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Journalist Mark Whitaker says that much of what's happening in American race relations today traces back to 1966, the year when the Black Panthers were founded and the Black Power movement took full form. It's also the year when when Stokely Carmichael replaced John Lewis as chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and challenged the tactic of non-violence.
Whitaker examines the pivotal year in his new book, Saying It Loud: 1966 — The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement. Whitaker notes that for years the rallying cry of the civil rights movement had been "Freedom now!" But, he says, on June 16, 1966, Carmichael ushered in a new call to arms — "Black Power!" — during a rally in Greenwood, Miss.
"The next day [the chant] gets reported by the Associated Press," Whitaker says. "The story gets picked up in 200 newspapers around the country, and all of a sudden, everybody's talking about Black Power."
Whitaker writes that it wasn't just the language of the civil rights movement that changed in 1966. There was also an "awakening of Black consciousness on a cultural level," he says. "It was really the year when Afros took off, when people started wearing dashikis, where a lot of young Blacks said, 'We don't want to be called Negroes anymore.'"
There was also a notable shift away from integration, Whitaker says. Carmichael advocated for Black people to create their own political party and to elect their own officials. As the leader of the SNCC, he expelled the group's white members, leading to a drop in the group's fundraising and political clout. All of this, Whitaker says, laid the foundation for the modern conservative movement — including the election of Ronald Reagan as governor of California in 1966 and George Wallace's presidential run in 1968.
"A big lesson of 1966 is, beware of the potential backlash," Whitaker says. "I was writing this book in 2020 in the midst of all the marches that summer. ... I see what happened in 1966 and what happened in 1966 tells me that there is going to be hell to pay. There's going to be a big backlash to what looks like all this progress in 2020. And sure enough, that's what we're living with right now."
Whitaker is the first African American to lead a national news magazine as editor of Newsweek. His previous books include Smoketown, My Long Trip Home and the 2014 biography Cosby, which was later widely criticized for not addressing multiple allegations that superstar comic Bill Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted women. Whitaker has since acknowledged that it was a mistake to omit the allegations from his book, tweeting, "I was wrong to not deal with the sexual assault charges against Cosby and pursue them more aggressively."
Interview highlights
On Stokely Carmichael's approach to the civil rights movement
What Stokely realized, particularly after the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, was that just registering Blacks in the South to vote really wasn't going to get them that far, as difficult as that was. Why? Because those states were completely controlled by segregationist Democrats, the most famous of which we all know was George Wallace, who was the governor of Alabama. So, Stokely's position was, why should we register all of these Black folks to vote just to have to turn around and vote for white supremacists? So what he wanted to do was to organize, and what he started in Lowndes County, Alabama, in '65 and '66, was organizing Blacks to form their own political party. They could elect their own officials. ...
In terms of integration, what Stokely was saying about the South (vis à vis poor Blacks) and then later the Panthers were saying, even in the North (vis à vis urban Blacks in places like Oakland) ... was that actually white people were not interested in integrating with poor Blacks in the South or in the North. That integration was sort of a project by middle-class Blacks for middle-class white people who might be willing to live side by side with their kind, with the Black middle class, but not necessarily with the Black poor and the Black underclass in the North.
On the tension within the civil rights movement caused by the different approaches its leaders took
The press portrayed Carmichael as [Martin Luther] King's nemesis. But in fact, on a personal level, they got along quite well. Stokely had a lot of respect for Dr. King. Dr. King didn't agree necessarily with all of Stokely's rhetoric, but he admired the fact that he was an activist who had put his life on the line and going out to organize in the South. But there were both sort of differences that had to do with tactics and strategy, but also with background. So one of the things that was different about the Black Power leaders was some of them had come out of the South, but a lot of them came out of the North. So they were the children of the Great Migration. Their parents and grandparents had come north from the South. They had had educational opportunities that Blacks in the South didn't necessarily have. Carmichael himself had gone to Howard University and before that to the Bronx High School of Science in New York, an elite high school. And they just didn't have the sort of tradition of deference, frankly, that the older generation in the South had. They were less rooted in the church than the previous civil rights generation. So they just sort of had a different attitude. They were impatient. They had seen their parents' dreams dashed when they came north in the Great Migration.
On John Lewis' ouster from from SNCC in 1966
After Selma, he was famous and he used that fame to go around the country and also overseas to raise money for SNCC. So that was good for SNCC's coffers, but it actually distanced him from a lot of the SNCC membership. And so he got out of touch with this increasingly militant mood that was taking shape in 1966. And that spring there was one of these periodic retreats that SNCC would have the entire membership ... discuss strategy, but they would also elect officers for the next year. And Lewis had been in Europe, giving speeches, raising money. He arrives badly jetlagged to this retreat at a religious camp outside of Nashville, expecting that he's going to be reelected. But a lot of the rank and file SNCC members at that point were upset with him for being too distant, too preoccupied with all of this travel, but also with still being too close to King, but actually, I think the issue was much more with LBJ. .. And this time Stokely wins. It crushed John Lewis. ... This had been his identity. He grew up as a poor sharecropper for his young life. ... We remember him now as the sainted congressman and beloved national figure. But that experience just completely crushed him. And it took a long time for him to recover.
On what Carmichael's leadership meant for SNCC
I think it had two effects: One was on the way that SNCC was perceived by the outside world, particularly the white world. John Lewis was someone who was deeply respected by white journalists by people who gave money to SNCC. And once they learned that he had been removed, very precipitously, unexpectedly, it immediately sort of cast a shadow over the people who had ousted him. In other words, Stokely Carmichael and the new leadership group. They were immediately suspect in the eyes of a lot of people who supported John Lewis.
But the other effect was internal. John Lewis had always stood for the principle of SNCC being open to white membership. He had a lot of very close friends among some of the original white members of SNCC. And so that to the degree that, as 1966 progressed and the whole issue of white participation loomed larger and larger, and it eventually led by the end of the year to the expulsion of the last remaining white members of SNCC, I think if John Lewis had been there, he would have fought that very aggressively. And once he was gone, the door was more and more open to that happening.
On the origins of the Black Panthers' militarism
In Watts, after the the Watts riots of 1965 in Los Angeles, there had been a group of local Black activists who had decided that they were going to ride around just looking out for situations where police, white police were interacting with the local Black population and just stand at a remove where the police could see them, but where they weren't trying to interfere, but just to make their presence known. Like, "We're watching this. So if anything gets out of hand, if the police in any way abuse their authority, we will be witnesses."
And up in the Bay Area, in Oakland, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who were in a community college there at that point, they're following all of this and Huey Newton ... becomes aware that in California at the time, there were open carry gun laws. In other words, it was perfectly legal to carry arms in public as long as you could see them. And so his idea was that he was going to take what was going on in Watts a step further and form a community patrol, but with guns, so that he and Bobby Seale and others would ride around as keeping their eye on the local Oakland police. But as they were standing across the street or wherever they were, they would also be holding guns. It was not, in their mind, initially the idea that they were going to confront the police or enter into gunfights with them, but just let them know, "Hey, we're here and we have an eye on you."
On the legacy of the Black Panthers
I think that when people think of the Panthers today, they have an immediate visual image of Newton and Seale and others, they've grown out their hair and afros. They're wearing these cool berets and leather jackets and so forth. ... A big part of their appeal is they just looked very cool, at least to a lot of young Blacks in those days, and still today. And so they stood for a political project, but also an expression of Black identity, vis à vis the way they dressed and the way they looked and the way they spoke. And I think because in some ways that has been the more enduring legacy of Black Power, the cultural part of it, I think people just think like, "God, the Panthers were so cool." And they were cool in some ways. But I think because they're romanticized in that way. I think people have not really focused and studied enough about the lessons of what they tried to achieve politically. I think this is an object lesson for the Black Lives Matter movement: [The Black Panthers] were correct in a lot of their original analysis, certainly about issues with the police. We are still living with that very much almost on a monthly basis here in this country, tragically, also about the limits of integration. They just took the way in which they dealt with it to an extreme that ultimately just became self-defeating.
Audio interview produced and edited by: Sam Briger and Susan Nyakundi
Audio interview adapted to NPR.org by: Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Four vehicles were involved in a crash on Interstate 84 in Gresham on Thursday evening, authorities said.
At least two people were taken to local hospitals as a result of the crash, according to the Gresham Fire Department.
The conditions of those injured are currently unknown.
At one point, all lanes on I-84 westbound near 162nd in Gresham were closed due to the crash, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation’s TripCheck. By 6:30 p.m., only one westbound lane was closed as a result of the crash.
Video from the scene shows multiple vehicles, including emergency first responder vehicles, stopped in the far left lane.
No other details were immediately confirmed by authorities.
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Announcing investments in Outpost, Strong Compute, and 3 other companies
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Starburst Ventures, the first venture capital fund dedicated to investing across aviation, space, and defense, today announced the launch of its new early-stage fund. Focusing on aerospace, defense, security, as well as enabling sciences and technologies, Starburst Ventures is investing in the next generation of industrial, software and hardware companies.
The fund's team will be led by Starburst Ventures' Founder and General Partner, François Chopard. A widely respected industry veteran, Francois founded Starburst in 2012, before A&D became the venture investment category it is today. François is joined by Benjamin Zeitoun as Investor. Together they hold a significant track record of securing investment and building startups from the early stage to IPO. Joining them in an advisory capacity is Jacqueline Tame, startup founder and former Deputy Director of the United States Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, and Natalya Bailey, Head of Strategy at Bloom Energy and former founder of Accion Systems, who was named top 15 most influential women in Space per Business Insider. Both will serve as hands-on advisors to provide unrivaled support in selecting investments and developing Starburst Ventures' portfolio companies.
"The Starburst Ventures fund will be an imperative resource in developing the next generation of aerospace & defense companies," said François Chopard, General Partner at Starburst Ventures. "Having the opportunity to lead and oversee something so impactful is a true honor. I look forward to working with some of the brightest minds across aerospace innovation and business development."
Starburst Ventures' existing investments include participation in a recent $7.1 million seed round for Outpost, a sustainable satellite & Earth return company founded by Jason Dunn and Mike Vergalla, and backed by Moonshot Ventures & Draper Associates, as well as Strong Compute, a startup that recently completed its $7.8 million seed round and helps developers speed up machine learning training pipelines. Strong Compute is led by Ben Sand and backed by prolific investors including Sequoia Capital India, Folklore, Blackbird; and Skip Capital (led by Principal Kim Jackson). Other investments include companies wishing to stay under the radar, working on mapping the 27,000+ objects jamming Earth orbit to pave the way for space infrastructure, Open Source Intelligence platforms, and a revolutionary optical sensing payload.
"All five of these companies are at the cutting edge of aerospace innovation. We're excited that our thesis drives our investment in both deeptech and tech companies that have the potential to make a real impact in our sector and beyond," said Benjamin Zeitoun, Investor, Starburst Ventures.
The Starburst Ventures fund's portfolio is a reflection of its leadership's unique ability to imagine the next wave of innovation in space, aviation, and defense systems. Starburst Ventures is an independent US venture capital firm owned by its General Partners with a deep commitment to building the future of aerospace and defense.
Starburst Ventures is the first venture capital fund exclusively dedicated to investing across aviation, space, and defense to build the future of Aerospace & Defense. The team is made up of Aerospace & Defense specialists, former founders, and accelerator operators who are on a mission to help early-stage founders accelerate their business development efforts across government & industry.
Starburst is an innovation catalyst in the aerospace industry. They are the first and only global aerospace accelerator, connecting startups with corporates, investors and government, while providing strategic growth and investment consulting services for all. With offices in Los Angeles, Paris, Munich, Singapore, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Madrid, the team has built an ecosystem of key players with 15000+ of startups in its network. Starburst's accelerator program helps startups scale their business in aviation, space, and defense with access to the largest group of corporate stakeholders to help startups win their first contracts. More information about Starburst can be found at www.starburst.aero
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NEW YORK (AP) — Losses deepen on Wall Street as traders fear strong jobs data will prevent Fed from slowing rate hikes; Dow falls 700.
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Firm collaborates with +SUBSCRIBE to help advisors expand open-architecture offerings
WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- F.L.Putnam Investment Management Company today announced the launch of a new platform that will allow advisors to access investment manager research, market strategy content, and seamlessly execute direct investments in alternatives. The research content will be offered through F.L.Putnam's Atrato Consulting practice and accessed through a technology partnership with +SUBSCRIBE, a leading alternative investment order management system for non-traditional product transactions.
Designed for registered investment advisors (RIAs), the platform is an integrated offering that features Atrato's proprietary investment manager research on a curated list of private equity, private real estate, private credit, venture capital, and hedge funds. Public markets investment manager research, as well as F.L.Putnam's capital markets research, and asset allocation commentary will also be available on the platform.
"As RIAs grow and scale, the need for sophisticated investment advice, tools, and capabilities increases exponentially," commented Tom Manning, CEO of F.L.Putnam. "With our platform, advisors will have access to a fully customizable, state-of-the-art solution that allows them to research and confidently allocate to alternative investments on behalf of their clients."
Through +SUBSCRIBE, RIAs will be able to easily review Atrato's initial and ongoing manager due diligence, gain access to the manager's data room of fund materials, and seamlessly execute transactions into a tailored menu of alternative investments all in a single place.
"This initiative delivers a unified platform for all of an advisor's private market funds, simplifies their due diligence process, and automates the operational aspects of investing in alternative investments. We are thrilled to have +SUBSCRIBE serve as the backbone of this new research platform," said Rafay Farooqui, founder and CEO of +SUBSCRIBE.
"As the investment needs of clients continue to evolve and barriers to accessing certain types of managers and strategies are dismantled, RIAs that provide more innovative investment solutions will prevail over those that don't," said Brian Reich, Atrato's Managing Director. "This partnership with +SUBSCRIBE furthers that goal and should improve outcomes for all our clients."
+SUBSCRIBE is a provider of enterprise software solutions for allocators, sponsors, and service providers that enable the digital transformation of the alternative investments industry. The company is a leading order management system and electronic subscription document technology for alternative product transactions. For additional information on how +SUBSCRIBE is Powering Alternative Investments®, visit www.subscribeplatform.com and follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.
F.L.Putnam provides investment management, financial planning, and investment consulting services to high-net-worth and institutional clients, including individuals, single and multi-family offices, endowments, foundations, and other RIAs. Since 1983, F.L.Putnam has delivered a comprehensive set of solutions that help clients build, preserve, and manage their wealth. The firm serves clients nationally from its offices in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island. More information is available at www.flputnam.com.
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Vacant apartment building burns in Oak Lawn
DALLAS - It took dozens of firefighters to put out a large fire in a vacant Dallas apartment building Wednesday night.
The building caught fire around 11 p.m. near Turtle Creek Boulevard and Maple Avenue. That’s in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas.
It was in the process of being demolished and no one was living there.
But it still took more than 60 firefighters to get the flames under control.
Thankfully, no one was hurt.
It’s not yet clear what caused the fire.
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WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two teens are being accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint while she was walking her dog in Wilkes-Barre.
According to the Wilkes-Barre Police Department, on May 16 around 8:00 p.m., officers were called to the 390 block of South Main Street for a reported armed robbery,
Police say the victim was walking her dog when two teens, later identified as Maurice Asbury, 17, and Faviyan Nin, 16, both of Wilkes-Barre, approached her. The victim said one of the two suspects pulled a silver gun out of a bag and told her “I don’t want to hurt you but I need money,” investigators stated.
The victim gave the suspect $83 in cash from her wallet and the two fled the scene. Asbury and Nin were later spotted by officers responding to a different incident and the two began to walk away in opposite directions, police said.
As stated in the affidavit, Asbury tried to flee on a motorized skateboard and the officer grabbed his bag where he allegedly felt a gun inside. Nin was later arrested near Penn Plaza on South Main Street.
Detectives said Asbury admitted he and Nin agreed to rob the woman and they split the money taken from her.
Asbury has been charged with robbery, terroristic threats, theft, and simple assault. Nin is charged with criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, terroristic threats, and criminal conspiracy to commit simple assault.
Nin remains in Luzerne County Correctional Facility on a $100,000 bail and Asbury is jailed on a $150,000 bail.
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Tomorrow will mark 20 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. The U.S. ousted Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, but what followed was years of bloodshed, sectarian violence and of the terror of suicide bombs. Now we're going to hear from a generation of Iraqis that have grown up in the years since. In Baghdad, NPR's Ruth Sherlock spoke with young Iraqis about how their lives have been shaped by the war and how they're now shaping Iraq's future.
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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The U.S. fired 600 cruise missiles at Iraq today.
RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: News reports like these from March 2003 are how Americans learned that the invasion of Iraq had started. In Baghdad today, Hajer Hadi tells me how dust storms had darkened the skies in what almost seemed like an omen.
HAJER HADI: I still remember that day. The sky was all orange. We would hear the bombs and the rockets being thrown.
SHERLOCK: I'm with Hadi in a cafe with a hipster vibe. There's colorful art on the walls and young men and women smoking shisha pipes. Hadi was just 9 years old when the invasion began. Now she's a PhD student studying molecular bacteriology and an assistant lecturer at the University of Baghdad. It's impressive by any measure, but even more so given that she lived in a war.
HADI: We started taking shelter more and more and no going out. We even had days - specific days to go grab food and come back.
SHERLOCK: Most of the time, in those early days of the invasion, the family had no electricity. She says her dad would sometimes use the car battery to power a radio just so that they could hear the news. Later, things got even worse.
HADI: Most of our teenage years were more scary, like, because you would see a lot of dead bodies lying on the street, or you would fear for your family being taken by a bombing or being kidnapped.
SHERLOCK: The crowd in this cafe represents the first generation that's grown up almost entirely since Saddam Hussein was ousted. They have lived through the years of insurgency, sectarian war, ISIS, and now a government that's elected but rife with corruption and struggling to provide public services, like electricity. Still, Hadi says there aren't many opportunities for scientists.
HADI: It's been 20 years, and we're still kind of in the same loop.
SHERLOCK: Other people her age are still working to realize a democracy that something like what was promised when Saddam was ousted.
MOHAMMED AL TAMIMI: (Speaking Arabic).
SHERLOCK: Those is Mohammed al Tamimi (ph). He was 6 years old when American soldiers entered his grandmother's house, where the family had gathered to shelter from the war.
AL TAMIMI: (Speaking Arabic).
SHERLOCK: His uncle tried to stop them from roughly searching the women as well as the men. At that point, he says, several U.S troops let him have it, kicking and punching his uncle until he was on the ground. Tamimi says his dad then threw a blanket over his head to try to protect him from seeing more. Through our interpreter, Tamimi then talks about the years that Iraq descended into violence and the failings of the new state.
AL TAMIMI: (Through interpreter) All this misery situation is because the invasion of the Americans.
SHERLOCK: Older Iraqis sometimes say the current generation just doesn't remember how bad life was under Saddam, too. Tamimi recognizes that, but says that fact doesn't make life any better now. He pulls a string of worry beads through his hands as he tells me how he's trying to make a better Iraq. He's a university student and activist. I first met him a couple of years ago, during the elections that he and fellow protesters had helped to bring about.
AL TAMIMI: (Through interpreter) But what happened is not what we dream about. The American replace the tyrant regime by - with worse people.
SHERLOCK: In a local political office, Tamimi shows me videos he filmed of the massive crowds of protesters in 2019 that gathered to call for an end to corruption.
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UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Speaking Arabic).
SHERLOCK: The government response was brutal. Over 600 people died in the demonstrations that followed. Still, the movement did manage to unseat the government and force early elections under a new law that was meant to make the vote a little more representative. If the situation is improving since the time of Saddam, many Iraqis say it's in spite of the U.S. invasion and not because of it. And it's largely the effort of these young Iraqis, who yearn for the normal trappings of life found in other countries.
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SHERLOCK: We arrived at this upscale cafe and restaurant in Baghdad, and there's a live band playing and men and women and families.
A sign by the door quotes the Eagles song - you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave. I sit down with Yousef Abbas. He's 24 and a civil engineering student, and he works as a cake chef to fund his studies. He has this thick, curly hair, a trendy mustache and beard and smiles a huge smile as he tells me why he loves coming here.
YOUSEF ABBAS: I love the music.
SHERLOCK: You love music?
ABBAS: Yes.
SHERLOCK: What kind of music do you like?
ABBAS: Hip-hop. Hip-hop. Hip-hop.
SHERLOCK: Hip-hop?
ABBAS: I love Billie Eilish, 50 Cent, Tupac.
SHERLOCK: Tupac? Oh, Tupac's a classic. Yeah.
He wanted to take part in the massive protests against the government, he says, but his father begged him not to go because they were so dangerous.
You guys are, like, the first generation that's really grown up after the invasion happened. What do you want to see Iraq become like?
ABBAS: (Speaking Arabic).
SHERLOCK: He says he wants to see the state not so torn apart by different political parties from different religious sects. He wants a more developed health care and education system, and he wants Iraq to be the kind of place that people from all over would want to visit. I ask him if his is the generation that can make this happen.
ABBAS: (Speaking Arabic).
SHERLOCK: Yes, he says, because he believes his generation is less ideological, less sectarian than his parents' generations.
ABBAS: (Through interpreter) There are a lot of engineers, doctors and different educated people. They can develop Iraq.
SHERLOCK: It's an optimistic vision, but one that clashes pretty quickly with reality. Just moments later, he tells me that he, like so many other Iraqis, is trying, through the United Nations, to seek asylum abroad. There's work to be done in Iraq, he agrees, but the corruption and destruction of this country is so great. And he needs a better chance at life now.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Baghdad. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and Endpoint AI solutions, today announced that it will be exhibiting at the Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium / Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) Combined Workshop at the La Jolla Marriott in San Diego, CA.
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Men, morale, munitions: Russia’s Ukraine war faces long slog
By ANDREA ROSA and JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press
BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — From a hideout in a bombed-out house in eastern Ukraine, army commander Mykhailo Strebizh twirls a mortar shell the size of a bowling pin, calling it “aid we got from Europe and America.”
He then turns to a makeshift blackboard — a door with words written on it in chalk — showing weapon inventories. One line says “NATO” in Cyrillic letters, then a number: 11.
These days, Ukraine’s beleaguered but unbowed forces are doing a lot of counting about the help they’re getting from abroad.
As Russia’s initially botched and broad offensive turns its focus to the eastern Donbas region, the war has entered a new and seemingly more enduring phase. While Russia has kept quiet about its war casualties, Ukrainian authorities say up to 200 of their soldiers are dying each day. Experts say both sides are taking heavy losses.
The United States last week upped the ante with its largest pledge of aid for Ukrainian forces yet — an additional $1 billion in military assistance aimed to help repel or reverse Russian advances.
But experts note that such aid deliveries haven’t kept pace with needs, raising questions about how sustainable the war effort will be — and how defense industries on both sides can continue to feed it.
“We’re moving from peacetime to wartime,” said Francois Heisbourg, a senior adviser at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research think tank. “Peacetime means low production rates, and ramping up the production rate means that you have to first build industrial facilities … This is a defense-industrial challenge which is of a very great magnitude.”
That, in part, explains why Western deliveries of much-ballyhooed support for Ukraine have often fallen short and are slow in coming.
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany last week issued a “Ukraine Support Tracker” that showed the U.S. has delivered about half of its pledged commitments in military support for Ukraine, and Germany about one-third. Poland and Britain had both delivered on much of what they had promised, the report showed.
Earlier this month, Ukraine’s ambassador in Madrid, Serhii Phoreltsev, thanked Spain — which trumpeted shipment of 200 tons of military aid in April — but said the ammunition that was included was only enough for “about two hours of combat.”
Ukrainian filmmaker-turned-fighter Volodymyr Demchenko, tweeted a video of himself expressing gratitude about U.S. firearms: “There is American guns they send to us. It’s nice guns, and 120 bullets to each,” he said, before lamenting: “It’s like 15 minutes of a fight.”
Over the weekend, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned the war could last years, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged more training of Ukrainian troops abroad, the latest sign that friends of Ukraine’s government are digging in for the long haul even as he warned of growing “Ukraine fatigue” in the minds of the public abroad.
Part of the issue is that Ukrainian forces, whose country was once a stalwart member of the Soviet Union, are more familiar with Soviet-era weaponry than NATO equipment. Take artillery: The Western standard is 155mm artillery, while the Russian and Ukrainian forces have traditionally used 152mm stocks.
An untold number of Ukrainians have traveled abroad to get training on the Western-standard kit.
Of the $1 billion pledge from the U.S., only slightly more than one-third of that will be rapid, off-the-shelf deliveries by the Pentagon, and the rest will be available over a longer term. The pledge, which includes 18 howitzers and 36,000 rounds of ammunition for them, addresses Ukraine’s plea for more longer-range weaponry.
That’s far short of what the Ukrainians want — 1,000 155-mm caliber howitzers, 300 multiple-launch rocket systems, 500 tanks, 2,000 armored vehicles and 1,000 drones — as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s adviser Mikhail Podolyak tweeted last week, before the latest big Western pledges.
“What the Ukrainians have got to do is conduct what military people tend to call a counter-battery operation” to respond to Russian artillery fire, said Ben Barry, a former director of the British Army Staff who is senior fellow for land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “To do this, you need accurate weapons with a high rate of fire and a range that allows them to keep out of the way of the other side’s artillery.”
“The Ukrainians are saying they don’t have enough long-range rockets to adequately suppress Russian artillery,” he said. “I think they’re probably right.”
Analysts say the Russian military’s big advantage has been its stockpiles of artillery and an expertise in using it, which dates back centuries. Their concentration on the east, and not broader swaths of Ukraine, has allowed them to shorten supply lines that were too long earlier in this war.
Time, on the other hand, is on Ukraine’s side, the experts say: Ukrainian fighters are both motivated and mobilized — all men in the country of 40 million have been called to fight, whereas Russia has so far avoided a call-up of conscripts, which could vastly tilt the war in Russia’s favor, but may not be popular with all Russians.
Experts have noted declining morale on both sides as the standoff, notably in and around the city of Sievierodonetsk in recent weeks, has dented fighting spirit and prompted front-line fighters to question and defy orders from above.
Russia has been targeting stockpiles and supply lines, and hitting them, Russian military chiefs say. Ukrainian authorities have either denied such claims, or said nothing about them: Neither side wants to let on to the other too much about the damage and deaths they are sustaining.
As to how long such fighting could least, analyst Heisbourg admits “that’s a hard one” but sees parallels between Ukraine today and France when Germany invaded in World War I — a population of about 40 million in Ukraine today and France before that war; the invaders neared the capital early on before being pushed back a bit; France had ammunition shortages, just as Ukraine does with artillery today.
A years-long war of attrition is “quite possible,” he said.
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Jamey Keaten reported from Geneva.
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Suspect in custody after stealing Constable’s patrol car
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - DPS was called to assist with locating a subject that was evading arrest in Hale County. The suspect was in custody and escaped by stealing a Constable’s unmarked patrol car.
A DPS Trooper and the DPS helicopter located the suspect being pursued by Abernathy PD north of Lubbock. The suspect led officers on a pursuit that went from New Deal, Petersburg, and eventually to Farmer. The suspect, in the course of the pursuit, went through multiple cotton fields in Hale, Floyd, and Crosby Counties.
The subject was stopped and taken into custody by DPS Troopers on FM 193 and CR 127 at approximately 4:10 p.m.
The identity of the suspect is not known at this time. No one was injured during the pursuit.
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By RAUL DOMINGUEZ
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Dallas superstar Luka Doncic capped off a historic five-game run with 51 points and the Mavericks needed all of it to beat the San Antonio Spurs.
Doncic had two rebounds and two free throws in the final 4.5 seconds, helping Dallas escape with a 126-125 victory over San Antonio on Saturday night for their sixth straight victory.
It was the third 50-point outing in the past five games for Doncic, including 60 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists Tuesday night in an overtime victory over New York. He’s the first player in NBA history with 250 points, 50 rebounds, and 50 assists over a five-game span.
“It’s incredible,” Mavericks center Christian Wood said. “In my seven years in the league, I’ve never seen anybody do what he’s able to do. He’s on an incredible run. He’s playing like an MVP. Clearly one of the best players in the league.”
Wood added 25 points in Dallas’ fifth straight victory over San Antonio.
Keldon Johnson had 30 points for Sam Antonio, Jeremy Sochan added 20 and Jakob Poeltl had 19 points and 15 rebounds.
After leading by 17 points, the Mavericks had to scramble in the final minute.
San Antonio guard Tre Jones was fouled by Dallas forward Davis Bertans after Jones intentionally missed the second of two free throws with the Spurs trailing 126-124. Jones then made the first free throw, but missed the second.
Doncic missed two free throws with 1.5 seconds to keep San Antonio from attempting a game-winning shot.
“Not easy to win here,” Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said. “But, again, Luka was incredible. He bails us out again by missing the free throws as much as he wanted to make those free throws down the stretch, so that they didn’t have time to set up a play.”
Jones finished with 18 points.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich jokingly vowed that Doncic would be held under 50 points. The Mavericks star almost played along.
“No, I just wanted to get a win,” Doncic said of his 51-point outing.
But 51 points was nice, right?
“Of course,” Doncic said with a huge smile.
The 6-foot-7 forward was stuck on 49 points for half the fourth quarter but made two free throws with 4.5 seconds to reach 50 points for the fourth time in his career
Doncic dominated San Antonio with his usual array of step-back, mid-range jumpers, 3-pointers and free throws. He was 18 for 28 from the field.
“Yeah, we had a good team effort and individual effort on him, but he’s an amazing player,” Popovich said. “His IQ is off the charts. So, we would rather win than lose like everybody else in the world, but (I’m) really proud of their effort and the way they just kept going even after we got down whatever it was, 13, 14, I can’t remember.”
Doncic had 22 points in the first quarter along with an assist, accounting for all but eight of the Mavericks’ points in the opening period.
TIP-INS
Mavericks: Doncic averaged 35.1 points in December, the highest scoring in any month in franchise history. Dallas legend Dirk Nowitzki had two 50-point games in his career. Doncic also has scored 40 points in 23 games, one more than Mavericks star Mark Aguirre. … Dallas is 6-11 on the road. … Bertans was honored prior to the game as part of the Spurs’ 50th anniversary celebration. Bertans spent his first three seasons in the NBA with San Antonio before being traded to Washington in 2019.
Spurs: Johnson has scored 30 points in five games this season and eight in his career. … G Devin Vassell missed his second straight game with a sore left knee he suffered Tuesday at Oklahoma City. Vassell has missed seven games this season. … Sochan has scored double-figures in 15 games this season, the most by a Spurs rookie since Kawhi Leonard had 25 in 2012.
UP NEXT
Mavericks: At Houston on Monday night.
Spurs: At Brooklyn on Monday night. ___
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has declined to delay the upcoming trial of Steve Bannon, an adviser to former President Donald Trump who faces contempt of Congress charges after refusing for months to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Bannon is still scheduled to go on trial next week.
That's despite telling the House committee late Saturday that he is now prepared to testify.
It's unclear whether Bannon will again refuse to appear before the committee with the trial pending.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also ruled against several requests by Bannon's attorneys to seek the testimony of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or the committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.
Nichols told Bannon's lawyers that concerns about pretrial publicity the hearings could potentially bring could be brought up during jury selection.
