospitalized Monday, police said.
The Mazda veered off the right shoulder as Aquilino crested a hill while traveling south,, police said. Investigators believe speed contributed to the cause of the crash, according to the statement. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/20/teen-killed-oakton-crash/ | 2022-06-20 22:41:38 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/20/teen-killed-oakton-crash/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.
The preliminary findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are based on survey responses from more than 27,000 adults.
Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer, heart disease and stroke, and it's long been considered the leading cause of preventable death.
In the mid-1960s, 42% of U.S. adults were smokers. The rate has been gradually dropping for decades, due to cigarette taxes, tobacco product price hikes, smoking bans and changes in the social acceptability of lighting up in public.
Last year, the percentage of adult smokers dropped to about 11%, down from about 12.5% in 2020 and 2021. The survey findings sometimes are revised after further analysis, and CDC is expected to release final 2021 data soon.
E-cigarette use rose to nearly 6% last year, from about 4.5% the year before, according to survey data.
The rise in e-cigarette use concerns Dr. Jonathan Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. Nicotine addiction has its own health implications, including risk of high blood pressure and a narrowing of the arteries, according to the American Heart Association.
“I think that smoking will continue to ebb downwards, but whether the prevalence of nicotine addiction will drop, given the rise of electronic products, is not clear,” said Samet, who has been a contributing author to U.S. Surgeon General reports on smoking and health for almost four decades.
Smoking and vaping rates are almost reversed for teens. Only about 2% of high school students were smoking traditional cigarettes last year, but about 14% were using e-cigarettes, according to other CDC data.
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MCCORDSVILLE, Ind. — A 68-year-old McCordsville woman was found dead inside her home after it caught fire Wednesday night, according to the McCordsville Police Department.
Authorities identified the woman as Susan Spangler.
MPD said officers were called to assist with a fire at a home in the 9300 block of North Bayhill Circle after a neighbor called 911.
When officers arrived, they found heavy smoke and fire at the rear of the residence. They tried to enter the home but were unable to due to the flames, MPD said.
Fire crews arrived at the scene and later found Spangler.
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The fifth annual awards celebrate the Relativity user community through a revamped program and in-person ceremony
CHICAGO, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, today announced the winners of this year's Innovation Awards at the 13th annual Relativity Fest. The Innovation Awards program celebrates trailblazing individuals and teams who are building custom solutions, empowering their colleagues or clients, and shaping new paths to benefit the industry and its communities.
"The winners for the Innovation Awards become more impressive each year as they demonstrate how they are uniquely influencing the industry to do better, whether it relates to integrating new AI and technology, or creating stronger inclusion programming," said James Zinn, Director of Commercial Partnerships at Relativity. "All of us at Relativity are excited to see how they will continue to transform the industry in their own ways."
This year, AI, security, customer experience, and education and mentorship are at the forefront of Relativity's awards program. Additionally, the awards are shaped differently than previous years with six individual awards and two team awards for Best Innovation. The winners hail from or work directly with organizations large and small, private and public, like Meta, the United Nations and FTI Consulting, just to name a few. Judges selected Best Innovation Enterprise and Service Provider winners based on their use of various APIs and extensibility points to streamline processes, automate repetitive tasks and create solutions to Relativity's customers' most strategic challenges.
"We're ecstatic that, this year, 50% of award nominees and 5-out-of-6 winners are women. This demonstrates the strides that the industry has made over the last few years to not only be more inclusive of women, but more vocal in celebrating their incredible contributions," said Blair Cohen, host of the 2022 Innovation Awards and leader of Relativity's Stellar Women podcast. "Each of the 2022 winners is a shining example of how the industry is changing for the better and we look forward to their continued success in their respective roles and fields."
The 2022 winners are:
- Artificial Intelligence: Kelly Friedman, Senior Counsel & National Leader, Beyond eDiscovery at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
- Customer Experience: Adrian Agius, Legal Informatics Manager/Information Systems Officer, Gilbert + Tobin/International Criminal Court
- Education & Mentorship: Lauren Roso, Engagement Director at ProSearch
- Inclusion: Farrah Pepper, Chief Legal Innovation Counsel at Marsh McClennan
- Security: Inés Rubio, Senior Director at FTI Consulting
- Stellar Women: Allison Stanton Director & Associate General Counsel, eDiscovery & Information Governance at Meta
- Best Innovation: Enterprise: Troutman Pepper for eMerge Xtractor
- Best Innovation: Service Provider: Lineal Services for Lineal Amplify and Lineal Images
Judges selected Innovation Awards winners based on their ability to answer challenging problems with impactful solutions. Each of the individual award winners above exemplifies what it means to be a changemaker at the individual, organizational and industry levels. While the individual category awards are determined by a Community vote, the Best Innovation Enterprise and Service Provider awards are determined by Relativity committees.
Relativity congratulates all submissions for the innovative work delivered this past year.
Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product RelativityOne manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. The AI-powered communication surveillance product, Relativity Trace proactively detects regulatory misconduct like insider trading, collusion and other non-compliant behavior. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for 10 consecutive years. Please contact Relativity at sales@relativity.com or visit http://www.relativity.com for more information.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will go public with its findings in a prime-time hearing next week, the start of what lawmakers hope will be a high-profile airing of the causes and consequences of the domestic attack on the U.S. government.
Lawmakers plan to hold a series of hearings in June that they promise will lay out, step-by-step, how former President Donald Trump and his allies worked feverishly to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, spreading lies about widespread voter fraud — widely debunked by judges and his own administration — that fueled a violent assault on the seat of democracy.
The six hearings, set to begin June 9 and expected to last until late June, will be the first time the committee discloses “previously unseen material” about what it has discovered in the course of a sprawling 10-month investigation that has touched nearly every aspect of the insurrection.
The committee, which has called Jan. 6 “one of the darkest days of our democracy,” was formed in the aftermath to “investigate the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol.”
Unlike any other congressional committee in recent times, the panel’s work has been both highly anticipated by Democrats and routinely criticized by Trump and the former president’s allies, including some Republicans in Congress, who complain it is partisan.
More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel, and only brief snippets of that testimony have been revealed to the public, mostly through court filings. The hearings are expected to showcase a series of witnesses but the committee has not yet publicly released the names.
The investigation has focused on every aspect of the insurrection, including the efforts by Trump and his allies to cast doubt on the election and halt the certification of President Joe Biden's victory; the financing and organizing of rallies in Washington that took place before the attack; security failures by Capitol Police and federal agencies; and the actions of the rioters themselves.
The hearings are expected to be exhaustive, but not the final word from the committee, which plans to released subsequent reports on its findings, including recommendations on legislative reforms, ahead of the midterm elections.
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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Jan-6-committee-sets-prime-time-hearing-date-for-17216130.php | 2022-06-02 23:18:26 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Jan-6-committee-sets-prime-time-hearing-date-for-17216130.php |
Beyoncé is entering her TikTok era.
On July 14, the "Formation" singer shared her first video on the social media platform, dedicating the post to all of the fans who created videos to her new single, "Break My Soul." The TikTok features a compilation of Black and LGBTQ content creators who danced, sang or made skits to the new track.
In one part of the clip, a fan vogued in their hotel room, while another part of the video showed someone dancing in the streets while holding a rainbow-colored fan. The video also featured an appearance from Cardi B, who screamed Beyonce's lyrics, "In case you forgot how we act outside."
"Seeing y'all release the wiggle made me so happy!" the Lemonade singer captioned the post. "Thank you so much for all the love for BREAK MY SOUL! - Love B."
