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Which high-end gift for your mother-in-law is best?
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Despite what some stand-up comedians say, a mother-in-law is a treasured family member who deserves love and attention. They can serve as a surrogate parent when your immediate family is unavailable, help raise your children as a grandmother and in many cases, act as a matriarch for the entire family.
This holiday season, treat your mother-in-law like a queen by finding them a high-end gift that will make their hearts melt. Whether it’s jewelry, designer accessories, perfume, or something a little more personal, it’s easy to find a top-shelf gift for just about any mother-in-law.
Best high-end mother-in-law gifts
Yves Saint Lauren Libre Eau De Parfum
One surefire way to impress your mother-in-law is by picking out a lovely fragrance for them. If you’re unsure about what type of fragrance to choose, stick with comfort notes, like vanilla, musk or soft florals. This eau de parfum embodies a fresh and floral fragrance with notes of orange blossom, lavender and warm vanilla, making it a great choice for most moms.
Available at: Sephora and Kohl’s
Weighted blankets offer warmth with an extra layer of comfort and soothing, making them great gifts for almost anyone. YnM makes a luxurious and breathable weighted blanket made with cotton and undetectable glass beads. Designed with quality construction and components, it’s a great natural solution for stress, anxiety and sleeping issues, so your mother-in-law is bound to derive some enjoyment and comfort from it.
Available at: Amazon
BioBidet Bliss BB-2000 Bidet Seat
Although it isn’t common in the United States, the bidet is a staple of bathrooms around the world, and these days it’s easier than ever to convert your home latrine into a refreshing experience. Take your mother-in-law’s cleanliness to the next level with the Bliss BB-2000, an all-in-one toilet upgrade. It features an adjustable heated bidet seat, a deodorizer, a warm air blower and a night light, as well as a 3-in-1 stainless steel nozzle — all of which are easily controlled with the included remote.
Available at: BioBidet and Amazon
Coach Lori Leather Shoulder Bag
One thing most mothers love is a top-notch bag that’s fashionable as well as practical. This Coach shoulder bag is high-quality and high fashion — not to mention, high-capacity. It’s made with genuine leather and has 11-inch adjustable straps, a magnetic snap closure, gold-tone exterior hardware and soft fabric interior lining.
Available at: Macy’s
Clinique Moisture Surge Auto-Replenishing Moisturizer
One solid bet for a mother-in-law’s gift is to buy them something for their daily care that they wouldn’t otherwise spend a high price on, like skin care products. This upgrade of a Clinique favorite is ideal for most skin types — an oil-free gel-cream moisturizer that penetrates deep into the skin’s surface for up to 100 hours of hydration. It features aloe bio-ferment, hyaluronic acid and activated aloe water to keep skin feeling refreshed.
Available at: Ulta Beauty, Kohl’s and Amazon
Macy’s Sapphire and Diamond Cuff Bangle Bracelet
Jewelry is usually a hit with most moms, so your mother-in-law is sure to be satisfied with sapphires. This sterling silver stunner is lined with round-cut diamonds and sapphires that extend most of the length of the bangle, with elegant floral and diamond patterns filling out the center band. Not only is this bracelet shimmering with its vintage motif, but it’s also well-balanced and comfortable.
Available at: Macy’s
Nespresso VertuoLine By Breville With Aeroccino3 Frother
Is your mother-in-law always looking for a caffeine boost on the go? Rather than stuffing her stocking with Starbucks gift cards, invest in a sleek and stylish Nespresso VertuoLine coffee and espresso maker. With the wide array of flavored pods and the included milk frother, your maternal figure will soon feel like a burgeoning barista. It’s easy to operate and brews up to five different cup sizes, from an espresso shot to a full 7.7-ounce coffee.
Available at: Sur La Table
Lenox Barware Tuscany Classics Wine Decanter
This attractive wine decanter is an excellent gift for the mother-in-law who enjoys a nice glass of pinot noir at the end of their day. Its design is simultaneously modern and classic with a curvaceous body and flared neck. Featuring a stylish stopper and central hole for easy handling, make sure your mom handles this glass decanter with care and limits it to hand washing.
Available at: Amazon
Earrings are another great gift idea for the family matriarch that loves to shine. Made with a stunning diamond-cut design, these textured earrings are available in 10-karat gold, white gold and rose gold. Rather than drawing attention with a bold statement piece, your mother-in-law will impress her peers with a subdued-yet-chic style. The best part? It comes ready to present in an attractive red gift box.
Available at: Macy’s
One of the best ways to upgrade your mother-in-law’s kitchen is with a new high-end knife set, and Japanese blades are always a sharp investment. This 16-piece set is made with German standard steel for prolonged durability and sharpness, with rich brownish-red artificial pakkawood handles that are hand-polished for a comfortable grip. It comes complete with six steak knives, a Santoku knife, two sizes of chef’s knives and more, plus an attractive block for safe storage.
Available at: Amazon
“State of Terror”: A Novel by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
Is your mother-in-law a fan of both thrilling mysteries and strong female leaders? Look no further than this highly-anticipated first work of fiction from the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, writing in tandem with her personal favorite author. Drawing from her unique perspective as a Washington insider, Clinton infuses the novel with realism and intrigue while multiple award-winning and New York Times Bestseller Louise Penny directs the action with her signature style. It’s available as a paperback or as an Audible audiobook.
Available at: Amazon
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The White House on Thursday confirmed that Russia is attacking Ukraine with Iranian drones launched from the occupied Crimean Peninsula with on-the-ground assistance from military trainers from Iran.
National Security spokesperson John Kirby further raised concern that Russia will seek to acquire advanced conventional weapons from Tehran as it faces military supply shortages under pressure from Western sanctions.
“We can confirm that Russia’s military personnel that are based in Crimea have been piloting Iranian UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], using them to conduct strikes across Ukraine, including strikes against Kyiv in just recent days. We assess that Iranian military personnel on the ground in Crimea assisted Russia in these operations,” Kirby said.
“There’s extensive proof of their use by Russia against both military and civilian targets [in Ukraine], yet both Iran and Russia continue to lie about it,” he added.
Kirby said that the U.S. cannot offer exact numbers on how many Iranians are in Crimea, adding that it’s a “relatively small number” but that they are providing tech support while the Russians pilot the UAVs for attacks.
“Russia has received dozens of UAVs so far, and will likely continue to receive additional shipments in the future,” he said.
He added that the administration is exploring “new sanctions” and that the Department of Defense is “looking actively” at potential air defense solutions for the Ukrainians.
Russian attacks with Iranian so-called kamikaze drones have terrorized Ukraine over the past two weeks, with civilian casualties and infrastructure, including residential buildings, energy and water supplies, destroyed by the explosive-laden drones.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded for supporting countries to send more air defense systems immediately.
The U.S. and NATO said they are working to quickly send more air defenses and anti-drone technology to Ukraine, while other air defense systems from Spain and Germany are said to have recently arrived.
But the Ukrainians have pleaded for more, in particular to Israel for its Iron Dome missile defense system, which is considered one of the most successful air defense systems at targeting indiscriminate fire.
Israel has rejected sharing the Iron Dome, a decision that Kirby said was their “sovereign” right.
He said the Pentagon is “looking hard at what what’s in the realm of the possible,” for air defenses for Ukraine, “including, as I said earlier, what could be possible from allies and partners.” | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/white-house-says-iranian-troops-on-the-ground-in-crimea-aiding-russian-drone-strikes/ | 2022-10-20 21:21:11 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/white-house-says-iranian-troops-on-the-ground-in-crimea-aiding-russian-drone-strikes/ |
The partial release of a Georgia grand jury report evaluating former President Trump’s election interference in the state determined that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 contest and encouraged prosecution of witnesses who may have lied to the panel.
The limited details gleaned from the report come after a judge allowed the release of just three sections from a document expected to include charging recommendations.
“We find by unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election,” the grand jury wrote.
Jurors involved in crafting the report had previously determined it should be released to the public in its entirety, prompting a warning from Fulton Co. District Attorney Fani Willis that doing so could compromise the right for “multiple” future defendants in a case where charging decisions are “imminent.”
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney largely sided with Willis, determining that only the introduction and conclusion of the report should be released, along with one section discussing potential perjury that did not name any witnesses who appeared before the grand jury.
“A majority of the witnesses believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it. The Grand Jury recommends that the District Attorney seeks appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling,” the report states.
The sparse information in the now public section mirrors sections from other similar reports, with the introduction generally reviewing the process undertaken by the grand jury and a conclusion thanking all those who aided in its efforts.
“Critics, including Donald Trump and others, will be able to attack the findings and poke holes in what they believe the findings to be. Fulton County prosecutors and the DA’s office will be unable to respond, and the evidence supporting their conclusions will be unknown,” Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a former prosecutor, wrote on Twitter.
“Only when we see the full report and any indictments can we truly assess the strength of the case here.”
Willis’s case is seen as one of the most promising pathways for an eventual prosecution of Trump, who in a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) asked him to “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.”
The known targets in Georgia include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and 16 Republicans who held a meeting to carry out the fake elector plot by voting to certify the election for Trump.
McBurney limited the portions of the report that could be shared, stressing that the grand jury process understandably does not include the same protections for witnesses as a public trial.
“There were no lawyers advocating for any targets of the investigation,” McBurney wrote in the eight-page decision, noting the process is “entirely appropriately — a one-sided exploration.”
“Potential future defendants were not able to present evidence outside the scope of what the district attorney asked them. They were not able to call their own witnesses who might rebut what other State’s witnesses had said and they had no ability to present mitigating evidence. Put differently, there was very limited due process in this process for those who might be named as indictment-worthy in the final report,” McBurney wrote. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hill-politics/georgia-grand-jury-in-trump-interference-probe-found-no-fraud-in-2020-election/ | 2023-02-16 19:30:05 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hill-politics/georgia-grand-jury-in-trump-interference-probe-found-no-fraud-in-2020-election/ |
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand will reopen its borders to tourists from all countries by July, allow back cruise ships and make it easier for skilled workers to immigrate as it looks outward to the world again following the COVID-19 pandemic, the government said Wednesday.
New Zealand imposed some of the world’s strictest border controls when COVID-19 first hit more than two years ago. That allowed the nation of 5 million to eliminate several virus outbreaks and get vaccination rates up before the omicron variant swept through this year.
New Zealand's coronavirus death toll has remained far below that of almost every other developed nation. But as the pandemic has dragged on, New Zealand's border measures have increasingly appeared outdated as other countries have reopened.
New Zealand has been slowly reopening, first to Australians last month and then to tourists from the U.S., Britain and more than 50 other countries earlier this month. Wednesday's announcement will allow tourists from China, India and other countries to come starting July 31.
The government said it also planned to end the need for people to get predeparture COVID-19 tests by the end of July.
But in a sign that the virus continues to disrupt daily life, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not make the announcement in person at a business lunch in Auckland as she had planned, but instead spoke via video link from her residence in Wellington where she is isolating.
Ardern's fiancé Clarke Gayford tested positive for the virus on Sunday. Ardern has so far tested negative and said she's been symptom-free. New Zealand health rules require household contacts of infected people to isolate for seven days.
“Today I can announce that New Zealand fully reopens to the world by July 31, completing our reconnecting work two months ahead of schedule," Ardern said on the video link.
She said new immigration settings would make it easier for skilled workers to enter from July, with a new “green list” of 56 sought-after professions including doctors, nurses, engineers, plumbers, teachers and tech workers.
“This package is designed to address the urgent skills shortages created by COVID while also putting our immigration settings on a better and more sustainable footing," Ardern said.
Before the pandemic hit, more than 3 million tourists visited each year, accounting for 20% of New Zealand’s foreign income and more than 5% of the overall economy.
Business leaders and tourism representatives welcomed the announcement.
“After two years of hardship, hundreds of Kiwi ship suppliers and tourism operators can start rebuilding their businesses back," said Debbie Summers, the chairperson of the New Zealand Cruise Association.
Ardern has also been signaling the country's reopening plans with trips abroad, including a recent trip to Singapore and Japan and an upcoming trip to the U.S. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/New-Zealand-to-fully-reopen-borders-welcome-17164231.php | 2022-05-11 06:25:14 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/New-Zealand-to-fully-reopen-borders-welcome-17164231.php |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsNation) — While the White House says taxpayers will not be on the hook following two recent bank collapses, Republicans says these financial failures could impact every American with a bank account.
Republicans at Capitol Hill on Thursday were warning that Americans won’t be immune to the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history.
The bank failures are sparking a wave of uncertainty, and in some cases, anger. The Ohio Retired Teachers Association spoke out this week after the teachers’ retirement system lost tens of millions of dollars in the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
“Our position is we ought not be in hedge funds in private equity. We ought to have our money invested in safe indexes, instead,” said Dr. Robin Rayfield, an executive director of the Ohio Retired Teachers Association. “Our pension system pays people to gamble with our money and they always lose.”
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 561 banks failed between 2001 and 2022. No one has lost money since 1933 due to a bank failure.
But that’s not stopping some Republicans from warning to the contrary.
“Well, somebody’s going to have to pay and ultimately that’s going to have to be the taxpayer,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., echoed the same sentiment. He told NewsNation that rescuing Silicon Valley Bank will ultimately mean higher fees for depositors.
“Community banks in rural Oklahoma are going to be offsetting what was the loss for millionaires and billionaires in northern California to be able to cover this,” Lankford said.
Democrats, like Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, issued a sharp rebuke of those GOP claims, however.
“Taxpayers are not on the hook, period,” he said. “There would have been no support for this had this been a taxpayer-funded kind of thing.”
Nevertheless, many worry that coming to the aid of the banks won’t put a stop to future risky banking.
“The idea here is that if banks know that they’re fully insured on their deposits, they don’t have to worry about them as much,” said University of Colorado finance professor Shaun Davis. “They have a higher incentive to take on risky behaviors.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/are-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-bank-bailouts/ | 2023-03-17 04:20:54 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/are-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-bank-bailouts/ |
Those of us of a certain age remember the threat.
The 1960s were a time of domestic turmoil, yes. But they came, too, with a darker, existential menace: atomic bombs, ICBMs, thermonuclear war, annihilation. The buzzwords of destruction, with the Soviet Union seen as the architect of it all.
Nuclear war was the shadow in our lives. Now, it feels, those shadows are back.
The war in Ukraine, especially Russian President Vladimir Putin’s references to Moscow’s nuclear arsenal — and global discussions about nuclear weapons — have awakened memories that I thought were buried. And each day that Russia’s conventional war effort seems stalled, the more vivid my recollections become.
Families could buy bomb shelters and students dutifully practiced “duck and cover” — hiding under school desks as if that could save us. Two 1964 movies, “Fail Safe” and “Dr. Strangelove,” had similar plots — a mistaken U.S. order to bomb the USSR — but only the latter was played for laughs. “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” in 1970 gave us the bleak aftermath of an atomic bomb.
The voiceover said it all: “In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-size star. And one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.”
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Some of us in those years — “nuclear brats” with military family members who trained to intercept Russian bombers and who flew nuclear payloads — lived with the possibilities of nukes every day. We hoped that what was possible didn’t become probable.
My dad’s Air Force squadron, the 87th, flew the McDonnell F101B Voodoo out of Clinton County Air Force Base in Wilmington, Ohio. The alert fighters carried two Genies. They were unguided air-to-air rockets. Nuclear ones.
The squadron’s job was to intercept Russian bombers loaded with nuclear bombs if they tried to attack the United States. The interceptors would fire the Genies into the incoming formations. At 1.5 kilotons, it wasn’t a big nuke, but we knew it was a nuke. Two of them had as much explosive power as one of the giant air raids during World War II with hundreds of bombers.
As a kid, I knew where the nukes on the base were, or thought I did. It was not really a secret. There were raised mounds near the alert hangers. The amount of security was something you couldn’t miss. The German shepherds that patrolled there with handlers, behind signs that said intruders would be shot, were clearly not family pets.
Somewhere in America, amid amber waves of grain, we knew there were missile silos as well that fired more terrifying payloads. We knew about the bombers of Strategic Air Command, too. I guess other kids at other airfields saw the same mounds and alert aircraft we did.
The command center that controlled the fighters was called the mole hole — think of a miniature Cheyenne Mountain from the movie “War Games,” the 1983 Cold War sci-fi movie. One of the massive rooms held a world map with lights on it. I know now that those were U.S. installations and their counterparts in the then-Soviet Union. It was underground, and part of a larger complex that we did not get to explore.
And yes, there was a red phone.
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Be it in movies or real life, many people have seen fighter planes take off on routine training missions. Ground and air crews check out the planes. Alert fighter launches was exactly that, but unfolding at hyper speed. Everyone was running. You only needed to see one scramble to know the difference.
All of that has come back to me in recent months with Putin’s saber-rattling. I thought about missile silos, alert aircraft and the Looking Glass. Alert aircraft were a 24-hour thing in my youth, along with Looking Glass, the airborne command posts that were aloft 24 hours a day and could order a retaliatory response if the ground centers had been destroyed.
Just why we were at a small airbase in Ohio was part of the threat. The base, about an hour north of Cincinnati, was a detachment from its headquarters at what was then Lockbourne Air Force Base near Columbus. Squadrons were dispersed. The thinking went like this: If an enemy hit the main base, its forces had been spread to other airfields that would survive and either continue defending the United States or retaliate.
There was, if I remember correctly, a Nike defense-missile site in the community too, providing air defense for the base. One of the Army officers stationed there and my dad played ping-pong regularly.
Our social group, in fact, was primarily the squadron members and their families. Over the years we heard that one of the wives, who was Japanese, had been a 12-year-old in one of the atomic bomb explosions in Japan. She did not talk about it, at least not with the kids. One night, as I eavesdropped before being chased to bed, I heard her say how bright the explosion was.
Because one of my favorite places was the Air Force Museum in Dayton, I saw a life-size model of the bombs that had fallen on her country. There were pictures of the aftermath, too. When I asked Dad about the destruction and how many bombs it took to make a city vanish, he said just one.
I asked him if the bombs that our enemies had were as big as Little Boy and Fat Man, the bombs that had destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He said their bombs and our bombs were much bigger now. I guess he caught the look on my face, because he added reassuringly that it was his job and the job of men and women like him to make sure that no bombs fell on us.
I wanted to believe him. But the museum also had models of our long-range missiles, too, and I knew no Voodoo was shooting anything like that down. And if it did, wouldn’t we still get blown up?
I didn’t mention my fears to Dad. He wasn’t known for being reassuring; today, we would call it blunt and fatalistic.
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He and Mom did plan for emergencies, though. They wanted a house with a basement, and they showed me where the safest place in the basement was away from the windows. We always had a rack or two of canned goods as well, and they kept a can opener and eating utensils down there as well. Mom never talked about why she did that, but she kept a survivalist streak the rest of her life.
I am not sure if they were trying to convince me or themselves. After seeing Little Boy and Fat Man and the missiles at the museum, I always figured the only way we’d stay alive was if nobody ever fired one of the missiles or dropped one of the bombs — again.
I don’t know if my friends then, especially the military kids, felt the same way. Yet I suspect they knew what I did — that we were one really bright light away from nothingness.
Eventually we moved to other bases. My dad retired and returned to his native Louisiana, away from mounds and launch sites. And as I grew into early adulthood, I knew enough nukes were floating around to destroy the world multiple times, so it didn’t matter if I couldn’t see where they were stored.
One film brought that home in a visceral way. “The Day After,” a 1983 TV movie, showed a full-scale missile exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union and depicted the aftermath. Dad and I watched it together. He smoked his ever-present Pall Malls and confirmed that yep, that seemed accurate.
By the 1980s, I was a reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, close to I-20 and minutes from the end of the runway at Barksdale Air Force Base. We accepted that there were nuclear-armed bombers there on alert, and that the base undoubtedly had multiple ICBMs aimed at it. If a warning ever came, my plan was to stop at a store, get the best bottle of booze I could and go park near the base and wait. I had no intention of being around for the aftermath.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, George H.W. Bush took the bombers off the 24-hour alert status. With that, the idea of a planet-killing thermonuclear exchange slid to the back of my mind. Until this year, until Ukraine, until Putin.
Now, as those images of childhood march through my mind once more, I wonder if my daughters and grandkids will live under the same lingering shadow that hovered over those in my generation. More important: Will the use of nuclear weapons remain only a possibility? Or are we, once again, one really bright light away from oblivion?
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Gary Fields covers the election process and government for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GaryEFields2 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/health-news/ap-health/ap-nuclear-memories-russia-war-and-childhood-fears-rekindled/ | 2022-11-01 01:28:10 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/health-news/ap-health/ap-nuclear-memories-russia-war-and-childhood-fears-rekindled/ |
WASHINGTON — The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering.
The revisions could open the door to changes long desired by advocates on census and survey forms. Among them are a new category for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent who currently are classified as white and efforts to make categories less confusing for Hispanic participants.
The chief statistician of the U.S. said in a blog post Wednesday that her office was initiating a formal review of the race and ethnicity classifications maintained by the Office of Management and Budget which were first outlined in 1977 and have not been revised since 1997.
The purpose of any changes to the standards will be to better reflect the diversity of the U.S., said Karin Orvis, the chief statistician, who was named to the position by the Biden administration earlier this year.
The review will wrap up by summer 2024 after getting input from government experts across agencies and public feedback, according to the chief statistician. That date would be months before a presidential election that could lead to a stop to any revisions if there's a change in administrations. Momentum for changing the classifications grew in the years leading up to the 2020 census, but it was halted after then-President Donald Trump took office in 2017.
“I understand the importance of moving quickly and with purpose," Orvis said. “It is also important that we get this right."
Besides helping to provide a portrait of the demographic makeup of the U.S., the categories are used to enforce civil rights, voting rights and employment discrimination laws. Under current classifications, race and Hispanic origin are separate categories on census forms and surveys.
Some advocates have been pushing for combining the race and Hispanic origin questions, saying the way race is categorized often confuses Hispanic respondents who are not sure how to answer. Tests by the Census Bureau in the 2010 census showed that combining the questions yielded higher response rates.
The need to change the current standards can be seen in 2020 census results in which the “some other race" category surpassed African Americans as the nation's second-largest racial group. The “some other race" category was made up overwhelmingly of Latinos, said Arturo Vargas, executive director of NALEO Educational Fund.
“Right now, the Census Bureau knows the way it collects data is fundamentally flawed. It’s confusing and distorts the true nature of our nation’s diversity,” Vargas said. “For the Latino population, the current construct is flawed when it comes to Latinos being able to identify themselves as Latino and by the race category.”
Advocates also have been pushing for a category of Middle Eastern and North African, also known as MENA, for the once-a-decade census and other federal demographic surveys. The Census Bureau recommended adding a MENA category to the 2020 census form, but the idea was dropped by the Trump administration.
Several U.S. House members equated the lack of a MENA category to “the longstanding erasure of a group of our fellow Americans" in a letter this week to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young and Census Bureau Director Robert Santos.
“OMB standards determine how our political institutions distribute material resources, political representation, and research funding," said the letter from 18 House Democrats, including Michigan's U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the lone Palestinian American in Congress. “These resources are vital components of growth and development for any minority community, particularly those who experience historical barriers to meeting basic needs and accessing support."
Meanwhile, Asian communities also have been calling for more nuanced details. Grouping Asians together in a single race category masks wide variations among different Asian groups, according to advocates.
“Aggregated data points in health, education and other issues perpetuate the persistent and pernicious myth that all Asian Americans are affluent and well-educated — by not allowing for a deeper dive into the differences within subgroups," said Terry Ao Minnis, an official at Asian Americans Advancing Justice ' AAJC.
For many civil rights groups, updating the categories has been a priority for years.
“We have been calling for urgency on this matter,” Vargas said. “We are heartened that we are seeing some movement.” | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/first-steps-toward-revising-race-ethnic-terms/507-6b6b174a-a3e3-4522-89f3-f5fcba8abfb6 | 2022-06-17 06:04:20 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/first-steps-toward-revising-race-ethnic-terms/507-6b6b174a-a3e3-4522-89f3-f5fcba8abfb6 |
NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Khaled Elgindy of the Middle East Institute about this week's Israeli incursion in the West Bank, and whether there are any chances for peace.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Khaled Elgindy of the Middle East Institute about this week's Israeli incursion in the West Bank, and whether there are any chances for peace.
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CINCINNATI (WOWK) – Bob Huggins, the West Virginia University head men’s basketball coach, used a homophobic slur on a Cincinnati sports radio show on Monday.
West Virginia’s athletic department called Huggins’ comments “offensive” and said it was reviewing the matter.
During a call to Cincinnati radio station WLW, Huggins, a former longtime coach at Cincinnati, was asked about the transfer portal and whether he had a chance of landing a player from Xavier, a Jesuit school and the Bearcats’ crosstown rival.
“Catholics don’t do that,” Huggins said. “I tell you what, any school that can throw rubber penises on the floor and then say they didn’t do it, by God they can get away with anything.
“It was the Crosstown Shootout. What it was, was all those (expletive), those Catholic (expletive), I think.”
You can listen to the audio, posted by Awful Announcing on Twitter, by clicking here.
Bob Huggins released a statement through the WVU Men’s Basketball Twitter page.
Earlier today on a Cincinnati radio program, I was asked about the rivalry between my former employer, the University of Cincinnati, and its crosstown rival, Xavier University. During the conversation, I used a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for — and I won’t try to make one here. I deeply apologize to the individuals I have offended, as well as to the Xavier University community, the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University. As I have shared with my players over my 40 years of coaching, there are consequences for our words and actions, and I will fully accept any coming my way. I am ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for those I have hurt. I must do better, and I will.
Bob Huggins, West Virginia University head men’s basketball coach
West Virginia University released the following statement:
Coach Huggins’ remarks today on a Cincinnati radio show were insensitive, offensive and do not represent our University values. Coach Huggins has since apologized. West Virginia University does not condone the use of such language and takes such actions very seriously. The situation is under review and will be addressed by the University and its athletics department.
West Virginia University
The audio is from 700WLW, a Cincinnati-based talk radio station.
Huggins spent 16 seasons at Cincinnati before being fired in 2005 in a power struggle with the school’s president as well as the aftermath of a 2004 drunken driving arrest. After spending one season at Kansas State, Huggins took his dream job at West Virginia, his alma mater, in 2007.
Huggins was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame last year.
MLB announcer apologizes for on-air slur
The clip surfaced just days after Oakland Athletics announcer Glen Kuiper said a slur while announcing the A’s matchup against the Kansas City Royals on Friday.
“I could not be more sorry and horrified by what I said. I hope you will accept my sincerest apologies,” Kuiper said in a statement to Nexstar’s KRON.
The A’s later issued a statement, calling the language used by Kuiper “unacceptable.”
“The Oakland Athletics do not condone such language,” the team said. “We are working to address the situation.”
Kuiper has been calling A’s games in the Bay Area for about 20 years. He is the younger brother of former major leaguer and Giants announcer Duane Kuiper.
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HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Patryk Klimala scored the equalizer for the New York Red Bulls in a 1-1 draw with Cincinnati on Saturday.
Klimala scored the equalizer in the 23rd minute on a penalty kick for the Red Bulls (11-8-8).
Matt Miazga scored the lone goal for Cincinnati (8-8-10).
The Red Bulls outshot Cincinnati 14-3, with three shots on goal to two for Cincinnati.
Carlos Miguel saved one of the two shots he faced for the Red Bulls. Roman Celentano made two saves for Cincinnati.
Both teams next play Saturday. The Red Bulls host Inter Miami and Cincinnati hosts the Columbus Crew.
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Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.
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Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.
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Pickleball courts, complimentary lessons and tutorials to be featured fleetwide
SEATTLE, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A leader in cruising is teaming up with the leader of the fastest growing sport in the U.S., thanks to an exciting new partnership. Holland America Line has been exclusively named as the Official Cruise Line of the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) and is committed to expanding its pickleball experience at sea for guests.
All ships in the Holland America Line fleet feature pickleball courts with amazing top-deck views that will be refreshed by February 2023, including adding new PPA Tour partner logos. Beginning in February and rolling out fleet-wide by April 2023, complimentary beginner lessons will be offered by shipboard instructors who will teach guests the rules and basics of playing pickleball, including where the "kitchen" is and what it means to hit a "dink" shot.
"We like to say that travel unites us, but sports do that as well, and Holland America Line is proud to be the first and exclusive cruise line partner of the PPA. We're excited to offer our guests an elevated pickleball experience as they travel to spectacular and scenic cruise destinations," said Kacy Cole, vice president of marketing for Holland America Line. "Mirroring its rapid growth as the fastest growing sport in the U.S., pickleball is the most popular sport on our ships. It's wonderful to see guests bond over their shared love of the game — and the ever-changing scenery makes the perfect pickleball backdrop."
Along with shipboard activations, "How to Play Pickleball" tutorial videos will be featured on in-stateroom TV programming. Guests will be able to purchase branded pickleball starter kits in the shipboard retail shops starting in 2023.
"Pickleball has become immensely popular among travel and leisure business categories, because it is uniquely accessible, compatible with a variety of brands, and transcends a wide spectrum of age groups and lifestyles," said Connor Pardoe, commissioner and CEO of the PPA Tour. "Holland America Line has embraced and committed to pickleball in a very exciting way and will bring engaging, 360-degree collaborations between its cruise line and the sport we all love."
In addition to shipboard activations, Holland America Line will be featured on branded signage at land-based PPA tournaments across the U.S., PPA merchandise and tour promotional materials.
Holland America Line shares a deeper connection with PPA beyond the game — pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island in Washington state, a short ferry ride from Seattle where Holland America Line is headquartered.
"To play pickleball is to make new friends, from around the neighborhood or around the world. This ageless sport welcomes players young and old, fast or slow," said Theresa Haynie, a founding board member of Seattle Metro Pickleball Association and an International Pickleball Teaching Professional Association instructor. "It's a fun game to teach and even more fun to learn. Now with pickleball on board ships with this wonderful partnership, cruisers and players have one more adventure to experience and take home with them."
For more information about Holland America Line, consult a travel advisor, call 1-877-SAIL HAL (877-724-5425) or visit hollandamerica.com.
Find Holland America Line on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the Holland America Blog. You can also access all social media outlets via the home page at hollandamerica.com.
About Holland America Line
Holland America Line, part of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE/LSE:CCL and NYSE:CUK), has been exploring the world for 150 years with expertly crafted itineraries, extraordinary service and genuine connections to each destination. Offering an ideal mid-sized ship experience, its fleet visits nearly 400 ports in 114 countries around the world and has shared the thrill of Alaska for 75 years — longer than any other cruise line. Holland America Line's 11 vessels feature a diverse range of enriching activities and amenities focused on destination immersion and personalized travel. The best live music at sea fills each evening at Music Walk, and dining venues feature exclusive selections from a Culinary Council of world-famous chefs.
About the PPA Tour
The Professional Pickleball Association is the professional tour for the sport of pickleball, organizing events and rankings for the top male and female pickleball players worldwide and awarding nearly $3 million in annual prize money offering equal play and pay. With more than 20 events in 2022 at world-class facilities like the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, Riviera Country Club in California, and the Darling Tennis Center and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the PPA Tour is the premier provider of professional and amateur events. Founded in 2018 and based in Salt Lake City, UT, the PPA Tour provides an unparalleled experience for all, inviting players to compete and "play where the pros play," as well as offering unrivaled venues, food/beverages, live entertainment, VIP experiences, giveaways and games, pro player meet-and-greets, shopping, vendors, and more. For more information, go to www.ppatour.com. See Player Profiles and follow us on social Twitter Instagram YouTube Facebook LinkedIn.
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Updated June 6, 2023 at 7:08 PM ET
Nearly a dozen members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus revolted against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday, tanking a procedural vote that had been expected to pass easily with Republican support.