Nichols added that he'd reconsider delaying the trial if an unbiased jury cannot be picked.
The trial is slated to start on July 18.
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LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England began a 48-hour walkout Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, paralyzing hospitals and leaving only emergency care covered.
The severe disruptions are the latest in months of industrial action by public sector workers amid U.K.’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis. They come just two days after junior doctors staged the longest strikes in the history of the state-funded National Health Service.
Thousands of operations and appointments have been canceled, and health officials say the impact of the latest round of strikes to hit the country’s public health system is likely to be the biggest yet, because almost no work can be done at hospitals unless it’s supervised by a senior doctor.
Senior doctors, known as consultants in the U.K., will only be “on call” for urgent work such as critical cancer care until Saturday morning.
The Conservative government has offered a 6% pay increase to the doctors, but the British Medical Association, the doctors’ union, called this “derisory.” It said doctors have seen real-term take-home pay fall by more than a third over the last 14 years, and accused authorities of refusing to engage in negotiations on pay.
Union executive Dr. Vishal Sharma said that many in his profession felt “undervalued and overworked.”
“Consultants will stand on the picket lines today, because we are angry and at rock bottom. We never wanted to be forced into taking this huge step,” Sharma said. “Ministers have done absolutely nothing to stop this action taking place.”
Psychiatrist Polly Christodoulou, who joined the picket line outside a hospital in south London, said that many colleagues have left for the private sector or to other countries such as Australia, because the wages offered are far better.
“A lot of us have trained for 15-years-plus to get to where we are and that is not being valued,” she said. “I want to be able to stay and support the NHS, but it is becoming more and more difficult.”
Nurses, junior doctors and emergency health care workers have all joined public sector strikes in recent months to demand better pay to cope with soaring food, energy and housing costs. Inflation in the U.K. stood at 7.9% in June, down from double digits earlier in the year, but it’s still far higher than other Group of Seven economies.
Even before the strikes, the National Health Service, a beloved British institution that began life in 1948, was already under huge pressure, stretched by a dwindling workforce, huge backlogs and funding gaps.
Hospital executives have warned that the labor disputes could cost billions of pounds, and that unions and officials must reach a deal soon to end the impasse.
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LONDON (AP) — Germany and Ireland have condemned the U.K government’s move towards unilaterally rewriting parts of the post-Brexit deal with the European Union.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Irish counterpart Simon Coveney said there was “no legal or political justification” for overriding the agreed trade rules in Northern Ireland.
Writing in British newspaper The Observer on Sunday, the ministers say Britain will be breaking an international agreement just two years old which it hadn’t engaged in with “good faith.”
The so-called Northern Ireland Protocol within the deal maintains an open border with EU member Ireland and free of customs posts.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration wants to remove the checks on goods such as meat and eggs arriving in Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K., which protect the European Union’s single market.
Lawmakers in London passed legislation which permits the move last week.
Johnson’s critics, opponents and some members of his own party, along with European observers, have said the plan breaks international law. The government argues it is justified because of the “genuinely exceptional situation.”
Baerbock and Coveney said the bill wouldn’t fix the “challenges” around the protocol.
“Instead, it will create a new set of uncertainties and make it more challenging to find durable solutions,” they wrote.
The foreign ministers also argued the move jeopardizes peace in Northern Ireland under the Good Friday Agreement, which helped end decades of sectarian violence and has stood since 1998.
Johnson’s government has hoped to pass the legislation, which will be debated again in Parliament on July 13 by the time its summer break begins later in the month. This could see it become law by the end of 2022.
The EU has threatened to retaliate against the U.K. if it goes ahead, raising the prospect of a trade war between the two major economic partners.
Separately, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told the BBC on Sunday it wasn’t “appropriate or right” time for a poll on Irish reunification.
Varadkar said such a referendum, permitted under the Good Friday Agreement when a majority in Northern Ireland in favor of a united Ireland is considered “likely,” would be “divisive and defeated” at the moment.
The Northern Ireland Assembly, its devolved legislature, has been paralyzed for months over the implementation of the protocol, leaving it without a regional government.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The death of an Iranian woman in the custody of the country’s morality police must be “steadfastly” investigated, Iran’s president said Thursday, even as he turned the tables on the country he was visiting for the U.N. General Assembly and asked: What about all the people killed by American police?
“Did all these deaths get investigated?” Ebrahim Raisi said at a news conference held in New York on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the world’s leaders. He lamented what he said were “double standards” in the West with regards to human rights.
Of Mahsa Amini’s death, which has produced clashes between protesters and security forces in Iran, he said authorities were doing what they needed to do.
“It must certainly be investigated,” he said. “I contacted her family at the very first opportunity and I assured them we would continue steadfastly to investigate that incident. … Our utmost preoccupation is the safeguarding of the rights of every citizen.”
Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over the death have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend, according to a tally Thursday by The Associated Press. Iranian police say Amini, detained for violating the morality police’s strict dress code, died of a heart attack and was not mistreated. Her family has cast doubt on that account.
The scope of Iran’s ongoing unrest, the worst in several years, still remains unclear as protesters in more than a dozen cities — venting anger over social repression and the country’s mounting crises — continue to encounter security and paramilitary forces.
Raisi, who addressed the General Assembly formally on Wednesday, pointed out that bad things happen to people at the hands of authorities everywhere.
“What about the death of Americans at the hands of U.S. law enforcement?” he asked about his country’s rival nation, also mentioning deaths of women in Britain that he said were not investigated. He called for the “same standard” around the world in dealing with such deaths at the hands of authorities.
Raisi’s comparison reflects a common approach by Iranian leaders, who when confronted with accusations of rights violations often point to Western society and its “hegemony” and demand that those nations similarly be held accountable. Neither the United States nor Britain, however, has morality police vested with authority over citizens.
Raisi, who led the country’s judiciary before becoming president, said the inquiry into Amini’s death ultimately rests there. While elections and open debate take place in Iran, the top echelons of government hew closely to the supreme leader, who has final say on key state matters and appoints the head of the judiciary.
The protests have grown in the last five days into an open challenge to the government, with women removing and burning their state-mandated headscarves in the streets and Iranians calling for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself. They are the most serious demonstrations since 2019, when protests erupted over a government hike in the price of gasoline.
While not outright condemning the protests, he appeared to side with the lethal response to that has left some protesters dead.
“What is occurring, having demonstrations … of course these are normal and fully accepted,” he said. “We must differentiate between demonstrators and vandalism. Demonstrations are good for expressing specific issues.”
He added: “There is debate in Iran.”
The demonstrations in Iran began as an emotional outpouring over the death of Amini, whose death has been condemned by the United States, the European Union and the United Nations.
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on the morality police and leaders of other Iranian security agencies, saying they “routinely employ violence to suppress peaceful protesters.”
Iranian police say Amini died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account. Independent experts affiliated with the U.N. said Thursday that reports suggested she was severely beaten by the morality police, without offering evidence.
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Aya Batrawy, an AP journalist based in Dubai, is on assignment covering the U.N. General Assembly. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ayaelb and for more AP coverage of the U.N. General Assembly, visit https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations-general-assembly
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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday urged members of her party to stop discouraging early voting and vote by mail.
“Our voters need to vote early,” McDaniel told Fox News. “I have said this over and over again. There were many in 2020 saying, ‘Don’t vote by mail, don’t vote early.’ And we have to stop that and understand that if Democrats are getting ballots in for a month, we can’t expect to get it all done in one day.”
Former President Trump was among the leading voices that questioned the security and validity of early and mail voting in 2020, baselessly claiming they allowed for fraud and rigged the election against him.
An RNC spokesperson later sought to clarify that the chairwoman was not speaking about the former president in her comments to Fox News.
“The discussion was about Democrats having a month to bank votes while Republicans expect to get it done in one day,” RNC spokesperson Nathan Brand told NBC News. “We were not talking about the former president, who has encouraged his base to vote early and has himself voted by mail.”
However, the former president has continued to rail against early and mail voting. When Trump launched his third bid for the presidency last month, he called for “same-day voting” and a ban on early voting.
McDaniel’s comments came as voters in Georgia headed to the polls on Tuesday in the state’s Senate runoff election, where Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeated his Trump-backed Republican challenger, Herschel Walker.
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Eugene Omoruyi Player Prop Bets: Pistons vs. Magic - April 2
The Detroit Pistons, Eugene Omoruyi included, match up versus the Orlando Magic on Sunday at 6:00 PM ET.
We're going to break down Omoruyi's prop bets, using stats and trends to help you make good predictions.
Eugene Omoruyi Prop Bets vs. the Magic
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Eugene Omoruyi Insights vs. the Magic
- The Pistons rank 16th in possessions per game with 102.5. His opponents, the Magic, have a middling offensive tempo, ranking 18th with 102.3 possessions per contest.
- The Magic give up 114.1 points per contest, 17th-ranked in the league.
- On the glass, the Magic are ranked ninth in the NBA, conceding 42.2 rebounds per game.
- Giving up 25.8 assists per game, the Magic are the 18th-ranked squad in the league.
- The Magic are the 24th-ranked team in the league at allowing threes, conceding 12.9 made 3-pointers per game.
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ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is seeking public input on proposed safety repairs to the John Sevier Dam on the Holston River near Rogersville.
The TVA wants to construct a roller-compacted concrete gravity dam to address issues with the 68-year-old dam’s northern earthen embankment.
A 2019 risk assessment found that water can overtop the embankment when the river level is high, which could lead to the embankment failing. It also identified a risk of failure from internal erosion under normal operating conditions due to leakage.
“While the John Sevier Dam has a history of overtopping during relatively routine flood events and has performed well to date during normal operating conditions, TVA considers the probabilities of an overtopping induced or internal erosion induced failure to be high enough that upgrades to the right embankment are warranted,” TVA said in a recent draft environmental assessment.
Measures have been taken to shore up the embankment until repairs can be made, the TVA said.
A dam failure could result in the release of mercury-contaminated sediment that has accumulated immediately upstream of the dam, TVA said. The mercury didn’t come from TVA, but from a chlorine plant that once operated in Saltville, Virginia, more than 100 miles upstream.
A fish consumption advisory already exists for black bass and catfish species in Cherokee Lake due to mercury. If the dam fails and contaminated sediment is released, the advisory could be extended further downstream and to include all fish species, TVA said. Mercury could also contaminate groundwater near the dam and downstream, resulting in long-term adverse effects.
According to the TVA, the Environmental Protection Agency believes the subsurface sediment upstream of the dam may pose “an unacceptable risk to human health and/or the environment” if the dam is deconstructed or if the sediment is otherwise disturbed.
TVA officials believe the installation of a roller-compacted concrete dam is the only option that addresses all of the dam safety concerns, however, the agency is weighing two other options: placing additional riprap rock to protect against erosion or taking no action.
Construction of a roller-compacted gravity dam would take 7–8 months and require up to 75 truckloads per day for the delivery of construction materials, according to TVA.
The new dam would be built downstream of the existing north embankment and connect to the northern end of the existing concrete spillway. The project would result in minimal changes to the current dam, TVA said.
The TVA is accepting public comments on the draft environmental assessment through June 30. Comments may be submitted online or mailed to:
Erica McLamb
NEPA Project Manager
esmclamb@tva.gov
1101 Market St.
Chattanooga, TN 37402
More information can be found on TVA’s website.
The dam was constructed in 1955 to provide cooling water for the adjacent John Sevier coal-fired power plant, which TVA retired in 2014 and later deconstructed. The reservoir continues to provide water to the John Sevier Combined Cycle Power Plant, a natural gas power plant that was brought online in 2012. The dam and reservoir are also popular fishing spots.
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Cooking together doesn’t have to be a chore or something full of pressure. It can be like a dance you do with your partner that leads to a delicious meal at the end.
Which date night cookbooks for couples are best?
By Erica Redding
Going out on a date can be a great time, but it can also be expensive, and the world’s interruptions can be distracting. If you want a beautiful one-on-one experience with that special person, cooking together is a wonderful option. It’s also a healthy skill-building activity that can bond you on a whole other level. And when we make things together, we learn more about each other and our compatibility.
Best set-it and forget-it cookbooks
If you are a busy couple trying to do a date night cooking at home, you might only have the time for an all-in-one meal. From one pan to one pot, you can find savory and sweet recipes that go with the theme you have in mind. There are plenty of quick throw-together meals you can make with your partner to have ready for date night.
Top Instant Pot cookbook
“Instant Pot for Two Cookbook: 600 Quick & Easy Instant Pot Recipes,” by Susan Green
This book has recipes for appetizers, snacks and meals for all times of day, plus desserts. All diet types are considered, from omnivores to vegans.
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Top one-pan cookbook
“One Pan, Two Plates: More Than 70 Complete Weeknight Meals for Two,”
by Carla Snyder
Couples who want a collection of easy-to-prepare meals for any night can try this cookbook. It includes recipes that can be made in 60 minutes or less in a single pan.
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Top slow cooker cookbook
“Fix-It and Forget-It Cooking for Two: 150 Small-Batch Slow Cooker Recipes,” by Hope Comerford
This cookbook has several easy-to-put-together recipes for your slow cooker. It also includes tips to quickly get dinner prepared and clean up afterward.
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Best conscious cookbooks
Therapy, mindfulness and conscious awareness as a part of everyday conversation have brought a lot of knowledge about what we eat and how we feel to the forefront of our minds. According to the National Institutes of Health, mindful eating is one of the most discussed forms of mindful practice.
Top healthy cookbook
This cookbook is for couples who want a variety of healthy recipes to cook together. It includes tips for meal planning and budgeting.
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Top low-calorie cookbook
“The Skinnytaste Cookbook: Light on Calories, Big on Flavor,” by Gina Homolka
The recipes in this cookbook are designed to taste great and fill you up without the calories. There are meals for all diet types in portions made from all-natural and easy-to-find ingredients.
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Top vegan cookbook
“Vegan Slow Cooking for Two: 85 Healthy Recipes to Enjoy Together,” by Rhyan Geiger RD
This cookbook for vegan couples includes vegan essential recipes, such as veggie broth and meatless grounds. It also provides guidance on recipes and tips for how to use excess ingredients.
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Top cookbook for every day
“The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook,” by America’s Test Kitchen
This collection of 650 recipes covers nearly anything you and your partner can think of. It includes everything from stews to desserts with a cooking-for-two basics manual.
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Best cookbooks for new couples
There is so much to explore in the kitchen when you’re starting out together. These cookbooks illustrate recipes meant for the fresh feel that exists in the newer stages of a relationship. From newlyweds to first dates, set one of these up on your cookbook stand and cook with confidence.
Top cookbook for newlyweds
This cookbook is designed for just-marrieds to learn to cook meals together. It has 130 recipes for meals for all occasions.
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Top cookbook for date night
“The Date Night Cookbook,” by Ned Fulmer and Ariel Fulmer
This cookbook is perfect for newlyweds or the newly dating and is made for two. It includes dating stories, relationship tips and recipes for all couple levels.
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Top cookbook for all couples
“Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking,” by Samin Nosrat
This cookbook has over 100 recipes for couples that each include the four main elements of creating a delicious meal. It aims to teach budding cooks how to recognize ingredients and make better use of them in the kitchen.
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Best cookbooks for everything else
If you’re looking beyond the main dish, fish through these top pics for recipes that will delight you. Cookbooks can offer more than just a meal — they are an experience in themselves.
Top busy couples cookbook
“30-Minute Cooking for Two: Healthy Dishes Without All the Fuss,” by Taylor Ellingson
This is the cookbook for quickie meals for couples with a lot to do. All meals are ready to set at the table within a half hour of starting.
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Top dessert cookbook
“Dessert for Two: Small Batch Cooking Cookies, Brownies, Pies, and Cakes,” by Christina Lane
This cookbook is a date night essential with 100 photos of the delicious conclusion to each recipe. Each dessert has been designed for two people to eat so there are no excessive leftovers.
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Top interactive cookbook
“Date Night Cookbook and Activities for Couples,” by Crystal Schwanke
More than just a cookbook, this also includes activities for an eventful date night. There are recipes for any night of the week and ideas to go along with each one.
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Top aphrodisiac cookbook
“The New InterCourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook,” by Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge
This cookbook is tried and tested by couples to ensure quality recipes. You and your partner will enjoy this collection of 19 foods to ensure an intimate evening.
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Global data identifies action plan for business transformation around people, policy and tools
LONDON, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for mid-market services organizations, today announces the findings of its second annual Business Future Index.
It surveyed 3,450 respondents across 12 global markets to understand how business performance over the past 12 months has been affected by the pandemic and reveals the extent to which changes to people strategies, company policies and technology adoption have accelerated. It also identifies business priorities for the coming year and examines the top challenges facing organizations as the world enters a difficult economic period. The findings show a direct correlation between the benefits of embracing accelerated change and improved business performance, as well as highlighting distinct areas where action must be taken if organizations are to remain competitive.
Key Findings
- Covid-19 pandemic impact: Over nine in 10 organizations report great acceleration across their business as a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. This acceleration includes digital transformation efforts (52%), flexible working practices (51%) and the adoption of software and tools to aid employee productivity and experience (45%).
- Accelerated change boost: Those who embraced change have seen clear benefits including better workplace digitalization (80%), improved wellbeing (74%), stronger team collaboration (73%) and enhanced customer/end-user experience (72%).
- Become more resilient: Many organizations have seen increased workforce resilience over the past year, with 49% able to recruit from a wider geographic area. Those who report major adoption of workflow automation and/or real-time reporting have felt this positive staffing benefit even more (54% and 52% respectively).
- Pivot or fall behind: For organizations which haven't focused on rapid growth since the pandemic, only 28% report themselves as outperforming 2021 targets, compared to the global average (51%) who did embrace such changes.
- Future business priorities: Attracting and retaining talent (62%), building out new products and services (59%) and digital transformation (59%) were cited as the top priorities for the next 12 months.
- Challenges ahead: To deliver on these priorities, there is an accelerated need to enhance talent strategies (51%), respond to competitive pressures (49%) and change the way organizations operate and are structured (45%).
Action plan for change: people, policy, tools
The Index shows there is no room for complacency when it comes to embracing change and even organizations that performed well in 2021 cannot afford to ease up on the pace of transformation. Similar to the 2021 Index - which identified the need to focus more on people, alongside profit and productivity - the 2022 findings highlight challenges around people, policy and tools as organizations prepare to address their business priorities for the next 12 months.
Within each area, the Index highlights priorities where organizations can target their action plans for accelerated change:
- People: flexible working strategies require further improvements to avoid employees leaving for employers with more attractive working conditions. Leaders also need to work harder to show they understand their teams. For instance, 80% of leaders believe employee wellbeing has improved in 2021, compared to only 68% of employees.
- Policy: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and diversity are called out in the Index as areas requiring further action, as poor ESG credentials are seen as a factor affecting the ability to attract talent. This is compounded by another challenge - the ability to attract talent from a mix of generations - which is a key reason for increasing the focus on diversity.
- Tools: To respond to competitive pressures and adapt organizational structures, there is still a lot of room to adopt technologies such as cloud, data management and real-time reporting tools, workflow automation and AI/Machine Learning.
"As with every crisis, the pandemic showed that organizations which were prepared to be more innovative and progressive in their people and technology strategies, as well as company policies, came out ahead in terms of business performance," said Mike Ettling, CEO, Unit4. "Looking forward to 2023, businesses around the world will face a myriad of pressures such as geopolitical issues, inflation and rising energy prices, as well as the continued competition for talent. The ability to adapt to such challenges is key, with no room for hesitation or inertia, as it can have a lasting impact on future performance."
Based on the evidence contained in this year's Index, organizations that achieve the balance between fiscal responsibility in uncertain economic times with the demand for innovation are more likely to achieve stronger business performance. The Business Future Index 2022 provides a framework to justify the business case for supporting accelerated change and points to a specific action plan where investment can be targeted to deliver tangible benefits.
Additional Resources
- A copy of the white paper, an interactive eBook and accompanying infographics to the report are available to download here.
Survey Methodology
Unit4 commissioned independent technology market research specialist Vanson Bourne to undertake the quantitative research that this report is based on. They interviewed a total of 3,450 respondents in May and June 2022, from 12 regions: US (1000), Canada (150), UK (400), Germany (400), France (200), Netherlands (250), Norway (200), Denmark (100), Sweden (200), Belgium (150), Australia (200) and Singapore (200). Respondents were from all private and public sectors (including IT and technology; business and professional services; education; and charity and nonprofit), and from organizations with 200-20,000 employees. Respondents from all departments and seniority levels were allowed to participate. There are also references throughout to historical data conducted using the same methodology in 2021. The findings from this research programme can be found here.
About Unit4
Unit4's next-generation enterprise solutions power many of the world's most people-centric mid-market organizations. Our state-of-the-art cloud platform, ERPx, brings together the capabilities of Financials, Procurement, Project Management, HR and FP&A onto a unified cloud platform that shares real-time information and is designed with a powerful, people-centric approach, so employees can benefit from better insight and become more effective and increasingly engaged. It supports rapid and continuous change while delivering individualized fit for customers at scale, delivering the right tools to unify the processes across their organization, and connect their people. Unit4 serves more than 6,000 customers globally including, Bravida, Havas, Migros Aare, Americares, Save the Children International, Action against Hunger, Metro Vancouver, Forest Research, Southampton City Council, Selkirk College, FTI Consulting, and Surrey County Council.
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — With dashed dreams and empty hands, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants are stranded in Panama’s capital looking for a way home after surviving the crossing of the Darien Gap only to find that a United States policy change had closed the border to them.
In a warehouse the government converted to shelter them in downtown Panama City, Venezuelans explained how they were devastated by the news as they emerged from the dense jungle that separates Panama and Colombia.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced that it would accept up to 24,000 Venezuelans at airports while returning those who attempted to cross the southwest border to Mexico. The policy change shut the door on Venezuelan asylum seekers, many of whom previously were being paroled into the United States.
Jorge Lizcano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who had left Táchira with a group of 17 people, including his brother, a cousin and a friend, said they had reached a camp in Panama near the Caribbean coast when they received their first signal of the crossing and immediately confronted news of the change.
“We turned on our cell phones to let family know that we were well and ... the only news that arrived to us was that they had closed the border, that there were no more opportunities,” Lizcano said. “It destroyed us.”
They decided to trudge on, hoping that by the time they got out of the jungle the news would have changed. “In that moment we didn’t believe it, we thought it was a lie. We began to call relatives in the United States, in Chile and they us yes, it was true. In that moment we hung our heads, cried.”
The group eventually made it out to a United Nations camp.
Half of the group arrived at the shelter in the capital, which is being managed by Venezuela’s consulate, on Monday. Lizcano’s brother, cousin and friend already returned to Venezuela on flights. Lizacano was waiting for a humanitarian flight because he had no money left and hoped to be able to spend the holidays with his wife and children.
“The only option is to go back to Venezuela and face reality ... the good part is that my mother, my father, my children are waiting there and I think that is something that will help me move on. We all lost the little that we had.”
Some 900 Venezuelans have returned on charter flights from Panama since the U.S. policy change, according to Panama’s National Immigration Service. The Venezuelan government is charging $280 for the flights back, according to migrants interviewed at the shelter. Those who can’t hope nongovernmental organizations will cover the cost.
According to government data, some 206,000 migrants have crossed the Darien Gap this year, 170,000 of them Venezuelans.
The U.S. policy change was driven by a surge in Venezuelans arriving at the U.S. border that put them second only to Mexicans this year. In September, U.S. border agents reported nearly 34,000 encounters with Venezuelans, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
U.S. and Mexican officials gave the first update on the program last Friday: 7,500 applications were being processed and the first 100 Venezuelans had been approved to fly. Biden administration officials said about 150 Venezuelans were crossing the border from Mexico daily, down from about 1,200 before the policy was announced Oct. 12.
The first four Venezuelans paroled into the United States arrived Saturday — two from Mexico, one from Guatemala, one from Peru — and hundreds more have been approved to fly, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said. The program, which requires pre-registration online and that applicants have a sponsor in the United States, is similar to one set up for Ukrainians earlier this year.
José Gregorio Baez, a 24-year-old Venezuelan from Carabobo, said he was crossing Nicaragua when he heard of the policy change and pushed on until the Guatemalan border when he finally gave up.
“I didn’t continue because it meant continuing to lose money, because with the news that they closed (the border) there I decided it was better to go back and now I’m looking for a flight home.”
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The final day of a top-notch regular season in the Big Ten featured a last-second 3-pointer by the best player in the league that stopped the first-place team’s 14-game winning streak.
If Iowa’s victory over Indiana on Caitlin Clark’s catch-and-shoot winner from the wing was any indication of the current quality of the competition, the conference tournament in Minneapolis this week will be quite the show.
Boasting three of the top seven teams in the latest Associated Press poll with Indiana (No. 2), Maryland (No. 5) and Iowa (No. 7), the Big Ten is carrying a strong case into March for being the toughest league in the country. While defending champion South Carolina remains the runaway NCAA title favorite, the Hoosiers, Terrapins and Hawkeyes all have legitimate designs on reaching the Final Four in Dallas, too.
“I think it’s going to be one of the better tournaments just because of the parity and the talent that’s in this league this year,” said Indiana coach Teri Moren, whose team produced the program’s first regular season title in 40 years.
Ohio State (No. 14) and Michigan (No. 17) are the other two ranked teams that are projected as top-four NCAA Tournament seeds, giving the Big Ten by far the most of any conference.
Michigan tied with Illinois for fifth place. They’ll enter the bracket in the second round on Thursday. Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and Ohio State earned the coveted double byes and start in the quarterfinals on Friday at Target Center, which hosted the NCAA Women’s Final Four last year.
The Buckeyes, who were ranked as high as second in the AP poll in late January, have lost six of their last 10 games. But they secured their top-four seed with a blowout win at Michigan last week, an encouraging sign for coach Kevin McGuff.
“I think we’ve seen pretty much everything you will see, so hopefully that will give us an advantage heading into March,” McGuff said. “Just keep this competitive spirit and fire.”
BACKING THE BLACK AND GOLD
Indianapolis hosted 25 of the first 28 editions of the conference tournament, with one stop (2001) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and two trips (2013, 2015) to suburban Chicago. This two-year commitment to Minneapolis clearly helps the defending Big Ten Tournament champion Hawkeyes, with the Iowa border a two-hour drive from the Twin Cities and the Iowa campus less than five hours away.
Iowa is third in the NCAA in attendance, with an average home crowd of more than 10,700 that set the Big Ten women’s record. The Hawkeyes announced a total of 15,056 on Sunday against Indiana.
They’ll welcome the extra support for a potential semifinal matchup on Saturday afternoon against Maryland, which handed them their worst loss of the season last week. The Terrapins have won six straight games, including two against Ohio State during the streak.
“Everybody knows your play calls, you know each other’s players by name,” Iowa co-star Monika Czinano said. “It’s truly just a grind there, but it’s so much fun though. There’s so much joy in it, too. Our group has been there.”
WHAT COMES NEXT
The last Big Ten team to reach the national championship game was Michigan State in 2005, though Maryland (2006) and Rutgers (2007) got there in subsequent seasons while they were still in other leagues. Maryland (2014, 2015) is the only team to make the Final Four since then.
“We really need to get a team to the Final Four,” said Megan Kahn, the Big Ten’s vice president of women’s basketball. “I think that’s our next step, to continue to garner that national level of respect in how strong our league is.”
HOSTS WITH THE MOST?
Fledgling Minnesota finished the regular season just 11-18 and has the No. 12 seed, pitted against No. 13 seed Penn State to tip off the tournament on Wednesday afternoon. No. 14 seed Northwestern plays No. 11 seed Rutgers in the other first round game.
The Gophers, whose top six scorers are all freshmen or sophomores, have shown some signs of progress lately with their young lineup. They beat Nebraska and Purdue in their final two home games, both NCAA Tournament bubble teams.
“I feel good, and I think they feel good, and they should,” coach Lindsay Whalen said. “We’re starting to see, when we continue to pour into each other, they have a chance to be a really special group.”
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Mars Designed a Custom Fanny Pack, Dubbed "M&M'S® Ice Cream Sammy Pack," To Help Keep Your M&M'S® Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich Cool On-The-Go
NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of National Ice Cream Sandwich Day, Mars' M&M'S® Ice Cream unveiled the "M&M'S Ice Cream Sammy Pack," complete with a removable cooling pack, offering a custom and fun take on the trendy fanny pack, built to carry M&M'S Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches in style this summer.
Designed for versatility, the colorful and fashionable accessory features summer-inspired imagery influenced by classic and bright M&M'S lentils. The adjustable design can be strapped around waists or slung over shoulders, allowing for personalization to fit everyone's style. The insulated pack also features a custom M&M'S Ice Cream cooling pack that will help keep the product chilled, allowing fans to enjoy their favorite summer treat on-the-go during the hottest months of the year.
Beginning today, fans can visit mms.com/mms-ice-cream for the chance to win one of the limited-edition M&M'S Ice Cream Sammy Packs, alongside a box of four M&M'S Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches. Entries will close on August 16 at 11:59PM ET, with the lucky winners selected and notified shortly after.
"Summer means ice cream and there is nothing better than a refreshing M&M'S Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich on a hot day," said Jayesh Shah, Mars Ice Cream Marketing Director. "Mars is always thinking about the consumer, so we designed the M&M'S Ice Cream Sammy Pack – a fun and fashionable way for M&M'S Ice Cream fans to enjoy the product anytime, anywhere. With our M&M'S Ice Cream Sammy Pack, we hope to inspire moments of everyday happiness, bring people together and celebrate the summer season with Mars' famous brands and ice cream!"
For more information, full redemption details and rules of the M&M'S Ice Cream Sammy Pack giveaway, please visit mms.com/mms-ice-cream. Also, please join in on the conversation by following @mmschocolate on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and share your fanny pack adventures by using #MMSSammyPack.
ABOUT MARS, INCORPORATED
Mars, Incorporated is driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. As a global, family-owned business, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving to make a positive impact on the world.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of quality confectionery, food, and pet care products and services, we employ 140,000+ dedicated Associates. With almost $45 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world's best-loved brands including Ben's Original™, CESAR®, Cocoavia®, DOVE®, EXTRA®, KIND®, M&M's®, SNICKERS®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, and WHISKAS®. We are creating a better world for pets through our global network of pet hospitals and diagnostic services – including AniCura, BANFIELD™, BLUEPEARL™, Linnaeus and VCA™ – using cutting edge technology to develop breakthrough programs in genetic health screening and DNA testing.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyhorse Publishing announced today that it has acquired world rights to Detransition: A Memoir by British K-Pop singer, Oli London. The deal was negotiated by Tony Lyons for Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. and Mark Gottlieb at Trident Media Group Literary Agency.
"I am looking forward to sharing an intimate look into my gender and self-identity struggles," stated London about his memoir Detransition."My book will offer a close look at trans ideology and give real world examples of what pushes young people into transitioning, including the pressures of social media, the education system, the media, and the multi–billion dollar gender affirming care industry."
London's struggle with identity issues and plastic surgeries has been well documented for the last five years, amassing him over 2 million followers, 2.3 billion views, and over 120 TV appearances. While he is known for his viral online videos, he has not previously shared the full depth of his battle with gender dysphoria and self–identity. After London transitioned from a man to a woman and then de-transitioned to a male again, he become an outspoken activist against gender affirming surgery in teenagers, and has appeared regularly on numerous national news networks to bring his message and personal experiences to others.