And for Beyoncé, including the skills of her Beyhive means everything, seeing as how important her fanbase is to her. As she shared on Instagram last month, she hopes her fans "find joy in this music" and are inspired "to release the wiggle. And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are."
Fans quickly swarmed to the comment section of Beyoncé's post, including one social media user who wrote, "Can't believe I'm witnessing Beyoncé's TikTok era."
Another person commented, "imagine waking up and realize your featured on the official Beyoncé page!" while a third TikToker wrote, "MY WIG IS ORBITING SATURN! BEYONCÉ YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN! SENT ME INTO CARDIAC ARREST ON THIS FLIGHT. LOVE YOU QUEEN."
On June 15, Beyoncé broke the internet when she announced that she was releasing her seventh studio album Renaissance on July 29. Just a few days later, the singer released the single "Break My Soul," which samples Robin S' 1993 song, "Show Me Love," and features an interpolation of Big Freedia's 2014 single, "Explode."
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The Virginia Department of Health has endorsed a proposal from health system Bon Secours to build a new freestanding emergency room in Hanover County and recommended denying a competing proposal from HCA Healthcare.
The decisions are not final, but the opinions are a boon to Bon Secours and a blow to HCA — both of which hope to build new emergency rooms in the wealthy, aging suburb.
And it's the second blow to HCA, whose proposal to build a 60-bed hospital in Hanover was also recommended for denial by the state Department of Health.
A new ER from Bon Secours would provide timely emergency access to residents of northern Hanover and Ashland, said a spokesperson for the health system. A representative for HCA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Hanover has become a battleground between the two health systems, thanks to its residents' money and age. On average, Hanover residents are wealthier than those in Henrico and Chesterfield counties and the city of Richmond. The number of Hanover residents over the age of 65 is expected to shoot up 40% between 2020 and 2030.
Bon Secours, a nonprofit health system, has proposed building a $17 million emergency room at 11400 North Lakeridge Parkway, near Interstate 95. (Bon Secours moved the location less than a mile from the east side of the highway to the west side.)
The site would alleviate the crowds at Bon Secours' nearest hospital, Memorial Regional Medical Center, which is about 10 miles south. Memorial Regional sees a high volume of patients, according to hospital data.
HCA's proposed location is just 4 miles from where Bon Secours wants to build. HCA has pitched two different facilities at 10054 Sliding Hill Road. First, it filed plans for a 60-bed hospital. But the health department recommended denying that project, saying HCA had not proved a need for another hospital.
In response, HCA proposed building a $39 million freestanding emergency room on the same site that could eventually become a full hospital. The cost of building is higher because HCA plans to spend nearly $15 million buying the land. The health department called the expense "exceptionally high."
HCA's second proposal has faced roadblocks, too. The location is just 6 miles from another emergency room owned by HCA, called Hanover ER. That facility is underutilized, the health department said in a report, and does not need an outlet for crowds.
Additionally, HCA has been given approval for a freestanding ER in Scott's Addition, which is due to open next year. Its existence undercuts the need for yet another facility, the health department said.
Virginia Commonwealth University Health opposed both the Bon Secours project and the HCA one. VCU Health called HCA's idea "predatory" and designed to expand the health system's geographic footprint and market share.
After evaluating the proposals from Bon Secours and HCA, the health department's Office of Licensure and Certification recommended approving a certificate of public need for Bon Secours and recommended denying HCA's request. Health systems do not need approval to open freestanding emergency rooms, but they do need approval to install critical equipment, such as CT scanners.
Adding another CT scanner to the HCA facility would be a "duplication of services, a poor business decision and poor planning," the health department said in its report.
Dr. Karen Shelton, the state health commissioner, still has to make a final decision on HCA's hospital proposal and both freestanding emergency room proposals.
This morning's top headlines: $1B Powerball winner; Pfizer tornado; Women's World Cup
$1B Powerball winner; Pfizer tornado; Women's World Cup; and more morning headlines:
A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles near Skid Row has sold the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion. It's the sixth largest in U.S. history. The winner could take the $558.1 million lump sum before taxes, or get $1.08 billion paid out in yearly increments. The store where the winning ticket was sold will also receive a $1 million bonus from the California Lottery. Officials presented a giant symbolic check to the store's owner and family on Thursday. The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball 24.
A man stormed a high-rise construction site in downtown Auckland early Thursday morning, shooting at terrified workers and killing two people hours before New Zealand plans to host the first game of the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament. The gunman was found dead after a police shootout, during which an officer was shot and injured. Four civilians were also injured. The shooting happened near hotels where Team Norway and other soccer teams have been staying. New Zealand Prime Minster Chris Hipkins said the tournament would go ahead as planned. The opening match is scheduled for Thursday between New Zealand and Norway.
Ukrainian officials say a third night of Russian air attacks has pounded Ukraine’s southern cities, including the port city of Odesa where at least two people were killed. At least 19 people were injured in the southern city of Mykolaiv in the overnight attack. Another two people were injured in Odesa and buildings were damaged in the city center. The attacks came one day after particularly intense Russian bombardment using drones and missiles that damaged critical port infrastructure in Odesa, and came a few days after President Vladimir Putin pulled Russia out of a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to send grain to countries facing the threat of hunger.
North Korea isn’t responding to U.S. attempts to discuss the American soldier who bolted to the North across the Koreas’ heavily armed border. The U.S. says the Pentagon reached out to its counterparts in North Korea's army but those communications have not been answered. Pvt. Travis King ran into North Korea while on a tour of the border village of Panmunjom on Tuesday. He is the first known American held in North Korea in nearly five years. Tensions are high as the two nations continue to engage in a tit-for-tat cycle of weapons tests and military exercises. The U.S. and North Korea are still technically at war, and there are no known, active channels of communications between them.
A tornado has heavily damaged a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina — the latest in a string of extreme weather events plaguing the U.S. Torrential rains flooded communities in Kentucky while an area from California to South Florida endured more blistering heat on Wednesday. Pfizer reported no serious injuries but authorities said medicine was damaged after a tornado damaged the plant near Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Elsewhere, Phoenix, Arizona, broke an all-time record Wednesday morning for a warm low temperature of 97 degrees. And Kentucky braced under a forecast of more rain after flash floods prompted rescues from homes and vehicles in some waterlogged communities.
The Supreme Court would have to abide by stronger ethics standards under legislation approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It comes in response to recent revelations about donor-funded trips by justices. The bill faced united opposition from Republicans and has little chance to make it through the full Senate. The legislation would set ethics rules for the court and a process to enforce them, including new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest. Democrats first pushed the legislation after reports earlier this year that Justice Clarence Thomas participated in luxury vacations and a real estate deal with a top GOP donor.
Police cast doubt on Carlee Russell's kidnapping claim after reporting toddler on an Alabama highway
Police are casting doubt on a 25-year-old Alabama woman's claim that she was kidnapped from the side of an interstate after calling 911 to report seeing a toddler. Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis says detectives are still investigating where Carlee Russell was and what happened to her between the time she went missing Thursday to her return home two days later. But he also says investigators have been unable to verify most of her initial statement. Carlee Russell's mother, Talitha Russell, told NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday that her daughter was abducted and fought for her life.
An attorney for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin says they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his second-degree murder conviction in George Floyd's killing. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday denied without comment Chauvin’s petition for his case to be heard, maintaining his conviction and 22 1/2-year sentence. Chauvin's attorney said Wednesday the most significant issue is whether holding the proceedings in Minneapolis in 2021 deprived Chauvin of a fair trial due to pretrial publicity and concerns for violence. Chauvin faces long odds at the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears only about 100 to 150 appeals out of thousands every year.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told top Vietnamese officials that Washington considers building strong economic and security ties with Vietnam a priority. Yellen visited an electric scooter and battery factory outside Hanoi on Thursday as part of an itinerary focused on highlighting Vietnam's importance as a rising industrial power and alternative for manufacturers seeking to diversify their supply chains away from China. She earlier visited India, which is keen to draw more high tech investments and build its own export capacity. Yellen also met with the head of Vietnam's central bank and said the two sides agreed on establishing an economic policy dialogue.
Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran have stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire. Online videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr ahead of a planned burning of the holy book Thursday in Stockholm. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said its embassy staff were safe without elaborating. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attack. A Swedish news report says two demonstrators planned to burn a Quran and the Iraq flag outside the Iraqi Embassy later Thursday.
A row of tightly trimmed ficus trees along a stretch of sidewalk outside Universal Studios has become a hot spot in the face-off between Hollywood studios and striking screenwriters and actors. Some members of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA unions think the studio purposely pruned the trees in an effort to remove a source of shade for workers picketing under the hot Southern California sun. They gathered on Wednesday regardless. One woman wore a green wreath on her head and held a sign depicting an untrimmed tree under the words “Never Forget.” SAG-AFTRA member and Democratic Burbank Mayor Konstantine Anthony says strikers "don’t want to see any more shady nonsense.”
Hannah Wilkinson has scored to open the second half and New Zealand has beaten Norway 1-0 for its first-ever win at the Women’s World Cup just hours after a shooting in downtown Auckland that shocked the host nation. A gunman stormed a high-rise construction site near Norway’s team hotel and opened fire, killing two people early Thursday. The gunman was found dead after a police shootout. There was increased security at Eden Park stadium where 42,137 — a record crowd for a soccer match in New Zealand — were on hand to cheer on the home team, co-hosts of the tournament with Australia.
Cameron Smith has started his title defense at the British Open and is chasing a South African amateur holding an unlikely lead at Royal Liverpool. Smith is looking to do what no player has achieved since Padraig Harrington in 2008 and lift the claret jug in successive years. The Australian opened with a birdie at the first after a putt from about eight feet. Christo Lamprecht reached the back nine at 3 under. He is a two-time All-American from Georgia Tech who qualified by winning the British Amateur at the nearby Hillside links. He made three birdies in a four-hole stretch from No. 3. | https://richmond.com/news/local/business/health-care/state-backs-new-bon-secours-emergency-room-in-hanover/article_9f4f5612-271e-11ee-b94e-c78d05506854.html | 2023-07-21 00:21:16 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/business/health-care/state-backs-new-bon-secours-emergency-room-in-hanover/article_9f4f5612-271e-11ee-b94e-c78d05506854.html |
Stephen A. Smith says Alabama's Brandon Miller shouldn't have played amid shooting link, commends performance
Miller scored a career-high 41 points Wednesday night
Following a career night against South Carolina, Alabama star freshman Brandon Miller was a major topic of conversation on Thursday.
Miller has been linked to the death of Jamea Harris in January after police testimony tied his involvement by allegedly transporting former teammate Darius Miles’ gun that was used in the shooting.
Amid chants of "lock him up" against the Gamecocks, Miller scored career-high 41 points in the 78-76 overtime Alabama win.
On Thursday, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith discussed Miller’s night on "First Take," applauding his on-court performance while disagreeing with him getting to play amid the controversy.
"I will applaud Brandon Miller the basketball player, from the standpoint that to endure what he was enduring last night," Smith said. "And to go out there as a freshman and to put on that show on the road, absolutely showed a level of mental toughness that I believe NBA scouts, people on the next level will look at – assuming there’s nothing that comes from this from a legal perspective for him – they’ll look at that level of mental toughness and find a way to applaud that."
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"But as a young man, I want Brandon Miller to think about this – you didn’t pull the trigger, you didn't shoot anybody, and it’s important to say that," Smith continued. "But it’s also important to say this - if you didn’t have that firearm to provide for Darius Miles and the person that he was with, a 23-year-old young lady probably would still be alive. And for you to have anything to do with that, it’s something that should make it very, very, very difficult for you to sleep at night as opposed to pumping your chest at people who were booing you."
Miller’s attorney, Jim Standridge, released a statement hours before tipoff clarifying that the freshman standout "never saw the handgun" belonging to Miles, who has since been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Harris near the university’s campus in January.
"On January 14th, Brandon played in a basketball game in the afternoon and later was asked by Darius Miles for a ride to the Strip area to go to a nightclub," the statement read, via the Tuscaloosa Patch.
"Mr. Miles brought his legal handgun and left in the backseat of Brandon’s vehicle. Brandon never saw the handgun nor handled it. Further it is our understanding that the weapon was concealed under some clothing in the back seat of his car."
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The statement went on to say that instead of going inside the nightclub, Miller left to go get food. He was later contacted by Miles to pick him up and go to a different location and while he was already on the way, Miller received a text from Miles asking him "to bring him his firearm."
Miller’s attorney claimed that he never "interacted with anyone in Ms. Harris’ party" or Michael Lynn Davis, who is also charged with capital murder. He also disputed a claim that Miller’s vehicle blocked the path of the car that Harris was a passenger in at the time of the shooting.
Miller has not been charged with any crime.
In a January statement to Fox News Digital, Miles "maintains his innocence" and is "heartbroken" for the family of the victim, his lawyers said.
Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/stephen-a-smith-alabamas-brandon-miller-shouldnt-have-played-amid-shooting-link-commends-performance | 2023-02-23 18:06:13 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/stephen-a-smith-alabamas-brandon-miller-shouldnt-have-played-amid-shooting-link-commends-performance |
ALBUQUERQUE — Every time on the court, increase your value.
That, in a nutshell, is Richard Pitino’s message to his team before every practice and game.
The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team has collectively increased its value this season, navigating its first nine games without a loss while elevating the program’s status to a fan base that is slowly starting to come around.
Saturday’s late-arriving crowd of 10,049 patiently made its way through metal detectors at every entrance to watch the Lobos (9-0) show flashes of brilliance in a 94-76 win over visiting UTSA (5-4) in The Pit. It’s the first time this season a home crowd has reached five figures and just the second time it has happened in the last 27 home dates.
It certainly doesn’t hurt UNM is off to its best start in a decade. It’s not at all bad that the Lobos are starting to get a vote here and there for the Top 25, something that hasn’t happened in a long time.
“Well, rankings are great for your fans,” Pitino said. “There’s an engagement level when you have a number in front of your team name. That certainly is important to your fan base and in recruiting. It helps to get that exposure. But at the end of the day if the goal is to win championships and the goal is to go to an NCAA Tournament, an ESPN or an AP ranking has nothing to do with it.”
Pitino said the only metrics he uses to gage how his team is doing are the so-called “nerdy” numbers that have become the defining characteristic used in baseball. For college hoops, it’s the NET Rankings used by the NCAA and the ever-popular KenPom Ratings that are updated daily. The Lobos are No. 29 in the latest NET Rankings and No. 82 in KenPom.
On Saturday, the Lobos looked every bit as good as an upper-level team should. They used a 20-2 run early in the first half to take control, much of it fueled by the defense — Jaelen House in particular.
A veritable nightmare for opponents as an on-ball defender, House made life miserable for UTSA’s backcourt by poking at every pass, staying on the hip of his man on the dribble and throwing his body all over the court to make a play.
“I thought he was phenomenal in the first 10 minutes,” Pitino said. “He’s taking really good shots.”
His message to House is the same as it is for the entire team, and that’s the idea of improving their value every time out. House took that to another level early on. He was the first player in double figures and helped open an early 10-point lead.