In a vote of 206 to 220, the rebellious Republicans joined Democrats in preventing debate on a pair of GOP bills that would ramp up gas stove protections.
The publicly humiliating blow for McCarthy and House Republican leadership follows intraparty discord around the debt ceiling deal brokered by the speaker and President Biden.
"There's a lot of discussions that's going on among the group that's very healthy, and I look forward to getting back together later," said House Republican Whip Tom Emmer, putting a positive spin on the fallout.
Republicans scrambled and began meeting on the House floor after the rare failure of a so-called rule vote to allow debate on the gas stove bills.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., could be seen in intense conservations with several Republicans who voted no on the floor.
Later, a group of Freedom Caucus members met with Speaker McCarthy Tuesday evening.
"We've got some more conversations to be had," Texas Rep. Chip Roy told reporters as he was leaving the meeting. Roy, who was part of the GOP group that voted no, declined to comment about the details of the meeting.
"We had a breakdown in the process last week," he said. "We think we need to restore the process that was working."
Rep. Patrick McHenry, one of the key negotiators on the speaker's team for the debt limit deal, told reporters the speaker is working on resolving "internal tensions within House Republicans."
"From time to time, you have to have an airing within your family," he said. "I think that was part of what happened today."
Republican claims he was threatened over debt limit vote
South Carolina GOP Rep. Ralph Norman, a member of the Freedom Caucus who also voted against the Republican measure, told reporters the members' rejection of the rule was "about a lot of things." He said that included frustration about the debt ceiling deal and an apparent slow-walking of Rep. Andrew Clyde's bill regarding pistol stabilizing braces.
"It is about moving the bill — the brace rule — holding that and not putting that on the floor," he said. "That's part of it."
Last week, Clyde said on provocateur Steve Bannon's controversial podcast that House leadership threatened to block his bill on pistol braces if he voted against the debt ceiling legislation. Clyde is the sponsor of a bill on pistol braces.
"I was told by leadership that if I didn't vote for the rule [for the debt ceiling debate], that it would be very difficult to bring my bill to the floor," Clyde said.
McHenry told reporters neither he nor the speaker were part of conversations that insinuated members would be punished for not voting yes on the rule for the debt ceiling legislation.
Leaving the House chamber Tuesday afternoon, Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer told reporters: "We have a small but very willful group of people who unfortunately have much more influence than they ought to."
What does this mean for McCarthy?
House Freedom Caucus members have been vocal in their disappointment with McCarthy over the recent debt ceiling legislation, claiming the speaker didn't do enough to force significant spending cuts.
But it was unclear whether members would move on a motion to vacate, a rule McCarthy agreed to in January when he was fighting to become speaker that would enable any one House member to offer a resolution to remove the speaker.
On Monday night, Norman said it's not "the right time" to have a conversation about ousting McCarthy — still, he was quick to add there's palpable frustration among his caucus.
"We think he gave the farm away," he told NPR of the debt deal, adding McCarthy has other avenues to "show his conservatism" going forward.
"Fighting another day means you look at appropriations, look at reallocations on the military budget, look at the farm bill," he said. "There are other things that he can do that hopefully will get this country back on financial footing."
Virginia Republican Bob Good, also a Freedom Caucus member, told NPR the group will continue pushing for "meaningful cuts and spending reductions." Good also joined the Republicans who tanked the Tuesday vote.
"I think we need to look at all of the spending bills and see what are the areas of opportunity to cut, unnecessary wasteful spending, unjustified spending or actual spending that is harmful to the American people," he said.
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Record spending by English Premier League clubs fuelled a recovery in the international transfer market in 2022 with a total outlay of some $6.5 billion, according to a report published by FIFA on Thursday.
The figure represents an increase on the last two years as football recovers from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic but is still below the levels of 2019 ($7.35 billion), just before the health crisis, the sport's world governing body said in its Global Transfer Report.
The report only takes into account international transfers, in which over 20,000 were recorded and fewer than three thousand involved a fee.
English clubs' spending "reached a record high of almost $2.2 billion", the report said, with six of the 10 biggest international transfers involving moves to Premier League sides.
Among those moves were Liverpool's signing of Darwin Nunez from Benfica -- for an initial 75 million euros ($82m) plus 25 million in potential bonuses -- and Luis Diaz from Porto as well as Manchester United's purchases of Casemiro and Antony from Real Madrid and Ajax respectively.
There was also Erling Haaland's switch from Borussia Dortmund to Manchester City and Newcastle United's signing of Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad.
French clubs brought in the most money, although the total amount recouped of $740.3 million was still down on 2019 figures of over $900 million.
Meanwhile, the continuing growth of women's football was reflected by a 19 percent increase in the number of international transfers to a total of 1,555.
Only a small number involved a fee but spending on international transfers rose to $3.3 million, which FIFA said was 62 percent higher than the previous year.
Leading the biggest moves in the women's game was Keira Walsh's transfer from Manchester City to Barcelona, the fee for which was reported as being around 350,000 euros.
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What to plant in July: Best vegetables and flowers to grow
Start these plants in July for a delicious fall harvest
With sunny days, consistent weather and warmer soil, July can be a great time to sow seeds and plant more starts. By picking the right vegetables and flowers for your climate, you can enjoy a bountiful harvest before fall frosts arrive or even well into winter. Plant quick-growing crops to enjoy within a few weeks, or plan ahead for harvests of your favorite fall and winter veggies.
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What to plant in July
The best way to determine what to plant in July is to familiarize yourself with your United States Department of Agriculture’s hardiness zone. This number, based on an area’s average extreme minimum temperature, serves as a guide to help gardeners know which plants will thrive in their area. It’ll help you determine when to expect harvests from your garden. If you’re not sure of your hardiness zone, or if you live in a microclimate that tends to make your garden challenging, ask a local nursery for advice.
Best flowers to plant in July
Summer is peak bloom time for many flowers, but if you want fall color, July is also a great time to sow seeds for fall-blooming flowers.
- You can sow poppies in July for flowers in just a few weeks. They may even self-seed for more flowers next year if you leave them untouched.
- Other hardy annuals such as calendula and cornflower can also be started from seeds in July.
- Echinacea is a flowering perennial and pollinator favorite that can bloom through September if you plant starts now.
- Warmer climates can safely sow seeds for helianthus, or sunflowers, for fall blooming.
- Hollyhocks and delphinium are dramatically tall flowers that can be biennial or perennial depending on your zone. They won’t flower this year, but they’ll be ready to add color to your garden next summer.
- Some varieties of gladiolus, another garden showstopper, can be planted in July for fragrant flowers later in summer and fall.
Best vegetables to plant in July
In cooler climates, you can easily grow multiple pickings of salad greens by sowing seeds throughout summer. It’s also not too late to start root vegetables from seed, while brassicas such as cabbage and broccoli can be grown from starts for fall and winter harvests. Cooler climates also allow gardeners to plant more herbs without the risk of bolting.
Warmer climates can continue to enjoy nightshades such as peppers and tomatoes, as well as squash, sweet corn and lots of varieties of beans. If you have to deal with extreme heat in summer, consider installing shade cloths or planting in containers under trees or covered patios.
Gardeners in the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest and other regions with mild seasons can also take advantage of July weather for a second planting of root veggies such as carrots, turnips and beets. Cool and mild summers also allow for multiple pickings of greens such as arugula and lettuces. Try starting chard, bok choy or cabbage for nutrient-rich additions to your cooking all winter long.
Best gardening tools
A sturdy trowel such as this one makes it easy to start digging a garden. It’s made from heavy-duty carbon steel and offers a comfortable, ergonomic rubber grip. The blade is engraved with depth markers for easy and consistent planting.
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Available in four sizes, these genuine leather work gloves protect hands from scrapes, cuts and punctures. The cowhide and the elastic wristband feel comfortable yet sturdy enough for tough chores.
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Raindrip Automatic Drip Irrigation Watering Kit
In many parts of the country, summer often means drought conditions, so help your new plants survive with a drip irrigation system. This one comes with enough tubing and accessories to water up to 20 plants, in-ground or in containers.
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Rugged and flexible, this sturdy hose resists kinks and easily coils up. Its anodized aluminum fittings and UV- and mold-resistant outer cover make it impressively long-lasting.
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Sit or kneel on this padded bench for gardening without the aches and pains. It features thick padding and extra-large, weather-resistant tool pockets.
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Picnic at Ascot Garden Tool Tote
This sturdy tote is made from 600-denier polycanvas and features several side pockets for easy access to tools. It also comes with three stainless steel hand tools to get your garden started.
Greenes Fence Premium Cedar Elevated Garden Bed
Untreated cedar is a time-tested material for long-lasting and plant-safe gardening. This traditional garden bed is raised for easier access to plants, and it comes with a fabric liner for mess-free drainage.
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Compost is often essential for healthy soil and bountiful crops. This roomy, 43-gallon composter features durable materials and dual chambers that let compost develop on one side while you add fresh organic material to the other.
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Fiskars Ergo Scratch Tool Garden Weeder
Help your vegetables obtain the nutrients they need by keeping the garden clear of weeds. This ergonomic tool cuts through roots and levers weeds out of the soil.
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Worth checking out
- Effortlessly haul bags of soil, tools and more around the yard with the Garden Star Dual-Wheel Garden Cart.
- The heavy-duty, reinforced Briggs and Stratton Garden Hose can withstand any weather conditions.
- For turning and preparing large areas of soil, try the lightweight, fiberglass Truper Tru Pro Spading Fork.
- If you’d rather not risk inclement weather, consider the AeroGarden Harvest Hydroponic Indoor Garden.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Phan Thị Kim Phuc, the girl in the famous 1972 Vietnam napalm attack photo, on Monday escorted 236 refugees from Russia’s war in Ukraine on a flight from Warsaw to Canada.
Phuc’s iconic Associated Press photo in which she runs with her napalm-scalded body exposed, was etched on the private nongovernmental organization plane that is flying the refugees to the city of Regina, the capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Kim, 59, a Canadian citizen, said she wants her story and work for refugees to be a message of peace. With her husband, Bui Huy Toan, she traveled from Toronto to board the humanitarian flight.
The refugees, mostly women and children from across Ukraine, are among thousands of Ukrainians that Canada has provided humanitarian visas in the wake of Russia’s invasion of their country. Millions of Ukrainians have fled since Russia attacked on Feb. 24. Almost 5.5 million have registered with humanitarian organizations in Europe, according to the U.N.
Canada is among many Western countries offering Ukrainian refugees safe haven.
The founder of the NGO Solidaire, Argentine philanthropist and pilot Enrique Pineyro, piloted the Boeing 787. Oscar Camps from the Spanish organization Open Arms was also aboard.
AP photographer Nick Ut took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Kim and other children fleeing a napalm attack in south Vietnam in June 1972.
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Minjee Lee (1), Australia def. Youngin Chun (64), Korea, 6 and 5.
Caroline Masson (32), Germany def. Brittany Altomare (33), United States, 2 and 1.
Brittany Altomare (33) def. Minjee Lee (1), 2 and 1.
Caroline Masson (32) def. Youngin Chun (64), 2 and 1.
Caroline Masson (32) def. Minjee Lee (1), 2 and 1.
Youngin Chun (64) def. Brittany Altomare (33), 2 up.
Tiffany Chan (63), Hong Kong def. Atthaya Thitikul (2), Thailand, 3 and 2.
Allison Lee (31), United States vs. Amy Olson (34), United States, tied.
Atthaya Thitikul (2) def. Amy Olson (34), 1 up.
Tiffany Chan (63) def. Allison Lee (31), 4 and 3.
Tiffany Chan (63) def. Amy Olson (34), 2 up.
Atthaya Thitikul (2) def. Allison Lee (31), 4 and 3.
Allisen Corpuz (62), United States def. Hyo Joo Kim (3), South Korea, 3 and 2.
Matilda Castren (30), Finland vs. Sarah Schmelzel (35), United States, tied.
Hyo Joo Kim (3) def. Sarah Schmelzel (35), 2 and 1.
Matilda Castren (30) vs. Allisen Corpuz (62), tied.
Allisen Corpuz (62) def. Sarah Schmelzel (35), 6 and 5.
Hyo Joo Kim (3) def. Matilda Castren (30), 5 and 4.
Kelly Tan (61), Malaysia def. Danielle Kang (4), United States, 7 and 6.
Eun-Hee Ji (36), South Korea def. Pajaree Anannarukarn (29), Thailand, 4 and 2.
Eun-Hee Ji (36) def. Danielle Kang (4), 2 and 1.
Pajaree Anannarukarn (29) vs. Kelly Tan (61), tied.
Eun-Hee Ji (36) vs. Kelly Tan (61), tied.
Danielle Kang (4) vs. Pajaree Anannarukarn (29), tied.
Emma Talley (60), United States def. Jennifer Kupcho (5), United States, 2 and 1.
Lauren Stephenson (37), United States def. Stacy Lewis (28), United States, 1 up.
Jennifer Kupcho (5) def. Lauren Stephenson (37), 3 and 2.
Stacy Lewis (28) vs. Emma Talley (60), tied.
Emma Talley (60) def. Lauren Stephenson (37), 5 and 3.
Jennifer Kupcho (5) def. Stacy Lewis (28), 5 and 3.
Hannah Green (6), Australia def. Haeji Kang (59), South Korea, 2 and 1.
Jenny Shin (38), South Korea def. Sophia Popov (27), Germany, 2 and 1.
Jenny Shin (38) def. Hannah Green (6), 5 and 3.
Haeji Kang (59) def. Sophia Popov (27), 2 up.
Hannah Green (6) vs. Sophia Popov (27), tied.
Jenny Shin (38) vs. Haeji Kang (59), tied.
Paula Reto (58), South Africa def. Nanna Koerstz Madsen (7), 2 and 1.
Elizabeth Szokol (39), United States def. Yealimi Noh (26), United States, 2 and 1.
Nanna Koerstz Madsen (7) def. Elizabeth Szokol (39), 6 and 5.
Paula Reto (58) def. Yealimi Noh (26), 3 and 2.
Nanna Koerstz Madsen (7) def. Yealimi Noh (26), 2 up.
Paula Reto (58) def. Elizabeth Szokol (39), 4 and 2.
Cheyenne Knight (57), United States def. Gemma Dryburgh (8), Scotland, 2 and 1.
Gaby Lopez (25), Mexico def. Chella Choi (40), South Korea, 6 and 5.
Gemma Dryburgh (8) def. Chella Choi (40), 2 and 1.
Gaby Lopez (25) def. Cheyenne Knight (57), 3 and 2.
Chella Choi (40) vs. Cheyenne Knight (57), tied.
Gemma Dryburgh (8) def. Gaby Lopez (25), 2 and 1.
Joengeun Lee6 (9), South Korea vs. Maude-Aimee Leblanc (56), Canada, tied.
Moriya Jutanugarn (24), Thailand vs. Ashleigh Buhai (41), South Africa, tied.
Ashleigh Buhai (41) def. Joengeun Lee6 (9), 5 and 4.
Moriya Jutanugarn (24) def. Maude-Aimee Leblanc (56), 6 and 5.
Moriya Jutanugarn (24) def. Joengeun Lee6 (9), 7 and 5.
Ashleigh Buhai (41) def. Maude-Aimee Leblanc (56), 1 up.
Ayaka Furue (10), Japan vs. Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (55), France, tied.
Carlota Ciganda (23), Spain def. Angel Yin (42), United States, 2 up.
Ayaka Furue (10) def. Angel Yin (42), 3 and 2.
Carlota Ciganda (23) def. Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (55), 3 and 1.
Ayaka Furue (10) def. Carlota Ciganda (23), 2 and 1.
Angel Yin (42) def. Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (55), 1 up.
Annie Park (54), United States def. Georgia Hall (11), England, 2 and 1.
Perrine Delacour (43), France def. Mina Harigae (22), United States, 4 and 3.
Georgia Hall (11) def. Perrine Delacour (43), 1 up.
Mina Harigae (22) vs. Annie Park (54), tied.
Annie Park (54) def. Perrine Delacour (43), 5 and 3.
Georgia Hall (11) def. Mina Harigae (22), 4 and 3.
Madelene Sagstrom (12), Sweden def. Albane Valenzuela (53), Switzerland, 1 up.
Ryann O'Toole (21), United States def. Wei-Ling Hsu (44), Taiwan, 1 up.
Madelene Sagstrom (12) def. Wei-Ling Hsu (44), 1 up.
Albane Valenzuela (53) def. Ryann O'Toole (21), 2 up.
Madelene Sagstrom (12) def. Ryann O'Toole (21), 2 and 1.
Wei-Ling Hsu (44) def. Albane Valenzuela (53), 5 and 3.
Aditi Ashok (52), Niger def. Lizette Salas (13), United States, 3 and 1.
Hye-Jin Choi (20), South Korea def. Su Oh (45), Australia, 5 and 4.
Su Oh (45) def. Lizette Salas (13), 4 and 3.
Hye-Jin Choi (20) def. Aditi Ashok (52), 3 and 2.
Su Oh (45) def. Aditi Ashok (52), 1 up.
Hye-Jin Choi (20) def. Lizette Salas (13), 3 and 1.
Lilia Vu (51), United States def. Charley Hull (14), England, 5 and 3.
Ariya Jutanugarn (19), Thailand def. Esther Henseleit (46), Germany, 2 and 1.
Charley Hull (14) def. Esther Henseleit (46), 3 and 2.
Lilia Vu (51) def. Ariya Jutanugarn (19), 2 and 1.
Lilia Vu (51) def. Esther Henseleit (46), 4 and 3.
Charley Hull (14) vs. Ariya Jutanugarn (19), tied.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff (50), England def. Ally Ewing (15), United States, 6 and 5.
Jasmine Suwannapura (47), Thailand def. So Yeon Ryu (18), South Korea, 5 and 3.
Ally Ewing (15) def. Jasmine Suwannapura (47), 3 and 2.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff (50) def. So Yeon Ryu (18), 3 and 2.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff (50) def. Jasmine Suwannapura (47), 3 and 2.
Ally Ewing (15) def. So Yeon Ryu (18), 1 up.
A Lim Kim (16), South Korea vs. Stephanie Meadow (49), Northern Ireland, tied.
Megan Khang (17), United States vs. Andrea Lee (48), United States, tied.
Andrea Lee (48) def. A Lim Kim (16), 2 up.
Megan Khang (17) vs. Stephanie Meadow (49), tied.
A Lim Kim (16) vs. Megan Khang (17), tied.
Andrea Lee (48) def. Stephanie Meadow (49), 2 and 1.
Emma Talley (60), United States vs. Madelene Sagstrom (12), Sweden
Eun-Hee Ji (36), South Korea vs. Hye-Jin Choi (20), South Korea
Gemma Dryburgh (8), Scotland vs. Moriya Jutanugarn (24), Thailand
Caroline Masson (32), Germany vs. Andrea Lee (48), United States
Jenny Shin (38), South Korea vs. Annie Park (54), United States
Allisen Corpuz (62), United States vs. Lilia Vu (51), United States
Paula Reto (58), South Africa vs. Ayaka Furue (10), Japan
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TORRANCE, Calif. , June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Shimadzu Medical Systems USA, a subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation, receives an IMV ServiceTrak Award in the General X-ray Systems category.
In the recent, 2022 ServiceTrak General X-ray series, Shimadzu Medical Systems USA received the highest customer satisfaction rating for "Best System Performance".
IMV produces a series of proprietary ServiceTrak reports derived from extensive online surveys or phone interviews with radiology professionals in U.S. hospitals and non-hospital locations from IMV's master database of Radiographic system locations. The radiology professionals are asked to rate their level of satisfaction with the equipment manufacturers, system performance, and the service support. This 2022 ServiceTrak survey results from interviews with 605 diagnostic imaging sites that have 939 unique systems.
Charles Cassudakis, Business Director of Radiographic and R/F Products emphasizes that, "We are extremely pleased to receive the IMV award for Best Product Performance for our General X-ray products. What makes this award so meaningful is that it reflects our customers' satisfaction with our Radiographic product portfolio consisting of the MobileDaRt MX-8 series and the RADspeed family."
About IMV
IMV, established in 1977, is a recognized leader in market research and online publishing for the medical imaging and clinical diagnostic instruments markets. Visit IMV at: www.imvinfo.com
About Shimadzu Medical Systems USA (SMS)
Shimadzu Medical Systems USA, a division of Shimadzu Precision Instruments, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation, is its medical business subsidiary in the USA. Shimadzu Corporation, an international enterprise founded in 1875 in Kyoto, Japan, and the parent of Shimadzu Medical Systems USA (SMS), is a global provider of medical diagnostic imaging equipment including Interventional X-ray system, General Radiographic System, Portable X-ray System and Radiographic Fluoroscopy System.
Shimadzu Medical Systems USA is headquartered in Torrance, California with Sales and Service offices throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Canada with a Sales and Marketing office located in Cleveland, Ohio and Direct Operations headquartered out of Dallas Texas providing direct services across 6 states and Kenmore Washington providing direct services across 4 states.
For further information about Shimadzu Medical Systems USA or other activities of Shimadzu in North America, please contact us at marketing@shimadzu-usa.com.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince William launched a five-year project to end long-term homelessness in the United Kingdom on Monday, saying he wants to make sure that instances of people being left without a roof over their heads are “rare, brief and unrepeated.”
The heir to the throne will announce details of the program over the next two days as he visits six pilot projects around the country that have received grants of up to 500,000 pounds ($637,000) each from the Royal Foundation, the charity that supports the work of William and his wife Kate.
“It’s a big task, but I firmly believe that by working together it is possible to make homelessness rare, brief, and unrepeated, and I am very much looking forward to working with our six locations to make our ambition a reality,” William said in a statement.
The six projects supported by the initiative, known as Homewards, involve collaborative efforts by local organizations, individuals and businesses to combat homelessness in their communities. Homewards also hopes to emulate the success of Finland, where people receive permanent housing as a first step before trying to address other issues such as substance abuse.
The initiative comes as rising rents and a shortage of affordable housing push more people into homelessness amid the biggest decline in living standards since World War II.
“My first visit to a homelessness shelter was when I was 11 with my mother. The visits we made left a deep and lasting impression,” William said as he launched the program.
“I met so many extraordinary people and listened to so many heartbreaking personal stories. Too many people have found themselves without a stable and permanent place to call home.”
Around 300,000 people across the U.K. are homeless on any given night, according to Matt Downie, chief executive of the charity Crisis, one of the organizations working with Homewards.
“The best way to tackle homelessness is to stop it happening in the first place,” Downie said. “We’ve seen it in other countries such as Finland, where homelessness is all but ended, and we’ve seen it when we follow innovative programs that give people housing first.” | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/prince-william-launches-5-year-project-to-end-long-term-homelessness-in-the-uk/ | 2023-06-26 14:26:34 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/prince-william-launches-5-year-project-to-end-long-term-homelessness-in-the-uk/ |
T2 Alliance Wins Best BIM Project for Complex Airport Expansion Project
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ; TRMB) announced today the winners of its 2022 Tekla® Global Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards. In this biennial competition, the world's most impressive structural construction projects that use Tekla solutions are judged in eight categories. The criteria the projects are judged on include Use of BIM and Collaboration, Innovative Use of Tekla software, Constructibility, Environmental Benefits and Cool Factor. The overall winner for the best BIM project of 2022 is T2 Alliance, for their Helsinki Airport expansion project.
Best BIM Project: T2 Alliance, Helsinki Airport, Finland
The 103,000 square-meter extension to the existing Helsinki Airport is the winner in the Public category and the Best BIM project of the 2022 Tekla Global BIM Awards. This approximately 1-billion-euro project was a cooperation between Ramboll Finland, Finavia Corporation, SRV Rakennus, ALA Architects Ltd, Arkkitehtitoimisto HKP, and Gravicon. The project entails a new 450,000 square-meter apron, 16 new wide-bodied plane parking positions, and 4,800 new parking spaces for cars. Finavia, the owner of the project, achieved the BREEAM Excellent sustainability certification.
The BIM-based collaboration throughout the project was instrumental to the success of the project. All 100-200 engineers and building product manufacturers modeled their products digitally. The contractors orchestrated the use of over 400 high level-of-detail models in the project using 30 BIM-related software products.
"This project showcased such a strong way of collaborating and building things digitally and then creating the physical twin. It demonstrated innovation and re-engineering the processes for the benefit of all the different stakeholders," said jury member Salla Eckhardt, director of Digital Building Lifecycle & Innovation at Microsoft.
As the winning team, T2 Alliance will present its Helsinki Airport project at Dimensions+ 2022, the Trimble User Conference taking place in Las Vegas, November 7-9, 2022.
International Competition
What started as a regional drawing contest in 1999, has grown into an internationally recognized competition in the field of structural engineering. Teams from across the globe working on some of the world's most challenging projects compete on the basis of the best or most innovative use of BIM and digital technologies in structural engineering. Over 132 projects were entered in this year's competition, which included winners of regional Tekla BIM Awards from 37 countries.
The projects are judged by an international jury consisting of industry experts Salla Eckhardt, director of Digital Building Lifecycle & Innovation at Microsoft (US); David Lash, product manager of Tekla Structures at Trimble; Kalle Kähkönen, professor & head of Civil Engineering Unit at Tampere University (Finland); and Holger Karutz, civil engineer & editor-in-chief at CPI Concrete Plant International trade journals (Germany).
"The Tekla Global BIM Awards celebrate the best in structural engineering and BIM," said Jari Heino, vice president and general manager, Trimble Tekla. "Our Tekla software enables structural engineers the world over to push the envelope of design quality, functionality and sustainability. The exceptional quality of this year's entries shows the progress that the Tekla community is making in furthering the impact of the structural engineering trade."
Tekla 2022 Global BIM Awards Category Winners
Commercial: King's Cross R8, United Kingdom
Arup is the winner of the award in the Commercial category for Lot R8, a part of the King's Cross Masterplan in London. This high-visibility project comprises a 13-storey office block and residential block. The £110 million development will provide approximately 13,000 square meter office space and over 70 apartments. The team consisting of Arup, Argent, McLaren Construction, Piercy & Company, Severfield UK and Getjar used a Common Data Environment based on Trimble® Connect® collaboration platform and applied an IFC standard-based exchange to collaborate with stakeholders. The group made significant use of Tekla Warehouse for content sharing. Another noteworthy aspect was the intricate rebarset that was designed for the project.
Public: Helsinki Airport, Finland
The extension to the Helsinki airport—a project by the T2 Alliance—won the Public category and Best BIM Project award. The jury praised the fact that the model used was created only by a few people and shared by many, especially in the light of synchronized production and the project's impressive dimensions.
Industrial: Pierrefonds Waste Management Plant, France
The creation of the Pierrefonds waste separation facility on the island of La Réunion (off the coast of East Africa) is a multi-year, 230-million-euro project by a consortium of specialist firms led by industrial contractor CNIM, and will promote the island's circular economy. The design created in Tekla Structures, using Tekla Model Sharing, combines units for the sorting and processing of recyclable materials, digestion of biowaste and will generate renewable electricity, making this what the jury deemed "an environmentally positive industrial project" at "an interesting location."
Infrastructure: Ovalo Monitor Bridge, Peru
The winner in the Infrastructure category is an overpass of 870 meters, with a complex reinforced concrete superstructure and a substructure consisting of 2 abutments and 21 piers. The team from TSC Innovation, together with the builder INCOT and the rebar supplier Aceros Arequipa, used detailed (LOD400) and collaborative VDC engineering, prefabrication and applied IFC and cloud connectivity. The jury recognized the impressive digital workflow, as disparate design teams used Tekla Model Sharing and Trimble Connect as a common data environment; commenting: "combining the BIM data with conditions is a strength for decades to come."
Sports & Recreation: Tampere Deck and Arena, Finland
In the Sports & Recreation category, the 2022 Tekla BIM Award went to the Tampere Deck and Arena project. The site is complex, with a living oasis being built over a railway in the middle of an urban area. The team from SRV Rakennus, Ramboll Finland and ARCO Architecture Company worked on around 500 models using Tekla Structures, Tekla Model Sharing, Trimble Connect and Trimble SketchUp® modeling software. In the project, an initial InfraBIM-based information model was implemented. Infrastructure and traffic planning were implemented in a versatile manner with simulations used for traffic arrangements. Sustainability aspects were considered in multiple ways, such as a condensation heat recovery system and solar collectors.
Small: The Big One, Season 2, United Kingdom
The Big One is one of the best-known rollercoasters in the UK. Taziker Industrial won a 2021 Tekla BIM Award for their project on the re-tracking of 9 tracks. This included a tunnel crossing and changing the line of the tracks for a smoother ride, collaborating with the dynamics engineers at Westlakes Engineering. The team faced complex geometry, using point cloud to determine geometry of the existing track, which was then exported for design improvements, and reimported for the new line design and final modeling. Tekla Structures was key to the success of this project along with its variety of tools such as point cloud import, layout manager and the Grasshopper® link ability and the possibility to back check using a total station to confirm final geometry. The jury commented, "this kind of project raises the bar for the industry overall."
Student: Corrèze Bridge, France
The winning student project is a design project for a bridge over the Corrèze river. A team of 6 students from the IUT du Limousin Civil Engineering Department worked for only 13 working days on the discovery of the bridge under construction as well as the concrete execution plans & mixed steel-concrete structure design. The team applied Tekla Structures to model the boom as built as well as the bridge, and scanned the boom to find missing dimensions, produced the reinforcement cage designs for the bridge supports (piers, abutments and deck). And finally, they presented the designs to the project engineer, manager and owner. The jury was impressed, saying: "There is a lot of new talent growing and entering the industry."
API Developer: ScaffPlan, Australia
The 2022 Tekla Global BIM Award for an API Developer went to ScaffPlan, for their ScaffPlan® system for scaffolding modeling built on top of Tekla Structures. Scaffplan utilized the full power of Tekla Structures, through the Tekla Open API, combined with ScaffPlan features, resulting in a solution that helps increase companies' ROI. A team of 5 developers worked on 3 million lines of code. The solution is a strong proof point of Trimble's platform strategy, aiming at 100 percent of the construction trades creating constructible information.
Special Recognition: E6 Ranheim-Værnes, Norway
The jury awarded special recognition for the E6 Highway project in Norway, a 23-kilometer highway expansion to improve traffic flow and safety. It comprises 240-meter bridges and 2 CIP concrete tunnel portals. The team consisted of ACCIONA Engineering, Ramboll, ACCIONA Construction, COWI, Statens Vegvesen (road authority) and Nye Veier (project owner). This is a true wide-scale BIM project from design to construction with digital information being central to decision making, collaboration (through Tekla Model Sharing), coordination as well as data exchange across teams and final handover for operations. Trimble Quadri® was the main coordination environment for model federation and interdisciplinary coordination. The jury highlighted the efficient use of IFC files and the use of Trimble Connect for the information exchange between structural, modeling, drafting and project coordination teams.
More information about the Tekla Global BIM Awards projects, submissions, jury and winners is available at: https://www.tekla.com/bim-awards.
About Trimble Construction
Trimble is developing technology, software, and services that drive the digital transformation of construction with solutions that span the entire architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Empowering teams across the construction lifecycle, Trimble's innovative approach improves coordination and collaboration between stakeholders, teams, phases, and processes. Trimble's Connected Construction strategy gives users control of their operations with best-in-class solutions and a common data environment. By automating work and transforming workflows, Trimble is enabling construction professionals to improve productivity, quality, transparency, safety, sustainability, and deliver each project with confidence. For more information, visit: construction.trimble.com.
About Trimble
Trimble is an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works by delivering solutions that enable our customers to thrive. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble is transforming industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.