"Oli London's Detransition is a raw, deep and insightful look into one man's struggle with self-identity, gender and culture and how he navigates the waters as an online influencer in the age of social media," stated Mark Gottlieb, Vice President and Literary Agent at Trident Media Group.
Detransition aims to document London's own personal identity struggles with gender and self–identity while encouraging readers to question the current societal trends and challenge their own way of thinking.
"We recognize that this is a sensitive topic for many people," stated Tony Lyons, president and founder of Skyhorse Publishing. "We welcome Oli's memoir and the opportunity for him to tell his story and share his perspective."
Detransition will be published in August 2023.
About Oli London
Oli London is one of the internet's most recognizable and most talked about names. His struggle with identity issues and extreme plastic surgeries has been well documented across the media for the last five years, amassing him over 2 million followers, 2.3 billion views, and over 120 TV appearances. He is a regular guest and news commentator on many networks, including Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, Talk TV and GB News and has appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Piers Morgan Uncensored, and Dr. Phil. While he is known for his viral online videos and interviews, very little is known about the full depth of his battle with gender dysphoria, self–identity, and how finding faith and self–acceptance ultimately saved him and turned his life around. He is now a dedicated activist, splitting his time between Washington D.C. and London, fighting to put an end to the gender affirming care system that is impacting so many young lives across the world. He resides in Los Angeles, California. Detransition: A Memoir is his first book.
About Mark Gottlieb
Mark Gottlieb is a highly ranked literary agent, both in overall deals and other individual categories. Using that same initiative and insight for identifying talented writers, he is actively building his client list of authors. Mark Gottlieb is excited to work directly with authors, helping to manage and grow their careers with all of the unique resources that are available at book publishing's leading literary agency, Trident Media Group. Through his work at Trident Media Group, Mark Gottlieb continues to represent numerous New York Times bestselling authors, as well as major award-winning authors, and has optioned and sold books to film and TV production companies. He previously ran the agency's audiobook department, in addition to working in foreign rights. In his free time, Mark Gottlieb tutors free English language classes to adults from low-income immigrant families, via the Literacy Volunteers program at Family Centers, a nonprofit organization offering education, health and human services. He is also the Founder and President of the Stamford Literature, Arts & Culture Salon (SLACS). Mark Gottlieb is actively seeking submissions in all categories and genres and looks forward to bringing new and established authors to the curious minds of their future readers.
About Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing, one of the fastest-growing independent book publishers in the United States, was launched in September 2006 by Tony Lyons, former president and publisher of the Lyons Press. The company has had over fifty-six New York Times bestsellers and has over 9,500 titles in print.
Skyhorse is dedicated to publishing books that make people's lives better, whether that means teaching them a hobby, bringing them a unique and important story, or encouraging them to fight against injustices, conspiracies, or abuses of power. The company maintains a firm stance against censorship and aims to provide a full spectrum of political, theological, cultural, and philosophical viewpoints to counter the increasingly biased environment in mainstream media.
Through its twenty-one imprints, Skyhorse publishes an eclectic and maverick list of titles. Its imprints — Allworth Press, Arcade CrimeWise, Arcade Publishing, Carrel Books, Children's Health Defense, Clydesdale Press, Front Page Detectives, Good Books, Helios Press, Hot Books, Night Shade Books, Not For Tourists, Peakpoint Press, Racehorse For Young Readers, Racehorse Publishing, Sky Pony Press, Sports Publishing, Talos Press, Yucca Publishing, Skyhorse Publishing, and World Almanac — cover everything from nature, sports, country living, history, reference, travel, humor, health, art, business, philosophy, religion, current events, politics, investigative and conspiracy, to fiction, literary nonfiction, science fiction, fantasy, and young adult and children's literature. Its backlist includes more than six thousand titles. Skyhorse is distributed by Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and abroad. Learn more at https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/
Contact: Tony Lyons / tlyons@skyhorsepublishing.com
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GREAT FALLS, MT. — Yellowstone National Park law enforcement officers are asking the public for information about an incident that happened on the evening of Saturday, May 20, 2023, involving an unidentified man and a newborn bison calf in the park’s northeast corner.
Park officials said in a news release that the "unfortunate incident where the man intentionally disturbed the calf resulted in the death of the calf."
The man, who appeared to be in his 40s or 50s, was wearing a blue shirt and black pants, and approached a newborn bison calf in Lamar Valley near the confluence of the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek.
The calf had been separated from its mother when the herd crossed the Lamar River.
As the calf struggled, the man pushed the calf up from the river and onto the road.
Visitors later saw the calf walk up to and follow cars and people. Park rangers tried repeatedly to reunite the calf with the herd, but were not successful.
The calf was later euthanized by park staff because it was abandoned by the herd and was causing a hazardous situation by approaching cars and people along the road.
Interference by people can cause wildlife to reject their offspring. Approaching wild animals can drastically affect their well-being and, as in this case, their survival. Park regulations require that people stay at least 25 yards away from all wildlife (including bison, elk and deer) and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves.
Disregarding these regulations can result in fines, injury, and even death. The safety of these animals, as well as human safety, depends on everyone using good judgment and following these simple rules.
If you were in Lamar Valley on the evening of May 20, 2023, and have information that could help this investigation, you're asked to contact the Yellowstone National Park Tip Line at 307-344-2132 or YELL_Tip@nps.gov.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Two long-wanted Abu Sayyaf militant commanders accused of beheading two kidnapped Canadian tourists and a German in the southern Philippines have surrendered to authorities, officials said Friday.
Almujer Yadah and Bensito Quitino gave themselves up to military officials in Jolo town in southern Sulu province and surrendered their assault rifles, Sulu military commander Maj. Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio and other security officials said. The officials did not provide details of how and when the surrenders were arranged.
The two were briefly presented in a news conference in an army camp in Jolo and later turned over to police.
Sulu provincial police chief Col. Jaime Mojica said they will face multiple murder and other criminal charges, including violation of the country’s anti-terrorism law. The militants are accused of beheading the hostages after failing to obtain large ransoms they had demanded.
They also were involved in other ransom kidnappings and bomb attacks, Mojica said.
Canadian tourists Robert Hall and John Ridsdel were abducted by Abu Sayyaf gunmen from a marina on southern Samal island along with a Norwegian and a Filipino in September 2015 and taken to jungle camps in Sulu.
Hall and Ridsdel were beheaded by the militants months later after the deadline for payment of the ransoms passed. Videos released by the militants showed the victims being brutally killed in front of an Islamic State group-style black flag. The Norwegian and Filipino hostages were eventually freed.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time that he was horrified by the killings and affirmed Canada’s refusal to “pay ransoms for hostages to terrorist groups, as doing so would endanger the lives of more Canadians.” He said Canada was working with the Philippine government “to pursue those responsible for these heinous acts and bring them to justice, however long it takes.”
Other key suspects in the kidnappings and killings of Hall and Ridsdel were killed earlier in clashes with Philippine forces.
Mojica said the two militants were also involved in the 2017 beheading in Sulu of German hostage Jurgen Gustav Kantner. Abu Sayyaf gunmen seized Kantner at gunpoint and killed a woman sailing with him off neighboring Malaysia’s Sabah state. Villagers later found a dead woman on a yacht with a German flag off Sulu’s Laparan Island.
The United States and the Philippines have labeled the Abu Sayyaf a terrorist organization for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings. The small but brutal group emerged in the early 1990s as an extremist offshoot of a decades-long Muslim separatist rebellion in the southern Philippines, the homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation.
The Abu Sayyaf has been weakened considerably by decades of military offensives, surrenders and infighting, and is currently estimated by the military to have less than 200 armed fighters, but remains a national security threat.
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For the New York Yankees, a major theme of their first 75 games was finding different ways to win, whether it was late offense or limited offense along with effective pitching and defense.
In the first two games of the current series against Oakland Athletics, the Yankees mixed in each of those components. They can complete another series sweep Wednesday afternoon when they host the worst team in the majors.
The Yankees are 15-4 over their past 19 games and 18-2 over their past 20 home games. Since being no-hit by the Houston Astros on Saturday afternoon, they are on a three-game winning streak as they head to the finale of their homestand ahead of a 10-game road trip.
New York opened the series by rallying from an early four-run deficit, scoring six times in the seventh inning of a 9-5 win on Monday. The Yankees followed up their major-league-best 23rd comeback win by scoring two early runs and watching their pitching and defense make it stand in a 2-1 win on Tuesday.
Jose Trevino hit an RBI double in the first inning of the latest game, and the catcher threw out a pair of baserunners while also guiding spot starter JP Sears through 5 2/3 scoreless innings. The Yankees lowered their big-league-best team ERA to 2.93.
Marwin Gonzalez added a homer as New York improved to 17-6 in one-run games and won its ninth game when scoring two runs or one.
“That was awesome, that was great,” Gonzalez said of New York’s defense in the Tuesday win. “We’ve been playing really good defense.”
Elvis Andrus is responsible for four of the Athletics’ six runs in the series. He hit a bases-clearing double in a five-run third inning on Monday, and then he hit an RBI single in the ninth on Tuesday.
The A’s, who are 5-19 this month, are one loss away from getting swept for the eighth time this year. Their .210 batting average and .600 OPS are both worst in the majors.
Oakland has scored one run or none in eight of its past 14 games, including Tuesday, when Frankie Montas was a tough-luck loser. He allowed two runs in six innings and struck out seven, including Aaron Judge three times.
“Offensively we’ve had our struggles with scoring runs, and this pitching staff has done a good job, the bullpen did a great job tonight keeping (the Yankees) at two,” Oakland manager Mark Kotsay said. “So we’re going to continue to show the fight that we have all season.”
Jameson Taillon, who is attempting to join Toronto’s Alek Manoah and Houston’s Justin Verlander as the AL’s third nine-game winner, will start Wednesday for the Yankees.
Taillon (8-1, 3.19 ERA) has won his past eight decisions since losing his season debut on April 11. He dodged a loss when he allowed a season-high six runs and 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings against Houston on Thursday.
Taillon does not own a decision and has a 7.56 ERA in two career starts against Oakland, both of which were last season.
Cole Irvin (2-5, 3.29) will start for Oakland. The left-hander is 0-4 with a 3.54 ERA in seven starts since returning from left shoulder tendinitis on May 22. The losing streak matches the longest of his career.
Irvin, who will oppose the Yankees for the first time, last pitched on Friday in a 3-1 loss at Kansas City. He allowed three runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket is scheduled for arraignment Monday on an indictment that could make him eligible for the death penalty if he is found guilty.
Along with hate crimes and weapons counts, the 27-count federal indictment handed up last week contains special findings, including that Payton Gendron engaged in substantial planning to commit an act of terrorism and took aim at vulnerable older people — specifically 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, 77-year-old Pearl Young, 72-year-old Katherine Massey, 67-year-old Heyward Patterson and 65-year-old Celestine Chaney.
The Justice Department said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty against the shooter, who turned 19 in June, would come later.
Gendron, who livestreamed the May 14 attack, was arrested just outside the entrance of the Tops Friendly Supermarket after donning body armor and opening fire on weekend shoppers and employees in the parking lot and inside. Three people were wounded.
The store reopened to the public last week, two months after the attack.
Investigators say the shooter drove for more than three hours from his home in Conklin, New York, to a busy grocery store chosen for its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood, with the intent of killing as many Black people as possible. He was motivated, they said, by white supremacist beliefs which he described in online diary entries.
Gendron wrote as far back as November about staging a livestreamed attack, practiced shooting from his car and did reconnaissance on the store two months before carrying out the plans, according to the writings.
He arrived at the store wearing camouflage clothing and a tactical-style helmet fitted with a video camera.
The indictment seeks the forfeiture of an extensive arsenal recovered from Gendron's car and home. It includes the Bushmaster XM-15 semi-automatic rifle used in the shooting and a 12-gauge loaded shotgun and loaded bolt-action rifle and ammunition taken from the car. Authorities seized additional ammunition and firearms accessories from his home.
The federal indictment charges Gendron with 10 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, three counts of hate crimes involving an attempt to kill three people and another hate crime count alleging Gendron tried to kill other Black people in and around the store. It also includes 13 counts of using a firearm in a hate crime.
Gendron also faces a parallel state prosecution on charges including hate-motivated domestic terrorism, murder and attempted murder as a hate crime. The domestic terrorism hate crime charge carries an automatic life sentence.
He has pleaded not guilty.
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Donated Services Aid Afghan Judicial Community in Seeking Safety and Asylum
NEW YORK and LONDON, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransPerfect, the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business, today announced that it has joined major law firms in providing pro bono services in support of a mass effort by former Afghan judges to seek asylum in the UK.
TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) provided pro bono language services in Pashto and Dari, Afghanistan's two official languages, for legal documentation necessary for many asylum cases. The campaign in support of the Afghan judges is a multi-faceted and multinational team effort that includes lawyers from major international law firms and comes in response to the potential danger posed to these judges following the Taliban assuming control of Afghanistan. Due to the sensitive nature and safety issues surrounding the proceedings, this initiative was not publicly disclosed for the first six months of operation.
With hundreds of judges and their families at risk due to their prior position overseeing trials for Taliban members, many have sought asylum abroad—including in the UK—for themselves and their families. The process has been challenging for many due to procedural requirements, language barriers, and security concerns.
When speaking of TLS's role in the initiative, a senior lawyer at a top-10 UK law firm commented, "We are grateful to the TransPerfect team for their fantastic support through an intense and demanding process. Their responsiveness and diligence have been invaluable in our work on this important and time-sensitive effort. This is literally a matter of life and death, and we appreciate TransPerfect stepping up by generously donating their services."
TransPerfect President and CEO Phil Shawe stated, "Ensuring the safety of judges who honorably served Afghanistan's legal community is an important humanitarian cause and a call to duty that we're proud to have heeded."
About TransPerfect
TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business. From offices in over 100 cities on six continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in 170+ languages to clients worldwide. More than 6,000 global organizations employ TransPerfect's GlobalLink® technology to simplify management of multilingual content. With an unparalleled commitment to quality and client service, TransPerfect is fully ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 certified. TransPerfect has global headquarters in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.
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NEW YORK, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Bright Green Corporation (NASDAQ: BGXX) resulting from allegations that Bright Green may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Bright Green securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=11980 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On June 2, 2022, Green Market Report ("Green Market") published a report entitled "Bright Green Former CEO Claims Valuation Fraud," which stated that the Company "involves a burned-down building, a years-long battle with the state of New Mexico, a bankruptcy case, and an angry former CEO who is accusing the company of fraud." John Stockwell, listed CEO in 2017, filed for bankruptcy in the state of New Mexico in 2017. After a greenhouse fire "devastated Stockwell financially," the reported stated that "greenhouses were transferred to Lynn Stockwell who then transferred the property to Bright Green." In addition, the report stated that Bright Green's former CEO John Fikany is suing the company, alleging "Bright Green was a "sham, operated illegally and fraudulently." He alleges that the Stockwells "engaged in acts of fraudulent misrepresentation and attempted to force Fikany to aid and abet them in making fraudulent misrepresentations to investors concerning the valuation and progress of Bright Green Corporation."
On this news, Bright Green's stock price fell 15% to close at $3.04 per share on June 3, 2022.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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Need a good laugh? Bethlehem’s ArtsQuest Center (101 Founders Way) sets the stage for a series of improv, sketch, and stand-up shows this fall.
Here’s the lineup:
Dehydrated Meatballs & Greg performs a high-energy improv show at 8 p.m. Oct. 6, 20, Nov. 3, 17, and Dec.1 at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas. Tickets: $8.
We’re Good, You’re Great, featuring 15-year comedy vets Matt Candio and Evan Stutts in a fully improvised show, performs at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Visitor Center. Tickets: $8.50 to $10.
Synced Up, an improv show featuring Cindy Marsh, Erica Sylvester, Sam Beedle, Tami Cantilina and Addyson Teal, performs at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Visitor Center.
Pigeon City performs at 8 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Fowler Blast Furnace Room. The sketch comedy collective returns for its third show with a brand-new hour of live and video-scripted comedy. Pigeon City features writer/directors J.J. Ellis, Roya Hamadani and Jiah Peck.
Ellis has participated in “Sketchlehem,” “Lexington Compost,” and “Booger Sugar.” He has performed in numerous locations, including the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Hamadani is a stand-up comedian and writer, co-writer of “Sketchlehem,” and founding member of Pigeon City. She has performed at Musikfest’s ComedyPlatz. Peck is a Bethlehem-based filmmaker who has produced live comedy and is a founding member of the Pigeon City Sketch Comedy Collective. Tickets: $12.50 to $15.
Damon Sumner performs at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21 at the Visitor Center. Sumner delivers stories about his upbringing and observations of everyday life. Starting his stand-up in Atlanta, he has shared the stage with headliners like Iliza Shlesinger, Todd Glass, Atsuko Okatsuka and more. His album “I Know Who I Am” debuted at number 1 in the US and number 2 globally on the iTunes charts. He can be seen on The Weather Channels’ “Weather Gone Viral,” Standup Nashville. Sumner co-hosts a relationship podcast with his wife, “Sum it up with The Sumners.” Tickets: $13.50 to $16.
Tickets on sale now at steelstacks.org
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York coach Gerard Gallant was confident the Rangers would bounce back from a tough loss in the marathon series opener, and they did just that.
Artemi Panarin and Frank Vatrano each had a goal and two assists and the Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 in Game 2 on Thursday night to even the best-of-seven first-round series.
Chris Kreider, Andrew Copp and Ryan Strome also scored for New York. Igor Shesterkin made 39 saves two nights after stopping 79 shots in a triple-overtime loss in Game 1.
“It’s an 82-game regular season and we’ve done it all regular season long,” Gallant said. “We’ve got a talented hockey club and when we want to play real good hockey, sound hockey we’re a good team.”
Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist, and Jake Guentzel also scored for the Penguins. Louis Domingue, getting the start after replacing the injured Casey DeSmith in the second overtime of Game 1, finished with 34 saves.
“It’s a hard-fought game, we can take a lot of positives,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan said. “When we were in our end zone I thought we defended hard. We had some looks in the offensive zone. One area we need to improve and get better is special teams, on both sides.”
Game 3 is Saturday night in Pittsburgh.
With the Rangers leading 3-2 after 40 minutes, the Penguins came out strong in the third period with the first nine shots on goal. Shesterkin stopped them all.
Panarin then extended the lead to 4-2 when his centering pass from beyond the goal line deflected off Penguins defenseman Mike Matheson and past Domingue at 8:02.
“It was for (Jacob) Trouba, I was trying to get the pass to him,” Panarin said through a translator. “It hit the skate of the opposing player.”
Vatrano gave the Rangers a three-goal lead when he got around Matheson in the right circle, skated in and beat Domingue inside the right post at 9:49.
“Definitely a good showing today, a good first step in the right direction,” Panarin said. “We’ll keep accelerating from here.
Shesterkin was down on the ice for several minutes following a collision with Pittsburgh’s Jeff Carter as the goalie was trying to get back in position from behind the net with about two minutes left.
The Rangers took a 2-1 lead during a power play early in the second period when Adam Fox’s slap shot through traffic was deflected by Strome in front at 2:59.
Minutes later, the Penguins had an odd-man rush but Bryan Rust fired a shot wide off the end boards, and Crosby’s sharp-angle attempt from the left side on the rebound was kicked aside by Shesterkin. That got the Madison Square Garden crowd, roaring since Strome’s go-ahead goal, to break out in chants of “I-gor! I-gor!”
Kreider pushed the Rangers’ lead to 3-1 when he deflected Frank Vatrano’s point shot past Domingue for his second of the series at 7:54.
Crosby pulled the Penguins within one on a rush as he scored from the middle on the rebound of Rust’s backhander with 1:26 left in the middle period.
“You don’t want to get down two, we’ve done that a couple of times now.” Crosby said. “It’s not something we want to make a habit of. We get that late one and we had some really good chances early in the third and didn’t convert, and they got a bounce. That’s what it came down to.”
The Rangers outshot the Penguins 14-11 in a fast-paced and physical first period.
Copp got the Rangers on the scoreboard first as he got a pass from Panarin and scored from the inside edge of the right circle at 6:50. It was his second goal of the series.
Guentzel tied it with his third of the series as he fired a slap shot off the rebound of a shot by Marcus Pettersson past Shesterkin at 8:52.
“Every time we seemed to get some momentum going, we gave it back to them and we can’t keep doing that,” Gallant said. “We have to play better, stronger hockey in our D zone.”
MILESTONES
Guentzel scored his 29th career postseason goal, tying Boston’s Brad Marchand for the third-most since 2017. Only Tampa Bay’s Brayden Point (37) and Washington’s Alex Ovechkin (30) have more in that time. … Crosby’s assist on Guentzel’s first-period goal gave him 125 points to move past Sergei Fedorov (124) for eighth place on the NHL list. Crosby is one behind Jarri Kurri (127) for seventh. … Kreider played in his 82nd postseason game, tying Brian Leetch for the eighth most in franchise history. … Kreider’s goal gave him 42 career playoff points, tying Jean Ratelle for 14th place in franchise history.
LINEUPS
Rangers D Ryan Lindgren (lower body injury) and F Barclay Goodrow (lower body injury) were out. Lindgren was a game-time decision but did not play and Gallant said Goodrow was ‘week to week.’ They were replaced by D Justin Braun and LW Dryden Hunt.
The Penguins were without RW Rickard Rakell, who left in the first period of Game 1, and D Brian Dumoulin. LW Drew O’Connor and D Mark Friedman returned to the lineup. LW Jason Zucker (lower-body injury) took part in pregame warmups but did not play.
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Instantly Scale and Personalize Video Creation
TORONTO, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- vidThat is on a mission to transform, simplify and inspire visual communication towards achieving better understood messaging with beautiful short videos made superfast on the iPhone. Turn any image(s) on the iPhone into instant video and immediately synchronize with a user's voice: then quickly send the message on the vidThat instant messenger. Imagine video made with still images looking like it was originally recorded as quality video.
Click here to download vidThat to an iPhone.
James Tran, Founder and CEO of vidThat says; "our save to draft system lets you make multiple videos in phases and enable users to easily do custom voice-over and storytelling to different recipients using the same visual assets. This transforms personalisation and saves a ton of time given no editing is needed. Just talk and send"
Our save to draft system automates your video creation, where the same visual content is a requirement for multiple voice recordings. Your productivity will transform as you effortlessly scale your personal touch with all your contacts.
Your voice is automatically shown as a text caption on any video you make with vidThat. If you choose, you can make slight or major changes to the sound of your recorded voice. To get the best representation of your video message inside the vidThat Video Messenger; you can quickly select from the many pre-set filters and apply to your video image thumbnail which is shown in the vidThat Video Messenger.
Our proprietary video file system lets your friends and teammates, immediately video-reply to your video messages that you sent them through vidThat. This automatically deploys the same visual assets (still images and/or a variety of short video clips) from the video that you originally sent. Your contact can use these assets for their own instant video reply.
vidThat is currently free in the App Store, and vidThat will help everyone use visual and audio storytelling in the fastest and easiest way possible inside what is believed to be the world's first instant videoization messenger. vidThat iOS is grateful to be funded and supported by the Canada Media Fund.
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NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN ANY JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT (SEE "OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS" BELOW). PERSONS INTO WHOSE POSSESSION THIS DOCUMENT COMES ARE REQUIRED BY THE OFFEROR, THE ISSUER, THE DEALER MANAGER AND SOLICITATION AGENT, AND THE TENDER AND TABULATION AGENT TO INFORM THEMSELVES ABOUT, AND TO OBSERVE, ANY SUCH RESTRICTIONS.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WOM S.A. (the "Offeror") today announces the extension of the Early Participation Deadline (as defined in the tender offer and consent solicitation memorandum dated August 26, 2022 (the "Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum")) for its previously announced invitation to eligible holders of Kenbourne Invest S.A.'s (the "Issuer") outstanding 6 7/8% Senior Notes due 2024 (the "2024 Notes") and 4.7% Senior Notes due 2028 (the "2028 Notes" and together with the 2024 Notes, the "Notes") to tender for cash such Notes up to the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount of the Notes validly tendered and purchased equal to US$270.0 million (such invitation, the "Tender Offers"), and together with the Tender Offers, its solicitation of consents to certain proposed amendments (the "Proposals", and together with the Tender Offers, the "Offers") to the relevant indentures governing the Notes.
The Offeror commenced the Offers on August 26, 2022. The new Early Participation Deadline, unless extended or earlier terminated by the Offeror, will be 5:00 p.m., September 16, 2022, for each series of Notes. All other terms and conditions of the Offers, as previously announced and described in the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum, remain unchanged.
The following table sets forth certain key events of the Offers, as extended. Further information may be found in the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum:
The Offers are being conducted pursuant to the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum, the announcement dated August 26, 2022, this announcement and the Offeror's other press releases used in the Offers. This announcement does not contain the full terms and conditions of the Offers, which are contained in the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum. Noteholders are advised to read carefully the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum for full details of, and information on, the procedures for participating in the Offers. Capitalized terms used in this announcement but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum. A copy of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum is available to eligible persons upon request from the Tender and Tabulation Agent.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is acting as Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent for the Offers (the "Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent") and D.F. King & Co., Inc. is acting as Tender and Tabulation Agent (the "Tender and Tabulation Agent").
Questions and requests for assistance in connection with the Offers may be directed to the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent.
THE DEALER MANAGER AND SOLICITATION AGENT
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
383 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10179
United States of America
Attn: Latin America Debt Capital Markets
U.S. Toll Free: +1 (866) 846-2874
Collect: +1 (212) 834-7279
Questions and requests for assistance in connection with the delivery of Tender Instructions may be directed to the Tender and Tabulation Agent.
THE TENDER AND TABULATION AGENT
D.F. King & Co., Inc.
48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, New York 10005
Attn: Michael Horthman
By Facsimile (For Eligible Institutions Only): +1 (212) 709-3328
Attn: Michael Horthman
Banks and Brokers call: +1 (212) 269-5550 (collect)
All others call toll-free: +1 (866) 388-7535
E-mail: wom@dfking.com
DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum. This announcement and the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum contain important information which should be read carefully before any decision is made with respect to the Offers. Before participating in the Offers, Noteholders are recommended to seek their own financial or legal advice from their stockbroker, bank manager, legal adviser, accountant or other independent financial or legal adviser. Noteholders whose Notes are held on their behalf by a broker, dealer, commercial bank, custodian, trust company or other nominee or intermediary or clearing system (including any Clearing System) must contact such entity if they wish to tender Notes in the relevant Tender Offer and/or participate in the relevant Proposal.
In accordance with normal practice, none of the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent, the Tender and Tabulation Agent, the Trustee, the Notes Agents, the Offeror nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees or affiliates express any view or opinion on the merits of, or makes any representation or recommendation whatsoever regarding this announcement, the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum, the Offers or makes any recommendation as to whether Noteholders should tender Notes in the Tender Offers or otherwise participate in the Offers.
None of the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent, the Tender and Tabulation Agent (or any of their respective directors, employees or affiliates) assumes any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information concerning the Offeror, the Notes, or the Offers contained in this announcement or in the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum. None of the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent, the Tender and Tabulation Agent (or any of their respective directors, employees or affiliates) is acting for any Noteholder, or will be responsible to any Noteholder for providing any protections which would be afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the Offers, and accordingly none of the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent, the Tender and Tabulation Agent (or any of their respective directors, employees or affiliates) assumes any responsibility for any failure by the Offeror to disclose information with regard to the Offeror or the Notes which is material in the context of the Offers and which is not otherwise publicly available.
OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS
Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum constitute an invitation to participate in the Offers to or from any person located or resident in any jurisdiction where it is unlawful to make such invitation or for there to be such participation under applicable securities or other laws. In certain jurisdictions, the distribution of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum comes are required by the Offeror, the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent and the Tender and Tabulation Agent to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.
General
Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum constitute an offer to purchase, or the solicitation of an offer to tender or sell, or to exercise any voting or consent rights with respect to any, Notes to or from, or by, any person located or resident in any jurisdiction where such offer or solicitation is unlawful, and tenders of Notes by Noteholders originating from any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful will be rejected. The Offers are not being made, directly or indirectly, in any jurisdiction where to do so would impose any obligations on the Offeror in such jurisdiction, including any requirement to qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction, file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction, subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject, make any filing with any regulatory body in any such jurisdiction or otherwise have any document approved by, or submitted to, any regulating body in such jurisdiction, in each case in relation to the Offers and the Proposals. In those jurisdictions where the securities laws or other laws require the Offers to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent or any of its affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in such jurisdiction, the Offers shall be deemed to be made on behalf of the Offeror by such Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent or affiliate (as the case may be) in such jurisdiction and the Offers are not made in any such jurisdiction where either the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent or any of its affiliates is not licensed. Neither the delivery of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum nor any purchase of Notes shall, under any circumstances, create any implication that there has been no change in the affairs of the Offeror since the date hereof, or that the information herein is correct as of any time subsequent to the date hereof.
Each Noteholder participating in the Offers will be deemed to give certain representations with respect to the jurisdictions referred to below, and generally, on submission of Notes for tender in the Tender Offers and submission of consent to the Proposals. Any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offers from a Noteholder that is unable to make these representations will be rejected. Each of the Offeror, the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent and the Tender and Tabulation Agent reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to investigate, in relation to any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offers, or submission of consent to the Proposals, whether any such representation given by a Noteholder is correct and, if such investigation is undertaken and as a result the Offeror determines (for any reason) that such representation is not correct, such tender will be rejected.
United Kingdom
The communication of this announcement, the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Offers is not being made, and such documents and/or materials have not been approved, by an authorised person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the "FSMA"). Accordingly, such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents and/or materials is exempt from the restriction on financial promotions under section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is only directed at and may be communicated to (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments, being investment professionals as defined in Article 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Financial Promotion Order"); (ii) persons who fall within Article 43(2) of the Financial Promotion Order; or (iii) any other persons to whom these documents and/or materials may lawfully be provided. Any investment or investment activity to which the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum relates is available only to such persons or will be engaged in only with such persons and other persons should not rely on it.
European Economic Area (EEA)
Each person in a Relevant State who receives any communication with respect to the Offers contemplated in the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum will be deemed to have represented, warranted and agreed to and with the Dealer Manager and Solicitation Agent and the Offeror that it is a qualified investor within the meaning of Article 2(e) of the Prospectus Regulation.
Luxembourg
The terms and conditions relating to this announcement and the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum have not been approved by and will not be submitted for approval to the Luxembourg Financial Services Authority (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) for purposes of public offering in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ("Luxembourg"). Accordingly, the Offers may not be made to the public in Luxembourg, directly or indirectly, and none of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum or any other prospectus, form of application, advertisement or other material may be distributed, or otherwise made available in or from, or published in, Luxembourg except in circumstances which do not constitute a public offer of securities to the public, subject to prospectus requirements, in accordance with the Luxembourg Act of July 10, 2005 on prospectuses for securities.