After those first 10 minutes, it was time for the bigs to go to work. Josiah Allick hit a 3-pointer from the wing to open a 20-point lead at the midway point of the half, then Sebastian Forsling followed that with an emphatic swat of a layup attempt by UTSA’s Japhtet Medor on the next possession, sending the ball ricocheting off the backboard.
Power forward Morris Udeze got into the act in the next two minutes, scoring once on a Euro-step fastbreak layup and again on a hesitation drive from the top of the key to push the lead to 17. He went on to score 24 points with eight rebounds, drawing nine fouls on the UTSA defense in the low post.
Saturday’s game was all about fouls. The teams combined for 49 whistles, leading to 69 free throw attempts and two technicals.
The Lobos scored twice as many points from the free throw line (36) as they did from behind the 3-point line (18).
House finished with 21 points and Jamal Mashburn Jr. 18. Allick had 13 points and six rebounds while House had seven assists.
UNM has a quick turnaround before its next game, Monday night in Las Vegas, Nev., against San Francisco. After that comes perhaps the most anticipated game of the nonconference schedule, a Dec. 18 home date against Iona.
“I don’t know if you know this, but my dad is the coach at Iona,” Pitino joked as he ended his postgame media session. “That’s a pretty good story line.”
Notes
What’s it mean?
The Mountain West Conference’s bell cow, nationally ranked San Diego State, was beaten at home Saturday afternoon by Saint Mary’s, 68-61. That’s the same Saint Mary’s team that lost at home to the Lobos on Nov. 30 and gave No. 1 Houston a run for its money just a few days later.
San Diego State, which currently has the 12th-toughest schedule in the country according to KenPom, is now 7-3 and likely to fall out of the Top 25 when Monday’s updated polls are released.
Defend the arc
UTSA was 8-for-15 from 3-point territory in the first half but only 2-for-8 the rest of the way. Pitino said the Lobos made the adjustment of closing out quicker on the Roadrunners’ jump shooters and swiping at the ball as players looked for extra space.
Requires more touch
Lobos backup bigs Forsling and Birima Seck combined to play just 14 minutes and attempt only two shots. Both were misses; Seck was way short on a spin move layup that grazed the front of the rim while Forsling tried a scoop-shot layup from behind the backboard along the baseline. It was an airball. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/sports/new-mexico-continues-improvement-with-resounding-win-over-utsa/article_e73b0864-78db-11ed-9318-77a1a810e0e9.html | 2022-12-11 08:54:22 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/sports/new-mexico-continues-improvement-with-resounding-win-over-utsa/article_e73b0864-78db-11ed-9318-77a1a810e0e9.html |
LOS ANGELES, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 23, SID Display Week 2023, the world's most influential event in the display industry, opened in the United States. As a global leader in the semiconductor display industry, BOE held the "Define the Future - BOE Innovation Ecosystem Forum" during SID Display Week 2023. A cohort of industry pioneers and leaders attended the forum and delivered speeches, including Chairman and senior executives of BOE, Achin Bhowmik, President of SID, David Gold, Vice President of Hisense International, and Kai Hohmann, Principal Expert of Automotive Displays at Continental. The forum demonstrated the innovation outcomes and applications of BOE's three display technology brands and fully reflected its transformation from a technology pacesetter to a standard setter, charting a new course for the development of the global semiconductor display industry.
Chen Yanshun, Chairman of BOE, said, "We are grateful that the professional platform provided by SID brings us closer, which deepens our mutual understanding and facilitates cooperation. This year, we are celebrating SID's 61st birthday, and BOE celebrated the 30th anniversary of its founding last month. This is a truly memorable moment. Ten years have passed since BOE made its debut at SID Display Week in 2014. Over the years, BOE has vigorously propelled the development of the semiconductor display industry while promoting its own transformation. BOE has launched the 'internet of displays' strategy and the first ever technology brand in China's semiconductor display sector, and implemented the "technology + brand" dual-drive model. In the IoT era where displays are ubiquitous, we should pursue 'Openness, Cooperation, Innovation' when embracing the future. BOE is ready to work with all friends to jointly build a new global industry ecosystem, write a new chapter of win-win cooperation and embark on a new and exciting journey filled with hope."
During the event, Dr. Gao Wenbao, President of BOE, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SID. The two sides agreed to jointly promote the healthy, sustainable and high-quality development of the global display industry through in-depth cooperation. Dr. Xu Xiaoguang, CTO of BOE, shared the industry and technology trends and called on global partners to together promote technological innovation and adopt a new model of cooperation.
UB Cell delivers premium UHD image quality comparable to OLED
ADS Pro is one of BOE's three display technology brands and its independently developed industry-leading high-end LCD display technology solution. It can present optimal images from all viewing angels and has ultrahigh refresh rate and other prominent strengths, while leading the way in eye care and environmental friendliness.
At the BOE Innovation Ecosystem Forum, Dr. Chen Dongchuan, PhD. Principal Expert of TV Dev. Dept. of BOE, said that building on its ADS technology over the past decade, BOE launched UB Cell that can deliver even higher image quality. UB Cell has a variety of strengths such as ultra black, ultra brightness and ultra brilliance to further improve product performance. It boasts an ultrahigh contrast ratio of 3,000:1, 90% color gamut coverage of BT.2020 and a high refresh rate of 240 Hz. Especially when it comes to color deviation from wide viewing angles, BOE developed the STW angle compensation technology solution jointly with its ecosystem partners, which can present true-to-life images from all viewing angles in multiple scenarios, putting it on par with OLED products.
BOE's UB Cell technology has been used in the Hisense U8H, a 98-inch 4K 144 Hz TV model in Hisense's ULED X lineup. The UB Cell display features six core strengths, namely, ultrawide viewing angles, ultralow reflectivity, high contrast ratio, high refresh rate, wide color gamut and high brightness, setting a new benchmark for high-end flagship TVs. At SID Display Week 2023, BOE showed off a range of UB Cell products, including the 600 Hz laptop with the world's highest refresh rate, the first-of-its-kind low-carbon monitor and other innovative display solutions, creating a whole new viewing experience in a more lifelike and energy-efficient manner.
Flexible OLED takes smart cockpit experience to the next level
BOE has launched the high-end flexible display technology solution f-OLED and constantly broken new ground in full-screen display, flexible forms, feature integration and the like to empower a broad range of smart devices and innovative application scenarios, which give users an incredible immersive experience.
Qiu Haijun, Senior Vice President and co-CTO of BOE and head of the OLED Technology and Product Development Center, said that BOE's flexible OLED technology branded as f-OLED has been widely adopted by world-renowned phone makers. Among them, BOE's lower-powered OLED display solution brings upgrades to the Honor Magic5 and the flagship phones by Xingji Meizu Group. BOE also supplies 6.8-inch full-screen OLED displays to the Nubia Z50 Ultra equipped with Gen 4 under-display camera technology. Additionally, BOE has been branching out into in-vehicle display, education, entertainment and other fields. In terms of smart cockpit, BOE's flexible OLED display technology well satisfies the requirements for quality, safety, rich colors, smooth smart interaction and feature-rich cockpit. With a wide color gamut and high contrast ratio, BOE's in-vehicle display presents true-to-life images and takes diverse forms to suit the needs of the instrument panel, central display, passenger display, A-pillar and taillight. It offers personalized options to customers, meeting their diversified expectations for smart cockpit.