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Synth-Pop Pioneer Puts Brand New Spin On Alt-Rock Band's Iconic Hit Single, Arriving On All Digital Formats Via UMe/Interscope Records On May 13
LOS ANGELES, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, May 13, UMe/Interscope Records releases "All Star (Owl City Remix)," Owl City's bold reimagining of Smash Mouth's iconic 1999 hit single, on all digital formats. This fresh take on a perennial classic adds a new layer of sunny electronic pep to a song recognized worldwide for its inherently joyful get-up-and-go disposition. Click HERE to listen now.
Paul Delisle of Smash Mouth states, "It's a wonderfully creative and unique reimagining of one of our best songs. We Have Always Admired Adam, and it's an honor to have him remix the mighty 'All Star' in his distinctive Owl City sound."
"'All Star' is one of my favorite songs of all time, so for me, it was a privilege of a lifetime to create a remix intended to honor the original," adds Adam Young of Owl City.
"All Star" vaulted Smash Mouth into superstar status. This perpetually catchy earworm of a track, as culled from the band's triple-platinum June 1999 sophomore album Astro Lounge, ultimately garnered a GRAMMY® Award nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Written by the band's founding and former guitarist Greg Camp, "All Star" not only captured the vibe of the times, but it became an instant singalong smash reflecting its intrinsic relatability across the globe. Initially aligned with the 1999 cult-favorite film Mystery Men and the family-friendly Inspector Gadget, "All Star" graced the opening credits of Shrek two years later, catapulting the song into the stratosphere of best-loved tracks that continue to inspire the pursuit of personal growth. "All Star" has also long since become one of the most popular meme-springboard subjects on record, recently inspiring the #SomebodyOnceToldMe trend on TikTok with over 240K videos created using a clip of the song earlier this year.
Owl City visionary Adam Young not only crafted the equally meme-memorable 7x platinum megahit "Fireflies," a key track from the artist's July 2009 sophomore album Ocean Eyes, but he's also cultivated a wide-ranging recording career steeped in synth-pop, disco, indietronica, European electronica, and a score of other genres — in essence, forging a veritable bouillabaisse of influences into an original sound all his and Owl City's own. Owl City's multi-generationally appealing music has also graced a number of animated films and their respective soundtracks, among them being 2012's Wreck-It Ralph and 2013's The Croods.
We could all use a little change, and "All Star (Owl City Remix)" breaks the mold with its shining revamp of a timelessly memorable song, in turn making it glitter even more like gold.
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WILLOWBROOK, Ill. – At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a suburban Chicago parking lot that drew hundreds of people to celebrate Juneteenth, authorities said.
TV news video showed the strip mall lot in Willowbrook filled with debris and police tape, about 20 miles southwest of Chicago. The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office described it as a “peaceful gathering” to celebrate Juneteenth that suddenly turned violent as a number of people fired multiple shots into the crowd.
Several other victims were injured while attempting to flee the area, officials said. A motive for the attack wasn’t immediately known, and no one was arrested by early afternoon.
Monday is the federal holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed – two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Swiss vote in tough climate measures
A majority of Swiss citizens on Sunday voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Final results showed that 59% of voters were in favor of the bill.
The referendum was sparked by a campaign by scientists and environmentalists to save Switzerland’s iconic glaciers, which are melting away at an alarming rate.
Campaigners initially proposed even more ambitious measures but later backed a government plan that requires Switzerland to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. It also sets aside more than $3.3 billion to help wean companies and homeowners off fossil fuels.
Swiss glaciers experienced record melting last year, losing more than 6% of their volume and alarming scientists who say a loss of 2% would once have been considered extreme.
Sweltering heat wave kills 96 in India
At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave, officials said Sunday.
The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar, where authorities warned residents at greater risk to stay indoors during the daytime.
Authorities in Uttar Pradesh found out most of the 54 who died there were older than 60 and had preexisting health conditions, which may have been exacerbated by the intense heat. They exhibited symptoms including high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, breathing difficulties and heart-related issues.
Patna recorded a maximum temperature of 113 degree Fahrenheit on Saturday. The main summer months – April, May and June – are generally the hottest in most of India, before monsoon rains bring in cooler temperatures.
Possible attack on Pride parade foiled
Austrian authorities said Sunday they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by three young men who had allegedly sympathized with the extremist Islamic State group.
The head of Austria’s domestic intelligence service told reporters that the suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested one hour before the start of Saturday’s Pride parade, which was attended by about 300,000 people, public broadcaster ORF reported.
Omar Haijawi-Pirchner from the State Protection and Intelligence Directorate said there was “no danger for the participants of the parade at any time.”
The intelligence service had received advance knowledge of the suspects’ alleged plans, kept them “under constant control,” and arrested them on the orders of the public prosecutor’s office following house searches on Saturday that uncovered various evidence, including weapons.
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HENDERSON, Nev. — The game-winning play, a day later, seems just as unreal as when it happened.
A play that was discussed from ocean to ocean Sunday night well into Monday morning, and Raiders coach Josh McDaniels said he received his share of text messages.
“I have friends and family that obviously thought that was just about what it was — crazy,” McDaniels said. “We didn’t do a whole lot other than take advantage of something that was presented to us in that last situation. I don’t want to take too much credit for that. We were trying to hopefully go to overtime.”
The play helped the Raiders finally hold on to a double-digit halftime lead. Until Sunday, they were 0-4 in such situations, the first team since at least 1930 to blow that kind of advantage that many times.
A team that has found creative ways to lose finally found a unique way to win, with a massive assist from the other side.
This wasn’t the first time the Raiders have been involved in a play that has the entire NFL and its fans talking.
Friday is the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception. Las Vegas plays at the Pittsburgh Steelers the following day, so the Raiders will be reminded of a play that the franchise still insists shouldn’t have counted because of the rules at the time, though the replays are inconclusive.
Also in the Raiders’ history are the Sea of Hands game that ended the Miami Dolphins’ bid for a fourth straight Super Bowl appearance and the Holy Roller against the San Diego Chargers in 1978 that led to a rules change. Plus, of course, there was the Tuck Rule game that cost the Raiders a potential trip to the 2002 Super Bowl and helped launch the Patriots’ dynasty.
And now the wacky lateral that gives the Raiders (6-8) some hope of making the playoffs. However, it’s still a long shot.
McDaniels said trying to keep up with the playoff scenarios was “confusing” and pointless because much of it was beyond the team’s control.
“The one thing that we know we have to do in order to keep going is win,” he said.
WHAT’S WORKING
Special teams continued to be strong. Malcolm Koonce blocked a punt that set up a touchdown, Daniel Carlson made a 49-yard field goal, AJ Cole placed two punts inside the 20-yard line including one at the 2, and Ameer Abdullah averaged 22.2 yards on five kickoff returns.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The banged-up offensive line is a mess. When the Patriots knew Las Vegas had to pass, they unloaded on quarterback Derek Carr, who was sacked three times in the second half. It’s uncertain whether that group will get any healthier, which makes the closing stretch against the Steelers, San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs even more difficult.
STOCK UP
Mack Hollins caught four passes for 40 yards and a touchdown. Another reception was a 12-yarder on fourth-and-10 from the Raiders 19 in the final two minutes that kept alive what turned out to be the game-tying drive. He also got down the field on a punt to down the ball at the 2. And when the Raiders wanted some insurance on the last play against a deep pass, they put Hollins in at safety.
STOCK DOWN
The Raiders made too many unforced errors, getting hit with four false start penalties and two for delay of game.
“There are no excuses for those,” McDaniels said. “We need to be able to go out and call a play in the huddle, break the huddle, get to the line of scrimmage and snap the ball without penalty before the play clock’s down.”
INJURIES
There were no updates on G Alex Bars (knee), LB Darien Butler (rib), G Dylan Parham (knee) and CB Rock Ya-Sin (knee).
KEY NUMBER
28 — The number of receiving yards for Davante Adams against the Patriots, his third fewest this season. Much of that is because New England does what it almost always does and took away the offense’s best playmaker. But Adams is going to have to be much more involved in the offense if the Raiders are to finish the season strong.
NEXT STEPS
The Raiders visit the Steelers on Saturday night, the day after the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception. Both teams are barely in the playoff picture, so this is effectively an elimination game.
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Ciera Pasturel is a lifelong reader who was able to turn her hobby into an occupation. While working toward her master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University, Pasturel gained valuable experience by interning at the public library. Now, she is a full-time librarian responsible for selecting new print and e-materials for the library.
When Pasturel isn’t working or reading, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, walking along the beach and going for hikes. As an avid reader active in the book community and a librarian, Pasturel’s expertise makes her an excellent resource as BestReviews book expert.
Q. You’re BestReviews book expert. How did you become an expert?
CP: I originally worked for BestReviews as a photographer several years ago before leaving to go to graduate school to pursue my master’s degree of Library and Information Science. Knowing I am now a librarian, BestReviews reached out to me and was curious to know if I would like to join their team of experts. Many of the people I interacted with several years ago still work for BestReviews, and it is great to collaborate with some of my previous coworkers again.
Q. What are the biggest misconceptions about libraries and librarians?
CP: One of the biggest misconceptions about libraries is that they are just places for books. Libraries also offer a variety of programming to help community members with all kinds of information needs, like assistance with taxes, sewing and crafting classes and passport renewals. Libraries also offer exercise programs, after-school homework help, computer and technology tutors and 3-D printing.
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Trump’s bid to reshape GOP faces biggest hurdles in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) - Donald Trump hopes to avoid a stinging defeat in the Georgia governor’s race on Tuesday as Republican primary voters decide the fate of the former president’s hand-picked candidate to lead one of the most competitive political battlegrounds in the U.S.
In all, five states are voting, including Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota. But none has been more consumed by Trump and his lie that the 2020 election was stolen than Georgia.
After incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp refused to accept Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in Georgia, he sought retribution by personally recruiting former Republican Sen. David Perdue to mount a primary challenge. But that may prove to be a bad bet as Kemp has emerged as a powerful fundraiser who has tapped into the benefits of incumbency. In the final days of the campaign, he unveiled a $5.5 billion, 8,100-job Hyundai Motor plant near Savannah.
On the eve of the election, Perdue’s allies were bracing for a lopsided defeat, the only question being whether Kemp would win the 50% majority he needs to avoid a runoff election next month.
“We’re not going to have a runoff,” said Matha Zoller, a longtime Republican activist and northeast Georgia talk show host with ties to both Trump and Perdue. “It’s going to be embarrassing.”
The results could raise questions about where power resides within the GOP. While Trump remains deeply popular among the party’s most loyal voters, the opening stage of the midterm primary season has shown they don’t always side with his picks. Other prominent Republicans, meanwhile, are growing increasingly assertive.
In a clear illustration of the divide among top Republicans, Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence, rallied with Kemp in the Atlanta suburbs on Monday evening.
“Elections are about the future,” he told the crowd, adding that “when you vote for Brian Kemp tomorrow, you will say yes to a future of freedom here in Georgia. You will say yes to our most cherished values at the heart of everything we hold dear.”
Perdue, for his part, ended the day saying Stacey Abrams, who is Black and running unopposed for the Democratic nomination for governor, was “demeaning her own race.”
Republicans have stepped up their criticism of Abrams since she told a Democratic dinner on Saturday that “I am tired of hearing about being the the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.” Abrams has said her comments were meant to address Georgia’s dismal rankings for mental health access and maternal mortality.
But in an interview Monday with conservative radio host John Fredericks and former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, Perdue went further. He likened the comment to remarks Abrams made in 2018 arguing “people shouldn’t have to go into agriculture or hospitality to make a living in Georgia.” He asserted that she was referring to Black farmers.
“When she told Black farmers, you don’t need to be on the farm, and when she told Black workers in hospitality and all this ... she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that,” Perdue said.
Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats elsewhere are grappling with ideological and strategic divisions that will determine what kind of candidates to nominate and which issues to prioritize for the November general election.
Democrats were especially focused on a runoff election in south Texas, where longtime incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar is facing a fierce challenge from progressive Jessica Cisneros in a race where abortion is a prominent issue. Cuellar is last anti-abortion Democrat serving in the House.
Republicans will also decide a series of lower-profile primaries.
In Arkansas, former Trump aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders is expected to claim the Republican governor’s nomination. And in Alabama, conservative firebrand Rep. Mo Brooks is running to represent the GOP in the race to replace retiring Sen. Richard Shelby. Brooks, a leading figure at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Capitol attack, initially won Trump’s endorsement, although Trump rescinded it after watching Brooks struggle in the polls.
No state has more consequential elections this week than Georgia, a longtime Republican stronghold that has shifted Democratic in recent elections. Biden defeated Trump in Georgia by less than 12,000 votes total in 2020, and Democrats narrowly won both Senate seats two months later.
This year, Trump’s obsession with his 2020 loss have loomed over Republican primary elections for governor, Senate and secretary of state.
Trump-backed former NFL star Herschel Walker is poised to win Georgia’s GOP Senate nomination after fending off conservative opponents who raised questions about his history of domestic violence. Walker would face Democratic incumbent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, this fall.
Leading Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is also expected to win her primary election in the state’s 14th congressional district, despite a first term marred by conspiracy theories and controversy.
On the Democratic side in Georgia, two congressional incumbents, Reps. Lucy McBath and Carolyn Bourdeaux, were running against each other in suburban Atlanta, forced into a rare incumbent-on-incumbent primary after Republicans re-drew the congressional map.
Meanwhile, the Georgia Republican primary for governor — and the GOP’s secretary of state contest— will have a direct impact on Georgia’s election system for the 2024 presidential contest.
In a show of anti-Trump defiance, the Republican governors of Arizona, Nebraska and Maryland have lined up behind Kemp, who refused to support Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election in Georgia and other swing states was stolen.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan suggested a Kemp victory would send a clear message to Trump.
“When Brian Kemp prevails on Tuesday, he will prove that voters want their leaders to focus on the everyday issues in their lives like high gas prices and rising crime, not indulging the petty grievances of another politician,” Hogan told The Associated Press.
In the GOP primary for secretary of state, Trump has railed against GOP incumbent Brad Raffensperger, who refused support the former president’s direct calls to overturn the 2020 election. Raffensperger faces three primary challengers, including Trump-backed Rep. Jody Hice. The winner will serve as Georgia’s chief election officer in the 2024 presidential election.
Tuesday marks the first election held under new voting laws adopted by the Republican-backed state legislature in response to Trump’s unfounded grievances. The law made it harder to vote by mail, which was popular among Democrats in 2020 amid the pandemic; introduced new voter identification requirements that critics warned might disenfranchise Black voters; and expanded early voting in rural areas that typically vote Republican.
The new law also bans the practice of handing out food or water within 150 feet of a polling place, a practice common in urban areas where there are typically long voter lines.
Early voting totals in Georgia suggest enormous voter enthusiasm — especially on the Republican side.
Through the end of Friday, 857,401 voters cast early ballots, including 795,567 who voted early in-person, according to the secretary of state. That includes 483,149 votes cast by Republicans and 368,949 votes by Democrats.
That figures shattered early voting turnout in the 2020 presidential election, when a total of 254,883 Georgians voted early.
Democrats downplayed the voting disparity, noting that the state’s highest-profile contests were playing out on the Republican side.
“While Democrats are uniting behind our candidates, Republicans are in chaos as they run on an extreme agenda and try to outdo each other as the most MAGA candidate,” said Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison.
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Peoples reported from Washington.
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Disabled woman attacked by neighbors’ dogs: ‘I thought I was fixing to die’
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - A 28-year-old Tennessee woman says she thought she was going to die when she was attacked by two of her neighbors’ dogs.
Police say the attack happened around 4 p.m. Friday on Gilford Drive in Memphis. The two dogs involved were described as “bully breeds.”
The victim, 28-year-old Kelly Hughes, and her family told WMC the dogs were pit bulls in a Saturday afternoon interview.
“I thought I was fixing to die,” Kelly Hughes said. “People just need to keep their dogs on a leash.”
The 28-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, was on the sidewalk in front of her house when she was attacked. She suffered bruises, cuts and bites.
Her mother, Freddie Hughes, says her daughter is in “severe pain.” She also said she believes her daughter would’ve died, if it wasn’t for the quick actions of an unknown bystander who witnessed the attack.
“I’m so thankful to that man for saving my baby’s life,” Freddie Hughes said. “This is so hard on her.”
Memphis Animal Services removed the dogs from the home, and the owners were issued a citation, according to police and neighbors. WMC reports their news crew heard more dogs barking inside the owners’ garage.
“I’m happy there are two dogs I don’t have to worry about,” Freddie Hughes said. “But those are deadly dogs. My neighbor hasn’t even come to say sorry or to check on my daughter. I don’t think he needs to have an animal.”
Police say the dogs’ owners were issued a summons for Shelby County Environmental Court.
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Silver has been the hottest game in town, recently blasting more than $6.00 per ounce in less than five weeks. Gold, platinum, and copper raced higher as investors sought protection from inflation.
Investors also guessed that our Federal Reserve Bank would stop raising interest rates in the coming months.
The Producer Price Index, released on Thursday, rose 2.7% in March from a year ago, indicating more inflation but at a drastically reduced rate.
Gold bugs and silver bulls also fear uncertainties in our banking system and geo-political issues could shift interest in metal investments.
Demand for metals from solar and electric car manufacturing provided additional buying.
Despite all these factors driving metals up, they made a reversal on Friday, especially silver, and closed sharply lower.
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Cattle cracks uptrend
Like the reversal seen in metals, cattle prices spiked by 11 cents per pound in one week, then on Friday, slid downward as some speculators thought the price bubble was bursting.
Even though beef is just beginning to enter its highest demand period and the shortage of cattle should dominate markets for many months to come, the sharp rise in prices may have been enough to reduce demand or cause a shift to other sources of protein in coming weeks.
Corn and cotton loving manure
The high cost of manufactured fertilizers for U.S. row crops is motivating more farmers to switch to other forms of fertilizer.
Soybeans produce their own nitrogen so are less needy of fertilizers, but shortages and high costs of chemical fertilizers, some of which are imported, have plagued corn and cotton farmers.
So some growers are using animal waste from their own livestock or confined animal feed operations as a competitive source of nutrients for their plants. Manure is loaded with nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, micronutrients, and organic matter, all of which help improve soil health.
A recent study by the USDA showed manure application has increased to 16.3% of U.S. cropland.
Winners and losers
Cattle, crude, and coffee got a kick upward early in the week and held on to most of their gains.
April cattle traded at $1.7510 per pound, with May crude oil going for $82.50 per barrel.
May coffee brought $1.9510 per pound. May wheat and corn spiked higher at Friday’s close to $6.85 and $6.67 per bushel, respectively.
Soybean oil and hogs were the biggest decliners, with both dropping around a penny and a half per pound.
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Navy expedites waterborne drones to close gap with China
By DAVID SHARP
Associated Press
Facing a growing threat from China, the Navy envisions drone ships keeping an electronic eye on enemy forces across the vast Pacific Ocean, extending the reach of firepower, and keeping sailors out of harm’s way.
The Navy is speeding development of those robotic ships as an affordable way to keep pace with China’s growing fleet while vowing not to repeat costly shipbuilding blunders from recent years.
The four largest drone ships are being used together this summer during a multination naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean.
Other smaller waterborne drones are already being deployed by the Navy’s 5th Fleet in the waters off the Middle East.
The goal in coming years is to see how these research vessels’ radar and sensors can be combined with artificial intelligence, and integrated with traditional cruisers, destroyers, submarine and aircraft carriers, to create a networked fleet that’s resilient because it’s spread over greater distances and more difficult for enemies to destroy, the Navy says.
“It’s about moving the technology forward, and having confidence in the capability. Everything takes time,” said Cmdr. Jeremiah Daley, commanding officer of Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One in California.
The Navy believes the technology can help with the three keys for military success — weapons range, scouting, and command and control — at a lower cost and risk to personnel, said James Holmes, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
But all of those benefits must be proven, along with long-term durability in a harsh saltwater environment, he said.
“We’re sort of in Jerry Maguire ‘show me the money’ territory with the tech. It will undoubtedly be useful, but whether it will be a game-changer is far less clear,” said Holmes, who doesn’t speak for the Navy.
Before moving forward, the Navy must first to win over a skeptical Congress after a series of shipbuilding debacles.
Its speedy littoral combat ships have had propulsion problems, leading to early retirements. The “Advanced Gun System” on its stealth destroyer was a bust because of expensive ammo. And its newest aircraft carrier had problems with elevators and a new system to launch aircraft.
Critics said the Navy rushed to cram too much new technology onto those ships, leading to failures and growing costs.
“We can’t just throw all the resources at (robotic ships) with the track record of 20 years of failed ship programs,” said Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia, who is a retired Navy officer.
The Navy’s Unmanned Task Force is taking a new approach, using a military equivalent of a venture capital model to expedite new ideas, and moving forward only after technologies are proven, said Michael Stewart, the director of the task force.
This summer, four large drone ships are working alongside conventional ships during the war games called RIMPAC.
Those include the Sea Hunter and Sea Hawk, diesel-powered ships equipped with outriggers for stability in rough seas. The other two are Ranger and Nomad, which are based on oil platform replenishment ships. They have large flat decks from which a missile was successfully fired last year.
While those larger vessels are tested in the Pacific, the Navy is already seeing promising results with smaller, commercially available vessels that are being assessed by Task Force 59, which is part of the 5th Fleet in Bahrain, said Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, 5th Fleet spokesperson.
One of the vessels that received attention is the Saildrone, a sail-powered vessel with solar-powered systems. Equipped with radar and cameras, Saildrones are touted as being able to operate autonomously for months at a time without maintenance or resupply.
Based on the success of multinational exercises last winter, the 5th Fleet said the U.S. Navy and international partners intend to deploy 100 crewless vessels by next summer.
All told, Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, envisions a mix of 150 large crewless surface vessels and undersea vessels by 2045. That’s on top of more than 350 conventional battle force ships.
The Navy’s spending proposal for the new fiscal year includes $433 million for crewless surface vessels and $284 million for underwater vessels.
Those vessels coupled with artificial intelligence have the potential to make the Navy’s fleet much more effective, said Gilday, the Navy’s top officer. But the Navy is going about research and development “in an evolutionary, deliberate, informed kind of way,” he said.
The biggest advantage of robotic ships is that they could be built at a fraction of the cost of conventional warships as the Navy struggles to keep pace with China and Russia, said Loren Thompson, defense analyst at the Lexington Institute. The U.S. already lags behind China in ship numbers, and the gap is growing each year.
But Congress isn’t rushing into funding new programs, said Bryan Clark, a defense analyst at the Hudson institute. “Congress wants the Navy to have a good plan — and then pursue it aggressively,” Clark said.
On Capitol Hill, Luria said there may be a place for crewless ships, perhaps in replacing missile capability for ships the Navy wants to retire. But there’s a lot of research and development necessary to convince Congress to heavily invest in ships without any sailors.
“I just don’t think the technology is mature enough now to make a wholesale investment,” said Luria, D-Virginia.
Sen. Mazie Hirono, chair of the seapower subcommittee, said Gilday has assured her that the Navy is “conscious of not moving too quickly on unproven technology.”
“The Navy must get this right the first time and support rigorous testing with prototypes before committing to buying a fleet,” said Hirono, D-Hawaii.
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Sharp reported from Portland, Maine. Associated Press writer Jennifer McDermott contributed to this report in Providence, Rhode Island.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Property owners must pay the Second Installment of their Cook County property taxes by Friday, December 30, 2022, to avoid late charges imposed by state law.
"The most efficient way to pay is online," said Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas. "You can download your bill online and get a receipt after you pay. We've collected nearly $2 billion in Second Installment property tax payments online."
Payments made at cookcountytreasurer.com before 11:59 p.m. on December 30 will be recorded as on time.
To make a payment or download a copy of your tax bill, visit cookcountytreasurer.com:
- Select the blue box labeled "Pay Online for Free"
- Search by property address or enter your Property Index Number
- There is no fee if you pay from your bank account
You can also pay your property tax bill:
- At any Chase Bank location
- From a checking or savings account at more than 200 participating community banks
- By mail with a U.S. postmark no later than December 30, 2022
- At the Treasurer's Office, 118 N. Clark St., Room 112, Chicago, Illinois 60602
For those who cannot pay the full amount due, partial payments are accepted. Late payments are charged 1.5 percent per month, as required by Illinois law.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — By now it’s as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A mass shooting leaves many dead, and wild conspiracy theories and misinformation about the carnage soon follow.
It happened after Sandy Hook, after Parkland, after the Orlando nightclub shooting and after the deadly rampage earlier this month at a Buffalo grocery store. Within hours of Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, another rash began as internet users spread baseless claims about the man named as the gunman and his possible motives.
Unfounded claims that the gunman was an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, or transgender, quickly emerged on Twitter, Reddit and other social media platforms. They were accompanied by familiar conspiracy theories suggesting the entire shooting was somehow staged.
The claims reflect broader problems with racism and intolerance toward transgender people, and are an effort to blame the shooting on minority groups who already endure higher rates of online harassment and hate crimes, according to disinformation expert Jaime Longoria.
“It’s a tactic that serves two purposes: It avoids real conversations about the issue (of gun violence), and it gives people who don’t want to face reality a patsy, it gives them someone to blame,” said Longoria, director of research at the Disinfo Defense League, a non-profit that works to fight racist misinformation.
In the hours after the shooting, posts falsely claiming the gunman was living in the country illegally went viral, with some users adding embellishments, including that he was “on the run from Border Patrol.”
“He was an illegal alien wanted for murder from El Salvador,” read one tweet liked and retweeted hundreds of times. “This is blood on Biden’s hands and should have never happened.”
The man who authorities say carried out the shooting, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, is a U.S. citizen, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a news conference on Tuesday.
Other social media users seized on images of innocent internet users to falsely identify them as the gunman and claim he was transgender. On the online message board 4Chan, users liberally shared the photos and discussed a plan to label the gunman as transgender, without any evidence to back it up.
One post on Twitter, which has since been deleted, featured a photo of a trans woman holding a green bottle to her mouth, looking into the camera, headphones hanging from one ear.
“BREAKING NEWS: THE IDENTITY OF THE SHOOTER HAS BEEN REVEALED,” claimed the user, saying the shooter was a “FEMBOY” with a channel on YouTube.
None of that was true. The photo actually depicted a 22-year-old trans woman named Sabrina who lives in New York City. Sabrina, who requested her last name not be published due to privacy concerns, confirmed to The Associated Press that the photo was hers and also said she was not affiliated with the purported YouTube account.
Sabrina said she received harassing responses on social media, particularly messages claiming that she was the shooter. She responded to a number of posts spreading the image with the misidentification, asking for the posts to be deleted.
“This whole ordeal is just horrifying,” Sabrina told the AP.
Another photo that circulated widely showed a transgender woman with a Coca-Cola sweatshirt and a black skirt. A second photo showed the same woman wearing a black NASA shirt with a red skirt. These photos didn’t show the gunman either — they were of a Reddit user named Sam, who confirmed her identity to the AP on Wednesday. The AP is not using Sam’s last name to protect her privacy.
“It’s not me, I don’t even live in Texas,” Sam wrote in a Reddit post.
Authorities have released no information on the gunman’s sexuality or gender identification.
Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar fit both unfounded claims about Ramos in a single now-deleted tweet that also misspelled his name. “It’s a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos,” Gosar tweeted Tuesday night.
Gosar’s office did not return a message seeking comment.
In some cases, misinformation about mass shootings or other events are spread by well-intentioned social media users trying to be helpful. In other cases, it can be the work of grifters looking to start fake fundraisers or draw attention to their website or organization.
Then there are the trolls who seemingly do it for fun.
Fringe online communities, including on 4chan, often use mass shootings and other tragedies as opportunities to sow chaos, troll the public and push harmful narratives, according to Ben Decker, founder and CEO of the digital investigations consultancy Memetica.
“It is very intentional and deliberate for them in celebrating these types of incidents to also influence what the mainstream conversations actually are,” Decker said. “There’s a nihilistic desire to prove oneself in these types of communities by successfully trolling the public. So if you are able to spearhead a campaign that leads to an outcome like this, you’re gaining increased sort of in-group credibility.”
For the communities bearing the brunt of such vicious online attacks, though, the false blame stirs fears of further discrimination and violence.
Something as seemingly innocuous as a transphobic comment on social media can spark an act of violence against a transgender person, said Jaden Janak, a PhD candidate at the University of Texas and a junior fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies.
“These children and adults who were murdered yesterday were just living their lives,” Janak said Wednesday. “They didn’t know that yesterday was going to be their last day. And similarly, as trans people, that’s a fear that we have all the time.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/horrifying-conspiracy-theories-swirl-around-texas-school-shooting/ | 2022-05-26 01:46:53 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/horrifying-conspiracy-theories-swirl-around-texas-school-shooting/ |
By JOSH FUNK
AP Business Writer
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett’s successor bought nearly $70 million worth of stock in the conglomerate he is slated to one day lead.
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Greg Abel on Monday disclosed buying 168 Class A shares in the company in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The purchases made last Thursday at prices between $405,800 and $408,514.01 per share will give Abel a small stake of 173 Class A shares in the Omaha, Nebraska-based company’s future.
His holdings pale in comparison to Buffett’s Berkshire investment. The legendary investor, who has been Berkshire’s Chairman and CEO for decades, holds 229,016 A shares and 276 B shares to give him control of more than 30% of Berkshire’s voting stock. He has been gradually giving his shares away to five foundations, with most of his donations going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Abel already oversees all of Berkshire’s noninsurance businesses, and Buffett has said that he will one day take over as CEO as part of the company’s succession plan. But the 92-year-old Buffett says he has no plans to retire.
Investors will no doubt be encouraged to see Abel buying some Berkshire shares, but this summer he sold back to the company for $870 million his stake in Berkshire’s Iowa-based utility division that he used to lead. So even after these recent purchases of Berkshire stock, he has a significantly smaller investment in Berkshire that he used to.
Edward Jones analyst Jim Shanahan said he’s glad to see Abel investing in Berkshire shares because it “demonstrates his alignment with shareholders.” But he said it’s a relatively small investment given Abel’s wealth and compared to his previous stake in Berkshire Hathaway Energy.
Berkshire owns more than 90 different companies including BNSF railroad, Geico insurance, several major utilities and an assortment of manufacturing and retail companies that includes Dairy Queen, See’s Candy, Helzberg Diamonds and Precision Castparts. Besides the companies it owns outright, Berkshire also has a sizeable investment portfolio with major stakes in iconic companies such as Apple, Coca-Cola, Bank of America and American Express.
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Navy veteran Susan Thaxton credits the military with helping her mature and become resilient. She was only one of about six women serving on one of the Navy ships she was assigned to during the late 1990s.
Thaxton says the military instilled the desire to always have a purpose. After she got out, she volunteered a lot and eventually joined the veteran nonprofit group The Mission Continues. The group helps veterans find places to serve in their communities.
“It opened my eyes up to how much I missed that, but also seeing how many veterans really miss that part of their lives too,” she said.
Now, with the critical midterm elections a month away, Thaxton has answered another call to help protect democracy as an election volunteer.
There is an estimated shortage of 130,000 poll workers ahead of the midterms.
“Our national campaign is to recruit 100,000 veterans and military family members to become the next generations of poll workers in this country,” said Anil Nathan, co-founder of We the Veterans.
The Vet the Vote campaign has already recruited some 60,000 military veterans to be trained as poll workers. It enlisted the NFL and more than two dozen other groups to help with recruitment.
Most poll workers are paid, and many counties have increased their rates to try and attract more people.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply Friday after getting hammered by data showing inflation is getting worse, not better, as investors had been hoping.
The S&P 500 was 2.7% lower in morning trading, while moves in the bond market indicated investors’ concerns are building about the economy’s strength. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 772 points, or 2.4%, at 31,500 as of 10:27 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 3.1% lower.
Wall Street came into Friday hoping a highly anticipated report on the consumer price index would show the worst inflation in generations slowed a touch last month. Instead, the U.S. government said inflation accelerated to 8.6% in May from 8.3% a month before.