Chile
The terms and conditions relating to the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum have not been approved by and will not be submitted for approval to the Chilean Financial Market Commission (Comisión para el Mercado Financiero) for purposes of public offering in Chile. Therefore, the Offers may not be made to the general public in Chile, directly or indirectly, and none of the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation Memorandum or any other prospectus, form of application, advertisement or other material may be distributed, or otherwise made available in or from, or published in, Chile except in circumstances which do not constitute a public offer of securities to the public according to General Rule No. 336 of the Financial Market Commission.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of LifeStance Health Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFST) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with LifeStance Health's June 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO"), of the important October 11, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased LifeStance Health securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the LifeStance Health class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8073 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 11, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (2) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (3) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the IPO's registration statement and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (4) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the IPO's registration statement represented. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the LifeStance Health class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8073 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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HONG KONG (AP) — As Tokyo plans to discharge treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, Japanese restaurant operator Sam Lam is busy finding substitutes for Japanese seafood that could soon be banned from entering Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong government said last Wednesday that the city would immediately bar the import of aquatic products from 10 Japanese prefectures if wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant is released into the Pacific Ocean.
Lam said his team could get seafood from other sources and change menus to adjust to the ban, but he predicted that revenues could nevertheless drop from 10% to 20% if the Japanese and Hong Kong governments press ahead with their plans.
“My customers told me that once the water is discharged, they will eat fewer (aquatic products) or stop eating them,” he said in an interview Friday.
Lam is not alone among Japanese restaurants and seafood suppliers in Hong Kong who are bracing for a slump in business under the potential ban, and who fear that the discharge could lead to a general decline of confidence in the safety of seafood.
The financial hub was Japan’s second biggest market for fishery exports after mainland China and purchased 75.5 billion yen ($546 million) worth of aquatic products from the country last year, the Japanese government’s data showed.
The 10 affected prefectures — Tokyo, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama — provide about 15% of the total amount of imported aquatic products from Japan, according to estimates by Simon Wong, president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trade.
Wong said the city’s Japanese restaurants could find substitute seafood products from other regions, but they may not share the same level of prestige, and that could mar a restaurant’s image or make customers feel that the food is less authentic.
“After moving past the pandemic, businesses were hoping that crisis is a thing of the past already. They don’t know if this incident will bring another crisis,” he said.
He said the industry took about a year to restore the public’s confidence in Japanese food after the Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. He said if the current safety concerns aren’t immediately resolved, the industry might need more than nine months to restore some level of confidence.
A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt and releasing large amounts of radiation. The tanks where water used to cool the reactor cores is stored will reach their capacity in early 2024.
In 2021, Japan’s government announced plans to gradually release the treated — but still slightly radioactive — water after being diluted to what it says are safe levels. The U.N. nuclear agency endorsed the plans, saying they meet international standards. But the idea is opposed by groups in South Korea, China and some Pacific Island nations because of safety concerns and political reasons. Local fishing organizations fear that their reputation will be damaged even if their catch isn’t contaminated.
Christine Huang, who imports Japanese food from outside the 10 prefectures targeted in the potential ban, remembered the pain in 2011.
Consumer worries triggered by the Fukushima accident led to her company’s revenues being halved for a period of two to three months, said Huang, the director at Best Quality Food. Workers at her company were forced to take unpaid leave, she added.
She worried that the release at Fukushima could again shake Hong Kongers’ confidence in the safety of Japanese food in the short term. “If business at Japanese restaurants turn bad, we will be quite miserable,” she said.
Murakami Satoshi, a wholesaler who imported seafood such as saury from the affected prefecture of Miyagi, also predicted a potential drop in sales due to the ban. To allay concerns of his restaurant clients, he said he would boost efforts to get seafood from unaffected regions, such as the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Hokkaido.
Those who sell seafood products from outside Japan also voiced concerns. Local seafood wholesale company worker Fung See foresaw his company’s revenues could drop at least 20% to 30% due to consumers’ worries even though they mainly trade fish from Hong Kong and mainland China.
Oyster shop owner Wilson Lau, who sells shellfish from Miyagi, said he was not bothered. “Fresh oysters also exist in many countries,” said Lau, who is director of the HK Oyster Concern Group. “Even if consumers do not eat Japanese oysters, they can eat other types of oysters.”
At about Friday’s noon at Sam Lam’s Japanese restaurant, fewer customers were ordering sashimi than usual. Of about 10 meal sets Lam checked, only one was sashimi, he said.
Customer Yo Kong said she’s been dining more at Japanese restaurants lately to get her fill ahead of the expected discharge at Fukushima. Once that happens, the 50-year-old insurance manager said she might stop eating sashimi for a few months.
“I will just have more when it’s still OK to eat,” she said.
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Funko plans to get rid of at least $30 million worth of products
Published: Mar. 6, 2023 at 9:46 AM CST|Updated: 46 minutes ago
(CNN) – It appears a popular brand of pop culture collectibles is struggling to sell off a product surplus.
Funko acknowledged the problem to investors this week on an earnings call.
The manufacturer known for its vinyl figurines and bobbleheads said its inventory is up 48% compared to a year ago.
Funko’s warehouse shelves are so full that the company admitted to renting storage containers to house the excess.
To deal with additional merchandise, the company said it will eliminate approximately $30 million to $60 million worth of it.
Funko said it plans to remove all the unwanted products during the first half of this year.
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will review materials taken from former President Donald Trump's home in Florida for potential national security risks.
A spokesperson for ODNI told NPR that intelligence leaders will assess what level of harm could come from releasing documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
"ODNI will closely coordinate with [the Justice Department] to ensure this [Intelligence Community] assessment is conducted in a manner that does not unduly interfere with DOJ's ongoing criminal investigation," the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, a federal judge said she is inclined to grant Trump's request to appoint a special master to oversee the search of the seized material.
The decision is not final, and U.S. District Judge Aileen Gannon also told the Justice Department to produce "a more detailed" list of the items that were taken from Mar-a-Lago.
This is an initial step in a legal process that will span weeks.
Lawmakers back the intelligence community's move
Rep. Adam Schiff, who chairs the House intelligence committee, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, who chairs the House oversight and reform committee, praised the intelligence community for their assessment in a joint statement.
"The DOJ affidavit, partially unsealed yesterday, affirms our grave concern that among the documents stored at Mar-a-Lago were those that could endanger human sources," they said. "It is critical that the [Intelligence Community] move swiftly to assess and, if necessary, to mitigate the damage done—a process that should proceed in parallel with DOJ's criminal investigation."
A redacted version of the affidavit used by the FBI to search the former president's home was made available Friday, nearly half of which was unreadable, NPR has reported.
According to the affidavit, 184 classified documents were found among 15 boxes taken from the resort earlier this year. Twenty-five of the documents were labeled "Top Secret."
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Rays vs. Mets: Odds, spread, over/under - May 18
When the New York Mets (21-23) and Tampa Bay Rays (32-12) face off in the series rubber match at Citi Field on Thursday, May 18, Tylor Megill will get the ball for the Mets, while the Rays will send Taj Bradley to the mound. The game will begin at 1:10 PM ET.
The Mets are listed as -115 moneyline favorites for this matchup with the Rays (-105). The over/under for the matchup is set at 9 runs.
Rays vs. Mets Time and TV Channel
- Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
- Time: 1:10 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Queens, New York
- Venue: Citi Field
- Probable Pitchers: Megill - NYM (4-2, 4.02 ERA) vs Bradley - TB (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
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Rays vs. Mets Betting Trends and Insights
- The Mets have won 17, or 51.5%, of the 33 games they've played as favorites this season.
- The Mets have a 17-16 record (winning 51.5% of their games) when they have played as moneyline favorites of -115 or shorter.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that New York has a 53.5% chance to win.
- The Mets went 4-6 across the 10 games they were favored on the moneyline in their last 10 matchups.
- Over its last 10 matchups -- all had a set run total -- New York and its opponents combined to hit the over on the total six times.
- The Rays have been underdogs in six games this season and have come away with the win three times (50%) in those contests.
- This season, the Rays have come away with a win one times in four chances when named as an underdog of at least -105 or longer on the moneyline.
- The Rays have played as underdogs in five of their past 10 games and won three of those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Tampa Bay and its opponents are 7-3-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
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SHELBYVILLE, Ind., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Knauf Insulation, Inc., has earned the asthma & allergy friendly® Certification for its Performance+™ Acoustic Panel.
The asthma & allergy friendly® Certification Program, an independent program established in the United States by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) and Allergy Standards Limited (ASL), helps consumers identify products more suitable for people with asthma and allergies by developing scientific standards that products must meet. The program performs physical and chemical testing on products to ensure they reduce allergen exposure and limit pollutants in the indoor environment. The Certification Mark is awarded only to those products that meet the scientific criteria.
"This asthma & allergy friendly® certification is evidence of Knauf's commitment to providing high quality products that can improve indoor air quality and help create healthier home environments," says Nathan Walker, Knauf Insulation's Senior Vice President of Customer Experience, Innovation, and Sales.
Knauf's Performance+ products are designed for sound control, low dust and superior fire rating. To meet the asthma & allergy friendly® certification standards, the Knauf Performance+ Acoustic Panel was tested for low emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In relation to material science, the panel was assessed for chemicals and allergenic properties. As the only formaldehyde-free fiberglass acoustic panel on the market, homeowners can easily add the Knauf Insulation panels to spaces where sound and comfort matter most like nurseries, home offices or theater rooms.
May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, a month dedicated to building understanding, educating, and advocating for the 65 million Americans who live with asthma and allergies. Optimizing indoor air quality is critical, as indoor air has been found to be up to five times more polluted than outdoor air, according to the EPA.
"At this time of increased focus on healthy indoor air and wellness at home it is vital that all product claims are based on good science. We congratulate Knauf Insulation on their certification, which involved a robust scientific verification and inspection of their product, particularly on how it relates to low VOCs and constituent materials," said Dr. John McKeon, CEO of Allergy Standards Ltd.
About the asthma & allergy friendly® Certification Program
The asthma & allergy friendly® Certification Program is a unique, groundbreaking collaboration between the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America and Allergy Standards Limited. This program helps people make informed purchases for a #healthierhome. The program tests household products against strict standards. Products passing these tests earn the CERTIFIED asthma & allergy friendly® mark. Certified products include air cleaners, bedding, cleaning products, flooring, paints, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and more. Visit aafa.org/certified for more information.
About Knauf Insulation North America
Knauf Insulation North American is part of Knauf Group, a family-owned global manufacturer of building materials based in Iphofen, Germany. Knauf leverages the expertise of over 35,000 employees across 250 production facilities in 86 countries to generate revenue in excess of $12 Billion. In North America, Knauf Insulation is a leading manufacturer of thermal and acoustical fiberglass insulation for residential, commercial, industrial, OEM and metal building applications. Knauf's mission is to challenge conventional thinking and create innovative solutions that shape the way we live and build in the future, with care for the people who make them, the people who use them and the world we all depend on.
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(iSeeCars) — The average new car costs $43,528, while the average one-to-five-year-old used car costs $34,291 according to the latest iSeeCars data.
While used cars are significantly cheaper than new cars, both are still a major expense. That’s why it’s important to set a realistic budget and determine how much money you can afford to pay for your new — or new to you — car. We have the answers to help you determine that age-old question: how much car can I afford?
- Determine Your Credit Score
Unless you’re paying for your car in full, you’ll need to secure a car loan. The first step toward getting a car loan and figuring out how much you can afford to pay is determining your credit score. This can also be referred to as your “FICO score” and is a numerical representation of your credit history. The three major credit reporting agencies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – can each provide you with your FICO credit score. Another option is to check with your bank or credit card companies. Many of these institutions also provide a free credit monitoring service that will tell you your credit score.
A credit report, as well as monitoring services, also include a record of your credit history, including any items that are lowering your credit score. The higher your credit score, the better loan term you will be able to secure. Car manufacturers and dealerships will advertise special payment terms like zero-percent financing, but it’s important to remember those terms typically only apply to buyers with favorable, if not top-tier, credit scores.
If your credit score is low, you should try to boost your number before you purchase a car. You should aim for a credit score of 680 or above, but higher is always better. You can start by making sure you make your credit card and loan payments — especially any auto loan payments — on time. Resolve any past-due accounts, and pay down as much of the balance on your loans as you can, especially revolving credit accounts. You should also avoid opening new accounts, as frequent inquiries to the credit bureaus seeking new credit can lower your credit score.
While a good credit score isn’t required to secure a car loan, it will afford you a better annual percentage rate (APR) on the interest you’ll have to pay. The higher interest rate you have, the more you will end up paying in the long run. If you are unable to achieve a favorable credit score, another option is to get a co-signer on your loan. Your co-signer will agree to make loan payments if you default on your loan, which can lower an otherwise high interest rate.
- Determine Your Down Payment
Making a down payment will lower the amount of the loan, or principle, you will need to take out, which will reduce your monthly payment. This also reduces the overall interest you’ll pay on the loan over time. While this can help make a car easier to afford, don’t deplete your savings account. Be sure to keep enough money on hand for whatever surprises might come your way. Dealers and lenders may offer deals for zero down payment financing, but you can still put money down to shorten the length of your loan and reduce your monthly payment.
- Estimate the Value of Your Trade-In
The process of trading in your car begins with determining how much your car is worth. Major factors that impact your car’s value include how many miles it has on the odometer and its overall condition. Having your vehicle professionally detailed can also boost the trade-in value for your current vehicle.
Several websites, including Edmunds (Edmunds.com) and Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com) have valuation tools that will give you a ballpark estimate on the value of your car. Make sure you are as honest as possible in answering any questions about your car’s condition. Some valuation tools offer an estimate specifically for trade-in value, but that’s just what it is – an estimate.
You can also sell your car to a private buyer, which will be more profitable than trading your car into a dealership. In this instance, you can price your car in accordance with its market value, which is higher than your car’s trade-in value. A car’s trade-in value is the amount of money a car dealer will offer you for your vehicle, whereas market value, also referred to as private party value, is the amount of money you would get selling your car directly to a buyer. Because dealerships handle the complex process of selling the vehicle, they offer a lower trade-in value to ensure they make a profit when they sell the car.
There are helpful online tools like the iSeeCars Price My Car Tool, which provide a detailed pricing report to help calculate your used car’s value. Simply enter your vehicle’s VIN or provide its make, model, year, trim, style, and mileage.
Whether you decide to sell your car privately or trade-in at the dealership, you can apply your car’s value toward the purchase price of your next vehicle, along with your down payment if you’re making one.
- Calculate Your Car Budget
Setting a monthly budget will guide your new or used car search. As a general rule of thumb, your car payment should not exceed 10 percent of your monthly income, and your total car expenses (fuel, maintenance, car insurance, registration) should not exceed 15 percent of your monthly take-home pay, which is the amount of money you make each month after taxes. Or, if you’re paying in cash, determine the amount you’re willing to pay for your vehicle. You can use the 15 percent rule as a guide, but if you have other major monthly expenses like student loans, you should determine a monthly payment you can comfortably afford.
- Determine Your Car Loan Amount
After you determine your monthly payment amount, you can determine how much you can borrow from a lender for your car purchase. One way to do this is by obtaining a pre-approval letter from a financial institution, which will review your credit history to determine how much money they will loan you. Keep in mind that you might be pre-approved for more than you can afford, so make sure you stick to your budget. You can also use a car affordability calculator, which is available on many personal finance websites, by entering your credit score, estimated monthly payment, and desired loan term. Remember — the shorter your loan term, the less you will pay in interest over time. Don’t be tempted to stretch out your loan term in order to have a lower monthly payment, because you’ll end up paying more in the long term. For example, if you purchase a $25,000 used car and put $4,000 down with an interest rate of 4.5 percent, your monthly payment on a four-year loan will be roughly $625 and you will pay $1,488 in interest over the duration of the loan. If you spread the loan out over five years with a higher interest rate of 5 percent, you will pay roughly $396 per month and nearly double, $2,778, in total interest. While a smaller monthly payment might seem appealing, it will cost you a lot more in the long run.
It’s important to note that most lenders will not provide a loan on a vehicle that’s more than five years old, so if you are relying on the financing you should consider a later model used vehicle.
- Shop Around for the Best Loan Rates
You should always visit a bank or credit union to get pre-approved for a loan before you go to the dealership. Even if you plan on securing an auto loan through the dealership, having a pre-approval option from a financial institution can help you negotiate against the dealer’s rate. It will also show them that you are a serious buyer, which will give you more bargaining power. Because dealers make more money on vehicles they finance, they will likely try to beat the rates you’ve already secured.
- New Car or Used Car?
When purchasing a vehicle, you have the choice of buying a new or used car. Although they are more expensive, there are perks to buying a new vehicle, including peace of mind, the reduced likelihood of unexpected repair bills, and warranty coverage. New cars also typically come with lower interest rates and financial incentives.
According to an iSeeCars study on off-lease car deals, the average used car loses 39 percent of its value after three years. When you buy a used car, the largest percentage of depreciation has already been absorbed by the original owner, and you get the car at a much lower price. You can even buy a car that is just one year old, which will typically cost 17 percent less than its new version. However, in today’s market, some lightly used cars cost more than their new versions, so be sure to compare the cost of new and lightly used vehicles. You may find that buying a new car is a better financial decision than purchasing a lightly-used one.
If you’re purchasing your used car through a franchise dealer, you will have the option to purchase a certified pre-owned (CPO) car. (Check out our handy guide to learn what does certified pre-owned mean? to better understand the CPO car buying process.) CPO cars are typically used cars that are less than five-years-old and have fewer than 75,000 miles on the odometer. CPO cars typically cost slightly more than non-certified used cars, but they are backed by manufacturer warranties and may also carry special financing. CPO cars combine the best of both the new and used car worlds, by offering added warranty protection on a late-model used car.
- Buying or Leasing?
Another factor to consider is whether you want to buy or lease your vehicle. If you choose to lease, you don’t need to finance because you’re not buying the car. You just need to be able to afford the down payment and the monthly payments. If you don’t want to borrow from a bank and take out a loan, leasing could be your best option. Your lease payments typically cost less money than what you would pay for a monthly car payment if you were buying the vehicle. You can also get a much nicer car for your money and get to drive a new car every few years. Another benefit of leasing is that you don’t have to pay for repairs, as issues with your car that occur during your lease term are usually covered by the car’s factory warranty.
The downside to leasing is that you never own the vehicle. As soon as your leasing term ends, you will begin the cycle again. If you purchase a vehicle, you will likely be able to enjoy several years without a car payment, provided that you don’t take out too long of a loan term. Another drawback is that car leases come with mileage limits, which commonly range from 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year. If you exceed those mileage limits, you will have to pay excessive mileage fees, which can get expensive. Lastly, the upfront cost to lease is usually more than if you were purchasing. You might need to put down a larger down payment due to your credit score, and it’s likely that the dealership will often want the first month’s payment as well.
For more information on leasing vs. buying a car, refer to our guide.
- Be Sure to Factor In Extra Costs
It’s important to make sure you budget for more than the advertised price of the car. While each state has different taxes and associated fees, you can expect to pay an extra 10% on top of the purchase price to cover the total cost of the vehicle. This includes sales tax, which is typically 5 percent to 10 percent depending on your state. There’s also documentation and registration fees, which also vary by state and the amount can be found on your state’s department of motor vehicles website. If you’re financing the vehicle, it’s important to understand you’ll also be paying interest on the financed portion of the vehicle. You should also research the car’s ownership costs to get a better understanding of what you’ll be paying per month. Car insurance is a major added expense, and it will cost more on later-model used vehicles. Be sure to check with your insurance agent before you purchase the vehicle to get an idea of what your new monthly rate will be. Be aware that used car insurance rates are also higher on sports cars and performance vehicles. You can also take the opportunity to shop around with other auto insurance companies to compare insurance quotes to ensure you’re getting the best rate. If you’re purchasing an SUV or a less fuel-efficient vehicle, you should also factor in additional fuel costs to make sure there is room in your budget. (You can refer to our list of Best Gas Mileage Cars to help reduce your fuel costs.)
- Find the Right Car
Once you’ve determined your budget, you can now search for cars within your budget. Helpful car websites and search engines have made it easier and more convenient than ever to find the right car to meet your needs. Car search engines like iSeeCars.com equip buyers with all the information they need to find the right vehicle.
- Beware of Depreciation
The depreciation on a new car means there’s a much greater loss in its value in the first few years after purchase compared to a used car. After all, The average new car loses nearly half its value after five years. If you’re going to keep your new car for the life of your loan, which will likely be between 5 and 7 years, that’s not a concern. But if you decide to switch cars earlier, the vehicle’s depreciation represents a significant ownership cost. If you plan to switch cars every few years you’ll save a lot of money buying cars that are at least 3 years old. Keep in mind that cars depreciate at different rates, so buying a car that best holds its value is a smart purchase decision.
12. Find the Best Price
Now that you’ve selected which models you’re interested in, you can do your research to find the best deal. While this mainly applies to used cars, which vary greatly in pricing, you can also do research to see which dealerships and manufacturers are offering the best new car incentives and finance rates. You may find that you can afford a more expensive vehicle than you anticipated if you spot a good deal.
Used car search engine iSeeCars.com uses data to objectively rank millions of cars and thousands of dealers, providing helpful insights and guidance to car buyers to find a good car at a good price from a trustworthy seller. Used car search engines and research sites allow you to easily compare prices and features like warranties, vehicle histories, and condition. Tools like the iSeeCars free VIN check will provide you with a pre-purchase analysis to ensure you are making the smartest purchase decision possible. It will also alert you to any red flags that could end up costing you money down the road. This includes:
- Pricing Analysis – Calculates the car’s fair value based on the local market and maps similar cars for sale locally.
- Condition – Analysis of mileage on the odometer, positives and negatives about the vehicle’s features and condition, and other resources like theft record, recalls.
- Depreciation – Estimates how much the car will depreciate over 1, 3, and 5 years
- Supply Analysis –Identifies similar vehicles for sale within the local area.
- Best Time to Buy – Analyzes when or what months may get you a better price.
- Vehicle History – Free CARFAX or Autocheck reports when provided by the seller.
Bottom Line
Whether you’re buying or leasing a car, it’s important to understand that you’ll likely keep your vehicle for several years. When taking out an auto loan or signing a lease contract, do your best to anticipate your future financial situation and make sure you’ll be able to make payments for the duration of the payment term. Also, when you determine how much you can afford to pay for a vehicle, you can still shop for cars that cost less than that amount. Just like it’s important to do your research and shop around for a vehicle, the same rule extends to auto loans. Follow our steps and you will find the best car at the best price within your budget.
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Ready to begin your used car search? The iSeeCars.com used car search engine is the perfect place to start. With millions of listings that rank the best deals first and 59 user-friendly search filters, it can help you find the best car at the best price. And be sure to check out the comprehensive iSeeCars VIN check report to further help guide you through the car buying process and securethe best deal possible.
This article, How Much Car Can I Afford?, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com.
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Elise Stefanik backs Biden impeachment inquiry: 'Oh, absolutely'
House GOP conference chair: 'We know this White House, this Department of Justice, they are trying to cover up for Hunter Biden and ultimately Joe Biden'
House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said Thursday morning that she would "absolutely" support the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
Stefanik's comments came during an appearance on FOX Business, where she told a "Mornings with Maria" panel that she has been in contact with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., about the issue.
Asked whether she would support a potential impeachment inquiry, Stefanik responded, "Oh, absolutely. I'm in conversations with Speaker McCarthy and all of our members. The important thing to know about an impeachment inquiry is that ensures that the House is at the apex of its power and oversight responsibility. It means that our subpoenas have the most power possible when it comes to litigating this out in court because we know getting the facts is not going to be easy.
"We know this White House, this Department of Justice, they are trying to cover up for Hunter Biden and ultimately Joe Biden," she continued. "What is important that you mentioned at the beginning of your statement is the White House is trying to quietly change its language. First it said that Joe Biden never spoke to his son about Hunter's business dealings. They have now changed that language to now saying Joe Biden has never been in business with Hunter Biden's business operations. That is a significant change…"
SPEAKER MCCARTHY REVEALS RED LINE FOR POSSIBLE BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY
"It is only because of House Republicans that we've discovered the dozens of LLCs, which is illegal money laundering, the fact that nearly 20 Biden family members have profited illegally," she added.
Stefanik said she believes that Americans are smart enough to realize, at this point, that the "big guy is Joe Biden."
"Having that impeachment inquiry allows us to get all the facts and have the most constitutionally recognized power for the House of Representatives," she concluded.
McCarthy said this week that Republican lawmakers in the House may consider an impeachment inquiry of Biden over claims of financial misconduct.
JOE BIDEN LAUGHS, IGNORES QUESTIONS ABOUT POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT BY HOUSE REPUBLICANS
Speaking Tuesday at the Capitol, McCarthy said the questions that House Republicans are raising about the Biden family finances need to be investigated. He said an impeachment inquiry "allows Congress to get the information to be able to know the truth" about whether Biden committed any wrongdoing.
An impeachment inquiry by the House would be a first step toward bringing articles of impeachment. Such a probe could be as lengthy or swift as the House determines, potentially stretching into campaign season.
Speaking to Fox News Digital about the subject earlier this week, McCarthy said his party will, for now, continue seeking information related to the Biden family finances unless that information began being withheld.
"What I've said is, if they withhold information, the impeachment inquiry allows Congress to have the apex of power to get all the information they need. All this information people are finding out now is only because Republicans have investigated," McCarthy said.
"The people of America have a right to know what went on. They have a president who lied to the American public and said they didn't get any money from China. We know that's true. We've had whistleblowers from the IRS come say the Biden family is treated differently and that other things were going on. And then you have a[n] informant with the FBI saying there was a bribe. We need to know the answer to this," he added.
Fox News' Brandon Gillespie and Charles Creitz, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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United Auto Workers union members who went on strike Saturday at the Stellantis casting plant in Indiana have reached a tentative deal with the company.
The UAW Local 1166 bargaining committee announced a tentative agreement in a blog post, saying that a ratification vote would be held Monday.
Stellantis confirmed the tentative deal Monday.
The strike was related to health and safety issues, including the company’s alleged refusal to repair and replace the plant’s air conditioning and heating systems.
The 35-acre plant in Kokomo makes parts used in the power trains of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM vehicles. The 1,200-worker plant, Kokomo Casting, is the world’s largest die cast facility, according to Stellantis.
In May, Stellantis announced a $2.5 billion joint venture with Samsung to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Kokomo that is to employ 1,400 workers.
Stellantis, created last year through the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Peugeot, had said it would build two electric vehicle battery factories in North America. The other is slated for Windsor, Ontario.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — A North Carolina school apologized after baptizing more than 100 children without their parent’s permission, according to the Fayetteville Observer.
Northwood Temple Academy, a private Christian school in Fayetteville, posted on Facebook on Thursday, “I feel it in my bones, You’re about to move! Today we had over 100 middle and high school students spontaneously declare their faith and get baptized today. We will have more pictures of these powerful moments posted over the next couple of days!”
That morning, three students had their scheduled baptisms at the school as part of Spiritual Emphasis Week. The offer was then extended to other students who had not been scheduled. More than 100 students in total were baptized.
Renee McLamb, the head of the school, sent families a letter to explain.
“The Spirit of the Lord moved and the invitation to accept the Lord and be baptized was given and the students just began to respond to the presence of the Lord,” McLamb said in the letter, which was obtained by the Observer.
The school says it typically notifies and invites parents to be present for any baptisms that happen on campus, and “it was not the intention of any faculty member to do anything behind a parent’s back or in any kind of secret way.”
“I do understand that parents would desire to be a part of something so wonderful happening in the lives of their children, and so I apologize that we did not take that into consideration in that moment,” McLamb said. “I pray that at the end of the day we will all rejoice because God truly did a work in the lives of our students.”
McLamb told the paper that the school should have given students a chance to contact parents and ask permission. “We were not expecting such an overwhelming response to the message that was spoken, but as a mother I certainly can empathize with why some parents were upset,” she said.
McLamb said that most of the parents that contacted her were glad, but some were unhappy with the move. Some of the children had already been baptized, and at least one family was concerned that a second baptism could undo the first.
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Amazon accused of enrolling consumers into Prime without consent and making it hard to cancel
NEW YORK - Amazon was sued Wednesday by Federal Trade Commission for what it called a years-long effort to enroll consumers without consent into its Prime program and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions.
In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the agency accused Amazon of using deceptive designs, known as "dark patterns," to deceive consumers into enrolling in the program. It said the option to purchase items on Amazon without subscribing to Prime was more difficult in many cases. It also said that consumers were sometimes presented with a button to complete their transactions — which didn't clearly state it would also enroll them into Prime.
Internally, Amazon called the process "Iliad," a reference to the ancient Greek poem about lengthy siege of Troy during the Trojan war.
Company leaders slowed or rejected changes that made canceling the subscription easier, the complaint said. It argued those patterns were in violation of the FTC Act and another law called the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act.
Launched in 2005, Prime has more than 200 million members worldwide who pay $139 a year, or $14.99 a month, for faster shipping and other perks, such as free delivery, returns and the streaming service Prime Video. In the first three months of this year, Amazon reported it made $9.6 billion from subscription, a 17% jump from the same period last year.
In a news release announcing the lawsuit, the FTC said though its complaint is significantly redacted, it contains "a number of allegations" that backs up its accusations against Amazon. It also accused the company of attempting to hinder the agency’s investigation into Prime, which began in 2021, in several instances.
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"Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money," Khan said in a prepared statement. "These manipulative tactics harm consumers and law-abiding businesses alike."
Some anti-monopoly groups celebrated the lawsuit shortly after the FTC’s announcement.
The tech giant has faced other lawsuits accusing its Prime cancelation process of being too complicated. Under scrutiny from the agency, the company in March provided consumers with instructions on how to cancel their Prime memberships in a blog post. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Amazon has faced heighted regulatory scrutiny in recent years as it moved to expand its e-commerce dominance and dip its toes into other markets, including groceries and health care.
The U.S. and Amazon have traded barbs for years over the investigation.
Last year, Amazon accused the FTC of harassing its executives, including founder Jeff Bezos, as the agency sought to get the company’s top brass to testify as part of the probe
In 2021, Amazon asked unsuccessfully that Khan remove herself from separate antitrust investigations into its business, arguing that her public criticism of the company’s market power before she joined the government makes it impossible for her to be impartial. Khan burst onto the antitrust scene in 2017 with her massive scholarly work as a Yale law student, "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.
The lawsuit follows another Amazon-related win by the agency just a few weeks ago. Earlier this month, Amazon agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle allegations it violated a child privacy law for storing kids’ voice and location data recorded by its popular Alexa voice assistant. It also agreed to pay $5.8 million in customer refunds for alleged privacy violations involving its doorbell camera Ring.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues.
The justices refused to disturb an appeals court order that made it possible for the girl, Becky Pepper-Jackson, to continue playing on her school’s track and cross-country teams, where she regularly finishes near the back of the pack.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would have allowed West Virginia to enforce its law against Pepper-Jackson.
Pepper-Jackson is in the middle of the outdoor track season. She had filed a lawsuit challenging the law, the Save Women’s Sports Act, which West Virginia lawmakers adopted in 2021. A federal appeals court had allowed her to compete while she appealed a lower court ruling that upheld the West Virginia law.
Two weeks ago, track and field banned transgender athletes from international competitions. West Virginia is among 20 states that ban transgender athletes from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity, according to Movement Advancement Project, a pro-LGBTQ rights think tank.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican, also recently signed legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors, part of an effort in Republican-led states across the country to curb LGBTQ+ rights this year.