As a global leader in the semiconductor display industry, BOE has been diving into the field of OLED display, with rich technical accumulations and strong R&D capacity. The company has filed more than 28,000 patent applications related to flexible OLED, and its proprietary technologies have been applied in a wide range of fields, such as mobile phones and laptops. It provides highly innovative products and services to over 16 customer ecosystems, and has earned high recognition from leading brands at home and abroad. According to data from Omdia, BOE has stayed No. 1 in China and No. 2 in the world by flexible OLED display shipments for years, diving deeper into the field of flexible display with innovative technologies and products.
α-MLED creates superb immersive experience in multiple scenarios
In the field of MLED, BOE has continuously pushed for breakthroughs in and commercialization of Mini/Micro LED technology centered on its display technology brand α-MLED and its unique chip-on-glass (COG) and active matrix (AM) technology. It has taken the lead in achieving the mass production and commercialization of COG AM Mini LEDs.
Chen Ming, BOE's CTO for MLED, introduced that through innovation in various links such as the electroplated TFT process, packaging solution and side wiring process, BOE's MLED technology enables MLED display to achieve peak brightness of 2,000 nits, ultra black, super low flicker and edge-to-edge spicing, giving the audiences a brand-new immersive experience. By becoming a controlling shareholder of the Chinese LED chipmaker HC Semitek, BOE aims to increase its presence in the LED eco-chain, establish a complete MLED technology system and industry ecosystem and constantly solidify its leadership in the field of Mini/Micro LED.
Up to now, BOE has rolled out a range of high-end products, such as the 86-inch COG AM Mini LED display that was selected as the Display Components of the Year of the Display Industry Awards (DIA) at SID Display Week 2022, the 163-inch 0.9mm LTPS COG MLED display, the 75-inch 8K Mini LED display, and the 34-inch COG Mini LED esports display. The company has forged extensive cooperation with leading Chinese and foreign brands, for example, Lenovo, HP, Hisense, KONKA and Skyworth. Meanwhile, BOE is active in expanding MLED application scenarios and developing MLED products and system solutions like commercial exhibition and display, HUD display and AR glasses, unlocking infinite possibilities for the rapid adoption and development of Mini/Micro LED technology.
At the forum, Dr. Xu Xiaoguang announced a call-up for global technological innovation on behalf of BOE. In his speech he mentioned that the display industry is now preparing for megatrends such as the metaverse, AIoT and low carbon, while facing new challenges in physical mechanisms, material devices, process equipment, algorithms and other fields. Maintaining its respect for technology and dedication to innovation, BOE is committed to bringing together talents to deal with industry challenges together. By scaling up capital inputs, sharing innovation platforms and opening incubation centers, BOE is working alongside scholars, startups, mature companies and other partners across the globe to boost display technology innovation and promote the high-quality development of the industry.
From a struggling enterprise to a "bottleneck breaker" in China's display industry to an undisputable industry leader, BOE has been pushing the limits of technology and embarked on a path of innovation-driven development, navigating its epic 30-year journey with industry-leading technologies and products. Going forward, BOE will stick to the "technology + brand" dual-drive model, inject sustained vitality into the high-quality development of the industry with its "internet of displays" strategy, and join forces with global partners to build a win-win ecosystem and usher in a new era where displays are ubiquitous.
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With hundreds of new movies released each year, many of us depend on the expertise of film critics to help curate our own watching — a thoroughly communal yet deeply personal experience.
To honor the supporting role that entertainment journalism can play in this beloved pastime, The Associated Press on Thursday unveiled its inaugural AP Top 25 Movies list.
The AP Top 25 Movies ranking is a distinctive honor roll of films released in 2022, as determined by a truly representative panel of 26 of the U.S.’ smartest movie experts working for AP-affiliated news outlets.
Here, we explain what it is and how it works:
THE HISTORY
The AP Top 25 Movies ranking is a new initiative adapted from a rich legacy. The global not-for-profit news cooperative’s AP Top 25 college football poll has been the authority in the sport since the all-media survey began in 1936.
The sports poll has since expanded, including men’s college basketball in 1949 and women’s college basketball in 1977. The AP Top 25 Movies ranking now joins this storied tradition.
The sports polls are a weekly tally tracking the evolving dynamic throughout each sport’s season of play. In contrast, the AP Top 25 Movies ranking is a single definitive list reflecting the entire 2022 calendar year.
“I’ve been mimicking the AP College Football poll since I was 6 years old and ranking my favorite movies every year,” said Shawn Edwards, film critic at WDAF-TV in Kansas City. “I’m thrilled that AP wanted a diverse group of individuals from various parts of the country to share their perspectives and viewpoints.”
THE VOTERS
For the AP Top 25 Movies ranking, the AP researched the nation’s best film writers, reporters and critics, seeking a diverse panel of journalists from all formats who cover films as a significant part of their role at their news outlet. To be eligible, their news outlets must be AP members or customers.
Among the 26 selected to vote in the inaugural ranking are a mix of platforms and audiences — from National Public Radio, Univision and IndieWire, to The Chicago Tribune, San Diego’s KPBS-FM radio station and KSNV-TV in Las Vegas.
The demographic makeup of the voters — 54% white and 65% male — stands out as more inclusive when compared to the overall industry: Research from USC in 2018 found the film critics industry to be 83% white and 78.7% male.
The AP Top 25 Movies panelists also ranged in age from 29 to 68, and are based across the country — from Detroit to Memphis, Tennessee, and Houston to Philadelphia — though there is heavy representation in the film industry hubs of New York and Los Angeles.
THE METHODOLOGY
Each voter submitted their own list ranking 25 movies that premiered to the public during the 2022 calendar year. The AP encouraged each panelist to exercise their own interpretation of “best films,” which did not need to align with predictions for awards or even movies’ Oscars eligibility.
The 26 lists that ensued yielded a collective of 176 different movies. The individual rankings were then combined to produce the national ranking using a Borda count, in which a first-place vote was worth 25 points, a second-place vote was worth 24 points, and so on. Ties were allowed and occurred at No. 16, in which both “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “The Whale” each received 130 points in the AP’s cumulative weighted system.
Each panelist’s identity and full ballot are public.
THE TRENDS
In a cinematic landscape where it seems only franchise films have a shot at traditional box office success, the top five films on the AP Top 25 Movies ranking were all original — and most found robust audiences in theaters, despite the fact that moviegoing has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.
Fiercely original films, female-focused stories and theatrical-first releases had the clear edge.
The fight for the top movie of the year was extremely close, separated in the ranking by a mere 8 points. While “The Banshees of Inisherin” won the title with 392 points, it’s the Michelle Yeoh-fronted “Everything Everywhere All at Once” that earned the most first-place votes. The indie sci-fi hit — currently enjoying a Cinderella run during awards season — came in second in the AP rankings with 384 points but was the first choice on six different ballots. Meanwhile, the Irish dark comedy was ranked the top movie of the year on just two different ballots.
And while the final list of 25 movies reflected the year’s critical darlings, individual panelists’ ballots took a distinct turn toward, shall we say, approachability in the bottom half. Movies toward the end of the full list of 176 movies ranged from “Lightyear” and “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” to “Jackass Forever” and “Love, Lizzo.” There were 76 movies that each were only endorsed on one ballot.
THE FULL LIST
1. “The Banshees of Inisherin,” 392 points
2. “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” 384 points
3. “Tár,” 346 points
4. “Nope,” 304 points
5. “The Woman King,” 267 points
6. “RRR,” 263 points
7. “Top Gun: Maverick,” 252 points
8. “The Fabelmans,” 238 points
9. “Women Talking,” 222 points
10. “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” 209 points
11. “Aftersun,” 201 points
12. “Decision to Leave,” 200 points
13. “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” 147 points
14. “Elvis,” 145 points
15. “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” 141 points
16. “Avatar: The Way of Water,” 130 points
16. “The Whale,” 130 points
18. “Babylon,” 129 points
19. “She Said,” 125 points
20. “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” 122 points
21. “Triangle of Sadness,” 121 points
22. “Till,” 116 points
23. “EO,” 98 points
24. “Turning Red,” 95 points
25. “No Bears,” 89 points
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Many in Washington D.C. are mourning the loss of 61-year-old Rep. Donald McEachin (D-Va).