The Federal Reserve has already begun raising interest rates and making other moves in order to slow the economy, in hopes of forcing down inflation. Wall Street took Friday’s reading to mean the Fed’s foot will remain firmly on the brakes for the economy, dashing hopes that it may ease up later this year.
The growing expectation in markets is for the Fed to raise its key short-term interest rate by half a percentage point at each of its next three meetings, beginning next week. That third one in September had been up for debate among investors in recent weeks. Only once since 2000 has the Fed raised rates by that much, last month.
“Inflation is hot, hot, hot,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “Basically, everything was up. No relief is in sight, but a lot can change between now and September. Nobody knows what the Fed will do in a few months including the Fed.”
A stock’s price rises and falls on two things, essentially: how much cash a company produces and how much an investor is willing to pay for it. The Fed’s moves on interest rates heavily influence that second part.
Since early in the pandemic, record-low interest rates engineered by the Fed and other central banks encouraged investors to pay higher prices for investments. Now “easy mode” is abruptly and forcefully getting switched off.
Not only that, too-aggressive rate hikes by the Fed could ultimately force the economy into a recession. Higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive, which drags on spending and investments by households and companies.
One of the fears among investors is that food and fuel costs may keep surging, regardless of how aggressively the Fed moves.
“The fact is that the Fed has very little ability to control food prices,” Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income said in a statement. He pointed instead to mismatches in supplies and demand, higher costs for energy and wages and the crisis in Ukraine, which is a major breadbasket for the world.
That raises the threat that the Fed and other central banks will ultimately overly tighten the brakes on the economy, as they push ineffectually against a string “and essentially fall into a damaging policy mistake,” Rieder said.
The economy has already shown signs of slowing, and a preliminary report on Friday said consumer sentiment may be worsening much more than economists expected. Much of the souring in the University of Michigan’s preliminary reading was due to higher gasoline prices.
That adds to several recent profit warnings from retailers indicating that U.S. shoppers are slowing or at least changing their spending because of inflation. Such spending is the heart of the U.S. economy.
The two-year Treasury yield zoomed to 2.94% following the inflation report, after touching its highest level since 2018. It’s up from 2.83% late Thursday.
The 10-year yield was also up, but not as dramatically as the two-year yield, which is more influenced by expectations for Fed movements. The 10-year yield climbed to 3.1% from 3.04%.
The narrowing gap between those two yields is a signal that investors in the bond market are more concerned about economic growth. Usually, the gap is wide, with 10-year yields higher because they require investors lock away their dollars for longer.
If the two-year yield rises above the 10-year yield, some investors see that as a red flag warning of a recession hitting in a year or two.
“A higher-than-expected CPI number seals the deal on investors’ fears,” Mike Loewengart, managing director at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley, wrote in a research note. “And though consumers may be experiencing high prices in their day-to-day, especially at the pump, it’s disappointing to see that we don’t have a lid on inflation yet, despite the Fed’s efforts.”
The S&P 500 is on track to close out its ninth losing week in the last 10.
Stocks also tumbled in Europe for a second day after the European Central Bank said it would soon raise interest rates for the first time in more than a decade to combat inflation.
Germany’s DAX lost 3%, France’s CAC fell 2.7% and the FTSE 100 in London dropped 2.3%.
In Asian trading, stocks in Shanghai rose 1.4% following news that inflation remained subdued at 2.1% in May.
With inflation below the government’s 3% target, Chinese leaders have more leeway to offer policy supports for their economy when anti-COVID restrictions may be slowing businesses.
Elsewhere in Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index lost 1.5%, while the Kospi in Seoul shed 1.1%.
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BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — Film director Paul Haggis appeared in court in southern Italy on Wednesday amid a police investigation into a woman’s allegations he had sex with her without her consent over the course of two days.
Haggis, 69, made no comment as he arrived with Italian attorney Michele Laforgia at the courthouse in Brindisi, a port town in Puglia, the region that forms the “heel” of southeastern Italy. There was no sign that members of his family who were in Italy at the time joined him.
Prosecutors announced Sunday that police had detained the Canadian-born director, screenwriter and producer for investigation of alleged aggravated sexual violence and aggravated personal injuries.
State TV and other Italian media said the alleged victim is a 30-year-old Englishwoman who had known Haggis before he came to the tourist town of Ostuni to participate in an arts festival.
Haggis co-wrote, directed and produced “Crash,” which won the 2006 Academy Awards for best picture and best screenplay. He also wrote the screenplay for “Million Dollar Baby," another Oscar winner.
He has had legal problems in recent years stemming from sexual misconduct accusations by four women in the United States.
In Italy, a judge, after hearing arguments from both prosecutors and defense lawyers, is expected to rule Wednesday on whether Haggis should be freed from custody pending possible additional investigation.
The judge could also decide to order him kept jailed or under house arrest.
Haggis’ U.S.-based attorney, Priya Chaudhry, told The Associated Press on Sunday that although she could not discuss the evidence under Italian law, “I am confident that all allegations will be dismissed against Mr. Haggis. He is totally innocent, and willing to fully cooperate with the authorities so the truth comes out quickly.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Director-Haggis-appears-in-Italy-court-amid-17257342.php | 2022-06-22 09:46:16 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Director-Haggis-appears-in-Italy-court-amid-17257342.php |
Ayanna Releford to coordinate global helpdesk support for The Wound Pros' clients
LOS ANGELES, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wound Pros has announced Ayanna Releford as its Director of Global Helpdesk Integration. The Wound Pros is the nation's leading wound care management company specializing in treating and managing chronic non-healing wounds. The company also partners with long-term care facilities to provide comprehensive wound care services, including advanced wound care dressings and skin substitutes for acute and chronic wounds, and offers wound care education for staff.
Ayanna Releford holds Bachelor's degrees in B.S. Information Systems and Spanish Literature from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Master's in Information Technology Management from Western Governors University, UT. She is also a Member of the National Honor Society of Leadership and Success, an organization based in Miami, FL. Before joining The Wound Pros in January 2023, Ayanna worked as an IT helpdesk support professional in various capacities, including Tier II systems support for PC and peripheral installation, mobile and desktop software installation, hardware troubleshooting, and logging client issues in ticketing systems. Notably, she was instrumental in assisting the Los Angeles Unified School District with deploying over 400,000 internet-enabled devices to families and employees in Los Angeles. She also provided technical support for troubleshooting connectivity issues to software installations.
As Director of Global Help Desk Integration at The Wound Pros, Ayanna Releford is responsible for creating and managing the Wound Pros Help Desk, which assists external clients in utilizing the company's services and applications, monitoring ticket volumes, and managing help desk agents. Ayanna will work closely with IT staff to troubleshoot and promptly resolve issues logged into the global IT service desk and spearhead the pioneers who will become part of the company's global service desk.
The Wound Pros is the fastest-growing wound care management company in the United States. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, and currently operates out of multiple states in the western, eastern, and southern regions, the company is on track to provide wound management services in long-term care facilities in all 50 states.
About The Wound Pros
The Wound Pros is a physician-owned and managed DME company with a vision to transform how the world treats and manages chronic wounds with data-driven decision-making and comprehensive documentation. The company incorporates AI and Machine Learning (ML) into wound care management to facilitate superior wound-healing outcomes. It uses a "high-tech" approach that leverages AI/ML for wound care standardization and improved healing outcomes and a "high-touch" approach offering human-to-human interactions for optimal customer service and quality service delivery.
The Wound Pros is an accredited supplier of Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) and a Medicare Part B provider in the US. It provides wound care services to long-term facilities nationwide, including digital wound management, mobile vascular assessment, digital supply tracking, advanced EHR, and advanced wound care dressings.
The Wound Pros is a privately held company.
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At least eight migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days of heavy rains that had resulted in particularly swift currents. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered two others, according to a CBP statement.
The agency said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody. Officials on both sides of the border continue searching for any possible victims, the CBP said.
CPB did not say what country or countries the migrants were from and did not provide any additional information on the rescue or search. Local agencies in Texas that were involved did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.
The Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000.
The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them in families with young children. About 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector in July were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CPB said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
Surveys by the U.N. International Organization for Migration and others point to rising fatalities as the number of crossing attempts have soared. In the last three decades, thousands have died attempting to enter the United States from Mexico, often from dehydration or drowning.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
03-14-21-27-32
(three, fourteen, twenty-one, twenty-seven, thirty-two)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
03-14-21-27-32
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GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said.
The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing in the food court, Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison said.
An armed civilian killed the man, Ison said at a news conference. In total, four people were killed and two were injured, he said.
Officers went to the mall at about 6 p.m. for reports of the shooting. Authorities are searching the mall for any other victims, but they believes the shooting was contained to the food court.
Police have confiscated a suspicious backpack that was in a bathroom near the food court, Ison said.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police and multiple other agencies are assisting in the investigation.
“We are sickened by yet another type of incident like this in our country,” Indianapolis Assistant Chief of Police Chris Bailey said.
Greenwood is a south suburb of Indianapolis with a population of about 60,000.
There is no active threat to the area, Bailey said.
Authorities said they would provide more details Sunday night.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s government on Monday criticized President Joe Biden’s statement that American forces would defend Taiwan if Beijing tries to invade as a violation of U.S. commitments about the self-ruled island, but gave no indication of possible retaliation.
Biden said “yes” when asked during an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS News’s “60 Minutes” program whether “U.S. forces, U.S. men and women, would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.”
The comment added to displays of official American support for the island democracy in the face of growing shows of force by the mainland’s ruling Communist Party, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory.
Without citing Biden by name, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said the “U.S. remarks” violate Washington’s commitment not to support formal independence for Taiwan, a step Beijing has said would lead to war.
“China strongly deplores and rejects it and has made solemn complaints with the U.S. side,” said the spokeswoman, Mao Ning.
CBS News reported the White House said after the interview U.S. policy hasn’t changed. That policy says Washington wants to see Taiwan’s status resolved peacefully but doesn’t say whether U.S. forces might be sent in response to a Chinese attack.
Tension is rising following efforts by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government to intimidate Taiwan by firing missiles into the nearby sea and flying fighter jets toward the island after visits to Taipei by political figures including U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Mao called on Washington to “handle Taiwan-related issues prudently” and “not to send any wrong signals” to supporters of Taiwan independence “to to avoid further damage to China-U.S. relations and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.”
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war that ended with the Communist Party in control of the mainland. The two governments say they are one country but dispute which is entitled to be the national leader.
“We will do our utmost to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the utmost sincerity, while we will not tolerate any activities aimed at splitting China and reserve the option to take all necessary measures,” Mao said.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry expressed “sincere gratitude” to Biden for “affirming the U.S. government’s rock-solid promise of security to Taiwan.”
Taiwan will “resist authoritarian expansion and aggression” and “deepen the close security partnership” with Washington and other governments “with similar thinking” to protect regional stability, the statement said.
Washington is obligated by federal law to see that Taiwan has the means to defend itself but doesn’t say whether U.S. forces would be sent. The United States has no formal relations with the island but maintains informal diplomatic ties.
The Communist Party has persuaded most foreign governments to switch official recognition to Beijing, though many maintain informal ties have extensive trade and investment relations with Taiwan. The island’s official diplomatic partners are mostly small, poor nations in Africa and Latin America.
“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China,” Mao said. “The government of the People’s Republic of China is the only legal government representing the whole of China.”
Washington says it doesn’t support formal independence for Taiwan, a stance Biden repeated in the interview broadcast Sunday.
“Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence,” the president said. “We’re not encouraging their being independent.”
In May, Biden said “yes” when asked at a news conference in Tokyo whether he was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China invaded.
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DEER ISLE, Maine — Deer Isle's waste transfer station is facing a toxic problem that could cost anywhere from a couple hundred thousand dollars to as high as $1 million.
There is a pile of lead-contaminated ash that's been building up for over 30 years, according to Deer Isle town manager Jim Fisher.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection closed the ash pile where the town had been burning demolition debris because the pile was roughly 40 times larger than state regulations, according to Fisher.
The town was ordered to remove the pile of ashes but first had to test it for toxins. Tests show its lead level is higher than the state's standard, which means it may need to be disposed of in a certified hazardous waste landfill.
Fisher said that with further testing, there is a chance parts of the pile could safely be disposed of in landfills in Maine. However, if they cannot reduce the toxicity of the ash pile, the town will need to pay to have it disposed in a hazardous waste landfill in Massachusetts or Canada.
"You try to do the right thing, and you try to save money by reducing the mass of something by burning it," Fisher said. "But it doesn't. It doesn't get rid of some of those toxics, it just concentrates them, and that's a lesson we needed to learn."
Fisher said removing the ashes will be a big budget item for next year.
"We need a good estimate. We're in the budgetary process now, but if it were 100,000, we could probably do it in one year," Fisher said. "But if it's a million, we either have to space the work out over a couple years or take a loan and pay that back over time so we don't cause property taxes to rise."
Waste transfer stations are in many Maine communities, serving as a place to sort and process material before it's sent to landfills and other facilities.
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Detective recovers $482,000 scammed from couple who were trying to buy a home
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Gray News) – A detective in California recovered $482,000 that was scammed from a couple last month, according to officials.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect impersonated a title company and successfully obtained a wire transfer from the victims as they were in the process of buying a new home.
When the victims realized they were defrauded, they immediately contacted their bank and law enforcement.
The sheriff’s office said after a thorough investigation and working with multiple financial institutions to try to intercept the wire transfer, Detective Matt Newton successfully recovered all the $482,000 that was scammed from the couple.
The sheriff’s office is commending Newton’s outstanding work.
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Three police officers were hospitalized in stable condition Wednesday evening after they were shot by a suspect during an investigation in Lincoln Heights. The suspect was found dead several hours later, police said.
The shooting took place some time after 6 p.m. near the intersection of Mission Road and North Broadway in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
Video from Sky5 showed a large perimeter set up around the scene for what appeared to be a barricaded suspect.
A police source later confirmed to KTLA that officers had been in the area as part of a felony investigation of a parolee at large. They observed the suspect walking down the alley, and then go into a residence.
Police then set up a perimeter and a police K-9 unit was called to the scene.
The suspect was located in a small room in the bottom of the main house. Officers called out to the suspect, but he refused to surrender. Eventually, tear gas was deployed and gunshots were fired, at which point the three officers were wounded.
The suspect went back into the home where he remained as additional police and SWAT teams arrived to the scene.
Around 8:10 p.m., SWAT officers could be seen approaching a home. At one point, an elderly man and a child were escorted out of the home.
An LAPD robot was visible in an alleyway behind the house and eventually made entry. Around 8:45 p.m., another round of tear gas appeared to be deployed where the man was holed up.
SWAT officers made entry shortly after, and it did not appear that the suspect was an active threat.
Right around 9:30 p.m., officials with LAPD confirmed that the suspect was dead.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore confirmed that all officers are in stable condition.
The officers suffered various injuries, including one officer who was shot in the abdomen, another who was shot in the arm and the third who was hit in the leg and midsection.
Police later confirmed that all three officers were K-9 unit officers. None of the officers’ dog partners were hurt.
Officials, including Mayor Karen Bass, updated the public outside County USC Medical Center. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/3-officers-shot-in-east-l-a-suspect-barricaded/ | 2023-03-09 13:20:35 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/3-officers-shot-in-east-l-a-suspect-barricaded/ |
A Texas woman who was set to be executed this week has been granted a stay of execution.
Melissa Lucio was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter in the South Texas town of Harlingen.
Lucio was sentenced to death in 2007, but the sentencing received pushback.
Five jurors asked the state and the governor to stop her execution and for her to get a new trial, saying they were not aware of all the facts when they convicted Lucio.
Lucio’s lawyers have also filed various legal appeals seeking to stop her execution.
They say evidence shows her daughter Mariah’s injuries were caused by a fall down a steep staircase.
Lucio was set to be executed Wednesday, but Texas Representative Jeff Leach said the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted the 52-year-old a stay of execution.
A lower court will now review Lucio’s claims that new evidence in her case would exonerate her. It was not immediately known when the lower court begin reviewing her case. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/texas-woman-on-death-row-granted-stay-2-days-before-execution-date | 2022-04-25 20:11:17 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/texas-woman-on-death-row-granted-stay-2-days-before-execution-date |
Company Strengthens International Expansion and Broadens the Availability of Continuous IV Monitoring Solutions to Strategic Markets
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ivWatch, LLC, an innovative IV safety company working to eliminate harm caused by infiltration and extravasation events, announced three new strategic distribution partnerships internationally. Bameco in Austria, Warba Medical Supplies in Kuwait, and Mustafa Sultan Science & Industry Co, LLC in Oman have each signed exclusive agreements to promote, sell, and support ivWatch's continuous monitoring products in their markets. ivWatch's novel technologies will complement and bolster their existing portfolios of intravenous products provided to hospitals and other health care facilities.
ivWatch solutions continue to be available in more countries throughout the globe and with the addition of Austria, Kuwait, and Oman, clinicians will now be able to improve their bedside decision-making with real-time IV infiltration data. Continuous IV site monitoring provides accurate and precise insights to detect infiltrations and extravasations at their earliest stages. ivWatch's proprietary algorithm detects infiltrations promptly and notifies clinicians of adverse IV therapy events often hours before they are detectable by visual or tactile examination.1
"At ivWatch, we are on a steadfast mission to improve IV safety globally and we are extremely passionate about partnering with likeminded innovators who share that same relentless pursuit to advance patient safety," said Chuck Egress, Vice President of Business Development and Emerging Markets at ivWatch. "IV infiltrations and extravasations are a major global patient safety concern, and these new partnerships provide increased access to advanced safety solutions to help end complications and improve patient outcomes in IV therapy."
ivWatch has over 60 patents worldwide and received its first FDA clearance in 2015 for its IV site monitoring system that consists of an ivWatch Patient Monitor and a reusable optical biosensor that uses visible and near-infrared light to continuously measure changes in the optical properties of the tissue near an IV insertion site. In 2020, the company expanded its portfolio of sensor solutions and received FDA clearance for a single-use, miniaturized biosensor that is cleared for all patient age groups, sizes, and skin tones. Both sensors work seamlessly with the intuitive user interface on the Patient Monitor, which issues audible and visual "Check IV" alerts for the clinician to assess the IV site. ivWatch technology performs with high accuracy, intelligence, and low false alarm rates, which is critical to improving patient outcomes.
To learn more about ivWatch, visit www.ivWatch.com or follow the Company's social media platforms for the latest updates on new continuous monitoring innovations in IV safety.
1 Doellman, D. and Rineair, S. (2019) The use of optical detection for continuous monitoring of pediatric IV sites. Journal of the Association for Vascular Access: Summer 2019, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 44-47.
About ivWatch, LLC
ivWatch, LLC is a biosensor technology company focused on improving patient safety and the effectiveness of intravenous therapy. Our dedicated and passionate team is pioneering the use of optical sensors to detect adverse IV events early to minimize the risk of injury caused by infiltrations and extravasations. Our innovative continuous monitoring IV solutions are backed by decades of clinical research and device development. To learn more, follow us on Twitter @ivWatch, Facebook @ivWatchLLC, LinkedIn @ivWatch or visit www.ivWatch.com.
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WASHINGTON — Lionel Messi has pulled off his latest stunning feat: He is headed to Major League Soccer, and joining Inter Miami.
After months — years, even — of speculation, Messi finally revealed his decision to join a Miami franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon, David Beckham, since its inception but has yet to make any real splashes on the field.
That likely will soon change. One of Inter Miami’s owners, Jorge Mas, tweeted out a photo of a darkly silhouetted Messi jersey shortly before the Argentinian great revealed his decision in interviews with Spanish news outlets Mundo Deportivo and Sport.
It was widely believed that Messi eventually would choose to play for Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia, following longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo to a nation where some clubs now are funded by the state’s sovereign wealth fund. Going back to Barcelona, a storied franchise where he spent most of his career, was another possibility.
But in the end, he made the call that surprised many. Messi is joining MLS. He said in the interviews Wednesday that some final details still need to be worked out, but that he has made the call to “continue my path” in Miami.
“After winning the World Cup and not being able to return to Barcelona, it was my turn to go to the league of the United States to live football in another way,” Messi said.
When will Messi play his first game in MLS?
He didn’t take the money. He didn’t choose the memories. He picked Miami instead. Messi’s next matches are likely to be exhibitions with Argentina against Australia on June 15 at Beijing and at Indonesia in Jakarta four days later — and then his Inter Miami debut figures to be sometime in July.
The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner — the trophy given annually to the best player in the world — makes his move after two years with Paris Saint-Germain. At 35, Messi has nothing left to prove in the game and filled the only significant unchecked box on his resume back in December by leading Argentina to the World Cup title.
Messi has more than 800 goals in his career for club and country, making him one of the greatest scorers in the sport’s history. In more than 17 years of representing Argentina on the international stage, he has scored 102 goals against 38 different national team opponents — 16 of those goals coming on U.S. soil. He scored twice in last year’s World Cup final against France, a match that officially ended 3-3 with Argentina prevailing in penalty kicks.
He has been to the absolute mountaintop of the game.
And now he comes to MLS, and a team that is struggling — last place in the Eastern Conference, just a few days removed from the firing of coach Phil Neville (who was hand-picked by Beckham two years ago).
Messi’s decision to play in the U.S. might be the biggest boost ever for American soccer on the pro stage. Some of the game’s biggest names — Pele, Thierry Henry, Beckham himself — have come to the U.S. toward the end of their careers, but landing a player still no worse than near the pinnacle of his game and just a few months removed from hoisting a World Cup is simply huge.
It took months of negotiations with MLS, the Inter Miami ownership, Adidas and even Apple getting involved in a creative pitch to bring Messi to Miami’s pitch. Apple — which is a broadcast partner of MLS — announced Tuesday that it will show a still-untitled four-part documentary series “featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes access to global superstar Lionel Messi. ... In his own words, Messi tells the definitive story of his incredible career with the Argentina national football team, providing an intimate and unprecedented look at his quest for a legacy-defining World Cup victory.”
And now, his story will have a Miami chapter.
Inter Miami needed six years from inception to playing its first match, and its first four seasons have been less than stellar.
Messi is joining a team that sits last in the Eastern Conference and just fired its coach. It has made the playoffs in two of its first three seasons but has yet to finish a season with a winning record or even a positive goal differential.
Still, there have been hints for months that Miami remained very much in the Messi sweepstakes. Messi met with Inter Miami co-owner Beckham this spring, and that was shared publicly almost to ensure that everyone knew the sides were still talking. Messi and his family also own several pieces of luxury real estate in South Florida, and — almost as if to suggest something big was coming — the MLS club told fans the only way they could get tickets for the second half of this season was to purchase a season-ticket package.
He’s an enormous draw everywhere on the globe, including Miami. Two days after Argentina won the World Cup, Miami Heat guard Kyle Lowry sat on his team’s bench for a game unable to play because of injury. He wore a Messi jersey that night.
Inter Miami still plays home matches in a temporary home in Fort Lauderdale, about 45 minutes north of the site in Miami where the team wants to build a permanent complex.
And even in an area where the population has a serious Latin flavor, and where more people might actually call the sport futbol than soccer, Inter Miami has struggled to generate the same attention as do the area’s primary pro teams — basketball’s Heat, baseball’s Miami Marlins, football’s Miami Dolphins and hockey’s Florida Panthers.
Messi could change that in an instant. In a flash, he becomes the biggest name in MLS and makes everything Miami does newsworthy.
His decision ends what has been a wild saga. Barcelona made Messi a superstar, but the financial issues that forced the team to letting him go two years ago still remain an issue.
“I heard that they'd have to sell players or lower players' salaries and the truth is, I didn't want to go through that,” Messi said Wednesday.
There are no financial issues with Saudi Arabia, and speculation that he would end up there intensified when Messi made an unauthorized trip to the kingdom. PSG suspended him and some fans turned on him, serenading him with jeers toward the end of his season with the French club.
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BEIJING, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the early summer, the Yangtze River is lush with greenery along its banks, with fish swimming in the crystal clear waters.
For a long time in the past, however, the Yangtze River scenery had been quite different. Due to overfishing and other human activities, numbers of rare and endemic species in Yangtze River waters declined, with several fish species favored for commercial purposes close to depletion.
That was until a 10-year fishing ban went into full effect on January 1, 2021. From then on, the 10-year fishing moratorium in all natural waterways along the Yangtze River came into effect, with some 231,000 fishermen handing in nearly 111,000 boats in a dozen provincial-level regions, leading to a comprehensive green transformation of the economic and social development of the Yangtze River Basin.
The 10-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River is a strategic initiative mainly aimed at restoring the ecology of the Yangtze River. We will see the results in 10 years, said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, when he inspected local efforts in improving the overall environment along the shoreline of the Yangtze River, as well as the enforcement of fishing-ban policies, in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu Province in November 2020. Nantong is a city along the Yangtze River.
The 19th Central Committee of the CPC has attached greater importance to the protection of the Yangtze River. With such a goal in place, CPC members have strengthened their responsibility and commitment to working on the frontlines in the strict implementation of the fishing-ban initiative, which is of great significance to the promotion of the Yangtze River Economic Belt green development, safeguarding the interests of people along the river, and guaranteeing national ecological security.
Forty-six-year-old Mo Hongyuan, deputy chief of the Yichang Fishery Supervision Detachment in Central China's Hubei Province, is one of the strivers. Mo's daily work is fighting illegal fishing activities and providing advice to fishermen who have returned ashore.
"As a CPC member, I feel very honored to participate in the 10-year fishing-ban campaign on China's mother river and actually see positive results," Mo told the Global Times.
Thunder Action
In order to save the life of a Yangtze finless porpoise, passage of ships along the Yichang section of China's "Golden Waterway" was halted for 12 minutes. Four months ago, the successful conclusion of a thrilling rescue operation was the most fulfilling thing Mo has done by far this year.
On February 9, Mo received a warning that a Yangtze finless porpoise was ensnared in abandoned ropes in the river. He immediately rushed to the porpoise's location while contacting the Three Gorges Navigation Command Center to request for a ship slowdown so as not to risk injury to the porpoise.
After having received emergency instructions from the command center, all the vessels waiting to cross the lock at the Gezhouba Dam on the river did not hesitate to comply.
In the end, with the coordinated efforts of Mo and members from a rescue team, it took 20 minutes to free the porpoise. According to observations made later, the porpoise also gave birth successfully in the Yangtze River.
"We all treasure the Yangtze finless porpoise, which is a unique endemic species to the Yangtze River. At present, in Yichang, people can see them. This reflects the effectiveness of the national fishing ban and other ecological management measures taken on the river in recent years," Mo said.
Mo, who had served in the PLA Air Force for 16 years, joined the CPC during a military exercise in 2000. In his eyes, party membership is synonymous with responsibility and commitment.
In 2011, Mo retired from the army and was assigned to the Yichang Fishery Supervision Detachment to take up the responsibilities of fisheries ecological environmental protection and law enforcement supervision. At the time, he was worried about the status of the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise.
Feeding on small fish and shrimp, porpoises had gradually disappeared following a sharp decline in fishery resources in the Yangtze River. Before 2015, the number of finless porpoises in the Yichang section of the Yangtze River was only two to three. But in 2018, data showed that about 1,012 Yangtze finless porpoises remained, Mo noted.
Mo said that Yichang used to be hard hit by overfishing because it is located at the junction of the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the heart of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir area. These factors, combined with an abundance of fishery resources, made it ripe for illegal fishing.
"Driven by economic interests, fishermen working illegally are highly organized and difficult to detect. However, we always take a zero-tolerance approach toward illegal fishing and never ignore any clues." he noted.
"Fisheries law enforcement is dangerous and stressful, but fortunately, our law enforcement team listens to the Party command and has a strong sense of duty and responsibility. Party members always commit to the task at hand on frontline," Mo noted.
The day before his interview with the Global Times, Mo had just concluded a nighttime patrol mission.
In June, which is fish breeding season, fish go near the shore to spawn where a handful of criminals lurk. Mo said that at present, their law enforcement team works on a 24-hour rotating duty schedule, and not only conducts patrols along the river , but also carries out unannounced inspections and visits to restaurants that sell freshwater fish.
Since 2018, Yichang has taken the lead in banning fishing and in setting up a natural reserve for the Chinese sturgeon. Mo has dealt with 39 cases of illegal fishing and has seized 347 kilograms of illegally caught fish.
Mo said that the central government's fishing-ban policies not only took out a thunderous force, but also consolidated the results with a series of long-term scientific regulatory mechanism.
"The central government has integrated maritime, public security, river waterway and market supervision authorities to establish a round-the-clock, full coverage law enforcement and supervision network, demonstrating China's determination to ban overfishing and forming a strong deterrent," he said.
Extensive mobilization
Through the joint efforts of the provinces and municipalities along the river and the relevant departments, the current Yangtze River fishing ban has achieved phased results.
Mo and his teammates realized that their next stage's work should to be carried out to a higher standard.
"From regulating fishing activities in natural waterways to ensuring the resettlement of fishermen, all aspects of the work have to be meticulously implemented to achieve an increase in fish stocks, better water quality, and people's greater happiness," Mo said.
In Mo's view, the resolute implementation of the 10-year fishing ban along the Yangtze River reflects the courage and boldness of the CPC rather than a series of arbitrary, one-size-fits-all initiatives.
Mo noted that since 2016, agricultural authorities in Yichang have carried out several surveys of fishing-ban measures to better understand the sentiments and urgent needs of fishermen, which has laid a foundation for local fishermen to transition to work on land after giving up fishing.
By the end of March 2022, Hubei Province had raised 5.885 billion yuan ($874 million) in compensation and subsidies for those who have quit fishing. At the same time, through employment services, skills training, entrepreneurial support, and other initiatives, 23,396 fishermen have made a successful switch to other fields of work.
Some of the retired fishermen were recruited as river rangers, with each person receiving an additional government subsidy of 10,000 yuan a year.
"I was once worried about how the livelihoods of these fishermen would be secured after they have given up fishing, because the reality of survey results in some areas showed that more than half of the fishermen had less than a junior high school education. But now that I see them living and working happily, I am glad that the starting point and the foothold of the ruling Party's policies are the interests of the people," Mo said.
Mo believes the 10-year fishing ban is a publicity campaign, in which monitoring is the main objective, but the change in public opinion is key.
In order to get more people to join the ranks in protecting the Yangtze River. Mo often distributes brochures in the community to disseminate information on the dangers that illegal fishing could cause to the ecology of the Yangtze River. With calls from people like Mo, more and more enterprises, organizations, and individuals are joining the fishing-ban campaign. Straw Circle and The Three Gorges Antworks Team are two of them.The Straw Circle, an NGO, has long been committed to protecting the Yangtze finless porpoise, and The Three Gorges Antworks Team has regularly organized volunteers to clean up garbage from both sides of the river.
Mo, and millions of other Chinese people who care about the Yangtze River, are confident about the future ecological restoration effect.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican court convicted two environmental activists of aggravated damage Monday and ordered them to pay more than 28,000 euros (US$30,000) in restitution after they glued their hands to the base of an ancient statue in the Vatican Museums in a protest to draw attention to climate change.
The two members of the Last Generation environmental activist group, Guido Viero and Ester Goffi, also received a nine-month suspended sentence and were fined 1,620 euros apiece. A third activist on trial with them, Laura Zorzini, was fined 120 euros.
The trial stemmed from an Aug. 18 protest in the Vatican Museums, during which Viero and Goffi glued their hands to the base of the Laocoon statue, one of the most important ancient works in the collection that is believed to date from the 1st century B.C. They hung up a banner reading “Last Generation: No gas and no carbon,” as Zorzini filmed them.