West Virginia’s law on schools sports competition bars transgender athletes from female teams. Signed by Justice, the law defines male and female by looking to the student’s “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” It applies to middle and high schools, as well as colleges.
Under the law, male athletes can play on male or co-ed teams and female athletes can play on all teams.
Tennis great Martina Navratilova was among dozens of female athletes backing West Virginia at the Supreme Court, along with Republican attorneys general in 21 states.
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Goodwin initially barred West Virginia from enforcing its law and allowed Pepper-Jackson to compete on the girls’ teams while the case continued.
But Goodwin ultimately found that the law does not violate the Constitution or Title IX, the landmark 1972 gender equity legislation. Goodwin, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, ruled the law could remain in place as appeals continued.
Lawyers for the girl, known in the lawsuit by the initials B.P.J., appealed. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1, without issuing any opinion, to put the law on hold while it considers the case.
The two appeals court judges who voted to put the law on hold were Pamela A. Harris, an appointee of former President Barack Obama’s, and Toby J. Heytens, an appointee of President Joe Biden’s. Judge G. Steven Agee, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, dissented.
The Supreme Court provided no justification for its action Thursday.
In dissent, Alito wrote, “I would grant the State’s application. Among other things, enforcement of the law at issue should not be forbidden by the federal courts without any explanation.” Thomas joined the dissent.
In asking the high court to allow the law to take effect while the case plays out, West Virginia told the justices that: “This case implicates a question fraught with emotions and differing perspectives. That is all the more reason to defer to state lawmakers pending appeal. … The decision was the West Virginia Legislature’s to make. The end of this litigation will confirm that it made a valid one.”
Pepper-Jackson is identified in court documents by her initials because of federal rules that prohibit identifying minors. But Pepper-Jackson and her mother have spoken out repeatedly about the issue.
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According to emergency dispatch, crews were dispatched for a person struck in Lancaster County. The incident occurred at the intersection of Lincoln Highway East and Oakview Road in East Lampeter Township on Monday night around 10:40 p.m. Dispatch confirmed one person was struck by a single vehicle. The condition of the person struck is unknown at this time. East Lampeter Township Police Department is investigating the incident. No further updates have been given at this time. Stay tuned to WGAL for further updates.
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According to emergency dispatch, crews were dispatched for a person struck in Lancaster County.
The incident occurred at the intersection of Lincoln Highway East and Oakview Road in East Lampeter Township on Monday night around 10:40 p.m.
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Dispatch confirmed one person was struck by a single vehicle.
The condition of the person struck is unknown at this time.
East Lampeter Township Police Department is investigating the incident.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- A powerful storm system will bring a good chance of rain to the area Wednesday, with a rumble of thunder or two also possible. It will be mostly cloudy warm and humid, with a few early showers, then showers and a few thunderstorms this afternoon. The high will be in the lower 70s.
Colder air will return to the area Friday through the weekend, with highs in the 40s. While it will seem cold in light of our recent warmth, these temperatures will be right about average for early January. An isolated shower will be possible both Saturday and Sunday, but significant precipitation is not expected.
Some light snow is possible across northern and western Virginia Saturday. Showers will be possible again on Tuesday, with another round of light wintry weather possible in the mountains and across northern Virginia.
As of today, there isn't a strong signal for a significant snow in the Virginia Piedmont and Tidewater.
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Ashlee Simpson Ross is sending L.O.V.E. to Bronx Wentz.
Ashlee shared a sweet birthday tribute to her son Bronx—who she shares with ex-husband Pete Wentz—in honor of his turning 14. The "Pieces of Me" singer posted a black and white photo of herself in a sweater and furry hat posing with the teen, who dons a simple white hoodie.
"BRONX happy birthday my grown boy," Ashlee she wrote on Nov. 21. "Can't believe you are 14. You are the kindest, and coolest. I am so lucky to be your mom." The post featured a black and white photo of Ashlee and Bronx. She's wearing a sweater and a furry hat, while the teen lounges in a white hoodie.
And Ashlee wasn't the only one celebrating Bronx's birthday as several pals chimed in with birthday wishes in the comments. "OMG," Rachel Zoe wrote, with Caecee Cobb adding,"Happy Birthday Bronx."
Ashlee's sister Jessica Simpson shared her own tribute to her nephew on Instagram, posting a snap of herself in a leather jacket and jeans, while Bronx is wearing a different white hoodie.
"Happy 14th Birthday BX!!! I love you SO very much," she wrote on Nov. 21. "You are a gift to everyone who is lucky enough know you, love you and be loved by you. Being your Aunt…has been…WILL ALWAYS BE…one of the most precious blessings of my life! Thank you for being YOU! @ashleesimpsonross you are my role model."
Bronx is the only child Ashlee and Pete—who were married from 2008 to 2011—share together. However, since their split, they've each expanded their families, with Ashlee welcoming daughter Jagger Snow, 7, and son Ziggy Blue, 2, with husband Evan Ross.
The Fall Out Boy rocker and his wife Meagan Camper share son Saint Lazslo, 8, and daughter Marvel Jane, 4.
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Lawmakers fear spill on Keystone system in southern Kansas
By JOHN HANNA
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State lawmakers worry that southern Kansas is vulnerable to oil spills from the Keystone pipeline system because earthquakes have become more frequent there. They raised the concern Tuesday as they questioned an executive for the pipeline’s operator about a massive spill in northeastern Kansas in December. A vice president of Canada-based TC Energy is briefing three Kansas legislative committees about the Dec. 7 rupture on the Keystone pipeline in Washington County, Kansas. The company expects cleanup efforts to last at least into the summer. But several lawmakers said they are nervous about the pipeline in the Wichita area about 160 miles south because of earthquake activity.
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Memorial Day is the unofficial start for the summer as the long weekend will have American citizens traveling either on the highways or the skyways. “Kith and Kin” in Hurricane will enjoy reunions and also camping and fishing and water sports on the area reservoirs or the rivers. The hum of activity around our hillside homes had the camper, the ski boat and the fishing boat being serviced and cleaned for traveling as that ‘hand-grabbing’ season has begun for the big catfish.
By the way, don’t be surprised in the local bottom lands if you see folks in the sloughs and the ditches harvesting as the ‘mud-bug’ season is upon us as the recent rains during the spring should make for a bumper crop of crayfish or ‘crawdads’ around Mud Creek as a revival of foods locally sourced is the “in thing” for Hill Country neighborhoods. I was almost convinced by a group of teens that you just prepare them the same way that you would prepare shrimp for a boil by adding red potatoes and corn-on-the-cob as sides as well as the ‘Cajun’ seasonings. Just a party waiting to happen at the lake as all you need are newspapers to serve the critters on! Enjoy.
Anniversaries for May are as follows: Bro. Greg and Merle Hill, 41; Bro. Philip and Perri Brock, 20; and Jordan and Cari Montgomery, 7.
Get-well wishes are to the following: Faye Dillard, Betty Graham, and Bro. Phillip Logan.
Congratulations are to Anna Brooke Sullivan as she will be attending NEMCC in Booneville in the fall as she received a volleyball scholarship. She is a 2023 graduate of SPAC, and her parents are Brad and Becky Robbins Sullivan.
Kathy Montgomery attended the morning service on May 21 at The Cowboy Church located at Thaxton Jct. as her grandson, Joseph Moody, was a 2023 graduate of NPAC as he was an honoree at the event. The pastor is Joey Moody(Greta M.).
Anna Grace Warren, the daughter of Phil and Stephenie, is a 2023 graduate of West Union and was the Valedictorian of her class. Jimmie S. Warren is her grandmother from Hurricane.
The annual homecoming was held at Sand Springs Community Church on Sunday, May 21.
Longtime member of the church, Lanny Benjamin, presented a history of the congregation. The church was completed in 1929 and has been an integral part of our community as it is located across from Sand Springs Cemetery on Hwy. 346 west as it is known locally as the Hurricane Road.
At the historical Shady Grove Baptist Church homecoming earlier in May, Dr. Kara Blackard, a native of the Shady Grove-Lone Star areas, was the guest preacher for the service. The Rochester Family was the featured singing group. Bro. David Barnett(Leah) is the pastor. The traditional dinner on the grounds is now served in their modern fellowship hall as the yearly event. It was a good day in one of our oldest neighborhoods.
Schools are out for the summer! All the local grandparents can have this time off and then be back in the school traffic during the late summer.
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President Joe Biden will address the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday where he is expected to announce a $2.9 billion package to address global food security which has been made more precarious due in part to the war in Ukraine.
"This new announcement of $2.9 billion will save lives through emergency interventions and invest in medium to long term food security assistance in order to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations from the escalating global food security crisis," the White House said on Wednesday.
His address comes on the same day Russian President Vladamir Putin announced he is calling up reservists.
Putin’s announcement came after Ukraine retook eastern parts of its nation back as Russian troops retreated.
Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said much of the president's speech to the U.N. will focus on the body’s response to the war.
“He'll offer a firm rebuke of Russia's unjust war in Ukraine and make a call to the world to continue to stand against the naked aggression that we've seen these past several months,” Sullivan said. “He will underscore the importance of strengthening the United Nations and reaffirm core tenets of its charter at a time when a permanent member of the Security Council has struck at the very heart of the charter by challenging the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
Russia is one of five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and has the ability to veto any measure the body considers.
Sullivan suggested that Biden's address will be aimed at U.N. members that "have stood on the sidelines" in supporting Ukraine against Russia.
While Ukraine will be a major talking point for Biden, he’ll also address global health, climate change and other issues, Sullivan said.
Following his address, Biden will meet with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss, two weeks after she replaced Boris Johnson.
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Thousands of Twitter users reported problems accessing the site on Saturday.
The issue appeared to affect users on both the social media app and website.
Many people who tried to view, search, refresh and post content on the platform were met with error messages that read, "Rate limit exceeded" or "Cannot retrieve tweets."
"Please wait a few moments then try again," the prompts read.
The issue was intermittent; many people were at some point able to post about their inability to access the site.
More than 7,400 people reported a problem accessing Twitter as of about 11 a.m. ET, according the website Downdetector. That number fell by about 1,000 reports by early afternoon.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk addressed the issue Saturday morning. He said viewing limits would be temporarily imposed on tweets to address "extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation."
"Verified" accounts will soon be limited to reading 8,000 posts per day and unverified accounts limited to 800 tweets per day, Musk said. The limit on new, unverified accounts is 400 per day.
The restrictions follow Twitter's announcement that it would require users to sign up for or log into an existing account on the site to be able to view tweets. He called the move a "temporary emergency measure," adding that several hundred organizations were scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively," which he said was affecting user experience.
The recent set of limitations, however, have struck many users as a ploy to get users to pay more money in order to access a better experience on Twitter with a "verified" account, which costs $8 per month.
In an emailed response to NPR's inquiry, Twitter responded with its standard poop emoji.
It's the latest widespread outage since Musk took over the social media site late last year.
Previous outages coincided with reports of mass layoffs at Twitter, which Musk said were financially necessary for the company. Since the Space X and Tesla CEO acquired the company in October, the site's ad revenue has taken a steep dive.
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As Jewish people prepare to celebrate the first night of Passover, some plan to leave a seat open at their Seders – the meal commemorating the biblical story of Israelites' freedom from slavery – for a Wall Street Journal reporter recently jailed in Russia.
Agents from Russia's Federal Security Service arrested Evan Gershkovich a week ago in the Ural mountain city of Yekaterinburg and have accused him of espionage. The Wall Street Journal denies that allegation, and on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had "no doubt" that Gershkovich was wrongfully detained. This is the first time Moscow has detained a journalist from the US on espionage accusations since the Cold War.
"It feels like an attack on all of us," said Shayndi Raice, the Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief for the Middle East and North Africa.
"We're all kind of in this state of 'how can we help him, what can we do,'" Raice said. "It's really horrific and it's just terrifying."
Raice is one of several Jewish journalists at the Wall Street Journal who have launched a social media campaign advertising that they will keep a seat open at their Seder tables for Gershkovich. They plan to will post photos of the empty seats on social media.
The tradition of leaving a place open at the Seder table isn't new. Raice says that going back decades, many Jews left seats open on behalf of Jewish dissidents imprisoned in the Soviet Union.
Now, she's bringing the idea back, to raise awareness about her colleague who has been held by Russian authorities since March 29.
"We want as many people as possible to know who Evan is and what his situation is," Raice said. "He should be somebody that they care about and they think about."
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, president of the Scottsdale, Arizona-based Jewish nonprofit Valley Beit Midrash, has joined the effort to encourage other Jews to leave an empty seat at their Seder tables for Gershkovich. He shared the campaign poster on Twitter and has talked about it in his Modern Orthodox Jewish circles. Yaklowitz's own Seder table will include a photograph of the jailed journalist, as well as a seat for him. He also plans to put a lock and key on his Seder plate – a dish full of symbolic parts of the meal that help tell the story of Passover.
Yanklowitz says the lock and key represent confinement – Gershkovich's confinement, but also as a theme throughout Jewish history.
"We have seen tyrants," Yanklowitz said. "We have seen tyrants since Pharaoh all the way up to our time with Putin. And these are tyrants that will only stop with pressure and with strong global advocacy."
The Wall Street Journal says Gershkovich's parents are Jews who fled the Soviet Union before he was born. His lawyers were able to meet with him on Tuesday, nearly a week after his arrest. Dow Jones, which owns the Wall Street Journal, said in a statement that the lawyers tell them Gershkovich's "health is good."
Miranda Kennedy edited this story for digital. contributed to this story
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Aaron Carter autopsy results deferred pending additional investigation
Published: Nov. 8, 2022 at 5:42 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) – Autopsy results for Aaron Carter are being deferred until further investigation.
The 34-year-old singer’s body was found inside his home in Lancaster, California over the weekend.
Authorities said he was pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy was done on Sunday, but the coroner’s office said additional studies are needed before a cause of death is confirmed.
Aaron Carter was the younger brother of Nick Carter, who is a member of the Backstreet Boys.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The winning numbers drawn in the Powerball lottery Monday night were worth $625 million, but no one matched all of the numbers.
The next drawing will be Wednesday and an estimated $700 million awaits the lucky player.
The cash option for Monday’s drawing was an estimated $299.8 million. Wednesday’s cash option is an estimated $335.7 million before taxes.
Monday’s winning Powerball numbers were 18, 23, 35, 45, and 54. The Powerball number was 16 and the Power Play was 4X.
Monday’s jackpot was the eighth largest in Powerball history. No one has won the Powerball jackpot since August when a winning ticket for $206.9 million was sold in Pennsylvania.
It’s been a year for big jackpots, with a $1.28 billion Mega Millions ticket sold in Illinois in July. In January, the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot – $632.6 million – was split between winning tickets in California and Wisconsin.
Even if you don’t win the big jackpot, there are still several prizes available. Tickets that match only the Powerball are worth $4, but if a player plays the 10X Power Play, that turns into $40. A ticket that matches all five numbers, but misses the Powerball, is worth $1 million, but Power Plays could multiply that.
Three tickets – sold in New York, South Carolina and Texas – matched five numbers in Saturday’s drawing, with each ticket worth $1 million.
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EDINBURG, Texas (AP)Roti Ware had 19 points in SFA’s 82-72 win over UT Rio Grande Valley on Saturday night.
Ware had five rebounds and three steals for the ‘Jacks (16-9, 8-4 Western Athletic Conference). Latrell Jossell scored 16 points, shooting 4 for 8 (3 for 5 from 3-point range) and 5 of 5 from the free throw line. Jalil Beaubrun recorded 10 points and finished 4 of 5 from the floor.
Justin Johnson led the way for the Vaqueros (12-14, 3-10) with 23 points, seven rebounds and two steals. Daylen Williams added 15 points, nine rebounds, two steals and two blocks for UT Rio Grande Valley. Adante’ Holiman also recorded 10 points, five assists and three steals.
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Both teams next play Wednesday. SFA hosts Tarleton State while UT Rio Grande Valley visits Grand Canyon.
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Michael Brenner, American University
(THE CONVERSATION) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was asked in May 2022 how Russia could claim that Ukraine was run by Nazis, since Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.
Lavrov’s response: “So what if Zelenskyy is Jewish? The fact does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine.” In fact, he claimed, Hitler himself had “Jewish blood,” and “the most ardent antisemites are usually Jews.”
Lavrov deliberately used offensive language aimed at a Ukrainian president who happens to be Jewish; his comments sparked an international uproar. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, said in a statement, “The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews themselves of antisemitism.”
Antisemitism has been used as a weapon against leading Jewish politicians in Europe for over a century, no matter how assimilated they were into their respective societies. As I wrote in my book, “In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism,” verbal attacks were often followed by physical assaults, and Jews served as scapegoats for all kinds of societal ills.
In Germany, the three most prominent Jewish leaders after World War I – the communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg; the moderate socialist founder of the Free State of Bavaria, Kurt Eisner; and the moderately conservative German foreign minister, Walther Rathenau – were all assassinated only a few months after they reached the heights of their political careers.
Political murders
Polish-born Luxemburg was assassinated in January 1919, together with her non-Jewish comrade-in-arms, Karl Liebknecht. Her body was found in Berlin’s Landwehr Canal. Both were leaders of the newly established Communist Party in Germany and hoped for a socialist uprising in the early days of the Weimar Republic.
Even though Luxemburg distanced herself from her Jewish heritage and refused to recognize any “special suffering of the Jews,” anti-Jewish tropes were often part of the fierce attacks against her.
Antisemitism played a much larger role in the attacks on Germany’s highest-ranking Jewish politician, Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.
“Knock down Walther Rathenau – the God-damned Jewish sow!” was one of the most vitriolic anti-Jewish slogans of hate in the early years of the Weimar Republic. In fear for Rathenau’s life, Albert Einstein and the president of Germany’s Zionist organization, Kurt Blumenfeld, spent a long night at Rathenau’s house, trying to convince him that Germany was not ready for a Jewish foreign minister and that he should resign.
Rathenau did not heed their advice. Two months later he was shot dead.
‘King of the Jews’
The case of Kurt Eisner, the founder of the Free State of Bavaria, deserves special attention for its connection to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
Eisner took office as prime minister of Bavaria – equivalent to a state governor in the U.S. – in November 1919 as the result of a peaceful revolution that ended the 700-year rule of the Wittelsbach dynasty. The last Bavarian king fled the country. With the help of newly established councils of workers, farmers and soldiers, the socialist Eisner proclaimed the Free State of Bavaria, a semi-autonomous part of Germany.
Eisner was the first Jew ever to be head of a German state. He had to deal with a campaign of defamation that came from well beyond the narrow circles of dedicated right-wing extremists.
The Berlin-born Eisner was widely described by his detractors as an East European Jew whose real name was sometimes given allegedly as Salomon Kosmanowsky, Koschinsky or another supposedly Jewish-sounding name. Among those who denounced him were respected conservative politicians and the papal nuncio in Munich, Eugenio Pacelli, who would later become Pope Pius XII.
In Eisner’s papers in a Berlin archive is a bundle of two thick files with hundreds of mostly anonymous antisemitic hate letters against Eisner, which contain frequent incitements to violence. They include a postcard addressed to the “Hebrew Residence” and a letter to the “King of the Jews” which says: “Control yourself, or disappear to the country where you belong, to Palestine! The broad masses of the German people will eradicate you, something one person can accomplish!”
The tenor of all the letters was that Eisner is, as one letter said, “after all, a Jew, not a German.”
It was by no means only radical antisemites who participated in this campaign. The writer and later Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann was the son-in-law of the mathematician Alfred Pringsheim, one of the few Jewish professors at the University of Munich. Despite Mann’s Jewish-born wife, Katia, and his connection to the Pringsheims, Mann expressed his disgust about the prominent role of Jews and the “big-city piss elegance of the Jew-boy” leading to a “Jew regiment.”
And as early as Nov. 8, 1918, Mann asked in his diary: “Both Munich and Bavaria governed by Jewish scribblers. How long will the city put up with that?”
Not very long, indeed.
Three months after he became prime minister during the revolution, Eisner was assassinated while on the way to the Bavarian parliament with a letter of resignation in his pocket, after his party had lost the subsequent elections.
The Bavarian revolution was followed by two short-lived Soviet-style republics with a few additional prominent Jewish leaders, and a brutal conservative reaction. These developments might have remained nothing more than a footnote in history were it not for the fact that all of this was witnessed by a young Adolf Hitler, who had just returned to Munich from fighting in World War I.
Hitler would later claim in “Mein Kampf” that it was the “Jewish rule” he had witnessed during this time that inspired his early political activities including his leadership role of the Nazi party, founded in Munich shortly after the Bavarian revolution.
From Munich to Kyiv
After the Holocaust, European Jewry was reduced to a mere shadow of its prewar size. There were only a handful of Jewish political leaders, among them a couple of short-term prime ministers of France, and most prominently Bruno Kreisky, chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983. In contrast to Rathenau, who was shot after three months in office, Kreisky was reelected several times.
Official antisemitism was taboo in post-Holocaust Europe, and the voices who criticized Kreisky for his Jewish background did so indirectly. Kreisky had a difficult relationship with his own Jewish heritage. He invited former Nazis to his government and distanced himself from Austria’s Jewish community. He called Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin “a little lawyer from Warsaw with a soul of a small-minded shopkeeper” while at the same time becoming the first West European politician to embrace PLO leader Yasser Arafat. The most famous Jew in postwar Vienna, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, and Kreisky shared a well-known aversion for each other.
The first Jewish leader of a European state who speaks openly about his own Jewishness is Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy is president of a country that is certainly not free of its own antisemitic tradition.
The antisemitic attacks on Zelenskyy, who might one day be remembered as the most popular Jewish hero of this era, now come from outside the country. As a historian of European Jewish history and antisemitism, I believe they are designed to foment hate and undermine his extraordinary leadership in the face of an unsolicited attack on a free nation.
The fate of today’s Jewish politicians in Europe will most likely not be as tragic as Eisner’s, Rathenau’s and Luxemburg’s. But as the Russian attacks on Zelenskyy demonstrate, in times of conflict, the Jewish background of a leader can be used as part of a broader political and wartime strategy of defamation.
This latest version, originating in the Kremlin, is just a new, perfidious variant of the old virus called antisemitism.
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The wait for US passports gets even longer, worsening travel woes
Seeking a valid U.S. passport for that 2023 trip? Buckle up, wishful traveler, for a very different journey before you step anywhere near an airport.
A much-feared backup of U.S passport applications has smashed into a wall of government bureaucracy as worldwide travel rebounds toward record pre-pandemic levels — with too few humans to handle the load. The result, say aspiring travelers in the U.S. and around the world, is a maddening pre-travel purgatory defined, at best, by costly uncertainty.
With family dreams and big money on the line, passport seekers describe a slow-motion agony of waiting, worrying, holding the line, refreshing the screen, complaining to Congress, paying extra fees and following incorrect directions. Some applicants are buying additional plane tickets to snag in-process passports where they sit — in other cities — in time to make the flights they booked in the first place.
So grim is the outlook that U.S. officials aren’t even denying the problem or predicting when it will ease. They’re blaming the epic wait times on lingering pandemic -related staffing shortages and a pause of online processing this year. That’s left the passport agency flooded with a record-busting 500,000 applications a week. The deluge is on-track to top last year’s 22 million passports issued, the State Department says.
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Stories from applicants and interviews by The Associated Press depict a system of crisis management, in which the agencies are prioritizing urgent cases such as applicants traveling for reasons of "life or death" and those whose travel is only a few days off. For everyone else, the options are few and expensive.
So, 2023 traveler, if you still need a valid U.S. passport, prepare for an unplanned excursion into the nightmare zone.
‘Plenty of time’ to ‘we’ll still be ok’ to big problems
It was early March when Dallas-area florist Ginger Collier applied for four passports ahead of a family vacation at the end of June. The clerk, she said, estimated wait times at eight to 11 weeks. They’d have their passports a month before they needed them. "Plenty of time," Collier recalled thinking.
Then the State Department upped the wait time for a regular passport to as much as 13 weeks. "We’ll still be okay," she thought.
At T-minus two weeks to travel, this was her assessment: "I can’t sleep." This after months of calling, holding, pressing refresh on a website, trying her member of Congress — and stressing as the departure date loomed. Failure to obtain the family’s passports would mean losing $4,000, she said, as well as the chance to meet one of her sons in Italy after a study-abroad semester.
"My nerves are shot, because I may not be able to get to him," she said. She calls the toll-free number every day, holds for as much as 90 minutes to be told — at best — that she might be able to get a required appointment at passport offices in other states.
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"I can’t afford four more plane tickets anywhere in the United States to get a passport when I applied in plenty of time," she said. "How about they just process my passports?"
The american government has a culprit: COVID
By March, concerned travelers began asking for answers and then demanding help, including from their representatives in the House and Senate, who widely reported at hearings this year that they were receiving more complaints from constituents on passport delays than any other issue.
The U.S. secretary of state had an answer, of a sort.
"With COVID, the bottom basically dropped out of the system," Antony Blinken told a House subcommittee March 23. When demand for travel all but disappeared during the pandemic, he said, the government let contractors go and reassigned staff that had been dedicated to handling passports.
Around the same time, the government also halted an online renewal system "to make sure that we can fine tune it and improve it," Blinken said. He said the department is hiring agents as quickly as possible, opening more appointments and trying to address the crisis in other ways.
Passport applicants lit up social media groups, toll-free numbers and lawmakers’ phone lines with questions, appeals for advice and cries for help. Facebook and WhatsApp groups bristled with reports of bewilderment and fury. Reddit published eye-watering diaries, some more than 1,000 words long, of application dates, deposits submitted, contacts made, time on hold, money spent and appeals for advice.
It was 1952 when a law required, for the first time, passports for every U.S. traveler abroad, even in peacetime. Now, passports are processed at centers around the country and printed at secure facilities in Washington, D.C. and Mississippi, according to the Government Printing Office.
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But the number of Americans holding valid U.S. passports has grown at roughly 10% faster than the population over the past three decades, according to Jay Zagorsky, an economist at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
After passport delays derailed his own plans to travel to London earlier this year, Zagorsky found that the number of U.S. passports per American has soared from about three per 100 people in 1989 to nearly 46 per 100 people in 2022. Americans, it turns out, are on the move.
"As a society gets richer," says Zagorsky, "the people in that society say, ‘I want to visit the rest of the world.’"
For Americans and others abroad, it’s no picnic either
At U.S. consulates overseas, the quest for U.S. visas and passports isn’t much brighter.
On a day in June, people in New Delhi could expect to wait 451 days for a visa interview, according to the website. Those in Sao Paulo could plan on waiting more than 600 days. Aspiring travelers in Mexico City were waiting about 750 days; in Bogota, Colombia, it was 801 days.
In Israel, the need is especially acute. More than 200,000 people with citizenship in both countries live in Israel. It’s one appointment per person, even for newborns, who must have both parents involved in the process, before traveling to the United States.
Batsheva Gutterman started looking for three appointments immediately after she had a baby in December, with an eye toward attending a family celebration in July, in Raleigh, N.C.
Her quest for three passports stretched from January to June, days before travel. And it only resolved after Gutterman paid a small fee to join a WhatsApp group that alerted her to new appointments, which stay available for only a few seconds. She ultimately got three appointments on three consecutive days — bureaucracy embodied.
"We had to drive the entire family with three small children, an hour-and-a-half to Tel Aviv three days in a row, taking off work and school," she said. "This makes me incredibly uneasy having a baby in Israel as an American citizen, knowing there is no way I can fly with that baby until we get lucky with an appointment."
Recently, there appeared to be some progress. The wait for an appointment for a renewed U.S. passport stood at 360 days on June 8. On July 2, the wait was down to 90 days, according to the web site.
Frustrating tales emerge from the trenches
Back in the U.S., Marni Larsen of Holladay, Utah, stood in line in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, in hopes of snagging her son’s passport. That way, she hoped, the pair could meet the rest of their family, who had already left as scheduled for Europe, for a long-planned vacation.
She’d applied for her son’s passport two months earlier and spent weeks checking for updates online or through a frustrating call system. As the mid-June vacation loomed, Larsen reached out to Sen. Mitt Romney ’s office, where one of four people he says is assigned full-time to passport issues were able to track down the document in New Orleans.
It was supposed to be shipped to Los Angeles, where she got an appointment to retrieve it. That meant Larsen had to buy new tickets for herself and her son to Los Angeles and reroute their trip from there to Rome. All on a bet that her son’s passport was indeed shipped as promised.
"We are just waiting in this massive line of tons of people," Larsen said. "It’s just been a nightmare."
They succeeded. But not everyone has been so lucky.
Miranda Richter applied in person to renew passports for herself and her husband, as well as apply a new one on Feb. 9 for a trip with their neighbors to Croatia on June 6. She ended up canceling, losing more than $1,000.
Her timeline went like this: Passports for her husband and daughter arrived in 11 weeks, while Richter’s photo was rejected. On May 4, she sent in a new one via priority mail. Then she paid a rush fee of $79, which was never charged to her credit card. Between May 30 and June 2, four days before travel, Richter and her husband spent more than 12 hours on the national passport line while also calling their congressman, senators and third-party couriers.
Finally, she showed up in person at the federal building in downtown Houston, 30 minutes before the passport office opened. Richter said there were at least 100 people in line.
"The security guard asked when is my appointment, and I burst out in tears," she recalls. She couldn’t get one. "It didn’t work."
Finally: A happy ending
"I just got my passports!" Ginger Collier texts.
She ended up showing up at the passport office in Dallas with her daughter-in-law at 6:30 a.m. and being sorted into groups and lined up against walls. Finally they were called to a window, where the agent was "super nice" and pulled all four of the family’s applications — paperwork that had been sitting in the office since March 17. More than seven hours later, the two left the office with directions to pick up their passports the next day.
They did — with four days to spare.
"What a ridiculous process," Collier says. Nevertheless, the reunion with her son in Italy was sweet. She texted last week: "It was the best hug ever!"
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A San Diego St-UConn title game brings Fab Five memories
HOUSTON (AP) — Thirty years ago, a group of disrupters with baggy shorts and black socks changed college basketball as we know it, and took a good slice of American culture along for the ride.
Those freshmen known as the Fab Five ended up one win short of the title, which is exactly where San Diego State — a team coached by a former Fab Five assistant, Brian Dutcher — finds itself in 2023 during another transformative period in college hoops.
The Aztecs (32-6) themselves certainly aren’t trying to deliver change to the game or the culture when they face UConn (30-8) in the title game Monday.
But the fact that they’re here — a team with Michigan bloodlines that was forged quickly through the newly liberated transfer portal and enriched by opportunities that have sprung from name, image and likeness deals — speaks volumes about where those Fab Five superstars were trying to take the game three decades ago.
“We got to college and started understanding the hypocrisy in the game, with the schools making millions and us sitting around poor as hell,” said Fab Five guard Ray Jackson. “We wanted to change the dynamics of that, get the athletes feeling empowered a little more.”
One of the greatest ironies is that the coach who essentially built the 21st-century version of San Diego State is Dutcher’s longtime boss at both Michigan and SDSU, Steve Fisher. Fisher made his way to the West Coast after losing his job at Michigan in the wake of one of the most complex and sordid illicit-benefits scandals in NCAA history.