“And he worked right up until the last day. His death was unexpected and he’ll be sorely missed,” Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) said.
There is a somber atmosphere around Capitol Hill, after lawmakers learned McEachin lost his battle to cancer.
“Donald was an amazing public servant,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
Kaine knew the Congressman for 37 years and called him a towering guy with a gentle soul.
“Firm when he needed to be, but kind and compassionate and a real heart for the underdog,” Kaine said.
Kaine said after years of working closely together, it’s a heavy loss. “We were on a state ticket together in 2001 with our friend Mark Warner, so we go back a long way.”
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) said it was clear McEachin put his district first.
“He had an outsized voice on some of the issues that certainly mattered most to his constituents,” Spanberger said.
Because of the impact McEachin had on Congress, she said it will be hard for anyone to fill his shoes.
“They sent a man to Congress who, among peers, was seen as a real leader,” Spanberger said.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she spoke to McEachin just last week.
“Right up until the end, he was advocating for the people of Virginia and for his district,” Pelosi said.
In addition to the condolences from lawmakers, President Joe Biden said in a statement “Through it all, Don always fought for the working people of Virginia. He never quit in his pursuit of Justice.”
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister Sunday promised sweeping measures to tackle climate change — which has affected millions across the country — including plans to meet a third of the country’s electricity demands using renewable energy.
Climate change for years has compounded the woes of the troubled country. Droughts and increased water salinity have destroyed crops, animals and farms and dried up entire bodies of water. Hospitals have faced waves of patients with respiratory illnesses caused by rampant sandstorms. Climate change has also played a role in Iraq’s ongoing struggle to combat cholera.
“More than seven million citizens have been affected in Iraq … and hundreds of thousands have been displaced because they lost their livelihoods that rely on agriculture and hunting,” Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a speech to open the two-day Iraq Climate Conference in Basra.
Al-Sudani said the Iraqi government is working on a national plan to tackle climate change that consists of a series of measures it hopes to take by 2030. The plan includes building renewable energy plants, modernizing inefficient and outdated irrigation techniques, reducing carbon emissions, combating desertification, and protecting the country’s biodiversity.
Among the projects is a massive afforestation initiative, where Iraq would plant 5 million trees across the country. Iraq also hopes to provide one-third of the country’s electricity demand through renewable energy instead of fossil fuel.
Al-Sudani said he is hoping to organize a regional conference on climate change in Baghdad in the near future as well.
Developments in neighboring countries have also compounded Iraq’s water woes.
Iraq relies on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for nearly all of its water needs. They flow into the country from Turkey and Iran. Because those countries have constructed dams that have either blocked or diverted water, shortages have worsened in Iraq.
Climate change and its impact on Iraq’s water resources and agriculture also comes at an economic cost, destroying people’s livelihoods and making it more likely for Iraq to hike up its imports for basic staples that were once heavily produced in the country, such as wheat. The government once subsidized seeds, fertilizer and pesticides to soften the blow of increasing costs on wheat farmers and maintain a high level of production, but slashed them two years ago. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/iraqi-pm-promises-action-to-tackle-crippling-climate-change/ | 2023-03-13 00:55:08 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/iraqi-pm-promises-action-to-tackle-crippling-climate-change/ |
SAN MATEO CO., Calif. (KRON) — Congresswoman Jackie Speier has announced $1.7 million in new funding to be used for fire prevention work under a congressional program called the Community Projects Program.
Congresswoman Speier announced $750,000 will go to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, $500,000 to the Filoli estate which has 650 acres of open space and $500,000 to be split between the cities of Belmont and San Bruno.
The money is going towards fire prevention work in order to get the word out about defensible space and to cut away some of the heavier fuels that could pose a danger in the event of a wildfire. “The wildfire threat here on the peninsula is high and it’s incumbent on all of us to take the steps that we can to protect our homes, but more importantly, all of our lives,” said Speier.
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“And these critical fiscal resources aimed to provide additional necessary funds for the city of San Bruno to continue all our wildfire prevention and mitigation work, reducing fuels and minimizing the wildfire impacts to our residents should a wildfire occur,” said Ari Delay, San Bruno Fire Chief.
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PARIS (AP) — An attacker wounded six people in an unprovoked blade attack in Paris’ busy Gare du Nord train station Wednesday morning before being shot and wounded by police, France’s interior minister said, praising the swift intervention of police for helping prevent any fatalities.
The suspect attacked several people, including a police officer, with a “bladed weapon” during the morning rush hour, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters at the scene, flanked by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
He said the unnamed assailant was currently “between life and death” in hospital after being shot in the chest, according to French media. Darmanin thanked the police “for their effective and courageous reaction.”
“Without the extremely rapid intervention, there would surely be deaths,” he said, detailing how the suspect was neutralized within one minute of attacking his first victim.
“At 6:42, the first acts were described. At 6:43, the police used their administrative weapon after his passage of violence,” he said.
Darmanin said the attacker’s weapon was “not a knife” but likely a homemade weapon. He said the suspect was reported not to have said anything during the assault and that investigators have not discovered any extremist links.
According to French media reports, the suspect first threw himself upon a man in front of the train station, stabbing him 15 times and seriously wounding him. The assailant then entered the station and attacked four civilians and a police officer, the media reports said.
Screams alerted two other police officers who intervened while the suspect was attacking the officer. The officer for France’s border guard was stabbed in the back but not seriously wounded because of a bulletproof vest, Darmanin said.
The man stabbed outside the station was the only person who sustained serious wounds in the attack, officials said. Police opened an investigation into whether the attack merited attempted assassination charges.
Video of the Gare du Nord, one of the French capital’s busiest commuter stations, showed an eerie calms as dozens of police huddled nearby the Eurostar terminal entrance in areas cordoned off from the public.
No specific motive has currently been suggested by authorities. France remains jittery following a spate of deadly terror attacks since 2015.
The commotion also caused serious disruptions to train services at the station — Europe’s busiest rail artery — in the early morning rush hour, according to the national railway company SNCF. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-several-hurt-in-paris-station-attack-attacker-neutralized/ | 2023-01-11 14:02:53 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-several-hurt-in-paris-station-attack-attacker-neutralized/ |
SEQUOYAH COUNTY, Okla. — A Maryland man driving through Sequoyah County in November 2019 was sentenced to 10 years in prison after nearly 10,000 fentanyl pills were found in his car during a traffic stop.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced the sentencing of Jose Sanchez on May 23, 2023.
Sanchez, who was a resident of Maryland at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to 120 months in prison on one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, the district attorney's office said.
According to officials, a Sequoyah County deputy pulled over Sanchez for speeding on Interstate 40 on Nov. 18, 2019, when the deputy found a vacuum-sealed bag of 9,648 fentanyl pills made to look like oxycodone.
The pills were tested for fentanyl and confirmed to be counterfeit oxycodone which contained over a kilogram of fentanyl— an amount U.S. District Attorney Christopher Wilson says was "thousands of lethal doses of fentanyl."
“Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin, and a single dose of only two milligrams is potentially lethal," Wilson said.
Sanchez will remain in U.S. Marshal custody pending transportation to serve his prison sentence.