Their action was part of a wave of Last Generation and related activist protests around Europe that have targeted museums and other cultural institutions, tied up traffic for days and otherwise caused disruptions in a bid to draw attention to what the activists say is the failure of governments to take action to fight climate change.
In closing arguments, the lawyer for the Vatican City State accused the defendants of exploiting Pope Francis’ known concern for the environmental cause by causing “inestimable” damage to a piece of the world’s artistic and cultural patrimony.
Attorney Floriana Gigli said Viero and Goffi knew their protest would damage the artwork, citing their decision to glue their hands to the base, not the statue itself, and yet never expressed regret at the damage caused.
None of the defendants was in the Vatican criminal tribunal for the verdicts.
During the previous hearing May 24, Viero and Goffi told the court they never intended to damage the statue, but also strongly defended their cause. Viero told the court he felt an obligation as a father and grandfather to draw attention to Italy’s failure to halt global warming. Goffi, for her part, recalled she had brought a glue solvent in her purse, but Vatican restorers used a different acetone-based substance to unglue their hands.
Vatican Prosecutor Catia Summaria had asked for convictions: she sought a sentence of two years and a fine of 3,000 euros apiece for Viero and Goffi and a sentence of one month for Zorzini. But she said if the court decided on suspended sentences, the defendants should be ordered to repay the full cost of the damage to the statue.
Gigli said the actual cost was impossible to estimate given the statue is a priceless artwork and is permanently damaged. She asked the court for an appraisal to come up with a figure, saying the restoration work alone had cost 3,148 euros.
In the end, the court quantified the restitution owed to the Vatican City State at 28,148 euros. There was no immediate word on an appeal.
During the last hearing, the head of the Vatican Museums’ marble restoration laboratory, Guy Devreux, said the damage to the base was ultimately less than he had anticipated but was nevertheless permanent. He stressed that the marble base of the statute was “absolutely” to be considered an “integral part of the work.”
Last Generation has said it targeted the Laocoon statue, which is believed to have been carved in Rhodes in 40-30 B.C., because of the symbolic story behind it. According to legend and the Vatican Museums’ own website, Laocoon warned his fellow Trojans against accepting the wooden horse left by the Greeks during the Trojan War. The group said the climate crisis is the modern-day warning that is being unheeded by political leaders. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/vatican-court-convicts-climate-activists-for-damaging-statue-fines-them-more-than-28000-euros/ | 2023-06-12 20:44:38 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/vatican-court-convicts-climate-activists-for-damaging-statue-fines-them-more-than-28000-euros/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, anchors at the afternoon extension of ABC's “Good Morning America,” are leaving the network after their romance was reported in November.
The pair were taken off the air and placed on temporary hiatus after photos surfaced of them holding hands and spending time together. Both were married to other people at the time but had separated.
“After several productive conversations with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, about different options, we all agreed it’s best for everyone that they move on from ABC News,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement. “We recognize their talent and commitment over the years and are thankful for their contributions.”
In a memo sent to network staff at the time, network president Kim Godwin announced the anchors would remain off the air pending the results of an internal review. She called the romance a “distraction.” | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/tv-anchors-t-j-holmes-amy-robach-leave-abc-amid-17748399.php | 2023-01-28 19:54:20 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/tv-anchors-t-j-holmes-amy-robach-leave-abc-amid-17748399.php |
2023 RBC Canadian Open Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 2
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NEW YORK (AP) — WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier are starting a new women’s basketball league to give top players another option to play in the U.S. in the offseason once the league’s prioritization rules go into effect next year.
The new league, which is called Unrivaled, will run from January through March and have 30 of the top women’s players playing on six teams. Instead of the traditional 5-on-5 game, the teams will play 3-on-3 and 1-on-1 at a custom-built soundstage in Miami.
The league was first reported by ESPN.
“We remain committed to the WNBA, however there’s a problem that exists, which is players having to choose whether to play overseas to maximize earnings in the winter or stay home with family. We’ve decided to create our own solution,” Collier tweeted.
The hope is to raise enough funding to pay players roughly what they make during the WNBA season to help offset the money they’d be losing out on by not playing overseas in the offseason. The maximum base salary for WNBA players is just over $230,000. Players like Stewart have earned more than a million dollars playing overseas in the past.
“Every initial player will receive equity ownership within the league and earn salaries that are competitive to the WNBA,” Collier said. “We do plan on expanding.”
Collier said the new league will play on shortened full courts with more spacing, more scoring and shorter games.
The prioritization rules were part of the collective bargaining agreement that was ratified in 2020 and requires players to return from their international teams by the start of WNBA training camps or else not be able to play in the league’s season. Overseas seasons often run through the middle of May, conflicting with the WNBA calendar.
Unrivaled would join Athletes Unlimited as a domestic offseason option for women’s basketball players. AU has 44 players in its league and is set to begin its third season next year.
“I think the future is bright,” said Megan Perry, who was announced Thursday as AU’s head of sport. “The more opportunities they have to play the better it is. I don’t think we could be anything but excited about the new opportunities that exist domestically for women’s basketball. You look at the overall landscape of women’s basketball in the global community — it’s good for the game and speaks to the demand that exists. There’s room for everyone at the table.”
Both Stewart and Collier have played overseas in their careers. Collier stopped after giving birth to her first child last year. Stewart’s wife, Marta Xargay, is expecting their second child in the fall.
“Stewie & I both have daughters. It’s our responsibility to show them & every young girl that looks up to us that sometimes you don’t have to wait your turn,” Collier tweeted. “You can either beg for a seat at the table or you can build your own table. We’re building our own table.”
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians experienced a near-total internet blackout on Wednesday amid days of mass protests against the government over the death of a woman held by the country’s morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code.
An Iranian official had earlier hinted that such measures might be taken out of security concerns. The loss of connectivity will make it more difficult for people to organize protests and share information about the government’s rolling crackdown on dissent.
Iran has seen nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained for allegedly wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf too loosely. Demonstrators have clashed with police and called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself, even as Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
The protests continued for a fifth day on Wednesday, including in the capital, Tehran. Police there fired tear gas at protesters who chanted “death to the dictator,” and “I will kill the one who killed my sister,” according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
London-based rights group Amnesty International said security forces have used batons, birdshot, tear gas, and water cannons to disperse protesters. It reported eight deaths linked to the unrest, including four people killed by security forces. It said hundreds more have been wounded.
Iranian officials have reported three deaths, blaming them on unnamed armed groups.
Witnesses in Iran, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said late Wednesday they could no longer access the internet using mobile devices.
“We’re seeing internet service, including mobile data, being blocked in Iran in the past couple of hours,” Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, Inc., a network intelligence company, said late Wednesday.
“This is likely an action by the government given the current situation in the country,” he said. “I can confirm a near total collapse of internet connectivity for mobile providers in Iran.”
NetBlocks, a London-based group that monitors internet access, had earlier reported widespread disruptions to both Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook parent company Meta, which owns both platforms, said it was aware that Iranians were being denied access to internet services. “We hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly,” it said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Isa Zarepour was quoted by state media as saying that certain restrictions might be imposed “due to security issues,” without elaborating.
Iran already blocks Facebook, Telegram, Twitter and YouTube, even though top Iranian officials use public accounts on such platforms. Many Iranians get around the bans using virtual private networks, known as VPNs, and proxies.
In a separate development, several official websites, including those for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the presidency and the Central Bank, were taken down at least briefly as hackers claimed to have launched a cyberattack on state agencies.
Hackers linked to the shadowy Anonymous movement said they targeted other Iranian state agencies, including state TV.
Central Bank spokesman Mostafa Qamarivafa denied that the bank itself was hacked, saying only that the website was “inaccessible” because of an attack on a server that hosts it, in remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency. The website was later restored.
Iran has been the target of several cyberattacks in recent years, many by hackers expressing criticism of its theocracy. Last year, a cyberattack crippled gas stations across the country, creating long lines of angry motorists unable to get subsidized fuel for days. Messages accompanying the attack appeared to refer to the supreme leader.
Amini’s death has sparked protests across the country. The police say she died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account, saying she had no previous heart issues and that they were prevented from seeing her body.
In a phone interview with BBC Persian on Wednesday her father, Amjad Amini, accused authorities of lying about her death. Each time he was asked how he thinks she died, the line was mysteriously cut.
The U.N. human rights office says the morality police have stepped up operations in recent months and resorted to more violent methods, including slapping women, beating them with batons and shoving them into police vehicles.
President Joe Biden, who also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, voiced support for the protesters, saying “we stand with the brave citizens and the brave women of Iran, who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
The U.K. also released a statement Wednesday calling for an investigation into Amini’s death and for Iran to “respect the right to peaceful assembly.”
Raisi has called for an investigation into Amini’s death. Iranian officials have blamed the protests on unnamed foreign countries that they say are trying to foment unrest.
Iran has grappled with waves of protests in recent years, mainly over a long-running economic crisis exacerbated by Western sanctions linked to its nuclear program.
The Biden administration and European allies have been working to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, in which Iran curbed its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, but the talks have been deadlocked for months.
In his speech at the U.N., Raisi said Iran is committed to reviving the nuclear agreement but questioned whether it could trust America’s commitment to any accord.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — This U.S. Open is not to be mistaken as “Golf, But Louder” on so many levels.
Mostly the loud part.
Bringing the second-oldest championship in golf to Los Angeles Country Club — so exclusive that some Angelenos don’t know it’s there — was always going to come with a cost. It’s a small footprint in the rotation of U.S. Open courses, meaning a small crowd compared with the likes of Oakmont or Pinehurst No. 2.
The North course is magnificent, even if it doesn’t look to be a traditional U.S. Open. With a blazing sun in the forecast for the weekend, the players likely will get what they’ve been expecting since they arrived — firm, fast and demanding.
Missing is the noise.
Defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick discovered as much when he made his first hole-in-one as a professional Friday at the par-3 15th hole.
“I wish it would have been louder,” Fitzpatrick said. “I wish it was a few more people. But, yeah, I’m surprised there’s not been as many people out as I thought this week.”
It could be like going to a game at Dodgers Stadium, which has a reputation of fans not arriving until the third inning. The weekend might be a better gauge.
Then again, the USGA allotted only 22,000 tickets, the majority of those going to corporates and club members. The estimate on public sales was around 8,000 of that stash.
That’s the trade-off of going small, with few regrets from the USGA if it means a quality course, such as The Country Club last year in Brookline, Massachusetts, in the Boston suburbs.
“We think about U.S. Opens over a five-year period,” said Mike Whan, the CEO of the USGA. “If you only thought about the U.S. Open every year — like how much revenue you make, what’s the biggest bank — we probably wouldn’t go to smaller footprints. All those we control how many folks get on because the experience would be pretty tough.”
Whan said the USGA determined 22,000 would be the right fit — in hindsight, he said, it could have gone up to 25,000. That might be the case when the U.S. Open returns to LACC in 2039.
“But this isn’t a 35,000 opportunity,” he said.
The numbers, however, aren’t really the issue for this U.S. Open. That’s not what has kept the volume turned down, and it’s especially noticeable at the end. The U.S. Open champion will be crowned on Sunday afternoon, and the question is how many people will be able to say years later, “I was there.”
It’s tight behind and around the 18th. The small grandstand directly behind the 18th green is for special ticket holders. There’s a tiny deck above that for those even more special.
And there’s no room on either side. To the right of the 18th green is the ninth green — they are separated by 22 yards, with the 10th tee in the middle. To the left is the putting green, part of which serves as the first tee and the early portion of the fairway.
What the public gets is a small grandstand with 189 sets to the left of the ninth green. That’s part of a complex that does have 972 seats in a grandstand to the right of the 18th green, more removed than at most courses.
“Given that 1, 9 and 18 all come together in front of the clubhouse with little space between the holes, combined with the slope and barranca, it was very difficult to accommodate a large grandstand,” the USGA said in a statement, anticipating such observations.
The USGA is contemplating a plan to allow spectators to line the 18th fairway well back of the green — think of a British Open, or the Tour Championship when Tiger Woods won in 2018. That can only happen if officials are assured there won’t be a playoff.
It’s not just the area behind and around the 18th. The barranca running through LACC, and a few of the bridges over it, create pinch points that keep the gallery some hundreds of yards from the green.
The route from the eighth green to the ninth tee boxes goes next to the 16th green, and in front of the tee box at the 17th. The crowd has to go around.
There’s that other fact of the massive hospitality structure down the right side of the first fairway, with two smaller marquees. With more tickets sold to the corporate side than the public, it’s convenient to stay in the boxes for much of the day to watch on TV, much like some corporate boxes at football and baseball games.
Big crowds don’t always lead to big noise. Chambers Bay in 2015 and Erin Hills in 2017 were on massive pieces of property, but the fans were so far removed on parts of the course that it was hard for fans to feel part of the action.
It all leads to a quiet U.S. Open compared with others, the trade-off for being at a gem like LACC on the edge of Beverly Hills.
But at least the noise will be from cheers, not from a speaker system playing music.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 29
The Boston Red Sox (56-47) carry a five-game winning streak into a road matchup versus the San Francisco Giants (56-48) at 7:15 PM ET on Saturday.
The probable starters are James Paxton (6-2) for the Red Sox and Ryan Walker (3-0) for the Giants.
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- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Paxton - BOS (6-2, 3.46 ERA) vs Walker - SF (3-0, 2.70 ERA)
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Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: James Paxton
- The Red Sox will send Paxton (6-2) to the mound for his 13th start this season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Saturday, when he gave up two earned runs and allowed three hits in six innings against the New York Mets.
- The 34-year-old has an ERA of 3.46 and 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings, with a batting average against of .198 in 12 games this season.
- He has seven quality starts in 12 chances this season.
- Paxton has made nine starts of five or more innings in 12 chances this season, and averages 5.4 frames when he pitches.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 12 chances this season.
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Giants Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Ryan Walker
- Walker (3-0 with a 2.70 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 33 1/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Giants, his seventh of the season.
- In his last appearance on Thursday, the right-hander went 2 2/3 scoreless innings against the Oakland Athletics while surrendering one hit.
- In 24 games this season, the 27-year-old has an ERA of 2.70, with 10.3 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .250 against him.
- Walker has yet to notch a quality start so far this season.
- Walker has not pitched five or more innings in a start this season (in six starts). He averages 1.4 per outing.
- He has had 17 appearances this season that he kept his opponents to zero earned runs.
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A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee is demanding that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram address allegations of improper hiring and contracting of her past associates.
The request Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa follows an Associated Press investigation finding that a federal watchdog is investigating whether strict federal rules on no-bid contracting and hiring may have been violated to channel DEA work to Milgram's associates.
“These are serious allegations, and DEA must respond to them and clear the air,” Grassley wrote in a letter sent to Milgram's office, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.
The scrutiny by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector Genera comes as the DEA is struggling with repeated revelations of agent misconduct and a fentanyl crisis claiming more than 100,000 overdose deaths a year that Milgram has called the “deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced.”
The DEA didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter. But Milgram's boosters inside and outside the agency have defended her actions as part of an ongoing effort to clean house, recruit talented individuals and pursue innovative ways to protect national security and the health of the American people.
Much of Grassley's five-page letter focuses on a $1.4 million no-bid contract to a Washington law firm for a recent review of the DEA’s scandal-plagued foreign operations that he criticized for giving short shrift to agent misconduct and how to prevent it. That review was co-authored by Boyd Johnson, former right-hand man to one of Milgram’s closest friends, Preet Bharara, when he was U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. Bharara himself landed at the firm, WilmerHale, even as the review was being conducted.
“The report by all measures fell well short of the mark, spending most of its scant 49 pages citing publicly-available sources or the DEA's operations manuals,” Grassley wrote, demanding that Milgram provide any correspondence with WilmerHale where DEA issued instructions or suggested edits of the report. “Rather than answering the questions we had, this only raises new ones.”
Grassley, who is also co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. said his office had received “multiple credible allegations” from whistleblowers of irregular hiring that point to possible waste of federal resources as well as conflicts of interests among DEA leadership.
Among them, he cites a nearly $400,000 no-bid award for data analytics to Jose Cordero, a former law enforcement official who worked closely with Milgram when she served as New Jersey attorney general more than a decade ago. DEA awarded The Cordero Group a contract within three weeks of Milgram being confirmed by the Senate to head the agency on the basis of Cordero's record designing public safety strategies with rigorous crime data analysis.
“These do not appear to be skills that are possessed by only one company, which demands explanation of why the contract was awarded outside the normal bidding process required by law,” Grassley wrote.
The Iowa Republican is also looking at whether Milgram or anyone else from the DEA directed contractors to specifically hire specific subcontractors, including a New York City publicist and a former Democratic congressional staffer who Milgram knew from a public safety project she helped run in Indianapolis while teaching at New York University's law school.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of certain Waste Management redeemable senior notes between February 13, 2020 and June 23, 2020.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 8, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Waste Management, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the U.S. Department of Justice had indicated to Waste Management that it would require Waste Management to divest significantly more assets than the $200 million indicated in the merger agreement between the Company and Advanced Disposal Services; (ii) as a result, the merger would not be completed by July 14, 2020, the end date under the merger agreement; and (iii) the Waste Management redeemable senior notes would be subject to mandatory redemption at 101% of par.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Waste Management you have until August 8, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Waste Management securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CIT, a division of First Citizens Bank, today announced that its Power and Energy business arranged $88 million in financing for a 173-megawatt stand-alone merchant battery storage facility in Texas.
The borrower, Wolf Tank Storage, is an affiliate of Aypa Power Development, which develops, owns and operates numerous utility-scale energy storage and hybrid renewable energy projects that assist in the decarbonization of the electrical grid. Aypa Power is a portfolio company of Blackstone Inc.
Located in Webb County, Texas, the Wolf Tank Storage project will support the delivery of dependable electricity supply in the south region of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Construction is already under way and completion is expected in the first quarter of 2023. Siemens Financial Services participated as joint lead arranger in the financing.
"Battery storage is an increasingly valuable component of the electricity generation mix, facilitating the integration of renewable power generation into the electric grid, ensuring dependable electricity flow," said Marc Atlas, Chief Financial Officer of Apya Power. "We appreciated CIT's agility and expertise in arranging financing for the Wolf Tank Storage project."
"Apya Power is a premier developer and operator of successful battery energy storage systems (BESS) across the United States," said Mike Lorusso, managing director and group head for CIT's Power and Energy business. "We are pleased to finance this innovative project that will support renewable power generation and help sustain reliable power in the South Texas market."
CIT's Power and Energy business is widely recognized as a pioneer and leader in the financing of battery energy storage systems and renewable power projects. It consistently ranks among the leading arrangers of secured financing for U.S.-based renewable energy projects, according to data compiled by Inframation, an Acuris company.
Power and Energy, part of CIT's Commercial Finance division, leverages its deep industry knowledge and expertise to offer comprehensive financing solutions for renewable and conventional power generation. The unit manages a large, diverse portfolio that includes investments in all asset classes across the energy sector.
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CIT is a division of First Citizens Bank, the largest family-controlled bank in the United States, continuing a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. Parent company, First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $100 billion in assets. The company's commercial banking segment brings a wide array of best-in-class lending, leasing and banking services to middle-market companies and small businesses from coast to coast. First Citizens also operates a nationwide direct bank and a network of more than 600 branches in 22 states, many in high-growth markets. Industry specialists bring a depth of expertise that helps businesses and individuals meet their specific goals at every stage of their financial journey. Discover more at cit.com/firstcitizens.
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For kids who enjoy nature as well as creating artwork, Georgia’s 17th annual Youth Birding Competition invites resident children and teens to celebrate birds through a T-shirt art contest.
SOCIAL CIRCLE – For kids who enjoy nature as well as creating artwork, Georgia’s 17th annual Youth Birding Competition invites resident children and teens to celebrate birds through a T-shirt art contest.
A winner will be picked from each of four age categories: primary (pre-K-second grades), elementary (third-fifth), middle school (sixth-eighth) and high school. One winner will be awarded the grand prize: Their artwork will appear on the 2023 Youth Birding Competition T-shirt, and they’ll receive a $100 Amazon gift card. The three other winners each will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.
Entering is easy. Participants must draw or paint a native Georgia bird that has not been previously featured on a Youth Birding Competition T-shirt (more details at georgiawildlife.com/YBCTshirtArtContest). Artwork must be flat (not 3D) and may be created on paper or canvas. To enter the contest, email a full-frame JPG photo (from a camera or smartphone) of the artwork by March 13 to Linda.May@dnr.ga.gov.
Be sure to provide the participant’s name, school, age, grade level, city, phone number and e-mail address, and the species name of the bird depicted in the artwork.
The illustrated bird must be a wild species that is native to Georgia. Artwork of exotic or domesticated species (such as European starlings, pigeons, yellow ducks, peacocks and parrots) will be disqualified. Draw or paint the bird’s features as accurately as possible. A simple background that provides habitat context is good to include, but make sure the bird stands out well and is the focus of the artwork. Also keep in mind that deep, contrasting colors scan best for a T-shirt.
Only one entry per person is allowed, and it must be the entrant's original artwork. Participation in the Youth Birding Competition, scheduled for April 2023, is encouraged but not required to submit artwork for the T-shirt Art Contest.
In the 2023 Youth Birding Competition, teams will try to see or hear as many bird species as possible throughout Georgia in a 24-hour period during the contest dates. Details, including how to register a team, will be posted later this year at georgiawildlife.com/YBC. Contact competition coordinator Tim Keyes at (912) 262-3191 or tim.keyes@dnr.ga.gov for additional information.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Fighting raged in Sudan on Tuesday hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect, as forces loyal to dueling generals battled for key locations in the capital and accused each other of violating the cease-fire.
The humanitarian truce came after days of intense efforts by top diplomats on four continents and had raised hopes of sparing Africa’s third largest country from civil war. But each side still appeared determined to vanquish the other, despite the suffering of millions of civilians trapped by the fighting.
Residents said they still heard gunfire and explosions in different parts of the capital, Khartoum, particularly around the military’s headquarters and the Republican Palace. They said few people had ventured out, though there were crowds outside some bakeries.
“The fighting remains underway,” Atiya Abdulla Atiya of the Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate told The Associated Press. “We are hearing constant gunfire.”
Sudanese in the capital and in other cities have been hiding in their homes, caught in the crossfire as rival forces pounded residential areas with artillery and airstrikes and engaged in gunbattles outside. Residents say dead bodies in the streets are unreachable because of clashes, with the toll likely to be far higher than the 185 dead reported by the U.N. since fighting began Saturday.
The conflict between the armed forces, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, has once again derailed Sudan’s transition to democratic rule after decades of dictatorship and civil war.
Pro-democracy groups and political parties had recently reached an agreement with the two generals — who jointly led a 2021 coup — but it was never signed and is now in tatters.
The RSF immediately accused the military of violating the cease-fire after it came into effect at 6 p.m. local time (1600 GMT). The army said the “rebellious militia” continued its attacks around the military headquarters and launched a failed attack on a military base to the south.
Atiya said the Fadil Hospital in Khartoum was hit by shelling after the truce took effect, damaging a medical gas pipeline and water systems. It’s one of at least 12 hospitals in and around the capital that have been forced to shut down because of the fighting, out of a total of around 20.
The U.S. Embassy said late Tuesday that there has been “ongoing” fighting in Khartoum and surrounding areas, and advised Americans in Sudan to shelter in place. It said there were no immediate plans for a government-coordinated evacuation.
Over the past day, fighters in Khartoum attacked a U.S. Embassy convoy and stormed the home of the EU envoy to Sudan, though neither attack caused casualties. The convoy of clearly marked U.S. Embassy vehicles was attacked Monday, and preliminary reports link the assailants to the RSF, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters.
Blinken spoke by phone late Monday separately with both generals, seeking a 24-hour halt in fighting as a foundation for a longer truce and return to negotiations. Egypt, which backs the Sudanese military, and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have close ties to the RSF, have also been calling on all sides to stand down.
Dagalo said in a series of tweets Tuesday that he had approved a 24-hour humanitarian truce after speaking to Blinken. The military initially said the coming hours would bring the “crushing defeat” of the RSF and only publicly committed to the truce after it began.
Shortly before the start of the cease-fire, a coalition of political parties and pro-democracy groups said it received “positive positions” from leaders of the military and the RSF on the daylong humanitarian pause. It said in a statement that discussions were underway to “solidify that truce.”
More tanks and armored vehicles belonging to the military rolled into Khartoum early Tuesday, heading toward the military’s headquarters and the Republican Palace, residents said. During the night, fighter jets swooped overhead and anti-aircraft fire lit up the sky.
Each side already has tens of thousands of troops distributed around Khartoum and the city of Omdurman on the opposite bank of the Nile River. Terrified residents trapped in their homes for days have hoped for a halt long enough at least to get supplies or move to safer areas. The fighting erupted suddenly at the start of the last week of the Islamic holy month of fasting, Ramadan.
“We are trying to take advantage of Ramadan to try to continue our faith and prayer,” said Mohammed Al Faki, one of 89 students and staffers trapped in the engineering building at Khartoum University. “We are trying to help each other stay patient until this crisis is over.”
One student was killed by a sniper, he said, and they buried his body on the campus. The students and staff have had to go out for supplies occasionally, risking harassment by RSF fighters battling troops nearby, he said.
“They are attacking us on the streets. They are looting. If you are walking, they will take even your phone from you in the street,” the 19-year-old student said of the RSF.
U.N. figures have put the toll from fighting at more than 185 dead and 1,800 wounded, without providing a breakdown of civilians and combatants. The Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate said Tuesday that at least 144 civilians were killed and more than 1,400 wounded but that many dead could still not be reached to be counted.
Videos posted online Tuesday showed Souq al-Bahri, a large outdoor market in northern Khartoum, in flames from nearby clashes. Satellite images from Maxar Technologies taken Monday showed damage across Khartoum, including to security service buildings. Tanks stood guard at a bridge over the White Nile River and other locations.
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC, also taken Monday, showed some 20 damaged civilian and military aircraft at Khartoum International Airport, which has a military section. Some had been completely destroyed, with one still belching smoke. At the El Obeid and Merowe air bases, north and south of Khartoum, several fighter jets were among the destroyed aircraft.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, tweeted Monday that the EU ambassador to Sudan “was assaulted in his own residency,” without providing further details.
A Western diplomat in Cairo said the residence was ransacked by armed men in RSF uniforms. No one was hurt but the armed men stole several items, said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Early on Sunday, the Norwegian ambassador’s residence was hit by a shell, causing damage but no injuries, Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said.
The fighting is the latest chapter in Sudan’s turmoil since a popular uprising four years ago helped depose long-time autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Burhan and Dagalo jointly orchestrated an October 2021 coup, derailing efforts to enshrine a civilian government. Both generals have a long history of human rights abuses, and their forces have cracked down on pro-democracy activists.
Under international pressure, Burhan and Dagalo recently agreed to a framework agreement with political parties and pro-democracy groups. But the signing was repeatedly delayed as tensions rose over the integration of the RSF into the armed forces and the future chain of command — tensions that exploded into violence Saturday. ___ Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Fay Abuelgasim in Beirut, Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Matthew Lee in Karuizawa, Japan, contributed to this report. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/us-diplomatic-convoy-attacked-in-sudan-amid-new-truce-appeal/ | 2023-04-18 22:06:50 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/us-diplomatic-convoy-attacked-in-sudan-amid-new-truce-appeal/ |
MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. – A 35-year-old Stuart man whose body was found on Hutchinson Island likely died due to an accident, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
According to the sheriff’s office, an early-morning beachgoer called for help after they spotted part of the body sticking out of sand on the beach south of the House of Refuge on Hutchinson Island.
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Deputies said it appeared as though the man died hours earlier from asphyxia due to being trapped under the sand.
According to the sheriff’s office, no foul play was evident, and it appears the man was resting beneath a sand dune while taking video of a sunrise when the dune collapsed — trapping him underneath.
Investigators said they are waiting on toxicology tests, though they expect the tests to confirm the incident being a “tragic accident.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As Diana Cojocari, the mother of missing 11-year-old girl Madalina Cojocari, made her first appearance in court Tuesday before a judge, a new court document reveals new and conflicting details in the investigation.
Court document: Parents had a fight before the disappearance
Diana Cojocari told investigators she last saw her daughter inside their Cornelius, North Carolina, home on the night of Wed., Nov. 23 around 10 p.m., according to the arrest report seen Tuesday in court. The date is consistent with information previously made public by investigators. What was learned publically for the first time Tuesday is that Diana Cojocari claimed she and her husband, Christopher Palmiter, had an argument that night after they went to bed.
In interviews with authorities, both Diana Cojocari and Palmiter told investigators he left for Michigan after the argument, according to the document. Although Diana appears to have told officials he left early the next morning, and he allegedly told them he left that same night, both individuals told authorities he made the trip to "pick up items."
Palmiter, who is Madalina's stepfather, told authorities he did not see his stepdaughter the night of the argument, according to the document. Rather he claims he last saw her a week prior.
School officials seek answers
Madalina was last seen exiting a Bailey Middle School school bus on Monday, Nov. 21 around 5 p.m. according to a video released on Dec. 20 by the Charlotte field office for the FBI. After Madalina repeatedly did not show up to class again at Bailey Middle School, the school resource officer and school counselor went to the girl's home on Dec. 12, the arrest sheet explained. The school officials documented that no one answered the door.
On Wednesday, Dec. 14, the school resource officer called Diana Cojocari to request an in-person meeting, the document explains. The mother allegedly told the counselor during that meeting she would appear the next day at the school with her daughter.
North Carolina state law requires school districts to alert the district attorney or Department of Social Services if a child has 10 unexcused absences in a year. The policy is enacted when parents haven't made a good-faith effort to bring the child to school.
School resource officer interviews mother, stepfather
When Diana Cojocari arrived at the school the following day, she did not have Madalina with her, according to the document. In that meeting, the mother revealed for the first time she noticed the girl was missing from her bedroom on Nov. 24 around 11:30 a.m. the morning after the fight with Palmiter, according to the document.
While it had been 22 days since she last saw her daughter, the documentation indicates neither Cojocari nor Palmiter reported Madalina missing until this meeting with the school resource officer.
In the interview with Diana Cojocari at the school, the mother claimed she waited until Sat, Nov. 26, the day Palmiter allegedly returned from Michigan, before asking him about the whereabouts of Madalina. The mother claimed Palmiter said he did not know where the girl was.
Diana Cojocari allegedly told the school resource officer she had not reported the girl missing because she was "worried it might start a 'conflict' between her and Christopher," the document says.
Upon the request of the school resource officer, Palmiter came to the school the same day for an interview.
In his interview, Palmiter also said he did not know the whereabouts of the girl, according to the documentation. He claimed he spoke to his wife several times over the three-week period Madalina was missing. He claimed during those conversations he asked his wife about the girl but Diana repeatedly claimed she did not know the girl's whereabouts, according to the document.
Palmiter alleged both he and his wife asked each other if they had "hidden Madalina," according to the documentation. Both told the other they had not, according to the summary of Palmiter's interview.
Madalina’s disappearance raised questions about if the school followed protocol.
“After that many weeks of not being there… what are the school protocols, what are their policy for reporting that, and should we have stronger measures in place,” said concerned resident Kristi Evatt.
CMS would not comment specifically on the case. However, a spokesperson said after 10 unexcused absences schools request a meeting with the family. If the family is not responsive they will attempt a wellness check.
Appearing before the court
In court Tuesday, Diana Cojocari, who had been arrested along with Palmiter on Dec. 17 for failure to report the girl missing, had her bond raised to $250,000. The prosecutor told the judge Diana Cojocari had been hindering the investigation and was concerned she would continue to hinder the investigation if released. The judge ordered Cojocari to be electrically monitored if she posted bond.
"The statute states if you are a parent or someone who is supervising a child, and that is defined as someone who is under the age of 16, in the statute, that if you don't know the location of that child, for longer than a 24 hour period, you must report that to law enforcement," said Jetton & Meredith, PLLC, Attorney Mark Jetton. "So the statute gives a 24-hour grace period."