In essence, the coach, who retired and handed over the SDSU reins to Dutcher in 2017, got caught up in a series of events that, frankly, wouldn’t be frowned upon nearly as harshly today. Back then, it was a shady booster with gambling ties trying to funnel money to players. These days, sports gambling is legal in many states (the NCAA brought the Sweet 16 to Las Vegas for the first time last week), while everyone from car dealers to social media conglomerates pay players in the open.
Fisher is in Houston this week, hanging with his son, Mark, a special assistant for the fifth-seeded Aztecs who has ALS.
“I had the ability to close my eyes and dream, and dream of this, to be honest with you,” Fisher said earlier this week.
A Final Four wasn’t so much a dream as an expectation for the Fab Five — Jackson, Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Juwan Howard and Jimmy King — who, in many opinions, remain the most electric single recruiting class in college history.
They showed up at Michigan in 1991 and made not one but two appearances in the national title game. They got blown out by Duke 1992 with Bobby Hurley, the brother of current UConn coach Dan Hurley, doing some of the damage. In 1993, it was Webber’s costly timeout when the Wolverines didn’t have one that made the difference in a close loss to North Carolina.
So, no title, but the Fab Five ended up with more — namely, they opened the world to embracing the style they brought to the playground, while making an indelible statement about the way they felt college players should be treated.
“It could get frustrating and un-fun at times,” Jackson said. “We just wanted to be transcendent. We wanted to bring the culture we came from, which was street basketball, community basketball, and bring that fun back to game.”
They also ended up as successes after college, building careers in worlds as diverse as nonprofit, finance, TV and even coaching; Howard just finished his fourth season as coach of the Wolverines.
“Isn’t that the end goal, when the ball stops bouncing, you’re doing something that’s productive with your life?” said Dutcher, who has heard from everyone in the group during his program’s first run to the cusp of a title.
In many ways, Dutcher’s group came together in the polar opposite fashion as the Fab Five. San Diego State’s starters came from different places at different times. They could separate themselves from the Michigan greats in another way if they can win the title that eluded Dutcher & Co. for all those years.
It’s a tall task.
SDSU is coming off an emotionally and physically taxing 72-71 win over Florida Atlantic on Saturday night. When Lamont Butler hit the game-winner at the buzzer, it marked the first time in Final Four history that a buzzer-beater took a team from trailing to a victory.
In addition to the bounce back, there is the opponent. Nobody has come within double digits of fourth-seeded UConn during the tournament. Adama Sanogo has averaged 20 points and nearly 10 rebounds a game over the stretch for the Huskies.
But Jackson, for one, insists this is far from a lost cause. He says Dutcher is a master at “breaking down film, knowing game strategy and preparing for a short turnaround.”
“I remember sitting in film sessions and going crazy, laughing at some team and thinking, we’re going to beat their” butt, Jackson said. “Dutch is running film back and saying, ‘I’m not kidding, these guards are good, and if you don’t take this seriously, they’re going to beat your’” butt.
That, Jackson said, was key all those years ago to the lasting success of a group of cocky teenagers whose impact went well beyond how they fared against the next day’s opponent.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to ESPN panelist and Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone about the suspension of Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for sexual misconduct.
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(KTLA) – Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck has died at 78.
Beck passed away on Tuesday, according to a statement issued on behalf of his family that was posted to Instagram.
“It is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing,” the statement said. “After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday.”
“His family asks for privacy while they process this tremendous loss,” the statement concluded.
The location of his passing wasn’t immediately known.
“Jeff was such a nice person and an outstanding iconic, genius guitar player — there will never be another Jeff Beck,” Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath wrote on Twitter.
Beck first came to prominence as a member of the Yardbirds and then went out on his own in a solo career that incorporated hard rock, jazz, funky blues, and even opera. He was known for his improvising, love of harmonics, and the whammy bar on his preferred guitar, the Fender Stratocaster.
“Jeff Beck is the best guitar player on the planet,” Joe Perry, the lead guitarist of Aerosmith, told The New York Times in 2010. “He is the head, hands, and feet above all the rest of us, with the kind of talent that appears only once every generation or two.”
Beck was among the rock-guitarist pantheon from the late ’60s that included Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix. Beck won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice — once with the Yardbirds in 1992 and again as a solo artist in 2009. He was ranked fifth in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
Beck played guitar with vocalists as varied as Luciano Pavarotti, Macy Gray, Chrissie Hynde, Joss Stone, Imelda May, Cyndi Lauper, Wynonna Judd, Buddy Guy, and Johnny Depp. He made two records with Rod Stewart, 1968’s “Truth” and 1969’s “Beck-Ola,” and one with a 64-piece orchestra, “Emotion & Commotion.”
“I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don’t have too much of it. It’s got to be in balance. I just saw Cirque du Soleil, and it struck me as complete organized chaos,” he told Guitar World in 2014. “If I could turn that into music, it’s not far away from what my ultimate goal would be, which is to delight people with chaos and beauty at the same time.”
Beck’s career highlights include joining with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice to create the power trio that released “Beck, Bogert, and Appice” in 1973, tours with Brian Wilson and Buddy Guy, and a tribute album to the late guitarist Les Paul, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul).”
Geoffrey Arnold Beck was born in Surrey, England, and attended Wimbledon Art College. His father was an accountant, and his mother worked in a chocolate factory. As a boy, he built his first instrument, using a cigar box, a picture frame for the neck, and string from a radio-controlled toy airplane.
He was in a few bands — including Nightshift and The Tridents — before joining the Yardbirds in 1965, replacing Clapton but only a year later giving way to Page. During his tenure, the band created the memorable singles “Heart Full of Soul,” “I’m a Man” and “Shapes of Things.”
Beck’s first hit single was the 1967 instrumental “Beck’s Bolero,” which featured future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, and Who drummer Keith Moon. The Jeff Beck Group — with Stewart singing — was later booked to play at the 1969 Woodstock music festival but their appearance was canceled. Beck later said there was unrest in the band.
“I could see the end of the tunnel,” he told Rolling Stone in 2010.
Beck was friends with Hendrix and they performed together. Before Hendrix, most rock guitar players concentrated on a similar style and technical vocabulary. Hendrix blew that apart.
“He came along and reset all of the rules in one evening,” Beck told Guitar World.
Beck teamed up with legendary producer George Martin — a.k.a. “the fifth Beatle” — to help him fashion the genre-melding, jazz-fusion classic “Blow by Blow” (1975) and “Wired” (1976). He teamed up with Seal on the Hendrix tribute “Stone Free,” created a jazz-fusion group led by synthesizer player Jan Hammer and honored rockabilly guitarist Cliff Gallup with the album “Crazy Legs.” He put out “Loud Hailer” in 2016.
Beck’s guitar work can be heard on the soundtracks of such films as “Stomp the Yard,” “Shallow Hal,” “Casino,” “Honeymoon in Vegas,” “Twins,” “Observe and Report” and “Little Big League.”
Beck’s career never hit the commercial highs of Clapton. A perfectionist, he preferred to make critically well-received instrumental records and left the limelight for long stretches, enjoying his time restoring vintage automobiles. He and Clapton had a tense relationship early on but became friends in later life and toured together.
Why did the two wait some four decades to tour together?
“Because we were all trying to be big bananas,” Beck told Rolling Stone in 2010. “Except I didn’t have the luxury of the hit songs Eric’s got.”
Beck is survived by his wife, Sandra.
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President Biden has vetoed his first bill.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Legislation passed by the Congress would put at risk the retirement savings of individuals across the country.
FADEL: The bill would stop retirement fund managers from considering environmental, social and governance factors, or ESG. To help us understand why ESG-conscious investments are now political, we'll turn to Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. He's a professor of management at Yale University. Good morning.
JEFFREY SONNENFELD: Good morning. Thanks for the invitation.
FADEL: Thanks for being here. So first, Jeffrey, if you could just briefly define what it means to consider environmental, social and governance factors around finances.
SONNENFELD: Well, thanks, Leila. I've been studying corporate social impact work for about, oh, almost 50 years, and it's grouped together different types of corporate social performance. The environmental has to do with sustainability, of course, and what we used to call conservation. Social has to do with dealings with race and gender and other factors such as that in the community. And then governance has to do with who's in control and the transparency and the independence and the integrity of the leadership, the oversight of the company.
FADEL: So why has this become a political issue? I mean, this is a rule at the Department of Labor, and now something - it's something lawmakers, mostly Republican, want to change.
SONNENFELD: It's bewildering. It catches our attention today just because this is Biden's first veto, and his three predecessors each vetoed about perhaps 12 bills during their terms. And Ronald Reagan was the high watermark, almost 80 that he vetoed. But it was unusual 'cause this is Biden's first. But the idea of - it's also called stakeholder capitalism, considering others in addition to shareholders - that's not new. In fact, 50 years ago, the Business Roundtable was created of business leaders just to focus on the fact that doing good is not antithetical to doing well. What's new is the backlash against it. And there's a lot of GOP political grandstanding trying to use this term of woke, or being, you know, awakened to social impact. And that's how this has become kind of a rallying cry. Even in tortured use into the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, where it has zero relationship, they try to invoke it. And right now it's been trying to invoke it in how pension money is invested.
FADEL: So how does ESG affect the financial performance of companies or investments?
SONNENFELD: Well, doing good, as I said, is - often corresponds with doing well. There's a great deal of research that shows there's no trade-off. And in fact, many times the environmentally responsible or the ESG, the - oriented firms have performed better. Some of the hard part is there's been a confusion of terms and definitions, so I'm so glad you asked for it. But there are about 836 registered investment companies claiming ESG missions. It has become a bit of a fad. And some of it's legitimate, and some of it's a little bit confusing. But it's - we're approaching $53 trillion of - you know, almost a third of all global assets are coming under this term. And it has a lot of GOP legislators concerned because of what they argue is political overtones and issues they don't like on race, gender, environment and the like. But, you know, we have shown that of the 1,500 companies pulling out of Russia - that those who pulling out did actually much better. And you see that in a lot of dimensions.
FADEL: Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld at Yale University, thank you so much.
SONNENFELD: Thank you.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Celtics vs. Heat Eastern Conference Finals Game 5 on May 25, 2023
The Boston Celtics host the Miami Heat at TD Garden on Thursday (tip at 8:30 PM ET). Those looking to place a player prop bet can find odds for Jayson Tatum, Bam Adebayo and others in this matchup.
Bet on this matchup or its props with BetMGM, the King of Sportsbooks!
Celtics vs. Heat Game Info
- Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Venue: TD Garden
NBA Props Today: Boston Celtics
Jayson Tatum Props
- The 30.5 points prop bet over/under set for Tatum on Thursday is 0.4 more than his season scoring average (30.1).
- Tatum has grabbed 8.8 rebounds per game, 1.7 fewer than his prop bet for Thursday's game (10.5).
- Tatum has averaged 4.6 assists per game this season, 0.9 less than his prop bet on Thursday (5.5).
- Tatum has knocked down 3.2 three-pointers per game, 0.3 less than his over/under in Thursday's game (3.5).
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Jaylen Brown Props
- Jaylen Brown is putting up 26.6 points per game, 4.1 more than Thursday's prop total.
- He averages 1.4 more rebounds than his prop bet Thursday of 5.5.
- Thursday's assists over/under for Brown (3.5) is the same as his average on the season.
- He has made 2.4 three-pointers per game, 0.1 less than his prop bet total on Thursday.
Derrick White Props
- The 12.4 points Derrick White scores per game are 0.1 less than his prop total on Thursday.
- White's rebounding average of 3.6 is lower than his over/under on Thursday (3.5).
- White averages 3.9 assists, 1.4 more than Thursday's over/under.
- White has connected on 1.8 three-pointers per game, which is less than his over/under in Thursday's game (2.5).
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Bam Adebayo Props
- The 17.5-point over/under set for Adebayo on Thursday is 2.9 lower than his scoring average of 20.4.
- Adebayo averages 0.7 more rebounds than his over/under on Thursday (which is 8.5).
- Adebayo's assist average -- 3.2 -- is higher than Thursday's assist prop bet (2.5).
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Jimmy Butler Props
- Jimmy Butler's 22.9 points per game average is 5.6 fewer than Thursday's over/under.
- Butler has averaged 5.9 rebounds per game, 1.6 less than his prop bet for Thursday's game (7.5).
- Butler has averaged 5.3 assists per game, 0.2 fewer than Thursday's assist over/under (5.5).
- Butler has averaged 0.6 made three-pointers per game, 0.1 more than his over/under in Thursday's game (0.5).
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with an increasingly firm grip for 20 years, was locked in a tight election race early Monday, with a make-or-break runoff against his chief challenger possible as the final votes were counted.
The results, whether they come within days or after a second round of voting takes place in two weeks, will determine if a NATO ally that straddles Europe and Asia but borders Syria and Iran remains under Erdogan's control or resumes the more democratic path promised by his main rival, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
Speaking to supporters in Ankara, Erdogan, 69, said he could still win but would respect the nation's decision if the race went to a runoff vote in two weeks.
"We don't yet know if the elections ended in the first round. ... If our nation has chosen for a second round, that is also welcome," Erdogan said early Monday, noting that votes from Turkish citizens living abroad still need to be tallied. He garnered 60% of the overseas vote in 2018.
This year's election largely centered on domestic issues such as the economy, civil rights and a February earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people. But Western nations and foreign investors also awaited the outcome because of Erdogan's unorthodox leadership of the economy and often mercurial but successful efforts to put Turkey at the center of international negotiations.
With the unofficial count nearly completed, voter support for the incumbent had dipped below the majority required for him to win reelection outright. Erdogan had 49.4% of the vote, while Kilicdaroglu, had 44.9%, according to the state-run news agency Anadolu.
"We will absolutely win the second round ... and bring democracy," Kilicdaroglu, 74, the candidate of a six-party alliance, said, arguing that Erdogan had lost the trust of a nation now demanding change.
Turkey's election authority, the Supreme Electoral Board, said it was providing numbers to competing political parties "instantly" and would make the results public once the count was completed and finalized.
The majority of ballots from the 3.4 million eligible overseas voters still needed to be tallied, according to the board, and a May 28 runoff election was not assured.
Howard Eissenstat, an associate professor of Middle East history and politics at St. Lawrence University in New York, said Erdogan was likely to have an advantage in a runoff because the president's party was likely to do better in a parliamentary election also held Sunday. Voters would not want a "divided government," he said.
Erdogan has governed Turkey as either prime minister or president since 2003. In the run-up to the election, opinion surveys had indicated the increasingly authoritarian leader narrowly trailed his challenger.
With the partial results showing otherwise, members of Kilicdaroglu's center-left, pro-secular Republican People's Party, or CHP, disputed Anadolu's initial numbers, contending the state-run agency was biased in Erodgan's favor.
Omer Celik, a spokesperson for Erdogan's Justice and Development, or AK, party, in turn accused the opposition of "an attempt to assassinate the national will." He called the opposition claims "irresponsible."
While Erdogan hopes to win a five-year term that would take him well into his third decade as Turkey's leader, Kilicdaroglu campaigned on promises to reverse crackdowns on free speech and other forms of democratic backsliding, as well as to repair an economy battered by high inflation and currency devaluation.
Voters also elected lawmakers to fill Turkey's 600-seat parliament, which lost much of its legislative power after a referendum to change the country's system of governance to an executive presidency narrowly passed in 2017.
Anadolu news agency said Erdogan's ruling party alliance was hovering around 49.4%, while Kilicdaroglu's Nation Alliance had around 35% and support for a pro-Kurdish party stood above 10%.
"That the election results have not been finalized doesn't change the fact that the nation has chosen us," Erdogan said.
More than 64 million people, including the overseas voters, were eligible to vote and nearly 89% voted. This year marks 100 years since Turkey's establishment as a republic — a modern, secular state born on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
Voter turnout in Turkey is traditionally strong, despite the government suppressing freedom of expression and assembly over the years and especially since a 2016 coup attempt. Erdogan blamed the failed coup on followers of a former ally, cleric Fethullah Gulen, and initiated a large-scale crackdown on civil servants with alleged links to Gulen and on pro-Kurdish politicians.
Internationally, the elections were seen as a test of a united opposition's ability to dislodge a leader who has concentrated nearly all state powers in his hands and worked to wield more influence on the world stage.
Erdogan, along with the United Nations, helped mediate a deal with Ukraine and Russia that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach the rest of the world from Black Sea ports despite Russia's war in Ukraine. The agreement, which is implemented by a center based in Istanbul, is set to expire in days, and Turkey hosted talks last week to keep it alive.
But Erdogan also has held up Sweden's quest to join NATO while demanding concessions, contending that nation was too lenient on followers of the U.S. based cleric and members of pro-Kurdish groups that Turkey considers national security threats.
Critics maintain the president's heavy-handed style is responsible for a painful cost-of-living crisis. The latest official statistics put inflation at about 44%, down from a high of around 86%. The price of vegetables became a campaign issue for the opposition, which used an onion as a symbol.
In contrast with mainstream economic thinking, Erdogan contends that high interest rates fuel inflation, and he pressured the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey to lower its main rate multiple times.
Erdogan's government also faced criticism for its allegedly delayed and stunted response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that left 11 southern provinces devastated. Lax implementation of building codes is thought to have exacerbated the casualties and misery.
In his election campaign, Erdogan used state resources and his domineering position over media to try to woo voters. He accused the opposition of colluding with "terrorists," of being "drunkards" and of upholding LGBTQ+ rights, which he depicts as threatening traditional family values in the predominantly Muslim nation.
In a bid to secure support, the Turkish leader increased wages and pensions and subsidized electricity and gas bills, while showcasing Turkey's homegrown defense and infrastructure projects.
"Paychecks, or putting food on the table doesn't necessarily surmount the identification one feels for one's own political party," Eissentat, the university professor, said. "Erdogan's efforts at polarization, demonization of the opposition as traitors and as terrorists, the use of culture wars, ... that's all made to play on those dynamics."
Kilicdaroglu's Nation Alliance pledged to return Turkey's governance system to a parliamentary democracy if it won both the presidential and parliamentary ballots. It also promised to restore the independence of the judiciary and the central bank.
"We have all missed democracy so much. We all missed being together," Kilicdaroglu said after voting at a school in Ankara.
Also seeking the presidency was Sinan Ogan, a former academic who had the backing of an anti-immigrant nationalist party and more than 5% of votes tallied so far.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In the bedroom of the Betsy Ross House, a reconstruction of where the upholsterer worked on her most famous commission, a long flag with a circle of 13 stars hangs over a Chippendale side chair and extends across the floor. Over the weeks in 1776 needed to complete the project, Ross would have likely knelt on the flag, stood on it and treated it more like an everyday banner — not with the kind of reverence we’d expect today.
“She would not have worried about it touching the floor or violating any codes,” says Lisa Moulder, director of the Ross House. “The flag did not have any kind of special symbolism.”
Flags proliferate every July 4. But unlike the right to assemble or trial by jury, their role was not prescribed by the founders. They would have been rare during early Independence Day celebrations. Only in the mid-19th century does the U.S. flag become a permanent fixture at the White House, scholars believe; only in the mid-20th century was a federal code established for how it should be handled and displayed; only in the 1960s did Congress pass a law making it illegal to “knowingly” cast “contempt” on the flag.
The flag’s evolution into sacred national symbol, and the ongoing debates around it that inspire so much passion and anger, reflect the current events of a given moment and the country’s transformation from a loose confederation of states into a global superpower.
‘AN AFTERTHOUGHT’
“The flag was really an afterthought,” says Scot Guenter, author of “The American Flag, 1777-1924” and a professor emeritus of American Studies at San Jose State University. In the beginning, Guenter says, the Continental Congress was more concerned about developing a “Great Seal” because it was needed for papers it would issue.
Congress passed its first flag act on June 14, 1777: “Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” But the flag is otherwise peripheral to the country’s beginnings.
A spokesman for Independence Hall in Philadelphia says no records exist of a U.S. flag being present for the signing of the Constitution in 1787, or any indications that a national flag would have flown during the following decade at what is now called Congress Hall — a decade when Philadelphia was the country’s capital. Researchers at George Washington’s home have no evidence that the flag was displayed there in his lifetime. (Volunteers there now regularly raise and lower U.S. flags, which are sold at the gift shop as having “flown over Mount Vernon”).
According to the White House Historical Association, no precise date exists for when the flag first had a permanent home at the presidential residence. Researchers at the historical association say the best guess is June 29, 1861, early in the Civil War, when President Lincoln dedicated a flagpole on the South Grounds.
The Civil War, followed by the country’s centennial in 1876, helped mythologize the flag. Americans were in the mood for a good story, and William J. Canby, grandson of Betsy Ross, had one. In a speech given to the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Canby drew upon family memories in narrating the quiet, heroic tale of Betsy Ross, who had died little known beyond her immediate community.
“As an example of industry, energy and perseverance, and of humble reliance upon providence, though all the trials, which were not few, of her eventful life, the name of Elizabeth Claypoole (her married name at the time of her death) is worthy of being placed on record for the benefit of those who should be similarly circumstanced,” Canby stated.
LEGEND OUTWEIGHS FACT
The Ross House bills itself as “the birthplace of the American Flag,” but its origins are uncertain. We have no definitive account. Many credit Francis Hopkinson, a congressman from New Jersey, but others, including Ross, may have added details — and, unlike the Declaration of Independence, we have no original artifact. Whether Ross or another produced the first one, its ultimate destination is unknown.
“We think it would have ended up on a ship mast, to signify that it was an American ship,” Moulder says.
Ross’ place in history also remains in question, even among government institutions. An essay entitled “The Legend of Betsy Ross,” on the website for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, says her tale is “shrouded in as much legend as fact,” with no substantial evidence of her involvement. Says the museum: “While it makes for a nice story, sadly, it is most likely false.”
Ross, who died in 1836, left behind no diary or contemporary accounts of her whereabouts, officials at the Ross House acknowledge. But she was very much a real person who produced various flags before and after the alleged time she was approached by a commission that included George Washington and asked to sew a flag to represent the new country. Officials at the Ross house have no direct proof of Washington contacting Ross in 1776, but they note that a ledger unearthed in 2015 revealed Washington had engaged in business two years earlier with Ross and her husband and fellow upholster, John Ross.
“We know that Washington wanted the Rosses to make bedrooms curtains for his home in Mount Vernon,” Moulder says. “And curtains are the kind of job that Betsy would have taken on.”
As the country grew more nationalized and nationalistic, Ross was added to the early pantheon and the flag’s presence expanded like so much territory across the continent — into state ceremonies and buildings, sporting events, schools and private homes.
THE FLAG TAKES CENTER STAGE
In the midst of fierce labor battles and rising fears of immigration, the minister Francis Bellamy composed the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892. It was tied to the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing but also, as historian Richard White has written, addressed “a time of intense social conflict in an increasingly diverse nation” and was intended ”as a hopeful affirmation of America’s future.”
Throughout the 20th century, regulations were proposed and enacted. The first national flag code was drafted in 1923 and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, with recommendations on everything from how to salute the flag to how to carry it. In the mid-1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower endorsed legislation adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, a Cold War action with origins 20 years earlier.
“In the 1930s, you had conservatives arguing that the New Deal represented slavery and that the counterpoint was freedom under God,” says Kevin M. Kruse, a professor of history at Princeton University whose books include “One Nation Under God,” published in 2015. “So there was a corporate-fueled drive against the regulatory state and it takes on religious tones. In the 1950s, that gets appropriated by the anti-communists.”
Burning American flags dates back at least to the Civil War. But only in July 1968, in response to Vietnam War protesters, did Congress pass legislation making it illegal (the Supreme Court overturned the ban in 1989) and adding other restrictions against “publicly mutilating” the flag. Three months later, the radical activist Abbie Hoffman was arrested for wearing a Stars and Stripes shirt, charges later dropped on appeal.
“He showed up in the shirt for a meeting of the House Committee on Un-American Activities,” says Mark Kurlansky, author of “1968: The Year That Rocked the World,” a social history. “He just thought it would be funny.”
Last month, the Biden administration hosted a Pride Day gathering on the White House South Lawn and hung a Pride Progress flag between U.S. flags on the Truman balcony. Rep. Mike Collins, a Georgia Republican, denounced the prominence of an “alphabet cult battle flag.” Other Republicans alleged that Biden officials had broken federal regulations, which call for the American flag to be “at the center and at the highest point” when grouped with other flags. Defenders of Biden noted that a U.S. flag was flying above from atop the White House.
“The flag is so important because it helps define what we believe in. You have Democrats and Republicans trying to attach meaning to it,” Guenter says. “The flag can intersect with issues of gender and race and sexuality. There’s so much there to think about, and it reveals so much about who we are.”
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GRAPEVINE, Texas, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistadash is excited to announce they have been chosen by the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) to power the organization's digital 20 Group analytics platform.
The Vistadash platform provides automotive digital data warehousing, as well as valuable insights to dealers who use the software when managing their digital presence. Developed with feedback from dealers across the country, Vistadash is a vendor-neutral company that helps dealers manage their marketing investments and processes online.
"The goal of our relationship is to help dealers analyze their digital marketing metrics and produce more meaningful insights, helping them to better understand the digital landscape" says Dan Moore, president of Vistadash. "Given all the noise around digital marketing, dealers are constantly faced with the question, 'Is what I am doing working?' With our technology, we are able to create an apples-to-apples comparison for NADA 20 Group members, taking the confusion out and giving them data they can rely on to make decisions."
As an advocate for the nation's franchised new-car and -truck dealers, NADA is equally committed to supporting the success of dealerships.
"NADA education is aimed at driving dealership success," said NADA 20 Group Consultant and Digital Analytics Specialist James Dodd. "The goal of our education is to offer dealers the best practices and tools, including financial, digital and operational analysis tools, that will enhance their performance financially and operationally."
To Moore, this relationship provides new opportunities: "NADA 20 Groups help dealers improve their dealership's overall performance and assist dealers with organizing their digital data and providing a view of how their marketing is performing. This relationship is a perfect collaboration with aligned core values that aid the dealer in becoming a better operator."
NADA selected Vistadash as their digital data provider given its ability to organize 20 Group members' Google Analytics metrics, by tracking consumer engagement on a dealer's website. These metrics are compiled into 20 Group composites, where they are comparable with other group member's performance. The comparison provides actionable insights and best practices that members can then incorporate in their digital and operational strategies. With Google Analytics 4 coming next year, NADA and Vistadash look to further educate dealers on how to properly setup and categorize metrics that provide predictive outcomes.
"The relationship has great synergy," says Moore. "Vistadash provides a tool that enables NADA 20 Group members to spend more time solving problems and less time chasing data."
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If you love a good Choco Taco, we've got some bad news. The quirky ice cream treat is being discontinued.
You might still be able to get one from the remaining supplies in stores or from your local ice cream truck, but once they're gone, don't expect them to come back.
"Over the past 2 years, we have experienced an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio and have had to make very tough decisions to ensure availability of our full portfolio nationwide," a representative for the Klondike brand told NPR.
"A necessary but unfortunate part of this process is that we sometimes must discontinue products, even a beloved item like Choco Taco. We know this may be very disappointing, but we hope you'll try one of our other great products, including Klondike Cones, Shakes, Sandwiches, and of course, our signature Bar available nationwide."
Those other frozen treats might be good, but they are likely cold comfort to the people caught in the hold of the Choco Taco. After all, what is summer without the goodness that is vanilla ice cream in a waffle cone taco shell that's dipped in chocolate and covered with peanuts?
Choco Tacos have been around since 1983, when Alan Drazen created them in Philadelphia. People have loved this fan favorite for nearly 40 years and as such, they're mourning the loss on social media.
"I thought it would be here forever, and I always told myself I'll have one later but later is here and a choco taco is not," user FilthyGrunger wrote on Reddit. "Its [sic] like losing a dog, but instead of a loving animal, it's an ice cream filled taco topped with chocolate and nuts. Honestly, if there was anything I could say about its passing, I would say that the world didn't just lose an ice cream taco, it lost its way."
The outcry on Twitter was also loud, with some users wondering how a beloved item like the Choco Taco could be discontinued when other subpar packaged desserts were still being produced.
Choco-Taco is dead but these are still alive?!?!?!?! pic.twitter.com/4AaMMPF56c
— EXTREMELY SIOUX CITY GUY (@reallycooljohn) July 25, 2022
There are also quite a few folks who aren't ready to say goodbye to the Choco Taco and expressed some desire to save it from the ice cream graveyard.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is offering to keep the snack alive, tweeting this to Klondike's parent company: "Dear Unilever — I'd like to buy the rights to your Choco Taco and keep it from melting away from future generations' childhoods."
Dear @Unilever — I'd like to buy the rights to your Choco Taco and keep it from melting away from future generations' childhoods. https://t.co/eXsmoR8kIV
— AlexisOhanian7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@alexisohanian) July 25, 2022
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., also said he wanted to save the dessert after hearing the news of its demise.
"Tomorrow I am introducing legislation to invoke the Defense Production Act to mandate the continued manufacture of Choco Tacos. Please call your Senator and demand they co-sponsor," Murphy tweeted on Monday, apparently at least half-kidding.
🚨NEWS: Tomorrow I am introducing legislation to invoke the Defense Production Act to mandate the continued manufacture of Choco Tacos. Please call your Senator and demand they co-sponsor. https://t.co/7XLgs6IfOn
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 26, 2022
All hope might not be lost though. The Klondike Twitter account has replied to a few accounts saying the company hopes "to find a way to bring Choco Taco back to ice cream trucks in the coming years."
For this summer though, the question isn't what would you do for a Klondike bar, but what would you do for a Choco Taco?
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DENVER, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Medicine Man Technologies operating as Schwazze, (OTCQX: SHWZ) (NEO: SHWZ) ("Schwazze" or the "Company"), announces the following leadership changes within the Company's team:
Nirup Krishnamurthy, Chief Operating Officer, will become President of Schwazze effective immediately. Nirup will assume oversight and responsibility for strategic planning, growth initiatives in core markets, and operational execution. He will work with the Executive Leadership Team ("ELT") to accelerate innovation, growth, and performance. The ELT will report directly to him. Nirup will continue to report directly to Justin Dye, Chairman and CEO of Schwazze.
Nirup joined Schwazze in 2020, bringing more than 25 years of experience in innovation, technology, retail operations and M&A at Fortune 500 companies. Nirup has played an integral role in building the Company and growing revenue from $9 million to a run-rate of $176 million and run-rate EBITDA of $60 million. Under his leadership, Schwazze has grown from less than 20 employees to over 725 today. Prior to joining the Company, he held C-level roles with United Airlines, Northern Trust Bank and former national grocery retailer A&P. He earned a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and a doctorate in Industrial Engineering from State University of New York, Buffalo.
Nancy Huber, Chief Financial Officer, has announced that she will be retiring from Schwazze due to personal reasons. Nancy will remain with the Company as CFO for an indefinite period of time while an active search for her replacement is being conducted and to ensure an orderly transition of responsibilities.
Nancy was appointed to the position of CFO in 2019 and her breadth and depth of experience in financial oversight of publicly held companies has been instrumental in helping Schwazze grow into the multi-faceted, vertical operator that it is today; from less than 20 employees in 2019 to over 725 in two states today.