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DUBLIN (AP) — In Ireland this week, well wishers have lined the streets to catch a mere glimpse of President Joe Biden. Photos of his smiling face are plastered on shop windows and one admirer held a sign that read: “2024 - Make Joe President Again.”
No wonder Biden keeps joking about sticking around.
Back home, Biden's approval rating is near the lowest point of his presidency. And even some Democrats have suggested he shouldn't run for reelection. On trips within the U.S. to discuss his economic and social policies, Biden often gets a smattering of admirers waving as he drives by, and friendly crowds applaud his speeches. But the reception doesn't compare with the overwhelming adoration he's getting here in the old sod.
Expect more of the same on Friday when Biden wraps up his visit to Ireland by spending a day in County Mayo in western Ireland, where his great-great grandfather, Patrick Blewitt, lived until he left for the United States in 1850. The locals have been abuzz for weeks with preparation for Biden's visit, giving buildings a new coat of paint and hanging American flags from shopfronts.
It’s a dynamic that most of Biden’s predecessors also have faced: The world abroad tends to love American presidents. Back home, not always. Not so much.
"With the greatest of respect, Mr. President, I must say, you sure can draw a crowd," Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl, speaker of the lower chamber of Ireland's parliament, said as he introduced Biden's joint address to lawmakers on Thursday. "Perhaps afterwards you might give me some hints on how we could ensure good attendance around here."
A U.S. president's overseas trips often offer a backdrop and substance that are difficult to replicate on home turf. Biden's Ireland trip has been heady with nostalgia and fellowship — grand sweeping hills and cozy towns fitting for just such a mood.
Presidential visits come with the pageantry of Air Force One landings, long motorcades and "the beast," Biden's limo that other world leaders, like Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, delight in riding.
“He can feel the love in a way that’s hard to do at home,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. “There’s something about an American president being in your country that makes a nation’s press and public go gaga.”
“With the exception of the pope, the American president is usually the most coveted global figure,” Brinkley said.
During Biden's visit to Warsaw in February, thousands gathered at the foot of the Royal Castle to hear the president deliver a speech on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
With the castle lit in the colors of the Ukrainian flag behind him, Biden vowed that “Democracies of the world will stand guard over freedom today, tomorrow and forever” to a rapt audience. As Biden exited the stage, Biden paused one more time to take in the scene and a man in the audience bellowed out: “You’re our hero!”
When Biden spoke to the Canadian parliament in March, the chamber broke into applause 34 times. In a country in which English and French are spoken, Biden produced a thunderous round of clapping by simply opening his speech with "Bonjour, Canada."
Even in Ireland, though, the acclaim was not universal. The small left-wing party People Before Profit vowed to boycott Biden’s speech to parliament because of opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere.
People Before Profit lawmaker Paul Murphy said the president’s trip was being “treated as a visit by an interesting Irish-American celebrity, as opposed to a visit of the most powerful person in the world who needs to be asked hard questions about the kinds of policies that he is pursuing.”
But Biden's critics overseas tend to be far less personal with their jibes than what he gets in the U.S.
One demonstrator Thursday held up a paper sign that said “Arrest War Criminal Biden” as the president’s motorcade headed for the Irish president’s house. During his Warsaw trip, a group stood in a square across the street from Biden’s hotel and chanted for hours, asking Biden to supply fighter jets to Ukraine. In 2021, when Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland, protesters urged the U.S. president to press the case of jailed Russian leader Alexy Navalny.
In the U.S., a few demonstrators routinely line up along the presidential motorcade route with flags emblazoned with "Let's Go Brandon"— a coded insult for something far more vulgar that's been embraced by some on the right. He's also often confronted with signs claiming "Trump won" a reference to former Donald Trump's repeated lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
Biden is far from the only U.S. president to find appreciation abroad that seems more elusive at home.
Former President Bill Clinton found refuge overseas from the investigations pressing in on him at home. In his last year in office, President George W. Bush was about as well liked at home as Richard Nixon right before he resigned in scandal, according to the Pew Research Center. His reputation also plunged around the world as the Iraq War devolved into a quagmire.
But Bush remained more popular in Africa, where he boosted foreign aid and battled the AIDS epidemic. He visited five countries on a single trip to the continent in 2008, touting his accomplishments at a time of domestic backlash.
His successor, former President Barack Obama, saw his fortunes diverge in his first term. The grinding fallout from the Great Recession dragged down his approval ratings in the U.S., but views elsewhere in the world remained untarnished.
The Irish response to Biden has been overwhelming positive for “Cousin Joe,” as many have called him. In the town of Dundalk in County Louth, thousands waited nearly eight hours to see him. As he made his way through streets filled with admirers, some strained to get even a touch from him.
Biden took selfies. He smiled at children. And he took a whirlwind tour of ancestral sites, pausing at Carlingford Castle, which could well have been the last Irish landmark that Owen Finnegan, his maternal great-great-grandfather, saw before sailing for New York in 1849. As he gazed at the sea, thousands cheered to him from the streets below, mixing with the sound of bagpipes that wafted from the green hills.
“I don’t know why the hell my ancestors left here," Biden said. "It’s beautiful.”
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Megerian reported from Washington. Associated Press Writers Aamer Madhani, Josh Boak and Zeke Miller in Washington, Jill Lawless in London and David Keyton in Dublin contributed to this report.
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There were several protests over the weekend, including in Brooklyn where demonstrators gathered for a Mother's Day rally for Roe.
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This as the issue will go to the Senate floor this week, where advocates hope to codify abortion rights into federal law.
It's in response to the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft signaling the high court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling.
Senator Charles Schumer will hold a vote Wednesday on legislation to codify abortion so Americans know where lawmakers stand.
"We're not going to let a bunch of extreme Supreme Court justices or extreme right win politicians take away the rights of 100 million American women," he said. "Women across America would suffer irreparable damage and harm to their rights, their health, and their dignity if this decision becomes law."
This week is being called the Week of Action where pro-choice advocates are having demonstrations.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lanvin Group (NYSE: LANV, the "Group"), a global luxury fashion group, today announced that it will report its unaudited full-year 2022 preliminary revenue results and discuss the outlook for 2023 on Friday, February 17, 2023. The Group will also host a conference call and accompanying webcast beginning at 8:00 AM Eastern Standard Time / 9:00 PM China Standard Time that same day to discuss the results and recent developments.
The conference call will be webcast live on the Group's Investor Relations website at https://ir.lanvin-group.com. Management will refer to a slide presentation during the event which will be made available shortly before the call through a link on the Investor Relations website. Additionally, a registration link will be provided on the website one week prior to the event. A replay of the event will be available from the same website address after the live webcast concludes.
The Group also announced a management change. Mr. Shang Koo has informed the Board of his decision to resign as Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"). Mr. David Chan, the Group's Executive President, will serve as interim CFO while the Group undertakes a search for Mr. Koo's replacement.
"For our first financial announcement as a newly listed company, we look forward to providing an early understanding of last year's revenues, ahead of the release of our final audited 2022 financial results in April," said Ms. Joann Cheng, Chairman and CEO of Lanvin Group. "I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Shang for his contribution to Lanvin Group, particularly during the Group's listing process. We wish him every success in his future endeavors."
Mr. Chan will retain his position as Executive President of Lanvin Group, overseeing the Group's activities including mergers and acquisitions, brand operations, vision and strategy, recruitment of key personnel, and management of key success factors and guidelines for the portfolio brands. Mr. Chan currently serves as the Chairman of Wolford's Supervisory Board, and as a board member of Lanvin, Sergio Rossi, St. John and Caruso.