Before a different judge Monday, Palmiter also had his bond raised and was accused by the district attorney's office of hindering the investigation.
"Based on what all the allegations are, and based on the facts of this case, it doesn't seem to be an egregious bond," Jetton said.
As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, records showed both Cojocari and Palmiter had not posted bond.
#FindMadalina: The search continues
On Monday, the search area for the missing girl expanded to include Lake Cornelius, a standalone body of water across Interstate 77 from Lake Norman in Cornelius.
“I have seen a couple of boats and I saw them go over there,” said Mandy Todd, who lives nearby. "It seems like they are going along the shoreline."
The FBI has highlighted Madalina Cojocari's disappearance as their "Case of the Week" on their website's homepage this week. The FBI field office in Michigan confirmed to WCNC Charlotte it is assisting the FBI field office in Charlotte with the investigation.
"Certainly if there was any foul play in any of these states, he can be charged in that particular state where that crime committed," Jetton explained. "Then authorities from those states work together. However, there could be some jurisdictional issues in this case, for that short period of time when he was not in North Carolina."
Community members say they are struggling t wrap their hands around Madalina's disappearance.
“It’s obviously devastating for us,” nearby resident Kristi Evatt said. “Especially for it to be so close to home. And for all of us in the area… just concerned about where she is? Is she safe?”
A prayer vigil took place Tuesday night at Smithville Park, which is located on Catawba Avenue just east of Interstate 77.
"Everybody in my group is really close to that neighborhood," one resident told WCNC Charlotte. "A lot of them want to be out there searching, a lot of them want to know what happened."
Cojocari is described as an 11-year-old white female, weighing 90 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, according to police. She was last seen wearing jeans, pink, purple, and white Adidas shoes, and a white t-shirt and jacket.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Madalina Cojocari is asked to contact the Cornelius Police Department at 704-892-7773.
Note: WCNC instituted a new policy in March 2021 regarding the broadcast or posting of mugshots.
WCNC will only air or post a mugshot if the person has been formally charged with a crime and in a few other cases. The exceptions include: If it appears the person could be a danger to themselves or others or if they are wanted by authorities; to differentiate between people with a common name; if the photos could encourage more victims to come forward. The news-editorial leadership may also decide to use a mugshot based on the severity of the crime(s) committed and/or the level of public interest in the crime and ensuing criminal proceedings.
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These quick-action grants aim to help communities become more livable for people of all ages
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AARP announced it is investing $3.4 million through 260 Community Challenge grants for quick-action projects that will help communities become more livable in the long-term. These grants will improve public places; transportation; housing; diversity, equity and inclusion; digital access; and civic engagement, with an emphasis on the needs of adults age 50 and over. Many of this year's projects will help communities leverage funding under the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
"Helping adults thrive as they age has never been more important, and AARP is dedicated to working with communities to improve residents' quality of life through tangible changes," said Nancy LeaMond, AARP Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy & Engagement Officer. "This year, we are proud to support the largest number of projects in the Community Challenge's six-year history to help communities leverage opportunities with historic federal investments."
AARP Community Challenge grant projects will be funded in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. True to the program's quick-action nature, projects must be completed by November 30, 2022.
This year, AARP is bolstering its investment of affordable and adaptable housing solutions in response to the national housing crisis. With additional funding support from Toyota Motor North America, the program is also increasing its investment in projects that improve mobility innovation and transportation options. Examples of this year's granted projects include:
- Moro, Oregon: Creating free, pre-approved plans that encourage the development of accessory dwelling units for older adults and their families;
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Helping to reconnect a neighborhood divided and displaced by expressway construction in the 1960s through engaging older residents and creating a temporary multigenerational public space for older adults and people of all ages;
- Chelmsford, Massachusetts: Establishing informational kiosks and mini libraries to educate older residents about Chelmsford's Indigenous Peoples throughout the town near historical markers, public parks and trailheads on Indigenous lands;
- Silver City, New Mexico: Converting a dead-end road into an engaging, interactive, pedestrian space for residents – especially adults age 50 and over – to gather that will connect the park to downtown and prevent frequent flooding; and
- St. Louis, Missouri: Transforming a desolate transit stop into an interactive and engaging center with accessible seating, shade and art for older adults and their families.
The Community Challenge grant program is part of AARP's nationwide Livable Communities initiative, which supports the efforts of cities, towns, neighborhoods and rural areas to become great places to live for people of all ages, especially those 50 and over. Including this year's projects, AARP has awarded $12.7 million through more than 1,060 grants since 2017 to nonprofit organizations and government entities across the country, many of which have led to long-term change.
View the full list of grantees and their project descriptions at aarp.org/communitychallenge and learn more about AARP's livable communities work at aarp.org/livable.
About AARP
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol and @AARPadvocates, @AliadosAdelante on social media.
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Canada's horrific knife rampage over as last suspect dies
Rosthern, Saskatchewan — The last suspect in a horrific stabbing rampage that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, and police hope the stunning end to a gripping hunt that stretched into a fourth day will bring some peace to victims' families.
One official said Myles Sanderson, 32, died from self-inflicted injuries Wednesday after police forced the stolen car he was driving off a highway in Saskatchewan. Other officials declined to discuss how he died, but expressed relief the final suspected killer was no longer on the loose.
“This evening our province is breathing a collective sigh of relief,” Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan, said at a news conference Wednesday night.
The other suspect, Sanderson's 30-year-old brother, Damien Sanderson, was found dead Monday near the scene of the bloody knife attacks inside and around the James Smith Cree First Nation reserve early Sunday. Both men were residents of the Indigenous reserve.
Blackmore said Myles Sanderson was cornered as police units responded to a report of a stolen vehicle being driven by a man armed with a knife. She said officers forced Sanderson’s vehicle off the road and into a ditch. He was detained and a knife was found inside the vehicle, she said.
Sanderson went into medical distress while in custody, Blackmore said. She said CPR was attempted on him before an ambulance arrived, and emergency medical personnel then took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“All life saving measures that we are capable of were taken at that time," she said.
Blackmore gave no details on the cause of death. “I can’t speak to the specific manner of death,” she said.
But an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, earlier said Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries, without giving any further details.
Video and photos from the scene showed a white SUV off to the side of the road with police cars all around. Air bags had deployed in the SUV. Some photos and video taken from a distance appeared to show Sanderson being frisked.
An independent investigation by members of Saskatchewan’s Serious Incident Response Team went to the arrest site and will review Sanderson's death and police conduct.
The federal public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, also stressed that the events will be investigated.
“You have questions. We have questions," he told reporters during a Cabinet retreat in Vancouver, British Columbia, adding: “There will be two levels of police who will be investigating the circumstances of Myles Sanderson's death.”
His death came two days after the body of Damien Sanderson was found in a field near the scene of the knife rampage. Police are investigating whether Myles Sanderson killed his brother.
Blackmore said that with both men dead, authorities will find it hard to figure out what set off the rampage.
“Now that Myles is deceased we may never have an understanding of that motivation,” she said.
But she said she hoped the families of the stabbing victims will find some comfort that neither of the Sandersons remains a threat.
“I hope that this brings them closure. I hope they can rest easy knowing that Myles Sanderson is no longer a threat to them.”
Some family members of the victims arrived at the scene Wednesday, including Brian Burns, whose wife and son were killed.
“Now we can start to heal. The healing begins today, now,” he said.
The stabbings raised questions of why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.
He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not immediately clear.
His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in Sunday's stabbings, according to court records.
Mendicino, the public safety minister, has said there will be an investigation into the parole board's assessment of Sanderson.
“I want to know the reasons behind the decision" to release him, Mendicino said. “I'm extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling."
The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49. The other victim was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson.
Authorities would not say if the victims might be related.
Mark Arcand said his half sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.
“Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head."
As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this."
Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Burns repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’ life.
Many of Sanderson's crimes were committed when he was intoxicated, according to court records. He told parole officials at one point that substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.
Many of Canada's Indigenous communities are plagued by drugs and alcohol.
Myles Sanderson's childhood was marked by violence, neglect and substance abuse, court records show. Sanderson, who is Indigenous and was raised on the Cree reserve, population 1,900, started drinking and smoking marijuana at around 12, and cocaine followed soon after.
In 2017, he barged into his ex-girlfriend’s home, punched a hole in the door of a bathroom while his two children were hiding in a bathtub and threw a cement block at a vehicle parked outside, according to parole documents.
He got into a fight a few days later at a store, threatening to kill an employee and burn down his parents' home, documents said.
That November he threatened an accomplice into robbing a fast-food restaurant by clubbing him with a gun and stomping on his head. He then stood watch during the holdup.
In 2018, he stabbed two men with a fork while drinking and beat someone unconscious. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/09/08/canadas-horrific-knife-rampage-over-last-suspect-dies/8020521001/ | 2022-09-08 13:42:30 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/09/08/canadas-horrific-knife-rampage-over-last-suspect-dies/8020521001/ |
CAPE CORAL, Fla. and CALGARY, AB, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecological Laboratories, Inc. (ELI) a World-Wide Biotech Leader with 47 year's experience addressing difficult environmental pollution issues in aquatic and soil environments, has established a partnership with SAS TOPOR Holdings Ltd. based in Calgary, AB Canada focusing on Hydrocarbon remediation. The partnership will focus on Pollution Abatement via non-chemical biological in-situ soil remediation processes targeting the recovery of thousands of hectors of contaminated farm land contaminated from prior oil and gas production processes.
Together, SAS TAPOR and ELI have initiated 4 pilot projects to remediate abandoned oil and gas leases in Alberta over the past two years with initial results showing a 67% drop in chloride and hydrocarbon contaminates in the first year utilizing land farming techniques (non-removal of soil). James Olesko of SAS TOPOR stated, "After demonstrating real-world results in field around multiple well-heads with Chloride and hydrocarbon reduction, we are excited to partner with ELI in bringing high-powered Nature's biology to bear in the hydrocarbon remediation sector "
More than 225,000 inactive and plugged wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan exist, with the Canadian government allocating C$1.7 billion in 2020 to clean inactive oil and gas wells. Dead and orphan wells can leave behind a range of pollutants, from chlorides to hydrocarbons, leaving the ground potentially unfit for farming and other uses. Options to remediate sites include "ripping" the top 1-2 meters of soil and hauling to a waste field which has a negative environmental impact and extremely expensive.
ELI and SAS TAPOR have developed a propitiatory method, including ELI novel microbial technology, combined with appropriate nutrient and soil moisture management; which has shown positive results over trials in 2021 and 2022 in Canada. These methods are estimated to save customers ~80% vs. traditional ripping methods and could be the first line of defense for Oil Field remediation prior to traditional and expensive methods. Per ELI CTO Doug Dent, "The steps that SAS TABOR are taking in Canada are critical for leading the market to more environmentally sustainable, efficacious and cost-effective methods for dead well sites and other hydrocarbon remediation projects."
Please contact James Olesko (jamesolesko@hotmail.com) to discuss options for your wells in both Canada and USA.
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Tickets for the state track meets were punched at regionals around Michigan. Here are how the Jackson-area athletes fared.
DIVISION 1
In the regional at Grand Ledge, Jackson had 27 points in the boys regional to take 11th.
The Vikings’ Ahmad Ameen was second in the 400.
The Jackson girls were eighth with 31 points. Northwest had seven points to claim 15th.
Keiyera Johnson of Jackson won the 100 hurdles in 15.98 and the 300 hurdles in 48.48.
DIVISION 2
In the regional at Mason, the Western boys took the team title with 105 points, edging second-place Mason by three points.
Brennan Faber won the shot put with a throw of 49′10.
Cooper Singleton took second in the 1600 with a time of 4:25.37. Josh Veneziano took second in the 300 hurdles in 40.98 and third in high jump, clearing 6′2. Western’s 4x200 relay of Luke Bergkoetter, Mitchell Williams, Jackson Jones and Noah Berdiner took second in 1:31.96. Lucas Inosencio cleared 13′2 to take second in pole vault.
Owen Fremeau was second in discus, throwing 150′11 and AJ Scutt was fifth with a throw of 140′0.
Caleb RuddJones was third in long jump, going 20′10.25.
The Western girls were eighth with 51 points. Mason won the team title with 101.5.
The 4x400 relay of Cami Boldt, Natalie Coleman, Kayda Herrick and Lillian Heydenburg took third in 4:15.14.
Herrick took third in high jump, clearing 5′0. Bayli Stewart was second in long jump with a leap of 16′3.5.
DIVISION 3
At Hillsdale
The Napoleon boys won the team title with 95 points at Hillsdale, beating out second-place Constantine.
Hillsdale’s Hunter Wilson won the 100 ahead of Lumen Christi’s Alex Pastoriza, Michigan Center’s Travis Collins and Hanover-Horton’s Graham Gumper
Pastoriza was also third in the 200, just behind Napoleon’s Holden Van Poppel.
Hanover-Horton’s Austin Brown won the 800, while teammate Rogan Melling won the 1600, ahead of Lumen Christi’s Isaiah Dinverno who placed third. Melling also won the 3200.
Van Poppel won the 100 hurdles and took second behind Springport’s Elijah Dyer in the 300 hurdles. The 110 hurdles saw Dyer fourth with Homer’s Diego Lebron second, Jonesville’s Damion Scharer third and Napoleon’s Gavrik Belcourt fifth.
Napoleon won the 4x100 and 4x200 relay. Columbia Central was fifth and Hillsdale sixth in the 4x200.
Jonesville was second in the 4x400. Hanover-Horton won the 4x800, with Jonesville third.
Jonesville’s Chandler Griffiths won the shot put with a toss of 47′9.
Napoleon high jumpers took first and third, with DeVonta Habern and Lionel Campbell. Lebron took second.
Hillsdale’s Peter Moore was second and Hayden Handy third in the long jump.
Hillsdale won the girls title with 107 points. Lumen Christi was second with 74.
Hillsdale’s Kia Charboneau won the 100 with Rylie Aylesworth of Columbia Central second and Grass Lake’s Grace Bullock third.
Aylesworth won the 200 in 27.20, 0.28 ahead of Charboneau. Aylesworth was also second in the 400.
Lumen Christi took first, third and fourth in the 800 with Madison Osterberg winning in 2:16.56, followed by Macy Fazekas and Sydney Fazekas. Hanover-Horton’s Sophia Reynolds was second.
Osterberg also won the 1600 and 3200. Columbia Central’s Hope Wilkes was second in the 3200.
Hillsdale’s Mia Hinz won the 100 hurdles. Columbia Central’s Melyssa McJennett was third in the 100 hurdles and second in the 300 hurdles behind Hanover-Horton’s Olivianna Watkins.
Hillsdale won the 4x100, with Grass Lake second and Homer third. The Hornets also took first in the 4x200 with Grass Lake second and Hanover-Horton fourth. Grass Lake beat out Lumen Christi to take the 4x400 relay. Lumen Christi took first in the 4x800, with Hanover-Horton second and Napoleon third.
Grass Lake’s Ereka Risner was second in shot put. Homer’s Jaylyn Perkins was third in discus.
Hillsdale’s Rianna Vincent cleared 5′1 to win the high jump, beating out Grass Lake’s Mya Viegelahn. Homer’s Emma Wildt cleared 8′3 to win the pole vault.
Hinz won the long jump, going 17′3.75 to beat Napoleon’s Alyssa Budd and Hanover-Horton’s Kaytie Warren.
At Chesaning
In the Chesaning regional, the Leslie boys took 11th with 19 points and the Leslie girls were 14th with 12. The Pewamo-Westphalia boys and Olivet girls won the regional crowns.
Leslie’s Brogan Dodge tossed a 139′10 in discus to take third.
Macie Boyer took fifth in the 400.
At Stockbridge
The host Panthers were fourth in the boys team standings with 66.5 and the girls were second with 110. The Stockwell Academy boys and Almont girls won regional titles.
Stockbridge’s Micah Bolton won the 3200 in 10:31.89.
Foster Pybus was second in the high jump.
Gracee Robidou won the 100 hurdles in 17.38 and the 300 hurdles in 50.71. She also took second in long jump.
Jaylee Chapman was second in the 1600 in 5:51.03.
Stockbridge won both 4x800 relays, with the girls quartet of Chapman, Anna Ransom, Ava Vaccaro and Kristina Wilde finishing in 10:46.06 and the boys relay of Bolton, Brock Rochow, Collin Cook and Ethan Wright finishing in 9:01.72.
Stockbridge’s Megan Mackinder won the shot put with a toss of 29′11.75. She threw 107′3 to win the discus, beating teammate Azora Parks.
At Adrian Madison
The Manchester boys took seventh with 36 points and the girls were 12th with 25.
Manchester’s Allie Koch was second in the 300 hurdles. Manchester’s 4x200 relay was third, as was the 4x400 relay.
The Manchester boys send Cody Smith to state after he cleared 5′10 to claim third in high jump.
DIVISION 4
At Hillsdale Academy
In the regional at Hillsdale Academy, Reading took the boys title with 154.5 points with Hillsdale Academy second with 127. Addison was seventh with 32.
Hillsdale Academy’s Conner Welden won the 400 in 52.69, beating second-place Nathan Sines of Addison who finished in 52.97.
Hillsdale Academy got a two-three finish in the 1600 from Grayson Rorick (4:33.68) and Thomas Holm (4:35.68). Holm, Rorick and teammate Reece Poole were second, third and sixth in the 3200.
Hillsdale Academy’s Max Cote was third in the 100 hurdles and second in the 300 hurdles.
Hillsdale Academy won the 4x400 relay and 4x800 relay.
Dominic Scharer won the discus, throwing 157′3, and was second in shot put with a 43′1.25. Teammate Magnus Heckel was sixth.
Addison’s Brandon Pepper was fourth in discus. Lucas Morse leapt 11′3 to take fourth in long jump.
The Hillsdale Academy girls won the regional title with 131.5 points to beat a group of Morenci, Pittsford and Addison who all finished within a half point of each other.
Addison’s Molly Brown won the 100 in 12.98, the 100 hurdles in 16.03 and the 300 hurdles in 46.82. She also took second in the long jump.
Hillsdale Academy’s Megan Roberts won the 400 in 59.85.
Hillsdale Academy’s Caroline Roberts won the 800 in 2:27.23, with Addison’s Sayra Hernandez running a state-qualifying 2:33.41 to place seventh.
Addison’s Stephanie Hernandez was fourth in the 1600, a race where Hillsdale Academy’s Whitney Wilkinson was second and Abby Brownlee was fifth.
Wilkinson, Brownlee, Stephanie Hernandez and Hillsdale Academy’s Ella Walton all qualified in the 3200.
Hillsdale Academy also got a fourth-place finish from Ava King in discus.
Hillsdale Academy’s Lucy Cote was third in the 100 hurdles and fifth in the 300 hurdles, just behind teammate Madison Sallows.
Hillsdale Academy won all four relays.
At Concord
The Yellowjackets won the boys regional crown with 122.5 points. East Jackson was fifth (51) and Vandercook Lake and Jackson Prep tied for 11th (4).
Concord’s Adair Artis won the 400 in 2:01.88. Tyreke Brown Tylend Allen, Javion Taylor and Anthony Evans teamed up to win the 4x200 for the Yellowjackets in 1:34.06. Taylor, Artis, Mekhi Wingfield and Isaac Waldron won the 4x400 in 3:31.77.
Wingfield jumped 21′2.5 to win long jump, and event where Evans took seventh, and East Jackson’s Randy Reddick was fourth.
Concord got a second-place run in the 200 from Brown and a third-place finish from Ashton Easterwood in the 110 hurdles. Concord was third in the 4x100.
East Jackson’s Michael Allen won the 3200 in 10:13.29. The Trojans’ 4x800 was second.
The girls title went to Portland St. Patrick with 154 points. Concord was third with 77, East Jackson took 62 to claim fourth, Jackson Prep was 11th with 8 and Vandercook Lake scored 1 to claim 12th.
Concord got a win in the 800 from Cieara Barrett with a 2:28.43, with Jackson Prep’s Olivia Ortell second. Concord was second in the 4x800. The Yellowjackets’ Lilianna McCabe was second in discus.
The Trojans got a throwing sweep from Mariah Kerley, throwing 33′8 in shot put and 90′2 in discus. East Jackson’s Addisyn Rudd cleared 9′6 to win the pole vault, with teammate Kennedy Goodwin second, and was third in the 200. | https://www.mlive.com/sports/jackson/2023/05/here-is-how-the-jackson-area-athletes-fared-at-regional-track-meets.html | 2023-05-22 19:09:02 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/sports/jackson/2023/05/here-is-how-the-jackson-area-athletes-fared-at-regional-track-meets.html |
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel will be one of the four panelists at a public forum, “Post Roe v. Wade: Implications for the Supreme Court Decision in Michigan,” a deliberative dialogue from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27 in the Delta College Commons.
The event is part of the Delta Political Forum Series.
The interactive audience-panel discussion will address the Constitutional context of the Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the status and enforcement of Michigan’s abortion law, and options for women facing crisis pregnancies.
The event is part of an ongoing series at Delta which assembles a panel of experts to speak on issues of public concern. The in-person audience will be organized into round tables, providing discussion and an opportunity to report out from each table. Such deliberative dialogue is intended to help attendees develop better-informed opinions, practice civil dialogue and find common ground.
Other panelists for the event include Lisa Lawrason, Delta College political science professor; Christina Miller-Bellor, Delta College sociology professor; and Dr. Audrey Stryker, MD, OB/GYN.
The panel will be moderated by Mark Balawender, Delta College philosophy professor.
The event can also be accessed remotely at Delta's Midland and Saginaw centers. An ASL interpreter will be available for the event at Delta’s main campus. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Nessel-a-panelist-at-Post-Roe-v-Wade-17438466.php | 2022-09-13 18:39:05 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Nessel-a-panelist-at-Post-Roe-v-Wade-17438466.php |
Tucson Mica Mountain showed little mercy and even less remorse in overpowering Douglas 66-46 on February 3 in Arizona boys high school basketball action.
In recent action on January 27, Douglas faced off against Sahuarita Walden Grove . For more, click here. Tucson Mica Mountain took on Sahuarita on January 26 at Tucson Mica Mountain High School. For results, click here.
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The 2023 John Deere Classic Odds & Preview: Adam Hadwin
Adam Hadwin will play at the 2023 John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois at TPC Deere Run, taking place from July 6- 9.
Looking to place a bet on Hadwin at the John Deere Classic this week? Keep reading for the betting trends you need to know before you make your picks.
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Adam Hadwin Insights
- Hadwin has finished below par on nine occasions, completed his day without a bogey twice and finished 13 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 18 rounds played.
- He has carded the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five twice and with a top-10 score in five of his last 18 rounds played.
- Hadwin has registered a score within three shots of the day's best in three of his last 18 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day 10 times.
- Hadwin has finished in the top five in one of his past five events.
- The past five times he has played a tournament, he's made the cut four times.
- In his past five tournaments, Hadwin has finished within three shots of the leader once and posted a score better than average twice.
- Hadwin will look to make the cut for the fourth straight event by qualifying for the weekend in this tournament.
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John Deere Classic Insights and Stats
- In Hadwin's past three appearances at this tournament, he has finished among the top 10 once and the top 20 two times. His average finish has been 13th.
- In his past three appearances at this tournament, he has made the cut twice.
- The par-71 course measures 7,289 yards this week, 263 yards longer than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- Players have posted 69.25 strokes per round and an average score of -5 in the past year on Tour. Events hosted on this course have a lower scoring average of -10.
- The average course Hadwin has played in the past year has been 92 yards longer than the 7,289 yards TPC Deere Run will be at for this event.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -5 among finishers, higher than the -10 average at this course.
Hadwin's Last Time Out
- Hadwin was good on the 16 par-3 holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, averaging 2.81 strokes to finish in the 87th percentile of the field.
- His 3.56-stroke average on the 62 par-4 holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic was strong, putting him in the 97th percentile of the field.
- Hadwin shot better than 74% of the competitors at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.38 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.51.
- Hadwin fared better on par 3s than most players his last time out, carding a birdie or better on four of 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic (the tournament average was 1.9).
- On the 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Hadwin carded less bogeys or worse (one) than the tournament average (1.9).
- Hadwin recorded more birdies or better (15) than the field average of 5.9 on the 62 par-4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
- In that most recent outing, Hadwin did not have a bogey or worse on any of the 62 par-4s (the field averaged 4.4).
- Hadwin ended the Rocket Mortgage Classic carding a birdie or better on 11 par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 6.2 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Hadwin had two bogeys or worse, more than the tournament average of 0.8.
John Deere Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 6- 9, 2023
- Course: TPC Deere Run
- Location: Silvis, Illinois
- Par: 71 / 7,289 yards
- Hadwin Odds to Win: +2800 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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A year ago, Bar Harbor business owners didn’t know what to expect as they busily tried to fill their staffs and get ready to open their doors.
The 2020 and 2021 tourism seasons had been difficult. COVID-19 concerns kept many tourists away in the summer of 2020, while in 2021 a crush of tourists and a severe lack of workers led many businesses to limit their hours or services.
The 2022 tourist season ended up being more “normal” than the prior two years, but still had challenges due to continued high demand with historically high numbers of visitors and the ongoing labor shortage.
This spring, as the traditional Memorial Day kickoff to the summer draws near, local tourism business owners and managers say they are confident it will be another busy year but they think the business and business concerns will be more predictable.
“I’m cautiously optimistic,” said Gary “Bo” Jennings, general manager of Side Street Cafe. “It’s shaping up similar to what it was like last year.”
Like Jennings, hotelier Stephen Coston uses foreign workers made available by the federal H-2B visa program to help fill out his workforce. Last year, his visa workers didn’t arrive until July — late for a season that begins in May. That was an improvement over 2021 when he had no visa workers at all.
But this year is already panning out to be even better. Coston has been able to get his visa workers lined up and in place before Memorial Day, which also makes him less apprehensive about the coming summer.
“Relative to the challenges of the past two years, this year for me so far feels like a piece of cake,” Coston said.
Still, even with foreign workers returning in pre-pandemic numbers, the foreign worker program can be a crapshoot, Coston said, and not every employer gets lucky by being randomly chosen to get their workers early in the season.
Employers must provide housing to their visa workers, which helps them in the housing-starved coastal town. But for American employees who also staff the businesses, housing is often a deal-breaker for whether or not they can accept a job offer. Real estate prices on Mount Desert Island have soared in recent years, forcing many labor-wage workers to seek housing off-island.
Jennings said he oversees about 100 employees at Side Street Cafe, including visa workers, and provides beds for about 40 of them.
“We wouldn’t be open [without adequate employee housing],” he said. “It’s that simple.”
Coston and Jennings have their businesses largely staffed and have already opened their businesses for the summer. But several restaurants and shops in downtown Bar Harbor are still trying to get ready. As of Wednesday evening, more than a dozen tourist businesses had signs posted in their windows saying they were hiring.
At Downeast Pizza, a new business opening on Cottage Street in a space formerly occupied by a Subway sandwich shop, the owner is still looking for pizza chefs.
“Four cooks I am trying to get,” said Robin Wright, who also owns Downeast Deli and The Pink Pastry Shop in downtown Bar Harbor, as well as Sugar Bakery in Trenton.
Wright had four cooks lined up for her multiple businesses through the H-2B program, but that their visas inexplicably fell through, forcing her to start searching all over again, she said. Now, she is ready to hire anyone qualified for the work, wherever she might find them.
She needs to fill 30 positions total at her four businesses but has only hired 11 people so far, including five foreign students coming to work for the summer through the separate J1 visa worker program, she said. If she cannot find 30 employees, she said, she can get by with 20 but would have to pay out a lot of overtime to maintain normal business hours.
Wright has housing for eight employees in downtown Bar Harbor, and for another eight in neighboring Trenton. She also has an approved site in Trenton where one of her regular returning employees parks his camper each summer. She said housing is so important, the first question she asks prospective employees is if they have a place to live. The second question is how much experience they have. Although she said her businesses did great last summer, she thinks staffing will continue to be a challenge.
“I have built housing for my staff, and I bought a house in Trenton so they could have affordable rent,” Wright said. “But even with these aces up my sleeve, I am struggling.”
Bar Harbor isn’t alone in the labor shortage issue for seasonal employees, said Everal Eaton, the new director of the local Chamber of Commerce. It’s a national problem, and staffing and employee housing have become the top two challenges for local seasonal businesses, Eaton said.
“Everyone is trying to find solutions, but there are no easy answers,” he said.
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The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia’s invasion.
As Russia announced it had completed its takeover of Mariupol with the surrender of the fighters who served as the final obstacle, Ukraine’s government did not confirm the city’s fall. Earlier in the week, Ukrainian officials said its combantants in the Azovstal steel plant had completed their mission and were being evacuated, describing them as heroes who had fulfilled a grueling task.
Here’s a look at these Ukrainian forces, who were taken prisoner by the Russians as they left the plant, and what they accomplished:
WHO WERE THE DEFENDERS OF MARIUPOL?
Russia’s Defense Ministry said a total of 2,439 Ukrainian fighters from the steelworks had surrendered since Monday, including over 500 on Friday, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
The fighters who held out at Azovstal, for much of the nearly three-month siege of Mariupol with Ukrainian civilians who sought safety in the plant’s underground bunkers and tunnels, came from a variety of different military and law enforcement units, according to Ukrainian officials.
There was the Azov Regiment, which is part of Ukraine’s National Guard; the 36th Special Marine Brigade of Ukraine’s Naval Forces and the 12th brigade of the National Guard. Border guards, police officers, and territorial defense squads formed shortly before the war supplemented their ranks.
The bulk of these forces were deployed to defend Mariupol, home to a stategically located port, at the start of the Russian invasion. Marines from the 36th brigade held the port and another large plant in Mariupol for more than a month, until they ran out of supplies and ammunition.
They moved to the Azovstal steel mill to join the Azov Regiment, a national guard unit with roots in the far right, and some of them were captured by the Russians.
WHY DOES RUSSIA LABEL THEM ‘NATIONALISTS’?
In announcing Azovstal’s seizure, the Russian Defense Ministry’s chief spokesman referred to the Azov Regiment’s fighters as Nazis and said their commander was taken away in an armored vehicle because of local residents’ alleged hatred of him “for numerous atrocities.”
No evidence has surfaced of the regiment mistreating Ukrainian civilians, hundreds of whom sheltered underground with the fighters. The regiment released several videos taken inside Azovstal that showed their members interacting with the civilians and giving children sweets.
Russian officials and state media repeatedly made negative assertions about the Azov Regiment.
The National Guard unit grew out of a group called the Azov Battalion, formed in 2014 as one of many volunteer brigades that rose to bolster Ukraine’s underfunded and questionably led military in the fight against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
That conflict broke out after massive protests drove Ukraine’s Kremlin-leaning president from office.
The Azov Battalion drew its initial fighters from far-right circles and elicited criticism for some of its tactics. Its current members rejected accusations of nationalism and radicalism. Sviatoslav Palamar, the regiment’s deputy commander, said in a recent interview from the steel mill that he preferred the term “patriotism.”
WHAT DID THE DEFENDERS ACCOMPLISH?
As Mariupol became a symbol of the suffering and resistance of Ukrainians after Russia invaded their country, Ukrainian officials repeatedly stressed the role the fighters at Azovstal played in defending the city and stymying Russian progress elsewhere.
“The Ukrainian troops in Mariupol have already performed a feat, drawing the elite forces of the Russian army onto themselves and significantly slowing down the advance of the Russians in the southeast,” Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said.
After the plant’s defenders were instructed to end their fight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the move was proper and humane because “Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes to be alive. It’s our principle.”