Nancy's background includes 30+ years in multifunctional management, strategic planning, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, SEC reporting, investor relations, intellectual property and systems implementation. Nancy earned her bachelor's in chemical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
The Board of Directors thanks Nancy for her important contributions to the Company and wishes her well in her future endeavors. Effective immediately, a search for a CFO has been initiated by the Board.
Justin Dye, Chairman stated: "I am very pleased to announce Nirup's promotion to President of Schwazze. Nirup has delivered results and been a strong leader for the Company. There will be continuity of strategy under Nirup's leadership, which I am confident will lead to Company growth. On behalf of Schwazze's Board of Directors, we look forward to his expanded leadership role within the Company supporting our continued development into the most Admired Cannabis Companies in the industry. I will continue my role as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors providing strategic direction and oversight." Justin continued; "I would also like to acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and leadership that Nancy has brought to the Company as CFO. We are sad to see her leave her position as a key member of our leadership team. I would like to thank her personally, for her time here at Schwazze and on behalf of the Board, we wish her the very best in her future."
Schwazze (OTCQX: SHWZ) (NEO: SHWZ) is building a premier vertically integrated regional cannabis company with assets in Colorado and New Mexico and will continue to take its operating system to other states where it can develop a differentiated regional leadership position. Schwazze is the parent company of a portfolio of leading cannabis businesses and brands spanning seed to sale. The Company is committed to unlocking the full potential of the cannabis plant to improve the human condition. Schwazze is anchored by a high-performance culture that combines customer-centric thinking and data science to test, measure, and drive decisions and outcomes. The Company's leadership team has deep expertise in retailing, wholesaling, and building consumer brands at Fortune 500 companies as well as in the cannabis sector. Schwazze is passionate about making a difference in our communities, promoting diversity and inclusion, and doing our part to incorporate climate-conscious best practices. Medicine Man Technologies, Inc. was Schwazze's former operating trade name. The corporate entity continues to be named Medicine Man Technologies, Inc.
Schwazze derives its name from the pruning technique of a cannabis plant to enhance plant structure and promote healthy growth.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements." Such statements may be preceded by the words "plan," "will," "may,", "predicts," or similar words. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future events or performance, are based on certain assumptions, and are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control and cannot be predicted or quantified. Consequently, actual events and results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks and uncertainties associated with (i) our inability to manufacture our products and product candidates on a commercial scale on our own or in collaboration with third parties; (ii) difficulties in obtaining financing on commercially reasonable terms; (iii) changes in the size and nature of our competition; (iv) loss of one or more key executives or scientists; (v) difficulties in securing regulatory approval to market our products and product candidates; (vi) our ability to successfully execute our growth strategy in Colorado and outside the state, (vii) our ability to consummate the acquisition described in this press release or to identify and consummate future acquisitions that meet our criteria, (viii) our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses and realize synergies therefrom, (ix) the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, * the timing and extent of governmental stimulus programs, (xi) the uncertainty in the application of federal, state and local laws to our business, and any changes in such laws, and * out ability to satisfy the closing conditions for the private finding described in this press release. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Investors and security holders are urged to read these documents free of charge on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as required by law.
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Man arrested after telling 911 he killed wife, Ky. police say
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A Kentucky man is facing murder charges after police say he fatally shot his wife, WKYT reports.
Police say they received a call around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday from a man who told them he just shot his wife at a home on Bay Colony Lane, off Sandersville Road in the Masterson Station area of Lexington.
When officers arrived, police say they found a woman dead with gunshot wounds.
Police say 59-year-old Stephon Henderson surrendered to officers without incident. He is charged with murder (domestic violence), violation of an emergency protective order and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The name of the victim has not yet been released.
The case is being investigated as a homicide, making it Lexington’s 42nd of 2022.
The investigation adds to what city leaders are calling a crisis with domestic violence in the city. Over a dozen people have died from domestic violence this year. In early November 2021, there were zero.
Just this month, the city launched the It’s Time Lexington program, designed to address and do something about the growing domestic violence crisis. It’s a three-phase approach from learning about domestic violence and identifying it, learning to talk about it and acting to stop it.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — AKRON, Ohio (AP) — FirstEnergy Corp. (FE) on Monday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $403 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
The Akron, Ohio-based company said it had a loss of 71 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 50 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 53 cents per share.
The utility company posted revenue of $3.18 billion in the period.
FirstEnergy expects full-year earnings to be $2.44 to $2.64 per share.
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Atlanta FaZe win the second Major of the 2023 CDL Season
(Gray News) - The Call of Duty League (CDL) held its second Major of the season in Boston this weekend. The tournament saw a lot of close matches right out of the gate, with three out of four matches going to map five on day one. It quickly became evident that several teams were seeking redemption for their lacking performances at the first Major back in December.
OpTic Texas and LA Thieves fell under this description and faced each other in the first round of the winner’s bracket. The reigning world champs, LA Thieves, failed to get past the second round of the elimination bracket in the first Major and needed a solid start to the weekend. Alternatively, OpTic Texas failed to get past the group stage in Major I, so they were looking to capitalize early and get a confidence win.
OpTic Texas pulled out a 3-2 win over LA Thieves thanks to tenacious performances on both maps of Search & Destroy (SnD) and a pivotal map four Hardpoint win. OpTic fans also could breathe a slight sigh of relief as Brandon ‘Dashy’ Otell, the replacement for recently retired Seth ‘Scump’ Abner, put up great stat lines and looked comfortable in his role. On the other hand, LA Thieves fans would have to settle into the idea that their team now had a long journey ahead of them if they wanted to make it to Grand Finals.
Atlanta FaZe had a more successful result in the first Major, exiting after a loss in Elimination Finals, but still expect nothing but the top spot every time they compete. They consistently place top three at Majors and, more often than not, take second if they don’t win the Major. So a third-place finish at Major I may sound respectable, but it seems they know they could have done better and wanted to prove it.
FaZe had a round-one matchup against Boston Breach, the hosts of Major II, that went 3-2 in favor of FaZe. A blistering map four Hardpoint and a dominant 6-0 map five SnD solidified the win. FaZe continued, knocking Toronto Ultra into the elimination bracket with a 3-0 win in round two, followed by a 3-2 win over Minnesota RØKKR in Winners Finals.
RØKKR put up a solid fight in Winners Finals with wins on maps one and three, but an unavailing map four Hardpoint spelled disaster as FaZe took over and pulled out a 6-5 SnD win on map five. RØKKR now had to face the LA Thieves in Elimination Finals if they wanted to make it to Grand Finals.
LA Thieves managed to pull off the elimination bracket run to get to Elimination Finals, and they had done it handily too. The Thieves went 3-0 against Florida Mutineers round one, New York Subliners round two, and Toronto Ultra round 3. Thieves then had to face OpTic Texas again in elimination round four.
The match was a barn burner that saw OpTic take an early lead with a map one win. However, the Thieves were unstoppable on their hunt for Grand Finals. Map two saw a 6-5 SnD win for Thieves. OpTic tried to claw a win on map three, but Thieves took control in Control and won the map 3-2. Finally, on map four, OpTic failed to cover a ladder entry to the final hardpoint location, and the Thieves won the map 250-243. The match earned one of the highest peak viewerships for a non-world championship event in Call of Duty esports history.
LA Thieves went on to their matchup with Minnesota RØKKR in the Elimination Finals, winning with an efficient 3-0. LA Thieves had made it to Grand Finals, where Atlanta FaZe laid in wait.
The Thieves took a heavily contested map one win, only winning Hardpoint by two points. FaZe retaliated with solid wins on maps two and three, but the Thieves wouldn’t go away quietly and took a map four victory. Each team needed two more map wins to emerge Major II champions.
Map five was SnD on El Asilo and proved to be the tipping point for FaZe. McArthur ‘Cellium’ Jovel clutched round one in a 1v2 situation eliminating Zach ‘Drazah’ Jordan and Sam ‘Octane’ Larew as they pushed the bomb site. Cellium also managed to stave off a late-round bomb plant by Octane in round two. Thieves cleaned up a relatively straightforward round three, and Octane managed to hold off a defuse push by Cellium and took round 4. Thieves also grabbed rounds 5 and 6, but FaZe had a quick win in round 7 and took round 8, killing the momentum LA Thieves had garnered. Both teams traded rounds 9 and 10, leading to the deciding round 11. A quick bomb plant by FaZe put Thieves on their heels and led to FaZe winning map five.
FaZe took advantage of the morale hit to the Thieves and coolly won map six to become the CDL Major II champions.
OpTic Texas is hosting CDL Major III in Arlington, Texas, from March 9th through the 12th. Major III qualifiers start February 17th and will be broadcast on the Call of Duty League’s Twitch channel.
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First, it was gas and groceries. Now, it’s college tuition.
Stanford University is blaming inflation for its largest tuition increase in at least a decade, a 7% hike that will push undergraduate tuition to nearly $62,000 and the total cost of attendance including room and board to above $82,000 in the next academic year.
While colleges around the country are raising tuition higher than usual as they grapple with inflation that soared last year to heights not seen in decades, Stanford’s increase for 2023-2024 is the biggest among major local universities. It is more than twice the 3% fall increase at nearby Santa Clara University, which will now cost $58,586. The University of California is raising tuition by 4.9% to $13,752.
Yale University, which is raising rates by 3.9%, still costs a bit more than Stanford — tuition will be $64,700, and with room and board added in, the term will set you back $83,880. Brown University is raising tuition by 4.75% to $65,656. Harvard University raised tuition by 3% last year to $52,659; it’s not clear what’s in store this fall.
“This is a sizeable increase for Stanford in particular, looking historically what they’ve traditionally done year after year,” said Emily Wadhwani, a senior director at Fitch Ratings specializing in the higher education sector where she examines factors that affect the financial health of colleges and universities.
Four-decade-high inflation last year that saw prices reach $11 for a head of lettuce, $7 for a dozen eggs and more than $6 for a gallon of gas have been pummeling university finances as well. Inflation peaked last June at 9.1%, and although it declined to 6.4% last month, remains more than three times the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.
Wadhwani said increases in costs for fuel and utilities, labor and various items affected by supply chain disruptions are driving higher rates of tuition increases across the country.
Stanford’s increase this fall is twice the 3.5% rate of annual tuition hikes imposed from 2013 through 2018. Undergraduate tuition rose 4.25% and 4.9% over the next two years, there was no increase in 2021 but it rose 4% last fall.
By comparison, Santa Clara University did not raise tuition in 2020 and upped it by 4.2% in 2021 and 3% in 2022, the same rate as its increase this fall.
Undergraduate tuition increased by 5% at USC in the current year, totaling $63,468 for fall and spring semesters. A decision about fall tuition hasn’t been announced.
At the state’s UC system, the current $13,104 tuition is up 4.2% from the year before. Under a plan approved in 2021 that kicked in last fall, students are guaranteed that the tuition they pay as freshmen won’t change for up to six more years of study.
The California State University system has only increased tuition once in the last 11 years, a $270 hike in 2017. Annual undergraduate tuition has since stood at $5,742, and will not increase in 2023-24, although schools tack on thousands of dollars more in various fees.
“If the state continues to provide appropriate levels of funding, the university won’t need to increase tuition,” said Michael Uhlenkamp, senior communications director for the CSU chancellor’s office.
Wadhwani said many students at Stanford and other universities qualify for financial aid and do not “pay full sticker price.” The tuition burden mostly falls on well-off domestic students, international students, who tend to be wealthier, and graduate students, whose tuition can be covered by research grants. About half of Stanford’s undergraduates are from other states and 14% are international students.
And Stanford’s aid can be quite generous to families of modest means. Along with raising tuition, the university raised its income threshold for fully covering attendance costs of accepted students. Those whose families earn less than $100,000 a year would pay nothing for tuition, room and board, up from $75,000, and that those earning less than $150,000 would not pay for tuition, up from $125,000. For the rest, aid is “awarded on a sliding scale based on family finances.”
“We believe these thresholds send an important signal to prospective students and their parents not to be dissuaded by the sticker price of a college education, and to apply to Stanford if they are interested because there is such extensive financial aid available,” Stanford spokesman Stett Holbrook said.
More than two-thirds of its undergraduates receive some form of financial aid, Stanford reports, and 86% graduate without student debt. The university wouldn’t say how many of its 7,761 undergraduates and 9,565 graduate students will have their tuition or full costs covered.
“Stanford is committed to providing an affordable education for all students, regardless of their economic circumstances,” Jerry Yang, chair of the Stanford Board of Trustees, said in a statement on the tuition increase.
For a university of Stanford’s reputation, there is little concern about inflation chasing away students and damaging its AAA credit rating, Wadhwani said.
Some, including Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, have argued that President Joe Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan also spurs tuition inflation, writing in Forbes in October that “it encourages borrowing and makes it easier for colleges to raise prices.”
Wadhwani, however, is not convinced.
“We don’t see a connection there,” Wadhwani said. “Most students while they’re in school aren’t thinking about total debt, but thinking about aid and scholarships at entry as meaningful to their decision.”
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, October 15, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry hit a tying 3-pointer with 1:18 to play, a go-ahead layup moments later off a perfect, long pass by Kevon Looney, then one more dagger 3 on the way to 40 points, rallying the Golden State Warriors past the Cleveland Cavaliers 106-101 on Friday night.
Donovan Mitchell had 29 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for Cleveland, but went down hard grabbing at his right ankle in the waning moments. He got up and hit a pair of free throws with 12.4 seconds left.
Curry extended his NBA record to 200 straight regular-season games with at least one 3-pointer and shot 6 of 11 from deep.
A rarity: He missed two free throws over the final 17.6 seconds, but delivered a second straight 40-point performance.
Evan Mobley had 20 points and 12 rebounds as Cleveland dropped a third straight following an eight-game winning streak.
Andrew Wiggins' short jumper with 8:48 remaining tied the game and Looney's layup the next time down put the Warriors ahead. Wiggins delivered a big dunk with 6:06 to play and finished with 20 points.
Klay Thompson struggled with his shot and went 3 of 13 for nine points for the Warriors. His 3 with 2:53 left made it 96-95.
Golden State's Draymond Green had 13 assists and 10 rebounds with two points. He was hit with a technical shortly before halftime and coach Steve Kerr also received a T.
Jordan Poole came off the bench to score 18 points for Golden State, which is still trying to find the right combinations to get in sync consistently.
CURRY'S MEDAL
Wayne A.I. Frederick, the 17th President of Howard University, considered mailing Curry his presidential medal honoring the reigning NBA Finals MVP for his support and work with the school's golf program, but Curry asked him to come in person instead.
PROTECTING THE PAINT
Cleveland coach J.B. Bickerstaff’s team scored 52 points in the paint and helped keep the Warriors in check.
“They break you down and they break your back with points in the paint,” he said. “As long as they’ve been on this run, I know there’s this huge fear of the 3-point shot but they kill you with layups.”
TIP-INS
Cavaliers: Former Warriors top assistant Luke Walton returned as a Cavs assistant to face his former franchise. He spent time catching up with Warriors coaches and executives before the game. ... Cleveland hasn't beaten the Warriors in the regular season since a 109-108 victory on Dec. 25, 2016. ...
Warriors: Curry's 3-point streak dates to Dec. 1, 2018, at Detroit. ... G Donte DiVincenzo returned from a 10-game absence with a strained left hamstring that he hurt Oct. 23 against Sacramento. DiVincenzo played 16 minutes. ... Golden State is 5-1 at home and 2-0 vs. the Eastern Conference. ... The Warriors have won the last 11 in the series — their longest active streak against any opponent — and eight straight at home. Including playoff meetings, Golden State has won 19 of the last 20.
UP NEXT
Cavaliers: Host the Timberwolves on Sunday.
Warriors: At Kings on Sunday for the second matchup between the Northern California rivals in seven days. The Warriors have won the last seven vs. Sacramento, two in a row on the road.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The fate of millions of student borrowers hangs in the balance.
The Supreme Court could weigh in on the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program as early as Thursday, deciding if roughly 43 million Americans can have some of their student loans forgiven.
“We are waiting any day now,” said U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
He said he’s hopeful the justices will side with the Biden Administration, allowing it to follow through on plans to erase $10,000 of student debt for most eligible borrowers.
“They shouldn’t be fighting to give $10,000 to people who are middle class people, who are people struggling to make ends meet,” said Cardona. “The Supreme Court’s decision is going to be a critical one.”
But those challenging the forgiveness program call it inherently unfair and argue the president abused his emergency powers to create it.
“The answer is pretty clear he did,” said GianCarlo Canaparo, a legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
Canaparo said he believes the states objecting have a solid case but also admits the situation is “in somewhat unchartered waters.”
He notes recent Supreme Court decisions favor the Biden Administration. He was asked if any of the court’s prior decisions concern him.
“Up until a couple of weeks ago I would have said no,” said Canaparo. “It’s not a good sign.”
The White House won’t say what will happen if the court strikes down the forgiveness program. Regardless, payments on all student loans resume at the end of August.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HRTX), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing and commercializing therapeutic innovations that improve medical care, today announced that the company will host a conference call and live webcast on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET to report second quarter 2022 financial results and discuss recent business highlights.
The conference call can be accessed by dialing (646) 307-1963 in the U.S. or (800) 715-9871 internationally. Please provide the operator with the passcode 4215874 to join the conference call. The conference call will also be available via webcast under the Investor Relations section of Heron's website at www.herontx.com. An archive of the teleconference and webcast will also be made available on Heron's website for 60 days following the call.
About Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing and commercializing therapeutic innovations that improve medical care. Our advanced science, patented technologies, and innovative approach to drug discovery and development have allowed us to create and commercialize a portfolio of products that aim to advance the standard-of-care for acute care and oncology patients. For more information, visit www.herontx.com.
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TROY, Mich., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alchemie, an educational technology company based in Troy, Michigan, today announced it has received a prestigious one-million-dollar Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), to bring to market the Kasi Learning System. SBIR grants are awarded to startups building game-changing technologies with the potential for positive impact on society.
Kasi is a system which uses multi-sensory augmented reality to create pathways for all students, and especially those with blindness or low vision (BLV), to explore and learn chemistry and science.
The Kasi system is a web-based software application that combines tactile manipulatives with computer vision algorithms to allow the manipulatives to "talk" to students to provide guidance as students learn STEM concepts. Instead of a mouse or a touchpad, the Kasi manipulatives, embossed with braille and other symbols, provide an alternative user interface for Alchemie's interactive learning software.
The goal is to create a learning system that is "born accessible," and deliver accommodations for differently abled learners as a key feature, not as an add-on to the product. Since most BLV students are more likely to receive instruction in mainstream classes, Kasi helps to build inclusiveness and confidence for BLV students and increase academic persistence in STEM courses.
"With the shift to all-digital learning tools which rely more on visual interactions, blind science students have an even more difficult time keeping up with content," said Julia Winter, Alchemie founder. "With the STEM skills learned from tools like Kasi, BLV youngsters are more likely to have the confidence to continue on into good science-oriented careers."
Through partnerships with leading education publishers Alchemie integrates their innovative learning tools, including Kasi, into content and homework systems, creating a truly accessible learning experience for all students.
With $125,000 in additional funding from the Michigan Emerging Technology Fund, the Alchemie team plans to design and manufacture inclusive packaging and the Kasi tactile pieces in the Traverse City area of Northwest Michigan.
The Department of Education's Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR), administered by IES, provides awards for the research and development of new, commercially viable education technology products. Known as ED/IES SBIR, the program's goal is to grow a portfolio of scalable, research-based products that address pressing needs across topic areas in education and special education.
The Alchemie platform of interactive learning tools combines outstanding design with a game-inspired approach to present tough concepts for STEM in an innovative, engaging way. Rote memorization and multiple-choice questions are transformed into experimentation and meaningful learning with research-backed interactive technology. Alchemie's innovative web-based learning interactives are readily integrated with existing content delivery systems to create new, accessible educational experiences for STEM. More information can be found at www.alchem.ie.
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Republicans up and down the ballot are working to retool their message on crime going into 2024 after the party found only limited success with the issue in the midterms.
Last week, likely presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) traveled to the Democratic enclaves of New York and Chicago ahead of his expected presidential campaign launch with stops at police unions. Further south and down the ballot, the Republican State Leadership Committee rolled out a wave of digital ads in Virginia hitting Democrats over opposing legislation that would charge drug dealers with homicide. And former President Trump, who’s running for another White House bid in 2024, has repeatedly hammered President Biden on the issue.
The efforts come as the party looks to regain ground following the GOP’s disappointing midterm elections last year.
While the GOP generally underperformed in 2022, Republicans point to New York where the party made inroads focusing on crime as a top issue. Republicans in the Empire State picked up three House seats, including the one held by then-Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.). And despite ultimately losing to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), then-GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin performed better than expected against the governor.
“Lee Zeldin ran a one-issue campaign on the issue of crime,” said one House Republican strategist. “Every day he was at a metro stop or a corner store where somebody got shot or mugged.”
“That’s just a great case study in how effective the message can be,” the strategist added.
And Democrats say they too are keenly aware of the potency of the issue going into the next election.
“Democrats have learned that they need to take that issue very seriously and I hope, get ahead of it,” said Jon Reinish, a New York-based Democratic strategist.
Corey Grable, an Independent who is running for president of New York City’s Police Benevolent Association, told HillTV that policies promoted by the left flank of the Democratic Party, including calls to defund the police, have put the party on the wrong side of the issue.
“As far as the Democrats, I think that unfortunately, they’ve gotten out on the wrong side of the issue,” Grable said. “The reality is many of the policies that have been created have actually had this unintended consequence of actually hurting people that they were aiming to protect.”
And Republicans have used crime to tie the majority of Democratic candidates to the left-leaning flank.
“It’s the clearest and easiest way for Republicans to tag Democrats to the fringe of the party,” said the House Republican strategist.
But Democrats have employed a tougher-on-crime message in recent years while also acknowledging police brutality.
In his State of the Union address earlier this month, President Biden expressed support for police officers but noted the death of Tyre Nichols, an unarmed Black man who died in police custody last month.
Incumbent Democratic mayors, including Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is running for reelection and is against defunding the police, also find themselves under pressure on the issue. A WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times/Telemundo Chicago/NBC5 survey released earlier this month found that 44 percent of Chicago voters named crime and public safety as their “most important issue,” followed by criminal justice reform at 13 percent.
Lightfoot has accused some of her opponents of being supportive of defunding law enforcement on the debate stage and in ads.
Meanwhile, Republicans are also using crime and the situation at the southern border as a means to talk about the ongoing opioid crisis in the country.
“Crime is the starting point, but once we dig into what issues the issues of crime [are], this is one where we believe that this is a top issue that’s going to matter to voters this cycle,” said one Republican operative.
And polling shows that voters are concerned about the ongoing crisis.
An Axios-Ipsos survey released on Thursday found that 26 percent of voters, a plurality in the findings, said that they view opioids as the greatest threat to public health in the U.S. Thirty-seven percent of Republican voters said the same.
Biden and Democrats have incorporated the opioid crisis into more of their rhetoric, with Biden addressing the issue at the State of the Union.
“Having the president offering his own solutions which do have broad, bipartisan appeal about the opioid crisis I think was a major step in the right direction,” Reinish said. “Democrats have got to take the bull by the horns.”
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HAIKOU, China, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, an activity themed "Rainforest and You" that integrates live-action performance at fields was held in Wuzhishan City, Hainan Free Trade Port, China. The pleasant rural scenery, unique culture of Li ethnic group, and wonderful singing and dancing performances have attracted a large number of tourists, according to Publicity Department of Wuzhishan Municipal Party Committee.
This year, the main venue of the "Rainforest and You" is set in the Wuzhishan area of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park. There will be more than ten cultural tourism activities, including natural education, forest health care, leisure and vacation, ecological science popularization and wildlife appreciation, successively carried out in the surrounding cities and counties of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park.
According to Lin Qing, the chief planner and chief director of the "Rainforest and You" activity, the live-action performances are the highlight of this activity, which, under the natural background of Wuzhishan rural grain-sunning ground, ecological farmlands, and field trails, integrated with the local minority cultures, include about 430 local mass to act in the performances together, and are planned to be upgraded to a sustainable rural cultural tourism project.
The "Rainforest and You" activity is an ecological culture brand activity planned and launched by Hainan Province. It aims to fully enhance the publicity and promotion of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, show the charm of the national park, cultivate the national park culture, spread the concept of the national park, and display the fruitful results of tropical rain forest protection and national park construction in all respects.
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What are the best PS5 gadgets on Amazon?
The PS5 is one of the best video game consoles, offering many excellent games and endless hours of entertainment. If you’re a PS5 owner, you can enhance your gaming experience with accessories and peripherals.
If you’re looking to expand your inventory of gaming gear, Amazon offers plenty of neat PS5 gadgets, from controllers to microphones.
What kinds of PS5 gadgets are there?
Controllers
Having a reliable controller is paramount for a good gaming experience. Every PlayStation 5 sold at a retailer comes with at least one DualSense 5 controller, but it doesn’t hurt to have a few more around if you want to play with friends and family.
Headsets
Gaming has long since transitioned to online-focused gameplay. This means you can play co-op campaigns or multiplayer modes with friends far away. However, while you can communicate with friends online via messaging, it’s much more practical to do so with voice chat. A good headset is easy to set up, is rechargeable and provides crystal clear quality during communication.
Charging dock
Charging your controller with a direct connection to your console is fine while playing, but if you’re not using your PS5, you can keep your controllers stationed on a dock. This charges them much faster. Some stands let you charge multiple controllers simultaneously. The best ones are compact and charge controllers fully in fewer than two hours.
Cooling fan
If you’ve ever stuck your hand directly behind your PS5, you’ve probably noticed that it can get pretty hot back there. A PS5 tends to overwork its fan when a high-powered application runs. This can cause overheating and damage to the console. A cooling fan helps regulate hot air and keeps your console’s temperature in a safe range.
Other peripherals and accessories
Other popular peripherals include the following:
- LED lights to spruce up your console’s look
- Keyboards for quickly typing messages
- Cameras for recording gaming sessions
- Vertical stands for saving space
- Media remotes
The 12 best PS5 gadgets
Best PS5 gadgets under $25
This fan regulates hot air and helps your PS5 console stay cool. An auto-start function activates when the console is powered on. The console’s USB 3.0 port powers it and comes with one so you can charge other accessories as it runs.
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Modern Solutions PS5 Vertical Stand
This stand helps you save space in your gaming setup. It comes with a built-in charging dock that lets you charge two controllers simultaneously. It has LED lights, three USB charging ports and a plastic clip for easy installation and removal.
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NexiGo PS5 Controller Rechargeable Battery Pack
This battery takes just three hours to fully charge and provides an additional 10 hours of battery life. The automatic protective chip cuts off charging once it’s no longer needed, and there are four charge-level LED light indicators. It has a compact, durable build and effortlessly attaches to a DualSense 5 controller.
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This hub offers four USB 2.0 ports, one fast-charging port and one USB-C port. It’s easy to install and is compatible with various peripherals. It offers stable connections and supports multiple devices at once without any delays.
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LVFAN PS5 Controller Charging Station
This charging station charges your controllers quickly when you’re not using them. It can charge two DualSense 5 controllers simultaneously in under three hours or one in under two hours. It has LED light charging indicators, anti-slip mats and an included USB-C charging cable.
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Best PS5 gadgets $25-$40
Wireless Keyboard for PS5 Controller
This ergonomic QWERTY keyboard inserts into the center of your PS5 controller and is great for typing long messages. It has a voice chat pad, a built-in speaker and a 3.5-millimeter external audio jack.
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These LED lights are excellent for anyone looking to spruce up their PS5’s exterior look. They’re compatible with digital and disc edition consoles and can be managed using the included remote, USB button or LED Lamp smartphone app. It uses eight monochromatic base colors to create millions of dynamic lighting effects.
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This remote works like a smart TV remote and has dedicated buttons for popular media streaming apps, including Netflix, Spotify, YouTube and Disney+. It has a sleek design, media playback buttons and a built-in IR transmitter for adjusting TV settings.
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Best PS5 gadgets over $50
PlayStation 3D Pulse Wireless Headset
This headset has a robust build and delivers a superb chat experience. It has thick earpads, a headphone strap and hidden noise-canceling microphones. The easy-access controls let players quickly manage chat settings, and the built-in rechargeable battery offers up to 12 hours of wireless connectivity on a full charge.
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PlayStation High-Definition Camera
Players can record their gaming sessions with this 1080p HD camera. You can access it quickly using the create button on a DualSense 5 controller. It comes with a built-in stand that’s tilt-adjustable to get the angles you want for your shots. Plus, it supports PS5’s built-in background removal tools.
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Logitech G Dual-Motor Feedback Driving Force G29 Gaming Racing Wheel
This gaming wheel controller comes with an adjustable pedal floor unit and is a must for fans of racing games. It has a stainless steel shifter, a leather wheel grip for a comfortable feel and the hall-effect steering sensor provides a smooth, responsive experience.
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HyperX Cloud II Wireless Gaming Headset
This headset has a durable aluminum frame, offers up to 20 hours of battery life and has an impressive 20-meter range. It delivers excellent 7.1-channel surround sound and has a detachable noise-canceling microphone with an LED light mute indicator.
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DALLAS (AP) — Two monkeys taken from the Dallas Zoo were found Tuesday in an abandoned home after going missing the day before from their enclosure, which had been cut. But no arrests have been made, deepening the mystery at the zoo that has included other cut fences, the escape of a small leopard and the suspicious death of an endangered vulture.
Dallas police said they found the two emperor tamarin monkeys after getting a tip that they could be in an abandoned home in Lancaster, located just south of the zoo. The animals were located, safe, in a closet, and then returned to zoo for veterinary evaluation.
Police said earlier Tuesday that they were still working to determine whether or not the incidents over the last few weeks are related.
Meanwhile, in Louisiana, officials were investigating after 12 squirrel monkeys were taken from a zoo there on Sunday and considering whether there could be a connection.
Here’s what is known so far about the incidents:
WHAT HAS HAPPENED AT THE DALLAS ZOO?
The zoo closed Jan. 13 after workers arriving that morning found that the clouded leopard, named Nova, was missing. After a search that included police, the leopard weighing 20-25 pounds (9-11 kilograms) was found later that day near her habitat.
Police said a cutting tool was intentionally used to make the opening in her enclosure. A similar gash also was found in an enclosure for langur monkeys, though none got out or appeared harmed, police said.
On Jan. 21, an endangered lappet-faced vulture named Pin was found dead by arriving workers. Gregg Hudson, the zoo’s president and CEO, called the death “very suspicious” and said the vulture had “a wound,” but declined to give further details.
Hudson said in a news conference following Pin’s death that the vulture enclosure didn’t appear to be tampered with.
On Monday police said the two emperor tamarin monkeys — which have long whiskers that look like a mustache — were believed to have been taken after someone cut an opening in their enclosure.
The following day police released a photo and video of a man they said they wanted to talk to about the monkeys. The photo shows a man eating Doritos chips while walking, and in the video clip he is seen walking down a path.
WHAT COULD BE THE MOTIVE IN TAKING THE MONKEYS?
Lynn Cuny, founder and president of Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation in Kendalia, Texas, said she wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out the monkeys were taken to be sold. Depending on the buyer, she said, a monkey like the ones taken could be sold for “several thousands” of dollars.