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Lanvin Group is a leading global luxury fashion group headquartered in Shanghai, China, managing iconic brands worldwide including Lanvin, Wolford, Sergio Rossi, St. John Knits, and Caruso. Harnessing the power of its unique strategic alliance of industry-leading partners in the luxury fashion sector, Lanvin Group strives to expand the global footprint of its portfolio brands and achieve sustainable growth through strategic investment and extensive operational know-how, combined with an intimate understanding and unparalleled access to the fastest-growing luxury fashion markets in the world. For more information about Lanvin Group, please visit www.lanvin-group.com, and to view our investor presentation, please visit www.lanvin-group.com/investor-relation/.
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(The Hill) – The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the House Judiciary Committee on Friday came to an agreement for Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor in the office’s criminal investigation of former President Trump, to testify before the panel.
The committee subpoenaed Pomerantz as part of its probe into the DA’s office that began after Trump predicted his forthcoming arrest in the investigation. District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) initially sought to block the subpoena, but a federal judge denied that effort earlier this week. A day later, a federal appeals court temporarily delayed Pomerantz’s deposition hours before it was scheduled to take place amid an appeal from the DA’s office.
“This evening, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office withdrew its appeal in Bragg v. Jordan. Mr. Pomerantz’s deposition will go forward on May 12, and we look forward to his appearance,” a spokesperson for House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in a statement on Friday.
Despite the previous effort to block the deposition, the Manhattan DA’s Office presented the agreement as a win.
“Our successful stay of this subpoena blocked the immediate deposition and afforded us the time necessary to coordinate with the House Judiciary Committee on an agreement that protects the District Attorney’s privileges and interests,” a spokesperson for the office said in a statement.
Pomerantz previously served as one of the DA’s office’s top prosecutors in the Trump case. He resigned in February 2022, shortly after Bragg took office and more than a year before the former president was indicted. He has said he left due to Bragg’s reluctance to seek criminal charges against Trump at the time.
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The rugged Grenadier SUV developed by British chemical giant Ineos and due in the U.S. later this year has just spawned a crew cab pickup truck body style.
Called the Grenadier Quartermaster, the pickup truck made its debut on Thursday at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K., where Ineos also presented a Grenadier technology demonstrator equipped with a hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain.
The Grenadier Quartermaster pickup truck is based on a body-on-frame platform shared with the Grenadier SUV, but with a longer wheelbase of 127 inches versus the SUV’s 115 inches. The rear bed measures a little over 60 inches in length and has a maximum payload rating of 1,675 pounds. The pickup’s maximum tow rating of 7,700 pounds matches the rating of the SUV.
Other specifications include 10.4 inches of ground clearance, 31.5 inches of wading depth, and approach, breakover, and departure angles that Ineos claims are unrivaled for production pickups. Carraro-supplied solid beam axles feature at both ends.
Buyers can choose between diesel or gasoline engines, both of them BMW-sourced turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 units. Both come with an 8-speed automatic and a four-wheel-drive system with a 2-speed transfer case. Front and rear differential lockers are available.
The Grenadier Quartermaster is already available to order in the U.K., where it is priced to start at 66,215 British pounds (approximately $86,550). Ineos hasn’t said whether the pickup will also be sold in the U.S., and there’s a chance we may not see it due to the Chicken Tax that slaps a 25% tariff on foreign-made light trucks. The SUV is coming here with a starting price of $71,500.
Grenadier production takes place at a former Mercedes-Benz plant in Hambach, France.
Ineos is also working on an electric off-roader that’s thought to be smaller than the Grenadier. It’s due in 2026.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
8-9-9
(eight, nine, nine)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
8-9-9
(eight, nine, nine) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Game-game-17197024.php | 2022-05-25 05:19:49 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Game-game-17197024.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching one his top advisers to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the oil-rich kingdom, later this week.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia on Saturday for talks with Saudi officials and will also meet with his counterparts from the United Arab Emirates and India during his visit.
Sullivan said he would “discuss new areas of cooperation between New Delhi and the Gulf, as well as the United States and the rest of the region.” India and UAE last year signed a comprehensive economic partnership aimed at improving ties between the two countries.
Sullivan is expected to meet with the crown prince, who is often referred to by his initial MBS, during the visit, according to a person familiar with Sullivan’s travel plans who was not authorized to publicly discuss that element of them.
Sullivan spoke by phone with MBS last month amid signs that the Saudis and Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen are making remarkable progress toward finding a permanent end to their nine-year conflict.
He said the Yemen war will be a “significant topic of conversation” during his upcoming Saudi visit.
Sullivan’s planned visit is the latest sign of warming relations between the kingdom and the Biden administration that have been strained by Biden’s criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record and oil policies.
Last October, after the OPEC+ alliance cut oil production, Biden said there would be consequences for the kingdom, which is a leading member. The administration saw the oil production cut — which boosted oil prices — as softening the financial blow on another OPEC+ member, Russia, caused by U.S. and Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its war in Ukraine.
Sullivan spoke of his plans during wide-ranging remarks on the Biden administration’s Middle East policy at an event hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/biden-dispatching-top-aide-to-meet-with-saudi-crown-prince/ | 2023-05-05 06:20:01 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/biden-dispatching-top-aide-to-meet-with-saudi-crown-prince/ |
LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — For the second day Pinellas County investigators have used heavy equipment to dig up an abandoned lot in Largo.
For the second day, Dana Hiers stood in the heat and watched.
“It’s painful, but I find comfort because I’m here,” Hiers said.
Her mother went missing on Dec. 28, 1982. The sheriff’s office said Detectives are following up on cold cases from the 1970s and 1980s.
Those include Retha Hiers, who went missing in 1982, Donyelle Johnson, who went missing in 1989 and a third case involving a Clearwater woman. The Clearwater Police Department said they are not releasing information on that case because they are not yet convinced it is connected.
Late Wednesday, the excavators uncovered a large piece of concrete buried several feet underground on the property.
“It’s just a boulder,” Hier said. “We’re concentrating on the boulder right now. Hopefully the fire department can break it up so we can see what’s inside. That’s it.”
Authorities used jackhammers to completely break up the concrete, with nothing obvious being found.
However, the search teams did uncover a pair of pants and at least one shoe buried on the property. Pinellas County officials have not said if they are connected to the missing person cases in any way.
Dana Hiers is still hoping for answers about her mother.
“It could be bodies in there, we don’t know. So we’re praying, praying we find something, skeletal remains, you know, we’re just praying,” Hiers said. | https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/search-continues-in-largo-for-evidence-in-decades-old-missing-person-cases/ | 2022-06-30 22:56:03 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/search-continues-in-largo-for-evidence-in-decades-old-missing-person-cases/ |
BALTIMORE — A newly-renovated community center is now open in Baltimore’s Bolton Hill community.
Mayor Scott held a ribbon cutting at Baltimore Unity Hall on Eutaw Place.
The city sees it as a center for arts, education and training.
Organizers said this renovation was more than four years in the making.
When they began, the building was a blight on the area.
Now they hope it will be a centerpiece in Bolton Hill.
The center's director said that'll be a hard goal to accomplish, but one she is looking forward to.
“One of the most difficult things to achieve is actually in the name of this building,” the director said. “You Unity, it's hard. It's so easy to be a part, it is so easy to dehumanize folks who don't know, it's just, it's not a challenge. And I like challenges, which is why I'm here today.”
The center features event and training spaces on the lower level with art studios and office spaces on the upper floors. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/baltimore-unveils-new-community-center-in-bolton-hill-community | 2022-06-17 21:48:39 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/baltimore-unveils-new-community-center-in-bolton-hill-community |
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