The ruined seaside city and the outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian fighters whose persistence frustrated Russia’s objective to capture Mariupol quickly are now irrevocably etched into Ukrainian history, regardless of the outcome of the war.
The defense of Mariupol “will go down in history as Thermopylae of the 21st century,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, said as the fighters started leaving the plant. “The Azovstal defenders thwarted the enemy’s plans to seize eastern Ukraine, drew away enormous numbers of enemy forces, and changed the course of the war.”
Thermopylae is widely considered one of history’s most glorious defeats, in which 300 Spartans held off a much larger Persian force in 480 B.C. before finally succumbing. They were killed to a man, including their king.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) (the "Company") announced today that certain of its subsidiaries have commenced cash tender offers (collectively, the "Tender Offer") to purchase any and all of The Nielsen Company (Luxembourg) S.à r.l.'s ("Luxembourg Issuer") outstanding 5.000% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Notes") and any and all of Nielsen Finance LLC and Nielsen Finance Co.'s (together, the "US Issuers" and, together with the Luxembourg Issuer, the "Offerors") outstanding 5.625% Senior Notes due 2028 (the "2028 Notes"), 4.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the "2029 Notes"), 5.875% Senior Notes due 2030 (the "2030 Notes") and 4.750% Senior Notes due 2031 (the "2031 Notes" and together with the 2025 Notes, 2028 Notes, 2029 Notes and 2030 Notes, the "Notes"). In connection with the Tender Offer, the Offerors are soliciting the consents of holders of the Notes to certain proposed amendments to the respective indentures governing the Notes (collectively, the "Consent Solicitation"). Concurrently with but separate from the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation, the Offerors have commenced offers to purchase for cash any and all of the Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount (the "Change of Control Purchase Price") of the Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of purchase (collectively, the "Change of Control Offer"), pursuant to the change of control provisions of the indentures governing each applicable series of Notes. The Offerors are commencing the Tender Offer, the Consent Solicitation and the Change of Control Offer in connection with, and each is expressly conditioned upon, the acquisition of the Company pursuant to the Transaction Agreement, dated March 28, 2022, as amended on August 19, 2022, by and among the Company, Neptune Intermediate Jersey Limited and Neptune BidCo US Inc., as further amended from time to time (the "Acquisition"). Neptune Intermediate Jersey Limited and Neptune BidCo US Inc. are newly-formed entities established by a consortium of private investment funds led by Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P., and Brookfield Business Partners L.P., together with institutional partners, for the purpose of acquiring the Company.
The Tender Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on September 21, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated (such date and time, as may be extended, or earlier terminated, the "Expiration Date"). Under the terms of the Tender Offer, holders of the Notes who validly tender their Notes and provide their consents to the proposed amendments and do not validly withdraw their Notes and consents at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 7, 2022 (such date and time, as may be extended, the "Early Tender Date") will receive an amount equal to $1,011.25 per $1,000.00 in principal amount of Notes (the "Total Consideration"), which amount includes an early participation premium equal to $50.00 per $1,000.00 in principal amount (the "Early Participation Premium"). Holders who validly tender their Notes and provide their consents to the proposed amendments after the Early Tender Date but at or prior to the Expiration Date will receive an amount equal to $961.25 per $1,000.00 in principal amount (the "Tender Consideration").
Holders whose Notes are accepted in the Tender Offer will also be paid accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes up to, but excluding, the settlement date. Holders should note that the Total Consideration is higher than, and the Tender Consideration is lower than, the Change of Control Purchase Price under the Change of Control Offer. The procedures for tendering Notes in the Tender Offer and in the Change of Control Offer are separate. Notes tendered in the Tender Offer may not be validly tendered in the Change of Control Offer for the related series of Notes, and Notes tendered in the Change of Control Offer may not be validly tendered in the Tender Offer for the related series of Notes.
The purpose of the Consent Solicitation and proposed amendments is to eliminate the requirement to make a "Change of Control Offer" for the Notes in connection with the Acquisition and to make certain other customary changes for a privately-held company to the "Change of Control" provisions in the indentures governing the Notes. Holders may not tender their Notes in the Tender Offer without delivering their consents under the related Consent Solicitation, and holders may not deliver their consents under the Consent Solicitation without tendering their Notes pursuant to the related Tender Offer. If the requisite consents to approve the proposed amendments with respect to a series of Notes are received (and a supplemental indenture to the related indenture giving effect to the proposed amendments is executed), the Offerors expect to terminate the Change of Control Offer for such series of Notes.
Consummation of the Tender Offer and payment for the Notes validly tendered pursuant to the Tender Offer are subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, but not limited to, the receipt of requisite consents for such series of Notes and the consummation of the Acquisition. The Offerors reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to waive any and all conditions to the Tender Offer. Complete details of the terms and conditions of the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation are included in the Offerors' offer to purchase and consent solicitation, dated August 24, 2022. The Acquisition is expected to close in October 2022, and the Offerors expect the consummation of the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation to coincide with the closing of the Acquisition through the extension of the Expiration Date, although not the applicable withdrawal deadline (unless required by law). The consummation of the Acquisition is not conditioned upon, either directly or indirectly, the consummation of the Tender Offer or the receipt of the requisite consents in the Consent Solicitation.
Requests for documents relating to the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation may be directed to D.F. King & Co, Inc., the Information and Tender Agent, toll free at (888) 541-9895, toll at (212) 269-5550 (Banks and Brokers) or email at nielsen@dfking.com. BofA Securities, Inc. ("BofA Securities") will act as Dealer Manager for the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation. Questions regarding the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation may be directed to BofA Securities at (980) 388-3646 (collect) or (888) 292-0070 (toll free).
The Change of Control Offer is being made in connection with, and is expressly conditioned upon, the consummation of the Acquisition. The consummation of the Acquisition will constitute a "Change of Control" under each of the respective indentures governing the Notes. Following such a Change of Control, Section 4.14 of the respective indentures governing the Notes requires the Offerors to make an offer to purchase at a purchase price in cash equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price, plus accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, the date of purchase. The Offerors, however, are permitted to make a Change of Control Offer in advance of the Change of Control if a definitive agreement for such Change of Control is in place at the time the offer is made.
The Change of Control Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on September 21, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated. The Acquisition is expected to close in October 2022, and the Offerors intend to extend the expiration time to have the purchase date in the Change of Control Offer coincide with the closing of the Acquisition. If the requisite consents to approve the proposed amendments with respect to a series of Notes are received (and a supplemental indenture to the related indenture giving effect to the proposed amendments is executed), the Offerors expect to terminate the Change of Control Offer for such series of Notes.
The consummation of the Acquisition is not conditioned upon, either directly or indirectly, the consummation of the Change of Control Offer.
Holders who do not tender their Notes in the Change of Control Offer, or who tender their Notes in the Change of Control Offer but validly withdraw such Notes, may tender their Notes in the Tender Offer. Holders should note that the Total Consideration is higher than, and the Tender Consideration is lower than, the Change of Control Purchase Price under the Change of Control Offer.
This press release neither constitutes a notice of Change of Control Offer as required by the respective indentures governing the Notes, nor does it constitute an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell or a solicitation of consents with respect to, any security. No offer, solicitation or purchase will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or purchase would be unlawful.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lucky Day Lotto" game were:
13-26-36-40-42
(thirteen, twenty-six, thirty-six, forty, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $600,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lucky Day Lotto" game were:
13-26-36-40-42
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NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE American: BRG) ("BRG" or the "Company") today announced that, in connection with its previously announced acquisition (the "Merger") by affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate, which, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining closing conditions in the merger agreement, is expected to close on or about October 6, 2022, BRG will:
- suspend voluntary redemptions of shares of Series B Redeemable Preferred Stock of the Company by the holders thereof from the close of business on September 23, 2022,
- suspend voluntary redemptions of shares of Series T Redeemable Preferred Stock of the Company by the holders thereof from the close of business on September 23, 2022, and
- suspend exercises of warrants to purchase shares of common stock of the Company ("Company Warrants") from the close of business on September 23, 2022 until after the closing of the Merger.
The suspension of the voluntary redemption of the Series B Redeemable Preferred Stock, voluntary redemptions of Series T Redeemable Preferred Stock and exercises of the Company Warrants is required by the Depositary in order to enable an accurate count of securities and to facilitate payment of the amounts due to the holders of the Series B Redeemable Preferred Stock, Series T Redeemable Preferred Stock and the Company's common stock in connection with the Merger and to determine those holders of the Company's common stock entitled to receive shares of common stock of Bluerock Homes Trust, Inc. ("BHM") in the proposed spin-off of the Company's single-family rental business to its common shareholders (the "Spin-Off" or the "Distribution", and together with the Merger, the "Transactions").
Any voluntary redemptions of Series B Redeemable Preferred Stock or Series T Redeemable Preferred Stock prior to the close of business on September 23, 2022 will be paid in cash in accordance with the standard redemption schedule. Any Company Warrant exercises submitted prior to the close of business on September 23, 2022 will be processed in accordance with the standard exercise schedule.
Effective as of the closing of the Merger, the Series B Redeemable Preferred Stock will be redeemed in cash for a redemption price equal to $1,000.00 (i.e., full Stated Value), plus an amount equal to all accrued and unpaid dividends to and including the redemption date, without interest, per share of Series B Redeemable Preferred Stock.
Effective as of the closing of the Merger, the Series T Redeemable Preferred Stock will be redeemed in cash for a redemption price equal to $25.00 (i.e., full Stated Value), plus an amount equal to all accrued and unpaid dividends to and including the redemption date, without interest, per share of Series T Redeemable Preferred Stock.
Company Warrants that are not exercised prior to their expiration will not be entitled to receive any consideration in connection with the Transactions. In order to implement the Spin-Off, the Depositary of the Company Warrants requires that exercises of Company Warrants be suspended from September 23, 2022 until after the closing of the Merger. Any Company Warrants not exercised prior to the close of business on September 23, 2022 will not be entitled to receive any common stock of BHM in the Spin-Off. The holder of any unexpired Company Warrant that exercises such Company Warrant after the closing of the Merger will only be entitled to receive a cash payment equal to the merger consideration of $24.25 per share less the exercise price.
Holders are urged to consult with their financial advisors as to the best and preferred course of action with regard to the Transactions. More information on the Merger is available in the Company's definitive proxy statement filed on March 11, 2022 and the supplements thereto, and more information on BHM is available in its registration statement on Form 10 filed on August 31, 2022 and any amendments or supplements thereto, which are available at www.sec.gov.
Information related to Company Warrants, including issue date, expiration date, forms, and the per share exercise price can all be found on the Company's public website at: https://bluerockresidential.com/investors/series-b-preferred-stock-and-warrants/.
Impacted CUSIP numbers are listed in Annex A.
This communication contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact are "forward-looking statements" for purposes of federal and state securities laws and may be identified by words such as "will," "expect," "believe," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "goal," "future," "outlook," "guidance," "target," "estimate" and similar words or expressions, including the negative version of such words and expressions. These forward-looking statements are based upon the Company's present expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which the Company operates and beliefs of and assumptions made by Company management, involve uncertainty that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and are not guaranteed to occur. Furthermore, the Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect changes in underlying assumptions or factors, of new information, data or methods, future events or other changes. Investors should not place undue reliance upon these forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, the Company's actual results and performance could differ materially from those set forth in these forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Factors that could have a material adverse effect on our operations, future prospects, the proposed Merger and the proposed separation of the Company's single-family residential real estate business from the Company's multi-family residential real estate business (the "Separation") and the Distribution include, but are not limited to: the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement; the failure to satisfy any of the conditions to the completion of the Merger, the Separation or the Distribution; the risks that the market does not value BHM shares at net asset value; the failure to recognize the potential benefits of the Separation and the Distribution due to, among other reasons, BHM's lack of liquidity, small market size or inability to grow and expand revenues and earnings following the Distribution; shareholder litigation in connection with the Merger, the Separation or the Distribution, which may affect the timing or occurrence of the Merger, the Separation or the Distribution or result in significant costs of defense, indemnification and liability; the effect of the announcement of the Merger and the Separation and the Distribution on the ability of the Company to retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with its tenants, vendors and others with whom it does business, or on its operating results and businesses generally; risks associated with the disruption of management's attention from ongoing business operations due to the Merger and the Separation and the Distribution; the ability to meet expectations regarding the timing and completion of the Merger and the Separation and the Distribution; the possibility that any opinions, consents or approvals required in connection with the Separation and the Distribution will not be received or obtained in the expected time frame, on the expected terms or at all; and significant transaction costs, fees, expenses and charges. There can be no assurance that the Merger, the Separation, the Distribution or any other transaction described above will in fact be consummated in the expected time frame, on the expected terms or at all. There can be no assurance as to the impact of COVID-19 and other potential future outbreaks of infectious diseases on the Company's or BHM's financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and performance and those of their respective tenants as well as on the economy and real estate and financial markets, which may impact the timing or occurrence of the Merger, the Separation or the Distribution. For further discussion of the factors that could affect outcomes, please refer to the risk factors set forth in Item 1A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the Company with the SEC on March 11, 2022, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings by the Company with the SEC. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise such statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. The Company claims the safe harbor protection for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE American: BRG) is a real estate investment trust that focuses on developing and acquiring a diversified portfolio of institutional-quality highly amenitized live/work/play apartment communities in demographically attractive knowledge economy growth markets to appeal to the renter by choice. The Company's objective is to generate value through off-market/relationship-based transactions and, at the asset level, through value-add improvements to properties and to operations. BRG has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
For more information, please visit our website at: www.bluerockresidential.com.
ANNEX A
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, the sold product tanker Stena Primorsk was delivered to its new owner. The other two recently sold vessels are expected to be delivered at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, respectively. After the sale of the three vessels, Stena Primorsk, Stena Performance and Stena Provence, the review of the remaining vessels in the fleet continues.
The market for transport of refined products, vegetable oils and light chemicals has had a strong development since March this year. Both freight rates and vessel asset values have risen. Concordia Maritime has therefore, as previously communicated, agreed on the sale of the three older ships; Stena Primorsk, Stena Performance and Stena Provence, all built in 2006. Earlier this week Stena Primorsk was delivered. The delivery took place in Montevideo, Uruguay.
In accordance with the existing bank agreement, the surplus from the sale of Stena Primorsk has been used for accelerated amortization of loans. In total, after deducting costs related to the sale, app. 19 MUSD have been used for accelerated repayment of loans. After the sales of the other two product tankers have been completed, the total interest-bearing liabilities are expected to be reduced by a further app. USD 36 million.
"In 2022, we'll have sold and delivered seven vessels in total. The first ones were sold to avoid docking costs and to strengthen the company's financial position, the subsequent ones primarily in order to take advantage of the strong market for ships", says Erik Lewenhaupt, CEO of Concordia Maritime.
High asset values and continued review of the fleet
Since the beginning of the year, the asset values of the ships have risen, in some cases by over 50 percent. For older ships, the increase has been even bigger in percentage terms. After the sale of the three ships, the review of the remaining vessels in the fleet continues. All with the aim of maximizing the value of the company's assets.
"Our fleet has long-term contracts, which were signed under different market conditions, provide a stable return - but with a limited yield in current market conditions. We have therefore capitalised on the high asset values and are keeping an open mind about the opportunities for our remaining tonnage. We may sell one or more ships, if we identify attractive opportunities. Timing is important in our industry in terms of both purchases and sales - so it's all about being able to respond to fluctuations in the market. Work is proceeding in parallel to further develop the company," says Erik Lewenhaupt.
This information is information that Concordia Maritime Aktiebolag (publ) is obliged to publish in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was provided by the contact person below for publication on 1 December, 2022 at 17:00 CET.
CONTACT:
For more information, please contact:
Erik Lewenhaupt
CEO, Concordia Maritime AB
+46 704 855 188
erik.lewenhaupt@concordiamaritime.com
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WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. (AP) — A Florida trooper was shot in the torso, and a suspect was fatally shot, during a chase and an exchange of gunfire between troopers and two men suspected of trying to steal a pickup truck on a highway, authorities said Saturday.
The two suspects had been attempting to steal the pickup truck early Saturday on Interstate 75, or items in the vehicle, when they were interrupted by a trooper and fled northbound in another truck. During the pursuit, the men fired several times at the trooper's vehicle, hitting a tanker truck instead, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.
At some point, the suspects headed in the other direction, southbound, on Interstate 75 and two other troopers joined the pursuit. One of the troopers was able to do a bump maneuver against the suspects' trucks, bringing the chase to a halt. The suspects fled on foot into some woods, and then one of the suspects surrendered to the troopers and was taken into custody. The other suspect shot at one of the troopers, striking in the torso, and the trooper returned fire, fatally shooting the suspect, the news release said.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene, and the trooper was airlifted to a nearby hospital in stable condition.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The DeLand family responded after Ken DeLand, Jr. was found safe in Spain last week — saying they are grateful for all the help in locating him.
The 21-year-old St. John Fisher University student was studying abroad in France before leaving his French host family’s home on November 27. He was reported missing days later. It was then said that he entered a store in Montelimar on December 3 to make a transaction. The family launched a website to help in searching for him.
On December 16, Ken DeLand, Sr. — his father — confirmed that his son was found safe in Spain after finally making contact with his son. DeLand Sr. said his son is safe and in good health.
In a statement made by the DeLand family on Tuesday, they expressed their gratitude to everyone who helped in their search for DeLand, Jr.:
“We continue to send our gratitude to the members of our community, the media, St. John Fisher College, and AIFS. The love and support we received while Kenny was missing were beyond measure, and our gratitude could never be enough. Kenny is a joy to many – his family, friends, colleagues, students, parents, and everyone who knows him.“
“What Kenny went through while he was missing is still a blur, and we, as a family, continue to be with Kenny while he heals and processes. We appreciate all the expressions of love and concern we have received. We are grateful beyond measure to local, state, federal, and international law enforcement for their tireless efforts to find Kenny and bring him home.“
“We hope that everyone, including media representatives, understands the need for the family to be with Kenny and process what he has gone through in privacy without outside intrusion during this time.“
Sincerely,
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CDC investigating salmonella outbreak in 6 states linked to cookie dough
WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak across six states possibly linked to a raw cookie dough product.
At least 18 people have become ill, including two reported hospitalizations, between Feb. 27 and May 2, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Interviews with those who have become ill showed that nine sick people reported eating raw cookie dough from Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’ Bake Pizza in the week before they got sick, the CDC said Wednesday.
The Papa Murphy’s chocolate chip cookie dough is pictured in a provided image (Credit: CDC)
Salmonella infections have been reported in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, California and Missouri, the CDC said, adding that the true number of sick people in the outbreak is "likely much higher than the number reported."
"This is because many people recover without medical care and are not tested for Salmonella," the CDC said.
No deaths have been reported.
The take-and-bake pizza company, based in Vancouver, Washington, has temporarily stopped selling its raw chocolate chip cookie dough and raw S’mores bars dough as a result.
The Papa Murphy’s S’mores bars dough is pictured in a provided image (Credit: CDC)
At least two sick people did not eat at Papa Murphy’s, and the CDC said investigators were working to identify the contaminated ingredient in the raw cookie dough.
Customers were encouraged to check their refrigerator and freezer for the Papa Murphy’s cookie dough products. The CDC said people should throw the dough away, even if they didn’t get sick after eating some of it.
Most people infected with Salmonella have diarrhea, a fever, and stomach cramps, and symptoms usually start 6 hours to six days after swallowing the bacteria. Most typically recover without treatment after four to seven days, the CDC said.
However, some people – particularly children younger than 5 years, adults 65 years and older, and people with weakened immune systems – may experience more severe illnesses that require medical treatment or hospitalization, the agency said.
RELATED: General Mills recalls Gold Medal flour varieties over Salmonella risk
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 9, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Hanford CA
1043 AM PST Mon Jan 9 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM PST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of central California, including the following
counties, Fresno and Madera.
* WHEN...Until 1130 AM PST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring or is
imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1043 AM PST, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain. Minor
flooding is ongoing or expected to continue in the advisory
area, including areas of poor draining. Between 1.0 and 1.5
inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Fresno, Clovis, Calwa and Easton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM PST THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Small stream flooding caused by excessive rainfall
continues.
county, Monterey.
* WHEN...Until 1115 PM PST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying
and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Streams
continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall.
Low-water crossings are inundated with water and may not be
passable.
- At 1046 AM PST, Flooding is already occurring in the warned
area. Between 2 and 4 inches of rain have fallen over the
last 12 hours.
- Flooding is occurring along the Big Sur River near Big Sur.
Big Sur Village and Andrew Molera State Park.
Stay away or be swept away. River banks and culverts can become
unstable and unsafe.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or
creeks.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Rookie sensation Julio Rodríguez was a last-minute scratch from the Seattle Mariners' lineup Friday night for a game against the Houston Astros with left wrist soreness.
The Mariners announced moments before first pitch that the 21-year-old would not play as Seattle tried for its 15th consecutive victory, which would match the franchise record set in 2001. The team did not say how Rodríguez was injured.
Rodríguez was slated to hit leadoff and play center field in the Mariners’ first game back from the All-Star Break. Dylan Moore made the start in center instead.
Rodríguez is days removed from a national coming out party at the All-Star Home Run Derby, where he lost to Juan Soto in the finals despite totaling a derby-most 81 home runs. He also played in his first All-Star Game on Tuesday.
He's a favorite for AL Rookie of the Year after hitting .275 with 16 home runs, 21 stolen bases, 52 RBIs and an .814 OPS during the season's first half.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
Flood Watch
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
239 AM PST Mon Dec 26 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...A portion of northern California, including the following
areas, Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore,
Marin Coastal Range, North Bay Interior Mountains, North Bay
Interior Valleys and Sonoma Coastal Range.
* WHEN...From late tonight through Tuesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur
in poor drainage and urban areas. Storm drains and ditches may
become clogged with debris.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
* WHERE...Portions of northern California and western California,
including the following areas, in northern California, Northern
Monterey Bay, San Francisco Peninsula Coast and Santa Cruz
Mountains. In western California, San Francisco.
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH
TUESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHERE...A portion of central California, including the following
areas, Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest and
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast.
* WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Tuesday afternoon.
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PHOENIX, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TouchPoint Solution, a leading provider of neuroscientific wearables, is pleased to announce its charitable giveback initiative in honor of Autism Acceptance Month. Throughout the month of April, the company will donate a portion of its sales made using discount code "Autism15" to support organizations dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with autism. Customers using this code will receive 15% off of their order, with a portion of the proceeds going to Autism support organizations.
TouchPoint Solution is committed to supporting the autism community, and this initiative is a testament to that commitment. The company's wearable devices utilize neuroscientific technology to reduce stress and anxiety, which can be particularly beneficial for individuals with autism who may struggle with sensory overload and other related issues.
"We recognize the importance of Autism Acceptance Month and want to do our part to support the individuals and families impacted by autism," said Vicki Mayo, CEO of TouchPoint Solution. "Our wearable devices offer a drug-free, non-invasive way to reduce stress and anxiety, and we're proud to donate a portion of our sales to organizations that are doing important work in this space."
TouchPoint Solution's wearable devices are designed to be worn on the wrists, held in the hands, or clipped onto clothing, and use gentle vibrations to reduce stress and anxiety. The technology behind the devices is based on decades of research in neuroscience and has been shown to be effective in reducing stress, improving sleep, and enhancing focus.
Throughout Autism Acceptance Month, customers who purchase Touchpoint Solution's wearable devices will be directly contributing to the cause. TouchPoint Solution will donate a portion of sales to support organizations dedicated to autism research, education, and advocacy. Organizations wishing to partner with The TouchPoint Solution during Autism Acceptance Month can reach out to Grant Stoecker at media@thetouchpointsolution.com.
For more information on Touchpoint Solution's charitable giveback initiative or to purchase a wearable device, visit their website at www.thetouchpointsolution.com.
About Touchpoint Solution:
Touchpoint Solution is a neuroscientific wearables company that utilizes bi-lateral alternating tactile stimulation (BLAST) to alleviate stress and anxiety. Touchpoints can be worn on either side of the body in the form of a watch, wristband, or clip. The devices are non-invasive, drug-free, and can be used by people of all ages.
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Massive seaweed belt headed for some Atlantic beaches
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt — as the biomass stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is called — contains scattered patches of seaweed on the open sea, rather than one continuous blob of sargassum. It’s not a new occurrence, but satellite images captured in February showed an earlier start than usual for such a large accumulation in the open ocean.
Once it washes ashore, sargassum is a nuisance — a thick, brown algae that carpets beaches, releasing a pungent smell as it decays and ensnares humans and animals who step into it. For hotels and resorts, clearing the stuff off beaches can amount to a round-the-clock operation.
Here’s a look at this year’s sargassum seaweed bloom:
WHAT IS SARGASSUM?
A leafy brown seaweed festooned with what look like berries. The seawood floats on the open ocean and — unlike other seaweeds — it reproduces on the water’s surface, helped by air-filled structures that give it buoyancy.
Sargassum originates in a vast stretch of the Atlantic Ocean called the Sargasso Sea, which lies well off the southeast U.S. The Sargasso has no land boundaries; instead, four prevailing ocean currents form its boundaries.
The matted brown seaweed stretches for miles across the ocean and provides breeding ground, food and habitat for fish, sea turtles and marine birds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“It’s a dynamic, constantly changing set of pieces of this large mass,” said Rick Lumpkin, director of the Physical Oceanography Division at NOAA. “It’s not one big continuous blob heading straight to South Florida.”
WHY IS IT A PROBLEM?
Sargassum piles up on beaches where it quickly decomposes under hot sun, releasing gases that smell like rotten eggs.
In recent years, sargassum has carpeted beaches on some Caribbean islands and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula in the spring and summer months. Beach towns and cities and hotels have struggled to keep up with the huge amounts of seaweed that wash ashore.
WHAT ABOUT THIS YEAR?
Some sargassum has already reached beaches in Key West, said Chuanmin Hu, a professor of oceanography at the University of South Florida. But most of it will arrive in the summer, Hu said.
“What is unusual this year compared to previous years is it started early,” Hu said. The algae generally blooms in the spring and summer, but “this year, in the winter, we already have a lot.”
Southern Florida, the Caribbean and the Yucatán Peninsula typically see sargassum piling up in the summer months and could expect the same this year, Hu said.
IS THIS MUCH SARGASSUM UNUSUAL?
It’s a lot, but it’s been worse.
Scientists estimate there’s more than 10 million metric tons of sargassum in the belt this year. Lumpkin called it “one of the strongest years, but not the strongest” since scientists began closely observing the biomass via satellite imagery in 2011.
He said there was more in 2018. The years 2019 and 2021 also saw a great deal of sargassum, he said.
WHAT CAUSES IT?
Scientists aren’t exactly sure, in part because it wasn’t closely monitored until 2011.
“We do know that to get a lot of seaweed, you need nutrients, and you need sunlight. Of course, as you get close to the equator, there’s going to be more sunlight,” said Mike Parsons, a professor of marine science at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Parsons and other experts say agricultural runoff seeping into the Amazon and Orinoco rivers and eventually the ocean could explain the increased growth of the belt on the western side. Parsons said warming waters likely help the seaweed grow faster. Changes in wind patterns, sea currents, rainfall and drought could also affect blooms.
“It may be the entire belt is fed more some years than others by dust that contains iron and other nutrients that comes from the Sahara Desert,” said Lumpkin, of NOAA.
It’s not clear whether climate change is playing any part. Hu said extreme weather that is happening more frequently due to climate change — high wind events, storms, more precipitation — could be a contributor.
IS SARGASSUM HARMFUL TO HUMAN HEALTH?
It can be. When sargassum decomposes, it releases ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, which accounts for the rotten-egg stench. Brief exposure isn’t enough to make people sick, but prolonged exposure — especially for those with respiratory issues — can be dangerous, scientists say.
Hu said it could be an issue for hotel workers and others who may spend hours removing the decomposing sargassum from beaches.
Left to rot on the beach, sargassum can turn into a problem. It can harm coastal marine ecosystems and also supports the growth of fecal bacteria.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, Greece said Iran freed two Greek oil tankers held by Tehran since May.
The drone attack on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon happened Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, one Mideast-based defense official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to discuss the attack publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Pacific Zircon is operated by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, which is a company ultimately owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer.
In a statement, Eastern Pacific Shipping said the Pacific Zircon, carrying gas oil, had been “hit by a projectile” some 150 miles (240 kilometers) off the coast of Oman.
“We are in communication with the vessel and there is no reports of injuries or pollution. All crew are safe and accounted for,” the company said. “There is some minor damage to the vessel’s hull but no spillage of cargo or water ingress.”
An Israeli official, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity to discuss unpublicized details of the attack, said that it appeared Iran carried out the attack with a Shahed-136 exploding drone. Iran has supplied those drones to Russia, which has been using them to target infrastructure and civilian targets in Ukraine.
“It is an Iranian attack, there is a consensus on this in the Israeli intelligence and defense community,” the official said.
Iran’s government did not acknowledge the attack on the Pacific Zircon. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The strike came hours after the U.S. Navy announced it found 70 tons of a missile fuel component hidden among bags of fertilizer aboard a ship bound to Yemen from Iran, a major seizure potentially disrupting the Iranian-backed Houthis’ ballistic missile program there.
Oil prices rose slightly as news of the attack spread, with benchmark Brent crude trading above $94 a barrel.
Later Wednesday, Greek officials said two of Greek oil tankers — Delta Poseidon and Prudent Warrior — had been freed, along with their sailors.
Tracking data from MarineTraffic.com showed the vessels sailing away from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas where they had been held since May after being seized in a helicopter-born raid by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Their seizure came after Greece assisted the United States in attempting to seize oil days earlier from the Iranian-flagged tanker Lana to enforce American sanctions.
“Today is a very pleasant day for our sailors, but also for Greece in general, since an unpleasant and particularly complex case came to an end, following systematic efforts by the Greek government,” Greek Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis said in a statement.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry later acknowledged the release of the Greek tankers, saying that the ships and the Iranian vessel detained by Greece previously had all left for their destinations. Both Greek ships appeared to be heading to the United Arab Emirates.
While no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack off the coast of Oman, suspicion immediately fell on Iran. Tehran and Israel have been engaged in a yearslong shadow war in the wider Middle East, with some drone attacks targeting Israeli-associated vessels traveling around the region.
The U.S. also blamed Iran for a series of attacks occurring off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in 2019. Tehran at the time had begun escalating its nuclear program following the unilateral U.S. withdraw from Iran’s atomic deal with world powers.
In 2021, a suspected Iranian drone strike hit the Israeli-associated oil tanker Mercer Street off Oman, killing two people onboard.
It wasn’t immediately clear where the vessel was Wednesday. Satellite-tracking data from late Tuesday provided by MarineTraffic.com put the vessel deep in the Arabian Sea after leaving the Omani port of Sohar.
Since the collapse of Iran’s nuclear deal, nonproliferation experts warn the Islamic Republic now has enough enriched uranium to make at least one nuclear weapon if it chose, though Tehran insists its program is peaceful.
Iran also has been lashing out at its perceived enemies abroad amid monthslong nationwide protests now challenging its theocracy.
Torbjorn Soltvedt, an analyst at the risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft, said the attack “does not come as a surprise.”
“The risk of attacks against shipping and energy infrastructure in the wider region is rising mainly due to the lack of progress in U.S.-Iranian nuclear diplomacy and the decision by the Washington to apply further sanctions pressure on Iran,” he said. “Since 2019, Iran has consistently responded to new U.S. sanctions with covert military action in the region.”
“There is not just an increasing risk of disruptive attacks against energy infrastructure in the region, but also a growing risk of a wider military confrontation with more serious consequences for world energy markets,” he added.
The oil tanker attack also comes comes just days ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. While Doha maintains good relations with Tehran, with whom it shares a massive natural offshore natural gas field, Israelis will be attending the tournament. Iran’s national team also will face Britain and the U.S. in first-round matches, two countries it accuses of fomenting the unrest in Iran.