“Primates are high-dollar animals in the wildlife pet trade in this country,” Cuny said. “Everybody that wants one wants one for all the wrong reasons — there’s never any good reason to have any wild animal as a pet.”
She said the monkeys could be in danger in a variety of ways, from an improper diet to exposure to cold. Temperatures in Dallas dipped into the 20s on Tuesday during a winter storm.
WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THE VULTURE?
Pin’s death has been hard on the staff, a zoo official said.
The vulture was “a beloved member of the bird department,” according to Harrison Edell, the zoo’s executive vice president for animal care and conservation.
Speaking at a news conference, Edell said Pin was at least 35 years old and had been at the zoo for 33 years. “A lot of our teams have worked closely with him for all of that time,” Edell said.
Pin, one of four lappet-faced vultures at the zoo, was said to have sired 11 offspring, and his first grandchild hatched in early 2020.
Edell said Pin’s death was not only a personal loss but also a loss for the species, which “could potentially go extinct in our lifetime.”
WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT SECURITY?
Hudson, the zoo’s CEO, said in a news conference following Pin’s death that normal operating procedures included over 100 cameras to monitor public, staff and exhibit areas, and that number had been increased. Overnight presence of security and staff was also raised.
Where possible, he said, zoo officials limited the ability of animals to go outside overnight.
After Nova went missing, officials said they had reviewed surveillance video but not what it showed.
The zoo was closed Tuesday and Wednesday due to the storm.
WHAT HAPPENED IN LOUISIANA?
The 12 squirrel monkeys were discovered missing Sunday from their enclosure at a zoo in the state’s southeast.
Their habitat at Zoosiana in Broussard, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of Baton Rouge, had been “compromised” and some damage was done to get in, city Police Chief Vance Olivier said Tuesday. He declined to provide further details on the damage, citing the ongoing investigation.
He said police did not have any suspects yet but were still searching through video files.
Zoosiana said in a Facebook post that the remaining monkeys have been assessed and appear unharmed.
HAVE THERE BEEN OTHER INCIDENTS BEFORE AT THE DALLAS ZOO?
In 2004, a 340-pound (154-kilogram) gorilla named Jabari jumped over a wall and went on a 40-minute rampage that injured three people before police shot and killed the animal.
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NEWTOWN, Pa. — What a difference a year has made for the neighbor Council Rock North and Villa Joe Marie softball teams.
A year ago Rock North struggled through a very difficult 1-18 campaign, while Villa Joe compiled a glittering 19-4 record and advanced all the way to a PIAA state semifinal game.
Well, as they say that was then and this is now because it was a much different story on Friday afternoon as Rock North rallied for a 6-5 victory over the Jems when Molly Sheehy blasted a dramatic game-winning, two-run, two-out homer over the center field fence in the bottom of the seventh inning.
With the victory, Rock North improved to 4-0 and set up an a showdown on Monday afternoon in Newtown against undefeated sister school Council Rock South.
Villa Joe is now 2-4 and has already equaled its loss total in all of last year despite the fact the calendar had not yet reached April.
It was a well-played game with just one error and for much of the afternoon it looked like VJM might hand the Indians their first loss of the year.
Playing a huge part in staking the Jems to a 4-1 lead after five innings was Ava Tsiouplis. Easily one of the top shortstops in the entire area, Tsiouplis slammed a pair of hard doubles for a VJM team that also got a two-run single from pitcher Leah Pagano in the third inning off Rock North freshman Lucy Mills.
With its number of remaining outs rapidly winding down, Rock North tied the game in the sixth when Taylor Gearhart belted a three-run homer to center field with one out to tie the game at 5-all.
VJM came right back to take the lead in the seventh. After Abbi Phillips led off with an infield single, Rock North elected to intentionally walk Tsiouplis despite the fact it put the go-ahead run on second with no outs.
Mills nearly got out of the inning, but ended up giving up an RBI single to Lindsey Rooney on a play in which VJM elected to hold the speedy Tsiouplis at third with two outs.
This decision proved fatal because in the bottom of the inning Olivia Schlindwein singled, stole second and then trotted home on Sheehy’s game-winner over the center field fence that set off a jubilant celebration at home plate.
Villa Joe Marie (2-4) 003 010 1 – 5 5 1
Council Rock North (4-0) 010 003 2 – 6 5 0
WP-Mills. LP-Pagano. 2B-Tsiouplis (VJM) 2. HR-Gearhart (CRN), Sheehy (CRN). RBIs: VJM-Tsiouplis, Pagano 3, Rooney. CRN-Gearhart 3, Sheehy 2.
Bristol 17, Calvary Christian 0
PHILADELPHIA — Dave Chichilitti’s Warriors easily improved to 4-0 behind a monster game by freshman Breanna Slack.
In addition to throwing a no-hitter and striking out six in this three-inning game, Slack went 3-for-3 with a triple, two home runs and six RBIs. Freshman Grace Boyle was 3-for-3 as well with three RBIs and Samiyah Bell doubled and tripled.
Bristol (4-0) 458 – 17 16 2
Calvary Christian 000 – 0 0 4
WP-Slack. 2B-S. Bell. 3B-S. Bell, Slack. HR-Slack 2.
Quakertown 9, Neshaminy 2
QUAKERTOWN — Things did not go well in this road game for Neshaminy, which has now lost three in a row.
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The group's revenues in the quarter grew by 70% to 30.3 million dollars, which includes strong organic growth of 24%
The adjusted EBIDTA in the quarter increased by 60% to $7 million and the net profit climbed by 42% to $3.6 million
Karen Cohen Khazon: "I am pleased with the continued implementation of the integrated growth strategy, which is made possible by the solid capital structure of the Turpaz group, low leverage, cash flow from current operations, bank backing from leading financial institutions in Israel and the world and the strengthening of the management and administrative infrastructures"
Turpaz has completed 5 acquisitions since the beginning of the year and has made a total of 8 acquisitions since becoming a public company in May 2021
HOLON, Israel, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Turpaz Industries (TASE: TRPZ), which develops, manufactures and markets fragrance, taste, intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry, raw materials for the agro industry, and fine chemicals and citrus products and aromatic chemicals for the taste and fragrance industry, reports today its financial results. The group presents strong results for both the third quarter of 2022 and for the nine months of this year with a high double-digit growth rate in sales, gross profit and operating profit.
Karen Cohen Khazon, Turpaz's CEO: "I am pleased with the continued implementation of the integrated growth strategy, which is made possible by the solid capital structure of the Turpaz group, low leverage, cash flow from current operations, bank backing from leading financial institutions in Israel and the world and the strengthening of the management and administrative infrastructures. We see there are many opportunities in the market within the sectors of activity in which Turpaz operates, which allow us to continue our integrated growth strategy."
Turpaz group sales in the third quarter of 2022 grew by 70.1% and amounted to $30.3 million compared to sales of $17.8 million in the corresponding quarter last year. The increase is due to organic growth at a rate of 24.2% (neutralized currency effect), from the acquisition of activities and companies that were completed during 2021 and 2022, and from the completion of inventory levels at its customers.
Sales in the first nine months of 2022 grew by 53.7% and amounted to $88.1 million compared to $57.3 million in the corresponding period last year. Organic growth (neutralized currency effect) climbed at a rate of 14.7% during this period. The changes in the exchange rates of the currencies in which Turpaz operates against the dollar subtracted 6.2% from sales in the third quarter of 2022 and 5.4% in the first nine months of 2022.
The company continues to strengthen the taste leg and the fragrance leg of the group by leveraging the synergy between the group companies in sales, cross-selling and the merging of purchasing and development activities. Revenues in the quarter from the taste activities jumped by 194.7% compared to the corresponding period last year and amounted to $15.1 million. Revenues in the quarter from the fragrance activities, increased by 30.2% compared to the corresponding period last year, and amounted to 6.7 million dollars.
Increase in raw material prices
Despite the effect of the increase in raw material prices and shipping costs globally that accompanies the group during the period of the report, the gross profit increased by 64.7% and amounted in the third quarter of this year to 12 million dollars compared to 7.3 million dollars in in the corresponding period last. Gross profit in the first nine months of the year increased by 49% to $34.3 million compared to $23 million in the first nine months of 2021.
The operating profit in the third quarter of this year increased by 46.1% to $5 million compared to $3.4 million in the corresponding quarter last year which led to a net profit of $3.6 million in the quarter, an increase of 42.4% compared to a net profit of $2.5 million in the corresponding quarter last year.
The operating profit in the summary of the first 9 months of 2022 increased by 27% to 14.5 million dollars compared to 11.4 million dollars in the corresponding period last year which led to a net profit of 11.8 million dollars, an increase of 33.4% compared to a net profit of 8.8 million dollars in the same period last year.
The adjusted EBITDA (the profit excluding interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization) increased by 60.1% and amounted in the third quarter of 2022 to $7 million compared to $4.4 million in the corresponding period last year. In the first nine months of 2022 the adjusted EBITDA increased by 42.7% to 20.3 million dollars compared to 14.2 million dollars in the corresponding period last year.
The potential inherent in the acquisitions has not yet been expended
The results of the activities of the New Jersey-based, KLABIN Fragrances, which Turpaz acquired in September of this year for $24 million, will be consolidated into the group's results starting in the fourth quarter of 2022. More so, the results of the Romanian company, Aromatique Food, which operates in the field of savory flavor mixtures, for which the company signed an agreement to acquire control of (65%) in October this year for $3.35 million, will be consolidated after the completion of the transaction subject to receiving regulatory approvals in Romania which are expected to be received in the coming weeks.
Turpaz estimates that as of the date of this report, the full potential inherent in the purchases it has made in the past two years has not yet been expended, and that it is expected to be realized within a few quarters from the completion of the purchase and that the Turpaz group intends to continue implementing the company's growth strategy and make synergistic purchases in its areas of activity.
For information about Turpaz visit: ir.turpaz.co.il
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Launch Event a Highlight of Summer Learning Week
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona today announced that the National Summer Learning Association will join dozens of organizations in a new partnership to ensure that all children have access to high-quality learning opportunities outside of school.
Cardona announced the Engage Every Student Initiative at an event celebrating National Summer Learning Week at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) headquarters, where youth and their mentors from across the country described how learning activities are helping their academic progress during the summer. The Secretary encouraged the partnership to take bold action to provide access to high-quality afterschool programs and summer learning activities.
"It is an honor to join other advocates for out-of-school learning to address the critical need to make up for lost learning during the pandemic," said Aaron Dworkin, the executive director of the National Summer Learning Association. "Through camps, library programs, and other engaging activities, children can continue their learning adventure during the summer and prepare to excel when they return to school in the fall."
For the new initiative, the U.S. Department of Education will invest $3.4 million to provide best practices in program implementation for summer and out-of-school time. ED's Institute for Education Sciences will create a new tool to support using evidence to implement afterschool and summer learning activities.
"For decades, researchers have documented the 'learning loss' that happens when children are out of school for more than two months as they wait for the next school year to begin," Dworkin said. "During the pandemic, education researchers have documented similar learning loss in children who attended school in virtual environments for a year or more. Today, out-of-school learning is more important than ever."
This summer, NSLA has created new and innovative ways to help students of all ages extend their learning experiences during the summer months.
More than 30 youth from award-wining summer learning programs were selected to meet this week at the inaugural NSLA Youth Leadership Institute. In a unique program, youth are experiencing the best of summer camps that focus on social emotional learning; academic success; arts; health and fitness; and
service and leadership The 8th and 9th graders, and their program leaders, met with their congressional leaders on Thursday before meeting with the US Secretary of Education.
Working with the American Camp Association and with the support of the New York Life Foundation, NSLA is supporting a free summer camp experience for children from 10 low-income communities. The camps are partnering with local schools to provide intentional learning programs where students develop life skills such as problem-solving, leadership, and communication. The New York Life Foundation has provided funding to expand the program in 2023.
In partnership with the NBA Foundation, NSLA has secured paid internships in the U.S. Congress for 10 college-age students and recent college graduates from minority backgrounds. The internships will give students of color a prestigious experience on their resumes that will help launch their careers. In addition to a stipend, the program pays for housing, travel to Washington, and food and clothing.
NSLA joins the Education Department and the Afterschool Alliance, the National Comprehensive Center at Westat, the National League of Cities, and AASA, the School Superintendents Association as coordinating partners for Engage Every Student. More than 20 allied organizations have signed on including the National Governors Association, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the American Camp Association, and the Y.
More information is available at engageeverystudent.org
For nearly 30 years, NSLA has worked to combat summer learning loss and close the achievement and opportunity gaps which research shows grow most dramatically between lower and higher income students over the summer months. Our vision is, and always has been, to ensure all young people in America, regardless of background, income, and zip code, can participate in and benefit from a high-quality summer learning experience, every year. NSLA supports and collaborates with a broad and ever-growing network of 15,000+ leaders of school districts, youth-serving government agencies, and non-profit and corporate partners from across the country focused on improving the lives of youth.
Aaron Dworkin, National Summer Learning Association, adworkin@summerlearning.org, 917-584-1835 OR Terri Ferinde, ferinde@collaborativecommunications.com, 202-271-8651
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MIAMI (AP) — The family of a 33-year-old Illinois woman who was killed while parasailing in the Florida Keys last month has filed a wrongful death and personal injury lawsuit against the boat company, attorneys said.
Supraja Alaparthi was killed, her 9-year-old nephew was seriously injured and her 10-year-old son suffered minor injuries when the boat captain cut loose the parasail as a storm approached Marathon in the Florida Keys on May 30, attorney Michael Haggard said in a news conference Tuesday.
Eleven family members, including Alaparthi's 6-year-old daughter, were on the boat that afternoon. The family was visiting the Keys from Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and told the captain they could return the next day if the weather was too bad to go up in the parasail. But the captain said it would be OK, Haggard said.
Soon after the parasail was airborne, the captain began losing control of the boat because of “pegging" which causes the parasail to be filled with so much air that it drags the boat. Once the parasail line was cut, the mother and two children were dragged untethered across the water and crashed into a bridge.
A man on a nearby boat brought the trio to shore in Marathon. Alaparthi was dead at the scene, officials said. The boys were taken to a hospital.
While her son was not seriously injured he remains in shock and will likely suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, Haggard said.
The younger boy spent a week at Nicklaus Children's Hospital being treated for injuries to his eyes, face and other parts of his body, Haggard said. He's now in Illinois where he will need additional surgeries.
The lawsuit claims the company failed to properly train the captain and first mate, did not equip the boat with proper safety and parasailing equipment and operated the boat in unsafe weather conditions.
The lawyer for the boat company did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
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No, a parachutist did not get stuck on the Garden State Parkway
EAGLESWOOD — Rumors of a skydiver landing in the trees at the center median on the Garden State Parkway spread quickly Monday, but they weren't true.
"We are getting reports of a parachuter that may have landed in the trees near mile marker 58 on the northbound side of the Garden State Parkway," Ocean County Scanner News said Monday around 3:30 p.m. on Facebook. The viral post and another like it were shared hundreds of times.
But the reports were not grounded in reality and no one was in any danger.
The spot at Exit 58 is about two miles down the Parkway from Eagles Nest Airport in Eagleswood. And false alarms of parachutists in danger are actually fairly common.
Sal Mazza, who works on the operating board at Eagles Nest, told New Jersey 101.5 that the State Police contact him "half a dozen times" each summer about similar calls.
These parachutists are falling in tandem with instructors working at Skydive East Coast, which operates at the airport. Management for the skydiving company told New Jersey 101.5 in a statement that everyone landed safely inside the airport grounds.
"What took place yesterday is pretty common during the season. Drivers going south on the parkway have a very limited view of the airport because of its location and tree line on the parkway center line divider," Skydive said.
Without knowing an airport is just on the other side of the tree line, it looks to drivers like the skydiver is hurtling into the trees.
Garden State Parkway spokesperson Tom Feeney said that there was no record of a report of the incident being sent to the Parkway or State Police.
Rick Rickman is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at richard.rickman@townsquaremedia.com
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, January 6, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
331 AM PST Fri Jan 6 2023
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM PST EARLY THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of central California, including the following
county, Monterey.
* WHEN...Until 600 AM PST.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of areas around the Carmel River Lagoon is
imminent or occurring.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 330 AM PST, emergency management reported flooding in the
warned area. Flooding is already occurring.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Mission Fields and areas around Carmel River Lagoon.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Surf heights have fallen below high surf criteria.
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Student storm chaser talks Valley’s Edge, safety and passion
Chico Person Podcast
From fires to flash floods, geology major and storm chaser Michael Steinberg covers it all.
In this podcast, Steinberg talks about the tragedy he’s witnessed, his love for the craft and concerns about the new housing development, Valley’s Edge.
This podcast is the first in a series called “Chico Person,” in which Orion reporters sit down with residents of Chico to hear their stories.
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DOE awards a total of $75 million in grants to Smartville and nine other companies to advance projects that support battery reuse, recycling and upcycling efforts across the country
SAN DIEGO, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Smartville, a leading developer of reliable second-life energy storage systems, was awarded $5.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to breathe new life into batteries from retired electric vehicles (EV) via its MOAB™ energy storage systems. The grant, part of a $75-million funding package through President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, awards a total of 10 projects that advance technologies and processes supporting EV battery recycling and reuse efforts across the country.
Smartville will apply the funds to accelerate the commercialization of its large-scale, second-life energy storage system that uses repurposed EV batteries. First, the funding will help with Smartville's plans to have MOAB become a UL certified second-life EV battery pack energy storage system. Second, it will fund a large 4 MWh demonstration project in central California co-located with an existing power plant operated by a California independent power producer in an underserved disadvantaged community.
"Our second-life energy storage product repurposes EV batteries to reliably store power from solar and wind," said Antoni Tong, Smartville's CEO. "The outcome is that the system can sustainably power our communities, lessening our dependence on external energy sources."
In the last 10 years, more than 1.8 million Nissan Leafs and Teslas alone have been sold in the U.S. and sales for all EVs are expected to rise dramatically by 2035. The number of second-life EV batteries will continue to grow quickly, turning waste management challenges into sustainable energy opportunities. Most batteries retired from EVs retain 70 percent of their storage capacity, making them ideal candidates for stationary storage. Smartville's proprietary suite of software, hardware and diagnostics provides guaranteed performance from repurposed EV batteries for stationary storage serving enterprise and utility customers.
About Smartville Inc.
Smartville's mission is to be the world's most sustainable, scalable, and reliable EV battery repurposing platform, and to revolutionize energy storage on a global scale, one battery pack, one-kilowatt hour, at a time. For more information about Smartville, please visit www.smartville.io or follow the company on LinkedIn.
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Patricia Maxwell
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STEWART: A BILL HAS BEEN FILED THAT, IF PASSED THIS WEEK, WILL REPLACE DISNEY’S UNIQUE GOVERNMENT. NANCY: UNDER THE MEASURE, THE PROPERTY WOULD OPERATE VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED FROM THE VIEWPOINTS OF VISITORS, BUT BEHIND THE SCENES, THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR STATE’S LARGEST THEME PARK AND RESORT PROPERTY WOULD BE DIFFERENT. WESH 2 NEWS POLITICAL REPORTER GREG FOX IS HERE TO EXPLAIN. GREG, THIS COULD BE A DONE DEAL BY THE END OF THE WEEK. REPORTER: THAT’S RIGHT. THE SPECIAL SESSION ENDS FRIDAY, SO THIS COULD BE WRAPPED UP IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THE KEY TO THIS BILL IS THAT IT WOULD MAINTAIN A GOVERNING BODY TO OVERSEE THE 25,000 ACRES OF DISNEY PROPERTY IN ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES. THE DISTRICT WAS APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATURE IN 1967. SINCE THEN, IT HAS BEEN OVERSEEING EVERYTHING FROM A FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE, UTILITY SERVICES, WATER, ETC.. IT PLANS AND BUILDS ROADS AND BRIDGES. BUT LAST YEAR, SOME BELIEVE IN RETALIATION, REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS DECIDED IT SHOULD BE DISSOLVED BY THIS COMING JUNE. NOW IT APPEARS THIS TIMELINE IS MOVING AHEAD MORE QUICKLY WITH THE FILING OF THIS BILL. THE NEW NAME WOULD BE THE CENTRAL FLORIDA TOURISM OVERSIGHT DISTRICT. IT WOULD HAVE FIVE BOARD MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR. THE THEME PARK AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES OFFICERS, EXECUTIVES AND CONTRACTORS WHO WORKED THERE WOULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO SERVE ON THE BOARD. THE NEW ENTITY WOULD STILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPAYMENT OF DEBT SO TAXPAYERS WOULD NOT BE ON THE HOOK. HIS KNEE WORLD PRESIDENT -- DISNEY WORLD’S PRESIDENT SAID WE ARE MONITORING THE REGRESSION OF THE DRAFT LEGISLATION WHICH IS COMPLEX. THIS ME WORKS UNDER A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MODELS AND JURISDICTIONS AROUND THE WORLD AND REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME WE REMAIN COMMITTED TO PROVIDING THE HIGHEST QUALITY EXPERIENCE FOR THE MILLIONS OF GUESTS WHO VISIT. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REEDY CREEK FIREFIGHTERS SAID THE REEDY CREEK FIREFIGHTERS ARE IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE BILL TO REPLACE THE DISNEY APPOINTED BOARD. UNDER THE MEASURE, IT COULD TAKE UP TO TWO YEARS TO CHANGE, BUT
Florida lawmakers file bill to take control of Disney special district
Updated: 4:53 PM EST Feb 6, 2023
A new bill has been filed for this week’s Florida Special Session of the Legislature, which formally dissolves the governing body of Walt Disney World. It would go into effect immediately if passed this week.The Reedy Creek Improvement District was created in May 1967 by the Legislature. It gave the Disney company broad powers to regulate its own utilities, including electric, water, and sewer. It’s also had the power to develop its property, which includes theme parks and resort hotels with roughly 40,000 rooms, as it sees fit.But last year, during an April special session, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and republican-led lawmakers passed a measure that forced RCID to plan for a dissolution this June 1. RCID was given the ability to work with the State to try and come up with an alternative to the governing District. But according to RCID sources who spoke with WESH 2 News, the Governor and republican leadership have not spoken with RCID officials about the legislation filed today.In brief, it would dissolve the governing Board of the District and eliminate the name “Reedy Creek Improvement District" by February 2025. A new entity called the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District would be created to oversee the property, the assets, the utilities, the collection of Disney taxes, and the expenditure of funds to repay roughly one billion dollars in debt. Taxpayers would not be on the hook for repayment of that debt, under the measure. A new Board of Supervisors would be created to replace the existing RCID Board.All five members would be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Initially, three members would be appointed to serve four years, and two of them to serve two years. Of particular note, to be eligible to serve on the Board, a person may not have worked in the past three years for a theme park or an entertainment company as an officer, executive, employee or contractor. That means no person having recently worked for Disney, Universal, SeaWorld or other attractions would be able to serve on the new governing Board.WESH 2 News is continuing to review the measure, which will be debated and discussed, and is expected to be approved in a special session this week. A spokeswoman for RCID declined comment, saying she had not seen the newly-filed Bill.Read the full bill here.Top headlines:Firefighter dies after being pulled from water in New Smyrna BeachHuman remains found near missing Florida Lyft driver’s last known location
ORLANDO, Fla. — A new bill has been filed for this week’s Florida Special Session of the Legislature, which formally dissolves the governing body of Walt Disney World. It would go into effect immediately if passed this week.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District was created in May 1967 by the Legislature. It gave the Disney company broad powers to regulate its own utilities, including electric, water, and sewer. It’s also had the power to develop its property, which includes theme parks and resort hotels with roughly 40,000 rooms, as it sees fit.
But last year, during an April special session, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and republican-led lawmakers passed a measure that forced RCID to plan for a dissolution this June 1. RCID was given the ability to work with the State to try and come up with an alternative to the governing District. But according to RCID sources who spoke with WESH 2 News, the Governor and republican leadership have not spoken with RCID officials about the legislation filed today.
In brief, it would dissolve the governing Board of the District and eliminate the name “Reedy Creek Improvement District" by February 2025. A new entity called the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District would be created to oversee the property, the assets, the utilities, the collection of Disney taxes, and the expenditure of funds to repay roughly one billion dollars in debt. Taxpayers would not be on the hook for repayment of that debt, under the measure. A new Board of Supervisors would be created to replace the existing RCID Board.
All five members would be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Initially, three members would be appointed to serve four years, and two of them to serve two years. Of particular note, to be eligible to serve on the Board, a person may not have worked in the past three years for a theme park or an entertainment company as an officer, executive, employee or contractor. That means no person having recently worked for Disney, Universal, SeaWorld or other attractions would be able to serve on the new governing Board.
WESH 2 News is continuing to review the measure, which will be debated and discussed, and is expected to be approved in a special session this week. A spokeswoman for RCID declined comment, saying she had not seen the newly-filed Bill.
Read the full bill here.
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Florida judge bans phones, electronics in the courthouse during Trump's arraignment
Trump is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on 37 charges related to his handling of classified documents
A Florida judge issued an order Monday night banning journalists from having cell phones or other electronic devices inside the courthouse for former President Donald Trump's arraignment Tuesday.
Southern District of Florida Chief Judge Cecilia Altonaga ordered that all cell phones and electronic equipment are prohibited for members of the press inside the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami.
Trump is set to be arraigned Tuesday on 37 charges in connection with special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into alleged mishandling of classified documents and alleged obstruction of justice.
Altonaga's order states that the U.S. Marshals Service will inspect all electronic equipment as they are brought into the courthouse Tuesday to "protect the Bench, Bar, and public from harm."
Penalties for violating the order can include up to 30 days in jail, a $5,000 fine and/or punishment for contempt of court, the judge reminded.
Smith argued in a 49-page indictment that Trump intentionally took classified material with him when he left the White House in January 2021.
TRUMP ARRIVES AT MIAMI HOTEL AHEAD OF ARRAIGNMENT ON FEDERAL CHARGES
The former president claims he is the victim of a "political hit job" for the classified documents case.
"Republicans are treated far different at the Justice Department than Democrats," Trump said at a GOP convention in Columbus, Georgia, over the weekend.
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Many lawmakers on Capitol Hill and political commentators have weighed in on the severity of the arraignment and what it could mean for Trump's presidential campaign.
In Nov. 2022, Trump announced he was launching a third presidential bid — setting up a potential rematch with President Biden — but a conviction could possibly upset his hopes to regain the White House.
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The combined fintech will have more than $220 billion of assets under administration and an expanded product offering to serve banks, credit unions, wealth managers and trust institutions.
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Reich & Tang Deposit Networks, LLC ("R&T") and Total Financial Solutions, LLC (d/b/a Total Bank Solutions) ("TBS") announced the successful completion of their planned business combination. Together, the combined firm will provide banks, credit unions, wealth managers and trust institutions with a larger selection of products and services, designed to meet their unique cash sweep, deposit funding and securities-based lending needs. The transaction will result in both companies being under common ownership of R&T Parent Holdings, LLC. Estancia Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona, together with institutional co-investors, hold the majority ownership interest in R&T Parent Holdings, LLC, with the remaining ownership interest held by employees from both firms.
Following the transaction, R&T and TBS will have combined total assets under administration of more than $220 billion, and approximately 125 experienced professionals providing liquidity, cash sweep balance sheet management and other technology-enabled services and software solutions. The combined company will provide services to more than 300 banks and credit unions, over 100 wealth managers and trust institutions, including approximately 20 unique broker-dealer sweep programs. Both firms have long track records of providing superior client service and developing solutions that enhance their respective clients' experience and deliver value to their underlying customers. R&T has been providing deposit and liquidity services to the banking and financial services industry in the U.S. since 1974, and TBS has been providing financial technology services to banks and wealth management institutions since 2004.
"We are thrilled to have reached this significant milestone and we are excited to bring the expanded capabilities of our combined firm to our clients," stated Joe Jerkovich, President of R&T. "As we stated when we first announced the transaction, both firms share the same fundamental values and commitments to our clients, communities, employees and other stakeholders and our goal is to continue to offer innovative products differentiated through personalized and value-driven service. We are now in a position to turn that vision into a reality."
"The response from our respective clients and the marketplace has been phenomenal," explained Eric Pierce, Chairman of TBS, who has joined as a member of the Board of the holding company and will continue to provide strategic guidance to the organization. "Our clients have responded enthusiastically and have been very supportive of the combination, recognizing the expanded ways we can now help them to achieve their goals."
"It is an exciting time for all of us. From the very beginning, the management teams from R&T and TBS have worked collaboratively." said Takashi Moriuchi, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Estancia. "Having achieved a successful close, their demonstrated effectiveness in working as a team has only increased our confidence in our original investment thesis, further validating the strategic possibilities of combining the two firms."
The executive leadership team includes experienced leaders from both R&T and TBS. Michael Lydon and Joe Jerkovich will continue to lead the organization as Chief Executive Officer and President, respectively, with Kevin Bannerton, Joe Sarbinowski, and Gary Hom from TBS joining the executive management team, together with Tom Nelson, Steve Genereau, Andrew Mintz and Sabra Baum from R&T.
Seward & Kissel LLP served as legal advisors to R&T and Estancia. For TBS, Piper Sandler served as exclusive financial advisor and Debevoise & Plimpton was legal counsel.
Reich & Tang Deposit Networks, LLC and its affiliates (R&T), located in New York, NY, provide deposit, liquidity and cash management solutions for banks, credit unions, broker-dealers, wealth managers, trust companies and other financial institutions throughout the U.S. Through its Demand Deposit Marketplace® program, R&T offers a reciprocal deposit program to banks, credit unions and other financial institutions that provides underlying customers with the ability to obtain an expanded level of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and/or National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF) insurance on deposits placed through the program. R&T also is a trusted provider to large broker-dealers and other financial institutions that offer insured cash sweep programs to their customers. R&T is focused on delivering unmatched client service by creating, improving, and delivering smarter solutions to help banks, wealth managers and other financial institutions maximize the value of their deposit, liquidity, and short-term investment programs.
Total Financial Solutions, LLC (d/b/a Total Bank Solutions) (TBS) is a financial technology firm located in Hackensack, NJ. The company was founded in 2004 to serve the needs of banks and wealth management organizations. Its offerings include its FDIC Insured Deposit Program (IDP) and Loan Management System (LMS). With over $100 Billion in assets under administration, IDP provides wealth managers and their customers the benefit of extended FDIC insurance on their deposits and, for participating banks, access to a stable, diversified, and cost-effective source of deposit funding. LMS is an end-to-end securities-based lending and collateral monitoring platform that connects banks with borrowers seeking collateralized loans.
Estancia is a specialist private equity firm focused on lower-middle market investments in financial services companies that leverages its industry and operating experience to improve the strategic position, growth, cash flow and value of companies in which it invests. Estancia often partners with companies that are niche market leaders with recurring revenues, attractive margins, improving returns on invested capital and strong secular growth prospects. Estancia's Principals have a distinguished history of partnering with management teams in providing buy-out and growth capital to facilitate strategic development of portfolio companies including management buy-outs from larger financial firms, private ownership/succession transitions and growth initiatives. For more information, visit www.estanciapartners.com.
Contact:
Teresa Murphy, VP Marketing Kevin Bannerton, Partner
R&T Deposit Solutions, LLC Total Bank Solutions
tmurphy@rnt.com kbannerton@totalbanksolutions.com
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