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Associated Press writers Tia Goldenberg and Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem and Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece, contributed to this report.
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BALTIMORE - Surely Brian Cashman had the same reaction as Yankees fans watching Anthony Santander’s walk-off HR in the ninth inning Friday night – pure agony. Everything about the 1-0 loss to the Orioles was designed to break the franchise’s spirit, from ownership, to the players, down to the folks at home who wanted to smash their TVs as the O’s celebrated.
Aaron Boone knew it wasn’t enough to call it a “tough” defeat. He said it twice for emphasis. And even then, there was no proper way to describe the dejection in the clubhouse.
The Yankees fired all their bullets at the Orioles in this must-win series: Gerrit Cole was at his season-best, throwing seven shutout innings. And Aaron Judge, having returned to the lineup for the first time since June 3, got on base three times.
And yet, by the end of the night, the Yankees had fallen nine games behind the first-place Orioles. More importantly they’re 3.5 games out of the wild-card race. The situation has deteriorate from “concerning” to “critical.”
That puts the onus squarely on Cashman, who has three days to acquire reinforcements for Judge. If the GM was hoping for a miracle turnaround with No. 99 back in the No. 2 spot, it’s time to wake up.
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The current roster doesn’t have the firepower to catapult the Yankees back into the wild card race. The Yankees are 13th in the American League in runs scored this month. Even the Royals have out-produced them, which is an embarrassment.
The reality is that Boone’s lineup is littered with easy outs, all of whom were exposed by Orioles’ rookie Grayson Rodriguez. Give the kid credit, though. He was throwing close 100-mph and was able to match Cole inning for inning. Rodriguez represents the can-do aptitude that’s turning the O’s’ season a miracle.
But none of that should’ve come at the Yankees’ expense – not when Cole was in Terminator mode. A bona fide contender has to prevail when their ace is putting zeroes on the scoreboard. That Cole ended up with a no-decision was unforgivable.
No one has to explain this to Cashman. He knows. So does Boone.
The manager spoke eloquently about rebounding Saturday against the Orioles. For once he was right when he said the Yankees had played their best. Up until the moment Kahnle’s change-up was tomahawked by Santander over the right field wall, the Bombers had done nearly everything right.
And it still wasn’t enough.
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Cashman has to choose one of two paths. He can either launch a full, frontal assault for Cody Bellinger, even if it means a wild overpay. The Yankees are otherwise in danger of being boxed out for the Cubs’ slugger.
The problem is that everyone wants Bellinger. That means Cashman can’t take “no” for answer. That was his mistake in 2022, when the Mariners swooped in to pluck right-hander Luis Castillo from the Reds.
The Yankees, who’d been talking to Cincinnati, never even got a chance to make a best-and-final offer for Castillo. The Mariners outmaneuvered the competition, Yankees included.
Option Two would be to start re-tooling for 2024, which means taking a long, hard look at the kids. Cashman knows nothing is mathematically impossible in late July, but neither is he a dreamer. He probably knows this stat by heart: the Yankees once had an 80 percent chance of making the playoffs (per Fangraphs.com). That likelihood is now down to 28 percent.
That’s a disaster for a club with a $240 million payroll. But at this rate the Yankees will soon be walking in the Mets’ shoes as the worst team money could buy.
One caveat, though: I don’t think Cashman would ever allow the franchise to crater while building a next-generation contender. He won’t let the Yankees become the 2018 Orioles, who lost 100 or more games three times in the next four years.
The Yankees, after all, still have their pillars – Cole and Judge – which means the foundation will remain intact for at least 3-4 more years. But it’s becoming apparent what the 2023 Bombers really are. The empty offense is slowly sabotaging this group. There’ve been too many games like the one the Yankees just lost on Friday.
Don’t ask Judge to agree, however. Instead of allowing himself to be swept into the popular narrative – Judge returns, goes deep, rescues Yankees – he exercised enough discipline to draw three weeks. Most hitters, fresh off the Injured List, would’ve likely spent the night swinging for Mars.
Judge, however, said, hasn’t given up. His toe isn’t 100 percent healed, he probably won’t play everyday down the stretch. And yet none of that bothers Judge enough to notice the walls are closing in on the Yankees.
But Cashman does. He didn’t need any further explanation after Santander’s finished circling the bases Friday. While the Orioles were busy going full Animal House, the Yankees had sunk deeper in last place than at any time since 1992.
Now that was a lousy year. Look it up. Because history is repeating itself.
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — For three years, the annual Casablanca event has taken a break but it’s back now.
President of CASA Board Jessica Contreras said the event is geared toward letting the community know that court-appointed special advocates are always needed.
“I wish that our community was more aware of the amount that we get per day, and it happens right here within our community. Every day that we get a case that a child has been abused or neglected, that’s pretty much an everyday thing, and I wish there was more awareness on that,” Contreras said.
All proceeds from the event will go back to the CASA organization. Children who are taken into their care sometimes come without basic necessities such as shoes or backpacks.
The funds also help volunteers make commutes statewide.
“Some of our children are placed, out of the county, some of them are placed in the Dallas County, Houston area, all around the state, and this event is going to help our volunteers with expenses so that they can be able to make that commute,” Contreras said.
Contreras and her committee have been working hard for the return of Casablanca and are ready for the community to enjoy a night full of games, food, drinks, and live music, with one goal in mind.
“This is one of our main fundraisers, and it’s to bring more awareness, to our surrounding areas. Child abuse, unfortunately, is not going away, and it’s also to bring more volunteers to partner every child that comes into our care with a volunteer,” Contreras said.
She adds the necessity for volunteers is vital for each child. Volunteers are a part of their life throughout their entire case.
“Very beginning to the very end of the case. If you have a heart for children, a passion, it’s vital that these children have someone that they can lean on, that they can count on, and not someone that’s going to be in and out of their lives, but someone that’s going to be there,” Contreras said.
Raising funds and giving a helping hand, for children in need.
Casablanca takes place on April 15 down at the Forum, and tickets are $125. To purchase tickets, stop by the CASA location on 808 Austin Street.
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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.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Pavin Smith hit a three-run homer, Zac Gallen had another strong start on the mound and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Atlanta Braves 6-2 on Monday night.
The Diamondbacks snapped a four-game losing streak, bouncing back after getting swept by the Dodgers over the weekend.
Arizona took a 6-2 lead in the fifth, scoring three runs a few minutes after manager Torey Lovullo was thrown out of the game for arguing. Ketel Marte had a two-out, two-run double and David Peralta followed with an RBI single that brought home Marte.
All three runs scored after the Braves should have been out of the inning: Gold Glove first baseman Matt Olson dropped a throw that would have completed an inning-ending double play.
Gallen (4-0) gave up two runs over 5 2/3 innings, scattering seven hits and two walks while striking out six. The right-hander has a 2.32 ERA this season through nine starts.
Spencer Strider (1-2) made his first career start for the Braves after 13 career appearances out of the bullpen. The right-hander has an overpowering fastball that hovers near 100 miles per hour and showed it by striking out the first two hitters he faced.
That early success quickly hit a speed bump. Marte reached on an infield single, Peralta followed with a bloop double and then Smith crushed a 3-run homer deep into the right-field seats to give the D-backs a 3-1 lead.
Strider was better for the next few innings but was pulled after running into trouble in the fifth. He gave up five runs over 4 1/3 innings, striking out seven while giving up four hits and two walks.
Austin Riley hit a solo homer for Atlanta, which was his 12th long ball of the season.
GETTING TOSSED
Lovullo was ejected in the fifth inning after confronting home plate umpire John Libka.
Gallen was upset about a borderline pitch to Ozzie Albies that was called ball three and had a few words with Libka. The next pitch was low and Albies walked.
If wasn't clear whether Gallen said something after the walk, but Libka started to walk toward Gallen before catcher Jose Herrera got in front of him. The situation looked like it was calming down before Lovullo charged out of the dugout, yelling at Libka while pointing in the umpire's face. Lovullo was immediately ejected.
The ejection appeared to give the D-backs a spark: Gallen got out of the fifth without giving up a run and then the offense responded with three more runs for a 6-2 lead.
UP NEXT
The teams continue their series on Tuesday. The D-backs will throw RHP Humberto Castellanos (3-2, 5.22 ERA). The Braves will counter with RHP Charlie Morton (3-3, 5.28).
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Data-centric AI automation to accelerate data governance and data management
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BigID, the leading data intelligence platform that enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, security, and governance, today announced AI automation & auto-classification designed to accelerate data governance and data management.
Organizations can now leverage patented AI to automatically classify and tag data for data governance across their entire data landscape - including multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With these capabilities, customers can:
- Gain data trust with deep data context, accuracy, and insight
- Streamline data retention with out of the box data lifecycle management from tagging to data aging
- Enrich existing data catalogs with privacy, security, and risk-aware context
- Improve data quality with consistency and context
BigID will highlight these capabilities at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida on August 22, 23, and 24 - don't miss the session "How ServiceNow uses auto-classification to find a needle in the data haystack" on Wednesday, August 24 at 11:15 AM, showcasing how the data governance team at ServiceNow finds the right data at the right time with BigID, and creates value across the org through data governance.
Learn more:
- Visit booth #646 at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit to see auto classification in action
- Join BigID at 11:15 AM on Wednesday, August 24 for the session "How ServiceNow uses auto-classification to find a needle in the data haystack"
- Read "4 Ways to Automate Classification for Data Governance With BigID"
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Anti-vaccine advocates have for years used foreboding imagery of syringes to paint immunizations as dark and dangerous. But recent vaccine conspiracy theories are casting an air of fear around more mundane things — like cows and lettuce.
In widespread posts online in recent weeks, misinformation purveyors have spread an erroneous narrative that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are being quietly added to the food supply, threatening staunch vaccine holdouts.
In some cases, users misrepresented the limited use of RNA-based vaccines in animals. In others, they distorted a company’s research into using plants to grow proteins used in vaccines.
But experts confirm there are no COVID-19 vaccines in your steak or salad. Here are the facts.
CLAIM: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are being added to the food supply through livestock and produce.
THE FACTS: COVID-19 vaccines are not being passed along through livestock or produce, and experts say that would not be an efficient way to immunize someone. A flurry of social media posts are falsely suggesting otherwise.
“The Unvaccinated Won’t Be Unvaccinated for Long With mRNA in the Food Supply,” reads one tweet shared thousands of times. Another asks: “Did you know they will be giving all of our livestock the covid vaccine this year?”
A TikTok video shared on Instagram, meanwhile, questions whether Whole Foods customers are unknowingly being vaccinated with “the C19 mRNA shot via food products” and shows pictures of arugula and lettuce packages.
In reality, there are no COVID-19 mRNA vaccines licensed for animals, Marissa Perry, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, told The Associated Press. She noted that the department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service “has not approved and does not have any vaccines under trial to vaccinate livestock for COVID-19.”
Some animals, particularly those in zoos considered susceptible, have received vaccines against COVID-19. But those immunizations do not rely on mRNA technology, said Suresh Kuchipudi, a veterinary scientist and chair of emerging infectious diseases at Penn State University.
In terms of vaccines more generally, there are some RNA-based vaccines licensed for animals. For example, the pharmaceutical company Merck offers a customizable vaccine against the flu and other viruses in pigs to protect a specific herd as needed. That approach predates the advent of humans’ COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and the technology is not the same.
There are no mRNA vaccines for any disease being used in cattle in the U.S., the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association emphasized in a recent statement addressing online misinformation. Farmers and ranchers ultimately choose which vaccines, if any, to give their animals.
Regardless, the notion that an mRNA vaccine could be transmitted to humans through eating meat is not rooted in science.
“No, it could not be transferred,” Ted Ross, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Georgia and director of the Center for Vaccines and Immunology, said in an email. He said mRNA vaccines have a very short duration in living organisms and degrades.
In addition to the mRNA breaking down quickly, it’s unlikely it would survive the cooking process to hypothetically be passed along to consumers, experts said.
Additionally, regulators require something called a “withdrawal time,” a minimum amount of time that must pass between a food animal getting a vaccine and entering the food chain, Alan Young, a professor of veterinary and biomedical science at South Dakota State University, recently told the AP.
There is also no evidence to support the notion that COVID-19 vaccines are being added to produce.
The TikTok video about Whole Foods homed in on a clip of a co-founder of New Jersey-based AeroFarms, an indoor vertical farming company that grows leafy greens.
But the video misrepresented the work described by AeroFarms co-founder David Rosenberg. Rosenberg was discussing early research into growing proteins that could theoretically be used for vaccines, not making edible vaccines that would be on a store shelf.
“Couldn’t be further from the truth,” Marc Oshima, AeroFarms co-founder and chief marketing officer, said of the claim that the company’s vegetables contain a COVID-19 vaccine.
The research initiative Rosenberg discussed, which is no longer active, was part of a research and development arm of the company and separate from its commercial products, Oshima said. The farms for research and commercial products are separate spaces.
While some researchers have explored the possibility of growing edible vaccines — an appealing idea for use in countries where vaccine storage can be an issue — that concept is “far, far away from being proven,” said Shawn Chen, a professor at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy.
Chen said scientists have used plants to grow vaccines that can be extracted and used for injections. But producing edible vaccines is tricky in terms of getting the right dosage and delivering the medicine through the gut. That approach, he said, would require much more work, including trials and approvals, before it could even theoretically enter the market.
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Tennessee House moves to expel 3 Democrats after gun protest
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps Monday to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state Capitol.
The extraordinarily rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing the move and has further fractured an already deep political division inside the Tennessee Legislature.
Resolutions have been filed against Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led chants from the House floor with supporters in the gallery last Thursday. The resolution declared that the three had participated in “disorderly behavior” and “did knowingly and intentionally bring disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”
Republican Reps. Bud Hulsey, Gino Bulso, and Andrew Farmer filed the resolutions. They successfully requested Monday that the House expedite the process and vote on the resolutions Thursday.
Despite support from the Republican supermajority, their requests sparked outrage among supporters watching in the gallery. Their loud jeers led House Speaker Cameron Sexton to demand that they be removed by state troopers. Also during the turmoil, several lawmakers engaged in a confrontation on the House floor. Jones later accused another member of stealing his phone and trying to “incite a riot with his fellow members.”
Sexton deemed Jones out of order and cut off Jones’ microphone.
Hundreds of protesters packed the Capitol last week calling for the Republican-led Statehouse to pass gun control measures in response to the Nashville school shooting that resulted in the deaths of six people. As the chants echoed throughout the Capitol, Jones, Johnson and Pearson approached the front of the House chamber with a bullhorn.
As the three shared the bullhorn and cheered on the crowd, Sexton, a Republican, quickly called for a recess. He later vowed the three would face consequences. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Karen Camper described their actions as “good trouble,” a reference to the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ guiding principal.
By Monday, Sexton confirmed that the three lawmakers had been stripped of their committee assignments and said more punishments could be on the way. A few hours later, House Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison referred to Jones as the “former representative” during the evening session.
Pearson and Jones are both freshman lawmakers. Johnson has served in the House since 2019. All three have been highly critical of the Republican supermajority. Jones was temporarily banned from the Tennessee Capitol in 2019 after throwing a cup of liquid at former House Speaker Glen Casada and other lawmakers while protesting the bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest inside the Capitol.
Expelling lawmakers is an extraordinary action inside the Tennessee Capitol. Just two other House members have ever been ousted from the chamber since the Civil War.
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Midland High’s wrestling team went 4-1 at the Gladwin Super Duals on Saturday. The Chemics beat Standish-Sterling 52-32, beat Pine River 51-30, beat Bay City John Glenn 53-21, beat Houghton Lake 64-6, and lost to eventual champion Lakeville 32-30.
Winning all of their matches for Midland were Noah Anderson at 113 pounds, Ryan Ludwig at 138, Cole Schelb at 150, and Avery Simons at 165.
Austin Anderson (106), Lucas Berg (120), Lincoln Klinski (175), and Daniel Abikphi (215) each finished 4-1.
The Chemics will head to Dow High on Wednesday.
MUSTANGS GRAPPLE AT TOUGH NEW LOTHROP MEET
Meridian’s wrestling team competed at the New Lothrop Hall of Fame Invitational over the weekend.
On Friday, in the junior varsity competition, Ethen Methner (138 pounds) and AJ Holsinger (165) both finished 4-1 and took second place for the Mustangs.
In Saturday’s varsity action in a field full of highly-ranked competition, Meridian’s Justin Wood (126) went 2-2, while Reece Teer (120), Alex Goodson (138), Johnathon Durfee (190), and Dawson Kolka (215) each finished 1-2.
The Mustangs will host a quad on Tuesday.
BEAVERTON GIRLS LET LEAD SLIP AWAY LATE
Beaverton squandered a halftime lead against Shepherd on Friday, falling 47-46 to the Bluejays in Jack Pine Conference girls’ basketball.
The Beavers led 14-11 after one quarter and 28-17 at the break, but Shepherd outscored BHS 14-10 in the third quarter to cut it to 38-31, then had a 16-8 advantage in the fourth.
“You can’t turn the ball over 29 times and expect to win many games,” said Beaverton coach Jason Hubble. “We still had a chance at the buzzer for a layup that would have won it, but it wasn’t meant to be. We need to work on more fundamentals to limit the turnovers.”
Leiyah Mungin led the Beavers (3-5) with 21 points, while Bryar Pollard had nine points, and Faith Danielak added eight. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/highschool/article/Prep-Roundup-Chemics-go-4-1-at-Gladwin-meet-17704898.php | 2023-01-09 17:04:14 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/highschool/article/Prep-Roundup-Chemics-go-4-1-at-Gladwin-meet-17704898.php |
WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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...Red Flag Warning for Gusty Winds and Low Humidity Thursday and
Friday...
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and east winds to interior northern California. Winds will be
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through Friday morning. The strongest winds will be over the west
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weather conditions. Lighter winds are expected on Saturday, but
humidity values will remain in the single digits and teens.
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NEW YORK (AP) — From the moment he read Cormac McCarthy’s “All the Pretty Horses,” James Wade knew he was a fan for life and that his aspirations, as an author of Westerns, would never be the same.
“He really broke free from the traditional Western,” says Wade, a two-time winner of the Spur Award for outstanding Western writing whose novel “All Things Left Wild” was billed as “an illustration of the violence and corruption prevalent in our fast-expanding country” — a description that could have been applied to much of McCarthy’s work.
“He included all those elements from traditional Westerns, like cowboys and horses, but he also almost single-handedly brought the Western into the literary realm,” Wade said. “As Western writers we can now take chances on more metaphysical topics, and not just heroes and villains.”
McCarthy , who died this week at 89, has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville, among others, excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised their narratives to tragic and poetic heights. His admirers can be found throughout the literary world and beyond, from such prize-winning fiction writers as Colson Whitehead and Rachel Kushner to actor Tommy Lee Jones and the Coen Brothers, who faithfully adapted his “No Country for Old Men” into an Oscar-winning movie.
“It’s like he was writing meta-Westerns,” says Kushner, author of “The Flamethrowers” and other novels. “He writes about people gripped by existential compulsion, who don’t know why they do the things they do.”
“He was so fiercely dedicated to his own vision that he gave you permission to pursue yours,” says Whitehead, whose books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Underground Railroad” and “Zero One,” a zombie apocalypse inspired in part by McCarthy’s “The Road,” winner of the Pulitzer in 2007. “I read ‘The Road’ and thought, ‘If Cormac can do “Mad Max,” I can do “Night of the Living Dead.”’”
For novelists of Westerns, he holds the kind of stature John le Carré has among spy novelists — as a master in the field whose work also transcended, and even reinvented it. The Western, a genre some feared was outdated, seemed new again. Authors remember encountering his work, from his Border Trilogy to “The Road” and “Blood Meridian,” as exhilarating and sometimes intimidating.
“I read ‘Blood Meridian’ in college and was utterly baffled. I didn’t possess the literary vocabulary at that point to understand what he was doing,” Spur-winning novelist David Heska Wanbli Weiden says of McCarthy.
Weiden — an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation whose debut novel, “Winter Counts,” centers on a Native vigilante at odds with the American legal system — came to appreciate the “audacity and ambition” of McCarthy and how he opened the genre to new kinds of stories.
“Most critics focus on his majestic, resplendent prose, but I see McCarthy’s influence on the genre to be his alternative mythology of the West, his aesthetic vision, and the detached, dispassionate presentation of the brutal violence that was (and is) a part of the Western frontier,” he says. “Whenever my own work is criticized for being overly violent, I recommend readers check out some of McCarthy’s later work.”
Kathleen Morris, whose novels include “Lily of the West,” also read “Blood Meridian” years ago and remembered being “awed” and “slightly terrified” by his prose and his storylines. McCarthy became a kind of literary conscience, an author she would find herself summoning — “What would the man think of that?” — while working on her own books.
Like Weiden and Morris, author Rudy Ruiz didn’t immediately find McCarthy pleasurable or even understandable. He would end up rereading the same page multiple times, making sure he hadn’t missed something, and thought the despair and the loneliness of McCarthy’s books “made them hard sometimes to engage with.”
For Ruiz, whose “Valley of Shadows” is set along the Texas-Mexico border in the 19th century, McCarthy’s influence would become literary and geographical. Ruiz is a Brownville, Texas, native who completed McCarthy’s Border Trilogy — “All the Pretty Horses,” “The Crossing” and “Cities of the Plain” — and responded to how it captured his own feelings about his native region.
“I was just really influenced by the way he captured the duality of the gritty realism alongside the stark beauty and power of the landscape, how a place can belong to a person as much as a person can belong to the place,” he says. “McCarthy shows these timeless concerns about identity and belonging, and how we define ourselves. That is very palpable in the Southwest.”
Gordy Sauer, whose debut novel “Child in the Valley” came out in 2021, says that McCarthy’s presence among contemporary writers of Westerns is so strong that you don’t have to read him to be influenced by him — “Anyone coming after that has to contend at least in theory with what he did and what he meant to the genre,” Sauer says.
He remembers working on a story in graduate school about 15 years ago and being told by a fellow student that it reminded him of McCarthy’s work, which he’d yet to read. When he did pick up “Blood Meridian,” the effect was “transformative,” he said, as if he would divide his life between before “Blood Meridian” and after.
“He broke down the Western and remade into an image of America unlike anything we had seen,” Sauer said. “He stripped away the romance and the idea of romance. He forced us to look beyond the fabric of the genre and into the stitching, to understand how it was made.” | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/for-novelists-of-westerns-cormac-mccarthy-transcended-and-reinvented-the-genre/ | 2023-06-17 02:27:45 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/for-novelists-of-westerns-cormac-mccarthy-transcended-and-reinvented-the-genre/ |
For each recipe submitted, the brand will donate $1 to an organization that strengthens generational bonds and will enter fans for a chance to win a sweet trip to Italy
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ciao Bakers! This holiday season Nutella® is inviting baking enthusiasts to get their signature Nutella recipe "Nutella Nonna Approved" while encouraging families to create special holiday baking memories, together. Those who participate are entered for a chance to win a grand prize trip to Italy and one of 200+ weekly prizes. For every entry through December 11th, Nutella will also donate $1 to Generations United (up to $10,000), a national nonprofit organization that strengthens practices and policies to benefit all generations. And, entering is a piece of cake! Simply share your Nutella holiday recipe on Instagram using #NutellaNonnaContest and tag @Nutella.
To launch the program Nutella has teamed up with Italian baking expert and grandmother and unofficial Nonna to all, Nonna Pia, who is known for her authentic viral Italian cooking videos on social media. Nonna Pia's irresistible charm and baking wisdom will warm your heart and inspire you to make Nutella treats like never before. Nonna Pia will be helping to approve and award the grand prize recipe winner.
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The Ferrero Group brings joy to people around the world with beloved treats including Kinder, Nutella, Ferrero Rocher and Tic Tac. Ferrero Group is one of the world's largest sweet-packaged food companies, with over 35 iconic brands sold in more than 170 countries. More than 35,000 "Ferrerians" are committed to helping people celebrate life's special moments with high-quality products. Commitment to the planet and communities in which we operate are at the heart of Ferrero Group's family culture. Our programs and partnerships ensure our work is environmentally sustainable and beneficial to local communities.
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TAIPEI, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At Embedded World 2022, in addition to their AI area, where they showcased AI solutions and products from their subsidiaries and partners, Innodisk introduced their new flash, DRAM, and EP solutions, which push the barrier of possibility in industrial AI use cases.
First they introduced the world's first industrial-grade PCIe Gen4x4 (NVMe) SSD with namespace technology, which delivers better r/w efficiency, and has a longer lifespan.
From their EP product line, they also showcased the first M.2 2280-to-single 10GbE Base-T Ethernet module, and InnoAgent, an exciting new hardware module that allows out-of-band remote management of systems, even if they have crashed, or are completely offline.
Innodisk's DRAM team highlighted their Ultra Temperature DDR4 DRAM module, which offers a compact design, the industry's fastest memory speed with 3200MT/s, and can operate in temperatures from -40°C to 125°C. One of Innodisk's customers, who made use of Ultra Temperature 32GB SODIMMs in outdoor 5G AI edge servers was able to benefit from the extreme temperature tolerance of the modules. Their servers, which were designed for telecom use suffer from 5G's tendency to quickly generate heat, and was therefore the perfect fit for Innodisk's Ultra Temperature solution, which withstand up to 125°C.
The innovative solutions that these modules allow are the reason that Innodisk's Ultra Temperature DRAM won the Best-in-Show award for memory and storage. The award, which Innodisk was previously presented for its InnoAGE SSDs, evaluates design excellence, relative performance, and market impact/disruption. Once again, the award proves Innodisk's industrial excellence, and shows how the company continues to innovate.
Innodisk is excited to see its industrial customers again at next year's Embedded World.
About Innodisk
Innodisk is a service-driven provider of flash memory, DRAM modules, and embedded peripheral products for industrial and enterprise applications. For more information about Innodisk, please visit https://www.innodisk.com
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Trackdown: Search for suspect who shot man in face in Dallas motel parking lot
DALLAS - In this week's Trackdown Dallas Police are searching for a suspect who shot a man in the face at point-blank range in a motel parking lot last month.
The man survived and police believe people should know the suspect when they see him on surveillance video.
The incident happened in the parking lot of the Stay Express Inn on Interstate 30 just before 1 a.m. on March 7.
The victim was riding his bicycle when a silver Chevy Malibu parked, and a man wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey got out.
"They were talking to each other, and they were tussling with their hands and then the suspect brandished a handgun and shot him in the face," said Dallas Police Detective Jeffrey Coleman.
The suspect then drives off onto Jim Miller Road. The victim falls to the ground, before starting to run back through the parking lot and waiting for police.
Det. Coleman says the Malibu driver needs to be caught.
"He's a menace, he's a menace to society. If he's going to do it like this, very boldly, he's going to do it again," Det. Coleman said.
Now DPD is looking for the public's help.
"There were witnesses out here, but they have not come forward we need their help," said Det. Coleman. "Nowadays we do have technology, but we rely on society and people in society to come forward."
You can reach out to Detective Coleman at 214-671-3636 or email him at jeffery.coleman@dallaspolice.gov. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/trackdown-search-for-suspect-who-shot-man-in-face-at-close-range | 2023-04-06 00:21:36 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/trackdown-search-for-suspect-who-shot-man-in-face-at-close-range |
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Ahmed Qureia, a former Palestinian prime minister and one of the architects of interim peace deals with Israel, has died at age 85.
A key player in the 1993 Oslo peace accords, Qureia witnessed the rise of the dream of Palestinian statehood that surged during the negotiations. But he also saw those hopes recede, with the prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict drifting further than ever. Domestically, Qureia was riddled with corruption charges that tainted his reputation.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed Qureia's death on Wednesday. The cause of death was not immediately made public, but Qureia had been ill for some time with a heart condition.
“Abu Alaa stood in the lead defending the causes of his home and people,” Abbas said in a statement carried by the official Wafa news agency, using Qureia’s nickname.
Born in 1937 in Abu Dis, suburb of east Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, Qureia joined the Fatah movement in 1968.
He rose quickly through the ranks under the leadership of its founder, late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, and became a member of its decision-making body, the Central Committee, in 1989. He was also a member of the PLO Executive Committee.
Qureia headed the Palestinian delegation to Oslo, where intensive talks with Israel led to the peace accords in 1993, which created the Palestinian Authority and set up self-rule areas in the Palestinian territories. During ensuing rounds of negotiations with Israelis, he met all Israeli prime ministers who were in office before 2004, including Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Olmert, and U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Peace talks have collapsed in the three decades since the accords. Israel has driven up settlement building in the West Bank, and imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip after the Islamic militant Hamas took power there after it routed forces loyal to Fatah. Violence is again flaring up between the sides, especially in the West Bank.
In a 2013 interview with the Associated Press marking two decades since the Oslo agreements, Qureia said that if he knew then what he knows now he wouldn't have agreed to the accords.
“With such kinds of blocs of settlements? No. With the closure of Jerusalem? No. Not at all,” Qureia said in an interview at his office in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis.
After the establishment of the PA, Qureia won a seat in the first parliamentary elections in 1996 and chaired the Palestinian Legislative Council.
After Abbas resigned as the PA’s first prime minister in 2003, Arafat replaced him with Qureia. He held the post until 2006, when the militant Hamas group scored a landslide victory in the second Palestinian elections.
During his tenure as prime minister, Qureia was the subject of controversy after reports accused his family of having financial interest in a company that sold Egyptian cement to Israel, which the latter used to build the West Bank separation barrier. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/ahmed-qureia-top-palestinian-negotiator-with-israel-dies/SJJXJETGTBGKJPVLJAORA4JBYQ/ | 2023-02-23 09:25:09 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/ahmed-qureia-top-palestinian-negotiator-with-israel-dies/SJJXJETGTBGKJPVLJAORA4JBYQ/ |
Israeli airstrikes hit several sites in Syria's Homs province early Sunday, wounding five soldiers, Syrian state media reported.
In Iran, state media reported that an Iranian adviser who was wounded in an Israeli strike on Friday died of his wounds. Since the start of Syria's conflict in March 2011, Iran has been a main supporter of President Bashar Assad's government and has sent advisers since the early days of the war.
Sunday's strike marked the ninth time Israel has struck targets in Syria since the beginning of the year, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked war monitor.
State news agency SANA, citing military sources, said the strikes targeted sites in the city of Homs and surrounding countryside. Syrian air defenses intercepted the missiles and shot down some of them, it said.
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The observatory reported that the missiles targeted Syrian military sites and those of Iran-linked militias, including a research center.
There was no immediate statement from Israel on the strikes.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but it rarely acknowledges specific operations.
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Israel says it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Assad’s forces.
On Friday, Israeli airstrikes hit the suburbs of Syria’s capital city, Damascus, killing an Iranian adviser, the state media of Syria and Iran reported. Iran’s state television reported Friday that Milad Heidari, an Iranian military adviser, was killed during what it called a “criminal strike” by Israel.
Iranian sate media reported Sunday that another Revolutionary Guard adviser who was wounded in Friday's strike succumbed to his wounds. Iran’s state TV identified the adviser as Meghdad Mahghani, adding that his funeral would be held Sunday in Damascus.
An Israeli airstrike last month targeting the airport in Aleppo put it out of commission for two days. The airport has been a main conduit for aid shipments since the deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey on Feb. 6.
Israel has also struck seaports in government-held areas of Syria, in an apparent attempt to prevent Iranian arms shipments to militant groups backed by Tehran, including Hezbollah. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/israel-targets-iran-linked-militias-in-syria-airstrikes/3538022/ | 2023-04-02 09:15:43 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/israel-targets-iran-linked-militias-in-syria-airstrikes/3538022/ |
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